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The 2015 CBE Hall of Fame Classic continued with Host Round games at two of the four host teams that will be travelling to Kansas City, MO to compete in five days at Sprint Center. North Carolina completed its second Host Round site games by taking on Wofford, and Northwestern opened its Host Round play with a contest against Fairfield.
North Carolina took advantage of their size and outscored Wofford 50-18 in the paint and outrebounded the Terriers 42-25 leading to a 14-3 advantage in second chance points as they marched to a 78-58 victory in front of a home crowd at the Dean E. Smith Center
The Terriers battled with the top-ranked Tar Heels early and held a 7-6 lead with three minutes elapsed in the first half. UNC then took the lead for good on a jumper in the paint by senior forward Brice Johnson and then slowly widened their lead out to ten points with 8:01 left in the half. Wofford would battle back and go on an 11-2 run over the next five minutes, capped by a jumper by senior forward Justin Gordon, and trailed by just one at the 3:01 mark. The Tar Heels (3-0) would score the final four points of the half and would take a 34-29 lead into the locker room.
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#1 North Carolina 78 – Wofford 58 (Box Score; Game Recaps: North Carolina; Wofford)
Although Northwestern only trailed for 1:40 of the game and held a 16 point lead in the second half, the Wildcats were forced to hold off Fairfield for a 79-72 win at Welsh Ryan Arena in Evanston, IL.
After the early deficit, Northwestern took the lead on a jumper by senior center Alex Olah and stretched its lead out to 13 points before going to the locker room with a ten-point lead, 39-29. The Wildcats pushed their advantage out to 16 points, but with 12:32 remaining, the Stags began their push. Fairfield went on a 17-4 run over the next 5:30, and after a layup by reserve freshman forward Matija Milin, the Stags trailed by only three, 61-58, with 7:02 left to play. With three minutes remaining, the deficit still stood at three, but Fairfield's sophomore guard Tyler Nelson missed a three-pointer to tie, the first of three straight misses and four unsuccessful possessions by the Stags. Northwestern's sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh scored five straight points on a jumper and a three-point play and pushed the lead back to eight, 73-65, with 52 seconds remaining. The Wildcats (2-0) then made six of eight free throws down the stretch to close out the victory. In the end, it was Northwesten's ability to capitalize on 14 Stag turnovers and score 23 points off those turnovers that made the difference in the seven-point win.
McIntosh led all scorers with 20 points while senior guard Tre Demps added 14, freshman forward Aaron Falzon scored 13, and Olah chipped in with 11 points for the Wildcats. Fairlfield (0-3) had four double-figure scorers led by senior forward Marcus Gilbert who recorded a double-double with 18 points and 11 rebounds. Freshman guard Curtis Cobb came off the bench to score 13 while freshman forward Jonathan Kasibabu scored 12 and Nelson added 11 to the Stag total.
Northwestern 79 - Fairfield 72 (Box Score; Game Recaps: Northwestern; Fairfield)
About the CBE Hall of Fame Classic
The CBE Hall of Fame Classic is named after the College Basketball Experience, the award-winning and highly interactive college basketball fan facility adjacent to Sprint Center, which also features the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Opened in October 2007, the College Basketball Experience is the nation's only facility that celebrates, in its entirety, the sport of men's collegiate basketball. The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame hosts an Induction Celebration on the Friday before the tournament, celebrating Hall of Fame collegiate careers. The tournament, in partnership with the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), was initially established in 2001 as the Guardians Classic.
Founded in 1927, the NABC, since its inception, has acted as a guardian of the game of basketball by furthering the best interests of the game as well as the players and coaches who participate. The NABC engages in many efforts to enhance the college basketball experience for players, coaches and fans.
The CBE Hall of Fame Classic is produced by Blue Ridge Sports & Entertainment, Inc., www.blueridgesports.com. Blue Ridge Sports & Entertainment, Inc. is a sports management firm based in the Shenandoah Valley city of Winchester, Virginia.
