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By Tony Grossi
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Browns' coaching job is a great fit for Jon Gruden, but he doesn't know if he wants to return to coaching just yet.
That's the opinion of one of Gruden's closest friends — his father.
Jim Gruden, 73, said he hasn't talked to Jon, the middle of his three sons, directly about the Browns' job opening. But the topic may come up when they play golf on Friday.
"One day he's up (about returning to coaching) and one day he's thinking something else," Jim Gruden said, speaking from his home in Tampa, Fla. "I tell him, 'You're a big boy now, just do what makes you happy.' He really has a good deal (with ESPN) and my understanding is he's pretty well thought of on television. He's getting paid one more year by the Buccaneers.
"As far as what he's thinking, he's got a problem because his son's (going to be) a senior in high school, playing quarterback and linebacker. He loves watching him play. He helps coach the team. And I just don't know where he is right now. I don't know what he's thinking."
Jim Gruden, a native of Ohio who attended Orange High School and lived in Solon, was a big Browns fan. Like most fathers of the Paul Brown era, he passed that passion on to his sons. He remembers Jon wearing a No. 44 Browns jersey of his favorite player, Leroy Kelly, and "sliding around in the mud and bringing the mud inside the house."
Besides the opportunity to coach the team he grew up rooting for, Gruden also has a long relationship with Browns President Mike Holmgren.
Jim Gruden was a 49ers college scout when Holmgren was the team's offensive coordinator. Holmgren hired Jon for what later was termed "quality control coach." One of Jon's first projects for Holmgren was to devise a program to store Holmgren's offensive playbook on computer.
"Jon didn't know anything about computers, but he hired some guy from Silicon Valley to teach him all about them," Jim said. "When Mike came back from vacation, Jon had the whole offense on computer disks and set up a program that a lot of teams started to use.
"When Mike got the (head coach) job in Green Bay, Jon was at University of Pittsburgh and Mike called him and said, 'Make sure you bring those disks with you.' They have a great relationship.
"There's a lot of things there that are perfect for him. It starts with the front office. You've got to be careful in this league anymore to look at the way the front office is operating. You've got a guy like Mike, who really is the one that brought Jon into the league. He thinks as highly of Mike Holmgren as anybody.
"Yes, the Cleveland Browns are a great fit. That was his favorite team as a kid and he knows it was his dad's favorite team, too. But whether he wants to get back into the rat race, I don't know. Because it is a rat race. A lot of hours and every year in the fishbowl. He did that for 11 years as a head coach, and three more as an assistant in Philadelphia."
Jim Gruden said his son still has the coaching bug.
"He's been doing all these games for ESPN," Jim said. "He has a little office about a mile from his house and he goes in at about 3:30 every morning and watches film, just like he did when he was coaching."
Efforts to reach Gruden through ESPN have been unsuccessful. Gruden's next assignment is on ESPN's radio coverage of the BCS Championship game on Monday.
Holmgren said this week that he has not contacted Gruden about the Browns' job. The Browns are not commenting on any potential candidate.
Gruden has been a head coach in Oakland and Tampa, but he espouses the style of offense necessary to win in the Midwest when the weather turns bad.
"He's gonna run the ball, if that's what you mean," his dad said. "But you've got to have a great quarterback, too. You're not gonna win without one. You've got (Ben) Roethlisberger in Pittsburgh, (Joe) Flacco in Baltimore. He really likes your quarterback, I know that."
Gruden spent a lot of time with Colt McCoy prior to the 2010 draft for a popular ESPN series called "Gruden's QB Camp." Holmgren consulted Gruden before the Browns drafted McCoy in the third round.


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When you move to a new city you begin to notice absences from your life. Family. Friends. Money. The ability to operate as a functional adult. In the 16 months since I moved from Perth to Melbourne, perhaps one of the most notable of these has been my car – more specifically, the incidental time spent listening to the radio. The end of 2013 marked a year where I listened to less music and saw fewer live shows than any of my preceding "adult" years. When it came to voting in the Hottest 100, this proved itself a difficult task – not due to an overwhelmingly impressive shortlist, but through a genuine struggle to think of 10 songs played on Triple J in 2013 that I'd taken the time to appreciate.
So, here it is. My Hottest 100 votes, based on nothing more than purely selfish and context-relevant justifications, with very little, if anything, to do with technical merit. Because if reviewing music has taught me anything, it's that I have no idea what I'm talking about and my opinion is definitely wrong.
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2014 Outdoors: Competed in the javelin at five meets, never finishing out of the top 10 … Opened with back-to-back ninth-place finishes at the Texas Tech Open (162-10/49.63 meters) and Jim Click Shootout (179-5/54.69) … Claimed seventh at the Brutus Hamilton Challenge, tossing the spear 170-10 (52.06) … Took fourth at the Don Kirby Tailwind Invitational with a distance of 1796 (54.72) … Barely missed scoring at the Mountain West Outdoor Championships, tossing 165-1 (50.31).
Goddard (N.M.) High School grad ... Reigning 4A District 4 champion in the javelin, where he tossed the spear a personal-best 179-5 ... Took second in the 4A State Championships, reaching a distance of 165-9 ... Won five straight competitions in the javelin his senior season ... Has a personal best of 43-7 1/2 in the shot put ... Also played football for the Rockets as a tight end and defensive end.
Shot Put: 43-7 1/2 (13.29m)
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Once he got the Deuce dancing in his brain, Buzz approached Bobby Walden in Pomona to fabricate a reproduction Brookville three-window, all-steel body as light as possible. Says Buzz, "I told him to leave some things out of it to keep weight down. He built the body, and I told him the specific chop I was after. Frank Weston in Pasadena, when I was a kid, had a great three-window with an Olds, and it had a great chop. To me, the chop was just right."
The guys in Pasadena knew you leaned the posts a little bit, and lengthened the top a little bit.
In '40s Pasadena, if a cop pulled you over, and your hot rod was chopped too much, you got a ticket for impaired visibility—better known as a harassment ticket. The hot rodders' rule for chopping tops was to hold a dollar bill vertically, and it had to fit between the center of the windshield frame, top to bottom. That became the preferred chop in the San Gabriel Valley—with about 3⁄4-inch less taken out of the back for a slight wedge. The posts were angled back, but not too far back. "The guys in Pasadena knew you leaned the posts a little bit, and lengthened the top a little bit," Buzz says.
He had Walden take the liner out of the trunk lid and louver it because 1932 Fords make lift at the back. Buzz added a blade so the air trapped inside the trunk exits and spoils the air outside like a Porsche ducktail. "I applied aero that we know about today—and what we know about chassis—to a '32 Ford so that it stays as a '32 Ford with a solid axle," he says.
Jim Busby Racing has been located in Laguna Canyon just outside of Laguna Beach, California, for 40 years. The canyon has been home to head-altering Godfather Timothy Leary, and head-porting legend Jocko Johnson, who made Laguna Canyon his last stop before retreating to the desert for good. As Busby describes his shop, "We've built just about every imaginable device in here." Formula 1, hot rod restorations, road-racing machines of many stripes, even Pikes Peak racers and dragsters—it's pretty much all been through the doors of Busby's shop. The crew recently finished the Lister Knoop/Mann Special that won its class at the 2012 Pikes Peak Hill Climb, finishing 12th overall, with Busby's longtime driving partner and friend Rick Knoop at the wheel of the 1958 Lister Jag. So the 1932 coupe buildup had to share space and time with some stout customer work.
Once the coupe's body was completed, it was mated to the chassis Busby's shop had been building. The build ethic was so dedicated to the authentic hot rod aesthetic that it started out with Buick drum brakes on Lincoln backing plates. "They were OK but not where I wanted to go, so I made up a set of Wilwood brakes to my specs—that's the only thing I walked away from as a hot rod basic. I lost my patience and I got frustrated with them, so I put discs on it and they work great."
The coupe blitzes with a wicked Roush-Yates 358ci Ford monster motor snarling with more than 850 hp. Says Buzz, "With my relationship with Roush-Yates, I'm running a current NASCAR Cup motor—not last year's—with a G-Force T-10–based changeable-ratio transmission with all dog rings like Hewland gearboxes, with intermediate bearings." All of this was artfully packaged into the coupe's shell, along with the 'cage, engine setback, fuel cell, dry-sump system, radiator, and things like brake-cooling ducting and weight-jacking systems.
So now that Busby's got his mad-dog road-racing Deuce, what's he doing with it? "We do three-day track days with it at Laguna Seca," says Busby, "where we run with everybody from five-million-dollar Ferrari pontoon-fender Testa Rossas, to this, to whatever, and it's a pretty elite crowd—the guys are way too rich. And we beat them. We go whistling by the Ferraris in our 1932 Ford and wave to them, and it's a lot of fun. We've taken it out to Willow Springs and haul ass there, but I haven't had the time to do as much with it as I would like because we're way too busy here at the shop.
We go whistling by the Ferraris in our '32 Ford and wave to them, and it's a lot of fun.
"I originally had the idea of doing a series with cars built to the coupe's specification to be raced at the historic races—'28–34, Ford, Chevy, Plymouth, whatever, and they had to be a straight axle so they looked the part. You could chop it, channel it, section it, whatever you want. I just haven't had the time to put that together, but I think it would be a lot of fast fun.
"But, mainly, I just wanted to build it, and it had to work—it couldn't look like it could, it had to. Guys have tried to do radical racing versions of hot rods but they don't work—this one works, and it works because of our history."
Mainly, I just wanted to build it, and it had to work—it couldn't just look like it could, it had to.
The Ford Model B was introduced in 1932, and designated the four-cylinder cars. Hence, "Busby's Buzz 'B,'"the ironic title to this story. The 1932 V8 cars were Model 18s.
Ford made 20,506 V8 and 968 four-cylinder three-window coupes in 1932—about half as many produced as the five-window coupe.
The three-window was Ford's Deluxe coupe, while the five-window was marketed as the Standard. In prior years, the difference between Standard and Deluxe models was the addition of cowl lights, dual taillights, an upgraded interior, and other minor trim for Deluxe models, so having an entirely different body was somewhat unusual, though not unprecedented.
The front opening "suicide doors" of the three-window became the precursor to this feature appearing on all Ford passenger cars in '33–'34.
Jim Busby raced for the Porsche factory program under the Brumos Porsche/Audi, Beverly Hills Porsche/Audi, and Al Holbert Porsche/Audi banners from 1982–1989.
From 1979–1981, Busby drove a combo of BMW March M1s and 935 Porsches. In 1978, he was first in his class at LeMans and the overall winner at Mid-Ohio. In 1981, he won Riverside in a 935 Porsche.
For the '82 and '83 seasons, Busby raced 924 Porsche Carreras, winning LeMans in 1982 in the GTO class.
In 1983, Busby Racing built two Lola T616 cars in GTP and Class 2 using Mazda rotary drivetrains under the BF Goodrich banner, winning the '84 LeMans and '84 Monza in Class 2.
Busby was back with Porsche for the '85–'87 seasons, racing 962s. In 1986, he was first in the GTX class at LeMans and second overall in the GTP class at Sebring. He raced for Nissan/BF Goodrich for the '90 and '91 seasons, retiring in 1992.
Busby's got numerous Deuces in his stable of cars, including this Bonneville roadster he runs along with another multi-Deuce dude, Richard Munz. Richard's son and Busby's son have both taken a few runs in the roadster. The engine starts with an 85hp flathead Ford made in 1949, but now it spits 515 hp—with a single four-barrel carb. Add an era-correct S.C.o.T. blower, and it hammers 675 hp—good enough for 202 mph on the brine. Sounds fun, as does the thought of seeing the stunned look on the faces of those engineers who toiled away in the early '30s at Ford, were they alive today to witness what Buzz has wrung from their humble efforts.
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KAILUA, Hawaii (AP) - How President Barack Obama spent the fourth day of his Christmas vacation on Tuesday in Hawaii:
_ GYM: Obama headed to Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe for his usual morning workout, the second of his trip since arriving early Saturday.
_ LOUNGING: Obama spent most of the morning and early afternoon with his family in their rented beachside vacation home in Kailua, a sleepy Honolulu suburb on the east side of Oahu. The family opened gifts Christmas morning, ate breakfast and sang carols.
_ PHOTOS WITH MILITARY: Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited with military service members at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe, thanking hundreds of service members as they ate an early Christmas dinner. Obama gave a short speech, then took photos with individual service members and their families.
_ DEPARTURE PLANNED: The White House said Obama would return to Washington, D.C., on a redeye flight Wednesday night, and that Michelle Obama and their daughters would remain in Hawaii.
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Ruminating on Airstreams and B-Mac's sweet swing
By David O'Brien
MLB players rate Harper as the most overrated player...
"There are a handful of idiots here who believe they're geniuses" (YWN)
That describes everyone here, including me. (LOL)
No, the Nats are going to have to prove that they're front runners. They didn't advance in the playoffs in 2012 and bombed out last season despite unlimited hype. They aren't frontrunners until they prove they are and they have not done so yet.
in 2012, the braves were 8-10 vs. the nats. had they been 10-8 instead, they would have tied for the division lead. in 2013, the braves were 13-6 against teh nats. had they been 6-13 instead, they would have finished 10 games behind the nats instead of 10 games up. the head to head games within the division are a two game swing. they are huge games.
Still a week from opening day, and this blog is circling the drain faster than Dorothy's house in the tornado. Pointless song lyrics, inane recitation of personal habits, fact-challenged political arguments, and YWN, who's in a class by himself. What can I add to all that?. Hey, here's a woman who's auctioning off her virginity...
I think the Nats pretty much slumped as a team last season. I don't anticipate them sucking wind like that again, though.
People forget they started out like a house afire last year at 7-2, went into the first Braves' series confident with Detwiler, Strasburg, and Gio going, and promptly gave up 18 runs while scoring only 5. Then got swept by St. Louis a week or so later. I don't know that they got "shook", exactly, but I think they certainly got the idea that they weren't the class of the league.
Then, it was always something coming that would turn them around: Rendon's ascension, Ramos' return, Harper getting back, blah blah blah. And when each of those things occurred, they looked up and found that they were still the same team.
As for their fortunes this season, I have no idea. They now know that they can't just throw their gloves on the field, sure, but they still have to prove that they can be something other than front-runners.
Malaysian PM sounds pretty certain
a-feudin, a-fightin' and a-fussin'
thats always goin' on with ussen
we are such neighborly people, peaceful and sweet
'cept when we happen to meet.....
hard to tell what their good finish will mean to them, was it an indication that they were all gritty, or that they got so far back that the pressure went away
Wish we could TRADE for Fister, so I could hear his name less. lol
Lew with a potent Fist(er) jab.....
@Rick_C Famous last words, spoken by all pitchers right before the scalpel meets the flesh.
@raleighbravefan I don't think I'm a genius... I just know what I like and what I don't. :)
@Lew06 Today, on paper, mind you, I'd rate the Nats as the favorites to win the NL East - and not because of the hype. I don't think they're a studly 100-win team. More like low nineties.
Of course, that's just on paper. Variables, good and bad, to be played out for the Nats and Braves. I still think that the Braves rotation is key. It's a race if the rotation - as comprised - steps up.
@_DAP_ Your math's a little off. Braves would have finished 4 games back at 89-73.
@HugoZHackenbush Play ball!
@ncscoots I don't accept the premise that the Nats "sucked wind" last season. They won 86 games. Not all that much has to go right for them to bounce back.
At the same time, I think people might be overstating the Braves' issues. Beachy didn't contribute last season. Hudson's performance last season wasn't anything special. McCann was very good, as usual, but it wasn't one of his best seasons. They'll feel the Medlen loss and the McCann loss to some degree, but I still think it's a close race. It's not like the Braves are a bunch of mediocre players without Medlen and McCann or that Medlen and McCann, as good as they are, were MVP types that pushed the Braves over the top last year.
@ncscoots not only that, but the division race was still pretty close all year, until after the all star break. they had a shot throughout he first half. its not like they were hopeless all season.
@ncscoots Yes, the Nats start last season was good and, yes, the Braves' series laid them flat (I'm still relishing that). And, yes, the Nats kept thinking a turnaround was coming. They finally got it long about early to mid August, as I recall. The Nats did finish well.
My thinking is that the Nats aren't going to lose it for themselves this season; they're going to have to be beaten. My hope is that Julio continues to pitch like he wants to be an ace; Minor's shoulder holds up and he gives the team solid numbers again; Santana pitches like he wants a long-term deal in the worst way; Wood takes big steps forward; and whoever brings up the rear (Hale, Floyd, Schlosser) does well enough.
If the starting rotation comes around for the Braves, they'll have a shot at the division and, certainly, at Wild Card, IMO.
@ncscoots Yep, that series sweep in April last year set the tone for the whole year. Fredi should be able to line up Teheran & Wood to pitch in both series against the Nats the first 2 weeks, as long as Santana is ready to pitch the 4/10 finale against the Muts.
@noleee Interesting how they've got all the "new data" that they've been analyzing that shows more of the plane's trajectory than previously known.
I had read a week or so ago that certain countries might not be sharing radar info because they don't want others to know what their capabilities are... seems like this "new data" came from some mysterious source.
@noleee The indication to me was that they played mostly against sub-.500 teams well out of it in August and September, winning a high percentage of those games. Against playoff contenders, they STILL got crucified.
@noleee I just think he's due for a major regression - can't keep putting all of those runners on base and not get burned eventually.
@Lew06 I'll add that right now, I think the Braves are an 85-90 win team. That's as of today.
@Lemke_Knuckler @_DAP_my math WOULD be off if i had actually done some math. i didnt, probably should have. i was aiming more for the big picture, so dont miss that. my point stands...interdivision games are two game swings. gotta win 'em.
@Lemke_Knuckler @_DAP_ Actually, he;'s right - the Braves finished four games out of the divsion lead in 2012 and had they beaten the Nats two more times, they would have tied for the lead - just looked it up.
@Jeff_R @HugoZHackenbush I think she charges extra for that...
@ShaunATL @ncscoots I think if you ask the Nats, they "sucked wind. 86 wins and no playoff berth AFTER being projected as a championship contender.
The did overcome some significant issues last season.
But we have to look at how management projected the starting rotation - the nub of the Braves' concerns this season, more so than BJ or Uggla, IMO.
Medlen was expected to produce Medlen numbers again. Beachy was projected into the rotation with a hoped for return to form (or close to it). Progress from Teheran is anticipated, and his spring is promising, but he's now considered Number 1 in the rotation. Will he be?
Minor's having some shoulder concerns... might be transient, but has to be a concern.
Wood is showing well in the spring, but he's young and young pitchers are given to rough patches or inconsistencies.
Santana... I'll take what he did for KC last year with a better win-loss. But he has a history of inconsistency.
Floyd's coming off a significant injury. Hale is green. Garcia? Schlosser - a dark horse?
But more question marks than management probably feels comfortable with.
@Jeff_R @ncscoots Well, I don't know about "lose it for themselves"; their record against last year's playoff teams was just brutal. Not just against the Braves.
And DAP makes a good point...middle of May, Nats were a half-game back. Braves went on a tear (15 outa 20, something like that), lead was about 8 by the first week of June, and the race was effectively over.
@Lemke_Knuckler @ncscootshead-to-head matters ALOT vs division rivals. gotta win those series.
@_Murph_ No, the data mostly came from Immarsat, a British sat phone company. They've been working with authorities from the beginning.
@Lew06 @ShaunATL @Jeff_R My point was that I wouldn't put too much stock into the Nationals failing to advance in the playoffs two seasons ago or not making the playoffs last season or the Braves losing in the playoffs last season, when it comes to making predictions or placing bets on the 2014 standings.
I wasn't looking for a fight. I'm just responding to the very first comment of the thread where you said the Nationals aren't front-runners until they're front-runners.
@Lemke_Knuckler I have no idea, but I hope you get your bearings soon.
2013 sir. I was talking about 2013. I'll repeat it one more time. I was talking about 2013. Did I mention my comment was about 2013. Oh wait, just a second...yep, 2013, just confirmed that my comment was about 2013.
What just happened? Where am I?
@Lemke_Knuckler @Lew06 Just stating a fact - not trying to prove anyone wrong. But thanks for taking it personally.
@Lew06 Was talking about 2013. But I appreciate you taking the time to try to prove me wrong. It shows gusto.
@HugoZHackenbush @Jeff_R She's probably to costly a free agent for me to try to sign.
@ncscoots @Jeff_R Right, but as I recall, the Nats went pretty flat from May throughout the summer, and then pulled it together for the stretch run, which mattered not because the Braves didn't falter.
I'm not anticipating a bottoming out for an extended stretch this season like last season.
Do I think the Nats underperformed? I think so.
@_DAP_ @Lemke_Knuckler @ncscoots Or break even, anyway.
moi? no way...just a lil' lockerroom humor
@YourWorstNightmare The correct answer is sadistic smartazz... you forgot to carry a one somewhere.
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Germany announces ITER fusion-reactor supercomputer
Hmmmm. 24GB per CPU or 24GB for the entire system? Doesn't sound right if its the entire system.
Our bog standard web hosting nodes have 16GB RAM each.
Global Wii sales nearing 30m
Where's the conversion to £ for the lazy?
Lovefilm 1, BitTorrent/iTunes/retail 0
Too many scratched disks
I've used this service for a while and I can see the benefit - But, we had too many scratched disks causing films to freeze or not play at all.
People need to learn to look after things, it was immensely annoying, cancelled it in the end.
Chinese cops opt for Segways
Height Booster
We all know Chinese people are short, so the real reason for using Segways is to increase their height.
Metadata ruins Google's anonymous eBay Australia protest
PayPal is expensive and cumbersome
For merchants, PayPal is very expensive when compared to alternatives. Its also very cumbersome to use, IMO.
UK Office of Government Commerce cracks one off
I don't see it ...
Someone at El Reg must be desperate, because I can't see it.
Rock rolls out 12in, 1kg sub-notebook
Yesterday's parts with today's miniaturisation
It has a parallel HDD? I've pretty much forgotten those things existed!
Comcast acquires BitTorrent for $53bn
Chuckle Chuckle.
Parallels pads hosting play with ModernGigabyte buy
Pity, because its rubbish
I do hope the people over at Parallels sack the current developers working at ModernGigabyte. ModernBill was good about three years ago. Now though, its full of bugs and half baked ideas.
Also, I smell an IPO. Parallels has been on a buying spree of late, boasting its product offerings.
Intel slims low-power Xeon chips to 45nm
Re: what about AMD?
Gone with the wind they be.
Intel have well and truly outpaced AMD in recent years, certainly in the low to mid end server business.
Although I would like to see direct comparisons.
Dell quads up single-socket rockets
Lots `o` memory.
However, the problem these days is not CPU power or memory capacity, its disk I/O.
Telehouse plans £80m London data centre expansion
@ By P Henry
I had two racks worth of kit in Telehouse East in Docklands for over two years with no loss of power.
@ Anonymous Coward: Out of the DC's my company has equipment in, Telehouse is by far the best on security.
The Spooks style tubes alone make it uber.
RIM out to patent BlackBerry slider
They won't get it ...
As has been mentioned above, HTC devices use this very concept, to great affect.
My branded Orange SPV M3100 (HTC TyTn I believe) uses this very system.
Pakistan blocks YouTube
Urm ...
Something else must have happened to cause the Worldwide outage. Maybe Pakistan asked YouTube to implement some kind of blocking their end but accidentally setup a wildcard *.*.*.* :p
Pakistan's ISPs blocking access would have had no affect on routing of, say, UK Internet users to America.
I did wonder though why YouTube wasn't working, when on Sunday I was trying to find a clip of the tackle on Arsenal's striker Eduardo.
Major Linux security glitch lets hackers in at Claranet
FreeBSD for the win.
Linux is the ghey.
Pave your patio with... er, Game Boys
@ Anonymous Coward
Sounds like a good idea.
I shall be buying some of these when I purchase my house later in the year, they will go nicely in the garden. I spent many hours of my childhood on a Game Boy and this is a marvelous idea.
Reg readers bring down HMRC website
Don't leave it until the last minute!
Its simple, don't leave it until the last minute - It only takes 15 minutes and then its done.
Germany flicks off-switch on DAB
Bunny hopped by the net
I listen to the radio in the car or in the office.
In the office, I'll stream the station over the net ...
In the car, standard FM is good enough.
Dell XPS M1330 laptop
Looks good
It looks like a pretty good laptop. I may consider buying one to replace my aging Fujitsu Siemens laptop.
If like me, you want something mobile when working away from home, but at the same time play the odd hour on a few games, then it seems like a good compromise.
But if they're bringing a model out with a high def drive, I may just wait for that.
Star Trek XI teaser trailer beams onto web
Oh Goody
Nothing quite like a good star trek movie :)
I shall be dragging the missus along to watch this one. Revenge time, I was forced to endure Pride and Prejudice.
Rackable kicks Xeon 7000 chips into fresh, beefy server
Storage is a bit weak
With 1TB SATA disks on the market, surely the unit can support those?
USB 'compact cassette' promises 1980s nostalgia, home taping
Piss off.
Mobile phone users should drive faster says prof
So you can hear
If I'm using a bluetooth headset while driving I will usually slow down, if on a motorway, to properly hear the other person.
There's an awful lot of noise while driving on the motorway and you'll struggle to hear otherwise.
Laptop power cranks up a gear
I'll have it
I sit at a desk all day and its not good on the waist line.
I'll happily use one of these a few hours a day!
DNS security improves as firms tool up to tackle spam
Without ...
Without recursion, no one would be able to resolve anything.
Dutch teen swipes furniture from virtual hotel
I laughed myself into a coma after writing this.
Barracuda skydroid to make comeback?
What do they do with it?
It does worry me somewhat the amount of money continental Europe spends on their armies. Because they dont do anything with them.
If they sent some stuff over to Afghanistan and actually did something that would be nice.
Digital Switchover: town to lose BBC 2 tomorrow
Whats all this rubbish about Sky and poor signals? I've had it for seven years in a built up urban area with no problems.
You don't need to change your TV
Some people are missing something here.
You don't need to change your TV, just get a set top box and connect it to your scart socket.
Re: Sweden
Population of Sweden: 9,142,817
Population of Britain: 60,587,300
Go figure.
Re: "Anaglogue TV's" - every TV I've ever bought has a scart socket. Freeview box = £30 and connects to a scart socket. I don't understand why people don't have either Sky or Virgin. Its far superior to anything Freeview can offer. You can get the whole lot (landline, mobile, broadband and TV for £40 /month. Bargain.
You bought into mobile email - what have you got to show for it?
It's Pants
Mobile e-mail is pants. I receive 300 legitimate e-mails a day, of various natures. How can a phone deal with that load? It can't, because the network speeds are still pants virtually everywhere.
If you're able to use mobile e-mail then you don't need it, because what you're receiving is frivolous tosh.
Oyster card evolves into OnePulse
Re: Great idea, but limited...
"I challenge ANYONE to find useable parking in central London for that amount or under"
OK, so I didn't park in central London yesterday, but I did park in Stratford, an equally busy, if not foreign(er) part of London and it was £5.50 for four hours.
I've applied
It's about time we had such devices introduced. The days of having to carry around cash to make small transactions should be numbered. All we need now is to convert every car park in the land to take these payments and we'll never need cash again.
Cops seek 179mph net vid biker
Whats he on about
Whats the yank on about? Here in glorious Britain we've had MPH since the dawn of time. No silly KPH here.
UK payment service outage leaves users fuming
Re: Still problems, 36 hours later...
I completely agree. There should have been no other changes, other than forcing everyone to use 3D Secure. But our existing ProtX integrations were completely broken by other changes, which were NOT communicated by ProtX, no information at all was provided about these changes. Their document states a load of stuff as "optional", but in the end it is actually required!
Also, they were not purchased by SAGA, it was Sage - Unless you're being sarcastic and I'm being pedantic by refusing to accept the sarcasm and correcting you :p
Just the half of it
Today's outage is just half of the issue with ProtX.
Over the past two months we've tried contacting ProtX to learn about how their new payment system is going to work with all the "3D Secure" stuff Maestro are rolling out along with changes ProtX themselves are making to their recurring billing system (whereby a client signs up and we bill them monthly, quarterly etc without the client re-entering card details), but no one at ProtX seems to know what actually is changing.
ProtX is cheap compared to alternatives, namely the likes of WorldPay who charge an awful lot in transaction fees, but with 10,000 businesses using their system, ProtX need to get their act together. If they need to employ more qualified staff then for god sake do so, theres nothing worst than a company sticking their head in the sand ignoring the clients and they shouldn't be afraid to increase prices if we see real results. The next cheapest payment gateway we could use would be almost five times more than we currently pay ProtX.
Time to blacklist blacklists
The spam list controllers seem to think they are above the law
RBL's can work, if the controllers are not overzealous.
Anyone involved in any small, medium or large ISP / Web Host will have had, at some point, a bad experience with one of the many RBL's. SORBS and SpamHaus in my experience are the worst offenders. SORBS even want money to be removed, how is that any different to the extortion methods a DoS gang would use?
The problem is they think they are above the law. They think the fight against spam is their god given right and who cares if legitimate mail is rejected, who cares if businesses are disrupted, loosing them money.
One of our clients has wrongly been listed as a ROSKO on SpamHaus and is in the process of seeking legal advice on taking action against SpamHaus, because SpamHaus refuse to listen to any arguments regarding the incorrect listing.
There's a few precedents to legal action against SpamHaus, but they simply ignore the judgments and the fines imposed on them, as many of these judgements were outside of the UK.
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Hooray for closet cosplay!
#Cosplay #DrWho #AmyPond #DoctorWho
I figured it was about time I actually posted something…
This is me! Trying my Velma costume out ready for our fundraising weekend!
We did Scooby Doo Meets the Daleks for Leicester Children's Hospital at a family fun day in Coventry and raised a whopping £500!!
Hope you like :)
Great day at Collectormania, it was absolutely packed!Saw some great cosplayers but wish there had been MORE.We met Filch! :') He said we were dedicated and looked amazing.
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DENVER (AP) - The Colorado Rockies have activated right-hander Aaron Cook from the 15-day disabled list and will start the sinkerball specialist Friday night in San Diego.
Cook has been sidelined for a month with a right toe injury. He enters the game on a three-game skid, allowing five runs in each of those starts. Cook is 4-8 this season with a 5.34 ERA.
The 31-year-old Cook is the franchise's all-time leader in wins (67), innings pitched (1,204) and games started (187).
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Fantastic Tales: Danish Contemporary Ceramics3. May - 25. May 14 / ended The Ceramics House
Danish Contemporary Ceramics at the Ceramic House
The work of fourteen internationally renowned ceramicists will be on display at one of the most unique houses in Brighton during Artist Open Houses 2014.
The 2014 Artist Open Houses festival will take place in Brighton, Hove and the surrounding area over the four weekends of May. One of highlights of the festival this year will be an exhibition of Danish Contemporary Ceramics at The Ceramic House, featuring fourteen acclaimed ceramicists as well as a new installation from British architectural ceramicist J Kay Aplin.
The Danish Contemporary Ceramics show will be the first themed exhibition at The Ceramic House and will feature a cross-spectrum of artforms – sculpture, installation, tableware and wall pieces – creating a significant British exhibition of Danish Contemporary Ceramics.
Ceramicists participating in the exhibition include Karen Harsbo, who recently exhibited at the acclaimed Topographies of the Obsolete at Spode Works, British Ceramics Biennial 2013, Christin Johansson, whose innovative works combine ceramics with performance and Royal College of Art graduate Malene Hartmann Rasmussen, whose beautiful surrealist work was shortlisted for the British Ceramics Biennial Award 2013, featuring the best in contemporary ceramics.
Kay has transformed her home into The Ceramic House, a spectacular showcase of her ceramic and glass creations, which has been open to the public since 2011 and was awarded Best Artists Open House 2013. Each May, Kay curates exhibitions of contemporary ceramics by emerging and established ceramicists as part of the Artist Open Houses which takes place during Brighton Festival in May. The 2013 show was widely acclaimed with 21 leading international ceramists exhibiting their works.
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Culver's Wesley United Methodist Women's Thrift Shop has wrapped up another successful year, including providing a host of holiday-related items (at half-price the latter part of December) leading up to Christmas.
Of course, the store always offers just about anything you can imagine: there are books, games, dishes, hats, gloves and fancy sweaters. The profits from the shop go to support missions of the United Methodist Women projects there in Culver, in the area, the United States and throughout the world.
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Argos girls basketball vs West Central Tournament at Argos 6 p.m.

Argos boys basketball vs West Central Tournament at Argos 7:30 p.m.

Plymouth gymnastics at Elkhart Central Invitational 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 28

OD girls basketball vs Whiting at Hanover Central tourney 12 p.m.

Hanover Central girls tourney consol 7 p.m.

Hanover Central girls tourney semifinal 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 29

Argos girls basketball consol or championship at West central 6:30 p.m.
Argos girls basketball consol or championship at West central 8 p.m.

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Bremen's Abraham Hall recorded three pinfall victories for the 285-pound championship and was named the Outstanding Wrestler of the meet at the John McKee Memorial Wrestling Invitational at Rochester Friday.
John Glenn's Katie Dreessen scored a game-high 15 points as the Lady Falcons snapped a three-game losing streak with a 55-44 win on the road at South Bend Clay last Tuesday.
ROCHESTER — Success in the football season meant a slow start for Bremen in the wrestling season, but the Lions finally seemed to be taking off Friday.
Led by Abraham Hall's championship at 285, Bremen wrestlers captured three top three finishes and salvaged another five top-seven finishes after early losses to lift the Class 2A Lions to a fifth-place team finish at the 16-team John McKee Memorial Wrestling Tournament at Rochester Friday.
NORTH JUDSON — Class 2A No. 6 North Judson got off to a slow start and led by just three points at the half, but the Bluejays used a strong second half to remain unbeaten versus LaVille.
Judson opened the third quarter on a 10-0 run and put up 37 points after the break while holding the visiting Lancers to only 12 in a 67-39 win at Judson Friday.
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As long as there have been cameras, those using them have felt inclined to capture the buildings around them.
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles just launched an incredible exhibition that shows the unique relationship between photography and architecture.
The Picturesque Relationship Between Photography and Architecture
Photos by Eugéne Atget (top) and Louis-Émille Durandelle / via Reddit
The one on top is my favorite photograph in the Charles Marville exhibit currently on view at the Met!
"A Harvest of Death"
Timothy H. O"Sullivan, photographer; printed by Alexander Gardner
American, negative July 4, 1863; print 1866
Albumen silver print
Source: Getty
"I love myself when I am laughing…and then again when I am looking mean and impressive."
- Zora Neale Hurston
photographs by Carl Van Vechten
Though the weather was freezing, skaters descended on the Wollman Memorial Rink in Central Park, December 10, 1968. Photo: Neal Boenzi/The New York Times
Going ice skating with the afterschool kids tomorrow! Super stoked.
Eartha Kitt by Gordon Parks— Happy birthday, Eartha.
What a babe.
Construction of the Hoover Dam, 1931-1936
Charles Moore, 1963
Self-portraits by Sammy Davis, Jr.
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It's time the Obama administration handled the crisis without petty finger-pointing.
by Peter Roff • US News & World Report
Mixing the possibility of a deadly pandemic together with the incompetence of the Washington bureaucracy produces a cocktail that is poisonous to public confidence. No one gets high marks for the way the Obama administration has handled the arrival of Ebola on American soil – especially the president.
It's times such as these, when little is known and even the slightest misstatement could cause a general panic that the American people look to the president for leadership. Instead, what they are getting is more of the arrogant, self-confident, "smartest guy in the room" pronouncements and hectoring for which President Barack Obama is now famous.
Instead Obama has failed time and again to demonstrate he has a firm grasp on the situation. He's not taking concrete steps – using his phone and his pen – to prevent the disease from spreading. Instead he's letting his subordinates – no doubt thoroughly schooled in the Saul Alinsky arts of manufacturing or at least using a crisis to force the political system to give in to your demands – make outrageous statements intended to turn a potential public health catastrophe into a weapon of political leverage in the closing days of the current campaign season.
The worst thing yet said is perhaps the contemptible charge leveled by National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins that if it weren't for budget cuts insisted upon by congressional Republicans, the agencies under his direction might already have come up with a cure for Ebola.
The data contradicts his statement (the National Institutes of Health have had plenty of money since former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decided to plus up its budget back in the 1990s), but was an otherwise effective misdirection. [Read more...]


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When you wake up in the morning are you thinking, "How many slaves are working for me right now?" Most people would say "no, and I thought slavery was abolished in 1865." Your morning may consist of listening to coffee percolating in its pot, trying to decide which outfit to wear, and pouring cereal into a bowl before you rush out the door. You probably do not realize that your morning routine may employ several different slaves in other countries.
