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Internship Policies
The Career Center internship program staff has developed these policies to ensure that UT Dallas students are afforded with the best internship experiences possible.
It is important for employers to understand that any position posted as an internship must have a learning component and must not be considered a "business opportunity." Business opportunities are defined as positions that are paid strictly on commission, require an initial investment or cash deposit, or require that inventory or product must be purchased for resale.
An internship position
- Provides supervision for students on a regular basis, with arrangements made for situations where work is done remotely or virtually.
- Is located in a commercial setting and not in a private residence or home office.
- Does not require students to make investments or initial cash deposits.
- Does not involve students purchasing inventory or product for resale.
- Is not structured so that students have financial liability for the work of others.
- Is not paid strictly on commission; however in cases where commission is involved, there must be additional compensation and a structured learning component.
- Is not an independent contractor position on 1099.
If an employer has a position to post that does not follow the policies outlined above, the position may be posted as a part-time or full-time job opportunity instead. Please contact the Career Center's Internship Team for any questions related to these internship policies.
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John Brennan speaks Monday after President Barack Obama nominated him to become the next director of the CIA.
John Brennan hasn't always been a bureaucrat, working out of a comfortable office at the White House. An Arabic speaker and Saudi expert, the 57-year-old CIA director-designate has at various points in his career confronted Iranian intelligence officials and Saudi princes, briefed President Bill Clinton, camped out with Bedouins in the Arabian desert and helped create the agency that ultimately became National Counter Terrorism Center.
Known now as President Barack Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, Brennan spent most of his career in the CIA.
A working-class kid from Hudson County, N.J., best known for its political intrigue, Brennan decided at a young age to apply for a job in international intrigue after graduating from Fordham University -- and reading a classified ad in the New York Times seeking recruits for the CIA.
He joined the agency in 1980, and for the next 25 years he worked for the CIA, both in Washington and overseas. He got his big career break when he was noticed by George Tenet in the mid-1990s. He was at the time delivering the agency's security briefings to then-President Clinton.
Tenet was then intelligence adviser to the National Security Council and met with Brennan regularly on intelligence matters. When Tenet then became deputy CIA Director in 1995, he made Brennan his executive assistant. Then, when John Deutch abruptly quit as CIA director in 1996, Tenet succeeded him first on an interim basis, then permanently. Brennan, who was in Saudi Arabia from 1996-'99, returned to become Tenet's chief of staff, his gatekeeper on the CIA's seventh floor.
Obama taps Brennan to be next CIA director
Brennan's knowledge of Arabic and Arab cultures made him indispensable to Tenet in many ways and, in 1998, Tenet appointed him station chief in Saudi Arabia.
Work in Iran, with Saudis
In his memoir, "At the Center of the Storm," Tenet recounts a number of incidents where Brennan used his wits to get a message across.
Perhaps the most memorable took place in the late 1990s, when attacks against Western targets by Hezbollah and its chief backer, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), were causing problems for Washington in the Mideast. The CIA decided to launch a "disruption campaign" to let both know the U.S. was aware of their actions, and try to embarrass the Iranians.
As part of the campaign, agency officers would approach MOIS officers on the street or wherever they could get close and ask them if "they would like to come to work for us or sell us information," as Tenet put it.
"In one memorable example," Tenet recounts, "John Brennan, our liaison to the Saudis, handled the local MOIS head himself.
"John walked up to his car, knocked on the window, and said, 'Hello, I'm from the U.S. Embassy, and I've got something to tell you.' As John tells the story, the guy got out of the car, claimed that Iran was a peace-loving country, then jumped back in the car and sped away.
"Just being seen with some of our people might cause MOIS officers to fall under suspicion by their own agency. The cold pitches undoubtedly ruined some careers, and maybe even lives, but also occasionally paid off in actual intelligence dividends. It couldn't happen to a nastier bunch of people."
President Obama is expected to announce his choices for Secretary of Defense and CIA Director later today. NBC's Tracie Potts reports.
Brennan also had to deal with often-recalcitrant Saudi leaders who were not as aggressive in cracking down on Islamic militants as the U.S. wanted.
Tenet wrote that in 1998, the Saudis had thwarted an al-Qaida operation in the kingdom. Their intelligence serviced had learned that operatives for the terror group were planning to smuggle four Sagger anti-tank missiles into the country from Yemen. What troubled the CIA was that the Saudi intelligence service had not informed the U.S. government of the plot. Even more troubling was the timing of the plot – just days before then-Vice President Gore was set to visit the kingdom. It didn't take much analysis to persuade the CIA that the missiles were part of an assassination plot.
The lack of cooperation set off alarm bells at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. If the Saudis weren't going to inform the CIA about such an explicit threat, what would they inform the U.S. about?
Brennan was instructed to meet with Prince Turki bin Faisal, then head of Saudi intelligence. Turki pleaded ignorance and so Brennan suggested that Tenet pay a visit and play a bit of hard ball with the Saudis.
At Brennan's suggestion, Tenet met with the late Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the royal in charge of security. After what seemed to be an interminable soliloquy by the prince on the two countries' "special relationship," Tenet interrupted and, to get Nayef's attention, moved in close and put his hand on the prince's knee, something one does not do with a Saudi royal.
Tenet then delivered his message to Nayef. "I let him go at last, but I assured him that I would be back the next week, and every week after that if necessary, to ensure that the flow of terrorism-related information between U.S. and Saudi officials was timely and unencumbered," he wrote.
Within a week, Brennan was given a comprehensive written report on the Sagger episode by the Saudis, for which he expressed profound gratitude.
Enhanced interrogation 'saved lives'
In other negotiations between Tenet and Arab leaders, Brennan was often one of two or three advisers in the CIA director's party.
In one memorable meeting with Yasser Arafat, Tenet writes that he had Brennan vet a proposed peace agreement between the Palestinian Authority and Israel before presenting it to the Bush White House, wanting his expert eye to review it.
After Brennan's return to Washington from Saudi Arabia 2002, Tenet made him deputy executive director of the CIA. The job took him out of intelligence gathering and into administration. As the No. 2 in the CIA's administrative office, Brennan was essentially "deputy mayor" of the agency, "making the trains run on time" for the worldwide operation, as one former Tenet aide put it.
In that role, he helped set up the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, the predecessor to the National Counter Terrorism Center. Brennan built the unit from the ground up, finding the building, setting up security procedures and staffing it with analysts from across the intelligence community. His aggressiveness in staffing didn't sit well with those who lost analysts. In his memoir, "Hard Measures" Jose Rodriguez, then the director of the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center, accused Brennan of "ripping most, if not all, of the top CT (counter terror) analysts out of CTC."
