text:
Bought my First Tablet – Asus eee Pad Transformer
Finally I've joined the millions and purchased a tablet computer. Of course it was never going to be an iPad, and it didn't necessarily have to be an Android based machine either. After much research and consideration, I've decided to go for an 10-inch Asus eee Pad Transformer. Why this one in particular?
My current situation is that I have a fairly new HP Pavilion dv7 as my daily work computer. While it's a nice brushed aluminium shelled machine, it is quite big with it's 17-inch screen and it is LOUD! The fan never shuts up. It's currently running Linux Mint Debian edition, and I've tried everything to try and keep the temperature down, thus negating the need for constant fan blowing. I've had no luck so far. I also work in multiple locations, from my home office, to my central London office, to various client's offices and finally quite often in Graz, Austria. Hauling this 17-inch behemoth around can be quite taxing at times. It means I always have to carry a reasonably big piece of hand luggage when flying to Graz, and even just on the train into central London, my backpack is pretty heavy. Therefore, my dream was to try and find a tablet that could be substituted for for my laptop as my daily work machine.
I don't do much heavy lifting with my laptop anymore, in terms of transcoding video files and the like, therefore I don't need a massively powerful i7 processor. I do a lot of web browsing, email writing, document creation, spreadsheet manipulation, presentation creation and still image manipulation. Pretty straightforward office type stuff. However, I do appreciate a large screen and decent keyboard. I already have a 10-inch Asus eeePC netbook, which is about 3 years old now. It does a decent job, but I found it difficult to work all day on it, and the single core Atom processor struggled with HD movie playback.
So my plan was to find a tablet that could be plugged into an external monitor at home, at my London office and in Graz. I realise purchasing said monitors will increase overall costs, but it's the trade-off I was prepared to make for not having to carry around a massive laptop.
Asus Transformer ticks many boxes. It has a high quality IPS screen, the same as the iPad 2. It comes with Android 3.0 Honeycomb as standard. It has a built in mini-HDMI port, which means I can connect it to a larger screen quite easily should the need arise. It includes a memory card expansion slot, as is the case with most modern tablets. There is also an optional keyboard docking station, which includes its own battery, extending the overall battery life for this tablet to around 16 hours.
On the negative side, Asus has seen fit to include a proprietary charger, not the usual micro-USB found on most modern phones and many tablets.
I found that Currys in the UK were selling the Asus eee Transformer at prices around about the same as those found on eBay. Brilliant, I could have my new toy immediately. Picture the scene as I walk into my local Currys….
Sales Assistant: Can I help you, Sir?
Me: Yes, I'm looking for an Asus Transformer
Sales Assistant: Oh, I don't think we sell them.
Me: It's on your website and it says you have them in stock.
Sales Assistant: Let me just check with my colleagues. <time passes> No Sir, unfortunately we don't sell them.
Me: I see.
At this point I wander around the shop for a while, until I find the general tablet display section. As I stand looking…..
Sales Assistant (same one as previously): Are you interested in a tablet device, Sir?
Me: Yes, I have already asked you about an Asus Transformer, but you couldn't help me.
Sales Assistant: Oh, it's a tablet?
Me: <incredulous> Yes.
Sales Assistant: Well, let me just go and check in our stock system. <2 minutes later> Good news, Sir, we have them in stock for just £379.
Me: That's without the keyboard docking station. Do you have them for £429 with the docking station, as on your website?
Cutting a longer conversation short, no they did not have them with the docking station. I made them check twice. Ultimately I bought the tablet without the docking station, thinking I will pick one up later as they're only an extra £50. How wrong I was. Once back at home and online, I discovered that as a standalone product, the docking station cannot be found anywhere for less than £100. I think buying the tablet without the docking station was my first mistake, but at least I will have the chance to assess whether an external keyboard is really a necessity.
Hopefully in the next week or 10 days I will be able to post an update regarding how this machine is working out as my primary day-to-day computing device.
April 13, 2012 at 03:57
I was taken aback at the racial denigration; then I realised that there is an electrical appliance store in the UK called Currys…
July 28, 2011 at 15:03


text:
Law Logic
Jeffrie G. Murphy
Arizona State University College of Law
Ethics, Vol. 77, p. 193, 1967
Many commentators have noted that legal reasoning is neither completely inductive nor deductive, and have preferred to classify it as law logic. This article argues that this distinction is misguided. While it is correct to say that the connection between reasons and decisions in the law rests upon the presence of certain conventional rules uniting them, this article argues, however, the presence of these rules does not even justify our calling legal decisions rational in any but a very weak sense. Legal argument employs no special logic and manifests no special pattern of rationality. It begins by considering the relation between evidence and verdicts in criminal law. Then it passes on to the more difficult problems raised primarily in civil law, where the reasoning from case by case by analogy, the most strikingly unique form, exists.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 9
Keywords: Inductive and Deductive Logic, Law Logic, Legal Reasoning
Date posted: September 9, 2009
Suggested Citation
Contact Information
© 2016 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
Contact Us
This page was processed by apollobot1 in 0.172 seconds

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Hugh Morton, author of "The Great American Housing Fiasco," sat down with News 12's Richard Rogers to explain the recent crash and burn of the housing market. (WRDW-TV / March 21, 2012)
News 12 at 6 o'clock / Wednesday, March 21, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The great American Dream became a nightmare for millions of people who lost their homes in the financial collapse. Ironically, a push to get more people into homes of their own may have started the spiral that brought down banks and led to the bailouts.
A Georgia builder who saw it all for himself has written a book on the subject named "The Great American Housing Fiasco."
"I think your homeowners have seen their values, their nest eggs just crumble," said Hugh Morton as he walked down the sidewalk of a local neighborhood.
Morton is the perfect person to write about it. He's a former banker who became a builder.
"Quite candidly, I sat on the bank board of one that failed. I watched how the FDIC did it," he said.
He's seen banks fail, builders go belly-up and hardworking people lose their homes.
"We've been in this thing for three years, of supposed recovery," the author said, "and it's still going down."
Morton said there were a lot of causes for the housing collapse, starting with programs designed to get more people into homes. People who might not have been able to afford them before.
"These are noble goals," Morton said. "Don't misunderstand me. Very noble goals. I spent a lifetime trying to put people into housing."
But many of these loans were for 100 percent. In other words, no money down. What's wrong with a 100 percent loan?
"Number one, " he said, "you got a buyer that has no skin in the deal. You know, rainy day -- hard times, he has no investment -- it's easy to walk on the deal. If they can't save a little money for a down payment, how can we expect 'em to make a mortgage payment?"
In short, Morton says the easy money let people buy more house than they could really afford.
Even if you're not buying or selling a home, don't make the mistake of thinking none of this matters to you. One big problem for you could be as close as the home down the street in foreclosure. Once a home in your neighborhood goes into foreclosure, it can bring down the value of the homes around it -- even if those families never missed a mortgage payment. When the bank cuts the price and sells a foreclosure, appraisals nearby can drop, too.
"We need to make 'em accountable," Morton said, talking about the banks. "If nothing else, they can put a sign in the yard telling them who's fixing to destroy their values -- make 'em publish it in the newspaper."
In his book, Morton makes the argument that there's plenty of blame to go around: from the people who took on homes they couldn't afford to the banks that loaned them the money. He lays blame at the feet of developers who got greedy during the good times and the builders who did the same.
"I still have a bunch of lots I'm sitting on for three years now," he admitted. "And they've devalued so much, there's nothing I can do with them."
And Morton said things won't improve until builders can once again buy a lot, build a home and make money on the deal.
If there's any good news in any of this, with a lot of homes on the market and interest rates historically low, it's still a buyers' market. That is, if you don't have to sell your own home first.
"The Great American Housing Fiasco" is available online at Amazon or Barnes & Noble or you can go to thegreatamericanhousingfiasco.com to find out more.


text:
Join Us
Tag Archives: why cats fear of drving in a car
Travel Thursday: Why cats don´t like to ride in a car?
Cats, unlike dogs, do not enjoy riding in the car. Although it is impossible to explain exactly why cats do not like to ride in the car, some of their common features can be clarified with the discomfort that creates … Continue reading


