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After 5 years or whatever of iOS device, why do people continue to speculate that there will be a "less expensive" version of a new device, even though this has never happened? If you want a cheaper iPad, you get the last generation. If you want a chapter iPhone, you get the last generation. What point would there be in Apple suddenly changing this business model?
Take that with a 7, 8, 9.7, and 12 inch grain of salt.
Apple rumored to be working on both A5X and A6 chipsets for next generation devices
iMore heard Apple was going quad-core with a full on, next generation A6-powered iPad 3, so did Bloomberg, but The Verge heard dual core and strings have been found identifying a less ambitious A5X chipset instead. Which one is it? Both? Neither? Mark Gurman from 9to5Mac thinks it's almost certainly both.
Going by this naming scheme, the next major iOS device processor revamp (A6, not A5X) would be called the S5L8950X. Now, we have discovered evidence that Apple is working on that specific chip. Deep in the iOS 5.1 betas (as shown below) sits references to two next-generation iOS device chips: the previously discussed S5L8945X and this brand-new S5L8950X. While nobody has found this 50X (A6) chip in the code until now, we can report that both next-generation processors entered the iOS code simultaneously. This would seem to indicate that Apple has been working on two next-generation chips.
Why there are two new chipsets in the works is anyone's guess. Mark thinks Apple A6 may be bound for the iPad 3, while the Apple A5X goes to the less demanding Apple TV 3. The less powerful chip could also go to an updated, but still lower priced iPad 2, or something we haven't even seen yet, like the long-rumored Apple iTV television.
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After 5 years or whatever of iOS device, why do people continue to speculate that there will be a "less expensive" version of a new device, even though this has never happened? If you want a cheaper iPad, you get the last generation. If you want a chapter iPhone, you get the last generation. What point would there be in Apple suddenly changing this business model?
Because the life is choice buuuuuuuuahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahahaaa
It's happened every year for the last few years.
Apple kept the iPhone 3G on the market after the iPhone 4 came out, at a reduced price. They've kept the iPhone 3GS on the market for 2 extra generations, at increasingly reduced prices. They've kept the iPhone 4 on the market after the iPhone 4S came out, at a reduced price.
They've done similar with the iPod touch one in a while as well.
So... it would be exactly Apple's current business model, wouldn't it?
Exactly, they kept previous versions on the market. They didn't release an iPhone 3GSX when the iPhone 4 came out as a "slightly upgraded but less expensive" option. If you don't want to pay for the newest model, you get the previous one.
That's okay, though... it makes for better "news" to talk about a 7-inch iPad or an iPad 2S with a faster processor but no retina display that will be released to compete more directly with the Fire.
Just like the iPhone 3 and 3s, as well as the iPhone 4 and 4s, there will most likely be an iPad upgrade to the iPad 2 with a name like iPad2s.... Which is just an updated iPad 2. Unless Apple places an A6 chip in the next iPad, it will be nothing more than an upgraded iPad 2.
I believe that given Apple's track record, the next iPad will just be an upgrade of the iPad 2 with no major redesign so a chip like the A5x would be appropriate. The "x" for extra or extreme will be required for the new display, but little else.
This sounds right to me. We're already hitting the limits of the original iPad's hardware as newer apps are released. Adobe Photoshop Touch is just the latest example. A quad core iPad leaps ahead of all other iOS devices dramatically in processing power. As much as I'd love for my next iPad to have a quad core chip, it would accelerate the development of apps that are incompatible with older iPhones and iPads. These portable devices really don't need that much power. But a MacBook Air would.
Here is just a thought..... The tegra 3 quad core chips don't support lte yet, so is it possible that the a6 quad core doesn't support lte yet either? Using that theory, the a6 chip could be for wifi and non lte iPads/ iPhones while the a5x could be for the lte chipset . That trade off could also possible help balance battery life. Hey till the official announcement it's all speculation anyway
Maybe a summer release iPod Touch with the A5X? IPhone has the spotlight in fall now, and the Touch didn't get a hardware bump last year, so a summer announcement of new Touches would give Apple that summer hardware event each year back, between the two huge bookends in the spring and fall. I could also see it used in the "single purpose" Apple TV 3, and that device saved for such a summer event as well, as it would get lost at a new iPad or IPhone announcement.


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Cornell University, 2000.
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2004.
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Cornell University, 2000.
Oxford University Visiting Student, 2003.
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Selected PublicationsWirrell E, Joshi C, Shellhaas R, Keator C, Kumar S, Mitchell W, and the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium: How Should Children With West Syndrome Be Efficiently and Accurately Investigated? Results from the National Infantile Spasms Consortium. Epilepsia 2015.
Shaun A. Hussain, Grace Kwong, John J. Millichap, John R. Mytinger, Nicole Ryan, Joyce H Matsumoto, Joyce Y. WU, Jason T. Lerner, Raman Sankar: Hypsarrhythmia assessment exhibits poor interrater reliability: A threat to clinical trial validity. Epilepsia 56(1): 77-81, 2015.
Ethan M. Goldberg, M.D., Ph.D.,*‡ Maarten Titulaer, M.D., Ph.D.,‡§ Peter M. De Blank, M.D., M.S.C.E.,|| Angela Sievert, M.D.,† and Nicole Ryan, M.D.,*‡: Anti-NMDA receptor mediated encephalitis in infants and toddlers: case report and review of the literature. Pediatric Neurology 50(2): 181-4, 2014.
Co editors: Daniel Licht, MD and Nicole Ryan, MD: Curbside Pediatrics: Pediatric Neurology. Curbside Pediatrics 2013, in press.
Titulaer MJ, McCracken L, Gabilondo I, Armangué T, Glaser C, Iizuka T, Honig LS, Benseler SM, Kawachi I, Martinez-Hernandez E, Aguilar E, Gresa-Arribas N, Ryan-Florance N, Torrents A, Saiz A, Rosenfeld MR, Balice-Gordon R, Graus F, Dalmau J.: "Treatment and prognostic factors for long-term outcomes in patients with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: an observational cohort study" Lancet Neurology Feb 2013.
Ryan N, Licht D, Abend N: Concussion. The Five Minute Pediatric Consult 6th Edition 2012.
Nicole Ryan, MD: "Epilepsy" Netter's Pediatrics. Todd Florin, MD; Stephen Ludwig, MD (eds.). 2011.
Florance-Ryan N, Dalmau J. : Update on anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis in children and adolescents. Current Opinion Pediatrics 22(6): 739-44, Dec 2010.
Sébire Guillaume: In search of lost time from "Demonic Possession" to anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis. Annals of neurology 67(1): 141-2; author reply 142-3, Jan 2010.
Florance Nicole R, Davis Rebecca L, Lam Christopher, Szperka Christina, Zhou Lei, Ahmad Saba, Campen Cynthia J, Moss Heather, Peter Nadja, Gleichman Amy J, Glaser Carol A, Lynch David R, Rosenfeld Myrna R, Dalmau Josep: Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis in children and adolescents. Annals of neurology 66(1): 11-8, Jul 2009.
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Westcountry gundog trainer Nigel Partiss has received an award from the Queen after qualifying four dogs to compete among the nation's best in the Kennel Club's British Cocker Spaniel Championships.
Nigel, from Somerset-based "Tip Top Dogs", achieved the royal seal of approval at the event, held at the Queen's Norfolk home, Sandringham.
For most people qualifying one dog would be a major achievement. Securing places for four dogs in the final is, Nigel believes "beyond anyone's dreams". He had the most dogs in the competition.
Following a successful season competing up and down the UK in field trials, Nigel, from Ilminster, qualified Midge, Jack, Swift and Toffee for the final of the competition which took place at Sandringham Palace last week.
Almost ten inches of snow made conditions very difficult for the dogs, and many others in the competition were knocked out without finishing. All four of Nigel's dogs finished and were selected to win Diplomas of Merit by the Kennel Club Judges.
Serial Championship and Field Trial winner Midge has achieved a place in the final of the British Championship consecutively for the last five years, and this year was awarded the sought after Sandringham Game Keeper's Trophy for Best Dog in the Tournament.
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'Real Housewives of D.C.' Canceled After One Season
Rumors have been swirling for weeks that the series was in jeopardy, and now the Washington Post reports that Bravo officially pulled the plug on the 'The Real Housewives of D.C.' Thursday.
According to the Post, the production company behind the series contacted the cast to let them know Washington's contribution to Bravo's reality TV franchise would not be picked up for a second season.
The cancellation makes 'D.C.' the first 'Housewives' series not to receive a second season. Andy Cohen, Bravo's executive vice president of original programming and development, said, "We had an amazing season and we told stories that were unique to any other in the franchise. I wish all our DC Wives the best and hope to work with them again in another capacity."
So, can we expect to see any of the 'D.C.' housewives in their own spin-off show à la 'New York's Bethenny Frankel? Cohen didn't elaborate, but confirmed that British 'Housewife' Cat Ommanney has already booked her next gig on Bravo, taking part in -- what else? -- Royal Wedding coverage. "Cat is booked on our April 28th 'Watch What Happens Live' Royal Wedding Spectacular," he said.
Does this spell the beginning of the end of 'The Real Housewives'? Bravo's money-spinner launched in 2006 with 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' and parlayed its heady high-drama mix of Botox, boobs, blonds and bitchiness into a franchise with versions in New York City, New Jersey, Atlanta, Beverly Hills, D.C. and Miami.
Cohen has already confirmed that Miami is the last stop on the 'Housewives' train. It has not yet been picked up for a second season, but the 'O.C.' mothership has just kicked off its sixth season and 'Beverly Hills' was recently renewed. So the end's not in sight just yet.
'The Real Housewives of D.C.' launched to respectable ratings but never caught fire like its stablemates. One of the problems was that for viewers used to the hot tub-loving, wig-wearing drama queens and table-flippers of the other versions, the 'D.C.' housewives were simply a bit bland.
Cohen admitted the comparative demureness of the 'D.C.' show back in October when he told 'The Washington Post' that "It's less noisy. ... It's serious, it's politics. ... The level of discourse on this show is different. For people who expect to see table flipping or wig pulling, that was never going to happen on this show."
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- Friday 08 AprilBy kittykat
good! hope bethennys next! bring back jeff lewis - just sayin'!
- Friday 08 AprilBy MonteeHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I agree D.C. Housewives and Miami are the worst! Simply Boring!@
- Friday 08 AprilBy Karen
Good! I watched the first episode of DC, but once the racial issue was brought up by the black women I said ENOUGH of THAT! The Brit woman made the fatal mistake of expressing a criticism of Obama for not responding to her wedding invitation - she married his photographer, and Tyra Banks..OMG! That suddenly meant she was a racist! As far as Miami...really, I just cannot find anything interesting about them, so have not watched.
- Friday 08 AprilBy Georgette
DC's was doomed with the Salahis, and NY's will never be the same without Betheny. Granted NJ's is fascinating for its Italian American flavor but OC's not so much, it has lost its luster with some of the latest obnoxious additions. But "The Miami Housewives", I couldn't get enough of this show. This first season was "pure entertainment" and a joy to watch and feel the heat of the tropics and the diversity and contrast between the women. We could't believe it was cut short due to a scheduling conflict but it will get picked up for a second and third season, we'll just watch and see. Can not wait!!!
- Friday 08 AprilBy Rainie
It wasn't that they weren't glamorous enough...they simply weren't likable at all.
- Friday 08 AprilBy lindat316
Glad to hear this...The show was so damn boring...Now cancel Atlanta, Miami, and bring bethenny back to New york...Just not the same without her...Then all will be well
- Friday 08 AprilBy lily53196
Glad to hear Housewives of DC got the boot but why haven't those obnoxious women of Atlanta been canned, too? They are horrid, and considering many of them are educated I find it disgusting to hear them lapse into slang. Despite their elegant homes, designer clothes and fancy cars they are crude and ignorant. And exactly how many of those women made it own their own achievments vs. the success and/or alimony from their ex-husbands? Phonies! They are the worst! I stopped watching after the first season.
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- Friday 08 AprilBy bounce59
The Lord is Good.
- Saturday 09 April
sorry the orange county was and is the best, although I miss some of the originals. And also Love Andy Cohen.
- Friday 08 AprilBy soulcage1954
THANK GOODNESS!!!! Now get rid of the rest of those nasty, "housewives". The American public has been fed enough insipid drivel from these self-absorbed, melodramatic, empty boxes.
- Friday 08 AprilBy liz
I kicked Miami, Atlanta and DC to the curb after one shot...who could be interested in these people. I don't really like any of the NY gals but I watch...who knows why. I liked Bethany...period.
- Friday 08 April
I hope they cancel Miami too. I can't understand a word they say.
- Friday 08 AprilBy Bub
Each one of these shows is more vapid than the next. I am amazed that women with money cannot find anything productive to do with their lives, or even to enjoy it. All they do is create drama with eachother because their souls are so empty.
- Friday 08 AprilBy catzs
They ALL need to go....all these shows are nothing but CRAP!
- Friday 08 AprilBy Rosi
the best news all day, now STOP the fricken Miami show as well and NJ. Miami, the Pippen biatch thinks she's skank # uno she spends Pippens money on her bro's car? what a biatch... Scotty you need a new wife the one you got is worthless. Anyway happy DC is OVER and DONE with...what a farce that was!!! Maybe Andy will get the hang of things still??? Now he needs to fire that fricken crazy Kelly from NY is she for real and why do they let her on? She's the reason many will stop watching, as well as Jill and that flusy Morgan biatch!!!!! Wake up ANdy we're not stupid!!!
- Friday 08 AprilBy David
YAY!! Now if we could just get rid of the dozen other Housewives of wherever shows things will start looking up.
- Sunday 10 April
I watch OC, NYC and Beverly Hills...I can't even stand the others. This may be me being naive, but what if there were a few episodes where the women were nice to each other and not lying, nasty b****es? I have 5 good girlfriends and we aren't evil to one another. Heck, I am even a teacher, so I work with about 60% women and we are never that horrible to one another...I guess you have to be a B to be on TV, no one want to see anyone nice. I honestly watch it to see the clothes and their homes and the places they go. I love all things NYC. I am enjoying Bethany's show. It is based on good things rather than bad. Don't cut that one BRAVO!
- Saturday 09 AprilBy Linda
I don't know why they are called housewives. Some of them aren't even wives. I never really see them do any real parenting. All they seem to do is fight and scream at each other. I watched out of curiousity but end up feeling disgusted and disheartened. I think they all should go.
- Sunday 10 AprilBy Shana
I found it difficult to get into the D.C. Housewives, but I definitely gave them a chance. I agree with the closing statements to the article. The D.C. women just weren't like those in other seasons. Something was missing. Sure, they had their cat fights, but they were not nearly as entertaining as the O.C. or New York women. In a time when politics seem so depressing, I go to Bravo for light-hearted entertainment. Not to watch a bunch of women bicker about whose husband has more power in D.C. or about political agendas. It just got old.
I do not think that the fate of the D.C. women will be the same as other seasons. I think that the original housewives, the O.C. women, have a strong, loyal following, and even as they add in a new members here and there, they remain as those quirky women that always keep viewers guessing.
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AFTON — An increase in pedestrian traffic along Old Highway 34 on their way to Afton Lake has forced the Afton City Council and Union County Board of Supervisors to consider lowering the speed limit.
"We are hoping to have the ordinance drawn up to look at next city council meeting so we can have the speed limit lowered by June or early July," said Afton Police Chief John Coulter.
Coulter said the increase in pedestrian traffic is mostly 11- to 15-year-olds walking or riding their bikes to Afton Lake to use the playground equipment or go fishing.
Afton City Council is considering lowering the speed limit on West Jefferson Street to the city corporate line from 45 mph to 35 mph.
The council asked that supervisors decrease the speed from the city corporate line to the east side of the Afton Lake dam from 45 mph to 35 mph. They also suggested lowering the speed along the dam to Calvary Road from 55 mph to 45 mph.
"I drive that road a lot and even I have noticed the increase in traffic since work has been done on that little fishing jetty and the playground equipment," said Union County Board of Supervisor Chairman Dennis Brown. "It seems like a good idea to me."
Union County Engineer Steve Akes said pedestrian traffic is one of the major reasons for reducing the speed limit on a road.
Afton City Council does not meet again until May 13, but wanted to make the supervisors aware of the discussion so if Afton decides to lower the speed limit, the county can make a decision during the same time frame.
"We are pretty much on board with it unless something comes up during the city of Afton's research or Steve Akes' research that would suggest against change the speed limit," Brown said. "We are going to let Afton act first."


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First, both Matt Yglesias and Ta-Nehisi Coates have pointed out the central absurdity of McWhorter's piece, a hypothetical about a hypothetical following from a hypothetical. McWhorter's piece is also, of course, deeply insulting and condescending to Coates, treating him as a somehow "unascended" black man because he is unwilling, as McWhorter is, to declare racism an effectively powerless and dying phenomenon.
Here's the reality: there is a powerful financial and professional incentive for any black pundit to declare that racism is at an end. Why? Because the media loves that sort of thing, and conservatives love that sort of thing. The notion that somehow John McWhorter is a prophet capable of telling all black people that they need not worry about racism any more-- and, more importantly, capable of telling white people that they shouldn't worry at all about racism any more-- is predicated on the idea that any black man has a special ability to expound on racism. That's not true, and I think it's particularly undercut in this context, because while McWhorter is saying that race is no longer a limiting factor for him, he is relying on the privileged place his race gives him in speaking about race. He denies the power of race to oppress but relies on its power to amplify his argument.
This is why he has to disparage Coates, who I think it's clear from this piece he has some discomfort with. Coates has the same racial relevance added to his message. So McWhorter has to denounce him, and he does so by reducing Coates to a kind of caricature. Coates's refusal to declare racism some sad but irrelevant vestige of the past is a professional threat to John McWhorter. That's not dispositive on its own, but I think it is certainly at play here.
Let me be absolutely clear. Racism remains a powerful and pernicious force in American society. I encounter it all the time, and I don't live in the deep South or Appalachia but in New England. And there are very, very many principled people who are not racists who are deeply, deeply invested in the idea that racism is over, because they are made uncomfortable by our dialogue about race. That is understandable. But understanding the reason for this discomfort, and wanting to end this discomfort, doesn't mean that we should pretend that racism is a less entrenched phenomenon than it is. (Personally, I think that the greatest problem with our racial dialogue is it's tendency to exclude when it should include. My feelings on this issue should be predicated on the knowledge that while I think that we should be more comfortable talking about racism, at the same time we should make accusations of racism much less damning and damaging to those thus accused. If you'd like to read my thoughts on a more effective racial dialogue, click here.)
Too many principled white people, I believe, are committed to the notion that racism is a thing of the past because they are uncomfortable and fearful of our racial dialogue as it currently exists. Like I said, I want to reform that dialogue so people don't feel this way anymore, and I do have sympathy for those feelings. But I'm also disturbed by what I see is a growing exasperation with any discussions of racism at all. People-- liberals as much as conservatives, actually-- get as angry about the insistence that racism continues to be a major force in our society as they get about any other issue. Blogging that you believe that racism is alive and well in America is a recipe for angry recriminations in comments. Again, this isn't a product of racist people but of decent people who have been rendered so uncomfortable by our useless racial dialogue that they yearn to be told that race is over.
That is why there will always be pundits like John McWhorter. McWhorter's career is enhanced by the fact that he is performing the service of exculpating white guilt about racism. Now, whether anyone should feel personal guilt about the existence of racism is a separate question; my personal answer is no. But they fact is that McWhorter's opinion on the prevalence and power of racism is at least slightly suspect because of his professional interest in denying that is so. And if you don't mind my saying-- I actually think that it can be harder for black pundits to have a workable understanding of the state of racial animus in this country, for two reasons. First, no one wants to be rendered a stereotype, and the notion of the black man constantly railing against perceived slights is a particularly limiting and ugly straightjacket. Secondly, I think that because racism has been driven underground, I think black pundits are actually less likely to understand that there is hidden racism around them. People who are comfortable expressing racially insensitive opinions around others of their race may be much less likely to do so around black people.
So that's how I feel. I do think that John McWhorter is being unnecessarily hard on Ta-Nehisi Coates, and I likewise think that he has a vest interest in racism denial. My previous post contains no particular statements that I disagree with strongly, but it was unacceptably personal and unbearably self-righteous. (I'm still working on it.) It's for that reason that I've redacted that post, but in the interest of clarity and openness I'm posting the entire thing below. It's not up to my standards of fairness, friendliness, or courtesy, and for that I apologize to all of you and to John McWhorter.
He is now a senator. He is confronted one fine day on the steps of Capitol Hill by one of his old grass-roots buddies. He is called a "sell out." He is outraged....Either version of himself represents a choice of himself that he is to make; but either version doesn't necessarily support his claim to good faith, although both may support his claim to sincerity, for he could be interpreted as a sell-out who is trying not to look like a sell-out, a sell-out who has decided to make a change to appear, to his community and perhaps to himself, like Kierkegaard's opinionated man, as sincere....[H]is immediate claim to sincerity is rotten at its core, for he treats his choice as having already been made in order to evade it. He is in bad faith.
--Lewis Gordon
Let's not mince words, shall we?
John McWhorter, here is the laurel the conservative media has awarded you: you are now one of the go-to "black men who deny racism". It's quite a feather in your cap! There's a lot of competition, for your role. People scratch and claw to be the voice of black racism-denial. They want that comfortable seat on CNN. They want the accolades that are reserved for anyone who assuages white guilt in the face of race, in the face of blackness. All you have to do, really, is to tell them the same old song: nothing is ever racism. They need feel no guilt. The whole white world can rest easy, assured that there is no such thing as white anti-black animus....
Oh, to be the Good Black Man, as Whorter has achieved! A lifetime of paychecks, and only for the price of being typecast. And what did Peter Falk say about the burden of playing Columbo, of being typecast? "I worked for life"? Small price to pay. Small price to pay.
Of course, McWhorter retains his "authentic blackness" for one thing: to leverage himself against white critics like myself. I am, after all, entirely white, and thus entirely incapable of rendering judgment on a black man in issues of race, or so our culture would have it. This is the glee of the white anti-black racist who finds a black man willing to absolve him of any accusation of racism. This is the black man who the College Republicans are a little too overjoyed to find in their ranks, the man who receives one too many hearty slaps on the back, whose transition into the body is just a little too smooth, a little too ordained. It's the habit of the person who considers themselves de-racialized to use his race to leverage opinions palatable to white people. McWhorter trades on the authenticity that is derived from his blackness while he simultaneously denies that he is the victim of any difference due to his blackness. One side of his mouth assures you that you should feel no guilt, that he is an ascended, raceless being, while the other side tells me that he will brook no criticism on issues of race from a white man. His white critics are irrelevant, his black critics, unascended, and he is free to render the judgment that pleases the white men who cut his checks, as long as he hops back and forth from one foot to another, raceless and racialized as necessity and his career require....


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One week after a judge blocked New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's supersize soda ban, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill Monday that prevents municipalities from governing what or how much people can eat and drink.
In a state where one in three adults is obese, the so-called "anti-Bloomberg bill" received bipartisan support.
"It is simply not the role of government to micro-regulate citizens' dietary decisions," Bryant said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. "The responsibility for one's personal health depends on individual choices about a proper diet and appropriate exercise."
Mississippi consistently posts some of the lowest life expectancy rates in the nation. With an average life span of 74.8 years, a study by the American Human Development Project ranks the state last for life expectancy. The average life expectancy in the United States is about 78 years.
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"Our Board of Health has always been a pioneer, and we're very proud of it," Bloomberg said in a statement. "It has always been ahead of the curve, and you would expect nothing less from this city."
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"I honestly did believe this shelf gig was going to be great. 'Get out and see the world,' they said. 'Experience the joy of wide-eyed kids, holiday cheer, and the Christmas spirit,' they promised. 'Finally leave your parents' basement for once in two hundred and sixty-seven years,' they told me. I was sold. "And off I went. As a member of Santa's spy squad, I headed down south for the holidays to help the big guy decide who's naughty and who's nice. It was going to be a wonderful change of pace from the screwing, hammering, sanding, painting, and wrapping happening in Ol' St. Nick's workshop. "Or so I thought ...--Horace the Elf In this for-parent's-eyes-only parody of the popular holiday title, The Elf on the Shelf, readers laugh along with Horace as he goes AWOL from his Christmas duties. This photo-story set to verse is the unauthorized (and hilarious) tale of one disgruntled little helper with a gift for making mischief.
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Horace the Elf (North Pole) has been a professional elf for many years; his main duties have included suspicions and judgmental tendencies toward children around the world. Now, he's looking out for number one, which doesn't involve the shelf life.
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By Megan Matthews 11 Dec 2012
This Bad Elf book reflects its title. It is terribly written, terribly structured both in rhythm, text and story content. It is neither rhyming poetry, nor is it free verse. The story drags at places and then skips logical sequencing. It reads independently of its illustrations, then the text requires the reader to cue from the illustrations. I am extremely disapointed that I ordered this piece of trash to travel half way across the world when it shouldnt have gone past the editors rubbish bin. I wouldnt bother wasting your money, buy something else. The original Elf on the Shelf however is fantastic if you have little kiddies.
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The Cycladic Goddess
The Cycladic Goddess is perfect for this time of year: she represents self-reflection, inwardness, and trance. Her presence is strong as the snow swirls around outside and we cozy up inside. See my previous entry about taking this season to for ourselves.
The Cycladic Goddess
Cycladic Islands, ca 2500 BC
The Bronze Age Cycladic Islands in the Aegean Sea had a flourishing pre-Greek stone-cutting culture from 3200—2300 BC that produced many female marble sculptures, including this Goddess figurine.
The figurines are all naked, with their arms folded over their stomachs and feet sloping downwards, and were originally brightly painted.
Her lack of facial features represents her connection as a Goddess to all women; past, present, and future, and implies a higher state of consciousness. She is the crone, and her stiffness represents meditation, trance-like states, and death.
Her figurines were exported as far as Turkey and Egypt, and have been found in grave sites throughout the Mediterranean.
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For Gene Jones, an angler from Bellevue, Iowa, it seems a long time — and a long wait — since he reeled in a 236.2-pound halibut July 25 while fishing with Capt. David Bayes of Central Charters. The wait ended at 9 p.m. Sunday, when the 27th Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby came to an end and Jones w...Wed, 09/18/2013 - 5:20pm
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The bulk of the proceeds from the 6th Annual Charles Knight Memorial KBM Invitational Golf Tournament, held for the first time at the Cookeville Country Club, was designated to Tennessee Tech University. TTU, the alma mater of Portland, Tenn., natives Knight and his two brothers, Jim and Danny, received more than $18,000.
"My sister-in-law summed it up the best when she said the quality of golfers in this event would have made my brother proud," said Jim Knight. "We had several golfers shoot in the 50s, and even the team of three TTU students who had never played golf before shot in the 70s."
Seventy golfers, who played and enjoyed lunch courtesy of KBM, vied for prize money in different competitions. KBM, a government contractor and manufacturer founded by Charles, Jim, and his wife, Sherry, contributed all prize money to the charity of choice for each golfer in the name of each of those golfers. Players were recruited by Frank Harrell, TTU associate athletic director, and by TTU's College of Engineering, where each of the three brothers earned a degree.
Charles, an international expert in finite analysis and published author, was an avid and talented golfer. Jim, who remembers saving Top Value stamps and trading them in for a club in his college days, said the family's focus on golf came through Charles' involvement after he began teaching at Virginia Tech.
Several players with TTU connections made the event extra special, said Knight. Former University of Kentucky standout and current TTU assistant basketball coach Saul Smith signed autographs. Julio Freire, assistant athletic director for development, lead the rookie student team. College of Engineering Dean Emeritus James Seay Brown also came to honor his former student. TTU President Bob Bell "threw out" the first tee to begin play.
"The support from TTU was even better than expected, and the Cookeville Country Club treated us really well and helped us donate even more money to our charities," said Danny Knight, KBM vice president and tournament organizer.


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In Illustrator CS5 Web and Interactive Design, Mordy Golding shows how to create pixel-perfect graphics for use in web sites, video compositions, and mobile apps. This course covers a wide range of workflows, from creating online ad campaigns, web sites, icons, to taking art from Illustrator to Flash Professional. Sharing tips, tricks, and creative techniques along the way, Mordy provides insight and instruction for taking projects from initial concept straight through to production. Exercise files accompany the course.
Throughout this chapter, we learned a few techniques, for example, like simulating the CSS box model by creating maybe colored backgrounds behind area text objects, and also creating reflections. Now, obviously if you're going to employ these throughout many different parts of your designs, you may find it tedious to keep adding these particular settings. Well one of the nice things about working with Illustrator is this concept of something called the graphic style. In fact, a graphic style also does mimic, on some level, the concept of how you work with CSS, the ability to make a change in one place and have that change happen in many other places.
So I am going to show you how to define graphic styles, but also how to make modifications to them so you could easily make a change across entire documents. Let's see how that works. Now, on the top over here at this file called graphic_styles.ai, I have some text that has reflection applied to it, and I have an area text object that also has a separate field that's been applied to simulate the CSS box model. However, down here on the bottom, I have just regular text, and also an area text object that only has the inset applied, but it doesn't have any color in the background, which might be able to help simulate padding, for example.
So let's see how we might be able to create styles to help us easily apply this throughout our documents. The first thing I'm going to do here is open up my Graphic Styles panel. Now, Illustrator does have some default settings here, but I am going to create my own styles. The easiest way to define a style is actually to take the object itself and simply drag it right onto the Graphic Styles panel. Notice here it creates something called Graphic Style. Well, that won't do. We need to actually change it. So I'm going to change this over here to reflection. Now, this over here, maybe I'm using as a sidebar throughout my site.
So if I want to define a style for this, I'm simply going to take the object and drag it into my Graphic Styles panel, and I'll rename that something called sidebar, for example. Great! Now, I want to quickly style other pieces of art, or other objects in my documents with those particular styles. It's as easy as selecting some text here, for example, and just clicking on reflection, or clicking on this area text object, and turning it into a sidebar. Pretty simple, huh? Let's talk about the most powerful aspect though of working with graphic styles.
That's once you've applied them, you can easily make changes. For example, let's say we find out from our client that the sidebar has the wrong background color. We want it to be a different color. So let's see how we make that change. First of all, I'm going to make sure that I have nothing selected in my document. You can see there right now in my Appearance panel, it says No Selection. When nothing is selected, you can click on any graphic style, and the Appearance panel will display all the settings that are available inside of that style, or all the settings that make up that style. So if I click on reflection, for example, you can see that I have an additional fill, and that fill has a transform effect, and that fill actually has a gradient applied to it.
If I click on the sidebar graphic style, I see that's created by having a separate fill being added, and there is a convert to rectangles that is applied to that fill, but the important thing to realize here is that the Appearance panel says No Selection, but it's displaying the settings for the sidebar graphic style. So that means that Illustrator knows that I've now clicked on the sidebar style, and I'm viewing the settings for that style in the Appearance panel. Well, let's go ahead now and change the color to something else. I'm going to click on the fill color right here, change it to maybe this nice, bright green color.
Illustrator does not update or modify the style. It doesn't know that I want to do that yet, but what I can do is come over here to the flyout menu of the Appearance panel, and choose this option called Redefine Graphic Style "sidebar." You see what happened is that I clicked on the sidebar style, those settings were loaded into my Appearance panel, and then as soon as I made a change, because nothing was selected, Illustrator assumes that maybe I want that change to now help redefine the style. But it doesn't do it automatically, because it's not sure, but this setting allows me to now finalize that particular setting.
So I'm going to choose Redefine Graphic Style "sidebar," and watch what happens on the screen. When you do so, it now updates that artwork anywhere else inside of the document. So graphic styles can be extremely helpful in ensuring that your design is consistent across all the web pages in your design. And if you have all your web pages setup as artboards inside of a single Illustrator document, well you can now make a change quickly across all your pages almost the same as you can with CSS.
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Wheelersburg track holds grand re-opening
WHEELERSBURG, Ohio -- Southern Ohio Speedway has a grand re-opening Friday after not running a full season of stock car racing since 2003.
The Southern Showdown highlights Friday's schedule with the ADRA Late Model class $3,000 to win feature, the Modified $3,000 to win feature and the Bomber feature paying $400 to win.
Track gates open at 4 p.m., Friday, with hot laps beginning at 7 p.m. General admission is $15 for age 17 and older, $5 for age 13-16, $2 for age 7-12 and free for age 6 and younger. The 4/10th-mile dirt oval track has grandstand seating and areas for lawn chairs.
For more information go to www.southernohiospeedway.com.
A strong field of Late Models is anticipated, led by Rod Conley of Wheelersburg, the ADRA series point leader.
Barboursville girls win, make state final
PETERSBURG, W. Va. -- The age 9-10 Barboursville All-Stars advanced to the West Virginia State Tournament softball finals after defeating Elk District, 5-2, on Wednesday evening.
Starter Morgan Bennett struck out 12 batters and added an RBI at the plate to guide the bunch. Mikayla McIntosh and Gracie Hightower also were good for runs batted in.
Barboursville, which is now 9-0 since the start of the District 1 tournament, will take on Mountain State in the championship at 4 p.m., Thursday.


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Apple to Exploding iPhones: Screen Pressure not Battery to Blame
Apple has finished their investigation in the case of the exploding iPhones/Pods and the results are not shocking - the battery malfunction theory has been rejected. It was first rumored that defective batteries were more than likely the cause of the devices going boom but as it turns out, excess force was the reason - according to Apple.
blockquote>"The iPhones with broken glass that we have analysed to date show that in all cases the glass cracked due to an external force that was applied to the iPhone."
With 26 million iPhones and 200 million iPods sold to date, Apple claims there are zero confirmed battery overheating incidents for iPhone 3GS and the number of reports of overheating they have investigated are in the single digits.
So are you buying what Apple is selling? Could these isolated incidents actually be due to excessive force in every case or could there still be something up with those batteries? What do you think?
[Via Mac Daily News}
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Apple to Exploding iPhones: Screen Pressure not Battery to Blame
@ Joe, best post ever!
We all know that lithium batteries will explode if they get too hot.
There is a documented case of a woman who left her iPhone in the back window of her car all afternoon. When she returned to her car she found compelling evidence that the iPhone had exploded with such force that it smashed the back window.
it appeared that the force was so great that the iPhone went flying. In fact, they never found the iPhone.
ROFL! if you'll let me know which car window it's near, I'll make sure YOUR iPhone breaks that one too.
Ok... Why the heck would someone tap a
screen on this thing that hard to cause it to crack??? Sorry Apple... Try again.
Why the heck would someone tap a screen on this thing that hard to cause it to crack???
Nobody claimed it was tapped. Maybe they sat on something hard forgetting it was in their pocket, bending the phone enough to break the glass. Maybe they just dropped it.
And maybe you can have a battery short out and bulge enough to break the glass. To do so, it would have to break the main circuit board, and two sheets of thin metal (one on either side of the board).
But when you look at all the picture on the web of these exploded phones there is no evidence that the explosion happened outward. The screens are simply shattered. Some images even show corner impact patterns.
The most hyped picture is this one:
However, if you look here: http://tinyurl.com/mpe473 you will see that there is no quarter-sized circular object in the iphone at the location where it appears in the first foto.
I think most of these that I have seen are faked pictures.
Ooops, bad first link, dropped the leading h...
Some iPhone actually can fly! Seriously :-)
Lots of bad publicity for iphone. this was on all major tv channels
;• :( :/:(
So if some idiot puts their iPhone in the microwave for 5 minutes and it explodes will they blame Apple for that? There has got to be some common sense out there somewhere in the world!
tee hee hee hee hee iPhones are taking over the world! Apple #1!
Same problem with my Iphone. I have noticed several firms developing Class Action Lawsuits based on defective Iphones. Apple and Apple Stores have refused to warranty clearly defective aspects of the Iphone. Please see check my blog for how Apple is dealing with all of their defective Iphones:
Please see check my blog for how Apple is dealing with all of their defective Iphones:
Ummm.... My iphone elploded. The screen is still in tact however, it has busted apart around the left side and across the top. I have got to find an apple store to find out..."What now?"
I had an Ipod nano pop, and then emit a foot long blue flame as we were sleeping across the room from it. It was being charged at the time. I've been back and forth with apple now for the last two months now. Just wanted to let you all know, that it does happen "hopefully very rarely". Please be safe with these.
so, it's most likely that my iFail WON'T explode? cause, I don't want it to...I perferably LIKE LIVING. Apple...
My iphone 3g exploded with no external pressure. It was in a Otter cover charging in the car after having a dead battery
My iPhone 3GS exploded this weekend. Left it sitting on the coffee table Wednesday night (not plugged into anything). When I woke up it was busted apart. Screen not broken but phone is ruined. Made a Genius Bar appointment. Went to Apple Store and explained what happened. When I showed them the phone they took it from me immediatley and rushed it to the back to place it in a bio Hazard Bag. The phone is 22 months old and out of warranty. Since it is out of warranty they said the best they could do was to replace it for $150. At the same time they were warning me to make sure I clean up the area real good where it happened and not to take the phone out of the bag. They said it was dangerous. I asked them what happened to the phone. The tech said that the battery was defective and exploded. I asked if we could just replace the battery and he said that the phone could not be repaired. I really like Apple and am surprised by this response. I could understand if I had dropped the phone and broken the screen or something just stopped working on the phone and they won't cover it. But this is major!! The battery exploded!! What if I had been using it at the time or a child had been using it at the time.
My wife and i purchased iphone 3gs a little over 2 years ago. When it came time to upgrade we moved to the Sansung Galaxyso for the last 4 Months my wife Iphone has been sat in a drawer in the office. She rang me this morning to tell me the phone had cracked all along the back in a matter that looked as though something inside had exploded. The screens not cracked its just been pushed out of the frame. Can Apple please explain how this could be down to "excessive force"
Ok i have been doing some goggling for the past 30 minutes or so, I have found that there have been no iPhones exploding until november 2011. What i am finding is that the only phones exploding are the iPhone 3Gs (excluding the one out of the ordinary iPhone 4). one just exploded in the last few days ruined everything except the glass. I was going to list it on ebay this week because I have the New iPhone 4s and I finally have some free time. I know that just last week it was still functioning fine, now the screen is bruised, the logic board has issues because is is now bent the back is probably crack since I am not able to remove the incase case I have and the battery does not charge anymore.
Here is my advice take it into a store, call apple on the phone and report it. if no one reports this, apple will never know, which means no recall. If enough people report it, the apple will begin looking into this again and realize that they were wrong.
I wanted to update the few people having similar issues as me. I called apple and was immediately transferred to a Senior Advisor making it seam serious, he went through his steps and had me take it to an apple store. There they told me this was normal, and wanted to charge me $79 to replace the phone. So I took it back and called apple again, was told by the first person I talked to that it should not expand, then immediately transferred to another senior advisor. He went through a lot of steps to help me had me take pictures and send them to him, He said that was bad. He told me that it was normal for the battery to expand when it reaches the end of it's life, you will just not see any sign of it. So, he sent the pictures to the engineering department and will get back to me.
If you are going to call apple to report this with your phone, either they will try and charge you with the automated system, or when you first get apple support computer (not the iPhone support line, call 1-800-MY-APPLE), press the number 0 to each of the questions until you are transferred to a real person and tell them your iPhone battery is expanding and breaking the phone open. Thats what I did.
I will keep it updated of what happens with mine.
OK, i got a call back from apple, and the engineering department has claimed this is normal for their batteries when they have reached the end of their life. Hearing that, I opened it up to pull everything apart so it would not kill the logic board so I could at least have it repaired before it is a paperweight. When I opened it up the battery was expended as far as it could be.
Apple either needs to be like dell and have a timer to shut the battery off when it is close the the end of it's life, Or have a message that pops up every time you try to use it after a curtain number of cycles saying to replace the battery, or tell everyone upfront when buying the phone and charge no labor in install the battery, just the cost of the battery which is not $80 more like $10-$20.
I had been using an old iPhone3 to build apps. I left it charging on my desk for several days and when I lifted it up to take a picture, it just shut down. I plugged it in again and tried as soon as it started again and once more it shut down. I then noticed that the screen was lifted by ~3/4 cm. I was just about to give my teenager heck for dropping it and knocking the touchscreen loose when I saw that the screen was being forced out. It had no room for movement back to it's original location. I took it apart after reading about lithium batteries and found that the lithium battery had swollen to the point of breaking rather than the slim flat shape it originally comes in. The battery was 3 times as thick as it should have been. I have been repairing office equipment for over thirty years and have never seen a machine self destruct like that before.


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Out of Work: NASA's Use of Prison Labor Draws Mixed Reaction
CALIFORNIA — Tucked deep back in the tightly guarded machine shop of California's oldest prison, well away from the muscle flexing inmates in "the yard," a select group of convicted felons has their eyes on space. They fabricate metal housing for miniature satellites designed to explore the heavens. That's right. San Quentin inmates serving time for horrible crimes are given easy access to some of the sharpest metal humans can make.
They are, most likely, the only prisoners on Earth helping to develop products for space exploration. Ariel Wainzinger, a man with ten months left on his sentence, said: "You come to prison and you think it's gonna be all gloom and doom and you find yourself with a lot of different opportunities and you take advantage of it."
Working under the strict guidance of NASA, Ariel and a handful of other skilled inmate machinists are making something most people have never heard of: P-PODs, Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployers, essentially, aluminum boxes designed to hold tiny satellites known as CubeSats, which ride "piggyback" into space as secondary payloads. The devices are part of a new generation of low-cost, miniature launch vehicles developed for research used by more than 150 universities worldwide. (more…)


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Hey, Jimmy, I'm back from hibernation, and I have started rummaging around the blogosphere to see what has transpired.
Well, yeah. Let's just say it was a good week to take off. And right away I see that, lo! thar he blows!, Jeff Wilpon has resurfaced! He made some insincere and predictable comments about the plan to use money that has come off the books (Newsday quoted the number at $40 million) to "try to improve the team." I have to hand it to Jeff, at least he's on message. He is repeating the same bold goal that Sandy stated a few weeks back. They aren't talking about getting back to relevancy, or the playoffs, or (ha!) winning a championship. They just want to get a teensy bit better than 74 wins. Baby steps, baby steps.
If you set the bar low enough you might not trip.
Jeff stunned listeners by describing the mess at first base not as a disaster area, but as a "logjam" of viable options. A veritable "glut" of talent. Which was why, Jeff opined, the Mets did not feel a need to go after Jose Abreu. "That didn't really seem like the point of need," Wilpon said. "If he played left or right field, yeah, I think we probably would have offered the guy a contract."
He is, as always, just completely full of shit.
(Sorry to you kids reading this at home, but it's a cruel world full of ninnies and you might as well know it now.)
A rumor has surfaced that Billy Butler will be shopped by Kansas City. This is a guy I have no interest in. It's not that Butler is not a good player, he is, but he is not a major power threat. He might not hit 15 home runs playing half his games in Citi Field. He also can't run, not even a little. Most importantly, he cannot field, not even at first base. If my first baseman can't hit for power I need him to bring a good glove to the ballpark. Butler needs to stay in the American League.
Yes, and I think we've established our values. We like our fielders to be able to move and catch the ball.
Tim Lincecum has re-signed with the Giants, for a reported $35 million over two years. Anyone waiting for salaries to come down is going to be waiting a very long time. With new national TV money rolling in, salaries are headed up again.
If I read one more time about how Sandy won't "overpay" for such and such a player — or how the market is crazy for pitchers — I'll send my face through a stained-glass window. There's no wishing the market away, or waiting for it to return to some begone day. It is what it is what it is.
With the Red Sox in the World Series we are getting to watch a lot of Stephen Drew. He is a free agent after the year, and we need a shortstop. Drew had an inferior year in 2012, yet Boston signed him last off-season for one year and $9.5 million. We can figure the bidding starts there. Are you interested in Drew?
There are so many ways to skin a cat. Drew, along with other pieces, could be a reasonable, minor upgrade. However, there's not one thing that excites me about the guy. What are we doing at 1B, RF, LF, SP, and bullpen? It's a finger puzzle, every sliding piece effects every other piece. Here's a thought that will never, ever happen: If we are unwilling to trade either Syndergaard and Montero — because we lack quality arms in the organization — let's put them BOTH in the starting rotation in April. And sign a guy. And trade either Gee or Niese. In the case of Montero, it's ridiculous. Just pitch the guy. And Syndergaard is also ready. I'll say this with absolute certainty: If this organization had Michael Wacha, he would not be in the major leagues. There are many reasons for that, but the biggest is that Sandy does not have "winning" on the current timetable. It amazes me how many fans are okay with it.
Are they? Attendance goes down every year and ratings for games on SNY also plummeted this year.
I'd say they have been defeated into submission. But no, the position I just stated — starting Montero and Syndergaard — is out of the mainstream, especially when you read the Metsblogosphere. The Super 2 mentality still reigns supreme. Back to Wacha. It's not just that the Mets passed on a high-quality, college pitcher, it's that they were blind to his virtues, a guy who could move quickly through the system and help the big-league club win games right away. DePodesta claims that they knew all about Wacha's strengths, but felt they had to build positional strength. Also, which he did not (exactly) say, the organization wildly over-estimated the club's own (much hyped) pitching assets. He listed guys like Leathersich and Pill and Verrett as reasons to pass on Wacha and instead pick (cough, cough) Gavin Cecchini.
In that same 2012 draft that we picked Cecchini we also picked Kevin Plawecki, a college player (like Wacha) out of Purdue. Kevin has not been promoted past A ball even though he has had success. Everyone is held back. The organizational philosophy is "the future is never."
It's never about the "here and now," which is why Alderson is so easy to defend for the true believers. It's always about some shimmering elsewhere of the future, seen through the gauze of diaphanous curtains, a mystical land of 2016 full of unicorns and rose petals and prospects who fart rainbows. If I squint I can almost see it on late, beer-bleary Saturday nights.
So what else have you got, Mike?
The Reds and Nationals managing jobs came and went without Wally Backman being seriously considered. Sometimes in life you have to seize opportunity when it comes your way, and Backman might have fatally wounded his major league managing career when he lost the Arizona job. The modern GM does not see Backman's style as a fit.
Why would anybody hire Wally Backman? I don't see it. I think his best path would be to work as a coach at the major league level. Probably not the Mets. Do the job, hang around, prove himself. And maybe he has to become okay with that role. It's not a terrible life by any means. And maybe, in the best world, somebody gives him a shot down the road. But really, take a good look at those two managers from this year's World Series. Young, strong, intelligent, telegenic guys. The Mets have a 60+ guy who has never won. And a 60+ GM who has not won in many, many, many years. Wally's not the answer.
In Backman's defense he is only a couple of years older than Farrell, I wouldn't say age is his issue, more like style. But I do think that the only people who think he is major league managing material are a segment of Mets fans. Hey, he might be in the perfect job right now.
Yes, point taken. It just feels like he's from a different era, a relic. The nature of the game has moved away from characters like Wally Backman, who should have played for one of my baseball heroes, John McGraw.


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Having had the opportunity to study in a fairly decent educational system, the academic struggles weren't a big deal. However, that same educational system didn't offer many, if any, leadership opportunities. I struggled to form a team to work on an activity called iEARN when I was 12. When I finally formed the team, we went on to start working and implementing projects in our school. I found it very hard to lead a team of 30 people, and I eventually failed. Two years after that, I had the chance to lead a much bigger team of enthusiastic intellectuals. We worked on the IT infrastructure of iEARN across Egypt. Through iEARN, I came to know a lady who would nominate me to attend the prestigious ALA. She had a lot of hope that I could make it to this "amazing place", as she described it.
At ALA, I tried to experience everything I thought I was passionate about. My passion for business and technology drove me to start 4D, a project that aims to develop low-cost laptops for African high school and college students. It is a very small team, only 3 people, and we have tried to keep it small until the project officially launches and we can then attract more people. Further, I have pursued my love for tennis, acting as the tennis team captain for a while before realizing that leadership sometimes disconnects you from what you really love to do. So, I passed the leadership to another student so I could just focus on tennis itself.
I have been privileged to have met amazing people during my time at ALA. I was lucky enough to meet Larry Weber, the renowned social media and public relations expert, and his family. I presented to them my idea and they have been supporting me in numerous ways since then. I also met with several technology experts who were instrumental in solidifying my belief that my combination of business and technology is the right one for me.
In 10 years, I hope I will have earned an MBA from a prestigious institution. I hope I will have continued working on 4D, the laptop project, and that it takes a great position in Africa. I can see myself living in Africa, in my country Egypt, and working to bring great technology to Africa, and introduce great technology coming out of Africa.


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