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t a key point in the action about three-quarters of the way through Tom Brown's Schooldays, the saintly young George Arthur asks Tom, "What were you sent to Rugby for?" His reason for doing so and Tom's response are both very interesting. He does so as part of his campaign to make Tom stop using cribs and vulgus-books handed down from schoolboy generation to generation because doing so, he realizes, defeats the educational and moral goals of Rugby: it is simply socially condoned cheating. On the one hand, this shows the once-frail Arthur, whom Tom had been charged to protect and guide, acting as guide and protector for Tom. On the other, it has a much broader social and political application for Hughes, the political reformer, since it provides an unexceptionable example of how even the most moral and high-thinking people accept evil, dishonorable practices when their own social group accepts them.
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The second point of interest comes in Tom's response to "What were you sent to Rugby for?" "Well, I don't know exactly," Tom says, "— nobody ever told me. I suppose because all boys are sent to a public school in England." Tom doesn't answer as many a modern North American or British student might, "My parents are getting divorced" (divorce wasn't really an option then), "I've gotten into too much trouble at home," or even "My parents told me that one has to go to a school like Rugby to maintain one's position in society" — or, if one is a member of the middle classes — "to get ahead, to network, to gain admission into a top university, to get a better job." Tom's answer instead shows how unreflective he is — Carlyle would have liked that — and that people of his class, the top 5-8% of people in England at best, are simply sent away to school. Elizabeth and Robert Browning, John Stuart Mill, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Ruskin weren't sent away, and they did fairly well, but none of them, of course, were of Tom's class.
At this point, George pushes harder, asking "But what do you think yourself? What do you want to do here, and to carry away?" Now that he is forced to think of it, Tom realizes he has several goals. And then he adds another.
Tom thought a minute. "I want to be A1 at cricket and football, and all the other games, and to make my hands keep my head against any fellow, lout or gentleman. I want to get into the sixth before I leave, and to please the Doctor; and I want to carry away just as much Latin and Greek as will take me through Oxford respectably. There, now, young un; I never thought of it before, but that's pretty much about my figure. Ain't it all on the square? What have you got to say to that?"
"Why, that you are pretty sure to do all that you want, then."
"Well, I hope so. But you've forgot one thing — what I want to leave behind me. I want to leave behind me," said Tom, speaking slow, and looking much moved, "the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one."
Tom, it turns out, wants to be a successful athlete, a proficient enough fighter to defend himself against any members of his own or the lower classes ("lout or gentleman"), do well enough academically to please Thomas Arnold and not embarrass himself at Oxford, and, finally, to establish a reputation at school as an honorable young man who never bullied anyone smaller than himself or acted in a cowardly manner toward anyone bigger. All theses goals chiefly involve matters of reputation, as if Tom belonged to what anthropologists term a primitive shame culture, rather than to a more advanced guilt culture — that is, to a culture in which morality and mores are a matter of what other people think than an internalized code of behavior. For most of the novel Tom really does belong to such a primitive culture, though when George Arthur leads him to pray in public, he takes the first steps out of it to a higher morality and spirituality. Only the last quality Tom names, despite its outward signs, is truly a matter of personal character. Recognizing that Tom is a better person than he himself realizes, George appeals to what the Victorians would have called his higher nature, telling him that "you're the honestest boy in Rugby," and using cribs "ain't honest." Difficult as it is, Tom resolves to try and do his translations honestly, using cribs properly only when he can't go any farther on his own.
This passage, which seems a more sophisticated version of a standard Victorian religious tract, has a central, though possibly misleading, role in the novel — central because Hughes does indeed believe that developing moral character must be the highest priority in educating young men, particularly men of the upper classes. The implicit anti-intellectualism of the passage (and the rest of the novel), like the narrator's earlier tirade against foreign travel, does not really represent Hughes's full beliefs. His Rugby students seem to learn nothing but reading and writing classical languages whereas in fact students during Arnold's time studied mathematics, geography, modern history, and other subjects, too! Hughes makes clear that these essentially uneducated young men go out to India and other parts of the Empire, and he seems to believe that if they have the kind of character to which Tom aspires, if they are like Tom and act bravely, refuse to bully those weaker than themselves, and when put to the test do the right thing, that will be a good start. One reason for such an emphasis, of course is that Hughes wrote Tom Brown's Schooldays for average young boys, not those with artistic, literary, or scientific gifts and interests. Here he shows the influence of Carlyle, who emphasized acting on behalf of others rather than navel-gazing, as well as his headmaster, the great reforming headmaster of Rugby. Furthermore, Hughes himself both is and isn't Tom Brown: Like the fictional Tom, he intensely admired Arnold, and one assumes with confidence that Tom's and the narrator's thoughts on returning to Rugby as an older man are his own. Nonetheless, Hughes, who helped found the Workingmen's College, and was long its principal, clearly believed education to be more than a matter of character development. Actual subject knowledge had the kind of importance to him that never appears in the novel.
In other words, like Ruskin and so many other Victorians, Hughes sometimes writes so powerfully in making a particular point that readers can easily mistake that point for his final word about a subject. Ruskin (who taught at Hughes's Workingman's College) defends Turner against charges that he hadn't studied nature enough, and he urges beginning artists to become students of nature, but he was hardly, as many have falsely concluded, a theorist of simple realism: he preferred Turner's late expressionistic visions of mist and fire, and much of his art criticism concerns pictorial composition and elaborate symbolic meanings. Similarly, writing for students, parents, and teachers, Hughes concentrates almost entirely on character development, but for him, like Ruskin writing on art, such development was just the first stage of education.
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Facebook opened up Open Graph tonight, its tool for letting third party developers share actions in your timeline. It announced 60 partners tonight, including AirBnB, Runkeeper, and Pintrest, and now it's open to developers everywhere. Basically, privacy is over.
Meet Microsoft's New Surface Laptops
What this means is the app-ification of your timeline. The new Open Graph tool will let developers plug into Facebook's social graph so users can share actions they are taking on other sites. Right now, you can see that when, say, someone listens to a song on Spotify. But with 60 companies doing all kinds of different things, and now it being open to anyone, pretty much anything we do online is going to end up on Facebook. Yay?
We'll have more on this after tonight's event wraps up.

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Official: 3 children die in Bronx fire after candle lit
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New York (CNN) -- A fire that swept through a Bronx apartment killing three young brothers was caused by a candle and occurred one day after the power company cut off electricity for unpaid bills, officials said Saturday.
A neighbor said she was in her apartment in the building on West 165th Street -- half a mile from Yankee Stadium -- when she heard the boys' mother, Tashika Turner, screaming "Fire!"
"She was yelling out the window," Cynthia Woods told CNN affiliate NY1. "She saw me and said, 'Fire!' So I ran upstairs to the apartment and I kicked the door open.
"I tried to go in and get the kids, because I could hear the kids hollering. But the fire was like real heavy, so I fell, and I couldn't get into the house to save the kids ... And I couldn't get them. I couldn't get the kids out. I heard them crying, and they were burning. I couldn't get them. I couldn't get them out. I tried."
Woods said she kicked the door so hard she fell back. When she finally forced it open, "the fire came out -- and all I could hear is them hollering. And I tried to go in, but I couldn't go in. There was so much smoke and fire. It was a big flame. The whole front, the kitchen, everything was on fire."
It took about 100 firefighters about 90 minutes to bring the two-alarm fire under control by 9:30 p.m. Friday in the six-story building, officials said.
By then, it was too late.
The boys -- Elijah Artis, 5; Jeremiah Artis, 2; and Michael Turner, 4 months -- were declared dead on arrival at Lincoln Medical Center, police said.
Hospital spokeswoman Nydia Negron said two children -- sisters ages 4 and 4 months -- were in stable condition in the intensive care unit; the mother was treated and released. Their mother -- whom Negron identified as Tashika Turner -- survived, too.
