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They're evil?
You get what you pay for.
No you don't; you get what you have a contract for and can afford the lawyers to enforce* as long as it costs less than paying the penalties in the contract. We've already had one of these stories today, where it was mentioned that Microsoft provides guarantees. That's not entirely true (they provide guarantees for windows; not for some other products; different ones for different people etc. etc); but for the most part most of the serious IT vendors, Microsoft included, do things like:
"You get what you pay for."
No you don't; you get what you have a contract for and can afford the lawyers to enforce* as long as it costs less than paying the penalties in the contract.
The phrase is normally "You TEND to get what you pay for." It's a rule of thumb rather than an absolute. As individuals we rarely or never bring lawyers into it, so whilst you're right, your version isn't much use except in business to business deals.
The phrase is normally "You TEND to get what you pay for." It's a rule of thumb rather than an absolute. As individuals we rarely or never bring lawyers into it, so whilst you're right, your version isn't much use except in business to business deals.
As individuals we use the government to do our lawyering. That makes it very scary to lose control of the government to the companies. Compare, for example, the fact that all products in the EU have to be supported for free for two years from sale whilst in the US you always have to pay for extended warranties or the fact that in the EU the price you pay is the price on the label (including VAT) whilst in the US the price is deceptive and for example always excludes sales tax.
There are special consumer
So how much warning did we get about the end of Windows Mobile again? Plays For Now? Zune? Kin?
None. Business decisions were made, losses were cut, and the corporations deployed PR flacks, spin doctors, and social media twits to smooth over the end-user ill will. No big story there. That's how it's done: now, then, and probably for a long time to come.
We draw attention to it when Google does it because of that company's smug stance of "doing no evil" and pretense that they are somehow more morally upright
Your Windows Mobile, Zune or Kin device keeps working today. What's ended is "support", which doesn't preclude you from keeping using it. But when Google pulls the plug, it's just gone - the wonders of online services.
I badly hate you for forcing me to post this link supporting Microsoft. If you are a troll or a Microsoft shill, I bow down to your powers; we are not worthy of you (your posting history shows remarkable re. Anyway; here goes;
Windows Mobile is still supported; Microsoft's lifecycle page [microsoft.com] gives its end of mainstream support as August 2013 which means that if a serious security bug becomes widespread they will still "have to" fix it. According to Microsoft's support policy you even have a minimum of a fu
PlayForSure initially had four months notice of closure, but Microsoft bowed to pressure and changed it to 3½ years. After that time you could still use the music that had been authorised already, but you could not play it on new machines. It was not the immediate cutoff that you imply, but it is still a good cautionary tale about DRM.
Windows Mobile is still supported and will be until 2013
Plays for sure is a certification program... not really sure how that's relevent to a discussion about product/service EOL.
Zune is still alive and thriving on Xbox, PC, and Windows Phone.
Kin... not sure there were enough users to care about the kin cancelation.
Whoah! I better hurry up and backup my mail before they pull the plug on that one too!
For critical systems I only trust myself.
I trust everything I have physical control over and have up to date backups/mirrors of to not stop working the next day. Which pretty much rules out that I would ever trust any "cloud" services that are not offered in an technical identical way by multiple companies.
google does stuff for free
Never thought nor did I ever insinuate that Google does stuff for free.. clown.
Google is an advertising company. They sell ads. They target you with the ads they sell based on they info the collect from you. They do not sell your information to third parties as you would like to have people believe. I guess you don't watch digital cable either because they collect data from you to "enhance" their commercials per region.
So what the hell are you going to do when Microsoft 'migrates' you to their cloud s
What if? What if the dog didn't stop to have a shit? It would have caught the rabbit. But you ask, what does that have to do with Microsoft migrating everything to the cloud? Everything. Because Microsoft hasn't migrated everything to the cloud, so it's not relevant either. That is, you're begging the question. And for what it's worth I don't think they will ever migrate everything over. There are too many companies out there that would stop buying their products if they did. They don't want to share their
Yes, because open sourcing and handing over a project to an institute of higher learning where the basic components of that project were developed is a sign of true pure evil.
Or, you know, a company making a business decision that supports FOSS. Whichever way Slashdot is leaning today.
Funny how some people seem to think that if we don't all subscribe to the same groupthink that we all must be lost and directionless. Good stuff there.
What about this makes them evil? They are entitled to withdraw a service, that doesn't make them evil at all. Just because the third party replacement service isn't ready doesn't oblige them to do anything.
What about this makes them evil?
Nothing. It does make them stupid though. You'd think they'd want as many apps as they can get (and young minds learning their platform). Developers, Developers, Developers!
It doesn't make them evil. It makes everyone doing the "Oh, the Cloud is the future" dance look stupid, though.
For god's sake people take a soundbite and make of it what they will.. Google only said "we will do no weavil".. not "do no evil" peoples expectations are just waay to high.
You're an idiot. "Evil" is things like crushing free speech, putting profits over human rights, etc. "Evil" is not shutting down a product.
"Evil" is things like crushing free speech,
Google does that too [wikipedia.org].
In Germany and France, a study reported that approximately 113 White Nationalist, Nazi, anti-semitic, radical Islamic and other websites had been removed from the German and French versions of Google.
They were required by law to do that, otherwise they'd have to stop offering their services in France and Germany.
Yet the made a big deal about Chinese government trying to censor them. But I guess that's totally different!
So your argument is that Google is evil because they chose to follow the law when it came to removing some material (" White Nationalist, Nazi, anti-semitic, radical Islamic and other websites"), but tried to circumvent it when it came to censoring the Chinese people?
There's a lot of evil shit that goes on in this world... I guess ignorance is bliss...
Why don't you quote the rest?
"Google has complied with these laws by not including sites containing such material in its search results. However, Google does list the number of excluded results at the bottom of the search result page and links to Chilling Effects for explanation."
To put it shortly: out of 57634762346346 sites google was legally forced to remove 113 sites from the index and despite this you can still learn what URLs had the removed sites from the takedown notices.
Doesn't sound evil to me.
"Evil" also include things like frickin' sharks with frickin' "laser" beams attached to their frickin' heads.
Actually, Microsoft were the big tech villain of the time. When Google announced the "Do no evil" policy, it was pretty clear it meant "we won't do business by dirty tricks like Microsoft do."
But I agree, simply discontinuing a product isn't evil. Annoying to users of that product certainly, but not evil.
They're evil?
I wouldn't call continually starting projects they have no intention of finishing evil. It is more like the corporate version of ADD. People ask me why I dont use more Google services even though I have an android phone. Unless a google service is funded by an external entity, you never know if it is going to be around once you start to rely on it.
No, you're evil.
Remember that handful of pennies you gave away to a stranger that one day?
That was me. You discontinued your service against my will, and by your own words that makes you an evil person.
I demand you behave as you expect from others. You must continue this service you once did, until I have tens of thousands of your dollars in hand. Only then will you raise above evil and it be possible to be both a good person and to stop being a hypocrite.
they were ass pennies
The moment I read the headline, I got a mental image of "Google" scientists playing limbo with some guy and when they had him bent over backwards, they trapped him. Sorry... that's just weird... sorry about that.
and reading your comment i was thinking of Google scientists playing Limbo with real people
*watch for the bear trap*
Greed & Power.
Corporations don't do anything that isn't based on one or the other.
This is not surprising at all. What is surprising is that they gave advanced notice. Google doesn't lay down any timelines or plans for any of their schtuff. They invent it, put it out there and at some point, turn it off. How can you expect them to keep things running when they seldom even write documentation for the stuff they have out there? If they do write documentation it is released way after the release of new features and often right before a new release nullifies that documentation.
Google's view is it's ours so we will or won't support it at our whim.
or Health or CodeSearch or
heck if Android no longer is part of their nearly 100% ad-revenue backed business, watch them drop it like its hot...
I trust my email to google, I use youtube, I use search. I refuse to use the same account for more than one service. I wish I didn't have to trust them for any of those, but they frankly provide the best solutions...
What about if the free service will help make them money? There a lot of instances that if you nuke a free service you will hurt your bottom line, so that statement it's not really true "If you truly care about something, pay for it from a provider who has a financial interest in keeping your business".
Also, only because it is important to you, it's not necessary important to the company you pay money to. If you really care about something, do it yourself or rely on a trully open source product with a goo
heh - slash should grab^Hlicense that grandpa simpson cartoon clip where he yells at the cloud.
