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ECU recently signed an international study tour agreement with Zayed University, based in the United Arab Emirates. The agreement will give you the opportunity to travel to the University's campuses in either Dubai or Abu Dhabi, meet fellow students and immerse yourself in a new and diverse culture.
At ECU, we are very proud of our study tour opportunities and exchange programs. Partnerships with organisations in Europe, South America, North America and Asia have seen our students continue their studies in Universities around the world.
Most recently, ECU students from the School of Computer and Security Science travelled to Nanchung University in China for a two-week study tour program.
The inaugural Nanchung University study tour was the result of an agreement signed last year, which provides students from ECU and Nanchung University the chance to experience tertiary studies in a completely new environment.
Exchange is a great way for students to further develop their professional skills.
International study stands out on your resume, and the ability to travel to new countries and thrive in foreign environments is an invaluable skill.
As the semester approaches its conclusion, I encourage all students to think about what they want to get out of 2013. How can you reach your potential and get the best out of your time here?
International study and exchange opportunities are a great way to make you stand out from your fellow graduates. I urge you to make the most of these exciting opportunities.
Professor Kerry O. Cox *
* Professor Kerry Cox was Vice-Chancellor of Edith Cowan University from March 2006 to September 2014.


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Table of Contents
1: General Packet Information
1.1: Basic packet format (for all packets except connection packets)
1.2: Common origins/destinations
1.3: Packet Types
1.4: Notes about packet formats!
1.5: Special Characters
1.6: Socials and Emotes
1.7: Ucache and Socials
1.8: Color Codes and Translation
2: Connection and Authentication Packets
2.1: Plain Text
3: Packet Definitions
3.1: keepalive-request
3.2: is-alive
3.3: ice-refresh
3.4: ice-update
3.5: ice-msg-r
3.6: ice-msg-p
3.7: ice-msg-b
3.8: user-cache
3.9: user-cache-request
3.10: user-cache-reply
3.11: tell
3.12: emote
3.13: remote-admin
3.14: ice-cmd
3.15: ice-destroy
3.16: who
3.17: who-reply
3.18: ping
3.19: ping-reply
3.20: whois
3.21: whois-reply
3.22: beep
3.23: ice-chan-who
3.24: ice-chan-whoreply
3.25: imc-laston
3.26: close-notify
3.27: reminfo-destroy
General Packet Information
Basic packet format (for all packets except connection packets)
<sender>@<origin> <sequence> <route> <packet-type> <target>@<destination> <data...>
<sender> The player/entity that sent the packet. * is a wildcard or 'global' entity.
<origin> The MUD/Server/Place the packet originated from.
<sequence> A long integer sent with the packets to help validate the packet. The sequence is initialized by the client with the current system time, and then one is added to it with every packet sent.
<route> The list of MUDs and servers the packet has passed through. This should always start with the originating MUD's name, and should not have any other MUD names in it. All servers that routed the packet are tacked on to the end, seperated by a !.
Example: OrigMud!Hub1!Hub2
<packet-type> This is a string that contains the type of packet. Example: "is-alive".
<target> The player or entity the packet is intended for.
<destination> The MUD the packet is intended to reach.
<data...> A range of data based on the <packet-type>
Common origins/destinations
* This is the wildcard or 'broadcast' character.
$ This is the server-only or 'multicast' character.
IMC@$ Commonly used for ice-refresh packets. Sends to entity IMC2 on all servers.
ICE@<server> Mostly seen in channel replies from servers.
*@* This will broadcast to all MUDs and servers.
*@$ This will multicast to all servers.
*@<mud> Sends to a MUD without a specific target player. Useful for system messages.
*@<server> Sends to a specific server without a target entity.
Packet Types
Notes about packet formats!
Special Characters
In most cases, data only needs to be enclosed in double quotes ' " ' when there is a space. However, all double quotes must be escaped with the escape character ' \ '. This also means that the ' \ ' character must also be escaped. Other characters that have to be escaped include '\n' and '\r'.
" would become \"
\ would become \\
\n would become \\n
\r would become \\r
Socials and Emotes
Emotes are designated by an "emote=1" in the channel packet and refer to the message that should be displayed right after the Player@MUD's name.
Example: ichat ,grins.
Would be: Xorith@SOR-Live grins.
Socials are designated by an "emote=2" in the channel packet. The social text is to be compiled by the MUD before the packet is sent.
Example: ichat @grin Someone@MUD
Would be: Xorith@SOR-Live grins at Someone@MUD
Ucache and Socials
The Ucache is kept locally by the MUD and used when compiling socials. If a target of a social isn't in the MUD's local ucache, then the MUD sends a user-cache-request packet before compiling the social. The target MUD will then send a user-cache-reply packet containing the information. The Ucache is intended to simply store the Name@MUD and Gender of a remote player. A MUD automatically broadcasts a user-cache packet when a new player can access IMC2, or when that player's gender changes.
Color Codes and Translation
The network uses standardized color codes for sending color in packets across the network. It is up to the client to make any translation from local MUD color codes to the network color, and back again.
The current IMC2 Standard Color Codes are as follows:
~Z Random ~x Black ~r Dark Red
~g Dark Green ~y Orange ~b Dark Blue
~p Purple ~c Cyan ~w Grey
~D Dark Grey ~z (Same as ~D) ~R Red
~G Green ~Y Yellow ~B Blue
~P Pink ~C Light Blue ~W White
^Z Random ^x Black ^r Dark Red
^g Dark Green ^O Orange ^B Dark Blue
^p Purple ^c Cyan ^w Grey
^z Dark Grey ^R Red ^G Green
^Y Yellow ^b Blue ^P Pink
^C Light Blue ^W White
Blinking Foreground:
`Z Random `x Black `r Dark Red
`g Dark Green `O Orange `b Dark Blue
`p Purple `c Cyan `w Grey
`z Dark Grey `R Red `G Green
`Y Yellow `B Blue `P Purple
`C Light Blue `W White
~! Reset ~L Bold ~u Underline
~$ Blink ~i Italic ~v Reverse
~s Strike-thru
For Backwards Compatability:
~m = ~p
~d = ~w
Connection and Authentication Packets
Plain Text
CLIENT Sends: PW <mudname> <clientpw> version=<version#> autosetup <serverpw> (SHA256)
On initial client connection:
SERVER Sends: autosetup <servername> accept <networkname> (SHA256-SET)
On all subsequent non-SHA256 client connections:
SERVER Sends: PW <servername> <serverpw> version=<version#> <networkname>
CLIENT Sends: SHA256-AUTH-REQ <mudname>
SERVER Sends: SHA256-AUTH-INIT <servername> <key>
CLIENT Sends: SHA256-AUTH-RESP <mudname> <hash> version=<version#>
SERVER Sends: SHA256-AUTH-APPR <servername> <networkname> version=<version#>
PW The literal string: PW
autosetup The literal string: autosetup
<mudname> Name of the MUD or client connecting.
<servername> Name of the server the client is connecting to.
<clientpw> This is the client password saved in the client's configuration.
<serverpw> This is the server password saved in the client's configuration.
<version#> This is the protocol version number. In most cases, this will be the number 2.
<networkname> This is the name of the network the server is connected to.
<key> This is a long integer sent by the server. It is used in creating the <hash>
<hash> This is the result of the <key>+<clientpw>+<serverpw>.
Optional Arguments( required if using the specified authentication method ):
(SHA256) The literal string: SHA256. This is sent to notify the server that the MUD is SHA256-Enabled. All future logins from this client will be expected in SHA256-AUTH format if the server supports it.
(SHA256-SET) The literal string: SHA256-SET. This is sent by the server to notify the client that it will now expect SHA256 authentication from the client from now on. The client should make itself aware of this for future connections.
If a client sends more than one type of authentication for whatever reason, the login should be rejected. A properly configured client should then respond by trying to authenticate in plain text.
Packet Definitions
This packet is sent by a MUD to trigger is-alive packets from other MUDs.
This packet is usually followed by the sending MUD's own is-alive packet.
It is used in the filling of a client's MUD list, thus any MUD that doesn't respond with an is-alive isn't marked as online on the sending MUD's mudlist.
Older client Data:
versionid=<string> Where <string> is the text version ID of the client. ("IMC2 4.5 MUD-Net")
NOTE: This is no longer sent with a keepalive-request, however older clients may still send it.
