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Long-awaited season under way for Pine-Richland girls soccer
One of Pine-Richland's top girls soccer players looks at last season as "a rebuilding year."
The Rams' coach has been looking forward to this season for a long time.
Buoyed by one of the deepest and most talented senior classes the Rams have ever had, Pine-Richland was off to a strong start at 5-1 heading into a game against Hampton on Monday night — Pine-Richland lost, 1-0, to the Section 2-AAA rival to fall to 5-2 overall and 1-2 in section play.
"It's been a strong (graduating class), and it's been a large group in numbers since they were little," said Jodi Chmielewski, the coach for the past 15 seasons. "We've known it was a strong group coming up through. A lot of them were able to get quality minutes as a sub or starter on varsity since their freshman year. They're seasoned veterans with playoff experience."
Just two years ago, Pine-Richland was a WPIAL Class AAA semifinalist and PIAA quarterfinalist in a 19-4 season. The Rams went 12-6-1 and lost in the first round of the playoffs last season with a predominantly underclassman roster.
"I feel like last year was almost a rebuilding year, and this year we're just fine-tuning things," senior defender Lauren Keenan said. "We learned a lot and have everything set in place now, so we're just making sure what works the best and things like that."
Keenan, fellow team co-captain Lexi Hurt, Tori Sauers and Brenna Budd form a senior core on the back line — although Budd has not played this season due to injury, and Sauers did not play last season because of an injury.
Lydia Sargent, who had a team-high 21 goals during the regular season last year, and Rams co-captain Olivia Brandy entered the season as senior returnees on the front line. Senior Haley Wessel was an all-section keeper last year, and midfielder Tess Drotar is another senior returning starter.
Hannah Vernetti is a senior midfielder who did not play due to injury over the season's first two weeks.
"I think having that many seniors really helps us play well together," Keenan said. "These four years we've been able to see how each other plays and what works best in working together. I think that really helps, and the experience we've had definitely does, too."
Underclassmen in the starting lineup include junior center midfielder Maria Ciarrocca, sophomore center midfielder Catherine Eichenlaub and junior outside midfielder Maggie Shope.
Sophomore Katie Graszl and junior Marisa Hombosky have been alternating filling in for Budd on the back line.
"This is a group that's experienced success before, so the standard is set, and the bar is set pretty high on what we want to accomplish this year," Chmielewski said. "The key is keeping that competitive edge throughout the long season and what is a very competitive section schedule."
The Rams learned that the hard way when they lost their Section 2-AAA opener, 3-2, at North Allegheny on Sept. 10. The defeat came after opening their season with three impressive nonsection victories.
Section foes North Allegheny, Seneca Valley and Hampton are off to strong starts, but the Rams still are aiming high this season.
"I think this team definitely can contend for a WPIAL title," Chmielewski said.
When asked what the Rams' goal was, Keenan said, "To go all the way. And I think everyone on this team realizes we're completely capable of doing that. I don't think we want anything less than that."


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NE Indiana man gets 120 years for attack on woman
A northeast Indiana man found guilty of criminal deviate conduct, kidnapping and criminal confinement in an attack on a woman in her rural DeKalb County home has been sentenced to 120 years in prison.
The Auburn Star reports that 34-year-old Michael Stafford of Hudson was sentenced Friday after being found guilty on March 6 of those charges as well as burglary and robbery while armed with a deadly weapon. The jury heard testimony that Stafford forced his way into the woman's home, armed with a knife, in July 2009 and bound her with duct tape and sexually assaulted her in front of her 2-year-old daughter.
It took more than two years before Stafford was arrested. Stafford says he intends to appeal his conviction and sentence.
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1. Re: Verizon wireless Gift CardsSuzyQ Sep 18, 2011 1:04 PM (in response to seriousgoose)
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... I can find no information on the website or any other forum posts regarding this issue.
If you type $100 or trade in into the search box, you will find a number of posts on this issue; there has been considerable difficulty getting the promo code promised
Read the link below, and then send a PM to one of the Verizon designated (name in red, VZW logo) by clicking their user name and then "Send this user a private message" from within their profile.
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OK, Got my PROMOTION CODE as stated earlier. But till today still no envelope to send my phone back. Called customer service and they told me they have no record of me. Re-submitted my promotion code form about the 5th time. Said I was suppose to recieve and email with a Submission Code. Stil no code and Still no envelope. Once again called customer service, rep told me they do not deal with P.O. Box addresses. So I give them my sons physical address. Week later still no envelope. Called this morning again rep said to resubmit promo code. But instead I called our local Verizon Store and explained what was going on, also told me there is nothing said about having to be sent to a physical address, WOW. This afternoon after I talked to our local rep, I got my SUBMISSION ID. This began from Aug. 25 till today Oct. 11, 2011. Lets see how long it takes for the envelope to reach me. I was told I have till Nov. 15, 2011 then the promotion will be void. I have been trying since Aug 25 to complete this promotion on my end. What's up Verizon?


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Labor & Employment Digest: August 2014
In a practice area with as much individuality as labor and employment law, the voices of law firms inject the kind of color, insight and expertise that provide inside counsel and other legal professionals with a cornerstone of true understanding.
Uncharted territory
Many state attorneys general are beginning to expand their views into completely new territories. Some of these areas reflect inquiries made by federal agencies, while others represent a direct response to local concerns.
Appeals courts issue conflicting rulings on Affordable Care Act subsidies
At issue in two different cases was an interpretation of the law allowing subsidies when customers purchase insurance on exchanges "established by the state."
Pre-filing investigations in patent cases
If the claims are carefully construed, the accused product identified and analyzed, and the claims applied to the accused product, the plaintiff has an accurate road map for the litigation ahead. If any of these steps are missing or inadequate, the plaintiff can expects problems to arise rapidly.
Whirlpool threatens to withdraw from Energy Star program if class action lawsuits are not halted
In 2010, an audit caused the EPA to reevaluate its rating process, and retroactively revoked the Energy Star seal from many large home appliances. Predictably, a flurry of class action lawsuits followed.
Torgerson serves up TGI Fridays sale
The estimated sale value, including debt, was $800 million
Apple reaches settlement with New York State AG over e-book pricing lawsuit
The settlement is contingent on Apple's appeal of a 2013 federal anti-trust hearing, which found the company had violated antitrust laws by working with publishers to inflate the price of e-books. If the ruling is appealed, Apple will still be responsible for a repayment of up to $50 million....
Sinclair Broadcasting nears settlement with DOJ over Allbritton acquisition
The regulator and Sinclair have tentatively agreed to a settlement that divests some stations in the area that Allbritton and Sinclair shared, ensuring there is no communications or advertising monopoly in the region.
5th Circuit reopens employee lawsuit against BP for retirement plan deception
Four employees claim the company deceived them into buying stock before and after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill as part of a company retirement savings plan.
How the Supreme Court's reverse payments decision may affect general patent litigation
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If there's one thing Michael Bay is known for, it's explosions. He fits more explosions into 5-minutes of film than should rightly be in an entire movie, but his movies are blockbusters so you have to give the guy some credit. But what you don't want to do is give him a Pixar film like Up. YouTube user MrStratman7 has given a go at imagining what it would have been like if Bay had helmed Up and the results are, interesting.
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New York (Oct. 25)
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, George Bush, denounced the chairman of the Jewish Defense League, Rabbi Meir Kahane, to his face today in the lobby of the US Mission. While 50 JDL members picketed the Mission demanding American intervention toward the release of Soviet Jewish prisoner Sylva Zalmanson Kuznetsov, Rabbi Kahane entered the Mission in an attempt to speak personally with Bush.
Shortly, the envoy descended to the lobby on his way out of the Mission, and on being confronted by the rabbi, condemned the tactics of the JDL as harmful to Soviet Jews and Soviet-American relations and walked past the rabbi out of the building. Bush is aware of the case of Mrs. Zalmanson, the wife of another Soviet Jewish prisoner. Edvard Kuznetsov. She is reportedly very ill in the Potma prison in Soviet Mordovia, where she has eight years and eight months remaining on a 10-year sentence for alleged complicity in an alleged hijacking plot.


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It's time for the next installment of "Happier with Gretchen Rubin." Update: Elizabeth clarifies that Adam is protective, but not over-protective (she felt that she was a bit harsh in episode 20). Try This at Home: Choose an office TV show. Elizabeth's office watches Game of Thrones, and everyone has fun discussing it. Or maybe a family TV show–my family's TV show is The Office. (Listen to the bonus clip.) Or you could have an office podcast! Know Yourself Better: Do you prefer to savor or spree when you're enjoying certain pleasures? This is related to, but not exactly the same as, the abstainer vs. moderator distinction, which relates to how you most easily resist a strong temptation. I write a lot about this kind of distinction in Better Than Before. Listener Question: "How do you cultivate healthy habits while traveling?" One answer: avoid loopholes! Here are the 10 categories of loopholes, including the travel favorites, the "this doesn't count" loophole and the "lack of control" loophole and the "planning to fail" loophole. Elizabeth's Demerit: Elizabeth regrets that she didn't make a bigger effort ...
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Ever noticed how ridiculously cheerful Aro is? I've always thought Aro would come up with ridiculous ideas of activities for the volturi to do (blame fanfiction) like creating a fashion label. Or starting a band. Or giving the castle a paint job. Caius and Jane wouldn't be very thrilled about them of course, Marcus would be bored and every now and then,a few of the guard will be very excited and think up more ridiculous ideas. Mostly this guard member would be Felix. Because I imagine him to be a lot like Emmett. Again,blame fanfiction.
Since we don't know much about the volturi's actual personaities, what they do in their spare time and we only really know that they're sadistic vampire royalty, what do you imagine their personalties to be like?Apart from what we know. I don't think they just work all the time. I imagine Heidi to be a bit like Rosalie. Felix to be like Emmett. Jane and alec would love pulling pranks on people,colouring Heidi's hair green for example. Demetri to be a little like Jasper, and would be Best buddies with Felix. He would still of course call Felix a major idiot who tends to be childish a lot. So yeah stuf like that. And they would all come together in the feeding room and drink their human What's your take on the volturi guard?


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The altered jars made a comeback this year! I made them for Mother's Day last year as a gift for my grandma, mummy and aunties. Here they are...this year's Mother's Day altered jars filled with Choclairs which were available at our box shop at Like-A-Box..
In addition to the altered jars, I've also made a pocket flower card for the box shop. I used pink felt flowers which are available at the Golden Dragon store in town. Had fun making this cute thing, hehe :)
And last but not least...here is an altered frame which I did for my mummy. I picked several of my favourite family pictures and put them together in a white frame, embellished it with felt flowers, butterflies, quotes, verses and some bling-blings (one just can't get away from 'em).
My favourite picture of me & my mum.
I think I was about a year old in this picture :)
My family picture..taken in 2010 during our trip to KL. This was our dinner at TGIF!
My favourite picture of my mum & brother. Having fun with some dinosaurs at
the Jurassic store in Universal Studios Singapore!
"God's most precious work of art is the warmth and love of a Mother's heart" :)
Glad that this gift arrived in Kuching in one piece..phewh! :) Looking forward to make more altered frames soon!
That's all for now from us and do share with us what crafts you did for Mother's Day! <3 span="">3>
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It's that time of year when cash-strapped school systems send funding requests to the Orange County Board of Commissioners, which means there will almost certainly be some hard feelings when the response comes.
But leaders in public education are adamant about one thing: It's not really the Commissioners they blame for low teacher pay and insufficient funding for public schools.
PTA Council President Jeff Hall of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools says any occasional fights between his organization and the Board of Education or the Orange County Board of Commissioners are really just a function of a bigger problem.
"It feels ridiculous from a parent's standpoint that, here, in the education state, we're losing our best teachers to other places, simply because we're not respecting them as professionals, and we're not paying them a fair-market wage" said PTA Council President Jeff Hall. "That's not right…our fight is with Raleigh."
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education Chair Jamezetta Bedford said the school system starts July 1 with a budget deficit of about $3.8 million.
She said that's primarily due to cuts at the state level. On April 10, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted to ask the Orange County Board of Commissioners for the full amount, and it's highly unlikely they'll get it.
More realistically, perhaps, the Board came up with a first round of phased cuts that comes out to a little more than $800,00 in the first round, and around $2.2 million in the second.
Bedford said this may be a year when the Orange County Board of Commissioners wants to exceed its usual 48.1 percent target for funding public schools.
She said she thinks the Commissioners do a good job of funding schools under the current circumstances. She had even stronger words than Hall for the North Carolina General Assembly, and as she put it, Republicans and "Tea Partiers" in particular. She blames them for what she called an "attack on public schools."
"They're trying to blame teachers," she said. "They're stating as if it's a fact that the public schools are terrible. The public schools are not terrible."
And she wasn't just talking about cuts to school funding.
"The legislature is also increasing poverty, which contributes to weaker student performance and learning," said Bedford. "So it's a spiral of political actions that, to me, are very harmful to children."
Teacher pay has been stagnant since salaries were frozen statewide in 2007, which makes both hiring and teacher retention hard for local school systems.
Chapel-Hill Carrboro City Schools Director of Human Services Arasi Adkins calls it "an emergency situation."
"Just in terms of our numbers, we have about 56 resignations and retirements, which is about the same as last year at this time," said Adkins. "However, I meet with principals in our HR Departments every year in April, and I can tell you, one of the things that's really frustrating is, we're almost in a holding pattern with our teachers.
"Because, teachers are waiting to hear something from the state – what they're going to do in terms of teacher pay."
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Association of Educators President Chuck Hennesee worries about the effect of the recent state law to end teacher tenure, which he describes as a loss of due process. Hennessee, Adkins and others agree that tenure has been a recruiting-and-retention tool in the past.
Hennessee said that the cumulative effect of low pay, loss of tenure and an overall lack of respect from Raleigh legislators is starting to drive away a particular type of teacher.
"We look at statistics for years from the state Department of Public Instruction that show us that we hovered around 12 percent, losing teachers each year," said Hennessee. "We're at 14 percent now. But the big difference here is that half – as opposed to five percent, years past – are the 15-year veterans. Those are the seasoned people. When you start to lose the best and the brightest, it make education overall very bleak for everyone – especially kids."
Earlier this year, the PTA Council conducted a survey of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools in which staff members expressed the desire for parents to show their appreciation for the work teachers do.
That includes getting involved in the classroom. Hall said it also involves political advocacy.
"Getting involved. Understanding the issues. Knowing the facts about what's going on.
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DETROIT - Wayne County is moving ahead with construction of a new $300 million jail facility that's scheduled to open in 2014.
The 715,000-square-foot new Wayne County Jail will be located on the corner of Gratiot Avenue and St. Antoine (across the street from the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice).
With 2,192 beds, the new facility will consolidate prisoners from the two downtown jails as well as the Hamtramck jail.
It's slated to open July 2014.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday.
One new feature will be video visitation. No longer will prisoners have to be moved from their cells to see a visitor. From their cells and with the use of cameras and television screens, prisoners will see relatives and clergy in a separate, first-floor room.
Wayne County officials estimate that about 2000 to 2,500 jobs will be created by the project's end.
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JDN offering Grandparents Day special
Grandparents across the nation will be celebrated this Sunday, Sept. 8, for Grandparents Day. Grandparents in Jeff Davis Parish have the opportunity to show off their most precious possession, their grandkids, in a special tribute to be featured in the Jennings Daily News' upcoming Sunday edition. Grandparents or their loved ones can submit a photo of each grandchild for $14 each that will run in color. The child's name, age and the grandparent's name should be included. The deadline to submit pictures is 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6. Email pictures and information to firstname.lastname@example.com or bring the pictures to 238 Market Street in Jennings. For more information, call 824-3011.
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Capcom vs. SNK Pro
Review by cloakghost
"Should have been a good effort, but no."
Should have been a good effort, but no.
I'd like to get one thing settled first – I never really liked Capcom vs. Snk. I was very disappointed with this crossover attempt by Capcom. Street Fighter characters didn't get a facelift (except Ryu, Ken, Bison and Gouki), SNK characters were severely weakened, the grooves were very imbalanced, plus replay was short. But that wouldn't affect this review (if it would, the score I'll be giving probably would've been lower).
For a good number of people still hanging on to their Playstations after all this years, this would probably be Capcom's last effort at the old console (though I'm still crossing my fingers for CvS2, though it's unlikely). After the excellent SFA3 a good couple of years back, one would expect that this conversion would still be a good one right? Wrong. Instead, what we get (specially for you who have imported this game already) is a very lackluster effort with pretty disappointing results.
For starters, there was slowdown galore. Yes this is the Playstation, and Playstations can't handle 2D games well, but Capcom should have been more selective in trimming the character animations to compensate for the amount of on-screen fireworks that certain characters require. Gone are the spectacular looking pre-match animations (I loved the eye of the dragon intro), even worse, the FMV ending doesn't seem to like to cooperate with my Playstation. And, oh, each character practically only has one ending pose. The loading time is significantly shorter (unlike game with the same premise like King of Fighters, it loads only the new character's set of animations, and reloads the old one), but it would get to your nerves having to wait for 4 ratio1 characters to load. Thankfully, there is a shortcut mode, where you can bypass the cheesily made quotes and go straight to the next match.
The sounds are quite decent. The good thing about Capcom fighting games on the PS is that it sounds great every time. The fight words are clearly audible and the background music actually in tune with the stage, so major props for that.
Controls are one of the most disappointing aspects of the conversion. Again, fighting games (specially by Capcom) have been near-perfect on the Playstation, but for some reason, the controls on this game are quite stiff, and at a good number of times unresponsive. Oddly, ChunLi keeps on doing Senretsu Kyaku instead of Hazan Tenshokyaku though I swear I'm doing it right.
Replay also bites. There wasn't enough secrets nor twists to make me keep on playing the game. After purchasing everybody in the Price Mode, that's about it. Either you'd just beat up a character on Practice Mode, or invite a friend over, either way, after a good 15 minutes, you'd probably be playing something else instead.
Overall, the game was a big disappointment, and I would always wonder why Capcom would release something as dreary as this. Maybe a front for CvS2 on the PS soon?
Score: 4/10
Reviewer's Rating: 2.0 - Poor
Originally Posted: 06/26/02, Updated 06/26/02
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OH. MY. GODS. by Tera Lynn Childs
Series: Oh. My. Gods., #1
Publication Date: May 1st 2008 by Dutton Juvenile
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Summary: A modern girl's comedic odyssey in a school filled with the descendants of Greek gods. When Phoebe's mom returns from Greece with a new husband and moves them to an island in the Aegean, Phoebe's plans for her senior year and track season are ancient history. Now she must attend the uberexclusive academy, where admission depends on pedigree, namely, ancestry from Zeus, Hera, and other Greek gods. That's right, they're real, not myth, and their teen descendants are like the classical heroes: supersmart and superbeautiful with a few superpowers. And now they're on her track team! Armed only with her Nikes and the will to win, Phoebe races to find her place among the gods.
