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Many local hockey fans adopted the Nashville Predators during their run to the Stanley Cup Final last season. The Predators infused a non-traditional hockey market; something folks around here know plenty about.
Hard-core Mudbugs fans knew the Nashville organization had a Shreveport tie, former Mudbugs broadcaster Brandon Walker is now the Predators' Manager of Hockey Operations.
However, many were unaware a local hockey figure had a hand in the magic produced by the men inside the Nashville locker room.
Scott Muscutt, the original Mudbug, a longtime coach for the franchise and its current general manager, played a significant role as the Predators finished just two games shy of the most coveted trophy in the sport.
"Scott came in last year and did such a great job," Mike Fisher, last season's captain in Nashville, said Friday during a visit to Shreveport.
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Fisher dished the details on Muscutt's impact – something Muscutt has attempted to down play after Nashville head coach Peter Laviolette asked him to help his hockey club.
"(Muscutt) is a great communicator, motivator," Fisher said. "He gives you a real good way of getting the most out of guys and teams – bringing us together."
"It was one of the funnest jobs I've ever had," Muscutt said. "It sounds crazy, but it was one of the easiest jobs I've ever had.
"When you looked into the eyes of the Nashville Predators of last year, and this year as well, there is a passion that goes way beyond just wanting to play hockey. They wanted to find greatness. They wanted to find greatness in themselves, in each other."
Fisher was fascinated by the way Muscutt motivated a locker room full of highly paid athletes with inflated egos.
"It's really impressive," Fisher said. "He has a good way of making everyone feel part of it, very encouraging. Belief; it's all about belief. That translated to our team, there's no question.
"I've had (motivational) guys over my career, but none like Scott. He's the best."
The Predators earned the final spot in the 2017 NHL playoffs, but steamrolled through the Western Conference. They took out both No. 1 seeds (Chicago, Anaheim) but fell in six games to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Final.
"Having the opportunity to work with them was 100 percent my privilege," Muscutt said. "They treated me with so much respect. They treated my son and my family with so much respect. It was truly a remarkable experience. It's one I'll remember forever. I can only hope I impacted them an eighth as much as they impacted me and my family."
Not only did Muscutt help the Predators, he forged a relationship with players like Fisher, who in turn, took his time to spread his own powerful message to the Mudbugs community throughout the day Friday.
Muscutt gave Fisher a call he said, "Please know you can say no. Before I even spit it out, he said, 'I'm not going to ever say no to you, what is it?'
"Mike Fisher and Shreveport go hand in hand. We need to understand as a city how lucky we are to have each other, and Mike Fisher is a guy who can help us see that together. His goal last year was to unite a city – it wasn't to win a Cup, it was to unite a city."
Muscutt believes it was no coincidence 250,000 people poured into Nashville's streets before Game 6.
"All wearing gold," Muscutt said. "That united a city. I hope he can spill some of that Mike Fisher magic on Shreveport while he's here."
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I've done a few projects with Arduino and have always wanted to get better at it. Maybe it's time to ditch those dreams for greener pastures. Have people exhausted the potential of it?


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Earlier this year, my wife and I (yes, IDROS is married…sorry ladies) watched the titular Netflix show thinking it might be good for us, as parents, to learn a little about what the youth of today may be experiencing. Also, perhaps we could glean why the series became such a viral sensation so we could seem in tune with "Non-Fake News" topical subject matter at the proverbial water cooler, or while mingling with our counterparts at kiddy parties or activities. I can't say I hate-watched it…In all honesty, IDROS was generally entertained by many aspects of it, and found some eerie similarities to Season One of Twin Peaks (which I might just discuss in another post)…but what your author enjoyed most about the series, hands down, was the music.
Which brings me to the much more interesting event of 2017, IMHO, that plays on our triskaidekaphobia for the low and totally worth-it price of 13 easy installments of $74.99 plus whatever applicable fees and charges various sources inexplicably get away with shaking us down for these days.
And I suppose now is as good a time as any to forewarn you. This will be a long(ish) post. Not quite as long as that Lawn Boy Supreme served up on July 25…but let's just say it might run you a deuce and a half or even two jaunts.
This Baker's Dozen run has been extraordinary from the starting gun. Even people who aren't phans have taken notice, and if they haven't, they should. Phish sets the gold standard for a live convert experience. This was going to be special from the moment it was announced.
So without further ado, here is the MEAT of this post. 13 reasons why IDROS loves the foursome named Phish:
It's my thesis, man – Let me first say that I have never witnessed a full Gamehendge set in its entirety. Until TBD, the closest I ever came was a group of four shows I caught where they played all but 2 songs (non-consecutively). I don't know how many of you faithful readers actually researched, wrote and defended a thesis, be it in college or grad school, but it is no joke. Still, when I think of someone writing a thesis I don't usually harken back to my own terrible experience. I tend to conjure up images of the guy in PCU who apparently spent his senior year watching every movie that featured Gene Hackman or Michael Caine. When, toward the end of the cult favorite (which starred a young Ari Gold, obviously before he found a dentist), said thesis writer stumbled upon a movie that starred both Caine and Hackman, he yelled out "this is my thesis man!" It was pure comedic gold…but it was funny because to those who have toiled in the stacks for hours, coughing up dust from never before read tomes, scouring microfiche, developing blisters from banging on a Mac keyboard at all hours of the night, pumping our bodies full of Mountain Dew (or worse), blinding ourselves staring at the small endlessly blinking cursor on a screen the size of a pack of cigarettes, editing, re-editing, and then waking up in a cold sweat the night before our defense/presentation…we only wish our thesis could have been that entertaining to research…and that fulfilling when proven. We all know the plural of thesis is feces. But Trey Anastasio's thesis at Goddard College, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, is a masterclass in and of itself. If you've never listened to the Gamehendge chronicles from beginning to end, played a rare cassette tape until your car radio ate the tape, permanently scratched CDs from overuse, or were lucky enough to attend one of the rarest of Phish shows where the band played the rock fantasy operetta in its entirety…my advice to you is take an hour and do it. Oh…and read the friggin' Book!
Then Once More – every band has a gateway drug…a song that speaks to so many, inviting them in for further inspection with its pleasant beat, catchy hook and major chord melody. Bouncing Around The Room is a song guaranteed to bring a smile to pretty much every face at a Phish show because of all of these things. An early Phish tune, BATR has been reeling in Phish phans since 1990, but the thing I love most about the song is that it really encapsulates, and even showcases, the strengths (and to a lesser degree, the limitations) of the band. Fish establishes the beat from the jump and Mike lays down the bassline. With the structure in place, Trey and Page harmonize the vocals, with Page quickly demonstrating he has greater vocal range, but Trey, ever consistent (vocally), holding down the melodic fort. Page and Trey sprinkle in some keys and guitar as appropriate. The song slowly builds…Mike eventually spearheads the vocal and musical magnificence that ends the song in a round with his limited but deep baritone voice. Trey and Page beautifully layer both their voices atop Mike's and begin to really unleash their respective instruments in what amounts to three minutes or so of pure musical bliss. All the while, the Wolfman's Brother keeps the whole thing together.
