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Jonathan J SheppardShared publicly -
Facebook is currently testing a way for users to pay to promote their posts at the top of friends' News Feeds, a spokesperson confirms to us.
The test, which is limited to a small percentage of users including some in New Zealand, places a "highlight" button next to Like and comment on a user's Facebook posts.
The test, which is limited to a small percentage of users including some in New Zealand, places a "highlight" button next to Like and comment on a user's Facebook posts.
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i`m not a FB user much, so wont make much diff to my life, but many are and many will,
Jason Borg
I think Facebook's initial success has been on being able to keep up with what your friends are up too, making it so commercial reduces it's value, having to sort through paid commercial posts to find what your friends are up too, that's a turn off to me. But then again I spend 10x more time on G+ so I am not a good person to make such a judgement.
Jason Death
They're just trying to justify the evaluation of the company to keep investors and soon to be stock holders interested. The sad thing is it's slowly dying and will become a flop in it's own way soon enough. Well maybe not soon enough, but eventually.
Brittney Shields
Really? If something is important enough for my friends to know I will just call them. I'm not going to pay for Facebook to tell them... this is ridiculous. It might serve some purpose for businesses but that is it!
Jason Death
+Brittney Shields Till you log on and every business has filled your stream with their ads.
Raul Alvarado
Lame...if you need to pay so that your so called "Friends" can pay attention to your posts...then you definitely need to get new ones!
Nicolas Joly
So ... You pay to be seen / read?
Quite a redefinition for "Pay attention" to something... ;)
Quite a redefinition for "Pay attention" to something... ;)
+Jason Death I hear FB is suffering because most people log on using mobile devices where there are fewer ads so they're losing money in that regard. So, bombarding us with ads on the desktop page might not be far-fetched... I rarely use FB anyway so they can do what they want.
I wouldn't know, I've never had a FB account, and only ended up on G+ because I lost a bet. Though the people I've talked to have kept me here past the month I had to.
If it works the way I think it does, the only way you would see commercial adds would be if you liked, subscribed, or added the page of a business, because facebook is an international phenomenon businesses in say Germany won't want to pay to post an add on the walls of people in say Venzuela who one don't apply to the client group they're trying to reach, and two for the majority don't speak the same language. Other than for commercial use, I don't think facebook users will use the highlight button very often unless to notify their friends of event at the last minute and/or to notify them of something significant, like an addition to their family.
+Madison Koch While I agree on the first part, the way people are, this will get used a lot more than people realize. Too many people think everything they have to say is important, and with their parents CC will pay to have everything seen.
If the ppl post are interesting ppl will see them if not the oh well! And to me that seems very desperate to get noticed.
why should they pay to have there stories on top, what if something important gets posted and we cant see it because its all the way at the bottom.
Huh, like i can bolster my ego by forcing my friends to read my post? Wtf!? Brands already have that feature so who wants to do that who isnt a brand. Not sure i get it.
Well, although I cancelled my FB account many days ago; it's a pretty smart move on the side of FB. Obviously getting special news out on top for a fee is a fast money-maker. On the flip, most comments from friends, and family seem to get buried especially if you don't keep a STRICT audit on the friends, and circles.
+Anita Rustandi i think the BBC have a little more creditability than a tumblr site honey bunch...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18033259
David Chan
Facebook is just getting more and more crappy, it's going to be MySpace all over again.
As of yesterday afternoon, FB suddenly won't let me see its full pages, displaying a skeletal version as if my 2010-vintage MacBook is no better than an old Commodore!
Anita Rustandi
+jonathan j sheppard I meant Facebook copied the idea from tumblr, not that BBC copied the news from tumblr.
hahaha sorry +Anita Rustandi i thought you meant it was a fake from Tumblr.... DOH
+jonathan j sheppard Although I love tumblr very much, I know the difference between social media and a legit news site ;) and yes, duh.
Rick Claussen
I left FB a week ago, and although I miss the superficial connections I had with friends of friends of friends, I get more done now.
WOW! It's really not that important to me to let people know what I'm doin'...just sayin'.
That's what happens when you get a bit of success. That is why none of these money hungry companies have the right to question Google when it comes to practices and ethics.
Filip Suciu
Oh the vanity... I can just picture attention whores spending big bucks to have their whiny posts promoted. Now that's quality right there!
What else will they think of in order to rob people... Facebook should be boycotted...
I agree with you too. Facebook isn't always the best place....it's good in some regards.
Google needs to step on top of FB and show the FB fans why it is just another pay site waiting to happen. Remember when everyone said you would have to pay to use it... well here it is... you wanna highlight? Tweet it
That is kind of true. Sometime FB will become a pay site. Google+ is better then FB and it won't be a pay site.
It could work. As long as the rich have important things to say. On second thought, it will fail horribly
ridiculous ! It's only time before FB goes the way of myspace then they will sell and use all the information they have collected on its users
I love the age of Big Brother
I love the age of Big Brother
Money talks, I guess. Facebook has the tendency to tell you how you should communicate with your friends. They change their structure like I change my underwear resulting in people freaking out because they can't figure out how to navigate using the new site. They also have the tendency to share your info without warning you then you find out from your friends seeing stuff about you that you didn't really want to share. They should probably redirect their domain to JerrySpringer.com with all of the stuff you find out about your friends that they they didn't agree to sharing on fb. I'm a Google person because they are professional with everything they do.
To play devils advocate a little bit, every company which provides a service must be able to make money somehow in order to stay in business. There are two major ways to do it advertising or subscription, I'm not terribly surprised facebook is trying to create another stream of revenue since many people pay as little attention to advertising as possible. I'm not saying I like it, I'm just saying as consumers of free goods we have to get used to some degree of something so facebook can make money.