But after creating the organization, he was passed over for director of the NCTC and left the government in 2006, founding The Analysis Corp., an intelligence contractor with offices near the NCTC offices. In 2008, he joined Barack Obama's presidential campaign as intelligence adviser.
There's no indication Brennan played a role in development of the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques," which were established in 2002 and 2003 while he was in the CIA's administrative office.
Brennan later said he opposed some of the most egregious interrogation techniques. Waterboarding, for instance, was "not going to be allowed under an Obama presidency," he told The Washington Times in 2008, just before the presidential election.
But when President-elect Barack Obama floated Brennan's name to be CIA director, controversy over the enhanced interrogation techniques was increasing and Brennan came under attack from the left. Although his fingerprints weren't on the memos that established the interrogation program, his tacit support for them became a problem. Glenn Greenwald, writing for Salon.com, called Brennan "an ardent supporter of torture" and "one of the most emphatic advocates" for enhanced surveillance powers.
Opponents of his nomination also pointed to an interview with Harry Smith, then of CBS News, in September 2007.
Brennan defended the techniques as necessary. "There (has) been a lot of information that has come out from these interrogation procedures that the agency has in fact used against real hard-core terrorists. It has saved lives," he told Smith emphatically. "And let's not forget, these are hardened terrorists who have been responsible for 9/11, who have shown no remorse for the deaths of 3,000 innocents."
In the interview, Brennan also defended Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who in his Senate confirmation hearing had refused to call the enhanced interrogation techniques "torture."
'Tireless,' 'legendary'
The criticism took its toll, and less than three weeks after the election, Brennan withdrew his name from consideration.
"It has been immaterial to the critics that I have been a strong opponent of many of the policies of the Bush administration, such as the pre-emptive war in Iraq and coercive interrogation tactics, to include waterboarding," he said in a Nov. 25, 2008, letter to Obama.
Instead, Obama named him his counterterrorism adviser. In that role, he pushed hard for finding al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and originally was a champion of the CIA's drone program in Pakistan, which has become a centerpiece of Obama's anti-terror operations there. But in recent months, according to several reports, he was leading a drive to put more controls on targeting, among other things.
While Brennan has his critics inside and outside the agency, none questions his work ethic and toughness.
As Obama said Monday, "In all this work, John has been tireless. People here in the White House work hard, but John is legendary, even in the White House, for working hard."
As for his toughness, one former colleague recalled that while working at the White House, Brennan had a hip replaced on a Monday and was back at work on Thursday. The colleague said he was told that the next time Brennan went in for a hip replacement operation, the driver who took him to the hospital asked if he should wait.
Robert Windrem is a senior investigative producer for NBC News.
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One of the most famous and respected voices in the film critic community had to stare down the almost inconceivable notion that he would never speak again.
In a rare interview with "Today," film critic and author Roger Ebert opened up about how he came to terms with harsh reality after thyroid and salivary gland cancer left him without a lower jaw.
"There was never a time when anyone told me I'd never be able to speak again," says Ebert, via the computer-generated voice (dubbed "Alex") he now uses to communicate. "Naturally, I felt awful, but I had to accept reality."
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Ebert appeared on "Today" to talk about his new memoir, "Life Itself," which tackles his career from film critic to TV personality to, now, highly-influential film blogger.
Despite being limited to typing, Ebert has not lost his flair for controversy. Recently, he was chastised by "Jackass" star Bam Margera after Ebert posted unsympathetic comments about the late Ryan Dunn on his Twitter page.
In the interview, Ebert credits his wife of nearly 20 years, Chaz, with pushing him to continue writing.
"She is like a force of nature," he says. "When she sets her mind on something, she is awesome."
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American Education Week brings community together
Parents, lawmakers targeted in daily podcasts
WASHINGTON - November 16, 2009 -
The National Education Association distributed seven short podcasts today, including one in Spanish, to celebrate American Education Week. The videos include a short message from former educator Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) and some quick tips for parents on parent-teacher conferences.
"The theme for this year's American Education Week is Great Schools are a Basic Right and Our Responsibility," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "We wanted that message to 'go viral' and hope that in addition to learning more about their local schools, thousands of parents will also see our tips for parent-teacher conferences."
One podcast features NEA Vice President Lily Eskelsen giving parents advice on how to prepare for a parent-teacher conference by asking viewers to remember to P.A.S.S: Prepare for the meeting, Ask questions, Set expectations and Stay involved.
In the other short 60-second podcasts, math teacher and NEA President Dennis Van Roekel shares an equation for student success, NEA Executive Committee member Paula Monroe tells the story of Education Support Professional of the Year Kathie Axtell, Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) reveals why it's so important for lawmakers to stay involved with their local public schools, and NEA Secretary-Treasurer Becky Pringle discloses the identity of the winning celebrity chosen to step in for the teacher in NEA's third annual Substitute Educators Day poll.
In addition to being posted on nea.org, the NEA Facebook page and the American Education Week Facebook 'cause' page, podcasts have been distributed to 'Mommy Blogs' and other media outlets. Bloggers and other outlets can access the videos and post to their Web site by visiting [www.xxxxxx.org].
NEA encourages all members of the community to get involved with American Education Week by participating in a local event, volunteering in an afterschool program, attending a school activity or organizing an event. For more information about American Education Week, visit www.nea.org/aew.
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Root your Huawei Honor (U8860) running ICS (Singapore)
As you have known from my earlier post, the official ICS firmware is already out. After installing it, what follows next is to root it. This is for those who knows what they are doing, not for the faint-hearted. By rooting your device, you will gain full access to the registry and etc as you are running as a super user. Then you are able to remove useless apps that comes in the default fw.
The current root tool for B923 works for the local B935 too. Follow the simple steps below to unroot your phone.
- Download the root tool for Huawei Honor (U8860) ICS here to your computer.
- Connect your phone to your computer. Ensure that the ADB driver is installed.
- Turn off fast-boot and also enable USB debugging on your phone.
- Extract the root tool to your computer and run root-me.cmd
- Follow the instruction in the pop-up cmd prompt.
- If everything runs well, your phone should be rooted now.
Now, your phone should contain an app known as "Superuser". You can also download the app, Root Checker, from Google Play to verify.
Official Huawei Honor ICS Non-Camera (Singapore) is out!
