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Xbox and Zune to Undergo Painful Service Outage on Monday, Down ...

Brendan I. Microsoft has scheduled simultaneous service outages for its Xbox Live and Zune platforms this Monday, September 29th, starting at 12:01 PST. These "regularly scheduled maintenance" outages will take up to 24 hours for Xbox Live and up to 48 hours for Zune. Xbox Live will be offline, and you won't even be able to bitch about it because the official Xbox forums will be down as well. Be-masked Xbox spokesperson Major Nelson confirms that there will be no updates whatsoever to the service, especially not the Xbox Experience update due this fall, so quit bugging him about it. Zune, for its part, will lose Zune Social, the Zune Marketplace and the Zune.net forums, again with absolutely no new features when the service is back up and running. So, commenters, how are you going to deal with what I've just decided to name the Great Microsoft Service Outage of 2008? Read a book? Go to work? Not care because you've never even seen a Zune in real life? In order to view comments on gi...
Originally from: http://gizmodo.com/5055833/xbox-and-zune-to-undergo-painful-service-outage-on-monday-down-for-up-to-48-hours

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Sherman school board hears updates on district's various projects

ElementById? document.getElementById("describe") : document.all? document.all.describe : document.layers? 1)? BY K. As of the beginning of the third week of school, 6,522 students were enrolled across the district, said Lynn Burton, assistant superintendent. With the exception of three, all classes were under the state maximum student-to-teacher ratio of 22-1. Burton also spoke about CSCOPE, the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative's curriculum support system. The curriculum addition will take time and dedication on the part of staff, but Burton said that the program is worth it. The ongoing construction throughout the district was also a focus of the meeting. Construction continues at Sherman High School, with the front entrance and some eating areas as well as the gym, and at Fred Douglass school, with the cafeteria/gym area. Though some construction at Douglass was delayed, Edward said, the construction will push on. Superintendent Al Hambrick said that bo...
Originally from: http://www.heralddemocrat.com/hd/News/A1-Sherman-School-Board-Sept-15

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Fiction Reviews

Lowboy John Wray. Wray's captivating third novel drifts between psychological realities while exploring the narrative poetics of schizophrenia. The story centers on Will Heller, a 16-year-old New Yorker who has stopped taking his antipsychotic medication and wandered away from the mental hospital into the subway tunnels believing that the world will end within a few hours and that only he can save it. It's a novel that defies easy categorization, although in one sense it's a mystery, as a detective, Lateef, is on the case, assisted by Will's troubled mother, Violet. As Lateef tracks Will and gains some startling insight into Violet, Wray deploys brilliant hallucinatory visuals, including chilling descriptions of the subway system and an imaginary river flowing beneath Manhattan. In his previous works, Wray has shown that he's not a stranger to dark themes, and with this tightly wound novel, he reaches new heights. Flying Eric Kraft. This chunky paperback collects Flying Home, the fi...
Originally from: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6597430.html?industryid=47159

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