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DALLAS, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* today announced plans to offer Xperia TL, the latest Sony smartphone bringing Sony's best HD experiences, easy connectivity with 'One-touch' sharing enabled by NFC (Near Field Communications) and award-winning** arc design. This 4G LTE smartphone takes connected entertainment to the next level with new Sony media applications.
Photo enthusiasts will delight in the impressive images taken with Xperia TL's 13-megapixel primary camera that brings even the smallest of details to life. This high resolution camera captures quality images swiftly with its quick launch feature, going from standby mode (sleep) to first shot in just 1.5 seconds,1 making sure life's unexpected moments are not missed. Plus, both the rear and front-facing cameras deliver HD recording capabilities for vivid video capture on the go.
Xperia TL gives you the ultimate in HD with a superb 4.6-inch HD display (1080 x 720), powered by the Mobile BRAVIA® Engine for razor sharp clarity and brilliance. The viewing experience on Xperia TL is accentuated by a stylish, slim form factor that emphasizes the display. For those looking to take their content from their smartphone screen to the TV screen, Xperia TL connects through MHL or wirelessly through DLNA.
To make enjoying content across devices even easier, Xperia TL supports 'One-touch' connectivity through NFC. Now, you can conveniently and instantaneously enjoy your music and photos across an array of NFC enabled devices by simply touching one to another to establish a wireless connection without a cumbersome pairing process. To get started with experiencing NFC, Xperia TL comes with one Xperia SmartTag in box. Using near field communication technology, SmartTags let you store device preferences for a variety of locations and situations – like opening and controlling volume on the music player if you head out for a run, turning on GPS and Bluetooth in the car or turning on your alarm and silencing your ringer at night.
Xperia TL includes three preloaded Sony media applications, Walkman, Movies, and Album, introducing a consistent user interface across Sony devices. Album will be especially appealing to photo takers with features such as:
- Geo-mapping in satellite and traditional map views
- More than 25 editing options
- Improved layout of photo and video folders, both in device and online
AT&T customers have access to the nation's largest 4G network***, covering 275 million people. AT&T has two 4G networks that work together for customers, LTE and HSPA+ with enhanced backhaul. That means AT&T customers are able to enjoy a widespread, ultra-fast and consistent 4G experience on their compatible device as they move in and out of LTE areas. With other carriers, when you travel outside of their LTE coverage area, you may be on a much slower 3G network.
Key Specs for Xperia TL:
- 4.6" HD Reality Display powered by the Mobile BRAVIA® Engine
- 13MP quick launch-fast capture camera that goes from sleep to snap in just over a second
- Full 1080p HD video recording and a 720p HD front camera for the highest quality content
- Easy connectivity with 'One-touch' function enabled by NFC
- Latest generation 1.5GHz dual core processor for improved battery efficiency and fast graphics performance
- Android version 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Upgradable to Android version 4.1 (Jelly Bean) following launch.
- MHL connectivity for viewing content on a big screen without the need for a charger
- Available in Black
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** Xperia arc S and Xperia arc are winners of the EISA (European Imaging and Sound Association) award for European Camera Phone 2011-2012. Xperia arc is also the winner of the prestigious red dot Product Design Award 2011. Xperia arc was announced at CES in January 2011 followed up by the announcement of Xperia arc S announced at IFA 2011
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1) Facts and features may vary depending on local variant. 2) Operational times are affected by network preferences, type of SIM card, connected accessories and various activities e.g. playing games. Kit contents and colour options may differ from market to market. The full range of accessories may not be available in every market. 3) Actual size of screen is approximately 4.55". Camera capabilities are accurate as the date of this release.
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AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company and one of the most honored companies in the world. Its subsidiaries and affiliates – AT&T operating companies – are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation's largest 4G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile Internet, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T | DIRECTV brands. The company's suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world.
Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT.
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First, thanks to our active readers who provide insightful commentary and food for thought. Your ideas and comments can turn into audit projects, white papers, or even the need to turn something over to our Office of Investigations.
Our top five blogs this last year were:
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The major interest in these blogs reflects the entire mailing community's concern about the Postal Service's finances and the long-term solutions for reinventing its business model. In your comments, you have not only conveyed your concerns, you have suggested new ideas and recommendations for solutions as well. We will continue to feature similar issues in the year to come in our ongoing effort to foster high-level discussion and interaction with the Postal Service stakeholder community.
In March, we tried something new and hosted a 5-week guest blog series on the "Five Elements of a Postal Solution". Guest commentators from inside and outside the postal community shared their views on the Posal Service's mission, infrastructure, its role in the Digital Age, and federal mandates. The success of this series has prompted us to consider other novel ways to engage the public.
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Why are my property taxes so high?
In the early 1960s in Texas, homeowner paid lower property taxes on their homes than homeowners in 45 other states. Currently, Texas property taxes are among the highest in the nation. There are several reasons for this change.
First of all, the phoney "no new taxes" mantra, which has been the by-word of politicians seeking a seat in the Texas Legislature, has led to higher and higher taxes on your homestead as well as higher fees for almost everything you can imagine.
In the 1940s when the Legislature made a serious commitment to public education, our state was paying more than 65 percent of the cost of public education. Today, the state pays just of 30 percent, with the rest of the cost of public education borne by local property taxes on your home and business.While the mantra of "no new taxes" at the state legislative levels is one of the villains in escalating property taxes, it certainly is not the only one. Another culprit is the increasing number of exemptions. While admittedly many good arguments can be made for every exemption from property taxes on the books, they do in fact, each and every one, increase the taxes on your home or business. One of the larger exemption games is the one played to supposedly attract new businesses to a particular area. Too often large exemptions from taxation are offered to an industry or business to locate to a particular area. Not only does such an exemption add an additional tax burden to the local folks who do not have exemptions, but in many instances, it is downright unfair to many of the local businesses. A prime example of such is the huge exemption from taxation given to the giant Cabela's store in Kyle, Texas, a small town just outside of Austin. While Cabela's built a mega-sporting goods store and created some jobs, it certainly did not benefit local mom and pop shops that sold rod and reels or fishing gear. In fact it forced the mom and pop shops that sell sporting goods, hunting clothing, archery equipment, etc. to help finance a major competitor that likely will put them out of business.
The city of Port Arthur granted huge tax breaks for major refining operations in the area. Theoretically, had the city not done so, refinery expansions would have gone to some other location. Also, the exemption of charitable or religious organizations adds to the tax burden. While I realize I'm now treading on sacred ground to even dare suggest the Baptist Church, the VFW or the American Legion facilities be taxed, just imagine how much we could lower the average homeowner's tax bill could be were we willing to tax everything. As a matter of fact, a good argument could be made that it is unfair for an atheist to help subsidize churches he does not believe in.
