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No. 22 Simon Fraser Doubles Up on No. 25 Chico State 8-4
By William Howard, SFU Lacrosse Media Relations
Simon Fraser University Men's Lacrosse
Event: Men's Lacrosse
Site: University Stadium, Chico State University (Chico, CA)
Score: No. 22 Simon Fraser University 8, No. 25 Chico State 4
Record: SFU (3-1, 0-0 PNCLL Div. I North), CSU (0-1, 0-0 WCLL)
Next SFU Game: Saturday, February 23, 2013, 7:00pm PST – vs. Boise State University – Burnaby, BC (SFU Terry Fox Field)
CHICO, CA (February 16, 2013) – No. 22 Simon Fraser concluded a stretch of four games in seven days, including the last two on the road, by doubling up on No. 25 Chico State by a final score of 8-4. The win followed-up a one-goal loss (9-8) to No. 7 Oregon on Wednesday, over a two-game trip that saw the Clan log over 1300 kilometers through Eugene, OR to Northern California, during a 4 day swing down the I-5. Sam Clare (Ladner, BC / Vancouver College) – 2g, 1a, and Colton Dow (Coquitlam, BC / Heritage Woods Secondary) – 1g, 2a, led the Clan with 3 points each, while attackmen Lyndon Knuttila (Maple Ridge, BC / Thomas Hayney Secondary) and Eric Ransom (Sherwood Park, AB / Bev Facey HS) each contributed 2 goals. Junior goaltender Darren Zwack (Sherwood Park, AB / Archbishop Jordan HS) also featured prominently in the win, backstopping the Clan with 9 saves for a save percentage of .692. The four goals against ties a program low for SFU versus a ranked opponent, matching the equal marker set when the Clan defeated then No. 18 Illinois by the same score of 8-4 last season.
Chico sophomore midfielder Curtis Bowden opened the scoring on the man-up giving the Wildcats their only lead of the contest at 1-0. Dow then tied the score, on a feed from Sam Clare, to end a low scoring first quarter and knot the out-of-conference opponents at 1-1.
Dow would continue to spark the Clan offense in the second frame, feeding fellow attackman Eric Ransom to put SFU ahead 2-1. Chico freshman attack Cooper Wilce brought the Wildcats back to even at 2-2, followed by Dow assisting sophomore midfielder Travis Hayes (Dublin, CA / Dublin HS) to give Fraser a 3-2 lead at the break.
Chico would again open the scoring in the second half with Blake Brousseau converting a pass from Wilce to tie the game back at 3-3. The Clan and Wildcats would continue to trade goals for the remainder of the quarter with Hayes finding Knuttila cross-field to make the score 4-3, followed by Wilce scoring his second of the night to re-tie the game at 4-4. A Fraser man-up would lead to Clare finishing an outside shot on a pass from freshman Andrew Branting (Duncan, BC / Cowichan Secondary) to wrap-up the third quarter scoring and reclaim a 1-goal lead for the Clan heading into the fourth quarter.
The final 15:00 minutes would be all SFU, as the Clan used a 3-0 run to increase their lead to four. Freshman midfielder Alex Bohl (Newmarket, ON / The Hill Academy) recorded consecutive assists on goals by Ransom and Clare, followed by Knuttila also scoring his second of the game to seal an 8-4 Fraser win.
Heading home immediately following the game, Simon Fraser will now have six days off before hosting Boise State University on Saturday, February 23 at 7:00pm on Terry Fox Field. Chico State will be back in action this Sunday, February 17 as they host another PNCLL opponent when they face-off versus Portland State.
For further information on Simon Fraser men's lacrosse please visitwww.sfulacrosse.com or follow the Clan on Twitter at http://twitter.com/
GOALS: SFU: Clare-2, Knuttila-2, Ransom-2, Dow, Hayes. CSU: Wilce-2, Bowden, Brousseau.
ASSISTS: SFU: Bohl-2, Dow-2, Branting, Clare, Hayes. CSU: Wilce-2.
– Clan freshman Lyndon Knuttila – 2g recorded his first collegiate points, scoring in the third quarter to put the Clan ahead 4-3 and then sealing the deal with his second of the game with approximately 2:00 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.
– SFU picked-up 44 groundballs. Long poles Mark Hilker (Bowmanville, ON / Clarington Central) and Riley Wanzer (Mukilteo, WA / Kamiak HS) led the Clan with 7, while sophomores Sam Clare and Travis Hayes (Dublin, CA / Dublin HS) each recorded 5 and Bayne Bosquet (Coldstream, BC / Kalamalka Secondary) added 4.
– Fraser and Chico battled it out at the face-off box with SFU holding a slight advantage at 53%. Sam Clare continued to carry the bulk of the workload going 6 of 8 (75%), with James Irwin (Burnaby, BC / Burnaby South Secondary) 2 of 6, and Tommy Newton (Saskatoon, SK / Aden Bowman Collegiate) 0 for 1 providing the relief.
SFU Head Coach Brent Hoskins
On Chico: "Chico is a tough, physical team, that really gets in your face and forces you to earn everything that you get. They have a hard-nosed, athletic defense and showed a lot of potential on offense which could give teams some trouble later in the season as Coach Metoyer has a few more games to implement his systems."
On Simon Fraser: "This trip built a lot of character for us early in our season so it was important to grind one out versus Chico State and end a challenging stretch of games with a win. The Wildcats really came out and challenged us which forced us to have to make a number of in-game adjustments. Ultimately this was a great learning experience and we felt like we grew a lot as a team over the course of tonight's game."
Simon Fraser University Men's Lacrosse will compete in its eighteenth season in 2013 and is a Division I member of the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA). The Clan have captured a record eight PNCLL Conference Titles (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2008 and 2009) and rank sixth all-time with ten MCLA National Championship tournament appearances, placing 2nd in 1999 and playing in the 2010 MCLA Semi-Finals after reaching the Quarterfinals in 2008 and 2009.
Simon Fraser University is Canada's top-ranked comprehensive university and one of the top 50 universities in the world under 50 years old. With campuses in Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey, B.C., SFU engages actively with the community in its research and teaching, delivers almost 150 programs to more than 30,000 students, and has more than 120,000 alumni in 130 countries.


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I'm taking the day off tomorrow. Yep. Mental health day! Don't worry, though, Megs will be here to hold down the fort and update the blog, but I'm going to have a three-day weekend. I don't take many days off, and I intend to frolic.
It would be awful of me to leave you without something memorable, though, which is why I present you with the Chanel Pre-Fall 2011 Outstanding Pieces. We already saw the exotics from Chanel Paris-Byzance, and now we have a proper Pre-Fall collection full of aubergine alligator and gold python, in addition to the usual suspects. As always, all the pictures can be found after the jump.

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Mary Lou Dorsey
Mary Lou Dorsey, 82, a lifetime resident of the Wenatchee Valley, died Sunday, March 29, 2014.
She worked for the General Telephone Co. for 16 years. She also worked as a secretary and accountant for the state Department of Transportation for 14 years.
Survivors include her son, Terry M. Stevens of East Wenatchee; and her sister, Ladonna Bartlette of Surprise, Ariz.
A private family interment will be held at Fraternal Cemetery in Chelan.
Arrangements are by Jones & Jones-Betts Funeral Home, Wenatchee.
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Volcan Baru/ Panamá
The Volcan Baru National Park, established in 1976 is located in the western province of Chiriqui near the Talamanca Mountains and is limited by La Amistad International Park and Palo Seco protective forest. It has a total surface of 14,325 hectares (35,000 acres) with an altitude range of 1800 to 3475 meters, which is the highest point of the country and corresponds to the Baru volcano.
The National Park features volcanic cliffs, rainforests, cloud forests, highland species and the remains of the last blast of the Baru Volcano.This National Park has a highly valuable geological and ecological system that protects an immense biodiversity. Baru Volcano National Park is part of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Over 400 bird species have been identified, including the resplendent quetzal, commonly elusive but most often seen from January to May. The park is home to abundant wildlife, including the conejo pintado, a raccoon-like animal and other mammals like the endangered underwood water mouse, porcupines and a large number of bat species. All five of the species of cat that are native to Panama are found here, with the Puma being the most common. This park protects ten important rivers such as the Caldera, Chiriqui, David, Platanal, Pedra, Escarrea and Gariche Rivers.