(shakes fist) "damn you, cloud!"
each time I see someone trusting a 'cloud service' I think of that simpsons image. can't help it anymore, so might as well just associate any cloud-based story with that icon. text is actually optional as the image tells all you really need to know.
It seems obvious to me, that they are blatantly ignoring your sense of entitlement.
How dare Google for having the unbridled audacity to not keep their free experimental service and software project fully maintained and supported 100% of the time after donating it to the MIT Media Lab, until the Media Lab was able to deploy their service.
Sure, it could be a bit frustrating if you were a heavy user of it, but at the same time is it really fair to criticize them for not being quite generous enough and on your terms?
It's a shame that AppInventor is having a rocky transition, and I'm definitely hopeful that it will emerge intact over at MIT.
In the meantime, I'd recommend that teachers check out Bootstrap [www.BootstrapWorld.org] for their classes. It's a full-blown curriculum that teaches kids to program their own videogames using *purely algebraic* concepts. It's a nice way of reinforcing math skills though programming, and it lives entirely in the cloud! Anyone with a web browser can write, run and share programs with
Because App 'Inventor' is a pile of steamy crap?
No, really. Designing a mobile application is a tad more complex than just throwing together a few storyboards. And those apps that do fine just by somebody throwing together a few storyboards are simply not worth having.
And those apps that do fine just by somebody throwing together a few storyboards are simply not worth having.
If this were true, then "Google Leaves App Inventor In Limbo" would be a non-story. For example, The Register wouldn't have reported on it [theregister.co.uk]. Let me put it another way: Even if having the "hello world" type apps that beginning computer science students come up with are not worth having, isn't the ability to create them worth having so that said students can eventually proceed to make worthwhile apps?
I'm sort of curious if you've ever actually tried to use app inventor to do anything interesting. Because as an educational platform [mit.edu], or a place for young adults to learn about software [mit.edu], or a way to give youth a voice using digital storytelling [youthradio.org], it seems to do pretty well.
It's not the most flexible platform, but it is surprising (a) how much you can do with it and (b) how much creativity you can harness when you have a platform that's approachable by neophyte programmers with good ideas.
Maybe these "schools" who offered "classes" in App Inventor should first have someone on hand who knows enough about computers to get the service up and running.
And maybe, just MAYBE they should have had that all set up already, considering they're (presumably) charging money for the class.
What's next classes on Minecraft? Oh wait... [arstechnica.com]
by itself neither story would be much of a story, but because they're happening at the same time they're a story - and also the story about google doing little face-lifting on google.com. sure, it would have been nice of slashdot to combine them all into one I suppose.
Assume that any Google service that doesn't have ads is going away. They've discontinued everything from the Google search API to Google Scholar. Wikipedia has a full list [wikipedia.org], from Google Aardvark to Google Web Accelerator. Most of the no-revenue services are already gone.
as far as I know google scholar is still alive and well... http://scholar.google.com/ [google.com]
as far as I know google scholar is still alive and well...
It certainly is — for me, it's the fourth item on the main Google page's More menu, between Finance and Blogs — and it's often tied in with many institutions' own journal licensing setups. For example, when I'm at work, GS will find stuff in my local academic library specially and will provide links directly to the full text of articles on the sites of journals (which are definitely paywalled; I don't intend to debate whether that's right, but it's how it is). By contrast, when I search from hom
My impression is that Web Toolkit (or as most people call it, GWT) is quite heavily used by lots of people. I guess if they made it a for-pay framework, at least the company I work for and several others would simply shell out (given the price is in the four-figure league) instead of rolling their own.
They've discontinued everything from the Google search API to Google Scholar.
Well, no. They haven't discontinued Google Scholar. They have deprecated the Google Web Search API in favor of the newer Google Custom Search API.
Wikipedia has a full list
It is less than full (it excludes things like the Google Web Search API), redundant (e.g., Google Desktop is listed at least twice), and misleading (a number of products are listed as discontinued which continued but which were renamed or merged into other produc
Seriously. Microsoft and Google can't seem to stop abandoning new technologies. Oh yeah, they'll continue to be "supported" (wink, wink). Sure makes me want to invest my time in the latest whiz-bang language/API/Framework/etc.
Google announced the dropping of App Inventor months ago. And it was announce in August that MIT was taking it over.
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/16/2048207/app-inventor-continues-life-at-mit [slashdot.org]
So, why is the story about Google dropping a service, and not about MIT properly preparing their service?
Especially if classes were being prepared for this, you would think that MIT would have gotten things up and running in 3 months. Or, were they just relying on Google to keep it up for another year?
seemingly daunting task, especially considering App Inventor's target audience
What the fuck is a school trying to teach the use of App Inventor for if the teachers can't do something as basic as set it up?
It might not be entirely straightforward but pretending to teach people how to write software while knowing fuck all about it yourself is disingenuous and borderline fraudulent.
Forgive my utter lack of sympathy.
Note: I didn't read the 'daunting task' thing. But, still, you are dead wrong.
Instructors are not, in general, required to know the inside workings of anything underlying the thing they are teaching about.
Car analogy: Driving instructors are NOT required to know how to a) build, b) completely repair a car. They are now really even required to know the inner workings of said cars. They just teach you how to drive the thing. Ask any "normal" driving instructor how Torsen works, or how a common-rail diesel eng
I expect a physics teacher to know more about physics than the syllabus covers. I expect a foreign language teacher to be conversationally fluent. I expect an English Lit teacher to know how to construct poems, stories and books.
I expect someone teaching programming to be able to be able to at the very least install and configure software.
You may argue that the App Inventor is teaching how to use a graphical tool to make apps. For the people using it that may well be the case, but for the person teaching it
Relevant: http://appinventoredu.mit.edu/faq-app-inventor-transition-mit [mit.edu]
I've been involved with the App Inventor community for a while; anyone who has been using AAI has known this time was coming. The hard deadline was set by Google a while back, the target from MIT was to get an analogue to the appinventorbeta.com service up and running by 12/31. They're a little short of that goal for a few important reasons.
Most importantly, the original App Inventor engine (at google) ran on top of google-proprietary internals. That is to say, it was not possible to spin out the App Inventor backend (which handles building and packaging an APK file from the blocks program) onto MIT servers without doing what amounted to a complete rewrite to enable it to run on App Engine. Google supported this effort and handed it off to MIT, who have been working hard to get an up-and-running system ASAP. As for right now:
If you absolutely rely on App Inventor, you can now run your own parallel instance of the backend by deploying the system as linked in the OP. This works nicely, because now the system is completely under your control (and you can hack it if you choose). This is useful for people teaching classes that use AAI as a platform (as I will be doing later this semester), but isn't so great for hobby programmers.
If you want something that runs like the old appinventorbeta.com site, allowing you to write apps but not have to worry about putting up your own backend server, wait a few weeks. There will be something up on appinventoredu.mit.edu fairly soon.
The reason why this transition is taking so long is nothing so nefarious as Google or MIT being evil or bad citizens. It's simple, really: there's not that many people actually doing coding for the project, and there's been a lot of coding to do. It'll be out soon. Patience, young apprentices.
App Inventor isn't going away, and as a matter of fact, the list of new features and useful extensions that are targeted for the coming few years is exciting and compelling.
if people spent as much time fixing bugs as they do ranting on slashdot...
Those who can, do. Those who can't, post.
App Inventor sort of reminds me of Sun's long abandoned Java Studio, which was supposed to let you create Java UI apps by drag and drop. Died a well-deserved death.
Bitten once again.
yes i know it was free, and its Google's right.. but it still shows that you cant trust something you don't have in your own grubby little hands.
Is that App Inventor is the brainchild of Professor Hal Abelson, not exactly somebody who deserves another slap in the face from Google.
Don't know who Professor Abelson is? Do some reading, kids. [codequarterly.com]
Some "free" brings people in for other services, much like a drug dealer. Or giving away 'free' programing tool kits that only run on your pay cloud. Or 'free' services that are covered in advertisements.
But if its just 'out there' and has no possible revenue source, then its nothing but an experiment and subject to vanish at any moment and should not be relied on.
If graphics hackers are so smart, why can't they get the bugs out of fresh paint?


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As a candidate for the Republican nomination for Ogle County sheriff, Michael Harn wrote these words in a column to Sauk Valley Media in January 2010: "Fiscal responsibility is a necessity today for everyone. The sheriff should not be exempt from being held to the same standards."
