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The Dallas Stars power play moved up a couple of spots this week as they went to 23rd from 25th after going six for 19 with the man-advantage.
A big reason for the improvement has been the acquisition of Tyler Seguin who has 20 points on the power play after just six in the shortened 2012-13 season.
The Stars have a lot of good young players who will be on their power play for years, including Seguin, Jamie Benn and rookie Valeri Nichuskin who will see plenty of time with the man-advantage in the years to come.
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I've added the ranking of each team in brackets as far as power play efficiency is concerned.
Corey Perry: 14 points in 222:40 minutes of power play time.
Cam Fowler: 15 points in 216:19.
Ryan Getzlaf: 18 points in 214:51.
Nick Bonino: 19 points in 178:47.
Teemu Selanne: 8 points in 124:10.
Hampus Lindholm: 3 points in 118:43.
Anaheim was 1-9 on the power play this week and are now 38-219 (18) this season. Francois Beauchemin scored and was set up by Lindholm.
David Krejci: 17 points in 174:48 minutes of power play time.
Torey Krug: 18 points in 170:00.
Jarome Iginla: 13 points in 169:44.
Zdeno Chara: 13 points in 158:51.
Milan Lucic: 12 points in 157:17.
Patrice Bergeron: 7 points in 126:40.
Boston was 2-9 on the power play this week and are now 39-185 (T3) this season. Bergeron had a hand in both with a goal and an assist while Andrej Meszaros also scored. Loui Eriksson, Reilly Smith and Carl Soderberg each had one assist.
Christian Ehrhoff: 10 points in 218:18 minutes of power play time.
Tyler Ennis: 11 points in 206:47.
Cody Hodgson: 15 points in 170:39.
Tyler Myers: 9 points in 146:22.
Jamie McBain: 3 points in 144:41.
Drew Stafford: 4 points in 124:13.
The Sabres were 0-10 this week and are 29-204 (26) this season. They lost Matt Moulson off their power play as he was dealt to Minnesota.
Jiri Hudler: 11 points in 208:23 minutes of power play time.
Mark Giordano: 14 points in 168:53.
Kris Russell: 8 points in 156:58.
Michael Cammalleri: 7 points in 152:58.
Dennis Wideman: 4 points in 143:54.
Sean Monahan: 5 points in 121:31.
The Flames were 2-13, putting them at 28-202 (T27) this season. Paul Byron and Cammalleri scored with Giordano assisting on both. Monahan and Russell each had one helper.
Eric Staal: 11 points in 219:48 minutes of power play time.
Alexander Semin: 9 points in 174:54.
Jeff Skinner: 17 points in 171:27.
Andrej Sekera: 13 points in 164:01.
Justin Faulk: 6 points in 142:33.
Jordan Staal: 7 points in 140:29.
The Hurricanes were 1-8 this week and are now 29-224 in 2013-14 (29). Jay Harrison was the lone goal scorer with Jordan Staal and Semin setting him up.
Patrick Kane: 24 points in 215:21 minutes of power play time.
Patrick Sharp: 21 points in 212:28.
Jonathan Toews: 13 points in 206:28.
Duncan Keith: 19 points in 204:30.
Andrew Shaw: 8 points in 161:55.
Nick Leddy: 8 points in 134:10.
The Blackhawks were 2-13 this week and are now 44-209 (6) this season. Toews had both goals with assisting on both. Kane and Keith each had one assist.
Matt Duchene: 15 points in 167:06 minutes of power play time.
Erik Johnson: 10 points in 161:52 .
Ryan O'Reilly: 17 points in 161:07.
Gabriel Landeskog: 8 points in 155:13.
Andre Benoit: 8 points in 150:03.
Nathan MacKinnon: 15 points in 145:13.
Colorado was 1-8 this week and are 40-195 this season which is 9th best in the NHL. Johnson and O'Reilly set up Tyson Barrie for the only power play goal.
James Wisniewski: 20 points in 199:50 minutes of power play time.
Jack Johnson: 12 points in 189:41.
Ryan Johansen: 13 points in 160:31.
Brandon Dubinsky: 7 points in 149:39.
R.J. Umberger: 12 points in 140:17.
Cam Atkinson: 8 points in 133:08.
The Blue Jackets were 1-12 this week and are now 41-218 (T14). Artem Anisimov was the goal scorer.
Tyler Seguin: 20 points in 239:56 minutes of power play time.
Jamie Benn: 14 points in 238:58.
Alex Chiasson: 11 points in 213:01.
Alex Goligoski: 11 points in 208:52.
Erik Cole: 7 points in 171:33.
Ray Whitney: 12 points in 168:02.
Dallas was 6-19 this week and are 37-234 (23) in 2013-14. Seguin had two goals and two assists with Chiasson and Goligoski chipping in with two goals and one assist each. Benn and Whitney each had three helpers while Cole and Sergei Gonchar each had one assist.
Niklas Kronwall: 19 points in 212:39 minutes of power play time.
David Legwand: 16 points in 187:54.
Daniel Alfredsson: 14 points in 172:34.
Henrik Zetterberg: 17 points in 158:43.
Todd Bertuzzi: 7 points in 138:38.
Gustav Nyquist: 5 points in 128:11.
Detroit was 4-12 this week and are now 40-223 (17) this season. Johan Franzen had two goals and an assist with Bertuzzi also finding the back of the net and adding his first power play assist of the season. Tomas Jurco completed the scoring with Nyquist adding two assists and Danny DeKeyser and Riley Sheahan getting one apiece.
Jordan Eberle: 16 points in 206:43 minutes of power play time.
Justin Schultz: 8 points in 202:23.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins: 16 points in 196:23.
Taylor Hall: 12 points in 189:36.
David Perron: 9 points in 181:08.
Sam Gagner: 6 points in 140:08.
Edmonton was 2-9 with the man advantage this week and are now 37-222 (20) this season. Ryan Smyth and Ales Hemsky scored with Eberle, Andrew Ference, Gagner and Nail Yakupov drawing assists.
Brian Campbell: 10 points in 271:47 minutes of power play time.
Tomas Fleischmann: 6 points in 169:28.
Brad Boyes: 3 points in 159:15.
Aleksander Barkov: 6 points in 144:06.
Tom Gilbert: 5 points in 146:45.
Dmitry Kulikov: 3 points in 149:32.
The Panthers were 2-15 this week and are now 21-219 (30). Kulikov and Jesse Winchester scored, with Scottie Upshall, Nick Bjugstad, Scott Gomez and Boyes getting assists.
Drew Doughty: 14 points in 256:36 minutes of power play time.
Anze Kopitar: 18 points in 227:53.
Mike Richards: 11 points in 200:52.
Jeff Carter: 11 points in 183:14.
Slava Voynov: 10 points in 182:01.
Justin Williams: 7 points in 158:47.
The Kings were 3-10 this week and are 34-232 (24) this season. Carter scored twice with Alec Martinez potting the other. Kopitar had two assists while Voynov had one.
Ryan Suter: 14 points in 245:05 minutes of power play time.
Jason Pominville: 12 points in 225:02.
Dany Heatley: 10 points in 169:46.
Mikko Koivu: 13 points in 167:38.
