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SENIOR (2009): Started in five games towards the end of season, posting a 3-1-1 record - helping SCU finish the year strong ... recorded back-to-back shutouts at Gonzaga (Oct. 30) and vs. San Francisco (Nov. 6) ... Godrej's shutout against West Coast Conference rival USF under the lights of Buck Shaw Stadium was nationally televised by the Fox Soccer Channel ... had a goals allowed average of 0.93 ... had 20 saves on the season for a .800 save percentage.
JUNIOR (2008): Saw action in two contests ... finished the season with a 1-0-1 record with eight saves ... made his first collegiate appearance and start against Portland (Nov. 2) registering two saves and his first career win ... made his second appearance against Saint Mary's (Nov. 7), with six saves.
HIGH SCHOOL: 2006 graduate of The Harker School in San Jose, Calif. ... coached by Dave Gold and Ismael Perez ... made it to the playoffs for the first time in school history his sophomore year ... was MVP of soccer team 2003, 04 and '05 ... first team All-PSAL in 2003, '04 and '05 ... PSAL MVP in 2005 ... posted 24 shutouts during varsity career and started 62 consecutive matches for Harker ... club team, Santa Clara Ruckus, was the 2007 Region IV champions, '05 US club finalists and regional champs ... also played basketball all four years; coached by Jeremiah Brewer ... member of the honor roll.
PERSONAL: Born in Mountain View, Calif. ... parents are Mahyar and Ernaz Irani ... dad is a CFO and an accountant who went to Stanford and mom is an alliance manager at HP and graduated from Penn State ... has two siblings: Delna and Jehan ... enjoys traveling, snowboarding, basketball, music and new technology ... major is economics.


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Former Kiwis vice-captain Adam Blair has been handed an international lifeline after he was recalled to the New Zealand squad for next Saturday's test against the Kangaroos in Townsville.
Blair was called up as a late replacement for Jeremy Smith, who injured his shoulder in Cronulla's last game of the NRL season.
Smith had a thorough medical recently with his new club Newcastle and an MRI scan this week revealed the severity of the injury.
Blair has played 25 tests and is the third most-capped player in the Kiwis squad, behind Simon Mannering and Benji Marshall, but the prop has had an inconsistent season with the Wests Tigers.
He was initially one of a number of well-known casualties in the 19-man squad, along with Manu Vatuvei, Steve Matai, Sika Manu, Jason Taumalolo and Jared Waerea-Hargreaves.
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VALENCIA — Butler held a two-goal lead with eight minutes to play on Thursday night.
It turned out to be plenty of time for a Seneca Valley comeback.
The Raiders wiped away a 4-2 deficit with three goals in a span of less than four minutes and held on for a 5-4 win over the Tornado in a hockey doubleheader at the Ice Connection. In the preceding contest, Mars earned a 5-2 victory over Deer Lakes.
Butler's Tanner Gilliland completed a hat trick on Nicholas Whann's fourth assist of the game to give the Tornado (5-5) a two-goal cushion with 11:36 to go.
However, Seneca Valley's Jacob Sarachine found the back of the net and sparked the Raiders (7-2-1) with 7:36 remaining.
Spencer Schutte knotted the game on an assist from Luke Reed at the 5:09 mark, before Andrew Gagnon stole the puck in Butler's zone and fired home the game-winning goal with 3:45 left.
Seneca Valley captain Chris Marziotto was proud of the team's resilience.
"There was no doubt," Marziotto explained. "We might have been a little shaken up, but our coach (Anthony Raco) got us all pumped up and we came back for the win.
"Overall, I don't think we played our best game," Marziotto added, "but it shows a lot of character coming back."
Peter Kipin converted a breakaway to give SV a 1-0 lead on its first shot of the game less than two minutes in.
However, Gilliland evened the score with his first goal on assists from Whann and Tanner Chuba at the 4:42 mark.
Seneca Valley reclaimed the advantage on a power-play tally from Casey Kramer off assists from Gagnon and Reed, but it didn't last long.
Butler immediately bounced back, as Gilliland answered just eight seconds later.
Just 49 seconds into the second period, Chuba blasted one in from the slot to provide the Tornado with their first lead of the game.
Tanner Pfeffer stopped 24 shots in goal for the Raiders, while Logan Rothbauer made 26 saves for the Tornado.
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Seneca Valley will look to keep the momentum going when the Raiders host State College at Warrendale Bladerunners at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Mars 5, Deer Lakes 2— Nick Makozy had two goals and two assists, Christian Knapp tallied 25 saves and the Planets scored the final three goals to secure the victory.
Makozy's second score of the game came short-handed and proved to be the game-winning goal with 7:07 to go in the second frame. Previously in the period, Makozy picked off a pass between Deer Lakes defenders and deposited a shot into the back of the net.
"He's a very steady forward," said Mars coach Steve Meyers of Makozy. "You know what you're going to get out of Nicky every game — hard work, works the corners well and he has a nice shot."
Ed Schwadron opened the scoring for Mars (8-2-1), before Thomas Liskowski provided an equalizer for the Lancers (4-6-1).
Vincent Casale tied it up again following Makozy's first goal, but Deer Lakes couldn't beat Knapp again.
"He's been great since he came back. He missed the first half of the season with a concussion," said Meyers of Knapp.
Noah Master beat Lucas Gapsky — who recorded 21 saves for the Lancers — off an assist from Beau Heakins to cap the scoring.
Trevor Tisdale distributed two assists for the Planets, who host Greensburg Central at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Warrendale.


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BOSTON — Nashville must feel like a different world right now for some.
The Predators are in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since joining the NHL in 1999.
Last night the Preds dropped an overtime decision to Vancouver in their Game 3, but it wasn't due to a lack of support. The fans in the sellout crowd at Bridgestone Arena all wore neon orange t-shirts and lived and died on every play, as their team fell behind in the series, 2-1.
Bruins center Rich Peverley got his start in the NHL with the Preds for nearly three full seasons. He's been keeping an eye on his former mates even as his current club battles it's way through its Eastern Conference semifinal series with Philadelphia. Having played there as much as he did, Peverley's a supporter of hockey in The South.
"It was great to see last night, they had those t-shirts. Like I always said, it's one of the loudest buildings in the league and the fans are starving for a winner there," said Peverley after the Bruins' morning skate in preparation for tonight's Game 3 at the TD Garden. "I think that – who knows? – it was a pretty close game there and special teams made the difference."
Even if the Preds don't pull the upset on Vancouver, they've undoubtedly attracted a wider fan base by lasting past the first round for the first time. Even the loyalists were abundant before the team won a playoff series, according to Peverley, who played in one playoff series during his tenure in Nashville.
"When I was there, Saturday night's a sellout. Weekdays [against] a couple teams might be a little bit harder [to sell]," he said. "But it always seems like it's full. I don't think they've ever had a problem or issue with that."
The only issue they might have now is with the penalty in overtime called on Shea Weber before the Canucks' game-winning power-play goal. Peverley said he still has friends with Nashville and that he's pulling for them as much as the rest of the hockey fans in Music City.
The spring of 2011 might be looked back at as a turning point in Preds franchise history. Peverley, for one, hopes they're able to make a go of it.


