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Open Source Storage CEO says open source is transforming tech in 2014
5 ways open source is transforming tech in 2014
For the last decade we've watched an epic contest unfold between open source and proprietary technology, and 2014 is the year that this dynamic will radically transform. The lines between open source and proprietary are becoming irrevocably blurred as proprietary firms pour resources into open source development and open source companies dial in their revenue models. Above all else, the open source community is producing the technologies businesses need to be competitive in the data-rich 21st century.
The open source movement, built on the 'marketplace of ideas' and the scalability of collaboration, is swallowing the proprietary world. To understand where the entire tech world is going, I believe we need to keep a close eye on these five open source trends:
1. Data storage clustering
In 2014, open source technology will allow datacenters to cluster together storage systems and thereby grow at a rapid pace. The software will allow us to clone an entire storage system, making it possible to bring new database servers online within minutes. Essentially, open source will crack the problem of absorbing high volumes of data at high speed.
This ability to build up storage space quickly is crucial because our digital universe is expanding rapidly. In a 2011, the International Data Corporation (IDC) found that the global volume of digital data is roughly doubling every 2 years, and by 2020 our digital universe will hold 40 trillion gigabytes. The amount of information managed by enterprise datacenters would grow 50-fold, according to the report. Open source clustering will make this expansion efficient and affordable.
2. Proprietary software companies go open source
Proprietary software providers feel immense pressure to support open source technology. Although Oracle has been known to bash open source, the company has at least 14 active open source initiatives and has become a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, with plans to integrate OpenStack capabilities into its products and cloud services. In September 2013, IBM announced that it would invest $1 billion into Linux and open source innovation to help its customer run big data and cloud computing solutions on IBM's Power Systems servers. Just this January, Microsoft open sourced its Azure cloud server design through Facebook's Open Compute Project. The other tech giants are following suit.
Open source will make even further inroads in the public sector this year. The U.S. government has built OpenSource.gov, a back-end site dedicated to helping departments migrate to open source technology. The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) alone is funding and contributing to over 70 open source projects related to data infrastructure, visualization, and analytics. The NSA even open sourced Apache Accumulo, its own NoSQL database. Thanks to organizations like the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, U.S. elections may soon utilize digital voting on open source platforms, just like Estonia and now Norway. Mass open source adoption in government will place additional pressure on proprietary software companies to evolve.
3. High performance computing
Open source will produce the next generation of high performance computing clusters that underlie big data analysis and applications. The high speeds of such computing clusters provide the ability to parse gargantuan volumes of data in milliseconds. Enterprises in every single industry now need such capabilities to make use of the data they collect. Clustering can also help enterprise websites support wide fluctuations in visitors and usage without faltering in performance. We created this clustering technology way back in 2004 before data analytics became crucial to business strategies. Today, it will be the key to pinning down valuable data at a reasonable cost.
4. Mobile development
With the relative decline of desktops and rise of mobile devices, open source is becoming the foundation for superior mobile development. Existing platforms like Joomla, Convertigo, Dream Factory, OpenMEAP, and many others allow developers to build their product, get it to market quickly and scale. Open source programming languages, databases, middleware engines and other tools will continue to fuel mobile development and the growth of a mobile open source ecosystem.
5. Universities teaching open source
Universities have long been users and producers of open source technology, and students are getting in on the action. As VentureBeat reported back in November, twenty-two universities including Stanford, MIT, Berkley, and Carnegie Mellon have all teamed up with Facebook to provide students with academic credit for working on open source projects. Universities are adapting their curriculums and welcoming such opportunities to make sure that students graduate with in-demand skills and the best employment prospects. Beyond the Facebook inspired projects, every major tech university has faculty members working on open source projects (often with their students). As high schools, junior highs and middle schools pick up the slack in America's computing education, I have no doubt open source will find its way into their curricula too.
The open source versus proprietary contest is ending because a critical mass of technologists in business and government recognize that open source technology offers higher performance, scalability, and reliability at a much lower price than proprietary solutions. Open source's leadership in data storage clustering, high performance computing, analytics and mobile development will secure open source dominance over the next decade. The open source shift among proprietary software providers and the rise of open source in tech education will also reprogram the international tech workforce to study, master and implement open source solutions across every major industry. My hope is that we remember 2014 as the year we began to view open source as the norm rather than the exception in technological innovation.
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Great article! My feelings in print! Good job and accurate forecast in my humble opinion.
Richard Arnett
Awesome read. Glad to know the future is "wide open" or at least heading there....(and here it is I thought that SOMEWHERE in this article you would have mentioned the "Year Of The Linux Desktop" that seems to elude everyone on the planet?...LoL!) once again great article.
Live Free and wide open. The open source shift will pass up all the big vendors that leave there technology closed.
Also to all those companies that thought open source storage would never make it. You can knock us down but we never die.
The open source spirt lives on and here to stay.
The model for Open Source is the way of the future (actually, its the "new normal" and trending as we speak), not just in technology, but the model is also helping to solve the worlds problems.
By allowing people to work together, open source technology offers the ability to grow quicker, scale faster, and operate stronger than any proprietary system on the market.
And when we look at the penetration of Android, based on Linux, and Chrome as well, the number of devices running operating systems based on Open Source goes up exponentially.
Insightful article Eren. Besides the growing involvement of corporate and universities in open source projects, I also see the percolation of open source technologies, primarily, Linux distros and CMS, among individuals. Open source will grow phenomenally for personal use as well. The commitment to contribute to open source projects equates to growth and long term profits. I strongly believe that Innovation in general and computing in particular are incomplete terms without open source.
Thanks again for sharing this great article.


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Meckler v. Scalia
If the Supreme Court has a vacancy anytime soon, don't expect Lawrence Meckler to be appointed. That's if Antonin Scalia has anything to say about it.
Meckler, now the Clarence town attorney and Clarence IDA co-counsel, recounted being part of a group that years ago met the conservative justice during a visit to the Supreme Court.
As the group prepared to get pictures with Scalia, he stopped them: "What are you doing? You're all lawyers, you've come here to Washington. Don't you want to ask any questions about the Supreme Court and our policy, and how we work, and the intricacies? Doesn't anyone have a question? I don't want to just stand here and take pictures."
No one responded – until Meckler finally raised his hand. Scalia, grateful, called on him: "Yes, thank you, what's your question?"
"Are there any justices that will just take pictures with us?" Meckler said.
Case – or photo op – dismissed.
And what a parade it is
A few hundred attendees at this week's Delaware North Cos. annual Food & Beverage Summit got more than just a discussion of the beer industry.
They got a free sample and a lecture on the finer points of beer from someone who would know: Jim Koch, the founder and CEO of The Boston Beer Co., maker of Samuel Adams beer.
It's no surprise that this talk about "really good beer" featured – what else? – Samuel Adams Boston Lager.
Holding a full glass for all to see, Koch told the crowd to first look on the left side of the label, at the notched date, to be sure the beer is fresh.
