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The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Buccaneers, but Bucs is also acceptable.
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The ETSU men's basketball team only added to its rich history of success during the 2009-10 season, capturing its second straight Atlantic Sun Conference Championship and earning the program's ninth trip all-time to the NCAA Tournament ... Posting the program's fourth 20-win season in the past seven years, the Bucs overcame multiple challenges during the season before dropping Mercer in the A-Sun finals ... The Bucs were led by a team of "role" players that included forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston), guard Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.), guard Micah Williams (Manchester), guard Adam Sollazzo (Tampa, Fla.), post Isiah Brown (Miami, Fla.), and post J.C. Ward (Marietta, Ga.) ... Hubbard finished the year as a second team All ASun player after leading the Bucs in both scoring (13.9 ppg) and rebounding (8.2 rpg), and was named to the league's All-Tournament squad ... Meanwhile, Williams finished the year on a tear, scoring in double figures in 11 straight games, including a 32-point effort against Campbell en route to being named the A-Sun Tournament MVP ... Only losing senior guard Jocolby Davis off the roster from 2009-10, the Bucs will add Smith back to the mix after receiving a medical redshirt a year ago, and a trio of incoming recruits will also add to the talent pool.
The series versus Northeastern
This will be the first ever meeting between Northeastern and ETSU.
Last time out
CANCUN, Mexico (Dec. 22, 2010) - Faced with a matchup against one of the nation's best teams in numerous statistical categories, the ETSU men's basketball team's second half rally came up a little short as Conference USA member Southern Miss dropped the Buccaneers 64-60 in the first round of the Cancun Governor's Cup Wednesday afternoon inside the Poliforum Benito Juarez. ... The Bucs, who trailed by 14 at halftime but were able to get within two points late in the second half, fell to 4-6 on the year. Meanwhile, Southern Miss - a preseason favorite in Conference USA - improved to 8-1. ETSU will now play Northeastern at noon (EST) on Thursday in the second round of the Cancun event. ... The Bucs had some significant positives in the game, such as outrebounding the Golden Eagles 37-35, as Southern Miss came into the game leading the nation in total rebounding. In addition, the Bucs outscored the Golden Eagles 41-31 in the second half. ... Both teams struggled offensively over the first 13 minutes of the game, and ETSU ultimately trailed just 13-12 with 7:52 left before the break. However, at that point Southern Miss' LaShay Page scored eight straight points and helped the Golden Eagles outscore the Bucs 20-7 to build its 33-19 edge at the intermission. ... Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) was the story of the second half for the Bucs, scoring 14 straight points in one stretch, which took a 41-25 deficit and made it 46-39. The ETSU run was eventually 20-7 and made it a 48-43 game with just under 11 minutes left in the contest. ... Unfortunately for the Bucs, Southern Miss answered at that point with a 6-0 run of its own to make it 54-43 with seven minutes left. ETSU did not go away, however, keeping the pressure on and going on a 10-2 run to make it 56-53 at the 1:27 mark. ... Southern Miss got the advantage back out to 60-53 with just 44 seconds remaining, but the Bucs made one last run capped by a deep three from Micah Williams (Manchester) with six seconds left to make it 62-60. However, the Bucs fouled the Golden Eagles' Angelo Johnson at that point and he hit both foul shots with six seconds left, as the Bucs were unable to pull off the miracle. ... For ETSU, Williams led the way with 16 points, while Tubbs finished with 14 and senior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) had 13. Southern Miss got a game-high 19 points from Gary Flowers, while D.J. Newbill had 11 and Page had 10. Flowers also grabbed 10 rebounds to post a double-double. ... Buc Bits: The games for the Cancun Governor's Cup are being played on the home floor of Cancun's FIBA professional team - the Cancun Pioneros � The Bucs were without the services of 6-foot-8 junior forward Curtis Wilkinson (Bude, Miss.), who has been back in the United States due to a family illness.
ETSU in "exempt" holiday events
The Bucs have played in four previous holiday tournaments over the last seven seasons, and have had mixed success ... ETSU is 4-8 in those events, but have enjoyed solid wins such as a victory over SEC foe Georgia in the 2007 Rainbow Classic ... Georgia went on to win the SEC Tournament that season.
2003 (Rainbow Classic) -- 1-2
2006 (South Padre Island Invitational) -- 1-2
2007 (Rainbow Classic) -- 1-2
2008 (Charleston Classic) -- 1-2
"Big 3" hitting on all cylinders key to Bucs' success
Coming into this season, the Bucs were counting on quality offensive production from their "Big 3" senior guards in Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.), Justin Tubbs (Trussville, Ala.) and Micah Williams (Manchester) ... All three have had double-figure scoring seasons in the past, and expectations were for much of the same in 2010-11 ... However, so far this season, five of the Bucs' six losses have coincided with poor output from the trio ... In fact, when all three score in double figures, the Bucs have won each of those games (Tennessee Tech, Milligan and Dayton) ... But when one or two is having an off night, the Bucs have lost each of those games. Here is a breakdown:
Game Smith Williams Tubbs
Kentucky 15 7 2
Murray State 10 8 2
Tennessee Tech 26 10 13
Milligan 13 17 11
Dayton 17 16 26
USC Upstate 15 11 3
Charleston 9 16 2
Mississippi State 20 18 8
Mississippi 18 2 9
Southern Miss 13 16 14
Plans, trains and automobiles await Bucs
The Bucs find themselves in the midst of a month-long road trip that will see the team play a total of eight games away from the ETSU/MSHA Atheltic Center ... Trips to Dayton, Ohio, Charleston, S.C., Starkville, Miss., Oxford, Miss., and Cancun, Mexico await ... In all, the Bucs will travlel 3,776 miles by bus and 1,906 miles by plane during this time ... In total, it will amount to 5,682 miles and 67 hours/33 minutes of travel time.
Bartow among best in the country over last
five years
When looking at coaches across the country, ETSU head coach Murry Bartow stands among a select group ... Of those coaches that have been at their current school for at least five years, only 24 have averaged better than 20 wins a season ... That list includes coaches such as Dayton's Brian Gregory, Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, UConn's Jim Calhoun, Florida's Billy Donovan, Michigan State's Tom Izzo, Duke's Mike Kryzewski, Louisville's Rick Pitino, Kansas' Bill Self, Maryland's Gary Williams and North Carolina's Roy Williams ... The list also includes Bartow, who is average 20.2 wins a year since 2005-06.
Bucs help bolster A-Sun to strong RPI standings
With a pair of signature wins already this season, the ETSU men's basketball team - along with other members of the Atlantic Sun Conference - is doing its part to put the league in some impressive company on the national hoops stage. ... With wins over Atlantic 10 Conference stalwart Dayton and Southeastern Conference West Division favorite Mississippi State, the Buccaneers have helped the A-Sun generate plenty of waves across the board in the national RPI rankings. As a result, one month into the 2010-11 NCAA men's basketball season, the Atlantic Sun Conference is ranked ahead of other mid-major leagues including the Southern, Ohio Valley, Big South, West Coast, Mid-American, WAC and Sun Belt. ... The A-Sun remains among the top half of the conferences in the country. CollegeRPI.com ranks the A-Sun 14th, immediately behind the Horizon, Conference USA and Missouri Valley, and ahead of the conferences mentioned above. Against the Southern, Big South, Sun Belt and Ohio Valley conferences, the A-Sun owns a 15-8 mark. ... The conference has more than held its own against the BCS conferences. With ETSU's win at Mississippi State, the conference grabbed its fifth win against the "Power-6" leagues. No conference eligible for consideration for the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 poll owns as many BCS wins as the A-Sun. The five wins represent the most for the league since they also picked up five wins in 2007-08.
ETSU "only" A-Sun team picked among nation's
best "Prestige" programs
Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball - marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 - the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to ESPN.com's "Prestige" ranking released back in 2008 ... Since that time, the Bucs have only added to their list of prestigious honors � The Buccaneers, who have enjoyed nine NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT berth, 10 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85, ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as other major programs such as Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.


