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MILWAUKEE -- The University of Iowa women's tennis team fell to Marquette (5-3 overall) Saturday at Helfaer Tennis Stadium, 4-3. The No. 48 Hawkeyes are now 2-4 overall on the season and 1-2 while playing on the road.
The Black and Gold were unable to earn the doubles point, as they fell at the No. 1 and No. 3 positions. At the No. 2 spot, the senior duo of Alexis Dorr and Lynne Poggensee-Wei won an 8-4 decision over Paola Calderon and Rocio Diaz.
In singles, the Hawkeyes posted victories at the top three spots. At the top spot, junior Sonja Molnar topped Kelly Barry, 6-4, 6-1. Molnar, the No. 81 player in the country, improved to 4-2 on the season. Senior Jessica Young won 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (5) over Olga Fischer at the No. 2 position. At the No. 3 spot, Poggensee-Wei beat Gillian Hush, 6-4, 6-2. Poggensee-Wei has won her last two singles matches.
Iowa will play tomorrow in Chicago at the Lakeshore Athletic Club against No. 34 DePaul. Play is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. (CST)
Marquette - 4
#48 Iowa - 3
1. Christina Ruiz/Gillian Hush (MU) def. Sojna Molnar/Jessica Young (IOWA), 8-6
2. Lynne Poggensee-Wei/Alexis Dorr (IOWA) def. Paola Calderon/Rocio Diaz (MU), 8-4
3. Rachael Hush/Chelsea Utting (MU) def. Jessica Cohen/Christina Harazin (IOWA), 8-3
1. Sonja Molnar (IOWA) def. Kelly Barry (MU), 6-4, 6-1
2. Jessica Young (IOWA) def. Olga Fischer (MU), 6-2, 2-6, 7-6(5)
3. Lynne Poggensee-Wei (IOWA) def. Gillian Hush (MU), 6-4, 6-2
4. Paola Calderon (MU) def. Alexis Dorr (IOWA), 6-4, 6-2
5. Christina Ruiz (MU) def. Jessica Cohen (IOWA), 6-1, 4-6, 6-1
6. Chelsea Utting (MU) def. Christina Harazin (IOWA), 7-6(7), 6-0


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How Much Does a Plunge Pool Cost?
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A plunge pool is a type of pool that allows people to cool off and relax without taking up too much space in the yard or house. Experts say that swimming is one of the best ways for a person to stay in shape. Not only does it work all of the major muscle groups in your body, it is also a low-impact exercise that is easy on the joints of the body. Swimming also provides a cardio workout and can tone your whole body. There are many people who use pools as therapy for an injury. However, a pool is a very large, very expensive investment. It can take up a lot of space that could be used for something else. For those who would like the option of cooling off and relaxing in a pool but who do not want to spend the time and money, a plunge pool is the perfect solution. A plunge pool is usually a little larger than a hot tub but is maintained and filled like a pool.
How much is it?
- Much like a swimming pool, a plunge pool consists of different parts made from different materials which will usually determine the price of the pool. Some pools can be made from ceramic tiles while other more sophisticated ones are made from stainless steel. These are some of the factors why the price of plunge pools can be different. The size of the pool, the company that installs it, and the placement will also affect the price.
- On average, to have a basic plunge pool installed, the price can vary anywhere from $20,000 to as much as $50,000. The installation has a lot to do with the size and location of the pool as well as your geographical location.
- For instance, EndlessPools.com offers what they call small swimming pools and these can be placed in a number of configurations. The cost to have plunge pool installed in a house from this company can range anywhere from $30,000 to $40,000. If you want to have a fancier installation, it can add up anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000.
- Hydroworx.com is another company that can offer a plunge pool installation. This company offers different configurations of plunge pools as well. You can have a chiller system, a therapy jet with massage hose, as well as swim spa jets. There are many inclusions depending on the configuration that you want. The price of a plunge pool that can be installed by this company can range anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000.
What is going to be included?
- Each company that offers plunge pool installation will provide the complete installation based on the specifications discussed with the installer.
- During the installation, a hole will be dug in the area where the pool will be installed. A shell will be placed and tiles will often be installed around with concrete.
- Most companies will also provide a warranty that can last up to five years. The moving parts are also backed up by at least one year warranty.
What are the extra costs?
- Since the plunge pool is limited in its scope of area, there are plenty of other things that you can add to it such as waterfalls, massage therapy, and temperature controls. These can add to the aesthetic and function of the plunge pool, but each of these additions will cost you extra.
- The excavation area can greatly bring up the price. For example, if the area is hard to get to or the land is sloped, the price can greatly increase.
- Landscaping around the pool after it has been installed can vary depending on the project. This will usually need to be done by a separate company.
- Depending on local state laws, a fence may be required. If this is the case, plan on installing a pool fence.
- Local permits will more than likely be required to build the pool.
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How can I save money?
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"Soul Food" and "Eve's Bayou" Among the Top Nominees
for ABFF Honors
by Eugene Hernandez
The nominees for the Acapulco Film Festival's "Black Film Awards" were
announced in Los Angeles on late last week, with George Tillman Jr.'s
"Soul Food" receiving 6 nods (Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, two
for Best Actress and Best Soundtrack) and Kasi Lemmon's "Eve's Bayou"
among the films that received 4 nominations (Best Film, Best Director,
Best Actor, and Best Soundtrack).
Twelve 1997 films that were either directed, written or produced by
African Americans were eligible, with nominations determined by a
nationally distributed ballot and will be awarded at the second annual
Acapulco Black Film Festival in July. Festival attendees will chose the
award winners.
The complete list of nominees follows:
Best Film
"Eve's Bayou" (Trimark)
"Hoodlum" (United Artists)
"Love Jones" (New Line)
"Rosewood" (Warner Bros.)
"Soul Food" (Fox 2000)
Best Director
Bill Duke ("Hoodlum")
Spike Lee ("Four Little Girls")
Kasi Lemmons ("Eve's Bayou")
John Singleton ("Rosewood")
George Tillman Jr. ("Soul Food")
Best Actor
Michael Beach ("Soul Food")
Laurence Fishburne ("Hoodlum")
Samuel L. Jackson ("Eve's Bayou")
Ving Rhames ("Rosewood")
Lorenz Tate ("Love Jones")
Best Actress
Halle Berry ("B.A.P.S.")
