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Larnell Cole stunned Tottenham Hotspur with a second-half brace to help Manchester United come back from two goals down and secure a 3-2 win and the Under-21 Premier League title.
Both sides started the game tensely, though the more experienced Spurs forwards Harry Kane and Jonathan Obika combined well to threaten goalkeeper Ben Amos with efforts that struck the woodwork.
The visitors' possession helped them take control and their cutting edge was rewarded when Alex Pritchard's header found the sweeping left-foot of Obika with Amos poorly positioned.
Spurs continued to dominate and found themselves celebrating again 15 minutes later.
Full-back Ryan Tunnicliffe's loose ball was seized and trickled to Alex Pritchard via Kane's flick-on and his effort zipped into the far corner for Spurs' second.
It would take a gung-ho second half for the home side to get back in the game.
The visitors sat back on their laurels as play resumed and were punished by a finely taken strike from defender Marnick Vermijl as the Belgian steered past Jordan Archer to halve the deficit.
United could smell blood and Old Trafford supporters roared on the youngsters as they pressed for an equaliser.
Shaky defending from Spurs eventually led to the match's fourth goal as Cole pounced on a loose ball to crash home a deserved leveller.
Less than a minute later Tottenham nearly regained their lead but Obika selfishly fired wide with teammate Cristian Ceballos appetisingly positioned.
This would be punished as a series of passes entered the path of Cole, who controlled substitute Tom Lawrence's cut-back and rifled in two minutes from time to help United to a second league title of the season.
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Leon County's Sheriff and Jefferson County's Sheriff were at the Capital Wednesday to speak out against counties having to foot the bill for the service of having lab work done at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
A posse of sheriffs combed the halls of the Florida capitol Wednesday. On their "Most Wanted" list is a single line in the budget that could cost them thousands of dollars, and they claim, put Floridians at greater risk for crime.
Usually when Leon County Sheriff Larry Campbell and Jefferson County Sheriff Ken Fortune come knocking -- there's trouble. And they say there is: line 1148 in the house budget plan. It would force counties to pick up at least part of the tab for lab services at FDLE.
"At a crime scene we have to ask: do we have enough money for fingerprints? Do we have enough money for ballistics testing? Do we have enough money for DNA? It's like going to the grocery store," said Sheriff Campbell.
In Leon County – the change could cost $423,000 a year – and smaller counties are in an even bigger pinch. Jefferson County - whose entire crime fighting budget is one million bucks - would have to come up with another $85,000.
"In Jefferson County, we would probably have enough to submit for cases like murders and rapes, but burglaries, drugs and other stuff," sid Sheriff Fortune.
By requiring counties to pick up part of the tab for FDLE lab work, the state could save $16.2 million. A significant savings in a tight budget year. But police say the savings will come at a high price.
"We're putting detectives, even prosecutors in the position of picking and choosing which evidence to submit. And I don't think that's what our system of justice is based on," said Campbell.
House Majority Leader Marco Rubio says given the poor economic times, the state cannot afford to subsidize these lab costs anymore. He points out - there is $2.3 million in the budget to help smaller counties deal with the new fees.


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June 28, 2013
The U.S. Senate's passing of an immigration reform bill still has the nation buzzing.
It could lead to the first meaningful immigration legislation in decades. Opinions on Thursday's immigration bill vary, depending on who you talk to.
"To craft something that [the U.S. Senate] can all accept and vote for I think is great for our country and it's really good for the state of Florida," said Florida state representative Joe Gibbons (D).
The Republican Party of Florida released this statement today:
"Everyone agrees that our immigration system needs to be reformed, and everyone agrees that a top priority for immigration reform is securing our borders. While there may be disagreements among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on this issue, Republicans won't hijack the issue as a blunt, partisan tool to score political points, which is exactly what some Democrats have decided to do."
So the Senate passed an immigration bill. How will it really impact people living in Florida and Georgia.
"It'll have a tremendous impact economically, socially," said immigration lawyer Adam Ruiz.
Ruiz, a lawyer in Tallahassee says if the bill becomes law, more immigrants are likely to open up businesses.
"Be able to get a driver's license with that work permit, get a social security card like I was saying and actually have an impact and come out of the shadows."
Farmers across the land could benefit not having to worry about undocumented workers.
"A lot of people in South Georgia would be able to employ more people that are already required to perform those tasks."
Ruiz says there's an estimated 750,000-800,000 undocumented people in Florida alone.


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For any rookie, the adjustment from the college game to the NFL can be a challenging one.
Adding in more than a month of time missed due to a leg injury can make things even more difficult. After a strong start to his professional career over the first three weeks of the regular season, rookie S
Since his return against Chicago on Nov. 24, McDonald has seen his production steadily increase. His nine total tackles against Arizona on Sunday represented a career-best.
"He's getting better each week," Head Coach Jeff Fisher said following Wednesday's practice. "Difficult thing to come off as quickly as he did, but he's getting better each week."
The third-round draft choice out of Southern California gained much acclaim early on for his ability to step up and defend the run in addition to his work in coverage. That ability has been evidenced in his 42 total tackles on the year, despite only appearing in seven games. Following his injury, however, there was certainly a period of re-adjustment for McDonald. "When you come back, you have the excitement of, 'Man, I get to practice again,'" McDonald said. "Then practice speed is not game speed. You go out there on the field and it's like, OK, this is real again. It's one of those things where you keep getting better with reps and with experience and I'm doing that now."
Rookies frequently require a period of adjusting to the speed of the game at the professional level. Due to the timing of his injury, McDonald found himself making that adjustment a second time. Though McDonald admittedly wasn't where he hoped to be immediately following his return in Week 12 against Chicago, the first-year safety has made steady progress since.
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ST. LOUIS - The Saint Louis Billikens fell to 26-14 with a 3-1 loss to Southern Illinois Edwardsville. The Bills tallied eight hits, but stranded 11 runners on base. Sophomore Damian Rivera picks up the loss, despite not allowing an earned run. He is now 3-5 on the year.
All of the game's scoring was done in the second inning. The Cougars scored three runs in the top half of the frame. An error by Grant Nelson gave SIUE the opportunity to keep hitting with two outs. The Cougars responded with a single followed by back-to-back doubles, scoring three.
Heading to the bottom of the frame with a 3-0 deficit, freshman Mike Vigliarolo ripped a double down the left field line. Nelson advanced him to third with a hopper over the third basemen's head. Junior C.J. Rose was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out. Freshman Alec Sole tried to check his swing on the first pitch, but made contact. The ball dribbled to the pitcher, who forced Vigliarolo at home. Sole reached first safely to keep the bases loaded for junior Mike Levine. He took a fastball off the shoulder to drive in the Bills' only run of the contest.
Despite the loss, the Saint Louis pitching staff had a good day on the mound. Eight pitchers threw in today's game without allowing an earned run. As a staff, the Billikens notched seven strikeouts with only one walk. Senior Travis Parker extended his scoreless streak to 29.1 innings.
Vigliarolo and Nelson have now reached base safely in 13 consecutive contests.
The 2012 series between the two squads is now 1-1. The rubber match will be held at GCS Ballpark on May 3 at 6:00 p.m. Saint Louis will serve as the home team at the neutral site.
The Billikens will head to Philadelphia, Pa. this weekend to play a three-game series against La Salle. The Bills have an 8-7 record in conference play, while LaSalle sits at 4-8. Saint Louis is in seventh place in the Atlantic 10. The top six teams in conference action make the conference tournament. Richmond holds the sixth slot with a 7-5 record.


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I hear often that when something new appears that "competition is good". The primary reasons competition is seen as good, are: it drives down prices; it gives consumers more choice; it pushes technology forward, quicker. Competition is not good because: competition is why consumers have to choose between HD-DVD and BluRay; competition is why DRM exists; and more. In this article, each of the supposed benefits of competition will be looked at in more detail.
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Now FF is the competition, and sudenly we have IE7.
I'd hardly say "suddenly". It took a long time to get development rolling again, since IE had been dormant for so long.
The keystone cops style fiasco of Mozilla, from initial Netscape source code release, through the hugely unpopular Mozilla Suite, to its emergence as the relatively (though still marginally) successful Firefox, is probably outside the scope of this thread.
But in the end, yes, FF has, through competition, benefited users of both browsers, as well as those of other browsers.
The free market... and competition... work. Albeit sometimes on an excruciatingly long time scale. It's a slow process anyway. And there are so many ways for the more powerful entities to game the system.
But in the end, the gaming... the cheats... end up doing nothing but buying time. And the abusing party has to actually get back to reality and compete.