We agree with those words of Mr. Harn, who went on to defeat incumbent Sheriff Greg Beitel and take office in December 2010.
Thus, we are troubled by certain spending decisions made by Harn since he became sheriff.
Credit card receipts and other Ogle County financial documents, which were obtained by Sauk Valley Media through a Freedom of Information Act request, show a pattern of spending that certainly seems out of step with the fiscal responsibility promised by Harn.
The creation by the Ogle County Board in October 2011 of a new revenue source – a $350 fee charged to drivers whose vehicles must be towed, with the money designated to an off-budget Administrative Tow Fund – and spending decisions made by Harn regarding that money also seem out of step with Harn's pledge of fiscal responsibility.
Credit cards issued to the sheriff's department were used to pay for more than $7,500 in restaurant meals in 2011, 2012, and the first 5 months of 2013. Of that amount, about $5,300 was spent at Breakers Saloon and Eatery, a block from the Ogle County Jail. Harn defends the Breakers spending, saying it involved lunchtime training sessions.
Then there were clothing purchases made by Harn, charged to the county, for Lucky Brand jeans, Under Armour polo shirts, Harley-Davidson clothing and gear, plus Men's Wearhouse suits, shirts, ties, pants and shoes for Harn and a detective. Added together, it's an additional $3,452 charged to taxpayers.
Harn spent money for OnStar ($347) and Sirius XM Radio ($414) and charged it to the county.
And while he was in Springfield for a conference in March 2012, he charged a $66.19 Hooters restaurant bill to the county.
Ten months after Harn become sheriff, the Ogle County Board approved creation of the aforementioned Administrative Tow Fund, with the money to be used "at the discretion of the sheriff." This fund, by the way, is not reported on the county's annual budget.
Harn decided to spend $22,947 of that money on a 2013 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck. He spent $5,437 for 1,500 "foldable Frisbees," 1,500 plastic bags and 1,000 coloring books to hand out at the fair and other events. He paid $4,000 to Bob Coine to run the department's Facebook page. He spent $170 for flowers for Secretaries Day.
Harn's credit card spending had not been questioned until earlier this year. Two new County Board members, John O'Brien and Dick Petrizzo, became curious about the lunch spending and started asking questions about it.
Harn's credit card spending slowed significantly after a spring meeting with County Board Chairman Kim Gouker, which coincided with revelations in Dixon of questionable credit card spending by then-City Engineer Shawn Ortgiesen, who resigned and repaid thousands of dollars in personal expenditures charged to the city.
We applaud newcomers O'Brien and Petrizzo for asking the questions that other County Board members should have asked a long time ago.
We encourage Gouker to continue with his quest to place off-budget county funds, such as the Administrative Tow Fund, on the budget to ensure greater scrutiny.
The Ogle County Board must exert greater oversight on all county spending, as well as advise Sheriff Harn, who makes $87,000 a year, whether it is appropriate to charge the county for jeans, polo shirts, and a meal at Hooters.
At $3.5 million, the Sheriff's Department's annual budget is the county's largest. Harn promised fiscal responsibility. The County Board must hold him to that pledge.

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I have a 99 OBW, 2.5 auto. It has 187,000 and starts good and runs normal. I've been getting 12 MPG or less in all around town driving. It used to get more like 17 MPG around town. This has been going on for awhile, not just a new thing with cold outside temperatures. From reading, this could be lots of things, including mass air sensor, air or water temperature sensors, or bad injectors among other things. Is there any preferred order to check into these things? Does anybody have any good troubleshooting methods?.
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99 OBW poor MPG
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 10:16 AM
I would start by knowing your basics are good.......... How good are the spark plugs, plug wires? Has the EGR valve been cleaned/changed? Does motor warm up normally? If not, the water temp sensor or thermostat may be bad. Any of these things can cause poor mpg.
Posted 01 February 2013 - 11:48 AM
Plugs and wires may be a good place to start, They were done about 45,000 miles ago with genuine subaru parts. The EGR moves when you blip it and the EGR ports were checked clear in the last year. The temp gauge comes up pretty quick and heater works well, but the water temp sensor for the computer could still be bad? Appreciate the insight.
Posted 01 February 2013 - 12:07 PM
Starts fine, runs fine, bad mileage, probably a bad front O2 sensor.
If you put in copper plugs last time they could probably stand to be replaced by now, but I've never had spark plugs make a huge difference in fuel mileage unless they were causing misfires.
If you put in copper plugs last time they could probably stand to be replaced by now, but I've never had spark plugs make a huge difference in fuel mileage unless they were causing misfires.
Posted 01 February 2013 - 01:04 PM
Definitely replace the front O2 sensor with an OEM unit. I think the 99 came with a Bosch. They are different parts for auto and stick. should cost around $100 but at 14mpg you it will pay for itself pretty quickly. I would also change the plugs too.... they might be a little black and sooty
Posted 02 February 2013 - 08:40 AM
Do you have a CEL (check engine light on)? If so, pull the engine codes to learn the problem. Once fixed, your mpg should improve.
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Hi guys. A smartphone, powered by Android, I imagine, is what I'm after. Hope I'm posting this in the right place!
It'll be my first smartphone. At the moment I've got some £10 qwerty job.
I'm interested in doing development on it. Not just the LFX tuts. I'm learning Java right now, so yeah.
My question is, I don't have a clue what I'm doing phone-wise. Do I go take out a monthly pay? They don't seem to offer the best choice of Android devices. I could go and buy the phone, ack, it's a real nightmare that requires a few hours of research. What do most of you do?
For those of you in the know about phones -- any pointers?


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BioWare zeroes in on Mass Effect download snafu
Fans treated to 1.5GB of 0s
Top marks to BioWare which yesterday pumped out a downloadable module for Mass Effect 2. The only problem: the DLC consisted of nothing but zeros - all 1.5GB of it.
Dubbed Lair of the Shadowbroker, the DLC went live yesterday evening. Within minutes, fans reported that the installer failed to work on their PCs.
At first, incompatibility with 64-bit Windows was suspected, but it soon became clear that other versions of the OS were affected.
The Xbox 360 release appeared unscathed.
It didn't take long for some bright spark with a Hex editor to take a peek at the 1.5GB file and spot the profusion of zeros. This pic appeared on the game's official forum:
BioWare had the correct file out within hours of the problem appearing, and it seems that many a Mass Effect fan reckons the DLC is one of the best the company has done. ®
Thanks to Reg Hardwarereader Alan for the tip.
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From a sports standpoint – there is absolutely no excuse to be experiencing the "Summertime Blues" – Eddie Cochran (1958), (rock version – The Who 1967, Blue Cheer 1968). Unless you are in seclusion or deprived with no access to computer or television, you should be in seventh heaven with the Olympics sports coverage. You can nit pick NBC's coverage saying it's to dramatic, to many commercials, Bob "Cosmetics" Costas is wearing to much make-up or has to much hair color, etc. etc. Bottom line – you have options. Due to the 5 hour time difference, you have the choice of whether to know the outcome of an event, wait for tape, run through the DVR. The television and written media is almost at a point of being over whelming. The availability of numerous sporting events and background insight is 24/7. My DVR is full and I have to tape over or delete. Bring on the Olympics.
The Good – All of it. Depending on your TV/computer package, there is potential of up to 6 TV channels covering the events. And if you miss something, anything, you can find a replay of it somewhere, via the information highway. It's fast, it's furious, it's entertaining and it's only been 4 days. My highlights – Womens gymnastics – team gold, Phelps – medal #19, womens swimming – all of it, USA in anything. Extended coverage of the less popular sports: archery, table tennis (ping-pong at a serious advanced level), synchronized diving, badminton, rowing, etc. How about those Fab 5 Golden Girls
The Bad – Ryan Lochte over-load. Looks like NBC jumped on that bandwagon a little to early of that self-indulged individual. Way to blow the lead in the 4 x 100 freestyle swimming relay, Ryan. Take your arrogance and silver grills and go tryout for a numbnut on some bogus TV reality(?) show. I do not agree with the top 2 gymnasts from each country in qualifications advancing to determine the title of Best All-Around. The attempt of a "Fix" and the throwing of badminton matches – Chinese, South Koreans and Indonesia taking tournament into their own hands – http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/badminton/highlights-badminton-players-try-to-throw-match.html.
