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How to Train Your Dragon (original 2003; edition 2003)
by Hiccup Horrendous III (translated from the Old Norse by Cressida Cowell Haddock, Cressida Cowell; (Illustrator)
This is the first book in the How to Train Your Dragon series. At this time there are nine books in this series with the most recent one being the ninth book in the series, How to Steal a Dragon's Sword. This was a fun and heartfelt read; full of adventure and, of course, dragons.
I read this book with my 5 year old son and he enjoyed it immensely.
In this book we follow Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III as he tries to capture and train a dragon in order pass his test to become part of the Harry Hooligan Tribe.
Hiccup is not your typical viking; he is not good at yelling or being scary...but he can speak Dragonese and he is good at strategy. When he ends up with a scrawny and uncooperative garden variety dragon Hiccup despairs of things ever going right.
This book is much much different from the movie. Hiccup has the same sarcastic sense of humor, but Toothless is pretty much an obnoxious brat. There is no riding of dragons; the baby dragons are too small for that. Hiccup isn't an inventor of strange devices; but more of a strategist with spurts of bravery.
It is a very cute story though, even if it isn't quite as dramatic as the movie. Watching Hiccup move from outcast, to a leader of sorts who is respected for his ideas and action is great and very well done.
This is a story about friendship and respecting people for their differences. Of course there is also a lot of action and a lot of humor throughout as well. Much of the humor is slapstick type but there is some witty banter in there as well.
There are some sketches throughout the book too; they aren't all that great...basically scribbles. But these illustrations are funny and do add humor to the story.
Overall an excellent story. One of those ones that both kids and adults will find humor in. This would be a great series for kids five and up; either to read on their own or with their parents depending on age. Very different from the movie; so don't go into this series expecting a replay of the movie. Recommended to children/YA who are into dragons and adventure and love some humor in there too.
Playful, entertaining, clever, and wonderful.
That was funny! Thanks to the recommendation from a co-worker. On to the second!
Different plot and characters than the movie but still lots of fun! David Tennant is a great narrator though there were major volume range problems where I couldn't hear some parts and my ears were actually physically pained at others (downloaded from Audible). I loved this Toothless equally for completely different reasons
I saw the movie when it first came out, breaking my usual rule of reading the book first. It remains the only film I've seen in 3D and I really enjoyed it.
So when I needed a title for Chatterbooks and Becky said she had related activities already printed, I jumped at the chance to read the book.
I know there are always differences between formats, some for better, some for worse, but in this case the differences are vast. Even though it is a long time since I saw the movie, I can recall that there are fundamental differences in very basic elements of plot. I think it was this difference that made me somewhat disappointed in the book. It just wasn't what I remembered.
However, trying to think of it in isolation, it IS a good children's story. Lots of action and jeopardy and fun characters.
It will be interesting to see what the group makes of it.
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is not like other Vikings. He speaks to the dragons in their language: dragonese, he isn't very good at insulting, and he does't look like the other thugs in his tribe. When he goes to pick his dragon, he finds the smallest most common dragon, names him Toothless, and tries to train him to become a great hunting dragon.
This book, and series, is quite funny. It is a little crude, but most kids who love Diary of a Wimpy Kid would probably enjoy this series. It would be a good bridge to other books about dragons from DWK.
A thoroughly enjoyable read, simple fun, a great based to build from. Looking forward to reading the whole series. Will post a full review soon.
The whole 'series' looks awfully darn cute.
This was so much fun to listen to! Think Hagar the Horrible meets Harry Potter and you get the gest of this first book in Cowell's delightful children's book series. Read by the incomparable David Tennant, I pretty much laughed, chuckled and snorted my way through this one. Who knew Vikings and Dragons would make such a comic team! Hiccup - son of the tribe's Viking chief - makes a wonderful child hero, along with his band of friends and terrorizers. Toothless, Hiccup's dragon, is quite the show stealer of this story, along with Hiccup's granddad, Wrinkles. Cowell has a wonderful imagination and a gift for humour. The serious adult reader that I am cannot wait to start listening to the next book in the series!
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a skinny kid and not really expected to live up to his father Stoick the Vast's reputation as Viking chief of the Hooligan tribe, let alone his long name. From the very first page when he and his fellow initiates are sent into a dragon cave to get their dragons, you know that shenanigans will abound; what you don't know is exactly how hard Hiccup will have to work to become a Hero.
On the recommendation of several fellow LTers, I listened to the audio of this kid's story read by David Tennant. His hilarious narration was worth it, and I enjoyed every over-the-top and ridiculous adventure Hiccup and Toothless, and their friends and enemies. It's definitely a kid's story, lots of jokes that are the equivalent of fart jokes (even just the names of the characters are meant to get a laugh), and very different from the movie but every bit as enjoyable. I'm still puzzling over how Hiccup can be "the third" when his father's name is Stoick, but you know... whatever. Recommended.
Personal Response: I thoroughly enjoyed this read, full of comedy, heroism, rooting for the underdog, and the believable science fiction dragons. There are parts that will make kids, boys especially, laugh out loud.
Curricular Connections: This would make a sensible study of book vs. movie, as I found them not only different in story, but different in feel. The social issue of brains vs. braun is presented lightly, and is a good conversation starter.
This book is about a Viking boy named Hiccup III. Hiccup is not an ordinary boy, and he is the son of the chief. Everybody expects Hiccup to be the best but unfortunately he is called Hiccup the Useless and he is the worst. Then one day, he tries to become a real hero by passing the final test. But he gets everybody exiled from the tribe because his dragon almost killed all the dragons. So, it ended it to a big dragon fight. After that, he shouts at his dad about what kind of a dad he is! But then, the chief finds the biggest dragon ever. Everybody then finds out that Hiccup can speak to dragons, which is illegal. But, he ends up saving the day.
