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The technical director for Frostbite, Johan Andersson has announced on twitter why Frostbite 3 will not be on the WiiU.
If Frostbite 2 doesn't run on the Wii U, then it would have been really surprising if Frosbite 3 did. But I'm not sure if Wii U owners are interested in BF 4 or Dragon Age 3 (game using FB 3) anyway. Or if they are, never intended to play them on that system.
Ouch! Seriously, what did Nintendo do with all the money they made on the Wii? Because at this point they should start considering paying for 3rd party support. ;)
Frostbite 3 a next-gen engine! Faithfuls exposed!
So right man, where did they spend the money in research and development because wiiu is not next gen and its only on par with current gen
Most ext gen engines aren't gonna run on wiiu
Nintendo better show. Lot at E3 otherwise wiiu will be a or gotten device that people will buy to only play Nintendo exclusives
I agree with a lot of what you said, however, let me point out one mistake:
"...wiiu is not next gen..."
^Next Gen doesn't have to do with "specs", it has to do with the system releases. (ie: "Nintendo 64 and PSX", "PS2, Xbox and Gamecube", "Xbox 360, PS3, Wii".)
Everyone acknowledged that the Wii was part of the last generation, I don't see how it'd be any different with the WiiU.
Next Gen = Next GENERATION = "Generation"! Think about it. Generation.
Think about it, with your logic, that's like saying that your father is in the same generation as you are, within your family. That's not right by any means.
I agree that the WiiU lacks power, COMPARED to the PS4 (and maybe the nextbox- wait until it's announced.) but the misuse of "next gen" could be very aggravating to others.
They use it to build a console base off a specific market believing it would drive users to their new console. The specific market I'm referring to is the tablet market. Sadly it didn't have the effect they thought it.
They went from "Hey here's something for the whole family to enjoy" to "Hey here's something for you to enjoy"
They should have just made a wii2. Increase the specs to make the console more future-proof and pleasing to third party developers. Kept the motion gaming for the causal crowd. Possibly redefine the controller and motion gaming mechanics. Not only that but kept core games controller only. The tablet could've still been available for those who want it.
How could they not get Frostbite 2 working on WiiU if it already works with PS3/360?
Nintendo spent most of the money they earned from Wii days on numerous free for all Orgies, high class prostitutes with huge tits and getting high every weekend. The left over from all that sodomy went to developing the Wii U. How ironic isn't it. They've been Cum-drained as a company.
The comments here are kind of stupid. CryEngine 3, Anvil, Unreal 3+4, Hedgehog, and so many other engines run on Wii .
EA and DICE were too damn lazy to port the engine over. EA is still butthurt over the whole origin fiasco.
@LOL Wut
"Because at this point they should start considering paying for 3rd party support. ;)"
The Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, Lego City Undercover, Monster Hunter 3?????
They'd still need to rewrite parts to make it work on Wii U, likely.
The fact they've moved on, they probably don't see this as worth any sort of investment or time.
@BitbyDeath The memory of the WiiU is slower than on systems that are 7 respectively 8 years older:
WiiU: 12.8 GB/s
360: 22.4 GB/s
PS3: 25.6 GB/s
Doesn´t matter if there´s 2 GB of it if it´s that sluggish.
Frostbite 2 runs on 256MB...
When I see BF4 or the mention of Frostbite I start getting sleepy. The only thing Frostbite related that intrigues me is the next Mass Effect.
What's funny is that the only time I've ever heard anyone say "next gen is not about specs, it's about releases" is this gen with the Wii U. I wonder why that could be.
Because it's with the Wii U in particular that people insist that it is not a generation eight console based solely on its specifications. Not even the Wii received that sort of treatment and its specs were comparable to an original Xbox, perhaps even lower.
@PopRock359 People don't pretend the Wii U isn't a generation 8 console, in fact most people probably don't even know about the specific console generations. When people say the Wii U isn't next gen its because it came out 7 years after a console cycle started and is only marginally better than those consoles, if not worse in some aspects.
The Wii U is TECHNICALLY next gen in terms of its release time frame; but in comparison to the Xbox 360 and PS3 specs it's laughable to label the Wii U as next gen...especially with what we know about the PS4.
I get that it might be frustrating to hear so many disregard the Wii U by not saying it's next gen, but instead of arguing semantics just let it go.
@colinzeal that information was given out by a person on a forum who had no expertise other than google, it probably came down to a lack of optimization to the gpgpu. From a couple interviews i've heard the 1gb ram is not a bottleneck for the wii u, even if it could have been more.
@Thirty3Three- I agree that the term has changed since the Wii came out. Before then, developers would just say next gen. Wii is what caused developers to coin the term "High end next gen" ie when they announced Bioshock, they stated for "all High end next gen systems" ie they now needed to re-state what Next Gen exactly was.
Regardless of what its called, it means NOTHING for the Wii U, its a pretty stupid agrument and just makes anyone who supports Wii U look even dumber.
Wii is current gen yes? WTF DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING IF Mass Effect, Assassain's Creed, GTA, Red Dead, LA Noire, Bioshock, Battlefield. Dead Space etc all skipped the system? So.....because its "called" current gen or it "released" around the same time it some how mains it will get the same games?
So.....if it didn't happen for the Wii....its somehow going to happen with the Wii U? LMFAO! Now....100 million units couldn't make that reality happen. What needs to be coined here is a term known as "HIGH END NEXT GEN" as in "ONLY PC PS4 and 720" Now this is not me thats dubbed this label, you can think the rest of the gaming industry for doing that.
When we are talking about Next gen as in NEW LOOKING GAMES and NEW AI FEATURES....we are talking about "HIGH END NEXT GEN" (say it with me) "HIGH END NEXT GEN".
PS4, PC, 720. ie "HIGH END NEXT GEN", aka "EVERYTHING BUT A NINTENDO SYSTEM" aka "Wii vs PS3,PC,360' aka "Wii U vs PS4, PC, XB Fusion"
Its funny cause I actually agreed with you. (I still do on some level) but No...the Wii U is next gen by name only. The Nextbox will be a high end next gen system with PC and PS4. Gaming didn't let Wii's dated tech hold it back from making amazing games, I don't see why they will let Wii U.
@Thirty3Three - Define the terms however you want, but that next gen system is comparable in power to current systems, so not calling it next gen seems perfectly reasonable to me.
@ ijust2good:
EVERY console should be made like that.
Sure, we'd have Commodore 64 graphics in 2016, but think of the FUN!
@yodagamer, might have some truth to it considering all the OS issues they are having and that's running on a full 1GB
it's becoming commonplace now. Heads are going to roll for all of this incompetence.
all this means is that nintendo has yet again failed to appeal to a larger audience which is what they were aiming for with the wiiU and games like bayonetta2 and zombie U. looks like they need to rethink their strategy and cater to their nintendo fans with their tried and trusted titles like zelda, xeno blade and whatever it is nintendo fans are so fond of. the real crisis is if they fail in that respect too. personally i really hate that the halfhearted attempts by using old titles and sticking a "U" at the end like super mario U its as if they are not even trying anymore. not all doom and gloom just yet however
Really? Is this really bad news for Nintendo? Think about it. Nintendo made a system before with a lack of 3rd party support when they made the Wii. Now if they wanted those type of games, why wouldn't they just make a system that was truly "high end"?
