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Firefox Says Yes to DRM
Quintessential open source browser shores up its market share with a step toward the proprietary dark side.
The Mozilla Foundation, maker of the Firefox open source browser, has agreed that Firefox will support the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) standard, which will enable DRM extensions to control copy-protected video used by vendors such as Netflix. Mozilla has teamed with Adobe to create what they call the Content Decryption Module (CDM), a DRM-based sandbox for playing copy-protected video. The CDM will carry a proprietary software license. Because Firefox is open source, CDM will not ship with the download version of the tool but will be installed as an extension with the user's permission if it is needed to play a video.
Although the decision to support DRM has caused a fire storm within the open source community, Mozilla says its greater fear was that the lack of support for streaming proprietary video was forcing users to adopt other browsers. Understandably, the Free Software Foundation has stated its strong opposition to the decision. According to FSF executive director John Sullivan, "The Free Software Foundation is deeply disappointed in Mozilla's announcement. The decision compromises important principles in order to alleviate misguided fears about loss of browser market share. It allies Mozilla with a company hostile to the free software movement and to Mozilla's fundamental ideals."
Since Firefox is open source code, anyone can modify the code base to remove a features and release a new version. The FSF expects that a new non-EME fork of the Firefox code will appear soon. Of course, the Debian project has already forked the Firefox code to produce the all-free Iceweasel browser, which will undoubtedly refrain from integrating the new DRM components.
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Heartbleed Bleeds On
According to a report, many potential victims of the Heartbleed attack have patched their systems, but few have cleaned up the crime scene to protect themselves from the effects of a previous intrusion.
Drone Brain Goes Open Source
DARPA and NICTA release the code for the ultra-secure microkernel system used in aerial drones.
Password Management Services Vulnerable to Attack
Should you trust an online service to store your online passwords?
New Raspberry Pi Adds Two USB Ports
New B+ board lets you build cool things without the complication of a powered USB hub.
Microsoft Grabs No-IP.com Domains
Redmond rushes in to root out alleged malware haven.
Firefox Steps into 3D
New initiative will bring futuristic virtual reality effects to the web surfing experience.
New Trojan Targets Online Banking
Dyreza malware launches a man-in-the-middle attack that compromises SSL.
HP Rolls Out Massive Cloud Network
New cloud combines worldwide access with local attention to data security.
New Attack Targets Wireless Logins
A first cousin of the recent Heartbleed attack affects EAP-based wireless and peer-to-peer authentication.
Geeks Petition for Free Lenovo BIOS
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Kenseth holds off Kahne to get 5th win of seasonThe Associated Press | August 25,2013AP Photo
Matt Kenseth leads Kasey Kahne during Saturdays NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn.BRISTOL, Tenn. Kasey Kahne was fed up with all of Joe Gibbs Racing by the time contact with Matt Kenseth ended his race at Watkins Glen earlier this month.
It was the fourth time a JGR driver had wrecked him, and he took to Twitter to voice his displeasure, posting: Headed to Joe Gibbs Racing to talk to whoever will come out front.
But when he had his chance Saturday night to right all of those wrongs, Kahne passed.
A clean racer to his core, he trailed Kenseth for a dozen laps around Bristol Motor Speedway, trying every which way possible to pass him without wrecking him and failing miserably. The result was Kenseth grabbing his Sprint Cup Series leading fifth win of the season, while Kahne settled for a disappointing second.
I dont know, sighed Kahne. I just ... I think at the end of the day, I just dont wreck people.
Its the third time this season Kahne has finished second behind Kenseth, who on Saturday night clinched at least a wild card berth in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Kahne, meanwhile, is still hoping just to make it into the Chase. With two wins on the year hes in pretty good shape, but hes only eighth in the standings with two races remaining to set the 12 driver field.
After Kahne passed Juan Pablo Montoya for second he set his sights on Kenseth and tried numerous times over the final dozen laps to make the pass, but never could make it stick. He went for the bump and run on the last lap and missed, and has to settle for second.
I had a better car. I just couldnt clear him, Kahne said. There was a couple shots I took, and I had to have been close, but I could feel him on the right side of my car, and I just didnt clear him. I didnt figure out how to get by. Its disappointing not to win here. I thought we had the best car the last 200 laps, and it was a lot of work.
Montoya, who learned two weeks ago he wont be brought back to Chip Ganassi Racing next season, was third. Although he could use a win, especially on an oval to prove he belongs in NASCAR, he said he was pleased with the result especially since he came back from an early speeding penalty.
To be honest with you, where we are with the team and the result, its pretty good, he said. Im still running until the end of the year with (sponsor) Target, and I want to make sure I can do the best for them.
Brian Vickers was fourth, followed by Joey Logano, Paul Menard and Jeff Gordon.
Marcos Ambrose was eighth and Greg Biffle and Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the top 10.
With two races remaining, at Atlanta and Richmond, to set the Chase field, only points leader Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer and Kenseth have locked up berths. The rest of the top 10 in points are Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Earnhardt, Kahne, Biffle and Logano.
Defending series champion Brad Keselowski is 11th, four points out of 10th and not in Chase contention because hes winless so far.
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GARDENDALE — A popular golf tournament that has raised thousands of dollars for cystic fibrosis research is on tap again for this weekend.
The annual Swinging for Katie's Kids tournament is Friday at Castle Pines Golf Course in Gardendale.
The tournament got its start nine years ago when Jeanne VonHagel asked the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church's Knights of Columbus president, Thom Duran, for a donation while fund-raising for cystic fibrosis.
VonHagel's daughter Katie was diagnosed with the disease at age 2.
Instead of simply making a donation, Duran decided to organize a golf tournament in order to raise more funds.
To date, the annual events have raised about $130,000.
All proceeds from the tournament goes to the Children's Hospital of Alabama Pulmonary Unit.
"This is not about the game of golf, and it's not about the church you go to," said Duran, the tournament director. "It's all about supporting children with cystic fibrosis because they have a very rough life."
There is still time to sign up to participate in the tournament.
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By Ronnie Ellis
Feb. 28, 2013 —
FRANKFORT The widening gap between the two chambers of the General Assembly on how to solve Kentucky's pension problems seemed to get wider Thursday.
On Thursday, the Democratic-controlled House passed an almost entirely re-written version of the pension fix passed earlier by the Senate and then passed a revenue bill to pay for the funding costs.
