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23:00:00 02/02/12
Knit Sweater Pattern Quick
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---Knit Sweater Pattern Quick. You are about to embark on a jourÂney that will transÂform your life forever. As you develop your conÂfiÂdence, you will find yourÂself startÂing more comÂpliÂcated and intriÂcate projects that your peers could only dream about.
I'm not lookÂing for a huge mass of folÂlowÂers â I'm lookÂing for a small handÂful of knitÂters who want to become sucÂcessÂful at knitting.
Those who are willÂing to put in the effort to make their dreams a realÂity â peoÂple who simÂply need the right inforÂmaÂtion, motiÂvaÂtion and coachÂing to help make it happen.
If you are one of those peoÂple, then join me as we embark on a wonÂderÂful jourÂney
that will take your knitÂting skills to new heights...
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05:53:39 01/25/12
State of the Union 2012: Dream Act
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State of the Union 2012: Dream Act
Stand with the President: my.barackobama.com Let's also remember that hundreds of thousands of talented, hardworking students in this country face another challenge: The fact that they aren't yet American citizens. Many were brought here as small children, are American through and through, yet they live every day with the threat of deportation. Others came more recently, to study business and science and engineering, but as soon as they get their degree, we send them home to invent new products and create new jobs somewhere else. That doesn't make sense. I believe as strongly as ever that we should take on illegal immigration. That's why my Administration has put more boots on the border than ever before. That's why there are fewer illegal crossings than when I took office. The opponents of action are out of excuses. We should be working on comprehensive immigration reform right now. But if election-year politics keeps Congress from acting on a comprehensive plan, let's at least agree to stop expelling responsible young people who want to staff our labs, start new businesses, and defend this country. Send me a law that gives them the chance to earn their citizenship. I will sign it right away. From: BarackObamadotcom Views: 4714 99 ratings Time: 01:50 More in News & Politics
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17:48:06 01/20/12
Sundance showcases crisis-hit American dream
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Sundance showcases crisis-hit American dream
www.euronews.net The fractured American dream, the housing crisis and the sluggish economy feature prominently in the opening films at this year's Sundance Film Festival, now underway in the US state of Utah. The ski resort of Park City east of Salt Lake City is playing host to the 10-day event that will showcase more than 100 independent low-budget fiction and documentary films. Small movies, but some big names from the world of cinema are present - including of course, the festival's founder Robert Redford. From: Euronews Views: 277 3 ratings Time: 01:40 More in News & Politics
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17:48:06 01/20/12
Sundance showcases crisis-hit American dream
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Sundance showcases crisis-hit American dream
www.euronews.net The fractured American dream, the housing crisis and the sluggish economy feature prominently in the opening films at this year's Sundance Film Festival, now underway in the US state of Utah. The ski resort of Park City east of Salt Lake City is playing host to the 10-day event that will showcase more than 100 independent low-budget fiction and documentary films. Small movies, but some big names from the world of cinema are present - including of course, the festival's founder Robert Redford. From: Euronews Views: 40 2 ratings Time: 01:40 More in News & Politics
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05:25:10 01/04/12
Woman Sues Honda in Unlikely Place: Small Claims
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Woman Sues Honda in Unlikely Place: Small Claims
A woman who expected her 2006 Civic Hybrid to be her dream car wants Honda to pay for not delivering the 50 mpg she says the company promised. But instead of joining a class-action suit, she is taking the giant automaker to small claims court. (Jan. 3) From: AssociatedPress Views: 2016 52 ratings Time: 02:01 More in News & Politics
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05:25:10 01/04/12
Woman Sues Honda in Unlikely Place: Small Claims
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Woman Sues Honda in Unlikely Place: Small Claims
A woman who expected her 2006 Civic Hybrid to be her dream car wants Honda to pay for not delivering the 50 mpg she says the company promised. But instead of joining a class-action suit, she is taking the giant automaker to small claims court. (Jan. 3) From: AssociatedPress Views: 2016 52 ratings Time: 02:01 More in News & Politics
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05:25:10 01/04/12
Woman Sues Honda in Unlikely Place: Small Claims
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Woman Sues Honda in Unlikely Place: Small Claims
A woman who expected her 2006 Civic Hybrid to be her dream car wants Honda to pay for not delivering the 50 mpg she says the company promised. But instead of joining a class-action suit, she is taking the giant automaker to small claims court. (Jan. 3) From: AssociatedPress Views: 1738 49 ratings Time: 02:01 More in News & Politics
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20:00:00 12/19/11
Havel the Dissident: A Legacy Worth Claiming
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Former President Havel addresses a European cultural congress on the economics of culture
On a warm evening in 1991, a colleague and I found an out-of-the-way café in the old part of Prague. Two men with blank expressions stood outside. The interior was dim and close, with room for only eight or nine tables. The place was almost empty. Just a sleepy waitress, a bartender polishing glasses, and a single patron who sat alone drinking wine and chain-smoking cigarettes.
