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Google Rolls Out Rival to iPhoneBy Reuters - Print
The widely-anticipated G1 phone made by HTC, has a touch-sensitive screen, a computer-like keyboard, Wi-Fi connections and uses Google's new Android operating system. Available in three colors -- black, white and brown -- it includes familiar Google services, such as Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. Like the iPhone and other "smartphones" the device is meant to broaden the appeal of Web surfing on the go.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile has rolled out Google's answer to the iPhone as the Web search giant makes its biggest stab yet at leaping from consumers' computers into their pockets with a device cheaper than rival Apple offers.
The widely-anticipated G1 phone, introduced on Tuesday made by HTC Corp (2498.TW: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), has a touch-sensitive screen, a computer-like keyboard, Wi-Fi connections and uses Google's new Android operating system.
Available in three colors -- black, white and brown -- it includes familiar Google services, such as Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. Like the iPhone and other "smartphones" the device is meant to broaden the appeal of Web surfing on the go.
"If we see more mobile Web usage we'll be happy," Google co-founder Sergey Brin told Reuters after arriving at the launch on roller-blades.
His company, a powerhouse in Web advertising, would benefit if Android led more cell users to spend time on the Web, no matter which phone they are using.
Google is well ahead of rivals Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) in Web search on computers, but it wants to use Android to ensure this dominance carries over to the phone when mobile Web surfing becomes more popular.
But while no clear mobile Web winner has emerged so far, Google faces stiff competition from longer established phone players such as Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), Research In Motion Ltd's (RIM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) BlackBerry and Microsoft, as well as Apple.
Analysts saw the device as a "good first step" rather than an iPhone killer, but some expect as many as 400,000 to be sold in the United States by year-end. A T-Mobile executive said the estimate was "not incredible."
When it becomes available to U.S. consumers on October 22, the G1 will sell for about $179 -- slightly cheaper than the entry-level price of $199 for Apple Inc's (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) iPhone -- with a two-year contract.
The G1 will be launched by T-Mobile's UK unit in November and other European countries such as Germany, Netherlands and the Czech Republic in the first quarter of 2009.
"The G1 doesn't threaten Apple now, but Android has raised the bar for competing mobile platforms. The bigger concern here is for Microsoft and Nokia if Google can win over the hearts and minds of operators and developers," said Geoff Blaber, an analyst with British firm CCS Insight.
Both Google and Apple are wooing developers to create applications for their devices, but unlike Apple, which keeps a tight grip on the iPhone's hardware and operating software, Google's Android is open to be changed by outside developers.
Asked if the user interface of future Google phones would look anything like the first one, Andy Rubin, who developed Android for Google, said: "Its completely replaceable."
For example, Leslie Grandy, T-Mobile USA's product development vice president sees the carrier selling a range of Google-powered phones in future, including more basic ones without a touch-screen or full keyboards.
The new phone features Android Market, where customers can find and download free applications to expand and personalize their phones. T-Mobile's Grandy said the marketplace would eventually include applications that are sold for a fee.
"Because the platform is open, we think Android is somewhat future proof," Rubin, Google director of mobile platforms, told the audience at the launch.
A similar strategy helped increase the buzz around Apple's second-generation iPhone, which can support more than 3,000 applications available online.
Amazon.com's digital music store will be loaded on the G1, allowing users to search, download, buy and play more than six million songs, pitting it against iPhone's music player.
Android also competes with Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, which has been solidly gaining ground. HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou told Reuters his company, which has concentrated on Windows phones so far, is already planning more Android and Windows devices.
Between the United States and the United Kingdom, Chou said he expects to have sold more than 400,000 G1 by the year end.
Android's biggest competitor is Symbian software, which represents 60 percent of the smartphone market and which Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) plans to buy out and open to other developers.
Nokia, which has about 40 percent of the mobile phone market, has also branched into mobile Web services such as mapping that compete directly with Google. Speaking at a conference in Chicago on Tuesday, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said he was not worried by new competition.
"The entry of Apple and Google -- in fact today in a very concrete way -- in mobile communications is the best possible illustration of the fact that there's a lot of possibility here," he said.
(Additional reporting by Tarmo Virki in Helsinki and Benjamin
Klayman in Chicago; Editing by Derek Caney and Andre Grenon)
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In Gospel Disproof #36, we looked at how the resurrection story of Lazarus shows that the resurrection of Jesus is not about resuscitating the latter's physical body. Even apart from the question of Jesus' resurrection, though, there are some significant inconsistencies in the story of Lazarus and his alleged resurrection.
There are 16 verses that mention Lazarus in the Bible. The first 5 are in Luke 16, where Jesus tells the story of the rich man and Lazarus, where Lazarus is a beggar who dies and goes from a miserable life to an eternity of comfort and blessing in "Abraham's bosom." The next 3 are in John 11, where John recounts the story of Lazarus' resurrection. The rest are in the following chapter, where John tells us that Jesus and Lazarus were together in public, and a huge crowd was coming, not just to hear Jesus, but especially to see Lazarus. John even tells us that the chief priests saw it, and plotted together to murder Lazarus so that people would stop saying he had risen from the dead, though of course there's no mention of any such threat ever being carried out.
Now, think for a moment about the great evangelists of the first-generation Christians. Peter, James, John, Paul, Barnabus, Matthew, Mark, Luke… Where's Lazarus in that list? Can you imagine someone being literally, physically raised from the dead, and experiencing first-hand the divine life-giving power of the Son of God, and not being grateful enough to a good chunk of his remaining years going around telling people about it? Never mind the gratitude, think of the sheer celebrity of it all. Think of the glory! John tells us that Lazarus was a tremendously successful evangelistic tool, and that huge crowds would turn out to just to see him and hear the story of how Jesus called him out of the tomb three days after he died.