Vivica A. Fox ("Soul Food")
Nia Long ("Love Jones")
Cicely Tyson ("Hoodlum")
Vanessa Williams ("Soul Food")
Best Soundtrack
"Eve's Bayou" (MCA)
"Love Jones" (Sony/Columbia)
"Metro" (Artista-LaFace)
"Rosewood" (Sony Music Entertainment)
"Soul Food" (LaFace)
[For more information on the ABFF, call 212/219-7267]


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I work as a Software Design Engineer in the DMX group.
- As a member of the SQLVM team (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/sqlvm/), designed and implemented the SQL Azure I/O resource governor mechanism in the database kernel. Some of the interesting challenges the code had to deal with were - a new I/O scheduling mechanism aligned with the SQL OS scheduler, scaling to thousands of database tenants on one node and accommodating more than one, possibly heterogeneous throughput capacity storage media.
- Implemented mechanisms for a multi-tenant, shared buffer pool governance in SQL Engine . This involved adapting novel algorithms to modify storage engine's traditional page replacement policy (LRU-K based) to different SLA aware replacement policies.
- I own the dev side of tuning engine backend of SQL Server Database Tuning Advisor that has shipped in multiple releases since 2005 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173494.aspx ). DTA analyzes a representative workload consisting of queries and updates that run against the database engine and recommend appropriate changes to physical design for the workload. Recent work include tuning workload from the engine query plan cache, recommending compressed indexes , filtered indexes and extending existing index selection algorithms to exploit multiple processors.
- I have worked on workload driven index defragmentation in the database engine. We developed low overhead techniques to identify and defragment a logical range rather than the whole physical B-Tree based on the workload, making the index reorganize/rebuild operation amenable to online and zero admin settings.
- In the past I have worked on developing a framework for dynamic profiling and static analysis of database centric applications.We adapted profiling techniques and traditional program analysis (using extensible compiler framework Microsoft Phoenix) by leveraging understanding of call level data access APIs.
- Feng Li, Sudipto Das, Manoj Syamala, and Vivek R. Narasayya, Accelerating Relational Databases by Leveraging Remote Memory and RDMA, in ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2016, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, June 2016.
- Vivek Narasayya, Ishai Menache, Mohit Singh, Feng Li, Manoj Syamala, and Surajit Chaudhuri, Sharing buffer pool memory in multi-tenant relational database-as-a-service, in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 726–737, VLDB Endowment, August 2015.
- Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek R Narasayya, and Manoj Syamala, Database Application Developer Tools Using Static Analysis and Dynamic Profiling., in IEEE Data Eng. Bull., vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 38–47, March 2014.
- Sudipto Das, Vivek Narasayya, Feng Li, and Manoj Syamala, CPU Sharing Techniques for Performance Isolation in Multi-tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service, in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., September 2013.
- Vivek Narasayya, Sudipto Das, Manoj Syamala, Surajit Chaudhuri, Feng Li, and Hyunjung Park, A Demonstration of SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service, in SIGMOD 2013, ACM International Conference on Management of Data, June 2013.
- Tao Cheng, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek Narasayya, and Manoj Syamala, Data Services for E-tailers Leveraging Web Search Engine Assets, in ICDE Conference, April 2013.
- Vivek Narasayya, Sudipto Das, Manoj Syamala, Badrish Chandramouli, and Surajit Chaudhuri, SQLVM: Performance Isolation in Multi-Tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service, in CIDR 2013, 6th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, January 2013.
- Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Arnd Christian König, Vivek Narasayya, Ravi Ramamurthy, and Manoj Syamala, AutoAdmin Project at Microsoft Research: Lessons Learned, in Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, December 2011.
- Vivek Narasayya and Manoj Syamala, Workload Driven Index Defragmentation, in International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), IEEE, 1 March 2010.
- Arjun Dasgupta, Vivek Narasayya, and Manoj Syamala, A Static Analysis Framework for Database Applications, in International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), IEEE, April 2009.
- Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek Narasayya, and Manoj Syamala, Bridging the Application and DBMS Profiling Divide for Database Application Developers, in VLDB, Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., September 2007.
- Sanjay Agrawal, Surajit Chaudhuri, Lubor Kollar, Arun Marathe, Vivek Narasayya, and Manoj Syamala, Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, in VLDB, Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., August 2004.


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Canon PowerShot G1 X
Category: Enthusiast Large Sensor Compact Camera
Conclusion - Pros
- Good detail and resolution at low sensitivities
- Excellent high ISO performance, very clean output with good detail
- Compact dimensions for sensor size and lens range
- Intuitive user interface with good number of external controls and customizability
- Excellent build quality with metal body and comfortable rubber grips
- Articulated screen useful for waist-level and high angle shooting
- Very impressive image stabilization system
- Good-quality built-in lens with versatile zoom range
- Optical viewfinder is not great to work with but good to have in very bright light
- Virtually silent shooting
- Built-in 3-stop ND filter
- Efficient CA and distortion correction with only minimal loss of quality at the edges of the frame
- Good bundled raw converter with comprehensive feature set (Digital Photo Pro)
Conclusion - Cons
- Very slow continuous shooting for this class of camera, no control over parameters in High-Speed Burst scene mode
- Comparatively slow AF, slowing down further in macro mode
- Limited close focusing capabilities require frequent switches to macro focus mode
- Built-in zoom lens is relatively slow, especially at the tele-end
- Slightly steep tone curve in the highlights can lead to blown highlights in high contrast scenes
- DR correction, digital filters, noise reduction and other image parameters not available when shooting raw
- Noise reduction not adjustable when shooting Raw+JPEG
- Slightly 'conservative' feature set, no panorama mode or high speed video/stills modes
- Simple video mode, no manual controls or external microphone socket
- Jagged lines and other artifacts in video output
- Below average battery life
- Auto ISO only goes up to ISO 1600
- Not possible to fit filters and a lens hood at the same time
Overall conclusion
The G1 X is Canon's first, by many nervously anticipated, venture into large-sensor compact cameras and, without a doubt, a particularly interesting addition to the marketplace. The G1 X is a hard camera to categorise though - it combines excellent 'large sensor' image quality across its ISO range with the compact camera convenience of a built-in 28-112mm equivalent zoom range and a relatively small, portable body. In theory, this should make it a compelling proposition for anyone who wants the image quality of an SLR and the compositional flexibility of a 4x zoom in a portable package.
