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What are your summer plans? Plenty of people prefer some quiet, idle time in a hammock or lounging beside the body of water of their choice. And what better time to relax with a good book? Here is a selection of books to keep you occupied no matter where you decide to spend your summer leisure hours.
The Age of Doubt
By Andrea Camilleri; Viking, $15
In the latest in the author's series, take another journey to Sicily with Inspector Montalbano, who seeks to penetrate the mystery surrounding two yachts and the discovery of a mutilated corpse. (Out)
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Imperative
By Eric Van Lustbader; Grand Central, $27.99
Jason Bourne's rescue of a drowning man not only reminds him of himself (the man's an amnesiac too), it raises plenty of questions. Why is he being stalked by the Mossad? Could he be a legendary terrorist assassin? (June)
Broken Harbor
By Tana French; Viking, $27.95
Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy returns, in French's latest, to investigate what appears to be a straightforward attack on a family in an Irish housing development — but nothing, Kennedy knows, is ever so simple. (July)
A Conspiracy of Friends
By Alexander McCall Smith; Pantheon, $24
The author returns to Corduroy Mansions, the London neighborhood where neighbors wage comic battles with one another and Freddie the terrier has gone missing. (June)
Creole Belle
By James Lee Burke; Simon & Schuster, $27.99
Dave Robicheaux can't get the song "Creole Belle" out of his mind or the New Orleans girl who disappeared after giving the song to him on an iPod. This leads to a new search against the backdrop of an oil rig disaster in the Gulf. (July)
The Demands
By Mark Billingham; Mulholland Books, $24.99
A London convenience store is the site of a hostage drama when a grieving father takes customers as his prisoners. Does he want money in return? No, just an answer to the question of what really happened to his son, who died in prison. (June)
The Family Corleone
By Ed Falco; Grand Central, $27.99
Mario Puzo's saga of a crime family continues with a look back to the early 1930s and Sonny Corleone's desire to join his father Vito in the family business. (Out)
The Kingmaker's Daughter
By Philippa Gregory; Simon & Schuster, $26.99
Conspiracy and a fight to the death for love and power at the court of King Edward IV of England. (August)
The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages
By Don Winslow; Simon & Schuster, $25
The back story of Ben, Chon and O stretches from 1960s Southern California to the recent past. (June)
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
By Suzanne Joinson; Bloomsbury, $26
A tale of two journeys — two sisters embark on a bicycle trip on the Silk Road in 1923; a present-day Londoner befriends a homeless Yemeni man. (June)
Last Summer
By Holly Chamberlin; Kensington, $15
Chamberlin's latest revolves around bullying and friendship in the lives of mothers and their adolescent daughters. (July)
The Nightmare
By Lars Kepler; Sarah Crichton Books, $27
Detective Inspector Joona Linna is good at making connections, and if anyone can figure out the ties between two corpses in Stockholm, Linna can. (July)
The Sandcastle Girls
By Chris Bohjalian; Doubleday, $25.95
A young nurse's arrival in 1915 Aleppo to help refugees of the Armenian genocide forms the background of a modern-day woman's quest for truth about her family's past. (July)
Shadow of Night
By Deborah Harkness; Viking, $28.95
The story of witch Diana Bishop and her vampire love Matthew Clairmont in "A Discovery of Witches" continues as the pair move through the world of Elizabethan England. (July)
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
By Sam Weller and Mort Castle; William Morrow, $15.99
A collection of 26 stories in honor of the maker of such classics as "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles," who died June 5 in California. (July)
The Sins of the Father
By Jeffrey Archer; St. Martins Press, $27.99
The second installment in Archer's Clifton Chronicles revolves around a fake identity and follows Harry Clifton in the early days of World War II. (Out)
The Storm
By Clive Cussler and Graham Brown; G.P. Putnam, $27.95
A spreading black substance in the Indian Ocean must be investigated by the NUMA Special Assignments Team — if it doesn't kill them. (June)
By Elin Hilderbrand; Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown, $26.99
A summer bonfire for the students of Nantucket High ends with a deadly accident and with painful mysteries (June)
Summer Breeze
By Nancy Thayer; Ballantine, $26
Summer offers a chance to deepen one's bonds, which three women discover during a holiday at Dragonfly Lake in New England. (June)


text: GRANDVILLE, Mich. (AP) -- A state lawmaker has taken a break from the ongoing state budget talks to hunt snow sheep in Russia. Rep. David Agema stayed in session until 4 a.m. Saturday and voted three times against a proposal by Democrats to raise the state income tax before leaving on the two-week trip, said his chief of staff, Karen Spoelman. The House of Representatives worked without a resolution throughout the weekend. The Grandville Republican had planned the trip for three years, long before he was elected to his first House term last November, said Trevor Pittsley, a member of Agema's staff. The representative had a 100 percent voting record on 360 House votes before missing a vote taken Saturday and two votes taken Tuesday, according to the MichiganVotes.org Web site. Agema informed House Speaker Andy Dillon, a Democrat, as well as House Republican Leader Rep. Craig DeRoche, Spoelman told The Grand Rapids Press for a story published Wednesday. "The speaker assured Dave this would be a good time to go. He was assured things would be worked out," Pittsley said. Dillon's office, however, said he was not informed. "Not only was it not cleared with our office, but we were unaware until we found out that he was gone," said Dillon spokesman Greg Bird. "The speaker says that he had no idea that the representative was going to be taking a trip." Agema's absence was listed as not excused. Only Dillon has the power to excuse an absence. "Dillon's a liar," Spoelman responded, insisting that Agema spoke directly with the speaker. "Dillon was fully aware this was happening." Phyllis Washburn, DeRoche's press secretary, said the Republican leader has "known for a long time" about Agema's trip. "We knew when he was coming in that he was going to miss these weeks," she said. "The timing is unfortunate." Agema, 58, a retired fighter pilot and machine shop consultant, would have lost thousands of dollars by canceling the trip, Spoelman said. Russian snow sheep hunting expeditions can be very expensive. "This is an opportunity of a lifetime," Spoelman said. "He was faced with a very difficult decision. He was around all spring, all summer." Agema's chief of staff was not certain where in Russia her boss had gone. "It's so remote, we can't even get in touch with him," Spoelman said.

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If I were to apply myself to "Latin for Beginners" (and finish it) and then sit down
with say, my copy of D'Ooge (for grammer,etc.)and a decent Latin-English dictionary
what Ancient Authors would I be reasonably prepared to tackle?
My interests run more to history than literature so I'd be thinking Late Republic & Early
Empire such as Caesar, Cicero, and Suetonius to give some examples. Caesar would be
first on my list and I do own a very old Interlinear of Gallic Wars that I picked up in the
Thrift Shop but I'd prefer to go at it on what I know along with some support for grammer
and vocab.
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On Baseball: Prospect Nolin gets taste of major leagues, vows to returnBy IAN CLARK
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 13. 2013 10:08PM
MANCHESTER -- It wasn't the major league debut Sean Nolin had dreamed of.
A highly touted prospect having a strong season with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, the 23-year-old Toronto Blue Jays lefty pitcher was called up for an emergency start against the Baltimore Orioles on May 24. Making his big league debut, Nolin retired just three of the 11 batters he faced and left the game trailing 6-1 and owning a 40.50 ERA.
