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ATHENS -- It would seem to run against Georgias formula for success this season: the offense scoring early and often. And yet Mike Bobo, the man calling the shots for the offense, has a constant message: Its OK if you have to punt.
I try to reiterate that all the time, said Bobo, Georgias offensive coordinator. Theres nothing wrong with playing field position. We dont like to punt, we want to score points, but weve got to execute.
Lets be clear: Thats not Bobo trying to dampen expectations for his offense, which returns 10 starters after leading the nation in yards per play and setting numerous school records.
No, thats Bobo trying to tell his offense it doesnt have to score every possession in order to win. Even if at times it might seem that way.
Georgias defense is young and inexperienced, and the secondary is riddled with injuries heading into the opener against Clemsons prolific offense. So, not surprisingly, Las Vegas has set the over-under (total number of points) on the game at 72, according to www.vegasinsider.com.
And that seems low.
So does Georgias offense have all the pressure this year, and does it need to carry the team?
Youve gotta look at it a little bit from the big brother aspect now, senior tight end Arthur Lynch said. I think our offense leaned a lot on our defense last year. The Missouri game, we couldnt get anything going the first quarter and a half. The defense was stepping up. The last two years in the Florida game.
Said junior receiver Malcolm Mitchell, I dont think theres pressure. I just think we know what we need to do. I think our defense will be fine. But in order to win games, youve gotta be able to score. In order to win games, youve gotta stop them from scoring. So it goes hand-in-hand.
But even if the defense struggles, the feeling is that the offense doesnt necessarily need to be scoring in order to help. There is the time-of-possession factor, which will not only provide time to rest and regroup, but mitigate the number of possessions.
We help the defense out by holding the football, junior center David Andrews said. I know they appreciate when we go out and have an eight or 10-play-plus drive. They can get fresh, go over stuff.
The reason Georgia can feel optimistic about that is that its not one-dimensional.
Quarterback Aaron Murray and tailback Todd Gurley were both preseason first-team all-SEC picks in a vote of conference coaches. Last year, Murray passed for 3,983 yards and 36 touchdowns, and Gurley and fellow tailback Keith Marshall ran for 2,144 yards and 25 touchdowns.
In other words, Georgia isnt a pass-happy offense that can easily be rendered ineffective.
At the end of the day, weve got to do whats gonna help our team win, Bobo said. Sometimes it can be moving and getting points. And if its throwing it all over the place to get points that day, then thats what weve gotta do. But weve got to be balanced going into every game.
Georgias offense also seems to be set up well to do that because of how much the playbook has expanded.
What was for so long a normal pro-style offense has since added spread formations and the no-huddle. So the team can go four- or five-wide receivers, or revert back to the simple I-formation with a fullback and tight end, and do so in the same series.
Thats where the experience of the players the past couple years provides flexibility. Murray and his receivers have built up a rapport during the past several years, and, led by junior Malcolm Mitchell, there is a quick-strike ability. But Gurley and Marshall can also lead a grind-it-out approach.
With the fact we have (Gurley) and (Marshall) back there for another year and we know what we have in them, we can run the ball hopefully at will, Lynch said. Well be a very balanced offense, which in turn might make for longer drives, it might not.
Still, despite having shown the offense can carry the team, Bobo has been driving home the point that it doesnt need to play that way. It would lead to pressing, a sense of disappointment every time a drive doesnt end with points, all of which is counter-productive.
Perhaps Georgias young defense will come through this year. In the meantime, Bobo hopes that his offense is experienced enough that a bad series, or even a turnover, is something they will quickly forget.
A team can win a 52-45 shootout, to pick a random score. But first, the team has to score those 52 points.
Theres gonna be pressure, Bobo said. Theres pressure on every offense and every team in this league. And theres pressure on every quarterback, theres pressure on our quarterback. But, the bottom line is, hes gotta handle his business. We believe in him, his teammates believe in him, and I think well play well.


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Before continuing our tale, I'm going to bluntly advertise for the next session of my Introduction to Astronomy course which starts in January.
This course is for school children ages 8 and up, and surveys the science of astronomy from the contents of our solar system, to how stars form age and die, to the farthest regions of our universe, and the variety of strange objects that we have discovered within it.
I touch on the fundamental physics involved in our knowledge of the universe surrounding us - how we use the light from distant objects to understand their distance and composition, and even introduce thermonuclear physics and general relativity at a level that even the 8 year olds can grasp.
Weekly presentations are followed by observing sessions in my front yard (in Southbury) using a telescope capable of showing the major planets, star clusters, nebulae and galaxies, along with the occasional comet, meteors, and plenty of artificial satellites. We will meet for 19 weeks (Thursdays at 7 p.m.) from January through May. The cost of this course is $150 per student; parents are encouraged to stay and learn as well (for free). Full details and contact information are at http://www.turnerclasses.com
Ah, but where were we? Oh yes, the second of our two worlds.