"You would be better off buying a Miller Light or Coors Light or a Bud Light than a stale Sam Adams," he said.
Then pour the beer and take a look at the color and clarity. "To me, this is a classic, beautiful, amber golden color," he said. "It's almost like looking into a candle flame."
Then smell it. It should be primarily hops. "It's sort of floral, there's a little bit of spiciness, maybe spruce, pine, and it's slightly sweet. That comes from the malt," he explained.
Finally, taste it. "That balance in the structure of beer is a balance between the body and sweetness of the malt, followed by the spiciness and bitterness from hops," he concluded. "In a really good beer, you can actually get all four of those, marching across your palate, in a three- to four-second parade." He paused, while people sipped their beers. "Get that?" he asked. We think so, but we'll need another sample to be sure.
He comes bearing gifts
The East Aurora School District is really pumped after its middle school was named a 2012 Blue Ribbon School, a federal distinction marking the school's record of academic excellence.
At the most recent School Board meeting, President Daniel Brunson kiddingly told Mark Mambretti, the middle school principal, to say hello to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan during his trip to Washington, D.C., to formally accept the award.
Mambretti, who was traveling with other district representatives, replied: "I will. If you have a Roycroft gift certificate, I'll give him one." Brunson, a longtime Roycroft docent, quipped: "Yes. That'll be one that never gets turned in."
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R. Gil Kerlikowske left this area in 1998, after serving 4½ years as Buffalo police commissioner, but we still keep tabs on the city's former top cop.
He's served as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy – aka our "drug czar" – since 2009, and he opened up to the Washington Post this week for their "In the Loop" interview.
Kerlikowske divulged that he performed in "Singin' in the Rain" while serving as Seattle's police chief, his favorite TV show is "Barney Miller" and he longs to guest host the NPR quiz show "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!"
Musical theater? Public radio? We can't see Joe Friday or Dirty Harry Callahan sharing the same taste in popular culture.
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Anybody with a fondness for Burns's poetry should hear this album. Andy's voice gives rightful airing to some of the finest of Burn's songs. Andy's renditions are stirring and beautiful and his earthy and resonant voice (complete with a grand Scottish burr) is perfectly accompanied by a varied group of well-chosen instruments from flutes to electronic synthesizer with melodies both old and refreshing.
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A man dressed as the comic book superhero Batman is filmed handing over a wanted man at a British police station.
Police at Trafalgar House station were left baffled last week when a man dressed as the comic book hero walked in, escorting a 27-year-old wanted man.
Batman said: ''I've caught this one for you,'' and, wrote officers on the local police Facebook page, he ''promptly vanished into the night to fight crime and the fear of crime in Bradford''.
The whole episode, described by police as ''bizarre'', got the city talking. Local costume shop employee Kathryn Sutcliffe remembered selling a Batman outfit days before the arrest.
''Usually they want the Dark Knight costume but he wanted this one. He wanted the one with the muscly chest as well. It's like the one Del Boy wears in Only Fools and Horses,'' she told the BBC.
Unfortunately for Batman, his visible paunch meant he didn't quite look as sleek as he should.
And unlike Bruce Wayne in the comic book and the films, whose identity has been kept from Gotham City locals for decades, this Batman's identity was only secret for a short time.
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Motorola Exits the South Korean Market
The news that Motorola Mobility LLC, now a unit of Google, will exit the South Korea cellphone market will come as no surprise to anyone who visits a local distributor or gets their hands on sales data for the country.
Motorola had just 0.2% share of the cellphone market in South Korea through the first nine months of the year, according to Gartner, the technology research firm. It sold around 41,000 phones in a market that consumed nearly 16 million in that time.
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest seller of cellphones by units and revenue, sold 10.2 million phones in its home market – a 64% market share – from January through September. Samsung's global cellphone market share, according to various researchers, is around 25%.
In a statement, Motorola said that it began telling staff on Monday that they will close most operations in South Korea, including research and development and cellphone sales. The company will continue to sell telecom equipment and offer customer support.
"The changes in Korea reflect our plans to consolidate our global R&D efforts to foster collaboration, and to focus more attention on markets where we are best positioned to compete effectively," the Motorola statement said.
Earlier this year, Taiwan's HTC Corp. exited the South Korean market.
South Korea has notoriously been difficult for non-Korean cellphone makers. South Koreans have a natural affinity to support local companies, of course, but the government through the years has helped through rules and non-tariff barriers on products from elsewhere.
A rule created in 2005 that required the use of South Korea-developed middleware in phones that connected to the Internet kept smartphones by Research in Motion and Apple out of the market until its repeal in 2009. Recently, the South Korean government proposed requiring smartphone operating system developers turn over portions of their source code, something that would impact Apple and Google and RIM, to qualify for government-developed apps.
Samsung is followed in the South Korean market by the country's other two manufacturers LG Electronics and Pantech Co.
Apple is a distant fourth, and other manufacturers are well below it Nokia operates one of its largest factories in South Korea but has sold less than 10,000 phones in the country this year.
Data shows that South Korea is far ahead of other countries in its consumption of smartphones, which accounted for 93% of all sales during the first nine months of the year. Globally, smartphones accounted for around 40% to 45% of all cellphone purchases for the first nine months of the year.
Here are cellphone sales figures for the January-to-September period in South Korea:
All cellphones including smartphones
Samsung 10,241,600
Pantech 2,553,400
Apple 246,000
Motorola 40,800
Sony 39,600
Nokia 9,800
Others 34,000
Total 15.97 million
Smartphones alone
Samsung 9,721,100
Pantech 2,339,600
Apple 246,000
Sony 39,600
Motorola 39,100
Nokia 9,800
Total 14.8 million
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Major focus of Hand in Hand's activities is based around female entrepreneurship. Women are mobilized in so called Self Help Groups where they pool their savings, learn how to read and write and receive training in entrepreneurship and bookkeeping. After the training they are linked to microfinance for investing in new or existing family businesses.
The bulk of the Hand in Hands' activities is based around female entrepreneurship. Groups of women pool their savings and then obtain microfinance for investing in new or existing family businesses. They also receive training in reading, writing and bookkeeping.
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Hadiya Pendleton was a 15-year-old honor student who attended Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. College Prep High School, one of eight selective-enrollment public high schools in Chicago. She was gunned down Tuesday as she and friends sought shelter from the rain under a canopy at Harsh Park. At the time of the shooting there had been 41 murders in Chicago in 2013. Pendleton's was the 42nd. The aftershock of her death now ebbs and flows over the city.
She is not the first young person senselessly slaughtered in the city, and unfortunately she won't be the last; nor is she the first female, the first honor student, or the first murdered in a non-gang-related shooting. Police report that neither Pendleton nor her friends were gang members, although it would be easier for some to believe they were. Officials surmise the gunman mistakenly believed the teens were members of a rival gang and opened fire on them.