But the bill passed with fewer than 60 votes, which is the requirement in a 30-day, odd-year session.
Stumbo contends that requirement only applies to "final passage," meaning the 60 votes could come in the House after the Senate sends back an amended version.
But Thursday, the Senate sent a letter to the House saying the Senate Clerk refused to accept the revenue bill because it violated Senate rules. Accompanying the Senate letter was a record of similar action by the House in the past.
Stumbo wasn't moved.
"We're not taking it back," Stumbo said. "We're going to forward to them some of the law we cited here yesterday which makes it clear those majorities are only required on final passage. They can do with it what they like."
Later Thursday, the Senate refused to concur with the House in the amended version of the actual pension bill and sent that back to the House asking its members to "recede" and accept the Senate bill.
That's not likely to happen.
Stumbo said the Senate's action makes a special session more likely — or at least more likely that no solution will be found for the pension problem during the regular session.
In other action Thursday, the House State Government Committee approved a bill sponsored by Rep. Jill York, R-Grayson, to clarify the requirements of the open meetings law.
The bill would require public officials to at least evaluate the need for overflow crowds at meetings likely to deal with controversial subjects and to provide an alternative with adequate space to accommodate the larger crowd.
York said the bill is a reaction to a recent controversy in Carter County when the Fiscal Court would not move a meeting to accommodate a crowd too large for its usual meeting space. Carter County Judge/Executive Charles Wallace and County Jailer R.W. Boggs have feuded over whether to build a regional jail.
During one meeting, microphones were turned off and people in the rear of the room couldn't hear.
Some committee members asked if smaller agencies might be unfairly punished by the law if they had difficulty in obtaining larger space for meetings normally attended only by a handful of people.
But York said the law simply "encourages" officials to abide by the spirit of the law and does not include sanctions.
Also on Thursday, Republican Agriculture Commissioner James Comer and Republican Sen. Paul Hornback held a press conference to criticize Rep. Tom McKee, D-Cynthiana, for failure to move Hornback's bill to provide a regulatory framework for the cultivation of hemp.
On Wednesday, McKee proposed a substitute bill which would have called for more study of the issue, but when he couldn't get enough votes for the substitute, McKee refused to allow a vote on Hornback's bill.
Comer and Hornback accused McKee of political motivation – while McKee sat in the rear of the room listening.
Later he said he had no plans to call Hornback's bill for a vote.
Hornback said he'd been told by an unnamed member of Democratic House Leadership he'd get a vote on the bill.
But later Thursday, Stumbo said he knew nothing of such an assurance.
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Updated 10/7 with link to App Hub for information on how to seek an exception to the new policy.
Today I'd like to revisit a topic I raised in June with my post, "How Marketplace Manages Bulk App Publishing."
Windows Phone Marketplace is committed to providing customers with a wide range of certified applications, increasing and curating app quality and providing a safe, reliable and convenient shopping experience. Delivering on this commitment requires that we carefully track behavior within our Marketplace and share with you when we adjust our policies to improve the Windows Phone experience. The good news is that the growing popularity and global availability of Windows Phone have already begun attracting more developers. However, we have also seen another spike in what we call bulk app publishing. This is the phenomenon whereby a developer publishes a large number of very similar apps in a single day. As a result the popular "New" Marketplace category fills quickly, pushing the other new apps out and reducing the diversity of the shopping experience.
The first step we took to curb this behavior was to limit the number of apps that one developer can have certified in a single day to 20. We are again observing a small number of developers publishing apps in bulk. Therefore, Effective Friday 9/30 we are limiting the number of apps that can be published in a single day without prior agreement to 10. This means that no more than 10 apps by the same developer will be certified per day (down from 20). In addition we will monitor the number of apps published – not just certified – in a given day and be more proactive in correcting instances where the 10 app limit is exceeded. This may include the unpublishing of apps, and in extreme cases, temporary or permanent suspension of an offending developer's Marketplace credentials.
This new policy should be appropriate the vast majority of you, but we do appreciate that there may be some instances where there is a legitimate business reason to seek an exception to this policy. For more details about how you can request an exception to the new 10 apps per day limit, please read the following App Hub post.
As is generally the case when addressing policy abuse, we fully recognize that there are really only a few offenders. The vast majority of you understand and respect the value of maintaining a great Marketplace experience, where downloads and reviews dictate just how prominently an app is featured. Still, I'll take this opportunity to share a few related reminders:
Marketplace will remain subject to a fair, transparent and responsive certification process. That's not to say that we'll always reflect each individual's assessment of an app's value. We will, however, continue to base our judgment on our published policies. As you see today, we will regularly assess our own policies and practices to help ensure that our certification and merchandising efforts deliver the best experience in the industry so that your apps can thrive in a safe, reliable and convenient marketplace.
Thanks for your continued support and feedback on how we can make the Marketplace experience better for you and customers.
Todd Brix, Senior Director, Windows Phone Marketplace
I dont see why any developer would have to publish even 10 apps per day, or even a week. I totally agree with Nian. Absolutely useless restrictions.
And regarding "increasing and curating app quality": It is HIGH time you start monitoring the quality of apps on the Market, AT ALL! It feels like there are a ton of absolute useless junk crAPPS that require phone identity, data connection and media library access and don't even provide any useful function. And I can see why those apps need that info...
I am a developer and user of WP7, and digging trough the junk on the Marketplace in search for something useful is really wearing out the fun. I literally stopped visiting the marketplace. It really feels like every time I go there to search for something, I just find junk.
I don't see how the Windows Phone team is supposed to use WP7 themselves, or you are not having a proper feedback line in effect. If you don't listen to the "idiots" that use your OS, at least listen to the people on your team. If you already do, then fire them all ;)
Just to inform you, there are a whole lot of important applications that are only accessible in the US or the UK. Applications like Kindle, amazon, ebay, twitter and so on, are not accessible worldwide.
This is a much bigger issue than bulk publishing of applications. At the moment, all we have outside the intial launch countries are crap-apps.
How about combating keyword spamming too? When I search for 'twitter', I do NOT want to see "Sexy babes FREE".
