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It would help to know about twitter before reading this. If you don't know about it & would like to click here for Lucas Black's beginner's guide to twitter.
"What are you doing?"
This is what you are met with when you first log in to the micro-blogging site twitter.
Due however to it's simple yet flexible & open structure, twitter has evolved tremendously in a short time to become much more than a tool for telling the world what you're doing in just a sentence or 2.
People use twitter to say hi to their existing network of friends. They organise get-togethers. They make new friends. They make jokes. They play silly games. They provide links to videos or websites. They share photos. They share their favourite music. They share ideas & interests. They publicise their ideas & interests. They publicise their blogs. They share running commentary while watching TV shows or films. They use it as a creative or comic outlet. Businesses use it to market their products or services. Politicians reach out to their electorates. News organisations tweet the news. Radio stations tweet their playlists. Pundits tweet live sports commentary. Celebrities connect with their fans. Musicians publicise their gigs & records. These are just some of the uses of twitter of which I am aware, & I'm sure there are many others that I don't know about.
Warming to my theme…
There's also a use of twitter which I call "themed tweeting". The king of the genre is RichardMadeley, who somehow manages to tweet to a different theme almost every day, but there are also twitterers who tweet as or about fictional characters, for instance DarthVader, Paranoid_Marvin, JackFacts24, MaxFacts86; spoof celebrity twitterers, like THEDavidTennant; bots which automatically pick up on & retweet tweets containing particular phrases, such as ShutUpMeg & NSFW. Then there are the mostly social users who also have a theme to their twitter personality, like Zombie_Claire, & my bad self, Drolgerg, at the time of writing an orang-utan librarian. (Why? Click here).
Most social users are content to chat & share but sometimes tweeting to a theme can be a bit of fun, or even a challenge. I recently spent a whole afternoon tweeting as the depressive Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy. I enjoyed it, but none of my then relatively few followers who were around at the time seemed to 'get it'. The only response I had was from a very caring person who was seriously concerned about my mental health. I had to DM them that I was just messing about so they wouldn't try to talk me down from the edge!
Fantasia on a Theme of U2
More recently I announced that I was excited at getting some U2 albums as a present from my wife. A twitter-friend then replied with a slightly suggestive tweet that we might be getting a bit friendly later. I replied along the lines of "yes, when love comes to town, she's not here right now". When Love Comes to Town is of course a U2 song.
"Hello!". I thought. "I have a lot of U2 songs", (at the time every album but Pop & the new 1), "I wonder if I could somehow put them all into tweets?". So I did, partly as a challenge to myself to see if I could, & partly to see if anyone would notice.
The rules: every general tweet had to contain a U2 song title. By general tweets I mean tweets that are not replies, not hashtag tweets, or tweets that post links – although the latter 2 could contain song titles if I chose. There must be no references to U2, the song or the album it came from. They should all be genuine, believable tweets. Not only that but I decided to try to tweet them in alphabetical order, just to make it more interesting!
Well I pretty much achieved my goal. I slipped up once or twice, letting out a spontaneous tweet or 2 without a song title. Some of them were a bit forced ( I mean what can you do with Hawkmoon 269? Had to go to the pub for that 1!) but mostly I think my tweets were as believable as they ever get.
I expect this may confuse or possibly even annoy some people – if so I'm sorry. I tried really hard to make every tweet genuine & as sincere as I could. It was actually a very rewarding experience. I like a challenge, & I actually had conversations that I might not have had & met some great people that I may not have otherwise if I hadn't put these restrictions on my tweeting.
So if you're looking for a challenge or for something a bit different I can recommend themed tweeting – use your imagination!
In case you don't believe me here's the full list of my U2 tweets, with the song titles highlighted:
The Tweets
Drolgerg 'Morning twitterverse. Feeling gr8. U2?8:11 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg What's the most special thing you've done for a special birthday, especially "40" if anyone will admit to it?8:34 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg I think we should celebrate a national day here more, much like the USA & their 4th of July 8:56 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg Who does the best duets? 2 men, 2 women, or a man & a woman?9:05 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg I hope to see some events in the Brighton Festival this year. Used to live there, so a sort of homecoming I guess9:15 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg Is there a good alternative to Adobe Acrobat anywhere?9:21 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg Haven't had visit from my friends Jehovah Witnesses for ages. Looks like was blacklisted all along! The Watchtower will never get in here!9:30 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck (this prompted good response)
Drolgerg I now have a new outlet for my inane stupidities, occasional profundity & frequent profanity. All because of you, twitter!9:50 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg A silly love poem to twitter: "To myspace I say: boo / Facebook? pile of poo / & bebo just won't do / twitter, all I want is you"10:10 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg I'm the hairiest swinger around – yeah baby!face it, it's great to be ape!10:35 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg I'm the ape that stole all the bananas – I'm bad!10:40 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg The sun is shining, the birds are singing, it's a beautiful day.10:43 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg Sun, sand, heat, movement, noise, explosion, bullet, the blue sky turns orange then grey. Yep – still watching Generation Kill.10:51 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg10…9…8…7…6…5 …4…3…2… 11 o'clock tick tock!11:00 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck (note the time!)
Drolgerg New York is the city that never sleeps, Rome is the etermal city, Paris the city of love. What's London then – the city of blinding lights?11:06 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg Crumbs! From your table I have now found enlightenment – thank you Mr MS Excel11:30 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
DrolgergHate this spoilt brat Paris Hilton culture we're infected with: "you can do what you like cos Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car": awful11:49 AM Mar 11th from TweetDeck (This got a lot of support!)
DrolgergSilly poem 2.0: Oh twitter dear you light my fire/No other site do I require/Of tweeting I will never tire/You are my webby heart's desire 1:39 PM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
DrolgergToday is a dirty day. I am refusing to wash in protest against normality. (Wife not at home)2:10 PM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
DrolgergUsing twitter to aid my productivity is like pouring water on a drowning man. Have to be antisocial for a bit & stop replying.2:50 PM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
DrolgergI'm the ape who gets the grape, elevation is my station3:44 PM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg Elvis Presley & America = ? & Britain. Discuss.4:07 PM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
DrolgergIs @RichardMadeley even better than the real thing?4:10 PM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
DrolgergMini-tweet over – time to make my exit.4:11 PM Mar 11th from TweetDeck
DrolgergAnyone like fast cars? What's the fastest car you've driven?5:32 PM Mar 11th from TweetDeck (A lot of replies to this one, mostly from blokes)
DrolgergIf you could who would you fire & why?6:00 PM Mar 11th from TweetDeck (A good few responses to this, unsurprisingly)
Drolgerg: Gloria be! My PC's tweeted out. Rebooting Mar 11, 2009 06:08 PM GMT · from TweetDeck · Reply · View Tweet
Drolgerg: God Pt II: Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine Mar 11, 2009 06:31 PM GMT · from TweetDeck · Reply · View Tweet
Drolgerg: Dinner's ready. And I'm not saying grace this time! Mar 11, 2009 06:46 PM GMT · from TweetDeck · Reply · View Tweet
Drolgerg: Anyone remember Hawkmoon? 269 fans last I checked. Great prog-jazz-indie-dance-fusion-crossover band from the 70's /80's. Mar 12, 2009 05:13 PM GMT · from TweetDeck · Reply · View Tweet
DrolgergShould the Midlands be renamed the Heartland of England?6:05 PM Mar 12th from TweetDeck (A good response to this – mostly around which parts of UK would correspond with rude parts of the anatomy!)