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Inbee Park picked up her fourth LPGA Tour title on Sunday in Thailand, but remained No. 4 in this week's women's world rankings.
In fact, the top 11 in the rankings were unchanged from last week. World No. 1 Yani Tseng was again followed by Na Yeon Choi, Stacy Lewis, Park, Shanshan Feng, Jiyai Shin, Suzann Pettersen, So Yeon Ryu, Ai Miyazato, Mika Miyazato and Cristie Kerr.
Catriona Matthew improved two to No. 12 and Paula Creamer held steady in 13th. Karrie Webb dipped a pair to 14, while Amy Yang and Azahara Munoz inched up one apiece to 15th and 16th.
Sun Ju Ahn slid two notches to No. 17 and she was again followed by Brittany Lincicome, Angela Stanford and Chie Arimura, who remained Nos. 18-20.
Lydia Ko, a 15-year-old amateur, shared 14th in Thailand and improved one to No. 25. Ariya Jutanugarn, who triple-bogeyed the final hole to lose a near- certain victory in Thailand, soared 109 places to 62nd this week.


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I'm just kinda curious to see if there are people with similar musical intrests as me on this board. I've decided the best way to do that is to talk about Cds that you have just bought or that are coming out.
I'll start out with a question. What CD can you just not get enough of right now? For me, its got to be Hellogoodbye's EP. Its just downright infectious. But don't let that fool you. I also listen to a lot of Hardcore/Metal. I can never get enough ZAO or Norma Jean. As I talk right now, I'm listening to Between the Buried and Me's latest CD "Alaska."
As for other intrests in music, here are a few of my favorite bands, which I'm sure a lot of you don't know. I'll start with the ones in my CD collection, in no particular order: Blood Bothers, Circa Survive, Underoath, Emery, Mae, Fall of Troy, Zao, Demon Hunter, From Autumn to Ashes, Staple, From First to Last, Spitalfield, Vendetta Red, The Bled, Chiodos, Bedlight for Blue Eyes, Blindside, Hellogoodbye, The All-American Rejects, Staind (older stuff), Evans Blue, Hawthorne Heights, Say Anything, Sullivan, Fall Out Boy, The Chariot, He Is Legend, Darkest Hour, As I Lay Dying, The Fold, Thrice, Thursday, Thousand Foot Krutch, Falling Up, The Mars Volta, The Hurt Process, Audio Slave, Coheed and Cambria, Disturbed, Shinedown, Foo Fighters, Panic! at the Disco, Funeral for a Friend, Project 86, Finch, The Julianna Theory, MewithoutYou, My Chemical Romance, Pillar, Spoken, As Cities Burn, Haste the Day, She Wants Revenge, In Flames, The Used. Thats all I can think of off the top of my head, I'm sure I'm missing some. I'm into a lot more Hardore/Metal than my collection would indicate.
I would also like to discuss CDs of any kind that you are waiting for. The ones that I can't wait for are being released this Spring/Summer. The Classic Crime's debut on Tooth and Nail records "Albotross," Jonezetta's debut on Tooth and Nail, Underoath's new CD which comes out in June, Dead Poetic's new CD, and ZAO's newest release.
Well theres my start to this tread, can't wait to see where it goes from here. Hopefully, we can have a great conversation on music.


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Christine Benz: Hi, I am Christine Benz for Morningstar.com. Roughly 1,100 mutual funds currently earn Morningstar Analyst ratings, and our analyst team is constantly reviewing their ratings on the various funds they cover. Joining me to discuss two recent upgrades and two recent downgrades is Russ Kinnel. He is director of fund research for Morningstar. Russ, thank you so much for being here.
Russ Kinnel: Good to be here.
Benz: Russ, let's take it from the top and start with the bad news. A couple of notable funds that we liked more in the past, we've recently downgraded. Let's start with Artio International. They've got two funds Artio International Equity, as well as International Equity II. We used to like them a lot. Now we've got them down to Neutral.
Kinnel: That's right. The issue there is that Aberdeen is buying Artio, and they said that managers are not going to stay with the funds, most likely after the deal goes through. So, definitely big changes are coming. We don't know exactly what's going on, but it's enough to take us to Neutral because you now say the managers are probably leaving and we don't know who is replacing them.
Benz: So the managers are going to leave as part of the deals?
Kinnel: That's what they said is that they expect they will leave. They didn't say definitively, but it's enough for us to take them to Neutral.
Benz: Typically when you see a manager change is that necessarily cause for a downgrade or is it kind of a case-by-case [judgment]?
Kinnel: It's cause for review, but it's definitely case-by-case. You really want to understand who is left? How central are they to the process? So you really want to look at it on a case-by-case basis, but you really want to take a close look whenever that's happening.
Benz: So, if I'm an owner of this find, is this a cause to consider selling? How should I review this downgrade or see it in the context of what portfolio maneuvers I should make?
Kinnel: I think you might want to consider selling. You could hold and see who comes on. Or if you know there's another good fund out there, you might want to just switch because at a minimum it seems this fund is likely to get new managers and probably a new strategy. Now, it's possible they'll be decent. So, if you want to be patient you can or you can simply say, "Let's look for a new replacement and get one of the best funds out there."
Benz: Another fund with some manager issues recently, T. Rowe Price Health Sciences, a fund we liked a lot in the past and a fund that certainly had very good performance under manager Kris Jenner. There is some uncertainty there, and that in turn has prompted a downgrade.
Kinnel: Yeah. We don't often go all the way from Gold to Neutral, but we did in this case because Kris Jenner is taking two analysts with him and leaving the firm. He really had a great record at the fund, and now you've got one of the analysts promoted to take his spot. But that leaves some gaps in coverage at the fund. So, really it's a big change for the fund. We don't often go from Gold to Neutral, but it's seems warranted here.
Benz: So, again if I own this find should I sell it? What would you say my decision-making should be?
Kinnel: I would certainly consider that, look at other health-care funds. Also look at your tax situation. Jenner had a really nice return there. You might have a big taxable gain if you sell, too, so think about that as well. But it's definitely a big change and really a big drop in coverage and management quality there. So, I would take a long hard look at it.
Benz: I guess, a question is, if a fund has a change this significant and you think it's really a blow that Jenner is leaving, why not move it even further down? Why do we hold it at Neutral?
Kinnel: Well, because now we're in the unknown. We don't view it as Negative. Negative would mean we think it's probable that it will have a poor risk-adjusted performance in the future. We don't go that far, but we do think you're kind of back to Neutral--you have someone who doesn't have a track record, you have some gaps and coverage. Historically, the fund has done well, so that's a positive. But Neutral often means simply that there are a lot of unknowns, and that's the case here.
Benz: I would think T. Rowe Price's general record on stewardship, as well as relatively low costs, would be saving graces here, as well?
Kinnel: Yeah. T. Rowe across the board has strong performance at their funds, so that's really a positive. I'd tell you the analysts are probably pretty good still on the fund. But there are some gaps and even at T. Rowe the managers are still really important.
Benz: Now Russ, let's move over to the good news. Artisan Small Cap is a fund that we previously had rated Bronze; it has moved up to Silver. What prompted the change there?
Kinnel: Well, it's interesting what Artisan did when two longtime managers of fund retired in '08 and '09. Craig Cepukenas, who was a comanager there has stayed in place. What they did was they moved Craig Cepukenas to Andy Stephens' team who you know from Artisan Mid Cap. What we found over time is, it's seems like that team is really meshing. He is working well with that team. So it actually has worked out to be an upgrade. We took a while, it happened in '09. We have liked the way the team has worked. We've liked the way Cepukenas has picked stocks so far, and Stephens' team is a really strong cohesive team. And things seem really to be clicking there.
Benz: Another fund that has recently seen an upgrade is GoodHaven Fund. First let's do a little bit of stage-setting on this fund because it may not be a familiar name to some of our viewers. Let's talk about the fund's past history and the pedigree of these managers.
Kinnel: Sure. Larry Pitkowsky and Keith Trauner were formerly comanagers at Fairholme, and they set out about three years ago to launch GoodHaven. They left Fairholme, and they have the backing of Markel, a well-known insurance company and investor. They've really set about building the shop the right way. But we took our time; we wanted to get to know their process and the firm and see if what they said is how they actually executed. So we're at a point now where we feel pretty good about that, so we raised the fund to Bronze. They run a focused value-oriented strategy, a lot like you'd see at Fairholme, though they de-emphasize financials, which of course is [a sector that] got Fairholme in trouble.
