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Editor's Corner
Talking tech: Office 365 – It's not just for business anymore
I wonder how many of my readers are old enough to remember who made famous the advertising slogan, "It's not just for breakfast anymore?" Well, sometimes things start out with a narrowly defined purpose and later expand their scope. That happens when we realize that a product can be used for more than we thought – maybe even more than its makers originally intended.
You might think Microsoft's Office 365 cloud service is just for big businesses, and it does indeed offer enterprise-level plans, but with prices as low as six dollars per month, it's also an attractive option for very small companies, self-employed persons and individuals who just want a professional email provider, a simple website and a way to hold online meetings and video conferences.
I've been using the small business plan that's appropriate for one person or a small organization with up to 25 users. Microsoft offers a free trial so you can give it a spin before you commit, and make sure it fits your needs. Those who use Office Live Small Business have received announcements from Microsoft that it will be discontinued on April 30 with the recommendation to prepare to transition to Office 365.
That six-dollar price tag is per user, but "outsiders" who don't have an Office 365 account can still attend your online meetings by using the browser-based Lync app (limited capabilities) or they can download and install the free Lync 2010 Attendee client program to get advanced features such as audio/video and uploading of PowerPoint presentations.
In fact, in my opinion Lync is the biggest benefit of subscribing to Office 365. It is a very cool technology that makes "unified communications"- once primarily something that only those in large corporate environments enjoyed – available to the smallest companies and individuals. Lync evolved out of Microsoft Office Communications Server/Office Communicator, which was itself a later version of Microsoft Live Communications Server that came out back in 2003. In less than 10 years, this free download has grown into a robust platform for company-wide instant messaging, file transferring, voice and video calling and presence (indication of your contacts' current statuses, such as "Available," "Busy," "Away," etc.).
Previously, the problem with Lync client software was that in order to use it to initiate a meeting or communication, you had to have a Lync server – something that most small businesses and certainly most individuals didn't (and still don't) have. With Office 365, the Lync server is hosted by Microsoft and you get to use it as part of your monthly subscription to the service. Note though, that there are a few tricks involved in using Lync to communicate with external users.
There are also free services on the web that you can use to create audio and video conferences, but most of them don't convey a very professional image. You can make video calls with Microsoft's own Skype service, but multi-party conferences require that you pay for the premium or business editions of Skype. Skype Premium is $9.99 per month if you pay monthly or $4.99 per month if you pay annually. Skype Business starts at $8.99 per month. Compare that to $6.00 per month for Office 365, which gives you not just the Lync service, but also email using your own domain name with antivirus and anti-spam filtering, shared calendars and a team site (SharePoint) for sharing files, a simple external website, and web-based viewing and editing of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files. That's a lot of extra functionality for an extra dollar per month.
Since around 1999, my husband and I have run our own Exchange server at the house. That might seem like overkill for a home-based business, and there are certainly cheaper alternatives for getting and sending email, but we really love the benefits of Exchange. I still remember the horrors of the old POP3 accounts we used to use through our ISPs, when mail messages were downloaded to your computer and you didn't have access to those that had already been downloaded if you accessed your account from a different computer. I also remember (although I try to forget) the "joys" of using .PST files in Outlook. A corrupted .PST could really ruin your day. With Exchange, your mail, calendar, folders, etc. reside on the server so you can connect to them from anywhere. Web mail services such as Gmail and Hotmail provide a better alternative to POP, but they still don't offer all the features and flexibility of Exchange, such as better compatibility with more mobile devices, much more robust support for rules and filtering, better meeting response management, better file-level manipulation of email messages, rights management, group policy and so forth. It's just a more professional solution.
Setting up and maintaining your own mail server on premise isn't for everyone though. Most home users don't have the IT skills, and even if you do, it requires a good bit of time (for patching, upgrades, backups, etc.), a substantial upfront monetary investment (for both the hardware and software) and (surprisingly significant) ongoing costs (particularly power). Based on this formula for calculating electrical usage and cost, one of our servers costs approximately $12 per month to operate (power only). That's about the same as the cost of an Office 365 small business plan (plan P1) with an account for each of us. When you add in the cost for the server itself (around $2,000) and the Windows Server operating system, Exchange server, SharePoint and Lync server, it becomes a bit of a no-brainer.
Note that when using the Office 365 P1 plan, you'll have some limitations that you don't have when running your own servers. To discourage spammers, you can "only" send emails to 1,500 recipients per day (this was recently increased from a previous limit of 500). User mailboxes are limited to 25GB (this will hold a lot of mail, but if you receive a lot of huge attachments such as video files, you can fill it up pretty easily); if you have your own server, you can add hard drives and increase the default mailbox limits. If you're thinking of going to Office 365 for your small business, consider future growth. You can't upgrade from P1 to an enterprise (E) plan later, so if you anticipate needing more than 50 user accounts, this might not be the right plan for you.
Another limitation of the P1 plan that may be important to some users: It doesn't include telephone tech support; you have to post your questions to an online forum for "community support." This is the price you pay for the low price. Another thing to be aware of is the lack of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for SharePoint Online sites. There are some other limitations on the SharePoint implementation too, such as the lack of the My Sites feature and the Connect to Office feature. In fact, there is a good article on the Office365answers.com site that lists all of the important features and limitations of the P1 plan.
Remember too, that by moving to any hosted solution such as Office 365, you give up some element of control. If something goes wrong, you have to depend on the provider to fix it – you can't run in and start troubleshooting for yourself. If the provider experiences an outage, your services are unavailable. You have to trust the provider to implement the proper security to protect your data. These are the tradeoffs for the money you save by going "to the cloud."
