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There's something about the Cool Projects issue that always makes me think of science fiction. In my youth, I used to tape electric motors to popsicle sticks to form makeshift propellers on fanciful airplanes. Of course, I also used to make shocking devices from the ignition coils of old abandoned cars, so it's not as if I were terribly innocent in my tomfoolery. This month, although we don't have any stun guns to fend off bully attacks, we do have some extremely fun and interesting projects bound to inspire those creative juices of youth.
Anton Borisov starts off the issue with an interview with Alberto Broggi. Alberto is designing a car that will drive from Italy to China. That may sound insignificant, but it's important to realize I'm being literal. The car itself will be driving from Italy to China. The best my car does on its own is veer left of center if I start to fall asleep. Alberto is hoping to create computer systems to stop needless accidents by putting tireless computers behind the wheel. One part terrifying and one part awesome, it's a project I'm excited to read about.
If the thought of computer-controlled vehicles stresses you out, you might want to speak with Kyle Rankin. This month, he shows off his Linux-powered refrigerator, which he happens to use to brew beer. I've never had Kyle's beer, but knowing Kyle, the recipe is probably open sourced. He most likely would give us all the gruesome details if we asked.
Although Kyle may be using Linux to take over his fridge, the mad scientist in me thinks he might be setting his scope too small. Perhaps taking over the world with killer robots is more your line of thinking. If so, read Bob Smith's article on controlling robotic peripherals with Linux. It seems clear to me that criminal masterminds would want to use Linux for their killer robot army, and with Bob's article, your world takeover will be a bit easier.
Perhaps world domination and computer-driven cars are little more than you're up for this month. That's fine, we need to save something for next year's Cool Projects issue. Check out Mark Teel's article on wview, a Linux-based program for communicating with weather station devices. Although wview won't necessarily enable you to control the weather, it might help a bit with predicting it. Maybe if the local weatherman used Linux, he'd be correct about the weather here in Michigan more often.
Do you like tinkering with Arduino boards? If so, Rob Reilly's article on kst might tickle your fancy. Rob shows how to make data plots with kst and a Linux machine. Or, perhaps you want to roll your own firmware. If you have a compatible router (there are quite a few), you can turn your off-the-shelf router into a full-fledged server with OpenWrt. Mike Petullo shows how.
Finally, we have OSWALD. Don't confuse the cute name for WALL-E; rather, the OSWALD unit is an open computing device developed at Oregon State University. It was designed to get computer science students excited about developing. With its unique open nature, students are able to bend OSWALD to their whims and come up with creative new programming in an era when students often feel all the cool innovations already have been invented. Hopefully, OSWALD will change that.
If all this talk of gadgets, robots and death rays isn't really your cup of tea, that's okay. We have our full lineup of columns focusing on the things that keep us excited about Linux month after month. Reuven M. Lerner continues telling us about using CouchDB. Mick Bauer discusses transparent firewalls. Dave Taylor shows how to use signals in shell scripts. Dirk Elmendorf has a few pages on smaller projects you'll want to check out. And, of course, Bill and Kyle are at it again. Whether you prefer rotating magnetic media or the newer solid-state devices, it's always fun to see them battle out their opinions in the Point/Counterpoint column.
As always, we have new product announcements, tech tips, and all the other things you look forward to in Linux Journal. In my part of the world, summertime is well underway now, so perhaps I'll avoid that hot sun by building a few projects at home. Hopefully, unlike in my youth, I won't do dumb things like fill my basement with chlorine gas. But, that's a story for another issue.
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With the academic calendar's first major winter storm under its belt, and one week after the first weather-related school cancellation for many Fairfield and Westchester County districts, the attention of many parents is understandably turning to local rules and plans surrounding snow days.
Though state law in both Connecticut and New York requires at least 180 school days, individual districts—including those experiencing identical weather—often have vastly different ways of accommodating cancellations within the academic calendar.
Scroll down for a district-by-district snapshot of snow-day planning for several Fairfield and Westchester towns.
