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Editorial: Feds, VA have to find new way of operating
We've heard and seen it all before. But until Congress and the White House agree to a new way to provide medical care to the nation's military veterans, there is little reason to think the latest deal — cooked up under the pressure of lawmakers itching to go on vacation — will serve us any better than the current broken system.Continued ...
Editorial: In 10 years, Film Fest has sparked revitalization
Ten years ago it had the feeling of one of those old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland confections of the late 1930s when the kids of Carvel, Idaho, decide to fix up an old barn and put on a show to save the town or the prom or some such silliness.Continued ...
Editorial: Early college programs offer TCAPS students head start
In an era of sky-high college tuition rates and dwindling state and federal aid, being a frugal higher ed shopper is a must.Continued ...
Cheers: 07/28/2014
To the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Clean Vessel Act program for providing $200,000 to the state of Michigan for projects that help recreational boaters properly dispose on-board septic waste.Continued ...
Editorial: TC's Splash Pad report effort short of the mark
It reads like a bad whodunit with a lot of loose ends and too many holes to be acceptable - or credible.Continued ...
- Thursday, July 24, 2014
Editorial: Exchange students offer a look at wider horizons
The issue: Traverse City schools still looking for families to host Chinese exchange students. Our view: While not for everyone, the exchange experience can be rewarding for students and families alike.Continued ...
Editorial: Division Street strikes again
By pure luck, the debate over what to do about Division Street doesn't today include a double pedestrian fatality.Continued ...
- Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Editorial: Sidewalk dining changes should take effect now
You're usually supposed to look before you leap, but in Traverse City this summer you also need to keep an eye out for tables, chairs, strollers and dog leashes as you walk along some stretches of downtown.Continued ...
- Monday, July 21, 2014
Editorial: Suing for money inmates don't have is wasted effort
To hear Grand Traverse County Sheriff Tom Bensley tell it, a Sheriff's Department policy to sue to collect $20 daily housing fees from jail inmates isn't an effort to "squeeze blood out of a turnip."Continued ...
Cheers: 07/21/2014
To the Grand Traverse Conservation District, which was to run guided kayak trips over the weekend on the Boardman River from Scheck's State Campground to the Brown Bridge Quiet Area.Continued ...
- Sunday, July 20, 2014
Editorial: Many questions remain on dam removal plans
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report on plans to remove the Boardman and Sabin dams from the Boardman River sounds reassuring.Continued ...
- Thursday, July 17, 2014
Editorial: Social media rules can help prevent missteps
First it was handwritten notes and letters, then telegrams, faxes and emails, Facebook postings and tweets, and who knows what else.Continued ...
Editorial: No time for the DNR to back off launch plan
Back in March of 2013 Grand Traverse-area boaters got a present — or a promise of a present, anyway — from the state Department of Natural Resources. Now it looks like a last-minute change could sink the whole thing.Continued ...
- Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Editorial: Experience must count for much in pier project
We've been here and done this before. By this time, we hope local officials have learned the lessons that will keep Traverse City's proposed fishing/sightseeing pier from walking the same path that at least two recent public projects have taken.Continued ...
- Monday, July 14, 2014
Cheers: 07/14/2014
To the Young Michigan Filmmakers Festival, which drew more than 90 entries that, after editing, provided a three-and-a-half-hour screening at the Leelanau Community Cultural Center.Continued ...
- Sunday, July 13, 2014
Editorial: Street performer ordinance arose on busy sidewalks
This is not government at its warmest and fuzziest — if there is such a thing. But sometimes looking like a bully is the price of doing business.Continued ...
Editorial: City, festival need to talk trash
When Traverse City and National Cherry Festival officials meet this fall to do a post-mortem on the festival and talk about its future, there absolutely must be some trash talk.Continued ...
- Friday, July 11, 2014
Editorial: Firm's offer to save turbine could be a winner for L&P
The price of anything, from a car to a carton of eggs, is only what someone is willing to pay for it. You can ask $50,000 for your used car until you turn blue, but you won't get a dime unless you're willing to face reality.Continued ...
- Thursday, July 10, 2014
Editorial: Shelter ordinance can't be a long-term solution
There's just no ignoring the growing number of homeless living on the streets in Traverse City. It's a problem with no easy solution.Continued ...
- Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Editorial: City must adopt open system of evaluations
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... you know the rest. So if evaluations of two of Traverse City's top employees aren't officially written down they don't count and don't need to be made public?Continued ...
- Monday, July 7, 2014
Cheers: 07/07/2014
To Monsignor Steven Raica, who was named by Pope Francis to be Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord.Continued ...
- Sunday, July 6, 2014
Editorial: TC schools right to reject idea of arming teachers
Traverse City public schools officials are right — and almost certainly reflect the wishes of the great majority of district parents — to distance the district from a county sheriff deputy's proposal to get teachers, administrators and other employees to volunteer for 40 hours of concealed weapons training so they can carry firearms in schools.Continued ...
Editorial: Time again to play host
It's time to roll out the welcome mat, remember our manners and play host to what sometimes feels like a human tide.Continued ...
- Friday, July 4, 2014
Editorial: Bill of Rights remains bedrock of freedom
As we celebrate the nation's birthday today and think about what it means to be an American, it is appropriate to remember that we are a nation of laws, founded on a philosophy of defined freedoms.Continued ...
- Thursday, July 3, 2014
Editorial: City needs to create a policy for public art
Some Traverse City officials apparently didn't learn a thing from the "Time Myth" fiasco of just a few years ago.Continued ...
- Editorial: Feds, VA have to find new way of operating


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Alex Hirsch presents Story Guy: A "How To" Instructional Adventure!
In 2010, Alex Hirsch created these images that details the process of a storyboard artist for a CTN panel he was a speaker at. You can check out the full 45min panel on Vimeo where Alex speaks along with Bruce Morris, Enrico Casarosa, Louie del Carmen, and Fergal Reilly.

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Two-time MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo has taken on an unusual demeanor this weekend. Seeming beyond frustration, the Yamaha ace is carrying himself with a calm sense of resignation. Rival Marc Marquez isn't a realistic target at the moment. Beating his teammate, Valentino Rossi, scratching his way to the podium, and securing maximum points given the circumstances — those are the goals Lorenzo can focus on this weekend at the Circuit of the Americas.
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TUDOR: Watch on-board streams during Long Beach race
Posted by SPEED at 1:26 pm
FOX Sports 1 will carry this weekend's TUDOR race at Long Beach LIVE at 6 p.m. ET Saturday, and will be streaming four on-board cameras during the race HERE.
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IndyCar: Simon Pagenaud brings the visor cam to Long Beach
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Get LIVE Streaming of today's MotoGP action with FOXSportsGo
Posted by SPEED at 12:10 pm
LIVE streaming of MotoGP's free practice 4 and qualifying sessions begins at 2:30 p.m. ET today and will be available exclusively on the FOXSportsGo app, which is available by clicking HERE.
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MotoGP: Marq'd Man
Posted by Chris Martin at 10:47 am
Last season when Marc Marquez rolled into the Circuit of the Americas, he was still the new kid on the block and just hoping to make an impression.
Sure, he had long been touted as MotoGP's next great one, but at this time last year, he was all potential and hype but still yet to have won anything in the premier class.


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Josh Todd, District 3 supervisor for Lauderdale County, thinks that maybe one day an emergency medical responder who graduated from Meridian Community College's paramedic program might be the person who saves his life or that of one of his family.
