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How to Find the Best Laptops
You can't wait to check emails till you get home at night. You need a keyboard to write a report when you're working at the library. And you absolutely want to stream a TV program on Hulu* when you're hanging at a Wi-Fi hotspot. Thankfully, the Intel Learning Centre is the fastest way to recognize and compare the best laptops and computers with Intel Inside®.
The Best Laptops are Powered by Intel
With an Intel® Core™ processor inside your new laptop or Ultrabook™, you'll notice great visuals with the movies, games, and photos you view. And with low-voltage usage and extended battery life, it's easy to see why the best laptops and the new Ultrabook, which combines the fun of a tablet with the performance of a PC, can make a big difference in how you work, study and stay connected to friends—regardless of where life takes you.
The Fast and The Curious
If you're the kind of person who thrives on up-to-date news, well-researched answers to your questions, and quality Skype* time with family whenever the need arises, then you're part of the fast and curious mobile generation. The best laptops are the ones that won't slow you down or empty your bank account. Consider the following points to make an informed decision about which device is right for you:
- Performance – An Intel Core processor is the engine room of your new laptop or Ultrabook that allows you to seamlessly multitask between social, work, and entertainment related applications. It's the speed to get things done while staying connected to the things you enjoy.
- Affordability – Even a few years ago, top of the line laptops were often out of reach due to costly price tags. With affordability a key factor in the design of the newest laptops and the new Ultrabook, you'll find both quality and value in every device.
- Security – Using a laptop or Ultrabook is convenient, but it should also be safe and secure. That's why Intel® Anti-Theft Technology1 and Intel® Identity Protection Technology2, designed to protect both your computer and personal data, are a great complement to any mobile device.
- Flexibility – Since the Ultrabook takes the experience of a touchscreen-enabled tablet and combines it with a powerful PC, flexibility is no longer a wish; it's a reality. And with a variety of displays that swivel, slide, and flip, all in a slim design under an inch thick, you'll never have to sacrifice touchscreen technology or full keyboard control again.
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Although there's an ever-growing selection of laptops on the market today, deciding which one is right for you is relatively easy. Your laptop or Ultrabook keeps you socially connected, professionally informed, and personally entertained every day you use it. So remember, with the help of the Intel Learning Centre, just ask yourself: Which device is an extension of me?
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The best name for a grandmother EVER. My MomMom will never be forgotten or ever replaced! My mother is now a MomMom and my daughter's first word... you guessed it!; "MomMom" :-)
"I Love My MomMom".... Rhondda Lee Favreau.... my heart will go on only because you're there <3
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A grandmother. Also known as the mother of your parents.
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Utah State University Adds Online Master's in HR to Widen Reach
By Valerie Jones
Online Business Degree
Utah State University wanted to reach a broader audience outside of the State of Utah, which is why the school is launching its online Master of Science in Human Resources.
The new MSHR program, which was previously offered on-campus and in a broadcast format, will encourage students to explore the objectives of a firm. Offered through USU's Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, the online MSHR can be completed in one year. Previously, students taking the broadcast format had to come to the Salt Lake City campus every Friday night and Saturday morning and it took two years to complete the program.
"We're one of the few schools nationwide whose program meets all of the guidelines of the Society for Human Resource Management," said Steve Hanks, USU's director of graduate studies for human resources. "It's competency-based and in addition to teaching theory, many of the courses involve projects, so students do more than just study theory and take tests."
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5 Moments That Prove Mr. Rogers Was the Greatest American
Once in a while, a publication asks who the greatest American of our lifetime is. And while Cracked would never presume to answer that question, we absolutely can. Is it Zombie Teddy Roosevelt? The puppeteer who made Ronald Reagan come alive? Former San Antonio Spurs center David Robinson?
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You have to admit he's a frontrunner.
Strong contenders, all, but no. Sit down, neighbor, and hear of a man who did not conquer the world, but did it one better; he reminded us that the world needs unity rather than conquest. He walked among us as a man, although he was a hand-to-God saint. They say the difference between a saint and a psychopath is empathy, and Mr. Fred Rogers had an ocean of it, which makes him either the sanest man in history or the craziest hero we ever had.
If you're from some country that doesn't have puppets and never heard of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, it's OK! He loves you anyway. In fact, he'd want to introduce you to all of us so we could learn from you. So go tell us something wonderful about your people in the comments.
As for the rest of us, here are amazing videos of Mr. Rogers that prove Tom Junod's Esquire profile of him accounts for his greatness in the grime of the real world. Go ahead, read it. It is the only permissible instance of the phrase "[Mr. Rogers'] bobbing nudity."
All set? At my signal, take off those ironic smirks and don your extra-strength smiles, because your faith in human beings is about to get an upgrade.
#5. He Gave All of Himself to Strangers
Imagine for a second how many letters Mr. Rogers got in a day. He was neighbor to 13.6 million kids, and by the time they were too old to watch his show, they'd been replaced by 13.76 million kids. Every day, America 5 & Under waited for Mr. Rogers to come in and don one of his trademark sweaters.
Therefore, you may find it unbelievable that Mr. Rogers answered all of his fan mail, which was pretty much ALL of the fan mail.
(Those sweaters, by the way, were all made for him by his mom, just so you know how wonderful the Rogers family is.)
The amount of free time that man had in the day could be measured in hummingbird heartbeats. But he sincerely believed that each of us is special and interesting. He knew that the real world is not like the Neighborhood, and he wanted people to be able to carry its lessons with them.
In lieu of video of his penmanship, please accept a clip of him discussing these same very serious issues with Arsenio Hall, and -- bonus! -- wearing a sweet ultra-'90s jacket:
Why It Made Him Great
Answering that much mail is a Sisyphean task, but if Mr. Rogers were pushing a boulder up a hill, I guarantee it would end with the boulder tearfully admitting that it had been abandoned by its father. Because when Mr. Rogers undertakes an impossible task, that task had better start writing its last will and testament.
The only person who gets more mail from kids than Mr. Rogers is Santa Claus, and Mr. Rogers didn't have to bribe them with toys to receive it. He just generally wanted to know if you were doing well. And Santa doesn't answer his fan mail, so we're giving this one to Fred Rogers.
See, the thing of it all ... the real thing that makes him amazing is not that he was so impossibly good; there are people like that out there in the world. It's that he was so impossibly real. He was aware of his image, but it wasn't something he maintained. Off-camera, he revealed sides of himself that didn't appear on the show, but all of them were in accord with the persona we saw on PBS. As he once said, "Kids can spot a phony a mile away."
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#4. Nature Itself Recognized His Greatness
Naturally, everyone loved him, because he loved them, unconditionally. Really, guys -- EVERYONE. Koko the gorilla learned sign language, and the most important thing she needed to tell us was that she's a big fan of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. That makes sense, because you don't leap interspecies language barriers without recognizing that humans have some pretty good stuff going on. So when she met him and was asked about love, well ... just watch:
"Love YOU," she signs. "Love you visit." Then she pulls him in for a hug. What you don't see is that after that, she tries to take off his shoes, because gorillas ... unlike celebrities, they're just like us!
Wait, sorry, that's the kind of joke I would normally make. But we're all the same. I know this because Mr. Rogers taught me to see it in others.
Why It Made Him Great
Well, the animal kingdom itself bent down to praise him. That's only happened to three other people: Jesus, St. Francis of Assisi, and Bambi. Truly, this was a great man. He tamed a wild animal with the power of love.
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#3. He Found Delight in Little Things
Mr. Rogers was 143 pounds his entire adult life, and back in a time when we wore magical devices on our belts called pagers, that number was how drug dealers told each other "I love you." You know who invented that letter-counting code? Mr. Rogers, in the episode "Transformations":
According to Esquire, every morning, Mr. Rogers stepped on the scale, and every day, the first message he received was "I love you!" This tickled Mr. Rogers to no end, and sent him out into the world on the right foot to tell everyone he loved them, too.
Why It Made Him Great
Now this seems like nothing more than an adorable quirk. But what it implies is that here's a man who made a decision to be healthy and happy.
Nobody can maintain the same exact weight for 30 years, let alone 143 pounds. That's approximately how much the average left thigh weighs in America. In cities with a great barbecue scene, you'll find pigeons that weigh more than that. And Mr. Rogers loved them, too. But he didn't eat animals, probably because they spoke to him.
But it wasn't just a little cute thing. Apparently this was a thing Mr. Rogers was known to do, like when he started signing letters to a reporter "IPOY," or "I'm proud of you."
That annoying text shorthand that makes previously respectable people sound like robots that have been hit by cars is actually a fine tradition started by a man you respect. In the Neighborhood, everything means something, and the messages are here to help us improve.
And now you see that the problem was you -- or if not you, then the world's English majors, our nation's richest source of SMS snobs. Now that you have seen the face of Mr. Rogers in the heart of everyone you speak with, you realize it's the message, not the medium, that matters, and the message is love.
I know you're waiting for some snark to season that schmaltz, but: nope! Fred taught me it's OK to say stuff like that.
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Deion Sanders defends self after news of wife's suit seeking $200 million
Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders turned to the radio waves Friday morning to defend himself after news that his wife was suing him and his daughter for $200 million.
"Where are they going to get that money from?" Sanders asks the hosts of The Ben and Skin Show on ESPN Dallas 103.3FM. "That's just like me suing a homeless dude for a burger and some fries."
When asked how his wife and her attorney came up with the $200 million figure, Sanders said: "You wouldn't be talking about it if it wasn't such an absurd number."
Sanders, who played five seasons for the Dallas Cowboys in the 1990s, filed for divorce in December from his wife of 12 years, Pilar Sanders. On Thursday, a district judge approved the athlete's request for a gag order in the divorce case. The divorce case has also been sealed and is no longer open to the public.
But the civil suit, filed last week in district court in Collin County, is not part of the gag order. Pilar Sanders is seeking damages from libelous and slanderous comments posted on Twitter. Also named in the suit is Deiondra Sanders, the athlete's daughter from his first marriage, and Prime Time Enterprise Inc.
According to the suit, Deiondra Sanders posted Tweets about Pilar Sanders being "the number one gold digger of the year" and other disparaging comments. The suit states that Deion Sanders endorsed his daughter's false statements and Tweeted that he was "tired of all [Pilar's] lies and foolishness."
During Friday's radio show, Sanders called the lawsuit unfortunate and frivolous and said that he hated that his daughter was involved. He said he told his daughter she didn't need to defend him but that he respected her for it. "There's a way to do things and a way not to do things," Sanders said. "I don't use the media as a platform to fight my battles. You know, I speak up for myself. But God fights my battles, and I'm fine."
Pilar Sanders also filed a separate civil suit seeking relief after an alleged assault at the couple's home last month by the athlete's aunt, Laura Jones. Jones is named in the suit along with Deion Sanders, who, according to the suit, encouraged the assault.
Sanders said the legal wranglings with his wife won't distract from his focus. He is co-founder of Prime Prep Academy charter schools in Dallas and Fort Worth. Open enrollment began this week. "I'm so happy, man," Sanders said. "I cannot wait to walk the halls of these schools."
Sanders is also helping the Texas Commissioner of Agriculture to promote the Summer Meals Feeding Program. Sanders said he's gearing up to feed 100,000 children this summer through his program called Feed me Prime, which is a division of Prime Time Association.
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have been waiting a long time for "Duke Nukem Forever," and
that wait will be over in a little less than a week. But for some, the wait
ended yesterday when the game leaked onto the internet.
With much anticipation for the new "Duke
Nukem," game players were pushing to get a glimpse of 2K Games' latest
creation in the series. Over the last two weeks alone, several fake "Duke
Nukem Forever" files have popped up all over the web.
But the real deal appeared on torrent sites like BitTorrent yesterday, with the
Xbox 360 version made available by the Scene group "Complex," and the
PS3 version compliments of the Scene Group "Duplex."
This leak could make or break the new game, as gamers who test it will likely
spread the word as to whether it's a worthy buy or not.
"Duke Nukem Forever" will officially release on June 14 for Xbox 360,
PS3 and Windows.
"Duke Nukem" is a video game series that was initially released in
1991 for MS-DOS, and focuses on protagonist Duke Nukem. "Duke Nukem
ll" was released in 1993, and "Duke Nukem 3D" launched in 1996.
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quote: All this time companies and the news has been reporting about rampant piracy on the PC and how it is killing developers desire to market games to anything but consoles. Consoles are safe, they keep telling us. Consoles are the way to go to combat piracy, they say. Yet, a week before Duke Nukem Forever comes out, the pirated version of it comes out where--FOR CONSOLES.
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A pit bull mix who had been held at Burlington Animal Services for six days, while a family who wanted to adopt him called repeatedly to ask about him, was oops-killed by a pound employee on Jan. 15. Brand-new pound director Jessica Arias, who started the job last month with "big ideas and hopes to improve the lives of animals here," said that the oops-kill was caused by an employee who didn't follow policies and that the policies would be reviewed.
The pit-bull, Si, didn't even need to be in the Burlington pound to begin with. On Jan. 6 he had shown upon the porch of the Lassiters, the family who desperately wanted to adopt him, soaking wet and covered in what looked like paintball paint. The Lassiters took him in, and Si fit right in with their dogs and kids. The Lassiters posted lost dog notices but no owner came forward.
Three days later, Si wandered from their yard, but Michelle Lassiter quickly discovered him inside an animal control truck parked by her neighbors' house. She asked the officer if she could have Si back and he refused, taking poor Si to the pound.
Alamance Sheriff's Lt. Mike Hoover said it's their policy to take found and stray dogs to the shelter to allow original owners to find them. But state law says that it's perfectly OK for pounds to allow pets to serve their stray holds in the home of the person who found them:
G.S. 19A-23 Section 2 (d) (d) During the minimum holding period, an animal shelter may place an animal it is holding into foster care by transferring possession of the animal to an approved foster care provider, an approved rescue organization, or the person who found the animal. If an animal shelter transfers possession of an animal under this subsection, at least one photograph depicting the head and face of the animal shall be displayed at the shelter in a conspicuous location that is available to the general public during hours of operation, and that photograph shall remain posted until the animal is disposed of as provided in subsection (f) of this section.
So Si could have stayed in his comfortable, loving home, the pound could have posted his photo in case his previous owners came looking, and Si could now be still alive.
Instead, Si was taken to one place where animals are least safe in Alamance County: Burlington Animal Services, which killed 72.53% of the dogs and cats who came in during 2012 (up from 70.9% in 2011). So basically, it's a killing facility.
When Michelle Lassiter finally tracked Si down at the Burlington killing facility, staff were rude and seemed lacking in compassion, she said. And even though she had been denied the right to keep Si because he wasn't officially her dog, they now told her that the family could only have him if she pay the standard $25 impound fee plus $5 for each additional day he was imprisoned. When the Lassiters were ready to pay that, staff then said Si couldn't be released without documentation of his rabies shot or payment of a $50 fine.
The Lassiters were given another three days. Their family vet agreed to vaccinate Si at a reduced rate. In the meantime, Lassiter was busy acquiring kennels and dog beds for Si.
She called Wednesday to make sure there wasn't anything else she needed to do before they picked him up and was told Si had been put down earlier that day.
One could be forgiven for thinking that the staff of Burlington Animal "Services" were bound and determined to prevent Si from leaving alive. Oh, but nobody wants to kill animals …
BAS is the same pound where, more than a year ago, staff killed a cat who had an adopter literally begging to save him.


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Layoff plan moves forward at GE Transportation
The first of the layoff notices should be distributed Monday morning as third-shift employees clock out for the night at GE Transportation.
It's a move that's been months in coming. The clock began ticking April 9 when the company announced plans to eliminate 100 salaried positions and 950 union jobs at its Erie plant.
Now, after unsuccessful lobbying and failed negotiations aimed at saving jobs, the company's plan for its first round of layoff's is moving forward.
GE Transportation, which said the cutbacks were prompted by a slowdown in orders and productivity concerns, announced Sept. 3 that the first round of layoffs would affect about 500 employees.
The pink slips to be distributed Monday will give employees one-week notice of their layoff, said Scott Duke, president of Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.
However, the initial layoff total might be slightly lower.
Jennifer Erickson, spokeswoman for GE Transportation, said about 50 employees are expected to retire instead of taking a layoff.
For some, those decisions have been difficult to make, Duke said.
"It keeps changing," he said. "They are saying yes (to retirement) and they are backing out. It's a major decision for some people."
While each retirement had the potential to spare one layoff, Duke said he didn't try to influence anyone's decision.
"That's not my role," he said.
In a statement from Erickson, the company acknowledged the significance of the job cuts.
"We are taking this difficult step to meet an increasingly challenging marketplace that requires us to reduce costs and improve flexibility to maintain our competitiveness," she said. "We understand how hard this action is for everyone affected, including families and the broader community."
She said the company is working closely with the state Department of Labor & Industry's Rapid Response team to help employees who lose their jobs.
Here's a look at what the company is doing for displaced employees and the benefits they are entitled to under the union contract:
- Rapid Response will be at GE Transportation on Tuesday to conduct an on-site job fair for displaced employees and those with lower years of service. Representatives of local colleges and trade schools are expected to attend as well as between 20 and 25 employers with plans to hire.
- Outplacement sessions will be held twice daily on Nov. 5, 12 and 19 in the auditorium of the Customer Innovation Center. Information will be provided on unemployment, health insurance, continuing education, retraining and other services available to affected employees.
- Instructional workshops will be held twice daily in the same building on Nov. 7, 14 and 21 to help employees develop skills to navigate a job search.
- The UE contract provides for income extension equal to one week of pay for every year of service, with a minimum of four weeks pay. Displaced employees also will receive a 12-month extension of their benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance.
- Employees also are eligible for a training allowance that provides up to $6,000 a year for approved classes.
Finally, Duke said the union plans to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance or TAA, which provides wide-reaching benefits to employees who lose their jobs due to foreign competition.
The union applied three times for TAA benefits before they were granted after a mass layoff in 2009.
"I feel good about it," Duke said. "I don't think the company is going to fight us."
JIM MARTIN can be reached at 870-1668 or by e-mail.


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Ken Warren's 10 Takes: On saving Spezza, a Price to pay next round and the ...We're now into the crucial part of the opening round of the NHL playoffs, and the sleeping patterns created by the nightly doubleheaders have become normal again for many of ...
Scanlan: MacLean reminded hockey can be humblingThe reigning NHL coach of the year was willing, available, sitting by his phone.
Scanlan: True cost of losing Daniel Alfredsson coming into focusAmong the many interesting disclosures made by the Senators in their True Confessions wrap-up session Tuesday was an admission that letting Daniel Alfredsson get away was a grave mistake.
Scanlan: Senators season among the most maddeningIt's no small task, slotting the Senators 2013-14 season on the all-time franchise list of triumph, tears and heartbreak.
MacLean will be back behind Ottawa Senators' bench: MelnykOttawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk confirmed that head coach Paul MacLean will be back behind the bench next season, but he was vague on the future of captain Jason Spezza.
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Senators finish strong in PittsburghThe good news for Ottawa Senators fans? The Senators have strung together their longest winning streak of the season.
Spezza, Anderson lead Senators past LeafsIf Saturday night's game against the Toronto Maple Leafs turns out to be his last on home ice as an Ottawa Senator, at least Jason Spezza will have gone out ...
Scanlan: Better days ahead for Senators, LeafsIt has come to this for the Battle of Ontario: the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs, meeting in mid-April with 11th place at stake.