text:
From the Mercury News, Sept. 4, 1994:
Kaiser Drive in Fremont is no place for a guru.
The view is uninspiring. The graceless electronics plants that loom like giant white salt licks on fertile bottom land by the Dumbarton Bridge do not lend themselves to big-time dreaming.
Douglas Engelbart does not complain about the view from Kaiser Drive. These days, he's grateful for the space. From his tiny office right off the main lobby of Logitech's headquarters building, he can see the future. He sees a future in which people work together, harnessing all the knowledge they share to solve mankind's great problems.
Nobody else can see what Engelbart sees. And therein lies one of the saddest stories in Silicon Valley history.
Every society must have a few first-class prophets, the deep-thinking cats who gaze at the horizon while the rest of us plod along with nose down to the grass. Their job is to tell us what direction to go and where we'll be in two or 20 years. Engelbart is one of those cats. "Doug is sort of like Moses, parting the Red Sea, " says Howard Rheingold, author of "The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier." "You know, he's got the white hair and the far-off look in his eyes. And he really did deliver several generations of researchers."
If this valley were a meritocracy, Engelbart would be holding court in a palatial university office or high atop some mountain, with students and seekers at his feet.
It's fitting that Logitech, one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer mice, would shelter a 69-year-old researcher who's been all but forgotten by industry and academia. Call it a prophet-sharing plan. "They're very good to me here, " says the man who invented the mouse.
Next weekend, the pioneers who built the Internet 25 years ago will gather in Boston for two days of toasts, speeches and media events. It's a big-money reunion, sponsored by Bolt, Beranek and Newman, the key contractor that built the first stretch of the information highway. Engelbart, who was on the receiving end of the first network transmission, will be there -- gently reminding anyone who will listen that the job is not finished yet.
For any ordinary computer scientist, being the recipient of the first network message in history would be the crowning achievement of a career. For Engelbart, it's not even a minor chapter. What happened that day in his laboratory at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) is little more than an interesting footnote in a brilliant 40-year run that includes prescient achievements in teleconferencing, interface design, multimedia and text handling. As the New York Times put it several years back, "Silicon Valley has spent the last 20 years implementing ideas Engelbart first demonstrated in the 1960s."
By rights, Engelbart should be a bitter, hateful old man. Imagine for a second if you had correctly predicted two or three full cycles of technology, only to see the industries you dreamed up turn their back on you. You would be hopping mad. You would be ready to tear the chips right off the motherboards with your teeth. But that's not Engelbart.
If there's one thing every researcher who came in contact with him in the glory days can agree on, it's this: Douglas Engelbart is one of the kindest, most gentle men they've ever met. He is the anti-Bill Gates. He is the nice guy who finished last.
Receiving a visitor on a recent afternoon at Logitech, he looks like a retiree who should be piloting a Winnebago down Highway 1 rather than plotting the next cycle in telecommunications. With his silver mane and his sensible windbreaker, Engelbart, who lives in Atherton with his wife of 43 years, is a grandfatherly presence in a building full of people who weren't even born when he invented the mouse.
The visitor asks about how it felt to drive the very first stretch of the digital highway 25 years ago. He smiles and waves off the question, explaining why the anniversary is not terribly important to him:
"There were so many advances on so many fronts at that time. By the time ARPANET (the precursor to today's Internet) went up, I'd been working 15 years on the ideas of how to augment human intelligence. And in 1968, we'd put on a presentation at a computer conference in San Francisco where we'd demonstrated real-time video-conferencing. So you have to understand, we thought the network would just extend our reach, give more people access to the things we were developing."
Engelbart was one of the first, if not the first, to think of computers as communications devices rather than just giant adding machines. As early as 1950, at a time there were no more than a dozen electronic computers in the world, he was thinking about manipulating symbols on screens. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering in 1955 from the University of California, Berkeley. After a one-year stint as an assistant professor at Berkeley, he moved to SRI, which was, at that time, associated with Stanford University.
He'd spend the next 20 years at SRI, 18 of them running his own lab, with as many as 47 scientists working under him. The short list of Engelbart breakthroughs includes on-screen windows, the mouse (and a five-finger key set to go with it), teleconferencing, real-time collaboration and hypertext (a non-linear way of organizing vast amounts of information).
These technologies were all part of a bigger vision he had, which involved groups of workers using the powerful tools to speed up the cycles of innovation -- a concept he called "bootstrapping." Some say Engelbart piloted himself from the fast lane of high-tech to a lonely dead end because he refused to let go of a vision that was too big to ever work.
Rheingold puts it this way: "The mouse, as Doug will continue to tell you, is a small part of a larger picture, which is in turn part of an even larger system. People have fixated themselves on pieces of hardware or pieces of software. From the very beginning he was saying, 'You gotta look at this as a whole.' "
By 1974, Engelbart had gone as far as he could to get the other researchers in the lab behind "augmentation, " his total system for collaborative problem-solving. "It was the way we lived back then, " he says, noting proudly that the day-to-day work setup at SRI had tools -- such as his hypertext system -- that were more than 20 years ahead of the curve. Then, he started to encounter resistance among his staff. Fourteen of his researchers would eventually migrate to the Xerox Corp.'s legendary Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). As interest in his work lagged at SRI, Engelbart himself moved to Tymshare, the company that bought the rights to his "augmentation" technology in 1977.
Jon Postel had been a grad student working at UCLA at the time of the first network transmission. He later went to work for Engelbart, just as the exodus to PARC was under way. Today, he calls Engelbart's estrangement from the industry he pioneered "a tragic story." Postel believes Engelbart's dogged determination to stick with his big vision cost him in the long run. "When I worked for him, I would go into his office, and we would sit together and work with things on the screen and talk. It all made wonderful sense to me while we were talking, and then I'd leave his office and say to myself, 'Now what was that?' "
Although some of his more forward-looking ideals (such as hypertext) were simply shelved, the disciples at PARC integrated other parts into their new work. The evolutionary link from Engelbart's lab to PARC's Alto personal computer to the Apple Macintosh is a direct one -- right down to the mouse, a device Engelbart had patented as "the X-Y position indicator for display system" way back in 1963.
Engelbart laughs and looks away when it's pointed out that if he had a nickel for every mouse ever sold, he could fund his own research. "After I'd been gone a long time, they (SRI) had me over to dinner, and the man who was president then gave me a check, " he says. That's standard practice for think- tank habitues. When you make your living inventing things, you're expected to sign over the patents to the folks who are picking up the tab.
Engelbart says that in the early '80s, he tried to sell the developers of personal computers on the value of networking, but they wanted nothing to do with it. "They were quite adamant, " he recalls. "They not only failed to appreciate the value of having personal computers talking to each other, they told me it was a bad thing! They wanted to have it all on the desk, with no communication. I told 'em that was like having a fancy office with no door. That was a huge lost opportunity for the world. A decade down the drain."
The current -- and possibly final -- chapter in Engelbart's epic began in 1989, when he set up what he called the Bootstrap Project. It was one more shot at trying to interest industry in his ideas. Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems and Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus, kicked in some money initially. But when the project concluded after a year, he was unable to find other sponsors for his work. Today, the Bootstrap Institute is a four-person think tank consisting of Engelbart, 39-year-old Christina Engelbart (one of his four children) as co-director, a secretary and a sole contract worker. Engelbart says the venture has been running in the red for at least 3 1/2 years. He and his daughter draw no salaries. What little income there is comes from the sale of Engelbart's papers and videos, plus some consulting and seminar work.
Engelbart's "augmentation" concepts are not easily summarized. One overview, "The Augmentation Papers, " is an anthology of three decades of research that tips the scale at just under 3 pounds. Engelbart is concerned with how groups -- from work teams to nations -- can enhance their collective intelligence and make more efficient decisions.
"I look at the capability of a collective of people, whether it's a school district or a company, and think of ways they can more effectively develop knowledge, " he says. "That's been at the center of my work for 30 years."
Engelbart's vision is abstract -- way too abstract to interest the kind of people who hand out development grants and venture capital. He is painfully aware of how the rest of the research community sees him -- as a great thinker chasing a holy grail nobody will ever find. "If you're going to make wild predictions to people, you learn pretty soon that it's going to cost you, " he says. "Do you know people who are politically far enough off the mainstream? You realize that pretty soon people avoid talking to them."
It's hard enough to invest in a vision that's somewhat esoteric. It's doubly hard when the main proponent of that vision is a soft-spoken man with no feel at all for the swashbuckling, self-promoting ways of entrepreneurship.
"Doug was a great contributor early on, and I don't think he's really gotten his due, " says UCLA computer-science chairman Leonard Kleinrock, the man on the other end of that first Internet packet. "He was a really modest guy. I don't think the world will remember him as more than the inventor of the mouse. Doug was never a very good promoter. He had the vision, but he couldn't articulate it very well. That was the case early on -- his stuff was hard to understand."
"When you listen to it, it sounds great, but when you go away, it's hard to remember what it was, " says Postel. "The concepts are so difficult to get your head around. Too many people had that experience. People build things out of pieces. And it didn't seem there were pieces people could go build and make useful independently. Now, so many years later, you do see things such as Mosaic (a highly touted hypertext tool for Internet browsing) that implement small parts of his vision."
Today, the idea of time -- and the cost of lost time -- are very much on Engelbart's mind. Although he stops just short of voicing anger, he's visibly frustrated that the world has been so slow to come around to his ideas. "It's sort of like mankind's in a vehicle, moving faster and faster, and yet our headlights don't shine any further ahead and our ability to steer it isn't getting any better. So how long before we crash?"
It took 25 years for computer networking to become a mass-market item. How long before Engelbart's eight grandchildren create their school reports with hypertext? Engelbart says waiting for the cycle of innovation to slowly turn yet again has taken a toll on him.
"It's been very expensive to me personally, in stress and frustration. It's dented my personality in certain ways. I know it certainly makes it harder for me to write. I write it, send it out to the world, and no response. One of the biggest feelings of sorrow or loss is there would have been so much more I could have contributed if . . . " He pauses and lets the sting of the thought wear off. "You know, " he says softly, "I haven't had the resources to do the exploratory work since the mid-'70s."
Engelbart today, says Rheinhold, "is satisfied with nothing less than people understanding the totality of what he's doing. It's going to take another 10 or 20 years. Nobody knows if he's got another 10 or 20 years. You gotta give him credit for incredible persistence, though; he's still at it, still pitching." As afternoon turns to evening, and the shadows grow long through the window that looks out on Kaiser Drive, Engelbart is indeed still pitching. A visitor asks if he's looking forward to breaking bread with the other Internet trailblazers back in Boston.
"It's as if the pioneers are having a big celebration for getting all the way to Kentucky, " Engelbart says. "That's great, but there's more frontier out there. We think we've arrived. And that's what I've heard for these past 30 years: 'Hey -- we're here. We're really doing it. Just like you said. So Doug, you can stop waving your hands now.' What can I say? There's that target and it's still way up there."