While some towns keep it very simple—tack snow days onto the end of the year, for example—others build more than 180 days into their calendars to absorb anticipated snow days, and still others draw a line in late June that forces further school cancellations days to be made up in either February or April break. There are some towns with sophisticated systems where make-up days are scheduled in waves, depending on when the snow day itself occurs.
Because decisions about snow days in a particularly bad year (think Snowtober or Hurricane Sandy) can alter highly anticipated and sometimes elaborate vacation plans, a district's approach can have serious consequences for local families. Naturally, not every parent puts schooling first: In New Canaan, CT, for example, cancellations last academic year ate into the 2013 April break—and student attendance promptly fell 20 percent that week.
One notable difference between the two states: New York state law prohibits the use of legal holidays to make up for snow days, while in Connecticut a district may schedule school on legal holidays, so long as they're not in December or January. Both New York and Connecticut permit the state education department to grant a reprieve on the 180-day rule—New York waived the requirement after Sandy—though state officials in Connecticut have warned that weather-related cancellations likely will not satisfy the "unavoidable emergencies" standard written into the law.
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- Larchmont Mamaroneck NY: The district "pads" the calendar by four days, which then can come off of the calendar if they're not needed. Officials with the district tell Patch it's rare that more than four days are needed. In a particularly bad winter, there are days in the calendar that go from off-days to school days, such as the Friday before Memorial Day.
- Rye NY (city): The district schedules for 183 days and schedules snow make-up days in waves. If it's necessary to use an emergency day during the first two months of school, Nov. 5 becomes an instructional day for students (otherwise a Superintendent's conference day). Beyond that, the following days become makeup days in the event of cancellations, in this order: April 21, May 27, May 23. Beyond that, a day is tacked on at the end of June.
- Port Chester-Rye NY: Similarly, make-up days come in waves, as needed. If school is closed for a day from September through Nov. 4, then Nov. 5 becomes a school day (otherwise it's a Superintendent's conference day). Beyond that, if up to three snow days occur, make-up days occur in this order: March 18, April 11, 17, 16, 21. If fewer than three emergency days are used, school is closed May 23.
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- Darien CT: Snow days are tacked onto the end of the academic year.
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- Fairfield CT: The last day for students and teachers in Fairfield is currently scheduled for June 11, according to Fairfield Public Schools. The first seven snow days will extend the length of the school year, as well as the date of high school graduations. Any additional snow days will reduce the April vacation, beginning with Monday, April 14.
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Judged: 1 1 1 These old elite Republicrats need to go. They are RINO's and are political cowards. They never stand up for principle and always bow down to the elitist power structure. They always fall in line with the wishes of the progressives and are shameless cowards. McCain was a brave war hero but somewhere along the line he was either brain washed by the N. Viet Nam or just lost his way somewhere. Graham has openly claimed he was a progressive, has been in office way too long, and it shows. They just want everybody to just sit down, shut up and not to make any waves. They are stars in "Lets Make a Deal". Two old incompetent farts that should have never been reelected. They are not Republicans and they are not conservatives. People such as these guys should be booted out of office or this country will not survive. Check out the link below. http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-po... |
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225 x4 pain got worse
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Some base noodz
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Just getting started plenty of time for judging later, right now all about the work... I have fun for the most part so it never really seems to be that much work. Restrictive dieting does get tough. Once I am done this I will probably stay lean using IF.
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I have struck a city—a real city—and they call it Chicago.
In the tradition of E.B. White's bestselling Here Is New York, here is a tribute to the "Second City"—part history, part memoir, and 100 percent Studs Terkel—infused with anecdotes, memories, and reflections that celebrate the great city of Chicago.
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Back to basics? It's time to start basing education policy on evidence, not fads and dogma
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has announced plans to reform the national curriculum, starting with maths. Six-year-olds need to be able to count to 100 and work in fractions; seven-year-olds know their two, five, and 10 times tables; nine-year-olds should be comfortable with numbers up to 10 million. It all sounds very sensible and plausible.