Now, one of the tricky parts here is that we know that these managers contributed to Fairholme's success, but obviously [current Fairholme manager] Bruce Berkowitz is the lead dog therein and deserves most of the credit. So, we can't give them all the credit and simply say they are going to replicate what Fairholme did. But we can see that they are doing a good job so far and that they are executing this strategy the way we expect. It's still a bold-focused strategy. So that's not to suggest that it's going to be a lower-risk version of Fairholme, but it's a really intriguing fund.
Benz: So how do you evaluate a situation like this where you've got some managers who are not just trying to run their new fund, but they are also simultaneously setting up a firm? How do you try to assess whether the managers can successfully pull off that balance?
Kinnel: You really have to get to know everyone else at the firm, the analysts, other people handling the management side. You have look at their own management skills; you have look at who they brought in to help them out. So it's a little more involved than say your typical firm. We mentioned T. Rowe, and obviously there, you don't have to reinvent the wheel and investigate the firm all over again for one individual fund. We know that they've got a lot of good things in place. But it's a little more involved in a case like [GoodHaven], especially with a new operation. But we felt really good as over time, we had a lot of discussions with them.
Benz: Russ, one thing that often concerns investors as they look at brand-new funds is that their expenses can be a little high. How does GoodHaven measure up from that standpoint?
Kinnel: It's OK. It's 1.1%, which is a little pricey for a large-cap fund, but for a fairly new fund, it's not bad. So, we rate the price pillar as Neutral, and so price is OK. Hopefully assets will grow, and that [percentage] will come down a little. But it's not great. If you know Fairholme, that's long been around 1%. So, it's kind of, I think priced in a similar fashion.
Benz: One other issue is Fairholme arguably got a little bit large, the asset inflows were coming in a very strong fashion for a period of time. Have these managers of GoodHaven signaled that they will close at a certain level?
Kinnel: Yeah, they've said that they are much more aware of asset size and I think are going to be more inclined to close early. Obviously, they haven't given an exact number, and we will have to see how that goes. But yeah, they certainly indicated a greater sensitivity to that.
Benz: Russ, thank you so much for being here, and sharing this wrap-up of recent upgrades and downgrades.
Kinnel: You are welcome.
Benz: Thanks for watching. I'm Christine Benz for Morningstar.com.


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Great. Here comes another amendment to the DMCA. The "Protect Our Networks, Mom, and Apple Pie--And I Support The Colorado Shooting Victims Act of 2013" which will make it illegal to circumvent the licensing agreements of your local network affiliates and outlaw all VPN's that refuse to turn over all server and user data to the FBI and NSA. And it will sail through Congress, and be signed immediately by President Obama--who will say to liberal supporters that he really doesn't WANT to sign it, but is doing so anyway.
The only reason SOPA was stopped was because corporations were opposed. But now the corporations (all of them) (except mozilla) are in favor of CISPA so it will pass eventually. Might be another name but it was pass. When the corporations and the Congress are in collusion, what we the People desire has no relevance. Witness the debacle of the TARP2 which passed even with 80% of people calling representatives and saying no. And Obamacare which had almost 70% of people calling and demanding "no". TARP2
You do not need a cable subscription to view things that were aired on NBC, however if the event was televised one of NBC's cable channels then that content is not available online.
I would pay for coverage offered by a disinterested third party, somewhat like Monday Night Football, where you aren't getting commentary from someone who has a real vested interest in the team and instead is just covering the event.
The best is that when you have, say Charter Business Class, you cannot stream the Olympics even if you have TV. Why? Because you are required to have a charter.net e-mail address, something you cannot get on business class.
This is the most ridiculous and obnoxious thing that has ever happened for the Olympics. I'd rather have NOTHING available than this.
Because they are not required to stream their content online for free. So they don't.
When they provide their service over the airwaves, it is required to be free, so it is. When they provide it over the internet it isn't required to be free because the internet isn't regulated in that way. Hands off the internet, right?
Also note that if you watch NBC over cable/satellite there's a good chance the local affiliate you are watching is also receiving carriage fees from your cable/satellite bill.
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I tried to log into the NBC app, and they bounced me. I have the basic cable package, that gives me the first 15 channels, plus TBS and GSN. Because I am not "subscribed" to MSNBC and CNBC they wouldn't let me in.
I'm very, VERY dissapointed in NBC and their olympic service delivery.
Plus it would be nice to have coverage that wasn't oriented toward idiots.
It started before the opening ceremonies, with the NBC presenters delivering what sounded like drug-addled, free association platitudes over a montage of US athletes. It went on through the parade of nations when one of NBC's presenters gave us a fat dose of his personal political opinions. It was not so much that the leadership of those countries he targeted wasn't contemptible, as that I don't need a sports announcer to tell me what to think. It goes on through interview after interview where the idiot interviewers ask "how does it feel to win" and try to pump as much emotion out of the athletes as possible. Discuss how the event went, or cut to a sport you're not covering, for Pete's sake.
I don't mind commentary but it has its place... and this is like trying to watch a movie while a reviewer sits next to you and critiques the director and the movie in real-time. I would like to have the commentary in a separate audio track, o
I have scoured the web for a good recording of the Beijing Opening Ceremonies (amazing, IMHO) that is not marred by unwelcome commentary, and have not found it. The US, UK, French, and Japanese versions are all similar - all of them are full of blabbing commentators.
Beijing's opening was a great show all right.
The BBC commentary on the London opening ceremony was first rate. They spent most of the time in silence letting the visuals do the talking, and only ever interjected occasionally and discreetly to add a bit of context. I thoroughly enjoyed the BBC coverage.
As a Canadian, it's fun to watch the Americans finally have to struggle to find content.
We've been forced to use proxies for years.
Let me add a "HA! HA!" from Brazil also
Shouldn't that "HA! HA!" look a little more like HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE
This is the first time I have gone without watching the oloympics every day they are on, and it sickens me that corporations are forcing people into unnecissary services to watch it. I pay for my internet service, that means I should be able to watch what I want online. PERIOD.
No, stop being so wrong.
You are paying your ISP to provide internet, regardless of the content. It does not imply any rights to have content available, so tough cookie if it isn't. Net neutrality, wot.
No, stop being so wrong.
You are paying your ISP to provide internet, regardless of the content. It does not imply any rights to have content available, so tough cookie if it isn't. Net neutrality, wot.
well, maybe not.
but the olympics being funded out of worldwide collected taxes, the olympics haven been given special exemptions and special rights with specially tailored laws sort of would imply it. not to mention the whole thing about olympic spirit..
it's a fucking travesty. maybe we'll have some Red Bull Realympics in 4 years as competing event where athletes can mention whatever the fuck they want on social media, wear whatever sporting goods they want and which will be streamed live to everyone who wants to watch.
but the olympics being funded out of worldwide collected taxes, the olympics haven been given special exemptions and special rights with specially tailored laws sort of would imply it. not to mention the whole thing about olympic spirit..
Really? I've never paid the Olympic tax! Sure, some (maybe most) of the athletes get government funding, but it's not that impressive. In the main the bulk of the costs of running the games are paid by the hosts.. NBC giving them $PILESOFMONEY helps with that, but it cost a $EVENLARGERPILEOFMONEY to set up.
it's a fucking travesty. maybe we'll have some Red Bull Realympics in 4 years as competing event where athletes can mention whatever the fuck they want on social media, wear whatever sporting goods they want and which will be streamed live to everyone who wants to watch.
I'm amused that you think that a corporately sponsored version of the Olympics would be better.
It's very easy to get around and also means that license payers abroad can't use iPlayer, including servicemen. I'm quite happy paying my license fee, and don't really see why I should help fund free viewing for the rest of the world. However, I don't think they're using the best option.
I'd prefer to have a login that is provided when I pay for my license fee. The BBC could then stream concurrently to [for example] 4 clients using the same login details.
I've set myself up a proxy in work so that I can use iPlayer when abroad - works very nicely too.
I'm not an expert, but I do know they offer BBC America "subscription" services to stations like PBS and NPR, and I think it might be bundled with some cable packages. I would imagine it's difficult to compete with your own free services. Or some variation thereof.
So charge for it?
I would gladly pay to use iPlayer, I will not pay for cable though.
Why do the Beeb bother with IP geolocation?
Because the BBC isn't licensed to distribute content beyond the borders of the UK.
I'd prefer to have a login that is provided when I pay for my license fee.
That would require an Act of Parliament to redefine the BBC's broadcasts to include internet distribution (a TV license is not a legal requirement to watch iPlayer, a fact that you can verify at the TV licensing web site - the TV license only covers video that is watched at the same time as it is being broadcast).