"I had a lot of energy flowing and it was an exciting time to be able to get up there and get my first MLB start. I was a little overwhelmed but I guess there's nothing I can really do to slow it down," Nolin said. "I'm usually an intense guy anyway. It got the best of me a little bit, but nothing I can't work on or prepare for next time."
Though not ideal, the experience itself is what Nolin will draw on the next time he gets the call.
"I know what's coming now. Hopefully I can prepare for it better," Nolin said. "It makes me feel comfortable. They know that I can be called up and they wanted me up there for a start and they believe in me. I definitely believe in myself. Every pitch, just keep on going and try to make that next pitch better."
Nolin's first start back in New Hampshire after his MLB debut was a rocky one as he gave up five runs in five innings of work and took the loss on June 2 against Binghamton.
But in the following start, Nolin was back to the form that got him off to a 2-0 start with a 1.17 ERA before the call-up, allowing just three hits and two runs over six innings in a win on Saturday at Erie.
Fisher Cats pitching coach Tom Signore said it's all part of the process for a young pitcher.
"Part of what he's doing now is realizing what he's going to have to do to succeed (in Toronto) and the type of routine that he's going to have to have. He said his adrenaline was flowing so hard it was like a flash to him, the whole thing because of the atmosphere. (He's) a young kid reaching a lifelong goal," Signore said. "His first outing back wasn't great. After that he seemed to get back to the pitcher he was. Despite not having success there, he has something to draw on, which will help his development in the end."
Signore said that the mental recovery from his MLB debut is best left to Nolin himself. As for the physical part of the game, Nolin has that covered.
"He's got all the physical tools, so mentally you've kind of got to leave him alone. He doesn't want anybody in his ear after that kind of outing. He knows he didn't pitch well. You give him a few days to let it all sink in," Signore said. "I expect him to be good the rest of the way, whether it's here, (Triple-A) Buffalo or Toronto. He's got a great delivery, he's got four average major league pitches, he commands the ball well, he controls the running game, he fields his position relatively well and he does all the little detail stuff that you need to do. He's got the complete set of tools."
Nolin said he received positive feedback from the coaching staff in Toronto as well as a pick-me-up speech from Blue Jays veteran starter Mark Buehrle.
"They know it was nerves and they know my stuff is good so they told me to just prepare for it for next time," Nolin said. "I had a little talk with Buehrle. He came up to me afterwards and said 'everyone here, it's happened to them. Don't doubt your stuff and just keep working hard and get back up here when you can.'"
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WEDNESDAY night's Fisher Cats comeback win over Akron could be the start of something.
Trailing by four runs in the bottom of the ninth and down to its final out, New Hampshire (32-34) posted five runs for a 9-8 win, twice coming back from four runs down. Brad Glenn had the game-winning hit to score A.J. Jimenez. The late blitz also featured an RBI double by Kevin Pillar and a two-run single by Ryan Schimpf, who scored the game-tying run on a throwing error that followed Clint Robinson's infield single.
"Every night's a new night, but we haven't done much of that, especially against this club here. I think the most runs we've scored against Akron has been two," Fisher Cats manager Gary Allenson said. "When you do that a few times, especially early in the season, you feel like you're never out of the game. It's not too late now, we're just short of the halfway point now."
Pillar called the win a confidence-booster.
"A win like that is a moment you can look back on and say maybe that was the turning point in the season. It gives us a huge confidence boost," Pillar said. "Having our backs up against the wall and a team we haven't had any success against all year…having the mentality to just get the next guy up and not trying to do it yourself and relying on the guy behind you is big."
Said Allenson: "You get five runs in an inning, not just one guy is doing it. It's a combination of guys. Hitting is contagious," Allenson said. "You start getting that confidence where you're not out of a game. There were two outs and two on and two strikes on Pillar when we got the first hit. Jimenez had a two-strike hit, as did Robinson. To have three guys do it with two strikes is a big plus."
Allenson harkened back to a big name from his own time with the Boston Red Sox as an example of how players need to live at bat to at bat. "I played with Carl Yastrzemski. He made the last out in the 1978 playoff game. He popped up to third base off (Yankees closer Goose) Gossage," Allenson said. "The thought of failure never entered his mind, he was so confident. Even the greatest don't get the job done. That's not the point. The point is knowing you're going to do it when you step into the batter's box."
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- Panel on open sources systems management. - Eclipse due date: 12/1
- Who would like to participate:
- Craig Thomas, GroundWork OpenSource (Cthomas-cosmos.groundworkopensource.com)
- Mark Weitzel (or IBM delegate)
- Group to define topics to be covered.
- Why Systems Management in Eclipse?
- What problems are we trying to solve?
- Industry trends in open source systems management
- What does it mean for me, the consumer of open source
- What's all this SML stuff anyway, can't we just use (xxxxx)?
- Candidate subjects:
- Strength of SML as modeling language
- vs. CIM, ODMA, ....
- Potential for interoperability through Eclipse-based development framework
- Benefits of community process for commercial, open source, and commercial-open source participants
- Strength of SML as modeling language
- Who would like to participate:
Long Talk
- Long talk; Resource Modeling based on SML - Eclipse due date: 12/1
Short Talk
- Short talk; Overview on COSMOS - Eclipse due date: 1/15
- Demo showing progress on resource modeling tooling
Valentina Popescu (IBM) is planning to participate with a demo of the SML validation and SML editing toolings which hopefully will be available by March 2007.
Here is a link to the poster that was presented at the Eclipse Summit, Europe.
This can serve as a starting point for our poster at Eclipse Con.
Table Topic
We could probably get a few of us to talk about COSMOS. Similar to the short talk.
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You may have heard there are more Xbox 360 retail units coming soon. Probably with it, you may also be hoping that Microsoft has finally figured out the Three Red Light failure, also known as Red Ring of Death (RROD). Don't count on it. If you thought the Xbox 360's problems were solved with the recent "Jasper" Xbox 360 unit (reduced power consumption 12.1 amp unit with 65nm CPU and 65nm GPU), they were not. Read on and see various RROD failures within the last week, including the recent "Jasper" Xbox 360.
About to enter your 9th 360? When you're that much of a sucker, you don't have the right to complain anymore. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me 9 times, be gentle, and put it in slow.
I totally agree with you. I would label myself, and any consumer, as a sucker that would have to deal with this going into the 9th Xbox 360 system. Were it not for the reason that I try to keep up with all gaming platforms on the website, I would have been generous to stop using the Xbox 360 at RROD #5.
Well if it's business/website related, then you have an excuse. Any consumer going through more than a couple of these should be ashamed of themselves. You're just feeding the beast. (that goes for any and all companies who knowingly sell faulty products)
i got a red ring 1 time and switched to ps3 I was lucky though because I bought a 360 when it was $400 so I had bestbuy's warranty went in gave in the 360 went to a shelf and walked out with a ps3
this is ridiculus, i have read about 2 or 3 x360 deaths, that even i wonder why, cuz of the free warranty for RROD, but 8-9 death consoles, this article is totally fake written by a ps3 fanboy. I myself love MS, but to buy a system for a 2nd time and it fails me again, i would never buy it again even if its free.
