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Oh they must be so struggling
with net PROFITS of ONLY £440 million for a 1/2 year, during a recession. How will they survive the next six months?
Nintendo has admitted that Wii sales have "stalled" after reporting a 43 per cent drop in global sales of the console during the first six months of the firm's current financial year. The company sold 5.7m Wiis during the six months to 30 September, compared to 10.1m during the year-ago half. Global Wii videogame sales also …
I haven't turned on my Wii for six months. All the games on the market are seriously shit movie tie ins, or require the purchase of another expensive add-on. (Wii Fit? Wii Motion Plus? What the f**k?)
Come on Nintendo, release another Zelda. Twilight Princess has been one of the only truly decent Wii games.
I seem to remember getting jumped on around here for calling the Wii a fad a while back. Oh dear.
"We were unable to continue to release strong software."
"We just realised that 95% of the games released for the Wii are total shite."
The Wii was a nice piece of kit that managed to become the Christmas toy fad in the year of its release, but as a console it blows because the games on it are sooooo bad. Almost everything I see advertised for the Wii is either yet another Mario rehash, or another collection of mini-games no-one cares about. I know quite a few people who bought a Wii during the fad, and after 5 minutes playing Wii Sports they got bored, and it's sat there ever since, gathering dust.
Ironically enough, I'm in the market for one, now that every light gun game maker in existence is porting to the Wii because of the instant hardware support. Pity the accessories for the Wii also suck donkey balls. Everything's just a moulded piece of plastic you shove the Wiimote into. No chance of a decent gun to play with (though Sony are guilty of this this time around, too).
The DSi is a pile of shite too. No-one is going to buy a console just so they can take pictures of people and mess with them. No-one is going to upgrade their normal DS for those functions, so what's the point? And if you're going to advertise these things to little kids, remember how long little kids' attention spans last...
That'll be 'cos world + dog has got one and even the dog doesn't want two.
I never cease to be amazed when some company that's flogging product like it's going out of fashion acts all surprised when the market saturation point is hit and sales go off a cliff, rather than gradually tailing off toward the end of the product lifecycle as per their cosy internal predictions.
Nintendo need to take a leaf out of the MS book and make sure that the next version goes titsup when its warranty period expires to ensure a ready supply of repeat sales.....
...perhaps people have finally realised that the Wii is shit?
I know people will respond saying how great it is for gaming with the family, but it's not worth it unless you hold house parties every few weeks. As a console to play on regularly there isn't a single game I've seen which would hold my attention for more than a couple of minutes.
Either that or it's because they've now got those twats Ant & Dec to start advertising for them.
The Wii had slick marketing, but ultimately, it was a fad. it was overpriced when compared to a PS2 (which it was more akin to), and didn't have nowhere near the library of great games. The PS3 had thousands and catered for the hardcore and casual gamer alike. However Nintendo had a problem, how do they sell a console thats full of last-gen specs (or even less than last-gen, as even the PS2 could play DVDs), at double the price of a last-gen system.
Simplez, you tell consumers it's a current gen system, and give it a desirable gimmick like a EyeToy style control and some electronic scales add-on.
The harsh reality has now hit home, consumers would have been better off buying a PS2 at the budget end, or a PS3 at the high end.
Paris, because she is surely stupid enough to fall for Nintendos supply micromanagement "can't buy one for love or money" tricks.
How do you expect to sell any more when every man, woman, child, cat and dog owns one now.
Even my mother in law owns one now!
She was the last person in the world I expected to buy a game console, now when the wife take me round there her mother is sure enough gyrating and sweating on that damn wii board thing in front of the TV.
It's like watching a hippo trying to disco dance.
She knows just enough about the computer she owns to be able to switch it on, but not enough to not open every attachment she gets so her computer is chock full of spyware and viruses, I have got fed up with having to clean them all off whenever I visit.
She even replied to a banking phising email recently to tell them she didn't have a bank account with said bank. I suspect that feat has managed to get her onto an email sucker list.
I'm a proper gamer thank you very much, Im a member of a FPS gaming clan and even manage the website.
Now I feel I'm in a gaming minority because I don't own a wii like every other member of the planet, thank god, but now the wife keeps saying it would be nice for her to own a wii...
Sorry Nintendo, you can't sell any more, everyone who wants one has got one!
Unfortunately, despite a great console and (then)revolutionary control interface, teh software is basically PANTS!! I own one, and to be honest, when you compare the PS and xbox titles they wipe the floor with the Wii. You can't argue its graphics..look at Zelda, stunning graphics, massive maps and great gameplay. Then you have all the terrible crap that makes the old mega drive games even look good! Blocky smudged graphics with no gameplay, storyline or innovation. I think too many games publishers saw a fast buck!
and then everyone who wants one has got one. I can see the marketing team now, scratching their heads trying to work out how to convince customers that having 2 wiis are better than 1. It probably doesn't help that both Sony and MS have done a couple of price cuts and it took Nintendo ages to do the same, then when they did cut the price it wasn't by much.
The christmas season will surely up their sales.
Aside from that, all Ninty need to do is lower the price of the console by, say, £50, get all the low to non-existent income people drooling over it.
I mean, it must only have about £30 worth of electronics in its plastic shell to begin with! The WiiMote controller is more technologically advanced than the console as a whole.
To wit - IR camera with image detection for detecting multiple IR light points on the wiibar, three axis accelerometer, bluetooth adapter for comms with the console. They've saved money too by using the standard electronics protocol i2c for communicating with the nunchuk accessory and use a slight adaptation of the HID standard over bluetooth.
Now I wonder if ninty can stop marketing those utterly annoying squeaking chalkboard voiced characters in all their games, with their cutesy innocent bright coloured telly-tubby looks. Perhaps they wouldn't have saturated their key demographic (young kids) if they'd have diversified a little, i.e. aimed at teens / adults, you know, those people with a chance of having some actual money to spend on games consoles.
*going anon*
..they're getting bitten on the ass with this. I'm the original Nintendo fanboy from spending my adolescence playing Super Mario World and Mario 64 and I've had high hopes for the games on the Wii.
Nintendo have more than delivered with their own games but their 3rd party support has been shocking. They should listen to good old Steve - "developers, developers, developers".
That said, I'm still REALLY excited about Mario Galaxy 2. And I still prefer the Wii to any other console.
