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What's in name? For Newtown, sorrow and hope
Go anywhere in America and say "Newtown" and -- since mid-December -- a flood of emotions may follow. Disgust, sorrow, anger maybe.
Soon after the killing of 20 children and six faculty members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, amid the sorrow and condolences, came questions about how this upscale Fairfield County town would go forward with its proud name tarnished by a madman's bullets.
Days after the shooting, Newtown resident Jeremy Shur told a Denver Post reporter, "A week ago, nobody outside of Connecticut knew who we were. I wish we could go back in time, but we can't, obviously."
Media observer and Quinnipiac professor Rich Hanley says there's no way of getting around the association.
"Unfairly or not, Newtown as a term will be connected to the mass slaughter of children for generations who maintain a living memory of it. It will not be interpreted as a geographical place mark as some suggest, but will instead evolve into a standing metaphor for incalculable horror inflicted upon innocent children and their families."
But residents say that's not their idea of "Newtown." And they're replacing shock and sorrow with resolve.
First Selectwoman Patricia Llodra says the people in Newtown or Sandy Hook "would NOT think of themselves differently because of what happened to us on Dec. 14.
"In fact, the spirit of togetherness, of care for each other, of volunteerism to help with the many difficult tasks in the aftermath, and more have reinforced what we know to be true about Newtown -- we are a special place," Llodra said.
Resident Brian Trudeau, a married father of two preschoolers, said there's a lot of uncertainty around town about its reputation in the years to come.
"That's a fear of everyone," he said with a long sigh. "It goes without saying that to certain people, the words 'Newtown' and 'Sandy Hook' are always going to be viewed in that light. ... But I think to us, we're all really hopeful that the changes that come will cause people to not only view Newtown as where the tragedy took place, but also where things started to change."
Trudeau said the near-term is particularly uncertain because of politics.
"Everybody in town doesn't want to see people use the tragedy for their own political means, you know?" said Trudeau, who said he knows some of the parents involved in Monday's Sandy Hook Promise event and wants to follow their lead. "I personally have been trying to stress the importance of just love for your fellow man ... try to stay out of the politics. But it seems pretty hard to do."
Newtown Bee Editor Curtiss Clark said he hasn't heard any angst from residents about Newtown's name in history or the public consciousness.
"To the contrary, I think people are proud of the way the town has conducted itself in response to the tragedy," he said in an email.
Tom Bittman, co-founder of Sandy Hook Promise, put it succinctly at the group's press conference Monday: "We want Newtown to be remembered for change. We refuse to be remembered only for our loss. We want the shooting to be remembered as a turning point."
Llodra added, "If the world is watching, they will see this special place -- a place that cares more for people than things, a place with integrity and kindness, a place that will be defined more by how we behaved after Dec. 14 than by what happened to us on Dec. 14."
A town to the east of Newtown -- Cheshire -- went through a similar nightmare 5½ years ago with its own horrific crime, the Petit home invasion slayings.
In a phone call recently, the namesake of Sally Bowman Real Estate said time will help to heal, even with such a huge story that drags down a town's name.
"I think any tragedy that a small town incurs ... it affects people. Newtown needs to heal, and in time it will," said Bowman. "In Cheshire, that did happen. It did take some time. (But) I'm sure every time someone hears of 'home invasion,' they think of what happened here in town."
Bowman said at some point, the media needs to pull back on coverage of the event.
Hanley doesn't fault the media coverage.
"The media have little to do with this moment other than identifying the place as the site of something awful. The culture absorbs the name into its DNA and deploys it as reference point for tragedies to come."
The attention and public interest nationally have been immense, because of its news value.
Shortly after the shootings, a Pew Research Center poll showed 57 percent of the populace was closely following what happened in Newtown, as compared to 41 percent for the Aurora, Colo., slayings in July 2012, 45 percent for Virginia Tech and 68 percent for Littleton, Colo., in April 1999.
Notice the latter is listed by Pew as "Littleton," the town, and not Columbine, the school, which took the brunt of that tragedy's branding. So maybe the Newtown tragedy should be referred to as "Connecticut's school shooting."
No matter what outsiders think, says Llodra, it won't change residents' perception of their community.
"The people of Newtown and Sandy Hook see themselves and their community as a caring, giving place with a set of mutually held values that center on children, families, schools, recreation, seniors, safety -- all the values one might expect to find in any suburban center populated by a mix of middle and upper middle-class and hard-working folks."
Not that there aren't divisions and different perspectives in town, she says. "We debate with vigor, we sometimes disagree with vehemence (as evidence by recent budget battles), and we work hard to find the right and best way to serve the common good."
Bowman says when people look to buy a house in Cheshire from out of state these days, they don't seem to be aware of the July 2007 tragedy. In fact, the firm she was working for at the time sold a house on the Petits' street a week after the slayings.
"People are moving to a town because they want to, for many reasons. And I think (for) Newtown over time, that (mark of tragedy) will go away because it's a good town. And it's just something that happened randomly, not every day."
Llodra says she likes to make the analogy that "a person who is good, loving, kind, gentle and smart does not become otherwise when struck by a disease. It is the disease that is the 'foreign' object to be dispelled."
Trudeau and others in town prefer to focus on a hopeful legacy.
"I've been trying to tell my friends who don't live in town that I'd like to think of Newtown as the place where people look back and say, 'This is the place where the world learned how to treat one another.'"


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Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
3 Another time Jesus went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. 2 Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. 3 Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Stand up in front of everyone."
4 Then Jesus asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they remained silent.
5 He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. 6 Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.
Crowds Follow Jesus
7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. 8 When they heard about all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. 9 Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him. 10 For he had healed many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him. 11 Whenever the impure spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God." 12 But he gave them strict orders not to tell others about him.
Jesus Appoints the Twelve
13 Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. 14 He appointed twelve[a] that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach 15 and to have authority to drive out demons. 16 These are the twelve he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter), 17 James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means "sons of thunder"), 18 Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot 19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
Jesus Accused by His Family and by Teachers of the Law
20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. 21 When his family[b] heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."
22 And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons."
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The week in review
Most powdery substances: The day before white and red powdery substances are found in the mailbox of the Sylvan Learning Center on Greenbrier Place to bring out hazmat units again, a bag of white powder is discovered in the women's room in the Snyder Research Building at Fontaine Research Park. Authorities test the substance found March 29 at Fontaine, and it turns out to be... cocaine. Someone is really kicking herself for leaving that in the bathroom!
Most likely a cleaning solvent: The Charlottesville Fire Department hazmat team is called to 1215 Wertland Avenue April 2 with reports that people were getting sick. Turns out the building's hall had been mopped with a hospital-grade cleaner.
Most protective of a killer's identity: Culpeper police still have not released the name of the officer who fatally shot unarmed Patricia Cook, 54, on February 9 in a church parking lot. Special prosecutor James Fisher requests a special investigative grand jury April 2, the AP reports.
Most passengers: CHO– Charlottesville Albemarle Airport– logs in 406,373 passengers in 2011, a record that's nearly 10 percent over 2010, the Daily Progress reports.
Most rational resolution: Activist Jordan McNeish asks City Council to support a resolution to decriminalize marijuana by making it the lowest priority for the police department. Councilors at the April 2 meeting indicate a willingness to study the measure, Graham Moomaw reports in the DP.
Latest in the Eddie Snead slaying: Police say papers in Snead's residence suggest he may have reported that the woman accused of killing him March 5, Wanda Marie Turner, fraudulently used his Virginia National Bank account, according to the Progress. Turner has been charged with second-degree murder.
Latest for mother charged with daughter's death: Jessica Lewis, 36, waives a preliminary hearing April 2 for the involuntary manslaughter charges she faces for the deaths of daughter Amber Johnson, 20, and Amber's father, Michael Johnson, November 10 in a crash on Half Branch Road in Crozet. Lewis goes before a grand jury June 4.
Latest in 2009 National Forest murders: Police say they have DNA from the scene of the August 2009 slayings of Virginia Tech students Heidi Childs and David Metzler in the Jefferson National Forest, and that the murder weapon was a .30-30 caliber rifle, according to WSLS. A $70,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer.
Latest for girlfriend-tosser: Benjamin Grant Alger, 28, of Criglersville is sentenced to 27 years in prison for throwing April Dodson, 29, off the Quaker Run Road bridge over the Robinson River in Madison July 20, from which she suffered serious injuries. According to the Times-Dispatch, the two had argued when Dodson discovered Alger had fathered a child with another woman.