If you're going through a ninth console, then something is seriously wrong with you. If something breaks more than once, then it's your cue to stop getting it fixed.
Same goes for anything that breaks-not just a 360.
I don't exactly like anybody putting it in, but I had 5 Xbox 360s, yeah, go ahead and call BS and scroll down to the next post. But I'm a gamer, and the PS3 didn't have games that interested me till two years down the line, so the only next-gen system that was worth it at the time was the 360. But.my.god, it was THE most unreliable pieace'a **** console I ever had. everytime I turn it on I play KNOWING that any second now it'll flash me. not fun, AT.ALL.
Thank god the PS3 now have some steam going and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.
This'll sound untrue to some but there's a valid reason why I dislike the 360, not because I can't afford it since I have a PS3. Not because you have to pay for Live just to have their royal permission that you can play..well actually this's another reason. But because as a console quality itself. it's garbage.
And man. Don't even get me started on how many 360s RRODed on my friends.
Well you know what. I'll get started:
3 Elites.
5 Premiums.
2 Arcades.
1 Falcon Elite currently malfunctioning.
Not only did this guy ride the short bus to school, but they went ahead and gave him the bus to ride it anywhere he needs to go.
I mean i understand he didnt have to pay anything until his 7th console but still. To much of a headache to put up with that many times.
I'm on my second... first one rrod because I was just careless... still on my second one from 2007 because I really took care of it, and I also bought an intercooler which helps a lot.
To say your going to get your 9th 360, you must just be REALLY unlucky, or just an idiot.
Simple to say, hard to do when you've been paying $50 a year to build up your e-penis and awaiting for ODST.
MS knows you're hooked and treats you like the old time junkie you are. Why else are they charging $4 for a virtual shirt?
nothing better than an rrod or why pay for live thread for them to nash their teeth in.
i'm not saying rrod doesn't exist or is acceptable, just that this sh!t is old, and i have already seen a few sony loyalists in here already. it amazes me how much time they put into something they hate....whats even more amazing is the fact they hate a game console.
luckily, my nov2005 premium is still going strong, and my aug2007 elite is having it also(although after extended playing my elite starts to get noisier.
my ps3 on the other hand is as quiet as quiet can be, and in all the hours that i've spent on it, it has only locked twice causing me to have to switch it off at the back. but sonys hardware is reknowned for quality
Obviously it's not old if it's still happening with their latest motherboard revision.
Great games. Dodgy hardware.
I love playing on it. But paranoid that every time I press the power button the wrong lights will come on.
I think most of us here are enlightened enough on the topic to know that buying a 360 is a calculated risk. Whether or not it's worth it to deal with the potential headaches that come with hardware failure is really in the eye of the beholder (translation: are the games worth it or not?).
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me 9 times, be gentle, and put it in slow"
Best. Quote. Ever!
This guy writing this "article" sounds like a fanboy with a keyboard. Come on 9 Times? Even the PS1 and PS2 where not that bad on breaking down. You lose credibility when you talk crap like that. I had 4 ps1 and 5 PS2 I guess that makes me a sucker, along with the majority of ps1 and ps2 owners. But at least we don't have to pay for a replacement with a xbox360, nor shipping cost.
Then he goes on to talk about them not changing a chipset that is not even OUT YET HELLO. Unless a fantoy is putting the machine in a cabinet with a space heater nine times is no possible. I still have my elite and it has NEVER fail or had any error with the abuse it has recieved including getting pulled over, and getting kicked.
and that she asks others with rrod to share their experience.
My 360 never had a problem and Ive left it on for over 10 hours with a game paused.
My old 360 that I sold to my friend got 1 red ring and he got it replaced(I told him it would break before I sold it to him especially if he kept it on the carpet like he did).
I got a 2 year warranty from BB and if it doesnt break within the 2 years, Ill break it myself to get a new one.
I wouldt keep going if I had that many, but maybe im just special, as ive never had any break on me.
EDIT-- ahhaahhaahha. If you dont believe me that ive never gotten RRoD then I dont believe you ever had a 360 unless you people put your GT in your profile. YEAH thats what I thought.
At this point they should just redesign the console instead of having all these code names for 360's that are supposed to fix the RROD, but don't.
Indy, just because you are lucky doesn't mean everybody is. Plus, why would he lie? He himself said he was a 360 fanboy for a time.
Seriously? If anyone is on their ninth 360 then they are truly ignorant to the electronic world. Is he wrapping it in a parka and placing it in an oven during his gaming sessions? I have no doubt that RROD exists but I still have a launch version that works fine as well as an elite from a couple years back. I keep the elite on its side inside a cabinet (open face) with two 4" computer fans drawing air from the front. No issues whatsoever (I do the same for my Denon 2310) and I play some long gaming sessions on occasion. You sometimes need to be smarter than the piece of equipment you are using.
Are you serious? None of Sony's systems ever had a 30% failure rate.
I had a PS1 for 6 years before I gave it away. Last time I heard it was still going strong. My 7 year old PS2 worked fine just this morning when I turned it on for another session of Persona 4. And I don't have to pray to the game gods everytime I press the power button on my launch 60gb PS3.
BTW why would you kick your 360? Was it Ikaruga?
It's time to switch to a PS3 after someone goes through their 9th xbox.
So... this is where the Playstation fanboys hang out... Nice.
So much for the rrod proof jasper chips. Their is no escaping the inevitable rrod unless you just say F it and get a ps3 of course.
That's funny, cause I have two Falcon's with heavy use and no problems. I have a friend that suffered RROD on a launch 360 a year ago, and bought a new one after selling the fixed one. He then later got disc read errors.
Another guy I know, bought a 360 and got the RROD as well, but this were all older machines.....
I like how people can say "well its NOT fixed because its still happening"...yeah that makes a lot sense, I guess then we should expect none will break after the Jasper models= NO...where's the links of 360 forums filled with complaints like before? What did they all over a sudden all just not care anymore?....pa pa please, anybody can write a blog with qoutes from 5 people about hardware failures and say that nothing has been done..we know ps3 is reliable and yet there are tons of reports with a few gamers saying there ps3 went ylod...its just easier to make it seem like the problem is still widespread because of 360's history. I have tons of friends and read lots about 360 hardware news and I haven't come across anything to suggest the failure rate is anywhere near what we saw up to 1 yr after launch....if I'm wrong I'd really like to see links.
that is the cold harsh truth, imagine a gfx card with a failure rate like this, it would be taken off the market within a week. Yet after years they haven't fixed it that is NUTS.
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me 9 times, be gentle, and put it in slow. "
I lol so much at that.
only blind fools would support crap hardware like this. Im surprised the failing units have not started housefires.
my ps3 has been on for 24 hours at one point with movies and games......no problems.
hell ive gamed for 4 hours, left and returned to see people still using the ps3 in my crib. AND you know what? I have never had a problem with it, or felt fear from turning it on.
so what if he's not really on his 9th? so you mean to tell me it is okay to be on his 5th then? any high tech electronics that break more than twice are pretty unacceptable already, let alone its coming from the richest company on earth, which they should have all the resources and specialties to make their product well you know, not break?
you think 9 rroded 360 is too many?Then check this out:
The guy is on his 12th!!!! 360.