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Richard Widmark and John Wayne (born Marion Morrison) were on different sides of the fence politically but were both solid professionals and had similarities in their backgrounds. They both came from broken homes (parents separated while they were still in school), both lived through the Great Depression, both graduated high school as senior class president (Widmark at Princeton High School in Illinois and Wayne at Glendale High School in California), both played football in high school and college (Widmark at Lake Forest College and Wayne at USC), both made war movies though neither served in the military, and both actors had a strong connection to the Harry Carey (acting) family. They both worked in an ice cream/soda fountain in high school, and they both entered college in pre law. There is a Widmark Airport in Green City, Mo., and a John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif.
Widmark plays Jim Bowie, adventurer and inventor of the Bowie knife in John Wayne's "The Alamo" (1960).
"Wayne and I got along great professionally, but we weren't friends socially. He was like (Robert) Mitchum in the sense that he liked the booze. The first time I met Wayne was when I went out to California for the first time. I had just made the film "Kiss of Death" (1947), and Wayne was standing in the corner with a drink in his hand and he said, 'Well, here comes that laughing son of a bitch!' So we never spent much time together socially. Wayne was a good director and did a good job on "The Alamo." He just IS Westerns.
"John Ford invented John Wayne," Widmark said, and in the process, created what Widmark called "the ideal Western hero."
"Wayne had a publicity guy who I didn't like. He used to plant terrible stories about me and Wayne that just weren't true."
One story has it this way, whether planted or not. When Wayne was casting the film, Widmark was not his first choice to play Bowie. He was elated though when he got Widmark to come on board. Wayne took out an ad in a trade magazine that hailed Widmark's acting skills, and it said in big bold letters, "WELCOME ABOARD DICK."
When Widmark next saw Wayne, he told him, "Tell your publicity man, or whoever wrote that ad, that the name is Richard, not Dick!"
Supposedly, Wayne had to hold back his anger, as it was he who took out the ad, and said, "I'll remember that, the next time I take out an ad — Richard."
Widmark had later often remarked, "Don't talk to me about that 'Alamo' thing." Ironically, Harry Carey Jr., in his book, "Company of Heroes," is always, referring to Widmark as Dick!
Publicity was a deciding factor in how the movie did at the box office. Wayne produced, directed and starred in "The Alamo." This was his intended epic masterpiece. It was a decade in the making, way over budget, and plagued with many production delays. He broke Hollywood Rule No. 1 and put up his own money — and every dollar he could borrow — to make the film.
"I have everything I own in this picture — except my necktie," he said.
Wayne's reasons for making "The Alamo" were personal and patriotic, but he was ripped off by his financial advisor and the person he put in charge of the publicity campaign. That person went about it with an intention that actually hurt its chances at the box office and with the public. "The Alamo" lost millions in its initial run but earned seven Oscar nominations, including those for Best Picture and Best Song ("The Green Leaves of Summer"). The music by 16-time Oscar nominee Dimitri Tiomkin is one of his best scores. The music fits the images on film that are the crisp vivid colors of the Southwest that really hold your eye. Wayne must have learned something from John Ford. The battle sequences and horsemanship are spectacular and done with none of the special effects used today. The costumes and uniforms are authentic. A re-release in 1966 did little to reverse its box-office fortunes, but the film finally showed a profit after its sale to NBC-TV for its television debut in September 1971.
When you first see Widmark on the screen in "The Alamo" he looks like you think Jim Bowie should look - big, outdoorsy tanned, and rugged. He carries this image the entire movie, save for one scene where he shows he is just as human as any man. It is where he gets the letter about the death of his wife. Widmark was 46 at the time, and the real Jim Bowie was younger at 40 when he died. Alan Ladd played Bowie in the "Iron Mistress" (1952) and Sterling Hayden played the part in "The Last Command" (1955), so Widmark was not going up against a screen image cut in stone that Wayne, as Davey Crockett, would have to deal with. Wayne as producer and director would also have the formidable task of overcoming the image of Fess Parker as Crockett from television and movies put forth by Disney in the mid 1950s. He does a commanding job, I would say. He was John Wayne and people still paid to see John Wayne. The Duke was 53 at the time, and the real Crockett was 50 when he perished. "The Alamo" really needed to have Widmark as Bowie and Laurence Harvey as Col. William Travis to prevent Wayne's presence from overpowering the rest of the cast. Director Howard Hawks said it best, "If you don't get a damn good actor with Wayne, he's going to blow him right off the screen, not just by the fact that he's good, but by his power and his strength."
Widmark was a "damn good actor" and held his own as he always did. Laurence Harvey was the glue between these giants. Widmark said this of Harvey, "Laurence Harvey was a good actor, and he and Wayne got on well because they were both drinkers. I liked him." That's more of that blunt but great dialogue, and it's real.
The movie is the story of the defense of the Alamo mission in 1836 by a small band of Texans against superior forces, about 185 to 7,000, under Mexican General Santa Anna. It was a pivotal moment in the Texas Revolution, one that over time evolved into one of America's greatest myths. The movie has its faults but is an exciting and inspired tale, one that captures the spirit of the times, the heroic nature of the men, and the sacrifice they made. I watch movies to be entertained, and this movie entertained me. The actors are solid in their roles; the visuals have a touch of John Ford; and there is some fun and adventure to the it that you find in just about every John Wayne western.
Widmark holds his own with Wayne, and may be the best thing going for the movie. He had that ability to always give the best that one could expect from all his roles. He does have one of the best lines in the movie. Santa Anna has sent an officer under a flag of truce to ask the defenders to surrender. Bowie and Travis have been at odds the whole movie. Travis gives his answer by lighting the cannon fuse with his cigar, and it fires. Widmark as Bowie turns to Wayne as Crockett and says, "I'd hate to say anything good about that long-winded jackanapes, but he does know the short way to start a war."
The supporting cast is pretty darn good; Linda Cristal (whew), Denver Pyle, Chills Wills, Frankie Avalon (hey the kid could 'crupper' mount a horse), and Ken Curtis, almost the fourth lead in the movie. His character is Capt. Almeron Dickinson and is always called Dick in the movie, so I don't know if that was a point of friction. I'll be talking about John Ford, the Careys, and the two westerns Widmark made with Ford next time. As Festus Haggen (Ken Curtis) on "Gunsmoke" would say, "It'll be a real pearl button bangle billy."


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DOVER — The Dover High School football team has seen plenty of drama this season. There was none to be had on Friday night, and that was just fine with the Green Wave, who routed Manchester West 47-6 on Friday night at Dunaway Field.
"It sucks that we didn't make the playoffs, but we knew that going into this game," said Dover senior linebacker Eric Wilson. "We just wanted to go out on a strong note, end the season right, and that's exactly what we did."
The Green Wave finished the regular season 3-7 overall and 3-5 in Division II, shut out of the playoffs after losing in the championship game last year. Dover now turns its focus to its traditional Thanksgiving game at Division III Portsmouth. West fell to 4-6, 3-5 in the division.
"Our guys did a great job," Dover coach Ken Osbon said. "We tried to put up a great effort for our Senior Night. The younger guys stepped up for them and our seniors played real hard."
The Green Wave were all over the Blue Knights from the start, scoring touchdowns on five of their six drives in the first half to take a 35-0 lead into the break. Dover quarterback Derek Stegman threw touchdown passes of 38, 52, 32 and 61 yards in the first half. He finished 5 for 6 with 220 yards passing.
"He was on fire," Green Wave senior running back Noah Boucher said about Stegman. "He hit everybody. He made some great throws. Everything was there. Everything was clicking tonight."
Wilson, Matt Dow, Kyle Seawards and Jarrett Hudson were on the receiving end of Stegman's TD throws. Boucher scored the only rushing touchdown of the first half, a 10-yard score that put Dover up 28-0 in the second period.
"We've had a couple of tough losses this year, and just to come out here and play well on our last game at Dunaway felt good," Dow said.
For the Green Wave, it was a satisfying end to a season that saw its share of heartbreak. Dover lost games by a combined 14 points to three of the four teams that will make up this year's playoff field.
"It means a lot," said Dover defensive lineman Shawn Dawley. "You always love to get a win. I wish it could have been more important to our season, but it was still a lot of fun playing in front of our fans."
Dover wasted no time in the second half on Friday night, as Colin Shaughnessy scored from 57 yards out on Dover's third play from scrimmage to take a 41-0 lead. Mike Hoeing scored on a 9-yard run late in the third to put Dover up 47-0. Manchester scored a garbage-time touchdown in the final minutes when Zach Ziemba connected with Hank Pineault for a 13-yard score. The second half was played with running time.
"It was probably one of the best feelings ever," Boucher said about Friday's game. "It's our last home game under the lights. Last time we're going to experience this, so it was definitely a good note to end on."
Dover pounds West to close out regular season
DOVER — The Dover High School football team has seen plenty of drama this season. There was none to be had on Friday night, and that was just fine with the Green Wave, who routed Manchester West 47-6 on Friday night at Dunaway Field.


