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iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S III drop test is not for faint-hearted geeks
0. phoneArena 21 Sep 2012, 09:38 posted on
One thing that we don't really enjoy watching is pricey gadgets being tortured, but if that's the only way to test the durability of a high-end smartphone, then count us in. Today's contenders are the iPhone 5, which is now available for purchase in several countries, and the Samsung Galaxy S III, which is currently among the hottest Android smartphones in existence...
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7. RaKithAPeiRiZ (Posts: 1488; Member since: 29 Dec 2011)
Enjoying this on my Nokia 3310
8. Nikolas.Oliver (banned) (Posts: 1574; Member since: 01 Jul 2012)
if only he had a nokia...
34. astronot (Posts: 17; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
:) I searched the internet on Nokia Lumia tests. Omg, this test is just a romantic comedy compared to how some abuse the Nokia Lumia's. So bettter compare the iP5 to a Nokia Lumia.
49. Nikolas.Oliver (banned) (Posts: 1574; Member since: 01 Jul 2012)
but you cannot use your lumia as a hammer can you ?
9. good2great (Posts: 1042; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
The phone u love to hate!
11. boblight (Posts: 84; Member since: 28 Jul 2012)
Well.. I wouldn't do that if I was holding my Nokia. Wouldn't want to be fined for causing damage to public property... hehehehehehe
12. neutralguy (Posts: 1152; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
lighter iPhone would prevail in this drop test.
15. Fallout09 (Posts: 421; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Of course the SG3 screen cracked a bit more when attempting the 3rd test.
16. Kronic (banned) (Posts: 321; Member since: 11 Sep 2012)
Cheap plastic loses!!! Haha Samsung last year you won but now apple is the winner.
21. askbingask (Posts: 22; Member since: 31 Jul 2012)
last year samsung won coz they copied iphone this time they didn't and sIII 's design is s**t like samsung
78. Kronic (banned) (Posts: 321; Member since: 11 Sep 2012)
I agree
89. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
you 2 are such trolls
we had good comments from both apple and android users saying good things then you 2 have to go about how samsung copied and its hsit blah blah blah
grow the f**k up
17. wolstenbeast (Posts: 25; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
OK, so yay the I-phone is less fragile, and we already knew the S3, falls to pieces on impact. I did notice that the I5, seems to always land in the same area regarding impact. This might actually be by design based upon the previous screen fragility issues.
I would prefer to see a test done in a much more scientific manner, we need Mythbusters!
Plus lets try a test against multiple high end androids. We all know the S3 suffers from brittle phone disease.
19. phljcnth (Posts: 485; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
As long as I'm not dropping my Galaxy S III, it's still way better than any iPhone.
20. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
samsung need to improve their materials, really impressive performance from the 5, disappointed at the Gorilla Glass 2 it seems more fragile than the first versions
22. skymitch89 (Posts: 1299; Member since: 05 Nov 2010)
He drops the iPhone 5, but tosses the GS3. This isn't a fair drop test. One of the only true and fair drop tests I've seen is placing the device(s) to be tested on the truck and/or top of a car and drive off with them there.
24. Veigald (Posts: 290; Member since: 13 Jan 2012)
Isn't this guy from Android Authority? Would guess he's not very Apple-biased...
23. Ragnarockd (Posts: 47; Member since: 27 Aug 2012)
thats one heck of an iphone...wow.
27. thegreatone99 (Posts: 12; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
did anyone notice that the guy threw the galaxy s III more harder than the iphone 5
28. traccer055 (Posts: 11; Member since: 04 Sep 2009)
I am waiting for the better drop test this one was very lazily done.
50. wendygarett (unregistered)
he don't even remove the screen protector to drop it...
Laziest drop test i had ever seen :(
I wanna to see another drop test of iphone 5 to double check on it
29. Hallucinator (Posts: 352; Member since: 24 May 2010)
Android Authority does a drop test and some of you Android users still whine and cry about the test being unfair. F@#$ing get over yourselves.
36. Alistaire (Posts: 132; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
show that Apple did improve after all the cracked glass from Iphone 4 and 4S. >_
42. Naitto (Posts: 50; Member since: 15 Sep 2012)
I'm not a big Android fan but I'll bet the maps still worked on the the gs III and didn't on the iphone.
46. yowanvista (Posts: 340; Member since: 20 Sep 2011)
There is purely nothing scientific about those tests. I wonder how Android & Apple Fanboys can ever draw valid deductions about those tests.
90. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
they wont, they will just argue and most will see this test as fact that there phone is the best.........drop tests aren't conclusive for so many reasons it only gives a general idea
51. Sprissy (Posts: 161; Member since: 11 Feb 2012)
Not surprising to me...dropped my S3 the first week and the screen shattered but it still worked...no matter given a choice I would still choose an S3!
52. aahmed215 (Posts: 165; Member since: 18 Jun 2012)
Drop tests don't paint the most accurate picture unless the test is repeated several times. Simple scientific theory. There are so many factors that go in the drop.
Anyways, I don't really care if the S3 can survive impacts better than the iPhone 5 or vice versa. I will put on a case on either device. I also take care of my phones.
54. wanted (Posts: 2; Member since: 21 Mar 2012)
Both handsets will feel f****d if tested against lumia920
57. f1r3z0r (Posts: 91; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
RFor some reason he always drop the S3 with the screen facing the floor with increase the possibility of breaking the phone screen faster on the other hand he also drop the Iphone side way preventing any damage so I will conclude this is not a fair drop test
59. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
This obviously has nothing to do with the build quality but simply the way the phone is designed.
The moment I saw iPhone 5 I knew it will be much more resistant to drops than previous ones, because of the way that the frame is aligned onto the screen - Ip4 screen glass was simply very exposed at a certain angle of impact.
Similar thing is with the GS 3 - the all-glass front means that the edge of screen will directly come in contact with the surface during the side impact.
With a protective case, S3 is just fine
76. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
A good case with impact resistant rubbers/plastics on the corners helps quite a bit.
Thats why I laugh at peeps that buy 600 devices and then squirm over a $20 case to protect it. lol.
60. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
These idiots needs to DROP OR THROW THE PHONES hard on the ground to see how it can withstand a fall.
63. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 3746; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
Such a darn waste...
Why don't you hold a contest and give the phones as prize as it is...i don't care which one breaks and which one cannot. Even if they don't break at first fall, the second or the third fall will break them.
77. Techboi (Posts: 84; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
Apple finally made a solid phone impress how well it handled the drop test
79. adamross55 (Posts: 15; Member since: 23 Apr 2012)
His voice is hilarious at 3:03 haha 'ohhhhh nooooo!'
81. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
Put these phones up against my droid RAZR and the RAZR wins...hands down
83. ryq24 (Posts: 721; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
second drop test i have seen where samsung lost to iphone. samsung phones like most of their products are made not to last very long because they know most people will replace their phone anyway after 1 to 2 years of use.