Fire marshals have determined the fire was accidentally "caused by a candle in the kitchen," FDNY spokesman Daniel Glover said.
Con Ed spokesman Allan Drury explained that the apartment's residents owed "a significant amount ... -- well into the thousands of dollars."
"We try to avoid turning service off to customers," Drury added. "We'll put them on payment plans to work with them to avoid turnoff, but this account had substantial arrears."
The fire occurred 180 feet from 1022 Woodycrest Avenue, a four-story building that caught fire in March 2007 when a space heater cord overheated, killing 10 people, nine of them children.
At the time, Mayor Michael Bloomberg called it the worst fire in New York City since the Happy Land social club -- also in the Bronx -- went up in flames in 1990, killing 87 people.


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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who has used high-strength cardboard tubes to make temporary housing for victims of natural disasters and refugees fleeing conflicts, on Monday was named the 2014 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's highest honor.
Sponsored by Chicago's billionaire Pritzker family, the annual award recognizes "consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture."
Those words resonate for Ban because his simple but spirit-lifting buildings have lent shelter and dignity to people who have suffered from civil war, genocide, earthquakes and tsunamis. He is the most socially-conscious architect ever to win the Pritzker Prize, first awarded in 1979, and the first to win largely on the basis of structures that are temporary, not permanent.
"Through excellent design, in response to pressing challenges, Shigeru Ban has expanded the role of the profession," said the citation from the eight-member Pritzker jury, which consists of architects and other experts in the field. Ban, the jury added, "has made a place at the table for architects" as part of the response to calamities.
The award, which comes with $100,000 and a bronze medallion, will be presented June 13 in Amsterdam. Ban is the seventh Japanese architect to win the prize. Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, two Japanese architects who work as partners, shared it in 2010.
Ban's selection comes after a year in which critics attacked the Pritzker Prize jury for not recognizing the role that women and teams of designers play in the field. Two students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design sparked the debate with a petition asking the Pritzker jury to retroactively recognize Denise Scott Brown, the wife and partner of the 1991 winner, Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi. The jury declined.
Ban, 56, a former member of the Pritzker jury, said he learned of the honor from Martha Thorne, the prize's executive director and a former architecture curator at the Art Institute of Chicago.
"It's a big surprise," said Ban in an interview from New York, where he has one of three offices (the others are in Toyko and Paris). "I got the phone call from Martha. And I thought she was just kidding me."
Raised by a father who worked for Toyota and a mother who designed high-fashion women's clothes, Ban experimented with paper tubes in a 1986 exhibition of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto's furniture and glassware at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The tubes formed an inexpensive alternative to costlier wood.
His first use of the tubes as a framework for temporary shelter came in response to the civil war and genocide that devastated the central African nation Rwanda in the 1990s.
Following the 1995 earthquake that hit Kobe, Japan, Ban designed temporary houses whose walls were made of cardboard tubes resting on foundations of sand-filled beer crates. Canvas formed the roof of the design, which was dubbed the "Paper Log House" because it resembled a log cabin.
Later, Ban helped organize a non-governmental organization, the Voluntary Architects' Network, which brings together people to design buildings for disaster victims as well as raise funds and provide materials for the structures.
"In the wake of his relief work at Kobe after the 1995 earthquake, Shigeru Ban gained a reputation as a man of action, his studio, the architectural iteration of Doctors Without Borders," Riichi Miyake wrote in the 2009 book "Shigeru Ban: Paper in Architecture," referring to the humanitarian group that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.
Ban's "Paper Log House" was modified to serve victims of a 1999 earthquake in Turkey and a 2001 earthquake in India.
His other disaster-related designs include courtyard houses for victims of the tsunami that struck Sri Lanka in 2004; an elementary school for Chengdu, China, after an earthquake hit that city in 2008; and a "cardboard cathedral" that replaced a religious structure destroyed by a New Zealand earthquake in 2011.
Ban's work extends beyond disaster-related designs to museums, experimental housing and office buildings. He designed a temporary office for his firm, built of paper tubes, on a top floor of the Pompidou Center in Paris, and a branch of the center in Metz, France. The jury cited his "exceptionally wide-ranging career."
Skeptics invariably ask Ban how his paper architecture stands up to the elements.
"Paper is an industrial material. It can waterproof and fireproof easily," he said. "It's very strong …. The strength of the building has nothing to do with the material. Even a concrete building can be destroyed by an earthquake."
A temporary Kobe, Japan, church that Ban designed after the 1995 earthquake was only supposed to last three years, he said, but it stood for 10 years and then was dismantled and rebuilt in Taiwan.
"As long as people love (a building)," he said, "it becomes permanent."
Previous Japanese winners of the Pritzker Prize are Kenzo Tange (1987), Fumihiko Maki (1993), Tado Ando (1995), Sejima and Nishizawa (2010), and Toyo Ito (2013).
Ban, like many architects, has visited Chicago and its architectural masterpieces, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in the city's far southwest suburbs. He's also a devotee of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Asked if his selection sends a broader message about the field, Ban replied: "Since I was active as a jury member, I know that we are supposed to choose great architects. That's why I was very surprised to be chosen …. This is (a) really big encouragement for me to continue for society in the disaster area."
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On the day of Margaret Thatcher's funeral, we publish this statement from the Liverpool Trade Union Council on the death of Thatcher. The city of Liverpool was hit particularly hard by the policies of Thatcher's government; but it was also at the forefront of the fight against the Tories in the 1980s, with the magnificant struggles of the Liverpool City Councillors.
On the day of Margaret Thatcher's funeral, we publish this statement from the Liverpool Trade Union Council on the death of Thatcher. The city of Liverpool was hit particularly hard by the policies of Thatcher's government; but it was also at the forefront of the fight against the Tories in the 1980s, with the magnificant struggles of the Liverpool City Councillors.
Margaret Thatcher died on 8 April 2013 and the vast majority of ordinary people greeted her passing with undisguised joy. The right wing media have tried to portray this response as the disrespectful behaviour of a minority. It isn't. It is a fitting response to the death of a Tory prime minister who spent the entire 1980s wilfully attacking the poor and the working class, in Britain and abroad.
During her reign countless people lost their lives directly as a result of her policies – miners killed on the picket lines, ten Irish prisoners driven to death on hunger strike by her refusal to recognise their human rights, sailors on the Belgrano torpedoed on her order as their ship sailed away from a war zone, people driven to suicide by her selfish economic policies that increased inequality massively in Britain.
And of course in this city 96 Liverpool supporters died at a football match. She was up to her armpits in a conspiracy to blame the victims and their families for a tragedy that her hateful policing policies caused. And we have only just got an official recognition of how this cover up increased the terrible suffering that the families and survivors of this terrible event have had to endure for 24 long years.
Did Thatcher mourn for her victims? No. And we don't mourn for her.
In Britain she destroyed industry after industry to break the power of the trade unions – in steel, in the mines, in the print and on the docks. She passed the most undemocratic and draconian anti-union laws in the west. She deregulated the banks and directly caused the regime of financial piracy that led to the recent financial crash.
Thatcher openly targeted our city – a city with strong trade union and socialist values – imposing savage cuts and then ousting a democratically elected Labour council that fought her. She launched her attacks on Liverpool after the Toxteth Rising in 1981, determined to make us pay for having fought back and determined to carry out a policy of the "managed decline" (her words) of our city.
After she had waged her neo-colonial war against Argentina in the Falklands/Malvinas in 1982 – a war designed to shore up Britain's military prowess on the world stage and protect the interests of Britain's bosses who could smell oil reserves in the South Atlantic and saw the islands as a potential future basis of operations – she returned to war on people she called "the enemy within", trade unionists, workers, poor people and above all the miners. After all, the excuse that Argentina was ruled by a dictator didn't wash given her lifelong support for the murderous General Pinochet in neighbouring Chile. This was a dictator she was happy to lavish praise on and arm to the teeth. He killed at least 30,000 Chilean trade unionists after his coup in 1973.
