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Running the length of the Surface is a thin, 0.7-millimeter metal flap called the kickstand. This is what transforms the device from a tablet that you can grip to a computer you can type at while sitting at a desk or table.
Microsoft made much of the fact that the sides of this thin device are cut at 22 degree angles. It's no big deal until you realize that the kickstand positions the tablet to lean back at 22 degrees, making the bottom edge flush with a flat surface.
The front-facing camera looks up at you, while the back camera is angled so that it points straight forward when the kickstand is extended. The back camera angle also should make it easier to shoot video or take pictures while looking down at the screen held at an angle.
As I said earlier, the tablet's software is what disappoints.
I detected a lag when swiping, which just seems wrong on a touch screen. After all, you can see exactly where your finger is touching. If the image doesn't come along in real time, that's noticeable. Apple's iPad and iPhone may still have Microsoft's Surface beat in this regard.
Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system and its Windows RT counterpart for low-power chips are supposed to bridge the gap between touch devices and personal computers.
But the company has made a perplexing design choice by hiding crucial navigation items off the screen. Finding them requires swiping in from the sides. I would need a tutorial on what actions lead to what results. Let's just say it is not readily apparent.
Those who have tested the software on personal computers have reported not being able to find the "Start" menu. The Surface seems to address this by putting a permanent Windows icon in the middle of the device below the screen. The icon causes a vibration when touched, which helps because it's not a physical button.
Who would use this device?
At the announcement on Monday, CEO Steve Ballmer pounded home the message that this tablet will be as good as a PC for creating documents in a way that the iPad never was. It's true that the iPad has such shortcomings as an inability to run multiple programs side by side, the way you can on a regular computer. Surface can run at least two at a time.
So, users would seem to be professionals who want a tablet they can use for work and play.
I find that proposition appealing, especially after lugging my heavy laptop to the press conference and having to keep a watchful eye on the dwindling battery life. (Speaking of which, Microsoft still hasn't said anything about the Surface's expected battery life.)
Microsoft said the low-power version using Nvidia chips will cost about the same as other tablets, while a version that runs Windows 8 Pro will cost about the same as other ultrabooks with Intel processors. The Pro version will have a stylus that allows users to make handwritten notes on documents such as PDF files. It also has an Intel processor and the option for more memory.
Surface splits the difference between a standard tablet and super-light laptops such as Apple's MacBook Air or ultrabooks that run Windows. But typing on the Surface's keyboard cover seems to require just that, a surface. I'm not sure how I would manage the cover keyboard and a kickstand on my lap.
Microsoft's ultimate challenge seems to be making sure that all the programs on my current laptop - including its range of Office software - can run smoothly on Surface. It's not clear yet whether it can deliver on that vision.
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Kuchar made an 11-foot birdie putt off the back fringe at No. 2 before a bogey on the next hole when he took two shots from a greenside bunker. Then came a steady stream of pars until rolling in that long putt at No. 12. He didn't have another birdie until a closing 20-footer for second place alone, his sixth career runner-up finish.
"It's a bummer for me. This is a tournament, and this is a golf course, that I love," said Kuchar, a five-time PGA Tour winner. "It's difficult at the moment coming just one shot short but you can't control what other guys do."
Weekley won the same week he went to see a doctor about the problem he has had recently maintaining focus in his left eye, sometimes causing bad twitches and making it problematic reading greens.
"I had a few out there. It was coming and going in that wind," Weekley said. "I don't know what's going to happen. We're going to get home and work on it."
Stallings had a 6-under 29 on the front nine, one off the course record, and was 13 under with a one-stroke lead when he got the 428-yard 15th hole. But he took three shots from inside a radius of about 5 yards after his approach shot from a left fairway bunker stopped behind the hole.
His chip shot then hit the edge of a greenside bunker, rolling into the sand, and he failed to get out of there on his next shot before finally blasting to 6 feet. Weekley had just made an 18-foot birdie at No. 9 to get to 12 under.
"It was kind of a make it, break it point," Stallings said. "You've got to get up and down, especially with the guys with a lot of holes left."
It was also at No. 15 where the only bogey of the day came for Johnson, who missed an opportunity to join five-time winner Ben Hogan as the only players to win Colonial more than twice.
While on the easy par-5, 548-yard first hole, the long-hitting Weekley told his caddie that it was good to feel butterflies again.
Weekley's 22-foot eagle chance at No. 1 stopped about 6 inches from the cup before he chipped in for another birdie from behind the third green. He sliced his tee shot out of bounds at No. 5 toward the Trinity River for a bogey and dropped another shot at the 437-yard seventh hole before starting his go-ahead birdie run with a 6-iron inside 4 feet at the 200-yard eighth hole.
"It feels good to actually have butterflies again, knowing that I'm in this, an opportunity to maybe win," Weekley said. "I might have shot 80 today. But I didn't. It was my time to win."
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Aid for AIDS
The AIDS battle never ends, even if the issue has slipped from the forefront of national attention as the disease continues to spread around the world. For the Colorado AIDS Projects Michael Lee, thats where the real battle lies in modern times, especially when planning another Colorado AIDS Walk and Run. Since the late 90s, theres been a slide in attendance, as well as in the amount of money raised, Lee says. As a result, we wanted to evolve the event to renew the publics interest.
To that end, this years event in Cheesman Park - the walks 22nd incarnation and the runs fourth - will sport some new features, including a volleyball tournament. Still, the biggest change lies in how walkers will spend their time after the urban fundraising trek: Instead of going home or for drinks at Dixons, as Lee jokes, the party will continue with a Celebration of Life in the park, which will feature two beer gardens, live music and food vendors. Our goal is to capture that great community energy the AIDS Walk inspires and to keep it going in the park after the walk is over, he says. And as the only event thats allowed to sell beer in Cheesman Park, Lee adds, the party should keep that energy flowing.
The opening ceremony is at 9 a.m., and the action continues until 4 p.m. Theres a $30 registration fee if you choose to participate in the run. You can walk for free - but, as Lee notes, it only takes five minutes to send an e-mail to your friends asking for pledges, which benefit AIDS prevention and services. For more information, visit www.AIDSwalkcolorado.org or call 303-861-WALK.
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Part of great dancing is manner. The San Francisco dancers have a wonderfully mature way of letting the steps unfold naturally, without pressing for dynamic effect or squeaky-clean execution. When Tomasson danced with the New York City Ballet, he was clean but he never made a big deal about it. Evidently, he's been busy teaching his group how to dance, which is what you'd assume to be a normal function of an artistic director but, believe it or not, is one rarely manifest on today's ballet stage.
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But the Incas did not submit willingly. A young Inca emperor, the brother of Atahualpa, soon led a massive rebellion against the Spaniards, inflicting heavy casualties and nearly wiping out the conquerors. Eventually, however, Pizarro and his men forced the emperor to abandon the Andes and flee to the Amazon. There, he established a hidden capital, called Vilcabamba. Although the Incas fought a deadly, 36-year-long guerrilla war, the Spanish ultimately captured the last Inca emperor and vanquished the native resistance.
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of the Spanish conquest. Drawing on both native and Spanish chronicles, he vividly describes the dramatic story of the conquest, with all its savagery and suspense.
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"Vivid and energetic....Riveting." (Publishers Weekly)
"A first-rate reference work of ambitious scope that will most likely stand as the definitive account of these people." (Booklist)
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The story of the Conquistadors and the Incas is pretty compelling stuff. One begins by wishing a plague on both their houses and finishes with an enduring revulsion for Spanish duplicity, brutality and, above all, greed. So the material is very powerful.
The writing, on the other hand, is plodding and distressingly repetitious. The strength of the book is that it includes all the interesting details which can make an historical account come alive; the weakness of the book is that the details are recounted like a grocery list. And lest we come home without the milk or the beansprouts, they are usually reiterated a few times.
Worst of all, the final few hours of the book are devoted to the modern history of the discovery of Incan ruins. Unlike the original narrative, the material here is deadly dull, and it is just as poorly presented. I never quite made it to the end.
"Interesting but problematic"
This book's is a tour de force of creative and evocative historical writing. The author has done an excellent job of making the subject and characters come alive in an interesting and informative way. However, one cannot but suspect that this was done at the expense of playing fast and loose with the historical record and by being academically sloppy.
This is best demonstrated by the author's chronic overuse of the term "undoubtedly". The author wants to tell a rousing narrative including the minute actions and feelings of the principal players but is stymied by the lack of historical evidence. The solution seems to have been to add the word "undoubtedly" to all of these wonderful descriptions for which there is no historical evidence. This is both academically sloppy and rather annoying. It makes one doubt whether the facts presented in the book are indeed facts or just supposition and guesswork. Even the best historians need to use some amount of imagination to make a scene come alive but any decent historian knows to make it crystal clear when they are doing so.
So, if you want a highly "readable" overview of the Spanish conquest of Peru, this is an excellent book. However, the flaws make is decidedly less than credible and may be both frustrating and problematic to the serious reader or historian. As an important Caveat: I only have experienced the audio book. It is highly likely that there were explanatory footnotes for the questionable statements showing the author's sources and rational.
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"Fact is more fascinating than fiction"
This marvelous book will make your hair rise. The unbelievable chronicle of Pizzaro and the Incas seems like fiction, but it is all true. When I explain the history to those who might have an interest, they are incredulous. The Spanish method did work, but it couldn't be done today and shouldn't be done. Listen to it if you have an interest in history.
"Now I Want to Visit Peru"
A fascinating book about an unlikely overthrow of a vast empire by a small band of uneducated and undeserving Spaniards. This book will make you admire the Incas and feel disdain for the Spanish invaders. I'm sure the perspective of the author is a bit slanted in this direction, but I still feel he is giving an even-handed account.
The personalities of the participants in the events reaaly get developed well. The descriptions of the setting makes me want to take a vaction to Peru to explore this fascinating region.
This was a great listen. Brings what is unfortunately an obscure historical subject for most North Americans to life. Reads like a novel, driven by greed, violence, brutality and the personalities of the principals. The last section of the book, on the American "discovers" of the Incan ruins is a change of pace, but nonetheless interesting. Focuses on the personalities, errors and ambitions of the finders. Made me look into the geography of Peru to get a sense of the stage on which this tragedy was played out. Highly recommend.
"Best history of the Conquest of the Inca Nation!"
Absoltely, and i have. This is the most detailed, interesting, and comprehensive history of the conquest of the Inca's I have ever read. I have been studying Latin America History for 30 years, and this is the best treatment of the subject i have found. Congratulations to the author.
The level of detail concerning both the Europeans and the Indian lives at the time of the Conquest was simply amazing. The author covers every important detail of political concerns for both sides, geography, economics, religious, and social factors that played in this amazing feat of conquest.
I have not heard this man before, but this was first class.
Yes. How did 163 Spanish defeat the 80,000 Inca warriors in Caljamarca and capture the Inca? Simply, bold audacity. The Spanish were trapped, they could not go back, the only way forward was to attack the Inca and his guard and catch them off balance. Pizarro gave the order, the spanish attacked, and the rest is history.
Fantastic story well told. Everyone interested in human behavior should read this book, as well as those interested in the period or Latin American history. This is a book that is entertaining for everyone.
"Great information that could be presented better"
Ever since I read Charles C Mann's excellent book "1491", and the even better follow up "1493", my interest in the history of South American history has been sky high. Other books about ancient history, especially Jared Diamond's classic "Guns, Germs, And Steel", are the sort of thing I can't get enough of. This book is written more in the style of a story teller than a raw examination of the facts. It's a different approach than I was used to, but one that I thought would be more interesting and more fun. While judging this book against the excellent works mentioned above might be unfair, I think it's fair to say that it should have been much better.
I don't think the storyline approach is the problem. I do think that the author including so many names, dates and details made the program hard to follow in an audio format. But I think that the real problem lies in the monotonous narration. Norman Dietz sounds like he's reading the phone book while drifting off to sleep, not telling an incredible tale of battles, betrayals and intrigue. A little variation of pacing, emphasis, and energy would go a long way toward making this a home run of a five star program.
As far as the writing goes, I would have liked to hear more about the contrasts between the Spanish and Inca cultures, and more about Inca culture in general than political and military tactics. I also would like more examination of the evidence, and explanation of how the author decided to tell the story the way he did. The evidence is known to be sparse, so a little interpretation is understandable. I'd just like to hear that interpreting explained a little.
But with all that said, my interest in the subject kept me in it to the end, and I don't consider my time or my credit to be wasted.
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Turkmenistan forges Challenge Cup rout of Cambodia
It took only a few minutes for Turkmenistan to remind the Philippines of its quality.
With the Azkals watching from the grandstand, the Turkmen put on a bristling attacking display to overwhelm a lethargic Cambodia side, 7-0, last night at the start of Group E Qualifying of the AFC Challenge Cup at Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila.
Turkmenistan's emphatic victory puts more pressure on the Azkals to match or surpass the scoreline with goal difference coming into play in case the two teams finish tied on points.
As it stands, Turkmenistan already has six points, including the forfeiture win over Brunei. Cambodia and the Philippines both have three points as they were also awarded 3-0 wins for Brunei's no-show.
Playing before a sparse crowd after the Azkals' match against Brunei was canceled, the Turkmen systematically broke down the Cambodians with their slick passing and lethal finishing.
Vladimir Bayramov struck twice, while Amanov Arslanmyrat, Berdy Shamuradov, Abylov Guvanch and Batyrov Gurbangeldi contributed a goal each for the Turkmen, who were also guilty of missing chances in the second half.
"Turkeminstan is strong we know that. They have good quality," said coach Michael Weiss, who watched the match from the VIP Area. "They could have scored more goals in this match."
Amanov's opening goal in the seventh minute was aided by a goalkeeping blunder from Sou Yaty, who allowed the Turkmenistan forward's shot to roll between his legs.
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PORTLAND -- Portland Timbers midfielder Sal Zizzo will be sidelined four to six weeks following surgery on his left knee.
Zizzo tore the medial meniscus during practice Monday and was operated on by Dr. Richard Edelson in Tigard.
The 25-year-old, in his third season with Portland, has one goal in 51 games.
Portland announced the injury Tuesday.
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On August 16, a group of mums in Darlington, in County Durham, set out on a march to the Houses of Parliament, ending this Saturday, September 6, "to build support for the NHS and to join up with amazing NHS campaigners across the country," as they note on their website.
Their march, the People's March for the NHS, was inspired by the Jarrow March in 1936, when, in the Depression, 200 people marched from Jarrow, 30 miles north of Darlington, to London to demand action from the government.
The campaign to save the NHS from the lying, Tory-led coalition government, whose leader, David Cameron, promised before the 2010 election that there would be no more top-down reorganisations of the NHS, is one that I have been involved in since 2011, when the privatising Health and Social Care Bill was first unveiled. I fought against the passage of the bill in the early months of 2012, and in October 2012 joined the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign, which, over the following year, secured unprecedented grass-roots support (see here and here) against government and NHS management plans to disembowel Lewisham Hospital to pay for the debts of a neighbouring NHS trust. That campaign was ultimately successful, but privatisation continues to invade the NHS, as intended by the government, numerous hospitals face uncertain futures, and further legislation — like the hospital closure clause (Clause 119) of the 2013 Care Bill — have had to be resisted (again, with success). Read the rest of this entry »
Save the NHS: The Protest and Parliamentary Meeting Calling for the "Hospital Closure Clause" to be Dropped, a set on Flickr.
POSTSCRIPT March 9: Here's a short video about the "hospital closure clause" the government cynically inserted into the Care Bill to enable solvent successful hospitals near to hospitals in financial trouble to be closed or downgraded without proper consultation. MPs will be voting on Tuesday (March 11), so please act now. Sign and share the petition here if you haven't already (it has nearly 180,000 signatures). Also, please write to your MP to urge them to vote against Clause 119, and to vote for an amendment tabled by Paul Burstow MP. And finally, if you're in London, please come to the following protests: Monday March 10, 6-8pm on College Green opposite Parliament, St Stephen's Entrance, and Tuesday March 11, 11.30am-12.30 on College Green. As the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign explains, this will be a noisy protest, so bring whistles, saucepans etc.
On February 27, 2014, supporters of the NHS handed in a petition to 10 Downing Street, signed by nearly 150,000 people, calling for health secretary Jeremy Hunt to withdraw Clause 119 of the Care Bill (colloquially known as the "hospital closure clause"), which, if not withdrawn, will allow the government — and senior NHS managers — to "close viable hospitals without proper consultation."
The handing in of the petition was followed by a demonstration outside Parliament and a Parliamentary meeting attended by Andy Burnham MP, the shadow health secretary, and all are featured in my photos above.
Clause 119 (formerly Clause 118) was cynically tagged onto the Care Bill by the government in autumn after the high court and then the appeals court ruled that plans to severely downgrade services at Lewisham Hospital, as part of the proposals for dealing with an indebted neighbouring trust, the South London Healthcare Trust, were unlawful. Read the rest of this entry »
POSTSCRIPT Feb. 26: I have just found out that Clause 118 of the Care Bill, discussed in this article, which is intended to allow the government to close any hospital they wish without detailed consultation, has had its numbering changed, and is now Clause 119. Read it here, and please sign the 38 Degrees petition initiated by Louise Irvine, the chair of the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign. Please also sign and share the new 38 Degrees petition, "Cameron and Clegg: Protect Our Hospitals," which has secured nearly 150,000 signatures in just two days.
Please, if you care about the future of the NHS, and if you're British, write to your MP now and ask them to vote against Clause 118 in the Care Bill, which will be voted on early next month, and, if you're in London, please consider attending a protest outside Parliament this Thursday, February 27 (details below).
Readers will hopefully be aware that, in October 2012, residents of the London Borough of Lewisham launched a major campaign to save Lewisham Hospital from being severely downgraded to pay for the debts of a neighbouring NHS trust, the South London Healthcare Trust (in the neighbouring boroughs of Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley) under legislation known as the Unsustainable Provider Regime.
25,000 of Lewisham's 270,000 residents took to the streets a little over a year ago, and although heath secretary Jeremy Hunt approved the proposals put forward by Matthew Kershaw, the NHS Special Administrator appointed to deal with the financial problems of the SLHT, the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign and Lewisham Council launched two judicial reviews, which, in July, met with success, when a judge ruled that Jeremy Hunt had acted unlawfully in approving the plans. Hunt appealed, but lost again in October. Read the rest of this entry »
It's been some time since I wrote about this wretched government's vile assault on the disabled, through the rigged assessments (the Work Capability Assessments) administered by the multinational company Atos Healthcare, and designed to find as many mentally and physically disabled people as possible "fit for work" so their support can be cut. See some of my previous articles — Doctors Urge Government to Scrap Callous Disability Tests, Where is the Shame and Anger as the UK Government's Unbridled Assault on the Disabled Continues?, Photos of the Paralympics Demonstration Against Atos Healthcare in London, Call Time on This Wretched Government and Its Assault on the Disabled, The Tories' Cruelty Is Laid Bare as Multiple Welfare Cuts Bite and Photos: The 10,000 Cuts and Counting Protest in Parliament Square, September 28, 2013.
Nevertheless, not a day has gone by without me thinking about the horrors of life under the Tories — and their assault not just on the disabled but also on the unemployed and the underpaid — and being close to despair at how my fellow citizens, in significant numbers, have embraced the filthy lies spewing from the lying lips of ministers and the merchants of hatred and division in the tabloid newspapers.
In response to this assault, campaigners launched an e-petition in December 2012, which became known as the WOW petition (war on welfare), and which called for a cumulative impact assessment of all cuts and changes affecting sick and disabled people, their families and carers, and an immediate end to the Work Capability Assessment, as voted for by the British Medical Association in June 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
This is rather last minute, but I hope it will be useful. The nursing campaign group, the 4:1 Campaign, has organised a protest outside the Department of Health (on Whitehall, almost opposite 10 Downing Street), tomorrow lunchtime (Tuesday November 26, 2013), from noon until 2pm, and I am going to go along as one of the speakers.
The "Rally for the NHS" is described on Facebook as a response to "disastrous news about the NHS" in recent weeks, "from the RCN [Royal College of Nursing] revealing the NHS has over 20,000 nursing vacancies, to the Department of Health's decision to downgrade (effectively close) 100 A&E departments."
The campaigners add, "We believe those who support the NHS, its staff and patients need to provide an alternative vision for the future of the NHS. That's why we are going to be outside the Department of Health on the 26th with our own proposals for how to protect and improve the NHS. The rally will last from 12-2 outside the DoH in Whitehall, with speakers and stunts to highlight different aspects of the crisis afflicting the NHS, while giving an opportunity for health workers and patients to give their solutions to the crisis being created in the NHS." Read the rest of this entry »
Burning Effigies of Tories at the Bonfire of Cuts in Lewisham, a set on Flickr.
On November 5, 2013 — Bonfire Night — I photographed effigies of members of the cabinet of the Tory-led coalition government — including David Cameron, George Osborne and others, as well as key Lib Dems and Labour politicians — as they were burned by activists in a brazier in the centre of Lewisham, in south east London. The caricatures were drawn by a member of the political group People Before Profit.
The activists in Lewisham were part of a day of action across the UK, in which numerous protestors held Bonfires of Austerity, initiated by the People's Assembly Against Austerity, an anti-austerity coalition of activists, union members and MPs, to protest about the wretched Tory-led coalition government's continued assault on the very fabric of the state, and on the most vulnerable members of society — particularly, the poor, the ill, the unemployed and the disabled.
The borough of Lewisham, where I live, is famous for successfully resisting the government's plans to severely downgrade services at the local hospital, and on Bonfire Night activists marched from Catford to an open space in the centre of Lewisham (by the main roundabout, and affectionately known as "the grassy knoll"), where they burned effigies of David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Iain Duncan Smith and Boris Johnson. The protestors also burned effigies of the Lib Dems Nick Clegg and Vince Cable, key members of the disastrous coalition government, and Labour's Gordon Brown and Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor. Read the rest of this entry »
On November 5, activists across the UK will be holding Bonfires of Austerity to protest about the wretched Tory-led coalition government's continued assault on the very fabric of the state, and on the most vulnerable members of society — particularly, the poor, the ill, the unemployed and the disabled.
The British establishment has traditionally celebrated Guy Fawkes Night on November 5, marking the anniversary of the foiled plot by Guy Fawkes and others to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605, although nowadays, I'm glad to note, the anti-Catholic aspect of the festivities has largely disappeared, and the day is more generally known as Bonfire Night (even though bonfires are generally frowned upon in dull, modern-day, health and safety obsessed England).
Thankfully, the spirit of dissent lives on, and this year protests across the country have been initiated by the People's Assembly Against Austerity, a movement of political activists, union members and the handful of enlightened MPs who exist in Parliament. The movement was launched with a letter published in the Guardian in February, with signatories including Tony Benn, Len McCluskey, Mark Serwotka, John Pilger, Ken Loach and the late Iain Banks, followed by a press conference in March, where speakers included Caroline Lucas MP, journalist Owen Jones, comedian Mark Steel and disabled activist Francesca Martinez, and a meeting attended by over 4,000 people in Westminster Central Hall in June, following meetings and rallies across the country, at which a statement was issued that began as follows: Read the rest of this entry »
On Tuesday, the year-long struggle to save Lewisham Hospital from butchers in the government — and in the senior management of the NHS — ended in victory for campaigners, when the Court of Appeal turned down an appeal by health secretary Jeremy Hunt. The government sought to overturn the High Court's ruling, in July, that Hunt had acted unlawfully when he approved plans for Lewisham put forward last October by Matthew Kershaw, an NHS Special Administrator.
Appointed under legislation for dealing with NHS trusts in severe financial difficulties (the Unsustainable Providers Regime), Kershaw had proposed closing A&E and other frontline services and selling off over half of Lewisham Hospital's buildings and land as part of a package of proposals to address the financial problems of a neighbouring NHS trust, the South London Healthcare Trust, which has three hospitals in south east London. The result would have been just one A&E Department for the 750,000 inhabitants of the boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley, and a disgraceful scenario in which 90 percent of the mothers in Lewisham (a borough with a population of 270,000) would have been unable to give birth in their home borough.
Responding to the news, Tony O'Sullivan, the Director of Services for Children and Young People at Lewisham, and a member of the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign, said, "This is a complete victory." Referring to ministers and the Special Administrator, O'Sullivan added, "We always said they were acting unlawfully and undemocratically in using an emergency process to bypass meaningful consultation and destroy an excellent hospital." Read the rest of this entry »
Since March 2006, I have been researching and writing about Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there, initially through my book The Guantánamo Files, and, since May 2007, as a full-time independent investigative journalist, assiduously chronicling the crimes of the Bush administration, and for the last four years and 10 months, President Obama's failure to close the prison, as he promised, as well as the obstacles raised by Congress and parts of the judiciary.
In an effort to make it as easy as possible for readers and researchers to find my work, I began, three years ago, to put together chronological lists of all my articles, in the hope that they will provide a useful tool for navigation, and will provide researchers — and anyone else interested in this particularly bleak period of modern history — with a practical archive. Unfortunately, time restraints left me unable to find the time to make lists for my work from the start of 2012 onwards, so I'm remedying this now with a list covering all my articles from January to June 2012, and will follow up soon with two further articles covering July to December 2012 and January to June this year.
In this period, as well as relentlessly covering Guantánamo, I was also involved in campaigning to try to save the NHS from a full-on assault by the Tory-led government here in the UK, intent of privatising it, as well as, more broadly, resisting the age of austerity cynically introduced by the Tories to wage a disgusting and disgraceful civil war against the poor, the unemployed and the disabled. These are themes that continue to inform my work, as well as the horrors of Guantánamo, torture and indefinite detention. As a famous saying states, "The mark of a civilised society is how it treats its most vulnerable members." Read the rest of this entry »
On Saturday September 29, disability activists, the Very Rev. David Ison, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, the MP Michael Meacher and representatives of the Occupy movement held a protest in Parliament Square entitled "10,000 Cuts and Counting," at which and John McDonnell MP and Louise Irvine, a GP and member of the British Medical Association (BMA) and the National Health Action Party, also spoke.
The event was described as "a ceremony of remembrance and solidarity for those who have had their lives devastated by the austerity programme, including more than 10,000 people who died shortly after undergoing the Atos Work Capability Assessment, the degrading test used by the government to assess the needs of people receiving benefits related to disability and ill health."
In my many articles about the Tory-led government's relentless and disgraceful assault on the disabled, I refer to the assessments as a process designed to find mentally and physically disabled people fit for work, when they are not, as it has been clear from the beginning that Atos has been hired not to conduct objective evaluations, but to cut financial support for disabled people on the orders of the government. Read the rest of this entry »
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When Shanghai blogger Isaac Mao tried to watch a YouTube clip of Chinese police beating Tibetans, all he got was an error message.
Mao thought the error — just after the one-year anniversary of a crackdown on Tibetan protesters in China— was too suspicious to be coincidental, so he reported it on a new Harvard-based website that tracks online censorship.
Meanwhile, more than 100 other people in China did the same thing. The spike in reports on Herdict.org in March pointed to government interference rather than a run-of-the-mill technical glitch, even before Google Inc. confirmed China was blocking its YouTube video-sharing site.
"We saw reports coming in as soon as the blocks were happening and certainly before any of the media were reporting it," Herdict founder Jonathan Zittrain said of the months-long YouTube blackout that coincided with the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in June and recent ethnic riots in the Xinjiang province.
Herdict users report their website problems anonymously — numeric Internet addresses are recorded but only general location is displayed — so people can post more freely, encouraging reports about sensitive topics like HIV and AIDS-related sites, and from people in countries with possible government repercussions.
The site doesn't investigate reports, though, so there's no way to know for sure that an outage is related to government meddling rather than a cut cable or other problem unrelated to censorship. Although surges in reports do suggest a government role, a widespread technical glitch can also produce a similar spike.
Website inaccessibility can also result from network or server errors, firewalls at schools or offices or a new phenomenon called reverse filtering, in which companies block access to copyright-protected material outside a specific country.
Zittrain, law professor and co-founder of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said Herdict does not aim to present a flawless picture of online filtering, but to let patterns of accessibility speak for themselves.
"The goal ... is to gather the kind of raw data from which people can then start to gain insight and come to conclusions," he said. "With enough people asking, you start to get a sense of where there are blockages in the network."
Herdict — short for "verdict of the herd" — has spread beyond techie circles to garner users in more than 140 countries, including censorship hotbeds China and Iran.
"Herdict has been buzzed (about) for months in China and now it's becoming more popular since ... Google.com was blocked for hours and Twitter.com was blocked twice recently," Mao said in an e-mail.
In Iran, Herdict users have logged unsuccessful attempts to access Twitter and other social-networking sites that have been blocked since the country's controversial June 12 presidential election.
Herdict users like that the site fosters a sense of community among those who can't fully navigate the Web and provides them with hope for a freer Internet.
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Cute home screen clock with barcode battery bar.
This UCCW Skin has separate and editable hotspots for the time, date, and battery bar. You can also select 12 or 24 hour time and change the colour of all parts of this skin.
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Contrary to popular belief, women of all colors, shapes and sizes in Hollyweird wear weaves.
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State Senator James Seward met with elected Herkimer County officials, emergency responders and other local leaders Wednesday morning at the Herkimer County Emergency Communication Center to discuss the flood recovery, community needs moving forward and state resources necessary to assist in the response.
He also met with National Grid officials and toured flood stricken areas of the county.
State Senator James Seward met with elected Herkimer County officials, emergency responders and other local leaders Wednesday morning at the Herkimer County Emergency Communication Center to discuss the flood recovery, community needs moving forward and state resources necessary to assist in the response.
He also met with National Grid officials and toured flood stricken areas of the county.
During the briefing Seward said he informed officials Gov. Andrew Cuomo deployed 250 National Guard members to help residents and businesses impacted by the flood.
"The National Guard members along with 27 pieces of heavy equipment will be deployed to affected areas to help with debris removal and security," said Seward, R – Milford, at the National Grid Mobile Emergency Operations Center in Herkimer.
He said the National Guard will assist residents, businesses and first responders in a number of ways, including debris removal and light road repair with equipment that will include excavators, dump trucks and bulldozers. He also said 35 military police soldiers and Humvees will assist local police with security and presence patrols.
"The National Guard members will provide immediate aid and assistance on the ground," said Seward. "They are a great resource to have in our hardest hit communities."
The senator also said Cuomo deployed the state Department of Financial Services' Mobile Command Center to Herkimer County to help homeowners and businesses affected by the flood. He said DFS representatives will assist residents with insurance-related issues stemming from damage caused the recent heavy rains.
"The Department of Financial Services is here to help families and businesses swiftly receive the relief they deserve from their insurance companies," said Seward.
Impacted families and business are urged to call the DFS disaster hotline for assistance at 1-800-339-1759, which is available on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on weekends from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The hotline will remain open on July 4 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Touring the village of Mohawk with Herkimer County Sheriff Christopher Farber and Herkimer County Emergency Management Director Robert Vandawalker Wednesday afternoon Seward met with people on Catherine Street and at the Mohawk Fire Department. Among the residents he met were Diane Brown and Terrence Stern.
"I've been here 37 years and it's by far the worst I've ever seen," said Brown, adding at the height of the flooding the water was up to her waist.
"It came so fast. There was no warning," added Stern. "There was nothing we could do."
Brown said she has been without electricity since the floodwaters raced down Catherine Street last Friday. "But I do have water. Someone was able to help me with that," she said. "We just try to do the best we can every day to get through this."
Page 2 of 2 - "We'll get there, we'll get there, but it's going to take time," Mohawk Volunteer Fire Department Chief Dan Mabbett said about the recovery effort as he met with Seward.
Little Falls Mayor Robert Peters also met with Seward on Wednesday.
"The message to residents is to keep every receipt for repair materials and services and mark it 'Flood of 2013,'" said Peters during a telephone interview. "The more organized residents are now, the better off they will be when the Federal Emergency Management Agency begins the reimbursement process. Document and keep everything."
Peters also said city garbage collection will continue as scheduled, but asked residents to keep flood debris separate from their regular garbage and trash.
"The flood debris will be collected, but it will be collected separately so the city can keep a record of the amount so it can be reimbursed by FEMA," he said.
Manheim Town Supervisor John Haughton said residents in Manheim and village of Dolgeville may bring their flood debris to the town transfer station on Saturday.
"A lot of people have been asking if the transfer center will be open this weekend, and it will be," he said during a telephone interview.
"We are addressing the short term, but I believe we also must address the long term, which includes addressing Moyer, Fulmer and Steele creeks, because it seems every year or so these creeks flood and cause problems in our communities," said Seward. "We need to address these creeks now to prevent future flooding."
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No one ever wants to spend too much or feel exploited after a purchase. It's an especially painful prospect in these lean economic times.
Few of us can afford to be burned by pricey add-ons and deals that really were too good to be true. Yet, with many retail chains struggling, you may be more likely now to face dubious come-ons, as stores turn to more imaginative strategies to get you to buy.
Here are 10 things to stay alert for, whether you're shopping for toothpaste, a Toyota or a flat-screen TV.
•Deceptive price markers. Many groceries and drugstores now use bright colors or symbols to highlight prices that suggest that the products are on sale, when the price is actually just the usual non-sale one. Some stores also highlight their own generic brand's price as if it were on sale, when it's always cheaper than other brands. If you're one to scan store shelves for sale prices, take an extra moment to make sure there's an actual markdown involved.
•Extended warranties. It "virtually never pays" to pay extra for a warranty that picks up where the original one leaves off, says Lisa Lee Freeman, editor in chief of ShopSmart, published by Consumer Reports. Whether it's cars, computers or appliances, the instances are so rare when you'll get your money's worth that ShopSmart never recommends extended warranties. Either the products don't break down, Freeman says, or fixing them will cost less than the extended warranty.
•Alluring store credit card offers. Some retailers are stepping up their push to persuade you to take out their store credit cards, often with offers of 10% off your purchase. When money's tight, this can seem like an especially attractive offer. But keep in mind that opening too many new credit card accounts can hurt your credit score. Besides, when you have too many card accounts, you're more likely to forget to pay one of them — and that, too, would damage your credit. Reject the offers unless you're definitely going to pay off your card each month and not incur the high interest rates, don't have a lot of credit cards already, or you're making a major purchase and you're going to cancel the card afterward.
•Limited-time-only offers. It's increasingly popular for stores to limit how much and how long they offer certain types of merchandise for sale. It's true that some styles or designers might not be around in a few weeks. But try not to let that cloud your decision-making while shopping. Do you really need anything so badly that you must buy it right then, if even the sale price doesn't really fit your budget?
•Two for $5/buy one, get one free. Just because a product is being pitched in big letters as a two-for deal doesn't usually mean you need to buy two. Check the small print to see if it notes that just one of the items costs $2.50 — or half of whatever promotional price is being offered for two. On the other hand, if there's a "buy one, get one free" deal, it doesn't always mean you need to get two. Sometimes, stores will just ring up one at half price, as grocer Harris Teeter will do, says Erin Gifford, of AOL's Shortcuts service, which links coupons to store loyalty cards. If the item isn't perishable or a severe test of your calorie-counting, Gifford suggests buying in bulk, "stacking" coupons from stores and manufacturers and using them at once to get an even deeper discount on a sale price.


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OCEANSIDE: Keep redevelopment agency, city manager says
Oceanside City Manager Peter Weiss is recommending that the city keep its redevelopment agency, even though the city will have to pay the state $2.9 million next year to do it.
"Having something is better than having nothing," Weiss said in an interview.
The city will save far more by keeping redevelopment than it will cost to pay the state, he added.
Continuing the agency is critical to the city's long-standing dream of building a resort hotel downtown, as well as building the $55 million Mission Cove affordable housing complex on 14.6 acres of city-owned land near Oceanside Municipal Airport, redevelopment manager Kathy Baker said.
Without a redevelopment agency, "you'd effectively kill those projects," Baker said.
The issue is set to go to the City Council for a decision Aug. 17.
Legislation enacted earlier this month as part of California's budget plan would dissolve redevelopment agencies statewide unless they pay a sizable chunk of their income to the state.
The California Redevelopment Association and the League of California Cities have filed lawsuits challenging the new law.
Mayor Jim Wood said Thursday that he's undecided on Weiss' proposal.
"I certainly think redevelopment in our downtown is very, very important," Wood said. "It's kind of that starting point to moving everything forward, but there's a cost to it. I have to figure out whether it's worth it or not."
Councilman Jack Feller, who's often at odds with Wood on council votes, said he's inclined to keep the redevelopment agency.
"I'm not sure what the down side to that is," Feller said.
Councilman Jerry Kern said he'll probably vote Aug. 17 to keep the agency to buy some time for a longer review of its future.
"We need to really figure out what's the best course of action for future years," Kern said. "I'd like to sit down with my colleagues and talk about this and really plot out our course of action."
Councilwoman Esther Sanchez, who is often aligned with Wood, said its critical to keep the agency going to finish downtown projects, especially the hotel which is stalled because of the poor economy.
"I still have a commitment to making it happen," Sanchez said.
Weiss said keeping the redevelopment agency now would give the city needed flexibility should the association and the league prevail.
The city has until Oct. 1 to adopt a continuation ordinance under the state legislation to keep the redevelopment agency, Weiss said in a memo to the council.
The San Marcos City Council this week voted to keep its redevelopment agency, even though it means that city must pay the state $17.7 million next year.
Oceanside's payment is smaller than San Marcos' because Oceanside's redevelopment area is limited primarily to downtown, although tax money raised through redevelopment can be used on affordable housing projects elsewhere in the city, such as the Mission Cove project on Mission Avenue at Carolyn Avenue.
By law, 20 percent of the property tax money generated by redevelopment must go toward housing projects geared toward families of low and modest means.


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The thing that sticks out about Sopel is the fact that he pretty much dominated that PK in St. Louis a couple weeks ago. That helped HUGE. On that 7 minute PP or whatever it was. He's been clutch at...
As long as we tally 2 more points tonight, I'm not concerned with the score. Although I'd rather not have an OT that gives me cardiac arrest, much like the Detroit game. Haha.
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My rudder had a crack in the leading edge. The rudder was also somewhat loose on the shaft. There was also an attempt repair by a previous owner what needed attention.
It appeared that a previous owner had used a hole saw to drill (5) 1.5" holes into one side of the rudder. They then filled these holes with thickened epoxy with not quite enough hardener, so they were a little soft. I am not sure what they were going for here. I drilled these out using a forstner bit. I drilled to the half way point where I hit metal. My thinking was that I could remove the old repair and then set out on my own attempt to close the crack and finish the repair. I dug out all the material in the crack and filled it with epoxy and then thickened epoxy. I then clamped it shut and left it over night. My plan was to add glass over the crack for strength. The next day I removed the clamps and all was well. But not for long. I came back a few hours later and the crack had opened back up. I guess I waited to long to add the glass. By this time I was pretty disappointed with myself and decided it was going to need a more aggressive repair.
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There are only fleeting anecdotes about the man who spoke so little, and a film-maker whose films' spoke so much.
The other day there was a rickshaw-puller in Noida, dragging his vehicle in heavy rain, using every ounce of energy in his frail frame. As it turned out, he was actually a farmer of Uttar Pradesh and a local landlord was threatening to usurp the land he mortgaged to him. It is the real story of a peasant coming to a city to earn livelihood, all to save his two yards of land back home. It could as well have been Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zamin, a film so steeped in pessimism that a ray of light was prohibited. A landmark film that inspired Ashutosh Gowariker to copy the rain sequence in Lagaan almost fifty years later, Do Bigha Zamin epitomises what Roy stood for: uncompromising, no romantic layering, no escapism. There was humanism, a layered drama but no melodrama.
In his films, silence spoke a thousand words. And water was a vital component to take the story forward. Then there was Roy's under-appreciated ear for lyrics and music. It is all such elements that the book under review brings to the reader through 37 essays, many of which are illuminating.
With contributors ranging from Tapan Sinha, Chidananda Das Gupta, Shyam Benegal and Jahnu Barua to Naseeruddin Shah and Nutan and even the unlikely figure of Nayantara Sahgal, the book, edited by his daughter, Rinki Roy Bhattacharya, pretty much covers what the film-maker stood for.
Frank appraisal
There are only fleeting anecdotes about the man who spoke so little, and a filmmaker whose films' spoke so much. Yet, the venture, in the 100th year of Roy's birth, stays clear of hagiography.
True, most of the essays portray him in a favourable light — incidentally, light and time of the day was one constant parameter used with distinction by Roy in all his films — yet an attempt at frank appraisal has not been denied. So we have Naseer talking of a rare blemish in Roy's craft: the use of support cast. "The influence of Bicycle Thieves is evident in the structuring of certain scenes in Do Bigha Zamin, though woefully absent in his handling of the minor characters. In a number of films, he seems to have paid them scant attention..." Yet Naseer is frank enough to admit that the climax of the critically acclaimed Paar "was in fact nothing but a reworking of Do Bigha?"
Similarly, Sahgal admits she had not seen his films when the offer to contribute to the book came along. To her "the deep and devastating pessimism" of his films came as a shock. Yet, she concedes, that more than 50 years since he made his landmark film on agrarian crisis, "there is still agricultural indebtedness and despair leading to farmers' suicides." Therein lies the transcendental quality of Roy's work.
"Most of his films are consciously concerned with reforms or with social morality of one kind or another, he was not an escapist in any sense of the term?I followed him as an author. The film that struck me as one of extraordinarily high calibre was Parineeta," says Benegal. Though he does not talk about Devdas, Barua points out a social reality of the film: though primarily a love story, Devdas is told by Roy "from the perspective of the landed gentry..."
Interestingly, though Roy is given credit for bringing the Bengali ethos to Bombay cinema, Barua says: "The adaptation of three novels of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay — Devdas, Parineeta and Biraj Bahu — points to the inability of Roy to shake off his roots."
An insight into Roy's personality comes in Nutan's nostalgic piece. And a slightly more poignant one in Aditya Bhattacharya's recollection of his dadu!
Such poignant moments, such insightful essays. The only blemishes come from Bhawana Somaaya and Khalid Mohamed, whose pieces lack layering.
It's perhaps only appropriate for a book that does not seek to put Bimal Roy on a pedestal and is dedicated to "the silent cinema poet and visionary of profound humanism."
THE MAN WHO SPOKE IN PICTURES - Bimal Roy: Ed. Rinki Roy Battacharya; Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd., 11, Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110017; Price Rs.499.
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MADURAI: Muslims, Dalits and other minority groups have long been sidelined from the mainstream and were structurally made to remain backward on all fronts and to win back our rights we have to come together and fight to regain our lost rights, said, E.M. Abdul Rahman, Chairman, Popular Front of India (PFI).
Addressing the first State Level 'Social Resurgence' of PFI conference here on Sunday, he said that this movement would work for the establishment of a new Tamil Nadu. While welcoming the 3.5 per cent reservation given by the DMK government, the PFI demanded that Muslims be given reservation in accordance to their population.
Speaking earlier, M. Mohamed Ali Jinnah said that various arms of the government over the years have always tried to repress the Muslims from organising into a political force.
The conference's demands include implementation of the recommendations made in the Ranganath Mishra Commission's report on the status of minorities in India like 10 per cent reservation for Muslims.
PFI demanded a ban on genetically modified crops and seeds and also the confiscation of productive lands in the name of development. Babri Masjid should be built at the same place, Wakf Board assets need to be retrieved, untouchability which existed in many forms should be abolished were some of the other demands put forth by the front.
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Kent State offers more than 60 study abroad locations that provide eye-opening educational experiences through experiential learning.
The Aeronautics and Technology Building, opening in spring 2015, will be the new facility for Kent State University's College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology. The building is approximately 55,200 gross square feet and will include air traffic control training rooms in a lower level, classrooms and shop areas on the first floor, and faculty offices and classrooms on the second floor.
Kent State University faculty, staff and students will notice a new building on the Kent Campus this fall when the university welcomes the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology to the Science Mall. A midpoint construction event, themed "Science Springs Forward," took place Wednesday, April 23, on the Science Mall in front of Henderson Hall and the construction site of the new building.


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Liza Long went viral, became famous, after brave post calling herself 'Adam Lanza's Mother'
Before gunning down 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary on Dec. 14, 2012, Adam Lanza shot and killed his own mother, Nancy.
Shortly after the massacre news, a blogger writing under the pseudonym "Anarchist Soccer Mom" posted a provocative piece titled "I am Adam Lanza's Mother" in which she explained, in heart-wrenching prose, what it is like to parent a child who threatens, sometimes knife in hand, to kill the woman who brought him into the world.
The story went viral on Facebook, with hundreds of thousands offering their support and sympathy. Later, the Anarchist Soccer Mom reposted the story under her own name, Liza Long of Boise, Idaho. She continues to refer to her son by a pseudonym, Michael.
That's when her world changed. She has become an advocate for mental health, appearing on national television shows to push for changes in how the nation views mental illness and for boosting resources focused on the problem. Last week, she was invited by Jewish Family Service of San Diego to speak about her experience.
Fern Siegel, chair of the organization's behavioral health committee, said Long was the perfect speaker.
"She expressed the agonizing struggle that so many of the families that come to us have," Siegel said. "I think her discomfort was a catalyst to getting people talking about something is often swept under the rug."
Long took a few moments to discuss her journey with U-T San Diego:
Q: Most of your blogging had been done under a pseudonym. What convinced you to attach your real name to your post about your son?
A: My friend Nathaniel Hoffman who edits the Blue Review, which is Boise State's online journal, called me up and said, "hey, I want this story," and he said, "I want you to put your name on it." My fear was not about what people in San Diego would think if I admitted I was the mother of a child with severe mental illness. I was afraid of what my friends would think, what my own community would think, when they found out that I was struggling with the same things that Nancy Lanza struggled with. Nathaniel told me that, until people start owning their stories, it's not real. We have to bring it back to those stories.
Q: What has happened since you did own that story?
A: Its been a busy year. I was one of the parents who got to talk to (U.S. Rep.) Tim Murphy (R-Pa.), who has drafted the Healthy Families in Mental Health Crisis Act. I've been on Anderson Cooper, CNN, The Today Show. I've had the opportunity to write a book and to give a TEDx talk in San Antonio last September. I certainly never planned to become a children's mental health advocate, but I am intensely grateful for the opportunities to talk about a message that is so important to so many people.
Mental health resources
San Diego County offers emergency resources for those who need them.
Children and youth 17 and younger: Emergency Screening Unit at (619) 421-6900.
Adults: Behavioral Health Access and Crisis Line at (619) 641-6992.
Directory of available mental health services: sandiego.networkofcare.org or dial 211.


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SunGard Data Systems To Buy SCTSunGard Data Systems, a Wayne, Pa.-based financial-services solution provider, said it has reached a tentative agreement to acquire Systems & Computer Technology Corp. (SCT) in an all-cash deal valued at $584 million.
U.N. IT Summit Produces Networking, Other Tech OpportunitiesA U.N. summit on information technology wound up Friday as delegates approved two documents long on ambitions but short on funding and a strategy for bringing the Internet to poorer regions of the world.
Royal Philips Electronics Names New PresidentConsumer products giant Royal Philips Electronics said Friday it has tapped Reinier Jens to become president of Philips Consumer Electronics North America.
Sun Adds Faster Processors To Fire V1280 ServerSun on Thursday boosted the speed of its midrange Sun Fire V1280 server by swapping out earlier 900MHz UltraSparc III processors in the 12-way server and replacing them with 1.2GHz CPUs.
Internet Pioneer John Sidgmore DiesJohn Sidgmore, an Internet entrepreneur who rode the boom and bust of the dot-com bubble, died Thursday. He was 52.
PC Shipments Higher Than ExpectedWorldwide shipments of personal computers are expected to increase by 15.3 percent in the fourth quarter, driven by lower prices and strong demand among consumers, a market research firm said Thursday.
Adobe Earnings Beat ExpectationsEarnings at Adobe Systems Inc. beat expectations for its latest quarter, helped by its electronic-document business.
Raymond James atttendees vow targeted approach for 2004
We're Back, IT Execs Say, But Caution Should ReignBusiness is back -- but IT and channel companies aren't yet dancing a jig, and executives say they will be cautious and targeted in their focus marching into 2004.
Athlon 64 Hits The Store ShelvesThe 64-bit AMD Athlon rubber is hitting the road as PC makers are beginning to sell the machines to end users. Tiger.com, Emachines, and Hewlett-Packard are offering the machines.
Industry Gets Behind VoIPCable and phone companies are hustling to offer new services that route calls over the Internet, a technology that eventually will make the 125-year-old telephone system seem about as advanced as sending smoke signals.
California City To Go WirelessBrowsing the Web from the Southern California city Cerritos may soon become an outdoor sport.
AT&T Becomes Latest Carrier To Promise VoIPAT&T became the latest major telecommunications carrier to jump on the VoIP bandwagon Thursday, when the company announced plans to launch a widespread effort to sell the technology to business customers sometime next year.
Demand For Disk Drives Dips, IDC Figures RevealThe worldwide disk storage systems factory business showed a slight dip in revenues for the third quarter of this year, down 0.3 percent compared with the third quarter of 2002, according to recent figures released by International Data Corp.
Stratus Gets New Channel Marketer, Looks To Recruit VARsThe new manager of channel marketing at Stratus Technologies said the company is developing new programs and recruiting new solution providers to increase its channel business.
CRN Interview: Mike Devlin, General Manager, IBM Rational SoftwareIBM's Rational division is rapidly becoming ground zero for IBM's larger developer tools strategy. IBM recently unveiled that Rational will take over development of its WebSphere Studio toolset, as well as leverage the treasure trove of technologies within IBM Research to continue to fortify IBM's tools. CRN Industry Editor Barbara Darrow and Senior Editor Elizabeth Montalbano sat down with Rational General Manager Mike Devlin at IBM Rational's headquarters in Lexington, Mass., recently to discuss what these plans mean for the division going forward. Below is an excerpt from that interview.
Surge of digital devices augurs home solutions opportunities for integrators
PC Vendors Get Thumbs-Up In Consumer ElectronicsComputer makers are getting a closer look from those looking to buy consumer-electronics products, according to a survey released Thursday by InsightExpress.
IBM 'Rationalizes' Tool StrategyIBM is turning over the care and feeding of its WebSphere Studio toolset to its Rational group, the company said Wednesday.
Analyst Outlook: Longhorn Server Delays Impact Enterprises' Windows UpgradesDelays in Microsoft's introduction of its Longhorn server operating system could impact enterprises' plans to upgrade their Windows operating systems, an analyst told corporate users at the Gartner Data Center Conference, held this week in Las Vegas.
Shifts Blackmore to Customer Group; Livermore To Run Enterprise, Services Unit
HP ReorganizesHewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina said Wednesday that the company will reorganize, creating a new customer organization to be run by Executive Vice President Peter Blackmore and giving his responsibilities to HP Services chief Ann Livermore.