text:
All In with Chris Hayes 07/29/14
House set to approve border bill, complains about Obama
The House may pass a bill to help with the border crisis, but it's a fraction of what President Obama asked for and they're accusing him of being the problem. ... more Duration: {{video.duration.momentjs}}
Retrieving data...
- Information
Live Online
Retrieving Data...
- Information
Border crisis
Top Stories
from NBC News and MSNBC
Best of MSNBC
Officials to probe high death toll in...
Poverty affects the brain, according to study
Police Chief: 'So sick' of murders on streets
49ers QB refuses to stand for national anthem
Effort to purge millions from voter rolls
Will 'undercover Trump voters' reveal...
Adjusting to life after prison
Why are more U.S. women dying in child birth?
New bill inspired by Cosby accusers
Maine Governor's racist rants spark outrage
Clinton intel briefing opens door to strategy
Declassified briefs reveal 1973 nuclear panic
Anti-Semitism, abuse in Trump CEO court docs
What is the Alt-Right movement?
Trump spends week courting minority voters
Harvard Republicans decide not to back Trump
McCain Senate challenger: He's 'old' & 'weak'
Why is DHS investing Leslie Jones' website...
Racist-right finds new prominence via Trump
Rewrite: the Protests at Standing Rock
SNL Weekend Update on MSNBC
Rachel Maddow
Maine Governor's racist rants spark outrage
Anti-Semitism, abuse in Trump CEO court docs
Declassified briefs reveal 1973 nuclear panic
Clinton intel briefing opens door to strategy
Trump dance card empty with economic advisers
Trump mainstreams fringe with Breitbart hire
Trump loses public pushing fringe priorities
Racist-right finds new prominence via Trump
Trump leaves 'regret' an open question
Clarifying mixed message on Trump Muslim ban
Can Trump 'extreme vetting' pass legal test?
Trump camp promises 'post-Labor Day bonanza'
Trump, GOP establishment working despite past
Trump camp wants probe of Clinton Foundation
Trump cites lawyers in holding tax returns
Trump health letter falls short of credible
Trump camp denies working with Roger Ailes
Clinton tests electoral map with Utah office
Trump campaign manager joins Maddow Wednesday
Biden reassures Baltic allies of US fidelity
Morning Joe
Mika: Time to ask a mental health...
What Did We Learn: Friday, August 26
Clinton: We have gone beyond most charities
Hillary Clinton: I am reaching out to...
Clinton: Donald Trump has shown us who he is
Mark Sanford on why tax returns matter in '16
Todd: GOP didn't rush to defend Trump...
'This is beyond party': 2016 reaches new...
Trump supporter: I know what real racism is
Mika asks GOP: How can you endorse Trump?
'He knows better': Trump and issue of racism
What Did We Learn: Thursday, August 25
MJ documents Trump's amnesty timeline
When average families raise exceptional kids
Mylan CEO: Everybody should be frustrated
Clinton speech to focus on Trump and 'alt...
Dem. rep.: Conspiracy theories follow...
Rescuers in Italy search for quake survivors
Trump close in latest swing state polls
Where will GOP go after 2016?


text:
Definition of impression in English:
1An idea, feeling, or opinion about something or someone, especially one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence: his first impressions of Manchester were very positive I got the impression that he was sorely disappointed
More example sentences
- He manages the feat of being at once soft-spoken and opinionated - giving the impression that he genuinely doesn't care what other people think of him.
- Language is a means to communicate ideas and impressions, its development influenced by the environment, by physiological and psychological traits.
- He was eager to share his impressions and opinions on my writings.
feeling, sense, fancy, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, inkling, intuition, hunch, apprehension;
notion, idea, thought, belief, opinion, conviction
informal funny feeling, gut feeling, feeling in one's bones, sixth sense
opinion, view, conception, image, picture, perception, judgement, verdict, estimation
1.1An effect produced on someone: her courtesy had made a good impression
More example sentences
- She added that if the city made a good impression on such visitors, there could be a spin-off benefit if they returned to York at a later date with their families or friends for a holiday.
- His latest film has failed to make much of an impression on US critics, following its Christmas Day release in America.
- It made a strong impression on me and, with other influences, led to my refusing to register with the Selective Service System two years later.
impact, effect, influence
1.2 [mass noun] A difference made by the action or presence of someone or something: the floor was too dirty for the mop to make much impression
More example sentences
- Up front the forwards made no impression and the fact that they failed to score tells its own story.
- Over the years, punk, heavy metal, grunge, disco and dance have come and, in some cases, gone, but none have made the slightest impression on Motorhead's brutal oeuvre.
2An imitation of a person or thing, done to entertain: he did an impression of Shirley Bassey
More example sentences
- Harold entertained everyone with impressions of his namesake, Evans.
- Owen laughed and I continued entertaining him with impressions until we pulled up to the curb of his house.
- And I amused everyone at Urgent Care with my stunning impressions of ocean animals.
impersonation, imitation, mimicry;
parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, mockery, lampoon, pastiche
informal take-off, send-up, spoof
rare personation
3A mark impressed on a surface: the impression of his body on the leaves
More example sentences
- You can then make shallow impressions on the surface of the ash.
- The helmet is marked XL with an impression in the crushable foam.
- In some instances, flat clay slabs have been found with the oblong symbols for numbers impressed on their surfaces together with many impressions of cylinder seals.
indentation, dent, hollow, concavity, depression, dip, mark, outline, stamp, stamping, imprint
3.1 Dentistry A negative copy of the teeth or mouth made by pressing them into a soft substance.
Example sentences
- Your dentist will take impressions of your teeth using a kind of putty and send these to a laboratory where the splint is made.
- This action will create an impression of the top teeth in the rubber material.
- A dog-bite expert, who analysed dental impressions of Charlie's teeth, concluded that Mr Green's injuries were not caused by a dog.
4A graphic or pictorial representation of someone or something: police issued an artist's impression of the attacker
More example sentences
- Detectives circulated artists' impressions of the attacker, security was stepped up at the university and undercover police patrols were mobilised in the area.
- Sources close to the project told Scotland on Sunday that while artists' impressions and outline plans exist for the roof, the technical details of how it will be built have still not been worked out.
- More than any other medium, our perception of architecture is increasingly mediated through renders, walkthroughs and glossy artist's impressions.
representation, portrayal, depiction, rendition, rendering, interpretation, picture, drawing
5.1 [usually with modifier] chiefly British A particular printed version of a book, especially one reprinted from existing type, plates, or film with no or only minor alteration: a copy of the first impression
More example sentences
- A second impression was issued nine months after the first and Dodgson began to plan a sequel.
- In some books he used three impressions: one for staves, another for notes and other musical signs, and the third for the text.
- Of all the books' multiple impressions, two in particular stand out.
print run, printing, imprinting, imprint, reprint, issue, edition, version, publication
5.2A print taken from an engraving.
Example sentences
- A mezzotint plate produced fewer impressions than a line engraving, but the engravers bewailed its invention, as being an easier and more facile process.
- Wood engraving allows to make finer lines than woodcuts and more impressions from the same block.
- Then he must recarve the second image into the remainder of the same block, apply the second color and print over the impressions of the first step.
6An instance of a pop-up or other Web advertisement being seen on an Internet user's monitor.
Example sentences
- Lycos currently do not provide keyword, impression or click-through stats, although they do intend to offer them in the near future.
- Kelly also argues that unique user and page impression data are meaningless to advertisers as they do not in any way reflect the number of individuals going online.
- Nobody buys full-run advertising on a site like that; major ad purchases are based on cost per thousand measured advertising impressions.
under the impression that
- Believing, mistakenly or on the basis of little evidence, that something is the case: he was under the impression that they had become friendsMore example sentences
- I was also under the impression that there was something in the American constitution about freedom of speech.
- She was under the impression that there was going to be a dance performance by the Russian girls.
- I was under the impression that all questions were vetted by you before they went on to the Order Paper.
Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin impressio(n-), from impress- 'pressed in', from the verb imprimere (see imprint).
For editors and proofreaders
Line breaks: im|pres¦sion
Definition of impression in:
What do you find interesting about this word or phrase?
Comments that don't adhere to our Community Guidelines may be moderated or removed.
= trending


text:
Illeana is the newest addition to the already smoking hot Aziani models! She adds some spice and loads of fun! The thing about Illeana is she is so shy in person, but the minute she gets in front of the camera she flourishes! She is full of energy and gets super excited knowing you are watching her! Welcome this gorgeous brunette!
A smoking hot girl on a smoking hot Arizona day! Summer was not even officially here yet, but she warmed things up nicely. Illeana looks so cute and adorable in her mini skirt and tank top. She even wore panties for you panty lovers! The camera picked up on her happy, fun and cheerful attitude. You are going to love these breath taking outdoor pics as she puts on quite a show for us.