Recently, the state Legislature folded into law what I consider one of the most egregious tax breaks ever enacted. In the recent session, the Legislature gave tax exemptions on Chamber of Commerce buildings. The theory presented was that businessmen in a community pay lots of taxes; therefore, a building dedicated to promoting business should not be taxed. This appears to me to be an extremely dangerous trend. What's next? Should union halls be taxed? If all lawyers in a community got together and created a Taj Mahal to promote the law business in a particular county, should it be taxed?If you're tired of your taxes continuing to go up year after year, maybe it's time you, as a citizen and homeowner or business owner, begin to ask your elected officials about some of these matters. Even better, we should all, as citizens, begin to ask our elected officials, particularly, those in the Legislature, to at least start having open discussions and explore new ideas of fair ways to support the essential services of government. Currently, the subject of taxation or raising revenue is such a taboo that the only political conversation we hear at election time is how we can balance our budget by simply cutting out the waste. Invariably, what I consider waste is someone else's necessity. A good example of this is the Texas leadership's shortchanging of our children's future by cutting education funding and endangering women by abolishing vital services to screen for cancer and other serious illnesses.
Carl Parker has practiced law in Port Arthur since 1958. He is a 1958 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. Elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1962 and the Senate in 1976, Parker continued to practice law while writing and sponsoring hundreds of bills that became laws relating to every aspect of life in Texas.


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NEW YORK -- Macy's Inc. plans to hire about 80,000 seasonal workers this holiday season, a 2.5 percent increase from last year when the Cincinnati-based operator of Macy's and upscale Bloomingdale's hired 78,000 workers.
Macy's said Monday that the seasonal workers will be used to staff up not only its Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores, but also its call centers, distribution centers and online fulfillment centers. Many of the positions will be part-time.
Macy's employs about 175,000 staffers on a year-round basis.
Analysts study the holiday hiring figures from retailers for clues about overall employment trends and sales expectations for the holiday season. Stores typically begin to hire for the holidays in mid-September and ramp up hiring in mid-October.
Toys R Us Inc. said last week that it plans to hire 45,000 seasonal workers to staff up its pop up stores and help fulfill its expanded customer service, like shipping online purchases to stores. That's nearly a 13 percent jump from the 40,000 seasonal workers the Wayne, N.J.-based company hired in 2011.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., in Bentonville, Ark., said last month it expects to hire more than 50,000 people this holiday season, up slightly from last year, and will be offering more hours to its existing employees.
In addition, department store operator Kohl's Corp. said last month it will be hiring more than 52,700 people, up more than 10 percent from last year. Kohl's Corp., based in Menomonee Falls, Wis., also expects to hire 5,700 people for jobs at its distribution centers and 30 people for seasonal positions in its credit operations business.
Applications for seasonal positions at Macy's and Bloomingdale's are available at http://www.macysJOBS.com and http://www.bloomingdalesJOBS.com. Hiring for store sales positions will begin in mid-October. The company has already started hiring for distribution centers, call centers and store receiving.
In morning trading Monday, Macy's shares gained $1.03, or 2.7 percent, to $38.64.


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Welcome to the team, Stefan (BigBizkit) and Mike (Pickysaurus)!
First off, before we dive into work related questions, let's get back to where it all began...
Terrorfox1234: What initially brought you into the modding scene? What made you want to stick around?
BigBizkit: I've been modding the games I've played pretty much all my life. The first game I can remember that I have modded was the very first Command & Conquer. I picked up this obscure bootleg "Addon" CD that had all sorts of third party programs for it that allowed me to change what units do in the game and to create my own missions.
When I got my hands on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (one of my all time favourite games), I absolutely loved how accessible modding it was. Seeing all the different mods, ideas, and creations people of the modding community would come up with has always been a great source of inspiration for me. I have been modding for myself and some close friends, creating all kinds of quests, gameplay mods etc. for quite a while, though it wasn't until 2015 that I released my first mods right here on Nexus Mods: the aptly named Pirates of Skyrim and Skooming Skyrim.
A year or so later, I joined a team of mod authors and we embarked on the journey to make our own game using Unreal Engine. That is where I met you, Terrorfox1234, and when we got talking about your work at Nexus Mods, I figured there must be a way for me to join the team at some point in the future. Lo and behold, the relocation process of the team to the offices in Exeter opened up the opportunity for me to follow my passion and turn it into my profession. I had never been to England before, but I am what I would dare to describe as well travelled, so, I was willing and ready to seize the opportunity and move my life to Exeter.
Pickysaurus: Well, I've been dabbling in modding on and off for a long time. I started out messing around with Garry's Mod - adding in Stargate themed packs for it. Later I got involved in the Command & Conquer: Generals through Rise of the Reds by SWR Productions, where my skills fell short of actually making content and instead I became a Community Moderator at their forum.
I stepped away from modding for a few years to focus on my education and career but made a return when I built my first gaming rig and re-purchased Skyrim (I had it on Xbox 360 previously). After poking about in Steam Workshop, I thought "there's got to be better mods than this!" and my Google-fu lead me to Nexus Mods. I knew nothing of modding the Creation Engine at first but found my way to Legacy of the Dragonborn by Icecreamassassin, there he inspired and coached me into making my own patch for it. This evolved into my contributing directly to the mod and even rebuilding it for Skyrim Special Edition. After that I just became part of the furniture, really.
Terrorfox1234: If you could bring one mod into every game you play, which mod would it be?
BigBizkit: I would say something like SkyTweak would be a good fit for just about any game. It is a "100 in 1" mod that allows you to change a wide number of gamesettings and thus customise your gameplay experience as much as you like. I always appreciate when game developers give you loads of options when it comes to, let's say, difficulty settings, but not all games have that. This is where a mod like SkyTweak would come in really handy allowing you to fit the game's settings to your liking.
Pickysaurus: See, this is a tough question. It really depends on the type of game. Although it is a little boastful because I work on the mod - Legacy of the Dragonborn's museum mechanic has always appealed to me. Having a place to show off all the cool stuff you find during the game is something I always felt most player homes lacked. So for an open-world RPG it'd have to be a mod like that. In general though I like mods that 'freshen up' the game with new content and mechanics.
Terrorfox1234: Are you modding anything now? Are there any games you'd like to crack into and haven't yet?
BigBizkit: I am working on and off on an update for Pirates of Skyrim and on a port of it to Skyrim Special Edition. Other than that, I also have quite a few Skyrim mods that I just never came around to releasing, which I will focus on after the port. Speaking of other games, I really love what the Dark Souls modding community has become. Things like the Item Randomizer by HotPocketRemix help to give you a refreshed experience, but recently the same author has created some impressive, gameplay-altering mods such as The Scorched Contract that really pushed the envelope for Dark Souls modding. I would love to crack into Dark Souls modding myself and see what I could come up with for that game, just because it is one of those games you can replay 1,000 times in different ways.
Pickysaurus: I have shifted more from creating my own mods to contributing to larger projects recently. I am working as an implementer for both Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil (the sequel to Bruma) and Odyssey of the Dragonborn (the sequel to LOTD). I also have update plans for Legacy of the Dragonborn SSE and a new smaller mod that is only in the planning stages at the moment. I tend to stick to Bethesda's games for modding because, as much as some would disagree I do like the Creation Engine. Papyrus and Creation Kit are actually incredibly powerful when you learn to use them right, which isn't a simple task. I am looking forward to The Elder Scrolls VI if it supports modding in a similar fashion to Skyrim.