I'm quite happy paying my license fee, and don't really see why I should help fund free viewing for the rest of the world.
I do. The rest of the world watching British TV is better than them watching, for example, American TV. It promotes our culture and values.
(I think the BBC World Service radio is partly funded for this reason.)
To be blunt, the Olympic organisation needs to step up in its bid process to make sure that not only is it about getting money in to work within the machinery of an Olympics, but that any partner, and in particular its broadcast partners behave with minimum standards. These would be max advert time per hour, and min coverage required.
Any broadcasters who paster the coverage with advert time and clearly ruin the spectable could be eliminated. Any that don't plan to cover enough get the chop and so on. It should not merely be about the money.
I'm not a fan of the BBC. But its coverage of this Olympics has been stellar, and I can watch any - and all events. No coverage has ever been this vast or all encompassing.
NBC's coverage has ALWAYS been bad. The worst part is that they smother everything with "human interest" stories to the point where you're not sure if you're watching the Olympics or some daytime talk show. Also, they commentary has been ridiculous - and sometimes outright offensive (particularly during the opening ceremonies).
I am incredibly annoyed that the Olympic Committee has started this broadcast monopoly business. It's terrible. NBC paid cash, so they can be as terrible as they want with impunity.
Which is why I have a new VPN account so that I can watch the BBC's coverage.
I would be happy to pay $20 or so for an Official Olympics Streaming Account or somesuch.
Also, is the BBC site organized so you can pick a specific sport and watch the prelims and final? I find the Olympics a bit ove
You can watch any event you want with NBC too. And you were able to do so at the 2010 Olympics (Canadian CBC did it too). And you were even able to do it at the Olympics on NBC!
http://www.nbcolympics.com/online-listings/day=august-1/index.html [nbcolympics.com]
So yeah, coverage has been this vast and all encompassing before. Glad to hear you finally came to the party. I guess you just didn't notice NBC in the room when you got here.
This idea began in the US 20 years ago with the (failed) Olympics Triplecast.
http://en.wikiped [wikipedia.org]
I'm really impressed with the amount of events that you can watch on the BBC's website. I initially thought it would just be a couple of events here and there, such as, you can either watch the badminton or the hockey.
Nope, you can choose from a massive range, so much so that I keep chopping and changing just to make sure I catch a bit of everything.
Except for the women's weightlifting. That's just scary.
It does kind of suck that there's not a legal option to watch online. From what I understand, the only feeds available in the states are only available to people who subscribe to cable.
I wouldn't mind if there was a service that was charging or making you watch ads, but do I really need to pay for cable?
Take this you d*mn Yankees and get a tast on how it feels to watch "Game of Thrones" months later or through a TBP-proxy
In my opinion, NBC hasn't gotten nearly enough shit over their treatment of the opening ceremony. Constant chattering, inane commentary, and the absolutely insulting audacity to cut to commercial during the 7/7 London Bombing memorial.
The coverage of the games themselves hasn't been too great, either. I'm not going to bitch about a tape delay because that's just a fact of life when the games are 7 hours ahead of local time. But when results are spoiled by fucking promotional commercials just minutes ahead of the event in question, that's just incompetence.
So, screw NBC. I hope someday the BBC allows foreigners to pay for access to its content without having to do VPN hacks. I know I'd subscribe in a heartbeat (hello, Doctor Who Series 7).
NBC coverage has always sucked, in my opinion, even more so with Mr. Costas at the helm. When we lived in Detroit, my wife and I would watch CBC coverage from Windsor. Absolutely blew away anything from the States. One of the few reasons we miss the Detroit area. That and the regular water main breaks...
With the balkanization of #London2012 and other worldwide events, the web is being turned into TV 2.0 by the content cartels. Originally one of the beautiful things about the web was that content was open to all. Someone from Mozambique had access to all the same data and resources as someone from USA or France. But increasingly, everything is becoming locked down and controlled for the benefit of the big media companies. Only through illegal means most don't even know about can this be circumvented, so a few tech savy people manage, but the vast majority do not.
Who is to blame for this? Well, sure, those media companies, but all of the web users are to blame. As long as we support this balkanization, it will continue to happen. As long as we are tuning into their content en mass, they will never stop this. The end game is TV 2.0, rather than the open and free internet we COULD have had. If we let this happen, it's our own fault.
I don't know about everyone else, but I find myself completely disinterested in the Olympics this round due to all the commercial bullshit attached to it. NBC et al can go fuck themselves; they have thusfar not received a single view of Olympic advertising from me. I haven't even bothered to watch a single event.
And that's pretty sad, because the ideal of the Olympics is something worth protecting.
I've felt that way for several Olympics now, which pretty much coincided with me getting old enough to have a valid opinion about anything like that.
And that's pretty sad, because the ideal of the Olympics is something worth protecting.
And that's why I'm boycotting it until the IOC is unfucked or unfucks itself.
the ideal is long dead and buried by the IOC. Olympics have been comercialized to the core and they are nothing more than a money making machine for all interested parties except the host city paying through the nose for years. Same thing with Fifa World Cup or Uefa Euro - organizations skim the cream off the top, while hosts are left with all the bills and responsibilities.
It's outrageous enough that you need to be a subscriber of their services and partner companies to watch anything online. But then they mislead you all the way in. They advertise it on tv and online make it seem like all you need to do is click on a feed and start watching. So despite having logins for three of their services I couldn't watch with any because I didn't have one of their crappy cable networks as part of those packages.
And to add insult to injury, coverage on NBC has been abysmal. Take last night's broadcast of women's gymnastics. There was no rhyme or reason to it. They showed a bunch of random events, several times not even waiting to show scores. They barely showed any of the competition, so who the hell knows why China ended up being so far behind, for example. They wasted too much time with goofy drama. And despite being so overly America centric, for whatever reason they spent the first hour in primetime broadcasting diving which featured no American even close to being in medal contention. And, last but not least, let's not forget the endless commercial interruptions.
It's pathetic and my interest in following the Olympics for anything to other than medal counts is quickly evaporating. NBC seems incapable of handling a broadcast of this scale. You'd think that for prerecorded broadcasts, with the massive staff devoted to the games that they'd do a better job of editing.
It's basically the HBO issue (the BBC and HBO are very similar models).
The BBC is required by law/charter to minimize their financial costs to UK citizens (the TV licence fee). So they sell their overseas rights as part of this. This brings in money and minimizes their overhead.
However, these overseas licenses are also exclusive. They just can't get much money for non-exclusive licenses. So in the process, the BBC gives up the right to stream their own produced shows to you in other countries even for a fee
How in hell is it accepted that the Olympics, perhaps one of the longest standing symbols of solidarity and friendly competition among countries, is sold whole to single providers? Here, there are two cable providers covering the Olympics and they're doing a pathetically bad job at it, so much so that you can effectively say I might as well not know there are Olympics going on.
I think it is utterly pathetic that such a thing is allowed to happen. If anything, the Olympics should be open to any network (be i
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MOBA is the acronym of the genre given to games inspired by a MOD called Dota Allstars that became popular in WC3 The Frozen Throne a game released by Blizzard Entertainment. Usually MOBA's consist of elements of action, strategy and role playing into their game play styles. They usually do not consist of base building and micro-management of units and structures but instead concentrate the user to control one or a few units with various spells and combos much like an action or arcade game.
Currently there are many MOBA's under development such as League of Legends-Clash of Fates, Heroes of Newerth and Bloodline Champions.
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When haricots verts, those pencil-thin green beans, make their appearance in farmers markets, I get about as excited as when I see sour cherries. Something has to happen, and fast. They're so delicate that they start to go limp after even just a couple of days in the fridge, and then what's the point? I might as well use regular old green beans.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. But what's special about haricots verts is that very delicate nature, a quality that Clotilde Dusoulier in "The French Market Cookbook" (Clarkson Potter, 2013) refers to as their "youthful bounce."
Dusoulier, you may know, is the wildly popular blogger behind Chocolate and Zucchini, and with her charming new book she is showcasing, as the subtitle puts it, "Vegetarian Recipes From My Parisian Kitchen." She's a flexitarian these days, but with the cookbook she wants to show readers how to coax flavor out of the best locally grown, seasonal fruits and vegetables without relying on meats (mock or otherwise) or heavy amounts of cheese or even too many carbs.
That's the way I'm trying to cook, too, so as I flipped through Dusoulier's charming book, a recipe for a green bean, red rice and almond salad demanded to be made. It happens to be vegan, but in keeping with Dusoulier's understated delivery it's not labeled as such.
