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What's in a name? Or, more importantly, what's in a digit? Would that which we call an iPad by any number less than 2 be less sweet? That's the question Apple posed for us indirectly when it unveiled the new iPad and relegated its future slates (and, presumably, phones) to a numeral-free future. And that new slate? It's much the same as the old one, with a slightly more chipper processor at its (quad) core and support for both Verizon and AT&T's fancy new LTE networks.
But there's one bigger change here, one that will ripple across the industry as each manufacturer struggles to keep up in this ever-accelerating market. That feature is the iPad's new 2048 x 1536 Retina display. It's the best display ever featured on a tablet, probably the best display ever on a mobile device, but is that enough to keep this tablet ahead of the pack? Believe it or not, the answer is yes.
Ever held an iPad 2? If so, suffice to say this new iPad is a wee bit thicker and a teensy bit heavier. You now have our full blessing to skip down to the display section below, which is what you're probably truly interested in reading about.
If you didn't know any better you'd think it were completely solid.
For those looking for the full-on review effect, the new iPad is still a slinky thing. Sure, its 9.4mm thickness won't win it any awards (especially since that's .6mm thicker than the iPad 2), nor will its 652g (1.4-pound) heft (51g / .11 pounds more than before), but it feels neither big nor heavy. It instead feels substantial. Dense. It's carved from a hunk of aluminum and there's a cavity in there where the (now bigger) battery and other internals reside, but if you didn't know any better you'd think it were completely solid.
There's none of the flex or the give found in cheaper slates. That solidity certainly helps explain the premium feel, but buyers will have to decide whether that feel is worth the extra space in their messenger bags, or the extra strain placed on shoulder straps.
The chassis is hewn from the same matte aluminum as most of Apple's other devices, with a gentle curve on the edges tapering down to a flat back punctuated by a glossy black Apple logo. The shape of that taper is slightly different than before, a bit more rounded on account of that extra girth, but you'll be hard-pressed to notice without a side-by-side comparison.
Looking at the back you'll still find the speaker in its same lower-left position, still a rather unfortunate placement. Most of the sound is therefore directed away from where you want it, namely in your ears, and we can't say as we noticed any improvement in the overall aural quality compared to this tablet's predecessor. Next to that is the dock port, still the full-sized 40-pin variety and not the slinky, next-gen connector that we've been hearing is in the works, so your accessories live on for at least one more generation of tablets.
Move up to the side and you'll find the same volume rocker and mute / rotation lock as before, situated in the same place, too. Kitty-corner to that is the wide and flat power button, separated from the 3.5mm headphone jack over on the other side by the same expanse of black plastic seen on the iPad 2, making room in the metal chassis for the antennas to do their thing. WiFi-only models get by without this polycarbonate indiscretion.
Swing around to the other top corner and you'll find the door behind which rests the SIM. LTE does need a SIM, even on Verizon, and there are new iPad versions supporting LTE on both AT&T and Verizon. (Rogers, Bell and Telus in Canada, too, though Telstra LTE in Australia is sadly not compatible.) There are different devices here, one for AT&T and another for Verizon, but either offer comprehensive non-LTE wireless connectivity options, including MTS / HSPA / HSPA+ / DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz) and GSM / EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz). That means even if you aren't in LTE-land you can expect up to 42Mbps download speeds, which is much faster than the iPad 2.
The WiFi-only models naturally lose all that, but all varieties offer 802.11a/b/g/n connectivity along with Bluetooth 4.0. Even the WiFi-only model can make use of the new voice dictation feature here, which adds a microphone button down next to the keyboard. In our testing it's impressively accurate, capturing even odd words like "Schenectady" without pause. It only works when you have an active network connection and, sadly, its no Siri, which is still not available. The new iPad will not find you directions to body hiding spots nor tell you the weather.
The one final detail on the back is the slightly enlarged portal behind which the new five megapixel camera assembly peers through. It's rimmed by a bit of polished metal as on the iPad 2, so things don't look noticeably different from the outside, but as ever it's what's on the inside that counts — and indeed you'll have to look a little deeper in this review to see how that new sensor.
The biggest change of all, however, is right there on the front, though tragically for those who like to make appearances the black (or white) glass facade looks exactly the same as it did before. Turn it on, though, and everything changes.
If you're disappointed Apple didn't do more with the new iPad, that's probably because you haven't seen the new Retina display yet.
If you're disappointed Apple didn't do more with the new iPad, that's probably because you haven't seen the new Retina display for yourself yet. Take more than a passing glance and you'll be a believer. Of course, a cynic would say that it's really Samsung who's been doing all the hard work here, as this is (for now, at least) a panel sourced from that company, which should be a strong indicator that Apple's strongest competition on the Android side won't be far behind in launching its own high-res wunderslate.
The biggest talking point is, of course, the truly bonkers resolution. 2048 x 1536 means four times the pixels of the previous iPads and, indeed, a full million more than your average 1080p TV. On the 9.7-inch display this works out to a pixel density of 264ppi. That's considerably lower than the 326ppi the iPhone 4S manages and, indeed, below the magic 300ppi barrier Apple had earlier specified for the "Retina" moniker. But, as you're expected to hold the new iPad further from your face than your phone, the perceived pixel density is said to be comparable.
Really, though, the numbers will be quickly forgotten once you get a look at this thing. If you've previously made the leap from a lower-resolution iPhone to one packing a Retina display you have some idea of what to expect here, but the increased scale really makes the difference shine.
For example, viewing photos on an iPhone was never particularly pleasant to begin with. It always felt too cramped — okay for a quick "hey, check this out" kind of experience, but not something you'd want to do for long stretches. Looking at photos on the iPad, however, has always been a very satisfying thing, and with the new iPad it's even more so. Not only are things rendered to a higher definition, they're also presented with greater accuracy.
No, the reds and greens won't beat you over the head like they do on one of Samsung's Super AMOLED Plus displays, but everything here just looks right.
The new iPad screen offers a considerably increased contrast and gamut, meaning colors are not only brighter and more striking but more accurate. No, the reds and greens won't beat you over the head like they do on one of Samsung's Super AMOLED Plus displays, but everything here just looks right. That said, stack it next to an iPad 2 and you'll notice the new display is far more cool, and you're unfortunately given no control over that. A few pictures, like of a bright red Ferrari, actually look slightly more accurate on the old display, but by and large the new panel blows the old one away.
This is truly a spectacular display, and in typical IPS fashion it doesn't disappoint at odd angles. It maintains its splendor at broad enough perspectives to ensure your friend on the other side of the couch can also enjoy your latest YouTube fave.
Yes, there are a lot of hyperbolic adjectives up there in the preceding paragraphs, but that's simply because this is a genuinely nice display. It raises the bar, and that's a good thing. We can't wait to see how the competition responds.
Of course, to make the best use of this new display you'll need new apps that have been up-sampled to take full advantage, and thankfully there are plenty. All of the stock iOS apps have been retooled already, while many big third-party players like Amazon's Kindle app and Evernote have already been upped as well, and the difference is noticeable.
1080p content looks considerably better than on the iPad 2, as you would expect, but even 720p content shows a noticeable improvement. That shouldn't necessarily be a surprise, though, since the old tablet couldn't even manage that resolution.
