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"My favourite thing is the sitting area," Mum, Marianne, revealed. "Great for night feeding. We bought the the Egmont Rabbit Lamp which provides a soft light; it creates a very calm atmosphere. Our other favourite thing is of course our precious baby boy!"
The quirky rabbit lamp came from Marianne's local store in Nantes, France but it can also be bought online at Little Fashion Gallery.
While Marianne was creating a haven her for her new baby, she was restricted that as a renter she couldn't choose the wall colour. Her choice of bunting and curtains prove that swags of bright fabrics can make all the difference.
As Marianne didn't know if she was having a boy or a girl she decided to create a gender neutral decor that suited her tastes, pointing out, "The decor is mostly for the adults eyes - I don't think the baby cares too much in the beginning."
Gentle and warm with cool quirky details. Mum, Marianne from A brand new baby and Noces de coton wanted, " A summer/breezy look, with bright colours - aqua, green and a pop of orange - and a touch of glamour with golden accents. We really like how it all turned out. "
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Arthur, 8 weeks (as of tommorow!) in Nantes, France.
To create Arthur's space Marianne used a lot of thrifted items such as the dresser and rocking horse. New items include the orange curtains from Ikea and fabric for the bedding and bunting from fabricworm and QuiltHome. Marianne also added loved toys from her and her husband's childhoods.
The cot, shelves, bookcase and the armchair (that was previously used in their den) all come from Ikea. The side table and dresser/change table were second hand buys. Marianne revealed that for the moment they aren't using the change table and instead change Arthur in the bathroom.
Beautiful new mama Marianne and baby Arthur.
Marianne put together most of the decor herself including the fabric bunting, cot bedding, turquoise chalkboard side table, paper pom poms, the canvas above the dresser, the lampshade, family puzzle block, cardboard deer head, rocking horse, baby blanket and bird mobile.
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Marianne loves the rocking horse and nabbed it for only 4 €. The side table was also a bargain at 10€. She also pointed out that Ikea is a money saver. "By buying your main furniture items at Ikea you can then spend more money on other items, like fabric for example."
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The Egmont Rabbit Lamp. Cannot go past a quirky bunny!
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Marianne says, "My main advice would be to get neutral furniture and to have fun with fabric and accessories. It will allow you to easily adapt your decor according to the baby's sex and the season. Also, I'm not a fan of most baby decor items you can find in baby stores - I'm not sure you need to have a 100% Disney inspired look ('Cars' or 'Dora' etc). And don't forget about storage: this little thing comes with tons of clothes and other baby stuff! My one month old doesn't really care for toys right now – unless it provides milk! But it'll be different in a few months, and I might want to hide everything in cute baskets."


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Former Yale track & field standout Patricia Melton has been selected as one of six recipients of the 2007 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award. The award has been presented annually since 1973 to former student-athletes whose collegiate careers ended 25 years ago and who have gone on to excel in their chosen professions. Melton will receive her award at the NCAA Honors Celebration on Sunday, Jan. 7, during the annual NCAA Convention in Orlando, Fla. The recipients were chosen by the NCAA Honors Committee, a group comprised of eight athletic administrators at member schools and nationally distinguished former student-athletes.
Melton graduated from Yale in 1982 with a degree in Afro-American studies. She served as captain of both the indoor and outdoor teams as a senior, and was named the 1982 Ivy League Runner of the Year. In addition, she was named the outstanding performer at both the indoor and outdoor Heptagonal Championships that year. Melton won seven Heptagonal titles during her career. In 1982, she won a silver medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Championships and was named All-American. She is still the Yale record holder indoors in the 400 meters and outdoors in the 400-meter hurdles. Melton was a finalist in the 800 meters at the 1988 U.S. Olympic Trials.
Melton volunteered with the Special Olympics and was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps reserve while at Yale. She currently works as the lead school design consultant and early college high school expert for the Center of Excellence in Leadership and Learning (CELL) at the University of Indianapolis. Melton is also a consultant with YouthBuild USA, a national nonprofit organization based out of Somerville, Mass., that assists out-of-school and dropout youth. She has spent the last 20 years working to expand educational opportunities for all students, with a focus on high school completion and college access. Melton has been instrumental in the creation of nine new schools from K-12 in Washington, Ohio and Indiana.