text:
USDA Awards $18.2 Million for Efficiency and Renewable Energy
September 26, 2007
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on September 20th that 345 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in 45 states have been selected to receive a total of $18.2 million in grants and loans. Rewarded through the USDA's Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Improvements program, the funds consist of $13.4 million in grants and $4.8 million in guaranteed loans. The funds provide financial assistance to agricultural producers and rural small businesses to install renewable energy generation systems or to make energy efficiency improvements. The renewable energy systems typically involve wind turbines, biofuel facilities, and biomass-to-energy systems such as anaerobic digesters or biomass combustion systems. See the USDA press release and the list of recipients (PDF 25 KB). Download Adobe Reader.
The USDA also announced its selection of 162 projects that will receive $22.7 million through its Value-Added Producer Grant program. While a lion's share of the program funds support efforts to create and market new food products, the program also supports farm-based renewable energy projects. While the USDA doesn't provide a breakdown of the funds by type, at least 15 of the recipients have "energy" or some variant of the word in their name. The projects will be located in 40 states, as well as Puerto Rico. See the USDA press release and the full list of recipients (PDF 378 KB).


text:
Printable View
Also like Perry. Pass rushers are hard to pass up.
Zeitler is on my wish list...But he would have to be in a trade down or out of the 1st. I'm would have thought Fleener would have been your choice O. He would be a very good choice if stuck at #24.
Barron wouldn't surprise me in the least either. You would think Clark's contract and his age will be one that is looked at going into 2013.
That all being said, At BPA....if a Floyd, Gilmore, or Fleener drop...You have to pick one of those. Steelers philosophy of grade trumps need in the 1st round...Has done them right. For everyone saying the Steelers have bigger "needs" to be addressed....The Steelers have shown they don't think like that. I'm surprised so many of you still say that about the 1st round. If they feel the "need" is so pressing...They won't reach. They will do what Ruthless suggest in his mock and go get their guy "ala Decastro". If they like a guy based on need and they feel he could be taken later...They will try to move back. For those of you who know the Steelers history...You see what addressing needs gets them in the draft. Many of the 2nd round picks since 2000 were to address need...And many of them turned out as disapointments. They are batting around the .500 mark in the 2nd and pretty darn close to batting 1,000 in the 1st staying with their philosophy.
We don't see their board and how their grades fall. I'm not sure how the Steelers set up their board but many teams "tier" the players in groups of 10. If a player the Steelers grade in tier 2 of the 1st round falls to them at #24...Be Dam sure everyone in the war room will be sitting up in their chairs. Whether it be to discuss that player on their roster or answering the phone to move back to target their guy...That player(s) will be the topic of discussion. They won't discount he is still on the board because he doesn't fit their need.
I would not be upset with Amini Silatolu.
I've seen them both play and I think that Wilson runs better inside, breaks more tackles, and reads blocks better. Miller seems faster and slightly more explosive. But, at this point, I'd rate Wilson a few slots higher.
Cincy also could get a couple of prime prospects with their 2 first round picks (I'm thinking guard and corner are their most immediate needs), so they might be able to land David DeCastro and Stephon Gilmore, or Dre Kirkpatrick and Cordy Glenn...they could do well for themselves too.
The teams in our division should certainly be able to improve themselves.


text:
A veteran of city politics, Quinn would be a groundbreaking mayor across two personal dimensions: She would be the first female and first openly gay mayor to lead the nation's largest city.
Announcing on Twitter that she's in the race, Quinn said she wanted to give middle- and working-class New Yorkers the same opportunities generations of her family got when they came here.
"I'm running for mayor because I love this city. It's the greatest place in the world," she said in a video linked to her post, before starting what she called a walk-and-talk tour intended to take her to every neighborhood in the city before the Democratic primary in September.
Her first stop was the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood, where she was surrounded by supporters carrying signs that read "Christine Quinn for Mayor" and wearing baseball caps with her initials on them.
Before the walk, Quinn told reporters, "I'm running today and I'll stack my record against anybody else's in this field. ... I balance budgets on time, and I had the wisdom in the first three years I was speaker, when there were surpluses, to not spend that money."
Her attempts to meet the people led to a classic New York City moment.
She shook hands with everyone—people on the street, workers in a diner and even a bedraggled-looking man sitting on a sidewalk bench.
"Hi, I'm Christine Quinn and I'm running for mayor," she told the man, who looked up at her, seemingly puzzled.
"I need some change," he replied as she searched her pockets, saying, "I don't have any."
A former tenant organizer and director of a gay and lesbian advocacy group, Quinn, 46, has been on the City Council since 1999 and its leader since 2006. The position has afforded her considerable exposure going into the crowded field of candidates vying to succeed term-limited Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
She's enjoyed a considerable edge over other Democratic contenders in polls. A Quinnipiac University poll late last month gave her 37 percent of the Democratic vote, while her opponents each got less than 15 percent. Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 6 to 1 in the city, though that hasn't translated into Democratic success in a mayor's race since 1989.
Quinn has generally been perceived as likely to get the backing of Republican-turned-independent Bloomberg, and with it support from business leaders.
Some of her Democratic opponents have tried to use that against her, suggesting Quinn is too close to a mayor they say has sometimes turned a cold shoulder to the concerns of middle-class and working-class New Yorkers.
She also has taken heat for helping Bloomberg get the council to agree to extend term limits so he could run for a third time in 2008, without asking the voters who had approved a two-term limit twice in the 1990s.
In office, Quinn leads 50 other council members and largely controls what proposals come to a vote.
Quinn and her longtime partner, products liability lawyer Kim Catullo, married last year after more than a decade together. Their wedding guest list was a who's-who of New York politics, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Bloomberg and many other officeholders in attendance.
The year before, Quinn had invoked her personal story in lobbying state lawmakers to legalize gay marriage, a cause Cuomo championed. She called it "one of the best feelings I have ever had in my life" when the measure passed in June 2011.
Her announced and likely Democratic opponents include former City Councilman Sal Albanese; Public Advocate Bill de Blasio; Comptroller John Liu; and former Comptroller Bill Thompson.
Republican contenders include former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota; Tom Allon, a publisher; billionaire businessman John Catsimatidis; and George McDonald, the head of a nonprofit that helps the homeless.
Former Bronx borough president and federal housing official Adolfo Carrion, a former Democrat who is now unaffiliated, is running on the Independence Party line and seeking Republican backing.
Associated Press writer Verena Dobnik contributed to this report. Follow Jennifer Peltz at http://twitter.com/jennpeltz


text:
The Home Builders Association serving Portage and Summit Counties (HBA) held its annual Installation and Awards Banquet on Dec. 7 at Quaker Station in Akron. Scott Strayer of Helen Scott Custom Builders received the Builder of the Year award for the second consecutive year and was also named the organization's president.
Strayer's grandmother was the association's first female president in 1984 and the evening's installing officer.
The Builder of the Year award is voted on twice by all HBA members, with five finalists selected in the first round of voting and voted on a second time in a weighted format, with five votes for first place, four for second place, three for third place, two for second place and one point for fifth.
The award is based on the criteria of high customer satisfaction and strong business practices as related to trade and supplier relations.
The HBA presented seven awards at the event, including: Associate Tradesman of the Year (Adam Bey of Handle and Sons Elevators and Lifts), Associate Supplier of the Year (Brian Miller of Stoneworks) and Rookie of the Year (Shirl Matz of Certified Payroll Services).
Location, ST | website.com


text:
Lena Jantosciak, 92, a longtime Little Falls resident, passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, at Folts Homes, Herkimer.
Born in Little Falls on March 14, 1921, Lena was the daughter of the late Mike and Anna (Riznik) Rusin. She was educated in Little Falls schools and on Nov. 9, 1941, she was united in marriage to Steve Jantosciak at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, sharing 68 years of unconditional love and mutual respect until his passing on April 5, 2010. Lena worked for many years at Univac.
She is survived by her sons, Paul Jantosciak, of East Herkimer, Bruce Jantosciak and his wife, Sue, of Peach Tree City, Ga.; her cherished grandchildren, Brian and Lori, Adam and Jennifer, Kelly, Leslie and Jillian; seven great-grandchildren; a brother, John Rusin, of Little Falls; her sisters, Frances Brinski, of Amsterdam, and Mary Tumski, of Little Falls; and many nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by a brother, Charles Rusin, and a sister, Stafie Andrews.
Funeral services will be private and at the convenience of the family. There will be no public calling hours.
Memorial contributions may be made to Folts Homes, 104 N. Washington St., Herkimer, NY 13350.
The family is being served by Harry J. Enea of the Enea Family Funeral Home, 24 W. Monroe St., Little Falls (823-2424).
To add to Lena's online condolences, please visit www.eneafamily.com.
Location, ST | website.com


text:
- Home
- Books & More
- Events & Activities
- Learning
- Research Resources
- About the Library
- Giving
- Kids
- Teens
Stone Carver from Zimbabwe
Saturday, September 6, 2008
4:00pm @ Plaza Branch
In September, the Kansas City Public Library, in association with Powell Gardens, will offer a unique look into the ascension of Zimbabwe as a major influence in international art.
On Saturday, September 6, at 2 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St., children can enjoy the works of a master stone carver from Zimbabwe as he chisels stone into art. Children can smooth the rough stone with some of the tools the sculptor uses, learn an African song, and take turns making rhythms with mbiras, rainsticks, and gourd rattles. Audience members will hear African stories and learn about the land where lions, elephants, and baboons roam wild.
Admission is free. Click here or call 816.701.3407 to indicate your interest in attending. Free parking is available at the Plaza Branch's Garage.