Its cause they don't want to. THINK ABOUT IT! Why should Nintendo as a publisher waste money making a beast system for games that will and have sold better on Sony and MS systems? I'm sorry but what Nintendo did with the Wii wasn't some sort of mistake. They knew VERY DAMN WELL WHAT THEY WHERE DOING! You guys do understand that Nintendo is purposely getting there crowd not get use to certain IP's? They don't want 3rd party support in that respect, they want 3rd parties to make "default exclusives" by making a weak system, they are now avoiding ports from PS4 and 720.
ie LESS COMPETITION FOR NINTENDO'S OWN IP's. Genius.
No mistake was made with the Wii U, its exactly what Nintendo wanted. Many of you have stated on here a whole lot "I'm buying it for Nintendo games" that is the attitude they want to hear. So your money when to ONLY Nintendo for the system clearly and your games are ONLY Nintendo games too? Sounds so bad for Nintendo. LOL!
All due respect, I did NOT buy a Wii U for Nintento exclusives. I bought it with hopes that there would be decent (existant?) 3rd-party support.
"They knew VERY DAMN WELL WHAT THEY WHERE DOING!"
By that do you mean, they want to be at the bottom? Cause I don't want to play on the system that has little to no 3rd-party support.
Nintendo can race to the bottom if they wish, I'll choose to jump ship!
Smells of EA stink lies and influence. Hmmm, so Crytek Engine 3 runs on Wii U (Shadow of the Eternals using this engine and will be for PC/WiiU) and Frostbite 3 can run on Xbox360/PS3 but cannot run on Wii U. It sure smells like a lie.
Interesting point, I'm surprised no one pointed this out.
And the way EA has been unsupportive of the wii U, suggests your right.
Yep, the fact that Frostbite 3 runs on the PS3 and 360 makes the rest of the statement pretty much redundant. Of course the engine will run on the Wii U, they just don't want it to.
unless they wanna admit how inferior of an engine Frostbite 3. i mean, why would CryEngine 3 run on Wii U; or Unreal Engine 3 (and some 4), or any of Ubisoft's game engine (like that of Watch_Dogs) run on Wii U, but they can't make FB3 work on it?
at least CryTek had the balls to admit that the reason they won't bring Crysis 3 in the Wii U (albeit admitting that they were able to run Crysis3 in it) is because EA doesn't want to publish it for the Nintendo console.
Then no. I won't be surprised if they can't get any of the new star wars games to run either...Or any of their games when it comes to EA....since EA is still butthurtt about no origins. Although, Had Nintendo went through, I bet EA would be singing on top of a mountain about how fantastic the Wiiu is, just like they did when it was announced.
well i guess you're right to some extent but that would imply that EA is not interested on developing for the wiiu, the real question is why?
Wow Way to straight up LIE to Gamers!
Just tell the truth EA, Poor WiiU sales (Less than 4 Million) is not enough to warrant porting games to the WiiU.
making up some crap about the Frostbite 2 Engine not running on the WiiU is CRAP.
Need for Speed Most Wanted U runs Frostbite 2 Engine with the PC textures and assets perfectly fine at 30 fps I assume 30. An EA game. :P
Mosted Wanted doesnt use FB2 it uses Criterion's Hot Pursuit engine
I am pretty sure if Nintendo sales skyrockected over the next year or two then sure Frostbite 3 would be on WiiU almost instantly. EA though WiiU would sell faster than the Wii and it didn't give them gold with Mass Effect 3, and Need for Speed U on WiiU. Which mind you Frostbite 2 runs fine with Need for Speed U. An EA game most are ignoring in thinking about this.
You believe this? The Frostbite engine, 2 or 3, is not doing anywhere near as much as the Crytek engine 3 and that runs on the Wii U with no issues. Heck, even UE4 can run on the Wii U to some degree. The devs said it.
The reason it doesn't run on the Wii U is because they didn't make it run on the Wii U. If they stopped after a few test then that means they didn't try to optimize, debug, or recode anything. You can't put a program on a completely different architecture than it was built for an it work perfectly with no effort.
Of course most people don't even care about that. All they care is that they can use this as more fodder to bash Nitnendo. Reality and logic always take a seat when its that time.
The Dead Island devs tried to make that claim as well but the game engine dev stepped in and said it worked just fine. Anyone who says a game engine that runs on the PS3/360 can't run "better" on the Wii U is lying. If it doesn't work, that means they didn't want it to.
"Well Said"
Another case of an engine designer or developer,
making a lie the truth.
Says: "Nintendo WiiU can't run this engine.
Thinks: ("Because we did not design it too. hahahaha!"
Says: "Nintendo fans don't buy our games or these types of games."
Thinks: ("I think it is because of all of the crappy test games we make for Nintendo consoles. 'Dead Space' on rails haha! And maybe it is because they bought another console while they were waiting for us to release our game on their Nintendo console.")
Well said indeed. Wii U's third party issues have just as much to do with a lack of interest/effort on the developers as it does with Nintendo's hardware, if not more so.
Damn, so the wii u cant even run fb2 adequately? help!
I hate when people say Nintendo fans don't care about game a or game b, how can someone say that when Nintendo gamers are gamers just like Sony, PC and Microsoft gamers. The fact that companies are pulling away from the Wii u only 6 months in, is disappointing because a section of gamers are being ignored just because they like Nintendo.
I wonder what "not too promising results" really means. Does it mean it would have to have been heavily modified to make it run like it WILL be on PS360?
That's what it sounds like. It's weird cause they talk about how well Frostbite scales to different hardware. Hurts their creditably a little bit if they didn't even really try.
They were saying that when they tested Frostbite 2 on Wii U hardware,, which already ran on PS3 and 360 (it's what runs BF3), they were not impressed. They never even attempted to port frostbite 3. In other words, it didn't even do as good as PS3 and 360 at running their last engine, so they didn't even bother with the new one. It likely had to do with CPU limitations since by all indications Wii U has a more powerful GPU.
"It likely had to do with CPU limitations since by all indications Wii U has a more powerful GPU."
Agreed that; and it sounds like the connection bus my not be enough in its ability to handle the data through put at an acceptable speed for the engine for its throughput to the io.
well if nintendo had frostbite than we would probably have to amputate.
They must not have tried or its a crap not well coded engine as the team at crytek managed to get cryengine 3 running on the Wii U. EA just really are holding a grudge against Nintendo atm
It's a not so good engine. Even the previous engine had better destruction and collision. The only thing it really seems to be strictly better at is graphics.
Well.. that's disappointing news for Wii U owners..
No, its not. It never is. "This is just EA". You can stick the words in quotation up whenever something involving them or one of their subsidiaries pop up and you will have the opinion of the majority of Wii U owners. There is no love lost, for there would have to be some to begin with.
No Wii U owner expects anything from EA or their affiliates. We all know they are bitter about Nintendo not bending over for them. They made that clear before launch when they announced they were gimping the games they bring to the console.
Why do so many people, like you and lol_wut, come in hear proposing, hopingly, that we feel some kind of apprehension or sadness about this?
1. Why would we feel bad for not getting a game that we never asked for or expressed any desire to obtain to begin with?
2. Have you seen Wii U owners asking or begging for games made with the Frostbite Engine anywhere, ever?
3. Why would we need this games with this engine when we will have better ones out by then?
All of you apparently want us to be resentful, hard, but I assure you that we do not care in the least.
I know I don't. The last EA owned game I really gave a care about was Mass Effect 3, and the last one I thoroughly enjoyed was Brutal Legend (and that was only published by EA).
