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Very pleased with this Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car. I bought it for my son's 5th birthday, it's quite easy to use and my 8 year old also loves it! Battery life is not bad about 30-40 mins and we've also tested it on water and it works great!
We put the Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car on our swimming pool and after 10 minutes it flipped over. There is obviously water in it as you can hear it, and it has not worked since. My daughter is very disappointed.
The Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car is superb quality and has great endurance, it's really good on snow and dry land. Powerful toy for children and adults with a very good battery life.
Bought the Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car for our 9 year old son's birthday. A fantastic purchase, he absolutely loves it. Took him one day to get to grip with the steering controls. It is great entertainment for him!
Bought one of the Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car and it is so good that I bought another, a nice toy.
This car was bought as a present for my sons friend, being a second car they had fun playing together. It's quite robust and is ideal for both a 9 year old and an 11 year old. Would recommend but make sure you charge it up before anouncing it's purchase. It takes five hours to charge the only thing I would have liked is a green light on the charger unit to tell you it's fully charged. All you get is a red light to tell you it's plugged in!
We bought one of these for our 8 year old son. He and his dad have had great fun using it over land, snow and in water! We liked it so much we have bought my brother in law one. The quality is good and it is robust enough for non gentle handling.
For the price, the Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car is a very good machine. The steering isn't as precise as some and the only issue with quality is the controller, which doesn't seem very robust. However the car is great looking, performs well and is enjoyed by all the family.
I got the Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car out the box and charged it fully before the birthday boy got to it, so no worries with it being ready. He was very pleased with it and had a play with it in the snow before heading to school. I decided to flatten the battery and charge it fully before the end of school. The first charge lasted approx 30 minutes, much more than stated, so that's a good start. My little lad and his mates had great fun playing with it in the snow. A big thumbs up so far.
I bought the Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car for my son's 6th birthday and he was bowled over! He loved it and it does exactly what it says it does, couldn't ask for anything more.
Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car is the best remote control toy I've ever had. It is so robust that you can play with it without worrying about it. It's fast, fun and fierce. Enjoyed by me and my sons aged 3 and 7.
My little boy bought the Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car with his Christmas money and it's awesome. A super buy, would definitely recommend it.
The Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car is the best car I have bought for a good price. It works just as stated. It is really quick and has a rechargeable battery so no more looking for batteries. Buy it!
My 9 year old son has played with the Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car with every chance he gets! A great product.
Perfect condition, outstanding value.
The Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car is excellent! My kids are loving it.
The Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car is excellent at this price. I have no second thought on the quality of it.
The Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car is excellent! I bought it for my grandson, but the adults took over. We took it outside in the Swedish deep snow and it was really fun.
The Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car is a very good little car that works well in my sloping, slightly overgrown garden. My son who is 7 enjoyed playing with it and has taken it out a couple of times.
Bought the Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car for my son who breaks everything. So far he has not broke it as it is a very sturdy car and faster than I thought it would be. It drives well on grass, rapid and smooth. I love it, a good buy for the price.
The Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car has got be, by far, the most awesome remote controlled car on the market today. I actually ordered 3 other remote controlled cars as Christmas gifts for my 11 year old grandson, but they were all returned! The VaporizR won out over them all in price, looks and performance, and my grandson loved it! It performed just as said it would - amazing.
Purchased this car for my 2 boys aged 2 and 4 but to be honest I have had more fun playing with it, it is such fun to drive around the garden and into the pond back out and on to the gravel driveway, this car will go on any surface. Battery life is roughly 30 mins which is to be expected after a 5 hour charge. Charger and battery included also the 9v battery for the radio unit which i thought was a nice touch. Only drawback with this car as far as I can find is that spare battery's cannot be found anywhere and no amount of googling can find one from a supplier that is willing to ship to this country. All in all a fun fun car with reasonable battery life, looks good too.
Great Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car. Highly recommend.
Excellent purchase that I bought for my son but am now using myself when he is occupied with other activities! Good on and off road driving. Have not tried it on water yet. Durable charge and easy to master controls. Highly recommend.
This Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car is good for my 6 year old son.
The Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car really delivers on its description. It is easy to set up and great to use. Works really well on water, quick and coped with occasional dunking. Performs well on dry land, very responsive and quick.
Well what can I say took little man down the park where it was flooded with his new toy and it dose what it says on the box, had loads of fun and got drenched. When we got home we put him in bath and only wanted the car in bath with him so on that score perfect.
I purchased a Nikko Vaporizr Remote Control Car for my 6 year old son last year. He is RC crazy and loves to spend hours scooting his RC cars about the house and garden. This is the only RC car I have bought that has lasted more than a couple of months. What's more, you wouldn't know to look at it that it's almost 12 months old (and trust me, it's been put through the paces! This car is awesome and drives through everything from mud, snow, water and uneven ground with ease. I would definitely recommend this product to all.
A present for 7 year old son - has given hours of pleasure to all members of family from 7 to 80. Even bought one for 45 year old brother, too!
I would have given the Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car 5 stars if the battery had lasted a bit longer between charges but my 9 year old loves it. It's not quite as good as some of his other cars but up there with some of the best. I purchased it for his birthday and he has played with it in all weathers and it is going ok, so far so good!
What a buy the Nikko: VaporizR Amphibious Remote Control Car is. Vehicle, remote control and rechargeable battery are all included. Charged in 4 hours and off I went down the beach for a test run. It rode on the promenade great, then came the pebbles and it went over them like a moon buggy. It took to the sand like it was born to do it. The car went easily through the sea streams and puddles. It made great swirls in the sand with it's chunky tyres. Had great fun for half an hour worth of continuous fun and the car still had power left. Great for children and adults too (I'm 43). A must buy for everyone.
The Nikko Remote Control Car is hours of fun for my son and I. It is ace at chasing ducks and so fast on land!
Bought this Nikko: VaporizR Remote Control Car as a present for my friend (40+ years old) and he really liked it.
Bought this Nikko VaporizR for my nephews 6th birthday. I had read many reviews on this product and the consensus seemed to be that this was an excellent product. The item arrived very quickly, and was loved by my nephew, his brother, sisters and parents. All in all an excellent purchase, I would advise anyone thinking about getting one to get it!
The Nikko: VaporizR is a very good car. The battery life is good and it's great fun to control on land or water.
This has been a fantastic buy. A brilliant car my son loves it. It seems able to go over any amount of mud and large bumps. It runs on any surface type and travels with speed. He is ten years old and has found the controls OK to operate too although they looked tricky to me. We haven't been in deep water with it yet but on land and large puddles I can say it's A* - Great buy!
Got this for my son's 10th birthday and he absolutely loves it. So much that he takes it on the school walk every morning and then I take it back when I pick him up. It seems really robust and you actually seem to have control of it whereas some similar products just seem to go their own way. Would highly recommend it.


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I really want to involve more Chinese culture into Adelaide's world, but being a white girl it feels a little - contrived on my part. I'm not completely ignorant, for I grew up in Vancouver and it has a huge Asian population which has very much influenced what this city has and will become. We have a lot of Asian friends and neighbours, and Addie has many little Chinese friends and even more little bi-racial friends around our neighbourhood to spend time with. However, Adelaide's dad Charles is really laid back, and he's not the type to plan out cultural events or drag his daughter to Chinese School (he despised and loathed it). Charles also works a lot and so Addie spends the majority of her time with just plain old me. Her yehyeh and mahmah live far away so she won't really be able to learn from them either. I just hope that Addie doesn't grow up and feel alienated from such a big part of her heritage.
Do you have any experience for such a matter? Did you grow up the child of Caucasian and Asian parents? Do you have children who are part Asian too? Do you have any thoughts on what else can I do - besides reading books like Yum Yum Dim Sum to her, and taking her Aberdeen and to yummy restaurants like Peaceful Noodle every so often? Are you aware of any Cantonese speaking programs for little children in the Vancouver area? Or do you know of anyother Chinese-type storybooks to recommend? Any thoughts or suggestions you have I would greatly appreciate.

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TRUCKEE, Calif. - In light of the public voting down Measure J, the proposed bond that would have financed construction of a performing arts and aquatic center in Truckee, the big question facing the Truckee-Donner Recreation & Park District is: What's next?That was a major topic of discussion at the district's Thursday evening meeting, when the board of directors decided to table the matter, considering a new director, Erin Casey, will join the board next month."I think we should actually do it (have a discussion) in two months, put it off until January," said Kevin Murphy, board vice chairman. "I think we need to spend some time educating (Casey) on some of the financial issues. It's going to give us some time to go through at least one board meeting, so she can get her feet wet and at least one financial meeting."Board Chairman Peter Werbel said he was fine pushing the matter off."December is an incredibly busy month for everybody," he said. "My main concerns are just letting things calm down, let the people rethink."By January, exiting board member John Monson will no longer be a part of discussion of what should be done, so he gave his input at the meeting."I had no problem going forth with Measure J and asking the town should we build two (facilities), knowing full well that if and when that did not come to fruition, that we had the funds to build one project," he said. "I think we were all in agreement as a board, we wanted to see one project come to fruition. ... In my opinion, that's the pool."Monson said the reasons he thinks the aquatic center should be constructed rather than the performing arts center is because it will increase awareness for the new recreation center, provide shower and locker room facilities the recreation center lacks, be a better facility for swimming lesson than the current pool, is "shovel ready" and part of the cost to operate it is already being paid by parcel owners by way of a $8 flat rate fee, which supports the current operation of the Truckee-Donner Community Swimming Pool."I hope you don't drop performing arts all together," said Raine Howe, executive director for Arts for the Schools, during public comment. "I do believe it fits under recreation ... This community is really reliant on the district to fill that gap."Courtney Simson, with Kids on Broadway, offered a well-received suggestion of renovating the existing Community Art Center's auditorium and stage, a facility located at 10046 Church St."Like Courtney was saying, I don't think it necessarily has to be all or nothing that Measure J didn't pass," Howe said. "... There could be some pretty modest upgrades ... done to the inside of that space where people come in and go like, 'Oh, OK.' It's not going to be the professional theater that has the fly system (a theatrical rigging system of ropes and pulleys) and all those things, but it might be enough for now."Monson was in favor of the idea."I think this is a good thing for the rec center to move forward (with) in light of Measure J, saying we still promote and support performing arts in this community," he said. "I think this board can do a lot of good to show that without having to break ground on a $7.5 million facility."Lynne Larson, chair of the group that opposed Measure J, Truckee Citizens for Responsible Government, agreed."This brings to the community what they are asking for in a performing arts center," she said. "... I would encourage you to go forward with this. I really would. I think it brings all kinds of possibilities."
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Bell Plays BernsteinSuperstar violinist Joshua Bell returns to perform Leonard Bernstein's heart-wrenching Serenade, a piece Bernstein dedicated to the memory of his mentor, the legendary conductor Serge Koussevitzky. Composer of the Year Mason Bates' Desert Transport depicts the Arizona desert as seen from above in a helicopter. Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena makes his PSO debut with Brahms' stunning Third Symphony, a prime example of the deeply personal music composed during the Romantic era.04/12/2013 - 04/14/201304/12 - 8:00 pm04/13 - 8:00 pm04/14 - 2:30 pmHeinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Tribute to the Beatles - Beatlemania MagicBeatlemania Magic, a national touring Beatles Tribute band, recreates the early Beatles concerts with identical costumes, equipment, and spot on harmonies. Songs are played using Vox amps, Gretsch, Hofner & Rickenbacker guitars made famous by the Beatles. The look and sound are uncanny.04/12/2013Time: 8:00 pm Butler, PAwebsite
Paving the Road of SurvivalIn collaboration with the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, the August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble journeys through two distinct times in history, representing our individual and collective strengths gained through our heart-wrenching pasts. Featuring "The List" choreographed by Christopher Huggins, and "Dedication" choreographed by Kevin lega Jeff.04/12/2013 - 04/13/2013Time: 8:00 pmAugust Wilson Center, 980 Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira GlassThe creator of the acclaimed public radio show This American Life explains the keys to his program's tremendous success, including the process of tracking down the great untold stories. Glass includes radio excerpts and music, creating a "live" show as the audience watches. At a special pre-show reception, Glass will be interviewed by hosts from WYEP and Essential Public Radio.04/13/2013Time: 7:30 pmHillman Performing Arts Center, Shady Side Academy, 423 Fox Chapel Rd, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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A letter in the June 3 Tomahawk Leader:
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I see Jim Holperin announced his decision to run for State Senate recently. He cited an absence of ideas as his reason to return to politics. He said he will offer the same kind of political experience and leadership as Sen. Roger Breske.
The last thing we need is more of the same in Madison. Breske voted for the biggest tax increase in state history last year, including an oil tax that would have increased gasoline prices 10 cents per gallon. What kind of leadership is that?
Holperin also criticized his opponent, Tom Tiffany, for being too focused on the state budget. Why are taxes so high in Wisconsin? Because of the bloated state budget, I am voting for Tom Tiffany this fall because he understands a state senator has to separate wants from needs just like families do.
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Earl Bridges was shocked when he heard Internet giant Yahoo! was abolishing its work-from-home policy, hailing hundreds of remote employees back into its offices in the name of improved collaboration.
As president of Good Done Great, a grant-management software development firm with an office in Charleston but employees working from their homes around the country, Bridges has seen telecommuting work.
The arrangement allows Good Done Great to recruit better employees, Bridges said, and provide nationwide customer service. At the same time, he said there are advantages to having everyone in the same room, especially when getting new employees up to speed.
"So I can see the pros and cons," he said, "but we continue to have a hard time landing on what the time structure would be, identifying candidates that are in a distinct geographical location like Charleston ... and then our clients are dispersed, so we need a dispersed workforce as well."
Bridges' take on Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's latest effort to overhaul the struggling Silicon Valley mainstay she took over last summer was fairly typical this week.
There was sharp criticism from those who think the move is out of step with an increasingly mobile and remotely connected world.
Others rushed to her defense, saying she is brave for putting a stop to a policy that might foster individual productivity but can sacrifice corporate community and innovation.
Thomas Kent, an assistant professor at the College of Charleston School of Business who teaches classes in human resource management and organizational behavior, thinks telecommuting is appropriate for only a small minority of jobs.
"The creativity goes down, we know that to be true," he said. "But secondly, the sense of community and sense of family spirit goes down."
Yahoo! announced the change Friday in an internal memo, and the policy goes into effect in June, according to the blog All Things D.
"Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings," the memo said, according to the Dow-Jones-owned tech blog. "Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together."
Yahoo! has declined to comment on the move, but the rest of the technology world has not kept so quiet, speaking out on industry blogs and on the front page of The New York Times this week.
Reactions from Charleston tech companies, which seem to have permissive work-from-home policies, were representative.
Blackbaud, the 2,600-employee company that makes software for nonprofits, is the closest thing the Charleston area has to a Yahoo!, which has more than 14,000 employees around the globe.
Jana Eggers, Blackbaud's senior vice president of products and marketing, said she understands Mayer's motivation — as much as one can from the outside — but isn't inclined to follow suit.
"The challenges for me would be you're always going to have other offices too, so you've got to learn how to communicate across boundaries," Eggers said Wednesday, speaking from Blackbaud's new office in Austin, Texas. "So I do worry that something like that is going to make them very headquarters-focused, and in this day and age, you need to not be headquarters-focused."
Blackbaud has more than 400 employees who work remotely, Eggers said, roughly 18 percent of the company. And that doesn't count people who live near an office but tend to work from home for family or business-efficiency reasons.
"It's unusual for us to have a meeting these days where someone is not on video conference," she said.
On the smaller side of the spectrum, {e}house studio, a digital marketing and Web development firm on Rutledge Avenue, has a flexible work-from-home policy partially to accommodate its stable of 30-something employees who have young children.
"For us, we literally have to, and so it's one of those things," founder Rick Quinn said, noting that his son, the studio's creative director, was working from home Wednesday.
Project management software Basecamp and Internet phone service Skype make it possible to press ahead, though Quinn admitted that creative meetings go better if everyone is in the same space.
"We're able to control it right now, but we're not a Yahoo!," Quinn said. "We've got 14 people. And it's a little bit easier when you're a smaller size."
After working as vice president of quality and transformation at Sears in the early 1990s, he can appreciate what Mayer is trying to accomplish.
"When you're a company that really needs to shift gears, or get in gear faster ... sometimes you do end up having to shake up the ship and try different things for sure," he said.
How it works out for Yahoo! remains to be seen.
Telecommuting can lead to an attenuated connection between employee and company, and therefore more turnover, which can cut into a company's bottom line, according to Kent, the College of Charleston professor. "Estimates are it costs from one to two times a person's salary to replace them," he said.
But couldn't there be turnover if some of the telecommuters decide they want to work from home for another company that will allow them to stay put?
"I think the CEO there would say, 'Sorry to see you go, but we're going in a different direction,' " Kent said. "Obviously she thinks it's the right thing to do, and I agree with her."
Eggers, the Blackbaud executive, is on board with that part.
"Yahoo! people that want to come over, we're hiring," she said.
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The Library is pleased to host Civil War 150, a national traveling exhibit, on display from Monday, February 3 to Tuesday, February 25. We are one of fifty sites nation-wide selected to host the exhibit.
Developed from letters, personal accounts and images, the display shows how people grappled with the end of slavery, the nature of democracy and citizenship, the human toll of civil war, and the role of a president in wartime.
The Library is sponsoring free programs in conection with the exhibit. The kickoff program, "America's "Terrible Swift Sword": The Civil War at 150 Years", will be presented by Dr. Thomas Agostini, SDSU associate professor of history, on Thursday, January 30 at 7 pm.
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Local Civil War re-enactor Louise Coull will present "Life on the Home Front" on Thursday, February 6 at 7 pm.
The novel, My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira, will be discussed on Tuesday, February 11 at 6:30 pm. This is the story of a midwife who dreams of being a surgeon and travels to Washington, DC to tend the Civil War wounded.
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Developed by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in partnership with The Library of America, this exhibit was made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.


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The world right now is Andre Ellingtons oyster.
The sixth round pick by the Arizona Cardinals in the 2013 draft, Ellington did more than just occupy a roster spot on an NFL team.
He led his team in rushing and looks do so much more in his sophomore season in 2014.
Ellington runs much larger than his 59 frame would indicate. A speed runner, Andre can bust heads with the best of them.
You can see Andre coming, said Jerry Brown, Ellingtons high school coach at Berkeley. He explodes off he ball and knows his reads and takes advantage of the holes.
Brown, who is famous for his favorite Flexbone trashed the option style offense for Ellington.
Andre would not have performed as well under the Flexbone so we had to put an offense in place that would allow him to get the maximum amount of touches possible. He could gain 6,000 yards because we changed up offenses. He wouldnt have done this under the Flexbone.
As a senior for the Stags, Ellington rushed for more than 1800 yards and scored 24 touchdowns, accumulating 2519 all-purpose yards.
According to a story appearing on CBSSports.com, Ellington looks to be featured more in Arizonas offense in 2014, getting up to 30 touches a game via the pass and run.