In that sense, Todd said it was a no brainer for the supervisors to OK the donation this week of two surplus ambulances from Metro Ambulance Service to the college so students in the RN and paramedic programs can conduct realistic training in the vehicles.
"Clayton Cobler, who is the manager for Metro came to us and told us there was a need at the college for these," Todd said. "It made perfect sense to us and we know the college will put them to good use in training these students so it was a quick, easy decision."
One of the ambulances, dressed up in green striping in tone with the school colors, will be mobile so paramedics and nurses can see how it is to treat patients in a moving environment. The patient compartment of the second ambulance has been taken off and moved into a classroom so students can get more acquainted with the areas they are likely to be working.
Ben Warren, who is the division chairman for Emergency Services, said this donation will go a long way in preparing the students for the real world.
"We always strive to give the students the most realistic training environment we can," said Warren. "These ambulances will cover that need nicely and we are so appreciative to the generosity of Metro and the board of supervisors."
Cobler said the ambulances have been surplus pieces of equipment of the county ever since newer models were recently added to the fleet. He said this saves the county the trouble of trying to sell the units while at the same time addressing a need from a local college.
"They will put them to good use and these two ambulances will serve them well in what they are going to do with them," Cobler said.


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How to Give Your Finances a Summer Makeover
As the weather warms up, don't forget to boost your bank account.
Summer might be vacation season, but a break from the frenzy also offers a good opportunity to get your finances organized. Consider these 10 steps to shore up your money during the year's hottest days:
1. Put papers in their proper place. Setting up a file system that makes it easy to track different expenses will make filing taxes a breeze next year. Regina Leeds, the "zen organizer" and author of "One Year to an Organized Life," suggests setting up a file system to easily store receipts that pile up throughout the year. For example, you might want to have separate files for expenses related to your car, business, health care and child care. (She adds that the super ambitious can set up an online system to eliminate the need for so much paper.) You also want a file for household expenses, related to maintenance or repair work, as well as income-related paperwork such as 1099s, Leeds says.
2. If you don't need it, toss it (or archive it). You'll probably need to hang on to important documents (some states require taxpayers to keep up to 10 years of filings on hand), but much of your old paperwork belongs in the trash or the shredder if it has valuable information on it like bank account numbers. Store your most important documents, like certificates, in an archival box or locked metal file cabinet that's separate from your day-to-day files, Leeds advises. "Every year, take a look at your archived files. You might be able to eliminate a few projects each year," she adds.
3. Go electronic, go green. "Just about everything these days is online, so all the old rules about what you need to keep are changing," says Russell Wild, a fee-only financial planner in Allentown, Pa. Credit card statements, bills, paycheck records, investment account statements and even tax paperwork can often be shifted online. "Just make sure you have access," Wild says, meaning a system for keeping track of all your passwords.
[Read: How to Create Your Own Money Roadmap.]
If you're still hooked on old-fashioned paper statements, try this: As soon as your first-quarter account statements arrive, shred the monthly statements for January and February, says Rita Cheng, a financial adviser with Ameriprise.
4. Check your credit. Your credit report deserves a little TLC, too. Get your free annual credit report at annualcreditreport.com to check for any errors, and fix any mistakes that could be dragging down your score, Cheng says.
5. Pay it down. If you're still carrying debt on credit cards, check their interest rates and balances, and make a plan to pay them off, Cheng suggests.
6. Prepare for emergencies. Summertime can bring extreme weather. Already this year, we've seen flooding, forest fires and storms that knocked out power lines for days. While you might not be able to avoid such disasters altogether, you can prepare for them and minimize the impact on your own bottom line. Since one of the priciest costs of a weather emergency is the cost of alternate housing if you are forced to leave your home, create a list of affordable and nearby hotels that you could count on if necessary. It's almost impossible to search for good deals if you lack wireless access or electricity. Keeping batteries, flashlights, granola bars and other essentials on hand can also help.
[Read: New Personal Finance Tools You Should Use.]
7. Make sure your insurance is up to date. The worst time to discover that your rental or homeowners insurance has lapsed is after you need it, so make sure you've paid all the necessary premiums with your provider. And make sure you know just what it covers and what it doesn't. According to the Consumer Federation of America, consumers are often forced to pay for more of the costs than they realized, including deductibles and coverage gaps for weather-related damage like flooding.
If you're not happy with your coverage, now is a good time to shop around. Experts generally recommend getting at least three quotes from different providers, so you can compare rates and coverage. Don't hesitate to ask your agent questions if wording is unclear, as it often is.


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- Start the Party
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- September 7th, 2010
- Release Date (UK):
- September 7th, 2010
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About Start the Party
Step into an animated "augmented reality" in Move Party, a series of interactive social games, which transforms the PlayStation Move motion controller into virtual props that you hold in your hand to jab, paint, cut, twist and swat your way through fast-paced, quirky challenges. This is a game designed for use with the PlayStation Motion Controller.
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Start the Party offers a small set of mini-games designed to draw you directly into your television. While it may provide some fun for a small gathering of people, there are not enough mini-games to make you return for a second round.
We like
- The fact it makes good use of PS Move
- Being able to see ourselves in the game, literally
- The multiplayer mode can prove somewhat enjoyable
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- The severe lack in number of mini-games
- Only one person can compete on screen at once in multiplayer
- The limited replay value
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Start the Party is a launch game for Sony's PlayStation Move controller, and one of the first to utilize both the controller and the PlayStation Eye camera. Technically, all games require both— with the Eye being required to track the Move controller — but unlike other games, Start the Party puts players directly into their televisions. It's this augmented reality that first caught our attention, but li...
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Dave Hartley has to get flanked by a lot of sci-fi/fantasy geeks whenever and wherever he performs.
The Maryland-born, Philadelphia-based musician, best known in indie-rock circles as the bassist for the band the War on Drugs, also has a side project where he refers to himself as Nightlands. As he has learned, that term is more popular than he realized.
"It pops up a lot of places," says Hartley, 32, on the phone from Philly. One specific place it pops up is in the "Star Wars" universe. Diehards will recognize that there is a planet called Ryloth that is known for its two sides: the Brightlands and the Nightlands. There is also a "Game of Thrones" episode titled "The Night Lands."
But Hartley says that's not where he picked up the name. "Actually, I got it from a book called 'Blood Meridian' by Cormac McCarthy, which is my favorite novel ever," he says. "And it's a phrase that pops up once or twice in that novel, and I just like it a lot."
He doesn't mind when the fanboys speculate where he got his name since he's a bit of a geek too.
"I'm into all that stuff, you know," he says. "I'm into sci-fi, speculative fiction, in all forms – films, TV, novels and stuff. So it's an influence on the music. So I'm fine with leaving it open to speculation. If someone wants to think it's 'Star Wars' or 'Game of Thrones' or '2001,' it's fine with me."
If you listen to Hartley's music when he's under the Nightlands moniker, you'll find that it goes without saying that the dude is into some trippy, fantastical stuff.
His new album, "Oak Island" (which has him covered in shiny, silver body paint on the cover), is a dreamy experience, with its layered, ambient compositions. Yet while "Island" is figuratively dreamy, his last album, the 2010 debut "Forget the Mantra" is literally dreamy.
"I mean, the first record, I literally was doing this experiment where I was recording stuff from my dreams from the middle of night and stuff," he says.
"So, I was having sort of writer's block. So, to kind of break out of that, I had the tape recorder by my bed and got into the habit of recording stuff every single night for, like, two years. I had all these tapes built up – my dream tapes. That's where most of the lyrics and melodies on the first record came from."