While I appreciate the fact this problem at least got someone's attention, this is not an adequate solution. Marketplace spam is an extremely serious problem for WP7 and I hope your team soon realizes this is a woefully inadequate change. It's a step in the right direction though, but I can't imagine the new rules are going to make any meaningful difference. As a user, I have almost completely stopped using the marketplace because of how difficult it is to find useful stuff among all the bulk apps and other apps I have zero interest in but I have to perpetually sort through regardless.
There are two easy things that could be done to improve the situation by quite a lot.
First, it seems very reasonable to me that a developer should only be allowed one single app in the "new" list at any given point in time. This could be done by the server, or by the user who could toggle whether or not they want to see more than one app per company in the new lists.
Second, much of the problem of bulk apps could be easily solved with a few minor changes to the marketplace software on the phone & desktop zune app. Being able to apply ratings to developers, in addition to their apps, along with a 5-star filter control on visibility, would allow users who decide they don't want to see a company's products any more by clicking "hide publisher", "hide application", or apply a star rating to the developer or app that is below the user configurable marketplace visibility threshold. Visibility threshold controls would allow the user to automatically hide any companies below the user's 5-star filter setting. A toggle for showing all hidden, and for clearing all hidden flags, would be necessary. Unrated companies would be visible by default, unless the user chose to use the public rating level for the developer or application. Any rating specified by the user would override the community rating for visibility filtering purposes.
This is not a terribly complicated scheme that would allow users to fix the problem for themselves as they saw fit. Developers could have access to stats about how many people are hiding their apps as well as their rating so they could perhaps respond to being hidden too much by making apps that people actually want to see. Making these new filtering controls readily accessible to the users would go a long way to improving the marketplace experience, and would encourage developers to focus more on putting value into a single app instead the spamming bulk app approach that is effectively encouraged by the way products are presented to the user in today's marketplace.
tl;dr: The new rules aren't going to make a difference. The marketplace needs better filters and the ability to persistently hide publishers or apps because right now the system rewards bulk apps with more exposure.
I hope you find more ways to get rid of these Spam-Apps. As long as the marketplace is buried in r*bbish I see no point in developing apps for it. They'll just get lost in a cr*apps.
Aren't you doing this the wrong way round?
If someone has 100 apps to publish, so be it.
BUT simply only ever display a maximum of 10 apps within the 100 newest apps. Then just distribute these apps evenly and you're done.
PLUS you should disallow templates to be used by multiple users (probably with some exceptions). Thus you could easily find and ban duplicate accounts...
How about 5 per month? Can you seriously produce more than 5 non-trivial apps per month? Doubt it. If someone does manage to produce more, deal with it on a case by case basis.
As it stands, you have 20,000 apps in the store and maybe 10% are actually useful.
Why not limit to one per day? Who, apart from spammers or, the more politically correct "bulk publishers", needs more than that?
Would like to understand more about this: "The New panorama that makes up the background is algorithmic based on timing."
Thank you!
Great idea, lets hope this slows down the crAPPS on the Marketplace
seriously Todd..... #facepalm...
Once again a completely useless and inneffective set of rules has been proposed which will have no impact on this problem. Do you guys simply not look at Marketplace and see the many different ways your 20 app / 10 app etc rules are being circumvented..
Once again all the suggestions made by developers for actual/effective rules (which have any hope of actually stopping these issues) have been ignored...
Just look at the news/weather + sports categories... People are simply stepping around the rules by publishing under multiple accounts (most likely free ones given out via your DPE's or student programs). The other new trick these malicious folks are using is to simply wait a few days so multiple apps are approvide - and then click the 'publish' button so they all appear at once.
As a developer I was extremely annoyed to have one of my sports apps recently being buried under 45 apps from SAME PUBLISHER just 2-4 hours after it was published (this was about 4 weeks ago - while your 20 app per day rule was supposedly going to fix problem). All the hard work that I spent on the app were wasted (as it was driven out of both visible range in 'new' range AND out of search keyword contention almost immediately) - all because marketplace failed to offer any effective and working measures.
Publishing these days is like taking a lottery ticket - either your app will sell (because people can find it) - or it will get burried comprehensively and immediately - and it's all at the mercy of spammers.
It's just not good enough.. and it's just insulting to read these posts that clearly show either you guys just have no handle on this situation - or that you knowlingly are feeding us rubbish whilst focusing on what appears to be the number one intrenal goal - quantity NOT quality (simply to increase the total apps count brag point).
and ffs - please STOP CALLING THEM 'bulk publishers' - they are spammers, IP Theifs and pests/nusances to everyone.
I'm all for encouraging people to develop for the platform, but honestly these kinds of apps make the marketplace a lot less enjoyable to use, even limited to 10 a day. They're all still useless apps
How do apps that don't meet the "distinct content" requirement even get past certification anyway?
Although this is brilliant news, and I'm certain, just like every other developer who actually submits apps they spend time and effort on, I think you should go one step further and make a defined limit on the cookie cutter RSS apps which are used as the spam.
Limit people to having a maximum of 5 of those EVER.
I reckon 5, because I can understand its good to have one or two of those to encourage people to do more DIFFERENT apps, but the spammers insist on loading this particular type on - there's one guy who has a staggering 44 of them in under a month! all with the same icon.
Always good to see pro-active approaches to tackling Marketplace span, but how will this 10 apps per day stop recent offenders such as Straitstime that have been published not by one dev but seemingly two seperate devs (Brandon TJS and francischeng) who published 29 App's all with the same icon, all RSS feeds and would have still been able to bypass these new rules by publishing as two people even though they must be the same?
thank you and those that do abuse the marketplace should be banned


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I'll have a blue Christmas without you,
I'll be so blue just thinking about you.
Elvis Presley aside, the holiday blues are nothing to sing about.
For many the holidays are not a time of cheer, but of dread, exhaustion and even depression.
What distinguishes the holiday blues from cases of severe depression are not the
symptoms – they're similar – but the duration.
For those who are vulnerable, the blues tend to arrive just before the
holidays – in anticipation – and fade when the calendar turns. The symptoms
generally are a lack of interest in usually pleasant activities, sleep
disturbances, appetite changes, agitation, anxiety, feelings of guilt or
difficulty in concentrating.