The park can be accessed by car through the towns of Boquete (on the west) and Cerro Punta (on the east): from Boquete via a rocky road that leads right to the top and secondly from Cerro Punta, from the Respingo site where the National Authority of the Environment (ANAM) has a refuge and a visitor's center. There are a wide variety of hotels both in Cerro Punta and in Boquete. Trails lead from both towns to the summit of the volcano. The park has an administrative office with an information center, a forest ranger, a natural trail and two ranger stations (Repingue and Alto Chiquero).
Worth mentioning about the Park's flora are the endemic species that include the Volcano Junco and the Baru Burbit. Endemic oak trees (Quercus baruensis) are remnants of the more extensive forests in the geological past. Some of the trees in the forests are more than 600 years old.
Other bird species sought by birdwatchers include the spectacular black and white hawk eagle, the black-bellied hummingbird, black-cheeked warbler, different varieties of torcazas, and the Brown Violet-ear. The hairy woodpecker can be seen during the months of April and May. You will also find endemic species from the Cordillera de Talamanca, like the wrenthrus, the yellow-thighed finch and the black guan.
In the Volcan Baru National Park you will encounter 6 different climate zones: humid mountain forest, low humid mountain forest (only place in Panama where it is found), low humid mountain rainforest, mountain rain forest, very humid low mountain forest and pre-mountain rain forest. Average annual temperatures vary between 20º C at 1800 meters, to under 10º C on the top of the volcano. The rainfall is less heavy on the lower slopes with an annual average of around 4,000 mm and in the highest points over 6,000 mm.
The five cat species that live in Panama are also present here, with the puma or leon venado, one of the most numerous. Other endangered mammals include the mouse (Rheomys underwood), the porcupine, and a large number of bat species including Artibeus aztecus and Lisiurus borealis.
On a clear sunny day both oceans and a good portion of eastern Panama can be seen from the peak of the Baru Volcano.Besides shielding the area's biodiversity, the Volcan Baru National Park also has economical importance because it protects the headwaters that provide irrigation to Panama's most productive agricultural region, concentrated in the fertile areas of the Volcano's skirt. These rivers also attract travelers from all over the world, who come to experience Class III to Class IV rapids in World Class rafting and kayaking trips, providing a significant source of income for hotels, transportation, restaurants and other businesses related to tourism.


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As far as we're concerned, few things go better together than wine and cheese. If you agree, you'll want to head to 33 Restaurant & Lounge (33 Stanhope Street, Boston) on April 26. That's when the restaurant's Hot Off the Vine series continues with a wine-and-cheese tasting featuring wines of Oregon and Washington, paired with cheese from the South End's Formaggio. The event, which runs from 5 to 7 pm, costs $20. Call 617.572.3311 for information.
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It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
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One doesn't ordinarily think of director/producer Stanley Kramer as a man with a knack for comedy. After all, this was the creator of such big, important message movies as The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). So it was with great trepidation that critics approached his slapstick epic, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Kramer hadn't made a comedy since he produced So This is New York in 1948 with Richard Fleischer directing. But he wanted a break from the serious dramas that had become his calling card and envisioned It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as both an encyclopedia of American comedy styles and routines as well as a scathing satire on greed.
Critics, for the most part, found the film too long (it was just over three hours), too excessive, and not funny enough. Audiences, on the other hand, were starved for a good laugh (the film was released just five days prior to John F. Kennedy's assassination) and turned out in droves, making it the second biggest moneymaker of 1963 (Cleopatra claimed the number one spot). Even today, the film enjoys a cult following and it's not hard to find someone who has a favorite memory of the film, whether it's the scene where Jonathan Winters single-handedly wrecks a gas station with his bare hands or the one where Sid Caesar and Edie Adams try to fly a dilapidated airplane.
Kramer would later claim that It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was the most difficult film he ever made and it's not hard to see why when you consider the huge cast, countless stunts, and special effects. Working with a script by William Rose, who wrote the delightful British car-race comedy, Genevieve (1953), Kramer came up with a crazy quilt plot about several motorists racing to discover a hidden treasure in stolen money buried under some palm trees in Los Angeles.
Due to club commitments by most of the professional comedians in the film, the only convenient time for the entire cast to shoot the film was in the middle of summer, which was not the most pleasant time to be in the Mojave Desert, the film's major location. Nevertheless, one of the highlights of the production for Kramer was working again with Spencer Tracy (He starred in Kramer's Inherit the Wind (1960) and Judgment at Nuremberg), who had a strict four hour a day work schedule. Kramer later said, "During the filming of Mad World with all the comedians, I think Spencer Tracy was in poorer health than I (believed): he had bad color and no stamina whatever. But then, even though this lack of energy showed, I think he had his best time ever during the making of a film. The comedians worshipped him. Never before or since has a king had a court full of jesters who strove only to entertain him so that his majesty might say, 'That was funny,' or just laugh and smile. Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Buddy Hackett, Phil Silvers, Mickey Rooney - even the silent Sid Caesar - crowded about him and vied for his affection. They had it. And he talked about them to the very last; he loved them all."
Since its original premiere in 70mm, there have been various versions of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in distribution. The 70mm version, with a running time of 162 minutes, included 8 minutes of overture music with 16 minutes of an intermission title card that broadcast "news bulletins" on the soundtrack, reporting progress in the search for the money. The more common version shown is the 35mm version with a running time of 154 minutes. Of course, there are some diehard fans who continually lobby for the 197-minute version which includes a dance sequence featuring the voices of The Shirelles. At any length, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is still a fun showcase for some of the great comic talents of the 20th century, even if some of the cameos like Buster Keaton, Ben Blue, Jack Benny, and The Three Stooges, only last a few seconds.
Director/Producer: Stanley Kramer
Screenplay: Tania Rose, William Rose
Cinematography: Ernest Laszlo
Music: Ernest Gold
Title credits: Saul Bass
Cast: Spencer Tracy (Capt. T.G. Culpeper), Sid Caesar (Melville Crump), Milton Berle (J. Russell Finch), Ethel Merman (Mrs. Marcus), Mickey Rooney (Ding Bell), Phil Silvers (Otto Meyer), Buddy Hackett (Benjy Benjamin).
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Phil Scolari's assistant manager revealed!
Hairless man linked with job because he speaks Portuguese
The BBC are telling us that Coventry assistant manager Steve Kean is being lined up for the number two job at Chelsea. It's not because of the wealth of experience he has gathered at the likes of Fulham and Real Sociedad, but pretty much just because he can speak Portuguese:
Chelsea are set to open talks with Coventry on a potential offer for Kean's services, but he told BBC Scotland he was eager to avoid troublesome contractual issues.
"It probably makes sense, because I can speak Portuguese, but I don't want to say to much without getting anyone into trouble," added Kean.
In other news, Paul Ince is about to be announced as Blackburn boss because he once did some GCSE coursework on the Industrial Revolution in Lancashire, and Ronaldinho is off to Milan because he finds it easier to pronounce than 'Manchester City'.
Angry bonus: As The Guardian rightly say, finding footage of Big Phil losing his temper is a bit like falling asleep listening to Coldplay. Check out the last minute of this video for lots of angry finger pointing and mad staring eyes…


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Wellington: Jan 31. 2014
Following are the statistical highlights of the fifth and final one-dayer between India and New Zealand at Westpac Stadium on Friday.
# Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the seventh Indian player to complete 8,000 runs or more in ODIs – the leading run-getters are Sachin Tendulkar (18,426), Sourav Ganguly (11,363), Rahul Dravid (10,889), Mohammad Azharuddin (9,378), Yuvraj Singh (8,329), Virender Sehwag (8,273) and Dhoni (8046).
# Dhoni has taken 214 innings to race to 8,000 – the fourth fastest in ODIs for this feat – the three quickest being Ganguly (200), Tendulkar (210) and Brian Lara (211).
# Dhoni became the third wicketkeeper after Adam Gilchrist and Kumar Sangakkara to achieve the double of 8,000 runs and 300 dismissals in ODIs.