Zach Parise: 16 points in 164:15.
Mikael Granlund: 10 points in 135:30.
Minnesota was 2-9 this week and are now 37-200 (16) so far this season. Charlie Coyle and Jared Spurgeon scored with Granlund, Matt Moulson, Suter and Jonas Brodin drawing assists.
P.K. Subban: 22 points in 297:44 minutes of power play time.
Andrei Markov: 20 points in 273:47.
Brendan Gallagher: 8 points in 168:20.
Max Pacioretty: 15 points in 160:39.
David Desharnais: 13 points in 155:41.
Tomas Plekanec: 9 points in 125:00.
The Canadiens were 1-18 this week and are 42-223 (T14) this season. Alex Galchenyuk scored with the great pointmen Subban and Markov setting him up.
Shea Weber: 21 points in 195:52 minutes of power play time.
Patric Hornqvist: 13 points in 179:29.
Roman Josi: 11 points in 172:58.
Mike Fisher: 11 points in 158:19.
Seth Jones: 8 points in 131:26.
Matt Cullen: 7 points in 130:43.
Nashville was 0-9 this week and are now 39-195 in 2013-14 (T10).
Jaromir Jagr: 14 points in 192:03 minutes of power play time.
Marek Zidlicky: 16 points in 190:58.
Michael Ryder: 7 points in 164:27.
Travis Zajac: 11 points in 161:29.
Andy Greene: 12 points in 156:45.
Adam Henrique: 12 points in 133:46.
The Devils were 2-8 this week and are now 41-197 (7) this season. Damien Brunner and Zidlicky each had a goal and an assist. Zajac and Patrik Elias had one assist apiece.
Kyle Okposo: 13 points in 257:06 minutes of power play time.
John Tavares: 25 points in 241:09.
Frans Nielsen: 18 points in 225:23.
Josh Bailey: 3 points in 102:43.
Brock Nelson: 4 points in 96:07.
Cal Clutterbuck: 0 points in 81:19.
The Islanders were 0-9 this week and are 36-227 (22) this season.
Brad Richards: 17 points in 245:45 minutes of power play time.
Ryan McDonagh: 11 points in 186:31.
Derek Stepan: 15 points in 176:47.
Mats Zuccarello: 15 points in 158:27.
Derick Brassard: 16 points in 157:55.
Chris Kreider: 12 points in 131:50.
The Rangers were 1-8 this week and are 42-210 (T10) this season. Stepan scored with Richards and Martin St. Louis assisting.
Erik Karlsson: 26 points in 270:10 minutes of power play time.
Jason Spezza: 18 points in 187:21.
Clarke MacArthur: 13 points in 166:36.
Bobby Ryan: 9 points in 165:52.
Kyle Turris: 10 points in 158:17.
Milan Michalek: 7 points in 134:32.
The Senators were 2-11 this week and are now 41-217 (13). Michalek and Mike Hoffman were the goal scorers with Hemsky and Spezza assisting on both.
Claude Giroux: 27 points in 238:59 minutes of power play time.
Jakub Voracek: 17 points in 216:33.
Wayne Simmonds: 18 points in 211:45.
Andrew MacDonald: 11 points in 206:41.
Kimmo Timonen: 16 points in 204:04.
Scott Hartnell: 16 points in 194:01.
Philadelphia was 1-4 with the man advantage and are now 46-231 (12) this season. Voracek scored with Giroux and Simmonds setting up the goal.
Keith Yandle: 25 points in 271:25 minutes of power play time.
Oliver Ekman-Larsson: 16 points in 255:40.
Mike Ribeiro: 14 points in 222:11.
Radim Vrbata: 19 points in 178:18.
Martin Hanzal: 12 points in 162:55.
Antoine Vermette: 11 points in 152:04.
The Coyotes were 3-9 this week and are now 47-223 (T3) this season. Vrbata, Lauri Korpikoski and Shane Doan scored with Michael Stone and Yandle picking up two assists. Ekman-Larsson and Ribeiro finished the scoring with one assist.
Sidney Crosby: 31 points in 264:31 minutes of power play time.
Evgeni Malkin: 25 points in 228:20.
Chris Kunitz: 21 points in 226:25.
Matt Niskanen: 13 points in 162:47.
James Neal: 19 points in 160:15.
Jussi Jokinen: 17 points in 131:21.
Pittsburgh was 4-12 and are now 54-212 (1) this season. Malkin had a goal and two helpers with Kunitz, Niskanen and Olli Maatta also finding the back of the net. Crosby had two assists with Neal, Jokinen and Brandon Sutter getting one each.
Kevin Shattenkirk: 22 points in 201:13 minutes of power play time.
Alex Pietrangelo: 16 points in 179:00.
Alexander Steen: 12 points in 168:42.
T.J. Oshie: 13 points in 168:40.
David Backes: 13 points in 150:14.
Derek Roy: 16 points in 144:35.
The Blues were 1-7 this week and are now 47-223 (T3) this season. Shattenkirk and Steen assisted on Oshie's goal.
Joe Thornton: 16 points in 239:42 minutes of power play time.
Patrick Marleau: 17 points in 236:08.
Joe Pavelski: 22 points in 224:36.
Dan Boyle: 14 points in 209:01.
Logan Couture: 11 points in 179:59.
Jason Demers: 9 points in 121:39.
San Jose was 0-11 this week and are 38-234 (21) this season.
Teddy Purcell: 14 points in 202:09 minutes of power play time.
Valtteri Filppula: 13 points in 182:19.
Tyler Johnson: 9 points in 171:59.
Victor Hedman: 8 points in 127:57.
Alex Killorn: 6 points in 123:00.
Sami Salo: 4 points in 110:04.
The Lightning were 1-8 this week to bring them to 34-202 (19) in 2013-14. Johnson scored with Martin St. Louis and Hedman drawing the assists.
Dion Phaneuf: 9 points in 214:33 minutes of power play time.
Phil Kessel: 19 points in 209:14.
James van Riemsdyk: 15 points in 204:52.
Cody Franson: 17 points 162:40.
Nazem Kadri: 13 points in 148:25.
Joffrey Lupul: 10 points in 142:06.
The Maple Leafs 0-7 this week and are 42-203 (8) in 2013-14.
Daniel Sedin: 15 points in 235:06 minutes of power play time.
Ryan Kesler: 14 points in 231:14.
Henrik Sedin: 15 points in 203:37.
Jason Garrison: 13 points in 194:03.
Dan Hamhuis: 3 points in 141:47.
Alexander Edler: 7 points in 132:52.
The Canucks were 1-6 this week and are now 29-208 (T27). Zac Dalpe scored with Kevin Bieksa and Edler assisting.
Alex Ovechkin: 32 points in 315:38 minutes of power play time.
Nicklas Backstrom: 35 points in 245:45.
Troy Brouwer: 16 points in 228:50.
John Carlson: 14 points in 205:39.
Marcus Johansson: 18 points in 193:30.
Mike Green: 15 points in 165:03.
The Capitals were 4-6 in the last seven days and are now 55-237 (2) this season. Ovechkin and Green each had a goal and an assist with Brouwer and Brooks Laich also lighting up the lamp. Backstrom and Carlson had two helpers while Karl Alzner and Jason Chimera each picked up one assist.
Dustin Byfuglien: 21 points in 229:45 minutes of power play time.
Tobias Enstrom: 8 points in 228:02.
Andrew Ladd: 10 points in 178:11.
Bryan Little: 11 points in 176:40.
Blake Wheeler: 12 points in 174:18.
Mark Scheifele: 4 points in 124:11.
The Jets were 2-13 this week and are now 31-212 (25) this season. Enstrom and Little scored with Byfuglien, Kane and Ladd picking up assists.


