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Today (Feb. 23), less than a week after this post, Mason Plumlee was named first-team Academic All-America.
International travel carries many requirements, passport, patience and Pepto-Bismol among them. For Mason Plumlee there was another: knowledge.
Upon learning that Duke's basketball team would travel to China and Dubai last summer, the junior power forward enrolled in a class on China.
One class led to another, to an independent study to a second major, in cultural anthropology.
Such curiosity and ambition, not to mention a 3.44 grade-point average, are reasons Plumlee — his other major is psychology — was selected Academic All-District III (encompassing North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee).
"I took the first class before we went over there, because honestly, I had no idea what to expect," Plumlee said. "So I thought, 'I'll just take this class for the basic knowledge on the culture and also the layout, where we're going to go.'
"Because we visited Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall, a lot of those things. And I wanted to understand the cities we were in like Shanghai, Beijing, Kunshan. And Duke is putting a campus in Kunshan, so I wanted to know a little bit more about that.
"We went there and I was so impressed by everything. I couldn't believe how big the cities were, how populated they were, and I took a few more classes when we got back."
Academic honchos approved Plumlee's double major the day we spoke, and he was clearly jazzed by the emailed news.
"My advisor was sure I was going to get it," he said. "I wasn't so sure."
Plumlee chose psychology because "it was something my dad studied in college. My brother [Duke senior forward Miles] did it, too, and he liked it a lot. And I had met some of the professors because of my brother."
As is often the case, Plumlee's academic bent is rooted in family. His grandfather was a long-time professor at Purdue, and his parents pushed him to excel in the classroom.
"I feel like I developed good academic habits early on," Plumlee said, "and I've just tried to carry them with me."
Plumlee is the ACC's No. 2 rebounder behind North Carolina's John Henson and averages a career-best 11.6 points for the nation's fifth-ranked team. How to balance the considerable demands of basketball and top-flight academics?
"It's not an easy thing, but if you take advantage of the resources they provide, it's very doable," said Plumlee, who's contemplating a post-basketball MBA. "We have an academic advisor, and he has a good connection with the professors that we have, and tutors. Also, from our end, we have to have an open line of communication with our teachers because you are going to miss class, you are going to miss obligations that you have outside of class.
"For example, for one of my classes we have to go tutor at an elementary school. I may not be able to do that every week. … Most of them, not all of them, but most of them, are willing to work with you, provide extensions and help you get the work done.
"One of the biggest things is, whether you want to or not, as a student athlete you stick out in class either because you're physically bigger, so you want to show the other students that you respect the teacher, respect the class, by paying attention, participating, being engaged in the class."
Does Plumlee's competitive nature translate to the lecture hall?
"You're definitely running a different race than the average student," he said. "But if you can compete with them, you're doing pretty (well). You just have to realize, when you're at practice, they're studying. Now if I have a teammate in my class I'm going to make sure I get a better grade than he does.
"A lot of people say school's not fun, but it's fun here. You can make it fun."
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The one constant in the saga of the former Gulf Pines Hospital is the steady decay of the facility since the hospital closed a decade ago.
The one constant in the saga of the former Gulf Pines Hospital is the steady decay of the facility since the hospital closed a decade ago.
With neighbors again noting the general state of disrepair and potential for wildlife � two- and four-footed � haunting the years-vacant hospital, Port St. Joe commissioners have dusted off the playbook they had been looking at last year.
And not much has changed save the extent of the decay.
The financial pieces remain largely intact, city attorney Tom Gibson said.
The IRS maintains a lien on the building.
The IRS has indicated in the past a willingness to work with the city on reducing the lien, however an obstacle in that path is the presence of at least two tax deeds/certificates and one additional year of outstanding property taxes, a portion of which would actually be owed the city.
The amount of the tax certificates/deeds is $40,000; the outstanding taxes owed the county � and city �amount to $90,000, Gibson said.
Only the Board of County Commissioners has expressed a willingness to work with the city on those costs, that willingness stemming from a desire to return the property to the tax rolls.
�We are back to exploring bringing (the building) down and selling lots to cover costs,� Gibson said.
The Commission last year changed the zoning to residential, single family, in keeping with the neighborhood.
As originally platted, the land on which the hospital sits would yield five like-sized lots.
The gap between selling prices on the open market and costs to demolish the building � estimated at $100,000 including asbestos abatement � and settle claims proved too wide at the time for commissioners, though Gibson noted the costs on demolition were informal and the project never formally bid.
Gulf Pines is back on the radar after resident Ann White told commissioners the past two meetings that the building was in rough shape.
Wild animals, particularly rodents and cats as well as an early report of a coyote, have been seen around the building and teenagers had recently been found skateboarding in the old hospital.
Port St. Joe police further secured the building after that incident.
But with the building in receivership for several years, there has been little to know upkeep of the building and grounds save city staff trimming several trees.
�It�s bad,� White said, �particularly in the area where the ambulance would come in the building and there it�s a disaster.�
Commissioner Rex Buzzett requested the item be added to the Commission agenda until further action can be taken.
�Any clean-up would help,� he said.
Boat launch fees
Commissioner William Thursbay revisited an earlier initiative to implement launch fees at the city�s boat ramp in Frank Pate Park.
Commissioners held a workshop several months ago and found a general consensus in favor of fees to fund upkeep of the boat ramp, but with a lack of consensus on components to a plan.
Thursbay�s reiterated the motive last week but remained without a consensus on direction.
�This would be for maintenance down there and only maintenance,� Thursbay said.
He provided several options, including a fee scale under which citizen residents would pay nothing while county and out-of-state users would pay set daily fees or be eligible to purchase weekly or seasonal passes.
The collecting, Thursbay said, would initially be based on the honor system, using a wooden or metal box with or without a written decal or ticket.
�I am all for user fees, but how are we going to enforce this?� said Mayor Mel Magidson. �(The honor system) is the worst way, but I like the pass deal.�
Magidson said governments need to look at implementing user fees for a host of maintenance issues that can no longer be addressed in the general fund budget.
Resident Mark Howze said while he fundamentally agreed that a launch fee was preferable, he wondered about the balance struck between how much the city might actually realize in revenue compared to the cost of implementing the system.
Thursbay said he would further examine the issue and come back with additional recommendations.
Centennial Building
Commissioners approved spending over $21,000 for repairs to leaks on the roof of the Centennial Building.
Commissioners will at least in part dip into BP settlement funds for the repairs, which are aimed at sealing leaks ahead of more substantive repairs to the ceiling and acoustics in the city�s largest gathering place.