85. wolstenbeast (Posts: 25; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
I own the GS3, but use my Razor Maxx most often. Hate my daughter's I-phone 4s (had to get a signal extender, so she could talk or text in the house).
Basically, user interface, battery life and features are much more important to me than indestructible build. My GS3, has a Trident Case, I do not have a case on the Razor Maxx because i am more scared that, that phone will break a toe if i drop it on my foot.
92. DechyX (Posts: 132; Member since: 16 May 2011)
I've had over 30 phones and only one screen ever shattered... and that was because I threw it on the ground.... I fail to see the importance of this video. Buy a damn case
94. ghost__uwi (Posts: 175; Member since: 28 Nov 2011)
100. henrys (Posts: 15; Member since: 06 Aug 2012)
is anyone else bothered by him calling the samsung galaxy s 3 an LCD
103. Jooplol (Posts: 4; Member since: 10 Oct 2012)
I find it amusing that every android hugger I know and see is always bashing or paying/giving attention to Apple and iPhone. If your OS, software, hardware and everything else is supposedly always better, why waste your time lol. My father used to say "Anyone who makes fun of something if most likely jealous." Like I said, amusing. (Btw, I own an S2)
104. chaoticrazor (Posts: 2347; Member since: 28 Aug 2012)
yeah i love how people like you always say its android fans against ifans yet never acknowledge how the ifans do the same and most of the time are petty and immature in there comments
and you saying you have an s2 means nothing. i have an 808 what does that add .....nothing exactly


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RANGOON— On her 69th birthday on Thursday, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged her supporters to pray for her and continue standing beside her during the country's transition toward democracy.
The National League for Democracy (NLD) chairwoman, who was born in Rangoon in 1945, rarely makes birthday resolutions, saying that each year she is working toward the same goal.
"But on birthdays, I think it's the time to glance back on what you have done in the past year. As a politician, I prefer to contemplate what I have done best for the country, rather than what I have gained personally," she said in Naypyidaw.
"I wish you—my friends, colleagues, the NLD members and anyone who loves me—to enjoy wellbeing, and that you pray for me, and I urge you to keep supporting and walking with me on my ongoing political journey."
Suu Kyi is currently in Naypyidaw to attend parliamentary meetings. On Thursday afternoon, she and other NLD lawmakers took a break to celebrate at the office of Parliament's Rule of Law Committee, which she leads. They enjoyed a birthday cake, decorated in red like the NLD flag, and Suu Kyi invited other parliamentary staff members, including cleaners and gardeners, to join the festivities. One lawmaker from the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) also attended.
Outside Parliament, her supporters in the capital marked the day by giving blood donations, a common tradition on holy days in Burma, and by attending literary talks. And at the NLD headquarters in Rangoon, party members made offerings to Buddhist monks and prayed for their leader's good health.
A women's group comprised of leading Burmese democracy activists released a statement on Thursday in support of Suu Kyi. The group, known as Women's Political Action 2015, was formed to create an outlet for women's voices in the upcoming 2015 election.
"We believe Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is the most suitable candidate for the presidency at this time. We give our full support to her as our birthday present, and we will stand behind her political leadership," the group said.
But before Suu Kyi can become president, she will need an even bigger present from Parliament, which still needs to vote on whether to amend an article in the Constitution that currently bars her from the post.
" A Very Happy Birth Day To You – Daw Aung SAan Suu Kyi "
Long Live Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
We are with you in 2015 election.
Constitution is man made, not God revealation.
It can amend at any time – You will be our President
After election of 2015, when NLD win landslide victory like 1990 election.
Her father's legacy is repeated in her life once again. Her father didn't get a chance to become President but his sacrifice still serves us like an unbreakable pillar. Suu Kyi is about to go in the same road. No matter she becomes our fairy President or not, she is already our Queen oh Hearts. Happy Birthday Daw Suu.
Happy birth day, Amay Su.
I hope your dream for Burma will come true soon.
You will be passing thought all barriers and thorns placed by enemy of peoples of Burma by love and support of Burmese peoples. Also we are praying for your health and safety as well.
Thank you very much for thinking, scarifying, loving and caring to your fellow Burmese peoples with your heart.
Long live Amay Su. We always love you and support you.
ေမြးေန႔မွာ မဂၤလာအေပါင္းနဲ႔ ျပည့္စံုပါေစခင္ဗ်ား၊
ျမင္ဘူးသမ ွ် ကမၻာ့ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားရဲ့ ေမြးေန႔ကိတ္မုန္႔ထဲမွာေတာ့ အႀကီးတကာ့ အႀကီးဆံုးပါပဲဗ်ာ။ ကိတ္မုန္႔နံ႔ေတာင္ ႐ွဴခြင့္မရွိတဲ့ အင္မတန္ဆင္းရဲတဲ့ ျပည္သူေတြ ဒီေရအလား တိုးပြားေနခ်ိန္မွာ ဒါႀကီးကေတာ့ နည္းနည္းလြန္လြန္းတယ္ ထင္ပါတယ္။ အနားျပာ ခ႐ိုနီးတို႔၊ အပါးေတာ္ျမဲတို႔ကိုလဲ မသင့္ေတာ္တာေတြကို နည္းနည္းဂ႐ုစိုက္ၾကဖို႔ မွာထားတာ ေကာင္းမယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။
ခုအခ်ိန္ကစၿပီး မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေသးတဲ့ ေနရာေတြမွာ အင္အားကို မျဖဳန္းတီးပဲ မဲအျပတ္ႏိုင္ေရး နဲ႔ သမၼတေလာင္းအျဖစ္ ဒုတိယတန္းကလူကို ေရြးထားဖို႔ တိုက္တြန္းပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အသင့္ေတာ္ဆံုးထင္တဲ့ သမၼတေလာင္းကေတာ့ သူရ ဦးတင္ဦးပါပဲ ခင္ဗ်ား။
Happy Birthday to you, Daw Suu!!!
This was the biggest birthday CAKE ever dedicated for any world's leaders as I have remembered!! However, this size of too much luxury cake was not appropriate in a country where the number of poorest of the poor has been increasing ever without a chance, even, to smell that kind of cake in their lives.
I'd like to suggest you not to waste energy in the wrong place for nothing, but to overwhelm election result next year and by choosing a candidate for presidency from the second line leaders. To my opinion, Thura U Tin U is most appropriate for the job.
Dear Dr. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi….Minglar Ba! Happy Birthday! May you have many many happier ones to come! May you live long in good health. Oh You Precious Daughter of Burma and True Daughter of Founding Father of Burma, may God protect you from evil eyes, jealous people and their evil schemes and plots.
I urge the Burmese people from east, west, north and south of the country and the Burmese military and civilian authorities in government to throw your wholehearted support behind the Daughter of Bogyoke Aung San and see to it that she becomes the President of the Golden Land!
God bless you and crown you with success in your endeavor to lead Burma and serve the Burmese People.


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This Day in History for Jan. 9
Highlight in History:
On Jan. 9, 1913, Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the U.S., was born in Yorba Linda, Calif.
