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Jack Dublin, Michigan CU Leader and International Partnership Pioneer Remembered
December 14, 2006
Madison, WI- World Council of Credit Unions and the international credit union community remember the life and achievements of a credit union leader, the late Jack Dublin. In 1963 and 1964 the Michigan Credit Union League, also a long-time supporter of the international program, funded Dublin and his wife, Selma, to participate in a credit union development exchange in Africa.
Dublin's passion for international credit union systems began with visits from overseas credit union leaders to Michigan. Dublin, like many U.S. credit union leaders, believed in the power of partnerships between developed and developing credit union systems.
After Dublin finished helping devise a plan for Latin America for CUNA's World Extension Department (World Council of Credit Unions), he moved his family to Tanganyika (now Tanzania). There both he and Selma mobilized credit union members, educating them on financial management skills, and training credit union staff on bookkeeping, operations and governance.
Dublin was recognized later in his career with the international credit union system's highest honor, the World Council of Credit Unions' Distinguished Service Award. He was one of the last to have worked with the two great U.S. credit union pioneers: Roy Bergengren and Edward Filene.
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of a committed credit union leader, colleague and friend. Jack will be missed, but remembered," noted Pete Crear, World Council of Credit Unions CEO.
The family of Jack Dublin has designated memorial contributions be sent in his name to the World Council of Credit Unions' Worldwide Foundation or the Schillios Fabric of Life Foundation.
Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions,
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World Council has implemented 300+ technical assistance programs in 89 countries. Worldwide, 68,882 credit unions in 109 countries serve 235 million people. Learn more about World Council's impact around the world at www.woccu.org.


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CHAPEL HILL – Town leaders and residents took a developer-led walking tour of the controversial Obey Creek development Wednesday morning.
Julie Richardson lives in Hundred Oaks near the site. She walked through the woods with about 15 other concerned Chapel Hillians.
"I'm not sure that we need any more retail and mixed-use spaces right now. We've had quite a bit of development already." Richardson said. "I'm not sure if this end of town can handle anymore traffic. And I feel like the cost to mitigate any traffic implications for this type of development would be so expensive that the developer wouldn't be able to cover that and certainly the town shouldn't have to."
Chapel Hill Town Council Member Jim Ward also took the tour to see the property, which is off 15-501 and across from Southern Village.
"I think it's critical that you actually see the land. If you rely just on a flat, 2-D map you lose a lot of the information," Ward said.
The original plan for the 124 acre lot called for a high density mixed-use retail and residential development.
But the developer has agreed to start from scratch in order to explore a development agreement process for the project, an alternative to the contentious Special Use Permit approval process.
Project manager Ben Perry led the tour, explaining details about the land along the way.
"There are a lot of opportunities and the development could take a lot of different paths," Perry said. "There have been studies done in the area showing that the demand is there, not only in Chapel Hill but from Northern Chatham Counties. That will be beneficial to the Town's tax base."
Ward says after neighbors voiced their frustrations over a lack of public input in the process—the council gave the go ahead to compile a task force. The group will take input from the developer, residents, and town staff.
"The developer said it's a blank slate," Ward said. "I think that's what's gotten us to where we are because the developer said they were willing to start over."
Ward says the initial concept plan is still in place. The town is currently in the exploratory stage of getting feedback—he says this process will take about half a year. Then, he says the Town and the developer will reassess how to proceed.
"We'll have a conversation about what the challenges are and how we might— working with the developer— be able to meet those challenges," Ward said.
But after touring the site and getting more information, Richardson was still worried.
"My assumptions have been confirmed—I think this is beautiful piece of property we should let sit for now. We don't necessarily need to jam a lot of commercial retail here. There's no proven fact it will improve our tax base," Richardson said.
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Malaga playmaker Isco has been named the best under-21 star in European football for 2012.
The Spaniard beat AC Milan's Italy international Stephan El Shaarawy and Chelsea goalkeeper, on loan at Atletico Madrid, Thibaut Courtois.
The 20-year-old has been in scintillating form in La Liga this season, but his recent performances for Malaga in the UEFA Champions League this season that have really caught the eye.
Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have all been credited with an interest in the Spain Under-21 international and it is no surprise as financial problems at his club could leave them vulnerable to losing him.
UEFA fined Malaga €300,000 and banned them for a year from European competition the next time they qualify.
Isco will be hoping to proceed further in this year's premier competition as he and his side face a last 16 clash against Portuguese champions Porto.
The competition was stiff for the award, however, as El Shaarawy has been impressive this season since being given greater responsibility at Milan and he has already scored 14 times in 17 Serie A matches.
Meanwhile, Courtois has been undisputed number one at Atletico since he was loaned to them immediately after being signed by Chelsea in 2011.
He has been solid as Diego Simeone's side have taken up residence second in La Liga behind Barcelona and do not look like giving it up to their fierce rivals Real Madrid.
Isco was delighted to win the award and admitted he did not think he would be victorious when he saw the company he was keeping in the last three.
"When I read that I was one of three candidates for the title a I dribbled a little, I thought it was a joke," he said.
"When I knew that El Shaarawy and Courtois were the other candidates, I didn't expect to win."
Isco revealed his honour at receiving an award that had been won by some great players like Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi.
I'm overjoyed. It is a wonderful thing. I see the past winners and it almost makes me shiver, names of the highest prestige, like Messi," he added.
"This Golden Boy [award] will be an incentive for me to become a real star of international football, like those who have gone before me."
The Golden Boy award is hosted by Italian newspaper Tuttosport, with the nominees and winners being decided by a panel of 30 journalists.
Watch the video below to see why Isco has won the award…
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Ballymote (Baila an Mhóta in Irish) [5] is a town in County Sligo, Ireland.
Ballymote is a growing market town in south County Sligo, in the west of Ireland. It is an historic town, with Ballymote Castle, built by Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, dating from 1300.
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Ballymote is on the main train line from Dublin to Sligo, with 8 trains daily each way. It is approximately 20 minutes South of Sligo, via the N4 (Dublin road), N17 (Galway Road) and R293 roads.
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As Ballymote is only a small village (population of 1,229 according to the 2006 census) you could walk around it in a very short time. The general Ballymote area, however, is inaccessible without some other form of transport, mostly car or bike, both of which can be hired in Sligo, only 15 miles away.
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The House voted 83-6 in favor of the measure, which directs a legislative committee to determine best practices for preventing violence against students and teachers.
Lawmakers in the Arkansas House on Monday authorized a study to explore how prepared the state's public schools are to prevent and respond to acts of violence in light of last year's Connecticut school massacre.
The House voted 83-6 in favor of the measure, which directs a legislative committee to determine best practices for preventing violence against students and teachers. The committee would also make suggestions for how schools can improve their readiness. The report would be due by September 2014.
"This is an attempt to make sure that all the school districts are not reinventing the wheel," said Rep. Mark Lowery, R-Maumelle, who presented the bill in the House. "Some school districts are going to be more proactive about it, they're going to come up with some great plans that their school districts would be able to implement."
Lowery said the bill is also aimed at ensuring that public schools don't go too far in responding to highly publicized school shootings and put in place safety measures that are too restrictive.
"We have a public trust to make sure that parents and supporters of a public school don't feel like they're intruders when they want to come to their local school," he said. "There is a great potential for our schools to go into such a lock down mode that they are not inviting."
Rep. Debra Hobbs, R-Rogers, questioned whether creating a report that would be publicly available could tip off potential perpetrators of violence.
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You may've heard that ZTE is working on a low-cost smartphone with big, 5-inch screen. While we still don't know when such a device will be released in the west, we know it's first heading to east, where one of China's big three carriers will start selling it in the near future.
The ZTE U956 MT6589 has been caught in the wild, boasting a 5-inch 720p HD screen (not full HD), 8-megapixel camera on the back, while MediaTek MT6589 chip is providing the horse-power needed to run things smoothly. In addition, there's also a TD-SCDMA radio inside, hinting us this bad boy will end-up in the portfolio of the world's largest mobile operator, China Mobile.
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Theres nothing illegal about a foot fetish but police are looking for a toe-sucking man they said has crossed the line into assault.....We want him off the streets, said Conway police spokeswoman LaTresha Woodruff.
Last Saturday, Ruth Harris, 83, told police she was sitting in a chair in front of her apartment when a man approached and said he liked her feet. According to a police report, the man took off one of her shoes and began sucking on her toe......The man then asked if he could kiss her and she had told him no and told him he was crazy, the report stated...The man left quickly after people walked into the apartment complexs courtyard.
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The Illinois Finance Authority urges developers in Whiteside and 17 other counties affected by 2008 flooding to take advantage of a special tax-exempt financing program, now in its final weeks.
The IFA first offered federal Midwestern Disaster Area Revenue Bonds in 2010 as a way to boost economic development and recovery in areas that suffered storm-related destruction. The deadline to issue the bonds is Dec. 31, the IFA said in a news release.
The MDAB program helps Illinois' commercial, industrial, manufacturing, retail and public utility industries repair damage and restore jobs to flood-affected regions. Qualified projects can access special reduced-interest financing, with rates typically 1 to 2 percent below conventional loans. All financing comes through local lenders, partnering with the IFA.
"The IFA's MDAB program assists communities that were hard-hit by both flooding and the national recession through supporting real estate improvements and creating employment opportunities," IFA Executive Director Christopher B. Meister said in the release. "We encourage developers to work quickly with their lenders to take full advantage of the program's benefits."
In August 2012, MDAB financing helped elevator and escalator manufacturer KONE Inc. build a new $40 million headquarters in Moline. Among other projects, the MDABs program is also helping turn an empty 57,000-square-foot former shopping center into an expanded-service clinic for Rockford Orthopedic Associates Ltd., and construct a new privately owned medical office building on the campus of Blessing Hospital in Quincy.
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I have been into rc for a while now and I'm loving it. I have a slash 4x4 ultimate and its all I've wanted and more. I have seen many videos and heard lots about the summit and I'm starting to fall in love with it. I like all the features it has and the way it looks. I have a few questions though. Should I get one? I mean is it as strong as it looks? Do all the features work? Like the locking diffs and high and low range gearing? I want a truck that can go anywhere and do anything. Is this that truck? It it easy to maintain and fix? What about upgrades? Will there be things that I will need to upgrade out of the box? Anyway it looks like a great truck and I really want one but just need to know if its really worth it.
Thanks to anyone who responds
Can't say whether to get one or not util i know a few things.
1. Do you have somewhere to run it?
2. IMO it is as strong as it looks. It depends on your driving style as to what breaks and how often things break.
3.Locking diffs... They DEFINITELY work. With diffs open all wheels can spin at different speeds to each other. as soon as you lock them up all the wheels HAVE to spin at the same speed meaning that if 1 or 2 or even 3 wheels are off the ground the 4th wheel that is getting traction can still push the truck.
4. Hi/Lo Speed... These are good. Remeber these are opostie extremes in gearing so you can't use them as 1st/2nd gear. But switch into low lock ya diffs do the tricky bit switch it back to high unlock the diffs and go for a spin.
5. Well this truck can certainly go many many places, in fact i haven't brought it to a hault in any sort of terrain yet. As for "doing everything" well it is capable of a lot of things but a few it can't and is not meant to do is go super fast or handle like a short course truck. the brushed motor is designed for low speed torque and the suspension is designed for long travel articulation.
6. Upgrades... It is an excellent truck out of the box. Most poeple rarely buy upgrades when they buy the truck it works jsut fine as it is. but as the time goes on you can upgrade to a 14.4v dewalt, steel centre drive shafts, aluminium toe links and pushrods (stop the crappy looks when the steel rusts), new wheels, and younger gen summit owners upgrade to lipo but if you get one it will come with lipo. To sum up no upgrades necessary out of the box.
Defnitely worth it IMHO.
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Ok. I do have a place to run it and I sounds like a great truck. I just want to make sure that it is worth all the money. Sounds like a great deal though. I think I'm going to pick one up some time this week.
Thank you.
Just get it. Everyone that gets one loves it! Everyone who doesn't love it can't handle the awsomeness. I LOVE mine!
EDIT: Read this thread, it helped me alot... http://traxxas.com/forums/showthread...tting-a-Summit...
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Is owning 27 RC's too many? No way!
Edit: But in all seriousness the summit is a very capable and durable RC. Out of the box it really has no shortcomings.
Mods seem to be for those who like to push the envelope or tinker. I myself am the latter, even so I still have a bone stock summit except for the t-bone skids. If you've got the terrain the summit will entertain to no end.
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The only downfall ive found to my summit is i dont have the terrain really to push the truck to the limits... It does everything so easy... But this summer im planning trips to the local offroad park! Its also the only r/c truck ive never broke or needed to buy parts for...
I was thinking when I bought mine why I had wasted my hard earned money, as I am only 14. Turns out, I didn't waste it at all!!! This thing is a Monster and has tackled everything I have given it. Only got it on Friday though, so it is still fairly new. The only mods I am planning to do to mine is get the T-Bone Chassis and A-Arm Skid Plates, The Dusty Motors Shroud, and I want to get Lipo Batteries for it. That is really all it needs, but out of the box like mine still is, it is one of the best RC Trucks I have ever had.
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Thank you. That's my problem is I'm only 17 so I have things to buy things to save up for so is it worth the money right now. It sounds like it is.
It is expensive but looking at it
It takes the place of a few Rc
Want to go reasonably fast ...check
Want to go trail running .......check
Want to crawl around on rocks etc check.
Now want to be able to do that in any weather day or night. Dbl check
Want to be able to go places and do things most other Rc can't
Summit can and does regularly. Lol
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Mountains cant stop me
they have tried
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Slash VXL - Summit
Ha ha, same here. Trust me, I earned my Summit for over 5 months, and it was worth every penny!I worked a year to make mine just mowing my own lawn and doing chores
Is owning 27 RC's too many? No way!
This is true I do have a good way to make money. Actually have a job since I was 14 and bought my slash with some of that money. Good to know a slash and summit go good together.
i wish i never got rid of my summit i just didn't have anywhere to run it in the city i live in.
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I am actually planning on making a trailer for my Slash so I can pull it with my summit. If you have a Summit, you can bash, crawl, whatever you feel like. Then when you go to the track, take your Slash. Then you have speed and or power both when you want it.
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Slash VXL - Summit
Ok good to know that my slash will go with a summit just fine. What is the difference between the 4th gen and 5th gen? (If that's how many there are) I like the older body better then the new one that has black all over it.
Tx,Rx and body graphics that's it
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Mountains cant stop me
they have tried
Whatever it is I just typed... could be wrong.
The Summit is the most amazing truck ever. Though i am currently rebuilding my front differential after only three weeks, just goes to show you that if you have the summit tangled in a metal bench, its probably not the brightest Ideal to go full throttle with the wheels spinning at 40mph and locked front diffs, it tends to snap the output shaft lol
DO NOT GET ONE!!! lol sorry just wanted to be diffrant from everyone else. The real question isn't should you get one, but why don't you have one already. I have been away from RC world for a few years & I just got one for Christmas & I am lovin it great way to get back into things. The only downfall I have seen so far is there is not a lot needed in upgrading this thing its pretty good out of the box.
Don't take it out unless your going to use it.
Everyone still knows the solid white ones are the best right?back in the old days when they made em tougher..lol
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Mountains cant stop me
they have tried
You could always get a new one and just get the older body style for it. Then it would look just the same.
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Slash VXL - Summit
I think that's what I'll do. Get the newest one and just find an old body somewhere. I really like the look of them.
As long as you paint it white....
You can have the power.....lol
It don't matter what shell is on it.Its a summit, anything in its path had best get out of the way.....If it knows what's good for it lol
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Mountains cant stop me
they have tried
Finding a new solid colored body is going to be difficult. Most where sold right after the switch for high dollars.
The Whites will be really hard to find... the unstoptanium used to manufacture cannot be found anymore.
The only reason I had so many "?" after LVD is to fill the 10 character limit, Jamann.
Whatever it is I just typed... could be wrong.
No worries .....can't believe I missed one of the big changes.
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Mountains cant stop me
they have tried
That's a good idea. I'll make my own summit body. Like paint it a cool red.... I mean white. lol are the canyon AT tires that it comes with good?
Ha ha ha ha
yes the canyons are good for off road rock etc.
Pavement change tires,it will beat up the canyons pretty quick.
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Mountains cant stop me
they have tried
run to the store!
The stock canyons are very soft. Perfect for what the summit was designed for, their softness readily takes the shape of terrain under foot providing great traction. High speed handling is a different story, though...but the summit isn't really a high speed rc. Opinions may differ from user to user but they will get you started.


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I don't have much discussion for the code of the game, but I programmed a few autoit scripts, which can allow you to scam people and make them give you all their gear and gold. It then proceeds to log them out of Diablo III.
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We have three giant elephant shrews who live in the Rare Animal Conservation Center.
Alasiri: Female, born on July 10, 2010, at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. She arrived at Philadelphia Zoo on August 3, 2011. Keepers call her "Ali" for short.
Max: Male, born June 27, 2015, at the Denver Zoo. He arrived at Philadelphia Zoo on March 22, 2016. Max and Georgia have been recommended to breed.
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The black and rufous giant elephant shrew is named for it's bright contrasting coloration. Its head and front end is a bright reddish brown and it's back end is black. Like other members of the order Macroscelidea it has long thin legs, a ratlike tail and a long mobile snout that resembles the trunk of an elephant.
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Mostly active during the day, the black and rufous giant elephant shrew uses its long nose to search through the leaf litter in order to find insects. It is always scurrying through the underbrush searching for food while at the same time keeping an eye out for predators such as snakes and hawks. This nervous nature can make them difficult to manage in the Zoo, so the keepers spend a lot of time working with the animals and getting them used to their presence. Many of the shrews have adjusted so well that they will hand feed from their keepers or get on a scale voluntarily so the keepers can monitor their weights.
Black and rufous giant elephant shrews form monogamous pairs that defend a territory of about 3 acres. The pair will build up to ten nests throughout their territory that they use for shelter and for rearing young. The nests are made of leaf litter and are quite large - about 3' across. This is a behavior that we observe here at the Zoo, and the keepers provide a good supply of material so that the shrews can build nests.
Although the pair shares a territory they do not spend much time in actual contact with each other. The female gives birth to 1-2 young after a gestation of 45-47 days. The baby shrews remain in one of the nests for the first three weeks, and then start venturing out for short periods. The male plays no part in rearing the young.
10.5" head and body length with a tail that is nearly the same length.
In the wild giant elephant shrews are believed to feed mainly on insects; however, the wild feeding behaviors and food of this species has not been well studied. At the Zoo the shrews receive a base diet of a ground cat food blended with peanut oil. The enrichment portion of the diet includes a variety of insects, fruits and vegetables.
They are found in the forests and dense woodlands of Kenya and Tanzania in east Africa.


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Earlier this year, JEGS announced that it extended its sponsorship of the JEGS Allstars event, a race-within-a-race bonus program for the best of the best NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series competitors through 2016.
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(MCT) BLOOMINGTON — For Bloomington resident Dick Hanson, the annual Champagne British Car Festival is much more than just a car show.
As a member of the festival committee, it was Hanson's 1975 Triumph TR6 that was featured in publicity shots for the 22nd annual festival held at the David Davis Mansion in Bloomington on a cloudy and sometimes rainy Sunday.
"I had it totally repainted and cleaned up," he said. "We needed to have some kind of a poster child I guess. There are about a dozen of us that take our own little niche and work on making this festival as good as it can be."
People from all over the country attended the event, including Hanson's fishing buddy and former Illinois State University professor, Harry Huizinga, who now lives in Tucson, Arizona.
"I didn't really plan my trip around this show, but I'm just glad the timing worked out," he said. "It's a tremendous event."
Bill Kolton, of Elgin, a member of the Illinois Sports Owner's Association, travels throughout the country to attend car shows and conventions featuring rare British automobiles.
"I am a car enthusiast and I love these shows," he said. "I appreciate the fact people take the time to rebuild lost cars. Some of these cars were other people's trash at one point and when it is done right, it can be a beautiful thing."
Moline resident Ed Young made sure he was back from a 2,700-mile trip in time for the festival, as well.
Last week, he filled up his 1988 Lotus Espirit Turbo, drove to a Thursday night concert in Chicago, and then headed south where he spent the night in Indianapolis.
"I spent the next night in Perry, Georgia and Saturday at noon, I was in Orlando, Florida, went to the birthday party of a Facebook friend I had never met and then hung out at his place," he said. "On Sunday, I got up, hopped in my car at 5 a.m. and pulled into Beloit, Wisconsin at 12:15 a.m. Monday, which was more than 1,200 miles. I only stopped twice for gas which really slowed me down. But I love driving this. I bought the car in 1988 with a few hundred miles on it. Now, it has 130,000 on it."
The festival is in its fourth year at the David Davis Mansion, and for the most part, the rain held off. The chairman of the festival, Dave Hauman, said, more than $1 million worth of rare British automobiles were on display.
"We try and add a few new things every time to keep it different," he said. "This year, we have an Artists' Colony inside the mansion featuring local artists and an artist by the name of Steve Petrosky from Cincinnati who is known for his automotive artwork. I think it adds a new perspective to the show."
The cars on display included Triumphs, MGs, Aston-Martins, Austin-HEaleys, Jaguars, Lotuses, Minis and cars from other English manufacturers.
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Luz Bone
I have heard about a bone in the brain that never disintegrates. You can't burn it, break it or crush it. What is this bone called and what is its purpose?
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The name of the bone is called the "Luz." It is about the size of a kernel of barley, and is located underneath the brain, on the top of the spine. Perhaps the most peculiar attribute of this bone is that it can never be destroyed, and it gains its sustenance from a meal eaten each Saturday night called "Melave Malka." In the future, resurrection of the dead will begin with this bone. (Sefer Ta'amei Haminhagim 425)
Why will the resurrection of the dead begin with this bone? Rebbe Nachman of Breslov explains that no matter how low a person has fallen, there exists an indestructible part in him, that can form the basis for a new resurrection – a new life.
We can apply this idea to our own quest for spiritual growth. Ask the Almighty to help you find that indestructible part, that essence of yourself that no mistake or misfortune can erase. Bind yourself to it. Concentrate on it. Then, even if you find yourself in the deepest, darkest pit without the slightest trace of hope or light – still, you will always find your way out. That is the power of the Luz bone.


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So you've got an iPad, and you're musically inclined, what now? How can you turn your new shiny Internet tablet into a device that lets you enjoy or make music? And can you really do something constructive on it?
We've scoured the 3500 iPad apps available (mid May) on iTunes to see what's on offer when it comes to music. Yes there are plenty of iPad music apps out there, yes some of them are for die-hard music professionals only, but the ones below, we feel, are the best on offer for those interested in music rather than completely and totally living and breathing it.
We've tried, tested and reviewed all of the following iPad music apps ourselves, rather than just guessing whether they're good or not. Prepare to deafen your friends, as well as enjoy some great tunes along the way.
Air Guitar HD
Want to play the guitar, but only have your iPad? This just might be the app for you.
Air Guitar HD is fairly basic in its remit, but then it's also free. You get a guitar, six strings and five frets to strum to your heart's content.
The app works like any regular guitar, although holding it will make people think you've actually got a banjo so be warned.
Worth the 5 minutes of giggling fits as you try and replay those guitar classics.
iTunes: Link
Price: Free
Rating: 7/10
Magic Piano
Put simply, this will let you convince people you can play the piano (albeit on your iPad) without you actually having to learn any musical notes.
Admittedly you've got to have some rhythm, but once you've worked out whether or not you have - and chances are you will have if you're reading this - then you can play a selection of tracks by tapping on the screen at the right time.
Songs include everything from Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to more advanced tracks like Clair de lune.
There's a solo mode (kind of like Freestyle), duet so you can play with other iPad users from around the world, and a chance to watch other people make beautiful music.
In all, it's a beautiful app that will make you want to play a real piano and learn more tunes. If you've got any musical bones in your body, this is one to download.
iTunes: Link
Price 59p / 99 cents
Rating 7/10
Some 75 million users already swear by it and now you can find out what the devil that song on the radio or TV is too.
Shazam for iPad is virtually identical to the iPhone offering, but merely has more room to play thanks to the bigger 9.7-inch screen the iPad sports.
That means more space to read about the bands you've requested information on, and basically a better experience all around.
Once you've tagged a song, you can see if it's available in iTunes, look at similar tracks by other artists that you might also like and check out artist release data too.
If you're feeling social you can share the song you've tagged with Twitter, Facebook, or email it to someone, handy.
If you're just bored, you can see the Shazam chart that tells you what other people are searching for and therefore find the tune that you like, but have no idea what it sounds like.
iTunes: Link
Price: Free
Rating: 9/10
Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD
While many will say that Pianist Pro is the better app, it's also considerably more expensive than this free offering, and besides both, while letting you create some music, won't replace your grand piano.
As a free offering, therefore, it's good for a bit of fun, giving you two keyboards to help you bang out some of your favourite tunes.
Basic isn't really the word for this, but it will quell your urge before you part with your cash for something better.
iTunes: Link
Price: Free
Rating: 7/10
Tap Tap Radiation
If bashing mindlessly at your iPad with your finger to a rhythm is your kind of thing then Tap Tap Radiation is the iPad game for you.
Here the idea is to touch the circle, as a flying orb lands within it, in time with the music. The more times you do that the more points you get and the more you'll feel proud about yourself, just as if you've actually achieved something with your 20 minutes of spare time. iPad users are treated to a further 30 free songs from the in-app store and you'll be able to buy further tracks (Lady Gaga 6 track pack is $2.99 for example).
Back to keeping it cheap and you get to play with the game or "Freestyle", which means you do all that tapping for no points - fairly pointless if you ask us.
The tracks probably won't be recognisable to you if you like chess or the quieter things in life, but it doesn't involve killing anyone so you should still be able to get the grasp of things very quickly. Be warned - we did experience a couple of crashes, suggesting this is an app that might need an update if you don't want to be disappointed mid gaming session.
iTunes: Link
Price Free
Rating 6/10
While the iPad offers you a chance to listen to your own music via the Apple iPod app, you can't listen to radio like you can in iTunes on your desktop.
Wunder Radio is the answer. Offering you over 36,000 radio stations from around the world; you can search the database, select to have it give you the stations nearest you thanks to your GPS position and even tune into police and rescue scanners from around the world (yep there is a fire happening right now in Hoboken, New Jersey).
Once you've found the station you are after you can add them to a favourites list while also setting the streaming qualities and whether or not you want it to automatically turn off after a set amount of time.
If the station supports it you'll also get the songs they are playing, with the option to buy them through iTunes, although it's worth noting that this doesn't work for every station or every song.
Streaming quality is excellent.
iTunes: Link
Price: £2.49 / $6.99
Rating: 8/10
Soundrop free
Raindrops keep falling on my head... That's what you'll be singing after playing with this simple but mesmerising iPad app.
The concept is simple. A constant stream of balls flow out of an outlet down the page. You draw a line under the flow and when the ball hits it sounds a note. The greater the fall the higher the note and so the cycle begins repeating the sounds you make until you either go mad or enter a trance.
With such simplicity this is great fun, albeit only for a couple of minutes, but is good for keeping the children quiet as you teach them the properties of cause and effect.
Lovely, but of course pointless.
iTunes: Link
Price: Free
Rating: 9/10
Lucky Voice Karaoke
Anybody who's visited a Lucky Voice Karaoke bar will immediately feel at home with the company's iPad app, 'cause that's its major selling point; it's at home. Instead of having to get up in front of a bunch of admin assistants and the one accounts guy that nobody remembers inviting, your own dulcet tones can be restricted to the comfort of your own abode thanks to this simple yet ingenious portal to over 8,000 licenced songs. It works just like normal Karaoke - the words light up on screen in time with the music - yet, because it's on an iPad, it can be handed around from singer to singer. As it uses the device's in-built Internet connection to both search for and pluck songs from the cloud, you can pretty much guarantee that there's something for everyone.
Certainly, there were very few songs that we couldn't find and immediately sing. The Lucky Voice app is a free download, and once you've signed up you'll have access to 10 free songs. All the other 8,000 plus tracks can be previewed for 30 seconds, but to play the full versions, you need to subscribe to Lucky Voice Home, or buy song credits. Prices range from £3.99 to £49.99, but considering that you're likely to only use the app properly when you've got a bunch of friends around, we don't think that £3.99 is too steep for 24 hours worth of unlimited use - get them all to chip in. Read More
iTunes: Link
Price: Free
Rating: 8/10
Baby Decks
So you think you're a DJ then? Chances are if you do you'll want to get Baby Decks, a miniature DJ turntable desk in your iPad.
Coming with two turntables, you can crossfade, increase the pitch, the volume, and the balance, on both decks independently to make your busting tunes.
But this is no toy app suitable for only your kids. It's actually a fully functional, if not basic turntable that we will no doubt see club DJs and wedding DJs touting soon (okay so it's not that good, but it is good fun).
Bundled in the box (so to speak) are a couple of sample tracks to get you started, although the feature you're more likely to use is the ability to upload your own songs and samples to the application via a Wi-Fi connection and an Internet browser.
Controls are all done via your fingers, including scratching your way to the next bit of the track and the only downside we can see is that you can't record in app, but we've been told by the developers they are working on it.
iTunes: Link
Price: £14.99 / $24.99
Rating: 7/10
Sound Hound
A competitor to Shazam, Sound Hound has the added bonus of letting you hum your tunes to see if they can be recognised.
Besides humming, there is a voice search feature that works like Google Voice Search and you can of course share your searches, tunes etc with Twitter, Facebook and email.
Those who need prompting as to what they should be listening too can check out the "What's Hot", "Underplayed", and being newly "ID'd" and then when they've found the artist they want, can get further information like artist details, videos, and sometimes lyrics.
The free version in the UK only gives you five music searches a month (voice searches are free which means you can hum all you want, however in the US there is a paid-for option that will hopefully be coming to the UK shortly.
iTunes: Link
Price Free
Rating 8/10
Yep you've got a fairly decent music player on your iPad already in the guise of the iPod app.
Here the bigger screen is used to show you more details about the tracks you are listening to, but not much more. Yes, you get the ability to listen to Music, Podcasts, Audiobooks, and arrange Genius Mixes, see album art, and search all that via Songs, Artists, Albums, Genres, and Composers.
Basic, but then you aren't really expecting to put this in your pocket like you do your iPod are you?
iTunes: Pre-installed
Price: Free
Rating 8/10
TabToolkit is a guitar tablature and music notation viewer that lets you see how tracks are played out so you can learn the moves to your favourite songs.
Off the bat you'll get a handful of tracks to listen and watch, and although they are pretty basic - Star Bangled Banner anyone? - they do give you an idea of how it all works before you go about importing your own sheet music.
The app supports Guitar Pro, Power Tab, PDF and text formats as well as providing playback tempo control, and a metronome.
The app is a perfect fit for guitarists and musicians of all skill levels looking to learn.
iTunes: Link
Price: £5.99
Rating: 9/10


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Recorded December 20, 2008
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"For PCI Compliance, its doesn't say that .. that your site has to be secure. It says you need to put in processes, and that you know, you have to act like you're trying..." - Stephen Craig Evans
- Stephen Craig Evans is an independent software security consultant based in southeast Asia. - Jim Manico is a Web Application Architect and Security Engineer for Aspect Security.
Interview with Stephen Craig Evans
- OWASP Summer of Code project, Securing WebGoat using ModSecurity - OWASP Orizon Project - Advice for those who want to contribute to a OWASP project - Status of Web App Sec in the Asia/Pacific region
OWASP News
December 16, 2008 - OWASP testing guide version 3 has been officially released
- The new testing guide is finally here! Give it to your developers, testers, and anyone else responsible for ensuring the security of an application is built to spec through formal testing and observation. Also great for the consultant, to brush up on testing techniques for a variety of technologies. This Summer of Code 2008 Project was lead by Matteo Meucci and the following contributors.
December 15, 2008 - Breaking Google Gears' Cross-Origin Communication Model
December 10, 2008 - Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution and how the heck did this vuln slip through Microsoft's SDL?
December 10, 2008 - Michael Zalewski, Googler, dumped core on his browser security knowledge.
December 9-11, 2008 - The first OWASP ESAPI Summit
December 8, 2008 - 4 XSS flaws hit Facebook
December 8, 2008 - Safe ActiveX? Google wants to run native code over the web.


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As someone who has followed IU and Bengals football for 20 and 30 years respectively, there are certain rules that must be observed. Foremost among them, never, ever, under any circumstance, anticipate a result in the Bengals favor until the time on the clock is at zero and everyone has left the field. And even then, it's probably 50/50.
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text: Wikipedia: The Yuma Territorial Prison was a prison in the Arizona Territory in the United States. Located in Yuma, Arizona, the prison accepted its first inmate on July 1, 1876. For the next 33 years 3,069 prisoners, including 29 women, served sentences there for crimes ranging from murder to polygamy. The prison was under continuous construction with labor provided by the prisoners. In 1909, the last prisoner left the Territorial Prison for the newly constructed prison located in Florence, Arizona. It is now operated as an historical museum by Arizona State Parks as Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park, a state park of Arizona.


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The Prisoner set for Sunday release
Rehash promises 'reimagining of themes and characters'
The remake of classic 1960s Brit TV series The Prisoner will hit US screens on Sunday, when viewers of AMC will be able to enjoy writer Bill Gallagher's six-part "reimagining of themes and characters", as the New York Times ominously puts it.
Jim Caviezel has the task of interpreting Number Six, with veteran Brit thesp Ian McKellen tackling the role of Number Two.
Fans of The Prisoner will doubtless wonder just how much of a "reimagining" Gallagher's effort is. He said: "The challenge of doing this show was to pay homage and yet be different."
In order to "tease the audience with the relationship between the two pieces and keep anchoring back into the original", Gallagher has retained some of the show's famous phrases - "Be seeing you" and "Local destinations only" - although whether Caviezel will bellow "I am not a number, I am a free man!" remains to be seen.
Caviezel will also meet the Rovers - the rather silly overinflated white balloons which proved so bothersome for Patrick McGoohan - but apart from that it's apparently all change.
For starters, the village has been relocated to Swakopmund, "a Bavarian-style resort in Namibia that is surrounded by desert and has an eerily striking collection of pastel A-frame cottages".
Number Six now works for "giant data-gathering corporation" Summakor* and, since he's an American and therefore a little less "straight-laced" than McGoohan, manages to become the "fulcrum of a love triangle" involving Number 313, a doctor played by Ruth Wilson.
McKellen's Number Two, meanwhile, is a single, fully-developed character throughout the series, rather than the original's various interpretations by different actors which represented the "embodiment of nameless bureaucratic evil".
That actor noted he "wouldn't have wanted to play the original, because it would just be playing a caricature, an idea, a symbol", but that "here I felt I was playing a real person who had just as many personal problems as Number Six".
As for the ending of the reimagining, it won't leave viewers dangling or perplexed as The Prisoner did in 1968, because Gallagher "not only ties things up in the final hour of the new version, but also does it in a way that appears to reaffirm the importance of community".
Those of you who are getting that sinking feeling should look to Caviezel for assurance. He insisted: "I feel this project stands on its own. There's a huge allegorical piece in the background, but there's a lot of eye candy as well. It's definitely a commentary on right here and right now." ®
* The Summakor website is here, and it's a good piece of work. Try entering "Number 2" in the search box and checking the first result. Now, you'll just need to work out the key word...
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It never comes as a surprise when a competitive side from outside of MLS works its way into the latter stages of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Rochester won this tournament in 1999. Charleston reached the final in 2008. Richmond progressed to the semifinals two years ago. One or two (and sometimes more) of their brethren reach the quarterfinal stage each year.
But there comes a time when the burden of advancing becomes too great to bear. Several factors – depth, scheduling and travel feature prominently among them – limit lower-tier teams' ability to submit their best performance. And the talent gap – a point of contention in terms of magnitude from year to year, but always there in some form – eventually tells.
The NASL's Carolina RailHawks and USL Pro's Orlando City SC reached the seemingly inevitable breaking point on Wednesday night. The draw placed them in significant peril by handing them difficult away matches at Real Salt Lake and Chicago, respectively. The results followed along the expected path and winnowed out the second- and third-tier sides for another year.
RailHawks coach Colin Clarke understood the difficulties his team faced when a trip to Sandy, Utah, popped up on his calendar. Clarke once guided Puerto Rico to the latter stages of the CONCACAF Champions League. He knew all about navigating through these sorts of difficult tasks. And devising a way through the RSL first team on short rest proved just a bit too much to do for his side.
"For us, we've done well in the Open Cup, it's a big tournament, an important tournament," Clarke told reporters after his side fell to a 3-0 defeat at Rio Tinto Stadium. "We've got a very big game coming up this weekend. We've had a pretty tough time of it as far as travel and games, some overtime games in the Open Cup and picked up a few injuries in the past week or two. We just had to be careful with how much we pushed some of our starters and our first guys. So we changed some things up and tried to keep it tight for as long as we could. See if we could get to a point where we had a chance to win the game, it wasn't to be."
The realities of the situation start to take hold at this stage. No shame exists in bowing out at this point. Carolina and Orlando (brushed aside in Bridgeview, Ill.) played their parts in the Open Cup this year. They dispatched four MLS sides between them and underscored the strength within their ranks with their run through the tournament. They also leave with one primary piece of consolation: There is always another chance on the horizon next season.
Here are highlights from Wednesday's quarterfinals:
Real Salt Lake 3 – Carolina 0: Tony Beltran, Álvaro Saborío and Chris Wingert all featured on the scoresheet as a full-strength Claret-and-Cobalt side defeated the RailHawks to set up a semifinal date with Portland at Rio Tinto Stadium.
FC Dallas 2 – Portland 3: Frédéric Piquionne scored the eventual winner after 72 minutes as the Timbers booked their semifinal berth with a victory at FC Dallas Stadium.
Chicago 5 – Orlando City 1: Chris Rolfe scored twice – including the critical third goal shortly after the hour with the match poised at 2-1 – to send the Fire through to a semifinal tie against D.C. United at Toyota Park. Mike Magee scored for the seventh time in seven games since being traded to Chicago from LA.
D.C. United 3 – New England 1: Dwayne De Rosario headed home the winner after 69 minutes and Lionard Pajoy sealed the victory with a late penalty to hand Ben Olsen's side a second consecutive victory and keep their hopes of a surprising cup triumph alive.


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BVU Dean Gives Keynote Address on Rural Schools Consolidation
BVU Dean Gives Keynote Address on Rural Schools Consolidation
Hope for a brighter rural future lies at the intersection of assumptions and evidence, said Dr. Paul Theobald, author of Education Now: How Rethinking America's Past Can Change Its Future and keynote speaker at the 39th annual Center for Great Plains Studies symposium in Kearney, Neb.
Theobald, dean of the School of Education at Buena Vista University, spoke Friday, April 5, at the "Gains and Losses from School Consolidation in the Great Plains" symposium.
As part of Rural Schools Week in Nebraska, the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska conducted the symposium Friday and Saturday at the University of Nebraska at Kearney and the Younes Conference Center.
Theobald has published widely on the topic of community and place-based education, the idea that learning through the outdoor environment and a student's community is a key component of a strong education.
His topic was "Rural Schools and Communities at the Intersection of Assumptions and Evidence."
Theobald argued that rural school consolidation is perceived to be a cost saving measure.
"One of the mysteries of the human condition is that we possess the ability to fervently believe what we choose to believe in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary," he said.
Hope for a brighter rural future, he said, lies at the intersection of assumptions and evidence.
"If we lack the wherewithal to discern the difference there's no hope to stopping the forces that created rural decline and no reason to bother envisioning a new rural future," he said.
The rural-urban divide is to blame for the decline of rural communities, Theobald said.
"Why is it that rural areas have the highest percentage of Americans living in poverty? Why is it that we consistently see vacant businesses and abandoned homes and empty schools in the nation's smallest towns and villages?" he asked.
"For most of the 20th century we generally believed that our future would be an urban world," he said. "And this made it somewhat easier to swallow when it came to be the popular answer for why rural America seemed to be perpetually in a state of decline."
Theobald argued that creating a brighter rural future could be achieved by eliminating corporate campaign donations, offering free health care coverage to entrepreneurs, leveling the playing field by standing up for small town merchants, making standardized testing in schools optional, and offering annual awards or grants to rural villages.
The symposium, which was open to the public, addressed the causes and consequences of school consolidation, the politics of school consolidation, school consolidation trends across the country, its effects on students, how to sustain the vitality of rural schools and rural communities, and how to support rural math teachers.
University of Nebraska chancellors spoke about the connection between the university and rural schools.
The symposium featured more than two dozen speakers, including Gov. Dave Heineman, Marty Strange and several school district superintendents and university deans.
At MONA, photographer Charles Guildner's photographs were on display in the exhibit, "Rural Schools of Nebraska: Photographs by Charles Guildner."


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Q. I am a recent college graduate from Arizona State University looking to relocate to the Boston area. I graduated with an art history degree and a minor in anthropology, and I have vast customer service experience.
I have been applying for jobs in the nonprofit, marketing, and arts sectors in the Boston area, but I am still confused as to how I find a job in a place where I have never lived. How do I get my foot in the door?
A. Your job search in the Boston area will be a greater challenge, but one that can be successful. A few tips to increase your chances:
Use social media to your advantage. Create an account on LinkedIn. Learn how it works. Join groups on LinkedIn that further connections in Boston. Create a Twitter account. Begin following job sites and Boston-centric sites.
If you are targeting specific employers, follow them on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Research alumni connections and associations in the Boston area. Talk to your professors about contacts they may have in Boston.
Check job posting sites. Several focus on jobs in nonprofits. Idealist.org is one to think about visiting frequently.
Buy a cellphone with a Boston-based phone number for job hunting.
Be clear that you don't expect a prospective employer to pay for relocation. The thought of relocation expenses may scare them off. Let them know you could relocate quickly.
Make sure you have video-chatting capability. Prospective employers may invite you to interview using this technology.
Check your resume. Be sure it is crisp, error-free, and well-designed, and make sure it includes key words that are desirable for your target industries and employers. Your resume should not exceed one page.
Travel to Boston, if possible. Try to fill that time with a jam-packed schedule of interviews and networking meetings.
If you know where you plan to live, use that address. Put it on your resume. A local address conveys that you are serious about relocating.
Job hunting from a distant location can be daunting, but it's not impossible.Patricia Hunt Sinacole is
president of First Beacon Group, a human resources
consulting firm in Hopkinton.


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|4 years 44 weeks ago
|didn't mean to blame the spread
And I didn't mean to say that pro stylen (or boring) was a better.
But from looking at the numbers, Carr was under appreciated. That was my main point.
|4 years 45 weeks ago
|Thanks for finding that mistake
It has been corrected. Harbaugh got hurt in 1984, not 1983.
|5 years 14 weeks ago
|win pct
I stayed away from win percentage because it doesn't account for strength of schedule. A 7-6 Big Ten team is different from a 7-6 Big East team. The team ratings I used account for strength of schedule. You could probably use any decent ranking algorithm though.
|5 years 14 weeks ago
|link to SI.com article
First, the link.
Second, the method. I took a 4 year window of Rivals ratings and used regression to predict the next year's ratings by my algorithm. For example, the 2009 through 2012 recruiting ratings are fit to the team ratings for the 2012 season. The regression calculates a best fit to the team performance from 2005 through 2012.
Third, whether you think 46 of 100 team is impressive is up to you.
|5 years 14 weeks ago
|no doubt those factors matter
Those factors, such as better coaches, better facilities, certainly affect the type of recruits a school gets. Think of the recruiting ratings as some kind of aggregate indicator of all these factors.
In the big picture, I wasn't trying to isolate the effect of getting better recruits. Should leave that to the Mathlete. I just wanted to ask how far one could get based on the number of points Rivals assigned each team each year.
|5 years 15 weeks ago
|How to beat Michigan
1. Stauskus and Robinson don't hit threes
2. Get behind in the second half
3. Burke and Hardaway try to do everything themselves with 1 on 1 moves
It's just human nature that stars want to single handedly bring their team back when behind. Anyone who has ever played a pick up game knows that. But it's not the most efficient way to crawl back in the game. Better drive and kick, and keep shooting.
Michigan takes the rematch because of the low likelihood they get behind Indiana in A2. I hope and actually believe their defensive intensity will be higher as well.
|5 years 15 weeks ago
|pissed me off
That was a punk move. A flashy dunk when no one is on the court is guarding you is moronic. McGary should have fouled the shit out of him, good ol' Bill Lambeer style.
|5 years 16 weeks ago
|hmm, Bradley Terry model
That's the same crap that Peter Wolfe uses in his college football rankings that are a part of the BCS. While it's not as bad as other BCS polls (like Billingsley), I do think it gives extra weight to teams that have played more games. That shouldn't matter in college basketball though. Still, it's advisable to use margin of victory. No, mandatory.
|5 years 16 weeks ago
|a numbers game
Brian is just playing the odds. He knows that the likelihood that Michigan wins it all heading into the tourney is probably less than 10%. And those odds will be about as large as any team gets (Florida will be higher, most likely). Everyone is right to be excited about this team, and who wouldn't be with Burke kicking out to some deadly shooters. But Brian is rightfully trying to temper the enthusiam.
|5 years 17 weeks ago
|Neutral site games == $$$$$$
Jim Delany has Gene Smith doing his dirty work of talking up profit making ideas in front of the media. He's learned that whole delegation thing.
|5 years 25 weeks ago
|Stanford's defense on mgoblog?? Miracles do happen.
I never thought I'd see the day that Stanford's defense would be held up as a model unit. On a Michigan blog. Miracles do happen.
Stanford's defense is vastly improved this year. You could see it in the spring game. It's a lot like the miracles that Mattison has performed here. Players improve, schemes are good, defense looks great. Of course, it also helps that they faced an overrated freshman Oregon QB.
|5 years 26 weeks ago
|Ohio State pass protection
I just don't understand how Ohio State can be so bad at pass protection. If you look at sack rate (sacks / (pass attempts + sacks)), their 8.8% is 112th in the nation. Even worse that the 88th you quote. Last year, their sack rate was 15.8%, worst in the nation.
If the defense plays up to potential, Devin plays a good game and the turnover gods don't piss on us, we have a good shot of winning this game. Very close to 50-50 on the road.
|5 years 26 weeks ago
|Pac-12 not necessarily going to expand
They had the chance to eat the better half of the Big 12 last year. For whatever reason, it didn't happen. While 16 team conferences seem likely, nothing is for certain.
|5 years 26 weeks ago
|Hard to predict the future of media
I think it's certain that the B1G is making cash in the short term. I would love to come back to these previous two comments 10 years from now. For the record, I can't live without cable as a sports fan.
|5 years 35 weeks ago
|Who needs ESPN to chart stuff?
Great analysis. There isn't too large a sample size in the ACE, but the results have been good so far.
Michigan's passing numbers have looked good so far this year. Looking for continued improvement as they face the better pass defenses of Notre Dame and Michigan State.
|5 years 36 weeks ago
|the 6 percent
I would state this 6% a different way. Given the uncertainty in knowing the true pass completion percentages for shotgun and under center, there's a 6% chance that Denard is actually better in the shotgun than under center. Or there's a 94% likelihood that ESPN is right and Denard throws better from under center.
Randomness and luck as Brian states it are the same, as I see it.


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http://hommemaker.com/2013/02/07/why...hates-couples/Dear Couples,
The other day I looked at my boyfriend and asked him what he wanted to do for Valentines Day. Nothing, Im not big into Valentines Day, he replied. At which point I burst into tears and ran out of the room, slamming the door behind me. Just kidding. No I didnt. Because I also hate Valentines Day. Because I have been single for my whole life, this holiday conjures up images of me sitting alone on my bed watching The Great Mouse Detective and drinking Diet Coke out of a liter container, thinking about the fact that if I died at that very moment, I would not be found for days.


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Netscape's interface was the best
Long live Seamonkey
I find it interesting that TFA says:
After its early success, Netscape was roundly defeated by Microsoft in the so-called browser wars of the 1990s that dominated the Web's first chapter.
Which pretty much sets up TFA to never mention the anti-competitive trade practices Microsoft used and was sued for.
'There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch,' Mr. Andreessen said.
Yeah, I'd build a browser more like... Chrome. Which addressed this issue less than two years ago. Has the web changed a lot in two years?
What's the profit model for this startup? That's the most interesting question, to me.
I imagine Marc Andreessen has enough change in his sofa cushions to keep a startup going for decades.
I'd build a browser more like... Chrome.
I wouldn't. I'd dump most of the custom GUI features in Chrome and Firefox, and quit screwing around with the stuff around the browser window. It's the stuff inside the browser window that you actually care about, not whether the icons are grey metal or jello blue.
You mean completely useless and pointless things around the content like favorite & history menus and tabs too, right? I wish people would quit wasting time coming up with that nonsense and get back to the 'stuff inside the browser window'...
I'll even go back to your themes point and argue that. As hard as it is for the common
Never underestimate the human desire to want to make their world their own. Even when they know they aren't.
You work with computers, right? How do I set up my machine to display not "color", per se, but to be more visible for the "color blind". See, I fail all color vision tests - can't see red or green. I don't CARE about the colors so much, as I just want important stuff to be sharp and clear. (Why on earth does everyone use red to color "important shitzls", when red just fades into the backgroud? Use a nice electric blue - make it flash - THAT will get my attention!!)
Alright, maybe I'm just mocking "normal" people. Whatever. But, it's fair to point out that eye candy isn't a priority with everyone.
Red wouldn't fade into the background if you could see it. Red is such a frightening color because it's the color of blood, so every time you see it, it looks like something's bleeding a little. It's horrifying really. Be glad you can't see it.
I find KDE 3 to be my desktop of choice on netbooks because I have so much control over every theming aspect. I can get great functionality with pixel real estate being a premium.
You mean completely useless and pointless things around the content like favorite & history menus and tabs too, right?
I personally think a UI for these things in any way different than a web page of links is silly. If we can come up with a better way of navigating links to web pages, then the rest of the web should work that way, too.
You mean completely useless and pointless things around the content like favorite & history menus and tabs too, right?
No, I mean like the "awesome bar" and XUL and Google Toolbars and putting the tabs in weird places.
I use Camino in preference to Firefox or Chrome or Safari on OS X, because it's just got conventional native OS widgets and menus, and runs faster with less overhead than any of the "big names".
People love their colors and themes.
Themes, yes. Skinnable applications, no. The place for color
Maybe you should try Iceweasel...(though I thought they had the same code base) mine starts in about 3 seconds, and never once has it crashed.
Iceweasel is an unofficial build of Firefox with some patches. In reality, I think every major distro includes a few non-upstream patches in their Firefox builds. Mozilla only allows "official" builds to be branded as Firefox. They seemed to ignore the patching other distros did, but at one point the Debian crowd got into an argument with the Mozilla crowd, and now Debian/Ubuntu can't brand their builds as Firefox.
I doubt anyone that uses Chrome cares about how it looks. The reason I use it is because it's as fast as Firefox 1.0 was. Now that Firefox 3.5 takes 30 seconds to start and crashes constantly (on Linux at least), I'd rather use a browser that's fast and stable (and yes, Chrome on Linux is still pre-alpha and it's more stable than Firefox).
Really? On my rig running slackware 12.1, firefox 3.5 starts almost instantly and crashes very rarely
FF 3.5 doesn't take half a minute to start, OR crash for me. Either on Ubuntu, or on Windows. Limiting the number of add-ons helps is most important - if you are asking Firefox to perform eleventy-hundred tasks for you at startup, yes it's going to take awhile to load.
Stripped down, and with the browser tweaked for my purposes, FF3.5 doesn't really seem to be any slower than FF
If it's crashing all the time for you, maybe you need to reinstall not only FF, but Flash, Java, and any ot
The Mozilla devs seem to give the Linux version of Firefox very little love. I've been secretly hoping for a Qt version of Firefox for ages, which supposedly Nokia was working on. They said they did the bulk of the port in a month, but then it never seemed to finish/surface. But now there are browsers like rekonq and Arora which are very small, and extremely fast. Rekonq is eventually moving to a per-process design like Chrome, and integrates well with KDE.
Actually, Chrome's design was to eliminate most of the clutter so you focus on the inside of the window. Why have an address bar and a search bar? While have the tabs and window buttons on separate vertical lines?
IE's method was to remove the menu bar, which I don't like. But removing clutter is definitely the way to go.
OK, I'm looking at Google Chrome next to Safari next to Camino. I have to look at a picture of Chrome because it doesn't run on the Mac.
They all have the same number of horizontal rows of elements. The biggest difference between them is that the ones in Chrome take up more vertical space than the ones in Safari and Camino. I have the option in Safari and Comino of displying a bookmark bar, but I've turned that off.
You can merge the address and search boxes into one box without creating a custom GUI that doe
When you same the same number of horizontal rows of elements, are you counting the Mac application menu bar at the top or not?
I only use Linux and Windows. I'm on a Windows box at work right now. I just pulled up a Chrome 3, IE7, and Firefox 3.6a window side-by-side on Windows. Chrome uses half the vertical space on Windows as the other two browsers. IE7 uses slightly more than Firefox 3.6a.
Chrome has the fewest amount of buttons. I also like that the default "home" page isn't a traditional page, but rather
I also just pulled up Safari on Windows, and it uses the same number of elements as Firefox, and almost an identical UI.
You have the menu-bar.
Below that you have navigation links next to the address bar, and then the search bar. Below that is the bookmark menu (which I almost always turn off).
Safari uses smaller icons than Firefox by default, but Firefox makes it easier to install a theme with smaller icons.
Remove ALL GUIs that use traditional windows/dialogs/menus and make them all like PVR OSD menus that
are easy to use, look pretty and most of call can be accessed by a remote control or touch screen easily.
Use overlays with transparency for status bars/widgets/addons.
What's the profit model for this startup? That's the most interesting question, to me.
According to the various articles, RockMelt will attempt strong integration with social networking sites. So I would assume the profit model is mining users' privacy and selling advertising.
Finally! I hate having to download all that spyware myself.
Don't worry, Google can feed you all the spyware they want completely painlessly via Google Updater when you install Chrome.
According to the various articles, RockMelt will attempt strong integration with social networking sites.
Then what advantage would it have vs. Firefox with extensions for each social networking site?
Flock already integrates with social networking sites. IE8 does this as well.
I think you're correct that the point of RockMelt is to monetize this.
I'm using Chrome right now, but it isn't "different" in any deep sense of the word; just slightly themed.
That said, I'll wait to see what this new browser is all about. I'd be very surprised if you can make a browser THAT differently, given that the underlying protocol/model won't change.
I'm using Chrome right now, but it isn't "different" in any deep sense of the word; just slightly themed.
I'd be very surprised if you can make a browser THAT differently, given that the underlying protocol/model won't change.
Erm chrome/ie7 where leaps better than the other browsers in the sense that they completly changed the underlying process/thread/tab model. chrome isn't about its lightweight UI its about the changes under the hood!
Yet the user's experience is only little refined because of it.
I don't want to knock that; believe me, I have enough problems with Firefox on Linux because of the lack of separation between the tabs that I can't wait for when Chrome has a decent Linux build. From what it sounds that this guy wants to do, it sounds like he doesn't want behind the scenes changes, he wants to revamp the user experience. (Whether or not this browser will, or will in a good way, we'll have
Chrome is EXTREMELY different from other browsers.
Everything is a separate process, including plugins. Each process is placed in a sandbox to protect your security and privacy. One tab, or even one plugin in that tab shouldn't be able to crash your whole browser, nor compromise the security of your PC.
The V8 JS engine is also refreshingly different. Do yourself a favor and read this:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ [google.com]
Each process is placed in a sandbox to protect your security and privacy.
Jails/partitions, or just chroot? What, on Windows?
Or do you mean the javascript engine is a separate instance (because it's a separate process) so they're sandboxed from each other because they're in different processes. Which is a good thing, but describing it as putting each PROCESS in a sandbox is misleading as hell.
For each tab, which has its own process, it has a separate thread for JS unique to that tab/process. It has no permissions unless it is elevated, and even then, that elevation doesn't affect JS in other tabs. And when you leave that domain, the trust relationship is restarted on the next site, even within the same tab.
Like I said to CarpetShark, you should read the Chrome comic.
Your mind is not able to think very far, is it? Like those Star Trek "aliens"*. Or "new and innovative" car models that look *freakin exactly* like the old ones, so you have to look twice to even see the difference!
It's so very common that I see people coming up with things that they call great innovative thinking, and I can show them multiple boxes and outdated philosophies that they still think inside of, on the spot.
Chrome is still showing HTML pages in tabs that you navigate trough with the virtual interface of links, a history to move through, etc, and a physical interface of the mouse and keyboard. In a window. With no new widgets, concepts, philosophies, or anything new of any kind. And we're not talking about two years. We're talking about time span since Mosaic 1.0 in 1993. Because other than the Addons or Firefox and Greasemonkey, pretty much nothing innovative in browsers has appeared or changed since then. (Maybe Flock was an approach. But it was a half-assed one, and failed because of that.)
* I really liked the show, but I hated what they called extraterrestrial, including the "explanation".
So how bout you drop some of that wisdom on us Merlin, instead of just fucking telling us we are stupid.
So what exactly are you arguing about? Both you and the post you reply to are wittering on over an insubstantial piece of marketing puff. Why do you castigate a stranger over nothing? This is a discussion site, but there is nothing to discuss apart from the pointlessness of the posting of the original topic, unless you want to push the possible product. If you wish to talk history then fine but this isn't about history, it's a product - that isn't released yet - launch. Incidentally, my first browser was
Perhaps browsers, in their current incarnation, are very well suited to representing a web of hyperlinked documents in a way that humans can easily read and relate to. Are there any shortcomings (aside from lack of originality/innovation) that you can elaborate on?
Chrome is still showing HTML pages in tabs that you navigate trough with the virtual interface of links, a history to move through, etc, and a physical interface of the mouse and keyboard. In a window.
Ha! So true! Those hidebound sheep, still using HTML (instead of XIEJD), tabs (instead of buckets), links (instead of jellybeans), history (instead of triple-reverse history), a physical mouse/keyboard interface (instead of magnetic-induction frontal-cortex implants). In windows (instead of architectural glass blocks)! They really should get with the times.
Like those Star Trek "aliens"*.
You mean... guys with a moustache aren't really Clingons?
Exactly my thoughts.
Chrome has a fast JS engine. It separates plug-ins so they can't crash the browser. The interface doesn't get in your way. It sandboxes everything for security. It integrates Gears to use web apps offline.
What is this start-up going to do that Chrome doesn't do?
I haven't read the article, but if I was going with a start-up today, I'd build around Chromium to start, but port it to Qt to use one code-base on all platforms. With the per-process design, you could even call different versions
The Rockmelt website isn't too interesting. It's a bit presumptuous to assume it will get a
Bad juju replying to my own post but this is just a product placement ad. There is no substance whatsoever about what is actually different with this browser. There are no details either in either of the links. Surely money changed hands to put this drivel on
Yep, but I normally avoid them. Incidentally I was a lurker for a good two years before I signed up. The thing that gets me is why on earth do people bother posting on them and not move on? In the good old days my karma would be in tatters by now given the amount of crap I've posted in my name all over this thing. Being off topic doesn't seem quite so scary as it once was.
I don't mind obvious ads but this shite really gets on my tits. If people swore enough and posted enough garbage on this topic then
Well, now I know which browser to avoid. Thanks for the warning!
Tim Howes is also the inventor of the LDAP Protocol, when he was a grad student at UMich studying DAP and DIT under X.500 of OSI fame.
I doubt anyone can get fame for having anything to do with those acronyms, except for the UMich one.
Why would the Los Angeles police department need a protocol?
This "article" is just another marketing ploy for some vapourware. Can't you see that? By gum,
No, you'll feel your feeds. When someone rips you a new one on LJ, your browser slaps you. When someone flames you on 4chan, the browser kicks you in the junk.
Andreessen's problem with Netscape is that the people who wrote it were too old. No vision.
There's no one out there making a good living by creating webpages that browsers can't display.
I thought that was the definition of an IE-centric web developer.
There's no one out there making a good living by creating webpages that browsers can't display.
Ian Hickson is the chief developer of the Acid3 test [wikipedia.org], which was designed such that no web browser at the time could display it.
Actually, browsers are about dead last in defining the pace.
Scripting or plugins probably define it, by highlighting areas where the browser is failing to deliver desired functionality, so third party code is used to make up for it.
Marc, may not be the guy to do it, but modern operating systems are more than capable of being both client and server in a hostile network. (AKA the Internet)
I would argue 600lb gorilla ISP's, media conglomerates and as an extension of the media conglomerates Microsoft and Apple won't want to embrace it.
But it's a fundamental capability of the Internet that has *just* started to be included inside a browser.
Bring it on!
Running servers on the internet is kind of like nuclear warfare.
Sure, you can get yourself a 99.99% accuracy/success ratio. It might even
impress some people. The only problem is that you've got so much crap being
thrown at so many people that even your nice sounding number is going to
be overwhelmed by the sheer massiveness of the problem.
The moment you have a system that places any more burdens on the n00b user
to "maintain" it, you have immediately lost.
That consumer laziness will ensure that any defects tha
Rock Melt? Sounds like these guys are on crack.
I'm pretty sure someone already made Flock.
I just checked the date, I thought for sure it must be April 1st.
Marc Andreessen is jumping into the browser wars again? What's next, Ford announces a "re-imagined" Edsel?
Okay, admittedly the article is VERY light on detail. But over the past year or two, it seems like we've heard from a few of the 1990 internet pioneers who apparently never learned anything from the dot com collapse (maybe because they cashed out for billions before it happened?). Anyway, who puts money into designing a new web browser as "an investment" nowadays? Didn't he discover the fundamental problem with this back during browser wars 1.0? Netscape did originally try to charge for their browser...
It d
Judging from what little was revealed in TFA, I guess RockMelt more or less requires you to have a Facebook account, and to use a Facebook login to access RockMelt's features. Talk about bundling! So rather than be an agnostic client agent to surf the web, RockMelt is going to serve as a portal to funnel you, the user, through a specific service before you get anywhere else. I'm sure Andreesen is also betting that this will funnel more dollars into his pockets, since he will create a more captive audience for his service.
No thanks, not a fan of lock-in of any kind. Also not a fan of most social networking services, which is why I have avoided Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, et. al.
Are we not supposed to talk about loudcloud?
50+ messages so far and no mention of it.
Someone has forgotten the first rule of Loudcloud.
...that I welcome our new TunaMelt overlords.
Once on a flight, I was reading a book about web standards, and the guy sitting next to me struck up a conversation. He said that he knew a lot about the web, joining Netscape in 1995 and staying near the end, being one of the last two or three employees. He said that Netscape was undone because upper management got extremely arrogant over their initial dominance in the browser market. They thought nobody, not even Microsoft could take them down.
He said they would laugh at feature requests by users, play foosball and drink beer all day...basically one big party while IE slowly and surely crushed them.
Based on this, I would be very wary that anyone associated with the original Netscape has the management skills to make a new browser a success.
RockMelt is going to be born dead. There is nothing it can do in terms of Facebook integration that Firefox + Facebook-related theme + Facebook plugin. And RockMelt has no viable business model - there is no place anymore for mainstream browsers.
we all know how popular flock turned out to be.
I signed up for an email when it is ready to test.
I want to see what it is all about. I hope it is innovative and runs fast and uses less memory than Firefox. Safari, Opera, IE, Chrome, and the others.
I got a feeling they will be inventing new HTML tags to be used in HTML 6, as well as enhancing the XML and UML languages. That their cutting edge technology will force other browsers to change to compete with them. It might even lead to Web 3.0 standards.
Netscape was great stuff when it got to version 3.0, bu
So, as a web designer I'm thinking that 16 errors from that XHTML transitional homepage, including simply not closing tags, is not boding well
Today, most of what we use the web for on a day-to-day basis aren't just web pages, they're applications. Wouldn't it be great, then, to start from scratch, and design something based on the needs of today's web applications and today's users?
--Google, [google.com] 9/2/2008 [slashdot.org]
And from today's FA:
But Mr. Andreessen suggested the new browser would be different, saying that most other browsers had not kept pace with the evolution of the Web, which had grown from an array of static Web pages into a network of complex Web sites and applications. "There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch," Mr. Andreessen said.
--Marc Andreessen, 8/13/2009 [nytimes.com]
It's as if he fell asleep reading the comic, dreamt about it, and woke up thinking he had an original idea. Then again, TFA says he said "most other browsers", so maybe he's specifically excluding Chrome?
Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong.