| Defense, ha! Playoffs reward playmakers
The folks in Warner Robbins need to troop right back to church and take up a collection to build a monument to Marques Ivory right in front of the school. That was a Hall of Fame performance if ever there was one. Still, one hopes the Ware County coaching staff was paying attention. Sunday morning a neighbor of mine who is casual football fan spotted me walking the dog and came flying down the driveway with one question: "Were the Tucker coaches completely brain dead in the second half?" Knowing Ivory's mobility was probably limited, the Tucker defense made no effort to force him to move choosing to sit back in that 3-4. If Ware County can get some pressure on him they have a chance; if they let him stand back there and throw darts they're just as dead as Tucker. I won't spend a lot of time talking about the Wing-T.
MySpace founder targets YouTube generation
One of the founders of MySpace is aiming to take on YouTube with the launch of LiveVideo.com. Brad Greenspan's latest creation is billed as an "advanced on-demand interactive broadcasting platform providing instant global reach and messaging to any user with a webcam". Users can create and broadcast live content alone, or in conjunction with friends, colleagues or newly acquainted users, with LiveVideo.com's LiveShow platform. LiveShow boasts interactive features such as LiveTextChat, LiveCoHost and LivePolls to encourage social interaction with a real-time community. The platform also allows advanced video users to broadcast on their channel with multiple cameras to create broadcast-quality shows. "Move over MySpace, YouTube and other similar sites," the company said in a statement.
Stanford gives large boost to aid
The Q&A was posted on the day Dartmouth announced its financial aid changes. "That was a very sensible thing for us to do ... to get out there and provide the information I suspect that families are looking for," Tilghman said of Moscato’s Q&A. "[It was] very effective in saying we don’t see things changing very much." The expanded aid programs at peer institutions will be unlikely to affect overall yield at the University, Moscato said. "I don’t think [the financial aid reforms] will make a very big difference overall as to where people choose to go to school," she said. Students who are offered better need-based aid packages at other schools often have their Princeton offers adjusted accordingly, she added. "I think that it’s a very good thing that so many top schools are now devoting the [type of] resources that we have [been devoting] for the past six years to improving financial aid," Moscato said.
Tegrity Achieves Record Sales, Customer Acquisition and Retention in ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Tegrity, provider of the leading Web 2.0 Class Capture System to the higher education market, announced today that once again, it has exceeded aggressive goals for sales, customer acquisition - increasing customer acquisition more than 50 percent - and maintaining customer retention levels close to 100 percent during 2007. The company credits its exclusive focus on the higher education market as well as its continuing program of product enhancements around its unique, easy-to-use Web 2.0 solution for the strong gains. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070430/NEM020logo ) Tegrity attributes its success to increased awareness, acceptance of its award-winning technology, continued investment in product development and focused sales and marketing programs in 2007, which included hosting the first-annual Tegrity User Group conference in San Francisco.
Senior Olympics draw new friends to center
The competition wasn't too fierce among the participants, who meet most weekdays at the center. There, they socialize, play games and share lunch. "It's good for them to make new friends," said Jessica Medina, 17, who volunteered to help with this week's games. Medina is a student at the center who takes classes to earn a GED. The brightly painted center at the corners of Ocotillo Road and 54th Avenue in downtown Glendale has become a gathering place for all ages. It's where seniors gather each morning and where students like Medina take classes. Schoolchildren head there after school and teens hang out in the evenings. Julia Aguilera sank 15 shots in one minute. Asked if she ever played on a basketball team, the 68-year-old replied, "Not yet." That spunky attitude made the Glendale woman a two-time gold-medal winner.
Khairy, Chandra’s legal woes get more coverage in cyberspace
Stories covering both Parti Keadilan Rakyat de-facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as well as the retraction of indelible ink use by the Elections Commission dominated both mainstream and online coverage for 6 March. That is where the similarities ended. The knowledge reached and perceptions formed by readers in regards to these topics will have relied greatly on whether they took information from the dailies or from alternative, online news sources. Malaysiakini posted RM110mil law suite against Khairy, Chandra in the early evening of 5 Marchan article detailing the legal action, in the form of a defamation suit, potentially being filed by Anwar Ibrahim against Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin and former PKR deputy president Chandra Muzaffar over alleged derogatory and nonfactual comments made against him at a 20 Feb ceramah and published in a 4 Mar New Straits Times article.
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With analog equipment in the background, KPLE engineer Steve Coffino adjusts the digital equipment inside the offices of the Christian-based television station. A banquet Feb. 19 will help fund the switch.">Herald/David Morris
With analog equipment in the background, KPLE engineer Steve Coffino adjusts the digital equipment inside the offices of the Christian-based television station. A banquet Feb. 19 will help fund the switch. .
Bungee Labs betas IDE to grid flowgasm
If you're just thinking about software-as-a-service, then you're a slack-jawed rube. You can have an entire platform-as-a-service with a little effort. Bungee Labs this week opened up access to its PaaS, which the company calls Bungee Connect. Customers can turn to Bungee Connect for software development and then host their applications on Bungee's hardware. End-to-end software flowgasm? You betcha. .
Googlebot Gets Candid
Googlebot is like a dream which knows us all , , and soul. Here in this interview, Maile Ohye as the website and Jeremy Lilley as the Googlebot from Google Central Webmaster blog would answer all those questions that you ever had. Question & Answers Googlebot: ACK Website: Googlebot, you're here! Googlebot: I am. GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com Connection: Keep-alive Accept: */* From: googlebot(at)googlebot.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Website: Those headers are so flashy! Would you crawl with the same headers if my site were in the U.S., Asia or Europe? Do you ever use different headers? Googlebot: My headers are typically consistent world-wide.
Action sought against Virk
In a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at rural development, the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) proposes to set up a training institute for farmers and unemployed youth at Zira in Punjab. To be spread over an area of 10 acres and completed in 18 months the institute would impart training to the beneficiaries in various vocational activities with a view to increasing their family income, banks executive director Allen CA Pereira, told The Tribune here today. After training, the beneficiaries would get loans at subsidised rates for starting their ventures besides getting the benefits of the government's subsidy, Atul Gautam, general manager, informed. Pereira, who was here to inaugurate bank's onsite ATM in Sector 47 here, said the bank was also in the process of promoting solar energy projects in Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Uttarakhand to help solve the power shortage problems in these states.
Davidson Calendar: March 7-16
The subject matter is wide-ranging but mainly reflective of the manner in which each artist works. For details, visit www.cumberlandgallery.com. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cumberland Gallery, 4107 Hillsboro Circle. The Avatar Series: Works by Don Porcaro, on view through March 8. Porcaro works in a modernist's vein, utilizing plumbing and electrical appliance parts paired with carved stone and ceramic elements. For more information, visit www.cumberlandgallery.com. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cumberland Gallery, 4107 Hillsboro Circle; 297-0296. Born Yesterday: A corrupt tycoon brings his showgirl mistress with him to Washington, D.C. When her ignorance becomes a liability to his business dealings, he hires a journalist to educate her. In the process, she realizes how corrupt he is and makes a few plans of her own.
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