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25 Years Ago
Edith Nance celebrates her 95th birthday today, March 27.
She was honored by her family and friends with a birthday celebration on March 24 in Bradbury Community Center.
Nance is the mother of four: Patsy Nance, Larry Nance, Danny Nance and the late Gloria Miller.
She has a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Siblings Maggie Rose Richardson and Payton Madox "Max" Richardson both celebrated their birthdays on March 8.
Maggie turned 5 on March 8 and celebrated with a Cinderella-themed party. Max, who turned 7 on March 8, had a Mario-themed party.
They are the children of Cliff and Shauna Richardson.
Grandparents are Jack and Diane Woolum of Kingston, the late Jerry D. Richardson, and Michael and Kay Griffith of North Carolina.
Airman Jacob R. Hester recently graduated from U.S. Air Force basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
Son of Shannon and Lisa Hester, he is presently stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, in training to be a firefighter. Upon completion of his training, the airman will be transferred to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.
Hester's grandparents are Pat Hester and the late Raymond Hester, the late Mary Carlene Morris, Reva Nickell and the late James Nickell.
His brothers are Sammy and Jonathan.
Levi Kreis garnered a 2010 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, thanks to his electrifying performance as Jerry Lee Lewis in "Million Dollar Quartet" on Broadway.
Now the Oliver Springs native has scheduled a one-night performance at Pellissippi State Community College.
The March 30 event brings the Pellissippi State alumnus to the stage for an evening of cabaret-style vocals and piano.
Kreis performs at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $25 and can be ordered online at www.pstcc.edu/tickets.
U.S. Army Pvt. Levi G. Fletcher recently graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.
Fletcher, a 2012 graduate of Roane County High School, is the brother of John Fletcher of Kingston.
During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, and physical fitness.
First-term state Rep. Kent Calfee, R-Kingston, officially passed his first bill recently in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
House Bill 940, which creates a special committee to review Tennessee's underground utility damage prevention program, will now travel to the desk of Gov. Bill Haslam to be signed into law.
Easter traditions and religious references are everywhere right now, and lilies and churchly references are universal.
So how did rabbits get in the picture? And how could a rabbit lay many-colored eggs?
The Easter Bunny legend finds its roots in the mythology of a constellation of stars. In this case it is the constellation of Lupus the Hare.
In Greco-Roman mythology, Hermes, messenger to the Olympian gods, placed Lupus among the stars to honor its swiftness.
Mr. and Mrs. Rolland McNelly of Midtown will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on April 2.
Their children will give a reception in their honor from 2 to 4 p.m. April 7 in Piney Grove Baptist Church fellowship building at 2323 Ruritan Road, Midtown. Call Robin at 712-0286 for information or directions. All relatives and friends are invited to attend. The couple requests no gifts.
McNelly and the former Carolyn Rayburn were married on April 2, 1963, in Rockwood, with the Rev. Bobby Spann officiating.
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Moberly Area Community College's Board of Trustees approved several measures pertaining to their new Hannibal campus during Monday night's (Sept. 23) regular meeting.
First up on their agenda was a recommendation by College President Jeff Lashley for the board to enter into a three-year agreement with MOREnet to provide 50-megabit internet connectivity (throttled at 20 megabits) on the campus, starting "on or near Dec. 1, 2013".
The annualized amount for this service will be $14,700, with AT&T chosen via a University of Missouri competitive bidding process as the project's lowest and best vendor. Moneys for the connection will be funded "using institutional technology funds," it was noted.
Lloyd Marchant was approved to execute the online electronic authorization on the project.
The second Hannibal-related measure pertained to replacement of prior Irrevocable Standby Letters of Credit, approved in May by the board, on a pair of loans used in financing the construction of said new campus.
These loans are for $1 million and $360,000.
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Finally, $284,974 in furniture was approved for purchase at Monday's meeting, for the Hannibal and expanding Columbia campuses, from Smart Business Products, Columbia.
Per the board packet, "[bid] advertisements were placed in the Moberly and Columbia newspapers, and a public bid opening was held at 11 a.m., Sept. 17, 2013.
A second was received from Staples Contract and Commercial, Inc. — a St. Louis-based company — in the amount of $279,225. This bid, however, did not meet bid specifications, and was, therefore, not considered, despite its lower price.
MACC board: OK to Hannibal campus items
Moberly Area Community College's Board of Trustees approved several measures pertaining to their new Hannibal campus during Monday night's (Sept. 23) regular meeting.


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|2011-03-10, 04:05
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I don't know if these movies will start a new continuity or not, if that's the case i hope things will get better for the Yagami family. Not much can be expected from them on the main continuity now xDU.
|2011-03-10, 04:22
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Even though she's a glass cannon, they still could actually... y'know... give her a fight.
|2011-03-10, 04:28
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|2011-03-10, 04:46
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*Counts Hayate's Wins* Oh crap....
On one hand, I could say that leaders aren't supposed to be on the front lines and that Hayate is more of a DPS/Area of effect attacker than a direct combatant. On the other hand, that just isn't really that exciting. So what's left is to showcase her command abilities and wits, which is a bit hard at times. Not everyone can be smooth like Gendo Ikari.
We are told that she is one of the most powerful when it comes to raw magical power, so a win against a credible opponent here and there would help. Other unique abilities besides beam spam would help; considering she should have tons of abilities at her disposal. Maybe she's not subject to the limitations that other people have. But, I guess it's the nature of any show/movie/story to relegate "important fights" to main characters only.
For example, Vita quickly established how strong she was in the first episode of A's. And not in the cheap "haha, I have some random power that nullifies all your abilities!", but in the sense that shows that she is clearly superior to Nanoha at that point. Nanoha can put up a fight but ends up getting crushed.
Chrono as a competent leader is also pretty clear; since he was young he was always serious and efficient.
It's the kind of stuff that makes us disappointed about stuff like no Lindy vs Precia in movie 1st, etc. Show, don't tell! Especially when you say their powers are extremely awesome and out of this world.
On an unrelated note, that reminds me of many a anime where someone pulls out some super technique that you wonder why they just didn't use in the first place.