That includes google+ as well. If they can't make money off us from turning our activity here into cash in their search engine game then they will find some other way to leverage all the eyes on google+
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Mike Birbiglia's beautiful, sneakily profound comedy shows a world where "Yes, and ... " is the default.
Mike Birbiglia's beautiful, sneakily profound comedy shows a world where "Yes, and ... " is the default.
The Star Wars-ification of Star Trek continues; better than the others, but still not good enough.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
Ken Loach's "I, Daniel Blake" wins the Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
Barbara Scharres on the cats of Cannes 2016.
"It's a madhouse!"
Wednesday, July 18, is the 20th anniversary of our marriage. How can I begin to tell you about Chaz? She fills my horizon, she is…
Writers at RogerEbert.com pick their favorite movies featuring star-crossed lovers.
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An interview with Kathleen Reinmuth and Cathy Rock, the subjects of "Inquiring Nuns."
Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor-in-Chief of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine, the creator of many video essays about film history and style, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and the author of The Wes Anderson Collection. His writing on film and TV has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, New York Press, The Star-Ledger and Dallas Observer. (Banner illustration by Max Dalton)
Scout Tafoya's video essay series "The Unloved' continues with a piece on "Tron: Legacy". To say that critical consensus has yet to swing around on this film would be an understatement. When it came out in 2010, it was widely dismissed as a ridiculously delayed and altogether unnecessary sequel to a box-office bomb (Steven Lisberger's "Tron," released in 1982) that was fondly remembered by few.
One of the hardy champions was Roger Ebert, whose four-star rave prompted more than a few raised eyebrows. Aside from its then-groundbreaking computerized vistas—most of which were achieved through old-fashioned analog special effects, and on 35mm film no less—"Tron" was a dud as classically-styled storytelling, especially when you compared it to the other big sci-fi offerings that summer, "E.T.," "Blade Runner," "The Thing" and "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan."
And yet, if you can set the original film's nearly nonexistent dramaturgy aside (perhaps by deciding that if it didn't care about such things, we shouldn't either), there's much in it to celebrate. Roger was right to praise its visual boldness. The film was a sustained daydream, sometimes a nightmare. It immersed viewers in an alternate universe comprised (like the titular universe in "The Matrix") of ones and zeroes, until its "reality" became, simply, reality. Lisberger's approach now seems eerily ahead-of-the-curve. Few 1982 critics understood what he was trying to do. Roger was one. "The movie addresses itself without apology to the computer generation, embracing the imagery of those arcade video games that parents fear are rotting the minds of their children," he wrote.
Joseph Kosinski's follow up is made in the same spirit, but there's 28 years more technological evolution to chew over. Kosinski addresses it all as Lisberger did: too bluntly in dialogue, but eloquently via picture and sound, with newer, more supple tools. "Tron: Legacy" captures the buzzing trance of early 21st century consciousness, with its nonstop waves of electronic stimuli eroding the shores of concentration. It's "the Internet actualized," Scout says; "a litany of nonstop emphasis" that is "all surface." The movie "looks into a future where, thanks to motion picture technology, flesh becomes virtual, allowing the vicarious enjoyment of any dream or nightmare we can choose." — Matt Zoller Seitz
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Entering ancient city of Rotenburg. RYF writes - so interesting - spared by wars
Entering Rotenburg - flower boxes
Children in square looking at clock - clock Glockenspiel 1631 saved by 1 citizen
clock to strike - saved by 1 citizen daring to drink 3.5 quarts wine at one gulp
town hall 1240 c new addition 1572
Fountain in Rotenburg Square
Hotel Eisenhut, Rotenburg
street scene
German street scene
Narrow German street
Hotel - Golden Hind sign
Wood Gatherers Rotenburg
Manure Pile
Manure pile by front door!
Relative - Anna Barbara "Babette" Wellhoefer Leidel
Anna Barbara "Babette" Wellhofec Leide
Relative's tavern
Trees growing against building
All dressed up
Betty says this is Georg Andreas Leidel
Goose woman
Pforshheim snack bar - July 2, 1950 - Peg, B, RA, Bob Ware
Pforshheim snack bar - July 2, 1950 - B, Peg, RA, Bob, R
Bob Ware - street fair in background
Salamander store in Mannheim
Salamander shoe store
Mannheim street
US soldiers with German woman
Girl Guide flag in Germany
Street scene - hotel
Hotel we stayed
On hotel balcony
Balcony scene
Horse with ear protectors
Quaint sign
Paintings on house near Oberammagau
Painting over doorway
Post cards for sale Coca Cola everywhere
Paintings on house
Us in square at Garmish going to PX for breakast
Childen going to church - in white
Street scene Innsbruck
From roof - Innsbruck
Church where King Maxmillian is buried, Innsbruck
Emperor Maxmillian tomb - only he's buried in Vienna - Innsbruck Austria - July 8, 1950 - we are the ones looking at it with the Wares
Corner of building
On balcony
in Austria just before we crossed the border - where we spent the night - Our room had a balcony - cost 50 cents July 9, 1950
Sunday morning breakast
Going to church on a bicycle
dignified old lady on her way to church - taken outside of the little 'Gasthaus" we stayed near the German-Austrian Border - 6 of us for $1.50. July, 1960
Eagles Nest entrance
Goebel's House
Ruins of barracks
Mt nr Berchtesgarden
View from Eagles' Nest - Hitler's hideout
Window view from Eagle's Nest
Hitler's window - Bob Ware, RYF, BEF and RAF on right corner
Typical Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes - Berchtesgarden - July 9, 1950
Sunday group Berchtesgarten
Austrian dress
Austrian costumes
Austrian men
close up
street Berchtesgarten
German traffic cop
Traffic cap Berctesgarten
paintings on front of building
restaurant menu Berchtesgarten
roadside shrine
family by shrine
street fair
Street fair
Customs and RYF
American and German customs at the German border - returning from Salzburg Austria - July 9, 1950
German and American customs
Munich parliment building
Munich university
Heidelberg. It is a building called "Ottheinrichsbau" and it is part of the castle. It was destroyed ages ago during a big fire in 1764 and was never rebuilt.
