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Cleveland Indians' Michael Brantley (23) hits an RBI-single against Minnesota Twins relief pitcher Alex Burnett as Twins' Joe Mauer, right, watches during the seventh inning Friday night.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Russ Canzler provided the type of hitting performance that made him one of Cleveland's top minor-league prospects. David Huff finally turned in the type of pitching effort that had eluded him in the majors.
Both players have another month to show they can consistently perform like this and prove they belong in the big leagues.
Canzler hit his first major-league homer, Huff came on in relief to get his first win this season and the Cleveland Indians beat the Minnesota Twins 7-6 on Friday night. Canzler went 3 for 4 with a walk and three RBIs — the first RBIs of his major league career — and Huff retired all 10 batters he faced after relieving starter Jeanmar Gomez in the fourth.
With his team 16 1/2 games behind Chicago in the AL Central, Indians manager Manny Acta's focus has turned to evaluating his prospects for next season. Canzler and Huff both spent most of the year in Triple-A Columbus before being called up this month.
That was particularly tough on Huff, who started 48 games in his major-league career but won only two games in 2011. Friday night marked only his second career relief appearance.
"Honestly, I didn't even know I was going to get in tonight," Huff said. "I had, from what I was told, a 10-percent chance of getting in. And when that phone rang, they called my name."
Minnesota built an early lead on Indians starter Jeanmar Gomez before Huff's name was called. Josh Willingham hit a two-run double and Justin Morneau added a sac fly in the third to give Twins starter Liam Hendriks a 4-0 lead.
"He pretty much saved the day for us," Acta said. "He came in and shut them down and gave us an opportunity to come back and win the ball game."
Canzler started the rally with a two-run homer in the fourth.
Then in the fifth, Shin-Soo Choo added an RBI single and Canzler drove in Jason Kipnis on a grounder down the third-base line to tie it.
Acta, though, cautioned against reading too much into Canzler's hitting.
"Let the kid play," he said. "It's not enough to make an assessment. He goes 0 for next week and you'll be asking me 'why is he up here?'"
For now, anyway, the signs are encouraging. Hendriks, meanwhile, couldn't hold onto a four-run lead for the second straight game and remained winless in 16 career starts.
"I'm trying not to think about it too much," Hendriks said. "It's going to come."
Unlike Huff, Hendriks wasn't able to keep his fastballs down in the strike zone.
"You get a lead, you have to go attack the strike zone," said Twins manager Ron Gardenhire. "If he wants to get a win in this league, you have to go attack hitters. If they beat you, make them beat you swinging. Not putting guys on, not going to 3-2 counts with every hitter. He hasn't been able to do it consistently."
Sloppy play hurt the Twins in the seventh when Tyler Robertson (1-2) caught Kipnis stealing, but Kipnis reached second anyway when Pedro Florimon missed a throw from Morneau.
Two batters later, Michael Brantley gave Cleveland the lead when he singled off Alex Burnett to drive in Kipnis. Casey Kotchman then snapped a 0-for-15 slide when he singled home Carlos Santana and Burnett walked in a run to make it 7-4.
Willingham added another double in the eighth off Vinnie Pestano to drive in Joe Mauer. Pestano and Joe Smith combined for 1 2-3 innings of relief. Chris Perez gave up a leadoff double and a run in the ninth, but held on for his 35th save in 39 chances.
"It feels good, it feels really good," Huff said. "It's one of those things you just accept it and move on and get ready for the next one."
NOTES: Willingham has a career-high 101 RBIs. ... Acta said 3B Lonnie Chisenhall could rejoin the team soon if Double-A Akron is eliminated from the Eastern League playoffs this weekend. Chisenhall broke his right arm in June. ... Vinny Rottino was in the lineup in LF for the first time since being called up from Triple-A Columbus earlier this week. He's also the team's third catcher. ... Twins RF Denard Span (collarbone) said he planned to take some swings in the batting cage Friday and possibly hit outside on Saturday. He's scheduled to come off the DL next week. "The next couple days will tell me," Span said. ... The teams play the second game of their four-game series Saturday when Minnesota's Cole De Vries faces Cleveland's Zach McAllister.
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Every night is Astronomy Day
Join the party Saturday, April 28, as people around the globe take aim at the heavens for Astronomy Day. This annual event was begun in 1973 by California astronomer Doug Berger, who organized a drive to set up telescopes along city sidewalks and other public spaces so that ordinary people could better appreciate the night sky. With four of the five naked-eye planets visible along with the near-first-quarter moon, the evening shouldn't disappoint.
Even before sunset, Venus shines high in the east, so bright you can pick her out in the still-blue sky. This week marks the peak of our sister planet's evening apparition, when she blazes at –4.7 magnitude and doesn't set until near midnight. Watch over the next month as the evening star plumets toward the horizon, disappearing amid the sun's glare on June 5. On that day, Venus passes in front of — or transits — the sun, an event that won't happen again for another 105 years. Mark the date and be prepared with proper eye protection — either #14 welder's glass or eclipse glasses (www.mreclipse.com/Totality/TotalityApC.html).
As the sun dips beneath the horizon, look to the west for Jupiter just above the horizon for 45 minutes at best.
Sunset finds Mars high in the southern sky. Five degrees to the west is the blue-white heart of Leo the lion, Regulus. Monday evening, Mars travels the heavens with the waxing gibbous moon.
Saturn rises in the southeast a little before the sun sets in the northwest. Shining no brighter than the average star, Saturn is set apart by its steady yellow glow. See for yourself, comparing the ringed planet to nearby Spica, twinkling just a few degrees below Saturn.

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She sings, she acts – and she's a major star in the East. But multi-award-winning MO Fan Karen Mok still has ambitions aplenty. Here, she tells MO about her plans for world domination
Karen Mok is riding the crest of a personal and professional wave right now, with marriage to her childhood sweetheart and a film role with Hollywood heart-throb Keanu Reeves under her belt. The first part of the Reeves-directed Man of Tai Chi was filmed in the Chinese capital, Beijing, before the production moved to Mok's home town of Hong Kong. The singer and actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films, including the smash-hit Shaolin Soccer and Fallen Angels by indie-favourite director Wong Kar-wai, also recently picked up her second Golden Melody Award (a prestigious accolade in Chinese-speaking countries) for Best Female Mandarin Artist, and last year saw her complete a major concert tour. Next, she plans to record an English-language album to introduce her music to a global audience.
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You have had a hectic spell – concerts, awards and making the movie Man of Tai Chi with Keanu Reeves.
Who wouldn't want to be in a movie with Keanu Reeves?! He is a super-nice guy. I recall the first meeting, when he was looking for actors – it was good fun. We chatted about all sorts of things, mainly film, which he is passionate about. The movie is bilingual and takes place in China and Hong Kong. It is very authentic, unlike a lot of Hollywood movies set here. Most of my dialogue is in Cantonese – I play a Hong Kong cop. I think my language flexibility helped: I could have done the role in English, Cantonese or Mandarin. Keanu is also in the movie as the bad guy against my good cop. But I don't do any tai chi or kung fu – I just had to look tough!
You also sing in Mandarin and Cantonese, and are fluent in English. Which is your mother tongue?
My mother tongue is Cantonese, but I was educated in English and Mandarin came later. My family tree is like the United Nations! My paternal grandfather was Welsh and married my Chinese grandmother, so my father was Eurasian. My mum is a bit more complicated: her mother was Chinese and her dad was of Persian and German descent. And, although I have no real connection with the German side, I am now married to a German.
Many people were surprised when you announced your marriage to
your childhood sweetheart…
It sounds corny but he was my first love. I met him when I won a scholarship at 17 to study in Italy. We then moved back to our respective countries. We did meet up after 10 years, at a reunion, but I had my career and he was married at the time. I think there is something about your first love; it is just special. And many years later, fate intervened and we decided that we belonged to each other. Marriage is great –
I recommend it to all my friends! It's a wonderful institution that has worked for thousands of years.
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How did you get into show business?
When I was a student in London I went to an open audition for
Miss Saigon in the West End and they took me into the training group. At that time, I met some Hong Kong people who were writing songs and they needed someone who could sing in Cantonese. I did it, and the tapes found their way back here to Hong Kong. The record company bought the songs, noticed my voice, checked me out and signed me up.
So you missed out on a possible musical-theatre career?
Well, it was a dilemma for me. I was hoping to play Miss Saigon one day, but at the same time I was offered the recording deal in Hong Kong. As it turned out, many years later, I got the chance to play the lead in Rent. I was the first Asian to do that role. It was fun – and gruelling. It was the Broadway cast – they were doing their 10th anniversary tour – and they wanted an Asian star
to be in the production. It was the ultimate: acting, dancing and singing, and doing it live every night, sometimes twice a day. I learned a lot from
that. For me, there is something magical about being on stage, I love every moment of it.
Do you prefer singing over acting?
Singing on stage is my favourite. When I do my own show I like to create the drama that the audience wants: you should be able to lose yourself for two hours. I have to think about all aspects of the concert. I start with the songs, and the ideas just come into my head.