Nonetheless, it was a clear choice, because I had every ingredient on hand and didn't need to hit any market, French or otherwise. Dusoulier starts with leftover cooked rice, but the Bhutanese variety I had in my pantry takes just 20 minutes, so I didn't feel behind in the slightest.
In about the time I steamed the beans and made the dressing, it was ready for assembly — and my dinner companion and I were ready to eat.
This salad combines chewy, slightly nutty red rice with crisp green beans (preferably thin haricots verts) in a dressing made creamy by almond butter. It can be eaten hot, cold or in between.
MAKE AHEAD: The red rice can be cooked and refrigerated for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 3 months. The green beans can be cooked and refrigerated a day in advance. The salad without the almonds, parsley and pepper can be assembled and refrigerated a few hours in advance. Adapted from "The French Market Cookbook," by Clotilde Dusoulier (Clarkson Potter, 2013).
6 servings
1 cup uncooked red rice (may substitute brown rice)
1 1/4 cups water
2 pounds haricot verts or thin green beans, trimmed
3 tablespoons all-natural unsweetened almond butter
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
2/3 cup almonds, toasted and coarsely chopped (see NOTE)
1 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Freshly ground black pepper
Combine the red rice and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, lower the heat until the liquid is barely bubbling, cover and cook for 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and let the rice rest, covered, for 5 minutes, then uncover and fluff with a fork. Depending on whether your salad will be served warm or cold, partially cover the rice to keep it warm; let the rice come to room temperature; or cool, then refrigerate.
Meanwhile, set up a steamer over a separate saucepan of water on medium heat. Steam the green beans, tightly covered, until just cooked through but not limp, 7 to 8 minutes. Cool if desired.
Whisk together the almond butter, oil, lemon juice, vinegar and salt in a large salad bowl.
Add the cooked beans, turning them gently in the dressing to coat. Stir in the rice. Taste, and adjust the seasoning. Add the chopped almonds and parsley, then season with pepper to taste; toss to incorporate.
Serve warm, at room temperature or cold.
NOTE: Toast the nuts in a small, dry skillet over medium-low heat, until fragrant and lightly browned, shaking the skillet to avoid scorching. Cool completely before using.
NUTRITION Per serving: 360 calories, 10 g protein, 41 g carbohydrates, 20 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 380 mg sodium, 9 g dietary fiber, 3 g sugar


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A Canadian Genealogist Dies in Scotland
He was the chair of the Toronto Branch, and had given many talks around Ontario on genealogy.
He died last Wednesday of a heart attack.
People who attended Conference '09 in London, Ontario this year heard him give a couple of seminars and the talk at the supper on "Ancestors in the Attic".
This blog send its condoldances to his family for thier personal loss, and to the genealogists of Canada, for they have lost a great family historian.
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Paul McGrath will be greatly missed by his colleagues and friends at the Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society.
Although his work with Ancestors in the Attic will be known to more people, he also was an expert on the history, particularly the social history, of Toronto in the 19th century. He wrote several articles on areas which were villages in their own right back then, and which have now been absorbed into the city and forgotten.
Through his website www.ontarioroots.com he provided a number of necessary geographical keys to finding ancestors in the Toronto area. I had the opportunity to collaborate with him on transcribing and indexing the Caverhill Directory of 1859-60, and also in accumulating a street index for the 1911 census.
He had great ideas about combining together many databases of Toronto history. Toronto's earliest complete and extant census, the 1861, is currently being transcribed. Along with Caverhill's Directory and that of Mitchell in 1864, and Paul's earlier work "Toronto in the 1850s: A Transcription of the 1853 Tax Assessment Rolls", a broad picture of Toronto in the mid 19th century can be built. It is to be hoped that this project can come to fruition in other hands.
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Royal Oak Historical Society Museum Curator Muriel Versagi and her crew of volunteers are working hard to get the "Your Schools" exhibit ready for its grand opening from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday in the museum in the decommissioned historic Northwood Fire Station, 1421 W. Webster Road.
The exhibit of hundreds of photos and artifacts begins in 1902 in District 6 of what was then Royal Oak Township Village Schools, from Eight Mile to 14 Mile Road, Greenfield to Dequindre, and concludes in the 1960s.
Display panels for each of Royal Oak's public and parochial schools highlight pictures and memorabilia from that time period.
"This is my favorite picture," Versagi said, pointing to the group photo which includes George Dondero, future first mayor of Royal Oak, school board president and congressman in the early to mid-1800s. "So confidant, so poised at 17. You can just look and see he's going somewhere."
Versagi, herself a volunteer, knows the importance of the many who make such an exhibit possible. Among them are husband and wife Don Calder and Adair Sheill Calder, who met at Royal Oak High School in 1952.
"Don is our handyman," Versagi said. "Adair cleans our library, puts books in order and catalogs artifacts. They both help put up exhibits."
"When we were finishing up the Korea and Vietnam exhibit, six or eight of us were having lunch and talking about what we have here," Versagi said. "We have a huge collection of school artifacts and we know how much people who went to Royal Oak schools absolutely love them."
"We mutually agreed that we would do a 'Your Schools' exhibit next."
Because all exhibits are based on loans from local residents and those who have lived in Royal Oak, Versagi said, "I asked people to loan us their memories, so it just kind of evolved with items we had and that people gave or loaned."
The museum's permanent collection already includes most yearbooks, from the Royal Oak High School class of 1911 through 2002, and many official class photos.
"When people are here visiting, one of their favorite places is our library, no matter what our exhibit is, because of the school yearbooks we have," Versagi said.
"We've had three generations with grandparents showing their yearbook photos to grandchildren. There's so much laughter, so much joy."
The "Your Schools" exhibit will continue through mid-September during regular museum hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Saturday will be an especially busy day as the museum conducts the Royal Oak Historical Society's first-ever Road Rally History Hunt, in addition to the "Your Schools" opening.
The hunt begins from the museum at 9 a.m. Saturday, when clues to historic sites will be distributed. Teams have until 5 p.m. to bring printed photos to the museum. Prizes will be awarded to the winning teams at an afterglow.
Register at royaloakhistoricalsociety.org or at the museum. There is no charge to attend museum events or exhibits, but donations are always welcome.


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Western Research Day on May 2 celebrates student achievements
Boehringer Ingelheim manager Josh John to present keynote lecture
DANBURY, CONN. — Western Connecticut State University will celebrate student research and present a lecture by Boehringer Ingelheim manager Josh John at the ninth annual Western Research Day (WRD) on Thursday, May 2, 2013.
John, a 2008 graduate of the WCSU Ancell School of Business, will give the keynote talk during the opening WRD session at 10 a.m. in Science Building Room 125 on the university's Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. Western President James W. Schmotter and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Jane McBride Gates will offer introductory remarks.
The opening session will be followed by a poster exhibition of research projects conducted by WCSU students in a wide range of academic disciplines during the current academic year. The exhibition will be open for public viewing from 10:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the Science Building Atrium. The WRD program will conclude with a closing session in Science Building Room 125 at 12:45 p.m. where Gates will present Provost's Awards for posters that earn highest marks from university faculty judges who will view and hear student presentations of their research during the exhibition. Admission to the opening and closing sessions and to the poster exhibition will be free, and the public is invited to attend.
Recipient of a BBA degree in management information systems with minors in information security and financial accounting, John joined Ridgefield-based Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals as an intern. In 2007 he became an employee in the company's accounts payable department while completing his studies at Western. From 2009 to 2011, he served as a purchasing card administrator and as a senior buyer in the sourcing operations department, before earning a promotion to the position of global sourcing manager.
Since November 2011, John has served as Speaker Bureau operations manager in the Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals marketing department, focusing on process improvements, operational procedures and strategic planning in areas of customer development and peer-to-peer communication. During the past six months, he also has taken on project assignments in established-brands marketing and in marketing research supporting the company's respiratory pharmaceuticals area.
John's lecture, "Driving Efficiencies and Optimizing Resources in a Fast-Paced Marketing Environment," will draw from his experience in market research that guided Boehringer Ingelheim decisions in identifying vendors, improving process efficiency and eliminating redundancies, resulting in annual savings estimated at more than $2 million.
Associate Professor of Management Information Systems Dr. Emilio Collar, cochair of the WRD 2013 committee, recalled the strong work ethic that John demonstrated as an exemplary student at Western in successfully completing classroom assignments challenging him to define and address real-world problems, providing foundations for his professional advancement in business.