There must be more to this story. The "more" is how a story is perceived and the value mainstream American society and the media place on some lives while not placing much value on others, which is reflected in the stories the mainstream media promotes. It's the high expectations for children born into two-parent families and the low expectations for those born into single-parent ones. The outcry over Pendleton's death would be deafening if she had been white. This is not an outrageous statement—it's a true one.
If an honor student is gunned down in Englewood, one of the most violent neighborhoods in Chicago, many will say it's indeed a shame that child wasn't able to make it out of the war zone. There will be flowers, tears will flow and makeshift memorials will rise, but unspoken words will also infiltrate the minds of the majority ethnic group—why did the family live in such a horrible neighborhood, why was there no father in the home, why do people have children when they can't afford to live in suburbia with a white picket fence surrounding their home, 2.5 children and two cars in the garage? There are no canned answers, because each situation is different. However, respect for life—all life—should manifest itself in a humane society.
Pendleton was a "city kid," but her parents were married. She had a younger brother and extended family who loved her. She was an intelligent, lively young lady. According to reports from family and friends, boundless opportunities awaited her. She had accomplished much in her short life, including performing at President Barack Obama's recent inauguration with her school band and gaining admission to an excellent high school. Her life personified the potential and promise of the American Dream. Perhaps mainstream America can understand, and hopefully relate, to this tragedy, because Pendleton's family may mirror their own—with the exception of darker skin tones.
Horrifically, Pendleton's life ended less than one mile from Obama's Chicago home, in the neighborhood of Kenwood. Her life had limitless value, as every child and youth's does—even those born in Englewood, Greater Grand Crossing, Washington Park, Garfield Park and countless other violent Chicago neighborhoods.
Pendleton's future was hopeful and seemingly secure because of family unity and strength. I applaud her mother and father for the diligence and care they took with the life that was entrusted to them, and I mourn for Pendleton, but I mourn no less for the slain children in other areas of the city whose futures are also potentially bright. Their start may not have been as positive as Pendleton's, but they, just as she, deserved the chance to dream, live, and become productive members of society.
There are many who may not achieve the fame of a Jennifer Hudson or a Derrick Rose but who would have made it out of the killing fields if they hadn't died prematurely from a stray bullet.
So far, the city has offered an $11,000 reward for leads on Pendleton's shooter. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has talked about her death, and so has Obama. Words only—no actions. When the federal marshals are called in, Chicagoans will know "change has come America," to quote the words of the president.


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Attention attracted by gymnast's request puzzling
The following editorial that was published in the Dec. 10 WIAA Bulletin contains a reference to Tomahawk. Its focus is on a male Stevens Point Area Senior High School junior who's fighting to compete on his school's girls' gymnastics team. Keith Michael Bukowski and his mother, Janine, have filed a complaint in circuit court against the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) for refusing to let the boy compete with his female peers. We're wondering what you think?
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The WIAA's denial of a recent request to allow a boy gymnast to compete on the Stevens Point Area Senior High girls' gymnastics team this season has received statewide media attention over the past couple of weeks and may possibly draw national attention.
Why so much exposure is being given to this particular issue is somewhat puzzling given the plethora of court precedents and opinions on such cases, the practicality of boys competing on girls' teams and the impact it would have on a much wider scale.
Although efforts to allow boys to compete on girls' teams in order to provide opportunities not available through school or community programs may be done with good intentions, those intentions are also short-sighted and a bit misguided.
It has been reported that a petition is being circulated, a web site being created and T-shirts being printed with "Fair is Fair" printed on them to voice well-intended support for the request. Some claim what's good for the gander is good for the goose.
Yes, girls have been able to compete on boys' teams, and some have excelled in doing so. Take Alyssa Lampe of Tomahawk, for example. Last year, she became the first girl wrestler to advance to the State Individual Wrestling Tournament. She won her first match of the tournament before losing the next two matches.
However, few would, or even could, refute a physiological difference between girls and boys, especially considering the maturation process that takes place between the ages of 15-18. That's not to say the competitiveness, judgment and skill level of boys surpasses that of girls, but natural maturation gives most boys an advantage in strength and speed, which continues to be accepted by science and in the courts.
In addition, when Title IX was enacted in the early 1970s, it would be hard to argue the equity intentions of the law included boys competing on girls' teams. In fact, it contradicts the legislation's intent. The advent of Title IX and its enforcement definitely narrowed the gap, but it hasn't closed it all the way. Females continue to be the underrepresented gender.
With all the great female athletes and their achievements over the last 30 years, it's difficult for some of us to comprehend the rationale why it took so long to have girls' athletics recognized in the same manner male sports have been.
Having a boy compete on a girls' team and displacing the opportunity for another girl certainly rejects the intent of the rule. Even if it doesn't displace someone from the roster, it will, at the very least, displace some of the instruction time in practice afforded to other girls. Let's play this out a bit. If a boy is able to compete on a girls' gymnastics team, regardless of skill level, how could we prevent boys from competing in other girls' sports?
With this precedent, there are a lot of schools in the membership that have girls' volleyball teams but not boys' volleyball teams. What would the reaction be if a gifted 6-foot-4 boy showed up for the first day of girls' volleyball practice or any other girls' sport practice? What possibilities of displacement and loss of opportunity for girls exist in these cases? How fair would that be?
Perhaps the most unfortunate and disappointing aspect of this entire situation is the fact the boy was initially led to believe he would be able to compete on the girls' team.
This is not a simple case of a boy being denied the ability to compete. It goes far beyond that as this scenario attempts to demonstrate. This is also not a situation whereby the WIAA is either uncompassionate or too restrictive in its regulations or interpretations.
This is an issue about one individual and a caring parent wanting what is best for her son. However, what's best for one person does not outweigh what's best for thousands of girls now and in the future. Would it be fair to jeopardize opportunities for thousands for the desires of one?
The clear answer is no. After all, what's fair is fair.
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Met a friend from work today; had a salad (ranch dressing), navy bean soup (quite good, thick and bacon-y), some really good cheese bread, glass o' water. And the bill came to a palindrome!
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Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce (whole berry), pecan pie. AKA "leftovers".
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
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PerfView Tutorial 1.1 Data Collection for Server Scenarios
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In the first tutorial we used the 'Run' command to caputure data while an executable ran. However for server scenarios you simply want to explicitly state when to start and stop data collection. It is also likely that you will need to ask someone else (e.g. operations staff) to collect the data for you and send the data for 'offline' analysis. This video shows you the support PerfView has for these server style scenarios.
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5 Secrets of Making Reality TV They Don't Want You to Know
#2. Keeping the Reality You Like
Once a show has wrapped and Bret Michaels has injected another lucky winner with the tentacled spawn of all the '80s hepatitis combined, producers now have to take that raw footage and make it into a "story." Have you ever noticed that every single reality program has a "villain"? The producers picked him or her to be that. Yes, it was easy, since the person was almost certainly a piece of shit to begin with, but so was everyone they hired. That's how they all got the job! Anyone is a piece of shit if you film him for six weeks and only look at the 40 minutes where he was crankiest. Hell, last week I called Netflix the N-word because Big Trouble in Little China was kind of choppy and I was too drunk to switch to video games.