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I'm not facing too much of a coming out process here, in that my family has much more trifling matters on hand to deal with.
I like NOFX's atheist punk rock and my bible is Hamlet.
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RoboCop (UK - BD RB)
Chris Gould dips his toes in the Blu-ray waters with Fox's release of RoboCop
Paul Verhoeven's satirical, ultra-violent (by 1987 standards) movie about a cop gunned down in the line of duty and subsequently resurrected as a crime-fighting cyborg is one of my all-time favourites. I've previously reviewed both the Criterion and MGM releases of the film, so I'll dispense with the lengthy recap and instead offer a brief synopsis for the uninitiated.
RoboCop tells the story of Alex Murphy, an honest cop transferred from his cushy post in Metro South to the horrors of the Metro West district. No sooner have Murphy and his new partner Lewis geared up, they are thrust into a high-speed shootout with an armed gang led by Old Detroit's unofficial crime boss, Clarence Boddicker. After tracking the gang to an abandoned steel mill, Murphy is caught by surprise and sadistically tortured before being shot in the head and left for dead.
Seeking a subject for their new crime-prevention program, corrupt mega-corporation OCP resurrects Murphy as a cyborg known as RoboCop and sets him about the task of cleaning up the city. However, it's not long before RoboCop begins to remember his past life and starts out to track down and bring to justice those responsible for his death, while at the same time trying to come to terms with the loss of his humanity.
I was pleasantly surprised to find the director's cut of the film on the disc, which features approximately a minute's worth of footage that was cut from the theatrical version to obtain an 'R' rating. In particular, watch out for ED 209's first appearance in the OCP boardroom, which is an excellent example of the black humour found throughout the film, and Murphy's very graphic death at the hands of Boddicker's gang.
This Blu-ray edition of RoboCop is presented as a 1080p/24 MPEG-2 encoded transfer at its theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Before I go on I have to state that I'm basing the MPEG-2 information on the US release of the film, which looks to be identical to this one. Unfortunately the check discs I receive for review rarely include press releases with detailed specs, and I don't have a BD drive in my PC to allow me to check them out for myself.
I can be more confident when discussing the aspect ratio, which is sure to be a bone of contention. Back in 1999, Criterion released Paul Verhoeven's 'Director's Cut' of the film at his preferred ratio of 1.66:1. That particular transfer opened the image up somewhat, but its non-anamorphic nature resulted in a fairly weak presentation. However, many people still prefer it to the anamorphic transfers that followed, which were either 1.78:1 or 1.85:1 and had slightly different colour timing. Personally I'm of the opinion that, while Verhoeven prefers the 1.66:1 ratio, the film was theatrically exhibited at 1.85:1 and that should be considered the OAR as it is how most people would have originally seen it.
Obviously RoboCop was a low-budget movie to begin with, but the image presented here belies those humble origins. The increased resolution allowed me to pick out previously unseen detail (such as the lettering on RoboCop's helmet) and added depth and realism to the image. The print is also much cleaner and free from grain than I remember (and a huge improvement over the Criterion edition). Compression artefacts aren't a problem and colour rendition is fairly good throughout; certainly better than the older MGM standard definition release. However, it's not all good news.
Although cleaner than other versions, the odd speckle is still visible on the print and detail levels sometimes fluctuate mid-scene. This is particularly apparent during effects shots, which I believe were accomplished with the use of rear-projection. Low-light scenes often contain more grain than they should, blacks can look a little muddy and brightness and contrast have a nasty habit of fluctuating. While it's true that colours are generally acceptable, skin tones aren't quite as realistic as I'd like (think reddish-pink). While this was a problem that affected the older release, I was expecting it to be rectified for the film's official high-def début. Some slight edge enhancement is also present, but I didn't really notice it sitting around ten feet away from my 42" screen.
Being that this is my first Blu-ray review it would be very easy to get carried away with the quality of the transfer. However, if I'm to be fair I have to compare this to other Blu-ray titles, not to five-year-old standard definition releases. While I don't want to be overly critical of the transfer, simply because many of the 'faults' are down to the source material, I just can't justify top honours for this one.
RoboCop arrives on Blu-ray with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 in English and DTS 5.1 in both Italian and Spanish. Unfortunately it would seem that Fox's choice of lossless codec means that only a small number of people can currently enjoy the lossless audio, as very few players or amplifiers can handle DTS-HD MA (unlike PCM or Dolby TrueHD). This meant that I had to listen to the 1.5Mbps DTS Core 5.1 track embedded in the DTS-HD stream.
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of RoboCop, and it definitely shows. While the track easily sounds as good as any previous offering, it doesn't actually sound much better. It is an improvement over the Criterion Dolby Surround mix, which offered limited use of the surround channels, and the excessive bass that marred the MGM release has been dialled back to more reasonable levels. However, this has resulted in feeble sounding gunshots, explosions and other such effects. ED-209's footsteps don't so much shake the room as sound like the gentle pad of a kitten's paws, and his voice lacks the booming presence it demands. This fidelity is lacking at both ends of the audio spectrum, lending dialogue a forced, unnatural quality (and some poor ADR doesn't help).
However, it's not all bad news. The new mix is actually a lot livelier than previous attempts, with some genuinely inventive use of the discrete surround channels. Some of the more memorable moments include ED-209 walking on-screen from the front right of the soundstage, various gunshots coming from the left and right surround channels and a hubcap flying directly over the viewer's head during a car chase! All of this makes for a satisfyingly enveloping aural experience, not least when Basil Poledouris' wonderful score fills the room. When it comes to awarding marks I'm going to apply the same formula to the audio elements of this disc as I did to the visual ones. Basically this track isn't a patch on most modern soundtracks, but it's not actually a bad remix of a low-budget film that's pushing twenty.
Well, this isn't going to take long. The only bonus material included on the disc comes in the form of trailers for RoboCop and Planet of the Apes. Both are presented in 1080p, but that's hardly compensation for such a shoddy effort. How do studios expect to push their brand-spanking new high definition formats by releasing bare-bones discs? What's more infuriating is that that various standard definition releases of the film have featured multiple commentary tracks and plenty of featurettes. It's just not good enough.
Another thing that I found slightly odd is that the disc does not feature a main menu. Now I know that Blu-ray features interactive 'in-film' menus, but the lack of a main menu just makes this release feel cheap. It's like they couldn't be bothered (which I guess they couldn't). Most of the other titles in my collection have menus, but the majority of those are Sony, Tartan and Optimum efforts. Perhaps it's just Fox that can't be bothered…
Okay, so it's lacking when it comes to bonus material, but this is still the best that RoboCop has looked and sounded outside of a cinema. It's not exactly the kind of stunning presentation I was expecting from Blu-ray, but that has more to do with the source material than the home video format. While I'd never use the disc as demo material (reference quality this ain't), it made for a gentle and fairly pleasant introduction to the wonders of high definition and one that I'd recommend to fans of the film.
Of course, if we've learned anything from DVD it is that studios love to squeeze every last penny from consumers by releasing multiple incarnations of our favourite films, so those of you who love your extras might want to hold off until a more comprehensive package is available. I briefly considered making some kind of 'your move creep' joke to round things off, but in the end I thought better of it. Oh, bugger...
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Chris Gould
Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 24th December 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, DTS 5.1 Italian, DTS 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Extras: Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer
Genre: Action, Crime and Sci-Fi
Length: 103 minutes
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ITIF: Ignore 'Paranoid Bloggers' And Pesky 'Populists' - The Comcast Merger Will Be Great
from the your-talking-points-suck dept
Most of the editorials are quite a lot of fun, like this one by Doug Brake of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. The ITIF, if you'd forgotten, was a big backer of SOPA and has championed all manner of IP maximalism, most recently through their support of the TTP agreement. They take money from broadband providers and the MPAA, not that Forbes or anybody else can ever bother to point this out. According to Brake, criticism of the merger is something that's being fabricated by "paranoid bloggers" and spreaders of "misinformation," whose "populist" thinking gives cable companies a bad rap:
"It is popular, especially in the blogosphere, to automatically distrust cable and telecommunications companies, a stance that often leads to inaccurate statements and misunderstandings."Gosh, that distrust couldn't possibly come from the fact that Comcast is among the lowest ranked companies for customer satisfaction in what's the lowest ranked industry for customer satisfaction across all industries? Bi-annual rate hikes for channels never watched? Full-day technician visit windows that get bumped numerous times for no reason? Jacking up modem rental fees? Horrible customer support? Burying rate hikes misleadingly in below-the-line fees? Any of this ringing a bell, Doug? It's worth noting that brand impression of Time Warner Cable has actually somehow gotten even worse since the merger was announced, which is pretty impressive.
Brake stumbles forth valiantly to then argue that those worried about a larger Comcast needn't do so -- because competitive pressure from phone companies will keep Comcast executives honest:
"The broadband populists that dominate this conversation like to claim that DSL is not fast enough to be a competitor to cable. But some of DSL's 31 million subscribers (compared to cable's 51.5 million) might disagree. And there is good reason to expect DSL speeds to improve – new technology, called vectored DSL, promises 100 Mbps under the right circumstances. And of course, in 6 of the 19 metros, Verizon FIOS fiber service is a robust competitor."First, I'm not entirely sure in what world being a "populist" is an insult; the dictionary definition of populism suggests someone who is looking out for the people (what a bunch of jerks). Second, if the argument is that the phone companies will keep Comcast honest as they grow, apparently Mr. Brake isn't aware of the fact that AT&T and Verizon are backing away from huge swaths of the fixed-line broadband market because they don't want to upgrade them (as in, ever), which would leave the freshly-merged Comcast Time Warner Cable with less competition than ever before. In turn, Comcast will soon have a greater ability to impose the usage caps they've been busy testing in uncompetitive markets without competitive repercussions. Brake then goes on to repeat another core merger supporter talking point -- Google Fiber will somehow keep Comcast honest:
"Let's not forget another big announcement made on the heels of the merger proposal – Google has started early plans to expand its fiber build-out to nine new metro areas. The timing of Google's release exposes a key flaw in Crawford's arguments against the merger: immediately after Comcast's announcement, many detractors dismissed Google fiber as a viable competitor to cable because it is in only a handful of cities."Right, except that that Google Fiber announcement to "expand to nine new metro areas" never actually stated anything of the sort, something Brake would know if he'd actually read it. Google Fiber, which currently only serves a handful of users in Kansas City and Provo, Utah, simply announced it would work with cities in nine markets to examine improving infrastructure. One or two might actually see service sometime by 2015, but it's not keeping Comcast executives up at night anytime soon. This talking point that companies like Google Fiber and Hulu (which Comcast co-owns) will generate enough pressure to keep Comcast honest is laughable, but it keeps getting trotted out like an ugly show pony.
You'd think for the money Comcast is pouring into these think tanks annually, one of them would actually understand the industry they're writing about and be able to make coherent arguments in support of the merger. Surely there have to be some legitimate benefits to letting Comcast get immensely more massive? Perhaps suggest that shiny new taxpayer-subsidized skyscraper Comcast is building in Philadelphia will scare away the foul shard devils from the vile astral plane of Kerithuth? Maybe suggest the combined new super Comcast will impact the earth's gravitational pull just enough to give us all super powers that could help us fight said looming cross-dimensional invasion? Surely these groups can do better. Paranoid populists everywhere demand it!


