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Fleet Week, Giants, 49ers, yachts, fests: San Francisco braces for crowds
An unusual convergence of sporting and entertainment events in San Francisco this weekend promises to bring up to a million extra people into the densely populated bayside city.
The influx could eclipse the city's own population of about 800,000.
The weekend will include the opening games of the San Francisco Giants divisional playoffs, a San Francisco 49ers game, the annual Fleet Week celebration featuring the Blue Angels and the America's Cup World Series yachting races.
Add to that mix a highly popular bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park and street festivals in North Beach and elsewhere and it has the makings for jam-packed streets and transit challenges, even as the city's economy gets a boost.
James Go, 25, who works in San Francisco but lives in nearby Daly City, said he usually comes into San Francisco on weekends, but was planning to stay away this weekend.
"The population is going to double. It's not worth it," he said, as he took a break on Friday from work at a downtown office building.
City officials say they are prepared for the crowds. The city has activated its emergency operations center and the police department has limited time off and reassigned officers from administrative and investigative assignments to the street.
"We are up to this challenge," Mayor Ed Lee said at a news conference on Tuesday. "We have departments working around the clock to make sure these things are managed well."
City officials are strongly encouraging people to bike, walk or use public transportation or taxis.
The city's Municipal Transportation Agency will run extra service, particularly along the waterfront where crowds are expected to gather for Fleet Week and America's Cup events. There will also be extra taxis on the street, according to Ed Reiskin, head of the MTA.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit Agency, which runs trains through the city to other parts of the Bay area, will run longer trains.
"This is like the World Series of transportation for us," Reiskin said at Tuesday's news conference. "We're ready for it ...your job is to leave your cars at home."
Warnings are also being issued for San Francisco Bay, where endangered humpback whales have been recently spotted. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association wants boaters to watch for the whale's blow to avoid collisions.


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Your morning roundup for March 16, the day we lost frequent Em and Dre collaborator Nate Dogg.
• Two play-ins kicked off the inane "First Four" last night. In one, UNC-Asheville's Matt Dickey, of this steal and buzzer-beater and a highly probable blood relation to this author, scored 14 of his team's final 20 regulation points to defeat Arkansas-Little Rock, 81-77, in overtime. UNC-A will get hacked to bits by Pitt Thursday afternoon.
• In the other, Clemson's Jerai Grant had 22 to lead the Tigers over UAB, 70-52. The game was never really close—which, unfortunately, proves Angry Jay Bilas right. And we hate when that happens. Evidently, Clemson won the right to be a 12-seed? We're confused, too. They play West Virginia Thursday afternoon.
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• Roger Goodell, America's beloved $1 commissioner, fell asleep in a tanning bed, as the Bucky Channel notes and you can see above. He told Adam Schefter that potential top picks should not boycott the draft, as the NFLPA has suggested they should, because "it's a really special moment." But if all, say, Nick Fairley wants, is to shake hands with a bad tan/nice haircut, he might as well carry a Zippo around golf courses in Cincinnati.
• Meanwhile, NFLPA boss DeMaurice Smith will speak at the University of Maryland's commencement ceremony in May. Unfortunately for Peter King, the nearest Starwood Preferred hotel is in neighboring Beltsville. And they have terrible coffee.
• Despite missing Joakim Noah and Carlos Boozer, the Bulls throttled the Bullets last night and took control of first place in the Eastern Conference. Despite shooting 2-of-7 from three, Derrick Rose had 23 points and 7 assists, and might just be closing in on an MVP.
• The Knicks dropped the second half of a home-and-home with the Pacers, 119-117, the third straight loss for the Knicks. Chauncey Billups was a -20 despite the close score—he was a -16 the night before. Here's when you know things are going wrong: when Tyler Hansbrough drops 59 combined points on you in consecutive games. But maybe he just comes alive in March.
• Superstar freshman point guard Kyrie Irving might be ready for Duke's NCAA opener on Friday, Coach K says. Totally cheered New Jersey up after the Situation bombed at the Comedy Central Donald Trump Roast.
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Here are the top New England regional stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at gatehousenewsservice.com. Please submit stories below no later than 6 p.m. local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly. Questions?
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BAN SOUGHT ON NEWLY POPULAR, AND LEGAL, HALLUCINOGENIC DRUG - Salvia divinorum, a green leafy plant native to the mountains of southern Mexico, has hallucinogenic properties that, according to the National Institute of Health, can cause short but intense delusional episodes. It is legal in Massachusetts. Now, a bill is making its way through the Legislature to ban the sale or possession of the plant.
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WESTON MAN ARRESTED ON DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGES - Police charged a 63-year-old man with trafficking cocaine and marijuana from his Warren Avenue home over the weekend, following months of surveillance by officers.
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POLICE: MAN SWIPED COPPER CHURCH GUTTER - DURING EASTER MASS - A man was arrested Saturday night for allegedly stealing a copper gutter from the All Hallows Church in Plainfield, Conn. - while Easter Mass was taking place.
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WEYMOUTH CASTING AGENT SEEKS AS MANY AS 800 - Are you an attractive yuppie? Do you own fine formal attire? Could you pass for a male exotic dancer? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you might have a shot at being an extra in an upcoming film starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway.
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CITIES AND TOWNS ARE GETTING NEW STREET SIGNS - In deference to a generation of baby boomers approaching old age, the federal government has ordered all street signs to have ultra-reflective and larger lettering by 2012.
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QUINCY TEEN MOTHERS PROGRAM STILL A MODEL 30 YEARS AFTER ITS START - At a time when the movie "Juno" and pop stars like Jamie Lynn Spears are giving teen pregnancy a national audience, these girls are learning day in and day out what it means to be a young mom.
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CONVICTION OVERTURNED IN MISTAKEN-IDENTITY MURDER - The Supreme Judicial Court has ordered a new trial for a Boston man convicted in 2003 of the murder of Gregory Cormier. The 20-year-old former Milton High School basketball star was mistaken for a gang member and shot to death in June 1994.
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AUTO INSPECTIONS - Company named Parsons ( not Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, but did do some work for Big Dig) wins contract to oversee some updates at auto inspection stations in Mass.
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'LIGHT' FARE AT RESTAURANT WITH $4,000 LED-FILLED TABLE – The future of dining is now here. At least, that's what Tamara Bourso was thinking when she invested in a touch-sensitive, light-filled table at her Central Square restaurant.
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JORDAN'S PITCHES ANOTHER 'FREE' FURNITURE PROMO TIED TO RED SOX - Eliot Tatelman, Jordan's president and chief executive, announced Monday that the retailer will give away free furniture if the Red Sox win the World Series again this year. But there's a catch.
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DIESEL PRICES SQUEEZE TRUCKERS, TOWNS - James Luke gets four miles to the gallon when his truck is fully loaded, and with prices of diesel fuel pumped up to $4.15 a gallon, he said he's ready to pack it in.
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VIDEO: YOUR DAILY BREAD COULD GET VERY EXPENSIVE - In nearly a century in business, Joan Thomas said, the Framingham Baking Company has never raised prices more than once a year. This year, though, is different. Different because in the 90 years since the bakery opened, it's never seen flour prices more than double in three months.
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BROCKTON MAN SUES WAL-MART OVER ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION - A Brockton man claims that he was harassed and bullied because of anti-foreigner sentiments at Wal-Mart stores in Abington and Avon.
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CASINO SPENDING IS SLOWING DOWN IN NEW ENGLAND - The amount of money Massachusetts residents spend at the Connecticut casinos dropped for the second year in a row, according to a UMass Dartmouth report.
