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Springfield, Mass. - February 13, 2010 - The Springfield College women's basketball team rattled off its sixth straight victory on Saturday afternoon as it eased past visiting Clark, 65-40, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action. The day was played with both teams taking part in the WBCA Pink Zone Initiative to raise awareness for breast cancer. It was also National Girls and Women in Sports Day on the Springfield College campus.
With the win, Springfield upped its record to 14-9 overall, and its NEWMAC mark to 12-4. SC remains in second place all alone behind Babson with two league games remaining. The Pride has now also won 10 of its last 11 games. Clark, meanwhile, has fallen to 4-19 overall, and 3-13 in conference.
Normally, the last regular-season game of the season is reserved for the seniors. But Springfield this year has no seniors. So, the juniors got together and honored the coaches before the game, noting especially how Head Coach Naomi Graves earlier this season picked up her 350th career coaching victory, and also noting how Coach Graves was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame last October.
It was a game where Springfield never trailed. In fact, this makes two games straight where the Springfield women have not been behind. The Pride played 13 players today, and all 13 scored, led by sophomore guard and co-captain Kelly Murphy (Mechanicville, N.Y.) with 11 points. Murphy, the only SC player who scored in double figures, also added five rebounds, four steals, and one assist. She led the game off with a 3-pointer 44 seconds in.
Two others scored nine points apiece for the Pride. They were junior guard and co-captain Abby Connors (Douglas, Mass.) and freshman guard Meghan Biondolillo (Levittown, N.Y.). Scoring eight points apiece for SC were sophomore Kelly Slattery (Somers, Conn.) and freshman forward Emily Walker (East Lyme, Conn.). Walker also had a team-high 10 rebounds in just 15 minutes worth of action.
Clark, too, had just one double-figure scorer, and that was sophomore forward Kate Minister (Manchester, England) with a game-high 15 points, draining five 3-pointers. Behind her was sophomore guard Ivori Aiken (Harlem, N.Y.) with six points. Senior forward Jillian Camilleri (Lancaster, Mass.) finished with a game-hgh 11 rebounds.
Neither team shot very well today. SC shot .347 from the floor, making just 25-of-72. Clark shot .269, making just 14-of-52. A big difference came on the boards, where SC outrebounded the Cougars, 54-35. SC also forced Clark into 27 turnovers, while committing 17. In terms of points in the paint, SC outscored Clark, 38-6.
In the first 10:30 of the game, Springfield led 17-6, following a lay-up by Murphy. But Clark was able to hold the fort for the next 7 1/2 minutes. When Camilleri hit a jumper with 2:53 left, Clark had closed the gap to 25-17. But then SC scored the final nine points of the half to give the hosts a 34-17 advantage at the intermission. A 3-pointer by Biondolillo at the buzzer gave SC a lot of momentum.
In the scond half, Springfield led by as many as 28 points on three occasions, the first at 49-21 after Slattery made a lay-up with 10:45 to go, and the last at 63-35 when junior Kate LaBelle (Charlestown, R.I.) made a lay-up with 1:29 remaining.
Springfield will kick off a two-game road swing to complete its regular season when it travels to take on local-foe Smith College on Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm.


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2013-14 (Senior):
Played in 19 games, averaging 4.7 minutes per game … Tallied six points and four rebounds on the season … Posted a season-best two points three times this season against Southern Nov. 10, Tennessee Temple Dec. 17 and Rice March 1 … Was 2-for-2 from the line at Cincinnati Dec. 21 … Handed out two assists against Tennessee Temple.
2012-13 (Junior):
Matched career-high two assists vs. Alabama State on 11/9/12 ... Matched career-high two rebounds at Belmont on 12/13/12 ... Played in career-high 16 games.
2011-12 (Sophomore):
Sank two free throws in 11 minutes against Ole Miss ... Played a career-high 13 minutes and had a career-best two steals vs. UT Martin ... Drained two 3-pointers against Cumberland, the first of his career, and scored a career-best six points ... Made first appearance against UCLA.
2010-11 (R-Freshman):
Played in nine games as a reserve ... Played seven minutes in the opening game recording one assist ... Entered the game against UL-Lafayette with 20 seconds left in overtime to shoot one free throw after James Washington had to be taken out in the middle of his free throws due to injury ... Made his only opportunity to give the Blue Raiders a four-point lead ... Entered the game in the first half against UL-Monroe helping the Blue Raiders go on a pivotal run ... Ended the game with two assists and a steal ... Pulled down first career rebound at Houston Baptist ... Played six minutes against FIU in the Sun Belt Championship grabbing one rebound.