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Jason Green one of our UW Huskies football bloggers breaks down the upcoming 2011 Alamo Bowl tale of the tape between the Washington Huskies vs. Baylor Bears. Steve Sarkisian and his Washington team head into a bowl game as a major underdog for a second straight year. They'll have to take on Robert Griffen III the 2011 Heisman winner and a guy who completed 72 percent of his passes in 2011.
2011 Alamo Bowl: Washington vs. Baylor Tale of the Tape
December 20, 2011 By Jason Green
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I specifically remember beaming with a sensation not unlike pride the day Google Talk Video Chat was released on Android 2.3.4 devices. Here we had a video chat solution that worked not only from phone-to-phone, but also from phone-to-just about anything on the planet with an internet connection, a webcam and a modern browser. As someone who used Google Talk exclusively, (along with most of my friends and family), this was a huge deal. And it was FREE to boot! I imagined the Android community simultaneously fist pumping and offering satisfyingly rude gestures at their iFriends, who were clearly stuck with an inferior product that forced lock-in and cost money. For just about a month, it was a pretty good time. Then, without warning or explanation or apology, T-Mobile ruined the ride.
Nexus S users who went to chat with their favorite person on May 16th found themselves greeted with a message that read, "You must be connected to a Wi-Fi network to start a video chat." My social networks were flooded with angry messages demanding to know what was going on. It seemed as though T-Mobile had "pulled an AT&T," a sentiment that carries even greater weight as we all sit waiting for the merger of those two companies to happen. So, week after week I ask my T-Mobile contacts what the deal was. How had this happened? Why did this happen? Could we expect this to be fixed in the future? Nothing. The responses I got were never more than "we're looking into it, please bear with us." Certainly not the answer I was looking for, but if it was some kind of big misunderstanding, I could be patient for awhile and let them fix it, right?
It has now been over a month since T-Mobile disabled the service, and still not a word from them as to why this has happened or what they plan to do about it. I've heard countless theories as to why this might have happened. One was that T-Mobile failed to add a signature for the Nexus S when they disabled P2P data traffic on their network. Other theories involve T-Mobile "protecting" users from a poor experience by disabling a feature that would cause them to quickly exceed their data limit. I've posed this question to the masses in the hopes that maybe a network engineer ninja of some type would speak up, but rumors, confusion and speculation have been the only real result. I was about ready to give up on this uphill fight when I received a review unit of the T-Mobile GSlate.
Much to my chagrin, I discovered quickly that not only does Google Talk video work on the GSlate, but it works great in both 3G and 4G networks. Better, in fact, then the 3G Motorola Xoom in an area where Verizon is widely considered to be the dominant carrier in terms of overall performance. As a Nexus S owner, this was nothing short of a slap in the face. Had T-Mobile intentionally disabled video chat on a smartphone data plan but activated it on a tablet data plan? Or, is this the result of the new tiered data plans? Since I'm grandfathered on a previous plan, has my Nexus S been blacklisted? If I had a Nexus S on the new 10GB "unlimited" plan, would the service just magically return?
This issue has left all T-Mobile's customers bereft of the explanation they rightfully deserve. Obviously, locating and solving the problem is not a priority for T-Mobile. What do you think? Is this just the result of the merger? Is T-Mobile up to something more sinister in terms of throttling usage? Are you like me and would be happy with any kind of answer, just so long as it didn't feel like we were being ignored and denied features they have no business disabling? What say you, T-Mobile?


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Way Klingler Young Scholar Awards support promising young scholars in critical stages of their careers. The awards of up to $32,000 are intended to fund $2,000 in operating costs and to cover up to 50 percent of salary to afford the recipient a one-semester sabbatical.
Dr. Francesca Lopez, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership, knows what it's like to be singled out because of her ethnicity. While raising her family in Arizona, she was reprimanded by her son's teacher for not speaking English at home, even though Lopez and her husband had chosen to raise their children to be bilingual.
"Children that are part of marginal groups are much more aware of stereotypes. My son was only five at the time, but he asked me if he could wear long sleeves to cover his dark skin," Lopez said. "My personal experiences have been a catalyst for my research on the broad range effects of bilingual education."
Her sabbatical study will take her into Milwaukee classrooms, where she'll interview 600 children ages four to 14 to determine how personal, educational and social contexts contribute to the development of ethnic identity, and how positive ethnic identity helps promote academic achievement. By analyzing student and teacher surveys, augmented by interviews and classroom observations, Lopez hopes to demonstrate that classroom context helps form children's context of self, and that by honoring children's ethnic and cultural backgrounds, teachers can increase academic achievement among students who are most at risk for dropping out of school.
After the study is completed, Lopez plans to write a book about her findings, to inform educators and policy makers. "I'm on the front lines of what's happening in classrooms," Lopez said. "I have the chance to teach teachers, to change the culture of education and to help shape educational policies that have the power to make a difference."
Knowing that Dr. Scott Beardsley, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was researching the connection between visual processing and movement, a colleague once casually asked him what kinds of visual impairments were associated with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. Beardsley said he didn't know, and that he would look into it. Five years later, he's still looking.
Beardsley uses a combined experimental and computational modeling approach to identify and quantify deficits in MS patients' sensorimotor control of their arm movements. He assesses patients' fine motor functions through a variety of clinical tests and electronic drawing exercises, and then uses robotics to measure their corrective movements as they perform specific motor tasks. This data is then plugged into a computational model to determine how MS impacts patients' sensory and motor processing compared to neurologically intact subjects.
"In MS patients, we've found that there seems to be a mismatch between how the person's arm moves and how the brain thinks it's moving. That difference results in a tremor," Beardsley said. "Based on the type of mismatch, we can pinpoint which parts of the brain's sensorimotor control system have been affected by the disease and then develop rehabilitation strategies that target the source of the mismatch."
He plans to use his sabbatical to gain clinical experience and to begin categorizing sources of motor impairment in MS patients. Beardsley hopes someday his research will aid the development of tailored rehabilitation strategies that will improve patients' quality of life. Until then, he'll keep looking.
When asked how she's doing, Dr. Abir Bekhet, assistant professor of nursing, will answer, "I'm wonderful," no matter what kind of day she's having. Her research on vulnerable populations' use of positive cognition to overcome adversity has woven itself into her personal life.
When Bekhet moved to the United States from her native Egypt to pursue a doctorate degree, she observed some of her international classmates falling apart under the stress of relocating to a different country, while others seemed to thrive. "I wanted to know how I could be in the 'thriving' category," Bekhet said. "Then I started thinking about how if it was difficult for a young person to relocate, it must be very hard for older adults to relocate to assisted care facilities."
Bekhet has implemented pilot intervention studies using positive cognition and resourcefulness concepts to help older adults who were relocated to retirement communities adjust to their new environment. She is currently completing data analysis on two descriptive studies examining the effects of positive cognition and resourcefulness on caregivers of people with dementia and autism.
During her sabbatical, Bekhet plans to conduct a study to examine the validity of a new eight-item Positive Thinking Skills Scale she developed based off of the acronym, THINKING. The scale will measure the frequency with which positive cognition intervention recipients use specific positive thinking skills.
"I wanted to focus my research on mental health concepts so that I'm not limited to a specific population," Bekhet said. "It's my goal to help vulnerable populations not only cope with struggle across their lifespan, but also thrive."
Most people don't equate chemistry with creativity. But the opportunity to create something new is exactly what drew Dr. Adam Fiedler, assistant professor of chemistry, to his current research. "In so many of the other sciences, you're studying something that already exists. In chemistry, you can create brand new molecules and see what they do."
Fiedler studies the role metalloenzymes – biological catalysts that require a metal ion to perform their biological function – play in naturally breaking down environmental pollutants. During his sabbatical, Fiedler will seek to better understand this chemistry by designing iron-containing molecules that mimic the structure and function of metalloenzymes. His ultimate goal is to develop synthetic catalysts that are capable of using oxygen as an oxidant, instead of harsh, polluting oxidants – such as bleach – currently used industrially to carry out similar reactions.
"I call it bio-inspired chemistry," Fiedler said. "We're looking at what nature has the capability of doing and seeing if we can use the same chemical principles to translate that into a synthetic system, where we have much more control and increased possibilities of creating new chemical reactions."