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If your business relies "critically" in its functions on such a piece of software, how would you as a business owner ensure the continuity of the "critical" function?
A. Hire someone to maintain and work on that software.
B. Whine about someone not giving you their time for free.
C. Buy a commercial solution which costs you 50 k USD a year and has at most same level of support as OpenSSL (though better packaged and you get to chat with the smooth sales rep)
What do you do?
A. Hire someone to maintain and work on that software.
B. Whine about someone not giving you their time for free.
C. Buy a commercial solution which costs you 50 k USD a year and has at most same level of support as OpenSSL
$50K a year can be a bargain compared to development and maintenance in-house. A $50K donation to a project like OpenSSL will underwrite maybe six months work by a full-time developer.
$50K a year can be a bargain compared to development and maintenance in-house.
Don't forget that what is "outsourced" for you is "in-house" for the outsourcer. If you can't beat him on price and assuming similar labor costs, it means you have poor/too much management overhead.
Not necessarily - it could also mean that your business doesn't do software development. A business already focused specifically on developing the software in question is going to be able to translate that $50k into much greater improvements than the car rental agency that is simply relying on that software as part of their infrastructure.
The same could be said about a non-profit group that receives a $50k donation towards its activities. If anything, a non-profit group might even be able to leverage that $50k to go a whole lot further than a for-profit software development company simply because there are volunteers who can perhaps be managed better by a paid manager-architect or that such a donation could secure for a long time the hosting services and other aspects of that open source (presumably) project.
The problem with a non-profit gr
$50K a year can be a bargain compared to development and maintenance in-house.
Don't forget that what is "outsourced" for you is "in-house" for the outsourcer. If you can't beat him on price and assuming similar labor costs, it means you have poor/too much management overhead.
Or, the commercial $50K a year solution has the advantage of scale by spreading its cost on multiple customers. If the commercial provider has 1000 customers paying $50K a year, the economy of that is hard to beat by being lean on management overhead.
> Or, the commercial $50K a year solution has the advantage of scale by spreading its cost on multiple customers.
Or not. Throwing money at a corporation is no gaurantee that you will get something that's any better than what you can get for free. All you are doing is buying a yourself a delusion. Perhaps your upper management buys into the same insanity. That doesn't make it any less insane.
All that a commercial solution ensures is that you can never really now what kind of crap you're dealing with, you
From a bit different perspective (largely unix-practical) -- when not having enough resources, you are forced to keep stuff simple. That's usually good, isn't it?
Anyway, I always wondered why is OpenSSL such a bloated pile of code. It does one god damn gazillion things tightly packed. Now, TLS implementation itself is pretty simple, Key management tools are pretty simple, PKCS verification tools are pretty simple, mathematics behind that is pretty simple, commandline tools for quickusing the maths are simple, relationship between those entities ("APIs") are well-defined and usually clear. Who stuffed all of it into one project?!
PS. Bonus paranoia&FUD I saw today: http://pastebin.com/gjkivAf3 [pastebin.com]
While you have a point, you could also take away from the article that OpenSSL needs money.
Oh, OpenSSL desperately needs money, as well as programmers
If they need money and programmers, why are they wasting time and effort implementing OpenSSL extensions people don't actually need? Why are they wasting their time writing their own memory manager? Why are they writing in plain C?
why are they wasting time and effort implementing OpenSSL extensions people don't actually need?
You say that like there was some kind of central management decision to implement heartbeat instead of something else. There wasn't. There was just some guy who sacrificed his personal time to implement a feature that may be useful to some (maybe not to you). What have you done for OpenSSL so far?
I would guess writing their own memory manager was for "speed", and "security". No one could then hack the encryptors/decryptors by replacing malloc/free functions with their own functions in order to gain access to the data.
A project with limited resources doesn't have a prayer beating existing, highly optimized memory managers. And by writing their own, they actually ended up being less secure, because many standard memory managers would have prevented Heartbleed.
While you have a point, you could also take away from the article that OpenSSL needs money.
Good thing, then, that that's being actively taken care of. Ars Technica just posted an article recently that they're getting a lot more donations now and some large companies pledged to donate $50,000 yearly for 3 or 5 years. That should definitely help for a while, though I hope that after those 3 or 5 years have passed things don't go back to the way they were.
There's also the matter that OpenSSL and OpenSSH are different animals. OpenSSH is audited, much as OpenBSD is itself.
Not anymore [slashdot.org]
Despite the slant, I actually came away impressed at the demonstration of efficiency: 2 developers are doing the work of perhaps thousands if the tools weren't open source.
I meant that there would likely be several hundred independent closed-source implementations. I wasn't implying that SSH would require thousands of developers to implement a single time
If your business is depending *critically* on a piece of free software then don't be such a cheapass git. Hire a developer or allocate some of your budget to fund the project.
Problem solved.
You've got to wonder what Torvalds was thinking when he used an insult as the name for his project. Right up there with GIMP for marketability.
You've got to wonder what Torvalds was thinking when he used an insult as the name for his project.
No you don't. Form Torvalds:
"I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."
He knew exactly what git means in English (an unpleasant person).
How many programmers does Microsoft have?
Are their products bug free as a result?
No, they charge for the bugs; As I recall, those are the features.
The best part is that not even two weeks after heartbleed was disclosed, Fire eye announced [fireeye.com] a vulnerability in IE that affects everything from 6 to the latest release 11. In response to the wide range of the vulnerability several agencies declared IE persona non grata till it is fixed. So much for commercial software being more secure.
This article is nothing but pure propaganda.
Free software may not be perfect, but, from a security standpoint, it easily beats microsoft, and most other proprietary software.
Free is not usually a bad thing, but it can be when it causes the software your business depends on to be under resourced.
Of course, paying money for closed source software is no guarantee that it's going to be adequately resourced either. Compare the two most recent, high-profile flaws, both very similar, in that they deal with memory allocation issues:
- Heartbleed on SSL has a team of 2, was extant for 2 years, was patched in 6 days, and the patch was available to anyone who used the software
- CVE-2014-1776 on Internet Explorer. Don't know how many people the team, was extant for 13 years, was patched in 6 days, and the patch was originally going to be denied to users who hadn't upgraded recently.
This does not seem to be an issue with closed vs open source development models - both have had major vulnerabilities extand for far too long, and both can turn around fairly rapid patches when needed. Doling out cash to Microsoft is no more effective at securing your applications than using free open source products.
The only way corporations are going to carry their fari share of the burden is if they are legally required to. The only way to do that is to make them pay with $, its all they understand.
Libre software is being used by corporations to build gold-plated cages for consumers. Its time to stop playiong their game.
Our glorious leaders are fundamentally wrong on the concept that software tshould be "free to use for any purpose", it should be free to use for the purpose of ensalving us.
Too many problems.
Look at the serious issues that surround CC BY-SA-NC -- you have two sets of "copyleft" material that are completely incompatible, and you have one set that has an extremely ill-defined definition of "commercial". Is advertisement supported commercial? Is use in a business setting for an internal system commercial? Is it just commercial if you're selling something that includes a copy of the work?
The problem is not that the software is free (as in open). The problem is that people (and companies even more) perceive it as free (as in beer). That that's the main misconception.
Companies want to cut corners by using OSS. They don't do it because it's easier to review, easier to adapt or easier to find someone who can audit it sensibly. They want it because they can grab it and use it without having to pay anyone for it.
And that simply won't fly. Because that entails the "can't someone else do it?" attitude. Yeah, the code should be reviewed. But someone else will do that, we needn't spend money on that. And it should be audited, but can't someone else do it and we save some money?
Funny enough, the fact that anyone can review, audit and fix things is also the reason why nobody does it. It's a bit like that job in your company that anyone could do, and since anyone can do it, everyone relies that someone else will. There's so many who can, at least ONE of them will. Right? RIGHT?
And since the fact that it is "cost neutral" (to avoid saying the ambigious free) is one of the criteria, if not actually THE criterion, why an OSS product is chosen 999 out of 1000 times in a corporation environment, you may rest assured that the same cheapskates that chose OSS because they can pinch a penny will not spend it on auditing it.
You are ignoring the fact that paid software is no better.
Paid software is not better. Oddly, though, companies are more willing to invest in "accessories" for paid software than for free software. It seems to be a human thing, or maybe it's a manager thing, I don't really get either, humans or manager. But as soon as money is involved, expectations seem to rise and when managers threw some money at it already, they seem to be more willing to throw some more money at it, too. To audit, to review, to
I don't really know why it is so much harder to get
One follows from the other. If your Free license says that anybody that works on your product is required to give away their efforts for free-beer free, it should not be surprising that it's difficult to find companies to spend money on something (like paying a developer) that won't give them a competitive advantage. This, incidentally, is why we have taxes; it forces people (and companies) to pay for the common good. We wouldn't have much in the way of public works if they relied solely on charitable donations and user fees.
This is a persistent weakness of Free software, but you'll never get RMS to admit that money to pay for programmers does not magically fall from the sky. People are cheap, and if they can get something for free, it's no shock that few of them will pay for it.
In my mind, an ideal software license would have the following;
1) Mandatory Code Release (This gives you some software Freedom)
2) Payment required to copy and/or use the software.
3) Some sort of revenue sharing scheme so that any contributors to the code receive a portion of the funds collected.
Think of it like a "software co-op license"
(This, incidentally, is how industry standards commonly work in the hardware business. You want to implement the IEEE 1234.567 standard? You pay up a standard fee per implementation, and that's doled out to the contributing companies.)
3) Some sort of revenue sharing scheme so that any contributors to the code receive a portion of the funds collected.
This is where your logic has a flaw so big you could drive a semitrailer through it, standards are set but open source evolves. Let's say version 1 is created and you charge $10/copy. Now a person makes a patch and wants $2 for his work, does he now charge $12? Then this becomes a pyramid scheme of accumulating prices where you want to get it in early, no matter what anyone does with the project later you get $10 practically forever. That guy who contributed a small patch to Linux in 1992 would still collec
but you'll never get RMS to admit that money to pay for programmers does not magically fall from the sky.
Ever read anything he's written? He is all in favor of people charging for Free software, one way or another. He believes that programmers can live very well doing software internal to enterprises, and in his talks usually points out that most developers do. (It would make no difference if our internal, strategically vital, software were under the GPLv3, because we're never going to distribute it.)
Timing is pretty convenient. We have a tale of two exploits:
-Heartbleed. Open source project. Huge catastrophic bug, existed as of beginning of 2012. Fix available pretty much immediately upon discovery. As a result, significant resources are pouring in to proactively examine OpenSSL, some fixing and some forking OpenSSL. One way or another, the fix was immediate and concerned parties are empowered to do what they think is needed and the open source world will have risks mitigated as well as closed sou
Who woulda' thunk it? You Get What You (Collectively) Pay For. It doesn't matter if "payment" is in the form of money or manpower. If software you use is built by labor effort much smaller (in cost and/or size) than is usually needed for a project of a particular size or complexity, it should come as no shock that the product ends up not being the quality it needs to be.
Oh dear, yet another Harvard BizSch / Big Business canard that FOSS is governed by the contraints of closed software. Resources only matter when they are restricted -- ie only [certain] employees can fix the code.
FOSS does not have this restriction _AT_ALL_ and that is one of it's greatest strengths. Torvald's "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." Yes, limited resources may mean it takes a while for an offical patch (still quicker than MS) but unofficial patches can and are generated by anyone in
When you have a widely-used, yet complex, product that nobody has to pay for, doesn't require tech support (unlike, say, an OS), doesn't have any provisions for proprietary (i.e. non-free) features, and isn't really much fun to work on (unlike, say, a compiler), it should come as no shock that it's somewhat difficult to recruit enough eyeballs to look for all those bugs.
Yep, a patch can be issued quickly, but a project with sufficient access to resource ahead of time breaks less to begin with.
They overlap and interact in unexpected ways, along with the theft economy and the subsistence economy. OpenSSL is a prime example of these overlaps and the complexities of trying to manage all that socially. Should the planned government economy make the code work via tax-supported staff of a government agency? Should businesses exchange money for more development work and support services specific to their needs? Should more developers just donate their time or individuals donate their funds to make OpenS
So how many developers does OpenSSL need for maintaining the code base?
Heartbleed was the result of someone adding an optional and useless feature to OpenSSL that should never have been added in the first place. That's not a problem with having insufficient resources, it's a problem with poor management.
If it has anything to do with resources, it's a sign that people on the project have too much free time on their hands, because if there had been anything important to be done, people wouldn't have the time to add this feature.
Understaffed to save money with a huge backlog, insane deadlines, cut corners, and massive scope creep. So what's his point?
The ones now complaining about how risky it is to rely on open-source software are exactly thos thousands of companies who just use open-source and never give anything back, usually not even provide a patch ever. It is not the fault of open-source it is the fault of greedy assholes who just take, never give back and then complain and bash.
Companies routinely underfund development staff, overwork them, and then end of life products in order to shove 2.0 out. I don't know why everyone's making a big deal out of 'heartbleed'. There have been exploitable faults in open and closed software many times before, some of which have been worse.
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He's finding ways to remain relevant as a writer in a digital world because, as he says, he "doesn't want to get stuck in the 20th century." About a year ago, he decided to set up a personal website and start a weekly blog for the American Scholar. He still teaches at The New School and Columbia University's graduate school of journalism and spends much of his free time reading and writing in his New York City apartment.
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Tony Lucca, second runner up this past spring on NBC's "The Voice," will perform a free concert at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9 at Pittsburg State University. Lucca's performance, in Gorilla Village, just east of Carnie Smith Stadium, is sponsored by the Student Activities Council.
Although Lucca's most recent fame is tied to his performance on "The Voice," he has a long list of credits as a musician, composer, producer and actor.
His songs have been featured on TV's "Friday Night Lights," "Brothers & Sisters," "Shark," and "Felicity" and in Kevin Costner's feature "Open Range." He has been seen on E! Entertainment Television and A&E, and he has performed numerous times on NBC's "Last Call With Carson Daly."
In 2011, Lucca portrayed himself on NBC's "Parenthood," performing his song "Like Love." Over the course of his career, Lucca has shared stages with 'N Sync, Marc Anthony, Macy Gray, Johnny Lang, the late Chris Whitley, Sara Bareilles, and Tyrone Wells.
Lucca's entertainment career started when, at the age of 14, he was selected for the "Mickey Mouse Club." Over his career, Lucca has recorded eight albums and performed in nine movies.