I think I can survive without the likes of Madden, Crysis and Battlefield. That and if I really want to dive into those games (doubtful at full price, mind you) I'd probably get a PS4 first.
Oh come one, I don't think you could sound more resentful if you tried.
Don't listen to the Nintendo fanboys.
As a Wii U owner, it does hurt.
This, among the countless games that ARENT coming to the Wii U, makes my purchase very very regrettable.
EA is still butthurt over being told "no" to an Origin based Nintendo Network. Nothing to see here.
The thing is you say that, but one thing I learned about 3rd party devs and publishers last gen with the PS3 is that 3rd parties bend over for no-one, in the end Nintendo needs 3rd parties like EA more than they need Nintendo, this is further backed by the fact that they make most of their money of the other consoles and PC.
Otherwise you get a console like the N64 and Gamecube. The reality is Nintendo made a console based on their standards and their criteria, not on what developers want.
Well, it has been reported that sales wise, first party games for Sony and Microsoft accounted for only 6% of total sales. Nintendo first party games accounted for 32%.
Nintendo will always have a strong first party stable and people who will buy these games. But, since the Wii U will not be doing Wii numbers, Nintendo has to get third parties on board if it wants to expand it's user base.
Exactly It's no secret that people buy Nintendo consoles for Nintendo games, with exception of the Wii that sold purely based on a gimmick.
The thing is, that may sound good on paper, but In reality it's actually a bad thing, because it means the only people that buy Nintendo consoles are Nintendo fans, 3rd party Developers have realised this, which is why Nintendo's 3rd party support has been pretty weak for almost 2 decades now.
Again this shouldn't be a problem if you're a fan of Nintendo, but if you don't care for Nintendo games there consoles offer virtually nothing for you,
again the Gamecube was a system that appealed only to Nintendo fans the exclusives sold well but that didn't translate into a console that barely scraped 20 million units worldwide, reason's being because it lacked the 3rd party support especially towards the end of it's lifetime. Which is why I lol whenever hear someone say "wait till, Mario, Zelda, Metroid.." like that's gonna help much
Nintendo's greatest strength is also their greatest weakness, something their fans will always sidestep.
Well seeing as to how many 3rd party companies went under this generation. I think that both EA and Nintendo need each others business! But lets not be foolish in thinking that EA would survive longer than Nintendo without working with them. The Wii never received any of these franchises that EA are currently withholding from the WiiU,(outside of Tiger Woods, Fifa and Madden which is more of a indicator that this is behind Origin) but Nintendo still managed ok. Once they work out whatever their differences are about the whole Origin failure, then I'm guessing that a miracle would be performed and all EA funded engines will suddenly work on WiiU... The damage will probably be beyond repair at that point though.
Can EA make their hatred for Nintendo any more obvious.
So let me get this straight, the Wii U isnt powerful enough to run the engine but the PS3 and the 360 can run it?
Am i missing something here or is the Wii U supposedly more powerful than the PS3 and the 360?
This is a bit confusing either the Wii U is weaker than the PS3 or the 360 or the hardware is so complex that developers wont even bother porting the engine over.
Something strange is going on here its almost as if 3rd partys want the Wii U to fail in favor of the PS4 and the 720.
It could run Cryengine 3 almost flawlessly and the Crysis 3 port was near completion but got cancelled by EA. This is likely due to the whole 'Nintendo not running Origin for their online service like Ea wanted them to' thing. Crysis 3 for Wii U was up and running, but it was not meant to be. Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli explained to VentureBeat that a lack of Electronic Arts-Nintendo business drive ultimately killed the project.
"We did have Crysis 3 running on the Wii U," Yerli said. "We were very close to launching it. But there was a lack of business support between Nintendo and EA on that. Since we as a company couldn't launch on the Wii U ourselves--we don't have a publishing license--Crysis 3 on Wii U had to die." http://www.gamespot.com/new...
Anybody can tell that cancelling an almost finished and well-running game is just pissing funds down the drain. EA was mad about something and Nintendo refusing to use origin, and subsequently handing over control of the online services to EA, is likely the reason.
Shadow of the Eternals is running on cry engine 3. Precursor gonna shut the trolls up.
I would have been mad if I spent all of that time porting Crysis 3 on the Wii U only for it to get cancelled near completion.
load of crap from ea and dice. Something happened between ea and nintendo that made them so butthurt
They don't care if the Wii U fails or not. It's just business for them.
The reason that the PS3 and 360 are getting BF4 is because Frostbite already runs on the consoles and because they each have a large customer base.
The reason the PS4 and XBox 8 are going to get Frostbite 3 is because they both similar in power and they both have the same 8 core CPUs.
And because Playstation and XBox have a reputation for adult games/mature themes and for shooters.
What financial incentive is there to port Frostbite 3 to the Wii U?
If you were a Battlefield or COD fan last gen would you have bought a Wii as your only console?
No. You'd have bought it for family fun or Mario and Zelda.
Nintendo are courting the same audience as they did last gen buy making a next gen console with internal components similar to current gen tech.
So you're probably thinking. Why not have a PS3, 360, WiiU version?
The reason is that PS3 and 360 are known consoles. DICE have been working on them a whole generation. Frostbite 2 already works on them.
Wii U doesn't have the userbase of the current gen consoles and will Battlefield even sell on a Nintendo console?
Porting a game is expensive. Are Dice going to port a game to a console with no userbase and where shooters aren't that popular? It's a business decision, nothing more. No spite. No pettiness.
That makes sense, but it also doesn't make sense to cancel an almost finished port after all that work and money was put into it and then don't even try to make anything but the bare basics for a system while claiming support. There's clearly something between Nintendo and EA, and considering that Acitvision seems to have no problem with them and EA's behavior general behavior, I have little doubt who started this.
Do you really think that if Wii Us started flying off the shelves and got a massive FPS fan following EA would ignore that?
It all comes down to money.
You're probably wondering why a game would get canned if it was mostly built. And the sad fact is that licencing, printing discs, marketing all cost far more that actually building the game. Losing all the money it cost to port the game is bad for a developer, but the money lost on a fully licenced marketed game that doesn't sell is worse.
EA have made an executive decision and have picked what they think is the lesser of two evils.
1) Lose some money on a mostly developed game.
2) Finish the game, print all the discs, pay all the nintendo licensing, server costs and then have a game that doesn't sell on that console? At which point you've lost even more money.
EDIT: I reckon DICE built the Wii U version, but EA told them to can it because they didn't want to spend the money licencing and marketing it, because they didn't think it would sell. Then they had to come up with a statement to the public why they wouldn't bring it out on the Wii U.
Wii U not being powerful enough is believable and a good excuse.
Have you ever seen that chart about how the cost of a game is divided up. I'll post if I can find the link. It's pretty interesting.
EDIT 2: http://www.newgamernation.c...
Well the developers have been saying for the last couple of years about more ram, Sony and MS have given this with PS4/Fusion and Nintendo did not.
I think developers are just saying why make a downgraded version for WiiU when we can concentrate on PS4/Fusion at max capacity with big install base.
Not knocking the WiiU but if I was a game maker I would be putting full production into PS4/Fusion and no support for the WiiU cause 90% of gamers would buy the game for PS4/Fusion anyway leading to wasteful money/time resources on the downgraded WiiU version.