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Armin van Buuren's radioshow 'A State of Trance' (ASOT) celebrates it's 500th broadcast and Alda Events launches a big party the 9th of April. The most popular danceminded radioshow worldwide exists for ten years now and has grown to over 15 million listeners in 26 countries weekly. Obviously this milestone needs a celebration and a small one would not do justice to the success. That is why the huge Brabanthallen in Dutch city Den Bosch will be put to use for the largest trance event worldwide!
Armin: "I am very proud and happy with the 500th edition of the show. The way trance sounds today differs from ten years ago, but it has preserved the same feeling. Trance has evolved over the years. Nowadays trance is influenced by other styles like techno, minimal and techhouse. It is nice to have experienced this development and we will celebrate trance in the biggest way possible! Since we make ASOT the fans, we felt they should be able to give their input on the line-up. For a period of one month, our listeners were given the opportunity to suggest DJ's for the five events of ASOT. The result is a program with a wide range in variety of artists, not only specialized in pure trance but also progressive, tech-trance and uplifting trance. And off course the classic sound will not be left out! All live registrations of the five editions are to be viewed on special internet channels."
People regularly listening to ASOT know Armin is well informed on the latest releases in trance and trance related styles. For his radioshow Armin keeps a close eye on new developments. Therefore he is one of the first to know about promising DJ's and live-acts that deserve attention in Holland. So even though the line-up of ASOT is a secret for the time being, it does not come as a surprise some very talented artists will be on stage next to known headliners.
ASOT500 world tour:
After last years successful tour of the 450th edition, for 2011 an even larger world tour is scheduled. This time literally based on the magic number '5'. Within five weeks, five cities on five continents are visited by ASOT. Those who are not able to travel the world do not have to miss out on anything as all five of the editions will be broadcast live on air.
ASOT 500 confirmed in:
* March 19: South-Africa (Johannesburg)
* March 26: United States (Miami)
* April 2: Argentina (Buenos Aires)
* April 9: Holland (Den Bosch)
* April 16: Australia (Sydney)
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Kitchen Gallery: Green Like Spring Peas
Spring is coming, and with it all sorts of new green and living things. Many cooks choose the color green for their kitchens, too - it's can be cheery or soothing, boldly modern or quietly vintage. There's such a range to the color green in food and cooking (think broccoli, leeks, peas, pears, basil, thyme, and leafy chard), and we are very drawn to kitchens that use this color. Here's a look at the many, many green kitchens in our archives.
• 1. Sharon Montrose's vintage green - We love the pure white and creamy green in this Los Angeles kitchen.
• 2. Joshua's bold green - Another Los Angeles kitchen, with a more eye-popping shade of green!
• 3. Emily's acid green - The yellow-green in this Small Cool 2008 kitchen feels very modern.
• 4. Bryan and Stef's green loft - Another Small Cool entry, with an open green kitchen.
• 5. Annie and Joe's seafoam - Another bright kitchen in Los Angeles.
• 6. DJ's green and yello - The tiles in this pixelated kitchen are very cheery.
• 7. Laura and Jason's casa - We like how the kitchen is mostly clean and white, but the small strip of green at over the cupboards keeps it all from feeling too stark.
• 8. Christine's cheerful pegboard - A little green can do a lot in your kitchen. This pegboard defines Christine's space.
• 9. Dave and Melanie's Craftsman - We love the patches of green in this kitchen.
• 10. Jaclyn's Granny Smith - Thinking about painting your kitchen green? Jaclyn shows you how.
• 11. Little Green's kitchen - Here the green is mostly down below, on the island and on the floor.
• 12. Modern kitchen, retro color - Back to that Jadeite color, with modern fixings.
• 13. Peter's olive green - We showed you Peter's shopping cart island already, but we also like his green-colored wall.
• 14. Jesse's tuned-in green - Although Fall Colors 2008 winner Jesse has a mostly black and white kitchen, we think of it as green because the small green touches just really stand out.
• 15. Jeremy's plants - We like how the green here echoes the real plants' colors.
• 16. Jodi's accent green - A close-up of some hot green.
• 17. Danielle's spring green - A lighter, more yellow green.
• 18. Emma's mid-century kitchen - A very different shade of green, in a very vintage kitchen.
• 19. Grape green - From Mark Chamberlain's wonderful ColorTherapy column.
• 20. Rita's pea green - We love how the lights in this kitchen make the walls glow!
(Top image: Sharon Montrose. For all other image credits, please see originating post.)


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UN Security Council sets urgent meeting on Ukraine
The request follows Wednesday's downing of a Ukrainian air force fighter and Thursday's downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane carrying 298 people over eastern Ukraine.world Updated: Jul 18, 2014 08:46 IST
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday morning on Ukraine.
Britain's UN Mission said Thursday it requested the meeting and later tweeted that it is set for 10 a.m. Friday.
The request follows Wednesday's downing of a Ukrainian air force fighter and Thursday's downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane carrying 298 people over eastern Ukraine.
Britain proposed a Security Council press statement calling for "a full, thorough and independent international investigation into the incident."
The statement, obtained by The Associated Press, was circulated to all 15 council members, who must approve it before it can be issued.
The White House in a statement released late Thursday also called for a "full, credible, and unimpeded international investigation" as soon as possible.
Earlier, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-noon said "there is clearly a need for a full and transparent international investigation" into the plane crash in Ukraine.
Ban said during a media event that the International Civil Aviation Organization, a UN agency, is closely monitoring the disaster involving the Malaysia Airlines plane.
"I offer my deep condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims and people of Malaysia," Ban added.
Both Ukraine's government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region have denied any responsibility for downing the aircraft.
Ukraine's UN Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev tweeted after Thursday's crash in a rebel-controlled area that "Ukraine will present the evidence of Russian military involvement into the Boeing crash. This crime should be fully investigated."
First Published: Jul 18, 2014 08:44 IST


text: Gordon Lavender is a British painter, from Liverpool, in whose work we can recognise a strong inspiration in Asian Koi painting and Koi art altogether. This inspiration of Asia, actually far East, Japan in particular is maintained through fresh, varied composition of a painting, which before else seduces you with its minimalistic beauty. There is no doubt that Lavender has stepped into a deep field of beauty and that his amplitude is a harvest of high inspiration and endless talent. Sometimes it might appear to you that his works communicate brilliantly with Pop Art, with Minimalism and of course with Fantasy. That is not an illusion, because the painter is truly taken by Koi art but above all he is an outstanding postmodern visual artist.Paintings by Lavender will not leave you cold. Actually, the touch of beauty which is powerful yet gentle and multi-meaningful easily seduces the viewer which is a rare talent in paintings nowadays. The presence of fiction and fantasy in his work is most often the product combination of plant ornaments and images of fish. That particular combination of air and sea worlds gives his work this outstanding fantastic feeling which we have not been able to meet in other artists. Gordon lavender is an authentic, unique painter who has his own style and a very personal aesthetic and approach to artwork.Personally I find this Asian minimalism and European sense of beauty very pleasant. Europe and Asia in Lavender's work are not in conflict; in Gordon Lavender's paintings Asian tradition and European postmodernism give outstanding synergy while building a completely new structures, new visions of art in whole and life. Thanks to that, his paintings are seducing you from the first meeting, but that is not just the joy at first sight, because every future meeting with his works will excite you even more. Gordon Lavender is building his paintings in a truly productive and impressive way and in a natural collaboration with pure beauty. Some of that beauty is surely going to touch you if you decide to visit his gallery on the net. Nikola Kitanoviæ Art Critic


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Less than a week after Courtney Upshaw acknowledged that he weighed 285 pounds, Ravens coach John Harbaugh said that the second-year linebacker has to improve his eating habits in order to reach his full potential.
"Courtney's weight issue - [and] he does need to lose some pounds - is that he doesn't eat right," Harbaugh said today following the Ravens' organized team activity. "Courtney eats too much and he doesn't eat all of the right foods. He knows that and that's something he's going to have to get a handle on or he's not going to be the best that he can be."
For the second year in a row, Upshaw reported to offseason workouts and immediately faced questions about his playing shape. He failed the team's initial conditioning test as a rookie last year, but as his first season progressed, he shed some weight and played around 270 pounds.
However, the momentum didn't carry over through the offseason. At teammate Lardarius Webb's charity softball game on Sunday, a visibly heavier Upshaw told reporters a "personal issue" prevented him from working out the way he wanted to this offseason.
"My offseason has been kind of hectic. I had a personal issue where I had to handle that. Right now, I'm trying to get back into football shape," said Upshaw, a second-round pick in the 2012 draft out of Alabama. "I was back and forth between Alabama and Baltimore, just real personal issues that I had to handle. Just trying to drop a couple pounds and get ready for the season."
Though the Ravens signed Elvis Dumervil this offseason to play outside linebacker opposite Terrell Suggs, team officials still anticipate Uphaw playing a key role on the overhauled defense. But before that happens, he's going to have to get in better shape.
Upshaw has attended all three weeks of organized team activities and Harbaugh said that the linebacker has been working hard.
"My first thought is he's playing good. That's the first thing. He understands the defense exceptionally well. He's working really hard, but he's aware of [the need to lose weight]," Harbaugh said. "Everybody in our building is involved with it. He'll be in fighting shape, I promise you that.