She was an assistant coach for the Bulldogs from 1986-88 and worked with the Seattle Goodwill Games Organizing Committee as assistant vice president for sports from 1988-90. Melton was named to the Ivy League Silver Anniversary Team in 1999. In addition to her many civic contributions to various organizations around the country, Melton received a fellowship award from the Leadership for Educational Entrepreneurs program for emerging national school leaders, sponsored by the charter school division of the U.S. Department of Education and Arizona State University.
This is the second consecutive year, and fourth time overall, that a Yale woman has won the Silver Anniversary Award. Former swimming and softball star Susan Wellington '81, the former president of Gatorade, was recognized last year. Melton becomes the 11th Bulldog to receive the honor.
The other recipients of the honor this year are: Gail Koziara Boudreaux (Dartmouth, basketball and track & field), Rowdy Gaines (Auburn, swimming), Steve Jordan (Brown, football), Ann Woods Smith (Florida, gymnastics), and William Stetson, M.D. (USC, volleyball). The Ivy League becomes just the second conference with three recipients in the same year, joining the Pac-10 in 2003.
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If you are talking to someone else and they come up and try to join the conversation - you don't hear them, you don't see them, and you don't respond to them.
One note: A cut direct is a severe cut. As such, it is thrown around EHell more often than it should be. Some posters don't realize just how severe it actually is intended to be. One of the other cuts (indirect, sublime or infernal) would be more suitable for most of the situations encountered here.As commented by Agnes H. Morton (1892), "The cut direct is the rudest possible way of dropping an acquaintance; and is allowable only in the case of some flagrant offender who deserves public and merciless rebuke. Ordinarily, the result sought of ending an undesired acquaintanceis attained by a persistently cold courtesy, supplemented by as much avoidance as possible; drifting apart, not sinking each others craft without warning."Also, "One thing to understand about the cut direct is that it is a public shaming. Not answering your door, replying to a letter, or answering the phonethese are not examples of a cut direct. A cut direct is looking at someone straight on and pretty much pretending you dont see them*. You are informing those present that they are unworthy of your acknowledgment. Pretty harsh." * A post above is an example of how this cut is not understood completely. It is not avoiding looking at them. It is, rather, looking at them straight on and pretending you don't see them.
my DF was a candidate for sainthood for not giving my FSMIL the cut direct already. While she is pretty nasty, that seems like overkill
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Indian FOSS Evangelist Atul Chitnis Dead At 51 39
New submitter knwny writes "Atul Chitnis, the man who popularized open software in India, died on 3rd June of intestinal cancer. As a technology mentor, writer and public speaker he promoted Linux and FOSS since the late 1980s through his association with various tech magazines and conferences. He introduced Linux to thousands of PC Quest magazine readers by convincing them to carry the first ever Linux distribution in India on its cover CD in 1996."


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The $63,791,074 collected for the project from July through September marks the highest quarterly total received by HART to date.
"We now have a total of $1.14 billion in surcharge revenue collected for rail. This quarter's revenue is the largest amount of GET funding for the project since collections began," said HART CEO and Executive Director Daniel Grabauskas. "Strong GET surcharge revenue coupled with the $1.55-billion in federal funding that we secured last year is keeping us on the right track to deliver the project on budget."
HART Board Chairman Ivan Lui-Kwan said he was pleased with the strong revenue report.
"One of the most important functions of any project is ensuring that funding is secure. With our federal Full Funding Grant Agreement now in place and with strong GET revenues, the rail project is on solid financial footing," Lui-Kwan said.
The half-percent GET surcharge for Oahu, which by law can only be used for Honolulu's rail system, began in January 2007 and is set to expire at the end of 2022. The surcharge is estimated to fund nearly 70 percent of the project's cost, with the remaining balance to be paid for using federal funds.