By the time these games come out nintendo would have there big hitters out ie WiiU owner walks into game shop and see`s new zelda, f-zero and bf4 (downgraded version)they will buy the f-zero and zelda and not the bf4, they would pick it up for there other console of choice.


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Villager photo by Elisabeth Robert
Rick Prol at his B-Side Gallery, where he has curated East Village ASU, an exhibit of East Village 80s artists who didnt make the cut for the New Museums East Village USA show.
Kostabi gets dissed at door, as 80s art wars reignite
By Ronda Kaysen
Artist Mark Kostabi, who first made his mark in the East Village in the heady 1980s, was less disappointed about being excluded from East Village USA, the New Museum of Contemporary Arts retrospective about the era, than he was about being shut out from the shows Dec. 9 opening.
Standing outside the West Chelsea museum with Molly Barnes, the art dealer who discovered his work in 1982, a baffled Kostabi was stunned to learn that despite a mention in the exhibitions catalog, he was not invited into the Dan Cameron-curated retrospective.
I literally cried. The tears werent dripping down my face, but they were welled up, he told The Villager in a recent interview. I felt like an outsider and I said, I am an outsider now and I was even then.
Kostabi, the youngest living artist to see his work purchased by the Museum of Modern Art when he was 24, is not alone in feeling like an outsider these days. Several other slighted artists also with a token presence in the show consider themselves pivotal figures in the edgy, rebellious East Village art scene that enjoyed a vibrant, albeit brief heyday that was cut short, in large part, by the impact of AIDS.
Among the embittered artists is Rick Prol, a member of the first wave of East Village artists and a contemporary of the late graffiti artist turned star Jean-Michel Basquiat. Prol and his girlfriend, Jan Lynn Sokota, launched a similar exhibit on Dec. 7, East Village ASU (And Some Uthers), at his B-Side Gallery in response to what Prol sees as an uneven exhibition by Cameron.
Dan Cameron made a list and unfortunately that list was incomplete, said Sokota, also an artist. [East Village USA] will be the documentation of history and that documentation is inaccurate.
The B-Side show, according to Sokota, more accurately captures the spirit of the era. Organized in the salon style of the time, the small gallery space on Avenue B is packed with 73 pieces by 35 artists, some from the era and some newer artists not associated with the East Village movement.
Prol attributes his exclusion from the New Museums roster in part to politics. Hes homosexual and Im straight, said Prol of Cameron. Some gay men will treat you like shit once they find out you are straight.
Cameron, the New Museums senior curator, explained his decision in different terms in an e-mail he sent to Prol in October that The Villager acquired. [T]his could only be THE East Village exhibition if there were five co-curators working together and two floors of the Whitney at our disposal (or better yet, the Smithsonian), plus the requisite time & budget, he wrote. Instead, it is very much MY East Village exhibition, and once its on the New Museums walls I intend to stand there and take full responsibility for it, which includes accepting any criticism that people want to dish out. But Im not a cultural historian, and my intention is not to reconstruct an era, but rather to look again at some specific works and artists whom I believe deserve another take.
Cameron and the New Museum declined to comment for this article.
Prol is not entirely excluded from the exhibit, however. A lithograph by Prol is included in the ephemera section of the exhibition, although it is not labeled and his name does not appear in the catalog. This is not some kind of compromise, nor a halfway position on my part, but a way of genuinely acknowledging your contribution to the East Village, wrote Cameron in the e-mail.
Despite Camerons assessment, the exhibit is called East Village USA and not Dan Camerons East Village, a differentiation that will impact how the show is perceived, according to some in the artistic community. Its a major New York museum, Kostabi said. He said this is my East Village show and he said, Im not trying to be a cultural historian, but the public is going to read that show as a cultural document because its in a public museum and because of the title, so thats just not true.
The omission of Prol and Kostabi, in particular, has many in the art community concerned. If youre going to leave out Kostabi and Rick Prol, I dont know who you could put in after that. Kostabi was the most famous and Rick Prol was the most talented, said artist Ronnie Cutrone. Cutrone, who made his name in the 1970s as Andy Warhols assistant, sent an e-mail to Cameron on Prols behalf. It went unanswered. Its like doing a Pop Art show and leaving out Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg
. It was a major, major, major flaw. It was the biggest flaw you could make in curating a show.
Some artists see Prol and Kostabis presence in the ephemera section and Kostabis brief mention in the catalogs index as mention enough. Ive been telling Rick [Prol] that he should stop complaining. He did his own show. I called it a corrective, said Walter Robinson, editor of Artnet Magazine and a featured artist in East Village USA. The East Village incorporated hundreds of artists, so naturally some people are left out. Dan Cameron says very clearly that this is a personal take. Theres no scholarship here.
Some see Prols omission as an accurate curatorial decision on Camerons part. Rick Prol is a very minor artist, said Baird Jones, author of Mark Kostabi and the East Village Scene, 1983-1987. He was a minor artist compared to Buster Cleveland, who got consistent reviews in Art in America and Art News, and is not in the show.
Although Jones deems Camerons decision to omit Prol purely curatorial, he has a very different assessment of Kostabis fate. Kostabis continuing exile from the New York City art scene, he says, stems from a 1989 interview with Vanity Fair. Then a darling of the New York art world, he told the magazine, These museum curators, that are for the most part homosexual, have controlled the art world in the eighties. Now theyre all dying of AIDS, and although I think its sad, I know its for the better. Because homosexual men are not actively participating in the perpetuation of human life. His remark was followed by an uproar in the AIDS activist community, culminating with a heated demonstration outside a 1990 exhibition of Kostabis work at the New-York Historical Society.
East Village USA is very much an homage to those lost to the AIDS epidemic, among them Keith Haring, Peter Hujar, Nicolas Moufarrege, Paul Thek and David Wojnarowicz. The exhibit culminates in a memorial room dedicated to the work of several of those artists. Im sure Dan [Cameron] hates his guts, said Jones of Kostabi. Obviously Dan was aware of the comment; it was an incredible scandal.
But Kostabi, who now lives in Italy, insists the elaborate politics that define the New York City art world are more complex than a statement he has long since retracted. I made a horrible statement and I apologized for it and never once repeated it, he said. Emil Nolde, a Nazi sympathizer, who never apologized for his statements, did not lose his place among the German Expressionists for his opinions, Kostabi pointed out.
The politics of the East Village art scene, said Kostabi, are far pettier than anything having to do with 15-year-old inflammatory statements. I think more than that simplistic political argument was that I was not cool enough for him [Cameron] and Rick Prol wasnt cool enough either. The art world is like high school.
Cameron is currently immersed in a scandal of his own involving a $1 million lawsuit lodged against him and the New Museum by his former love interest, Oliver Kamm, owner of Chelsea 5B Gallery. The suit alleges that Cameron, in an attempt to defame Kamm, penned slanderous letters to Kamms lawyers, clients and colleagues about the gallery owner on New Museum letterhead, as first reported in the New York Post.
Kostabi, by his own admission, was very much an outsider in the East Village scene, and if the reason to exclude him and Prol was cliquish by nature, it does not answer Rhonda Zwillingers notable absence from the New Museums walls. Zwillinger, once a pivotal figure in the East Village movement, represented by Gracie Mansion, a quintessential East Village gallery, left New York in 1991 after a chemical injury. She now lives in northern Arizona and shows in Manhattan at the Paval Zoubok Gallery in Chelsea. It breaks my heart, she said of Camerons decision to relegate her place to four exhibition announcements in the ephemera section and a brief mention in the catalog. None of her art appears in the exhibit.