Performance and battery life
Adding four times the pixels means a lot more work for the CPU and GPU, and the trusty 'ol A5 processor just wasn't up to the task. So, Apple did a little… augmentation, creating the A5X. This processor keeps the same dual-core CPU as the iPad 2 but pairs it with a new quad-core graphics component. The result? Predictably the same when it comes to the CPU-taxing Geekbench, which gave us exactly (nearly) the same score. The web-based SunSpider benchmark was the same. We averaged a low 2,100ms score on the iPad 2 and the new iPad averaged at 2,111ms.
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So, don't be expecting a revolutionary change when it comes to day-to-day usage, but really we still find the iPad 2 to be far more snappy and responsive than just about anything else on the market. So too, then, is the new iPad.
This is the first iPad to offer 4G LTE wireless, and so we were naturally quite eager to load up Speed Test and see what it could do. We received a Verizon model to test and it did not fail to impress, delivering download speeds consistently in the 22 – 25Mbps down range. Uploads, meanwhile, hovered between 16 and 19Mbps with 50 – 70ms pings. That is, needless to say, quite healthy.
We also had the opportunity to test an Orange model in the UK and saw speeds averaging 3.5Mbps down and just north of .5Mbps up. That too is respectable but will likely leave you pining for the day the cooling rays of LTE to show up in your hood, especially since the iPad can be used as a wireless hotspot for no extra cost.
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We had high expectations for battery life, despite those substantial improvements to both the built-in radios and display. The new pack inside the iPad is rated at a massive 42.5 watt-hours. That's nearly double the size of the 25 watt-hour pack found in the iPad 2. The reason for the boost is to make sure there are plenty of electrons to shovel into the LTE antenna and the new A5X processor, both of which are presumably quite hungry.
Apple rates the new iPad at 10 hours of casual surfing on WiFi or nine hours if you're doing it using cellular data and our own video rundown test gave a similar rundown time. At 50 percent brightness, our European model on HSPA pushed out just under 10 hours of constant playback, with 3G and WiFi on. That's barely half an hour behind its predecessor, despite this year's hardware improvements. Our Verizon LTE model, meanwhile, came in just 15 minutes shorter, again with LTE and WiFi firing.
It's worth noting, though, that all that juice not only takes a long time to drain but it takes time to charge, too. We've found the new iPad takes much longer to refill on the charging stand than the iPad 2. No surprise, given the nearly 100 percent increase in battery capacity.
We called the cameras on the iPad 2 "pretty bad" and, well, they are. Thankfully Apple has finally raised the game on the rear shooter for the new iPad, but it's unfortunately left the front-facing VGA FaceTime camera alone. If you're sick of looking murky when FaceTiming with loved ones from a dimly lit room, we're sorry to say it might be time to finally invest in that extra lamp.
Obviously, the company's time and effort was spent focusing on the lens poking out the back, but in some ways that, too, is a bit of a let-down. It's a 5-megapixel unit consisting of the same five-element, f/2.4 lens and stabilization processing wizardry found in the iPhone 4S. But, curiously, the bigger iPad takes a step down to a more lowly 5-megapixel sensor.
But, move past megapixels (as we encourage most digital shooters to do) and you'll find the image quality to be very high here. We found it very easy to take pleasing photos with the new iPad but we didn't see the drastic increase in shot-to-shot speed that we did on the 4S. That phone wowed us with its rapid-fire prowess, and indeed the iPad 2 is quite snappy moving from picture to picture. The new iPad is much slower. It's still plenty quick, on the order of two shots per second, but we'd estimate the iPad 2 is roughly twice that fast.
Still, we'll take quality over quantity, and the new iPad shots are far more pleasing to the eye.
Video has stepped up a good bit too, to 1080p from the previous 720, and again we saw a nice increase in quality over the former iPad. While we still hate the idea of taking pictures or videos with something packing a 9.7-inch display, if you must you will at least have great results now.
Thankfully, most cases aren't made to exacting specifications, so there's a very good chance your old sleeve will do just fine.
So width and height are the same as the iPad 2, but as we mentioned above thickness is now .6mm greater than before. That's but a sliver of a difference and difficult to notice unless you stack the two next to each other, but if you're dealing with a finely-crafted case made to exacting specifications that increase is more than enough to cause issues. Thankfully, most cases aren't made to such high standards, so there's a very good chance your old sleeve will do just fine.
We tried a few different sleeves and loose cases and there was no issue with the majority of them. Some plastic-backed cases that clip on refused to hold on very securely, but for the most part this new iPad is backwards compatible. Indeed, Apple's own Smart Cover clips on to the side magnetically just like on the iPad 2. In fact all the other first-party iPad accessories should be perfectly compatible, thanks in large part to the continuation of the 40-pin dock connector. And, thanks to the hugely useful iOS version of iPhoto, the SD Card Reader and Camera Connector are of particular value now.
But, the best accessory for the iPad will likely prove to be the new Apple TV. This guy features a friendlier UI and, finally, 1080p support. It isn't the iOS-having, app-running update that we've been hoping for, but beaming 1080p content straight to your TV over AirPlay is about as easy as it gets and, for many, worth the $99 price of admission.
Price, options and data plans
The new iPad is priced exactly the same as the old iPad used to be. That is to say, a 16GB model starts at $499. 32GB costs $100 more and 64GB is another $100 on top of that, for a range-topping price of $699. Rather unfortunately there's still no 128GB option, a particular shame given the size of thetextbooks Apple is now hawking. More storage is a must for whatever the next new iPad turns out to be.
The 3G / LTE models, whether you choose AT&T or Verizon, will cost you $130 more. So that's $629, $729 or $829. Cheap? No, but those are at least off-contract prices. As before, data plans are all month-to-month, so no worries about signing away the next two years of your wireless freedom. You'll simply buy your data at the beginning of the month and next month, if you want more, you'll have to pay again.
On AT&T you're looking at 250MB for $14.99 monthly, but on LTE we could see blowing through that in a day. A more realistic 3GB will cost you $30 while 5GB is $50. AT&T does not offer tethering yet (though it intends to in the future), so if you want your slate to also be a portable hotspot today you'll need to go to Verizon. There you'll be paying $20 for 1GB, $30 for 2GB, $50 for 5GB and $80 for 10GB on the top end. If you opt to buy your iPad pre-activated through Verizon they'll also give you the option of paying $10 for every GB over your allowance.
With the new iPad, Apple has chosen to take small steps in many areas, making a logical upgrade on the camera, a modest improvement in graphics performance and the perfectly natural addition of LTE wireless. Other things have been left the same, like the overall size and form-factor, speed, the selection of capacities and, most importantly, the pricing. It's only with the display that Apple made a truly big step forward here over the iPad 2, and for many that's enough to make an upgrade worthwhile.
The new iPad doesn't do anything substantially better or particularly different than the iPad 2, offering the same rich world of content as before. But, it's the amazingly high quality window into that world the new iPad offers that is completely unmatched — for the moment. We have no doubt that others will be bringing similarly high-res offerings to market soon, but for now the new iPad takes the cake. Is it worth a purchase if you still have the original iPad? Yes, absolutely. The iPad 2? That, dear readers, largely depends on how much disposable income you're swinging around, but if you have the means…
Update: We've updated the review to include full battery run-down figures. Also, we've clarified that there are effectively three worldwide models of the new iPad. To lay things out: there are two LTE-flavors, including the Verizon version which is available only in the US. Then there is the US AT&T LTE version, which is also sold in Canada and abroad. Finally, there is the WiFi-only variety.


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A WEIGHT-loss leader is celebrating her first anniversary after members at her two South Tyneside slimming clubs collectively lost 450 stone in a year.
Claire Ball decided to become a consultant for Slimming World in August last year after shedding 4½st.
Now 12 months on, the 30-year-old, from Low Lane, South Shields, is delighted she's lost another 1½st, ane she's also helped the members of the two groups she runs become shadows of their former selves.
The mum-of-two said: "It's been such an amazing year.
"I am so proud of my members and what they have all achieved.
"Everyone is so supportive of each other, it's wonderful.
"I think we've achieved a fantastic amount of weight loss."
Claire was first spurred on to lose weight by her mother Kathryn Smith, who passed away in May 2012, aged 63, after being diagnosed with cancer four months earlier.
She admits that before she started Slimming World, and at her heaviest, the only way she could lose weight was to starve herself.
She said: "I was so upset to see those figures on the scales that first night I joined.
"But the help and support I got from my group, and the fact that my weight was never disclosed, gave me the confidence to keep losing.
"I thought the only way to lose weight was to starve yourself, but I was proved wrong when, after three weeks of eating delicious meals, I got my half-stone award."
Since then Claire's gave up her part-time job in insurance sales and now runs classes at the New Crown Hotel in Mowbray Road, South Shields, on Thursday evenings, at 5pm or 7pm, and also at the Harton and Westoe Miners Welfare Club in Low Lane, South Shields, every Wednesday at 9.30am.
She said: "Slimming World has become a massive part of my life.
"Even the rest of my family gets involved with the classes – they come along and help me set up whenever they can."
Claire – who has just over 2st left to lose before she reaches a target weight which she has been keeping to herself – believes her own experience helps her 130 members achieve their personal goals.
She added: "I know what they're going through, since I have been there myself and I am still on a weight-loss journey.
"I think it wonderful how we're all able to help each other, and it's been incredible to see people shrink before my very eyes."
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Here's your wakeup call -- a combination of newsworthy andor interesting tidbits -- for Thursday, February 14.
Mariano Rivera knows whether or not he'll play beyond 2013 . . . but he's not telling you. Yet. (AP)
Well, this is different: Francisco Cervelli, one of the players named in the Miami New Times article, admits that, yes, he's actually heard of Biogenesis of America LLC, and, yes, he consulted with them. But, of course, he didn't take any PEDs, no, no. (AP)
As for players who actually got caught with their hands in the PED cookie jar, the Padres' Yasmani Grandal plans to make his apologies this weekend. (AP)
And the Phillies' Carlos Ruiz made his yesterday. Very quietly. (CSN Philly)
Pete? Pete who? (NBC's Hardball Talk)
He looks a lot different with short hair. And Tim Lincecum says he feels a lot different -- a lot better -- at this early stage of spring training. (CSN Bay Area)
Johnny Cueto feels better, too. (AP)
The Rays are trying to figure out ways to keep Evan Longoria feeling better. (AP)
The Mets insist the worst of their financial woes are behind them, and that their modest 83 million payroll is that low simply because they don't have many good players. Well, they didn't say that, but . . . (AP)
Yes, that's right, Robin Ventura declined his contract option this offseason. But that doesn't mean he wants to stop managing the White Sox. (CSN Chicago)
Connecticut sure made its last-ever regular-season meeting with Syracuse a good one. (AP)
And it's reason for the Orange to start worrying. (NBC's College Basketball Talk)
It wasn't the clash of the titans it usually is, not with North Carolina just sort of stumbling along this year, but Duke is still happy with the 73-68 win over its arch-rivals. (AP)
The Big Ten is putting its teams on a cupcake-free diet. (AP)
Hitting a defenseless opponent in the head may get you kicked out of the game if the NCAA institutes a proposed rule change. (AP)
The Merry Maids should do housecleaning as thorough as Oklahoma's Bob Stoops. (AP)
New coach Brett Bielema has his first player arrest to deal with at Arkansas. (AP)
Here's a little break in the monotony of the qualifying round: Daniela Holmqvist uses a tee to extract what she thought was potentially fatal venom from a spider bite on her ankle at the Women's Australian Open . . . and then continued playing. Alas, she shot a 74 and didn't make the cut. (AP)
We might still have belly putters if only Ernie Els and Webb Simpson hadn't won majors in consecutive months last year. At least that's whay Els thinks. (golfchannel.com)
The Senators lose star defenseman Erik Karlsson, the reigning Norris Trophy winner, when his left Achilles is cut by the dastardly Matt Cooke's skate blade during Pittsburgh's 4-2 win over Ottawa. (AP)
Mike Milbury thinks it was just an unfortunate accident but knows that "a lot of people are going to start yakking . . . about Matt Cooke this and Matt Cooke that." And sure enough, Ottawa GM Bryan Murray fumed after the game: "It's Matt Cooke. What else should I say? Watch the replay." (NBC's Pro Hockey Talk)
You have your upper-body injuries and your lower-body injuries. But those head injuries are another matter entirely . . . and that's what the Avalanche's Erik Johnson has to deal with. (AP)
All the Blues had to do to break their five-game losing streak was get out of St. Louis. (AP)
You can go home again, right, Alexei Ponikarovsky? (AP)
Right, Andrew Brunette? (AP)
As expected, the Blue Jackets make Jarmo Kekalainen the first European GM in NHL history. (AP)
Shaq and Kobe are pals again. Now we can all sleep at night. (NBC's Pro Basketball Talk)
Derrick Rose says if he has to sit out the year in order to get completely healthy, then he'll sit out the year. Good news, eh, Bulls Nation? (CSN Chicago)
This isn't the Pro Bowl; players actually like participating in the NBA All-Star Game. But, like his NFL brethren, 'Melo says he has an injury that may force him to miss it. Unlike his NFL brethren, it's a real one. (AP)
Come on, Clippers. You score 46 points in the first quarter, you really should finish with more than 106 for the game. (AP)
Jason Garrett insists that all those moves which seemed to diminish his powers as Cowboys coach were collaborative decisions with everyone, him included, in on the discussions. (AP)
But Mike Florio wonders if Garrett isn't a dead man walking, even at this late date of the offseason. (NBC's Pro Football Talk)
At the other end of the security spectrum, the Vikings pick up Leslie Frazier's option for 2014. (AP)
Johnny Knox, released by the Bears Tuesday, is calling it quits. (AP)
Terrell Suggs made a miraculous recovery from a partial Achilles tear. Now he may go without surgery to fix the partial tear of his right biceps. (CSN Baltimore)
The NFL's movers and shakers, including Robert Kraft, come together in a tribute for Steve Sabol, the late president of NFL Films. (CSN Philly)


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My afternoon scheduleis now set and it will be different.
This Christmas eve. game was a bad idea from the start and I was thrilled to hear it was a Jets home game not ours so I don't have to blow 12 hours on a very long round trip to East Rutherford.
I will have to get out of the house and out of my wife's while she finishes off our Christmas eve. meal.I ammeeting a good sized gang at a local pub with my son and a bunch of his friends. It will be fun but definitely different. Usually I am at my house (for away games) with about a dozen close friend who are huge Giants fans. We put out a nice spread of food and the boys bring the beers. Not tomorrow. Go Blue!
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iPad mini supply improves, shipment times now 3-5 days from online Apple Store
Date: Monday, January 28th, 2013, 07:19
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Give it time and eventually the supply channels even out.
Per AppleInsider, despite severe constraints throughout the holiday quarter, supply of Apple's iPad mini is finally catching up with demand as the Online Apple Store is now quoting ship-by dates of 3-5 business days.
The change comes one week after Apple kicked off sales of cellular-enabled versions of the iPad mini in China, a market thought to be a major player in the company's future growth. At the time of launch, availability stood at two weeks for the Chinese market and one week for the U.S.
Supply of the hot-selling 7.9-inch tablet has been constrained since the device went on sale in October, with brisk sales amounting to quick stockouts on Apple's online store. The company announced that the iPad mini sold three million units over its first weekend on sale.
In early December, iPad mini availability improved as quoted Online Apple Store shipment estimates fell to one week for the first time since launch.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said in the company's quarterly earnings conference call in October that he thought the smaller iPad, along with the fourth-gen iPad and iPad 2, would be "extremely attractive" stand-ins for PCs. During Apple's most recent conference call for the first fiscal quarter of 2013, Cook said suppliers were having difficulty meeting high demand, but a balance could be reached by the end of the upcoming quarter.
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COMIC Relief is to stop investing in arms, tobacco or alcohol companies after a review sparked by criticism of some of its financial dealings.
A BBC Panorama programme last year suggested that millions of pounds donated to the charity had been tied up in some areas which appear to run counter to its aims because it does not exercise any sort of ethical screening on its investments.
A full review was ordered and the organisation, which generates huge publicity for its activities with star-studded programmes screened by the BBC, said it would be more transparent about its investments and exclude companies that manufacture armaments or tobacco products or whose primary business is the manufacture of alcohol products.
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Tim Davie, chairman of Comic Relief, said: "Public trust is the cornerstone of Comic Relief and we would be nothing without our many supporters to whom we have listened and will keep listening.
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LEAVING THINGS IN A BETTER STATE: USA TODAY's Bob Nightengale writes MLB "might not be quite the same without Selig, who is leaving the game in a much better place than when he arrived 22 years ago." The league "still has issues, and a few will be sitting on the desk for the next commissioner." However, with the sport generating nearly $9B in revenue, players earning an average salary of $3.3M with no salary cap and the Dodgers recently selling for $2.15B, there is "enough to wash away all of the blemishes." Yankees SS Derek Jeter said, "The industry is doing a lot better now monetarily. Just look at the attendance; it's higher than it's ever been. Salaries are higher than they've ever been. Teams are making more money than they ever have." Nightengale notes for Selig, it is "clear how he wants his legacy defined." Selig: "When it's all said and done, I'd say the economic reformation of the sport, because there have been so many manifestations of that. We have the best competitive balance we've ever had, and it's led to so many other things" (USA TODAY, 7/16). In N.Y., Tyler Kepner writes Selig "leaves baseball in better shape than it was when he took over." Target Field, which held the All-Star festivities this week, is a "fitting a symbol of Selig's tenure," as securing it was a "thorny issue that took complicated maneuvering, with mistakes and hurt feelings along the way." But the end result is "something better and more sustainable than what had gone before." Kepner: "Ignore all the bad stuff in between, and the before-and-after images of the Selig era striking" (N.Y. TIMES, 7/16). In Boston, Dan Shaughnessy writes Selig at last night's MLB All-Star Game was "taking a victory lap." Selig will "undoubtedly go down as the 'Steroid Commissioner,'" but otherwise it has been a "pretty good run." Selig is "easily harpooned and mistakes have been made, but none of baseball's other eight commissioners could possibly match his love for the game and respect for its history" (BOSTON GLOBE, 7/16).
DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER: Selig was interviewed during Fox' coverage of last night's All-Star Game and reflected on the one thing he wished he could have done differently during his tenure as commissioner." He said, "I don't know if I could have done anything different, but I will say the '94 World Series. We had a work stoppage. It was the eighth work stoppage in my baseball career. You probably could see it coming. Now, I'm proud of the fact we've had 22 years of labor peace, but do I wish somehow there would have been a way to stop that? I do" ("2014 MLB All-Star Game," Fox, 7/15).


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The Call [2013] (DVD)
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In this heart-pounding, edge-of-your-seat thriller, veteran 911 operator Jordan (Academy Award® Winner Halle Berry, Monster's Ball, 2001) takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl (Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine, 2006) who has been kidnapped and thrown into the trunk of a madman's car. But with the clock ticking, Jordan soon realizes she must confront a killer from her past to put an end to a serial killer's haunting rampage.
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- Starring: Halle Berry, Michael Imperioli, Morris Chestnut, Abigail Breslin, Michael Eklund
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- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: PG-13
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- Release Date: 06/25/2013
- Run Time: 94 minutes
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It may have started as a joke, but the product described as a blanket for your gun is now an actual product, known as the Gun Snuggler. The company behind it is known as Guns and Gardens, described as a zombie apocalypse outfitter, who are also responsible for a few other internet gems as the Zombie Tools Survival App for iPad and iPhone, and the Hidden Supply Cache, all in efforts to survive the impending zombie apocalypse. Check out the ad.


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I thought the morning practice was sluggish for our standards. It wasn't a waste and it wasn't bad, but it wasn't to our expectation level. Tonight they came out focused. It was energetic and crisp and there was a lot better execution on both sides of the ball. —Utah State gead coach Matt Wells
LOGAN — With just three weeks left before its season opener at Utah, Utah State conducted its first two-a-day practices of fall camp Thursday. Head coach Matt Wells was not thrilled with how his players opened the morning session, but thought they rebounded well during the evening practice.
"I thought the morning practice was sluggish for our standards. It wasn't a waste and it wasn't bad, but it wasn't to our expectation level," Wells said. "Tonight they came out focused. It was energetic and crisp and there was a lot better execution on both sides of the ball."
The defense continued to show why it's expected to be stellar again this fall. Defensive end Connor Williams recovered a fumble for a touchdown during a quick scrimmage, while his teammates on the defensive line were able to get a consistent push on the offensive line.
"It will be fun to watch them wreak a little havoc on someone else soon," Wells said.
In the defensive backfield, Rashard Stewart came up with two interceptions and continued what has been an excellent fall camp for the junior cornerback.
"He's playing with confidence," Wells said of Stewart. "His production is a direct reflection of what he's done all summer and how he's trained."