"The more you learn, the more power you gain to take your career in the way you wish to go and achieve long-term fulfillment," Collar observed. "Josh John is an outstanding example of this. I am so happy that WRD brings in guest speakers who are recent alumni of Western, and I believe his talk will inspire a new generation of students."
Student projects accepted for participation in WRD 2013 will represent academic departments in the sciences, liberal arts, business and professional studies at WCSU. Participation requires prior approval by the student's faculty adviser and submission to the WRD organizing committee for review. Western faculty members will conduct judging during the poster session to select up to five posters whose exhibitors will receive recognition as recipients of the 2013 Provost's Awards, which will include gift certificates for the winning students.
Dr. Susan Maskel, professor of biological and environmental sciences and cochair of the WRD 2013 organizing committee, observed the annual event provides an important opportunity for Western students to gain valuable experience in conducting and presenting their own research or creative work.
"WRD gives our students a chance to experience what a professional conference is like without leaving Western," Maskel said, noting that all participants must prepare abstracts describing their research objectives as well as poster displays of their projects. "It provides a great opportunity to share their research or professional activity with people outside their academic disciplines, and their participation will be a plus on their resumes when they apply for employment or graduate school admission."
Collar described WRD as an important way for students to gain valuable presentation skills in a conference setting, and for researchers from diverse fields to come together in recognition of academic achievement. He noted the event will be sponsored by the Office of the Provost, and cited Gates for her personal commitment in support of WRD.
In addition to Maskel and Collar, members of the WRD 2013 organizing committee include University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Brian Stevens and Adjunct Professor of Biological and Environmental Sciences Debbi Johnson. Maskel expressed gratitude to Collar, who will step down after this year's WRD, for his service on the organizing committee since 2007 and as cochair of the annual event since 2008.
For more information, contact Maskel at email@example.com, or the Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.
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Paul H Scheffler, Jr, 93, died April 8, 2014, at Mt Carmel East Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He was born Dec. 2, 1920, in Philadelphia, Pa., to Paul H. and Amelia (Schneider) Scheffler. He was preceded in death by sisters Edna, Florence, Ella and Viola and brother Edward. Most of his childhood years were spent in Fox Chase, Pa., where a semi-rural environment shaped his love of the outdoors and fielded interest in horses. During WW II he served as a Sargeant in the US Army Air Corp from 1942 to 1945. He was stationed in Cuba in 1943, and Saipan through 1945 where he served as a crew chief on a B29 bomber. He graduated from Drexel University in 1948 with BS in Mechanical Engineering and was elected to Pi Tau Sigma, the mechanical engineering honors Society and to Tau Beta Pi, the premier engineering honors society. He recognized that his education was a pivotal point inhis life and in appreciation he has established several scholarships at Drexel for promising engineering students. After graduating, he was employed by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation as an aerospace engineer in Philadelphia, Kansas City and Lima, Ohio. During a 30-year career he was registered as a professional engineer in the states of Kansas, Ohio, Virginia and Florida and was awarded seven US patents.With an astute business sense and entrepreneurial spirit, he designed and developed several commercial complexes in Ohio, shipyards and industrial facilities in Norfolk, Va., hotels in Florida and Georgia and a large cattle ranch in Custer County, Nebr. In 2007, he retired from cattle ranching and relocated to Pickering-ton where he began his fourth career as an active stock market investor in order to fund several charitable programs. Over the years, he resided in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, Nebraska and in his later years wintered in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, where he made many good friends. In 1943, he married Jacqueline Satin of Philadelphia. Their first child, Paul H.Scheffler III, died at birth. Surviving children are Peter Michael Scheffler who resides in Boulder, Colo. with his wife Susan (Young), and daughter Susan Scheffler who resides in Amelia,Va. After Jacqueline's death, he married Nelita (Nicki) Allen in 1999, bringing into his family step-son Michael Allen and wife Ann ofPickerington, Ohio and stepson Jonathan Allen and wife Aimee of Wilmington, NC. Surviving grandchildren are Rev. Jason Aaron Micheli, Lisa Christine Micheli, Paul James Scheffler and Kirk Andrew Scheffler, step-grandchildren, Marie Allen, Elena Allen, Michaela Allen, Ryan Allen and Baylee Allen, and great-grandchildren, Alexander and Gabriel Micheli. He was a member of and benefactor to Epiphany Lutheran Church in Pickerington and a winter member of Holy Spirit Episcopal Church in Gulf Shores, Ala. Dwayne R. Spence Funeral Home and Crematory has been en-trusted with the arrangements. Memorial donations can be made in his name to a charity of one's choice or to Epiphany Lutheran Church. Online condolences can be found at www.spencefuneralhome.com.Published in Custer County Chief, April 17, 2014


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Beer writers (myself included) use a lot of adjectives to describe the big beers that are a hallmark of the craft-brewing industry. Words like "bold," "complex," "dense" and "flavor-packed" hint at the amount of ingredients that go into making these often higher-in-alcohol brews.
Most of these are amazing beers and deserve their proper appreciation, but often people don't want a one-and-you're-done kind of beer, especially during warmer months. They're looking for beers that are -- to use a few more adjectives -- light, refreshing and sessionable.
That last one, "sessionable," has generated a lot of buzz recently in the craft-brewing industry. It refers to beers that are lower in alcohol -- about 5 percent or less by volume -- yet are still flavorful, with a well-balanced character that doesn't tip too far to either a hoppy or a malty extreme. These are beers that you can drink a couple of during an afternoon "session" and not feel the need to take a nap afterward.
They're also good "gateway" beers to introduce mass-market lager drinkers to the world of craft beer.
Shift, the latest year-round offering from New Belgium Brewing, fits into this category. It's a pale lager that weighs in at a svelte 5 percent ABV, with just enough crisp, floral hop flavor and aroma to keep it interesting without overwhelming. The beer's name even points to its status as a session beer: It's a nod to the New Belgium tradition of sharing a shift beer at the end of the day. Shift is available in 16-ounce-can four-packs.
Left Hand Brewing's Stranger American Pale Ale is another good example. It has a crisp floral hop character with a sweet malt base and just a hint of spice. Locally, you might also want to try Twisted Pine's Blonde Ale, Mama's Little Yella Pils from Oskar Blues and Upslope Brewing Company's Craft Lager.
Upslope recently distributed 200 cases of Top Rope Mexican-style craft lager to local liquor stores, a beer that's usually only found at Centro and other restaurants in the Big Red F group. It's an easy-drinking lager that's big on flavor but, at 4.8 percent ABV, is relatively low on alcohol.
Avery Brewing Co., which is known for its big beers, introduced a session beer into its year-round lineup with Joe's Premium American Pilsner. Karma, the brewery's summer seasonal, is a bit too heavy to be called a session beer at 5.2 percent ABV, but this Belgian-style pale ale still fits the bill with its bright and refreshing character.
Historically, perhaps the ultimate session beer is a Berliner Weisse. It's a low-alcohol (about 3 percent ABV) sour wheat beer that's traditionally brewed in Northern Germany and served with flavored syrup added in. Avery currently has its take on the style, called Boulder Weisse, on draft in its taproom. This refreshing beer was aged for six months in barrels to sour, and is served with a side of either peach or cherry simple syrup made locally by Savory Cuisines.
It's the perfect accompaniment to a bright spring afternoon, with no nap required.
Spring Breckenridge Beer Fest
KMST "The Mountain" will host its sixth-annual Spring Breckenridge Beer Festival from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday at Main Street Station in Breckenridge. Sample beers from 25 participating breweries, including many local favorites, and enjoy live music and food. Tasting glasses, $25 in advance or $30 the day of, include unlimited samples. A VIP option is $65 in advance or $75 day of, and includes a glass tasting mug as well as a private tasting and lunch buffet. Visit breckenridgebeerfestival.com for more information.
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Law school enrollment down in U.S., but not at UGA
Monday, January 6, 2014
While many law schools across the country saw a decrease in enrollment figures, Georgia Law actually recorded an increase. Associate Dean for Administration Paul B. Rollins commented in the Athens Banner-Herald about the law school's enrollment statistics. The article was written by Lee Shearer and was published 12/25/13.


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You'll be a part of the next generation of actors, directors, designers, stage technicians and playwrights changing the landscape of live performance.
We mount between 30 and 40 full-stage and workshop productions each year, and you'll learn from an award-winning faculty of professional theatre artists actively creating theatre in Chicago and beyond.