I agree the Wii hit saturation point we all knew it was coming sooner or later with the Wii's insanely high monthly sale rate.
But the software sales I do agree for once with some of the posters most of the games released are pretty crappy currently. Japan gets a ton of variety in games vs the rest of the world waiting months, to years (if it ever gets translated) for the same game. Till the 1st of January I see a total of 4 games scheduled to be released in America that look like they don't suck, and honestly only 1 I think I might purchase. Compared to the Japanese release schedule there is 4 I would definitely buy coming out in the same time frame, and will buy if they ever make it to America.
But lets face it Nintendo is not at fault for game makers being too lazy and not caring enough to translate a game and bring it out to other markets.
"How do you expect to sell any more when every man, woman, child, cat and dog owns one now?"
By releasing a new version in black. SImple really. El Reg has run with the stories of the Wii HD, other sites have had stories on the Wii 2, there are stories doing the rounds about the Next Gen DS with Nvidia Tetra chipsets, it all rumbles on. But lets not forget, Ninty actually make a profit on hardware, something Sony and MS can only dream about.
Let the heavens decide is a literal translation of nintendo...
apparently the heavens have decided they're bonafide sh1t.
Personally I would have bought one if it werent for the fact that they were NEVER in stock when they first came out, and now that they are in stock (as many have already mentioned) the games are just no good because the hardware is so naff (where are the decent graphics when you want them for an immersive game?)
They need to pull their socks up for the next console release (and make sure its in stock).
... Crash and burn nintendo, crash.and.burn.
...and sell dull blades? Wait, that doesn't sound right...
Some of the Wii games I saw at E3 and TGS looked pretty fun, but it seems like they're stuck between a rock and a hard place - if they make games for gamers, the software will be good, but the people who own the console AREN'T gamers, and won't buy those games...
Plus, the Wii's hardware is so absolutely abysmal that it's got to be hurting them, even with consumers who aren't hardcore gamers. The Wii looks pretty godawful on any HDTV, and HDTVs are a pretty damned large percentage of the market now - for chrissakes, the thing has less memory total than my *video card* had *eight years ago*. It's a cell phone in a white box with component video output, and that was always going to limit them.
The chickens, they are roosting... Nintendo robbed peter to pay paul with the dev cycle, and it's going to be tough for them to come out of it. They still CAN, but it's gonna be tough.
As soon as the over-40 crowd started buying the Wii for use as an exercise machine it was doomed. What 13 to 25 year old wants to use the same console his parents do? When I think of the Wii I think of a chubby 35 year old woman playing Wii Fit on it every day and that kills any desire I have to use it for gaming. I'm sure I'm not alone on that.
The drop in sales and player interest represents the lack of an innovative game paradigm in yonks. It started strong with tennis, golf, frisbee etc, then recaught the wave with Mario Kart. When that buzz was dying out along came Rock Band and it was Game On! again. What's needed is a digital version of some heretofore ignored facet of life. We've had sports, driving and recreational music. What's left?
Why, I believe it's time for WiiBonk, the definitive nookie-meets-console experience! Can a strategic partnership with RealDoll be that far away?
When will people realise - the Wii is NOT meant to be a competitor to the PS3 and XB360 in the graphics department. Their target market is completely different, and its one where graphics are not so important. I have one, but never get the chance to play it (Super Mario Galaxy -great game)- can't get the children off Mario Kart or the other half off Wii fit (when she gets the chance).
People who bought them and now don't use them shouldn't have bought them in the first place, as hardcore gamers it's just not suitable. As they should have know at the time!! Its pretty damn obvious.
I'd agree that a lot of the software is a bit pants - but as others have said, that's not Nintendo's fault. Their stuff is pretty good. Although, I presume there is also a lot of crap stuff available for the other consoles as well..
Nintendo have done extremely well - produce a relatively low powered machine, add a genius controller, then sell a shite load of them at a big profit when the other console makers are selling at a loss. Hats off to that!
They may have hit saturation point though, as others have said. Role on the WiiToo.
Get a grip.
I agree that there is not much real good stuff out for the Wii, but that is true of all consoles. There is some really good stuff on the Wii though - Endless Ocean, Archery and Zelda to name but a few.
Guess the PS3 and XBOX brigade need to realise that not all games have to have bullets in them.
My six year old brother loves playing it and I got mine so I don't get my butt kicked by a six year old at christmas. Aside from that, I don't mind the garbage graphics because I knew full well that's what I was buying. I play tennis, which I never enjoyed growing up, sword fighting and of course the bowling and baseball that my little brother plays (don't care for table tennis). I wish they'd have brought "Killer Instinct" over from the N64 because "Mortal Kombat" wasn't my only favorite title AND I need something to kill after dealing with the people that I deal with at work. Other than that, mines for the kiddies to play with because it's easy for them to grasp and while playing outside would be better, jumping around with a controller is still preferable to being a couch potato.
AC because of the work comment...
The previous commentards here are right - Most Wii games suck monkey balls and any decent game they release requires the purchase of expensive additions. Plus, when I bought the thing, I stupidly forgot that after a day's hard work, the last thing I wanted to do was get my arse up off the sofa to play games.
Its probably the best thing since sliced animal if you're 7 or 70, but the rest of us in the 'middle ground' are less easy to fool.
As a company, Nintendo is conservative and risk-averse, and focuses on long-term profitability over all else. Which is why they're not desperate for market share like Microsoft and Sony who make next to nothing selling hardware (were losing it at one point). While sales numbers for consoles rise and fall, Nintendo is quietly pwning all other comers on handheld gaming, Apple's shrill marketing notwithstanding.
I, for one, welcome our low-resolution Italian plumber overlords.
