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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Review by Tokyo Fusion
"Run in SONIC SPEED to your nearest game store! It's the BEST game in the entire series!"
Sega Genesis is could have been the console that no one noticed. But thanks to the popular "Sonic" series, at least the now defunct 16-bit console gets some decent recognition.
Out of all the three "Sonic the Hedgehog" games, I particularly loved the second installment the most. It's funny to say that being in the middle beats the prequel and the sequel. I loved this game to death, I tell you. Anyway, on to the review.
The graphics in STH2 looked slightly improved. Comparing it to the first game which consisted of bland mazes and labyrinths, the levels in this game are all beautiful. I personally liked the beautiful setting of the Aquatic Ruins Zone, my favorite level in the whole entire series. Sonic looked the same. His new buddy, Tails looked cute. The enemies looked great as well. The "3D-ish" bonus area appeared very nice too.
The music in STH2 is my favorite in the entire series. They are addicting to listen to. It's really catchy and you might find yourself humming the well-composed tunes. My ultimate favorites are the sinister-sounding Boss theme, the 50's-cartoonish Casino Night Zone, the fast-paced future techno of the Chemical Plant Zone and the Metropolis Zone, the epic Aquatic Ruin Zone, and the slow and sad Sky Zone. Sounds are pretty cool to hear especially Sonic's charge dash that sounds like the hedgehog's revving up like an engine.
Controls are easy to pull off, the moves are not very complicated and it only requires a few buttons to execute it.
There are a few new gameplay elements in STH2. Sonic can now charge dash allowing him to zoom faster through the stage. His flying squirrel sidekick tails is also "playable". There is also a 2-player mode where two players can race each other to the finish line in one of the four available stages while grabbing the most rings and powerups. And if you think that Sonic's new dashing ability isn't fast enough, he can also transform into Super Sonic (providing that you obtain all the seven chaos emeralds in the bonus levels), which turns him into an invincible speed devil. The levels are tougher than ever. The enemies are more deadlier and the traps are more annoying. This makes the game more challenging than the first.
Replay value is medium. After beating this game, you might find yourself playing the game again but not too often. You might find the two-player mode fun with a friend, so why not try it out?
Overall, STH2, is one of the Sega's highlights and one of the best games ever made. A definite purchase if you own Sega Genesis.
Graphics: 10/10
Control: 10/10
Gameplay: 10/10
Replay Value: 8/10
Fun Factor: 9.5/10
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 08/14/01, Updated 03/23/03
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Brandon Chatmon is breaking down every commitment and signee in the Sooners' 2012 recruiting class. View all of our profiles here.
Name: Gary Simon
Position: Cornerback
Height, Weight: 6-foot-1, 180 pounds
Hometown/School: St. Petersburg, Fla./Gibbs
Committed: February 1, 2012
Scout grade: 78. Three star prospect.
Scout rankings: No. 55 athlete, No. 264 in the Southeast Region, No. 87 in Florida
Picked OU over: Iowa State, Arkansas, Rutgers, South Florida, Cincinnati and others.
State of the position: Demontre Hurst is the only returning starter at the cornerback position and the Sooners would be at their best with at least four quality cornerbacks in the rotation. Safe to say the rest of the cornerbacks on the roster have opportunity to make an impact in 2012.
Pros: "Defensively, you love his size and range to be a guy that can get in the face of WRs and press them and re-route at the line. He can match-up with taller receivers in the redzone and he competes for the football. Can plant and drive when playing off and you like his willingness and toughness to insert in run support." - ESPN analyst
Cons: "Can get high in the pedal which is concerning, but shows fairly smooth hips and the ability to transition. Simon is raw in his methods and technique, but he has talent, size, runs adequately well and shows elusiveness and quick feet in his change-of-direction." - ESPN analyst
Similar to/potential role: Demontre Hurst. Simon is an explosive, competitive athlete who is willing to come up in run support. Once he gets quality tutoring by Mike Stoops, he could become a big-time playmaker from his cornerback spot. Another player who could end up playing some safety for the Sooners.
Expected impact: 2012. He is such an explosive athlete it is hard to imagine he doesn't earn a spot on special teams as a freshman. Simon is fairly raw so don't expect a huge impact on defense immediately but he is so talented he could play his way out of a redshirt season in fall camp.

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|New York
A Bronx, New York, school district recently turned one home schooling family over to social services when the family failed to file their notification paperwork.
The Richards* family has been home schooling 13 children over the last 12 years. Their home schooling was so successful that five of their children are now in college. Nonetheless, the Richards found themselves faced with a social worker at their door accusing them of educational neglect. Apparently the school district had notified the Bronx Agency for Children's Services that the family had not filed their annual notification at the beginning of this year as they had done for the past last 12 years.
Even though the concern was merely over missing paperwork, the social worker insisted on launching a full-scale investigation and wanted to enter the home and interview the children. When the Richards refused to comply, the social worker said she would come back a few days later to conduct the interviews.
HSLDA immediately contacted the social worker explaining that the Richards were now in compliance-they had filed their paperwork and been approved by the local school district. Nonetheless, the social worker insisted on an unlimited investigation that included interviewing the children about physical and sexual abuse.
HSLDA then contacted the school district to begin the process for a formal withdrawal of the educational neglect complaint. After repeated visits by the social worker to the Richards' home, HSLDA sent a letter to her supervisor at the Bronx Agency for Children's Services insisting that they stop visiting the home and asserting the Richards' Fourth Amendment rights to a secure home.
While this "stand off" was taking place, the family decided to allow the social worker to see the Richards' children in order to simply determine that they were not in danger. The social worker, on notice from HSLDA to not violate the Richards' civil rights, briefly saw the children and left without attempting to complete a full scale investigation. The heavy handed threats by the social workers were averted. The complaint of educational neglect has since been withdrawn.
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text: Lonnie Norton, director of computing at the University of Utah's College of Humanities, has been arrested for kidnapping his estranged wife, taking her to a campus building, and raping her, The Deseret News [1] reported. His wife filed for divorce last week. A statement from the University of Utah said: "University employees who commit violent acts on university property are not eligible to remain employed at the university and will be excluded from campus. The university does not comment on individual personnel actions or ongoing investigations."


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LINZ, Austria - Just two days after securing the eighth and final spot in Istanbul, Angelique Kerber won her third WTA title, battling past Ana Ivanovic in a rollercoaster final at the Generali Ladies Linz.
Though there were some ups and downs from both sides, it was Kerber who seemed in complete control in the early goings, building a 64 53 lead and, at 64 54, serving her way to a 40-0 lead and triple match point. Ivanovic fought them all off, though, and it looked like things were seriously swinging the other way as she brought up four set points of her own - two at 6-5, then two at 6-4 in the breaker.
But the No.1-seeded Kerber bounced back just in time, reeling off the last four points to close out the No.3-seeded Ivanovic, 64 76(6). Kerber ended up with four more points in the match - 87 to 83.
"At the end I was just focusing point to point and not thinking about the match points I already had," Kerber said. "I was just trying to stay aggressive in the important moments and I think that was the biggest key to victory at the end. I'm really happy to win my first WTA tournament of the year here.
"Ana also played a great tournament and a great final. I'm just happy I could win the final today."
"There were a lot of turnarounds from both sides, but she played better in the important moments," Ivanovic said. "I feel like I had more chances but just didn't use them. I hit some errors when I really needed the point. But it was a great match, and though it's disappointing to lose in a final, I had lots of good matches this week and lots of good wins, and overall it was a very positive week for me."