Terrorfox1234: When you aren't busy being a Community Manager or modding, how might we find you spending your free time?
BigBizkit: Currently, being one of the few guys in the office who care about it, I spend a lot of my free time watching the World Cup and cheering on Germany. Being somewhat of a sports enthusiast in general, I also like to work out and keep myself fit. Having just recently moved to England, there are also plenty of new things for me to discover (such as hilariously weird food). Devon is a beautiful part of the country that seems to have a lot to offer with two coastlines being somewhat close. I would love to pay either a visit soon-ish. Other than that, I like learning new languages and exploring different cultures. I am currently trying to brush up on my Portuguese in preparation for a long term goal of mine, which is to one day travel to Brazil.
Pickysaurus: At the moment, not much. Having recently relocated to Exeter for the new job I'm still finding my feet here. I like to spend some of my free time to volunteering with the Air Training Corps, a UK youth organisation supported by the RAF. Having spent 7 years in the ATC when I was younger, I enjoy enabling others to have the same awesome experiences I had. Being in a new city, I'm also being a typical tourist and working my way around all the attractions Exeter has to offer.
Terrorfox1234: Now that we know about more about you, let's talk about the job at hand. Why don't you tell us a bit about why you wanted to join the Nexus Mods team, and what it's like now that you are here.
BigBizkit: The motivation for me to take this job was to combine a profession with what I love doing. I created my Nexus Mods account here over a decade ago and I was a part of the site ever since. I used and downloaded mods, commented, made and released my own work etc. over the course of several years. Due to this hobby of modding and Nexus Mods being the central place for it, the site grew to become a big part of my life. I seized the opportunity that arose from the team being relocated/consolidated locally and it has been an amazing experience ever since I arrived here in England. The atmosphere in the office is very positive and open. Everyone is encouraged and able to give their input on matters, not just relating to their respective field but also for us in, let's say, matters having to do with web development.
Pickysaurus: Before working at Nexus, I used to work in the technical support and repair industry. I had reached a dead-end professionally and was looking for something new and exciting to get me out of the rut I'd fallen into. I was spending a lot of my free time in the Nexus Mods community, so when I saw the Community Manager job open up I thought it was an ideal job for me. I've not been a part of an online community for so long before, but the people I've met here and the staff (shout-out to SirSalami!) have been great and I wanted to give something back. Since I've been here it's been a massive culture change from my old job. It's a very positive work environment and I enjoy being able to speak directly to the people who can fix any problems I or our users come across.
Terrorfox1234: Can you tell us a bit about what you will be doing here at Nexus Mods?
BigBizkit: I'll let Picky answer the other half of it but: In general, we will be working as a direct line of communication and as the link between the community and the rest of the Nexus Mods team. We will make sure that you guys, the modders, authors, and enthusiasts are well represented and that your respective needs are taken care of.
Pickysaurus: We also will be keeping an eye out for new modding communities who can find a home here on Nexus Mods and we'll be helping to promote all the newest and most interesting mods the users create through our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Terrorfox1234: Beyond the general overview of your job can you get into anything specific that have you been working on? Are there any exciting plans for the near future?
BigBizkit: We just recently launched our Patreon page, which I set up for the Mod Author Donation Fund and - thanks to Gopher - we now also have a very nice and concise intro video explaining the entire deal there. For the near future, I encourage you guys to keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming special June giveaway.
Pickysaurus: We're also looking to revive the popular featured articles for mod authors and mod projects that fell away a little bit once BlindJudge left. We've already got some big names lined up. But if there's an author or project that our users want to hear from, drop us a suggestion via PM and we'll see what we can do!
Terrorfox1234: Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions! Is there anything else you would like to say to the community before we end this?
BigBizkit: I would just like to thank you all for making the Nexus Mods community what it is. Your enthusiasm, your drive, and your creations all contribute to this community spirit we have developed and that Picky and I will now be doing our best to foster as much as possible going forward. I am really glad that I can now play a more central part in the future development of the community and I am looking forward to this exciting new chapter in my life and to our joint journey.
Pickysaurus: Wow, Bizkit just made his acceptance speech for an Oscar there… I'd probably just like to empathise to everyone that we're not here simply to 'police' the site, if you have any genuine concerns or questions feel free to drop either one of us a PM on the site or Discord. I look forward to getting to know everyone.
Terrorfox1234: Alright, thanks again, guys! I wish you all the best for your future here at Nexus Mods.


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Behind the scenes at this year's Masters golf tournament is a matchup that many are watching almost as much as Tiger Woods versus the rest of the field.
The matchup is between the men-only Augusta National Golf Club – where the tournament has been played since 1933 – and critics who have been calling for a female member, particularly since 2002, when feminist Martha Burk took on the club.
The new wrinkle is that Augusta has traditionally extended membership to the CEOs of its corporate sponsors. Now, one of those sponsors, IBM, has a female CEO – one who even plays golf.
It's an awkward moment for IBM and CEO Virginia "Ginni" Rometty as they consider what – if anything – to do about the apparent snub. Fighting the feminist cause might not be IBM's job, say some experts, but the company might have to brace for a potential backlash if it continues its relationship with Augusta.
While Augusta National undercut protests in 2002 by eliminating commercials on its broadcasts – thereby removing the opportunity for potential boycotts – IBM could face an uprising that is harder to handle.
"IBM can decide to support the Augusta National as is, but the tradeoffs are huge," says Mary Ellen Balchunis, a political scientist at LaSalle University in Philadelphia, who will be using the episode for her course on women in politics.
"First, it would be a real slap in the face to CEO Ginny Rometty should the Augusta National not admit her as a member," she says in an e-mail. "Second, should IBM continue to be the chief sponsor if IBM does not admit their CEO, IBM should be prepared for a large boycott by women. Women are IBM users and purchasers."
For its part, Augusta has long been proud of its exclusivity and conservatism. It didn't have a black member until 1990, when the club extended an invitation to Gannett television executive Ron Townsend, according Orin Starn, a cultural anthropologist at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and a golf historian.
"You would think that Augusta would be very sensitive, even embarrassed about its exclusionary past – this was a club that was very much about Jim Crow for the first five decades of its existence," says Professor Starn, author of "The Passion of Tiger Woods." "Apparently, they refuse to discard their anachronistic, stick-to-their-guns mentality."
But some observers say the outcry over Augusta's member list misses the point. The women's rights movement has moved well beyond caring about an exclusive golf club in Georgia.
"Augusta's intransigence is becoming increasingly irrelevant in the battle for equal rights," says Jason Maloni, senior vice president of sports and entertainment for Levick Strategic Communications in Washington. "Women have ignored Augusta like Germany ignored the Maginot Line in World War II."
Others say it's not Ms. Rometty's job to play pioneer.
"Rometty's job is to do her best to lead IBM and do a great job at that," says Justine Siegal, the first female coach of a men's professional baseball team, the Brockton Rox of the independent Canadian American league. "If she whines about Augusta, it will be taking away from what she needs to do."
