Does the Latest Google Chrome Break Offline Gmail?

Wondering about upgrading to Chrome 28? I say, Take it slow.

My hypothesis is that the latest Chrome does break offline Gmail, based on the following experimental evidence:

Act One: About eight hours ago, as noted in a choleric-themed dispatch, I observed that I had been out of range for a long time, and was way backed up on messages to answer. So I loaded up the Gmail Offline queue on my computer* as I prepared for the long flight back to DC.

While I was still in the San Diego airport, my offline Gmail screen looked like this -- messages deliberately blurred up but still included to show that there was something in there to answer:

Oh, yes, I forgot to mention that this morning I got a self-update note from Google's Chrome, which is my main web browser, announcing that it was installing the latest exciting new release, Chrome 28. As shown on my machine just now:

Act Two: I get on the plane and settle in for five hours of catching up. I jam my knees into the seat-back ahead of me, so that the louche-seeming character there can't recline all the way back into my lap (ie, "working" area). Obviously I am no longer connected (this is a United flight, with no GoGo etc). And when I call up Offline Gmail, I see this:

In case you can't read it, it says "No offline messages." Ie, of the several zillion messages I am worried about, exactly zero are available for handling during the next five hours. I spend two minutes grinding my teeth about this. Then I decide to read a book -- The Last Good Chance, by Tom Barbash, a very good novel I like a lot -- and later to watch a movie, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. Hey, you've got to go high-low. All in all, this may have been a better way to spend those five hours. But if there had been something really crucial, I might have been less serene.

Acts Three and Four: I test my hypothesis again when I get home.?

• When I have a working connection, Gmail Offline loads up all the messages the way I would expect.?
• But if I turn off the Wifi on my computer, I get the same "No offline messages" that so startled me on the plane.
• [Update] On my other computer, with the older version of Chrome (27.0.1453.110), Gmail Offline still works OK whether it has a connection or not.

Message for the computing public: If you have an option about upgrading Chrome to version 28, I say: What's the rush? At least if you might want to do some offline work, you could wait until they iron this wrinkle out.

Message for Google: Hey, please fix this. It's good to "fail fast," but it's also good to fix things fast after they fail. While you're at it, could you please also fix the *long-standing Gmail Offline bug, mentioned frequently in this space, that concerns how much mail it should cache? In theory you can choose: mail from the past week, past 2 weeks, past month. In practice, no matter what you choose, in a day or two it sneaks back to "past week," so you have to remember before any trip to go in and change it to past month.

So tomorrow will be the time to deal with those stacked-up must-answer messages.

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Routine disclosure: I have many friends who work at Google, though perhaps fewer now than before this post. Also, one of my sons works there, though not on Gmail Offline.?

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Huntsman Marine Science Centre: Intro. to Marine Biology cont.

On Tuesday the students in the Introduction to Marine Biology course began the morning at Holey Point exploring the intertidal zone and collecting specimens to study further in the lab later that morning. After lunch students performed a lab to investigate whether or not the size of an echinoderm affects how quickly it can right itself when turned over. The afternoon ended with a tour of the Fundy Discovery Centre.? In the evening it was time to learn more about the invasive species of the area.

On Wednesday the theme of invasive species was continued as students marked Green Crabs at
Pottery Creek.? After lunch fish were studied in more detail and the students toured the Atlantic Reference Centre to view their vast and varied collections.

Tracey explains what to look for and where to find it.

Some students stayed on the beach, others tested the waters.

You had to step carefully on the seaweed to avoid slipping.

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Sea Urchins were found just past the low tide mark.

Here Tracey shows the difference between a Common Periwinkle and a Dogwinkle.

There are some interesting rock formations on the beach.

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In the lab to try and identify the intertidal and subtidal species collected.

The lab binder was useful in identifying this Green Crab.

This student carefully examines his specimen.

It took a lot of patience to wait for some of these echinoderms to turn over.

Waiting for a seastar to flip.

The touchpool was a very popular part of the tour.

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A nice slimy Moonsnail.

Look! Sponge!

Source: http://huntsmaneducation.blogspot.com/2013/07/intro-to-marine-biology-cont.html

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Investing | Financial Post

Reports on Lululemon Athletica Inc. these days are looking less like a yoga position than they are a yo-yo

The Toronto stock market closed slightly higher Wednesday amid another sign of a slowing Chinese economy and little in the minutes from the latest U.S. Federal Reserve meeting to indicate when the central bank might move on relaxing its economic stimulus program

Even as consensus built within the Federal Reserve in June about the likely need to begin pulling back on economic stimulus measures soon, many officials wanted more reassurance the employment recovery was on solid ground before a policy retreat

The sell-off in Canadian telecom stocks following news last month that Verizon Communications Inc. wants to buy its way into Canada shows how much investors are willing to pay in the first place for companies profiting from high industry barriers to entry

The euro zone, still drowning in debt bequeathed by the great financial crisis, increasingly resembles Japan in the 1990s as it struggled with its own balance sheet recession brought on by the bursting of an almighty asset bubble

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Pope heads to Sicily to pray with new migrants

LAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) ? Pope Francis heads Monday to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa for his first pastoral visit outside Rome, going to the farthest reaches of Italy to pray with migrants who have recently arrived by boat and mourn those who have died trying.

Francis, a pope from "the end of the Earth" whose ancestors immigrated to Argentina from Italy, has a special place in his heart for refugees: As archbishop of Buenos Aires, he denounced the exploitation of migrants as "slavery" and said those who did nothing to help them were complicit by their silence.

On Monday, he will arrive at Lampedusa's port by boat, as the migrants do, and will throw a floral wreath into the sea in memory of those who died trying to reach the island, which is closer to Africa than the Italian mainland and is the frequent landing place for smugglers' boats leaving from Libya or Tunisia.

According to the U.N. refugee agency, 8,400 migrants have landed in Italy and Malta in the first six months of the year, almost double the 4,500 who arrived during the first half of 2012. It's still a far cry from the tens of thousands who flooded to Italy during the Arab Spring exodus of 2011.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees has recorded 40 deaths in the first half of 2013, and a total of 500 for all of 2012, based on interviews with survivors. Fortress Europe, an Italian observatory that tracks migrant deaths reported by the media, says about 6,450 people died in the Canal of Sicily between 1994 and 2012.

Francis decided somewhat at the last minute to visit Lampedusa, a treeless, strip of an island nine kilometers (four miles) long, after reports of nearly a dozen migrants lost at sea a few weeks ago. The decision, announced July 1, left the island struggling to bring in enough security forces, portable bathrooms, ambulances and other necessities for its first papal visit.

Mayor Giusi Nicolini said the Vatican had explicitly requested a simple affair, in keeping with Francis' humble take on the papacy. He will greet a few dozen migrants upon arrival at the port and celebrate Mass on the main sports field, located near the "boat cemetery" that houses the remains of broken migrant ships that have reached Lampedusa's rocky shores. On Sunday, yellow and white Vatican flags fluttered atop the rotting boats.

A small, colorful boat has been turned into the altar where Francis will celebrate Mass, and pieces of wood from wrecked migrant boats have been crafted into his pastoral staff and the chalice that will be used at Mass.

The pope will visit the local church and then fly back to Rome before lunchtime.

"It will be a strong, a very strong message to open up the silence that covers up the deaths and this injustice of the Mediterranean," Nicolini told reporters Sunday. "What is launched here will help Lampedusa feel that it's not alone, that it's welcome in Europe."

The island, and Italy as a whole, has insisted that the Europe Union craft a comprehensive migration policy so that the Mediterranean border countries don't have to bear the burden of housing, screening and caring for migrants on their own. The cry has swelled again as the summer season, calm seas and unrest in Egypt and Syria encourage ever more people to make the crossing.

"Lampedusa is the 'Checkpoint Charlie' of the third millennium," Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told Parliament this week. "Lampedusa is the frontier of Europe, and taking care of it isn't a national interest but a European interest."

Italy enraged the UNHCR in 2009 when it started sending migrants intercepted at sea back to Libya without screening them first for asylum. Just last week, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat refused to exclude sending migrants back to Libya unless the EU shows greater solidarity.

"Malta cannot leave its doors open wide and welcome boats from Libya and elsewhere as if nothing happened," he told a news conference after 290 migrants were rescued from a drifting boat south of the island nation. "Call us harsh, call us heartless, but we are not pushovers. Malta expected to be shown the same solidarity it had shown to countries which have received bailouts in recent years."

Francis is expected to ask both governments and local residents to continue opening their doors. The Vatican has said he wants to "encourage the island's inhabitants and appeal to the responsibility of all that they care for these brothers and sisters in such extreme need."

It's a message he has made repeatedly, most recently when he greeted members of the Vatican's office for migrants in May, and before that in 2008, when he celebrated Mass at a sanctuary for immigrants in Buenos Aires marking World Refugee Day. Then, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio decried subtle and not-so-subtle forms of xenophobia and exploitation of refugees, and noted that "we all are migrants, because no one stays put forever."

"We are complicit by our silence, by doing nothing, by turning to those who are responsible to find solutions, by our apathy," he said then.

Lampedusa, with a local population of roughly 5,000 people, has struggled to keep up with the pressure of receiving boatload after boatload of migrants, many from sub-Saharan Africa but also from Egypt, Pakistan and Syria. The island's holding center has room for nearly 400 migrants, but it often houses hundreds more awaiting transfer to the Italian mainland. Protests, including some in recent days, are common.

One Eritrean man, who was prevented by Italian authorities from being identified for privacy reasons, said Sunday he left his wife and two children to reach Italy, making his way through Sudan and the Egyptian desert to Libya where he boarded a boat. He said he hopes to reach his uncle in Norway and find work.

"I made this huge sacrifice," he told The Associated Press on Sunday at the holding center. "The journey was terrible, but I don't feel lost. I had to do it for my family, for my wife and children."

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Nicole Winfield reported from Vatican City. Michele Barbero in Rome and Stephen Calleja in Valletta, Malta, contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pope-heads-sicily-pray-migrants-162821598.html

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Andrew Wiggins On Path to No. 1 Pick in 2014 NBA Draft

In roughly one year, soon-to-be NBA commissioner Adam Silver will step up to the podium and announce Andrew Wiggins, a forward from Kansas, as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft.

Go to the bank and take out all of your money. Then, bet on Wiggins going No. 1.

Where will Wiggins be drafted in 2014?

Where will Wiggins be drafted in 2014?

• No. 1 Overall Pick

• Top 5 Selection

• Lottery or Later

• Undrafted...

• He'll Stay at Kansas

Total votes: 248

Wiggins is one of the best high school prospects of all time, and there?s no question that he?s going to make a big impact with the Jayhawks next season. The Huntington Prep product from Ontario has dominated every single high school player who has tried to slow him down. He?s a remarkable talent and could be the next LeBron James.

While Wiggins has yet to even play a game of collegiate basketball, everyone is drooling all over him?and for good reason. Wiggins is a 6'8" forward who can play three positions, score from nearly anywhere on the court, dunk over any opponent and put his team on his back each and every night.

Kansas may not have the best recruiting class in the nation?that title goes to Kentucky?but Bill Self got himself the top prospect in the country. Wiggins will likely only stay in college for one year and then enter the draft, but it?s going to be one special year for the Jayhawks basketball program.

The Jayhawks should take care of all of the teams in the Big 12 and head into the NCAA tournament as favorites, with Wiggins leading the way. He will definitely be in the conversation for National Player of the Year and could take home a national championship as well.

Kansas has only had one No. 1 overall pick in the program?s history?Danny Manning back in 1988. Wiggins is bound to be the second Jayhawk to go first and also the second Canadian-born player as well, as pointed out by Michael Lee of The Washington Post:

This year?s draft wasn?t filled with as much talent as there is expected to be next year, and most of the hype surrounds the incoming freshman class. As Chad Ford of ESPN writes (subscription required), Wiggins is one of seven potential freshman lottery picks for 2014, which would tie the record set in 2008.

While Nerlens Noel, Anthony Bennett and Alex Len were all talented prospects, among others, the 2013 draft class was very weak. Alex Kennedy of USA Today made a suggestion as to what Wiggins should have done last Thursday night?hinting that Wiggins is much more talented than anyone who just got drafted:

Wiggins is a very unique player, as he doesn?t really acknowledge the attention he gets. As Eric Prisbell of USA Today writes, Wiggins wasn?t even aware that basically everyone in the country was watching him and that many coaches were recruiting him to go to a variety of top schools.

It?s expected that Wiggins will be able to handle the pressure. Sure, he?s going to an enormous basketball school and fans will be packed into Allen Fieldhouse to watch his every move, but he's done a good job of being a model player thus far. He admires Kevin Durant because of how he acts on and off the floor, per Prisbell. If he responds to his stardom in a similar fashion, Wiggins will be fine at Kansas.

We already know what he?s capable of doing on the court, and he will quickly prove to scouts that he?s worthy of the No. 1 pick. Ford writes that he hasn?t come across a scout or general manager who doesn?t think Wiggins is the top prospect for the 2014 draft. That speaks to how talented the forward truly is.

Wiggins will be a star at Kansas and will be the first overall selection in the 2014 NBA draft. It may seem crazy to say that this early, and while Wiggins has zero experience in college, he deserves all of the hype. He?s earned it.

Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1689497-andrew-wiggins-on-path-to-no-1-pick-in-2014-nba-draft

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