text:
Ackman's Pershing Square Files 2nd Suit Against U.S. Over Fannie, Freddie
William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management LP filed its second suit in as many days against the U.S. government challenging its bailout terms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Pershing Square's suit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., also names as a defendant the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the regulatory agency that controls Fannie and Freddie.
A Treasury spokesman and an FHFA spokeswoman declined to comment.
Pershing Square's suits join a flood of investor lawsuits challenging the government's 2012 decision to force the mortgage-finance giants to send nearly all of their profits to the U.S. Treasury as dividends. The New York hedge-fund firms' suits focus on the treatment of common shareholders rather than investors in the "preferred" stock, a form of equity that is senior to common stock and that made regular dividends before the bailout.
Pershing Square's second suit seeks an injunction stopping the so-called net-worth "sweeps," a declaratory judgment that the revised bailout terms and the sweeps are illegal, and the unwinding of the sweeps or "other equitable and ancillary relief."
The suit is nearly identical to Pershing Square's earlier lawsuit, but also makes an additional argument focused on an aspect of corporate law: that if the government has not illegally taken the dividend payments–which the suit argues it has–then it has broken corporate law by giving itself "super-senior preferred stock, unilaterally appropriating all rights of common shareholders" since it is benefiting from the sweeps.
In filings last November, Pershing Square said it had spent about $400 million on a nearly 10% stake in both Fannie and Freddie. Mr. Ackman believes the common stock has more upside than the preferred shares, The Wall Street Journal previously reported, though they are seen by some as riskier investments.
Pershing Square filed its first lawsuit against the U.S. government on Thursday in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
The three individual shareholders who joined Pershing Square as plaintiffs in that suit also joined the suit filed on Friday. They are represented by a team from Jones Day.


text:
Quarterback K.J. Carta-Samuels ran for 111 yards on 16 carries and scored three touchdowns Saturday to lead Bellarmine College Prep to a 28-25 nonleague win over El Cerrito at De Anza High in El Sobrante.
The Bells rushed for 273 yards and secured the victory after recovering a fumble by El Cerrito's Keith Benjamin with 4:17 left.
On the play, Keith Benjamin caught a pass from his twin brother Keilan and fought for extra yards. But the ball popped loose and the Bells' Kyle MacAuley recovered.
The Bells' overpowering offensive line and the efficiency shown by Carta-Samuels, bound for Vanderbilt, allowed Bellarmine to run out the clock after recovering the loose ball.
The early-season showdown between two of the Bay Area's top teams featured a contrast in styles, with Bellarmine (1-0) running a double-wing-T and the Gauchos (1-1) spreading the ball with the pistol offense.
El Cerrito quarterback Keilan Benjamin passed for 259 yards and ran for two touchdowns. His 3-yard touchdown completion to Keith Benjamin at the end of the third quarter cut the deficit to 28-25.
El Cerrito turned two Bellarmine fumbles into touchdowns.
After the Bells marched in for a score on their first possession, the Gauchos pulled to within 7-6 when D.J. Calhoun returned a fumble 15 yards for a score after Jawian Harrison jarred the ball loose with a hit on Anthony Guttadauro.
Bellarmine 7 "14 "7 "0--28
El Cerrito 6 "12 "7 "0--25
B -- Carta-Samuels 1 run (Bush kick)
EC -- Calhoun 15 fumble return (kick failed)
EC -- Keilan Benjamin 6 run (pass failed)
B -- Carta-Samuels 5 run (Bush kick)
B -- Puccini 2 run (Bush kick)
EC -- Keilan Benjamin 2 run (pass failed)
B -- Carta-Samuals 2 run (Bush kick)
EC -- Keith Benjamin 3 pass from Keilan Benjamin (Gavaria kick)
Records -- Bellarmine 1-0; El Cerrito 2-0.
Junior Richard Rodriguez ran for 58 yards and a touchdown, caught three passes for 68 yards and a touchdown, and ran back a kickoff 70 yards for another touchdown leading the host Saints to victory, more than making up for a first quarter fumble that the Grizzlies ran back for a touchdown in the first quarter. The Saints senior quarterback Eddie Montes ran for a 5-yard touchdown, as well as throwing two touchdown passes, one each to Rodriguez and senior Peter Fuccella. The Saints gained 315 yards in total offense with the help of an offensive line of seniors Andrew Cox, Victor Cruz and Julio Bajo, junior Nick Amaral and sophomore Phillip Vitek.
Gunderson 7 "0 "6 "0--13
Santa Teresa 0 "21 "23 "0--44
ST -- Montes 5 run (kick failed)
ST -- Fuccella 28 pass from Montes (Montes run)
ST -- Rodriguez 14 run (Fuccella kick)
ST -- Rodriguez 36 pass from Montes (Fuccella kick)
ST -- Safety (punt snapped out of end zone)
ST -- Rodriguez 70 kick return (Fuccella kick)
ST -- Dell'osso 71 run (Fuccella kick)
G -- scoring not available
Records -- Gunderson 0-1; Santa Teresa 0-2.
Patrick Vargas, Victor Ruiz and Sean Lanoza scored two touchdowns each as the Eagles downed the Pumas. Ruiz caught a 52-yard touchdown pass from Christopher Lanman and returned a punt 50 yards for the Eagles' next score. Lanoza scored on runs of 83 and 48 yards.
Burton-S.F. 0 "0 "0 " 0 -- 0
Los Altos 41 "7 "0 "13--61
LA -- Vargas 2 run (Schroner kick)
LA -- Vargas 3 run (Schroner kick)
LA -- Ruiz 52 pass from Lanman (Schroner kick)
LA -- Ruiz 50 punt return (kick failed)
LA -- Schroner 45 defensive return (Schroner kick)
LA -- McColl 20 pass from Lanman (Schroner kick)
LA -- Lanoza 83 run (Schroner kick)
LA -- Lanoza 48 run (Schroner kick)
LA -- Myers 2 run (conversion failed)
Records -- Burton-San Francisco 0-1; Los Altos 1-0.
Senior quarterback Angel Guillen was 21-for-40 for 329 yards and two TDs in the Panthers' loss. Guillen also rushed for 48 yards and one TD.
Kevin Moon caught 12 of Guillen's passes for 186 yards and a TD. Senior middle linebacker Christian Nielsen led Prospect defensively with 20 tackles, including one sack.
Prospect 7 "0 "7 "6--20
Cupertino 6 "7 "21 "6--40
P -- Moon 25 pass from Guillen (Avdagic kick)
P -- Kaewkan 6 pass from Guillen (Avdagic kick)
P -- Guillen 1 run (kick failed)
Records -- Prospect 0-1; Cupertino 1-0.


text:
We're waiting for Facebook to reports its Q1 earnings. Here is what analysts are expecting:
- Earnings per share: $0.24.
- Revenues: $2.36 billion.
We're covering the release live, followed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg's earnings call with Wall Street. Refresh this page or click here for updates.
It has been a huge quarter for Facebook. In the last three (fiscal) months the company has bought messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion and virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR for $2 billion. It has opened the door for video advertisers, and begun carving out its messaging business into a separate app, Messenger. Lastly, the company has begun rolling out an off-Facebook advertising network.
At the same time, Zuckerberg has begun to outline his vision for the future of Facebook, "unbundling the big blue app."
See Also:
SEE ALSO: 7 Questions Mark Zuckerberg Must Answer On Facebook's Earnings Call Tonight
Location, ST | website.com


text:
Just in time for a Fall storm in Seattle, Ibex sent us their Merino Wool Knickers. During the course of an 1.5 hour ride, I rode in gray dampness, a squalling storm cell with 40 MPH winds, blindingly-bright sun, and some bonus hail – I was soaked through in about 3 minutes. Merino Wool and Ibex's Climawool (stretchy, breathable, wool/synthetic blend) is perfect for a wide range of temperatures.
The Ibex knickers feature Climawool over the knees and mid-weight Merino in the back. They also have a "sansabelt" style elastic in the waist, like their shorts.


text:
desert penguin wrote: Honestly, tommi, you should be laughed out of this topic for bringing up Lost. Seriously, bro? And Mad Men is just a soap opera set as a period piece. Don Draper is AMC's answer for people who don't find Walter White attractive enough to watch on screen for an hour every week.
Alan Hague wrote: Loved it; a well-done ending.
EXCEPT I would've preferred to hear Dylan's 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' instead of the corny song they actually used.
Sage Francis wrote: In a surprise twist of events (as far as what I've been harping on about for the past two seasons,) I'm not even mad that Walt Jr's crutches were not kicked out. And that's not even because of the finale. It's because of this special guest appearance at my Pasadena show...
I damn near shit myself. She was going on and on about my music and all I could think was, "Oh my God, are you serious right now? Todd did you DIRTY in the second to last episode!"
ahhhhh man. Aye. Twas a good night. I'm still giddy over here.


text:
POSITION: Defenseman
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Vasteras, SWE
DRAFTED: DET: 1989-53 overall
Conn Smythe Trophy (1)
James Norris Memorial Trophy (7)
|NHL All-Rookie Team (1992) NHL First All-Star Team (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011) James Norris Memorial Trophy (2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011) Conn Smythe Trophy (2002) Olympic All-Star Team (2006) NHL Second All-Star Team (2009, 2010) Played in NHL All-Star Game (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011)
2009-10: Appeared in all 82 games, one of only three players to do so (Bertuzzi, Stuart)…Led all Red Wings defensemen and tied for 8th among NHL defensemen with 49 points (9-40—49)…Recorded the 1,000th point of his NHL career on 10/15 vs. Los Angeles, becoming just the 8th defenseman in NHL history to reach the milestone…Recorded his 800th career assist on 3/5/10 vs. Nashville…Played in the 1,400th game of his NHL career on 3/19/10 at Edmonton becoming just the 31st player in NHL history to do so…Finished second on Detroit with a plus-22 rating (Rafalski, +23)…Led Detroit defensemen with 194 shots on goal…Led all Red Wings players averaging 25:25 of ice time over 82 regular season games…Represented Sweden at the 2010 Winter Olympics…Appeared in all 12 postseason games…Led the Red Wings averaging 26:22 of ice time in the playoffs…Finished second among Wings defensemen with 10 playoff points (Rafalski-11)…Led Detroit with three postseason power-play goals…Tied Patrick Roy for second on the all-time postseason games played list with 247…Became just the third defenseman in NHL history to record 50 career postseason goals…Moved into third all-time in postseason assists by a defenseman (125)…Led Detroit defensemen finishing postseason with four goals, a +7 rating and 39 shots on goal.
2008-09: Appeared in 78 games…Finished the season with 59 points (16-43—59), tied for first among Red Wings defensemen (Rafalski) and tied for third among all NHL defensemen… Played in his 1,300th career NHL game 2/4 vs. PHX…Finished the regular season at +31, second on team (Datsyuk +34) and seventh in NHL…Averaged 24:49 of ice time in regular season…Tied for third on team with 10 power-play goals…Finished season with four game-winning goals…Selected to his 11th NHL All-Star Game…Selected to his 10th postseason All-Star team (second team)…Extended his own franchise records with 228 career goals by a defenseman and 111 power-play goals by a defenseman…Recorded 15 multi-point games…Appeared in his 17th consecutive postseason, adding to his own franchise record…Appeared in 21 postseason games in 2009…Missed the first two postseason games of his career due to injury, snapping his streak of 228 consecutive postseason games played…Led all NHL defensemen in scoring with 16 points (4-12—16)…Became Detroit's all-time postseason assist leader on 5/19 vs. Chicago…Moved into second place on team's all-time postseason scoring list (46-119—165)…Added to his own NHL record by recording his 11th career postseason game-winning goal, most all-time by a defenseman…Currently third all-time in postseason games played (235) and first in Red Wings team history.
2007-08: Won his third consecutive Norris Trophy and sixth in the last seven seasons played….Appeared in 76 games…. Suffered a sprained right knee at Colorado 2/18 and missed six games – the longest absence of his career….Played in his 1,200th game 11/27 vs. Calgary….Led all NHL defensemen in scoring (10-60—70)….Registered his 900th NHL point at Minnesota 12/22….Collected his 700th NHL assist vs. Dallas 1/2….Finished second in the NHL in plus-minus at +40 (Datsyuk led NHL at +41) ….Led the Red Wings with 26:43 time on ice per game….Selected to his 10th NHL All-Star Game (8th as a starter)….Appeared in all 22 postseason games….Has played in a franchise record 214 career postseason games – passed Steve Yzerman (196) in Round 1, Game 5 vs. Nashville….Moved past Jari Kurri (200) for most postseason games played by a European-born player….Appeared in his 16th consecutive playoffs, setting a new Red Wings franchise record (Yzerman – 15)….Finished fourth among NHL defensemen in postseason scoring (3-10—13)….Averaged 26:48 time on ice per postseason game….Became the first European-born player to Captain his team to a Stanley Cup championship….Won his fourth Stanley Cup (1997, 1998, 2002 and 2008).
2006-07: Won his second consecutive Norris Trophy and fifth in the last six seasons played…Named Captain of the Detroit Red Wings on 10/5…Played 80 games and finished with a team-leading plus-40 rating (third in the NHL)…Led Detroit in power play points with 10-23—33…Ranked third in the NHL in average time on ice/game at 27:29…Selected to his ninth NHL All-Star Game (seventh as a starter)…Ranked fifth in scoring among defensemen with 13-49—62…Scored his 200th NHL goal and 100th power play goal on 3/2 vs. Chicago…Missed two games due to a back spasms…Led Detroit in postseason scoring and ranked fourth in the NHL, collecting 4-14—18 in 18 games…Led all NHL blueliners in scoring in the 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs…Tallied four assists in Game 5 of the CQF vs. Calgary (4/21), which tied a Red Wings record for points by a defenseman in a single game.
2005-06: Won fourth Norris Trophy…Led Detroit in assists (64)…Set career highs in points (80) and assists (64)…Set the Red Wings' single-season record for assists (64) and points (80) by a defenseman….Ranked first among NHL defenseman in points and assists….Registered 21 multiple point games, second on Detroit to Datsyuk (23)….Led Red Wings in power-play points (9-41—50)…Ranked second in the NHL in power-play assists (41) and sixth in overall assists…..Led Detroit in average time on ice (28:06)…Became the 14th defenseman in NHL history to score 800 points 4/2/06 at Minnesota…Tallied his 600th career assist 3/7/06 vs. Phoenix…Had an unsuccessful penalty shot on 3/4/06 at Phoenix (P. Sauve)…Scored two goals 12/31/05 vs. Columbus and 1/6/06 at Nashville (matched career highs)…Registered a career high four points three times (3/4/06 at Phoenix, 3/9/06 vs. LA, 4/13 at Chicago)….Won a gold medal with Sweden at the 2006 Olympic Games…Scored the game-winning goal in the Olympic Gold-Medal Game….Led all defensemen in scoring at the 2006 Olympic Games….Appeared in all six of Detroit's 2006 playoff games, finished with one goal and one assist.2004-05: Represented Sweden in the World Championships.
2003-04: Played 81 games, finished second among Detroit defensemen in scoring (38 pts).... Mathieu Schneider had 46 pts.... Led club in average ice time (27:39).... First goal of season was overtime goal 10/11/03 at Ottawa, finished with three game-winning goals.... 700th career point (assist) 11/12/03 at Dallas....1,000th game 2/29/04 vs. Philadelphia.... Appeared in all 12 of Detroit's playoff games, finished second in team scoring (2-5-7).... Led club with two power play goals.... Averaged 27:00 per playoff game.
2002-03: Won third consecutive Norris Trophy, (third Red Wing to win award, only one to repeat: Paul Coffey-1995 and Red Kelly-1954)....Finished with club-best plus-40 mark....Only Forsberg and Hejduk (COL) had higher rating in NHL (+52)....Third in scoring for NHL defensemen (10-44-64)....500th assist 12/28/02 at Nashville....30 power play points (8-22-30)....(Schneider had 31 power play points, but most of those with Los Angeles before the trade deadline, March 2003)....900th game 1/19/03 vs. Chicago....Seventh NHL All-Star Game appearance 2/2/03, also leading vote getter of all players....Played all four games of Detroit's 2003 first round playoff series vs. Anaheim recording two assists and finishing the playoffs minus-one.
2001-02: Second consecutive Norris Trophy....Appeared in 78 games leading team in assists (50), also fourth overall in NHL.... Finished season tied with Sergei Gonchar (WSH-PHI) for league lead in points by a defensemen (59)....Finished fourth overall on club in points behind Shanahan, Fedorov and Hull....Scored six power play goals....Team Sweden in 2002 Winter Olympics....Played all 23 of Detroit's 2002 playoff games....Tallied a total of five playoff goals (two power play, one shorthanded and one game-winner)....Awarded first career Conn Smythe Trophy, first European to win that award.
2000-01: First career Norris Trophy....New career high in assists (56)....Finished second on club in points (71)....One of two Red Wings (M. Lapointe) to play all 82 regular season games....700th career game 10/19/2000 vs. Nashville....Posted 499th and 500th career points the very next game with two assists 10/21/2000 vs. Buffalo....Led team in power play assists (35) as well as overall power play points (43)....35 power play assists ranked second overall in NHL....43 power play points ranked fourth overall in NHL....Scored eight power play goals for the third career time....Finished season with club high avg. ice-time (28:27)....Finished second among NHL defensemen in scoring (71 points)....Played all six of Detroit's first round playoff series vs. Los Angeles finishing as the club's top scorer (1-7-8)....Led club along with fellow defenseman, Steve Duchesne, in playoff power play points with five.
1999-2000: Set career high in goals (20), power play goals (9) and shorthanded goals (4)....Led club in power play points (31) and power play assists (22)....Led NHL defensemen in points (73)....Norris Trophy runner-up for third consecutive season....Lady Byng finalist for second straight season....Captain of World Team in 2000 NHL All-Star Game in Toronto....First Team All-Star for third straight season.
1998-99: Finished second in voting for the Norris Trophy (Al MacInnis) for second straight year....Finished second in voting for the Lady Byng (W. Gretzky)....Led Wings in power-play points (29) and power-play assists (23)....Four shorthanded points (2-2—4) tied for team lead with Larionov and Draper....100th goal 3/26/99 vs. Tampa Bay....600th career game 3/19/99 at Tampa Bay (shorthanded game-winner and two assists)....400th point 2/9/99 at Nashville....300th assist 1/16/99 at Vancouver....Voted as starter in 1999 NHL All-Star Game, his third appearance....Played all four of Detroit's 1999 playoff games vs. Anaheim posting assists in all four games (0-6—6), including three game-winners and five power-plays....Scored two goals, both PPGs, and three assists in Round 2 vs. Colorado....10 of 11 post-season points came on the power-play.
1997-98: Led NHL defensemen in points and was second among all Red Wings (59)....Tied a then career-high in goals (17)....26 power-play assists ranked fourth in NHL....Had points on 14 game-tying or game-winning goals....In 1998 Stanley Cup Playoffs, set Detroit records for most points (19) and assists (13) in a playoff season by a defensman and tied the mark for goals (6)....Tied teammate Larry Murphy for best NHL plus/minus (+12)....Tallied two game-winning goals, including game one of SCF, a 2-1 win 6/9/98 over Washington....NHL All-Star Game in Vancouver.1996-97: Fourth in team scoring, second in team assists and third in scoring among NHL defensemen....In 1997 Stanley Cup Playoffs, second on team with plus-12.
1995-96: Posted a then career-best 67 points to top rookie season (60 points)....Tied for second on team in playoff scoring....First career NHL All-Star Game.
1994-95: In 1995 Stanley Cup Playoffs, was second in defensemen scoring behind Paul Coffey....Tied club post-season record for assists by blue-liner (Coffey)....Scored game-winner at 1:01 of OT in WCF 6/1/95 vs. Chicago.
1993-94: Third in NHL, second on club with career-high plus-43....Career-best plus-7 outing 1/14/94 vs. Dallas....Career-high four assists 1/6/94 at San Jose.
1992-93: Played all 84 regular season games recording points in 30....100th NHL game 11/19/92 vs. Winnipeg....100th point with second goal 4/1/93 at Chicago.
1991-92: Four-point game 11/17/91 vs. St. Louis....Runner-up to Pavel Bure for Calder Trophy....NHL All-Rookie Team....Third in NHL with plus-36....Among NHL rookies, was first in plus/minus and assists, and tied for third in scoring....Third on team in assists, setting club record by rookie defenseman, tying Marcel Dionne's overall team freshman assist mark....Tied Reed Larson's rookie defenseman point mark....NHL debut 10/3/91 at Chicago....First points were two assists 10/5/91 at Toronto....First goal came on the power play 10/17/91 vs. St. Louis....Team Sweden 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics....1996, 2004 World Cup....1991 Canada Cup....1991 & 1994 World Championships, helping Sweden win Gold Medal in 1991....Named one of Sweden's top three players in 1990 World Junior Championships.
PersonalNick, his wife and four sons reside in suburban Detroit during the season and return to Sweden in the off-season....Enjoys tennis, golf and boating....Played soccer growing up.