Check post #5 and #45,with factual evidence and everything!
I'm a big fan of the PS3 and it is my favorite console, but this isn't fair. You can't use a few anecdotal reports to claim that there is still a widespread problem with the newer 360 chipsets. I've heard far fewer reports since the new chipsets have come out and all the people I know who have purchased one have not had any problems yet.
I had the RROD with my 360 early on and I know how maddening it can be. It was also part of the reason that I came to like the PS3 better. All I am saying is let's be fair. This analysis wasn't fair.
Nine 360's... I would have gave up after either the first or second, I would just find this unacceptable, your console shouldn't break down because you play it! Thats just ridiculous! Microsoft should be REQUIRED to not sell anymore 360's until this problem is permanently fixed! I cant even believe people are still buying the 360. Right when RROD was found out they should have had a recall and should have fixed the problem, but noooo then Microsoft would loose some money and we just CANT have that. Also Microsoft has you pay for online for this faulty hardware! Microsoft is just trying to suck all the money out of your pockets arn't they? Also with what that guy said up there^ 4$ for a virtual T-Shirt! Just wow... Microsoft needs to get their act together and stop being so retarded!
If my PS3 failed on me more than twice, (still playing the launch 60g, btw) I would say "screw this crap" and go buy a Wii or PC.
I mean, [email protected] brand loyalty. For my hard earned $, I want something that works.
Contrast that with people who are on their 5th console and still vehemently support it. It's like a battered wife who says "it's ok, we're in love" and keeps coming back for more abuse.
Sad. Really sad.
but the truth is i know seven people with x360 and all but 1 had at least 1 RROD with 9 people with PS3 and just 1 Blu-ray read failure.
The fact that most of you x360 fans have experience or know someone that has experienced one is just even more proof that this problem is huge and still happening.
For those that are bring up the PS2 don't be stupid. We all know the PS2 hardware problem was not nearly as bad as this RROD and it definitely didn't last for nearly 4 years and counting.
I have no idea why some of you are still defending this. Its beyond ridiculous now and MS should really have fixed this by now. The x360 hardware is the biggest joke in history.
I can't believe how people continue to buy these things. There sure are a lot of folks with a lot patience, money, and dumbness. When I make a purchase, I want to get the most out of my money. Sure I could waste 299$ on a console that still uses DVD, has a 33% chance of RROD, has pay-to-play online, has pay-to-have wifi and only has 3 really good exclusives (Halo 3, Fable 2 and Gears2). Fortunatly I am not dumb enough to buy a console based on advertising alone, so I prefered to invest more 100 bucks and get myself a PS3, and I am happy with it so far. Great exclusives, awesome features (I love being able to use any plug-and-play USB controller I want), works great, free online, free wi-fi, blu-ray player. It puzzles me how the Xbox360 got so far... I guess it's due to all the advertising and the poor PS3 launch.
Since the 360 is so ultra reliable it remains a mystery why MS publically announced and threw away 1 billion dollars for warranty service on a non existent problem.
Not 1 million, (cue Dr Evil imitation) but rather 1 billion dollars.
it also comes down to how you look after the console, personally ive never had the red ring, not naturally at least, i forced my launch console to overheat so i could get updated parts.
i own two 360's and have had no real problems, but i keep the console clear from other devices and it has room to breath.
my friend got a 360 last week and hes got it behind glass in a small space with a HDTV decoder sitting on top of it, i tried to tell him hes going to kill it but he didnt listen, so im ready with the "i told you so)'s.
that kind of punishment would eventually kill any device, the PS3 having a curved top was a smart move, stops all the idiots that think consoles should be a stacking system like my friend.
^^^^I completely disagree. And so will a great many other people. I have always, ALWAYS had my 360's in a well ventilated location and the RROD persists. Are there people that have blocked them into a hole. Yes. But plenty of people have done everything but strap their 360 to an aircraft propeller and RROD still comes calling.
This is coming from the heart to all 360 owners. Which ever xbox your on(1,2nd,3rd...or which ever) if it breaks down on you one more time, tell MS TO GO [email protected] THEMSELFS, send it in one last time and get a working one back. Sell to a stranger or trade it for money , use the cash to buy another gamming system (wii,pc,ps3). Even Ps3 is having a price drop, trade that sh!t in before the new 360 drops price aswell, that way you get the most out of your hardware/software. It has nearly the same games, but the ps3 works! DON'T KEEP BUYING XBOX SH!T SINCE THEY HAVEN'T FIXED THE DAMN THING!. I dont mean to disrespect anyone who has a 360, but that sh!!! just happened to my friend and that isn't cool,god bless him,he saved up for months, and during a recession, to waste on 300dollar hardware w/ constant errors ! it just pisses me off to see a company take advantage of comsumers, let alone someone that i consider family!, GO [email protected] YOURSELF MS!
its just a big conspiracy by Microsoft you know put out short term shoddy hardware then when the next console cycle ramps up everyone will be chomping at the bit for a new xbox since most of the fanbase xboxes are burning up and malfunctioning like mad and then BOOM instant sales gains........seems to work wonders for their windows department why not apply it to the gaming division..........
letting M$ buttrape me after my third unit. Makes me wonder; is it inbreeding that causes the retardation that makes a person continue to support a company that does not care about their own products? Or maybe it's drugs.
AMEN, to the first comment. That is the primary reason why I jumped off the 360 bandwagon and I will only invest or turn on the thing when ME2 comes out.
Xbox breaks. Microsoft fixes it. FOR FREE.
Seriously. How ungrateful do you have to be to reject a FREE repair on principle?
Now, if Microsoft STOPS fixing my 360 for free, I'll be livid.
And sure... you can say Microsoft "threw away" $1 billion on a warranty... or you can guess how much Microsoft would lose on a class-action suit. Potentially much more. Either way, MS took measures to deal with the current problem, but I still don't think it's right how it hasn't been fixed in subsequent models.
8 xbox 360`s ? wow...
that's a big problem in the 360,that could easly make for a stronger ps3 install base,u know that every ps3 sold have 0.1% chance to get broken
and.......I FKN HATE E74
... how many people are caught in the cycle of getting refurbished 360's that have already had the RRoD and therefore are more prone to getting it again? Microsoft probably has a considerable stockpile of old systems still sitting around that they simply keep repairing and sending back out (only to return again). So I could see how it would be a very hard cycle to break out of once you're in it.
Definitely would suck, especially since all that gamers really want to do is play the games they paid good money for.
Has had 8 RRoD's
Hell that more RRoD's than the 3Shitsty has Exclusive's
You BoTs are a Gullible Breed
says the guy that payed to fix 4 ps2's and still got a ps3 at launch..
I love my Xbox 360, and it's great the Microsoft extended the warranty but I would have rather they fixed the problem. What's the point of buying the bulk of your library on a system you can't rely on. I still play my 360 occassionally, but I mainly game on one of my PS3's now simply because I know I can rely on them.
It's certainly nothing against the 360's games. It's got plenty of must play titles for me, but the game can be the best game in the world and it won't matter if your system won't play it.