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"Dad was a purist. His interest began and ended with formula cars. Me, I was more like my racing hero, Jim Clark. He was a double Formula One champion, but he'd driven everything- sports cars, saloon cars, NASCAR and even rally cars. While my dream was to reach Formula One, I'd drive anything." Hot Seat by Simon Wood.
I was introduced to Simon Wood's books by association. I posted reviews for Tammy Kaehler's Kate Reilly Racing books earlier this year (Dead Man's Switch and Braking Points). Tammy also blogs about motorsports over at Two For The Road- a blog she shares with Simon Wood (who is a former race car driver) and it was reading this blog that made me look up Simon's books (he has quite a few books- but so far there are just the two in the Aidy Westlake Mystery series- which are racing related so that was logically where I started).


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August 7, 2012 > Calif. bill seeks to tighten assault weapons law
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP), Aug 04 - Legislation that has the backing of California's attorney general would close a loophole in the nation's toughest assault weapons law, making it more difficult for guns to be swiftly reloaded with high-capacity magazines.Attorney General Kamala Harris and a Democratic state lawmaker are seeking the change in the wake of this summer's massacre at a Colorado movie theater.The state's regulations allow gun manufacturers to sell weapons in California with magazines that can be removed and replaced quickly using a simple tool known as a ``bullet button.'' The buttons get around the state's ban on detachable magazines that can be used to swiftly reload a rifle or shotgun.Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, said Friday that he plans to amend his SB249 in the Assembly next week, adding language to make it clear that state law bans rifles and shotguns with easily detachable magazines.When it passed the Senate earlier this year, his bill would have banned just the use of one variety of ``bullet button,'' one with an attached magnet that fits over the weapon's magazine release mechanism. The magnet lets an empty magazine be exchanged for a fully loaded magazine within seconds.But Yee's plan for a broader ban on easily detachable magazines ran into opposition. He said he expects support for much greater restrictions after the July 20 shooting in suburban Denver that killed 12 and injured 58.``It reminded all of us how dangerous the assault weapons are,'' Yee said. ``There's an opportunity now to plug up that hole, and I want to take advantage of that.''The National Rifle Association urged its members to call and email state lawmakers to oppose the revised bill, calling it ``a gun ban monster.''It warned that hundreds of thousands of semiautomatic rifles legally sold in California since 2001, when the state's assault ban regulations took effect, would become illegal under Yee's bill. The organization also warned that thousands of gun owners could face the threat of arrest.Harris endorsed Yee's efforts to strengthen his legislation in a statement to The Associated Press on Friday.``In recent years, the gun industry has developed a loophole that undermines California's assault weapons law,'' she said.She said the legal change is needed ``to restore the law's original intent.''Detachable magazines are one part of the legal definition of what qualifies as an assault weapon in California, which Harris' office says has the nation's toughest assault weapons restrictions. The state prohibits weapons that have detachable magazines in combination with other features such as a pistol grip and telescoping stock.Yee's proposal would give gun owners until July 2013 to have their weapons altered so the ``bullet button'' could no longer be used to detach the magazine. His spokesman, Adam Keigwin, said a gunsmith could make the change in a few minutes by welding over the mechanism.


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|Google Apps Hacks
|Philipp Lenssen
|O'Reilly Media Inc.
|JR Peck
|Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of Google Applications
I think what would be more accurate, and probably much less marketable, is that this is a book of Google Apps snippets, instructions and a few hacks. The hacks themselves are rated in the book as one of three levels — Easy, Intermediate and Expert. There are 141 total as I mentioned and they break down like this; 72 easy, 50 intermediate and 19 expert. That says something all on its own. This is especially true when some of the easy hacks include things like signing up for a Gmail account or accessing your calendar from a mobile phone. The instructions to do those things are not a hack, they are instructions on how to use the software as it was intended to be used. No clever tricks, no thrown together work-around, just documentation for things that are pretty easy to do.
With all that said, I think that the book has a high level of value. I just think that someone who judges it by its cover (which we all do, old sayings aside) may get an unpleasant surprise. What is the value, if it does not lie in providing a ton of hacks? Well, this book is an excellent introduction to Google's many on-line applications. I use many already and still learned of a couple new ones when I read this book. It also does bring all that instruction into one place, and provides a very user-friendly style of instruction. There is also a very nice feature, 8 sections that take the reader "Beyond Google...". Each of these sections informs the reader about alternative software that provides similar functionality to the Google software described in the preceding chapter. This is really a great resource and an unexpected bonus for anyone who reads the book.
The book covers the entire Google Documents family with an overview and then chapters that deal specifically with documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The beyond Google section presents Zoho, EditGrid and the ThinkFree on-line office suite. There are some nice hacks here that revolve around using the sharing capabilities as well as pulling data from all over the web and into documents. For example Hack #27 is one of the expert hacks and gives 5 pages of explanation, with black and white images as well as code snippets, on how to pull data from any web site into a spreadsheet. This also serves as a nifty little example of xpath and uncovers some very cool Google spreadsheet functionality. Hack #29 is another rated expert that uses screen scraping, but this time to add currency conversion capabilities to a spread sheet. I thought these were not only fun but did a great job of opening up my mind to a number of other possible uses for these tools.
The chapter on Gmail is for the most part pretty basic. One of the expert hacks, altering the appearance of Gmail using ones own stylesheet, is useful not only for Gmail but for any site that one might be interested in modifying. The coverage is decent and much of the functionality and interface is very well documented. The other products introduced are Yahoo! Mail, MS Hotmail and Mozilla Thunderbird. One simple hack is the ability to create 'spare' email addresses with the use of periods in the name or the use of '+' to add onto the name. This hack gained quite a bit of attention on the web not that long ago, and is one of the easy hacks, but still very useful.
Many of the hacks, including hack #54, from the Gmail section, originated with someone other than Lenssen. He is careful to point this out, in the text of the hack, which I thought was very cool. Not giving credit would be a real problem, but it didn't need to be so prominent. That hack, by the way, is how to use the undocumented "lang" operator to search messages based on language. Another easy hack that could be extremely useful.
iGoogle is covered, along with instructions on creating Gadgets. I thought the ability to add any flash game as a gadget was fun but damaging to my productivity. The other options presented are Netvibes, Pageflakes and Protopage. This is followed up with Google Calendar and some nice instructions on adding a Calendar xml widget to a blog, or the inverse, embedding a vast array of content into Calendar events. The other options here are Yahoo! Calendar, Microsoft's Calendar and 30 Boxes. These are both followed by the chapter on Google reader and a list of a number of other possible reader services.
The chapter covering photos and video is shorter than the others when taking into account that it covers Picasa, YouTube and GoogleVideo, but I think that there just isn't as much flexibility or need there as in some of the other applications. The chapter on blogging and Google Groups is just the opposite, with quite a few more hacks and some nice tips on getting the most from each of those services.
Google Maps, Google Earth and Sketchup 3D are covered in a single chapter together. There are some nifty hacks here, though some of the more flashy have already received quite a bit of attention all over the internet. For example, the ability to use Google Earth as a flight simulator has already gained a huge amount of attention on most high profile sites, and many blogs, low traffic sites, etc.
The last chapter covers tools like Analytics and ways to go about doing search engine optimization and generating traffic. There are some nice ideas for the individual who really wants to analyze what traffic they have and try to get more. Here there are some good examples of another strength of the book. It does a good job of crossing over between applications. Two good examples here are Hack #133, which covers exporting Analytics data to Google Spreadsheets and hack #136 which is a very clever way to do user surveys using Google Spreadsheets again.
As I mentioned, most of the book is a bit shallow. But that is not always the case. Some of the expert hacks are not too tough, but do require the reader to get a handle on more than just basic concepts and tools. Some are excellent exercises in getting exposed to all kinds of technology. Hack #121 lets the reader know how to create Google Maps overlays on the fly using Python to generate KML, using data that it read from a MySQL database. That's fun stuff and a far cry from hack #1 "How to Get Your Google Account." In fact for some people, the entire book may be worth these gems.
The book has a nice glossy cover and the 9.7 x 8.0 dimensions mean that it doesn't feel to thick for its almost 400 pages. Those pages fly by and each hack is accompanied by plenty of illustrations and code snippets where appropriate. The table of contents breaks things down well, and each hack is named there and the names give an accurate description of the content. The index is acceptable and the two combine to make this a very easy resource to pick up and jump to just the right content. It can be read from front to back, but that is not at all necessary and there is no thread or flow that would necessitate reading it in order unless the reader was completely new to one of the applications presented. In that case, it might be best to work from the introduction of that application first.
The introduction states that Lenssen and his editor used Google Documents to write this book. This is not much of a surprise as Lenssen's own blog is dedicated to watching Google and their doings.
I've found this to be an extremely useful book. I've used it setting up a Google Site. I've learned about some web applications from Google and from others that I didn't even know existed. I get myself into a bit of a tizzy over the whole use of the word 'hack' thing, but that's just the geek in me coming out. Sometimes I think we love to bicker over stuff like that. That aside, this is a solid book full of useful material.
You can purchase Google Apps Hacks from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.


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... I am positive that I am not alone in saying, 'I wish that I could turn back time to talk to my parents and grandparents about their lives.' Right? Now, instead, I sometimes feel like I am walking in circles or into a dead end. Fortunately, I think that one dead end may have turned into a discovery.
Many years ago, my dad's brother gave to me a picture of a beautiful, young lady who he said came from Bavaria, Germany. Uncle told me that I was named after her, and as was my grandmother. I am a third Mary Catherine, spellings have changed slightly over the decades, but still the same sentimentality.
I am Mary Kathryn. My grandmother was named Mary Catherine. Her father, George, was born in America, but his father, Christian, immigrated to America in 1852 on the Orleans with his parents and two additional siblings.
Since I neglected to ask my dad about all of this, at least dad cut out newspaper articles and pictures, and stuck them in a photograph album. The date and the ship that they arrived on was what I was finding in passenger lists. However, a mystery had yet to be solved about the lovely, young lady who resides on my hallway wall.
Just last week I was digging further into the life of Christian, my great-great grandfather. He had two wives. The first wife I only knew as Marie, until I read an account that her middle name was Catharine, and that she was born in Bavaria. It was then that I had an, 'Ah-ha,' moment.
I had another clue. The picture is a daguerreotype. According to the birth and death dates of my mystery lady and the time period in which daguerreotypes were popular, I am fairly certain that this is my great-great grandmother.
Uncle was right, and I am ever thankful that he shared that with me. However, why, dad, didn't you tell me this story? Anyway, I feel now that this family has come to life for me.
I am a grandmother now with four grandsons. So far no granddaughters are in the future and that is ok. I will find someone to take care of my great-great grandmother's picture, and to learn the legacy of our family.
Currently, I am near completing the story about our daughter, Laura, who died from cancer 10 years ago, June 5, 2002. Her birthday was just a few days ago, May 30. She would have been 35 years old. Our grandsons will learn about who she was, what she meant to her brothers and friends while she was living, about her faith and hope, and what meant most to her when she was living.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of reaching the milestone of assisting its clients to raise over $1 trillion since its founding in 2006, CastleOak Securities, L.P., a leading New York-based boutique investment banking firm, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square on December 14, to ring the Closing Bell.
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With each day that passes by, Glenbard West's boys basketball players become more comfortable with each other on the court.
That's bad news for opponents.
The Hilltoppers, playing at full strength for one of the few times this season, wrapped up a season sweep of Lyons Twp. with a 65-49 West Suburban Silver victory Thursday in Glen Ellyn.
Now that third-year guard Jeff Levesque and post player Nathan Marcus are healthy and working their way back into the lineup, Glenbard West (10-7, 3-4) is hoping to pick up steam while pushing through the second half of Silver play.
"Now that we've got the team together it feels a lot better," Levesque said. "The chemistry is there at practice. We're working hard and just getting after it. It just feels good playing together."
The cohesion showed in the score book. Levesque, Dikiria Washington and sophomore Keith Hayes all scored in double figures while combining for 45 points. Corey Davis, Marcus and Sean Jenner each had at least 5 points.
Glenbard West's balance, but more so its overall quickness, allowed the Hilltoppers to surge to a 15-point lead by late in the second quarter. A 12-4 run featured points from four different players and came from inside and outside.
"Our quickness is something we emphasize in practice," Washington said. "Coach (Tim Hoder) told us it was going to be a plus in this game. It's something we needed to use with our defensive intensity to win the game."
After struggling through a 16-point first half, Lyons Twp. (8-11, 1-6) finally awoke offensively. Unfortunately for the Lions, trading baskets with the Hilltoppers in the third quarter didn't dent the deficit.
Glenbard West put the win to rest behind a 12-7 burst in the opening five minutes of the fourth quarter. Levesque scored 8 of his game-high 18 points as the Hilltoppers built a 54-40 lead.
Christopher O'Reilly led the Lions with 15 points while Harrison Niego scored 8 of his 10 points in the fourth quarter.
"Incorporating Nathan and Jeff back into things, we've just gotten out of our flow a little bit," Hoder said. "I thought tonight we got back into the flow and got more acclimated with those guys. Just redefining our roles as we get those guys back."
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USU Welcomes New Senior Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014
Utah State University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHaSS) has appointed a new senior associate dean after a nationwide search. Dawn Kirby will focus her efforts on administering faculty tenure and promotion, mentoring faculty and assisting with student scholarships and award programs.
Kirby received her undergraduate degree in English education from the University of Georgia (UGA), her master's degree in curriculum and instruction from Georgia State University and her doctorate in English education from UGA. She taught high school for nine years and served as English Department chair of a suburban high school for four years. She has taught at numerous universities, public and private, in Georgia, Texas, Florida, Arizona and Colorado.
"We are very excited to be returning to the West," Kirby said. "And I'm excited by the sense of community I see here in Logan and in the college. Dean John C. Allen has a clear vision for the college and I'm excited to be a part of his team and help move things forward."
Kirby comes to USU from a position as a tenured professor of English and English education at Kennesaw State University (KSU) in metro Atlanta, Ga. She was an administrator there since 2010, served as an acting chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, assistant dean and associate dean. Her research agenda includes studying the impact of memoir on young adults' self-efficacy; the effect of mentoring on junior faculty members' success in achieving tenure and promotion; and the effect of writing and accountability groups on faculty members' scholarly publications in terms of quantity, quality and significance. She joined CHaSS at USU as senior associate dean Jan. 6, 2014.
"I've never been an Aggie before," Kirby quipped recalling the team mascots from her previous postings. "I've been a Bulldog and even a Fighting Owl, but never an Aggie. I'm looking forward to it."
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is one of USU's largest and its professors teach the majority of the university's general education requirements, such as English, foreign languages and history. It is home to six academic departments (English, History, Journalism and Communications, Languages/Philosophy/Communication Studies, Political Science, Sociology/Social Work and Anthropology); a research center (the Mountain West Center); two research labs (the Population Lab and the Spatial Data Lab); the Museum of Anthropology and Utah Public Radio.
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Part of the appeal of RIM was that you knew governments weren't out there stealing secrets sent across your network. I understand that India has a legitimate security need to be able to wiretap communications and so on. But this isn't going to 'help' RIM. This takes away the only major competitive advantage they had, which was that using RIM meant you knew no one in the indian government was going to steal your work and sell it to someone else (which is a serious concern in india).
If anything, this just levels the playing field. And that's bad for RIM, because they aren't competitive.
It's pretty clear what happened. They kept the keys secret and held out for a long time on "principle" because that was the best business decision at the time. Then, as the onslaught of iPhone and Android took its toll, the principle changed to survival, because that became the new best business decision.
It's sad, but at this point, it hardly affects any country but India anyway!
And in most other countries you aren't worried about the government stealing and reselling most of your secrets anyway. At least not your own government.
sure that they don't ship a backdoor? that's essentially what they're asking for "This satisfies India's core demand that RIM provide intelligence and security agencies with automatic solutions to monitor all communication on BlackBerry smartphones on a real-time basis, an official aware of the development said."
it's a pretty crazy requirement for a device that allows programmable code and tcp/ip though.