I like this adventured packed book because it about a person he shows everybody his strength and not his weaknesses.
I would rate this book 7 out of 10.
Very different from what I remember of the movie, but with many of the same qualities: charming, clever, inventive, and just a little gross (Viking and dragon excretions).
Hiccup is the son of the Viking Chief, but he isn't very heroic (as defined by Viking standards). He's small and unremarkable, and he obtains a small and unremarkable dragon - or rather, the dragon is remarkable for how extraordinarily how small it is...and how Toothless.
By modern standards, Hiccup would fare a bit better: he may not be big or strong, but he's smart and kind and brave. It turns out that Hiccup does get to be the hero, when the traditional strategy of "yell at it" does not work against the massive sea dragon that washes up on the Vikings' beach.
A Viking community has spent years training dragons without ever really understanding them. When the leader of the clan's son, Hiccup, has to train his own dragon he gets a tiny one called Toothless. Though Hiccup has been bullied for years he discovers he has his own unique talents. The book is fun, but I actually liked the movie more. It has a completely different feel. In the book Toothless is pretty rude and uncooperative. I would highly recommend the audio version of this one though, because David Tennant does an incredible job bringing the characters to life.
Read this to my mature five-year-old who was eager for "big kid" books featuring male protagonists and dragons. This fit the bill, but he is a sensitive kid, and I had to do a great many impromptu edits to shield him from some of the violence. There is a lot of talk of death and dying, which was one of the more disturbing bits. There is a lot of bullying of the hero, and it takes a long time for the hero to become heroic. That weighed heavily on my kid, who couldn't stand all the meanness. The book wasn't the fantasy/fairy tale sort of read we were hoping for, but just some silliness mixed with meanness and violence. Lesson learned: recommendations, reading choice chapters, and skimming is not enough to determine appropriateness! This book is really intended for a much more mature audience (I hope), and even then, is fluff with questionable messages. (Try My Father's Dragon instead; perfect for this age.)
This book is about a boy called Hiccup and he is a viking. In this book he is going to go into a test with a small little dragon that he caught but another boy caught a much better dragon and and he might not get passed the test and if he doesn't pass the test he will not be a viking and he will be thrown out onto a island where he may not survive.But later a huge dragon appears on the shore of his home and he will have to defeat it.
The reason why i like this book is because it is really,really funny and it is hard to put that into a book. I also really liked this book because I really like dragons and this book is almost completely about dragons.
This book is about an 11 year old boy named Hiccup who lives in a viking society. Hiccup is weaker smaller and smarter than all the other viking boys and he is frequently teased/bullied for this as in viking society strength is worth far more than smarts. Hiccup is also a dragon whisperer as according to the book dragons existed in viking times. This abbility is also considered strange/useless as vikings would rather yell. All viking boys have to catch and train a young dragon to be there hunting companion. Hiccup finds a small common brown dragon that has no teeth. One day while Hiccup is training his dragon whom he has named Toothless, a giant sea dragon rises out of the ocean and threatens to take over the island. The tribe of vikings on Hiccup's island (called berk) assembles and the dragon gets bored and swims off.
I found this book interesting and much better than the movie. The fact that the character is strugling throught the series makes it very nice to see him finaly triumph in book 11/10. While the illustrations are crude and most of the jokes juvenile the plot is interesting and the writing very descriptive.
This book is about a boy named hiccup who was not as strong as the other vikings in his village, but he was very smart and very crafty. He eventually gets a hold of a dragon which he named toothless, and he and toothless who were once practically outcast become the heroes of the village.
I like this book because it conveys a good message in that everyone has different strengths.
Have the kids watch the movie version and compare some differences, draw dragons, and tell the class some of their strengths.
My blog post about this book is at this link.
I had seen the movie adaptation of How To Train Your Dragon before reading this book, but honestly after experiencing both of them I feel like I saw/read two entirely different stories. If you go into this book as a fan of the movie (or vice versa) don't expect a faithful adaptation. The only constants between both are really the names of people and places! Even the physical descriptions of Toothless, etc. are quite different.
I found this book much more humorous and enjoyable than the movie. The dialogue was much wittier and the story much cuter in many ways. It follows the son of the leader of the Hairy Hooligans, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, as he struggles through his training to become a full fledged member of his viking band. Part of his initiation is capturing and training a dragon, primarily to use as a hunting partner, and Hiccup has the most difficult time. Unlike the other vikings, he's thin and quick-witted and not able to do the physical feats that his peers are. He can't even get his dragon to obey him, even though he is one of the few known speakers of "Dragonese" -- the other vikings get their dragons to obey by yelling at them loudly!
I loved reading about the different varieties of dragons, and even though most of the book was silly, there was still a great coherent storyline with a lot of memorable characters and events, and the ending is actually very suspenseful and exciting. There were times when the humor was very juvenile and stretched a little thin, and a person can only handle so many snot-related jokes, but in general How To Train Your Dragon is clever and fun and I'm definitely going to be reading the rest of the series.
I first picked this book because I saw this movie and really enjoyed it. This book, however, is quite different from the movie, plot-wise. I really liked the book as well, even though it was much different than what I was expecting. One of my favorite things about the book was the design. The illustrations were placed very strategically, and the font changed with certain words often being bolded and capitalized. I really like the plot and think it is a very creative story, and one that I believe children would find very amusing.
Poor tiny Hiccup, the scrawniest excuse for a viking there has ever been. Son of the chief Hiccup has some gianormous shoes to fill. After barely managing to capture a dragon, a rite of passage in a young vikings life to fail means banishment and exile, he set to training it. His one instruction? YELL AT IT! This proves less than useful since the dragon refuses to listen. During his final training exercise with his dragon Toothless a brawl breaks out and all the young vikings fail because they cant control their dragons. All are set to be exiled the next morning. Some time in the night a Mountain sized dragon washes up on their shores and threatens to eat them all. Only Hiccup has learned to speak dragonese and so only he can save the day.