Deep Cover – Phish is a super talented band…not only do they prolifically write their own music, tour often, and sit in with other musicians…but all four lead their own side projects, experimenting in a multitude of musical genres, from funk to bluegrass to jazz to classical and even some dabbling in musical theater. It should be no surprise then that Phish, when together, is able to draw on these experiences as well as their vast talents, channeling their musicianship in ways few bands can. They play other people's music with respect, but also have the courage and ability to take songs and give them a personal and unique take. I won't say that every Phish version of a covered song is better than the original, and vocally, most of the time, Phish versions fall short. But musically, and occasionally, comedically, most Phish versions are superior, if not simply more entertaining. They have covered artists across pretty much every major musical genre, primarily alone, but a number of times on stage alongside the musicians they are covering. From Aerosmith to ZZ Top, BB King to Jay Z, Katy Perry to Chaka Khan, Miles Davis to Rage Against the Machine, Neil Diamond to the Beastie Boys, Jimi Hendrix to Bob Marley, Joni Mitchell to Elvis Presley…they are not afraid to take chances, and they have added hundreds of songs to their repertoire. And during this current TBD run, they are adding dozens (pun intended) of new and exciting covers to their songbook. Which leads nicely into…
Ghost – One of IDROS' favorite differentiators of the band has to be their Halloween costumes. Instead of dressing up in traditional costumes, however, Phish, beginning in 1994, has donned musical costumes, playing a full album of one of their inspirational musicians or bands. This has included the Beatles' White Album, The Who's Quadrophenia, the Talking Heads' Remain In Light and The Velvet Underground's Loaded, which IDROS was lucky enough to witness live. These musical costumes are stuff of legend…and for some lucky fans, unexpectedly in Utah in 1998, just after that year's Loaded Halloween show, Phish played Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, leading many phans to speculate that the band rehearsed both albums for Halloween and made a game time decision to go with the VU album. Many classic songs from these Halloween shows remain fixtures in Phish's normal tour set lists.
Say Yes to The Dress – With everything going on in the world today, and especially in our own country as it relates to discrimination, hostility and the giant step back basic human rights and equality seem to have taken this past year, Fish's donut-laden muumuu, which has been a fixture for decades, seems to say to the LGBTQ community, "feel free to join us….you are safe here." This makes IDROS happy.
The Women Are Smarter – Phish have written some amazing songs about women over the years. From Suzy to Esther, Tela to Eliza, Reba to Olivia, Jennifer to the incomparable Landlady…and have mentioned many others (Liz, Millie, Jill, Vanessa, etc.). So here's a shout out to the women of Phish. IDROS is partial to Esther, which is one of the most terrifying but beautiful songs ever written. A short story…Phish rarely plays Esther anymore. This has been the basic trend for over a decade. Many times, the band eschews the song for entire tours, even years. IDROS has attended exactly one Phish concert with his beautiful bride (who was merely IDROS' girlfriend at the time). At that show, Phish played Esther. We were engaged the next day. To give you an idea of the odds – since 1998, there have been about 635 Phish shows. Phish has played Esther exactly 12 times in that stretch. That is once every 53 shows, or less than 2% of the time. Since our "engagement show" Phish has also played the song on my wife's birthday as well as on another very significant date to us. In other words, the song Esther is very important to my family, and the cosmic Phish gods know this.
Somewhere between Erie and Pittsburgh – Many great bands have at least one movie/documentary that captures them, realistically or fictitiously, at the peak of their popularity and creativity. From A Hard Day's Night, to The Grateful Dead Movie, to Stop Making Sense to Purple Rain to IDROS' personal favorite, The Last Waltz. Phish's movie, Bittersweet Motel, came out in 1998, pretty much capturing the foursome at the height of their powers with footage from their 1997 tours. It is funny, filled with great live concert footage and captures the band members in rare candid moments most fans seldom see of their idols. In retrospect, the film is also aptly named as it is poignantly capturing the beginning of the end for the band, who would break up for the first time a couple years later. Fortunately for all of us, the band was able to put their differences aside, Trey was able to get the help he needed to move forward, once briefly in 2002-2004, and again hopefully for good in 2009-present. So now, hopefully a sequel is in the works, capturing Phish 3.0 in all its glory. Maybe it will be called Blissful Bed and Breakfast, or perhaps, just, JOY (oh, wait…).
A Higher Purpose – There have been many articles written about the "religion" of The Grateful Dead and Phish. Loyal fans who follow them, an earthy way of life, drug based and sober "religious experiences," and the artists themselves, assembled upon the pulpit or bimah, rifling through the newest testament of all…the music. Like the Dead, Phish has a number of spiritual and religious songs, both originals and standards, that they play regularly. From Daniel Saw the Stone, and of course Avinu Malkeinu all the way through Trey's opus, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, which is as spiritual a story as any you would find in the Bible, there is no denying that there is a large spiritual element to both Phish and its congregation of phans. Every time IDROS sees TMWSIY->Avinu live, your author hopes Fish or Mike would say "Tekiyah Gedolah" into the microphone, and TMWSIY would be played on shofars, or rams horns to kick it off. IDROS' favorite version of a spiritual song ever played by Phish is Yerushalayim Shel Zehav, which ends their song Demand on the Hoist album, but has only been played as part of the song Demand once live. Phish has played YSZ twelve times in history (here is a favorite)…. And yes, to IDROS, Chris Kuroda is the Ner Tamid.
Page side, rage side – IDROS plays the piano. Page plays the piano. IDROS believes Page is the greatest pianist in the world. Trey may be Phish's "front man," but for my money, Page is the MVP…a close race to be sure, but it is what it is. When given the choice IDROS sits or stands on the left side of a venue facing the stage…cause that's where Page's keyboard surrounded throne sits on the stage.
A Festival to End All Festivals – Ever notice how SOAM can be a viable acronym for both Split Open and Melt AND Scent of a Mule? Yeah, I know I'm deflecting. There are not a lot of positive things to say about the great mudfest of 2004 (IDROS refuses to mention its name). The storm-ravaged fairgrounds resembled a third world country that had just been decimated by a hurricane…to those of us lucky enough to make it in. Thousands were stranded on a highway that could have been a scene right out of an apocalyptic movie where everyone is trying to flee the cities. And poor Cactus…the ace of bass was clearly forced to announce on the Phish radio channel set up for the festival for everyone to turn back and go home. Well my group persevered. We made it, came equipped with fly fishing boots we picked up along the way, hiked miles to and from the fairgrounds, slogged through the muck and the general malaise and melancholy that hung like a guillotine over the downtrodden faithful, and bid our farewells to our favorite band. Oh yeah…Phish was hanging their instruments up after this "Un-festive All." Calling it quits for good this time. I mean, they say nothing ends well…that's why things end. Well if this were to be the end for Phish, they were going out in a spectacular pool of vomit and putrescence. And for that, and because I had been to three other glorious Phish festivals, I got to see my musical hero, Page, melt down and cry on stage during Wading in the Velvet Sea, and because it wasn't really the end…but rather an end to a bad time in the arc of the band's story…I can include those three awful days in Vermont among my 13 (you can have good without bad…and sometimes it takes hitting bottom to rise up and attain true greatness).