This hands-on experience for Theatre students pursuing careers as film or television actors includes lectures, demonstrations, field trips and performances as well as meetings with agents, managers and casting directors. Our one-of-a-kind multidisciplinary program is led by industry insiders and held on a historic studio lot.Read More
We're happy you're thinking of joining our creative community. We work hard to make our application process as simple and fast as possible, but should you run into any concerns, we're here to help at any time.
If you can't make it to campus, don't worry! We have a full schedule of events all across the U.S. and around the world.


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Gets or sets the outer margin of an element.
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The margin is the space between this element and other elements that will be adjacent when layout creates the user interface (UI). Shared elements might be peer elements (such as other elements in the collection of a common parent control), or might also be this element's parent.
Margin is set as a Thickness structure rather than as a number so that the margin can be set asymmetrically. The Thickness structure itself supports string type conversion so that you can specify an asymmetric Margin in XAML attribute syntax also.
A non-zero margin applies space outside the element layout's ActualWidth and ActualHeight.
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void OnClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { // Get the current value of the property. Thickness marginThickness = btn1.Margin; // If the current leftlength value of margin is set to 10 then change it to a new value. // Otherwise change it back to 10. if(marginThickness.Left == 10) { btn1.Margin = new Thickness(60); } else { btn1.Margin = new Thickness(10); } }
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Yoga Tips PRO
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Master yoga poses and yoga meditation with "Yoga Tips Pro" app! Discover different types of yoga and learn how to practice yoga at home, improve your health and connect with your spirituality!
- More than 200 tips on how to do yoga!
- Discover the history of yoga and meanings of basic yoga terms!
- More than 380 yoga videos showing how to do yoga asanas!
- Over 450 yoga pictures-different yoga postures!
- Find out which yoga equipment you can use to get the maximum benefits out of yoga positions!
Discover what is yoga and why yoga has so much physical and mental benefits! Learn yoga basics and yoga poses for beginners without going to some expensive yoga studio!
Yoga for beginners includes easy yoga poses which can be mastered by beginners and without taking yoga classes!
Using yoga for weight loss is the healthy way to lose weight and experience all the yoga benefits! Different yoga techniques and yoga workouts help lean muscle and get nice sculpted body! Watch yoga video tutorials and learn yoga to get yoga body!
Hot yoga refers to yoga exercises performed under hot and humid conditions. The most popular is Bikram Yoga which is also a yoga class done in a heated room, and if you can get the right conditions this app will help you master this yoga type. Learn Namaste yoga with this app and become fitter, healthier and happier!
Learn restorative yoga which includes poses that help you relax and revitalize your body! This app also has videos with yoga instructions that will help you learn Kundalini yoga and help you develop awareness and spiritual strength, yoga breathing and much more!
There are lots of yoga DVDs and yoga books that are great for home yoga! This app is way better because with this app you can do your yoga training anywhere! This app allows you to perform yoga pose anywhere, just bring your phone and do yoga at the park or your office! There's a prejudice that yoga is a women only discipline, but this app will show you that there's also yoga for men and well as yoga for kids!
This app also allows you to buy yoga clothes and other equipment that will help you perform and hold the postures properly! There are different types of yoga pants and other yoga wear that will make it more comfortable for you to perform certain yoga poses, and you can purchase them via this app!
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Auzubillahi minash shaitan ir rajeem,
Bismillah ie rahman ir rahim,
I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time I became an expert in boredom. Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked the kids, as I often did, why they felt so bored, they always gave the same answers: They said the work was stupid, that it made no sense, that they already knew it. They said they wanted to be doing something real, not just sitting around. They said teachers didn't seem to know much about their subjects and clearly weren't interested in learning more. And the kids were right: their teachers were every bit as bored as they were....
How public education cripples our kids, and why. By John Taylor Gatto
I learnt about this school teacher from NewYork - his talks and lectures .... it all makes sense.
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I'm sorry.. I jsut find this all very - ... Inaccurate... let me just take the time to point out the many obsurdities I found..
That is capitalism... if your smart enoupgh - so be it.. we are not communists here..
So?.. you learn how... I think this proposal is laughable..
With Karate like.. the Karate Kid did back in the 80s..
I know plenty of home school children who dont do drugs.. infact goign to school will give them peer pressure, and thus pressuring them into actually trying the drugs.. WRong
ok.. sure...
Shouldnt we be teaching the children to be confident?... wouldnt you want your child to be a leader? We are not Communists Here... And if you're talking about manners - thats laughable too.. dont you think Children will pick up on manners from their parents?.. Public Schools are the WORST
so.. do you think parents at home might not sing that to their children at times?.. Its not like home schooled kids are going to be in a prison in the house.. i'm sure they cna go outside and play with the nieghboorhood children... or their Religiouse/community centers... Children will always interact and such etc.. Have friends... THey figure out that Robin Laid an Egg and Joker Got away - form them no doubt.. or whatever.. this whole Idea is rediculouse me thinks..
so they wont work in an office.. and nothing says that the parents cant teach them this anyway...
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hehe nice sarcasm Rehmat
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We strive to raise and breed Chesapeake Bay retrievers with exceptional temperaments and to maintain the versatility born in them. In addition to above, we offer Chesapeake retrievers for hunting, agility, breeding, companions, conformation, obedience, tracking, and so on. You can be rest assured that you will find your all around Chesapeake Bay retriever at Ches-Shores.
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Fox venture a key player in prestige piano trade
Flying to Portsea in a helicopter to tune trucking magnate Lindsay Fox's piano is all in a day's work for Mark O'Connor.
As is having customers part with $250,0000 for a grand piano, despite not being able to play a note. Then there was a time a potential customer arrived with a rubbish bag stuffed with $50,000 in notes, asking for a cash discount on a very expensive Steinway.
"It took us half an hour to count that," says O'Connor, the managing director of the Exclusive Piano Group, of which Fox is the major shareholder.
The business, which has one store in Essendon, Melbourne, and another opening soon in Adelaide, started in 2008, with all of Fox's profits going back into music and the arts.
With a floor full of pricey handmade instruments, it's a business that needs some serious financial backing. In its fifth year, it has just started turning a profit.
"That's the benefit of having a partner like Lindsay Fox," says O'Connor. He's just an amazing guy and I've got nothing but respect for him. I've known him for 20 years."
The pair met when O'Connor was general manager of music store group Allans. In August, Australian Music Group Holdings, owner of the 30-store Allans Billy Hyde chain, was placed in voluntary administration.
"Originally [Fox] was a customer of mine and we just seemed to get on well. He wanted his grandkids to learn the piano," says O'Connor.
Their long association eventually culminated in the Exclusive Piano Group, which sells mainly high-end pianos - with a focus on Steinways - to professional musicians, symphony orchestras, beginners and those who just appreciate the value of a handmade instrument that can be a year in the making.
"We estimate that about 60 per cent of our customers that buy a Steinway can't play," says O'Connor.
Lindsay Fox also belongs in that category.
"He absolutely loves music, he's got an amazing memory and can start singing songs I've never even heard of," says O'Connor. "He loves music, but he can't play."
The piano group is the only Steinway & Sons agent in Victoria, South Australia and the ACT.
Steinway is considered one of the best pianos in the world, with artists who favour it including Billy Joel and Harry Connick jnr. Designed and handcrafted in Germany, each piano can take up to a year to make.
"With a Steinway, the whole philosophy of their pianos revolves around making the most of the sound vibrations in the piano," says O'Connor.
Recently the group has sold pianos to the Melbourne, Adelaide and Tasmanian symphony orchestras and Melbourne's revamped Arts Centre.
"You can't reopen a centre like the Arts Centre and have old pianos," says O'Connor. "Generally a venue like that would like to have a piano that is less than five years old at any time."
A customer recently snapped up a piano that had been played by Tony Bennett, Burt Bacharach, Herbie Hancock, Regina Spektor and jazz legend Chick Corea.
While Steinway pianos date back to 1853, they have not escaped the touch of the techies. In his store, O'Connor sells an iPad-operated system called the PianoDisc.
By selecting a song on the iPad, a customer can bring a virtual concert to life in their own lounge room. Like a very modern-day version of the pianola, the keys play of their own accord, while the artist's voice booms out as if they were in the room. The system certainly impresses the punters, says O'Connor.
It's all a dream gig for O'Connor, who started his career as an organ demonstrator at Brashs in Melbourne's Northland shopping centre as a 15-year-old.
However, despite Fox's backing, and access to his company's infrastructure, such as lawyers, HR and payroll, the Exclusive Piano Group is a business much like any other.