Stewart will push Tay Glover-Wright for the starting cornerback job opposite of Nevin Lawson, or could end up being a playmaking option for the Aggies in their nickel packages.
On the offensive side of the ball, quarterback Chuckie Keeton is starting find chemistry with some new targets. Keeton looked the way of tight end D.J. Tialavea often during drills. The 6-4, 260 senior is a huge target for Keeton on short routes, but also found his way deep a few times. Known more for his blocking than his receiving, Tialavea could end up averaging more catches per game than the six he had all of last season.
The other developing go-to receiver is the polar opposite of Tialavea. At just 5-7, Bruce "JoJo" Natson can be difficult to spot, but Keeton was able to find the water bug receiver several times, including threading the needle down the seam for a 20-yard touchdown during a team practice session.Comment on this story
Threat of thunderstorms moved most of the evening practice to the Laub Indoor Training Center, but not before special teams got a chance to practice outdoors in the elements. The team ran through some fake punt options and the kickers got a chance to deal with the canyon winds blowing in with the storm.
"Those guys kicked it about 15 yards outside the upright and then the wind pushed it through and we made them all," Wells said.
The Aggies will have a single practice Friday before lacing it up for their first scrimmage of fall camp on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. at Romney Stadium.
Kraig Williams is a 2010 Utah State University graduate and regular Deseret News sports blogger. He can be followed on Twitter @DesNewsKraig.


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Gambling, psychological manipulation, Baseball, cheating and a cunning main character, this time we take a look at One Outs
Disclaimer: This is part of a series of reviews of Anime which I think people should be more aware of. For that purpose I'm using the tag Ani-NOW, meaning Anime No One Watched, I'm tweaking the format a little to adjust to the objective of the review series: Try to make people interested in watching the show without spoiling too much.
Summary: Tokuchi Toua is a master gambler, and his specialty is One Outs, a simplified version of baseball (only pitcher vs batter) where the pitcher's aim is to keep the ball from leaving the infield.The story begins when Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the fictional Lycaons in Japan's Pacific League, a team down on it's luck, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and bring himself out of a slump. There, he meets Toua Tokuchi, a 134-kmph (83 miles per hour) pitcher and the undisputed king of One Outs. After a game of One Outs against Lycaons veteran hitter Kojima, Toua is persuaded to join the team.
The interesting part comes then. As the professional gambler he is when meets the team's owner he negotiates a unique contract: for every out Toua records, he earns 5 million yen; however, for every run scored against him, Toua has to pay back 50 million yen (10 times that amount).
- The main character. Throughout the whole series we are never allowed into Tokuchi's personal monologue, we don't know what he's thinking and we're only get so see everyone else's reaction to what he comes up with, and the explanation comes later. This only reinforces his master manipulator nature for the viewer and we get to see him as an expert of human behavior, and how he uses this to his full advantage. The amount of foresight and intuition that the protagonist displays in each episode is nothing short of genius, and the execution succeeds to the point where it always seems believable.
- Real life baseball can be boring for a lot of people, since there are TONS of dead time and pauses, and while the show reflects that in long mound/bench conversations and technical explanations, they are pretty entertaining and manage to keep you at the edge of your sit, contributing to the success of the show.
- There is almost no character development, and quite frankly side characters, aside from some very very few exceptions (specially Tokuchi battery mate, Ideguchi), are very forgettable and one dimensional. Or maybe Tokuchi just make them look that way.
- The show doesn't leave you with a sense of closure, so people may complain that the end is lackluster and more of a product to promote the manga, that at the time was being revived by the author after a two year hiatus
In short: A chess match disguised as baseball, but with one side masterfully manipulating both set of the pieces, there's almost none dull moment in the show. If you like dark, intelligent series with a great main character you can't pass out on this one.
Random Facts:
- One outs series is produced by Madhouse, and directed by Yūzō Satō, who also directed Akagi and Kaji (both also Animated by Madhouse), two series with main characters with almost the same treats as Tokuchi. The 3 of them are also voiced by the same VA, Masato Hagiwara. This has caused people to make the mistake that the 3 series are by the same author, and while Akagi and Kaji are, One Outs is by a different author. Also the protagonist looks exactly like Yoichi Hiruma from Eyeshield 21 other ani-hero type of character that only aim is to win.
- The Opening theme has the same weird grammar as the show title (and me and this fan translation of the song). The song is performed by Pay Money to my Pain, whose vocalist K, passed away on December 30th 2012. After that the band released an album featuring songs that K recorded before his death, said album includes the song Respect for the Dead Man, which is used as the Opening theme for this Winter 2014 season Anime Nobunagun
BoringBaseball technical knowledge. Under the terms of the One Outs contract, to break even, Tokuchi at most can admit 1 earned run for every 10 outs recorded, that means 1 run every 3.1IP, which translates to a 2.72 ERA. Under that contract only 7 MLB pitchers qualifying for the ERA title would have made a profit, and 2013 AL Cy Young winner would have amassed a debt of 235 million Yens


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The fallout continues from the "creative differences" caper surrounding Alec Baldwin's latest Broadway show. Shia LaBeouf dropped out of the Broadway show "Orphans" earlier this week and then took to Twitter to share some rather strange emails between himself, director Daniel Sullivan, and Baldwin.
Now, Baldwin is responding to the drama, saying he is "very disappointed" in the way LaBeouf has handled the situation.
"Regarding of what people feel about the events that happened, you expect communications to be private, because everyone wants this process to be as collegial as possible," Baldwin told The New York Times. "Everyone is very sad about what's happened."
There was one more interesting thing about the emails LaBeouf so publicly posted on social media: his "how to be a man" speech, used as an apology to Baldwin, seems to be eerily similar to an essay Tom Chiarella wrote for Esquire called, "What Is a Man."
You can compare LaBeouf's email exchange with Chiarella's entire essay here — other than changing some names here and there, several parts appear to be lifted word for word.
Apparently if you Google "how to be a man," Chiarella's essay is one of the first that pops up. Still, the original author has found some amusement in all of it.
"I won't pass judgment on the guy, but I will say this: It's a very tough assignment. You're giving people words they might lean on someday. This is not the type of leaning I had in mind," Chiarella said. "I have to have a sense of humor. You write that and then everybody in the world either likes it or finds it the most pretentious piece of s--t ever. So I hate having to look at the comments again."
"I hate that it's associated with his drug dealer father," he added, referencing LaBeouf's confession at the top of his apology email. "My father was a good guy!"
On Thursday, the publicity team for the production announced that actor Ben Foster would be filling LaBeouf's shoes right away because, you know, the show must go on. The former "Transformers" star approved this message, tweeting, "Ben Foster is a beast. He will kill it," in all caps.