Dancin' On My Lawn – Phish is an amazing band if you wanna dance. When the band is bringing the funk, almost any song could be an opportunity to showcase your Camel Walk. Some songs (like MOMA, SOAM, Jibboo, Boogie On) let you break it down from start to finish. Other tunes, like YEM, begin with a composed section, which is difficult to dance to (read: sober), but builds into a funkier, free-flowing dance party after a few minutes (think Bowie, Hood, DWD, the Lizards, etc.) Reba, in IDROS' opinion, is in a class all by itself. While it seems to fit into the latter category of a song that builds to a dance fan's crescendo (it does), the beginning is not so much the orchestral building block that is the staple of many other early (read: core) Phish songs. In fact, deep into Reba at the opening show of TBD, IDROS came to the following conclusion: Reba, as a song, is very much like the love scene in the move Armageddon. The whimsical silliness of the beginning is like the animal cracker-based foreplay, which gets more and more inane, until…even if Liv Tyler and/or Ben Affleck aren't your thing, you get the idea. Out of the ludicrous comes pure, unadulterated bliss…some of the best dance jam music Phish ever unleashes.
Atama Ga Shock – Because a long time ago, IDROS lived in Japan and developed a working knowledge of the Japanese language, your author was over the moon when, in 2000, Phish toured Japan and unveiled the Japanese lyrics to the chorus of their song, Meatstick. It would have been incredible to have lived in Japan during said tour, but I have seen Meatstick performed half a dozen (yes, we are counting in dozens for this post) since 2000, and every time I hear them break out the Japanese lyrics it brings a huge smile to my face.
You Can't Always Get What You Want – TBD has taken Phish's unique live concert experience to new heights. No repeats in 13 days (this was posted after 12 shows but IDROS has faith) ensured not only every show was unique, but that every song was as well. Phish fans know, however, like Dead fans, that a lack of repeated songs aren't what make this band so fun to see live…rather, it is the freshness of the setlists, and the trill of the chase. Phish has a number of rare songs that they play once in a blue moon. They also can be full of surprises, playing new covers, or old songs in new ways. We all treasure those shows where we can say "we were there when." And just like the Stones forewarned all of us…we may not hear the exact songs we were hoping for when we had that ticket stub in our hand…but we always get what we need…and the Phab Phour always give us everything they have.
Phish – Thanks for a great three weeks, and for an amazing 35 years.
And to my faithful readers, IDROS hopes you caught at least one show during this outstanding Baker's Dozen run.
Let's all live while we're young. We can still have fun!
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Apple's releases iOS 10.1 with Portrait Mode
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Apple on Monday released iOS 10.1 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The new update marks the end of an abnormally long beta period for a relatively minor update, but there was a good reason Apple went through five different developer beta versions of its latest mobile software build. The star feature, Portrait Mode for the iPhone 7 Plus, had to be thoroughly tested to ensure that it was ready for primetime. And as we saw on Monday in samples captured by a professional portrait photographer, it is definitely ready for primetime.
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Portrait Mode is a new feature enabled by the dual cameras on the back of the iPhone 7 Plus. By combining the main 12-megapixel wide-angle lens with a secondary telephoto lens, the device is able to add a bokeh effect behind the subject of a photo that mimics the background blurring you would see in a portrait captured by a DSLR camera. The results are stunning.
iOS 10.1 also includes a number of other new features as well as bug fixes and refinements that impact all devices, not just the iPhone 7 Plus. The update is available immediately as an over the air (OTA) update or as a download that can be installed by connecting your iOS devices to a computer using iTunes.
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Security woes halt Army research
The army's top infectious disease institute suspended its biodefense research on Friday (February 6) after finding problems with its system for keeping track of the dangerous pathogen stocks found in its labs. The blog linkurl:ScienceInsider;http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/02/us-army-lab-fre-1.html obtained an internal memo from the institute, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRID), informing employees it had begun an extensive inventory that
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The army's top infectious disease institute suspended its biodefense research on Friday (February 6) after finding problems with its system for keeping track of the dangerous pathogen stocks found in its labs. The blog linkurl:ScienceInsider;http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/02/us-army-lab-fre-1.html obtained an internal memo from the institute, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRID), informing employees it had begun an extensive inventory that will make sure all substances available in labs are noted in a database. "I believe that the probability that there are additional vials of BSAT [biological select agents and toxins] not captured in our database is high," wrote institute commander Col. John Skvorak in the memo. USAMRID is the facility at which Bruce Ivins studied anthrax. The US government alleges Ivins coordinated the anthrax mailings of 2001. He committed suicide last summer, after which the Army began a review of its protocols for working with bioterror pathogens....
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Broadcasters worry about 'Zero TV' homes
RYAN NAKASHIMA
Associated Press April 7, 2013
This undated image provided by James Weitze shows a truck driver taking a self portrait on the road. Weitze satisfies his video fix with an iPhone. He sleeps most of the time in his truck, and has no apartment. To be sure, he's an extreme case and probably wouldn't fit into Nielsen's definition of a household in the first place. But he's watching Netflix enough to keep up on shows like "Weeds," "30 Rock," "Arrested Development," "Breaking Bad," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "Sons of Anarchy." (AP Photo/James Weitze)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some people have had it with TV. They've had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don't like timing their lives around network show schedules. They're tired of $100-plus monthly bills.
A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don't even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. These people are watching shows and movies on the Internet, sometimes via cellphone connections. Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from 2 million in 2007.
Winning back the Zero TV crowd will be one of the many issues broadcasters discuss at their national meeting, called the NAB Show, taking place this week in Las Vegas.
While show creators and networks make money from this group's viewing habits through deals with online video providers and from advertising on their own websites and apps, broadcasters only get paid when they relay such programming in traditional ways. Unless broadcasters can adapt to modern platforms, their revenue from Zero TV viewers will be zero.
"Getting broadcast programing on all the gizmos and gadgets — like tablets, the backseats of cars, and laptops — is hugely important," says Dennis Wharton, a spokesman for the National Association of Broadcasters.