We're told that Britons are getting worse at maths every year, much as we are growing more illiterate, less multilingual, and generally stupider: "school leavers are unable to function in the workplace", we report today, with a fifth of employers offering remedial classes in numeracy or literacy for new employees. I'm sure this is at least partly true, although I think it's also worth remembering that both Socrates and Cicero thought young people were going to the dogs in their day. It's easy to forget how thick, truculent and lazy one was oneself, in one's distant youth, and it would not surprise me to learn that school leavers were at least as unready for the workplace in 1962 as they are today.
But whether or not it's true, we can all admit that education in this country can be improved. The question is: how?
Going "back to basics" might be the answer, of course. Perhaps rote learning of times tables, tried and tested for generations, is the best way to make children fluent in the use of number. But that is a hypothesis; an empirical, testable claim, and we should do our best to test that claim.
In his important new book The Geek Manifesto, The Times's former science editor Mark Henderson argues that we should hold education policy to the same stringent standards as we do health. "It is understood and accepted by British politicians of all parties that providing universal access to first-class medical care and providing excellent state schools that offer opportunity to all are among the core functions of government," he says. "Yet when it comes to evidence, these two central policy concerns are held to entirely different standards."
New drugs, and new healthcare interventions in general (let's leave aside NHS reforms for the moment), are tested rigorously using the best available methods, usually a randomised controlled trial (RCT). By contrast education policy is haphazardly built, based on little or no good evidence, constructed from half-remembered traditions, ossified dogma and evanescent fads.
Henderson points to the use of "phonics", a novel method of teaching literacy, as a point where a large change was brought in on the basis of little evidence – and, worse, an opportunity to glean that evidence was squandered. Early excitement led to it being brought in widely across the country, when it should have been rolled out gradually in randomly allocated educational authorities. Then it would be possible to compare the literacy levels between areas, and see whether there really is a benefit to phonics. Instead, it got brought in wholesale, and we know nothing more than we did before about what actually works. A similar failure to see the benefits of randomisation happened early in the Coalition's tenure, when the weakest 200 primary schools in England were made into academies. What should have happened is that 100 of them, randomly chosen, were, and 100 left alone for a year. Then we could see, with evidence, which actually did better.
I worry that something similar is happening now with Gove's reforms. Times tables in maths, learning to spell long words and recite poetry in English, learning the biographies of Darwin and Newton and the building blocks of physics in science: these, to conservative minds, are the self-evidently effective methods of the past. But without controlled experiments, we have no more reason to think that they are the best available methods than we do the latest bizarre fad, such as making your baby listen to Mahler. "It's not unethical to do experiments in education," says Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, in The Geek Manifesto. "It's unethical not to." By not doing these experiments, it's not that we're denying the control-group kids the best education: it's that we're denying all kids the chance to have the best education, because we don't know what the best education is.
For what it's worth, the things I would have in my own dream education policy would be as follows. Maths, from an early age, would involve statistics, so that children understand risk and probability and can see for themselves when politicians and the media are using numbers as a drunk uses a lamppost – for support rather than illumination. Science would focus less on describing what we know (and certainly wouldn't bother with irrelevant historical details such as what islands Darwin stopped at or whether Newton invented the catflap) but instead would concentrate from an early stage on changing how we think: assessing evidence, using data, the uncertainties and error bars and so on. The point should be that science is not a body of knowledge, but a method of inquiry: a way of asking questions, not a list of answers. English should focus on how language has evolved and changed, not merely inform children what the set of English words happens to be at the moment (although one hour a week should be set aside for explaining, over and over again, why "beg the question" does not mean "raise the question", no matter who says otherwise).
But even my obviously brilliant ideas need to be tested. Run them in randomly assigned areas, and see after five years whether those areas show improvement in previously defined categories: improved uptake of the subjects at higher levels, improved grades, or simply whether the children enjoy the lessons. Then roll them out nationwide if they do. Children's education is too important to be left to personal prejudice, fashion and tradition. Let's finally get around to making it evidence-based.
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By far, the most fun I've ever had driving a car. Unbelievable performance, surprisingly comfortable, and I'm 6'3. Just drove the car 1200 miles in a day and a half and had a ball. Got 19.8 MPG on the trip. Not only a performer, but a head turner as well. People on the road just can't keep their eyes off it. Only real problem is lack of front end clearence (about 4 1/2 inches) so scratches on front of the car are impossible to avoid. I have owned Mercedes CLK, BMW M5, and I rate this car far ahead in both styling and pleasure. Cannot fathom how anyone wouldn't love the car
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by Bob from Bristol Connecituct | April 11, 2007
this car is gross and i would never ever tell one of my friends or relatives to buy it. It has terrible fuel economy and such, I just don't like it
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by The Lawyer from Greensboro, North Carolina | February 23, 2007
Driving this car will become your life motivation. Every thing that has anything to do with this car is top in it's class. It drives like no other. It drives ten times better then my Ferrari I previously owned. My every day car and truck both stay in the garage now.
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Love it! Who did that to your hair? xx
♥ The Niknok StyleOoh, this looks really nice, I wish I had enough hair to try this! My sister makes the most divine banana bread, but I think thats because she usually puts chocolate and walnuts in it!
ReplyDeleteWhoa that looks so awesome! Did you do it yourself? I could never do something like that...because I'm toooo lazy. And I only have 2 hands.
Mabel TimeThat's truly gorgeous! I NEED to learn, love a bit of the Mulberry style!
http://daisychurchward.blogspot.comOh it's so pretty! I really like the photos too, with the sides of your head. I might actually want to try this one day, you know... when I'm not actually being lazy about my hair... because, like you, I care if my parting is straight. Actual hairstyles with loads of pins and things are too much to ask :p
And it's so nice to see all those bloggers (including you!!) on the tesco blog! You look amazing!I think you should be, you look gorgeous.
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♥Stunning.. Even makes me want to try it. It'll look NOTHING like yours though!
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ESPN-AM (710) will be broadcasting Lakers games for many seasons to come. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times) |
What speed will the Lakers' play this coming season?
"We're going to play exactly how we finished off last year -- playing with a tempo that's right for us," Kobe Bryant said on media day Saturday. "We're not an up-and-down, run-and-gun type of team by any stretch of the imagination. But we'll use the strengths that we have. Pau [Gasol is] a good post player. I'm a good post player. Steve in pick-and-rolls can be effective. But you'll see us really dominating the game from the inside."
Last year, the team initially ran a hybrid Princeton offense under Mike Brown.
Brown was let go after five games and assistant Bernie Bickerstaff, acting as the interim head coach, let the players play an open, systemless style of basketball.
Mike D'Antoni was soon hired with hopes that he'd be able to run his fast-paced offense with Steve Nash orchestrating at point guard.
Injuries and roster makeup (specifically with Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol) necessitated a change and D'Antoni slowed the ball down and let Kobe Bryant operate as the team's primary playmaker.
It was a difficult, uneven year. Now Howard is gone and Bryant is trying to work his way back from Achilles' tendon surgery.
The Lakers made efforts to get younger and more athletic in the off-season with the additions of such players as Jordan Farmar, Nick Young and Wesley Johnson.
Where does D'Antoni stand on the team's tempo this season?
"You just try to find what the team functions better at," he said Saturday. "We're going to have to play to the strengths of the team and get them to be efficient as they can. Every team has a rhythm they run to. Whether I like to run a little faster or not, it doesn't really matter. It's what the players can do, and we will adjust to find their strengths and go with that rhythm."
Gasol will play as the team's primary low-post option but the Lakers don't seem to know just yet how fast they'll play.
The Lakers will probably run at a quicker pace than they did a year ago, but not nearly as explosively as the Phoenix team with D'Antoni and Nash from 2003 to 2008.
"Everything is going to be the same we did in Phoenix," D'Antoni said Sunday. "We might do it a different speed. That speed is determined by the players, which is fine, but the basic principles are all the same. We're moving the ball, getting wide-open shots, and hopefully we make it."
Bryant seems to have a very specific, definite view that favors a slower style of play, while D'Antoni is more open-minded to learn exactly what his players are capable of.
Perhaps the time without Bryant will give D'Antoni and the Lakers the opportunity to experiment without the guard's forceful personality.
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"This creamy dip is a nice addition to an appetizer buffet," assures Priscilla Gilbert of Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. "It's received many compliments, and I've handed out several copies of the recipe." Seeing red. Sweet red peppers are an excellent source of vitamin A, which promotes better vision both at night and during the day.
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Prep/Total Time: 15 min.
1 cup (8 ounces) fat-free sour cream
1/2 cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
1/2 teaspoon prepared horseradish
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
4 drops hot pepper sauce
1 jar (7 ounces) roasted sweet red peppers, drained and chopped
1 medium sweet red pepper
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(Note from Rudy: I wanted the title, "Ditch Stitch Tits." Over Instant Messenger, Grey thickly said, "What's with you and the stitch tits? This is about Vlad, not Pamela Anderson." It means Vlad had a pectoral tear. Your pectoral is in your chest. Sorry none of you could bask in my preferred title. Now, carry on, Grey — lamer!) Vladimir Guerrero is due back on Monday from a torn pectoral. I'm not a doctor, but occasionally I played one in my preteen years. All I know of the pectoral is it's somewhere in Vlad's body. Do I have one? Maybe. No idea. So let's go with what I do know. Scioscia lies; he lies when he cries that Vlad can't play the outfield, but can DH, which he said on April 7th, right before Vlad missed six weeks. When Vlad did finally hit the DL, some source that Jayson Stark won't reveal (because this is just so damning I suppose) said, "When those offensive linemen get (the same injury as Vlad) in the NFL, they're out for the year." So, assuming Vlad doesn't need to block Jose Guillen from trying to tackle Scioscia, will Vlad be in the clear come Monday? Not likely. The injury that was only supposed to effect him when he throws has already sidelined him for 6 weeks from hitting. I'm assuming the Angels brass got together and decided half of a Vlad (or Vl) was a lot more intimidating hitting in the middle of the lineup than sitting on the sidelines doing Sudoku. This does not mean you need to have him in your fantasy lineup. Remember last year from June on, Vlad only hit 20 homers, or about what Raul Ibanez has done already (Raul!). Then you throw in the risk of having a player who is a Latin 34 with deteriorating skills and knees and he's a sell. Anyway, here's some more players to buy or sell this week in fantasy baseball:
Brian Anderson – Could have some slight value in AL-Only leagues. Though if you have a erection for longer than 4 hours after picking up Brian Anderson, you should seek advice from a doctor.
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Think about all the information that you take in when you're out and about. Street names, bus and platform numbers, timetables - the written word is crucial to getting around independently.
Nearly two million people have significant sight problems and can't easily access this information. Relying on others chips away at your independence.
Accessible information can make the world of difference to a blind or partially sighted person's confidence and safety when travelling.
We've worked with local councils and private companies to install hundreds of talking signs around the UK, to provide timely, accurate and accessible travel information.
We help travel companies to comply with the Equality Act, so that people who have lost their sight can go about their daily lives without obstruction.
Go! Shop is a new RNIB project bringing blind and partially sighted people together with retail and transport companies to improve the shopping experience, from getting to the shops to paying for goods.
RNIB continues to make life easier for blind and partially sighted people by developing new products for reading information independently.
Services providers can get in touch to find out how we can help meet blind and partially sighted customers' needs.
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Looking for a tablet this holiday shopping season? If you are, and you're leaning towards a shiny new iPad, wait just a minute: Oprah wants you to know that she loves the Microsoft Surface. How much does the billionaire media personality love it? According to a tweet she posted this past Sunday, Oprah has already purchased 12 of the devices as gifts for Christmas.
Don't expect Apple to lose any sleep over Oprah's endorsement of Microsoft's Windows 8 tablet: if you believe Oprah posted the tweet in question, she did so from her iPad.
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by Patricio Robles 21 November 2012 15:53pm 3 comments
There's arguably never been a better time to be a developer.