Ellington touched the ball 157 times as a rookie, averaging 5.5 yards per carry and 9.5 yards per catch.
Ellingtons best game of 2013 came at the expense of the Atlanta Falcons in Week Eight, on Oct. 27, 2013 when he gained 154 yards on 15 carries, including an 80-yard run for a touchdown.
For Andre, his approach to the game is simple, Im out there to work hard and have a good time.
During Ellingtons rookie season he was fortunate to have a little bit of home out in Arizona in Cardinals Assistant Coach Ron Aiken, a Berkeley High School graduate and former Stags football great. Aiken has been the Cardinals defensive line coach since 2007.
Yeah, it was really neat having him out there, Ellington said. That was something else.
Jerry Brown remembered Ellington early in his career as a sophomore when he battled to crack the starting lineup.
The first time Andre got his name in the paper he was so excited. We called him Backup Ellington and thats how it ran in the paper.
Andre Ellington isnt anybodys backup anymore.
And he hasnt been, not for a long time.
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Winter 2004, Vol. 36, No. 4
in Perspective: The Public Vaults
Offer An Exciting Journey through American Records
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The Flip Side of History
Lee Ann Potter
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Not Quite Southern: The Precarious Allegiance of the Natchez Nabobs in the Sectional Crisis
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BELLEFONTE - Long lines of sight, a seemingly endless number of security cameras and armed guards at nearly every turn evokes a sense of constant exposure at a new state prison in Benner Township.
Corrections officials touted the new $200 million State Correctional Institution at Benner Township as one of the "most secure prototypical prisons" in the country.
The prison's 560 employees - many of whom are transfers from the soon to be shuttered prisons in Cresson and Greensburg - said they have begun to adjust to their new facility, but the process has not been without its challenges.
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Captain Rodney Chism explains to Deputy Press Secretary Sue Bensinger how the State Correctional Institution at Benner Township computers open and close cell doors and monitor inmates from the control desk in block H on Monday.
Mirror photo by J.D. Cavrich
A crowd tours Block H at the new SCI Benner Township, which was dedicated on Monday. The new facility consists of 46 acres inside the perimeter's fence and has 10 housing units, an administration building, health services building, dietary services building, a chapel, education complex and an activities/recreation building.
During the ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday, Corrections Secretary John Wetzel said the design of the prison is state-of-the-art and ensures corrections officers have maximum visibility of inmates at any given time.
The prison will serve as a transportation hub for the Corrections Department and represents the future of corrections, he said.
"But also, this provides a great opportunity for our staff," Wetzel said. "That's very important to us, to develop staff."
State Rep. Kerry Benninghoff, R-Centre, said he wished to welcome corrections officers from the Greensburg and Cresson prisons to Centre County community.
"We do have homes for sale," Benninghoff said to laughter and applause.
Corrections officers and employees at the Cresson and Greensburg prisons were caught by surprise when the closures were announced in January.
Since then, about 85 percent of those employees have been relocated throughout the Corrections Department, officials said. Many of those officers are now employed at the Benner Township facility.
Tom Bearer, an employee of 13 years at SCI Cresson, said the timing of the announcement was "unfortunate," but he has adjusted to the changes.
"I'm optimistic, not pessimistic," Bearer said. "I look at it as an opportunity."
Bearer is one of three teachers employed at the prison.
Inmates spend about 5 hours each day learning math, science, literature arts, writing and social studies while working toward obtaining a General Equivalency Development diploma.
A married man with a family of four, Bearer said the 90-minute commute to Benner Township has been challenging given the rough winter.
Bearer lives in the Carrolltown area but meets with other employees in Ebensburg to carpool to Benner Township.
"It was the closest available for the circumstances," Bearer said of the transfer.
Superintendent Marirosa Lamas praised the hard work of corrections officers in adjusting to the new facility.
Lamas is also the superintendent at the Rockview facility and will be responsible for a combined 4,500 inmates when the new prison opens on April 15.
While touring one of Benner Township's 10 housing blocks, Lamas said the prison is one of the most advanced in the country.
"Security practices are really too many to mention," Lamas said.
The prison is located on 46 acres of the Rockview campus and is just down the road from the older prison.
SCI Benner Township boasts a barber school, library, chapel, three dining areas, gym area with six basketball nets and multiple classroom environments, Lamas said.
Local representatives praised the cost-savings measures and efficiency of the new facility.
"This prison saves you money," state Sen. Jake Corman, R-Centre, said. "This facility will pay for itself in time and saves us money immediately."
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Study: Selling Health Insurance at Christmas Is Bad Idea
Tax preparers and some other advocates have complained for a while that the health law's insurance sign-up period is timed wrong. Now they have a paper in the journal Health Affairs to back them up.
Asking lower-income people to contemplate buying coverage around the holiday season is a bad idea, because their decision-making capacity is stretched too thin, say two health policy professors.
Crafters of the Affordable Care Act originally envisaged the open enrollment period as a fall activity that would coincide with the sign-up periods for Medicare and also the time when many Americans who get coverage through their jobs have to renew their elections.
In 2014, the official open enrollment period for the exchanges, also known as "Marketplaces", kicked off Oct. 1 and ended March 31, with technological problems slowing the start and a bulk of the sign-ups rushing in toward the end. For 2015, the enrollment window is shorter, and much more wintery — Nov. 15, 2014 to Feb. 15, 2015.
That doesn't necessarily make sense for people who don't have coverage, write Katherine Swartz, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and John Graves, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine.
"Recent research by experimental psychologists and behavioral economists strongly suggests that when people's decision-making capacity (bandwidth) is stretched thin, either they cannot make decisions or they make poor choices," they say.
"Using data from nearly a decade of US-based Internet search queries to measure population behavior, we found considerable seasonality in measures of financial stress and in when people seek out information on health insurance plans. A more opportune time for scheduling open enrollment for the ACA Marketplaces may be between February 15 and April 15."
As the Journal reported earlier this year, tax preparers have taken a big role in signing up people for coverage. They have long said the holidays are a bad time to ask people to commit to other bills, and have also pushed to extend the sign-up period to include March or April, when many people file their tax returns, because returns are the way people either declare they have coverage or pay a penalty if they do not.
Several firms have said they are worried that people who didn't get coverage this year will learn for the first time when they come in next March that they have to pay a penalty for 2014 — and that it's too late to get coverage for 2015.
Jackson Hewitt Inc. officials have also said they believe some low-income people might be more likely to buy coverage if they've just received a refund, which the professors agree with. Other tax preparers have been more skeptical of this idea, saying people tend to have decided what to do with their refund before they even get it.


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His soul is hers for the asking, as the phenomenally arousing series continues.
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Prism v2 - Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight
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For demo, please check out these four screen casts:
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Hi All,
I am trying to make Shell as UserControl in WPF Composite application. I Started by modifying the Quickstart app: "Quickstarts\UI Composition\ViewDiscovery". I made "UIComposition.Desktop.csproj" a UserControl class library with Shell.xaml as UserControl. Created another WPFApplication to host the Shell. Added the following code in App.xaml.cs:
protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
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IUnityContainer container = bootStrapper.Container;
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The form shows up with the shell but when I click on the employee it doesn't show the details view. Please help!!! If any body has tried this.
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Beijing Design Week 2011: London designer Paul Cocksedge installed giant pages of poetry made from rolled steel sheets outside the China Millennium Monument during Beijing Design Week. More »
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8 Ridiculous Products for Sale on Amazon (For One Penny)
Dance the Macarena
The Macarena was originally designed by conservative parents to convince their gay children to not grow up to be dancers. Later, it was used by the military to see if it was possible to weaponize a wedding DJ's quiet rage. It's a combination of waving and rotating so easy to do that nearby people in wheelchairs will ask you to stop patronizing them. Gorillas use it as the sign language word for urinary tract infections. As for learning it, it's actually harder to not know how to do the Macarena because it involves going back in time and convincing your mother it's okay to drink hi-yield insecticide. I guess my point is, if you're buying a tape on it, get your affairs in order. Natural selection has been training for millions of years to get things exactly like you the fuck out of the gene pool.
This VHS tape is worth 500 times less than the postage needed to mail it and it runs 30 times longer than a convincing speech about why you should never do the Macarena. By my math, you would have to beat a dog with a 6" Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki to find a faster, more affordable way to tell the world you're an asshole. When you order this, Amazon.com tells you that it is frequently bought with a rope and an unsigned suicide note.
Dogs*** Breath Bumper Sticker
If I had to pick two words to describe myself, I'd either pick "Cock Tornado" or "Robocop Twice." This bumper sticker seems designed for people with lower self esteem. Dog---- Breath? Maybe this is for vegans who want to share the horrible things their body needs to do in order to dissolve chicory, but don't have time to breathe on everyone.
Maybe it's for serial killers to explain why their car smells like a decaying runaway? Is this just a badly translated label from a Chinese pet euthanizing bag? It makes no sense why someone would drive in a car labelled "Dog---- Breath." And that scares me, because when I can't figure something like this out it always ends up being a sex thing. This sticker is almost certainly a discreet way to tell ladies that you're not picky about looks and your face is a toilet.
I thought the crossed out "shit" is what really makes this bumper sticker special. It felt like a look behind the curtain of the humor(?) writer's process. "Should the bumper say Dog Breath... or Dogshit Breath? Holy fuck, why not kind of both?" Unfortunately, after reading the Product Features, I realized I was giving this bumper sticker author too much credit:
After writing this generation's "How's-My-Driving-Call-1-800-EAT-SHIT," this poor guy had to have an email exchange with the morality department of an auction site trafficking used dildos, retake non-obscene pictures of his product, rewrite its description to sound more victimized, and today... if he sells out his entire stock he's looking to make $0.06 before taxes. I'm starting to think that reality television lied to us-- there doesn't seem to be any money in being a fucking idiot.
Paparazzi Shades
Hi, hipsters. Has this every happened to you? You desperately want to tell a camera about your remedial sense of humor but your finger with the moustache tattooed on it smells too much like dickhole to put near your nose? That's why you need Paparazzi Shades, you witless piece of human trash! They make the several seconds after explaining that you're not coming from cataract surgery nearly hilarious!
You usually see black censored bars over the eyes of the people in a group photo who didn't recently go missing, so be careful if you look around and notice you're the only one not wearing Paparazzi Shades. I wouldn't worry about that happening, though. Novelty items don't usually get marked down from $24.95 to $00.01 when they're a runaway success. These are so worthless that if a malnourished Bangladeshi girl's hair falls into the box while she's manufacturing a pair of Paparazzi Shades, they quadruple in value. So yes, I'm saying that Paparazzi Shades are at least the number one reason Bangladeshi factory children aren't fed. And you thought they were just figuratively the worst things ever.
What color are your balls? Wait, what? This has to be some kind of edgy video game promotion, or maybe a way for a jugglers to tell each other they're rapists. It can't just be a clumsy, context-free reference to ball balls, can it? Let's look at the Product Description...
Huh. "Sex, men, genitals, testicle, nuts, gonads." I guess that explains that. Though it doesn't explain why the person asking me about my balls has shark teeth on his, or what his endgame might be. Is he hoping I'm also frustrated with my sex life and we'll make some kind of gentleman's agreement to put on wigs and clinically milk each other? Is he an alien trying to decorate a cake? I love that it's only one cent, but I really wouldn't mind spending a bit more for a pin that makes a god damn bit of sense.


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Global exam results for ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) reveal today that a record number of students around the world successfully completed their final exams in December 2013.
Almost 195,000 candidates took over 357,000 papers around the world, with an additional 57,000 students sitting computer based exams.
7,980 students (7,700 June 2013) have completed all the exams needed for that aspect of their professional qualification, enabling these students to take the next step to ACCA membership on completion of their practical experience and ethics requirements.
Pass rates in the Professional Level remained constant overall, but some improvements were seen in the final level Options exams. In particular, students performed well in the 50 mark case study in P4 - Advanced Financial Management and the pass rate rose by 8%. Other Options exams and the Essentials exams remained close to historic pass rates.
Overall pass rates across the Skills module (F4 to F9) of the ACCA Qualification fell this session, other than F4, Corporate and Business Law, where results improved over the previous session. Despite the slight decline in pass rates at the Skills module, 8,455 students become eligible at this session for ACCA's Advanced Diploma in Accounting and Business on completion of their Professional Ethics module which is another step to membership.
Additionally, 4,833 students transferred from the Foundations in Accountancy register to the ACCA Professional Qualification on completion of their Diploma in Accounting and Business exams or their Foundation Specialist exams.
Alan Hatfield, ACCA director - learning, said about the results: 'These are all demanding exams which must not be underestimated, the Professional Level exams being equivalent to Master's degree level. Research has shown that employers are seeking complete finance professionals. Passing the ACCA exams and completing the practical experience requirements (PER), provides the market place with qualified professional accountants who demonstrate these skills and competencies.'
Alan Hatfield continued: 'We congratulate all students who have passed this session's exams – they deserve a great deal of credit, particularly the 7,980 who have completed their final exams. It's also pleasing to see that many students who have passed their final papers have also completed their practical experience requirements whilst studying for the exams. Practical experience is an important requirement of becoming an ACCA member, and we look forward to welcoming our new members soon.'
Alan Hatfield concluded: 'As in previous sessions, our results analysis shows that students who study with approved learning providers, and use the ACCA quality assured study materials, fare much better in the exams than those who do not. We recognise that not everyone has access to face to face tuition and there are now a number of quality-assured distance learning packages available for students. Additionally, at ACCA we are exploring other innovative ways to help students in their studies.'
December 2013 session ACCA Qualification pass rates:
Paper F1, Accountant in Business, 74%
Paper F2, Management Accounting, 61%
Paper F3, Financial Accounting, 57%
Paper F4, Corporate and Business Law, 43%
Paper F5, Performance Management, 41%
Paper F6, Taxation, 45%
Paper F7, Financial Reporting, 39%
Paper F8, Audit and Assurance, 35%
Paper F9, Financial Management, 45%
Paper P1, Governance, Risk and Ethics, 48%
Paper P2, Corporate Reporting, 49%
Paper P3, Business Analysis, 49%
Paper P4, Advanced Financial Management, 42%
Paper P5, Advanced Performance Management, 30%
Paper P6, Advanced Taxation, 41%
Paper P7, Advanced Audit and Assurance, 33%
December 2013 session Foundations in Accountancy pass rates:
Introductory Certificate in Financial and Management Accounting
FA1, Recording Financial Transactions, 74%
MA1, Management Information, 71%
Intermediate Certificate in Financial and Management Accounting
FA2, Maintaining Financial Records, 64%
MA2, Managing Costs and Finance, 56%
Diploma in Accounting and Business
FAB, Accountant in Business, 59%
FMA, Management Accounting, 52%
FFA, Financial Accounting, 48%
Foundation Specialist papers
FAU, Foundations in Audit, 44%
FTX, Foundations in Taxation, 71%
FFM, Foundations in Financial Management, 43%
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Seth MacFarlane and Jonathan Ames may seem like an unlikely duo to work together, but with Patrick Stewart in the mix, anything is possible.
Deadline announced today that Starz has ordered two seasons — 20 episodes in total — of Blunt Talk, a live-action sitcom that will star Patrick Stewart. MacFarlane, the man behind Family Guy and Ted, and Ames, a mystery novelist and creator of HBO's Bored to Death, have teamed up as executive producers of the show.
Stewart will star as Walter Blunt, a British actor with a nightly cable news show. He has previously worked with MacFarlane in voiceovers for Family Guy, American Dad, and Ted. EW reports that the series is expected to premiere sometime next year. Meghan DeMaria
A new Los Angeles nightclub will admit only good-looking people. The club is being opened by BeautifulPeople.com, an elitist dating site, and will station beauty judges at the door to decide whether nonmembers and guests can enter, CBS Los Angeles reports. A site official said members were tired of going to clubs "hoping to meet similarly beautiful people, only to spend the night wishing that the lighting was lower."
The club is set to open in West Hollywood in early 2017, and its panel of judges will include models, celebrity trainers, and "Hollywood insiders and influencers."
But don't worry, you average-looking folks: The site director promises "rare exceptions will be made on the grounds of wealth."
Bon Iver's first album in five years dropped Friday, an offering Pitchfork reviewer Amanda Petrusich described as "an unexpected turn toward the strange and experimental." Titled 22, A Million, the album is the band's third full-length record and features 10 songs with symbol-heavy titles, like "715 - CRΣΣKS" and "21 M♢♢N WATER". The folksy guitar of Bon Iver's 2007 debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago, is largely replaced with electronic sound effects on the new album, which makes for what NPR described as "surprising turns and richly contrasting elements."
So far, the reviews are largely positive. Consequence of Sound applauded the music's "vision and beauty" and called the album a "sturdy and unparalleled step of confidence," while The Independent dubbed the project an "astonishing record that grapples with the infinite." Some critics, however, thought Bon Iver's talent tended to get lost amid all the album's effects and experimentation. "All of this is an attempt to make it new; all of this creates intrigue but also distance between the singer and the listener that sometimes is too great to be overcome," The Atlantic's Spencer Kornhaber wrote.
Take a listen and decide for yourself — the full album is available for streaming on Spotify, below, or at Apple Music. Becca Stanek
The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday that there were "issues" with Donald Trump's microphone at Monday's debate. "Regarding the first debate, there were issues regarding Donald Trump's audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall," the commission wrote, without offering any additional details.
Following Monday's event, Trump had complained about his microphone, and wondered whether it had perhaps been intentionally compromised. Hillary Clinton, in turn, had knocked Trump for his comments, joking the next day that "anyone who complains about the microphone is not having a good night."
Trump and Clinton will meet again on Oct. 9, for the second presidential debate, which will be a town-hall style event. Kimberly Alters
Hillary Clinton has maintained her lead over Donald Trump in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Friday. In the poll's first iteration since the two candidates debated for the first time Monday, Clinton leads Trump 43 percent to 38 percent in a head-to-head race. When third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are factored in, Clinton's lead shrinks by a point, 42 percent to 38 percent.
Clinton's lead in the Reuters poll has held fairly steady all month, though it is slightly higher than the RealClearPolitics average, which shows Clinton's lead at 2.9 percent in a two-way race. Both candidates did get a bump in approval ratings, however, as 48 percent of respondents said they held a favorable view of Clinton, up from 45 percent last week. For Trump, 46 percent saw him favorably, up from 44 percent.
The Reuters poll was conducted online from Sept. 23-29 in all 50 states; there were 2,501 respondents, all considered likely voters, and there is a margin of error of 2 points. Kimberly Alters
Anyone who has ever waited hours for an appointment at the Apple store will probably get a cathartic pleasure out of watching this man attack iPhones with an iron ball at a mall in Dijon, France:
Un mec détruit un Apple Store avec une boule de pétanque PARTIE 1 pic.twitter.com/XC9i8C9chH
— Qυεηтιη (@Quentin_IOS) September 29, 2016
The anti-iPhone crusader shouts that Apple "violated my rights and refused to refund me in accordance to the European consumer protection law," BuzzFeed reports. "I warned them, I told them 'give me my money back,' but they said no. So what happens then? This is what happens." The man was promptly arrested by mall security.
The video of the Thursday incident has gotten a lot of traction in France, already prompting a parody by a French comedy troupe: "In their version, a man goes into an iron ball store and tries to smash them with his phone," BuzzFeed writes.
À coups d'iPhone, un Français a détruit des boules de pétanque dans le Passion Pétanque de Dijon pic.twitter.com/WrbZv6HGVv
— Golden Moustache (@goldenmoustache) September 30, 2016
Well played. Jeva Lange
Hillary Clinton wants to know why she isn't '50 points ahead.' Donald Trump's new ad offers some reasons.
Hillary Clinton wanted an answer, and she got it in Donald Trump's latest campaign ad. The Republican presidential candidate's new ad, titled "Why?", starts off with a clip of Clinton's video speech last week in which she asked: "Why aren't I 50 points ahead?"
While Clinton might be stumped as to why her lead isn't ballooning, Trump, it turns out, is not. Watch the Trump campaign's response, below. Becca Stanek
California's chances of having a magnitude-7 or greater earthquake in the next couple days just skyrocketed
A cluster of more than 200 small earthquakes beneath the Salton Sea in Southern California earlier this week has scientists waiting to see if the slumbering San Andreas fault nearby could be the next to move. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that following the quake swarm at the Salton Sea on Monday and Tuesday, the likelihood of a magnitude-7 or greater earthquake being triggered is as high as 1 in 100 over the next seven days, though the odds will lower as time goes on.
But for now, local seismologists might feel their hearts racing. "When there's significant seismicity in this area of the fault, we kind of wonder if [the San Andreas] is somehow going to go active," Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson told the Los Angeles Times. "So maybe one of those small earthquakes that's happening in the neighborhood of the fault is going to trigger it, and set off the big event."
And by big event, they mean big:
A San Andreas earthquake starting at the Salton Sea has long been a major concern for scientists. In 2008, USGS researchers simulated what would happen if a magnitude-7.8 earthquake started at the Salton Sea and then barreled up the San Andreas fault, sending shaking waves out in all directions.
By the time the San Andreas fault becomes unhinged in San Bernardino County's Cajon Pass, Interstate 15 and rail lines could be severed. Historic downtowns in the Inland Empire could be awash in fallen brick, crushing people under the weight of collapsed buildings that had never been retrofitted.
Los Angeles could feel shaking for a minute — a lifetime compared with the seven seconds felt during the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Shaking waves reach as far as Bakersfield, Oxnard, and Santa Barbara. About 1,600 fires spread across Southern California. And powerful aftershocks larger than magnitude-7 pulverize the region, sending shaking into San Diego County and into the San Gabriel Valley. [Los Angeles Times]
Scientists say major earthquakes happen in Southern California about once every 150 or 200 years; the last big quake at the Salton Sea-tip of the San Andreas fault was 330 years ago. Read the full chilling report at the Los Angeles Times. Jeva Lange


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Caught this on Facebook from a friend who's a Bruins fan.
Thought it was a nice gesture by the organization, certainly something deserving of respect.
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Posted 28 June 2013 - 10:16 AM
Caught this on Facebook from a friend who's a Bruins fan.
Thought it was a nice gesture by the organization, certainly something deserving of respect.
Posted 28 June 2013 - 10:32 AM
Must... not... give... credit..
Posted 28 June 2013 - 11:19 AM
Would be cooler at that end "......... But we still won"
Posted 28 June 2013 - 11:38 AM
I don't want to say it, but there really are a lot of things to admire about the Blackhawks organization these days.
Posted 28 June 2013 - 12:10 PM
But then you see Patrick Kane walking around with a haircut like a chemo patient and you realize what a group of dirtbags they really are.
Edited by AtomicPunk, 28 June 2013 - 12:11 PM.
Posted 28 June 2013 - 12:52 PM
trying too hard.
Posted 28 June 2013 - 12:54 PM
In hockey you thank each other for a great series at the end of the last game with the handshake..thats it..thats all
"Hard Work Beats Talent When Talent Refuses to Work Hard"
Posted 28 June 2013 - 12:58 PM
Nice move by the owners/managent/pr people.
I guess they were surprised by how nice people can be in towns where they don't yell, "Detroit sucks" every chance they get.
Maybe Hawks fans should take notes.
RIP MicMichSteve. I was fortunate to have called you my friend.
Posted 28 June 2013 - 01:18 PM
Chicago's players and (much of) their fanbase may be classless individuals, but that is different than the front office. This was an excellent gesture by them at a time when they didn't have to do anything at all. I doubt the Arizona Diamondbacks did anything like this when they delivered an analogous kick to the stomach to the Yankees in 2001.
The Hawks organization is leaps and bounds from where they were 10 years ago, and that's good for the game. For all the damage of the lockout(s), terrible TV contracts, etc., don't you look at the health of the teams and fanbases in MAJOR U.S. cities (LA, Chicago, NY, Philadelphia) that weren't always in a great position, and feel pretty good about the league?
Posted 28 June 2013 - 01:20 PM
Not pictured: Corey Crawford's version that congratulates the ******* Bruins on *******playing their ****** **** off throughout the entire ******* series.
Posted 28 June 2013 - 01:21 PM
It's easy to be gracious when you win.
Posted 28 June 2013 - 01:30 PM
This is just to make up for those Blackhawks t-shirts that said "Chicago Stronger".
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Why am I a fan of the Detroit Red Wings?
The NHL tweeted my son and I at the 2012 NHL Draft!
Posted 28 June 2013 - 01:42 PM
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Posted 28 June 2013 - 03:30 PM
Nice move.
Most nights, my posts are brought to you by some sort of IPA and a heaping dose of sarcasm.
Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan.
We not score, is hard to win. - Pavel Datsyuk #13
Posted 28 June 2013 - 06:22 PM
Posted 28 June 2013 - 08:52 PM
"Everything he does is exciting to watch." -Holmstrom describes Datsyuk
Posted 28 June 2013 - 09:00 PM
Posted 28 June 2013 - 11:09 PM
I really don't want to admit it and absolutely hate what I am going to type now, but
this gesture is pure class, sad but true.
Crawford on the other hand, never liked the guy he will end up like Mike Smith a one year wonder and an arrogant full of himself millionaire.
Edited by frankgrimes, 28 June 2013 - 11:10 PM.
Posted 29 June 2013 - 10:32 AM
Letting go of Scotty Bowman = dumbest thing a hockey team can do.