The President of Czechoslovakia wasn't reviewing official papers. He was reading a book, a startlingly un-Presidential act to our American eyes. My companion, a neoconservative State Department official, already admired him for defying and defeating a Communist state. He'd impressed me by bringing a writer's sensibility and an affinity for true underground culture to his role as head of state.
Václav Havel even tried to appoint Frank Zappa as his Minister of Culture. "We're not rock musicians," Zappa told a reporter back in the sixties. "We're electronic social workers." The State Department wouldn't let Zappa assume the post, but Havel had made his point to the Czech public by offering this apparatchik's position to the composer of songs like "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" ("Some say your nose, some say your toes, but I think it's your mind .")
We never spoke to Havel that night. It didn't seem polite to offer anything more than the curt nod of acknowledgement any café patron gives another at that hour. But Havel spoke to us, to all of us. And on the occasion of his death, the real lessons of his life's work are in danger of being lost.
Today we're told that the Occupy movement is too idealistic, too naïve. Naïve? Try Havel's words if you want naïve: "May truth and love triumph over lies and hatred."
Think of that as the Velvet Revolution's "one demand."
Portrait of the President as a Young Freak
As millions of people know, the underground playwright Havel first made his political mark in Charter 77. That group was formed to defend the Plastic People of the Universe, a banned and imprisoned rock band working in the Zappa mold of musical dissonance and cultural dissidence.
The Occupy movement is not on the cultural fringe, despite what its detractors say. But Havel's movement began as a Yippie-like creature of the underworld. Charter 77 rarely had more than a thousand members. It was a strange blend of political idealism and the hippie subculture where people proudly labeled themselves "freaks" to the conventional world. Despite its later alignment with economically conservative forces, it was more Allen Ginsburg than Alan Greenspan.
And it was created to defend the Plastic People of the Universe, whose grating music makes Occupy's drum circles seem like a children's choir serenading the bored residents of a home for aging veterans.
Words
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité - what wonderful words! And how terrifying their meaning can be! Freedom in the shirt unbuttoned before execution. Equality in the constant speed of the guillotine's fall on different necks. Fraternity in some dubious paradise ...
Havel addressed the liberal democratic West on words in the 1970s, noting that the suppression of speech can give language enormous power: >
I ... live in a country where a writers' congress speech is capable of shaking the system ... a manifesto served as one of the pretexts for the invasion of our country one night by five foreign armies ... a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
When a system has become inflexible and is in danger of collapsing, what it fears most is words. Think about that the next time you see a phalanx of cops tear down a tent city on television.
Havel had been burned by language, too: >
The same word can at one moment radiate great hope, at another it can emit lethal rays ... true at one moment and false the next, at one moment illuminating, at another, deceptive. On one occasion it can open up glorious horizons, on another, it can lay down the tracks to an entire archipelago of concentration camps.
And as we approach an election year that will be filled with the rhetoric of freedom, this observation still resonates: >
The same word can at one time be the cornerstone of peace, while at another time machine-gun fire resounds in its every syllable.
Control
In 1975 Havel had the presumption to write directly to Czechoslovakian head of state Gustáv Husák with a few suggestions. There's more than a passing resemblance between the fear-driven Communist society Havel condemned in that letter and the financial anxiety many Americans endure today: >
The technique of existential pressure is ... universal. There is no one in our country who is not, in a broad sense, existentially vulnerable. Everyone has something to lose and so everyone has reason to be afraid. The range of things one can lose is broad, extending from the manifold privileges of the ruling caste... down to the mere possibility of living in that limited degree of legal certainty available to other citizens.
Today, one out of two Americans lives in financial insecurity. Even many upper-middle-class citizens live from month to month, just one layoff notice away from medical bankruptcy or home foreclosure.
"Everyone has something to lose," observed Havel.
Havel's description of his 20th Century Communist society echoes our own: >
The more completely one abandons any hope of general reform, any interest in suprapersonal goals and values, or any chance of exercising influence in an 'outward' direction, the more one's energy is diverted in the direction of least resistance, that is, 'inwards.'"