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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - How can I look younger than my age? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in How can I look younger than my age? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Health and Fitness View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message beibeizhuJoined: 29 Mar 2009Posts: 61 Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:32 am Post subject: How can I look younger than my age? With age increasing, I feel my health is worse. Not only in my health,but also on my face. As we all know, everyone likes beatiful forever. Then, how many people can keep do that? If u have some suggestion or ways,please share them with me. I hope to u. Back to top Jenniferdu521Joined: 29 Mar 2009Posts: 72 Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: In my opinion: suitable sports, suitable skin products and keeping you happy. the most imported way is keeping you happy. you know, nobody grow old just by a number of years, we grow old by deserting our ideals. as we grow older, temperament will more and more important than the rosy cheeks and red lips. Best Regards! Back to top RedRoseJoined: 21 May 2004Posts: 2735Location: GuangZhou, China Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:33 am Post subject: Well, the best way of looking younger than your age is drinking a lot of liquor, getting drunk, then when you look at yourself in the mirror, you may find this drunkard freaking young and attractive and paranoid Back to top SuzanneJoined: 21 Apr 2008Posts: 283Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject: Hello, Americans are always worried about looking younger. If you read any of the American magazines, here is what they will tell you: - Always use sunblock. Every single day! - Get plenty of rest. We look older if we don't get enough sleep. - Drink 8 glasses of water every day. It keeps your skin from looking wrinkled. - Use a moisterizer on your face and neck. It also keeps your skin healthy and hides the little wrinkles. -Eat a healthy diet, and don't drink more than 1-2 servings of alcohol a d ay. - Get exercise--at least 30 minutes a day. This helps circulation, and helps you to not be fat. Extra weight can make you look older. - Do things that you love! This will keep you happy, and that will make you look younger. Many American women do these things. Some even pay for cosmetic surgery, because they want to look young, no matter how old they are! Back to top Anuradha ChepurJoined: 20 May 2006Posts: 933 Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:35 am Post subject: Vegetarian food, exercise, sunblocks, attitude. Back to top nancy87Joined: 04 Feb 2010Posts: 2 Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:12 pm Post subject: If you want to look young, act young! Invoke your inner child and do something fun just for the sake of joy. Schedule a fun outing and invite your friends. Find a child under 10 and make a play date. Watch funny movies. Laugh!_________________Old Home Remedies Family Magazine Self Improvement Back to top david0817Joined: 09 Feb 2010Posts: 3Location: DETROIT Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:22 am Post subject: hi i think have a good healthy is good becaus your health is not goin to give to many problems on the future. Back to top VegaJoined: 15 Jun 2010Posts: 5 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:03 am Post subject: You are what you eat. If you want to look healthy and fit and young looking, then eat healthy foods. Stop smoking and stop or reduce your drinking. Also exercising daily can help you keep fit and healthy inside and out. And drink plenty of water. Your skin loves water and needs it to stay hydrated and moist and great looking._________________Vega Sinclair, Medical Insurance Advisor Back to top issariya_jJoined: 22 Nov 2010Posts: 2 Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 3:18 am Post subject: The way I see it everyone wants to look their best. Our appearance influences our personality and can boost self-confidence, improving the quality of life. To achieve this, most people regard aesthetic surgery as a sensible option. Many, celebrities in particular, undergo the surgery because they believe an improved look may allow them to have an edge. Others may have the operation in the hope of maintaining their youthful appearance and I think so. The surgery would be the way to help you. This is one option. That can make you look younger. If you have already decided to go under the knife, ensure that you follow these guidelines - Use an accredited hospital or clinic. - Seek out an experienced and highly trained surgeon. - Last but not least, don't forget to talk about the possible risks that may be associated with the operation. If you do not agree with plastic surgery. One of the ways I agree, it is you should always maintain a healthy weight so you will stay in shape and won't need liposuction and getting enough sleep leaves you with fresh and enriched skin. I think good personal hygiene is a very basic step that can improve your looks. 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A Colorado carpenter takes a chance on hemp
Can an agrarian insurrection revitalize this High Plains town?
This October, Ryan Loflin did what nobody in the United States has done in 55 years: He publicly harvested a crop of hemp. He deliberately ignored long-standing federal policy and bucked the advice of farm organizations, and his project was shunned by the state university set up to assist farmers.
The lanky, soft-spoken Loflin carried out this act of agrarian insurrection on 60 acres of his father's farm near Springfield, Colo., a town of 1,500 about 30 minutes from both Oklahoma and Kansas, in the heart of the Dust Bowl. Here, the scant trees lean away from the constant hard winds. A single wind turbine stands in the distance. There would be more, Loflin says, if there were power lines. Springfield clearly needs an economic boost. "Just look at Main Street," Loflin says: One steakhouse, four motels and many boarded-up storefronts. Could hemp be the answer?
It is, according to proponents, the answer for almost everything. Hemp can be used in products from rope to auto parts to plastics, shampoo to vitamin supplements. The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were written on paper made from its long fibers; our first three presidents – Washington, Adams and Jefferson – were hemp farmers. And the plant requires half or less the water that corn does, Loflin points out, making it better suited for the arid High Plains.
Standing in his field of chest-high hemp back in August, his reddish-blonde hair poking from under a sweat-stained Dragon Sheet Metal hat, Loflin explained that he inherited an entrepreneurial streak from his grandfather, who owned a string of Gibson's discount stores. Hemp could revitalize eastern Colorado's hardscrabble farm towns, he argued, which, like most in the Great Plains, have seen better days.
An exodus has been occurring for decades. After graduating high school in 1991, Loflin himself moved to Colorado's mountain resorts, first Breckenridge and then Crested Butte, where he now reclaims old barnwood for use in new homes. But when Colorado voters in 2012 legalized recreational marijuana – and, almost as an afterthought, the growing of hemp – he returned to his farming roots.
The story of hemp is inexorably linked with marijuana. They are both varieties of Cannabis sativa and have the same spiky leaves. But marijuana commonly contains between 3 and 30 percent tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the drug's psychoactive agent. As defined by Colorado's pending regulations, hemp can contain no more than 0.3 percent, enough to give you a headache, perhaps, but not a high.
The plant is essentially collateral damage in the nation's long war on drugs. In 1937, the Democrat-controlled Congress passed the Marihuana Tax Act after Bureau of Narcotics head Henry J. Anslinger warned that "marihuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death." In defining "marihuana," however, that law exempted the mature stalks of the plant, fiber, oil or cake made from the seeds, and sterilized seeds. During World War II, the federal government actively encouraged farmers to grow hemp for ropes.
The 1970 Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act contained the same definition of marijuana, but also made hemp a Schedule I controlled substance, illegal to grow without a permit from the Drug Enforcement Administration, which has declined to award them.
Federal policy was further muddled in August, when U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Cole notified federal prosecutors that blocking landmark marijuana legalization laws in Colorado and Washington would not be a priority. However, the Justice Department had previously reneged on promises that it would look the other way on medical marijuana in California and Montana.
Given this murky legal landscape, Colorado State University, the state's land-grant school, has avoided hemp the way somebody might cross a street to avoid an aggressive panhandler. Legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, would give it and other universities cover for research and protect federal research grants. Despite support from libertarian conservatives, the bill has languished. Similarly, the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union warned its members against planting this year and risking the loss of federal crop insurance.
Just how much hemp will mean for rural incomes is open to debate; the U.S. market – which may amount to some $500 million – is currently supplied by imports. "Nobody is going to suddenly get rich and retire by growing hemp," says Mick McAllister, director of communications for the Farmers Union.
Loflin has squirreled away seeds from October's harvest for an even larger planting next year and hopes to at least partially fill orders from Whole Foods and Dr. Bronner's, which makes natural soap. Other farmers in Springfield, including his two cousins, also may plant next year. Last May, as Loflin prepared to sow, he said he suspected that federal drug agents had other things to think about than his farm. So far, his theory has held up.


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odroid wrote:golgoth wrote:Hello Odroid,
have the HC2 production been launched as planned?
Nope. the schedule is pushed to January due to some raw material lead time issues.
Sorry about that.
Is there any newsletter I could sign up to that informs me once the HC2 is avaiable? That would be awesome.