Hes a curator, he can curate it anyway he wants, I have no control over that, Zwillinger said. But he made an error in keeping me out
I definitely was an integral part in [the East Village] and I think that my work had a strength of vision and I will be remembered.
Zwillinger was floored by some of the artists that made the cut. Ellen Berkenblit has four pieces in the Cameron show. Im going to throw up, said Zwillinger when she learned that Berkenblit made the cut. She wasnt a seminal person. I was a seminal person. Yes, put her in there, but leave me out? I dont get it. She was on the fringes, not like me, who was in the trenches. Please.
Gracie Mansion, who represented Zwillinger and many of the artists featured in the Cameron retrospective, including Judy Glantzman and Rodney Alan Greenblat both of whom Zwillinger was chagrined to learn had been selected over her thinks that despite Zwillingers absence, the show captures the spirit of the times. A lot people when they think of the East Village, they think of Rhonda [Zwillinger], Mansion told The Villager. Nevertheless, Dan [Cameron] did a really good job considering the space limitations
I couldnt be happier with the show. I think it looks fabulous.
Despite her frustration, Zwillinger sees her time in the East Village as a 10-year chapter in a long and auspicious career that will continue with or without Camerons acknowledgement, she said.
Kostabi, who grosses $2 million a year in art sales, agrees with Zwillinger. Im a multimillionaire thanks to the East Village, he said. This is just one show and I think there will be several other East Village shows.
Not all of the East Village artists have enjoyed commercial success, however, and artists like Prol may not shrug off a curatorial setback with as much grace. Whoever does the next show tends to look back on the previous show, so if youre left out now, youre left out forever, said Timothy Greenfield Sanders, a prominent photographer from the East Village era. His series of photographs of the East Village artists, gallery owners and critics is on display at East Village USA.
Is it a tempest in a teapot? Yes, he said of the controversy. But if youre in the teapot, its important to you.
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Minnesota Twins pitcher R.A. Dickey will be speaking at this week's Lipscomb Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) meeting. The meeting will take place Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 9 p.m. in the Hall of Fame room in Allen Arena.
R.A. was a first round draft pick of the Texas Rangers in 1996 and has logged more than six years in the Major Leagues with the Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners. He grew up in Nashville, attended Montgomery Bell Academy, then went on to the University of Tennessee. He was also on the 1996 Olympic Team.
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Germans head to the polls
Chancellor Angela Merkel was strongly favoured to win a third term at the helm of Europe's biggest economy as Germans voted in a national election on Sunday.
But the popular conservative's hopes of governing with center-right allies for another four years were also in the balance.
Nearly 62 million people were eligible to elect the lower house of Parliament, which in turn chooses the chancellor.
Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and its Bavaria-only sister, the Christian Social Union, appeared likely to emerge as the strongest force and fend off a challenge from center-left rival Peer Steinbrueck.
But beyond that, things may get more complicated.
Merkel pleads for another term
No single party has won a majority in Germany in more than 50 years.
Merkel would like to continue governing with her partner of choice, the pro-business Free Democratic Party - but polls have shown support for the smaller party fading from nearly 15% in the 2009 election to around the 5% needed to keep any seats in Parliament.
Merkel pleaded Saturday for "a strong mandate so that I can serve Germany for another four years, make policies for ... a strong Germany, for a country that is respected in Europe, that works for Europe; a country that stands up for its interests in the world but is a friend of many nations."
Her party has rebuffed calls from leading Free Democrats for Merkel supporters to back them, saying it has no votes to spare.
Polls show the coalition in a dead heat with a combination of Steinbrueck's Social Democrats, their Green allies and the hard-line Left Party -but the two center-left parties have ruled out an alliance with the latter.
If her current coalition falls short of a parliamentary majority, the likeliest outcome is a switch to a Merkel-led "grand coalition" of her conservatives with the Social Democrats, the same combination of traditional rivals that ran Germany from 2005-2009 in Merkel's first term.
That's unlikely to produce a radical change in policies. However, it could signal subtle shifts, perhaps a greater emphasis on bolstering economic growth over the austerity that Germany has insisted on in exchange for bailing out economically weak European countries such as Greece.
Final results
Final results are due within hours of polls closing at 6pm.
But with margins so close, the country could still face weeks of horse-trading before a clear picture of the new government emerges.
Merkel calls her current coalition "the most successful government since reunification" 23 years ago. She points to the robust economy and unemployment which, at 6.8%, is very low for Germany and far below that of many other European countries.
Polls give Merkel popularity ratings of about 70%. The sky-high popularity doesn't extend to her coalition, which has bickered frequently over issues ranging from tax cuts to privacy laws. The Free Democrats have taken much of the blame.
"They said it was a marriage of love - that was how they ran in 2009 -and then the divorce lawyer spent the whole time running along the sidelines," Steinbrueck said at a rally in Frankfurt on Saturday.
New party on the block
Steinbrueck's platform stresses the importance of narrowing the gap between rich and poor. He wants to introduce a national minimum wage and raise income tax for top earners. Merkel and the Free Democrats contend that both measures could backfire and hurt the economy.
A new party, Alternative for Germany, which calls for an "orderly breakup" of the euro currency zone and appeals to socially conservative voters, could sap votes from the governing parties and complicate Sunday's outcome.
Polls suggest that it could enter Parliament - but Merkel and others are ruling out working with it.
"Stabilizing the euro is not just a good thing for Europe, it is in the elementary interests of Germany," Merkel said Saturday. "It secures jobs and it secures our prosperity."
She said that her course of helping Europe's strugglers in exchange for budget discipline and reforms "must be continued."
A euro breakup "would set European unification back 20 to 30 years" and ruin German businesses, said Steinbrueck, whose party backed Merkel's eurozone policies in Parliament but criticized her for over-emphasizing austerity.
Germany's government, he said, has "a clear European responsibility to hold this continent together." –Sapa-AFP


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Seth MacFarlane may be a talented showman, but he was appalling as an Oscar host--there's comedy, and there's inexcusable misogyny, anti-Semitism and other material that should never make it on stage. Who could do a better job (more specifically than "anyone")? Some ideas. -- Matt Pais, RedEye movie critic
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Currey Cook is the Director of the Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project and Counsel in the National Headquarters Office of Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV.
Before joining Lambda Legal in 2013, Cook was the Co-Director of the Bronx office of The Children's Law Center New York (CLCNY), a non-profit law firm representing children in custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic violence, paternity, and related child abuse and neglect proceedings in New York City Family Court, for three and a half years. While at CLCNY, Cook led the organizations efforts to work more effectively with LGBTQ clients and their families and represented the organization on a NYC Family Court committee dedicated to addressing LGBTQ issues.
Prior to his work at CLCNY, Cook served as a consultant to The National Juvenile Defender Center in Washington, D.C. and presented on the defender's role in reducing disproportionate minority representation in the juvenile justice system and other topics. In addition, he worked in Burundi on an American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative to assist with reintegrate former child soldiers into the community and, in 2009, served as a visiting professor for the Child Advocacy Clinic at Rutgers Law School Newark.