So how do they decide on who gets to be the bad guy? Well, sometimes it's as simple as picking the person who was the douchiest the most often. Other times you have to build a villain around an incredible event. For example, did a previously calm contestant throw a violent temper tantrum? Of course he did, so there's the show's bad guy. But wait ... you can't have his villainy come out of nowhere. If he was polite up until then, you have to go back and alter earlier footage so his dickishness builds to this. One of the main reasons reality shows seem fake is because writers went in and added an elegant narrative structure to them. We don't have those in the regular world, and if you find that you do, grab the nearest person by the neck until their human disguise fades and tell its lizard body you won't be fooled by this psychic Matrix bullshit.
I mentioned earlier how you can use audio cues and reaction shots to make someone look like a jerk. You can also splice in interview footage of someone talking trash about them. It's amazing how much your perception of a person can change when their life is being narrated by someone who hates them. Editors can take more drastic action, too -- they can and do change the words people say. Most reality show audio is made up of "Frankenbites," sound bites that have been patched together from the corpses of other sentences. Basically, any time the camera cuts away from a person's lips, there's a solid chance they're speaking ground English. The editors can even do it right in front of your face with a "waiter wipe," where a shadowy figure crosses the foreground to hide a jump cut. Here, I'll give you a for instance:
#1. Straight Up Cheating
There's no such thing as Bigfoot and ghosts, and yet there are 200 shows about finding them. Think about this: Could you personally make a show like that and not fuck with the stars? I couldn't. I don't even watch Finding Bigfoot, and if I die before I put on a gorilla suit and pull a shrieking Finding Bigfoot cast member into the woods, my unfulfilled spirit will stay here as the world's first actual ghost.
It's rare, but some reality shows are lying to viewers from beginning to end. Some of those "unexplainable" sounds that terrify ghost hunters really are interns hitting a wall with a pipe. Some of those sassy hairdressers really are actors. Even a lot of the music you hear in the background is fake. There's an entire industry of musicians and lawyers whose job is to make songs that sound as close to famous songs as copyright law allows. Speaking of music, I seriously cannot stop thinking about how great it would be if Hulk Hogan and chimpanzees got together.
Seanbaby has no idea there are good shows on TV. He made history's greatest website at Seanbaby.com and he writes jokes on Twitter.
For more of his articles about reality TV, see 6 Ways to Improve Reality Dating Shows (With Cruelty) & Glorious Failures in TV Talent Show Auditions Part One and Part Two.


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Six weeks after the June 15 birth of her baby girl North, Kim Kardashian has "lost a lot of her baby weight," says a source close to the star.
"She's feeling great and looking forward to getting back in shape."
Kardashian, still happily ensconced in mama Kris Jenner's pad, is eating light and healthy thanks to the Jenners' private chef and enjoying "settling into a routine with her daughter," says the source.
"She's happy with the way she looks but she knows she still has a way to go to get her pre-baby body totally back."
And, in decidedly un-Kardashian fashion, the brand-new mom, 32, has yet to show off a photo of either herself or North, much to the dismay of Twitter and Instagram followers worldwide.
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Size-controlled aerosol synthesis of silver nanoparticles for plasmonic materials
Harra, Juha; Mäkitalo, Jouni; Siikanen, Roope; Virkki, Matti; Genty, Goery; Kobayashi, Takayoshi; Kauranen, Martti; Mäkelä, Jyrki M.
Publication type: Artikkeli - Article
Issue date: 2012
Citation: Harra, Juha; Mäkitalo, Jouni; Siikanen, Roope; Virkki, Matti ; Genty, Goery; Kobayashi, Takayoshi; Kauranen, Martti; Mäkelä, Jyrki M. 2012. Size-controlled aerosol synthesis of silver nanoparticles for plasmonic materials. Journal of Nanoparticles Research vol. 14, num. 6, 1-10.
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Faculty: Luonnontieteiden ja ympäristötekniikan tiedekunta – Faculty of Science and Environmental Engineering
Department: Fysiikan laitos – Department of Physics
Aerosol techniques were used to synthesize spherical and monodisperse silver nanoparticles for plasmonic materials. The particles were generated with an evaporation–condensation technique followed by size selection and sintering with a differential mobility analyzer and a tube furnace, respectively. Finally, the nanoparticles were collected on a glass substrate with an electrostatic precipitator. The particle size distributions were measured with a scanning mobility particle sizer and verified with a transmission electron microscope. A spectrophotometer was used to measure the optical extinction spectra of the prepared samples, which contained particles with diameters of approximately 50, 90 and 130 nm. By controlling the particle size, the dipolar peak of the localized surface plasmon resonance was tuned between wavelengths of 398 and 448 nm. In addition, quadrupolar resonances were observed at shorter wavelengths as predicted by the simplified theoretical model used to characterize the measured spectra.
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We must fight to keep six-day mail delivery
The News' tongue–in-cheek mention about Canada being more progressive than the United States because it went to the metric system in the '70s, has had national health insurance for its citizens for decades and is now getting rid of the penny because it costs more than it's worth was largely correct. Canada is a wonderful country with great people, and is generally more progressive in its policies of maintaining a just and civil society.
However, I disagree in regard to our friends to the north dropping Saturday mail service in 1969. First of all, the United States handles so much more mail than Canada, it's a bit like comparing apples and oranges. And dropping six-day delivery has hurt the Canadian postal service.
It's not a progressive move to start dismantling the incredible communication and delivery network that has been built in the United States. A truly progressive society would take this efficient and comprehensive network serving every home and business six days per week and expand the services that are offered to its people.
Americans can be very resistant to change. The health care system and the penny are great examples. But we don't need to fix a six-day delivery system that isn't broken. This is the kind of change we should fight to stop. The prime change that's needed is for the federal government to stop raiding the coffers of the Postal Service, and allow it to keep its own money. The Postal Service doesn't cost the American taxpayers a cent, but the payback to the people is enormous.
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This week President Obama took careful aim at the nation's gun owners with a not unexpected $500 million, emotionally charged and misdirected plan he claims would reduce gun violence in America.
Not exactly, Mr. President.
To fall back on an old but still true claim from the other side of the gun control debate, it's not the guns that cause the problem. And it doesn't matter what you call a firearm - any gun can be an "assault" rifle in the wrong hands - any more than the number of cartridges a weapon holds really makes any difference.
There is no question that the rampage an obviously very sick young man went on in Connecticut a few weeks ago was a horrible event. But to use those deaths, and photo-ops of children as Obama did Wednesday, to drum up support is just inexcusable. But then again, that's the way this president has operated since the beginning of his tenure: If you can't produce facts, just create a drama.
The gun control question pops up whenever another whacko opens fire on a bunch of innocents. Over and over, guns are blamed because they make an easy whipping boy. Generally, liberals cry out for more gun control laws, while conservatives rail against them. What follows is months of saber rattling and attempts to tighten laws that govern gun ownership. In the end, at least up until now, not much happens to change those laws.
Thanks to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, gun ownership continues to withstand the assaults and remains, for the most part, a precious freedom for American citizens. The Constitution endures because most Americans believe it should. Is it perfect? Of course not, but we haven't seen a better alternative.
Why, then, are there so many attempts to blame guns for all the violence in America? It's much easier to do that then address the real causes. What makes these people want to arm themselves and start blazing away? Who is examining our mental health care system? Why don't we look at the deterioration of the American family, or the lack of a moral center in the lives of too many children? How about the violence portrayed in movies or video games? And touching on another Constitutional issue, maybe we need to consider bringing religion back to the schoolhouse. Wouldn't that be a hot one?
The point we are trying to make here is that reining in violence in America will prove to be a difficult, complex task involving many aspects of our culture. Until everyone understands that and is truly willing to find a solution, all we will ever see is more disagreement over firearms and debates over how many shells are allowed in the magazine. In other words, a lot of smoke, but no fire.


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Props to "The" Adam Shuman from U South Carolina for sending me a SC Lax shirt.
How cool is that!?
I am at my gym yesterday Parisi Speed School in Morris Plains, NJ where the training is very Delbarton Lax intensive and I get stopped by no less than 3 varsity players commenting on where I got it.
I am a bit on the horse of the MCLA, not just because they did a feature article on me in this months issue, but because I believe it to be the "real" concentrated growth in the game today.
Think about it. Huge student bodies, legit alumni, on the map for TV and continuous recognition for the caliber of athlete deciding to play MCLA versus D2 or D3.
Ask yourself the question, would you rather play D2 or D3 at a small virtually unknown school or rock out playing high level club at eerrr!!!
Texas?? Or USC where the Girlz are pretty???
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I visited the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville this past weekend, so it naturally occurred to me to watch Ali again afterwards. While the film is noticeably uneven as a bio-pic, it does cover the most notable part of Ali's boxing career from his first fight with Sonny Liston to his "Rumble in the Jungle" with George Foreman. The film also delves into his relationship with The Nation of Islam, his fight against being drafted into the Vietnam War, his appearances on television with Howard Cosell, and so on. Yet, it never really settles into who Muhammad Ali is as a person (or who he thinks he is). Even with a Director's Cut of 165 minutes (8 minutes longer than the theatrical release), the film leaves us as audience to speculate on any conclusions. The story does not give us much context for what it does show, so this might turn off some viewers (though having to pay attention might make it a more immersive experience). Like all stories, it probably contains elements of fiction, but its refusal to paint the man as a two-dimensional 'hero' seems like a more truthful attempt that makes the movie worth seeking out. It's a beautifully shot picture using a mix of film and digital, as Michael Mann is prone to do with his overtly stylized direction. The boxing scenes are, from what I can tell, of almost Raging Bull-like attention to detail (though in color). Will Smith gives what is probably his most committed performance (and not just because he gained 35 pounds to match Ali's actual boxing weight or took on actual sparring punches for some of the scenes). We see a fully formed character here; it's not just an impersonation. Smith inhabits Ali in a way that many other actors could not pull off. Yet, ultimately, the film's story is not about finding the real Ali. Its focus is not just about the literal struggle of one man, but about a time in history where that man's role as a boxer becomes a metaphorical struggle for civil rights.
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It's one of the most enduring images from Michael Jackson's strange life – stepping out with his children hidden behind masks.
Add daughter Paris Jackson to those wondering what was going on.
"I was really confused," Paris, 14, tells Oprah Winfrey in an interview airing Sunday on OWN. "I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now – why my dad would want our faces to be covered. When we went out without him we wouldn't be recognized."
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"He told us that when he was younger he didn't really have a childhood," says Paris. "He would always be stuck in the studio singing while the kids were out playing. He wanted us to have that. "
She adds: "Chuck E. Cheese's and Toys R Us were our favorite places to go."


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John Lotulelei recalls Kaluka Maiava from their lone encounter, eight years ago at Old Wai-luku Gym.
"I remember talking to him when I was in the 8th grade when he was a senior in high school," Lotulelei said via telephone Thursday. "The first question I asked was, 'Are you related to (professional wrestler) The Rock?' and he answered, 'Yes.' Then we went back to lifting weights. That's probably the first time I ever talked to him and the only time I ever did."
Lotulelei, a 2009 Baldwin High School graduate and Nevada-Las Vegas senior, punched that conversation into his mental calculator and pushed multiply.
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John Lotulelei had 120 tackles during his season with Nevada-Las Vegas.
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John Lotulelei, shown trying to help bring down Joe Hill of Utah State during a game in September, could become the first UNLV player selected in the NFL draft since 2010.
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In January, it added up to an invitation to next week's NFL scouting combine, the latest way Lotulelei is following in the pioneering footsteps of Maiava, a former Baldwin and Southern California linebacker who just finished his fourth season with the Cleveland Browns.
Maiava was the first former Maui Interscholastic League player invited to the combine, the first drafted and the first to play in the NFL.
Lotulelei is on the brink of joining him after a four-year journey through Merced (Calif.) Junior College and UNLV - one that continues with 18 credits this semester so he can walk in the graduation ceremony in June.
"I was pretty excited," Lotulelei said between class and working out on Thursday. "I knew they were considering me going (to the combine), but I never thought that they would actually confirm that I was going. A lot of things were going through my mind. When I found out I was going, I was in a rush to work out that day."
Lotulelei's goals include bench pressing 225 pounds 25 times and running the 40-yard dash in 4.6 to 4.7 seconds - those would be standout numbers for a 6-foot, 235-pound linebacker.
"I should be somewhat ready," he said. "I'm probably not going to do the best that I can do. I have only had four weeks (to work out), but I am going to go into the combine pretty confident. I have come a long ways to get to where I'm at right now."
Obviously, the immediate goals after the combine are a call during the NFL draft in April and a roster spot in the fall.
"What was going through my mind was just never stop and keep my motor going in what I'm trying to pursue," Lotulelei said. "Not letting anything get in my way. The NFL is really exciting to look at, to look forward to."
Jimmy Morimoto, UNLV's director of player personnel and assistant recruiting coordinator - and a former Baldwin linebacker himself - coached Maiava for four seasons as a Bear and Lotulelei for two.
Lotulelei's development from then to now?
"Huge, being that guy from Maui myself," Morimoto said. "Just working hard, he is going to get that degree, which is what we're most proud of. Having to go through (junior college) as a nonqualifier, working hard, getting that (associate's) degree, and then coming to this university and continuing to work hard."
The opportunity on the field arrived during the 2011 season, and Lotulelei grabbed it. He played in all 12 games, starting the final four, and finished with 60 tackles.