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Friday, April 18, 2014
6 Comments:
- Rob Spence said...
Interesting, and gives the lie to the complaints that MOOCs are soulless. By the way, did you know that FeedBurner seems to have stopped your RSS feed? I read your blog via Net News Wire, and wondered why I had nothing new from you this year. According to FeedBurner, your last post was in December 2013.
- Brian Mulligan said...
Thanks for this. I can use this to argue for recorded short lectures in my institution.
(Also: I don't use RSS feeds and find it hard to keep up with blogs that don't have email subscription - I'm just very old-fashioned - any chance of that?)
- Brendon Ross said...
I couldn't agree more with what he has to say. I am currently a student and have taken a handful of online courses. I really enjoyed one of them in particular because of such video lectures. If I ever didn't quite understand what the prof had said I could just rewind it, something I am not able to do in the classroom with out Star Trek-esque gadgets.
Thanks for the post!
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I've just read your similar article in the Guardian. There are a lot of problems with your argument. The biggest is that it would change the economy of teaching within the institution. Given that university managers, rather than teaching staff, are the ones setting the course of new developments, this is worrying. MOOCs and recorded lectures may well lead to attacks on jobs and casualisation. It could well exacerbate problems that already exist, e.g. the developing 'star system' of celebrity academics, or the increasing disparity between teaching staff and researchers. This is why UCU and most academic staff don't like your 'Plan B' (http://www.ucu.org.uk/media/pdf/j/m/ucu_moocs_policy_feb14.pdf).
I would also point out that many of your objections to face-to-face lectures are spurious. For a start, most institutions use different types of teaching in complementary ways. E.g. lectures are also complimented with lecture handouts, with slides made available online, with key questions and key resources identified in a course handbook, with seminars conducted in smaller groups, which go over the key topics, &c &c. I don't really recognise the straw-man you construct. Besides this, you don't note the positives offered by face-to-face lectures over recorded lectures. In fact, some of your 'objections' are, arguably, positives. What you call the 'tyranny' of time and place others would call 'structure'. From my own learning and teaching experience, I would say that undergraduates tend to benefit from the ways in which face-to-face lectures help structure their working week, and the academic year more broadly. Having left the extremely structured environment of school, they benefit from this real contact with lecturers, whose presence reassures them that they're in the right time and place - not just floating in a void of tangled information pumped out from glaring screens.
On this note, we could also think about the place of the lecture and the student within an 'economy of stimuli'. How does a lecture compete for a student's attention with youtube, facebook, buzzfeed, computer games, and so on? Partly it competes because it offers something very different: the singularity of a real world event, with all the authority and prestige that accrues from that. But, if a lecture gives up that advantage to become yet more (boring, badly produced) digital noise and LCD glare, how will it compete? When it just another tab on your browser, to be recalled whenever, why bother?
I could go on. One way or another, your 'Plan B' stinks. Roll on Plan C.
- Donald Clark said...
I find your tone a bit smug, especially the last comment - but hey ho - there was me thinking HE was about objective discussion and debate. What do I know?
It would indeed change the economy within the institution - that's the point. Charging young people tens of thousands for these so called 'learning experiences' lumbering them with debt is precisley the problem. HE has gone through massive expansion and could do with cutting back on costs. Of course UCU and most academic staff don;t like my ideas - that would be turkeys voting for Christmas but I rather like Turkey and Christmas.
If you don;t really recognise the 'straw man' spek to students. Better still calculate the number of students who give up on lectures and don;t even attend. Why don;t Universities do this? It is basic data.
And on your non sequitur - I'm not arguning for less structure. I'm asking for more. Active learning needs organisation and structure, not boring, over-long lectures. "It's almost unethical to be lecturing if you have this data," says Eric Mazur, physicist at Harvard. Check this out - or is research that proves my case also regarded as spurious. http://bit.ly/1qxmvMo
- ctl_alt_del.geek said...
In response to W's allegations - I'm trying to see why we would NOT want star lecturers. Let's get the most thought provoking people and leaders in their field to deliver compelling analysis of topic and save our future students from the dysfunctional 3 hour lecture which demands attendance and cheats them of meaningful content by virtue of a pension-awaiting 'I've always done it this way' washed up academic. Let's create a meritocracy of Academic lecturers to enthuse and engage our students.
then use message boards and local resource to provide discussion opportunities, reflection and peer review. The idea that we would have to prematurely retire a number of academics who refuse to address a changing audience seems a positive benefit to education.


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Sentey Burton Review
Flying in under my radar from South America is a company under the name of Sentey. I have never seen any of its products or even heard of the company. It seems that Sentey has a large presence in South America, as it has many press articles from countries such as Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and others. Sentey has products on its website that range from cases and power supplies to even video cards. However, the video cards listed are several generations old, such as the 9000 series and 200 series from NVIDIA. Case fans are also listed on the Sentey website. Sentey cases and other products are available at many well-known stores on the Internet, such as Newegg, Directron, and Amazon. A very wide range of cases are available, over 35 and counting, plus another 10 power supplies. I am somewhat surprised that such a seemingly prolific company has existed without me knowing about it at all, though some manufacturers keep its own news and presence in its country of residence.
On my review agenda for this article is the Sentey Burton, from Sentey's "Extreme Division." Sentey's Extreme Division includes the Burton as well as several other cases — Arvina, Optimus, Centinela, Renegade, and Vulcano. These cases are designed with the gamer in mind, providing large internal volume and great cooling power to be expected. Each of these cases have an average of five fans, which may not sound like a lot, but its their placement that makes them important. Having never seen this company, I don't know where to set my expectations, but I will say that the outlook is good, which is only a 5% chance of what my magic eight ball might say! The Sentey Burton is a large mid-tower that is available in black, blue, and red. The base color is always black, but the available colors are the accents on the case. This review will consist of a full evaluation of the Sentey Burton, including the unboxing, an up close look at its features, and extensive testing and comparison to other recent cases on the market.
Closer Look:
The Sentey Burton is packaged in a black box with the three available models pictured on the front, with the red model highlighted in the foreground. I thought that this was the color I was going to get, but it turned out otherwise. The right side of the box displays a lot of the components of the case, as well as certain features that the case offers. The rear of the box is mostly plain with the Sentey logo above where it says "Burton - Extreme Division". The left side of the case again shows the three different colors available and the general specifications of the series, such as its weight, materials, motherboard compatibility, I/O ports, and the available fans. The Burton contains a total of six included fans from the factory.
Sentey packaged the Burton like most other cases, but with one noticeable exception — no plastic wrapping was used on the case, but rather a black, papery fabric. This seems more environmentally friendly, though styrofoam is still used to secure the case in place. Nothing wrong with that, though. Packaged with the case is a toolbox, a 3.5" media CD (no information written on it), a user's manual, SATA power and signal extenders (I'll share the use for them on pages 2 and 3), and a cleaning cloth. The cleaning cloth was a great idea from Sentey, as the high gloss paint job fingerprints very easily!
As seen below, I received the black model. It has a very sleek look, but not eye-popping colors that are more preference-oriented, which I like. I prefer this one the most over the other cases, as the colored mesh looks kind of cheap. It will be seen later in the review exactly how reflective the paint job on this case is, but it's already clear from the reflection of my "photo studio" surroundings in the side panel.


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DOVER — If there was a window for moral victories for a young Marshwood/Traip hockey team, you can consider it closed.
Trying to get back above the .500 mark Monday night, Marshwood saw its early 2-0 lead slip away in a 3-2 Western Maine Class A loss to Portland/Deering at the Dover Ice Arena, one that left coach Eric Royal frustrated, upset and a little bit perplexed.
Antonio DiPietro scored the game-winner for Portland (4-2) midway through the third period. The Hawks (4-5) had some great chances in the last few minutes, buzzing after gaining back-to-back power plays, but couldn't produce the equalizer.
"It's disappointing," said Royal. "We don't have the will power, the drive to win a hockey game like that. They outhustled us. They outworked us. That's why they won the hockey game."
The Hawks, who don't have a senior on their roster, were playing without forwards Drew Hale, who's missed most of the season, and second-leading scorer Seth Lawrence, who suffered a concussion in a win against Kennebunk last week.
Junior center Peter Lajeunesse had a goal and an assist for Marshwood, which also got a goal from Jake Scremin and a solid game in goal from Tyler Gagnon.
In a competitively wide-ranging Western Maine Class A, it was only the fourth game of the year for the Hawks that was decided by fewer than five goals. Of those four, they've won two and lost two, though their coach feels that mark should be better.
"I'm tired of, 'We're young,'" said Royal, who's taken the team to the regional semifinals in each of the last two years. "We're halfway through the season. If they can't play at the high school level we've got problems. And some of that is my fault."
Mike Fuller and Caleb Fraser scored second-period goals for the Bulldogs, who carried the play in the final two periods until the shorthanded situations left them on their heels at the end.
With Ben Barnes serving the second of two straight penalties on his team and the clock ticking down toward two minutes, Jake Cagnina made a nice rush but his backhand from the right side sailed over the net.
Gagnon was pulled with a minute left and defenseman Joe Spinney teed up a shot from the left point that was deflected just wide. Twice goalie Jon Gatti made stops on scrums on the doorstep before the final horn sounded.
"That was a tense last couple minutes," said Portland coach Chad Hart. "Those guys played very hard and had some good chances. We basically survived those last five or six minutes."
The teams skated evenly in the first period, but the Hawks took a 2-0 lead. Lajeunesse opened the scoring with his team-high 10th goal barely two minutes in, getting sprung by Brandon Cagnina on a breakaway and snapping a wrister over the left shoulder of Gatti.
Working on the power play for the first time late in the period, Lajeunesse carried the puck across the blueline on the left and dropped it for Jake Cagnina who, in turn, left it for Scremin. Scremin's shot had just enough pace to find the far corner and the Hawks led 2-0.
"Then they just started winning battles," said Royal. "You win enough of the little battles, you're going to win the hockey game."
The second period was all Portland. After killing off a penalty midway through, Fuller got the Bulldogs on the board when he took a pass from Zach Luce in the high slot and wrested one into the top corner.
Fraser squared things late in the period, setting up in front to chip in a centering pass from Barnes, who was in deep on the right.
"The first period was a tough one for us," said Hart. "We came out pretty sluggish. But they came back strong in the second period and we needed that."
The game-winner came when Luigi Grimaldi beat a defenseman on the right and backhanded a puck into traffic that DiPietro got a stick on and scored.
A close game for Marshwood. But not the final result it wanted.
"It's disappointing and frustrating to watch what happened in the second and third period," said Royal.


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As your high school theater teacher always said, there's drama all around us. Most of it's the kind that makes work longer than it needs to be, and keeps your friends from getting along at parties—in other words, the kind you don't want. But in movies, you don't have to actually deal with it, which makes it less of something to avoid, and more of a source of entertainment. Movie drama is great, playing out beautifully, hilariously, and tragically in the 120 or so minutes of a great motion picture. The following films are more than worth the price of admission at any theater in the world, but if you have Netflix, you can stream them for free in the comfort of your own home.
Swap bad drama for good with the 25 best drama movies streaming on Netflix right now. If none of these movies are up your alley, or if you simply prefer a lighter form of entertainment, check out our list of the Best Comedy Movies Streaming on Netflix Right Now. Maybe you're looking for something more diverse, in which case, you should read our list of The Best Movies on Netflix streaming right now. If all else fails, there's always Netflix's other great asset, which is a fine selection of TV shows, and we've picked out the 50 Best TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now.
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The show: "Time Stands Still" by Donald Margulies at Hartford's TheaterWorks
First impressions: There are minefields aplenty in this tale about the relationship between a wounded war photojournalist and her foreign correspondent partner. The setting is not Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria but rather a loft apartment in Brooklyn where the couple returns after a particularly horrific assignment.
There are lots of political and moral issues to consider, ranging from journalistic ethics to the effect images of violence have in culture. But at the heart of this story is a human relationship that unravels in tiny degrees, examining in daily detail what happens when a couple is no longer in the same frame of focus.
Rob Ruggiero directs a finely nuanced production with a quartet of terrific performances. This is a must-see show for those who like theater that engages, challenges and stays with you long after the show is over.
What's it about?: Sarah Goodman (Erika Rolfsrud) and her partner of eight years James (Tim Altmeyer) — "the Sid and Nancy of journalism" — are pretty shaken on their return. He is still recovering from a nervous breakdown while on an earlier assignment in the Mideast; she is newly scarred and terribly broken, the victim of a roadside bomb that took the life of her translator. He is nervously solicitous; independent Sarah bristles at the attention as she painfully mends her body and heart.
The extended stay at home is a balm for James who relishes an assignment as banal as writing about horror movies. He also envies the blissful ordinariness of the newfound life that their longtime friend and publisher Richard (Matthew Boston) has found with his much younger girlfriend Mandy (Liz Holtan). But Sarah is itching to return to her work documenting in intimate detail the victims of war.
Sounds serious: Actually with characters this smart and sharp, it's a very witty play. As Sarah says about Richard's relationship with Mandy: "There's young and there's... embryonic." It's a stunningly efficient play, too.
Efficient?: With great economical craft, Margulies details characters, conflict and relationships with a gesture, a look, an everyday throwaway line that shows the growing cracks in a foundation.
The performances?: First-rate all around. Ruggiero directs the actors with such everyday ease that you feel you're eavesdropping. The intimacy of the TheaterWorks space works even better for the play than when I saw it on Broadway.
Rolfsrud and Altmeyer have a natural intimacy and rhythms of a longtime couple. Altmeyer conveys with detailed delicacy the loving comfort that both supports and smothers. Rolfsrud balances the tough and the tender as the woman who captures moments but does not know how to live in them. Both are heartbreaking as they struggle with the realization that they are on diverging paths.
Boston, who played the exec who finds redemption in Hartford Stage's "Water by the Spoonful," provides humor and concern as the editor who discovers the midlife joys with Mandy, played with guileless ease by Holtan.
Who will like it?: Donald Margulies fans, especially those who liked his other strong relationships plays: "Dinner with Friends" and "Sight Unseen."
Who won't?: Those who need more narrative fireworks and easy answers.
For the kids?: Smart older teens might appreciate the ethical journalistic dilemmas and the complexity of relationships, but, overall, it's an adult drama.
Any footnotes?: In the second act, one couple receives as a wedding present a first edition photobook by Robert Capa. The war photojournalist was the subject of a unproduced screenplay by Margulies.
Twitter review in 140 characters or less?: War is hell but relationships aren't a walk in the park either as shown in this tight, taut drama.
Thoughts on leaving the parking lot?: Much is said about Goodspeed Opera House's minuscule stage — it's almost obligatory to mention the fact in reviews — but the TheaterWorks stage is just as challenging. It has had many outstanding designers who transform the basement space and Luke Hegel-Cantarella is the latest of these stage magicians, here creating a Brooklyn loft so lived-in you want to pull up a chair.
The basics: The show, at the 233 Pearl St. theater, continues through Sept. 15. Running time is 2 hours and 5 minutes, including one intermission. Performances are Tuesdays through Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday matinees ar 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 to $63. Seniors at Saturday martinees are $35; student rush $17. Information: 860-527-7838 and www.theaterworkshartford.org.
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Micropilot FMR540
Horn antenna and parabolic antenna for custody transfer applications
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Micropilot FMR540 is used for custody transfer and inventory control applications with NMi- and PTB-approvals and meets the requirements according to OIML R85 and API 3.1B. FMR540 with parabolic antenna is particularly suited for free space applications up to 40m and with horn antenna for free space applications that disallow the use of a parabolic antenna due to tank/nozzle geometry. Cost-effective and simple installation via 4-wire cable with HART and 24 V DC intrinsically safe power supply.
Better than 1mm accuracy
National approvals (NMi, PTB) for custody transfer
Applicable as stand-alone system or integrated into tank gauging systems via the Tank Side Monitor NRF590
Cost-effective and simple installation via 4-wire cable with HART and 24 V DC intrinsically safe power supply
Alignment device to compensate any flange inclination
Easy on-site operation via menu-driven alphanumeric display
Easy commissioning, documentation and diagnostics via operating software (FieldCare)
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Parabolic antenna suited for free space applications up to 40m offers high beam focusing for applications with nozzle situated close to tank wall, 4"/DN100 horn antenna suited for free space applications.
Process connection: Flange
Temperature: -40 to +200°C (-40 to +392°F)
Pressure: Vacuum to +16bar (Vacuum to +232psi)
Maximum measuring range: 40m (131ft)
Accuracy: Better than ±1mm
K-band: 26GHz
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A BlankTV Feature Presentation:
Arthur Walwin - "All For You"
The video shows a couple who have gone through a recent tragedy and are trying to get through it. The girl is finding it really hard to cope and the guy does everything he can to make her feel better and get her through it.
We actually shot it all within a day. The whole band drove up to Tamworth in Birmingham, UK and we had a lot of help from 'Chasing Skylines', who's EP I produced earlier in the year. They let us use their practice room and loaned us some gear etc; it was really cool.
Also, the video was sponsored by 'Composed Clothing', which is owned by one of my best friends Mike, who plays bass in the video too.
Hailing from the South East of London, England, the newly signed Engineer Records artist has been building a name for himself with his YouTube covers and now, original material. The new release sees Arthur taking on the role of both artist and producer, giving him the freedom to incorporate many of his eclectic influences into his music. The songs are reminiscent of early Mayday Parade and some of the slower songs by artists like 'You Me At Six' and 'Paramore'. The EP is a departure from his band (Paige), however there are still shades of piano-lead American Pop/Rock in his songs.
The majority of "For One More Night" was recorded at Arthur's home studio in Essex, however the track "All For You" started in one of the drum rooms at his university (The Academy of Contemporary Music) and ended up at Matt o'Grady's studio in Woking, UK (You Me At Six, Deaf Havana).
The songs on the EP were written autobiographically about the relationships in Arthur's life, and read like a narrative or diary. The lyrics were often posted on his Tumblr way before the songs they would eventually belong to took proper form. Musically, the songs are softer and more delicate than anything he's done in the past, in order to accompany the deeply personal lyrical content.
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Don't Blame the Left if Obama Loses
Crossposted on Tikkun Daily
By Eli Zaretsky
If Obama wins, there will be a collective sigh of relief that Romney has been defeated but probably not much excitement over a meandering and uninspiring campaign's victory. But if Obama loses there will be a great debate among Democrats as to what went wrong. Some will say that Obama went too far to the left, others to the right. But inevitably, the Left will be blamed for not being sufficiently supportive– not recognizing his achievements, saving us from another Great Depression, achieving health care and banking reform, supporting women's rights, etc., etc. For me, Obama needed nothing so much as an independent, critical Left, but if he fails to gain reelection the failure will be his. Consider the record:
1-The Budget: Since 1933 the Right has had one mantra: cut government spending; balance the budget. In one way or another Democratic politicians have had to finesse this issue for the simple reason that the government's budget is not the same as a household, and the government can run a deficit for such ends as wars or to make social advances. As to entitlements, they are called that for a reason. They were instituted to counterbalance the permanent inequities that the market brings.
Obama's first great failure is that he has allowed the Republicans to define his agenda for him, by falling into their trap of conceding that the budget was the number one problem facing us. Its Obama that appointed Bowles-Simpson, that agreed to sequestration, that has made cutting government spending THE inevitable issue for the next decade or so. This is one huge reason for his failure, if he fails.
2- Health Care: The health care issue is left over from the New Deal reforms. Health care is a right, an entitlement, just as good public schools and safe streets and roads are rights. Obama's second great failure was to redefine health care as a cost-cutting issue. Reforms don't speak for themselves. Of course if the Republicans win, they will gut health care, but even if they lose we are in for a series of fights centered on cutting health care costs. Let us never forget, it was Obama who first raised the issue of how much money we were spending on people in the last six months of their life. In doing so, he let the Republicans pose as the defenders of Medicare, his second disastrous mistake.
3- Unions: Under Obama we have seen union rights rolled back drastically, teachers and policemen fired, services cut in state after state. In all of this Obama NEVER said one word about the need for unions. He stayed out of Wisconsin, for example. This is the third great reason that working people do not see him as their advocate.
4- Afghanistan: Obama's supporters are few but powerful. In essence, they are apologists and it is from them that the left can expect to be blamed. One of their greatest distortions has been their claim that Obama was forced to expand the war in Afghanistan because of his original campaign statement that it was a "good war." Many people, both American and Afghan died because Obama did not have the gumption to resist the pressures from the military, who know only one thing: more killing. His decision to launch this wasteful, pointless war was one of the many ways in which he validated Bush's Iraq war, and the destruction of civil liberties, which he supposedly ran against.
5- China: American's ignorance of Asia is so vast, that no one has even noticed that Obama referred to China as our adversary in the last debate. The US-China agreement, beginning in the late nineteen sixties to avoid war, is one of the cornerstones of global order. Obama is threatening this, for no reason other than his inability to resist the Generals, and his desire to score politically. Historically, his China policy may turn out to far more consequential than it seems today.
6- Israel: Obama has completely subordinated America's interests, not to mention social justice, to Netanyahu. The idea that he is preventing Israel from launching a strike against Iran is a ridiculous piece of theatre. Such a strike would be folly and everyone knows this. Obama has empowered the Israeli right, way beyond anything Bush ever dreamt of, just as he has empowered the Japanese right through his Asia policies. The heart of the matter is Israeli racism toward Arabs, and everyone in the Arab world knows this.
Conclusion: Obama's biggest failure is none of the above. His biggest failure is to have discounted the hopes he raised in 2008. Electing the first African-American President was a fantastic achievement, and because it coincided with the discrediting of Bush's economic and foreign policies, it opened terrific possibilities for a new path. Obama has not only not moved in a new direction, he has subtly encouraged the idea that those hopes were overstated, and that the obstacles he faced were structural, overwhelming, etc– a series of vacuous excuses. I for one want to reaffirm the hopes I had in 2008– the desire to break with neo-liberalism both domestically and in foreign policy. Obama's refusal to attempt such a break is the main reason for his weak electoral position today.
Eli Zaretsky is the author of Why America Needs a Left.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 22, 2009) - The ETSU men's soccer will head to North Florida Friday at 7:30 p.m. to take on the Ospreys at Hodges Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla.
The Bucs (2-7-3, 1-3-1 A-Sun) split their contests last weekend with an impressive 3-0 win over FGCU and a tough 1-0 loss to Stetson. Sophomore Sean Hoek (Newburgh, Ind.) leads the team with three goals, six points and one game-winner.
ETSU lost its only match against the Ospreys a year ago as the Bucs dropped a heartbreaking 2-1 double-overtime loss to UNF at home.
North Florida (2-9-1, 2-2-1 A-Sun) comes into the match three points ahead of the Bucs in the conference standings. The Ospreys have won three of their last four matches defeating Stetson, Jacksonville and Lipscomb before falling to Belmont. Junior Adam O'Neill leads UNF with four goals and nine points on the season.
Live video is available by clicking the link above. For more information on Buccaneer men's soccer or any other athletic news, please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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Hereford Cathedral
Hereford Cathedral
5 College Cloisters,
Cathedral Close,
Events at this Venue
|Mon 3 Dec - Sun 6 Jan
|Curious About Hereford
|Thu 20 Dec
|Family Christmas Carol Service in aid of the ABF
|Fri 18 Jan - Sun 24 Feb
|Curious About Hereford
Built on a place of worship used since Saxon times, Hereford Cathedral contains some of the finest examples of architecture from Norman times to the present day, including the 13th century Shrine of St. Thomas of Hereford, the recently restored 14th century Lady Chapel and the award-winning 20th century New Library Building.
Join our Hereford Cathedral Guides to explore the interior of the building at 11.00 am and 2.00 pm (Monday to Saturday) between Easter and the end of October or enjoy the Gardens of Hereford Cathedral Tour at 3.00 pm (Saturday and Wednesday) in July and August.
The award-winning Mappa Mundi & Chained Library Exhibition houses the spectacular medieval map of the world and the Cathedral's unique Chained Library, telling the stories of these national treasures through models, artefacts and changing exhibitions and displays.
Other activities include concerts, recitals, The Three Choirs Festival (in August every third year), exhibitions, events and a working stonemasons yard where skilled craftsmen use traditional methods to restore this ancient and beautiful cathedral.
Amenities include on-site Cloister Cafe and Cathedral Shop, wheelchair accessibility and Braille and large print information available.
Opening details
Mappa Mundi & Chained Library Exhibition
Monday – Saturday: 10am – 4pm*
Explore Hereford's famous medieval map and discover how scholars interpreted the world over 700 years ago, displayed alongside 225 illuminated manuscripts and over 1,200 early printed books.
Cloister Cafe
Monday – Saturday: 10am – 4pm*
Serving a delicious range of hot and cold snacks, drinks, homemade soups, cakes and seasonal treats. Fairtrade tea, coffee and wine are also served.
Cathedral Shop
Monday – Saturday: 10am – 4pm*
Visit the Cathedral Shop for a wide selection of exclusive Christmas Cards, decorations, seasonal gifts, publications and souvenirs.
*Exhibition last admission 30min before closing, Cloister Cafe last orders 15mins before closing. Also closed on Sundays, Christmas Eve (from 1pm), Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day. The Mappa Mundi and Chained Library Exhibition is also closed for essential cleaning and conservation work between early January.
Various charges apply
In the centre of Hereford, right across from the Discover Herefordshire tourist information centre.
- Facilities for educational visits
- Gift shop
- Guided tours for groups