On this date:
- 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
- 1793, Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia and Woodbury, N.J.
- 1861, Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union, the same day the Star of the West, a merchant vessel bringing reinforcements and supplies to Federal troops at Fort Sumter, S.C., retreated because of artillery fire.
- 1931, Bobbi Trout and Edna May Cooper broke an endurance record for female aviators as they returned to Mines Field in Los Angeles after flying a Curtiss Robin monoplane continuously for 122 hours and 50 minutes.
- 1945, during World War II, American forces began landing at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines.
- 1951, the U.N. headquarters in New York officially opened.
- 1960, on his 47th birthday, Vice President Richard Nixon became a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.


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Rush to resume executions while a ban is in place hurts victims
Despite the fact that executions have been on hold in California for almost five years, it seems as though some government officials are still in denial or just a little too eager for the ban to be lifted and are prematurely trying to schedule execution dates.
On Tuesday, August 31, one day after death row prisoner Albert Greenwood Brown was given an execution date of September 29th, Marin County Superior Court Judge Verna Adams clarified that she had not lifted the current stay on executions, and that it would remain in effect "unless and until" she says otherwise.
Although new lethal injection procedures were created by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and submitted for public comment, the Judge has yet to determine if CDCR appropriately complied with the Administrative Procedures Act, meaning the ban on executions is still in full force. This hasn't stopped the Governor or the Attorney General from pushing to set more execution dates.
Although prison officials are preparing for Brown's execution at the end of the month as if it were to happen, they have states that if the judge's order is still in effect on the execution date, they will cancel the execution. Considering the long-standing stay on executions and the number of lawsuits that are still pending, it is unlikely that all legal issues will be resolved and the ban will be lifted in time for the execution - so why rush to set execution dates before determining whether executions can legally be carried out?
Planning and then canceling an execution puts the victim's family on an emotional roller-coaster that makes the whole process significantly more difficult. It reopens the wounds and causes even more pain. The Governor and the Attorney General know that they can't legally carry out executions, so why are they making promises that they can't keep? By ignoring the negative impact of setting an unrealistic execution date, the needs of the victim's families are also ignored. Whether a date is set or not, the prisoners will remain on death row, so rushing to set a date that will probably not be carried out is not only pointless, but irresponsible and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
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Comment by James, Sep 28th, 2010 8:33am
Please add posts to this blog that track the latest news in California. People who come to the website by Google and aren't on the email list will not know the latest actions/alerts.
Comment by Ray Ku, Sep 14th, 2010 11:55am
If there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that the person committed premeditated murder, take them out; shoot them; end of story.
Comment by mary, Sep 13th, 2010 5:39am
Can someone please explain to me why someone on death row get's to live years being fed and taken care of,the victim was not given a choice on whether to live or die or the length of time they had to decide what their choice was,when are people going to start standing up for the victims


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- Comcast is the parent company of Versus.
- Comcast is charging big-time money for DirecTV to carry Versus, which DirecTV will not succumb to.
- Comcast and NBC are up to no good, planning a merger, per se, to become a rival to the ESPN-ABC monster.
- Versus will presumably be the ESPN of that Comcast-NBC deal.
- This is why Comcast is keeping the Versus channel's balls in their court and in their mouth.
"DirecTV initially said it was about price, that Comcast was seeking a 20% hike in licensing fees for Versus. Additionally DirecTV has said it is paying more for the service than other providers. But Comcast says that isn't so and that the issue is that DirecTV wanted to move the package into some digital sports tier ghetto on DirecTV where Versus would've been available to six million fewer DirecTV subscribers.
- If you have a basic DirecTV plan, you aren't watching the game tonight.
- If you have DirecTV and Center Ice, but live in the Pittsburgh area, you aren't watching the game tonight.
If you have DirecTV and the Center Ice Package, and are located outside the Pittsburgh viewing area, you aren't watching the game tonight.
If you have Comcast, you support terrorism.
So, who is to blame for this black hole in the viewing of Pens games? Is it DirecTV for not agreeing to pay an uptick in fees to air Versus? Is Comcast to blame, for charging that uptick in fees to carry Versus 'cause they know the value of the channel to the NBC-Comcast merger is going to skyrocket once the merger is a done deal?
Are we idiots to expect this Comcast-Versus-NBC deal will come to fruition before the Olympics in February? Is Comcast and NBC so diabolical that they would squash DirecTV customers out of some extra viewing of the Olympic games, not to mention all the OnDemand Olympic shit that Comcast will be able to pimp out? Yes.


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Della Virginia Davey, 71, of Martinsburg, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, at Jefferson Memorial Hospital.
Born May 28, 1941, in Jefferson County, she was the daughter of the late Charles William and Myrtle McDonald Allen.
She is survived by sons, Halvard S. Pinkcett (Sandy), Gregory A. Pinkcett and wife, Tara and Aubray Gray Jr., all of Martinsburg; daughters, Trina C. Coleman and husband, Mark, of Gurnee, Ill., Jacqueline L. Welsh and husband, Leroy, of Rochester, N.Y., Della V. Pinkcett and Patricia L. Pinkcett, both of Martinsburg; 13 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; one brother, Elder John Price and wife, Clara, of Martinsburg; and three sisters, Marie Jones and husband, Abe, of Sacramento, Calif., Zada Mosby, of Hinesville, Ga., and Patricia Sager and husband, Harry, of Martinsburg; and a host of nieces and nephews.
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She was preceded in death by granddaughter, Jacqueline L. Pinkcett Jr.; and two sisters, Lillian King and Eleanor Copeland.
Home Going services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, at Brown Funeral Home South Berkeley Chapel in Inwood with her brother, Elder John Price, officiating. Interment will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, at the Brown Funeral Home South Berkeley Chapel.
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text: TL;DR "Mike is very old" :P Cool story, it's always interesting to me to think of what will happen to your code when you're gone, or not. It seems it always lives longer than you want to believe. Andrew ᐧ On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote: > > Rambling while watching a long slow database load: > > I got a strange call last night. Seems a pager company, that bought a > pager company.. that bought a pager company... that bought a local pager > company that was the dregs from another local pager company that somewhere > in the late 1990's I wrote an SMTP mail server in Perl that gatewayed to > alphanumeric pagers via the TAP protocol.. had a server issue. It's the > only production C code I ever wrote, and it was munged from someone else's > example code. Once upon a time it made a lot of money as e-pageme.com > (I used to charge $1 a month for the service, per pager..) > > I SSH'd in.. rebooted it.. and its magically working again. > > Seems pagers have become the medical worlds secret communications layer.. > it's the one way to always contact a doctor, no matter what, because > pagers are still allowed where cell phones are not. > > That project taught me several things, including that most "magic" is best > performed as a service for a small fee. It also reminds me that some things > never ever die, even when you want them to, and that I should do a better > job of making sure what I do is the right thing to do, and done well. I'm a > big hypocrite on that point, most of what I do for a living barely > qualifies as duct tape and zip-ties, although time has proven most of my > kludges to be enduring. > > It also reminded me, talking to the technical guys at the latest owners of > this abortion... that few people understand the lowest levels of anything.. > the "magic" that is a protocal like TAP > (Telecommunicator/Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol). > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telelocator_Alphanumeric_Protocol is a bare > stub. Much of what we do online is hidden far below layers and laters of > abstraction, modules, libraries and MVC frameworks.. and that "magic" layer > is lost on the masses (as it should be). But we need magicians to keep the > world running. Not spikey haired facesplat wannabe's with MLM-ish get rich > schemes reinventing social networking again... but a combination of > "janitors" capable of keeping the world running and visionaries addressing > the core / root issues of that merger of technology and society we have > become. That realm of relative "magic" to the rest of the world needs more > magicians, not charlatans. > > rant over.. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chugalug mailing list > Chugalug at chugalug.org > http://chugalug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chugalug > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://chugalug.org/pipermail/chugalug/attachments/20140310/5a550d92/attachment-0001.html>


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> Just take a look and let me know if you see a better way to do it.