Kerber won the third WTA title of her career, her first two coming last year at Paris [Indoors] (a Premier event) and Copenhagen (an International event). All three of her WTA titles have come indoors.
Two days earlier, Kerber also secured the eighth and final spot at next week's TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships - Istanbul, her quarterfinal victory over Patricia Mayr-Achleitner sealing the deal.
Kerber rounded out an elite eight that also includes Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka, Agnieszka Radwanska, Li Na, Sara Errani, Petra Kvitova and Jelena Jankovic. Maria Sharapova would have been in the field but unfortunately the World No.3 had to withdraw from the event with a shoulder injury.
Earlier on Sunday the doubles final saw the Pliskova sisters beat No.1 seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Alicja Rosolska for the title, 76(6) 64. The Pliskovas not only won their first WTA doubles title together, it was also their very first WTA doubles titles as individuals - for both Karolina and Kristyna.


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|ASUS ENGTX480/2DI/1536MD5 GeForce GTX 480
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Video Cards
|Written by Olin Coles
|Friday, 01 October 2010
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DX11: Unigine Heaven 2.1
The Unigine "Heaven 2.1" benchmark is a free publicly available tool that grants the power to unleash the graphics capabilities in DirectX-11 for Windows 7 or updated Vista Operating Systems. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. With the interactive mode, emerging experience of exploring the intricate world is within reach. Through its advanced renderer, Unigine is one of the first to set precedence in showcasing the art assets with tessellation, bringing compelling visual finesse, utilizing the technology to the full extend and exhibiting the possibilities of enriching 3D gaming.
The distinguishing feature in the Unigine Heaven benchmark is a hardware tessellation that is a scalable technology aimed for automatic subdivision of polygons into smaller and finer pieces, so that developers can gain a more detailed look of their games almost free of charge in terms of performance. Thanks to this procedure, the elaboration of the rendered image finally approaches the boundary of veridical visual perception: the virtual reality transcends conjured by your hand.
Although Heaven-2.1 was recently released and used for our DirectX-11 tests, the benchmark results were extremely close to those obtained with Heaven-1.0 testing. Since only DX11-compliant video cards will properly test on the Heaven benchmark, only those products that meet the requirements have been included.
Heaven 2.1 Extreme Quality Settings
Cost Analysis: Unigine Heaven (1920x1200)
Test Summary: Reviewers like to say "Nobody plays a benchmark", but it seems evident that we can expect to see great things come from a graphics tool this detailed. For now though, those details only come by way of DirectX-11 video cards. Our 'extreme' test results with the Unigine Heaven benchmark tool appear to deliver fair comparisons of DirectX-11 graphics cards when set to higher quality levels. Heaven 2.1 is a very demanding benchmark tool, which is why tessellation is set to normal levels and antialiasing is reduced to 4x.
The ASUS GeForce GTX 480 produced 36.6 FPS, which nearly matched the AMD Radeon HD 5970 dual-GPU video card, and surpassed the Radeon HD 5870 by more than 41%. Combining two GTX 480's into an SLI set rendered 68.2 FPS on the Unigine Heaven benchmark, amounting to an impressive 93% SLI scaling efficiency.
I'll probably go for a pair of GTX460's in SLI configuration myself. So far, two of them cost less than a single 480 does, and their performance together is knocking on it's door. Also, two of the 460's draw far less power than one 480 does. I'll take a chance and assume that they'll also produce less heat because of their low power usage.
Heat and power is important to many of us as you said above, I feel that it's a lot of money to buy one and will also cost a lot to use it over the lifetime of the card. It is a truly impressive video card though. Thanks for another detailed and informative review.
Surprised ASUS didnt do anything with the cooler though.
And point out all the strong points of nVidia, not that i have anything aginst those strong points, I have my self a 3x SLI GTX480 + dedicated GTX280 for PhysX + 3D Vision, on a 3 screen setup.
But not because the 480 is the best card, but because it scale's mouths better in SLI 3x then CF-X 3x.
And even tho they are really fast, they ware also very irritating loud and hot before i installed water cooling on them.
That said, if i would buy a single card i would for shore go for ATi as they run cooler and uses less power.
Looking at all the articles it looks like they ware put together whit the help of a nVidia PR guy.
And if BMR want to be taken seriously, more balanced reviews would be welcome.
That's the way the computer industry works, when new designs get released, they are generally a LOT better thatn last year's model. Ever hear of Moore's law? When ATI brings out their next generation of video cards, I expect them to be better than what is available today. And when we test them, if that is indeed the case, that's what we will report. And then someone will complain again that we're getting paid off by ATI. As if...!!!!
How can you seriously expect me to review an AMD Radeon product when the last video card they offered was the Radeon HD 5550 almost five months ago? You might also go back and look over all of MY article, and count-up who has received more awards.
If you want your remark taken seriously, perhaps you should be more constructive. Otherwise, you just come off as another fanboy troll with poor spelling.
Of course he's a fanboy or a troll, but you don't need to be a Grammar Nazi about it!
It's very hard to take you seriously when your post is filled with simple spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. If you disagree with the results of the tests, then it is up to you to test for yourself. Many of the benchmarks used are free or have free versions. Anyone who can afford a setup with 3 GTX480s in SLI can certainly afford to do their own testing.
Tinfoil hat time.
Great review. I wanted to know if you guys measured the GPU voltage (in MSI Afterburner or Asus Voltage Tweak software) to check if the more mature 40nm process resulted in lower GPU voltage at load? If so what was the difference?
Also, since this is only 1 representative sample, how can you be certain that the more mature 40nm manufacturing process is the reason for the reduced demand? Could it be an outlier videocard?
Yes, it could always be one lucky sample or it could be this way for every sample. It's very difficult to verify, but the mere fact that one card could ever reach temperatures or power consumption this low is surprising.
I have not conducted the GPU voltage tests you mention.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Engineering Sample
MSI Afterburner reported 0.962V GPU at idle, and 1.025V under load.
GPU-Z reported 0.953V 15.0A 14.3W idle VDDC, and 0.980V 75.0A 74.0W at load.
MSI Afterburner reported 0.962V GPU at idle, and 1.075V under load.
GPU-Z reported 0.955V 11.0A 10.5W idle VDDC, and 1.033V 70.0A 72.3W at load.
Still what you measured is an observable result. I look forward to future GTX480/470 reviews, where you can provide more data points :)
No mention of voltages either.
In no way have your test proven that these cards are running cooler now compared to before.
Hope no one makes the mistake of buying one of these cards now if they wouldn't before thinking the heat and noise issues are resolved, because this 'review' proves nothing of the sort.
I will pull the article offline and start taking orders from you when this becomes your website. Until then, your opinion matters as much as the next anonymous post.
Voltage is absolutely something you need to give in this article, because voltage is directly related to heat output. When GTX 480 launched there was quite a bit of voltage binning (same thing with HD5870 even), where some cards were binned higher or lower. Specs remained the same, except for voltage, heat, and power consumption. Assuming absolutely no change, it's entirely possible to randomly get three cards successively binned with lower voltage.
Now, that's not saying that TSMC isn't making advances on 40nm, I'm sure they are, and obviously any kind of decrease in defect density will be amplified by larger dies, but when you already had such variability in volts, heat, and power at launch, you need a lot more than three data points to draw a solid conclusion. Someone could have easily gotten the same data from three random cards at launch.
Obviously the more cards you use the stronger the probability is (again assuming those added cards support your original data), however as I said you could have randomly taken three cards at launch and gotten the same results thanks to the large amount of voltage binning.