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ASIA/CHINA - "We brought the Gospel outside the church door": 270 baptisms in the cathedral of Xi Kai of the Diocese of Tian Jin
Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - During the solemn celebration on December 17th which was held in the Cathedral of Xi Kai, the Diocese of Tian Jin, 270 catechumens were baptized. During the Eucharist on the fourth Sunday of Advent, on December 18, the parish priest officially welcomed them in the parish family thanking in particular for the missionary efforts of the whole parish and the close communion that the church members live. "We have always stressed that evangelization is the duty and right of every baptized person - the parish priest underlined-. We are happy to see that our parishioners have applied this principle in their lives, creating an atmosphere of fellowship and missionary awareness inside and outside the parish. We brought the Gospel outside the church door". In addition, the parish priest announced the next course of catechism which opens on February 12, 2012. Kai Xi's Cathedral, dedicated to St. Joseph of the Diocese of Tian Jin, was built in 1914 in Romanesque style and can accommodate over 2,000 people. The mission of the Vincentians, was called "the French church" by locals. The parish now has more than 30,000 faithful, it is very lively and also uses modern technology and mass media to promote evangelism. It was among the first parishes to open a website and, recently, has also opened a blog on evangelization. The Diocese of Tian Jing is a large Catholic community, where Catholicism has had a remarkable development. (NZ) (Agenzia Fides 20/12/2011)


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Hey I'm experiencing the problem as well. Internet works fine until I restart my computer and then it says limited connectivity, no internet access. Reinstalling the drivers every time works. I'm running an Intel Q6600, Gigabyte EP35-DS3L motherboard, with a Realtek LAN device.
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It is often argued that the practice of law and the teaching of law are growing distant from each other, as legal education seeks academic respectability in theory and the practicing bar looks for graduates with a full complement of professional skills. In the Section of International Law, we find that we are, instead, thriving on the interplay between the academic and practicing branches of our profession, and this issue of International Law News, which addresses the theme of "International Legal Education," reflects that productive relationship.
Our first article ties the theme of legal education and legal practice together beautifully. Dean Nora Demleitner, professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, addresses important structural changes in U.S. legal education, aspects of the recently released report of the ABA Task Force on Legal Education, and the importance of international and cross-cultural legal studies.


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My rabbits are two brothers, George and Cinnabun, about six months old. They are bonded and love each other and have never fought. However, this morning I noticed George trying to steal a piece of lettuce from Cinnabun. Cinnabun ran away and backed into a corner of the cage, but George kept grabbing the lettuce from Cinnabun's mouth. Cinnabun is very laid back and did not try to attack George, but I was shocked by this behavior and am fearing that this could lead to fighting. Has anyone had this happen? It wasn't like it was the last piece of lettuce, they had an entire hay rack full of lettuce, but George kept yanking the lettuce out of Cinnabun's mouth. George has always been VERY obsessed with food, but I have never seen him take some right out of his brother's mouth. Typically they enjoy sharing food, but it was clear to me that Cinnabun was not trying to share the lettuce piece with George.


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UVU Student Teams Win Awards At International Digital Media Arts Association Conference
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Utah Valley University digital media student teams won two of three individual project awards at the 10th annual conference of the International Digital Media Arts Association (iDMAa) that took place Nov. 8-10 in Miami.
An interactive game called "Cape Chronicles," developed by a team of six UVU digital media students as a course assignment, received the iDMAa award for excellence in game development. To learn more about "Cape Chronicles," visit its student-run website, www.capechroniclesgame.com. Joe Albrethsen, one of the students on the UVU digital media team, was in Miami to attend the conference and accept the award.
As a result of winning the award, Albrethsen was able to meet and discuss careers in the digital game industry with Richard Hilleman, the creative director at Electronic Arts, one of the nation's largest and most successful video game development companies with titles such as "John Madden Football" and "Sims." Hilleman received a lifetime achievement award at the iDMAa awards banquet.
"The Lizard and the Ladder," a 3-D animated short released last year received the iDMAa award for outstanding achievement in digital arts.
"This is most likely the last award the 'Lizard' cartoon will compete for," said Rodayne Esmay, UVU digital media professor. "It had a great run through the film festival circuit and was seen in numerous venues across the country. It is very satisfying to see it complete the competition season so well."
This is the second significant award for "The Lizard and the Ladder," in the past two weeks. The Audio Engineering Society honored UVU digital media student Brian Parsons for his surround sound design and work on the film.
The iDMAa is an organization focused on academic collaboration that combines the best practices within educational institutions and private enterprise in order to look ahead to the future of media, culture and arts education. For more information, visit www.idmaa.org.
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NBC Universal reached its initial goal with its first-ever "green" Facebook application so quickly that it set a new goal of 10 times the old goal.
Make Green Count launched on the social-networking site Friday as part of NBCU's Green Is Universal initiative, with a goal of reaching 100,000 green "points," which would lead to a $10,000 contribution to the Nature Conservancy's Gulf Restoration Fund.
It reached 100,000 points within 24 hours of launching, and NBC Universal set a new goal of 1 million points, after which another $10,000 will be donated.
The media company created Make Green Count with Buddy Media, a creator of user-engagement tools that raised $23 million in series-C funding last month.
Users earn discount coupons by agreeing to participate in green activities, such as "power down your computer" with USA Network, for which users receive a coupon for 20% off a "smart" power strip from Buygreen.com.
Green Is Universal vice president Beth Colleton said:
We are excited to tap the power of the NBCU brands and today's new media to help make a positive impact on the environment. Offering an easy way for consumers to add their green stories and commitments into their social-networking rhythm, this application is also a great tool to help spread and expand the green dialogue on the Web.
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Terri Patchen and Dennis W. Smithenry contributed equally to this study.
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Diversifying instruction and shifting authority: A cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) analysis of classroom participant structures
Version of Record online: 22 JAN 2014
DOI: 10.1002/tea.21140
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Journal of Research in Science Teaching
Volume 51, Issue 5, pages 606–634, May 2014
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Patchen, T. and Smithenry, D. W. (2014), Diversifying instruction and shifting authority: A cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) analysis of classroom participant structures. J. Res. Sci. Teach., 51: 606–634. doi: 10.1002/tea.21140
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KIRKLAND, Wash.- Mike Holmgren will return for a final season as coach of the Seattle Seahawks.
Seattle's veteran coach announced his decision Tuesday, after spending the weekend with his wife at their offseason Arizona home.
"Kathy and I came to this decision to finish my contract," said Holmgren, who had hinted at retirement for weeks. "This will be my last year. We are going to make it the best year ever.
"And then probably after that, I will take a little time off - but not yet. We are going to go after it hard."
Seattle, which won its fourth consecutive NFC West title, was eliminated by Green Bay in the divisional playoffs.
Bucs give Gruden, Allen 3-year contract extensions
TAMPA, Fla. - Coach Jon Gruden was rewarded Tuesday for Tampa Bay's worst-to-first turnaround in the NFC South with a three-year contract extension that runs through the 2011 season.
Gruden, who had one year left on a contract that was extended after the Buccaneers won the Super Bowl five seasons ago, earned about $4.3 million in 2007.
General manager Bruce Allen also was given a three-year extension, keeping him under contract for another four seasons.
Wife of ex-Dallas Cowboys running back sues doctors
DALLAS - The wife of former Dallas Cowboys running back Ron Springs is suing two doctors she accuses of letting her husband slip into a coma last October, just months after a new kidney donated by ex-teammate Everson Walls appeared to save his life.
The medical malpractice lawsuit filed Tuesday in state district court by Adriane Springs seeks unspecified damages and describes Springs as being non-responsive and incapacitated.