"It is up to society and others within IBM to fight this battle over membership," adds Ms. Siegal, who is now director of sports partnership for Sport in Society at Northeastern University
Perhaps that activism should start within the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) itself, says Ben Agger, director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington's sociology department.
"Augusta National's anachronistic apartheid, keeping women out, is best met by a PGA players' boycott," says Dr. Agger. "It is fine to expect the woman CEO of IBM to force the issue, but the PGA has much more leverage. It is unimaginable that men's professional tennis players, a thoroughly global bunch, would countenance one of their four 'majors' being held at a facility that barred women or any other group."


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Editorial: Don't squander promise of new school funding
Growing up in Compton, in Richmond or in parts of Sacramento is not like growing up in Los Gatos or Beverly Hills, Gov. Jerry Brown said as he fought to overhaul how California spends money on public schools.
Brown's vision was much needed. California will spend $61.6 billion on six million public school students in the coming year. How that money gets spent is vital to our future.
California's new school funding system rightly reflects the truth that some kids bring disadvantages to the schoolhouse door and need additional services to thrive.
That's why school districts like Sacramento City Unified and Twin Rivers Unified, with 70 percent to 80 percent of their students in poverty, would get annual payments of $11,000 to $12,000 per pupil. More affluent school districts such as Rocklin Unified and Davis Unified, where 20 percent of students are in poverty, would get between $8,800 and $8,900.
In an ideal world, the extra dollars for disadvantaged kids would go directly to schools. Instead, the law distributes the dollars to local districts. That is the battle.
On Thursday, the State Board of Education will make big decisions about the rules districts will need to follow when they allocate dollars to individual schools, under the new system.
The board deserves credit for listening to the 200 Californians who showed up at a November meeting to protest the first draft. It held meetings with more than 40 groups and came back with a revised draft.
It is much improved. But major loopholes remain. The board should close them before voting on Thursday.
The tension is this: Districts want maximum flexibility when deciding where the money should go. Advocates for disadvantaged kids, however, want to make sure that flexibility does not mean that extra dollars get spread among all students, instead of going to services for disadvantaged students.
The State Board's latest draft strikes a better balance than the first. The new draft provides more transparency.
The public would be able to see, for example, that the base payment would be $7,557 for each third-grader in every school district. For third-graders whose parents are poor, there would be extra payments of $1,511 per student. Since there are poor kids in every district, every district would be eligible for that $1,511 bump.
For school districts with large concentrations of poor kids – say, Twin Rivers – the state would make additional payments, pushing the total to $12,847 for each disadvantaged child annually. The debate is over how that extra money would be spent.
Districts would have to set goals for disadvantaged kids at each school site.
All to the good.
A major problem, however, remains. The language is vague as to what to do when districts want to spend the dollars for disadvantaged students on districtwide initiatives that affect all students, such as reducing class sizes, buying tablet computers or restoring after-school programs. In the current draft, districts must show that this is the "most effective use" of funds to meet their goals for disadvantaged students. The draft does not define the word "effective."
At a minimum, districts should have to show how these districtwide services would directly improve the academic achievement of disadvantaged kids, and not just dilute services to them.
An equally big flaw is that the draft still would allow school districts to spend extra dollars generated by disadvantaged kids for any purpose under the sun. Critics have a well-founded fear that such flexibility would lead to across-the-board salary increases for teachers, with nothing to show in improvements for disadvantaged kids. If the language is ambiguous, the collective bargaining process will determine how the money gets spent, potentially diverting it from children.
A wide array of groups – from EdTrust West to Children Now to EdVoice – has made constructive suggestions for amendments to better ensure that extra dollars help disadvantaged kids first and foremost, while still boosting local control over the current broken, inflexible state funding system. The board listened in November, and it should listen again now.
The draft still needs changes before Brown can check this off as a righteous part of his legacy.


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A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Yardsellr is making it easier for people to sell things to your friends and friends of friends. Have you ever seen an email, tweet or a Facebook status like this: "Two tickets to U2 tonight. I can't go, but would love to sell them to one of you." Yardsellr makes it easy to turn those messages into one-click buying opportunities. And it's safer to sell to your friends because there's no stranger to meet up with!
We think the early audience is heavy Twitter & Facebook users. Many of them already sell this way and we're making it easier for them to do so. Using Yardsellr is a much more fun way to sell things too because it gives you the opportunity to enlist the help of your friends in finding a buyer for your items. The site should be easy to use, convey fun but most importantly it shouldn't be lost on users that Yardsellr is a powerful tool for getting your stuff sold.
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You could hit Taco Bell for dinner, or you could whip this together in minutes, knowing exactly what you and your family are getting.
Easy Homemade Guacamole Dip
Matt and I have been perfecting our guacamole recipe for years. We have it down to a science, and our secret ingredient is mixing in a huge dollop of Greek yogurt. You've probably seen me refer to this as "Yoga-mole" on the blog!
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This dulce de leche ice cream is absolutely fabulous on its own), but this Mexican hot fudge sauce makes it a little more decadent. And the cinnamon chips were just something fun, but turned out to be extremely tasty – plus the are super easy so they make a quick snack!
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Salisbury University defensive lineman Joey Buckley has been named Empire 8 Special Teams Player of the Week, the league announced Monday.
Buckley posted the game-winning touchdown in the Sea Gulls' 20-7 win at Buffalo State College to open Empire 8 play. Buckley blocked Buffalo State punter Joe Going's second-quarter kick on the Bengals 3-yard line and ran it into the end zone for a 13-0 lead.
Buckley is Salisbury's second Empire 8 Special Team Player of the Week as sophomore nose guard Tommy Hawks picked up the honor on Sept. 4.
No. 10 Salisbury (3-1, 1-0) travels to No. 8 St. John Fisher College (4-0, 1-0) to face the Cardinals at noon this Saturday.
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TI-RPC is a powerful technique for constructing distributed, client-server based applications. It is based on extending the notion of conventional, or local, procedure calling so that the called procedure need not exist in the same address space as the calling procedure. The two processes might be on the same system, or they might be on different systems with a network connecting them.
By using RPC, programmers of distributed applications avoid the details of the interface with the network. The transport independence of RPC isolates the application from the physical and logical elements of the data communications mechanism and enables the application to use a variety of transports.
Figure 2 How RPC Works
An RPC is analogous to a function call. Like a function call, when an RPC is made, the calling arguments are passed to the remote procedure and the caller waits for a response to be returned from the remote procedure.
Figure 2-1 shows the flow of activity that takes place during an RPC call between two networked systems. The client makes a procedure call that sends a request to the server and waits. The thread is blocked from processing until either a reply is received, or the request times out. When the request arrives, the server calls a dispatch routine that performs the requested service, and sends the reply to the client. After the RPC call is completed, the client program continues.
RPC specifically supports network applications. TI-RPC runs on available networking mechanisms such as TCP/IP. Other RPC standards are OSF DCE (based on Apollo's NCS system), Xerox Courier, and Netwise.


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Michele Bachmann has signed a deal to write a memoir.