If you are implying the Wings "let go" of Scotty Bowman, you have it wrong. Scotty went to Chicago to have the opportunity to work with his son. As a parent, I can tell you that I love Scotty even more for his understanding of what is important in life.
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The independent candidate for South Korean president, Ahn Cheol-soo, sent the country's technology industry aflutter on Tuesday after announcing that, if elected, he'd wipe out a government regulation that has trapped Internet users in a 1990s encryption standard recognized by only one Web browser.
The South Korea government in the late 1990s developed its own encryption technology for online transactions, then declared its usage mandatory in the country in hopes that it would eventually spread around the world and provide some royalty power to compensate for what was at the time a fairly big gap in fees that Korean firms paid to developers of tech standards elsewhere.
Under the rule, to make such an electronic transaction in South Korea, a person had to get a digital certificate supplied by site they were interacting with. Web sites issue the certificates through a framework that takes the form of a browser plug-in called Active X, supplied by Microsoft and supported only by its Web browser Internet Explorer.
Because of the rule, South Koreans interested in using the Internet for any type of transaction have had to do it on Internet Explorer, which has harmed diversity in both Web browsing software and PCs themselves.
Trouble is, the tech world moved on. It didn't adopt South Korea's technique and developed better ones that worked across many Internet browsers.
South Korean techies for years have complained about the rule. http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2011/07/20/at-last-a-push-for-browser-diversity-in-korea/ And the arrival of smartphones in late 2009 appeared to force the government's hand.
In mid-2010, the government formally decided to end the compulsory use of Active X and created a process for Web site creators to seek exceptions. Regulators have approved few exceptions, however, and the security technique remains widely used by the nation's banks and many retailers.
For computer users, the rule not only locks people into the use of Internet Explorer but forces the download of many small plug-in programs that slowdown their machines.
In his position paper issued Monday, Mr. Ahn said the use of Active X has "led to international isolation of Korean IT" and "inconvenience for users."
He said he would support development of alternative technologies and halt the certificate system and designation of "authentic certificate agencies" that have created a micro-industry that make money from the perpetuation of the old South Korean technology standard.
Mr. Ahn built a fortune from an anti-virus software company that he started. A spokeswoman for the company, Ahn Lab Inc., said Tuesday that the firm isn't involved in the enforcement of the encryption rule and wouldn't be affected by a change.
A spokeswoman for the Ahn campaign said they were surprised by the reaction to the policy proposal, which appeared on page 402 of a 439-page book. Messages filled the campaign's online posting board and some on tech-related boards on South Korean web portals.
Some South Korean tech Web sites noted that, in addition to the encryption change, Mr. Ahn's IT-related proposals were more specific than his rivals, Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party and Park Geun-hye of the New Frontier Party.
Among the reactions on ZDNet Korea, a tech news Web site, one commenter, writing under a pseudonym, said, "If Active X is eliminated, I can do everything with a tablet PC!" Another wrote, "This is exactly what is needed. Everyone had hard time because of Active X. I couldn't even use Linux. I hope citizens won't be harmed anymore because of people in power."
In this video by a South Korean who spoofed the Google Glasses concept, the user about halfway through runs into difficulty making a transaction due to a demand for an Active X certificate.


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Not to take anything at all from the one Ben Heckendorn did, but using tact switches for every button isn't my thing. This one uses the 360 controller's board (stripped of almost every component) as to use it's button's contacts, so it 'feels' like a 360 controller does, as far as pushing buttons goes you can't tell one from the other. I did the Duke360 and 360 S-controller the same way. It's a load more work on the one hand, but pays off big time when yer all done and the controller doesn't feel any different at all.
Since my first go at this Sony has gone and made serious revision changes to the SixAxis boards and the new DualShock 3 uses these new changes as well. See HERE if ya want more info on that.
M$ as well has made revision changes to both of their controllers (Wired and Wireless) and the new Wired CL version board (I'm using a Wireless shell though) makes for doing this thing a good deal easier than how it was going before with the older style 360 board.
With the release of the DS3 I figured may as well use it since the straight up SixAxis just sux, plus the 360 shell has room for the motors anyway, so it all just made sense and more work, but if yer gonna do it may as well stuff it all in there.
Here's the thing so far, and yes I know it's a mess right now and it isn't going to get much better looking before it's all over with until it goes in the shell. The D-pad, Select, PS, Start, Square, Triangle, Circle, Cross, L1/R1 and L3/R3 buttons are all wired up right now and working, as are the LEDs for showing which controller it is.
All that's left to do are the L2/R2 buttons/Triggers, the Reset/Off button that's on the bottom of the controller and get the Sticks all wired up, then cram it all in the shell. Not that any of it's incredibly more difficult than what's been done on it already, just a lot more wiring to smaller spots than what one would think because of the new Sticks these things use.
Changing the buttons over to the PS3 ones isn't a huge priority right now, that's cosmetic, I'm just after the main things right now with this and that's something that will be done laster on.
Aside from this controller looking and feeling like any other 360 controller, it will also use the PnC cable that charges a 360 Wireless controller to charge this one. This lets me toss the Mini USB connector of the PS3 controller and not have to make that look all pretty mounted somewhere and use a cable that plugs into the 360 controller nicely already. The Sync button next to the PnC connector will be the Reset/Off button also.
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Age: 18
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Sport: Basketball
Athlete of the week achievement: Adams scored 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in a win over previously-unbeaten Bellwood-Antis, scored 16 in a win over Bishop Carroll and collected 14 points and 17 rebounds in a victory over Forest Hills.
Season update: The Lady Marauders are now 10-1.
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Favorite teachers: Miss Thoma, Mr. Sutton
Favorite subject: Religion
Favorite movie: "Pitch Perfect"
Favorite food: Pizza
Favorite song: Anything by Cher Lloyd
Outside interests: Playing tennis, watching sports on TV with my dad
Favorite professional team: Boston Celtics
Favorite college team: Siena Saints
Pro athlete most admired: Tim Tebow
Best athlete I ever played with: Elyssa Ehredt
Best athlete I ever competed against: Delone Catholic's Sierra Moore
Most influential people on my athletic career: My parents (Gene and Lynn), Mark Moschella, Sam Pierce, Art Taneyhill
Proudest athletic achievement: Getting a Division 1 athletic scholarship
How I got my start in basketball: Joining a pickup team at the Jewish Memorial Center in third grade
Future goal: "To win the state championships this year, go to college and play overseas."