Adriane Springs said her husband has brain damage and didn't know if he would recover.
"My husband was doing so well after the kidney transplant," she said. "This is just a very tragic outcome."
Named in the suit are Dr. Joyce Abraham, Dr. David Godat and the Texas Anesthesia Group. They could not immediately be reached for comment.
Adriane Springs announced the lawsuit in the Dallas courthouse alongside Walls and her son, Shawn Springs, a cornerback for the Washington Redskins.
Adriane Springs said her husband is able to open his eyes and breathe on his own, but has little movement and cannot speak.
Ron Springs appeared to have been improving after the February kidney transplant, the first between two former U.S. professional athletes. Springs suffered from Type 2 diabetes, which forced the amputation of his right foot.
"The lawsuit is extremely justified," Walls said. "If you would have seen Ron the night before surgery, you would have been pretty impressed."
Springs, 51, underwent surgery again Oct. 12 to remove a 2-centimeter cyst on his left arm, a procedure that relatives believed would be routine.
But the lawsuit alleges that Springs began having difficulty breathing as he received anesthesia, and that doctors used drugs to induce him into a paralyzed state in order to insert a breathing tube. The intubation failed and Springs went into cardiopulmonary arrest before being resuscitated, according to the suit.
Springs does not respond to verbal commands, the suit said, and is in a "persistent mentally and physically incapacitated state due to severe anoxic brain injury."
Les Weisbrod, Springs' attorney, said the coma had nothing to do with the kidney transplant.
Springs played eight seasons in the NFL - six with the Cowboys and two in Tampa Bay - before retiring after the 1986 season. In the four seasons Springs and Walls played together in Dallas, the two forged a strong friendship.
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EDA Outreach
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An industry that lives on change as the root of progress should be able to see and gather what is needed to increase its visibility.
One of the complaints I hear most often is that EDA gets no respect from the financial community, due mostly to the fact that no one really knows what EDA is or does outside of our industry. In fact Electronic Design Automation shares the first ten entries in a Google search of the term with: Economic Development Administration, Event-driven Architecture, an online document access system of the Department of Defense, the European Defence Agency, and a twelve step fellowship dedicated to helping people recover from overeating disorders.
In my own case, I always get a blank stare from people I meet for the first time when I tell them that I write about EDA, unless of course the person happens to be involved in the design of electronic components. It is not that our field is so esoteric to escape a description understandable by most people. After all people do know about nuclear physicists and macro-biologists, for example. Professionals developing EDA tools get a degree in electrical engineering or computer science, not in electronic design automation. And yet, there is a lot of EDA research going on at our universities! I think that changing this state of affairs, although not possible in a few months, is not impossible and in fact, wonder of wonders, does not require the creation of a new consortium. Well, may be that is the problem
A new project for EDAC
EDAC is the organization tasked with increasing the visibility and worth of the EDA industry. It has tried in the past to increase the visibility of the industry with poor results if one uses financial and investment indicators as well as the popular recognition of the term EDA. Its campaign "Where Electronics Begins" was (or is it still?) well intentioned, but it mostly reached people that in one way or another were already connected to the industry: like PR professionals, or administrative personnel working in the industry. The reason is not the promotional material, it was, and is, the distribution channel. It is useless to try to popularize EDA in Silicon Valley: we are already notorious there!
We got to go outside our comfort zone, mingle with those companies whose products we make possible. So here is an idea for EDAC. Have a booth at next year's CES. Create material that speaks about HD television, intelligent cell phones, automotive electronics, and even space vehicles. Do not explain what an EDA tool does, tell stories of how consumer electronics products are developed and how EDA tools are used in the process. I bet we can get a few television reporters to cover our presence there, and may be, even get a public station of one of those pseudo-scientific channels to produce a special.
What CEDA can do
CEDA was created with the ambitious goal of centralizing all of the activities of the IEEE related to electronic design automation in one organization that could focus better on the issues of the professionals involved in it. It has spent its first two years trying to figure out how to implement such a task, as well as trying to carve out as much organizational space within the IEEE as possible. It has to date achieved two very recognizable successes: it co-sponsors DAC and the Phil Kaufman Award, demonstrably the two yearly industry events with the highest profile.
CEDA, as one would expect, is guided by a board composed mostly of members of academia, so I think it is the right organization to devote some of its time to the promotion of design automation within the academic institution. So, what about a degree in Computer Design Automation? The curriculum would be made up of course from the electrical engineering and computer sciences curricula, as well as at least a couple of course from the business administration curriculum to give our professionals an understanding of financial and managerial issues.
Cynics would say that unfortunately EDAC's board is made up of people that already made their millions and do not have much of a need to change things. And that CEDA's board is made up of people that already are comfortable in their careers and do not have much time to dedicate to new demanding endeavors. But cynicism is the enemy of progress. Progress is fueled by enthusiasm, by fresh thinking, by gathering and channeling new energies, and yes, by new investments. An industry that lives on change as the root of progress should be able to see and gather what is needed for the task.


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In our final video review of Macworld/iWorld 2013, Kirk Hiner and Aaron Krauss discuss the day's finds, talk about some of the hardware we used on the trip, and as well as giving an offer our overall impression of the state of expo in general. Plus, Kirk tries autotuning himself with the Jam app.
In this video we talked about:
- ZAGGkeys ProPlus iPad keyboard. Featuring illuminated keyboards and smart cover functionality.
- DecalGirls skins for iPad.
- The Drake Messenger Bag by Hex, featuring an iPad pocket.
- The HyperJuice external battery for MacBook and iOS devices.
- The Thunderstorm handheld home theater by Belkin.
- Jam for iPhone by Dreamwalk Mobile.
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Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools
We develop estimation methods that use the amount of selection on the observables in a model as a guide to the amount of selection on the unobservables. We show that if the observed variables are a random subset of a large number of factors that influence the endogenous variable and the outcome of interest, then the relationship between the index of observables that determines the endogenous variable and the index that determines the outcome will be the same as the relationship between the indices of unobservables that determine the two variables. In some circumstances this fact may be used to identify the effect of the endogenous variable. We also propose an informal way to assess selectivity bias based on measuring the ratio of selection on unobservables to selection on observables that would be required if one is to attribute the entire effect of the endogenous variable to selection bias. We use our methods to estimate the effect of attending a Catholic high school on a variety of outcomes. Our main conclusion is that Catholic high schools substantially increase the probability of graduating from high school and, more tentatively, college attendance. We do not find much evidence for an effect on test scores.
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This fire has taken hold in the foothills overlooking Colorado Springs. the prolonged drought in the whole of the interior west is to blame, with other states at real risk of seeing similar incidents.
In all 32,000 people were given evacuation orders, including the 2,000 resident in the local Air Force Academy. The fire now covers an area of 9-square-miles.
The Waldo Canyon fire has eaten up over 6,000 acres of dry timber in the four days since it broke out. The scariest thing is that even those whose job it is to contain the blaze are in the dark over how big it will get and how long it will last.
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The welfare system dates back centuries, and at it's inception was something good. (which it still could be)
During the roman empire emperor Augustus started a program to allot grain to citizens who couldn't afford them.