"In the beginning it was a little tough for him, learning everything on the fly, but when he got his opportunity about midway through the season due to a starter getting injured, he was prepared for that role against Boise State and he just never looked back," Morimoto said. "He just got better every week."
Lotulelei had 120 tackles in his senior season - 44 more than anyone else on the Rebels - with 1 1/2 for loss, as well as three passes defended, one intercepted, three quarterback hurries, a forced fumble and a spot on the Butkus Award list. All of it catapulted him into the NFL discussion.
"It is kind of overwhelming to see myself in that position," Lotulelei said. "I put my faith in God and I cannot believe that he has brought me this far."
The last UNLV player drafted was offensive lineman Joe Hawley in 2010 - he still is with the Atlanta Falcons. The Rebels have not had a linebacker taken in the draft since Beau Bell went in the fourth round to Cleveland in 2008.
"He has that determination and drive," Morimoto said. "I still see him every day, we talk all the time. He knows what he wants to do with his future and that is not out of the question for him, he definitely can be playing on Sundays."
Morimoto said Maiava and Lotulelei share more than a position and size (Maiava is listed at 6-0, 229).
"Just the work ethic, they both knew what they wanted to do - that's what I see as similarities between those two guys," Morimoto said. "I think they are two different styles of linebackers, but the determination is there, they have the heart and that drive that will get them to Sunday. Kaluka's already there and John will be there."
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Maverick Alarm Firm SimpliSafe Nabs Sequoia Money
SimpliSafe is one of those startups that has built a sizable presence–in home security, in this case–without turning to traditional investors. That is changing.
Sequoia Capital, a prominent Silicon Valley venture-capital firm, on Wednesday is announcing that it is pumping $57 million into the closely held company, which is based in Cambridge, Mass.
Chad Laurans, SimpliSafe's CEO, says the company has attracted more than 100,000 customers across the U.S. since he founded it in 2006. But the firm finally reached a point where it made sense to invest much more in marketing and technology development to take growth to a higher level.
SimpliSafe offers sensing devices and other components associated with protecting against burglaries and other threats to the home, with a typical hardware package costing about $260.
But Laurans sees as a broader mission: to dispense with typical facets of the traditional alarm business.
SimpliSafe, for example, shuns the long-term service contracts often required by alarm companies. It does not require customers to purchase monitoring services but does offer them (with the aid of partners), for $14.99 a month.
"They can leave us at any moment," Laurans says. "We have to provide great service to keep them happy."
Where others often require professional installation, Laurans says users can set up its alarm systems on their own. The company's hardware uses a cellular connection for the monitoring service for no extra fee; many conventional alarms require users to keep a landline phone service.
Sequoia's investment is the latest sign that professional investors–after years of sticking to software and online services–are becoming more interested in companies with a hardware component.
One motivation is the increasingly optimistic predictions about a broad technology movement called the Internet of Things, a term that refers to equipping everyday devices with calculating and communications capabilities. A poster child for the trend, Nest Labs, was recently purchased by Google for $3.2 billion.
Scott Carter, a Sequoia partner and board member, said other companies the VC firm evaluated didn't offer such a comprehensive combination of technology and service. And he was personally attuned to some typical customer gripes about established home security firms.
"I had just written a check to the alarm company," Carter said.
TechCrunch reported last month that Sequoia was investing in SimpliSafe, without including a dollar amount.


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Source: Cirrus Logic [press release]
quote: Your making excuses for Chromebooks and Google TV
quote: Windows is not the only product Microsoft makes
quote: Windows 8.1 allows you to boot into the desktop nearly eliminating the Metro GUI so Windows 8 will redeem itself in the end
quote: so please dont act like Windows 8 is the downfall of Microsoft because there is nobody taking up more marketshare in the PC market space.
quote: Sorry your not aware Windows Phone is gaining ground
quote: Sorry if you wont acknowledge that either it wont be until Microsoft is number one that you acknowledge it
quote: Sorry there are Millions of us Windows Phone users and soon you might be a generation of hardware behind us.
quote: No it's just the only one that makes them real money /shrug


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OSAGE BEACH, Mo. — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a collision on a bridge near the Lake of the Ozarks killed three family members from Illinois and a Missouri man.The accident happened Wednesday on Missouri 5 on the Niangua River Bridge north of Camdenton.The patrol says 56-year-old Randal Estes of Warsaw, Missouri, lost control of his dump truck when it had a flat tire. The truck crossed into the southbound lane and hit a truck that was towing a boat.Estes and three people inside the truck were killed. The victims in the truck were 50-year-old Terry Schroeder; 46-year-old Cindy Schroeder; and 14-year-old Dylan Schroeder, all of Benson, Illinois. The all died at the scene.Fourteen-year-old Donnie Schroeder was flown to the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia with serious injuries.
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Source: Yahoo News
quote: Rumours of the lower priced iPhone turned out to be true
quote: Have you ever heard of the internet? It's full of information.
quote: What is likely is that Apple will "plateau" and remain extremely profitable. If they keep stagnating, it will slowly drop and if they go back to innovating it will rise...
quote: it's broad product and service lines.
quote: Apple managed to meet analyst expectations regarding its second quarter earnings report, and even plans to dole out additional cash to investors.
quote: Hmmm... it's been a while since I took a class in math theory, but if I remember correctly 43.6 > 42.5 (43.6 != 42.5) and 10.09 > 10.07 (10.09 != 10.07).
quote: Bottom line: Apple needs new products or, at the very least, significant, dramatic updates to its current products.
quote: Meanwhile. iPad sales up 65 percent year-over-year. Nice :)


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Galaxy S may be late to the Android game, but it quickly established
itself as the Android phone to beat, selling
one million units in the U.S. alone in its first 45 days of
availability on Sprint and AT&T. Likewise, the "Fascinate"
on Verizon may be off to a late start versus its brethren --
the T-Mobile
Vibrant, the AT&T
Captivate, and the Samsung
Epic 4G (Galaxy S Pro) -- but seems destined to be a hot
seller in its own right.Verizon, the largest cellular service
provider in the U.S., aired a commercial last
night revealing that the Fascinate would hit stores September 9th,
the same date previously rumored based on leaked shots. That
commercial was followed by an official
press release from Verizon today, listing the price as
$199.99 USD with new 2-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate.
The release also revealed that the phone would launch online a day
early on Wednesday, September 8th.The phone packs an LED
flash that its GSM brethren the Vibrant and Captivate lack.