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- Fun, light read – I read it in one sitting!
- Hot love interest; I didn't want to like him, but I couldn't resist
- Best mythology-based YA I've read so far
Though I've had my eye on this book for quite some time, I never set my expectations too high when I started to read this one. I found myself increasingly disappointed by the selection of mythology-based YA novels out on the market, so I wasn't sure how much I would enjoy OH. MY. GODS. I find myself always comparing mythology-based books to Percy Jackson. While it is a hard act to follow, I have hope that there will be a novel in the YA market that will match its brilliance. While OH. MY. GODS. did not surpass my love of Rick Riordan's series, I ended up enjoying the book very much.
I read this book in one sitting. Childs just sucked me into Phoebe's story. I found that the "one more chapter" rule to be ineffective. The overall plot seems pretty simple: Phoebe's life is turned upside down when her mother marries a Greek guy she barely knows and is forced to move from California to Greece. All Phoebe wants to do is graduate as quickly as possible so she can go back to California and attend her dream college: USC. The only problem is: when she gets to Greece she finds out that the students and teachers – including her new stepdad – at her new high school are all descendants of Greek gods.
OH. MY. GODS. was a really fun light read. I had the impression that this book would be uproariously funny. It was amusing, but I never found myself actually laughing out loud. This isn't a complaint at all, but I thought it should be noted. Furthermore, the big reveal in the end turned out to be something I saw coming but the whole novel was just so much fun, I couldn't be bothered by getting annoyed at the fact that I guessed the ending. In fact, I was more than happy with how the book ended because I just know that the second book will be even more fun than the first!
There is a tad bit of romance in this book. There could easily have been a messy (groan) love triangle but Childs did not go in that direction! To be honest, I thought that the love interest was a big jerk and I hoped that Phoebe wouldn't fall for him. However, exactly like the main character, he managed to chip away the ice around my heart. He's pretty charming and his secret sealed the deal for me.
So far, this is the best mythology-based YA novel that I have read. I am very much looking forward to getting my hands on the sequel, as well as reading more books by Childs.
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Great review. I read this book a few months ago, drawn by the awesome cover. It is a wonderful page-turner, but wasn't really thrilled with the sequel. But I hope you enjoy it. Happy reading!
This was such a cute book! And I agree — this definitely was the best mythology-based YA I've read, too!
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Awesome review! OMG was definitely a good book but I was slightly disappointed with the sequel. It seems as if the magic in book 1 failed to translate into the next installment, which was a pity.
Aw, I'm so glad you liked it! It's been on my TBR for ages but now I feel motivated to bump it up the list. This sounds like a super light and sweet read.


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Leveson has knocked out much of the underlying defence for their lack of knowledge, and describes "serious failure of governance" not only at News of the World and News International but with Rupert Murdoch at
The finding in his 2000-page report released in London on Thursday reinforces doubts over how senior News management could not have known of the extent of telephone hacking by its journalists.
Yet News Corporation directors will draw comfort that the report makes no explicit adverse findings against the Murdochs that could form the basis for regulatory action internationally, although Leveson notes that News faces investigations under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Rupert Murdoch had told the inquiry that News Corp was "co-operating fully with the US Department of Justice".
Still, the report poses difficulties for News in looming UK legal cases. In August, the head of the British Metropolitan Police investigation into phone hacking, deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, revealed that the Crown Prosecution Service was considering bringing corporate charges against News International itself.
The most controversial aspect of Leveson's report was always going to be how he treated the three days of testimony by the Murdochs. Where their evidence was in conflict with other witnesses, which side would Leveson accept as the truth?
Leveson consciously resiles from any such finding. It is not his job to adjudicate on the Murdochs, he makes clear. That will be for Part 2 of his inquiry, although that cannot proceed until criminal trials have finished.
Nevertheless his conclusions are damning.
From the start of the Leveson inquiry, one of the key issues has been why, for five years from 2006, a succession of News International executives, from Les Hinton to James Murdoch to Rebekah Brooks, strenuously insisted that telephone hacking was the work of one rogue reporter, Clive Goodman.
They maintained this despite sentencing remarks at Goodman's trial that revealed a range of other victims; despite settling claims made by Goodman that hacking was widespread; settling similar claims made by News International's private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire; and paying £800,000 to settle a hacking claim by Professional Footballers Association chief Gordon Taylor in 2008.
Leveson notes that Les Hinton, then chief executive of News International, gave evidence to the government Culture, Media and Sport Committee on March 6, 2007 that a "full, rigorous internal inquiry" was being conducted to ensure that Goodman was the only journalist aware of phone hacking.
Despite this assurance, "there is no evidence that anyone at the NoTW made any proper effort to investigate the veracity of the allegations made by Mr Goodman" that hacking was widespread, Leveson found.
Rupert Murdoch testified that senior management at News International "were all misinformed and shielded from anything that was going on there . . . there's no question in my mind that maybe even the editor, but certainly beyond that, someone took charge of a cover-up which we were victim to".
He spoke of "one or two very strong characters . . . or the person I'm thinking of . . . was a clever lawyer and forbade people to go and report to Mrs Brooks or to James".
Leveson found that "the extent of James Murdoch's knowledge of the allegations is not clear". There was a series of conversations James had with News of the World editor Colin Myler on Taylor's lawsuit in May to June 2008. Neither James nor Myler recall any details, though James suggested at one they were waiting on a Queen's Counsel's opinion.
The advice when it came from Michael Silverleaf, QC, was that there was a "powerful case that there is or was a culture of illegal information access used at [NoTW] in order to produce stories for publication."
James said the advice was mentioned but not shown to him. On June 7, 2008 Myler emailed James with an update on the Taylor case: "It's as bad as we feared."
The email chain included details of other hacking victims. But James said it was a Saturday and he did not read that far down.
"James Murdoch replied to the email within two minutes of receiving it," Leveson found. "The speed and content of his reply appear to support his claim not to have focused on the key allegation."