The causes may be loneliness from the loss of loved ones, a hectic pace of shopping, entertaining and decorating that leads to exhaustion, strained family dynamics that make get-togethers want-to-avoids, or the financial worries that result from overspending. There can be physical causes, the draggy feeling from
consuming too much alcohol, indulging in too many sweets and skipping exercise.
Not to mention the psychological effects of shorter days and daylight, called
seasonal affective disorder. Of course, in San Diego we are spared the full-blown cabin fever of colder climes.
Don't let the holiday blues get you down. There are ways to cope. Here are a few:
--Keep your expectations modest. Don't fall into a trap of what holidays are supposed to be or how you are supposed to feel.
--If traditional activities are a cause for dread, do something different this year.
--Pace yourself. Forget the unimportant stuff. So what if all the decorations don't
get put up? Skip a party if you'd rather not.
--Delegate. Don't try to do it all yourself. Besides, other people often want to help and be involved.
--If you are lonely, try volunteering some time to help others.
--Avoid the blahs with a walk to reduce stress, a glass or two less of alcohol, and only a nibble of the goodies that produce sugar highs.
--Keep track of spending. Post-holiday bills can be a real downer.
--Avoid the scrooges and grinches – try to spend time with positive people.
--Don't compare past and current holidays. When you compare, you despair.
--Be careful about resentments related to holidays past. Declare an amnesty with a relative or friend over frictions of the past.
--Take a breather and make some quiet time for yourself.
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Mahadevan will continue to work for Mote as an advocate and ambassador in the role of president emeritus for the next two years to enable a smooth transition to new leadership. He will assist the new CEO in promoting and developing support for Mote's world-class research and education programs.
At Mahadevan's recommendation, Mote's Board of Trustees has decided to appoint Dr. Michael Crosby, the lab's senior vice president for research, to the role of president and CEO. These changes will become official May 16, following Mote's annual Board of Trustees meeting.
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The hearing is now scheduled for April 4 for Christopher Bryan Robbins, 30, of Lansing, Mich., charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault of a child and two counts of criminal attempt to commit involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, all felonies of the first degree.
He also is charged with indecent assault of a person younger than 13, a misdemeanor.
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The Lansing Police Department contacted the Buffalo Valley Regional police about the incident and sent them a copy of the police report and two computer discs with three videotaped interviews, according to an affidavit filed by Buffalo Valley officers.
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Indiana State has been picked to finish fifth in the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2012.
The Sycamores finished 6-5 overall and 4-4 in the MVFC last season.
North Dakota State received the No. 1 spot from voters. NDSU is the defending national champion and shared the league title with UNI last year. The Bison received the top spot, earning 37 of 38 first-place votes, in a poll conducted by league coaches, media and sports information directors.
The Bison return six starters on offense and seven on defense from a team that went 14-1 overall and 7-1 in the conference last year.
UNI is picked second as the Panthers earned 300 total points to edge Youngstown State (291) and Illinois State (287) in the voting. The Panthers represented the league in the playoffs last year and compiled a 10-3 overall record and 7-1 league slate. UNI has been ranked in the Top 25 in 94 consecutive polls.
Rated fifth, Indiana State received 228 points in the poll, while South Dakota State (182) and Southern Illinois (167) follow closely behind. Newcomer South Dakota clocks in at No. 8 in the pre-season poll with 97 points, followed by Western Illinois (90) and Missouri State (69).
A pre-season favorite has claimed the league crown 14 times (in 26 previous polls). UNI was picked to win the league last season.
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- Place the potatoes and sweet potatoes in a saucepan and cover with water. Simmer until the potatoes are easily pierced with a fork, then drain, and set aside to cool to room temperature. Place the sliced onion in a bowl of warm water, let stand 10 minutes, then drain and set aside.
- Meanwhile, place the lime juice, celery, cilantro, and cumin into the bowl of a blender, and puree until smooth. Pour this mixture into a large glass bowl, and stir in the garlic and habanero pepper. Season with salt and pepper, then stir in the diced tilapia and shrimp.
- Set aside to marinate for an hour, stirring occasionally. The seafood is done once it turns firm and opaque.
- To serve, peel the potatoes and cut into slices. Stir the onions into the fish mixture. Line serving bowls with lettuce leaves. Spoon the ceviche with its juice into the bowls and garnish with slices of potato.
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I am from Peru and our typical Peruvian Cebiche uses no potatoes, no celery, no cumin. We basically cut the fish into 1/2-inch pieces (I love Bass or Tilapia), add salt, pepper, chop fresh cilantro, a bit of garlic and lime juice (about 8-10 limes). Fish has to be cooked in the lime juice. You can add shrimp/clams/octopus, it's optional. My family loves the original Cebiche, fish only. Add some fresh Aji Amarillo (Peruvian chili, looks like the Habanero but its taste is amazing and unique) or Aji Amarillo paste - you can buy them at any Latin Market - and mix it with the lime juice. Add some lettuce on the side as well as peeled & cooked sweet potato (just a slice per person) and add some corn on the side as well (about 1/4 cup. Don't forget to add the onion (I use red onion - julienned red onion).
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I laughed so hard when I read that a reviewer sauteed this!! Ceviche is ONLY "cooked" in the lime juice and is not placed over heat of any kind. I've never seen white potato served in a cevicheria...but the sweet potato is a must. The onion should be sliced and this should NOT be eaten over crackers if you want authentic. Usually it is either plain fish (bass is more common than tilapia) or a lot of mixed sea creatures you won't find for sale in the States. Like a lot of Peruvians, I prefer the pure fish version.
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This was so delicious! The only changes made were to add cucumber, though I don't think it was necessary after having tasted it. The only changes I would make in the future would be to add more habanero because I like it spicy. Also great the next day with pita chips. *edit: I noticed that another user actually cooked the fish by sauteing it but it should be noted that in a ceviche recipe the fish is "cooked" through the lime juice marinade. It requires no heat. I hope this helps!
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Amount Per Serving (8 total)
- Calories
- 237 cal
- 12%
- Fat
- 2 g
- 3%
- Carbs
- 28.8 g
- 9%
- Protein
- 26 g
- 52%
- Cholesterol
- 107 mg
- 36%
- Sodium
- 216 mg
- 9%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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High school football playoffs begin this weekend in both Virginias. In the Old Dominion, Tazewell Bulldogs will play at Marion on Friday while the Richlands Blue Tornado gets a bye in Region IV. In Group A Division 2, Graham will host the new Union High at Mitchell Stadium on Saturday night, while Giles is at home with James River and Grundy goes to Fort Chiswell. In Division 1, Honaker hosts Patrick Henry on Saturday. Other games next weekend featuring area teams are Castlewood at Haysi and Hurley at Rural Retreat.
In West Virginia, the Bluefield Beavers are fifth in Class AA and will host Roane County on Friday night at Mitchell. Wyoming East will travel to Scott on Friday night and River View will play at Bridgeport at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
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Pairings and schedule for the Class AA high school football playoffs:
No. 16 Clay County (5-5) at No. 1 Wayne (10-0), 7:30 p.m.
No. 15 Mingo Central (5-5) at No. 2 Keyser (9-1), 7:30 p.m.
No. 12 Roane County (6-4) at No. 5 Bluefield (8-2), 7:30 p.m.
No. 10 Wyoming East (7-3) at No. 7 Scott (7-3), 7:30 p.m.
No. 9 Nicholas County (6-3) at No. 8 Ritchie County (7-3), 7:30 p.m.
No. 14 River View (6-4) at No. 3 Bridgeport (7-2), 1:30 p.m.
No. 13 Braxton County (6-4) at No. 4 Robert C. Byrd (9-1), 7:30 p.m.
No. 11 Summers County (7-3) at. No. 6 Frankfort (8-2), 7:30 p.m.
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A dramatic, series-swivelling day in Mumbai featured some of the best batting imaginable, and some considerably less good than that, as well as a pitch-perfect demonstration of how to bowl spin in Indian conditions, a masterclass that the Indian bowlers, apparently unfamiliar with such circumstances, would do well to take on board. Earlier, Kevin Pietersen played what Americans would describe as "an innings for the ages". Whilst he was batting, it was patently an innings of incredible skill and boldness. When India started attempting to bat on the same pitch, Pietersen's reintegration-accelerating 186 began to look like a work of unarguable sporting genius. I confidently predict any future dressing-room spats between KP and his team-mates in the build-up to crucial series-deciding Test matches are likely to be resolved without him being omitted from the side.
Here, then, are the Official Confectionery Stall Mumbai Test Day Three Awards.
GREATEST ACT OF SELF-RESTRAINT OF THE DAY: Monty Panesar, on taking his tenth wicket of the match Panesar, who became one of the first England bowlers for some time to open the bowling with a long-off, took five wickets in a classic display of aggressive spin bowling on a helpful surface. He induced edges from Sehwag and Dhoni with perfectly pitched, dipping, fizzing away-tweakers, hurried a quicker, straighter one past Tendulkar to trap the fading magician leg-before, and took the left-handed Yuvraj's glove with turn and bounce.
Monty's most remarkable achievement, however, was the formidable self-control he showed on taking his fifth wicket of the innings, and tenth of the match, when he duped the charging Ashwin into misreading the length of a ball that had been held back slightly and skying a catch to cover. Somehow Monty managed to prevent himself from celebrating his personal triumph by sprinting straight into the dressing room and giving Andy Flower a cake shaped like the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad with the words "Thanks for the week off work" iced sarcastically on the top, alongside Pragyan Ojha's and Tim Bresnan's bowling figures from the first Test. That is testament to the man's remarkable equanimity.
England also erred on the side of seam in the first Test against Pakistan last winter, and duly lost on a turning pitch. Panesar returned for the second Test, and took 6 for 62 in the second innings to bowl England into a winning position, albeit one from which they absolutely and utterly failed to win. As the late 19th-century writer, wit, prison sceptic and possible cricket expert Oscar Wilde himself once wrote, "To leave Monty Panesar out of one subcontinental first Test may be regarded as a misfortune. To leave Monty Panesar out of another subcontinental first Test less than a year later looks like carelessness."
NON-PIETERSEN SHOT OF THE DAY: Virat Kohli's splooted honk to mid-off (I have disqualified Pietersen's various classical, innovative, surreal and sumptuous masterstrokes, to facilitate the judging process.)
Kohli, fast becoming an ODI great, still awaits his definitive breakthrough as a Test batsman. The stage was set for him to make that step yesterday, with his team in a dire but not irretrievable position. Kohli marched onto that stage, bowed nervously, then carried on marching across the stage before falling straight into the orchestra pit to a cacophony of clanging cymbals and angry trombonists. Metaphorically.
After a difficult start against Panesar, Kohli's eyes lit up when Swann lobbed him a full toss so juicy that the batsman should still be drinking it for breakfast. In fact, they lit up so vigorously that they seemed to burn his retinas to a crisp, judging by how far from the middle of the bat the ball was when it made contact with the wood. A curious wooden clonk resounded across the Wankhede, somewhat reminiscent of an idiot headbutting a coconut. The ball, which by rights should have been pummelling the advertising hoardings, blooped apologetically to wide mid-off, where Root took a simple catch.
Kohli reacted with the disgust and self-admonishment of someone who had just realised that he had inadvertently taken a vegetable quiche back to the nursing home and popped his grandmother into the oven, and trudged off the field at an understandably funereal pace that suggested he did not particularly want to see his coach, captain, team-mates or own reflection in the mirror.
Around the stadium, low-grade amateur cricketers such as myself were struck by the strange familiarity of that wooden clonk. "What does that remind me of?" we thought. "Yes, that's it. That is the sound of me, playing a rubbish shot in village cricket." It is not often that the humble punter can watch elite sportsmen do something at the highest level of their sport, and think: "I could have done that." But Kohli, heroically, gave us all that opportunity to feel a momentary connection with the hallowed confines of Test cricket.
Batsman are often criticised for playing a "stupid shot" when they are dismissed in a this fashion. Kohli's was not a stupid shot. It was a sensible shot. Stupidly played.
Swann, meanwhile, celebrated as if he had just bowled Bradman with a square-turning pearler. Having snared Pujara in his first over with one of his many perfectly pitched offbreaks, Swann proceeded to bowl a clutch of wicket-taking deliveries that did not take wickets. He did, however, take a wicket with that rancid full bunger. Such is cricket. Such is life.
1. Cook's extra-cover drive to reach his century, exquisitely timed and utterly authoritative.
2. Prior's late cut off Ojha. Prior is a fabulously stylish batsman, whose strokemaking, had he been playing 80 years earlier, would have had Neville Cardus dribbling into his iPad and ploughing through his thesaurus for suitably expressive adjectives. Point proved, Prior then ran himself out, in what now looks like a strategically impeccable ploy to give Panesar and Swann maximum time to bowl England to the brink of victory.
3. Ashwin's straight six off Swann. Another effortless, statuesque smite by the Indian allrounder, proving why he could be a top six batsman. He then proved why he is not a top six batsman, by charging and hoicking at Panesar with eight balls remaining in the day, and a partnership between him and the resolutely battling Gambhir India's only realistic outside microhope of rescuing the match.
IMPROVED SPECTATOR EXPERIENCE AWARD: Gate 3 The ground-entry procedure about which I was grumbling a couple of days ago has speeded up considerably, and yesterday's Gate 3 transit time was a breezy 15 minutes, despite there seeming to be a longer queue than there was for Day 1's 60-minute megashuffle.
RIGHTLY BANNED OBJECT OF THE DAY: The Newspaper Newspapers have rightly been ruled as contraband products at the Wankhede, and I was only too happy to be stripped of mine on the way into the ground. The authorities for once have put the interests of the paying public first, and removed the possibility of spectators pooling their newspapers together to build a giant, 25-metre-high papier-maché statue of Lalit Modi which could easily disturb play by coming to life, stomping across the outfield, kidnapping the players, and setting up a rival match on the outfield in the midwicket area. Credit where credit is due.
POTENTIAL DAY 4 STAT OF THE DAY: This could be only the third complete Test match ever played in which pace bowlers have taken fewer than two wickets Pacers took zero wickets in the India v England Test in Kanpur in 1951-52 (which, not entirely coincidentally, was the only other time before Panesar in the current Test that an England spinner ‒ Malcolm Hilton ‒ has opened the bowling and gone on to take five wickets in the innings), and only one in Sri Lanka's innings win over New Zealand in Galle in 1998 (and that one is dependent on you considering Chris Harris a pace bowler, which might require a few stiff drinks and a blow to the head).
The only other Tests in which seamers took one or no wickets were either obliterated by rain to less than a day's play, or only ten balls long due to the pitch falling to pieces like a badly baked birthday cake in a fistfight (West Indies v England, Antigua, 2009).
For those wanting to come to my stand-up gigs in Mumbai next week, here are details for Tuesday's show in aid of the Rotoract Club of the Caduceus at the YB Chavan Auditorium, Nariman Point, and for Wednesday's show at the Schitzengiggles Club, Hotel Bawa Continental, Juhu, at which I will be doing an extended set. I hope to confirm details of further shows in Bangalore and Kolkata shortly.
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Andy Zaltzman was born in obscurity in 1974. He has been a sporadically-acclaimed stand-up comedian since 1999, and has appeared regularly on BBC Radio 4. Zaltzman's love of cricket outshone his aptitude for the game by a humiliating margin. He once scored 6 in 75 minutes in an Under-15 match, and failed to hit a six between the ages of 9 and 23. He would have been ideally suited to Tests, had not a congenital defect left him unable to play the game to anything above genuine village standard. He writes the Confectionery Stall blog on ESPNcricinfo.


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The body of a Wisconsin man who was hiking in Colorado has been identified.
54–year–old Larry Schlicting suffered a heart attack on that state's Quandry Peak and then died.
He recently retired as a captain with the Janesville Fire Department.
The 14–thousand foot mountain is south of the popular Breckenridge ski resort.


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The Shore Wrestling club is not concerned about victories right now; the youth wrestlers and their coach are concerned about one of their own who is going through a terrible experience.
Micahel Rankin, 8, of Toms River, was recently diagnosed with leukemia, and now coach Chris Labrecque and his team are rallying to support Rankin.
Shore Wrestling Club is comprised of grapplers ages 8-12 from West Long Branch, Monmouth Beach, Oceanport and Sea Bright.
Labrecque said he recently visited Rankin at Monmouth Medical Center and said he immediately started organizing a relief effort the boy.
"When one of us goes down, we all go down," Labrecque said. "But none of us are going down today, we are fighting."
During a match held at Shore Regional on Saturday morning, Labrecque's squad took on Rankin's team, Toms River 1, and decided to wear t-shirts supporting him.
The team also raised $1,200 for Rankin and created a sign that was signed by all the wrestlers and a plaque that will both be given to him in the hospital.
Labrecque addressed the crowd on Saturday and thanked everybody for their support. He also told his wrestlers that their selfless attitude over the last few days is something that they should emulate as they get older.
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CLINTON – Every fall when talk of the Class 4A football playoffs comes along, Clinton coach Lee Camp professes ignorance. He says he doesn't join the thousands of fans, players and coaches who check out the state web site and try to figure out playoff scenarios.
This year is different, but he still isn't sure about his team's chances on the eve of the regular-season finale at Bettendorf.
"Believe it or not, for the first time I looked at it," Camp said Wednesday. "It is so confusing."
Camp said he checked the web site because of talk that four wins might not be enough for the River Kings to advance to the postseason this fall. In most years, four wins are a lock to get in, but heading into this week's games, 16 teams have four or more wins and another, Dubuque Senior, is 3-5 with a game against a 1-7 team remaining on its schedule.
"A 4-5 team might not make it," Camp said. "If it comes to a tie, there's a possibility we could be out."
For that reason, the River Kings (4-4) aren't treating Friday night's game at Bettendorf as a formality, a precursor of a trip to the postseason.
"We're approaching it as, 'We need to win and assure we're in," Camp said.
Clinton likely will face a Bettendorf team that, despite having a safe 6-2 record, won't come into the game in a good mood.
The Bulldogs are coming in off a 9-3 loss to Davenport Assumption that knocked them out of the top 10 in the 4A rankings. The Knights limited Bettendorf to 154 total yards.
That was atypical for the Bulldogs. They had scored at least 14 points in their previous seven games and had 49 or more in four of them.
"Offensively, they want to use multiple sets, but they like to run the ball," Camp said. "They like to pull the guard and hammer at you."


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Adrian Vermeule, author of Mechanisms of Democracy and co-author with Eric Posner of Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts, is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. (The article below draws upon material in Chapters 3 and 4 of Adrian Vermeule, Mechanisms of Democracy: Institutional Design Writ Small, and upon Adrian Vermeule, "Absolute Majority Rules," forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science ( Cambridge University Press, October 2007)).
Many institutions, public and private, use non-majoritarian voting rules for many issues. Supermajority rules, which require more than 50%+1 of the votes in order to change the status quo, are familiar; an example is the filibuster rule in the United States Senate, where 60 votes are necessary to force "cloture," that is, to close debate on an issue. Less familiar are submajority voting rules, which allow less than 50% of the votes to change the status quo; an example is the "Rule of Four" on the Supreme Court of the United States, which says that the Court will take up a case so long as at least 4 of the 9 Justices vote to do so. When five justices vote against taking up a case and four vote in favor, the four win.
Interestingly, however, the principle of majority voting retains a certain psychological pull – a political and moral force, in the French sense of "morale." Even where the nominal voting rules of an institution are non-majoritarian, actors frequently make political hay out of the way the majority votes. Actors who failed to carry a proposition by a supermajority can claim a "moral victory" if they got a majority of the votes, as two episodes involving George W. Bush illustrate. In 2003, when it was clear that the United Nations Security Council would not vote unanimously to authorize the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration made great efforts to obtain a majority of the council votes; though obtaining a majority would have no legal effect, the administration felt it would produce political benefits. Conversely, however, when Al Gore won a clear popular majority in the 2000 election but narrowly lost the electoral college, the result cast a political and moral cloud over Bush's first term. Many claimed that the failure to obtain a majority of the votes brought Bush's legitimacy into question.
The claim of moral victory can be spun in other directions as well. Recently, in a crucial cloture vote on an immigration bill in the Senate, 46 senators voted for cloture while 53 voted against. The Democratic leader who had brought up the bill, Senator Harry Reid, decried "obstruction," but opponents and commentators undercut this claim by pointing out that the bill did not even obtain a majority in its favor, let alone the necessary supermajority.
Sometimes the moral force of majority rule is even politically decisive. In a recent series of decisions, the Supreme Court has voted for conservative results by a 5-4 majority. The majority is in place because Justice Samuel Alito replaced the somewhat more liberal, or unpredictable, Sandra Day O'Connor. The puzzle is that when the Senate voted to confirm Alito in January 2006, there were 42 no votes. Why then did the 42 not filibuster – an action which, under the Senate rules, requires only 40 votes to succeed? Two related reasons explain the puzzle. First, there was an implicit threat that the Senate majority would exercise the "nuclear option" by amending or simply ignoring the relevant rules, thereby overriding the filibuster. Second, the Bush administration and the (then-extant) Republican majority were scoring political points with a charge that the Democratic minority should "give Alito an up-or-down vote." In other words, there was political pressure to use majority voting to settle the case, despite the nominal availability of a supermajority blocking tactic. The example is not atypical; legislation does with some frequency pass the Senate with more than 40 no votes.
Overall, then, the principle of majority voting retains real force even when institutions have nominally set up nonmajority voting rules. Why does majority rule have this moral force? For one thing, majority rule has the unique mathematical property that it is the only voting rule that satisfies anonymity (Jack's vote is as good as Jill's), neutrality (no thumb on the scale for the status quo, or for any other possible result), and two other technical conditions, as the mathematician Kenneth May showed. Furthermore, where there is a right answer to the decisionmaking problem, and voters are on average at least slightly better than random guessers, majority rule gives the best chance of obtaining the right answer; this result is known as the Condorcet Jury Theorem. Most important of all, perhaps, is the sheer simplicity of majority rule. Nonmajoritarian voting rules often take complex forms and rest on complex justifications. Boundedly rational voters and political publics may not appreciate those justifications, whereas majority rule is a natural psychological focal point: more beats fewer.
Given the moral force of majority rule, institutional designers who want to empower minorities might look for close substitutes for supermajority rules – substitutes that do not trigger the political and moral opprobrium that often constrains nonmajoritarian voting. One possibility is an "absolute majority rule," which requires a majority of all eligible votes, rather than a simple majority of the votes cast. Although both simple majority rule and absolute majority rule use "majority voting," the latter counts abstentions as no votes, and thus has supermajoritarian effect. In a legislature with 100 voting members, if 40 vote yes, 20 vote no, and 40 are either absent or abstain, the bill passes under simple majority rule, because it obtained a majority of the 60 votes cast. By contrast, the bill fails under an absolute majority rule, because less than 51 votes — a majority of all those that could have been cast — were actually cast in favor of the bill. Here the political charge of minority obstruction is harder to make out than under a regular supermajority rule like the filibuster; opponents of the bill can say, quite truthfully: "hey, you didn't get a majority."
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The issue with the 2000 election (aside from the recount) wasn't that Bush didn't get a majority of the votes. Bill Clinton never got a majority, and Ronald Reagan did only once. Neither party, therefore, should want to say that not getting the majority of the votes is sufficient for a cloud of illegitimacy.
The issue people were raising that's supposedly troublesome is that Bush didn't just not get a majority but that Gore had more votes than Bush. Thinking that makes his presidency illegitimate ignores the Constitution, but it's more of a cloud than merely not getting a majority.
As for filibusters, there is one consideration that goes back long before anything to do with Bush. A number of Democratic senators (probably the majority of them) believed that it would be wrong to filibuster a Supreme Court nominee. There has never been a filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee except in cases of real corruption, as with Abe Fortas' nomination for Chief Justice. They didn't want that record to end on their watch, and it had nothing to do with the nuclear option or the political points Bush was scoring over the filibuster threat.


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Some of the self-made billionaires on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans List have something in common: they either did not go to college, or they dropped out of college. Some would say that this helps spur the debate that continues among the next generation of entrepreneurs: is formal education necessary?
You either create a university that focuses on entrepreneurship, or you forget about forcing entrepreneurs into the traditional mode of academia; is the point made by a few. Others argue that education is vital, that albeit the lack of entrepreneur-focused training in some institutions, entrepreneurs can still use the formal training.
Still there are some who stress this kind of training for entrepreneurs: something you could call entrepreneurial street smarts—a willingness to succeed, the desire to learn the trade, and the tenacity to keep learning as you go along.
A few self-made billionaires from the list tell their own story.
David Geffen sits at $5.5 billion on the list; with his fortune coming from movies and music. His company, Dream Works SKG, develops and produces films, video games and television programming. Geffen, a University of Texas at Austin drop-out, was able to sell his previous company for $550 million.
If you've heard of Carnival Cruises, you are familiar with how Micky Arison made his billions. Arison also owns the NBA's Miami Heat. This entrepreneur and leader of the world's largest cruise operator, somehow is worth $4.2 billion; despite him dropping out of The University of Miami.
Les Wexner. The self-made retail billionaire started his empire with a $5000 loan. Although he's now on the list, with a cool $3.8 billion to prove it, he too dropped out of The Ohio State University Law School.
Arguably, a college degree doesn't provide a stamp for entrepreneurial success. But what about the startup founders who gained a thing or two from having some form of university training?
Steve Jobs The popular Apple entrepreneur and inventor whose aim has always been to create products that are both functional and elegant, dropped out of Reed College. Yet despite his $7 Billion, Jobs stated this in a 2005 Stanford Report, "If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."
Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook was launched out of a Harvard University dormitory room on February 4, 2004. Zuckerberg, now worth $17.5 billion, would not have launched this social network game changer had he not enrolled at Harvard University. While Zuckerberg did drop out later, Facebook's business model and target audience, its initial interface and usefulness, were all tested during his stint at Harvard.
While there are some billionaires who attended and dropped out of college, there are others who didn't even bother to attend.
Haim Saban. $2.9 billion. The Egyptian born billionaire and war survivor, made his billions in television and media. Yet, he never attended college.
John Paul DeJoria is the high school graduate who was once told by his teacher that he "would never succeed at anything." Today, the founder of Paul Mitchell products and the popular Patrón drink, is worth $4 billion. He too did not attend college.
Very inspiring. Education need not be the necessary condition to become a successful entrepreneur
Here are some traits to become successful entrepreneurs:
1. Imagination.
2. Always questioning.
3. Old problems, new ways of thinking
4. Intuition.
5. Strong positive attitude
6. Rise above the mundane details.
7. Willingness to try new things–and fail.
8. Maintaining balance.
9. Stay on top of tech.
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O.K., Zuckerberg dropped out of college but not out of Podunk U; he dropped out of Harvard where he met everyone critical to the development of Facebook (and likely learned a thing or two in his computer science classes). And to call Zuckerberg "self-made," well, first, he got into Harvard! Who helped him make THAT happen? Second, he got the idea (if not the algorithm) for Facebook from the Winklevoss twins. Third, he got his initial funding from a classmate. And, of course, he got the credibility that Harvard delivers to the least of its undergraduate students.
So, yes, all of these people are amazing. But no one is "self-made." I stress that not to be picky but to attack the idea wherever it appears because it misrepresents the role that community and government (yes, Harvard gets lots of government money) play in making the "self-made" among us, as does access to education and social capital.
As long as we believe we can "make" ourselves, we can also fall for the line of politicians who want to convince us that the contributions of the government to the well-being of its citizens is not only useless, but pernicious.
I find your response underwhelming. You acknowledge that people have understandable problems with the term "self-made", especially when those "self-made" persons made the most of access to society's elite educational environments where they networked with plenty of old money types who provided money and connections for the new boy with the bright idea.
But you then say it is only appropriate that those who make their money as start-up founders be classified as such without much reasoning other than to distinguish them from inherited wealth and/or power.
It seems there is a perfectly adequate alternative description that you provide- namely "start-up founders".
This term would emphasize that these people did indeed start something that they deserve credit for. And it would do it without using a term that hides the fact that their success would not have happened without ample access to other people's financial, educational, social, and governmental resources.
The fact is that, Ms Pynchon points out, these people did not at all create a business from the ground up. No one does.
Use of the term "self-made" perpetuates a harmful myth. It implies that these so-called self-made billionaires do not really owe anything to society because they allegedly did not depend on it to generate their wealth. The history of the US is full of examples of condescending and miserly "self-made" oligarchs, and we could do without making more.
The term "start-up founder" provides ample distinction from an inherited or appointed position in an already existing family company, or who used their family's influence to obtain a position in an established company that the family does not directly control.
I dont think that being Entrepreneur is about collage. Its special way of thinking. You either can do it or can not. But its only about being Entrepreneur.
I am from Ukraine and huge amount of our Entrepreneurs haven't even finished school. But i dont think that you can become a good doctor without good education. i can create facebook or casino or open store but…
i dont think that Zuckerberg always dreamed about to go to collage. And also he used situation and made facebook first. And what is the difference where he got money? from bank or classmates. i can give you also money will make me couple of billions for that? He is lucky good for him.


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I know I am going to get called a major homer for saying this, but since I rarely call out the officials, I am going to allow myself to do just that. Nygel Pelletier had a bad night, and at some point, he is going to hear about it from someone other than the Aeros, who are obviously biased.
The two calls that stand out to me are the phantom goalie interference call against Robbie Earl and the missed tripping call against the IceHogs while the Aeros were trying to kill off the last power play of regulation. Pelletier missed that one, the IceHogs scored and the two team's them put on a display of bad breakaways and missed chances for the next 10:16. You are reading that right ... 10 minutes and 16 seconds is exactly how long the shootout last Friday night.
To be fair, the Aeros did not show up to play until the second period, and they faded after they took a 2-1 lead on a sweet goal by Earl. Hockey works out like that sometimes ... you work harder, and for the most part you are rewarded for two points. That was the case tonight. Pelletier had a bad game, but he did not cost the Aeros that extra point in the standings.
Rockford was the better team, and Kevin Constatine said that only luck and good goaltending by Anton Khudobin were the reasons his team earned a point. He did not comment on Pelletier, even when asked.
Three stars picked tonight by the Aeros were right on.
Niemi was great in the shootout, the No. 1 star must have stolen the team's manual because he read Rosa's forehand to backhand move perfectly and he knew exactly what Locke was going to do in the 13 round.
Jack Skille got the No. 2 star for tying the game with the power play goal and Robbie Earl deserved the third star.
Had Kudobin made one more save, maybe Locke wins the game for the Aeros in the 13th. Had that been the case, he definitely gets the No. 1 star of the game.