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That's what people said about the Galaxy Note [neowin.net]. Somehow though last August they hit 10 million sales [theverge.com] after less than a year. Many billions of dollars in revenue will help soothe the pain of being made fun of.
Actually when Android first came out phone makers didn't want to make a high-end "candybar" phone because it would be ridiculously expensive, so Google paid to have one made and the demand proved itself enough that phone makers came onboard and Google could retire their own-brand phone. Now Android i
Actually when Android first came out phone makers didn't want to make a high-end "candybar" phone because it would be ridiculously expensive, so Google paid to have one made and the demand proved itself enough that phone makers came onboard and Google could retire their own-brand phone.
Yeah right. It's not as if the iPhone hadn't already demonstrated demand for that form factor.
God knows OEMs have made enough failed Wintel and Windows Phone products to hit their career fail quota
They rode that pony for 25 years. What have you done that's so great?
Google is an advertising company. I've never head anyone quite so hungry for products that are specifically designed to spy on them and advertise to them.
Assuming I can flop it into dev mode and easily install Chrubuntu it looks interesting. A nice laptop is not going to be cheap and the old chromebooks were cheap pieces of shit. I just wish someone made one of these ultrabooks run a normal linux distro out of the box. Please don't respond with links to the POS dell one. Last I looked the screen resolution was pathetic and the build quality was typical dell.
It does not seem to cost more than the only other competitors, macbook pro or air if that comes out with the better display this year.
1 million dollar vodka costs a lot more than even super premium vodka, this laptop is pretty reasonably priced compared to its competitors.
I don't get why you'd want this – it's only $100 less than a 13" rMBP, while having 4GB less RAM, a much much smaller SSD, and a far inferior OS.
Inferior OS? I dunno. I have a Samsung Chromebook and a MacBook Air, and for most work I prefer the Chromebook -- mostly because the OS gets in my way a lot less than OS X does.
Inferior OS? I dunno. I have a Samsung Chromebook and a MacBook Air, and for most work I prefer the Chromebook -- mostly because the OS gets in my way a lot less than OS X does.
If your "work" cosists entirely of web browsing, then I guess ChromeOS is a better OS. Sorry but most of us actually have to use non-web apps like spreadsheets, IDEs, and groupware/office. Also, I can't use Chrome in all cases even for web usage because I need to test my code on multiple client architectures.
Is it worth the money?
Especially considering it comes preinstalled with crippleware.
Just like a normal laptop and just like a normal laptop you can install linux to your hearts content.
How so? ChromeOS isn't as flexible as Windows, but it isn't "crippled". You can install any software you like on it, and enable developer mode to get a root shell. You can compile it from source (Chromium OS) if you like.
This thing would obviously only be $2.99 + S&H if it weren't for the Microsoft tax! I'm tired of M$ driving up the price of hardware with
Hey, it's an x86 PC, even if it runs a crappy OS. I suspect most of these will eventually wind up running Windows, unless there's something about the hardware that prevents this.
For people who liked the Retina hardware on the new MacBooks but couldn't justify the price (and don't care about or don't want OSX), this could be a good alternative. I'll wait a while, though: I don't see this price point lasting very long.
Apple just dropped the price on all their retina laptops
Hey, it's an x86 PC, even if it runs a crappy OS. I suspect most of these will eventually wind up running Windows, unless there's something about the hardware that prevents this.
For people who liked the Retina hardware on the new MacBooks but couldn't justify the price (and don't care about or don't want OSX), this could be a good alternative. I'll wait a while, though: I don't see this price point lasting very long.
You can't run Windows on a Chromebook. The BIOS doesn't exist - just a small loader that can boot Linux and that's it. You can flip a hidden switch into "developer mode" where it'll let you have a command prompt, but that's really all there is. You can modify ChromeOS at that point to have a Linux system (there are instructions for installing Ubuntu, but it involves a bit of work with DD).
In regular non-developer mode, ChromeOS is quite locked down.
Bit of clarification on the linux instructions.
http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]
Has the typing commands portion of the instructions simplified down to:
wget http://goo.gl/34v87 [goo.gl]; sudo bash 34v87
run at least twice.
sudo cgpt add -i 6 -P 5 -S 1
To set ubuntu as the default boot.
So. No need to type in anything too complex w/ dd
Since when is Core i5, Intel HD 4000, and 4GB of ram, and a screen with an absurdly high resolution, considered a netbook?
Sure, it has a netbook os installed...but that doesn't mean anything. I could also install windows 3.1...big deal.
The only standard definition I've seen for netbook is:
Clamshell and no optical drive.
If you filter out the MS astroturfers, a netbook is a low cost, minimalist computer with low specs that's mostly useful for the net.
MS had a cow when Asus had success with the Eee PC line and started to apply pressure to release Windows netbooks. At which point, the whole definition was pretty much broken as the specs had to be just about doubled to make that work with XP and the cost went above what normal people would pay.
As for your definition, that would include UMPCs as well, which is sort of a problem
10.1" screen? Any bigger than that and I wouldn't call it a netbook any more.
Laptop -> portable computer, been around for years.
Netbook -> mini-sized laptop, unlikely to have an optical drive.
Ultrabook -> laptop without an optical drive.
I'm not really sure what it is, to be honest.
On one hand, the resolution is impressive, and always on the 'I want' list. On the other hand, the lack of dedicated video card, small storage space, USB 2.0 ports...ouch. I writing this comment on a laptop from HP, that I bought several months ago, whose specs, with the exception of that resolution, somewhat trounce this thing, for the same price. I've upgraded mine, so it has 16GB of RAM, and a 240 GB SSD, but still, it came with 8 GB of RAM, which is 4 more th
Unless you're gaming, integrated video is fine. It'll drive multiple monitors, it drives modern UIs with all the graphical effects enabled, it plays basic games just fine. It'll do hardware-accelerated video decoding, proper HDMI support, etc. Plus it uses less power than dedicated video and has better Linux driver support.
I've got two 2yo laptops at home with integrated Intel video and given my current usage pattern I haven't had any issues with either of them. The only caveat is that I don't do gaming
premium means just premium "quality" and more importantly premium pricing.
you can buy a premium car with a shitty engine and be still paying premium for the badge.
High-res touch-screen?
The only interesting thing in the whole machine is the display.
It has sane proportions (3:2) and it has a very decent resolution (2560x1700). Basically these were the worst problems of the notebooks of the last few years: the 16:9 display that made no sense whatsoever* and the laughably low resolution. Now it seems that these may go away.
*: please note that I'm talking about the really portable size range where basically the keyboard determines the width of the notebook - in this category the displays did not get wide; they got short, with huge unused spaces above and below them.
I like the idea, but the monitor size (13", about) is small! But it's got a high resolution and a touch screen...
Still, it's interesting if I can treat it like a unix laptop...
I'll call it an interesting direction. You certainly can't touch the screen on any MacBook(s) at the moment.
I just touched the screen on my MacBook air. I seem to still be alive. I think you can touch it all you like. It does not treat it as input, but that does not prevent you from smudging up the display if you like.
Touch on a laptop seems like a terrible idea. It already has better methods of input. It works for phones and tablets because there really is no other option.
In the last few days, I have switched over to the "Google is evil" camp and will be moving away from them as much as possible.
If anyone cares what pushed me over the edge, it was when I found they now require you have Google Plus to write a review in the play store. A move worthy of Microsoft at its vilest. This is not the only issue by any means though.
One thing that has annoyed me lately is that you now have to be signed in to a Google account to use the PDF preview capability in search results. These aren't "Google Books", but just PDFs on 3rd party sites that Google has retrieved and converted, so the documents are already sitting out there one the web. There's no good reason a person has to be signed in to Google view a preview version of a PDF found in a Google Search.
I can see now, if Google could get away with it, they would require you to be sig
If anyone cares what pushed me over the edge, it was when I found they now require you have Google Plus to write a review in the play store. A move worthy of Microsoft at its vilest. This is not the only issue by any means though.
As someone who sells a game in google play [google.com] I appreciated this move. Before, when a customer had a problem with the game, I had absolutely no way of helping the customer. Now at least I can help some of them by contacting them on their google play.
I would really prefer if I could simply reply to reviews and keep it anonymous, many of the problems people have are just misunderstandings or are a checkbox away. Any change that allows me to respond to reviews is very welcome.
That seems like an overreaction. You can't purchase anything from the Google Play Store without a Google account (which automatically means Plus). Why would they allow someone who can't use the Play Store to review an app there? That's nothing more than an open invitation for abuse.
Google should know better than to gimp the storage! Nice netbook, looks like it could be useful right up until you get to the point about storage. 32 GB for the base model or 64 GB for the upgrade model. It has a nice screen, I like that, but in the real world most people don't live in the cloud, they live off their hard drive!!!!
Google, quite being cheap and give people a hard drive that isn't the same spec I would have gotten from a model 5 years ago, okay? Just because you live in the cloud, just because
Google should know better than to gimp the storage!
Google does this on purpose with all their devices, because they want you to live your entire life "in the cloud" (i.e. no data security and no privacy). This is why most newer Nexus devices don't have SD card slots. At least the Chromebook Pixel has one so you can add external storage for your stuff.
The real question is whether the Chromebook Pixel has its SSD in standard mSATA format, or if it uses some proprietary crap like the Macbooks do. If it's a s
Just because you live in the cloud, just because your users utilize the cloud, doesn't mean that your users live in the cloud. Why is this so hard to understand?
google doesn't have a lot of interest in giving you a nice system to run linux. it only pays off for them if you use their cloud services. they aren't going to jack up the price / lower their profit margin to add hardware that doesn't support that end.
What keeps me from buying into the Chrome OS is the idea of having everything in the "cloud." A few months back I switched to Google Docs for all my writing, and the experience hasn't been the best. On my laptop, I've got local versions of all my docs, so it isn't too big a problem, but on my tablet, the local versions won't work unless there's an internet connection. I live just outside of DC, but Verizon's DSL is still unreliable. Many times I'm writing and docs looses the internet connection and freezes up, making me sit there waiting until it can sync my last edit with its servers.