text:
Same x264 .mkv's were working fine on previous 1.04. Now, the videos freeze as though it were perfectly paused (but they're not paused) and we have to stop the episode and re-play them. While the video is paused, the "Transcoding Buffer Status" is pretty much full and the program is responsive.
Are there any suggestions? Thanks


text:
'Residential solar is a disruptive technology that is changing the world,' said Derek Landino, district manager for a solar installation company that has recently set up shop in Marlboro. 'There is now a renewable energy source that can actually save customers money.'
To Mr. Landino, it's what makes green technology, particularly solar power, so compelling — to him, and to his growing customer base.


text:
Any way we can. Contact us for more information about Esri or our products, for written materials or artwork, or to set up an interview with Esri clients or Esri management staff.
Brian Peterson, Manager
909-793-2853, ext. 1283
Bob Ruschman
909-793-2853, ext. 1059
Karen Capria
909-793-2853, ext. 5397
Jesse Theodore
909-793-2853, ext. 1419
General Information
Journalist and press agency terms of use.
Esri Media Relations can provide you with relevant topical highlights on the use of geographic information by organizations around the world as well as provide topic experts for your story.
Reporters are invited to request Esri maps for news reporting. Esri data also is available for a wide range of business and market information. We offer specific solutions for computer assisted reporting. We also support journalists through the IRE.
Esri conferences that showcase high-profile uses of geographic information are held throughout the year. Members of the press will gain valuable insight for developing news angles and can request complimentary media registration to attend.


text:
OAKLAND -- The Warriors attempted to clear the air on the simmering topic of Andrew Bogut's troubled left ankle Wednesday.
After a San Francisco Chronicle story implied the center had grown frustrated by the organization's handling of his return, Bogut and general manager Bob Myers jointly briefed the media to let it be known that everyone is on the same page and there are no hard feelings.
"We're square, and I hope he feels the same way. I think he does," Myers said of Bogut. "We've always been square, and I would be concerned if that wasn't the case."
Sitting next to Myers after practice, Bogut supported the Warriors' company line.
"As far as the reports, there was never any pressure from the organization," he said. "The pressure was from was me, myself. After the big trade, I wanted to be out there to help my team and play basketball games, so the pressure never came from anybody -- Bob or Coach (Mark Jackson) or the owners. It was pressure strictly put on me by myself."
Moreover, Myers said there was no intent to deceive regarding the extent of Bogut's April surgery, which the player and the club made known Tuesday involved a more serious microfracture procedure.
"On any injury that occurs, I don't think there's any attempt at deception or omission," Myers said. "We convey it how we think is appropriate as long as we're on the same page with the athlete. I like to think that we are transparent, and that we always will be and try to do a good job informing the media."
Asked whether he thought his season might be in jeopardy, Bogut said no. He believes he will return at some point, but he doesn't know when.
"The season's five, six months before the playoffs, which we have a great chance of making," he said. "I don't think it's going to be five, six months. I hope it won't be. It would be a massive setback if it was. I'm not going to say a month or two months or three months, but I definitely think I'll be back."
In speaking with team officials Wednesday, Bogut said he requested that the team say he is on "indefinite leave" until he is ready to play and added he would have no more comment about timelines for his return.
Bogut, who has missed the past nine games, continues to be plagued by soreness and swelling in his surgically repaired left ankle. The 7-foot center won't play Thursday night's home game against Denver or Saturday's game against Indiana.
Bogut spent last week in Los Angeles rehabbing his ankle under the supervision of Dr. Richard Ferkel, who performed the surgery on Bogut in April. Bogut also received daily blood injections to try to stimulate healing in the repaired area of his ankle, a common treatment after microfracture surgery.
Bogut reiterated Wednesday that he might have delayed his recovery trying to play at the season's outset. Even though he maintained he didn't do any structural damage by appearing in four of the team's first five games, the swelling in his ankle prohibited him from fully following his rehab schedule.
"Did I rush back a little bit? Maybe," he said. "But I needed to test it out to see how it responded in an NBA environment, and obviously it didn't respond well. So we're not going to set any more timelines. Right now, when it's ready, it's ready."
Bogut did say that the microfracture procedure, which wasn't revealed publicly until Tuesday, significantly lengthened his recovery time.
"Of course it did, yeah," he said. "Without that procedure, I'm at eight weeks. That's July. But this procedure was obviously much more detailed and in-depth."
Myers was asked why the team didn't disclose the microfracture component at the time of the surgery.
"Any time somebody wants to look back and see how something was conveyed, you can potentially find fault," the G.M. said. "But I think you have to trust me, Andrew and trust the organization that we're trying to do things the right way and be honest. In this situation with Andrew, there's never been any intention to mislead. That serves no purpose for us.
"From an internal standpoint, we knew this was going to be a process," Myers added. "There were a lot of components to the injury he suffered that made it be a situation where it may take a little time. I don't think that element of it, knowing it from the get-go, changed any of our expectations and don't for that matter change them today as to how we approached it from the outset."
"It's so close," he said. "The thing you don't want is them sitting around here practicing but not getting any valuable game experience. It's certainly something we want to use."


text:
The second highest official in the Martinsville Sheriff's Office is on administrative leave after being charged with DWI across the North Carolina border.
Chief Deputy Major Laura T. Hopkins was charged Nov. 8 in Rockingham County, WSLS reported, citing court records. Along with DWI, she also was charged with violating the state's open container law.
Hopkins is on leave with pay, said Sheriff Steve Draper. She is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 3.
Hopkins began working at the sheriff's office in 1996.