I might think of a specific dance to do and the costume has to complement it. Then I might have certain props, or not, and the lighting should be in a certain way. It is all linked together. I think out the whole show – whether I should be wearing a qipao [or cheongsam] or dancing on a piano or sitting on a swing. I have worked with my team for a long time and they understand where I am coming from. And my mum comes to all my concerts. She flies all over the place – she's my super-fan!
There is something magical about being on stage, I love every moment
There is something magical about being on stage, I love every moment
What kind of venues do you play?
The theatres can hold up to 8,000 or 10,000 people. The tour of China took us all over – to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Changsha, Kunming, and to Taiwan and Hong Kong. Next year will be my 20th anniversary in the business, so I will start a new tour, maybe do an exhibition and tie up with a charity as well.
Hong Kong is your home city. What is special about it?
What I most love about Hong Kong is the energy – you can't find it anywhere else, not even in New York. People are always on the go. There is a famous saying that in Hong Kong people don't walk, they run, and it's true! I love the vibe. When I am back I am so efficient. I do so many things and multitask all the time. It's a good feeling, although some people might find it overwhelming.
What do you enjoy the most when you are there?
The Star Ferry. For those five minutes crossing the harbour you can really chill out. I get recognised, but it's not a problem. People are always nice to me. Sometimes I find I become part of the scenery when tourists from China want to take photos. They turn away from taking a picture of the Peak Tram and take a picture of me instead. I am like a tourist spot! It doesn't bother me at all, though. I'll worry when I'm not recognised!
The city is known for its fabulous food…
The dim sum, of course, is very good. One of my favourite treats is high tea at Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong. I like my scones with raisins and clotted cream. Places do it differently and some cheat by giving you whipped cream instead of clotted cream. At Mandarin Oriental, they do it properly and the rose-petal jam is also delicious.
What are your plans for the future?
I want to reach a wider audience with my music; I don't want to confine myself to singing in Chinese just because I am from Hong Kong. My next album will be in English and released globally. I want to reach out to different people. The songs will have my own compositions and possibly cover versions, and there will be a major tour. I want to conquer the world!
Do you have any favourite Mandarin Oriental hotels?
Mandarin Oriental, Paris is a new favourite, because we went there on our honeymoon recently. We spent some of it in Italy and Bordeaux, and then we went to Paris – staying there was superb. In Paris, I love the macaroons and chocolates; it is all about the food and the wine. I don't have to shop till I drop – I prefer going to the Louvre or walking in the park.
I also like The Spa at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London and the restaurant, where you can get a table right by the window and look out over the park – it's a great way to have breakfast. I love London because you can do anything: stroll into a museum or go to the theatre or the park. If I do go shopping, I like to check out the flea markets such as on the Portobello Road in Notting Hill. It's interesting to find special pieces that are unique.
The Mandarin Oriental Fan Campaign picture, shot outdoors in Milan, is very Hepburn-esque…
I loved the whole idea, but the shooting was a nightmare: it was cold and wet, but we managed to get the shot and
it is beautiful. The photographer, Mary McCartney, is incredible – she brought her baby with her to Milan.
Why did you become a Fan of Mandarin Oriental?
I only go for the best! And it meant I could pick a charity that the Hotel Group would donate money to. I chose Animals Asia, which campaigns to stop the practice of caging bears to take their bile. It's very cruel and should not exist in the modern world. When I first read about it, I was horrified. That was 10 years ago and I later became patron of the charity. I am also involved in a charity called Care for Children, which finds homes for orphans. We believe that if a child grows up in an environment filled with love, it will make a big difference. I also go on field trips with Unicef.
I have been doing charity work since I was a kid – it is in our family. My parents taught me to do what I could to help those less fortunate than myself. Being in this profession makes my voice heard and I feel that
I have a responsibility to do good things.
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Jumping Ahead to Coercion
The following is the second post in Professor Nicole Huberfeld's month-long series on the Medicaid cases pending before the United States Supreme Court over at Concurring Opinions:
I had intended to address Douglas next, as it is a nice gateway for discussing Florida v. HHS, but a defense of the coercion argument just published in the New England Journal of Medicine Online inspired me to address the latter first. I will begin by discussing why I think the Court granted the petition for certiorari then turn to the Medicaid coercion question.
The Rehnquist Court excluded the Spending Clause from its federalism revolution inasmuch as that would have meant limiting the power to spend by the Tenth Amendment. When Chief Justice Rehnquist authored South Dakota v. Dole, the evidence is that he believed it was an easy and relatively inconsequential case. For those sane enough not to engage in the reading of tea leaves that is deciphering the spending power, a quick review. Dole articulates typical Rehnquist categories for evaluating the constitutionality of conditions placed on federal spending: the spending must be for the general welfare; the conditions must be clear and unambiguous (as modified by Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy); the conditions must have a nexus with the federal spending ("germaneness"); and the conditions cannot themselves be unconstitutional. After providing this test, Rehnquist noted that "in some circumstances the financial inducement offered by Congress might be so coercive as to pass the point at which 'pressure turns into compulsion.'" No theory or constitutional provision was cited, but the opinion indicated that coercion would depend on the amount of money or percentage of money withheld if the state violates the conditions. It seems that the Court meant that coercion would be a Tenth Amendment, state sovereignty problem. But, Dole also explicitly stated that the Tenth Amendment was not implicated in the bar on unconstitutional conditions. So, while Dole provides the test for conditional spending, it is undertheorized and a bit self-contradictory. Nevertheless, the Rehnquist Court reiterated that the Spending Clause is not limited by the Tenth Amendment in New York v. U.S. and held to that position in subsequent cases, disappointing many who believed spending to be the next front in judicially-enforced federalism.
The Roberts Court has given hints now as to its approach to spending as well as federalism, and members of the Court have signaled interest in revisiting both topics. For example, Justice Kennedy's concurrence in Comstock stated: "The limits upon the spending power have not been much discussed, but if the relevant standard is parallel to the Commerce Clause cases, then the limits and the analytic approach in those precedents should be respected." Justice Kennedy also addressed broader federalism concerns in that concurrence, which were given free rein in his opinion for the Court in Bond v. U.S. as well. Likewise, Justice Alito's opinion in Arlington was written as a spending power decision rather than a limited statutory interpretation, which I have written elsewhere resulted in a narrower clear statement rule for the second element of the Dole test.
Additionally, even though the Court seems to dislike hearing both spending and healthcare cases, it already has heard Douglas this term, so spending, federalism, and Medicaid are fresh in the justices' minds. And, what could be a better vehicle for considering coercion than the largest grant-in-aid program that also constitutes the second largest portion of states' budgets? (Education is first.) Further, numerous lower federal courts have attempted to construe coercion, but none have struck down federal legislation under the doctrine, making the issue ripe for the Court's consideration.
Despite the idea of coercion arising repeatedly in federalism cases over the last thirty-ish years, its contours are unknown. At what point is the money being offered too much? And is the offer really the issue, or is the problem the amount or percent of money a state stands to lose if it does not comply with the conditions? (Dole indicated the latter, as South Dakota was not coerced because it would lose only 5% of its federal highway funding if it refused to comply with the minimum drinking age that the federal government sought to impose.) Can coercion only apply to an existing conditional spending program that a state could not leave because it has become dependent on the program? Or is there some federal program that would offer so much money that no state could turn it down, even at the outset, such that the new program would be coercive? If it is the former, then clear statement rules also need to be revisited, because they seem to assume some kind of regular restatement of the rules of the program to which a state actively agrees. That simply does not occur in a long-standing program like Medicaid, making me think that clear statement rules are almost meaningless in that context. Additionally, states inherently relinquish some sovereignty when they agree to the terms of a cooperative federalism program, highlighting tensions between dual sovereignty and cooperative federalism.
So, what is the upshot for the Medicaid expansion? [more after the jump]
As I wrote last week, PPACA makes anyone under the age of 65 and earning less than 133% of the federal poverty level eligible to enroll in Medicaid. Additionally, even though the federal government typically covers 50 to 83 cents on the Medicaid dollar, a match that varies by state per capita income and a few other factors, the federal government will pay 100% for the new population, which phases down to 90 cents on the dollar by 2020. The states do not quarrel with the philosophical change in the program, and they do not claim that any other element of the Dole test is violated; instead, they claim that the expansion is impermissibly coercive because it will be too expensive for the states, and they stand to lose all of their Medicaid funding if they refuse to enroll the newly eligible population. From a Dole perspective, this argument is smart, as it covers the most obvious interpretations of coercion.
But, from a Medicaid perspective, the argument is not persuasive for at least five reasons. First, the federal government has always mandated the fundamental elements of Medicaid, the baselines of who is eligible and what services they must receive, while allowing states options that expand on the baselines. At least twice before baseline Medicaid eligibility has been drastically expanded in this way, and the states remained in the program. Second, the federal government is totally funding the expansion initially, then primarily funding it after the start up period. Notably, a number of states have argued that they will benefit greatly from the Medicaid expansion, and they do not want to see it eliminated. Third, the states have a number of years to plan administratively and fiscally for the expansion. Even in 2014 they will only have to pay some of the administrative costs of the newly eligible (the federal government pays at least 50% of state administrative expenses in Medicaid in addition to matching medical expenditures). States have time to leave Medicaid if they choose. Fourth, though Florida et al. essentially argue they are locked-in to participating in Medicaid, and it is true that most states could not afford to run their own welfare medicine programs, it is not a direct line to concluding that states are coerced into participating in Medicaid. Perhaps it simply means that Medicaid fills a need. Fifth, spending legislation is the law of the land, just like any federal law, by virtue of the Supremacy Clause. Telling the federal government that it cannot set the terms of its own duly enacted conditional spending statute would be a dangerous step toward reversing our understanding of the power to spend as its own enumerated power, which was endorsed by Hamilton.