Hiccup Horrendus Haddock the third is the heir to the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans. He has never been very heroic, and is worried that he won't pass the hero's test. He manages to catch a dragon, however, his dragon turns out to be the smallest one he'd ever seen. He attempts to train it, with little success. After all of the young boys failed their tests due to the dragons breaking out in a fight, they are sentenced to be exiled the following morning. Their exile is recalled when a rather humongous dragon is discovered, and they must work together to get rid of it. Hiccup formulates a plan after finding out that there is a second dragon. The dragons begin to fight. One of the dragons is killed, but the Green Death remains alive. He swallows Hiccup, who finds the dragon's fire holes and blocks them. The Dragon sneezes him out when Toothless flies up his nostril. The dragon tries to breath fire, but does not know his holes are blocked, and he blows up. Hiccup became a Hero the Hard Way.
The novel that inspired a popular movie franchise is quite different from its theatrical presentation, as is often the case. In this story, Hiccup is a Viking. Not only that, he is the son of the chief of his tribe, a large and loud man named Stoick the Vast. When the book opens, Hiccup is part of a group of boys aged ten who are about to undergo their ritual passage into manhood. For the Viking tribes, that means stealing and training a baby dragon. Vikings have an antagonistic relationship with dragons. They avoid or fight the grown wild ones, but also capture many when they are still babies to use as pets and servants. All Viking boys are expected to claim their personal dragon when they are ten or face banishment from the tribe. The reader learns that Hiccup fears banishment is his inevitable fate.
The novel is told from Hiccup's first person perspective, and he quickly reveals that he has not lived up to his tribe's expectations for him. He is small and scrawny, and not any good at yelling at all. He is nothing like his worthy father. Hiccup is sarcastic, observant, and clever. He faces frightening situations with resigned intention. He stands up for his friends. These traits make him likable to the reader, and unrelatable to his fellow Vikings.
Nonetheless, he does manage to trap a dragon, even after giving his first one away to his friend, Fishlegs, who botches the whole adventure. Hiccup's dragon is the smallest, most ordinary dragon anyone has ever seen. Hiccup and Fishlegs manage to convince Hiccup's father that this is because it is one of a rare and most violent species of dragon, but no one else is fooled. They call his dragon Toothless, to rhyme with Hiccup the useless. Despite the negativity, Hiccup trains Toothless, but he uses a method none of the vikings approve: he talks to his dragons in Dragonese. Hiccup has long observed dragons, learned their language, and recognized their intelligence. The other vikings refuse to admit that dragons use a real language; in fact, the chief (Hiccup's father) has made it a law that no one should talk to dragons. Even with all these obstacles, everything seems like it will work out, and at least Hiccup will be able to coax Toothless to perform at the Young Heroes' Final Initiation Test and avoid banishment. When Toothless starts a fight with Snotlout's dragon in the middle of the initiation, it all falls apart.
The story is intentionally funny, with ridiculous characters and an original setting. Hiccup is the outsider in his culture, which makes him ironically more accessible to the reader. One reason is that his distance from the Viking way brings him much closer to accepted modern sensibilities. In addition, we love underdog heroes. Moreover, Hiccup acts like a ten year old boy, and this book keeps a young male audience in mind, with plenty of gross humor and slapstick antics. Despite my awareness that this type of story telling is aimed at children, particularly boys, I was still amused. The reading was light, fast-paced, and funny. Within this package, more serious issues are explored, such as Hiccup's disappointment to his father, and with his father, and the superiority of wit and compassion over brute strength and blind reliance on the rules. I enjoyed this book quite a bit, more than I anticipated, and am interested in reading further in the series.
I saw the movie on Netflix and thought it was pretty awesome. The book? Eh... not so much. I know the scriptwriters chopped up the series, but the book reminded me of a Nicktoon -- one of the bad ones that was just gross-out humor and bad animation, trying to be Ren & Stimpy. The book is in the form of journal/account of the protagonist, complete with crude sketches, ink splotches, and the occasional full-page joke meant to increase page count. It has shades of Roald Dahl, but it's a poor imitator. See the movie instead.
I had mixed feelings about this book after reading it. I liked the book because I knew absolutely nothing about dragons and it was interesting to see a writer write a fantasy book based upon them. But I did not like the storyline. "How to train your dragon" is not a topic I would have ever thought about reading on my own. The illustrations were not in color, and so they were just bland. They actually looked like the illustrator (who is also the writer) just drew them right on the page.. The characters and their actions are very much visual when reading what is occurring.
The big message of this story was to fantasize about how to train your dragon if you had one.
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All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
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Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
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Comment Self-inflicted (Score 1) 138
Most of it is self-inflicted. In fact, most of it is eagerly, self-congratulatorily self-inflicted.
Most of it is self-inflicted. In fact, most of it is eagerly, self-congratulatorily self-inflicted.
I love how they say that Mercury switches can detonate explosives, as if any other switch can't.
A mercury switch operates on gravity. Tilt a package (like, say, pick it up carelessly, or rotate it to face the label up to read who sent it) to complete the circuit.
So, mercury switches are more interesting to law enforcement than other types. He was into experimenting with chemicals. He was caught trespassing to acquire mercury switches. Of course he was interesting to law enforcement.
Facebook is a place where most of the people you encounter have a real-world persona that pretty much matches their online persona, so if you take care to know the people you friend, it cuts out a lot of bad behavior. You have the opportunity, though you can also screw it up with poor choices of friends, to have a community that avoids much of the trouble of random corners of the internet. People are *much* better behaved when their real-world friends and acquaintances can see them.
This is useful. It doesn't serve every purpose, and it isn't intended to. It isn't for everyone, and that's okay. It discriminates against people who would otherwise behave behind a pseudonym, so it's not perfect. Nothing is.
A place without pseudonyms is useful, even if it isn't universal.
Disclaimer: My slashdot name is a pseudonym. My facebook name isn't.
I remember during one interview the PHB asked me if I liked to download stuff to my PC to experiment with new gizmos. I replied that I did, but that I prefer to have one "production" PC to get regular work done and a separate "experimental" PC that can be rebaselined if the experiments mess it up and/or to not cross-mix experiments. (Active-X was the "big thing" at the time, which should be enough to explain my caution.)
Anybody with experience will agree this is the rational way to do it. However, this was a start-up and they had no money for double PC's. (Maybe I should have offered to buy my own spare.) My "kind" wasn't welcome. The details of reality bothered them:
Sounds like what really happened was they gave you an opportunity to say something interesting about yourself and demonstrate some camaraderie and some love for the field, and you instead bored them with unnecessary details. They may have viewed that as a failure to communicate clearly. It's a problem many programmers have. They give impressive-sounding non-answers.
I don't know about that. Millennials by and large seem to be better informed, well, maybe not 'better', but more likely to know about things since they tend to be a lot more integrated with online communities. They are also more likely than older generations to have some (if light) knowledge of the technologies involved since they have gone more of their life exposed to them.
You've grown up too fond of the internet.
The "older generations" are perhaps too trusting of authority and media. They are perhaps too uncritical. They are perhaps too paranoid and prejudiced.
"Millennials" are perhaps too trusting of their friends, even those they don't really know much about. They are perhaps too easily manipulated with flattery and camaraderie. They are perhaps too subject to group think and naivete.
Neither, as a whole, is particularly well-informed.
Someone always drags [the Franklin quote] out in any discussion like this as if its some kind of killer quote that nullifies any further discussion.
And someone always moderates it up, as if it's new and interesting and not at all cliche.
I chose to do my first programming class when I was 16. The students were virtually all male. Nobody who signed up for that course had the slightest idea about how to program, let alone what programming culture was like. So you want me to believe that all the girls in my grade went out to different jobs, experienced a culture of misogny and then decided not to enroll in programming because of that?
I can tell you why most of the males were in my class and that's because we were all the kids who would sit around at lunch and talk about computers or videogames.
You were 16 at a time when "we were all the kids who would sit around at lunch and talk about computers or videogames". You are not old enough to remember a time when there were not enough kids talking about computers or video games for there to be a group of them chatting over lunch. You are not old enough to remember a time before there was a programmer/gamer culture. For you, it's always been that way, and it's always been a boy's thing. It's no surprise there were no girls in your group.
Kids don't talk about accounting or engineering or nursing or law over lunch. Not that I know of, anyway. They didn't used to talk about computers, either. It wasn't until the 80's that computers became a mainstream entertainment medium. It wasn't until the 90's that programming was common among high-school aged kids. And in the 90's the internet turned any discussion of computers or video games into a boy's thing.
Prior to that women could show up to a college (or high school) programming class on equal footing. Since then, they've learned that programming is a boy's thing. If they think they're going to buck that trend all they have to do is show up at a place like slashdot (or a gaming website) to be discouraged.
An interesting statistic that never gets mentioned by the "Men's Rights Activists" who like to talk about how women aren't suited for programming is that up until the late 1980s, half of the people graduating from Computer Science programs were women.
I got into the field in the early 80's, when there were a lot more women than there are now. At my first job, half the developers were women.
I blame the internet. I'm not kidding. Online forums have empowered the brogrammer culture. It's great that there is now a forum for interacting socially on a grand scale, but there's also an opportunity and an excuse for not developing socially.
Today's employers don't know how bad they have it. They don't know how unproductive today's developers are, chasing after self-congratulatory complexity rather than doing real work. On the upside, there's real opportunity for people of any gender to be heroes, going against the grain of the culture. In organizations run by adults, it's not difficult to be seen as a standout performer.
As to whether there is a "problem"...
If you're surrounded by people just like yourself, of course you don't think there's a problem. But a monoculture may not be the most efficient way of getting things done. You may not think there's a problem, and your organization may not know any better because they've never seen any different, but you are almost certainly less efficient (and less profitable, less satisfied, less secure) for being so un-diverse.
SJWs have spent decades telling women they need "special help" to become engineers and programmers. We can't overcome that by being "welcoming" because they chose a different path before college.
If you think you are not involved before college you may be mistaken. Discouraging women has more to do with the culture of programming than with SJWs, and that culture exists everywhere a young woman might go to talk with programmers, including here. How it got that way is not your fault, specifically, but clearly you aren't interested in being "welcoming", which perpetuates the problem.
Staring at code all day isn't for everyone, just like working with babies all day would drive me mad
Yeah, like that.
So, while the car was out of his sight for the first incident, some evil government agency placed a tracker, and used it to track him to...a "Circumvention Tech Festival"? An advertised event, at a physical venue, with sponsors and a website. They needed a tracker to find people who went to this event. I see.
Or a publicity stunt by the "activist"
"I found code that already does this" sounds like you're a better problem solver. It's self-congratulatory nonsense. If the result is very complex, you congratulate yourself even more, for being able to do complex things, rather than punching yourself in the head like you should, for making things more difficult than they need to be.
If you found code that really does make your life easier, that's great. It hardly ever happens.
I have a partially-sighted (legally blind) friend who hates touch displays with a firey passion. What she wants most in life is an MP3 player / book reader with a large capacity and tactile controls, which has a clear voice for reading, and which can be loaded from an interface that is not accessibility-hostile (like iTunes) and which will allow her to use content she already has or can get from the public domain.
The main negative is....ebooks... Publishers want to gouge people for having the text of a book read to them, and would rather screw over blind people than permit Apple to read the text of ebooks for no additional charge. Some publishers have some kind of workaround for blind people, so they don't come across as complete douchebags, but the workarounds also tend to be a hassle.
This. Very much, this.
A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected.


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Release Date: 22 September,1976
Storyline: Charlie's angels is an american crime drama television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. the series stars kate jackson; farrah fawcett-majors; jaclyn smith; cheryl ladd; shelley hack; tanya roberts; david doyle; and john forsythe as the voice of charles townsend, also known as "charlie" (the angels' boss). Read on Wikipedia
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About Multiple Sclerosis
Today more than 2,000,000 people around the world suffer from MS, a chronic autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system - the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves. In MS, immune cells called lymphocytes mistakenly attack myelin, the fatty "insulation" that surrounds and protects nerves, resulting in abnormal nerve transmission and MS symptoms such as fatigue, weakness, walking and balance problems, vision problems, pain, spasticity and cognitive difficulties. MS is the most common disabling neurological disease in young adults after accidents, and is two to three times more common in women than in men. MS is usually characterized by relapses followed by periods of complete or incomplete recovery. There is no typical individual with MS, as the disease is a very variable condition and the symptoms depend on which areas of the central nervous system are affected. MS symptoms can vary from time to time and can change in severity and duration, even in the same person. The vast majority of people with MS - approximately 90 percent - are initially diagnosed with a relapsing form of MS.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a common and important tool used to help establish a diagnosis of MS and monitor the course of the disease and effects of treatment. Providing a highly sensitive, non-invasive way to image the brain, spinal cord or, other areas of the body, MRI has made it possible to visualize and understand a great deal about the underlying pathology of MS.
About Genzyme, a Sanofi Company
One of the world's leading biotechnology companies, Genzyme is dedicated to making a major positive impact on the lives of people with serious diseases. Since its founding in 1981, the company has introduced breakthrough treatments that have provided new hope for patients. The company's areas of focus are rare genetic diseas
|SOURCE Sanofi; Genzyme
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Developments relating to the Solyndra debacle continue to surface as newly-surfaced internal government emails reveal that an Obama administration appointee at the Department of Energy (DOE) — and major Obama fundraiser — pushed to expedite a $535-million loan guarantee to the now-defunct solar firm. The emails expose "a disturbingly close relationship" among the White House, top campaign donors, and prominent Solyndra investors, according to a senior congressional Republican.
Steve Spinner, an adviser to the Department of Energy, actively endorsed the loan after agreeing to avoid any "active participation" in the application process, because his wife, Allison, was working for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm which represented Solyndra. Due to his wife's association with the company, the DOE had ensured that Spinner would refrain from engaging in "any discussions" relating to the loan details because of a "conflict of interest." In a September 23, 2009 email to a DOE ethics officer, Steve Spinner described active participation as "solicitation, due diligence, [and] negotiations."
Energy Department spokesman Damien LaVera affirmed that Spinner was "authorized [only] to oversee and monitor the progress of applications, ensure that the program met its deadlines and milestones, and coordinate possible public announcements," because of his wife's relations with Solyndra.
Europeans are more concerned about climate change than they are about their financial affairs, according to a new Eurobarometer poll conducted on behalf of the Climate Change Programme of the European Commission (EC). More than two-thirds of the public believe climate change is a serious problem, and nearly 80 percent say that tackling it will boost the economy and create jobs.
Pollsters tallied responses from almost 27,000 residents of the 27 European Union countries. They found that most Europeans view climate change as second only to poverty, hunger, and lack of drinking water (counted as a single concern) in terms of serious problems facing today's world. The global economic recession placed third on the list. In addition, 68 percent of respondents support the idea of taxing people based on energy use.
EU policy makers are jubilant, especially because these numbers are all up from a similar survey in 2009. "The fact that more than 3 out of 4 Europeans see improving energy efficiency as a way to create new jobs is a strong signal to Europe's decision makers," said Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action. "I see this poll very much as an encouragement also for us in the Commission to continue fighting for ambitious and concrete climate action in Europe."
As federal prosecutors confirmed in a court filing Wednesday that a criminal investigation involving the recent raid on Gibson Guitar Corporation is now in motion, other American guitar makers are expressing concern for their own business operations. Gibson facilities in Memphis and Nashville were raided by federal agents on August 24, leaving the company with an estimated loss of $2 to $3 million.
Gibson's alleged crime was a violation of the Lacey Act, a conservation law that aims to protect plants and wildlife from endangerment by enacting civil and criminal penalties for a throng of violations. Gibson is being charged for allegedly importing wood from a foreign country in violation of a 2008 amendment to the law that makes it unlawful "to import certain plants and plant products without an import declaration."
U.S. Attorney Jerry Martin declined to provide specific details on the investigation, but the prosecutor's documents identify that the federal government can "seek criminal fines and imprisonment for knowing violations of the Lacey Act." The imported wood seized by federal agents came from India, and authorities are deeming the wood illegal ebony and rosewood.
Time Magazine is accusing climate change deniers of a vast right-wing conspiracy of deceit that threatens to subvert efforts protecting the Earth from eco-catastrophe. In "Who's Bankrolling the Climate-Change Deniers?" Bryan Walsh bemoans the fact that only a few years ago Republicans such as John McCain and Mitt Romney supported government cap-and-trade programs to restrict industrial emissions of so-called greenhouse gases (GHG) but are now backpedaling. He cites polls showing a growing number of conservatives in the deniers' camp. "That's deeply troubling," Walsh laments, "... despite an overwhelming scientific consensus" confirming imminent calamity.
He highlights two sociologists who blame "climate denialism" on long-term efforts of "conservative groups and corporations to distort global-warming science." Walsh quotes their article in The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, in which the sociologists claim, "Contrarian scientists, fossil-fuel corporations, conservative think tanks and various front groups have assaulted mainstream climate science and scientists for over two decades. The blows have been struck by a well-funded, highly complex and relatively coordinated denial machine."
Missing from Walsh's diatribe is any actual proof of a well-heeled denial machine or the "settled scientific truth" of climate change.
The science journal Nature is making headlines this week with news of the largest hole in the ozone layer over the North Pole in history, rivaling the size of its well known Antarctic cousin. Researchers credit this "unprecedented Arctic ozone loss" to "unusually long-lasting cold conditions" in the stratosphere at a time when their colleagues are in turmoil over melting Arctic sea ice a few miles below, supposedly caused by man-made global warming. Of course, humans are also responsible for the chilly stratosphere, they say. With sky-is-falling overtones the article's authors warn, "We cannot at present predict when such severe Arctic ozone depletion may be matched or exceeded."
Nor do they know when such levels have been matched or exceeded in the past. The NASA satellite record goes back only to 1979, according to meteorologist and weather technology expert Anthony Watts. That amounts to little more than 30 years of data, which can hardly be considered a baseline for making doomsday predictions and framing public policy.
A report released last week by the Environmental Protection Agency's Inspector General questions the procedural policy of the EPA's 2009 decision that greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare. The report, entitled "Procedural Review of EPA's Greenhouse Gases Endangerment Finding Data Quality Processes," does not decry the science of greenhouse gas emissions, but observes that the procedures conducted by the agency to make its "scientific" determination were askew. The release "calls the scientific integrity of EPA's decision-making process into question and undermines the credibility of the endangerment finding," asserted Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
After a 2007 Supreme Court decision ruling that greenhouse gas emissions are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, the EPA was instructed to determine whether greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare, or if alleged global warming science is too uncertain to make an adequate conclusion.
The IG's office emphasized that their analysis did not explore the EPA's scientific "evidence" that greenhouse gas emissions are in fact harmful to health and welfare.
The deaths of 23 Honduran farmers involved in land disputes with UN-approved palm oil plantations are raising an international outcry against alleged "human rights abuses." EurActiv reports members of the European Parliament (EP) are planning an investigative mission to Honduras this month while others are calling for a ban on carbon credits to the plantations under the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS). Additionally, it says the UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is weighing its validation process that originally accredited the plantations, a process critics call "only rudimentary, completely unregulated and badly documented."
Protests erupted in July when six international human rights advocacy groups presented a report to the EP detailing what they called murders and forced evictions of peasants in El Bajo Aguán Valley of northern Honduras. The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) report accuses UN-sanctioned palm oil mills of stealing farmland from Honduran natives and killing or wounding them when they attempt to defend their property. It says the companies, acting with government impunity, regularly target members of local land-rights movements who end up murdered in feigned car accidents or hunted down and shot by private security guards.
Claiming that the United States "can't afford" to lose the race to develop the technologies necessary for a transition to a green economy, Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank defended the dispersal of millions of dollars in federal funds to the winners of the government's i6 Green Challenge.
The i6 Green Challenge is undeniably a very small program; the challenge website acknowledges that approximately $12 million was available for "proof of concept" models. Under business-as-usual in Washington, D.C., the expenditure of $12 million would look like a departmental rounding error. In part, the i6 Green Challenge awards will receive a measure of public scrutiny because of the scandal surrounding President Obama's favorite (at least until recently) example of a corporation of the new "green economy" — Solyndra — which recently found itself under investigation in connection with $535 million in loan guarantees that it had received from the federal government. The image of Solyndra being raided by FBI agents may continue to linger for a time — much to the chagrin of the President and his standard bearers in government and the media.
An article for CNSNews ("Acting Commerce Secretary: Despite Failures, 'U.S. Can't Afford' Not to Subsidize Green Tech") highlights the "good money after bad" strategy being employed by the White House: In short, pay no attention to the scandals and lack of success — the "green economy" must be pursued at any cost.
Obama Admin. Expands Endangered Species Act. Caving in to pressure from environmental groups, the Obama Administration's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is set expand the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to include more than 800 new species of plants and animals. FWS signed two agreements in federal court, one with the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), and another with WildEarth Guardians (WEG) in which the parties agreed to a timeline for review of the individual species' cases through 2018. The agreements end a number of lawsuits against FWS by various environmental organizations, including CBD and WEG, over species they claim FWS has ignored.
FWS is acting quickly to hold up its end of the bargain. On Monday it approved 374 new species for possible ESA inclusion, based on review of an ongoing 60-day public comment period. Some of the candidates for federal protection have obscure names like the Florida sandhill crane, the green floater mussel and the black rail bird. Others are more familiar, including the American wolverine, the Mexican gray wolf and the Pacific walrus.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to tighten regulations on natural gas drilling based on grossly exaggerated estimates of greenhouse-gas emissions, according to new industry research.
In its report MisMeasuring Methane: Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Upstream Natural Gas Development, the independent energy analysis firm IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) reveals, "EPA's current methodology for estimating gas field methane emissions is not based on methane emitted during well completions, but paradoxically is based on a data sample of methane captured during well completions." (Emphasis in original.)
The agency's meager "data sample" is based on two slide presentations made at EPA-sponsored workshops, one in 2004 and one in 2007. CERA researchers explain that EPA recorded captured methane at a small sample of wells and now assumes every well in the country releases equivalent levels of methane without operators capturing any of it.


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- Unprecedented amount of research reflects depth and breadth of collaboration with investigators worldwide to develop new treatments for
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- Plenary session to highlight impact of Zometa(R), the leading IV bisphosphonate, on relapse rate of patients with early-stage breast cancer - Four oral sessions to feature RAD001, first oral once-daily continuous inhibitor of mTOR, including first results of RECORD-1 study in renal cell
- Updated Phase II results with Tasigna(R) in Philadelphia
chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia to be presented
EAST HANOVER, N.J., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Novartis Oncology announced today that the 44th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) will include an unprecedented amount of research drawing from Novartis Oncology's robust pipeline of investigational compounds and existing cancer therapies. Novartis Oncology's cancer therapies will be the subject of more than 170 abstracts at the meeting, and will be highlighted in a plenary session, as well as seven oral presentations.