Yet, Leveson found, if he had read that email, there was enough to alert James to how widespread hacking was. That alone seems to undermine any conspiracy theory of the issue being kept from upper management.
Leveson found that "if James Murdoch was unaware of the allegations, his lack of knowledge is, at least in part, only as a result of chance, rather than as the consequence of a sustained campaign by Mr Myler or Mr Crone (if there was one) deliberately to keep him in the dark".
Two days later James met head of the News International legal department Tom Crone, who says he spelled out the hacking allegations to James. Myler was also there but has no recollection of the conversation. James denies Crone's account.
"I have given careful consideration as to whether I should go further, and conclude that Mr Crone's version of events as to what occurred on 10 June 2008 should be preferred to that of James Murdoch," Leveson found. "There are aspects of the account of Mr Murdoch that cause me some concern."
In particular, it was surprising, given the potential damage to the company without an early settlement, that James was not told the gist of Silverleaf's opinion.
"Furthermore, Mr Myler and Mr Crone had no reason or motive to conceal relevant facts from the senior man," Leveson found. After all, Myler had sent the information to James in his email two days before.
"On the other hand, I also have serious concerns about the evidence of Mr Crone and Mr Myler about this meeting: given the significance of the issue, it is surprising that there was not a full-blown risk analysis, with options for James Murdoch to consider."
Resolving whom to believe was a job for Part 2 of his inquiry, he said.
"Whatever the truth of what was discussed on 10 June 2008, the evidence outlined above points to a serious failure of governance within the NoTW, News International and News Corporation.
"There was a failure on the part of the management at the NoTW to take appropriate steps to investigate whether there was evidence of wrongdoing within the organisation.
"A similar analysis stands in respect of News Corporation. Although there is no evidence from which I could safely infer that Rupert Murdoch was aware of a wider problem, it does not appear that he followed up (or arranged for his son to follow up) on the brief he believed had been given to Mr Myler to 'find out what the hell was going on'."
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Offers access to the dataset and codebook from a study conducted from 1997 to 2002 of adolescent outcomes for children who were physically abused at ages 9-12 years. The website also references all published research using data from the study.
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Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative (2013)
Provides information on the outcomes of foster youth who age out of the foster care system; highlights the absorbed community costs, such as wages lost as a result of dropping out of high school; and advocates for the provision of extended foster care services.
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Links child welfare, unemployment insurance, and public assistance administrative data to assess employment outcomes and welfare receipt for youth who age out of foster care.
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HONOLULU, HI (The Spread) – The 2013 Pro Bowl will take place today from Aloha Stadium in Hawaii, where the AFC All-Stars will battle the NFC All-Stars at 7:00PM ET tonight.
According to oddsmakers from online sports book Bovada.lv, the AFC is currently a 1-point favorite over the NFC, while the over/under total is currently sitting at 80 points. For the total, the over has odds of -115 for the juice, while the under is -105.
There's also a first half point spread for the game, which is a pick'em, although the AFC has -115 juice while the NFC has juice of -105. As for the first half total, Bovada.lv is offering the over/under at 40.5 with -105 for the over and -115 for the under.
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Ask the Administrator: Going for Deanships
A new correspondent writes:
My question has to do with a dear friend of mine, an assistant professor of music
at a small, four-year liberal arts college in the Northeast. Dear
Friend has two years' experience as a full-time faculty member and is
still ABD. He spent about five years as an adjunct (mostly at four-
year schools), and he was very active in student leadership in
graduate school. What he lacks (other than a semester or two of
adjunct work) is two-year college experience. He has it in his head
that because he's practically a PhD and spent a few months as an
acting adjunct faculty coordinator for the music department of one of
the schools where he was adjuncting, he's administrative material.
He wants to start applying for community college deanships. I've
told him that I doubt his application will be taken seriously, but he
thinks I'm full of crap. What do you think?
Sign me,
Anything can happen at any given place. That said, though, he'd have to catch lightning in a bottle for this to work.
The typical path to an academic deanship (as opposed to one in student affairs, say) is through serving first as a department chair or something similar to it. That's not an iron law, but it's a pretty common requirement. For the most part, you need to get tenure before becoming a chair. (Again, not an iron law, but exceptions are rare.) The idea, other than just gatekeeping, is to make sure that the folks in responsible roles have some idea what it is that they're managing. A department that may seem perfectly congenial and sane when you're a professor in it may reveal itself to be completely nuts when you suddenly have to manage it.
A college that appoints deans who have never managed faculty before is taking a real risk. The theory behind requiring chair service first is to make sure than someone stepping into a deanship will already have been disabused of the romantic myths of academic life, and won't be dumbstruck the first time a tenured professor cites academic freedom as justification for skipping class, or runs over her laptop with her car. You need a certain calm in the face of complete insanity, and experience can help with that, even for those with the natural temperament for it. (Some people never develop the temperament for it, and are nightmares to work with or for. Sadly, academic brilliance and managerial temperament are carried on different genes.) I'm one of the stabler people I know, and I still get thrown off my game from time to time when some moonbat with an agenda and way too much time on his hands gets new signals from the mothership.
I could imagine a very small college looking past inexperience, if its bench is severely depleted and senior. I could also imagine an imperious VP looking past inexperience, if he thinks it equates to malleability. The former may or may not be appealing; the latter certainly shouldn't be.
Over the past few years, a few studies have connected the dots and found that the relative dearth of full-time faculty hiring at lower-echelon colleges over the last few decades has depleted the pipeline for future chairs and deans. I'm not sure that colleges in this group have yet adjusted their hiring expectations accordingly; they're still able to blame weak applicant pools on idiosyncratic factors. But as the current crop of deans and administrators retires, the failure to develop a farm team will become hard to ignore.
My advice for your friend, if his role at his current college is fairly secure, is to volunteer for 'coordinator' positions or other ad hoc administrative assignments. Get a little experience, show some interest, and establish himself as a likely future chair. If the pipeline of younger hires with both taste and aptitude for administration is as thin there as it is nationally, eventually, he'll be in good shape. Just not yet.
Wise and worldly readers – your thoughts?
Have a question? Ask the Administrator at ccdean (at) myway (dot) com.
As a refugee from music school land (3 degrees thank you) and former adjunct professor of flute (and now a much happier associate prof of ed), this dean wannabee is truly headed for disappointment in a couple of ways.