Nightlands came about when Hartley had some downtime while recording with the War on Drugs.
"The last record took a long time to make, so I had, like, basically, a couple of years off," he says. "And I made the first Nightlands record with that time. And I didn't plan on doing anything with it."
He did send it to a couple of friends, one of whom runs the label Secretly Canadian, who liked what he heard and soon asked Hartley if he wanted a record deal so he could release it. Hartley jumped at the chance.
"I'm really lucky," he says.
But where did Hartley get this idea to assume the role of this "sighborg" (that's what he calls his Nightlands persona on Twitter) who creates music that's melodic, melancholic and just out there?
"It comes from the fact that I get my rocks off playing with War on Drugs, which I love – to be a rock-and-roll bass player and stuff like that," he says.
"But there's this whole other part of my musical personality that doesn't get expressed with the War on Drugs … Basically, I'm really into layering vocals and vocal harmonies and obsessing over things like the Beach Boys and Crosby, Stills & Nash and the Byrds and stuff like that. So, it's just another side of me, and I'm really, really lucky that I get to have these two sides that I think complement each other really well."
While Hartley says another War on Drugs album is on the way later this year, his more experimental side will be performing tonight at Kings in downtown Raleigh. He also says Megafaun's Brad Cook will be sitting in with Hartley and his band during the set. ("He's one of my best buds," says Hartley.)
And, for all those curious, "Star Wars" nerds who will be attending, try to keep your geeky side in check. The man is doing a show – not a Comic-Con panel!


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A former Commack resident was surprised when three New York Yankee players showed up to support her charity with a $10,000 check in tow.
Newsday reports that Rachel Doyle, founder of the nonprofit organization GlamorGals, received an unexpected visit from Nick Swisher, Brett Gardner and David Robertson while volunteering as part of Yankees HOPE Week 2012.
Doyle created the GlamorGals while she was a senior at Commack High School, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to organize and inspire teens to provide complimentary beauty makeovers to women living in senior homes, according to its website.
Doyle and GlamorGirls received the surprise visit while volunteering at East Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the Bronx on Thursday.
"When they showed up and walked through the door, I was like, 'Wow, we got the Yankees here,' " Doyle said to Newsday. "These people are really busy and they have plenty of other places that they can be."
The Yankees presented Doyle with a $10,000 donation for GlamorGals. The nonprofit organization has grown to have 62 chapers and more than 1,200 volunteers across the nation.
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Xbox 360 equipped with parental locking features
Japanese gaming website Mainichi has revealed a few new features of the Xbox 360, which are sure to not only please concerned parents, but also keep the lawyers off Microsoft's back. The new console will come pre-installed with several parental locking features, which allows owners to restrict what games can be played on the system. The Xbox 360 would read data from the game disc to determine if it contains mature content, before checking whether the player is old enough. All releases of the system will contain this locking feature, which could well have been inspired by the recent tide of litigation surrounding violent games, which many critics have accused of influencing minors with unsuitable content.
The website also revealed that the Xbox 360 will also include blocking features for internet use, restricting access to chat rooms, where some parents and critics believe children and youngsters can be at risk. This is the first time such features as this have been built into a console, and it is certainly prudent of Redmond to be taking current affairs into account when designing features for their new console. More on this soon.


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Benedict Evans' look at the Nexus 10 sales number makes for interesting reading but his kicker at the end, that the Microsoft Surface devices were outselling the Nexus 10′s, caught my eye. When you look at the numbers, it tells an interesting story on Microsoft's future in the tablet/laptop space.
As with most consumer technology, actual sales figures are hard to come by, but with some lateral thinking and reading of analyst reports, it's possible to come to an approximate number. And when you do that, you get the interesting result that Microsoft's Surface tablets have outsold Google's Nexus 10.
Okay, the numbers. Nexus 10 numbers are from Evans, who takes the relatively unique screen size of the Nexus 10 tablet, identified as 'xlarge XHDPI' in the development data that Google provides. Take these numbers, exclude China, and apply it equally to the Google Play user base (which Google now use for all their Android usage numbers) and Evans comes out with an initial figure, albeit with caveats, of 680,000 Nexus 10 tablets in use.
Microsoft Surface slaes numbers are also hard to come by, but Bloomberg's call of 1.5 million Surface RT and Surface Pro devices is in line with many analysts, so let's run with that number. Even allowing for some give and take in the calculations, Microsoft's Surface is doing better than the Nexus 10. The question is does this matter?
I'm not sure it makes a huge difference to Google. The Nexus line is aimed at the geekerati and the developers, so simply getting it out there and into the hands of the coders and influencers is enough for them. It helps promote Android tablets, which in turn has a halo effect on all tablets, and provides Google with more users and eyeballs to monetise.
For Microsoft the case is a little more intriguing. Certainly Surface as a brand is nowhere close to the sales of the iPad (over 23 million units sold). But if you take the Surface Pro (which Bloomberg reckons makes up around 400,000 of those sold units, and that's with just one month of availability in the quarter), and give Microsoft a healthy margin on the unit of around $500 on the Pro, that gives Redmond's Surface division a potential revenue of $200 million.
Microsoft's adjusted Windows revenue for the quarter was $4.62 billion, which means the Surface Pro contributed around 4% to the Q1 2013 numbers (I've not included Surface RT numbers in here, but I'd expect them to be making a positive contribution as well).
Now have Surface Pro on sale for a full quarter, and assume there will be some economies of scale and more efficiencies in the retail process over the year. If you wanted an early sign on how Microsoft was going to operate in the 'post-PC' era, you've got one here.
Yes the volumes are low, and the Surface range is not as attractive as the iOS choices available. But if Microsoft can build up the sales of the Surface Pro in 2013 and reach four to five million unit sales a year, they will have a healthy income stream from their Surface range. Much like sales estimates, there is conjecture and assumption in making a jump from 400,000 sales in one month and extrapolating a similar sales level throughout the whole year, but it's not an impossible jump to make. It's certainly within Redmond's reach.
For Google, the Nexus 10 is almost a technology demonstrator. But Microsoft's Surface is a key part of the companies future, and sales of the hardware are a key part of their strategy. The advantage to out-selling the Nexus 10 is that Microsoft are reaching more than the developers, hackers, and geekerati that the Nexus 10 reaches… but they need to keep reaching out and selling to create a place in the new mobile computing era.
It's also worth noting that the numbers show that consumers are looking for more than just cheap when it comes to a tablet. And by building the Surface, Microsoft has also given Lenovo, Asus, et al a kick in the pants to develop more Windows tablets.
The Surface Pro really redefines what a tablet is. Before its release, tablets were really just large smartphones. Microsoft is saying, "A tablet is a PC" (well, at least the pro version).
It should also be pointed out that the Surface Pro costs twice as much as the Nexus 10.
I think the real hindrance to the first Windows tablets was price… and not the OS. Windows 8 is GREAT on a tablet. I own a Surface RT, and it's fantastic. Once prices of Windows tablets come down with the introduction of Windows Blue, I think we'll see a significant surge in market share for Windows tablets… and that's all upside for Microsoft. Since Microsoft had such a small footprint in mobile in the past, any gains are new revenues and new profits… whether it's by selling its premium Surface tablets or by slapping Windows on the tablets by its partners.
I agree with you that the product was mispriced. They priced it at double the level in which it was first rumored and then tacked on an extra price for the keyboard. The marketing was a flop – selling a premium device using dancing teens that can't afford it – without highlighting any features or advantages beyond the keyboard – that is not sold with the system. More bungling, more failure. We picked up an Atom based Samsung ATIV. It's a good system, runs full Windows 8 and was priced similarly to the less functional Windows RT. It's very confusing for consumers out there in Microsoft land.