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Literature Review on the Management Control System of Joint Ventures
The author will review literatures analyzing the characteristics on management control mechanism and pattern in joint venture. According to the actual situation and the subject we going on studying, materials mainly are collected from Accounting and the Tax English database and Uygur Pu Chinese periodical database. We will make contribution to the literature study which research on its factors about the controlling and management problems in joint venture, and has an important guiding significance to the future study, especially in China.
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TRENTON — A federal grand jury on Thursday resumed its review of evidence against embattled Mayor Tony Mack as it considered testimony from a former cabinet member in Mack's administration.
Sources said Carmen Melendez, the former acting director of Trenton's Department of Housing and Economic Development, on Thursday made her third appearance to the grand jury.
Mack could be indicted on federal charges he conspired with others to extort $119,000 from an FBI cooperating witness who sources have identified as Hudson County developer Harry Seymour.
The FBI paid Seymour to conduct a sting operation that led to the Sept. 10 arrests of Mack, his brother Ralphiel Mack and local steakhouse owner Joseph "Jojo" Giorgianni.
Seymour, also known as CW-2, presented himself as a developer who wanted to buy city-owned property on East State Street and redevelop it into an automated parking garage.
During the FBI's two-year-long investigation, Melendez was secretly recorded by FBI cooperating witnesses. In the criminal complaint against Mack, it doesn't mention Melendez by name but refers to her as Trenton Official-1.
FBI cooperating witness Lemuel H. Blackburn Jr. and uncharged co-conspirator Charles "Charlie" Hall III were advocating the parking garage project to Melendez, sources said. Blackburn is a disbarred Trenton-area attorney and Hall is a former City of Trenton employee who worked for the city during the sting.
On April 16, 2012, at about 5 p.m., Melendez and Blackburn met at a Trenton restaurant, according to the complaint against Mack, which refers to Melendez as the aforementioned Trenton Official-1 and Blackburn as CW-1.
"During this recorded meeting, Trenton Official-l stated that Tony F. Mack was supportive of the Parking Garage Project. Trenton Official-1 advised, however, that the property should be purchased for 'whatever the assessment value is,' or 'market value,' and not for the nominal fee of $1, as was suggested at the January 25, 2012 meeting," the FBI complaint says of the restaurant meeting.
"On May 15, 2012, Trenton Official-1 emailed CW-2 a letter stating that the total assessed value for the East State Street Lot was $278,000 and that the land value was $271,600," the FBI complaint said.
"Trenton Official-1 later met with Tony F. Mack and Tony F. Mack approved the letter offering the East State Street Lot to CW -2 and the investors for $100,000, according to Trenton Official-1," the complaint said.
The FBI complaint alleges Mack was supposed to get $50,000 of the $119,000 extortion pie for his role in offering to sell the $278,000 city-owned lot for $100,000. The mayor is free on $150,000 unsecured bond.
The Trentonian couldn't reach Melendez for comment on Thursday. In Melendez's previous appearances before the grand jury, a source said Melendez was asked to listen to the FBI's secret recordings and answer questions about what she was recorded as saying on those tapes.
Currently, Melendez is a City of Trenton Mack administration mayoral aide who has been on unpaid sick leave. "Carmen took a leave of absence, but the reality is her position is done," said a source with knowledge of City Hall affairs. "Once the budget is passed, her position is not in there."