To find out more, visit: www.cbehalloffameclassic.com and follow us on Twitter @CBEHOFClassic.
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The company said its revenue for services and technology will be at $49 million to $51 million in the current quarter. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected $57 million, close to the $58 million posted in the third quarter of 2007. TiVo also said it expected a net loss in the range of $7 million to $9 million in this quarter.
Shares in TiVo dropped 23 cents, or 2.9 percent, to $7.73 in extended trading. Before the earnings report the stock had risen 5.7 percent to close at $7.96.
During a conference call, interim Chief Financial Officer Cal Hoagland said TiVo will face increased expenses in the current quarter, including holiday-related marketing and costs related to an ongoing patent battle with Dish Network Corp. A Sept. 4 court date has been set as TiVo seeks to collect on the $94 million it has been awarded in damages.
Analyst Mark Harding of the Maxim Group said TiVo management typically "has guided below expectation and then decidedly exceeded" it when posting actual results. He said TiVo's finances look positive, though questions remain on how much marketing TiVo should be expected to do in the holiday season given its pledge to reduce those costs.
In the just-concluded period, TiVo's revenue rose 4 percent to $65.2 million, including $53.5 million in services and technology. The breakout for services and technology, which excludes hardware sales, was below the nearly $55.4 million analysts were expecting and short of the $56.5 million in the same period last year.
TiVo's subscriber base has been dropping because of increased competition from generic recorders from cable and satellite operators and a loss of a key distribution deal with satellite TV provider DirecTV Group Inc.
The company has been focusing on reducing subscriber acquisition costs to offset the revenue decrease. That includes reducing subsidies on TiVo boxes, particularly with high-definition recorders, thereby generating higher margins on hardware, whose sales increased 88 percent during the quarter.
Average subscriber acquisition cost was $135 in the quarter, slightly up from $116 in the previous period and significantly lower than the $758 in the year-ago period. TiVo said it now has 3.6 million subscribers, compared with 4.2 million a year ago.
In an interview, TiVo Chief Executive Tom Rogers said the slight quarter-to-quarter increase resulted from seasonal variations, including heavier marketing for Mother's Day, Father's Day and graduation.
TiVo said distribution partner Comcast Corp. has expanded a TiVo package to Connecticut, beyond an initial deployment in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Rogers said full marketing should begin this year, allowing TiVo to boost subscribers while Comcast bears much of the marketing expenses.
Deployment by another cable partner, Cox Communications Inc., should also begin by year's end, while Seven Media Group has introduced TiVo to the Australian market.
"Over time, the subscriber growth will be much more a function of cable and international distribution deals," Rogers said. "We've had a real focus on trying to drive our subscriber acquisition cost numbers down. A lot of that is being able to develop better opportunities for third parties to market us."
For the six months ended July 31, TiVo had $126 million in revenue, up 2 percent from the same period last year. It posted $6.6 million in net income, or 6 cents per share, compared with a loss of $17 million, or 17 cents per share, in the year-ago period.
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Max Dillon had the perfect prank.
Max, also known as Electro, was a prankster at heart. He loved playing tricks and pranks on people, and today was April Fool's Day; the perfect day to pull one. And he had the most excellent idea…
Max whistled as he walked down the bustling Manhattan street. Now he just had to find a suitable candidate for his prank.
And who should Electro see dart into an alleyway at that moment than Doctor Octopus.
Aha, he thought. Perfect. The scientist had a short temper, so Max would have to make a break for it once he had pranked him; but it would so be worth it.
Electro caught up with his fellow criminal, walking up behind him. "Heya, Doc! How are you doing?" he asked jovially.
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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed.
When Electro had taken Doc Ock's hand to shake, he had released a small amount of electricity from his fingertips. A little more powerful than your average joy buzzer, but not enough to seriously hurt an average person.