People today are preoccupied far more with themselves ... They fill their homes with all kinds of appliances and pretty things, they try to improve their accommodations, they try to make life pleasant for themselves, building cottages, looking after their cars, taking more interest in food and clothing and domestic comfort ...They turn their main attention to the material aspects of their private lives.
Havel concluded that "Despair leads to apathy, apathy to conformity, and conformity to routine (political) performance - which is then quoted as evidence of 'mass political involvement.'"
Ambition
Havel understood the psychology of greed and power, too. From his letter to Husák: >
If it is fear which lies behind people's defensive attempts to preserve what they have, it becomes increasingly apparent that the chief impulses for their aggressive efforts to win what they do not yet possess are selfishness and careerism.
It is not surprising that so many public and influential positions are occupied more than ever before by notorious careerists, opportunists, charlatans, and men of dubious record.
From Prague to Washington, from Moscow to lower Manhattan, the opportunities change. But human nature never does: >
Seldom in recent times has a social system offered scope so openly and so brazenly to people willing to support anything as long as it brings them some advantage; to unprincipled and spineless men, prepared to do anything in their craving for power and personal gain; to born lackeys, ready for any humiliation and willing at all times to sacrifice their neighbors' and their own honor for a chance to ingratiate themselves with those in power.
Technocracy
It's a historical irony that those who claim they'll govern with the most efficiency usually wind up governing with the least effectiveness. Today corporate-funded politicians from both parties argue that the country should be led by "technocrats' who'll govern without messy "ideologies."
That's a false premise Havel knew well. He called it the "process by which power becomes anonymous and depersonalized, reduced to a mere technology of rule and manipulation."
Washington's technocratic "bipartisans" dream of a world where, in Havel's words, the "professional ruler is (seen as) the 'innocent' tool of an 'innocent' anonymous power ... legitimized by science, cybernetics, ideology, law, abstraction, and objectivity - that is, by everything except personal responsibility to human beings as persons and neighbors." Havel's Prague is our Beltway: >
States grow ever more machinelike; people are transformed into statistical choruses of voters, producers, consumers, patients, tourists, or soldiers, (where) in politics good and evil, categories of the natural world and therefore obsolete remnants of the past, lose all absolute meaning (and where) the sole method of politics is quantifiable success.
Havel condemned a system of state-orchestrated political theater, and the self-perpetuating failures of imagination which mistook the indifferent and pro forma participation of its citizens for genuine democracy. And he saw its universal nature: >
(It) has a thousand masks, variants, and expressions. Essentially, though, it is the same universal trend ... the essential trait of all modern civilization, growing directly from its spiritual structure, rooted in it by a thousand tangled tendrils and inseparable even in thought from its technological nature, its mass characteristics, and its consumer orientation.
"The contemporary concept of 'normal' behavior is," Havel wrote, "deeply pessimistic."
Responsibility
"I favor 'antipolitical politics,'" said Havel, "politics not as the technology of power and manipulation, of cybernetic rule over humans or as the art of the utilitarian, but politics as one of the ways of seeking and achieving meaningful lives, of protecting them and serving them." >
I favor politics as practical morality, as service to the truth, as essentially human and humanly measured care for our fellow humans.
None of us--as an individual--can save the world as a whole, but . . . each of us must behave as though it were in his power to do so.
Decades later he said this to the leaders of Western countries: >
Today, more than ever before in the history of mankind, everything is interrelated ... Because of this, the future of the United States or the European Union is being decided in suffering Sarajevo or Mostar, in the plundered Brazilian rain forests, in the wretched poverty of Bangladesh or Somalia.
Havel had glaring faults. American neocons offered him small favors during his final rise to power. He reciprocated, consciously or unconsciously, by aiding their destructive military ventures and adopting their foolish economic policies. He succumbed to the politics of personality, both his own and those of the leaders who courted him. But it would be a shame if that's all the world remembered.
Havel seemed unhappy in the role of leader. It's possible than he lost sight of his deepest insights, his truest gifts. It was the outsider Havel, the dreamer of the impossible, the surrealist and absurdist, we should remember. That's the Havel who can and should inspire dissidents everywhere.
"Is the human word truly powerful enough to change the world and influence history?" he once asked. With his life and his words, Václav Havel gave us his answer. He showed us the power in each individual and the responsibility that accompanies that power.
At his best, and above all else, Havel was a dissident outsider who realized his power and used it. Now it's our turn.