Although Wharton says more than 130 TV stations in the U.S. are broadcasting live TV signals to mobile devices, few people have the tools to receive them. Most cellphones require an add-on device known as a dongle, but these gadgets are just starting to be sold.
Among this elusive group of consumers is Jeremy Carsen Young, a graphic designer, who is done with traditional TV. Young has a working antenna sitting unplugged on his back porch in Roanoke, Va., and he refuses to put it on the roof.
"I don't think we'd use it enough to justify having a big eyesore on the house," the 30-year-old says.
Online video subscriptions from Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. — which cost less than $15 a month combined — have given him and his partner plenty to watch. They take in back episodes of AMC's "The Walking Dead" and The CW's "Supernatural," and they don't need more, he says.
He doesn't mind waiting as long as a year for the current season's episodes to appear on streaming services, even if his friends accidently blurt out spoilers in the meantime. With regular television, he might have missed the latest developments, anyway.
"By the time it gets to me to watch, I've kind of forgotten about that," he says.
For the first time, TV ratings giant Nielsen took a close look at this category of viewer in its quarterly video report released in March. It plans to measure their viewing of new TV shows starting this fall, with an eye toward incorporating the results in the formula used to calculate ad rates.
"Our commitment is to being able to measure the content wherever it is," says Dounia Turrill, Nielsen's senior vice president of insights.
The Zero TV segment is increasingly important, because the number of people signing up for traditional TV service has slowed to a standstill in the U.S.
Last year, the cable, satellite and telecoms providers added just 46,000 video customers collectively, according to research firm SNL Kagan. That is tiny when compared to the 974,000 new households created last year. While it's still 100.4 million homes, or 84.7 percent of all households, it's down from the peak of 87.3 percent in early 2010.
Nielsen's study suggests that this new group may have left traditional TV for good. While three-quarters actually have a physical TV set, only 18 percent are interested in hooking it up through a traditional pay TV subscription.
Zero TVers tend to be younger, single and without children. Nielsen's senior vice president of insights, Dounia Turrill, says part of the new monitoring regime is meant to help determine whether they'll change their behavior over time. "As these homes change life stage, what will happen to them?"
Cynthia Phelps, a 43-year-old maker of mental health apps in San Antonio, Texas, says there's nothing that will bring her back to traditional TV. She's watched TV in the past, of course, but for most of the last 10 years she's done without it.
She finds a lot of programs online to watch on her laptop for free — like the TED talks educational series — and every few months she gets together with friends to watch older TV shows on DVD, usually "something totally geeky," like NBC's "Chuck."
The 24-hour news channels make her anxious or depressed, and buzz about the latest hot TV shows like "Mad Men" doesn't make her feel like she's missing out. She didn't know who the Kardashian family was until she looked them up a few years ago.
"I feel absolutely no social pressure to keep up with the Joneses in that respect," she says.
For Phelps, it's less about saving money than choice. She says she'd rather spend her time productively and not get "sucked into" shows she'll regret later.
"I don't want someone else dictating the media I get every day," she says. "I want to be in charge of it. When I have a TV, I'm less in control of that."
The TV industry has a host of buzz words to describe these non-traditionalist viewers. There are "cord-cutters," who stop paying for TV completely, and make do with online video and sometimes an antenna. There are "cord-shavers," who reduce the number of channels they subscribe to, or the number of rooms pay TV is in, to save money.
Then there are the "cord-nevers," young people who move out on their own and never set up a landline phone connection or a TV subscription. They usually make do with a broadband Internet connection, a computer, a cellphone and possibly a TV set that is not hooked up the traditional way.
That's the label given to the group by Richard Schneider, the president and founder of the online retailer Antennas Direct. The site is doing great business selling antennas capable of accepting free digital signals since the nation's transition to digital over-the-air broadcasts in 2009, and is on pace to sell nearly 600,000 units this year, up from a few dozen when it started in 2003.
While the "cord-nevers" are a target market for him, the category is also troubling. More people are raised with the power of the Internet in their pocket, and don't know or care that you can pull TV signals from the air for free.
"They're more aware of Netflix than they're aware over-the-air is even available," Schneider says.
That brings us to truck driver James Weitze. The 31-year-old satisfies his video fix with an iPhone. He often sleeps in his truck, and has no apartment. To be sure, he's an extreme case who doesn't fit into Nielsen's definition of a household in the first place. But he's watching Netflix enough to keep up with shows like "Weeds," ''30 Rock," ''Arrested Development," ''Breaking Bad," ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "Sons of Anarchy."
He's not opposed to TV per se, and misses some ESPN sports programs like the "X Games."
But he's so divorced from the traditional TV ecosystem it could be hard to go back. It's become easier for him to navigate his smartphone than to figure out how to use a TV set-top box and the button-laden remote control.
"I'm pretty tech savvy, but the TV industry with the cable and the television and the boxes, you don't know how to use their equipment," he says. "I try to go over to my grandma's place and teach her how to do it. I can't even figure it out myself."


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Eugene S. Clarke (born April 4, 1956) is a Republican former member of the Mississippi State Senate who resides in Hollandale in Washington County in western Mississippi.

Early life
Clarke was born in Greenville, Mississippi. He graduated from Mississippi State University at Starkville, at which he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Personal life
An accountant, Clarke is married to the former Paula Watkins. They have three children. He is a Methodist.

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Families who select to have their child's case handled through diversion are required to attend a hearing with a Magistrate, police officer and program administrator. The juvenile must admit to the offense committed and offer facts and circumstances regarding the incident. The Magistrate will impose sanctions such as community service hours, referral to family counseling, curfew restrictions, restitution, etc.
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Microsoft has started to release a new update in the stable version of Edge (105.0.1343.27) that brings the Wallet feature to browser users, allowing them to save credit, debit and other payment information registered in the user's personal account in a similar way to Opera.
According to information, this novelty began to be made available by the developer through an update released on the server side, so at this moment only a select group of users was contemplated with the tool recently launched by big tech, including information relating to the Rewards program.
As shown in images, the wallet area gathers the cards registered in the Microsoft account, automatically applies discount coupons when purchasing services, gives discounts on Bing orders and much more. For now, there is no information about the availability of the function, but it is possible that it will initially be restricted to the United States.
In tests carried out in the AllCellular we were unable to access the Edge wallet, however, screenshots released by the portal team XDA Developers show the feature in action. To check if the function is available to you just paste the following command in the search bar: edge://wallet.
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U.S.-Made .22 LR Popguns: The Taurus DAO PT-22 Is Our Pick
A .22 LR would not be our first choice for serious backup, but any gun is better than nothing at all. We think the cheaper Taurus is a better buy, but we still liked Beretta's Bobcat.
The basic size of the two test guns was similar, but the Taurus PT-22, left, had an extended magazine which let us get all our fingers onto the gun.