Unlike the Epic 4G, however, there's no pull-out keyboard and no 4G
modem. Also missing in the Epic 4G's front-facing camera for
video calling.The phone packs a pretty standard 512 MB of
RAM, a microSD slot, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1, and an AGPS
radio. While the phone's screen size 4-inches isn't the biggest
on the market (see the 4.3-inch HTC
EVO 4G or Motorola
Droid X) and its resolution (800x480 pixels) is also less than
amazing, the screen is an AMOLED, which means it should deliver
sharper crisper images versus WVGA TFT LCD displays in phones such as
the Droid X.Where the phone stands out is its GPU – an
Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX 540, a step up from the PowerVR
SGX 530 found in the Droid 2/Droid X and the PowerVR SGX 535 found in
the iPhone 4. Samsung's CPU, the 1 GHz Hummingbird Cortex A8
ARM processor, appears to be a top performer in terms of raw
performance. Benchmark site GLBenchmark shows
the Hummingbird processor outperforming similarly clocked ARM
processors in the iPhone 4 and Droid 2/Droid X.Of course the
GPU/CPU advantage is largely subjective in the majority of
performance scenarios and most users will see little difference
overall. For those who game heavily on their smartphones,
though, it may be a deciding factor.Reportedly, the phone
will get an even bigger boost when it gets an update to Android 2.2
Froyo later
this month or early next month, which features Just-in-Time
compilation of Java code..The rear-facing camera is a solid
performing 5-megapixel design whose shots rival 8 megapixel units due
to the quality of the image sensor. Early customer reviews
report that the phone can get up to 2 days of use out of its 1500
mAh, which is significantly better than the HTC EVO 4G, which gets at
best a day on a charge (barring significant process/OS
tweaking).Despite its solid hardware, some aren't impressed
with the phone. In its review, Engadget
the look of the phone and some English grammar errors in the GUI.
Despite praising the hardware, and being "particularly
impressed" by the 720p video, the site concludes its review on a
resoundingly negative note, writing:
it comes to Android on Verizon, there are some seriously excellent
choices, and what it has to come down to is: is the Fascinate at the
top of that heap? From where we stand, the answer is an obvious "no."
It's not that the device isn't a solid phone or a reasonably capable
Android representative -- it's just that Samsung and Verizon have
made far too many compromises on this device to class it with
something like the Droid Incredible or the Droid X (though we have
complaints about the latter device's software as well).
conclusion goes on to blast the Android OS in general, writing:
the Fascinate (and perhaps the entire line of Galaxy S phones) are a
byproduct of Google's ongoing fragmentation issues and seeming lack
of focus for the Android platform. As partners scramble over each
other to differentiate their products through often meaningless
software tweaks, the end user suffers by being served with rushed,
incomplete devices made more complex and less stable by companies
that should be concentrating on making great hardware instead of
"fixing" Android.
this criticism, Android is currently the top
selling smartphone OS in the U.S. While there are indeed
some issues with individual OS distributions (and iOS is not without
its own
issues), the platform has proven the favorite of the majority of
American customers at the moment. While the phone may
lack the looks and polish of the iPhone 4, according to some, the
Fascinate appears to be destined to be a top seller for Verizon.
quote: Build quality is not on par with HTC and Motorola phones.
quote: Samsung UI is ugly and a ripoff of iOS, plus the home screen transitions are choppy.
quote: ...makes the pixels looks gigantic.
quote: Battery life sucks big time.
quote: As far as the pixels go YES it is very obvious when looking at the screen (at least on the EPIC 4G).
quote: Apparently you fail at reading comprehension.
quote: I think Samsung was very smart in making a class of phones that overall are quite similar and available on a variety of networks. The phones are certainly not without thier problems though.The released versions do have build perception issues. In fairness, the Droid Incredible is solid but also feels somewhat cheap with that flimsy back cover.
quote: Also, no notification LED. Are you kidding me? I have to unlock the phone everytime to check if I have a message.
quote: And Jason, again would you stop with the OpenGL benchmark trying to compare CPU. As I was reading, I thought you finally got it and separated out the GPU. But no, further down you still talked about the CPU. The CPU in the Galaxy class phones use the exact same Cortex A8 as the Droid2/X (although the OMAP has better memory access). Quandrant scores higher on the Droid2/X devices. So at least if your going to be fair, post a range of benchmarks with a disclaimer that benchmarks results are somewhat chaotic and favor specific platforms.
quote: The released versions do have build perception issues. Not neccessarily that they are poor quality, just that they are cheap feeling.
quote: So as good as the Galaxy class of phones look on paper, I think Engadget summed it up quite nicely. Not in the same class as the Incredible or X for the Verizon network. Here's an example of how on paper everything can look better, but the finished product is not quite there due to bugs or rushed hardware/software.
quote: No you don't have to. Your phone will vibrate or beep depending on what your sound settings for incoming messages is. This is pretty standard for smart phones (e.g. other Android handsets/the iPhone).
quote: The camera is pretty crappy. My 3 year old phone has a better camera.
quote: The Incredible is made by HTC, not Samsung.
quote: WRONG. The GLBenchmark splits CPU and GPU performance into different numbers. The results show the Galaxy S is a top performer in both areas.
quote: Again I think that's subjective. Having touched and played with the Epic 4G and Captivate, I think they're on par with most Android phones including Motorola's and HTC's flagship models. The criticism at Engadget comes from a site that is infatuated with the iPhone 4, which it calls the "best smartphone on the market right now". Not surprising that they wouldn't like the looks of a non-Apple product.
quote: Engadget was blasting Android phones in general, while singling out the Galaxy S. Amazingly they had no complaints about the hardware, though they labeled it as pedestrian, curiously leaving off the fact that it has a better GPU than Droids/the iPhone 4. Their actual voiced complaints before the conclusion were minimal and all centered around a perceived "bugginess" of Android OS itself and lack of polish in look versus the iPhone.


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Have not dug much deeper yet.
Larry Brooks
Talk within NHL of flipping Winnipeg and Columbus for this year only pending future realignment...
However, I did see this as well. So report, rumor....what's the difference?
Daren Millard
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Tuesday, May 1, 2001
Of The Post and Courier staff
Archaeologists have found the pocketknives of two Hunley crewmen,
and another one's hat.
Bob Neyland, project director, said scientists excavating the
Confederate submarine were surprised to find a "slouch" hat in the Hunley's
interior. It is a wide-brimmed military hat, common for the era. But not common for a
submarine, Hunley Commission Chairman Glenn McConnell said.
"To me, this is fascinating," McConnell said.
"It's the last thing I expected to find on board the Hunley."
Since there was little use for hats aboard the Hunley, it was
probably just brought along because the crewman didn't want to leave it.
Neyland said the hat is a dark color, extremely fragile. There is
leather edging along the brim and a band around the body of the hat.
Neyland said the knives are not what you would consider regular
pocketknives, but they do fold. The knives, found near the sub's floor, are covered in
Excavation has slowed as the work has moved into the bottom of
the submarine.
Neyland said Monday they are now working toward the forward area,
where the submarine's commander, Lt. George E. Dixon, is expected to be found.
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Who deserves the game ball for the Steelers' 31-24 comeback victory over the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday in the AFC playoffs?