Ill stick by the 360 to the bitter end
mines yet to break, and Ive had it since launch. Is time against me...... maybe but as of right now i dont care.
And Nelson M has kinda really steered me away from a purchase of the PS3, his childish reasonings and comments show me what the PSN and Home would be like, and i feel sorry for every other PS3 owner who agree with you and must talk to you on a daily basis.
and Nelson M has testicular cancer in the throat............ Thats right i can be childish too
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You Bought an Xbox
Your Gonna get RRoD
You've No Games to play this year
Your the one who is Frustrated and it Shows
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[email protected] may be more suitable! :P
And the PS3 is still losing the console war, still losing money, still losing exclusives, still losing to Live, still losing multiplats and PS3 owners are still not buying games.
Funny how the RROD console is killing the PS3, reminds me of the PS2 disc read error and it still won the war. Poor droids, one AAA game all year, nothing to play and still in 3rd/last.
Let's wait until more than one of the "Jasper" units fail before saying it has a problem. No electronic device gets a 100% success rate, including the PS3. PS2s weren't exactly the most reliable machine either. Maybe the number 2 is a curse for both MS and Sony. They have both had hardware problems with their second console.
I'm still using a launch console.
Haven't even tried a falcon or jasper yet.
its because of the lower price!...and the disc read error was nothing in front of the RROD...and try to say something other than droids allt he time idiot
Then you're one of the few @Murderfail...
its a pitty really that there is only one solution for the RROD, and u all know what that is :D
A Playstation 3
Seriously. You should have the maximum of TWO broken consoles, not that many, I wouldn't persist that much. How long do these people play on them for crying out loud?
I had two Playstations (lazer replaced in old one, counts as two to me), My PS2 still works, Two Dreamcasts, My XBOX is nearly dead (has problems reading drives) and the 360 and PS3 are fine so far. Knock on wood.


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Denny Hamlin takes Coca-Cola 600 pole with record qualifying lap at Charlotte Motor Speedway
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CONCORD, N.C. – Denny Hamlin isn't ready to say he's back, even after winning the pole for Coca-Cola 600 with a record-setting qualifying lap Thursday night.
He said it would take a win Sunday night or at another Sprint Cup race later in the season before he's willing to make that declaration.
But Hamlin showed he continues to be on the mend after being sidelined for four races with a compression fracture in his lower spine following a March 24 crash involving former teammate Joey Logano.
Two weeks after finishing second at the Darlington 500, Hamlin broke the track record with a lap of 195.624 mph to capture his first pole at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
"Getting the big trophy on Sunday — that is the validation that you are truly back," Hamlin said.
Hamlin has a far bigger goal in mind anyway.
He and Jimmie Johnson are the only two drivers to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup every year they've been eligible.
He wants to keep it that way — and then some.
"It's going to take wins and consistency throughout the next several months to put ourselves in position to have a chance at a championship," Hamlin said. "That is what we're here for. But these small victories give me confidence I'm still capable and still able to do the job at 100 percent like I should be."
Four Toyotas will start in the top five. Hamlin will start alongside Kurt Busch on the front row, followed by Matt Kenseth, Mark Martin and Clint Bowyer. Kasey Kahne will start sixth, Greg Biffle seventh, Kyle Busch eighth, Jamie McMurray ninth and Ryan Newman rounds out the top 10.
Johnson, who won his record fourth Sprint All-Star race on Saturday, will start 12th, one spot behind Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Danica Patrick, who has struggled on the 1.5-mile tracks this season, starts 24th.
It looked like Kurt Busch would take the pole.
But when Hamlin heard Busch say in an interview he missed his marks on turns three and four, he decided to step away from his normally conservative qualifying nature and go for the top spot.
"He made a mistake and I capitalized on it," Hamlin said.
Hamlin did everything he could to push the envelope.
"Normally I wouldn't commit myself to running a lap like that — it's too dangerous," Hamlin said. "But we have a mission ahead."
Hamlin, who has never won a Sprint Cup race at CMS, was one of eight drivers to top the previous track record of 193.708 mph set last October by Biffle.
Hamlin said he was sore for about two days after Darlington, but said he's feeling much better now.
"Everything is good," Hamlin said.
It is Hamlin's 14th career pole, including his second this year. The other came at the Auto Club in Fontana.
"How did that turn out? Great race," Hamlin quipped, referring to the crash with Logano that knocked him out for more than a month.
Despite qualifying second, Kurt Busch believes he still has the car to beat on Sunday after winning two segments at the All-Star race here Saturday night.
"The All-Star race is great, but we can do better," Busch said. "Our car is so good right now."
This is the seventh time in 12 races this season that Sprint Cup drivers have posted a new qualifying record.


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Plenty of actors invest time doing research for their roles, but most of them had nothing on Dennis Farina. Farina, who died July 22 of a blood clot in his lung, spent nearly two decades as a Chicago cop, a career that led him to work as a consultant for director Michael Mann. Mann saw something in the raspy-voiced burglary cop, giving him a small part in his movie Thief in 1981, then casting him as star of his hard-boiled TV drama Crime Story.
Farina became a fixture in movies and TV, playing cops, mobsters, and connected guys in classics from Midnight Run to Get Shorty to Law and Order. There's no substitute for experience; Farina's Chi-Town voice, his creased face, his tough bearing suggested he'd been around and seen action. As a cop, he could make make threats that were not strictly legal and make them sound credible (see video, below); as a crook, he could promise to end a rival and make it sound almost charming. He was the thespian equivalent of a weathered silver dollar or a V-8 getaway car; a durable classic they don't make anymore.
Yet Farina was a real actor, not jut a lucky beneficiary of casting. He could swear like a poet but also do comedy and play the nice guy. Late in his career, he held his own with Dustin Hoffman as a mobster's empathetic confidante in HBO's Luck, and one of his last roles was a comic turn in Fox's sitcom New Girl. The law made him, and his most memorable roles brought the law, and law-breakers, alive. That he was taken at age 69 was a crime. RIP.


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Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:20:14 -0700
Baltimore Orioles general manager Dan Duquette told MASN Sports the team wants to retain 1B Chris Davis, saying "It's no secret the club would like to have him to come back and we're going to do what we can."
Fantasy Tip: Davis is represented by Scott Boras, so it won't be easy, but with 47 home runs this season he will be very much in demand. He seemed to regain his hitting stroke after faltering a couple years back, so he will go in as a top first baseman in mixed leagues thanks to all that pop.
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The Baltimore Orioles want to add another bullpen piece and a utility infielder between now and the start of spring training, according to general manager Dan Duquette.
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The Toronto Blue Jays have ended negotiations with the Baltimore Orioles for executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette, whom they had wanted to become the organization's chief executive officer. The two sides were never close to a deal and the Blue Jays refused to consider the Orioles' demands for P Jeff Hoffman and two other top prospects as compensation for Duquette.
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Baltimore Orioles executive vice president of baseball operation Dan Duquette appears close to joining the Toronto Blue Jays as their chief executive officer, according to a source.