I think it's a bit of both, but the price point was, to me, clearly the issue. They tried to put themselves in the luxury device price point as a psychological game to play with consumers, the Apple approach. 'If we sell it high, people will think it's worth it' kind of mentality, when in actuality it should be about building a user-base, as Amazon did with the Kindle Fire. Sell cheap, even at a loss, like Microsoft (and every other gaming company) does with their gaming consoles.
You can't advertise a tablet as 'it's also a PC!' and then charge more than most people pay for their PCs when they already *have* PCs. There needs to be incentive to move. It's a developing yet already oversaturated market. They have to bite the bullet if they want to have a chance in this fight.
It's not marketing. They did tons of that.
The big mistake was RT.
You can't really make the "Tablet as a PC" case if RT won't even run PC applications.
Ohh. Very interesting.
An interesting analysis but perhaps you shaped the data to fit your hypothesis. The Nexus 10 is "one" Android tablet, albeit the worst selling of the Nexus line. I'm not sure why the 10 hasn't sold well, but the Nexus 7 has sold very, very well in comparison. It might be that the Galaxy 10.1 is beating out the Nexus 10 in the market or some other reason, but comparing the worst selling Nexus tablet to the best selling Surface tablet is stretching the numbers to say the least. I would also dispute your point that the Nexus brand is for developers and geeks – what is your source for this piece of information? The undisputed facts are that the Android platform is outperforming the Windows 8 platform on mobile devices by a factor in excess of 10 to 1. Microsoft continues to bungle around making mistakes due to lack of leadership and vision – contorting the facts to create an illusion of success isn't helping them to improve their offerings or to reach a broader market. Unfortunately for Microsoft, it may now be too late for them in the mobile and tablet form factors.
The question isn't whether or not Android is outselling Windows 8 tablets. That's not up for debate, it's clear that Android is in fact leading W8 by a huge margin. The question is about specific devices, close to each other in form factor (since people seem to associate tablet size more than internals or other features).
This piece doesn't compare every W8 device to every Android tablet device, which would be in line with what you're arguing. It's comparing the flagship tablet products of both companies to see how their sales stack up.
There's nothing in the Surface line-up presently to compare to the Nexus 7 accurately. Rumor is they're working on something, but until that point you can't really say 'Wait, don't compare it to the device closest to the Surface. Compare it to the smaller, cheaper version that's selling better.'
Moreover, there's no reason to get worked up about it in the first place. The only claim here is that two Surface tablets combined sell more than a single Android tablet. Even Microsoft won't be claiming this as a victory, as Microsoft won't really be satisfied with, as the article calls it, 'a healthy income stream.' They are going from world domination to barely beating one of the least marketed devices from a company with a history of questionable tech product releases?
I don't understand the apologetic tone when it comes to reporting something Microsoft beats Google at. I have to ask myself does this have anything to do with Google or Google News search results? Microsoft beats Google in a lot of areas, of course you wouldn't know that reading most publications but the fact is Microsoft has remained a highly successful company for over 38 years. No other tech company can make that sort of claim. I think the average consumer understands technology enough to get the fact that a Surface Pro tablet provides a much more robust package than a Nexus 7 or 10, which I own btw, and warrants the additional $600 (above 7) that it costs to purchase one. I like the Nexus 7 for looking around online, but I could never get any serious work done with it. I just think it's funny how the media collectively tried to convince consumers that the $899 (starting) price for Surface Pro was too much for a tablet. But the consumers have proven two things, they want a tablet to get real work done on and don't mind spending whatever money it takes to get it done, which they can't with Android devices, and that they don't pay attention to what the media tries to brainwash them with. This isn't saying Surface Pro or RT are overwhelming successes, but Google has had almost 5 years to get tablets right, we need to start calling Android on tablets for what it really is, a failure, and not have any qualms about it. Microsoft did it's homework and got tablets right from step 1, despite any minor setbacks you might address, I don't call a 6 hour battery life a mistake, but a step in the right direction for x86.
Slow and steady, Microsoft is winning!!!
I got a surface RT against all the advice from the tech media. Word and excel was its selling point. Initially there weren't many apps but now there are plenty. I use RT for more than 10 hours a day on a single charge. I use RDP to connect to other computers and I love the experience. I have android tablets and I now rarely use them. I use RT for both pleasure and work. This is a great device misunderstood by the tech media. And Microsoft deserves the blame too for not educating consumers about this device. I am very happy I got this device. I don't like the touch keyboard. I like the type keyboard. I guess I am old now. :)
There is little or no lag on the surface RT. I cant say the same about my kindle.
The device is improving every time Microsoft pushes an update. I never got updates either on my android phone nor my android tablet. Why is it so?
There are some things I don't like about RT. For some settings I have to go to the desktop control panel. I like the metro experience. I heard Microsoft is addressing these issues in Windows blue. I hope it is true.
I like the global search feature in RT. RT is fast, fluid and modern.
Please tell me if I am wrong about my experience with RT.
PS: can someone tell me how to get updates on my kindle and my lg optimus phone?
"The question is does this matter?"
Looking at some numbers and assumptions, Microsoft makes about $300 profit on each Surface sold. It's profit margin is even higher than the iPad.
Google makes no profit from the sale of Nexus 10. Google intends to make money from the Play store and ads.
Now, how much content and ads will Google need to sell to each individual to make $300 profit per Nexus 10 device. Secondly, add the fact that Microsoft makes more money from the Android than Google themselves, thanks to patent licensing deals with the majority of Android OEMs.
For Microsoft, Surface is a direct revenue stream. For Google, Nexus 10 is only to sell content. Even on this, Amazon's tablets make more money for Amazon than Nexus 10 can for Google.
I have a Surface RT and it's the best tablet on the market, I had an iPad and an Android tablet, iPad is just a big phone that is utterly useless without apps, Android felt like it was an experiment but it was better than the iPad. The Surface RT is useable right out the gate the first time you boot it up, you can browse to media websites and start watching videos, apps are not needed to consume data, plug a USB in with movies or TV shows and away you go. As far as pricing, all tablets are over priced, but at least with Surface RT you get your money worth.


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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Chic Rustique:Part Deux
10 comments:
- Dumbwit Tellher ♥ said...
This furniture is terrific, especially love the bed. Thanks for the intro!
- August 13, 2009 at 1:46 PM
- avant garde said...
ooh, great find. i just saved his site to my favorites list. very nautically inspired especially for clients in my area (cape cod). so unusual too, very earthy and simply stunning all at the same time. thanks for the inspiration!
- August 13, 2009 at 4:19 PM
- Averill said...
What an interesting alternative to wicker!
- August 13, 2009 at 7:27 PM
- Paula Grace Halewski said...
Wow! Thanks for the information. I just may use the bed ~ I really love it.
- August 13, 2009 at 8:07 PM
- maison21 said...
cool tip- thanks, chic!
- August 14, 2009 at 5:21 AM
- Off the List said...
On the subject of the Grange book (sorry off the rope topic) I think the most intriguing image is that on the front cover - the tiger!
I've got the most appalling memory (except for pieces of furniture) but I'm sure I must have read through to see what the large feline was doing sitting in the bedroom with two double beds - perhaps one is for it - but cannot recall discovering anything. Any one able to shed some light?
- August 14, 2009 at 6:33 AM
- the NEO-traditionalist said...