The wait for the official Android Ice-Cream Sandwish OS for Huawei Honor (U8860) is finally over! Yes, it has been rolled out via Huawei's website. Over-the-air installation is not available yet when I am writing this post.
This English firmware (V100R001SGPC388B935), according to the website, is specified to be for the non-camera version.
Let me show you through the simple installation to get your phone upgraded to the newer firmware. (Advisory: Please backup your phone before you attempt to perform the upgrade.)
- Download the firmware here (352.20MB).
- Extract the file into a folder.
- Connect the phone to your computer.
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We are 3rd year culinary students in Culinary Arts & Hospitality Management. In this lab, we are perfecting our culinary skills, putting safety and sanitation into action, and sharpening our organizational skills to prepare us for the food service industry.
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Here is proof I've been working on something during my vacation of which it took almost the whole part of it to do! It's a new project I've loosely started with my friend Mike who is collecting the Roman opposition for my Pyrrhic army. So without further ado here is my first entry for the New Year.
This is my version of a Pyrrhic Royal Guard Infantry Pike formation. The idea came to me when going through the new Osprey Successor book and I saw the Royal Guard in Purple helms which I quite liked and decided I would do unit in a purple theme. The armour is fuchsia which is a mix of pink and purple and so goes with the helm and shield I think. I kept plums and such all white to give a nice contrast to the purple. Except for the clothes I kept them uniform in appearance as I feel it gives them a more elite feel. I should also add the front rankers are deliberately more elaborate as they had the best gear in every formation.
The figures are from Aventine which I personally believe are hands down among the best you can buy for this period. The shields are from the wonderful LBM and the bases are from Warbases. The unit is based for Impetus which in addition to the game I like both the look of the bases and that they give good protection to the figures as you primarily handle the base and not the figures. Also, I can use the units for Hail Caesar which is another game I quite like.
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Stop by and chat with Deborah Estrin, PhD, Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, and co-Director of a new non-profit, openmhealth.org.
Deborah Estrin is a Professor of Computer Science at the new Cornell Tech campus in New York City and a Professor of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is co-founder of the non-profit startup, Open mHealth. She was previously on faculty at UCLA and Founding Director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS).
Estrin is a pioneer in networked sensing, which uses mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real time data about the physical world and the people who occupy it. Estrin's current focus is on mobile health (mhealth), leveraging the programmability, proximity, and pervasiveness of mobile devices and the cloud for health management. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.
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Kim Kardashian isn't letting a little thing like pregnancy cramp her style.
The E! reality star showed off her mom-to-be glow — and more! — on the red carpet for the 17th annual ICED Festival at Cowboys Dance Hall in Calgary, Canada, on Friday, Jan. 4.
Staying true to her sultry fashion sense, the 32-year-old showed off her famous figure in a skintight skirt and matching jacket over a sheer black blouse and black bra. She completed the sexy ensemble with black cage-like heels.
At just three months pregnant, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star shows no signs yet of a baby bump. But she's already anticipating and adjusting to the changes in her body.
"I have felt good. I haven't had any morning sickness, but it still isn't the easiest," she told Us Weekly on New Year's Eve, just one day after boyfriend Kanye West announced her pregnancy to surprised concertgoers in New Jersey. "People always say [pregnancy] is easy and fun. [But] it's definitely an adjustment learning about your body and stuff like that."
To help ease the transition, the mom-to-be is relying on celeb trainer Tracy Anderson, who helped Kardashian's sister Kourtney lose 44 pounds in six months.
"Tracy Anderson is keeping me in shape," she wrote on her blog. "She is helping me make the adjustments necessary to keep me feeling happy, healthy and most importantly create a workout plan that is safe for the baby."
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First there was the mancession. Then there was the economic war on women. Over the past four years, the monthly jobs figures have been spun like a roulette wheel to declare which sex is gaining--or losing--from recession and recovery. April's numbers show that women gained 73% of the 115,000 new jobs added to the U.S. economy. Looks like we have a winner.
Or do we? The figures would seem to be welcome news for the Obama Administration, which has been battling accusations by Republican challenger Mitt Romney that the President's economic policies have hurt women. Yet since the recovery began in June 2009, women have gained only 16% of the new jobs created. What's more, over the past year or so, the workforce-participation rate of women ages 45 to 54 has "dropped like a stone," says Julia Coronado, chief North America economist at BNP Paribas. "Married, single-earner households are on the rise, and married women are increasingly choosing not to work, in part because many are finding that the jobs they can get simply aren't worth it in terms of pay, commute, hassle, etc."
Which goes directly to the problem with those seemingly great April numbers: most of that big job grab by women occurred in fast-growing but low-paying areas like temporary help, private education, and health, leisure and hospitality. Even in higher-end areas like professional and business services, where women made gains, 51% of the jobs they nabbed were temporary, vs. 27% for men. "Both women and men are gaining jobs in the private sector, but men are getting the more secure jobs," notes Joan Entmacher, vice president for family economic security at the National Women's Law Center. No wonder at least some married couples are deciding to live on one salary when the economic trade-off of lower-paying jobs, child-care costs, taxes and commuting doesn't add up.
The real problem for women is that they've suffered more casualties in the war on the public-sector workforce that the Republicans have egged on. Budget cuts at the federal, state and local levels of government--cuts that are at the core of the GOP's smaller-government mantra--amount to 601,000 lost public-sector jobs since June 2009. And two-thirds of those jobs were held by women. University of California, Berkeley, professor Laura Tyson, a former head of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, believes that's one big reason women over age 45 are leaving the workforce in droves. "If you've been a decently paid teacher or a public administrator or a welfare worker your whole life and you see what's available now, that might well make you leave the workforce." Not necessarily by choice, either. Women are now a greater percentage of the long-term unemployed than they were a couple of years ago.
The other thing that's hurt women has been, ironically, the thing that's helped men: the resurgence of manufacturing. When Detroit tanked, it produced a mancession, and so it's only natural that the recovery of factory jobs has disproportionately benefited men, who hold most of those jobs. Women represent only about 23% of workers in the durable-goods sector, for example, which includes things like automobiles and heavy machinery, and those are the American manufactured goods that have been doing best, thanks to the building and consumption boom in the emerging markets.


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Vonetta Fackrell is an 86-year-old U.S. citizen whose parents were born in the United States in the late 19th century before their families moved to Canada, where they met, married and had most of their children before moving back to Utah in the 1930s.
She has lived in Utah for 80 years, been married to her husband, a World War II vet, for 68 years, worked at the Tooele Army Depot for several years and has had a driver license for 70 years.
But when she attempted to renew her license this year, she was told that she is an "illegal alien" and ineligible.
She thought she had done everything by the book. When renewing her license, she brought her Social Security card, her birth certificate and two utility bills to show her current address.
But she was born in Canada, and despite the fact her parents were U.S. citizens, automatically making her a U.S. citizen, the state Bureau of Vital Statistics only goes back to 1905 with birth certificates, so she can't prove they were born here.
Now that she has been denied a new license and declared by some bureaucrat at the Utah Driver License office an illegal immigrant, she can't cash checks without her photo ID, use her credit card without photo ID or board a plane without photo ID.
And, of course, she can't drive.
Driver License Division Director Nannette Rolfe says the new Utah law was passed in 2010 to comply with federal requirements of proof of citizenship. She said when the parents re-entered the U.S. with their children, they all should have been issued certificates of citizenship. Without that, or other proof of citizenship, she must be classified differently under the federal requirements. Without that proof, she would have to apply for a limited state ID.
While people like Fackrell may fall through the cracks, Rolfe says the new law has "cleaned up the system quite a bit."
Meanwhile • Linda Fontenot was meticulous in gathering all the identification forms she needed to renew her driver license under the new restrictive identification laws in Utah.
She had her passport, her Social Security card, utility bills to prove where she lives and even made sure she sported a good haircut and modest makeup.
She flew down from her Montana vacation cabin on Hebgen Lake to avoid having her license expire, then stood in a long line, had her photo snapped and sat down again to wait until her number was called to pick up her new license.
That was when a "nice woman who was helping" told her she was there one year too early. Her license doesn't expire until August, 2013.
Budget-conscious Utahns • ShopAtHome.com recently conducted a survey to measure consumer holiday and shopping and gift-giving habits.
In particular, the online retailer looked at how consumers are choosing to be thrifty this year. For example, 63 percent of consumers consider re-gifting, or the practice of wrapping up a gift one receives and giving it as a present to someone else, as a smart way to be thrifty.
Thirty-seven percent of those surveyed view that practice as tacky.
By the way, the states whose citizens mostly view regifting as thrifty rather than tacky are topped by Washington and Utah.


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Tweaktown put up a review of the GIGABYTE Brix PC sporting the new Core i7 5500U.
Steven goes through the full unboxing and tweardown, including individual chip identification and functions for those that like to know the full detail. It was also great to see NFC being tested and used. Interesting way to launch Netflix heh.
The new Brix PCs based on Intel Broadwell are pretty good performers in all tests including 3D:
The Intel NUC and this GIGABYTE BRIX both use Intel's 5th generation Core I series processors. The BRIX uses the i7 5500u, and the NUC uses the i5 5250u; they are almost identical except that the BRIX's 5500u has much higher stock and turbo frequencies than the NUC's 5250u, and it also has 4MB of L3 cache as opposed to 3MB on the NUC. Both have the same TDP, but it does seem the 5500U is the clear winner in the CPU and even some GPU benchmarks.
There is also another difference: the NUC's 5250u has three graphics cores (Intel's HD6000), and the 5500u has only two graphics cores (Intel's HD5500). What is interesting is that the 5500u does better in the gaming benchmarks because of its greater cache and higher CPU speed, even though its specs define it as having lower performance graphics.
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Beat the Streak Report: Wednesday, April 14
Wednesday's recommended picks
Ryan Braun, OF, Brewers
.462 AVG (6-for-13) lifetime vs. Cubs starter Randy Wells
Matt Holliday, OF, Cardinals
.600 AVG (6-for-10) lifetime vs. Astros starter Brett Myers
Kosuke Fukudome, OF, Cubs
.471 AVG (8-for-17) lifetime vs. Brewers starter Dave Bush
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
For the second straight day, a large contingent of the BTS faithful went with one player, placing their early hopes in the hands of Derek Jeter.
Demonstrating once again his ability to rise to the occasion, the Yankees captain responded with a third-inning homer off Angels starter Ervin Santana, sustaining the streaks of the 25.7 percent of the fans who picked him.
Yesterday also brought the second consecutive hitless game from Mariners catalyst Ichiro Suzuki, normally a BTS stalwart. While that performance ended a good share of streaks, several hundred remain tied for the top spot at 10 games.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Derek Jeter (NYY): 25.7%, 2-for-5
2. Ichiro Suzuki (SEA): 7.4%, 0-for-4
3. Todd Helton (COL): 4.8%, 1-for-3
4. Pablo Sandoval (SF): 4.8%, 1-for-5
5. Miguel Cabrera (DET): 4.4%, 0-for-3
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Here are two Mr. Pete Silver Bullet Locks of a Lifetime: Placido Polanco at Citizen's Bank Park, and Dancing Roman in the sixth at Keeneland.
Ichiro is facing another lefty tonight so I don't think he will get a hit tonight either. Not hitting lefties and I have Holliday tonight.
Going with Mauer to get an early day W2.
Went with Dustin Pedroia today who just homered.
Wow, got that out of the way quickly!
By the way, why are my comments slotting in above backrubs, even though his was posted first?
taking werth today to get to a w6. the entire phillies lineup is hot to start the season so he should get plenty of chances to hit today and the phillies are facing the nationals pitching
I switched my pick to Maggs at the last minute from Polanco. Glad I did he just went yard lol. That's three straight days that the player I picked to get a hit also went yard. Utley, Jeter and now Maggs.
DLee is NOT starting for the cubbies.
Derrek Lee has a bad thumb. Lingering type of injury. Even when he gets back in line-up stay away for a while.
Going with the wind blowing out to left field today at Wrigley with Aramis Ramirez (upper cut swing) for HR BTS.
Go Phils and Chase Utley for BTS.
Good luck to those still waiting for their hit, thank you Cano for 11.
Champ88- Pedro didnt homer, he doubled. Mags homered.
"Went with Dustin Pedroia today who just homered.
Wow, got that out of the way quickly!"
i had matt holliday but changed my pick to pedroia in the last minute. good thing i did he already got a hit. thats a 5 game streak
Mauer singled to get to 2. This game is easy when you have a low streak. For tomorrow I'm probably picking Pedroia or Hanley Ramirez.
Good News: Cubs win 7-6
Bad News: Aramis Ramirez's upcut swing + low pitches = K
No HR today for Ramirez – my HR BTS back to the usual zero.
Come on Chase Utley!