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23:00:00 11/27/11
Augmented Reality will lead the future
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TEDxRotterdam - Sander Veenhof- Augmented Reality will lead the future SANDER VEENHOF - augmented reality will lead the future Sander Veenhof is making art projects on the cross section of art and computer science. But that's not all. Veenhof is more than just an artist who knows how to handle computers. He leads the way by using his considerable knowledge of emerging technologies to shape works of art that extend our spatial perceptions and wipe out the assumption that virtual reality isn't real. Have you always dreamt of your art being exhibited in the New York Museum of Modern Art? Have you always wanted to go on a wildlife safari? Or are you bursting to reshape the city you live in? Then augmented reality might make your dreams come true. Veenhof will take you to a world where virtual and physical reality merge. About TEDx, x = independently organized eventâ In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
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19:40:26 11/22/11
The World is My Classroom
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Learn how a virtual, global, and culturally-blended classroom is not just a dream, it’s a reality. Listen to stories from classrooms in a small rural P12 school that is isolated culturally and geographically where innovative technology is used to engage students allowing them to connect, communicate and collaborate with students/classrooms across the globe. This is a big classroom where:- •blended classrooms may be global in nature •learning is 24/7/365 •Experts and students of all ages learn together – learning is vertical and horizontal •learning goes beyond physical walls •global projects are encouraged •learning can be ‘messy’ but the learning outcomes amazing! Listen to classroom stories, learn of favourite online tools to use and ways to use them. Explore different ways to get connected to others, join projects and how to have your students take initiative
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10:51:33 11/16/11
Chocolate Dreams Come True
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Chocolate Dreams Come True
For more news visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Follow us on Facebook ☛ me.lt The 14th annual Chocolate Show in New York has attracted hundred of chocolate lovers. The four-day event features more than 60 chocolate vendors, artisans, and celebrities from around the globe. And it showcases some of the world's finest chocolate. Walnut topped, sugar encrusted, blueberry filled, and cheerio-topped mounds of some of the world's finest dripping, oozing, freshly-made, hand-spun, and personally-crafted chocolates. Delights created by some of the finest in all the chocolate lands. And this is all happening in one room, for four days, in New York City. This year's 14th annual Chocolate Show has brought hundreds of chocolate lovers from around the world. They're eagerly waiting for a chance to experience what the founder of the Chocolate Show says, can only be described as magic. [Franesois Geantet, Founder Chocolate Show]: "Chocolate is really a link between people. We want small people eating chocolate, all people...because chocolate is magic. It's a luxury product for everyone. Everyone can eat chocolate and have pleasure. Chocolate is a way to mix people together. It's a link between North and South%mdasha unique link, with pleasure. It's why chocolate is magic." Despite long lines to get inside, and an almost forty dollar-a-piece ticket price%mdashwell, once inside%mdashit proved to be well worth the wait. Not just for chocolate lovers, but also for the vendors ... From: NTDTV Views: 0 3 ratings Time: 02:47 More in News & Politics
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16:36:00 10/23/11
TWC9: Roslyn, Angry Birds in Expression, VS 11 Training Kit, BUILD Hands-on Labs and a Holodesk
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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint (recorded on the road again (sorry about the audio), this time at the departure gate in John Wayne Airport, California) discuss the week's top developer news, including:
* [0:36] Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP , Whitepaper: Roslyn Project Overview , Walkthroughs: Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP , Roslyn CTP Now Available , Future directions for C# and Visual Basic (Anders Hejlsberg)
* [1:25] SnagIt Live Writer Plug-in Updated (Rick Strahl)
* [1:52] Introducing the OData Library (Shayne Burgess)
* [2:18] PASS Events OData Feed Browser App for Windows Phone 7.5 (Glenn Gailey)
* [2:45] [Tutorial + Video] Creating a small Angry Birds clone for Windows Phone in 5 minutes (Δημήτρης Γκανάτσιος) [Found via reddit/wp7dev , [Tutorial + Video] Creating a small Angry Birds clone for Windows Phone in 5 minutes ]
* [2:55] Deep dive into the LinkedIn API: Use C# to search for your dream Job (writing C# ) (Gal Ratner)
* [3:15] The Cloud Gourmet 30-Minute Meal: Simple Database Migration to SQL Azure (David Pallmann)
* [3:35] Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit October 2011 Released
* [3:55] New Windows Phone 7.1(5) SketchFlow Tutorials on .toolbox , NEW! Using SketchFlow Part 1: Discovering Basic Principles of UX Design for Windows Phone Codenamed "Mango" , NEW! Using SketchFlow Part 2: Adding References and Sample Data to your Windows Phone Codenamed "Mango" Project , NEW! Using SketchFlow Part 3: Creating a Customized WrapPanel for Windows Phone Codenamed "Mango" , NEW! Using SketchFlowPart 4: Customizing Existing Controls to Create the UI for Windows Phone Codenamed "Mango" , NEW! Using SketchFlow Part 5: Adding Behaviors to Your ListBoxItems for Windows Phone Codenamed "Mango"
* [4:15] Hands-On Labs [Found via Think LINQ , Windows 8 Hands On Labs available ]
Picks of the Week!