# Virat Kohli (82 off 78 balls) has registered his fourth fifty vs New Zealand – his 30th in ODIs. In a losing cause in ODIs, he has managed 1532 runs at an average of 34.81, including two hundreds and 13 fifties, in 45 matches.
# Kohli has amassed 291 at an average of 58.20, including a hundred and two half-centuries – the highest by an Indian batsman in the series.
# Ross Taylor (102 off 106 balls) became the first New Zealand batsman to register a century at Westpac Stadium, Wellington in ODIs. He has posted his second century against India – his tenth in ODIs.
# Taylor is now the second New Zealand batsman to record ten centuries or more in ODIs, joining Nathan Astle (16). He has registered back to back centuries for the second time – 112 not out at Hamilton and 102 at Wellington. He had first achieved the feat in 2011 & 2012 – 119 vs Zimbabwe at Bulawayo on October 25, 2011 and 110 vs West Indies at Basseterre on July 14, 2012.
# Two New Zealand players have managed 300 runs or more in a bilateral series for the first time. Taylor's tally of 343 runs at an average of 85.75 in five games is his best ever in a bilateral series.
# Taylor became the third New Zealand batsman to post two centuries in a bilateral series. He has joined Mark Greatbach and Martin Guptill. Taylor has managed two centuries and two fifties in a series for the first time.
# Taylor has got nine Man of the Match awards in ODIs. He has received two consecutive MOM awards in a series for the first time.
# New Zealand (303/5) have posted their third total of 300 or more in ODIs at Westpac Stadium, Wellington.
# New Zealand have beaten India by a 4-0 margin in a bilateral series for the first time.
# New Zealand, for the third time, have remained unbeaten in a series of five ODIs – the previous two occasions being 5-0 against West Indies in New Zealand in 1999-00 and 4-0 in the NetWest series in 2004 in England.
# India could not win a single match in a bilateral series of five matches or more for the fifth time.
# Kane Williamson and Yasir Hameed share a record for most half-centuries (five) in a bilateral series. Yasir had aggregated 326 (ave. 89.00) in five innings vs New Zealand in 2003-04.
# Williamson is the fourth New Zealand player to register five fifties or more in a row in ODIs. He has joined Andrew Jones (six), Roger Twose and Martin Guptill.
# Williamson, with his 361 runs (ave.72.20) has set a New Zealand record in a bilateral series in ODIs, eclipsing Astle's tally of 351 (ave.87.75) in five games against Zimbabwe in New Zealand in 1997-98.
# Dhoni's tally of 272 (ave.68.00) in five matches is a record by an Indian captain vs New Zealand in a bilateral series in New Zealand. Overall the said tally is the second highest by an Indian captain vs New Zealand behind Gautam Gambhir's tally of 329 (ave.109.66) in five ODIs in India in 2010-11.
# Matt Henry (4/38) became the third New Zealand bowler to bag four wickets in an innings on debut in ODIs. Mitchell McClenaghan had claimed 4 for 20 vs South Africa at Paarl on January 19, 2013 and Dayle Hadlee four for 34 vs Pakistan at Christchurch on February 11, 1973.
# Henry became the first bowler to capture four wickets vs India at Westpac Stadium, Wellington in ODIs. With 11 wickets at 28.72 runs apiece, Shami in five matches, has finished as the top wicket-taker on either side in the series.
# Williamson and Taylor have shared a stand of 152 – New Zealand's highest for the third wicket against India in New Zealand in ODIs.


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LPA to bring rain in Mindanao–Pagasa
MANILA, Philippines — The low pressure area in Mindanao will bring moderate to heavy rains in the area, the state weather bureau said Thursday.
Although there is little chance of intensifying into a cyclone, the LPA will affect the regions of Eastern and Central Visayas, Caraga and Davao, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said.
These areas will experience cloudy skies with moderate to occasionally heavy rainshowers and thunderstorms which may trigger flashfloods and landslides, it said.
The Bicol Region, the rest of Visayas and of Mindanao will be cloudy with light to moderate rainshowers or thunderstorms.
As of 4 a.m., the LPA was spotted 475 kilometers east of Hinatuan City.
Meanwhile, Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will have generally good weather except for isolated thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon, Pagasa said.
Metro Manila also experienced its hottest temperature for the year at 34.6 degrees Celsius at 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
Moderate to strong winds blowing from the east to northeast will prevail over the eastern section of visayas and of Mindanao and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough.
Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate coming from the east to northeast with slight to moderate seas, Pagasa said.


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Apple's 2009 MacBook Pro: Battery Life to Die For
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 12, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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I was excited when Apple finally introduced an easily accessible drive bay for the MacBook Pro. Apparently that was short lived because it's no longer there on the new unibody MacBook Pros.
The old removable battery and HDD bay, both gone
While the lack of any screwless removable panels makes the new MacBook Pro even more sturdy than its already herculean predecessor, it does mean that to swap hard drives you need to remove ten screws to get the bottom cover off then another two to get the hard drive out.
The base of the new MacBook Pro...just like the old MacBook Pro
The new MacBook Pro. Remove 10 screws and you can access everything. HDD (lower left), memory (center) and battery (lower right)
The integrated battery is actually very easy to remove, provided you have the right screwdriver. After you remove the bottom cover there are just two screws between you and removing the battery. There's a big sticker telling you not to and doing so would probably void your warranty, but you can at least get to it if you'd like to. According to Apple, you wouldn't have to for around 5 years though.
Two of these 5 tipped star screws hold the battery in place
The hardware hasn't changed much since the Fall 2008 MacBook Pros. Apple ditched the ExpressCard/34 slot and replaced it with a SD card slot. The SD slot is nice but I do most of my shooting with a CF based DSLR, so I still need an external reader for my CF cards.
The old MacBook Pro
The new MacBook Pro, note the SD card slot.
All of the CPUs got a speed bump. The Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz used to be in the entry level 15-inch MacBook Pro, now it's a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo. It's barely more than a 5% increase in clock speed, so I wouldn't expect anything more than a couple percentage points of a performance boost in apps. A quick sanity check on performance confirmed that; the new model is in the same league of performance as the old one. If you'd like to see how it stacks up to much older hardware, check out our review of the unibody MacBook Pro from last fall.
Apple did a number on its pricing. The cheapest 15-inch MacBook Pro dropped from $1999 down to $1699, and Apple only sacrificed two things: 1) the ExpressCard slot and 2) the GeForce 9600M.
The missing ExpressCard slot was mostly to make room for the SD card slot, but the 9600M was most definitely a cost saving omission. All of Apple's unibody MacBook Pros use NVIDIA's GeForce 9400M chipset; the chipset also has a GeForce 9400M graphics core in it. This was a significant upgrade over the Intel integrated graphics that had previously been used across Apple's line.
The original unibody MacBook Pro had two GPUs, the 9400M integrated in the chipset and a GeForce 9600M. The latter was a separate GPU linked off of the PCIe bus and designed to be used if/when you needed the horsepower. The 9600M had its own frame buffer (either 256MB or 512MB of memory dedicated to the GPU) and was easily 2x the speed of the integrated 9400M. You could switch between GPUs in software under OS X.
For the most part, the 9600M was useless on the MacBook Pro unless you were gaming under Vista or did any heavy 3D accelerated work under OS X. I'm guessing the majority of MacBook Pro users didn't do either and thus Apple canned the 9600M in the $1699 MBP. The 9600M is still present in the more expensive 15" models and is standard on the 17" MBP.