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December 5, 2007 > Former Ohlone College star making it in NCAA Division I basketball
Willis Gardner, a 6'1" point guard for Colorado State returned to the Bay Area on Saturday, Nov. 24, to lead the Rams against Stanford. CSU opened the season with two exhibition wins before losing its regular season opener 75-39 to Montana. Next up was the Top of the World Classic in Fairbanks, Alaska. In the opener against Oregon State, Gardner led the team with 20 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists in the 69-56 victory. Second round play saw the Rams defeat Tennessee State 87-68 putting CSU in the title game. In the Championship game against Portland State, Gardner again shined by pouring in a game high 21 points as the Rams captured the Fairbanks Classic 64-63. With about a week off between games in Alaska and at Stanford, Colorado State fell to the Cardinal, 73-53. The Rams seemed to have suffered a letdown after their successful run up north.Gardner grew up back east and starred at Norristown High School in Norristown, PA. Upon graduation from Norristown, and without college scholarship offers, he enrolled at Luzerne, a small community college in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Even though he led his team to the conference championship and made the all-state community college team, things did not go as well as he had hoped during his freshman year. Gardner decided to transfer to Alvernia College, an NCAA Division III school in Reading, PA for his sophomore season. During the summer after his freshman year at Luzerne, he played in an all-star tournament in New York and played the best basketball of his life, scoring 100 points over two games. He caught several college coaches' eye during that tournament, and one telephoned a friend of his, John Peterson, Head Basketball Coach at Ohlone College in Fremont. After talking to Coach Peterson, Gardner was not sure whether to stay home and be with his family and friends or go off to California. He was going to stay until a week before school started, then his mom gave him a plane ticket and said he was going to California. Moms usually rule, and off he went to the Golden State.While at Ohlone, Peterson took him under his wing, convinced him to hit the books hard, and with the help of mandatory study sessions every night, he slowly raised his GPA to 2.9. He had to sit out a year because of transfer rules, but was still able to play two years while attending Ohlone. During this time, Gardner put on a needed twenty pounds, improved his inconsistent jump shot and became an outstanding point guard. Last year, 2006-2007, Gardner's final one at Ohlone, he made first team all league, was the conference MVP and the major reason the Renegades ended up with an overall record of 28-4. Ohlone was ranked number one in the state for junior colleges much of the year, and they advanced to the elite eight in the state playoffs.Now at Colorado State, where he has two years of eligibility left, Gardner hopes to lead this team to another elite eight or better in the "Big Dance" known as "March Madness". Gardner is majoring in education hoping to help "troubled kids" after graduation and when his basketball playing days are over. Willis Gardner has his priorities in order.There is a new look to the Ohlone Team this year as thirteen players from last year's team graduated, and eleven of them received a scholarship to a four year college. Only sophomore Jeremiah Cardwell returns and he will be joined by twelve freshmen. Coach Peterson expects to have his new team gelling after the first of the year as prior to then, the team will play mostly road and tournament games. Next home game is Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008 at 5 p.m. on the Ohlone Campus, 43600 Mission Blvd., Fremont.


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Why Housing NZ should stop removing Glen Innes state houses
Opinion by Sue Henry of the Housing Lobby
The latest Housing New Zealand (HNZ) Statement of Corporate Intent 2012 – 2015, quite rightly sets out the statutory obligations which HNZ is required to follow by law.
The Crown Entities Act 2004 stipulates HNZ " must exhibit a sense of social responsibility by having regard to the interests of the community in which it operates."
The principal Housing NZ Corporation Act 1974 also stipulates these very same social responsibility obligations.
On 5 November the new CEO of the Tamaki Redevelopment Company, Deborah Lawson, stated in a letter to the NZ Herald:
'There has been some confusion about the Tamaki Transformation Programme. It does not include the Northern Glen Innes Housing Redevelopment Project. Housing New Zealand is responsible for this.'
This is quite correct. This means HNZ are bulldozing through policies in total conflict with their legislative statutory duties.
There is no lawful basis for the removal of State houses in Glen Innes North. Our community is being ripped apart.
On what lawful basis are Police enforcing the removal State houses in Glen Innes North?
The Housing Lobby demands that the unlawful removal of State houses from Glen Innes North cease forthwith, and calls for support from opposition parties for an immediate inquiry into how HNZ has breached its statutory duties."


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UPDATE, May 13: Andrews was found safe late Friday night.
EVERETT — Police are asking for help finding a missing Everett teen.
Krystal M. Andrews, 16, was last seen Thursday at her home along W. Mall Drive, Everett police spokesman Aaron Snell said. She did not take her medication with her and may be suffering from mental-health issues.
She may be in the Lynnwood or Tulalip area.
Andrews is described as white, about 5-foot-3 and 120 pounds. She has black shoulder-length hair. She was last seen wearing a black shirt, black shorts, red shoes and a white "Vikings" hat.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. (Jan. 2, 2014) – In most cases, if Oklahoma Christian hits 10 3-pointers and shoots 33.3 percent from behind the arc, it would be a successful game for the Lady Eagles.
That wasn't so on Thursday night at the Stubblefield Center. Thanks to a 6 for 31 shooting effort from 2-point range, the Lady Eagles finished just 26.2 percent from the field and fell 59-55 to Arkansas-Fort Smith.
OC (5-6, 1-4 Heartland Conference) nearly rallied from an 11-point deficit in the final 5½ minutes, but missed numerous opportunities to tie in the final 2:16. UAFS (3-10, 3-4) gave coach Louis Whorton his 600th career win, many of those recorded when UAFS was a junior college known as Westark.
Only two Lady Eagles reached double figures in scoring – Krista Stevens with 12 points (on 3 of 6 3-point shooting) and Logan McKee with 10.
"We started out guns-a-blazing," OC coach Stephanie Findley said. "We hit a cold spell. We substituted and maybe that threw us off a little bit. We got a couple of people with two fouls early in the half, too, including Roz (Hamilton).
"We tend to take people out so they don't get in more foul trouble and I think that really hurt us tonight. It kind of hurt our rhythm and we just couldn't find our shots again after that."
The Lions led 55-44 after a put-back by Candice Followwell with 5:37 left but went more than 4½ minutes without scoring, allowing OC to mount a final rally.
Stevens made 1 of 2 free throws with 2:44 left to pull OC within 55-52. After two misses by the Lions at the other end, OC turned down a chance for a tying 3-point shot and instead went inside, but Andee Wayne missed a contested shot underneath the basket.
After another UAFS miss, McKee had a good look on a 3-pointer but missed with 1:48 left. UAFS missed yet again and Hamilton missed a 7-foot leaner that could have pulled the Lady Eagles within a point.
Justyne Huber, who led UAFS with 20 points and 13 rebounds, ended the Lions' long drought with a basket with 57 seconds left, making it 57-52. After a timeout, Emma Gade nailed a 3-pointer from the corner for OC with 44.4 seconds left, and a tied ball at the other end went to OC.
Hamilton missed inside and Huber rebounded for UAFS. Chauntel Terry missed the front end of a one-and-one free-throw opportunity with 11.3 seconds left and McKee rebounded. She drove the length of the court but had her layup attempt blocked by Huber.
Huber made two free throws with 3.5 seconds left to seal the win for the Lions.
"I think they got tired," Findley said of the Lions. "They started missing and we were getting every rebound and giving ourselves a chance. We got it to three (points) and we missed a couple of crucial buckets inside. … That's the way it goes. Hopefully we learn our lesson."
The game started well for OC. The Lady Eagles made their first three 3-point shots (by Stevens, Gade and Hamilton) and another 3-pointer, by McKenzie Stanford, put OC ahead 22-11 with 11:03 left in the first half. OC's shooting woes began soon after, although the Lady Eagles clung to a 31-30 lead at halftime.
OC missed its first eight shots of the second half and Gade and Hamilton both sat out long stretches after each picked up her fourth foul.
Terry's 3-pointer with 17:21 left put UAFS ahead for good at 33-31. The Lady Eagles didn't help their cause with 17 turnovers.
Gade made her first career start and finished with six points and eight rebounds for OC. Hamilton scored nine points. For UAFS, Sydney Franklin scored 11 points.