Just a small criticism: your function allocates a lot of extra memory on
the stack unnecessarily at start of each invocation of the function.
Every time it scans to a new directory depth it allocates the three
256-byte buffers again so that if you are searching from the root of
your hard-disk you could easily reach 5 directories deep and allocate
4kb of memory just to store one filename! It should be possible to use
only one buffer and either pass a pointer to it or make it static.
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Arson investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a fire at a vacant home in Old Louisville.
Fire officials said the blaze began around 10:30 p.m. Monday near the corner of Floyd and Woodbine streets.
They said the flames began in the rear of the home and that there was a concern about the possibility of the fire spreading to other nearby homes.
However, one adjacent home only received cosmetic damage such as melted siding.
Fire officials are now investigating the cause of the fire, but they do believe its suspicious.
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Understanding Southern Miss
It was a game that nobody deserved to win, but Texas State did.
Southern Miss welcomed the Bobcats to Hattiesburg last week and played one of the uglier games of the first week. Texas State, in just its 13th game as a full-fledged FBS member, managed only 2.02 yards per carry, 13 first downs and 215 total yards but beat the Golden Eagles 22-15. That's because Southern Miss was even worse on the ground (0.96 yards per rush) and turned it over six times.
And that's how you lose your 13th straight game.
Let's go back to the end of 2011. Southern Miss had just won its first conference championship in eight seasons and things were good. Oh sure, Larry Fedora left for North Carolina in December, but the Eagles still went on to win the Hawaii Bowl over Nevada, finishing 12-2 and No. 20 in the final AP poll. Ellis Johnson, a defensive guy with an SEC pedigree and Southern Miss ties, was brought in to succeed Fedora. How bad could things be?
Historically bad. Southern Miss became the first team to go from 12 wins in one season to zero in the next. Johnson was fired, bringing an end to one of the wildest swings in college football?
New head coach Todd Monken hopes so, though the season opener wasn't a great start. It's still a pretty clean slate for Monken, however. The Golden Eagles weren't quite as bad as it seemed last year, failing to meet their expected win total by two full games. That alone means Southern Miss is a good candidate to improve in 2013.
Eagles 5-year Trajectory
If Nebraska overlooked Wyoming last week, Southern Miss should offer a good test for the Huskers ability to avoid doing the same in week two. Unlike the Cowboys, which quite clearly had a good passing game and a very good quarterback coming into the game based on last year's stats, the Eagles are below average in everything. As this is only week two and one game averages are useless, all of the stats below include all of 2012's stats as well as the one game each team has played this season (FBS opponents only). Once we get a few weeks in, we'll be able to be "2013 exclusive."
Huskers v. Golden Eagles
While Wyoming ended up on the right side of the graph in one category last week, Southern Miss doesn't but the Eagles have something the Cowboys couldn't claim — a statistical advantage in one match-up, running against the Huskers' defense. Neither team is very good here, but the Eagles' run game is at least closer to average than Nebraska's run defense is. How accurate is that? It's hard to think it's too accurate given that Southern Miss averaged less than a yard per carry last week. Let's put it this way: No matter what the graph says, if the Eagles are able to run the ball this week the alarm bells will start to ring early. Just like last week.
The more likely scenario when Southern Miss has the ball is for them to throw it 50 or so times again. Last year the Eagles played five different quarterbacks. Five. This year, senior Cal transfer Allan Bridgford is the guy which is an interesting move for a first year coach, choosing the player who has one year of eligibility and can't help you down the road. But Bridgford is a big, pro-style quarterback which makes him a perfect match for Monken's system, and the Eagles need some success now. Watch for senior wide receiver Rickey Bradley. He had seven catches for 193 yards last week while true freshman Tyre'oune Holmes had 12 catches for 96.
Nebraska's offense should have the luxury of choosing how it wants to succeed this week. If the Huskers just want to line up and run, they probably can. If they want to work out some of the passing game kinks, that's a slightly tougher route but far from impossible.
My strength of schedule adjustment shows that the Eagles were slightly better than the stats showed in completion percentage allowed, yards per attempt and yards per game. But what was expected to be a experienced unit, will likely start three sophomores on Saturday. Senior cornerback Deron Wilson had his streak of starting 38 straight games for the Eagles snapped last week due to an undisclosed injury and isn't on the two-deep this week. That's a tough loss as Wilson made the preseason Jim Thorpe Award watch list. Senior strong safety Jacorius Cotton probably would've been a borderline NFL prospect entering the season if he hadn't missed most of the final six games in 2012. He isn't on this week's two-deep either and didn't play against Texas State.
Also, Nebraska and Taylor Martinez did throw for 354 yards against those guys last season so maybe its academic.
Offensively, there are a lot of similarities to last week for Nebraska. This doesn't look like a defense who has much hope of slowing down the Huskers so we'll look to the other side of the ball for an indicator of success. With Southern Miss poised to throw the ball a lot on Saturday, Nebraska is going to have to get some more pressure on the quarterback. Bridgford isn't nearly as elusive as Brett Smith was last week, which means the Huskers should have better success getting home, or at least to the porch which is enough to complicate matters. If they don't, Southern Miss has the scary receivers necessary to make things interesting.
Until further notice, Nebraska needs to have some success against the run. As Wyoming showed last week, it doesn't matter how shoddy the opponent's run game looks coming in, the Huskers are now in prove it territory when it comes to run defense. I wouldn't expect Nebraska to hold Southern Miss to less than a yard per carry again, statistical freak show that that was, but three yards per carry would be progress. Four yards per carry would be pushing things against this outfit.
"I was very — I was concerned last night. Do I always have concerns? Yeah. I mean, I lay awake half the time thinking about different things we're doing defensively, and the young guys on either side of the football. But you keep making progress, keep working with them, and I'm seeing the light start to come on. And that's fun to watch."
Pelini did say that Nebraska had its best practice of the week on Thursday.
Last week, 19 of Southern Mississippi's 28 completions came from a battery of players — QB Bridgford and WRs Bradley and Holmes — who were playing their first game for the Golden Eagles.
Jimmy Buffett is a Southern Miss alum. He donated some boats (of course) to the university a couple of years back and the baseball team wore Buffett-inspired uniforms two years ago.
Stripe fight. That's the only way I can describe these things. There are stripes that run from the collar to the waist, stripes on the shoulders, stripes under the sleeves, stripes on the sleeves, stripes that make the pants look like two different colors from front to back, and the never popular narrowing helmet stripe on the helmets. I do like the classic winged Waylon Jennings-like Southern Miss helmet decal and I like this even better (if not for the stupid stripe issue again):
Check out the new lids for @SouthernMissEQU #uniswag pic.twitter.com/hO0JFjMo09
— Uni Swag (@Uniformswag) June 25, 2013
The Eagles are a team that would look perfectly great if it just kept things simple — black jerseys, gold numbers, a classic set of pants — thanks to that strong helmet. I offer that consultation free of charge.


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Mark S. Johnson Releases Color Correction Video Tutorial Series
Photographer, Photoshop luminary, author and longtime RMSP instructor Mark S. Johnson is at it again. If you will remember back, just a few weeks ago, we announced here on Paper Airplanes that Mark was re-releasing his popular book Botanical Dreaming a a downloadable e-book.
Well, now on the heels of that release, Mark is announcing his latest product, a video tutorial series detailing color correction techniques in Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw. In this series, Mark shows you how to use Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw to optimize color, contrast, brightness, and saturation in your photos so they do justice to what you saw (or imagined) while you were shooting. In addition to learning how to produce beautiful, accurate color, you will discover how to create gorgeous black and white, sepia, retro, and vintage-toned images. Announced just yesterday – April 16, 2013 – this video series is available for download from Mark's site. For the first week, it is available for $19.95 after that it will jump up to $24.95.
If you have ever had the pleasure of learning from Mark, you are well aware of what a great teacher he is. And if you aren't familiar with his work yet, I highly suggest you swing by his site and be blown away by the altered realities he creates. If anyone knows what it means to combine creativity with technology to achieve a desired outcome, it's Mark S. Johnson. He's one seriously creative and talented guy.
The only thing better that having his work downloadable straight to your computer is being by his side learning his techniques from capture to computer. If the idea of this experience excites you, you are in luck. Mark is leading a workshop for RMSP this coming June called Creative Compositing. Held in his hometown of Boulder, Colorado this workshop takes you to places like the scenic Chautauqua Meadow, the eclectic Pearl Street Mall, and a train museum loaded with historic character. During this week you learn Mark's secrets for using Photoshop to create masterpieces out of your images. This workshop will help you understand how you can create images like the ones seen below.
If you are interested or have questions, please call Bob McGowan at 800-394-7677 or send him an email at email@example.com


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Michigan's got $18 billion in federal stimulus money to give away.
So, let's spend some of it in other states.
Not all of it -- maybe just $90 million or so over the next three years.
Bad idea?
OK, how's this sound?
• Spend it to create jobs.
• Keep people employed.
• Invest in an industry that can never abandon us for cheaper labor elsewhere and already funnels more than $18 billion a year into Michigan's economy.
That probably sounds more reasonable to most of us.
Still, it's hard to swallow the request from the state's tourism leaders for $90 million to spend on advertising to bring more out-of-state leisure lovers to the Great Lakes state.
And tourism leaders are lobbying hard for their small (relatively speaking) piece of the $787-billion federal stimulus package.
Skepticism is a natural reaction -- for this and the hundreds of other "needs" that suddenly sprang up when word spread that some cash would come down the federal pipeline.
And, let's be honest: It's even harder to take a request for tourism seriously. Vacations seem downright frivolous these days.
Michigan typically spends $5 million to $10 million on its Travel Michigan program within the Michigan Economic Development Corp.
Other states such as Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana spend upwards of five or six times as much.
"We haven't talked to the folks outside of Michigan at all," said Jerry Preston, president of the Flint Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.
And, these out-of-state visitors are surprisingly important. Ends up that in 2007, the most recent year for which data are available, tourists from outside the state accounted for $9.1 billion in spending -- more than the $9 billion we Michiganians were able to scrape together.
That's a shift from the previous year, when in-state travel accounted for $10 billion and out-of-staters racked up $8.7 billion.
So, really all those tourists from Kentucky, Indiana, even (as much as I hate to admit it) Ohio are picking up our slack as our fists have tightened around whatever is left in our pocketbooks.
"We don't have as much in-state travel," Preston said. "We need to have some folks come from out of state."
The money would pay for a nationwide advertising blitz that would specifically target potential travelers. The ads through Travel Michigan would feature TV star Tim Allen.
Again, it's easy to be skeptical about where this ranks on the list of endless needs, but Preston remains undeterred.
"The beauty about tourism jobs is these are jobs that can't be moved," he said.
Marjory Raymer is the local news editor for The Flint Journal. Contact her at (810) 766-6325 or by e-mail.


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Boating and Habitat
by Steve Whinham
photos-Art Michaels
This article is the fourth in a series on the Commission's theme, "Habitat." The author examines how boaters and boating affect habitat.
One thing all boaters have in common is that they operate their boats in aquatic habitats. An aquatic habitat is a place where distinctive types of aquatic life are found as the result of what the habitat has to offer. Life in a habitat is not limited to fish and what fish like to eat. An aquatic habitat also includes plants growing in the water, stream banks, and trees and vegetation near the water. As the number of boaters increases, the chance of damaging habitats also increases. An aquatic habitat can be protected and preserved only with the help of boaters. Identifying how boaters harm habitats is important. Recreational water users like boaters and anglers and the life within a habitat all benefit when we understand the relationship between habitat and boating.
Pennsylvania boaters can have a beneficial effect on a
habitat while their boats are still on land. Many boaters use antifouling paint to prevent unwanted marine critters from
attaching to the hull of their boats. Antifouling paint is toxic, often containing copper, zinc, tributlytin and other
toxic compounds. These chemicals are damaging to bottom-dwellers such as shellfish. If you need antifouling paint, check
with marine paint professionals. They can help you choose legal and habitat-friendly products. An example is Teflon®
hull paint. Teflon relies on a slick surface instead of toxic chemicals to inhibit marine growth on a hull.
Engine maintenance
Boat and engine maintenance is also important to keeping a habitat healthy. Whenever possible, a boat should be removed from the water before cleaning or sanding. If routine upkeep must be performed in the water, use a dust containment bag when sanding. Sweep or vacuum all dust and debris. Plug all scuppers (open areas leading to the water) and paint or sand on days with little wind. In addition, regular inspections and making proper repairs can prevent fuel leaks.
Four-cycle engines pollute less than two-cycle engines. Newer engines also tend to burn fuel more cleanly. Direct fuel-injection engines produce 80 percent less hydrocarbons and use 50 percent less lube oil. Furthermore, a well-tuned engine burns less fuel and causes fewer problems to the marine habitat.
With your boat is in the water and you are ready to leave
the launch area or pier, make sure to take it slow and easy. All boats produce a wake when moving in the water. This
wake is the wave behind your boat. Wake waves approaching a shoreline can cause sedimentation and erosion. Sedimentation
occurs when soil mixes with water. This decreases oxygen in the water and raises the water temperature by absorbing
light. Sediment in the water can also damage a fish's gills and make breathing difficult.
Wakes can also cause erosion. This erosion may eventually damage or kill plants and trees near the shoreline. Shoreline erosion caused by wakes also adds to sedimentation of our lakes and rivers.
Strong wakes washing a shoreline can also uproot shallow-water plants and agitate the lake or river bottom.
The shoreline is one of the most important areas of an aquatic habitat. Many fish enjoy the warm shallow waters. Plants rooted to the bottom near the shoreline provide shelter for fish. Plants also attract macroinvertebrates to the shoreline to live and lay their eggs. Fish feed on macroinvertebrates.
Trees and plants are also part of the shoreline habitat. They provide needed shade, and their falling leaves provide nourishment for other plants and animals. Trees and plants on the banks also help stop runoff and erosion. Shoreline habitats are also home to many of our state's amphibians and reptiles.
Remember that it is illegal in Pennsylvania to create a
wake within 100 feet of any shoreline. Here is a tip when in shallow waters: When surrounded by water plants, try
paddling to deeper water instead of using your motor. While underway, check for a white prop wash. Color in your wash
means you are going too fast and causing damage. A white wash also means that you're operating at a proper water depth.
Litter and trash
Now that you are underway and enjoying the day, take a moment to consider what to do with litter and garbage. In Pennsylvania it is illegal to dump plastic, paper, rags, glass, food, garbage, metal or crockery into the water. Don't throw anything in the water that did not come from the same water. Plastic products take hundreds of years to decompose. Fishing line can become entangled in some fish's gills. Six-pack rings can entangle fish and birds.
Rags and metals can release toxic materials into the water. Here's some tips relating to litter and garbage: Take a garbage bag with you when boating. When you return to shore, properly dispose of the bag. When litter blows overboard, reduce your speed, safely come about, and pick it up. Tell others in your boat about the importance of not littering. Lead by example. Join a volunteer organization that offers time and resources to pick up litter that others have left behind.
Oil or gas entering an aquatic habitat is a devastating pollutant. Pennsylvania law states that discharging oil or gas into our waterways is illegal. The effect oil and gas have on habitats is considerable. For example, a small lake of 50 acres with 10 gallons of oil spilled in it is in serious trouble. The oil will reach the shoreline and kill most plant and macro-inverte-brate life. This means the fish will not have adequate food or shelter. Oil that remains on top of the water will eventually mix with the water column and harm fish and bottom-dwellers. One significant oil or gas spill can change a habitat in less than 24 hours and leave the habitat with little chance to support aquatic life.
To prevent oil or gas from entering the water, use a rag to remove oil from the bilge, and keep a containment pan under the engine. Never pump bilge water overboard if it contains oil. Inspect lines and hoses for leaks and deterioration. When washing engine parts, use a bucket or parts washer. Boats with removable gas tanks should be filled on land and not over the water. If you see oil, gas or sewage in the water, report it to the regional Fish & Boat Commission law enforcement office, Department of Environmental Protection (1-800-541-2050), or the regional office of the U.S. Coast Guard, found in the phone book's government listings.
Raw or treated sewage released into the water also damages
the marine habitat. Sewage can spread disease, contaminate shellfish beds and lower oxygen levels in the water. When
shellfish filter sewage and we eat the shellfish, we are at risk from hepatitis and other diseases. The effect that
sewage has on a habitat is severe. To prevent sewage from entering our waters, ask all passengers to use restrooms on
shore before getting underway. Should your boat have a portable toilet or marine sanitation devise (MSD), use the
nearest pumpout station.
After a day of safe boating, you're ready to pull the boat and head for home. There is something else you can do to help protect the marine habitat: Stop the spread of nuisance species. A nuisance species is any plant or critter that naturally belongs in one habitat and is transported to another habitat where it is not usually found. Boaters spread nuisance species most often without even realizing it. Bacteria, plants and animal life from one habitat will attach themselves to the hull of a boat. When that boat is placed into a different habitat, it now gives that species access to a habitat in which they may not belong. Some nuisance species can reproduce rapidly without competition and exhaust resources needed by others in the habitat.
The good news is that boaters can stop nuisance species. While in the water, drain all bilge water, live wells, bait buckets and other water from your boat and equipment. Leftover bait should not be put back in the water unless it came from that water. Inspect your boat's hull, drive unit, prop guards, anchors and anchor ropes. Don't forget the trailer. Scrape off marine animals and remove water plants that are clinging to the boat or trailer.
Back home, wash your boat and trailer with a hard spray of water and detergent. Flush the engine cooling system with clean water. When possible, allow your boat and trailer to dry in the sun as long as possible (at least two hours).
At dockside or at a launch, run the boat frequently, even if you do not take it out. This helps remove nuisance species that require still water to thrive. Occasionally, operate your boat safely at a high speed on the water to scour the hull. Store outboards and outdrives in the "up" position. Periodically pump hot water through the engine's intake. Finally, use a hull wax with a high silicone content. This makes it difficult for exotics to attach to your boat.
The number of boats registered and used in Pennsylvania continues to rise. This means we must all become smarter boaters. Taking a boating class can make us safer boaters. Knowing the effect that boating can have on a habitat allows us to reduce the potentially harmful effects. This is one way to ensure future generations have the same resources that we enjoy now as responsible boaters.
To take a Fish & Boat Commission boating class, and earn a Boating Safety Education Certificate (required for all personal watercraft operators), log on to our website at www.fish.state.pa.us. Our website also explains the Commission's new Internet and video/correspondence long-distance learning boating safety courses.
July/August 2001 Angler & Boater
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The 2011 State Champion Centennial High School girls basketball team continued their reign by winning the Sunset Region championship beating Bishop Gorman 76-59 at Desert Oasis High School Friday, Feb. 17, 2012.
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Stammen snaps out of slump at crucial time for Nats
By Andrew Simon
WASHINGTON — Craig Stammen has established himself as a valuable piece of the Nationals bullpen over the past few seasons, the rare reliever capable of eating innings like a long man and with the effectiveness of a set-up man. From 2012-13, he threw 170 innings for Washington with a 2.54 ERA and 166 strikeouts.
For almost the first three months of 2014, it was business as usual for the right-hander, who had a 2.52 ERA in 23 outings through June 24. Then, things hit a snag: a stretch of 10 games in which he was torched for 14 earned runs on 26 hits in 16 innings. He took two losses, posted a 7.88 ERA and allowed a batting line of .388/.431/.597, as his work became infrequent.
But Stammen found himself at a critical time for the Nats on Thursday, pitching the final three scoreless innings of a 5-3, 13-inning walkoff victory. He allowed one hit, issued two walks (one intentional) and struck out two. It was his seventh career relief appearance of at least three scoreless frames, and third this year.
"It's very valuable to have a guy like him, that can go that many pitches and run you through some innings and keep them where they're at," manager Matt Williams said.
Stammen's outing not only gave the Nats the chance for a dramatic win, but also spared Williams from having to burn his final reliever (Ross Detwiler) and possibly a starting pitcher ahead of a crucial weekend series in Atlanta.
"It was just one of those things, I felt a little bit more comfortable out there," Stammen said. "I've been working on a few things that kind of clicked. Made some good pitches, got some outs early, gave me a little bit of confidence that I could keep going."
Stammen relies heavily on his sinker and threw it 27 times in 43 pitches Thursday, not counting the intentional pass. Starter Jordan Zimmermann called the pitch "really nasty," and Stammen agreed he had it going.
"That's my bread and butter," he said. "When it's working, I usually have decent success, and for the past couple weeks it might have been struggling, but you just keep going after it and do the best you can, and hopefully it comes back."
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Watch: 'iCarly' star Miranda Cosgrove on her role in 'Despicable Me'
If you ever want to put the magnitude (or lack thereof) of your own accomplishments in this world into perspective, I recommend interviewing Miranda Cosgrove.
When I was her age, I was basically a fire hazard with a driver's license, a complete hormonal lunatic who ran roughshod through my family life and my part-time job and my school year. My junior year is a blur, and I'm genuinely lucky I lived through it, being as stupid as I was. At 17, I couldn't be trusted to get from point A to point B without screwing it up.
Miranda Cosgrove runs an empire.
Sure, she's got help, but this is a 17-year-old who has already headlined a TV phenomenon (Nickelodeon's "iCarly") and who is just kickstarting what looks to be a huge pop music career. She's got an army of motivated fans, and she seems to be blissfully normal and scandal free. In conversation, she's bright and engaged and an utter professional.
Depressing. Suicidally depressing. I'm over twice her age, and I still feel like I'm doing good if I make it out of the house without forgetting my belt.
After the interview, she was kind enough to sign a CD cover for a five year old friend of Toshi's, and that CD cover pretty much blew that little girl's mind. I may not have much sense of Cosgrove apart from her performance in "Despicable Me," but it's obvious that she's very important to a generation of little girls. I'm always curious about what it is that causes a fanbase to latch on like that, which is why I'll always approach something like "Twilight" with genuine curiosity.
In the case of Cosgrove, I may not get "iCarly," but if this is the type of girl that young women want to idolize, have at it. Seems like a perfectly logical choice to me.
"Despicable Me" is in theaters everywhere.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Pell City is the new Pelham, I reckon. Maybe that's enough to make Margaret the new Maylene.
The world is a-changin', and it makes St. Clair County the new Shelby.
So you can stop being moody now, Moody. Change your name to ... Cheerful!
The U.S. Census Bureau today released its yearly estimates of county populations, and for the second year running St. Clair - on the eastern edge of the Birmingham metro area - ranked as Alabama's fastest-growing county.
Raise your fist into the air and party hardy like you're just St. Clair.
That's right.
St. Clair boasted 78,054 people last year, up 4 percent from the year before and 8 percent over two years.
For years, population powerhouse Shelby County was the state's fastest-growing county, ballooning from 99,000 people in 1990 to 182,000 last year. Baldwin County, in the Mobile'burbs, has nipped at its heels.
Of course growth is not always what it's cracked up to be in this age of suburban sprawl and high gas prices. But since we tend to count success by counting folks who want to join us, we take growth as a compliment - if sometimes an annoyance.
So blush, Shelby, Baldwin and St. Clair. From 2000 to 2007, each of those counties grew by more than a fifth of their populations.
But while they are elite among Alabama boom counties, none made the list of the 100 fastest-growing counties in the U.S.
Shelby was close. It grew 26 percent from 2000 to 2007. Burnet County, Texas - No. 100 on the list - grew 28 percent.
Alabama is noticeably absent. Telling, considering the malignant growth nearby.
Of America's 100 fastest-growing counties, 63 are in the South. It boggles the mind, for 18 are in the state of Georgia and 12 in Florida. Mississippi makes the list. So do Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas.
News is not so swell for Alabama's biggest county, either. Jefferson County is falling fast down the list of U.S. big boys.
Jefferson was America's 78th largest county in 2000, but last year it fell to No. 90. Seeing that counties such as Denton County, Texas, are breathing down our necks with gaudy 40 percent growth rates, Alabama may soon bow out of the top 100 altogether.
Jefferson County lost but a half percent of its population between 2000 and 2007, an amount equal to only 3,269 people. That's not so bad.
Cuyahoga County, Ohio, home to Cleveland, lost almost 7 percent.
Jeffco looks worse, however, when you see that births in the county far outnumbered deaths, and that almost 7,000 people moved here through "international migration."
So what's the problem?
If you count only folks from the continental U.S. who moved in and out of this place in the last seven years, Jefferson County lost 24,000 more people than it gained.
They moved out. That's more than double the exodus out of any other Alabama county.
We're leaking. Like a Jefferson County sewer.
Hey. Maybe Jefferson County is the new Birmingham.
John Archibald's column appears Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Write him at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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A new national survey by Northeastern University reveals a concern among U.S. business leaders about the pipeline of talent produced by American colleges and universities.
Broad-based knowledge, experience among key outcomes, higher ed experts agree
Northeastern hosted its second annual summit and released the results of a new national survey — both of which focused on critical issues facing colleges and universities, particularly their role in preparing students for the global workforce.
Most Americans and business leaders want colleges to provide a broad-based education
According to a new Northeastern University survey, American higher education is held in high regard, but doubts persist about the system's ability to prepare students for success in today's economy.
Northeastern receives $4.5M award to train future cybersecurity workforce
Students in the information assurance program will receive training in both the technical sciences and the humanities through a scholarship program.


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John Douglas Taylor Conference: Contemporary Orientations in African Cultural Studies
May 30 – June 1, 2014
Department of English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Cultural Studies has become a prominent concern in recent scholarship from and about Africa. Those theorizing the field of 'African Cultural Studies' have had to tackle long-standing hegemonic notions of what Africa has come to mean in academic and popular circles both on the continent and globally. The practice of theorizing the field, it seems, is often bogged down by responding to the problematic ways that Africa remains a common signifier for "a series of lacks and absences, failings and problems, plagues and catastrophes" (Ferguson 2), or by how African cultural production is simplistically viewed under the shadow of colonial history rather than as a product of the longue durée of intra-African, transnational, and global cultural exchanges marking the African everyday. For Karin Barber, this practice involves tackling the notion that Africa is consistently read academically under a reductive binary paradigm of the traditional versus the modern, whereas she emphasizes the complexity of "the popular" in contemporary African cultures. For Sarah Nuttall and Cheryl-Ann Michael's work in particularly South African cultural studies, this involves calling into question academics' trend toward "the overdetermination of the political" which elides complex cultural formations that emerge from popular youth cultures, creolizations, and migrations occurring on and off the continent (1). For Handel Kashope Wright, this work involves contesting African Studies' overwhelming focus on literature and calling for increased attention to other cultural forms in contemporary African scenes. Much recent scholarship has addressed these foundational critiques of the field, generating an ever-widening terrain of inquiry into the production of culture and the circulation of power in Africa that we need to take stock of. Jean and John Comaroff's latest work, for example, suggests that we theorize the contemporary by way of a "critical anthropology of the Global South" that "universalize[s] Africa" (quoted in Obarrio) as an "ex-centric" prism through which to view world historical processes and current political and economic shifts across and within North-South contexts ("Theory from the South: A Rejoinder"). Moving across different African contexts, Sylvia Tamale pushes the field's critical articulations of gender, sex, and sexuality as frameworks that intersect with legal studies to enable site-specific analyses of both broad political terrains and the everyday. Paul Zeleza, on the other hand, asks what movement itself means within African contexts and seeks to trouble limiting assumptions about the experiences and work of diaspora.
Taking cues from this generative body of scholarship, we propose a conference on contemporary orientations in African Cultural Studies. We want to continue many of the self-reflexive, field-laying conversations already underway, but we also commit to creating a venue for dialogue on and presentation of various cultural forms that have yet to enter the field's purview. The academic focus of the conference will address the new or expanding sets of concerns that African Cultural Studies might take on under the rubrics of the everyday, the popular, and contemporary global flows, particularly as they intersect with diasporic, immigrant, postcolonial, critical race, queer, and feminist theoretical approaches. Following Handel Kashope Wright's work on the field, we invite papers that aim to address a range of questions pertaining to "the critical examination of the historical (i.e., past, the present and the future) relationship between the continent and the rest of the world, as well as the social, cultural, political, economic, and spiritual organization and functioning of African communities" (7).
Areas of inquiry for submissions may include, but are not limited to, the following topics and questions:
--In theorizing the cultural flows and clusters that animate the everyday and the popular, how can we account for privileged or differential points of access to culture? In addition to marking the nature of a diffuse politics of the everyday vs. the organized programmes of state politics, we might consider the positions generated by the circulation of cultural products and knowledges, by vernacular cosmopolitanisms, and by legacies of global alignment and non-alignment.
--How have dynamics around the management of resources in Africa informed, impeded, or motivated popular, local, and global forms of cultural production? Can we consider a phenomenology of the everyday in relation to industries around oil, energy, water, global science, genomic and pharmaceutical research, and education?
--How do various kinds of cultural formations, production, and producers configure the everyday in particular African communities – even if such cultural formations occur in violent or "post-conflict" areas? Applicants are welcome to engage with literature, film, radio, print, telecommunications, and other technological forms including the broad scope of "new media."
--Thinking of the thriving hip-hop music, film, and popular fiction industries across the continent, and the creation of vast informal economies that sustain both individuals and whole communities, how have youth functioned at the heart of the complex socio-economic and cultural processes taking shape across Africa? How might we theorize the unique ways in which African youth have reinvented both local and global forces shaping the African continent. --In what ways might we account for pleasure, humor, and joy in critical or creative African cultural practices? On the other hand, in what ways might we account for expressions of negativity, disappointment, or critique that do not recapitulate a hegemonic terminology of Afro-pessimism?
--How do past and present intra-African mobilities complicate our understanding of postcolonial, state-centric approaches to the study of African cultural texts? How have these mobilities influenced cultural production across the continent?
--How are various cultural texts engaging with notions of ecology, nature, nonhuman life, and animality in Africa? In what ways are we able to decenter the human as the primary focus of cultural critique in African contexts?
--How do notions of indigeneity operate on the African continent today both in relation to and in contradistinction from non-African sovereignty struggles?
--What is Africa's place in the terrain of globalization studies or contemporary cultural theory, and how might African Cultural Studies be invoked productively in non-African contexts? Applicants are invited to consider frameworks for cultural, critical, and practical pedagogy as well as the challenges associated with hosting our discussions in North America.
--How do different socio-political regional alignments throughout the African continent shape critical preoccupations within "African Cultural Studies"? We particularly invite proposals which aim to query orientations by language, religion, and ethnicity in their use and basis for conceptualizing African identities. --What specific contribution does African cultural theorizing make to the common lexicon of cultural studies grounded in terms such as political economy, consumption, distinction, subculture, culture industry, and cultural globalization?
With these sets of concerns in mind, we are very pleased to welcome Pumla Dineo Gqola, Handel Kashope Wright, and Sarah Nuttall as our three keynote speakers for the conference, all of whose foundational contributions to various facets of African Cultural Studies have provided much of the groundwork for our conference. We hope to buttress the academic component of our conference with a series of creative works, including performance, film, and/or art installations. Because this is an Africanist conference being hosted in North America, we aim to maintain as transnational a focus as possible. To that end, this conference will serve as the first of two meetings for a Southern African Cultural Studies Association, the other to be held during a follow-up conference at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Moreover, we are interested in creating opportunities through Skype and video conferencing that will allow participants who are unable to travel to Canada to get involved. It is our hope that this conference will be an opportunity for the coming together of various interorganizational, interdisciplinary, and international concerns, and will provide a forum to explore the contemporary orientations in the field of African cultural and scholarly production.
Submission Procedure:
1) Please send 300 word paper and/or panel proposals to firstname.lastname@example.com by October 30th, 2013.
2) Attach a short biographical note (50-100 words).
3) Type "African Cultural Studies Proposal" in the subject line of your email.
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Jesse Arseneault, Sarah D'Adamo, Jessie Forsyth, Sarah Olutola, Helene Strauss, and Paul Ugor.
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on March 31, 2013 - 12:01 AM
Taxpayers foot the bill for foolish IDA funding
Industrial development agencies have mushroomed out of control. Originally, IDAs were set up to attract business to a region. A municipality empowered an IDA to dole out tax-exempt land to a business that might not otherwise set up shop in town. Then that power was extended to giving tax breaks to existing businesses that threatened to leave the region. Now, economic development has deteriorated to the point that IDAs simply shuffle existing businesses from one township to another. The state and local governments need to rein in IDAs before any more taxpayer dollars are squandered.
In large part, the problem stems from the number of IDAs in the region. Not only does Erie County have an IDA, but five towns within the county have their own IDAs: Amherst, Clarence, Concord, Hamburg and Lancaster. Neighboring townships should not be competing with one another over placement of business within a few miles. At the very least, IDAs should exist at no smaller than the county level. Counties are geographically large enough to negotiate with business. Counties encompass most of an area's commuter watershed. If a business wants IDA help getting established in the region, it would have only one choice to work with.
The current system allows business to pit nearby IDAs against each other to squeeze out the best deal. In the end, the business gets its tax break and the IDA can claim credit for creating jobs that already existed. Residential property owners are left to fill the tax gap.
Nicholas Fischer