In America, the great depression of the 1920's left a serious problem. Even the rich were poor and, of course, the poor became destitute. Roughly a quarter of the American work force was unemployed. This didn't stop the breeders from breeding and the country saw an ever growing population consisting of a fuckton of starving children.
I do understand when you have nothing to do with your time other than sit around looking at the walls, balling the wife is a few minutes of entertaining distraction. It's either that or jump off a building, right?
The problem was largely ignored until the thirties with the establishment of social security and evolved from there. Rather than install an order to slow the population more programs for the needy were created. At this point it was incorruptible and became something truly helpful. It was honest.( Imagine something from our government that was honest. Today that's like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy; a complete fucking fairy tale that you wished you could still believed in)
This isn't a history lessen, but as I get started I feel there needs to be at least a starting point to understand fully the following rant.
Skipping forward to the 20th century: 1996 saw the first true reform, though lofty and pipe dreamy, Bill Clinton gave each state, based on population, a certain amount of money for aid to those already on welfare and those soon to be with the caveat that the states be working on getting these people working. Oddly, during his administration our country had one of the slightest percentages of the unemployed since the great depression.
The (personal side of the) 1980's…
I spent most of my formidable years in a south eastern rural Kentucky town. I witnessed rampant abuse of the welfare system, from food stamps to social security insurance. I knew one family the bred with my, by proxy, half family (the adoptive side of my mother and one true uncle) abuse every single part of the system available. It was, and continues to be their life's work.
They all went to the same corrupt quack doctor (I'm not sure how he might have made money from it, but my assumption is that he must have) and got what they referred to as "crazy checks." Life long government subsidies for being mentally incapable of functioning in society. %100 of this family and my half family received it. One running joke was, "when the doctor told me to sit in the blue chair I sat in the red one." I wish it was funny, but instead it's fucking sad.
I remember when I was 16 yrs old my half uncle, his two toddler sons and I were at the hospital where my actual grandfather had just had bypass surgery.
While I was standing outside on the sidewalk while my half uncle smoked, one of the boys darted across the lane into the parking lot. When my half uncle spotted him he yelled, in his very thick hillbilly accent, "Somebody catch 'em! That's a $123 a month in food stamps 'bout to get run over!"
Now that was actually funny but still had ironic sadness.
Now it would be absurd and naive to think that the abuse of the system is confined to this cross-bred family in hicktown Kentucky. Statistics speak of a growing number of Americans receiving benefits. I have to believe these folks are huge supporters of Trump. They have no book learnin' but they have generationally, neighborly and hereditarilly learned to take advantage of a system and further push the boundaries in the wake of government cut backs that deteriorate oversight much like Trump has.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau more than 110,000,000 people were receiving welfare benefits at the end of 2012. That's roughly %36 of the population. %46 was the last reported figure of non-tax paying citizens, but that number has ebbed and flowed and I can't find exact figures to post. We do know, however, that Obama hasn't helped folks get jobs, deter fraud or even actually help with anything.
Well, perhaps "human rights?" (nigga please, that's not running a country, that's just soap boxing)
Also, Mr Sympathy is in the immigrant corner handing out benefits to the illegals and not me. Is it because I was born in this country?
The Obama administration has brought more people into the welfare system (a %32 rise in welfare spending) than any president since FDR and Harry Truman during the WWII and great depression era.
In the current race for Obama's chair we have two candidates that I have a difficult time supporting. One more than the other. (It's a known fact that I despise Donald Trump. He's a fucking know-nothing dangerous idiot.)
She has mostly shied away from the topic in her current campaign, but has stated that republicans and conservatives are the downfall of the welfare system. (Agreed)
Supporting hubbie Bill in her soliloquy, she champions that reform is indeed necessary. That's important to remember. She worked hard to get the votes for the reform and truly believed it was the best option. From what little she has said in this election year, and from what I'm understanding regarding it, is basically the same thing Bill urged. Let's get these fucking deadbeats working for a living. Let's place a limit on how far benefits can extend and to whom. I can get behind that.
(remember the cigar?)
The question is how do you make that idea actually work? There is little question that Bill's attempt failed, so her avoidance on the issue is simply adding to the question. It's a bit disconcerting considering the awesome number of people in the system.
His view is decisively harder to understand because he's a dumbass waste of skin; an actual bag of human excrement wrapped in elephant dung and encased in an old person's spotted liver then shellacked with hairspray.
He mentioned the system being broken. (Duh)
He says single teen mothers should have to jump through hoops to get help. (Huh? What?)
He says that, unlike Bill's 1996 reform, should deal with all the programs (78 in total) and not just the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). (Agreed)
Then he double-talks that ultra wealthy people like himself, should relinquish social security benefits to help. OK. But that will never happen. Greed doesn't die.
Neither candidate talks about the median age of welfare recipients, the length of time that they have been receiving benefits, nor asks the question why?
The fact is, both candidates are soft on the issue because they don't have a clue or a plan.
What is the answer when no one is paying attention to the one trillion dollar a year "industry" that is the welfare system? Being in a "job training" program doesn't mean that they're looking, or even willing to work. No oversight to regulate the "addiction" (dependency is addiction) on the free ride. No one is looking at family trends, community trends or the amount of people in the same demographic, generationally, living off of the system that allows them to do nothing.
The rub…
The old woman that lived in the shoe should have kept her pants on, crossed her legs, and perhaps burdened the free clinic for some birth control.
Shouldn't there be a limit on how many children a habitual welfare recipient can bear? Some mandatory tube tying? Sterilization for some? I mean this is how these people get a raise.
Let's help them get them to work shall we? There are inmate programs that could be applied here.
Let these able-bodied welfare sucking leaches work to earn their checks like the rest of us do.
They can clean roadsides, sidewalks, parks, mow grass, empty trash, clean after the useless homeless (or join them), pick cotton or whatever. There's no shortage of shit work that no one else wants to do. Get their asses out of bed before noon and make them earn the Budweiser and government cheese. Then, watch the numbers fall off. The habitual abusers aren't going to show up to work and their benefits will be cut off. They'll shack up with another loser until the next one gets cut off and it will create a domino affect that will see the welfare system reform itself. It'll weed out those that can help themselves. I mean why use a weed-eater in a park for a $750 (per person) a month check when you can get a PAYING JOB doing the same thing earning minimum wage and take home, depending on the state, between $1000 and $1500? The down side to this is the average welfare family has four members and the figure doesn't include food stamps, medical care or WIC etc. I still believe the forced labor will deter these fucks.
Send them off to war.
Perhaps another aid might be, ummm, say… drug tests? You piss dirty you're out of the fucking program for life. Period! Why should I pay for your fucking drug and booze habit?
And no more disability for the fat fucks that eat until they can't fucking walk comfortably! They troll around on their little motorized carts with their swollen purple legs because they're so fat their stomachs cut off their circulation. Instead of food stamps for those sloppy pigs, we'll take that amount, give it to meals on wheels, not allow the driver to go to the door and make their fat asses waddle to the curb to pick up a fucking salad!
This will leave only those truly in need of assistance. Actual assistance.
Ta-mutha-fuckin-dah! Welfare reform…