There are a few clever innovations in handguns that have specific usefulness to certain groups of individuals. One of these is the pop-up barrel that permits loading one round into the chamber of semiautomatic pistols without the need for weak or possibly arthritic hands to work a slide. This feature has been mighty handy over the years for a few folks, to our certain knowledge. We found two modern .22 LR pistols with this feature and decided to see just how well they worked in the field, and against each other on the target.
They were Beretta's Model 21A Bobcat, $250; and Taurus' PT-22, Model 22B, $227, both chambered for .22 LR. The mechanisms were a bit different, the Beretta being DA for the first shot and SA thereafter for all 7+1 shots, and the Taurus being DAO for all its 8+1 shots. But we thought they were within a nickel of each other for overall size and usefulness. Each gun came with just one magazine. Neither gun had an extractor, nor did they need one. With the open-top design, spent cases had lots of room to get out, and all fired rounds from both pistols ejected perfectly, as it turned out.
Either pistol could be carried in the pocket, and it seems to us that's the service for which they're designed. Our general feelings are that a .22 LR would not be our first choice for serious back-up work, but hey, any gun sometimes is much better than nothing at all.
We won't recommend any specific usage for these tiny pistols. We'll leave that up the individual; but if you own one of these you should expect to be able to shoot it inexpensively, hit your target, and have some fun with it. In that vein, we thought either gun could be used easily and well as a single-loader for training purposes. Let's see what else we found out about them:
Beretta offers a couple of variants on this light (12.3-ounce), little-pistol design in both .22 LR and .25 ACP, but the company website (www.berettausa.com/) doesn't tell what the specific differences are. One version that costs $50 more might be nickel plated, but we're guessing. The company offers a stainless-steel version (look for the clue-word INOX) that weighs 4 ounces more and costs $325. Prices range from $250 to $325 for the options, all of which are DA/SA, and all of which are called the Bobcat, whether in .22 LR or .25 ACP. The .22 LR versions hold seven rounds and the .25 versions hold eight, plus one in the chamber if desired. Gone are the neat little Minx .22 Short and the Jetfire .25 ACP, both of which were SA only, requiring them to be cocked for the first shot. If it matters, that was easily done, but the Bobcat is not easy to thumb cock. Beretta also offers the Tomcat, a similar size pistol in .32 ACP, with a pop-up barrel.
We liked the look of the Beretta. Its matte-black metal finish was in contrast to the shiny, black, checkered-plastic grip panels. There were vertical serrations on the front and back straps, and though we could get only two fingers onto the grip they were enough. The gun felt secure in the hand. There was minimal room for the trigger finger between the trigger and the spring-steel trigger guard, but our crew found it to be adequate. On the left side of the frame was the lever to release the barrel. Shoving it forward resulted in the barrel flying open, and if you had a round in the chamber, it's now gone — unless you controlled the flying barrel with your off hand. The trigger guard is a spring that drives the barrel open, and it opens in a hurry. Both sides of the slide were well plastered with the company address, logo, and various warnings. One note stood out: "Made in USA."
The barrel, its rear lug, and the front hinge piece were all steel. So were the slide, hammer, trigger, trigger guard, the magazine and its release button, and the safety. The frame was aluminum alloy. The magazine button was flush with the left grip panel. Pressing it was difficult to accomplish accidentally, but not too hard when you really wanted to get the magazine out, though we found this had to be done with the left hand. The magazine popped out easily whether loaded or not, something the Taurus's didn't do. The safety could be put on with the gun cocked or not. The Bobcat would fire with the magazine removed. The Taurus would not.
The little Beretta could be carried cocked and locked, though for a pocket carry that's a doubtful method, we thought. Better to leave the hammer down, leave the safety off (down) and use the double-action system for the first shot. As noted, the barrel could be popped up for inserting a round, but we found it difficult to close. We had to either use the release button or use lots of force to close it, and the first few times we tried, the barrel didn't fully latch. Cocking the hammer with the controlling hand's thumb required a lot of force, on the order of 10 pounds or more, so it's not a recommended thing to do for fastest action, we thought. The single-action trigger pull measured a hefty 7.2 pounds, and the DA pull was 10.5 pounds.
The sights were poor. They were small and hard to see, not the sort of thing elderly eyes would like. The front was a tapered blade with a vaguely flat top, and the rear was a tiny cut in the slide with beveled sides and rounded top surfaces. We would have liked the sights to be twice as big and better defined.
We tested both guns with [PDFCAP(2)]. We used CCI's Stinger HPs, CCI Velocitor HPs, Federal's AutoMatch (bulk), and Remington/Eley Target Rifle. We also tried various other types and configurations to see if we could expect any feeding problems. We encountered one failure to feed (with each gun) within the first dozen rounds, and then no further problems, except that the light-recoiling Remington/Eley Target Rifle failed to cycle the Beretta's slide reliably. The Beretta hit five to six inches low at 15 yards, and about three inches left. We didn't like that, and there's no easy way to change it. This poor sight regulation might be okay for self defense at close range, and in that scenario you wouldn't be able to see the sights anyway, but without doubt the poor sighting would make it hard to bust a tin can at that range.
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Taurus has a variety (28 versions) of finishes available for this gun, such as nickel or blue finish, pink pearl, gold accents, fancy wood, etc., to please the most discerning … man or woman about town. Some color combinations would be embarrassing to show in public, we thought. The gun comes in .22 LR or in .25 Auto. The latter holds 9+1, and all the former hold 8+1 rounds.
This was a very attractive DAO pistol with checkered wood grip panels. Again the gun was marked "Made in USA," and the overall size was just a shade larger than the Beretta. The gun was mostly matte black, but the sides of the slide that bore the maker's markings were polished slightly, and the nicely checkered wood panels added color. The magazine had an extension that let us get all our fingers onto the gun. The grip shape was close to that of the Beretta, but lacked — nor did it seem to need — the serrations on the straps. The wood panels felt fat, but most of this feeling came from their front edges, which we thought could have been rounded more. With wood panels, the owner can do that himself, if he cares to. There was a storage lock built into the rear grip strap that required a special key.
The magazine button was big, and in a position similar to that on a 1911. Pushing it did exactly nothing, unless the magazine had at least one round in it. Empty, the magazine remained in the gun and had to be pulled out for loading. We found we could work the slide of the Taurus easier and with more comfort that that of the Beretta, thanks to the wide slide serrations on the Taurus. Of course that's not necessary because of the pop-up barrel, unless you prefer to carry the gun (either gun) with the chamber empty and chamber the first round from the magazine.