Don't hold back, folks! The franchise has long run on rule of cool to give excuses for characters to show off. It's only fair Hayate gets more; maybe in Movie 3rd Strikers or what not.
|2011-03-10, 05:03
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People like A's, so they tend to place the Wolkies on a higher pedestal, but what happened in A's was just as much the enemy having a random advantage to nullify the heroine's strengths as Force.
|2011-03-10, 05:18
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Though I guess it is kinda odd how fast Nanoha recovered from being drained. I think it is forgivable for a 13 episode series.
Still, it is much less arbitrary of an advantage as say "I have this field that magically nullifies all of your current skills-- now you must completely change your strategy and use different skills because we are bored!" It wasn't like Vita could just and tank all of Nanoha's attacks in their 1st battle. And even after the upgrades, they were basically using stronger versions of the attacks they already had.
I didn't really get very much into Force, so I'm not really sure how it goes.
|2011-03-10, 08:04
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Considering how they went from 'complete crumpin' to 'equal battles' the moment the other side had cartridges too, it was definitely a bigger stick issue. Experience is never a factor in Nanoha anyway (nine year olds fighting veterans of wars that lasted hundreds of year on equal ground? Even holding back stops being an excuse there).
And I don't quite get how anti-magic relates to 'being bored.' If anything, powerups are the lazyman's method, since you can just have the same thing with "MORE POWER!" and call it a day.
Is it the most creative of solutions? No, it certainly lacks finese. But it's hardly worse than going DBZ on Nanoha.
|2011-03-10, 10:21
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It's not unlikely that someone has a bigger stick; I don't find it random at all since nobody holds on a monopoly on magic.
But an anti-magic field? That to me is just a generic counter-all.
"Hey, can't we use this attack"
"It doesn't work, there's an anti-magic field!"
"Or how about"
"No, no, no, anti-magic field"
It makes sense that someone could come up with more firepower. It makes less sense for someone to suddenly counter everything available unless they are somehow ages more advanced then they are.
Personally, I just don't like it because it basically obsoletes everyone's current arsenal; would it mean that every enemy after this is going to do it?
Then again I don't mind DBZ'ing the series, anyways lol.
|2011-03-10, 11:29
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Writer, Jester, MtG nerd
They have to do an arms race regardless of power leveling they might also do since they are older. If they don't then is just SSX type plot line...
huh so much for my argument.
|2011-03-10, 11:31
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But it doesn't counter everything, it only counters magic. It's like calling a gas mask a generic counter-all just for countering gas.
One of my major gripes is that this anti-magic stuff was a prime opening to let the numbers shine, but instead they chose to go with the old cast. Granted, we get more Numbers with Vivid, but it would have been nice to see their unique skills actually being an advantage.
|2011-03-10, 11:52
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Numbers have trouble versus Huckbien because they're weak. Yes, their attacks are nonmagic to the point where the Hucks might not be able to block them, but the Hucks are still stronger and better protected against any attack that the Numbers can dish out.
Dieci and her cannon might be able to hurt them, but I don't have high hopes for any of the other Numbers to be able to do much against the Hucks.
|2011-03-10, 12:26
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First of all, while it's true the cartridge system is an advantage is not the primary reason of the Wolkenritter's superiority in combat, Nanoha is able to put up a fight until the moment she provokes Vita to go berserk, also the Wolkies have very powerfull techniques they never used against the heroes(due probably because of their promise of not killing), Nanoha have the advantage to be able to go happy trigger to her opponents thanks to her non-lethal blasts of doom so she can go all out with Vita. Fate didn't have much luck against Signum despite actually having the Cartridge system(she even performs a SECOND upgrade by using sonic form just to catch up to the Blazing General). A
Also, despite being 9 year old Nanoha is depicted as a kid genius and a very darn good strategist, putting her to fight a hot-headed berserker kid like Vita eventually will lead to Nanoha learning how to handle the bull(Fate and Arf nearly manage to do it before the upgrade).
By the way, claiming the Wolkenritter have "a random advantage to nullify the heroine's strengths as Force" is even more incorrect, they don't nullify the heroes's strenght, they take it and endure it by virtue of being stronger and able to withstand said strenght. FORCE just go a silly route by nullyfing magic, effectively ignoring the heroes's strenght instead of fighting their way agionst it. Karen/Curren is an exception because she fight and defeats two AEC armed opponents. Still things get blurry in FORCe because we never would get to see the heroes fighting at their fullest again, we can only imagine how well they will fight the Huckebein without that pesky Anti-Magic thing.
|2011-03-10, 13:45
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|2011-03-10, 13:52
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|2011-03-10, 14:17
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Frankly, I would have much preferred the old guard being dropped alltogether and have Force concentrating on the new generation they nurtured in StrikerS. But ah well, you've got to keep the fanbase happy. The last movie is certainly proof how well that pays.
|2011-03-10, 14:30
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Requiring heroes to get clever and try new things is good, but in my opinion a literal arms race where heroes are dependent on R & D to give them countermeasures to the enemy's new technology or strategy or whatever isn't any better than the metaphorical ones where people spontaneously develop new powers just because.
I felt like StrikerS tried to do it the right way at the start, where AMF was something that took more work to deal with but they could still approach using their existing toolkit, but in the end AMF ended up being too meaningless against the main characters and was mostly just an excuse for them to vastly outperform the rest of the military against Scaglietti's forces.
I mean, the forgotten ideal is that the characters using the same powers plot after plot isn't boring because the actual plots and characters are interesting...
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|2011-03-10, 15:07
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There wasn't anything bad with the way their powers are developing, but probably is Tsuzuki himself the one that got bored and decide to change things xDU.
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|90% blind IAS officer gives 100% to his job
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The person who finalized recruitment rules pending for about 30 years in a civic body, made it possible for hundreds of employees to be promoted and leads work on improving the ranking of South Delhi Municipal Corporation in Swachh Survekshan 2018 is an IIM graduate. He is also 90% blind.
Aman Gupta, a 2013 batch IAS officer of the AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories) cadre, works with the assistance of a stand-mounted American video magnifier that helps the visually impaired read.
Officer's condition has no cure
Gupta has juvenile macular degeneration, a medical condition that has no known cure. His vision is now so poor that he finds it difficult to distinguish people by their features. The broad smile on his face hides the pain he has felt since his vision began to degenerate. Gupta used to ride a bike when he was in Class 12. First, his eyes stopped seeing the cursor on the computer; then he couldn't see a cricket ball arcing through the air; and soon after he found it difficult to read the text on the classroom blackboard. In 2002, he learnt at AIIMS that he had developed juvenile macular degeneration which, over the years, has left him with just about 10% of normal sight.
In Delhi, where 2 bureaucrats committed suicide this year over stress and illness and students have killed themselves on getting low marks, Gupta challenging life, rather than the other way round, is exemplary. "I failed to clear UPSC in 2012 for which I prepared with audio books. I devoted more time and got a 57th all-India rank in the general category," Gupta, a BTech, said. He currently holds three important positions — director (personnel), additional director (education) and secretary to the SDMC commissioner. Earlier, he was deputy commissioner (west zone), and before that he was with the Delhi government as the SDM for Chanakyapuri.
A few officials have found it doesn't pay to be too clever where Gupta is concerned. When he headed the west zone as deputy commissioner, some would sometimes stealthily leave the meeting hall while he thought they were seated. When told, he immediately issued showcause notices to the erring officials. When Gupta was new to the SDMC, an officer felt offended when he did not respond to his offer of a handshake. "I could not see that he wanted a handshake. I later told him that I was 90% blind," Gupta said.
Reading with the assistance of a video magnifier takes around 200% more time. But it isn't often you'll find his desk groaning under unfinished files. Visuals of Gupta, his face often buried in his video magnifier, and sometimes of his hands feeling around the desk in search of a bell to press for a glass of water, or seeking a pen or a mobile phone, testify to his immense willpower and patience. He is one of the top officials in SDMC's education department, responsible for managing 600 schools and 2.5 lakh students. SDMC commissioner Puneet Kumar Goel said Gupta was very meticulous.
Source: The Times of India Dec 28, 2017 edition


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WORCESTER — The panel of educators and advocates who picked the National High School Principal of the Year had a weighty trio of finalists from which to choose. They could have gone with an accomplished principal from Everett, Wash., who focused intensively on English and math.
They could have picked the principal of Columbine High School in Colorado, who saw his school through a tragedy so staggering that it became a household word.
Instead, they chose a woman from Worcester.
The national spotlight shone Tuesday on Sheila M. Harrity, whose record of exceeding expectations may have started when she was a second-grader playing on the boys' basketball team at Midland Street School. These days she is the leader of a far larger school: the 1,355-student Worcester Technical High School, which has won local, statewide and national attention for its work.
State Secretary of Education Matthew Malone told the students, staff and dignitaries in the school's auditorium Tuesday that he asks a simple question several times a week when people tell him vocational education can't be improved: 'Have you visited Worcester Tech?'
"At the end of the day, there is one place in this state where it is really working," he said, and went on to praise Ms. Harrity for her distributive leadership style and for "creating great human beings, the kind of people who we want to live next to."
Ms. Harrity learned she was a finalist for MetLife/National Association of Secondary School Principals' High School Principal of the Year this summer, but did not know until Tuesday's assembly that she was the national winner. Superintendent Melinda J. Boone and other officials told her she had been asked to speak at a meeting of urban superintendents. When Ms. Harrity walked on the stage at Worcester Tech, the governor, secretary and other officials were on stage, her family was in the front row, and five students held a banner announcing the news.
"I was so nervous I couldn't read," Ms. Harrity said later.
At first, she mistook the banner for the same one that had announced her selection as state high school principal of the year. It wasn't until after Ms. Boone repeatedly urged her to read it that she caught on.
The first thing Ms. Harrity did was rush down to hug her family, including her mother, Beverly; siblings; daughters Celina and Abigail Frias; and husband, former Wachusett Superintendent Thomas G. Pandiscio.
When she returned to the stage, she smiled and shook her head for the rest of the ceremony.
"Mary O'Malley,look what you started!"
Ms. Harrity said at one point to the assistant principal who nominated her. Ms. O'Malley said later in an interview that she had seen who the nominees were in previous years, and she knew her principal was as good or better.
Ms. Harrity is the first Massachusetts principal to be named a national principal of the year in the program's 20-year history.
She has been principal of Worcester Tech since 2OO6, when the school moved into a new $90 million building designed to foster small learning communities and link academics with trades. Before that, she was principal of Wachusett Regional High School in Holden for a year.
Worcester Tech's academic credentials have improved dramatically since her arrival. The percent of students scoring proficient or above on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exams in English language arts rose from 27 to 88, and the percent of those scoring proficient or above on math went from 35 to 78. The school began offering Advanced Placement courses in 2OO8. The school's graduation rate, 96.4 percent, is the best in the district. Students Abigaele Mann, Omolara Ojo and Lindsey Bernier, who were among those who held Ms. Harrity's new banner, said in an interview that Ms. Harrity gets students what they need. When Abigaele approached her wanting to take nonexistent upper-level math courses, Ms. Harrity came back with new offerings including pre-calculus, Advanced Placement calculus and a partnership with Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
She also made sure students could take languages, like Spanish 1 and 2, Lindsey said.
"She supports everything that we do," Lindsey said. "I'm really glad I came to this school."
"It's the best thing that could happen to anybody," Omolara added.
Ms. Harrity, who spoke toward the end of the day's ceremony, was as gracious as she is successful. She said the school's students "are absolutely, truly amazing."
"For you, I would like to say the galaxy is the limit. Keep pushing us," the principal said.
She said she shared the recognition with Edwin B. 'Ted' Coghlin Jr., who was in the audience. He is chairman of the school's advisory board, a group of more than 350people who advise the school. Mr. Coghlin has been instrumental in facilitating companies' donations of equipment and other support to the school. Ms. Harrity's recognition, she said, would not have been possible without him. Like Ms. Harrity, he received a standing ovation.
She also praised the anonymous 'dreammaker' who pays for a motivational speaker every year at The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts. Ms. Harrity was a three-sport athlete at Doherty Memorial High School, a high school coach and an assistant basketball coach at the College of the Holy Cross, and she is a member of the Worcester Public Schools Athletic Hall of Fame. Given her background in sports, she wanted to have a 'pregame talk' each year before the state standardized tests, she said, and the donor has made that come true.
She also praised City Manager Michael V. O'Brien for being the school's 'biggest cheerleader' and thanked Timothy P. Murray, former Worcester mayor and former lieutenant governor, for being 'a relentless supporter of the bulldog.' Before the school moved into its new digs, its mascot was the bulldog, and Mr. Murray, who owned one at the time, supported everything about the new school except changing its mascot to the eagle.
Finally, Ms. Harrity thanked her family and dedicated the award to her grandmother, Mary D. Booden, who passed away in 2OO9. "She's my rock," Ms. Harrity said. "She's been the foundation for everything."
Ms. Harrity also spoke of the award's importance in terms of bringing people together and getting them excited about the school. In an interview, she added that she hopes the school will be a model for other districts and noted that it is already a frequent host to visitors.
The award comes with a $5,OOO grant which must be used to improve learning at the school.
Ms. Harrity will be honored Sept. 20 during a black-tie gala in Washington, D.C.
The National Middle School Principal of the Year is Sheena Alaiasa of Hawaii.
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Stevo: Final throw of the dice
Great Britain's mentality going into this has to be to win the game.
Yes, the points margin is an issue, but they cannot afford to go out there and throw the ball around with gay abandon: the most important fact is they must beat New Zealand.
The first 20 minutes will be vital to their chances. If they can build say an eight-point lead, then they can think about taking a chance or two.
Of course, having already been beaten by a very good Kiwi side, that is easier said than done, but I do believe it is possible.
Yes New Zealand have improved no end under Brian McClennan and surprised us all, but they are by no means world-beaters yet.
They are also without two a big player in Lance Hohaia at the Galpharm and there has to be some concern over Stacey Jones. First he was out of the series, now he has been brought back in, but will he be 100 per cent? His creative and organisational skills are crucial to this New Zealand side.
But this is all about Great Britain. They have to do things differently. We have to be realistic and suggest their skill factor is not as high as the Kiwis or Australians, but they have to ask more questions going forward.
The effort is not an issue, never has been. The likes of Jamie Peacock, Stuart Fielden and Adrian Morley will run through brick walls for four days on end, never mind 80 minutes, but when they do run through those walls we don't seem to have the ability to off-load or the men waiting in support.
You have to hurt defences and the best way to do that is to slip the tackle and let someone else take up the charge and that is something we find extremely difficult to do.
I think that is down to the way we play our game in Super League, but we all saw Ben Kennedy's off-load in atrocious conditions last week when other sides would have just closed the game out, and the devastating effect it had.
The only Great Britain player who can do that in any shape or form is Kieron Cunningham and it is no coincidence that all four of their Tri-Nations tries have come from the St Helens man doing just that. But New Zealand will know if they close him down, they negate the Lions forwards, so it is up to the others to start doing something different.
Australia always seem to have a man in support on either side and we have to do the same.
At the moment they lack that killer instinct, that ability and confidence to try something else and that is why Great Britain didn't make anything like the most of the excellent possession and field position they enjoyed at the JJB.
We need players that can put the Kiwis defence in two minds. Right now Great Britain have been a little one-dimensional going forward. Cunningham has showed the way and Mickey Higham also did it running from dummy-half, but other than that, there has been plenty of perspiration but little inspiration.
As I said before last week's game, we had the slowest half-back pairing in the world as it is, so even if they made the break, they are not going to get very far!
Which is why I am glad Richard Horne will get a go. Richard would be the first to admit he has not had a fantastic season for Hull, but it will be a wonderful opportunity for him and he does have a great step and good pace which would just put something else in the back of Kiwi minds. And like I say, Great Britain have to ask questions of them.
I would also like to see them switch players more. Last time out against New Zealand David Solomona and Ali Lauitiiti punched constant holes down our right-hand side against Brian Carney and Gleeson and you'd expect them to do exactly the same this time.
I see nothing wrong with moving Paul Johnson out to the wing to combat that, even if it is only temporarily.
After all he filled in after Carney went off in the Loftus Road debacle. Leon Pryce may well start out wide as well, but this lad has got pace to burn, so what is wrong with moving him infield now and then, even just from set-pieces and allowing him take the fight to them?
And can we please see a break? Keith Senior and Martin Gleeson haven't made one between them in two games! As I said, our half-backs haven't done it so far, but we are not going to win a game of rugby league at any level playing in front of the opposition.
I wonder whether Brian had seriously considered springing a surprise in bringing Mark Calderwood in. He is the fastest man we've got, he scored the most tries last season and I am sure his performance for England against the Kiwis on Sunday will have not gone unnoticed.
His speed in applying pressure would have been a useful tool. If you asked me the one thing that would cause havoc for New Zealand it would have been a couple of 40-20's, but to be fair to the coach, there were some improvements at the JJB and I am sure he is looking for another step up this time around.
As long as the Lions start to ask them questions and as long as they have the dimension to give them something else to think about, I can see that happening.
I happen to think Great Britain will win. If they can match them in their defensive patterns, the Kiwis are susceptible to falling down in that defensive line. They are great with ball in hand and are very pretty to watch, but they are a long way off invincible. But of course, it all depends on Great Britain's ability to do something different to what we've seen. They have to win the game before they can worry about points margins, but by the same token, they have to eek away at that 36-point gap. It might sound like running before we can walk, but it's no good winning by two points, that would mean having to beat the Aussies by 34. If that happens they may as well move the Tri-Nations final to Fantasy Island!
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Interview with Wayne Bergeron
Wayne Bergeron is now enjoying a career as one of the most active players on the Los Angeles scene. With studio dates, International touring, jazz concerts, guest soloist appearances and clinics he has no intention of slowing down.
Wayne is currently on staff at California State University Northridge where he manages to find time to teach privately. His skills have taken him to different parts of the globe as a clinician/soloist.
"Since my line of work covers a lot of ground musically, I need an instrument that responds to these needs. The YTR-8335LA is the most versatile Bb trumpet I have ever played – from the scoring stage to soaring over a big band, the Yamaha 8335LA delivers the full spectrum of tone colors needed to get the job done."
Watch an interesting interview with Wayne at the Yamaha Hub Site.
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Skype app for Windows Phone 8, which was bumped to version 126.96.36.199 this morning. The latest update brings along with it some substantive changes, including the previously missing Video messaging.
Video messaging was introduced by Skype earlier this summer and it quickly landed on their iOS and Android clients. Windows Phone though, despite receiving numerous updates since, was left on the side with an IOU from the Skype team. Up until today, Windows Phone 8 users were only able to view Video messages, but now they can also record and send them for free.
Skype version 22.214.171.124 changes
- Video messaging – Record life's everyday moments and share them with the people who matter most, with free and unlimited video messaging over Skype.
- General fixes and speed improvements.
As noted above, users can also expect the usual bug fixes and speed improvements.
Windows Phone 8 users can head to the Store right now and pick up Skype version 188.8.131.52 with Video messaging by clicking this link or scanning the QR code below. Thanks, Matt C., for the tip!


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The other day I happened to use the term "sneaker net" and found that a young colleague didn't know what I was talking about. True, it's been a while since the heyday of sneaker nets, but they're still around and, in fact, are even starting to come back. So for the young folks out there who never had to deal with dial-up, here's a primer on the term.
What it is: "Sneaker net" is a somewhat comical term that came into fashion in the 1980s when bandwidth was low. It became easier and quicker to simply put a file onto a disk and then walk it over to a new computer to transfer it. This was mostly done by techies wearing sneakers, hence the term. To the ear, it sounds a little bit like Ethernet.
Once bandwidth got plentiful, sneaker nets fell out of fashion. Even the Usain Bolt of techies couldn't outrace a 10/100 megabits/sec connection for short distances and small files.
But now that files are getting to be hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes in size, the sneaker net is back. So get those running shoes ready again.
Examples: The SETI@home project, which searches for signs of extraterrestrial life, uses a form of sneaker net to transport massive amounts of data gathered by the radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Data is put onto magnetic tapes and then mailed to Berkeley, Calif., for processing. So it's the mailman's sneakers being used.
One of the most radical examples of sneaker net came from employees of a South African company who got tired of the slow transmission speeds they were getting from their provider. In 2009, they tried to transfer 4G of data 60 miles between cities using an ASDL line. At the same time, they put the data on a key drive and used a carrier pigeon to carry it the same distance, so it was sort of of a pigeon toe net. The bird made the flight in 1 hour, 8 minutes and it took another hour to transfer the data off the memory stick. Only 4 percent of the data had been transferred the traditional way by the time the pigeon was done.
Bottom Line: Although they went out of fashion as bandwidth increased, sneaker nets started to come back into vogue as file sizes rose. As long as a techie with a pair of sneakers, or a pigeon in some cases, can get the job done faster than a digital transfer, sneaker nets will live on.
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Bloody fast pigion. 60 miles in 1 hour 8 minutes. Clearly faster than the airspeed velocity of an African swallow with or without a coconut.
This is too funny because it is so true today that sneakernet is making a come back! Back in the 90's when I ran my own IT consulting firm before I took a full time job in the Army, I would always have the ability to capture and copy large amounts of data(before USB sticks and so forth) anywhere I went so as not to have to rely on the network because speeds were so dismal. This trend is certainly coming back for all the reasons mentioned in the article and also because it is more secure.
Back in the stone age, when 9-dot-6 was considered fast for long-haul, an expression I heard was 'nothing beats the bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes'.
To update an old whimsical observation: Never underestimate the bandwidth of an SUV loaded with DVDs. (It was originally a stationwagon full of tapes.)
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Scilab at CAE conference
A dedicated session on Scilab will be held at International CAE Conference on numerical analysis
Organized by EnginSoft on 22 and 23 of October in Pacengo - Italy, The International CAE Conference is a major annual event in Italy and a leading conference at the European level with two days of conferences, Users' Meetings and exhibition.
Claude Gomez, CEO of Scilab Enterprises will open the first session of Scilab users organized under CAE on October 22 at 2 P.M.
His presentation entitled "What's new with Scilab" will discuss the open source model for Scilab, the future of Scilab software both in terms of market positioning and roadmap.
Cnes, Padova University, Enginsoft and Openeering will present their applications with Scilab.


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This plan lays out the work areas required to re architect the current Orion Java server for very large scale deployment. This is not all work we will be able to scope within a single release, but is intended to provide a roadmap of the work required to make this happen. Work items are roughly sorted by order of priority.
- 1 Assessment of current state
- 2 Goal architecture
- 3 Work areas for scalability
Assessment of current state
Much of the current Orion Java server is designed to enable scalability. There are a number of problem areas detailed in the next section, but the current server has some existing strengths:
- Nearly stateless. With the exception of Java session state for authentication, and some metadata caching for performance, the current server is stateless. The server can be killed and restarted at any time with no data loss. All data is persisted to disk at the end of each HTTP request, with the exception of asynchronous long running operations that occur in a background thread and span multiple HTTP requests.
- Fast startup. The current server starts within 2-3 seconds, most of which is Java and OSGi startup. No data is loaded until client requests start to arrive. The exception is the background search indexer, which starts in a background thread immediately and starts crawling. If the search index has been deleted (common practice on server upgraded) it can take several minutes for it to complete indexing. This in no way blocks client requests - search results will just be potentially incomplete until the index is fully populated.
- Externalized configuration. Most server configuration is centrally managed in the orion.conf file. There are a small number of properties specified in orion.ini as well. Generally server configuration can be managed without code changes.
- Scalable core technologies. All of the core technologies we are using on the server are known to be capable of significant scaling: Equinox, Jetty, JGit, and Apache Solr. In some cases we will need to change how these services are configured but nothing we need to throw away and start from scratch. Solr doesn't handle search crawling but we could use complementary packages like Apache Nutch for crawling if needed.
- Pluggable credential store. The Orion server currently supports a completely pluggable credential store for Orion account information and passwords. We have a default implementation that uses Equinox secure storage, but we have also done implementations that support OpenID, Persona, and LDAP. While the default backing store is not suitable for enterprise scale use, we are confident that a scalable off the shelf credential solution can be plugged in with no code change.
Goal architecture
Our goal is to support an architecture that enables very large scale Orion deployments. What would be required if we had a million accounts or 100,000 simultaneous users? A vanilla Orion download would not need to support this out of the box without further configuration, but we want it to be possible to support such scenarios.
Our goal is to support the classic three tier web server architecture:
- Front end server used for load balancing, SSL encyrption, URL mapping and possibly caching of static content. Examples include the Apache front-end used at orionhub.org, or light front-ends such as nginx or Squid.
- Process servers of varying types, scaled independently. Current examples include Orion file server, git server, and search server.
- Persistence layer. Our current persistence layer is the file system, but it should be possible to interchange with other persistence implementations (e.g., database) without code changes in the Orion servers.
Work areas for scalability
Metadata backing store
As of Orion 2.0, the server metadata is stored in Equinox preferences. There are four preference trees for the various types of metadata: Users, Workspaces, Projects, and Sites. These are currently persisted in four files, one per preference tree. There are a number of problems with this implementation:
- Storing large amounts of metadata in a single file that needs to be read on most requests is a severe bottleneck.
- Migration of metadata format across builds/releases is ad-hoc and error prone
- Individual preference node access/storage is thread safe, but many Orion API calls require multiple read/writes to multiple nodes. There is no way to synchronize access/update across nodes.
- Metadata file format does not lend itself to administrative tools for managing users, migrating, etc.
- There is no clean API to the backing store and the interaction between the request handling services and the backing store is tangled.
We need a clean backing store API, and a scalable implementation of that API. The actual backing storage should be pluggable, for example raw files, database. Interaction with the API needs to be performant and transactional. There needs to be an easy way to administer the metadata, for example deleting inactive accounts, migrating account data, etc.
Move search engine/indexer to separate process(es)
Our interaction with the search engine is entirely over HTTP to an in-process Solr server. The Solr server should be forked out of process so it can be scaled out independently. The indexer is currently run as a pair of background threads in the Orion server process (one for updating, one for handling deletion). This should also be able to run from a separate process.
Move long running Git operations out of process
Long running Git operations are currently run in background threads within the Orion server process. This should be moved to separate Git processes so that it can be scaled out independently. This would also enable Git processes to continue running if the Orion server node falls over or gets switched out. This can be implemented with a basic job queue. The Orion server writes a description of the long running Git operation to execute to a persistent queue. A separate Git server polls that queue and performs the git operations.
Move Java session state out of process
Authentication between client and Orion server is based on Java session state. We should investigate externalizing this state to an external storage such as memcached. This would allow sessions to persist across Orion servers being recycled, or subsequent requests from the same client being handled by different Orion server instances from the one that initiated authentication.
Log management
Orion primarily uses SLF4J for logging, written to stdout/stderr of the Orion server process. The log configuration is stored in a bundle of the Orion server. It needs to be possible to configure the log external to the Orion build itself. I.e., the Orion server configuration controls the logging rather than settings embedded with the code. We should continue writing log data to stdout so that external applications can be used to persist logs for remote monitoring and debugging.
Search for implicit assumptions about system tools (exec calls)
The Orion server is pure Java code so it should be able to run anywhere that can run a modern JVM (generally Java 7 or higher). We need to validate that we don't make assumptions about external system tools (i.e., System.exec calls). We should bundle the Java 7 back end of the Eclipse file system API to enable running any Orion build on arbitrary hardware.


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Governor Dayton to Take ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Gov. Mark Dayton plans to chill out at the Minnesota State Fair by taking a bucket of ice water over his head.
Dayton spokesman Matt Swenson said Tuesday the governor accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge after being egged on by Minnesota Twins owner Jim Pohlad. Dayton will do it on live radio during Thursday's opening day of the fair.
People who take the challenge dowse themselves with freezing water to help raise awareness of Lou Gehrig's disease.
Countless athletes, celebrities, politicians and regular folks have taken the viral challenge. Those who do are entitled to extend the challenge to others. The ALS Association says it has raised nearly $23 million from the challenge so far.
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"I've always been a huge fan of vintage amps," Adrian explains, "but I haven't been so happy with an amp as I have with my AD30 which I've used for everything ever since I first got it about four years ago. There's something about that amp… I can mess with it and really change the sound and the gain structure of it – but I can do so really simply."
Adrian Utley (right) and his Portishead band mates
"In my extensive collection of about fifteen amps I've got a 1950s and a 1960s Fender Twin; an Ampeg Reverb; a 1950s Fender Tweed and some old AC30s. But the AD30 can produce all of those vintage sounds partly because I can drive it without going incredibly loud."
Portishead have recently released their first album for ten years – Third - and are now promoting it having recently played concerts in America (the Coachella festival in Indio, California) Berlin, Barcelona and on British national radio and television.
Adrian Utley at the BBC's Maida Vale studios
One track from Third – 'The Rip' - neatly illustrates Adrian's open-minded approach and attitude to recording the guitar: "I have lots of acoustics and electrics. One of my main stage electrics is a 1964 Fender Jazzmaster and for acoustic I use a Brook homemade guitar [see photo left] by a company from Dartmoor.
But when we recorded The Rip I used a beautiful little kid's guitar that I bought in a junk shop for four quid. It had just the kind of different tone I'd been after for a quite a while. It cost another thirty pounds to have the frets sorted out and then I used it in the studio…recorded with a three-and-a-half grand mic ! [laughs] My first perception of acoustic guitars was from records – and on records they never sound like they do when you're in the room… they sound more spacious and have much more frequency.
So for me to play a kid's guitar means it's got limited frequency range already when recording; so it gives space for loads of other stuff."
Citing Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page as key influences, Adrian is very much into experimenting with sound: "I studied jazz for more than ten years but I've always been interested in further sounds you can get from guitars either by using pedals or by alternative ways of playing. For instance, playing rhythms behind the bridge with a paint brush and using effects on that sound. Or bowing the strings with a pair of long-nose pliers. In these kinds of ways you can make the guitar go into other worlds which wouldn't happen playing in the conventional way.
And my pedals are pretty extreme: I have an American Real McCoy wah pedal – I used to use a Cry Baby. With the RMC I can get pure wah sound – which I love - or extreme filter sweeping and volume change. I've got fuzz boxes that were custom-made for me that give out a really extreme germanium kind of fuzz. And I've got a Hot Cake distortion pedal from New Zealand. I've got a lot of different echo pedals set up on my board including a Line 6, an old Boss analogue and newish Boss digital echo. And a tremolo that can go from extreme to really subtle. The thing with all of this is that I'm looking for texture or extremity."
Another thing that's quite extreme and unmissable about Portishead's backline is Adrian's customised Orange 2x12" cab: "I wanted to have a loud speaker cab – that's two separate words [laughs] – and so I asked Jim Barr who plays bass with us, to spray-paint a design on the speaker grille. I really like what he came up with and in a weird kind of way it fits in with the pictures you get on old Orange amps – the mountains for the echo and stuff."
Jim Barr explains more about his artwork: "I did it with masking tape and a can of spray paint and I used my imagination a little bit and wanted something to look like a picture of loudness. I could waffle on about all kinds of arty stuff like German expressionism – bit I won't [laughs] ! We sprayed the whole grille black, then put on the masking tape and sprayed over with matt white car primer. It took about twenty minutes all in all."
At the Coachella festival – held in April in California - Adrian hired an Orange rig and for the first time ever used a 4x12 speaker cab: "I've never used a 4x12 before in my life and what I found was that I could make it feed back in a more controlled way which was really good."
Lastly, how did Adrian first hear about Orange?: "I remember Orange from the 1970s when I was beginning – quite a few friends had them. But those old 120-watt ones were way too loud for me. Then a few years ago I was doing a session for Marianne Faithfull which Polly Harvey was producing and she had an AD30 with a 2x12 cab and I used hers in the studio. It was so totally brilliant – and not just for guitar… we played bass through it for certain things and that also sounded great."
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Report: World's greatest rivers in danger
Story Highlights Pollution, global warming and development are threatening rivers, report says
About 20 percent of freshwater fish, plant species are extinct or endangered
Report calls on governments to radically step up efforts to preserve rivers
Pollution near Yangtze River has increased more than 70 percent in past 50 years
GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- The Yangtze River gets more than half of China's industrial waste and sewage. Europe's Danube has lost most of its surrounding wetlands. And the Rio Grande has become so shallow that salt water is seeping in, bringing ocean fish that threaten freshwater species.
Pollution, global warming and rampant development could destroy some of the world's most iconic rivers in the coming decades, threatening to wipe out thousands of fish species and cause severe water shortages, the World Wide Fund for Nature said in a report Tuesday.
Only 21 of the planet's 177 longest rivers run freely from source to sea, with dams and other construction destroying the habitats for migratory fish and other species by altering the water's natural ebb and flow, the WWF said.
About a fifth of the world's 10,000 freshwater fish and plant species are either extinct or endangered, the report said, calling on governments to radically step up efforts to preserve rivers, lakes and wetlands.
"Unabated development is jeopardizing nature's ability to meet our growing demands," said Jamie Pittock, who heads WWF's freshwater program.
The report focused on some of the world's most important rivers: the Nile, the Danube, the Rio Grande, South America's La Plata, Australia's Murray-Darling and Asia's Yangtze, Mekong, Salween, and Ganges rivers.
The Danube -- home to more than half of Europe's fish species -- has lost 80 percent of its surrounding wetlands and flood plains because of dams, the report said.
Construction to ease shipping channels -- dredging, pumping water or straightening banks -- also threaten animals and plants in the river, which runs from Germany to the Black Sea, WWF said. Less than 7 percent of its basin is protected.
In China, pollution in the main stem of the Yangtze River has increased by more than 70 percent over the last 50 years. Almost half of the country's industrial waste and sewage is discharged in the river, the report said.
Garbage heaps, pig waste and discharge from factories, hospitals and mines possibly including radioactive waste -- lie at the bottom of the reservoir at the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, the WFF said.
In the Rio Grande, low water levels have allowed salt water to enter and ocean species to crowd out freshwater fish. Excessive extraction, primarily for agriculture, is threatening the river, which flows along the U.S.-Mexican border.
At the same time, rising populations along both sides of the river need more and more water, increasing pressure on the 69 fish species found only in the Rio Grande, the WWF said.
Global warming is threatening fish populations in Africa, where even small temperature changes can dramatically alter water levels and fish productivity, the report said. The Nile, the world's longest river, is expected to reach a critically low level by 2025, threatening a source of drinking water for thousands of years.
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Update: The Skyrim 1.8 title update is now out of beta and available to all users on Steam. As previously noted, this update is planned for consoles and will roll out in the near future. As new information is available, we'll provide an update here on the blog.
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Skip to comments.Andrew Cuomos fracking follies (NY has the resources to create an energy boom, thousands of jobs)
Posted on 11/28/2012 12:09:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Last weeks news that the state Department of Environmental Conservation will miss a Nov. 29 deadline to release regulations guiding future natural-gas exploration in New York was another blow to a beleaguered industry an industry, by the way, that has operated safely in New York for decades and isnt asking for a dime of public money to expand here.
This latest delay is necessary, according to the state, for three experts chosen by the state Health Department to review the potential health impacts. Never mind that these experts have already made public statements that suggest a bias against natural-gas development: The sole purpose of environmental regulation is to evaluate all potential environmental impacts including human health. Now New Yorks belt-and-suspenders approach has yet another set of suspenders.
In other words, after four years and four months of evaluating the potential environmental impacts, this latest delay is unnecessary.
As Ive said to the governor, our member companies are now well past the tipping point, and our trust in our state government now exhausted.
The impacts of the delay are real.Just three years ago, our industry supported 5,000 jobs in upstate New York, due largely to the ongoing exploration of vertical wells across the Southern Tier. Its unclear what the real jobs total is today, but drilling activity is sharply falling.
According to the DEC, the agency issued 670 permits for vertical wells in 2008. That number dropped to 580 in 2009, 470 in 2010 and 254 in 2011. This year (as of Nov. 13), DEC has issued only 152 vertical permits. New York is not an attractive place for our industry to do business.
Our companies good employers with good jobs paying good salaries have labored to maintain a presence in New York during this prolonged delay,
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
* Domesticenergy production is putting Americans back to work, shepherding a US manufacturing resurgence and improving the environment.
* EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has indicated on multiple occasions that natural-gas production using hydraulic fracturing is not resulting in groundwater contamination. The EPA even praises hydraulic fracturing and asserts, natural gas plays a key role in our nationsclean energy future.
* The US Energy Information Administration on Aug. 1 reported that the nationsCO2emissions were at a20-year low, mainly thanks to increased use of natural gas in power production.
* Mayor Bloomberg in August released areportindicating that increased natural gas use was in the best interest of the citys environmental and economic future and would improve air quality and save lives.
* As NY waits, other states are experiencing great benefits. In July, Pennsylvanias Department of Labor and Industry reported that Marcellus Shale-related employment in that state has grown by 238,000 jobs since 2008 and core industry jobs have an average annual salary of more than $81,000.
* In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich said,If we can get that Marcellus Shale and if it can yield a significant amount of gas oh, it will be a godsend for our state. That was in 2010. Today, the state is allowing Marcellus shale-gas development as New York waits and continues to study science that has already been settled elsewhere.
"an industry, by the way, that has operated safely in New York for decades and isnt asking for a dime of public money to expand here."
That's just the point.
Dems don't actually care about results and improving American energy supply.
An industry that isn't asking for government funding to expand is not popular with Dems.
Look at the millions given to 'green energy' initiatives.
And with literarlly no return except bankrupt companies.
If a green energy company asked Cuomo for the keys to his house, his car, and millions in money, he'd jump on it.
Just watch carefully.
If the government makes jobs that is going to anger millions of people, who just want to lay back, get high and collect other people's stuff.
We have to accept the reality of what America has become.
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And the NY Post endorsed cuomo for election. I warned them they would regret it.
That's exactly what the producers should do. Refuse to sell into states that obviously don't want the energy. Let em freeze and starve
Andy Cu Mo is such an assclown that he makes his father look almost competent. Key word is almost.
For those who don't know Andy's nickname (among those who know him well) is "the undertaker".
If he gets the Dem presidential nomination in 2016 we may all learn why.
quid pro quo....
there is no other reason why vital jobs are being held up.....
One reason the jobs are being help up is because we have half a country full of crack heads- who simply do not want to work.
IF we create lots of jobs, the pressure is on to fill the jobs, and that decreases the dependency on the government.
Less dependence on the government is less of a reason for the government to line their pockets with our money- by forcing us to pay taxes.
Wiki? Really? Geez.
"And the NY Post endorsed cuomo for election. I warned them they would regret it."
NYPost also endorsed Hillary Clinton.
Cuomo will stall forever on fracking. What a phony, but the majority of NYS loves him. They vote on perception, rather than substance.
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Gavin Floyd gave six innings and Chris Johnson drove in three runs as the Atlanta Braves grabbed a 3-0 victory over the Washington Nationals to open a four-game set.
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Denard Span and Jayson Werth each hit a double for the Nationals, who have lost five of their last seven. Jordan Zimmermann (5-4) gave up two runs on seven hits over seven innings to take the loss.
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Now, of course, I owe a debt of thanks to ZenWalk. How foolish is this? I'm just a writer who uses his PC for that fundamental trinity of word processing, emails and internet. Listening to music and minding the family photos are the two main additional functions, and after that... How important can an OS be? After all, mine is a stand-alone desktop existence of the humblest kind - once predicated on certain Microsoft assumptions about the way things would pan out in the years to come: some gains, some new inefficiencies, more of everything, especially that excruciating Microsoft paternalism, dragging the sacred material of my life into its folders, its crappy taxonomies, its relentlessly moronic understanding of what My Music or My Photos actually means. And I'd be there right now, except for the fact that Bill announced at the start of the year that he really was going to take us for a bunch of chumps by charging authentically monopolistic prices for a new and only debatably improved OS, just because he could. For this writer, the red mist descended, I got wildly pious about the iniquities of a consumer marketplace where competition has effectively been snuffed out, and vowed, if I possibly could, to live a life without Microsoft from that day forward.
But what do I know about operating systems? I can install Windows XP blindfolded by now, but the alternatives? An encounter with SuSe a few years ago affected me like a rash, but cleared up quickly enough, after which I humbly returned to the known stupidities of Windows. Software is a black art, after all. While I can cobble together the physical bits of a PC easily enough, the animating spirit, the language that makes it work, is as alien to me as Cuneiform, with GNU/Linux the Linear B of the business. Then Ubuntu - friendly, thoughtful, wholly sensible - emerges from the mist, and before you know it I have Ubuntu 6.10 working nicely on my PC. Microsoft is already becoming a shadowy memory, and then, one day, I bump into ZenWalk 4.4.1: which is, oddly enough, and even more than Ubuntu, the real revelation, the real life-changer.
Simplicity is half the reason. After a few months tinkering with OpenSuSe (better, this time), Mandriva (a failure throughout) and different manifestations of Ubuntu, I now know my KDE from my Gnome from my Xfce, and of all these Xfce is the lightest, the brightest, the most discreet, the smartest. And it's Xfce that greets you in ZenWalk. Then the Zen people give you just what you need to work with, and no more. The excellent AbiWord; a tuneplayer called Audacious, which is the ugliest little bugger I have ever seen, but which works brilliantly; a spartan but absolutely impeccable picture manager called GQview; Firefox and Thunderbird, the usual suspects; and some other things which I, candidly, don't understand. The package manager is a bit half-baked; but on the other hand, the native screen resolution and clarity are so good, I didn't even need to hunt down any of those tricksy nVidia drivers when I was installing ZenWalk. Indeed, I still cling to the insane idea that consumer electronics should make things easy rather than hard and that the less I have to do, the better. This then helps me rationalize my Linux ineptitude: the fact that I still can't get a tarball to come out right; that I'm fingers and thumbs the moment a terminal opens up; that I am never, ever going to compile a program. I am old; I am lazy. ZenWalk just worked, mercifully.
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ARRIS to Sell Shares to Comcast in Connection With Acquisition of Motorola Home Business
Jan 14, 2013, 04:45 ET
SUWANEE, Ga., Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ARRIS Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRS), a global innovator in broadband media technology, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to sell approximately 10.6 million shares of its common stock, valued at $150.0 million, to Comcast Corporation. The sale of the shares to Comcast will be made in connection with the previously announced ARRIS acquisition of the Motorola Home business from Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google Inc. As provided for in the Motorola Home business acquisition agreement, the shares issued to Comcast will reduce, on a share-for-share basis, the number of shares of ARRIS stock to be issued to Google and simultaneously increase the cash consideration to be received by Google by $150.0 million. As a result of the sale to Comcast, Comcast and Google will each own approximately 7.85% of the outstanding ARRIS shares post-closing based on ARRIS' current capitalization. Neither the total amount of consideration paid by ARRIS for Motorola Home, nor the total amount of shares to be issued by ARRIS (now to Google and Comcast) will change as a result of this investment by Comcast.
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Seib & Wessel: Why Dark Clouds Hover Over Senate
In an interview with WSJ's Jerry Seib, American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Norm Ornstein discusses the dynamics that have rendered the Senate such a bitter and unproductive chamber.
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