After the discovery of Uranus, its orbit about the Sun was determined with increasing accuracy over the next several years, allowing exact predictions of where it should appear in the sky month after month into the indefinite future. As time went on however, it was noticed that where Uranus was predicted to be differed from where it was actually observed by a steadily increasing amount.
By the 1840s, 60 years after the discovery of Uranus, the error in the predicted and observed position of Uranus became large enough to suggest that something was fundamentally wrong with the assumptions that were made in calculating the orbit of the planet.
The mathematics involved in computing the orbit of a planet are actually quite simple if the only objects to be considered are the planet and the Sun. A single force of gravity pulls on the planet in the direction of the Sun, and the momentum of the planet's motion keeps it in an elliptical path around the Sun. However, this simple condition is not what occurs in the solar system.
Gravitational attraction occurs between all objects in the universe. The force increases as the masses of the attracted objects increase, and it increases as the distance between the objects decreases. Here on Earth, the largest source of gravity is the Earth itself, as it is both enormous compared to the objects on its surface, and we are close to its center compared to our distance to other massive objects such as the Sun. But nonetheless, all of the objects on Earth and elsewhere are attracted to one another. The person sitting across the room from you is very slightly pulling you toward them, and (as creepy as it may sound) even you and I, separated by many miles, are ever so slightly pulled toward each other.
Going back to the orbit of a planet, there are several other planets also orbiting the Sun at varying distances from the planet being studied, and each of these exerts a small gravitational pull of its own upon the planet. Because each of these other planets is itself in motion, and all planets are pulling on all other planets as they move, the simple problem of calculating an orbit suddenly becomes exceedingly complex. In fact, with as few as three objects involved, an exact general solution for the motions has been impossible to achieve, and only very high precision approximations are possible.
In the case of the orbits of planets in our solar system, the smaller planets can be ignored, and for Uranus, only the effects of the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn were considered in the predicted positions determined in the 1820s. However, the steady disagreement between computed and observed positions of Uranus suggested that either Newton's law of gravity did not apply to objects as distant as Uranus, or there was another large body other than the Sun and the known planets affecting the orbit of Uranus.
In the early 1840s, the British mathematician John Couch Adams realized that it would be theoretically possible to determine the mass and the orbit of a hypothetical planet that would explain the observed deviations in the position of Uranus using only the observations of Uranus itself in the calculation. Adams began attacking the problem in 1844, working on it part-time while tutoring other students to earn his livelihood. Meanwhile, in France, another mathematician, Urbain Le Verrier, began to work the same problem in 1845. Partly because of the intense rivalry between England and France in the mid-19th century, these men knew nothing of each other's work.
We should take a moment here to consider what these men were attempting to accomplish, and the conditions under which they were working. The calculations involved take the form of lengthy differential equation calculations which can only be approximately solved, and require many repeated iterations to achieve a level of accuracy sufficient to be better than the observed errors in the position of Uranus. Each iteration required weeks of effort - recalling that in the 1840s there were no mechanical devices to assist in calculations, and every line of computation was written out manually on paper with a quill pen, using candle or gas lights to work into the early hours of the morning.
By 1846, both Adams in England and Le Verrier in France had arrived at solutions for the orbit of an unknown body which would explain the changes observed in the observed positions of Uranus. From these calculations they could begin to predict where in the sky one should point a telescope to see the predicted object. But both men were surprised by the lack of interest their predictions generated in the communities of astronomers in their countries. Being primarily mathematicians, their work was neither well understood nor appreciated by the astronomers of their day.
Finally, upon seeing Le Verrier's work published, and understanding the importance to national pride, if not science, the Royal Astronomer of England (Sir George Airy) urged British astronomers to begin a search, using the predictions of Adams as a guide. At about the same time, generating no interest in his own country, Le Verrier reached outside of France to the Berlin Observatory, sending a letter with coordinates to be used in searching for the unknown object. When this letter arrived on September 23, 1846, the director of the observatory (Johann Encke) had just left on a vacation to the Alps. His understudy, Johann Galle, decided to begin a search that very night.
Unlike the British astronomers who had attempted a search, Galle had very recent star maps of the search area available to him, allowing him to easily separate stars with known and constant positions from the object he was seeking. Amazingly, within a few hours of starting the quest, Galle located a bluish-green object showing a very miniscule disk quite definitely not on his star map within a very small distance from where Le Verrier had predicted it would be found. Subsequent observations confirmed an excellent match to the orbit and size predicted by both Adams and Le Verrier. The planet Neptune had been discovered.
What is unique about the discovery of Neptune is the clear triumph of mathematics snd physics in being able to discover an object purely through computation, only directly observed after the discovery had been completed on paper. The mighty intellectual efforts of Galileo, Kepler, and most directly Isaac Newton, were forever confirmed and validated on that September night in 1846.