The pop-up barrel system worked well on the Taurus. Closing it was far easier than with the other gun. And the Taurus had sights! They were big enough to see, and they gave an excellent picture. Okay, they could have been larger, but they weren't bad. The long front blade was integral with the front barrel lug, and serrated to cut glare. The rear was a squared notch incorporated into the slide, with a vertical cut in its rear face to reduce glare. As with the Bobcat, all the key parts of the Taurus were steel, and the frame was alloy. The DAO trigger was unquestionably one of the finest of those mechanisms we've had the pleasure of using. It was smooth, precise, easy to use, and gave excellent control to the gun all the time. It permitted faster and more accurate shooting than with the Beretta. We all loved it. The only thing you had to learn was to fully release the trigger between shots. It would not do to short stroke it on the rebound. The trigger had a long stroke. The nicely curved shape of the trigger itself aided the great control and comfort of the system. In actual numbers, it took a measured 8 pounds to pull it, but it felt like a lot less.
The PT-22 had a safety lever that went up for safe. We could see little use for it, except to add mental security to a gun carried loose in the pocket with a round chambered. As noted, the gun could not be fired with the magazine removed.
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Beretta Model 21A Bobcat .22 LR, $250. Buy It. We found the Beretta worked very well shooting double taps at 5 yards. Hits were good, and we could tolerate the DA/SA pair, but we could not shoot the Beretta as fast as we could the Taurus. As long as the hammer was cocked it was not too bad, but a better SA trigger pull would have been a great boon. The safety was stiff enough to stay on quite well for cocked and locked use, but none of our shooters liked that setup. We started with the gun in the hand for added safety during our fast shooting. We thought this little gun would have benefited greatly from a reduced single-action pull, better sights, and better sight regulation. It was completely reliable with proper ammo. The gun felt good in the hand, was secure and comfortable to shoot, it never bit us, and we pretty much liked it. Grouping was on the order of three inches at 15 yards. We'd have liked more accuracy, but we'd accept this.
Taurus PT-22, $227. Our Pick. On the range, we had only one failure to feed during the first magazine full, but thereafter the Taurus fed and fired and ejected everything we threw at it including some truncated-cone hunting-type .22 bullets. The gun printed several inches high at 15 yards, which we found to be less objectionable than the low hits we got with the Beretta. We could hold under a mark and hit it much easier than holding high.Given that neither gun shot precisely where it looked, our shooters all declared they could live with the Taurus easier. Accuracy was a shade better, with occasional bursts of brilliance, which in fairness we also got from the Beretta. But we liked the look of the wood grips better, the DAO trigger was a dream, and the PT-22 cost less.
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Does a visual mask need to be perceptually present to disrupt processing? In the present research, we proposed to explore the link between perceptual and memory mechanisms by demonstrating that a typical sensory phenomenon (visual masking) can be replicated at a memory level. Experiment 1 highlighted an interference effect of a visual mask on the categorization of auditory targets and confirmed the multimodal nature of knowledge. In Experiment 2, we proposed to reactivate this mask in a categorization task on visual targets. Results showed that the sensory mask has disrupted (slower reaction times) the processing of the targets whether the mask was perceptually present or reactivated in memory. These results support a sensory-based conception of memory processing and suggest that the difference between perceptual processes and memory processes is characterized by the presence (perception) or the absence (memory) of the sensory properties involved in the activity.


May 13th marks the two-year anniversary of the airing of the series finale of Enterprise — what may've been the last episode of Star Trek ever. My viewing habits precluded catching most of the fourth and final season when it originally aired, so this past weekend, I engorged myself on the last 19 episodes (which I shall attempt to discuss spoiler-free).
My immersion in Trek lore had, unfortunately, not protected me from some spoilers. I knew some of the plots, such as that the divergence between The Original Series and The Next Generation Klingons would be explained; that there'd be a Mirror Universe episode; and of the guest stars and casualties of the finale. I can't imagine how blown away I'd've been had these stories come as complete surprises.
And speaking of blown away, it was masterful to incorporate actual footage from the Star Trek: First Contact film into the opening of the two-part "In a Mirror, Darkly". I was intrigued to see how this episode would connect to the primary universe, and it took some time for me to suspect there may not be a direct correlation; I was impressed when they carried it out. Greater familiarity with TOS would've helped, as I recognized the eponymous Tholian web, but not the Defiant (which proved to not be Deep Space Nine's little ship — though it was still a lot of fun to see the NX-01 crew on a recreated, TOS-era ship!). Though this episode had little impact on Enterprise Prime or the founding of the United Federation of Planets, I am eager to see its implications in the current arc of Mirror Universe novels.
Another neat pair of episodes were the series antepenultimate and penultimate two-parters "Demons" and "Terra Prime", which featured Harry Groener (the villainous mayor from Buffy; also a guest star on an early episode of TNG) as the good guy, and Peter Weller (the heroic Robocop) as the bad guy. It was in this episode that Ensign Sato finally showed some balls, demonstrating some believable character development after four years.
And that's probably what I loved best about the fourth season: the development of characters. This season took a different tack to storytelling, employing multiple arcs that took several episodes to tell. While TNG might've fit 22 major plots into 22 episodes, Enterprise fit only 12 — many of them more substantial than we've come to expect from the already-voluminous Star Trek universe. I felt a bit more like I was watching Deep Space Nine and its far-reaching Dominion War than Voyager's "alien/space anomaly of the week". Enterprise saw major changes not only for individuals, like Soval and Shran, but also for relationships, both personal and political: T'Pol and Trip; Phlox and Enterprise; Starfleet and Section 31; Andorians and Tellarites alike.
It all culminated in a finale that was… odd. I can see the value of the frame they gave it, but it also detracted from the series' main characters by focusing on others (and adding little to them). The situation that Archer and Trip found themselves in was completely unnecessary, predicated by foolishness and unpreparedness. So my qualm is not with Trip's handling of the situation, but with landing himself in that jam in the first place. The finale did not provide the positive closure I appreciated in TNG, Voyager, or DS9 (and not once in the fourth season was the Temporal Cold War ever resolved or even mentioned).
The finale's last ten seconds, though, were extremely moving. It created a context in which the impact of each of the three eras of Trek on each other is irrefutable, summing up this series' implications for me. Star Trek has been on the air continuously for 18 years, and I'm just finishing it now, stretching that span to 20 years — over two-thirds of my life. It's helped me define my interests, my values, my aspirations. Now it's gone, and though its return to the silver screen is predicted for Christmas 2008, Star Trek is, first and foremost, a vehicle of the television medium, and whether it ever returns there remains to be seen.
Of greater concern to me is whether humanity will ever achieve a utopia on the scale of the 24th — or even 22nd — century. Is Archer and his flawed era someone we can relate and aspire to? Can we put aside our differences and unite to realize a shared and optimistic vision of our future? Or is Star Trek fated to be nothing more than science fiction? Doesn't Gene Roddenberry's dream deserve to be our own? Don't we deserve that for ourselves?