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Baltimore Orioles executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette is believed to be a candidate for the Toronto Blue Jays chief executive officer position, and the two sides has discussed possible compensation if Duquette joined the Blue Jays, according to sources. The two sides are not close to a deal at this point.
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Sun, 11 Jan 2015 10:50:45 -0800
Baltimore Orioles general manager Dan Duquette remains in the running to become the next president of the Toronto Blue Jays. However, Orioles owner Peter Angelos can prevent him from leaving the organization, even for a position with a higher title and salary. Both teams would need to agree on compensation in order for Duquette to join the Blue Jays.
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The Toronto Blue Jays are reportedly seeking a replacement for president and chief executive officer Paul Beeston, according to multiple sources. Baltimore Orioles general manager Dan Duquette and Chicago White Sox executive vice president Kenny Williams are candidates that have been discussed internally. There has been speculation that Beeston could retire at the end of the year.
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Although the team did not give a specific amount, Baltimore Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette said the 2015 payroll would likely be higher. Duquette notes that he still needs to meet with team ownership to discuss the payroll, but he expresses confidence that it will rise. "The important thing for our fans to know is that we've increased our payroll over the last couple years," says Duquette. "I expect that we'll be able to increase our payroll because the fans have responded to our team the last couple of years."
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Baltimore Orioles SP Johan Santana has a June 1 opt-out date in his contract, but the team is not worried about him exercising it. "That's open for discussion," Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette said. "It's a fluid situation."
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|Orioles | Discussed trade with Houston
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The Baltimore Orioles discussed trade talks with the Houston Astros about possibly bringing in a backup catcher, but the talks did not progress further. Orioles vice-president Dan Duquette and Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow are gauging to see if there is a potential match.
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A year after "Resident Evil: Revelations" found success as a Nintendo 3DS exclusive, the handheld game is being ported to every major video console — that is, every one except the PlayStation Vita.
Capcom announced this week that the zombie horror survival game was coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U and PC on May 21 in the U.S. and May 24 in Britain. Notably missing from the list is the PS Vita.
So why did PlayStation's slick handheld console get snubbed? Capcom product manager Mike Lunn weighed in on PlayStation's official blog.
"When we were developing 'Revelations' for new platforms we really wanted to hone in on the experience you get with a large format screen, surround sound, etc.," Lunn wrote in response to an inquiry from a fan. "This type of setup really helps players get sucked into the horror vibe and enjoy the game to its fullest extent."
Gamers quickly questioned his line of reasoning, arguing that if the title was originally made for the 3DS, surely the larger PS Vita's screen resolution couldn't be the issue; even the 3DS XL's screen is smaller than the PS Vita's screen.
"3DS and PS-vita infrastructure let alone developing games for them are extremely different beasts," Lunn responded. "Even just the screens as you mention are completely different resolutions/functions."
"Revelations," released last February, received praise for its return to the slower pace of the earlier "Resident Evil" games. Set between "Resident Evil 4" and "Resident Evil 5," the game follows protagonists Jill Valentine and her partner, Parker Luciani, as they track down Chris Redfield and his new partner, Jessica Sherawat, and unravel a bioterrorist conspiracy.
Jill and Parker are investigating an abandoned cruise ship, the Queen Zenobia, when mutants rear their ugly heads.
The console version will add an extra difficulty mode, a new enemy and other new content, the opportunity to play as different characters, improvements to the game's Raid mode and full integration with ResidentEvil.net, where players can track their stats.
"Revs is not just a 'filter' slapped on the previous version," Lunn wrote. "Our team literally went in and re-textured (sometimes recreated in whole) the models used for this version so rest assured it will look fantastic."
"Resident Evil: Revelations" will cost $49.99.
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Liam Hemsworth: Christmas Eve Dinner Shopping with Brother Chris
Liam Hemsworth pushes a carriage full of bags after shopping at Whole Foods Market on Monday afternoon (December 24) in Santa Monica, Calif.
The 22-year-old actor joined big brother Chris, his wife Elsa Pataky and niece India, to pick up some things for their holiday feast. Yum.
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After loading up the car, the family reportedly headed to Liam's fiancee Miley Cyrus' home.
Liam just returned from filming Paranoia in Philadelphia, Penn.
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Last Friday we discussed a number of topics, but the only technical subject that came up was the naming for the BAM API. I'll discuss that first. As you may know, we've been working on BAM for sometime now and even given a few talks on it. We're using it extensively for the internals of the dynamic clustering implementation, but originally we were planning on making it a public API for games, finance, and other messaging based applications. That's still the goal, but the other work on Resin 4.0 has pushed back the time line for the release of BAM at the user level.
After attending this week's SF Java Meetup on Scala, I started comparing Scala's actors and BAM agents/services. There are a lot of similar concepts, but this started us thinking about whether we shouldn't rename the A in BAM, which currently stands for agent, to actor. Well, BAM can handle the duties of an actor, but it actually makes more sense to think of the building blocks as services. So it may turn out that like many architectural/standard acronyms, the letters of BAM won't actually stand for anything. Anyway, we decided that our interfaces will have the prefix Bam*, while abstract classes will not. And the word "agent" is going away…
As for the non-technical points we touched on, probably the most relevant is the reorganization of the documentation. We've got a lot of docs, but they're a bit scattered, so we're planning on refining them and putting them into a book-like structure. There'll be three parts to the book: an administrator guide, a developer guide, and a cookbook. As you may have noticed, we're moving to a completely WebBeans-based configuration model. If you saw my post from last week, you know that tooling for WebBeans should be extremely useful and straightforward. Because of this, we may decide to create a doclet that outputs documentation of our configuration directly from the code!
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Dr. Robert E. Stowell, the founding chair of the Department of Pathology at the UC Davis School of Medicine and an internationally renowned pathologist and educator, died on Nov. 20 of a cerebral vascular accident at his home in El Macero, Calif. He was 96.
"The breadth and depth of Dr. Stowell's impact on the field of pathology is immense," said Claire Pomeroy, UC Davis vice chancellor for human health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine. "Throughout his long and illustrious career, Dr. Stowell's work had a tremendous benefit on people locally, nationally and internationally, and is still felt today."
"Dr. Stowell was an important and beloved member of our faculty, and he will be greatly missed," said Lydia Pleotis Howell, current chair of the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. "We certainly owe a lot to him as founding chair of our department, and for his many contributions since, including his very generous gift to establish the Stowell Chair for Experimental Pathology. Dr. Stowell left a wonderful legacy here and he lives in on the work that we do in our department and school."
During his nearly 60-year career, Dr. Stowell was widely influential as a prominent leader of national and international pathology organizations. In 1955, he was a founding member of the International Academy of Pathology (IAP), the organization that grew from the International Association of Medical Museums (IAMM). The IAMM represented the practice of pathology for the first 50 years of the 20th Century, while the IAP fulfilled this role in the second 50 years.
From 1959-1967, Dr. Stowell served as scientific director at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, a federal institution focused on diagnostic consultation, education and research in pathology. The facility held 95 million tissue samples and had served as a global resource for disease diagnosis and analysis for nearly 150 years before closing on Sept. 15, 2011, due to government cost-cutting initiatives.