The truth is that the legalization of slave labor may have ended in our country in the 1800s, but it exists today in many other countries. It is estimated that there are about 27 million people forced to work against their will under force, fraud, and/or coercion. Some of these countries may have laws similar to those in the United States against slavery, but they go unenforced or the slave labor goes unnoticed. Often these men, women, and children find themselves working in tough conditions with no pay with no way out.
- I encourage you to take a look at your "slavery footprint" at http://slaveryfootprint.org, whereby you can see approximately how many slaves work for you. You can get as detailed about your daily life as you like during the survey. You will get the best results if you are honest about the products you use and the food you eat. I took the survey and was shocked to find that about 44 slaves work for me. The website then allows you to send a note to some of the companies that you may use, give you more information on your "footprint" and find out ways to help the fight to end slavery.
- One way to ensure that you are purchasing products that do not involve slavery is through fair trade. Fair trade products are produced ethically and promote sustainability in developing countries. For more information about fair trade and a list of alternative fair trade products, visit www.fairtradeusa.org.
- Normally, our program focuses on sex trafficking in the United States; however, throughout the month of March, I would like to explore different facets of slave labor around the world and the fair trade efforts posed against it. It is important to delve deeper into the products that surround our lives. We often forget that the food we eat and the clothes we wear do not necessarily come from this country and may not be produced in ways we would normally condone. How many slaves work for you, and how can we all make that number decrease? Let us discover new ways to help end slavery.
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Jason London
Date of Birth: November 7, 1972
Jason and his twin brother, Jeremy, were born on a navel base in San Diego,
California, before moving to Wanette, Oklahoma.
The twins moved again
to Desto, Texas and would continue to move throughout their childhood.
During their years in high school, they developed an interest in sports and
His first screen performance came in 1990 when the twins tried out
for a role in Man in The Moon, in which Jason won the role.
After graduating high school in 1991, Jason decided to pursue his acting
career, landing roles in such telefilms as False Arrest, Blood
Ties and the feature December within a year.
By 1993 he had scored
his first starring role as Randall 'Pink' Floyd in the teen comedy, Dazed
and Confused. Playing the school's star quarterback during a time when
freshmen are being horribly initiated by the senior students, London received
a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Youth Actor in a Motion Picture.
London spent the next few years in a number of independent films and major
motion flops.
During this time he was also getting his life straightened
out with his wife, actress Charlie Spradling, and their daughter, Cooper,
who was born in 1995.
In 1999 he got his name on the starring list again playing Jesse Ryan in the
Carrie sequel, The Rage. He soon followed up the performance in another
starring role, this time in the teen comedy, Out Cold (2001).
Out Cold(2001)
$pent (2000)
Poor White Trash (2000)
The Rage: Carrie 2(1999)
Frontline (1999)
Broken Vessels (1998)
Mixed Signals (1997)
Countdown (1996)
My Teacher's Wife (1995)
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar(1995)
Fall Time (1995)
Safe Passage (1994)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
December (1991)
The Man in the Moon (1991)
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Both of my sons have attended this school and both experiences were extremely different. I think that it just depends on the teacher that your child has. My oldest's fifth grade teacher lacked severely in the communication department, while my youngest has had wonderful teachers. While it is great for the technological advantages, I feel they could be offering more in other areas. It is a safe school that doesn't seem overpopulated. Unlike some of my fellow reviewers, I have not had any issues with the front office staff. As the years have passed they have been implementing new programs and ideas, including detention! I am also of the opinion that they should be more aggressive in preparing our children for the Westtest.
Very disappointed with the communication between school to parents. Parents are not informed, nor contacted for volunteering opportunities & or incidents within the school. My child was being bullied here & nobody attempted to notify me, though they did speak with the child to offer them a second chance. The principal is flighty & not reliable. This school will do it's best to keep parents out & if you do get in to volunteer for anything, the staff is very rude & unthankful. My child will not be attending here next year.
Orchard View Intermediate school is one of the worst schools in the county. My child has been struggling and is behind and the principal refuses to help. Also the teacher that my child has is misgrading papers and the principal and superintendent are aware of this and are doing nothing about it. If possible stay away from this school. Your child will not be treated right nor will they get the education they deserve.
My child has been in this school for 1 year and is entering the 2nd year. I have found the teachers to be wonderful and the quality of education to be good considering the whole state of WV's standards need to be raised to compete with the surrounding area. The school is a leader in the technology department and has very good extracuricular activites. Overall, I am pleased with the school although I agree with most that the office staff could be much friendlier.
We moved to Martinsburg WV last year and my child attended Orchard View Intermediate. This school is pretty new so it's a nice environment. However, the staff in the office are rude and do not make parents feel welcome at all. I chaperoned every field trip and attended all programs. Overall, this is an average school. In my opinion they are below the national average academically. If your child attends this school make sure you stay involved and on top of things.
My daughter moved here from Jefferson County, the staff and students were more then welcoming to her. I would recommend this school to other parents.
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Report: Snooki Hospitalized For Alcohol Poisoningby Free Britney at . Comments
Jersey Shore star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi was hospitalized, likely for alcohol poisoning, during the filming of the show's second season in Miami's South Beach.
Snooki's scary incident occurred during a wild night at a club, Dream, after which she was so drunk, she had to be "carried out by the show's producers."
She was rushed to a local Miami hospital for suspected alcohol poisoning.
DRUNK SNOOKI: We know. It's redundant. [Photo: PacificCoastNewsOnline.com]
The incident had been kept a closely-guarded secret until it emerged that the show's top brass decided to cut it out of last Thursday's Jersey Shore episode.
Last week, a visibly drunk Snooki was seen playing with co-star JWoww and her boyfriend Tom Lippolis' feet as they were attempted to get their smush on.Slurring her words, Snooki then stumbled into Vinny's bed. What we didn't see was that Snooki went to the hospital as a result of excessive booze intake.
According to a source close to the show, "Snooki was out of commission for about two days and was left in pain after undergoing the hospital treatment."
Snooki's wild partying has become a focal point of Jersey Shore. Earlier this month, Snooki was fined $500 for being drunk and disorderly on the beach.
The judge admonished Snooki, labelling her "rude, profane, obnoxious and self-indulgent" and even hilariously calling her a "Lindsay Lohan wannabe."
The producers should have left her going to the hospital in, that is reality t.v. it is what happens if you drink to much. Maybe someone watching would have been effected by it possibly a young teenager.
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You're embarrassment for the other Oompa Loompa's!! Just remember one of your peoples songs: Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do
I have a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-dee
If you are wise, you'll listen to me
What do you get when you guzzle down sweets?(or alcohol in your case)
Eating as much as an elephant eats (drinking as much as LiLo does)
What are you at getting terribly fat?
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Many Companies Force Workers to Forfeit Their Right to File Claims in Court
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Victims of gender discrimination in the workplace won a major victory in the U.S. Senate late Thursday with the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, but some women may not be fully protected under the measure, according to Public Citizen.
That's because many employees have been forced to sign binding mandatory arbitration agreements, which means they have forfeited their rights to take job discrimination claims to court, said David Arkush, director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch division. Fifteen to 20 percent of employees – roughly 30 million workers – are covered by binding mandatory arbitration agreements forced on them by their employers.
These contract provisions require individuals to submit all disputes to private "company courts" chosen by the employer instead of litigating in public courts. There are severe flaws in mandatory arbitration. Foremost, the arbitration company is chosen by the employer and therefore has an incentive to favor that side. Forced arbitrations are also secretive, expensive to consumers and workers, and provide virtually no meaningful appeal – even for decisions that are grossly unfair or flatly mistaken about basic facts.
"Arbitrators are not required to follow federal law, and they have an inherent financial incentive to favor employers who choose them," Arkush said. "An arbitrator's decision is virtually unreviewable in real courts, even if the arbitrator has blatantly disregarded federal law. That means the roughly 30 million American employees subject to forced arbitration contracts may never benefit from laws like the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act."
While Arkush urged President Obama to sign the Ledbetter Act, he said that Congress also should pass the Arbitration Fairness Act, which garnered 103 bipartisan co-sponsors in the House of Representatives in the last Congress. The act prohibits companies from imposing binding mandatory arbitration in employment and consumer contracts, and for claims brought under civil rights statutes like the one that protected Lilly Ledbetter, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Ledbetter bill overturns a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that unfairly restricted the timeframe in which federal wage discrimination complaints could be filed, holding that Ledbetter's right to bring a discrimination claim expired even before she had learned that her employer had discriminated against her.
More congressional action is needed because of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have held that discrimination claims under the Civil Rights Act can be sent to arbitration, said Graham Steele, a Public Citizen civil justice lobbyist.
"There is something inherently unjust about requiring employees to give up their right to a fair hearing in court as a condition of taking or keeping a job," Steele said. "Congress is making a clear statement that victims of employment discrimination are entitled to the full protection of the Civil Rights Act. But to ensure that the law applies to everyone, Congress must put a stop to forced arbitration."
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Arunachal student killed, northeast MPs to meet PM
A 19-year-old son of an Arunachal Pradesh Congress legislator died here after being beaten up by two shopkeepers following a row over his appearance and clothing, police said Friday.
The brutal attack on Nido Taniam took place at the crowded Lajpat Nagar I market in south Delhi Wednesday afternoon, leading to internal and other injuries that caused his death in a hospital Thursday.
The death, dubbed a "racial attack" by activists, caused outrage, with parliamentarians from the northeast deciding to lodge a protest with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday.
The Delhi government ordered a probe into the "murderous assault".
Police registered a case of murder and nabbed the two accused, Farhan and Akram, who are in their 20s and run the Rajasthan Paneer Shop.
It all began when Taniam, a student of Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, and a friend approached the shop seeking directions.
Farhan and Akram reportedly made fun of Taniam's hairstyle and clothes. The youngster had coloured his hair blonde and wore red trousers.
The Arunachal teens protested against the comments, leading to heated arguments with Farhan and Akram.
Police said the furious Taniam, son of Arunachal Pradesh legislator Nido Pavitra, entered the shop and hit a glass-topped table, shattering it.
Alerted by a shopkeeper, police took Taniam and his friend as well as Farhan and Akram to police station where Taniam paid Rs.10,000 for breaking the table.
According to Taniam's relatives, police then dropped Taniam near the shop where another argument broke out.
This time, the accused thrashed Taniam, his cousin told the media.
Deputy Commissioner of Police P. Karunakaran said "a compromise was struck between the youths and the shopkeepers at the police station" and all of them were then allowed to leave.
A relative said Taniam had injuries on his neck and his lip was torn.
His friends took him to the All India Institute of Medical Science where he died Thursday evening. The incident came to light Friday.
Taniam had come to Delhi to meet his elder sister who studies in Delhi University.
Takam Sanjoy, MP from Arunachal Pradesh, said: "A delegation headed by Rajya Sabha MP Mukut Mithi will meet the prime minister Saturday and discuss the incident. This type of discrimination in the form of racism won't be tolerated.
"We will discuss the matter with the home minister too and discuss the way Delhi Police handled the whole incident," he added.
Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) blamed Delhi Police for the death.
"The way police picked him up and then dropped him at the same spot needs to be looked into," AAP spokesperson Dilip Pandey said.
Police said they were questioning Farhan and Akram to get to the bottom of the matter.
Angry students from the northeast in Delhi have threatened a protest Saturday.
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Leeds council cuts contractor rates
Somewhat missed the point...
Rates and work return are not relevant. Nobody came in and took away assigned budget. By all means renegotiate at renewal time (both parties often do) and offer a lower rate. Then the decision remains with the contractor.
The point I make is not about how much someone gets paid but more about the commitment to funds thy they make on an agreed rate.
Nobody, permies or contractors like pay cuts - you shouldn't need them mid term if you managed your budget correctly...
But seriously....
How many times must this happen....we contract because the money attracts us and we keep our skills fresh and make us good value for money. Permies scoff (as always) but I'm fed up with watching company after company (and now council) jump on the bandwagon of 'right sizing'.
If people knew how to properly manage budgets: - I know that my contract is £X a day and I need him for 50 days then I need 50 x X then do the bloody business case.
If it stacks at X you don't need to piss everyone off by enforcing X - 10%!?
Forcing rates lower introduces crap skills into the market as the differential decreases. Then you get bad names on contractors and you're then only getting work by old school boys network.
Rant over.
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