Unlike many compacts (but in keeping with Canon's general design philosophy for its G-series) the G1 X offers a wide range of external controls, an articulated LCD and an optical viewfinder, which makes it not only an attractive second camera for SLR enthusiasts but also a potential alternative to entry-level SLRs or mirrorless system cameras in its own right (especially as most of those cameras are only ever used with their original kit zoom).
However, this being Canon's first large-sensor compact camera it appears the Japanese manufacturer still has some catching-up to do in at least one or two areas. The AF is rather slow, when compared to contemporary mirrorless system cameras, such as the Panasonic GX1 or the latest models of the Olympus PEN series. Combine this with the camera's dead-slow 1.9 frames continuous shooting rate and it's clear that the G1 X is not the tool of choice for any type of photography involving fast moving subjects.
Another limitation of the focus system is its (lack of) close focusing capability. You'll need to get used to switching frequently into Macro mode when shooting close-up portraits or other nearby subjects. At focal lengths of more than 50mm you have to switch to macro mode to focus closer than one meter. This slows the AF down even further.
In terms of feature set the G1 X offers most things a photographer could ask for but gadget lovers are arguably served better elsewhere. There is no built-in panorama mode and while Canon has implemented a number of digital filters, these are only usable when you shoot in JPEG only, so you don't have a raw file of the same image to process in a different way. The video mode is also very simple with no manual controls, slow-motion or control over sound recording.
All in all the the Canon G1 X can be a great photographic tool if it fits your requirements. It captures excellent image quality in almost any light situation and packs a very versatile zoom range into a compact package, eliminating the need for interchangeable lenses. In combination with its abundance of external controls this makes it a good proposition for bulk-conscious travel or landscape photographers.
However, if you prefer the flexibility of an interchangeable lens system, if a large proportion of your photography depends on a fast AF or continuous shooting, if you are planning to shoot creative video or if you like to play with digital effects and helpers in your camera you might want to look at competitors such as the Sony NEX-5N/NEX-7, the latest models in Olympus' PEN range or the Panasonic GX1. If you want an even more portable camera than the G1 X, a premium compact, such as the Fujifilm X10 or Olympus XZ-1, could be an option. Their smaller sensors don't capture the same high ISO image quality as the G1 X but this disadvantage is partly made up for by those cameras' faster lenses.
Image Quality
The G1 X's sensor has a lot in common with the current line of Canon APS-C DSLRs and this shows in the excellent image quality across the ISO range. That said, in terms of image processing and image quality options the G1 X is a PowerShot compact camera, meaning colors are pretty saturated and bright with a contrasty tone curve and occasionally unsubtle sharpening.
The high quality lens contributes to the end result with good performance across the frame and zoom range. At wide-angle there is some softness toward the edges of the frame (probably caused by the camera's distortion correction) but you'll have to zoom in to a large magnification so spot any imperfections. This decreases as you zoom in further until it is hardly noticeable at the tele end of the lens.
At high sensitivities the G1 X sets a new benchmark for compact cameras. You really only need to worry about noise and the effects of noise reduction at ISO 1600 and above where the Canon takes a quite heavy-handed approach towards both chroma and luminance noise. The end result are very clean pictures with slightly smeared low contrast detail. The latter is only really visible at large magnifications and easily rectified with some custom noise reduction in raw conversion. In any case the G1 X's high ISO performance is among the best we've seen from APS-C (or similarly sized sensor) cameras. That said, the G1 X's advantage in terms of sensor and imaging pipeline performance is at least partly offset by its slow lens. Other premium compact cameras, such as the Olympus XZ-1 or the Fujifilm X10, have smaller sensors but can, thanks to their fast lenses, stick to lower ISOs in dim lighting conditions.
Apart from noise reduction, raw conversion also gives you some post-capture flexibility in terms of white balance and other image parameters. The camera has a slight tendency to blow highlights in high contrast scenes and shooting raw gives you the opportunity to recover some of those areas as well but you'll struggle to increase the JPEGs' image detail.
When talking about image quality we definitely have to mention the fact that the G1 X does not allow you to change the JPEG processing when recording raw. You're stuck with the default settings for parameters such as dynamic range enhancement, noise reduction and color modes and other image parameters when shooting raw+JPEG. Depending on how you take photographs this might be a highly irritating limitation (and one which are disappointed to discover in such an otherwise well-specified camera). If you can live with this limitation though you'll find that the G1 X delivers excellent image quality across the ISO range without any nasty surprises.
In terms of both design and handling the G1 X is very similar to previous Canon G-series cameras such as the G12 but there are some differences. The new model sadly loses the G12's ISO sensitivity dial but retains the exposure compensation dial on the top-plate which makes exposure adjustments quicker and more intuitive than on most other cameras in its class. It is also slightly larger with the collapsed lens protruding further from the body. That said, in comparison to mirrorless system cameras, the G1 X arguably offers the better size/zoom range relationship and is ideal if you are in the market for a pocketable imaging tool with an all-round zoom range.
With its weighty body and rubberized grip the camera sits well in the hand and offers external controls for most essential shooting parameters, giving the sense of a tool designed for creative photography. Additional options can be accessed via the Func-menu, Canon's version of the ubiquitous quick menu, which means after the initial setup there's hardly ever a need to dive into the menu system.
The function of the dials and the 'S'-button can be customized and your most frequently used settings and parameters can be saved in the 'MyMenu'-menu and C-modes on the mode dial, allowing for personalized setup of the camera and predefined settings for specific shooting situations.
Despite the intuitive operation the camera comes with a few quirks and peculiarities which, depending on your shooting style and habits, might or might not be relevant to you. Nevertheless you should at least be aware of them. The most important ones are arguably the lens' limited close focusing capability and the slightly sluggish response of the ISO screen. The former means that in varied shooting situations you'll have to switch a lot between Macro and Standard focus modes. The latter can be a little annoying when frequently changing the ISO setting. The animated 'emergence' of the ISO screen looks nice but we'd much rather have it appear instantly.
The Final Word
Overall, the G1 X is an excellent camera for some but not for everyone. If you are aware of its shortcomings, such as the sluggish AF, limited close-focusing capability or lack of manual control in video, and think you can live with them, the Canon gives you great image quality and a versatile zoom range in a small package and without the need to carry a stack of lenses.
Canon deserves some praise for finally matching the G-series' excellent body and UI design with a large sensor and for launching something genuinely different in the otherwise rather uniform mirrorless and compact camera markets. There is some room for improvement for the 2nd generation of this product but for those photographers who can work around its limitations it can be a powerful photographic tool and therefore earns itself our silver award.
Scoring is relative only to the other cameras in the same category.
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Low light / high ISO performance
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The G1 X is an excellent camera for some but not for everyone. The camera gives you great image quality and a versatile zoom range in a small package without the need to carry a stack of lenses. However, the sluggish AF, limited close-focusing capability, and lack of manual control in video mode will make some users look elsewhere.
Recommended Links
- Canon PowerShot G12 Review
- Olympus XZ-1 Review
- Olympus PEN E-PL3 Review
- Sony Alpha NEX-C3 Review
- Sony Alpha NEX-5N Review
- Fujifilm X10 Preview
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Specifications
- 3 Body and Design
- 4 Design Compared
- 5 Operation and Handling
- 6 Speed and Autofocus
- 7 Lens
- 8 Features
- 9 Video
- 10 Noise
- 11 Resolution
- 12 Dynamic Range
- 13 Image Quality Tests
- 14 Digital filters
- 15 Raw Mode
- 16 I.Q. Compared (JPEG)
- 17 I.Q. Compared (Hi ISO)
- 18 I.Q. Compared (Raw)
- 19 Conclusion
- 20 Samples
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What is Assessment?
(Definition by The American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) Bulletin, 48 (2), November 1995, pp. 7-9.)
Reporting Requirements
SLOA: The chair of each department (or equivalent as identified by the Dean or Director) shall prepare a report/summary every two years, summarizing the Educational Effectiveness program for each certificate and degree program offered by that department.Please see Student Learning Outcomes Assessment (SLOA) Instructions and Templates below for completing reports/summaries.
The report/summary shall be presented to the dean or director's office during the month of May and emailed to the Provost's Office. At least some information gathering for this process shall occur annually.
Core: Once an educational effectiveness evaluation program has been implemented for the core, the core review committee of the faculty senate shall prepare a report, at least biannually, summarizing the educational effectiveness of the components of the core curriculum. This report shall be similar in content to the report described above for individual programs but shall provide a summary for the components of the core curriculum. The components of the Core may be summarized in the report on a rotational basis, but at least some information should be gathered annually.
Instructions and Templates
SLOAs on file in the Office of the Provost
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins locked up their seventh defenseman for the rest of the season Wednesday, signing Barry Goers to a standard AHL contract.
Previously, Goers had been playing on a 25-game tryout deal after being called up from ECHL Wheeling.
A 27-year-old fourth-year pro out of UMass-Lowell, Goers has a goal and five points in 12 games with the Penguins this season. A native of Ivyland, Goers is the 10th Pennsylvania-born player to play for the Penguins in team history.
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Serif vs. Sans-Serif Fonts for HD Screens
Summary: Decent computer screens with pixel densities of 220 PPI or more lead to new usability guidelines for on-screen typography.
Not only are computer screens getting bigger, they're also finally getting better— which might be more important. In June 2012, Apple introduced the first mainstream computer with a high-definition screen: the MacBook Pro with a resolution of 2880×1800 on a 15-inch display. This screen delivers a pixel density of 220 PPI (pixels per inch, corresponding to the DPI — dots per inch — that measure laser printer quality.)
Apple uses the propaganda term "Retina display" for screen qualities above approximately 200 PPI, under the theory that this is as much as the human eye can resolve. Of course, this is not true: we need around 900 PPI for a screen so good that adding pixels wouldn't make it look any better.
Although Apple's screen quality isn't perfect, it's dramatically better than anything on offer from other computer vendors. It's a disgrace that the PC industry hasn't recognizably improved screen quality over the last decade — despite the fact that we've known since we have known for decades that 300 PPI screens offer dramatically faster reading speed than low-density monitors.
The mobile-device market has done somewhat better; Apple has delivered HD screens on the iPhone since 2010 (model 4's 326 PPI) and on the iPad as of this year (model 3's 264 PPI). Many non-Apple mobile-device vendors also offer HD screens, including the Samsung Galaxy Nexus tablet at 316 PPI, the Nokia E6-00 phone at 328 PPI, and the Sony Xperia S phone, which seems to hold the current record at 342 PPI. The phone people can do it — why can't the PC guys?
In 1998, I thought decent monitors with 200 PPI would be available "in 5 years" (that is, in 2003). Only 9 years wrong on that prediction :-( It's amazing how slow progress has been in the monitor field. And we're still stuck with 30 inches as the biggest mainstream computer screen, even though 42-inch monitors would provide decent productivity gains for most knowledge workers. My 1998 article predicted the death of newspapers once users got decent screens; that does seem to be happening, though also more slowly than I expected.
Screen Typography for Online Reading
There's a reason fashion magazines and high-quality art books are printed with much higher resolution than news magazines or regular books. It's not a question of whether the individual dots are visible — it's about the total user experience. For print, this experience pretty much equates to type and photo quality.
The old usability guideline for online typography was simple: stick to sans-serif typefaces. Because computer screens were too lousy to render serifs properly, attempting serif type at body-text sizes resulted in blurry letter shapes.
The following picture provides a quick reminder of the difference between serif and sans-serif fonts. Compare the two big As and you can clearly see the serifs (small feet) in the Garamond typeface. "Sans serif" simply means a typeface that doesn't have these serifs — from the French word sans, meaning without.
The old guideline was dictated by the poor screens on all mainstream computers. Now that we have high-quality screens, it's time to change the guideline.
In general, usability guidelines remain unchanged decade after decade because they're determined by human characteristics. However, every so often, some guidelines change due to the influence of technology or a change in user habits. For example, 10% of the original web usability guidelines from the 1990s have now changed because of technology improvements. Count this article as changing one more of those old guidelines.
Unfortunately, the new guideline is not as clear-cut as the old one. Legibility research is inconclusive as to whether serif fonts are truly better than sans serif.
