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By Andrea Conzatti & Federico Raffaele, LL.M. Candidates, Harvard Law School, class of 2012
1. Introduction
In the recent past, Italian authorities have made bids aimed at taking over companies listed on the Italian Stock Exchange subject to a number of legislative interventions, meant to foster market transparency and implement Directive 2004/25/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 21, 2004 on takeover bids.
The aforementioned Directive was introduced in Italy by way of Legislative Decree No. 229 of November 19, 2007, which was subsequently amended in order to introduce certain provisions concerning, amongst others, the so called "passivity rule", shareholders acting "in concert" and financial instruments in a mandatory takeover bid scenario.
Due to the complexity and to the rather innovative nature of some of these amendments (if considered within an Italian context), the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission ("Consob") resolved to further reshape certain provisions set forth under Consob Regulation No. 11971 of May 14, 1999 (as subsequently amended) relevant to take over bids (the "Regulation").
In considering the regulatory changes above, Consob carried out a comparative analysis of the regulatory framework of other jurisdictions and looked at best practices in place in other developed economies at an international level.
2. Most Significant Amendments to the Regulation
Consob aimed a first set of amendments at granting a higher level of protection to minority shareholders.
To such end, specific provisions concerning offers tendered by the target company's controlling shareholders and directors were introduced. More specifically, in the newly amended Regulation Consob set forth that, in case of a successful bid, an obligation to reopen the offering period would arise so to allow those shareholders who initially opted for not selling their securities to accept the bidder's offer in a second moment. The rationale underlying this change was to reduce the risk of having the target company's minority shareholders sell their securities in a scenario where they considered the price as inadequate, for the mere purpose of avoiding a post-bid depreciation of their holdings.
Furthermore, Consob resolved that the public document concerning the adequacy of the offer (required under Italian law for each issuer in a public tender offer setting) should include a statement by independent directors on the suitability of said offer, aimed at strengthening the quality and the objectivity of the information available to the target company's shareholders.
In addition to the foregoing, further amendments to the Regulation caused the notion of "relevant shareholding" to change, in order to comprise all financial instruments allowing for the holding of certain governance rights, including the right to vote on one or more different matters (such securities should thus be considered in determining whether the 30% ownership threshold – provided under Italian law as a trigger for mandatory public tender offers - has been reached). By changing such notion, Consob sought to reduce the risk of "eluding" takeover rules, given the ever increasing number of takeover bids involving Italian listed companies adopting financial instruments of this kind.
A second set of amendments was aimed at bringing greater dynamism to the market for corporate control and at dealing with possible interpretative problems potentially affecting the activism of bidders and investors.
Amongst other things, the minimum mandatory time frame for pre-emptive offers aimed at acquiring control of a target company was reduced from 25 to 15 days. Consob proposed this change as it observed that the length of the offering period might have adversely affected the competition amongst potential bidders. Indeed, the initial bidder might have suffered negative externalities, having to entirely bear the costs relating to the "discovery" of the takeover opportunity.
As to competing bids, changes in the Regulation were focused on reducing information asymmetries amongst bidders: an obligation was introduced, by virtue of which the company being targeted was required to share relevant corporate information with all bidders involved.
Last but not least, certain amendments were introduced with an aim at clarifying the regulation of offers tendered by parties acting "in concert". In order to reduce possible uncertainties in such respect, Consob suggested that, amongst others, cases where the bidders hold strict family ties or advisory relationships should be deemed as cases where bidders are presumed to act "in concert". On the other hand, Consob identified certain cases of cooperation amongst shareholders, aimed at exercising minority rights and at actively participating in the governance of the target company, which did not encompass the concept of acting "in concert".

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Posted by Anonymous on 09/16/2014
They have the best pastas, steaks, in season food and wines. Been going here for 8 years. Always great.
Posted by Giorgio on 08/22/2014
Anglo-saxon Italian cuisine. Do not order ribeye for two, marinate was too sour, meat had no taste.
Posted by lo on 06/10/2013
Have wanted to come here for years & was not disappointed. A little pricey but portions are large. Mixed green salad was big enough for 2 and excellently dressed. Pastas come in appetizer or entree sizes & appetizer size is plenty big. If you go on Sunday try the special of the day--Sunday sauce--delicious! esp veal meatballs. Extensive wine list & attentive service. Will definitely return.
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Now I know why it's been there 10 years. It is by far the top, happening, place on upper west side. They got all cylinders moving in the right direction. We loved the pasta and octopus and the wines were awesome. Great job to you Cesca. We will keep coming. Will bring the kids next time.
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Consistently delicious,great ambience,many entertainment persons of interest sightings,friendly "in " room
Posted by scrib on 05/06/2011
With the prices this place charges, you would expect a pleasant dining experience and excellent food. We took out of town friends here recently and got neither. From the beginning, the waitress seemed devoted to getting us to finish and get out as quickly as possible. The busboy kept peering over our shoulders and trying to take away dishes that we hadn't finished. Not that we were eager to finish, but the food was mediocre at best. The menu said the special of the night was baby lamb chops, but the waitress said that wasn't available and the lamb was lamb shank. When my friend ordered it anyway, it hadn't been cooked long enough. My pasta was mushy and the sauce lacked any flavor. A real outrage considering the prices. I will say that the appetizers were pretty good, but that hardly made up for the rest. The restaurant wasn't even full, which made the waitress's conduct even more puzzling. I never before have had somebody ask if we were going to order anything more and when we said no, just plop the check down on the table. This was about 8 in the evening, mind you.
Posted by Gregg on 02/26/2011
The food and wine are fantastic. Unfortunately the hostess, the bartenders, and the waiter were pretentious, condescending and rude. We sat at the bar for a glass of wine to start and clearly the bartender was annoyed at our presence. The hostess was snooty and acted like she was doing us a favor by putting our names on the list and the waiter brought all the food and wine to the table at the same time. It is really a shame because the food was good, although very expensive considering the poor service.


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 1996 Fifty commissaries will receive new grocery checkout systems beginning this spring, according to Defense Commissary Agency officials.
The upgrades are part of a three-year modernization project. Of the 50 stores, eight will receive the new equipment within 60 days as part of the system's test phase.
Stateside test commissaries are at Fort Lee, Va.; MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.; Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Fla.; Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany, Ga.; and Fort Lewis, Wash. In addition, three commissaries in Germany -- Baumholder, Idar Oberstein and Neubruecke -- will test the new equipment.
The new system will allow customers to make credit and debit card purchases and use electronic coupons. These features are now available to customers in some commercial supermarkets.
The checkout systems in many commissaries are severely outdated and require costly, hard-to-find maintenance, said John Goodman, the commissary agency's project manager. He added the new systems are more efficient, which will help store managers maintain stocks and reduce costs.
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Husqvarna SMR125 2012
2012 Husqvarna SMR125 specifications, pictures, reviews and rating
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|124.45 ccm (7.59 cubic inches)
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|Front suspension:
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|Front suspension travel:
|260 mm (10.2 inches)
|Rear suspension:
|Progressive ´Soft Damp´ type with single hydraulic shock absorber; spring preload adjustment
|Rear suspension travel:
|282 mm (11.1 inches)
|Front brakes:
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|Front brakes diameter:
|261 mm (10.3 inches)
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|Rear brakes diameter:
|220 mm (8.7 inches)
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For most people, having a portable MP3 player on them at all times has become a necessity these days. If you are planning to carry a MP3 player with you, then you should carry equally stylish headphones which match your outfit to stand out from the crowd! It isn't difficult to get some of the most stylish headphones these days as a lot of them are available.
Among the stylish headphones available, the ones that have a gold finish are quite popular. Among the headphones with a gold finish the Monster Turbine Pro In-Ear Speakers are one of the best ones available earbuds. Their build quality is exceptional and they are very stylish as well. These are one of the few in-ear headphones which offer you tight, impactful bass without sacrificing any clarity. You will be surprised with the quality of sound and bass especially from an in-ear headphone. These gold headphones are one of the many awesome creations of the Monster Audio team. They may be on the expensive side and do not have a mic or controls for the iPod/iPhone but what they give you is amazing sound quality on par with full sized headphones.
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Menger Makes Top 10 Most Haunted Hotels
Tripadvisory.com: Menger Hotel Ranks 7
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - It's the oldest hotel still operating west of the Mississippi River, but there's more to the Menger Hotel than old photographs and priceless paintings.
And, just in time for Halloween, Tripadvisory.com has named it one of the most haunted.
San Antonio's Historic Menger Hotel ranked seventh in the poll.
Originally built in 1859, The Menger is one of the oldest hotels still in operation. However, it's best known for the haunted encounters inside.
"When you are looking for ghosts, you really shouldn't look," said Ernesto Malacara with the Menger Hotel. "You just go to their area. You're not going to find them. They're going to find you."
Malacara said visitors get a kick out of the old pictures, paintings and furniture, but it's the numerous ghosts sightings that bring in the guests. He admits he has seen a few himself.
"These little things happen, they happen all over the hotel, but it's nothing to be afraid of. They're not going to hurt you. They may scare you. After all, it is Halloween."
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I believe the main issue here is the public being deceived when it comes to the value of the firearms. This is not an even exchange as the owners are given a pittence of dollars compared to the fair market value of the item when it is sold to a federally licenced dealer (strict background checks, etc.). On top of that comes the cost of the program to pay the people organizing and running it, cost of the gift cards, then those who destroy the firearms as well as disposal fees.
Now, as one post stated earlier, the firearms in the photo do not look like the ones the gangs would use (I cannot recall the last time a rifle was used for a drive by in Springfield as reported by the news). Secondly, checks are run on the serials and you can bet vehicle tags are catalogued
First, Anonymous? Don't these people drive into the police station with a number plate on their car? That's not anonymous. Second, firearms have serial numbers. You bet the sn's are run to check for stolen/wanted firearms from crimes. This reveals the owner's name & address. That's not anonymous either. Remember those home A.I.D.S. tests from the 90's? Well once people found out that the 1-800 number they had to call for the results was not anonymous as the telephone companies give caller ID data for all 1-800 calls, sales dropped.
What these well-meaning citizens do not know is that their guns are probably worth much more than a $50 gift card. There have been national stories in years past, for example, of widows turning in collectors item firearms from their dead husbands (some worth up to $4,000), getting $75 for it, only to have the gun go home with someone else at the end of the day. That is like all these jewlery stores advertising to "pay you for your gold". Sure they will give you something equal to $600/oz maybe when the market price is really nudging $1,000/oz. They are better off selling their firearms to a licensed shop to at least get fair market value for the item. That way, unwanted firearms are gone and the owner is not cheated. Now, this news piece with images of people turning their guns in will condition the general public over time to believe that guns are bad and illegal. Someone needs to break this news about the other side of these "gun buy backs".


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Three dorks with a handheld video camera documented their trip to see Dragonforce in Houston, TX. The resulting "rockumentary" is an alternately excrutiating and essential portrait of adolesence and fandom. You probably don't need to watch more than a few seconds of this to get the idea, but the point at 5:42 where one kid shows us "the hand that touched Herman Li" and another excitedly details how keyboardist Vadim Pruzhanov wrapped his arm around his shoulders is AMAZING. It's roughly equivalent to the force of 1000 moms showing 1000 embarassing baby photos to 1000 bemused prom dates. Were you ever quite this awkward and lame? If the answer is "no," you're totally lying.
Check it out now on Decibel's "Deciblog" The post is entitled, On Fandom.


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SW Florida weather: Rain not as widespread today
After the super soaker of a day Thursday, you might be happy to hear that Friday shouldn't be quite as rainy, and some areas of Southwest Florida may actually manage to work in some sunny spells.
With that said, we're still in line to see scattered showers today, especially close to midday and through the afternoon hours. The good news is the rain won't be nearly as widespread or prolonged, and the rain chance will be around 50 percent.
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August 2, 2015
Texas A&M's University Police Department is investigating a break-in at the Bright Football Complex.