Thatcher spent untold millions killing Argentinians and then in 1984/85 bludgeoning British miners into submission after a year-long strike, and all for the same aim – to ensure that the country would be a land of plenty for the rich elite both at home and abroad. Mining communities were wrecked by her pit closure programme and criminalised by a police occupation of their villages when they fought back.
And having won both battles she went on, in her third term of office – to impose an unjust local tax on everyone – the poll tax. She brazenly piloted it in Scotland first in act of vengeful spite against a people who had rejected Toryism outright. This was one battle she lost as we fought back with all our might. Make no mistake, it may have been the Tory men in suits who moved against her in parliament, but they were only able to do it because we had made Britain virtually ungovernable through the great Poll Tax Rebellion.
During her time in office and even before she became prime minister Thatcher – who famously said, "there is no such thing as society" –did her best to harm all of those who stood for justice and equality. She took free milk away from schoolchildren. She sold off council houses creating a terrible shortage of affordable homes, she privatised industries and utilities so her loud mouthed mega rich friends in the City of London could make killing after killing on the stock markets. She closed down industries and then allowed a heroin epidemic to flourish in the ghost towns her policies had created.
She sponsored a wave of racism claiming Britain was being "swamped by immigrants" – and then unleashed a reign of racist terror by the police on black communities across the country, notably in places like Brixton and Toxteth. At the same time she propped up Apartheid racism in South Africa branding Nelson Mandela a terrorist to the very end. She used the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s as an excuse to attack lesbians and gay men, bringing the anti-gay law, Section 28. And in case students thought they were getting off lightly she laid the foundation stone of the long campaign to transform education from a right into a privilege for the rich by introducing student loans.
There is not one thing that Thatcher did that was good. Her life was a blot on our landscape. We are well rid of her – and we are outraged that at a time of major cuts in welfare she is being given a multi-million pound send off. What hypocrisy, what an insult to the poor of this country who are having to cope with the bedroom tax and the benefit cuts as over £10million is spent burying a person the majority of people in this country despise.
Which brings us to the main point we should all remember as she is dispatched – Thatcher may be dead but her legacy of sacrificing the livelihoods, the rights and communities of the working class on the altar of profit lives on in her descendants. Cameron and his gang of Etonian toffs are trying to finish off the job Thatcher started. It is our job to stop them and hurl Thatcher's legacy back in their face. Which is why on the day of her funeral Liverpool Trades Union Council renews its commitment to stopping the cuts, axing the bedroom tax, saving the NHS and supporting workers' struggles here, across the country and across the world.
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Patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treated with an experimental vaccine made from the patient's own resected tumor tissue showed an improved survival compared with historical patients who received the standard of care alone, according to an analysis of a phase 2 trial of this vaccine that was recently published in the journal Neuro-Oncology and accompanied by an editorial highlighting the importance of the trial.
A GBM took the life of former Senator Edward Kennedy in 2009. The most aggressive form of primary brain tumor, GBM tumors are often resistant to standard therapies and median survival is approximately three to nine months for a recurrent tumor.
"We are talking about fast-growing tumors that invade normal brain tissue and are very difficult to treat," said Orin Bloch, MD, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and lead author of the study. "These tumors occur in up to 23,000 Americans annually, and are typically treated with surgical resection of the tumor followed by chemotherapy and radiation treatment."
This phase 2 trial enrolled 41 adult patients with recurrent tumors between 2007 and 2011. Each patient received an average of six doses of the HSPPC-96 vaccine. Following treatment, 90 percent of patients were alive at six months and 30 percent were alive after one year. Further study will be needed to see if this vaccine could potentially be approved to treat recurrent brain tumors. Currently there are only a few approved therapeutic cancer vaccines, none of which are approved for the treatment of GBM.
While new findings continue to extend the lives of patients with glioblastoma, for the moment, it remains one of the most dreaded diagnoses because despite treatment, GBMs almost always come back, said Bloch.
"The grim prognosis is exactly why new research is important," said Bloch, who is an assistant professor of neurological surgery at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. "GBMs have been around for a long time, and still outcomes are poor. With studies such as this one, I believe we can change that."
The vaccine, HSPPC-96, is produced individually for each patient using that patient's own resected tumor tissue. Following the patient's surgery, the tumor is sent to the vaccine production facility at Agenus Inc., where the HSPPC-96 vaccine is created. The vaccine is unique to the individual participant and is engineered to trigger an immune system response to kill tumor cells that may remain following surgery.
Northwestern Medicine researchers are currently conducting the next phase of this research, a randomized phase II trial which will investigate if the HSPPC-96 vaccine is safe and more effective when given with Avastin (bevacizumab). Avastin is a drug that is known to shrink brain tumors and is a standard therapy for recurrent GBM.
"When it comes to brain tumor research, I picture our Northwestern Medicine team climbing a mountain and with every new discovery that shows the potential to prolong survival, we are establishing a new base camp," said Andrew Parsa, MD, PhD, corresponding author of the study and chair of neurological surgery at Northwestern Memorial and the Michael J. Marchese Professor and chair of the department of neurological surgery at the Feinberg School. "Someday, thanks to studies like this one, we'll get to the top of the mountain and convert this particular cancer into a chronic disease – something that patients can live with, controlled by medication."
The study, which is chaired by Parsa, is the largest randomized brain tumor vaccine trial ever funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The study is sponsored by the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (ALLIANCE), a cooperative group of the NCI.
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On a recent Saturday night at Citi Field, the Mets were getting killed. Down 5-0 in the top of the 9th inning, they had only one base hit, and were about to drop their third straight to the Yankees. In those three games, they had been outscored 29-1.
Late-night heroics didn't appear to be anywhere on the horizon, but the Mets broadcasting triumvirate of Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling were on TV, and—as has often been this case during this disappointing season—were picking up the slack.
Keith: Ahh-chooo!
Gary: Bless you.
Keith: Did you hear that? I put on my cough button!
Gary: You were a little late.
Keith: I was tardy?
Ron: Were you tardy?
Gary: Your sneeze was in the catcher's mitt.
Keith: It's one of those sneezes that sneaks up on you!
A minute passed, and Mr. Cohen said, "Do you have something in your hand, Keith?"
The camera turned to the Mets broadcast booth above home plate. There was Mr. Hernandez, glasses pinched at his nose like a librarian, but still unmistakably the former star Mets first baseman from the 1980s—bushy mustache, a jock's chest, dark hair, a head the size of a melon—holding a tiny silver box with a big red button in the middle.
The camera shot eventually turned back to the field. The announcers didn't.
Keith: You know what happened to me once? I pressed the wrong button, and I thought I had the cough button on and I didn't.
Ron: You pushed my button!
Gary: In other words, something went onto the air that wasn't supposed to.
Keith: It wasn't anything that got me into trouble.
Ron: On TV, Keith, you can say anything once.
Gary: Yeah, that's true.
Keith: Are you sure?
Ron: Yeah, I'm sure!
Gary: You can say whatever you want right now! We just might not see you tomorrow.
The old adage for a good broadcast is that when things are going well, it's like you're having a conversation with the viewer at home.
Keith and Gary and Ron have done just that over the past four years, for 60 games a season, and about another 90 games using some combination of two of them. But the viewer they're talking to is jaded, and cosmopolitan, and, not infrequently, a little bored with the Mets.
Keith and Gary and Ron don't pull for their team. They remark, cruelly and accurately, on the Mets' poor play. They voluntarily discuss the Mets' horrific collapses of the last two Septembers. They digress.
This wouldn't work in St. Louis, where approximately 100 percent of the supposed best fans in baseball wear red to the games, or on the North Side of Chicago, where there is a rich tradition of homerism in the booth. Nor would it work in the Bronx or in Boston, where the fans crave reinforcement of a smug certainty that their organization is different, and special, and superior.