Richard 102, the word they actually used, 失速 (shissoku), literally means "rapidly lose" (e.g. power, height, or in this case, presumably, sales). Like "stall", also used in reference to an aeroplane or engine, but the Japanese version is somewhat more literal, not too far from "plummet", really.
the wii is a fad?
right, and the the ps3 and xbox360 are what exactly?
face it, the wii won this round, with time to spare to put out a wii2 that *would still make money on day 1* while ms and sony are left with their *graphics have been pushed as far as they can go, so no more improvements until the next generation* consoles. (as if its graphics that matter most - well i suppose if your business model depends on first person shooters then you need something to make your game stand out)
I agree that making a direct comparison between the wii and the other 2 is difficult, but then Nintendo's bean counters couldn't give a shit about whether you think the wii is a "proper" console - a tactic often used by the infamous sony fanboy mark so he can say his ps3 is the fastest selling console (while pointing at the 360s earlier launch date)
oops i didnt mean that to sound quite as ranty.
oh wait, im lying.
and as for the comparison with the ps2...
why would someone buy a 9 year old console if they weren't just replacing the one that they had broken? how many games are still being released for it? outside of Japan i mean? People buy second hand sness for the misty eyed nostalgia. same for the dreamcast and ps2.
i dont care about all the new peripherals...i just want some more decent games. there have been hardly any triple A titles released for the platform this past year - most titles have been shovelware or 3rd party derivatives - and version 2 or 3 of a launch title :-(
give me some decent new IP and some new decent games - its a little shocking when some of the best titles are cheap WiiWare titles and the best you can hope for is a release of some 8bit or 16bit re-release on the VirtualConsole :-(


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The first president to abandon freedom. The first president to go to war on freedom of speech. The first president to align with enemies of freedom vowing to destoy America and our very way of life. The first president to co-sponsor a resolution at the UN restricting the freedom of speech under the shari'a (Islamic law).
If he wins, America is lost.
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• First President to Violate the War Powers Act (Unilaterally Executing American MilitaryOperations in Libya Without Informing Congress In the Required Time Period - Source: Huffington Post)• First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)• First President to Sign into Law a Bill That Permits the Government to "Hold Anyone Suspected of Being Associated With T..." (NDAA Bill - Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation Fast and Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals (Source: Politico)• First President to claim Executive Privilege to shield a sitting Attorney General from... (Source: Business Insider)• First President to Issue Unlawful "Recess-Appointments" Over a Long Weekend -- While the U.S... (against the advice of his own Justice Department - Source: Heritage Foundation)
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• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places (the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, Source: Investors Business Daily)• First President to Refuse to Comply With a House Oversight Committee Subpoena (Source: Heritage Foundation)• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to ... (Defense of Marriage Act - Source: ABC News)
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Scandals• First President to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting of his opponents campaign contributors; and to use the instrumentalities of government to punish those on the list - Source: Heritage Foundation)• First President to Attempt to Block Legally-Required 60-Day Layoff Notices by Government Contractors Due to His Own Cuts to Defense Spending -- Because The Notices Would Occur Before the Election. (Source: National Journal)
• First President to Intentionally Disable Credit Card Security Measures (in order to allow over-the-limit donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fundraising measures - Source: Power Line)
• First President to send 80 percent of a $16 billion program (green energy) to him campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute. (Source: Washington Examiner)• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Polit... (Source:Wall Street Journal)• First President to issue an Executive Order implementing a "Racial Justice System", a system that tries to achieve "racially equivalent outcomes" for crimes (Source: Daily Caller)
• First President to Send Millions in Taxpayer Dollars to His Wife's Former Employer (Source: White House Dossier)
Economy• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Govern... (Source:Reuters)• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat (Source:Christian Science Monitor)• First President to Move America Past the Dependency Tipping Point, In Which 51% of Households Now Pay No Income Taxes (Source: Center for Individual Freedom)
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• First President to Sign a Law Requiring All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Thi... (Source: Wall Street Journal)• First President to Sue States For Enforcing Immigration Laws Passed by Congress (Source: The Arizona Republic newspaper)• First President to See America Lose Its Status as the World's Largest Economy (Source: Peterson Institute)
• First President to redistribute $26.5 billion of the taxpayers' funds to his union sup...(Source: Heritage Foundation)• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts o...(Source: Detroit News)• First President to Attempt to Bully a Major Manufacturing Company Into Not Opening a F... (Boeing's facility in South Carolina - Source: Wall StreetJournal)
Energy Policy• First President to Endanger the Stability of the Electric Grid by Shutting Down Hundreds of Coal-Fired Plants Without Adequate Replacement Technologies (Source: National Electric Reliability Corporation - PDF)• First President to Have His EPA Repudiated by a Federal Judge for "Overstepping Its Po... (Source: Huffington Post)• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling... (Source: Politico)
National Security and World Affairs• First President to Lie Repeatedly to the American People About the Murder of a U.S. Am... (Source: Roger Simon)• First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense Secrets With the Russian Government (Sources: ABC News, Rep. Michael Turner)• First President to Leak Highly Classified Military and Intelligence Secrets to Hollywo... (Source: Judicial Watch)
• First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space (Sources: USA Today, ABC News)
• First President to press for a "treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of o... (The Law Of The Sea Treaty, Source: Investors Business Daily)• First President to send $200 million to a terrorist organization (Hamas) after Congress had explicitly frozen the money for fear it would fund attacks against civilians (Sources: American Thinker, The Independent [UK])
Miscellania• First President to Insert Himself into White House Biographies of Past Presidents (Source: The New York Times).• First President to Golf 105 or More Times in His First Three-and-a-half Years in Office (Source: The Hill)
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It would probably be similar to what we are seeing in Greece today, including mass demonstrations and riots – because that is what the Greek government has done. The above numbers are simply adjusted for the relative size of the two economies. Of course, the US government would never dare to do what the Greek government has done: recall that the budget battle in April,which had House Republicans threatening to shut down the government, resulted in spending cuts of just $38bn.
What makes the Greek public even angrier is that their collective punishment is being meted out by foreign powers – the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF. This highlights perhaps the biggest problem of unaccountable, rightwing, supranational institutions. Greece would not be going through this if it were not a member of a currency union. If it had leaders of its own who were stupid enough to massively cut spending and raise taxes during a recession, those government officials would be replaced. And then a new government would do what the vast majority of governments in the world did during the world recession of 2009 – the opposite: that is, deploy an economic stimulus, or what economists call counter-cyclical policies.
And if that required a renegotiation of the public debt, that is what the country would do. This is going to happen even under the European authorities, but first, they are putting the country through years of unnecessary suffering. And they are taking advantage of the situation to privatise public assets at fire sale prices and restructure the Greek state and economy, so that it is more to their liking.
I have maintained for some time that the Greek government has had more bargaining power than it has used, and the past week's events seem to confirm this. Because of the massive opposition to further economic self-destruction – the latest polls show that 80% of Greeks are opposed to making any more concessions to the European authorities – the Greek government has so far been unable to reach an agreement with the IMF for the release of their latest loan tranche on 29 June.