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Brussels, 11 February 2013
Digital Agenda: Tour operators and travel agents join '112' emergency number campaign
The European Commission and The European Travel Agents' and Tour Operators' Associations (ECTAA) are asking tour operators, travel agents to promote the pan-European emergency number '112' on their websites, on e-tickets, and at major tourist destinations.
European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes said: "Transport companies are already helping raise awareness, now it's the turn of tour operators and agents to step up and help. European citizens should know that help is only one call away, wherever they are in the EU."
President of ECTAA, Mr. Boris Zgomba said: "ECTAA supports the Commission's campaign to raise awareness of the 112 emergency number. We are happy to be associated with this campaign, as a single emergency number applicable across the EU is of great benefit for travellers - our customers - who may not necessarily know which local number to dial in case of emergency when travelling outside of their home country."
Knowing the 112 number helps people in difficulty. For example, a group of Belgian scouts were lost in the woods around Ghioroc Village in Romania. One of them knew and phoned the 112 emergency number. The emergency operator determined the exact location of the group and alerted intervention agencies who found them. A member of the group suffered from hypothermic shock, but thanks to prompt reaction, the patient was saved.
112 is the European emergency number, reachable from fixed and mobile phones, free of charge, everywhere in the EU. 112 links the caller to the relevant emergency service (local police, fire brigade or medical services) and allows them to speak to an operator in a choice of European languages. It is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 112 is now operational in all EU Member States alongside existing national emergency numbers (like 999 or 110). Denmark, Finland, Malta, The Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Sweden have decided to make 112 their sole or main national emergency number. 112 is also being used in countries outside the EU, such as Switzerland, Croatia, Montenegro and Turkey.
From findings of a recent Eurobarometer survey, it is estimated that 5 million more people are aware of the 112 emergency number than was the case a year ago.
One year ago European Commission Vice Presidents Neelie Kroes and Siim Kallas called on transport companies to join an initiative to raise 112 awareness amongst travellers. More than 30 Companies and Associations participated in the campaign. As a result, 112-relevant information was publicised on e-tickets, in on-board magazines, on participating companies' websites and through direct contact of their staff with travellers. The image below shows an example of how the information was provided through the in-flight magazine for Brussels Airlines.
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2011 Inaugural Honors Program Symposium
The inaugural Honors Program Symposium, held on December 2, 2011, provided GHC Honors students the opportunity to present work completed as part of Honors courses over the past year. Four students participated in the competitive presentations, and the top two presenters - Abigail Sosebee and Alberto Romero, will submit their work to be considered for inclusion at the Georgia Collegiate Honors Council Conference at North Georgia College & State University.
The Honors Program offers smaller classes, more challenging coursework, increased one-on-one interaction with instructors, extracurricular enrichment opportunities such as field trips, and a sense of community to GHC's most academically talented students. GHC students with at least 12 credit hours and a 3.5 GPA are eligible to join, as are new students who have a 3.5 high school GPA with an ACT score of 26 or SAT score of 1100. The Honors Program is overseen by the Honors Committee and Honors Director. Visit their website at www2.highlands.edu/honors for more information or to apply.


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"I don't want to give an exclusive character for any particular console," elaborated Ono to VideoGamer.com, adding, "And that applies to downloadable characters as well ... because it's not very fair."
The revelation follows Project Soul's recent inclusion of platform-exclusive characters in Soul Calibur IV (PS3, 360).
Among the playable characters set to appear in the home versions of Street Fighter 4, Cammy is a confirmed addition. Dan, Fei Long, and Sheng Long are likely, but the details have yet to be set in stone.
"Figuring out the right number of characters is a lot like chess. You need to know the rules well, and things need to be balanced properly. We'll see what we ultimately end up with," Ono explained to 1UP.
Ono has promised to reveal more at this fall's Tokyo Game Show. In the meantime, Street Fighter 4 is hitting American arcades this week with PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 versions slated to arrive sometime next year.


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iTunes 8.0 included a whole boatload of features. 8.0.1 which is available now includes a whole boatload of much needed bugfixes . . .
- Seamlessly plays the current song when creating a new Genius playlist.
- Improves syncing spoken menus to iPod nano.
- Addresses an issue of deleting HD TV episodes when downloading.
- Improves checking for updates from the App Store.
- Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.
- Addresses problems syncing Genius results to iPod.
Head over to Software Update to grab the newest version. If you have any issues with the update please shout out and tell us!
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Here's the slide presentation I gave yesterday at the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association Summit of newspaper publishers and ad managers. My talk turned out to be 80 minutes long.
A half dozen newspaper executives thanked me for the presentation afterward, so the message of change is resonating in some quarters. The question is whether enough publishers will have the courage to turn their battleships into speedboats and green-light the wholesale experimentation needed to help newsroom journalists engage with their communities.
So far, no media companies have contacted Socialmedia.biz for consulting work (yes, we're very busy with clients in other sectors), so I'm doubtful. Continue reading


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First Second at San Diego: Authors
Interested in authors? Some of First Second's best will be at this year's SDCC.
Leland Myrick: Myrick's first graphic novel, Missouri Boy, was a Booklist Best of the Year. Also a contributor to the Flight anthology series, he follows this up with a new graphic nonfiction work, a biography of Richard Feynman. Feynman will be in stores in August; get an advance look at this stunning new work at the San Diego Comic-Con.
- Signing: Thursday, 4:30; First Second Booth 1323
Dave Roman: New York Times-Bestselling author Dave Roman presents his first work as author/illustrator, Astronaut Academy. ABC's Good Morning Connecticut calls it "hysterical." And Comic Book Resources says, "Astronaut Academy is wonderful, and you should read it."
- Signing: Friday, 11:00; First Second Booth 1323
- Signing: Saturday, 2:00; Autographing Area 2
- Signing: Sunday, 11:30; First Second Booth 1323
Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham: Two-time Eisner Award Winner, Printz Award winner, and National Book Award Honor recipient Gene Luen Yang returns to San Diego for his third Eisner nomination and with a new book -- with art by Thien Pham: Level Up. Wired calls this entry in the Tiger Mother debate, "A fascinating look into the tension between parents with high (and rigid) expectations and kids who have their own ideas about how to live."
- Signing: Friday, 3:00; First Second Booth 1323
- Signing: Saturday, 2:00; Autographing Area 2
- Signing: Sunday, 2:00; First Second Booth 1323
Vera Brosgol: Brosgol's debut graphic novel, Anya's Ghost, has been getting rave reviews from around the industry – from Neil Gaiman's declaration: "A masterpiece," to The New York Times: "Remarkable. . . . with an attitude and aptitude reminiscent of Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), Brosgol has created a smart, funny and compassionate portrait of someone who, for all her sulking and sneering, is the kind of daughter many parents would like to have. And the kind of girl many of us maybe once were." Anya's Ghost is an Amazon Best of the Year graphic novel, the only teen graphic novel to be so recognized.
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So just exactly do we quantify all the harassment of cyclists in 2011 in their "Operation Safecycle?"
Alex Goldmark of the blog, Transportation Nation had this report:
NYPD Issued Almost 50,000 Bicycle Tickets in 2011
The NYPD doled out 48,556 summonses to bike riders in 2011. That figure was reported by Executive Officer of the Transportation Bureau, John Cassidy at a hearing held by the NY City Council Wednesday on NYPD policies for traffic investigations.
About 250,000 people ride a bike each day in New York city, and about 500,000 ride at least several times a month, according to the New York City Department of Transportation.
At the start of last year the New York Police Department cracked down on cyclists breaking traffic laws. Bike community protests erupted, compromise was gingerly reached, and outrage faded. The pace of ticketing, however, did not abate.
By the end of 2011, police handed cyclists 13,743 moving violations — those are for less serious infractions like riding on pedestrian-only paths in parks, or riding on a sidewalk. Most of the summonses last year — about 35,000 — were the more serious criminal court summonses for infractions like running red lights.
By comparison, Cassidy said the NYPD's specialized truck enforcement units issued about 25,000 tickets to truck drivers.
Read more: here.