The book is set to be released this November -- just in time for the holidays! -- and according to the Publisher's Marketplace announcement will "describe her leap into local politics and path to national prominence, as well as her vision for America's future."
Interestingly, it didn't involve an advance, which is apparently "house rules" at Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin.
It also doesn't have a title.
Enter Twitter.
Yesterday afternoon, after news of the memoir was released, a #bachmannbooknames hashtag popped up on Twitter.
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Before I go Googling willy-nilly, I'd appreciate some feedback about how frequently it happens that a font from one source is named the same as a font from another.
I'll explain why I'm asking in a moment.
First, there's this, from James Felici's The Complete Manual of Typography:
"Certain typeface names have been copyrighted, but many are in the common domain. This can create enormous confusion when specifying a particular type-face for a job. Take Bodoni, for example. Nearly every large type foundry has a typeface modeled on the ones made popular by their namesake. The same is true for typefaces based on the designs of Baskerville, Caslon, and Garamond and those based on stylistic characteristics, such as Clarendon, Egyptian, or Gothic. Some popular typefaces are produced by many vendors, but they are not necessarily the vendors (such as M. Olive and Fundicion Tipografica Neufville) who hold the copyright on a typeface's name and design (Antique Olive and Futura, respectively).
The upshot is that it's important to be precise about not only the names of the typefaces you use but also which vendors their fonts come from."
The reason I'm asking has to do with using fonts in web pages.
When using @font-face in Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome, there is the option of asking the browser to look first in the operating system to see if there is a font of a particular name and, if it finds one, using that one instead of going to the trouble of downloading the font file.
It's called the local descriptor.
In context, when used in a style sheet, it looks like this:
Two potential problems I'm trying to scope out:
1) As Felici suggests, there can many different Bembos. What's the probability of confusion here?
2) There is no provision for detecting the font version. Fonts aren't static things, there are revisions and additions. Specifying a font by name only is inadequate for this.
So, how prevalent are different fonts named the same?
(Thanks, in advance, for any feedback. Specific examples extremely welcome.)


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It was somewhat fitting, and the circle was completed when The Beatles wrapped up their career with a three guitar jam in the appropriately titled, "The End" on their Abbey Road album. After all, they had started their career as three guitarists playing together, and it seems a good place to wrap things up.
It was Paul's song, and John Lennon said he wanted to do the solo himself initially, as he often enjoyed having a shot at being a lead guitarist (and he was usually brilliant when he chose to do so), but let's let EMI/Abbey Road engineer and author Geoff Emerick tell the tale, as he was in the room when it happened:
"There were quite a few empty bars to fill after Ringo's drum solo on "The End" [Abbey Road], and George Harrison said, 'Well, a guitar solo is the obvious thing.'
"There were quite a few empty bars to fill after Ringo's drum solo on "The End" [Abbey Road], and George Harrison said, 'Well, a guitar solo is the obvious thing.'
"'Yes, but this time you should let me play it,' said John, half seriously. He loved playing lead guitar, but he knew he didn't have the finesse of either George or Paul, so he rarely took a solo on record.
"'I know,' he said mischievously, unwilling to let the idea go, 'why don't we all play the solo? We can take turns and trade licks.'
"While they were practicing, I took great care to craft a different, distinctive sound for each Beatle, so it would be apparent to the listener that it was three individuals playing, and not just one person taking an extended solo. They were each playing a different guitar through a different amp, so it wasn't all that difficult to achieve. I lined the three amps in a row—there was no need for a great deal of separation, because they were all going to be recorded on a single track.
"Incredibly, after just a brief period of rehearsal, they nailed it in a single take.
"For me, that session was undoubtedly the high point of the summer of 1969, and listening to those guitar solos never fails to bring a smile to my face." Geoff Emerick, Here, There, And Everywhere: My Life Recording The Beatles.
The beauty of "The End" is that there is not a sense of competition between the players, so much as there is a collaboration. By all counts it was a joyous occasion enjoyed by all three guitarists. While Paul and George's solos are excellent examples of the style of melodic hard blues rock that was being played on stages around London at the time, John Lennon's take on things is much more simplistic and crude. It is Paul's song, so he gets the first slot, and his playing is not very far from what Harrison is doing in the middle position, and this has caused great confusion amongst listeners for decades.
Three amps were lined up side by side, and I am assuming they were recent issue silverfaced Fender Twin Reverbs, but this is again difficult to verify. George was almost certainly playing his red 1957 Gibson Les Paul Standard, a guitar which had started its life as a Goldtop model that went through the hands of The Loving Spoonfuls' John Sebastian, blues rock guitarist Rick Derringer, and a refinish before it ended up in the possession of Eric Clapton (who used the guitar on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps") who went on to make the guitar a gift to George in early August of 1968. The guitar is still in the possession of George Harrison's estate. John was undoubtably playing his 1965 Epiphone Casino (serial number 328393) which was famously stripped of its sunburst finish, and is still owned by Yoko Ono Lennon - the Lennon estate has the guitar in its inventory under the designation, "The Revolution Guitar". While I have not found a definitive answer on what guitar Paul McCartney used for this session, with various usually reliable sources saying it was either his Epiphone Casino or Fender Esquire. I've listened very closely time and time again, comparing it between different tracks Paul has played with both guitars, and I'm very familiar with both instruments as a player, but I cannot with any confidence saying which is actually on this track. The guitars were played live, and they were obviously playing very loudly - you simply get those bold, aggressive tones out quiet amplifiers.
Let's look at the solos themselves:
In the first round, Paul and George both tear off slices of highly energized riffs that sound almost as if this could be the work of a single guitarist. Both parts are evokative of the playing of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, and Jimi Hendrix at the time, and are even very similar in tone. But then, in comes Lennon with brutally effective rhythmic stabs at his guitar that establish his very singular voice as a lead guitarist. He's making it howl, not sing.
In the second round you start to see more stylistic differences between Paul and George, as Paul continues to sound very contemporary with the hot British rock guitarists of the day, and now George answers with a very tasty double-stop outing (a double-stop is when a guitarist plays a melodic section of a song using two notes, as opposed to a single note or a chord (three or more notes)) that is very reminiscent of the soul music coming out of the American South. Paul and George's tones are also more noticeably different with Harrison's being a bit softer and smoother than his playing on his first go round. Perhaps he had switched to his Les Paul's rhythm (or neck) pickup from his lead (or bridge) pickup. Next, John steps it up a bit and fires off a brilliant volley of bent low notes in a seething homage to Link Wray.
"His travelling record collection includes albums by Bo Diddley (three), Chuck Berry (two), Lenny Bruce (six), the Mothers (everything), Paul McCartney (Ram – and it's been played at least once), and Link Wray (with cover inscribed "To John and Yoko – thanks for remembering – Peace, Link Wray").
"The story behind the Wray inscription is that John and Yoko were getting out of the lift at 1700 Broadway, which houses Allen Klein's office, when they were confronted by Wray, who was going up to Polydor's offices in the same building.