text:
Different opponents. Same results.
The South Tahoe soccer teams faced different schools in regional quarterfinals, but both pulled out the win Wednesday. The girls led the way with a commanding 8-1 win over Dayton, while the boys fought to the final minutes for a nail-biting, 4-2 win against Lowry.
Both teams are now one win away from earning an automatic trip to the state championships in Henderson, Nev. Both teams are also facing single elimination as they continue their playoff push.
With state on the line, the boys and girls will make an eight-hour trek to Elko to finish this in the final rounds of regionals today and Saturday.
Lady Vikings dominate quarterfinals
The reigning state champions left no doubt which team would be advancing when they stepped on the pitch Wednesday.
It took less than 30 seconds for Jordyn Dion to fire off South Tahoe's first shot on goal. Dion's was the first of many.
"We had a lot more shots on target this game than a lot of the game this season," Vikings coach Chris DeLeon said. "That was definitely one thing we've been working on is getting shots off and keeping the goalie on their toes."
The girls seemed to be thinking as one Wednesday. Their quick touches and sharp passes made keeping a beat on the ball nearly impossible.
"Our passes definitely had a purpose instead of just going blindly to someone," DeLeon said. "They were also first to the ball most of the time."
They commanded Dayton's backfield, and Brittany Sanchez found the net first with an assist from Sarah Higginbotham. Just like that, South Tahoe led 1-0 less than three minutes in.
Brianna Carroll struck soon after. The speedy senior drove the ball straight through the heart of Dayton's defense off an assist from Brooke King with 26 minutes left in the first half.
The assist was the first of three for King. The senior knew just when and where to deliver the ball to her teammates.
The goals piled on quickly after that.
Higginbotham slammed a cross shot from the wings into Dayton's net from about 20 yards out.
The Carroll-King combination was up next. Carroll tapped in her second goal of the night off another assist from King.
The girls now led 4-0, but there was still 15 minutes left until halftime and they weren't done.
Jensen Smith added the final first-half goal with a free kick that arched perfectly over Dayton's wall of defense straight into net.
Now leading by five, the Vikings mixed things up in the second half. This meant pulling goalkeeper Alejandra Orozco to the frontlines.
"Usually our defense stays on top of it. They play really well so I end up just standing there," the goalkeeper said.
Orozco welcomed the chance to get out of goal where the only action she had seen thus far was one easily smothered shot on goal. Turns out the goalkeeper is not too shabby on offense. She served up one assist, although jokingly remarked after the game that it probably looked like she was running in circles out there.
Sanchez turned Orozco's assist into a goal about four minutes into the second half giving the Vikings a 6-0 lead.
Before the night was through, Smith showed off her kicking range once again. The sophomore dropped in another free kick goal from about 35 yards out to make it 7-0.
The girls will face Truckee in the semifinals Friday in Elko. Truckee and South Tahoe girls met twice this season and both games ended in a tie.
"They're really good at possession of ball and control. So it's going to be a good game," DeLeon said. "Too bad we have to go all the way to Elko for two lake teams to play each other, but so be it."
Boys win with unity
It was hard to tell who was who as the boys filed onto the field with bleached blonde hair, but that was the point. They planned to play as a unit and the blonde hair is a playoff tradition that drove that point home Wednesday night.
Playing as a unit, the boys were one step ahead of Lowry all night. The Vikings used crisp passes to fully take advantage of every inch of the field.
"We all played together and that's what it takes for a team to win," Vikings' David Rodriguez said.
Freshman Jack Kixmiller netted the first goal for the Vikings 16 minutes before the half. Gustavo Yanez sent in a huge cross from the wings and Kixmiller snuck right up the middle of Lowry to follow it in.
Lowry tied the game up, however, when the ball was deflected into South Tahoe's goal during a defensive scuffle.
No matter because Ozzy Rosas made goals look easy a few minutes later.
Rosas dropped an enormous shot from 45 yards out that slanted perfectly at the last second into Lowry's goal.
"I didn't know I was even going to score. I just thought it was going over," Rosas said. "I didn't expect it to go in."
The goal stunned everyone on the field and gave South Tahoe an extra boast of momentum going into the second half.
But it was Jesus Martinez who gave South Tahoe the go ahead goal with 12 minutes left in the game. Marinez drew Lowry's goalkeeper out and slammed a cross shot into the net to give the Vikings a 3-2 lead.
Now South Tahoe just needed to hold on through the final frigid minutes. The defense staff of Rosas, Andres Orozco, Christian Navarro and Jesus "Chuy" Vasquez delivered.
"Our defense is playing hot right now, and they're all underclassmen," coach Bill Spicer said.
With the defense impassable, South Tahoe was able to add one goal for insurance purposes.
Rodriguez blasted in a penalty shot with eight minutes left on the clock, and the Vikings knew they had made it through to semifinals.
"I didn't even think about it. I just put it in the net," Rodriguez said.
The boys will meet Sparks in the semifinals in Elko on Friday at 3 p.m. South Tahoe dropped both games against Sparks in the regular season.
"They're a good team and it's going to be hard to beat them, but we can do it if we work as a team," Rosas said.


text:
- Clothes & Accessories (1)
- Creative Recycling (4)
- Decorating (13)
- Dress Up (2)
- Games & Toys (8)
- Puppets & Paper Dolls (4)
- Seasonal (15)
Decorate for Hanukkah the Team Umizoomi way, with "Umigami" dreidels you can link together, then hang to display!
Weekdays on Nick Jr.
Print out the Umizoomi origami pattern prints and dreidel diagram.
Follow the instructions provided on the diagrams to help your child crease and fold the dreidels.

 These origami pieces have a limited number of easy-to-follow steps that make origami child's play.

 Help your child make at least four origami dreidels, which can be joined together to form a banner.
Cut out the decorative stickers that are included with the dreidel diagram printable, and have your child decorate or link the dreidels together using the stickers!

 Decorating Tip: Try using colorful paper clips to link the dreidels together (as shown in photo). You can also hang the banner on a wall using the paper clips.
Make movie night Umi-rrific with Team Umizoomi popcorn holders!
Invite your child's favorite Nick Jr. friends to the kids table with this printable craft
Racers get ready to take off with this simple spin-to-win printable board game!
Make a new memory game in minutes with our easy printable templates
This goody bag is dressed up for Dad's special day!
Dress up cones with cute Nick Jr. characters!
Vroom, vroom! Look who's racing across Umi City with a special birthday greeting
Make a door sign that will bloom in any room!
Shower your little flower with quality crafting time!
Give your sweet a bag full of Umiriffic treats!
Make a do-together craft kids can proudly display on their door
Turn paper bags into your favorite math-loving team!
This print-and-fold craft is an umirrific way to make your tree look spectacular!
Extend-o the holiday cheer with this special craft for UmiFriends
Welcome guests during the holidays--or any day--with this easy-to-make decoration.
Create a SUPER shaped ornament to hang on your tree this year
Make VROOM, VROOM on your tree this year for UmiCar!
Make matching tees and a card to show Dad he's umirrific!
Spring into action to create a high-flying hanging craft
Build your child's not-so-bad bandit, with our simple cut & fold printables!
With a few simple folds these printables take the form of Milli, Geo, and Bot
Beep, beep! The Umi Team's four-wheeled friend is here and ready for action!
Geo used his SUPER SHAPES to create this pirate, now UmiFriends can too!
Kids can take on Zilch's challenges, collect keys and rescue the King of Numbers!
These easy-to-assemble 3-D paper characters will be ready for action in no time!
Shape a shoe box into a stage for your child's very own action-packed Umi adventure!
Transform a recycled tissue roll & cereal box into a cool craft for kids
Make a dainty box to fill with sweet surprises
Make party favors with lots of flavor!
There's no better way to say "Happy Birthday" than with a banner!
Wag your tail and shake a leg with this dancing game all the pups will love!
Transform a cereal box into a soccer field!
Make this simple paper puppet and play soccer with Dora!
Make this simple paper puppet and play fetch or fly Norville!
Turn paper into the perfect toy for your troll-loving tot!
It's paper dolls with a super silly twist!
Let's play "Guess Who?" with your favorite PAW Patrol pals
Turn a cereal box into a craft that will aMAZE your kids!
It's paper dolls with a modern twist!
Take this wheel for a spin when you begin to teach kids about words with the same endings!
Spin the wheel to reveal new words that end in 'at'!
Get kids excited about reading and spelling with this simple print and paste board game
Make Rubble's digger with our easy printable templates
The race is on between Dora and the Ice Witch!
Dive into crafting by creating a paper toy for your PAW Patrol fan!
Kids can help Skye fly high when you create this paper toy craft!
Racers get ready to take off with this simple spin-to-win printable board game!
Here's a do it yourself toy for your cop car lovin' PAW Patrol fan!
Here's a do-it-yourself toy for your fire-truck lovin' PAW Patrol fan!
Print to turn paper into your kids' favorite recycling pup!
Make a new memory game in minutes with our easy printable templates
Take a trip around Lalaloopsy land, meeting with friends for Crumbs tea party!
Make this simple paper puppet and play fetch with Dora's little puppy!
Make a snugly new friend for your Peter fan
Help Dora and her friends find their way to the party at Benny's barn!
Peter & pals are dashing through the snow-- carrying something sweet, you should know!
Everyone wins when you make your own spinning tops!
Make it family game night & go on a knightly mission to Story Castle!
It's a race to the finish! Take the Team on a ride to the top of Shape Mountain
Get kids' engines going with this cool Dump Truck toy made from an egg carton!


text:
Plum Puddin' wrote: The first rule of Darknet...
FuseONE wrote: That sounds pretty cool, although I doubt it's "500,000" times the size of the regular internet. What's that even mean?
OM3N wrote:
That is the current "highball" estimate by most people who study the web. Consider the fact if you study in a university or work in a corporation, your homepage/login page will not show up on google for good reason.
That is considered "DarkNet" so just imagine how many pages there are out there like that hosting tons of info.
Plum Puddin' wrote: