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Even without the NFL license, All-Pro Football 2k8 proves to be an intensely detailed and stimulating football experience that essentially mimics NFL rules. For more information on the game of football itself, you should refer to the Football 101 section of this very guide. For information and tips on picking your team, you should check out the Choosing Your Team section of the guide. Otherwise, read on for information on how to navigate your way through the game with ease.
|Quick Game
After choosing your team or loading one you've already created (both of which are covered in the aforementioned Choosing Your Team section of this guide), you'll be greeted with the Quick Game option. Generally, this is the option you'll use most often if you're trying out a new roster, want to play a (wait for it) quick game, or want to play against a friend. Remember that if playing outside of a league, the makeup of opposing teams will generally be randomized. You'll face some strong teams, some weak teams, and some standard teams. League play, since the teams will be more ultimately determined, will have a more concrete roster makeup from team to team.
Remember that, if you so choose, you can alter the variables of a quick game, including the stadium played in, the difficulty of the CPU (if you're playing a one player game), the length of a quarter, the time of day, and the weather. Definitely explore these options since they will make the game more interesting.
By choosing this option, you open yourself up to many more options that you can deal with. The Teams option allows you to create a new team (probably some of the most fun you can have in the game), as well as manage created teams, and view the rosters of created teams and default squads alike. Since the team names and makeups are made up and completely randomized, it's best to view your competition first hand when you can, to see what the CPU has created for you and the teams surrounding you.
While in the Teams section, you can also create brand new players to your liking, and edit any players you've already created. Player Abilities, which we cover in-depth in the Choosing Your Team section of the guide, can also be viewed here. Remember that each position has specific Player Abilities that you should explore, as some are definitely more useful than others.
Part of the fun of playing any sports game, especially when you're by your lonesome, is playing through a season. In the fictional world of All-Pro Football 2k8, the seasons are made up of fictional teams playing other fictional teams with rosters that are a hodgepodge of real ex-NFL all-star talent and fictional characters that will make up the rest of your squad. You can save multiple seasons playing as multiple teams at once so you can try out different stuff with different teams, or start a new season at any time, all via this menu option.
If you want to practice your skills, then you needn't look any further than the Practice option, which will allow you to try out a plethora of plays and skills in order to get comfortable with the game's feel and control scheme, which are in many ways a complete contrast to the Madden feel and scheme that many gamers will otherwise be comfortable with during 2k's football hiatus.
This section, not surprisingly, allows you to control the game options. This includes things like quarter length, play calling, game speed and things of that nature (so you can make your games as NFL-like or non-NFL-like as you want). This also includes other options such as CPU difficulty and presentations, as well as what penalties will and won't be called, and yes indeed, control options as well. The latter is especially important to explore to make your controller as comfortable as you can make it for your style of play. Your button preferences are key to in-game playability!
If you want to see all of the cool extras 2k has put into the game for you, then the Features section is the place to go. You can listen to all in-game music, watch some videos, check out the trophies you've won, and more. The coolest part of this section, however, is by far the Celebration Maker. In the real NFL, excessive celebration is frowned upon. But in the fictional world of All-Pro Football 2k8, excessive celebration is applauded and encouraged. Why not check out what special celebrations you can put together to really rub it in to the other team?
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Among the improvements were the catapults. The new catapults were the hydraulic Type H Mark 8 (H8), an upgraded version of the H4-1 with which she had been equipped during the war. The H8 could launch a total aircraft weight of 15,500 lbs. to a speed of 105 knots within 1.69 seconds. 3 To achieve that, the catapult's main accumulator and additional air flasks were designed to provide a maximum operating pressure of 3,500 psi. 4 It was with those high-powered catapults that the Bennington began its flight operations on the quiet morning of 26 May 1954.
Although Vickers was about to catch up on sleep, the ship's commanding officer, Captain William F. Raborn, and the flight deck and catapult crews were prepping for aircraft launchings. Relatively minor trouble occurred immediately—a malfunction on the first launch attempted on the starboard catapult. 5 No further launch attempts were made from that catapult; all launches were made from the port catapult. Shortly after the 13th launch, an early sign of major trouble was seen from the Bennington 's bridge. According to the deck log, at 0610: "From the bridge, white 'smoke' was visible apparently coming from Hangar Bay number one (1); sounded the general alarm, sounded fire quarters." 6 Captain Raborn had reacted quickly, so fast that the two alarms were sounded before the worst was to occur.
After the alarms went off, fire was reported in the forward auxiliary machinery room. Before evaluation of that report could be made, however, "two (2) or three (3) violent explosions occurred. Reported by ship service telephone to be in vicinity of Wardroom Country." 7 The Bennington was shaken to her keel as fire, smoke, and explosive concussions swept through the passageways and vents below decks.
Soon after the disaster, Lithographer Third Class William Kirk related his experience in a letter written to a friend:
The PPO [Police Petty Officer] woke me about 0605. At 0610 I was sitting up in my rack with my feet hanging over the side. At 0615 GQ sounded. Everyone was bitching. Then the fire bugle sounded. I jumped out of my rack and, still bitching, began putting on my pants. I had one leg in when I felt the first explosion. I didn't know what it was. It felt like a concussion, a big suction. My stomach went up and down, it felt sickening. The deck moved, the whole ship seemed to rock and shake. I went sailing into another bunk rack and was knocked down. I got up. . . and ran for the ladder. Before I could start going up smoke was coming in through the vents. . . . The PA system was blaring: "this is no drill." Guys were shouting: "Jesus Christ it's real." There was a mad scramble for the ladder, on the second deck it was smoky and a madhouse of guys. . . . I finally got to the top of the ladder leading to the hangar deck when I felt another explosion. I looked back . . . and saw that there were four guys behind me coming up the ladder. After they emerged there was a cloud of black smoke and I didn't see anyone else come up. 8
William Vickers also reacted quickly. Following the initial sudden rock of the ship:
I hollered . . . "Get the hell out of this hole, we have been hit with a torpedo or bomb or another ship." Some of the crew said, "Shut the hell up and go back to sleep." I hollered out, "I ain't been to sleep, I've been on watch and it's slick as glass on that water, didn't you feel the ship rock?" Some said, "Yeah, so what?" When I got to the top [of the] ladder on the first deck below the hangar deck, here comes a Sailor with his pants and shirt on fire.
A Succession of Explosions
Depending on how close one was to the origin of the explosions, accounts differ as to their the number and intensity. According to the deck log, either two or three explosions occurred. Those below decks noted three explosions. An ensuing court of inquiry investigating the disaster noted that several crewmen reported that the first explosion sounded like a hammer thrown against a bulkhead. 9 Two explosions that followed seem to have been significantly larger than the first. Although to Vickers it had seemed the ship's exterior had been struck, damage-control (DC) crews soon determined that the explosions were internal in origin.
For a short time, efforts were effectively coordinated from DC central, but events soon placed that station in jeopardy. Set in a protected location, it had survived the explosions. But soon afterward its director, Chief Carpenter James Hurd, reported that smoke was filling the compartment. 10 Fires, smoke, and debris proved enormous obstacles to the damage-control crews on the third and second decks; they were not able to reach and access DC central for some time. Between 0645 and 0655 the station reported that air was getting thin in the compartment and there was danger of suffocation. But just one minute later, at 0656, positive news came from damage control: All fires were reported out. It had taken approximately 44 minutes to extinguish the blazes, and it seemed that the greatest danger to the ship and crew had passed. But Sailors continued to perish. Shortly after 0712, the bridge ceased receiving responses from DC central, whose crew seemingly had succumbed to a lack of oxygen. 11 Then, at 0758, the bridge received a report indicating that the DC central crew had been rescued. That report was not wholly accurate. As the court of inquiry later reported: "the normal watch in Damage Control Central handled damage control action with limited personnel until smoke asphyxiated the personnel in the space." 12 Some of them had indeed been rescued, but for others, including Hurd, who gave orders that others be rescued before him, time simply ran out. 13
Overwhelmed with Casualties
The Bennington 's medical department had more casualties than it could reasonably handle. Three physicians were on board at the time of the explosions, but one was killed, leaving only the ship's medical officer, Commander Clyde W. Norman, and the air group's flight surgeon. Fortunately, 21 hospital corpsmen were also on hand. Their berthing compartment, where many had been at the time of the explosions, had not been affected. The medical personnel had no idea of the extent of the damage to the ship. Their full attention focused on the increasing number of casualties. In his medical report, Norman hinted at the mental state of his staff early on in the crisis: "There was no definite way of ascertaining at such an early time . . . how many human casualties there would ultimately be; but a certain premonition prevailed . . . that a large number of casualties could be expected." 14 Even though sick bay had 60 available beds, there were more wounded than could be accommodated. Norman halted the transport of injured to sick bay and ordered them instead to be taken to the aft end of the hangar deck.
With smoke still pouring from the lower decks, Captain Raborn had brought the ship about and was heading toward Newport, Rhode Island. All the aircraft that could be launched without the assistance of a catapult were flown off to clear the flight deck as a still relatively new aircraft, the helicopter, was about to be used. Top commanders ashore, along with Raborn on board the Bennington , arranged for casualties to be airlifted to Newport Naval Hospital. 15 In addition, ship-bound helicopters ferried in additional physicians and corpsmen. 16 A total of 64 patients were evacuated by helicopter to the naval hospital; an additional 18 were taken ashore by boat. A small number of casualties were also sent to the medical facility on the base where the Bennington had docked. 17 Of the 82 patients at the naval hospital, just eight had not suffered burns. The remainder had burns covering anywhere from 2 to 100 percent of their bodies. 18 The disaster's final toll was horrendous: 102 dead and 118 injured. 19
Damage Reflects Intense Blasts
The Bennington herself had sustained substantial damage. An assessment at New York Naval Shipyard (where repairs were made) found serious damage on the hangar deck and the second and third decks. Minor damage was noted on the fourth deck. The most severe structural damage was found on the hangar deck, which bulged upward in four places. More than anything, those bulges—from 1½ inches to 4 inches in height—indicated the intensity of the explosions, as the decking there was 2½-inch-thick, specially treated steel armor. 20
The damaged areas of the ship were chaotic, a clutter of waterlogged debris in areas that earlier had been open passageways, neat staterooms, and orderly messing spaces. When damage-control teams finally entered the port catapult room, they found extensive fire damage, and on later inspection at New York Naval Shipyard, one-half inch of oil was found on the deck and the entire compartment was heavily coated with soot. In the pump space in the compartment below, 4 inches of oil covered the deck, apparently overflow from the catapult compartment above. The pump motors also were coated with oil. 21
The catapult was not heavily damaged, and the shipyard damage report noted that it "has been tentatively decided that Port Catapult will not be replaced." 22 However, attached piping on the launching accumulator and No. 1 air flask was heavily damaged. In particular, the vent relief pipe was found to have twisted and burst open adjacent to the relief valve. 23 The valve had been blown off the top of the accumulator and come to rest eight feet away; the threaded opening in the fitting that held the relief valve was found to have been increased in size by one-half inch. 24 Also, an elbow in the pipe from the accumulator's oil-level gauge that was connected to a 4-inch air pipe was found to have burst. 25 Clearly, something had happened within the catapult to cause that kind of damage, but what? And what caused the other explosions?
The court of inquiry ultimately reported, essentially, that although a most-probable cause of the accident had been identified, the exact initiator had not been positively determined. 26 The court had investigated many possibilities, including, apparently, the idea that the hydraulic oil might have been sabotaged. An analysis of the oil, however, discounted the possibility of its deliberate dilution with flammable or volatile solvents. 27 Also, none of the crew was implicated as having contributed to the disaster, and Raborn was exonerated of blame. The cause seemed to have been mechanical.
Investigation of the catapult machinery found carbonaceous deposits within the piston valve, the accumulator, the connected No. 1 air flask, and the piping that connected all three. The inquiry's report thus concluded that
the heavy and loosely adhering carbon deposits on the piston valve and the closely adhering deposit on the interior of the accumulator end of the piston valve housing were evidently deposited thereon by combustion within the housing.
The report laid out the most probable sequence of events within the catapult system. The catapult was firing normally until the diminishing level of oil within the accumulator formed a vortex, whose interior vacuum allowed air to extend into and through the piping, possibly as far as the piston valve, housed between the accumulator and the engine cylinder. The launch stroke continued normally until the shutdown sequence was initiated. That included closing the piston valve to cut off the oil's access to the catapult. However, because of the abnormal amount of air in the piston valve's control, the valve closed in an abrupt—abnormal—manner.
As a result of the violently closing valve, diesel ignition occurred. Requiring no spark or flame, diesel ignition occurs when a fuel mixes with very hot air; compressed air can reach very high temperatures. The air remaining in the system then was sufficient to permit the resulting flame to get into the accumulator, igniting oil vapor and foam therein. The rapid rise in pressure caused the relief valve to open, as it should have, but then the overboard discharge pipe from the valve burst. That was followed by the relief valve blowing off the top of the accumulator, spewing hot gas and flame that engulfed the compartment. The crewmen didn't have a chance.
At some point after the start of the accumulator fire, the court indicated, an elbow burst in a brass pipe connecting the accumulator oil-level gauge to a four-inch air pipe, which in turn connected the accumulator to the No. 1 air flask. The rupture allowed air from the flask—under very high pressure—to mix with hydraulic oil and vent out of the system as an oil fog. That volatile fog spread throughout the forward part of the ship via open hatches and passageways. It detonated when it had mixed sufficiently with additional air and came into contact with some undetermined ignition source.
Potential for Accidents Was Known
The court of inquiry report mentioned three particular points in its "Finding of Fact" section:
• Fact 107 mentions the known occurrence of diesel action within hydraulic catapults "for many years," but that it had not (until the Bennington ) led to any serious consequences.
• Fact 108 says that "previous instances have been reported of air reaching the piston valve from the accumulator due to vortex action in the accumulator of the catapults."
• Fact 109 mentions that an anti-vortexing baffle actually had been installed in the H8 catapult launching accumulators of the USS Hornet (CVA-12) in an attempt to eliminate this air carryover.
Those three facts indicate that the possibility, if not the probability, of such an accident occurring was known at the time of the Bennington disaster.
The previous October a similar accident with an H4-1 catapult had occurred on board the USS Leyte (CVA-32). Two corrective efforts were initiated as a result of that accident: Developing and testing of a less flammable hydraulic fluid and conducting a survey to determine nitrogen requirements of all shipboard hydraulic systems. Of final note is Fact No. 120 from the court's report, which says that "in high pressure hydro-pneumatic [hydraulic] systems using oil, insurance underwriters require the use of nitrogen, in lieu of air." Therefore, while the private sector required nitrogen use in similar systems, the Navy did not. In fact, one recommendation of the court of inquiry was that nitrogen be used in the future in most high-pressure hydro-pneumatic systems, noting that the disaster would not have occurred had nitrogen been in use in the catapults. 28
While Vickers, Kirk and the other surviving crewmen would long remember the disaster, the only individuals who may have known exactly what happened that day were the doomed members of catapult crew. The inquiry noted that an officer told the court that "he heard a yell from the vicinity of the port catapult room prior to the first explosion as follows: 'This thing is going to blow. Let's get out of here!'" That frightening piece of testimony clearly indicated that those in the catapult room knew something very wrong was happening.
In the end, the court of inquiry acknowledged that while naval authorities had known an accident involving catapult dieseling was possible, those same authorities considered it unlikely that such an occurrence would lead to serious consequences. But when that possibility erupted into reality on 26 May 1954, the consequences were deadly serious, as measured in the sacrifice of 102 lives.