I spent so long debating between Mauer, Cano, Polanco, and Holliday… I hope this bad feeling doesn't come to signify anything.
Had Placido locked in days ago. Sees two pitches, singles to center. BTS up to 11. Let's go… Good luck to everyone looking for a hit tonight.
i pick werth and he doesnt start pleas do not come in as a pinch hitter
Is that a baseball game in Philly tonight or a street fight?
Schenk105 – The Phils may be passing out bats to guys sitting in the box seats behind the dugout to pinch hit before this night is over. Utley goes yard! – YES!
pperkins – Are you horse racing references code or do you spend some time playing the ponies? Who do you like in the Kentucky Derby?
Time to look to Thursday
Thurs 4/15
How about Pedroia v. Liriano(lefty) day game in MN?
Jayson Werth looks good v. Nats Olsen but he is day-to-day with a bad hip. Risky to play him?
werth came in to pinch hit. luckily he was walked so my streak will continue through to tomorrow
Thanks to Matt Holliday, I start my streak again tomorrow.
On the good side, I picked Chase Utley to hit a HR. Glad that he did. 🙂
The Phillies seem to be getting tons of hits. I'm going with one of them for tomorrow.
Yeah, sometimes it's best not to pick a catcher because I don't want to take the risk of them not playing the full game.
Dragbunt – I say Werth is too risky. I'm leaning towards Posada for tomorrow. Not too comfortable with the Utley/Polanco picks considering stats vs. Olsen. I'm iffy on Pedroia – although he has good numbers vs. Liriano, Liriano's opp avg. right now is only .200. Plus he's pitching at home and has a lower ERA vs. righties. Good luck all!! (fka TeamPeanut) 🙂
What about Ryan Howard?????
polanco is on fire the way the philles hitting he going to have 6 at bats tomorrow. picking ryan howard is to risky i think. and why will u pick posada? NEVER PICK A CATCHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! unless his name is joe maur loll
hanley ramirez is my pick
I got burned by both sluggers from St Louis to end my streaks. Pujols last week and now Holliday. Staying away from both for a while.
Was going with Posada based on his numbers not to mention he's been hitting .357 at night with a .714 slugging percentage. Plus Kazmir is coming off the DL. Perhaps I'll change to Jeter. Don't really like anyone today and now I'm spooked. I hate picking any teams following a huge hitting game becaus statistically they won't repeat it. I don't like today at all. THANK YOU for the feedback though – GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!
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GoldieBlox: A Construction Toy With a Story Line Builds Girls' Interest in Engineering
The story goes that Goldilocks searched for the perfect bed by breaking into the home of an innocent family of bears.
GoldieBlox, however, will just build a bed by herself.
GoldieBlox is a construction toy designed by Stanford University engineer Debbie Sterling and aimed at young girls. To use it, users read along with Goldie and build the machines the titular inventor builds to solve problems in her line of books.
It's part of an effort to solve a much bigger problem. According to the National Science Foundation's 2011 report, women have half as much presence in science and engineering fields as they do in the workforce as a whole. Another NSF study finds that only 4 percent of women enter college with plans to pursue an engineering degree. That figure falls to 0.4 percent for those intending to major in computer sciences.
In her mostly male field, Sterling said, she hopes to inspire a new generation of female engineers with her new girl-centric construction toys.
That's why Sterling believes it's crucial to break occupational gender norms — traditionally, girls flock toward the social sciences and humanities, while boys gravitate toward math and sciences. And, although her father was a software engineer, Sterling admits she had no clue what engineering was while she was growing up.
That's where GoldieBlox comes in. With its pretty pastel coloring and spunky heroine, the toy eschews the notion that engineering is a cold, "manly" field. This may sound sexist to some, but Sterling is simply being realistic about appealing to little girls. In the future, Sterling plans to expand Goldie beyond mechanical engineering to e-books that would teach older girls basic coding.
At Stanford, Sterling initially dreaded her first engineering course, Mechanical Engineering 101, which she enrolled in on her high school math teacher's suggestion.
"I really thought it was going to be my first F," said Sterling, who holds a degree in mechanical engineering and product design. "But it was totally creative, building, collaborative and problem solving — all these things I liked."
After quitting her job as the marketing director of a jewelry company last December, Sterling researched existing construction toys and observed how girls interacted with them.
One aspect stuck out to her in particular:
"I started noticing this thing where the girls weren't interested in building what was on the front of the box, and would kind of get bored. So I would ask them what's their favorite toy, and they would run upstairs and bring me back down a book."
That's when she realized she needed a way to synthesize little girls' love of characters and books with the hands-on component of Legos and Erector sets.
Thus was born GoldieBlox, a girl engineer who guides readers through stories about building. But what should they build? Sterling looked up homemade physics and science projects, and settled on a basic belt drive, which became the basis of the first book.
She made the project more enticing by calling it a "spinning machine" that would twirl all the characters in the story, much like her favorite ride at Disneyland, the spinning teacups. Goldie's spinning machine is comprised of thread spools, ribbons and a peg board.
"As soon as the narrative was introduced, the girls were totally engaged and really wanted to build the machines," Sterling said. "Not to build the machines, but to spin the friends."
Sterling received expert mentorship along the way, including from former college adviser David Kelley, the founder of Ideo. When Sterling showed Kelley her work, he immediately connected her with Brendan Boyle, a fellow partner at Ideo and head of its toy department.
"What I like about [GoldieBlox] is, No. 1, the company has purpose; and, No. 2, it has a strong point of view," Boyle said.
Sterling hopes to expand the GoldieBlox brand over time by developing Goldie's friends and adding to the complexity of their engineering tasks. In book two, Goldie builds a parade float; in three, a pulley elevator. She believes the strength of the brand lies in her strong protagonist.
"The most important [thing] is that she is an engineer role model," she said. "With the other girly toys, they have beauticians, nurses and stuff. Those are all the typical role model characters that everybody's already seen. Goldie's an engineer, a tinkerer — you know she's a maker and she's cool."


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It sounds like "Two and a Half Men" is coming back...or, at least, some version of it.
The Hollywood Reporter claims that show creator Chuck Lorre has retooled the sitcom to focus more on Jon Cyer's Alan alongside a brand new character. Cryer has allegedly already been clued in to the plan.
CBS may be eying a mid-season relaunch for the show.
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No word on casting for the mystery other character, but it sounds as through they won't simply be trying to find "another Charlie Sheen" (sorry, Richard Greico). Names buzzing around the new character are rumored to include Jeremy Piven, Woody Harrelson, and Bob Saget. (We called that one, too!)