Unfortunately for Electro, Dr. Otto Octavius was not the average person. Instead of receiving a small shock, he gave a strangled scream of surprise and pain as he was electrocuted, finally collapsing to the ground and lying still.
"April Fools?" Electro said lamely.
He looked at his hands, baffled. He hadn't used that much electricity at all. Surely he must have done something wrong… Then he looked at the metal arms hanging limply from Doc Ock's side and remembered: metal conducts electricity. How could he have been so stupid?
He kneeled down next to Doc Ock, shaking him violently. "C'mon, wake up, wake up!" he whispered, hoping he hadn't accidently killed him.
Max gave up after a moment and stood up. Oh, God. He had killed the . Electro wasn't friends with Doc Ock, but they were acquaintances; allies. Dillon would never kill him.
Which he had obviously just done.
Oh, shit. Oh, shit, shit, shit. How was he going to get rid of the body now? Explain away the super villain's disappearance? Not only that, he actually felt a little guilty for killing him. Nobody, save Spiderman, of course, deserved to die from electrocution.
Doc Ock slowly regained consciousness, blinking a few times as he slowly sat up. "Ugh…" he mumbled. What the hell had happened? Then he remembered, and, looking up, saw Electro standing there. That sonuvabitch… Still weak from being electrocuted, he stood up. "Dillon…" he growled menacingly. He was going to tear that apart for doing this.
Electro gave a start when he noticed Ock getting up. Oh, double shit. "It was an accident…" he began; but seeing the look on Ock's face, he forgot about explaining himself and ran in the other direction as fast as he could. So much for the perfect prank…


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Let's begin in Chicago, shall we, a little over a year ago. It was unseasonably warm that Wednesday, the hour so early that night had not yet staggered into day.Barack Obama, newly re-elected, glided on stage in a blue tie and smart suit. He was triumphant but chastened, having just been given a second chance by voters who thought their country was heading in the wrong direction but nevertheless agreed to return him to office by a surprisingly healthy margin.
Any illusion that Mr. Obama was some kind of modern-day Messiah had melted away. The electorate saw the President instead for who he was: A political loner who prefers policy to people. Painstaking. Deliberate. Aloof. And that was fine.
"We know in our hearts that, for the United States of America, the best is yet to come," Mr. Obama told the cheering crowd in Chicago.
Barely a year later, the aloof loner has become a lame duck in a second-term collapse of such historic proportions that it is prompting people to compare him to, of all people, George W. Bush.
The affordable health-care act's unbelievably botched rollout, punctuated by a prime-time apology from the President, in which he admitted to reneging on his promise that Americans could keep their existing health-care plans, threatens to wreck his credibility beyond repair and undermine the rest of his term of office.
"I am sorry," Mr. Obama said on CNN in what some analysts are calling his "Katrina moment." The reference, of course, is to former president George W. Bush, whose bumbling efforts to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina made him appear unfit for his job. Public faith in Mr. Bush's competence hit an inflection point from which it never recovered, hindering his ability to enact social security reforms that he had hoped would be his signature legislation. They never got done.
"Once people start turning, it's difficult to get them back," says George Edwards III, a political scientist at Texas A&M University.
Every second-term president has a narrow window in which to make good on campaign promises before being written off. Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago, who served as Mr. Obama's first White House chief of staff, summed it up: "The first 14 months are productive, the last 14 months are productive, and you sag in the middle," he told The New York Times. As it turns out, when it comes to his former boss, Mr. Emanuel was overly optimistic.
Mr. Obama's poll numbers in the wake of the health-care debacle and mea culpa have taken a dive, mirroring Mr. Bush's trajectory. His approval rating has sagged to its lowest levels yet – 37 per cent, according to a CBS News poll last week – leading some experts to suggest it's time to write the obit on Mr. Obama's administration.