And yet, after John 12, this amazing, crowd-commanding, first-class witness disappears from the gospel narratives and never shows up again—not at the crucifixion, not at the (alleged) Resurrection, not at the Ascension, not at Pentecost, not as part of anybody's missionary journeys. No apostle outside of John's gospel ever cites him as evidence of Jesus' divine power, and even Paul, in his lengthy discussion of resurrection, shows no signs of having ever heard of him. He's just gone, like he was never there.
I mentioned the parable of the rich man and Lazarus even though the Lazarus in that story died and went to Abraham's Bosom instead of being resurrected. I almost mentioned that this was not the same Lazarus, because the Lazarus in that parable was clearly better off staying with Abraham in bliss and comfort, rather than being raised again to his old life of suffering and squalor. A loving God would not resurrect that Lazarus (unless of course He were calling him to a dramatic prophetic/evangelistic ministry of some sort). But there might be a different connection between the two.
The thing is, John wrote his gospel when he was quite an old man. By the time he decided to write a book proving that Jesus was the Son of God, he'd spent many decades rehearsing to himself how he knew that this was true. As numerous psychological studies have shown, those are prime conditions for re-writing memories. He's highly motivated to believe that Jesus was Messiah, he's arguing in favor of his beliefs against hostile and skeptical critics, and he's made this claim the defining significance of his whole life. Few things would be more futile than being the last living apostle of a fraudulent Messiah. From John's perspective, the Gospel has to be true.
Did Lazarus ever really exist? Or did John, in his hunger for proof of Jesus' divine power, inadvertently borrow a misremembered character from one of the parables, and simply invent a new achievement to add to Jesus' alleged repertoire? Given the otherwise inexplicable absence of Lazarus' impact on early Christian history, the latter certainly seems likely.


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On Wednesday, Research In Motion (RIMM) -- soon to be rebranded as BlackBerry (BBRY) -- finally unveiled its new smartphones, the Z10 and Q10.
Research In Motion has been a battleground stock for the last six months. On one side are most U.S. investors and casual mobile-phone critics, fans and commentators -- a big group. This group believes that BlackBerry is destined to be sold for scrap metal and that its stock is going to drop into the mid-to-low-single digits.
The BlackBerry bears believe that the new phones, although much better than the two-year-old BB7s, won't be good enough. They point to Palm and Nokia (NOK) as examples of companies whose phones got good reviews but were a bust with consumers. They say that BlackBerry missed the rapid shift to mobile and can't come back, pointing out that most tech companies that miss a big wave never reemerge.
The bears believed that the stock's run from $6 to $18 was irrational. They call BlackBerry fans a "cult." They believe the bulls are about to get their comeuppance now that the phone has been unveiled.
In the period leading up to the launch event, Research In Motion has lost some wind from its sails. The stock dropped from $18 to $14 in the first three days of this week. This confirms the bears' view of this issue, and they believe this down move is just the beginning.
They have pointed to some tech reviews that have named a few product deficiencies (short battery life, slower browsing despite rumors of the contrary) while ignoring the positive reviews.
From here on out, the bears believe the sales numbers will prove them right -- that the product isn't getting a large pickup. Bears expect that, when the results are reported in May and then June, the stock will plummet.
The short interest in the stock has been steadily ticking upward in the past six months, even as the stock has tripled. Bears are defiant in the face of these losses. They believe they are now finally at the point at which they'll be able to make money from their long-term bet.
The BlackBerry bulls, many of whom are Canadian and therefore might be subject to a hometown bias, see the sales numbers coming as their salvation. Prem Watsa has bought 20% of BlackBerry on this fervent belief that the new phones will make the company very profitable this year.
This group counters the bear view that the company will go out of business by pointing to the company's 20-year history of profitability, its rising cash balances in the last nine months and its large user base of 80 million subscribers.
If only one-quarter or one-third of those subscribers migrate to the new phone, BlackBerry will make a lot of money this year, and the analyst consensus is that the company will lose $0.50 a share.
The bulls also argue that Research In Motion did the right thing in not just becoming another Android maker. Because of the painful choice of going it alone, it's quite likely that BlackBerry can license its BB10 operating system to other phone makers this year.
They believe we'll see many announcements in the coming weeks about carriers buying the new phones -- that is, restocking. BlackBerry has more than 600 relationships with carriers, almost double the number that Apple (AAPL) has.
Furthermore, the company has 70,000 apps, and for most buyers or potential buyers, that will be plenty.
Bulls also aren't worried if no iOS or Android users drop their phones in favor of BlackBerry. Their thesis works even if just the diehards buy the new phones.
In Wednesday's announcement, the bears were given some help with the news that the new phones won't be released in the U.S. until March. This hurt the stock, but it's hard to see what other bad news might come in the next few weeks.
To me, it seems as though the company can continue to manage the flow of good news from here.
So I believe the stock will rise from here, befuddling the shorts. But the big test on who wins or loses this BlackBerry investment bet won't come until the June earnings report.


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Police arrest 4 in Manchester hotel disturbance
Man accused of fighting with officer
Four people are in police custody after a disturbance at a Manchester hotel.
Officers said they were called to the Holiday Inn Express on South Porter Street about 2 a.m. Sunday in response to a possible disturbance.
Investigators said the front desk clerk told police that a number of guests had complained about a group of people in a second-floor room who were creating a scene and keeping people awake.
The officers talked with the people in the room and informed them they had to leave.
Police said two of the guests, 27-year-old Krista Pare of Derry and 29-year-old Justin Lavoie of Londonderry, refused to leave or quiet down and were subsequently arrested.
Officials said a third person started to walk away, but then tried to pull Pare from the police by the arm.