1. Log Book of the USS Bennington (CVA-20) Wednesday 26 May, 1954: Remarks Sheet," p. 513, National Archives, College Park, MD.
2. William G. Vickers, Interview by Christopher Edwards, 4 April 2002, Penngrove, CA.
3. NAVAER 51-15HA-502 Handbook Operation and Maintenance Instructions Catapult Type H, Mark 8 , (Published Under Authority of the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, 1 October, 1956), p. 3.
4. Ibid.
5. RADM John M. Hoskins, U.S. Navy, President; RADM Edgar A. Cruise, U.S. Navy, Member; CAPT James E. Leeper, U.S. Navy, Member; and CAPT Raymond J. Zanzot, U.S. Navy, Member; "Record of Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry: To inquire into an explosion and fire on board the USS Bennington (CVA-20) which occurred on 26 May 1954," 26 May 1954, p. 28, Department of the Navy Office of the Judge Advocate General (Claims, Investigations and Tort Litigation) Washington, DC.
6. Log Book of the USS Bennington , p. 513.
7. Ibid.
8. William W. Kirk to Paul M. Irvins, "Letter to Paul," 1 June 1954, used with permission ( http://www.uss-bennington.org/stz-explosion-wkirk54-ltr.html ).
9. RADM John M. Hoskins et al, "Record of Proceedings," p. 47.
10. Log Book of the USS Bennington , p. 513.
11. Ibid.
12. RADM John M. Hoskins et al, "Record of Proceedings," p. 31.
13. USS Bennington Commanding Officer to Secretary of the Navy, 26 August 1954. "Awards for meritorious actions; recommendations for, enclosure (1), Description of action and sample citation for CHCARP James W. Hurd (Deceased), recommended for Navy and Marine Corps Medal, plus statements of eyewitnesses," Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington Navy Yard, DC.
14. USS Bennington Medical Officer Commander Clyde W. Norman to Chief of Naval Research, 16 August 1954, "USS Bennington Disaster; medical report of," p. 2, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Department of the Navy, Washington, DC.
15. U.S. Naval Hospital, Newport, RI, "A Report by the U.S. Naval Hospital, Newport, R.I. Concerning the Handling and Treatment of Casualties from the USS Bennington Disaster," p. 2, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Department of the Navy, Washington, DC.
16. USS Bennington Medical Officer CDR Clyde W. Norman, "USS Bennington Disaster; medical report of," p. 3.
17. Ibid.
18. John L. Enyart, CAPT, MC, USN and Donald W. Miller, CAPT, MC, USN, "The Treatment of Burns Resulting from Disaster," Paper produced at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Newport, RI, " p. 2, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Department of the Navy, Washington, DC.
19. RADM John M. Hoskins et al, "Record of Proceedings," pp. 32-46. (The dead included a civilian contractor on board at the time of the disaster.)
20. Robert F. Sumrall, Warship's Data 5: USS Yorktown (CV-10) , (Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1990), p. 39.
21. Bureau of Ships to New York Naval Shipyard, "USS Bennington (CVA-20)-Report of Damage Sustained," 1 June 1954, pp. 2-3, National Archives, New York, NY.
22. Ibid, p. 3, Emphasis is in original.
23. Ibid, p. 3.
24. RADM John M. Hoskins et al, "Record of Proceedings," p. 50.
25. Bureau of Ships, "USS Bennington (CVA-20)-Report of Damage Sustained,"p. 3.
26. RADM John M. Hoskins et al, "Record of Proceedings," p. 56.
27. Commander, New York Naval Shipyard to Chief Technical Adviser, Court of Inquiry, USS Bennington (CVA-20), "Port Catapult Oil, Analysis of, USS Bennington (CVA-20), 25 June 1954, p. 6, National Archives, New York, NY.
28. RADM John M. Hoskins et al, "Record of Proceedings," pp. 55, 56, 64, 67.

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Parents, such as the father of Arlington Bowie High School quarterback Tony James, are doing a balancing act between encouraging their kids to play sports like football while also protecting their future.
At Bowie, James is a dual-threat quarterback. In one game this season, the junior scored four touchdowns on just six running attempts.
But James was on the sidelines for Thursday night's rivalry game against Arlington Martin High School, with a shot at the division title on the line. He had a concussion in his last game and is forced to sit out, according to Texas law, until he can successfully complete a battery of cognitive and motor skills tests and be cleared to play by a doctor.
"We know it's a big game, but it's just one game compared to many more to come. So we hate that he can't play, but we feel like it's the best thing for him," said his father, who is also named Tony James.
With the younger James on the sidelines, still recovering from his concussion, his Arlington Bowie Volunteers fell to the Arlington Martin Warriors 47-18.
This week, former Dallas Cowboy and NFL Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett revealed that he has been diagnosed with exhibiting symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
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Two appear in court over alleged rape and abduction of Dutch tourist in Melbourne
Two people have appeared in court over the alleged abduction and repeated rape of a Dutch tourist in Melbourne.
Alfio Anthony Granata, 44, and Jennifer Mary Peaston, 32, are each charged with 179 offences, including detaining the woman against her will, multiple threats to kill, 62 counts of rape and 85 of assault.
Police allege the pair assaulted the woman with a range of items including a meat tenderiser, a wooden dough-roller, a vacuum cleaner and a jet lighter.
The accused, facing court in separate hearings, were also charged with imprisoning their victim and holding her hostage at a Preston property over a period of two months late last year.
The court heard it took police more than six months to sift through more than 450 hours of video footage in connection with the disturbing case.
The pair also face charges relating to the possession and trafficking of drugs.
Granata's lawyer complained of the lengthy process that had left his client anxiously waiting in custody.
Granata did not speak during his brief appearance.
Both were remanded in custody to reappear in court on August 30.
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2011? I was just getting used to saying twenty-ten. Here's what you need to know about Microsoft Lync, Office 365, Internet Explorer 9, and Windows Phone.
Lync's Time Has Come
Microsoft Lync 2010 Standard and Enterprise will be available by the time you read this, and Lync Online is coming soon as part of Office 365 (see below). This hybrid approach to mainstream Microsoft servers is going to be quite common going forward, with the software giant offering both on-premises and hosted versions of its servers, giving customers a choice of where to put their infrastructure.
More specifically, Lync is the next-generation version of what used to be called Office Communications Server (OCS). It provides enterprise-class presence, instant messaging (IM), audio- and video-conferencing, and more, in a package that naturally integrates with other Microsoft products, especially Exchange, SharePoint, and Outlook. There's a client application that's part of the Office suites and new PBX-like capabilities that will let us finally step out from the shadow of the ancient phone systems on which many businesses still rely.
OCS was, perhaps, a bit ahead of its time. But I recommend evaluating Lync. This is an enterprise service whose time has come.
Office 365
Last month, I wrote about Office 365, and about my belief that this new offering is all about putting Microsoft's most popular productivity servers and applications on a subscription payment plan. Now that I've spent some time using a beta version of the service, I feel that this is still the case.
But that doesn't mean Office 365 doesn't make sense for Microsoft's customers as well. In fact, I think it makes plenty of sense.
Office 365 is being made available in a wide range of product versions, but Microsoft neatly divides them into two main categories, Office 365 for Small Businesses and Office 365 for Enterprises. The small business version is aimed at businesses of one to 50, though most businesses will want to consider the upper-level enterprise-oriented options after they exceed 25 employees or so.
For those small businesses, Office 365 is pretty compelling. I'm talking
- hosted Exchange 2010 with 25GB of storage space for each mailbox
- self-service team collaboration websites via hosted SharePoint 2010
- IM, presence, and online meetings with audio- and video-conferencing through Lync Online 2010
- private versions of the Office Web Apps (web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote) as well as Outlook Web App for email, calendar, tasks, and contacts management (and if employees have desktop versions of Office 2010, they're free to use those applications as well)
- a simple, central web portal, with no IT required
- a 99.9 percent uptime SLA
The cost for this service? $6 per user per month. Think about that for a second. Google's small business offering is a bit less expensive, about $4.20 per month, though you must pay for a year at a time. But Office 365 provides you with real Exchange, real SharePoint, and Lync-based conferencing capabilities that Google can't touch. There's no comparison.
Office 365 for Enterprises is actually several different product versions, and businesses are free to mix and match, providing different employees with different levels of service, functionality, and, of course, pricing. The basics are the same as the small business offering, but enterprise customers also get 24 x 7 phone support, single sign-on (SSO—and, optionally, federation) with on-premises Active Directory (AD), and the current (2010) version of Office Professional Plus, which includes desktop-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, OneNote, Publisher, Access, InfoPath, SharePoint Workspace, and Lync (client).
This version costs $24 per month per user, but there are many other enterprise offerings, including a kiosk offering (for light email and SharePoint usage). The prices vary accordingly, with some coming in even below the Small Business version: The kiosk offering is just $2 per user per month.
The more I use Office 365, the more I become convinced that this is the future of Microsoft all tied up in one neat little product bundle. The only thing missing is an Application Virtualization (App-V)-style remote application deployment model for the local Office applications, though one has to wonder if that isn't in the plans for version two.
But even in its current form, Office 365 is proof positive that Microsoft's plan to move to the cloud isn't just viable—it's a good one.
Internet Explorer 9 Performance
When Microsoft introduced IE 9 at PDC 2009, it promised to better adhere to web standards and offer its best-performing web browser ever. Now, if you understand the company's history, you know that neither of these goals are particularly high bars. But IE 9, as it turns out, is quite impressive.
The W3C web standards body hasn't really shown up with too many industry-standard HTML 5 tests, but when they finally did so in late 2010, surprise, surprise, Microsoft won. And by a long shot.
Until IE 9, that is. IE 9 will never achieve a perfect score in ACID3, because Microsoft refuses to support features in its browser that will be changing.
But it does score a very respectable 95 out of 100, on those HTML 5 features that aren't guaranteed to change. IE 9 also scored the highest-ever rating on the SunSpider test, which must have been a shock to Google and Apple, given their incessant touting of their own products' superiority in JavaScript execution.
What I appreciate about all this is that Microsoft recognizes the futility of it all. These tests mean nothing in the real world, but they are always held against IE.
So the company is doing well on the tests that matter—even though they don't really matter, if you get my meaning—and focusing too on real-world performance. Here, the rating is a bit more subjective. I find IE 9 to be on par with browsers like Chrome or Firefox from a performance perspective, using websites that are currently popular or typical.
Where IE 9 should really pull ahead, however, is in the coming generation of content- and feature-rich websites. That's because IE 9 offers something that no other browser will ever offer on Windows: Complete hardware acceleration.
Yes, Chrome, Firefox, and even Safari will offer some forms of hardware acceleration, usually for certain content types only. But only IE 9 will be accelerated across the board. It's a huge advantage, one that makes websites run like native Windows apps, and one that points to the future, if you will, of hybrid web apps on Windows.
But I suspect we'll need to wait for Windows 8 before that vision is realized.
Windows Phone and the Carriers
One of the biggest promises of Windows Phone 7 was that Microsoft would bypass the carriers completely and deliver software updates both major and minor directly to users, just like Apple does.
It was a wonderful promise, a happy promise. It's also completely untrue.
As it turns out, Microsoft's wireless carrier partners do in fact have the ability to throw a wrench into the gears of progress and prevent their users from getting a software update from Microsoft. And this ability is explicitly provided to them by Microsoft, as a weird concession of sorts, even though the software giant could simply choose to deliver updates through the Zune PC software and bypass the carrier networks altogether.
There are some rules, however. Microsoft will be testing each update against the carriers' own internal tests and will provide the carriers with those results, proving that the updates won't harm any users or their phones. So in many cases, the carriers will likely let these updates simply sail through.
However, if a carrier feels that an update warrants more testing, it can prevent the update from appearing on its users' devices.
The good news is that Microsoft's updates are cumulative, and carriers can only prevent an update from appearing until the next update is made available. So the blocking capability is temporary at best.
Still, I'm curious to see how aggressive the carriers get once the first-generation Windows Phone buyers start getting close to the end of their two-year subscription term. I have to believe that these guys will put the brakes on and try to get customers to purchase a new phone instead of simply getting more free updates for their old one. Mark my words: We can't trust these companies.
Kinect and the Future of Computer UIs
Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor add-on for the Xbox 360 doesn't seem like the type of thing that would keep admins and IT pros up at night, but there is growing evidence that the software giant intends to add this interaction model to desktop versions of Windows.
This makes some sense, and not just for the obvious "Minority Report" reasons. We've been stuck in a fairly rote interaction model for decades now, and even touch and multi-touch interfaces from more recent Windows versions haven't done much to change that.
The reason Kinect is perhaps more important is that it signals a change to pervasive computing.
This is a somewhat abstract concept, but I think of it as the difference between interacting with a thing—a tablet, laptop, or whatever—and interacting with your entire environment. When you type at a keyboard, you're doing a very specific action. But with some future version of Kinect, you could be silently and seamlessly triggering events on computers across the world as you move around in a room.
Of course, PCs being PCs, Kinect isn't really going to replace anything else—it's going to augment the other interaction models. So I suspect we'll be mousing around and using keyboards for years to come.
But it will be interesting to see how motion sensors change everything, not just PCs but house and office designs, cars, and more. It's the future, and if you want to get started, I guess a quick game of "Kinect Adventures" isn't such a horrible way to get attuned to it.
Here's some reading on
Microsoft Launches New Communications Server
Office 365:
Hands on With Office 365
The Scoop on Exchange Online, Exchange 2010, and Office 365
Paul's Picks: IE 9 and Kinect
Windows Phone 7:
Top 10: Windows Phone 7 Enterprise Features
Windows Phone 7 as a Mail Device
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General Electric Donating to Newtown
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - General Electric Co. which has its headquarters in nearby Fairfield, Conn., is donating $15 million to Newtown, Conn., to build and operate a community center. It'll serve as the central meeting space the town didn't have following the shooting deaths last December of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School. A number of GE employees live in Newtown.


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The Lawyer Who Helped Spark This Week's Affordable Care Act Rulings
Thomas Christina, South Carolina Attorney, Spotted Wording That Triggered Suits
Months after the Affordable Care Act became law, employment benefits lawyer Thomas Christina paced in his Greenville, S.C., office with its oil portrait of a greenhouse. He was reading the statute to learn its impact on clients.
By his reading, the wording only allowed health insurance subsidies to be provided through state exchanges. It began to dawn on him that he'd stumbled on something big.


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"Welcome to the home page of the finstall project, accepted for Google's Summer of Code 2007. This project aims to create a user-friendly graphical installer for FreeBSD & FreeBSD-derived systems. The project should yield something usable for 7.0-RELEASE, but the intention is to keep it as a "second" installer system during 7.x, alongside sysinstall. In any case, sysinstall will be kept for architectures not supported by finstall (e.g. all except i386 and amd64)." A first version has been released.


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As announced in previous editions of the Record, the Library is building a collection of movies & books related to law in popular culture. Students may check-out books for 4 weeks and movies for 7 days at the circulation desk. Here are the new movies that have been added to the collection:
Adam's Rib (1949) DVD, Not Rated, 1 hr. 40 min.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Judy Holliday.
Directed by: George Cukor.
Synopsis: Assistant District Attorney Adam Bonner (Tracy) fights wife Amanda (Hepburn) in and out of court over a sensational attempted murder trial.
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) DVD, Not Rated, 2 hrs.
Starring: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, and George C. Scott.
Directed by: Otto Preminger.
Synopsis: Small-town lawyer (Stewart) defends a jealous army lieutenant (Gazzara) against charges of the murder of his wife's rapist.
…And Justice for All (1979) DVD, Rated R, 1 hr. 59 min.
Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe and Lee Strasberg.
Directed by: Norman Jewison.
Synopsis: Arthur Kirkland (Pacino) defends distinguished but guilty judge (Forsythe) on charges of rape and assault.
Erin Brockovich (2000) DVD, Rated R, 2 hr, 12 min.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney and Aaron Eckhart.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh.
Synopsis: Down on her luck single mother gets a job in a law firm and helps her boss (Finney) take on a giant corporation.
A Few Good Men (1992) DVD, Rated R, 2 hr. 18 min.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore and Kevin Bacon.
Directed by: Rob Reiner.
Synopsis: Impetuous Navy lawyer (Cruise) teams with idealistic litigator (Moore) to defend two Marines against murder charges.
Inherit the Wind (1960) DVD, Not Rated, 2 hrs. 8 min.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Frederic March and Gene Kelly.
Directed by: Stanley Kramer.
Synopsis: Attorney Henry Drummond (Tracy) battles fundamentalist leader Matthew Harrison Brady (March) in small Tennessee town over teaching evolution in schools.
Liar Liar (1997) DVD, Rated PG-13, 1 hr. 27 min.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe and Cary Elwes.
Directed by: Tom Shadyac.
Synopsis: Fletcher Reede, a fast-talking attorney who is also a habitual liar, is forced by his son's birthday wish to tell the truth for 24 hours.
A Man for All Seasons (1966) DVD, Rated G, 2 hrs.
Starring: Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw and Orson Welles.
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann.
Synopsis: King Henry VIII (Shaw) asks devout friend Thomas More (Scofield) to reject Catholicism and support the establishment of a new church so that the King can divorce his wife.
My Cousin Vinny (1992) DVD, Rated R, 2 hrs.
Starring: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio and Marisa Tomei.
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn.
Synopsis: Personal injury attorney Vinny Gambini defends his cousin (Macchio) and friend against murder charges in Alabama though he has never taken a case to trial.
Paper Chase (1973) DVD, Rated PG, 1 hr. 52 min.
Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner and John Houseman.
Directed by: James Bridges.
Synopsis: Hard-working first-year law student James T. Hart (Bottoms) struggles to impress brilliant professor (Houseman) as he is also dating his professor's daughter (Wagner).
Reversal of Fortune (1990) DVD, Rated R, 1 hr. 52 min.
Starring: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons and Ron Silver.
Directed by: Barbet Schroeder.
Synopsis: Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz (Silver) attempts to overturn the two convictions of Claus von Bulow (Irons) for the attempted murder of wealthy but brain-dead wife (Close).
Twelve Angry Men (1957) DVD, Not Rated, 1 hr 36 min.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, and E.G. Marshall.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Synopsis: Juror #8 (Fonda) tries to persuade eleven other jurors that a teenager accused of murder is actually innocent.
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"We like to call this a community car show," said Michael Bilski, media director for East Coast Car Association. "We try to emphasize community."
East Coast Car Association is a nonprofit organization that since 1999 has been raising funds for St. Mary's Healthcare System for Children in Bayside. They have given over $100,000 to the hospital.
Every Tuesday night, the group hosts a car show at Resorts Worlds New York where they display roughly 100 cars and 50 motorcycles. The cost to show off a car at the "Tuesday Night Cruise" is a $3 donation.
"We wanted more community involvement," said Bilski. "Hopefully next year we have more vendors and the community comes out."
The winner of Best in Show this past weekend was Andy Gleiss, who has been showing his cars with the organization for 14 years ago.
His car featured blue flames on the side and an engine popping out of the hood. "We flame to please," Gleiss joked.
"Every year it's between $5,000 and $8,000 we donate," said Gleiss. "And that's just from rinky-dink car shows."


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• 2008: St Margaret's Church, Aspley, Nottingham. The Newell Memorial Window, chancel east.
• 2006: St Augustine's Church, Limbury, Luton, Beds. The St Augustine Window, sanctuary north.
• 2005: St Mary's Church, Clophill, Beds. The Oakley Memorial Window, chancel east.
• 2005: St Mary the Virgin and All Souls Church, Bulwell, Nottingham. The Watkin Memorial Window, north aisle.
• 2004: St Patrick's RC Church, Forest Town, Notts. Commemorative Window of St Patrick and Our Lady. sanctuary
• 2003: St Owen's Church, Bromham, Beds. The Village Window, chancel south.
• 2003: St Wilfrid's Church, Egginton, Derbyshire. The Remembrance Window, east end of the south aisle.
• 2002: St Owen's Church, Bromham, Beds. The Millennium Window, chancel east end.


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Social contagion, a review
17/09/09 20:12
The New York Times looks back at the work of Christakis and Fowler on social contagion.
A spreadworthy message
05/11/08 19:20
An excellent viral video from a recent political campaign.
Corporate contagion
05/11/08 19:19
The social network component of the spreading of spreading.
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The diffusion of retail establishments
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The spreading of certain buildings
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BONNE JOURNEE! It's a bit of old Paris
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Pain d'Epices
BONNE JOURNEE! It's a bit of old Paris
26 comments:
It kills me--I know YOU at least paint from these minis--I'd love to know what others DO with all those minis?!!! Do tell! Another lovely watercolor, Mademoiselle!ReplyDelete
Another lovely painting. Just love that love letter theme you have going. I too wonder what others do with all these minis. It has to be a big seller as there are so many of them. Fun post as usual.ReplyDelete
There are TONS of these minis out there Cris.ReplyDelete
I think they keep them in little boxes or have dolls houses or..
They are collectors after all.
I am what?
I'm just as obsessed as the rest of them but I HAVE to paint them..
I still can't figure out my obession with painting tiny objects of desire..?
But it's too much fun to stop and give it much thought! :)
can we not ALL go shopping
with you in paris?
it just makes perfect sense to me....
Shall I start a Paris Shopping tour?ReplyDelete
All say aye and raise your hands if you're in?
Then we'll do a head count...
I was there yesterday to find windows and some things for my little garden.ReplyDelete
It's a wonderfull shop!
I'm sure that you also know the tea room in front of Pain d'épices: Le Valentin with macarons, and a lot of french pastries.
This watecolor is so cool and crisp and delectible. Just about as delectible as those pens and the fancy French writng books...drool.ReplyDelete
Uh oh, when I get near papers and pens...almost like heavenly scented macarons, they are so tempting.
Beautiful marguerite love letters from Paris.
Yes, you shall start a Paris shopping tour!!!!ReplyDelete
Another just PERFECT one!!ReplyDelete
If we didn't know they were miniatures, we would never guess! Love it!!!
I LOVE this painting Carol.ReplyDelete
If you try really hard just to focus on this gorgeous, soft, and harmonious painting.(and block the rest of the world out)...it takes you to a far off place that feels simple, perfect and happy - wow.
Thanks for these great emotions :) You do create magic.
Your remark on the cost of the "permanent" veggies makes me feel quite poetic:ReplyDelete
Ode on a Plastic Fruit
Thou still unravished bowl of berries,
Thou foster-child of diminutive collectors,
Ah, happy, happy berries! that cannot lose
your shine, nor ever bid the spring adieu...
Well, with apologies to Percy Shelley, you get my drift.
I'd g crazy in this store!! On another note, I do my my pain d'epices!!ReplyDelete
Carol: the word is "dipstych"
So ok. Miniatures are cute and all but I just couldn't understand this mini addiction that you have.ReplyDelete
UNTIL I saw those Cartier , chanel & mango mini bags. :-D
I.Am.Smitten!! Smitten I tell you. How adorable are those!


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J.J. Abrams Reveals the Latest 'Star Trek' Villain
To those who mock 'Star Trek' he's the epitome of the original series' low budget badness. To fans, he is a mighty reptilian warrior whose brawn was bested by Kirk's brain on one of the best episodes of television ever.
He is The Gorn! And, if the news out of E3 is any indication, he may be in the upcoming 'Star Trek' sequel.
Namco and Paramount announced at E3 that an upcoming 'Star Trek' video game will take place between the 2009 film and the upcoming sequel and will feature the reptilian Gorn as the villains. The untitled co-op game will include Kirk and Spock teaming to stop "an enemy race bent on conquering the galaxy."
As described in Namco Bandai's press release, the game (set in the J.J. Abrams timeline) will feature the "enemy race" from the Gorn Hegemony. (Yeah, that's right – they have a Hegemony, boy!) Here's the quote that killed me:
The Gorn range in size and abilities, infecting their foes with venom that can poison, cause hallucinations, and even kill. From the smaller infantry Gorn Rushers, to the larger Gorn Warriors and the massive Gorn Brutes, the Gorn provides a serious direct threat, while the wall-climbing Gorn females showcase the cunning for which this race is feared. Technologically capable and possessing the antithesis of Federation ideals, the Gorn pose a devastating threat to Starfleet, the Enterprise, and its crew.
Now, does this mean they'll be in the film? Well, this is an official Paramount and CBS licensed game in Abrams' timeline. But who the heck knows? If you look sharp in the deleted Rura Penthe scenes from the 2009 'Star Trek' you'll see a lizard-y looking dude. Some fans speculated that it was a Gorn. All we can say is that our fingers (and tails) are crossed.
So who are these Gorn anyway?
The season one episode 'Arena' is one of the series' strangest. It has an almost stream of consciousness quality to it. It starts with an away mission to an outpost Cestus III (note: a "cestus" is a roman fighting glove) that is discovered to have been destroyed. Laying in wait are unseen marauders hurling flash disrupter bursts, killing Redshirts left and right. (Okay, one Redshirt, and one dude wearing gold, but work with me.)
As the baddies zip off in retreat the Enterprise pursues them, nearly buckling the ship and then – huh? Kirk disappears. But through the magic of closed circuit television the crew can watch as he and the other ship's captain duke it out royal rumble style.
Ya see, they encroached the zone of the peace loving, all powerful Metrones who, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that a battle to the death is the most humane way to end this conflict.
The resulting fight is a bit of a joke, sure, but it is Kirk versus a giant lizard. You don't like that, you don't like life.
An instant fan favorite, the Gorn have only made three minor appearances in official Trek since then. Once on the Trek animated series, as one of the races captured by an interstellar Bermuda Triangle, and once in the "Mirror Universe" on 'Enterprise.' They come up a lot in books and comics (we recommend the graphic novel 'The Gorn Crisis,' a TNG-centric tale set during the Dominion War) and now it appears they'll be in a game.


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WASHINGTON—The White House issued its strongest denunciation yet of Russian President Vladimir Putin over the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight in eastern Ukraine, saying Friday that available evidence shows the Russians are "culpable" in the plane crash.
The charge came on the same day Pentagon officials said Moscow was preparing to transfer sophisticated rocket systems to pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine. U.S. officials said that while Russia has previously sent ground-attack rockets across the border, they...


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Rugby World Cup 2015
Leicester slam World Cup venue snub
ESPN Staff
October 8, 2012
Welford Road will not host a 2015 World Cup match © Getty Images
Leicester Tigers have hit out at the decision by the organisers for the 2015 World Cup to not include Welford Road on the list of possible venues for the tournament.
England Rugby 2015, that has included just one club rugby ground - Gloucester's Kingsholm Stadium - in a list of 17 venues that will now vie for the chance to play host to games during the 48-match tournament, revealed that concerns over the size of the playing surface that arose during an extensive audit scuppered Welford Road's chances of playing host to the world's best sides.
Instead, ER2015 has opted to give Leicester City FC's King Power Stadium the nod in a decision that has provoked an angry response from Tigers' chairman Peter Tom. "We are hugely disappointed to learn that Welford Road will not play a part in England's hosting of the Rugby World Cup in 2015," Tom said. "When the International Rugby Board awarded the World Cup to the country that gave this sport to the world we saw this as an opportunity to celebrate the international game and also the professional club game here. Leicester Tigers wanted to be part of that.
"Welford Road has hosted many, many major occasions over the years, including visits from South Africa, Australia and Argentina national teams in recent seasons. It is home to the best-supported and most successful club in the history of the professional game in this country and, as such, we believe is worthy of World Cup status."
Leicester have contributed hugely to England's past and present success - they have seven players in the current Elite Player Squad - and back in 2003, it was the Tigers' skipper Martin Johnson who lifted the William Webb Ellis Cup - something that Tom was keen to emphasise.
"Leicester Tigers has always been a forward-thinking and progressive club, and has played an important role in the development and promotion of the game in this country," Tom emphasised. "Who can forget that both head coach and captain of England's World Cup-winning team in 2003, and several other members of the squad and backroom staff, spent major parts of their own careers in Leicester colours? The current England squad also contains a sizeable number of Leicester players, many of whom have been introduced to the sport as fans at Welford Road and have come through the club's academy structure to first-team and then international honours.
"It is that kind of heritage and dedication to the development of the game that makes the name of Leicester Tigers and Welford Road stadium known throughout the rugby-playing world."
Welford Road boasts an impressive capacity of 24,000, which is the largest in the Premiership, but it was not enough to persuade ER 2015 to overlook the constraints of their pitch. "That the organisers of RWC2015 do not think this an appropriate venue for its fixtures is disappointing and confusing both for the professional club game in this country and for its supporters," Tom continued. "Leicester Tigers has the largest community of rugby supporters of any club in the country and the club invested £15million in building the new Caterpillar Stand in 2009 to take Welford Road's capacity up to 24,000.
"A programme of development will continue to improve facilities and the match day experience for players, supporters and corporate guests. It is disappointing that this investment is not rewarded with World Cup status while many other venues on the proposed list do not show that level of commitment to our sport. We wish all of the Leicester Tigers players who will be representing their national teams at RWC2015 every success in it."
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Bethania Mennonite Brethren Church (Beaver Flat, Saskatchewan, Canada)
The Bethania Mennonite Brethren congregation was organized in 1913 under the leadership of John W. Neufeld, with an initial membership of 44. Neufeld, who moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, was succeeded by A. R. D. Klassen and David Berg. The leader in 1951 was George R. Klassen. The congregation originated through colonization from Manitoba and North Dakota, as well as immigration from Russia. In 1950 there were 41 members; in 1965, 11. The congregation dissolved in 1973. It had been affiliated with the Saskatchewan Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches and the General Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches.
The congregation was part of the Herbert (South Saskatchewan) district conference. After dissolution the remaining members joined a nearby Evangelical Mennonite Brethren church.
Toews, John A. A History of the Mennonite Brethren Church: Pioneers and Pilgrims. 1975: 160.
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Epp, Marlene. "Bethania Mennonite Brethren Church (Beaver Flat, Saskatchewan, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. February 1989. Web. 20 Nov 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bethania_Mennonite_Brethren_Church_(Beaver_Flat,_Saskatchewan,_Canada)&oldid=91070.
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Epp, Marlene. (February 1989). Bethania Mennonite Brethren Church (Beaver Flat, Saskatchewan, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 20 November 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bethania_Mennonite_Brethren_Church_(Beaver_Flat,_Saskatchewan,_Canada)&oldid=91070.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 301. All rights reserved.
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CHESTER, Pa. – Philadelphia Union forward Jack McInerney scored the only goal of the game in the 73rd minute as the New England Revolution suffered a 1-0 loss on Saturday night at PPL Park.
McInerney nodded home his third career game-winning goal against the Revs in the late stages, getting on the end of Keon Daniel's free kick at the back post. Union goalkeeper Zac MacMath made three saves to notch the shutout as the teams combined to register just five shots on target.
The Revs (7-17-8, 29 pts.) remain winless (0-4-3) in seven all-time meetings with the Union (10-15-6, 36 pts.), which has now won three of its past four matches.
Stephen McCarthy's absence – sidelined with concussive-like symptoms – forced a shift on the Revolution's backline as Darrius Barnes slid into the middle and Ryan Guy returned from international duty to start at right back. In the midfield, rookie Alec Purdie made his first career start after previously totaling just 33 minutes in four substitute appearances.
Philadelphia was bright early and particularly through McInerney, who looped a tight-angle effort over the crossbar in the seventh minute before lashing a low drive wide of the far post in the 11th minute when he'd been sent in alone.
Only the woodwork prevented the Revs from opening the scoring in the 29th minute. Diego Fagundez fought to wrestle the ball free to Jerry Bengtson and the Honduran forward found himself one-on-one with MacMath. Bengtson rounded MacMath but was forced to a difficult angle and could only direct his shot onto the near post.
The Revs were forced into making their first substitution in the 61st minute when A.J. Soares went off injured, leaving New England with only two healthy natural defenders. Guy covered the gap in central defense, while Purdie shifted to right back.
It was Cardenas who came on for Soares – slotting into a left midfield role – and he almost made his mark in the 70th minute. The Colombian raced onto a through ball but was slowed by the charging MacMath and a backtracking defender, eventually laying a pass off for Bengtson, whose shot was blocked.
McInerney made the breakthrough for Philadelphia in the 73rd minute when he notched his team-leading seventh goal of the season. Shuttleworth tried to claim Daniel's free kick from the right corner, but the ball sailed out of his reach and found McInerney at the back post, where the 20-year-old powered home a header from less than a yard out.
Guy had the Revolution's best chance to equalize when Juan Toja's 85th-minute free kick found him open in the box, but his header was handled by MacMath. Any hopes of a late comeback were dashed shortly thereafter as Benny Feilhaber picked up a pair of quick yellow cards and was subsequently ejected.
The Revs will be off for the international break next weekend before returning to Gillette Stadium for their 2012 home finale as they'll host the Chicago Fire on Saturday, Oct. 20.
New England Revolution at Philadelphia Union
October 6, 2012 – PPL Park (Chester, Pa.)
Philadelphia Union 1, New England Revolution 0
Scoring Summary:
PHI – Jack McInerney (Keon Daniel) 73
New England Revolution: Bobby Shuttleworth, Kevin Alston, A.J. Soares (Fernando Cardenas 61), Darrius Barnes, Ryan Guy, Alec Purdie, Clyde Simms ©, Benny Feilhaber, Kelyn Rowe (Dimitry Imbongo 77), Diego Fagundez (Juan Toja 64), Jerry Bengtson
Substitutes Not Used: Matt Reis, Blair Gavin, Sainey Nyassi, Blake Brettschneider
STATS: Shots 12, Shots on Target 3, Corner Kicks 2, Saves 1, Fouls 14, Offsides 1, Passes (percentage) 350 (76.9%), Possession 45.2%
Philadelphia Union: Zac MacMath, Gabriel Farfan, Carlos Valdes, Amobi Okugo, Raymon Gaddis, Brian Carroll, Michael Lahoud (Antoine Hoppenot 61), Keon Daniel, Gabriel Gomez (Roger Torres 71), Michael Farfan, Jack McInerney (Chris Albright 81)
Substitutes Not Used: Chris Konopka, Freddy Adu, Zach Pfeffer, Chandler Hoffman
STATS: Shots 9, Shots on Target 2, Corner Kicks 3, Saves 3, Fouls 18, Offsides 2, Passes (percentage) 414 (82.9%), Possession 54.8%
* Note that all statistics are unofficial
Misconduct Summary:
NE – Clyde Simms (caution) 66
NE – Benny Feilhaber (caution) 86
NE – Ryan Guy (caution) 86
PHI – Gabriel Farfan (caution) 87
NE – Benny Feilhaber (ejection/second caution) 88
Referee: Jorge Gonzalez
Assistant Referees: Greg Barkey, C.J. Morgante
Fourth Official: Daniel Fitzgerald
Weather: Weather and 66 degrees
Attendance: 17,079
Team Records
New England Revolution: 7-17-8 (29 pts.)
Philadelphia Union: 10-15-6 (36 pts.)
- Following a league-wide bye next weekend for the FIFA competition window, New England has two more games remaining in the 2012 season: Oct. 20 at home against Chicago and Oct. 27 at Montreal
- With the loss, the Revs fell to 7-17-8 on the season and 1-13-2 on the road
- The loss also moved the Revolution to 0-4-3 all-time against Philadelphia, including a 0-2-2 mark at PPL Park
- Tonight's 1-0 loss was the team's 15th one-goal loss of the season and its seventh 1-0 loss on the year
- Bobby Shuttleworth made his third consecutive start – and his fifth of the season – when he drew the starting nod in goal again
- With his full 90 minutes, Bobby Shuttleworth moved into seventh place on the club's goalkeeper minutes played list with 1,581 … tonight he surpassed Aidan Heaney who was in seventh place
- Ryan Guy returned to action after missing last Saturday's game in Houston while on international duty with Guam
- Ryan Guy made his first start at right back when he lined up in the backline this evening
- Ryan Guy played his sixth different position of the season when he shifted to center back in the 61st minute after A.J. Soares went off with a right knee injury
- Alec Purdie made his first career start – and fifth career appearance – when he lined up at left midfield to start the game
- Alec Purdie later made his professional debut at right back – the position he's played most frequently with the Revs' reserve squad – when he shifted back following A.J. Soares' injury
- Juan Toja made his fourth-consecutive substitute appearance when he came on in the 61st minute for Diego Fagundez
- With his start tonight, Darrius Barnes remains the only active Revolution player who has played in all seven matches against Philadelphia
- With his 88th minute second yellow card and subsequent ejection, Benny Feilhaber will miss his the Revs' next match on Oct. 20 while he serves his one-game suspension
- Two of Bobby Shuttleworth's three losses on the season have come against Philadelphia … he is now 1-3-1 on the season … he also suffered the loss in a 2-1 defeat at PPL Park on July 29
- Following the game, Jerry Bengtson (Honduras) and Diego Fagundez (Uruguay Under-20s) were scheduled to depart the Revs and join up with their respective national teams for World Cup Qualifiers and training camp, respectively … neither will miss time with the with Revs as the team is off next Saturday
- The Revolution's 17 losses are the team's most since 1999, when the team went 12-20 in the shootout era of MLS
- The team suffered its 12th shutout of the season, establishing a new club record
- Tonight's game marked the first time Sainey Nyassi was among the 18 dressed players since Aug. 4 – a 1-0 loss at home to Kansas City


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After a highly successful Advancing Sustainability: Business + Design Symposium in October of 2011, students from Woodbury University have gathered once again in order to prepare their second annual event. The topic of this year focuses on the "cardiovascular system" of a city—its infrastructure. The discussion will investigate how various infrastructures—perform, exchange, and are incorporated into the natural environment.


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There's one utility that I need to use quite often that, seemingly, hasn't been updated - at least, not considerably - since at least Windows 95, or possibly even Windows 3.x. Using this utility is an exercise in pure frustration, riddled as it is with terrible user interface design and behaviour that never should have shipped as part of any serious software product.
This is the story of the dreaded Character Map. I'll first explain just how bad it really is, after which I'll dive into the little application's history, to try and find out why, exactly, it is as bad as it is. It turns out that the Character Map - or charmap.exe - seems to exist in a sort-of Windows build limbo, and has been stuck there since the days Microsoft scrapped Longhorn, and started over.


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What's you favorite tea to have with milk?
*The original title was "what's your favorite tea to make milk tea?" but I was told that the term "milk tea" refers to an unexciting children's drink in North America. I wasn't aware, but I guess Asians use it differently since my friends from Korea and Japan commonly use the term.
I am a big fan of milk tea, hot or iced, and while I am drinking more and more tea straight, milk tea will still hold a special place in my heart.
So I just wanted to know what brand or type of tea other people use to make their favorite cup of milk tea, whether it be a strong tea with a touch or cream or royal milk tea.
I usually use English Breakfast or Irish Breakfast, and sometimes just plain Assam CTC. I like to make royal milk tea with plenty of leaves, so I go for strong and affordable tea; I just ordered 250 loose leaf Barry's Gold- hope I like it. I have one friend who likes Yorkshire Gold (Taylors of Harrogate), and another friend who loves Ahmad's English Breakfast for her milk tea though she is not a big fan of Ahmad otherwise.
Other possibilities that I haven't thought of, but my friends have tried, are Lupicia's green tea (!) base with strawberry and vanilla flavoring. When it comes to flavored teas, I usually stuck with vanilla, caramel, almond, or cookie-like flavors, but it sounded interesting…
So, I would like to hear from all you milk tea lovers what you do for your cup of milk tea! Anything about milk tea is welcome. For example, I like to use La Perruche brown sugar cubes when I'm using non-flavored black tea.
What is milk tea? I've never heard of it.
Any tea with milk. Royal milk tea is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO4Xh7bF5HY
In that case, the only tea I ever add milk to is black tea based chais. I'm trying to get brave enough to add it to a Kashmiri chai one day.
I think the phrase "milk tea" is not commonly used in America, must be Europen perhaps? But it is a good description of what I like in the morning. I've really been enjoying PG Tips lately. But I also like Twinings Irish and English Breakfast. Tried to get Barry's tea not long ago. but the place that is supposed to carry it was out. @gander, let us know what you think when you get it! Where are you from?
Yeah that reminds me of "milk coffee" my grandma used to give me on days I was over for breakfast as a kid- milk w/ about 2oz of coffee in it. Because of this, when I heard "milk tea" I thought of some drastically diluted by milk tea. Looking back milk coffee wasn't very good (it was cold on top of being really unporportionate in flavor) so I thought of the tea version being equally bad. I prefer to steep the same amount of tea I would for a cup made just w/ water in a reduced amount of water, steeped for an extra min, and then decant into milk (in a ratio of 1:1 or 2:1 milk to water) and reheat if necessary. I also heat the milk just a bit (30sec in the microwave) before decanting the tea into it.
I think you're right, several people have pointed it out. I think milk tea is an Asian term, because I've met many Japanese and Korean friends who call tea with good amount of milk (rather than just a touch) "milk tea."
And, of course! I'll let you know how I like it. I got it from Amazon.com; search online stores inc tea: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BRV9NY/ref=oss_product
PS: I'm from South Korea but I've been living in Michigan for the past six years. Right now I live in Ann Arbor, MI and I mostly use Internet to order my tea because I'm a poor college student stuck without a car.
Hi poor student without car. i am poor as well and have no need for a car; not mechanically incline.
I do enjoy teas from Barry's; I know that Trader Joe's carries quite a variety of this tea if you've not tried them as yet:
Also the store Irish Imports has many of Barry's Teas costing about $8.00 a box. I believe they are only in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So may not be good for you.
I commented because although I do not take milk with my tea; I do believe that there are nice teas out there to be taken/enjoyed with milk or soy and nicely hot…cooked on a stove and adding cinnamon sticks and carnation milk to add richness and texture. Yums, if my stomach could tolerate but not.
Good luck in your studies. Stay a brazen, keen on becoming something by way of a professional.
I really like the Twinnings Irish Breakfast tea with milk and honey.
I drink nearly all of my black tea with milk.
Similar to what cofftea said – I'm familiar with the term "milk tea" referring to a child's beverage with lots of milk and a little bit of tea for flavor. Not an exciting beverage…
I just found a local coffee place that sells "tea lattes" – tea brewed in their own sweetened vanilla milk. The Earl Grey version (which they call "London Fog") is really tasty!
Ah, I wasn't aware of the term "milk tea" as a child's beverage. I guess it is an Asian term, because I first learned about it from my Asian friends. I think the term is commonly used in Japan and Korea.
I tried London Fog from some of the cafes, but the only problem is that the coffee cafes usually steep the tea for only a short amount of time and pour in steamed milk, and I end up with more vanilla than bergamot. When I make my own, however, I do like it; I wasn't a big fan of earl grey with milk but vanilla helps.
I agree with kaypendragon. I always put a dash of milk in my black teas. I used to drink coffee and when I made the switch to tea I guess I just used milk out of habit. However, when I tried it on white, green, etc., it just never tasted "right."
I've never tried honey in tea though. Maybe one day when I'm feeling adventurous lol.
Twinings English Breakfast with milk and sugar or honey is perfection! I've had it with boba pearls as well and it was delicious. :)
The only unflavored tea I'd ever think to touch with milk would be Assamese.
It's not so much to lessen the extra bite that's characteristic of the broader Assamica Sinsensis leaves, – I can handle that – but because the milk mixes in so well. Where with most teas, I find the milk to be a distracting, "extra" flavor, in teas from Assam it works surprisingly well. It not only curbs the boldness, it gives a really pleasant creamy flavor.
Aside from that, I'll have milk with Masala Chai (of course), and a few teas from Lupicia's flavored black selection. With a bit of milk and sugar, their Chocolat Marron (Chocolate Chestnut) tastes like hot chocolate – except a LOT better.
Green tea powder is the only "tea" tea I have with milk
In some Asian cities, "milk tea" often refers to fruit-milk blend, no tea at all, not even herbal tea. For example, I like "mango milk tea", which is fresh mango blended with milk and sugar (and sometimes half a banana) :D
I've tried adding milk to matcha, but I'm not a fan of milk other than in chai or espresso lattes and the milk taste was too strong in my matcha latte.
Growing in Korea, I thought to add milk to green tea was an abomination- But then again, I wasn't aware of matcha until I was in my late teens! I like matcha by itself because it's already frothy, but occasionally I do like matcha with milk. I have to make my own though, and I don't have my matcha kit with me at school…
When I go out I like to have royal milk tea or some kind of flavored milk tea like honeydew. At home, with hot tea, I like just the basic english breakfast with milk. Usually, I don't like adding milk to my tea unless it's at an afternoon tea.


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Submersible Music announce Drumcore 2
The new version includes more styles from world-famous drummers such as Alan White, who has provided material in odd meters, including 5/4, 7/8 and 9/8; Jon Bishop, who plays a selection of jazz brush material; and Terry Bozzio, drummer for Jeff Beck and Frank Zappa. Drumcore gives you both audio and MIDI versions of the grooves, which were recorded at 10bpm increments to capture the player's natural style, and users can import and export their own REX 2 and Acid files, using Drumcore as a librarian.
Other new features include enhancements to the drum module, which now has a separate audio output with pitch and pan controls for each drum pad. These can be sent to up to 32 Rewire busses, enabling the user to process each drum separately using their Rewire host. There is also a new 'Gabrielizer' feature, which can analyse an audio track and intelligently apply variations to the drummer's audio and MIDI content, derived from the groove of the original.
If that's not enough, extra Drummer Packs are available from Submersible. There are four in total, costing £59 each (from Lonnie Wilson, Matt Sorum, Sly Dunbar and Zoro), but they can all be bought as a bundle for £149. Drumcore v2 costs £159, but you can buy Drumcore Deluxe, which includes all four Drummer Packs, for £319.