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PROFESSIONAL BOWLERS: THERE'S A CANDY SOURCE IN EVERY OFFICE - Within the corporate structure are a few common elements in personnel. A computer wiz. A brown-noser. A walking encyclopedia. An eccentric. A know-it-all. A comic. A dictator. A pushover. A candy lady.
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SOUTHBOROUGH COMPANY SPECIALIZES IN LAVENDER PRODUCTS FROM FRANCE - Walk into the barn at Sunny Window and it's a safe bet your olfactory system will think it's died and gone to aroma heaven.
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AGENTS CRY FOUL OVER STATE'S CAR INSURANCE WEB SITE - The state Division of Insurance's new auto insurance Web site apparently has been popular with consumers, generating an average of about 19,500 hits a day since its launch a month ago.
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MARC MUNROE DION: NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT RACE - Nowadays, when someone runs for public office, you have to figure out and guess at and ferret out his/her "real" views on race and, if you work in news, you generally have to do that without revealing anything about how you feel about race.
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EDITORIAL: 4,000 DEATHS - Iraq returns to the headlines - and to the minds of American voters - when the toll of U.S. deaths hits a round number: 4,000.
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WRESTLING WITH TRADITION: EXHIBIT PROVIDES RINGSIDE SEAT TO SUMO - A fascinating exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts uses finely crafted woodblock prints to explore the popularity of a uniquely Japanese sport as an enduring conduit to the national psyche.
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Farewell speeches and circulars in Indian media houses—where good HR practises are somewhere between 18th and 19th century—are usually grim, graceless, god-awful affairs.
The moment the exit sign lights up over an employee's head, the good times are over: bosses suddenly bare their fangs, colleagues start hissing amongst themselves, and management chamchas slither around suspiciously.
Take a bow, Aroon Purie.
The India Today bossman has penned a touching farewell note for his Bombay bulwark, Mohini Bhullar (in picture), whose exit from the group was announced on Wednesday vide an email.
Below is the full text of Purie's syanora laden with grace, goodness, gratitude—and civility—something that pumped-up managers and accountants would do well to ctrl-x and ctrl-v.
"Please join me in making this announcement very special.
"Because, it's about a very special person.
"Because, it's perhaps the most important and emotional formal announcements I have ever made in my life, and one I thought I would never make. It's about someone who stood by my side for nearly a lifetime, and helped me steer the company from its inception to the enviable position it occupies today. It's about someone who's an integral part of the India Today group – and my professional life.
"Mohini has decided to move on from the India Today group effective September 30, 2010, after a glorious innings spanning over 40 years. She came on board with our group company Thomson Press as part of the sales team and was the first to establish a beachhead sales office in Bombay for Thomson Press. When we entered publishing, this became the very critical ad sales office for LMI [Living Media India] which she headed. The rest, as they say, is history. What a journey it has been!
"Mohini's unflinching zeal, conviction and never-say-die attitude are some of the personal traits that have made her an indispensable part of the company. I can say this without any hesitation that the success we enjoy today is primarily because of her contribution and her enormous dedication.
"There was one common thread that kept her going in her entire career with the India Today Group, be it as editor of Bombay magazine, as publishing director of ITMB, as marketing director of the entire company, or for that matter, as the executive director in charge of the events SBU. It was her indomitable will, energy and her total professionalism. She is revered as the 'Mother Queen' of Indian print media by advertisers, agencies and the media alike – a fitting tribute to her competence and accomplishments. She has handled all her diverse and challenging roles with her usual aplomb.
"Now at the golden age of 77, Mohini is still very young in every which way. She still takes early morning flights, climbs up 3 flights of stairs at our F14 office in Connaught Place, probably faster than most of us, parties till late, shares the latest jokes with the young trainees who work with her and even supervises the event set-up for the IT Conclave at 1 am! And I also know for sure that she responds to calls, emails and text messages within a few seconds. Truly amazing!
"When I was running Thomson Press, and we were trying to figure out how to create our own work for the press, we came up with the idea of creating our own children books. Not finding any willing authors, she and I even wrote children books. We had great fun together. That's the way it has been ever since.
"She brought to India from the Thomson UK the rights (for free of course) to publish a medical journal called the Journal of Applied Medicine, and that small publication was our first foray into magazine publishing and a precursor to India Today and all that followed.
"Mohini has single-handedly helped to build the brand India Today, while leaving me and the founding edit team to concentrate on the various editorial challenges when we launched India Today in 1975. Thanks to her, I didn't, and still don't have to make a single sales call to any company or ad agency. She completely insulated the editorial team from the commercial pressures advertisers are prone to exerting and established the abiding cornerstone of the company of uncompromising editorial integrity.
"Mohini has inspired the key younger generation of leaders in the Group. Our CEO, Ashish Bagga, tells me that his first interview as management trainee was with Mohini in Bombay in 1983, at her office in Jolly Maker Chambers. Malcolm Mistry, publishing director, was Mohini's understudy for over 6 years and was handpicked by her. Most of the advertising and media professionals in India have at some point in time worked or interacted with Mohini. She has represented the Company on the INS, ABC, NRS, ASCI, MRUC, AIM and many other premier industry bodies.
"But alas, I guess, all good things have to come to an end. Mohini has decided to move on and I on behalf of the entire 5000 employees of ITG, comprising TP, LMI, TVTN, IDIL, MT, ITAS, Bagit, HCI and all the ones that are currently being incubated, wish her an amazing and successful journey ahead. A journey full of good health, happiness, prosperity and satisfaction.
"It is my good fortune to have found a wonderful colleague like Mohini so early in my working life and I am filled with sadness that our 'lucky shining star' will be leaving us. But I know for sure that she will continue to cast her lucky charm on us and guide us to even better and happier times.
"We will all really miss Mohini. No words are sufficient to thank her for her contribution to the Group. We will continue to reap the benefits of that for the years to come.
"Please do join me in wishing Mohini the very best in all her future pursuits and to radiate happiness to all around her with her ever so charming smile and demeanor."


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Isis, a joint venture among Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and T-Mobile USA, will likely start trials of its mobile-payment service in August, according to a person familiar with the launch plans.
The August target, however, isn't set in stone. CNET has gotten indications elsewhere that the timing may change. A representative for Isis only said the service would begin trials in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas, this summer, pushed back from the prior forecast of a mid-year launch.
Isis will join Google Wallet in its attempt to get people to start paying at cash registers with their smartphones instead of a credit card or cash. Unlike Google's initiative, which launched last year amid a lot of fan fare, Isis has taken a slower approach, building up a wider number of partners, including retailers, payment networks, and banks, in an effort to offer consumers more options when signing up.
The sluggish pace at which Isis has moved and the lack of adoption on Google Wallet's part underscore the difficulties of shifting consumers away from their entrenched method of payments. Both companies see an opportunity to layer additional services on top of smartphone payments, including digital receipts, coupons, and targeted advertisements based on purchases.
In fact, CNET tested Google Wallet out in May near the one-year anniversary of its announcement and found it difficult, and at times awkward, using the service.
Isis hopes it has a smoother rollout with its limited deployment. The venture will launch with Android and BlackBerry smartphones equipped with near-field communications chips, which enable the phones to make mobile payments at upgraded cash registers, CNET has learned. The venture will also offer sleeves with NFC chips for iPhones, getting around its lack of NFC.
Isis declined to comment about the different phones it would launch with, deferring to the carriers. Several BlackBerrys already come with NFC chips, as does the newly released Galaxy S III. Verizon's Galaxy Nexus has an NFC chip, but its Google Wallet feature remains disabled by the carrier. Sprint also offers the Galaxy Nexus, but it isn't part of the venture, opting instead to align itself with Google. It too may consider an alternative.
Isis also has a different business strategy than Google. Isis plans to remain a neutral partners to banks, payment networks, charging companies to run on its platform. That's a change from its initial strategy of attempting to take a cut of each transaction, which the financial companies balked at. Google, on the other hand, wants to maintain the customer data for use in delivering mobile ads and recommendations. Isis doesn't keep or even look at personal user data.
CEO Michael Abbott told CNET in February that it was holding a massive education campaign in the two cities to alert merchants and consumers about the service. Along with a different range of phones, it will also work with payment networks Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover, as well as credit card issuers BarclayCard, Capital One, and Chase.
Isis has yet to talk about when it plans a broader launch, but for now it remains heads down and focused on getting the service and technology right.
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I've visited the Lam Phaya temple-floating market in Nakhon Pathom quite a bit in my 10 years in Thailand, and each time I go there is always something new to see & especially some new amazing food to try. The way it works is: you buy a ticket for a table on a boat which goes up the river to a temple & returns within a couple of hours. While waiting for the boat, you purchase food from the vendors, and there is A LOT to choose from. Then, you board the boat, ride along, see the sights, and stuff your face with some of the freshest & most delicious food to be found in Thailand. Not a bad way to spend a day, altogether.Read More


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Google's trial ferry service in SF Bay ends
Google has ended a trial run of transporting workers to the company's Silicon Valley campus by water, and it's unclear whether the tech giant will continue the ferry service.
The monthlong pilot program, which took employees from San Francisco's Ferry Building to Redwood City and a five-day ferry servicing employees who live in the East Bay ended Friday.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports (bit.ly/1fNx8kD ) Google officials won't say whether service would resume.
In recent months, Google has been at the center of a San Francisco controversy over private buses that several large tech companies use to transport workers to Silicon Valley. Some community members say the buses are congesting city bus stops, so the city recently voted to charge the companies for each stop the buses make.
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LAS VEGAS – The always-serious Dave "Pee Wee" Herman (21-3 MMA, 1-1 UFC) was all business today during open workouts and while discussing the biggest fight of his career, which comes against Roy Nelson (16-7 MMA, 3-3 UFC) Saturday at UFC 146.
And by business, the boisterous UFC heavyweight discussed everything from his recent weight-cutting technique fueled by binge drinking on a college campus, a hair-shaving trip to Europe, and how less training actually means more when taking fights on short notice.
But first, the (semi-)serious stuff.
"Roy's tough, and he always keeps coming," Herman today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) of their bout, which is part of Saturday's UFC 146 pay-per-view main card at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena. "Should be awesome. Anytime I hear he's fighting, I always watch. I love the hair. Love the belly.
"I think he's going the wrong way though, I'd like to see him get bigger."
Always a fan favorite in his own right, Nelson repaid Herman's compliment with one of his own.
"He's a realistic threat," Nelson said. "He's the white version of Jon Jones, tall, lanky, unorthodox. You don't know what you're going to expect. At one time, he liked to party. So, you know, just like Jon Jones."
Well if Herman's weight-cutting technique is any indication, then Nelson might not be that far off base.
The 27-year-old said after suffering a TKO loss to Stefan Struve back in February, he went to his alma mater, Indiana University, for the annual April festivities known as the Little 500 bicycle race — an homage to this weekend's Indianapolis 500.
"I went back to college for a week; probably should not have done that," Herman said. "Biggest party week at IU. Mostly a lot of drinking, about four hours of sleep a night."
Herman, who has a penchant for blueberry muffins, said he actually doesn't eat much when he drinks and thus lost 15 pounds during his campus return.
"Food makes me sick if I drink too much," he said. "If I drank enough, I could (probably get down to light heavyweight), probably take three weeks. But I'm just hurting thinking about it. It took me three or four days before I could digest food properly."
Prior to his weight-cutting, Herman took care of a little manscaping on a European vacation that likely will relieve Dana White. The UFC president was none too happy about the jet-black beard and body hair that Herman sported during weigh-ins against Struve.
"I think I shaved my back in Italy — well, my sister shaved it," Herman said. "My chest in France. I shaved my beard in Germany, but I kept my 'stache — but only like for an hour. I was getting a lot of weird looks. It was a little short (in the style of Adolf Hitler). So I got rid of that too."
When he was informed that Gabriel Gonzaga was going to have to pull out of UFC 146 due to injury, Herman — no stranger to short-notice bouts — gladly accepted the bout against Nelson.
"Short-notice fights are my favorite," he said. "My last two fights in the UFC are the only ones I've had more than a month notice for. Way too much (time). Too much of everything.
"I took the jiu-jitsu approach to training. You're doing too much. Do less. I've been doing less. It feels great."
Indeed Herman — who started out 15-0 in MMA and was on a three-fight win streak before his loss to Struve — compared short-notice fights to a popular holiday.
"It's kind a like Christmas, a surprise Christmas," he said. "'Man this (training) sucks. Oh wait, Christmas is next week? (Would you want) a three-month wait for Christmas, or a three-week wait for Christmas? A lot of times less is more."
When talk finally turned back around to his bout against Nelson, Herman promised he would do what only Andrei Arlovski has done before, and actually finish "Big Country."
"I don't know what those other guys problems were, but I'm going finish him," he said.
For people who think Herman's act is just a farce, he said, tongue-firmly-in-cheek, that he's more dedicated than ever to MMA.
"I've been trying to take things more seriously," he said. "I'm going to have to start working out or get in shape. Maybe both. I just had another loss. I tried to be a little more serious with training."
And in his most honest response of the day, Herman admitted he doesn't care what people think of him.
"I don't really care," he said. "I just like to have fun. It's work. I'm eating good and having a good time."
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TORONTO – The Toronto stock market was poised for a higher open as gold and oil prices moved higher and in advance of U.S. housing data that most economists expect will paint an improving picture.
New York futures markets were positive ahead of the open. The Dow futures were up one point to 13,220, the Nasdaq futures rose 3.5 points to 2,696.50 and the S&P futures inched ahead 0.4 points to 1,433.5.
The U.S. National Association of Realtors releases its monthly report on previously occupied homes. Economists predict it will show that sales are hitting levels not seen in more than 2 1/2 years.
The Canadian dollar was down 0.11 of a cent to 101.09 cents US.
After a week of taking baby steps toward a compromise, President Barack Obama threatened Wednesday to veto a new plan floated by the speaker of the Republican-controlled Congress, John Boehner — sparking an early sell-off on global markets.
The markets later recovered their poise, however, as some investors viewed the latest spat mostly as posturing.
By midday in Europe, Britain's FTSE 100 was up 0.1 per cent to 5,967.69 while Germany's DAX fell 0.1 per cent to 7,658.15. France's CAC-40 was fractionally higher at 3,664.69.
Stocks in Asia were also mixed. Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 1.2 per cent to close at 10,039.33, following a strong rally the day before. The Bank of Japan, as expected, announced at the end of a policy meeting that it was expanding its asset-purchase program by about 10 trillion yen ($119 billion) to shore up its flagging economy.
Commodity prices were mixed with the February oil contract up 14 cents to US$90.12 and February gold futures up $1.80 to US$1,669.50 per ounce. Copper prices shed four cents to US$3.56 per pound.
Meanwhile, trading halts are place for NYSE Euronext, operator of the New York Stock Exchange, and IntercontinentalExchange Inc. ahead of a major takeover deal.
IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE:ICE) is offering US$33.12 in cash and stock to buy NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NXY) That"s about 38 per cent above the NYSE stock price ahead of the trading halt.
The deal was announced before markets opened Thursday.
And in Canadian corporate news, Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B) has a firm deal to sell at least 10 of its new CSeries passenger jets to AirBaltic, which has an option to buy an additional 10 planes. The Latvian airline's firm order has a list value of US$764 million. The deal could be worth up to US$1.57 billion if AirBaltic fully exercises options to buy an additional 10 Bombardier CS300s.
It's the second major order for the new-generation CSeries planes announced this week by the Montreal-based aerospace company. Bombardier said Thursday that an unidentified airline based in the Americas wants to buy 12 to 30 CSeries planes, worth up to US$2.08 billion.
After markets close Thursday, traders will get the last peek into RIM's (TSX:RIM) financials before it releases its much anticipated new line of smartphones in the new year.
Analysts will closely be watching the company's cash volume and subscriber numbers after the BlackBerry-maker surprised in the last quarter with better-than-expected numbers on both fronts.
RIM has already said it expects to report an operating loss in its most recent third quarter. Analysts are expecting a quarterly loss of 32 cents per adjusted share on revenue of $2.6 billion.


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Pokemon 4Ever (Dub)
Type: Movie
Plot Summary: 40 years ago, a Celebi was being attacked by a Pokemon Hunter. Luckily, a young boy named Sammy saved Celebi. Using its Time Traveling power, Celebi transported himself and Sammy 40 years into the future. There, Ash, Misty, and Brock assist Sammy to the healing lake in the forest so they can heal the wounded Celebi. Unfortunately an evil Team Rocket member, Viscious a.k.a. "The Iron Masked Marauder", tries to capture Celebi using his technology. As Ash and Co. try to get away from Viscious, they also run into Jessie, James, and Meowth, who also want to capture Celebi. Soon it becomes a race against time to get Celebi and Sammy back to the forest before Celebi is caught and is used to destroy the forest and themselves.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Magic, Shounen
Released: 0
Status: Completed
Other name: Pokemon: Celebi Toki wo Koeta Deai; Pokemon 4Ever: Celebi - Voice of the Forest; Gekijouban Pocket Monsters: Serebii Toki wo Koeta Deai; Celebi: A Timeless Encounter; Pokemon Movie 4; ポケットモンスター セレビィ 時を越えた遭遇(であい)


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When it comes to holidays, there are few that white people like more than Halloween. This is in spite of the fact that white people are required to spend almost the entire year preparing for it. But unlike Thanksgiving or Christmas, the preparation requires little emotional labor. Though it does require extensive physical and mental labor along with a fair amount of research thrown in for good measure.
Halloween is so important to white people because they have to wear a costume. It is a chance to literally show everyone how clever you are without having to say a word. This makes it especially important to single white people as one well thought out costume could produce enough romantic interest to last through the winter.
For this reason any white Halloween Party is less of a celebration than it is a contest. And as with any contest, there are a lot of rules.
The first thing you need to know that white people are the only people on the planet who will dress up as a concept. So while your initial thoughts about a costume might be "cowboy," "policeman," or "Count Dracula," white people are more likely to think "math," "the economy," or "Post-Modernism."
Dressing up as a concept is always a major gamble. On one hand, there is the chance that you nail it just right and everyone in the room will recognize how you not only cleverly interpreted the idea but also executed it perfectly in physical form. If you get it wrong, you will be required to spend the entire night explaining yourself. Then again, it is a good way to get white people to talk to you.
Things do not get any easier if you try to dress up like a character from a movie. If you show up dressed as Austin Powers or Napoleon Dynamite you will be met with near-universal scorn. You see, you need to find a character from a movie that enough people recognize but not one that's so well known that makes it easy to find the materials required to create the costume.
That being said it's a good idea to draw inspiration from older movies or television shows, specifically ones from the 1980s. Some popular examples are: Pee Wee Herman, the skeleton costumes from Cobra Kai, or Marty McFly. Depending on your race and gender, this could be your opportunity to become the alpha dog among your white friends.
You see, the only thing white people like more than costumes are group costumes. So if you are an asian male of any background, suggest to your white male friends that you all dress up as The Goonies. If you are a black female, offer to play the role of TOOTIE and go as the Facts of Life. Being a black male is considerably tougher, but if you are short enough the role of Webster could be right for you in an ensemble cast. Sadly, if you do not fall into one of these categories your opportunity for a group costume is limited since there are no recorded instances of white people befriending asian women, latinos, Indians, or any other race during the 1980s.
Last, but certainly not least are white people who dress up as characters from books that have not been made into movies.
"I'm Esther Greenwood."
"Who's that?"
"Um, from The Bell Jar, hello?"
"I'm sad too."
These people are unlikely to be recognized as their characters, but are highly recognized as being smart. If you cannot pull off a group costume, this is your best bet. Just pick ANY author who shares your heritage, find a character who matches your age and sex and remember their name. Then show up in regular clothes.
This also allows you to make the awesome joke "Oh, you can't tell? I'm dressed up as a Sri Lankan woman. It's me, Matt." (substitute race/sex as appropriate). White people will find this hilarious, unless there is another non-white person at the part making the same jokes.
You should also be prepared for the inevitability of running into a white person in an offensive costume. It is a certainty that any Halloween party will have at least one white guy dressed up as a recently (and preferably tragically) deceased or wounded celebrity. Past examples include Steve Irwin costumes with a sting ray protruding from the chest, Roy (of Sigfried and Roy) with a stuffed tiger attached to the neck, and this year you are likely to see at least one white person dressed up as Heath Ledger.
With this information, you should have no problem fitting right in at a white halloween party. But don't try too hard at your costume, white people hate being upstaged.


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From the Cyprus Mail:
FRAGMENTS of marble sculptures from a monument consecrated to the nymphs of ancient Greek and Roman mythology have been uncovered during on-going excavations at Paphos' ancient theatre, the archaeological team in charge of the dig have announced.
The 15th season of excavations into one of Cyprus' largest ancient theatres unearthed a number of significant finds, including fragments of carved marble adornments from the stage and from a monument to the nymphs or nymphaeum.
Paphos was the capital of Cyprus in Greek and Roman times and its ancient archaeological remains are on the World Heritage List.
Of particular interest to the archaeological team, led by Dr Craig Barker and Dr Smadar Gabrielli of the University of Sydney, is that the Paphos theatre is the only ancient theatre of Cyprus not to have undergone modern restoration. As such it is a unique structure because it is the sole remaining theatre containing visible traces of its architectural development.
Investigations have revealed that the theatre underwent five phases of renovations between 300 BC and the 4th century AD, each phase representing the evolution of ancient performance and theatre architecture. Many of the architectural features were robbed in later antiquity, and the area of the site was built over in the Middle Ages.
Five trenches were opened by the team in 2012 in various locations around the theatre and the nearby Roman nymphaeum.
Trench 12A was on the eastern side of the stage building, and located the bedrock foundations of the eastern end of the Roman stage. A new entrance way leading from the south into the eastern section of the theatre was located at a lower level than a Roman period one which may provide a rare indication of the architectural layout of the earlier phases of the theatre building.
Trench 12B continued work in the area of the Roman road to the south of the theatre that began in 2010, clearing more of the road pavements and more of a medieval building above it.
Trench 12C was on the upper levels of the cavea, the underground cells where wild animals were confined before entering combat on stage, and indicates that there were significant buildings constructed on the top of Fabrika hill after the theatre was no longer in use for performance.
All areas provided new architectural information about the layout of the theatre and surrounding building, and all areas will be explored further in the future.
In parallel with the excavation, the team's specialists continued the archaeological interpretation of the architecture for a final academic publication in the near future.
The Australian archaeological excavations in Paphos are supported by the Nicholson Museum and by the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens.
… we last heard from this dig a month or so ago: Digging Paphos' Agora


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Have you ever needed to figure out which filegroup your tables are located within? If you had to do this, you might think it's as easy joining sys.tables to sys.filegroups. But its a little more complicated than that because tables aren't stored in filegroups.
It's The Indexes
It's the indexes for a table that determine where the data is located. As a result, in order to determine the filegroup for a table, you need to look at the indexes. If this doesn't make sense, check out Rob Farley's (Blog | @Rob_Farley) blog post "Table? No such thing…"
Anyways, to find out where a table (and it's indexes) are located within a database you will need to look at sys.indexes and join that to sys.tables and sys.filegroups. The resulting query is provided in Listing 1. For added benefit, sys.partitions is used to add in the row count with the FORMAT function to improve readability of the number of rows. If you run this on versions prior to SQL Server 2012 the FORMAT function will need to be removed.
-- Listing 1. Query to determine table filegroup by index SELECT OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(t.object_id) AS schema_name ,t.name AS table_name ,i.index_id ,i.name AS index_name ,ds.name AS filegroup_name ,FORMAT(p.rows, '#,###') AS rows FROM sys.tables t INNER JOIN sys.indexes i ON t.object_id=i.object_id INNER JOIN sys.filegroups ds ON i.data_space_id=ds.data_space_id INNER JOIN sys.partitions p ON i.object_id=p.object_id AND i.index_id=p.index_id ORDER BY t.name, i.index_id
And it's the Partitions
In the comments, Stefan reminded me that you also have to consider partitions. This is because when a table and/or it's indexes are partitioned then things change yet again. For partitioned indexes, the index no longer determines where the data is located, instead that is defined by the partitioning scheme. To find where the partition is located, the catalog views sys.partition_schemes and sys.destination_data_spaces need to be added to the query, provided in Listing 2, which can then be joined to sys.filegroups.
-- Listing 2. Query to determine table filegroup by index and partition SELECT OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(t.object_id) AS schema_name ,t.name AS table_name ,i.index_id ,i.name AS index_name ,p.partition_number ,fg.name AS filegroup_name ,FORMAT(p.rows, '#,###') AS rows FROM sys.tables t INNER JOIN sys.indexes i ON t.object_id = i.object_id INNER JOIN sys.partitions p ON i.object_id=p.object_id AND i.index_id=p.index_id LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.partition_schemes ps ON i.data_space_id=ps.data_space_id LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.destination_data_spaces dds ON ps.data_space_id=dds.partition_scheme_id AND p.partition_number=dds.destination_id INNER JOIN sys.filegroups fg ON COALESCE(dds.data_space_id, i.data_space_id)=fg.data_space_id
There's nothing too earth shattering in this post, just a quick share of a script I often use. As a final tip, you might be tempted to write the query above using systables, sysfilegroups and/or sysindexes. While tempting, try to avoid these compatibility views since they have been deprecated and will be removed from a future version of SQL Server. For more information on this check out my blog series Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables.


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According to the iPod Observer, there's a new player in the Apple/iTMS/studio/content debacle. They've spotted a very brief piece in Contactmusic reporting on recent negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), and "producers." Now an "unnamed industry source" sounds almost sketchy enough for a good Mac rumors site, but SAG and AFTRA are seeking "a residual payment of 2 cents every time their performance is downloaded or accessed on a cell phone, computer, or portable video device" and Apple is in the cross-hairs on two of those (and what better way to motivate them to release that iPhone for a sweep?).
Now we're not talking about Apple cutting Matthew Fox a check for every Lost episode downloaded off the iTunes Music Store. These residuals would come directly from the studios. But it's no secret that the studios are doing everything they can to keep their options open as the new world of online distribution explodes in front of them. I find it hard to believe they won't be happy to pass their costs on to Apple and the other content providers, who will in turn feel reasonable pressure to pass it on to the consumer.
For the artists, I suspect this is as much about getting something in their contracts before the whole online distribution revolution passes them by. I find it interesting that they are pushing for a flat fee per download. 2 cents per download wouldn't be much on a US$13.99 online movie purchase through one of the new movie download sites , but would hurt a lot more on a typical $1.99 iTMS television show download.
Jobs' headaches trying to get the studios to follow his flat-fee, content ownership model are well know at this point. He's not even making much headway with the one studio he is on the board of. While Disney is one of the largest video content providers for iTMS, they have made it clear they intend to explore several distribution models.
I do think it's completely reasonable for the artists to see residuals on their works. However, with rising costs, the studios are not going to be quick to close their revenue streams by giving full ownership to the consumer. I do hope that as they explore various avenues that they remember their main demographic is not leprechauns.


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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Gingerbread Pumpkin Bars
For the bars
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon fresh grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
16 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup molasses
1/3 cup rolled quick oats
For the filling
6 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 3/4 cups mashed pumpkin
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon fresh grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
2 large eggs
For the drizzle
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon butter, softened
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 to 2 tablespoons milk
Preheat oven to 350
To make the bars
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves.
In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter, sugar and molasses until creamy. Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Reserve 3/4 cup of this mixture and place in a small bowl. Scoop the remaining mixture into a 10" x 15" baking pan lightly coated with nonstick spray.
Add the oats to the reserved mixture and mix until combined - set aside.
To make the filling
In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add pumpkin, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves - mix until well combined. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing just until combined. Scoop the mixture over the uncooked base and use an off-set spatula to evenly spread the mixture over the top. Crumble reserved oat mixture over filling.
Bake until the topping is a golden brown, about 25-30 minutes. Remove and place on a wire rack to cool completely.
To make the drizzle
In a small bowl, mix together confectioners' sugar, butter and vanilla. Mix in just enough milk until the mixture will easily flow from a spoon - drizzle over cooled bars.
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8 comments:
- Anonymous10/12/2007 04:37:00 PM
Do you think this recipe could be made in a 9x13 pan? I am just wondering if they would be too thick since I don't have an 11x15 pan. They look great!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10/12/2007 04:43:00 PM
Yum-o! I can't wait to make these (along with the caramel apple cider)!!! Thanks for posting!ReplyDelete
It is a fairly large recipe - it should work, but it may be pretty thick and you will have to change the cook time.ReplyDelete
Michelle - hope you enjoy them!
- Anonymous12/01/2010 09:47:00 PM
Joe, do you think I could use canned pumpkin in this recipe? Thank you.ReplyDelete
Anonymous - Absolutely!ReplyDelete
I just made these yesterday and they were amazing!!! What a great way to start of the holiday baking, Thanks!ReplyDelete
Btw I used a 9x13 and an 8x8 and it worked perfectly ;)
Beth - Good to hear! Thanks for the feedback.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/30/2012 09:59:00 PM
I made these this weekend and they were AMAZING! But, the crust got a bit soft the second day and was total mush by the third. :( is ther a way to prevent this?? Should I refrigerate them??ReplyDelete
Thanks for a super recipe!!


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Students + LittleBigPlanet + 24 Hours = Amazing
What can a team of design students create in just 24 hours? How about a complete video game level, crammed with animation, danger, and innovative art?
Last weekend, students from New York City's slightly awkwardly-named Parsons The New School for Design divided themselves into teams to design levels for an upcoming PlayStation 3 game called LittleBigPlanet. In the game, the player controls a little "sackboy" (with what appears to be a hacky sack for a head) as he runs around levels that are designed from within the game itself. The Parsons students were given access to an early copy of the game and had just 24 hours to figure out how to build their own levels. One team, calling itself "Team Sportsmanship," made a masterpiece, a hugely complex level in which the sackboy has to run and jump through the inside of a monster's body to reach its head. It's crazy and beautiful. Check it out:
LittleBigPlanet comes out next month, and you'll be able to access the Parsons levels (and other user-generated content) from within the game.
(Via Waxy.org.)


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Today's News: Our Take - It's a Girl for Fantastic Four's Ioan Gruffudd and Vampire Diaries' Alice Evans
Fantastic Four star Ioan Gruffudd and his wife, The Vampire Diaries actress Alice Evans, welcomed a baby girl in September, E! Online reports.
"We are beyond thrilled to announce the arrival of our daughter, Elsie Marigold, on September 13th," the couple said in a statement. "A little sister for Ella Betsi. We both feel very grateful and very blessed."
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The couple welcomed their first child, Ella Betsi, in September 2009. They married in 2007 after meeting on the set of 102 Dalmatians.
Gruffudd, 39, starred on the short-lived Ringer and appeared on the Season 5 premiere of Glee. Evans, 42, most recently guest-starred on Grimm.
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Sealife Sanctuary: Greenpeace Lobbies to Create Huge Antarctic Preserve
The South Pole is Earth's last uninhabited outpost, and Greenpeace seeks to establish an Antarctic sanctuary of almost three-quarters of a million square miles in the Weddell Sea adjacent to the vast continent that would protect whales, penguins and other wildlife.
The nonprofit has called for governments to show greater vision and ambition. Frida Bengtsson, head of the Greenpeace Antarctic campaign, states, "Over the next 12 months, we have an opportunity to make history: to create an Antarctic Ocean sanctuary which would be the largest protected area on Earth." She notes that it would also ensure healthier oceans that soak up carbon dioxide to moderate climate change.
The proposal, submitted by the European Union and promoted by the German government, will be considered in October by the governmental bodies responsible for managing the Antarctic marine environment. It follows the successful adoption of the Ross Sea sanctuary in 2016.
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MSN (stylized in all lowercase) is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, the same release date as Windows 95.[3]
The current MSN home page design, introduced in 2014.
Type of site
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|Area served
|Alexa rank
|August 24, 1995
|Current status
|Written in
The Microsoft Network was initially a subscription-based dial-up online service that later became an Internet service provider named MSN Dial-up. At the same time, the company launched a new web portal named Microsoft Internet Start and set it as the first default home page of Internet Explorer, its web browser. In 1998, Microsoft renamed and moved this web portal to the domain name www.msn.com, where it has remained.[4]
In addition to its original MSN Dial-up service, Microsoft has used the 'MSN' brand name for a wide variety of products and services over the years, notably Hotmail (later Outlook.com), Messenger (which was once synonymous with 'MSN' in Internet slang and has now been replaced by Skype), and its web search engine, which is now Bing, and several other rebranded and discontinued services.
The current website and suite of apps offered by MSN was first introduced by Microsoft in 2014 as part of a complete redesign and relaunch.[5] MSN is based in the United States and offers international versions of its portal for dozens of countries around the world.[6]
Microsoft Internet Start
From 1995 to 1998, the MSN.com domain was used by Microsoft primarily to promote MSN as an online service and Internet service provider. At the time, MSN.com also offered a custom start page and an Internet tutorial, but Microsoft's major web portal was known as 'Microsoft Internet Start,' located at home.microsoft.com.
Internet Start served as the default home page for Internet Explorer and offered basic information such as news, weather, sports, stocks, entertainment reports, links to other websites on the Internet, articles by Microsoft staff members, and software updates for Windows. Microsoft's original news website, msnbc.com (now NBCNews.com), which launched in 1996, was also tied closely to the Internet Start portal.
In 1998, the largely underutilized 'MSN.com' domain name was combined with Microsoft Internet Start and reinvented as both a web portal and as the brand for a family of sites produced inside Microsoft's Interactive Media Group. The new website put MSN in direct competition with sites such as Yahoo!, Excite and Go Network. Because the new format opened up MSN's content to the world for free, the Internet service provider and subscription service was renamed MSN Internet Access at that time. (That service eventually became known as MSN Dial-up.)[4]
The relaunched MSN.com contained a whole family of sites, including original content, channels that were carried over from 'web shows' that were part of Microsoft's MSN 2.0 experiment with its Internet service provider in 1996–97, and new features that were rapidly added. MSN.com became the successor to the default Internet Explorer start page, as all of the previous 'Microsoft Internet Start' website was merged with MSN.com.[4]
Some of the original websites that Microsoft launched during that era remain active in some form today. Microsoft Investor, a business news and investments service that was once produced in conjunction with CNBC, is now MSN Money;[7][8][9] CarPoint, an automobile comparison and shopping service, is now MSN Autos; and the Internet Gaming Zone, a website offering online casual games, is now MSN Games. Other websites since divested by Microsoft include the travel website Expedia, the online magazine Slate, and the local event and city search website Sidewalk.com.
In the late 1990s, Microsoft collaborated with many other service providers, as well as other Microsoft departments, to expand the range of MSN's services. Some examples include MSN adCenter, MSN Shopping (affiliated with eBay, PriceGrabber and Shopping.com), and the Encarta encyclopedia with various levels of access to information.
Since then, MSN.com has remained a popular destination, launching many new services and content sites. MSN's Hotmail and Messenger services were promoted from the MSN.com portal, which provided a central place for all of MSN's content. MSN Search (now Bing), a dedicated search engine, launched in 1999. The single sign-in service for Microsoft's online services, Microsoft Passport (now Microsoft account), also launched across all MSN services in 1999. The MSN.com portal and related group of services under the 'MSN' umbrella remained largely the same in the early 2000s.
The sports section of the MSN portal was ESPN.com from 2001 to 2004, and FoxSports.com from 2004 to 2014.[12][13] MSN had an exclusive partnership with msnbc.com for news content from 1996 until 2012, when Microsoft sold its remaining stake in msnbc.com to NBCUniversal and the website was renamed NBCNews.com. Since then, MSN has launched 'MSN News', an in-house news operation.[14]
As of May 2005, MSN.com was the second most visited portal websites in the United States with a share of 23.2 percent, behind Yahoo! which held a majority.[15]
MSN released a preview of an updated home page and logo on November 3, 2009.[16] It was originally expected to be widely available to over 100 million U.S. customers by early 2010.[17][18] MSN rolled out the newer logo, together with a redesign of the overall website, on December 25, 2009.[19][20]
In 2012, MSN announced on its blog that it would be unveiling a new version of the MSN.com home page on October 26, exclusively for Windows 8, saying that the new version would be "clean, simple, and built for touch."[21] Microsoft said it would be more app-like due to the speed of Internet Explorer 10. More new features included 'Flip Ahead', which allowed users to swipe from one article to the next. MSN for Windows 8 also had new deals with the AP and Reuters.[22]
Rebranding of services
Many of MSN's services were reorganized in 2005 and 2006 under a new brand name that Microsoft championed at the time, Windows Live. This move was part of Microsoft's strategy to improve its online offerings using the Windows brand name. The company also overhauled its online software and services due to increasing competition from rivals such as Yahoo! and Google. The new name was introduced one service at a time. The group of Windows Live services used Web 2.0 technology to offer features and functionality through a web browser that were traditionally only available through dedicated software programs.
Some of the MSN services affected by the rebranding included MSN Hotmail, which became Windows Live Hotmail (now Outlook.com); MSN Messenger, which became Windows Live Messenger (now integrated into Skype); MSN Search, which became Live Search (now known as Bing); MSN Virtual Earth, which became Live Search Maps (now Bing Maps); MSN Spaces, which became Windows Live Spaces; MSN Alerts, which became Windows Live Alerts; and MSN Groups, which became Windows Live Groups. Some other services, such as MSN Direct, remained a part of the MSN family without transitioning to Windows Live.
Following the launch of Windows Live, the MSN brand took on a different focus. MSN became primarily an online content provider of news, entertainment, and common interest topics through its web portal, MSN.com, while Windows Live provided most of Microsoft's online software and services. In 2012, Microsoft began to phase out the Windows Live brand, referring to each service separately by its individual brand name without any 'Windows' prefix or association.[23]
Newest redesign
Microsoft launched a completely rewritten and redesigned MSN website, making use of the company's modern design language, on September 30, 2014.[5] The new MSN portal features a new version of the logo that follows a style similar to other current Microsoft products. The website no longer offers original content, instead employing editors to repurpose existing content from partners at popular and trusted organizations. Much of the existing content on MSN was eliminated as the website was simplified into a new home page and categories, some of which have corresponding apps:[24]
- News: The latest news headlines and articles from a variety of hand-picked sources. Synced with the News app.
- Weather: Current weather conditions, forecasts, maps, news, and traffic. Synced with the Weather app.
- Entertainment: TV, movies, music, and celebrity news, as well as theater showtimes, tickets, and TV listings. Based on the former Bing Entertainment service. Also includes the MSN Games website for online casual games.
- Sports: Up-to-the-minute scores, standings, and headlines from leagues worldwide. Synced with the Sports app.
- Money: Stock market tickers and watchlists, personal finance, real estate, investments, currency converter, and more. Synced with the Money app.
- Lifestyle: Headlines, features, and other content related to style, home & garden, family, smart living, relationships, and horoscopes.
- Health & Fitness: Tools and information about weight loss, strength, exercise, nutrition, medicine, and more.
- Food & Drink: Recipes, cooking tips, news from chefs, cocktails, and shopping lists.
- Travel: Destinations, trip ideas, hotel search, flight search, flight status, and arrivals and departures. Previously based on Farecast.
- Autos: Research and buying advice, auto-related news, information for enthusiasts, and coverage of auto shows worldwide.[25]
- Video: Trending and viral videos, comedy and pop culture, and videos from other MSN categories. Integrates with video search from Bing Videos.
The top of the home page provides access to Microsoft services Bing, Outlook.com, Skype, Office Online, OneNote, OneDrive, Bing Maps, and Groove Music, as well as popular social media services Facebook and Twitter.[5] Signing into MSN with a Microsoft account allows for personalized content to appear and to be synchronized across devices on the website and in the corresponding apps. The redesign of the website led to the closure of MSN's longtime personalized home page service 'My MSN', which was made up of customized RSS feeds, as the new website no longer supports user-specified RSS content. However, it added some customizability, allowing each category on the home page to be reordered or hidden.
With the 2014 relaunch, MSN now supports responsive design and eliminates the need for a separate mobile website. The redesign of MSN proved positive and helped increase traffic with an additional 10 million daily visitors after two months.[26]
The MSN apps are a series of web-based cross-platform apps that primarily provide users information from sources that publish to MSN.
Microsoft launched these apps along with the 2014 redesign of the MSN web portal, rebranding many of the Bing apps that originally shipped with Windows and Windows Phone. News, Weather, Sports, Money, and Travel first shipped with Windows 8, while Health & Fitness and Food & Drink first appeared in Windows 8.1.[27][28] In December 2014, the apps became available across all the other major mobile device platforms as well: iOS, Android, and Fire OS.[29][30][31][32][33]
The apps allow users some, but not total, control of which sources provide information. Each app has its own color code that is used on the live tile and internally. Originally, each app brought a unified experience with the MSN website and synchronized preferences across devices; for example, setting a list of stocks to watch on MSN.com would show the same data on the MSN Money app on all devices where the user was signed in with a Microsoft account. The synchronization was dropped when the apps were rebuilt for Windows 10.
There are currently four apps in the suite: News, Weather, Sports, and Money.[34] In July 2015, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of the Food & Drink, Health & Fitness, and Travel apps on all platforms, and that they will not be bundled with Windows 10; those three apps are no longer offered.[35]
After Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone division, Microsoft also started bundling MSN services with its Nokia-branded feature phones, though the only supported model was the Nokia 215.[36][37][38] In addition to these apps, Microsoft developed a separate set of mobile apps specifically for MSN China.
Microsoft News (previously named MSN News and Bing News) is a news aggregator and service that features the latest news headlines and articles hand-picked by editors around the clock from trusted sources across the web.
MSN Weather on Windows 10
|Initial release
|October 26, 2012
|Operating system
|Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Mixed Reality, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Android
|IA-32, x64, ARM
MSN Weather (originally named Bing Weather) shows weather from a user's current location or any other location worldwide, and it allows users to define their favorite places, which will synchronize back to the web portal and across devices. Users can pin Weather tiles to the Start menu to see local weather conditions from multiple locations at a glance. It also offers satellite maps and has information regarding ski resorts.[39] The app receives its weather conditions and forecasts from a variety of sources internationally.[40] Weather uses weather conditions as the background, making it the only app that does not have a light/dark switch in Windows 10. Weather is not available for iOS; however, it comes preinstalled on the Nokia 215 phone from Microsoft Mobile that runs Series 30+; it is currently the only feature phone to have the app built-in.[38]
MSN Sports on Windows 10 in light mode
|Initial release
|October 26, 2012
|Operating system
|Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Mixed Reality, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, iOS, Android
|IA-32, x64, ARM
MSN Sports (originally named Bing Sports) displays various sports scores and standings from hundreds of leagues around the world, as well as aggregating sports-related articles and news headlines.[41][42][43][44] Sports also allows the user to view slideshows and photo galleries, look up information about individual players and fantasy leagues, and set and track their favorite teams by selecting various topics from the hamburger menu.[45][46] It also powers various predictive features within Microsoft's Cortana virtual assistant.[47]
MSN Money on Windows 10 in dark mode
|Initial release
|October 26, 2012
|Operating system
|Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Mixed Reality, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, iOS, Android
|IA-32, x64, ARM
MSN Money (originally named Bing Finance) allows users to set up lists of stocks to watch, follow certain corporations and receive stock updates, get the latest headlines regarding stock markets, view real-time trading figures with a 30-minute delay, track their own personal finances, calculate mortgages, get information on commodities and bonds, and convert currency.[48][49][50]
Discontinued apps
Food & Drink
MSN Food & Drink (originally named Bing Food & Drink) was a recipe app that offers news related to food and drink, a personal shopping list that synchronizes across devices and the web, and a wine encyclopedia that contains information on over 1.5 million bottles of wine, over 3.3 million tasting notes, and hundreds of cocktail recipes.[51] Users can control the app hands-free, add their own recipes from physical cookbooks or personal recipes by snapping a photo, add notes to recipes, and sort the recipes into collections.[52] The app also collects information from famous chefs and lists them according to their style of cuisine.[53]
Health & Fitness
MSN Health & Fitness (originally named Bing Health & Fitness) allowed users to track their intake of calories, look up nutritional information for hundreds of thousands of different foods, use a built-in GPS tracker, view step-by-step workouts and exercises with images and videos, check symptoms for various health conditions, and synchronize their health data to third-party devices such as activity trackers.[54][55][56] MSN Health & Fitness formerly connected data with the Microsoft HealthVault, but it started using a Microsoft account with MSN's own cloud service to synchronize data when it was rebranded from Bing to MSN.[57][58] The app is not related in any way to Microsoft's Xbox Fitness or Microsoft Health (the companion app for the Microsoft Band), despite being similar in function.[59]
MSN Travel (originally named Bing Travel) was a travel search engine that allows users to book hotels and flights, aggregates travel-related headlines, and offers detailed information about thousands of travel destinations.[60] Data in the app is powered by various travel websites, including Expedia, formerly owned by Microsoft.[61] Other features include finding information on local restaurants, viewing pictures (including panoramas) and historical data about destinations, and reading reviews by previous travelers.[62] If the user is signed in, Cortana can track flights and get hotel information through the app.[63] MSN Travel was the only app in the suite that was exclusive to Windows. The app was discontinued in September 2015 but can still be accessed via the web.[64]
Previously, Microsoft had acquired Farecast in 2008, a website in the computer reservations system industry that offered predictions regarding the best time to purchase airline tickets.[65] Farecast was founded in 2003 and collected over 175 billion airfare observations by 2007.[66] Farecast's team of data miners used these airfare observations to build algorithms to predict future airfare price movements.[67] Microsoft integrated it as part of its Live Search group of tools in May 2008 as Live Search Farecast; Microsoft rebranded it as Bing Travel on June 3, 2009, as part of its efforts to create a new search identity.[68] In 2009, there were allegations that Bing Travel had copied its layouts from Kayak.com; Microsoft denied the allegations.[69] By January 2013, Bing Travel results were powered by Kayak.com. As of January 2014, the fare prediction feature had been removed. As of May 2015, Microsoft rebranded the service to MSN Travel.[70] In August 2015, MSN Travel flight search pages changed from being powered by Kayak.com to its competitor Skyscanner.