Almost all mainstream printed newspapers, magazines, and books use serif type, and thus people are more accustomed to reading long texts in this style. However, given the research data, the difference in reading speed between serif and sans serif is apparently quite small. Thus, there's no strong usability guideline in favor of using one or the other, so you can make the choice based on other considerations — such as branding or the mood communicated by a particular typographical style.
Time to Retire Verdana?
In 1996, Microsoft's fabled typography group introduced Verdana as one of the first fonts designed explicitly to improve on-screen text legibility. As the following example shows, text remains somewhat readable in Verdana even at 8 pixels.
I've always been a great Verdana fan and used it on my own website for about 15 years. (In homage to this legacy, I'll try to keep this section in Verdana, even after changing my general website typeface.)
Although Verdana has served us well and saved many sore eyes, it was designed for a different platform than the next generation of computers. It might be hard to remember the computers of 1996, but the predominant screen resolution was 640×480, many graphics cards supported only 256 colors, and flat screens didn't exist. Blurry 14-inch CRTs ruled the office landscape.
Further, screen quality was usually a miserable 60 PPI, which is why early Macintoshes were considered to offer good graphics at 72 PPI.
Today, ClearType adds a decent amount of crispness to letterforms on LCD screens by using sub-pixel anti-aliasing, but this technology didn't exist in 1996. (And wouldn't have worked on a CRT anyway.)
As the above writing sample above shows, however, Verdana takes up more space and is less visually elegant than other sans-serif typefaces — in this case, Calibri — because it exaggerates various letter characteristics. (Calibri is another Microsoft typeface, introduced in 2007.)
I used to supplement the "use sans serif" guideline by advising designers to use Verdana because it was well suited to old computers. Today, however, I wouldn't recommend Verdana. It surely doesn't hurt to use it; Verdana is still very readable on modern screens. But we can now do better.
(Of course, while you can now safely deviate from Verdana and sans serif, traditional usability guidelines still apply. For example: using more than one or two font families can produce a ransom-note effect and should be avoided; you should also shun overly fancy typefaces with poor legibility.)
Computer Screens: From Terrible to Bad to Decent
Computer screens in the 1990s were blurry 14-inch CRTs at 60 PPI. In retrospect, we can confidently call them "terrible."
I've also long been critical of the current generation of crisper LCDs that typically offer 110 PPI. Although not terrible, I'll call these screens "bad" — especially if you're stuck with a 24-inch model.
I've been nice to Apple, labeling their new 220 PPI laptop screen an "HD" display even though I'd much rather have 300 PPI. Still, the new Apple screens are the first I'd deem a "decent" user experience for online reading. I'm sure there will be many more in the next few years.
How long do we have to wait for truly great computer screens? Say, 42 inches of diagonal screen real estate with 500 PPI and a 120 Hz frame rate? (Experiments in the movie industry show that dramatically increasing the frame rate far past the point of eliminating visible flickering leads to a greater sense of realism.)
In the computer industry, we're used to rapid progress, but I've been burned before in hoping that monitors would improve as fast as other components. Great screens ought to be possible in 10 years (2022), but I'll be realistic and predict 20 (that is, 2032).
Thus, the coming decade will be dominated by decent computer screens, as people gradually upgrade from their current (bad) screens.
This has three key implications for website design:
- We need web page layouts that utilize the bigger screen space and work with wide-screen form factors.
- People might be willing to read even more on higher-quality screens, further dooming print publications.
- Guidelines for concise content and scannable headlines (on most websites) are as important as ever, because web users will be as impatient as ever.
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The University of North Carolina will let students remove coverage for elective abortions from their university-sponsored health insurance after a national group complained about the coverage.
UNC system President Erskine Bowles on Thursday directed a student insurance company to contact students who have bought a policy this fall and give them the chance to opt out of that coverage.
Students for Life of America started a petition drive this week demanding the UNC Board of Governors remove the abortion provision. Group President Kristan Hawkins said students shouldn't be required to pay for coverage that runs counter to their conscience.
The board agreed last summer to require students on 16 campuses to have some health insurance coverage starting this school year.
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Tübingen English as a Lingua Franca
TELF is an applied linguistics research project that systematically combines conversational ELF output data with introspective and retrospective accounts by speakers and interlocutors. This combination allows for differentiated insights into the nature of ELF communication; it provides rich examples of how speakers use their "own English" to cope with the communicative challenges of a lingua franca situation.
The TELF corpus is a collection of video-recorded and transcribed discussions by mixed groups of four to six native and non-native speakers of English from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Each discussion is followed up with introspective interviews addressing the participants' learning history, English requirement profile, and performance in the discussion. Drawing on TELF-data, our research focuses on divergences between meaning and comprehension, co-construction and monitoring, and "pushing" one's limits of expression.
The TELF database is accessible via an online application supporting the detailed analysis of transcripts (including retrospective commentaries by participants in the form of interlinear glosses), questionnaire data, introspective interviews and retrospective accounts. A restricted demo access to the database application is available via the menu on the right.
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A group of speakers are presented with a problem from a business context (the "Midwestern intercom problem") and asked to discuss its implications. The problem is "ill-structured", has no correct solution, but can be approached from a number of different angles. The output-corpus currently consists of 36 discussions (ca. 100,000 words) with around 160 speakers from more than 30 different linguistic backgrounds.
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Despite two major commercial aircraft incidents in 2015 — the intentional Germanwings crash in the French Alps and the allegedly terror-related Metrojet crash over Egypt — there has almost never been a safer time to get on an airplane, Condé Nast Traveler reports. Recently released numbers show that 2015 was the safest year for air travel since World War II and the London-based consultancy Ascend reported that for the first year ever, not one passenger fatality was recorded on a Western-built jet, aside from in acts of suspected violence.
Discounting the Germanwings and MetroJet Airbus events, the highest individual fatality count was 54 resulting from the crash of a Trigana Air ATR 42 in Papua during August. The second-highest, 43 casualties, also resulted from a turboprop accident when a TransAsia Airways ATR 72 came down after take-off from Taipei in February.
Ascend's annual review recorded eight fatal accidents last year, all involving turboprops from relatively small carriers, with only three accidents involving revenue passenger flights — the lowest total since 1946. [Flightglobal]
"The traditional accident rates were down, and we can attribute that to good practices and to new airplanes coming into service," aviation consultant and former National Transportation Safety Board member John Goglia told Condé Nast Traveler. "But we still have to address the role of the human being." Jeva Lange
Ancient Chinese beer drinkers weren't so different from you and me, at least according to evidence found on 5,000-year-old pottery fragments in the Shaanxi province. Thanks to a discovery by Stanford University researcher Jiajing Wang and her team, it appears that Chinese beer-makers actually mastered many modern brewing techniques long before they were thought to have been adopted in the region, The Washington Post reports.
By scraping yellowish residue out of pots, Wang concluded that Chinese brewers had been combining Eastern and Western traditions by taking "barley from the West, millet, Job's tears, and tubers from China" to create their sweet-ish suds. And while rice fermentation has been dated back to 9,000 years ago, Wang and her team have reason to believe that the Shaanxi site is the oldest known beer brewery in China; barley beer had originally been considered a newer invention in Chinese culture, but it now appears to have much older roots.
"It is possible that when barley was introduced from western Eurasia into the Central Plain of China, it came with the knowledge that the grain was a good ingredient for beer brewing. So it was not only the introduction of a new crop, but also the knowledge associated with the crop," Wang said.
Here's the only bummer: You won't be able to drink the ancient beer anytime soon. Despite knowing what went into the beer, Wang and her team aren't able to tell the exact ratio of ingredients. Jeva Lange
Representatives from the nation's largest financial institutions are holding off on questioning Donald Trump's economic agenda — but it's not because they don't have any questions. At a private meeting last week in Washington, D.C., Bloomberg reports that financiers decided the cons of inquiring into Trump's plans just might outweigh the pros:
A few key questions emerged: Would Trump's agenda be aligned with the forthcoming proposal from Hensarling and House Speaker Paul Ryan? And should they reach out to Trump's campaign staff to inquire about his economic agenda?
According to two people who attended the meeting, the group decided against reaching out after several representatives expressed fears that Trump could criticize them on social media if talks took a bad turn. [Bloomberg]
Yes, that's right. The nation's largest financial institutions are apparently avoiding the Republican Party's presumptive nominee because they're afraid of what he might tweet.
Instead, the banking representatives have decided to just hold off on forming any opinion at all on Trump, or his economic agenda. "It's hands off, for now," one of the meeting attendees told Bloomberg. "We're not 'Never Trump,' we're just not ready yet."
As Trump would say: "Sad!" Becca Stanek
As Donald Trump ramps up his attacks against his likely general election rival, Hillary Clinton, he is increasingly zeroing in on her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for his alleged sexual transgressions. "Is Hillary Clinton really protecting women?" Trump has blasted.
But now even one of Bill Clinton's biggest critics is backpedaling from that sort of talk. Kenneth W. Starr helped pursue the impeachment of Clinton in the 1990s, but in a startling about-face now praises him for being "the most gifted politician of the baby boomer generation," The New York Times reports.
"[Bill Clinton's] genuine empathy for human beings is absolutely clear. It is powerful, it is palpable and the folks of Arkansas really understood that about him — that he genuinely cared. The 'I feel your pain' is absolutely genuine," Starr said during a panel discussion at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. "There are certain tragic dimensions which we all lament," Starr added.
Starr also expressed concern about "the transnational emergence of almost radical populism, deep anger, a sense of dislocation" — an apparent reference to Trump, although none of the current presidential candidates were mentioned by name. Jeva Lange
You know it's bad when North Korea calls you out for propagandizing, but that's exactly what a senior official said Monday when slamming Donald Trump's suggestion that the mogul would meet with leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump said last week that he would be willing to meet with Kim to try to halt Pyongyang's nuclear program, Reuters reports. However, North Korea said Trump's proposal was a "kind of propaganda or advertisement" in his election race.
"It is up to the decision of my Supreme Leader whether he decides to meet or not, but I think [Trump's] idea or talk is nonsense," North Korea's ambassador to the U.N. So Se Pyong said. "This is useless, just a gesture for the presidential election. There is no meaning, no sincerity." Jeva Lange
Roughly 100 French investigators raided Google's headquarters in Paris Tuesday morning as part of an ongoing tax fraud investigation, Reuters reports. A source close to France's finance ministry has confirmed the raid, but Google has yet to make a comment. The French state is accusing the tech company of owing $1.8 billion in back-taxes, following a close scrutinization of international companies' tax arrangements.
Google, along with other large digital companies, has been accused of using "legal methods to minimize their tax bills," BBC reports. While Google, for instance, generates large profits in France and the UK, its tax base is in Ireland, where corporate tax rates are lower.
In January, the company agreed to pay $185.39 million in back taxes to the UK and higher taxes in the future. Becca Stanek
SeaTac, Washington, City Manager James Payne plotted to create a "tactical map" of Muslims in the neighborhoods around Seattle's SeaTac airport, apparently due to terrorism concerns, The Seattle Times has learned. Payne, who has since resigned, reportedly "stated an interest in knowing with a great deal of specificity (to the neighborhood, house, and even person) where Sunni and Shiite Muslim residents lived," an investigator in the case found.
Payne justified his map, which never came to be, as necessary in case he "needed to go into the neighborhoods to 'make the peace,'" the report said. It further concluded that "Mr. Payne's concerns about Muslims committing acts of terrorism seem to be the main motivation for his GIS mapping request."
Payne defended himself against accusations of ethnic profiling by saying he was "trying to provide good governance to a diverse population."
"This is what is so outrageous to me: Because it was a white male asking for this information, suddenly people jumped to the conclusion that I must be out to get certain people. I'm deeply offended by that," Payne said. Jeva Lange
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump may have nearly clinched their respective parties' nominations, but they have a long way to go before they win over Americans, a new poll finds. The latest NBC News/Survey Monkey poll out Tuesday reveals that the majority of Americans dislike, or even hate, Clinton and Trump. Nearly 60 percent say they don't like the former secretary of state, while slightly more — 63 percent — have bad feelings towards Trump.
That intense dislike doesn't seem to be balanced out by exceptional fondness, either. The poll found that just four in 10 voters say they either "admire" or "like" Clinton. Just 36 percent say the same about Trump.
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What If Super Mario Bros. had a Tennis Racket?
The next Mario Tennis installment is coming to the Nintendo 3DS this spring. Check out how the game looks like and some of the 'Special Games' included.
Mario Open Tennis is going to be released on May 20 in North America. Like the latest entries, it's being developed by Camelot and now includes a few extra modes, like a Super Mario Tennis one, which is described as "Super Mario Bros. with a tennis racket in hand.
Were going to find out in Mario Tennis Open. Camelot created Super Mario Tennis mode, which Nintendo describes as Super Mario Bros. with a tennis racket in hand. You can use it to swing at goombas and koopas as you revisit familiar levels.
On top of Marios Mushroom Kingdom buddies, Mario Tennis Open adds you
well your Mii as a playable character. You can equip Miis with gear like Bowsers favorite tennis racket and Bullet Bill outfit. Items dont just make your characters look snazzy, wearing Princess Peachs shoes, for example, can boost your stats.
If you want to know how it looks like, check out the trailer below!
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San Diego After dealing with the commotion over his fake online girlfriend and his flop in the national championship game, Manti Te'o believes he's ready for the NFL.
That includes being mentally tough enough for the verbal abuse he'll surely hear in places like Philadelphia, where the San Diego Chargers play their first road game next season, and Oakland's infamous "Black Hole."
"After the couple months I've been through, I think I'm pretty prepared," Te'o said Saturday in his introductory news conference. "As far as going into another stadium, you can't worry about that stuff. You're with your family, you're with your brothers out there. That's all that matters. That's all you can really pay attention to. Yeah, it's a football game, and you play with the guys that you've prepared with, and you focus on what's important, and that's making sure that when the Chargers walk off, we're victorious."
The Chargers' rookie brain trust, general manager Tom Telesco and coach Mike McCoy, said they weren't bothered by the scrutiny Te'o has been under the last four months. The Chargers traded up in the second round to pick the star Notre Dame linebacker.
Te'o visited with Telesco and McCoy in San Diego before the draft and gave his version of what happened with the girlfriend hoax and his poor play in Notre Dame's blowout loss to Alabama in the national championship game.
"I just concentrate on me being me," said Te'o, who seemed relaxed in facing the media. "What I learned from that is you can control certain things and you can't control other things. So, learn to control the things you can and leave the things you can't control up to those people. I was just happy to get out there and share my side of the story, to just tell them that hey, what happened was what happened and what I'm here to do is play football. Hopefully guys saw that."
Te'o said Friday that he had expected to go in the first round on Thursday night. He was with his family in Hawaii when the first round came and went without him being drafted. The Chargers took him with the 38th pick overall after trading spots in the second round with Arizona and giving the Cardinals their fourth-round pick.
Te'o said he's been welcomed by his new teammates, with quarterback Philip Rivers being the first to text him with congratulations. He's even getting on well with Alabama right tackle D.J. Fluker, the Chargers' first-round pick.
Te'o became the butt of national jokes after it was revealed he was duped into an Internet romance with a girlfriend he never met.
The too-good-to-be-true story began with Te'o's incredible performances after learning his grandmother and what he believed was his girlfriend had died within hours of one another in September. Te'o said it inspired him to play his best football all season, and it was so compelling that it helped turn Te'o into a Heisman Trophy contender as he was leading the Fighting Irish to an undefeated regular season and into the national title game.
On Dec. 26, Te'o notified Notre Dame officials that he had received a call from his supposedly dead girlfriend's phone three weeks earlier.
The school investigated and - after Deadspin.com broke the story of the fake girlfriend - athletic director Jack Swarbrick announced at a news conference that Te'o had been duped. Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, 22, later said he created the online persona of Lennay Kekua, a nonexistent woman who Te'o said he fell in love with despite never meeting her in person.
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Pinchbeck E.S., fourth grade
There's been a revolution at Pinchbeck Elementary. Take a moment and let the fourth-grade parents tell you about it:
"My daughter always complained about going to school until this year," said one. "Now she can't wait to go and she is so excited about what she is learning."
"My child was starting to dread school," said another, "because the rigor of the SOLs was creating pressure to squeeze so much material into the school day. Mr. [Ryan] Stein has creatively managed to marry fun with learning."
"[Our child] was struggling, had low self esteem due to low grades, and had little on-on-one attention and guidance from his prior school," said a third parent. This year he . . . never wants to miss school."
Even students who were "okay with school" in the BMS [Before Mr. Stein] era have been transformed – into wildly enthusiastic.
"My daughter comes home each day talking about all the things she is doing in class," said a parent. "She is eager to do homework [or] sing a song about [what she is learning]."
"In a few short weeks," added another, "Mr. Stein has turned my son around from being a reluctant reader to being an enthusiastic one. My son's grades have gone up and he can't wait to get to school.
"I have never seen my child so happy and eager to learn," wrote one enthused parent. "Mr. Stein is the teacher every parent dreams of having for their child."
In Ryan Stein's class, say parents, there is no such thing as rote memorization.
Instead of lecturing about the trials and tribulations of Jamestown, he has students dress up and hold a mock trial, playing the roles of judges and lawyers. He also brings in "mystery readers" from the community and writes songs for the students that teach Virginia history. The students then dress as characters from that period and sing the lyrics to create a "dance video."
"He is the textbook case for the way teachers should be teaching to prepare their students for the 21st century," wrote a parent. "In the first nine weeks of school, my son has already composed a PowerPoint book report and a video book, been a lawyer in a mock trial, acted in a rap video and filmed a Claymation animation video. That is some pretty techno-savvy work for fourth graders.
"Mr. Stein truly brings learning to life."
Outside of class, Stein (pictured with his class on '70s day) attends students' extracurricular activities and conducts voluntary reading groups, allowing students who have read the book to eat lunch with him and discuss it. He also invites students to stay after school and watch movies based on books the class has read. If a student is upset about something, he eats lunch with the child and shares his own growing-up experiences. During recess, when the boys in his class like to play football, he refuses to segregate the class and supervise the girls in a separate activity. Instead, he plays quarterback for the girls' team and leads them in games with the boys.
An advocate of year-round schools, Stein has created blogs and other tools as a way of extending learning outside the school day. Because instructional time is so limited, he said, it is imperative for students to have a tool that they will "embrace, enjoy using and learn from at home daily, including the weekends."
Stein, who has provided hundreds of workshops for college students and teachers on integrating 21st-century technology into teaching, said he developed his teaching philosophy by "stealing bits and pieces" from outstanding teachers and administrators he has known.
"But hands down," he said, "the greatest influence on me [as a teacher] has been my mother. Her passion, determination, work ethic, and enthusiasm for making a difference in the world are highlighted every single day in my classroom. She made me realize that life is about whom we are and what we give rather than what we have."
This past January, he experienced his most rewarding moment as a teacher when the 100th Virginia school chose to implement History MVP, the educational songs and computer software program he developed for daily instruction.
"My dream of implementing my innovative teaching tools and philosophy by using music and dance to engage, educate, and inspire children in school all throughout Virginia has finally come true," said Stein.
"I have found my profession to be extremely rewarding, and I am grateful to all my students for enriching my life."
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The Pemberton at University Park senior community will host a dedication ceremony for its Veterans Wall of Honor June 9 at 10:30 a.m. The ceremony will honor residents who have served in the military.
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The Asian American Society of Central Virginia will hold its 19th Annual Asian American Celebration on Saturday, May 21 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, 403 N. 3rd St. in Richmond, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is free.
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The theme for this year's celebration will be "Our Heritage," in recognition of May as the Asian Pacific American Heritage month, designated by the U.S. Congress in 1992. > Read more.
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Returning favorites, new acts and new dining options highlight the 2016-17 Center Season and 2nd Stage schedules at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen.
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Im SOOOOOO hoping that it's just people getting confused :/ we'll have to really change our december ADRs if it's true
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Same here Keith the ADRs we have with our friends will be OK because they are all booked with the children in mind, but the ones we have when we are on our own will definitely be cancelled when I think to all the trouble I went to convincing Chris to eat on site ................ I could screamOriginally Posted by Keith, post: 30716
Perhaps there should be a set menu for those with free dinning. After all I pay for my dinning plans because I'm lazy and don't like to have to set money aside for food at the parks. And for the price I pay I should be able to get what I want when I go.
ME: Good morning, I actually don't need to make any ADR's, I believe were all set for upcoming trip...however I was wondering if you could confirm or deny a rumour I heard over the weekend.
CM: I'll certainly try!
ME: I read through a reasonably reliable source that restaurants in Disney World are removing the FM/BT from the menus as of this weekend. Can you confirm or deny this?
CM: LAUGHTER. Lots and lots of laughter.
ME: The thing is, we have an ADR at Le Cellier during our stay and if the FM is no longer there, we may wish to reconsider our ADR.
CM: More laughter. Ma'am, you do understand that Le Cellier is a STEAKHOUSE, right?
ME: Yes ma'am, I do...I'm just trying to be as informed as I can be, so that we don't turn up at the restaurant and get disappointed...do you understand my position.
CM: still giggling.... Absolutely ma'am, but they are a *STEAKHOUSE* I hardly think they could take steak off the menu.
ME: Well there *are* other cuts of meat. But what I hear you saying is that you've not heard anything about it?
CM: No ma'am I haven't
ME: And if it were the case do you think you *would* have been apprised?
CM: I really can't say ma'am. But I've certainly not heard this.
ME: Ok, well thank you for your help.
CM: Yes ma'am and thank you for calling Disney Dining.
I'm not sure I know anything more than before I called. Maybe I should called Le Cellier direct. Can you do that?
Weeeeelllllllllll I mean, I think I'd probably laugh too TBH
Thing is, it's Disney and they do daft and completely improbably things now and again I'm especially wary that free dining period is upon us and I can totally see them ditching expensive items
I'm SOOOOO hoping the rumour is a load of rubbish though I really am
They couldnt get rid of steak altogether at le cellier or YSH and places like that surely, just the filet cut though, maybe...
We need someone at disney now to take photos of some menus for us so we can see for sure
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Hang in there. I'll be able to check on it shortly. (Not in days, but shortly).
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Although most athletes tend to avoid political discussion, Barack Obama's incredibly inspiring presidential campaign victory on Tuesday didn't go unnoticed in the tennis world.
The Sisters Sledge, Venus + Serena, were moved by the Chicago senator's win even though they don't vote because of religious reasons.
As someone who famously spoke out on equal pay for lady ballers, V discussed what President-elect Obama's victory would mean for minorities in the US saying,
America is a wonderful place. I love my country, I love living there and I love my passport.ReRe remembered the pioneers who helped pave the way for the sisters,
But also it's a country that since its beginning - especially as it is supposed to be a place where people were escaping intolerance - it became a country which was intolerant of different minorities and skin colours.
It's interesting because just my parents - my dad grew up in Louisiana in a place where he was called `boy' and shown no respect, where he couldn't say anything, and his mother was a poor shear cropper. So I am very close to things like in the past.
So I think it's amazing that America has an opportunity to have someone who is from a minority or mixed race, or whatever you want to call him.
And, hopefully, it will just get more people opportunities and more people to work harder and say 'yes I can do my best whatever my background is'.
When I think of everything Afro-Americans have been through, 40 and 30 years ago, and even today you read of ridiculous things which have happened in America.
People see the importance of change and supporting someone who believes in change. Just to see Obama with his wife and kids, and how they are going to be the first Afro-American family (in the White House). It takes words away. I choked up.
I think of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X an Althea Gibson - she's why I am playing tennis today - all those people. And Arthur Ashe, who also led the way."
It's a great time to be black now in the USA. I did feel my shoulders were (back) and my chest stuck out a little more. In the back of my mind was, although this is a huge tournament, that there are so many big things going in in my home country and I would love to be there. But work beckons.


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The Fermi Paradox – The Washington Post
I usually only blog about issues on which I have some expertise, or at least sufficient knowledge to make points that have not been put forward by other commentators. But I am making an exception for the Fermi Paradox – the question of why we have not so far detected any intelligent extraterrestrial life. Astronomers and a few social scientists have been debating this issue for years. UFO enthusiasts, of course, believe the question has already been answered. But I think it deserves more attention than it has gotten so far from serious scholars in a variety of disciplines.
Maybe, But it's never going to get much beyond fruitless discussion until we either are finally contacted by aliens, or we get out there and start checking things for ourselves.
I think we're more likely to find ruins of dead civilizations (and dead races) long before we find civilization itself.