1. He'll apply and hear nothing at all but *CRICKETS.* This is actually the best outcome.
2. He'll apply and get called in for an interview, but not make the cut. This will spur this wildly ambitious and inexperienced candidate to TRY HARDER (bad idea--he should focus on getting a full-time gig on tenure track first--those "sargent stripes" are earned).
3. He'll apply and delight the administration since they have found a suitable tool. He then gets the job for the wrong reasons: Little experience, lots of Chutzpuh, someone who's never been a fulltime prof (with full-time benefits). The administration has a perfect puppet to run roughshod over faculty for better and worse. This guy will come in with ZERO credibility. Turmoil will be had by all, and in less than 3 years he'll be run out of town after causing a ton of damage to the institution out of a dangerous combination of arrogance and ignorance.
He's trying to pursue the George Bush method of career advancement (seek jobs for which one is manifestly unfit).
Two bits sez he's also in trouble on tenure. ABD two years in is a terrible sign.
And former CC staff is right: The potential applicant has an intersting view of CC's. Bet he'd be chewed alive by staff, students and faculty.
In other words, we wanted a professional administrator, not some jumped-up faculty johnny.
And, oh boy, we got what we wanted....
On a somewhat related note, I've been sitting on a bunch of hiring committees recently and am amazed at the attitude of some folks who hail from 4-year schools. Some (not all, certainly! But enough that I've started to think of them as a type) seem to think that they are doing us a favor by stooping to apply with us. They apparently expect us to be very impressed with a PhD and a tenure-track position at a 4-year and seem genuinely surprised that they aren't asked back for a second interview when they focus their first on their research and barely mention teaching or students. I'm proud of working at a CC and don't feel at all defensive about it, but I have to say that attitude gets my dander all in a tizzy.
I would advise this person to go have a conversation with an academic headhunter and/or with senior officers at his own institution to talk about these issues. Faculty colleagues can rarely give more than spotty advice. It will serve as a reality check, but also give him some concrete things to focus on.
No experience at the CC level will get you disqualified from a faculty search, say nothing of a Deanship. I know I wouldn't want some SLAC tenure-washout to be my dean -- I want (and have) someone with CC classroom experience to handle the student complaints and other issues that come up while teaching.
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The growth will be down to larger companies becoming more dominant and fewer films being produced, according to management consultants KPMG International.
The industry is also expected to be less reliant on domestic cinemas as revenue increases from overseas releases, video sales, satellite and music rights and cinema advertising.
Although revenue in Bollywood has increased during the last five years, losses have also increased, reaching three billion rupees last year.
High-profile movies from 2002 such as Devdas and Mr and Mrs Iyer did not bring in as much cash as had been hoped, the report added.
The number of films made annually is expected to fall from 1,200 to below 1,000, leading to an increase in the average revenue per movie.
The report was supported by some of Bollywood's veteran film producers, who said they agreed that its prospects were improving.
Mukesh Bhatt, a leading Bollywood producer, whose film Raaz was one of 2002's biggest hits, said: "The year 2003 will be as bad as 2002, but from next year things
will change as more and more young and creative talents handle various aspects of film-making."
The report said there was a target audience of more than 10 million Indian households, but actor-producer Aamir Khan recently said Indian films had to be made with an "international audience in mind".
Lagaan was nominated for best foreign film at 2001's Oscars, gaining a major surge in interest both for the movie and for Bollywood in general.


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Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: New Orleans
Embarkation on Sat. at 11:30am to our room to drop off carry on luggage was 45 min. Excellent.
Just roaming the ship on Sat. restaurants are open so you can eat. First day and all activities and mandatory meetings went well. Everything is spotlessly clean.
Sun. at sea just lounging and the calypso band (Flare) by the pool was good. Also, music by in the Atrium most of the day. This was piano and violin. Very good.
On sea days all food was easy to get to. No waiting in a variety of food stops on board. While at sea and if you want it noisy and jamming go to the pool decks. Sometimes we went to the back of deck 5, sat in lounge chairs and just enjoyed the total quiet. The only people on this deck are the walkers. This deck wraps around the entire ship but few people go here so, enjoy. And you can stand at the back of deck five and look up to deck 11 as people torture themselves on the rock climbing More wall!Boogaly! Woogaly!
Mon. spent the day in Cozumel. Took a taxi to Dzul-Ha. This is a local hangout with a little bar and grill, a nice deck hanging over the water. One step and your are snorkeling in you own aquarium. Total cost $21.00 2-way taxi. Then back to town for a little jewelry shopping.
Tue. Grand Cayman. Tender boat was quick and easy even with so many people. Stingray City was canceled as all snorkeling due to winds. So we found an English Bakery, sat with the locals, ate pastries, drank coffee and had to fight somme baby chickens. They wanted pastries too. We walked down to Eden's Rock for some serious snorkeling. From here they will take you scuba diving from shore or you can pay for your locker and just go snorkeling off their pier. Instant aquarium, nothing like it. Then to a local restaurant for some local food. This place is clean enough you can eat any food and drink the water.
Wed. Costa Maya. this is true culture shock! I truly enjoyed this place. Talk about barren. Someone built a pier in the middle of nowhere. Beautiful water and great snorkeling anywhere. Be sure to walk to Maharuel the town a few miles south. No need for the taxi. The beach road is sand and primitive. On the east side you have the surf crashing and on the west side you have jungle and very noisy tropical birds. A fantastic walk and many Kodak (digital) moments.
thu. and Fri. at sea. The ship is big enough that you can be in the crowd or you can be totally alone, yes even with 2,000 people. There are many place to be on board. the library, atrium, observation deck (deck 5!)
Sat. Back home for another culture shock. I have to wait on myself, cook my own food and make my own towel animals. First time cruisers might want to use the ship's shore excursions. But everywhere this cruise goes is a safe place so you can explore on your own.
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The U.S. Is Buying Arms From Russia
For the past year, the Obama administration has been criticizing Russia for selling weapons to Syria and blocking the United Nations from condemning the conflict that's killed more than 10,000 people. Yet at the same time, the U.S. has been buying military helicopters from an unlikely source: the same Russian-government-owned company that Congress says is arming the Syrian regime. Since May 2011, the Pentagon has paid Rosoboronexport $411 million for 21 Mi-17 helicopters.