What Keith and Gary and Ron do is something less obvious, and more difficult.
"They reflect the Mets fans' mentality," said Greg Prince, co-author of the excellent Mets fan blog Faith and Fear in Flushing. "Being a Mets fan is recognizing reality and accepting sometimes that things are too funny to be sad and sometimes too sad to be funny. It comes across in the three of them."
Back in the booth, Mr. Cohen took a stab at returning to baseball.
"The Mets are trying to avoid being one-hit for the first time in nearly three years," he said.
"We're trying to avoid the highlight of this program being the audio-box display," Mr. Darling responded.
IN MANY BOOTHS around the league, the announcers have clearly defined roles: The play-by-play man with a broadcast-ready voice stares at the field and describes what happens to the baseball. The ESPN (and former Mets) announcer Dave O'Brien is perhaps the model straight man: great, deep voice; no affect. Balls, strikes, hits, double plays.
The announcer next to him, almost always a retired player, explains why the baseball went where it went. Today's color analysts are typified by ESPN's Joe Morgan and (disastrously unsuccessful former Mets general manager) Steve Phillips. Too often, they are heavy on cliché and manufactured attitude, and light on original insight.
On the Yankee-owned YES Network, there is Michael Kay—a fast-talking, abrasive former newspaper reporter. He is usually put on air with people like David Cone and Al Leiter, former players who were beat-reporter favorites.
During a lull in a recent Yankees-Mets game, Mr. Kay, Mr. Cone and Mr. Leiter spent two minutes debating the designated hitter rule in earnest. It was nothing a 10-year-old fan wouldn't have heard a dozen times.
On Sports Net New York, the four-year-old network started by the Mets, Gary, Ron and Keith were talking, intensely, about the aesthetics of their favorite out-of-town scoreboards. It was strange and funny.
ALL THREE MEN are instantly familiar to Mets fans. Mr. Cohen, 51, has been the sharp, intellectual and crisp-voiced announcer for the Mets radio station WFAN since 1989; Mr. Hernandez, 55, and Mr. Darling, 48, were the star first baseman and a star pitcher, respectively, on that '80s team. Two-thirds of the booth attended Ivy League schools. (Mr. Cohen went to Columbia; Mr. Darling, a native of Hawaii, attended Yale until after his junior year, when he was drafted.) Mr. Hernandez was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1971, when he was 18, but affects the sardonic air of an intellectual hippie. He is from San Francisco.


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Diabetes: Differences Between Type 1 and 2
Topic Overview
In general, people with diabetes either have a total lack of insulin (type 1 diabetes) or they have too little insulin or cannot use insulin effectively (type 2 diabetes).
- Type 1 diabetes (formerly called juvenile-onset or insulin-dependent diabetes), accounts for 5 to 10 out of 100 people who have diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system destroys the cells that release insulin, eventually eliminating insulin production from the body. Without insulin, cells cannot absorb sugar (glucose), which they need to produce energy.
- Type 2 diabetes (formerly called adult-onset or non–insulin-dependent diabetes) can develop at any age. It most commonly becomes apparent during adulthood. But type 2 diabetes in children is rising. Type 2 diabetes accounts for the vast majority of people who have diabetes—90 to 95 out of 100 people. In type 2 diabetes, the body isn't able to use insulin the right way. This is called insulin resistance. As type 2 diabetes gets worse, the pancreas may make less and less insulin. This is called insulin deficiency.
How are these diseases different?
Type 1 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes
Symptoms usually start in childhood or young adulthood. People often seek medical help, because they are seriously ill from sudden symptoms of high blood sugar.
The person may not have symptoms before diagnosis. Usually the disease is discovered in adulthood, but an increasing number of children are being diagnosed with the disease.
Episodes of low blood sugar level (hypoglycemia) are common.
There are no episodes of low blood sugar level, unless the person is taking insulin or certain diabetes medicines.
It cannot be prevented.
It can be prevented or delayed with a healthy lifestyle, including maintaining a healthy weight, eating sensibly, and exercising regularly.
How are they alike?
Both types of diabetes greatly increase a person's risk for a range of serious complications. Although monitoring and managing the disease can prevent complications, diabetes remains the leading cause of blindness and kidney failure. It also continues to be a critical risk factor for heart disease, stroke, and foot or leg amputations.
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By Julhas Alam
A devastating fire raced through densely packed buildings in a centuries-old shopping district in Bangladesh's capital, killing at least 70 people, officials and witnesses said Thursday.
The fire in Dhaka's Chawkbazar area was mostly under control after more than 10 hours of frantic firefighting efforts. Some of the about 50 people injured were critically burned.
The district dating to the Mughal era 400 years ago is crammed with buildings separated by narrow alleys, with residences commonly above shops, restaurants or warehouses on the ground floors. Denizens of the Muslim-majority nation throng to Chawkbazar each year for traditional goods to celebrate iftar, the end of Ramadan.
"I was talking to a customer, suddenly he shouted at me: 'Fire! Fire!'" said Javed Hossain, a survivor who came to assess the damage to his grocery store Thursday afternoon. "I said 'Oh, Allah,' in a fraction of a second the fire caught my shop."
Hossain's brother took his hand and they leaped onto the street before the shop was engulfed in flames.
Outside the gutted store, the road was strewn with charred vehicles, pieces of still-burning metal and plastics and hundreds of cans of body deodorant.
The blaze started late Wednesday night in one building but quickly spread to others, fire department Director General Brig. Gen. Ali Ahmed said.
Many of the victims were trapped inside the buildings, said Mahfuz Riben, a control room official of the Fire Service and Civil Defense in Dhaka.
"Our teams are working there but many of the recovered bodies are beyond recognition. Our people are using body bags to send them to the hospital morgue, this is a very difficult situation," he told The Associated Press.
The fire services director, Maj. AKM Shakil Newaz, said 70 dead had been recovered and were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Ambulances were arriving carrying bodies, and relatives were mourning in front of the morgue.
First responders were delayed reaching the site in part because nearby roads were closed for national holiday commemorations on Thursday. Just after midnight as the fire blazed, Bangladesh's prime minister and president laid wreaths at a monument less than a mile (1.3 kilometers) away to commemorate protesters who died in a 1952 demonstration for the right to speak Bengali, the local language.
Fire officials said the road closures worsened traffic, slowing down some of the fire trucks rushing to the site.
Most buildings in Chawkbazar are used both for residential and commercial purposes despite warnings of the potential for high fatalities from fires after one had killed at least 123 people in 2010. Authorities had promised to bring the buildings under regulations and remove chemical warehouses from the residential buildings.
A government eviction drive in Chawkbazar and other areas of Old Dhaka was met with protests last May right before Eid, the beginning of Ramadan, by business owners and residents.
Dr. Md. Manjur Morshed, an assistant professor of urban planning at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology in Khulna, 173 miles (278 kilometers) southwest of Dhaka, said government regulations are routinely flouted in Chawkbazar.
"This is a historic area with a distinct culture," he said. "They are not really abiding by the government's rules."
Such tragedies are shockingly common in Bangladesh, where fires, floods, ferry sinkings and other disasters regularly claim dozens of lives or more.
In 2012, a fire raced through a garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, killing at least 112 people trapped behind its locked gates. Less than six months later, another building housing garment factories collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.
The death toll from the latest fire could still rise as the condition of some of the injured people was critical, said Samanta Lal Sen, head of a burn unit of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Sen said at least nine of the critically injured people were being treated in his unit.


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Dowel Pin Awareness
If you have heard of "dowel pin issues" on the 12 valve Cummins 5.9 with the P7100 Bosch injection pump then you may already have taken care of your truck. This dowel pin issue applies to all '89-'98 12 valve Rams with Cummins engines and many other non-Dodge Cummins 12 valve engines. If you have not heard of the issue, or you heard yet have done nothing and you are the owner of one of these vehicles, listen up. A dowel pin failure could destroy your engine completely or do no damage at all.