What a great source to have for my next vacation home project. I love, love, love the Michael Smith image. This furniture is such handsome, organic, masculine loveliness. Thanks for sharing it with us all!
XX Kate "the NEO-trad"
- August 14, 2009 at 7:47 AM
- Chukker said...
Dear HC, you are always entertaining and extremely up to date with the very best! My day is not complete if I don't stop by here and see what are you doing!
You inspired me to start my own blog, so thank you very much!
- August 14, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- 17thandriggs said...
Love this look - comfortable and soft yet clean and sophisticated. Guessing that these gorgeous rope pieces will be outside of many people's budget (including mine) and think some quality blonde wicker furniture would be a viable alternative - albeit not the level of luxury - still a pretty option.
- August 14, 2009 at 4:48 PM
- Bochenko Artdeco said...
beautiful!!! makes me wanna HAVE it!!!
so beautiful, thank you for sharing this one with us! what a shame they don't have any shop in Europe!
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STEVENS POINT (WAOW) - The WIAA selects Wade Labecki as its Deputy Director. He replaces Dave Anderson who was promoted to executive director effective August 1st.
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STEVENS POINT, Wis. - The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control approved the recommendation of Dave Anderson to name Wade Labecki as the next Deputy Director of the Association at today's meeting.
Labecki, 45, will fill the deputy director vacancy beginning July 1, 2009, created by the promotion of Anderson to executive director effective Aug. 1.
"I'm very excited for the opportunity to work in high school athletics in Wisconsin at the highest level," Labecki said. "I plan to do my very best to serve the membership."
Labecki has served as assistant administrator and transportation director at Baldwin-Woodville High School since 2006 and as athletic director since 2000. Responsibilities of these positions included budgeting, purchasing, scheduling, supervising coaches and staff, programming, coordinating school transportation and participating in discipline and truancy issues.
Prior to his most recent positions at Baldwin-Woodville, Labecki taught accounting, business law, general business and Internet classes from 1987-2006. In addition, he served as head football coach from 1988-2004 after one season as defensive coordinator of the 1987 State championship team. He led the Blackhawks to a State Championship in 1992, a State runner-up finish in 1994, five conference titles and a 108-63 record.
He coached the Blackhawk baseball team to a 122-55-1 record from 1990-97, which included two conference championships and a State Tournament appearance in 1991.
Labecki was elected to the WIAA Advisory Council last October. Other related experiences include memberships in the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association, Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association, Wisconsin Football Coaches Association and the Wisconsin High School Forensics Coaches Association.
"We were pleased with the quality of candidates that expressed an interest in the deputy director position; it was a robust process involving the staff," Anderson said. "We are very excited about the skills and experience Wade will bring to our staff and the membership. The ranks of the athletic directors in this state have served this membership well in the past, and we look for that to continue."
Labecki has received a number of professional honors and awards during his career. Among them was his induction into the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2008 and his selection to coach in the 2000 Shrine Football All-Star game.
He is a 1987 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with a Bachelor of Science degree in Comprehensive Business Education. He received a Masters of Education in Administration degree from St. Mary's University (Minn.) in 2001 and is currently working on an Educational Specialist and Doctorate of Education degree at Argosy University (Minn.).
A 1982 graduate of Thomas More High School, he served as vice-president of the student body and starred on the football team that won the Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletic Association State championship in 1981. He also lettered in wrestling and track and field during his high school career and was a member of the National Honor Society.
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Google-Boy Kautilya Pandit To Take Part In KBC 14 October
5-year old 'Google-boy','wonder-boy' Kautilya from Haryana is all set to occupy the hot-seat opposite Amitabh Bachchan.
at a time when thousands of people fail to get phone calls from popular TV game show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) after spending hours on their phones.
Kautilya Pandit has been in news in recent times, for his incredible capability of answering every question within fraction of seconds. The 5-year old 'google boy' is busy with his preparations to leave for Mumbai and is pretty excited over meeting Amitabh Bachchan.
Taking a note of his talent, several TV channels have already broadcast him live, where he has been seen replying promptly to questions put forwarded by audience.
Kautiya Pandit, a resident of Karnal district in Haryana possesses a knowledge about geographical boundaries, outlines and other information related to the subject. He can answer all questions associated with planets and solar system in a few seconds.
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DOVER, Del.- Law enforcement agencies across Delaware will be deploying roving DUI patrols in an effort to get impaired drivers off the road on Super Bowl Sunday, according to the state Office of Highway Safety.
The OHS said that on the day of the big game, a DUI checkpoint will be held in Wilmington while Delaware State Police and other local law enforcement agencies will be conducting more than 20 scheduled overtime DUI saturation patrols statewide.
Officials noted that last year during NFL playoffs and Super Bowl Sunday, police across the First State conducted 60 DUI saturation patrols and three checkpoints that yielded seven DUI arrests, 13 drug arrests, nine wanted persons apprehended, 214 speeding citations, 17 cellphone citations, 28 seat belt citations, and 250 other traffic and criminal arrests..
Those convicted of a first-time DUI offense in Delaware can expect to lose their driver's license for up to one year, attend an 8-week DUI treatment class and pay more than $6,090 in court, treatment, DMV, and lawyer's fees. Subsequent DUI convictions include mandatory jail time and higher fines.
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- May 25, 1787. The Constitutional Convention opens at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, with a seven-state quorum to discuss revising the Articles of Confederation.
- All 13 original states with the exception of Rhode Island were represented.
- It took 100 days to frame the Constitution; it was signed on September 17, 1787.
- At 81, Benjamin Franklin was the oldest and at 26, Jonathan Dayton, the youngest to sign the Constitution.
- George Washington and James Madison were the only presidents to sign the Constitution.
- All 12 state delegations approved the Constitution, 39 delegates signed it of the 42 present, and the Convention formally adjourned.
- The Constitution contains 4,543 words, including the signatures, and has four sheets, 28-3/4" x 23-5/8". It contains 7,591 words, including the 27 amendments.
- The word "democracy" never appears in the Constitution.
- Delaware ratified the Constitution first on December 7, 1787 and Rhode Island last on May 29, 1790.
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Constitution Day is an American federal observance that recognizes the ratification of the United States Constitution. It is observed on September 17, the day the members of the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787.
Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia passed a law designating September 17th as Constitution Day. Schools and federal agencies are required to hold educational programs about the Constitution on Constitution Day. Public Law 108-477 contained in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005 states that "each educational institution that receives Federal funds for a fiscal year shall hold an educational program on the United States Constitution on September 17 of such year for the students served by the educational institution."
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"The Framers gave us a document durable and flexible enough to take us from the agrarian land of the 18th century, of the musket, the axe and the plow-to the country we know today, of the Internet and the human genome and a thousand different cultures living together in one nation like a glittering mosaic."
—Michael Beschloss at the ceremony to unveil page two of the Constitution in its new encasement, September 15, 2000, in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.


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Despite virtualization's steady march into storage systems, most vendors and users think that some control is still needed to fully optimize database access. Oracle's Hoke says, "One of the big bad things that can happen with virtualization is that you can have two tables related in your business application, with a high level of traffic in certain rows of those tables."
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According to Hoke, a good database administrator will try to spread those tables across multiple devices, so he doesn't create hotspots, and also for availability. However, with virtualization, those two tables may be inadvertently placed on the same disk, because virtualization masks physical locations. "Virtualization is great for provisioning storage because it's easy to move data and add disks. But with a database, because of performance issues, there are potential drawbacks," Hoke says.