Latest sign crackdown: Albemarle goes after advertisers who plant their signs in public rights of way– again. The Board of Supervisors authorized enforcement in 2009, but placards have crept back onto roadways. Violators face a $100 per sign fine.
Least open to rational discourse: After City Councilor Kristin Szakos wonders whether it's time to get rid of Charlottesville's Civil War statues at a Virginia Festival of the Book event, a numbskull allegedly phones her house and swears at her daughter, according to the DP.
Biggest controlled burn: Shenandoah National Park plans to torch 500 acres between Jarmans Gap and Waynesboro between April 4 and 20, weather permitting.
Best volunteer: The Chamber of Commerce names Putt-Putt owner Lloyd F. Wood its volunteer of the year.
Best April Fool's stunt: A 50-foot Russian submarine floats in Lake Tam in Staunton's Gypsy Hill Park, courtesy of the Shenandoah Valley's prank master, "Professor" Mark Cline, according to NBC29.
Worst Botox-and-dash story: A woman using a fictitious name gets cosmetic facial injections from a Culpeper doctor March 9 and leaves without paying the $1,600 bill, NBC29 reports. She's believed to be in her 50s, but with skin so smooth, it's hard to tell.


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Scientists win 2 bln euros to fight brain disease, study graphene
The European Commission will award a total of 2 billion euros for research into brain disease and into the "miracle material" graphene which could be used to make flexible electronic devices and could lead to superfast Internet speeds.
The funding will be distributed over 10 years, with more than half of it coming from the Commission's research funds and the rest from EU member countries and the private sector, officials said on Monday.
The recipients – the Human Brain Project and the graphene study – were chosen from 21 projects assessed since July 2010 by a group of scientists, academics and a Nobel prize winner.
They looked at research which they considered would have the greatest impact on society and the economy.
"The European Commission is supporting ambitious and risky projects which promise a big return in the long term," the European Union's executive body said in a statement.
The international Human Brain Project, based in Switzerland, uses supercomputers to understand brain activity, speed up the diagnosis of brain diseases such as depression, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's and possibly develop new treatments.
The project also aims to use the brain's capacity to process signals from trillions of synapses – neural connections – as a model to develop computers which can do more with less energy consumption.
Nicknamed a miracle material, graphene is a flexible sheet of carbon that can conduct electricity. Despite being just one atom thick, it is 100 times stronger than steel.
It could be used to make lighter aircraft, as well as flexible devices such as tablets and laptops and medical gadgets to carry cancer-fighting drugs into the body.
Scientists have also found the combination of graphene and metallic wires could speed up web communication by tens if not hundreds of times faster than the fastest Internet cables currently in use. The graphene project will be coordinated by the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The Commission's research funding from 2014-2020 is still being decided in delayed talks over the European Union's long-term budget, but it said it was confident it could meet the 2 billion euro ($2.7 billion) total.
"We intend to fulfil our part of this equation," the EU commissioner for the digital economy, Neelie Kroes, told a news briefing. "We are expecting member states and others to contribute as well."
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Solid Green: For a Better Future is Clemson's anti-litter and environmental sustainability campaign. Its mission is to promote a "green" campus by coordinating and sponsoring events that further Clemson's commitment to the environment and sustainability. The goals of Solid Green are to raise awareness of littering on campus, recycling, energy and water conservation and other environmental issues; to promote clean-up activities and other events; and to support student groups that promote environmental awareness.
Solid Green is all about taking pride in Clemson's campus, taking responsibility for keeping it clean and taking action to help sustain the environment for a better future.
University Headlines: The Clemson Newsstand offers several released and features stories on efforts at Clemson.
RecycleMania: Clemson University is turning "Solid Green" as it competes against more than 450 colleges and universities in the 2014 RecycleMania tournament to see which can reduce, reuse and recycle the most campus waste. Read more.
Sustainability Week: Clemson University's Undergraduate Student Government will host its first sustainability week Feb. 18-22 with a series of events highlighting the university's sustainability initiatives. Read more.
Solid Green Day: Clemson's Solid Green Day is a day dedicated to picking up trash and recyclables in a university-wide effort to keep our campus clean. Students, faculty and staff who participate int he clean-up will receive a Solid Green t-shirt as an award for their service.


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A veteran who said he is know by the name "Traveler" of Pennsylvania prays over the name of his friend Carol Drazba, at Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington Sunday, May 30, 2010. Traveler said Drazba was one of very few women who died in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)


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Classic, cutting-edge, everyday and offbeat: the selection of goods being sold by the second in Hong Kong is befitting of a city that's been a crossroads of global trade for over 150 years. Here's where you can find what you want — or just lose yourself looking for it.
Chinese Snacks and Brews
Chinese pastries like the curiously named but flaky and chewy 'wife cake' are available year-round, as well as dried seafood and tonic foods in Sheung Wan, for the more adventurous. If you're visiting the city during festive occasions, try the signature snacks, many of which are loaded with metaphorical meanings.
Computers and Electronics
Hong Kong's lack of sales tax and import duty means bargains await on everything from desktop computers to music players. Shops in Mong Kok, Tsim Sha Tsui and Causeway Bay offer the most competitive prices for electronic goods and communications equipment. For computer hardware, software and accessories, head to Wan Chai Computer Centre in Wan Chai, and Golden Computer Arcade and Golden Computer Centre in Sham Shui Po.
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From skyscraper malls to cubby-hole stalls, the sheer variety of clothes shopping here is a sight to behold. Be measured for an affordable tweed three-piece suit, rifle through a pile of factory surplus in a noisy street market, or pick out uniquely Hong Kong silk chinoiserie and world-renowned creations of local designers. The shopping experience for cosmetics and skincare is no less varied and just about every budget is catered to.
Jewellery and Watches
With more jewellery stores per square kilometre than any other city in the world, it's no surprise that the city has a vast supply of precious stones and metals as well as timepieces. Make things easier by narrowing your search down to Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, Central, and Causeway Bay. The Jade Market in Yau Ma Tei is also a guaranteed fun few hours, whether you buy anything or not.
One thing that people of all ages love is toys, and although most toy manufacturing businesses left Hong Kong for Mainland China in the 1980s, locals have kept their passion for kiddie collectables alive. From semi-precious limited-edition figurines to the latest gadgets and games, Hong Kong specialises in all sorts of knickknacks from around the world. Try Tai Yuen Street in Wan Chai for something for every kid, big or small.
Traditional Wares and Wears
Aside from galleries, antiques shops and street markets on Cat Street and Hollywood Road, arts and crafts gems can be found all around town. From screens to traditional silk garments, from revolutionary memorabilia to seals, from calligraphy scrolls to porcelain tea sets, there are always exciting items to be unearthed. Be sure to pay a visit to Chinese department stores, Li Yuen East and West streets and Stanley Markets for a good look!


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The 2018 election may be a referendum on President Donald Trump, but it's also turning into a battle over Medicare, at least in some key races.
The Washington Post's David Weigel reports that Republicans in a number of swing districts are running campaign ads "reminiscent of a Tea Party-era rallying cry: 'Get your government hands off my Medicare.'"
The ads are focused on Medicare for all. They claim that the plan to provide universal health insurance would "bankrupt Medicare as we know it" or "end Medicare as we know it." And in some cases, the attacks are being used against Democrats who haven't even endorsed a Medicare-for-all bill.
Democrats welcome a fight on that turf, ready to pounce with charges that Republicans will be looking to slash Medicare now that they've passed massive tax cuts.
"The problem, say Democrats, is that Republicans can't credibly promise that they'll protect Medicare," Weigel writes, noting that, "every other day, a leading House Republican or a member of the Trump administration says that 'entitlement reform' is on the agenda if the party holds Congress — 'probably next year,' said Larry Kudlow on Monday morning."
Why it matters: However these key races turn out, it's probably a safe bet that the current Medicare campaign battles are just a preview of the larger one to come in 2020.


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That captured aside has led to some wonderful ribbing on behalf of the Atlanta Hawks who, according to Josh Smith, were "never [given] a chance": Hawks spokesman Arthur Triche announced on Twitter over the weekend that he would leave a pair of 300-level tickets for Nelson for yesterday's game. He wrote that he was "taking a page out of Jerry Glanville's book," the former NFL coach who would leave tickets for Elvis before games. The Hawks won last night, 103-95, but Nelson reportedly did not make the trip to Chicago to see the win. There must be some kind of Bolt Bus deal from Orlando to Atlanta for Game 3.


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Microsoft will make businesses pay 15% more for licenses that let workers access servers from as many devices as they want, which - depending on how workers do their jobs - may still be cheaper than the alternative.
The new fees go into effect Dec. 1, but existing support contracts that extend beyond that date will be honored at the old rate until the contracts expire. Meanwhile, IT execs should check out how their workforces actually use endpoint devices to access servers in order to sign up for the best deal, says Paul DeGroot, principal consultant at Pica Communications.
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He gives a pricing example for a single user with a corporate desktop who also accesses the Exchange server from outside the office, sometimes using a laptop and sometimes using a smartphone.
If the business supported that worker with CALs for each device it would cost $297. Supporting the same worker with a CAL that allows using unlimited devices costs $114 - and that's with the 15% increase, DeGroot says.
Sometimes, it's less expensive to buy a device license when it is used by many different workers to access the same servers. So a CAL for a workstation in a hospital that is used by multiple doctors and nurses during the day could cost less than licensing each individual who uses the machine.
Some businesses will use a mix of CALs, he says. DeGroot uses the example of a mining company where devices in field offices are used by many workers but workers at headquarters may each use multiple devices. In that case it might make sense to decide which type of CAL to buy based on location. "It may not perfectly reflect their requirements, but since CALs are fiendishly difficult to track - they don't actually exist, since they're not software - it may be easier to manage by location," DeGroot says in an email.
Customers have to specify whether they want user or device CALs and how many of each when they sign up for Software Assurance contracts, he says.
The 15% price hike might be explained by the proliferation of devices individuals use, he says. "This is a predictable response to the massive growth of multiple devices per user in the workplace," he says.
The hike is significant for Microsoft because the bulk of revenue from some server products comes from the CALs not the price of the server, according to DeGroot. "So, if Exchange is a billion-dollar business, which I'd guess is conservative, $800 million comes from CALs, and if half of those people switch to user CALs the revenue boost would be at least $60 million," he says.
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Editors' note (October 23, 2012): The 2011 Mac Mini reviewed here has been replaced by a modestly updated 2012 model that offers a newer Ivy Bridge CPU and USB 3.0.
Apple's new Mac Mini features some welcome updates and a controversial omission, but overall it remains in the same competitive middle ground as its earlier incarnations. No other system in its price range comes close to the Mac Mini's pleasing, compact design, and this $799 model brings some welcome performance improvements, along with the still-developing potential of its Thunderbolt port. Competing slim-tower PCs from the Windows side of the aisle offer more features for the same price, among them optical drives, which Apple has left off its new small form factor desktop. That decision makes the Mac Mini more of a niche computer than ever before. If you're a member of a niche who might benefit from owning an affordable Mac desktop with decent performance and a promising new input standard, the Mac Mini is a reasonable deal. Value shoppers and living room PC enthusiasts with large DVD collections, this is not the desktop for you.
The only major design change to the new Mac Mini comes to the front panel, which now has a continuous aluminum face instead of a slot for Apple's SuperDrive DVD burner. We expect that some potential buyers would happily sacrifice the new clean look for an optical drive, but with or without the slot, the Mac Mini remains one of the best-looking computers available. As with last year's edition, which debuted the new Mac Mini chassis, a plastic piece on the bottom twists off to allow user memory slot access.
All new Mac Minis now lack an optical drive.
The absence of the optical drive on the Mac Mini will likely provide the biggest point of uncertainty for shoppers contemplating a purchase, particularly for those hoping to bring the Mac Mini into the living room. The HDMI port still allows you to connect it to a TV, but with no DVD drive (give up on Apple ever supporting Blu-ray, by the way, if you haven't already) you will need to weigh the importance of your disc-based media. You could consider adding an external USB optical drive, and Apple offers one for $79, but that would arguably compromise the appeal of the Mac Mini's tidy design.
Those interested in the Mac Mini for day-to-day computing or for office work will also have to endure the inconvenience of an absent optical drive. These users can also rely on an external optical drive to install legacy disc-based software, but the impact of the lost DVD drive for traditional computing is less severe than in the living room. Given the amount of downloadable software available for purchase from Amazon, the iTunes Store, the Mac App Store, Steam, and elsewhere, we find Apple's anti-disc stance reasonable.
Other updates to the Mac Mini include a move to Intel's new second-generation Core i5 CPUs, a new version of OS X, code-named Lion, and, of course, the high-speed Thunderbolt port. You can read our review of Lion here, but note that because the Mac Mini does not include input devices, you will need to purchase the $69 Apple Magic Track Pad if you want to use Lion's new gesture-based input commands.
The new Mac Mini features a Thunderbolt port among its other inputs.
It will also be hard for consumers to understand the benefits of the Thunderbolt port, a new high-speed data port that debuted in Apple's most recent iMacs this past spring. To date, shipping Thunderbolt devices include only Apple's new $999 27-inch Thunderbolt Display and the external Pegasus RAID arrays from Promise. The Thunderbolt Display looks sharp, but the Mac Mini won't benefit from its built-in ports like the new MacBook Air, and you can buy an HDMI-based 27-inch display with the same 2,560x1,440-pixel resolution for under $800 from NewEgg. As for the Promise RAID array, pricing starts at $999 for a 4TB model.
Prices for Thunderbolt devices will surely come down as more products hit the market, and those who use the Mac Mini for more specialized purposes, such as in a design studio, or as a server, may find that the still-limited Thunderbolt universe makes sense today. Otherwise, given the expense of current Thunderbolt devices, and the lack of variety, it's hard to see how many consumers will put the Mac Mini's Thunderbolt port to immediate use.
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If the benefits of Thunderbolt aren't obvious, the new Core i5 CPU in the Mac Mini has a more noticeable impact. Along with the new CPU come a few other features. Apple has bumped the RAM to 4GB of 1,333MHz DDR3 memory, from 2GB 1,066MHZ RAM on the older model. You also get twice the hard-drive space, with a 500GB drive, as well as a discrete graphics chip for the first time in a Mac Mini, by way of the lower midrange AMD Radeon HD 6630M. Compared with a slim-tower HP desktop in the same price range, the Mac Mini's core components aren't actually that impressive. HP gives you twice as much hard-drive space, a faster CPU, a Blu-ray drive, and a TV tuner for just $30 more.
Your opinions on design and your operating system preferences will color the discussion beyond a simple comparison of features-for-the-dollar. We agree that the Mac Mini's value equation has improved with this new model. It should still come as no surprise that Apple still demands a premium for its products compared with others with similar or better features in the same price range.
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HARTFORD >> New York Yankees fans in Connecticut outnumber followers of the rival Red Sox, but the Boston World Series champions are winning support for the team's charity in Connecticut.
The state Department of Motor Vehicles and the Red Sox Foundation hope the Red Sox's win over St. Louis last month will boost interest in a specialty plate raising money for a college scholarship fund for state students.
The Republican-American reports that the foundation has reported nearly 600 applications for the charity plates, which display the signature pair of red socks and cost $115.
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James Cameron went down to the deepest pit of hell and came back unscathed. It was an amazing trip. He touched down on the Challenger Deep, exploring for three hours. "It's an alien world," he said. These are the first images.
The footage—taken with 3D high definition cameras and an 8-foot-long LED lamp—shows a place that looks like the surface of the Moon. But this alien world on Earth is not as dead as our silver satellite. There's life even down there, according to the film director and explorer.
The trip had to be cut short because of a leak in Cameron's sub, Deepsea Challenger, an alien looking ship herself. The 12 ton ship is a beautiful design that, according to the team behind the expedition, is much more maneuverable that older deep sea bathyscaphes and submarines like Trieste or Alvin.
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Unlike Alvin, however, Deepsea Challenger wasn't attacked by any gigantic fish. Cameron didn't have any encounters of the third kind either, like in his 1989 movie The Abyss. He didn't even find the white or bioluminescent creatures that he found on his way down.
He said that there were no traces of other beings, terrestrial or alien. He only saw amphipods barely an inch long. But he wasn't disappointed—they weren't looking for giant krakens. The purpose of the mission was just to explore. He believes that, after this trip, they will find many surprises in the many, many trips that they are going to make with Deepsea Challenger.
But perhaps the most striking part of the video was Cameron's sense of solitude and wonder. "My feeling was one of complete isolation from the rest of humanity," he says. It makes sense; after all, he was the first man in history to reach this depth, trapped in a tiny steel machine that shrunk even smaller in the depths; the sub actually shrunk three inches inward while it was down below.
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