A plenary session will feature the first efficacy results from the ABCSG-12 study, looking at the impact of Zometa(R) (zoledronic acid) on disease-free survival in patients with early-stage breast cancer (Abstract #LBA4: Sunday, June 1, 2008; 1:45 PM to 2:00 PM CDT). In addition, late-breaking data on the role of RAD001 (everolimus) as a potential new treatment option for patients with advanced kidney cancer who have failed standard therapies will be presented in an oral session (Abstract #LBA5026: Saturday, May 31, 2008; 4:30 PM-4:45 PM CDT).
"This is a particularly exciting year for Novartis Oncology in
advancing research and touching the lives of thousands of cancer patients,"
said David Epstein, CEO & President of Novartis Oncology. "Our scientific
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|SOURCE Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
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|Friday September 25, 2015 @08:50PM
|Why NASA's Road To Mars Plan Proves That It Should Return To the Moon First
|Thursday September 24, 2015 @06:26PM
|Making Mining the Asteroids and the Moon Legal
|Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:31AM
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|Tuesday September 15, 2015 @04:56AM
|India Mulls Using Nuclear Power For Its Chandrayaan-2 Mission To the Moon
|Sunday August 30, 2015 @10:57PM
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|Wednesday August 26, 2015 @08:57PM
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|Monday August 03, 2015 @06:09PM
|Buzz Aldrin Publishes Moon Expenses Form
|Monday July 20, 2015 @07:52PM
|Smithsonian Using Kickstart Campaign To Save Armstrong's Moon Suit
|Monday July 20, 2015 @06:21PM
|NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion
|Wednesday July 08, 2015 @06:14PM
|Is NASA Planning To "Terraform" Part of the Moon? Not Quite
|Wednesday July 01, 2015 @06:47PM
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|Wednesday June 17, 2015 @05:54PM
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|Wednesday June 10, 2015 @06:11PM
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|Wednesday June 03, 2015 @09:15PM
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|Sunday May 24, 2015 @01:28PM
|India Ends Russian Space Partnership and Will Land On the Moon Alone
|Sunday May 17, 2015 @10:17AM
|NASA Announces the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge For Moon and Mars Bases
|Monday May 11, 2015 @03:38PM
|Apollo 15 Commander Talks About Developing and Driving Lunar Buggy
|Tuesday April 14, 2015 @09:41AM
|First 26 Pages of Neal Stephenson's New Novel "Seveneves" Online
|Wednesday April 08, 2015 @05:22PM
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|Monday February 23, 2015 @03:18PM
|Google Lunar XPrize Teams Partner For a 2016 SpaceX Moonshot
|Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:01AM
|Could Fossils of Ancient Life From Earth Reside On the Moon?
|Monday February 09, 2015 @05:23PM
|Neil Armstrong's Widow Discovers Moon Camera In Bag
|Sunday February 08, 2015 @01:08PM
|Earth's Libration Visualized For the First Time Above the Moon's Far Side
|Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:33AM
|FAA Could Extend Property Rights On the Moon Through Regulation
|Thursday January 01, 2015 @07:07PM
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|Wednesday December 17, 2014 @01:33PM
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|Friday October 31, 2014 @10:38PM
|China Completes Its First Lunar Return Mission
|Friday October 31, 2014 @07:27PM
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|Sunday October 26, 2014 @08:18PM
|First Commercial Mission To the Moon Launched From China
|Thursday October 09, 2014 @05:31PM
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|Wednesday October 01, 2014 @03:06PM
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|Monday September 22, 2014 @02:27PM
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|Sunday July 20, 2014 @08:33AM
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|Monday June 09, 2014 @03:39PM
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|Sunday February 23, 2014 @06:55PM
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|Apollo Veteran: Skip Asteroid, Go to the Moon
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|Sunday December 02, 2012 @05:01PM
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|Canadian Space Agency Shows Off Prototype Rovers
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|Monday October 01, 2012 @08:14AM
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|"Part-Time" Scientists Aim To Build Autonomous Moon Rover
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|Neil Armstrong Gives Rare Interview
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|NASA To Future Lunar Explorers: Don't Mess With Our Moon Stuff
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|Neil Armstrong gives rare interview
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|NASA and Astrobotic Investigating Ice Hunting Mission to the Moon
|Thursday April 19, 2012 @03:33PM
|In Google's Moon Race, Teams Face a Reckoning
|Monday March 26, 2012 @12:01PM
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Re: Fridge horror for The Apple
In response to
Mr. Laser Beam
: That raises an interesting question, though: if Vaal and Landru were created by the progenitors of the societies over which they preside, why
they be protected under the Prime Directive? Starfleet is forbidden to interfere with the development of alien cultures, full stop. I doubt it specifies what stage of development (other than that of spacefaring and warp capable, at which point they will by necessity be made aware of the very crowded galaxy they inhabit and deal with the influences of other spacefaring, warp capable civilizations) or allows the captain to disregard the directive if he finds the course the civilization has followed repugnant to his classically liberal sensibilities. If those civilizations, in the course of their "natural" development, decided upon stasis as their so-called endpoint it is still the result of their natural development.
And, regardless of our personal take on the matter, it was canonically established that self-preservation was not sufficient cause to violate it.
In response to
: the episode seemed to suggest that Vaal was powered by the literal food the Stupid Loompas gathered for it. By not letting them feed Vaal, the landing party weakened it enough for the ships phasers to zap it. And yes, I know how stupid that sounds but I also had the misfortune of seeing
The Reincarnaton of Peter Proud
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Congratulations to John Legend and Common! The pair won for Best Original Song for 'Glory' from 'Selma' at the 2015 Golden Globe Awards tonight (Jan. 11).