Summer 2009 MacBook Pro 15" | Fall 2008 MacBook Pro 15" | Spring 2008 Penryn MacBook Pro 15" | 2007 Merom MacBook Pro 15" | |
Dimensions | H: 0.95" W: 14.35" D: 9.82" | H: 0.95" W: 14.35" D: 9.82" | H: 1.0" W: 14.1" D: 9.6" | H: 1.0" W: 14.1" D: 9.6" |
Weight | 5.5 lbs | 5.5 lbs | 5.4 lbs | 5.4 lbs |
Screen Size/Resolution | 15.4" / 1440 x 900 (LED backlit) | 15.4" / 1440 x 900 (LED backlit) | 15.4" / 1440 x 900 (LED backlit) | 15.4" / 1440 x 900 (LED backlit) |
CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz (3MB L2) 2.66GHz (3MB L2) 2.80GHz (6MB L2) 3.06GHz (6MB L2) 45nm Penryn, 1066MHz FSB | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 2.53GHz or 2.80GHz (45nm Penryn, 1066MHz FSB) | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz - 2.6GHz (45nm Penryn, 800MHz FSB) | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz - 2.6GHz (65nm Merom, 800MHz FSB) |
GPU | NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (mGPU) + optional GeForce 9600M GT dGPU (256MB or 512MB GDDR3) | NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (mGPU) + GeForce 9600M GT dGPU (256MB or 512MB GDDR3) | NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (256MB - 512MB) | NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (128MB - 256MB) |
Memory | 4GB DDR3 1066 (up to 8GB supported) | 2GB - 4GB DDR3 1066 | 2GB - 4GB DDR2-667 | 2GB - 4GB DDR2-667 |
Optical Drive | Integrated SuperDrive | Integrated SuperDrive | Integrated SuperDrive | Integrated SuperDrive |
Networking | 802.11a/b/g/n 10/100/1000 Ethernet | 802.11a/b/g/n 10/100/1000 Ethernet | 802.11a/b/g/n 10/100/1000 Ethernet | 802.11a/b/g/n 10/100/1000 Ethernet |
Built in iSight | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Inputs | 2 x USB 2.0 1 x FireWire 800 1 x SD Card 1 x Audio in 1 x Integrated mic | 2 x USB 2.0 1 x FireWire 800 1 x ExpressCard/34 1 x Audio in 1 x Integrated mic | 2 x USB 2.0 1 x FireWire 400 1 x FireWire 800 1 x ExpressCard/34 1 x Audio in 1 x Integrated mic | 2 x USB 2.0 1 x FireWire 400 1 x FireWire 800 1 x ExpressCard/34 1 x Audio in 1 x Integrated mic |
Outputs | 1 x Audio 1 x Mini DisplayPort | 1 x Audio 1 x Mini DisplayPort | 1 x Audio 1 x dual-link DVI | 1 x Audio 1 x dual-link DVI |
Battery | 73WHr | 50WHr | 60WHr | 60WHr |
Price | $1699 | $1999 | $1999 | $1999 |
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jyavenard - Friday, June 26, 2009 - link
I ran my own test, similar to the one listed here... With a combination of browsing site without flash and one with.
The test...
Open Safari, open a window to news.google.com, display the page for 20s then refresh the content.
Close the window, open another window to www.cnn.com (it has flash animations changing all the time). Wait 30s, refresh page...
repeat every minute (so the Flash page is showing 2/3rd of the time)...
Test were done on brand new macbook pro, with original hard drive, wifi on (using 802.11n 5.8GHz, 3 metres away), bluetooth on, backlight set at 4 out of 16.
Screen was set to never goes to sleep nor display screen saver.
keyboard backlight was disabled and so was "Automatically adjust brightness".
All sharing services were disabled.
MBP 13", 4GB, 2.53GHz, battery capacity: 5605mAh:
First discharge: 6h45 (1)
After complete battery calibration: 7h30
MBP 15", 4GB, 2.66GHz, battery capacity: 6150mAh:
nvidia 9400: 7h35
nvidia 9600: 4h39
MBP 15", 2GB, 2.33GHz, Radeon X1600, battery capacity: 3450mAh
2h59 (2)
(1) Was my first test, when I realised the keyboard backlight was on, and it must have been a good ¾ of the time.
(2) This one has a battery with 318 cycles, so it may not mean much anymore.
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adrivit - Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - link
How gigantic is the leap in the display of the new Macbook Pro 15 (June) from the old Macbook Pro 15 (before June). Except from the wonderful batter life increase and the SD card slot, is there any other significant increase? Having poor vision, I am concerned about the clarity and the proper color distribution/contrast/brightness of the screen, so in this case does the new Pro score hugely over the old Pro or is the old Pro good enough? Reply -
CrArC - Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - link
The charging method Apple is referring to is called Balance Charging, and is almost a necessity for Lipo cells, as unlike other battery technology they are very susceptible to damage by overcharging or undercharging.
The good news is, balance charging really works. Each cell is carefully charged by the microprocessor-controlled charging system such that they are kept at almost identical voltage, so you can be quite sure the packs will last through many hundreds of cycles.
The bad news is, Lipos are barely stable - they will happily (quickly) explode if overcharged, charged too fast, shorted, punctured or deformed, or if even you look at them funny. If people thought their laptop batteries fizzling into a fire were dangerous, then consider the Lipos to be small bombs. :) Reply -
iwodo - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - link
Does anyone know what will happen to the battery if i keep constantly plug in to the wall.
How long will it last? Another Laptop or Notebook tends to lose or die after 1 - 2 year of use.
Would Apple, with it controller chip be able to prolong this lifespan? Reply -
Jay2 - Monday, June 15, 2009 - link
About the last paragraph of page #1, about the "adaptative charging". It is called Battery Balancing in the battery industry. The whole point is that an aged cell will charge more slowly, and disbalance the whole charge curve of every cells in the pack. In the long term, the whole pack age prematurly because of repeated unecessary stress.
I recommend those two reads:
This page (and whole site) is a good technical introduction:
This page is a TI application journal, well detailed and pictured:
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l0nwlf - Monday, June 15, 2009 - link
Well I'm impressed heavily, and planning to buy it *NOW*. So can anyone tell me as to where can i buy one of the latest models launched in New Delhi (India) and what will be the approximate price in INR. The model i'm thinking of purchasing is entry-level 15.4'' screen laptop with default specs. Reply -
Doormat - Sunday, June 14, 2009 - link
Some folks at other sites are noticing that if the MBP 13" or 15" comes with a regular HDD its only set to run at SATA 1.5Gb/s. If it comes with an SSD its at 3.0Gb/s. Replacing the HDD with a known SATA 3.0Gb/s drive wont cause the MBP to go into SATA 3.0Gb/s. Reply -
araczynski - Sunday, June 14, 2009 - link
unfortunately, i think the major thing that will come out of this, is that manufacturers will now have another reason to overcharge even more for batteries. Reply -
deslock - Sunday, June 14, 2009 - link
Thanks for the excellent review.
There are some anecdotal claims of exceptionally long battery life for other model laptops in this thread. I'd be interested in Anandtech publishing detailed comparison of battery life between many laptops using uniform benchmarks.
Also FYI for anyone considering a MacBook, you can save $100 if you qualify for the educational price (frankly, it's absurdly easy to get them at that price even if you don't). Also, you get a free iPod touch and printer after rebate. Sell them on Ebay and the base 13" MacBook Pro drops to $1099 - ~$180 - ~$50 = ~$870. Reply -
Pirks - Sunday, June 14, 2009 - link
How can you fool Apple into thinking that you qualify for educational discount when you are not? Is it possible at all? I thought they require .edu email address like MS does, don't they? Reply


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Lakefield Airport under new management
MONTEZUMA - A Rockford man was chosen this week to manage Mercer County's only airport.
Charles "Chuck" Black, a licensed airplane pilot and flight instructor, was hired Monday as the new fixed-based operator (FBO) at Lakefield Airport in Montezuma. Black also plans to continue his work as a pilot for Miller Aviation of Portland, Ind., the airport's current FBO.
Miller Aviation was contracted to operate the county-owned airport in March 2010 but two weeks ago submitted a letter of resignation, effective Oct. 7. Former owner, 50-year-old Dave Miller, was killed in a plane crash in Kentucky on March 30; his wife reportedly decided to cease the contract with the airport's authority board.
The airport board on Monday reviewed five applications before tapping Black as the best candidate, board president Steve Klosterman said.
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Black's contract includes an annual salary of $21,000.
Although the airport won't be manned 24/7, Black said he will be available by phone around the clock.
Black has been a pilot since the early 1980s and has logged more than 8,000 hours in the air. His goal is to maintain a "multitude of services" at the airport, he said.