CreekPath's Booth agrees: "File placement is still absolutely important with a SAN, although disks have gotten faster. It still comes down to laying down data on a spinning disk, and not putting redo logs and indexes on the same physical drives. That's why it's important for tools to see all the way down to the spindle level, so that when they're laying down data it's not stepping on its own toes."
Marty Ward, director of product marketing at Veritas concurs, although he doesn't think administrators need to be directly concerned with where data is, "DBAs don't need to be considered about which spindle disk data lies on. We take care of that for them. Our logical volumes allow them to move data around on-the- fly to adjust hotspots, even while running." Other vendors are also announcing tools in this area.
Durnford sees things the same way. "Using JBOD, you're much more sensitive to placements [hotspots]. However, using storage arrays, we use their technology to move storage around while running to eliminate hotspots, so that the server doesn't really need to know the physical storage location," he says. Durnford uses built-in tools on his Hitachi, IBM, and EMC arrays to deal with hotspots on his volumes.
SAN issues
"In the old days of NFS [network file systems], due to lack of availability capabilities for Oracle, our customers saw storage corruption," says Oracle's Hoke. Because of those issues, Oracle's validation program for network-attached storage arose out of concern about the nature of NFS," he says.
In a SAN, storage just looks like a SCSI disk-reducing a number of the headaches that came with putting databases on network-attached storage, since the interface is identical to that of SCSI. Unlike NAS - with storage networks Oracle has left it to their storage partners to qualify HBAs - switches and front-end storage FC adapters. Hoke says that with a SAN, "We have not identified anything needing validation."
However, it still takes some work to get SANs performing right for databases. DBA Eisenschmidt - despite running a SAN for his applications and file systems -is skeptical of using SANs for his database storage. "Our SAN, like many I've seen, is optimized for storage capacity and file serving. While Oracle uses Xiotech's Magnitude in their test labs, I was pretty unhappy with the transaction performance we were able to get out of it."
CreekPath's Booth says, "The biggest issue with databases on a SAN is maintaining consistent throughput and access on a database while running other application sharing the same SAN."
Caribou Lake's Leo agrees, saying, "SANs often save an enterprise money by sharing I/O capacity across departments. But sharing I/O resources between the user files of one department and the DBMS storage for another is awful. The database management system's I/O characteristics are completely different than the user data files, and cache coherency becomes an issue."
Royal Bank of Canada's Durnford has opted for separate storage networks to solve some of these problems. He says, "For tape, we're looking at a separate tape SAN. The issue there is database traffic is very time-sensitive, where tape traffic is very backup-oriented. Though you might think it's time shifted, we've found there's overlap."
The other issue most DBAs mention is the complexity of managing storage networks, which are typically managed by separate storage infrastructure staff. "A lot of progress has been made in the last couple years, but most system administrators want SANs that are easier to administrate. I want a more reliable SAN whose caching I'm not afraid to turn on," Eisenshmidt says.
Leo says that when you put a database and storage together, "You realize that your SAN management team must work closely with the DBMS team. We have seen situations where SAN managers have decided to change the SAN configuration because it seems wasteful or odd, not realizing how carefully tuned the setup was."
CreekPath's Booth also agrees, saying that while careful tuning of how storage is configured can eliminate sharing issues, "Both DBAs and storage administrators need to be on the same page."
Despite the issues, some users have had great success running SANs with their databases. John Brooks, vice president of storage engineering at Cleveland, OH-based National City Bank, runs an 18TB SAN, which is based on Brocade switches with IBM and Hitachi arrays. "We have no issues with running on a SAN. Not even performance issues. It just seems to run," he says. Asked if he does anything special for databases, he says "For SQL and Oracle databases, we throw it on the SAN." Brooks attributes the lack of issues to the relationship he has with his storage vendors. He says, "We do a lot of research, primarily in the interoperability area that might account for the lack of issues. We work very closely with our storage vendors to ensure certification and supportability of the environment, in case issues do arise."
Tools and techniques
Because SANs' new role as the primary storage for databases, there's now a need for improved tools and software to manage the combination of database applications and storage. "It would be nice if vendors could provide some sort of management tool to track why a SAN partition was configured in a certain way, thus preventing the loss of historically significant details when SAN management changes hands," says DBA Leo.
"If I could have anything from a SAN to make it better for a database, I'd ask the vendors to write better drivers. Most of the drivers I've seen and worked with just tell the OS the drive is gone when the SAN disconnects, instead of perhaps telling it to wait or trying to free the process," Eisenshmidt says.
Some vendors seem to be listening and are increasingly focusing their efforts on getting their database to run better on SANs, and their storage and infrastructure to better support databases. Take, for example, Oracle's Hardware-Assisted Resilient Data (HARD) initiative (see "Oracle's storage push"). Oracle's Hoke explains, "We're working with hardware partners to verify that when Oracle data is transferred to a disk it can be read. This sounds simple, but with storage management and storage virtualization in storage networks, there are lots of cooks in the broth."
Part of Oracle's HARD initiative, EMC's Oracle Double Checksum tool offers the ability to verify Oracle data as it is written to arrays in microcode, ensuring that corrupted data is never written to disk. Competitor Hitachi Data Systems has also announced support for the initiative, with a microcode-based verification of Oracle data in their Lightning 9900V product.
EMC also offers its Symmetrix Optimizer, which makes recommendations to administrators on where to rebalance data-a must for administrators looking for hot spindles. EMC has a close partnership with Oracle, including a dedicated engineering team at Oracle Redwood Shores. Chuck Hollis, EMC's vice president of products and markets says, "We have 12 to 15 engineers inside Oracle, some dedicated to interoperability, and the rest to feature exploitation such as our Double Checksum product and integration between Oracle and our replication products."
Veritas also offers a host of products designed to work with databases and SANs. The company's Database Edition products for Oracle9i, IBM DB2, and Microsoft Exchange, including mirroring, backup, replication and clustering features designed for those databases. According to Veritas' Ward, an upcoming release of the company's storage resource management product, "will map data all the way from a database environment in Oracle or Exchange, through files, all the way down to disks to show you which spindles and extents the data is written to."
BMC offers its PATROL for Storage Management product. BMC's Rogers says, "When you're working with Oracle or Sybase or Microsoft SQL server and even Exchange, we can expose that from a database perspective. For example; we can expose an Oracle instance that is on a Solaris box and attached to a SAN, and see where it is spread about. We can expose that through a topology manager-all of the connections, single points of failure, and the way the database is laid out on disk."
Despite complexities of managing databases running on storage networks, the benefits are clear. For large databases, there's really no better option that a SAN because of the level of performance, consistency, redundancy, and scalability that a storage network provides. Storage and database administrators alike are finding that the only way to support their mission critical applications is to deploy their databases on a storage network. With so much at stake, storage and database vendors will continue to work more in tandem to make their products work better together (see "Vendor independence: Are the trade-offs worth it?").
This was first published in November 2002


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Time for a new feature that hopefully can last the next 10 days or so – namely taking a daily glance at what games matter to those tenuous tournament teams that can use a little help.
You know, like Maryland.
Just so everyone's on the same page, this is going to entail a very broad definition of "the bubble" – namely any team that has a chance to play its way in or out of the field without a conference tournament title. Hence, all those Sun Belt quarterfinals on Wednesday night? Not listed here.
Based on that loose criteria, here's nine games that warrant some attention in the next 24 hours:
* North Carolina at Virginia Tech, 7: The Hokies could really use a victory, but a loss does plenty of good for Maryland. Not only would Tech be weakened, it would also make it highly probable the Terps could earn the No. 7 seed in the ACC tournament with a victory at Virginia.