The coercion issue is being taken seriously and is likely to be decided with an eye toward reinforcing the federalism ideals recently articulated in Bond. I would not be surprised if a majority of justices are willing to expand the fifth element of Dole but then declare this particular act by Congress not to be unconstitutional – much like the 11th Circuit did. So many major public programs ride on conditional spending structures, all stakeholders will potentially be affected by this decision.
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries would like to advise fishermen that the Fish For the Future Foundation, a non-profit institution established to improve the scientific and economic understanding of marine fisheries management and the seafood industry in the U.S., has announced the establishment of the Gulf Fishermans Relief Fund according to the foundations Web site.
The Gulf Fishermans Relief Fund is offering to assist members of the fishing community in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and parts of Florida affected by this natural disaster.
In order to assure fairness, the fund plans to appoint an advisory panel made up of the most knowledgeable fisheries administrators within the region to review applications submitted by fishermen and assessments provided by local authorities.
Funding for the program is derived from charitable events and volunteer contributions and overhead expenses will be limited through the use of volunteers and professionals who have offered their services pro bono. The foundation is also accepting contributions from individuals, groups and corporations interested in donating to the relief fund. Checks and money orders may be sent to the Gulf Fishermans Relief Fund, 3382 Gunston Rd., Alexandria, Virginia.
Applications for assistance and more information concerning the relief fund are available at the Fish For The Future Foundation Web site at http://www.fish4thefuturefoundation.org [3]. In addition to name and contact information, grant applications require information on state and federal permit type, number and effective dates, vessel information and a brief statement of losses.
EDITORS: For more information, contact Martin Bourgeois at 225-765-2401 email@example.com [4].


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Maria Damanaki
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The price of no reform
Conference "No fish left on the plate – why a radical reform of the Common Fisheries Policy is needed" organised by Fish of the Future Group
Brussels, 22 June 2011
Members of the European Parliament, ladies and gentlemen,
I thank you for organising this event and indeed this campaign on the future of fishing. The "Fish for the Future" group and I have already discussed the problems of the current CFP; and we have established that we are on the same page.
I'm glad you gave me the opportunity to share with you today what would happen if no reform took place.
Well, I must say that the prospects without change are grim.
In general terms, it's easy to see that if we don't act, we will loose one fish stock after the other, and this will have two major consequences.
One is that, since nature doesn't like voids, other species will take their place, with a chain reaction of effects that is hard to predict. And we will have changed the ecosystem for ever.
The second is that the industry will face even more economic pressure. We will loose jobs, but not just in the fishing sector itself: also in the processing industry, in transport, in port infrastructure, at auctions… down to packagers and retailers. And all of us, as consumers, will end up with less fish on our plates.
So much for the general considerations. But I can also be more specific, because the Commission just carried out some modelling exercises to define what happens under different scenarios over a time horizon until 2022.
It appears that, if we were to continue with the current CFP, the best case scenario would be modest progress for some stocks over many years.
However, at the end of the day, we would be very, very far from the environmental, economic and social objectives that we have set for European fisheries. Let me explain why.
Let's assume we continue along the path of the 2002 legislation. Let's even assume that we follow our better last years decision under the Lisbon Treaty and the improvements of the recent Control package and of the long-term plans in the pipeline; let's say there are no changes to the current financial instrument, the current market policy, the ITRs policy or the external policy. Now let's see what happens to environmental, economic and social sustainability.
Environment first. We know that, in this scenario, 9% of our stocks would be at sustainable levels by 2022 - basically those covered by long-term management plans. The others would be heading toward collapse. I believe this figure requires no further comment. We simply cannot take the risk of potentially endangering 91 percent of the fish stocks!
At the same time, fleet size would shrink in ten years by 15% in terms of number of vessels; but such modest reduction would be offset by our increasing technological power and this means that overcapacity, the main driver of all our problems, would remain; as would overfishing and the high levels of discards.
Economically speaking, some fleets would still be profitable; but all would be vulnerable to fluctuations in first sale prices or fuel prices. The overall financial performance of the EU fleet would not improve. We'd still have to put up with the constant demands for higher fishing limits on the part of the sector. We'd still be likely to often depart from scientific advice.
More importantly, we'd continue to face a steady need to subsidize the sector. Maintaining the current level of subsidies would simply postpone the inevitable and would do this at a high cost to taxpayers. In this perspective, subsidies such as the current Axis 1 of the European Fisheries Fund bear a heavy environmental cost and throw us deeper into the vicious circle.
In terms of social sustainability, I already said that jobs would be lost. Also, wages would remain below the national average and safety conditions would not significantly improve.
Let me be clear: whatever we do, whatever option we analyse, we will have to accept some decline in the employment rates of the catching sector, especially in the short term.
If we shrink the fleet, the staff working on the fleet will have to be helped to find another occupation elsewhere. However, we should not be tempted to artificially keep some jobs in the catching sector in the short term because the price to be paid is too high. Without change, the decline in fish stocks would lead to an even greater loss of jobs.
In reality, if we look at wages, the current CFP would perform far worse than any of the reform scenarios. The quality of employment - measured in terms of safety at work – would also get far better under the reform.
And these – wage levels and working conditions - are the really important parameters we should consider: not only because it is fair to the fishermen, but also because these are the things that may attract new people toward the fishing profession. Let us not forget that employment in the catching sector has been steadily declining in the last 15 years.
Another important social aspect is that the communities which today depend on fishing would gradually and inevitably decline. There are many such communities in the EU.
According to a study we recently conducted, fishermen are changing fishing behaviour; people are turning toward other fisheries-related activities, like processing and aquaculture, or are diversifying in favour of other maritime sectors - tourism in the first place, but also offshore energy, oil, gas and so on. This is a positive trend, which we seek to accompany with the Axis 4 of the current Fisheries Fund.
But the point is that the relative importance of the catching sector is decreasing and some of these communities may be close to a critical point below which they won't be viable any more.
There is also the aspect of governance to consider: the CFP has a very complex legal framework, which makes it very hard to implement and enforce. Maintaining the current structure would mean continuing with micro-management at the highest political level and more bureaucratic decision-making to the detriment of effectiveness and compliance.
Finally, the external dimension of the CFP has performed worse than expected. There is room for improvement, not only as regards environmental sustainability, but also in terms of international governance.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Environmental, economic and social sustainability are equally important facets of the same issue. Without environmental sustainability, it will be impossible to ensure an economically profitable and socially viable future for the fishing sector. Business as usual will consign us to a gradual decline and we can no longer afford it.
Instead, we need to shift the focal point of our common policy. We need to move away from half-measures, and last-minute crises management toward a long-term, proactive CFP.
Change will not be possible without support from Members of the European Parliament, Member States, NGOs, industry and consumers. I count on your constructive support to make this change possible. Without a reform, the loss of fish stocks and the decline of the fishing sector will be inevitable.
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I just had this great idea but just also had it spoiled i totally forgot about copyrights.. but oh well anyways. i was using midomi and i realised the user had the chance to sing into the mic and upload it so it matches to it to find the songs better. What i was thinking of is a application where users can submit covers to songs and sing into their android phones their renditions of songs *This person even though was using android phone it had a very clear nice quality audio so dont put that part down*
I think itd be great have a top weekly 7 covers of songs have a link to the real song in amazon mp3 and a search function.. pretty much the youtube of covers on android but just vocal singing and people can comment rate it.. "Promote it" *Put it upwards in the ranks towards top weekly 7*
Or maybe intergrate that into the rating like 1 - 3 stars isnt a promotion upwards of suggestions into the high weekly 7 and anything 4 and 5 starts puts a peg on it a promotion that puts it higher up. So the more promotes it gets or maybe a peg system itll pop up there and itll hit in the top 7 pegged covers all of them will include a link to the real song put in by the author or by users if the author cant be bothered too.. *Trying to figure out how id do that* Or have it auto find the song and link to it in amazon mp3 by the input field when uploading a cover like "Original Artist" "Song name" and whatever they input it finds it and adds a search function to find it in amazon mp3..