"He doesn't give me a dollar for free. The business has to pay its own way," says O'Connor. "We're not making millions of dollars, it's not that kind of business'
The plan is to eventually have a store in each state.
"I believe there's an opportunity for us to have a real influence in the Australian market."
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Dinosaur tracks on a desert shore
NAME Martin Lockley
VOCATION Paleontologist
KNOWN FOR Tracking dinosaurs in Glen Canyon
HOME BASE Denver, Colorado
HE SAYS "Some people go to Lake Powell to eat, drink and be merry, but we go to sweat, toil and bust our knees on the rocks."
On a warm summer evening in southern Utah, paleontologist Martin Lockley is doing what he does best — searching the desert for fossil footprints.
Hugging a huge sandstone boulder, he points out dozens of raised dinosaur tracks, which decorate the ruddy rock like icing on a cake. "These are very nicely preserved," he says. "On a scale of one to 10, these are a nine or a 10."
Even as Lockley identifies the marks of delicate heels, knuckles, and toes from the early Jurassic, he struggles to keep his own footing: His socks are submerged in the cool waters of Lake Powell, and the reservoir is slowly rising.
Lockley, a longtime professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, is one of a handful of dinosaur-track specialists in the Western United States. He was born and raised in Wales; his father, known as the "Welsh Robinson Crusoe," wrote dozens of natural history books. (One of them, The Private Life of the Rabbit, helped inspire the classic novel Watership Down.)
The younger Lockley directed his own observational skills toward paleontology. After graduate work in England and further research in Scotland, he emigrated to the American West, where he began scouting the Four Corners for fossil tracks.
When drought began to shrink Lake Powell several years ago, Lockley realized that a track-rich layer of sandstone in the walls of Glen Canyon had been exposed. He believed that some 30 years underwater had weathered this rock — making the tracks clearer and easier to see — and also softened it, causing some boulders to split apart and expose more tracks. The reservoir, it turned out, had both hidden and revealed the canyon's Jurassic past. To Lockley, this was a paradox worth exploring.
As a generous pulse of snowmelt began to flow into Lake Powell this spring, Lockley rounded up a donated houseboat for a last-ditch expedition. His crew of students and volunteers spent two weeks on the lake, mapping, tracing, and taking rubber molds of the countless tracks close to the waterline.
By the end of the season, the finds at Lake Powell included a rare mark left by a dragging dinosaur tail, and the second track of a squatting dinosaur found in the Western United States. Also well-represented were the palm-sized tracks of a type of dinosaur known as Anomoepus, common in the East but rare in the West. Lockley says all the tracks are useful clues to dinosaur distribution and behavior, especially valuable because bone evidence from the early Jurassic is poor in the Southwest.
The reservoir's recent revelations are now underwater. Though Lake Powell will surely retreat again, it may not reach such extreme lows for many years. Lockley suspects that months of exposure to the air will have weakened the rock, and that its re-immersion will blur the tracks. He sees the periods of drought and abundance as part of a "natural cycle," and, like most Westerners, he is relieved by the return of wet weather. But Lake Powell has some 2,000 miles of shoreline, and Lockley was able to examine only a small fraction.
During one late-afternoon mapping expedition, as the sun released its sweaty grip on the canyon, Lockley raised a burly shotputter's arm and tossed a rock into the green waters of the reservoir. Sploosh. "Out there," he said with just a touch of regret, "there's a site with about 40 or 50 tracks — big, clear tracks. Now, it's about 30 feet underwater."
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If you and your spouse are traveling together and your credit cards are from a joint account, one spouse should carry one card and the other spouse a different one. That way, if one of you has a purse or wallet stolen, the other still has a usable credit card for the rest of the trip.
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For your return from a foreign trip, be sure that all your purchases are packed in your own luggage. Do not share with anyone else; you must go through customs with all your purchases
Jeri Taylor
When things go well, praise the person who has provided good service. People don't hesitate to write letters or emails when service is bad; I think it is essential to send mail in praise of an attendant, Transportation Security Administration official or anyone who probably doesn't get much recognition for positive acts. It is easy to get an address from the person; they "bloom" right before your eyes when you tell them why.
Ruth Kramer Ziony
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When traveling, a good way to choose a restaurant is to peruse the menu and see whether the place is busy. A busy restaurant anywhere in the world is probably somewhere at the right intersection of price, quality, selection, taste and cleanliness. The one nearby that isn't quite as busy might be just as good, but it's obvious that others don't think so. So why take a chance?
Daniel Fink
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If you're taking minimal jewelry — that's what I do — get a new watch battery put in a week before a trip. I also toss a couple of clothes pins in my suitcase. They can be used for several things, such as closing the gap in hotel curtains or even as a clip for snack bags.
Susan Parra
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Use local libraries at your destination. They can be a great resource for restaurant suggestions from the staff and for the use of their bathrooms. As a lover of books, I also like to see what the local book groups are reading.
Cynthia Leva
Save the cardboard core of your paper towels for scarves. You can wrap them around the tube and there will be no wrinkles.
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Take a handful of empty plastic food storage bags in various sizes. They take up virtually no room and come in handy in so many ways, from storing leftovers, to separating something that got wet or stained or broken, to preventing a sippy cup or baby bottle from leaking all over your bag, to sealing up a stinky diaper. The uses are endless.
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At a campus as large as the University of Colorado, Boulder, it's true there are endless nooks and crannies to use as study spots.
Whether you're looking for a comfy couch or just a quiet spot to plop, CU is chock full of options.
But if it's a change of pace you're looking for, a short walk off-campus may provide the perfect space to inspire productivity. Plus, they're all laced with free Wi-Fi and caffeine to keep you awake.
Grab your backpack and laptop and check out some of Boulder's best study spots off-campus this fall.
1 Starbucks
1402 Broadway, Boulder
This may seem like no surprise but it's not just any Starbucks that offers a nice blend of noise and calm.
The Starbucks across from campus on University and Broadway is a hub for students looking to leave campus. This location offers a familiar and comfy space packed with CU students.
A variety of food and drink options will sustain you through a solo study session or a group effort. Plus, the occasional free sample will save you some cash between orders.
Info: 303-442-9199
2 Buchanan's Coffee Pub
1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder
Besides the yummy caffeine and free Wi-Fi, Buchanan's is close to home for most students living on or near campus.
Located on the Hill, this coffeehouse has a small patio perfect for enjoying Boulder weather while attacking your first assignments of the year.
The tables and bars lining the inside are just right for a single student or a small group. They leave little room for clutter, cutting down on distractions and increasing productivity.
Info: 303-440-0222
3 Folsom Street Coffee
1795 Folsom St., Boulder
This spot requires a little more travel but is still easily accessible by foot, bike or bus.
Forget fighting the crowds. This low-key spot won't have the same wait as similar places on Pearl Street or the Hill.
Like Starbucks, Folsom Street Coffee offers a mix of sturdy chairs and fluffy seats and plenty of them. A shaded patio adds even more seating so you won't spend hours searching for a space. You're sure to find the right support for your back and your brain.
An interesting array of food and drinks will keep you fueled and the trendy atmosphere provides just the right balance of distraction and quiet.
Info: 303-440-8808
4 Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe
1203 13th St. Suite A, Boulder
This quaint Poetry Bookstore opened early this year, making it one of Boulder's newest study spots.
The homey atmosphere, including long wooden tables sitting among ceiling-high bookshelves, provides a comfy place to be productive.
This is one of the Hill's only remaining secrets and it's getting busier by the day. So whether you bring your textbook or your journal, it's worth putting on your list of study spots.
Info: 303-579-1644
1625 28th St., Boulder
Following the trendy coffee shops that fill slots one through four, the International House of Pancakes may not seem worthy.
But a few important factors could make it your permanent late-night cram space.
They're open 24 hours. Need I say more?
Well in case you're not convinced, a horde of students will appear as coffee shops and campus buildings begin to close, providing you with lots of study buddies. And it may not be the highest quality coffee, but it's cheap. Free refills will make a trip to 28th Street well worth the trek.
Info: 303-444-2115


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump's White House ambitions in biting remarks at last year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
So what's he have in store this year?
The answer comes late Saturday night when Obama addresses a crowd of journalists, government officials and celebrities. At the event, presidents usually poke fun of Washington institutions and other politicians.
The featured comedian is Jimmy Kimmel, host of the ABC late-night talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
Proceeds from the dinner go toward scholarships for aspiring journalists and awards for distinction in the profession.
This year's award winners are ABC'S Jake Tapper, Scott Wilson of The Washington Post and reporting teams from Politico and The Associated Press.