"I obviously want to continue to make the airport grow," he added.
Miller Aviation's charter service will remain operational at the airport under Black's supervision. He'd like to expand the service to supply pilots for private companies, he said. He believes there's a growing market for short-term and/or same-day business trips.
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A private charter flight allows busy executives to bypass long lines and security screenings at big airports, added Black.
Many of the charter flights out of Lakefield Airport involve the transportation of airplane parts for disabled aircraft and the delivery of organs and tissue to medical transplant teams across the country, he said.
Black plans to continue current services such as flight instruction and an on-site mechanic.
He's excited about the many ongoing upgrades and expansion projects at the airfield located along state Route 219, including the future construction of a $1.7 million taxiway. It's good news for the local economy, he said.
"There's so much potential for business with an airport. You'll never get any new companies in your area without one," he said.
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A CASE FOR CHANGE: BUILDING LEADERSHIP CAPACITY IN URBAN HIGH SCHOOLS by Darnise Williams __________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2009 Copyright 2009 Darnise Williams
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School | Rossier School of Education |
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Date submitted | 2009 |
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Abstract | There once was a young slave by the name of Frederick Douglass who was tenacious in his pursuit to learn to read. After convincing the wife of his master to serve in the role as teacher, a sudden break occurred in his educational process as his master forbade the wife to teach a slave to read. The master believed that if a slave learned to read he would become discontent with his conditions and rebel against slavery. The master was successful in ceasing Douglass' instruction but not his desire to learn!; Douglass' dilemma is one of many that students in urban communities grapple with on a daily basis. Many students in urban communities are faced with unique challenges from high rates of poverty to attendance at schools with limited resources that are instructional distractions. In addition to these daily struggles, school districts nationwide are faced with the task of employing skilled urban leaders who are prepared to mitigate these adaptive challenges.; Therefore, this mixed methods, purposive case study was conducted to investigate whether a fully developed leadership intervention program complemented by leadership mentoring support and assessment of leadership practice, was effective in influencing change in leader and teacher practice over time. The study drew from an examination of leadership theories and models that served as the basis for identifying components of effective leadership development programs (Darling-Hammond et. al, Murphy et al., 2003) that build the capacity of urban leaders to create and sustain the conditions for quality teaching and learning to occur.; Consistent with contemporary research on leadership, the findings in this study suggested that effective leaders are those who possess beliefs, knowledge, skills and practices critical to shaping a culture of learning (Elmore, 2003; Marzano, 2003, Murphy et al., 2006; Hallinger, 2003). Therefore, specific leadership program features and support structures that influence leader and teacher practice in urban school settings are identified. Additionally, implications and recommendations are presented to support the field in identifying conceptual tools needed to develop a form of social capital in urban schools that lead to improved outcomes for professionals and students. |
Keyword | leadership; educational leadership; executive principal training; teacher training; urban schooling; secondary education; principal practice and teacher practice; principal practice and student achievement; culturally responsive education; professional development; principal training framework; urban school leadership; school leadership support structure; social capital |
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Normally I try to put topics in the positive in other words "Do this" not "Don't do that". Sometimes its clearer to focus on what *not* to do. Popular development processes often start with screen mockups, or user input descriptions. In a scale-out pattern like Cloud Computing on Windows Azure, that's the wrong place to start.
Instead, I recommend that you start with the data that a process requires. That data might be temporary or persisted, but starting with the data and its requirements helps to define not only the storage engine you need but also drives everything from security to the integrity of the application. For instance, assume the requirements show that the user must enter their phone number, and that this datum is used in a contact management system further down the application chain. For that datum, you can determine what data type you need (U.S. only or International?) the security requirements, whether it needs ACID compliance, how it will be searched, indexed and so on. From one small data point you can extrapolate out your options for storing and processing the data. Here's the interesting part, which begins to break the patterns that we've used for decades: all of the data doesn't have the same requirements. The phone number might be best suited for a list, or an element, or a string, with either BASE or ACID requirements, based on how it is used. That means we don't have to dump everything into XML, an RDBMS, a NoSQL engine, or a flat file exclusively. In fact, one record might use all of those depending on the use-case requirements.
How does the data get around? We can use a connection-based method, sending the data along a transport to the storage engine, but in some cases we may want to use a cache, a queue, the Service Bus, or Complex Event Processing.
Most RDBMS engines, NoSQL, and certainly Big Data engines not only store data, but can process and manipulate it as well. Its doubtful that you'll calculate that phone number right? Well, if you're the phone company, you most certainly will. And so we see that even once we've chosen the data type, storage and engine, the same element can have different computing requirements based on how it is used.
Not all data is entered by human hands in fact most data isn't. We don't really need a Graphical User Interface (GUI) we need some way for a GUI to get data into and out of the systems listed earlier. But when we do need to allow users to enter or examine data, that should be left to the GUI that best fits the device the user has. Ever tried to use an application designed for a web browser on a phone? Or one designed for a tablet on a phone? Its usually quite painful. The siren song of "We'll just write one interface for all devices" is strong, and has beguiled many an unsuspecting architect. But they just don't work out. Instead, focus on the data, its transport and processing. Create API calls or a message system that allows for resilient transport to the device or interface, and let it do what it does best.
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Research areas NIGMS supports within this division and contact names are listed on the Contacts by Research Area page. For a list of all PPBC staff and links to their biographical sketches, see the Division Staff Contacts page.
Biochemistry and Biorelated Chemistry Branch
This branch supports basic research in areas of biochemistry, such as enzyme catalysis and regulation, bioenergetics and redox biochemistry and glycoconjugates. It also supports research in areas of biorelated chemistry, such as organic synthesis and methodology, as well as bioinorganic and medicinal chemistry. Examples of biochemical investigations include studies of the chemical basis of the regulation and catalytic properties of enzymes, intermediary metabolism, the chemical and physical properties of the cellular systems for electron transport and energy transduction, the biochemical roles of normal and mutated mitochondrial proteins, and the biosynthesis and structure of carbohydrate-containing macromolecules. Examples of chemical investigations include the development of strategies for natural products synthesis, studies of the structure and function of small molecules, the chemistry of metal ions in biological systems, the development of novel medicinal agents or mimics of macromolecular function, and the creation of new synthetic methodologies. The branch also supports studies in biotechnology. This work focuses on the development of biological catalysts, including living organisms, for the production of useful chemical compounds, medicinal or diagnostic agents or probes of biological phenomena.
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In the wake of the injury to Mike Cammalleri, the Canadiens have called Aaron Palushaj up from the Hamilton Bulldogs.
No defenceman has been called up, which probably means Jaroslav Spacek will be available for the home opener on Thursday.
The team announcement:
The Montreal Canadiens announced today that forward Aaron Palushaj has
been recalled from the AHL Hamilton Bulldogs.
Assigned to the Bulldogs on October 5, the 22-year old forward registered two assists (0-2-2) in the Bulldogs' 5-2 victory in their season opener against Rochester on October 8 in Hamilton.
Palushaj registered four points (1-3-4) in five preseason games with the Canadiens.


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In the indie-film world, "Baghead" belongs to the movement known as "mumblecore."
Too bad "Baghead" also turns out to be a genuine mumblebore.
It's got most of the attributes shared by the so-called "mumblecore" indies that started cropping up shortly after the turn of the millennium: an almost-nonexistent production budget, digital video camerawork and a focus on angsty relationships among characters played by never-heard-of-them performers, many of whom aren't professional actors.
Sometimes those ingredients blend to create something memorable, as in 2006's lyrical "Old Joy," in which two longtime pals try to revive their dormant friendship during a camping trip.
Sometimes, however, the elements combine into something truly forgettable, as in "Baghead."
The movie finds filmmaking brothers Mark and Jay Duplass -- whose 2005 debut, "The Puffy Chair," was a hit at the Sundance film festival -- combining the mumblecore aesthetic with the micro-budget horror tradition, exemplified by genre landmarks from "Night of the Living Dead" to "The Blair Witch Project."
In theory, it should work. Initially, it does -- sort of -- as a pretentious, no-budget mumblecore movie wows an L.A. film festival audience.