Congratulations to John Legend and Common! The pair won for Best Original Song for 'Glory' from 'Selma' at the 2015 Golden Globe Awards tonight (Jan. 11).
The 2015 Golden Globes are here! Check out the complete list of winners here.
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The 2014 Golden Globes were so full of over-the-top, entertaining moments on-screen that we can't forget all the AMAZING stuff off-screen as well...
The Golden Globes are often lauded as one of the most fun awards shows in Hollywood and for good reason! The show honors the best in television and movies, and includes many of our favorite stars.
E! caused an uproar amongst viewers of the 2014 Golden Globes pre-show when the network broadcast appeared to make light of Michael J. Fox's Parkinson disease diagnosis.
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The 2014 Golden Globes boasted a red carpet dripping with gorgeous gowns. The two hot trends we noticed? Strapless gowns and belted dresses.
While last night's Golden Globes were filled with laughs, tears and death stares -- the latter courtesy of Tommy Lee Jones -- a memorable moment came from presenters Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell. The improv duo appeared to take the stage with little to no script, riffing off one another while announcing the nominees for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical.
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For years, Newcomerstown officials have struggled to keep the village's cemetery fund in the black, repeatedly transferring money into it.
But in the last couple of years, the village has seen its Local Government Funds from the state cut by close to 25 percent, which has put a strain on the Newcomerstown's general fund. It's not unlike the funding cuts experienced by cities and townships across Tuscarawas County during the past three years.
"The cemetery doesn't bring in enough money through lot sales," explained Kim Meek, the village's fiscal officer. "Money has always been transferred from the general fund, but because of cuts in Local Government Funds, there hasn't been enough money in the general fund to transfer to the cemetery fund."
As a result, the cemetery fund had a deficit of $151,373 as of April 30, prompting State Auditor Dave Yost on Thursday to place Newcomerstown in a state of fiscal emergency.
The declaration will result in the formation of a Financial Planning and Supervision Commission.
The commission will be responsible for approving a financial recovery plan for the village that details solutions for eliminating the fiscal emergency condition, ensures a balanced budget, avoids future deficits and markets long-term obligations.
"I'm hoping this committee will take care of this problem," Mayor James Friel said Friday. "It's just sad that it had to go this far."
He added, "We're going to work hard to get this straightened out."
The last Tuscarawas County community to be placed in fiscal emergency was the City of Uhrichsville. It was in that status from Aug. 6, 1998, to Sept. 16, 2003.
To address the deficit in the cemetery fund, Newcomerstown officials have placed a 1.5-mill additional levy on the Nov. 6 General Election ballot. It would raise about $70,000 annually. If approved, it would cost the owner of a home with a $100,000 taxable value $45.94 per year, according to Tuscarawas County Auditor Larry Lindberg.
Six other communities in the county already have cemetery levies on the book — Salem, Franklin and Sugar Creek townships, Gnadenhutten-Clay Township, Port Washington and the Twin Cities, to support Union Cemetery in Uhrichsville.
Newcomerstown operates three cemeteries — West Lawn, East State Street and the old pioneer cemetery.
As the village lost a significant portion of its Local Government Funds, it allowed the number of its full-time employees to decline through attrition. For instance, the police department now has five full-time officers, including the chief, and three full-time dispatchers, compared to eight officers in the past. Three officers have left the force this year to work elsewhere, and they were not replaced, Meek said. Instead, the village has hired some part-time officers, who do not receive full-time benefits.
At one time, the cemetery department had two full-time employees and one or two seasonal workers, Meek said. Now, there is one full-time employee, who also helps out in other village departments. Why? When he works for other departments, his salary is taken out of their budgets to reduce costs to the cemetery fund, Meek explained.
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Newcomerstown has 25 full-time employees and an annual budget of $3.3 million.
The village also has taken a financial hit with the loss of Janesville Acoustics, which was destroyed by fire late last year. The plant, which employed nearly 100 people, is not going to be rebuilt.
Even with the loss of those workers, Newcomerstown is still doing well with income tax collections, according to Meek. Last year, the village turned over collections to the Regional Income Tax Agency.
"They have more means to go after non-payers," Meek said, "so our collections are up from where they had been."
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Last night in Tel Aviv, Madonna performed in front of 33000 people.
The 53-year-old singer, carried out a two-hour concert at Ramat Gan Stadium; she sang a compilation of songs from her new album MDNA as well as some of her older hits.
Madonna also did her rendition of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way."
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A lot is changing as a result of the university's decision to implement Google Apps for Education. As details are finalized for the migration dates, training plans, and account provisioning, they will be posted on this website. U-M and Google are working together to bring a wide array of Web-based tools to the university community with this NextGen Michigan Collaboration Project.
All of U-M will receive the collaboration tools, such as Google Docs and Sites. Ann Arbor students, many faculty and staff, and U-M Online Subscribers will switch to Google email and calendars, and their previously saved mail and calendar data will migrate with them. Due to various federal regulations that place restrictions on how sensitive regulated data is handled, a number of Ann Arbor groups—such as Health System Exchange users and some research units—will not migrate to Google email and calendar.
UM-Dearborn is still evaluating the use of Google email and calendar. UM-Flint will not use Google email and calendaring at this time. Both will receive the Google collaboration tools following the Ann Arbor campus. Some general information about the collaboration suite is described below.
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The core suite of Google Apps for Education will provide over 40 tools to improve collaboration:
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Champaign Police Investigate Armed Robbery (Regions Bank, 111 S. State Street)
Champaign police are currently searching for a suspect involved in robbing Regions Bank at 10:35 AM this morning. According to witnesses, a man entered the bank and demanded money. Although a gun was never displayed, the suspect implied having one. He was then given an undisclosed amount of cash before leaving the area on foot….
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