*And youtube*
All this with a nice gui so heres what we got
They open the app to a a nice smooth bright logo then the app finished loading and goes to the main menu theres options. A search bar at the top. Then beautiful square big buttons One To the top left under the bottom left of the search bar That says "Record" I'll get to where that goes later. Then to the right of that a few spaces "Your account" -Depends if the user is signed in or not itll say sign in /register When not logged in. When logged in it says You're account. Directly below that a few space is "Categorized" Then to the left of categorized is Weekly top 7. *Updated every monday morning at 12 am*.. Heres what the main screen will look like
*Top of device screen*
[-------------] [-----------]
[ ] [ Your acc ]
[*record ] [ ]
[ logo* ] [ ]
[-------------] [------------]
[-------------] [------------]
[ Weekly ] [ ]
[ Top ] [ Category ]
[ Seven ] [ ]
[-------------] [------------]
*bottom of device screen* ?HOPES THIS DOESNT GET MESSED UP DURING POSTING?
Thats the main menu i wont go into the rest that took like 30 minutes
Heres the most basic breakdown
You go into app signup /login
Your account when accesed gives you options to change your username email address user photo manage your uploads favorites etc.
Record logo when clicked gives you the option to record once recording is done it changes to a screen that allows you too Enter Original artist name, Name of song, Click genre and choose which genre they wish to set it as if not known it can be set to unknown. their name and a description and various other entry fields etc. -Won't go in detail because i myself am still working out the issues of uploading and how its going to work-
Weekly top seven.. When clicked presents a nice list style seperated by short columns when pushes turns a bright orange before going to the page its clicked When in weekly top seven it shows all song genres / unknown and when clicked presents the top 7 covers for that genre for the week *May add an additional top 100 option when menus pressed and can be toggled or something like that* anyways it has all the top seven ones when you click one it takes you to the song and the play option when you click a song i wont explain the menu for when a song is selected since this threads already nearly tooken up an hour or so of my time!!! anyways.. Moving on from weekly top seven..
Category is all the genres you can select a genre and when selected it will display a result of 20 of the latest covers for that genre you can change the view of the 20 by ratings listens or pegs *still deciding on the system as which its promoted to weekly top seven* and recently uploaded etc.. Once clicked the page refreshes and shows the new results once one is clicked it takes you to the song page which like i said i wont explain but just to note it does have "More by this author" anyways thats basically category.
So this is basicly the app in short terms possible... Record... people listen... they rate... you search... you hear people singing covers of songs maybe having instrumentals thats the bare basic.. so what do you think of my app idea..?
WOOT THANKS TO DROID DRAW droiddraw_-_live_gui_designer_no_more_manual_xml-coding-t217.html -ITS kickass :p- seen THERE i can give a VERY brokedown version of what i mean images will replace the text and i assure you itll look much better :p just a basic representation.OH SHIZZER ALSO JUST REALISED I POSTED IN WRONG SECTION :S Sorry!!!!


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"LinkedIn might not be the most exciting social network, but it's the most important when it comes to your career [and that of sharing news & branding of your business.]"
As of April 2015, the site has more than 350 million users, with 100 million based in the U.S. alone. And while you might think of LinkedIn as a tool for a job search, it can be just as effective for online networking and personal branding, whether you're looking to gain cred in your industry or are seeking new clients.
3) Go Beyond Connecting When meeting someone you'd like to work with in the future, ...follow up with a LinkedIn connection request. ...send a note in the request that references a "specific thing that you enjoyed talking to him or her about, or something you want to connect with this person about again in the future."
One way to cold-connect effectively is to ask questions, rather than pitching yourself
5) Get Your Name on the Newsfeed LinkedIn allows you to share updates to a Facebook-like newsfeed. Sharing insights and information about your industry ...of interest to your connections. ...post other people's content (or yours), work-appropriate photos, job openings at your company, and thank-yous to coworkers.
7) Networking is a Two-Way Street ...networking involves reciprocity. Actively participate in other people's content and updates. Leave comments, ask questions, or offer feedback.
Source: https://www.dailyworth.com/posts/3758-the-best-way-to-use-linkedin/9
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
EVERY social media platform has its special sauce along with the basics, such as a completed profile with a PHOTO. These 7 strategies highlight what is the unique to LinkedIn, primarily, the networks, business updates, and real life connections that follow connecting online. ~ Deb
Yes, you CAN make a difference in the lives of your current and prospective employees and patients using#SocialMedia Integrated #HealthCare.
As mentioned in the full Slideshare in the post here, a Latin motto, Suus non ut Difficile, is translated to English as "It's not that hard." It is the motto of Social Media University, Global (SMUG) at the Mayo Clinic, which is included as a case study in the SlideShare.
For many organizations, there may be an existing Facebook page or Twitter account that just needs a bit of creativity, energy, and a renewed desire to engage with colleagues, peers and patients in a transparent and honest way to help that social media account come alive, while honoring privacy and professional boundaries.
The hashtag # in the title is a 21st century way of building #socialglue and community by searching topics that help connect people of like minds and interest via Twitter and Facebook, and other social media platforms using hashtags.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Are you a leader in your healthcare organization with several social media accounts that need new energy?
This is my own new blog post as the owner of the Social Media Learning Lab. It is a part of my main work, REVELN Consulting. The many other "Scooped" post in this digital newsletter reflect my curated collection of what helps social media expand strategic connection within organizations.
Before you post links of stories that may be either inaccurate, out of date or just plain fake on social media.. Learn to find out what's real.
Know your satirical websites.
Every day, someone on my Facebook friends list posts a story from one of these places, believing that what they read is true. And each time that happens, an angel dropkicks a trashcan and facepalms on Heaven's gate. Wikipedia has a list of satirical sites. It's by no means comprehensive but next time you're not quite sure, check there first.
Websites like CreamBMP, The Daily Currant, The News Nerd and others like them aren't as much satire as they're clickbait preying on people's need for outrage. They're basically what the Enquirer is, except digital and a little bit more smug about their wackness. Whoring for pageviews is their business model. I kind of hate them with the intensity of 1,000 African suns at high noon.
There is also a website called RealorSatire.com. Use that if you're confused about whether a site is shitty satire or purporting to be real.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Good advice, good strategies. Taking it to heart and passing it along for all who use social media.
With healthcare moving in a digital direction as mobile health applications and devices continue on the rise, it makes sense that a physician's social media presence has benefits. There are dangers as well.
Used carelessly, social media can:
The American Medical Association (AMA) offers their own policy to help guide physicians' social media use, as do many other healthcare institutions. These guidelines can help:
Related social media posts by Deb:
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
These are good, practical tips that demystify having a public profile on line, via twitter, Instagram, Facebook at the like. Check out those who have gone before you successfully, in your health field, and learn from them. Medicine involves relationships, and building smart relationships and boundaries is useful in life as well as in social media. ~ Deb
Nonprofit Marketing With Google Ad Grants – How to Get $10,000 Per Month In Google Ads FREE For Your Nonprofit Marketing efforts.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Did you know about this if you are a non-profit? Such a deal! Check it out. ~ Deb
This article gives you a breakdown of the type of social media marketing tools available to help with social media and it's all broken down by categories.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Cool Tool for 2015, nicely done by categories of curation, content, engagement apps, influencer management, monitoring, social commerce and more. ~ Deb
While Facebook remains the most popular social media site, other platforms — like LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter — saw higher rates of growth over the past year. In 2014, 52% of online adults used two or more social media sites, up from 42% in 2013.
Facebook continues to be the most popular social media site, but its membership saw little change from 2013. The one notable exception is older adults: For the first time in Pew Research findings, more than half (56%) of internet users ages 65 and older use Facebook. Overall, 71% of internet users are on Facebook, a proportion that represents no change from August 2013.
Every other social media platform measured saw significant growth between 2013 and 2014.
Facebook's large base of users continues to be very active. Fully 70% engage with the site daily (and 45% do so several times a day), a significant increase from the 63% who did so in 2013. About half (49%) of Instagram users and 17% of Pinterest users engage with their respective platforms daily, although neither of these represent a significant change from 2013.
As for all Scoops, click on the photo or title to see the full article.
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Rumors of Facebook's demise have been a bit exaggerated. Social media is firmly in the mainstream of marketing, as is the growth of seniors using Facebook. Also note that based on American adults who use the internet, using several types of social media is on the rise. ~ Deb
When you're first getting started out on a social network, it seems absurd not to respond to anyone who tweets at you, good or bad. You've been told time and time again that responding to everything is a best practice for growing your following.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
For beginners or those who just want to double check their habits, this is a handy #infographic resource from HubSpot. ~ Deb
One of the magical things about Twitter is that it opens a window to the world in real-time. An event happens, and just seconds later, it's shared for people across the planet to see.
...when Flight 1549 crashed in the Hudson, @jkrums on twitter shared, "
http://twitpic.com/135xa - There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy. 3:36 PM - 15 Jan 2009
When [other] major events happened, such as when Osama bin Laden was killed, and when Mitt Romney mentioned binders during the presidential debates, people instantly came to Twitter – and, in particular, Twitter search – to discover what was happening.
...[there's a] real-time human computation engine we built that allows us to find search queries as soon as they're trending, ...[these are sent to] real humans to be judged...
...Overview....how the system works.
(1) ...we monitor for which search queries are currently popular.
Behind the scenes: we run a Storm topology that tracks statistics on search queries.
For example: the query "Big Bird" may be averaging zero searches a day, but at 6pm on October 3, we suddenly see a spike in searches from the US.
(2) Next, as soon as we discover a new popular search query, we send it to our human evaluation systems, where judges are asked a variety of questions about the query.
Behind the scenes: when [we detect] that a query has reached sufficient popularity, it ...dispatches the query to Amazon's Mechanical Turk service, and then polls Mechanical Turk for a response.
For example: as soon as we notice "Big Bird" spiking, we may ask judges on Mechanical Turk to categorize the query, or provide other information (e.g., whether there are likely to be interesting pictures of the query, or whether the query is about a person or an event) that helps us serve relevant tweets and ads.
Photo by Dixon Tam, Flickr CC
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
I'm writing a digital chapter for a professional book for Wiley that includes crowdsourcing. I was delighted to hear of this example of the human interaction in twitter and wanted to share it with you. ~ D
Anyone that still uses an Hotmail, AOL or Yahoo email address is publicly admitting that technology has passed them by. It is not that they are just uncool, they are a security risk. If you are running a business via AOL or Yahoo email, you need to know that your customers and contacts are at risk from receiving malware, spyware or other damaging payload via your email account.
Most people with Hotmail, AOL & Yahoo accounts have no idea what two-factor authentication is or how to enable it. Because of that, these email accounts are very susceptible to someone cracking the password and sending email to all of your address book and people that you have ever sent a message to or received a message from. Despite the embarrassment of having your account hacked, it is a liability to your continued business success.
Click on the photo or title to see the full post.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Two factor authentication means that Google, Facebook, Amazon, twitter, or others want an extra bit of identification, like a zip code, or to send a code to your mobile phone so that you can verify that you are who you say you are.
Personally all of my email accounts, old and new, are forwarded through Gmail. The spam is cleaned out well, and my business email account, has the personalized name REVELN.com, but is really a Google business app. It's been so helpful to keeping spam out of my way and prioritizing messages as "important."
~ Deb
"LinkedIn is an incredibly valuable business connection and resource site. When used properly."
Reach out to people you know for connections. If you want to connect with someone you don't know, tell them why – and make sure it's a business reason:
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
It's important to have a business connection of some sort, and to clarify this in your request to connect. Attempting to use a generic and impersonal request to connect could be suspect, especially if it turns out to be based on the attractiveness of a the recipients business photo. It is not the way to go to build your business.
Make your social media frequency the most valuable. Find out how often you should be posting to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and more.
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
This is another good reference to add to why, what, where, when and how for social media. This one is about how often. ~ Deb
Lee Werrell's curator insight, September 13, 2014 5:00 AM
People who blanket their ads across social media need not read this, those who are professional and courteous should.
Gary Obermeyer's curator insight, September 13, 2014 11:36 AM
Well presented information, but should not be used as gospel. things change so fast in social media that there's a half-life to just about any rules and guidelines. My best advice, have a plan that makes sense to you and pay attention to the analytics.
Nicholas C. Rossis's curator insight, September 15, 2014 8:17 AM
How not to annoy your followers on your social media: interesting for authors and non-authors alike.
"...Visual content can create the perfect balance for your blog [or message.]"
Nearly all of these are free or freemium.
Placeit is a unique tool that allows you to choose from a range of pre-made templates and backgrounds, for you to then 'place' your own images in. …[OR]…type in any URL and Placeit will automatically insert a screenshot of the page into your design.
To get the best size images and unlock more features, you will have to pay. However you can get a decently sized version of your creation to use for free.
This Chrome extension is an easy way to turn any text that you find when browsing, into a striking image that you can then share. The benefits of it being a bookmarklet, means that you don't need to leave your browser or open another tab/window, in order to create highly shareable images.
[Big Feature…it does]… a range of tasks all in one place. From presentations, infographics, animations and much more, it allows you to create some truly stunning visual content, right from your browser. No need to download any clunky software!
[The author's] …favourite graphic image design tool outside of PhotoShop. It has everything ….offering ready-to-go templates for things like flyers, social media covers, documents and more.
Who can deny the power of a great infographic? …They can also tell us a great deal about a subject in a very small space. …With over 30 chart types to choose from, there's bound to be something to get you started.
Others include SlideShare, Gimp, Tagxedo and more.
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Writing without the power of visuals is flat and boring. These tools bring your ideas to life. Stacey's made some very useful annotations about what is useful about each of the 15 tools. Great list! ~ Deb
Alfredo Corell's curator insight, September 6, 2014 8:22 AM
A short list of tools for creating visual content.
All of them are good, but are much more than these 15.
Pam Colburn Harland's curator insight, September 7, 2014 8:39 AM
Great list of useful graphics tools!
Seven reminders of why technology alone isn't enough to keep you secure.
While technology has made some kinds of fraud more difficult to commit, it's created all sorts of new opportunities for adaptable fraudsters. And even the very strongest security technology can be overcome by a clever social engineer. That's part of the reason security awareness training for end users is so essential.
"Executives 'get it' right away," says Wombat Security president and CEO Joe Ferrara, about awareness training. "The people who are harder to convince are...the die-hard technologists who don't want to leave [anything] in the hands of the user."
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
There's social engineering via politics & there's social engineering that means: "anyone can be a target," from the comments.
Tips from XMarkstheSpot: Great article! "The rule I use ...is not click links in emails, including unsubscribe, unless the email is expected, such as one as confirmation during new account setup. ...never click on attachments either unless they are expected. I have within Spyshelter (anti-keylogger) where I can save an attachment, right click the file and on the pop-up menu click 'Spyshelter-> Check it on VirusTotal'; it uploads to virustotal.com . It's then scanned by over 50 antivirus software products.
Cut through all of the noise around the ROI of healthcare social media and focus on providing value to your audience.
An example:
After a puzzled look, he explains that the ROI of his own mother is everything to him. Without his mother teaching, educating, caring and supporting him he would be nothing.
It is meant to force the person asking it to wonder why the ROI question comes up more with social than anything else in their businesses.
Vaynerchuk drills it down to the concept => ROI is never about the tool - it is about the mechanic using it. If business owners treat it like all the other forms of advertising in the history of selling, they will lose and the ROI will be nothing.
The real value of social is the ability to provide value to your audience and tell the story of what your business does and why you are passionate about it. This creates long-term customers who remain interested in being your consumer for life
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
If ROI for healthcare social media is used as the tool it is meant to be, and social media is used to listen and customize how listen, engage your audience, and how your tell your story, you will have the ROI you seek for the business as well as the tool. ~ Deb
Creating your own Facebook group is an effective way to discuss a particular subject and share content with friends and other like-minded Facebook users.
Click on the title or photo to read more about how to set up such a group. To find out more about WHY it is helpful to use a secret group on Facebook for a neighborhood group, read my comments below.
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Photo: Signs at Lavender Hill Farm, Boye City, Michigan - by Deb Nystrom
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Creating a closed, secret group on Facebook can be a wonderful option for neighborhood groups. I created one, when the interest emerged in the neighborhood where I used to live, and now I've started with an interested neighbor, and within ONE day of launch, 20+ neighbors joined. It turns out, many of us DO have Facebook accounts, even if we just use them once in awhile.
Some of the features that help a neighborhood Facebook page work including confidentiality, ease of administration, no need to "friend" someone, and a good looking page structure. Here are a few more details of how it works in 2015, vs. the date of the article I've Scooped here.
Problems? Yes, sometimes. See the Wikipedia page on NextDoor which covers some of the downsides of neighborhood groups. Problems can happen, as with any group IRL, "in real life" which is what online community is. It is helpful to have one or more administrators with knowledge of group dynamics. And that is why I'm the one writing this post and encouraging use of social media. Social media enables engagement and conversation. Even when there is conflict, keep the conversations going to help resolve the conflict, develop and use good group guidelines, and encourage members to communicate and act in good faith to build a positive, high functioning online community.
Today's exploit, if genuine, is similar to a scam from March 2014, researchers say. We've contacted security firm Symantec, which reported last year's scam, but they had not responded by press time.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Take care with ANY link embedded within an email - using a gmail address can = phishing by the latest scammers.
It's compelling what an animated gifs can do! They are also are more performance and cost-effective than standard video or images. It's a great way to update your programs to the digital space and improve customer interest as well as satisfaction.
Here are some examples:
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
I see creative, expansive use of these digital gifs in all forms of online media, including the government, and also healthcare, education, and just for fun. It's a great way to combine education and social media too. ~ Deb
"Sacco's Twitter feed had become a horror show."
Sacco's tweet had become not just an ideological crusade against her perceived bigotry but also a form of idle entertainment. ....As Sacco's flight traversed the length of Africa, a hashtag began to trend worldwide: #HasJustineLandedYet. ...Come on, Twitter! I'd like pictures #HasJustineLandedYet."
"...shaming ...gained momentum in 1787, when Benjamin Rush, a physician in Philadelphia and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote a paper calling for its demise the stocks, the pillory, the whipping post, the lot. "Ignominy is universally acknowledged to be a worse punishment than death," he wrote. "It would seem strange that ignominy should ever have been adopted as a milder punishment than death, did we not know that the human mind seldom arrives at truth upon any subject till it has first reached the extremity of error."
I found no evidence that punitive shaming fell out of fashion as a result of newfound anonymity. But I did find plenty of people from centuries past bemoaning the outsize cruelty of the practice, warning that well-meaning people, in a crowd, often take punishment too far.
....Social media is so perfectly designed to manipulate our desire for approval, and that is what led to [Sacco's] undoing. Her tormentors were instantly congratulated as they took Sacco down, bit by bit, and so they continued to do so. Their motivation was much the same as Sacco's own — a bid for the attention of strangers — as she milled about Heathrow, hoping to amuse people she couldn't see.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
I remember these stories. Many of us do. We may not realized how the power of social media can end up being today's version of inhumane tarring and feathering another person and ruining a human being's life and affecting his or her family.
Missy Mullen Caulk's comment, February 13, 2015 7:43 AM
Deb, I saw this on a lot of blogs when people were not happy with Brady Hoke, it made me sick. People hid behind multiple screen names and just tarred and feathered him.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's comment, February 16, 2015 12:32 PM
Missy, there is such mob behavior that can happen online and football and sports (think soccer parents, the stereotypes) are not immune. I'm all for owning your social media behavior, but that does not apply to trolls and the kind of bullying, anti-social and harmful behavior described here.
Missy Mullen Caulk's comment, February 17, 2015 10:59 AM
That is one reason I have #respect for John Bacon he makes you use your correct name. It will never happen across the board but I think folks should say things they are NOT willing to put their name behind.
File types are a bit confusing to most people. Do you know when and why it's best to use a .jpeg, .gif, or .png? This infographic demystify the mystery.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
As my colleague, a graphic designer says, we aren't all graphic designers. How to "Know Your File Types" ~ Deb
What does it take to write good headlines? Headlines that are packed with emotional words and speak to mind and emotion get shared more on social media.
Posts with a higher emotional value got more shares. Period.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
I was helping a colleague understand a EMV, or "Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) score. A tool online to test this is the Headline Analyzer here: http://www.aminstitute.com/headline/index.htm
With this useful blog post and understanding more about good copywriting via EMV writing, you'll have more good tools to help you better use social media to share your message with the world. ~ Deb
Hyperlapse and #SelfieLapse
Hyperlapse is.... a recently unveiled app from the Instagram [that] lets users capture longer video sequences and then easily make them much more compact, by reproducing the video at a much faster rate, ....creating a stunning, cinematic effect.
....Hyperlapse has now been optimized to be used with front-facing cameras, creating the phenomenon known as #SelfieLapse.
#SelfieLapse is a lot more than just a gimmicky trend ....there are a lot of opportunities to take advantage of using this feature on the Hyperlapse app.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Looks like this could really be a stand-out app and tool for sharing your message? Have you tried it? I'm going to an event this Saturday, and with their involvement, perhaps I will. :-) ~ Deb
Those who rely on Dropbox to store their personal files may have lost some of their data. The service has experienced some issues regarding a bug in older versions of its available desktop apps. This bug deleted files uploaded by affected users who activated the Selective Sync feature, leading some to find they'd lost a large amount of files.
...Should you be one of the select few who have been affected by this bug, Dropbox has been reaching out to customers via email with an apology and offer for a year's worth of Dropbox Pro for free.
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Hacker or bug problems are a drawback if you rely on the cloud, yet storage systems can fail. Saving in two locations makes sense. ~ D
"[There are]t people (and often just machines) whose lone goal is to sell you stuff. Some of them just collect followers for sale. For these reasons, there is no point to follow them.
Type 1: "Following equals followers"
Type 2: "Thanks for following"
[Also note that "Thank-yous"] are just one of [many] normal selling techniques. It's pretty likely, the whole account is just to tweet about nothing, and to target you with a product the guy is selling from time to time.
Type 4: "Tweeting dusk to dawn" - [The Twitter Bots]
But be aware the "user" is not going to read anything you write.
Type 5: "Optimistic spammers"
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
Good points by Greg here, especially how to TELL if you are dealing with a TwitterBot, an early version of the Matrix, just ready to lull you into a machine relationship with no benefit to you at all, other than if you just want to buy stuff you may not need.
With the rise of social media, many business owners have sought to control what their employees post on the various social networks. But as the owners of Triple Play Sports Bar and Grille in Watertown, Conn., learned during recent litigation, employers may have less authority than they think.
In August, a three-member panel of the National Labor Relations Board in Washington concluded that Triple Play violated the National Labor Relations Act when it fired two employees over comments made on Facebook about a Triple Play owner. The N.L.R.B. also determined that Triple Play's written social media policy violated the Labor Relations Act.
....the restaurant violated the law by threatening to sue them for their Facebook activity.
Triple Play violated the law when it fired Ms. Sanzone and Mr. Spinella, the N.L.R.B. found that the restaurant violated the law by threatening to sue them for their Facebook activity. The board also found that the restaurant's social media policy was unlawful because employees could reasonably interpret it to mean they could not engage in activities that the Labor Relations Act protects. Specifically, the N.L.R.B. concluded that the word "inappropriate" was subject to imprecise interpretation by employees.
The N.L.R.B. issued an order that required Triple Play to refrain from the type of actions that led to this lawsuit, and to take several affirmative steps. These included:
As always in REVELN ScoopIt news, click on the photo to see the full post.
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN's insight:
It is wise to stay on top of how specific you'll need to be in your social media policy and how judicious you need to be before you follow the advice of just your own lawyers, Consulting others in this situation along with the lawyers would have helped. ~ Deb
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The embargo is up for Gran Turismo 6 reviews, but we're not ready to render our verdict on the game just yet.
We've played the game extensively, but so far the online portion hasn't been available.
Therefore, we're going to hold off on posting our review until we've experienced the game online.
Thanks for your patience.
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PHILADELPHIA — The more Jim Benning talks about Ryan Kesler staying with the Vancouver Canucks, the more unlikely and unwise that seems.
Tell us we're not going through Roberto Luongo 2.0, minus the humility and humour. Tell us the Canucks are not going to keep a player in Kesler who has told Benning, like he told previous general manager Mike Gillis, that he'd rather be traded than stay as long as it's to an acceptable destination.
Tell us the National Hockey League team is not going to let this uneasy situation fester, as the interminable and embarrassing Luongo trade mission did, and miss what could be its last best chance to trade a coveted but diminishing asset the franchise needs to move to reinvigorate itself and freshen the dressing-room dynamic.
However small and difficult Kesler has made the market by leveraging his no-trade clause — reportedly his trade list may be as short as three teams: Chicago, Anaheim and Pittsburgh — the pressure within it will build until the first round of the National Hockey League entry draft later Friday.
Despite ongoing negotiations with the Florida Panthers to move up to the first pick, Benning said here Thursday that he thinks the Canucks will keep their sixth selection and draft as scheduled.
He did not say he expected to keep Kesler, who turns 30 in August and has been the backbone of the Canucks for six seasons. But neither did Benning indicate that a trade was probable, let alone imminent.
On the eve of Benning's first draft as general manager, the Canucks may be the only team in the NHL that thinks Kesler could be in Vancouver next season. If they truly believe it.
"Kesler's gone," said a member or another team's management group.
Of course, that's what most hockey people were saying about Luongo at the 2012 draft — 21 months before his $64-million US contract was unloaded on Florida in what may prove to be the best trade of the Gillis era.
"We're talking to teams," Benning told reporters. "But at the end of the day, we're going to do what makes sense for us and to try to help Ryan out. If we don't think we can get a fair deal for him, we're going to keep him and he's a Vancouver Canuck. And we're happy to have him back because he's such a great player."
Yes, but would Kesler be happy?
"We've had communication with him throughout the process," Benning said. "We've talked to the agent and stuff. That part of it, (Kesler) is a professional and he understands that part of it.
"I can't predict what other teams are going to do. In talking to him and his agent, we want a fair deal, something that makes sense for us as an organization. We'll see how that goes. If Ryan comes back and plays for us next year, we'll be happy with that."
Canucks president of hockey operations Trevor Linden has maintained for weeks that there is no timetable for trading Kesler and the draft is not a deadline.
"I think we're a long way from this becoming a Roberto Luongo saga," Linden said Thursday. "There's definitely a risk with that (dragging out), but we're a ways from that yet. I don't look at it like we're under the gun to make a trade at the draft. We're not going to get boxed in by a timeline that someone else thinks we should have."
Gillis was close to sending Kesler to the Penguins in March, but balked over Pittsburgh's refusal to upgrade the middle ingredient of the player-elite prospect-draft pick trade formula. The Ducks also wanted Kesler desperately, but the Canucks were reluctant to trade within their division, just as they were at last year's draft when they dealt goalie Cory Schneider to the New Jersey Devils when a better deal appeared to be available from the Edmonton Oilers.
Interestingly, Benning has no issues trading close to home, although he hasn't much choice with Kesler dictating options. The St. Louis Blues and Philadelphia Flyers are also among teams reported to be interested in the Team USA centre.
"I don't think that has any bearing on what we're trying to do in Vancouver," Benning said of location. "We want to try to get some younger players here these next few years. We've got Bo Horvat, who we drafted last year. And we're going to have the sixth pick this year, so we're getting some building blocks."
Benning mentioned Horvat but not the Canucks' other 2013 first-round pick, Hunter Shinkaruk. That may be because Shinkaruk is part of the package being offered Florida for its top pick.
Like anyone in his position, Panthers general manager Dale Tallon is swinging for the fences as a handful of teams pitch for the No. 1 selection and the chance to draft one of three impact centres available — Sam Reinhart, Sam Bennett and Leon Draisaitl — or franchise defenceman Aaron Ekblad.
Benning, for now, has been unwilling to lob a hanging curveball for Tallon.
This draft is really the first act of the Benning era, two days that will define the start of tenure. He is, after all, regarded as a scouting/drafting genius, something the Canucks have never been accused of.
Starting with the 2006 lottery, two years before Gillis replaced Dave Nonis as GM, Vancouver has drafted and developed only two players who have become NHL regulars, and neither Cody Hodgson nor Michael Grabner plays for the Canucks.
There is, of course, still time for post-2010 draftees such as Horvat, Shinkaruk, Brendan Gaunce, Nicklas Jensen and Frankie Corrado to establish themselves.
Linden said the Canucks hope, with Benning, that four of their seven draft picks each year will make it to the NHL. But from 2006 through 2010, only two of 28 Canucks picks made it. Kevin Connauton, traded to Dallas, could become the third NHL regular to emerge from this black hole in Canucks drafting.
Nonis's selection of Patrick White in the first round in 2007 was a disaster, as was Gillis's decision in 2010 to trade his first pick (along with Grabner) for defenceman Keith Ballard. Jordan Schroeder, the 2009 first-rounder, has not received a qualifying offer from the Canucks and will be a free agent July 1.
Assistant GM Laurence Gilman and director of player personnel Eric Crawford orchestrated a major restructuring of the amateur scouting department before the 2013 draft. Benning, hired in May, has said that was a good draft for the Canucks, and he has kept all the scouts he inherited.
"There's always so much media attention about their draft record and stuff," Benning said. "I wanted to sit back and see how they went through the process. I was able to do that. In some instances, I made the point: 'No, this is the type of player that we want, that we're going to win with.'
"All in all, I thought our guys knew the players. I don't know what happened here in past years. I wasn't around to see how they made their list and then what actually happened when they got to the draft floor and made their picks. But I thought the guys worked hard and knew their players."
In defence of the scouts, three successive Canucks general managers spent draft picks, sometimes frivolously, at the trade deadline to add players for the playoffs. So the Canucks have had fewer draft at-bats than other teams, especially during the five lost years at the end of the last decade.
Still, nothing forgives 2-for-28.
Sixth is the Canucks' highest draft position since 1999. Like the Kesler trade, this draft is something management must get right.
"It's what we'll be judged on," Linden said.


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The USS Abraham Lincoln was towed to Newport News Shipbuilding Thursday morning for its midlife overhaul after the carrier was in Norfolk for more than a month as Congress struggled to find money to start the project.
The overhaul is a multi-billion, four-year project that requires extensive planning and takes more than 20 million man hours. According to an info graphic, the work is "equivalent to building the Golden Gate Bridge, twice."


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As reported in the May 2008 Journal of Ethology, researchers in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean on Marion Island, recently observed some fascinating and disturbing behavior. A young adult Antarctic fur seal was witnessed forcing itself upon an adult king penguin for upwards of 45 minutes. While young adult fur seals are known for aggressive sexuality…


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LOS ANGELES — Doc Rivers has been fired before, fired unexpectedly early in a season, but when one of his brethren loses his job, it remains unsettling to the Celtics coach.
And when it's a close friend, it's even more disheartening.
Avery Johnson, a former Rivers teammate and one of his closest friends in the business, was abruptly fired by the Brooklyn Nets Thursday after a 14-14 start that included 10 losses in the last 13 games.
The Celtics easily defeated the lethargic Nets (93-76) on Christmas Day, and on Wednesday, Brooklyn lost to Milwaukee (108-93) for the 13th consecutive time.
The Nets entered this season a dark-horse pick to compete with Miami in the Eastern Conference with the additions of Joe Johnson and Reggie Evans to join re-signed All-Star guard Deron Williams and dependable center Brook Lopez.
But Williams recently complained that he was limited by Johnson's offense, and ownership got impatient for better results after moving the franchise from New Jersey to Brooklyn's pristine Barclays Center for a new start.
"It's awful," Rivers said. "Obviously it's the business we're in. But it's a tough one. He's one of my best friends.
"It comes out of nowhere. Avery's a terrific coach, so who knows?"
Rivers said he is the last coach to ask about the Nets' struggles. Brooklyn has beaten the Celtics twice this season, including a dominant 95-83 victory Nov. 28 at TD Garden, a game from which Rajon Rondo was ejected for fighting with Kris Humphries.
"I just saw that they beat us two out of three times," Rivers said. "Three weeks ago, they were playing as well as anybody. The NBA is a league of ebbs and flows. That's the way it is.
"You go on good streaks. You go on bad ones. You right your ship and go back on a good time.
"I thought it was awful quick to make a change. I'm very surprised by that, but listen, I don't work there, I don't do business there. My friend is Avery Johnson."
When asked about his own job status after a 14-13 start, Rivers half-joked that he was concerned.
"Yeah, I am [nervous]," he said. "I may have to golf the rest of the year."
Rivers said Johnson understands the business.
"You know when you get into coaching, that's part of it," he said. "Whether it's fair — and in this case, I don't think it is — either way, that's the way it is.
"Every day as a coach, you've just got to do your job and do the best job you can do, and all the other stuff is out of your hands."
Celtics guard Jason Terry, who was on the 2006 Dallas club that was two wins from the NBA Finals under Johnson, expressed sympathy for his former coach.
"When I heard the news, it's tough," Terry said. "It's the holiday season and I know he put his heart and soul into trying to make Brooklyn a winner.
"And I believe in his system to this day. He has one of the greatest systems I ever played in. So I have nothing but the utmost respect for him. I know he will be coaching in this league soon, if he wants to."
Barbosa expected back
Reserve guard Leandro Barbosa did not rejoin the Celtics in Los Angeles as expected.
He was still attending to a personal matter in his native Brazil but is expected to join the team Friday in San Francisco.
Barbosa has missed three games and hasn't been an impact player for the Celtics since the beginning of December.
"He's dealing with a tough situation," Rivers said.
After averaging 6.1 points in 14.3 minutes per game in November as the primary backup to Rondo, Barbosa was benched in favor of Courtney Lee and had his minutes reduced to an average of 6.9 this month.
He has scored a total of 8 points in seven December games.
Bradley won't go west
Rivers reiterated that point guard Avery Bradley will not join the club on this West Coast trip but is expected to return Jan. 2 against the Grizzlies.
Bradley is working out in Waltham, Mass., with strength and conditioning coach Bryan Doo and Chris Wilcox, who is out for a month with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his right wrist.
Bradley has not played since Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals last May, and Rivers did not want to rush him back from double shoulder surgery.
Melo has been fab
While Rivers said he isn't paying much attention to Fab Melo's development with Maine of the NBADL, the rookie's numbers are drawing raves around that league.
After his record-setting 14-block performance Sunday against the Erie BayHawks, Melo scored 32 points with nine more blocks Wednesday against the Idaho Stampede.
In 10 games for Maine, he is averaging 10.4 points, 6.7 rebounds, and 3.9 blocks.
Rivers said the organization has not been tempted to promote him to Boston.Gary Washburn can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @gwashNBAGlobe.


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Interesting social experiment by Harry over at Crooked Timber. Write a thoughtful post about childrearing, family life, demographic trends, and so on, and make a throwaway observation at the end about how you've never been drunk. What sort of comments does such a post attract? People writing in to report one of two things: that they've also never been drunk (or only once or not for 30 years or some such thing), or that they're drunk right now.
For the record, I have been drunk on several occasions, but I'm not at all drunk at the moment (although I've been writing for the better part of the last nine hours so I'd really like to be), which is probably why I didn't comment.


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Today, though, we spoke about his digitally enhanced chamber music. From composing for computerized pianos to touring with his electroacoustic ensemble, The Code International (TCI), Horowitz continues to combine acoustic and digital instruments in exciting new ways.
On September 10 and 11, TCI will perform at Score Fest in New York City, playing Horowitz's The Re-Taking of Pelham One Two Three and Invasion from the Chicken Planet. These 30-minute live soundtracks pair 12 live players with giant video projections; it's live music for movies that may or may not exist. We'll hear some excerpts during the show. (DMI 08-28-2008: 28 minutes 31 seconds)
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I called Steve Horowitz at his home studio using Skype, recording our conversation on my Mac with Ecamm Call Recorder. Lately, I've been noticing my Mac's insane fan noise bleeding in to Skype recordings, so I initially tried the new Extralabs Skype Recorder program on my far quieter Windows laptop, but couldn't get it configured in time. I dealt with the noise during editing, as detailed below.
As usual for Skype interviews, I recorded my Logitech 250 USB headset. It doesn't sound as good as the more expensive professional mics I use for the voiceover, but it's light, comfortable, and maintains a consistent position from my mouth with no effort. Horowitz used a cheap headset as well — a Koss i15. I should have asked him to move it away from his mouth, because it picked up frequent P-pops and B-thumps, but I got too interested in the conversation, so I cleaned those up during editing as well.
Call Recorder saved the recording as a two-channel, audio-only QuickTime file using AAC compression.
The final interview recording was 65 minutes long, but most of the good parts were in the middle, so I opened the file in QuickTime Pro and made a rough edit, snipping off the top and tail. (QuickTime Pro is fast for that because it doesn't stop to draw a waveform.) I then exported the conversation as a stereo AIFF file with my voice on the left and Horowitz's on the right.
Loading the AIFF into BIAS Peak, I temporarily panned the both sides to the center with the Destroy FX Monomaker plugin so I could edit them without going dizzy. I snipped out "ums," pops, and false starts, and then used a combination of Izotope RX and gating to remove the fan noise my mic had picked up from my Mac.
I then used Apple QuickTime Pro and an SE Electronics USB2200a condenser mic through a CEntrance MicPort Pro USB preamp to record my voiceover. (QuickTime Pro's CPU hit is so low it doesn't trigger the Mac's fans.) After snipping out P-pops, tongue clacks, and false starts in the voiceover with Peak, I imported the vocals and music examples into an Ableton Live template containing the Digital Media Insider theme music. I slid the elements around on the timeline to get the best flow, enhanced the vocals with Izotope Ozone, adjusted levels with envelopes, and rendered the mix into a stereo AIFF file. Finally, I converted the mix to an MP3 in iTunes, where I added the cover art.
The Digital Media Insider theme music came together in Live as well. The opening sound effect is a compressed mouth noise spliced onto a tone cluster I generated in Native Instruments Reaktor. The main groove is from Steinberg Xphraze. (Jim Aikin turned me on to both virtual instruments in his article "My Five Favorite Soft Synths.") The piano is from the Garritan Personal Orchestra, which I discovered when we interviewed Gary Garritan.
The theme also features a few percussion samples dredged from my hard drive. Altogether, it took just six tracks. Effects processing was courtesy of Live's default plugins and Freeverb.
You can find all 27 episodes of Digital Media Insider on the show's home page, http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/podcast-audio.


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On Saturday, December 15, Maryland junior cricket coaches huddled with Jamie Harrison and Justin Bruchey of the Maryland Youth Cricket Association in Glen Burnie. The meeting was set to work out the details of the new Maryland Junior Cricket League, set to launch in June 2013. The attendees also decided to expand the administration of MYCA, with the coaches stepping up to assume offices in the organization.
The junior cricket league will play throughout June and July, with league semi-finals and finals to be played at the conclusion of the league schedule. Embracing the developmental nature of the players, most of whom are new to cricket, matches will utilize heavy tennis balls, which will be safer for the children. The league will also have two divisions, separated by skill level, with programs sending one team to each.
Programs from across Maryland are slated to participate in the league: Germantown Kids Cricket Club, Lutherville-Timonium Recreation Council, Bowie Boys & Girls Club, South Carroll Junior Cricket and the Washington Cricket Center.
After a discussion of the vision, plans and needs of the MYCA, these officers are announced:
President - Jamie Harrison
1st Vice President - Anu Babbar, Germantown Kids Cricket Club
2nd Vice President - Greg Edwards, South Carroll Junior Cricket
Treasurer - Sham Chotoo, Bowie Boys & Girls Club
Secretary - Warren Prestwich, Lutherville-Timonium Recreation Council
Member at Large - Ajith Silva, Washington Cricket Center
Member at Large - Justin Bruchey
The new MYCA Board of Directors will be meeting again in February as it continues to prepare for the coming cricket season.


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The Crimson celebrates with the Goldthwait and Vogel Cups. Scroll down for YouTube video of the varsity race, courtesy Princeton crew.
PRINCETON, N.J.—The No. 2 Harvard lightweight varsity eight came from behind to defeat top-ranked Princeton and beat No. 4 Yale by nearly 12 seconds to complete the 27th perfect dual-racing record in program history and claim the Goldthwait Cup Saturday morning on Lake Carnegie.
The Crimson freshman eight also rallied past the Tigers to complete a perfect dual campaign at 10-0 and help Harvard win the Vogel Cup team competition. The Crimson finished with 37 team points, 10 more than Princeton. The Goldthwait win was Harvard's 41st, compared to 25 for Princeton and 19 for Yale, and the unbeaten varsity mark was the Crimson's first since its Eastern and national championship season of 1997.
"All year long, we've been very steady; we've had steady speed throughout the course," said Crimson head coach Charley Butt. "That's what we did today. We couldn't be happier with the season and how the athletes are responding to the challenges. They've had luck, and they've made luck. I couldn't be more proud of the way they conducted themselves under pressure in competition and how they have performed all spring."
Harvard next races for Ivy League and Eastern titles at the Eastern Sprints regatta May 16.
The Crimson trailed by as much as three to four seats but gradually pulled level before using a strong finish to win by seven-tenths of a second. Harvard finished in 5:40.7, while Princeton crossed the line in 5:41.4, followed by Yale in 5:52.6.
The top freshman race followed a similar storyline. The Tigers led for 1,200 meters before Harvard rowed through and eventually notched a 3.5-second win in 5:53.0. The Crimson beat Yale by 8.7 seconds. Princeton won the second varsity eight in 5:46.9, followed by Yale and Harvard.
Harvard placed second in the third varsity and second freshman races, both of which were won by Yale. The Bulldogs topped the Crimson second varsity by 3.3 seconds in 6:03.1. The Harvard second freshman eight's time of 6:24.4 was 5.2 seconds off Yale's pace.
Team Competition
Harvard 37 points
Princeton 27
Yale 20
Varsity Eight
Harvard 5:40.7
Princeton 5:41.4
Yale 5:52.6
Second Varsity Eight
Princeton 5:46.9
Yale 5:51.4
Harvard 5:57.8
Third Varsity Eight
Yale 6:03.1
Harvard 6:06.4
Princeton 6:12.4
Freshman Eight
Harvard 5:53.0
Princeton 5:56.5
Yale 6:01.7
Second Freshman Eight
Yale 6:19.2
Harvard 6:24.4
Princeton 6:40.5
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I hear the massagist slapping a lazy fellow who is being rubbed with ointment.
1874, from massage (n.). Related: Massaged; massaging.
1874, from French massage "friction of kneading," from masser "to massage," possibly from Arabic massa "to touch, feel, handle;" if so, probably picked up in Egypt during the Napoleonic campaign there. Other possibility is that French got it in colonial India from Portuguese amassar "knead," a verb from Latin massa "mass, dough" (see mass (n.1)). Massage parlor first attested 1894, from the start a euphemism for "house of prostitution."
massage mas·sage (mə-säzh' -säj')
The rubbing or kneading of parts of the body for therapeutic purposes. v. mas·saged, mas·sag·ing, mas·sag·es
To give a massage to.
To treat by means of a massage.


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Sebastian Vettel can make his 100th Formula One race a historic one by being crowned the youngest triple world champion on Monday in Texas.
The 25-year-old German and his Red Bull team could make it a night for double celebrations if they take both the drivers' and teams' titles in a country where he made his debut as a baby-faced 19-year-old stand-in at Indianapolis in 2007.
That last United States Grand Prix, five years ago, was won by Briton Lewis Hamilton of McLaren and, this time around, he will once again be a major contender for victory in his second-to-last race for the team before he leaves for Mercedes.
But championship leader Vettel and Hamilton know they face a challenge this weekend from two-time champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso of Ferrari. He is 10 points behind the German in the title race and convinced he can secure a third title.
Finn Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus, winner in Abu Dhabi, will also be a threat.
Vettel, who replaced Pole Robert Kubica at BMW Sauber in 2007, managed to qualify seventh and finish eighth, his single point for that feat making him F1's youngest points-scorer - a record he still holds.
"It's all gone so quickly," he said.
"One hundred is a big number - 100 grands prix sounds a lot: 100 starts, 100 times surviving the first corner. If I reflect on it, it doesn't feel so long ago that I broke into Formula One ...
"That shows me that time flies when you do something that you really like and enjoy, so let's focus on the second 100!"
Vettel knows with a 10-point lead he can secure the title with a victory this weekend and that is his clear goal.
He enters the race with two races - worth a maximum of 50 points for two wins available - remaining.
He has 255 points to Alonso's 245.
In spite of his extraordinary success in the past three seasons, there are many who still find it difficult to pour praise on Vettel. This week 1997 drivers' champion Canadian Jacques Villeneuve joined that list of critics.
But Villeneuve said he felt Vettel was almost invincible if he could lead a race from the front.
"I have no doubts - Fernando Alonso is the best, that's why I root for him," he told Autosprint magazine.
"Seb is super quick, but there is a difference with Fernando that emerges in case of an unfavourable situation.
"Alonso remains calm, cool and rational, while Vettel most times gets upset, angry, screams and flicks the middle finger. He reacts like a child."