About the only way that I could see for easily proving that GTX 480's are getting cooler is if new chips start using lower voltage than the lowest voltage that was available at launch. Otherwise with this type of problem you're dealing with statistics. You don't "prove" anything so much as provide probability. With a high enough probability you can begin to draw conclusions.
"but it doesn't appear that AMD has any surprises for the upcoming holiday season"
Umm, Cayman, Barts etc. These are coming up in the next couple of months and as we dpont have benchies, regardless of performance, they'll be a surprise (bad or good). And if Cayman improves like it's 'rumoured' too, it will eclipse the 480.
Also, there was a 512 core GTX 480 out in the wild ##brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/8/13/512-core-geforce-gtx-480-reviewed-any-surprises.aspx and it wasnt very impressive.
Gf100 good- yes no doubt, comment on no surprises from AMD - quite ignorant.


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I found an unopened & unused 1 TB external hard drive. Is it possible to back up every last stinking byte from my mini laptop on to the TB? Is the Microsoft programs protected in some way so as to not be copyable to the TB.
Once I would move everything over how do I go about making the mini laptop as close in operating condition to the day I opened it? I never made the recovery disks for this one. It's from Christmas 2008.
Thank you for any and all help.


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Impact of SaaS on Tax Preparation
How Intuit ProLine Tax Online can eliminate expensive upfront fees, software upgrades, implementation cycles, ongoing maintenance and support costs.
January 4, 2010
Enterprises of all sizes are moving more of their information technology (IT) applications to a SaaS or Software-as-a-Service model. Many experts have weighed in on the reasons why, but essentially the reasons come down to the nature of how we use software today: we need and expect it to be flexible, easy to use, accurate and up-to-date content. Individuals and enterprises in the tax preparation business are no different.
Most of us are comfortable delegating IT responsibilities already, allowing our IT departments or third-party techs such as Geek Squad to install and to some degree, manage our software, hardware and networks. So it is no surprise that the key benefits of SaaS reflect our desire to reduce these headaches — as cloud computing eliminates the hassles of installations and updates, malware, patches and more; plus other advantages such as SLAs (Service Level Agreements) that guarantee up-time, disaster recovery and data back-up. In addition, billing structures can be set up as pay-per-use models, which can scale with you as your practice grows.
Technology analyst firm Gartner Group reports that SaaS revenue is forecasted to reach $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008. Sharon Mertz, research director at Gartner, indicates that the market will show consistent growth through 2013 as vendors "…offer more-vertical-specific solutions …" (Mertz, Sharon. Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009. Gartner Technology Business Research Insight. Gartner Group, December 2009).
And that brings us to the impact of SaaS on tax preparation. There is no better way to assure up-to-date information, robust performance and flexibility in billing and data access than through a true Web-based application. And that is why Intuit has introduced Intuit ProLine Tax Online for Tax Year 2009.
This latest innovation offers tax professionals with a new SaaS solution designed to help professionals quickly and easily prepare and file 1040 federal and state tax returns — anytime, anywhere. Some users have reported time-savings as much as 25 percent per return.
Everything about ProLine Tax Online has been designed to perform on the web as a true cloud-computing application, with easy-to-read screens and input fields. ProLine Tax Online uses the latest encryption standards and is protected by firewall-protected Web servers and password-protected Web sites.
ProLine Tax Online features a breakthrough, single-screen data-entry process that streamlines the workflow and makes it easier and faster to prepare and file tax returns.
One of the early users, Patrick Allen of Port Charlotte, Fl., appreciated the Web-based, anytime, anywhere access. "I do a lot of tax returns at my church for free and the idea of filing taxes online is 'the ultimate,'" Allen said. "I no longer have to store information on a computer and the information is easily accessible anywhere. I can wake up early and complete taxes at home, instead of having to work at the church."
ProLine Tax Online
At the core of ProLine Tax Online's innovation is its unique and simple three-step process: input, review and file. After 20 years of watching how tax professionals do their work, Intuit designed an easy, visual interface unlike anything in the industry — so that pros can complete and file a return using just three screens. And Intuit maintained all of the comprehensive tax capabilities and critical functions that professionals expect from Intuit, such as data conversion, status tracking, in-depth error-checking and paper or electronic filing.
As SaaS adoption increases, so will the functionality of ProLine Tax Online. The TY2009 release is just one step in an ambitious plan to transform how tax professionals complete returns. While the TY09 release is designed for professionals who focus on 1040 returns, Intuit plans future releases that will serve the needs of full-service firms with expanded modules for businesses, partnerships, S corporations and other entities.
Intuit is making the case for SaaS even stronger by offering, for Tax Year 2009, ProLine Tax Online at an introductory price of $19.95 per return (for all filings associated with a client's return, including Federal and single- or multi-state returns). However, for the first 2,000 customers who register for the service by Jan. 31, 2010, Intuit is offering a special promotional price of $9.95 per client throughout Tax Year 2009 (October 31, 2010). Tax professionals can learn more and register for ProLine Tax Online.
As a tax professional, the availability of Intuit ProLine Tax Online is one more compelling reason to investigate the benefits of a SaaS model for your business. SaaS eliminates expensive upfront fees, software upgrades, implementation cycles, ongoing maintenance and support costs. By eliminating the need to install and run applications on premise, SaaS — and ProLine Tax Online — deliver on the promise to provide your critical data and applications anywhere, anytime — fast, easy and securely.
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Hannover players urged to told on after Enke death
Hannover president Martin Kind says the death of Robert Enke can no longer be used by his team's players as an excuse for failing to win matches.
The Reds have failed to win since the Germany international goalkeeper took his life on November 11 and, as a result, they have slipped towards the relegation zone.
Although Enke's death shocked the nation and prompted an outpouring of grief, Kind says a line must now be drawn under the tragedy and life must return to normal.
"We will always honour Robert Enke in our thoughts, but Robert's death cannot and must not be an excuse anymore,'' he told the Welt newspaper. "That is not to say that the team have used the tragedy as an excuse and they must be complimented for that.
"But sub-consciously, the tragedy will still have played a role. But in May, when the season ends, we will be judged by our results and there can be no excuses anymore. f we are relegated, nobody will ask what role Robert Enke's death played in it.''
Hannover have decided to remove a large commemorative Enke shirt from the Niedersachsen Stadion, feeling it may be distracting the players.
Further measures, such as the employment of sports psychologists, are also under consideration as Kind looks to get Hannover back to winning ways after a drought which dates back to October 31.
"There are voices from the team which say that they have got over it, but on the other hand, the experts say that the players are still traumatised,'' added Kind. "This is a tough question to answer, but I have made professional advice available to anybody who needs it.''
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The APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development sponsored the first workshop to kickoff a Career and Professional Development Liaison (CPDL) Program on March 15, 1998 at the APS meeting in Los Angeles. Over 50 participants attended the inaugural workshop, including representatives from 35 academic physics departments plus several industries and government laboratories. The purpose of the workshop was to initiate the CPD Liaison Program and to initiate a dialog with a small group of interested departments on how such an APS program could be most useful. Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, University of Nebraska, and Barrett Ripin, Associate Executive Officer of the APS organized the Workshop.
A motivation behind the establishment of the CPDL program is to assist faculty members by providing good career/employment information, a resource of 'good practices' that have proven useful in other departments, suggestions on how to set up student internships and foster closer ties with physics related industry, and develop other ways that physics departments could help prepare students for a diversity of career options. "Despite our good intentions, we sometimes can't provide all of the information our students need," complained one department chair attending the workshop. The CPDL model varies greatly. It can range from a faculty member who makes career activities his or her passion after retirement, an active faculty member, or, in some cases, a student-driven initiative. Regardless of which model is followed, there are two essential elements - continuity and commitment.
