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Sunday, December 25, 2011
The Galaxy S not getting ICS isn't a Samsung problem, It's an Android problem (Matthew Panzarino/The Next Web)
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Best Advice on College Admissions? What To DO; Part 2
?What to remember when applying to college:
- Admissions policies at every institution aim at fairness. Life, however, is not fair.
- Many folks get into college because their mothers or fathers attended that particular institution, making them "legacies," a sort of in-ground swimming pool of privilege. This imbalance is not acknowledged fully enough by university admissions departments or overworked guidance counselors in secondary public schools.
- Private secondary schools have professionals hired specifically to capitalize on what they know about the detailed needs of particular institutions - they know that a certain college prides itself on admitting lots of women into their science and math programs while another wants those already bilingual.
- If you attended a public school, that might mean you will have to make your own luck.
- Some students are admitted because they play a certain position in baseball, or because they play trumpet in the marching band, or because they're from a particular ethnic or socioeconomic background. This is good. Who wants a campus populated by the Stepford Students so that eventually everyone in a position of power would look and think the same way? That would be bad. It would also be way too familiar; we need to make changes in the world. Education should be neither an inheritance nor a secondary sex characteristic.
- Even if you THINK you know exactly why you were rejected (you are far too cool) or admitted (your father, after his own graduation, donated a building in the family name), you don't.
- Colleges and universities have a job: Their job is to admit students and educate the hell out of them. Why shouldn't you use the unfairness of life to imagine the best as well as prepare for the worst? The fact that life isn't fair might mean that you'll get luckier than you thought. Work at it.
- Since universities need students, they would like to grab those who are energetic, intriguing, and mature, as well as getting first dibs on those few brave souls who are not going to represent themselves by handing in a pre-processed, over-written, self-congratulatory letter of application. If the most interesting thing about you is that you memorized the entire script of Goodfellas verbatim when your sixth-grade class was told to memorize a piece of literature, then mention that in your admissions essay. Seriously. If you worked at a kid's camp for the last three summers but hated every minute of it, write about that.
- Don't use an essay off the Internet. Better you should ask one of the six-year-olds you hated from camp to write an essay on your behalf.
- Don't make yourself all goody-two-shoes unless you genuinely are - and even if you are, you still need to make an intelligent case for yourself.
- Yes, you are complex and unique. So is everybody else. (Note that you are not VERY unique, a state which does not exist - nothing can be "very" unique because "unique" implies that there is only one of its kind.)
- If you have an edge, a sense of humor, a built-in bilge detector (as you do) make sure your essay reflects it.
- Don't whine. Don't get defensive. Don't plead.
- Don't include a $20.
- Take the time to read up on the places you might spend the next several years. Receiving catalogs in the mail or printing out information from a Web site might make you sigh, as if you are doing just TONS of research, but unless you read these you are merely adding to world's recycling. These are not talismanic objects, the collegiate version of a lucky rabbit's foot. You simply can't bring yourself to sit down and go through them? Ummm - how, then, do you expect to go through college?
- Reading these documents in the car on the way to the official campus visit (made in your name by one of your long-suffering parents who figures that if she or he doesn't act for you, you'll be 35 years old and living in a crawl space under the house) is not the best time to get the details straight. But it is better than nothing.
- Colleges and universities want to admit students who will thrive, learn, participate, and enjoy their experience; they also want students who will complete their degrees in a timely fashion. Show that you are one of them.
- When you're seriously feeling low, take a look at some of those folks you know who graduated from college, then ask yourself this question: Can it be so terribly hard to get in? I mean, really.
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World Leaders Gather for Ex-Czech President Havel?s Funeral
Posted Friday, December 23rd, 2011 at 2:15 am
World leaders and the people of the Czech Republic will pay final respects to former President Vaclav Havel at a state funeral in Prague Friday.
The 75-year old former Czech leader died in his sleep of respiratory problems on Sunday.
Mr. Havel, a dissident playwright, was his country's first democratically elected president.
Leaders from around the world will pay tribute to the former leader Friday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli President Shimon Peres, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are among those expected to attend services for Mr. Havel at the Prague Castle.
Over the past three days, tens of thousands of Czechs have paid their respects as they strolled past his casket in a inside a church in Prague.
Mr. Havel took office in 1989, overseeing Czechoslovakia's transition to a free-market economy and democracy, as well as its peaceful 1993 split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Slovakia has declared Friday a national day of mourning in his honor.
Mr. Havel has been applauded by several European leaders, including Chancellor Merkel, who described him as a ?great European? who fought for freedom on the continent.
Vaclav Havel was president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992, and leader of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Harrison Ford signs up to Ender's Game
Harrison Ford has signed up to star in 'Ender's Game'.
The 'Indiana Jones' actor will take on the role of Colonel Hyram Graff in the sci-fi movie, which will be directed by Gavin Hood.