"Wray apparently said, 'Hey – John and Yoko.' John didn't say anything to him, but turned to Yoko and breathed: 'Yoko, that's Link Wray. Without him…'", Richard Williams, Uncut Magazine, 1998.
For the third and final round, we see Paul go very guttural in his playing with a staggering, stuttering statement that he picks very aggressively and very close to the guitar's bridge, giving it a taut, staccato tone that would not sound out of place on a Jimmy Page solo from early days of Led Zeppelin. George's gorgeous climb up the neck suggests his very soon to be exploration of the slide guitar (which he had been hinting at in his playing, and in his love for Indian music for several years), but it's just the musical motion you're hearing here as he manipulates the strings with just his fingers and a pick. John wraps it up with a rave up that is the perfect marriage of where rock 'n' roll guitar had started for him, and where rock guitar would go in the future.
Everyone simply did what it was that they did as guitar players, without any real time or thought being given to anything other than having a play. They had seemingly come full circle to once again meet The Beatles.
Here is a video of the isolated guitars from the track, and below is a clickable time schedule for who starts playing at what point (the soloing starts at the 1:03 mark):
George #1: 1:07
John #1: 1:10
Paul #2: 1:14
George #2: 1:19
John #2: 1:22
Paul #3: 1:27
George #3: 1:30
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I am a new android user but I am a computer and internet search veteran, however today I have been unable to find information about the status of google talk for android.
I simply want to download and install the Gtalk app for Android, but I cannot find it on the market. I find many references to it elsewhere, but the app itself seems to be gone from the market. I also find many references to voice and video chat in Google talk on android, so is it the case that google have removed the basic chat app in favour of google voice?


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. – For the third straight junior Donny Delpha (Walpole, Mass.) has been named to the Little East Conference Second Team after helping the Beacons to their best finish ever under head coach Tyler Low.
With Wednesday's announcement, Delpha becomes the first player since Chris Hanafin '06 to earn three consecutive all-conference nods. Hanafin, remains the only player to be named a four-time All-Little East Conference honoree.
In 2014, the Walpole native finished second on the team with 23 goals, 17 assists, and 40 points. He appeared 17 of the 18 games played this season, earning a sport in the starting line-up a total of three times. He led the Beacons special teams with six man-up goals and collected 22 groundballs.
By far his best performance of the year came in the March 14 game at Lasell College. He would register four goals and one assist in the loss, but finished with one man-up tally for the Beacons. On the year he finished eight games with two or more goals, and had at-least one point in every game played this year. In the 14-12 win over Regis College, he posted two goals and two assists to lead the Beacons to their eighth win of the year.
Looking towards his senior season, Delpha is currently sitting 10th all-time with 140 career points. His 86 career goals is 11th most all-time, while his 46 assists has him sitting ninth. He is also tied for second in program history in man-up goals with 25.


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Angry Birds Star Wars: O evil marketing geniuses!
Several months ago, I wrote a blog post about my decision to stop letting my four (now five) year-old son, C, play Angry Birds. It's been about seven months, and all has been fairly well: keeping him away from the addictive game has diminished how much he fights about relinquishing the iPad when his time is up. It's allowed me one small parenting victory (just one is all I ask!): he has become much more understanding of the fact that the iPad is a "sometimes" toy, rather than an all-encompassing center of the universe. And with no Angry Birds, he is much more interested in playing games directed towards children, built to be more like open-ended toys, like the Toca Boca games, or straight-up educational games. Lately he's been playing this Montessori game which repeatedly drills him on the geography of North and Central America with no discernable end or even pretend achievements like stickers to keep him going. He probably thinks, "I can't play anything fun, so I might as well learn where Belize is." Is this something to be proud of? I'm not sure, but I'll go with yes. Come on!
So the Great Experiment worked: he's dropping out of kindergarten in the New Year to head to Yale on a bassoon/Geography/handball scholarship. Well, no. But I do think he got something out of it.
Until now. We are sitting at the dining room table on a Sunday, as little brother naps, doing crossword puzzles and coloring and computing, all while eating bacon: a collection of fortifying family activities for a brisk fall day, all in aid of our goal of leaf-raking avoidance. C just achieved a bevy of points in a reading game on the iPad. How does his father reward him?
I see him swiping at the screen. Swiper, no swiping!
Oh man! After months of keeping the birds at bay, turning sharp corners in the supermarket to avoid the Angry Birds gummy candy displays, and not commenting on the fact that his kindergarten teachers dressed as Angry Birds for Halloween, we are back at the trough. Angry Birds Star Wars has proved too much to resist. C's Dad looks at me sheepishly as he hits BUY in the App Store.
Those Finnish geniuses. They know you might be able to resist plain old Angry Birds. But if you are Star Wars fans? Like this father and son duo I'm looking at right here, pondering how to chuck a Luke Skywalker bird at some Storm Trooper pigs? The force is too great. It can't be escaped, just as Han Solo is trapped by the carbonite. They've pulled us into a Sarlacc pit in a nexus of perfect marketing synergy. I am trying to think of more Star Wars metaphors, but I've run out. Like I've written before, I'm not much of a Star Wars fan myself.
I suppose I am OK with C returning to the game. Maybe it's because I have never gotten over my mother denying us certain toys when we were kids, practicing something, what's that called again? Oh, restraint. Play-doh? Play don't. Easy Bake Oven? Ask my sister how that request was handled. I respect that tactic now, but at the time it was a bummer. So though I am trying to teach my kids that a trip to into town is not cause to treat yourself, I can't resist sometimes, when I see something I know they will really like.
Which is all the time. Those things that I know my kids will really like know how place themselves right in front of my face. Are my spending habits so easy to peg, O marketing gods? I am constantly confronted with versions of Angry Birds Star Wars every time I shop, those perfect combinations of favorite things: Spider-Man Matchbox cars? Synergy! Must-have! Bubble Guppies iPad game? Do it. Lego Star Wars, Lego Dinos, Lego Fire Trucks? Say no more. Candy that looks like Legos, gummies that look like Dinos? Yes. Switch and Go Dinos? It's a car, it's a dino, it's a car, it's a dino…it's on Santa's list.
It goes for me as well: how does Target know that I will totally buy them out of Orla Kiely-themed Method cleaning products? That seemed kind of specific, but apparently I am not the only one who so clearly fits into that Anglophile, green-clean loving, bargain shopping demographic.
So I sympathize with Swiper McGee over here, although we will have to see what the consequences will be. There will be a lot of talk, as there is at this very moment, of the powers of the various bird-shaped Star Wars good guys, and we will have to listen. And if the fighting over the iPad returns, Angry Birds Star Wars is going back to its galaxy far, far away.
Christmas is coming, and my boys are still a bit young to come at me with an Excel spreadsheet of their demands – they don't really have a lot of expectations for what they will receive, and it's my job to keep it that way. And maybe because, throughout the year, they are gifted with things they didn't even know they wanted, it keeps the pressure off Christmas to be a gift-fest. I hope.