They have a point. Second-term presidents whose approval ratings plummet have a fairly impossible time of climbing back up. In the 1950s, Harry Truman's second-term approval ratings sank from 46 per cent to 35 per cent in the latter half of his second term, when America was mired in the Korean War. Iran-Contra sent Ronald Reagan's low-60s approval rating into a tailspin, dipping below 50 per cent.
The trend suggests Mr. Obama simply won't bounce back. Part of the problem is that, by a second term, the public's patience has worn thin.
"At this point, people think they know Obama," Prof. Edwards says. "It's not like there's some kind of start-up problems, or he's just getting his feet wet. We're five years in. So what's the deal?"
What confounds so many observers is why Mr. Obama failed in this particular way. He has tried to account for the troubles with the glitchy health-care website – and the controversy around America's secret spying on allied heads of states, for that matter – by saying he was simply unaware of the problems until it was too late. This has led critics to label him a bystander president.
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The folly of Mr. Obama's first term was that he went to Washington acting like a "director of change," promising to tame partisan politics. That turned out to be an exercise in futility. When Mr. Obama returned for a second term, the hope was he would be more of a "facilitator." He wouldn't waste time trying to change the system. Instead, he'd game the system.Report Typo/Error
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Torsten Curdt wrote: >> I did not like these kind of solutions because you first have to >> intall the Java JRE. So it is not what a typical Windows user wants >> (he wants to click on Setup.exe and press "next, next next, close"). > > > Well, true ...but TBH: what does such a user want with Cocoon in the end? > I think expecting a JDK/JRE is ok. Cocoon is a framework not a app you > just run. Well, I was recently helping a friend, who is a graphic designer who has recently been reading a book on XSLT to get Cocoon running on his Mac. He has now, on his own, created a simple page using XML and XSLT, however he hasn't the faintest idea what Java is, and quite possibly never will. But, for some of the sites he wants to build, he finds the possibilities with Cocoon to be quite exciting - couldn't do them with just Dreamweaver. So, assuming that someone can install a JDK and set their own JAVA_HOME does preclude some users, particularly those who may be happy with just XML, XSLT and sitemap. Regards, Upayavira P.S. I've also had him writing up his experiences as he goes. If we're lucky, we might get some decent beginner oriented articles out of him.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Behind the green fence and inside the high walls of the indoor practice facility, there's something taking shape. The University of Alabama, fresh off a national championship in January, is tuning up for another run to the BCS in secret.
The Alabama defense lost three-quarters of its starters from a season ago, the offense its leading rusher and top three receivers. The new faces are familiar, yet unknown. A bevy of four- and five-star recruits appear to be ready to make an impact, but their roles are still a mystery.
Damion Square has seen what's coming, but like everyone around the program, the defensive end treats the matter as if it were information only accessible to those with the highest clearance. In other words, those drawing up the game plan to beat Michigan in Week 1.
"Some of these guys are a secret," Square said. "Some guys don't know exactly what we got over here at the university. They're kind of downplaying, but I know what we have and I know what it looks like. I know that we got something real special here."
When H-Back Brian Vogler walked into the media room on campus Wednesday, he brought up Michigan five times, all without giving so much as a hint of what to expect against the Wolverines.
"The things that we can do in the passing game are ... it's hard to explain," he said. "I guess you guys will see during Michigan."
The world will get its first glimpse of Alabama on Sept. 1 against the Wolverines. Preseason polls rank UA anywhere from No. 1 to No. 3. But with so many players gone from a year ago, the number of questions outnumber the number answers available, like who will start at safety, linebacker or defensive end? Who will start at receiver, H-Back or on special teams?
Those answers won't come until kickoff, and coaching staff would like to keep it that way.
You can't game plan for what you don't know is coming.
"We're going to have a different look every week, but right now, we're working toward Michigan," Vogler said ambiguously.
One thing is certain: A number of talented underclassmen will be filling roles this season. For Saban, that means teaching as much as he can before the month is out. For veterans like Square, it's a chance to sit back and watch prospects become players.