The aluminum front gear housing on the 5.9 Cummins is precisely located on the front of the cast iron engine block using dowel pins. The dowel pin is about 5/16 inch diameter by 3/4inch length made of steel. During engine assembly the dowel pins are driven into holes drilled in the block such that about half their length protrudes. Matching holes in the gear housing permit a precise fit of the housing the block. Several cap screws are used to hold the housing to the block. The problem with the dowel pin occurs because the hole in the aluminum gear housing was drilled through. During engine operation vibration could cause the dowel pin to work its way out of the hole and fall into the gear case. When the dowel pin falls, it can drop right to the oil pan or land in the gear housing, causing no damage at all.
On the other hand, the pin can be caught in the camshaft gear and forced into the aluminum gear housing, breaking out a big chunk of the housing which would cause a huge oil leak and an expensive, time consuming failure.
Worst-case failure is when the dowel pin goes between the cam and crank gears, or cam and injection pump gears, breaking the gear off the camshaft. The camshaft stops rotating instantly causing valves to stop operating, leaving some valves open and some closed. The crankshaft continues to rotate for a few seconds, slamming pistons into valves, and possibly ruining block, crank, rods, cylinder head, and valve train. Almost no reusable parts in this case, a complete engine swap could be required.
If you are the owner of one of these 12 valve 5.9 engines and you haven't taken preventive action, we suggest you take action before the vehicle strands you in a bad location and sticks you with an expensive repair bill. TST offers a "Dowel Pin Kit" that includes the parts you need to access the dowel pin, positively lock it in place so that it does not come out. Installing this kit requires removal of the engine fan shroud, fan, damper, and front gear cover to gain access to the dowel pin. Once the dowel pin is secured, a new crankshaft seal included in the kit is installed in the gear cover and all parts are reinstalled. This kit sells for $65 and takes about 4 hours to install. See DowelPina.pdffor complete installation instructions
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In late 2006 and continuing into 2007, Ghana experienced a major power crisis that caused planned power outages, also known as load shedding, with outages lasting up to 72 consecutive hours. Since then, Ghana has sought to strengthen its electricity sector. However, in spite of these efforts, power supply continues to be a challenge. For… Read more »
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Keeping Team Members Engaged in a Distributed Workplace: Initial Thoughts for Discussion
Organizations are a buzz with collaborative strategies. Increasingly, work environments are focusing on being team-oriented and enabling employees to establish and be engaged in organizational networks. While progress is being made, the picture is not totally rosy. It is not uncommon for members to find it difficult to stay engaged, to fully participate in an… Read more »
Conversations About the Future Systems Research
There is a long connection between Saybrook and systems conversations, which continues to this day. The semi-annual conversations have been hosted by the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR), and were historically known as the Fuschl Conversations (due to their location at Fuschl am See in Austria). Bela Banathy, the founder of the systems program… Read more »
Seeking a Global Future Beyond the Horizon of Conventional Rationality
Summer is approaching, my backyard has come to life with the lush greenery of late Spring in northeast Ohio, our youngest daughter just graduated high school, and as I take a moment to reflect, interrupting my accustomed pattern of research, gardening, and violin practice, it suddenly occurs to me: By this time next week I… Read more »
The T-Summit
I recently attended a meeting at the Almaden Research Lab near San Jose, CA. The T-Summit was jointly sponsored by Michigan State University's Collegiate Employment Research Institute and IBM's Global University Programs. As described in the announcement about the meeting: Employers are placing increasing importance on competencies that allow young professionals to handle information from multiple sources, advance professional relationships across… Read more »
Saybrook in Japan: An International Collaboration for Innovation in Applied Systems Science
I just returned from another trip to Japan, this time including a first visit to Osaka. The first few days were spent in Tokyo, at the seventh workshop and symposium about service systems science, hosted by Prof. Kyoichi (Jim) Kijima from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The purpose of the event was "to describe visions… Read more »
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Spam volumes have increased fourfold during the last six months, and the unsolicited -- and often malicious -- messages accounted for a discouraging 94.9 percent of all e-mail delivered so far in August, according to the most recent report (PDF) from online security company MX Logic.
"We don't anticipate any dramatic declines in volume or levels as spam remains a highly popular and profitable delivery mechanism for cyber criminals," according to MX Logic's September "Threat Forecast and Report." The report offers little hope for relief.
Health care was the most common category for spam in August. An increasing number of bogus pharmacies are using image spam, in which the message is included in an image rather in text in an effort to avoid spam filters.
"Although image spam is an old tactic, it's one that spammers like to resurrect occasionally," the report states. "Despite the debatable effectiveness of these campaigns, we don't expect image spam to completely disappear any time soon."
The lure of cut-rate, no-prescription pharmaceuticals appears to be powerful. Spam watchdog groups say that phony pharmacies predominate in online advertising delivered through Microsoft's Bing search engine. According to a report from the anti-spam site KnujOn.com and LegitScript.com, which validates legitimate pharmacies advertising online, nearly 90 percent of Internet pharmacy advertisements delivered on Bing.com that were reviewed were operating illegally.
"The majority of Internet pharmacy ads did not require a valid (or any) prescription," the report states. "We successfully attempted to test buy in two cases, receiving drugs in both cases that appeared to come from India." Some of the drugs received through the ads tested as counterfeits.
Microsoft responded to the report saying that the results were exaggerated and that it had manually reviewed and removed the offending ads. But KnujOn and LegitScript said later that a review of the search engine's advertisers showed that phony ads continued to appear.
MX Logic predicted that Internet pharmacy advertising will not be the only online threat generated by health care concerns.
"As the debate about U.S. health care reform continues to heat up, we believe there's a strong chance this will increase and we'll begin seeing forms of political 'hacktivism' impacting the performance and availability of popular social networking sites," the threat report warned. Attacks against social networking sites advocating either side of the debate could have ripple effects affecting the services hosting the sites.
Malicious e-greeting card notifications remained a popular type of spam in the last month, but phony UPS or DHL invoices were the most popular method for delivering malware directly, accounting for four out of five instances in which malware was attached to an e-mail.
The popularity of social networking sites has resulted in a number of high-profile attacks and exploits in recent months, and this trend probably will only escalate, MX Logic said.
"With the web of trust that users generally have with the people they are connected to on sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, we expect to see an increase in spam and malware disguised as messages from someone the recipient knows," the report states. "Given the popularity of these sites, we anticipate these types of attacks will increasingly become more sophisticated in common in the coming months."
The United States was the top source of spam over the past month, accounting for 13.3 percent, edging out Brazil with 13 percent. Other top sources were India, Ukraine and Poland.
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The public website will be undergoing a more extensive renovation between now and early 2013 to reorganize and revise the information on the website to align with our new academic model. This more extensive renovation will make it easier for prospective students to find the information they need on our degree programs, career outcomes, the admissions process and requirements, and financial aid options.


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You love booze. You love ice cream. Unfortunately, if you cram ice cream full of alcohol, it won't freeze. If only there were a way... THERE IS! Meet the ladies who cracked the code.
It's Friday afternoon, you've made it through the long week, and it's time for Happy Hour, Gizmodo's weekly booze column. A cocktail shaker full of innovation, science, and alcohol. Boo yah, let's get drunk.
Alcohol flavored ice creams are abundant: Bailey's, Guinness, Jack Daniels, Rum Raisin—they're everywhere. But none of them have any kick. Why? Because alcohol's freezing point is waaaaay lower than water's, which means that it's damn near impossible to get boozy ice cream to retain that lovely, semi-solid form we so adore. So there's no booze in them, which is STUPID.
Thank god for Valerie Lum and Jenise Addison, who figured out how to stabilize the alcohol using gelatin (look away, vegetarians). After countless nights of trial and error these two awesome women who should win Nobel Prizes have come up with a system that will allow you to incorporate a cup of 80 proof booze into a quart of ice cream. That nets ice cream that's approximately 13-percent alcohol by volume. Not bad! The duo came up with 50 recipes for boozy ice creams and sorbets in their book Ice Cream Happy Hour. We quite enjoyed making the frozen White Russian in the video above; here's what you'll need to make it at home:
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 1/2 cups heavy cream
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 packet (1 tablespoon) gelatin
• 1/4 cup cold water
• 2/3 cup cold (refrigerated) vodka
• 2/3 cup cold (refrigerated) Kahlúa
Oh, and here are a few important notes that didn't make it into the video:
• You want to scald the milk/cream/sugar mixture, not boil or simmer it. Overheating the milk may cause curdling.
• The reason for the tempering is that if you add the eggs to the hot milk too quickly they can cook, which would give you chunks of egg yolks in your ice cream. No bueno.
• Once the custard is made, you have to let it cool and set in the refrigerator for about 8 hours. Patience, my friend (or advanced planning, at the very least).
• The strainer is important, especially when you're transferring the booze/gelatin mix into the custard. Ideally, it won't have solidified much, but there will almost certainly be some very strong-tasting chunks that you don't want to end up in your ice cream.
• This stuff is ready to eat straight out of the ice cream maker, but if you want it to be a little firmer, then you can put it in the freezer for a bit, as in the video.
• You do not need some super expensive ice cream maker to do this. You can get the Cuisinart you see in the video for less than $70 on Amazon.
So that's it! Tune in to Happy Hour next Friday at 5pm EST, when I'll be showing you how to make a ridiculously potent topping for the ridiculously potent ice cream you just made. And for more ice-cream-that'll-fuck-you-up recipes, check out the book: Ice Cream Happy Hour. Only $11 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble (ebook versions, too)! You can also peep their Facebook page.
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Since 2010, solid state drive (SSD) prices have plummeted 300% since 2010, this year reaching what researchers call the magic price point of $1-per-gigabyte of capacity.
After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year, according to data from IHS iSupply.
The better deals for SSDs are now around 80- to 90-cents-per-gigabyte of capacity, though some sale prices have been even lower, according to Ryan Chien, an IHS SSD and storage analyst.
Oversupply of NAND flash memory is primarily behind the price drops over the past couple of years, but manufacturing is now more in line with demand and prices have begun to stabilize, Chien said.
Last year, SSD prices dropped 23%, according to commerce tracking site Dynamite Data.
Dynamite Data said it has monitored the price, rebate and stock status of more than 600 individual SSDs at hundreds of e-commerce merchants over the past three years. In August, it noted in a blog post that SSDs had finally broken the "magic" $1-per-gigabyte price point, proclaiming it "the new normal."
The average commodity SSD price was $3 per gigabyte in 2010, when capacities were rarely above 128GB.
"We first saw low-budget SSDs hit the $1 mark in April, with heavy mail-in-rebates," Kristopher Kubicki, chief architect at Dynamite Data, wrote in the blog post. "However, the industry has been very consistent and extremely fast in its direction. The bigger and newer players pushed the bottom quartile [price] from $1.5/GB to $1/GB in just four months!
"We're currently experiencing the fastest decline in SSD prices in three years," he added. "If history has anything to say, we will now see prices per drive stabilize and the size of the drives substantially grow over the next few years."
Storage and memory tracking site DRAMeXchange reported similar SSD price drops. As of November, it said SSD prices were down 24% from the beginning of 2012. At the same time, hard disk drive prices have remained "inflated" -- about 47% higher than they were prior to the 2011 Thai floods.
"Despite hard drive prices remaining high -- coupled with the continual decline of SSD prices -- the per-GB price of the largest capacity SSDs (300-600GB) are currently nine times more expensive than 500GB notebook hard disk drives," said DRAMeXchange analyst Jessica Chang.
SSDs today are far more reliable, have greater endurance and perform better (in some cases, two to three times better) than in 2009.
There are also new SSD categories. For example, hybrid drives combine NAND flash cache memory with a spinning disk in a hard-drive form factor. In addition, in adherence to Intel's new ultrabook computer specifications (PDF), manufacturers are beginning to produce laptops with two drive slots, one for a hard drive and the other for a low-capacity cache SSD that works with hard drives to speed up boot and application load times.
Even with the dramatic price drops, SSDs as aftermarket PC upgrades are still seen as niche purchases. "Though HDDs and DRAM are not sexy, they do far more aftermarket business than SSDs," IHS' Chien said.
When it comes to companies making and shipping consumer-grade SSDs through channel partners, Intel and Samsung continue to lead the market in the No. 1 and No. 2 spots, respectively. They are followed by OCZ, Micron (Crucial) and Kingston, according to Chien.
As for those shipping SSDs to system manufacturers of PCs, laptops and arrays, the top players are Samsung, Toshiba, Intel, Micron, and Sandisk. Shipments to equipment manufacturers will remain the dominant market for SSDs, Chien said.
"Samsung hadn't really been a big aftermarket SSD player until its 830 SSD came out; a combination of aggressive pricing and improved drive performance has catapulted it near the top fairly quickly," Chien said. "Intel drives are dependable, but not as fast; OCZ products have always struggled with reliability and the recent shakeups have not helped."
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Gmail's Streamlined Interface and Better Contact Manager
"Overall, there's now a smaller header area that puts the first message in your inbox about 16 pixels higher on the screen than before," explains Google.
Gmail's contacts section has also been redesigned to better integrate with Gmail. The updated interface supports keyboard shortcuts, saves the changes automatically, adds structured name fields and lets you sort contacts by last name. The notes field is now really big, but I don't think it deserves so much attention.
These features will be rolled out today to all Gmail accounts. The new Gmail contact manager won't be available in Google Apps right now, but it will be released in the near future.
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Funny, we saw some of this in the screenshot from the Chromium OS bug, from this gOS post.ReplyDelete
I've been using Google Contacts as my CRM exclusively for about two years, but the slow development was frustrating me. It's good to see that they've been working in the background.
The "Google Voice" under phones option is nice.
I do wish that "Tasks" was a full-screen instead of a pop-up
At this point, however, it's mostly cosmetic. Hopefully they'll add new functionality to contacts soon.
I think it looks like the internal news source (Upcoming Gmail Features) hit things pretty much right on the money.ReplyDelete
Now all I feel I'm missing (off the top of my head) is the Gmail/Google Voice VoIP phone icon and functionality.
Any word on when that will get put in?
Bueno, valió la pena aguantarse a gmail caído toda la mañana y parte de la tarde :PReplyDelete
Kind of a minor thing, but I like that Compose will now be a button instead of a link. A link implies a place to go, while a button implies action.ReplyDelete
I'm not seeing it yet, but that's no surprise.ReplyDelete
What I would like to see in the Contact manager is a more "social" way to link your friends. Couples and kids are the obvious ones, but I'm looking for something that more intuitively manages related groups of people - more intuitively than manually created groups I mean.
Great! The only inconsistency is that Buzz should be under Tasks or Mail, not below the Inbox as if it were part of Mail stuff. Otherwise, a nice improvement :)ReplyDelete
Does anybody know, what "File As" in contact menu is for?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 10, 2010 at 8:12 PM
Still not seeing the new interface updates here in Canada. Hope they are rolled out in the morning!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 10, 2010 at 8:46 PM
@roody102: I don't see that option in the new Contacts page. Where is it?ReplyDelete
BTW, love the skyscraper photo on your blog :-)
@ jasonvaritekfanL It's in "Add" dropdown menu, when You edit any contact.ReplyDelete
The skyscraper is not a photo - it's only a computer picture (the one in the middle). The text is about problems with builiding permitions. It's Daniel's Libeskind project in Warsaw, Poland.
I see no ability to delete or rename contact's group anymore.ReplyDelete
Select a group, click on "More options" and you can rename it or delete it.ReplyDelete
One thing I'm missing is the dynamic search, which was a nice feature for me and it took me a while to figure the pagination :).ReplyDelete
I noticed something else, which I could not find before and I was really hopping they will incorporate. Under chat, you search for a contact and under Video&More you have contact details now – nice. You have to move just to one page.
Oh, I haven't noticed that :) Thanks, Alex!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 2:13 AM
Ok now:ReplyDelete
1) Move up Buzz with Mail/Contacts/Tasks
2) Change to a fullscreen Task Manager
3) Add a fullscreen simple "Notes" manager (with a link below tasks)
That would make me very very very happy
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 2:41 AM
Can´t believe that there is no sync between Google contact picture and picasa name tag thumbnail ?!?!?!?ReplyDelete
Contact thumbnail on first side would be nice
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 3:14 AM
Does GMail still rely on Adobe Flash for some parts (sounds, attachments) ?ReplyDelete
As usual, paying Google Apps customers get the new features last … :(ReplyDelete
Amen Martin from another Google Apps user.ReplyDelete
One thing I would really like to see in Google Contacts is the ability to share contacts - either the whole address book or the option to share a group or even an individual contact with another GMail (or Google Apps) user. Take it one step further and specify what edit permissions other users have, similar to what you have in Google Docs. I could see this being very useful in maintaining a customer file between multiple users. Everyone would (in theory) have the most up to date info and each person could update the notes section of the contact record.
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 5:24 AM
Great to see that First Name / Family Name fields are now available in Contacts... overall nice clean up for both Gmail and Calendar.Looks great!ReplyDelete
Would it be possible to allow for the Drag and Drop of the "modules" on the left side to the right side...
Yahoo has infinite In Box for their email service...how about and even 10Gb for Gmail?
Google Notebook, I really enjoy using it... please bring back support for Google Notebook!
Cool, I see I can add relationships to a person. Although it doesn't link them to that person if they're in my contacts too. And some of those relationships could use dates (like adding a Spouse should add a "Wedding" or Anniversary date and apply it to both - if they're both contacts). But I like where Contacts is going!ReplyDelete
Argh, I just noticed that the select: "all, none, read, unread..." buttons have been moved to a drop-down. Somewhat irritating to have to use an extra click each time I want to change selections.ReplyDelete
"file as" ?ReplyDelete
why in the world would this not be linked with google voice so that one could call a contact directly without having to jump to another contact list?ReplyDelete
@tom It's a Microsoft Outlook thing (maybe others too). You could File As: First Last; or Last, First; or Company Last, First; or ...ReplyDelete
And then if you sync to a PDA or phone that doesn't have as many fields as Outlook it will use the File As for a simple Name & sorting field.
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 6:23 AM
The search-as-you-type feature in Contacts is gone. It was never available in Apps anyway, but it was convenient to have at least in gmail. Hey, Gmail team, how about putting it back? :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 6:44 AM
@roody102; @tom: I have no idea what File As does. I tried editing a contact and once I was done, I had no idea where that contact went! LOL It was removed from my Contacts list and I had to go search for the contact and remove what I had entered in the File As field to get that contact back on the list.ReplyDelete
I think Schulzter might right.
@roody102 -- Re: the skyscraper. I thought it was a real building. It looks cool.
@Alex: Thanks for the tip on renaming a group. I'm still getting used to the new Contacts layout.
Its just a feedback to the new design.ReplyDelete
I love the new design, but found one small error(according to me),
The "Compose mail" button has small 'm' in mail.
Which is inconsistent to "Search Buzz", "Sent Mail" , "Send Invite".
They may want to change it to capital M :-)
I Still don't have interests over the streamlined gmail interface... My friends and coworkers use facebook a lot and if only they can integrate it to gmail then it's much easier for me to get a solid contact listReplyDelete
Whew! I just noticed a very interesting and weird thing: I added a Google Voice number to a contact in Gmail, and when I went to see that contact in the contacts in Google Voice (which is, as a matter of fact, not yet updated) that number automatically appears labeled as GrandCentral!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 7:49 AM
Contact's thumbnails must be sync with picasa's thumbnails !! Easy to do and very usefull, so please do it Google :) . And even possibility to add contact's thubs from picasa PRIVATE albums (not only public albums !)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 7:52 AM
The "Mail" and "Inbox" link points to the same thing, which is inbox, y do we need redundancy???ReplyDelete
Why doesnt gmail gives a proper drop down specifically for label, like they have done for "Mail"
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 7:57 AM
Love it!ReplyDelete
Size of chat: tiny, small, etc.
There's no option for either Online or Offline? Common sense...
Thanks :)
The "mail" and "inbox" links point to different things. "Mail" sends you to the most recent Gmail page you've visited before switching to the contacts app: it could be the inbox, one of your labels, a message etc.
Yes, there is. It's called "sign out of chat".
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 8:11 AM
Sorry, I mean if you can sort contacts by Online/Offline, instead of -Tiny, Small, Medium, Large- :) ThanksReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 8:30 AM
Really not liking the field size for the phone numbers. Most of my contacts have area code listed with them ie. 123-456-7890 or 1(123)456-7890 and the last digit of the phone number is being cut off. I can see it if I click on the number and scroll right, but thats annoying.ReplyDelete
What @GRC said. You can use Google Apps to set up sharing, but it makes so much more sense to share them like Google Docs.ReplyDelete
Also, the Groups menu has been improved with check boxes. But if you have more than just a few groups it becomes a scrolling menu, which is a pain.
A couple more things I'd like to see:ReplyDelete
1) a flag for the default e-mail address (I keep outdated addresses on file for a contact so I can keep their conversations grouped together but I never want to send an e-mail to that address again).
2) Move the Compose button to the header above the e-mails, where all the other buttons are!
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 3:34 PM
@alex chitu, i agree what u say, but still, dont you think its redundant, cuz anyways, u have to click once to go to any other page..... i seriously dont see, how's that gonna help me better?ReplyDelete
I absolutely agree with the Anonymous person higher above who said:ReplyDelete
Ok now:
1) Move up Buzz with Mail/Contacts/Tasks
2) Change to a fullscreen Task Manager
3) Add a fullscreen simple "Notes" manager (with a link below tasks)
I would add - use the (allegedly discontinued) Google Notebook for #3!
That would make so much sense!
Super ! c'est mieux ainsi !ReplyDelete
@vacilando, YesReplyDelete
How do I browse my contacts by group now? If there is a way in which to select a group instead of searching for it, let me know. If not, this refresh was wiped down with a sour rag and the stench lingers.ReplyDelete
Im using HTML in google crome,what good is Gmail If yur missing,ReplyDelete
missing add a contact,missing contact manager button, missing Import & Export button.
Note! Google is directing me to HTML.
And standard http will not boot up.
What's Googles problem! NOW.
I put high value on the Notes area. In Outlook I used this space for client notes, it often got quite long. Google, I'd like to see Notes support links.ReplyDelete


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Florida A.D. takes issue with reports on Aaron Hernandez's past
As the investigation continues into whether New England tight end Aaron Hernandez played a part in the death of Odin Lloyd, talk has increased that the Patriots should have stayed away from Hernandez in the 2010 NFL draft because of his checkered history at Florida. Now Florida's athletic department is taking issue with that talk.
Responding to a flurry of reports citing NFL sources that said Hernandez was a trouble-maker at Florida and that NFL teams that did their homework steered clear of him, Florida Athletics Director Jeremy Foley told al.com, "The information from the NFL sources is wrong."
Although that statement is direct, it doesn't really clear much of anything up: Which information is wrong? The report that Hernandez failed numerous drug tests at Florida? The report that NFL teams were concerned Hernandez might have gang ties? The report that Hernandez was questioned about a shooting while he was at Florida?