Instead of charging into stores with long lists, we can focus on all of the other things about the season that we really enjoy: driving around looking at Christmas lights, decorating the tree, watching A Charlie Brown Christmas, making gingerbread houses. Do they make Star Wars Millenium Falcon gingerbread house kits? I'll have to look into that.


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I came across the idea of stamping a message on the outside edges of a book in a Martha Stewart Living long ago, and I filed it away in my brain for later use. I finally tried it out a few weeks ago and it worked beautifully!
My friend Mary Ann and I are always talking about books so what better gift to give her than a few of my favorites, stamped with her name so after she reads them, she can lend them to others.And these peonies that I bought earlier in the summer. I told Larry when we grow up and he has a real job, I'm going to treat myself to a bundle of flowers at Costco each and every time I go. I think I've amended this idea, and I would like to pick up a bundle of blooms to deliver to a friend each and every time I go. Wouldn't that be such a happy tradition?


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The pounding that the Northeast has taken from savage storms over the last 14 months has inspired a remarkable bit of innovation that could put one state at the vanguard of American energy policy.
Early next year, Connecticut will begin vetting plans for towns to build their own "microgrids": self-sustaining downtown networks, some powered by state-of-the-art fuel cells, that will allow them to keep fire and police departments, city halls, pharmacies, grocery stores, shelters and other key facilities running when the wider electrical grid goes dark.
The initiative was born from the wreckage of two late-2011 storms: Tropical Storm Irene and a fast-moving nor'easter. The scale of the destruction, and the length of time it took for utilities to restore power to customers, prompted a surge of interest in new methods to protect communities from their reliance on the grid.
Connecticut set aside $15 million for a pilot program to encourage towns and businesses to develop microgrids - the first of its kind. Then, on Oct. 29, just as the state was preparing to send out applications, Hurricane Sandy hit. Tens of millions of people along the East Coast were left without power. Thousands lost their homes to flooding. Dozens died.
Microgrids, a fringe concept longing for mainstream appeal, were sounding a lot more attractive.
"I've been doing this for more than a decade, and I've never seen so much attention paid to this," said Tom Bourgeois, deputy director of the Energy and Climate Center at Pace University Law School in New York.
Bourgeois travels the Northeast preaching the gospel of microgrids, and believes that they may finally be gaining a foothold in public consciousness.
"Sandy has got people galvanized around microgrids - as part of the solution, at least - in a way I've not seen," he said.
Scientists and energy companies have been researching these networks for years, not only as a way to protect people from storms and other catastrophes, but also as a cleaner and more efficient way to burn fuel. They may become more popular as climate change increases the frequency of severe weather and flooding.
Microgrids are often powered by fuel cells, which typically run on natural gas and produce no pollution. It is also possible to use combustion turbines.
A few universities, hospitals, jails and industrial sites around the country use them, and the U.S. Department of Defense wants to develop microgrids on some military bases. But the Connecticut program appears to be the furthest anyone's gone toward developing "multiple user" microgrids that could be applied at the municipal level.
This is not a revolution, at least not yet. Of the handful of states walloped by the three big storms, Connecticut is the one to openly embrace the technology. There are more subtle indications that the idea may spread in New York City, where a few sites, including New York University and Co-op City, didn't lose power because they developed internal "cogeneration" systems, similar to microgrids, fueled by natural gas.
Bourgeois and other advocates envision taking that many steps forward, to "zero-energy neighborhoods" and beyond.
Their challenge is getting the public on board, and negotiating support from the operators of the traditional energy grid – public utility companies.
It happened in Connecticut because of three factors: the state is a center of America's fuel cell research.; its governor, Dan Malloy, is a longtime proponent of microgrids; and it has endured a series of massive power outages that prompted a backlash against its primary electrical utility.
It began with Irene, in August 2011, and continued with the freak storm that followed a month later, dumping record amounts of wet, heavy snow across a broad swath of the Northeast. The weight of the snow snapped trees and sent them tumbling onto power lines and across roads. Utility and public works crews, just weeks after dealing with the havoc from Irene, were unable to contain the damage.
No one took it harder than Connecticut, where 880,000 people lost power during this second storm, breaking the record of 800,000 set during Irene. As the cold days and unlit nights passed, people began running out of food and supplies. They grew panicky. Many remained out of reach by emergency crews. Some took to hacking their way through fallen trees. Many of those fortunate enough to have generators began to run out of gas; others had theirs stolen from their yards.
Nearly two weeks went by before everyone in Connecticut got their electricity back.
"It never got to the point of 'Mad Max,' but people were getting very desperate, and I was very worried about my family," said Tom Roy, the public works director in Simsbury, a heavily wooded suburb of 24,000 outside Hartford that suffered serious damage. "It was absolutely a disaster."
Frightened and livid, residents and public officials, including Malloy, began lashing out at the state's largest utility, Connecticut Light & Power. Although the one-two punch of severe storms was extremely rare, CL&P came under fire for failing to properly prepare and respond. A myriad of investigations undertaken by government agencies and private contractors detailed the utility's missteps, recommended economic penalties, and prescribed measures to prevent it from happening again.
The efforts culminated last summer, when Malloy signed a law that codified many of those suggestions. Among the provisions was a program that set aside $15 million in grants to help municipalities, energy companies and utilities develop microgrids.
This pilot project, overseen by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, aims to get a handful of microgrids running in 2013 and then decide whether they're worth duplicating elsewhere.
The concept was a serious policy consideration before Oct. 29, 2011, but the storm "made us move faster," DEEP spokesman Dennis Schain said.
Sara Bronin, program director at the University of Connecticut's Center for Energy & Environmental Law, has studied microgrid efforts around the country. The Connecticut approach, she said, has made the state a "testing ground."
But she cautioned that in addition to the technological challenges, there are social and political issues to consider: how to choose what parts of town benefit, and whether to update existing laws to give public utilities the incentive to support microgrids on a wider basis.
"I don't know of any other publicly provided microgrid projects, mostly because state-level utility laws don't allow multiple-user microgrids to happen," Bronin said.
Typically, public utilities would be skittish about the idea of a town building its own mini electrical network. That, apparently, was the case in Connecticut.
Malloy said Connecticut's public utilities didn't embrace the idea until after the storm. "I think they understand they're playing with fire if they don't get on board," the governor said.
Bill Quinlan, senior vice president of emergency preparedness for CL&P, said the utility was committed to cooperating with the state to develop microgrids.
Quinlan called the state effort "cutting edge," but said it remained "questionable" if microgrids would turn out to be economically feasible. Other measures, like burying wires underground, may be more practical.
"I think it's important to get through the pilot program and analyze and decide what's the best technique," Quinlan said.
Already, dozens of towns have expressed interest in applying for the pilot program.
They don't necessarily envision themselves as high-tech hubs of the green movement, just seizing an opportunity.
Simsbury is one of them.
Before the 2011 snowstorm, Simsbury officials didn't know anything about microgrids, Roy said. But after hearing about the state's plan, they began to wonder if it wasn't possible not only to build their own microgrid, but to go a step further and create a downtown power district that could attract more business to town.
Because of the storm, "we started identifying things that we hadn't looked at before," Roy said. "We took a fresh look at our town and how to be better positioned if we were to ever suffer a long-duration power outage again."
When Sandy hit late last month, 41 percent of Simsbury went black, an experience that strenghened the town's commitment to the microgrid project. "Sadly," Roy said, "these events are becoming all too common for us."
Officials there aren't yet sure if their microgrid proposal would include fuel cells or more traditional power sources, like turbines or generators. "Nothing's off the table," Roy said. "But just going through this process is getting us excited about it."


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Flash: Berkeley Pair First to Marry Today
A federal appeals court in San Francisco today lifted a stay that had blocked same-marriages in California.
Manny Rivera, a spokesman for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, said that lawyers for two couples who sued to challenge California's Proposition 8 believe the action by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means that gay marriages can resume in the state.
Rivera said the first pair to be married following the action will be one of the two plaintiff couples, Kris Perry and Sandra Stier, of Berkeley.
They will be married at San Francisco City Hall at 4:15 p.m.


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Directed by Osheen Jones.
Costumes by Kristen Kopp.
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The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yeléna, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends, Vanya, brother of the Professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local Doctor, both fall under Yelena's spell, while bemoaning the boredom of their provincial existence. Sonya, the Professor's daughter by his first wife, who has worked with Vanya to keep the estate going, meanwhile suffers from the awareness of her own lack of beauty and from her unrequited feelings for Dr. Astrov. Matters are brought to a crisis when the Professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sonya's home and raison d'être, with a view to investing the proceeds to achieve a higher income for himself and his wife.


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Resistance Retribution
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Resistance Retribution will no longer be supported by online services as of May 5.
Resistance Retribution headlines
Sony Bend planned Resistance Retribution sequel before Uncharted Vita
Sony Bend has admitted it was planning a sequel to Resistance Retribution before it started work on Uncharted: Golden Abyss for Vita.
Sony puts out "to do" list for Resistance Retribution players
John Garvin of Sony Bend has posted nine different "must do's" for players to, well, do when playing Resistance Retribution on PSP. If you have not played the game, don't take a peek after the break or hit this link. It'll pretty much spoil things for you.
Road to Retribution Tournament giving away $25k in Sony prizes
Global Gaming and SCEA are hosting a Road to Retribution Tournament, offering $25,000 in Sony prizes into the bargain. Players will be going up against one another via the PSP third-person shooter in 2v2 and 4v4 ladders. The contest runs from now through May 10, and the top players will go into their respective brackets […]
Resistance: Retribution devs chatting live on PS Blog today
Sony Bend, the developer behind Resistance: Retribution, will be chatting to the public on the PS Blog later today. Developers John Garvin and Chris Reese will be on-hand to answer questions from 12.00pm PST this afternoon, or 8.00pm GMT if you're a UK fan.
First look at Australia's Resistance Retribution PSP-3000 bundle
Australian? Looking forward to the PSP-3000 Resistance Retribution bundle landing March 26? Here's what it contains: PSP 3000 console Resistance Retribution game Resistance Retribution branded black pouch Resistance Retribution PSP skin Megaton. EB Games has it listed. Go take a peek.
Qore Episode 10: Burnout, Riddick, LittleBigPlanet, more
Qore Episode 10 is now up on PSN, and a preview of what you'll get is posted after the break. This week, the Sony folks get some hands-on time with the upcoming Big Surf Island expansion pack for Burnout Paradise, travel to Sweden to visit Dark Athena creator Starbreeze, and talk Alpha Protocol with Obsidian. […]
Resistance Retribution: multiplayer in video
After the break. The PSP shooter includes the following online stuff, according to this PS Blog post: Team Deathmatch: Eliminate the players on the opposing team. The team with the highest score wins. Capture The Flag: Grab the opposing team's flag and deliver it to your base to score the capture. You flag is required […]
Resistance Retribution vidoc has much shooting
SCEA's put out another Resistance Retribution movie, this time featuring a ton of in-game footage and the thinking behind building a Resistance product on PSP. It's all about keeping the intensity of the PS3 games, apparently. Looks very shooty. Releasing March 17.
Resistance: Retribution gets shot up
New shots of Resistance: Retribution have popped up over on IGN — eight of them to be exact. The shooter's releasing on March 17, so get your PSP battery charged. More pretty pictures through the link.
New York Comic Con - All the previews
New York Comic Con's now well under way, and a bunch of big-name hands-ons got posted overnight. You may want to read them. You are, therefore, in luck. Sorry, we're just writing words for the sake of it. Looks as though plenty of that's been done already: Wolverine Claws of Olympus hands-on (Joystiq) GTA Chinatown […]
Play Resistance Retribution demo early with US pre-order deal
SCEA has said that if you pre-order Resistance Retribution with either Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, or Game Crazy you'll be given a voucher to code to download the demo as early as today. The demo will feature single and multiplayer modes, as well as the new Infected gametype. You will also have a chance to […]
Resistance Retribution coming to America in March
Sony Bend studios' PSP shooter, Resistance Retribution, will be available March 17th, writes the PSBlog. The news comes in wake of the Euro March 19 date we revealed last week. Resistance Retribution will be the first PSP title to make use of Sony's PSP Plus tech that allows for games to be played using a […]
Resistance Retribution gets new trailer
Have a gander at Sony Bend Studios' new PSP shooter Resistance Retribution after the break. We got wind from Sony Europe yesterday that this should be ready for download on PlayStation Network on March 19. Now go watch. By Mike Bowden
Resistance Retribution gets firm Euro date
Sony Europe has revealed that Sony Bend Studios' Resistance Retribution will be released on March 13th. Previously only set for a Spring release, Resistance Retribution sees the Insomniac shooter début on Sony's PlayStation Portable. Check out all our Retribution stories here. By Mike Bowden
New Resistance Retribution screenshots
Over at Watch Impress. The PSP shooter is looking very sharp indeed, we reckon. The game will be the first of its kind to use PSP Plus technology which enables players to use their PS3 controllers to play the game. Resistance Retribution is set for a Spring 09 release. By Mike Bowden
Resistance: Retribution gets developer walkthrough
There's a movie after the link of one of Resistance: Retribution's dev team walking through the PSP shooter on the PAX show floor. Looks cool, innit. There's a Q&A on the PS Blog as well, should you feel the need. Go look.
SCEE wins three at GC
We were mailed about this last night but couldn't open it, for some reason. SCEE won awards at GC08 for Best PS3 Game (LBP), Best PSP Game (Resistance: Retribution) and Best Innovation (PlayTV). And that's it. Read more on ThreeSpeech.
Resistance Retribution - hands-on and movie
You can get hands-on impressions of Resistance Retribution, the newly-announced PSP action game from last night's Sony press conference, on IGN. Movie after the drop. Game's out next spring.
Resistance Retribution announced for PSP
Resistance Retribution has just been announced for PSP. A video for the game was shown, featuring climbing and third-person shooting. Aliens, cities, British woman talking about the chimera. Looked pretty cool. The info came as part of Sony's ongoing E3 press conference. The game's out next spring.
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