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I finally got to see the Catherine Tate & David Tennant production of Much Ado About Nothing! It was a great deal of fun; I'm glad they filmed the performance so those of us who aren't within reach of the London West End could enjoy it too. I have gifs and a little meta to share. I rambled excitedly on my Tumblr tag, and this is really me picking out the more worthwhile things to carry over (and expand a bit) here.
Someone was talking about all the handporn in this scene -- and it is truly epic. I loved it, especially this moment, with its fierceness, its violence. Beatrice is about to say she would eat Claudio's heart in the market-place and mean it. And I'm glad that she gets this moment. It's important for her as a character, and really important for my favorite theme of the play.
It's a comedy, but it's got a lot to say about wars and violence. And that really fascinates me. To begin with, the "battle of the sexes" is positioned as a merry, harmless war that contrasts with the fatal conflict the men have returned from. The story appears to be about domestic life coming up after violence. After all the fighting and dying, you get thee a wife so the world is "peopled" for the next bout of killing and dying.
We see that contrast in Benedick, when he confesses that he didn't think he'd live long enough to have to worry about marrying and having to recant his diatribes against marriage. His proud bachelorhood is partly about him making the best of things… making a virtue of not having what he did not think he could have. He carps on about domesticity and women because of the wedge driven in by war and violence.
We're meant to think that the women are at a remove from that, but then the violence falls down on Hero quite cruelly — she doesn't actually die, but the men in the church on her wedding day murder her as a person in society as much as if they'd brought knives and stabbed her. They went about destroying her as viciously as they could, on the word of other men.
And, in fact, Hero is a casualty of the war between two men, the prince and his brother.
The feminine sphere is not an escape from violent and terrifying war, it's just another kind of war. Another theater of conflict. Once which can be just as cruel in its silenced way, one where people live and die at the hands of others. This is particularly emphasized by the domestic violence that Claudio and Hero's father enact upon her after she's accused of sexual immorality. The director definitely wants us to see that violence is here, too.
And that's where the violence of *this* scene comes in — because the men can deny among themselves the horror of what was done to Hero, the fact that men may kill each other with sharp blades, but words are all it takes to kill a woman like Beatrice or Hero.
And that's what Beatrice is doing with Benedick. Things like victim blaming and erasure are used to make it seem like the domestic world isn't a place of cruelty, and she's stripping that away with her words. She's showing him the violence he wants to deny or dismiss. He isn't into victim blaming—at least, he *believes* Hero is virtuous, so he stands between her and the men trying to hit her—but he doubts whether Claudio really is Beatrice's enemy. She's talking in terms of violence and revenge and battle and on some level he's doubting whether those things actually belong to her, whether her world is truly that serious. And she intends to let him know that this *is* serious. It's life and death and Claudio *is* her enemy, as much as any man Benedick faced in battle was his.
It's really quite brilliant. Because we've got the choices the director of this adaptation and the actors are making playing in so well with Shakespeare's dialogue — Beatrice is a woman, but she has the heart and stomach of a soldier in this scene (to snatch some words attributed to Elizabeth I). She *would* eat Claudio's heart in the market-place if she could. And she would be justified.
There's no doubt there.
Life is a war for her, too. And as much as Benedick's antagonisms toward marriage come from his experience of death and terror, so too hers are grounded in what *she* knows to be true of this world that she fights to live in. An orphan child maintained at the sufferance of her aunt and uncle, a brainy woman in a world that has no place for such ridiculous oddities.
The world, and Benedick, and the story thought that love was some soothing balm, the thing that comes *after* violence. But it's all the same, the divisive rupture which creates these twin battlegrounds being the same bloody thing.
And so to love with his hands is to use them to kill Claudio. Benedick swears by his hand that he loves Beatrice. And she grabs his hands and shows him something else — look at what Claudio did, taking dear Hero by the hand in the promise of love and killing her as surely as if he'd struck her dead. She's portraying violence and letting him know that there's no room here for petty words; what she needs is a comrade in her fight and if he can't be that, what's his love worth? Then Benedick gently clasps her hands, and kisses them, and swears to use his hands for something "better" than swearing by them.
It's just really, really, really a perfect use of the symbol of hands as a ((flail)) meeting place for the two spheres and their different kinds of violence. It's all the same hands. And the important thing for me is that Benedick is willing to acknowledge what Beatrice shows him: he recognizes that her fight is real, her enemy is real, and joins with her.
That's… more to me than any professions of love, as the story intends it to be. They can frolic together all day long, but he's not worth the pain and risk of marriage if he can't be on her side in the battle of her life. And… well, yes, a man doing violence for the love of a woman is not a terribly new idea. EXCEPT. Usually women are passive victims in the male violence scenarios who are passively rescued and then Ever So Grateful. Not so with Beatrice. Hero is the passive victim; Beatrice is a freaking general issuing commands, a soldier in her heart even if this world doesn't allow someone of her gender to do justifiable violence to Claudio via a duel. And Benedick is turning against the male dominated culture of his buddies to do the work a woman has given him. He's defecting to the enemy camp in the "battle of the sexes," and putting a "ho" before his bros.
Because he listened to Beatrice when she said his bros are fucking despicable nightmares. And also he's in love. lol.
Another thing that this scene does is establish firmly that Beatrice and Benedick are not just evenly matched in wit -- they're matched in fierceness, too. If the world were a place where women had to go off and fight, Beatrice would have acquitted herself as well as Benedick, or perhaps even better (she seems to have more of a thirst for blood, tbh). One imagines that Benedick would have used his wits to carve a life for himself in the Bizarro World matriarchy, too. But I don't care about that as much as the fact that we've got textual evidence that Beatrice has serious guts, yo. ((nods firmly)) *g*
So… I fucking love this play. And this production. But especially the handporn. :D
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I am very pleased with the super quiet Bosch 24" Ascenta Dishwasher (SHE3AR76BK). I replaced a loud 14-year old budget level washer that didn't perform well, so it's a dream in comparison. However I did give it a good workout and it passed with flying colors. I had friends for dinner; a beef roast braised in red wine, au gratin potatoes, roasted veggies and before cleanup, had an emergency that left the dirty dishes, glasses, pots and pans sitting on the counter for over four days. When I got back (yes, it was pretty gross) I threw them in the dishwasher without any pre-washing and to my extreme surprise, everything—even the dutch oven with baked on red wine stains & the cheesy potato pan—came out spotless! I do use the recommended Finish all-in-one tabs & rinse agent and have never had a dish come out less than spotless. I can see why it was Consumer Report's Best Buy in 2012. I like the adjustable top rack. On the lower setting, I can get stemware on top and still have room for a 12" fry pan on the lower rack. I purchased the Dishwasher Accessory Kit with it and am pleased with the vase/bottle holder and plastic item clips. I tend to run it before bed and leave the unloading 'til I'm home from work, so I haven't had an issue with the long cycle time or drying like some others have. I have zero complaints about the washer. It was a bit awkward to load in the beginning, but that was more about me getting used to the different rack layout than a design issue. Great dishwasher for the price.
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incredibly quiet! still learning the best way to load the dishes, the tines are all slanted and my old one had the silverware in the door. I have to put the extra long tongs and such on top rack instead of silverware basket. The run time is 2 hours and 20 minutes and the panel lights don't go off until I push the on/off button so I don't run it unless I will be there later to turn it off and open the door.
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Previous dishwasher started leaking, so after checking out Consumer Reports, decided to buy this one without ever seeing it in person. What you should know:1) No drying cycle. Apparently Bosch does not have drying cycles on their dishwashers. Not a deal breaker for us. Most of the items are pretty dry by the time we take them out anyway.2) The bottom rack comes off track easily when pulling it in and out. This can cause your dishes to shift around depending on how full the bottom rack is. I might have picked a different dishwasher if I had known this.3) Very quiet. 4) Cleans dishes really well. Impressed.Overall I'd buy it again since dishwashers with similar ratings on CR cost almost twice as much. I'll take a quieter and better dishwasher and just learn to be more careful pulling the lower rack out.
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I love Bosch for Dishwashers and so does that Consumer Magazine - (you know the name)Quiet. Dependable. Controls on the front.
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I can't believe that dishwasher makers still have not given us a good way to load bowls. Our family uses a lot of bowls, and once you put in about 4, you have no room for anything put plates. And if you load them up top, you have no room for glasses.Also, the pull out tray on the bottom does not have a good track, and comes off all the time when pulling it out.
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An emotional President Obama on Friday called for unspecified "meaningful action" regardless of political consequences, after a school shooting in Newtown, CT, reportedly killed 27 people, including 18 children.
"We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics," Obama said during a brief address from the White House, where he repeatedly wiped away tears.
"We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. Each time I learn the news, I react not as a president, but as anybody else would, as a parent. And that is especially true today," said Obama, the father of two daughters.
Earlier, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters that Friday was not the appropriate time to discuss gun control policy.
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International History
The History Department of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies teaches and researches the contemporary world through its layered histories and from a multiplicity of perspectives. We study history before, between and beyond the nations, thereby encouraging historically-informed approaches to current policy, politics, economics and culture.
Professor Gilbert Etienne, 1928-2014
Gilbert Etienne, Professor and one time Head of the International History and Politics Section of the Graduate Institute, passed away on 17 May 2014. Since retiring in 1996 Professor Etienne continued as an Honorary Professor of the Institute. His interests focused mainly on development, particularly agriculture and rural development, in South and South-central Asia.
The author of several monographs published by leading presses worldwide and numerous scholarly articles, Professor Etienne was a regular contributor to the press in Switzerland and South Asia. He first traveled to the sub-continent in the early-1950s and has the unique distinction of having followed the development of a village in northern India over a period of nearly five decades. Active till the last, completing a book review on Pakistan for Tribune de Genève less than a month ago from his hospital bed, Gilbert remained in regular touch with friends and colleagues, a warm and generous friend and host, and a regular attendee at several Institute events.
The HI community mourns the sad passing of Professor Gilbert Etienne. His funeral takes place at 3.30pm on Thursday, 22 May, poignantly a few hours before the Institute's end-of-year reception which if in town and good health, he made it a point not to miss.
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Prix Arditi 2014
We are very proud to announce that our very own William Sharman, Master of International Studies in International History, has been awarded the Prix Arditi 2014 aux Hautes Etudes Internationales for his thesis entitled Myth or Modernity? Settler Colonization in Imperial Germany, 1884-1914.
Bill will be presented with the award at the graduation ceremony on 12th September 2014. Congratulations Bill, we look forward to more great things from you to come!
Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship
Jayita Sarkar (PhD defended in June 2014; supervisor: Jussi M. Hanhimäki) will be a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Centerfor 2014-15 academic year. Concurrently, she will be a visiting postdoctoral scholar at the Davis Center, where she will be affiliated with the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies. During her fellowship, Jayita will be investigating U.S. counterproliferation strategies in South Asia during the 1970s with particular reference to Franco-Pakistani, West German-Indian and Soviet-Indian nuclear relations.
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Palo Pinto County property owners will soon receive their 2013 property tax statements and, for the second year, the Palo Pinto County Tax Assessor-Collector's office will use a single-page statement format that allows the listing of two or more property accounts.
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The county's tax base of 2.7 billion dollars is divided into 52,000 parcels. With the new system, the county is able to condensed these parcels into 31,480 tax statements. Tuggle said the cost of this required annual mailing will be near $18,000.
"Inter-local agreements with the 17 other taxing entities within the county allow for the consolidation of billing and collections into a single tax office, further reducing the cost of providing tax statements," she said. "Otherwise, Palo Pinto County property owners would receive two or more bills for each property owned and payment of taxes would be remitted to multiple tax offices."
She added that the inter-local agreements are authorized by Texas Property Tax Code and Government Code to promote the efficiency of local governments.
"Clearly, it is good common sense to consolidate tax collections when possible," Tuggle noted.
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• A payment received by mail after a delinquency date will be considered timely if the post mark indicates it was mailed prior to the delinquency date.
• Make checks payable to 'Linda Tuggle, Palo Pinto TAC.'
• A property owner or business owner is responsible for the payment of their property taxes, even if they never get a statement. Penalty and interest will not be dismissed because a statement was not delivered.
"If you have not received a tax statement for all taxable property you own by the end of October, please contact the tax office," Tuggle advised. "We'll be happy to mail, fax or email a copy to you."
• For those who purchased property in 2013, the tax statement may have been mailed to the previous owner. Please contact the tax office and a copy will be provided. Additionally, Tuggle asks that new property owners advise the appraisal district office of the purchase.
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• A copy of a tax statement is provided to mortgage companies, if they request it. Property owners will receive a tax statement, even if the mortgage company has requested a copy. Tuggle said to deduct it this from the 'grand total due,' if the mortgage company is to pay the tax.
• For those who own the home they live in and are not receiving the benefit of a homestead exemption, Tuggle said to contact the Palo Pinto Appraisal Office at 940-659-1281. All exemption applications are processed by the appraisal office.
• If you are receiving the benefit of the 'Over 65 Homestead Exemption,' the 'Disabled Homestead Exemption' or a 'Disabled Veteran's Exemption' on a property, you may extend the payment of those taxes by paying in four equal payments due by the last day of January, March, May and July, without any added penalty and interest. New legislation this year allowed the inclusion of Disabled Vets to this payment option.
• Paid receipts are not automatic and will be mailed only if requested. This is another cost savings adjustment, Tuggle explained, adding, "We use fax and email as much as possible, so if these are an option for delivering information to you, please let us know."
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Our last day in Belize was lived in true Belizean fashion of not worrying about plans and calmly reacting to last minute changes. Because of the tropical storm in the area we couldn't go snorkeling as planned, nor could we stay at Pelican's Pouch. When Jeff told us this we were all disappointed, but he said we could probably take a tour of Marie Sharp's Hot Sauce factory and maybe snorkel for half the day if the weather got better.
We woke not sure of what we were doing, but ready to roll. As we said goodbye to Hopkins the hope of snorkeling began to fade as the clouds ahead of us grew darker.
We pulled into the Marie Sharp's factory ready for our tour. We were given highly fashionable hairnets that we wore for the whole ten minute tour that consisted of one big room where the vats and empty bottles were kept and filled, and the warehouse where the packed boxed anxiously waited to be shipped around the world. We learned that in this modest factory 12 different hot sauces are made by the same workers who also produce jams, corn chips, and pork rinds. After a quick visit to the gift store and taste testing many of the jams and hot sauces, we set out for Pelican Beach Resort....Click here to read more.


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The priest at has taken a leave of absence during an ongoing investigation from the Allegheny County District Attorney's office involving Facebook messages to a minor, according to the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese.
Pittsburgh Catholic Bishop David Zubik said in a letter posted on the parish's website that a complaint was recently made against the Rev. Dan Valentine regarding Facebook postings the St. James priest for six years made to a minor.
"As a result of the complaint, I directed my staff to share all information with the office of the District Attorney of Allegheny County," Zubik wrote in a letter that was read to church parishioners on Sunday.
Zubik said the DA's office informed the diocese that while the postings were "a matter of poor judgment," there was no criminal activity involved.
An internal diocese audit is now taking place as a follow up to the district attorney's office findings.
Zubik said he has directed the DA's office to do a forensic audit of the computers at St. James Parish as well as Valentine's private computer.
The Rev. Ron Lengwin, diocese spokesman, said it is unclear how long the internal investigation will take.
"It is the Bishop's hope he'll be able to return to ministry soon," Lengwin said.
Lengwin could not comment on the nature of the Facebook posts.
Valentine took a leave of absence beginning on May 19, Lengwin said.
The Very Rev. Samuel J. Esposito has assumed the responsibilities as a temporary administrator in the priest's absence.
"Father Valentine is fully cooperating with this ongoing investigation," Zubik wrote to parishioners. "Given the nature of this matter, Father Valentine has seen the wisdom of beginning a leave of absence until the investigation is completed."
Valentine was born and raised in Bethel Park. He served in the Marine Corps and was ordained a priest in 1974 for the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese, serving in three parishes as a parochial vicar before he became a chaplain in the U.S. Navy.
Zubik has asked parishioners to pray for the Rev. Valentine and for the parish, and said he plans to be present as necessary throughout the coming weeks.


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NEW YORK — Searching for compromise on a divisive issue, the Boy Scouts of America is proposing to partially lift its long-standing exclusion of gays — allowing them as youth members but continuing to bar them as adult leaders.
The proposal, unveiled Friday after weeks of private leadership deliberations, will be submitted to the roughly 1,400 voting members of the BSA's National Council during the week of May 20 at a meeting in Texas.
The key part of the resolution says no youth may be denied membership in the Scouts "on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone." A ban would continue on leadership roles for adults who are openly gay or lesbian.
Gay-rights groups, which had demanded a complete lifting of the ban, criticized the proposal as inadequate.
"Until every parent and young person have the same opportunity to serve, the Boy Scouts will continue to see a decline in both membership and donations," said Rich Ferraro, a spokesman for the gay-rights watchdog group GLAAD.
Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said the BSA was too timid.
"What message does this resolution send to the gay Eagle Scout who, as an adult, wants to continue a lifetime of Scouting by becoming a troop leader?" he asked.
Some conservative groups assailed the proposal from the opposite direction, saying the ban should be kept in its entirety.
"The policy is incoherent," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. "The proposal says, in essence, that homosexuality is morally acceptable until a boy turns 18 — then, when he comes of age, he's removed from the Scouts."
Perkins predicted that the proposed change, if adopted, would subject the BSA to "crippling lawsuits" because it would no longer be able to argue that excluding gays was integral to its basic principles.


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By Dan Gallagher, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Tech stocks sank deep into the red by Wednesday's closing bell, as a market-wide selloff put further pressure on the sector that was helped by drops on sector leaders Apple Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.
The Nasdaq Composite Index /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP -0.39% was down 1.5% to close at 3,164, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index /quotes/zigman/1468249/delayed SOX +0.37% shed 2.2% and the Morgan Stanley High-Tech Index /quotes/zigman/6015481/realtime MSH -0.17% fell by 1.6%.
The Dow /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA -0.42% closed down more than 100 points, with the S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX -0.29% down 1.2%, after the release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's January meeting showed some Fed members expressing concern about asset purchases totalling $85 billion a month. Read: U.S. stocks in retreat after Fed minutes
Apple /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed/quotes/nls/aapl AAPL +0.55% shares fell 2.4% to close at $448.85. The previous afternoon, lawyers for hedge-fund Greenlight Capital sought a court order blocking a vote on a proposal for Apple's annual shareholder meeting next week. The proposal would require the company to seek shareholder approval for issuing any preferred stock, similar to the type that Greenlight's David Einhorn has been seeking from the company. See WSJ story: Greenlight urges judge to block vote on Apple proposal.
Apple's annual shareholder meeting is set for next Wednesday, Feb. 27, at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that Apple's Chinese manufacturing partner Foxconn has frozen the hiring of assembly line workers after a higher-than-expected return rate of current employees following the Lunar New Year holiday. See WSJ story: Foxconn freezes assembly worker hiring at China factories.
Shares of H-P /quotes/zigman/229301/delayed/quotes/nls/hpq HPQ -1.18% took a hit, falling by 1.1% to close at $16.70. The drop came as results from arch-rival Dell Inc. painted a more challenging picture of the PC market, with analysts noting that Dell's aggressive pricing during the recently ended quarter may have hurt H-P's own efforts to maintain share. Read: Dell results leave Street unclear on buyout
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Sony is set to make a splash with a PlayStation event in New York on Wednesday evening. Ian Sherr joins digits with three things to look for in tonight's unveiling.
H-P will report its own results on Thursday afternoon.
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BlackBerry /quotes/zigman/19622165/delayed/quotes/nls/bbry BBRY -0.32% lost 4.5% to close at $13.71. Analysts are questioning early sales of the new Z10 smartphone in the U.K. and Canadian markets. Read: BlackBerry faces questions on early Z10 sales.
Garmin /quotes/zigman/118648/delayed/quotes/nls/grmn GRMN -0.90% shares slid more than 9% to $35.54 after the maker of GPS devices reported a 22% drop in fourth-quarter earnings and projected results for the full fiscal year that were below Wall Street's expectations. See: Garmin net falls 22% on slumping automotive sales
Demand Media Inc. /quotes/zigman/3620702/delayed/quotes/nls/dmd DMD -3.31% rose by 6% following plans to split the company in two. See: Demand Media gets lift on split plan, earnings
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The MacBook Pro with Retina display (please, Apple; how about a shorter product name?) is considered by many to be a whole new take on what a notebook can be.
Starting with a gorgeous Retina display to catch our eye and fulfill our dreams, the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display is actually a whirlwind of technology triumphs that make it perhaps the most sought-after Mac in a generation.
But is it really all that and a cup of tea? We're going to take a look at this marvel and find out.
15.4-inch Retina Display
Let's start with the obvious and most stunning aspect of the new MacBook Pro: the Retina display. At 15.4 inches and 2880x1800 pixels, that's 5.1 million pixels or 220 pixels per inch. Apple calls this a "retina" display because at normal viewing distance, the average human eye is unable to discern individual pixels. The result blows away anything we've ever seen in a display, let alone a display that you can pick up and take with you
The level of detail is amazing. Text is sharp, and actually fun to read. High-resolution photos practically pop off the screen. But there's a downside to the Retina display: it's just too good.
If you're like most Mac users, your daily tasks involve mostly mundane things, such as browsing web sites. Although Apple includes a version of Safari that can work with the high-resolution Retina display, most web sites don't use high-resolution images, mainly because they take too long to load. The 72-dpi images used for most web graphics looks a bit jagged, and can actually put you off browsing many web sites. On the plus side, Safari renders text in delightfully crisp resolution.
The image problem will continue until application and web site developers hop on board the Retina wagon. In the meantime, loading some web pages will remind you of the day you brought home your first HDTV, and were stuck watching standard def content. (Even now, many channels don't offer HD versions.)
Apple attempts to help ease the pain by providing an image-doubling technique to upscale the images. The MacBook Pro with Retina display is configured to display at 1440x900 pixels. This resolution is listed as Best (Retina), and although at first it may seem odd that a 2880x1800 display is using a scaled resolution, in practice, it's the perfect setting. Apple uses this resolution to pixel-double any images or text that aren't optimized for Retina. This allows the Mac to assign four pixels to each pixel in an image. The result is precise scaling of images without having to perform complex calculations in software. Photos and other graphics that are optimized for the Retina display can use the full resolution to produce truly breathtaking images.
Apple offers two off-the-shelf models of the MacBook Pro with Retina display, plus a build-to-order model. All models use the same Retina display and body, but have slightly different processor and storage configurations.
$2199 MacBook Pro with Retina display
- 2.3 GHz Intel Quad-Core i7 processor (Turbo boost up to 3.3 GHz)
- 256 GB SSD (Solid State Drive)
$2799 MacBook Pro with Retina display
- 2.6 GHz Intel Quad-Core i7 processor (Turbo boost up to 3.6 GHz)
- 512 GB SSD (Solid State Drive)
Build-to-order models can add:
- 2.6 GHz Intel Quad-Core i7 processor (Turbo boost up to 3.7 GHz)
- 768 GB SSD (Solid State Drive)
All models include the following:
- 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3L RAM (upgradeable at time of order to 16 GB)
- Intel HD Graphics 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
- 720p FaceTime camera
- Two Thunderbolt ports
- Two USB 3.0 ports
- HDMI port
- Headphone port
- SDXC card slot
- 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth 4.0
- Stereo speakers
- Dual microphones
- Keyboard and trackpad.
- MagSafe 2 power adapter
Compare specifications against the standard 2012 15-inch MacBook Pro.
Performance and Connectivity
The MacBook Pro with Retina display can be the fastest Mac notebook, depending on the configuration you choose. The fastest MacBook Pro, based simply on processing power, is the 13-inch model, which is available with a 2.9 GHz Quad-Core i7 processor.
But even though the 13-inch model can be configured with a faster processor, it doesn't equate to real-world performance. In that case, the MacBook Pro with Retina display is able (once again, depending on configuration) to outshine the other MacBook Pro models. What makes it faster is its Flash-based storage system; it also uses larger cache RAM than the 13-inch models.
Speaking of RAM and storage, the MacBook Pro with Retina display has what many will consider a huge shortcoming: there are no customer-serviceable parts. You can't upgrade the RAM, because it's soldered directly to the motherboard. Likewise, the SSD uses a new connector style that prevents most users from being able to upgrade storage. It's likely that third-party suppliers will at some point offer a storage upgrade, but not if Apple keeps changing the connector design each time it comes out with a new model.
The battery isn't user-replaceable; it's glued into the unibody case. And finally, Apple discourages users from even opening up the case by using pentalobe screws.
All of this is why the folks at iFixit called the Retina version of the MacBook Pro the least repairable laptop they have ever taken apart, and by inference, the least upgradable.
I wasn't able to run any benchmarks on the MacBook Pro with Retina display, but luckily, my favorite benchmark app, Geekbench, has already listed the results of both the 2.3 GHz and 2.6 GHz versions. The numbers range from a Geekbench score of 12018 for the 2.3 GHz versions to 13038 for the 2.6 GHz processor. To put that in perspective, this little portable Mac can outperform the now retired 2011 17-inch MacBook Pro, and do it with the best display you've probably ever seen.
Apple finally decided that USB 3.0 was mainstream enough to install on the new line of Mac notebooks. I expect we will see USB 3 showing up on all new Macs going forward. For the Retina MacBook Pro, Apple has included two USB 3 ports, one on each side of the Mac. The ports are compatible with both USB 3 and USB 2, so you shouldn't have any problems using your older USB 2 devices.
The same can't be said for FireWire, which has been expunged. But don't worry if you have FireWire-based external devices. Apple included two Thunderbolt ports, and a Thunderbolt-to-FireWire 800 adapter is available for $29.00. I think Apple should have included the adapter in the package, but the cost is low enough that I'm not going to complain too loudly.
You may also notice the lack of an Ethernet port. Apple must feel that most notebook users are using wireless connections, and it's difficult to dispute that. If you need a wired connection, Apple is offering a solution similar to the one it's offering FireWire users: a Thunderbolt-to-Gigabit Ethernet adapter, also $29.00.
The other ports are an HDMI, for connecting an external monitor or TV; an SDXC card slot; and a new MagSafe 2 power port. When Apple redesigned the Retina MacBook Pro case, it lopped off enough height that the old MagSafe connector no longer fit; a new, slimmer MagSafe 2 adorns this Mac.
The battery is a custom-designed 95-watt-hour lithium-polymer unit that is glued to the unibody case and provides up to 7 hours of performance. Apple says that 7 hours is for a typical wireless Internet connection and using Safari for general browsing. I suspect that actual battery run-time will be lower, especially when doing anything beyond "typical" usage, which isn't all that typical. I use my current MacBook Pro for a lot more than just web browsing. Nevertheless, the Retina MacBook Pro has the largest battery that Apple has ever shoehorned into a notebook. That power is needed for all those extra pixels in the Retina display. I think I can live with slightly shorter battery run-time in favor of the beauty of the display.
Missing in Action
When Apple chose a smaller form factor for the Retina MacBook Pro, it had to give up something. The most obvious missing item is an optical drive. I don't think this is a big deal for most users, except for DIYers who like to pull the optical drive out of their MacBook Pros and use the space for an additional drive instead.
Other missing items include the aforementioned FireWire 800 and wired Gigabit Ethernet ports, plus the ExpressCard slot in the now retired 17-inch Macbook Pro.
MacBook Pro with Retina Display Wrap-Up
You can't get around one obvious fact: This is simply the best-looking MacBook Pro Apple has ever made. And I don't mean its physical appearance; I'm talking about the display itself. It's a beauty, for sure.
But Apple wanted to do more than just push the display envelope. It wanted this Mac to be a tour de force in manufacturing and engineering. It succeeded, but at a cost.
In exchange for a thinner, lighter Mac, Apple made the inner workings out of bounds to any type of upgrade. That means you have to make your choices at the time of purchase, and hope you don't outgrow them in what you expect to be the useable lifetime of your new Mac. That may be why many sources recommend maxing out RAM to 16 GB, and upping the SSD size as much as you can afford.
I agree about upping the RAM, but I wouldn't bother spending the money on larger storage. If I need storage later, the USB 3 or Thunderbolt ports are capable of providing enough speed for most storage bandwidth needs. Pros, clearly the target audience for this rig, would meet most of their storage needs externally anyway. They're also less likely than other users to do their own upgrades and repairs, so the lack of upgradeability probably won't be an issue.
I really like to have the option to upgrade RAM, as well as perform other upgrades and repairs, so the beauty of the Retina display isn't enough to tempt me. But that's just me. For many mobile Mac users, the MacBook Pro with Retina display is a winner.


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TRAVERSE CITY — Ogemaw Heights and Traverse City Central suffered tough Big North Conference losses Tuesday.
But neither team was rattled when Friday's game suddenly got tight at the end of the fourth quarter.
In the end, the host Trojans held on for a 62-59 win over the Falcons, thanks to a couple of late free throws from Taylor Cook
"It's a good win," Trojans coach Jeff Turner said. "I give Ogemaw a lot of credit. They were coming off a tough loss at home to Cadillac that was hard fought and they probably had them beat. So we knew we'd have to play pretty good. We feel pretty good to walk out of here with a win. It's only our fourth win of the season, but it's a good start."
The Trojans (4-11) lost in overtime to visiting Gaylord on Tuesday. There wasn't any hangover on Friday, as they jumped out to a 21-10 lead in the first quarter.
"It definitely feels good," TC Central senior Ethan Pilarski said of the win. "We were working on it in practice, just maintaining good defense. We wanted to get a good lead right off the start. So we pushed the ball and our teammates hit us in stride."
Pilarski finished with a game-high 20 points, including 14 in the first half.
"Ethan always does a great job," Turner said. "He's a third-year varsity player and he puts himself in great positions. One of the biggest responsibilities on our team is our in-bounder, and he does it every time. He's going to be missed when he graduates, because he's a great role model for our kids of how to work hard."
After a 37-19 TCC lead at the half, Ogemaw Heights crawled back. It was 50-37 going into the fourth quarter, but then the Falcons outscored the Trojans 22-12 to make it a game.
Nick Drumm's 3-pointer with 15 seconds left cut the lead to 60-57, but Cook came back with a pair of free throws to lock up the win.
"After a tough loss on Tuesday, we talked about what we had to do to put ourselves in a position to be competitive and win these close games," Turner said. "I thought we did that. Even though it was ugly at the end, we're fighting through that. We're working hard in practice and it's carrying over to games."
Tanner Kenney had eight points and 10 rebounds for the Trojans while Cook had eight points and seven boards. Max Knoblock was a big spark for Central off the bench with seven points, six rebounds, a block and an assist.
"He's steadily progressed all season," Turner said. "He doesn't try to do too much. He puts himself in a position and tries to be a spark out there. He did some really good things for us. That's a kid plugging away, doing what he's supposed to be doing, and tonight he got a chance to shine a little bit. It wasn't a surprise to me, because he does that kind of work every day in practice."
For Ogemaw Heights, Dillon Zettel had 16 points, Cameron Zettel had 14 points and Tyler Palm had 10 points and 11 rebounds.
TC Central won the JV game 60-27 as Joe Schepperly had 12 points for the Trojans (8-7) and Danny Brott added 10 points.
The Trojans took the freshman contest 45-19 behind 10 points each from Mason Houston and Reagan Cotton.