Heidelberg.a building called "Ottheinrichsbau"
Figge at the Austria-German border - July 1950


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On CentOS release 6.4, I am trying to run a binary. However, it gives the following complaint:
(...) requires "/lib/libuuid.so.1" to function.
From a quick search, I can see that the only similar file I have is the following:
After Googling around, I've found some people claiming that the libraries in 6.4 are "multi arch"; does this mean that you do no longer need separate libraries for 32 and 64 bit? Because when I try to install another version as per this guide (which worked great for a similar libstdc error), it won't let me:
# yum install libuuid-2.17.2-12.9.el6.i686
Protected multilib versions: libuuid-2.17.2-12.9.el6.i686 != libuuid-2.17.2-12.9.el6_4.3.x86_64
So, what am I doing wrong here? Is the binary at fault for not detecting the multiarch/"multilib" library? Am I at fault for not providing a valid library? I'm a bit confused as you can probably tell.


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$13 million awarded to SCTCC and consortium for RAMR program
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8,700. That's the number of Minnesota manufacturing workers who either lost their jobs due to foreign trade or have been under constant danger of job loss since January 1, 2007. Complicating that dynamic is the fact that manufacturers across the state are experiencing a severe skills gap – they...(Read full article)
SCTCC driving technical education once again
Posted: 09/19/2012 - 3:39pm in News
SCTCC announced the official groundbreaking for the much-anticipated expansion and renovation of Medium Heavy Truck and Auto Body Labs.
The Groundbreaking Ceremony takes place Monday, October 8 from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Construction is funded by a $4 million capital bonding request...(Read full article)
SCTCC Recognized Again as Military Friendly School®
Posted: 09/17/2012 - 4:54pm in News
G.I. Jobs, the premier magazine for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, has awarded St. Cloud Technical & Community College the designation of Military Friendly School® for the second year in a row.
The 2013 Military Friendly Schools list honors the top 15 percent of...(Read full article)
SCTCC welcomes Geringhoff
Posted: 09/17/2012 - 4:54pm in News
The German farm implement company, Geringhoff, announced September 11 plans to open its first North American manufacturing plant in St. Cloud.
St. Cloud Technical & Community College will partner with the company to provide training and workforce development..
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Free Obstetric Ultrasound Scanning Offered at SCTCC
Posted: 08/31/2012 - 2:38pm in News
From September 12 through December 18, the St. Cloud Technical & Community College Sonography Program will be performing ultrasound scans for pregnant women. This opportunity will provide second-year sonography students with practical experience and will be performed with program staff...(Read full article)
Mary Stangler Center receives international certification
Posted: 08/28/2012 - 9:33am in Academics
SCTCC's Mary Stangler Center for Academic Success received level 1 international certification by the College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA).
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Ticketing for no parking permit will be enforced starting September 10th.
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To learn more about parking permits at SCTCC, view the parking permits page.
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Nursing graduates excel on NCLEX
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SCTCC's 2012 practical nursing graduates had a 100% pass rate on the NCLEX-PN® (44 of 44 first-time candidates taking the national licensure examination).
SCTCC's first-ever graduating class in the new Associate Degree in Nursing Mobility program had a 94.6% pass rate (36 of 38), placing...(Read full article)
10th Graders Now Eligible to Take PSEO at SCTCC
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Minnesota 10th grade students are now eligible to earn college credits from SCTCC through the Post-Secondary Enrollment Option (PSEO) under a revised state law that took effect in July.
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SCTCC alumnus Alfredo Oliveira is among six members of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) board of trustees appointed by Governor Mark Dayton; among the trustees are Margaret Anderson Kelliher, who Dayton beat in the 2010 DFL gubernatorial primary.
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If April was bad for Apple on the security front, May seems to offer little respite. Reports indicate of a possible oversight on Apple engineers' behalf that potentially exposes the user's password in clear-text.The problem is related to FileVault, the file encryption technology that ships with Apple's Mac operating system, specifically Macs using the FileVault encryption version that shipped pre-Lion. According to David I Emery, who reported the issue on a mailing list, every time the user's FileVault protected home-directory is mounted via the network, the user's password in logged to a file in clear-text.This type of logging is common when developers are testing code internally, but shipping this in production or user-facing code is unacceptable. This log file, and thus the password, is accessible to any user with root or admin privileges. With access to the password, the root or admin user can now see contents of the user's FileVault encrypted folder.The issue, first reported on May 5th, affects Mac users who moved their FileVault encrypted folders to Lion from legacy versions of Mac OS X. Users utilizing Lion's Filevault 2 (whole disk encryption) remain unaffected.As per Emery, the bug was introduced with Mac OS Lion 10.7.3 update in early February. Apple has not released any comment confirming or denying the problem till date.April saw over 550,000 Macs affected by Flashback trojan, with Apple scrambling to check the spread and release a fix. Later security major Trend Micro released a damning report, citing Apple's poor security record in Q1 2012.
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Study: Social Trumps Mobile for Retailers' 2014 Holidays Spend
Going into the 2014 holiday shopping season, retailers are spending more on tools focused on data capture (social media, email and SEO) than on mobile, according to a July survey conducted by Edelman Berland on behalf of eBay Enterprise.
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Skechers Increases Conversions with New Social Q&A Tool
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Definition of poly in English:
noun (plural polys)informal
Example sentences
- Stretch Twill is a poly/rayon/Lycroflex blend that is both comfortable and very flexible, and offers a casual look with sacrificing performance.
- The Stretch Twill Pro Bowler, style BRS-007 from Boardroom, is a poly/rayon with Lycroplex blend that is a more mobile and comfortable version of Boardroom's microfibre fabric.
- The existing men's style is a short-sleeve poly/rayon blend with some surface detail and a soft hand to give it an upscale look and feel.
Example sentences
- First, the old polytechnics were rebranded as universities - a process of levelling-down that has really meant many old universities becoming polys in all but name.
- But media studies at a former poly faces an extra battle to gain credibility among the very media it seeks to understand.
- Fake your CV so it shows you failed most of your A-levels and just managed to scrape a third-class management degree from a former poly your dad bunged a few thousand quid to, and you will be an irresistible prospect.
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- Other, tougher polyethylene options are woven poly and high-density polyethylene, a honeycombed material with better energy efficiency.
- Usually one large sheet 7 of poly is used for all four walls of a room in a building.
Words that rhyme with polyBarbirolli, brolly, collie, dolly, folly, golly, holly, jolly, lolly, Mollie, molly, nollie, Ollie, polly, trolley, volley, wally
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"Rex Ryan has the defense heading in the right direction but their starting QB will not only be a rookie but one that started only 16 games in college. Laveranues Coles is gone, Chris Baker is gone too ,which means Dustin Keller will be less of a receiving threat and used more to block.
"Thomas Jones is now 31-years old and before Brett Favre showed up he rushed for just 3.6 YPC in 2007. The Jets potentially will have one of the worst offense in the league."
- Bleacher Report "Analyst" Matt Cullen.
There is a big mistake that football fans consistently make every single year; they think they have any idea what is going to happen. People make mistakes on predictions before the season and they make mistakes by jumping on or off a bandwagon too early in a season as opposed to sticking to their guns.
However, I have a prediction that I would like to take back. A profuse apology to Mark Sanchez, to Rex Ryan, to Thomas Jones, and while I am at it I apologize to the entire New York Jets team.
I was wrong about the New York Jets, dead wrong. I am drinking the Rex Ryan Kool-Aid.
Regardless of what the Miami Dolphins do tonight against the Indianapolis Colts, two weeks into the season and the New York Jets are in sole possession of 1st place in the AFC East.
Mark Sanchez, the rookie QB from USC looks like the pro-style offense he was apart of in college has done well in getting him prepared. Very solid numbers for a rookie, 435 total passing yards in two games with two TDs, one INT, and a QB rating of 91.3.
That current QB rating is 10th in the league. Jerricho Cotchery, Chansi Stuckey, and Dustin Keller all have made solid contributions in the receiving game with a combined 25 catches, 394 receiving yards and a defense.
Remember that aging RB named Thomas Jones? He had over 100 yards rushing in Week One against the Houston Texans who I think have a pretty good front seven. Jones and Leon Washington have paired well together in the first two games averaging just under 140 YPG on the ground in the first two match-ups.
And while it is encouraging how well the rookie QB is playing and how strong the running game is, the key has been the defense. Not only second in PPG allowed and YPG allowed, they have done it against two of the best offenses in the NFL.
The New York Jets defense has a new attitude and a new energy, absolutely bumrushing first Matt Schaub and now Tom Brady. Lots of blitzing, offensive lines bewildered, and QBs in panic.
As a collective unit, the New York Jets only have two total sacks on the year but the sacks total hardly tells the story. Both QBs have had hands in their face, gotten hurried out of the pocket, and gotten battered and bruised.
Newcomers to the defense such as ILB Bart Scott, CB Lito Sheppard, and SS Jim Leonhard are making immediate impacts. Derrelle Revis appears to be turning into one of the best corners in the league and the unit is also getting good contributions from FS Kerry Rhodes, ILB David, NT Kris Jenkins and many others.
Yesterday's game in particular stood out because of who they played and circumstances attached to the game. The New England Patriots have dominated the AFC East since the beginning of the decade. In 2007 they had an offensive season that could only be described as historic.
With QB Tom Brady back in the lineup, the New England Patriots have virtually the same offense as that 2007 offense. Out are WRs Donte Stallworth and Jabar Gaffney but in are RB Fred Taylor and WR Joey Galloway.
If this wasn't enough, the New York Jets did the unthinkable and talked trash before the game. FS Kerry Rhodes said that the Jets wanted to embarrass the New England Patriots. This historically always ends poorly, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick beats every little snippet that could possibly be perceived as trash-talk or disrespectful into the ground, putting the New England Patriots in a frenzy.
In 2007 the San Diego Chargers had some fun with the Spygate controversy right before their Week Two matchup against the New England Patriots. The San Diego Chargers, best record in the AFC the season before, got clobbered at home against the Pats 38-14.
Later that season Pittsburgh Steelers FS Anthony Smith predicted victory against the undefeated New England Patriots only to see Tom Brady target him relentlessly when he was on the field as the New England Patriots lit up the scoreboard against one of the best defense of the league, winning that game 34-13.
Before Super Bowl XXXIX, Philadelphia Eagles WR Freddie Mitchell didn't know the names of opposing players in the New England Patriots secondary, he probably found out later as he was a complete non-factor in the game with just one catch for 11 yards. The Eagles would lose that game and Mr. Mitchell and his mouth wouldn't play another down in an NFL game.
You get the point the track record is bad, the New York Jets had just written their suicide note. They then proceeded to look at the note and smirk, and then smack the New England Patriots upside the head in a 16-9 battle.
Tom Brady had a small stretch in the 2nd quarter where it looked like he might be solving the New York Jets defense. He never did figure that out, completing less than 50% of his passes with one INT and a QB rating of 53.1. Sunday's game marked the first time since 2006 that the New England Patriots failed to score an offensive TD.
Randy Moss was held to four catches for just 24 yards and Ben Watson had three catches for 23 yards. Joey Galloway did a little better with five catches for 53 yards and Julian Edelman did his best Wes Welker impersonation with eight catches and nearly 100 receiving yards but not enough to put any noticeable chink in the armor of the New York Jets defense.
We were reminded one thing on Sunday and learned another; we got to see Bill Belichick struggle to make eye contact when shaking hands after the game again, and that the Patriots will be in an absolute dogfight trying to reclaim the AFC East.
The Patriots were given one last shot to score a game-tying TD with less than two minutes to go, 90 yards to go. If I wasn't interesting in seeing the Jets reactions after the game I would have changed the channel, because there was no doubt in my mind that the game was over.
The Jets did what the Buffalo Bills could not...Close. Coffee is for closers only and the Jets knew that.
The New England Patriots giant leash over the rest of the AFC East has been ripped off and they appear to have at least one fearsome foe in the division for years to come.
The New York Jets appear to have improved drastically in defense, drastically at head coach, and they no longer have an aging QB that will physically collapse in the final five games of the season.
Everything about the 2009 New York Jets screams SB contenders, everything about Mark Sanchez seems to scream franchise QB, and everything about Rex Ryan seems to hint that the take-off on the Chuck Norris jokes when he was hired seems more valid than we originally thought.
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Many of those needing nets were disabled, ill or elderly:
Joseph Oyugi is a 94-year-old widower who lives alone. Having lost his sight in old age, he depends on the help of his daughter-in-law, who lives nearby, to cook and care for him. In his long life, Joseph has experienced malaria many, many times. When malaria symptoms arise, Joseph's son purchases the medicine to treat the illness. The new net delivered by volunteers from the Samanga Lutheran Parish replaced a net that was old and worn out.
Fleria Hayieniba is a widow who lives alone in a small two-room house made of mud walls with a rusted tin roof. In her late 80s, Fleria has lost her sight, most likely as a result of years of smoke damage to her eyes from leaning over a cooking fire. We delivered a net to Fleria and hung it in her sleeping room so that she would be protected from malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Six people live in the home of Pacifica Nyaboke, including her 12-year-old granddaughter, Lydia, whom we met the day we brought nets to Pacifica's house. Lydia was born with a club foot and weakened joints, which make it very difficult for her to get around. Lack of money prevented Pacifica from replacing the worn bed nets she and her family were sleeping under. We left two nets with Pacifica to cover the shared sleeping spaces in her home.


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We stayed for 2 weeks over Christmas. With the village quite high (1750m) and and Big White's snow record we knew we would be OK for snow so early in the season, and we were not disappointed. We are good intermediates and loved the harder blues and un-bashed blacks but we were there to improve our off piste powder skills and tree skiing. Virtually the whole mountain is open to skiing and the opportunity to cut your own route through the trees and powder is unlimited and so much fun. We simply could to get enough of it and spent every day smiling from ear to ear! We were here without our family so had little interest in the night life, except we enjoyed the variety of restaurants and could see that there was lots to do should you come as a family. Happy Valley with it's ice wall, skating rink etc is all set up to give the kids a good time. Temperatures were a steady -7 to -9, perfect for keeping the snow in top condition and we must have had over 2 feet of snow during our stay, proving lots of untracked powder to pay in. The only downside, that sadly comes with good snow and lots of it, is the almost constant cloud and mist. In 2 weeks we only had 3 blue bird days, but you know what we did not come for a suntan, but to improve our skiing and boy did we do that!
I think that it is a nice touch that off the top of every chair there is a green run, which makes the mountain accessible to everyone and which can also be a great escape route if the weather really closes in and you can not see your feet! Compared to Europe it is so quiet on the slopes and therefore much less dangerous, and don't be fooled as some of the Canadians' blue runs are the equivalent of Europes hardest Reds, and some they do not bash just to make life a little more challenging.
Perhaps I should also mention the local guiding. Every day local volunteers meet new visitors in the village centre, split people by ability and take you for a tour of the mountain. It is a great fast track way of meeting people and getting the map of the place in your head. Brilliant - Europe would do well to do the same.
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Is this blacked out in Indiana?
Why would it be?
Comcast has it listed on both FSI and NBATV, we'll see which one shows it
ehhh. let's do this. Got some shine! haha
I'm staying up. slept in this morning just for this game.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
I wonder if Holick is going to the game.
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the Bulls wouldn't spring for their announcers to go overseas with the team, they called their game from a studio off a monitor. Reinsdorf's cheapness cracks me up.
What are they doing? Kissing that dude's ring?
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Boyle wasn't lying about the PA being loud as hell
Nevermind. Its on FSMW for me not FSI
Stop quoting people I have on ignore!
get that stuff outta here Dwight. Roy makes Howard look small.
Great block, Roy
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Blacked out in Indy.
F**K the NBA. Blacking a game in Asia out. Unreal
Stop quoting people I have on ignore!
Anyone watching on Directv? Not coming in here.
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Quinn sounds drunk somebody take the microphone away from that guy.
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Corruption and subsidiary profitability: US MNC subsidiaries in the Asia Pacific region
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Would multinational corporation (MNC) subsidiaries be more profitable in host countries where corruption is less severe? Would MNC subsidiaries be more profitable in less corrupt countries if they focus on local sales? This paper examines the impact of the level of corruption on the profitability of US MNCs in the Asia Pacific region. Using foreign direct investment (FDI) data archived by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis and corruption data reported by the World Bank, we find that MNC subsidiaries located in countries with a lower level of corruption are more profitable. In addition, MNC subsidiaries with a greater focus on local sales are more profitable when the corruption level is low. This study contributes to the literature by showing that when local sales are important to MNC subsidiaries, a lower level of corruption by host countries positively affects the profitability of the MNC subsidiaries.
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Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers: The White House is having a hard time generating any momentum for fast-track trade authority for the TPP and other agreements.
Teaching Is Relationship Building: Something School Reformers Often Forget
Mark Naison: If you rotate teachers in and out of schools at a dizzying rate and create pressures that drive them out of the profession after a few years, you will destroy the relationship building component that is at the heart of great teaching.
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Randy Shaw: The federal government's slashing of funding for urban America has made all cities more dependent on corporate investment than at any time since the 1930's, raising new challenges for urban progressives.
What Will the Democratic Left Do in 2012?
Lawrence Wittner: Contrasting the administration's all-out effort to save Wall Street with its indifference to Main Street, many progressives wonder if they have gained anything worthwhile with Obama's election.
Debunking the Iran "Terror Plot"
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UPS Gets European Antitrust Objections Over TNT Review
United Parcel Service Inc., the world's biggest package-delivery company, said it will respond within a couple of weeks to antitrust objections from European Union regulators reviewing its purchase of TNT Express NV.
The so-called statement of objections sent today to UPS is a "normal step" and "does not prejudge the final outcome of the case," the companies said today in a news release. Atlanta-based UPS and TNT Express reiterated their plan to complete the transaction in early 2013.
Such statements list regulators' concerns about a deal, and the details are typically kept private. Spokesmen for UPS, Hoofddorp, Netherlands-based TNT and the European Commission declined to comment on the contents of the EU document.
"The market has come to an understanding that there were going to need to be adjustments to the deal," said Ben Hartford, a Robert W. Baird & Co. analyst in Milwaukee. "There still is an expectation that a deal will get done. Obviously, the unknowable at the moment is, 'To what level will UPS be able to acquire TNT?'"
UPS may need to offer concessions aimed at eliminating possible competition issues outlined in the document, two people familiar with the matter said last week. One TNT business that will need to be sold is the company's airline, because EU rules prohibit foreign ownership of air carriers.
Donald Broughton, an analyst with Avondale Partners LLC in St. Louis, said he was disappointed that UPS and TNT didn't reveal specifics about regulators' objections.
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"Most were expecting there to be at least some detail as to what in particular the European Commission was taking issue with, which there's not," Broughton said. "There's so much uncertainty here that any clearing up of the uncertainty would be good news."
UPS slid 1.8 percent to $72.30 at the close in New York, joining a decline among major stock indexes. Broughton has a market underperform rating on the stock, while Hartford rates the shares as neutral. TNT Express dropped 2.2 percent to 7.88 euros in Amsterdam.
UPS agreed in March to buy TNT for 5.16 billion euros ($6.7 billion), or 9.5 euros a share in cash. The deal will double its size in Europe and vault it to equal footing there with Deutsche Post AG's DHL, the market-share leader. The tie-up with money-losing TNT will immediately add to earnings on an adjusted basis once the purchase is done, UPS said at the time.
EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said on Oct. 2 that the UPS deal may reduce from four to three the number of companies that control pan-European parcel-transport networks. Regulators would analyze whether the UPS-TNT Express combination would be "challenged enough" by DHL and FedEx Corp., he said.
UPS and TNT reiterated today that they "believe competition in Europe continues to be significant, coming from multiple players who offer similar services."


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Crime | A man in Augusta, Georgia, told police someone stole his collection of nearly 30,000 comics from a storage building at his friend's home sometime between Nov. 13 and Dec. 30. Although the 85 boxes allegedly included signed issues, police valued the comics at just $1 each. [The Augusta Chronicle]
Publishing | ICv2 concludes its three-part interview with Marvel Publisher Dan Buckley with questions about variant covers, Marvel NOW!, and staying in New York City. [ICv2]
Publishing | Heidi MacDonald profiles new graphic novel publisher Magnetic Press, which is spearheaded by former Archaia and BOOM! Studios executives Mike Kennedy and Wes Harris. Magnetic will launch in April with a varied line that will focus strongly, but not exclusively, on translations of French comics. [Publishers Weekly]
Passings | Artist Janice Valleau Winkelman, creator of the detective Toni Gayle, passed away on Dec. 8 at age 90. Winkleman, who drew under her maiden name Janice Valleau, had polio as a child and wore a brace through school. Her first work was published in Smash Comics in 1939, when she was 16. She studied at the Phoenix Art Institute and moved to New York, where she found steady work as a penciler and inker for Archie Comics and Quality Comics. She left the industry during the anti-comic crusades of the 1950; author David Hajdu profiled her in the prologue to his chronicle of those times, The Ten Cent Plague. According to the Grand Comics Database, one of her stories was reprinted as recently as last April, in Archie Double Digest #238. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Welcome to Best of 7, our new weekly wrap-up post here at Robot 6. Each Sunday we'll talk about, as it says above, "The best in comics from the last seven days" — which could be anything from an exciting piece of news to a cool publisher's announcement to an awesome comic that came out on Wednesday.
So without further ado, let's get to it …
One of Gilbert Hernandez's long-uncollected works will be uncollected no more, as Dark Horse has announced it will release a hardcover edition of Grip, The Strange World of Men on July 2.
While the original 2002, five-issue miniseries was in color, the 128-page trade collection ($19.99) will be in black and white but will feature two new pages by the Love and Rockets co-author.
ROBOT 6 readers with good memories might recall that I wrote about Grip earlier this year, lamenting that it was, to my knowledge, the only work by Hernandez that had never been compiled into book form.
To describe Grip's plot takes some effort, as this is one of Hernandez's more surreal and deliriously and wacky stories, involving a wide cast that includes an amnesiac young man, a pair of police detectives, a trio of Amazonian adventurers, another trio of gun-wielding gangsters, a sweet little old lady, a dwarf couple and a little girl with an eyepatch. As I wrote in May:
The story begins with the amnesiac young man wandering around a nondescript city and being assaulted by some of the people mentioned above for reasons that are murky at best. The story takes an even stranger left turn, however, when the man literally loses his skin at the end of the first issue and starts walking around beaches spouting seemingly half-remembered phrases. The skin starts to take on a life of its own as well.
2013 has blessed us with a bumper crop of great books by Hernandez that includes the critically acclaimed Marble Season and Julio's Day, as well as Children of Palomar and Maria M. With Dark Horse planning to release Grip in addition to the collected edition of his more recent Fatima miniseries, it seems as though 2014 will continue that trend well into the new year.
I talked with Hernandez over the phone a few days before Thanksgiving about the new collection, the not-so-secret origins of Grip, and what else he's working on.
Creators | Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson and Cul de Sac cartoonist Richard Thompson discuss their mutual admiration and their excitement about exhibiting their work together next spring at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at the Ohio State University. [Comic Riffs]
Legal | Chinese cartoonist Wang Luming, who uses the nom de plume "Rebel Pepper," was arrested Wednesday, one day after he posted an online cartoon critical of police who were facing off with protestors rather than helping flood victims in the city of Yuyao. Residents have been critical of the government response to the flood, which put 70 percent of the city underwater, but a recently passed law suppressing online commentary has muted the criticism on social media. The Beijing Times (part of of the traditional media, which is heavily controlled by the Chinese government) claimed that Wang was arrested not because of the cartoon but because he spread a false rumor online (Reuters reports the police told his girlfriend it was because he forwarded a post about a woman and her child who starved to death in the floods). He was released Thursday and tweeted, "When I have time, I'll tell you about the interesting night I spent at the police station." [Foreign Policy]
Digital comics | It took three years for comiXology to reach 100 million downloads, but just one year for it to reach 200 million. Matthew Flamm profiles the company and its CEO, David Steinberger, who first saw a business opportunity in comics when he was trying to sell his collection and couldn't find software to catalog it. The next big moment for comiXology is likely to come in October, when the fourth season of The Walking Dead premieres on television the same week the 10th-anniversary issue of the comic is released. Image Comics projects it will sell 300,000 print copies and another 45,000, or about 15 percent, as digital. [Crains New York]
Creators | Writer Mark Waid admits he didn't think he'd be a good fit for Daredevil, because he doesn't write in the darker style favored by his predecessors. "I'm better at swashbuckling adventure," he says. "When I was asked to take that tack, I was in." [Comic Riffs]
Awards | Gilbert Hernandez is the recipient of the 2013 PEN Center USA award for outstanding body of work in graphic literature. Drawn and Quarterly announced the honor along with news that it will publish Hernandez's next graphic novel, Bumperhead. [The Comics Reporter]
Conventions | "SPX is all about the hugs," says Heidi MacDonald, who relegates her business piece on the Small Press Expo to Publishers Weekly and turns to her blog to discuss not only her impressions but what folks were saying on social media. [The Beat]
Creators | Stan Lee, characterized by CNN as "the Godfather of comic book heroes," is modest about his own achievements in a new interview: "If my publisher hadn't said 'let's do superhero stories' I'd probably still be doing A Kid Called Outlaw, The Two Gun Kid or Millie the Model or whatever I was doing at the time." He reflects on the increased female audience for comics and discusses some new projects, including a new superhero, The Annihilator, created specifically for a Chinese audience. [CNN]
Comics| Chris Huntington reflects on the importance of Miles Morales for children of color, like his son: "… To see Spider-Man pulling his mask over a tiny brown chin – to see a boy with short curly hair sticking to the ceiling of his bedroom— well, something happened. Dagim has been Spider-Man for two Halloweens in a row. He takes a bath with his Spider-Man and a toy killer whale. He has Spider-Man toothpaste and a Spider-Man toothbrush. If Spider-Man offered medical coverage, I think he would want that, too. My son somehow understands that there is a Peter Parker Spider-Man, who is vaguely grown-up and my age, and a younger Spider-Man, closer to his age. That's just how Dagim likes it. He even understands that Peter Parker — like Superman, like Batman – wasn't raised by his birth parents. The best superheroes were all adopted like him." [The New York Times]
Conventions | Attendance at Denver Comic Con topped 48,000, well over last year's total of 27,700. Crowds were so heavy on opening day that the fire marshal and convention staff turned away 6,000 people. Guests included Star Trek's William Shatner (who was filling in for a double-booked Stan Lee) and George Takei, who stayed late on Friday so every fan could get an autograph. [The Denver Post]
Creators | Gilbert Hernandez talks about Marble Season, which is quite a departure from his previous graphic novels: "I'd been doing too many zombies and too much horror and crime, and I wanted to back off and do something pleasant. But I thought, can I do a pleasant story? And the only pleasant story I have is good memories from childhood. I wanted to connect to readers in a more genial way." [The Telegraph]
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival celebrates its 10th birthday this weekend with a truly stellar lineup of guests and an amazing array of events. The list of creators who will be there is impressive in both its quality and its breadth: Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, David B., Taiyo Matsumoto, Rutu Modan, Frederik Peeters, Paul Pope, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Hope Larson, Faith Erin Hicks, Derf Backderf, Raina Telgemeier, Dave Roman, a roll call that goes from living legends to plucky creators making their own comics zines by hand.
Letting It Go (Drawn and Quarterly): When we last saw Miriam Katin, it was in the pages of her We Are On Our Own, her 2006 graphic memoir about how she and her mother survived the Holocaust, hiding out from the Nazis in the Hungarian countryside. Her new memoir continues that story, by skipping ahead to her current life as a middle-aged artist living in New York City and harboring the deep and bitter prejudices against a city, a country and a people that her childhood understandable instilled in her.
The subject matter is awfully heavy, but it's presented quite lightly — this is a fun, funny comic about a grown woman coming to terms with the irrational prejudices and bias born of the irrational prejudice and biases of others.
When we meet the Miriam of Letting It Go, she and her husband are seemingly living an idyllic artistic life, he in a room playing his clarinet, she procrastinating starting to draw something. When her grown son says he wants to move to Berlin, she reacts negatively instinctively, and gradually comes to terms with it, visiting him in Berlin, and then returning a second time almost immediately in order to see some of her art hanging at a show there, learning the word vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past) and how to start doing it … if not how to pronounce it.
Katin's graphic novel is border-less, the "panels" implied ones formed by the consecutive, often overlapping images, giving the artwork a winding, rhythmic flow that moves over the pages like water. That and the somewhat-sketchy nature of the art, in which you can see each and every line that goes into the drawings, gives the book an incredibly intimate feel, as if a reader has simply discovered Katin's sketchbook, rather than something mass-produced.
What's that, you say? You find it hard to believe there's a comic book series by Gilbert Hernandez that's not only out of print but has never been collected in trade paperback?
Oh, but it's all too true. Read on to learn more …
What is it about childhood that makes us forget about ours so easily? Whether consciously or not, we seem all too eager to not only put our younger years behind us, but obliterate them from our memories. Even as parents we frequently grow exasperated and angry with our own children, seemingly incapable of remembering what it was like to be little.
While many cartoonists are cited for their "childlike" abilities, precious few are able to accurately convey what it actually feels like to be a child – what makes up the significant joys and anxieties of your average 12- or 6- or 3-year-old and how they best express those complicated emotions.
There are a few, however. Lynda Barry is one, Kazuo Umezu is another. Add to that short list Gilbert Hernandez, as evidenced by his latest book, the excellent Marble Season.
It's the episodic story of Huey, a the middle child of a moderately sized family living in California in the mid-1960s. His adventures, such as they are, consist of avoiding scary things, like neighborhood bullies or the crazy lady in the spooky house down the road; discovering cool stuff, like Mars Attacks cards; and inventing and playing games with the kids in the neighborhood. Taking a page from Peanuts, we never see Huey's parents or any of his teachers (indeed we never see him in a classroom). The entire book is staged and presented from the viewpoint of Huey, his brothers and their friends.
Graphic novels | Two volumes of The Walking Dead Compendium topped BookScan's list of the Top 20 graphic novels sold in bookstores in March, and Vol. 60 of Naruto was No. 3, but ICv2 thinks the new Avatar: The Next Airbender graphic novel premiering at No. 4 is headline-worthy. [ICv2]
Awards | With his duties complete, Charles Hatfield describes what it was like to be an Eisner judge. [See Hatfield]
Creators | Gilbert Hernandez talks about his childhood and that influences, from Dennis the Menace to Steve Ditko, that shaped his latest graphic novel, Marble Season. [The Chicago Tribune]
Publishing | Image Comics provided the retail news and analysis website ICv2 with worldwide pre-order figures for 15 of its March titles, allowing for comparison with estimates of Diamond Comic Distributors sales to U.S. direct market stores. [ICv2.com]
Creators | Mark Waid pens a tribute to the late Carmine Infantino. [Hero Complex]
Creators | Gilbert Hernandez distinguishes between autobiography and art in his new graphic novel, Marble Season, which takes on a 1960s suburban childhood not unlike his own. [Chicago Reader]


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Pace plc, the leading developer of digital TV technologies for the payTV industry, today announces it is providing the set-top box technology to support the launch of Malaysia's first high-definition (HD) service. ASTROf ALL ASIA NETWORKS plc (ASTRO), Malaysia's leading cross-media broadcaster and direct-to-home (DTH) satellite payTV operator, has selected Pace for the premium service, which launched in December 2009. ASTRO is Pace's first HD customer in Asia.
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Paul Graham wrote that "The unusual thing about Lisp-- in fact, the defining quality of Lisp-- is that it can be written in itself." But that doesn't seem the least bit unusual or definitive to me.
ISTM that a programming language is defined by two things: Its compiler or interpreter, which defines the syntax and the semantics for the language by fiat, and its standard library, which defines to a large degree the idioms and techniques that skilled users will use when writing code in the language.
With a few specific exceptions, (the non-C# members of the .NET family, for example,) most languages' standard libraries are written in that language for two very good reasons: because it will share the same set of syntactical definitions, function calling conventions, and the general "look and feel" of the language, and because the people who are likely to write a standard library for a programming language are its users, and particularly its designer(s). So there's nothing unique there; that's pretty standard.
And again, there's nothing unique or unusual about a language's compiler being written in itself. C compilers are written in C. Pascal compilers are written in Pascal. Mono's C# compiler is written in C#. Heck, even some scripting languages have implementations "written in itself".
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