"It's kind of a talent overload, man," Square said. "There's just so many guys that are great. You go out there on the field for practice and you're like, 'Who is going to do this or who is going to do that? What guy is going to separate from the pack?'
"When I first got here, it was pretty distinct who the guy was. The next guy was somewhat close and then it was a drop off. Now, we got eight guys at one spot that can just go. However you want to do it, they can get it done."
One player ready to step up and provide depth at jack linebacker is sophomore Xzavier Dickson. The former four-star out of Georgia is ready for action, but doesn't want to be compared to the man he's tasked with replacing.
Asked what he'll do differently than the former All-American Courtney Upshaw, Dickson said simply, "nothing."
It was another cryptic answer, but it had a ring of truth. Why try and put that pressure on yourself?
"Coach didn't recruit that guy to come be somebody else," Square explained. "He recruited him because he liked what he does. If he comes and does that well, then you have a good chance of being on the field."
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I'd rather be a noble unicorn than a mindless puppet.
Dan Juneau, late of the sometimes evil empire known as the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, now leads a big-money group called the Alliance for Better Classrooms that seems utterly afraid to debate the actual merits of the Common Core educational standards.
ABC and Juneau support the standards but are so disdainful of the large coalition of earnest parents bitterly opposed to the Core that they passed out stuffed pink unicorns on the floor of the Legislature, implying that all arguments against the Core are as mythic as the horned horses are.
Juneau issued a prepared statement charging opponents with "misconceptions and outright misleading statements" but then made himself unavailable for interviews that day. Gee, dude: Nice debate.
Get a spine.
The truth is, most of the self-organized, underfunded parents' groups come well armed with facts and logic. (They have set up a rudimentary website called "Crawfish are Real," with a domain name of www.crawfisharereal.blogspot.com/.) But they can't get legislators to pay them any heed. The low point came last year when one lawmaker announced at a committee hearing that of course he was for Common Core and then shortly thereafter asked if anybody could tell him what was actually in it — because he didn't know.
I myself have written time and again, with great specificity, about problems with Common Core. I've asked the chairman of LABI why he is for the Core. The answer, in effect, was that, dadgummit, we need standards. I asked the president of LABI the same question. I got the same answer. I asked for specifics. Why should we have these particular standards?
No response, other than, in effect: "Well, everybody else is doing it." It is thus, in the name of (supposedly) promoting skills of critical thinking, that Core supporters repeatedly use the most egregiously hackneyed excuse by which most adolescents avoid critical thinking.
I've seen the chairman of the Senate Education Committee waste an entire essay on Common Core, promising specifics, only to offer not a single specific example of what the standards actually contain.
But boy oh boy, when it comes to making legislators come to heel — even in the face of outraged parents who, I guarantee you, will make the lawmakers pay at the polls this fall — LABI and its spinoffs like ABC have their bases covered. They do their lobbying, remind their legislative lackeys where campaign cash comes from, pull the puppet strings — and then, in place of reasoned debate, they insult the concerned parents who disagree.
Herewith, then, a challenge to any member of the Education committees in either Louisiana's House or its Senate, or to Juneau, or to LABI's chairman, its president or even its highest-paid lobbyist: Debate me, anywhere in Louisiana, on the Core. No stuffed animals. No campaign money. Just facts.
Let them explain why it's OK that children are brought to tears by simple arithmetic made needlessly complicated, while parents have no clue how to help them understand the new teaching methods required by the Core. Explain why standards for literature now call for greater focus on nonfiction documents, out of their ordinary context of formal history classes, and a lesser focus on works of real, yes, literature. And explain why they don't seem to mind that not only does this threaten students' appreciation for great works of fiction but that leading biographers say this also will harm a real understanding of history.
Let them explain why it's OK to ask teachers to understand, much less apply, standards written in bureaucratic gobbledygook that is virtually indecipherable. Let them explain why the standards were implemented without being field-tested anywhere. Let them defend the abandonment of "cursive" writing despite voluminous brain research indicating that cursive is a great aid for the proper development of brain physiology.