So what happened? The IMF is going to hand over the money anyway, while the European authorities (who are in control of IMF decision-making on matters of Greek economic policy) continue to quarrel over how long they will postpone Greece's inevitable debt restructuring, roll-over, or whatever they choose to call it.
That's because the prospect of a disorderly default – as would be triggered by the IMF simply sticking to its programme and not lending Greece the money – is too scary for the European authorities to contemplate. For this reason, the many news articles about the possibility of a financial collapse comparable to what happened after Lehman Brothers went under in 2008 are somewhat exaggerated. The European authorities are not going to let that happen over a measly $17bn loan installment. The events of the past week were all a game of brinkmanship, and the European authorities had to blink because the Greek government, as much as it wanted to, couldn't get approval for the deal.
A democratically accountable Greek government would take a much harder line with the European authorities. For example, they could start with a moratorium on interest payments, which are currently running at 6.6% of GDP. (This is a huge interest rate burden, and the IMF projects it to increase to 8.6% by 2014. For comparison, despite all the noise about the US debt burden, net interest on the US public debt is currently at 1.4% of GDP.) That would release enough funds for a serious stimulus programme, while they negotiate with the authorities for the inevitable debt write-down. Of course, the European authorities – who are looking at this from the point of view of their big banks and creditors' interests generally – would be enraged, but at least this would be a reasonable opening bargaining position.
The IMF's latest review of its agreement with Greece suggests that the Euro, for the Greek economy, is still 20-34% overvalued. This makes a recovery through "internal devaluation" – that is, keeping unemployment extremely high and therefore lowering wages to make the economy more internationally competitive – an even more remote possibility than it would otherwise be. But the big problem is that the country's fiscal policy is going in the wrong direction; and of course, they cannot use monetary policy because that is controlled by the ECB.
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Japan is also pursuing floating installations, with one experimental project underway off the Goto Islands in southern Japan, and a deep-sea initiative planned for the sea lanes off the coast of Fukushima from next year. However, the choice to go with fixed-base installations for Kitakyushu and Choshi was based on cost, said Masaharu Itoh, director of the New Technology Department at New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), an independent administrative agency with ties to Japan's economic, trade and industry ministry.
NEDO is involved in both projects, along with Professor Ishihara of the University of Tokyo, who is also heavily involved in the Fukushima offshore floating project.
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"We are aiming to develop technology related to the construction, operation and maintenance of the type of wind turbines necessary to implement offshore wind in Japan, " says Itoh. NEDO is reluctant to apply European case studies to Japan, based on the existence of typhoons, the effect of wind turbulence produced by the proximity of mountain ranges to the coastline, powerful swells in the Pacific, and seasonal differences in wave size in the Sea of Japan.
The Kitakyushu offshore meteorological tower will be installed approximately 1.5km off the coast in the Sea of Japan, and will measure wind and wave conditions prior to a 2MW Japan Steel Works wind turbine being installed. This project is based on joint research between NEDO and J-Power, under the leadership of Professor Ishihara.
As part of another project between NEDO and Tokyo Electric Power Company, also led by Professor Ishihara, a met mast will be installed in the Pacific, three kilometres off Choshi, around the same time, and the subsequent turbine to be installed will be a 2.4MW from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
The projects have been in development for four years, and may gain a boost from the July introduction of feed-in tariffs of JPY 23.1/kWh ($0.30/kWh) for projects above 20kW over 20 years, but progress is not directly related to the tariff, Itoh says.
The project's budget is approximately JPY 10 billion for the construction and operation of the masts and turbines, with around JPY 3 billion being spent on the masts, and JPY 7 billion on the turbines.


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Confession: we rarely, if ever, use screen protectors. We prefer the tried and true "just be careful with it" approach with our smartphones but the Lumia 1020 has us thinking differently. That's because we all know the Lumia 1020 costs a bit more and perhaps we'll want to take extra steps to protect it.
We picked up the Moshi iVisor AG screen protector from our local AT&T store and figured we'd give it a try.
What'd we think? Head past the break for some images and a video tour.
The Moshi iVisor AG is an anti-finger and anti-glare screen protector. It's reusable in the sense that you can peel it off, wash it, let it air dry and then re-apply. While that's possible, you'll have to be super careful that dust doesn't land on the adhesive side while drying. Still, it's a nice option—in theory.
Applying the Moshi was effortless. We wiped down our display with the included cloth, peeled the back and simply aligned the protector. Total time? 90 seconds. The iVisor AG covers 99% of the display, including the capacitive buttons near the bottom. As a result, there are square cutouts for those buttons and it looks a tad odd, but overall it's not too bad. The AT&T logo was a smidge off center, but we had no bubbles and it was a clean install.
Touch sensitivity was not reduced and in fact, the Lumia 1020 felt really nice to use with iVisor AG installed. The screen is significantly more matte (glare free) than before and fingerprints are virtual gone from regular usage. Not everyone likes matte screens though, so make sure you consider that before buying. Reduced color and clarity is technically a concern but so far, we don't have any complaints.
The Moshi iVisor AG goes for $25 at AT&T stores and while that is stupid expensive, we have to admit we kind of like the look and feel of it. Between gaining screen protection, reduced glare and a cleaner display, the $25 doesn't really feel wasted—and that's from a screen protector skeptic.
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text: This is sort of agonizing. On the last hole of the Phoenix Open today, this birdie putt lipped out for Phil Mickelson. Had he holed it, he would have shot a 59, which is golf's answer to baseball's .400, i.e. the outer bound of human ability. Only five golfers have shot a 59 on the PGA Tour. Mickelson said after his round that he was "mortified that didn't go in—you don't get those chances very often."


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Monday, April 29, 2013
Tom Still: Rebuilding the middle class: Ex-Wisconsin congressman offers a plan
A report released this month by the Brookings Institution confirmed what many observers already suspected: Metro Milwaukee lost almost twice as many private-sector jobs in the decade of 2000-'10 as the average for the nation's 100 largest metro areas.
By Tom Still
By Tom Still
Not only was metro Milwaukee's 6.8 percent job loss well above the national average of 3.9 percent, but many of the vanished jobs were good jobs – with decent wages, benefits and some sense of security and opportunity.
In short, they were middle-class jobs that appear increasingly difficult to replace in today's jobless recovery.