It's believed the burglary may have happend late Monday evening.
According to Associate Athletic Director Alan Cannon, items were stolen from the locker room area. That includes some football equipment, though the extent of the theft had not yet been confirmed by UPD or the AD's office.
Cannon also said athletic tape had been used to write the words "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You" on the carpet of the locker room. Having walked through the room, Cannon said nothing had been carved or etched into any of the property in the locker room.
No computer equipment appears to have been taken in the break-in, according to Cannon. There have been prior incidents where computers had been taken from Bright.
UPD Chief Elmer Schneider says investigators are on the scene of the break-in searching for clues.
The Bright Football Complex houses the Aggie Football locker room, athletic training room, rehabilitation complex, meeting rooms, coaches offices and players' lounge.
The complex is named for Harvey "Bum" Bright '43, a former chairman of the Texas A&M Board of Regents and former owner of the Dallas Cowboys.
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Of all the music that I ever expected to see in World of Warcraft machinima, Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? was nowhere near the top. Even with many covers of the well-known song, it remains to me that sort of jokingly bad music we lamely danced to in college while pounding shots. I was just happy to leave it as a remnant of decades past.
However, if the song's going to show up in Azeroth, it makes sense that it would absolutely be sung by belfs. Severance recognized that fact and created the WoW music video Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? It's a colorful, hypnotizing music video, with the music performed by a series of blood elves.
The video is fairly amusing, though it blends a lot of general animation with actual WoW models. It does strike me as well-suited to belf videos, though. It's got a lot of flamboyance and energy, and the blood elf haircuts do remind me a lot of Rod Stewart. Nice job, Severance!


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Dirt:The Movie focuses on the environmental, economic, social, and political impact of soil from an international perspective. A panel discussion followed the movie with panelist:
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By mattdentler | Matt Dentler's Blog June 16, 2009 at 4:09AM
Wale is a great MC, who has spent most of his recent time creating waves in the underground. This new single will likely change all that. First of all, it's good. And, second, it features a guest vocal by the hottest pop singer today: Lady Gaga. Check out Wale and Gaga, "Chillin'" for the summer:


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You can just do five daily quests today with your orphan out and you'll get the achievement. You don't need to repeat the same quests for the rest of the week.
It should be noted that this is a hotfix applied this morning, and that the achievement text is you'll see via your achievements window is incorrect. This change is likely due to the gigantic failure that was/is A Simple Re-Quest.
So this is the first nerf bat to the Children's Week achievements. School of Hard Knocks coming up next?


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An existing HIV drug dramatically reduced the most serious complications of bone marrow transplants – graft-versus-host disease, in which newly transplanted immune cells attack healthy tissue in the patient's body that they they perceive as foreign – according to new research from an Abramson Cancer Center team published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. A front page story in the Philadelphia Inquirer details the approach used in the study, which repurposed the drug maraviroc – approved for use in HIV patients in 2007 – to redirect new immune cells away from organs in the body they are likely to harm. After the researchers added maraviroc to the standard immune-suppressing regimen for 33 days beginning two days before the procedure, they found that just 6 percent of patients developed a severe form of the disease by six months after transplantation; typically, 22 percent would have. After one year, 15 percent of the patients developed severe disease, compared with the normal 29 percent – without slowing the time it took for the patients' new immune systems to engraft in their bodies or prompting a greater risk of side effects like infections or a relapse of their cancer. "We were surprised we got some good efficacy for the study," lead author Ran Reshef, MD, an assistant professor in the division of Hematology-Oncology, told Forbes. "This was a pilot study that went wild." The Inquirer story also ran in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and additional coverage appeared on Yahoo! News and in Newsday (via HealthDay News). David Porter, MD, professor of Medicine and director of Blood and Marrow Transplantation in the Abramson Cancer Center, and Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, associate professor of Medicine and Associate Director for Translational Research at the Abramson Cancer Center, are the senior authors of the study.
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Great for kids and adults!!!
We stayed at Splash last week and loved it. The room had everything we needed and more. Since we had went in mid April the water was still cool (expected). The kids play area was great. Even though the water was freezing, there were still plenty of kids having a blast! The lily pad area was great because it was gated in and younger kids couldn't run off. You can turn them loose and relax in the sun and not worry they might fall in a pool.
You can relax in the hot tub and watch your kids play in the water park area. (just a few feet away!)
We never waited no more than 15 seconds on an elevator and everything was right there as you stepped off. The game room was just ok for me. I had to put in .50 just to play one game of Mrs. Pac-Man. (That made me ill...) We had a card to rent DVDs but we never got around to it, it looked pretty simple though.
There is an Alvins Island gift shop across the street but it is connected to the condo. You could either get there by crossing the street or by using the walk way tunnel. (Which was great for my child since he could run wide open and us not worry about traffic) They also had a small store which sold beer and ice cream cones. No milk though... and that's what we needed most.
Although this place is located futher down the beach from where the miracle strip used to be and it was away from all of the great places to eat.... it was still worth it.
This place was great!!! We will be going back for sure when it warms up more. We can't wait!!
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What a great place to stay!
Forget what previous reviews have said. I just got back from Splash and it was wonderful! The place is beautiful and there are no longer any "new condo" issues that were listed in the other reviews.
So now you get brand new resort that is unbelievable for the price. They really did a great job making the interiors and surroundings colorful and fun. Covered parking keeping your car cool, DVD rentals and an mini arcade (where all the machines worked) for those rainy days and a friendly staff that takes time to say hi as you pass them in the halls. You also have an Alvin's and an ice cream/sandwich shop that is connected to the parking lot to supply those assorted things you need while you are down there.
I found my rental through VRBO.com listing #118512. I talked to the owner and he was friendly and informative. We stayed in room 2103 which was a beautiful 2 bedroom, 2 bath, with a bunk bed in the hall, and a pull out couch, so everyone was happy with the sleeping arrangements (something I also couldn't get anywhere else for this price). Being on the 21st floor, we had a wonderful view of the ocean from our spacious deck in all directions. There were sliding glass doors to the deck from the living room and master bedroom. The room had free local calls, which you don't see much anymore and also had free wired high speed internet. The condo had large bedrooms with walk-in closets. The master bedroom had a wheel chair accessible shower and a large tub. The kitchen had natural oak cabinets with granite counter tops. It was well furnished with new furniture and artwork with a beach theme. Very nicely done!
And if you have young children, like we have, there is truly no better place to stay! The pools are fantastic! Coming down during the sometimes cool weather of spring break, I felt fortunate to stay in a condo where two of the pools and the Jacuzzi were heated, but that didn't stop my kids from playing in the fantastic, un-heated, water playground and the lazy river pool ride which is a pool that has a current that slowly floats you around it's oval course on floats provide by Splash. If you have young toddlers, try the lily pad area with the large frog and turtle that have water jets that come from all directions that the youngsters really enjoyed. I see all of those pools really being fun as the weather gets warmer. Also, one of the heated pools and the water playground are covered so if you get too much sun, or just don't want any, you can stay there. Genius!
When peak season starts, they are going to offer "dive in movies" where the family watches a movie in the pool at night and a food bar at the pool. There were also gas grills by the pool if you feel like cooking out while you are there.
Splash also provides a workout room where the machines over look the beach. I can't discribe that room, but I can tell you all about the ice cream shop! ;)
The beach was wonderful. There were Wave Runners, Para Sail, and banana boat rides rented right from our section of beach. Plenty of beach front (don't be decieved by my pictures from our room.)
I know this sounds like a paid ad for the place, but I feel that if a business really does something right, like Splash has, you really need to tell others about it.
I have been coming down to the panhandle of Florida all of my life and feel like I have found the perfect place to stay. Thanks Splash! We had a GREAT time!
We loved Splash & so did our children
My family ,wife , son age 10 and daughter age 8 stayed at splash from april 6 to April 13. We stayed in a Sandbar unit 2 bedroom 2 bath with bunk area.
The rooms was very clean and nicely decorated. The 'waterpark'
was great fun for my children though the water was cold. My son would hop from there to the jacuzzi to one of the heated pools.
The workout room was excellant and overlooked the ocean. The arcade had plenty of games and plenty of room.
i was told by the manager that they were totally booked for 7 straight days the first week of April, and had a baptism under fire, but things seemed to be well in hand.
our condo was on the 21st floor and we experienced no waits for the elevators and were whisked from the ground floor to the 21st floor in 21 seconds.
many of the units are on the Sterling rental program which entitles you to 2 free dvd rentals per night, and other amenities .
Splash common areas are nicely decorated and all the beach amenities are there such as jet skis, beach service, but this are separate from Splash and cost extra.
if you have children under 14 years old this is the place to stay.
the location west of 79 is away from the high traffic area, but is still within minutes of all the fun activities such as Gulf world, putt putt golf.
Splash has plenty of friendly security folks that can assist you with any questions. you could tell that most visitors loved this place and by the traffic at the real estate kiosk looked as if they were ready to purchase their own unit.
Wonderful Vacation!
My family and I just returned from a week (3/31-4/6) at this new complex. We stayed in the East tower and did not experience any construction problems. We did not see any construction equipment/
painting going on in the lobby either. There were some people moving furniture but this was not an all day event. The pools were clean and a heated. My 8 year old loved the water park area. This was Spring Break but the complex was very quiet by 9:00pm. The pools closed at 10:00pm and security was monitoring the pools and the complex all of the time. The only place not open at this time was the pool side bar and grill. There were no dive in movies scheduled but I think they must be more of a summer event. The air was too cold, once the sun went down, for anyone to be in the water at this time of year. The fitness center is wonderful with all updated equipment, overlooking the ocean. We rented through VRBO and the owners provided chairs/umbrella during our stay. This was an added bonus that came with our rental. It was a one bedroom/2 bath on the 3rd floor. Comfortable king size bed, sleeper sofa, bunk beds for the kids, 2 flat screen tvs, washer/dryer, and many extras. We took the stairs alot since we were on the 3rd floor, but I never saw people waiting a long amount of time for the elevators. The only wait
was on Saturday when we arrived. Many families were coming in at the same time. We rented a jet ski one day and had no problems. Alvins Island is located in the 1st level of the parking garage which we found very convient. The garage is just a short distance over the highway by way of an air-conditioned walkway. We worked directly through the owner of VRBO#107010 and had wonderful service. Had to call them once to find out where the sheets to the sleeper sofa were and they were in the airport. Within 15 minutes we had sheet arrive. Overall great trip and we will return.
We just came back from Splash last week. We stayed with another couple in a windsong unit with 5 kids. I saw the other bad reviews and was shocked since we had just a fun time. Our unit was on the 7th floor and we had both master bedrooms on the ocean. We stayed the week of april 1 - 7th. All the pools were working and were very clean. In fact every morning we went out they were cleaning the pools before they opened.
The waterpark was a blast. The kids played between that and the lazy river the entire time. We were very pleased with the service and overall look of the project. We have been going to PCB for years and there is no other project in the area with all the different kids activities.
The grill was not open yet but that was told to us when we booked that it was only open from Memorial Day to Labor day. The same was told to us for the dive in movies and no one ever told us there was a putt putt course?
Sounds like some of the other folks with the bad reviews were misrepresented by whomever they rented their unit from.
Our family had a great time and the kids are already asking when we can go back. Great Place to stay with kids....
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Don't stay here!
*** RENTERS BEWARE*** Make sure you have the unit # on your confirmation sheet! We recently booked a unit through VRBO - #119210. It was represented that we were renting the 18th floor unit with 3 bedrooms, 2 of which were facing the gulf. When we arrived, we were told that the 18th Floor unit had been rented to someone else, and ALL they had available was a first floor unit, with only one bedroom facing the gulf. We were offered a refund, but at that point where were we to go? We contacted the supposed owner of the unit, and he said he was just a "Travel Agent" and he never promised us any specific unit (even though we had conversations regarding "his" unit and the contents of it). The Front Desk manager was very nice, but had no power to remedy the matter. She was not even empowered to adjust our rate. We were duped into paying a premium for the 18th floor unit and received the value of less than half of what we paid! To top it off, literally, we were directly above the acclaimed arcade and water park which kept us awake into the wee hours. In addition, we were 20 feet from the garbage shoot, and the unit next door was still under construction. In fact, so was the unit we were in. There were 5 construction isses that we had to wait around for (during our vacation) to allow access to the unit within the first 72 hours of our stay. This VRBO #119210 site owner also misrepresents that the complex is complete - not true. The units around us were under construction; there were 20 to 30 minute waits for elevators as appliances and construction materials were loaded into the only elevators to take you to the upper floors; the lobby was being painted and drywalled; the pool bar was not complete or operational; the arcade took money from the kids and did not provide the games and/or prizes and contractors/furniture deliverymen/appliance deliverymen were everywhere. In addition, the place was poorly maintained. The second time my 2 year old showed me a cigarette butt in the pool (even after requesting the pool be cleaned) one of the other guests next to us decided to clean the pool herself of the cigarettes and the popcorn that had been floating for 3 days. These units provide the value of $99/night units, not the $249 they charged us!
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We just stayed at this resort , and we have been staying in pcb for over 20 years now and this was the worst vacation we have ever had .We dont even want to go back.This is a list of problems we had locked out of our room for 3 hours one night because the door handle fell apart, we had to use a crow bar to get out,dishwaher had to be worked on 3 times,dryer didnt work very well,no dive-in movie pool as advertised, no miniature golf as advertised,not allowed to rent movies at resort because we rented from an owner and not thru sterling,door on fitness center could not be opened unless you were really strong,front deask is a joke,construction going on every where , moving of furniture all day, bowling alley broke every time it got used,electric was out for part of a day,no t.v. signal for parts of 2 days,aquatic rentals on the beach almost ran over people one day at the beach with their truck, no phones, no bar and grill open, pools closed off and on.I dont care if it is new, it was not ready to open and we feel like we were ripped off because of this, we are so glad to be back home.I cried several times because of this terrible place.Also teens were sneaking in to the pools.Dont stay there if y9ou want a vacation stay somewhere else.
We had a great time!
When I arrived with my family at the Sterling Splash Resort we were very pleasantly surprised. Our unit (weekly rented condo) was beautiful. It was tastefully decorated and had all the conveniences we were expecting plus a few we hadn't. Not to mention the 3 flat screen TV's! The pool area was great with 3 pools (2 heated) a large splash area for kids and a small splash area for toddlers, all next to the beach.
From what I saw while driving in the area, it would appear that this is one of the nicest resorts in the Panama Beach area. It had convenient out of the way parking, lots of comfortable lobby area seating with great views of the ocean and a good clean workout room also with a panoramic view of the ocean. And speaking of the ocean and beach: White sand and blue and turquoise shallow water!
I was very concerned that being a new resort It wouldn't be completed in time for our vacation, however the only thing not up and running during our stay, March 11th to 17th, was the pool side snack bar which is a very small area behind one of the pools and therefore hardly noticeable. (I was told by staff, who were friendly and helpful, that it would be completed in April 2007). Being a condo resort I missed the services and amenities (like room service and restaurants) of a hotel resort, but having a 2 bedroom condo with a full kitchen more than made up for it. Plus we were having too much of a good time to really notice. We will be going back!
Not ready for guests!
Splash is not ready for guests to stay here yet. The pools are not all open, the snack bar near the pool is not open, the phones do not work, and the staff does not seem to care. It is still under a lot of construction, lots of noise and lots of "dust". Maybe in a year it will be ready, but right now, I would stay someplace else. We were very disappointed for the price we had to pay. Calypso is down the street, and looks beautiful!
WILL be great but not there yet
Once this place is finished, it will be awesome!!! But, we went for a long weekend and the kids' water park was not working/not complete, the pools were not all heated, and there was work equipment and caution tape all over. We drove 6 hours to get there and were never once told upon booking that it was not all complete. The elevators were only sometimes working, and we were staying up high, so that was a problem. Management was great, however, and we switched to another hotel after one night and got a refund for our unused night.
On the upside, the units were absolutely wonderful!!! Very spacious, clean, and beautifully decorated. Beach was beautiful.
Little problem of someone mistaking our unit for theirs and THEIR key card fit OUR door.
They need a few months to finish and work out the kinks but we will definitely go back once that happens.
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Einstein had been so preoccupied with other studies that he had not realized such confirmation of his early theories had become an everyday affair in the physical laboratory. He grinned like a small boy, and kept saying over and over "Ist das wirklich so?"
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The special theory of relativity assumes the existence of a unique class of global coordinate systems - called inertial coordinates - with respect to which the speed of light in vacuum is everywhere equal to the constant c. It was natural, then, to express physical laws in terms of this preferred class of coordinate systems, characterized by the global invariance of the speed of light. In addition, the special theory also strongly implied the fundamental equivalence of mass and energy, according to which light (and every other form of energy) must be regarded as possessing inertia. However, it soon became clear that the global invariance of light speed together with the idea that energy has inertia (as expressed in the famous relation E2 = m2 + |p|2) were incompatible with one of the most firmly established empirical results of physics, namely, the exact proportionality of inertial and gravitational mass, which Einstein elevated to the status of a Principle. This incompatibility led Einstein, as early as 1907, to the belief that the global invariance of light speed, in the sense of the special theory, could not be maintained. Indeed, he concluded that we cannot assume, as do both Newtonian theory and special relativity, the existence of any global inertial systems of coordinates (although we can carry over the existence of a local system of inertial coordinates in a vanishingly small region of spacetime around any event).
Since no preferred class of global coordinate systems is assumed, the general theory essentially places all (smoothly related) systems of coordinates on an equal footing, and expresses physical laws in a way that is applicable to any of these systems. As a result, the laws of physics will hold good even with respect to coordinate systems in which the speed of light takes on values other than c. For example, the laws of general relativity are applicable to a system of coordinates that is fixed rigidly to the rotating Earth. According to these coordinates the distant galaxies are "circumnavigating" nearly the entire universe in just 24 hours, so their speed is obviously far greater than the constant c. The huge implied velocities of the celestial spheres was always problematical for the ancient conception of an immovable Earth, but it is beautifully accommodated within general relativity by the effect which the implied centrifugal acceleration field - whose strength increases in direct proportion to the distance from the Earth - has on the values of the metric components guv for this rotating system of coordinates at those locations. It's true that, when expressed in this rotating system of coordinates, those stars are moving with dx/dt values that far exceed the usual numerical value of c, but they are not moving faster than light, because the speed of light at those locations, expressed in terms of those coordinates, is correspondingly greater.
In general, for any given system of coordinates the velocity of light can always be inferred from the components of the metric tensor, and typically looks something like . To understand this, recall that in special relativity we have global inertial coordinate systems such that the metric tensor has the constant form
The trajectory of a light ray follows a null path, i.e., a path with dt = 0, so dividing by (dt)2 we see that the path of light everywhere satisfies the equation
Hence the velocity of light is unambiguous in terms of these preferred systems of coordinates. However, in the general theory we are no longer guaranteed the existence of a global coordinate system with a constant metric of the simple form (1). It is true that over a sufficiently small spatial and temporal region surrounding any given event in spacetime there exists a coordinate system of that simple Minkowskian form, but in the presence of a non-vanishing gravitational field ("curvature") equation (1) applies only with respect to "free-falling" inertial coordinates, which are necessarily transient and don't extend globally.
So, for an extended region of spacetime, instead of writing the metric in the xt plane as (dt)2 = (dt)2 - (dx)2 , we must consider the more general form
where the coefficients are functions of the coordinates. As always, the path of a light ray is null, so we have dt = 0, so the differentials dx and dt satisfy the equation
Solving this gives
If we diagonalize our metric we get gxt = 0, in which case the "velocity" of a null path in the xt plane with respect to this coordinate system is simply dx/dt = . This quantity can (and does) take on any value, depending on our choice of coordinate systems.
Around 1911 Einstein proposed to incorporate gravitation into a modified version of special relativity by allowing the speed of light to vary as a scalar from place to place in Euclidean space as a function of the gravitational potential. This "scalar c field" is remarkably similar to a simple refractive medium, in which the speed of light varies as a function of the density. Fermat's principle of least time can then be applied to define the paths of light rays as geodesics in the spacetime manifold (as discussed in Section 8.4). Specifically, Einstein wrote in 1911 that the speed of light at a place with the gravitational potential j would be c0 (1 + j/c02), where c0 is the nominal speed of light in the absence of gravity. In geometrical units we define c0 = 1, so Einstein's 1911 formula can be written simply as c = 1 + j. However, this formula for the speed of light – indeed, this whole approach to gravity – turned out to be incorrect, as Einstein soon realized. In the general theory of relativity, completed in 1915, the speed of light in a gravitational field cannot necessarily be represented by a simple scalar field of c values in Euclidean space, because the speed of light at each point depends on the choice of coordinate systems, and the curvature of spacetime makes the choice of coordinates inherently ambiguous. In terms of some quite natural coordinate systems the speed of light at a given event is different in different directions, so we can't generally talk about the value of c at a given point in a non-vanishing gravitational field (although the speed if light always has the invariant value c in terms of local free-falling inertial coordinates, consistent with the equivalence principle). For example, if we consider rays of light near a spherically symmetrical (and non- rotating) mass, and we choose coordinates such that the metric coefficients are independent of t, and such that the circumference of a circular orbit of radius r is 2pr, then in terms of these coordinates the circumferential speed of light is given by the same formula as in Einstein's 1911 paper, but the speed of radial light rays differs from the 1911 formula by a factor of 2 on the "potential" term. To explain this in detail, we must first consider how the Schwarzschild metric is derived from the field equations of general relativity.
To deduce the implications of the field equations for observable phenomena Einstein originally made use of approximate methods, since no exact solutions were known. These approximate methods were adequate to demonstrate that the field equations lead in the first approximation to Newton's laws, and in the second approximation to a natural explanation for the anomalous precession of Mercury (see Section 6.2). However, these results can now be directly computed from the exact solution for a spherically symmetric field, found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916. As Schwarzschild wrote, it's always pleasant to find exact solutions, and the simple spherically symmetrical line element "let's Mr. Einstein's result shine with increased clarity". To this day, most of the empirically observable predictions of general relativity are consequences of this simple solution.
We will discuss Schwarzschild's original derivation in Section 8.7, but for our present purposes we will take a slightly different approach. Recall from Section 5.5 that the most general form of the metrical spacetime line element for a spherically symmetrical static field (although it is not strictly necessary to assume the field is static) can be written in polar coordinates as
where gqq = -r2, gff = -r2 sin(q)2, and gtt and grr are functions of r and the gravitating mass m. (These stipulations ensure that the circumference of a circular orbit of radius r is 2pr.) We expect that if m = 0, and/or as r increases to infinity, we will have gtt = 1 and grr = -1 in order to give the flat Minkowski metric in the absence of gravity. We saw in Section 5.5 that in this highly symmetrical context there is a fairly plausible way to derive the metric coefficients gtt and grr simply from the requirement to satisfy Kepler's third law and the inverse-square law, but with some ambiguity over the choice between proper time and coordinate time. We can now determine unambiguously the values of these metric coefficients consistent with Einstein's field equations.
In any region that is free of (non-gravitational) mass-energy the vacuum field equations must apply, which means the Ricci tensor
must vanish, i.e., all the components are zero. Since our metric is in diagonal form, it's easy to see that the Christoffel symbols for any three distinct indices a,b,c reduce to
with no summations implied. In two of the non-vanishing cases the Christoffel symbols are of the form qa/(2q), where q is a particular metric component and subscripts denote partial differentiation with respect
to xa. By an elementary identity these can also be written as . Hence if we define the new variable we can write the Christoffel symbol in the form Qa with q = e2Q. Accordingly if we define the variables (functions of r)
then we have
and the non-vanishing Christoffel symbols (as given in Section 5.5) can be written as
We can now write down the components of the Ricci tensor, each of which must vanish in order for the field equations to be satisfied. Writing them out explicitly and expanding all the implied summations for our line element, we find that all the non-diagonal components are identically zero (which we might have expected from symmetry arguments), so the only components of interest in our case are the diagonal elements
Inserting the expressions for the Christoffel symbols gives the equations for the four diagonal components of the Ricci tensor as functions of u and v:
The necessary and sufficient condition for the field equations to be satisfied by a line element of the form (2) is that these four quantities each vanish. Combining the expressions for Rtt and Rrr we immediately have ur = -vr , which implies u = -v + k for some arbitrary constant k. Making these substitutions into the equation for Rqq we get the condition
Remembering that e2u = gtt, and that the derivative of e2u is 2ur e2u, this condition expresses the requirement
The left side is just the chain rule for the derivative of the product rgtt, and since this derivative equals the constant –e2k we immediately have rgtt = -e2kr + a for some constant a, and hence gtt = -e2k + a/r. As r increases to infinity the metric must go over to the Minkowski metric, which has gtt = 1, so we must have –e2k = 1, which implies that k = pi/2. Also, since grr = e2v where v = -u + pi/2, it follows that grr = -1/gtt, and so we have the results
To match the Newtonian limit we set a = -2m where m is classically identified with the mass of the gravitating body. These metric coefficients were derived by combining the expressions for Rtt and Rrr, but it's easy to verify that they also satisfy each of those equations separately, so this is indeed the unique spherically symmetrical static solution of Einstein's field equations.
Now that we have derived the Schwarzschild metric, we can easily correct the "speed of light" formula that Einstein gave in 1911. A ray of light always travels along a null trajectory, i.e., with dt = 0, and for a radial ray we have dq and df both equal to zero, so the equation for the light ray trajectory through spacetime, in Schwarzschild coordinates (which are the only spherically symmetrical ones in which the metric is independent of t) is simply
from which we get
where the ± sign just indicates that the light can be going radially inward or outward. (Note that we're using geometric units, so c = 1.) In the Newtonian limit the classical gravitational potential at a distance r from mass m is j = -m/r, so if we let cr = dr/dt denote the radial speed of light in Schwarzschild coordinates, we have
which corresponds to Einstein's 1911 equation, except that we have a factor of 2 instead of 1 on the potential term. Thus, as j becomes increasingly negative (i.e., as the magnitude of the potential increases), the radial "speed of light" cr defined in terms of the Schwarzschild parameters t and r is reduced to less than the nominal value of c. The factor of 2 relative to the equation of 1911 arises because in the full theory there is gravitational length contraction as well as time dilation. Of course, the length contraction doesn't affect the gravitational redshift, which is purely a function of the time dilation, so the redshift prediction of 1911 remains valid. Only the radial speed of light (in terms of Schwarzschild coordinates) is changed.
On the other hand, if we define the tangential speed of light at a distance r from a gravitating mass center in the equatorial plane (q = p/2) in terms of the Schwarzschild coordinates as ct = r(df/dt), then the metric divided by (dt)2 immediately gives
Thus, we again find that the "velocity of light" is reduced a region with a strong gravitational field, but this speed is the square root of the radial speed at the same point, and to the first order in m/r this is the same as Einstein's 1911 formula, although it is understood now to signify just the tangential speed. This illustrates the fact that the general theory doesn't lead to a simple scalar field of c values in Euclidean space. The effects of gravitation can only be accurately represented by a tensor field. (It's possible to define so-called isotropic coordinates, as discussed in Section 8.4, in terms of which the speed of light is the same in all directions, but only by using a radial coordinate in terms of which the circumference of a circular orbit of radius r is not 2pr, which shows the non-Euclidean character of the space.)
As mentioned, one of the observable implications of general relativity (as well as any other theory that respects the equivalence principle) is gravitational redshift, which is a consequence of the fact that the rate of proper time at a fixed radial position in a gravitational field relative to the coordinate time (which corresponds to proper time sufficiently far from the gravitating mass) is given by
It follows that the characteristic frequency n1 of light emitted by some known physical process at a radial location r1 will represent a different frequency n2 with respect to the proper time at some other radial location r2 according to the formula
From the Schwarzschild metric we have gtt(rj) = 1+2jj where jj = -m/rj is the gravitational potential at rj, so
Neglecting the higher-order terms and rearranging, this can also be written as
Observations of the light emitted from the surface of the Sun, and from other stars, is consistent with this predicted amount of gravitational redshift (up to first order), although measurements of this slight effect are difficult. A terrestrial experiment performed by Rebka and Pound in 1960 exploited the Mossbauer effect to precisely determine the redshift between the top and bottom of a tower. The results were in good agreement with the above formula, and subsequent experiments of the same kind have improved the accuracy to within about 1 percent. (Note that if r1 and r2 are nearly equal, as, for example, at two heights near the Earth's surface, then the leading factor of the right-most expression is essentially just the acceleration of gravity a = -m/r2, and the factor in parentheses is the difference in heights Dh, so we have Dn/n = a Dh.)
However, it's worth noting that this amount of gravitational redshift is a feature of just about any viable theory of gravity that includes the equivalence principle, so these experimental results, although useful for validating that principle, are not very robust for distinguishing between competing theories of gravity. For this we need to consider other observations, such as the paths of light near a gravitating body, and the precise orbits of planets. These phenomena are discussed in the subsequent sections.


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North Carolina will have two chances to show off its explosive offense on ESPN's Thursday night college football schedule.
The Tar Heels will open the season at South Carolina on Aug. 29 and will host their second ESPN Thursday night game on Oct. 17 against Miami at Kenan Stadium.
Though the opponents and locations previously had been announced, the ACC released the exact dates for each matchup on Monday. No times have been determined.
UNC (8-4, 5-3 ACC), Miami and Georgia Tech all tied for first in the Coastal Division in 2012, though the Yellow Jackets advanced to the ACC championship game as the only team that was eligible for the postseason.
The only other ESPN Thursday night game at Kenan Stadium was against Florida State in 2009, when the arrival of thousands of fans caused logistical problems on campus for students, university employees and hospital workers. But UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham said he began meeting with campus officials several weeks ago to iron out any issues, though the game will be played during UNC's fall break.
"A Thursday night home game is an excellent platform to promote the university and showcase our campus in primetime on ESPN," Cunningham said in a statement. "The feedback I received from those involved with the 2009 contest was extremely positive. It was a successful and unique event for our university community and economically benefitted the town of Chapel Hill."
UNC will be visiting Columbia for the first time in 23 years The Gamecocks finished eighth in the final AP poll this past season and feature potential Heisman Trophy candidate Jadeveon Clowney.
"Opening the season on the road at South Carolina is a great motivator for our offseason workouts and provides us with a tremendous opportunity on national television," UNC coach Larry Fedora said.
UNC is 6-4 on ESPN Thursday night games, including a 37-13 win last year at Virginia.
After finishing the 2012 season against Maryland, UNC will close out the regular season against Duke on Nov. 30. The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have met on the last weekend in 38 of the past 46 years, though they played on Oct. 20, 2012, when the Blue Devils won for the first time since 2003.
The Tar Heels will have their home opener against Middle Tennessee State on Sept. 7. UNC will then have a bye week before opening ACC play at Georgia Tech on Sept. 21.
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UNC will play East Carolina for the fourth straight year on Sept. 28, then travel to Virginia Tech on Oct. 5 before hosting Miami.
The Tar Heels will host Boston College, their Atlantic Division crossover opponent, on Oct. 26, and then play at N.C. State in Raleigh on Nov. 2. The Tar Heels were shut out in their last trip to Raleigh and haven't won there since 2005.
UNC will resume the south's oldest rivalry when it hosts Virginia on Nov. 9, then go on the road for its first conference game against Pittsburgh on Nov. 16. The Panthers are joining the ACC for the 2013 season, and UNC hasn't played at Pittsburgh since 1990. The teams most recently met in the 2009 Car Care Bowl, which the Tar Heels lost 19-17.
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Lightcatcher Building at the Whatcom Museum – Sustainable Strategies
The Lightcatcher Building is the first LEED Silver museum in Washington State. Exhibits will educate visitors on green building strategies and technologies, using the museum as an example. The Lightcatcher – an iconic 36-foot-tall, 180-foot-long translucent wall – incorporates sustainable strategies:
• Daylight filters through it to naturally light portions of the building
• Outside air enters through openings in the Lightcatcher, naturally ventilating portions of the building;
• During warm weather, the stack effect pushes warm air up and out of the building through the double-skin of the Lightcatcher;
• In cooler weather, upper vents in the Lightcatcher can be closed, allowing the cavity between the glass surfaces to become an insulating layer;
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• The service drive has pervious paving
• Stormwater is channeled into raingardens located in the courtyard and in the public sidewalk planting adjacent to the museum
• A green roof above the lobby reduces the heat island effect, provides greater insulation value, diverts storm water runoff, and provides a microhabitat for wildlife
Water Efficiency
• The rainwater harvesting system provides enough water for toilets approximately ten months of the year
• The building has low flow plumbing fixtures and waterless urinals, as well as rainwater-harvested water for the toilets
Energy and Atmosphere
• Heat reflective Energy Star roofing reduces heat gain inside the building and reduces the heat island effect in the surrounding area
• The Lightcatcher gallery and lobby spaces utilize radiant floor heating and cooling, as well as natural ventilation
• The HVAC system uses high efficiency boilers and chillers
Materials and Resources
• Over 75% of demolition and construction waste were diverted for recycling or reuse
• High recycled-content structural steel is used
• Concrete has high fly ash content
Indoor Environmental Quality
• All the wood used in the building is certified and sustainably harvested
• Office spaces have daylight and exterior views
• Low VOC paints, adhesives and sealants are used in interior spaces
Innovation and Design Process
• Life cycle cost analyses were performed on mechanical systems to determine relative payback scenarios for the sustainable technologies used in the building.
• "Green Power" will be purchased from the power company
• We performed computational fluid dynamic analysis at the Lightcatcher gallery to design the cooling, heating and ventilation systems and predict the performance of the Lightcatcher.
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Windows Phone 7
First of all, I have no real reason to post this video, but between this and his crazy Miami Sound Machine dancing video, Steve Ballmer is quickly finding his way into my heart. Windows Phone 7 So, the reviews are coming in on Windows Phone 7, and guess what? People like it! Yeah. I'm as […] [Read More]
Apple's Back to Mac event
Apple today held it's Back to Mac event. What's that mean? Two things: After so much focus on the iPhone and it's iOS, Apple was finally giving some much needed love to their OSX operating system and Mac computer line. It also meant that the next OSX, OSX Lion, would finally bring all of that […] [Read More]
Retro Thursday: Zip Drives
A very special Wednesday edition! It's been a while, but what better way to bring back Retro Thursday than with one of my favorite dead disk formats, the Zip Disk. Made by Iomega, the Zip Disk was essentially THE option for larger file storage before standard CD or DVD burners. I went to college for […] [Read More]
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What is a billion dollar business like Facebook to do when they are the most visited website on the Internet? Expand. Not happy with simply letting you post hideously mundane pictures of your dog, Facebook wants to own your search habits as well. Said to be CEO Mark Zuckerberg's baby, Facebook is aligning with Microsofts […] [Read More]
AppleTV… A success? And more Steve Jobs-isms…
Today, Apple announced that in the last quarter, they made approximately a kagillion billion dollars. They now out earn most countries, and for the last quarter, God himself. It's a nice time to work in Cupertino, CA. In addition to earnings, Steve Jobs made an unusual appearance on the conference call to drop some pearls […] [Read More]
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Today, my favorite "in over his head" CEO Steve Ballmer finally pulled back the curtain on Windows Phone 7. It is everything the Kin was not. It looks to be pretty well designed and the phones do look nice (available on T-Mobile and AT&T in November). That said, is the world ready for another phone […] [Read More]