Some folks are even wary about those cost savings. While $6 per user/per month seems like a great bargain for all that you get, they question whether this low pricing is just a tactic to draw people in. What's to keep Microsoft and other cloud providers from raising prices dramatically once they have everyone "hooked" on cloud services? After you've ditched your servers, it won't be that easy – and it will be expensive – to go back to the "do it yourself" way. Will we end up paying the same, or even more, for less?
Tell us what you think. Have you considered signing up for Office 365? Do you think it's just for business or do you see it as a valid option for individuals? Is the price right, considering what you get? Are you afraid there are hidden costs or that the prices will go up dramatically? Are you concerned about security? Reliability? The limitations on what you can do? Have you evaluated the trial version? Join the discussion in our forum or let me know your opinions via email.
And by the way, in case you weren't old enough to remember that old ad campaign, it was created by the Florida Orange Juice Growers Association.
Point of view: Companies act in their own best interests (surprise!)
As many of my readers already know, in addition to writing this weekly newsletter, I also serve as a "guest editor" for VIPRE Security News, where I write a twice-monthly column called Deb's Deep Dive. It takes a short look "under the hood" of various technologies and hardware and software features. In a recent edition, I discussed the "secure boot" feature of Windows 8 that uses the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) that replaces the old BIOS on modern computer motherboards, to prevent the loading of an operating system that hasn't been digitally signed by the publisher with a signature recognized by the firmware. This thwarts malware that loads before the OS boots. My VIPRE piece was more about the technical aspects of secure boot; in this discussion, I want to focus more on the controversy that has grown up around it.
As I noted in that article, there have been many protests from some corners of the Linux community, accusing Microsoft of using security as a pretext for making it difficult for people to install Linux on systems that come preinstalled with Windows 8. I received reader mail indicating that many people still believe secure boot is a sinister plot that threatens the freedom of users to run the operating system(s) they want. And it's not just a few individuals here and there; the Free Software Foundation expressed fears that secure boot "could make computers incapable of running anything but Windows."
My own opinion is that the whole truth lies somewhere in between. Microsoft is not an evil empire bent on controlling your life. It's a corporation that wants to make money for its shareholders (which, in the interest of full disclosure, I should point out includes me). Microsoft has been criticized soundly (and once upon a time, rightly) for not paying enough attention to security in the design and development of their software. That's what led the company to adopt the Trusted Computing initiative and put countless money, time and other resources into adding security mechanisms at all levels of Windows.
As Microsoft (and other software makers) have built in better security, attackers have created new and "improved" methods of getting their malware onto your computer. One way was to have the malware load during the boot process to circumvent security features that don't kick in until the OS is running. And Microsoft's response to that is the secure boot process. It's one more layer of security in a security-in-depth strategy. Here's a bit more on how it works.
The Linux Foundation has noted that secure boot isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, since that OS can take advantage of the security feature as well. Microsoft has said that users will have the option to turn off the secure boot feature, but there are concerns that whether or not to include this option is left up to the hardware vendors, and some may leave it out.
If there is no option to disable secure boot on a given machine, then you would still be able to install versions of Linux that are signed with UEFI-recognized keys – but there are literally dozens of different Linux distros and it's highly unlikely all would be included. This could create a two-tiered class system within the Linux community, with some distros capable of running on the new computers and others blocked.
I really don't think any of this was Microsoft's primary goal in creating secure boot. On the other hand, I seriously doubt the folks at Microsoft are shedding any tears over the idea that folks might not be able to install Linux quite as easily as before. Windows and Linux are competitors after all, and what competitors do is… compete. If a side effect of secure boot is to discourage some people from using the competing operating system, that's a bonus for Microsoft. However, since the computers we're talking about will already come with Windows installed, it's not as if Microsoft will lose money when and if a user wipes out Windows and installs Ubuntu, or runs the two in a dual-boot configuration. So Microsoft doesn't really have as much incentive to "block Linux" as some seem to think.
It always surprises me that so many people are surprised when companies act in their own best interest. Whether we're talking about Microsoft, Google, Apple or the mom-and-pop shop down the street, companies are in business to stay in business, and they do that by making people want to use their products instead of their competitors' products. They may do that by saying nasty things about their competitors in their advertising (a la Apple's anti-Vista commercials). They may do it by undercutting their competitors on price (a la Linux, and before it Internet Explorer and a myriad of other examples). They may do it by making it easier for people to just stick with their product than to change (that's what happens when your OS comes preinstalled on new computers, whether or not you have a secure boot process). Sometimes they even do it the old fashioned way: by building a better product, offering it at a competitive price and effectively getting the word out about its merits.
My point is that the issue here isn't (or shouldn't be) "Will secure boot discourage some people from installing some distros of Linux or other alternative operating systems?" The issue is "Does secure boot provide valuable security protections to users of Windows and other signed operating systems?" If the answer is yes, the solution to the Linux dilemma isn't to do away with secure boot (or even to provide for disabling it); it's to make the Linux distros work with secure boot so that they too can run in a more secure environment.
What do you think about secure boot? Share your thoughts, opinions and experiences in our forum or email me.
Until next week,
Deb Shinder
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Quotes of the Week
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
It is only to the individual that a soul is given. – Albert Einstein
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. – Dalai Lama
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Windows News and Commentary
Coming soon: Windows Phone total immersion
I've tested a Windows Phone and there are things I like a lot about the OS and other things I find frustrating. What I haven't done is use it as my only phone. I always have my Android phone to turn to if I need to do something the Windows Phone doesn't support (or something I can't figure out how to do with it). But I'm about to embark on a little experiment, in which I'll be using my Windows Phone exclusively. This came about due to the untimely violent death of my Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.0) phone that met a tragic end last week when an unholy convergence of events left its screen shattered into about a million pieces. In the next few months, I'll be reporting back on my experience, for better or worse. Stay tuned to find out what it's like to be totally immersed in Windows Phone.