Experts in physics career issues presented statistical information and featured innovative programs designed to assist students and faculty in planning and executing job searches at the Workshop. Barrett Ripin started the Workshop by describing the motivation and purpose of the CPD Liaison Program as recommended by the APS Task Force on Careers and Professional Development and the newly established APS Committee on Careers and Professional Development. Roman Czujko of AIP provided the current statistics on employment among physics graduates and was followed by Sherrie Preische of APS, who summarized the findings of a recent e-mail survey of APS junior members regarding their hopes and experiences with the job market (see February 1998 APS News).
A panel discussion about models for internship programs featured Peter Wolff (MIT), Len Brillson (Ohio State, formerly Xerox Corp) and Mark Holtz (Texas Tech) describing programs that provide students with an opportunity to work closely with industry as part of their graduate experience. Speakers described the programs, discussed the mechanics of establishing internships and answered questions from the audience. Peter Abbamonte (graduate student from UIUC) provided a graduate student perspective with his description of the student-initiated career programs at the University of Illinois. Although not on the formal program, Carol Livermore and Philip Fisher, physics graduate students at Harvard University, offered additional suggestions on how students can take matters into their own hands. Brian Schwartz of Brooklyn College discussed offering course work on job preparedness. Schwarz also described a NSF-funded program to develop courses that teach students about resume writing, interview preparedness and researching the job market.
The difficulty faculty encounter in advising students about career paths other than their own was highlighted by the last section of talks. Len Brillson offered his perspective on the differences between academia and industry based on his career at Xerox prior to becoming a faculty member at The Ohio State University. John Lowell of Applied Materials, Inc. provided a similar perspective as he discussed his perception of differences between industry and academia. The afternoon presentations were concluded by Robert C. Hilborn of Amherst College, who discussed the differences between applying for jobs at research universities and applying for positions at teaching-intensive universities.
The final part of the workshop, led by Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, was a discussion of future activities for the CPDL program and APS's role in providing information, communication and resources. A number of suggestions were made by participants, including:
- Provide departments with accurate and timely career and employment information and statistics.
- Produce career-oriented materials such as CD-ROMs, presentations, etc. for faculty to customize and use for students.
- Put information on internships/externships on the web: where they are, and how students can participate.
- Establishing a CPDL website to provide information to CPDL participants. The workshop presentations will be made available to Liaisons as PowerPoint files so that participants can adapt the information in the presentations to their particular circumstances.
- Facilitate a threaded web-based discussion group to allow sharing of ideas, problems and solutions
- Plans a larger-scale CPDL meeting.
The APS is in the process of setting up a web-site and discussion group for the exclusive use of participating department Liaisons. Departments participating in the Liaison Program will receive priority in a compilation of a resource of best practices, eligibility for possible career site visits, and other physics career related information. The Workshop and the planned future activities of the CPDL program were met with overwhelmingly positive evaluations from participants. Departments interested in participating in the Liaison Program are invited to contact Barrie Ripin (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Career Liaison Program Workshop Attendees
- Amherst College
- Applied Materials, Inc.
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Arizona State University
- Brooklyn College/CUNY
- California State University, Fullerton
- California State University, Los Angeles
- Case Western Reserve University
- Florida State University
- General Motors R&D Center
- George Washington University
- Harvard University (student reps)
- Idaho State University
- Kent State University
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Louisiana State University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- North Carolina State University
- Oklahoma State University
- Oregon State University
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Syracuse University
- Texas Technology University
- The Ohio State University
- University of Alabama
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
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Dalton Rapattoni's Former Teachers Reminisce About American Idol Finalist
All eyes are on Dalton Rapattoni as he enters the final episode of American Idol.
Mike Brooks
Dalton Rapattoni may have lost, but he made it. He's really made it. Sunnyvale's overnight success story made the top 3 of American Idol's farewell season and even though he didn't win, we are still damn proud. His rise seemingly has come out of nowhere, it's not much of a surprise for those who have known him for longer than since the start of this season.
Terry Longhway, head musical director of all 29 Schools of Rock, has known Rapattoni since he was 12 years old, when he enrolled in the Dallas School of Rock's first season. "You want to talk about a kid coming out of their shell," he says. ""He hit the stage and it was like, it was just incredible."
Becoming the friendly, relatable performer and mentor we know today wasn't easy for Rapattoni. During a serious video package that preceded his performance of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" on American Idol, he confessed he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 9. He said performing on stage is one of the ways he copes with the mental illness.
When Rapattoni was in middle school, the mental illness got so bad that he missed too many classes and had to withdraw. He enrolled in a virtual school to better adapt to his needs.
"What makes [the school] special is the flexibility that is allowed and, for instance, with Dalton's particular case, he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder," Paula Mobley, Rapattoni's seventh grade teacher at Texas Virtual Academy, says. "So with his particular circumstances, he was going through treatments and learning to deal with that, and as a result, missing a lot of seat time in his class. He wasn't in a situation where he couldn't learn, he just couldn't sit in a classroom."
But what stands out to Longhway about his longtime pupil is that he became an instructor at the School of Rock. "It's going to sound corny, [but] he brings an energy to stuff that is so unique, and for him to come back and give back in a teaching world is just incredible," Longhway says.
Rapattoni is an instructor in the school's 101 program, teaching students ages 6 to 9 everything from guitar to vocals. "There's zero ego. There's zero anything. He can get down at the level of these little kids and really teach them because he's gone through it," he says. "He went through as a beginner and he really knew how to connect with them."
Rapattoni was celebrated in his hometown last month with a parade and concert.
Longhway says that even while he was a student at School of Rock he could see the benefits that music had for Rapattoni. "He was just a kid, probably on the edge of his couch playing video games, and then all of a sudden he found this passion," Longhway says. "He wasn't a sports kid or anything like that; this was something that worked."
The same therapeutic effects came through while Rapattoni was Mobley's student as well. One time, she remembers, her students had to give a presentation on what they'd learned and could present it however they wanted — as a paper, a PowerPoint or whatever else they liked. Rapattoni chose to write a song.
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Both of his former teachers watched ever step of the way on American Idol, and Longhway says the School of Rock hosted watch parties at several of its locations. Even though Rapattoni didn't win, it's clear Longhway is still proud. "There's no one that I've met that would be anymore deserving of something cool like this, given how driven and passionate and charismatic and kind he is as a person," says Longhway. "We're all just so freaking proud of this dude."
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"Bloodletting" is a low budget film that lets us in on the little known fact that, underneath all that blood spilling and mass killing, serial killers are people just like us. Or something like that. Written and directed by Matthew Walsh, "Bloodletting" tells the tale of Serena (Ariauna Albright), a bored young woman who decides she wants to become an apprentice to Harlow (James Edwards), an elusive serial killer who apparently is not elusive enough.
Her reason? Poor Serena has never achieved a real sexual orgasm in her life; that is, until she witnessed Harlow murder her best friend. Since Serena is the kind of gal who likes her orgasms, she tracks down Harlow, a plain-looking young man living in the suburbs, and blackmails him into taking her under his wing. Harlow grudgingly agrees, and after the duo's first murder, things take a strange turn, as the serial killer couple becomes more bickering spouses than America's most wanted.