What's worse is that Office 2013 is starting to go the Cloud-drive route too, so Word freezes up when I'm not connected to the Internet. You know what else freezes up when I'm not connected to the cloud? Mass Effect 3, right in the middle of my game play. Even though all the content is on my hard drive.
I am all for the cloud, but developers need to make sure their products work when I'm not connected to it. I have no intention of shelling out a $1000-plus dollars for a device that turns into a brick when I'm riding in a car just because my hot-spot can't get a cellphone signal.
A chromebook for $250-$500 sounds like a pretty good deal ($250 for those unsure about a laptop that only runs a web browser, $500 for those who like the chromebook concept and want better hardware). Why would I pay 4x more than the entry-level model - what kind of product marketing group signed off on this?
A 13" retina-class Chromebook for the same price as a MB Air (which has better specs aside from the screen and runs a real OS) just sounds crazy.
Thank God for capitalism.
I don't think Google is going to take over the world with this thing, but there are a whole slew of people with highly disposable income, you know, nerds that get paid well for being nerdy. This is the kind of device that nerds will drool over, I am. That's the beauty of capitalism, you can pretty much sell anything at any price and there will always be a market for it, even if you don't get it.
Nexus Q was completely misguided however. It wasn't a Google TV product yet could conn
At current prices, 3 Years of 1TB Google Drive Storage (that they throw in for free with every Pixel purchase) goes for 12x3x49.99=1799.64.
Basically you get a laptop for free and some discount if you prepay for it.
Seems like a good deal (if you *need* that kind of storage)
Only if the HD and RAM are upgradable with standard parts, and the can be replaced. And no, using a soldering iron or a heat gun doesn't count, especially if there is a large likely hood of damage.
Until then, I consider $1300 to much for a disposable laptop. That was my problem with the macbook. Although, I probably would have dropped $1300 for the retina mac even with its failings.
I would be ecstatic if they put that display (with a matte coating) on an actual netbook. My netbook has standard RAM, harddriv
Get a Retina MacBook Pro.
Lets compare:
13" Chromebook Pixel
1.8GHz Core i5
32GB Storage
5 Hour battery
Only runs Chrome
13" Retina MacBook Pro
2.5GHz Core i5
7 Hour battery
Can run OS X, Windows, or Linux
Seems to me that extra $200 gets you a LOT more bang for your buck. And if you don't care about the display then that same cash gets you a much better hardware spec'd laptop from many other places.
For my mum I'd get the Chromebook because it is easier to use and harder to break.
For myself I'd get an Ultrabook. Better spec, cheaper, better screen. Yeah, better screen, because the effective resolution of a retina display at 200% scaling (for optimum image quality) is lower than full HD and text isn't any easier to read (looks a bit sharper perhaps).
I keep wondering when Google's hardware offerings are going to sour their relationships with their partners.
Maybe Android is too big now for phone and tablet makers to take their ball and go home, but Chrome OS could be stillborn from this.
My initial questions are:
What is the effective resolution? I.e., 1388x768 or whatever? It doesn't actually display at that resolution, does it?
Can you replace the HD?
Can you wipe it and run another OS like Linux or Windows on it?
What 'touch' features does ChromeOS use?
Seems like it might be a sweet little portable dev machine, that's not a Mac. Why is it that the only ones coming out with hires laptop displays are Apple or Google? Where's my 14" Lenovo with that resolution?
As a proud member pervert in good standing of the Congregation for Appreciation of Internet Pr0n, I must heartily decry, deride, protest, and shake every conceivable appendage I can muster at the idea of a laptop having a touchscreen. I care not for access to dev mode and ease of conversion to Linux, nor do I care about comparisons to MBR, MBP, or any other model in its market class, nay; what I care most about is that when I am using internet on my laptop for the purpose that the Good Lord Snookums intended--the transmission of digitalized lewd images at 0.999999 percent of c to my eyes for transitional enlightenment of my load--that any incidental contact of whatever airborne fluids I may be generating will not hit my screen and be registered as input. I have a hard enough time keeping my screen nice and clear as it is, I really do not need the fruit of my loins sending me to yet another morally dubious website when I'm not yet done with the one I'm on! So NAY! I say! Nay to touchscreens on laptops! I will NOT be a consumer of this product!
As a side note, I do not use my iPad for this very reason... well, that and my wrists tend to get crimps in them.
Considering that the name is Chromebook Pixel, they might want to rethink that marketing talking point.
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From the Wires
ShaMaran Corporte Update
By: Marketwired .
Dec. 3, 2012 02:00 AM
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/03/12 -- ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SNM)(OMX:SNM)("ShaMaran" or the "Company") is pleased to provide the following corporate update.
General Exploration Partners Inc. ("GEP") has signed a purchase and sale agreement to sell 53.2% of its participating interest in the Atrush Block to Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC ("TAQA"). In conjunction with the sale, Aspect Energy International, LLC will divest itself of any interest in GEP, leaving ShaMaran Ventures B.V. (a wholly owned subsidiary of ShaMaran) as the sole interest holder of GEP's remaining participating interest. The agreement is subject to the final approval by the Kurdistan Regional Government and obtaining necessary partner consents.
Following the closing of the transaction, and subject to the Kurdistan Regional Government's 25% carried option, the Atrush Block will be held 53.2% by TAQA, 26.8% by GEP, and 20% by Marathon Oil KDV B.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO).
Pradeep Kabra, President and CEO of ShaMaran, commented, "We are pleased to note that TAQA has acquired a significant interest in the Atrush Block. TAQA will bring strengths and synergies which will assist with development of the block and we look forward to working closely with them."
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14 Tall Ships sail into Newport Harbor this weekend
Tall Ships are a lot like comets: they're something you're only able to see once every few years. To John Houle, spokesman for the Ocean State Tall Ships (OSTS) Festival, the rare glimpse is only a fraction of the reason people should come to Newport this weekend.
On Thursday, 14 tall ships will sail into Newport Harbor, where they'll be through Sunday. The last Tall Ships festival in Newport took place in 2007, and Houle said because of their sailing routes, the ships won't appear on the East Coast for at least another three years.
"They're majestic vessels," said Houle, who grew up in Warwick and graduated from Pilgrim.
This year's fleet will include the HMS Bounty, which was used in the film "The Pirates of the Carribbean," The Providence and The Picton Castle.
Those who attend can buy a boarding pass and experience firsthand what it's like to be on board these historic vessels.
"They'll be awestruck," said Houle of those boarding the ships. "It will transport them back to a time when these tall ships ruled the seas … and this was how commerce was conducted."
Houle said boarding the ships is a hands-on experience, and children and adults alike can visit the various compartments of the ship, touch the wood that they're built from and interact with the crew.
"A lot of the crew members wear their regalia," said Houle. "And they're from many different countries. It's a cultural experience."
Ocean State Tall Ships, a new 501c3 non-profit that took over the festival about a year ago, is running this year's festival. Houle said the approximate cost of bringing the tall ships to Newport is $1.2 million; ticket sales, corporate sponsors, merchandise sales and fundraising events help to fund the event. The ships come to Newport as part of the Tall Ships Challenge, a series of races and cruises navigated by the fleet of ships. Before coming to Newport, the fleet was in Savannah, Ga., and then in Greenport, N.Y. After Rhode Island, they'll head further up the East Coast to Halifax and Nova Scotia. During 2013, the ships will sail the Great Lakes, making nine stops in the various border states. Because of the routes they take, the ships won't return to the East Coast for another three years.
"Plus you don't know what ships will be back," said Houle.
In addition to the ships, this year the OSTS festival will boast the new Vendor Trade Marketplaces at Bowen's Wharf, Waite's Wharf and along Washington Street and State Pier.
"It's a big change from past festivals," said Houle.
Local vendors will set up around the harbor to sell goods and refreshments, and dozens of bands will play sets over the course of the weekend. The marketplace is free and open to the public.
Houle said by setting up in Newport Harbor, versus the prior Fort Adams location, more people would be exposed to more local vendors.
"The fact that we put the festival itself in downtown Newport demonstrates our commitment to supporting local businesses," he said.
Houle expects the festival to generate $20 million in economic activity for Newport.
Though only 4 at the time, Houle remembers hearing about the Tall Ships Festival of 1976.
"They said that festival made Newport what it is today," he said. Houle hopes that this year's festival will again be a milestone for the city.
The ships will be open July 6 through 8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The festival will conclude Monday, with the Parade of Sail at noon. The Parade of Sail is a four-hour event in which the fleet of ships makes a figure eight around the Newport Bridge before departing. For $100, ticket holders can ride on one of the ships during the Parade. As of press time, there were only 11 tickets left.
To avoid parking problems and traffic jams, OSTC is setting up satellite parking lots throughout Newport and Middletown. Daily parking passes are $10 and include shuttles to and from a location near the ships.
Houle advises those that plan to take their boats to Newport to see the ships to make special arrangements with the Harbormaster in advance, especially if they plan to dock their boats and board the ships, since space will be limited. But for those just looking to cruise the harbor, Houle said they'll have a unique vantage point.
Tickets to the event are $12.50 for adults and $7.50 for children if purchased in advance online. Adult day passes can be purchased at a discounted price online only throughout the festival. Tickets purchased at the event are $15 for adults and $8 per child. Tickets provide access to all 14 vessels.
For information on parking, band schedules, the Vendors Marketplace or to purchase tickets, visit www.OceanStateTallShips.com.
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I had no sooner returned from Sicily, then I unpacked my suitcase, re-packed my suitcase, and headed back out, to Provence. Even though I'd just returned from a ten-day trip, my other half was doing a project in the city I went along for the ride because, 1) Who wants to be sitting in a hot apartment, alone, in the summer, when you could be by the sea? And 2) The icy rosé of the south was calling. (And drinking alone raises other issues.) So I went.
Our hotel was very basic, but I loved the bathroom colors, holdovers from France in the 70s, or perhaps the 80s? Or someone was exceptionally good at recreating vintage French bathroom fixtures and colors. As I was happily lathering myself up after the humid train ride, I kept thinking that I've finally mastered the French curtainless hotel shower, and gotten it down.
Except when it was time to stop soaping up one side, and move to the other. And I realized that it's that switch that I've yet to master; the moment when you need to swap the soap-holding hand with the hand holding the pommeau de douche (nozzle head), and a fountain-like spray of water breaks loose all over the bathroom. I'm not sure how one does it, especially when there is no holder for the shower nozzle. But I guess that's why they load hotel rooms up with towels.
Continue Reading Hyères, Provence...