The Ugly – The Fix. Subjective judging – gymnastics, diving, boxing. I saw clear evidence of "The Fix" in each of these events and it is shameful. Gymnastics – did you see McKayla Maroneys vault last night? It was perfect, even in super slow motion. It stopped me dead in my tracks. I do not believe I have ever seen a more perfect execution of a gymnastics event. And neither had the commentators – Tim Dagget – "I would like the judges to explain where were the deductions?" Synchronized diving – identical dives, same degree of difficulty, Chinese NOT synchronized (85 points) – Mexicans nail it (72 points). It's just wrong man. Columbia soccer player cold cocking USA player during match and the referees missing it – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/lady-andrade-suspended-abby-wambach-punch-ban_n_1720132.html?ref=topbar.
The Olympics positives and negatives are running the gambit. Highs – USA womens skeet shooter Kimberly Rhode winning a gold medal (99 out of 100 clays) and medaling in her 5th olympics. Disappointments – Michael Phelps not winning his 3rd gold medal in his signature event – the 200m butterfly. Drugs (accusations) – 16 year old Chinese swimmer knocking 5 seconds off her best time and taking home the gold. Highly questionable. Unfortunately, there will be more on PED's. The Thrill of Victory – Missy Franklin and Allison Schmitt and their swimming accomplishments. USA womens synchronized diving gold. What are your impressions of the games so far?
I am still waiting to catch Brooks "The Tuna" Velour in the 50m freestyle swimming sprint final – http://mdlottery.com/mdlottery-tv/medal-madness-featuring-brooks-velour/ – best darn commercial I have seen in quite some time. Good, Bad or Ugly – The London Summer Olympics 2012 – what a nice break.


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The new millennium has played witness to a sports world littered by numbers and comparisons and rankings. It has resulted in made-for-ESPN debates and silly TV graphics that don't even muster healthy bar-stool arguments.
The new millennium has played witness to a sports world littered by numbers and comparisons and rankings. It has resulted in made-for-ESPN debates and silly TV graphics that don't even muster healthy bar-stool arguments.
But there is one hardcore, meaningful NBA debate that simmers during the regular season and comes to a boil in the playoffs. It has gathered steam with LeBron James earning a title ring and positioning himself for another.
Who is better, Michael Jordan or LeBron James?
MJ or LBJ?
The pro-James crowd seems to have mushroomed this season. LeBron won his fourth MVP and led the Heat to another Finals. He can do things on a basketball court that perhaps no one his size has ever done. But that doesn't make him better than Jordan, not by a long shot.
James has a ways to go, and not just because he trails Jordan 6-1 in title rings. Jordan feasted upon the big stage, willing his teams to must-win victories, almost always at his best when things around him appeared to be at their worst. James, though, has yet to consistently come up large before the brightest light of playoff basketball.
That is what makes the argument more poignant than ever now, Game 6 of Heat-Spurs, Miami facing elimination down 3-2. This is the kind of must-win game that Jordan invited throughout his career. But James has lacked the same penchant for big-game drama, the same take-charge attitude year in and year out.
He can do things that Jordan did. James already does some things better. But winning isn't one of them.
Perhaps James will be in the same stratosphere by the time he finishes his career. But until he starts to close the gap in titles won, until he starts to resemble Jordan's magnificence in the clutch, the comparison falls way short for James.
All you have to do is look up and down Jordan's career highlights. Game 7 of the 1992 conference semifinals against the Knicks: 42 points, six rebounds, three blocks, two steals. Game 6 of the 1997 Finals against Utah: 38 points, seven rebounds, five assists. Game 7 two days later: 39 points, 11 rebounds, four assists.
The common denominator each game was a Bulls victory. Jordan almost never failed in the clutch. And he didn't get to pick his teammates like James did in joining Miami.
Last season James opened the door to being legitimately compared to Jordan. James deserved every bit of praise he received in leading Miami to the NBA title.
But only two seasons ago, with Miami up 2-1 against Dallas in the Finals, James scored eight points on 3-of-11 shooting in a three-point loss. He followed that up with an 8-for-19 clunker in a Game 5 loss and Dallas finished off the Heat in 6.
James concluded his stint in Cleveland with consecutive losses to Boston in the conference semifinals. He was 3-for-14 in a 32-point loss in Game 5, 8-for-21 in Boston's series-clinching win in Game 6.
That brings us to Game 6 on Tuesday in Miami. James has had some weird disappearing acts against the Spurs. Now he needs two huge games against a tough-minded, battle-tested, savvy Spurs team that has no interest in helping grow James' legend.
This is the moment when we would see the best of Jordan. Will we see the best of James? Until James starts to consistently resemble Jordan in these spots, you just don't know.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition will introduce an overhauled dialogue system, one that offers more depth than simple binary choices.
Speaking at PAX Australia, the company described the efforts being made to improve conversing in the game. The gulf between the dialogue options and what your character actually says, for example, is being addressed. Your choices will also play a bigger role in influencing the events of the game.
The BioWare forums transcribed most of what happened at the panel (via OXM). For example, stats and active companions in your party will influence your dialogue choices. BioWare also hopes to make this game offer more exploration and environmental diversity, with land types like desert, swamps, mountains ruins, and winterscapes.
Inquisition is due 2014.
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SYCAMORE – The preliminary fiscal 2014 budget for the city of Sycamore was discussed by the Sycamore Finance Committee on Wednesday before it voted unanimously to present it to the City Council on April 1.
The balanced budget consists of nearly $62 million in spending within all the city's funds, which is similar to last year. The budget projects $13,884,958 in general fund expenditures and $13,885,915 in revenues.
At the start of the fiscal year May 1, the projected starting fund balance, or general fund operating reserve, will be a little more than $4 million, which is about 29 percent of the fiscal 2014 general fund expenditures.
Residents will not see any increases in taxes.
The general fund support, which encompasses expenditures for all of the city's working departments, will see a $50,000 increase in workers' compensation costs, but City Manager Brian Gregory said he thinks that amount can be reduced because of the strong safety precautions taken by city departments.
"We're hoping by minimizing our accidents, we can drive that cost number down," he said.
In addition, the general fund support increased by $15,354 in health insurance premium costs.
Gregory said the budget is similar to last year's, but capital transfers were significantly reduced by $175,000.
"That's probably the best news of the budget," he said.
Gregory said this is all part of the city's effort to reduce reliance on capital transfers while still providing high levels of service and resources throughout the city.
He said although the city creates a budget every year, it always plans for several years down the road.
The main idea behind the city's balanced budget is to spend within its means, he said.
Committee Chairman Alan Bauer was in agreement with the rest of the council in that he didn't feel any significant changes needed to be made to the budget.
A public hearing on the budget will take place at the regularly scheduled City Council meeting at 7 p.m. April 1. The council will be encouraged to take action on the budget at the April 15 meeting.
Those who wish to review the budget can do so at the Sycamore Public Library or online at www.cityofsycamore.com. Hard copies are also available for purchase at the city clerk's office at the Sycamore Center, 308 W. State St. in downtown Sycamore.


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We are cleaning our windows today, or rather they are being cleaned on the outside by professionals, and, inside, Mary is standing on the sink counter with folded newspaper — pages that presumably aren't worth reading — doing the Palladian window that gives out onto the bare ruined choirs of the spindly white oaks in our backyard.
"Don't you think it's much better?" she says, standing back and looking at her handiwork. She's right. I can see more clearly now, and clarity, after all, is what we want, or are supposed to want. I would prefer, of course, that everything were green, but dun will have to do for the moment, and the grayness of the day. Can Christmas be far behind? Friends asked if we were ready for it the other day, and I said that, after all these years, we still had not managed to escape it.
As I say this I've been nibbling at a hangnail. They say the nails are the first to go, chipping and all that. If so, I'm well on my way. But enough of the maudlin. It's just that this book she had me read this week, the one by Julian Barnes, about how shit can happen, and about how history can be found at the intersection between imperfect memory and inadequate documentation, has put me, the Class of 1962's Pollyanna, into an unaccustomed reflective mood.
Meanwhile, calling me back to the present, Mary has just said, arms akimbo, that the Palladian window "looks so much better now," and that, further, "we hadn't noticed how disgusting it was."
