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Grover Norquist Leads the Fight Against Taxes
Leading conservative activist launched Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
Grover Norquist has been a conservative activist since he volunteered for Richard Nixon's presidential campaign while still a middle schooler. He's become a political force in his own right as founder of Americans for Tax Reform and has spent 25 years in Washington, fighting to shrink the size of government and reduce taxes. In the process, he's become a national leader in conservative politics.
Norquist says the keys to his success are simple: "A lot of work. No whining." But he also has mastered the art of knowing just what he wants to accomplish and inspiring people to help, whether they are paid staffers or volunteers.
Here's Norquist's take on managing failure and success and on the most effective conservative political leaders in America today.
[Click here to listen to the interview with Norquist]
The U.S. News podcast series, Leadership for the Next Decade, explores the ideas, innovations, and solutions that will inspire America for the future. Moderated by U.S. News Editor Brian Kelly, the podcasts feature exclusive interviews with leaders across the spectrum, from education, business, art, science, and medicine to government, public service, and philanthropy.


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RALEIGH — If you looked at N.C. State's baseball schedule in February, you would have said the most important game of the regular season would be in April at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
That's still true, except it's not the one-off game with North Carolina next Tuesday that matters most to the Wolfpack right now.
After a 5-10 ACC start, the importance of the only scheduled game against North Carolina has been surpassed by a three-game series with Duke, which will start Friday at DBAP.
N.C. State (19-13 with an RPI of 40) took two of three games from Clemson last weekend but still needs to jump start its season, especially in ACC play. The three games with Duke (18-16, 7-8) will count in the ACC standings, the one game with UNC won't.
If the ACC tournament started today, the Wolfpack would be one of the four teams left out of the 10-team bracket in Greensboro.
Duke will enter the weekend in eighth place in the ACC, one slot ahead of UNC, which the Blue Devils swept at the end of March.
Duke, UNC (7-8) and Maryland (6-8) would be the final three teams into the ACC tournament. The Wolfpack was swept by Maryland, so a potential tiebreaker over Duke could be important.
"We just have to take it game-by-game in the ACC, win on Fridays and take it from there," junior center fielder Jake Fincher said recently.
N.C. State has won an ACC series opener only once, 5-3 against Notre Dame on March 8. That's a particularly stinging stat for the Wolfpack because its best pitcher, junior Carlos Rodon, is the Friday starter.
Rodon, one of the top pitching prospects in the country, will take a 2-5 record into Friday's start against Duke. The Wolfpack has scored just three runs in his past four starts.
In 2010, UNC missed the ACC tournament and still made the NCAA tournament, but that was when there were only eight teams in the ACC field. The tournament changed formats and size with the addition of Notre Dame and Pittsburgh this season (Syracuse does not have a baseball team).
N.C. State and UNC played five times last season, including twice in the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., but the rivals won't have an ACC series this season. As a result, they agreed to schedule one nonconference game at DBAP.
Before the season, that one game seemed like it would mean a lot, even though it was never going to count in the ACC race.
Instead, N.C. State can't afford to overlook Duke, or anyone else, as it tries to put itself in position for the postseason.
"We don't need to think about anything besides winning the game we're playing, nothing in the future," Fincher said. "That's all we can do at this point. We have to keep playing hard every day and practicing hard and it will come together eventually."
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Welcome to the website of the Diocese of Derby. We aim to offer an introduction to our work and witness for the Church of England in Derbyshire. All information and activities highlighted have a common root in our desire to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ in ways which are most appropriate for the amazing and testing times in which we live.
As you explore this site you will discover that we serve God not just through our churches, but through our work in the community; in schools, offices and hospitals. We follow Jesus' call to serve the poor, the lonely, and the unloved.
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A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This Eagle Nest hotel also offers barbecue grills, a picnic area, and laundry facilities. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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Surrounded by friends, customers and family, Point Pizza Malibu owner Hye Song Oh closed her 24-year-old restaurant on New Years Eve.
Oh, who thanked the Malibu community for the support, worked up through the 8 p.m. closing, giving out hugs and asking about her customer's lives.
Earlier this week, Oh released a statement expressing her sadness at the Dec. 31 closure, which was because Point Dume Village owner Zan Marquis refused to extend her lease. Instead he signed a new lease with D'Amore's Famous Pizza, which already has a location in Eastern Malibu.
"The most difficult part of this closure is the fact that I will not be able to see the customers that have been coming into the store over the years. I know their families, have seen their children grow up and bring in their own children, and I know what they are going to order even if they have not been in the store for months or years," Oh said. "I feel like I am losing part of my own family."
Jody Kern, who grew up in the Ramirez Canyon area of Malibu, said he was one of the first cooks at Point Pizza under the original owners. He was out of Point Pizza Monday with the last torpedo sub.
"The day it opened, I was really happy we had a pizza place on this side of town," Kern said, adding that he started by delivering pizzas and subs when he was 17 and worked off and on until he turned 27.
"Zan Marquis has a black heart," Kern said.
Hamish Patterson, who ran for Malibu City Council in April, said he is going to miss his two slices of pepperoni jalapeno pizzas.
"I'm officially going to go out of my way to make their life difficult," Patterson said of D'Amore's. "It's a scumbag move."
Patterson and others thanked Oh for providing jobs and a hang out for Malibu's youth.
"She's always been part of the community. It's an attack on the youth," he said.
A closing party began just after 5:30 p.m., but some customers, like Patterson, hung out at the restaurant all day.
By 7:20 p.m., only 10 pizzas were left.
Sam McGee, who began working at Point Pizza when he was 16, said he has mixed feelings about the closure.
"I'm happy I got to spend time with them. I'm happy the community came out today. I'm really upset they are closing. It's not going to set it for a few days," McGee said.


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Here is a list of what I thought were the 10 biggest stories in movies for 2012. Since any kind of ranking would be hard I decided to go in chronological order. This is a mix of local and national stories.
2/26- The Artist wins Best Picture at the Oscars
At the start of every year the movie industry is still buzzing about the movies that came out the previous year and the Oscars are what everyone is talking about. This year provided a little history at the Oscars. The almost entirely silent black and white movie The Artist won Best Picture. While there was a little sound it is the first silent film to win Best Picture since Wings won at the first Oscars in 1929. The Artist was also the first entirely black and white movie to win since The Apartment in 1961 (Schindler's List won Best Picture in 1994 which was mostly black and white but did have some color). My review is here. The Artist Movie Review.