Rebuilding the endangered middle class in America is the subject of "The New Middle Class: Creating Wealth, Wages, and Opportunity in the 21st Century," written by former Wisconsin congressman Steve Gunderson, who is now president and CEO of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities.
The book provides an unvarnished look at why the American middle class has eroded over time, beginning with events, trends and policies dating to the 1970s, and offers some paths forward – assuming there is sufficient private and public will to follow them.
Gunderson, who also served in the Wisconsin Legislature before representing the state's 3rd Congressional District as a moderate Republican for 16 years, grew up in what he described as a classic middle-class environment. His grandfather was a farmer, his father a car dealer, and virtually everyone around them in the northwest Wisconsin community of Pleasantville fit that profile.
Today, Gunderson believes, the middle-class ethos that contributed so much to the nation's civic and economic fabric is threatened – not just in Wisconsin, but across the nation, at a time when competition from abroad has increased and the middle class is growing in emerging nations.
"Everyone thinks the end of the middle class began at the end of the recession," Gunderson said in a recent interviewk. "It didn't. It began in the 1970s. The good news is there is still time to save it."
The book outlines a host of reasons why the number of statistical middle-class households and their income growth has stagnated. Those include the instability of private and public retirement plans, the crumbling of the housing market following the growth bubble, policies and practices that encouraged a culture of personal spending versus saving, global competition, a lack of innovation in some industries and more.
Of late, Gunderson argues, one of the biggest factors contributing to the decline of the middle class is political gridlock.
"Both parties talk a great deal about restoring the middle class, but neither of them does anything about it," he wrote. "The truth is – they can't. The middle class cannot be restored in this era of severe political polarization. Unless politicians from both parties are willing to make compromises and restore the middle ground of American politics, the middle class will continue to erode. Throughout our history, consensus has built the middle class. Now, partisanship has destroyed it."
The consensus Gunderson proposes isn't somehow magical or unimagined by others, but it is a combination of ideas that may help to address challenges facing parts of Wisconsin that are struggling to reinvent their economies.
It begins with understanding the world has changed and the economy that existed a generation or even a decade ago has changed with it. The "knowledge economy" of the 21st century requires skills that weren't necessarily needed for middle-class jobs in the past. That has heightened the need for higher education that doesn't stop at the edge of a traditional college campus.
"America has spent decades reforming K-12 education," Gunderson wrote. "This is really important, but the next item on our agenda must be post-secondary education. Sixty-three percent of all jobs – and 85 percent of all new jobs – in America require some level of post-secondary education."
To Gunderson, that's not just more people with bachelor's, masters and doctoral degrees, but lifelong learners with certificates that address the needs of employers in emerging sectors that are most likely to create middle-class jobs.
Rebuilding the American manufacturing advantage, stabilizing retirement plans, easing the home-ownership crisis and solving the federal deficit riddle are also part of the equation. At the center of it all is what Gunderson describes as a "middle class compact" that focuses on fostering a growth economy, something he believes Democrats and Republicans alike can embrace.
Rebuilding the middle class, in Wisconsin and elsewhere, is essential to economic security, civic cohesion, democracy and even national security. It's a task that cannot begin soon enough, and which cannot be accomplished without public and private cooperation.
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Echoplex wrote:Are we even sure that these figures are accurate, as has been mentioned all the selfy stick footage doesn't appear to show any gaps, big or small in the audience.
All the figures I am posting are from Billboard magazine, they publish concert attendances and revenue on a weekly basis in a section called Boxscore. I don't think we will get all the shows from this tour but I will post what they publish


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The monster-humanization lobby has been active in Hollywood for some time now. (Why else would Mel Gibson still be getting work?) The latest pro-beastie salvo is "Hotel Transylvania," a serviceable animated movie about a soft-hearted Dracula (Adam Sandler) who runs a Catskills-reminiscent resort where fellow creatures of the night can relax, far from the threat of those terrifying predators called humans.
Continuing the theme from Pixar's "Brave" earlier this year, he's also got a willful teenage daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez), who's curious about the outside world and doubtful that people are really as awful as her dad claims. On her 118th birthday, she longs to spread her wings and fly — literally, as, like her overprotective dad, she can turn into a bat.
Director Genndy Tartakovsky ("The Powerpuff Girls," "Samurai Jack") is a natural fit for this kid-and-parent-friendly flick. The animator's wit and attention to detail enliven a collection of well-known ghosts and ghouls. (Though Tartakovsky's more traditional TV-cartoon style is still superior, as evidenced by his playful closing credits.) Steve Buscemi's bloodshot-eyed werewolf is constantly engulfed by a teeming swarm of his puppyish offspring; Chris Parnell's fly-man seems highly distinguished, then offhandedly throws up on his hands and rubs them together midconversation.
Yes, recognizable A-lister voices abound, as per the mandate in big-screen animation these days. Kevin James is a fire-phobic Frankenstein, Cee Lo Green is Murray the mummy, Fran Drescher is Mrs. Frankenstein and Molly Shannon is Mrs. Werewolf. David Spade is an oft-indignant Invisible Man.
As for Sandler, this may be his best work in years, which I suppose isn't saying much. He does a decent Dracula impression, though it wears a bit thin by the one-hour mark. More successful is fellow "SNL" comic Andy Samberg as Jonathan, an affable, grubby backpacker who stumbles upon the place in search of something even awesomer than a youth hostel.
The initial culture clash between Drac and Jonathan is where you can feel the snappy contributions of co-screenwriter Robert Smigel ("SNL," Triumph the Insult Comic Dog). Confronted with an iPod blaring LMFAO, the vamp swears it's stealing his soul. And when he catches the young man fishing around in his eye to remove a contact lens, the bloodsucker blanches: "That is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen!"
Jonathan will hit it off with Mavis, of course — but it can never be, because he's a human and she's a vampire. Sound familiar? At one point Dracula catches a moment of the movie "Twilight" and rolls his eyes: "This is how we're represented? Unbelievable!"
The scene is set for a thawing of relations between the creatures and the humans, and so it goes, enjoyably enough. The monster mash at the end left this critic feeling centuries old, though: Must every kids' movie include an Auto-Tuned anthem? (It's stealing my soul!)


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CLAREMONT, Calif. -- Brandeis senior Chris Brown (No. Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford) closed out his stellar campaign today by placing fourth in the 1,500-meter run at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field championships at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges in California to earn All-America honors for the second time in 2012.
Brown, the top seed in the event headed into the meet, finished with a time of 3:56.36, well off his school-record pace of 3:43.39. He ran the 10th-fastest time in the preliminaries, finishing second in the slower of the two prelim heats. Brown finished just six one-hundredths of a second out of a top-three performance, but just under one full second behind champion Dan Sullivan of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Brown sat in either fourth or fifth place through the first two laps of the race, which featured a lot of contact as runners tried to pass one another. He started to fall back in the third 400-meters. As Sullivan took the lead on the final lap, Brown started to charge from the back of the pack. He moved all the way into second place at one point, but Brown was unable to complete the comeback on the leader while a pair of opponents overtook him as well.
Brown was the top finisher from New England and from the University Athletic Association in the race. He earned five points for the Judges, who tied for 41st place. That was good for a tie for sixth among New England Schools and tops among UAA institutions.


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Connect to databases remotely in cPanel hosting
Connecting remotely to a database lets you manage it using tools like MySQL Query Browser or MySQL Workbench.
If you want to connect remotely to a database, you must enable support for remote connections.
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- Click Web Hosting.
- Next to the cPanel account you want to use, click Manage.
- Click cPanel Admin.
- In the Databases section, click Remote MySQL.
- In the Host field, enter the IP address from where you want to access your databases.
- Click Add Host.
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Applications that connect remotely to databases use similar settings. You can find database's specific information using View your database details for cPanel hosting.
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And then back on the course. Elena begins her 2012 season in May at the CN Canadian Women's Tour event in Vancouver. She then expects to play some Futures Tour tournaments starting in July, while also attempting to get into some LPGA event through Monday qualifying. (Anyone interested in discussing sponsorship opportunities can email her at email@example.com.)
Something Lani recently did, what she described as "life changing," was jump out of an airplane. Robles went skydiving with the famous U.S. Army "Golden Knights" parachute team, and she's posted a video of the experience on YouTube.


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The producers of Sharknado may have outdone themselves. The latest project from the team is the Syfy movie Dead 7, which will feature current and former boy band members battling zombies and is scheduled to premiere on April Fool's Day. (Unfortunatel… Read more


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Speculation over interest rate rise
Bank of England rate setters will meet on Thursday amid increasing speculation that the burgeoning recovery will soon see cracks emerge in the current consensus on the cost of borrowing.
It is regarded as certain that interest rates will remain on hold at 0.5% this week but observers detect signs that policy makers disagree over key indicators of the economy's improvement which may widen into dissent in the months ahead.
Easing inflation coupled with first quarter growth that fell slightly short of expectations should be enough to persuade the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that it is not yet time to bring an end to the low rates that have nursed the UK back to health.
But a fall in unemployment to 6.9% has now formally freed the MPC from the straitjacket of its "forward guidance" policy under which no rise could be considered until joblessness fell to 7%.
The Bank has now updated the guidance to indicate that it will use a more opaque measure of "spare capacity" in the economy and that more of this so-called "slack" must be taken up by the recovery before interest rates can be lifted.
Minutes of the latest MPC meeting in April indicated disagreement about this key factor.
They revealed there was a "range of views" about whether many self-employed people were in fact under-employed and looking for work as employees. That would imply a greater degree of ''slack'' in the economy than the headline jobs figures would suggest.
Investec economist Philip Shaw said: "The loose nature of the new framework, with the aim of eliminating economic slack within 2-3 years, allows considerable scope for a range of views on the committee, and we fully expect this to be reflected in more robust policy debate and in due course, dissent.
"But for the time being the economy is growing healthily without overheating and there seems to be no immediate pressure points in terms of the inflation outlook. Accordingly next week's decision should once again be a clear and uncontroversial 'no change'."
Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight said: "While a near-term interest rate hike remains extremely unlikely opinions within the Bank of England are likely to become more diverse over the coming months about exactly when monetary policy should start to be gradually tightened.
"The more MPC hawkish members may well start to favour a first small rate hike before the end of 2014."
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Long day's journey into war: December 7, 1941
Dutton, Sep 1, 1991 - History - 706 pages
Presents a global analysis of the twenty-four hours that thrust the United States into World War II, featuring interviews with survivors and a detailed countdown of events that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor
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What Physician Assistants Do
Physician assistants, also known as PAs, practice medicine on teams with physicians, surgeons, and other healthcare workers. They examine, diagnose, and treat patients.
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Physician assistants work in physicians' offices, hospitals, outpatient clinics, and other healthcare settings. Most work full time.
How to Become a Physician Assistant
Physician assistants typically need a master's degree from an accredited educational program. All states require physician assistants to be licensed.
The median annual wage for physician assistants was $108,610 in May 2018.
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However, a different part of document is now giving errors. My document uses the program library, and I get this bad character error code in a style file that belongs to it. If I get rid of the tikz and etex libraries (and comment out my tikz figure code), the document compiles fine.
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Our JUNE PICK for our July 5th hangout is: Flesh by Kyle Scott.
In 2011 someone from Google emailed me and told me they were launching a really cool service called "Google Hangouts" and if I wanted to be one of the first to use the service, I could do it! Well, I was in the middle of preparing to launch my company, "Geek and Sundry" and I couldn't really add anything intensive onto my schedule. So I thought, "What do I do that I could talk about and wouldn't add any time to my day?" And that is how "Vaginal Fantasy" was born.
"Vaginal Fantasy" is a book club where my friends Veronica Belmont, Bonnie Burton and Kiala Kazebee and I discuss a genre romance book once a month in a live stream, and drink a wee bit of alcohol while we do it. The name is tongue in cheek, and a lot of people are put off because of it, so I should change it, but I can't. The logo makes me laugh too much.
The thing I love most about this project is that members of the group get together on their own, in person or online, to discuss the books themselves, locally. There are over a dozen groups across the globe, and the idea of helping people meet through reading guilty pleasure literature fills my day with joy. We are twelve thousand members strong over on Goodreads, if you want to join, come on over! Or just watch the video. Either is fine.


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ROCKFORD - What was billed as an epic showdown for the NIC-10 boys basketball championship turned out to be an epic smackdown.
Auburn High School 78, Boylan High School 48.
Friday night's game at Auburn was a sell-out. Each team entered the contest with a 13-2 conference record. Auburn's win gives the Knights their third conference title in four years. Belvidere won the NIC-10 title a year ago.
The game lived up to its hype in the first half, which ended with Auburn on top 32-29. But it became a rout in the third quarter when Auburn pulled ahead by 21 points.
To hear Auburn fan Tony Cobb tell it, however, the game was a foregone conclusion. That despite the fact Boylan had won 67-54 on Jan. 4 at Boylan.
"I wasn't nervous," he said. "I knew they were going to win. They have history. My nephew, Nylek Cobb, No. 5, he's a junior. He beat them when he was in the ninth grade. He'll be back next year."
The Knights had a balanced floor game led by Antoine Pittman's 15 points, Nylek Cobb's 14 and Laytwan Porter's 12.
Brock Stull led Boylan with 23 points.
Auburn fan Joyce Curb was all smiles after the game. "I can watch it over and over again," she said.
This spring, daughter Rachiann will be the last of Curb's four children to graduate from Auburn.
Across the gym, there was no reason for celebration. Boylan just had a bad game.
Senior Drake Mathiesen called it "a real buzz kill. We just didn't have a good night."
However, Auburn's bragging rights might be short-lived: The Knights and Titans could go at it again next Friday in the finals of the Class 4A regional tournament at Boylan.
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Cleaning 'angels' reinforce positive image of Japanese workers
If, like thousands of others, you took the shinkansen (super express) during the recent New Year's holiday break, when you arrived at a line terminal you likely saw uniformed cleaning crews waiting at attention for the train to stop. They would have bowed as you left the car and then scurried on board to clean it up before the passengers waiting on the platform were allowed to board. During this time of year, in particular, express trains are packed 24/7, and keeping arrivals and departures on time is the number one priority. These cleaners, on average, have only seven minutes to make the cars spic-and-span, and their methodical efficiency in getting that job done has made them heroes in the media, the newest symbols of Japan's storied work ethic.
At least one book has been written about these train cleaners, CNN produced a special report on them and dozens of magazine articles have covered them in detail. A recent issue of Shukan Post concentrated on one of the companies, Techno Heart Tessei, which is a subsidiary of JR East. Right at the beginning of the article, the Post offers the opinion that these workers provide a positive example for any business in Japan. It then goes on to describe in detail the "shinkansen gekijo," (bullet train theater): how the cleaners, both men and women, accomplish their "miraculous" task, which is methodical and reducible to the second. There is one cleaner per non-reserved car, two or three per reserved car.
Overhead racks are checked on the initial round while seats are reset to their original orientation and underfoot trash is quickly swept to the middle aisle. On the return round, window ledges, blinds and panes as well as folding tables are wiped; headrest covers are replaced if dirty. Then someone comes through with a broom to collect the trash. Separate staff handles toilets. All operations are checked by the supervising cleaner and cleared. Usually, these teams complete their jobs with more than a minute to spare. On the average, they clean 20 trains a shift.


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Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-New York, has distanced himself from a statement supporting a controversial detoxification program linked to the Church of Scientology.
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Searches for a named file in the path specified by dirs. The file argument may be a list of file names or a single string file name. The dir argument may be a list of dir paths or a single string dir path. In addition to searching for files that exist in the filesytem, this function also searches for derived files that have not yet been built.
The function returns a File object if the file is found, or None if not found.
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You may be used to Google Play when it comes to installing Whether - Bible App ( org.scriptureearth.aak.nt.apk Package ). Actually, it is very convenient and sometimes necessary to install this app without Google Play. This is helpful for installing old version on new phones, installing apps scaled for small screens on larger devices, or testing compatibility with newer and/or older Android devices.
Method 1: With APK Extractor
Step 1. Open APK Extractor. The APK Extractor app will allow you to save an app's APK file to phone internal memory or SD card. If you haven't yet downloaded APK extractor, first do so from the Play Store: from Google Play or from APK Support
Step 2. Tap the three-dot icon on the upper right corner, and choose Settings, then you should see Saved path, which is the folder that extracted APK files will go.
Step 3. Find the Whether - Bible App from the list and select the three-dot icon next to it, then tap share.
Step 4. A transient message shows that the APK file has been saved to the default path. Depending on your device, there may have other methods to share or save the file.
Method 2: Using Solid Explorer File Manager
Some advanced file manager apps can extract APK files from installed user apps as well as system apps, such as Solid Explorer File Manager and ES File Explorer.
Step 1. Install and run Solid Explorer on your Android device.
from Google Play or from APK Support
Step 2. Tap the menu button on the upper left corner.
Step 3. Scroll down and choose Applications.
Step 4. Tap User apps, then long press Whether - Bible App. (You can also choose from System apps.)
Step 5. Select the three-dot icon on the upper right corner, and choose Share.
Step 6. There should have several options to share app. Here we choose Save to… (On the bottom, you should see SELECT "USER APPS", which is the current location.)
Step 7. Tap the menu button on upper left corner, and select Internal memory (or other storages), then open a folder.
Step 8. Tap the bottom bar to save the extracted APK file to the folder.
You should be able to find the extracted APK files from the folder you selected on Step 7. However, the file names may be different from the installed apps. You could identify them according to icons.
- To install APK files on Android, you need to turn on Unknown source on Settings> Security first, then just tap the APK file and finish the installation step by step.
- Many people may want to install Android apps on PC, so you can move the extracted APK files to computer. However, in order to install APK and use Android apps in computer, you also need to install an emulator to your PC


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Gordon State College is sad to announce the death of Lynnette Smyth, professor of economics.
Smyth became ill early Sunday morning and died Sunday evening at a local hospital.
"Gordon State College extends its deepest sympathies to Lynnette's husband, Mark, her family and friends as well as her campus associates, friends and students," said Gordon State College President Max Burns.
Smyth joined the Gordon State College faculty in 2000. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee, Master's at the University of Missouri and Ph.D. at Rutgers University.
She and her husband made their home in Barnesville.
Final arrangements are pending.
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BOSTON, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts Boston Department of Athletics has announced that former UMass Boston women's ice hockey player Melissa Belmonte '07 will be inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of the 2013 class.
Perhaps one of the most gifted players in the history of the women's ice hockey program, Belmonte will be one of seven new members to be honored this October in the university's annual ceremony.
A member of the first four women's ice hockey teams at UMass Boston, Belmonte finished her career second all-time in career points with 157 (76 goals, 81 assists) and is one of only four members of the 100 point club. Named a two-time USCHO.com Preseason All-American, she was selected as an ECAC East Second Team All-Conference selection in 2007. She also grabbed All-Rookie Team and Honorable Mention All-Conference honors in 2004.
All-Time, Belmonte sits tied for first for most games played in program history appearing every possible game during her four years with 103. Her 76 careers goals sit second most all-time behind 2013 UMB Hall of Famer and classmate Andrea Ciarletta '07.
Her 81 career assists stand as the all-time mark for UMB, while her seven career hat tricks and 18 multi-point games are second most. She currently owns the program mark for career multi-point games with 46 and sits third in school history with 17 career power-play goals and eight game-winners.
In a season, Belmonte ranks second in points by a freshman with 53, fourth in points by a senior with 44 and fifth in points by a junior 40. She currently holds the program mark for power-play goals in a season with seven, and his tied for first in single season hat tricks with four. Her 25 assists as both a freshman and a junior is tied for third most.
She also stands as the program leader in most points recorded in a single game with six which she reached on two occasions. She also owns the record for most goals in a game with four, which she also recorded in two different contests.
The 2013 UMass Boston Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony is scheduled to take place in the UMass Boston Campus Center Ballroom on Thursday, October 10, at 6 p.m. For more information about this year's Hall of Fame ceremony please contact Maria Marcelino at email@example.com or call 617-287-7895.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's volleyball team won their seventh straight match as they took down visiting Eastern Nazarene, 3-1, on Tuesday evening in a non-conference match at the Tripp Athletic Center.
After dropping the first set, the Corsairs rallied to take the next three defeating Eastern Nazarene, 24-26, 25-16 25-22 and 25-16 for their fifth straight victory over the Lions.
Once again, senior setter Jess Goncalves (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) led the way for the Corsairs with 36 assists. Freshman outside hitter Stephanie Antoine (New Bedford, MA/Greater New Bedford Vo Tech HS) continued her strong play leading the team in kills with 21, while junior outside hitter Tahirah Gibson (Norwood, MA/Norwood HS) added seven kills. Freshmen outside hitters Brianna Perry (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) and Linsay Boulay (Swansea, MA/Case HS) each added six kills.
Defensively, freshman Alexis Ruest (Coventry, RI/Coventry HS) led the way with 12 digs, while Boulay added 10 of her own.
"It was nice to see a young team come back and defeat a team they have already played, especially with such a quick turnaround," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve DeRossi. "The first set we gave away too many points and didn't control the ball very well, but after that we rebounded well and were the better ball control team. It's nice to be 7-0, but as I told the team our next nine matches are all away from home and we are going to see how we handle the long bus rides and road atmosphere."
The Corsairs improved to 7-0 with the victory, while the Lions dropped to 6-3. UMass Dartmouth will return to action when they travel to Southern Maine to meet the Huskies and Worcester State Saturday. Eastern Nazarene will host Newbury Wednesday. .


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We have been fortunate so we share it. It is what any good Bucknellian would do.
J. Ronald Carey '61 (business administration) knew he wanted to go to Bucknell when he attended the graduation of his personal hero, his uncle, William "Pat" Carey '50, who had served in the Army during WWII.
Carey himself joined the National Guard on his 18th birthday and remained in the Guard during his ROTC time at Bucknell. Combined with his time in the Army and the Army Reserves, Carey served 42 years in the service in Europe, Vietnam and the U.S., retiring as a brigadier general.
While serving in Paris, Carey met his future wife, Sandy Harley, at a Mexican restaurant. Their courtship was swift, and on their fifth date she was walking down the aisle. Her parents met their future son-in-law for the first time on the night before the wedding! The Careys have been married for 45 years.
After earning a doctorate in marketing from the University of Texas at Austin, Carey taught at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio where he was named an emeritus professor in 2011. Together with Sandy, a retired Navy captain and Ph.D. social psychologist, Carey has consulted with several companies, including doing the research that led to the McDonald's Happy Meal. They also have lectured in Sydney and Shanghai on project management and consumer behavior.
Carey says his proudest achievement in the military was being the program manager of the Department of Defense's largest information technology procurement. When he arrived on the job, the $1 billion program was in turmoil, but the team he assembled reorganized it into one that was always on time and on budget, an unheard of feat. For his work, Carey received two Legion of Merit awards.
"I succeeded at the task because I understood marketing thanks to Professor Neil Shiffler (former marketing department chair). I had to persuade Congress that the program deserved full funding and convince companies that it was worth bidding on," Carey says.
Last year he was inducted into the Bison Battalion Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class. He jokes that he is sure at least two of his ROTC instructors would be dumbfounded at his success, as would all his Theta Chi fraternity brothers.
The Careys live on a 365-acre ranch in the Texas Hill Country, which they turned into a wildlife preserve and ecological laboratory. The couple helps support a Bucknell scholarship and returns to Lewisburg annually to meet with their student. They are active in many charities as well. "We have been fortunate so we share it," Carey says. "It is what any good Bucknellian would do."
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Sunday 11th August 10.30am-5pm
On display for the first time will be our 1940s Post Office van which you can admire on the forecourt of our Victorian station building. All, visit our new TPO display coach (from 12.30pm) - includes a "TV Theatre" and reconstruction of the train robbers' hideout kitchen! (Robber playing Monopoly with – 'real' money?!)
Did you know it took place near here, 56 years ago? At 3am on August 9th 1963, an armed gang stopped the mail train between Leighton Buzzard and Cheddington, and stole over £2.5 million.
Inside our Travelling Post Office carriages, you can see how mail used to be sorted - you can have a go at sorting the mail yourself!
Also, as usual, there will be free steam train rides; miniature train rides (£1 charge for those age 3+), and modern Museum, complete with 1946 Mail Van and Underground Post Office Vehicles!
Buy a souvenir of your visit in the Visitor Centre gift shop; hot and cold food and drinks are also sold in the Visitor Centre. Plenty of picnic tables or grass if you plan on bringing a picnic.
On the gate prices:
Adult: £11
Child (5-15): £8
Under 5s: FREE
Senior: £10
Family (2a+4c): £32
Pre-booking will close around midnight on Wednesday 8th August. Just turn up on the day and buy your tickets on the gate.
NB Prices quoted on the online booking function have an online pre-booking discount (but with a P+P fee added). Our on-the-gate ticket prices are slightly higher.


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