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In last week's Roundup, I posted a bit of a rambling vent about the booking of the Divas and (mostly) the Knockouts. While it received support, it also received criticism, saying that it implied that all the fault of the poor state of women's wrestling in TNA and WWE was entirely down to the writers and promoters, and didn't take into account the actual wrestling ability – or in many cases, lack of it – of the performers involved. So for the sake of fairness, I'm going to put the actual wrestling skills of WWE Divas and TNA Knockouts under the microscope…
Before we go on, there's going to be a lot of criticism here, and names will be named. I'm just calling it as I see it, and it's just one man's opinion. If you don't agree, that's fine – I'm not saying that my word is gospel, and you may enjoy what's presented to you. If that's you, great, and more power to you. However, we at Ringbelles have committed to being honest, even if it's not a popular opinion.
And for anyone who may say that I'm in no place to comment as I've never been in the ring before, that also means that my compliments are not valid either, as I've clearly never been in a ring – unless you count a few ring announcing gigs.
I feel we need to start with WWE, as it's the biggest company and thusly receives the most viewers for its women's contests. For the most part, the criticism is focussed on the women who are plucked from outside the wrestling world to try and turn them into wrestlers – for example, Kelly Kelly, Maryse, Alicia Fox and the like. All of them are beneficiaries/victims of the success that WWE had with Sable, and to a great extent, Trish Stratus – two models who the company managed to successfully train up to be the torchbearers of the division at their respective times. With Stratus in particular, WWE caught lightning in a bottle in that she was beautiful, sexy, athletic, eventually developed into a great character and could hold her own as a top-line Diva. Sure, she wasn't flawless – for the first three or so years, Stratus was pretty poor – and sometimes cheapened women in wrestling by accepting to be part of storylines where she allowed herself to be humiliated – the prime example being when she was ordered by Vince McMahon to strip to her underwear, crawl on all fours and bark like a dog in the ring – but because of her willingness to do those things, she was given WWE's full support, as she was a "company girl".
However, since her retirement, WWE has tried and tried again to try and find another rough diamond. Each time, they have failed. Michelle McCool was the closest that they got, but while she was technically sound and arguably a better wrestler than Stratus, she never really connected with a crowd and will not be seen in the same light as the aforementioned Trish.
Lita was another woman who did well for herself with a wrestling style which was at best, ropey, and at worst, downright dangerous to herself and her opponents. Personally, I found it hard to enjoy her matches as she always seemed to close to killing herself with that damn moonsault. That dive she performed out of the ring on Trish on Raw in 2005 where she ended up almost breaking her neck was one of the most reckless and scary things I've seen.
Since they both decided to quit wrestling, we've seen Christy Hemme, Eve Torres, Kelly Kelly, Ashley Massaro, Maryse, Fox, Candice Michelle, Torrie Wilson and many more trained from scratch with varying levels of success (Candice was on the way to becoming better than Trish before she fractured her collarbone), but none that would provide bona fide great matches. This is confusing though, as they are in a company with a dedicated farm system in Florida Championship Wrestling, which they could ask to go to every day that they weren't on the road if they so wished. Kurt Angle did that back in 1998 and moved away from then-wife Karen for more than half a year while he honed his craft and got good. McCool likely got so good at wrestling as she was getting a 24/7 education at home with her now-husband, The Undertaker. But there's no reason why Kelly, the Bellas or even Tamina couldn't do the same thing and trade in the celebrity and media appearances to get good at wrestling. To Hemme's credit, she did ask to be sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling to get further training, but was released by WWE while she was there for reasons still undisclosed.
Last year on NXT, a match between Kaitlyn and Maxine was pilloried for being terrible, and rightly so, as it was. The excuse Maxine gave was that they didn't have time to rehearse it, as the ring was in use before the taping. Some argued that if you're a proper wrestler, you shouldn't be able to go out there and just do it without rehearsing it. While I can understand that point of view, I don't care how mechanical a match may be and how long it took to put together – as long as it comes together on TV, that's all I care about as a viewer. Sure, it may not be the art, but as long as everything's alright on the night, does it matter? Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior's WrestleMania VI match was apparently gone over multiple times beforehand to make sure there were no mistakes, and that was just fine when it came to the day.
I know, it's a ridiculous suggestion that Divas would want to go and get more training than the company thinks they need as they're on TV anyway, and as long as they look good, they'll get shoved out through that curtain and keep their profile high. I suppose it depends on if they have sights set on life after WWE, and want to keep their celebrity stock high by keeping their face out there. If they wanted a WWE job for life, they could knuckle down and learn their craft, but I imagine many know that the gravy train won't last forever, and have seen the success that Stacy Keibler, Stratus and Maria have had on TV shows that don't have McMahon as an executive producer.
However, that's an avenue that the remaining Divas like Natalya, Gail Kim, Beth Phoenix and even Melina probably do not have. Sure, their matches are better, but according to WWE, their looks are less aesthetically pleasing, so have to work twice as hard to get as far as less experienced but more photogenic girls. But let's be honest – WWE doesn't really care about putting on good women's wrestling matches. As long as they're not injuring each other, I'm sure they're not that fussed. TNA, on the other hand, could afford to have loftier ambitions, but the reality is probably more disappointing.
Nearly every female wrestler that TNA has on its books trained as wrestlers and were hired by the company for their body of work, rather than them signing up someone after flicking through a Victoria's Secret catalogue. For that reason, we should be expecting more from them… so it's an even more crushing blow when we're let down again and again.
Last week, I pointed out that most of the efforts put on by the Knockouts on PPV in 2011 have been pretty poor, and in some cases, horrific. This shouldn't be the case. Girls like Winter, Mickie James and Velvet Sky have been wrestling for close to a decade and shouldn't be bombing so hard on TV – apparently it's better on the house show circuit, as reports suggest Winter and Tara have been having some decent contests on the road – so it's maddening that they are now mediocre in the ring. There have been some decent reminders of the heady days in 2008 when Gail Kim and Awesome Kong would tear up rings – James v Tara in a cage would be an example – but they're few and far between, and that's a pity.