Before relocating to the New York City in 2009, Cook lived in Anchorage, Alaska and was an attorney with the Office of Public Advocacy (OPA) for twelve years. Cook worked as a juvenile defense attorney and guardian ad litem and later as supervising attorney of OPA's Child Advocacy Section. In addition to his work at OPA, he has provided pro bono immigration legal services for more than half of his career. Mr. Cook helped create and lead the Special Immigrant Juvenile Project devoted to providing pro bono representation to undocumented immigrant children involved in state court proceedings and successfully represented two gay men seeing political asylum. Cook was the recipient of the Alaska Bar Association Pro Bono Service Award for a Public Sector Attorney in 2006. He has also received a Light of Hope Award for his advocacy on behalf of abused and neglected children in Alaska.
Cook graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in Journalism (Broadcast News) and was a radio reporter while in college. He received his law degree, cum laude, from Mercer University in 1994. He served as managing editor of the Mercer Law Review and Chief Justice of the Honor Court.


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Worst. Inauguration. Ever. Part II: The Reckoning?
Perhaps you are one of the seven or eight people out there in the web-o-sphere that didn't read of my less than happy happy joy joy inauguration day experience, or hear about the purple tunnel of doom, or purple-gate, or the bad side of crowds, in general. Well, have no fear, a congressional committee is here:
A report released by a congressional committee yesterday found that "flaws and shortcomings in the planning process" contributed to chaotic conditions around the U.S. Capitol for people trying to attend President Obama's inauguration in January.
Thousands of people complained that they were stuck in slow-moving lines or tightly packed crowds outside entrance gates to the Capitol area, causing them to miss the ceremony even though they had tickets.
An executive summary of the report said the main cause of the breakdown was a flood of people, many without the proper tickets, who overwhelmed the entrance gates.
The document also pointed to insufficient signs, poor coordination among law enforcement agencies and a lack of personnel to keep order and provide information to visitors. Officials at the multi-agency command center were not aware of the problems in some ticket lines, it said.
The report was drawn up for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies by several law enforcement agencies that worked on the event, led by the Secret Service. Only an eight-page executive summary was released because the full report contained sensitive security information, according to the committee.
The main cause of there being too many people for them to deal with was that there were too many people?
. . . no one could have possibly foreseen. . .
Maybe the actual report reads differently, but this summary basically puts everything in the passive voice. Memo to committee: Deficiencies didn't just "happen." Who was responsible for not assigning personnel to direct the lines? Who made the decision to wait until after 8am to open the gates? (Note: 8am is the official story; I believe they opened later—more like 9am.) Who drew up the plan that had security at the parade four cops deep six hours before anyone was there while having zero police presence with the crowds outside the purple gate?
But, OK, the past is the past; we want to look forward—that's what all the hip kids are doing—how can we turn the page?
The summary recommended setting up a high-level committee to oversee planning and improve coordination for the next inauguration and opening the ticket gates earlier. It called for turning over responsibility for giving directions and prescreening ticket-holders to the congressional and presidential inaugural committees, which could provide volunteers or hire staff for such tasks.
It also suggested that law enforcement officials monitor Twitter and Facebook to keep on top of developing problems.
We need a high-level commission to replace what exactly? Seriously, again, who was responsible for the shortcomings this last time? Will this commission replace Senator Feinstein's committee? Will it have authority over the DC police? (I can't wait to get my tickets for that turf war.) Dare I say, "you have to read the page before you turn the page?" Moving on. . . .
And, can you just see four years from now the DC police—or this commission—monitoring Twitter and Facebook, but by that point in history, we are all doing something completely different? I have a better idea: have people monitoring the situation by being there!
As to this "flood of people. . . not having proper tickets," think this one through. . . . Beyond my eyewitness view that everyone around me had purple tickets--we were waving them in the air and chanting, "we have tickets," after all—how many people who thought they were going to sneak into the section would have put themselves through this hour after hour? I would have had much better luck if I had given up my purported purple place of privilege and just hoofed down to the mall. Some I met actually did give up and do just that. If you were thinking that the place I was in was a shortcut to a better view, you would have been disabused of that notion within the first couple of the many couples of hours that most of us were there.
As predicted within hours of the original debacle, this investigation started with a faulty set of premises—that no one could have expected the large turnout and that only a few thousand ticket-holders were inconvenienced—and so it came to a faulty set of conclusions. (Jason Linkins and the gang at HufPo did a better job of assessing the scene within two days of the inauguration.) By not acknowledging the realities of the day, and by not asking who was responsible for the bad planning and decision-making, DiFi and friends have done little more than hand the problem off to the next Congress. . . and the next 10-20,000 poor bastards who will end inauguration day 2013 holding on to unused tickets and unpleasant memories.
Worst. Inauguration investigation. Ever.
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Follow-up/update: I see the The Hill has also posted a story on this report (h/t Peterr). Though both the Washington Post (above) and The Hill were working from the same executive summary, the latter story has a very different emphasis from the headline—"Report: Poor communication led to inaugural snafu"—on down:
An insufficient number of law enforcement officers and the absence of a loudspeaker system led to thousands of ticket-wielding spectators being trapped in a tunnel as officials refused them entry for President Obama's inauguration.
The problem wasn't the situation; it was the response to the situation. Got that? Not a subtle difference.
The Hill also provides a link to the executive summary itself (warning: PDF). The ES is more comprehensive than either news article, and it does make a little clearer whom it recommends might be in charge next time (I still shudder at the thought of that turf war), but it maintains the passive voice I criticize above. The "snafu" was poor organization's fault, it was a lack of coordination's fault, a lack of loudspeakers' fault, too many people's fault—but it was no particular person's fault.
However, they did get one thing right:
Both Feinstein and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), recognized that the study may not satisfy the thousands of people who were barred entrance.
Also, I have to link to this enormous overhead picture (third one down when you scroll), which shows that 20 minutes after the inaugural ceremony began, there is still plenty of room in one of the purple sections. To me, that says the problem is not that there were too many purple tickets handed out—the problem lay in someone's lack of ability to get thousands with legitimate tickets from outside the gates, through the entry point (I say point, and not points, because, despite what DC police claimed, I saw with my own eyes that the second gate was not open), through the magnetometers, and into the open area. That takes planning, and it takes personnel, sure, but it is hardly an original problem—someone could have possibly foreseen. . . .
(cross-posted on Firedoglake)
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The Secretary shall require the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to prepare biennial reports on the relationship between nutrition and health. Such reports may, with respect to such relationship, include any recommendations of the Secretary and the Surgeon General.
(b) Submission to Congress
The Secretary shall ensure that, not later than February 1 of 1995 and of every second year thereafter, a report under subsection (a) of this section is submitted to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate.
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, § 1709, as added Pub. L. 103–183, title VII, § 704,Dec. 14, 1993, 107 Stat. 2240.)
Prior Provisions
A prior section 300u–8, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, § 1709, as added Nov. 10, 1978, Pub. L. 95–626, title V, § 502, 92 Stat. 3594, related to establishment of national program on sports medicine research, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98–551, § 2(c),Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2816.
Change of Name
Committee on Labor and Human Resources of Senate changed to Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of Senate by Senate Resolution No. 20, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 19, 1999.
Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives by section 1(a) ofPub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives, and jurisdiction over matters relating to securities and exchanges and insurance generally transferred to Committee on Financial Services of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Jan. 3, 2001.
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Class Outline:
Five days
This course, rated 4.9/5.0 in overall quality by ProCert Labs, will prepare students to pass the current CompTIA Security+ 2008 certification exam. After taking this course, students will understand the field of network security and how it relates to other areas of information technology. This course also provides the broad-based knowledge necessary to prepare for further study in specialized security fields, or it can serve as a capstone course that gives a general introduction to the field. Comes with CertBlaster exam prep software (download).