Except for a quartet of underwhelmed observers, all scraping around at the fringes of showbiz, who come to the same conclusion: If the festival's auteur du jour (Jett Garner) can make a movie, so can they. That would certainly solve the perpetual problem of trying to find roles in other people's movies.
Conveniently, one of the group has an uncle with a quiet mountain cabin where they can hole up for a weekend to brainstorm on the project.
So the four of them hit the road, cheerfully oblivious to the dangers of rustic locales and simmering lust.
Take-charge Matt (Ross Partridge) takes charge of the hapless quartet, with on-again, off-again girlfriend Catherine (Elise Muller) by his side. ("We're soulmates," Catherine says, overlooking the obvious fact that it's tough to have a soulmate without a soul.)
Alas for Catherine, she's been there and done that -- and it shows, making her the uneasy older woman who's always comparing herself to bubbly, naive Michelle (Greta Gerwig). Naturally, Michelle inspires ardent devotion from tubby, schlubby Chad (Steve Zissis), Matt's obnoxiously endearing -- or should that be endearingly obnoxious? -- best friend. (If someone were casting a "Seinfeld" sequel, Chad could play George -- and if "Baghead" were a big-budget comedy, Seth Rogen would play Chad.)
Conveniently, the cabin provides the ideal setting for either a relationship movie or a generic gorefest. The latter becomes the likeliest prospect after Michelle glimpses, or thinks she glimpses, a mysterious intruder standing outside the cabin, a paper bag obscuring his face. ("Unknown Comic" Murray Langston should sue the guy for stealing his shtick.)
Speaking of shtick, "Baghead's" got exactly one joke to exploit -- it's a relationship movie masquerading as a horror movie -- and proceeds to beat it to death.
The movie's best moments are its first ones, which target the insular film festival scene -- and the self-congratulatory blowhards who populate it.
From there, however, "Baghead" quickly wears out its half-hearted welcome, reveling in its supposed cleverness while repeatedly demonstrating that it's hardly as smart or insightful as it thinks it is.
The movie's four principals enjoy an easy camaraderie, but it's tough to find the depth in such shallow characters; only Muller manages to suggest any sort of emotional undercurrent. (Even if it does run close to the surface.)
And all the shaky-camera shots in the world can't disguise the fact that "Baghead's" guilty of the same visual clichés as the splatterfests it tries to satirize.
Many of those movies provide actual laughs, however unintentional. Which is more than we can say for "Baghead." In other words, folks, bag it.
Contact movie critic Carol Cling at firstname.lastname@example.com or 702-383-0272.


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Good afternoon,
A low currently developing over the Southeastern US will intensify tonight as it tracks east of New England overnight. The low is expected to pass southeast of Newfoundland early Saturday morning. There does remain some uncertainty with the track and timing of the low for Eastern Newfoundland, but current indications show a significant amount of snow possible, particularly for the Avalon Peninsula Friday afternoon through Saturday morning, along with gusty winds, which could produce the season's first blizzard.
With a track southeast of the Avalon, precipitation will remain all snow, with the primary impacts being felt on the Burin and Avalon Peninsulas. Extremely cold air will be in place across the province through Friday morning, which will generally remain through the storm and cause the snow to be very light and fluffy, which accumulates faster as well. In general, the Avalon and Burin Peninsulas can expect 25-40 cm of snow through Saturday morning, with the heaviest amounts on the Southeastern Avalon. Snowfall amounts decrease to the west (15-25 cm for Clarenville/Bonavista Peninsulas; near 5 cm for Central Newfoundland, including Grand Falls-Windsor). Winds gusting up to 90 km/h Friday night and Saturday morning is likely to produce blizzard conditions, particularly as the snow will be very light and fluffy, so reduced visibility in blowing snow will be a concern.
A slight shift in the track of the system will have a considerable impact on snowfall amounts, so updates will be issued as needed.
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Light snow begins near noon Friday and will become moderate, to occasionally heavy, later in the afternoon, continuing through Friday night. Snow tapers to flurries early Saturday morning (4-6 AM), which will end before noon. Skies begin to clear Saturday afternoon, but gusty winds will continue, which will produce blowing and drifting snow. The heaviest of the snow looks to fall from early Friday evening through early Saturday morning (8 PM – 2 AM), when snowfall rates of 3-4 cm/hour are possible.
Friday Noon – 6 PM: Snowfall amount 4-6 cm. Wind northeast 40 gusting to 60 km/h.
Friday 6 PM – Midnight: Snowfall amount 12-15 cm. Wind northeast 60 gusting to 90 km/h.
Saturday 12 – 6 AM: Snowfall amount 8-12 cm. Wind north 60 gusting to 90 km/h.
Saturday 6 AM – Noon: Snowfall amount 1-2 cm. Wind northwest 60 gusting to 90 km/h.
Storm Snowfall Totals (through noon Saturday):
Avalon Peninsula South: 30-40 cm
Avalon Peninsula North, including St. John's, and the Burin Peninsula: 25-35 cm
Clarenville/Bonavista: 15-25 cm
Gander: 10-15 cm
Grand-Falls Windsor: 5 cm
Outlook: The next system that will affect Newfoundland and Labrador is set for early next week (Monday/Tuesday) and is looking like a primarily rain event for Newfoundland, and the potential for significant snowfall in Labrador. Parts of Newfoundland may see precipitation begin as snow and freezing rain late Monday, before changing to rain.
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6 years 34 weeks ago | True. |
The beaten dead horse is complimentary. |
6 years 35 weeks ago | Nader Purrha |
Nader Purrha |
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6 years 39 weeks ago | A little later I noticed he |
Thanks for the lesson. "Borned" is especially funny to me for reasons I won't get into. |
6 years 39 weeks ago | Living on the Interwebz, I ve |
Living on the Interwebz, I ve meet many idiot fans (which I have lots of complaints about). Today, I was working, which happens to be a place of working, and saw this post from some guy on MGoBoard. I was reading his handle and I noticed he was from Wisc. He was telling this idiot story about his first interaction with an OSU fan. I laughed out loud and sarcastically said to myself "god what a fucking great representative of Michigan fans". He seemed like a confused adolescent that should know better when working in retail, and it's kinda embarassing the brah was borned and raised in Michigan. A little later I saw another brah comment about this, inwhich he bragged about how the threw down against some OSU fans, and I don't blame them one bit for beating on the guy. This brah being a big mich fan thought it was all cool and awesome and shit. But you got to be kidding me, these guys are really acting like that and bragging about it? Does they really got to be such fucktards that it becomes easier and easier to see why people hate mich fans? This thread sucks. borned |
6 years 42 weeks ago | The difference between your |
The difference between your precedent and the present situation is that in your examples it is the message itself, whether conveyed inherently or explicitly, that lowers the level of discourse, thereby necessitating the institution of policy. A non-print-only link to the freep alone does no such thing, especially when ancillary to the main message of a comment, even if there is an intended underlying anti-boycott sentiment. The discourse only devolves thereafter, as you demonstrated. The problem isn't the link; it's the rabble that follows. As a consequence, your proposal risks throwing the babby out with the bathwater, no matter the policy, and necessarily dictates acceptance of one side or another, rather than respect. To the extent you want policy on this board, how about one that requires respect of one's choice to support the boycott or not, and leave it at that. Don't force it down people's throats one way or another. |
6 years 42 weeks ago | Two Questions |
Making what go away? What precedent do you speak of? |
6 years 42 weeks ago | This insistence on having an |
This insistence on having an "agreed upon way" to link to the freep makes little sense. This is not a subject of communal agreement, but rather respect for those that don't give a shit about the boycott and vice versa. Communal agreement is fine for things that make the board readable. Posting freep links, in and of itself, does not contribute to making the board unreadable. It's the inevitable rabble afterwards that does, which goes to the heart of the issue - get rid of the fucking rabble, respect others' opinions about the boycott, and make the personal decision to click or not click the link. It's as bad as me eating a burger and a vegan coming up and getting in my face about it. Dude, it's my choice to eat cow even if it's offensive to you, and it's your choice to eat lettuce for lunch even if I would rather kill myself. We don't need to have an agreed-upon menu. |
6 years 45 weeks ago | Your smugness is delicious. |
So the real issue here is Carr's personal reputation. And he needed Section 1 of MGoBlog to place the focus on him to step up and comment on the story that disparaged his good name, something that is an intensely personal to him and him alone? How arrogant. |
6 years 45 weeks ago | *GASP* |
6 years 45 weeks ago | There's that rightness |
There's that rightness again. Please continue to wallow in it. I have little doubt that he understood the situation better than I. He clearly understood it better than you, Brian and many others here. Which makes knee-jerk responses like "his culpability would have been his inaction" all the more ridiculous. Please, tell me. What would he have been guilty of had he not acted? |
6 years 45 weeks ago | And all he had to do was to |
Well, see, there's the thing. He didn't have to do anything. He put in 30 years at Michigan, and, as you acknowledge, he's continuing to put in more as Senior Associate Athletic Director. He doesn't owe you or me anything. He doesn't owe Trent or Rodriguez anything. He doesn't owe Michigan anything. He doesn't have to do a damn thing. |
6 years 45 weeks ago | An elderly, retired man with |
An elderly, retired man with a disdain for the media spoke up within a few days of the report first appearing on the internet. Get a grip. |
6 years 45 weeks ago | Clearly the most important |
Clearly the most important thing to come out of all of this is that Section 1 of MGoBlog was right. |
7 years 1 week ago | You're right in one respect. |
Anonymity isn't a shield. However, the expectation of privacy, as detailed by the site's privacy policy, as well as common decency are. They establish trust between a website and its visitors. In this instance, that trust was breached. As someone who helped write that WLA post, I can say the reason for bringing up the exceptions in the privacy policy was, as you noted, to demonstrate that none of them applied. That means to say, the general policy stated that no information, such as an IP address, would be shared, except for certain defined situations. None of those situations applied. As a result, the IP address should never have been sent to the person's employer, nor should the person's employer have been contacted. Even so, the nature of the comment was a picture of Kevin from The Office. The response to that comment was not simply to delete it and ban the user, but to further contact the user's employer about such "offensive content." That crosses the line not only of the privacy policy, but also conventional behavior, even for the Internet. In the discussions with SBN, termination of BBC's contract was never advocated. An apology to the wronged parties would have been fine. Termination of the contract was a decision SBN came to upon reviewing the evidence, discussing the situation with Jeff, the head of the BBC, and weighing all the factors involved. The folks at SBN took the situation very seriously, and rightfully so. They should be commended for it. As a final note, the WLA is not playing the victim. I certainly do not feel like a victim in this. We stuck up for an e-friend. The only victim, if you want to identify one, is the guy who posted a picture of Kevin from The Office on the BBC and in return had his IP traced back to his employer followed by an email complaining about the picture as being "offensive content" in an effort to get him in trouble with his employer. If you don't believe that's a breach of trust or crossing the line, then I don't know what to tell you. |
7 years 17 weeks ago | Worse than those fuckin' |
Worse than those fuckin' Geauxfurs. Yeah. I went there. |
7 years 18 weeks ago | Q: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE |
7 years 21 weeks ago | Executive Summary |
Showing MGoPoints = Badt Hiding MGoPoints = Goodt |
7 years 21 weeks ago | People will never get over |
People will never get over that notion. Not as long as this system exists. It's simply too much to ask. Aside from scraping the whole system, the next option is to hide them completely. No one can say "my points changed, I don't know why" if they can't see them in the first place.** All posting privileges remain, unless they fall under the minimum threshold. Neither they, nor anyone else, would ever notice a difference between 20 points and 2000 points. Yet it still serves it's primary purpose: calling attention to particularly abusive posters and trolls. Further, it might actually force people to start reading comments and forming their own opinions before voting, instead of voting en masse because a comment has already gotten several votes in one direction or another. Heck, it even force people to comment better, because it eliminates the e-peen and carelessness that can come from the knowledge of having many points. Am I going to make a thoughtless comment if I'm not sure whether I have 20 points or 2000 points? Probably not. So basically, the point is to put them out of sight and out of mind. Trolls will still get negged, and threads like this one will hopefully be limited to one a year (or eliminated completely), instead of being a weekly occurrence. **Isn't this a complaint already? |
7 years 21 weeks ago | Why not just get rid of them |
Why not just get rid of them or hide them completely? It's much harder for people to complain about something that doesn't exist or that they can't see. And complaints seem to be the biggest problem that has come from this whole system. |
7 years 21 weeks ago | I don't care how bad Illinois |
I don't care how bad Illinois is, I still wouldn't insult them like that. That's going too far, jamie. Way too far. Fuckin' Geauxfurs. |
7 years 21 weeks ago | Well, it used to be Jay, but |
Well, it used to be Jay, but he abandoned us. |
7 years 21 weeks ago | I didn't like Magnus as a |
I didn't like Magnus as a poster (except as...uh...um...I can't think of any exceptions), and I haven't heard anything good about him personally. |
7 years 21 weeks ago | Already posted. | |
7 years 22 weeks ago | UM needs Carr to become part |
UM needs Carr to become part of the solution ASAP Rodriguez is the solution, and he's just doing fine. Carr speaking out now would only undermine him. That would be a problem, not a solution. You've certainly been no stranger to conspiracy theories in the past. This type of comment coming from you is not surprising. While I would like to respond more fully, because there is so much wrong in what you say, it's simply not worth further wasting my time on your imaginary collusion wrought from nothing more than conjecture about a man of few words opting to enjoy his retirement. Watch out for those black helicopters. |
7 years 22 weeks ago | It's like clockwork. |
Not all the time, but every now and again you make comments that demonstrate just how far removed you are from reality. It would be fascinating, if it wasn't so sad. |
7 years 22 weeks ago | Humor is subjective. |
Humor is subjective. |
7 years 22 weeks ago | Fine. |
Maybe "bust" isn't quite what Brian was saying, but he did say this: That would score one for ESPN's scouting service, BTW. ESPN's scouting service graded Campbell at a 79. That corresponds to a high 3 star, according to their grading chart. That's still getting awfully down, awfully quickly on the guy. |
7 years 22 weeks ago | Here's a gold star. |


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Rating: | R |
Genre: | Comedy, Drama |
Release Date: | October 11, 1996 |
Running time: | 89 minutes |
Cast: | Linda Henry, Glen Berry, Scott Neal, John Savage, Scott Neal |
Director: | Hettie Macdonald |
Writer: | Jonathan Harvey |
Description: In this alternately somber and witty coming-of-age drama, a pair of teenage boys growing up in a working-class neighborhood become aware of their homosexuality. Introspective Jamie (Glen Berry) is the son of Sandra (Linda Henry), a tough but warm-hearted barmaid who lives in a public housing block in a rough-and-tumble section of South London. Living a few doors away is Jamie's classmate Ste (Scott Neal), an athletic type who often has to take a beating from his hard-drinking father and hard-headed brother. One night, Jamie and Sandra discover that Ste has been kicked out of the apartment and has nowhere to spend the night; Jamie lets him stay at his place, and a casual closeness eventually stirs sexual feelings. While both were vaguely aware they might be gay, neither had ever acted on their impulses, and once Jamie and Ste decide that they're attracted to each other, neither is sure just what to do. Tony (Ben Daniels), Sandra's boyfriend, doesn't know what to think about Jamie's new lifestyle. Meanwhile, Jamie and Ste are themselves a bit puzzled by their neighbor Leah (Tameka Empson), a teenager obsessed with the life and music of Mama Cass Elliott.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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entity Field Type
entity Field Type¶
A special choice
field that's designed to load options from a Doctrine
entity. For example, if you have a Category
entity, you could use this
field to display a select
field of all, or some, of the Category
objects from the database.
Rendered as | can be various tags (see Select tag, Checkboxes or Radio Buttons) |
Options | |
Overridden Options |
Inherited options | |
Parent type | choice |
Class | EntityType |
Basic Usage¶
The entity
type has just one required option: the entity which should
be listed inside the choice field:
1 2 3 4 | $builder->add('users', 'entity', array(
'class' => 'AcmeHelloBundle:User',
'property' => 'username',
In this case, all User
objects will be loaded from the database and rendered
as either a select
tag, a set or radio buttons or a series of checkboxes
(this depends on the multiple
and expanded
If the entity object does not have a __toString()
method the property
is needed.
Using a Custom Query for the Entities¶
If you need to specify a custom query to use when fetching the entities (e.g.
you only want to return some entities, or need to order them), use the query_builder
option. The easiest way to use the option is as follows:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;
// ...
$builder->add('users', 'entity', array(
'class' => 'AcmeHelloBundle:User',
'query_builder' => function(EntityRepository $er) {
return $er->createQueryBuilder('u')
->orderBy('u.username', 'ASC');
Select tag, Checkboxes or Radio Buttons¶
This field may be rendered as one of several different HTML fields, depending
on the expanded
and multiple
element type | expanded | multiple |
select tag | false | false |
select tag (with multiple attribute) |
false | true |
radio buttons | true | false |
checkboxes | true | true |
Field Options¶
type: string
The class of your entity (e.g. AcmeStoreBundle:Category
). This can be
a fully-qualified class name (e.g. Acme\StoreBundle\Entity\Category
or the short alias name (as shown prior).
type: string
This is the property that should be used for displaying the entities
as text in the HTML element. If left blank, the entity object will be
cast into a string and so must have a __toString()
type: string
This is a property path (e.g. author.name
) used to organize the
available choices in groups. It only works when rendered as a select tag
and does so by adding optgroup tags around options. Choices that do not
return a value for this property path are rendered directly under the
select tag, without a surrounding optgroup.
type: Doctrine\ORM\QueryBuilder
or a Closure
If specified, this is used to query the subset of options (and their
order) that should be used for the field. The value of this option can
either be a QueryBuilder
object or a Closure. If using a Closure,
it should take a single argument, which is the EntityRepository
the entity.
type: string
default: the default entity manager
If specified, the specified entity manager will be used to load the choices instead of the default entity manager.
Overridden Options¶
default: null
default: all entities selected
The choices will default to all entities selected with one of the options that are documented above.
Inherited options¶
These options inherit from the choice type:
type: Boolean
default: false
If true, the user will be able to select multiple options (as opposed
to choosing just one option). Depending on the value of the expanded
option, this will render either a select tag or checkboxes if true and
a select tag or radio buttons if false. The returned value will be an array.
If you are working with a collection of Doctrine entities, it will be helpful to read the documention for the collection Field Type as well. In addition, there is a complete example in the cookbook article How to Embed a Collection of Forms.
type: Boolean
default: false
If set to true, radio buttons or checkboxes will be rendered (depending
on the multiple
value). If false, a select element will be rendered.
type: array
default: array()
If this option is specified, then a sub-set of all of the options will be moved to the top of the select menu. The following would move the "Baz" option to the top, with a visual separator between it and the rest of the options:
1 2 3 4 | $builder->add('foo_choices', 'choice', array(
'choices' => array('foo' => 'Foo', 'bar' => 'Bar', 'baz' => 'Baz'),
'preferred_choices' => array('baz'),
Note that preferred choices are only meaningful when rendering as a select
element (i.e. expanded
is false). The preferred choices and normal choices
are separated visually by a set of dotted lines (i.e. -------------------
This can be customized when rendering the field:
- Twig
{{ form_widget(form.foo_choices, { 'separator': '=====' }) }}
<?php echo $view['form']->widget($form['foo_choices'], array('separator' => '=====')) ?>
type: string
or Boolean
This option determines whether or not a special "empty" option (e.g. "Choose an option")
will appear at the top of a select widget. This option only applies if both
the expanded
and multiple
options are set to false.
Add an empty value with "Choose an option" as the text:
1 2 3
$builder->add('states', 'choice', array( 'empty_value' => 'Choose an option', ));
Guarantee that no "empty" value option is displayed:
1 2 3
$builder->add('states', 'choice', array( 'empty_value' => false, ));
If you leave the empty_value
option unset, then a blank (with no text)
option will automatically be added if and only if the required
is false:
1 2 3 4 | // a blank (with no text) option will be added
$builder->add('states', 'choice', array(
'required' => false,
These options inherit from the field type:
type: Boolean
default: true
If true, an HTML5 required attribute will be rendered. The corresponding
will also render with a required
This is superficial and independent from validation. At best, if you let Symfony guess your field type, then the value of this option will be guessed from your validation information.
type: string
default: The label is "guessed" from the field name
Sets the label that will be used when rendering the field. The label can also be directly set inside the template:
1 | {{ form_label(form.name, 'Your name') }}
2.1The read_only
option was changed in 2.1 to render as a readonly
HTML attribute. Previously, it rendered as a disabled
Use the disabled option if you need the old behavior.
type: Boolean
default: false
If this option is true, the field will be rendered with the readonly
attribute so that the field is not editable.
2.1The disabled
option is new in version 2.1
type: boolean
default: false
If you don't want a user to modify the value of a field, you can set the disabled option to true. Any submitted value will be ignored.
type: Boolean
default: false
unless the form is compound
If true, any errors for this field will be passed to the parent field or form. For example, if set to true on a normal field, any errors for that field will be attached to the main form, not to the specific field.
2.1The error_mapping
option is new to Symfony 2.1.
type: array
default: empty
This option allows you to modify the target of a validation error.
Imagine you have a custom method named matchingCityAndZipCode
that validates
whether the city and zip code match. Unfortunately, there is no "matchingCityAndZipCode"
field in your form, so all that Symfony can do is display the error on top
of the form.
With customized error mapping, you can do better: map the error to the city field so that it displays above it:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | public function setDefaultOptions(OptionsResolverInterface $resolver)
'error_mapping' => array(
'matchingCityAndZipCode' => 'city',
Here are the rules for the left and the right side of the mapping:
- The left side contains property paths.
- If the violation is generated on a property or method of a class, its path is simply "propertyName".
- If the violation is generated on an entry of an
object, the property path is[indexName]
. - You can construct nested property paths by concatenating them, separating
properties by dots. For example:
- The left side of the error mapping also accepts a dot
, which refers to the field itself. That means that any error added to the field is added to the given nested field instead. - The right side contains simply the names of fields in the form.
type: boolean
If you wish the field to be ignored when reading or writing to the object, you
can set the mapped
option to false
This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.


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How serious and distinctive an upgrade is the 595 from the 555? And what is a decent canalphone/IEM that has similar sound qualities as the 555/595?
post #61 of 980
8/24/06 at 6:59am
Originally Posted by leng jai
Who wouldn't love these cans? Sexy sound, sexy looks, sexy headphone holder, and even a sexy box
Originally Posted by spike33
You're so right, I haven't visited headfi for months. Just came by to put my k501 for sale (great headphone btw!) because I listen to 595 much more often.
Originally Posted by Andrea
I miss my HD595...
And now that I found it at a good price (133 euro) in an Italian online shop I want it back |
Originally Posted by pupu
I see you got some hd650's. Are you enjoying those more than 595's?. I'm thinking of buying some new cans (currently have 595).
Originally Posted by nabwong
Hey people,
I am so in love with these phones right now. Good thing my girlfriend is away right now or else she might feel ignored. Anyway, it was 9am saturday morning and i was woken up by the inter-com. I thought, who the hell's buzzing me at 9am in the morning. Then i opened my eyes and looked out the window and saw the USPS delivery truck. YIPPIE!!!!! I jumped out of bed and ran barefooted downstairs. I wanted to hug the postman but he was already gone. There, on the floor in the lobby, lay the 595s. |
Originally Posted by busta
mmm HD-595's and a Go-Vibe |
Originally Posted by pixelshader
Ditch that soundcard... Audigy 2 has ****** channel separation imo...not even the A2 ZS is very hi-fi. If you want gamer-soundcard the SB X-fi is the one that will give you real hi-fi sound.. Hm...and still have the nice benefits of real eax-gaming.
Originally Posted by retic3nt
How serious and distinctive an upgrade is the 595 from the 555? And what is a decent canalphone/IEM that has similar sound qualities as the 555/595?
Originally Posted by retic3nt
No one has any thoughts?