Drolgergwossy keeps tweeting about the Saw ride at Thorpe Park. Personally I think I prefer the Helter Skelter owing to lessened entrails count6:35 PM Mar 12th from TweetDeck (Had a lot of agreement with this)
DrolgergWhen I drink too much beer I fall down. Even when I can't remember my own name I can l still confirm Newtonian physics.6:45 PM Mar 12th from TweetDeck (This 1 got retweeted)
DrolgergThose bloody evil pixies are nicking my stuff again – I still haven't found what I'm looking for!8:27 PM Mar 12th from TweetDeck
DrolgergWhat's the worse thing you can confess to here? Like when I was young I threw a brick through a window. Maybe tell @secrettweet if too bad!8:33 PM Mar 12th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg In gods country there was an orgy. Afterwards the introductions: "Hi, I'm Thor" "Me too but I'm thatithfied". Thank you, I'm here all week8:54 PM Mar 12th from TweetDeck
DrolgergWhen did we last have an 'Indian' summer? Sky full of snow for 2 months: climate change or the natural cycle?9:07 PM Mar 12th from TweetDeck
DrolgergHIi! to my new followers. You might be looking at my tweets & asking: Is that all? Yep, sorry: So evil pixies, beer & orgies it is then!12:22 AM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg'Morning twitterverse! If it's windy today I think I might fly a kite 8:30 AM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergWhen life gives you a lemon, make lemonade – Mariah Carey (I think) http://bit.ly/zxxLT8:53 AM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergPlease note I'm giving you 6 months to get my presents & massive twitter party organised. I like a song so maybe we could all do karaoke?8:56 AM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergCan war bring peace? Love & peace or else written on their guns? Still watching the brilliant & challenging Generation Kill.9:13 AM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg#followfriday> They say love is blindness,but you gotta love these ladies: @fragileheart @KatHumble @sarahsaner @TheBloggess @penelopeelse10:13 AM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg#followfriday Did I say love? Rescue me from sentimentality please! Some blokes then: @Red_Moon @Braziel @cartoono @corcoran @aslan_chan10:15 AM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergWhat's the miracle drug of our age? Prozac, Viagra, tic-tacs? Or something I don't know about?10:44 AM Mar 13th from TweetDeck (Caffeine I think was top for twitterers here!)
DrolgergAnyone share a birthday with MLK, or someone equally famous? Best I've got is Augustine of Hippo. http://bit.ly/zxxLT10:55 AM Mar 13th from TweetDeck (Lots of responses to this one)
DrolgergKids hanging around outside Tesco. Wondering about the mothers of the disappeared 12:20 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergStill trying to figure out mysterious ways I can get any bloody work & still twitter. Twitter's on fire today, it must be Friday.12:56 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergPC all tweeted out, rebooting. Might be back before New Year's Day, might not.2:23 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergI'm overtwittered today, my fingers are a bit numb5:44 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergHow is it possible to not be solipsistic? Not possible to know anything outside your own senses: never understood that one.6:24 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck (This set off a great discussion with @christinefarmer, who'd I'd never talked to before)
DrolgergMaybe if we knew the answer to that question we'd be one step closer to knowing the answer to life, the universe & everything (waiting…..)6:26 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergForget American teen soaps: real One Tree Hill is actually the main natural landmark in Auckland, New Zealand. Not a lot if people know that6:30 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck (cheating slightly, that's actually the inspiration for the song)
DrolgergI must be the original of the species – how many other orang-utan librarians do you know?7:03 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergIs every party boy & party girl in tonight? You'd think there was something decent on TV or something!7:13 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck (It was Comic Relief Night)
DrolgergWith that lovely white suit @THEDavidTennant could bring peace on Earth!7:29 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergMore cynical than I like to think?: sad story on TV, I'm struck by beautiful music: Adele, Cohen. Must take more pride in the name of love7:44 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergI bet Davina McCall has never read Orwell's 1984. Isn't BB just a promenade of inanity?7:47 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergThe miner's strike has been in the news. Anyone remember it? Good book about it by Tony Parker, I think called Red Hill Mining Town7:58 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergRed light: Outnumbered on Comic Relief – very funny!8:09 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergRejoice twitterverse – it's the weekend!8:49 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergWhy I like weekends? During the week at work I always feel like I'm running to stand still8:51 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergI think my red nose is actually scarlet. Should I still wear it, or am I disqualified?8:53 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergFrench & Saunders were funny for a few seconds. Or not8:54 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergOK I still dislike Moyles but climbing Kilimanjaro is quite an achievement – he deserves his silver & gold9:03 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergFrench & Saunders murdering ABBA: so cruel!9:25 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergSome days are better than others, but overall today has been a good day10:32 PM Mar 13th from TweetDeck
DrolgergMitchell & Webb / Armstrong & Miller? Sometimes you can't make it on your own12:50 AM Mar 14th from TweetDeck
DrolgergComic relief still going. Shall I stay & watch or get off to bed12:52 AM Mar 14th from TweetDeck
DrolgergStranger in a strange land: The Script are murdering Bowie's Heroes. Why? In my h-fi at the moment, switched!12:57 AM Mar 14th from TweetDeck (Definitely wasn't alone with this opinion)
DrolgergThanks gods that's over: thought I was stuck in a moment you can't get out of12:59 AM Mar 14th from TweetDeck
DrolgergSunday! Bloody Sunday? That means for 1st time gone 24 hours without tweeting. TA working then.Feel the need to ask Ed & Biz for forgiveness2:21 AM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergTo the sweet birdsong & Sunday sunshine I surrender. 'morning twitterverse!9:54 AM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergShe still ate it though. Hope she's OK tomorrow!10:11 AM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergWife's working again today.Hate when she does that. Makes me feel guilty for just dicking around. Maybe will write to the Electric Co.10:23 AM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergListening to Iain M Banks radio play: grt social comm. in sci-fi wrapper. Fearsumm Endjinn the first time I read him, not looked back since11:45 AM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergThe sun's back today & so is the fly I thought I'd got rid of. Every silver lining has a cloud , I guess11:53 AM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergIf I don't have a shower the ground beneath my feet is in danger of dissolving with my every step. Back soon!1:07 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergI've lost my comb. I look like a refugee from a caveman movie1:40 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck (error)
DrolgergSorry, should say THE refugee: it's that bad. Or from Planet of the Apes, of course.1:41 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck (correction)
DrolgergGo England! Is the unforgettable fire of 2003 returning?3:32 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
Drolgerg#sixnations Attractive, winning England rugby – the wanderer returns!3:45 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergGo England! Armitage & Flutey trip through your wires, France!4:05 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergWife went shopping & came back with jelly beans & a Paul Smith t-shirt for me. Feeling warm & fuzzy, tryin' to throw my arms around the world4:21 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergWe have our moments but sometimes our two hearts beat as one.4:21 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergAnyone remember a British vampire mini-series called Ultraviolet? I thought it was really good. Shame it was never developed5:23 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergI plan to be twittering until the end of the world!5:25 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergWho knew that Australia was originally called Van Dieman's Land?5:27 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergWhat's your favourite Hitchcock? Mine's Vertigo5:27 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck (This got a good response)
DrolgergI am of course famous. Recently had walk on part in TV show where they play tricks on members of the public. My line: "No thanks I'm busy"5:50 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergWhen I look at the world I have just 1 question: what the hell is SXSW?!5:57 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergI think Generation Kill should be ironically renamed When Love Comes To Town7:57 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergPlanning mini-holiday. Hope not to do too much driving: most of our hols r to places where the streets have no name, even satnavs can't help11:05 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck (Turned out to be prophetic: on city-break in Istanbul got lost a lot due to lack of street-signs)
DrolgergGetting your animals cared for while on holiday's a problem. Especially if they're exotic, I mean who's gonna ride your wild horses for you?11:27 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck
DrolgergI try to buy lots of local goods while on holiday: for instance I LOVE the taste of wild honey11:30 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck (Did actually buy honey while in Istanbul)
DrolgergNever watched The Wire. Plan to. I hear it's quote good! FX UK started showing again from series 1- boxed & ready!11:32 PM Mar 15th from TweetDeck (Got response that it is also about to be shown on BBC2, so was able to clear space on the box & wait for that instead – useful!)