Ah, that's it. I had been blissfully unaware, content, perhaps in keeping with the dreariness of the season, not to demand sparkling clarity, but to accept rather a hazier version of things. And yet, even for one who'd rather paint a rosy picture of life, keeping his heart rate up by circulating from one lively sport to another, rather than delve into life's inherent tragedy — as Barnes certainly does — I've got to admit that the windows, with all the film off, are pleasingly crystal clear. In fact, I think that's the name of the company that did them.
"I hear Santa's being brought up on charges," I call back to Mary, who's gone on to other things. "For unrealistically inflating expectations when an orange or some pudding would do. The greed that's so rampant these days is born of this. The issuers of credit default swaps and derivatives derived from derivatives and the sellers of subprime mortgages were indulged at Christmastime when they were 2-year-olds. Santa's a capitalist tool. . . . Do you think if I asked him nicely, though, that he'd put a few more fanciful anecdotes in my stocking. . . ? Anecdotes of an amusing and self-justifying kind?"
Meanwhile, I'd like to wish you a happy and clear — as clear as you can take it at any rate — New Year.


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After all, I still have yet to welcome our matter to energy and back converting overlords...
Then I realized that it isn't me doing any of those things. Someone else built my heating and cooling system, and my plumbing, and ventilation. I'm really no better than a caveman--I just found a much nicer cave to move into.
Medieval peasants knew how to slaughter a cow: we don't. We know how to operate a microwave: they didn't. Only collectively we clearly know more.
Let's not get all excited by this "royal we" concept. Some of us can slaughter a cow - you need not be a medieval peasant, just someone who grew up or has worked on a farm or ranch.
I think your premise is a bit flawed. Clearly, as a society or race or species (however you choice to enclose large groups of humans) "we" understand and can manipulate much larger bodies of knowledge than say, a medieval priest or even royalty. But on an individual level, this is also true. Lots of folks I know can slaughter a cow, at least pretend to fix a microwave, certainly fix an internal combustion engine, use a complex piece of electronic equipment (and I'm not talking about an iPod), shoot a gun, etc. recall the quotation from St. Heinlein:
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
A while back, I was musing how far we have come. Our ancestors feared the elements, but in my house, they are at my command. I want it colder--it become colder. I want it hotter, it become hotter. I can raise and lower the humidity. I want water to flow, it flows. I want wind, I have wind.
Funnily enough, the Romans had a lot of that (if you were rich enough). But a few short centuries later, it was unimaginable to the people, even in the lands that had had it.
I wonder whether, in a future era of low
Makes you relize how far man has NOT come. We think ourselves a group of bad asses right now. We have nearly seemless technology in large parts of the world, I can see and hear people literally years away by foot. I can do amazing things from my home... but is any of this really that far from clockmaking?
If you were to take a look at the chronology of clockmaking, you'd find that the answer is yes.
All eletronics extend from the idea of harnessing eletricity.. when will we enter a phase where we seek new mediums to harness? Instead of becoming masters of electrons, we master all energy and matter. Etc.. so before we think ourselves genius, rememeber that were but a step into the long journey to true tech. mastery.
Yes, we're a long way from forming the Q Continuum. How depressing.
American English: r-e-a-l-i-z-e
Note that the letter 'a' is in both.
A little consideration will convince any one that the difficulty of making a machine beat all games, Is not in the least degree greater, as regards the principle of the operations necessary, than that of making it beat a single game.
Other than that little gem, Poe did a pretty good job of deductive reasoning.
the Ark of the Covenant? Give me a break. It's not a gadget. It's a box. A decorated box.
Actually... The Ark of the Covenant may have been capable of, at the very least, storing electricity. This was a theory tested on Mythbusters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery#Testing_the_theory [wikipedia.org] (I think some Slashdotters might have heard of this show?)
Other people speculate that it acted as a capacitor. Legends say it was capable of levitation and bringing down the walls of Jericho.
Other resources
Ah, but you see, there's a difference between them and the ones picked: the ones you list were useful.
This is a trick question, isn't it?
And I'd say its been extraordinarily high in de-capita terms.
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I think you got that backwards...
... spend approximately 1/3 of their day looking for food--just surviving.
Modern office workers
... spend approximately 1/3 of their day working so they can pay for their food--just surviving.
Sources? I'm a "modern office worker", and I know I only spend a few (2 to 2.5) hours a week earning money for food. That's 6.25% of my working hours (assuming a 40-hour week), and just 2.23% of my waking hours (taking a "day" as 16 hours, with eight hours for sleep). Even at minimum wage -- less
Hunter-gatherers (still present today in various locations around the world, btw) spend approximately 1/3 of their day looking for food--just surviving.
You have your figures wrong, Hunter Gatherers actually only spend about 1/6 to 1/4 of the day gathering food ( dependent on the environment)
Hunter Gathering is in fact a very efficient lifestyle from a time use perspective, the problem is that is doesn't scale well. We shifted to an agrarian society not because it gave us more free time, but because it en
He's the guy who pays attention to things like seasons and weather, and how the moon moves. The guy who has memorised - because there is no writing - the lineages of everyone in the tribe and the history of heroes and deeds. The guy with the lore of plants and herbs, and which kill, and which heal, and which bring visions of the gods.
He's the Stone Age nerd, and he's very powerful because of it. Signs in the sky tell him when the buffalo migration is due, and because of this the hunters
Kinda like Vista.
Kinda like Vista.
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For instance, there are some 35 million search results for "M Zone" if you type the term into Google, but we're #1, which is nice.
Sadly, there are some search terms that bring people to our blog who are probably really disappointed when they realize they stumbled upon a college football blog. Like last night, for example. I saw somebody came our way after doing a Google search for - wait for it - "Best way to have sex with sheep."
Of the almost 2.2 million (yes, MILLION) results for such a query, for some reason the M Zone shows up in the #3 spot on page one.
Now, I didn't remember writing a sheep f*cker post so I clicked on the link to find this mini-blurb of an off-season post from March 2010 about an Arizona man who was very fond of his neighbors livestock.
See how bleak it gets during the off-season when Ohio State coaches aren't lying and our b-ball team isn't making The Dance?
|What are you looking at? This is a college football blog.
ED. NOTE: Sadly, just posting this post about the above will probably take us to #1 in the sheep f*cker search engine results. Great.


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OJS Workflow: Copyediting Page
This section will focus on the Copyediting page.
The following PDF file presents a tour of the current (June 2014) Copyediting workflow.
File:OJS pre-3.0b Copyediting.pdf
Issues include:
- The copyediting process needs to be simplified and structured more linearly. The document transfer/upload and checkbox processes are condensed into a horizontal display to save vertical real estate which only confuses users. Most users need a numbered, vertical and linear display in order to act on the proper steps for the copyediting processes. (CDL Report, P. 106)
- The use of checkboxes to keep track of files and steps being taken, as well as trigger communication with users is a complex interaction. It would be clearer to users if the checkboxes served as confirmation of tasks or decisions only. The two processes need to be separated out from each other with clear call-outs explaining the significance of each step. (CDL Report, P. 106)
- We did not cover this in testing however many users have let us know that they need to be able to upload multiple rounds of revisions during the copyediting stage so this functionality needs to be present in the system. (CDL Report, P. 106)
- Copyeditor can approve files – but this is responsibility for the editor...? ; Suggestion: Allow only the editor to approve the files (UP Report, P. 26)
- When the editor approves the copyedited file, and then sends the book to production, they have to re-tick the files for production; Suggestion: Pre-tick all approved copyedited files when sending to production. (UP Report, P. 27)
John's Design
summarize recommendations with links
John's version of a potential wireframe design for Copyedit stage, based on far more explicit labeling of steps and status.
The Copyediting Conversation
The conversation begins by the copyeditor clinking in #4 above on INITIATE AUDIT AND QUERY RESPONSE. The conversation involve sending out emails that include a "magic link" that takes users directly into the conversation, asking for or showing a response.
Thought Experiments
Alec #1
This is intended for some conceptual creative destruction and is not to be taken literally.
Key concepts:
- Stays with 3-grid design; not as prescriptive or imposing
- Permits responses on responses (to an arbitrary level of depth); responses may or may not include files
- Responses include 3 states: pending (incomplete), approved, rejected
- Rounds can be added to the copyediting grid; the tree of responses can be "pruned" into subsequent rounds to keep the conversation organized.
- Files can arrive in "Production Ready" *only* by going through the Copyediting grid.
Alec #2
Key concepts:
- Recasts the copyediting process around a set of "conversations", where the participants can be chosen for each and files and comments can be shared within them. These conversations can be used to organize multiple rounds, if desired.