Table Of Contents:
Unit 1: Mitigating threats
Topic A: Core system maintenance
Topic B: Virus and spyware management
Topic C: Browser security
Topic D: Social engineering threats
Unit 2: Cryptography
Topic A: Symmetric cryptography
Topic B: Public key cryptography
Unit 3: Authentication systems
Topic A: Authentication
Topic B: Hashing
Topic C: Authentication systems
Unit 4: Messaging security
Topic A: E-mail security
Topic B: Messaging and peer-to-peer security
Unit 5: User and role based security
Topic A: Security policies
Topic B: Securing file and print resources
Unit 6: Public key infrastructure
Topic A: Key management and life cycle
Topic B: Setting up a certificate server
Topic C: Web server security with PKI
Unit 7: Access security
Topic A: Biometric systems
Topic B: Physical access security
Topic C: Peripheral and component security
Topic D: Storage device security
Unit 8: Ports and protocols
Topic A: TCP/IP review
Topic B: Protocol-based attacks
Unit 9: Network security
Topic A: Common network devices
Topic B: Secure network topologies
Topic C: Browser-related network security
Topic D: Virtualization
Unit 10: Wireless security
Topic A: Wi-Fi network security
Topic B: Non-PC wireless devices
Unit 11: Remote access security
Topic A: Remote access
Topic B: Virtual private networks
Unit 12 : Auditing, logging, and monitoring
Topic A: System logging
Topic B: Server monitoring
Unit 13 : Vulnerability testing
Topic A: Risk and vulnerability assessment
Topic B: IDS and IPS
Topic C: Forensics
Unit 14: Organizational security
Topic A: Organizational policies
Topic B: Education and training
Topic C: Disposal and destruction
Unit 15: Business continuity
Topic A: Redundancy planning
Topic B: Backups
Topic C: Environmental controls
Appendix A: CompTIA Security+ objectives map
Topic A: Objective map
Appendix B: CompTIA Security+ acronyms
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Lea Michele: 'Best Birthday Ever'
Lea Michele flashes a bright smile as she chats away on her phone on Friday afternoon (August 31) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 26-year-old actress stopped off at the Bristol Farms market after hitting the gym earlier in the day.
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Lea just celebrated her birthday this week and has declared it the best ever.
"Just had the most amazing dinner w/ my girlfriends to end the week of celebrating my bday! Feeling so loved & blessed! Best birthday ever!" she tweeted.
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2017-2018 UAB IT Recommendations
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Although strolling through the App Store is a lot of fun, it can be overwhelming. So, the UAB Instructional Technology (ITIT) department invites you to attend our 'Apps of the Month' sessions where we share with you some of the interesting apps that we have found.
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Nook Study
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Blackboard Collaborate
Blackboard Collaborate is a platform of tools that provides synchronous video and audio interaction, display, and collaborative tools for online and blended courses. It is the result of a merger between the elluminate and Wimba systems.
This system is being used on a pilot basis on some UAB courses during the Fall 2012 term. It provides many of the same features and functions that Wimba does, and will be the UAB online classroom tool from Fall 2013 forward.
The following links provide information on using the system from the participant perspective. If your course uses Bb Collaborate, please use these links to familiarize yourself with this tool.
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Best Practices - Checking Your Version of Java
Checking Your Version of Java
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You can check the supported Java version on the same page that identifies Blackboard's supported browsers.
To check the version you have on your computer:
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- Click Control panel
- Double-click Java; then click About in the Java control panel.
- Click Close.
How to clear Java Cache
- Close all browser windows.
- Go to Start, then choose the Control Panel.
- Click on the icon named Java. On the General Tab, under the section labeled Temporary Internet Files click the button Delete Files.
- Then choose to delete all the types offered.
- Close the control panel by clicking OK and restart your web browser.
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- In Finder search for Java Preferences.
- Open Java Preferences and click on the Network tab.
- Click the Delete Files button.
Best Practices - About Browser History and Caching
About Browser History and Caching
A cache is a temporary storage area where frequently accessed data can be retained for rapid loading. A web browser cache holds copies of pages that pass through it - all items you have accessed or downloaded from the Internet, including images, sounds, Web pages, and cookies. These items are stored on your computer, usually in the Temporary Internet Files folder.
Why clear your cache?
You may occasionally encounter an error message, a "Page Not Found" display, a "Momentarily Unavailable Message" etc. This could be due to a problem with the system, maintenance, or a number of other reasons. If you decide to go back to this url later, you may see this same message even though the problem is corrected because your browser has pulled the page from your cache.
How to clear your cache:
- In Internet Explorer:
- Click on the Tools menu, click Internet Options. The Internet Options box should open to the General tab.
- On the General tab, in the Browsing the Internet section, click the Delete button. This will delete all the files that are currently stored in your cache.
- In Firefox:
- Click on Tools, Options, then select the Advanced panel. In the Offline Storage section, click Clear Now.
- In Safari (Mac OS X):
- Click on the Safari menu, select Reset Safari. Select the items that you want to reset, then click Reset.
You can set your browser to automatically clear cache, and you can re-size your cache storage to maintain more cached files to speed up performance; this, however, increases the likelihood that you will access stale content.
How to set your browser to automatically clear cache:
Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools menu, click Internet Options. The Internet Options box should open to the General tab.


text: French Competition Authority imposes a record fine on Altice Luxembourg and SFR Group for implementing the acquisition of SFR and Virgin before obtaining merger clearance Regulatory Update Share this 18 NOV 2016 By: Edouard Sarrazin In a decision dated 8 November 2016, the French Competition Authority (FCA) has sanctioned jointly Altice Luxembourg and SFR Group and imposed a record fine of 80 million euros for what is known as "gun jumping" practices ie the anticipated implementation of two mergers prior to obtaining merger clearance. While it is a French case, these "gun jumping" issues are the same across all jurisdictions where there is a mandatory merger control regime which requires pre-clearance before closing. The decision is unique given the extent of implemented steps undertaken and the level of fine imposed. It is the first decision in France that sanctions gun jumping practices, and as such it contains a strong message to companies - in case of infringement, sanctions may be heavy. In theory, the maximum amount of fine incurred for a gun jumping practice is up to 5% of the total turnover out of taxes achieved in France by the acquirer (if it is a legal entity) during the last financial year, increased if need be, by the turnover achieved during the same period by the target company. Quite surprisingly, Altice and SFR did not dispute the reality of the practices nor their legal qualification. What practices were concerned? Intervention in the operational management: Altice intervened in the operational management of SFR on several occasions, validating a number of strategic decisions such as (but not limited to): The principle and modalities of SFR's application for a public tender which have been subject to the agreement of the top management of Altice; The renegotiation of a major contract of network sharing between SFR and Bouygues; The direct intervention of Altice in the commercial strategy of SFR and in particular its pricing policy. SFR had for example to suspend a promotional offer. The tight coordination between SFR and Altice regarding the contemplated acquisition of OTL. The amount of the offer proposed by SFR was communicated to the president of Altice and ultimately the latter substituted to SFR to proceed to the acquisition. Reinforcement of economic ties: Altice and SFR implemented by anticipation a coordinated strategy between the two groups. They even negotiated and prepared operationally the launch of a new range of SFR offers which radically changed SFR strategy in the field. Several months were needed to adapt the devices, commercial teams, IT systems so as to enable SFR to launch the new offer few days after the merger clearance. Strategic exchanges of information: the level and extent of information shared was significant and was aimed at preparing the integration of the two groups. The information was confidential, individualized, recent and related to commercial performance of SFR and projection for the coming months. The top management of both groups was involved. A structured mechanism was implemented so as to obtain information on a weekly basis. Such monitoring was considered by the FCA as equivalent to the one undertaken by a controlling shareholder. Anticipated entry in function of top management: the director general started his functions within SFR Numericable before the merger clearance, being associated to new commercial projects and recipient of commercially sensitive information. How the FCA determined the fine? The level of fine is significant and the FCA indicates that it took the following considerations into account: The importance of the transaction at stake in terms of value of the acquisition and impact on the telecom sector; The extent and accumulation of infringements having led to the anticipated implementation of the acquisition, some of which were directly related to the competitive concerns identified by the FCA in its clearance decision; The extent of SFR and Virgin activities directly concerned by the practices; The duration of the infringements which have lasted during the whole notification process; The fact that similar practices were undertaken by Altice for two distinct transactions filed in 2014 and the deliberate character of such infringements; The fact that neither Altice nor SFR disputed the reality of the practices nor their legal qualification.