DrolgergI want to see U2 in Cardiff, who knows where's the best place to get tickets? And I'll go with or without you!9:30 AM Mar 16th from web (At this point I was rushing to finish before our city-break, thought I was dropping a rather large hint)
DrolgergThinking of organising a twitter flashmob in a zoo. Station, location & details when I think of them9:50 AM Mar 16th from TweetDeck
DrolgergThe problem with putting U2 songs in your tweets is that some of them aren't even words. I mean what am I supposed to do with Zooropa!10:03 AM Mar 16th from TweetDeck


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Order Number: APP-CMC004-EN
Format: DVD
Price: $30.00
Publish Date: June 2000
This program discusses key air-handling system control issues like building pressure control, system ventilation control, damper control, and various reset strategies. Advanced control ideas related to the impact of energy recovery within systems is also covered. All of these topics are discussed with an eye toward compliance with ASHRAE Standards 62 and 90.1, while maintaining comfort and minimizing system operating and life-cycle costs.
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A few months ago, I had the opportunity to play with a Toshiba Satellite U925t, one of the new breed of Windows 8 convertible Ultrabooks. This time around, I was able to spend some quality time with a new Google Chromebook, a Samsung 303C12. This was my first time spending more than a few minutes dabbling at a store display with a Chromebook (I've had it for a few weeks now). Given the growing popularity of these devices as a low-cost replacement for a tablet or netbook, I thought it might be worth writing about.
First things first, as a Mac guy, the naming conventions in the other camps drive me a little crazy. When Apple releases the 11.6-inch MacBook Air, it's reasonably easy to visualize based on the name. What the hell is a Toshiba Satellite U925t or a Samsung 303C12? Am I supposed to figure out something from those model number designations? That quibble aside, on to my actual experience.
First of all, it's pretty obvious who Samsung was gunning for when they designed this Chromebook. The silver finish, black chiclet keys, track pad and form factor are remarkably similar to the aforementioned 11.6-inch MacBook Air. There's nothing wrong with that — Apple sells a boatload of these ultraportables — but the resemblance is purely superficial. Instead of aluminum, the Samsung's casing is silver painted plastic. The keys don't have quite the same responsiveness and lack backlighting. The Chromebook's hinge mechanism is much less smooth and it's top-heavy, so trying to open it single handedly means the whole thing can easily flip over if you aren't careful. The display doesn't have the same brightness. When it comes to performance, there's no comparison (this Chromebook has 2GB of RAM, a 16 GB SSD and is powered by a Samsung Exynos 5 dual-core processor designed for mobile use). But…
The Chromebook — or at least this Chromebook (Google's latest may be a different story) isn't intended to compete against the MacBook Air. That it superficially looks like one is a marketing tactic. At less than a third the cost of a base model MacBook Air's $999 price tag, this Chromebook is aimed squarely at people looking for a second computing device to have around the house. In other words, the tablet crowd (and the former netbook crowd). And for that purpose, the Samsung Chromebook does a pretty decent job.
At a price that's competitive against most tablets, all of a sudden it looks like a better proposition. It has an 11.6-inch LED display at 1366 x 768 resolution. Perfectly fine for watching streaming movies or YouTube videos. It runs Google's Chrome operating system and is completely tied into Google's online services, meaning that you don't have to pay for a bunch of software to make it useful. Core services like Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides have links built in to ChromeOS, so you sign in with your Google account and have full access to productivity software and the ability to save files in a variety of formats (including Microsoft Office compatible versions). Although the Chromebook is intended to be used while connected, you can work offline.
How did I find the whole Chromebook experience? Compared to OSX and Windows, Google's ChromeOS takes some getting used to. While there is a dock, pretty much your entire navigational experience is browser based. You can quickly end up with dozens of tabs running in your browser, including ones that aren't content, but instead settings. It can be disorienting at first while you adjust to this way of doing things. It's also often much slower than a traditional PC experience as well, as tabs and pages sometimes took a while to fully load. Offline capability is limited, but it is possible to do some basic tasks including writing or editing documents (assuming you have a copy of the document saved locally).
The gaming experience wasn't exactly spectacular. For anyone used to downloading a game app on a tablet, the Chromebook experience was much clunkier. Some games played fine (For Flash games that blast advertising all over your screen), but too many times I ended up running into situations where I'd have music and direction keys displayed on an otherwise blank screen, or notices that "This game is not supported on your current system" along with a recommendation that I download Google's Chrome browser (which the Chromebook is already running). These sorts of snafus shouldn't happen when you're accessing games from Google's own Chrome webstore.
Thanks to the combination ChromeOS and SSD, the Samsung Chromebook boots up quickly, in the 10 second timeframe. It's easy on the battery (I was getting the claimed six hours), there's also no fan since the CPU is designed for mobile use and generates much less heat than a traditional PC CPU. The only time my boot up was longer than the 10 second range was a 30 second launch when Chrome detected a security update (it does this automatically) and installed it as part of the boot process.
When all is said and done, if you're looking for a laptop replacement, this Samsung Chromebook isn't it. It may look like a MacBook Air from a distance, but it's an entirely different beast. However, if you're looking for an inexpensive second computer — something the kids can use for homework, web surfing or light duty online gaming — this would be a pretty good choice. It's not quite as portable as a tablet, but at only 2.5 pounds and with six hours of battery life, it sure beats a tablet (even one with a Bluetooth keyboard) for banging out e-mail and light text editing.
Wired: A very cheap option for a second computer (or a computer for your kids to use) or as a tablet/keyboard combo alternative, lightweight, decent display, attractive design, automatically applies critical security updates, decent battery life.
Tired: Without a Wi-Fi connection it's at a distinct disadvantage, the ChromeOS user experience isn't as polished as it could be, web-connected functionality meant frequent slowdowns and waits for pages to refresh or load, opening the lid is a pain.


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The Eagles are stockpiling former fifth-round draft picks.
Earlier this week, it was former Oregon quarterback Dennis Dixon, a fifth-round pick of the Steelers in 2008. Now, the Eagles have announced the addition of offensive lineman Ed Wang, a fifth-round pick of the Bills in 2010.
Wang, the first Chinese-American player ever drafted by an NFL team, played in six games as a rookie, and then he spent all of 2011 on injured reserve. Wang signed with the Raiders during the 2012 offseason, but he later was cut.
He could eventually be cut by the Eagles. In the offseason, teams may now have 90 players. By September, that number drops to 53.


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North Forest supporters vow to fight closing
Steadfast supporters of North Forest school district vowed Saturday to continue fighting the Texas Education Agency's efforts to merge the district with the neighboring Houston ISD.
"This district will not go away without a fight," North Forest ISD attorney Chris Tritico said. "We have a lot of fight left, and we're not going to stop."
About 60 attended a meeting Saturday in response to TEA Commissioner of Education Michael Williams' recommendation on Thursday to dissolve NFISD due to poor academic performance and low high school completion rates, among other issues.
Leaders of the 6,900-student northeast Houston district said they will fight the decision all the way to the U.S. Department of Justice. District leaders have until Feb. 17 to request a record review be reopened and ask the State Office of Administrative Hearings for an appeal.
'Another opportunity'
If TEA Chief Deputy Lizzette Gonzalez-Reynolds approves Williams' recommendation, the Department of Justice must pre-clear the merger with HISD.
"We're going to have another conversation, and we're anticipating we will get another opportunity to build on the good work we did this year," said North Forest Superintendent Edna Forte.
She suggested that the district pursue partnerships with other education institutions, including charters schools, and seek out additional support through federal Race to the Top money or by the creation of a local endowment.
Academic decline
A former TEA commissioner originally ordered the district's closure in July of 2011, but North Forest was given a chance to improve during a one-year reprieve. However, academics in the district have only declined, state officials said.
In the 2011-2012 school year, every rated NFISD campus was determined to have failed the federal standards for Adequate Yearly Progress. Since 2010, performance in English and language arts declined 5 percentage points, and in mathematics by 11.
In a statewide comparison, NFISD 10th graders scored 21 percentage points below the state average in English, and 11th graders were 13 percentage points lower.
Additionally, 66.4 percent of North Forest students graduated on time, a 7 percentage point increase, but still short of TEA requirements.
"The decision to close a school district is a tough decision for all involved but we can no longer be tolerant of chronic underperformance," Williams said in a statement.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and celebrate your Tony award nomination for Best Scenic Design For A Musical. No one can make a cloud hanging from wires like you can, sir. LET'S GO!