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New York State is no longer in last place. Changes approved in the new state budget have moved New York State from 50th to 48th place in the 2014 State Business Tax Climate Index, according to the Tax Foundation.
Before the changes, New York ranked 25th best out of the 50 states in the corporate tax system. If the changes enacted by the bill were in full effect for the most recent version of the Index, New York's corporate tax system would have instead ranked 4th best of the fifty states, behind only three states that have no corporate income tax. This is a tremendous leap forward! The overall ranking of 48th place takes into account the state's high property and individual income tax components, and leaves New York ahead of New Jersey and California.
Among the key changes are: reducing the four tax bases for calculating corporate taxes to three; cutting the corporate net income tax rate from 7.1 percent to 6.5 percent (the lowest since 1968); merging the bank tax system into the corporate tax system; and restructuring the estate tax to exempt many small businesses from hefty taxes upon the death of their owners. It is important to note that many of the changes will be phased in, and will not be fully implemented until January 1, 2016.
The Tax Foundation, in its report, notes, "New York is not a low-tax state, and its economic success is because of strengths that overcome a challenging tax environment, with recent tax commission reports recommending many of the changes incorporated in the bill. High taxes need not also be complex or poorly structured taxes, however, and removing these obstacles will encourage job creation and economic activity. New York's 2014 corporate tax reform is an impressive first step toward tackling this problem by broadening bases, lowering rates, reducing burdens, and eliminating needless complexity."
The tax overhaul in the new state budget is a great step forward for New York State in an effort to become more competitive for business growth. We commend Governor Cuomo for his leadership, and we thank Senator Cathy Young and Assemblyman Andrew Goodell for their support.
The Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce and the Manufacturers Association of the Southern Tier have worked hard on this issue, yet we still have more work to do. Clearly the state's high property taxes are still a barrier to business growth. We will continue to advocate for overall tax reductions to improve the general business climate, even as we celebrate and applaud these corporate changes.
Experience Chautauqua Networking Event May 9
The Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce helps to create opportunities for business people to network and reach out to new customers and markets. The next Experience Chautauqua Networking Event will do just that on Friday, May 9 at Shawbucks Press Room in Jamestown. This event is being held as a preview to National Train Day festivities the following day at the historic Gateway Train State, right across the street.
Chamber members are welcome to attend this event, from 5-6:30 p.m., at the low pre-registered cost of just $10. It is sponsored by Blackstone NEY Ultrasonics, Buffamante Whipple Buttafaro, Dahlstrom Roll Form, DFT Communications, Jamestown Jammers Baseball, KeyBank, the OBSERVER, The Post-Journal, UBS Financial Services, Univera Healthcare Southern Tier, VIE for Fitness, and WJTN/WWSE/WKSN/WHUG/WQFX. Make your reservation online now or call the Chamber at 366-6200 or 484-1101.
Mayville-Chautauqua Business After Hours May 14
The Mayville-Chautauqua Community Chamber of Commerce will host a Business After Hours on Wednesday, May 14, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Athenaeum Hotel at Chautauqua Institution. This is a networking opportunity for Chamber member businesses and prospective members. There will be a brief presentation on the newly formed Chautauqua Lake Alliance, along with some networking games. Attendees are encouraged to bring their business cards and Chamber members are invited to bring business brochures to distribute.
The cost is just $5 per person, payable at the door. Hors d'oeuvres will be provided and a cash bar will be available. You can register online at www.chautauquachamber.org or call the Chamber at 484-1101 or 753-3113.
County Executive Breakfast June 6
Each year the Chamber of Commerce provides an opportunity for its members to meet directly with the County Executive and ask questions. This year, with Vince Horrigan new in the role of County Executive, and with a number of important issues facing county government, we expect the business community to turn out in force for this event.
The County Executive Breakfast will be held Friday, June 6 at the White Inn in Fredonia. Breakfast begins at 8:30, with registration opening at 8 a.m.
The event is sponsored by: Chautauqua Institution, DFT Communications, SUNY Fredonia, Jamestown Community College, Jamestown Mattress Company, KeyBank, Nestle Purina PetCare, Phillips Lytle LLP, Serta Mattress Company, SKF Aeroengine North America, Southern Tier Environments for Living, Univera Healthcare, WCA Hospital, and WJTN/WWSE/WKSN/WHUG/WQFX. To make reservations, please call the Chamber at 366-6200 or 484-1101, or register online at www.chautauquachamber.org.


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SANTA CRUZ -- A judge is expected to rule Tuesday on whether seven people charged in the takeover of a former bank will stand trial for felony conspiracy, felony vandalism and misdemeanor trespass.
A preliminary hearing began Monday for Cameron Laurendeau, Franklin Alcantara, Robert Norse, Becky Johnson, Gabriella Ripley-Phipps, Brent Adams and Desiree Foster, who are among the 11 people initially charged in connection with the three-day takeover of 75 River St. in late 2011.
Santa Cruz police Sgt. Michael Harms testified Monday that he and other officers arrived at the former Wells Fargo bank on the evening of Nov. 30, 2011, to try to talk with those inside. The building had been vacant for months before the group entered it.
He spoke to a group of people that included Adams and was told he should speak to Ripley-Phipps because she was acting as a liaison, he said. He also saw Alcantara and some other people move a desk up against the doors of the building to create a barricade, he said. He then saw Alcantara hop up on the desk and begin tampering with a video camera mounted on the wall.
"It looked like he was trying to break it off the wall," Harms said.
Alcantara's attorney, Jesse Ruben, asked Harms whether he had seen Alcantara or anyone else talking about barricading the door.
"Did you see any conversation about doing it?" Ruben asked.
Harms said he didn't hear a conversation but he did see Adams and others moving the desk, and he then saw Alcantara get up on it.
Officer Michael Hedley was tasked with videotaping the takeover. Among those he said he saw entering and leaving the building numerous times was Norse. Norse and his attorney, David Beauvais, have argued he was there as a journalist documenting the events.
"I've never considered him to be an actual journalist," Hedley testified. "I perceived him to be one of the protesters."
Hedley also said officers followed a group of Occupy Santa Cruz members who held a march on Nov. 30, 2011, that first went to a bank on Ocean Street before ending up at 75 River St.
None of the officers who testified Monday saw anyone actually break into the building, nor did they see acts of vandalism occurring. They also testified they didn't hear any sort of conversation about plans to commit vandalism, though they did see the aftermath of vandalism when they went into the building after the group left. To prove felony conspiracy, the prosecutors must produce evidence that two or more people conspired to commit a crime -- in this case, vandalism.
About 30 supporters filled the courtroom Monday, and signs were placed outside the courthouse with slogans such as "Support the Santa Cruz 11" and "Journalism is not a crime."
The preliminary hearings will continue Tuesday morning. Judge Paul Burdick also will determine whether he will issue sanctions against the Santa Cruz County District Attorney's Office for issues involving the delay in providing evidence to the defense attorneys.
Charges were previously dismissed against the four other people charged: Alex Darocy, Bradley Allen, Edward Rector and Grant Wilson.
Follow Sentinel reporter Jessica M. Pasko on Twitter at Twitter.com/jmpasko96