Bruno's wireframes
This is an attempt to find a balance between both John and Alec's ideas.
See "discussion" tab at the top of the wiki page.
To come.
To come.


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Buttercup Omelet
Makes 6 breakfast or light-supper servings
6 eggs
1 tablespoon dark brown sugar
½ cup evaporated milk or heavy cream
⅓ cup vegetable oil
¾ cup diced tasso
1 (5 to 7-ounce) white potato, baked until just fork tender (keep firm)
12 ounces (1 package) New Zealand buttercup squash, cut in ½-inch dice
½ cup julienne onions
½ cup julienne green bell peppers
1 packet (7 grams) Chef Paul Prudhomme's Vegetable Magic®
½ cup julienne yellow squash
½ cup julienne zucchini
how to prepare
Combine the buttercup squash and the brown sugar in a bowl and mix until combined.
Whisk the eggs and brown sugar in a bowl until frothy, then whisk in the milk or cream.
Preheat the broiler or oven to 450°.
In a 10-inch ovenproof skillet with 2-inch sides, heat the oil over high heat until hot, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the tasso and white potatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, for 1 minute. Add the buttercup squash, the onions, bell peppers, and Vegetable Magic®, and cook, stirring occasionally and scraping the pan bottom well, for 3 minutes. Stir in the yellow squash and zucchini and continue cooking, stirring occasionally and scraping the pan bottom well, until the buttercup squash is fork-tender, about 4 minutes.
Whisk the egg/milk mixture briefly again and add it to the skillet. Cook for 30 seconds while pushing the mixture toward the center of the skillet with a spatula. Distribute all ingredients evenly in the skillet, remove from the heat, and place under the broiler, 4 to 5 inches from the heat source, or in the preheated oven. Cook until the eggs are almost set and beginning to brown around the edges and on top, about 6 minutes (about 2 to 3 minutes in the broiler). The time will vary depending upon whether the broiler or oven is used and how close the omelet is to the heat source. Remove the skillet using potholders (be careful, the skillet is very hot) and let sit for a minute or two, so that the eggs will finish cooking by residual heat, and serve immediately.
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Ron Johnson's vision of an armed populace
Given the massacre in Aurora on Friday, much of the discussions on the Sunday shows dealt with what, if anything, can be done to prevent similar violence in the future. One of the more noteworthy discussions was held on "Fox News Sunday," where Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) made the case for gun control, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) argued against it.
Much of the conversation went about as one might expect. Johnson, a right-wing senator in his second year, argued that policymakers can't enact any new restrictions on firearms, and that even high-capacity magazines, which had been banned as part of the federal assault-weapon ban that expired in 2004, must be legally permissible.
If policymakers even try to "keep these weapons out of the hands of sick, demented individuals who want to do harm," the result is undue restrictions on "our freedoms."
So what would Johnson prefer to see as an alternative?
JOHNSON: Well, it's certainly one of the rationales behind conceal and carry, where criminals actually have to be a little concerned before they commit a criminal act that maybe somebody could stop them. And I think that is the truth. That somebody, a responsible individual had been carrying a weapon, maybe – maybe – they could have prevented the death and injuries. I mean, that's just the truth.
FEINSTEIN: And maybe you could have had a firefight and killed many more people.
This apparently has become the principal talking point for many opponents of gun-control laws: if there were others in the theater with loaded firearms, maybe they could have shot at the deranged gunman wearing Kevlar and a helmet.
Indeed, this seems to come up quite a bit after every similar incident – we heard very similar rhetoric after the massacres in Tucson and Blacksburg. Just a few days after the assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords' life, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) said, "I wish there had been one more gun there that day in the hands of a responsible person."
Let's unpack this a bit, because it seems like an important part of the larger discussion.
First, I think there's a risk that this argument starts to blame the victims, as if it was the job of those in that Aurora theater to bring loaded guns with them to the movies.
Second, the circumstances generally aren't as obvious as some would like to believe. I'm reminded of a piece from William Saletan published soon after the Tucson shootings, about Joe Zamudio, which I wrote about at the time.
Zamudio, you may recall, was in a nearby store when he heard gunshots. He took his own gun, clicked off the safety, and advanced towards the gunman. When he got to the scene, Zamudio saw a man holding a gun and shouted at him to drop his weapon. Indeed, Zamudio very nearly shot the man holding the gun.
The man Zamudio saw, however, wasn't Jared Lee Loughner; it was the man who'd wrestled the gun away from Jared Lee Loughner.
This is a much more dangerous picture than has generally been reported. Zamudio had released his safety and was poised to fire when he saw what he thought was the killer still holding his weapon. Zamudio had a split second to decide whether to shoot. He was sufficiently convinced of the killer's identity to shove the man into a wall. But Zamudio didn't use his gun. That's how close he came to killing an innocent man. He was, as he acknowledges, "very lucky."
That's what happens when you run with a firearm to a scene of bloody havoc. In the chaos and pressure of the moment, you can shoot the wrong person. Or, by drawing your weapon, you can become the wrong person – a hero mistaken for a second gunman by another would-be hero with a gun. Bang, you're dead. Or worse, bang bang bang bang bang: a firefight among several armed, confused, and innocent people in a crowd. It happens even among trained soldiers. Among civilians, the risk is that much greater.
We're enormously lucky that Zamudio, without formal training, made the right split-second decisions. We can't count on that the next time some nut job starts shooting.
The point, of course, isn't to take anything away from Zamudio. On the contrary, he showed great courage, and it's likely he played a role in saving lives.
But after the Aurora violence, Ron Johnson sees his approach as "just the truth," and it's not that simple. The common assumption – more armed citizens means more public safety – is more complicated than some conservatives would like us to believe.
Update: After the Tucson shootings, my colleague Laura Conaway did some great reporting on modern examples (or lack thereof) of armed civilian bystanders intervening to stop mass shootings.


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As a freshman (2011): Made his collegiate debut in 16-4 win over Detroit Mercy (2/19) ... scored his first collegiate goal in 20-8 win over No. 14 Georgetown (2/26) ... first career assist in 12-8 win over Bellarmine (3/7) ... also had three groundballs vs. the Knights.
Before Maryland: Two-time US Lacrosse High School All-American ... ranked the No. 16 freshman attackman in the nation according to Inside Lacrosse ... ranked the 56th overall recruit by Inside Lacrosse ... the 2010 Democrat & Chronicle's All-Greater Rochester Player of the Year after scoring a school record 74 goals ... also selected the SportsFive Offensive Player of the Year ... finished his prep career with 194 goals and 100 assists ... helped lead Fairport to its first Section V title since 2002 ... led the Red Raiders with 97 points on 68 goals and 29 assists as a junior ... had an 11-point game en route to helping Fairport to the 2009 Division I championship and the Section V Class A finals ... named to the All-Greater Rochester Super 16 ... twice selected to the Section V Class A All-Tournament team ... a three-time all-league honoree ... a two-sport standout he is also a striker on the Fairport soccer team ... helped lead the Red Raiders to the 2007 and 2008 league championship ... scored 14 goals and added four assists to help Fairport reach the Section V playoffs in 2009.
Personal: Son of Scott and Mary-Frances Saylor ... older brother of Maggie ... enrolled in letters and sciences.
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|Goals: 1 vs. Georgetown (2/26/11)
|Assists: 1 vs. Bellarmine (3/7/11)
|Points: 1 vs. Georgetown (2/26/11), vs. Bellarmine (3/7/11)
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Ms. Givhan spent 15 years at The Post, most notably as fashion editor, the job that earned her a Pulitzer in 2006 for criticism....
Her writing was famously provocative and punchy. She once described Vice President Dick Cheney's outfit at a solemn Auschwitz memorial as "the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower."(Link added. Picture of Cheney in his embarrassing parka at the link.)
In a column about Condoleezza Rice, then the secretary of state, Ms. Givhan wrote about the images of sex and power that Ms. Rice's high boots and fitted dresses conveyed. "Rice looked as though she was prepared to talk tough, knock heads and do a freeze-frame 'Matrix' jump kick if necessary," wrote Ms. Givhan.(Link added. Pic of Condi at the link. Hey, let's see the new Secretary of State try that.)
When First Lady Michelle Obama's sleek attire turned heads at the 2009 Inauguration, Ms. Givhan declared "the era of first lady-as-rectangle had ended."(Link added. With pic — showing that the era of first lady-as-Glinda had seemingly begun.)