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After 17 years and over 20 games, the Worms series is getting a little long in the tooth. As developer Team17 works to get out of that rut with the newly-announced Worms Revolution, it'll be getting a helping hand from the series' creator, Andy Davidson, who has now rejoined the English indie studio.
"I left Team17 feeling I hadn't finished what I wanted to achieve, but for professional reasons I knew I had to walk away," Davidson said in the announcement. He left Team17 following the release of 1997's Worms 2. "I've returned to scratch the creative itch that's been bothering me for the last fourteen years."
Davidson explained that he'll be offering his "insight" to Revolution, "to ensure that the game balance is true to the spirit of the brand." Team17 also teases that he "has been working on a variety of new game ideas," so who knows, we might even see something original from Team17.
Worms Revolution is coming to PC and unspecified consoles between July and September.


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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 31
Sora Kake - Favorite Quotes Thread
A thread for your favorite quotes from Sora Kake. Please don't type out the entire script from an episode quote your favourite part of any scene or episode.
This thread will most likely contain spoilers! If you are posting a quote from a recent episode then please use spoiler tags. (hint and make sure that you include a title for the spoiler!).
|2009-03-03, 18:46
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Absolute Haruhist!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Age: 31
Heh heh, this thread is perfect for Sakurago!
Sakurago(Sakura language) is what the Japanese calls Sakura's unique method of speech.
Episode 1
Waku waku bon bon = phonetic of exciting boom boom = Leopard
Episode 5
minna gakkon gako? = everyone gakkon gako? (sfx of being energetic) = everyone doing fine?
guru guru zone = round and round zone = name of the colony Sakura designed
byuunshite kurukuru tenteke suru = zooming around spinning and something = Sakuru says she's inventing a mobile research lab
Episode 6
gyuppon puri puri = I think is nice curves lol = but basically means 'great', to describe the friends Mister Blackbelt has made, Itsuki and Honoka.
Sakura ga buririnshita = Sakura will buririn it = Sakura will fix and upgrade it
Hari hari furi furi = distortion of 'sashiburi' which means long time no see
Ron ron waaku da! = what she shouts to zoom in the tv
Episode 7
Neru-neru = Nerval
Funwari de kachin ga, goon nada. pika pika pubyuu = gently, frozen, is hard, pika pika pubyuu~ (sound effect of sparkles, in this case sparkling ice).
Meaning: "It was gently frozen but became hard like pika pika pubyuu~"
Mari mari wo yaji yaji shite manmaro ni = Use Absolute Breakthrough Control on the colony's sun reflection mirrors and point it at the moon.
My personal favourite from Sakura is "AMMEEJIINNGUU~!!!", which means "Amazing!!!"
Yea, from what I've read, 2ch recognises it as "AMMEEJIINNGUU~!!!" as well.
Then, "waku waku bon bon!" and "ron ron waku da!" are my next favourites.
|2009-03-03, 19:16
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Tsukkomi power!
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: For great justice!
Haha! I was wondering how long it'd take for C.A. to start this up.
My favourite bit of Sakurago is probably the aforementioned 'pika pika pubyuu~' because in my warped mind it sounds like something completely different in English.
For "AMMEEJIINNGUU~!!!", is there a proper number of each letter that we should all follow? I'm assuming it's this spelling, since C.A.'s using it.
|2009-03-03, 19:19
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Absolute Haruhist!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Age: 31
But in Japanese you also have to emphasize and stretch the words for shouting and screaming, so "amejingu" becomes "AMMEEJIINNGUU~!!!"
Amazing is the word you use for this anime, like fabulous is for Geass lol
|2009-03-04, 12:19
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
Honoka : *gives a peace sign*You have to draw away attention from the equpiment Leopard wants.
Akiha : *acts cute* Like this?
Leopard : STOP FOOLING AROUND!
and of course.....
Leopard : Let's see if my name is on the internet......
|2009-04-01, 23:43
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Absolute Haruhist!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Age: 31
Latest Sakurago:
Otsu no pappa = falling smash
Bon Bon Bussunko = Golden Gentleman Plug (I used to think is Buusuta, but I watched again and confirmed on 2ch)
Nuru nuru ga nyu nyu nano ga = slimy and soft something
U nyu nyu de gottsuko dayo = no idea what it means
nuru gottsuru tsuru nano da = no idea as well lol
Honoka has a favourite line = Doushite?
She says it in a special way, really nice to the ears.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/03/pacs_success/
NHS delivers on X-ray specs
Reaches computer milestone
Posted in Policy, 3rd April 2007 09:01 GMT
Connecting for Health has chalked up a success in the roll-out of its £12.5bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
Every hospital in London and the South areas of NPfIT has installed the Picture Archive and Communications System (PACS) made available under the programme.
Connecting for Health (CfH) pushed the boat out to explain how good this was for patients and hospital trusts.
CfH wasn't so open that it was able to make direct cost comparisons between its PACS system and those being sold to trusts outside the programme by independent vendors. Neither could it say how much of the cost of a typical implementation was being shouldered by CfH and how much was being put by local trusts - a matter of some controversy for the programme in the past.
Nevertheless, Dr Mary Barber, PACS programme head at CfH said the average time it took from hospital scans and x-rays being done to the time they were available for patient diagnosis had been halved on average.
In the case of Salisbury Trust, time had been reduced from nine days to one day, though the typical time for such a procedure across all hospitals with PACS would now be somewhere between 2.9 and three days instead of six.
Robin Evans, clinical radiologist at Mayday Trust in Croydon, said at a private press briefing hosted by CfH that before PACS 10 per cent of all images wouldn't be present at the time of treatment, which could lead to mistakes in diagnosis.
They are now available around the country, whenever a doctor needs to see them. In one recent case, said Barber, a doctor in Nottingham was able to stop a child going through unnecessary surgery after using PACS to pull scans from the system in Derby where the child had last been seen.
Forty-three hospitals already had PACS systems before CfH was given the job to install them across the UK in 2003, using a range of multinational and home-grown suppliers. The first system went in last March. Eighty-three trusts and 250 hospitals have been given PACS systems designed under NPfIT in London and the South. Another 46 trusts around the country have put in CfH-managed PACS systems developed by GE Healthcare. An unspecified number of trusts have opted to implement systems independent of CfH.
Late already, PACS implementations will not now be completed in other regions until the end of the year. Delays were caused after CfH withdrew its contract to supply IT systems from Commedica, and by contractual differences with Fuji, said Barber.
The total cost of the PACS to the NHS under NPfIT was estimated to be £200m to £250m, with the cost for each implementation being between £2m and £10m depending on the size of the hospital.
It had cost Mayday Trust £2m, said Evans, which would be recovered in material and process savings over eight years, but he was unable to say how much of the capital cost had been put up by Connecting for Health and the Strategic Health Authority. ®