I thought that the final season of Star Trek: Enterprise was a big improvement over the previous years of that space opera, as well as over much of Star Trek: Voyager. I agree that Gene Roddenberry's optimistic vision of humanity's future could still inspire people, if only the producers, writers, and fans can agree on a version that both respects and continues the 40-year legacy… Live long and prosper!
"We think Star Trek and especially its latest incarnation, Enterprise, is the kind of TV that should be aired more often. The people responsible at Paramount think this is just a show and we want to tell them, it is not. We are in the commercial space flight industry and would like to testify that at least one out of two of all the actual entrepreneurs involved in this industry has been inspired by Star Trek; and we are not only good at watching TV sci-fi, we are also good at writing checks, big checks. The people airing this kind of TV have a responsibility: inspiration. Star Trek has inspired us, and particularly Enterprise, with its superb theme song that tells so much about our struggle to move space travel forward and closer to the public, this inspiration is so self evident, that Virgin Galactic has ordered a 5-sub orbital ship fleet from Scaled Composites, a 100 million dollar investment, and the first one being built is going to be christened 'VSS Enterprise'. Now doesn't that ring a bell in Paramount's ears? Now, canceling the series so bluntly, for the sake of just ratings, tells very much about the kind of thinking going on inside Paramount. If we thought the same way, Paul Allen would have never funded the SpaceShipOne program. Sir Richard Branson would never have funded Virgin Galactic and Space Adventures would never have put two space tourists aboard the International Space Station. Instead, we would all be at home watching Survivor or some other reality TV show. Enterprise needs to be renewed, for the sake of fan loyalty, for being quality TV, for bringing imagination and hope for a better future to our homes, but over all that, for inspiring us so strongly that we have fought all our adult lives to bring that future closer to our children and to us."


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Instead of starting out as a small fish in a large pond, starting out as a big fish in a small pond may not be so bad — not so bad for art, not bad for investing, and certainly not unsuitable for life.
By Jigar Mistry, ET CONTRIBUTORS
We are often in awe of companies that have made it big; the ones that consistently grow revenues and profits and beat everyone to become the biggest. While that is one approach to being successful, today, I argue that that is not the only one. Instead of starting out as a small fish in a large pond, starting out as a big fish in a small pond may not be so bad — not so bad for art, not bad for investing, and certainly not unsuitable for life. Now, here's a bit of French art history before we get to companies.
During the 1900s, art played an enormous role in the cultural life of France. A ministry regulated the art of painting, which was then considered a profession, like medicine is today. An artist got educated at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Excellent students won medals and the bad ones got weeded out. Eventually, artists would submit their finest canvases to a jury of experts to be showcased at the largest exhibition in Europe — The Salon. Over a million people would visit it, and getting a work exhibited here was considered the supreme stamp of approval for an artist. So much so that an artist called Jules Holtzapffel shot himself in the head in 1866 when he was rejected by The Salon.
The Salon's attitude, however, was traditional. "Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly finished and formally framed with proper perspective and familiar artistic conventions," says art historian Sue Roe.
To a few, this was absurd. Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro (now known as the Impressionists) had an entirely different take on what constituted art, writes Malcolm Gladwell in David and Goliath. They painted everyday life, their brushstrokes were visible, and figures indistinct. To The Salon jury, their work was amateurish. Conforming to its standard would require the painters to create art that had no meaning for them, and without The Salon, their careers were doomed.
Eventually, they decided to stop pandering to The Salon and launched their own collective. It had no competition, no juries, and no medals. Every artist was an equal. Their exhibition opened in April 1874 and only slowly started bringing them critical acclaim. Nevertheless, today, the Impressionists have a huge following and their collective work is valued at over $1 billion.
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A few companies follow a similar route — choose to chart their own route instead of catering to the accepted norm. While all of us might relate to Apple, let me share the story of an Indian company.
Until 2006, Eicher Motors was a struggling business with a market cap lower than $100 million. It was a conglomerate selling trucks, buses, tractors, footwear, garments, and a few other products, but it hardly made any money. Although conglomerates were in favour at that time, Eicher realised it needed focus. It sold off all but the motorcycles and trucks businesses.
Sales, however, continued to be a challenge because of glaring problems. The company's technology was outdated, and the bikes often broke down. In 2005, 6.5 million Indian two-wheelers were sold in a year, generating $250 million in annual profits. Eicher could have competed in the mass market, but instead chose to create its niche. It launched the Classic 350 in 2009 (a 350cc bike when the majority of units sold were closer to 100cc), which changed its fortunes. By 2019, while its market share of units sold rose to 3.7 per cent (from 0.5 per cent in 2006), its share of profitability rose to 20 per cent (from 3 per cent in 2006).
Choosing to become a larger fish in a smaller pond (higher cc bikes) helped Eicher dramatically. Over the past 15 years, its market capitalisation has risen 84 times to over $9 billion (from $100 million in 2006). In comparison, the two-wheeler industry's market capitalisation rose just four times.
Eicher could have competed with the large fish (Hero and Bajaj) in a large pond (100cc market), but chose to carve its own niche and decided to become a big fish in a small pond (300cc segment). That has paid off for Eicher. Despite a volume market share of just under 4 per cent, its profit market share is 20 per cent. And the markets have rewarded it handsomely for that (27 per cent of industry market cap).
While there are equally compelling stories of companies that have become category and revenue leaders through grit and foresight, sometimes, the most rewarding stories come from companies that chose to become the bigger fish in the smaller pond. Identifying a few of them early enough can do wonders for one's portfolio.
(The author, Jigar Mistry is co-founder of Buoyant Capital. Views are his own.)
(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this column are that of the writer. The facts and opinions expressed here do not reflect the views of www.economictimes.com.)
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On February 10, 1990, just before 9 o'clock at night, Officer Robert "Bobby" Shultis made a traffic stop in the 2700 block of Arrowhead Avenue in San Bernardino. After finding drugs in the driver's pocket, Officer Shultis attempted to take him into custody and a fight ensued. The fight moved into the street; Officer Shultis and the driver were struck by a passing car. The force of the impact threw both men about 30 feet; Officer Shultis and the suspect were both injured. Officer Shultis was transported to San Bernardino County Medical Center, where he succumbed about 45 minutes later, making him the sixth officer to die in the line of duty in the city of San Bernardino.
Officer Shultis had been with the department as a full-time officer since 1985, following three years as a reserve officer. He was born on April 8, 1956, in Long Island, New York, where he grew up influenced by several other family members who were in law enforcement. He joined the Air Force and spent 10 years in the service, achieving the rank of staff sergeant. After his death, one newspaper reported that his last assignment had been as an instructor at an Air Force school where prospective sergeants were taught leadership skills. Police Chief Dan Robbins said, "I think they were sorry to see him leave … and we were anxious to get him." When describing Officer Shultis, SBPD Captain Larry Richards said, "He's got all types of commendations and letters" and described him as a "good patrolman who was on the promotion list." Officer Shultis had spent the first part of 1989 on special assignment with a police strike force that focused on high-crime trouble spots.