He served as chair of the president of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists in 1971. In 1990, the American Society for Investigative Pathology bestowed upon Dr. Stowell its Gold-Headed Cane Award, the nation's highest award in pathology.
Dr. Stowell was born on Dec. 25, 1914, in Cashmere, Wash. He received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1936, his M.D. from Stanford Medical School in 1941, and his Ph.D. in pathology from Washington University in 1944. After medical school, Dr. Stowell worked as a research assistant at the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital in St. Louis, and then as an assistant professor of pathology at Washington University.
From 1946-1947, Dr. Stowell was an advanced medical fellow of the Commonwealth Fund at the Institute for Cell Research in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1948, Dr. Stowell was appointed as chair of the Department of Oncology at the University of Kansas, and in 1951, he became chair of the university's Department of Pathology and Oncology.
In 1967, Dr. Stowell came to the UC Davis School of Medicine as the founding chair of its Department of Pathology. He served as chair until June 1969, when he was appointed director of the UC Davis Primate Center. He returned to the pathology department in 1971 and retired in 1982, although he continued to teach medical students as a volunteer until 2001.
At UC Davis, Dr. Stowell served as vice chair of the School of Medicine's first admissions committee. He helped create the school's first curricula and courses, built new programs and recruited new faculty.
While on the faculty at UC Davis, Dr. Stowell led an extensive and detailed review of research related to controversies surrounding the artificial sweetener Aspartame, which the Food and Drug Administration would not approve without an impartial, outside review. The review was conducted mainly at UC Davis under the direction of Dr. Stowell, who also coordinated reviews performed at the University of Maryland and Northwestern University.
The reviews found no major discrepancies, and the FDA subsequently approved Aspartame, which is used in the artificial sweetener Equal.
In 1980, Dr. Stowell organized the first group of U.S. academic pathologists to visit the People's Republic of China following President Richard Nixon's historic visit to that country in 1972, which led to the normalization of relations between the two countries.
In 1991, Dr. Stowell and his wife, the late Eva Mae Stowell, endowed the Robert E. Stowell Lectureship, which supports the annual appointment of a distinguished scientist as a visiting lecturer at the School of Medicine.
Dr. Stowell is survived by his daughter, Susan of Davis, Calif.; his son, Rob, and his wife, Jean of Tahoe City, Calif.; grandchildren, Dave Tambor of Roseville, Calif., and Ken and Lauren Martin of Roseville, Calif.; and great-grandchildren, Christian and Catherine Martin of Roseville, Calif.
At Dr. Stowell's request, no memorial service will be held.
The family requests that donations be made to the Stowell Medical Students Assistance Fund. Checks should be made payable to the "UC Davis Foundation" and indicate that it is intended for the Stowell Fund. Checks should be mailed to:
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DD tested at 9 months, iron was at low end of normal, 10 something
Re-test at 1 year (this week), even lower than last time, now at 9.7
Doc wants her on Enfmail Poly-vi-sol the vitamin w/iron - has all kinds of crappy additives.
Another doc at the practice recommended Fer-in-sol by Enfamil, same crappy additives
I admit i am so proud to have 12 mos of breastfeeding under my belt (and still going) while working F/T that I don't want an Enfamil product in my kid, even if it's a vitamin
I went to whole foods - the natural infant vitamins there hardly have any iron
I looked at adult versions - I found one that is all food source with no gluten, sugar or any kind of additive ( http://www.vitacost.com/flora-florad...-free-17-fl-oz ) but the lowest dosage is for age 4 and I'd cut it in 1/4 but there are warnings about toxicity risks for infants (consult your doc yada yada yada) and I feel like I'm taking medicine into my own hands.
Of course my Ped practice will NEVER reco a product that doesn't come from a big packaged goods co. I called InfantRisk - not really their wheelhouse, they were SO nice but could not advise me. They did respond to my question about whether I could take the supplement and up my baby's iron. Unfortunately it won't pass through.
Anyone else been down this road? Doc wants to re-test in 6 weeks. I know little about how low iron would transcend in terms of symptoms in a baby, but when adults are low iron they always seem low energy / lethargic, often feeling under the weather and weak. My kid is fiery, fiesty, full of energy, happy and healthy as they come.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Mar 2013 13:07 UTC
A few days ago, Google and the MPEG-LA announced that they had come to an agreement under which Google received a license for techniques in VP8 that may infringe upon MPEG-LA patents (note the 'if any'). Only a few days later, we learn the real reason behind Google and the MPEG-LA striking a deal, thanks to The H Open, making it clear that the MPEG-LA has lost. Big time. Update: Chris Montgomery: "The wording suggests Google paid some money to grease this along, and the agreement wording is interesting [and instructive] but make no mistake: Google won. Full stop."


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Access to adequate and affordable health insurance coverage continues to be a growing concern around the country. Between 2000 and 2009 there were 7.3 million fewer individuals with employer-provided health insurance. Some are able to purchase insurance in the private market, others enroll in state-offered Medicaid or SCHIP public health insurance programs, yet many remain uninsured. From 2000 to 2009, the number of uninsured rose from over 35 million to nearly 50 million. Studies demonstrate that health coverage promotes increased access to health care and positive health status, is more cost-effective, and even translates to better educational outcomes for children.
In Wisconsin, many adults and nearly all children who are uninsured are eligible for the state's BadgerCare+ program. Most are aware of the program, but eligibility misconceptions, stigma, confusion stemming from ongoing program changes and bureaucracy, and lack of access to knowledgeable application assistance deter BadgerCare+ enrollment.
In 2007, Covering Kids & Families-Wisconsin, a coalition housed at University of Wisconsin-Madison began collaborating with public schools, Extension and other state partners to create a model for helping families more ably navigate these barriers within the school environment. Project evaluation reveals the critical need for bolstering school staff BadgerCare+ knowledge and integrating them into existing local and statewide networks through which program information and assistance can be supported. BadgerCare+ trainings, a toolbox of promotional materials, fact sheets, and resources, and the connection to knowledgeable assistance in the community make it less intimidating for school staff to stay up-to-date given the ever evolving nature of Medicaid/SCHIP and expected health insurance Exchanges under health reform.
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The Voice is a student newspaper with a circulation of 4,500. About 40 to 50 students work on the paper each semester. They participate in all management decisions. Students enjoy full editorial control and operate all newspaper departments.
BU's mass communications program operates three television studios for formal course work and provides hands-on experience with modern high definition broadcast equipment. In cooperation with BUTV, students can participate in campus broadcast activities that include student-produced programs, local telethons, charity drives, televised town council meetings and sporting events.
In Focus is a weekly half-hour student-produced news program cablecast live and rebroadcast over local community channels. Students manage all editorial functions, studio production activities and all post-production work.
Students also staff a campus radio station, WBUQ-FM. The station has acquired the minimum local audience necessary for recognition by Nielsen, the country's major radio audience rating service. Students participate in station management, programming and as on-air personalities for student-produced music and talk programs.