* Dan's AND Clint's Pick of the Week! [4:35] Microsoft Research shows Holodesk
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16:36:00 10/23/11
TWC9: Roslyn, Angry Birds in Expression, VS 11 Training Kit, BUILD Hands-on Labs and a Holodesk
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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint (recorded on the road again (sorry about the audio), this time at the departure gate in John Wayne Airport, California) discuss the week's top developer news, including:
* [0:36] Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP , Whitepaper: Roslyn Project Overview , Walkthroughs: Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP , Roslyn CTP Now Available , Future directions for C# and Visual Basic (Anders Hejlsberg)
* [1:25] SnagIt Live Writer Plug-in Updated (Rick Strahl)
* [1:52] Introducing the OData Library (Shayne Burgess)
* [2:18] PASS Events OData Feed Browser App for Windows Phone 7.5 (Glenn Gailey)
* [2:45] [Tutorial + Video] Creating a small Angry Birds clone for Windows Phone in 5 minutes (Δημήτρης Γκανάτσιος) [Found via reddit/wp7dev , [Tutorial + Video] Creating a small Angry Birds clone for Windows Phone in 5 minutes ]
* [2:55] Deep dive into the LinkedIn API: Use C# to search for your dream Job (writing C# ) (Gal Ratner)
* [3:15] The Cloud Gourmet 30-Minute Meal: Simple Database Migration to SQL Azure (David Pallmann)
* [3:35] Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit October 2011 Released
* [3:55] New Windows Phone 7.1(5) SketchFlow Tutorials on .toolbox , NEW! Using SketchFlow Part 1: Discovering Basic Principles of UX Design for Windows Phone Codenamed "Mango" , NEW! Using SketchFlow Part 2: Adding References and Sample Data to your Windows Phone Codenamed "Mango" Project , NEW! Using SketchFlow Part 3: Creating a Customized WrapPanel for Windows Phone Codenamed "Mango" , NEW! Using SketchFlowPart 4: Customizing Existing Controls to Create the UI for Windows Phone Codenamed "Mango" , NEW! Using SketchFlow Part 5: Adding Behaviors to Your ListBoxItems for Windows Phone Codenamed "Mango"
* [4:15] Hands-On Labs [Found via Think LINQ , Windows 8 Hands On Labs available ]
Picks of the Week!
* Dan's AND Clint's Pick of the Week! [4:35] Microsoft Research shows Holodesk
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17:25:53 10/05/11
Social Wire For Small Businesses: Monica By The Shore
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Social Wire For Small Businesses: Monica By The Shore
Monica Parker is a prime example of someone who is living out her dream, but that required learning how to use the web to maximize her global reach, and becoming a top link in Google search. From: kitvtv Views: 11 0 ratings Time: 03:57 More in News & Politics
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17:25:53 10/05/11
Social Wire For Small Businesses: Monica By The Shore
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Social Wire For Small Businesses: Monica By The Shore
Monica Parker is a prime example of someone who is living out her dream, but that required learning how to use the web to maximize her global reach, and becoming a top link in Google search. From: kitvtv Views: 11 0 ratings Time: 03:57 More in News & Politics
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17:23:56 09/28/11
Goodbye 9: Nic Fillingham Exit Interview
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Nic Fillingham is moving on from Channel 9. It's been a fun four years or so and he's done some great stuff as a member of our small team. Nic's the guy behind Channel 9 Live and he's helped to improve the physical quality of Channel 9 media (16x9, 720p HD, etc). He's also been the champion of live streaming for our key events.
Nic will be heading to the Windows Live team where he'll be working on the Hotmail product as a program manager repsonsible for...something. This is Nic's lifelong dream and we're happy to see it finally realized
Best of luck, mate. We'll miss you!