Microsoft: 10 fascinating facts
We have all been immersed in Microsoft products for so long that we might be tempted to think we know all about the company and its software. However, you just might find one or two tidbits of information that come as a surprise in this slideshow illustrating 10 fascinating facts about Microsoft.
IE10 on Windows 8: Two browsers for the price of one
Well, sort of. IE runs in two different modes on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. One is the more minimalist Metro style that you get when you launch IE from the Start screen. The other is the more familiar and full-featured version that you see if you launch it from the desktop. The former is full screen with no menus or toolbars or buttons. If you want to email a link or print a web page, you have to go to the Charms bar (which flies out from the right side of the screen) to do it. It's cool and new and different – and I don't care much for it. I use the desktop variety of IE for just about everything. It's not that I'm opposed to "new and different" (I prefer the Metro version of the Remote Desktop client to the traditional one, for instance). It's just that I feel as if I'm in a car that has no steering wheel, accelerator or brakes when I "drive" the Metro version of IE. Here's a (perhaps more objective) take on the differences from CNET, and I'd be interested in what readers who are testing Windows 8 CP think about the IE options too.
Courier on the iPad
Remember the much-loved and lamented Courier tablet, a concept project that was developed by Microsoft Research a few years ago, but abandoned without being brought to fruition? Well now there's an app for that – and ironically, it runs on the iPad rather than a Windows device. The app is called Taposé and it wasn't created by Microsoft, but was reportedly supported by a former Microsoft employee who happened to be in charge of the Courier project. It gives you the two side-by-side windows that we saw in the Courier prototypes and it costs $2.99. Wonder if there will be a Metro version for Windows 8?
Windows Hints, Trivia, Tips and Tricks
Free one-day camps for Metro developers
If you're a developer and you want to learn more about how to write Metro apps for Windows 8, you're in luck! Microsoft is sponsoring a series of one-day workshops around the country and they're free on a first come, first served basis. You do need to know something about programming and be familiar with HTML5, JavaScript, XAML, C# and/or C++. There'll be a hands-on lab session where you can get guidance from Windows 8 experts on developing your app. It's BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop). Find out more and register to attend one of 21 scheduled sessions.
Making Windows 8 shutdown easy
One of the common complaints I've heard from people who are testing the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is that it got harder to shut down, log off or restart the computer. It's actually not that hard, but those commands are somewhat hidden; you have to go to the Charms bar, click/press Settings and then Power and then select the option you want. Another option is to press the picture of the logged-on user at the top right of the Start screen and sign out or switch users.
From the desktop, there is no Start menu and thus no Shutdown/Restart menu option. But there is a way to make it easier. Windows 8 still supports gadgets on the desktop, so you can install a couple of old Vista/Windows 7 gadgets for shutting down. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Convert iTunes music to MP3
If you have songs that you've bought from Apple via iTunes, you probably know that the format (.aac) doesn't work with some portable music players. Luckily though, you can convert the files to the MP3 format, which will play on the vast majority of devices. This article contains the detailed instructions, including how to convert older DRM protected files.
How To: Step-by-Step Guidance
XP tip of the week: Recipe for making Windows run faster
If you have a Windows XP computer that's been around for a while, chances are it has gotten slower and slower as time has gone by. But maybe you're not ready to trade it in a for a shiny new Windows 7 system just yet. There are things you can do to pep it up, and this article puts them into the form of a recipe, with all the right ingredients for cleaning out the "gunk" that slows things down and getting a few more months or years of service out of that venerable old machine.
Windows 7 tip of the week: Repairing Windows 7 startup
Windows 7 is generally a stable OS, but sometimes you might install a piece of software, get a virus or malware infestation, accidentally delete the wrong file or otherwise do something that causes Windows to be unable to start up. That could be one of the most frustrating types of problems to troubleshoot and with past versions of Windows; you often ended up reinstalling the OS. Ouch. The Windows 7 Startup Repair feature can diagnose and fix many of these problems now, and save you a lot of time and grief. Learn what the repair options are and how to use them.
Windows 8 tip of the week: See your running apps
If you want to see what apps are running in Windows 8, it's easy enough and there are several different ways to do it. The old ALT + TAB
key combo still works, but a new shortcut is Windows Logo Key + TAB, which will display a pane on the left edge of the screen (if you have multiple monitors, this will be on the left edge of the monitor where you've set the main taskbar). You can also do this with the mouse pointer (or your finger on a touchscreen) by hovering/pressing in the top-left corner and then dragging downward when the thumbnail of one app appears.
And of course, you can see what's running in Task Manager (which has been vastly improved). To get there, right-click on the taskbar and select Task Manager in desktop mode, or press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC, or just type "Task Manager" anywhere on the Metro Start screen.
Windows Phone tip of the week: Make your phone shut up and be quiet
By default, your Windows Phone makes a lot of noise. Sure, in most cases it has good intentions; it's just trying to let you know that you have a text message or new email or an appointment coming up. Why it makes that loud clack when you press a key on the keyboard, I don't know, and my dog hates that sound. So I turned it (and several of the other sounds) off. It's easy to do:
- On the home screen, press the right facing arrow at the top to go to the Apps list
- Scroll down to Settings and press it
- Press Ringtones and Sounds
- Go down to the Play a sound for section and uncheck the boxes of those events for which you want the phone to keep quiet
- If you don't want a sound notification for new email messages, make sure that box says None
You can also set (or get rid of) sounds to notify you of new voicemail and text messages, when you lock or unlock the phone, or "all other notifications." As for me, I usually err on the side of more silence. I like phones to ring when someone calls and that's about it. The good thing is that you have lots of options to customize the sounds exactly the way you want.
Free Download of the Week
Password protect executable files
Do you have executable files (.exe) on your computer that you don't want others (such as your children) to be able to run? You can password protect the program files so that no one can run them without the password. They even stay protected if you copy them to another computer. Empathy is "postcardware" (the developer asks that you send a picture postcard in exchange for the key to unlock its advanced functions) and it works with practically all versions of Windows from NT 3.51 to Windows 7. It doesn't work for 64-bit executables but does work for 32-bit .exe files on a 64-bit OS.
Security and Privacy
Paul Allen victimized by ID thief
Even one of the richest men in the world, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, isn't immune to having his identity stolen. In fact, one might argue that his status makes him even more of a target, but the truth is you don't have to be wealthy for ID thieves to misuse your information – and you're probably far less able to absorb the cost than Allen. Read about the decidedly low-tech method that the criminal used to compromise Allen's Citibank account.
Ask Deb: Question Corner
How can I find out where an email message came from?
Is there any way to figure out where an email message came from? I know on TV cop shows they make it seem really easy but is it really? Thanks! – Tad L.
The best answer is "sometimes." There is a way to track the origins of email messages; you need to look at the Internet headers to find the IP address from which the message was sent. There are ways though, to spoof the header information (falsify it) or send messages through anonymizer services that disguise their origins.
Even just uncovering the headers can be a challenge because how to do it differs depending on your email client software or web mail program. In Gmail's web interface, open the message you want to track. To the right of the Reply arrow, click the down-pointing (More) arrow and select Show original. You'll likely see several lines that start with "Received: from." Find the one that's furthest down the page. Note the IP address shown here.
Now you can use a service such as IP2Location to look up the records associated with that IP address. This can include the registered ISP, country, region, zip code, latitude/longitude, weather station and other information that can be useful in determining where the mail came from. This article contains instructions for finding the headers in Yahoo and Outlook, and more lookup resources. Keep in mind that this process can render very specific info or very general info, depending on whether it came from a company that runs its own mail server or a big ISP/mail provider such as AT&T.
Windows Configuration and Troubleshooting
Can't connect to POP server with Outlook 2003 on a Windows 7 computer
You might find that if you have a POP and SMTP account set up in Outlook 2003 running on a Windows 7 (or Server 2008 R2) computer, you aren't able to connect to the POP server unless you select the Remember password option when you configure the account settings. The Enter Network Password dialog box may pop up repeatedly. There is a hotfix available to address this problem, but Microsoft recommends that you install it only if you're being "severely affected" by the problem. Find out more in KB article 2518928.
Error message when configuring XP Mode in Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7
If you try to start Windows XP Mode in Windows Virtual PC on your Windows 7 (Pro or above) computer, you might get an error message that says "unable to start Windows Virtual PC because hardware-assisted virtualization is disabled." Or you might get a message that says "this computer does not support hardware-assisted virtualization." That's because XP Mode requires that your processor support HAV and that it be enabled in the BIOS. Find out more about this issue in KB article 977206.
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Montee Ball spoke to the media for the first time since suffering a concussion in an assault, and stressed that he was involved in no prior altercation before the incident.
"I had nothing to do with it at all but with the police investigation still going on there's not much I can say," Ball said. "But I can 100 percent tell you that I had nothing to do with that first fight, honestly."
Whatever caused five men to assault Ball, he's trying to put the incident in the past and move forward. He's currently in non-contact status at Wisconsin practices due to the concussion, but the senior running back hopes to be back in time for what could be a potential Heisman season. He added that he wasn't "getting rowdy" before the attack, and that he had already apologized to teammates for causing a distraction in the run-up to the season. The appearance was Ball's first in public since the August 1 attack.
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The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could infect 20,000 people, warning that an international effort costing almost half a billion dollars is needed.» Read More
Nearly 20 percent of all U.S. states are eyeing the possibility of adopting technology from Connecticut's lauded health insurance marketplace.
American investors aren't panicked about the re-emergence of Ebola in Africa, at least in the long term.
Mobile internet is China's most lucrative sector according to Fosun International, the country's largest private investment firm.
The economic cost of cardiovascular disease in Europe is set to increase to around $162 billion annually by 2020, a new report has found.
The emerging field of big data analytics can play a role for couples trying to have a baby or avoid it, says Silicon Valley pioneer Max Levchin.
Demand for hospital services also seemed to be declining, as patients were treated outside of hospitals, the NYT reports.
A federal watchdog has issued subpoenas in its probe of Maryland's troubled health insurance exchange.
The stratospheric rise of vaping may be halted by increasing regulation.
Kevin Counihan, who spent two years running Access Health CT, becomes the first person whose sole responsibility is running HealthCare.gov.
The public is paying hundreds of millions of dollars in hospital costs for gunshot victims who lack private insurance, according to a new study.
Nigeria's health minister has insisted the Ebola outbreak has been contained in the country.
The potential for Pfizer to take over AstraZeneca has sent its prey's share price soaring and caused political ructions on both sides of the Atlantic.
The number of compensation claim applications as the result of a deadly defect GM ignored has reached 100.
The Department of Veterans Affairs promised sweeping changes and ample contrition in prepared remarks to an inspector general's. USA Today reports.
CNBC.com's health care reporter Dan Mangan provides insight to a potential tax surprise for some recipients of Obamacare.
Roche's deal for InterMune is one of the few this year that returns to the traditional model of big pharma buying smaller biotech.
Medicare's five-year-old rating system to help families select nursing homes relies on unverified, incomplete and often misleading data. The NYT reports.
Pediatricians have a new prescription for schools: later start times for teens.
Biotech firm Roche announced plans Sunday to buy InterMune for $8.3 billion on a fully diluted basis in an all-cash transaction.
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Brighouse Town bid to regain title momentum
12:10am Friday 21st February 2014 in Brighouse By Ian Whiting
Brighouse Town enjoyed a good win in midweek and will look to build on that tomorrow to get their title bid in the Toolstation Northern Counties East Premier Division back on track.
Town put a shock defeat and three consecutive postponements behind them on Tuesday with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Maltby Main. The three points took them above local rivals Thackley into fourth place and tomorrow they journey to third-from-bottom Winterton Rangers.
The home side will be scrapping as they are only seven points above the relegation trapdoor but have played three games more than second bottom Nostell MW.
In time-honoured football irony, Nostell face one of Brighouse's near neighbours as Albion Sports host the struggling outfit. Albion need to snap out of a recent malaise because they go into the game on the back of three defeats on the spin.
However, Kulwinder Sandhu has a depleted squad and Albion are looking at a long end to their first season in the top flight.
Thackley may have lost ground in midweek without playing but they will need to be on their mettle to ensure they don't drop further behind when they host Worksop Parramore tomorrow.
The Dennyboys are fifth while their visitors are tenth but Worksop are only six points behind and have four games in hand.
Liversedge have not played since beating Winterton 5-1 on the first Wednesday of the month and they have a chance to bank more points this weekend when they host Staveley MW, the club immediately below them in the table.
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When Billy King was asked how Deron Williams was doing after ankle surgery, King replied, "Good. He's bored. But good." Indeed he is. Matt Mitnick, his long-time friend, posted an Instagram video...
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Updated 4:39pm Thursday 30th January 2014 in News
A 78-year-old cyclist has been killed in a collision with a car near Bovington.
The man, believed to be from the Wareham area, was cycling near Clouds Hill on Wednesday afternoon when the accident happened.
A police spokesman said the cyclist was in collision with a Mitsubishi 4x4 which was towing a trailer.
The car is believed to have been driven by a man from the Dorchester area.
The cyclist was declared dead at the scene.
Police said the victim had been identified and next of kin were being sought.
It is the first incident in which someone has died on Dorset's roads this year.
The road at Clouds Hill was closed for several hours while specialist road accident investigators examined the scene.
Diversions were put in place and drivers faced delays as they were forced to take detours to avoid the road closures.
The road was re-opened at around 7.30pm.
Police were notified of the incident by South Western Ambulance Service Trust shortly after 3pm.
A spokesman for Dorset Police said: "At 3.10pm we received a report of a very serious road traffic collision near Clouds Hill at Bovington.
"Road closures were put in place at the Clouds Hill junction and the junction with the main road leading from the Bovington area towards Bere Regis."
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David Budd, who represents the Wareham ward on Purbeck District Council, said he was 'saddened' to hear the news.
He said: "It's very tragic when you hear of anyone losing their life in this way in an accident, but particularly at a time when people are being encouraged to use healthy, green methods of transport, such as cycling."
Last year a total of 29 people died in road accidents across the county. In addition three people died last year in separate incidents after becoming ill at the wheels of their cars.
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rumpelstiltskin wrote:It's a common motif with big projects
In a way I admire differences but at the same time the compromises can be hurtful and helpful and incomplete...
rumpelstiltskin wrote:It's a common motif with big projects
GrahamH wrote:. . . .Architects come back with a thoroughly dismal redesign that could not express in bricks and mortar the concept of a mean-spirited, begrudging sulk any more if it tried.
rumpelstiltskin wrote:These are some of the problems:
-There is inconsistency in deciding what is appropriate for Dublin's streetscapes. An Bord Pleanala and DCC are not on the same page, and the latter do not even adhere to their own guidelines.
-Dublin City Council seem content to grant permission to crude projects if they're exciting enough.
-An Bord Pleanala gets the final say, and it's more concerned with maintaining the blandness of Dublin, than with ensuring innovative and exciting architecture.
The system doesn't work. Nobody is ensuring the architectural quality of the buildings granted permission. An Bord Pleanala operates like a damage limitation team, trying desperately to hold on to the limited heritage left in Dublin, rather than creating an innovative fusion of old and new. In my view, the guidelines about building in areas like O'Connell St. need to be less restrictive, both for ABP and DCC, and the counterbalance needs to be that the whole process is overseen by some sort of architectural quality board, which will have a coherent and forward-thinking vision for Dublin. It is, after all, the capital.
JoePublic wrote:I don't see why they changed the carlton facade proposal from the second incarnation, as still seen (for the time being) on http://www.dublincentral.ie. I know setbacks are none too popular on archiseek, but its gotta be better than that boxy shite
12. Redesign the buildings to each side of the entrance from O'Connell Street to the new street to provide a more composed treatment, generally using a limited and traditional palette of materials, paying appropriate respect to the relocated Carlton facade. The height of the Carlton/new department store may be of a scale to reflect its increased significance
JoePublic wrote:. . . . because of this condition from ABP:
The height of the Carlton/new department store may be of a scale to reflect its increased significance.
thebig C wrote:Really really dreadful! I could go into more detail regarding its awfulness but I just can't be bothered.
This whole process whereby developers prevaricate and Planning Authorities impose spurious "visual" conditions remind me of two previous blights on Dublins built fabric.
Firstly, The ILAC centre. The developers swept away a charming warren of streets only to get cold feet with the economy wobbling in the late 1970s. Their original urban scaled plans were dropped and we ended up with a single storey outer suburban strip mall plonked beside our capitals main street.
Secondly, after permitting and indeed participating in the wanton destruction of Georgian Dublin, the council insisted that all new buildings be in "Georgian style" pastiche crap! Short of a complete reconstruction a la what happened in Europe post WWII, they could have made the best of a bad situation and encouraged architects to experiment with modern architecture. But instead, architects were straight-jacketed to build only in redbrick, with uniform windows.
Both of these examples seem apt with the Carlton site. Nice to see we have learned from history!!
GrahamH wrote:So I think it is agreed amongst pretty much everyone - and from all ends of the architecture and planning spectrum on this website - that this is categorically not what O'Connell Street and this new city quarter warrants or deserves in design terms. Therefore a systems failure has to be identified, either in our planning process or in the architectural profession, or both.
Developers and some architects have often been heard in recent years waxing on about overly-prescriptive planning laws, yet surely the outcome of the above is precisely the result of a lack of clout and clarity in planning policy? Or more pointedly, the erroneous interpretation of planning policy? Alternatively, one can argue that the relative 'freedom' offered by planners in this case was to enable architects to come up with imaginative and creative design solutions in accordance with best design practice. Architects, after all, know best when it comes to design - right? Why shouldn't they be given the rudder on this one? Logic would dictate that they should.
The reality is that we see both professions culpable in this:
In spite of some worthy Additional Information modifications made by Dubln City Council, an effectively illegal interpretation of the O'Connell Street ACA under the 2000 Planning Act led to the initial grant for the scheme by DCC: -1 for planners.
The initial proposal was over-scaled, crudely integrated with its host environment and ignorant of existing building grain and street patterns: -1 to architects, and -1 to planners for granting it.
An Bord Pleanála then gets called in to clean up the mess as usual. They enforce planning policy and civic design character by decree - hardly the best method of producing creative design solutions: both +1 and -1 to the planning system.
Architects come back with a thoroughly dismal redesign that could not express in bricks and mortar the concept of a mean-spirited, begrudging sulk any more if it tried. The O'Connell Street frontage attempts little distinguished sense of urbanity or clarity of expression, never mind anything that approaches a civic-minded outlook for the first major intervention on the capital's main throughfare in nearly a century: -1 to architects
An Bord Pleanála now reassesses, and grants permission on the basis of a raft of conditional redesign measures that attempt to address the refusal of the promoters to engage in a meaningful manner with the critical planning and design issues at stake. The result is a compromise that does nobody any favours, and where the energy that is expended in the whole arduous process would have been immeasurably better spent concentrated on a thoughtful and engaging urban design proposal - critically, had the guidance been there from the outset.
tommyt wrote:http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/232347.htm
granted PP yesterday. Hopefuly get time to read the conditions later.
StephenC wrote:The only good thing to come from this is that it will probably never be built
Yixian wrote:What makes you think that? The wheels seem in motion now...
StephenC wrote:Where do you think Joe O'Reilly is going to get the €1 billion to build the thing?
How likely do you think John Lewis are to set up shop in Dublin in this climate? Remember no anchor, no development.
Bago wrote:http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0327/1224267172959.html
..... ......., moore st has developed organically and i love this street, probably one of the most interesting in Dublin, i'd love to see the streets behind redeveloped into a high density residential area, a warren of small independent shops and restaurants like you'd find off las ramblas or tokyo backstreets. But no, the british high street's gonna punch it's way through to the ilac mall dressed in chrome, glass, aluminium and every sterile contemporary accessary going.


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Chaos ensues. The man takes matters into his own hands and shoot one of the robbers.
He then tells the dispatcher that he's been robbed, and two women in the home were physically hurt.
The county released a timeline showing deputies were dispatched more than three and a half minutes after the original call, but they say the transfer problems didn't slow down their response.
They also say steps are being taken to make sure it doesn't happen again, although they didn't clarify what those steps are.
As for the robbers, three of them have been caught, including the guy who was shot by the homeowner.
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — The drug war in Mexico has claimed at least 70,000 lives, but the full death toll may never be known because thousands are searching for relatives who have disappeared.
Along the border, some of those missing in Mexico are U.S. citizens.
"It's individuals that communicated with their loved ones on a daily basis, and — all of a sudden — they disappear," said Oscar Hagelseib, assistant special agent in charge of Homeland Security's investigations in El Paso.
The agency helped Mexico pinpoint the location of a mass grave in the Valley of Juárez last November.
"The intelligence was there was a strong possibility there were United States citizens there," Hagelseib said.
Just across the border from El Paso on the outskirts of Juárez, forensic workers dug up the remains of 20 men.
All had been murdered; some showed signs of torture.
A spokesman with the Chihuahua state attorney general's office said investigators stopped digging in the area four days after they started because they had had "recovered all the remains that were at the site."
Some of the bodies still have not been identified. Mexico continues to find mass grave sites in areas ravaged by drug violence.
The U.S. State Department documents the deaths of Americans in Mexico, but does not keep a comprehensive report of U.S. citizens who disappeared.
Jason Macias disappeared on August 30, 2011. The 23-year-old worked as a school security guard in his hometown of El Paso. In his final Facebook message posted he said, "Ate a large pizza, watching a movie."
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Macias' family lives on the U.S. side of the border, but his mother was afraid to talk about the details of the disappearance.
Others are banding together to speak out.
On a recent evening a few blocks from the border, a vigil was held.
"Tonight, Annunciation House bears witness to the disappeared by projecting over 9,000 of the names from all over Mexico of the desaparecidos [missing]," said Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House.
The non-profit organization helps migrants and refugees. In recent years, it has seen a spike in the number of Mexicans fleeing violence.
At the vigil, the names of people missing in Mexico were projected on the side of a building as volunteers, family members and others lit candles to remember the disappeared.
"I really didn't know much about the disappeared until I moved to the border," said Kristen Bowdre of Dallas, who is spending a year volunteering at Annunciation House.
The parents of two young women who disappeared spoke to the crowd.
Diana Ramirez Hernandez and Monica Alanis Esparza were both 18-year-old college students when they vanished.
"They're not dead, but we're not living either," said Ricardo Alanis Esparza. His daughter, Monica, has been missing since 2009.
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"Personally, it happened to me where a cousin was killed by a drug cartel and he had nothing to do and was never involved in this." Hagelseib said. "He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. They wanted his truck, so they killed him."
Many other families continue to search for answers.
Mexico's Interior Ministry estimates 26,000 people were reported missing during the six years when Felipe Calderón was president and drug violence spiked. The current administration released that number, but did not say which cases may be tied to organized crime.
Human Rights Watch released a report in February that said it documented at least 250 cases of people who disappeared.
Human rights organizations say military and police are behind some disappearances.
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Henry Weinhard's Redwood Flats Amber Ale - Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Co.
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Ratings: 163 | Reviews: 48 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by Jparker37:
3.35/5 rDev +8.1%
12oz bottle poured into an Imperial pint glass. The date on the bottle reads December 31, 2012 but I believe its a best by date.
A - Small cap of off-white head with some big bubbles falls to a small cap. The beer has great clarity and is a light amber. Small bit of lacing left.
S - Pleasant bouquet of citrus hops is most forward. They also seem to have a melon character as well. Some biscuit malts are there but understated.
T - Malt has a better edge here with some toasty flavors that hold throughout. Hops still play a big role following along with the smell. The hops are citrus-like but somewhat earthy. Has a bit of bitterness to it that starts about midway through. Finishes somewhat dry but with a nice balance of hops and malt after.
M - Medium to medium-light body, moderate carbonation, semi-dry.
O - Unsure what exactly to make of this beer. Had a solid aroma with a focus on hop character. Flavor was right there as well but in both fields seemed to be off-balanced. Could have used more malt emphasis and dimension within. Good drinkability but nothing I would recommend or buy again.
01-16-2013 00:26:42 | More by Jparker37
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2.75/5 rDev -11.3%
01-19-2013 03:12:43 | More by tbryan5
3.75/5 rDev +21%
05-17-2013 01:31:10 | More by SmellsofMahagony
New York
3.1/5 rDev 0%
12 ounce bottle. With DEC3112 on the neck. Best before dating?
Pours near clear reddish amber, quick to depart khaki head, leaves a trace of a film, and moderate fine lace.
Just a hint of sweet caramel tinged malts and dusty hops on the nose.
Middle of the road amber, "craft beer" for newbies, more caramel, very light hop presence in the finish. Ehh, nothing special, toss some chicken in it for a spell, give it to your BMC drinking friends or family members, create a little more interest for real beer. But dont expect a transcendant experience drinking this one
11-09-2012 03:33:01 | More by Billolick
2.25/5 rDev -27.4%
08-12-2013 22:29:08 | More by Hugh37
2.83/5 rDev -8.7%
Pretty standard looking red pour, average head, not much if any lacing. Aroma was somewhat woody, irish malt feel.
Taste, hops kept down, a little more robust irish moss feel to it than Killians. Not the greatest off flavor bitterness, can't figure where it came from, unless they use a small amount of high alpha acid hops. Either way, not my favorite Weinhards beer by any stretch of the imagination. A little caramel thrown in there.
06-03-2011 17:41:07 | More by Beerandraiderfan
South Carolina
3.08/5 rDev -0.6%
12 oz bottle, slightly past the 2013 best by date, served in a lager glass.
Pours clear, deep amber colored, with a moderate size but exceptionally creamy head. The head has good retention and leaves a full coat of lacing on the glass with each tip. Lots of carbonation is visible.
S: caramel with some piney and earthy hops, but with a metallic and faintly musky tone.
T: Better than the aroma, but too mild. Caramel malt up front fades as the earthy hops build towards the mildly hoppy and slightly bitter finish.
M: crisp; light-medium body.
O: Decent, at least after it warms up a bit.
07-24-2013 23:19:42 | More by chinchill
3.33/5 rDev +7.4%
Best before date of July 22nd, 2013
Appearance - Pours a clear, brilliant amber with an off-white, finger width head. Sub-par retention, resulting in a broken layer of microbubbles across the surface. Very little in the way of lacing.
Smell - Moderate caramel sweetness on the nose.Subtle hints of earth and floral hop.
Taste - Mostly a light caramel and lightly toasted grain profile. Touches of diacetyl. Slight lemongrass bitterness near the finish.
Mouthfeel - Medium body with moderate carbonation. Smooth and drinkable.
Overall - Not a bad beer, mostly because there's not enough flavor to truly judge, but what is there is unoffensive, and is actually somewhat good. Just wish there was more. One of those beers you'd buy for a backyard BBQ or when you're feeling the need to get a buzz on the cheap.
05-26-2013 05:40:05 | More by TheSixthRing
North Carolina
3.25/5 rDev +4.8%
06-08-2013 23:09:39 | More by tdm168
3.25/5 rDev +4.8%
02-15-2013 06:07:10 | More by cliff1066
2.45/5 rDev -21%
Finger of head with a reddish hue. Clear, copper colored body.
Smell is faintly lemon, faintly.
Plain Jane taste. Almost flavorless at first, mild bitterness to end it.
Crisp and clean texture, medium body with moderate carbonation.
Not bad, but not good or interesting.
11-18-2012 19:06:24 | More by Fatehunter
3.25/5 rDev +4.8%
11-09-2012 06:39:30 | More by russpowell
3/5 rDev -3.2%
07-10-2013 21:42:38 | More by TheMrFarnham
3.13/5 rDev +1%
This poured with a robust one inch head that was bubbly but stayed around for several minutes. The color was of orange but almost pink and appeared to be a Chablis in the snifter. I detected an undertone of sweetness and hops but maltiness dominated. The taste was of an average Amber Ale, malty and sweet but a bit acidic on the tongue. I would drink this again, especially at $6 a six pack, but consider it a run of the mill Ale.
11-09-2012 23:28:54 | More by KYGunner
3.32/5 rDev +7.1%
08-12-2014 20:10:33 | More by JaredGolia
3.63/5 rDev +17.1%
Poured from a brown 12 oz. bottle. Has an amber color with a 1 inch head. Smell is of malts, biscuity, some hops. Taste is well balanced hops and malts, some caramel notes, very easy drinking. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is a refreshing and enjoyable beer.
11-17-2012 01:29:50 | More by tone77
New Hampshire
3.44/5 rDev +11%
From the 12 fl. oz. bottle marked APR0113-C012009I Sampled on August 3, 2013 so I do not know if the April 2013 date is the expiration date. If so I am a few months late.
Still, it looks like it should with a medium amber sort of brass-copper appearance with a lingering off-white head.
The aroma is full of sweet caramel and toffee malts with a very distant, nearly indistinguishable hop note.
The body is a little better than medium and pretty smooth in texture.
The taste is about as sweet as the aroma suggests with a lot of caramel malts, butterscotch, and sugar and a subtle hop finale that does not linger. It does what it is supposed to do as far as this style goes.
08-03-2013 18:29:45 | More by puboflyons
New Jersey
2.8/5 rDev -9.7%
A: Tarnished ruby-orange with a neat clarity. Frothy dirty white head sits a finger high with several minutes of stay. Thin film ring encompasses the vessel for lacing of average regards.
S: Light dried apple skin fruitiness, and i do mean light. Light wiff of crystal malt is brief with a soft flowery hop touch. Really isnt alot to go on here.
t: Flavor is a munich-caramel freshness, toasty sweet of light to moderate intentions. A bit of flowery cascade hops provide just the faintest bit of hop awareness. There is a bit of a metallic nature as well that is present.
M: some malt substance, a bit syrupy and slick in texture with a toasted warmth, but overall just an average experience.
O: Overall a moderate flavor, some toasted grain mention, hops are a bit restrained, but after recently sampling thier ipa and classic pale lager this is somewhat of a relief showing some flavor and backbone support in their beers. A no thrill downer for the non-discrimintory red beer drinker.
12-11-2012 02:23:40 | More by beerthulhu
3.25/5 rDev +4.8%
02-05-2013 00:12:25 | More by stampfler07
3.25/5 rDev +4.8%
11-21-2013 17:01:10 | More by Bloodeclipse
3.5/5 rDev +12.9%
12 oz twist-off bottle poured into a Sierra Nevada imperial pint.
5.2% ABV, DEC0312 printed on neck.
A - This gorgeous rich amber-colored beer is loaded with carbonation bubbles streaming through the clear beer to it's sudsy off-white foam head. Sticky lace clutches the glass as the foam falls to a thin but stable skim.
S - Redwood Flats Amber doesn't do itself any favors by opening with a rather bland, grainy pale malt aroma. Back-up notes of toasted and amber malts are present but certainly not showcased, and any level of hopping is minimal for balance. Earthy traces come through, but they're minimal, offered haphazardly.
T - Assertively malt forward, Redwood Flats Amber piles on the pale malt but elevates the flavor quite a bit from the lackluster aroma. Toasted Munich malt adds the bread crunch while a touch of caramel aids in the sweetness. Again, hops seem strangely absent from this beer, barely imparting an earthy finish that seems like an afterthought.
M - Luckily enough, the hops, which remain absent in aroma and flavor, help to hold this beer together where it counts; the feel. With how malt-forward it is, it's a wonder that the beer's sweetness isn't cloying. A light touch of citrus crispness flashes across the finish lingering with a touch of dryness to cap off this medium-light bodied amber.
O - The beer's malt dominance seems odd since the label mentions, two separate times, that it's brewed with cascade hops. The hops keep it balanced though, so I suppose that's something. Ultimately, Henry Weinhard's amber remains an easily drinkable beer, inviting from first glance to a rather clean finish, nothing about it is offensive. Nothing about it is outstanding either.
09-28-2012 22:08:56 | More by BeerFMAndy
3/5 rDev -3.2%
10-25-2012 18:57:13 | More by CM31
2.25/5 rDev -27.4%
10-28-2013 00:44:50 | More by jaydoc
3.75/5 rDev +21%
10-27-2012 23:53:10 | More by Bpierso1
3.25/5 rDev +4.8%
11-22-2012 23:58:30 | More by MikalMick
Henry Weinhard's Redwood Flats Amber Ale from Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Co.
72 out of 100 based on 163 ratings.