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Marta Kauffman '78 comes back to campus with her new film
Marta Kauffman '78 was back at Brandeis recently for a screening of her new documentary "Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh." The film, which tells the story of WWII resistance fighter and poet Hannah Senesh, is a major shift in subject matter for Kauffman, who is best known as the executive producer of the hit television program Friends, which she created with fellow Brandeis alum David Crane '79. The screening and subsequent Q&A, moderated by yet another Brandeis alum, LA Times blogger and film industry awards analyst Scott Feinberg, was the latest star-studded event sponsored by the Film Studies Program and the Edie and Lew Wasserman Fund.


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TURN BACK THE CLOCK – 1960 park
As part of the new look of www.AllstateSugarBowl.org, the website's history section has been greatly expanded. The history section includes many stories that highlight the rich tradition from the first 75 years of the Classic, including stories on No. 1 teams and Heisman Trophy winners, a ranking of the top Sugar Bowls of all-time, photo galleries of the game's Most Valuable Players and all of the game program covers, as well as recaps and statistics from each game. The site's history section will continue to expand and this week, the Allstate Sugar Bowl turns back the clock to 1960 and the memorable Sugar Bowl between Ole Miss and LSU – a rematch of the "Game of the Century" from Halloween night of 1959 when LSU's Billy Cannon cut loose with a fourth-quarter superhuman 89-yard punt return for a touchdown in LSU's 7-3 victory.
Click here for the 1960 recap.
Click here for the full History section.