Officers said the 28-year-old Kyle Green of Salem struggled with an officer and even threw some punches before being arrested. Green was later charged with disorderly conduct, assault on a police officer and resisting arrest.
Police said the fourth person didn't involve himself and eventually left the hotel. However, officers later developed information that the man had recorded the incident on his cellphone.
Officers said when 27-year-old Michael Johnson of Boston, Mass., showed up at the station to post bail for his friends they asked him to turn in his phone.
Officials said Johnson refused to turn over the phone and was then arrested on charges of hindering apprehension and prosecution. His cellphone was seized as evidence.


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Morningstar continued to roll out the nominees for its 2012 Managers of the Year on Monday with the release of its fixed-income award hopefuls.
The latest announcement followed the domestic-stock fund category last Thursday and the international-stock fund category on Friday.
"In 2012, the bond-market spoils generally have gone to managers who were willing to take risk, particularly credit and non-dollar risk," wrote Miriam Sjoblom, an associate director of fund analysis at Morningstar, when announcing the names. "High-yield and emerging-market bond benchmarks have returned between 13% and 18% so far this year, for instance. Meanwhile, a host of currencies in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe appreciated against the greenback."
Whoever comes out on top when the winner is announced in January, they'll be in good company, as industry notables like Bill Gross and Jeff Gundlach have previously accepted the award.
The 2012 nominees are:
- Steve Smith, David Hoffman, Brian Hess, and Jack McIntyre, Legg Mason Brandywine Global Opportunities Bond (GOBIX)–The team has delivered several outstanding years in a row, Sjoblom writes. In 2011, in particular "the managers' concern about the impact of high oil prices on the developed world's consumers led them to take some defensive steps, such as adding exposure to long U.S. Treasuries."
- Peter Palfrey and Rick Raczkowski, Loomis Sayles Core Plus Bond (NEFRX)–Peter Palfrey and Rick Raczkowski "have quietly assembled an excellent long-term record here over the years," Sjoblom notes. "While they don't court as much controversy in the fund's corporate stake as their fund's better-known sibling, they do pull more levers than the typical intermediate-term bond fund, often holding sizable stakes in junk corporate and non-dollar bonds."
- Tad Rivelle, Stephen Kane, and Laird Landmann, Metropolitan West Total Return Bond (MWTRX)–"TCW/MetWest's fixed-Income CIO Tad Rivelle and crew won the Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year Award in 2005 and have been nominated multiple times in the past, including for Fund Manager of the Decade in 2009. The managers have delivered another excellent showing in 2012, in part due to their ability to keep cool heads amid a challenging 2011"
- Mark Kiesel, PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond (PIGIX)–"Mark Kiesel's success at this corporate-bond-focused fund poses a challenge to those who'd claim that top-down macro maneuvers are the be-all and end-all at PIMCO," she notes of the bond fund giant. "The investment committee's outlook certainly plays a critical role in shaping the portfolio, but Kiesel's work in recent years has showcased the firm's bottom-up research as well."
- Mark Egan, Tom Fink, Todd Thompson, and Steve Vincent, Scout Core Plus Bond (SCPZX)–The $500 million Scout Core Plus Bond fund has yet to attract much attention, but that hasn't stopped firm CIO Mark Egan and crew from delivering excellent long-term returns here.


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There is also a very good tutorial on DIC here which complements this one. That one is an excellent walk-through of the debugging process, and describes the thought-processes necessary to correctly debug your application. My version is more of an introduction to, and overview of, the Visual Studio features that you can use to debug. I recommend reading both!
The shortcut-keys are for the VS Express version, followed by the VS (full), or alternative, shortcut.
Here is the C# Console Application code that I will be using.
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { int[] numbers = { 10, 20, 45, 50, 80 }; int total = 0; for (int i = 1; i <= 5; i++) { total += numbers[i]; } Console.WriteLine("The total is {0:D}", total); Console.ReadKey(); } } }
If I run this I receive the following error message:
If you press Break at this point you are already beginning the debugging process!
[Spoiler: The solution is for (int i = 0; i <= 4; i++) { because array-indexing starts at zero.]
When debugging you can step-through your code one line at a time, observe what happens to your variables, jump to specific lines, etc., etc. To START THE PROCESS you can:
1. Choose the Debug menu and Step Into (or press the F11 or F8 function key).
Continue to press F11, stepping through your code one line at a time.
Point your mouse over any variable (and other values) and a pop-up will display its current value. If it is, for example, an array then you can click on the plus sign that appears within the pop-up to expand it, showing more details that you can navigate through.
This works for object-references, etc., as well, and you can navigate through entire structures!
As you are stepping through there are two other options on the Debug menu: Step Over (F10 or Shift-F8) and Step Out (Shift-F11 or Ctrl-Shift-F8).
Step Over: If you are about to call another function or method, just run through it without pausing, returning to the current code block.
Step Out: If your code has called (moved into) another function or method then complete this without pause, returning to the previous (calling) code-block.
You can also drag the yellow arrow on the left up or down to skip, or re-execute, lines;
You can right-click a line and choose Run to Cursor (Ctrl-F10).
You can abandon debugging at any point by pressing the red square (Stop Debugging) (Shift-F5 or Ctrl-Alt-Break). Or press the Start button, which now says Continue (F5) to run the rest of your code. (Generally it is better to let the code run to completion, particularly for more complex applications, so that all object-references are correctly disposed of.)
2. Click to the far left of a statement to create a Breakpoint (F9) - repeat to remove the breakpoint (this is available from the Debug menu as well). Press Start and the code will run until it reaches the breakpoint and then pause for you to step through.
You can set a number of Breakpoints - Ctrl-Shift-F9 removes all breakpoints.
Refer back to point 1. for details of what you can do while stepping through.
3. Right-click an executable line (not a comment) and choose Run to Cursor (Ctrl-F10) - my favourite method! The code will run all the way until it reaches this line (assuming, of course, that your code will actually encounter this line).
Refer back to point 1. for details of what you can do while stepping through.
Locals Window
The Locals Windows will display the values of all (currently in scope) variables, including arrays, lists, etc. Once you have started debugging choose the Debug menu, Windows, Locals (Alt-4).
Note The Debug, Windows menu option only shows a limited number of windows until you actually start debugging - then many other windows become available to you. Investigate the Immediate, Watch and Call Stack Windows.
The Locals window appears as a separate tabbed panel (usually to the bottom-left of the screen) alongside the Output and other windows.
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Few people know where Parkside is. Tucked away behind Northeast Park between Locust Avenue and Park Street, this little cul-de-sac is within walking distance of Downtown, and yet there's no traffic except for people who live there. So you get country privacy with city convenience.
Other elements contribute to the seclusion. Because the house sits on the up-side of the street, residents are not troubled, as are people on the lower side directly in front of NorthEast park, by kids tromping past to get to the long bridge that connects to the playground down on Calhoun and Sheridan. A fully fenced backyard and lush plantings add to the feeling of being enclosed and protected.
The couple who own the house have made significant improvements to a basic model. Most impressive are the changes in what is a large utility basement. They've partitioned off a good-sized sleeping room (it can't officially be called a bedroom, the owner explained, without an "egress window") and an elegant bathroom that– with lots of marble and floor-to-ceiling tiling in the shower– is more lavish than the two full baths upstairs.
The rest of the basement is utility, but it's very large and has potential as a useful rec room or children's playroom. The laundry area and a large storage space with built-in shelves complete this lower level, which opens to a little slate patio under the main-level deck.
The main level is open and feels expansive even though it's not a strikingly large house. All the rooms have two doors and open off the central hall from the larger-than-average foyer. The overall feel is the opposite of claustrophobic... "breezy" is the word that comes to mind.
Upgrades added by the owners include a gas starter in the family room fireplace, which gets the fire started so wood can be burned, and a back-of-the-chimney trapdoor that allows the ashes to be emptied directly from outside the house. Around the fireplace they have added a raised brick hearth and a handsome mantel flanked by built-in bookcases.
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All new hunters or trappers planning to go afield this upcoming hunting and trapping season must first complete a mandatory hunter or trapper education course, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today reiterated. Previously licensed hunters who plan to hunt out of state should also have their sportsman education certificates or previous licenses in hand as proof that they have completed the required course. All states accept New York's hunter education course but states differ on what is required as proof of completion.
Sporting licenses went on sale August 13. To purchase hunting or trapping licenses in New York, proof of a previous license or your original sportsman education certificate must be shown. If adequate proof cannot be shown, one may be required to take the course again to be recertified. Finding a course immediately prior to or during the hunting season will be difficult. With the Southern Zone bow season beginning October 1 this year, September courses will be in high demand and those offered in October will be too late for those wishing to bow hunt the first part of the season.
New York sportsmen and sportswomen that travel out of state to hunt should be sure to satisfy all the requirements of the destination state well in advance. Some states require the original hunter education certificate, and getting a replacement can be time consuming if the original is misplaced. The New York State Sportsman Education Program has an extensive database from which replacement certificates can be issued if the course was taken in 1980 or after. Those unable to locate their original certificate, or cannot find a record of it, may be required to repeat a course. A previous hunting license cannot be used to reissue a certificate.
All first-time hunters, bowhunters and trappers must pass one or more courses before they can obtain a license in New York. Trained instructors, certified by DEC, teach safe and responsible outdoors practices and the important role of hunters and trappers in natural resource conservation. All courses are free of charge, but space may be limited.
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A reminder to all parents and visitors to RMS that Rochester Middle School is now a secure school. All external doors are locked during the school day, including the front doors, which had previously been unlocked. During normal school hours visitors need to ring the buzzer and a staff member will respond. Visitors will be admitted only by staff members. There are signs by the front doors for information.
The eighth grade teams each took a day last week to visit Spaulding High School on Grade 8 Step-up Day. Students were escorted by the Principal Leadership Group and the ROTC cadets. Small groups of eighth graders were shown both the high school building and the Creteau Technology Center. In January, the SHS guidance department will meet with the teams and distribute the course of studies information. Students will need to select classes for their freshman year by the end of February.
Mrs. McCusker and Mrs. Else in the Excel Program, along with their students, want the RMS community to know that the annual Excel Pet Food Drive has begun. The students are soliciting donations of pet food and pet supplies to be donated to the local animal shelters. The academic team who brings in the most donations by Dec. 19 will receive an ice cream party.
Ashley Wilkins, grade 8 student, has organized a toy drive for the school. Teams are asked to contribute children's gifts according to the stars the team choose. Parents can help by asking their student what is needed for the toy drive. For instance, the Dartmouth Team has four children, ranging in age from 18 months to seven years, with needs such as dolls and appropriate toys, and winter clothing.
The basketball schedule has changed once again. There are no games for the eighth grade teams before vacation, while the seventh grade teams will be hosting Henry Wilson School of Farmington on Thursday, Dec. 20.
The wrestling team participated in its first tournament in Londonderry on Sunday, Dec. 9. They travel to Bow for the YMCA Holiday Tournament on Sunday, Dec. 16.
Groups and Organizations
The Jump Rope Club had its first meeting of the year on Monday, Dec. 10. The meeting included six sixth graders who had participated in elementary school jump rope clubs last year. The club will meet every Monday through the winter.
The Student Council is starting their annual Candy Grams Sale. Members of the council will be selling candy grams during each grade's lunch, from Dec. 10 to 20, with delivery on Dec. 21. The cost is 50 cents for a choice of candy cane, gingerbread man, or tree lollipop.
The National Junior Honor Society recently updated its bulletin board along the hallway to the gym. Workers included Natalie Noble, Griffin Towle, and Jordan Gosselin. The group is also working on its annual holiday project for RMS.
Ms. Femino and Mr. Demers announce the first meeting of the newly reformed RMS Ski Club. Hello students and parents of the Rochester Middle School Ski Club. There will be a Ski Club potluck dinner to act as a starting point for all to get together. The dinner meeting will be Tuesday, Dec. 18, at 6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria. Each family is asked to please bring a crock-pot style dinner and dessert, and if possible a side dish (even if it's chips). BYOL (Bring-Your-Own-Liquids per family). There will be a little music, a chance to review all the details of the Club (rules, expectations, chaperons, question-answer), as well as a "Warren Miller" style film to preview to get the Club excited!
All families who have signed up for the ski program are asked to respond whether or not you will be attending. Please respond to both coordinators at firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com and include your choice of potluck!
Mrs. Allard announces the next meeting of the Poetry Club will be on Tuesday, Dec. 18, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. All members of RMS are welcome.
Dec. 14: Progress Reports, Term 2.
Dec. 20: Student Led Conference Planning Day.
Dec. 20: Boston University Team field trip to the Rochester Opera House for "A Christmas Carol."
Dec. 21: University of Florida Team field trip to the Rochester Opera House for "A Christmas Carol."
Dec. 21: Last day of classes before the holiday break.
Jan. 2, 2013: Classes resume.
Nancy Loud School
In Mrs. Kenyon's class: Kindergarten is having a lot of fun finding their Elf on a Shelf each day. We read, "Whose Garden Is It?" and took our Unit 2 Benchmark Test this week. The class learned how to count by 10s and play Top It this week. We are busy making decorations to go on our class Christmas tree.
In Mr. Cooper's first grade class: This week we are learning about the sound of long "O." This week the student of the week is Mason and he got a horse named Derby. In math we learned about thermometers and how they count by twos. We are reading, "The Big Circle." We are also learning about the triceratops and how they have a community just like us. (Written by: Ethan and Shannon)
All the children in the school are working hard to memorize their facts – addition as well as multiplication.
School Street School
Grade 3: Back in November students participated in a mock presidential election, complete with ballots and a voting booth. It was a very exciting day with registration and vote counting.
School Street School has begun school-wide mini reading groups. Each group includes students from different grades. Although the groups last for a short time, the students are enthusiastic about meeting and being grouped school-wide.
In third grade math, students have been practicing with and exploring multiplication and division strategies. Students can count by twos up to eights!
In our social studies unit on government students enjoyed learning and singing the Preamble to the Constitution. The science unit we have just begun is all about weather.
Chamberlain Street School
Our school store in now open on Wednesday mornings from 8-8:25 a.m. Student Council will be helping out and we are looking forward to this change from the lunch time.
Our Holiday Concert was a huge success! The SHS auditorium was filled to capacity with families. Thank you Mrs. Abbiati and students for a wonderful presentation.
Attendance counts at Chamberlain Street School! We want your child to be at school every day that they are healthy. This includes arriving on time and staying until the end of the day. The first bell rings at 8:25 a.m. Make sure to discuss with your child, before they leave in the morning, how they will get home at the end of the day. If they are going home a different way, please send a note to school with them. Calling the school with changes may cause confusion and interruptions to the classroom. Please call the school if your child will be absent or late.
Maple Street Magnet School
Our student leadership team recently demonstrated safe, responsible, and kind behavior to their fellow students. Mrs. Brown visited each classroom to further reinforce those routines. After her visit the first graders wrote about the playground.
Jacob wrote, "Alec and I play on the swings. We play every recess. We sing songs on the swings. It is fun."
Several children wrote about the slide. Mackenzie wrote, "We go on the slide on our bottoms so we don't get hurt."
Kaleb reminded us, "Do not run down the slide. You will fall and smack your face. You will not like it."
Naimah added, "We go down the slide on our sitters, not on our tummy or upside down on your back or upside down on your tummy."
Ava reviewed several rules. "No jumping on the structure. No twisting on the swings. Play tag in the field. No jumping off the swings."
Ellie also remembered a variety of ways to be safe: "Never climb the slide and never run on the structure and never hang on the monkey bars and never run up the slide and never run on the wood chips."
Alec wrapped it up with this piece: "Be safe, kind, and responsible. Don't forget these rules."
Valley View Community School
The Winter Concert for VVCS, entitled Flakes, will take place in the gym at FHS on Monday, Dec. 17 at 6:30 p.m.
Valley View Community School's kindergarten class is working on observing the changes in weather and graphing the results that they discover. This assignment teaches the students to compare, contrast, and graph. In math, they are learning to count to 100 by 10s. The kindergarten staff asks that parents help their child(ren) to practice the numbers zero through 20. Students are learning about the letter "V" and using the word "to" in their sentences. Everywhere that you go has a teaching opportunity in it, even one as simple as reading road signs or counting the items in your grocery cart.
Nute High School and Library
By Mariah Burke
The Nute girls' varsity basketball team lost to Moultonborough on Nov. 30 in our first home game with a score of 57-37. Both teams worked for a win, but they wanted it more and won in the end. Although we lost, I thought the overall game was good, and my teammates and I are optimistic about this season.
We had a slight lead in the beginning, but we weren't boxing out, and they took the lead. We never gave up. We all went strong from the beginning to the end, but we couldn't catch up after their lead grew.
Ms. Weymouth, our coach, said, "It was not the start we were hoping for however the potential we know is there. There was hustle and intensity from the starting buzzer to the ending buzzer."
We started out strong in the beginning with a score of 11-10 at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, Moultonborough took the lead 33-20. In the third quarter, Moultonborough stayed in the lead 49-23. At the end of the night, Moultonborough gained the win with the score of 57- 37. The starting line up for this game was Alisha Flanagan, Erin St. Lawrence, Annessa Cummer, Brittany Locke and I, Mariah Burke.
Last year was a rough year for us. We had no confidence in our playing, and we won about four games all season. This year, we have improved and are stronger, and we are all excited for this season.
"Compared to last year, I think our first game was great," said guard Annessa Cummer. "We never gave up even when we were down. I'm excited for this season."
Even though it's the beginning of the season, I think that we are going to make it far. Our team has made great progress from last year, and we want to win.


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NOTE: I thought I had posted this yesterday, but I guess it remained only a draft?!?! Apologies for that.
A posting on the Chicago Tribune website states that sources tell them a key witness in the former-Governor Blagojevich's corruption case regarding the US Senate seat is dead.
Christopher Kelly, who cited Federal Attorney pressure in his decision to plead guilty recently in regards to charges against him, is reportedly dead at the age of 51 years old. He was due to testify for the government in the upcoming Blagojevich trial on corruption charges that arose from an alleged "pay-to-play" scheme on the part of Blagojevich in naming a replacement for Obama in Congress.
Here's link to the entry at the Chicago Tribune Website:
September 12, 2009
Christopher Kelly, key figure in Blagojevich corruption probe, is dead
Posted by Jeff Coen and Jeremy Gorner at 3:10 p.m.; last updated at 7:18 p.m.


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How do people deal with the torrent of information pouring down on us all? What sources can't they live without? We regularly reach out to prominent figures in media, entertainment, politics, the arts and the literary world, to hear their answers. This is drawn from a conversation with Jenna Wortham, a New York Times tech reporter.
Most mornings, I wake up around 7 or 7:30 a.m. and check the news on my iPhone. I usually sleep with my laptop nearby, but the phone is quicker. If its relatively quiet in my beat -- i.e. nothing that would warrant filing a quick blog post or might elicit a call from the news desk -- I go back to sleep for a little while, or if its warm enough, I'll go for a quick jog.
I rely heavily on text alerts to keep me from missing important tech news. I've set a few select Twitter feeds to push their tweets to my phone via SMS from 7 in the morning till 2 at night. It drives my friends, family and everyone I've ever dated absolutely crazy, but it works as a kind of early warning system for news. If there's big news breaking in the tech world, the rapid-fire series of pings clues me in. I'm a big fan of making my phone do as much work as possible in delivering relevant information to me, instead of me having to go out and fetch it constantly, and this is my best hack for that. Plus, I like knowing that I'm not likely to miss out on some big news event – and it's never let me down. (When Steve Jobs died, for example, I was in my evening writing workshop, but I could feel my phone blowing up in my bag. So I fished it out of my bag, saw the tweets and bolted for the office.) I listen to music while I get dressed. I've done that since high school. It prepares me for the long day ahead. No matter how many Web and print deadlines loom ahead, shaking my shoulders to Tyga or Beyoncé helps wake me up and lightens the mood.
Then I leave the house and head to the subway. During the ten minutes it takes me to walk to the train, I'll quickly check Twitter for the news of the day, Tumblr for reactions to the news and Instagram for social news, to see if anything is heating up that might make for a good daily story or blog post -- a big news event, a backlash to something, a particularly timely meme, viral video or some other important topic. Increasingly, I'm also using Path for news. It's fascinating – and often very revealing -- to see what the early adopter crowd is doing and how they're spending their time.
During the first half of my commute, I listen to podcasts on my ride into the city. I use a terrific app called Instacast to keep track of the ones I like -- RadioLab and Julie Klausner's "How was Your Week" -- you can stream them or download them to listen offline. I also read most of the New York Times through our iPhone app on my commute in. I skim tech first and then try to get caught up in everything else -- the Metro section, the magazine and Op-Ed are my favorites. I make myself read the politics section -- my least favorite subject -- but I try to absorb at least an article a day. I always have a copy of the latest New York magazine (adore "In Season" and "The Neighborhood News") and the New York Times Magazine in my bag and often read those on the way. For the second leg, I start preparing myself for the office. I reply to as many emails as I can in the last 15-20 minutes of my ride.
Once I get to work, around 10, I open Twitter and Facebook -- these stay open throughout the day and I stick my head back into them repeatedly to keep an eye out for any news that might be bubbling up. I've got several secret Twitter lists that I use to help filter the news. The two that are the most useful contains all the founders, investors and start-ups that I'm keeping a close eye on and the other is full of reporters, tech and beyond, whose work I admire, so that I can see what they're tweeting about and linking to. I favorite about 50 things (or more) a day on Twitter -- articles to read, ideas I liked, books to read, songs. I use ifttt recipe to send my Twitter faves to my Gmail inbox so I can sift through them later.
I'm invisible on Gchat for an hour or so while I have breakfast and skim my trades -- Hacker News, Reddit, GigaOm, The Verge, Gizmodo, BetaBeat, BuzzFeed FWD, TechCrunch, Techmeme, All Things D and The Atlantic Wire. I rarely use any RSS readers or apps anymore -- I've had a hard time working them into my daily routine. They're more for the weekend when I can take a nosedive into the Internet and not care where I end up. During the week, I need to get in and out of the news efficientially. While I skim, I take notes the old-fashioned way: With a fine-point Sharpie and a stack Post-it notes. I do a lot of pattern matching -- emerging themes among new start-ups, the types of companies that are getting funded, a VC or entrepreneur catches my eye -- and make a note or a list, and I keep these in a row on my desk for easy reference. For my beat, I need to see what new service or app is bubbling up and pay attention to how people are using the web, their mobile devices and new technologies, but it can often take awhile for things to catch on, so I'm constantly monitoring for that groundswell when a new service or behavior breaks out beyond my professional and social circle and starts to catch on in a bigger way. I often take photos of these handwritten notes and file them in a separate folder on my iPhone for easy perusal later.
I can definitely be an analog girl in a digital world. I keep a fresh Steno notebook for each cluster of stories and blog posts I'm working on each week, and I always keep a graph-paper Rhodia notebook on me for longer to-do lists, general observations, story ideas. I avoiding spending a lot of time in my inbox -- it's the equivalent quicksand -- so instead, I keep an eye on the emails to address anything urgent that comes in and make a list of people to reply to via email during a late-afternoon coffee break or before bed at the end of the night. My best sources know that text and DM are the easiest and most surefire ways to get in touch and get a response. If there's no breaking news that requires immediate attention, I'll file a blog post or two and then transition into interviews and reporting for the features I'm working on that week and calls and meetings with sources that last until late afternoon, when I have lunch. Then, I'll go back to those same sites and see what I've missed.
During lunch, I check in on my favorite writers. In my regular rotation each week: Willa Paskin at Salon, Mary H.K. Choi at MTV and Wired, Edith and everyone at The Hairpin, Mat Honan at Gizmodo, Parislemon, Amanda Peyton on Tumblr, Robin Sloan's blog, Shortform blog, Chris Dixon, Silicon Filter, Anil Dash, Waxy.org, Liz and Peter at All Things D, Guernica, The New Inquiry, Jonah Lerer, Clive Thompson, Vulture's Mad Men and Game of Thrones recaps, The New Yorker's Culture Desk, the picks of Longform, Rembert Browne and Jay Caspian King at Grantland, Anthony de Rosa at Reuters, David Carr and Brian Stelter, RConversation, Daring Fireball, Farhad Manjoo, Fred Wilson, Matt Buchanan and John Herrman at BuzzFeed FWD, Matt Stopera, Whitney Jefferson and Katie Notopoulos at BuzzFeed, Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic, Rebecca Greenfield at The Atlantic Wire, Tim Carmody at Wired, Kashmir Hill at Forbes, to name a few. I really admire iPad apps like Longform and Percolate. Lately, I use Pocket or Flipboard to see if I can unearth any new content that I should be paying attention to, although between Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook, I get sent down enough unusual and satisfying rabbit holes to keep me awash in new content. Although there's sometimes a distraction, sometimes spending 15-20 minutes just clicking my way through the dank underbelly of the Web, looking at GIFs, videos and seeing what other people are spending their time on is the most fun and rewarding part of my day. I truly love the Internet. It's a deep, palpable love of everything that spews forth from it.
Most non-work related stuff I don't have time to read during the day, so I use a Chrome extension called Klip.me -- which basically works like Instapaper -- to save all the long features, magazine pieces, TV recaps to my Kindle, so I can read them on my subway ride home. I'm on a few private Google newsgroups about technology and I skim those towards the end of the day to see what the chatter is about. I'm also fascinated by the new Kickstarter social features that show you what people are backing, that seems important and useful information about what people want to buy and see in their lives. I mostly follow my friends on Tumblr, but I also follow a lot of random accounts, like SofaPizza, Frank Ocean's Tumblr, a lotta teenage fashion bloggers in the UK and around the world. The kinds of things they post and their sense of humor and aesthetic is so different from what I'm used to seeing that I find it fascinating.
At the end of the day, I crave time away from the screen. I'll go on a run, or to a show, or a tech event or a drinks thing to catch up with friends -- and although we mostly wind up talking about the things we've seen or read online, it feels better to actually discuss the content we're consuming and creating all day in a group than try to digest it on your own. When I get home, I put on music or another podcast while I make dinner. I might videochat with friends in San Francisco or my friend Becca, a fashion designer who works from home in Brooklyn. I decompress with an episode of Mad Men, Happy Endings, Game of Thrones and Netflix nostalgia picks like Grey's Anatomy, Roseanne or Basketball Wives. If I'm lucky, I'll shoehorn 20-30 minutes in before bed with a book. I just finished the hauntingly beautiful The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński and The Boys of My Youth by JoAnn Beard and I'm starting a book called Insurgent, a post-apocalyptic YA book by an author named Veronica Roth that is better that The Hunger Games, I swear.
During the week, I get all of my news online. On Sundays, I read the Sunday Times, cover to cover, either in my local coffee spot in Brooklyn or I pick up a copy from a bodega and head to the park. I'm also obsessed with independent print media, so I buy a lot of zines in stores and online -- I regularly read things by the New Herring Press, Bushwick Review, Put an Egg On It, Butt magazine, to name a few. I rarely use my iPad. I often bring it into bed with me and it's bad enough that I sleep with my phone, my laptop and sometimes my Kindle. I can't add another device into that mix. It's also purely for consumption. It feels leisurely in a weekend way -- but some of the newer apps, like the Longform app, are supremely beautiful and I'll play around with it if I have time before bed.
In all, I'm probably on one screen or another, consuming some form of news -- social or otherwise -- from the moment I'm awake until the time I go to bed. But most of the time, it doesn't feel like work to me, I genuinely get excited and inspired and motivated by the articles, GIFs, riffs on GIFS and other multitude of conversations that are happening on so many different levels and places around the Web.
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A recent letter to the editor in The Florida Times-Union proclaimed, "We must accept reality. The St. Johns Town Center is Jacksonville's new center city."
The writer, a 30-year resident of Jacksonville, bemoaned all the wasted time leaders have spent trying to revitalize the city's core. Why, he wondered, would people choose to go Downtown when hundreds of stores await at the St. Johns Town Center?
"Do I drive to a shopping area with great stores and parking galore? Or do I drive the same distance to an area that is consumed with vagrants, no convenient parking, blocks of vacant high-rise buildings with bars on the windows to stop vandalism and hundreds of panhandlers who have taken over and live outdoors?"
Never mind his flair for hyperbole. "Consumed with vagrants"? "Hundreds of panhandlers"? He must be confusing Downtown Jacksonville for Manhattan. And don't get me started how the age of front-door parking has warped our sense of what's a fair distance to walk from a parking spot.
Can you imagine a Simon Mall and its surrounding shopping centers fulfilling the role of a city center?
Would Simon allow activists to gather signatures for a petition to place a library tax district on the ballot in front of Dick's Sporting Goods? Or to congregate around the duck pond to protest government action in Syria or to celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Defense of Marriage Act? Would a corporation appreciate the funky free speech practiced at First Wednesday Art Walk or One Spark? Would food trucks be welcomed or seen as competitors to the mall's restaurants?
Perhaps city government should move there, too, because that's where the people are. And if you attended a public meeting, you could park for free (although in reality you'd probably walk just as far as you would Downtown), as long as you patronized one of the many fine establishments. It would be the ultimate expression of our consumer society.
St. Johns Town Center and many other shopping destinations perform an important function. I patronize some of those stores, although I wish more were locally owned so that a larger chunk of that money stayed in our local economy.
But the St. Johns Town Center is a place to shop, not the heart of a city. A city center should shout its own specific character and style, not the ubiquitous brands plastered on storefronts from coast to coast. It should be a place for citizens to practice their constitutional rights without corporate oversight.
Downtown Jacksonville is troubled, but you can't ignore the progress that has been made. Its problems took time to develop, and it will take time to solve them.
There are some vacant buildings, but several have been bought and are being developed. The Jessie Ball duPont Fund is renovating the old Haydon Burns Library into an office complex for philanthropic and nonprofit organizations. SouthEast Holdings purchased the Laura Street Trio (Florida Life, Bisbee and Florida National Bank, also known as the Marble Bank, at Laura and Forsyth streets) to create a complex featuring a Courtyard by Marriott hotel, two restaurants, a commercial bank and a rooftop bar. SouthEast also bought the Barnett Bank building at Adams and Laura streets but has not announced its plans.
Destinations like the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville and the Museum of Science and History draw people to both sides of the river. The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Riverside and the Karpeles Manuscript Library in Springfield are nearby draws to the core. Dozens of art galleries feature constantly rotating shows of local and national artists. The Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville awards grants to artists to create public works in the core and helps galleries find spaces in the area.
Downtown restaurants continue to be some of the best in the region, and more keep popping up along with several successful food trucks.
Although Downtown might not be a shopping mecca, several stores offer unusual and distinctive finds as well as local services. The wildly successful Chamblin's Uptown (I've always wondered why Uptown instead of Downtown?) is a cultural hangout for all ages. Businesses like EverBank are realizing the benefits of moving Downtown, and their employees are, too.
A magnificent Main Library hosts regular community events and maintains a fabulous collection. First Wednesday Art Walk, Community First Saturday, concerts at The Florida Theatre, shows at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, events at the Veterans Memorial Arena, games at the Sports Complex — the list goes on.
More than a dozen bars and nightclubs feature live music several nights a week from local and touring bands and DJs.
Special events are popping up all the time, such as Jaxtoberfest at the Shipyards Oct. 11-12 and an Oktoberfest-themed Art Walk Oct. 2.
Some groups have ideas about adding more attractions to Downtown. AquaJax wants to place a world-class aquarium on the riverfront. Another group has plans to permanently dock the USS Charles F. Adams in an area such as the Shipyards.
The City Council Finance Committee cleared $1.5 million for the Downtown Investment Authority to hire a staff and get to work with its new CEO Aundra Wallace. The committee also returned $4.1 million of the million it was awarded earlier this year to help make projects happen.
All of these are positive signs for making Downtown a true city center.
One major project that needs to be addressed: Hemming Plaza. It should be the centerpiece of the city's center. It needs a new purpose like an amphitheater, a new look with softer landscaping and a person dedicated to programming events, bands and performances into the space.
Then, we can have a center that belongs to citizens, not Simon.
"Would a corporation appreciate the funky free speech practiced at First Wednesday Art Walk or One Spark?" HECK NO - artists are NOT welcomed at the Town Center. Art students from a local college are always talking about getting kicked out of TC for doing photoshoots and working on film projects.
Those same students are WELCOMED downtown. Wednesday, September 11, 2013|Report this
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All this having been said, money not only needs to be put into downtown but the areas leading into downtown. The Regency area, including the mall, needs to be revitalized in some way to bring an upswing into that area. Don't ignore the bruises on the banana when you eat it. Thursday, September 12, 2013|Report this
Thank you, Denise! Preach it! Anyone who could think a MALL should be the center of our great city has guzzled one too many big gulps and frankly has no soul. I was born and raised here, then moved away for about 8 years, to move back in 2010. The leaps and bounds Jax made it in that time in progressive culture and its appreciation for the arts is amazing, and we are still moving full steam ahead. The only people holding our progress back are the same small-minded philistines that agree with the appalling suggestion which you so eloquently argued against. Thank you to Sweet Theory baking co in the King Street district (my 'hood and proud of it) for linking to this article on their FB page! Friday, September 13, 2013|Report this
I'll stick to the locally owned shops in Riverside, San Marco and Springfield, I can't stand Town Center, I just can't, I feel like everyone there should jump on conveyor belts and sing "..we don't need no education.." I've lived in Riverside for 20 years and seen it changed for both good and bad, same with San Marco. Downtown is definitely trying, and I think more effort should be put into building downtown back up. Friday, September 20, 2013|Report this