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Gen 6 Cup Cars Prove Comfy-Cozy For Gen 6 Drivers
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
If you're an old-schooler – one who thinks that stock car racing was better back in the day because driving cars that were actually showroom-based offered a better test of men and machine than have modern Sprint Cup cars – the new Gen 6 vehicles tested this week at Charlotte are not likely to satisfy.
Without a doubt, the Fords, Chevrolets and Toyotas which hit the Charlotte Motor Speedway track for two days this week looked a whole lot more stock than did the previous couple generations. And that was quite refreshing.
But drive like them? Test driver abilities and courage like them? Not so much.
This past fall, over lunch at Kansas Speedway with a couple of people who drove cars that actually had some stockiness to them, talk turned to new-school cars and drivers.
The prevailing sentiment as people began taking their paper plates and plastic forks to the garbage receptacles was: actual stock cars were mothers to drive fast.
Randy LaJoie, one of those who took part in the Kansas Lunch Table Session, said that at first he didn't think that driving the older cars was that difficult.
But then, during races, he would glance over at the other cars on the track and notice that his competitors were flaying away like crazy with elbows and hands and shoulders inside their cockpits.
Those drivers, LaJoie remembered, would be the ones whipping past him en route to podium finishes and kisses on the cheek from bee hive-quaffed female trophy presenters. Drivers like tough-guys Richard Petty and David Pearson and Cale Yarborough.
The current cars, LaJoie said, were relatively simple to drive – even at 200 mph. And today's drivers? Spoiled and complaint-prone.
All that was last season. The final season for the Gen 5 Cup cars.
The consensus among the 16 drivers who tested Gen 6 cars at Charlotte seemed to be: Faster, more grip and, easier to drive than Gen 5.
The 2013 Cup cars feature new body styles which are purposely designed to look more showroom than those of the preceding couple of generations. They also have less weight, more rear camber, a bigger rear spoiler and new rear suspension rules that include the elimination of the rear sway bar.
It all added up to more downforce and faster laps as the cars hugged the asphalt through the CMS quad-oval's corners.
"My line has gone more to a Nationwide line, I will say that," driver Joey Logano said when asked about the new car's poise. "Having more downforce it doesn't feel like you have as much straightaway speed, so you're able to arc the corners more. The cars handle better, so it goes more to that. The big thing, I think, in traffic that I think changed the cars a lot is you took a lot of that yaw away, so the cars aren't sideways anymore."
Other drivers, like Dale Earnhardt Jr., called the new cars more "comfortable".
"I really don't miss all the stuff we were moving around in the back of these cars last year, I don't miss any of that stuff," Earnhardt said at Charlotte. "It did make the cars go faster, but they were a little bit more of a challenge to drive. The sensations that you got going off in the corner crooked weren't a lot of fun. This is awesome for me personally I kind of like going in the corner with the car going straight, like it's supposed to. I'm enjoying this."
Will easier to drive, more enjoyable to drive, translate to better racing for fans once the cars start competing in anger in February? TBD.
The cars which were tested this week are not the finished product. NASCAR will head back to the the Research and Development Center and tweak. Plus, weather and track conditions at CMS were cool and, hence, optimum for fast laps.
But one thing is certain: old-school he-men will not be breaking from the time-honored tradition of tsk-tsking a further separation from a time when Pearson's daring and Yarborough's muscular forearms had as much to do with winning stock car races than increasing camber and decreasing yaw.
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Product Review: Bamboo Partyware from Restaurantware
Although I might have a ridiculous amount of white plates on hand for parties, they're all 12-inch rounds. This is fine until you're serving strictly finger foods and really require something smaller. For a recent bridal shower, I put a few eco-friendly few pieces from Restaurantware to the test and I have to say — I was pretty darn impressed.
Small disposable plates by nature usually, well, let's be honest... suck. They most often fall into the category of "plates that are made from just enough plastic to not drop food in your lap... maybe." After moving into a new home (or rather an old church we're converting into one) it was decided that I would be the host of a bridal shower with all the women in my (rather large) family. Just having moved I'd yet to unpack my dishware.
Disposables were the natural option, but the options available to me at big box stores weren't really options at all. Paper plates are too thin and although they came in coordinating colors with the bride's colors, if the food being served had any weight or needed to be cut, well then you were out of luck. There's always styrofoam or additional plastic, but they're not made of much either and you can forget about any of them being eco-friendly. I needed rough and tumble plates for rough and tumble women and their army of small children.
Enter Restaurantware.
• Restaurantware.com
They've been around the block, they supply to most the major caterers and restaurants in the country and when it comes to party supply, they know what they're doing. If their products fail, they go out of business, it's as simple as that — and they've been in business for 20+ years. That was good enough for me and I requested a few samples to give their products a whirl.
When FedEx arrived at my door I was tickled pink. I found square 6-inch plates for my bridal shower (all recyclable!) and a box filled to the brim of other small assorted serving pieces. You want to see a foodie get all giddy? Give them a box of display servingware and see what happens. There was dancing in the streets and singing from the rooftops, all this stuff was so cool! It was physically impossible to not want to throw a party. I was already designing dishes and small foods around the plates themselves.
Now Sarah, they can't be that thrilling, they're just disposable plates and cups and stuff, right? Wrong! For most folks looking for disposable tableware, these products were just high end options. But to me, the girl who can't throw away anything... I was looking at a box of items that could be reused time and time again when handwashed. Even if that's not high on most folks' list, it was on mine. It meant that one solid investment could last me through a year or more's worth of parties.
There are a few exclusions when it comes to some of the thin pine and bamboo options (as grease or liquids would soak through), but for the most part, I would have been 100% satisfied placing an order for the items and knowing I would more than get my money back out of them, even though their prices are reasonable to begin with.
Aside from looking great and lasting for a reasonable length of time, what impressed me most about the products at hand was their sustainability. The "Sea Green Tableware" (which is tinted slightly green in the photos above) is biodegradable and the clear plastic pieces are recyclable. The bamboo is obviously earth-friendly and their thin pine pieces will be mulch in your compost pile in no time.
• You can check out our past post in Marketplace on Restaurantware or the additional links below.
Helpful Links:
• Restaurantware Website
• Their Line Of Bamboo Disposables
• Disposable Plates
• Disposable Cutlery
Related: Biodegradable Serving Bowls And Utensils
Apartment Therapy Media makes every effort to test and review products fairly and transparently. The views expressed in this review are the personal views of the reviewer and this particular product review was not sponsored or paid for in any way by the manufacturer or an agent working on their behalf. However, the manufacturer did give us the product for testing and review purposes.