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It is an undisputed fact that the quality of materials used to cook a meal can have an effect on the food's taste and that should give any home chef pause, even if boiling an egg represents the upper band of the skill curve.
Cooking doesn't always come easy and people shouldn't have to face a built-in obstacle before the burners even come on. The easiest way to ensure that the best possible flavor can be achieved is to use high-quality cookware. Skill can be taught, but it's impossible to teach a frying pan to not make food taste like metal … or worse.
The quickest way to jumpstart a kitchen is with a cookware set. A set usually includes a few different-sized pots and pans, but some sets can rival the collection of a seasoned gourmand. A seven-piece set that includes a frying pan and three lidded pots is a great starter, but some people won't feel complete unless they have a 30-piece set that definitively services every cookware need.
A modest and reliable set can be bought for well under $100 and should at least include these items:
A set containing these items will allow anyone to prepare a very wide range of dishes and can be used to great effect by amateurs and professionals alike.
There are a finite number of materials that treat food with respect when heated and those include cast iron, aluminum, stainless steel, porcelain, Terracotta and copper. Things to consider when choosing which materials are best include:
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Aluminum is very light, but not as durable as cast iron. Stainless steel is very durable, but foods will stick to it if left unattended. Copper-clad cookware has excellent heat distribution, but is more expensive … and so on and so forth. Unfortunately, there is no simple answer for what's best – if there were there wouldn't be so many different kinds. The best thing to do is to shop according to need and desire. If the need is slight, first consider cost. If the desire is to excel in food preparation, think about performance first.
Some cookware items have cultural roots that influence their design and use.
Dutch ovens are thought to have been designed by the Dutch and are known to have been used regularly by them for cooking stews and other dishes that require long cook times at low heat under a tight seal. Woks, on the other hand, are Asian in origin and are designed for cooking quickly at high heat.
Both of these cooking methods can be replicated using a casserole pot and a frying pan, respectively, but culinary experts are able to tease more flavors out of foods using these specially designed tools. Budget-conscious individuals who don't spend much time in the kitchen may therefore want to stick to the basics, while those with a passion for cooking may want to explore these items.
Then of course there are all the little things (and not so little things) that make a kitchen complete like roasting pans, pressure cookers, griddles and other goodies. Using these items don't exactly require advanced knowledge – only a desire to branch out from the usual habit of turning on a burner and setting a pan on top of it.
Of course, all these wonderful contraptions are not guaranteed to make anyone's food taste better, but it could be fairly said that it won't make anything taste worse, especially with a little practice.


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Section 1 – Elected Officers. The elected officers of the Society shall be President, an Organizing Secretary, a Recording Secretary, and a Treasurer. All officers are elected by the membership of the Society. The officers shall automatically succeed to their designated offices at the completion of the incumbents' term of office.
Section 2 – Qualification for Officer. Any individual who is a voting member of the Society in good standing shall be eligible for nomination and election as an officer.
Section 3 – Term of Office. Each elected officer shall take office immediately upon the conclusion of the Business Meeting of the Society and shall serve for a term of two years from the close of one Biennial Business Meeting to the close of the next Biennial Business meeting.
Section 4 – Removal. Any officer of the Society may be removed by a three-quarters vote of the Executive Board present and voting whenever in its judgment the best interests of the Society would be served thereby.
Section 5 - Vacancies. If there is a vacancy for any reason in any office which cannot be filled by the provisions for succession to office, the Executive Board may appoint from its own membership an officer pro tempore to perform the duties of the vacated office until the office is filled by an election by the membership.
Section 6 – President. The President shall be the presiding officer of the Society and Chairperson of the Executive board. The President shall also serve as an ex-officio member of all committees.
Section 7 –Recording Secretary. The Recording Secretary shall oversee the proper recording of the proceedings of the meetings of the Society and the Executive Board, shall ensure that accurate records are kept of the corporation and all members, that appropriate archival procedures are used, and such duties as from time to time may be assigned to the office by the President or the Executive board.
Section 8 – Organizing Secretary. The Organizing Secretary shall be responsible for overseeing the organization of the next biennial meeting of the Society. These responsibilities include arranging institutional and necessary financial support for the meetings, publicity, registration procedures, program organization, and preparation of a full financial statement of meeting revenues and expenditures to be presented to the Treasurer and Recording Secretary within six months of the end of the meetings. The Organizing Secretary shall form a committee of individuals who will assist in these tasks.
Section 9 – Treasurer. The Treasurer shall oversee the Society's funds and records; the collection of members' dues; the establishment of proper accounting procedures for the handling of the Society's funds; the performance of an annual audit by a Certified Public Accountant; and, further, shall report on the financial condition of the Society at all meetings of the Executive Board, at the Business Meeting, and at others times as called upon by the President.


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#1 Irrelevant Apologies06-04-2008, 03:59 PM
Ooops, looks like THomas Sowell is not buyng Obombas apologies! They are lame.
It is amazing how seriously the media are taking Senator Barack Obama's latest statement about the latest racist rant from the pulpit of the church he has attended for 20 years. But neither that statement nor the apology for his rant by Father Michael Pfleger really matters, one way or the other. Nor does Senator Obama's belated resignation from that church.
For any politician, what matters is not his election year rhetoric, or an election year resignation from a church, but the track record of that politician in the years before the election.
Yet so many people are so fascinated by Barack Obama's rhetorical skills that they don't care about his voting record in the U.S. Senate, in the Illinois state senate, the causes that he has chosen to promote over the years, or the candidate's personal character and values, as revealed by his actions and associations.
Despite clever spin from Obama's supporters about avoiding "guilt by association," much more is involved than casual association with people like Jeremiah Wright and Father Pfleger.
In addition to giving $20,000 of his own money to Jeremiah Wright, as a state senator Obama directed $225,000 of the Illinois taxpayers' money for programs run by Father Pfleger. In the U.S. Senate, Obama earmarked $100,000 in federal tax money for Father Pfleger's work. Giving someone more than 300 grand is not just some tenuous, coincidental association.
Are Barack Obama's views shown by what he says during an election year or by what he has been doing for decades before?
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