Looking for a full-time job? If you have the chops, they are plentiful, and if you're in a hot market, salaries are high. Not interested in the nine-to-five routine? Freelance opportunities abound and investors are still pouring big bucks into startups, with many focusing on backing entrepreneurial engineers who can turn their ideas into code.
But if all success on the web and mobile internet required was a few hundred thousand lines of awesome Ruby code, a few NoSQL databases here and there and a clever Amazon AWS-based architecture, there would be a lot more Facebooks out there.
What's missing for many companies? One word: design.
by Patricio Robles 02 October 2012 20:23pm 4 comments
Investors are pouring big bucks into startups, and when it comes to their mobile investments, photos and videos are where it's at. And for an obvious reason: following Facebook's still-pending purchase of Instagram for $1bn, investors are hoping they can fund the next big acquisition target.
But predicting who will be acquired, and by whom, can be a tricky exercise. Case in point: today, Autodesk announced that it is acquiring mobile video startup Socialcam for $60m.
by Patricio Robles 17 July 2012 14:21pm 2 comments
The global economy may be facing strong headwinds, but in the second quarter of 2012, technology entrepreneurs in the United States probably didn't notice.
According to CB Insights, Q2 2012 was the biggest quarter for VC investment in the U.S. in more than a decade, and a record-breaking one too.
by Patricio Robles 16 July 2012 16:42pm 2 comments
When you want to search the web, chances are you turn to Google. But where do you go when you want to search for mobile apps?
It's a question more and more consumers will grapple with as use of smartphones grows and the number of sites with app platforms increases. And one company, Quixey, wants to be the answer to that latter question.
by Patricio Robles 07 June 2012 19:17pm 0 comments
The relational database may not be dead, and so-called NoSQL solutions may have been slightly overhyped, but that isn't stopping investors from betting that the market for new types of data stores is going to be very, very big.
The latest example of that: 10gen, which is behind one of the more prominent NoSQL databases, MongoDB, has just raised a new $42m round of funding.
by Patricio Robles 29 May 2012 15:45pm 0 comments
A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars.
The words made famous by the movie that dramatized Facebook's beginnings may soon be passé in Silicon Valley, as investors clamouring to get in on funding rounds for the hottest tech startups seem increasingly willing to put their cash in at billion-dollar valuations.
Crazy? Perhaps, but Facebook's $1bn Instagram acquisition shows that big valuations don't exclude companies from the startup lottery, at least for the time being.
The latest entrant to the billion dollar club will be Pinterest, thanks to a $100m funding round led by Rakuten. The funding round puts a $1.5bn valuation on Pinterest.
by Patricio Robles 17 May 2012 10:37am 0 comments
If you're an SEO, chances are you're familiar with SEOmoz.
The Seattle-based company is a brand name in the SEO space, and the company's CEO, Rand Fishkin, a highly-visible figure in the industry.
by Patricio Robles 02 May 2012 20:15pm 6 comments
When you think of Silicon Valley, you're probably more likely to think of young entrepreneurs risking it all on ideas that can change the world.
That image of a Silicon Valley driven by young, ambitious individuals is, of course, only partly true. There's plenty of gray hair in Silicon Valley, particularly on Sand Hill Road and in the hallways of some of the Valley's most profitable companies, like Oracle, Cisco and HP.
by Patricio Robles 21 February 2012 23:11pm 0 comments
Facebook may be the world's dominant social network, but a number of high-profile investors are betting that there's room for platform players in the space.
Backplane describes itself as a "start-up uniting people around interests, affinities and movements", but it's best-known for running Lady Gaga's LittleMonsters.com, which is in private beta.
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The Blair County Chamber of Commerce has named Barry Smith, founder and owner of Smith Transport in Roaring Spring, as the 10th recipient of The Chamber's Lifetime Achievement Award for Business Excellence. The award will be presented at the Business Excellence Dinner June 7 at The Casino at Lakemont Park.
Previous recipients are: Ernie Wissinger (2002), Bill Ward (2003), Steve Sheetz (2004), Donald Devorris (2005), Bill Campbell (2006), John Wolf (2007), Lee Hite (2008), Don Detwiler (2009) and Michael McLanahan (2010).


