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Currently Listening To… FROOT (Marina and The Diamonds)
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Currently trying to convince myself that I like 'Froot' the new single from Marina and The Diamonds off her new album 'FROOT' (Amazon, iTunes).
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Currently grooving to this excellent newly released single 'Uptown Funk' by Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars (Amazon, iTunes). Love the funky sound! :)
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Currently Listening To… One Direction's 'Steal My Girl'
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It's not necessarily my fave track off One Direction's new album (Four (Deluxe)), but it's catchy and a good bop. I'm looking forward to their upcoming single Night Changes though (yep, I listened to the leak) since that's more my style.
Anyway, saw this live performance of 'Steal My Girl' and thought I'd share :)
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Kris Allen's New Album 'Thank You Camellia' now Available! (With Links to Reviews!)
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Hey, hey, hey… Kris Allen's sophomore album 'Thank You Camellia' is now out on iTunes and Amazon!!! I haven't had the chance to listen to it yet, but just based on the samples, my fave is the very cheery Better With You! Here's a round-up of album reviews for you to check out! *Let me know if there are any more out there since I could only find two!
- EW.com: " irrepressibly buoyant sophomore set"
- Yahoo Music: Reality Rocks: "Thank You Camellia was well worth the wait… there's a homespun, cozy quality to the entire disc"
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Adam Lambert's New Album 'Trespassing' now Available iTunes! (With Links to Reviews!)
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Hey, hey, hey… Adam Lambert's sophomore album 'Trespassing' is now out on iTunes (and Amazon later today)!!! I haven't had the chance to listen to it yet, but just based on the samples, I already loved Cuckoo! Here's a round-up of album reviews for you to check out! *Let me know if there are any more out there that I haven't listed here!
- AllMusic: "sound like inevitable hits and prove that Lambert is a genuine pop star who has now left American Idol far behind"
- Advocate: Hot Sheet: "Standout tracks include the liberating "Cuckoo"and the stirring equality anthem "Outlaws of Love.""
- NY Daily News: "For his follow-up, "Trepassing," Lambert tips the music in a dancier direction, blatantly courting current radio trends."
- Rolling Stone: "So here's the great pop album everybody was hoping Adam Lambert would make…"
- US Weekly: ""The American Idol season 8 runner-up starves off a sophomore slump with a steamy second postshow CD"
- USA Today: " the album that fans of the former American Idol runner-up have been wanting from him." (Here's the track-by-track review)
- Hitfix: "The 15-track set is awash in Lambert's influences: the aforementioned Queen and Michael Jackson, as well as Scissor Sisters, George Michael, and, even, Parliament."
- Houston Chronicle: "This is fierce, fun dance music, lifted high into the heavens by Lambert's supernatural range – and expert help from Pharrell Williams, Dr. Luke, Nile Rodgers, Sam Sparro, Bruno Mars and Lester Mendez."
- Washington Times: "These songs are steeped in contemporary R&B, '80s hair metal, glittery dance-pop and modern-day club culture…. it's also a career-defining album for Mr. Lambert"
- Newsday: "a well-crafted collision of electronic dance pop and upper-register, booming vocals mostly about pushing the envelope and enjoying life."
- Slant Magazine: "The dance-floor-ready pop anthems that comprise the bulk of Trespassing make sense for a post-Gaga pop landscape. "
- The Miami Herald: "Stick to the infectious first half, and you'll be in aerobic dance heaven."
- Fab Magazine: "Trespassing is worth checking out for the first seven high-energy numbers alone."
- Billboard: " The first half of "Trespassing" frolics through well-worn funk, house and electro-pop tropes, but the club capers never get stale, thanks to Lambert's vocal charisma and ridiculous power."
- The Hollywood Reporter: "plenty of uptempo glittery pop along with more revealing ballads all of which showcase Lambert's ridiculous range. "
- San Francisco Chronicle: "Simply put, this guy probably has the best voice of any pop star working today. Even on less-than-stellar material, his soaring voice that then swoops down to a whisper can take your breath away."
- People Magazine- May 28, 2012 (iPad edition): "The title cut rocks a Queen stomp while the funky Kickin' In recalls early George Michael"
- Chicago Tribune A&E: "The very precise bifurcation of "Trespassing" has the album starting off with seven breezy, boiler-plate dance-pop tracks before it finishes off with five somber and balladic numbers that make somewhat good on Lambert's promise to get more personal."
- Gawker.Com: "Adam Lambert's consistently electrifying second album, Tresspassing (out this week), is that freedom set to music."
- JSOnline: Tap: "With the able assistance of producers like Pharrell Williams and Dr. Luke, Lambert polishes the mirrors of his dance club until they reflect every pose with sensuous clarity."
- eMusic Review: "Deftly idiosyncratic razzle-dazzle with an operatic intensity… it's the slower, more sensual cuts like "Broken English" and "Outlaws of Love" that best showcase his inimitable wail."
|Listen to "Never Close Our Eyes"
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Adam Lambert's New Single 'Better Than I Know Myself' now Available iTunes!
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Hey, hey, hey… Adam Lambert's new single now out on iTunes (and Amazon later today)!!! I personally love it (here's my quickie review!), but here's a round-up of single reviews for those who want a second opinion! *Let me know if there are any more out there that I haven't listed here!
- Digital Spy: "a rousing melody and anthemic, fist-clenching chorus"
- MTV Buzzworthy: "one of Adam's biggest, boldest and most beautiful tracks to date"
- ArjanWrites: "a massive new single that has hit, hit, hit written all over it"
- Music Prophet: " a perfect piece of pop music"
- PopCrush: "a lush, sweeping mid-tempo song about an enduring love"
- Allure of Sound: "should have a strong presence on pop radio"
- Hitfix: " it sure sounds like he knows what he wants to craft a radio-ready pop song"
- PopBlend: "have had it on repeat"
- AOL Music Blog: " gifted vocals soar on the new song"
- muumuse: "Great news — it's really, really good"
- PopJustice: "actually is brilliant"
- Vulture (NY Mag): "Because we love it. Deal with it"
- OMFG Music: "pure pop gold"
Oh, and for those who don't have the extra cash right now, this uber-generous Adam fan is offering to gift copies!
Gifting @adamlambert's #BTIKM now. US iTunes email address to firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks to @becca112971 for the help!—
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the roots of education are sometimes bitter but fruits are always sweet.
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
The so-called method of co-education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
The study of great quotations is worth more than a college education.
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.
The term "learning disability" has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around.
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to,
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

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Want to win in the playoffs? Have a two-way player to lead the way
May 18, 2013, 9:44 AM EDT
When you take a look at the teams left in the postseason, there's something most of them has that shows what helped get them there. Having a dominant two-way forward that can both score and defend against the opponents top line gives them a double threat.
Players like this year's Selke Trophy finalists in Patrice Bergeron, Jonathan Toews, and Pavel Datsyuk show having a weapon like that will get you places in the postseason. As Chicago coach Joel Quenneville told the Associated Press, it makes life easier to have them in the lineup.
"You need those kind of players to win, to be successful. Because you're going to have times, usually half the time in your shift you're going to be in your own end or you're going to have to be defending," said Quenneville, "and knowing where you have to go and coming up with loose pucks or forcing these guys to make indirect plays where you get the puck back, there's a skill involved there and there's some work that's involved."
You look elsewhere and you can throw Los Angeles' Anze Kopitar into this group as well and it's just further proof to the point. If you want to win and go deep in the postseason, having a top centerman who can score, create plays, and defend you'll do well.
- wingsandthings19 - May 18, 2013 at 9:55 AM
Being a Wings fan I love Dats. He's been one of the best two way players for years. That being said, as much as it hurts to say, this is Toews year. Kid has been filthy
- polegojim - May 18, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Yes, that kid is amazing… he makes everyone around him better.
Even Hossa looks renewed because of the two Hawks youth – Toews and Kane.
- valoisjoeybfeld69 - May 18, 2013 at 10:16 AM
This is what so many commenters have been saying is lacking on the Caps team. A leader who can play two-way hockey. Elementary!
- polegojim - May 18, 2013 at 10:33 AM
Yes – and the sadest thing is that they have some players with the talent to be two-way powers… but who annually melt-down.
Ovi starts pouting on ice before games are even over. He gives up and gives in… and others follow this horrible quality. Make no mistake, Ovi is a leader… a poor one.
What the Caps need most is someone with a resilient heart, even if he has lesser skills.
- govtminion - May 18, 2013 at 10:45 AM
Normally they have one- Brooks Laich. He just didn't get on the ice much this year due to injuries.
- govtminion - May 18, 2013 at 10:17 AM
Outside of goaltending, there may not be anyone on the Bruins roster more important to their success than Bergeron. Game 7 goals aside (only adding to it), his play at both ends of the ice makes him by far and away the key to their success over the past few years.
- valoisjoeybfeld69 - May 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM
Hard to argue that Bergeron is best two-way player on the team. Chara is also a force on D playing 30 minutes per game.
- hockeydon10 - May 18, 2013 at 6:12 PM
Yeah, but he's not putting up goals like the forwards mentioned.
- steelhammer92 - May 18, 2013 at 2:17 PM
Pascal Dupuis deserves some recognition as well. He's a force on the PK as well.
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Attorneys for the four girls, who were between the ages of 13 and 17 when the video was shot, asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday to allow the girls' names to be cloaked in anonymity in trial.
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Writing at the Nanoscale
UPTON, NY — At the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists have developed a new chemical "writing" technique that can create lines of "ink" only a few tens of nanometers, or billionths of a meter, in width.
"Our new 'writing' method opens up many new possibilities for creating nanoscale patterns and features on surfaces. This may have a significant impact on developing nanotechnologies that involve nanopatterning, such as molecular electronics — tiny circuits built using single organic molecules," said Brookhaven Lab physicist Yuguang Cai.
Cai will discuss the method at the 230th American Chemical Society national meeting in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, August 28, at 12 p.m. in room 8-9 of the Renaissance Hotel.
Cai and his colleagues call the technique "Electro Pen Nanolithography" (EPN). They sweep a very thin metal tip across a film of organic molecules.
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Each line is just one molecule thick, but the researchers can produce multilayered patterns by writing over the existing pattern. This gives them the ability to create three-dimensional nanoscale "landscapes." Moreover, by turning off the voltage, they can use the tip as a tiny "scanner" to "read" and create an image of the pattern just written.
With further research, EPN may have the ability to "write" biomolecular materials, such as proteins, onto surfaces. These nanoscale protein deposits might, for example, serve as biosensors.
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Stars align for Francis Parker
The pieces came together, the transformation culminating with a San Diego Section title and Saturday's 25-19, 25-13, 22-25, 15-25, 16-14 victory over Bishop Montgomery in the regional final.
"I have known some of these guys since they were little kids. These are my boys right here," Herman said. "It's really special and means a great deal to me that I was able to help them capture that much-coveted title."
Siegler said Herman was the reason he started playing volleyball in the first place.
"I had never touched a ball and he convinced me to play my freshman year even though I was just awful," Siegler said. "It's so sweet to be able to end my career as a section and regional champion with him as my coach."


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Cal State students facing 10% tuition increase
"The message it sends is horrendous," she said.
"It may not look to the chancellor – who makes $400,000 a year – like very much," she said. "But to those families suffering from the economic crisis it sends the message that higher education may not be for them."
At SDSU, Allan Acevedo, 20, a sophomore majoring in political science, said the fee increase will force him to work more hours to cover the increase and put added pressure on him to maintain his grades.
"The more hours I have to work the harder it is for me to find the time to study," he said.
Acevedo said he will have to hustle three part-time jobs on campus next semester to cover education costs. He also said the increase may put CSU out of reach for some.
"I understand nothing is free but the very promise the state of California made that every qualified student would have a chance to go to college isn't being fulfilled," he said.
Josephine Salvatin, 23, Associated Students executive vice president, said the trustees, CSU officials and campus administrators must tie any fee increase to assurances of fiscal responsibility.
"I hope they really analyze the fee and see that this $300 will go to improving the quality of education and not just to cover a lack of financial planning," she said.
Salvatin, a senior majoring in aerospace engineering, acknowledged additional fees will cause a burden for some students but said the overall benefit will outweigh any hardships.
"You don't want to burden the students," she said. "But you also don't want to compromise the quality of education."
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JIM WEISS has been a storyteller for over 25 years. In June, 1989, Jim decided to do something more with the craft that he had formerly practiced solely for pleasure. He and his wife, Randy, formed a production company, Greathall Productions, and have thus far produced forty eight (48) storytelling recordings with enticing titles from classical literature, such as Greek Myths, King Arthur and Sherlock Holmes. Jim's Greathall line is the recipient of more than 100+ major national awards from The American Library Association, Parents' Choice Foundation, NAPPA, the Parents' Council, The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, The Film Advisory Board, Parents' Guide to Children's Media Award and more. Weiss' newest releases are "Julius Caesar and the Story of Rome" and "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch."
June, 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of greathall productions.
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Jim travels extensively throughout The United States, giving live performances at stores, libraries, schools and community events. He has hosted and starred in a PBS television pilot that won a Northern California Emmy for "Best Children's Show," and has even performed at THE WHITE HOUSE Annual Easter Event. As a storyteller, Jim's performances have been described as exciting and enchanting. His connection to his audience is magnetic and interactive, proof positive that storytelling today rejuvenates one of the first and most personal forms of entertainment. Adults and children alike leave the performance feeling that they have really met characters from a wide range of classic literature and folk tales. Jim's presentations garner heightened respect for the art of storytelling and the literature itself.
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The Brent Matcalf who wrestled last night didn't even look like the guy we've seen all season. After the 2 takedowns in the 1st period he just seemed dazed and out of it. It was really strange.
And I agreed with the ESPN announcer (and how often can you say that) that Caldwell should "get off the mat." It was hot-dogging, it was disgusting, and it showed arrogance and no humility. What is this the NFL? He acted like a thug and then had the nerve to "thank god." Give me a break.
Metcalf deserved to lose, but after watching Caldwell at the end I felt they should have given no one the trophy. The whole thing made me sick.
Herbert. Hodge. No question. He's the man.
Franklin Gomez. Class. Pure class. Perhaps he can teach some to Caldwell?
Caldwell would never have even risked an injury if he hadn't engaged in that reckless way at the end. He should have ended the match, shook hands, and then celebrated. It was Caldwell who chose how that match would end, not Metcalf.
Metcalf deserved to lose but to blame the ending of that match on Metcalf borders on ridiculous. Caldwell set the events in motion, not Metcalf. He should be held more responsible. I seriously doubt that Metcalf even heard that whistle. He probably wanted to kill Caldwell at that point. And it's hard to blame him.
They both need humility lessons. No wrestler has the right to celebrate with time on the clock and in the manner that Caldwell did. And I also think intent should be taken into consideration. Not just result.
I thought that the HWT bout was terrific. Great job by Dudziak from Duke. He was soooooo close to being nat'l champ. Still becoming Duke's first AA is a terrific accomplishment. Congrats!!
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become."
The finals were great. Yeah, everyone would like to see some more action but on the other hand the champs did what they needed. I would have liked to see Duke get a champ, and Cladwell was da man(holy chit-we watched it about 6 times)! I have to say, Metcalf seemed "out of it" from the whistle, looked like Lincoln Mac(deer in headlights)when Marrinotti shocked the world back in the mid 90's.
For Iowa to have wrestled the absolute poorest tournament and still walk away with the title shows just how strong they are. Pretty much everything went wrong for them and they still win the title.
"He probably wanted to kill Caldwell at that point. And it's hard to blame him."
Do you even understand what you are saying here? You don't mean it literally of course, but even figuratively it's wrong. Period.
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I agree with Jen, bombs coat everything eww >< We use Ortho Home Defense Max and it works wonderfully.
How many bugs can you folks possibly have in the house for that sort of thing to be common? You don't even hear about it here.
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Ask your exterminator to use something pregnant women and baby friendly for inside your home. There are plenty of things that can be done that will not be as extreme as bombing your house.
Marta - I HATE spiders so much that seeing just 1 in the house makes me demand hubby spray around the entire outside of house & in every nook inside the house lol. Last house we rented had a bad brown recluse infestastion and that is some scary shit!
I've heard the best way to get spiders is to vacuum them up with the extender thingey and then put the vacuum bag in a plastic bag so they don't crawl back out. And do this a couple times a year.
Personally, I like spiders. The one's that dont have bad problems for humans anyway. I'd run fast from the brown recluse (pp, I would have been scared to death!). I'd rather have spiders than most other bugs in the house.
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From the Publisher"Cooper has a real talent for creating mood, for building suspense from obscure dialogue and brief encounters."
*"An exhilarating book."
"A spellbinder."
West and Cally, who speak different languages and come from different countries thousands of miles apart, are wrenched by catastrophe out of reality into a perilous world through which they must travel toward the sea.
*"An exhilarating book."
"A spellbinder."
Westerly came down the path at a long lope, sliding over the short moorland grass. His pack thumped against his back with each stride. A lark flicked suddenly into the air a yard away from him; flew low for a few feet; dropped; flew again.
"Go home," he said. "It's not you they want."
He strode on without pausing, without turning to see the bird wheel and dart her watchful way back to the nest. He had promised himself not to look behind him—not more than once every mile. He had turned too often in the last few days, expecting always to see the figures prickling the horizon, far-off but implacable, following. But each time the hills had been empty.
Beyond the hollow in the moors that he was crossing now, the land rose again in a long bony sweep, purple and green, dappled by cloud shadow. But trees clustered in the hollow, and faintly he could hear water splashing. He was thirsty, and hungry too; he had been walking since first light, and the sun was hot now, halfway up the sky. He came to a fork in the faintly-marked path, the way trodden no longer by men but written on the land by the memory of them, and he turned downhill to the sound of the running stream.
It ran fast, wider than he had expected, eddying bright round glistening grey stones. Westerly curled himself awkwardly round a young alder clump and lay flat, splashing his hot face, drinking until he gasped. Water ran down his chest as he sat up, making tiny runic letters out of the tentative dark hair that was beginning to thicken there, and his wet shirt came clammy-cold against his skin.
For a while he prowled the banks of the stream, pausing wherever a rock turned the quick water aside into a pool. Each time he lay flat beside the pool, motionless, staring down; then patiently rose again, shouldered his creased leather pack and moved onto the next. By the time he had found what he was looking for, his shirt was long dry and the sun was high overhead, hot on his back.
He went back through the trees to stare out over the hazy purple moorland, but in all the rolling miles nothing moved.
Westerly lay down again on the bank of the stream, his chin propped on a big overhanging rock, and carefully lowered his right hand into a pool fringed with green weed. His fingers moved, unceasingly but almost imperceptibly, rippling as the weed rippled. Very soon in the cold mountain water his whole hand was numb, but gently he kept the fingers waving, waving, and his arm moving slowly, very slowly, to one side—until with a swift sure lunge he thrust two fingers into the gills of the trout that had hung there all this time resting in the little slow-eddying pool, and he rolled over stiff-armed and brought the fish out twisting silver and frantic onto the grass.
"Sorry," Westerly said to the flailing bright body, and he hit it once with a stone and it lay still. For a few minutes he sat hunched in the sunshine, turning and twisting his stiff neck, with his cold right hand cradled in his left armpit to thaw. Then he took kindling and a long knife from his pack, made a fire, gutted the fish and held it skewered on the knife to cook. In the sunlight the fire was scarcely visible, after its beginning smoke; only its heat rippled the air. The silver fish blackened and sputtered, and the smell of it made Westerly's stomach clutch at him with emptiness. But before he ate, he went once more to the edge of the trees, to look back.
The moors were empty still. Only the cloud-shadows moved.
He picked the fish clean and stamped out the dying fire. Then he took the glistening white skeleton, tipped still with head and tail-fin, and laid it across the blackened twigs pointing back the way that he had come. He took out his knife and raised it high, stabbing the blade down into the ground behind the white bone-arrow's tail, and hesitantly, trying to remember, he said some words under his breath.
And the skeleton of the fish called out, in a thin high scream shrilling like a cicada, and Westerly knew that there was danger, that he must go on.
He threw bone and ashes into the swift water, wiped his knife clean, shouldered his pack and set out once more, striding wearily towards the upland path that led away over the hill.
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I was on vacation with my family and happened upon this book.I thought it looked like my kind of book so I bought it. I'm writing my own book and thought it may help me with ideas.It did , but even better I found a new series! I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did (and am! I'm reading it again!) ~a sequel or series to follow would be REALLY great! I didn't want it to end!Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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This books rocks because it's full of love romance adventure and trustWas this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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This book absolutely took my breath away... the imagery is incredible and the characters are real. The book leaves you in a slightly sad but very thoughtful mood.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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This book takes you on a mystical journey in a far away land where any thing is possible. The two main characters have only two things in common. There both lost in an unframiliar and inchanted land and they're both looking for thre families. follow the characters through perilouse dangers, great adventures, and the discovery of love.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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Oronde Crenshaw, a standout football player at Costa Mesa High, said one week before National Signing Day his scholarship offer to Arizona State had been revoked.
In the cut-throat world of recruiting, that happens. A player can lose out in a numbers game because there are only so many scholarships to be granted.
And it could have been easy to see Crenshaw as a victim of the system.
Only Arizona State said there never was a scholarship offer to be revoked. The Sun Devils even said they never pursued Crenshaw.
"We never did actively recruit him and he was never in our system," said Thomas Lenneberg, an assistant media relations director at Arizona State.
"He's never applied for admission. … (A coach) did reach out to him at some point. There was a point of contact in the spring (of 2013). After that, there was nothing."
A first-team, All-County selection at linebacker this season who also started at running back for Costa Mesa, Crenshaw said he had committed to Arizona State to play strong safety in December. Various media outlets, including the Register, reported the commitment based on what he said.
Crenshaw told a Register reporter in December he had a scholarship offer from the school pending grade requirements, then said Wednesday via text message and in a phone conversation that Arizona State "pulled" his scholarship offer.
He also said no other Division I schools had expressed interest in him.
On Thursday, Crenshaw and his mother, Lilia Mora, said in a phone interview he had never said he had received a scholarship offer.
"ASU never offered a scholarship," Crenshaw said. "I verbally committed because that's where I wanted to go."
When Crenshaw was asked about saying this week that his offer was pulled, he turned the phone over to his mother.
"I think it was more a choice of his words," Crenshaw's mother added.
"You guys were speaking to a 17-year-old kid. I remember reading (the article). His words weren't put properly. That's where he was leaning and wanted to go."
Mora went on to say an Arizona State assistant coach contacted her during the football season and into January, when, she says, he told her the Sun Devils weren't interested in Crenshaw any longer.


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Purists, be warned: This scare-flick quickie has as much relation to the 1953 Vincent Price classic with the same title as Paris Hilton does to acting. show more
After a month, no one will talk about this movie, ever again. Still, with a picture like this, there's really only one question: Is it any fun? Yes. Lots. Definitely. show more
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OpenCandy from SweetLabs, a company based in San Diego, is an advertising software module consisting of a Microsoft Windows library that can be incorporated in a Windows Installer. When a user installs an application that has the OpenCandy library, there is an option to install additional software that it recommends (based on a scan of the user's system and geolocation).[1][2]
The software was originally developed for the DivX installation, by CEO Darrius Thompson. When installing DivX, the user was prompted to optionally install the Yahoo! Toolbar. DivX received $15.7 million during the first nine months of 2008 from Yahoo and other software developers, after 250 million downloads.[2]
Chester Ng, the former DivX business development director, is chief business officer and Mark Chweh, former DivX engineering director, is chief technology officer.[2]
OpenCandy has attracted criticism because of privacy concerns.[3] Past versions of OpenCandy were considered adware by Microsoft Security Essentials as they "may send user-specific information ... without obtaining adequate user consent".[4] OpenCandy has claimed that this is because another company used OpenCandy without the formal warning in their EULA.[5]
How to avoid OpenCandy[edit]
A user can simply turn off any internet connection while installing software bundled with OpenCandy if the user wants to be sure not to get any OpenCandy "recommendations" during the install.[6] Alternatively one can load the installer (typed from a command line prompt) with the /NOCANDY switch. This will typically prevent the additional library from loading (or for additional security, use both methods).
Applications known to use or have used OpenCandy[edit]
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- aMSN
- Any Video Converter
- AOL Instant Messenger
- ApexDC++
- Auslogics Disk Defrag[7]
- AxCrypt
- BatteryCare (from version 0.9.21)
- BurnAware
- CDBurnerXP (depending on version)
- CDex
- Cheat Engine (depending on version)
- Connectify
- CrystalDiskInfo (except in Portable Edition)
- CutePDF
- Daemon Tools
- doubleTwist
- Dexpot
- DVDStyler (220.127.116.11 verified)
- DVDVideoSoft
- EaseUS Partition Master Free 10.1[8]
- Ezvid
- Frostwire
- Foxit Reader (6.1.4 – 6.2.1)[9]
- FL Studio
- FreeFileSync
- Freemake Audio Converter (184.108.40.206)
- Freemake Video Converter
- Freemake Video Downloader
- Free Video Dub
- Free Video To Flash Converter (22.214.171.124, according to terms of use)
- GameHouse
- GOM Player
- IE7Pro
- ImgBurn (from version 188.8.131.52)[10]
- IZArc[11]
- JDownloader
- KMPlayer
- Launchy (when not downloaded from SourceForge)
- Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder
- MediaCoder
- MediaInfo
- mHotspot
- MP3 Rocket[12]
- mIRC[11]
- Miro
- My Lockbox[13] (OpenCandy-free installer also available)
- MyPhoneExplorer
- Nero Burning ROM
- Orbit Downloader
- PDFCreator
- PeaZip
- PhotoScape
- PowerISO
- PrimoPDF[11]
- RealArcade
- RIOT (Radical Image Optimization Tool)[14]
- Soldat
- StepMania
- SMPlayer (win32 version)
- Veoh Web Player
- Sigil (dropped with version 0.5.0 and later)[15]
- Trillian[11] (dropped 5 May 2011)
- Unlocker
- uTorrent (version 3.x.x and above)
- Winamp (version 5 and newer, but not version 2.x)
- WinSCP (through August 2012)[16]
- Xfire
- ^ Needleman, Rafe (11 November 2008), OpenCandy brings ad market to software installs. What?, CNET news, retrieved 2009-08-18
- ^ a b c Marshall, Matt (10 November 2008), OpenCandy inserts recommendations when you install software, retrieved 2009-08-18
- ^ Needleman, Rafe (11 November 2008), OpenCandy brings ad market to software installs. What?, CNET news, retrieved 2011-08-06. Particularly see the user comments
- ^ Win32/OpenCandy, Microsoft Corporation, 16 Feb 2011, retrieved 2011-02-23
- ^ "The Story Behind the OpenCandy and Microsoft Adware Debacle". Retrieved 2011-06-02.[dead link]
- ^ "Dr. Apps" (2009-05-13). "Comment on article 'OpenCandy: A New Kind of Adware/Spyware'". Cranial Soup. Retrieved 2014-12-26.
You can simply not allow internet communication during a software install and you will never see an OpenCandy recommendation.
- ^ [1]
- ^ End User License Agreement, retrieved September 2014
- ^ Foxit Forum
- ^ "Change log". ImgBurn. LIGHTNING UK!. 2013-06-16. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
Changed: No longer bundling/offering the Ask.com toolbar in the setup program, OpenCandy now handles product offerings during installation.
- ^ a b c d gizmo, richards (2014-02-08). "Controversial Advertising Program Now Being Embedded in More Software". Gizmo's Freeware. Archived from the original on 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
OpenCandy (OC) is a relatively new advertising product that more and more software developers are bundling with their programs. It can now be found in the installers of dozens of popular programs including IZArc, mirC, PrimoPDF, Trillian Astra and more.
- ^ http://www.herdprotect.com/signer-mp3-support-146c2e323177663b9df87fff1b9c31d8.aspx
- ^ http://fspro.net/my-lockbox
- ^ "Softpedia - RIOT". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
- ^ Schember, John (21 January 2012). "Sigil 0.5.0 Released". Retrieved 2012-03-17.
- ^ "WinSCP - OpenCandy". Retrieved 2014-04-03.


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It's hard to preach patience with an unproven Fantasy asset. That was the case with Brad Miller after his early struggles. Miller had a nice rookie year, which led to many buying into the hype for his second season. When things didn't pan out, most owners cut bait, deciding to ride the hot hand.
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Aloha feels like several films at once, crammed together and sped up, with results that are emotionally hollow and narratively confusing.
Aloha feels like several films at once, crammed together and sped up, with results that are emotionally hollow and narratively confusing.
Funny, heartfelt, and gorgeously shot. This is an excellent film.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
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What Charlize Theron achieves in Patty Jenkins' "Monster" isn't a performance but an embodiment. With courage, art and charity, she empathizes with Aileen Wuornos, a damaged woman who committed seven murders. She does not excuse the murders. She simply asks that we witness the woman's final desperate attempt to be a better person than her fate intended.
Wuornos received a lot of publicity during her arrest, trial, conviction and 2002 execution for the Florida murders of seven men who picked her up as a prostitute (although one wanted to help her, not use her). The headlines, true as always to our compulsion to treat everything as a sporting event or an entry for the Guinness Book, called her "America's first female serial killer." Her image on the news and in documentaries presented a large, beaten-down woman who did seem to be monstrous. Evidence against her was given by Selby Wall (Christina Ricci), an 18-year-old who became the older woman's naive lesbian lover and inspired Aileen's dream of earning enough money to set them up in a "normal" lifestyle. Robbing her clients led to murder, and each new murder seemed necessary to cover the tracks leading from the previous one.
I confess that I walked into the screening not knowing who the star was, and that I did not recognize Charlize Theron until I read her name in the closing credits. Not many others will have that surprise; she was just honored as best actress of the year by the National Society of Film Critics. I didn't recognize her -- but more to the point, I hardly tried, because the performance is so focused and intense that it becomes a fact of life. Observe the way Theron controls her eyes in the film; there is not a flicker of inattention, as she urgently communicates what she is feeling and thinking. There's the uncanny sensation that Theron has forgotten the camera and the script and is directly channeling her ideas about Aileen Wuornos. She has made herself the instrument of this character.
I have already learned more than I wanted to about the techniques of disguise used by makeup artist Toni G. to transform an attractive 28-year-old into an ungainly street prostitute, snapping her cigarette butt into the shadows before stepping forward to talk with a faceless man who has found her in the shadows of a barren Florida highway. Watching the film, I had no sense of makeup technique; I was simply watching one of the most real people I had ever seen on the screen. Jenkins, the writer-director, has made the best film of the year. Movies like this are perfect when they get made, before they're ground down by analysis. There is a certain tone in the voices of some critics that I detest -- that superior way of explaining technique in order to destroy it. They imply that because they can explain how Theron did it, she didn't do it. But she does it.
The movie opens with Aileen informing God that she is down to her last $5, and that if God doesn't guide her to spend it wisely she will end her life. She walks into what happens to be a lesbian bar and meets the 18-year-old Selby, who has been sent to live with Florida relatives and be "cured" of lesbianism. Aileen is adamant that she's had no lesbian experience, and indeed her sordid life as a bottom-rung sex worker has left her with no taste for sex at all. Selby's own sexuality functions essentially as a way to shock her parents and gratify her need to be desired. There is a stunning scene when the two women connect with raw sexual energy, but soon enough sex is unimportant compared to daydreaming, watching television, and enacting their private soap opera in cheap roadside motels.
Aileen is the protector and provider, proudly bringing home the bacon -- and the keys to cars that Selby doesn't ask too many questions about. Does she know that Aileen has started to murder her clients? She does and doesn't. Aileen's murder spree becomes big news long before Selby focuses on it. The crimes themselves are triggered by Aileen's loathing for prostitution -- by a lifetime's hatred for the way men have treated her since she was a child. She has only one male friend, a shattered Vietnam veteran and fellow drunk (Bruce Dern). Although she kills for the first time in self-defense, she is also lashing out against her past. Her experience of love with Selby brings revulsion uncoiling from her memories; men treat her in a cruel way and pay for their sins and those of all who went before them. The most heartbreaking scene is the death of a good man (Scott Wilson) who actually wants to help her, but has arrived so late in her life that the only way he can help is to be eliminated as a witness.
Aileen's body language is frightening and fascinating. She doesn't know how to occupy her body. Watch Theron as she goes through a repertory of little arm straightenings and body adjustments and head tosses and hair touchings, as she nervously tries to shake out her nervousness and look at ease. Observe her smoking technique; she handles her cigarettes with the self-conscious bravado of a 13-year-old trying to impress a kid. And note that there is only one moment in the movie where she seems relaxed and at peace with herself; you will know the scene, and it will explain itself. This is one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema.
Christina Ricci finds the correct note for Selby Wall -- so correct some critics have mistaken it for bad acting, when in fact it is sublime acting in its portrayal of a bad actor. She plays Selby as clueless, dim, in over her head, picking up cues from moment to moment, cobbling her behavior out of notions borrowed from bad movies, old songs, and barroom romances. Selby must have walked into a gay bar for the first time only a few weeks ago, and studied desperately to figure out how to present herself. Selby and Aileen are often trying to improvise the next line they think the other wants to hear.
We are told to hate the sin but not the sinner, and as I watched "Monster" I began to see it as an exercise in the theological virtue of charity. It refuses to objectify Wuornos and her crimes and refuses to exploit her story in the cynical manner of true crime sensationalism -- insisting instead on seeing her as one of God's creatures worthy of our attention. She has been so cruelly twisted by life that she seems incapable of goodness, and yet when she feels love for the first time she is inspired to try to be a better person.
She is unequipped for this struggle, and lacks the gifts of intelligence and common sense. She is devoid of conventional moral standards. She is impulsive, reckless, angry and violent, and she devastates her victims, their families and herself. There are no excuses for what she does, but there are reasons, and the purpose of the movie is to make them visible. If life had given her anything at all to work with, we would feel no sympathy. But life has beaten her beyond redemption
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CNBC's Sharon Epperson reports metals pared losses following the Iran nuclear deal.
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Ann Romney corrects Whoopi Goldberg on LDS faith
October 19, 2012
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MR says: Ann handled this "gotcha" question wonderfully.Ann Romney corrected Whoopi Goldberg about military service and the Mormon faith after being pressed by "The View" co-host during Thursday's show.
"As first lady, if you get the job, it's going to entail a lot of things, and one of those things is going to be talking to the mothers whose children are coming home in bags, you know, from wars," Goldberg said. "Now, I believe that your religion doesn't allow you to go fight?"
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bridget said...
on Oct 22, 2012
Too bad Ann didn't tell Whoopi that serving on a mission was going into battle for the Lord. Anyway, Whoopi is displaying the kind of ignorance that is common about Mormons, but she ought not to have done it in front of millions of people. This is why people who have no background in journalism may not be the best choice for a talk show host. Brother! Even a minimal understanding of the Mormon Church would make it evident that we serve in the military. Is Whoopi perhaps confusing us with the Jehovah Witnesses? This is commonly done, although we are the opposite from JWs, who claim that Christ is not Jehovah, and we know for an absolute fact He is. (Otherwise, we would have no Savior, for God alone is our Savior.) But I would not expect Whoopi to bother educating herself on who knows the Lord and who doesn't, since she perhaps knows very little of him herself. (Not excusable in a world in which the Bible is widely available.)
kippers2222 said...
on Oct 22, 2012
Bridget said "that serving on a mission was going into battle for the lord" Sounds like you are saying we are at war with other nations....Yes Whoopi might be alittle bias or maybe not educatied about the Mormon faith, but just because Ann is Mitt's wife and what she says does not mean that Mitt is right for the job as a president....
kippers2222 said...
on Oct 22, 2012
I'm sorry but I WILL NOT vote for mittens....I think he would be bad for this country.....
angelida said...
on Oct 27, 2012
I think if the rolls were reversed & it were the First Lady that Whoopi where interviewing, I don't think she would have been so adamant about the question. Or that would not even be a question on her list at all!! It's not like our president ever served our country in the military either. So yes Whoopi was being biased! And she clearly doesn't know about the LDS faith. She should have done her research before assuming something & just asking questions to try to either make Ann Romney look stupid or the LDS faith look bad. That's the problem with so many people that either don't know about it or go by what they hear, they don't take the time to research the facts or just don't care or want to. The information is there for them if they really wanted it. But we continually are judged & criticized for our beliefs, but most of what they think are false. It's sad really!
luckeyeth said...
on Feb 01, 2013
D&C 98, "The False God We Worship" by Spencer W Kimball. Too bad Ann Romney incorrectly corrected Whoopi Goldberg, because our scriptures certainly don't allow us to go fight - particularly when innocent lives are lost and called "collateral damage."
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Complex magazine just released their very comprehensive list of "100 Hottest Women Right Now" and no surprise here, but #1 is…
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She's the biggest pop star of the moment and without a doubt going down in pop culture history books for her achievements in the music industry—a seemingly endless stream of commercial hits and sold out concerts around the world.
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Your BFF Jennifer Lawrence and Queen Beyoncé are familiars on this type of list, but an actually surprising addition is Alison Brie of "Mad Men" and "Community."
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Everyone loves the women of Sex and the City, but what makes their characters so relatable and realistic is their trials and tribulations with each other and their lovers. I think it's safe to say that every woman out there has had similar experiences - whether it's having someone to call Mr. Big or disagreeing with your best friend's promiscuous behavior - it's just part of being a woman!
At the end of the series, each character ended up with the man she loved, so if you could pick between Big, Harry, Steve or Smith to be your main squeeze, which character would you want as your partner?
Im-with-tha-Dj 6 years
Im-with-tha-Dj 6 years
liannecamille 7 years
Where's that one boy that she dated that she cheated on? I like him,.
itsallabouttheg 7 years
i <3 <3 <3 steve!
itsallabouttheg 7 years
i <3 <3 <3 steve!
Misalady 7 years
Steve. He's so sweet. And, yeah, he has faults, but he's not pretentious at all, and is such a good guy.
sugarsister 7 years
It's either Steve or Smith because they were both so devoted to their women. Differences: Steve is funny, Smith is hot. Oh, decisions...
barjar1122 7 years
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veronicaraye 7 years
Smith Jarrod is a fine piece of man!
mrspiven 7 years
Steve. he's always been my favorite, probably because i'm a lot like miranda and i am attracted to steve like men.
graciepants 7 years
the blong guy!!!!!!!!! hot hot hot. hes probly a real playa though
tee0206 7 years
Smith. His age isn't an issue with me because I'm 23. He was so sweet to Samantha, especially when he shaved his and her heads when she was on chemo! And he's hot. I also like Steve, though.
tee0206 7 years
Smith. His age isn't an issue with me because I'm 23. He was so sweet to Samantha, especially when he shaved his and her heads when she was on chemo! And he's hot.I also like Steve, though.
mavvericks66 7 years
so sorry Aiden was the Best! I didn't proof....
mavvericks66 7 years
Aiden's was the BEST... but, not around so then I have to choose Smith!!!!!
oinkoink 7 years
Steve Brady is adorable and a great father on SATC. He's on the short side but he has a great smile and a hot bod. Does anyone else remember the episode when he and Miranda go on their Honeymoon and he's naked in bed. He's hot! Smith is too immature and model-esque for me. Steve is a real man and a hunk who isn't afraid of a strong woman in his life!
swwonder 7 years
Smith is really hot and sweet. But I absolutely love Steve, he's completely adorable.
nati 7 years
smith, hot and cute!
nati 7 years
smith, hot and cute!
jen22 7 years
Smith is hot, but I like Harry because he is sweet and funny.
extremely_posh 7 years
Where's Aidan? I want him!! The perfect man!
crazybitch 7 years
I am a sucker for a sweet face so out of the choices it would be smith but I have to agree with the others...where is Aiden? He was hot and nice!!!!!
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Aidan should be on here!! but i chose Steve... he is a sweetie!!
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NFC seems to be the one trend over the last few years that gets a lot of attention, but it just hasn't gone anywhere with consumers yet.
That could change next year as potential use cases continue to move farther away from thinking simply about mobile banking and payments.
Hurlston asserted that as NFC extends beyond to gaming (i.e. on the Nintendo Wii U) and TVs even, the NFC ecosystem is "getting broader than we initially forecasted."
Mohamed Awad, associate product line director for the mobile and wireless group at Broadcom, added that iIt's about interacting with devices in new ways and enabling them to move content from device to device.
"You have to bridge virtual world with physical world, and NFC enables that," Awad continued.
Essentially, based on the way Broadcom is presenting the future of NFC, it looks another -- if not a better way -- to transfer content from device to device beyond Bluetooth.
Using the NFC-enabled Nexus 4 smartphone and the Nexus 10 tablet, Awad demonstrated launching the same applications (i.e. Angry Birds) and activities (a particular website already open in Chrome) between these two devices.
By focusing on those types of things, Awad remarked that Broadcom can then "free up" time and work for partners like Google and Samsung to worry more about the high-level experience.
Awad admitted he thinks NFC-enabled mobile payments will happen, but the reality is that consumers need to get more comfortable with the technology and infrastructure behind it. He added that widespread mobile payments via NFC probably won't happen for two to three more years, but the content transfer between devices is happening now.
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With an entire wing dedicated to it this year, there should be a lot of conversations about connected cars at CES 2013.
Right now, Broadcom estimated that approximately 15 percent of U.S. households own a vehicle with a connected communications system. Furthermore, Broadcom reps cited ABI Research from this year that this market will grow to $39 billion by 2018.
Nick Ilyadis, vice president and CTO of the infrastructure and networking group at Broadcom, explained that the company is focused on reducing connectivity costs and cabling weight within connoted cars while providing 100Mbps Ethernet, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity.
We all know by now that BYOD raises a lot of questions and worries about security threats, but 2013 will be the year where these worries need to be addressed.
Citing a Lippis report, Ilyadis remarked that analysts are predicting that BYOD adoption will be the biggest transition within the enterprise world since the birth of the mainframe.
As wireless becomes the primary method that employees connect to a corporate network, Ilyadis listed some of the solutions that Broadcom is working on to address BYOD. That includes unified switching for scaling more efficiently with better redundancy as well as application intelligence about which apps are running on devices down to the user and port levels.
A more unique use case is an platform that schedules which times certain websites and applications can be available to users on an enterprise networks. This is more in reference to personal and social-related platforms, such as Facebook or Twitter. Thus, an IT department could free up access to Facebook for an hour or two for use during lunchtime, and then they are blocked off again for the rest of the day.