Ford will appear alongside Sir Ben Kingsley, Hailee Syeinfeld, Abigail Breslin and Asa Butterfield.
Hood has adapted Orson Scott Card's classic sci-fi novel and Butterfield will take on the lead role of Ender Wiggin, a prodigy who becomes part of mankind's war against an alien race known as the Formics.
Rising quickly through the ranks at the Battle School, Ender is revealed as a master tactician.
Hailee will play fellow school warrior Petra Arkanian, Breslin will take on the role of Ender's older sister Valentine and Kingsley is aboard to play Mazer Rackham, a legendary war hero many had thought was dead.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci - who recently wrote the 'Star Trek' sequel - have signed on as producers and shooting is set to start in February.
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Source: http://www.virginmedia.com/movies/news/story/2011/12/22/harrison-ford-signs-up-to/
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Self-healing electronics trialled
21 December 2011
Last updated at 19:07 ET
Self-repairing electronic chips are one step closer, according to a team of US researchers.
The group has created a circuit that heals itself when cracked thanks to the release of liquid metal which restores conductivity.
The process takes less than an eye blink to bring the circuit back to use.
The researchers said that their work could eventually lead to longer-lasting gadgets as well as solving one of the big problems of interplanetary travel.
The work was carried out by a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is published in the journal Advanced Materials.
The process works by exploiting the stress that causes the initial damage in the chips to break open tiny reservoirs of a healing material that fills in the resulting gaps, restoring electrical flow.
Cracked circuitsTo test their theory the team patterned lines of gold onto glass to form a circuit.
They then either placed microcapsules 0.01mm wide directly onto the lines or added a thin laminate into which they embedded larger 0.2mm microcapsules.
In both cases the microcapsules contained eutectic gallium-indium - a metallic material chosen for its high conductivity and low melting point.
This device was then sandwiched between another layer of glass and acrylic and connected to electricity.
The researchers then bent the circuit until it cracked causing the monitored voltage to fall to zero.
They said the ruptured microcapsules then healed most of the test circuits within one millisecond and restored nearly all of the measured voltage.
The smaller capsules healed the device every time but were a little less conductive than the larger ones which had a slightly lower success rate. The team suggested that a mix of differently sized capsules would therefore give the best result.
The devices were then monitored for four months during which time the researchers said there was no loss of conductivity.
Safe space travelThe leader of the group said the theory could prove a boon to the space industry.
"The only avenue one has right now is to simply remove that circuitry when it fails and replace it- there is no way to manually go in and fix something like this," aerospace engineering professor Scott White told the BBC.
"I think the real application area that you'll see for something like this is in electronics which are incredibly difficult to repair or replace - think about satellites or interplanetary travel where it's physically impossible to swap out something."
The research is an offshoot of the university's research into extending the lifetime of rechargeable batteries.
The reason current systems fail after repeated use is often because microdamage inside the devices has disrupted the conductive flow of electrons from one end of the batteries to the other.
The team said that if they could solve the problem electric car batteries might last years longer than they do at present, making the vehicles much cheaper to maintain.
Greener gadgetsThe group also claimed that the technique had the potential to offer more sustainable consumer electronic devices.
Professor White gave the example of mobile phone buttons that stopped working if repeated use had caused cracks in the circuitry below. He said self-healing systems would extend handsets' lifespans.
When asked whether profit-driven electronics makers would want this he replied: "I believe any company would want to provide their customer with the best performing product and if they don't, then other companies will step into the market to provide it.
"Basically what you see is that electronics are cycled now to give you added functionality.
"Maybe the way to do this is not to physically build new circuits and packages every time, but let's have longer lasting ones.
"Then the redesigns can be more software based or functionality driven, saving us from using up our precious resources by building millions of cellphones every year."
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-16291943
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'50/50,' 'Bridesmaids': The Best Movie Dogs Of 2011
Believe it or not, it?s once again time to gear up for that contentious season when the Academy picks its best movies of 2011. And as ?for your consideration? campaigns are launched, we figured we?d throw our hats into the ring in hopes of adding one critical category to the famed ceremony. There?s a [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/12/22/5050-bridesmaids-the-best-movie-dogs-of-2011/
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
GOP Congressman: Maybe Mooch shouldn?t hector us about our weight seeing she has an ass the size of Wisconsin
I hadn?t noticed. But now that he mentions it. . .
(Fishbowl DC) ? Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), known for his cantankerous ways and for not speaking to media unless it?s his idea, was overheard at the Delta Crown lounge at Reagan National Airport today talking on his cellphone about an incident he said occurred three weeks ago while at an Episcopal church auction. Please note, a church auction.
Our source, a Democratic operative who heard the whole thing, said he was ?very loud?. Sensenbrenner was overheard saying that after buying all their ?crap? (his word) a woman approached him and praised first lady Michelle Obama. He told the woman that Michelle should practice what she preaches ? ?she lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself.?
Keep reading. . .
Via Drudge
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