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A mile-and-a-half hike is scheduled for Jan. 1 at Ringwood State Park, home to Ringwood Manor. It is one of 10 events set to take place in New Jersey.
Posted: Thursday December 27, 2012, 12:10 PM
For more than 20 years, state park officials in Massachusetts have encouraged locals to get off the couch Jan. 1 and take a hike – nothing too strenuous, but a healthy way to start the new year.
Last year, a group called America's State Parks expanded the effort, called First Day Hikes, to all 50 states. The group hoped for 50 events but had no idea how many Americans would willingly skip New Year's Eve revelry in order to get up early Jan. 1 and hit the woods.
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I've heard that dogs can smell fear. The same is true of great fantasy hockey owners. Are you that shivering nervous little Chihuahua, afraid to make a move for fear of getting eaten alive by the big bad dogs of your pool? Top dogs can sniff out a potential meal. You need to be able to swiftly identify those players that are under-performing and go after them. Here are some early season morsels to chew on from the Eastern Conference.
The old dog himself, Brendan Shanahan is one of several Rangers I'd be looking to scoop. He's getting his chances as evidenced by the high number of shots on goal. Prior to last night's game, Shanahan was second in the NHL in shots on goal and is averaging over twenty minutes a game. Fun Fact: Ranger's rookie defenseman Marc Staal was born in 1987, the same year Shanahan was breaking into the NHL as a rookie with the Devils.
To say Scott Gomez is not clicking with his new team mates would be a huge understatement. Gomez is just too good of a player to let this continue for very long. He's averaging over 20 minutes a game, but he's pressing too hard right now. Gomez went into last night's game on a five game pointless streak, 11-2-1-3 for the season. Once things settle down and he starts to figure out where his new line mates are going to be on the ice, the points will come. Even with this bad start, I think he still finishes with 65-70 points. If you can pry him away for a lesser player, you should.
Heading into last night's contest, Marian Hossa was on pace for 30 points (8-2-1-3). The fact that he's had four seasons in a row of 80 plus points and six straight seasons of 80 or more games played are reason enough to go see if his current owner is flinching at his poor start. The 28 year old Hossa has the added incentive of being an Unrestricted Free Agent after the season.
Bryan McCabe is getting booed mercilessly by the Maple Leaf faithful. I don't know if it's his poor defensive play or the fact that he's making really large coin that has created unrealistic expectations for the 32 year old rearguard. The fans should cut him some slack, everyone knows you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Over the last three seasons, McCabe has averaged 17 goals, 59 points (35 of those on the power play) and 105 penalty minutes. Enjoy him for what he is, an offensive defenseman with nice penalty minutes who makes the odd gaffe in his own end.
Martin Brodeur simply did not get this dog gone bad over the summer. It has everything to do with the Devils losing their top defenseman and top centre. Combine that with a new coach, a new system and a nine game road trip to begin the season and their poor start should not have come as a big surprise. Have a little faith in Brodeur. Not only did he win the Vezina trophy as the league's top goaltender last year, he set the NHL record for wins in a season with 48. Brodeur also topped the league in shutouts with 12 (next closest had 8) and finished third in goals against average (minimum 27 games played).
The Devils new coach, Brent Sutter, is a two time Stanley Cup winner, a former NHL team captain, and a very successful junior hockey coach. He coached Canada to consecutive gold medals at the 2005 and 2006 World Junior Hockey Championships. Both teams went undefeated. Sutter is a proven winner and will coax the Devils players to play much better hockey.
Other underachievers from the East worth considering are Jaromir Jagr, Patrik Elias, Thomas Vanek, Slava Kozlov, Michael Ryder, Miroslav Satan and Tom Poti. If you can grab them at a bargain basement price, there's a good chance they will reward you. Get'em while they're cold, before these guys start heating up and their owners come to their senses.
Next week, I'll name some guys that are overachieving. They might look like keepers now, but they likely won't help you win best in show come the end of the season.
Russ Miller gives his fantasy take on the Eastern Conference teams every Friday in his column, Eastern Edge.
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