Now some U.S. lawmakers are saying the sales must stop. "We should not be using U.S. taxpayer dollars to support a firm that is arming a regime in Syria that's murdering innocent men, women, and children," says Representative Rosa DeLauro. The House recently passed an amendment sponsored by the Connecticut Democrat that would ban future contracts with the company.
The U.S. buys weapons and military supplies from defense contractors around the world—ships from Australia, airplanes from Italy, combat vehicles from Britain—with little objection from Congress. The lawmakers say that doing business with Russia is different, given the complicated relationship between the two countries. From 2006 to 2010 the U.S. barred deals with Rosoboronexport because it allegedly sold arms to dictatorships, including Iran. The U.S. lifted the ban after Russia agreed to support U.N. sanctions against Iran in May 2010.
The Pentagon didn't solicit bids from any other company for the helicopters. That "seems just plain stupid," says Texas Senator John Cornyn, one of nine Republican and eight Democratic senators pressing the U.S. Department of Defense to cancel the deal.
The choppers aren't used by the U.S. military; the Defense Department turns them over to Afghanistan's air force, which has flown the Mi-17s since the early 1980s. James N. Miller, an Under Secretary of Defense, told Cornyn, a Republican member of the Armed Services Committee, in a March 30 letter that the helicopters function well in "the extreme environments of Afghanistan" and are easy for the Afghans to operate due to their "low technical complexity," making them a "key" part of the U.S.'s Afghanistan exit strategy. Frank Kendall, another Under Secretary of Defense, wrote Cornyn on July 27, that "at this time the Department has not been able to identify a viable alternative to the Mi-17." Twelve days before, the Pentagon placed a $171 million order with Rosoboronexport for 10 additional choppers.
John Pike, director of national security think tank GlobalSecurity.org, says Russia sold Mi-17s to other countries during the Cold War, and that companies other than Rosoboronexport should have secondhand models that could be refurbished: "The notion that you can't come up with a couple dozen of these puppies in the used helicopter market is hard to believe." With the Senate unlikely to take up the House's ban on contracts with Rosoboronexport before the election, Cornyn says he's now trying a different tactic: blocking the confirmation of Heidi Shyu, President Obama's nominee to be the assistant defense secretary in charge of buying weapons for the U.S. Army. Says Cornyn: "There seems to be no appetite at all to send a message that their conduct in Syria is wrong."
— With assistance by Kathleen Miller
The bottom line: The Pentagon has paid $411 million to the same Russian government-owned company that Congress says is arming Syria.


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The publishers are right, of course, to charge for the content. However that's not the point.
For print books you have:
costs for content creation + costs for typesetting and design of the print book + costs for printing (1)
For ebooks you have
costs for content creation + costs for typesetting and design of the ebook (2)
Provided that the third component of the cost is absent for ebooks, the second should be more or less the same as with print books, and the first is completely identical, you should get cheaper ebooks than print books. In fact, for the majority of the books on Amazon the paperback version is sold at a lower price than the ebook (maybe that's the way I see it here in Europe, because Amazon charges VAT).
It should be pointed out that pring books could be loaned, borrowed, resold, which in a way makes their price even lower for the consumer. You can't do that with DRM ebooks.
In theory, a new electronic publisher could break the status quo by entering the market and by charging less for ebooks. In practice it is very difficult to happen, because it should sign a lot of popular authors from the onset, in order to make a difference.
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With the news earlier this year about how Call of Duty was going to have 3 different studios working on it and the recently released screenshot of the in game character models, It got me thinking what could the developers do to put the excitement of Call of Duty 4 back in it for me? The solution I came up with is rather simple.
Back when Call of Duty modern warfare came out I remembered feeling relieved that we got away from the WW2 era and moved into a more modern era because we got beaten over the head with WW2 game after WW2 game and it was time for a fresh start. Now I feel like we are back to that point but instead of it being all WW2 games its all modern era games, So I would like to see each studio do a different time period for instance if Sledgehammer did a Modern era game like we have now. Then if Infinity Ward focused on the Vietnam war because we have never had a ton of games that were focused around Vietnam when it was a rather large war. Last Treyarch could do WW2 and or a future version of Call of Duty.
I think if they did this simple change to the game it would keep it fresh so we aren't doing the exact same thing all the time. It's not exactly the huge change that made Call of Duty Modern Warfare the game that changed FPS games, But I think its just enough to get people excited about it again.


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Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a country's economic organization - and more precisely its corporate governance system. Most research on corporate networks focuses on a single country and/or a brief time period, however, making fruitful comparisons difficult. This book provides a unique long-term analysis of the rise, consolidation, and decline of these networks in fourteen European and non-European countries in the 20th and early 21st centuries. It revisits important debates in corporate networks literature such as the interactions between the industrial and financial sectors or the role of state-owned enterprises, and integrates studies from East European, Asian and Latin American countries, moving beyond the Anglo-Saxon view which dominates the literature.
The chapters in this volume bridge the literatures on corporate networks and corporate governance - which, despite their common issues, often fail to address one another. The editors bring together the most internationally well-known specialists of corporate networks who focus, through their network analysis, on corporate governance issues. Each chapter reveals distinct phases in the evolution of national networks and explains how and why changes have taken place over time.
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September is time to gather up your expired, unused and unwanted drugs and turn them over to area law enforcement for the fall Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Drug Take-Back.
Police departments in the towns of Dublin and Pulaski, as well as Pulaski County Sheriff's Office, will be participating in this fall's Take-Back. The national program is intended to prevent prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse and theft.
Take-Back day is Saturday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Pulaski Police Department will team up with Pulaski Community Partners Coalition (PCPC) to set up a collection booth outside Food City in Pulaski during those hours. This is the ninth time in four years the police department and PCPC have taken part in the program.
Officer Megan Jennings said 30,300 pills were dropped off at the department's collection site outside Food City this past April. She noted 1,000 of the pills were controlled substances.
Dublin Police Department first joined the effort this past spring and will have a booth set up at CVS on Giles Avenue in Dublin the day of the event, according to Chief Dennis Lambert. The spring Take-Back resulted in 89.6 pounds of drugs being collected at Dublin's booth.
Pulaski County Sheriff's Office will have its collection site set up at Dublin Walmart on Take-Back day. Sheriff Jim Davis said a patrol vehicle will be on display to increase visibility of the collection site, which will be manned by Sgt. Debbie Berg and Deputy Mike Smith.
The sheriff's office collected 136 pounds of prescription and over-the-counter drugs during the spring 2013 Take-Back. Their booth also will be open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Only pills and patches can be turned in for disposal by the DEA. Liquids, needles and other sharp objects cannot be accepted. Submissions will be accepted with no questions asked. In order to maintain anonymity, individuals are encouraged to remove their personal identifying information from the prescription label if they so choose.
According to Jennings, Americans turned in 390 tons (over 780,000 pounds) of prescription drugs nationwide in April 2013 at nearly 6,100 sites operated by the DEA and more than 4,400 of its state and local law enforcement partners. When those results are combined with what was collected in its eight previous Take Back events, DEA and its partners have taken in over 4.1 million pounds of pills.
"This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse," Jennings said. "Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs."
She said studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from home medicine cabinets.
The program also serves to protect the nation's waters from contamination by drugs. Flushing pills down the toilet or throwing them in the trash pose potential safety and health hazards.
Jennings said the DEA is in the process of approving new regulations that implement the Safe and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010. The regulations would amend the Controlled Substances Act to allow a patient or their family member, or a pet owner) to dispose of controlled substance medications by delivering them to entities the attorney general has authorized to accept them. The Act also allows long term care facilities to dispose of residents' controlled substances in certain instances.
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Dell Latitude X300
Dell Latitude X300
The Dell Latitude X300 hasn't changed much from the last version we reviewed, about a year ago. That's good news, because it's one of the best 3-pound laptops around. But it's slightly bad news, too, as the laptop still lacks an integrated optical drive.
First, the minor changes. The X300 now comes equipped with a 1.4-GHz Pentium M Low Voltage 738 chip, which helped it earn a WorldBench 5 score of 73 in our speed tests. That's a good score that puts it in the top 50 percent in our notebook universe. The latest incarnation also has slightly better battery life. This time its rear-mounted three-cell battery lasted 2.5 hours in our tests, about 24 minutes longer than the battery in the unit we tested a year ago. The $129 extended-life eight-cell battery will double that, according to Dell (we didn't test it).
What's the same? Though its connections are basic, this 1.1-inch-tall laptop boasts some nice features. One is the touchpad-equipped keyboard, one of the best we've seen on a 3-pound laptop. Well laid out and roomy, it allows fast touch typing. The mouse buttons have a nice nonskid texture. Another plus is the external power gauge that lets you check on remaining battery life without turning on the unit. A FireWire port and an SD Card slot are included.
In the negative column: You can't access the hard drive (if it fails you'll have to send the entire laptop in for servicing), and there's no built-in optical drive. You get a CD-ROM drive at no extra charge in Dell's D/Bay External Media Bay, which is housed in a lightweight case on a short cable that plugs into the laptop's left-side USB port. You can pay extra for various options, ranging up to $229 for a D/Bay with an 8X DVD+RW burner.
The other way to add an optical drive is via the excellent, snap-on, 1.9-pound MediaBase, which not only provides a place to insert an optical drive or a secondary hard drive up to 40GB, but also adds a full set of legacy ports, a subwoofer, and an extra battery bay. With a secondary battery in the MediaBase and the extended battery attached to the back of the laptop, you can work for up to 10 hours untethered, according to Dell (we did not test this assertion). Outfitted with a DVD D/Bay for travel and the MediaBase for the desktop, the X300 becomes far more versatile than other 3-pound laptops.
Our unit, with the MediaBase and an 8X DVD+RW drive, costs $2425. The price without the MediaBase is $1956. You can get the X300 with a DVD+RW D/Bay for $2155.
Since our review a year ago, the Dell Latitude X300 has been surpassed in some respects by other ultraportables. For example, Fujitsu's LifeBook P7010D is even more lightweight at just 3 pounds, it boasts an integrated optical drive, and it lasts more than 5 hours on one battery charge. However, in speed and expandability the X300 is superior.
The lightweight Dell Latitude X300 is relatively fast, and its MediaBase docking station makes it incredibly versatile for home and travel.
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RM of Cartier council is offering a new physician rent-free office space in the Elie Medical Clinic.
CAO Anne Burns said council passed a resolution at its Aug. 12 meeting stating they will continue the agreement they had in place with part-time physician Dr. Jennifer Malmstrom. Malmstrom is ending her 11-year-old practice in Elie on Sept. 19, leaving Dr. Hossam Girgis as the sole doctor in the community.
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|This article describes the services and resources available at a Family History Center, a branch facility of the Family History Library.
The Woodville Familysearch center(also known as the Woodville Family history center) is a branch of the Familysearch Library. If you live in Tyler county, or if you have ancestors from here, we may be able to help you! Just call the number below or come by during open hours. This family history center serves the Woodville branch of the Church of Jesus Christ-of-latter-day-saints.
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Directions from the courthouse:
First, head north on Hwy 69. Then, turn on hwy 287. Just keep driving until you see the Church on your right. Then turn into the church parking lot(The family history center is inside).
Center Contacts and Hours
Location: The Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints Woodville branch
- 1000 Hwy 287 Pine St Woodville TX 75979 United States
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- Thursdays: 10 am - 2 pm
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- April 5-6 LDS General Conference
- May 24 Memorial Day
- July 3-5 Independence Day
- August 30 Labor Day
- October 4 LDS General Conference
- November 25 - 29 thanksgiving Holiday
- December 24-25 Christmas
- January 1 -2 New Years Holiday
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Upcoming Events
The Houston genealogical conference on Saturday April 26 2014 at the Summerwood LDS church from 9 am to 3:40 pm.
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- Experienced family history consultants are available to help with genealogy
- Online resources are available, as well as local funeral and cemetary records and a few books
- We also have pedigree charts and family group sheets.
Databases and Software
- FHC Portal This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
- The Woodville family history center has the Familysearch indexing program on all of it's computers.
- Libre office, We have Libre office for making flyers to hand out.
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- We have computers, a copy-machine, and printers.(Note: plans are currently being made to purchase a microfilm viewer. so one may be available soon)
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- Woodville city hall (very informative)
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1. No drinks near the computers
2. Please sign in and out
3. Always where a shirt and pants(or skirt, or shorts, etc.)
4. Please talk to a consultant before downloading new software on the computer
All we ask is No drinks near the computers, and Please sign in and out.


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