Safety Ryan Clark definitely is a candidate, along with wide receiver Antonio Brown, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger or even linebacker James Harrison.
I'd give it to the person most responsible for having all four of them in Steelers uniforms, a person most Steelers fans wouldn't even know if they passed him on the street.
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James Harrison is one of many impact players Kevin Colbert has brought to Pittsburgh.
Director of football operations Kevin Colbert rarely gets much of the credit for the Steelers' success this past decade - it usually goes to the players, coaches and the Rooneys - but the Pittsburgh native has done a tremendous job in filling the Steelers' roster with players who fit the team's personality.
Colbert is essentially the general manager of the Steelers and oversees the personnel area of the team. His work was on display in fine fashion against the Ravens.
Brown, a rookie sixth-round draft pick, made the key play in the game, rookie third-round pick Emmanuel Sanders caught four passes for 54 yards, second-year receiver Mike Wallace had three receptions, rookie center Maurkice Pouncey played like a veteran and second-year defensive end Ziggy Hood had five tackles and a sack.
What is remarkable is that all five of those players were not with the Steelers two seasons ago when they won their last Super Bowl. The Steelers have maintained their success by drafting quality players to fit their schemes.
That was the Steelers' way back in the 1970s when they rose to the top of the NFL with four Super Bowl titles, and nothing has changed since then.
While other teams add high-priced free agents to try and build a winning team, the Steelers continue to build through the draft and use free agency in a supplementary way. The Ravens tried the free agency route to bolster their receiving corps by bringing in Anquan Boldin and T.J. Houshmandzadeh before this season, and both had terrible games Saturday with key drops by both of them.
The Steelers' top signings this year in free agency were Antwaan Randle El, Larry Foote, Byron Leftwich, Arnaz Battle and Will Allen, and all are in backup roles.
The Steelers start seven original draft picks on defense, along with Harrison, an undrafted free agent who originally signed with the Steelers, and Clark and James Farrior. On offense, only Jonathan Scott and Flozell Adams are starters who are not original Steelers, although both are filling in for Steelers draft picks Max Starks and Willie Colon.
Colbert has been with the Steelers since 2000 - nose tackle Casey Hampton was his first draft pick - so only Hines Ward and Aaron Smith are from predecessor Tom Donahoe's era.
In the AFC Championship Game, the Steelers will face another team, the New York Jets, who made big moves in the offseason by signing LaDainian Tomlinson and Jason Taylor and trading for Santonio Holmes and Antonio Cromartie. They also traded for Braylon Edwards during the 2009 season.
The moves have certainly paid off for the Jets, who have also drafted well the last several years and are playing in their second straight AFC Championship Game.
But you can't argue with Colbert and the Steelers' way. This will be the Steelers' fifth conference championship game appearance in 10 seasons, and only the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles can claim as much success.
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1889 "The Champion Game of Baseball" Box Top
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The Champion Game of Baseball, produced in 1889, is an extremely rare early baseball game, and has always been highly prized by collectors for its cover with its attractive label featuring large full-color portrait illustrations of Hall of Famers Dan Brouthers and John Clarkson. It is one of only several baseball games dating from the nineteenth century which feature actual likenesses of ballplayers, let alone of such prominent stars. The label identifies Brouthers as "Champion Batter of the World" and Clarkson as "Champion Pitcher of the World." We believe no more than five or six examples of this significant rarity exist. Presented is the box top only, as opposed to the entire game. The dimensions (7.5 x 3.75 inches) and high-quality color lithography of the label give the box top the presence of a card, and make it particularly ideal for display. The directions for playing the game are printed on the reverse. The box top has a few surface wrinkles, a few stray blue pencil marks on the reverse, and a little general wear. These minor condition flaws do not detract from the Excellent overall appearance of the cover label, which in fact is in better shape than the labels of at least a couple of the few full box examples known. Ideal for display and a rare (possibly unique) opportunity to acquire the primary graphic component of one of the most classic of all nineteenth-century baseball games. Reserve $200. Estimate $400/$600. SOLD FOR $411.25
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These free St. Patrick's Day crafts from Amanda Formaro make great homemade gifts. Make a pot of gold card to give to your favorite Irishman this year to celebrate the holiday.
- 5"x7" piece of light green card stock or construction paper
- black construction paper or card stock
- tan, yellow or gold construction paper or card stock
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- white craft glue
- construction paper OR patterned card stock papers in the following colors or shades: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
- Pattern
- Fold 5"x7" light green card stock in half to create the card. Use the pattern to cut out all the necessary pieces from colored papers.
- Glue the rainbow pieces in place first. Next glue on the black pot, then the band for the pot. Finally glue on the "pieces of gold".
- Variations: Instead of card stock for the band, you can use a gold glitter. Another idea is to add little dots of gold glitter to the "pieces of gold" in the pot.
Note: Don't buy sheets and sheets of expensive papers. We used Sizzix brand paper pads, known as Little Sizzles. We used papers from both the Pastels (40-0014) pad and the Watercolors (40-0015) pad. These pads can be found in the scrapbooking aisle of your local craft store. Ours cost $4.99 per pad, each pad has 4 sheets of each solid cardstock, 3 sheets of each pattern paper, there are 80 acid free sheets total per pad. These papers were made for the Sizzix Die Cutting Machine. We have used these pads for many different projects, including our Charming Valentine Greeting Cards, our Quilted Keepsake Box, as well as our Decoupage Coin Banks.
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When Linda and Stephen Sweet left their downtown Boston home Friday morning to head to the airport for a flight to Charleston, they found their typically bustling city at a standstill.
"The city was totally locked down and dead. It's so tragic," Linda Sweet said. "Not a soul out."
As dawn broke, the Sweets and the country awoke to news that one suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombings was dead and the other was on the loose. "At first I was thrilled that one was down," Linda Sweet said. As she spoke of what had transpired this week in her city, she paused. "You can't talk about it without tears."
The couple, who live four blocks from where the bombings happened, said they left their home around 8 a.m. and were shocked to see the deserted streets. Authorities had put the city on lockdown and asked residents to stay home while they conducted their manhunt, which concluded Friday night.
"It was eerie, people absent on the street," Stephen Sweet said. "Usually you see tons of people in the morning."
The Sweets arrived at Charleston International Airport at around 1 p.m. for a trip they had been planning for months. The JetBlue flight arrived just a few minutes later than expected. None of the Charleston flights in and out of Boston were canceled because of the lockdown.
Jessica Tanguay, 32, of Hooksett, N.H., arrived in Charleston with her husband and 6-year-old son, Blake. They took a bus into Boston to catch their flight to the Lowcountry, and said the ride was a little crazy.
"Some of the people were commuting to Boston, and they found out on the bus that they couldn't take the train, or any traveling at all, and then when we got into Boston, South Station was completely closed," Tanguay said. "So we had to turn around, and it was just weird on the streets. It was eerie, guns everywhere, you know with the police officers. It was a little scary. I've never seen it like that."
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