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Slate's Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe had a discussion today about whether or not it's rude to talk with your earbuds in. But is rudeness the issue with this particular practice, or is it another factor entirely?
It's not that rude. Sure, someone barking at you with their earbuds in is kind of annoying. But not because it's rude, or because I find it particularly offensive. But rather because it probably means they're using crappy headphones.
If, after hitting pause on your phone or MP3 player, you can hear what someone is saying well enough to where your first instinct isn't to pull your earbuds out, they probably have a terrible pair of headphones that don't block out external noise well at all. And someone treating their ears like that is unforgivable.
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What's happened in the business of video games this past week ...
QUOTE | "PS Vita is an utter flop."—Rob Fahey, veteran game journalist, talking about Sony's losses with their games business.
QUOTE | "The Old Republic was sold as a story; very soon, it will have to double as a shop."—Matthew Handrahan, staff writer for GamesIndustry International, talking with other journalists about Star Wars: The Old Republic's risky transition to free-to-play.
STAT | 214.8%—Amount that Namco Bandai's profits increased for the quarter that ended June 30th versus the same quarter last year; Namco Bandai made a profit of $130 million on sales of $1.39 billion in sales.
QUOTE | "We have significant concerns that Call of Duty may have peaked in 2011."—Ben Schachter, analyst with Macquarie Securities, talking along with other analysts about the likelihood that the new Call of Duty will sell less than last year's.
QUOTE | "Until games are photorealistic, it'll be very hard to open up to new genres."—Christoph Hartmann, head of 2K Games, talking about why we need better graphics to do more than action and shooter games.
QUOTE | "The skillsets are very similar to a game like StarCraft II or League of Legends."—Playhem co-founder Keith Swan, talking about online poker and how it should be brought into the e-sports world.
QUOTE | "If you don't keep experimenting you are dead."—Riccardo Zacconi, CEO of King.com, talking about the need to keep innovating with game designs.
QUOTE | "The industry itself is undefeatable."—Seamus Blackley, co-creator of the Xbox, talking about how the gaming industry is the greatest industry out there.
STAT | 100 million—Number of times the hit game Temple Run has been downloaded, according to developer Imangi Studios; 68 million downloads have been on iOS and 32 million on Android.
QUOTE | "EA made it clear that they don't consider the Wii U a hot product for the holidays."—Steve Peterson, West Coast Editor for GamesIndustry International, talking about Electronic Arts' comments about the Wii U when questioned by analysts.
STAT | $45 million—Amount of money that Sony's games division lost in the quarter ended June 30th on revenues of $1.49 billion; Sony's sales were down 10% over last year, when they made a profit of about $50 million.
QUOTE | "There are no credible studies that show any causal linkage between games and violence."—Michael A. Stackpole, best-selling author and game designer, talking about the media and their reports trying to connect games and the Aurora shootings.
STAT | 50 million—Number of monthly players that Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter thinks that Star Wars: The Old Republic could attract once it goes free-to-play.
QUOTE | "Nintendo has still managed to shift over 19 million 3DS systems worldwide in 16 months. What Sony would give to be in a similar position with Vita this time next year."—Johnny Minkley, veteran games writer, talking about the challenges for Nintendo's 3DS.
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Theater Review: Inferno Theatre's Original 'Dracula' at Historic South Berkeley Community Church
"Children of the Night! What music they make!"
Count Dracula has exulted in those words to his querulous guest Jonathan Harker, upon hearing wolves howl near daybreak, whether in Bram Stoker's original novel or Bela Lugosi's performances as The Count on Broadway and in Tod Browning's movie ... but no version of 'Dracula' I know of has such a musical undertow as Inferno Theatre's original take on the story, now playing at the historic Arts & Crafts-designed South Berkeley Community Church.
Original, yet truer to Stoker's text than other versions, and livelier. And the music comes in as mad waltzes and a kind of ensemble merriment, high spirits verging on hysteria, that makes its best moments theatrical in a way that festivals, rituals, moments in crowded cities and out under the sky in the country, among locals, prove to be very immediate--and high--theater.
"A play represents pure existing, while a novel is a past reported in a present, what one mind, claiming to be omniscient, asserts to have existed,' said playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder, a Berkeley high grad, some of whose short plays are onstage at the Aurora. That puts the finger on what Inferno's accomplished--adapting a novel like 'Dracula'--which Bram Stoker, a man of the theater himself, who tried spreading out the narrative through various characters' voices--to the stage, and bringing out the mise en scene, having the ensemble express themselves polyphonically, through individual voices and movement, but arranged, choreographed together, in a hotel or its ballroom, on a train or a ship, pitching through the waves with vocal expressions and gestures ...
It's the most ambitious production yet by Inferno, who've brought some international taste and excellence to local stages, especially at the Berkeley City Club, with their founder (and 'Dracula's' adaptor and director) Giulio Perrone's plays 'Galileo''s Daughters' and 'The Iliad,' the past few years. From Harker's appearance in Transylvania--delirious scenes of locals celebrating, spying, warning him, then conveying him by coach to Dracula's chateau in the wild--to the final journey to pound in the stake, the ensemble swirls in polyphonic color around its central figure, a remarkable female--or androgynous--Dracula, enacted brilliantly and with glee by Valentina Emeri, an original member of Inferno.
The others are truly an ensemble, sometimes resembling leaves on the wind, like Kokoschka's canvas 'the Tempest,' magnetized to or repelled by Dracula and each other. AeJay Mitchell and Ilya Parizhsky turn out to be good "movers," in this opus of movement theater. Shena van Sponsen as the bedeviled and devilish Lucy proves herself in the clutch--of Dracula. That's just to name three of this cast who stand out ...
Simone Bloch, another Inferno original, plays Seward, the asylum director, with fortitude, but has relatively little in movement to do for that character from such a fine movement performer, one who can be both flamboyant and subtle. Renfield, her charge, played by Christina Shonkwiler, is the most Grand Guignol of ghouls, cackling and exclaiming over verminous "presents," while contorting her frame into Gothic poses. With Emeri, they form a troika of women taking over traditionally male roles with elan. Julia Ellis plays a poised Mina, Paul Davis a driven Van Helsing ...
An accordion sounds, or a saxophone, conjuring up a lonely visitation or a wild group dance ... and the dancers prey, in the friendliest fashion, on whomever they can get their hands on ... Hypnosis, somnambulism, the logic of dreams--all shared onstage, seeping over into the audience, as Dracula utters his welcome from Stoker's text, echoed in Perrone's design, Norman Kern's music, Michael Palumbo's lighting, the voices and movements of the performers--the audience's response: "Welcome to my house. the night air is chill. Enter of your own will. Come freely, go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring."
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The head of the IMF, and presumptive next president of France, has his entire career blown to pieces over a dalliance with a hotel maid--that's a pretty good pitch, no?
Director Abel Ferrara, whose obsession with obsession has fueled a lengthy film career, has begun work on a script inspired in part by the scandal that brought down Dominique Strauss Kahn, reported Deadline. And who better to play the disgraced DSK than Gerard Depardieu?
The film may also look at other politicians whose sexual appetites either imperiled or destroyed their careers, like Bill Clinton and Silvio Berlusconi, according to producer Vincent Maraval ("Piranha," "The Wrestler"), who adds that it's too early to say definitively what shape the project will take.
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My dear hubby is now obsess with okra, extremely. He would have okra for three meals if possible. Many people dislike the sticky stuff but he LOVES it. Currently, he usually have 2 RAW okras for breakfast and dinner. I am partly to be blamed actually, planted few okra trees in the yard and we have continuous supply throughout summer and they are still blooming with flowers.
Thus, okra appeared in his obento pretty often lately. This is something new I tried with two ingredients he like, egg and okra. Result is great, in term of taste and presentation. Love the star in the rolled omelet (tamago yaki) even my little boy who did not like okra was attracted to the star and ate some.
Not sure if anyone noticed that really fresh okras are stink!
Ingredients (2 rolls):
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tbsp warm water
- 1 tsp dashi
- 1/2 tsp mirin
- 1/2 tsp soy sauce
- 4 okra
- Oil for greasing the pan (I used olive oil)
- Rinse and pat-dry okra with paper towel. Cut into the length that fit the short-end of a rectangle pan. Set aside.
- Dissolved dashi in warm water, then add in mirin and soy sauce, and mix well.
- Crack in eggs, whisk till egg white no longer visible. Set aside.
- Heat a rectangle pan, grease the pan. Pour in one-forth of the egg mixture, cook on low heat till the surface is almost set, line in okra then roll up together with okra to make a cylinder from the short end. Push the rolled omelet to an edge.
- Pour in another one-forth of the the mixture. Again, cook until the surface in almost set then roll up together with (4) to make a cylinder. Cook till browned slightly on surface, transfer to a bamboo sushi mat (with shining side facing down) and roll up to secure the shape and force out any air bubble trapped inside. Ideally, let it cool completely before slicing.
- Repeat steps 4 & 5 for another roll.
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The Jeff Bridges train made a stop at "Saturday Night Live" last night.
The Oscar-winning actor hosted the program at a time when he is starring in two new movies: the just-released "Tron: Legacy" and the upcoming "True Grit." Given the dramatic nature of those two movies, the SNL appearance was an opportunity for Bridges to show his comic side.
He did so with help from Sesame Street's Cookie Monster during the monologue. Playing acoustic guitar, Bridges sang "Silver Bells" with Cookie, who joked he wanted to have an iPad for Christmas. At the end, the actor rewarded the Muppet icon with what else—a cookie.
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Bridges portrayed fellow actor Nick Nolte as a guest on "The Miley Cyrus Show". He was inundated with a barrage of questions from the overenthusiastic teen star -- among them was, "Are you a 100 years old?" Cyrus (Vanessa Bayer) had also addressed the recent alleged drug controversy and added this important warning: "Don't let your friend videotape you when you're doing stuff."
Other roles that Bridges took on included playing an emotional Duane "Dog" Chapman of Dog the Bounty Hunter, who was one of the guests of Larry King's last-ever final program with Jermaine Jackson and the Judds. He also played a rabbi in the long-lost Hanukkah version of "It's A Wonderful Life" called "This You Call a Wonderful Life?" And in a sketch that takes place in the Old West, the actor played a Christmas gift wrapper inside a general store. (Apparently, gift wrapping was a radical concept back in the those days).
Bridges also served as the host of his own new celebrity prank show, "Jeff'd" (as in "You've been Jeff'd!"), playing harmless, if not lame, practical jokes on Hollywood friends such as Sam Elliott, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Forest Whitaker.
The "SNL Digital Short "involved Andy Samberg, the Lonely Planet guys and Akon singing the declaratory "I Just Had Sex." Celebs Blake Lively, Jessica Alba and John McEnroe make cameo appearance in the short.
Other highlights from the program included the newly-released WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Bill Hader) talking about Mark Zuckerberg being named Time Magazine's Person of the Year and a holiday message from the Kardashian sisters. On Weekend Update, anchorman Seth Meyers' guest was Republican National Chairman Michael Steele (Kenan Thompson), who said he was always a Tea Party-goer.. The newscast concluded with a holiday song from Stefon, Snooki (Bobby Moynihan) and Gov. David Paterson (Fred Armisen) who offered, "Happy holidays to everyone…except New Jersey."
The musical guests were Eminem and Lil Wayne who both delivered a stunning performance of "No Love"; the two also performed separately later in the show.
The next new broadcast of "SNL" will take place Jan. 8 with host Jim Carrey and musical guest the Black Keys.
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Chloe Grace Moretz 'too pretty' for Carrie
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Chloe Grace Moretz has revealed she was told she was 'too pretty' to play Carrie in the upcoming remake of the cult classic horror film, but won over producers to land the part
Chloe Grace Moretz was "too pretty" to play Carrie.
The young actress will play the iconic character in the remake of Brian De Palma's 1976 film 'Carrie' - based on Stephen King's horror novel - but has revealed producers initially thought she was too attractive to play the socially outcast teenager who discovers she has telekinetic powers.
She revealed to Teen Vogue magazine: "When I was auditioning for Carrie, I was told, 'Well, look, you're too young, you're too pretty, you're too accomplished.' "
Despite the initial setback, the 16-year-old star was determined to land the part and convinced the film's makers to offer her the part.
She said: "I love showing people I can do something that they might think I will never be able to do. Playing someone who's happy-go-lucky and has a good life and a nice family - it's boring for me.
"[Being happy is] my life. I have a good family. My mum loves me. I like being challenged; playing characters that are a little messed up."
Chloe will be joined in the movie by Julianne Moore, who plays Carrie's god-fearing mother Margaret White.
The original 'Carrie' film starred Sissy Spacek as the titular character and Piper Laurie. Both actresses received Academy Award nominations in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress fields, respectively.
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With 4G connectivity the iPad 4 (full review here) is the quickest iPad yet and a solid choice for a tablet in which we can barely find fault. Here's our iPad with Retina Display video review.
iPad with Retina Display: design and build
iPad with Retina Display: Hardware
The new A6X dual-core processor offers quad-core graphics and is supposedly twice as fast as the A5 chip found in the iPad 3 with twice the graphics performance. In our GeekBench 2 test we saw a new record of 1769, and in the SunSpider JavaScript test the iPad 4 managed a speedy average of 854ms. Amazing numbers.
The iPad 4 is a nippy device, then, but our real-world impression is that it's not much quicker than the iPad 3, however.
Graphics improvements are more noticeable, with a frame rate of 39 frames per second. The iPad 3 managed 22fps. This means that in Apple Maps pinch zooming is a little bit smoother.
Storage ranges from 16GB up to 64GB, with Wi-Fi and 3G/4G cellular data options. There's no microSD card slot for storage expansion.
The screen is 9.7in in size with stunning 1536 by 2048 Retina quality resolution. There's really no faulting the LED-backlit IPS display.
The Lightning conducter is small and reversible, and means you need to buy an adaptor if you want to plug it into any existing 30-pin accessories.
If you want, and can afford, 4G mobile broadband, then this iPad will cater for your needs, and Apple has upgraded the Wi-Fi.
iPad with Retina Display: Cameras
This iPad sports a 5 megapixel iSight camera, useful if you don't mind using a device as large as an iPad for taking snaps. A back-illuminated sensor should help in low light situations.
The front facing camera is a 1.2 megapixel FaceTime HD shooter capturing up to 720p footage.
iPad with Retina Display: Software
The iPad 4 comes pre-loaded with iOS 6 including Siri. Some recent and notable changes to the operating system include the switch between Google Maps and Apple's own mapping system – the firm's own-brand app has received heavy criticism for its many failings. Luckily there are alternatives out there in app form, or you can use Google Maps in Safari. Apple has also ditched the YouTube app but the service is available via the web browser.
Apps supporting the Retina resolution take up considerably more space than previous ones.
iPad with Retina Disply: Battery life
Once again Apple touts a battery life of 10 hours for the iPad 4 when browsing the web over Wi-Fi.
We found that using the iPad 4 heavily meant we needed to charge it at the end of the day. If you predominantly use a smartphone and use the iPad occasionally then it will stretch much further, a few days' worth is likely.
iPad with Retina Display: verdict
With 4G connectivity the iPad 4 is the quickest iPad yet and a solid choice for a tablet in which we can barely find fault. We award four and a half stars.


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Based on Nordic Semiconductor's nRF51422 SoC, the N5 ANT SoC module series offers support for both ANT® and Bluetooth® low energy and enables both protocols to run concurrently.
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Pin compatible options for the 20mm x 20mm AP2 or C7 modules from Garmin are also available. In these options, N5 M8 models are soldered on carrier boards that are pin compatible to the previous modules. Current AP2 or C7 module customers can easily use these models to evaluate the hardware and upgrade their final products.
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Various media outlets tried to downplay Palestinian responsibility for the heinous bus attack on February 14 that killed eight Israelis near Tel Aviv.
The front page of the Los Angeles Times carried an Associated Press photo which shows the damaged bus, and the Palestinian driver still behind the wheel, laid back with a sad face. The caption is as follows:
"Palestinian bus driver Khalil abu Olbeh, 35, sits wounded after leading police on a 19-mile chase. Family members said that he was distraught over financial problems and upset by current unrest."
Why the sympathetic treatment of this mass murderer? The caption and photo almost suggest that this poor distraught fellow is a victim of "Israeli aggression."
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The Guardian defended the bus driver as "a sort of Palestinian everyman who finally snapped because of the combined pressure of the four-month uprising and Israel's economic blockade." Despite his having admitted to carefully planning the attack, the Guardian said the attack was "far from being the calculated aim of a dedicated terrorist," and claimed that the killer was merely drowsy from medication.
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The worst violator of media objectivity, however, was ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings -- which completely omitted coverage of the bus attack. Though the attack was the single most deadly strike against Israelis in the last four years, and every major network covered it in their evening news programs, ABC was inexplicably silent.
Consider this email from an Israel Update reader:
From: Elaine Friedman
On February 14, my family and I tuned into World News Tonight on ABC with Peter Jennings. We had few details about the bus attack and were eager for news. We were surprised that the story was not mentioned at the start as one of the news items to be covered, but there was much news from Washington and we figured they'd get to it in the second half of the show. We patiently sat through the entire half-hour program, but not a mention was made. Perhaps this was a busy news day? Well, there was apparently enough time for ABC to do several Valentine's Day features, including a clip on a nude wedding and another on the reproduction of slime molds. But no Middle East news. Not a word.
We turned next to the McNeil Report on PBS. There, they led with the Israel bus story, complete with video and the response from President Bush, who took time from his day to make a statement in the Rose Garden. So it was indeed seen as quite newsworthy by reputable journalists and heads of state.
I sent an email to World News Tonight, but have received no response. I am baffled at this omission. The tragic story was clearly newsworthy, and did not have reflected very well on the Palestinians. Was that the reason for the omission?
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In a follow-up story one week after the killings, the Washington Post ran an article entitled, "Bus-Stop Killings in Israel an 'Accident.'" Reporter Keith B.Richburg, in asserting that the murders were an unintentional accident, relies on three primary sources: the bus driver's distraught wife, the bus driver's 12-year-old son, and Yasser Arafat.
Nowhere in the article does the Washington Post quote the announcement that, in an interview with Israeli General Security Service investigators hours after the attack, the bus driver admitted the attack was intentional and premeditated. (see http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/02/16/News/News.21550.html)
The Washington Post article seeks a number of possible justifications for the murders, including the wife's assertion that he lost control of the bus because "it was raining in Israel."
The Post does not explain how this Palestinian wife suddenly became an expert in the maneuverability of public transportation vehicles. In truth, it is unlikely she has ever driven a moped, much less an 11-ton bus.
The Washington Post gives credence to the 12-year-old boy's assertion that "I knew it was an accident." We wonder about this boy's objectivity when he adds, "I'm happy that Israelis died."
When a Palestinian political leader himself insists that the act was intentional, the Washington Post bends over backwards with apologetics, quoting the Palestinian leader that the bus driver is "a very regular person," and the event which caused the death of eight innocent people is a "natural reaction."
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