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Jason S.
What's not to like?
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
I only have 40 miles on them, but I have to say I'm impressed. Huge difference in rolling resistance over my old Gatorskins, and seem durable. Hit a few pieces of road debris and small rocks - no cuts to be found. Very smooth riding tires. They're easy to install and a great price too. If they last a reasonable amount of miles, I will definitely buy these again.
Robert Smallman
Exactly what you would expect
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Durable enough to train, supple enough to race, light enough to climb. It's a good all around tyre that doesn't excel anywhere but doesn't have any shortcomings either.
I hate it when people say exactly what i'm getting at but sound so much better doing it. Only thing I could ad is I'd love to order a colored version.
Vince Masog
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I use these tires as my training on my Tri bike. I previously had Michelin Pro 3 Service Course. I selected the Rubino Pro 3 Slick based on the wear, puncture protection, cost and rolling resistance. These tires are slightly more supple than the Pro 3 SCs and they definitely roll much easier. I can really tell that the effort required is less than before. The cost is right near the Pro SC, and these have a higher level of flat protection. They are wearing well after a few hundred miles. I will use Open Corsa Slicks for my race tire next year, but in the meantime, these Rubino Pro 3 Slick will log many more miles.
Gino Ledesma
Great all around tire
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
My previous bike had Continental Ultra GatorSkins and Specialized Armadillos because I sought maximum puncture protection --- I dreaded getting flats because I didn't really know how to fix them and wanted to avoid them at all cost.
These tires gave new life to my bike --- it removed a lot of the "dead weight" feel of the ride. They roll smoother, corner pretty well, and do great even in wet conditions. Puncture protection is decent for California roads. The only flats I've had are due to running over things that no tire would protect against.
I get about 4,000 miles on the front and 2,000 miles on the rear. I don't rotate my tires (too lazy). These are comparable to Michelin Pro4 Service Course tires, and between the two, I'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference. The Michelins tend to show "squaring off" when they're approaching their end-of-life for me, whereas it's harder to spot on the Rubinos.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
What makes for a great training/everyday clincher? Durability. Inexpensive. Quality ride. Easy mounting. Durable - I got over 4,000 miles from one set, rotated once. Inexpensive - even at regular price they are not expensive. Quality ride - on older, narrower rims they have good road feel and grip well and this only increases with 23mm wide rims. Easy mounting - mounts up without levers.
Lots of experience commuting on this tire
I've been commuting to downtown Chicago from the western suburbs for 20 years, which amounts to something like 30,000 miles. I consider a kevlar belted tire a must on city streets, and I've tried several brands over the years. But I've been using the Vittoria Rubino Pro for many years now, and it's been better than any other tire I've ever tried. It's not unusual for me go an entire season without a puncture, and unlike some other tires, the Vittoria is light, has a nice supple road feel and excellent adhesion on wet roads.
Michael Clark
Good long lasting
These came stock on my Felt F85. They've worn really well. I've got almost 2,000 miles on mine and still haven't rotated them. I've only had a couple of flats, one in the front and one in the rear. I'm just biding my time till I can purchase a set of red/black ones. I would definitely recommend these.


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Benjamin Crump, who practices in Tallahassee, filed a pleading Wednesday opposing a motion by Zimmerman's lawyer to force him to give a deposition about his interview with a potential witness in the case, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported.
"Attorney Crump has been retained by the victim's parents to assert civil claims against defendant," lawyer Bruce Blackwell said.
Martin, 17, who was unarmed, was shot and killed last year as he walked to a relative's house in a gated community in Sanford. Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch volunteer who has been charged with second-degree murder, continued to follow Martin after a police dispatcher suggested he back off and says he fired in self-defense after Martin assaulted him.
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Lawyer: Urinating on bodies was not desecration
A Marine Corps sniper and others in his unit captured on a YouTube video urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan also were recorded shooting and tossing grenades in a rural hamlet without taking any return fire, according to testimony during a criminal hearing Tuesday.
Sgt. Robert W. Richards, 27, of Seminole, Fla., is charged with multiple counts of dereliction of duty, violating orders and conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline.
Richards and three other Marines were videotaped relieving themselves on the corpses during a July 2011 mission. The operation deep into a Taliban safe haven was designed to scatter and strike fear into insurgents so that larger units could move in and secure the territory, Richards' unit commander Lt. Col. Christopher Dixon testified at an Article 32 hearing that will determine if there's evidence to proceed to a court-martial.
The video, which received international condemnation, shows four Marines in full combat gear urinating on the bodies of three Afghans. One of the Marines in the video looked down at the bodies and quipped, "Have a good day, buddy."
Military prosecutors said urinating on the corpses and videotaping it amounted to desecrating their bodies, a claim Richard's civilian lawyer denied. Richards and the other Marines did nothing to mutilate the bodies and were merely relieving the tension of their dangerous mission, said civilian defense lawyer Guy Womack, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel.
"It was black humor," Womack said. "It was in poor taste. We're not saying it was OK, but it was not desecration."
One of the other Marines who already pleaded guilty, Staff Sgt. Edward W. Deptola, testified they surprised and killed the insurgent fighters after marching for miles through the night to take sniper positions on rooftops of a rural cluster of family compounds. He said he, Richards and others urinated on the enemy fighters out of anger.
"Killing them wasn't enough," Deptola said, "because of what they had done to us, done to us in the past 10 years and what all terrorists have done to us in the past 30 years."
Deptola was previously reported as saying that another sergeant in the platoon had been killed earlier that day by a hidden explosive, and that the angry Marines believed the heavily armed Taliban fighters they killed could have been responsible for it. Deptola never described the IED casualty while testifying Tuesday to the step-by-step progress of their nighttime march and the rest of their operation, much of it captured on hand-held and helmet-mounted videocameras.
The videos were intended to be used by military intelligence to find clues about local conditions, Dixon said.
But what the videos showed surprised Dixon, who testified he imagined a full-blown firefight between Taliban fighters and the unit of nearly 20 Marine snipers, engineers, intelligence specialists and an interpreter. Instead, the images capture Marines shooting with rifles, machine guns and even a rocket launcher, but no returning enemy fire, Dixon said.
The shooting seemed excessive under rules of engagement that required Marines to kill only those Afghans who showed hostile intentions, Dixon said.
"You can't shoot your way out of an insurgency," Dixon testified. "The prize is the people in that you must win them over to your side. Otherwise you drive them into the arms of the insurgents."
Dixon testified Richards was an aggressive and innovative Marine. Womack described the five-year veteran with a weighlifter's V-shaped torso as being driven by his military career and suffering for his service. Richards was nearly killed in March 2010 by an IED in Afghanistan that nearly blew off his foot and sent shrapnel into his throat, Womack said.
While recovering in Florida with his wife, Richards shot up a hotel room after imagining Taliban were approaching. Between recovering from his IED wounds and the month-long psychiatric hospital stay that followed the hotel episode, Richards spent most of his stateside time between deployments in hospitals, Womack said. Then Richards transferred to Dixon's command because a fellow sniper persuaded him he was badly needed, Womack said.
"Sgt. Richards is the kind of Marine we all wish we could be, but secretly doubt we could be," Womack said.
Deptola and Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Chamblin have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced in the case by having their rank reduced to sergeant. The fourth Marine in the case, Capt. James V. Clement, faces charges that include conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman for failing to properly supervise junior Marines and making false statements to investigators. Clement was the executive officer of the Marine battalion in Afghanistan.
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Found out Gray told the neighbors that hubs and I were planning to rob their house next time they are gone.
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That's awesome. I love it. Has he found any Aunt Lisa shorts?
Your story reminded me of the time the boys I was nannying told their devout Catholic grandmother that we were praying for them because I had told them she didn't know Jesus and was going you know where. She was understandably extremely upset, and when it got back to me I was too. Especially because I never said anything of the kind. It took her a long time to believe that I thought well of her and that I wasn't worried about her afterlife plans. =) Children. Sometimes you want to put a stamp on their bums and mail them to the grandparents, and the next second you want to scoop them up and cover them in kisses.


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Cueto, Teheran set to duel in series finale
Duo has dominated for Reds and Braves on the mound this season
The Braves and the Reds owned six of the nine best starting-pitcher ERAs entering this weekend's three-game series at Turner Field, and Sunday's matchup between Julio Teheran and Johnny Cueto is the marquee showdown.
The aces square off with impressive streaks on the line. Cueto has registered six straight quality starts and allowed only one run and struck out 16 in back-to-back complete-game victories against the Pirates.
"It feels good when you throw good against the same team the way I did," Cueto said following his most recent start. "All of my pitches were down. Everything was down and everything was under control except for a few pitches I could not control."
Pirates second baseman Neil Walker was especially impressed with Cueto's shutout of Pittsburgh on April 16. Cueto fanned a career-high 12 and also thoroughly impressed Red catcher Brayan Pena in the victory.
"He was mixing that cutter and was unbelievable," Pena said. "He was using both sides of the plate. He was throwing front-door cutters. He was throwing back-door cutters. It made his changeup and sinker even better. He's been pitching very good lately."
Teheran also tossed nine scoreless innings on April 16, limiting the Phillies to only three hits in the Braves' 1-0 victory in Philadelphia. It was the first shutout by an opposing pitcher in the history of Citizens Bank Park.
"The whole game, I was just trying to throw strikes, and all of my pitches were working," Teheran said of his historic gem. "I used my two-seamer for lefties and it was tough to hit. I wanted my first career complete game. I wanted to stay focused."
Teheran owns a 1.80 ERA and has yet to give up more than two earned runs this season. He was in line for his third win on April 21 against the Marlins, but Craig Kimbrel blew the save in an eventual 4-2 Braves win in 10 innings.
Evan Gattis hit a walk-off, two-run home run to help Atlanta improve to 24-11 in games started by Teheran since the beginning of the 2013 season.
"These late-inning heroics overshadow what Julio did," Gonzalez said following Teheran's seven innings of one-run ball against Miami. "He gave us seven strong innings and he was in line for a win, and usually we convert that win."
Braves: No place like home for Justin Upton
Justin Upton cannot be stopped at Turner Field. A three-hit game on Saturday upped his home batting average this season to .486 (18-for-37). He has recorded a hit in his first at-bat in six of the past eight home games.
He has also shown off his power stroke in Atlanta, hitting six of his seven home runs in 2014 at home. Upton has also struck out only nine times in 43 plate appearances at Turner Field compared to 23 strikeouts in 54 plate appearances on the road.
• B.J. Upton recorded his 1,000th career hit on Saturday night with an infield single in the first against Reds starter Mike Leake. He finished 1-for-4 with two strikeouts.
• Jason Heyward's six-game hitting streak was snapped on Saturday night as he finished 0-for-4 with a strikeout. He batted .346 (9-for-26) during the streak.
• Meanwhile, Andrelton Simmons finished 1-for-3 to extend his current hitting streak to five games. He is batting .353 (6-for-17) during the streak and has hit safely in 16 of his past 18 games.
Reds: Chapman throws live batting practice
Cincinnati closer Aroldis Chapman threw his second live batting practice on Saturday afternoon at Turner Field. The left-hander threw 43 pitches in two innings without a protective screen.
Chapman is on the comeback trail after he suffered fractures of his eye and nose as well as a mild concussion when a Salvador Perez line drive hit him in the face on March 19 in a game against Kansas City.
• Neftali Soto made his first career MLB start on Saturday night, replacing Reds third baseman Todd Frazier, who left Friday's game with tightness in his left groin. Soto finished 0-for-3.
• Ryan Ludwick robbed Freddie Freeman of a home run in the third inning on Saturday night. Ludwick's play, followed by back-to-back home runs by Justin Upton and Gattis, prevented the Braves from hitting back-to-back-to-back home runs for the second time this season.
Worth noting
• Craig Kimbrel recorded his 147th career save on Saturday night, moving him within seven of John Smoltz's Braves franchise record of 154.
• Ryan Doumit is batting .273 (6-for-22) with a home run, a double, two walks and eight strikeouts against Cueto.
• Jay Bruce is one RBI away from reaching 500 for his career. He went 2-for-3 with a two-run homer against Teheran in an 8-4 Cincinnati win on July 14, 2013, at Turner Field.
Joe Morgan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Is this their long lived branch or legacy(seems to support geforces from 6 and 7 series).
Phoronix: NVIDIA Releases 304.84 Linux Driver
While it's not part of the NVIDIA 310 or even the latest NVIDIA 313 driver series, this morning was marked by the release of the 304.84 certified Linux graphics driver...
Is this their long lived branch or legacy(seems to support geforces from 6 and 7 series).
It's legacy. Good to hear they have not forgotten us.
Happy to be NVIDIA customer.
Is it updated to build properly on 3.7 and 3.8 kernels as well? If so, nice to see nvidia updating this legacy driver as I still have a 7900GS that is still running strong.
It should work. Will land in my repos probably tomorrow. Currently using Linux 3.8.1 with 304.64.
Confirmed this driver update works with 3.8.1 kernel with no installation issues on my EVGA 7900GS card. Would be cool if they can backport some new features from their later driver series to the GF 6 and 7 series, if they have the time to do so.
So it will not happen.


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Indianapolis � This is what everyone was afraid of, isn't it? That it'd work? Again?
Probably so. And after the work was done late Friday night, after they'd beaten their bitter rivals, after they'd dispatched the defending champs, after they'd crashed the senior party, the answer was there for everyone to see in Big Blue letters.
Coach Cal and his Kiddie 'Cats are still kicking. The one-and-dones are getting it done.
And now that Kentucky is one win away from reaching the Final Four, predictably, the storyline the media started chasing Saturday � the eve of the Midwest Regional final here at Lucas Oil Stadium � was the ironic one.
If someone's going to put a stop to this, to send these precocious freshmen and their pugnacious coach home, it'll have to be Michigan, the last program � the only one, actually � to send a team with five freshmen starters to the Final Four.
Youth versus ... youth
Never mind the Wolverines happen to be the second-youngest team in the NCAA Tournament this year, with two freshmen and two sophomores in the starting lineup, and six underclassmen among their top seven. Or that these young Wildcats � part of John Calipari's latest blue-chip recruiting haul � know of the Fab Five only what they've seen in a documentary.
"They were trend-setters," Kentucky center Julius Randle said. "They really just moved the game of basketball and took it to a new level. But � I'm kind of too young to know that."
John Beilein, not surprisingly, was too caught up in his own team to even notice, or so he claims. Michigan's coach insisted Saturday that he'd only just discovered that Kentucky was starting five freshmen. He called it "a media thing."
"I wish we'd all just embrace the kid that's a grinder for four years instead of making this huge thing about freshmen stars,' he added. "Let's just watch � let's reward the kid that really works hard just as much as the freshmen stars."
That's a novel idea. Na�ve, too, though it is fun to see Michigan's fifth-year senior, Jordan Morgan, getting rewarded for surviving the grind.
But this is also where it gets confusing anymore, now that freshman stars are the rule rather than the exception.
At one point Saturday, a question was asked of the Michigan players � something inane about defending the Fab Five's legacy by beating Kentucky, as if they'd really care � and both Derrick Walton Jr. and Nik Stauskas misunderstood. They thought the reporter was comparing this Michigan team to that one from a generation ago, instead of equating this Kentucky team to the Fab Five.
"For a team that's this young to do something so special, it means a lot to any program, but especially to us," Walton said, completely oblivious.
Randle and his teammates might be too young to know better, either, but they do seem mature enough to handle the hype and the pressure that has hounded them all season. They tumbled from a preseason No. 1 ranking to a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament, and from midseason ridicule to a postseason march that is now gathering momentum, just in time.
"I'm just happy we're playing better right now," said Calipari, coaching in the Elite Eight for the seventh time in the last nine seasons. "Because I'm telling you, we almost ran out of runway when we landed the plane. As a matter of fact, the nose of the plane was in grass. But we got down. That's all we were trying to do is land the plane. And if the runway was 25 games instead of 30 games, we probably went off the edge."
Instead, here they are on the brink of something big, "something special," as Randle put it Saturday, barely 12 hours after his 15-point, 12-rebound effort aided Kentucky's comeback win over a veteran Louisville team eyeing a third consecutive Final Four trip.
"But we can't worry about comparing ourselves to the Fab Five or anything like that," Randle said, shrugging off the persistent questions about yesteryear. "We're focused on us and on Michigan. ... We're trying to make our own history."
On to the next one
Recent history suggests it's harder than it looks. Calipari's grand experiment blew up in his face last spring, with a dysfunctional group that fell victim to injury and insolence, including some of his own. Critics celebrated the Wildcats' absence from the NCAA Tournament field and reveled in that humiliating loss to Robert Morris in their NIT opener.
But the revolving door kept spinning, and in came another top-rated recruiting class. This one better than the last, and probably all the rest, with six McDonald's All-Americans, including three or four projected to be first-round picks in this summer's NBA draft.
A mid-November loss to Michigan State was widely hailed as a victory for the old guard. And back-to-back defeats in the SEC were a sign this year would end much like last year for Kentucky. Yet instead of rebuke, we've seen something else the past few weeks, as the Wildcats "finally surrendered and lost themselves in the team," according to Calipari.
"We grew up," he said Saturday. "We have 18-, 19-year-olds that were counted out and ridiculed and crushed and (critics said) 'Can't play, not any good, bad guys.' I mean, you've got a bunch of good guys here that have stuck together through all the barrage, never let it affect them."
And now they're letting it all go � smiling, laughing, winning. A lot like that other group of freshman did more than a generation ago.
In a span of six days, Kentucky beat a No. 1 seed and the nation's lone unbeaten team in Wichita State, then rallied from a double-digit deficit to knock off last year's national champ in Louisville. If they can knock off the Big Ten champs Sunday, the Wildcats will have scored their own unnatural hat trick � beating three of last year's Final Four teams in succession.
More than that, they'll have made their own history, just as Randle suggested.
"I mean, taking five freshmen to the Final Four, that's amazing," said guard Aaron Harrison, one of the freshman twins in the Kentucky backcourt who hit the go-ahead 3-pointer in Friday night's win. "Just to go through a season like that and to really see how hard it is, I have much more respect for them now, even more than I did."
Something's better than nothing, I guess. And in today's college basketball, that's often all you get. So you might as well appreciate it before it's gone.


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would have loved to see the rejected script to compare with what comes out
despite being rejected he remains very respectful... wise for a guy who doesn't want to jeopardize any future gigs... BUT
we all know after he was rejected he wanted to go postal on the studio execs who wanted a more commercial take on his baby.
I didn't think it need a sequel. It was a good self contained story. The conflict has been resolved in that the abused kid isn't around any more, and the last remaining guy of the trio is off exploring the world.
I guess they can make a sequel, like how do governments respond to this guy or does anyone else find the ship. It's just that it doesn't seem like there necessarily NEEDED to be a sequel.
It would be pretty easy to do.
We saw the three guys in the first one - but that doesn't mean that someone(s) didn't show up to "find it" five minutes later?
What if the powers were passed along, like the flu, for the people they first made contact with in xxxx number of hours/days?
We don't know that this was the only object that fell. What if one fell in Russia, only the military got to and further trained their special people into weapons?
Lots of options open... :0
This guy is very green. Fox could have easily made the right decision in letting him go.
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Louisiana voters are used to making the hard decisions about public education that divide their lawmakers. With any luck, they'll have the chance to make those hard decisions again.
After all, it's the voters and families of the Pelican State who are waiting in line for the public school alternatives that lawmakers have made available but can't seem to fund adequately. Consider Louisiana's new Course Choice program, which allows students to shop around for courses—virtual and otherwise—not offered in their zoned school. State schools superintendent John White said earlier this week that there was a wait list of 1,000 students who wanted to take part, with 100 new applications arriving daily.
But White will have to scrounge for dollars if he wants to accommodate everybody. He had to find $2 million to pay for the 2,000 slots he set aside initially, and he figured he'd need to find another $1.5 million just to meet current demand.
Why the funding dilemma? The state Supreme Court declared in May that a constitutionally protected source of public funding is off limits to this decidedly different way of educating the public. The "minimum foundation" for public education in Louisiana—which this year was set at $3.4 billion—must go only to public schools: district and charter. Lawmakers initially paid for the Course Choice initiative as well as a school-voucher program through this sizable pot of money, but the court said they did so illegally.
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That charter schools struggle to find and finance adequate building space is a problem that has received well-deserved attention lately, but few reporters and analysts have documented the challenges charters face in entering the multi-trillion-dollar municipal bond market.
So a hat-tip goes to longtime charter and reform leader Nelson Smith for drawing attention to a worthwhile report from the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), which found a lack of consensus among underwriters and investors as to what drives credit strength in the charter sector.
As they expand, more charters are turning to municipal bond markets to finance their building projects. When schools issue bonds, an investor essentially loans them money in return for regular interest payments until the bond "matures," at which point the school repays the principal. School districts and other government entities issue bonds all the time, but many lenders continue to see charters as risky investments.
That perception has consequences for charters, which end up paying higher rates than schools districts, if they can find investors at all. And it's a perception that seems to be based on a faulty picture of what makes a charter school viable for the life of a bond, which can last up to thirty years.
The overall financial condition of the charter school sector is sound, LISC analysts Elise Balboni and Wendy Berry report. The notion of credit risk often is fueled by high-profile defaults or potential defaults that imply that schools can lose their students or...
The perseverance of a mother can bring the shortcomings of many school-choice programs into sharp focus.
Consider a woman named Mary Rehberg from Green Bay, Wisconsin, who knows there's not much chance she'll get a voucher for her son in Wisconsin's newly expanded choice program—but she's applying for one anyway. The state expanded the Milwaukee and Racine programs to serve all of the Badger State (population 5.5 million), but lawmakers capped the expansion at 500 vouchers.
"The numbers are hopelessly against us getting a voucher," Rehberg told a reporter last week after attending an information session about the program at a local Catholic school along with 100 other parents. "But by applying we can demonstrate to our state representatives how serious we are about this program."
History might even be on her side. The Alliance for School Choice has reported that legislatures in six states expanded their voucher and tax-credit scholarship initiatives last year after demand for those programs spiked and waiting lists swelled with thousands of names. But expansion was typically done incrementally. Waiting lists remain high in many cases, including at the nation's largest private-school-choice program, the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship.
New programs aren't faring much better. Over the weekend, North Carolina lawmakers approved a budget that includes a new school-voucher program, but they budgeted a paltry $10 million to sustain the program. Earlier iterations of the bill called for increasing that amount to $40 million in subsequent years, but...
For a state in which charter school performance has outpaced student gains at traditional public schools, Tennessee should have a better charter law. The dearth of authorizers and the lack of adequate funding for classrooms and building space led the National Alliance for Public Charters Schools to rank the Volunteer State thirty-third out of forty-three in its analysis of charter laws. Imagine what Tennessee charters could do without one hand tied behind their backs.
That's the assertion the Tennessee Charter School Incubator (TCSI) should put to lawmakers now that it has direct access to the legislature. This week, TCSI announced that it was merging with the Tennessee Charter School Association to create a first-of-its-kind organization that both lobbies for and establishes quality charter options. If there is a group that can convince Tennessee's more timid lawmakers to adopt the better policies they have avoided, it's TCSI.
The Incubator has been busy since 2009 developing "reform ecosystems" in Memphis and Nashville, bringing together charter schools, school districts, venture capitalists, and nonprofit groups that might not ordinarily consort with one another. In addition to recruiting effective charter leaders and providing support for schools, it has been successful in helping to increase charter market share in cities where it's active; charter enrollment increased last year by 21 percent in Memphis alone.
But it's working in a state that has been lukewarm to the charter movement. Two years ago, the legislature withdrew a ninety-school cap on the number of charters allowed in...
The Louisiana voucher program is like a toddler learning to walk in a house set with booby traps. Now one year old, it has been bruised by court defeats, bullied by unions, and mocked for its meager academic accomplishments. Even comedian Bill Maher recently poked fun at the fact that just 40 percent of voucher-bearing students could report grade-level achievements.
With the exception of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship, no other school-voucher program has endured so many growing pains. But critics have bludgeoned the Louisiana program because they can. Few private-school-choice initiatives are as transparent as the Pelican State's; sunshine allows us to see how students are performing in Louisiana, whereas most other voucher and tax credit scholarship programs are opaque.
That kind of openness may, when performance suffers, give critics a lot of grist. But it could eventually yield benefits for students and taxpayers.
Consider the recent news that the state has barred seven schools from enrolling new voucher students, based on their poor showing on the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP). That means the system is working: These schools happened to enroll a high percentage of voucher kids, and therefore faced...
The charter school movement has inspired a lot of enthusiasm for multi-school networks and their ability to expand, but now it's time to talk more about how these networks are governed.
To be sure, it's less exciting to talk about the configuration and operation of governing boards than it is to talk about scaling up successful charter school models. But this much is true: It's no fun dissecting the breakdown in governance that has led to a charter school's closure.
That's the current reality in Clearwater, Florida. There, the Ben Gamla Charter School is closing its doors after one year of operation not because it performed poorly (most of its fifty students scored well on the state assessment) or because of financial problems (it was thousands of dollars in the black) but because it wrested too much control from its parent foundation.
The National Ben Gamla Charter School Foundation said as much. The South Florida–based foundation has opened eight Hebrew-immersion charter schools throughout the Sunshine State in the last six years, and members of its own board often have overseen the operations and spending at these schools. The foundation installed a board...
Ohio governor John Kasich has a guest post over at Fordham's Ohio Gadfly Daily celebrating the state's newest school-choice initiative, the Income-Based Scholarship Program. And he has good reason to celebrate: This newest effort means that Ohio has more private-school-choice programs than any other state.
School choice has a long history in the Buckeye State, as the governor reminds us. The first program in Ohio (and the second oldest in the nation) was created in Cleveland in 1995 and last year benefitted 6,000 students. Additionally, the state's Educational Choice Scholarship Program, the Autism Scholarship Program, and the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program collectively helped nearly 20,000 K–12 children last year attend a private school of their choice.
Those may not seem like big student numbers, but with every program that's added and with every student enrolled, Ohio is laying the bricks to build a mansion of publicly funded alternatives to a traditional education. The newest program will start in the fall for Kindergartners who come from households whose incomes fall below 200 percent of the poverty level, and it will grow by one grade level every year.
"Not every student's education needs can be met in the same setting with the same instructional approach," Kasich said. He's right. And now, Ohio has strengthened its status as one of the nation's most choice-friendly states....
In the past year, charter school naysayers have successfully convinced some media outlets to question the actual demand for charters. Take the now-politicized issue of waiting lists. Reporters in Chicago and Boston, for instance, have recently conducted "reviews" of the lists compiled by charter associations or state education departments to determine that some students appear on more than one list. This led to one headline in the Boston Globe that read, "Charter school demand in Mass. disputed."
Of course these students may appear on multiple waiting lists. Anticipating this skepticism, however, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools this year estimated the number of individual students on waiting lists for the 2012–13 academic year. Its newest survey showed that the names of at least 520,000 kids appeared in nearly one million waiting-list entries across the country.
To put that number in context, consider that 520,000 is nearly double the number of new charter students (276,000) who actually enrolled this year, bringing the total charter sector to 2.3 million pupils.
What else should we expect? There's been a yawning gap between charter supply and demand a long time coming. In the past five years, the number of charter school students nationwide has grown by 80 percent, while the number of new schools has grown by only 40 percent in that time. Moreover, most charters tell the Alliance they lack the space to adequately meet their current and future enrollment...
Charter opponents have, with some exception, been quiet over today's release of the newest CREDO study on charter-school performance. The study determined that, in the aggregate, charter school students gained more than a week's worth of learning each year in reading on their peers in traditional public schools and performed about the same as their traditional public school peers in math (the now-famous 2009 study showed a loss of learning among charter students in both subjects).
The real test, however, will apply to charter school proponents, at least those who call themselves such. For while the overall news is good for charters, it's clear that some states are not moving fast enough to adopt the lessons this sector of public education has learned about quality control during the past several years.
States such as Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, D.C., all showed outsize academic gains in charter schools while states including Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Texas performed weakly. It's not for nothing that most of the states with bigger gains have been less tolerant of bad schools and have passed laws giving charter authorizers more tools to shut down the worst performers; gains from the 2009 study came in part because 8 percent of the worst schools have closed in that time. The states with little to show have, generally speaking, remained content to let the marketplace work itself out, and this has kept many bad schools in business.
To be sure, Texas...
It turns out a decision from Ball State University to cut ties with seven badly performing charter schools in Indiana was no death sentence. Four of these seven have been reprieved: Two found new sponsors and two others were born again as campuses of a private Christian school.
All but one of these four previously received F grades on the state's latest school report card (the fourth received a D), and performance had been getting worse, not better. For eighteen months, Ball State held repeated meetings with these schools but found little hope of a turnaround. In January, the university declined to renew their contracts.
When these schools began to shop around for new sponsors, National Association of Charter School Authorizers president Greg Richmond said they were engaged in a race to the bottom, scouring for patrons with lower standards to stay alive. Two of the schools ultimately found new authorizers in small private colleges that had virtually no experience in authorizing charter schools. Two others operated by Imagine Schools opted to reopen as campuses of the fledgling Horizon Christian Academy and encouraged their families to apply to Indiana's voucher program.
Their case to stay open calls on arguments that are now familiar: Performance will improve this year; parents are satisfied with their chosen schools; and the neighborhood district schools are worse. Moreover, these schools and their new sponsors say that a statewide one-size-fits-all accountability system insufficiently measures the progress of their...


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Width | 27 1/2 Inches |
Depth | 31 Inches |
Height | 35 7/8 Inches |
Amps | 6.6 Amps |
Hertz | 60 |
Phase | 1 |
Voltage | 115 Volts |
Access Type | Doors |
Capacity | 7 cu. ft. |
Compressor | Rear Mounted |
Door Style | Swing |
Door Type | Solid |
Energy Star Qualified | Yes |
Horsepower | 1/4 HP |
NSF Listed | Yes |
Number of Doors | 1 |
Number of Shelves | 1 |
Temperature Range | 33 - 38 Degrees F |
The Turbo Air TUR-28SD 28" Super Deluxe single door undercounter freezer boasts a compact size and ultra-efficient refrigeration system to keep all your ingredients close at hand and ready for use! Its stainless steel exterior is both durable and easy to clean, while a sturdy stainless steel shelf lets you organize the interior. A 1/4 hp compressor, R-134a refrigerant and high density polyurethane insulation help the cabinet maintain temperatures between 33 and 38 degrees Fahrenheit. Please consult the Specification Sheet for additional details and installation requirements.
- Stainless steel exterior, with galvanized back and bottom; stainless steel interior
- 7 cu ft. storage capacity; one stainless steel shelf
- High efficiency refrigeration system with 1/4 hp compressor, R-134a refrigerant and high density polyurethane insulation
- Incandescent interior lighting
- Ergonomically designed door with self-closing feature; magnetic door gasket
- 4" swivel casters
- ETL, UL, and NSF Listed, Energy Star Qualified; 115V, 9' cord and NEMA 5-15P plug included
Overall Dimensions:
Left to Right: 27 1/2"
Front to Back: 31"
Height: 35 7/8"
Volume: 7 cu. ft.
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Please note: Units purchased in 2013 or later will have a 3 year parts and labor warranty; units purchased prior to 2013 will have a 1 year parts and labor warranty.
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It is very nice quality. Soft and comfortable. Bought it for a teenagers room and she loved it. The colors are just what you see on the internet. So far all my purchases from Overstock have been a good experience and I am not a big internet purchaser. i would definitly recommend the purchase.
I purchased this for my 7 yr old daughter in anticipation of re-doing her room. She was so excited to receive it and we were just as deflated when we investigated. The fabric is beautiful to look at but very thin and feels very cheap. The comforter also looks as though it has not been finished, as the top fabric is stitched to the filling at random places and otherwise you can lift it up to separate all three layers. I've never seen anything like it -- it looks like they stopped sewing to take a break and accidentally sent it out for sale instead. It looks like the whole thing will turn into a mess if you kept and used it. We are returning it asap. My daughter is so disappointed.
I purchased this for our 11 y/o daughter's bedroom. I am very happy with the colors and it goes very well with a lime green desk & hutch in her room. It's the perfect color/style for a pre-teen (not too little girly). The comforter is not very thick so a blanket is needed in winter time. Should be great for summer. I purchased a white ruffle bedskirt and the ensemble looks very nice. Love the matching pillow too.
product works great for a dorm room but I wouldn't recommend it for any other type of usage.
The colors are great and the accent pillow is very cute but due to the fact that I am very afraid of how this comforter will wash up, we are sending it back. My daughter loves it and is very upset with me that I have to send it back but the quality is sooo poor. The quilting inside is a thin layer of cheap fill and it is not sewn into the material so I am fearful that I will have a large blob inside the two layers of material when we wash the comforter. Unfortunately, I don't think it is even worth the low price..
Looks great in my daughter's room
Bought this set for my daughter and she loves it! Nice quality for the price!
Love it! Very pretty and vibrant colors and my daughter loves the softness and lightness of this comforter.
True to pic. Good quality.
Daughter loves it. Has a nice silky feel too. Will buy again if needed
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Building green is not complicated. It simply means using healthier and more resource-efficient construction methods and materials that reduce the overall impact on the environment and on human health. Building with natural gas offers greater benefits to green building while helping to minimize the impact on the environment:
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Berkshire School has a rich baseball tradition — the school has fielded a team every year since Seaver Buck founded the Berkshire in 1907, and the crack-of-the-bat can still be heard under the Mountain over one hundred years later. The Bears play a 20-game regular season, which includes 14 games in the Western New England Prep Baseball League (WNEPBL).
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End-to-End Experience Design
When I started as an application designer in 2001, I worked really hard for my clients, whipping their applications into shape. I would conduct usability reviews and hands-on design sessions to overhaul the app, I'd agonize over each screen layout, review, test, revise, then buckle down with development until we pushed out the release. It was hard work and I was proud that I was a good designer.
But I had tunnel vision. Now I can see that the product interface is only one part of the customer's end-to-end experience. I suppose that's why we have moved away from just user interface design and into user experience design. UX means more than just the product interface; it encompasses the whole experience a person will have with a brand and their overall satisfaction with a product.
Over the past ten years of in this field, I've evolved a solid UX design process that starts with discovery and ends with development integration, relying heavily on stories and prototypes in between. Many agencies and designers have evolved similar processes and share them on blogs and at conferences. Lists of UX deliverables such as wireframes, flow maps, and diagrams are frequently the topic of articles and talks, as well. But what I haven't seen is a discreet checklist for what an end-to-end experience should include.
So I developed a checklist for the four phases of a customer's experience:
- Advertising & Promotion
- Onboarding
- Distributed Experiences
- Engagement & Retention
This checklist can help product managers see the big picture for staffing, scheduling, and budgeting a project appropriately. UX designers should review this list with cross-team leaders to determine which dimensions they will need to provide design for, e.g., will the marketing department create the ads or will the design team?
Let's look at how some successful products handle these important customer touchpoints.
Advertising & Promotion
What's the first experience a prospective customer will have with your product? An online ad, a link in a long list of search results, your public facing website, or your blog are the most likely touchpoints. Each of these offers a unique opportunity to set expectations about the value and quality of your product.
Ads / Press
Products such as FuzeMeeting and Hipmunk use ads to drive traffic to their sites. Although FuzeMeeting is subscription based, and Hipmunk relies on ad revenue, they can both benefit from more visitors. Each of these ads displays the product name and a descriptive tagline:
A little press can go along way, but don't wait for it to come to you. In 2007, Mint encouraged users to vote for them in the Crunchies and on Motley Fool, then they won PCWorld's Top 25, and the rest is history. Balsamiq gave away thousands of free copies of Mockups to bloggers, and netted over $100,000 in profits in their first 6 months.
Search Results
Ancestry.com and Basecamp are good examples of well-designed search results and effective search engine optimization. Search for genealogy and on the first page of results you'll find out that Ancestry.com is the "world's largest online family history resource," and farther down you'll see another link and persuasive description:
Or search for project management and you'll find Basecamp on page one:
Compare this concise description with that of Axure. Axure used to be one of the top UX design tools, but you would never guess that from their product description on the fourth page of search results for wireframes:
Site with Tour
Your product's site will shoulder a lot of responsibility, and is probably one of the hardest things to design. It needs to inform, persuade, engage, and ultimately convert visitors to customers. Mint and Digital Tutors use tours to engage visitors early and showcase the power of their products. Tours are usually a combination of product screenshots, informative copy, and videos:
Along with a product tour, Tom's Planner and Picnik also offer visitors the option to try out the product with demo data before registering:
KISSMetrics and Mint both offer topic specific blogs that attract prospective customers and channel them to registration:
Joshua Porter has a great talk on Designing for Sign-Up in which he explains the problem of signup is not to get people to fill out a form, but to change people's mind about your software.
If your advertising and promotion are effective, people will be motivated to try your product, which brings us to onboarding.
Harvest, like many software-as-a-service (SaaS) products, offers a free trial. They don't even require a credit card, making it super low risk for a motivated user to become a trial user:
Early Registration
Sign up should be fast and simple. Basecamp requires a few fields of information plus a credit card to get started, but they promise you won't be billed if you cancel in the first 30 days. Tumblr is even faster; just enter your email, password, and the URL you want, and you can immediately start posting to your new blog:
Quick Start
Quick start tips, also called "tour invitations" or the "blank slate stage," keep up the momentum by immediately getting the customer using your product. PivotLabs and Yahoo! Calendar use this technique to quickly acclimate the customer to the product's features:
Distributed Experiences
The UX agency Punchcut coined the term distributed experiences to describe the approach to designing multi-dimensional experiences for the new ecosystem we find ourselves in. They point out that "users are no longer fixed to high-computing desktops—they are surrounded by digital ecosystems and information networks wherever they go." A web interface may satisfy many of your customers needs, but there is likely a growing demand for a mobile solution as well.
Web Interface
With the arrival of rich Internet applications (RIAs) in 2004-05, people's expectations for the web changed. Instead of websites, there are now hundreds of thousands of web apps with highly interactive features like drag-and-drop, live preview, live save, and live scroll, to name a few. Balsamiq and Picnik are two of the 50 Most Usable RIAs; they are functional and beautiful, easy to learn, and easy to grow with.
Mobile Interface
A mobile version of your product can be a significant factor in customer satisfaction. Basecamp and Tom's Planner both provide mobile-optimized web solutions, so customers with most types of smartphones can access their accounts.
An alternative to a mobile version of your web application is a mobile app, available to your customers for download and installation. Harvest and A Story Before Bed offer a subset of their functionality on the iPhone. Groupon provides the same functionally as their web product. Yelp actually provides more functionality than their web product with an augmented reality feature.
Engagement & Retention
Now it is time to close the deal. Market research can help determine the best pricing plans to offer customers. But conversion isn't the only metric to design for; retention is possibly even more important.
The perceived value of the product will be measured against the cost each month (or other payment interval), so it is important to continue to communicate with your customers and provide a channel for their feedback.
Conversion / Upsell
Wufoo offers a monthly subscription model, like many SaaS products. The pricing is based on usage. Conversion to a paying plan after the trial period is encouraged. Basecamp uses the same approach, but they periodically offer discount codes for existing users to either upgrade at a reduced rate or try out other apps in their product suite, such as Highrise or Campfire.
Viral Elements
LinkedIn relies on people's ever-changing connections in their professional networks to attract new users and retain existing customers. Other products such as YardSellr rely on existing social networks such as Facebook to gain exposure.
There is a specific window for (re)engaging customers. Mint will tell you "your money misses you" if it has been more than two weeks since you logged in. A Story Before Bed keeps their product in the forefront of customers' minds with special offers and new feature updates.
In addition to emails, an active blog and community forum can increase customer loyalty and your net promoter score. Balsamiq Mockups and Basecamp both have product blogs that encourage customer involvement:
Your Product's Score
Take a moment and see how your product scores. Does it rate a perfect 12 or are there some gaps in the end-to-end experience?
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The web design and development blog list is marvelous. Its a nice collection and can prove very useful. Would like to explore them more and see what they offer.
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The term end-to-end is very fashionable right around in countries like Turkey which has a potential in the mobile innovation wave. But the term is being used in a highly wrong meaning. That is, if you have a mobile app or tablet version of your web-site, you have an end-to-end designed service, even the specs or features are not translated into different devices based on the real needs of the user.
I think, the explanations and the supporting sample cases are highly illuminating the case and helps us define the high-level topics of the issue.
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Thanks for commenting.
I think this is just an additional way we can look at creating the experience for our customers when creating a SaaS app. Or maybe just use this as a CYA checklist before launching.
The end-to-end description refers to a customer's end-to-end experience with the product as opposed to the UX designers comprehensive checklist of deliverables or marketing teams 360 plan.
I guess this list will work for a larger scope of a project. Because assets are more related to the marketability of the product rather than the internal functioning.
So my question is, how to equip a team in order to see the project form this scope. Our UX designers are analyzing the service in a very different perspective and our 'checklist' is far more different than above. Is it a task for the SDL? or must be seen in the interaction design process?
Thank you for the wonderful link- you seem to have thoroughly covered all the possible UX/ED deliverables.
Hmmm. Only a percentage of all interactions to be designed are customer facing (e.g. starting with an ad). Your model is not generic enough for the label you've assigned to it.
I do however appreciate the need to reach beyond what is typically experienced: The Total Experience.
While this model doesn't do that, it is the most comprehensive of the typical skills/deliverables that I've seen. [Though I might add/change several, myself] http://project.cmd.hro.nl/cmi/hci/toolkit/index2.php
[it might be helpful for reading your post if you were to remove the spam comments]
Great article - Thank you.
On the topic of follow-up and retention, one thing that does keep me with a product even if I have issues (as all products do at one point or another) is fast and personal responses. A great example is Harvest time tracking. Their offering is not perfect and at times has frustrated me, but they have an active forum and blog as well as conscientious support people. I have been very impressed on numerous occasions when they:
1 - Always respond within a couple hours to a support request and then stay with me on an easy to reply to email thread all day until I am satisfied
2 - Explain the technical reasons or limitations behind perceived lack of functionality or bugs. This is a big one especially for a SaaS offering to a technical community, transparency is a big plus in my opinion.
3- Frequent and personal communication around improvements. I was especially impressed recently when Harvest sent out specific emails to myself and others who had commented on a feature request thread when they rolled out a related feature to make sure we were the first to know they had heard us.
4 - Ongoing dialog. Again, their team members take the time to comment (knowledgeably even) on the comment threads on their blog, letting their users feel like they are part of a discussion.
Thanks Anon- you're probably right :o)
Maybe this checklist can help designers and entrepreneurs who may not have the benefit of marketing experience or a marketing department. It certainly helps me in contract discussions with potential clients.