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Jake Pierce got a valuable life-lesson Monday night in leading the Pioneers past Douglas County West.
Be a straight shooter.
Jake Pierce got a valuable life-lesson Monday night in leading the Pioneers past Douglas County West.
Be a straight shooter.
Pierce ended up pitching a gem after being burned early on curve balls thrown to Douglas County West batters who were trailing in the ball-strike count.
Douglas County West hit 1-2 counts for a double and a home run. And Pierce hit a batter with a 1-2 curve ball.
After taking the curve ball out of his repertoire, Pierce cruised.
He recorded every out by way of strikeout going into the seventh inning before inducing an out on a ground out to the mound and another out on a pop up.
The last out, appropriately enough, came by strikeout.
Pierce ended up with 19 strikeouts and three earned runs on four hits, two walks and two hit batsmen.
Offensively, the Nebraska City team had seven runs on eight hits to win the game by a final of 7-3.
Offensive leaders were Brett Sasse, three singles, two runs scored and an RBI; Tanner Faris, double, single, RBI and run scored; Jake Pierce, single, walk, and RBI; Tommie Knapp, single, walk, and run scored; Trever Kreifel, walk and single; Nick Behrends, run scored; Trevor Chaney, two walks, run scored; Jacob Martens, run scored; and Josh Peterson, walk.


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Troubleshooting Web Alerts
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Troubleshooting Web Alerts
This chapter covers topics that help you troubleshoot problems related to the web alerts that Cisco ER generates. You might encounter this problem when receiving web alerts:
Symptom Web alert continues to refresh every 30 seconds. You can see this problem by checking the status in the browser. The status will display the seconds remaining before refresh if it is in this mode.
- Recommended Action Check if there are other web alert screens open on the same client machine. Only one browser from a client machine can operate in the real-time mode. Remove any extra browsers.


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ELIZABETH, NJ (June 21, 2012) — Some Arizona new pool owners will be hoping that weather history repeats itself this Fourth of July. If the temperature reaches or exceeds the record-breaking 118 degrees Fahrenheit at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, originally set on July 4th, 1989, pre-qualifying pool buyers will receive a $12,000 rebate from Hayward® Pool Products.
The Hayward "Beat the Heat" campaign applies to qualifying new Arizona in-ground pools purchased between February 17 – 29, 2012 from participating Totally Hayward® pool builders. Under the terms of the promotion, anyone purchasing a new in-ground pool from an authorized and participating Totally Hayward Pool Builder in Arizona and whose purchase included a Hayward brand pump, a Hayward brand filter and at least one additional Hayward branded product, such as a heater, heat pump, controller, salt chlorinator or cleaner, were eligible to register to win.
According to Vice President Sales for Hayward Mike Massa, "We're very excited about the possibility of giving out well over $1 million to many new Arizona pool owners in this year's beat the heat promotion. With over 100 new pool owners qualifying for the Hayward promotion, we're hoping to add to the excitement of enjoying a brand new pool with a cash rebate of $12,000 per pool. Can you think of a better way for these families to enjoy the rest of their summer?"
"Arizona residents typically rely on their pool to beat the heat as temperatures rise well above 100 degrees each summer, this was Hayward's way of potentially rewarding those optimistic new pool owners with another great bonus," he said.
If the 1989 record-setting temperature is reached or exceeded, the lucky pool owners who are registered as part of the Beat the Heat campaign, will be announced later in July as winners of a $12,000 rebate from Hayward® Pool Products. For more information, click on "Beat the Heat" at www.hayward.com.
About Hayward Pool ProductsHayward Pool Products, a division of Hayward Industries Inc., is the largest manufacturer of residential swimming pool equipment in the world. Headquartered in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Hayward designs, manufactures and markets the Totally Hayward® System, a full line of residential and commercial pool equipment including pumps, filters, heating, cleaners, sanitization, automation, lighting, safety and energy solutions.
The company, which has built its brand on innovation, energy-efficiency, safety and reliability, includes such brands as Salt & Swim™, EcoStar®, TriStar®, Super Pump®, Pro Logic®, Aqua Connect®, HeatPro®, ColorLogic®, Aqua Rite®, Navigator® Pro, Pool Vac XL™, TigerShark®, among others. Hayward products are sold through a network of distributors and 3,000 Totally Hayward Dealer Partners throughout the U.S., Canada, Asia, Australia, Latin America and the Middle East. For more information, contact Hayward at (908) 351-5400 or visit www.hayward.com.


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Blues battle Red Wings for Western playoff positionby Dan Rosen
BLUES (20-14-2) at RED WINGS (19-14-5)
Last 10: St. Louis 6-4-0; Detroit 6-4-0
Season series: This is the fifth and final meeting of the Central Division rivals this season. The Detroit Red Wings are 2-1-1 with a pair of regulation wins and an overtime loss. The St. Louis Blues won 6-0, on opening day, and 4-3 in overtime on Feb. 13.
Big story: The Blues and Red Wings are battling for a Stanley Cup Playoffs berth. They are separated by one point with the Red Wings in seventh place in the Western Conference and the Blues in eighth. St. Louis has two games in hand on Detroit, which is trying to make the playoffs for the 22nd straight season.
Team Scope:
Blues: St. Louis put together a three-game winning streak to start April after closing March with a three-game losing streak.
The Blues are coming off a 3-1 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday. They also defeated the Chicago Blackhawks in a shootout and the Minnesota Wild 4-1 in the past week.
Blues captain David Backes has a goal in back-to-back games after scoring three in the first 34. He scored the winner Friday and was identified by coach Ken Hitchcock as the best player on the ice.
"He needed to step up with everything that's gone on here," Hitchcock said. "He really stepped up. Good to see."
Forward Chris Stewart chipped in against Columbus with his first goal in six games. Rookie goalie Jake Allen made 26 saves for his ninth win of the season.
Defenseman Jay Bouwmeester, whom the Blues acquired Monday, picked up two more assists in the win over Columbus, giving him three in two games.
Red Wings: Forwards Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk were reunited Friday and it worked as the Red Wings left Denver with a 3-2 overtime win against the Colorado Avalanche.
Datsyuk scored the overtime winner off a feed from Zetterberg with 15.4 seconds left. Detroit's dynamic duo also teamed up for a Datsyuk power-play goal 8:27 into the first period.
"We needed these points," Datsyuk said, according to Mlive.com. "We have tough situation, in fight for playoffs."