Example of a received keepalive-request:
*@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD!Hub1 keepalive-request *@*
Example of a sent keepalive-request:
*@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD keepalive-request *@*
This packet is the reply to a keepalive-request packet. It is responsible for filling a client's mudlist with the information about other MUDs on the network.
versionid=<string> Where <string> is the text version ID of the client. ("IMC2 4.5 MUD-Net")
url=<string> Where <string> is the proper URL of the client. (http://www.domain.com)
host=<string> Where <string> is the telnet address of the MUD. (telnet://domain.com)
port=<int> Where <int> is the telnet port of the MUD.
(These data fields are not sent by the MUD, they are added by the server.)
networkname=<string> Where <string> is the network name that the MUD/server is on. ("MyNetwork")
sha256=<int> This is an optional tag that denotes the SHA-256 capabilities of a MUD or server.
Example of a received is-alive:
*@SomeMUD 1234567890 SomeMUD!Hub2 is-alive *@YourMUD versionid="IMC2 4.5 MUD-Net" url="http://www.domain.com" networkname="MyNetwork" sha256=1 host=domain.com port=5500
Example of a sent is-alive:
*@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD is-alive *@* versionid="IMC2 4.5 MUD-Net" url="http://www.domain.com" host=domain.com port=5500
This packet is sent by the MUD to request data about the channels on the network. Servers with channels reply with an ice-update packet for each channel they control. The usual target for this packet is IMC@$.
*@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD!Hub1 ice-refresh IMC@$
A server returns this packet with the data of a channel when prompted with an ice-refresh request.
channel=<string> The channel's network name in the format of ServerName:ChannelName
owner=<string> The Name@MUD of the channel's owner
operators=<string> A space-seperated list of the Channel's operators, in the format of Person@MUD
policy=<string> The policy is either "open" or "private" with no quotes.
invited=<string> The space-seperated list of invited User@MUDs, only valid for a "private" channel.
excluded=<string> The space-seperated list of banned User@MUDs, only valid for "open" channels.
level=<string> The default level of the channel: Admin, Imp, Imm, Mort, or None
localname=<string> The suggested local name of the channel.
Open Policy:
ICE@Hub1 1234567890 Hub1!Hub2 ice-update *@YourMUD channel=Hub1:ichat owner=Imm@SomeMUD operators=Other@SomeMUD policy=open excluded="Flamer@badMUD Jerk@dirtyMUD" level=Imm localname=ichat
Private Policy:
ICE@Hub1 1234567890 Hub1!Hub2 ice-update *@YourMUD channel=Hub1:secretchat owner=Imm@SomeMUD operators=Other@SomeMUD policy=private invited="SpecialDude@OtherMUD CoolDude@WeirdMUD" level=Mort localname=schat
The -r in this ice-msg packet means it was relayed. This, along with the ice-msg-p packet, are used with private policy channels. The 'r' stands for 'relay'. All incoming channel messages are from ICE@<server>, where <server> is the server hosting the channel.
realfrom=<string> The User@MUD the message came from.
channel=<string> The Server:Channel the message is intended to be displayed on.
text=<string> The message text.
emote=<int> An integer value designating emotes. 0 for no emote, 1 for an emote, and 2 for a social.
ICE@Hub1 1234567890 Hub1!Hub2 ice-msg-r *@YourMUD realfrom=You@YourMUD channel=hub1:secret text="Aha! I got it!" emote=0
ICE@Hub1 1234567890 Hub1!Hub2 ice-msg-r *@YourMUD realfrom=You@YourMUD channel=hub1:secret text=Ahh emote=0
ICE@Hub1 1234567890 Hub1!Hub2 ice-msg-r *@YourMUD realfrom=You@YourMUD channel=hub1:secret text="grins evilly." emote=1
ICE@Hub1 1234567890 Hub1!Hub2 ice-msg-r *@YourMUD realfrom=You@YourMUD channel=hub1:secret text="You@YourMUD grins evilly!" emote=2
This packet is sent when a player sends a message to a private channel. This packet should never be seen as incoming to a client. The target of this packet should be IMC@<server> of the server hosting the channel.
channel=<string> The Server:Channel the message is intended to be displayed on.
text=<string> The message text.
emote=<int> An integer value designating emotes. 0 for no emote, 1 for an emote, and 2 for a social.
echo=<int> Tells the server to echo the message back to the sending MUD. This is only seen on out-going messages.
You@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD ice-msg-p IMC@Hub1 channel=Hub1:secret text="Ahh! I got it!" emote=0 echo=1
You@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD ice-msg-p IMC@Hub1 channel=Hub1:secret text=Ahh! emote=0 echo=1
You@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD ice-msg-p IMC@Hub1 channel=Hub1:secret text="grins evilly." emote=1 echo=1
You@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD ice-msg-p IMC@Hub1 channel=Hub1:secret text="You@YourMUD grins evilly." emote=2 echo=1
This is the packet used to chat on open policy channels. When sent from a MUD, it is broadcasted across the network. Other MUDs receive it in-tact as it was sent by the originating MUD. The server that hosts the channel sends the packet back to the originating MUD as an 'echo' by removing the "echo=1" and attaching the "sender=Person@MUD" data field.
channel=<string> The Server:Channel the message is intended to be displayed on.
text=<string> The message text.
emote=<int> An integer value designating emotes. 0 for no emote, 1 for an emote, and 2 for a social.
*echo=<int> This stays on broadcasted messages. It tells the channel's server to relay an echo back.
*sender=<string> The hosting server replaces "echo=1" with this when sending the echo back to the originating MUD.
Examples: (See above for emote/social examples as they are pretty much the same)
Return Echo Packet:
You-YourMUD@Hub1 1234567890 Hub1 ice-msg-b *@YourMUD text=Hi! channel=Hub1:ichat sender=You@YourMUD emote=0
Broadcasted Packet:
You@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD!Hub1 ice-msg-b *@* channel=Hub1:ichat text=Hi! emote=0 echo=1
Sent by a MUD with a new IMC2-able player or when a player's gender changes, this packet contains only the gender for data. The packet's origination should be the Player@MUD.
gender=<int> 0 is male, 1 is female, 2 is anything else such as neuter. Will be referred to as "it".
Dude@someMUD 1234567890 SomeMUD!Hub2!Hub1 user-cache *@* gender=0
The MUD sends this packet out when making a request for the user-cache information of the user included in the data part of the packet.
user=<string> The Person@MUD whose data the MUD is seeking.
*@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD user-cache-request *@SomeMUD user=Dude@SomeMUD
A reply to the user-cache-request packet. It contains the user and gender for the user.
user=<string> The Person@MUD whose data the MUD requested.
gender=<int> The gender of the Person@MUD in the 'user' field.
*@someMUD 1234567890 SomeMUD!Hub2!Hub1 user-cache-reply *@YourMUD user=Dude@SomeMUD gender=0
This packet is used to communicate private messages between users on MUDs across the network.
text=<string> Message text
isreply=<int> Two settings: 1 denotes a reply, 2 denotes a tell social.
Some other uncommon (but still encounterable data fields):
reply=<int> Probably serves the same purpose as isreply does
level=<int> ?
You@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD tell Dude@SomeMUD text="Having fun?"
Reply from Dude:
Dude@SomeMUD 1234567890 SomeMUD!Hub1 tell You@YourMUD text="Yeah, this is cool!" isreply=1
This packet seems to be sent by servers when notifying the network of a new channel or the destruction of a channel.
channel=<int> Unsure of what this means. The channel seen in both creation and destruction packets is 15.
level=<int> I am assuming this is the permission level of the sender. In both creation and destruction messages, this is -1.
text=<string> This is the message to be sent to the users.
ICE@Hub1 1234567890 Hub1 emote *@* channel=15 level=-1 text="the channel called hub1:test has been destroyed by You@YourMUD."
This packet is used in remote server administration. Please note that SHA-256 Support is *required* for a client to use this feature. The command can vary, in fact this very packet is highly dependant on the server it's being directed to. In most cases, sending the 'list' command will have a remote-admin enabled server send you the list of commands it will accept.
command=<string> The command being sent to the server for processing.
data=<string> Data associated with the command. This is not always required.
hash=<string> The SHA-256 hash that is verified by the server. This hash is generated in the same manner as an authentication packet.
You@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD remote-admin IMC@Hub1 command=list hash=<hash goes here>
Used for remote channel administration. In most cases, one must be listed as a channel creator on the target server in order to do much with this packet. Other cases include channel operators.
channel=<string> The target server:channel for the command.
command=<string> The command to be processed.
data=<string> Data associated with the command. This is not always required.
You@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD ice-cmd IMC@hub1 channel=hub1:ichat command=list
Sent by a server to indicate the destruction of a channel it hosted. The mud should remove this channel from its local configuration.
channel=<string> The server:channel being destroyed.
Variant: wHo ( obsolete )
A seemingly mutli-purpose information-requesting packet. The istats packet currently only works on servers, or at least that's the case on MUD-Net servers. The 'finger' type takes a player name in addition to the type name.
Example: "finger Dude". The 'who' and 'info' types take no argument. The MUD is responsible for building the reply text sent in the who-reply packet.
type=<string> Types: who, info, "finger <name>", istats (server only)
Dude@SomeMUD 1234567890 SomeMUD!Hub1 who *@YourMUD type=who
The multi-purpose reply to the multi-purpose information-requesting 'who' packet. The MUD is responsible for building the return data, including the format of it. The mud can use the permission level sent in the original who packet to filter the output. The example below is the MUD-Net format.
text=<string> The formatted reply to a 'who' packet.
Additional Notes:
The example below is for the who list packet. The same construction would go into formatting the other types of who packets.
*@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD who-reply Dude@SomeMUD text="\n\r ~R-=< ~WPlayers on YourMUD ~R>=-\n\r ~Y-=< ~Wtelnet://yourmud.domain.com:1234 ~Y>=-\n\r\n\r~B--------------------------------=< ~WPlayers ~B>=---------------------------------\n\r\n\r ~BPlayer ~z<--->~G Mortal the Toy\n\r\n\r~R-------------------------------=< ~WImmortals ~R>=--------------------------------\n\r\n\r ~YStaff ~z<--->~G You the Immortal\n\r\n\r~Y<~W2 Players~Y> ~Y<~WHomepage: http://www.yourmud.com~Y> <~W 2 Max Since Reboot~Y>\n\r~Y<~W3 logins since last reboot on Tue Feb 24, 2004 6:55:59 PM EST~Y>"
Obsolete Will most likely not get a response.
Requests the destination MUD to return its path.
*@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD ping *@SomeMUD
Obsolete Will most likely never be seen.
The reply to a ping packet. The path should be the route the ping packet traveled to the destination.
path=<string> The route of the original ping packet.
*@SomeMUD 123467890 SomeMUD!Hub1 ping-reply *@SomeMUD path=YourMUD!Hub1
Sends a request to the network for the location of the specified player.
level=<int> The permission level of the person making the request.
You@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD whois dude@* level=5
The reply to a whois packet. The MUD is responsible for building and formatting the text sent back to the requesting player, and can use the permission level sent in the original whois packet to filter or block the response.
text=<string> The whois text.
*@SomeMUD 1234567890 SomeMUD!Hub1 whois-reply You@YourMUD text="~RIMC Locate: ~YDude@SomeMUD: ~cOnline.\n\r"
Sends out a beep packet to the Player@MUD. The client receiving this should then send a bell-character to the target player to 'beep' them.
You@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD beep dude@somemud
Sends a request to the specified MUD or * to list all the users listening to the specified channel.
level=<int> Sender's permission level.
channel=<string> The server:chan name of the channel.
lname=<string> The localname of the channel.
You@YourMUD 1234567890 YourMUD ice-chan-who somemud level=5 channel=Hub1:ichat lname=ichat
This is the reply packet for an ice-chan-who. The MUD is responsible for creating and formatting the list sent back in the 'list' field. The permission level sent in the original ice-chan-who packet can be used to filter or block the response.
channel=<string> The server:chan of the requested channel.
list=<string> The formatted list of local listeners for that MUD.
*@SomeMUD 1234567890 SomeMUD!Hub1 ice-chan-whoreply You@YourMUD channel=Hub1:ichat list="The following people are listening to ichat on SomeMUD:\n\r\n\rDude\n\r"
This packet queries the server the mud is connected to to find out when a specified user was last seen by the network on a public channel.
username=<string> The user, user@mud, or "all" being queried. Responses to this packet will be sent by the server in the form of a series of tells.
Example: User@MUD 1234567890 MUD imc-laston SERVER username=somenamehere
This packet alerts the network when a server or MUD has disconnected. The server hosting the server or MUD is responsible for sending this packet out across the network. Clients need only process the packet to remove the disconnected MUD from their MUD list (or mark it as Disconnected).
host=<string> The MUD or server that has disconnected from the network.
(Older clients)
versionid=<string> This was the IMC2 version tag of the server sending the close-notify, but it is no longer sent nor was it needed.
*@Hub2 1234567890 Hub2!Hub1 close-notify *@* host=DisconnMUD
Sent by servers only
This is a server-only packet that's sent to the other servers, telling them to delete the remote information of a specific MUD. This is required in order to log the specific MUD into another server. The system is designed to prevent the hijacking of a MUD's name and data.
mudname=<string> The MUD that is to have it's data removed from the remote info tables of the other servers.
If a MUD sends this packet out, the server should drop it without further processing. This packet should only ever be sent by servers. If a MUD receives this packet, it should be ignored.
ICE@Hub1 1234567890 Hub1 reminfo-destroy *@$ mudname=GonerMUD
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|Title: The Pearson graduate: Heading out into the corporate world with a corporate education
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|Source: Texas Observer, Sep-11, 103 :14 ,pg 22-26-
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|Source: Texas Monthly, Aug-11, 39 :8 ,pg 116-123+-
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A 73-year-old suspected of a 1970 Milwaukee murder has been ordered to stand trial to determine whether he's sexually violent.
Robert Hill recently finished serving a 10-year sentence for allegedly sexually assaulting four children under the age of 10 between 1995 and 2002.
But police say Hill confessed to the murder of 9-year-old Donna Willing in February 1970 but later recanted. They say he knew details that hadn't been released.
Biological evidence was destroyed or lost in the 1990s that could help convict Hill, so prosecutors are trying to use the state's sex offender law to keep him in custody. A judge determined Monday there's enough evidence to move to trial. Prosecutors will have to prove he's a sexually violent person.
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Had it not been for a good run of form during the second half of last season, it's likely Sam Allardyce would have been moved on from his post as West Ham manager. But for now, the club have (perhaps reluctantly) stuck by the manager but made clear their desire for something a little more interesting in the way of attacking football.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The 2010 Penn State men's cross country team will open its 2010 campaign this Friday at the Dolan Duals at Lock Haven, led by juniors Vince McNally (Paoli, Pa.) and Kyle Dawson (Coatesville, Pa.), who both boast outstanding credentials nationally and within the Big Ten Conference. The Nittany Lions return a considerable amount of experience, as eight of nine members of the 2009 Big Ten squad return to the 2010 line up. Penn State will also enjoy the benefit of the home course advantage this season, hosting a pair of home competitions, as well as the 2010 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships, where the bids to the NCAA Championships will be determined.
McNally made his second-straight appearance at the NCAA Cross Country Championships last fall, following an 11th-place and All-Big Ten Second Team effort at the Big Ten Championships. Dawson - a team captain - enjoyed a sensational freshman campaign in 2008, earning Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors, and running as top finisher on the Nittany Lions' 23rd-place squad at the 2008 NCAA Championships. The Nittany Lions will also welcome back standouts Chris Cipro (Harmony, Pa.) - a junior and 2010 team captain - as well as sophomore Danny Pawola (Naperville, Ill.), and senior Samuel Borchers (Yellow Springs, Ohio). All three athletes posted promising cross country seasons in 2009, with Pawola and Cipro clocking impressive 5,000-meter performances on the track, while Borchers was an NCAA First Round qualifier in the 1500-meters. New to the Nittany Lion roster in 2010 is Pa. 3200-meter State Champion Matt Fischer (Kennett Square, Pa.), who was also a top 25 finisher at the PIAA Cross Country Championships as a prep.
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It's not a netbook and it doesn't have GPS, but the Netbook Navigator Nav9 Slate PC doesn't care about those kinds of things. When LAPTOP reviewed this Windows 7 slate back in 2010, we noted its painfully resistive touch screen, short battery life, heavy weight and mindblowingly high $974 price. With that kind of performance you'll be navigating over to a competing poduct.
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This list seems to be compiled from a random collection of gadgets. How can you fault the Galaxy Tab 2 for using the number "2" and then also fault Apple for *not* using a number for the 3rd gen iPad? Likewise, your rationale that people would have confused HP's TouchPad with a PC peripheral is laughable. The flat, touch-sensitive surface on your laptop is generically referred to as a "trackpad" not a "touchpad" so I doubt anyone would have been put off.
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It's been almost two full days since we were told D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty had delivered his revised budget proposal to the D.C. Council, but we finally have the thing itself to look over. You can download the PDF here (fair warning, it's 48 pages), or you can scroll through the document below.
We're just starting to look through it, so feel free to add your initial impressions in the comments. Anything surprising jump out at you?
Mayor-elect Vincent Gray has set a public hearing on the budget for Nov. 30. The city must close an estimated $188 million gap within a matter of weeks.
UPDATE 6:22 p.m.: OK, I've had a chance to flip through Fenty's budget proposal by now -- you can follow some of my Tweets highlighting certain proposed cuts, including:
- The virtual elimination of the Healthy School Act programs, to the tune of about $5 million.
- A freeze on pay increases for firefighters and emergency medical technicians, saving $657,000.
- A call for a $4.64 million cut from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
- A $450,000 reduction in the amount of grants for artists from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
- The Office of the State Superintendent of Education would lose $168,000 by ending scholarships for valedictorians.
- Saving $65,000 by cutting late-night weekend hours on the Woodley Park-McPherson Sq. Circulator line.
- Trimming $300,000 from pedestrian and bicycle safety improvement plans.
- Trimming $1.1 from the Neighborhood Investment Fund grant pool.
- Eliminating 125 vacant or redundant positions citywide.
There's many more, obviously, adding up to $138 million in suggested spending cuts. But I'm not sure it's worth worrying over the details just yet, because the reality is that this Council, still led by Mayor-elect/Council Chair Vincent Gray, is probably just going to start from scratch. Why would they care what Fenty thinks? The answer is, they don't. Fenty isn't going to be around to see these cuts implemented, and Gray is going to have his own ideas of how to get this done. So we'll just have to wait and see how the Council responds.


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We've already discussed that Betty White isn't the only woman over 60 on TV. But she's certainly the patron saint of older female television stars. Though White's long been a household name — her incredible career dates back to some of the first TV broadcasts ever, in the '40s — something special happened a few years back. In her late '80s, she suddenly became a hot commodity. The surge in her popularity was the result of a confluence of events: a scene-stealing role in the 2009 Sandra Bullock movie The Proposal and a funny Snickers commercial appearance that ran during the 2011 Super Bowl inspired a Facebook campaign to get her to host Saturday Night Live. Then she did, in the midst of launching a new show she happened to be in, TV Land's Hot in Cleveland. Suddenly major magazines were doing profiles, and talk shows were vying to book her. People suddenly remembered: They loved Betty White.
There are, of course, loads of good reasons for us to universally adore White. If you see her interviewed, it's clear she's 100-percent kind and generous, and people who really know her back this up. (One of my former colleagues at Entertainment Weekly once ended a phone interview with her by saying, "I love you." He was a little embarrassed once he hung up that such a genuine expression of emotion had popped out of his mouth unbidden, but such is the effect of Ms. White.) She also happens to be crazy talented, with some of the best comic timing in the business. Watch her first appearance on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. to see a sitcom performance nothing short of transcendent. Her wit remains quick now at age 91. Longevity, talent, and a good heart make her a wonderful role model.
But we seem to have only one slot in television for a woman this age to be this popular. What does White represent for us that, perhaps, others don't? She's sweet, which gives her a gentle grandmother vibe—albeit the coolest grandma around. Most of her jokes now depend on poking fun at the idea of her own sexuality, which is fun, but also non-threatening. (We get bawdy humor without truly contemplating older women's sexuality.) And she's still busy, with-it, able-bodied, and funny, which helps bolster our misguided belief that immortality just may be possible—perhaps our biggest obsession as a society. She's ever more appealing in a nation that finds its life expectancy stretching longer, but many of its elderly minds dwindling inside still-functional bodies.
None of this is to say, of course, that she doesn't deserve every bit of the attention. It's simply to wonder: Do any other retirement-age actresses have a chance at such success without White's magic formula?
A hopeful sign came in the form of another Super Bowl commercial, this one a Taco Bell ad from this year featuring a group of unknown older folks breaking out of the nursing home to party down late at night. Viewers loved it, and it somehow managed to show the seniors having a grand old time dancing, making out, and getting tattoos (before hitting up a Taco Bell, of course) without (at least in my opinion) making fun of the seniors themselves.
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