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Weeks 12 & 14: Vs. Adrian Peterson, Minnesota
Peterson had his first non-Pro Bowl season in 2011, rushing for 970 yards in 12 games. Underwhelming, but he did score 12 touchdowns. In his lone 2011 game against the Bears, Peterson carried the ball 12 times for 39 yards and scored the Vikings' only touchdown. This year he leads the league in rushing. And since the Bears play Peterson twice, it's worth mentioning that even with that 39-yard game, Peterson has averaged over 100 yards in eight games against the Bears, scoring in all but one game. RATING: 3/10 on the 2007 Adrian Peterson scale
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The Champ Speaks: Jon Jones Apologizes for UFC 151 Cancellation, Says Fighting Sonnen Would've Been "The Dumbest Idea Ever"
(Who wants to take a wild guess at how Bones vs. Belfort will end? Anyone?)
There may only be a matter of hours separating us from the
UFC/Dana White/Jon Jones' decision to cancel Christmas UFC 151, yet it somehow feels as if every conceivable angle has already been pondered, publicized, and pettifogged to an exhausting extent. Fingers have been pointed in every direction; some say Jon Jones is to blame, some Greg Jackson, while others, like Cory Braiterman of MMAMania, feel that Dana White is more or less scapegoating Bones in an attempt to disguise the fact that UFC 151′s supporting card, and in fact many of the UFC's recent cards, are kind of garbage ass, as BG put it (by the way, garbage ass is phrase that needs to catch on).
Throw in a clusterfuck of bitchassness in the light heavyweight contender pool, and we've been left with a "pound-for-pound great" fighting a middleweight whose chance of victory is apparently worse than the chance that you would be attacked by a circus lion in a convenient store twice. On the same day. In two different convenience stores. Seriously, Jones was only listed at -475 in a rematch with Lyoto Machida, and is now listed as high as -1500 over Belfort.
That is some garbage ass, right there.
But the man who has been caught in the middle of all this hate, champion Jon Jones, had remained silent on the issue in the immediate aftermath, likely until Team Jackson could draft up an apology for him to make (ZING!). However, in an interview with MMAJunkie last night, Jones was both apologetic and steadfast regarding his decision.
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I particularly enjoyed Ramona Flume's piece on Round Top in the August issue. I was especially pleased to see that Flume gave Ima Hogg, Faith Bybee, and Hazel Ledbetter credit for their contributions
to Round Top's cultural life.
Flume wrote, "In the late 1960s, Hogg donated a 19th-Century barn … to serve as the performance space … ." The barn was actually part of a much larger donation, the 180-acre Winedale Historical Center, including four historic houses and two barns, which Miss Hogg gave to the University of Texas at Austin in 1965 to be used as a center for the study of Texas history and an innovative classroom for the university. Two of the houses were furnished with Miss Hogg's outstanding collection of 19th-Century Texas furniture. A selection of that furniture will be exhibited at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin through October 6
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Regarding "Most Amazing Vistas" (see page 56): In 1995, I flew from Amsterdam to Houston with my bicycle. It took me a while to find a safe passage to my hotel. Jetlagged, I cycled along, a little nervous for my first American journey.
Suddenly, downtown Houston appeared in the distance. I had never seen a building higher than 15 floors, and there was this marvelous concentration of towering skyscrapers. I stopped and stood in awe as traffic sped past. I later saw the most exciting natural landscapes in Texas, but I will never forget my first glimpse of that fantastic Houston cityscape!
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Quick Review: Whitechapel Crab Lock
OK, so let's say you are too cheap to purchase a blacksmith-made lock for your next tool chest or blanket chest.
Wait, that wasn't very kind of me to call you "cheap." Instead, let's put it this way: Let's say your spouse just ran off with the village blacksmith, so you are looking for an alternative to a custom-made lock.
Well here's a great alternative: a German-made chest lock from Whitechapel Ltd. that costs about one-fourth of a custom lock.
I installed one of these locks today on a tool chest I am making for a customer and was impressed with the workmanship and movement of this lock.
If you've never seen a lock like this, they are commonly called "crab" locks or "grab" locks. They get that nickname because of the way they work. The lock closes down a bit like the pincers of a crab and grabs the metal bit on the lid.
Of course, you have to be careful around crabs because they can pinch you. And it's no different with this crab lock. These locks are automatically locking, which means that when you close the lid of your chest, the chest is locked. So if you store the key to your chest inside your chest you will find out quickly why that is a bad idea.
The Whitechapel version of this lock is better-made than a lot of antique examples I have been buying for chests lately, and there is even some decorative filework on some of the parts. But even though the lock is excellent, it's not going to fool anyone into thinking it is on par with the stuff made by custom blacksmiths such as Peter Ross.
Speaking of Peter, my wife's not home from work, and it's kinda getting late….
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If you are interested in tool chests and the tools that go in them, I've written a book about those two topics called "The Anarchist's Tool Chest," which is available in the ShopWoodworking store.


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The Pateros, Brewster, Omak and Tonasket school districts are each asking voters to approve maintenance and operations levies, and Okanogan is seeking a technology levy.
Ballots for the Feb. 11 special election will be mailed Jan. 24 and must be postmarked by the day of the election.
In Pateros, the annual amount would be $664,000 for four years, or $2.99 per $1,000 of assessed property value starting in the 2015-2016 school year.
"Depending on the value of the property, that cost per thousand will go down a little bit over those four years," Superintendent Lois Davies said. The current tax rate for the two-year levy last approved by voters is $2.69 per $1,000.
"By doing the four-year levy, it will give voters a sense of stability. They will know what they are getting for four years for that set amount," Davies said, noting that it will also save on election costs. "And it will allow us to better take care of those basic (education) costs.
"The state of Washington is not adequately funding basic education, and communities are still doing their part with levies. We work real hard to use our dollars well and to be fiscally conservative with them and to take care of the investment the community has already made."
The levy pays for classroom supplies like textbooks, support for extracurricular activities, utilities, curriculum and wages for some employees, in addition to basic facility maintenance.
Brewster School District estimates its replacement levy of nearly $1.1 million is higher than the current one but will be cheaper for the individual, going from $3.12 per $1,000 two years ago to $2.87 in 2015.
"The biggest change for us is, the district sent out a survey earlier this fall asking constituents if they would prefer a two-year or four-year levy," Superintendent Eric Driessen said. "Overwhelmingly the response was a four-year levy, so that is what we have on the ballot."
Omak is also putting forth a four-year levy request.
If the levy passes in February 2014, the district would begin collecting in 2015 and the total collection amount would be $2,150,000 — a decrease of $152,571 each year compared to the current levy in place.
Tonasket has a bond request and a levy on the upcoming ballot.
The bond seeks $6 million over 11 years, while the levy is for two years at $1.64 million.
The total increase in taxes would be 71 cents per $1,000 in assessed valuation if both were to pass.
Okanogan is seeking a two-year $271,389 replacement levy for technology purchases. The projected rate is 98 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation.
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Allie Gonino may play privileged teen Laurel Mercer in The Lying Game but her real life persona is as down-to-earth as can be. When she isn't acting or performing with her band, The Good Mad, the star likes to keep her beauty look simple. Though you won't catch her piling on layers of eyeshadow, she is serious about skincare and makes sure to use a regimen of products that keep her complexion clear. Allie also attributes her glowing skin to eating live, organic food and keeping herself hydrated with plenty of water.
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