Captain Richards noted that Officer Shultis was much more than a police officer. He was involved in the community and spent much of his free time volunteering with the San Bernardino Police Explorers Post, where he helped guide youths interested in law enforcement. Captain Richards was also quick to point out that Officer Shultis "was one helluva bowler … he was probably the best bowler on the department." Officer Shultis was also very active with the San Bernardino Police Officers Association, organizing fundraisers and acting as the group's treasurer.
Officer Robert Shultis was 33 years old when he died, and was engaged to be married.
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Google has delayed its return to office mandate for workers in the U.S. again as concerns over the new coronavirus omicron variant raise alarm worldwide and prompt new restrictions.
In an email to full-time staffers sent on Thursday, obtained by CNBC, the tech company said it would scrap its planned Jan. 10 mandate and wait until 2022 to determine when its U.S. workers could safely return to the office in the long-term. The email to U.S. workers did not mention the omicron variant. However, Google leadership in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa explicitly pointed to "the uncertainty around COVID-19 and the new travel restrictions," as being the reason why next month's return was delayed for employees in those countries, according to Insider.
Google had previously announced that employees would be required to return to the office three days a week on Jan. 10 and be fully vaccinated to do so. In recent weeks, Google has opened 90% of its offices in the U.S. Close to 40% of its employees have come in physically to work, the company said.
Although no clear timeline has been set yet, Chris Rackow, Google's vice president of global security, reiterated in the email that the company will allow specific locations to determine when to bring their employees back to the office. The policy had previously been disclosed by CEO Sundar Pichai, who added that teams would be given a 30-day "heads-up" before they're expected to go in.
Locations will be assisted by Google's local incident response teams, which will help assess each office's "risk level."
Nonetheless, Rackow said that Google encourages employees to come into the office "where conditions allow, to reconnect with colleagues in person and start regaining the muscle memory of being in the office more regularly."
"We will be re-learning our working rhythms together in 2022, which brings new opportunities and new challenges as we experiment with more flexible ways of working," Rackow wrote.
A Google spokesperson told CNBC that the delay was in line with the plan previously set by the company, which considered Jan. 10 the earliest possible return date. At this point, though, big tech's return to office dates are as uncertain as the end of the pandemic. It remains to be seen whether other companies, such as Apple, which is set to start a hybrid work pilot on Feb. 1, Facebook, and Amazon will push back their plans as well.
"We'll continue to determine when offices reopen and start the hybrid work week based on local conditions, which are dynamic and vary greatly across locations," the Google spokesperson said.
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Q: word for a person who learns a lot by heart when studying Do you happen to know a noun to describe someone, usually a student, who does a lot of learning by heart, as opposed to understanding? Is 'grind', 'swot'/'swotter' a good word for that, or does it just mean an over-the-top hard-working, diligent student? I also came acrosss 'muzz', can that be used as a noun? In Russian, we have a word 'zubrila', which means someone who stupidly learns things by heart. Looking forward to your answers!

A: Educationalists make a distinction between "rote learning" and "meaningful learning".

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Wizarding World of Harry Potter: 4 ways to beat the crowds
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando Resort has been wildly successful, but with great success comes two very populated theme-park lands.
Consistently attracting record crowds, both Hogsmeade at Universal Studios Florida and the newer Diagon Alley at Islands of Adventure can be challenging to navigate for everyday guests. With this in mind, here are our best tips for beating the crowds at Harry's wondrous world.
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If at all possible, stay at one of Universal Orlando's hotels when you come to visit, as an on-site room will give you the dual advantages of access and proximity. All resorts offer guests Early Park Admission, and, since you're staying just a short walk, boat ride, or shuttle bus away (depending on your hotel), you can be one of the first in line to get into the parks.
Keep in mind that Early Park Admission is available to you on both your check-in and check-out days, as well as every day in between (though paid admission to the parks is required) – so even if you get a hotel room for just one night, you can get into the Wizarding World an hour early on both your arrival and departure days.
(Need help figuring out which Universal hotel is the best fit for you? Our helpful guide can help you decide!)
Book a Universal vacation package
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If you can't stay at a Universal resort, book a partner hotel vacation package to gain Early Park Admission without the on-site price tag.
A basic package will bundle your hotel room and tickets, with the option to add on enhancements, such as dining plans and My Universal Photos. Now that Universal has more than 20 off-site partner hotels, they're bound to have something that will fit your budget – and as with the Universal Orlando hotels, you will get Early Park Admission on your check-in and check-out days (and, yes, paid admission to the parks is still required, but it's likely already included with your package).
For some guidance on picking a hotel, see our list of partner hotels within walking distance of the parks, and for more about Universal vacation packages, view our complete insider's guide.
Go early and stay late
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If you can't stay at a Universal property or book a partner hotel vacation package, plan on getting to Universal Orlando early and staying late. Given the cozy nature of its shops and attractions, it doesn't take very many people for Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley to start to feel pretty packed. To beat the crowds, it's best to go to the parks during the non-peak times, which are first thing in the morning and just before closing (most guests visit theme parks between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm).
It's possible that, on a very busy day, both morning and evening will still be crowded, but these remain the optimal times – on a day like this, midday would be very crowded, and the lands might even close for capacity.
Keep in mind that we strongly recommend to plan on going first thing in the morning and again late in the evening; The Wizarding World of Harry Potter lights up at night, and it's spectacular.
(If you'd like to see more pictures of the Wizarding World at night, check out the photo gallery below!)
Go during a special event
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Throughout the year, Universal hosts special events, such as Mardi Gras and Halloween Horror Nights (and we should note that some of these annual events are separately ticketed affairs, such as Horror Nights, while others are included with park admission, such as Mardi Gras [though some annual passes are blocked out on concert nights]). When Universal hosts its Mardi Gras concerts at the Music Plaza at Universal Studios Florida, they tend to draw crowds with well-known, popular acts – and, happily for us, these showings lure guests to the front of the theme park and away from Diagon Alley!
Just like those who go for the Mardi Gras entertainment, guests at Halloween Horror Nights are mostly there for the scares – but if you need a break from the fright, Diagon Alley remains open, albeit without scareactors. Sneak behind the London facade to find a nearly empty land and a short line for Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts.
To identify Mardi Gras or HHN nights, visit our crowd calendar. You can plan on beating the crowds by heading to Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley those evenings (depending on park hours and your ticket entitlements).
If you love these tips and want to read more, check out our advice to ensure your trip to the Wizarding World is a success!
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BeyondSpring Inc. BYSI has been struggling lately, but the selling pressure may be coming to an end soon. That is because BYSI recently saw a Hammer Chart Pattern which can signal that the stock is nearing a bottom.
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