"Bloodletting" has a very interesting premise, and the oddball relationship between Serena and Harlow is actually quite a novel set up. Unfortunately the movie suffers from Low Budget Movie Syndrome and is unable to completely shed its genesis. In this way, it falls into the trap of so many low budget films; that is, the technical expertise to set up, light, and shoot a scene in a crisp and clear manner is simply not there. Or perhaps it was a matter of not enough time; whatever the case, the film has moments where it just doesn't look very good.
The cinematography by David Wagner is the prime suspect here. The interior scenes are just not very good to look at, mostly because, I suspect, there is very little technical competency with the lightning. The movie's (much better) exterior scenes prove this out, as you would be hardpressed to guess the film's budget from the crispness provided by bright natural lightning.
Another pitfall of most low budget films is inconsistent acting. The acting level in "Bloodletting" dips and rises in any given scene. Star Ariauna Albright has top billing, although I'm not sure why because it's James Edwards who steals the show as the flippant serial killer, Harlow. Edwards looks like Howard Stern jokeman Artie Lange, but with the comic sensibilities of Drew Carey. The man acts rings around his co-stars, proving himself to be more than the material. It's not my intention to dump on Albright, because she does get better as the film moved along.
The problem with some low budget films is that the director feels it is necessary to overdo it in some categories in order to make up for what's lacking. The gore in "Bloodletting" is done with glee, even if not every one of them passes muster. A scene where a character's penis gets bitten off looks much too fake; the whole thing might have come through better if it had taken place off screen, with the, uh, dismembering implied rather than shown in gory detail.
Walsh obviously cut his teeth on low budget gore, as many filmmakers in his area do, and it shows. Although with the material he had at hand, perhaps cutting down on the gore and choosing instead for more plotting and implied violence would have been the better choice. Even though there are times when Walsh's screenplay suffers from too much glibness, the makings of a good script is here. Sometimes the dialogue comes out wrong, and sometimes (especially in the beginning) actors just don't deliver their lines as well as Walsh probably hoped. The two "cops" in the beginning are especially bad.
There is a lot to like about "Bloodletting", but there's also a lot I don't care for. There is a twist at the end that comes completely out of left field and makes absolutely no sense, even if you could suspend that much disbelief. It does leave me to wonder if Walsh wrote the "confession" sequence into the script or if the whole thing was added at the last minute in an attempt to give the viewers a "shock ending." Whatever the case, the movie didn't need it.
Matthew Jason Walsh (director) / Matthew Jason Walsh (screenplay)
CAST: Ariauna Albright …. Serena Stalin
Nina Angeloff …. Bobbie Jo
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Chrono Cross
Review by roadkill
"Another on of Square's finest"
A Sequel to the highly popular Chrono Trigger for the Super NES, Chrono Cross in my opinion will always stand out as one of Squaresoft's best achievements. Chrono Cross is actually the second sequel to the phenomenal game that is Chrono Trigger. The first being Radical Dreamers which appeared for a short time in Japan for the Super NES (Famicom in Japan) satellite uplink service. According to Square, a lot of the gaming elements from Radical Dreamers have been passed to Chrono Cross.
Graphics – 10
Surprisingly among the best graphics I've seen in a PlayStation RPG. One the field, one might compare the graphics to Final Fantasy Tactics. Try to imagine a 2-dimensional map looking down on it from atop and you're characters in there are just tiny little sprites. And that's basically the world map in a nutshell. Now, on to the battles. These remind me of Final Fantasy 8 with better graphics, a lot better graphics.
Sound – 10
This has perhaps some of the best music I've ever heard in an RPG. This game has some pretty memorable tunes that come on a three-disc sound track. Most if not all can be downloaded and listened to off of the Internet, I'm not going to list any specific sites here though.
Storyline – 10
Excellent. One element I really like in any RPG is that right from the start, you're in the action. This is somewhat true of Chrono Cross, within 30 minutes of starting a new game; you're into the storyline. And what a storyline! In most RPG's, you're this guy who holds the key for saving the world. Not this one, in this one you're this guy (Serge) who holds the key for saving two worlds. You start the game out in a really funky temple and you beat up some guys, after an FMV sequence, boom, you wake up in you're bed in you're home town, the funky temple was all a dream, or, was it a sign of things to come. I'm not going to spoil the rest of the story for you, just play it.
Characters – 10
This ain't you're usual RPG where you only get 7 to 10 characters to choose from, no, you get 40. Each with their own abilities and attacks, some suck at physical attacks but magic attacks more then make up for it, some are the exact opposite, some do good in both areas and some just plain suck. Getting the right characters is a bit tricky, so I recommend a strategy guide or at least downloading a FAQ from the internet somewhere, don't exactly know what website has FAQs, you might want to try something like videogamefaqs.com. In case there is any doubt, I am only kidding, I know that there is no videogamefaqs.com, maybe try just simply faqs.com, just make sure you don't type fags.com.
Concept – 10
One thing you gotta love about Squaresoft games, every game has it's own little strategy to it. In to name a few, in Final Fantasy 5 and Final Fantasy Tactics, it was the job system. In Final Fantasy 6, it was espers; Final Fantasy 7 had the concept of materia. Well, Chrono Cross has something somewhat similar to materia called elements. If you are familiar with materia at all, it's easiest to picture it this way, an element is like materia, but you can't link it to another piece of materia. If you have no clue what I'm talking about, I'll try to explain it as best I can. Oh, one important thing before I start, if you're the type that like to level up so that your enemies stand no chance against you (like me), well, that's not how this game works. An element is a piece of magic that you can equip to an individual. But, it's not that simple. All elements have levels to them such as tablet (a curative agent), which has a level of 1 +/- 0. Now this element can only fit into the level 1 slot, which you start the game out with I believe two of. You gain levels by defeating bosses. Say you have an element that's a level 5 +/- 3, well, the +/- 3 means that you can either place this element in a level 5 slot, or up to 3 levels down or three levels up. Get it? So, you can place this element into levels 2,3,4,5,6,7 or 8. One thing to remember when allocating elements is that if you go any levels lower then the recommended, the element starts to loose it power, and the opposite, if you go higher then the recommended, the element gains power. One more thing, (well, actually, one of many) if you think you can cast these elements right from the start, think again. When you start a battle, you start with level 0 (that means you can't access any of you're elements). The way you gain levels in battle is by fighting, see, every move adds a number onto you're levels in battle. You got three moves, weak (adds 1 onto your level), normal (adds 2) and fierce (adds 3). The thing is, the higher up you go, the less your hit% (likelihood that you'll actually hit the enemy), so, number 1 rarely ever fails, 2 there's a chance it'll miss and 3, pray to god. Unlike the Final Fantasy series, these battles are not real time, when it's your turn to attack; you have what's known as stamina. Once a characters stamina runs out, you have to wait till your next turn to attack again. OK, here's my cheap explanation of stamina as to not confuse you more then you already are. Each turn, you get a stamina of 7. What this means is you can do a fierce attack twice then do a weak attach once (remember those numbers) so that'd be 3,3,1 or 7. You can do any combination of attacks, but it can't exceed 7. To cast elements takes at least 1 stamina point, so you can do two fierce attacks, the cast an element. One more thing about levels and elements in battle, I'll give you an example of an element in the level 4 place here to make this easier for you. Say you just started the battle; you current battle level is 0. You somehow manage to pull off two fierce attacks; your battle level jumps up to 6 (3+3). You decide to cast a level 4 element. You cast it and your battle level drops down to 2. You see, your level was at 6, then you cast a level 4, now you're at 2, see a pattern here? Ok, I said one more thing about elements and levels, well, I lied. You can only cast an element once in battle. That level 4 element you cast in the previous example, well, for the rest of the battle, you can't use it. There's more things about elements and what's known as the field effect, but I'm not going to get into that here. I think that the game explains these very well, and lets face it, if you're not going to buy this game or at least rent it, you're not going to want to read anymore then you already have.
Controls – 8
One of this games best features, analogue and dual-shock compatible (well, sort of). I found that if you use both the analogue and the rumbling features, the first rumble, and the analogue goes out. What I recommend is to turn off the rumbling feature when playing, or if you like the rumbling feature, then use the digital pad. Another weird thing, I never knew this fact before this game came out, your maybe noticed on the dual-shock the you can press the analogue sticks in just a little bit, guess what, these are actually buttons!! Known in this game as the L3 and R3 buttons. This is no BS.
Overall – 10
Buy it, buy it now. Don't forget the strategy guide, I strongly recommend it. This game is no FF7, but it ranks up there.
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 08/31/00, Updated 08/31/00
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Canadian plane maker Bombardier Inc. is exploring the possibility of deepening its ties in Russia, a company spokesman confirms.
The Montreal-based transportation giant, and the world's third-largest commercial aviation maker behind Boeing Co. (BA) and European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co.'s Airbus, is reported to be interested in establishing an assembly or a components plant in Russia, the Russian Trade Minister Yury Slyusav tells the Moscow Times. That would make Bombardier the first Western commercial plane maker to assemble aircraft in Russia.
The discussions involve building the Q400 turboprop aircraft, potentially at the Aviakor aviation plant in Samara, part of metals tycoon Oleg Deripaska's Russian Machines Corp., the paper says.
"We are having preliminary discussions with Russian parties," says Marc Duchesne, a Bombardier spokesman. "It's just a conversation, just like we have conversations with other interested parties around the world. We are exploring various business opportunities. That's it, that's all."
He declined to elaborate on their talks, or the parties involved, saying the content of their discussions is confidential. The company already has a presence in Russia through its transportation division.
The Q400 turboprop is currently made at Bombardier's factory in Toronto.
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CRSCAD and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security
CHDS conducts a wide range of programs focusing on assisting current and future leaders in Homeland Defense and Security to develop the policies, strategies, programs and organizational elements needed to defeat terrorism in the United States.
CRSCAD and Earthspark International sign Memorandum of Understanding
In January 2009, Earthspark International and the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD) at the University of Massachusetts Boston agreed to work together with the goal of establishing cooperative initiatives between both entities, in particular to forming a Sustainable Use of Energy Education Program in CRSCAD, in compliance with Section 108 of the Massachusetts Green Communities Act. These agreements will be based on the principal of equality and mutual benefit that will include setting up special education, courses, special energy programs, and joint academic research. Learn more
FEMA Officials visit Center
On March 7, 2008, officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) visited the College to discuss disaster preparedness and recovery and to plan future cooperation between the agency and the University.
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On July 11, 2006, CPCS welcomed a delegation of Iraqi university officials. Story on University of Massachusetts President's Office International Relations website: "Rebuilding Iraq: UMass Boston Reaches Out to University Officials from Baghdad."
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02. Senses Fail - "Blackout" (Life Is Not A Waiting Room)
03. P.O.S. - "Bleeding Hearts Club (MPLS Chapter) ft. Slug" (Audition)
04. Bloc Party - "Trojan Horse" (Intimacy)
05. Adele - "Cold Shoulder" (19)
06. The Arcade Fire - "No Cars Go" (Neon Bible)
07. Motion City Soundtrack - "My Favorite Accident" (I Am The Movie)
08. Taking Back Sunday - "Make Damn Sure" (Louder Now: Part One)
09. The Honorary Title - "Everything I Once Had" (Anything Else But the Truth)
10. Atmosphere - "F*ck You Lucy" (God Loves Ugly)
11. Lostprophets - "And She Told Me To Leave" (The Fake Sound Of Progress)
12. Aesop Rock - "Fumes" (None Shall Pass)
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(IANS) - Dharmendra and Rishi Kapoor, two of Bollywood's most popular stars of yesteryears, were conferred the Lifetime Achievement Awards at the closing ceremony of the 10th International Film Festival, Mumbai on Thursday evening.The two actors were honoured for "their significant contributions to cinema over the last 25 years" at the closing function of the eight-day event.Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura received the Global Lifetime Award, introduced from this year by the Mumbai Academy of Movies Images (MAMI), the organiser of the festival.The Cannes Award winning movie "Mourning Forest," a Franco-Japanese co-production directed by Naomi Kawase, was the closing movie of the festival.Bollywood's respected lyricist Gulzar and veteran audiographer Hitendra Ghosh were also honoured at the closing ceremony attended by the Bollywood glitterati and film aficionados.The festival this year reached out to 45 countries and received 140 entries. The festival organizers introduced from this year a new section called 'Dimensions:Mumbai'. Though 84 entries were received for this section, only 25 were selected.The MAMI festival, as it is popularly called, was marked this year by good programming, which was appreciated by delegates and film buffs alike. Addressing the gathering, the festival's artistic director Sudhir Nandgaonkar said: "I am happy that the festival regulars and delegates attending the 10th International Film Festival, Mumbai, have liked the programming this year. This is the greatest award for me as the festival director."In terms of delegate attendance, this year's event was an improvement on those of the previous years. As many as 2,000 delegates attended the festival this year.The response from the film buffs and general public was also overwhelming as all the festival venues where the movies were screened were packed all through the eight days of the festival.Shyam Benegal, chairman of the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images Trust and celebrated filmmaker, proposed a vote of thanks.
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Adriana Lima Is Naked
Here's Adriana Lima's nude body barely disguised by sand, palm fronds, crashing waves, a tiny loincloth, and some artfully placed split ends. These are snaps from her GQ photo shoot. It's like The Blue Lagoon, but without a tour de force performance from Brooke Shields.
In the palm frond picture, I think I see the line of a clear g-string but then I also notice that I can see WAY more of her triangular mystery than I need to. So if it's a g-string, it's the tiniest g-string ever. The Atom would be like "yeah, that's not covering my junk." I just used a comic book character to demonstrate supermodel g-string size. Only a gay nerd could mess up the beauty of this photo shoot.


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I am already neutered, a special needs pet, in need of an experienced adopter, up to date with shots, good with kids, good with dogs, and good with cats.
Rumble, a Brooklyn American Shorthair cat was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a American Shorthair for sale in Brooklyn, or seeking a American Shorthair cat from a breeder in Brooklyn.


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Suppose you want to unit test a workflow that has some external dependency like a database, web service, file or some other thing that makes testing inconvenient. The need to eliminate external dependencies when testing has led to a world of mocking frameworks that allow you to automatically generate a mock with pre-defined behavior.
I wanted to do the same thing with Activities in workflows and I've now added support for this to the latest release of the Workflow Test Helper project using a technique I call XAML Injection. The idea is that you deploy the .xaml file for your activity and the XamlInjector class uses it as input to create a test version of the XAML with the mock classes instead of the real ones.
For example, here is a test activity that calculates a sum of numbers returned from the various test activities. Each test activity returns the number at the end of its name so TestActivity1 will return 1.
Without Xaml Injection the calculated sum for this activity should be 1+1+1+4+4=13.
Suppose I wanted to replace some of the activities with special Mock activities. In that case I create Mock activities that have the same "interface" (Properties and In/Out arguments) as the activity they are mocking.
Then I create a XamlInjector and tell it about the activity types I want to replace. In the following example I'm going to leave the first instance of TestActivity1 in place, replace the second with TestActivity2 and the third with TestActivity3 and I want to replace all instances of TestActivity4 with TestActivity5. The resulting test version of the activity will calculate a sum of 1+2+3+5+5=16.
public void ShouldReplaceTypesInXaml()
var xamlInjector = new XamlInjector("TestInject.xaml");
// The first TestActivity1 will not be replaced - will add 1 to sum
// Replace the second TestActivity1 with TestActivity2 - will add 2 to sum
xamlInjector.ReplaceAt(1, typeof (TestActivity1), typeof (TestActivity2));
// Replace third TestActivity1 with TestActivity3 - will add 3 to sum
xamlInjector.ReplaceAt(2, typeof (TestActivity1), typeof (TestActivity3));
// Replace all (2) TestActivity4 with TestActivity5 - will add 10 to sum
xamlInjector.ReplaceAll(typeof (TestActivity4), typeof (TestActivity5));
var activity = xamlInjector.GetActivity();
Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("Invoking Injected XAML activity {0}", activity.GetType()));
var wiTest = new WorkflowInvokerTest(activity);
// Act
// Total should be 1+2+3+10=16
wiTest.AssertOutArgument.AreEqual("sum", 16);
Special thanks to Dan Glick for helping me with the XamlReader/Writer code in this release.
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A second day of action at Barbury Horse Trials saw the completion of the three-star dressage, writes Nicki Strong.
Contrary to earlier reports that Marlborough-based Andrew Nicholson had planned to withdraw Avebury, the pair were very much there and intent on getting that third consecutive win.
Avebury came out looking a class above and Nicholson produced a relaxed and fluent test from the horse to earn them a 34.8 – just .4 more than last year. At the time of their test they were the only pair to go below 40, and dislodged long time leader Francis Whittington and Easy Target on 42.6. Nicholson will go forward to the showjumping out in front.
Kiwi team-mate Sir Mark Todd rode Badminton debutante Leonidas II late in the day, and the test was worth waiting for. They were awarded 42.6 for equal third at close of play.
Milton Lilbourne's Lizzie Brown is still right up there with Playtime NZPH –they occupy equal fifth, whilst Tim Price and Ringwood Skyboy are equal ninth. Both of these riders also represent New Zealand.
Elsewhere, the two-star dressage continued and saw Holly Woodhead and Jesse Campbell unable to maintain their lead in section B, as they go forward to the next phase in fourth and fifth respectively. Chippenham's David Doel claimed the lead riding Miss Caruso with 36.1. A whole host of other local riders occupy the top 20 and remain competitive.
In section D Lucinda Fredericks has a great shout with Mr Sydney Rocks, only marginally behind leader Chris Burton after the dressage. These were the only two to go below the 40 marker.
The Novice sections completed today and saw an Andrew Nicholson win with Sydney Biats, who led from the outset with a 25.5 dressage, followed by a double clear and a well judged cross country round.
As expected Paul Tapner was prominent in the Intermediate Novice Retraining of Racehorses (ROR) class – he won the class aboard Inishmor, who claimed the 2013 Eventing Elite Performance Award for ex-racehorses back in January. They actually won with a fence in hand, and Tapner's second ride Counterparty finished eighth. The top 10 in the ROR go forward to a final showjumping round on Sunday


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Avalon Theater in NW D.C. struggles to keep up with technology
The Avalon Theater's film projector is a relic from the past. But it may keep the theater from moving into the future.
For decades, movies have been shown using similar projectors. But a move to digital technology is forcing movie theaters to make costly changes.
"We don't really have a choice in this matter," says Bill Oberdorfer, the Avalon Theater's general manager.
He says it will cost $125,000 to make the change.
That's money the nonprofit theater, located at 5612 Connecticut Avenue NW, does not currently have.
And time is running out. Prints compatible with old projectors will end being made or shipped at some point this year or early next year.
The theater was brought back to life about a decade ago when a major movie theater chain pulled out and the Avalon closed.
The community got behind it financially and it reopened.
"This is here because the community stood behind it," says Linda Herson, a D.C. resident.


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Heard of The Interchangable
January 19, 2000, 11:11 PM
Ever hear of a dimascas double barrel from Gold Hibbard called "The Interchangable". Value, background, age, would be interesting.
Harley Nolden
January 20, 2000, 08:18 AM
I don't have that specific piece, however, I do have the company and a brief history. The value is difficult without a description, but these old shotguns average from $250.00 - $100.00.
Hibbard Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett Chgo Il
This Company mfg'd good quality, inexpensive side by side and single Bbl shotguns and was founded in 1883. They were bought by the H&D Folsom Arms Company of New York, importers and distributors of firearms and sporting goods.
After the purchase of Crescent, the Folsom Company was able to offer a complete range of shotguns, imported English French, Belgium and American made Crescents. By the turn of the century Crescent Arms produced huge quantities of "Hardware Guns" it produced guns under direct contract to distributors, mail order housed and hardware distributors with any brand name the customer requested. Crescent also produced guns for its parent company, as Folsom house brands that were sold to customers that did not want their own brand name.
By the lat 1890's Crescent was producing basically five grade of dbl bbl shotguns offering a model for most tastes. The Crescent /Folsom Arms Company continued this type of business until 1930 when it merged with Davis Warner Arms Corp and became the Crescent-Davis Arms Corp. In 1932 it assets and machinery were bought by Stevens Arms Company, a victim of changing tastes and the depression
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January 20, 2000, 11:39 AM
Thanks for the info Harley. It is one of those pass-me-downs that I couldn't find any info on. I was wondering if you might know why they called it "The Interchangable"?
Harley Nolden
January 20, 2000, 11:58 AM
Sorry I really don't know, unless, it was interchangable with different Gauges.(Barrels)
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Someone at Apple is probably going to put my name on yet another blacklist, but it has to be said -- the iPhone camera flash sucks. In general, it doesn't have enough power to light up subjects that are more than just a few feet away, there's no way to adjust the temperature of the light, and ... well, the list goes on and on. Fortunately Kiev-based iblazr lab has a Kickstarter that's nearing its goal of US$58,000 to start production of iblazr, a tiny, yet sophisticated flash and light for iOS and Android devices that comes with an accompanying app to deftly synchronize shutter and flash.
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Feel forever indebted to your doctor for saving your life? Don't worry about it. The US health care system blows about $750 billion each year, or 30 cents of every medical dollar, on unnecessary care, bad paperwork, fraud and other forms of waste, a new report by the Institute of Medicine has found.
"American health care is falling short on basic dimensions of quality, outcomes, costs and equity," the report concluded, according to the Associated Press.
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The report recommends "educating patients to become more savvy consumers," among other solutions, but the six major areas of waste seem to be not the patient's fault, but medical providers'. According to the AP, the major areas of waste are unnecessary services ($210 billion); inefficient delivery of care ($130 billion); excess administrative costs ($190 billion); inflated prices ($105 billion); prevention failures ($55 billion), and fraud ($75 billion).
"In some ways the system is the best the world has seen, but it could be a lot better for less money," said Mark Smith, chief executive officer of the California HealthCare Foundation in Oakland and IOM panel chairman, told Bloomberg News. "We're wasting a fair amount of money and we're wasting opportunities to improve care."


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Editorial Archives The Altamont Enterprise, October 20, 2011
In modern America, few community ceremonies survive. One of them is high school graduation. So it's important to get it right. It not only marks the accomplishments of the graduates but, as so many graduation speakers have said over the years, it is a commencement a beginning, the start of a new life for graduates leaving home, striking out on their own.
The Guilderland School Board is now in the midst of revamping its policy on graduation. While many school districts allow only students who have completed all of their course work to don caps and gowns, Guilderland has traditionally let about 5 percent of its graduating class that haven't met requirements students who need to complete summer school courses in order to earn their diplomas participate in commencement exercises in June.
"A number that have walked across the stage didn't fulfill their requirements," said Barbara Fraterrigo, who heads the policy committee, when the board discussed the matter at a recent meeting. "I don't think you want to encourage that."
Board member Richard Weisz countered, "To me, it would be sad to have 20 students a year not walk across the stage." He said it is "wonderful for all these families…to participate in one of those life milestones."
The board reached consensus that leaving three courses to complete was a physical impossibility since a student can take only two in summer school, but opinions varied on whether it should be one or two courses, and on how to phase in the new requirement.
Board member Denise Eisele, an ever informed and steadfast advocate for students with special needs, said that her daughter had been in Learning Workshop, which offers remedial help, and so, to take electives, she had to take two summer classes after graduation, which she had planned on in advance and successfully completed.
Under the policy proposal of just one course, Eisele said, "My daughter's heart would have been broken if she hadn't been able to go with her class."
No one wants to see a student's heart broken. And it certainly would be unfair to switch the policy after students had planned on extra courses after graduation.
But, drawing on our own personal experience as Eisele drew on hers, we wonder if the board has considered holding a separate graduation ceremony in August.
Our elder daughter graduated from Cornell University one bright June day. The crowd on that festive day packed the football stadium. Spectators had to use binoculars to identify their graduates on the playing field. There was no recognition of individuals. As the name of each college was called, the graduates, en masse, stood for applause, and were seated. A number of years later, that same daughter earned a doctoral degree in veterinary medicine from Cornell. She and her classmates were at least visible at that June ceremony because they brandished long inflated gloves, designed for wearing while conducting rectal exams in cows.
Our younger daughter also graduated from Cornell, but mid-year. Some of the graduates in that commencement ceremony had finished their courses a semester early; others had taken a semester longer. Our daughter had studied abroad and took time to travel in the midst of her college career. By contrast, her ceremony was an intimate one. Each graduate was handed a diploma by the college president. Family members could not only see the graduates but could hug and talk to them as well.
We've enjoyed covering the Guilderland graduation ceremonies over the years. A lot of care goes into the speeches, the music, and the videos. We were pained last year to print a letter from a graduate's parents, complaining that they couldn't even hear, midst the din, their student's name called in the athletic center where the ceremony was held. "From our heavenly and very uncomfortable bleacher seats (awful for the age 80-plus grandmothers with us), it was impossible to tell who was who on the floor or on the stage…We wanted more than anything to hear his name called and see him receive his diploma," they wrote. "Alas, we were left extremely disappointed, and more than a little bit angry, on a day we were supposed to feel elated."
Certainly, Guilderland's graduation is more personal than that at a large university.
But there is something to be said for a small ceremony that warmly recognizes those August graduates who have, indeed, completed their requirements. There would be no tension, no worry about whether the courses would be completed. There would be celebration, pure and simple for genuinely reaching a milestone in life.
We recently attended our 40th Guilderland High School reunion. Forty years ago, when classes were larger than they are now, the ceremony was held on the school's football field: Parents filled the bleachers, and the graduates the girls still wore white caps and gowns and the boys wore red sat in folding metal chairs on the field. Few of the classmates I talked to remembered who spoke that day let alone what they said. What they remembered was the joy and pride their families felt in their accomplishment.
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Black Angus Productions Presents BUBBA During NY International Fringe Festival, 8/10 - 8/24
This summer, Black Angus Productions is pleased to present BUBBA, written and performed by Michael Thomas Walker and directed by Melissa Firlit, as part of the 18th Annual New York International Fringe Festival-FringeNYC.
Winner of Best Variety Show 2012 at the United Solo Festival, BUBBA is a son's journey to the South where he learns the truth about his father's mysterious death. Through laughter and tears, he discovers closure in the strangest of places. A combination of song, dance and gut-busting honesty, BUBBA is the journey to discover the truth.
"It'll make you sing, then you'll cry, then you'll dance, then you sing and dance and laugh and maybe cry some more." - Mark Hughes Cobb, Tuscaloosa News
BUBBA will star Michael Thomas Walker (Non-Stop, Boardwalk Empire, Hairspray National Tour and Walnut Street-Edna, Seussical The Musical National Tour-Horton).
Directed by Melissa Firlit (FringeNYC, Midtown International Theatre Festival, FringeEdinburgh, DreamUP Festival).
BUBBA will feature lighting design by Elaine Wong, costume design by Stefanie Genda, projection design by Tom Minucci, sound design by Latiana Gourzong, and prop design by Laura Williams.
Black Angus Productions- is an award-winning theater company based in the New York City area interested in developing new work that challenges audiences and provides a home for theater artists. Our goal is to push ourselves as artists and expand the boundaries of what theater can be.
BUBBA plays the following schedule as part of the New York International Fringe Festival:
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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. will target alliances with Asian banks, including Malaysia's RHB Capital Bhd., to boost income as domestic lending falls.
"We have a close relationship with RHB and are considering what kind of business we can do together," President Teisuke Kitayama, 61, said in an interview at the Tokyo-based bank's headquarters.
Kitayama said SMFG may "make a major or small investment" in commercial banks in Southeast Asia, following its purchase of a stake in a Vietnamese bank last year.
Kitayama expects the biggest opportunities to be in consumer banking in Asian nations as he seeks to raise overseas revenue to 15 percent of total sales from about 10 percent at present. Profit growth is stalling at home as cash-rich companies shun borrowing.
SMFG already introduces Japanese clients requiring local currency financing in Malaysia to RHB and cofinanced a $100 million (¥10.8 billion) loan for it with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation in 2006.
Malaysia's Employees Provident Fund, which owns 82 percent of RHB, plans to reduce that holding to 35 percent by July, the fund said last month when it announced exclusive talks with Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC to sell a quarter of the Malaysian bank. RHB had a market value of $3.9 billion (¥421.1 billion) at the close of trading Jan. 14.
Kitayama declined comment on whether SMFG will buy a stake in Kuala Lumpur-based RHB. The Star newspaper reported last month that SMFG is in talks to buy 5 percent of the bank.
In November, SMFG agreed to acquire 15 percent of Vietnam Export Import Commercial Joint Stock Bank for $225 million (¥24.3 billion) to tap demand in a nation that's targeting economic growth in excess of 9 percent. SMFG will help the Vietnamese bank offer loans to local individuals and firms as well as to Japanese companies operating there.
"Strategically, Japanese banks need to focus on areas of international business where they can exploit their strengths," said Hiroshi Hosoda, chief analyst at Rating and Investment Information Inc. in Tokyo. "It is understandable that they're focusing on retail banking in fast-growing Asian countries."
The fallout from the U.S. mortgage default crisis, which forced Citigroup Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co. to seek more than $13 billion (¥1.4 trillion) in capital from foreign investors in November and December, is providing SMFG new chances to expand overseas, Kitayama said.
"If a U.S. or European bank is selling divisions or assets, we'd certainly be willing to consider buying," said Kitayama, declining comment on whether such talks were taking place. A multibillion dollar investment in a U.S. bank, such as those announced by sovereign funds in Singapore and Abu Dhabi last year, would be beyond SMFG because it doesn't have enough capital, Kitayama said.
SMFG's net income slumped 59 percent in the quarter that ended Sept. 30, as it reported losses on U.S. mortgage investments and marked down its stake in a credit card acquisition.