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Synapse® Mobility: On-The-Go Access To Images And Information With Collaboration Tools
A high-quality, interactive, mobile application that uses your web browser of choice
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Nov. 25, 2012 11:23 AM
CHICAGO, Nov. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- (Booth #8316) -- FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., a worldwide leader in medical informatics solutions, will be sharing the benefits of its zero footprint mobile application, Synapse Mobility, with visitors to the 2012 meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The application enables access to Fujifilm's suite of Synapse products from hand-held devices, in addition to Macintosh- or Windows-based PCs. It will be just one of several Synapse products and solutions demonstrated at the show.
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"Mobility has already seen success at hospitals and diagnostic centers throughout the country, giving radiologists, cardiologists and referring physicians true on-the-go access to the images and information stored in Synapse PACS, Synapse RIS and Synapse Cardiovascular," says Jim Morgan, Fujifilm's Vice President of Medical Informatics. "It offers many efficiencies and patient care benefits to busy departments within multiple-facility healthcare organizations."
One of Synapse Mobility's newer applications is a collaboration feature which aides in consultations during clinical situations such as real-time communication between physicians, referring clinicians and patients, using any web browser available to each participant. It displays interactive three-dimensional diagnostic images, provides advanced viewing capabilities, including zoom, window and level, and uses MIP/MPR just as it would at a clinical workstation.
"It is the only system on the market that has been fully validated with Synapse PACS, RIS and Cardiovascular, and can be used with a wide variety of user interfaces, including iPads, iPhones and Android Smartphones, as both a browser independent and scalable application," Morgan adds.
For more information on Fujifilm's entire product portfolio of medical imaging and informatics solutions, please visit booth #8316 at RSNA, which runs through November 30 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
About Fujifilm
FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. is a leading provider of diagnostic imaging products and medical informatics solutions to meet the needs of healthcare facilities today and well into the future. From an unrivaled selection of digital x-ray systems, to the Synapse® brand of PACS, RIS and cardiovascular products, to advanced women's health imaging systems, Fujifilm has products that are ideal for any size imaging environment. The Endoscopy Division of FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., supplies high quality, technologically advanced, FUJINON brand endoscopes to the medical market. FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. is headquartered in Stamford, CT. For more information visit www.fujimed.com.
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The rejection by a bipartisan majority of lawmakers on the committee could have the most immediate impact in rural districts where officials concerned about student population numbers that hover near 350 — the threshold for consolidation — were hoping to bolster their numbers by counting home-schooled students.
An Arkansas House panel rejected a proposal Tuesday that would have allowed school districts whose low student populations put them in danger of consolidation to bolster their enrollment numbers by counting home-schooled students.
The rejection by a bipartisan majority of lawmakers on the committee could have the most immediate impact in rural districts where officials concerned about student population numbers that hover near 350 — the threshold for consolidation — were hoping to bolster their numbers by counting home-schooled students.
Supporters of the bill argued rural school districts need greater flexibility around a state law that requires a district to enroll at least 350 students each year or be subject to consolidation with another district. The measure would have changed the way school districts calculate their student population, allowing them to include students who live in the district but are home-schooled.
"The goal of it was to save these rural schools that are getting close to 350," said Rep. James Ratliff, D-Imboden, who sponsored the legislation.
Opponents of the measure, which included the state Department of Education and the Attorney General's office, told the House Education Committee Tuesday that allowing school districts to have fewer than 350 students would create funding challenges and could expose the state to lawsuits about the adequacy of education.
Lawmakers on the panel heard from the leaders of two small school districts whose student populations are close to 350.
Greg Crabtree, superintendent of the Hillcrest School District in northeast Arkansas, said that his school district currently has 371 students and 39 home-schooled students. Having already been through two consolidations, Crabtree said he was concerned about the impact that another consolidation would have on students in his district who are already traveling up to two and half hours each day to attend school.
Three school districts in the state had fewer than 350 students at the end of the last school year, according to Phyllis Stewart, chief of staff at the Arkansas Department of Education.
One of those districts, the Lead Hill School District in northern Arkansas, climbed its way out from under the threat of consolidation this year after making a concerted effort to attract new students, according to the superintendent John Davidson.
Davidson said in a phone interview that while his school district worked within the existing rules about the 350-student threshold — buying iPads for students, adding an archery course and recruiting 17 foreign exchange students — he sympathized with the need for rural schools to have more leeway in meeting the standard.
"When you go by numbers, there needs to be ways to provide flexibility," he said "I think we lose sight of the fact that adequacy doesn't have to be solely based on numbers."
But opponents of the bill argued at the hearing Tuesday that allowing school districts to have fewer than 350 students for whom the state provides funding — about $6,200 per student — would undermine the quality of education in the district.
"You're counting students who don't bring any resources into the school district to cover what goes on in the classroom and allowing the funding level to drop below what the General Assembly has determined to be adequate," said Assistant Attorney General Scott Richardson.
Lowering the consolidation threshold without providing additional resources to a district, he said, would leave the state open to a legal challenge that it is not providing constitutionally adequate education.
Similar proposals to change the 350-student threshold for school districts, or how the state calculates it, have failed to pass in previous legislative sessions.
Ratliff says he isn't sure whether he will be filing other legislation on the issue this session.
"Right now I'm just brainstorming," he said. "I'm trying to figure out other routes to keep these rural schools from consolidating."


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Blanton Bombs Against Red Sox
Now that Phillies fans have all gotten used to seeing Joe Blanton in top form, I suppose he was due to throw a clunker. Blanton had only given up 2 home runs all year, but last night, he gave up 4 in just one game against the Red Sox.
By the middle of the 4th inning, the score was 5-1 and Blanton had also already made two huge fielding errors in the game. Clearly, this was not his night. So when Pete Orr was on deck in the bottom of the 4th to hit for Blanton, I thought, great idea! Let's get some more runs and let the pen have a shot at shutting down the Sox.
Imagine my dismay when, after Freddy Galvis smacked a 2-run homer, Orr was called back to the dugout and Blanton went out to hit! Really? Those 2 runs meant Blanton would suddenly snap out of his funk? I think not…
And sadly, I was correct. I get that manager Charlie Manuel did want to rely on what has been an unreliable bullpen. But if there was ever a time to give them a shot to redeem themselves, this was it. Blanton looked awful out there and the insanity continued in the 5th inning.
Only after allowing 3 more hits, including a 2-run homer, was Blanton finally pulled from the game, having recorded only 1 out in the inning. Buried in a 7-4 hole, the bullpen did actually get the job done after that, not allowing another run to score. But by that time, the damage was done and the Phillies scored only one more run.
The offense had changes, but luck did not go their way. Carlos Ruiz, the teams hottest hitter, was robbed of what should have been a 2-run double in the 7th by Ryan Sweeney, who suddenly grew wings, flew through the air and snagged Ruiz's hit out of the air. It was an amazing play.
In the 9th, Ruiz was robbed again as he smoked a ball…unfortunately, it went right to the shortstop and was caught. The ball was hit so hard that Hunter Pence had no chance to get back to first and was doubled up. Bad luck, indeed…
Later, Shane Victorino popped out on the first pitch he saw with the bases loaded in the 8th. And that was the end of the threat as the Phillies went on to lose by a score of 7-5.
There were some bright spots, like Galvis' homer, making it 2 games in a row with a bomb. And John Mayberry Jr. reached base all 5 times he stepped to the plate for the first time in his career. Hector Luna also had a great night with 3 hits and an RBI.
But mostly, the good news is that the Phillies never gave up, even when it looked like the game was out of reach. This is something that we have all been waiting for this season…a little extra fight even when they are down.
They have another shot at the Sox today. If they win, the Phils will take the series. Cliff Lee is pitching and I will return with photos! Game time is 1:35pm.
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Sacramento – Employees from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the California Highway Patrol (CHP) are holding a friendly "trash-off" event on Saturday to increase public awareness of the litter problem on our highways. Among the participants will be Caltrans Director Will Kempton and CHP Deputy Commissioner Joe Farrow.
The competition begins at 9:00 a.m. and will pit the CHP against Caltrans to see who can collect the most trash from a westbound section of Highway 50 between Hazel Avenue and Sunrise Boulevard in Sacramento.
"Litter is a statewide problem, and we are actively working to improve our anti-litter efforts and to enlist the public's help in resolving the issue," said Caltrans Director Will Kempton.
"Littering is not only a serious blight on the landscape, but often a traffic safety issue and a threat to public safety," said CHP Deputy Commissioner Joe Farrow.
Last year, over $40 million tax dollars were spent removing trash that was carelessly tossed, lost, or dumped onto California's roadsides. Last year, we collected more than 140,000 cubic yards of trash – to put that into perspective, you could dig a hole a mile long, 25-feet wide and almost 30-feet deep and full it full of trash.
And, each year, several thousand accidents are caused by debris in the roadway.
The public can also help to pickup trash once it reaches the roadside by participating in the Caltrans Adopt-A-Highway Program. Groups can volunteer to pick up litter or they can hire a maintenance provider to perform the work on their behalf. For more information about the Adopt-A-Highway Program, call toll free 1-866-ADOPTAHWY, or find information on the Internet at http://adopt-a-highway.dot.ca.gov.


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Eh? Look what they accomplished this year was great, but they also managed to waste practically 10 years of just about the top defense in the league while looking for a QB. No one would be singing their praises if they hadn't won this year. Instead we'd be reading about how they wasted the careers of Lewis, Reed, Suggs etc.
model franchise because their QB started to make plays and win games for them instead of riding the defense and hoping he doesnt f up.
The only good thing I can remember from his ownership as I had Season tickets then was that he developed a plan for parking lot egress after the game. It cut the flow out of the lots greatly. The only thing the team sucked so bad there was only 40,000 fans there every game.
But it was so much more fun going to the games in the 70s and 80s than now. When we won a game it was like a shock. You see these early 30s patriot fans that never seen a horrible season.
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right now flacco is every bit as good as brady and much better at throwing the deep ball.
And the pats don't have the personnel to run 7s and 9s, when they did, Moss and Stallwoth caught a fair share of them. Remember Brady carved up that 9ers D also, and he was throwing in the rain and not a dome.
Football is a game of matchups, the Ravens matchup well against the pats. The pats used to beat the steelers even when the steelers were a better team. It looks like now that the pats matchup well against the Texans. The Fins used to match up well against the pats to. I think at one time the fins were the only team that brady had a losing record against.
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