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Keep your tablets and Fire, thank you very much. I like the fact that a basic Kindle allows for NO distractions while you're reading. Even the ad-supported model will only show ads during menu screens, never while you're reading. The e-ink looks a lot crisper than anything on a conventional tablet too. And a single 3-hour charge can last for weeks. I imagine the basic Nook has a similar setup too.
The only advantage I can see with a tablet is for reading comic books or other books with lots of large, color-intensive graphics. Otherwise, you'd be a lot better off just spending the $80 for an actual dedicated e-reader. The text won't give you a headache, there are no distractions, and you won't be constantly recharging it.
I completely agree with you. One thing you left out that I think people who have really not compared the experience on both types of devices is that e-ink really is a vastly better way to read lots of text. I can read much faster and more comfortably on my Kindle than on the iPad. The quality fonts etc is very good on both but there is something to be said for reading on a display that is not backlit. Especially if you try to read out doors.
The Slashdot headline & summary is a little misleading. The article isn't about an ebook backlash, it's about people reading ebooks on tablets and the ease of distraction. It's no surprise people are getting distracted trying to read a book using ebook reader software running on a tablet that's meant for checking Facebook, email, watching videos and the like. Ebooks can be read on computers, tablets, and smart phones. I read ebooks using Aldiko on my Android phone for a couple years before I finally bought a Kindle Touch, and my Kindle is approximately as likely to distract me from my reading as a paperback. The phone has always been a successful platform on which to read ebooks, but I never expected the notifications, messages, etc that are a big part of the reason I own a smart phone to go away (and let my level of distraction be on my own head).
Because this whole "distraction" thing is complete and utter nonsense. If I want to read, I read. If I want to do something else, I do it. Nothing "distracts" me. The tablet is not a "temptress", lol. It's a machine, and it does what *I* tell it to, not the other way around.
And then there's that poignant call: "a sense of permanence has always been part of the experience" As an owner of thousands of books, let me tell you what that "permanence" is... it's a spine that will crack when you open the book years later. It's the incredibly lousy, acid infused paper that has yellowed, and smelled-up, and eventually caused to crumble, the pages of many of my otherwise treasured reads. It's being unable to find the title because someone has put it back funny, or not put it back at all. Or folded the pages. Or spilled spaghetti sauce on it. Or their lovely child has ripped out the conclusion to chapter three. Or ask a college kid or graduate about the "sense of permanence" that is the reality of a backpack filled with heavy texts. Not exactly a pleasant experience, or a lovely fashion accessory. And it cuts down the amount of actual cool stuff you can carry.
Whereas the e-book experience... the litany is long and distinguished: You don't lose 'em; you don't misplace them; they don't age; you can read them in the dark (well, unless you went with e-ink, but then you can read in the sun if you're so inclined... me, I think reading in the sun is insane, but that's just me.) There are hot dictionaries, hot notes, hot highlights, sharing of same so you can see if what you think is interesting is what everyone else thinks is interesting. There is linkage to summary and statistical info on the book; YOU control the font size, and trust me, as an older guy compared to most of the rest of you puppies, that's a big deal; you can dim the thing and read late at night without disturbing your SO (you'll get girlfriends... really, you will. Patience.) You can read silently, page turns are noiseless. You can read with music, if that's pleasing to you. You can't lose your place -- an e-reader keeps track of what page you were on for every book you're reading, no matter how many that might be. As of recently, they've come up with a way to lend the book and you can't lose it, it simply "snaps" back into your library after the lend is up... you can self-publish without having to have an agent (that's me!), an editor, a publishing house, a marketing plan, and years of fruitless trying; you can carry your whole library with you, and I'm talking a LOT of books, so not only is all your fun reading with you, now you can always have your programming references and textbooks and so forth with you too... that part is just getting off the ground, but it was of direct help to me when I began to learn infrared photography and Apple's Cocoa so I'm personally sensitized to how great it is; and now, with the whole "its backed up in the cloud", you can't even lose your books if you drop your reader down the face of the Hoover dam. From the space shuttle. And the actual reality of that "distraction" is that your reader, if you so choose, can do a myriad of other useful and fun things for you.
But that was a funny article from a luddite.
Again speaking as someone involved with the publishing industry (I own a literary agency and I'm a published author, also the offspring of same), let me tell you why the publishers aren't so hot on e-books. The writer has ideas and stories, but surprisingly often, isn't all that great at telling them. The agency has agents on staff who can help -- a lot -- with that, and also (historically speaking) know which publishers are looking, and what they are looking for. An old boys network in the classic sense. Publishers can get the writer into print. And, if the writer is a GREAT writer, they might even throw in a little publicity work. But great writers don't really need publicity. If there's a new Ursula Le Guin or Michael Moorcock or Alan Dean Foster novel and you li
No one else in the world gets distracted by their tablet functionality because you don't? That's not a good perspective to have.
And the article here says eBooks are bad because tablets are distracting, which obviously makes no sense. You are arguing that eBooks are good, but your only argument that addresses the article's premise is that it doesn't happen to you. And plenty of people would rather have a physical item to hold, mark up, dog-ear a page or two, or swap between two far apart pages for referen
Look, if you get distracted, that's a not a problem with the tablet: That's a problem with you. Notifications bothering you? Turn off the wifi, cellular... in the case of the iPad, just flip it into "airplane" mode. Can't stay off Facebook? Not an iPad problem. A "you" problem. Have to see tweets? That's 140 characters of you-fail. Don't go blaming technology because you fail to use it well. And don't clamor for it to change because you suck at coping. You change. Then you can benefit from judicious use of technology instead of letting it knock you around.
Hmmmm... this reminds of the old canard "There are no atheists in foxholes." That's not a flaw in atheism. That just demonstrates that foxholes are really fucked up. You dig? lol...
Completely agree.
I'm reading way more now on my Kindle Touch than I was before. While the cost of books is about the same regardless the format, physical vs e-book, I only like to keep really good hardcovers in our library. With the Kindle I can find a quiet seat almost anywhere and immerse myself because I can carry it anywhere and when one book is finished, I just select the next book and carry on.
Tablets are not e-book readers, they're little computer screens. I don't like reading anything for very long on the computer, even code I want to go over, I'll print out to review. If it's not interactive,
Completely agree on the text. After reading a few books on my iPhone, reading on the Kindle is like reading a normal book page. I can go for hours without any eye strain. One thing that sold me on the Kindle was the "Free Sample" you can get with most books. Could be anything from 10 to 100 pages of a book, but especially in the dodgy-writing realm of Sci-Fi/Fantasy, it's key to be able to sample the writing before buying. Bookstores let you do that, and the Kindle does as well. There are also authors giving away free books which opens up a whole other world.
One thing that sold me on the Kindle was the "Free Sample" you can get with most books.
All books, actually; it's auto-generated. You get the first 10% of the book, up to a certain number of pages. The problem is that with large works (such as collections or compilations) with detailed ToCs, the auto-generated sample might turn out to contain only the cover, the title page, the ToC and (if you're lucky) the first few paragraphs of the foreword.
I can read much faster and more comfortably on my Kindle than on the iPad. The quality fonts etc is very good on both but there is something to be said for reading on a display that is not backlit. Especially if you try to read out doors.
Nook owner chiming in to fully agree.
I recommend the cheapest E-reader you can by that has wifi for downloading. I prefer not to have any other capabilities built into the device, I have other toys for that.
Spending the big bucks for color and backlighting is just a waste of time, and money unless you are limited to owning a single device. I've tried reading on the tablet, just don't like it as much. Reading on the phone is a non-starter given my prescription. Darkened room is the only place I switch to
We'll probably eventually get decent colour out of e-ink, although I doubt the refresh rate will ever be fast enough for real-time motion. The whole "physically moving around ink capsules" probably would prevent that sort of thing. And you know what? That's fine. I don't need fast refresh rates on my e-reader, just fast enough to make page turns workable. The current speeds are good enough, although I wouldn't complain if they got bumped up anyhow.
I'm much happier reading on my Kindle 3 than a "real" book, particularly when comparing to a hardcover. My kindle is a fraction the weight and size of a hardcover. I can slip my kindle into a pocket or backpack, while a good sized hardcover is not nearly as portable. My kindle is also far easier to read in bed than a hardcover.
The advantages are less when comparing to paperbacks, but there are still size advantages there, not to mention durability; a lot of my older paperbacks are pretty worn out from re-reading, while an eBook (particularly a DRM-free one from Baen) will never wear out.
The advantages are less when comparing to paperbacks, but there are still size advantages
One big size advantage is the size of the text. For many of us, the fixed size of test in printed books is not a problem. But for people who's eyesight has diminished, it can be the difference between being able to read for any significant amount of time and not. My mom is a lifelong, voracious reader. But about 8 years ago, her reading dropped significantly because she had eyesight problems. When the original Kindle came out, I got her one and showed her how to make the text larger. It has (forgive the pun) rekindled her interest in reading. She's now got 3 Kindles, is back to the 1+ book/week pace and loving it again.
http://www.hanvon.com/en/products/ebook/products-C920.html [hanvon.com]
And.... sales of B&W e-ink readers plummet... Not suitable for first person shootemups.
I still prefer real paper and the prices for ebooks are still far too high but is handy to have a library at my fingertips to choose from.
You can't sell your read books on ebay or pass them on to friends. Big disadvantage.
I paid for my Kindle within 6 months, purely from the difference in retail prices for books (in Australia we have ridiculously high prices for books because we have retarded protectionist laws on book publishing). I'm paying $10ish for a download to the Kindle, $25 for a dead tree paperback...doesn't take many books to pay back the cost.
There's third-party library management software (I use Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/ [calibre-ebook.com] ) that will manage your library on the PC and allow you to format-shift which then allows you to email the books to friends (provided they've got an e-reader of course).
And then of course I discovered that most of the pirate sites have a few thousand ebook torrent links. Not being able to sell second-hand books becomes pretty irrelevant when you can just grab what you want from the tubes for free, send it to your friends for free (and still have your copy available too of course).
I understand why a published author dedicated to the appreciation of fine literature would be worried about ebooks. The business model for novels is pretty much screwed by ebook piracy. However, as usual, I think all we'll lose is the commercial shite and the people who really want to write will continue to write. It's just harder to see how they'll get paid to do it.
Baen has proven (and by this, I mean they have sales numbers proving it) that eBook piracy is so not a problem that it actually increases sales. Hence why Baen gives away many of their books for free (free library) and indirectly (distribute-freely license on their CD ISOs).
In terms of published authors, they make a lot more money from an eBook sale than a paperback sale, so as long as they see eBooks as replacing paperbacks and not hardcovers (which make far more money than either), they don't seem to mind
Colour is coming this year. Worthwhile colour isn't. I love eInk's pearl displays, but Triton, their first colour display, is garbage. The 10:1 contrast ratio on monochrome e-Ink is fine, and better than paperback books (which I believe are 8:1). But their Triton (colour) displays merely stick some colour filters on top of existing eInk pearl displays to produce an RGBW display, and those contrast ratios are just not high enough for that to work.
You compromise the monochrome image quality, and the colours a
We'll probably eventually get decent colour out of e-ink, although I doubt the refresh rate will ever be fast enough for real-time motion.
I predict the next big hipster thing will be "flipbook" Tetris on their Color E-Ink Kindle:
To rotate L block left 90 degrees, go to page 12,587.
If I had a vote to give, I would vote you up for this. Saying that full-fledged tablets are not ideal for reading is one thing, using that to bash the ebook idea entirely is another. Kindle (and similar, I assume) eReaders provide a very book-like experience for me. I still buy hardbacks for my favorite authors because I like to have their books on my shelves, but the Kindle has been great for reading and discovering new series.
I hope the next generation develops some sort of immunity to distraction because, whoops, here I am on slashdot again.
The only times I get annoyed with my nook are when there are illustrations like maps and photos and there's no way to zoom in to get a decent view - right now I'm reading 1493 by Charles Mann, and most of the maps are essentially unreadable. Mostly though, it's great - easy to read, long battery life, no distractions.
Magazines on tablets, on the other hand, are also great - the color and the interactivity are a plus there, and with shorter articles the interruptions aren't bad. You can also turn off most no
Even on the iPad, illustrations and maps are pretty substandard. That's my biggest beef with Amazon's offerings. They seem to use some horribly compressed jpg that doesn't scale to the full reader screen, much less above that. It's a real problem with anything other than pure text.
It's not a problem with tablets or ebooks, it's a PEBCAK problem. If your email client isn't open, your email won't distract you. If your IM client is closed, your IM won't distract you.
I'm writing this from my tablet as we speak, but personally I don't get why 'distractions' are such an issue. I'm quite content to simply read an ebook and I have enough discipline to avoid distractions if I want. Usually however simple distractions like an IM from a friend are equally distracting on my tablet and for a real book. I may opt to answer a message or not on either, but those simple distractions are not really bothersome to me either way.
On the other hand a tablet makes a very nice computing device for other things I may want or need to do and not just for reading books. The fact that I don't need to own multiple computing devices that can only handle a single function is very important to me.
There's still one thing you can't do on a printed book: retcon.
Imagine if Lucas took all of your Star Wars VHS's (including the ones you recorded off the TV) and made Han shoot first in all of them.
Give me a printed page any day.
Basic e-ink readers are fantastic for reading things in one direction start to finish. Things like novels, biographies, etc.
I love my simple kindle.
E-ink devices suck at anything with diagrams or text books that need flipping through back and forth. They definately have uses- but they are not a solution for all things book.
This is so true.
If reading any history that involves maps, or technical manuals with tables and illustrations, with an ereader (e-ink or otherwise) the need to frequently refer to maps, or illustrations the jumping around is pretty painful, unless the device has a good book marking capability. Even then, its not the same as having a finger in the book at the reference page and being able to flip back and forth quickly.
I've noticed that I had unconsciously gravitated away reading this type of subject matter
Yes, I believe this article belongs in the "No Shit" category. Tablets are back lit devices that are not well suited for lengthy reading to begin with, let alone the fact that such a multifunction device is distracting to use. That said, I think they are fantastic for research reading, where having quick access to a variety of sources of information is ideal. For casual or relaxed reading however, e-ink is the go to technology if you are looking to lose the paperback.
The Publishers and book sellers are their own worst enemy.
I've found I use my tablet extensively for reading, but I've stopped using kobo and other vendor supplied readers because of their built in advertizing spam / preview "features" that couldn't be turned off. One reader went as far as to start downloading "sample" books on my 3G connection. At that point I had to firewall the app to keep it from wasting my data plan bytes. The app was shortly replaced shortly after that.
I use my e-reader exclusively
I bought a few e-books in the beginning but found myself often wishing I could lend the book to someone and share it. That meant in some cases I had to buy a second book.
This is my biggest problem with my Kindle. I enjoy giving away and lending books that I found worthwhile and think someone else may also find worth reading, the Kindle doesn't provide a convenient means of doing this. Yes, I've used Calibre to strip away DRM, but it really shouldn't have to work like that. Additionally, I frequently give books away to people who aren't prone to reading books on the computer. When my Kindle was new I purchased books for it. After a while I grew frustrated with not being able
At this point I don't plan to buy any more e-books (unless they are DRM free) except in special circumstances where I use the book as a reference so much that portability (it weighs nothing extra and I can have it with me anytime I have my tablet) out weighs all the negatives of DRM.
You know that stripping the DRM out of any ebook you purchased is trivial, right? There are scripts out there to do that with minimum effort. In fact, these scripts are even available as 3rd party plugins to calibre [calibre-ebook.com], in which case the DRM stripping becomes transparent (you'll have to Google around though -- for obvious reasons they aren't officially supported). Add to this calibre's ability to freely convert DRM-free (and DRM-stripped) e-books from one format to basically any other format, and everything th
While it's nice to pine for the days of old when reading was a solitary escape, it's also important to acknowledge that things have fundamentally changed, and there is no going back. How many people really go as far as to hide their smartphones while reading a printed book? The fact of the matter is that we are immersed in a world that is inherently more connected and more distracting than ages past. There are downsides to this, but apparently they aren't considered sufficiently compelling for most people to forsake cell phones, email, blogs, social networking, streaming video, etc. Whether these things are accessible from the iPad a person uses to read a book or from the smartphone in their pocket or the laptop in front of them, makes very little difference.
The basic Kindle is great. I was a holdout for years, but I finally broke down and got a Touch a couple weeks ago.
That said, I still just can't bring myself to trust either the publishers or device makers (in this case, Amazon and Apple) not to try to screw me. I look at these Kindle ebooks, and the vast majority of the ones I'd be interested in buying are full retail price. I'm not saying they should be free--far from it; authors deserve compensation, publishers have to pay for marketing, etc.--but they
Self discipline is dead.
Well played.
So what we need is a game that pops up a bunch of buttons, links, ads, and challenges the user not to click on any of them.
Especially the beautiful shiny button. The jolly candy-like button. Will he hold out, folks? Can he hold out?
So what we need is a game that pops up a bunch of buttons, links, ads, and challenges the user not to click on any of them.
Yes! And we can call that game "Facebook".
I wouldn't say that. How much would anyone be distracted if they were constantly interrupted by a phone ringing, a doorbell ringing, or someone tapping them on the shoulder?
I don't know about others, but my tablet has an option to disconnect from Wifi and 3G enabled Android tablets has the option to disable data. When I really want to read I disable Wifi (no 3G version) and read. Probably it is difficult for some people to use that options, but it should not be hard to write an Ebook reader app with an option to activate a "Do not disturb mode"
Self discipline is dead.
I'd disagree in that the hidden assumption of the cruddy article is reading is a virtue and puritan style self denial of the much more fun alternatives is the only reason anyone reads anything. F that bad idea. I'm a big boy and no one tells me what to do in my spare time and if I wanna look at boring youtube videos I do so, and if I wanna read, I read, because I want to. I just finished Stross's laundry series and most recently Halting State. No I'm not being paid to astroturf and yes those were entertaining kind of light hard science fiction and I didn't read them out of some desire for hair shirt denigration but because I greatly enjoyed them.
If I'm reading and I want to stop reading, I'm a big boy, I can just stop, I don't need some far fetched explanation of how its all the devices fault that the email app zapped out of cyberspace like a bad ST:TNG episode and pulled me away while wearing a Sherlock Holmes costume. Its very much like people who blame the gun after one gang member shoots another, instead of blaming the person who intentionally pulled the trigger. Lame.
Once you operate and excise the lameness from the article, there's sadly not much left to it. Whoops.
Another angle is that I'm reading a novel, some historical event is mentioned, and I pop over to Wiki or something to fill in any knowledge gap. I learned something. Yay.
That's it.
Don't use iPad for reading.
There is still no direct transfer from a computer network to a human neural network.
Sure there is, it's an optical network that's almost instantaneous. It's called "reading".
If _only_ tablets and eReaders came with more self control, I'd read more!
Printed is still the form I enjoy the most. First off I never fear losing a physical book, the value is low enough I don't care. Get e-readers down in that value and I might think the same.
Then again probably not. For some reason I feel more relaxed with a paper book. For me there is still that put down, pickup, which just works better that way.
I do enjoy reading on the Kindle much more than the Fire! or iPad. Mostly because I can take it outside and still read it.
I would love to see publishers include a scratch off code or receipt activated code with books to get the ebook version. Kind of similar to how you can get the portable version of a movie.
There are many reasons I prefer a printed book to eReader or tablet forms.
The first and most obvious is durability. If it gets wet, you just dry it out. It doesn't mind being tossed on a shelf or a desk (even violently). It's ok with being caught out in the rain if an unexpected downpour comes up.
The second is portability. Books don't mind being crushed in a backpack. They can be used in almost ANY lighting conditions equally well. They can be safely mailed or lent to friends without worrying about whether they're going to "break" it.
The third is loanability. It's easy to borrow or loan a book. You just hand it to the person, and hope they bring it back. DRM one-reader systems? Not so much.
My remaining reasons are intangibles, like the pleasure of perusing shelves fully of books to see what someone likes to read, to find something you want to borrow, to have that visceral knowledge that "this is a person who likes to read and educate themselves" when you walk into a room and see boxes or shelves full of books.
Reference materials are much better suited to online or eBook distribution because they need to be updated to correct any errors or omissions, and to add new information as it comes up. But for recreational reading, a paperback or hardcover that tells a tale doesn't need to be maintained.
I can understand that if you already have a tablet or reader that you're carting around, they have the advantage of being able to contain your entire library of books, and that's a HUGE benefit to students and researchers. But when it comes to entertainment reading, I don't have multiple volumes on the go at one time -- I'm reading A book, from start to finish, and enjoying every minute of it.
Perhaps the most important feature of a printed book is the fact that I OWN it. There is no chance of the publisher or author coming knocking at my door and saying "we changed our mind -- we want your book back" as has ALREADY happened with the eReader market. Even if I bought my book from an "illegal vendor" of some kind, it's still MY BOOK. There can be no "takedown notice" for it.
And that last point is the most important of all, because it means that in the future when some asshole demands that the book be taken off the market and censored, I'll still have my copy.
One last point on the censorship: The printed page is also not subject to "Lucas Edits" of the story.
Durability: You may be able to drop a paper book, but you can't back it up. Destroy both a paper book and an ebook reader, and you still have the ebook. So no clear winner here.
Portability: Are you serious? I have close to 1,500 books on my ebook reader. Despite your valid points, as soon as you find a way to shove 1,500 paper books in your backpack, then you can come back and talk about portability.
Loanability: Since I never buy ebooks with DRM, I can "loan" all my books to whomever I want, and keep t
There's nothing wrong with preferring printed books and I'm sure most people will for some time. There is something wrong with attacking a technology as "damaging society" just because you don't understand it and don't like to use it personally as Franzen has done.
I have a young kid and regularly read while he falls asleep in my lap in the evening. Using a tablet means I don't need a light shining on my kid and impeding sleep.
It also means that I can use the device that I already have. As for headaches and eye strain, I've never had a problem. That said, I do look forward to the spread of high-resolution screens with the advent of the ipad3.
Personally, my biggest problem with ebooks on the tablet is that there isn't a great selection available from the public libr
How i love terms like
serious readers
It is the reader, that has become faulty. Our good product is not appreciated and understood by him. He doesn't use it according to specs.
Wake up guys! This is still the customer we are talking about
here is this text that doesn't change.
The printed page offers some authentication: yellowing of the page attests to age (or carbon dating for more precision), missing pages are readily apparent due to the running sequence counter, and alterations to the typography are difficult to forge. In essence, the printed page employs a redundancy of quadrillions times over -- quadrillions of molecules are involved to present one character of text to the reader. It is this redundancy that affords the secure authenti
Seriously, this guy sounds like hundreds of other e-book complainers. Meanwhile, every person I have given a Kindle to try out who said they would never give up paper books are converts within a week. eBooks are great because you can have tons of books always with you, they are light, and if you finish one you boook you instantly can get another one.
The only problem with e-books and e-readers is that they're clearly not made by readers.
Books, the good ones at least and most of the bad ones too, pay attention to typography. Paragraph-optimized justification, hyphenation, hanging punctuation, ligatures, etc. All these little things that you take for granted with a dead-tree book, but without them it's a significantly poorer experience.
You find books with left-aligned text, an ugly and jagged right edge carving out a large chunk of empty space on the right. Or worse, you get one that is justified. This is bottom-of-the-barrel justification, without hyphenation and very commonly leaving huge spaces between words [int64.org].
I've owned a Nook since launch day. I've read a large number of books on it, and I love it. But there is still a lot of room for improvement. I shouldn't need to import my ebooks into Adobe InDesign to make a PDF with proper typography.
I enjoy the immersible experience of recreational reading but you can't smell a f*cking eBook!
I love to plant my face right in the middle of a book and breath deeply and long. I like to fan out the pages of a book and then allow it to compress slowly, burping out its scented air. I know that I've enjoyed a particularly good reading session when I sport ink smudges on each side of my nose.
For work and reference tasks, however, eBooks have a couple strong advantages.
...only it went like this:
"I really hate these new 1200-baud modems. 300 baud is just the right speed for me to follow along, read, and think about what I'm reading. At 1200, I'm always having to control-S to pause the stream, and when there are a few short lines, I can lose my place in the text."
Eventually, e-ink displays will be just as dynamic as today's tablets, maybe more so. Heck, eventually, paper will be that dynamic.
If there's a mismatch between the content being displayed and our cognitive needs, fix the content. "Translating it down through a lower-Zone protocol" shouldn't be necessary.
What bothers me about e-readers is the impermanence of the content. If the service goes away, will the content go away? That's happened many times with on-line music. Remember Wal-Mart Music? PlaysForSure? MTV Urge? Zune? If the service goes down, can you move your content to a new device? This is really tough with devices that talk to nothing but the service. Can you back up your e-reader? Maybe, sort of, sometimes. [barnesandnoble.com]
Even if the content is on the reader, will the service push an update that makes the reader dependent on the service? That's happened with games. There have been updates that made e-books go away. [nytimes.com]
And don't even think about leaving your books to your kids.
My only real issue with eBooks, period, is cost. Why the fuck does the ebook cost more than a paperback copy?!?!? Why does it usually cost as much as the damned hardcover?!?!
eBooks were supposed to bring about a revolution. More people published, high profits for everyone involved, all while still costing radically less for the consumer. Instead it's become a pure money grab.
offering a menu of distractions that can fragment the reading experience, or stop it in its tracks.
People try to make it news that users can't organize themselves? For years I have read e-books on my laptop just fine. Not even in the full-screen mode. On one side.
On the other side, IMO it is more about the fact that most of the books are at best mediocre. So when given a choice, and e-book+tablet gives that choice, brains say "I'd rather watch cat videos on the YouTube." When I'm reading an interesting book on my e-book reader (not tablet), with laptop being readily available at hand, I rarely have the impulse to do something else. Because the book is interesting.
It is an open competition between the entertainment forms for the free time (and money) of the user. Many books (just like many movies or games), sadly, lose to the cat videos in entertainment value. And that's nothing new.
But I can image that some have missed the fact that books became predominantly an entertainment form - and have much less cultural value than they had say few decades before. That is rather normal: book publishing become cheaper and many things which previously were not deemed before to be worth the paper, now are published. Especially with e-books, literally anything can be published cheaply. And thus everything gets published. But that, unlike some time ago, doesn't give automatically everything published the same value as the books of the masters.
Who cares what publishers (or many authors for that matter) think about what's good for reading? Publishers have shown time and time again that the little they know about e-publishing terrifies them. They just want to stick their head in the sand and go back to paper, they latch on to any tidbit of evidence that people might not like e-books or e-reading. They do all they can to minimize e-book sales to protect their paper business.
If publishers were smart, they could get way more people reading way more books, and make a lot more money off it. They need to get over their fears about e-publishing and move fast before piracy becomes the norm in the book world, just like it did in the music and video world.
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Issue(s): (1) Whether, when the suspect in custody makes an ambiguous or equivocal reference to counsel before receiving Miranda warnings, "clearly established Federal law" as determined by this Court forbids the police from advising the suspect of his Miranda rights and then conducting an interrogation after he waives them; and (2) whether, under the "highly deferential" standard of review set out in 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), it was objectively unreasonable for the state court to conclude that respondent did not unambiguously and unequivocally invoke his right to counsel before receiving Miranda warnings.
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I think family/intimate relationship titles are a special case. If someone asks me to call them "Uncle Bob" or "Grandma" or "Cousin Suzette," they are offering and/or asking for a level of connection that may or may not be there. (If I'm from a family that says "Aunt Ruth" and marry into one that says "Aunt Smith," we can adjust--but that doesn't mean my mother's next-door neighbor would get to insist on being "Aunt Wilhelmina.")Beyond that, etiquette means you have to offer reciprocity. If someone wants to be "Mr. Smith" or "Dr. Jones" they should be calling me "Ms. Tea Drinker," not by my first name. (I don't push for this if it's my actual doctor or dentist, but in a social context I would. If they can't pronounce my surname, they can keep trying, ask me to call them "Pat," or say "ma'am" when a term of address is absolutely required. In the case of those religious visitors, it wasn't just "I outrank you," it was "my title/status counts and yours doesn't," which would be rude anyhow and doubly so given that they were uninvited callers at her home. And that's true for any pair of religions/titles, even if one is more mainstream than the other.
Last week two missionaries were adamant that they were not going to call her "Priestess" but also would not agree to first names or Mr last name, yet they insisted that they still be referred to as "Elder."
I have no idea what goes into bieng a Priestess but I wonder if clergy who the Elders recognize as having gone though some sort of formal study.of.written scripture might get a .different.reaction
I might not want to hang around someone who insisted on being called "Professor" in an informal setting,
Situation aside, when it comes to what someone wants to be called, I ask myself the following question:Does their chosen name/title/moniker describe them, or does it describe my relationship to them?If it describes them (e.g. Professor, Ms, Elder, Princess Consuela Bananahammock, etc), it's their choice, and I should respect it (insofar as it's not breaking any laws or disrespectful to someone else).If it describes my relationship to them (e.g. mum, dad) then it's my choice.It doesn't really matter if I find someone else's chosen descriptor silly or pompous, because it's not my name. I might not want to hang around someone who insisted on being called "Professor" in an informal setting, but I wouldn't dream of calling them something other than what they wanted to be called. That's pretty insulting, IMO.
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The Convoluted Campaign Against Susan Rice
Lindsey Graham and John McCain finally came face-to-face with their prey this week.
The two angry Republican senators have been plotting for weeks to stop Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, from rising any further in the Washington firmament. On Nov. 27, their task got more complicated.
Graham, of South Carolina, and McCain, of Arizona -- joined occasionally by Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, if only to make it not seem like two men beating up on a woman -- are all aboil about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. Well, not exactly: They are upset about what Rice said about the attack on several Sunday-morning talk shows five days later.
Why are they upset at Rice and not, say, officials in charge of security at the mission? Or, if they want to go big, why not Secretary of State Hillary Clinton?
Probably because they wanted to go after a lesser official whom President Barack Obama would like to be secretary of state. Or because they don't want to talk about how Republicans have consistently denied funds to protect diplomatic posts in dangerous places. Or because they don't want to discuss how supportive they were last decade when then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell gave testimony that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Powell and Rice then, like Susan Rice now, were relying on information provided by the intelligence community. There is, however, a major difference: Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice were testifying before official government bodies to justify going to war. Susan Rice was filling airtime between ads for erectile-dysfunction drugs.
Washington Games
Of course, all of this is just more evidence of Washington being full of itself. Only in Washington do people take seriously something said to a tiny audience of insiders half- watching their televisions on a Sunday morning. So seriously that a few senators want to embark on a special investigation beyond those already under way (hearings by congressional committees and a State Department inquiry, headed by former Ambassador Thomas Pickering and ordered by Clinton).
It doesn't make sense unless you're just looking for conflict or are up for re-election. As it happens, McCain, the grumpy old man of the Senate, is often spoiling for a fight, and the ally of the man who defeated him four years ago is a satisfying target. And Graham, who must face voters in the red state of South Carolina in two years, already features his dispute with Rice in campaign ads.
The renewed outrage this week was a bit of a surprise, as McCain and Graham had softened their stances in recent days. Few Republican colleagues were flocking to their side, and any hope of Democratic support faded after the president's passionate defense of Rice at his post-election press conference.
Offering an olive branch, McCain said over the Thanksgiving holiday that he would like to hear from Rice. Rice said she would like to be heard. A meeting was scheduled. What might have been the end of this fake melodrama over what Rice said (although not the end of real concern over what to do about preventing future Benghazis) was not to be.
Rice did admit that she was wrong about what happened in Benghazi -- but that got lost when the story got a new twist. Acting Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Morell, who accompanied Rice, said it wasn't the director of national intelligence or the CIA that provided edited intelligence to Rice. It was the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After the meeting, the CIA changed its story and said that it did, in fact, change some details.
The confusion doesn't end there. Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told foreign-policy blogger Josh Rogin that earlier news reports claiming James Clapper, the agency's director, made the edits were "frustratingly wrong." Turner said the talking points "were debated and edited by a collective of experts" from the intelligence community.
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If you believe Rice was relying on intelligence given to her, whether it was collected jointly or separately -- or even if it helped paint a picture of what happened that the White House liked -- doesn't really matter. On Benghazi, Rice will always be the messenger, not an actor. It will be left to Pickering to sort out who did what to her talking points.
One senator, independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut -- usually one of three amigos with McCain and Graham -- came out of his meeting with Rice breaking with his friends. Rice was telling "the whole truth," he said.
That may not matter, either, given how invested Graham and McCain are in making this tragedy all about Rice. Morell's addition of the FBI to the mix gives them a fresh detail to keep this story going. Then Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine and the president himself all but assured a few more news cycles of coverage: Collins, a moderate, said she couldn't support Rice without more information, while the president reiterated his support of his ambassador.
Then again, this story is getting pretty convoluted. It's hard enough to know what really happened in Benghazi in September. It's harder still to implicate Rice in some kind of cover-up. This week's events will undoubtedly provide more fodder for another round of Sunday-morning talk shows. But the story McCain and Graham are trying to sell is getting harder and harder to swallow.
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Okay, who remembers this? I've been looking for a turn table for quite sometime and finally found one, along with some really cool LP's. Reminds me of the roller-skating rink days!
There is a certain novelty about listening to Disco, Helen Reddy, Crystal Gale, and Donny & Marie ("I'm a Little Bit Country...") on LP's.


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Chris Brown: Why Painting Karrueche Tran's Car Was An Emotional Gesture
Chris went to town on Karrueche's Porsche and made it even flashier than it already was — and he did it all out of pure emotion! Read on for all the EXCLUSIVE details on why Chris decided to paint Karrueche's car!
Chris Brown knows actions speak louder than words — which is why he painted Karrueche Tran's white Porsche Panamera with his awesome signature characters to thank her for sticking by his side through his darkest hours, HollywoodLife.com is EXCLUSIVELY reporting.
Chris Brown Paints Karrueche Tran's Car — Graffiti Was Emotional Gesture
Karrueche has always been there for Chris, and he wanted to find a very special way to return the favor.
"This was his way of thanking her for always being by his side, having his back and helping him through his pain," a source close to the on-again, off-again couple tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. "He already pretty much gave Karrueche everything she ever asked for, and he thought a custom paint job would be different and one of a kind."
On August 21, Chris, 24, surprised Kae, 25, with the custom paint job outside his Hollywood Hills home. And when Karrueche saw the car, Chris got just the reaction he was hoping for!
"He wanted Kae to be shocked, like 'what the f**k,' and that's exactly the reaction he got from her."
Before the couple jetted off to Hawaii for a little relaxation, Kae sat on the hood of the car with a sad face and posted it on her Instagram with the caption, "this what the f**k I come home to lmao this n**** man."
We're not so sure Karrueche will be excited to come home to her new ride, but it's the thought that counts!
Karrueche Tran Supports Chris Brown During His Depression
As HollywoodLife.com previously reported, Breezy can always depend on Karrueche to be there for him, even in the most terrible circumstances. After Chris suffered from a stress-induced seizure at the beginning of August, Kae told him to "stay off the internet" and not pay any attention to his "haters," HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY reported.
"He's trying real hard to stay positive, eat, sleep, exercise, and he's trying to stay off them websites and not pay attention to the haters and people with no lives of their own," a source close to the X artist said. "Karrueche's been telling him that, and now I think he's got the point and is listening."
We're so glad Chris found a creative way to thank Karrueche for everything she's done for him. Now it's your turn to sound off, HollywoodLifers. Do you like Chris' custom paint job on Karrueche's car? Let us know!
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The winged helmet is iconic, and I am pretty sure that will never go away.
I wouldn't count on that. All other uniform-related evidence indicates that we WILL see an "alternate" helmet at some point before DB retires, beyond just adding numbers or messing with the finish. My money is on one of these final two Notre Dame games or Michigan's next Rose Bowl appearance.


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My Mother used to say, All that glitters is not gold. And thats certainly true. But it didnt stop me from buying into some fools gold. And as Mom was also fond of saying, A fool and her money are soon parted. BINGO!
How about you? Have you ever been conned? The word con comes from CONfidence. And, in my opinion, its fine to win someones confidence if its based on truth, but not if its based on hype marketing. Lets take a look at truth vs. hype in relation to scientific research. That way, maybe you and I will never get conned again.
Valid research is peer reviewed research published in a reputable journal. As an example, lets use The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. This publication is set up to review and publish innovative nutritional research. All submissions, and there are thousands, must be reviewed by a panel of highly respected nutritional scientists.
Blatant flaws are easy for this team of experts to spot. And many submissions are rejected at the outset for poor criteria. Youve heard of various research criteria such as control group, placebo and double blind studies. Everything that passes the initial peer review test is then gone over with a fine tooth comb. Any studies accepted for publication in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition have been rigorously and discriminately screened by the team of experts. Only scientific research thats original, valid and significantly important is published in a peer review journal. You can see why this kind of publication would give a product, company or specific research, prestige and respectability.
Thats why slick unscrupulous marketers throw the term peer review around freely and try to milk it for all its worth in order to fool you. How do they fool you? Too easy! Some just say they have peer review research. If you ask to see it, they tell you most sincerely, Oh, it hasnt been published yet or Its only for doctors. Some personally fund a biased study at a university and hope you wont know the difference. They count on your trusting nature, as they laugh all the way to the bank.
Other marketers have discovered they can write a pseudo research article, make outrageous false claims and publish their piece in a trade journal. Or sometimes they make up their own journal and give it an impressive sounding title. They call it peer review and hire some hungry doctors to fake the scientific team. Hype marketers are getting more and more clever at these pseudo-scientific vanity journals. And they count on you to be so impressed by what you see in print that you never question their lack of integrity.
What can you do to protect yourself? Well, first keep an open mind. There are respectable marketers promoting good quality, highly effective, proven products based on valid science. You can always ask, Wheres your research? If they can produce it, look up the publication in the List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus. Or you can call the librarian of the nearest medical school. Ask if the library subscribes to the journal and if it has a good reputation. If you dont get a positive answer, move on and dont look back.
When it comes to nutritional supplements, its not just your pocketbook thats at stake, its also your well being. So be a smart consumer. Always remember, All that glitters is not gold. But, also remember, Theres gold in them there hills even though you may have to dig for it. Authentic peer review research is like having a good treasure map.
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Square Enix announced today that a revamped version of classic JRPG Final Fantasy V is in development for PlayStation 3 and PSP, headed for a downloadable release via the PlayStation Network.
"All-new CG cinematic sequences exclusive to the PSN edition" are promised, but Square Enix offered very few details beyond that. One imagines the publisher would have mentioned if Final Fantasy IV was being revamped with new graphics, like the April 19-due Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection compilation.
The PSN edition's price and release date have not been revealed. Final Fantasy V was originally released on SNES back in 1992.
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Police said they had to chase a suspect through a local apartment complex before arresting him.
Greenville Police said during routine patrols, officers tried to speak with 21-year-old Dion Grimes as he rode his bike through the Sterling Pointe Apartment complex.
Police said Grimes took off through the complex and around a building while trying to hide counterfeit cash.
Investigators said Grimes had 31 counterfeit $20 bills and 15 counterfeit $10 bills, all with different serial numbers.
Police notified the secret service of the case.
Grimes was arrested for possession and transport of more than five counterfeit Instruments.
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Cliff Lee got the Philadelphia Phillies' crucial homestand off to a winning start last week, creating momentum that has seen the club rip off four victories already on the residency.
Lee goes back at it on Wednesday night aiming for a ninth straight victory in the third contest of a four-game series with the Washington Nationals.
Lee is unbeaten in 12 straight outings, having not lost since May 1 in Cleveland. The All-Star lefty kicked off his club's stay at home last Friday with a 5-4 win over Atlanta, hurling six scoreless frames before getting charged with four runs in the seventh inning while recording just one out.
Lee yielded eight hits and struck out four without a walk, moving to 10-2 with a 2.73 earned run average in 18 starts this season.
"You're playing the Braves, the Nationals, the teams that are ahead of you and they're that much more important because you can gain ground there," Lee said on Philadelphia's website. "We just have to win games, and what the front office does and the decisions they have to make are up to them. It's their job to do that and it's our job to win games."
Lee's current unbeaten run includes a home win over the Nationals on June 18 as he struck out nine over eight innings of two-run ball. That improved the 34-year-old to 6-3 lifetime versus the Washington franchise with a 2.48 ERA in nine games.
Philadelphia has won each of its past three games, including the first two of this set with Washington. The Phils got an excellent start from Cole Hamels Tuesday in a 4-2 victory, with the southpaw yielding just a run over eight innings of work.
Hamels posted wins in back-to-back starts for the first time in 2013, scattering six hits and one walk to go with four strikeouts.
"I know it was hot, but I was able to maintain the energy and intensity level," Hamels said.
Michael Young hit a two-run double, Domonic Brown had an RBI and Chase Utley scored twice for the Phils, who are 4-1 on their homestand and have won six of their last eight overall.
Jayson Werth homered for the Nationals, who have been limited to four runs in this series after erupting for 32 during their four-game win streak prior to arriving in Philadelphia. They now sit six games behind first-place Atlanta in the NL East and just 1 1/2 games ahead of the Phillies.
"This is a good-hitting ballpark. We didn't get anything going," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said.
Taylor Jordan was tagged for eight hits and four runs -- three earned -- over 5 2/3 frames and took the loss.
Johnson's club will look to rebound Wednesday behind southpaw Gio Gonzalez, who can push his winning streak to four straight starts. His current run follows an 0-1 winless stretch from May 12-June 19, a span of eight outings.
Gonzalez scattered three runs, eight hits and a walk over 6 2/3 innings of an 8-5 triumph over San Diego on Friday, striking out five and moving to 6-3 on the season with a 3.14 ERA in 18 outings.
Gonzalez, 27, did not factor into a 6-2 win at Philadelphia on June 19 despite striking out 11 over seven innings of two-run ball. He is 3-1 with a 2.53 ERA in five career meetings with the Phillies.
The Phillies own a 5-3 advantage in the season series, taking four of five so far at home.


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John Kerry appears set to be confirmed by the Senate later Tuesday as the next U.S. secretary of state, a role he says he'll use to fight against climate change.
Kerry on Tuesday was unanimously confirmed for the post by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the full Senate is expected to follow suit.
Combating climate change is high on Kerry's to-do list, as he made clear in his confirmation hearing, calling it a "life-threatening issue."
Industries can expect greater focus on climate change in President Barack Obama's second term, though exactly what steps will be laid out aren't yet known. Obama used his inauguration speech to call for action on global warming and developing sustainable energy sources. Democrats in the past have tried to take a variety of tax breaks away from big oil companies to pay for renewable-energy development.
If confirmed by the Senate, Kerry would replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as the top U.S. diplomat. His swearing-in would likely come later this week.
– Robert Schroeder
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Renaming Mailing List
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Under Email Archive, just click on options and you can easily rename the mailing list as you like.
Variations with your address (alias, etc.)
If you subscribe with say, firstname.lastname@example.com, but your emailer has the "from" address set at firstname.lastname@example.com, or an alias "firstname.lastname@example.com", the mailing list will not recognize you as subscribed and hence reject any email you send. An easy fix for this is to go into the options for the mailing list, and change it so that anyone can send email to the list. That might become problematic in terms of blocking spammers, but since the address is advertised only to site participants only in an authenticated environment, spammers should not have access to the address. However this could become a problem if someone's computer becomes infected or hacked, and the address to fall into the hands of spammers that way. The other solution is that users subscribe to the worksite using the email address they actually have in their "from" field within their email program. If its a UVa address, you will have to subscribe it as a non-UVa address, since you can only subscribe as a UVa address by specifying your computing ID.
Spam false positive problems
There is a spam filtering problem, where mail sent from the mailing list is being often identified as spam and sent to spam filters. This should be resolved soon.


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ST. LOUIS – Jim Crews, who led the Saint Louis University men's basketball team to unprecedented success in 2012-13 as interim head coach, has been named the Billikens' head coach.
"Jim Crews stepped into a difficult situation and led the Billikens to a winning season with remarkable dignity and grace," University President Lawrence Biondi, S.J. said. "With his commitment to his players' success — on and off the court — he embodies the very best of Saint Louis University athletics. I'm already looking forward to next season and beyond."
"I have said from day one that it is about the people – the players, staff, administration and fans – and the people here are 100 percent committed to this team and this program," Crews said. "I've seen first hand the values that Saint Louis University possesses, and I believe strongly in those same values. They are paramount in the college experience.
"Moving forward, nothing changes. As a staff, our philosophy is to continue to get better each and every day, on the court and off the court, and we continue to do that."
"Jim Crews is the perfect fit to lead the Billiken men's basketball program," Director of Athletics Chris May said. "Jim embraces the goals of our department that we focus on daily – to educate, compete and build community. Jim showed all the skills necessary to succeed at SLU. He led the program with great class to the best season in school history, and he has a vision and plan to lead it successfully into the future. I am thrilled to announce Jim as the head coach as we move the men's basketball program forward."
Crews was named interim head coach at the beginning of the 2012-13 season when it was announced that Rick Majerus would not coach this season. Majerus died Dec. 1. Crews led the Billikens to a school-record 28 victories (28-7), Atlantic 10 Conference regular-season and tournament championships and a second straight NCAA Tournament bid.
Crews' coaching performance, as well as the Billikens' success on the court, did not go unnoticed on the national scene. Crews earned national coach of the year awards from the Sporting News and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). He was one of four finalists for the Naismith Coach of the Year award. In addition, he earned his fifth conference coach of the year honor when he was named A-10 Coach of the Year.
Crews recently completed his 25th season as a collegiate head coach with a 382-355 career record. Previously, he served seven seasons at Army from 2002-09. Preceding his appointment at West Point, Crews coached for 17 years at Evansville (1985-2002) and played and coached at Indiana.
Counting his time as a player, assistant coach and head coach, Crews has been a part of 15 NCAA Tournaments. He won a national title in 1976 as a senior at Indiana and in 1981 as an assistant coach for the Hoosiers, playing for and coaching with the legendary Bob Knight.
Following his stint at Army, Crews did not coach for two years. He was convinced by Majerus to rejoin the coaching ranks just days before the start of practice in 2011-12. Crews was an integral part of the staff that helped the Billikens to a 26-8 record and their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 18 seasons.
Perhaps what Crews is best known for is his ability to graduate players. During his tenure at Evansville, 52 of the 53 players who spent four years with the Purple Aces earned a degree. Every senior in Crews' final 12 years graduated. At Army, he graduated all 30 four-year players who came through his program.
The Billikens return seven players who saw action in 25 or more games during the 2012-13 season, including first-team All-Conference pick and leading scorer and rebounder Dwayne Evans. Regulars Mike McCall Jr., Jordair Jett and Rob Loe also return next season to comprise one of the most experienced senior classes in the country.


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"Efforts in both chambers of Congress have Republicans wondering why Democrats seem to fear free speech. Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA) has proposed limitations on how Representatives can post information to the Internet in a time when we should be demanding more transparency, not less. According to a source in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein has begun her own campaign to force Senators to seek permission before communicating over the Internet." "In the Senate, the problem gets even worse.
In the Senate, the problem gets even worse. Feinstein (D-CA) would have the Rules Committee act as a censor board, forcing members to get approval for the act of communicating on external websites. Further, it would appear that the Feinstein proposal would attempt to exercise editorial control over these sites, at least indirectly.
As my source put it, these are the key issues:
Under their scheme, the Senate Rules Committee would become the Internet speech police for everyone in the Senate. It will be up to the committee to "sanction" which websites and forms of communication they deem appropriate.
The Rules Committee thus gets to pick winners and losers among various websites in terms of which are appropriate for use.
The Rules Committee would get to regulate communication through any site not ending in Senate.gov," which would include sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
Further, this could jeopardize guest posts at sites like RedState and Townhall.
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Benjamin Logan High School
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"In the end it will all be okay. If it's not okay, it's not the end."
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PARIS, TX -- A two-year-old Paris boy has died from his injuries Wednesday morning, after being choked while playing with a dog last week.
Emergency crews were called to the 600 block of Southeast 10th Street last Tuesday after the child was found unconscious.
Paris Police say the toddler was in the back yard with a dog attached to a tree by a nylon rope.
The dog was moving around the tree and caught the toddler in the rope and it wrapped around his neck, choking him.
"The investigation is near completion and he was going to take all of his findings to the county attorney's office for them to make any determination if there's any foul play," said Officer Curtis Garrett, with the Paris Police Department.
Paris Police say the child was taken to a Dallas hospital and never regained consciousness.


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March 30, 2006
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - UC Santa Barbara dropped a 6-1 decision to visiting Harvard on Thursday afternoon. The Gauchos lost the doubles point and then dropped five of six singles points in the match.
UCSB narrowly lost the doubles point in its matach with 75th-ranked Harvard. The Crimson scored a pair of victories when Scott Denenberg/Gideon Valkin topped Elad Stern/Grant Robertson, 8-6. In addition Sasha Ermakov/Nick Savage edged Carsten Thorstensen/Scott Hohenstein, 8-6. The Gauchos lone doubles win came with Nick Brotman/Anders Dalskov defeating Brandon Chiu/Ashwin Kumar, 8-6.
Brotman also won his No. 1 singles match over Kumar, battling for a 7-6 win in the first set and then cruising to a 6-2 second set victory.
Although UCSB didn't win another singles match, the Gauchos did battle. At No. 2, Bijan Hejazi lost 6-7, 6-3, 7-6 to Christopher Clayton. The game-winner came on a controversial line call. At No. 3, Dalskov lost 6-1, 6-7 (10-2). After trailing 3-0 in the second set, the sophomore came back to win in a tiebreaker, 7-6. With the match decided before the end of the second set, Dalskov and Dan Nguyen played the 10-point tiebreaker for their singles match.
At No. 4, Thorstensen lost a three-setter to Brian Wan. He dropped the first set 6-3 and then trailed big in the second set before rallying to win in a tiebreaker, 6-7. Wan won the third set 6-2.
Finally, Hohenstein, who was a late addition to the singles lineup, defeated Shantunu Dhuka in the first set 1-6 before losing a narrow 7-6 decision in the second set. Hohenstein lost the third set 6-2.
The Gauchos are now 9-7 on the year. UCSB will return to action on Saturday, April 1, when it hosts Pacific in a Big West showdown. The match will begin at 1:00 p.m. on the Recreation Center Courts.
Also on Saturday, Hamburger Habit will be offering free hamburgers to anyone in attendance at the Gaucho-Tiger match. And remember, it's not just any hamburger, it's a Hamburger Habit hamburger.
No. 75 Harvard 6, UC Santa Barbara 1 Singles No. 1. - Nick Brotman (UCSB) def. Ashwin Kumar (H) - 7-6, 6-2 No. 2 - Chris Clayton (H) def. Bijan Hejazi (UCSB) - 6-7, 6-3, 7-6 No. 3 - Dan Nguyen (H) def. Anders Dalskov (UCSB) 6-1, 6-7, 10-2 No. 4 - Brian Wan (H) def. Carsten Thorstensen (UCSB) - 6-3, 6-, 6-2 No. 5 - Sasha Ermakov (H) def. Max Taylor (UCSB) - 6-1, 6-2 No. 6 - Shantuni Dhuka (H) def. Scott Hohenstein (UCSB) 1-6, 7-6, 6-2
Doubles No. 1 - Brotman/Dalskov (UCSB) def. Chiu/Kumar - 8-6 No. 2 - Scott Dennenberg//Giden Valkim (H) def. Elad Stern/ Grant Robertson (UCSB) - 8-6 No. 3 - Ermakov/Nick Savage (H) df. Thorstensen/Hohenstein - 8-6


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New Pedestrian Trail Added in Northeast Bozeman
The city of Bozeman, in conjunction with Gallatin County, began construction on a new trail from North Rouse to Seventh Avenue. The city expects the project to cost $264,596 dollars and should be finished in the next few weeks. Ideally, the trail will greatly increase the safety of bikers and pedestrians in Northern Bozeman. As most trails run north to south, the east-west running trail should markedly improve transportation ease in the city. In addition to the trail on Rouse, the city has recently added trails along Norris Rd. as well as from Cougar Dr. and Cottonwood Rd. south of town. Reliable, safe trails can be a lifesaver for young families while keeping bikers off of busy main roads. Bozemanites can now look forward to relaxing evening walks or morning runs with more comfort and confidence.


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Kindness and compassion - words perhaps sometimes bantered about without much conviction- were driven home in a message brought to many in the South Tama County community on Wednesday, Aug. 29.
From kindergarten students to grandparents, and all in between, the message of Rachel's Challenge was offered in a series of programs at the STC High School. More than 400 gathered Wednesday night at the STC gym for a community-wide presentation.
Rachel Hope Scott was the first student gunned down in the massacre at Columbine High School at Littleton, Colo. in 1999 - one of 12 students and a teacher killed and 21 others injured.
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South Tama students gather around Rachel's Challenge program presenter Colleen Kirk (facing camera) after the evening Rachel's Challenge program at the STC?High Gym on Wednesday, Aug. 29.
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What developed, in short, is Rachel left behind insightful, inspirational and even prophetic writings. Beginning with her father and stepmother, Darrell and Sandy Scott, Rachel's words began to spread and Rachel's Challenge was born.
Among the goals are to prevent bullying and to promote performance of kind acts. One of Rachel's messages was an act of kindness "can start a chain reaction."
"I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People will never know how far a little kindness can go," is a message attributed to Rachel shortly before she was killed.
Rachel's Challenge program presenter Colleen Kirk gave interpretations and added more information which was interspersed throughout film segments to bring better understanding.
Effectiveness of Rachel's Challenge seemed immediate at South Tama, Joyce Legg, o-chair of Tama County Supporting Kids in Prevention (SKIP), one of the organizations sponsoring the Rachel's Challenge program here.
"Kids are really talking about it," she said on Thursday. "Some 50 to 60 have already attended training for the Friends of Rachel Club. They're just exploding with ideas." Legg said STC school counselors have also embraced the program.
Following the evening presentation, signing banner pledging support for Rachel's Challenge was a popular activity.
Sponsors of the Rachel's Challenge program at South Tama in addition to SKIP were South Tama elementary Boosters, Friends of the STC Middle School and STC High School Boosters.
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