And let them explain why several of the very experts originally brought in to develop Common Core now lecture around the country about the drawbacks and even dangers of the standards.
If they can't explain these things, then the bully-boys pushing the Core may find themselves on the very real unicorn horns of a dilemma.
New Orleans native Quin Hillyer is a contributing editor for National Review. You can follow him on Twitter, @Quin Hillyer. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com, and he blogs at blogs. theadvocate.com/quin-essential.


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State Department Telling Students Who Apply For Jobs That If They Mention Wikileaks On Twitter, They Won't Be Hired
It appears that the State Department really wants to put its head in the sand when it comes to the whole Wikileaks' release of diplomatic cables.
Mathew Ingram points us to the news that a career services person at Columbia University apparently sent around an email, purportedly concerning a conversation they'd had with an alumnus at the State Department warning students who wanted to work in the State Department to ignore Wikileaks.
Specifically, it said that, as part of the background check on you, the State Department would review your social networking accounts, like Twitter and Facebook, and if they saw you had talked about Wikileaks, they might think you couldn't handle confidential information:
From: "Office of Career Services"
Date: November 30, 2010 15:26:53 EST
Hi students,
We received a call today from a SIPA alumnus who is working at the State Department. He asked us to pass along the following information to anyone who will be applying for jobs in the federal government, since all would require a background investigation and in some instances a security clearance.
The documents released during the past few months through Wikileaks are still considered classified documents. He recommends that you DO NOT post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites such as Facebook or through Twitter. Engaging in these activities would call into question your ability to deal with confidential information, which is part of most positions with the federal government.
Office of Career Services
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If you've an iOS device this all rounder makes a great choice. It's neither too big, nor too small. It has all the important features. It's well-built and good value.
Drones are fast becoming commoditised which is amazing considering the technology behind them. Even the little ones manage to stay impressively stable in a strong wind.
The Xiro Drone Xplorer V by Rapoo is probably best described as a mid-range unit with a Full HD camera gimbal. It's too big to fly inside (unlike the nifty Parrot Mambo) but it's too small to carry a massive camera rig. However, this also places it in the Goldilocks feature set of fast, responsive, with reasonable quality camera.
It has a range of 120m a flight time of 25 minutes and a zippy top speed of eight metres per second – it won't win any races but it's more than fast enough for most people.
Control is by a rechargeable dedicated remote control which comes with a WiFi range extender to enhance the range of the drone. The Xiro app is then installed on your phone. Some of it is intuitive and self-explanatory but other parts are not.
There are the usual two control sticks plus three main buttons – one for automatic take off and landing, one for resetting the orientation (useful for when the drone is a long way away from you and you need to be sure that forward still means forward). There's also a return home button. When the battery is running low the remote will vibrate.
The drone has four sets of LEDs on each wing – two red and two green – which you can see from a considerable distance.
Manual flight is very responsive and intuitive with low swoops and fast reactions possible despite the not-inconsiderable bulk of the machine. It's also very well built and weathered two somewhat-extreme crashes with the main chassis remaining intact (the same can't be said for the fragile camera gimbal).
The Xiro app is hit and miss depending on which device you use. Functioanlity is extremely limited on the Android version of the app and doesn't let you do much more than record photos and video. There is a GPS map feature but this never worked properly for us – it showed us GPS points on a blank map but that was it.
The iOS version is much better and more intuitive. It allows you to easily plot a route on a map and set heights for each waypoint. The app also lets you do cool things like track an object and then either follow it in a straight line or circle it.
The camera is impressively smooth and responsive and quality is generally good. It won't match some of the best photos taken by drones with mounted SLRs, but you'll still be able to get decent quality from some impressive vantage points.Read more: eHang GhostDrone 2.0 review
At $700 for the full kit, it's still reasonable value and not out of date considering that it's been on the market some time. It's worth having a look at Xiro's own instructional videos to get an idea of whether it will suit your needs or not. Ultimately, at this price, with this feature set and level of performance we're happy to say it's one of the best all round drone packages in a crowded market. But only if you're using iOS.