In a more specific denial, Steve McClain, senior associate athletics director, texted al.com: "I would go on record saying he didn't fail six drug tests (at Florida)." That raises an obvious follow-up question: If he didn't fail six drug tests, how many drug tests did he fail? That question remains unanswered by Florida officials.
Hernandez missed one game during his time at Florida, and he has said that was because of a suspension for a failed drug test. Other than that one-game suspension, Hernandez was a student-athlete in good standing during his time as a Gator. Which might mean he generally stayed out of trouble in college, or might mean that if you can help the Gators win games, Florida officials are willing to look the other way.


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Moving governance of tribal areas in central India from the Fifth to the Sixth Schedule will help address the demand for autonomy
The targeted attack by Maoists in Chhattisgarh against the State Congress leadership in which V.C. Shukla, Mahendra Karma and the party's other top leaders were killed has rekindled a familiar debate on the military aspects of counterinsurgency. However, the continuing cycle of violence in the State underscores the need for a closer examination of the social and political impact of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution through which the tribal areas of peninsular India are governed.
India's population consists of 100 million tribal people who have constitutionally been addressed via two distinct avenues. The Fifth Schedule applies to an overwhelming majority of India's tribes in nine States, while the Sixth Schedule covers areas that are settled in the northeastern States bordering China and Myanmar. Bastar district in Chhattisgarh is governed by the Fifth Schedule, but it wants to move into the Sixth Schedule.
The Sixth Schedule gives tribal communities considerable autonomy; The States of Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, and Mizoram are autonomous regions under the Sixth Schedule. The role of the Governor and the State are subject to significant limitations, with greater powers devolved locally. The District Council and the Regional Council under the Sixth Schedule have real power to make laws, possibility on the various legislative subjects, receiving grants-in-aids from the Consolidated Fund of India to meet the costs of schemes for development, health care, education, roads and regulatory powers to state control. The mandate towards Devolution, deconcentration and divestment determines the protection of their customs, better economic development and most importantly ethnic security.
The Fifth Schedule on the other hand fails because it has never been applied. Recent parliamentary moves to provide greater autonomy within the Fifth Schedule have not had the desired results. The 1996 PESA or Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act should have been a landmark for the tribal communities. It mandates the state to devolve certain political, administrative and fiscal powers to local governments elected by the communities. This became exclusive to the Fifth Schedule areas, to promote tribal self-government. PESA was meant to benefit not only the majority of tribals but also extended to cover minority non-tribal communities. It guarantees tribes half of the seats in the elected local governments and the seat of the chairperson at all hierarchical levels of the Panchayat system.
Samatha judgment
PESA was considered the most logical step in the Fifth Schedule areas to ensure tribal welfare and accountability. But, alas, it has not been properly implemented. Tribal communities have progressively been denied self-government and rights to their communities' natural resources that should have been provided under the legislation. In its 1997 Samatha decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fifth Schedule enjoined Governors to bar purchase of tribal land for mining activity by any entity that was not state-owned. This judgment however, led to an opposite reaction from the Ministry of Mines, and subsequent appeals from the Andhra Pradesh government claiming that Samatha would have an adverse effect not only on the mining sector but also on non-agricultural activities especially industrial activity and hence would impact the economic development throughout the country. In response, the Governors were then given unfettered authority in the transfer of Scheduled Tribe land to the government and allotment to non-tribals, altering the balance of power and undermining the stated goal of tribal autonomy.
Other examples abound, including the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Rights Act of December 2006, which ostensibly recognises the right of communities to protect and manage their forests (as does PESA), but only if the state decides whether a certain region is denoted as Village Forest or Reserved Forest. In this process, many communities are evicted without a proper channel of rehabilitation.
For these reasons, it is evident that PESA and the Fifth Schedule have been counterproductive, inconsistent in addressing issues regarding tribal rights and the propensity of failure justifies serious debates on the existing endeavours.
Many tribal voices are therefore demanding introduction of the Sixth Schedule in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district, which would give them a special status to participate directly in governance as in the North East States currently under the Sixth Schedule.
Furthermore, the Sixth Schedule has certain features that can be implanted in any governance model for tribal areas, particularly concepts of constitutional and legislative subjects that are exclusive to local governments. An autonomous district council will give greater role in directing administrative requirements without depending on the Central State structure.
However, the working of a system is always different from the Idea of it. The Sixth Schedule that embodies autonomy has its own shortcomings; breakdown of laws, elections not being contested, rather than empowerment there is exclusion that fails to provide much-needed protection to tribes in the absence of political will, and, live by the mercy of government funds.
But in spite of the negatives underlying the Sixth Schedule, Bastar district envisages a true form of local bodies like the District Council and Regional Council that have provided a fair degree of autonomy.
(Sonum Gayatri Malhotra is with the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.)
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For Immediate Release, July 8, 2009
Contact: Rebecca Noblin, (907) 274-1110
Polar Bears Poisoned by Pesticide Pollution:
Lawsuit to Be Filed to Force EPA to Protect Arctic From Pesticide Contamination
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Today the Center for Biological Diversity notified the Environmental Protection Agency of its intent to file suit against the agency for failing to consider impacts to the polar bear and its Arctic habitat from toxic contamination resulting from pesticide use in the United States.
Pesticides approved by EPA for use in the United States are known to be transported to the Arctic via various atmospheric, oceanic, and biotic pathways. Such pesticides are biomagnified with each step higher in the food web, reaching some of their greatest concentrations in polar bears, the apex predators of the Arctic.
Pesticides and related contaminants have been linked to suppressed immune function, endocrine disruption, shrinkage of reproductive organs, hermaphroditism, and increased cub mortality in polar bears. Human subsistence hunters in the Arctic, who share the top spot on the food web with the polar bear, also face increased risks from exposure to these contaminants.
"The poisoning of the Arctic is a silent crisis that threatens not just the polar bear, but the entire Arctic ecosystem, as well as the people and communities that live within it," said Rebecca Noblin, with the Center for Biological Diversity in Anchorage. "Because the polar bear sits at the top of the food pyramid, if we do what is necessary to protect the bear from pesticides, we will also be protecting the Arctic ecosystem and the people that depend upon it."
All pesticides in the United States must be registered by the EPA before they can be lawfully used. Courts have held that the agency must examine the impacts of any pesticide it approves on species protected under the Endangered Species Act. The polar bear was formally listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act on May 15, 2008 following a petition and litigation by the Center for Biological Diversity, but the EPA has yet to examine the impacts of any approved pesticide on the species.
"The United States has lagged far behind the international community in taking action to protect the species and people of the Arctic from contaminants," said Brendan Cummings, a senior attorney at the Center. "But with the listing of the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, the EPA now has not just the opportunity but the legal obligation to take meaningful steps to address the poisoning of the Arctic."
The IUCN's Polar Bear Specialist Group, comprised of the world's leading polar bear scientists, met last week in Copenhagen and highlighted adverse health impacts from contaminants as one of the leading threats to the polar bear in its summary of the meeting.
In addition to pesticide contamination and loss of sea-ice habitat from global warming, polar bears face threats from increased oil and gas development in their habitat and the proliferation of shipping routes in an increasingly ice-free Arctic. These activities bring heightened risk of oil spills and rising levels of noise pollution and other kinds of human disturbance.
Today's 60-day notice of intent to sue is a legally required precursor before a lawsuit can be filed under the Endangered Species Act to compel the EPA to comply with the law.
While today's action marks the first legal challenge to pesticide registrations due to their impacts on the Arctic, the Center has brought several successful lawsuits against the EPA over the impacts of pesticides in the lower 48 states. In 2006 the Center reached a settlement with the agency over the use of 66 pesticides in the habitat of an imperiled amphibian in California, while last week, as a result of a settlement of another Center lawsuit, the EPA proposed restrictions on 74 pesticides due to their impacts on 11 threatened and endangered species in California.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with 220,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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