AMERICAN IDOL – 8:00PM (FOX) Tonight is Sinatra Night! Oh, yes. The five final contestants, under the tutelage of mentor Harry Connick Jr., will croon wedding standards from ol' Blue Eyes himself. If Connick is any kind of mentor, he'll also school the final five on how to truly capture the essence of Frank. It's important that they fly to Vegas and see some showgirls, drink some scotch and cut in line at the best restaurant in town. That's how Frank did it, gang. WITH CLASS. ANTICIPATION: IT HAD TO BE THESE PEOPLE
DANCING WITH THE STARS – 8:00PM (ABC) Tonight one celeb gets the boot and Train performs a song. Yes, Train! Scoring your elevator ride at work since 2003. It's a tough matchup for your eyeballs this evening. Do you go with Sinatra, or do you go with Train? Who really captures your heart more? Not so easy to decide now, is it? TELL ME! DID THE SUMMER WIND SWEEP YOU OFF YOUR FEET?! ANTICIPATION: CHOO CHOO CHOOSE THEM!
LOST – 9:00PM (ABC) Tonight's episode is entitled "The Candidate". What does it all mean?! What task has Jack been asked to perform? Can Jack really trust Locke? Couldn't these people have watched a DVD of "Six Days, Seven Nights" and learned to build their own sea plane out of driftwood? DID MOSES REALLY EXIST? I know it only take three licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, BUT WHAT OF BLOW POPS? I MUST KNOW OF BLOW POPS! So many questions. ANTICIPATION: ALL QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED WITH SEVEN MORE QUESTIONS!
GLEE – 9:00PM (FOX) Tonight's episode guest stars Olivia Newton John and features the following songs: "Ice Ice Baby," "U Can't Touch This," "Let's Get Physical," and "Total Eclipse Of The Heart." You either find that prospect campy and fun, or more terrifying than "The Human Centipede." I vote centipede. ANTICIPATION: WE GOT TO PRAY JUST TO MAKE IT TODAY
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Below are a few images from the Burchett Papers (MS-355) described in the previous post. Hopefully it will be remembered next time to include images with the original text!
Wayne Burchett, 10 years old, in the spring of 1930 with his first 4-H Hereford calf which was shown at the Iowa State Fair. Records related to the cattle on the farm can be found in the cattle and farm operations folders.
This is the original Orval and Alice Burchett homestead where Wayne grew up.
Showing the compassion and helpfulness which continues to this day among Iowa farmers, this image shows a group of neighbors and friends (the Burchetts included) coming to together to help their neighbor Mary Palmer harvest her family's corn crop soon after her husband had died.
It is always fun to find images of Iowa State in the manuscript collections outside of the University Archives records. Here is a group of 4Hers at a state convention, standing outside of Friley Residence Hall. At least one of Wayne and Gayle's daughters are probably in the photograph, since both were members and Gayle was a 4H leader for the Richland Ridge Runners. A folder related to the family's 4H activities and Cathy Burchett's record books are included in the collection.
This is an interesting little cookbook that was given out to brides by the Merchants of Bakersfield (based in California). It's unclear who this originally belonged to, but the book was published around the end of World War I. Inside is a copy of a 1918 endorsement written by the Home Economics Department of the United States Food Administration for California certifying that the recipes follow food conservation principles, allowing the housewife to perform her patriotic duty.
The poem on the cover reads:
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without consciences and live without hearts.
We may live without friends, we may life without books;
But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
-Owen Meredith
For more information on the Wayne O. and Gayle Carns Burchett Papers, please see the finding aid on the Special Collections webpage.


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How I Gained and Lost an Empire
Strategy games don't always lend themselves to playing a specific role, yet Alex Donks tells the story of his tyrannical empire's rise and fall in Master of Orion II, all due to the hubris of its leader.
"Master of Orion II, even more than most 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)"
I take it people were too embarrassed to tell the guy that came up with that that each word begins with an 'E'.
Great article by the way.
An excellent article, and certainly one that I can commiserate with - though I simply haven't lost those sort of games. I have wasted many an hour on Emperor of the Fading Suns - a similar game.
though, the AI has always been AWFUL in EFS, the game is still fun.
I love MoO II and enjoy playing it every now and then .. but I actually never thought about building a race that is Creative AND Telepathic .. must have slipped my mind ^^
Wow that sounds awesome... I want to play it now!
Thank you, another game to look out for and try myself. I am all in for this!
Damn you! I must re-install this now! Well, that's my afternoon gone....
EDIT - Success! And as for Creative being broken? Try Creative, Unification, and Telepathic - it's almost too easy...
Extremely well-written article, and it makes that game sound stupendously awesome. How well has it aged? Are there any sequels or whatnot?
Ah, Moo2! Brings me back. I must see if I can get it to work on my netbook.
Nice article, it was a great read. I need to look out for this game.
The game is still playable if you can live with 640 x 480 resolution but getting hold of a legal copy is next to impossible. There was a squeal MoO3 but is was just plain bad. The game suffered from terrible enemy A.I, a horrible interface, game killing bugs and missed half the features that made MoO2 good.
This made me miss MoO2 so, so much...
I think my copy is laying around, somewhere...
masters of orion? Put a donk on it
MoO II had me waste a large number of hours of my younger years but I was never really good at it, always got crushed.... Time to see if age has brought greater wisdom with it.
Also epic article, loved the way it was written, really sucked me into the narrative.
The easiest place to get it from is here:
Very cool, reminds me of some gal civ 2 games.
I haven't quite enjoyed a good 4x since "Acendancy" on DOS
man I miss that game, it was super old school!
I loved Master of Orion--must have played dozens of games in both original and MoO2 versions. Usually my fledgling empire was crushed way too early, but occasionally I would find the right combination of research and diplomacy to bring victory. One time I filled a notebook with a year by year, turn by turn account of the rise and fall of the Terran Empire. Great article, Alex!
Really good article, but now I feel terribly ashamed that I have never played this game.
Very great article. It reminds me of my old Civilization playthroughs. Where I would build a giant army, get cocky, and attack everyone. Eventually I would be brought down.
Then I learned about choosing my battles, and preparing a defense in case anyone attacked while my army was doing their thing.
Great article, I'll have to check out this game.
Enjoyed this article as well. There is something to be said about staying true to your character and going down in epic, glorious flames. Unfortunately, I usually just get frustrated and give in to the temptation to reload the game.
The Total War series generates lots of "lost cause" battles where your small garrisons of soldiers unsuccessfully attempt to defend castles from hordes of invading enemies. It's sometimes character building to just swallow your pride and accept the glorious defeat.
Nice article. I was even younger when I first played MoO 2, so I didn't grasp too many of the complexities of the game at the time (such as using spies, being proactive with treaty making and like you, how invading rather than just nuking from orbit is a really good idea) but it's been a favourite of mine for a long time.
I recently re-bought MoO 2 through GoG.com, along with MoO 1 which I've never played. I love MoO 2 so much, and I think it's a game that's aged incredibly well. The interface is fairly straight forward for a game with MoO 2's depth and the graphics and art look fine, since it mainly consists of gorgeous 2D artwork and some pretty nice pre-rendered cinematics (such as when you blow up a planet with a Stellar Converter *insert cackling*)
Also, you're totally right about Creative being broken... I never make a race without it.
Would highly recommend this game to strategy game fans, graphics might not look so hot nowdays but then the game-play more than makes up for it. As someone pointed out, legit copies are able to be purchased and downloaded from Good Old Games www.gog.com (not affiliated with them, just a satisfied customer).
What a fantastic article, thank you for writing that. Master of Orion massacred as many hours of my life as WoW has, and I think back fondly on every single one of them.
I also was thoroughly disappointed by the third installment, the concept was neat, but they tried to make it much, much more of a 'deep' game, but they really did not realize that MoO2 really had the balance figured out, and ruined it for themselves. Bugs didn't help either, it was like they gave up on it.
Personally I think that if a developer took MoO2 (and even the original) and did a 15th anniversary edition next year, and do nothing but graphics development, I would think that there would be a lot of people who would be more than willing to pay 30-40 for the game, heck I'd buy it for as much for my son to be able to experience the awesomness that was MoO as for myself! An updated version of Master of Magic would be fantastic as well.
If people are interested, the Galactic Civilizations line of games from Stardock are kind of spiritual successors to the Master of Orion games. I can't speak for any of your interests, but I know I've spent massive amounts of time playing GalCiv II with the expansions.
LOL, I think your article pretty well nails exactly what made MoO][ the best of the series. MoO]|[, ignoring the brokenness of the thing never did anything to pull me inside the game quite like 2 did.
I usually play the game with one hand behind my back using some of the more useless abilities, you know, just to give the AI a fighting chance -_^
I still play MOO2 every now and then. It is a great game.
If you've got Windows 7 there is a stupid trick that you must use or the game colors are all messed up. You have to start the game, alt-tab out, start a Task Manager, use that to kill Explorer, then go back to MOO-2 and the colors will be fixed. After you finish playing you can use Task Manager to restart Explorer.
Dumb but works.
MOO2 is probably my favorite game of all time. I was in college when it was released and I spent many a lazy Sunday afternoon conquering the universe. I still play it from time to time.
Protips: if you're playing the unpatched version, go for Plasma Cannons ASAP. They're really, really OP. You can also transfer captured Sakkra population to your planets and they'll gain the Sakkra's Subterranean Population bonus.
MOO1 is pretty fun too.
- MOO2 has advisors?
- Creative is not broken. It costs 8 picks, and that is alot. I think subterranean (+50% population), population growth and unification are more powerful, which is reflected in my games, where the Psilons are almost always weak and the Sakkra and Klackons dominate.
- The other reason why creative isn't that good is that you won't trade techs as you will eventually get them all. However trading techs is one of the best ways to improve relations.
- MoO2 is the almost perfect galactic empire game. I wish we could forget the blunder that was MoO3 and someone would make a truly worthy sequel to the franchise.
- Galactic Civilizations is "ok" but I don't like it half as much. The "comedy style" of GalCiv and civilization leaders making comments about programming, your PC hardware and game mechanics totally spoils the atmosphere.
Sounds kinda like some of my Civ 4 games.
awesometastic job on the article my lord!
sounds kinda like my/yahtzees/others sim city games
Never played the game, but your article was a masterpiece, sir! I congratulate you!
amazing article bings back so many good memories
I too have found myself in sticky situations in this type of game (Kinights of Honor or Sins of a Solar Empire). However when I play a tyrant who only want to destroy ones foes I tend to build a choke point to protect my core worlds/lands. In KoH I like to use islands such as the UK. But I do know that feeling of attacking the wrong team and seeing death come twords me.
Wonderful read.
Nice article, and I can say that anytime there is a game like that, I will also be the tyrant.
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I had a lot of free time today so I am blogging 2 outfits 🙂
This outfit is a gift when you complete the Global Domination hunt, more details available Here.
Secondly, and something I have been meaning to blog about for a while is the new skin from DeeTaleZ – Sandra.
The skin has a lot of unique mix and match options.
When purchasing the skin it includes a shape, breast addons, pubic add ons, prim nail add ons, eyes and lash and teeth alphas.
Available for separate purchase, and what makes this skin really unique, are the tons of customization options available: 18 different lipsticks, different noses, different eyebrows ( which include colors ) freckles & blush, beauty marks and lots of eye make-up options. Some of those options can be seen here:
To see even more details and all the specifics on this skin, please click Here.
Here's all the details on both looks:
Look #1:
Skin: -Belleza- Ava
Hair: >TRUTH< Tenille 2 w/Roots – frappuccino
Outfit: [Aux]Long T-shirt & leggings – GLOBAL DOMINATION GIFT
Necklace: MG – Necklace – Jewelled Hand Of Fatima – GLOBAL DOMINATION GIFT
Bracelets: ::LEO-NT:: PASTEL LOVE Bangles
Shoes: {mon tissu} Favorite Leather Flats ~ Nude
Poses: {.:exposeur:.} Modella e Modello – GLOBAL DOMINATION GIFT
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Skin: DeeTaleZ Skin Sandra Face 2 Glossy EARLY SUMMER
w/ Freckles & Blush Add On
Hair: >TRUTH< Zuzka w/Roots – frappuccino
Top: [Cynful] V – Top – White – @ TDR Fusion
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Boobs: Lolas ::: Tango ::: Mesh Breasts
Jeans: [Cynful] Zia Denim v 2.0 Mesh – Black – Flare
Sneakers: [ JP ]:dsg. Sneaker Varial
Necklace: ::LEO-NT:: Eagle Wings Necklace~silver~
Ring: ::LEO-NT:: Eagle Wings ~ Ring *r* -silver-
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Hi all! Thanks for joining me for my guest designer spot at 2 Sketches 4 You!! I am thrilled and honored to be invited to guest design for this week's sketch challenge! Big thanks to Laura and Kazan for this incredible opportunity!! Here is the sketch by Laura:
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The sponsor this week is Starving Artistamps!
I used Copics, colored pencils and Turpenoid to color the image. Here is a tutorial on how to do it. I used Turpenoid instead of Gamsol, but I think they are basically the same thing. I got it at my local Michaels or you can find them here. I love trying new techniques!! =)
Don't forget to check out this week's challenge at 2 Sketches 4 You and what their fabulous Design Team came up with!!
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cardstock: Papertrey Ink, Neenah Solar White
stamps: Starving Artistamps, Close To My Heart (sentiment)
patterned paper: My Mind's Eye, BasicGrey
ink: Memento
ribbon: Ellen Hutson
punch: Fiskars
glitter glue: Stickles
dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Ovals Small, Classic Scalloped Ovals Small
die cutting machine: CuttleBug
others: Copic markers, Prisma color pencil, Turpenoid Nature, sewing machine, thread


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September was very busy here a Shandell's. There is a new shop online, hope you enjoy it. I have been working hard filling it and getting ready for the holiday season. You will find new items: vintage wallpaper tags, vintage dictionary tissue boxes and wastebaskets and matchbox candle gift sets.
I am excited about the matchbox gift sets, they are this seasons perfect gift. You can have a chance to win one of three I am giving away at my friend's Amy blog ABCDDesign to help her celebrate her 3rd Blog-I-Versary. I met Amy when she came into the studio and picked out the most amazing set of vintage lamps. Her blog is wonderful, so head over and leave a comment and you will get a chance to win.
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Six suspects arraigned; judge criticizes police
New London – A judge upheld the high bond for the teens charged with murdering Matthew Chew, while also blasting the police department for creating a "sideshow" with allegations that Chew was buying drugs when he was attacked.
Judge Kevin McMahon presided over the arraignment of Idris Elahi and Marquis Singleton, both 17. Neither entered pleas and their cases were continued to Dec. 13 and transferred to New London Superior Court Part A on Huntington Street.
"The victim's activities had nothing to do with his death," said McMahon. "I'm not happy with the police department's conduct yesterday. This is about six defendants and one deceased. And the sideshow that is going on with Mr. Chew is nothing more than that: a sideshow."
Elahi's bond remains at $1.5 million and Singleton's at $1.25 million.
The four other teens charged with accessory to murder were arraigned later this afternoon at New London Superior Court. Matias Perry, Rashad Perry and Tyree Bundy, all 17, and Brian Rabell, 18, were ordered held on $500,000 bond each.
The six teens were kept separate and were not all in the same building at the same time due to space constraints. All six are due to return to court on Dec. 13, appearing in the Huntington Street courthouse, where more serious cases are heard.
McMahon, reading from a sealed arrest warrant, said the teens acted "without motive and because they were bored."
"He was just walking down the street," McMahon said of Chew.
The courtroom was packed with teenagers and supporters of the six New London teens arrested Tuesday. All will be assigned public defenders. Relatives and friends declined to speak with reporters.
"I don't want to talk," said a man who identified himself as Singleton's father. "This is about my son's life. I don't want to talk."