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Former North Carolina RB "Choo-Choo" Justice dies at 79
CHERRYVILLE, North Carolina - Charlie "Choo-Choo" Justice, a two-time Heisman Trophy runner-up as a running back at North Carolina, died Friday. He was 79.
Justice, who also starred for the Washington Redskins in the 1950s, totaled 4,883 yards running and passing during his four years at Chapel Hill, a record that stood until quarterback Jason Stanicek broke it in 1994.
In 1948, Justice was second to Doak Walker of Southern Methodist in Heisman Trophy balloting. The next year, Notre Dame's Leon Hart finished ahead of Justice.
Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford called Justice's contributions to the school and intercollegiate athletics "immeasurable" and said he was even a better person than a football player.
"Greatness and humility are too seldom linked, but they certainly were with Charlie," Swofford said.
Upon graduating from high school in Asheville, North Carolina, Justice enlisted in the Navy and played for a non-collegiate football team. It was there that he earned the nickname "Choo-Choo" because teammates said he ran like a train.
The first athlete named to the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, Justice played for the Redskins in 1950 and 1952-54. Last year, he was honored as one of the team's greats during its 70th anniversary celebration.
"The little guy has everything," Curly Lambeau, the Redskins' coach in 1952 and 1953, once said. "He has tremendous take-off speed and all the guts in the world. All he needs is a sliver of daylight and he's gone."
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It was a Friday that Japan will always dread. On 11 March 2011, nature unleashed a furious attack on the busy islanders, a 9.0 magnitude quake that sent tremors through the islands, just after lunch time. The quake set off a devastating tsunami that washed over north-east Japan, leaving everything in shambles in a few minutes.
Even as the resilience of the Japanese people shone through in their concern and care for each other in this moment of despair, another defining event took shape through the airwaves and the optic cables that run over the seabed. The immediacy and intensity with which social networks responded to the situation enabled the world to learn about the disaster and the people in the eye of the storm, at a pace that was unfathomable just a decade or so ago.
Seconds after the disaster struck the islands, thousands of netizens took to the social networks and online forums to share information, communicate with friends and family, reach out to people and express solidarity with those affected by the situation.
Twitter has over 10 million active users in Japan, which put the micro-blogging website at the forefront of the flood of information vetting the appetite of the worried millions. In fact, Twitter posted a guide in Japanese and English to assist people under duress with tips and resources to help them survive through the situation. It also offered a list of the most widely used hashtags to tweet about the disaster, helping users search for tweets from friends and family. According to Poynter, the hashtags #tsunami and #prayforjapan were trending thousands of tweets per second in the immediate aftermath.
Facebook too had its share of conversation, but then it does not enjoy the scale of success in Japan which it does elsewhere in the world. While a lot of international conversation was being written on the walls of Facebook, the Japanese themselves were flocking to Mixi, the leading social networking site in Japan. Mixi has over 20 million users in Japan and it was the first place where the devastated people rushed to, looking for messages from people living around the epicentre of the earthquake and in the path of the gigantic tsunami waves.
In the absence of telephone lines, Skype became the preferred tool for voice and visual communication between people inside Japan and to communicate with families living overseas. Japan has been at the forefront of technological evolution, and in this instance, the smart phones, tablets and netbooks enabled citizens to harness the technology at their disposal, to connect with people, or in many cases to search for them through the wires.
Google, the world's most recognisable entity on the Internet, probably had the most significant response among the various online communities working to alleviate and share the pain of the Japanese. Google introduced a 'person finder app' to help trace and connect people apart from a slew of other measures to aid the Japanese. At last count, the site was tracking about 326,300 records.
Google took it a step further by launching a crisis response page, consolidating all the tools and resources related to the crisis on one page. The effort to digitise the list of people inside shelters by offering to receive details to an email address set up specifically for this purpose also drew enthusiastic response. Google collected these details manually into the person finder app, helping to grow the database and connect an ever-increasing number of people.
Within hours of the quake, Google managed to broadcast home-made videos on the 'Citizen Tube' channel of YouTube. Google.org has been at the forefront of crisis response during the disasters in Haiti, Chile and recently in New Zealand as well. Google's crisis response team is a dedicated bunch of engineers constantly working to improve the means available to respond to a crisis and disseminate information in the most sensitive manner.
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Online game makes math practice out of this world
Many of today's teens and young adults grew up practicing math facts by playing out-of-this-world adventures in the "Math Blaster" series of computer games. Originally released in 1987, "Math Blaster" won numerous awards for both home and school use.
Today's kids now have an opportunity to hone their math skills with this famous license and to do so the way they like to play — by entering a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) called "MathBlaster.com."
In this 3D browser game, players create their own avatar to become a cadet at the intergalactic Blaster Academy located on a Space Station. Filled with aliens, high-tech gadgets and tons of other kids, players explore a futuristic virtual world that is packed with fun educational math games. As they play, they will advance up the ranks to join the Intergalactic Space Patrol (ISP), an elite corps of Blasters who protect and explore the universe.
You design your own avatar — choose female or male, and design it to look human or alien by selecting the head shape, skin color, hair, eyes and mouth. Some avatars can have antennae, three eyes and red hair. Others might have pink or green skin.
You are given a bPad, a gadget you can click on from the main screen. It helps explain the game and keeps track of your progress. You also use it to access messages from the game about new features in this world and to rename or redesign your Blaster avatar.
All players start at Blaster Cadet Rank 1; but as you play, you earn merits that move you up in rank as well as providing you with cool gadgets to use.
As you move through the Blaster world, you will encounter many other players. You can befriend them and chat, using drop-down phrases. There are also non-player characters that will talk to you and give you ideas about things to do. For example, Monty, a floating robot, might suggest that you help collect glowing Luminites so that they can put on a light show.
Most of your time will be spent playing math games, which all have a space theme. For example, in Oozami, players reset switches so that toxic ooze doesn't take over the Space Station. The game play involves leaping from platform to platform to find the switches. When a switch is found, it is reset by answering a math problem correctly. In another, you rescue robots from being crushed by matching objects on a conveyor belt to corresponding geometric shapes found below.
What makes these math games so compelling is that they can be customized. In Oozami, kids can choose between problems involving money or place value. Then they choose the difficulty level of both the math problems and the actual game play.
Since "MathBlaster.com" is an MMO, it is growing every week as Knowledge Adventure rolls out new games for the cadets to explore. At the time of this publishing, kids can explore the Academy, where they train for missions that will be introduced in a few months. Even without the missions, there is plenty to explore from the get-go.
With chances to advance in rank and plenty of leaderboards showing top scores within the games, kids are motivated to keep playing.
And not all the games are math-oriented — some are just for fun, including ones about blasting targets. Plus, kids can swim and rock climb. Spontaneous disco parties where your avatar can dance are also known to occur.
Built for kids ages 6 to 12, players can enter this MMO for free, but a deeper experience is offered to paid subscribers.
MathBlaster offers three choices for paid memberships at $7.99 monthly, $74.99 annually or $149.99 for a lifetime. A membership is for a family, which means up to six kids can play.
More impressive is that a membership in MathBlaster.com also grants a family a paid membership in Jumpstart.com, another educational virtual world for kids ages 3 to 10. Since JumpStart.com has been around since 2009, it is a more robust world to explore, but it skews younger. Plus, families can also download four other JumpStart games for free.
With two virtual worlds and four extra games, a membership in "MathBlaster.com" offers a lot of educational bang for the buck.
Score: 4 stars (out of 4)
Best for ages: 6 to 12
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