ADDED: Above are the examples of Givhan's writing that the NYT selected. Law folk are most interested in this one about John Roberts — on the occasion of George Bush announcing his nomination to the Supreme Court. Givhan took a shot at Roberts's wife and children — "groomed and glossy in pastel hues -- like a trio of Easter eggs, a handful of Jelly Bellies, three little Necco wafers."
There was tow-headed Jack -- having freed himself from the controlling grip of his mother -- enjoying a moment in the spotlight dressed in a seersucker suit with short pants and saddle shoes. His sister, Josie, was half-hidden behind her mother's skirt. Her blond pageboy glistened. And she was wearing a yellow dress with a crisp white collar, lace-trimmed anklets and black patent-leather Mary Janes.Yeah, that was mean — but deliciously so. (Mmmm.... Necco wafers.)
(Who among us did a double take? Two cute blond children with a boyish-looking father getting ready to take the lectern -- Jack Edwards? Emma Claire? Is that you? Are all little boys now named Jack?)
The wife wore a strawberry-pink tweed suit with taupe pumps and pearls, which alone would not have been particularly remarkable, but alongside the nostalgic costuming of the children, the overall effect was of self-consciously crafted perfection. The children, of course, are innocents. They are dressed by their parents. And through their clothes choices, the parents have created the kind of honeyed faultlessness that jams mailboxes every December when personalized Christmas cards arrive bringing greetings "to you and yours" from the Blake family or the Joneses. Everyone looks freshly scrubbed and adorable, just like they have stepped from a Currier & Ives landscape.
Yeah, it was political. Note that Cheney was underdressed, the Robertses were overdressed, and First Lady Michelle Obama was just right.
I hope that, teamed with Tina, Robin gets even meaner and more political. I love the fashion-politics-culture genre, and I want to see Givhan do her thing. And stop fawning over Michelle Obama!


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La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
- 07/13/1982
- La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
- Marco Pannella
ABSTRACT: Thousands of mayors, supported by as many prelates and parish priests, have presented to the Chamber of Deputies a popular-initiative bill against extermination by starvation which is a revolutionary approach to the problem which would commit the government not to major, generic appropriations of funds for under-developed countries, but to a pilot intervention in a pre-determined area and time period aimed at guaranteeing the survival of three million people otherwise condemned to certain death from hunger, thirst, and disease. Marco Pannella directs the campaign, committing himself to a hunger and thirst strike, aimed above all at activating with utmost urgency the political will of the major parties' secretaries, both in the government and in the opposition. Hundreds of citizens in various ways - with letters, telegrams, and other concrete forms of pressure - support Pannella's non-violent action which has met, among others, the consensus of PCI [Communist Party] Secretary Berlinguer, who declares "the PCI's agreement with the principle lines of the mayors' project and its commitment to seeing it approved very rapidly". In the following article, Marco Pannella emphasises on his non-violent action and the results obtained by the hunger strike of Negri, Spadaccia and Vecellio with the precise aim of making available information on the campaign "Survival 1982". (LA GAZZETTA DEL MEZZOGIORNO, (1) July 13, 1982)
(We have received and are pleased to publish the following article.)
One has a right to one's own identity, one's own history, one's own life which in a democracy ought to be inalienable. Faced with the threat of the annihilation in progress of ten of millions of people, I have put into play the most extreme tool of non-violence, not for polemics against whomsoever, not to convert those who have other convictions, but to support in this way the many, prevalent hopes and intentions in the Italian political world and institutions which are in agreement and harmony with the government ministers, ministers of the Church, the more than 80 Nobel Prize winners, the overwhelming majority of European Parliament members and the Italian mayors who have presented the bill of popular initiative. I have said, repeatedly, I have attempted to cry out this simple truth: it is in order to contribute to morally strengthen in the decisive hours this unique, prestigious and powerful front against a politics unaccustomed to hope and belief in itself that I have fufilled and am fulfilling my dutyh as a pacifist and a Radical. Once again the mass mediaa have succeeded in distorting the sense of this action and this message which, in a different way, was the same as the message of Spadaccia, Vecellion and Negri. Spadaccia and Vecellio have managed to stick to the very heart of the problem: the institutions must succeed in respecting the intentions and the declarations so often expressed with a timetable of decisions finally stated and established. Without their battle, mine could not even have been attempted. Giovanni Negri, for his part, has succeeded in bringing off a political and civil action of extraordinary importance: the front which these days is being formed between the Parliamentary Vigilance Commission (that is, the Parliament), the Administrative Council of the RAI-TV, a significant part of the journalistic world and of operators in the radio-tv field of the most diverse political groups in an unprecedented stock-taking of the limits and dangers which weigh on the functioning of the state radio-tv information service, owes much to his initiative in creating disarmed daily dialogue, collaboration and active trust and hope towards those who have always appeared to be nothing but enemies and adversaries. This action has brought about at least the following results: 1) The area has been isolated to all appearances - restricted but very powerful - of those who have erected a wall between the country and democratic policies, between the right to knowledge as the foundation of the democratic game and the systematic violence of deceit; this area has reacted with almost desperate determination to violate the law, the regulations, every morel and professional principle; 2) It has resulted in the circulation of significant and substantial amounts of unpublished information - in great part on the radio - precious at this time, on the fight against annihilation from starvation in the world. And finally, it has allowed the theory and practice of the Radicals' non-violent fight to take a great step forward, for which I especially thank him, just as I thank each and every incomparable Radical Party comrade, those who are more than ever making it possible for this organisation of little more than 1,500 European citizens to give substance - literally - to a policy of peace, life and hope. But it was and is vital in these dramatic and extraordinary hours to remember and demand the right to one's own identity, which strikes me as having been cruelly distorted with regard to Negri and myself, and denied to the members of Parliament and the militants who in these days have (and we will have to return to this subject soon) worked and are working hard, intelligently and with strenuous dedication while being censored and annulled by the written and spoken press. At the distance of a few hours from renewing my hunger strike, I want them to know how much strength and love they give me for life and for our ideals, and how much I owe them. We are just about to win out; millions of people whose names had already been written in the rolls of the dead are on the point of regaining life. It will still be tremendously difficult, but we will make it, we have to make it.
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Somebody else I like for us is Donta Hightower and someone I think the Bengals will look at with pick #17. They hate taking OG's and Safeties in the 1st and they can take a CB with their 2nd 1st.
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."
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Someone else I would consider at OLB if he fell low enough is Vontaze Burfict from Arizona State. A LB core of Burfict-Maualuga-Rivers would be pretty nice for years to come.
Arise and walk, come through. A world beyond that door is calling out for you. Arise and walk, come through. It's calling out for you.
Also, Maulauga really needs to improve in my book. While I loved him in college, the jury is still out on him as a pro in my opinion.
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If Claiborne, Kirkpatrick, and Barron are all off the board, Stephon Gilmore is a CB that reminds me a lot of Jonathan Joseph. I'd still prefer the three guys I mentioned (plus DeCastro, Richardson and Floyd) but he may be a guy to keep an eye on at 21.
I have zero interest in Nebraska CB Alfonzo Dennard.
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I am curious towards the Alabama guys. Are they a combination of good players in a great system or individually great players?
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While in years past, I admittedly frequently get enamored with certain players and want the Bengals to trade up to get them, I feel strongly that this is not the year for that. The Bengals are a couple of key players/positions away from being a real contender, and they need all of their top picks this year to address those needs, unless they plan on going all Reds-like via FA in the offseason.
They need to find a starter at S, CB, WR, both OG positions, and possibly a RB. It will take two first round picks, a second round pick, and at least one or two key FA signings to do all of that. So while I like Richardson, if he goes off the board before 17, so be it. We have other needs to address, and like I said earlier, I wouldn't mind signing Hillis to a one-year deal.
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Odell Thurman in his rookie year was significantly better than Rey was this year. You know, before the meth and all that...
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Odell was a very good LB, especially when it came running sideline to sideline. What could have been.........
Re-Sign Reggie Nelson, Pat Sims, Either Howard or Lawson...and T Collins.
Say goodbye to Simpson and Caldwell....Benson.....Crocker....and all their Guards that are unsigned.
Look to sign a good Guard for one side and draft one in the 1st along with a Center in the 1st or 2nd. S and CB are next with RB and WR next after that.
8 picks in 5 rounds (Chad Johnson trade/ Joseph comp pick and Palmer trade)
This should bring them something for almost all needs.
1. I'd bring back BOTH Howard and Lawson. I liked what they brought more than Rivers, who could be their backup.
2. I wouldn't draft a center in the first two rounds. I agree that we should sign one OG in FA (either Nicks or Grubbs) and draft another, then I would use the other top two picks on a WR and a DB unless Richardson somehow fell to us.
3. Then I'd sign Michael Bush in Free Agency.
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ROCK FALLS – Johnny Bell, a guest at Days Inn, rescued a girl at the hotel's pool over the weekend, then he had to get ready for work – as a Chippendales dancer.
About 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Bell, 46, was weightlifting with a fellow dancer at the Rock Falls hotel when he saw some commotion through a window facing the indoor pool.
"I just recall hearing '911.' A bunch of kids were running around," said Bell, a personal trainer at a Beloit, Wis., gym.
Bell didn't immediately see what the problem was. A minute later, his friend told him that a girl was lying on the side of the pool.
Bell, who has been CPR-certified for 15 years, ran to the girl, who looked to be about 10. Another man was using an older CPR technique and breathing into her mouth.
Bell took over, using the chest compression method. After a minute or two, he said, water started trickling out of her mouth. She coughed. Her eyes opened.
Others came in, while Bell walked away. He reported at Champs Sports Bar and Grill in Sterling, where the dancers were booked to perform, about a half hour later.
"I didn't want to draw too much attention," Bell said. "I would have stuck around and talked with the paramedics, but we had to be at the bar by 7 o'clock."
When he was leaving the hotel, he saw that the authorities had arrived.
Later that night, Bell and three other dancers performed for a crowd of more than 300 at Champs, owner Denny Strader said.
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Forensic police have returned to an East Perth apartment believed to be a former home of a man whose head was discovered in a plastic bag on Rottnest Island last weekend.
An 11-year-old girl discovered the man's head at Porpoise Bay, on the southern side of the island, but a police search failed to find any more remains.
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The Springfield Park District is making a new addition to Centennial Park that nature-lovers and their kids will be able to enjoy at the same time.
The new development is a 20-acre area in the northwest corner of Centennial Park, which will feature a toddler's playground, a 20-by-20 picnic shelter, a fitness station and environmental areas with wetlands, prairie, savanna and native tree plantings. All of these areas will be connected by a looped recreation area that park visitors may ride bicycles on, while also connecting to existing paths in Centennial Park.
Centennial Park is a 190-acre park on the southwest side of Springfield, added to the park district in 1997. Bunker Hill Road borders the park to the south, while Lenhart Road runs along the east side.
Elliott McKinley, director of parks for the Springfield Park District, says the children's playground (primarily for children ages three to five) will be an 80-foot circular area that will feature "a small play structure with two slides and a crossing bridge from one platform to the other." The playground will also have a three-bay swing set, with six swings. All of the playground equipment will be ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) accessible.
Within the circular playground area, there will also be a fitness station with four workout activities McKinley says.
"You can stretch out at the station for your morning walk or if you have the little ones with you, you can still do your workout and supervise the kids in that area," McKinley said. "It won't be scattered all over the place. It will be focused in the toddler area."
Michael Stratton, executive director of the Springfield Park District, says the floor for the fitness area will be a "traditional Fibar mix."
"It's like loose mulch, but it's more of a safety surface material than mulch," Stratton said. "It's what we normally put in the parks. It's the most cost-effective material and the most accessible for disabled individuals."
McKinley says that in addition to the environmental areas, which will feature wetlands, prairie, savanna and native tree plantings, there will be signs to educate park visitors about the different types of plantings used in the area, while also informing them about the drainage situations in the area.
The SPD received funding for the new development within Centennial Park through a $400,000 Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development grant, which is through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Stratton says. The grant is a "matching grant," which means that the grant provides 50 percent of the funds, while the SPD has to provide the additional 50 percent of funds.
"Our part of the grant comes in either cash form or in land donations," Stratton said. "This is a $400,000 project, but in order to get to a 100 percent funded grant, we must also put in $400,000, which is coming from land that was donated on South Second Street at Southwind Park."
McKinley says the original concept plans for the new addition to Centennial Park came from Massie Massie & Associates, a land planning and landscape architecture firm in Springfield, but the SPD had to "tweak" the original plans to fit it into their budget.
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McKinley says the new area will serve a purpose different from the other parts of Centennial Park.
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For me you only drop a great player who is out of form when you have a replacement...I am not sure India has a replacement..Apart from Kohli, I don't rate any of the new Indian batsmen too highly.. and Kohli is already in the team...so not sure who would be Tendulkar's replacement.
Ponting's on the other hand is a different case, Australia have tons of batsmen who are good enough and Ponting has to go now. I would give him one more test.


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Brent High was named associate athletics director for spiritual formation in Oct. 2011. High will oversee leadership training for team captains, a new chaplain program, mission trips, service opportunities, coach retreats and the school's Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter. He will continue to be involved in fundraising with a new focus on raising money for spiritual formation initiatives and opportunities.
Among his goals will be raising $6 million for an endowment that will ensure every Lipscomb student-athlete has the opportunity to go on a team mission trip every year. He will also oversee all sponsorship sales for athletic properties including the new Adoption Rally fundraising program and the annual Don Meyer Evening of Excellence.
High has served as assistant athletic director at Lipscomb since March 2007, focusing on development and external affairs. He previously served as Lipscomb's sports information director from 1996-1999.
Brent is a former Bison Baseball player, a 1996 graduate of Lipscomb and is married to former Lady Bison Basketball All-American Emily Pleasant (class of 1998). They have two sons - Houston and Hunter.
Brent is best known for bringing "Faith Day" events to professional baseball stadiums across the country that include a Christian concert and testimonies from Christian players. His company, Third Coast Sports, has organized more than 200 Faith Day events with more than 60 teams including the Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, L.A. Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball. Albert Pujols, Anthony Munoz, Josh Hamilton, John Smoltz and Lance Berkman are among the professional athletes who have spoken at Third Coast events. Third Coast has been featured by ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, The New York Times, USA Today, ESPN, CNN, Fox News Channel, Sports Illustrated and more than 200 newspapers on four continents.
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Donald Eugene Holt
Donald Eugene Holt's faith became sight on March 23, 2013. He was 86 and a resident of Seaside, Ore. Don was born to Winnifred Lindell and Guy Donald Holt in Spokane, Wash. on Feb. 25, 1927. Don left high school to join the Navy in 1945 and served as a radar technician until 1946 on the USS Point Cruz, part of the US Pacific fleet. He was honorably discharged and returned to Cheney to finish high school.
Don met Maxine Nelson while working for her father and they were married in 1950. While in Spokane, Don worked as manager of the Montgomery Ward automotive department. In 1953, they moved to Seaside where he worked as a logger prior to opening Don's Union 76 Station in 1955. Don's Union grew into a thriving business until his retirement in 1995. Don served for 10 years with the Seaside Police Reserves and was also a member of the Seaside Planning Committee.
Don and Maxine have been members of North Coast Family Fellowship (previously Seaside First Baptist Church) since 1955 where he served as deacon, Sunday school teacher and elder. Many men benefited from his personal mentorship, which spanned 40 years.
Following retirement, Don volunteered as the business administrator at North Coast Family Fellowship. Don could always be counted on for a warm smile and hearty handshake or hug (whichever was needed), and kind word of encouragement. He enjoyed working in his woodshop, backpacking, hunting and working around his property.
Don is survived by Maxine, his wife of 62 years; Bruce (Dana Walter, Erin, Nicole, Brandon, Ashley and Christian) of Warrenton; Craig (Debbie Thornton, Becky, Taylor) of Salem; Nancy (Scott Trumbo, Sarah, Jonas) of Tualatin; and sisters Eloise Goodwin, Jayneta Butler; and seven great-grandchildren.
A celebration of Don's life will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 27 at North Coast Family Fellowship.


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Cory Walmsley
When and why did you start training for fighting? Five years ago. I always wanted to do it. It's the only sport I have ever been good at.
What ranks and titles have you held? None
Do you have any heroes? Superman, Randy Couture, my friends.
What is your favorite technique? Elbows
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? Everything. It validates everything I have done to date.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Degree in Graphic Arts
What was your job before you started fighting? Pro wrestler, forklift operator.
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