March-The Times and Rosebud Cinema Close
Locally right after the Oscars it was reported that The Rosebud and Times Cinema were going to close the first week in March. It was a sad day in Milwaukee as they are one of the few independently owned and operated theatres in Milwaukee. The bank ended up foreclosing and a new owner bought it in May. By the end of the summer the Rosebud was back open and The Times Cinema just reopened. The Wauwatosa Patch had covered the story. Rosebud and Time to Close in March
3/9- John Carter Bombs
Disney will make this list a couple of times but for it's first appearance it is not for a good thing. On March 9th John Carter premiered and then promptly bombed. The movie cost $250 million to make and another $100 million to market and the final worldwide total gross of $184 and a majority of the gross was from overseas. As one of the biggest bombs in movie history there was a lot of finger pointing. The total failure of the movie to make money led to the resignation of the head of the studio Rick Ross.
5/4- The Avengers breaks records
A few weeks after Ross resigned Disney made almost the entire money they lost on John Carter in one weekend. Usually when records are broken it is by small amounts but when The Avengers made $200 million in 3 days it shattered the previous record of $169 million of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Disney and Marvel Studios have been preparing for The Avengers for 4 year with 5 previous movies and it premiered to positive reviews and a rabid fan base. The movie had big expectations but no one could predict the amount of success it would have.
7/20- The Shooting in Aurora, Colorado
After the massive success of The Avengers all eyes were on The Dark Knight Rises. Could it equal the critical praise of The Dark Knight or the financial success of The Avengers? It premiered on July 20th with sold out midnight shows. That is when tragedy struck in Aurora, Colorado. A gunman went into a theatre and opened fire killing 12 and leaving a lot more wounded. For me Christopher Nolan summed it up with when he said "The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me."
8/19- Tony Scott commits suicide
Every year there are celebrity deaths that shock us. The biggest movie celebrity death shocker this year was the suicide of Tony Scott. Scott was known for directing action movies like Top Gun and Unstoppable and partnering with his brother Ridley Scott on the production company Scott Free. A few weeks before their production of the miniseries Coma premiered Scott committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. For someone that seemed to have a long career ahead of him the idea that he would take his own life makes no sense. It was rumored that he was just diagnosed with brain cancer but this was determined to be false and there is still no answer to why.
9/27-10/11 The Milwaukee Film Festival has biggest year yet
For 15 days the Milwaukee Film Fest entertained us with 225 movies. Previous years the festival had only been 11 days so it was a gamble increasing it to 15. The gamble paid off with the largest turnout for the film festival. There was a 40% increase in attendance over the 2011 Festival and more sold out shows than ever before. The Audience award winner was the documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God about sexual abuse by priests. The movie had its US Premiere at the festival and director Alex Gibney was present as well as former students of the St. John's School for the Deaf in St. Francis that were featured in the movie. With lots of local productions and plenty of special guests the festival was a lot of fun. Movie Review Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
10/13- New local bloggers
Just a few days after the Milwaukee Film Festival ended two guys in Milwaukee decided to follow their dream and start their own blog and Facebook page. My friend Chris and I started Delusions of Grandeur Movie Reviews blog and our own Facebook page at Milwaukee Movie Talk. While this is not really big news it was much talked about by my friends and thought I would take a moment to promote it. Maybe one day we will look back and see it as the beginning of something big.
10/30 - Disney buys Lucasfilm
Probably the biggest news story of the year was the purchase of Lucasfilm by Disney and the announcement of Star Wars Episode 7,8, and 9. This seemed to come out of nowhere and sent fans into a frenzy of speculation. George Lucas decided it was time to retire and sold his company to Disney who then announced that they would make a Star Wars movie every other year starting in 2015. The internet then went crazy with rumors about who will direct, what the story is going to be about, and who will star in it. The only thing we know for sure at this point is that the movies are based on Lucas's own story lines and the first movie will be written by Michael Arndt who wrote Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3.
12/14 The Hobbit is the first movie to show at 48 fps
The Hobbit was one of the most anticipated movies of 2012. After the massive success of The Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson was back directing. While 3D has been the big new thing in the world of movies Peter Jackson decided to take it up a notch and make the first movie shot and shown at 48 frames per second. The standard has been 24 fps and no one was sure how the higher frame rate would play. Well it got mixed reviews, but it is historical and we will see if it is just a gimmick or the future of movies. Movie Review of The Hobbit
So that's it. Lots of stuff happened this year. We started it off with a silent black and white movie and ended it with a 3D movie at 48 fps. What a year. Can't wait to see what 2013 has in store.


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---- — "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but they are not entitled to their own facts." — The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
The particular model of weapon used by Adam Lanza during the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., might seem like a relatively minor detail in the debate over gun violence in the United States.
But it rises to much greater importance when it sparks a furious debate over whether we can get even the most basic facts correct. Such was the case this week when more than one an angry letter-writer accused The Daily Star of taking part in a massive cover-up, suggesting that the Bushmaster XM15-E2S assault rifle Lanza brought to Sandy Hook was left in his car and never actually used.
Letters could be dismissed with a simple call stating "sorry, your letter is incorrect and will not appear in our newspaper." But this problem isn't limited to just some letters to us. Since December, a chorus of manipulative, agenda-driven voices has lurked in the shadows of the blogosphere, feverishly churning out chain emails in an attempt to poison the gun debate before the facts get a chance to take root.
One can only assume that such trash was responsible for deceiving our poor letter-writer, since no credible information exists whatsoever suggesting Lanza never used his assault rifle during the Sandy Hook massacre. Those who disagree should pay attention to Connecticut State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance, whose Jan. 24 media conference covered by — among others — the Connecticut Post should have driven a stake through the heart of such misinformation.
"It's all these conspiracy theorists that are trying to mucky up these waters," Vance said. "There's no doubt that the rifle was used solely to kill 26 people in that school. I personally articulated that probably a dozen times in Newtown."
Perhaps the confusion arises from initial inaccurate media reports and the fact that police recovered an Izhmash Canta-12 assault shotgun from the trunk of Lanza's car. But this is no excuse; reaching a firm conclusion that Lanza didn't use his rifle should require firm evidence, not rumor.
As newspaper editors, we're often told that we need to be more careful about getting our facts straight. Such concerns are wholly valid, especially in an era where news sources are multiplying without necessarily becoming more credible.
But readers, too, need to hold up their end of the bargain, and learn how to distinguish fact from fancy. One could argue this problem is a much greater threat to the American way of life than gun violence. But if some readers' confirmation bias is too strong for them to acknowledge facts that don't fit their preconceived opinions, it's entirely their own fault.


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Maxine Ruth (Jones) Jobson, 91, of Bucklin, MO, passed away at her home on Sunday, October 7, 2012.
Maxine was born on October 28, 1920, in New Cambria, MO, the daughter of Andrew T. and Jennie (Powell) Jones. On August 30, 1941, she was married to George Earl Jobson in New Cambria. He preceded her in death on May 12, 1981. She was a lifelong member of the United Church of New Cambria as well as a 50 year member of the Eastern Star. Maxine was retired from the Walsworth Publishing Company.
Maxine is survived by her children, Karen (Larry) Wahl, Liberty, MO, Robert (Wilma) Jobson, Bucklin, Kathryn (Edward) Barker, Pleasant Valley, MO, Lois (Jim) McCollum, Marceline, MO, and William (Marie) Jobson, Bucklin, 14 grandchildren, 4 step-grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, (2 on the way), 9 step-great-grandchildren, 1 great-great-grandchild, (1 on the way) and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one son, Charles Eldon Jobson, great-granddaughter, Emma Katherine Jobson, and two sisters, Martha Hill and Helen Bellamy.
Funeral services will be 11:00 am, Wednesday, October 10, 2012, at the United Church of New Cambria with Rev. Mary Ellen Waychoff officiating. Burial will be in the New Cambria Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9:00 am until the time of service on Wednesday. The family requests memorials to the Serve Link Hospice or the United Church of New Cambria in her memory. Arrangements are under the direction of the Gilleland & McElwain Funeral Home in New Cambria.
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By: Jay
Karl Rove writes in the Wall Street Journal that Tuesday will see an "apocalypse" of the Democratic Party. While that may be the case with regard to the standard party politics, it's not good enough for the country. If we simply shove in a gaggle of neo-cons, all we will get is more of the same, minus slightly different rhetoric. If Gingrich runs for president in 2012, it will be more of the same, since Gingrich supports carbon taxes. And insert there as well Palin, Romney or Petraeus. Carbon tax is, of course, one of the key pillars of the present globalist-minded Washington establishment, and it has been totally discredited. And by establishment, I mean the mainline left and "right." Gingrich is not a conservative, and Palin isn't good enough. Many of the candidates presently running aren't really conservative, either, but many are. Rand Paul represents the best among the candidates, as well as Sharron Angle, and it's here that we can begin to see a step in the right direction.
Proof that they are legitimate is in the pudding – who does the mainline media go after relentlessly? Paul and Angle. While we are in the midst of depression, more proposed banker bailouts, more proposed government takeovers and nanny state control, do we really think a pile of neo-connery will save us? We shouldn't. Most of the neo-con establishment backtracks and waffles as often as the Democrats they have stage play battles with.
So what is the future trend? Like it or not, the future trend is the popularity of Ron Paul. At CPAC this year, Paul annihilated Romney. Romney had, the prior year, edged out Paul, and a year later, Paul blows away Romney. If Republican Partiers want to survive, they should understand that it won't work to shuffle in the same old hacks. In fact, if we get a new crop of neo-cons, it will signal a future apocalypse of the Republican Party. Perhaps this is a good thing. Like it or not, the trend is Ron Paul.
The political zeitgeist is one of awakening, and the so-called conservatives are taking baby steps towards the right positions, but we must beware of falling into tribalism and drifting off to sleep, assuming our football team has beat the other team. That's not good enough. A crop of neo-cons isn't good enough. People are tired of the same old hacks–it's like political Groundhog Day. More quantitative easing, more inflation, more regulations, more big brother, and more bailouts only signal further destruction of the economy, and what is crucial to understand is that this destruction is by design, not by "inefficiency" and not by "stupidity." This is the line the mainstream outlets continually sell, but it's just not the case. Former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, who leaked the facts in 2000 that this monetary apocalypse plan was by design, and it's the same globalist banker crew that was among that ilk. This is what the neo-cons won't talk about, and even Gary North at LewRockwell seems to be unaware of the fact that it was known to be an implosion by design. Until we identify the real problem, solutions cannot be given. Thus, the future is not more neo-cons, but real conservatives. Another influx of neo-cons will only wake people up further.


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When I was unboxing my Lumia 800, I found that the packaging is almost as beautiful as the phone itself; Nokia did a great job of creating a stylish, minimalist box that is an excellent complement to the Lumia 800's clean lines. Check it out:
The Lumia 800 box is small & straightforward. No wasted space or excess material.
The box lid easily slides off. You get right to the phone, no digging through layers of packaging.
Documentation is neatly organized in a closable envelope
The Lumia 800 comes with a protective silicone sleeve.
Underneath the sleeve and documentation envelope is a set of headphones, a micro USB cable, and a charger. As you can see my Lumia 800 has a European plug so I've been using a charger from another Windows Phone with a US plug. I've had no problems charging.
The Lumia 800, alive and (almost) ready for action!
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@Rodney E.
You're the most honest and realistic American I've ever heard.
Good talk
Nice that it comes with a case =D More companies need to do this. Getting dinged $20-30 for a third-party case of dubious quality really sucks.
Was looking at the Titan too but not fussed on the user memory available. If the specs are correct for the Nokia 900 due next year then that will def be my next phone.
Looks great. Waiting for US availibility :)
By way the site say's specifically "Coming first to UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and Netherlands" Coming first means we will probably be next. Don't worry we will get it! Think about it, the US always gets tech last, even from our own companies. And, keep in mind that Nokia has to look out for their biggest markets first. Sorry guy's, regardless of the BS that our government has feed us since birth the US isn't the center of the universe anymore, and its our fault for siting back and letting them let it happen. Never the less, we are still important and we will still get great products from Nokia in the near future.
This specific phone must be coming to the US. It's on the US Windows Phone website, see..........
...... In the past they have only shown devices that are US market only within the USWP site.
Nice, a phone I can't have. Maybe the US will have something 'better' in store......
Very nice, it looks like they took some notes from the Zune packaging.
Thanks for the post Ben! Lumia looks so nice. Please feel free to give us your impressions on the hardware and camera while we anxiously await a north american release.
Btw, you probably have a few HTC phones around, any chance you've also come across the Zune freezing bug? It seems to be affecting HTC phones everywhere and is slowly driving me crazy. See thread: answers.microsoft.com/.../e862bde0-fd1f-471e-9822-5c7a44746390
oh how I want one of these. Nokia show us some love in the USA
For once, Americans feel a lust for WP7 that we feel because they don't have it! I feel kinda smug, then I remember the Lumia isn't available in Canada either. :(
ah, cant wait till it gets to USA, Nokia please send some phone here to USA.
In a toss up between the Titan and Lumia 800 for my next device the Titan won .. but I also want to get a Nokia Lumia 800 , if you ever need to throw this away hope you throw lands in Melbourne ;)
Jokes aside , can you plz put some picture to show the camera quality on this device ? ( against titan if possible ) pretty plz


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Equity in an International Climate Agreement: Lessons from Other Multilateral Regimesby and -
The nineteenth United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) is shaping up to be a "construction COP" where nations take steps toward achieving a new global climate agreement by 2015. But with wide-ranging interests at the same table, establishing equity has once again taken center stage in the international climate negotiations and will be a key issue for achieving a new global climate agreement.
The 2015 agreement is meant to apply to all nations, raising obvious questions about which countries will take what actions and how equity factors into those determinations. Since ensuring all Parties consider the climate agreement fair is a necessary first step to meaningful participation, WRI's new paper, Equity Lessons from Multilateral Regimes for the New Climate Agreement, examines how equity is treated in a number of multilateral environmental, trade, human rights and international aid agreements.


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So … how about we switch that whole 85% raw thing to 15 or 20 percent? If the title and previous line didn't already give it away, allow me to now confess that my August raw food experiment didn't quite work out the way that I'd planned. Let me explain.
In anticipation of Rawgust, I prepped, I shopped, I psyched myself up to no end. I chatted it up with my raw foodie friends; they chatted me up in return, and got all excited to welcome me into the raw food fold. I carefully planned out what I was going to eat and drink for the entire week, and made my veggie purchases accordingly. I made sure all of my "raw stuff" was organized on the countertop and in the fridge.
I put on my game face and was ready to rock this raw show. I even cleaned up -- who am I kidding, I went all out and *polished* -- my super cool juicer, and pulled out a raw food cook book that I quickly got intimidated by and returned to its revered spot on the shelf. But you get the idea; I was pretty serious about the whole thing.
On my first day, this is what I ate.
Breakfast (after my steaming hot cup of tea):
- Green juice: kale, carrots, ginger, banana, apple. Survey says: delicious & filling.
- Mixed greens salad with strawberries and tangerines on top, with a side of fresh apple juice. Pretty yummy, but I don't think I ate enough.
- Cut broccoli, carrots, salad, plus a glass of water. I wasn't exactly excited about this, but it was alright. (I generally don't like eating a ton at night because my stomach is very sensitive to foods around that time; If I don't have enough time to digest, I get nightmares or cramps. On doozy nights, I get both.)
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News here is that Santa made one his last stops here to Mecenat Bistro & Wine Shop to meet with Gregory Hayes our sommelier negotiating a great deal which will allow us to offer some of his personal favorite wines from the cellar at 20% off to our customers during the month of January.
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DALLAS (SMU) The U.S. Army and The Guildhall at SMU are releasing the America's Army: Special Forces (Overmatch) (SMU GH Map Pack) for download at the Americas Army game website (www.americasarmy.com).
The SMU GH Map Pack, provides Americas Army players with four new missions created by students at Guildhall under collaborative partnership with the U.S. Army.
Since its first released in July 2002, Americas Army has consistently remained one of the top-ten action games played online, gathering a following of more than 8.1 million registered users within the United States and in over 60 different countries. These players have invested 200 million hours in the game, exploring soldiering from basic training to operations in the global war on terrorism.
We are proud to be a part of one of the most popular computer game series ever produced, Dr. Peter Raad, executive director of The Guildhall at SMU, said. It is our job to prepare our graduate students for a dream job in the real world. Our work for Americas Army shows that we are accomplishing our mission.
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In collaboration with the Americas Army Public Applications Team, Guildhall students and faculty created four missions that highlight the training, technology, and skills that make the U.S. Army the worlds premier land force. The Guildhall team included five students (Cyndi Bell, Derek Manns, Jason Morales, Roy Orr and Rance Wood) led by Myque Ouellette who served as producer/lead designer with additional support provided by Mike McCoy. Rounding out this group, Guildhall students, lecturers and administrators assisted in concept development, testing, and feedback.
The Americas Army game is an extremely important resource for the Army, and maintaining its capacity to capture mind-share is integral to the projects continued success, said Colonel Casey Wardynski, Director of the Americas Army Game project. With this release of Americas Army, the team at Guildhall has created highly realistic and immersive virtual experiences that convey the dynamic nature of Soldiering in the Army today.
America's Army: Special Forces (Overmatch) (SMU GH Map Pack) contains the following missions.
The Guildhall team created the GH Map Pack using the Americas Army Mission Editor that was released to the public in December 2006 as part of America's Army: Special Forces (Coalition). The Mission Editor enables America's Army players to modify existing levels and/or create new levels using any of the Games existing art, sound, particle effects and game play assets. With the Mission Editor, players can create new levels or modify existing levels for use by Americas Armys global community at the Americas Army Mission Depot (www.aamissiondepot.com).
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The Guildhall at SMU is the premier graduate video game education program in the United States. The program offers a graduate certificate and Masters degree in interactive technology. The Guildhall at SMU has a 95 percent placement rate and its graduates work for more than 50 of the worlds leading video game companies.
The purpose of the school is to prepare artists, level designers and programmers for the video game industry. Many of the schools advisors are industry icons. In addition, industry veterans make up the faculty. More information about The Guildhall at SMU and how to apply for admission is at http://guildhall.smu.edu.
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Launched on July 4, 2002, Americas Army is an innovative PC action game that provides young adults with an inside perspective and a virtual role in todays high-tech Army. The Americas Army game provides players with a virtual test drive of soldiering in the U.S. Army from basic training to the battlefield in the global war on terrorism.
Since July 2002 the Army has released 24 major updates to its Americas Army game for the PC. These releases, which are available at www.americasarmy.com, feature new technologies, missions, Army units and occupations.
The most recent updates are part of the Americas Army: Special Forces series which focuses upon the central role Special Forces play in the global war on terrorism and includes Americas Army: Special Forces (Special Forces Assessment and Selection) released November 2003; Americas Army: Special Forces (Q Course) released May 2005; and Americas Army: Special Forces (Overmatch) (released September 2006). Americas Army: Special Forces (Overmatch) highlights technologies that provide small U.S. Army units with the ability to overmatch much larger enemy forces.
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TAHLEQUAH — Tahlequah Main Street Association has a newfangled way to show off its old buildings.
Signs bearing smartphone QR (quick response), or square codes, are popping up on street lamps throughout downtown Tahlequah. Scan one of those crazy-quilt squares and learn all about the history of the building near the street lamp.
"The scanners link to a video showing the history of the building," said Drew Haley, Tahlequah Main Street's program manager.
Another QR code on the signs have links to upcoming area events.
The QR code signs have been put on 14 street lamps since last June, Haley said.
Haley knew who to call when the Main Street Association looked for people to appear on the videos.
Beth Herrington, chairwoman of the city of Tahlequah's historical board, can tell stories about just about any building in downtown.
When she mentions a building, she's just as likely to note the date it was built and what it was known for.
"There's the Cherokee Square, established in 1839 with the Cherokees' union after the Trail of Tears," Herrington said. "We had the first telephones west of the Mississippi River. We had the first Main Street platted, 1841 to 1843."
Haley scanned a QR code on a street lamp by the Main Street office. A video came on his smartphone showing Herrington talking about the first school in Tahlequah, built in 1846. The building no longer stands, Haley said, explaining that the school was near where the city pool is now.
"She knows everything there is to know about Tahlequah," Haley said.
He said Herrington created historic pamphlets about downtown Tahlequah.
"He (Haley) had an idea of doing something on the light poles to get people more involved in the history of downtown Tahlequah," Herrington said.
"People walk into the chamber daily and want to know about the history," Haley said.
Haley said he had thought about putting up kiosks that would have maps and historic information about notable buildings. Then the idea about the QR codes hit him.
"Everyone has their own digital kiosk," he said. "And with their phone, they can pick up a little piece of history."
Not every building has a QR code. Seminary Hall and historic buildings on the Northeastern State University campus do not yet have QR code signs. Haley said a QR code sign just south of the campus mentions Seminary Hall.
He said he is planning to put up more QR code signs this spring. There are plenty more historic buildings to tout. Herrington said Tahlequah has 15 sites on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Where the legal definition of the crime at issue contains a disjunctive element (which requires proof of only one of multiple specified factual predicates), only one subpart of which requires the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon, application of the prohibition in section 922(g)(9) will turn on whether the factfinder found that the subpart meeting the "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" definition had been proved (or whether the defendant pleaded guilty to that subpart). The answer to that question may be gleaned from the record of conviction or the supporting record of proceedings in the court of conviction. Police reports cannot answer that question.
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For the third time in six years, Fairmont State University's women's basketball team claimed the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Basketball Tournament championship at the Charleston Civic Center.
Led by tournament most valuable player Kaitlin Snyder's 18-point and 12-rebound performance, the third-seeded Lady Falcons erased a 12-point second-half deficit and rolled to a 65-54 victory over fifth-seeded Seton Hill.
"It's amazing," said Snyder, who also claimed the heart and hustle award at the tournament and passed Kristen Gattuso (2,041) in Saturday's victory to become the Lady Falcons' all-time leading scorer with 2,046 career points. "Who wouldn't want to end their senior year like this? My freshman year when we won it was special, but this one, with me being a senior, has much, much more meaning to me.
"The 2010 team was outstanding, but our team this year has unbelievable team chemistry. I mean that. It's phenomenal and it's a big reason we were able to win this title."
The victory, FSU's seventh in a row, improved the Lady Falcons to 23-9 overall on the year and earns them a bid in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional Tournament which will be played at a site yet to be determined March 15-18.
"I'm awfully proud of our kids," said veteran FSU coach Steve McDonald, who improved to 3-0 in the league tournament title games. "The last three weeks they've played at an extremely high level. I'm telling you 95 percent of the credit for this goes to the players."
Trailing 32-20 early in the second half Fairmont flicked the switch and became a completely different team than the one that connected on just 9-of-24 field goal attempts and turned the ball over an uncharacteristic 10 times in the first half. Led by sophomores Hailey Garrett, Hallie Gunnoe and Emily Lohr, FSU exploded on a 22-4 run over the course of an 8:18 span to take control of the contest for good at 42-36 with 9:19 left to play.
Garrett, who along with Snyder and Briana Welch was a member of the all-tournament team, finished with 16 points and eight rebounds for the Lady Falcons. Eight of her points came on the 22-4 spurt. Gunnoe, like Snyder, posted a double-double performance in the victory. She ended up with 11 points and 10 rebounds and scored seven of her 11 points on the game-changing run. Lohr, meanwhile, ended with nine points, five of which came on the run.
"It's kind of hard for me to even remember that but there came a point in the game where everything just started to click for us," said Snyder. "We defended well. We executed our plays and got the ball inside which is what coach wanted us to do. We basically took the game to them.
"I know Hallie Gunnoe was big for us during that run. She was a spark for us the whole tournament."
After Fairmont opened its six-point advantage the Lady Griffins, who finished the season at 19-13, never got any closer than four.
"This was a very, very intense game and at times in the second half we didn't have the ability to score or get stops. We had breakdowns," said Seton Hill coach Fern Labati. "The big difference was in the first half we had very few turnovers and we executed our game plan. In the second half they were able to force a lot of turnovers and we didn't control the boards like we did early in the game and as a result the got a lot of second chances and took advantage of them."
Paige Alviani and Katie Gattuso led Seton Hill with 18 and 13 points respectively. Alviani, who had 11 of her points in the first half, was held to just seven points in the second half by Fairmont State's Tiffany Nicholson.
"Their number 23 did a great job of playing defense on me," said Alviani. "She challenged every shot I got."
FSU shot 58.3 percent from the field in the final 20 minutes (14-of-24), went 14-of-17 at the foul line in the second half. The Falcons also limited themselves to just four turnovers in the second half and ended up out-rebounding the Lady Griffins for the game by seven.
The victory was the third of the season for the Lady Falcons over Seton Hill. The first two meetings were both decided by one point, including a heated FSU win in Greensburg, Pa., just nine days ago.
"There's no doubt we were motivated to play them today," said FSU's Garrett. "But whatever happened between us happened in the past and today our goal was to just come out and play our game. In the second half that's what we did."
For McDonald his third time as a WVIAC Tournament champion, was indeed a charm.
"When we came here and won in '08 it was special because it was the first time for a long time for the school," he said. "The one in 2010 when Kaitlin, Tiffany (Nicholson) and Alana (George) were freshman was special too because of the group of kids we had, but this one today might just be the best one of all and in all honestly I can't really say why. It just feels very, very special."


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Diablo III (3) for PC
Diablo III is being developed as the definitive action role-playing game, and a true continuation of the Diablo series. Players will create a hero from one of five distinct classes, such as barbarian or witch doctor, each equipped with an array of spells and abilities. As these heroes adventure through rich and varied settings, unraveling an epic storyline and engaging in combat with hordes of monsters and challenging bosses, they'll grow in experience and ability and acquire items of incredible power.
The game takes place on Sanctuary, a world of dark fantasy. Unbeknownst to most of its inhabitants, Sanctuary was saved some twenty years ago from the demonic forces of the underworld by a few brave and powerful heroes. Most of those warriors who directly faced Hell's armies - and were fortunate enough to survive - went mad from their experiences. And most of the others have buried their haunted memories and pushed the horrors from their thoughts. In Diablo III, players will return to Sanctuary to confront evil in its many forms once again.
Diablo III will be a fitting sequel to Diablo II, with the easy interface, fast-paced action, and visceral gameplay that Diablo players have come to expect and enjoy. It will also include many new features that will take the Diablo action-RPG experience to the next level!
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Joann Muller, Forbes Staff
I write about industrial innovation and the global auto industry
No chief executive wants to tell his company's investors that they were victims of a massive fraud under his leadership. But that's the uncomfortable spot in which Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman found himself Monday, as he accepted the blame for drastically overpaying for a key strategic acquisition in China.
"It happened on my watch," Oberhelman told investors, ten days after Caterpillar was forced to write down more than 80 percent of the value of the mining-equipment company it had acquired just six months ago. "The buck stops at my desk. I am accountable for that acquisition."
Caterpillar, based in Peoria, Ill., disclosed on Jan. 18 that it had uncovered "deliberate accounting misconduct" at Zhengzhou Siwei Mechanical & Electrical Manufacturing Co., a maker of roof-support equipment for underground coal mines that it had acquired last June. Siwei is a subsidiary of ERA Mining Machinery, a Hong Kong-listed firm controlled by a shell company whose principals are two American entrepreneurs in China. Caterpillar paid about $700 million for ERA but said earlier this month it was writing down the value of that company by $580 million. "It's disappointing," Oberhelman said. "But how we respond defines us."
It's unclear how Caterpillar executives and its investment advisers failed to discover the accounting issues before completing the acquisition. Oberhelman said the fraud was discovered last fall, after Caterpillar dispatched some of its experienced managers to work with Siwei, as it typically does after any acquisition. When that new team began trying to reconcile Siwei's physical inventory with its books, they found "a substantial discrepancy," he said. "What we found is that senior managers at Siwei were inflating sales, understating costs, inflating profits and creating fabricated documentation to cover their tracks."
Caterpillar said it removed several senior managers at Siwei who were responsible for the misconduct and put a new new leadership team in place. At the same time, it announced the departure of Luis de Leon, the vice president of its Mining Products division, who had joined Caterpillar in June 2011 after its acquisition of Bucyrus International, Inc., where he was chief operating officer for four years. Bucyrus had reportedly been the catalyst for the Chinese deal.
Oberhelman said Caterpillar is considering "all of our options" and declined further comment, citing a policy against discussing pending or "contemplated" legal action.
His discussion of the accounting fraud came as Caterpillar released its 2012 year-end earnings and warned of a potentially tough year ahead, due partly to continued efforts to reduce excess inventories. Read more about Caterpillar's 2013 outlook and a recap of its 2012 results here.
You can pretty well bet there will be some fraud losses as American and European companies move into new growth economies without a good set of laws, rules and regulation. Some learning results from the process.
Just a thought, but maybe try sending a few of those experienced managers in BEFORE the acquisition next time…
Never enough time to do it RIGHT always enough time to do it over !
It's very regrettable how many U.S. companies have begun business in China as if they were entering a western European country. And they get burned to various degrees every time.
China is the world's largest market. A good many U.S. companies indeed need to be here. However, China is like no other country in the world. To find success, you might as well put aside everything you ever learned about (western) business, and realize that to safely engage in China, you have to learn all over again from the bottom up. Deceit is a normal component of the business culture, and you're not going to change that.
1. China is like no other country in the world
2. Practically everything you've ever learned about (western) business means nothing here.
To have any chance for meaningful success, you need to search for those VERY rare Americans that have the ability and adaptable mentality for China, individuals willing to relocate to China permanently (10-20 years) and literally become a respected local.
It takes over 5 years before you "begin" to understand China (not days or weeks), and 7-10 years to have a solid footing (which is why 1 to 3 year short-term expats are a worthless expense). Those U.S. execs that fly to China 3-4 times a year for a week and think they "know" China are, with respect, grossly mistaken (but then the problems you've encountered and/or lack of sales success already confirms that). Some of the big names thought of as success stories, such as YUM's KFC, are out of control in China (e.g. the recent tainted chicken issue, where "deceit" won over incompetent oversight).
While it's easy to point fingers after the fact in this CAT fiasco, this is a typical example of how out-of-touch most U.S. companies are in China. Their expats are typically short-termers, 2-3 years max, that can't speak the language. Living in their Hongqiao or Shunyi luxury villas and working in the "silver towers" downtown, their lifestyle and language barrier effectively insulates them away from the real China. And just as these short timers are "beginning" to get their feet wet, their companies rotate them out and send in another "suit" that has little or no ability to truly comprehend China's unique business culture and thus successfully engage with both feet solidly on the ground.
While the expats think they're "in charge and in control", they are actually oblivious to the hanky-panky right under their noses (They day-to-day have no clue what their local employees are saying – that sweet secretary and dedicated young manager would never pull the wool over your eyes, right?).
Here's another example. With the typical China translator that studied basic English (the crucial industry-specific English isn't taught in schools), the expat is clueless about mistranslated statements, because the translator never wants to "lose face" and admit they don't understand what the expat just said. I witness this constantly. The long time word-to-the-wise holds true – "do your own talking".
If a U.S. company wants to engage in China, the world's largest market certainly justifies identifying individuals with the following qualifications:
1. Willing to relocate to China long-term (10 years minimum – preferably 15-20)
2. Have the rare ability to adapt to China's culture and way of life (only 1 in 5,000 people have it).
3. Can learn to speak mandarin fluently
4. Have the VERY rare personality that enables them to eventually think as Chinese do in business,
4. Have the personality that allows them to become respected as a "local". (When they know you speak and understand Chinese fluently, are visibily active (never far away and constantly passing by) throughout the company all day long, they will be far more afraid to pull any antics.
You're in China to effectively mind the store, which with all the hanky-panky here is a 24/7 job. Playboys, those that can't control the urge to become a playboy, and individuals with easily inflated egos need to stay home.


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Wall Street Journal Reports Twins Had 6th Best Off-Season
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This morning the Wall Street Journal decided to talk a little baseball (yay!). They dove into each teams offseason activities and ranked them based on their collective expected WAR (from Fangraphs.com) from acquisitions and losses. They didn't include promotions from within the organizations or demotions within the organizations expected or otherwise except in the case of the Mariner's Montero.
According to WSJ the Twins came in 6th place this off-season with net WAR increase of 4.4. Unsurprisingly the Angels came ranked best with a WAR increase of 13.3.
I don't believe in WAR being the end all be all of a players value, however, this is a nice little rating system to show how each team fared this off-season using some quick and dirty evaluations.
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Dear AMC. Thank you so much for The Walking Dead. And thank you so much for not fucking it up. Sincerely, Alyse.
Yes friends, The Walking Dead is here, and it should appeal both to fans of Robert Kirkman's comic, and fans of zombie culture. I will admit, I was not, at first, a huge fan of the original comic book. To be fair, before I read it I was under the impression that the comics were about a zombie rampage, and instead found a story of human struggle against an unconventional foe. But after watching Frank Darabont's pilot, I am ready to give the comic another go. Based on what I have read, the show follows the comic pretty closely, with sheriff Rick Grimes waking after being shot in the line of duty, and discovering the world has fallen to zombies.
The show has a cinematic quality to it that few shows do. It is eerily "real." The zombies feel organic, like they could be real creatures you would meet on the street. That's not to say they aren't monstrous. Greg Nicotero did a brilliant job creating grotesque - yet realistic - zombies. It's like the corpses of CSI climbed off the table and started wandering around suburbia. AMC did not puss out on this series. Putrid flesh, dangling jaws, bloody entrails, and buckets and buckets of blood are all here. Cable television is a magical thing: aside from obscenity laws, cable networks are beholden only to advertisers. So if AMC says, "More blood please," there's no one to tell them no.
The Walking Dead is not jump-out-of-your-seat scary. It is a slow, intense ride - just like the zombies within. There is a certain somberness to the series that seems to be a trademark of AMC shows. Mad Men has it. The sense of desolation is palpable. Shows like last summer's Persons Unknown tried for that loneliness: a half-dozen people trapped in a ghost town. But it failed for a myriad of reasons, one of which was the overzealous acting of the largely unknown cast. British actor Andrew Lincoln plays Grimes quietly. He is horrified at what his town has become, but he doesn't turn into a scream queen over it; nor does he spend an entire episode trying to deny it.
The Walking Dead is television gold. Well written, well acted, well directed, and well made up. I suspect even non-zom fans will enjoy the Dead. (The real test will be when my horror-indifferent husband sits down to watch it.) Perhaps this will be the first Emmy Award-winning batch of zombies. It's good, folks. You don't want to miss it.


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As a local news organization, Patch covers stories of all kinds, from heartbreaking tragedies to inspiring tales of community brotherhood. But some stories are just plain weird. Here are some of the stranger headlines from the past seven days.
Fire in the Sky?
While UFO legends aren't exactly uncommon on Long Island — Camp Hero in Montauk? The Shirley UFO Crash? — you'd think clandestine alien space travelers would pick a less conspicuous destination than an island stacked with 3 million people on the outskirts of one of the world's biggest cities.
You'd think, right?
Turns out December and January have been busy months for UFO sightings in the area, according to UFO digest, which this week wrapped up three alleged accounts, including this one out of Mastic Beach from Jan. 7.
"At first it appeared to me to be like an asteroid falling from the sky. It was A really bright light almost square in shape with a trail behind it falling straight down. I decided I wanted to get to the shoreline as fast as possible to get a better view with no trees blocking my view, which is when things got really weird.
The object stopped at about a 60 degree angle off of the horizon. We then observed a smaller bright orange light that was also remaining stationary in the sky. We stayed there for about 15 minutes and they didn't really move much then kind of just faded out."
Meanwhile, on Jan. 4, people in Farmingdale uploaded a video to YouTube of three orbs in the sky. The upload date shows it's from this past New Year's Eve, but the date printed in the video says Jan. 1, 2102.
Check out the video above and let us know what you think it is. At the same time, tell us in the comments if you believe in UFOs.
SOLVED: The Case of the Black Cloud
A mysterious black cloud the formed in Southampton last week has been largely debunked, with most suggesting it was a type of mirage that makes reflections of boats seem to hover above water.
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Nazem Kadri of the Toronto Marlies takes on Sergei Shirokov of the Manitoba Moose.
Not a lot of new info here, but an update on how the prospects are doing.
The Marlies go paint balling. Christian Hanson proves to be a hilarious commentator.
You guys might have already seen this. But we should watch it again because Brian Burke is an amazing human.
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Seven years ago this week I flew from Incheon to Toronto with my husband, our dog, and our last Korean foster dog, Scruffy. After seven years of teaching English, we'd just spent a good part of our last week in Daejeon volunteering at Mrs. Jung's first private shelter. We donated our blankets and a laundry machine as we vacated our apartment in Gwanjeo-dong.
This website-- not yet named ARK-- was just over one year old and I worried about how it would continue.
But the number of people interested in helping animals in Korea only kept growing, and the website grew along with it. Still, every time an awesome foster parent or shelter trip coordinator left Korea, I would have the same worry: Who would fill their place?
And each time I learned that even though no one can really replace that person, at the same time, whenever there is a void, someone new arrives and fills it with their own special qualities.
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Relish rel•ish (reh-lish)
1. a condiment eaten with plain food to add flavor
2. an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre
3. to eat or drink with pleasure
We are a Café & Bar serving comfort foods with a "New Southern" twist.
We are a Retail Market selling interesting and locally sourced food, wine, beer, and homegoods.
We are a Recreational Culinary School offering classes to inspire full exploration of the culinary world.
The Relish Café & Bar concept is one born of the current times. The old standby sports bar/neighborhood bar & grill concepts have been overdone and are tired. At the same time that wallets are tightening up, tastes are growing up. Consumers are fascinated by the gastro-education provided by celebrity chefs and the popular Food Network and cooking shows. Preferences are trending away from the fried and greasy and towards the local farm to market offerings prepared in styles that coax more flavor out of more healthy choices. Through the marriage of a café and gourmet retail market and the innovative addition of a recreational culinary school, we provide a one stop, budget-friendly, epicurean experience which appeals to all ages and types of people.
We know that to be successful in this new economy we must garner repeat business by providing top quality product and service at low quality prices. We have created a menu and experience that resemble your typical neighborhood bar and grill/sports bar location in that the foods are comfort foods that are cheap enough for customers to indulge themselves even more than once a week, but without resorting to only the same old "bar food" fare. Our food is of the "new southern" style—southern classics that have been modernized and made with more current ingredients while still retaining the heart and comfort of the original dishes and without raising the prices any higher than you will find at those old sports bars.
We had our soft opening on Tuesday April 4th, 2011 and have enjoyed a very positive response from our customers who are already coming back and bringing more friends with them.
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We open Monday through Friday for lunch at 11am and Saturday and Sunday for brunch at 9am.
We close Monday through Thursday at 10pm, and Friday and Saturday at midnight, and Sunday at 9pm.


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The Chromebook is a laptop that runs on Google's Chrome OS. This is a cloud-based operating system that runs as if it were inside a Chrome browser all the time. You can still change preferences and install Chrome extensions, but you do not have the freedom to install tons of standalone software apps like Microsoft Word or Photoshop. Whether or not this is a great option depends on why you need a computer.
In 2012, Google announced a $250 model of the Chromebook would be available from Samsung in time for the holiday shopping season. Why would you get one of these instead of a slightly more expensive Windows 8 computer? Well, one of the big reasons is certainly price.
Fast Boot-up
When Google says fast boot-up, they're not kidding. I have not had a chance to test boot-up on the latest models, but the previous model boots up extremely quickly. Open the lid of the laptop, and it instantly wakes from sleep, and start it from powering off, and it takes under ten seconds to boot. That's because the OS is pared down to the bare minimum and written specifically around the idea of fast boot-ups. That said, there are ultrabooks on the market running Windows that have managed to get the boot-up time to under 20 seconds.
Easy Sharing Between Users
This is one of my favorite features. If you've got a Chromebook, it's your Chromebook, and as soon as you hand it to your spouse, it's theirs. Logging between users is easy and quick, and you save all of the preferences without having access to the other person's data. It's also easy to create guest accounts (if you allow it) to hand the laptop to a friend to check their email real quick.
My one frustration here is that in order to create a login, you need a Google Account. In order to have a Google Account, you need to be at least 13 years old. That means there are no children's accounts that can be set up, and kids must use guest accounts. We've had a guest-account, living room table policy for our Chromebook, but it highlights Google's need to figure out parental controls for all of their products. Google can't rely on third-party developers to do this for them if they want to make a consumer electronics hit. That device needs to be family friendly from the start.
The pricing, however, makes it an appealing choice for the high school student who needs to write papers but is not explicitly required to use Microsoft Word to do so. In that way, it's definitely family friendly.
Offline Use
The Chromebook is set up to be the most useful when you're connected. However, you can still use items like Google Docs and Gmail offline. Why email offline? If you've got an important email you need to reference, like an event invitation or flight number, it's super important to not need to rely on Internet. And if you want to bring your computer along as a light weight presentation tool, having Google Docs access makes it much easier.
Is this the computer for you? If you need a lightweight spare computer for surfing the Web and watching streaming videos, this will do the job. It's great as a companion to your more powerful computer, and for some people, it honestly all they'll need. If, however, you need access to Windows or Mac apps, you can't run them on Chrome OS.
For $250, the Samsung Chrombook has an 11.6 inch, 1366 by 768 diagonal display, weighs 2.42 pounds, has 6.5 hours of battery life, and uses dual band Wi-F. A cellular capable Chromebook with a slightly bigger screen is available for $550.
There are two USB ports and an HDMI out, a VGA camera for video chats, and Bluetooth 3.0 compatibility. Google has also offered two years worth of 100 GB Google Drive storage.
Overall this is a decent computer for Web use, but it remains to be seen whether it will be a huge consumer hit.


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Stressed by years of flagging government funding, the Community College of Beaver County has announced it will raise tuition by 17 percent in the next academic year.
But college officials know they cannot continue down that path without sacrificing their brand as an affordable gateway to higher education.
To cope with rising costs and diminished help, they are considering an ambitious plan: A merger with Butler County Community College. The merger would create a regional institution that could eventually serve almost all of western Pennsylvania.
Butler County Community College's board has not said whether it is interested in the plan or not, said Dr. Joseph Forrester, the president of Community College of Beaver County.
It is just one of the ways community colleges are trying to provide the classes students need at costs they can afford. The state House of Representatives is considering the creation of a special task force to examine the plight of community colleges in the Commonwealth.
In the short term, there is one thing that is probably not on the table: More money.
The governor's proposal does not call for any increase in funding for any of the state's public institutions of higher learning — including community colleges. The community college network, though, has gone without a budget boost since 2007-08, Forrester said.
There is no comparable community college north of Butler County Community College, Forrester said, and none south of the Community College of Beaver County. So, the merged institution could eventually dominate the market throughout all of western Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Community College Commission noted that since the Great Recession began, enrollment at the 14 community colleges in the Commonwealth has risen to 430,000 students —the largest undergraduate population in Pennsylvania public higher education.
In the original community college funding formula, the state, county and the student were all supposed to contribute an equal one-third toward the cost of tuition, said Rep. Mark Longietti, D-Mercer County. Longietti is a member of the House Education Committee, which last week voted unanimously to approve a measure that would create a community college affordability task force.
As the state and local governments have frozen funding, community colleges have been forced to put more of the burden on the backs of the students, he said.
Longietti said the committee was told that in some cases, 75 percent of the college's cost is coming through tuition.
Students pay roughly 60 percent of the cost at the Community College of Beaver County. The state's share is down to 21 percent, Forrester said.
"Too much of the burden is being shifted to the student, threatening accessibility to what is intended to be the state's most affordable avenue to a college degree," Jamie Yates, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Community College Commission. "It's especially troubling considering the median income of a community college student is $26,000."
State Rep. Chris Sainato, D-Lawrence County, said that while the state has not increased funding for community colleges in years, the state has taken action to make a community college education more valuable. Last year, the state passed a law that requires state universities accept transfer credits from community colleges, he said.
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