McMahon said that the sealed 10-page arrest warrant alleges that Elahi and Singleton were the only two who carried knives during the attack on Chew, who was walking home Oct. 29 from his job at 2Wives Brick Oven Pizza on Huntington Street. He sustained six stab wounds and two cuts to the face, McMahon said.
The judge said the warrant details statements by witnesses and co-defendants who gave similar statements that Elahi and Singleton were the most culpable in the attack, which was allegedly started by Elahi.
"There's a lot of statements and they all say the same thing: He's the main player," McMahon said, speaking to Elahi and his attorney.
McMahon said the other four defendants and witnesses all pointed to Elahi as most responsible for what happened.
"They blame him for the predicament they're in," McMahon said during a discussion of Elahi's bail, prompting a stirring from the room and a comment of "that's crazy" from a woman in the room.
Each defendant spoke with police to establish a timeline of the attack, and surveillance cameras show the group of six walking downtown both before and after the attack, McMahon said. Rabell told police the final words he heard Chew utter, he said.
"'What?' and 'Why?' That's all the victim was able to get out that night as he was brutally attacked by these teens," McMahon said.
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Senator Brian Taniguchi receives Ellingson-Bitner Award from UH Manoa Campus Center BoardUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU — Sen. Brian Taniguchi, who represents the Mānoa-Moʻiliʻili district that includes the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, received the Ellingson-Bitner award from the UH Mānoa Campus Center Board (CCB) at the annual "CCB End of the Year Appreciation Banquet" on May 1, 2007. Established in 1973 and named in honor of Si Ellingson and Harold Bitner, who were both Dean of Students, the award is periodically given to outstanding individuals who have advocated for student growth. The CCB also recognized several student employees: Mark Guillermo, Laine Malson, Elise St. Claire, and Brandon Yamamoto.
Sen. Taniguchi graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a bachelor's degree in liberal studies in December 1973 and a juris doctorate from the William S. Richardson School of Law in 1978. During his undergraduate tenure, he and his colleagues helped establish Ethnic Studies as a permanent degree program while serving as a student senator for the Associated Students of the Unviersity of Hawaiʻi (ASUH). Following his education, he was elected to the political office as a Hawaiʻi State Representative from 1980 to 1994, and as a Hawaiʻi State Senator from 1994 to his current term. Throughout his political career, Sen. Taniguchi has been a supporter for the improvement of student life at UH Mānoa. This past year, he has been working collaboratively with his colleagues in both the Hawaiʻi State House and Hawaiʻi State Senate to financially assist the Campus Center renovation and expansion project.
The Campus Center Board at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa provides governance for the Campus Center and its programs. For more information, visit www.hawaii.edu/ccb or call 956-9670.
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The City of Bogo honors Projects Abroad volunteers in the Philippines
The City of Bogo and the Department of Education in Bogo City organized a dinner party for Projects Abroad volunteers in April 2014 at the City of Bogo Science of Arts and Academics (CBSAA). The event, dubbed as "Mga Pungpong sa Bulak" (Wreath of Flowers), was to acknowledge the volunteers' dedication to help rebuild classrooms in public elementary schools in the city through Projects Abroad's Disaster Relief project.
The two-part event started off with a buffet dinner, as guests were serenaded by CBSAA Rondalla Ensemble and City of Bogo Employees Chorale. Dr Nimfa Bongo, from the Department of Education, gave the welcome address while the Mayor of Bogo City gave very heart-warming words of gratitude to all those who helped rebuild the classrooms, saying how 'the city of Bogo is a place of grateful people'.
Projects Abroad's Operations Manager, Ligaya Basalo, also spoke and recalled the time when she first arrived in the country to set up the project after the typhoon. She felt that this project could strongly impact the community. In retrospection, she spoke, especially to the students who were present during the event, of how important education is. By helping these schools, she said, education is given a priority.
All of the volunteers who were involved in the Disaster Relief project since its inception were given certificates of appreciation. Volunteer William Hicks gave words of gratitude as well. He thanked everyone who made their stay worthwhile and for the hospitality and generosity of the city's people.
The Disaster Relief project started in late November 2013 after Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). At present, the project built a total of 15 classrooms in three elementary schools (Don Pedro, Taytayan, Bung-aw) and are now being used by the children. The project currently runs in two schools (Anonang Norte Elementary School and Dakit Elementary School), involving five totally and partially damaged classrooms.
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Jordan Farmar will sign, and excel, with New Jersey Nets
Former Los Angeles Lakers guard Jordan Farmar has agreed to a three-year, $12-million deal with the New Jersey Nets, his agent, Arn Tellem, confirmed to ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher on Sunday night.
"Jordan will be an excellent complement to Devin Harris in the backcourt," Nets president Rod Thorn said in a statement released by the team. "He comes to the Nets with championship pedigree, which will prove to be invaluable to his teammates."
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: He still has upside.
Many have written Jordan Farmar off as a journeyman guard because he had mostly mixed results during his four seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers.
This would be a mistake.
Farmar is just 23 years old. In New Jersey, he'll get consistent minutes behind and next to Devin Harris. In New Jersey, he'll get be tutored by demanding Coach Avery Johnson, a championship winning point guard with the San Antonio Spurs.
This will help the former UCLA star maximize his considerable skill-set. For instance, Farmar is one of the NBA`s fastest players, and Johnson will teach him to better use his quicks to control tempo.
The Nets – even though, they struck out on the summer's top free agents – are having a solid summer. They've signed many young free agents to cost effective contracts.
For instance, Travis Outlaw - a talented, versatile player - inked a five year, $35 million pact; Johan Petro is an ideal back-up to budding star Brook Lopez, especially at $3 million per year; and Farmar, who will likely develop into a top reserve table-setter, will earn a reasonable $4 million per annum.
Farmar has upside. And so do the Nets.
-- Oly Sandor.
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I'm thinking about getting Toby a Puppia rain coat from Posh Paws as it seems winter is well on its way. He is in a large Puppia harness as he is slightly tubby. Has anyone brought any of the clothing and are the sizes the same as the Puppia harnesses?? I was thinking of ordering an X large to be on the safe side?


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This post shares the video from the talk presented in 2014 by Eu Jin Lok on mining tweets with R presented at Melbourne R Users.
Twitter is currently ranked in the top 10 for most-visited website, and averaging 500 million tweets a day. It is not just a microblogging outlet used by individuals and celebrities, but also for big commercial organisations, such as Telstra, NAB and Qantas, as a communication channel. However, few companies have deployed data analytics in this space due to the challenges in mining unstructured data. And hence, it is unclear what value can be achieved from mining twitter data. Eu Jin embarks on the journey to explore some of the data mining techniques that can be applied on tweets to uncover potential gems for business or personal use.
Eu Jin Lok is a data analyst for iSelect, a graduate from Monash University with a Masters in Econometrics and has been using R for more than 3 years now both professionally and for causal purposes (eg- Kaggle). This will be his 2nd talk for the MelbURN group and in this talk, he will embark on the task of applying data mining techniques on twitter feeds using a real example.


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American pianist Stephen Carlson began his undergraduate studies as a political science major and Army ROTC Scholarship Cadet. A member of the Bemidji State University Music Department since 2006, he is a versatile soloist and chamber musician who has performed at many colleges, universities, and festivals throughout much of the U.S. and Canada. Last season, Carlson was particularly active as he gave a dozen solo recitals and six master classes throughout Arizona, Minnesota, North and South Carolina, North Dakota, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
In 2005, Dr. Carlson made his New York debut as a solo recitalist in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with a program that included Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, Stravinsky's Three Movements from Petrushka, and various works by Beethoven, Debussy and Scriabin. From 1995 to 2003, he appeared at Minnesota Valley Sommarfest (St. Peter, MN) where he performed an array of solo and collaborative works. He has appeared with the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra three times: in 2010 in which he played Beethoven'sEmperor Concerto, in 2009 when he played Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1and in 2007 when he played Beethoven's Triple Concerto along with Michelle Laliberte and Patrick Riley. He also performed the Tchaikovsky with the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony, Mozart's Concerto in A major, K. 414 with the Gustavus Adolphus Chamber Orchestra, and Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals with the Mississippi Valley Chamber Orchestra.
He completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance and pedagogy at the University of Iowa where he studied with Uriel Tsachor. He is also a graduate of the University of Illinois and Gustavus Adolphus College where he studied with Ian Hobson and John McKay, respectively.
Dr. Carlson has a successful undergraduate studio at Bemidji State and is pleased to see students go on to major graduate schools or private studio teaching. Also an innovative clinician with wide-ranging interests, he is frequently called upon to give master classes, piano teacher workshops, and to adjudicate contests. His clinic entitled, An Athletic Approach Toward Playing the Piano, was presented at the South Carolina Music Teachers Association Conference. Most recently, he instituted Piano Day with the support of the Bemidji State University Foundation and Department of Music. In addition, Dr. Carlson has published articles for the journal, American Music. Prior to coming to Bemidji State where he is Associate Professor of Music, Carlson was a tenured faculty member at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina. He has also taught piano at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, Gustavus Adolphus College and St. Joseph's School of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota.


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Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Nautilus & Metadata, love at first sight
This gave me some ideas, so I agreed to try and see what I could do to help the effort, and after some pointers from John's current work on emblem support, Jamie's help on #tracker, and a Alex's help in #nautilus, I can bring you this:
What you see there is a 'metadata tile', which goes and fetches metadata from Tracker about the currently selected file in Nautilus. It is all done asynchronously, so you do not feel a difference while browsing, even when you frantically click folder after folder looking for a file (which I still manage to do, even with Beagle & Tracker installed :-s ). Also, if it cannot find any metadata, it will hide itself, letting you have more viewing space.
This is extremely alpha software ATM, so no released code yet, expect some by Sunday/Monday. It doesn't crash Nautilus or anything that sinister, but I need to clean up the code, and also complete support for Documents, Videos, & Images.
You may also notice the little 'Tags' label at the bottom. Well, this works exactly like on all those web 2.0 sites. Clicking the label with allow you to edit the tags in an GtkEntry. You just type in all the relevant tags, separated by spaces, and it will update them for you. This, together with planned better support for tags around GNOME, will have you tagging anything & everything.
Regarding the UI, please bear in mind that this is alpha software ATM, I need to make the edit ting capabilities more apparent for the user, plus the font weights & sizes need to be sorted out. Also, I haven't touched this with cairo yet ;), so expect some 'eye-candy' stuff soon.
The tile also supports folder.jpg/png files, as most of my Music collection & Video collection is organised like this!
Here are some ideas which I am aiming for:
* Beagle support (if possible).
* Let the user specify which fields to show.
* Editing of Tags & Comments (and maybe some other fields also).
* Document tile which shows a snippet of the document (together with the usual Author, Word Count etc).
* Video tile which shows various video metadata.
* Picture tile which shows EXIF metadata, and failing that, basic picture metadata.
* Proper thumbnailing support for PDFs, Videos, Pictures etc.
* Be able to read the album art from the file directly.
* Allow it to be disabled from the menu.
There are more ideas, but I cannot think of them right now! If you have ideas, express them here, or mail me, I am especially open to UI ideas right now, as I want to decide on a set UI scheme soon. I am also intrested to hear what you want to see in the tile for different mimetypes.
That's about it for now, I am going to hack Awn for the rest of the evening, as I have been neglecting it, so expect a blog post for new Awn features sometime soon!
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I like the way this is going :)
(even if I don't use anymore Nuatilus because I switched to xfce, I'm really fond of tracker).
Keep up the good work!
AWN is really nice too for a dev release, it just need more configuration-possibilities and some usability.
- 13 February 2007 at 19:22
Hi! Thank You for the work. I use AVN and look forward to see new breathtaking features & functionality in Linux.
all the best
- 13 February 2007 at 20:32
Hi Neil, congratulations for this too!
I'd suggest another possible field of integration between Nautilus and Tracker: the file property dialog. While John Stowers is taking care of the Emblems/Tags part, I'd like to know your opinion about implementing something like this next:
- 13 February 2007 at 23:26
- Neil J. Patel said...
Hi all!
Thanks for the compliments!
@ago : _more_ configuration ? lol, whats left ;)!
@pollycoke : Yep, that looks very do-able, it can actually be a nautilus-extension, so no need to mess around with nautilus internals. I think it will make a nice choice for those people not interested in the tile, I'll be sure to knock something like that up when I get some more time!
- 13 February 2007 at 23:36
- Jack Kerouac said...
Certainly interesting, but when I followed th directions, I got:
dpkg-deb: building package `tracker-search-tool' in `../tracker-search-tool_0.5.4-1_i386.deb'.
tar: -: file name read contains nul character
dpkg-genchanges -b
dpkg-genchanges: warning: unknown information field `Xb-Python-Version' in input data in package's section of control info file
dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code
dpkg-buildpackage: binary only upload (no source included)
Sigh! ;(
- 13 February 2007 at 23:52
- Kenneth Rohde Christiansen said...
You really need to implement the GTK theme instead :-) I really cannot wait!
- 14 February 2007 at 00:02
- Mike Jones said...
"That's about it for now, I am going to hack Awn for the rest of the evening, as I have been neglecting it, so expect a blog post for new Awn features sometime soon!"
Cant wait for the new awn features! :-)
- 14 February 2007 at 00:42
- DeXtA said...
love to see that tagging use libleaftag. Hope you go down that path.
- 14 February 2007 at 04:49
- Roumano said...
This is very nice improvement,
But i hava a question : if we select more than one file ( can we see & edit some information about it ? )
Like select all mp3 of a album & change the name of the artist ?
- 14 February 2007 at 07:01
Sweet! Some suggestions:
- make tags clickable, so that clicking a tag opens nautilus/tracker-search-tool with all files matching that tag
- Add some visual clue to the users that they can actually edit the tags (but it sounds like you are already thinking about this)
Nice work. Cheers,
kamstrup // grillbar.org
- 14 February 2007 at 08:40
- zbrox said...
It would be cool if it supported album art not only through folder.jpg files, but also through cover.jpg, .cover.jpg, and .folder.jpg.
These are the only ways I've seen players store cover art. There may be more, but I think these are the most popular.
- 14 February 2007 at 09:17
It kills! (can I say that in english? You get the meaning I think)
Nice job! Can't wait to see that in Nautilus. For photos, please don't forget the super useful info for bad photographers like me: speed/aperture/focal length. But if you explain that you can customize the fields the way you want, maybe my request is useless.
Anyway, good job, Linux really needs an efficient indexer/search engine/metadata management system, and that looks promising.
- 14 February 2007 at 09:18
Thank you for your work!
What do you think to adopt directly XMP to store the image metadata?
I did a little gui to manage some basic fields
- 14 February 2007 at 10:14
- Neil J. Patel said...
@patrick: hmm, not sure about that...maybe ask on tracker-list?
@dexta: ATM its using trackers in built tagging support, but it should be very easy to implement a new provider once I restructure the code.
@roumano: I think that feature is better implemented as a nautilus-extension. I however want to implement support of group tagging & recursive tagging.
@anon: "make tags clickable" - good idea, let me see what I can do.
"Add some visual clue ..." - yes, I am thinking about this, and I think i've cracked it. Stay tuned for the next update!
@grigio: Thats agood idea, to allow external editors of the file metadata. Let me see what I can do!
- 14 February 2007 at 14:22
regarding the Tags, it would be nice to have a cloud created as well.
ie: http://thepiratebay.org/searchcloud
- 14 February 2007 at 17:35
Really cool feature!
I think this should be implemented on a side pane. Possibly on a second side pane, at the right of the window, and with autohide/exapand/collapse features.
- 15 February 2007 at 05:43
Thanks for the nice post!
- 19 September 2007 at 00:38
- erkin said...
Hey Neil, great work!
It's been some time since you posted this. Are you still working on it? Any news on when we can expect to see this or some similar functionality?
- 14 March 2008 at 06:26
Yeah... any updates. Man, tagging files and documents and music in nautilus... that would rock so much.
- 17 June 2008 at 10:46
Alas, it's 2010 and we still don't have this
- 28 February 2010 at 03:48
- Seb said...
Yes, I'm curious what happened to this.. Tagging & file management is love at first sight for me, but I'm only finding half finished solutions.. see also topic here; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1474739
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Yesterday I noticed that Newsweek's cover story compares Lincoln to Obama. (You can read an online version here.) Excited by the prospect of posting about it, I logged on this morning to find that Dimitri Rotov and Kevin Levin beat me to the draw. The Newsweek item references Doris Kearns Goodwin's thesis that Lincoln built a successful coalition out of his former enemies, and compares this to the buzz about Obama's prospective political appointments. Levin questions whether applying this concept to Obama is valid, while Rotov challenges both the Obama comparison and the accuracy of Goodwin's original argument. They both make for interesting reading, and I highly recommend them.
Newsweek strains to draw additional parallels between Lincoln and Obama, none of which are particularly profound or useful in understanding either man. Here's the opening:
Two thin men from rude beginnings, relatively new to Washington but wise to the world, bring the nation together to face a crisis. Both are superb rhetoricians, both geniuses at stagecraft and timing. Obama, like Lincoln and unlike most modern politicians, even writes his own speeches, or at least drafts the really important ones—by hand, on yellow legal paper—such as his remarkably honest speech on race during the Reverend Wright imbroglio last spring.
Yes, Lincoln was thin, and darned if Obama isn't thin, too. Now that's the kind of insight I'd expect from a prestigious national publication.
It seems to me that whenever we're subjected to these comparisons between modern and historical public figures, it always comes down to the style of leadership as opposed to its substance. There is seldom any meaningful attempt to compare the actual policies and decisions that make up the meat and potatoes of public service, or the ideologies behind those policies and decisions.
Drawing on the past doesn't necessarily mean that we're informing the present. Sometimes we're not really looking to make sense of things; we're merely skimming the surface of history in search of platitudes and generalities. The latter doesn't require us to abandon our intellectual laziness, which probably explains why it's much more common.
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Alot of Ravens fans I know and talk too online are really and I mean really taking this game for granted this week against the Steelers. They think this is going to be an easy win based on the fact that we barely beat Cleveland and we keep turning the ball over every week and Ben leading the league in interceptions and stuff. They assume this is going to be an easy win because Baltimore fans think this is their year and they compare it to the 2000 season where they won the Super Bowl saying that the magic is back this year just like that year. Well I got news for all the Ravens fans this team is not as good as the Ravens team in 2000 that won the Super Bowl.
Ive watched every Ravens game this year and they have been winning all these close games not because their a really good team, alot of it I think is just pure luck and fluky. This Ravens team can be had and if this Ravens team and their fans think that just cause the Steelers are having an off year and are not playing the same kind of football that this game Sunday in Baltimore is going to be a walk in the park their gonna be in for a rude awakening come Sunday. Keep in mind Ravens fans you guys barely beat the Browns and the Titans on the road this year. They beat them both by 1 point and had to do it in the closing seconds. They beat the Chargers because the Chargers missed a couple fg's and a fluky safety play in the end zone with 2 mins left that gave the Ravens the ball in good field position to drive and win the game in the last minute. Basically they are winning games because of Steve McNair he is the sole reason that team now is 8-2 period. Its not their awesome overrated D its McNair period. My point is the Steelers need to come out this week and take it too the Ravens early in this game. This is not a game I think where the Steelers can come out and can afford to get behind early. If Im the Steelers I come out and go no huddle and spread it 4 wides to start the game and try to get up on the Ravens 10-0 14-0 early and put the pressure on McNair all game to make plays and win. They absolutely cannot turn the ball over this week either. Do not give this Ravens offense which I still isnt very good I dont think a short field to score on. Make McNair and the offense drive everytime they have the ball and earn their points. Special teams will also be a key in this game too. We MUST not give up no big returns in this game or it could spell disaster.
The bottom line is if the Steelers do win this game this week I think its really gonna be a huge lift for this team and I really believe that the Ravens will lose to the Bengals and Chiefs the next two weeks on the road and the Steelers will beat Tampa and Browns here the same weeks which would put the Steelers 1 game behind Baltimore with one game still to go here on Christmas Eve. Im telling you this Ravens team is not that good, and if the Steelers come out and dont turn the ball over get up on them in this game early and keep the pressure on they will definitely come out of Baltimore with a win. Either way this is going to be one hell of a battle and I expect it to come down to the last minutes if not go to OT. But if the Ravens and their fans think this is going to be a cakewalk their sadly mistaken. The Ravens have an opportunity to knock the Steelers out once and for all this weekend they had better do it or else this division is once again going to be ours for the taking.


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Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Act IV, Scene I
Caroline B. Cooney's latest novel, Enter Three Witches, is rich with Shakespeare. Told from the point of view of a young girl, Mary, the reader gets a new perspective of the ever-required play MacBeth.
Back to Enter Three Witches. Mary is a young girl, a daughter of one of the characters who is accused of treason and executed. She had been "adopted" for a time by the Macbeth family and had been staying with them for quite a while when the book (and play) opens. We first meet her visiting and chatting with the servant girls/kitchen staff. Although Mary has not revealed it to another soul, she's been experiencing weird tingles in her thumbs. She's almost convinced it's a sign. A sign that only the three weird sisters could interpret. But everyone is scared of the witches, right? Yet her curiousity leads Mary to be in just the right place to overhear a prophecy--a deadly prophecy given to Macbeth. (The reader will notice that this happens to Mary a lot. She always happens to be in the background, the shadows, listening and watching as all the big drama happens.)
What can I say about Enter Three Witches? It blends original characters with classic Shakespeare characters. It quotes a bit of Shakespeare now and then. While it is told mainly through Mary's point of view, it also includes a bit of the young prince's point of view--Fleance. It is very dramatic. Of course it has its dark moments. Lots of blood. Lots of schemes. Lots of villains.
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Similar as I have done with other family members, I thought I would make available all the pictures I have of Grandpa. I won't write much, just present the few photos and documents I have in chronological order, as best I can tell.
Wilburn Norwood "Nor" Jonas was born 15 May 1924 in Lewiston, Cache, Utah to Lillian Coley and Joseph Nelson Jonas. The fourth child of eight to his parents. He married Colleen Mary Andra 27 September 1946 in Elko, Elko, Nevada. Three children were born to him and Colleen; Douglas in 1952, Sandra in 1954, and Jackie in 1960. He died 14 March 1975 in Burley, Cassia, Idaho and was buried 19 March 1975 in Richmond, Cache, Utah.
I think this is the youngest picture I have of Grandpa.
This picture shows some of his youth.
He graduated from Primary in 1936.
A couple of pictures taken as a teenager.
His Certificate of Promotion to the High School, North Cache.
A promissory note to attend North Cache Seminary. I was a bit surprised signed a promissory note for $1.35 to attend Seminary.
He worked for Western Coal in 1943, I don't know if he lived in Carbon County or if this was closer to Richmond.
He had a hernia operation in 1945. Here is the bill.
Somebody tried to get a liquor license dishonestly.
Grandpa also worked for the government during the war.
His metal Social Security Card.
The rejection of his liquor license in 1946.
A wedding portrait.
A picture given to me, of lesser quality scan, of Norwood and Colleen in Yellowstone in 1946. I understand this was from their honeymoon.
His chauffeur's license from 1951, luckily the photograph is still attached and you can see his signature.
His insurance card from Mr. Skidmore in Richmond, Utah.
This photo was taken on 17 April 1950 in Richmond, Utah after the funeral and burial of Kent Jonas, Ellis and Geri's son.
A picture from a mid 1950's Jonas Family Reunion.
A picture from an Andra Family Reunion about 1957.
A formal portrait in the mid to late 1960's.
A family photo taken somewhere around 1970.
A picture of a visit to City of Rocks in the early 1970's.
A couple of the newspaper articles around Grandpa's death.
Norwood's Funeral Program