* Boston College at N.C. State, 7: The Eagles are a near-certain tournament team, and finish with N.C. State and Georgia Tech. Win one, and pretty much all speculation ends for Al Skinner's team.
* Miami at Georgia Tech, 7:30: The Hurricanes' soft-landing continues with a trip to Atlanta. It's a don't-screw-up-at-any-cost night for Miami, which doesn't need the black eye of losing to a team that's 1-13 in the ACC on its recent resume.
* Georgia at Kentucky, 8: The Wildcats have a pseudo-knockout game this weekend against Florida. Pencil them out, though, if Georgia somehow comes into Rupp and escapes with a win.
* Florida at Mississippi State, 8: It's really a perfect trap game for the Gators, whose resume doesn't match up to their record. The Bulldogs, though, are struggling, having lost five of six entering their last game of the season at the Hump.
* Wisconsin at Minnesota, 8:30: The Golden Gophers have dropped five of seven, and their only Big Ten road victories have come at Indiana, Iowa and (oddly enough) Wisconsin. Back at Williams Arena for their last two games, Minnesota would be wise to snag a couple victories to silence any concerns. Wisconsin looks reasonably safe as an at-large team, but an extra road win wouldn't hurt. Minnesota's more vulnerable, so if you're rooting for Maryland, you're also rooting for Bucky Badger.
* Texas A&M at Colorado, 9: Texas A&M would probably be in if the tournament began today. If the Aggies lose in Boulder, that certainty goes out the window. The Buffaloes are that bad. A&M shouldn't have too many problems.
* Colorado State at San Diego State, 10: The Aztecs have no egregious losses, which keeps them in the at-large discussion despite a thin resume. Losing at home to 10-19 Colorado State is a no-no.
* Air Force at UNLV, 10: Air Force is 0-for-2009, and the Falcons scored only 38 points in their first game against UNLV. The Runnin' Rebels have some nice wins, but are bubble-bound because of some shaky losses. As of now, they'd probably be in, but losing to a horrible Air Force team might constitute an unforgivable sin in the eyes of the committee.


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Onyx Pharmaceuticals submitted its new drug application for its multiple myeloma drug, carfilzomib, to the FDA today, and asked for expedited regulatory review. If approved, this would be Onyx's second cancer drug following in the footsteps of Nexavar (sorafenib) for kidney and lung cancers.
The new drug was acquired from Proteolix and will compete with Millenium's (Takeda) own myeloma drug of the same proteosome inhibitor class. The NDA was based on data from a Phase IIb trial and two Phase III trials remain in progress. About 25% of patients in the phase IIb trial responded to the treatment with tumors shrinking by at least half. This may be good enough for this condition.
Said Ted W. Love, R&D chief at Onyx, "While important strides have been made in treating patients with multiple myeloma in the last decade, this disease remains uniformly fatal, underscoring the need for new treatment options." See Fierce Biotech and Xconomy.
Posted by Bruce Lehr Sep 28th 2011.


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Muhammad Ali Jinnah entered politics in 1906 when Naoroji presided over the annual session of the Congress and Jinnah was his Secretary. Some weeks earlier a deputation of Muslim leaders had pleaded with the Viceroy, Lord Minto, that the Muslims had special interests and to ensure that these interests were properly looked after they should have separate electorates. Jinnah had kept aloof from this deputation: he was perhaps the only well-known Muslim then who was opposed to the Muslim demand for consideration by the British Government as "a nation within a nation". The demand was, however, accepted by the viceroy and later incorporated in the Morley-Minto Reforms of 1909. It is an indication of his Legislative Council from a constituency reserved for the Muslims of Bombay under the new Reforms.
Jinnah attended the annual session of the Muslim League in 1912 for the first time without being a member of the League. In the following year, he went to England where Maulana Mohammad Ali and Syed Wazir Hasan asked him to join the League. He agreed but on the understanding that "loyalty to the Muslim League and the Muslim interest would in no way at no time imply even the shadow of disloyalty to the larger national cause, to which his life was dedicated".
More than anything else at that time, Jinnah tried to bring the Hindus and the Muslims close to each other. For this purpose, he thought, it was essential for the Muslims to have constitutional safeguards. It was largely through his efforts that, in 1915, both the Congress and the Muslim League held their annual sessions simultaneously in Bombay. Amongst those who attended this session of the League were Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Annie Besant and Sarojini Naidu. In 1916 Jinnah was elected President of the Muslim League. In that year in Lucknow, both Congress and Muslim League, agreed on a scheme of constitutional reforms for India, which is generally known as the Lucknow Pact.
In 1920, Congress, under the influence of Gandhi. decided upon a program of non--cooperation with the government and boycott of foreign goods. Jinnah, who abhorred unconstitutional means, disassociated with the Congress on this issue. In 1924 Hindu leaders started denouncing separate electorates. In the years that followed. Hindu-Muslim relations became increasingly strained.
For about three decades since his entry into politics in 1906, Jinnah passionately believed in and assiduously worked for Hindu-Muslim unity. Gokhale, the foremost Hindu leader before Gandhi, had once said of him, "He has the true stuff in him and that freedom from all sectarian prejudice which will make him the best ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity: And, to be sure, he did become the architect of Hindu-Muslim Unity: he was responsible for the Congress-League Pact of 1916, known popularly as Lucknow Pact- the only pact ever signed between the two political organisations, the Congress and the All-India Muslim League, representing, as they did, the two major communities in the subcontinent."
The Congress-League scheme
embodied in this pact was to become the basis for the Montagu-Chemlsford
Reforms, also known as the Act of 1919. In retrospect, the Lucknow
Pact represented a milestone in the evolution of Indian politics. For
one thing, it conceded Muslims the right to separate electorate, reservation
of seats in the legislatures and weightage in representation both at the
Centre and the minority provinces. Thus, their retention was ensured in
the next phase of reforms. For another, it represented a tacit recognition
of the All-India Muslim League as the representative organisation of the
Muslims, thus strengthening the trend towards Muslim individuality in
Indian politics. And to Jinnah goes the credit for all this. Thus, by
1917, Jinnah came to be recognised among both Hindus and Muslims
as one of India's most outstanding political leaders. Not only was he
prominent in the Congress and the Imperial Legislative Council, he was
also the President of the All-India Muslim and that of lthe Bombay Branch
of the Home Rule League. More important, because of his key-role in the
Congress-League entente at Lucknow, he was hailed as the ambassador, as
well as the embodiment, of Hindu-Muslim unity.
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COLUMBIA — When Brett Parker was asked if he shot and killed his wife, Tammy Jo Parker, he had a decisive answer.
"No," Brett Parker said. "That's crazy."
At other times, he said, "That's ridiculous."
Parker, who has been in jail since his arrest on July 20, testified in his own defense Friday. He spent more than three hours on the witness stand, defending himself against two murder charges in the deaths of his wife and his sports betting clerk, Bryan Capnerhurst. He was calm and collected as his defense attorney, David Fedor, led him through the events of April 13, 2012, at his home at 12 Tackeria Court.
But Parker became defiant when questioned by 5th Circuit Assistant Solicitor Luck Campbell, who grilled him about his religious views, his teenage daughter's attendance at the trial and his troubled marriage before attacking his account of the shootings.
Throughout his testimony, Parker said he could not remember every detail of the shootings, often saying, "I was out of my mind."
Prosecutors and Richland County Sheriff's investigators have said Parker killed his wife and then shot Capnerhurst, framing Capnerhurst by placing a 9mm in his left hand. Parker, an admitted sports bookie and a gambler himself, wanted to escape mounting debt and a troubled marriage, they said.
But, as he has from the beginning, Parker said Capnerhurst killed his wife in an attempted robbery and that his killing of Capnerhurst with a separate gun was in self defense.
Parker's was not the only testimony of the day but was the most anticipated, which was evident by the packed courtroom. Earlier testimony came from a private firearms expert and forensic scientist, who refuted gunshot residue evidence presented earlier by the prosecution.
Richard Ernest of Alliance Laboratories in Fort Worth, Texas, said the residue on Capnerhurst's hands could have come from firing a 9mm and that Brett Parker did not have enough residue on his hands to have fired a 9mm and a .410 revolver multiple times each. He also said trace elements of residue found on a set of window blinds on the home's first floor could have been blown there through the air conditioning system.
Parker, 43, opened his testimony with a short biography of his life, saying he graduated from Chapin High School, had lived in the Midlands all his life and had two children, Brooke, 14, and Zack, 6, with his wife, Tammy Parker.
He also quickly admitted, "As everybody knows, I was a bookie," explaining that he took wagers on football, basketball and baseball.
He also answered questions about his gambling debt. He confessed that he was a gambling addict and that he was making payments on the $176,000 he owed another local bookie.
On the day of the shootings, Parker said he was expecting Capnerhurst to come collect a payment for working the previous betting season. Parker said he was prepared to pay Capnerhurst $5,000. He had $4,500 in his pocket but told the jury there was more money in other safes throughout the house.
Parker said he was using the downstairs bathroom when Capnerhurst came to the house, and that Parker instructed him to go to an office on the second floor. He next heard gunshots and ran out of the bathroom to find Capnerhurst waiting at the top of the stairs with a gun pointed in his direction.
"I didn't know what was going on," Parker said. "I was panicked. I said, 'What are you doing?'"
Capnerhurst ordered Parker to a safe in the attic, pointing the gun at him as they walked.
"As we walked by the office, I could see Tammy's feet sticking out of the bathroom," Parker said.
But on the walk to the attic, Parker said he made a decision.
"I'm walking with a gun at my back, but when I was walking to the safe I made the decision that it was me or him," he said.
Parker said he had a loaded .410 Taurus revolver called "The Judge" hidden under a blanket on top of the safe.
"I grabbed it and immediately turned, and I kept pulling the trigger," he said.
After shooting Capnerhurst, Parker said he jumped over his clerk's body and ran to check on his wife.
"It was the most horrific thing I had ever seen," he said as he started to cry.
From there, Parker said he checked on Capnerhurst and then called 911.
When his defense attorney asked about his first interview with investigators on the day of the shootings, Parker replied, "I'd just seen my wife murdered. I can't think of everything going on. Everything is a blur for weeks after that. Everything."
Parker made a couple of other references to having "seen my wife murdered," which Campbell brought up in her lengthy cross examination. Campbell asked why he kept saying he had seen his wife murdered when his story indicated he was in the bathroom when those shots were fired.
"You twist. That's what you do. You twist," Parker said. "You twist more stuff than anybody I've ever seen."
Campbell picked up her questioning where Fedor had left off – with Brett Parker's religious views.
Parker had professed his faith in God, but Campbell suggested one of the issues in his troubled marriage was his disbelief in God. He said his wife had complained because he didn't go to church in the fall because he had to take bets on NFL games.
Next, Campbell asked Parker why his 14-year-old daughter had been taken out of school to attend a trial in which she had listened to graphic descriptions of her mother's gunshot wounds and testimony about both parents' love affairs.
Parker said it was his daughter's idea, and he appreciated her support.
"So you think it's a good idea to bring Brooke in here to listen to all of this?" Campbell asked.
Parker also lashed out at prosecutors and investigators for taking his children to an interview with child psychologists and cops. He said he was led to believe the children were getting counseling but instead were interrogated.
"For y'all to do that to her a few days after the funeral? That is sick," he said, referring to Brooke.
The trial will resume at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with closing arguments from both sides.


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Smuttynose Durty Mud Season Hoppy Brown Ale - Smuttynose Brewing Company
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Ratings: 547 | Reviews: 95 | Display Reviews Only:
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4/5 rDev +1.3%
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07-03-2014 00:06:36 | More by carlandc2
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
I had scored this over at The Fridge at he beginning of Mud Season here in Lancaster County, PA and set it aside, awaiting the right moment. I just finished reviewing a bottle of Brooklyn Brown Ale, so this must be the right time. No time like the present, right? The label seems to indicate that in New Hampshire, Mud Season involves vintage muscle cars, but for us, it is the Amish and Mennonites going to Mud Sales (auctions). Come for a visit!
My pour quickly resulted in just under two fingers of dense, light-brown head with decent retention. Nice, sticky lacing appeared fairly quickly as it fell. Color was a deep-brown with cola highlights (SRM = > 22, < 27) and NE-quality clarity. Nose had a prevalent malt sweetness, despite the label calling it a "hoppy brown ale". I got notes of milk chocolate, light smoke, and some mild grassiness. Mouthfeel was rather full and creamy. The taste was much more bitter than the nose had led me to expect. It had an over-kilned roastiness to it that seemed to bring its bitterness to the forefront. I do not know how I feel about this as I like my coffee hot, black and bitter, like some of my women. In my beer, though, I feel like there is such a thing as too much bitterness and this was pressing that limit. Finish continued to have an unbalanced, burnt, bitterness that was just more than I could get behind. Frankly, it reminded me a LOT of Black/Cascadian IPA and I do not like them for the same, burnt, smoky reason. Hmm. What shall I review next? ...
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look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Poured aggressively into a 4 oz sample pilsner shaped glass. Rewarded with 6 seconds of cascading followed by a nice finger of light tan head. Not much of a nose on this one. Tasted of a nice round brown with chocolate and malt, followed by an immediate and intervening bitterness that drove away the roundness without adding much in the way of hop flavor. The alcohol taste wasn't really noticeable to me. Left on the tongue was an interesting sensation of being in two places at the same time.
When I reach the the bottom of the bottle, the word is chunky. Lots of goodies floating around in there, but it didn't change the flavor as far as I could tell.
Not a session beer. I give it a 3.75 on taste, not because it fit the style so much, but because it is interesting, and I appreciate that. This one is good to enjoy just one of, then switch to something different, perhaps friendlier. This case will last a while, but at over 8% and with the hop flavor such as it is, that'll probably be okay.
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look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Dark brown with a new motor oil colored brown gold highlights. Beige head.
Smells woody and nutty. Not a lot of hops in the nose, some leafy orange if I look for it. Smells like a fine brown though.
Nutty chocolate up front. Huge, lasting menthol then woody bitter in back which I don't like. Orange IPA hops in the middle. This is a mess, if Smuttynose intended to make a muddy beer than they succeeded. I usually love everything Smuttynose. Perhaps this is the start of Not Mott?
More like an Arrogant Bastard type ASA than a typical American brown or even a brown IPA. Not what I had in mind when I was shopping for a sessionable sunny Saturday grilling' & chillin' beer. Wish they had put the abc on the packaging somewhere (I don't see it on either the bottles or packaging, sorry if I missed it). I ended up dumping these in the communal cooler for more sturdier drinkers than myself.
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Smuttynose Durty Mud Season Hoppy Brown Ale from Smuttynose Brewing Company
89 out of 100 based on 547 ratings.