Even wrestlers like Mickie James seem to have lost that spark since bedding into TNA, which I think is indicative of the vibe in the promotion. Winter's character doesn't lend itself to being an exciting wrestler. Angelina Love used to be a fair enough worker, but is a shell of her indie self, and it seems that only Madison Rayne and Miss Tessmacher have that fire still left in them, though we haven't seen the former for a while, and the latter may be still full of beans because she's new to the ring and is being pushed. Look at her in a year and we'll probably have a better assessment.
In fact, Tessmacher may be indicative of the direction that TNA wants to go in – fair enough, they can bring back ODB and Jacqueline, but Brooke Adams is the one getting a lot of time on TV before she's ready, much like Divas such as Maryse, Fox, Kaitlyn and Tamina have received in WWE.
I accept that TNA doesn't have the training facilities that WWE has, but there's the Team 3D school nearby where Leva Bates trains, and there are a load of veteran wrestlers in that locker room that they could get feedback from. I'm not sure if they're asking for advice or constructive criticism, or if they're asking but getting bad advice or no advice at all, but something's just not right.
It's a shame really. For whatever reason – the booking, the money, apathy, the atmosphere, the company backing or the lack of encouragement – a potentially hot women's wrestling division is flat and lifeless. I slated the booking last week, but that shouldn't stop the Knockouts from trying to make chicken soup out of chicken shit by having a great match and then showing up how dumb the booking decisions dictating their matches are.
And before anyone argues the point, I'm not claiming that everyone on the independents is awesome and more deserving of being signed. Sure, there are some great wrestlers out there, some who should accept that their lot is about as good as it's going to get, some who are green as grass and some who are downright awful – but I give them a bit more slack, as they're not on international TV on a weekly basis and giving a potentially massive audience an impression of what all women's wrestling is like. I just wish that instead of deciding to change the channel, go for a piss or mentally tune out, viewers and attendees of live shows sit there with an open mind instead of closing it and waiting to see if the girls can take that crowbar and prise it open.
And then, having written all of that, Kelly Kelly goes and wins the Divas Title on Raw, pinning Brie Bella after the fans voted her into a title match over Eve Torres and Beth Phoenix – and before anyone starts saying the vote was rigged, it would be more than WWE was worth if they were caught deliberately rigging it, though I understand there was an error in the voting for one of the polls.
First off, I know this is what Kelly has wanted for years, so congratulations to her, enjoy the moment and the feeling. I'm sure those tears at the end of the match were legitimate too, as she has been in the company for five years – pretty much all of her adult life, as she was signed up at the age of 18. Like Eve, she'll be a fine ambassador at the titleholder, and seeing as the SummerSlam hype is picking up, I'm sure she'll be doing the Hollywood rounds in Los Angeles to promote the event and any films WWE has coming up. The problem is that she has the belt, Kelly now never has to improve in the ring if she doesn't want to.
Before, the promotion could have dangled that title in front of her like a carrot on a stick to encourage her to get better. After all, recently she's been pretty sloppy out there, with many pointing out that she is probably the worst person in WWE for simply running the ropes. In fact, I'm struggling to recall if she ran the ropes once during last night's show. But now that she has the championship, it's essentially WWE telling her that she doesn't have to get any better – as long as she doesn't bomb, she'll stay on TV.
But then, in the grand scheme of things, does it all matter? She is the most over woman they have and generates a legitimate pop when her music hits – something that Torres can't do, no matter how hard she tries to improve. If people care about her, they may pay money to see her, and for a business, that's really all that matters, right?
So if that's the case, why hotshot the belt onto her on free TV, instead of waiting until a PPV to extract a few dollars from Kelly fans? As mentioned, the belt is pretty worthless in the grand scheme of things due to the quality of the action, characters and storylines taking a dip, but that's no reason to stop trying. Would it not be better to build up a sustained storyline over a couple of months like they did with Natalya and LayCool and then give Kelly the title – and then when you do so, have her decisively beat Brie instead of getting a roll-up, which could be construed as a stroke of luck instead of her being the better competitor?
I'm probably thinking too much about this – as we know, the girls "don't matter" in WWE – but I wish that some writer would ask to be given the Divas as a pet project and work with them to bring out their strengths, both collectively and individually. Still, this isn't a perfect world, and if you want to see great women's wrestling, WWE probably isn't for you – though there's a world of options out there as an alternative.
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June 14: CMLL (Guadalajara, Mexico) – Amapola b Lluvia
June 15: Ohio Valley Wrestling (Louisville, KY) – CJ Lane b Epiphany Jones
June 15: Ice Ribbon (Saitama, Japan) – Emi Sakura b Remi Nagano 1-0; Tsukasa Fujimoto b Maki Narumiya, Meari Naito & Nekko Nitta; Hikaru Shida b Chii Tomiya; Choun Shiryu & GENTARO b Hamuko Hoshi & Mochi Miyagi; Emi Sakura b Masa Takanashi to win the DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship; Remi Nagano b Emi Sakura to win the DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship; Hikari Minami b Remi Nagano to win the DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship; Emi Sakura b Hikari Minami to win the DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship; Masa Takanashi pinned Emi Sakura to win the DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship
June 15: WAVE (Tokyo, Japan) Kagetu b Nao Komatsu; Misaki Ohata b Nagisa Nozaki; Tomoka Nakagawa b Ryo Mizunami; Yumi Ohka & Cherry b Moeka Haruhi & Kayoko Haruyama; Mio & Io Shirai & Kana b GAMI, Toshie Uematsu & Sakura Hirota; Mio & Io Shirai & Kana b GAMI, Toshie Uematsu & Sakura Hirota; Mio & Io Shirai & Kana b GAMI, Toshie Uematsu & Sakura Hirota. That's not a misprint.
June 16: Impact Wrestling (Orlando, FL) – Rosita & Sarita b Velvet Sky & Miss Tessmacher
June 17: Phoenix Pro Wrestling (West Bromwich, England) – Chrissy Valentine b Bacardi & Pollyanna
June 17: 19 Pro (Saitama, Japan) – Tsukasa Fujimoto v Remi Nagano went to a 5 minute time limit draw; Hikaru Shida b Chii Tomiya
June 17: Firestorm Pro Wrestling (Mentor On The Lake, OH) – Sassy Stephie b Annie Social
June 18: British Wrestling Evolution (Braintree, England) – Pollyanna b Janey B & Rhia O'Reilly
June 18: TNA BaseBrawl (Buffalo, NY) – Tara b Winter
June 18: AAA (Mexico City, Mexico) Ashley & Sexy Angel b Dashuri & Keira
June 18: Northern Championship Wrestling (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) – LuFisto b Angie Skye
June 18: Ice Ribbon (Saitama, Japan) – Chii Tomiya b Hikaru Shida; Emi Sakura b Maki Narumiya; Choun Shiryu v Ray went to a time limit draw; Tsukasa Fujimoto, Hamuko Hoshi & Mochi Miyagi b Tsukushi, Hikari Minami & Riho in an elimination match
June 18: Pro Wrestling Xtreme (Orlando, FL) – Jillian Hall b Santana
June 18: Ring Wars Carolina (Fayetteville, NC) – Mia Svensson b Kimberley Spades
June 18: WAVE (Hiroshima, Japan) – Sakura Hirota & a local male wrestler b Kana & another local male wrestler; Cherry b Ryo Mizunami; Ayumi Kurihara b Mio Shirai; Manami Toyota, Moeka Haruhi & Mika Iida b GAMI, Command Bolshoi & Io Shirai; Toshie Uematsu & Ran Yu-Yu b Yumi Ohka & Misaki Ohata
June 18: AAA TripleMania (Mexico City, Mexico) – Mickie James, Velvet Sky, Angelina Love & Sexi Star b Fabi and Mari Apache, Lolita & Cinthia Moreno
June 18: Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling (Vancouver, BC, Canada) – Billy Suede b Nicole Matthews
June 18: NWA New Jersey (Mays Landing, NJ) – Kimber Lee b Brittany Force
June 18: New York Wrestling Connection (Deer Park, NY) – Nikki Sixx b Brittany Force & Violet Stevens
June 19: Ice Ribbon TEENS (Saitama, Japan) – Hikari Minami & Riho b Hamuko Hoshi & Mochi Miyagi; Kurumi b Dorami Nagano; Tsukasa Fujimoto b Tsukushi; Hikari Minami won a 6-person Battle Royal last eliminating Tsukushi.
June 20: WWE Raw (Baltimore, MD) – Kelly Kelly b Brie Bella to win the Divas Title
June 25: Ballarat Professional Wrestling (Wendouree, Australia) – Shazza McKenzie v Eliza Sway
June 25: Women Superstars Uncensored: Uncensored Rumble (Union City, NJ) – Mercedes Martinez v Brittany Savage; The Belle Saints v The Boston Shore; Serena v Nikki Roxx; Alicia v Jessicka Havok; Sassy Stephie v Rain; Cindy Rogers v Allison Danger; Kristin Astara v Jillian Hall; Niya v Barbie; Amy Lee, Jamilia Craft & The Soul Sistas v Rick Cataldo, Allysin Kay, Jennifer Cruz & Monique
June 25: Riot City Wrestling (Adelaide, Australia) – Miami v Melodi Summers
June 26: Anarchy Championship Wrestling American Joshi Queen Of Queens (Live Oak, TX) – featuring Serena Deeb, Amanda Fox, Mia Yim, Christina Von Eerie, Rachel Summerlyn, Athena, and Daffney
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July 8: Destination One Wrestling (Charlestown, IN) – Jimmy Feltcher & Trash Cassidy v Mad Man Pondo & Mickie Knuckles
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September 17: IndyGurlz (Boonton, NJ)
September 24: IndyGurlz (Worcester, MA)
October 1 & 2: SHIMMER: Women Athletes (Berwyn, IL)
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Tony Blair
News about Tony Blair, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
If the Scots Gain Independence, Expect a More Conservative U.K.
The Labour Party would have a much harder path to a majority in future national elections.
September 8, 2014, Monday
Tony Blair Has Used His Connections to Change the World, and to Get Rich
Since leaving Downing Street, Mr. Blair has become a diplomat, opened charities and made millions from consulting, raising questions about possible conflicts of interest.
August 6, 2014, Wednesday
Shame on the Blair Blamers
Britain's former prime minister has become a divisive figure, but that should not blind us to what he is actually right about.
July 1, 2014, Tuesday
Israel's Puppy, Tony Blair
As a Middle East envoy, Blair has advanced his consultancy business more than he has helped Palestinians.
June 26, 2014, Thursday
Combative BBC Anchor Exits News Program
Jeremy Paxman, the "Newsnight" anchor and one of Britain's best-known broadcasters, was not exactly known for deferring to the lawmakers who appeared on his TV program.
June 20, 2014, Friday
Out of Power Almost 7 Years, Blair Is Still Haunted by a Legacy of War
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, remains defined by many for his steadfast support of President George W. Bush and the invasion of Iraq.
June 16, 2014, Monday
A Reagan or a Blair?
What kind of leader does the G.O.P. need now?
June 13, 2014, Friday
Blair Urges E.U. Leaders to Heed Lessons of Elections
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain called on European Union leaders to heed the "wake-up call" of the recent European elections by delivering better living standards.
June 3, 2014, Tuesday
Iraq War Inquiry Gets Bits of Leaders' Talks in Britain
The British government agreed on Thursday to give the "gist" of conversations between Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush while they were in office to an inquiry panel looking into the Iraq war.
May 30, 2014, Friday
Britain: Blair Speaks Out on Islamic Extremism
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, said Wednesday that the spread of Islamic extremism represented "the biggest threat to global security of the 21st century."
April 24, 2014, Thursday
Blair: Need to Revive Two-State Solution
CNBC interviews Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain, about his efforts as a United Nations envoy in bringing peace to the Middle East.
Blair: Need to Revive Two-State Solution
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Indians blow out Hawks in home opener
WAXAHACHIE - Waxahachie (3-1) (2-0) Christened its new Lumpkins' Stadium in grand style with a convincing 55 to 9 victory over Red Oak (2-3) (1-2).
Waxahachie scored early and often with Robert Lowe Jr. leading the way with 16 carries and 176 yards and 3 rushing touchdowns.
Quarterback Don King III added 252 yards passing and two touchdown passes to Quinn Sargant.
Waxahachie's defense forced two fumbles on consecutive Red Oak drives in the final three minutes of the first half.
Waxahachie quickly turned them into touchdowns to open a 34 to 7 lead at the half.
The Hawks lone offensive score came on a pass from Austin VanHove to a wide open Jeremiah Gaines who raced into the end zone untouched.
The Hawks defense did get a safety late in the game, but that would be as close as they would come as the Indians rolled over the Hawks to remain undefeated in district play while the Hawks fall to 1-2.


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Hello dear readers! I thought I'd let y'all know there's a new video clip up on Shellie TV. It's a Toilet Booger story I shared with the Cowgirl Convention in Tyler, TX!. I hope y'all enjoy! Do feel free to share and warn your loved ones of the dangers lurking out there. Hugs, Shellie
Touring The Redneck Radio Studio
Hey y'all! I'm making good on a promise I made a while back to let y'all tour the Redneck Radio Studio. Back story– every Monday morning I set up the Redneck Radio Studio to tape a week's worth of the All Things Southern daily radio features. These three-minute segments will then be mixed and sent to my radio… Read More
Belle Rules of Regifting!
Hey y'all! I just heard that today was International Regifting Day– which, of course, brought to mind a helpful guideline I wrote on the subject in my last book, Sue Ellen's Girl Ain't Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy. In the event that you haven't read that book, (and I will forgive you if this is so), I… Read More
That's a Good Question
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Caroline and The Toilet Booger
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Marshall Elementary School is hosting the Second Annual Marshall Elementary School Tamale Contest. For $25 (advanced ticket price - $30 at the door), you get to sample the full variety of homemade tamales offered by our Mission-based tamale chefs - the parents of Marshall Elementary School students and our Mission neighbors.
This year, the tamale tasting will be held March 3, 2014 at the Roosevelt Tamale Parlor (2817 – 24th Street in San Francisco) from 6 – 8 PM.
Prizes will be awarded to the cooks who create the best tasting tamales. The rest of the money will help the Marshall Elementary PTA fund areas that are not covered in the school budget, to include (but not limited to) technology for the classrooms, science-based field trips in support of the school's innovative Oceans Month program, and funding for organized team games and peer leadership during outdoor play.
Please purchase your tickets now and help support our local public school!
Tamale cooks needed / Se necesitan personas que hagan tamales!
Marshall parents and friends are needed to make tamales. Cash prizes will be awarded! Please contact Jason Garcia if you are interested in participating: email@example.com
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Hoffenheim thrash Hertha Berlin
Hoffenheim brought a spectacular end to their 2014 with a 5-0 win at Hertha Berlin on Sunday, moving them to within a point of the top six for the duration of the winter break.
John Anthony Brooks gave them a leg-up with an own goal which was followed by two penalties from Sejad Salihovic before half-time.
Hertha, who led Frankfurt by three goals in midweek and ended up drawing 4-4, this time had to come from behind, but they were not able to as Sven Schipplock and Sebastian Rudy completed the rout.


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So having read Bob's post and Carl's very thorough and elegant response, let me offer a somewhat different view on the relationship between the progessive TR and our (new kind of) progressive Justice Anthony Kennedy.
So TR andATK are both about constitutional development, that's true. But TR was against judicial …read more
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Leicester's Neon Circus count Ian Brown, Who Made Who, The Rapture, LCD Soundsystem and DJ Shadow amongst their many influences, which shows in the gritty 00s punk-funk of 'Digit-izm' The second release from Neon Circus has been featured on the MTV series "slips" and has been backed by BBC6 music. An Exciting 2010 awaits the Trio with a their Debut album due to be released in June.
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[This story is adapted from Noël McLaren's article with Upper Michigan's Source. To view the original article, along with some video footage, click here.]
State Representative Steve Lindberg (109-Marquette) says he's no handyman, but he still likes to support a handy program in Marquette.
The legislator gave a helping hand to Habitat for Humanity Tuesday afternoon at 728 Union Street in Marquette. This is the third home Lindberg has proudly worked on with Habitat.
"This [Habitat for Humanity] is a program where people get a hand up rather than a hand out; it is one of the greatest programs that I can think of, and believe me, there are a lot of good programs out there," said Lindberg. "But this is one that I like to participate in every time I have a chance."
The four-bedroom home Lindberg worked on will benefit the Desparois family, a young U.P. couple with three young children.
Marquette County Habitat for Humanity is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing organization. Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those in need at no profit and with no interest charged.


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October 8, 2004
A Tribune roundup of news and events surrounding Wednesday's presidential debate in Tempe.
The Republican and Democratic parties are scouting locations in or near downtown Tempe to host thousands of supporters for debate watching parties and post-debate rallies where the candidates will appear Wednesday.
Democrats have zeroed in on Tempe Beach Park at Town Lake. The Arizona Education Association has agreed to end early a political rally for 5,000 teachers in the park to make way for up to 25,000 Kerry fans.
But Tempe officials are reviewing whether the city can provide enough security to handle such a large event when every police officer already has been called to duty that day. A decision from Tempe City Hall is expected this afternoon.
Meanwhile, Republicans and the Bush campaign say they haven't chosen any possible sites yet for their event. Speculation centers on Diablo Stadium, which would be relatively easy to secure and close to Arizona State University.
Governor tours debate site
Gov. Janet Napolitano went on a personal tour Thursday of Gammage Auditorium and the Media Debate Center next door to check on preparations for Wednesday.
Her first question — "How are we promoting Arizona?"
Colleen Jennings-Roggenssack, executive director of public events for ASU, explained the Commission of Presidential Debates will have complete control of the auditorium, so only its logo will be visible to the in-person audience or debate viewers around the world.
White banners that say "Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona" already alternate with U.S. flags hanging around the outside facade of Gammage. Similar, maroon banners will be seen from every angle inside the 32,000-square-foot media center erected solely for the debate.
There wasn't much for Napolitano to see on her tour, as the stage background is scheduled to arrive Saturday from Miami, Fla., where it was used in the first debate last week.
But Jennings-Roggenssack pointed out Napolitano's likely seat is in the second row where she will rub shoulders with other political stars such as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
Inside the media tent, one of the journalists trailing after Napolitano mentioned the rest room trailers that ASU has hauled in for more than 1,000 journalists and campaign surrogates. Napolitano's eyes lighted up at Jennings-Roggenssack's description, "Those are 'party pleasers,' that's what they're called."
The ASU tour guides steered Napolitano away when she tried to walk over to one of the trailers.
"The governor has no fun today!" Napolitano moaned in jest.
Two on Tuesday
Kerry will come to Valley a day early to prepare for the debate, Arizona campaign spokeswoman Sue Walitsky said.
The senator will arrive sometime Tuesday night, but no public appearances before the debate have been announced, she said.
The Tribune revealed earlier this week that Bush is scheduled to attend a Republican fund-raiser Tuesday afternoon at the Sanctuary resort in Paradise Valley.
Stress antidote touted
Stress for ASU officials and other people involved in pulling off the debate will keep building so that, by Wednesday, there could be enough tension to blow off the top of Mount St. Helens.
Neil Giuliano, the former Tempe mayor who came up with the idea to bring the debate to Tempe, says he has the perfect antidote.
He's handing out bottles of New Life TryptoZen, an overthe-counter diet supplement for reducing stress and anxiety.
Manufacturer Symbiotics says its product contains "hydrolyzed milk protein." A listing at Amazon.com says "TryptoZen contains a bioactive milk peptide derived from casein."
Don't you feel better already?
Not so fast
If you got an early invite to the Arizona Chamber of Commerce's debate "warm up" breakfast Wednesday between McCain and Napolitano, don't set your alarm clock yet.
In the rush to line up the state's political celebrities for appearances related to the presidential debate, it seems the chamber and others forgot that the governor often doesn't make up her mind on these things until the last minute.
The chamber sent out an email announcement earlier this week touting speeches by McCain and Napolitano at the breakfast event scheduled in downtown Phoenix.
McCain agreed to attend but Napolitano did not.
The chamber quickly sent out an apology after the governor's office called to complain.
ASU and the Council on Foreign Relations are cosponsoring a daylong seminar on the day of the debate and are hoping to coax the governor to be the luncheon speaker.
Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., has agreed to attend that morning, but the governor is being coy. So the ASU/council announcement says she has been "invited" to speak at the event to be held at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel.
"There has been no commitment to any of these events," said Jeanine L'Ecuyer, Napolitano's press secretary.
Instead, the governor is trying to stick to her routine on the day of the final presidential debate in 2004.
She plans to hold her weekly interview with Valley journalists in her Capitol office, and also will discuss budget proposals with her staff for the 2005 legislative session.
At night, it's a different story. McCain and Napolitano are co-hosting an exclusive postdebate celebration at the Mission Palms.
Yet another political forum
Rep. J.D. Hayworth, RAriz., and Dave Goldwin, an Arizona volunteer for the Kerry campaign, will hold a minidebate from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 6400 W. Del Rio St., Chandler.
The forum is sponsored by the church's social action council and will be moderated by Terry Ward of KJZZ (91.5 FM).


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Scotland Owes England £20 Billion
Row erupts over £20bn North Sea oil cash shortfall claims - Scotsman.com News
SCOTLAND would be £20 billion in the red even if it had retained all its oil money, a new government report claims.
A Scotland Office paper, published today, shows North Sea oil revenue would not have plugged the gap between spending and tax raised. The paper claims that if all the North Sea oil revenue had gone to Scotland, the country's finances would have been in surplus in only nine of the past 27 years.
It is an expensive way to buy a few tartan shortbread tins and keep some men in skirts happy. But still the SNP want to ramp up spending, increase the burdens on business, watch dwindling oil revenues and enjoy being on their own. Good luck with that.


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Herbert V. Hake
Herbert Victor Hake was born in Hoyleton, Illinois, on August 10, 1903. He earned a bachelor's degree from Central Wesleyan College in Warrenton, Missouri, in 1928 and a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1933. He taught art and theater and worked as a commercial layout artist.
Mr. Hake joined the Iowa State Teachers College staff as a theatre scene designer and technical director in 1938. He became the first radio program director in 1942 and the first director of radio and television in 1947. He was UNI's pioneer broadcaster. His programs, including "Landmarks in Iowa History", were known throughout the Midwest. Another program of special note is "Behind the Headlines" which he broadcast with Donald F. Howard for many years.
Herbert Hake was also well-known as a cartoonist, columnist, and local historian with many popular publications to his credit.
In 1973, the call letters of campus station KTCF were changed to KHKE in honor of Mr. Hake. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Iowa Broadcasters Association in 1978 and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from UNI in 1979.
Herbert Hake was married to Monabelle Hake. They had two daughters: Patricia and Priscilla. Mr. Hake died March 10, 1980.
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Annual awards: Two organizations are seeking nominations for their annual awards.
The Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for its 2013 Estrella Awards.
The 20th annual awards will be given at a dinner that will take place April 13 at the Disneyland Grand Hotel.
Nominations are sought in the areas of corporate responsibility, small business, international business, education, community service and lifetime achievement.
The deadline for nominations is Jan. 9, 2013.
For information, call 714-953-4289 or email@example.com. You can find a nomination form at http://conta.cc/R5tB90.
The National Hispanic Business Women Association is seeking nominations for its 2013 Business Women of the Year awards.
Categories include such areas as community service, non-profit work and education; corporate responsibility; and small business/entrepreneur.
Recipients will be honored at a scholarship dinner May 30, 2013, at the DoubleTree Hotel-OC Airport/Santa Ana.
Nominations can be made at nationalhbwa.com and are due Feb. 8. Click on 'Home," then "Events."
The organization has recognized 36 women for their achievements and contributions.
In 2013, it's offering individual and student level memberships at no cost for students, as well as small business owners, professionals, entrepreneurs and other individuals.
Organizational and corporate memberships are available, as well, at costs of $300 and $1,000 annually.
The organization seeks to encourage business and professional women through education, business referrals and networking.
Stop smoking: Anaheim Regional Medical Center offers free Spanish-language services, including classes, seminars and counseling, to help Orange County residents quit smoking.
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Ghosts Of Mississippi starring James Woods, Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg
Ghosts of Mississippi -- Alec Baldwin stars as an assistant DA seeking justice for the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Co-starring Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods.
Ghosts of Mississippi -- The widow of murdered civil rights leader Medger Evers and a district attorney struggle to finally bring the murderer to justice.
In 1963, Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered in his own driveway. For thirty years his assasin remained free... until now. Great ensemble cast!
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In Volcano, great gobs of lava come spewing out of the earth and rolling down the boulevards of Los Angeles. The stuff is bright yellow orange, with a shifting black crust on top, and though you wouldn't want to touch it, it doesn't actually move very fast. A congealed river of liquid rock, it oozes down the road with sticky deliberation, like an angry batch of pancake batter. People leap over it from the tops of cars, and Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche, as flirtatiously embattled crisis managers, are swung around on a fire truck's ladder, legs dangling above a field of molten goo. Finally, one man doesn't leap far enough: He plunges into the lava and goes down, melting like the Wicked Witch of the West.
Volcano is cheese, all right, but it's tangy cheese. I'm not sure I've ever seen a disaster movie in which special effects this realistic and accomplished were put to the service of a premise this outlandish. An ocean liner, after all, can sink (or turn upside down), a skyscraper can catch fire, and Los Angeles could, conceivably, be destroyed by the mother of all quakes. On the other hand, the notion of L.A. consumed by geysers of lava sounds about as likely as the cloning of dinosaur DNA. The poker-faced preposterousness of Volcano is exactly what's fun about it. The film features plenty of important-sounding flimflam about earthquake epicenters and tectonic shifts. But every time there was a shot of that glowing river of lava, I found myself thinking back to The Blob, the 1958 camp classic about a pile of rampaging gelatinous ick. Volcano is The Blob redone with geotechnological ''realism.''
The new wave of disaster movies has already provoked the usual media musings on what our collective appetite for vicarious catastrophe is all about. A venting of premillennial dread? A fantasy projection of the cataclysms (Oklahoma City, etc.) that now pepper the news with disturbing regularity? An expression of sheer numbness? (After a steady diet of movies as bombastically explosive as The Rock, it's understandable that audiences would want to move on to the spectacle of sheer devastation.) The most telling aspect of the disaster films of the '90s, though, may simply be that they're pop-culture replays, grand-scale exercises in '70s nostalgia. The fundamental mediocrity of Independence Day was that it was such a blatant, jokey recycling of previous pop extravaganzas the schlock cross-section-of-America ensemble drama of Airport and The Poseidon Adventure mixed with the special-effects visions of Close Encounters and Star Wars.
Volcano, with its cheeky use of L.A. as the apocalyptic cliff's edge of America, is, in essence, a replay of Earthquake. What makes the film oxymoronically amusing is that even as we're meant to be tingled by anxiety and horror at the image of a city deluged with yellow-hot spew, there's something comforting in the very familiarity of the destruction. The characters run around drenched in volcanic ash, but hardly anyone gets killed in Volcano. After the lava burns through a few department stores (there's a great shot of singed bride and groom dummies), it settles into a slow crawl down Wilshire Boulevard, and the drama becomes, How can it be controlled, dammed up, contained? Jones and his team create a cul-de-sac out of stacked concrete highway dividers, trapping the lava and dousing it with water; it's a scene to delight the child sand-castle architect in us all. Volcano is The End of Los Angeles staged as an outrageous yet oddly manageable disaster apocalypse made as cozy as a Nick at Nite rerun.
I had a pretty good time at Volcano. The reason I didn't have a better time is that the characters aren't just schlocky, they're boring. The director, Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard), crosscuts around the city a subway construction site, a natural-disaster patrol center, divorced dad Jones trying to save his bratty teen daughter and for a while we seem to be watching the interpolated pilots of four high-strung dramatic television series. Jackson effectively sets up news reporters as objects of ridicule (they soak up our desire to giggle at the proceedings), but the rest of the film too feels like a packaged newscast. Volcano is jittery in a clinical, self-important way. Actors as vivid as Don Cheadle, who plays Jones' second in command, have almost no space to parade their personalities. A subplot about symbolic racial discord, which turns into symbolic racial harmony, is so trite it's pure camp. Anne Heche, with her naughty eyes and striking coloring (even her skin looks blond), attempts to engage in feisty sparring with Jones, but the two are reduced to pelting each other with techno-jargon. There's only one real character in Volcano, and that's that rich, creamy, photogenic ooze of lava. When it's finally directed back to the depths from whence it came, L.A. looks like a much duller place. B-


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Targacept, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRGT) today announced top-line results from a Phase 2 trial of TC-5619 as a treatment for inattentive-predominant attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHDi). In the trial, TC-5619 did not meet the primary outcome measure, change from baseline on the inattention subscale of the Conners' Adult ADHD Rating Scale-Investigator-Rated (CAARS-INV), after four weeks of treatment versus placebo. Across the study measures, patients in the placebo dose group consistently improved more than patients in the TC-5619 dose groups. TC-5619 exhibited a placebo-like safety and tolerability profile in the study.
"We are disappointed that TC-5619 did not meet our goal in this ADHDi study. Based on these results, we have made the determination that we will not pursue further development of TC-5619 in ADHD," said Mark Skaletsky, Chairman of Targacept's Board of Directors. "Under these circumstances, we are taking additional steps to more closely align our resources with our current operational plan and emphasize the efficient use of Targacept's capital. We will limit our investment in our nicotinic pipeline to our ongoing or previously announced clinical programs until the search for a new CEO is successfully completed, and we will implement a further reduction in force. Targacept is immensely grateful for the contributions of each of our employees, and we can only make this difficult decision based on our commitment to maximizing the future potential of the company's assets."
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op•por•tun•is•ticˌɒp ər tuˈnɪs tɪk, -tyu-(adj.)
adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism.
(of a microorganism) causing disease only under certain conditions, as when a person's immune system is impaired. (of a disease or infection) caused by such an organism, as pneumocystis pneumonia in a person with AIDS.
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opportunist, opportunistic, timeserving(adj)
taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit
taking advantage of situations that arise
said of people who will take advantage of situations to advance their own interests, without regard for principles
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The car maker has agreed to stop pushing emails to German staff after working hours. Email will be pushed to workers BlackBerry devices 30 minutes before they are due to start work and stopped 30 minutes after they are due to finish work.
The move, reached after agreement with labour representatives will affect 1,154 unionised, non-managerial workers at the company's six plants in Germany. Managers will keep receiving emails, the ruling does not apply to them.
This initiative was introduced after an agreement with union representatives in Germany. Unionised workers responded positively to the news. It follows similar moves implemented by other companies.
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Two days ago, we heard of Sony's plans to build a watch made entirely of e-paper - one where the band and the watch face would both change in response to the user's wrist gestures. It sounded wild and provocatively different, but what we really wanted to know was what it looked like. As it turns out, that watch is already in the public eye, though Sony's involvement had until now been kept clandestine so as to judge the product on its own merits. Say hello to the FES Watch.
Certainly an interesting concept, but I'm not sure I like the entire band being e-paper - it just looks kind of like those glowsticks you can slap around your wrist that were cool when I was like 6.
OnePlus has addressed its Indian users regarding the recent announcement that Cyanogen has made a deal with Indian handset manufacturer Micromax. The deal gives exclusive rights to Cyanogen's software to Micromax in India, leaving out the OnePlus One, which is powered by Cyanogen. Naturally, OnePlus expressed disappointment in the deal.
Additionally, OnePlus says they are bewildered at this move by Cyanogen. The two companies have previously cooperated on the launch of the OnePlus One in 17 countries, including India. The company does say that the One will continue to receive software updates globally, but apologizes to Indian customers who feel deceived.
What a mess.
The just released version 14.11 of the Genode OS framework complements the framework's arsenal of device drivers with the Intel wireless stack. This way, Genode enables the realization of microkernel-based systems on modern laptops without relying on any kind of "device-driver OS" or "Dom0". Other highlights of the release are a new dynamic linker, VirtualBox 4.3.16 on the NOVA hypervisor, a new scheduler for the HW kernel, and networking for the Raspberry Pi.
WiFi stacks are known to be extremely complex. In the Linux kernel, it is certainly one of the most sophisticated driver subsystems besides GPU drivers. From the perspective of an alternative OS, it is quite frightening. On the other hand, WiFi is an universally required feature for a general-purpose OS by today's standards. Therefore, the Genode project had to face the issue to enable a full WiFi stack on top of the framework sooner or later. In spring this year, the Genode team finally took on the engineering feat to transplant the Intel wireless stack from Linux to a user-level component on Genode. This line of work was more demanding than originally anticipated. The biggest hurdle was to get a grasp on the interactions between the various involved protocols and mechanisms such as mac80211, cfg80211, nl80211, the netlink API, AF_NETLINK, and the WPA supplicant. The actual porting work followed the approach of prior porting efforts like the Linux USB and TCP/IP subsystems. All Linux kernel threads are executed by a single user-level thread that cooperatively schedules each kernel thread as a light-weight execution context. Compared to the prior porting efforts, the driver environment for the WiFi stack is far more complex. About 8,500 lines of environment code had to be provided to bring the 215,000 lines of WiFi stack to life. However, almost no original code had to be changed, which will make future updates relatively easy.
From its very beginning, Genode was designed to manage resources via a trading mechanism. For example, when a client component connects to a server component, it can provide a part of its own memory budget to the server. This way, the server does not need to perform allocations from its own resources on behalf of its client, which mitigates the risk for denial-of-service attacks driven by malicious clients. This scheme works well for memory but it had not been employed for CPU time, yet. The reason was the lack of the scheduling facilities offered by the kernels supported by Genode. However, with their custom kernel called "base-hw", the Genode developers were finally able to pursue this idea. The outcome of this line of work is featured in the new release.
Besides the WiFi stack and the new scheduler, Genode 14.11 comes with an upgrade of VirtualBox to version 4.3.16 that can be executed directly on the NOVA microhypervisor, a new dynamic linker, added GUI components, and networking support for the Raspberry Pi. The full story behind all those topics is covered by the release documentation.
The Debian fork website, put together by the Veteran Unix Admins (VUA) group, has annouced the VUA has decided to fork the popular Debian GNU/Linux distribution. The VUA is critical of Debian's decision to adopt systemd as the distribution's default init software and to allow software packaged for Debian to depend directly on systemd. The VUA plans to create a fork of Debian using SysV Init as the default init software and is asking for donations to support the endevor.
The default init system in the next Debian v8 "Jessie" release will be systemd, bringing along a deep web of dependencies. We need to individuate those dependencies, clean them from all packages affected and provide an alternative repository where to get them. The stability of our fork is the main priority in this phase.
There has been a lot of debate over systemd in the Debian community in the past few months and it will be interesting to see if this non-systemd fork of Debian gains support.
Russian internet giant Yandex has launched an alpha version of its new Chromium-based browser for Windows and Mac OS X that incorporates a few interesting ideas of how a modern browser might look. The main difference from the interface of Chrome or Firefox is the ultimate minimalism and the fact that the tabs are moved to the bottom of the page.
It actually looks quite appealing. More information and download links can be found in Yandex' blog post.
A long-standing oddity of Windows is that its branded number has for some years now not matched the version number stamped into the kernel and other parts of the operating system. Windows 7, for example, reported itself to software as being version 6.1. Windows 8 is 6.2, and Windows 8.1 is 6.3.
Current public builds of Windows 10 repeat this trend - they purport to be version 6.4 - but not for much longer. Chinese site ITHome published a picture showing the version number to be 10.0. Version number 10.0 is also cropping up on BuildFeed which tracks build numbers, and has been further corroborated elsewhere.
Interesting little tidbit of information.
The European Parliament has voted in favour of breaking Google up, as a solution to complaints that it favours is own services in search results.
Politicians have no power to enforce a break-up, but the landmark vote sends a clear message to European regulators to get tough on the net giant.
I'm glad they're keeping a close watch on these powerful companies, but a break-up?
Good luck with that.
The new ReactOS Explorer is much more compatible, stable, and comes with more features than the current (and now old) explorer. We expect it to be a big quality jump in terms of usability, and the rockstar feature of the upcoming 0.4 release. Just keep reading to discover more about it!
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"People are talking about women and games seriously; people are taking the critiques seriously," Sarkeesian says as she stirs her tea. "It's been a huge shift. This discussion is becoming more mainstream."
A blond woman sitting at the next table before an array of New York City street maps begins squirming excitedly in her seat. "Are you talking about the article about gaming in the New York Times yesterday? I read it!" she says excitedly. "Did you write that? It was great!"
Fantastic article, horrible title (hence why I'm using a generic placeholder title instead). She's not gaming's "greatest adversary". In fact, Sarkeesian - and people like her, trying to create more diversity in every aspect of gaming - are gaming's greatest asset.
The DragonFly BSD operating system is a server oriented project. Though originally forked from FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD is an independent operating system that carries a number of unique features, foremost among them is the HammerFS file system. DragonFly BSD 4.0 was released on November 25th and offers several new features.
Version 4 of DragonFly brings Haswell graphics support, 3D acceleration, and improved performance in extremely high-traffic networks. DragonFly now supports up to 256 CPUs, Haswell graphics (i915), concurrent pf operation.
The latest version of DragonFly BSD no longer supports 32-bit x86 machines and is designed to work exclusively on the 64-bit x86 architecture.
Google risks losing its spot as the default search provider in Apple's Safari browser next year, according to a report from The Information. The latest extension of a deal that's put Google Search in the hands of iPhone owners since 2007 is set to expire in 2015, and Mountain View rivals Microsoft and Yahoo are already making a case for change with Apple's leadership. Per the report, each company has pitched Apple SVP Eddy Cue on the idea of replacing Google as the default iOS search provider; Microsoft wants Bing to be the default option out of the box, and Yahoo is vying for the same spot.
This will be an interesting claim of Apple's claim that they care about consumers. If they renew the deal, they place their customer's interests first, because their customers massively prefer Google Search. However, if they ditch Google and replace it with some inferior nonsense like Bing or Yahoo, they care more about their personal vendetta than their customers' best interests. If they go the privacy angle, switching to Bing or Yahoo is even more laughable, since those companies track just as much as Google does.
If Apple opts for DDG as default - well, then they earn some respect.
TempleOS is more than an exercise in retro computing, or a hobbyist's space for programming close to the bare metal. It's the brainchild - perhaps the life's work - of 44-year-old Terry Davis, the founder and sole employee of Trivial Solutions. For more than a decade Davis has worked on it; today, TempleOS is 121,176 lines of code, which puts it on par with Photoshop 1.0. (By comparison, Windows 7, a full-fledged modern operating system designed to be everything to everyone, filled with decades of cruft, is about 40 million lines.)
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The FreeBSD Foundation published a report yesterday on the status of FreeBSD running on 64-bit ARM processors. Work to port FreeBSD to the 64-bit ARM architecture has been progressing quickly and it is now possible to boot a FreeBSD installation into single user mode on the young architecture.
The kernel bring-up portion of the project is nearing completion; FreeBSD/arm64 boots to single-user mode on ARM's reference simulator. Work is underway on the remaining kernel drivers, and on userland support. This project's overall goal is to bring FreeBSD/arm64 to a Tier-1 status, including release media and prebuilt package sets. More information about the arm64 port can be found on the FreeBSD wiki.
Samsung's mobile business has been having a rough year - it's still one of the biggest and most profitable players in the Android ecosystem, but profits are down. That can be attributed at least in part to lower than expected sales of the company's flagship Galaxy S5. The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung increased production by 20 percent relative to last year's Galaxy S4, but that it actually sold 40 percent less than it expected to. The S4 sold around 16 million phones in its first three months on the market, compared to just 12 million for the S5.
Samsung was becoming far too dominant, so I'm glad they're being taken down a notch on both the high and the low end. Other Android manufacturers (and Apple, but that's nothing new) are putting the squeeze on Samsung, and that leads to more choice for consumers, as well as lower prices, and in many cases, better quality for the same or less money.
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Currently Chrome supports NPAPI plugins, but they are blocked by default unless the user chooses to allow them for specific sites (via the page action UI). A small number of the most popular plugins are whitelisted and allowed by default. In January 2015 we will remove the whitelist, meaning all plugins will be blocked by default.
In April 2015 NPAPI support will be disabled by default in Chrome and we will unpublish extensions requiring NPAPI plugins from the Chrome Web Store. Although plugin vendors are working hard to move to alternate technologies, a small number of users still rely on plugins that haven't completed the transition yet. We will provide an override for advanced users (via chrome://flags/#enable-npapi) and enterprises (via Enterprise Policy) to temporarily re-enable NPAPI while they wait for mission-critical plugins to make the transition.
Definitely a big chance some Chrome users will have to account for.
When first released in 1984, the Apple Macintosh shipped with a black-and-white 512 x 342 display. Fast forward 30 years to the release of the iMac with Retina 5K display, which ships with a 5,120 x 2,880 display with support for millions of colours. That's an increase from 175,000 pixels to more than 14.7 million - an 8,400% increase. 80 of the original Macintosh displays fit within a single Retina 5K display.
The picture really does speak a thousand words. This post turns everything around.
The NetBSD project has announced two important stability updates for its highly portable operating system.
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 5.1.5, the fifth security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 5.1 release branch, and NetBSD 5.2.3, the third security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 5.2 release branch. They represent a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, and if you are running a prior release of either branch, we strongly suggest that you update to one of these releases.
Details on the two updated branches of NetBSD can be found in the release notes for NetBSD 5.1.5 and NetBSD 5.2.3.
Quantum OS aims to build a new operating system based on Linux, with a user interface built on Qt and designed according to Google's Material Design guidelines.
We plan to develop the desktop shell and applications primarily using Qt 5 and QML, which will allow us to build highly polished and dynamic user interfaces and will work well for implementing Material Design. If possible, we will build the desktop shell in as much QML as possible built on top of the QtCompositor API, which provides a Qt framework for building a Wayland compositor.
As for the base system, they're still not sure if they're going for Ubuntu or Arch.
We plan to initially leverage an existing operating system, most likely Arch or Ubuntu. Arch is a strong possibility because of the simple packaging manager, lightweight base system, and the rolling release concept. Our goal is to base our work on the latest upstream versions available, with no patches or modifications, so our work will run on any base Linux distro that supports Wayland.
Using Photoshop usually requires lugging a typically cumbersome, expensive computer around, and changing that experience has been the dream of many creatives for years. As we found out back in September, it's a problem that Adobe has been actively working with Google to solve. The two companies have been working together for almost two years to bring Photoshop to the browser, and they finally have a working version called Photoshop Streaming that they're letting educational institutions apply to test over the next six months. Yesterday, I got a look at it in action when Adobe's director of engineering, Kirk Gould, remotely ran me through a brief demo of the program.
Here's one of those things that's been around for a little bit, but well hidden. If you're a fan of the stock Google keyboard but would love to have a dedicated number row - particularly given the size of many of today's smartphones - you can do it. It's not just an Android 5.0 Lollipop feature, so you're able to do this on the Nexus 6 or LG G3 or HTC One or whatever.
You will, however, have to do a little digging in the keyboard settings.
One of those little tips that can really make your phone better.