Speaking of Galileo, a pair of observations he made in December, 1612 and January, 1613 add a footnote to this tale. During this time, Galileo was intensely studying the motions of the moons of Jupiter. In his notebook from December 28th, we find a diagram of Jupiter and its moons, with a "fixed star" also marked. In his later notebook entry from January 27th, he again notes this "star", but also indicates that it has moved relative to other stars near it in the sky.
Using modern computer models of the orbit of Neptune, we can predict the positions of the planets at any date in the future or past (what took Adams and Le Verrier years to compute can now be accomplished in a matter of minutes). What we find for the dates of Galileo's observations is that Neptune and Jupiter where very close to one another in the sky on those dates, with the position of Neptune almost exactly as Galileo had drawn it!
Had he realized what he was observing, Galileo would have discovered Neptune some 220 years prior to Adams and Le Verrier. But then the story of this great discovery would have been significantly less interesting, at least in my opinion.


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POOLVILLE – The Poolville Junior High Math/Science Team went to the state University Interscholastic League championship competition in San Antonio on Saturday and returned home with two team trophies and several individual trophies and medals.
The Number Sense team won third place in Division 1A. Members were Hannah Megason, Jacob Alvarado, Matt Simmons and Christopher Tunnell.
The Calculator Team won fifth place. Members were Matt Simmons, Tyler Tunnell, Jacob Alvarado and Hannah Megason.
Trophies were given through 10th place and medals were given through 20th place.
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• Matt Simmons was fifth in Number Sense, eighth in Calculator and eighth in Mathematics.
• Hannah Megason placed 12th in Number Sense and 20th in Calculator.
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• Christopher Tunnell finished 19th in Number Sense and 17th in Calculator.
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• Logan Spikes finished 10th in Calculator, 14th in Mathematics and fifth in Science.
• Sarah Kelly placed fourth in Number Sense, 11th in Calculator, ninth in Mathematics and third in Science.
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By Kandra Wells
McALESTER —
Two Eufaula men are dead, and a Stuart motorcyclist and a Muskogee truck driver are hospitalized following traffic accidents over the weekend.
Cody Gray and Josh Laughlin, both 20 and both of Eufaula, were killed Saturday night when the four-wheeler they were riding was hit head-on by a pick-up truck on Stidham Road in McIntosh County, according to a report by Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Injured in a separate accident just after midnight Saturday night was Wesley S. Eddings, 36, of Stuart, after the motorcycle he was riding hit another bike in Custer County, OHP reported.
Hospitalized in a third accident was Tony Russell Brewer, 57, of Muskogee when the semi-truck he was driving overturned on U.S. Highway 69 Saturday night north of Eufaula.
According to the patrol, Gray was driving a four-wheeler south on Stidham Road with Laughlin as a passenger when they were hit by a northbound pick-up truck driven by Ezekiel McIntosh, 23, also of Eufaula. According to OHP, lights on the four-wheeler were not on and McIntosh was passing another vehicle when the accident happened at about 11:15 p.m. Saturday.
Both Gray and Laughlin were pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck, about eight miles northwest of Eufaula, according to OHP.
About an hour later in Custer County in western Oklahoma, Eddings was driving a 2006 Honda motorcycle when it hit the back of a 2013 Harley Davidson motorcycle that had slowed to make a left turn, according to OHP. Both Eddings and the driver of the Harley, James R. Regan Jr., 43, of Egan, La., had been northbound on State Highway 54 when the accident happened.
According to OHP, Eddings was thrown about 130 feet in the collision; Regan was not injured. Neither was wearing a helmet, OHP reported.
Eddings was taken to Weatherford Regional Hospital and then by medical aircraft to University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City with head injuries. He remained in critical condition Monday morning, a hospital spokesman said.
Cause of the collision was attributed to exceeding the legal limit, according to a report from OHP, which also noted an odor of alcohol on Eddings.
Earlier Saturday night north of Eufaula at Texanna Road, a semi-trick flipped, pinning the driver for more than two hours.
OHP reported Brewer was driving a 2011 Penske tractor truck northbound on U.S. Highway 69 when it ran off the right side of the highway about a half mile south of Texanna Road, hit a ditch, crossed over an access road and hit a second ditch before coming to rest on the driver's side.
Brewer was taken by medical aircraft to St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa where he was hospitalized in stable condition with internal trunk injuries, OHP reported.
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2012: Played in nine games and had 74 carries for 402 yards and one touchdown to go with four catches for 40 yards ... Tallied 11 carries for 62 yards and one catch for 17 yards at Temple ... Ran for a career-high 125 yards (second career 100-yard rushing game) on 16 carries versus Fordham ... Posted 12 rushes for 41 yards and a touchdown against Rhode Island ... Had one carry for six yards at Maine ... Credited with four rushes for six yards versus Richmond ... Tallied 12 carries for 53 yards and two catches for 21 yards at Old Dominion ... Had 10 rushes for 61 yards against JMU ... Registered five carries for 28 yards at Delaware ... Recorded three rushes for 20 yards at Stony Brook in the first round of the NCAA playoffs.
2011: Played in eight games and had 63 carries for 328 yards and four touchdowns to go with three receptions for 23 yards and one score and five kickoff returns for 107 yards ... Tallied two rushes for seven yards against Temple ... Registered three carries for 57 yards at Towson ... Recorded seven rushes for 53 yards and a 36-yard touchdown against Monmouth ... Credited with eight rushes for 40 yards and two receptions for 20 yards at New Hampshire ... Posted seven carries for 18 yards and one kickoff return for 18 yards at James Madison ... Had 10 carries for 30 yards and a score versus Old Dominion ... Recorded his first career 100-yard game with 100 yards on 17 carries and a touchdown to go with three kickoff returns for 65 yards against Maine ... Tallied nine carries for 23 yards and one touchdown, one catch for three yards and one kickoff return for 24 yards at Massachusetts.
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What lifts your spirits when life gets you down?
December is a busy time of year, and I've got a lot to do in the next month: cookies to bake, friends to visit, shopping to do, kids' Christmas concerts, and preparing for Santa's big arrival.
Problem is, as K.D. Lang so eloquently puts it, "I'm too busy bein' blue."
I so hate the fact that I had to hit one of my blue spells at this time of year. Normally I'm happy as could be from the first falling leaf until the new year ... and then I get blue. (That's mostly because I know I don't have any real holidays or vacations for the next six months, but it's not a real BLUE blue, if you know what I mean.)
But my moods are as unpredictable as western Pennsylvania weather, so I've had to figure out a few ways to pull myself out of a slump, lest I allow myself to wallow in it and face the very real danger of it becoming the norm. Actually, I know quite a few people who become depressed at this time of year, so for the purpose of helping out, I guess it's fortuitous that I slid down this slippery slope right now. So I'm going to share with you a few of the little blues-busters I've found to work pretty well.
1) Breathe! — Meditation is great if you can get a handle on it. For me, it's a hit and miss thing. If the monkeys are behaving, I can get a good relaxation going. If they're flinging poo at the moment, I know to move on to another technique. I learned a great piece of wisdom about meditating that really helps if you're the kind of person who always says they're going to do it but never seems to get around to it: Just put the pillow on the floor, then put your butt on the pillow. The rest will follow.
2) Talk it out! — I've made the most amazing friend a couple of years ago that I was afraid I was going to chase away with my ridiculous moods. She always knows when I'm down, either by the look on my face or the tone of my voice, and no matter how hard I try to chase her away, I just can't shake her off. (I want time to wallow in my misery, after all!) By the time she's through with me, I'm almost always laughing so hard that something inevitably shoots out of my nose and passersby are looking at us like someone left the asylum gate unlocked. If you're blessed enough to have a friend like this, talk to him or her. Love like that doesn't come around very often.
3) Get soaked! — Steaming hot bath, bubbles, candles, and Sarah McLachlan on the the iPod. There isn't a depressed thought in the world that can survive that scenario. Give it a whirl.
4) Get moving! — This is the kind of advice that I'd like to punch other people up aside the head when they say it to me. But it works! It really, truly works! It doesn't matter how long I've been doing an exercise routine ... I still have to fight myself to put on the tennies and get moving EVERY SINGLE time. But the minute I'm on that elliptical with some Metallica or Slipknot blaring in my ears, I'm 10 feet tall and bulletproof.
5) Listen! — I've mentioned music several times already in conjunction with other activities, but music alone can make all the difference in your mood. I've made a playlist of empowering songs on my iPod and even if I just sit in my Lazy Boy and chill out, I've found that it's impossible to feel sorry for yourself when you're listening to Alicia Keys singing "Superwoman." (Even when I'm a mess/ I still put on a vest/With an S on my chest/ Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman!")
6) Stroke me, stroke me! — (Sorry, another song on my playlist.) But if you happen to have a pet (cats and dogs work better for this than iguanas or goldfish), then stroke away. I have two cats that are almost identical, so if one isn't available, the other one usually is. Sometimes I'm lucky enough to have both of them on my lap at the same time. Goodbye, high blood pressure! Goodbye, monkeys ... my kitties are the kings of the jungle here!
Whatever you choose to do to lift your spirits, always remember one thing: Most of what upsets you has to do with either the past or the future. (Unless you currently have your tongue stuck to a flagpole.) Focus on what's happening right here, right now. Just look around, and breathe. If you don't find happiness, keep looking for it.
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Cyclists will experience some of the most memorable journeys to be found on two wheels. The rugged beauty of our Island, and our warm hospitality, put us #9 on the prestigious Lonely Planet's top places to cycle in the world. Whatever you decide to do, be sure to bring your camera.
If you're hungry, you're in for a tasty journey. You'll taste lobster here, fresh from the boat, steamed to perfection, and served at a table near enough to hear and smell the ocean-waves it was recently pulled from. While you savour it, you can sip a glass of fine-wine, ice-cold ale, or a dram of Canada's only single malt whisky. Either way, it's going to be some of the best you've ever had. That goes for everything we serve here.
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This is music that resides in our souls. You can feel the generations of loss, lament, joy and hope in a single note. You can hear it across the island, in little community halls, where the wooden floors are bare from years of square-dances; in large open-air concerts with the ocean waves are a musical backdrop and in music halls, perfectly tuned to mingling the sounds for audiences.
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I had a chance to correspond with a Facebook spokesperson, and Facebook Home turns out to be more disruptive than it appears. You can read more about how VoIP may be integrated into Chat Heads here.
Update: Facebook Home was announced and, unfortunately for Facebook investors, there appears to be very little that is innovative or disruptive about the new product. I predicted that the announcement would be ho-hum, but I expected something more than an upgrade to the existing Facebook App. I've got a call in to Facebook for more clarification. I'm seeking to find out if there is any improvement in sound quality, an embrace of a "names not numbers" approach, integrated VoIP calling, innovations around gaming or push notifications for advertisers. Stay tuned for a follow-up post this weekend.
Facebook is expected to announce today mobile phone software based on the Android operating system and perhaps a Facebook phone as well, made in partnership with HTC. And no one seems to care.
The news of the impending arrival of the "FacePhone" has yet to ignite even a fraction of the interest of other unavailable—yet highly anticipated—products like Google Glass and the iWatch. Popular Science bluntly sums up the vox populi in its article "Nobody Wants A Facebook Phone."
The article covers familiar ground. It compares the as-yet-hypothetical Facebook Phone with the Amazon Kindle. Both Facebook and Amazon seem to share the approach of slapping a skin on top of Android —but the author, Dan Nosowitz, argues that Amazon was successful because it was able to offer a cheaper tablet while Facebook will be stuck offering a me-too smartphone.
It's a good article and worth reading even though the author is wrong. Thanks to the release of the Facebook Phone at this particular moment in time, it has the potential to be highly disruptive to the entire telecommunications ecosystem. But to do so Facebook has to take full advantage of new technologies like WebRTC, while creating a user experience that is both familiar and pleasantly surprising. This is a major caveat. It's unlikely the benefits of a Facebook Phone will be realized overnight.
The first question people ask about a Facebook Phone is why they would want one? People hate Facebook's Android app, so expectations for additional mobile software from Zuckerberg's engineers are low.
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A second question people have is what Facebook would get from offering a Facebook Phone?
The answer is clearly more mobile advertising revenue—but that's not because Facebook will simply slap more ads on a Facebook Phone. An ad-ridden phone is unlikely to be desired by high-spending demographics. Instead, it's more likely Facebook will use the phone to forge deeper, more personal, less intrusive relationships with its users. More and better mobile advertising would be great news for Facebook investors.
Here's how mobile advertising on the Facebook Phone could work:
There are multiple reasons why a Facebook Phone, done right, would be highly attractive to hundreds of millions of Facebook users. If that happened, it could turn the traditional telecom ecosystem upside down. That's because the ecosystem is built around the idea of a public switched telephone network. The current transition to IP-based telephony preserves much of those assumptions, because it's the only world the carriers, who are currently in charge, know.
But Facebook has no incentive to play by traditional rules. Its young engineers have grown up in a world of over-the-top services, and they can easily see the benefits of a carrier-free world, where data networks managed by the big Internet players, transport all the bits that matter.
I'm not yet an investor in Facebook, but I plan to become one soon. Today's announcement is likely to be ho-hum, there are too many pieces that need to be put in place before a Facebook Phone is "insanely great," but the roadmap is crystal clear. Zuck is on his way to becoming the next Steve Jobs.
Facebook could get around this by offering a Voice over IP or VoIP-based service, Anyone who called anyone else with a Facebook Phone would have crystal clear audio. – Whoops, ANY smart phone manufacturer could get around this by offering a VoIP service/app. In fact they already do. The reason they're not successful or seemingly known to the writer is they're only used by all who have the service/app. The idea that this matters or a is a threat is baseless.
People are tired of remembering phone numbers. – Wow, really? Welcome to the 2010s. Nobody uses phone numbers anymore. Everyone has a contact list, voice dialing, and, yes, dialing from Facebook contact information. Another non-threat discovered and implemented years ago. How does Facebook catching up constitute an advancement?
A Facebook Phone could provide presence information…it would be more straightforward on a Facebook Phone. Seriously, more straightforward? That's not going to be enough to get the lemmings or luddites to use something that they can't even grasp the basics. All this will do is lead to cries of privacy invasion, faux warnings to disable it, etc. There's a limit as to how straightforwardly you can help someone and this is it. Effort wasted, threat averted.
A Facebook Phone could be much cheaper than a traditional phone. So-called "over the top" services from companies like Viber, WhatsApp, Plingm and Vuilop offer free calls and messaging because they run over the Internet instead of the public switched telephone network. – Wait a second! Are you saying smartphones would be able to make calls via the Internet? Again, a decade too late. Catch up isn't advancement. Yes, of course, this will be easier and more straightforward, just like the hoaxes and noise these fools will generate more cheaply when they try to call all their friends because they saw a post about government conspiracy. Stupid people looking for a cheap product and getting what they pay for aren't a threat.
A Facebook Phone could merge gaming and telephony. Unfortunately my kids are 18 and 20 now so I'll have to wait for them to have kids of their own for this to matter. This, also, has been out for a few years though not popular because not everyone with a phone is a child.
Excellent review of the situation Michael Mast! Thanks for sharing your insights and the truth!
Yeah we are definitely transferring to a Data heavy or data only telecom society. http://www.firsthonestreviews.com/2013/04/facebook-smartphone-preview.html
Were you paid by facebook to write this article or are you insane?? You have told all good but no bad about the privacy issues of android and facebook! The cost which is cheap or might even come free one day comes at the cost of a persons private life!
The problem with relying on facebook for your phone is that you're putting all your eggs in one basket, one leaky basket with no customer service whatsoever.
My girlfriend has been locked out of her account for five days now. All requests for help are answered by form letters which advise her to do things that our messages tell them we've already done.
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When tax assessments of some Queens co-ops jumped as much as 147 percent last year, there was, at first, sticker shock.
The tax increase was so staggering that many hoped that the figures were simple mistakes which could be corrected.
But by the Department of Finance until against them, Freedom of Information disclosures , and co-op presidents and local politicians went on a circuit that the press called a "tax revolt."
A reason for the crushing overvaluations was finally . The department offered to cap valuation increases at 50 percent that would be fazed into individual tax rates over five years.
But many found that reason to be outlandish. After reportedly dropping the excuse in media reports and in an open hearing before the City Council, the DOF disavowed the explanation.
"Nothing failed," said DOF Spokesman Owen Stone last week.
A New York Post article titled "Co-oops! City Goof Overtaxes home," quoted Stone as saying, "There was a glitch." Stone told Patch last week that he was "disappointed" with the piece's author, David Seifman, and that the report was inaccurate.
He did not express disappointment in the reporting of Habitat Magazine, which also quoted Stone as saying, "Our system spit out some comparables that said 'apartment,' and when we looked at it again it was something that had some sort of commercial element to it."
In other words, residential co-ops were being compared to commercial real estate to assess value.
According to media reports of a May 2 hearing——Stone's boss, Dept. of Finance Commissioner David Frankel testified to the same.
"He must have misspoken," said State Sen. Toby Stavisky, at a press conference held at the Bay Terrace Co-op last week. She was standing along several Northeast Queens co-op presidents, and Assemblyman Edward Braunstein, D-Bayside, who said of the glitch excuse: "that was just something that went out to the press."
The two politicians were not in the room when Frankel made the reported statements, but Councilman Mark Weprin, D-Oakland Gardens, was present.
Weprin wrote in an emailed statement on May 3 that Frankel "admitted that DOF initially discovered over 100 flaws in its computer program and may yet uncover further problems."
He added, "This is in addition to DOF's public admission last month that a glitch in the system resulted in the use of unsuitable comparable properties – even commercial properties for garden apartment co-ops – for calculating assessed values in a number of cases."
Weprin called on City Comptroller John Liu to do "a thorough investigation of DOF's computer program and the numbers that it yielded," saying the need was "now painfully clear."
A source in Liu's office said there was an investigation into the overvaluations, but would not give a time frame for completion.
The tentative tax roll assessments were due this week, but just hours before Patch was set to publish this report, the New York Post reported that a glitch has delayed them—citing Stone as a source.
"The Department of Finance showed that they're capable of anything," said Geoffrey Mazel, a tax attorney who also testified at the May 2 hearing. "There's lack of quality control there—no one's watching what's going on."
Mazel says he "vividly" remembers the commissioner testifying to a glitch.
"That word came out of their office," he said.
The record of the testimony forwarded to Patch by Stone made no mention of a glitch. The version did not include the question and answer session, during which Weprin and others grilled Frankel on the details of the computer generated comparables.
Instead, it listed three differences in the 2011 assessments from previous years. One of those differences, according to the testimony forwarded by Stone, was a "new, more sophisticated computerized assessment application, which made valuations more systematic, including the selection of properties for co-op and condo valuations."
The other two differences listed were increased outreach to business owners and the return to a formerly used valuation method.
Stone said last week that only one home was affected by commercial comparisons.
"That is what I would call revisionist history," said Bob Friedrich, president of the Glen Oaks Village co-op. Friedrich was also present at the Council hearing and is an accountant by trade. "These agencies are into revisionist history and they do it later on when people aren't interested anymore."


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ROME — James G. Link, age 76, died peacefully at his home on Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, with his family by his side.
James lived in Rome for the last 29 years. He was the son of George and Ruth Link of Cleveland, Ohio. James was married to Bobbie Link on August 22,1986.
A Veteran, he served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He retired from Andover Industries after 45 years.
He loves spending time with his wife, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was a life-long Cleveland Browns fan, loved to go fishing and spend time in the outdoors. He was a member of the Eagles Club in Andover.
He is survived by his wife; six children, Sonya (Glenn) Call of Jamestown, Pa., Fred Egan (Barbra Prock) of Niota, Tenn., Sherri (George) Krupa of Andover, Ohio, Sandra (Richard) Smith of Madisonville, Tenn., Angelia (Dennis) McCallister of Andover, Ohio, and Tanise Link of Andover, Ohio; and sister, Ruth Frances of Cleveland, Ohio; grandchildren, Jessica (John) Krawsczyn, Shani (James) Roberson, Glenn Call and Diane Carlson, Ricky (Bailey) Smith, Cassandra (Kellen) Kerekes, Etya, Samantha and Salina Krupa, Clayton and James McCallister, Caitlin Easton, John and Tanisha Adams and Josh Prock; 15 great-grandchildren, Brianna, Jonathan, Blake, Jessalynn Krawsczyn, Keona, Waylon and Baby Smith, Kellen and Baby Kerekes, Tyler, Kaleb, Caiden and Baby Roberson, Haylee Call and Cheyanne Carlson; and many nieces and nephews.
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A Funeral Service officiated by Pastor Richard Meier will be held 10 a.m. at the PAINE-GUERRIERO FUNERAL HOME, 140 E. Main St., Orwell, Ohio 44076, on Friday, Feb. 22nd. Burial will take place at the Rome Center Cemetery with U.S. Army Military Honors.
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The stylish, unique design enhanced by the light yet durable aluminum frame catches the motorcycle enthusiast's eye instantly while not so subtly attracting the rider's practical side. Candy Neptune Blue and Flat Super Black are the two colors available and they both compliment the look of the bike quite nicely. The curb weight of the Concours 14 is 670 pounds, which is slightly lighter than the average sport-touring motorcycle, a nice advantage to have over its competitors.
The1352cc, DOHC, inline-four engine and six-speed transmission provides more power and pick up than most bikes in its class. The motor is capable of such high speeds that engineers programmed a top speed of 154 mph. While the controlled top speed is still far above legal driving limits, it's a smart feature to help curb the temptation to test the full power of the engine. Riders are sure to love the 102 pounds of torque capacity which allows for an exhilarating acceleration as well as fast decelerating capabilities which may come in handy when entering a heavily enforced speed zone.
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Cul-de-sacs can be strange places.
I know of which I speak; my family lived on a cul-de-sac for years. For a while, my world was confined to that small little corner of the neighborhood. I knew not to go past the streetlight that was halfway down the block. I knew that when that streetlight came on, it was time for me to come inside. I knew not to trade toys with the guy that lived on the corner of the entrance to our street – he didn't have a problem taking advantage of a kid who was only six. I knew I liked it when all the kids came over to play, but I especially liked it when the little blonde girl who lived two houses over came with them (even if I didn't understand why I liked it).
I knew that the man across the street didn't like kids playing in his yard. He made that perfectly clear, with a loud voice and a shaking fist, on several occasions.
I knew that the person who came banging on our door late at night sometimes was the mom of one of my friends, but my parents were always careful to shield her identity from me. I didn't know until later that she was going around to all of the houses, asking for whatever pills people could spare out of their medicine cabinet.
I loved that street and my time there, but it wasn't until I watched The 'Burbs several years later that I really came to appreciate the eccentricity of the place. That movie took it over the top, of course, but it also captured the essence of living on a street that is, in part, closed in on itself. The rumors, the secrets that lurked behind closed doors, the strange alchemy of a group of personalities that didn't choose to live next to each other, but just happened to end up there. The 'Burbs captured that unique feeling and turned it up to 10 for comedic effect.
Now comes Bentley Little's The Circle, a novella coming later this year from Cemetery Dance (originally published in 2002 as part of the collection Four Dark Nights from Leisure). Mr. Little also captures the spirit of life on a cul-de-sac, but rather than bend it for comedic effect he's warped it into a work of pitch-black horror.
This is William Tell Circle, home to several families living in neat homes with squared-away yards. Except the one house, of course, the one that every neighborhood seems to have; it's a broken-down mess with a weed-choked lawn and piles of junk dotting the yard and porch. The lady who lives there is known to be a professor and believed, at least by the younger residents of William Tell Circle, to be a witch. It's said there's some kind of altar in her backyard, and that the right kind of ritual will make all your wishes come true.
On this night a couple of teenagers decide to give the ritual a whirl. Predictably, the results are disastrous, and soon most of the neighbors find their lives turned upside-down by the forces that are unleashed. Mr. Little echoes the title of the story by starting in the middle of things, moving back to the beginning and then catching up by the end of the piece. It's a great method, and allows Little to tell this otherwise straightforward tale in a way that preserves the tension and surprises for even the most experienced readers of horror.
There are some truly awful, disgusting and shocking images in the story – for those who haven't read much of Little's work, be aware that he doesn't shy away from, well, anything. The rather innocuous title, not to mention the subtly creepy cover by illustrator Steve Upham, do nothing to betray the graphic nature of Little's work. The Circle is a fun summer read, digestible in one sitting and best enjoyed while sitting in a comfortable chair on your porch, enjoying a cool evening breeze and keeping one eye on the people next door.
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As things presently stand, there are 10 Flyers forwards who are locks to hold a roster spot on opening night: Claude Giroux, Scott Hartnell, Jakub Voracek, Danny Briere, Brayden Schenn, Sean Couturier, Wayne Simmonds, Matt Read, Max Talbot and Ruslan Fedotenko. Barring injuries, that leaves just two starting spots and a 13th forward role up for grabs.
Eric Wellwood is not a lock for a spot. However, chances are good that the swift-skating 22-year-old checking forward will gain one of the available jobs. Flyers coach Peter Laviolette was pleased with the work Wellwood turned in during his late-season callup to the club. He started 24 of the final 29 games of the regular season, including each of the final 13 games. Wellwood also dressed in all 11 of Philadelphia's playoff matches.
As such, it's fair to say that one of the available positions is Wellwood's job to lose. As a player on his entry-level contract, the Flyers also have the flexibility to have him open the season with the Phantoms in the event of an NHL lockout causing a delay to the start of the 2012-13 season.
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To her, to her dying breath, you were the untouchable one, the one whose flesh her dagger could not penetrate.
The Assassin
A cold and emotionless killer for whom every soul has a price, even his own, embarks on a path to find out just how high that price can be.
A dark elf of limitless guile dares to challenge a king, and carve for himself a place in the inhospitable World Above.
Ilnezhara and Tazmikella are ancient dragons of great power, accustomed to easily manipulating the humans around them. But not all humans are so easily led. When they pushed Entreri and Jarlaxle into the heart of the Bloodstone Lands, not even they could have imagined the strength of the human assassin's resolve, or the limitless expanse of the drow mercenary's ambition.
R.A. Salvatore is the New York Times best-selling author of The Legend of Drizzt, one of the most successful fantasy series of all time. He lives in Massachusetts, but is a loyal citizen of Red Sox Nation. Find him on Facebook, and at his own web site, rasalvatore.com.


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By Michele Tallarita '12
According to the world's most popular search engine, Google, Emily Tanenbaum '12 is BOLD.
That stands for Building Opportunities for Leadership & Development, a competitive 11-week internship program at the heart of the technology industry: Google's international headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
A mathematics-economics major, Tanenbaum (Basking Ridge, N.J.) spent her summer as a BOLD intern working in Google's finance department, where she put her skills as a financial analyst to the test. Tanenbaum's work focused on a sector of the Google Treasury called the Portfolio Management Group.
"The Portfolio Management Group is responsible for Google's investments in a variety of financial vehicles designed to provide a competitive rate of return while preserving the firm's capital," she says.
Her job involved analyzing returns, assessing Google's portfolio, and developing ways of streamlining performance analysis and reporting. She also received mentorship from accomplished Googlers and participated in projects vital to the company.
Being a part of the gears behind Google marks a milestone in Tanenbaum's already burgeoning financial career. Prior to her experience this summer, she completed externships with Jason Salgado '92 at Merrill Lynch and John Gassner '88 at ESPN. Last summer, she interned with Goldman Sachs.
"All of these experiences allowed me to gain insight into the broad spectrum of careers available in finance and influenced my career goals, which led me to my Google internship," she says.
After graduation, Tanenbaum plans on becoming a financial analyst or continuing her studies in graduate school. The high level of experience she is receiving at Google, she says, has helped her toward these goals by improving her analytical skills, her software expertise, and even her time management. "Each of these skills will be invaluable to me regardless of my career path," she says.
On campus, Tanenbaum prepares for the business world by participating in the investment club, the mathematics honorary society Pi Mu Epsilon, and the economics honorary society Omicron Delta Epsilon. This semester, she'll join the ranks of Lafayette's Fed Challenge team, which competes in economics tournaments and placed first and second in nation over the last two years.
Meanwhile, she looks forward to the part of a financial career that involves journeying to commerce centers around the world. "I have always enjoyed traveling," she says, "and having the opportunity to spend the summer in California has been amazing."


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A feasibility study, conducted from 1999 to 2001, determined the
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Into the Beautiful North, 2009
Queen of America, 2011
Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, 1993
By the Lake of Sleeping Children, 1996
The Devil's Highway, 2004
The Fever of Being, 1994
Ghost Sickness, 1997
Vatos, 2000
Six Kinds of Sky, 2002
Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush, 2010
Wandering Time: Western Notebooks, 1999
Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life, 2002
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