Older mobile apps
Microsoft first offered content from its MSN web portal on mobile devices in the early 2000s, through a service it called Pocket MSN (in line with its Pocket PC products of the era) and later renamed MSN Mobile. The original MSN Mobile software was preloaded on many cell phones and PDAs, and usually provided access to legacy MSN services like blogs (MSN Spaces), email (Hotmail), instant messaging (MSN Messenger), and web search (now called Bing). Some wireless carriers charged a premium to access it. As many former MSN properties were spun off to Bing, Windows Live, and other successors in late 2000s, the Microsoft Mobile Services division took over the development of mobile apps related to those services.
In the meantime, Microsoft's MSN apps took on a more content-related focus, as did the web portal itself. Previous versions of MSN apps that were bundled with Windows Mobile and early versions of Windows Phone,[71] as well as MSN apps for Android and iOS devices in the early 2010s, were primarily repositories for news articles found on MSN.com.[72][73][74] Other earlier MSN mobile apps included versions of MSN Weather and MSN Money for Windows Mobile 6.5,[75][76][77] and 'MSN Money Stocks' and a men's magazine called 'MSN OnIt' for Windows Phone 7.[78][79]
Microsoft's world headquarters is in the United States, so the main MSN website is based there. However, MSN has offered various international versions of its portal since its inception in 1995 for dozens of countries around the world.[6] A list of international MSN affiliates is available at MSN Worldwide.[80]
Following the redesign and relaunch of the MSN web portal in 2014, most international MSN websites share the same layout as the U.S. website and are largely indistinguishable from it, aside from their content. There were two exceptions: ninemsn, a longtime partnership between Microsoft and the Nine Network in Australia that launched in 1997 (Microsoft sold its stake in the venture and 2013 and ended its co-branding with Nine in 2016);[81] and MSN China, an entirely customized version of MSN for China (Microsoft discontinued the portal in 2016, replacing it with a page that links to a number of other Chinese websites).[82]
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Clay Buchholz sharp, Red Sox salvage trip finale
Clay Buchholz pitched five-hit ball over seven innings to improve to 7-0, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox, 6-2, Wednesday night to avoid a three-game sweep.
David Ortiz delivered a two-run single in the first off Hector Santiago (1-3), and the Red Sox backed Buchholz with several neat defensive plays on the way to their sixth win in eight games.
Jonny Gomes made a sliding catch on Paul Konerko's line drive to left with two on to end the first. Jacoby Ellsbury raced to the center field warning track to snag Alexei Ramirez's liner with a runner on and two out in the fifth to preserve a 2-1 lead.
Boston added to it in the eighth when Will Middlebrooks hit a sacrifice fly to right off Nate Jones after the Red Sox loaded the bases against Brian Omogrosso in the eighth, and Mike Napoli scored on a passed ball by Tyler Flowers to make it 4-1. The Red Sox scored two more in the ninth to put this one away.
Buchholz allowed just one run while lowering his American League-leading ERA to 1.73. He also matched the best start by a Boston pitcher since Josh Beckett in 2007 and joined Tampa Bay's Matt Moore and Arizona's Patrick Corbin as the only unbeaten pitchers in the majors with seven or more wins.
The only run he allowed came on an RBI groundout in the third by Alex Rios, who also extended his career-high hitting streak to 17 with a single in the sixth.
The White Sox also got a solo homer from Paul Konerko off Andrew Bailey. Otherwise, the White Sox couldn't get the big hit. They were 0 for 5 with runners in scoring position after doing all their scoring with two outs while winning the previous two games, 6-4 and 3-1.
Santiago wasn't quite as dominant after Jose Quintana took a no-hitter into the seventh the previous night, but he gave the White Sox exactly what they needed.
He settled down after the shaky start and threw six solid innings for the White Sox with Chris Sale scratched because of mild tendinitis in his left shoulder. The left-hander allowed two runs and three hits, struck out nine and walked four pitching on three days' rest in what might be his last start for a while.
That's because he or Dylan Axelrod could be headed to the bullpen, with John Danks expected to return from his shoulder injury.
The Red Sox held outfielder Shane Victorino out of the lineup for the second straight game because of tightness in his left hamstring. Manager John Farrell said there has been improvement and is hopeful he won't have to go on the disabled list. ... Farrell said backup catcher David Ross (concussion) will go on a rehab assignment tonight at Double-A Portland. ... Chicago manager Robin Ventura said Sale wanted to start on Wednesday, but the White Sox decided to take a more cautious approach. He also said there was no MRI scheduled and that he expects the left-hander to be ready to start against the Cubs on Tuesday night.


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Nabila Ramdani is an award-winning French-Algerian journalist, columnist, and broadcaster who specialises in French politics, Islamic affairs, and the Arab World.
She writes columns for The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The London Evening Standard, CapX, UnHerd, and France's English newspaper The Connexion.
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Nabila is a Judge on the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2018.
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November 29-December 1 marks the RVIA's 49th Annual National RV Trade Show in Louisville, Kentucky. Over 60 manufacturers and over 200 suppliers will be on hand for three days of product debuts and exhibition. I was fortunate enough for the RVIA to offer me an invitation to attend…and attend I will!
Most of the nation's leading recreational vehicle manufacturers will be on hand, as well as many of those who produce small travel trailers, such as Little Guy Worldwide, Livin' Lite, Riverside RV, and the bigger manufacturers such as Gulf Stream and Forest River. One booth I'm interested in visiting is that of Travel Lite. They're a truck camper company, but will be debuting their first endeavor in the travel trailer arena with the new Idea travel trailer, which will come in lengths from 16 to 18 feet. Travel Lite has plans to donate a portion of each Idea sale to Habitat for Humanity.
The annual Louisville trade show has always been a showcase where new models are debuted. Last year, Riverside's Bob Taulbee introduced the world to the Riverside Retro, which is in production today with a new floor plan soon to come off the line.
(photo courtesy the Goshen News)
However, not all units that debut in Louisville ever see the light of production. Case in point, in 2008, Airstream debuted the Scout concept trailer. Highly retro in design, but for whatever reason never made it to production.
What other new trailers that will debut at this year's RVIA trade show will be answered in the coming days. Stay tuned, as I'll have plenty to update you on.