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Our long history with HRSA-funded faculty development has produced a cadre of primary care faculty who work and teach in medically underserved communities. Since 1995, we have trained 39 master educators who have provided training to approximately 150 community preceptors. Our current faculty development fellows are Lisa Lapman, MD and Harini Kumar, MD. In the past year we have been able to conduct faculty development activities with over 50 community preceptors.


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Don't flee to Florida yet, but...
9:36am Saturday update: DOWNGRADED to a rain prediction with a mere chance of freezing rain Monday morning.
6:38am Friday update: "WHILE THE MAJORITY OF THE PRECIP LOOKS TO BE RAIN... THE LOW LEVEL AIR MAY BE COLD ENOUGH TO SUPPORT A WINTRYMIX... PARTICULARLY ACROSS NORTHERN SECTIONS [OF VIRGINIA]..."–NWS
4:01pm Thursday update: To go with its story on the advancing storm, Accuweather has put up a scary map. (Scary to parents of education-starved children, that is.)
Original post: Meteorologists with the National Weather Service indicate that a new storm sweeping in from the West brings the chance for snow this Sunday night, as the fine print in the northern Virginia weather station's long-term discussion would indicate.
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Be careful what you wish for-- after a week in snowy NW Pa., just hit the town of Berkeley Springs W Va, and their schools, which first closed Friday Feb 5th, are still closed; the National Guard is still in town trying to plow out people, who haven't gotten out since Feb. 5th, and need help and supplies. So much snow that even the Guard can't reach some, and they are getting supplies by helicopter.
Carla, I think The Hook had the best "Storm Team" reporting of any media outlet. And as far as forgetting the gas for a chain saw.... at least Hawes Spencer was out there trying to help the community. where were you?
GSOE--snowaholic, that's the diagnosis
think the author of the above article may have identified another "snowaholic" in our midst --any guesses ?
"people in the office, will dwell in front of their computer looking for the "next storm"
More hard hitting reporting from The Hook. Wow....it's almost like the reporters are still in grade school. Snoooooooooooowwww!!! Yipppppieeeee!! Can't wait to get out of school or head out with my chain saw. Oh, wait, I forgot the gas.
I honestly would not mind seeing an 8" to 12" snow. Fast and hard. I just put new and improved hubs in a 4X4 I own and I need snow to test them out. :)
In the meantime, "Little darlin it's been a long cold, lonely winter"--but after 8 sunless days in Pa. --hurray, the sun shines in Virginia--ENJOY !
Evil. Plain evil.
Full week of school ahead, thanks for the updates. More wonderful sunshine, and the smell of Spring in the air.
Glad I'm flying out early Sunday morning to Orlando!!
More dazzling sunshine for Charlottesville. Morgan County West Va. schools are hoping to open, for the first time since Feb 5th, this Monday, so, this storm could certainly send them reeling, but the forecast of rain for our area is nothing to cheer about. Looking at all the snow remaining, a surprise after a week's absence, we'll be facing the same threat they are-- from the Morgan Messenger, their local paper:
"Even when all county roads are cleared and residents can move around freely, local officials aren't expecting a sense of relief. Instead they're already bracing for the possbility of floods when temperatures rise and massive mounds begin to melt in earnest. Add some early spring rain", ( which in our case may not be so early),
...a recipe for historic flooding. Someday it will warm up and if drains aren't clear, we have a different disaster"
um, we're not under the 'significant snow' ?
Rain is good: it'll melt the snow mountains, and the green sprouting daffodils at last will realize which way is up, and push out their fingers to test the air, and pretty soon it'll be July and we all complain about the insufferable heat. Of course this July the kids in Berkley Springs W Va will still be in school (thanks Buffalo Girl for an eye-popping report).
Winter got you down, step outside, signs of Spring all around. And, you don't have to go far--listen, birdsongs in your yard. Longer days, brighter light, wake bird cells to song and flight, and if you find yourself less blue-- perhaps, this is the class for you.
Dan Bieker, local bird and natural history expert, will be teaching Field Orinthology for PVCC course # 160 through June 5th. Classes meet Saturdays, 7-10:30 a.m. and you will see some of the most beautiful countryside in Albemarle County. Call 973-7772 or go online to PVCC.
Sorry, meant Field Ornithology
I hear the twittering of the tweets
mini vultures in the skreet
Spring, soon sprung
outside, feel young
cabin-fevered winter grouches......FLY!
Carla, it's time to discover the child within, never too late, you're off to a great start ---Yippppieee---Snoooooooooooooowww. Hope the next storm has a snowman, snowwoman and snowangels in your future.
At least roys place will be plowed!
Milk and bread...buy now or else. Come on people...sprinkles of rain is it.
Don't want anymore snow, but at least we know that with late winter snow it will not be staying around all that long. Of course when it melts we will have to deal with all that mud!


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Twelve years ago now, hard to believe it has been that long, all our lives were changed when terrorists flew planes full of ordinary people into the World Trade Towers, the Pentagon, and one plane was taken down by brave passengers in a Pennsylvania field.
So many, many people died, and I will never forget the anguished screams of the man who worked in the first floor of the building I was working in at the time. We all were gathered around the small TV in my boss's office, and watched, stunned, as the second plane his the New York towers.
All flights were suspended, and the air above us in Boston on that bright sunny day was suddenly silent. Sounds so ordinary and expected - the busy traffic going to and from Logan Airport - was conspicuous in its absence. Later that was interrupted by the loud passages of fighter jets on patrol.
Pet Talkers with loved ones in New York were franticly trying to reach them, but cell phone traffic was down, and when it came back up, was overloaded. Images of the firefighters and police and dogs searching for survivors is burned into all our brains forever.
We will not forget. We will teach the children who were yet to be born that day. We will not forget.


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From NBC's Mark Murray
Citing some recent polls, the Clinton campaign is making this argument to Democratic superdelegates: that Clinton -- not Obama -- is the most electable Democrat in November.
The polls include a Quinnipiac survey that finds Clinton performing much better than Obama in general election match-ups in the battleground states of Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania --as well as the latest New York Times/CBS survey, which has Clinton leading McCain nationally by five points (48%-43%) but Obama tied with the Arizona senator (45%-45%). However, the Clinton campaign didn't mention the NBC/WSJ poll showing that Obama leads McCain by three points (46%-43%), while Clinton leads him by one (45%-44%).
"Over the course of the past two weeks since our Pennsylvania victory, there has been real movement in the polls in terms of the candidate who is the strongest against McCain," Clinton chief strategist Geoff Garin said in a conference call with reporters.
Added Clinton delegate hunter Harold Ickes in a memo to Democratic superdelegates: "A spate of new public polls out this week confirms what we have been arguing for some time: Hillary Clinton is the strongest candidate to beat John McCain in November."
Of course, one of the downsides to stressing electability through public polls -- especially for a contest that's six months away -- is that there's usually data that can make the opposite case, such those NBC/WSJ numbers above or Clinton's net-negative favorability rating in many surveys.


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"The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us – there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries."
Greetings web denizens, heathens, zealots and the rest of you!
I have a rule when I am on vacation: no news writing. I do not write any news while on holidays because I use my time off to recharge. It is a rule which has, for the last two weeks, been beyond frustrating.
More scandals in the Catholic church (and to mention the hilariously moronic push by the Vatican to forgive sins if believers would just follow the pope's Twitter page), the prime ministers official enemies list, and news that that pox upon humanity known as Glee is doing a two our special on the Beatles — Listen, you vile pestilence upon music, keep your hands off the Fab Four! You've already butchered KISS and AC/DC, leave the boys from Liverpool alone for frak's sake!
But even as I fought the temptation to rant about these things and more, I was bombarded by news that Kate Whatsherface — the rich woman who married the British prince — is having her baby. It's apparently a boy. Coverage of the birth of yet another privileged member of the impotent monarchy has become so nauseatingly wall-to-wall and given such a sense of importance that I'm expecting three Persians to show up at Buckingham Palace bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
I cannot muster up even a little enthusiasm for the arrival of this child, who will one day occupy tabloid headlines and inherit a throne that is to Canadian politics what the appendix is to human anatomy.
And besides, there is way more exiting news than the spawn of a prince. Cosmos is back baby!
In 1980 the original Cosmos: a Personal Voyage was a 13 part TV series hosted by the late, great Carl Sagan. It was about history, discovery, science, astronomy and our place in an unthinkably vast universe. It was brilliant and for many people, myself included, an the perfect introduction the power and glory of science and reason and beautifully bizarre mysteries of the universe we inhabit. The series and its companion book left a deep imprint on my psyche. From the moment I saw the first episode as a kid, I was hooked.
Since Cosmos aired, there has been talk of a sequel. But the show was not a quick knock off. It was an expansive series, using (at the time) state of the art special effects to add verve to Sagan's commentary and lessons. It was as entertaining as it was educational and inspiring. Alas, Sagan passed away before any sequel could be made.
But the man many regard as Sagan's successor as the public educator of science par excellence, Neil deGrasse Tyson is hosting the sequel titled "Cosmos: a space-time odyssey". It is also 13 parts and will air next year. The trailer looks incredible. Tyson, who is basically what you get when you cross Carl Sagan with Lando Calrissian, is the prefect man for the job of filling Sagan's shoes.
Interestingly, it is being aired on Fox in the United States, not exactly a television network known for broadcasting programing with intelligence. What this means, I think, is that the kind of wonder about the universe and science Sagan created in 1980 will reach the eyes and ears of those who normally might not watch a show about science.
Be prepared to feel gloriously small in a beautifully vast universe. No royal baby will ever be able to create that kind of wonder and light the fire of curiosity like Cosmos can:


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ViSalus Donates Over 70,100 Meals In Time For Thanksgiving to Those Affected By Hurricane Sandy
ViSalus Helps Thousands of Local Residents Impacted By Hurricane Sandy By Donating Nutritional Shakes and Cookies
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of people affected by Hurricane Sandy will receive a nutritious treat on their Thanksgiving tables tomorrow thanks to a contribution by ViSalus, a company known for its mission of Life, Health and Prosperity. Through the Vi-Community Challenge, the company donated 2,100 Vi-Shape® Nutritional Shake Mix pouches – the equivalent of 63,000 meals – and 7,100 Nutra-Cookies™ to those affected by Hurricane Sandy in three communities in New York and New Jersey.
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"As so many of us sit down to a traditional Thanksgiving meal, we want to remember those families that have been impacted by Hurricane Sandy," said Ryan Blair, ViSalus Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "I am proud of our Promoter community that went above and beyond to help us identify and deliver nutritious shakes and cookies to the families who need our help most. Promoters from across the country jumped in to help, and their generosity helped us provide nutritious products to those individuals who were affected by the storm."
Grace Bible Fellowship in Keyport, NJ was one of 13 recipients that benefitted from the ViSalus donations. The fellowship received 504 Vi-Shape® Nutritional Shake Mix pouches – the equivalent of 15,120 meals – and 1,350 Nutra-Cookies.
"Providing nutritional and portable meal options like ViSalus Shakes and Nutra-Cookies to the families who have been directly impacted by Sandy is so important at this time," shared Pastor Dave DeRonde, of the Grace Bible Fellowship. "ViSalus understands that families need to have access to healthy and nutritious food that tastes good regardless of their circumstances and our members are incredibly grateful to have substantive meals during this tough time."
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Meaning "sum of (one's) money in a bank" is from 1833. Sense of "narration" is first attested 1610s. Plural accounts used as a collective or singular in phrases such as to give accounts (of something), is from mid-13c. Phrase by all accounts is attested from 1798.
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When the BeeLines about the Trump family connections with the Lincoln-Bedell story was published in the Westfield Republican at the end of December, there was a lot of positive feedback and reminiscing from readers, including members of the Trump family.
In addition to appreciation for the story, Christina (Mrs. Steve) Trump, pointed out two errors to be corrected as follows. In the caption of the Fred Trump family photo, the yet unborn daughter's name is Sara, not Laura (Westfield historian's poor handwriting the "S" became an "L" for example). And there are two Christina Trump women. The Christina Trump who first phoned and then met with the Westfield historian about the story is the late author Fred Trump's daughter-in-law, and is married to Steve Trump, Fred's son. The other Christina Trump Hedertstedt is Fred's daughter, who was shown as a child in the Fred Trump family photo. Fred's daughter lives out of state and did NOT visit in December 2012.
The Trump family sent a photo, taken by Tim Trump, of himself (deceased author Fred Trump's son) on the left, Roger Trump (Fred Trump's brother) on the right, and Steve Trump (Roger's son) behind Roger Trump, taken at Health South Care Center at the Hamot Hospital complex in Erie in December 2012.
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Passing along a request for information about a former Westfield resident
In mid-December, I received an email with the subject line "help" in which another local historian wrote, "Maybe you can help me. I'm looking for a woman named Grace Schlick who lived in Westfield. She may have died. I know she was in Westfield in the 1990s and into the 2000s. She is the sister of Hubert McDaniels who lived in Silver Creek and passed away in the 1990s. She probably was close to 70 when I talked to her when her brother died. I'm guessing she also passed away, so I am trying to find any relative. I don't know if she was married. Do you know her, or do you know any people who may have known her? Like anyone from a senior citizens group. Do you have her obit?"
Her name sounded familiar but efforts to locate any documentation about Grace Schlick, or her obituary were unsuccessful. In some discussions with my mother, Fran Anderson, we recalled that she was married to someone named John who was connected with the Kingan's Drug Store. John and Grace lived in Westfield, and my mother thinks they have both passed away. Clarence Philip Schlick (d. 1976) and wife Roberta E. (d.1987) ran the Kingan Drug Store in Westfield for many years. They had two sons, Philip, whose wife was named Marion, and John, whose wife was Grace.
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Profuse apologies are in order for a glaring omission in part 1 of the history of Calarco's Restaurant.
Virginio and Jennie Calarco had six children three sons, not just two, and three daughters. The second son was Carl Calarco, whose name was inadvertently left out. In Virginio Calarco's 1970 obituary, which was the source document for the names of the children, the surviving sons and daughters were listed, as well as Virginio's brother Carl. A later sentence that was missed during the research states that "He [Virginio] was preceded in death by a son, Carl, on November 1, 1969." This error was not from Vinnie Calarco, as he clearly stated during the interview in December that he and his brother Carl helped in the restaurant when they came home from their service in World War II, which will described further in the next part of this series about the history of Calarco's Restaurant. I am very sorry for the omission and the concern it caused to Calarco family members and thank you for bringing this to my attention.


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IT'S a colourful, dramatic animal event — but it's not a rodeo or bullfighting.
It's watching ducks in coloured jackets and hats race around a track.
Billed as the Koroit Cup, the duck race — a side event of today's Koroit Sheep Dog Trials — might not stop the nation but will certainly generate many laughs and smiles.
Over the week dozens of border collies and the odd kelpie have taken to Victoria Park for the trials, now in their third year in the township.
Organiser and founder Barry Paton, who runs the event in partnership with the Koroit Cricket Club, said competitors had come as far as outback New South Wales to test their working dogs against some of the best.
"The quality of work is really high," Mr Paton said.
"We've had 105 dogs in the novice section and 185 in the open and improver section."
The dogs are normally given about 15 minutes to coax the sheep through a short obstacle course and into a pen.
He described the growing event as being on par with others held across the district.
"It's up there with the rest of them. We're getting a few people coming along and watching."
The finals, booked for tomorrow night or potentially Friday morning, have been dedicated to the memory of the late Ross Dodge, who was a familiar face at sheepdog trials around the south-west.
Meanwhile, the whistle will blow at 6pm for tonight's duck race, always popular with the youngsters.
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With its staggered facades and angled front deck, a new showhome in Edmonton's Grovenor neighbourhood likely draws its share of second looks from passersby.
But if people could see inside the walls of this visually interesting twostorey, they might be even more intrigued.
"Basically, we are in a big beer cooler," says Michael Cormier, of North House Inc., who, along with partner Riall Laplante, built the house, located off Stony Plain Road on 145th Street.
"It's coffee cup material," agrees Laplante.
Aside from the concrete retaining walls, the house, including the roof and basement, is built largely from expanded polystyrene, the same rigid foam found in coffee cups and beer coolers.
"Foam is what is insulating the whole house," says Cormier.
The walls and roof are made of slabs of expanded polystyrene sandwiched between sheets of oriented strand board, a product known as structural insulated panels or SIPs. Jumbo walls and roof sections are produced in a factory, pre-cut to specified sizes and shipped to worksites where they are put together in a fraction of the time it takes to build a standard wood-frame house.
"The beauty of this is that every panel had a number, each one was a different size and it's like a jigsaw puzzle, it just goes together," says Laplante. "It's quite amazing."
Even more amazing is how well the panels insulate, says Bob Batchelor of Greensmart Manufacturing, the company that built the walls and roof at its plant in Dawson Creek, B.C.
SIP buildings are nearly 30 per cent more energy efficient than a conventionally built house, he says.
Mark Cunningham, president of Edmonton company Polycore Canada, which built the home's basement, says the same holds true for his product.
"We have a wall that's eight inches thick and it's steel studs with (expanded polystyrene) insulation," Cunningham says of the North House basement. "It's just a big chunk of (expanded polystyrene) with steel studs."
That eight-inch foundation has an insulation value of R-32, while a concrete foundation of the same thickness would be rated R-12, he says.
"So our foundation would be four times better."
The house earned an EnerGuide rating of 86. Under the government program, a home's energy-efficiency level is rated on a scale of 0 to 100. For a new house, a rating of 80 or higher is excellent.
A score that high "usually comes down to having a very good airtightness," says Amelie Caron, head of EcoSYNERGY, an Edmonton company that promotes energy efficiency.
Caron, a certified energy adviser, worked with Laplante and Cormier to achieve a super-efficient house.
The structural insulated panels contributed greatly to the home's airtightness, says Caron. The dwelling is so well built, that stale air is vented out and fresh air brought in only 0.6 times per hour, she says.
The average air exchange for new construction in Alberta is about 3.5 times an hour, says Caron.
The snugness of the North House dwelling means it will cost less to heat, says Laplante.
"In terms of energy bills, we anticipate that this home will be half of what it would (normally) cost."
While the energy-saving features are largely unseen, there's plenty to delight the eye in this 1,716-squarefoot, contemporary-style house.
A wall of windows on both the east and west ends of the main floor floods the open-concept living and dining areas in buttery light.
"We wanted to bring in as much light as we could," says Laplante. "In the day, the light starts to wrap around and washes the whole area."
A handsome concrete bench mounted on a living room wall appears to float just below a gas fireplace.
"It's structural," says Laplante. "It was designed for bonus seating."
Steps away, the concrete is repeated on thick countertops in the kitchen's 12-foot island. An entire wall of floor-to-ceiling, locker-style cabinets surround a wall oven.
"This is kind of edited living," says Laplante. "We wanted to provide as much storage as possible."
A skylight adds a touch of whimsy to the second floor and an alcove of built-in cabinets creates an ultramodern storage space off the master bedroom which has an ensuite with glass-enclosed shower. The finished basement has a large family room, full bath and a bedroom.
The house is smart-wired "so it can grow with the future owners as their needs change," says Laplante. "There's TV and Internet outlets in each room."
Design details such as tiny recessed lights that twinkle on staircases and delicate wall sconces give the house a one-of-a-kind feel.
In a nod to the environment, the partners chose construction and finishing materials carefully. Wall paint is low in off-gassing chemicals. The hardwood floor on the main level was manufactured from recycled furniture scraps.
When possible, Cormier and Laplante shopped locally. The concrete countertops, flooring, kitchen cabinets, lighting and triple-pane windows came from Edmonton stores.
Building in a centrally located neighbourhood like Grovenor was part of the green plan, too, says Laplante.
"We're saying 'make a commitment toward increasing density, reducing suburbanism.' "
They believe it all puts a positive spin on their work as builders.
"I don't expect everybody in their field of work to contribute to sustainability," says Laplante. "Michael and I have an opportunity in what we do to do that. So we want to take advantage of that and teach people about what's possible."
The show home, located at 10170 145th St., is open to the public this Saturday and Sunday from 1 to4 p.m.
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Secret World dev says Wii U 'perfect' for MMOs
The Wii U is set to launch this year, and developers are starting to think about what they can do with its touch-screen controller. Funcom, the studio behind the upcoming MMO Secret World, suggests the system would make a perfect fit for the MMO genre.
"Wii U could be the first real console on which running an MMORPG without compromise is plausible," Funcom's Joel Bylos told Official Nintendo Magazine. "The controller is perfect for lining up those rows of hotbars that are essential in most MMOs. A customizable touchscreen interface combined with the 3D spatial movement of a console controller could be a winner."
It makes sense, but this doesn't necessarily mean we'll see any Funcom MMOs like Secret World on the console. His comments seem more speculative about possible applications than a commitment of development effort. First Nintendo will have to develop a wide enough user-base to support an MMO, not to mention a solid online foundation. Nintendo has struggled with the latter in the past, so hopefully the Wii U is the system to turn it around.


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The emergence of new typologies associated with mass forms of communication such as photography, video, cinema, television and the internet have been key to the construction of different artistic languages, destroying the aura surrounding artworks, which once distanced them from viewer, as foreseen by the philosopher Walter Benjamin. Museums have ceased to be spaces for the mere contemplation and historical legitimisation of works of art, but have instead become active platforms for cultural intervention. As public democracy has superseded cultural elitism, the viewer has taken on a more proactive role.
In the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, the critic Ernesto de Sousa, who commissioned the groundbreaking exhibition Alternativa Zero (1977), decried the Portuguese unwillingness to deal with the contemporary, emphasising the need to "call for a new concept whereby art means participating in what is real, in our everyday lives", while the historian José-Augusto França declared, in response to the same exhibition, that "art is always political".
The first decade of the 21st century witnessed a further intensification of the relationship between art and politics, reflecting both old and new problems such as post-colonialism, gender and identity issues, injustice and social breakdown, financial speculation and the destruction of the landscape, among others.
These are the themes covered in this temporary exhibition, which comprises a creative yet citizenship-oriented offering aimed at acting on reality and transforming it through provocation, irony, humour, transgression, protest and violence.
Some gaps in the collection have been filled by the addition of very recent works which were lent to the museum, reflecting the MNAC's constant and up-to-date dialogue with artists, monitoring contemporary artistic output in Portugal and bringing it to the public's attention.
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HTC Incredible 4G details leak, sports LTE and 1.2GHz dual-core processor
HTC's next flagship smartphone on Verizon Wireless is expected to be the HTC Incredible 4G based on numerous rumors in the past. Today, several leaked images of the Incredible 4G have hit the web and new details surrounding the device have emerged. AndroidPolice, whom received several leaked pictures, believes the Incredible 4G could launch for as little as $99 on a two year contract.
To begin, the Incredible 4G has a qHD screen between 4 and 4.3 inches, a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 1GB of RAM, 4G LTE, Android 4.0, HTC Sense 4.0, Beats Audio, and NFC. In addition, it is said to feature a 8MP rear facing camera with zero shutter lag. As most of our readers probably know, the One series are HTC's flagship devices for the time being. With this in mind, the Incredible 4G is similar to the One X/S in terms of aesthetic appearance and features. HTC looks to continue the well-established Incredible Verizon brand instead of directly using a One X/S phone.
The HTC Incredible 4G is rumored to launch sometime later this month, and a price of $99 on contract, it could do very well with Verizon customers. Hopefully Verizon issues an official announcement sometime soon confirming the rumored information we have here.


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You can "Like" posts around here now? I'm just getting used to the Rep stuff (those little green nugget things under our screen names).
What's happening next week....do we get little gold stickers for starting good threads?
Just a matter of time before SAR starts beggin' for Likes, "Please give me some positive Likes."
Last edited by Vinny Testaverde's Niece; 03-18-2014 at 12:57 AM.
JI's morphing into Facebook, lol. Pretty soon, we'll be able to retweet posts.
Tapping while talking
Please, PLEASE like my post!
Me no like. Kindergarten
Something witty.
Great job sooth, Stick with Ragu in 2014 more things to come chimps... meant chumps lol
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Something witty.
Can you have it display a trophy? This way every poster is a winner!!
wheres the jay cutler Dooonnnn't Carrreeee button?
need to tone it down - kind of makes the threads almost unreadable
You can like and dislike in locked threads. So that's something
Ragu, man up. You don't have to like/dislike every single post like a 12 yr old girl on Facebook


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Sixteen for zero!!!
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation! If the other students are concentrating, and thereby improving, you are in a very difficult spot: you could work yourself to death by assuming that the problem is yours. The point here is how much energy you are prepared to invest in this group. You could completely restructure the classes, providing an entire submodality that provides hyper-interesting and broken-down-into-smaller-chunks versions of the work that the rest of the students are doing see Working Yourself to Death above. You could put them at the front of the class and ask them questions, as you go, about the work old-fashioned, but effective.
The fact that the parents are genuinely interested seems to be your best point of leverage. I would speak individually to the students first, and then as a group. Explain to them that the choice is theirs: you have a responsibility to their parents and your employer to teach them. If they wont respond to this approach, that they have a chance to right the problem themselves, then you could arrange a meeting with both the parents and the kids, state the problem, list the solutions (a separate, paid, class for the group? extra homework?), and see what happens.
In closing, if you are in this profession for the long haul, understand that this is the nature of the beast: some students dont care and sorry, lack of concentration is not caring -- and you can hold your breath until you go blue in the face and it wont help. Sometimes, sadly, sadly, sadly, its a matter of the greatest good for the greatest number.


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By Brendan Conway
Reading connected in one way or another to investing in funds:
- Why Bill Gross picked a fight with Carl Icahn over Apple. — Ben Rooney, CNN Money
- The ETF fee battle moves from expense ratios to trading spreads and commissions. — Jackie Noblett, Financial Times
- Spend a half hour learning how the economy works with hedge-fund boss Ray Dalio. – Brendan Conway, Barrons.com
- Fortress Investments' Mike Novogratz is a fan of … Bitcoin? — Stephen Foley, Financial Times
- Dow Global Advisors found Mark Dow urges you to get the heck out of emerging-market debt, now. — Drew Voros, Index Universe
- The battle of the billionaires over the Keystone pipeline pits GMO's Jeremy Grantham and Farallon Capital's Tom Steyer against T. Boone Pickens and Stan Druckenmiller.– Lawrence Delevingne, CNBC.com
- WisdomTree Investments, the ETF-only asset manager, triples quarterly profits and surprises with some cost-cutting moves. – Brendan Conway, Barrons.com
- Hey, Puerto Rico, hedge funds are here to save you! Be careful what you wish for. — Simone Foxman, Quartz.com
- These funds suggest the muni-bond fire sale is over. — Brendan Conway, Barrons.com


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Body of LaCrosse Man Found
- Written by Bob Gabrielson
- Published in News
(1/20/14) After two weeks of searching, the body of a La Crosse man was found yesterday afternoon in the Mississippi River at Winona Minnesota.
Authorities were just about to suspend their search for 29-year-old Andrew Kingsbury until the spring, when underwater cameras found his body in 10-feet of water around 3:45 p-m. He was in a car that plunged into the Mississippi on January 5th after it lost control on a curve in Winona. The car, its driver, and a male passenger were pulled out the same day. Another man's body was found the next day. The driver, a 36-year-old woman, was with three childhood friends from Minnesota. Kingsbury had moved to La Crosse, and the others were still living in the Gopher State. Winona County Sheriff Dave Brand said Kingsbury's body was found about 700-feet downstream from where the vehicle plunged in. Had he not been found yesterday, Brand said the search would have been temporarily halted. That was after two rescuers fell into the frozen water and were hurt during the two-week search attempt. Thirty-one rescue agencies from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa put in an estimated 14-hundred hours to search for Kingsbury. Most volunteered on their own time.