The Red Wings' only points in their past five games have come in wins over the last-place Avalanche. Detroit came into Colorado early Friday morning after losing at the Phoenix Coyotes, 4-2, Thursday.
Defenseman Danny Dekeyser made his NHL debut Friday and drew praise from coach Mike Babcock.
"I liked him," Babcock said. "He's going to be a good player in the League for a long time."
Who's hot: Blues forward Alex Steen has an assist in each of the past three games. ... Red Wings forward Johan Franzen has four assists during a three-game point-scoring streak.
Injury report: Blues forwards Scott Nichol (soreness) and T.J. Oshie (bruised left foot) are out. ... Red Wings forwards Damien Brunner (undisclosed), Mikael Samuelsson (upper body), Todd Bertuzzi (back) and Darren Helm (back) have been out of the lineup.


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Source: D Streit agrees to 4-year deal with Flyers
Defenseman Mark Streit is staying in Philadelphia
Less than a week after Streit was acquired by the Flyers in a trade with the New York Islanders, the 35-year-old defenseman agreed to a four-year $21 million contract, according to a person familiar with deal.
The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Flyers had not announced the move on Tuesday, a day after Canada's TSN first reported the deal had been reached.
The deal prevents Streit from entering free agency on July 5. And it proved to be a calculated gamble that paid off for the Flyers in making the trade to acquire the rights to the Islanders captain.
In exchange, Philadelphia gave up minor-league forward Shane Harper and a fourth-round pick in the 2014 draft.
Streit has 65 goals and 288 points in 491 career games. And he's coming off a solid season, in which he had six goals and 27 points to lead Islanders defensemen. He also had three goals and five points in a six-game, first-round loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Following the trade to Philadelphia, Streit had expressed confidence about his chances of securing a deal with his new team.
"Maybe they need a few days or weeks, but I'm pretty positive," said Streit, who made $4.1 million last season. "It'd be awesome to play for the Flyers. The future is bright. They were in the (Stanley) Cup finals three years ago and there is so much skill and a great mix between veteran players and young players."
His addition leads to further questions regarding what the Flyers will need to do to free up salary-cap space. They had one of the NHL's most expensive payrolls last season, and were already set to have eight players scheduled to make more than $4.5 million this season.
It's a group that includes goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, who is scheduled to make $8 million.
After spending much of his career playing in his native Switzerland, Streit broke into the NHL in 2005-06 with the Montreal Canadiens. He then joined the Islanders as a free agent in 2008, when he led the team with 56 points and was named an All-Star.


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Melanie Baskind tallied 24 points during her senior season (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior co-captain Melanie Baskind of the Harvard women's soccer team continues to receive postseason accolades as she has been named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-Mid-Atlantic Region second team.
Baskind, who garnered Capital One Academic All-America first team honors, was the unanimous choice as the Ivy League Player of the Year, earning her fourth straight nod to the all-conference team.
A co-captain of the Crimson, Baskind led Harvard in 2011 to its third Ivy title in four seasons, reaching the NCAA tournament for the third time since 2008. Baskind tied for the conference lead with 24 points, eight goals and eight assists. She also ranks tied for ssxth in program history with 79 career points, is sixth with 25 assists and stands seventh with 27 goals.
A nominee for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, Baskind also serves as a co-captain of the Harvard women's lacrosse team.


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For gadget nerds, it truly is about to be the most magical time of the year. It is the unofficial technology buying and gifting season. There are more new products on shelves than at any time of the year, and the good deals are just waiting to be had.
But getting to that point can be an overwhelming experience. Out of the hundreds of tablets, which is the best? And what about all those phone accessories? Why are there five fitness bracelets this year that all look and sound the same?
After sifting through hundreds of gadgets all year, I've come up with my top picks for this holiday season.
|iPad Air, iPad Mini, Nexus 7
The tablet aisle at Best Buy might actually be designed to mess with your head. There are slightly different looking rectangular slabs with slightly different specs and prices that bounce up and down. Yes, there are tons of new tablets from Microsoft to Amazon to Samsung, but my top choice? Still the tablet pioneer: the iPad.
The iPad, as I said in my iPad Air review, still leads the pack with a better selection of apps and superior hardware design. Picking an iPad this year is harder than in years' past: There is the $499 iPad Air, the $399 iPad Mini with Retina and the $299 iPad Mini. The choice comes down to what you want to spend, and what size you want.
But what about the best tablet for kids? I still say go with the iPad and get a kid-proof case. Kids will grow into the tablet, unlike any of the kiddie tablets out there. I also really like the Nexus 7 for kids. Google's $230 tablet is well made and supports multiple user accounts. That means your child can have his or her own account, while your email and other apps are secure in another account.
|Xbox One
The game is on between the Xbox and the Playstation 4 this holiday season. Both systems are great choices, but my recommendation this holiday season is for the Xbox One, especially for families.
True gamers may prefer the PS4; it is $100 cheaper than the Xbox and focused primarily on gaming. The $500 Xbox One, however, has a great blend of entertainment and gaming features. It works with your cable box so you can tell the system to change the channel with just a voice command. The new Kinect lets you wave your hands around in games, and there are tons of built-in services, including Skype, YouTube Netflix, Amazon and Hulu Plus.
You will also want to check out our PS4 vs. Xbox One article where we compare the systems.
|Fitbit Force, Fitbit Aria
One of the hottest sections in tech right now? Fitness or wearable gadgets. Over the past few months a number of fitness bands have been released, all aiming to track your steps and activity.
Of all the new options, I recommend the $130 Fitbit Force. Like the others, it tracks your steps, your sleep and your distance traveled. However, it also has a built-in screen so you can see your progress throughout the day, and it also pairs with your phone via Bluetooth so you can see all the information in the app. You can also get the FitBit Aria scale and have your weight wirelessly sent to the app as well. It is a great all-in-one health tracking system for the health or fitness conscious person in your life.
|Roku 3
But if you don't want to buy a full gaming system or a new TV this holiday season, a good way to get those streaming services is with a Roku box. Plug the Roku into your TV, connect it to the Internet and you've got access to tons of streaming services, like Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and much more. It's a really easy way to turn your TV into a Smart TV. The Roku 3 costs just $99.
|Nest Protect, Thermostat
Buying a thermostat or a smoke detector for someone doesn't seem sexy, but that changes when you look at Nest's connected devices. Both the Nest Protect and the Nest thermostat are strikingly designed products and were made to work with your phone. With the thermostat, you can set the temperature using an app, and it will learn your behaviors and start to make recommendations on the optimal temperature.
With the Protect, the smoke detector will speak to you when it senses smoke or any other issues. It will also work with an app to alert you of what's happening in your home. The thermostat costs $250 and the smoke detector $129.
I'm not sold on buying smartphones for people for the holidays. Contracts can be complicated, and it's a very personal decision. But I do think mobile accessories make great stocking stuffers.
The Mophie is a great option for the iPhone or Galaxy S4 owner. The cases have a built-in battery and will provide a full extra charge. The Mophie cases start at $50 and come in a selection of colors.
|Jawbone Mini Jambox
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This is the life lived by "Julia," the unfortunate inspiration for Anderson's article. Julia was the fictional subject of an infographic published during President Obama's reelection campaign. It starkly depicts, says Anderson, "the emptiness, the sickness, the very slothfulness, which characterizes our post-modern culture." "The Life of Julia" walks through the milestones of her life, which "are centered on school, work, and business ad nauseum … the major emphasis is always, and solely, on how she can keep working."
There is no meaning evident in the highlights of Julia's life. Even when she "decides" to have a child, '[i]t's like she's choosing which Lean Cuisine to have for dinner," with "[n]o mention of a loving husband, or a real passion involved in such a momentous decision."
The problem with this lifestyle, with a life of sloth, is that "it steals from us our distinctive, unique character as children of God. It defines us by what we do, rather than who we are. It robs us of truly being."
Success, money, comfort. It's the American dream many relentlessly pursue. But really, we are incredibly blessed without it, as a friend reminded me the other day. God did not make us to "fidget." He made us to love and have life abundantly — in him. As Anderson says, "[t]he Good News is that we can aspire to a life far richer, far deeper, far more complex, far more abundant" than the life of sloth offered by the world.
A life of service to Christ and his Church is one of love, joy and fulfillment, while a life of service to the grindstone and pleasure-seeking "simply mark[s] time in a series of meaningless pursuits." What will your life be?
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SUMMIT, NJ – The first total lunar eclipse in nearly two and half years will appear over the skies of Summit in the early morning hours on April 15.
This eclipse will be a particularly unusual viewing opportunity, since the Earth's Western Hemisphere will be facing the moon during the eclipse. In addition, the eclipse will coincide with nighttime in North America. The entire continent won't be able to witness a full lunar eclipse in its entirety again until 2019.
The eclipse will peak around 3:45 a.m., and the moon will enter Earth's full shadow, the umbra. At this stage, Earth's atmosphere will scatter the sun's red visible light, the same process that turns the sky red at sunset. As a result, the red light will reflect off the moon's surface, casting a reddish rust hue over it.
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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I'm sure many of you have turkey on the brain. For those of you who don't really much care for turkey meat, here's a steak recipe that still manages to capture some of the flavors of the season. Specifically, I made a cranberry-flavored cream cheese that I stuffed into the steaks. I was inspired by a chicken recipe I recently made with a filling of Granny Smith apples. The only difference is beef doesn't need to marinate overnight. Allow beef to marinate for at least 15 minutes, but no more than 30 minutes. I used my usual meat tenderizer (green papaya paste).
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Mini-tutorial on explicit renaming macros in Chicken
The following is an attempt to explain, how to write hygienic macros in Chicken with explicit renaming. It supposes, that the reader knows, how to write other low-level-macros like define-macro in Chicken-3 and other Schemes. As you will see, explicit renaming macros are even easier to write than those with define-macro. This is because there is a brute force method to avoid variable capture.
Let's consider a trivial macro a la Chicken-3 without any considerations on hygiene and variable capture:
(define-macro swap! ; wrong
(lambda (x y)
`(let ((tmp ,x))
(set! ,x ,y)
(set! ,y tmp))))
or, in short form
(define-macro (swap! x y) ; wrong
`(let ((tmp ,x))
(set! ,x ,y)
(set! ,y tmp))))
You might be surprised, but the replacement text, that within the backquotes, need not be changed in an explicit renaming macro, at least in a first step. What has to be changed, is the signature: explicit renaming transformers are always procedures of three variables, usually called form, rename, compare?, which should (but needn't) be wrapped into an er-macro-transformer call:
(define-syntax swap!
(lambda (form rename compare?)
`(let ((tmp ,x))
(set! ,x ,y)
(set! ,y tmp)))))
and you have to destructure the form argument, which is the whole macro-from, (swap! x y) in the example, to fill in the ellipsis above. That is
(define-syntax swap! ; wrong
(lambda (form rename compare?)
(let ((x (cadr form)) (y (caddr form)))
`(let ((tmp ,x))
(set! ,x ,y)
(set! ,y tmp))))))
In this form, the new macro is the same as our first attempt with define-macro. We haven't bothered about variable capture or hygiene at all. But this macro already works. You can test it, say with
(let ((x 'x) (y 'y))
(swap! x y)
(list x y))
and see if it does what it is supposed to do. Of course, it is not correct, since if a client uses tmp as one of his or her arguments, the macro will crash.
In the classical macro systems, defmacro in Common Lisp or define-macro in some Schemes, you now have to think carefully, which macro variables are in danger of variable capture and use an uninterned symbol for them, tmp in the current example. Worse than that, contrary to Common Lisp, Scheme allows to use any name for variables, even keyword names as let, set!, ... so that define-macro can never create a hygienic swap! macro. Here is, where renaming comes into the play. You don't need gensym, use rename instead. And you needn't bother, which symbol to rename, rename all.
What does that mean, "all"? It's easy in the present example, everything within the backquote, except those symbols, which are already unquoted. But in more complicated examples, you should use expand, to see the replacement text of your macro calls.
(pp (expand '(swap! x y)))
will result in the replacement text
(let ((tmp x))
(set! x y)
(set! y tmp))
Only x and y are arguments of your swap! call, hence everything else in the replacement text should be renamed: namely let, tmp and set!. So a hygienic version of swap! would be
(define-syntax swap!
(lambda (form rename compare?)
(let ((x (cadr form)) (y (caddr form)))
`(,(rename 'let) ((,(rename 'tmp) ,x))
(,(rename 'set!) ,x ,y)
(,(rename 'set!) ,y ,(rename 'tmp)))))))
If you repeat the expand call above, you will get the same replacement text, but with numbers suffixed to the renamed symbols, something like
(let11 ((tmp12 x))
(set!13 x y)
(set!13 y tmp12))
These renamed symbols have the same meaning as the original names without suffixes, but serve as aliases which the client cannot use under any circumstances.
Note, that the two appearances of tmp and set! are renamed to the same alias, the rename operator is referentially transparent. Note also, that these renamed symbols are much easier to interpret than gensym'ed ones!
I personally do not like these rename calls within the backquoted expression, because you loose the visual similarity between the backquoted expression and the resulting replacement text. Therefore I prefer this version, which is equivalent
(define-syntax swap!
(lambda (form rename compare?)
(let (
(x (cadr form))
(y (caddr form))
(%tmp (rename 'tmp))
(%let (rename 'let))
(%set! (rename 'set!))
`(,%let ((,%tmp ,x))
(,%set! ,x ,y)
(,%set! ,y ,%tmp))))))
You can think of the two characters ,% as an identity operator.
We havn't used the compare? argument in the transformer in this example. What's its role?
Well, some macros use special symbols verbatim, else and => in cond for example. With compare? it's possible to check, if these symbols, which might appear verbatim in a list, have the same meaning as their renamed variants (rename 'else), (rename '=>). For example, if else appears as the car of a list, lst say, you can code something like
(if (compare? (car lst) (rename 'else)) ...)
You see, explicit renaming macros are a bit more verbose than classical ones with define-macro. But everybody who is able to write the latter, is able to write the former as well. It's even easier!
Implicit renaming macros
But it can still be improved. Above, I said "You need'nt bother which symbol to rename, rename all". Well, "all" is something which can perfectly be done by a machine. Consequently, since the advent of Chicken version 4.7, there is another low level macro system, based on ir-macro-transformer, which does this "rename all" in the background.
In explicit renaming macros, I had to tell the compiler explicitly, what to rename. Every symbol not renamed would break hygiene. In implicit renaming macros, the roles are reversed: I have to tell the compiler explicitly, which symbol should break hygiene, everything else is renamed, whence hygienic. A hygienic swap! macro now looks like this
(define-syntax swap!
(lambda (form inject compare?)
(let ((x (cadr form)) (y (caddr form)))
`(let ((tmp ,x))
(set! ,x ,y)
(set! ,y tmp))))))
Note, that the second argument to the transformer is now called inject. It's used to "inject" a symbol unrenamed into the replacement text. Note further, that there is no need to gensym tmp as in define-macro. And last but not least, it's obligatory to wrap the transformer into an ir-macro-transformer call: the compiler must know, which low-level system to compile, after all.
For implicit renaming macros, the third argument to the transformer is now used a bit differently, for example
(if (compare? 'else (car lst)) ...)
Destructuring the macro-code
Up to now, we have always destructured the macro-code, (swap! x y), by hand. define-macro did it automatically. Is there a way to do it automatically with explicit- and implicit-renaming-macros as well?
Off course, you can use match from the matchable package or bind-case from the bindings package to do the destructuring. Then instead of
(let ((x (cadr form)) (y (caddr form))) ...)
you could write for example
(match form
((_ x y) ...))
provided you had wrapped the code into something like
(import-for-syntax (only matchable match))
In simple macros like swap!, the use of match or bind-case is not that much help. But a lot of macros have complicated nested list structures as macro-code. Than automatic destructuring is almost a necessity. Moreover, it does error-checking for free ...
Hiding the matching process
To facilitate the use of low-level-macros even more, you can abstract away not only the renaming but also the matching process, by packaging it -- you guess it -- in a macro, conveniently one which looks much like syntax-rules and should hence be called macro-rules. macro-rules pairs possible macro-codes (where the macro name is conveniently replaced by an underscore) with transformers, which are now functions of one argument, compare?, only.The other two arguments of implicit-renaming macro transformers, form and inject, are consumed by the matching process and the symbol list of this macro respectively.
With it, our old friend swap! would look like this
(define-syntax swap!
(macro-rules ()
((_ x y) (lambda (compare?) `(let ((tmp ,x)) (set! ,x ,y) (set! ,y tmp)))))
Implicit-renaming-macros are really great ...
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MACON, Ga. (Dec. 1, 2011) – The ETSU men's and women's basketball teams will combine to appear four times throughout the 2011-12 season on ESPN's signature multi-screen sports network, ESPN3, as announced by the A-Sun office on Wednesday.
The men's team makes its first appearance on Feb. 13 inside the MSHA Athletic Center against Jacksonville. The network will broadcast the Bucs next when they travel to Lipscomb on Feb. 20, before airing ETSU's regular season finale at home against Florida Gulf Coast on Feb. 24 at 1:30 p.m.
The Lady Bucs air on ESPN3 for their final game of the regular season, when they take on the Eagles on Feb. 24 at 4 p.m. as part of a basketball double-header inside the MSHA Athletic Center.
In total, ETSU makeup for a third of the A-Sun's 12 regular season games to be aired on ESPN3. Eight additional A-Sun tournament championship games – four men's and four women's – will also be covered as the network will broadcast both quarterfinal rounds.
"We are very excited about our expanded agreement with ESPN and the broad media exposure we'll be providing for our institutions and our outstanding student-athletes," said A-Sun Commissioner Ted Gumbart. "This is a very big step for the A-Sun and we look forward to continued growth in our media package with ESPN moving forward."
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BURLINGTON, VT (November 13, 2012) For the first time, Jake Burton, Founder and CEO of Burton Snowboards, has built a very limited run of signature snowboards called 'The Stone Hut'. Available in select snowboard shops worldwide starting today, each Stone Hut snowboard was handcrafted in Vermont at Craig's (named after Craig Kelly), the most advanced snowboard prototype facility in the world.
"Even though a piece of me has been in so many of our boards over the past 35 years, this is the first signature board I've built," said Jake. "When the boards team approached me about doing a sig board, I jumped on it and talked them into doing a really limited production run so we could make them in Vermont at Craig's. Up until now, we've only made prototypes or boards for team riders there. So the Stone Hut is special for many reasons, but the one I keep coming back to is I think Craig would be stoked that it was built in his facility – I know I am."
During this past summer, Jake spent a lot of time at Craig's, fine-tuning each detail of the Stone Hut. His goal was to create a snowboard that was ideal for 'a powder day in the park' – essentially a board that was very versatile so riders could easily head down an icy groomer, then dip into powder in the trees. As far as construction goes, the concept behind the Stone Hut board is simple. It's a twin shaped freestyle board underfoot with a powder nose and a freestyle tail. The Bend is Flat Top, so it holds an edge when riders need it, but also floats in powder. Available in two lengths (150 and 155), the Stone Hut is downsized so that riders can select a board length that is 5 cms shorter than a traditional board.
For Jake, the Stone Hut board graphic is also 'a dream come true' because it features someone he's always looked up to – Jimi Hendrix. With artwork from the Jimi Hendrix album, Valleys of Neptune, the board graphics are one-of-a-kind. For a finishing touch, Jake personally signed each board at Craig's.
The Stone Hut also comes with a few items Jake thought would go well with the board, all packaged in a laptop case that features artwork from Valleys of Neptune. The kit includes EST CantBEDs (size medium), a binding accessory that many Burton team riders and Jake use all the time. If riders need a different size, they can call Jake's office directly – the number is listed with the kit. Also included is a Sharpie for marking binding stances, an EST Tool for fine-tuning bindings, a credit card scraper that fits in a wallet, a code to download some of Jake's favorite Hendrix songs and stickers from the Burton archives.
With only 100 available worldwide, the Stone Hut promises to be a collector's item for sure. But more than anything else, Jake wants riders to get the boards on snow and send him feedback about the new shape.
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Read more about the Stone Hut (and how it got its name) in an interview with Jake where a full list of shops carrying the board is also available.
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The adoption of the High Peak's long-awaited local plan is still on track for February next year despite numerous delays, councillors have said.
High Peak borough councillors were due to discuss the vital document and consider the responses to a public consultation at a meeting on Monday night but this had to be delayed due to the volume of responses received.
An extra meeting of the council will now take place on Tuesday March 18, a week later than the initially planned date of March 11, in the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton, where members will consider the latest draft of the plan and the comments received.
Cllr Godfrey Claff, executive member for regeneration, said: "I want to be absolutely clear that there is no delay to the overall timetable for the adoption of the local plan.
"We have made a commitment to listening to the views of local people and slightly delaying this extra council meeting means we can take full account of the 1,600 responses to the latest round of public consultation."
Following consideration at the meeting, the next steps are: October 2014 - examination hearings; February 2015 - local plan adopted.
Council leader Caitlin Bisknell added: "Everyone with an interest in the High Peak can be assured that we are working hard to make sure we have a robust plan in place that will protect the borough from unsuitable developments.
"We have published the timetable for adopting the plan and we will stick to that timetable."
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NASA chief technologist Bobby Braun, a key ally in the nation's capital for Langley Research Center, will resign his post next month.
Braun, who began his career at Langley working on the Mars Pathfinder program, was appointed to the job in Feb. 2010. He is the agency's "principle advocate and advisor on matters concerning agency-wide technology policy and programs," according to NASA.
The office he leads is expected to help NASA shift to more advanced spacecraft and robotics for planetary exploration. It also is tasked with developing new technologies that can create spin-off industries.
Braun's resignation comes as NASA's manned spaceflight program faces an uncertain future. President Barack Obama canceled the underfunded and behind schedule Constellation program, which planned to return astronauts to the moon.
The move, Obama said, will help NASA focus on developing new technology. Langley expects to play a central role in that effort by directing the agency's "Game Changing Technology Development" program, the middle of a three-tiered system focusing on research and development.
Noting stiff competition among NASA's 10 centers for funding, Langley officials counted Braun as a chief ally at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Posted 31 July 2011 - 02:18 PM
there is positive in the book and board , one has to be careful and think first before using.
my thoughts on the book is "it works if you are not scared of it" and ask questions you NEED to Know".
Posted 01 August 2011 - 12:52 PM
How exactly does it work? Do you ask only yes or no questions?
Posted 01 August 2011 - 08:47 PM
The same limitations apply to EVPs consisting of one word answers. There is simply no way to validate the response based on such limited data. People ask for a name and receive a one word response. Example, "Fred". Now realistically consider ANY name would be valid. Or maybe the response on a board is misspelled by adding or dropping one letter. The user arbitrarily throws out the extra letter or adds what he feels SHOULD be there.
This proves nothing since the data has just been altered. I would put no more faith in this method than I would in a Ouija board. I wouldn't be afraid of it; rather I would simply not trust anything that comes out of it as being accurate.
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 09:29 PM
I myself have gotten some good information from ouija board. I haven't used one for many years because I now have other ways to get that knowledge, but it can be a very valid method.
I say: if it works for you, that's great.
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Posted 01 August 2011 - 10:55 PM
The problem with that is that it's too subjective. It's possible to do a cold reading on yourself -- making the "answer" fit the question. Also, over time you get to know where in the book various letters or numbers are, so it's not truly "random". You might as well ask a magic 8 ball.
The ouija book works by asking a question and opening the book to random letters or yes/no or good bye. Every time you ask a question you open the book to arandom page and write the letter on a piece of paper. Do this about seven times for each question until you feel you have been answered. There are also numbers in the book. Meaning your answer might be a phone number. Letters could be a word or each letter could stand for a word. You have to keep an open mind for this to work.
I didn't lose my mind - I have it backed up on a disk ... somewhere
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by Punchy » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:01 amMy pick for next week is Daredevil #9!
by Stephen Day » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:04 pm
I don't see any reason why my LCS won't have this.
by guitarsmashley » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:10 pm
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by Stephen Day » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:14 pm
I'm an atheist, so I don't exactly care.
by guitarsmashley » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:49 pm
So am I, doesn't mean he doesn't hate you.
by Stephen Day » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:53 pm
Fair enough I guess.
I have to say, I am disappointed in him though.
by DeadFett » Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:16 amYou heathens are making Tim Tebow cry.
by Punchy » Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:46 am
I am honoured!
And Rucka's run was not all that.
by Stephen Day » Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:46 pm
Uhmm, I don't care what he thinks either.
By the way, who the hell is Tim Tiebow anyway?
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You'll care when you're burning in hell non-believer.
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by SilverPhoenix » Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:39 pmBatwoman #6
Wow, talk about a major disappointment. Usually I give my reviews an intro to help frame things into focus, but for this case, going right into the nitty gritty of this comic would serve the purposes of this review best. So what went wrong exactly? After reading this a few times, I can safely say that it was a number of reasons to pin this failure on.
From the minute Greg Rucka left and this title was announced, skeptics have questioned whether the story would suffer from not having his hand to guide it, and while the first 5 issues have proven to be (at the very least) a commendable job by both Williams and Blackman, everyone involved in the storytelling has missed the mark here and none of the problems have to do with what's written in the book. That's right ladies and gentlemen; Batwoman #6 has decent dialogue and does a decent job getting inside some of the supporting cast's head as they react to the events around them, the problem has to with the overall story structure.
As I was first reading this comic, I came away completely confused as to what was going on and it was only after reading the solicitation for Batwoman #9 (which comes out in May) that I got more of an understanding of what Williams, Blackman and Marts were going for. Being divided into 6 perspectives, this issue of "Batwoman" is divided into 6 major stories revolving around the main character's choice to join the DEO and her continuing quest to go after Medusa. With this being a 22 Page Comic (and thank god it was a 22 Page Comic, because if It weren't, this story would've suffered even futher) it would be quite a challenge to give make this comic work with all 6 stories going on at once, and if Batwoman #6 is any indication it'll continue to be a challenge. What we get is a comic that reads like a Mexican Jumping Bean as it feels like the majority of these stories aren't given enough time to resonate with the reader, because we need to jump to the next story to keep the pace going. What this adds up to a confusing mess to any new reader who dares pick up this comic off the rack, as they won't be able to make heads and tails of what's going on, nor will they be given any incentive to find out more, which is a no-no when a story frivously spends precious space on a sequence that takes up nearly 25% of the available space on a sequence that shows us that Batwoman now has Nano-Tube armor that seemingly protects her from everything short of nukes. It's that beautifully drawn sequence that sums up the bad decisions of the story structure in this comic.
When I first heard that Amy Reeder was going to be doing Batwoman art, I was freaking ecstatic. Her work on "Madame Xanadu" was a huge part of why the book is one of the underrated classics of the past decade and for the most part she hasn't lost a step here. Reeder's Fundamentals are some of the best in the game as her art helps the story flow along and her characters are some of the most detailed. It would be almost perfect if it had the same life that her Xanadu work had. I know this is going to sound so damn nitpicky, but as I was reading this issue, I couldn't help but feel that this lacked the same subtle layers that made her former work take a life of its own. Of course, such a thing is understandable considering that there are tighter deadlines to meet in this case, but like the work that preceded this current ongoing, it just feels like creative transcendence has been lost in the art as well.
My Final 22 Cents
As I sit down and finish off this review, I can't help but think that one of the hurdles new characters that the Big 2 face are the fact that they are rarely given the creative teams that can produce the classic stories that cannot be ignored by any aspect of the fandom. When you add that aspect with the near-fanticial obsession with nostalgia that has been weaved into the identity of this aspect of the Industry, it becomes very easy to see why things are the way they are. Batwoman's "Detective Comics" run stands out, because it's one of the few instances where a new character in this part of the medium had a story that cannot be ignored by the general Wednesday crowd. Batwoman #6 if nothing else will serve as a reminder of what Rucka's influence meant to this title and where his skills will be sorely missed. Here's to hoping that Batwoman #7 is better than this, because this definitely not a good impression of a character that can't afford too may bad impressions.
Final Judgment: 5
by Amoebas » Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:01 pmShit - this was my picked book and I haven't even read it yet. Nonstop biz-travel these last few weeks.
When I get home (finally) next week, I'll have one hellofa Box-O-Comics to open.
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Yahoo leads the e-mail market with over 250 million users, many of whom, by extension, probably use its other productivity apps like Yahoo Calendar. This is why Yahoo's acquisition of online collaboration suite Zimbra last fall made sense, as the company was obviously looking to step up its game with a more robust software suite for its products. Now that Yahoo Zimbra Desktop is in a public beta, we've gone hands on to see how Yahoo's first foray into desktop PIM is coming along.
Available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, Yahoo Zimbra Desktop is built on Mozilla Prism, a Google-Gears-like product that allows web apps to run outside a browser window and even when offline. This means that you get the full, familiar Yahoo Mail UI and functionality bundled in a window and integrated better with various OS features, which we'll get to in a minute. This also means that various functions typically respond ever-so-slightly faster than they do on the web, but for a cost: Yahoo Zimbra Desktop's installer is 40MB (on Mac OS X). Once the app is installed, it takes up nearly 170MB of space. It may be a small price to pay for some folks to gain offline Yahoo PIM access, but it could also be a nuisance to byte-pinching hard drive conservationists who don't want to give up the space.
On a strange side note, we only tested the Mac OS X client, but we found it very odd that the installer wanted to place the application in a subdirectory of the user folder. While it is true that most applications can run from almost any directory on a Mac, this is bad practice and may throw off any users looking to customize their backup routines. It's also just plain weird to require an installer for an app like this.
Once installed, the setup process for Yahoo Zimbra Desktop (yes, we're getting tired of typing all that, so we'll just call it YZD) is pretty simple. While Zimbra is owned by Yahoo and this app is marketed as a Yahoo desktop product, though, it includes easy setup templates for Gmail, AOL, and garden-variety POP/IMAP accounts. We stuck with setting up our Yahoo account and a second IMAP to test Yahoo Zimbra Desktop's prowess with outside accounts.
One of the most interesting aspects of YZD for current Yahoo users is that it's the first time the company has adopted the concept of IMAP e-mail for external client access. While Yahoo offered push e-mail for Apple's iPhone launch last year, the company has allowed only POP mail access for years, and even then, only to "Yahoo Mail Plus" customers who pay $20 per year. In light of competitors who have always offered free POP access, and now with Gmail doing free (though not quite perfect) IMAP access, it's good to see Yahoo joining the 21st century in this regard. We're a little disappointed, though, that IMAP wasn't opened up to any e-mail client, even with a "Plus" account. At least for now, the only way to harness all the wonders of IMAP with one's Yahoo account is to use YZD.
As far as e-mail goes, YZD performed well in our tests. Accounts can be set to check messages at typical intervals, and offline access works as advertised. We have over 1,000 messages in our IMAP (non-Yahoo) inbox, and they were all accessible when testing offline.
YZD fell a little flat, however, when it came to testing its other features with Yahoo's services. Yahoo Calendar events, tasks, and even contacts never synched for us. To be sure, this client may integrate better with a true Zimbra account for syncing all this information, but since we're testing beta 3 of Yahoo Zimbra Desktop, we expected more of a desktop experience that syncs with Yahoo's cloud since all these other features come along for the ride.
Complaints aside, there is still a lot of nice polish for both Windows and Mac OS X users. YZD supports mail and appointment notifications via popup and sound alerts, and the Dock icon on Mac and system tray icon on Windows will display a total unread count for all inboxes. Windows users can minimize YZD to the system tray, and both Windows and Mac OS X users can opt to have mailto: links create new messages in YZD instead of a traditional e-mail client.
For users of Yahoo e-mail, Yahoo Zimbra Desktop is a slick way to bring Yahoo's rich UI out of the browser and bring one's e-mail offline with IMAP syncing. If you're hoping for an Outlook-killer, however, you may have to wait at least until the beta badge is replaced by a shiny "1.0." We just hope Yahoo isn't taking any hints from Gmail's now-comical 4+ year beta cycle.