As has been pointed out over and over again, This Does Not Affect BES Users.
Everyone else is just as insecure as they always were. If you want security in India, RIM is still your only real choice.
More details here [crackberry.com]
And it is probably also worth pointing out that this means that RIM's BIS service provides better content protection than SMS/MMS, unencrypted email (which is virtually all e-mail, and indeed all Android phones using the inbuilt GMail app), and almost any IM out there. I've also missed other equally unprotected means of communication.
Why? Because at least BIS is encrypted in transit to and from RIM. (To be fair, services like MSN Messenger in which all messages go through a central server could be considere
Are you saying you trust your smart phone to have only real, valid intermediate ssl certificates? Or are you so ignorant to think that governments aren't trying to man-in-the-middle SSL like crazy, especially on mobile networks.
Won't matter once CALEA is amended to include non-voice public networks. It'll happen eventually.
This isn't to say I support the extension; I think those proposing it should be shot. That doesn't change the reality that it will eventually be enacted, whether it requires sneaking it into a broad authorization bill or actually getting the support to pass it on its own.
Are you saying that email sent via the Android GMail app isn't encrypted between the device and Google's servers?
No, I'm not saying that GMail for Android (or via a browser, or iPhone) doesn't use SSL. However, GMail is an e-mail service using a client (on Android) which doesn't have support for encryption apart from SSL to the server. Sure, if I'm sending GMail to GMail that's fine - it falls into the same boat as MSN Messenger. If I'm sending to a non-GMail recipient, then that goes out the window.
There are other apps which can use GMail, and do provide encryption functionality, but as with TextSecure - how common i
I think we need to make clearer what exactly the impact of this is.
Does an Indian businessman who bought a Blackberry in SouthAmerica and is working in Europe be assured on some level of privacy on communications?
Does an American businessman with a Blackberry bought in the USA visiting India on the way to China need to rethink how company documents are transmitted?
Not very clear, especially as the BIS keys can't and therefore haven't been handed over.
So we have a new server in India, but what is being route
My god these posts are annoying.
Does an Indian businessman who bought a Blackberry...
Does an American businessman with a Blackberry...
Do they have a BES? If they have a BES, nothing to worry about. Next question?
Backdoor? Implementation weaknesses? Hardware snooper?
RIM just proved they would sell out your privacy if the price is right. Your response is "Don't worry, their other product is safe."
How do you know?
This Does Not Affect BES Users.
No, being within india they are already subject to indian laws, and already have to hand over any enterprise keys they have stored within india if they're 'asked'.
If you're running your BES from outside the country then you might have a temporary reprieve, until the indian government gets wind of that plan.
RIM doesn't have the keys to hand over. Again, see the link I sent. If you're referring to a company running BES in India being forced to give the gov't access to their communications, that's completely different and has absolutely nothing to do with RIM.
Still, the point stands. RIM is the only secure option -- the playing field has not be leveled.
RIM doesn't have the keys to hand over
Right, the company hosting the BES does. And has for a couple of years. For the moment if your BES is based outside of india you're 'safe', until the government figures out how to deal with that.
the playing field has not be leveled
It has. The situation is now no different from you running your own communications app on whatever platform(s) you want. If you're in india they can compel you to hand it over, if you base your servers outside india they can't do anything much to you, and you can't rely on RIM to provide you any inherent securi
I don't follow your reasoning? RIM still offers the only secure option, yet somehow they're just as insecure as the rest and thus a level playing field?
Moreover, how does RIM giving in to the Indian gov't on BIS snooping change anything at all about BES before and after they gave it?
Sorry, I just don't see how the playing field has been leveled in any way -- RIM is still way ahead in terms of security. They've been delt a blow, sure, but they've not been knocked down so far as to be on the same level as t
Why is RIM's option any more secure than using Exchange Activesync over HTTPS? I don't get the big deal when it comes to supposed BB security.
RIM still offers the only secure option
No, it doesn't. That's the entirety of my reasoning. A BES isn't any more secure than any other product can be. And now you can no longer rely on RIM bouncing data through waterloo to keep it secure.
A BES, or ANY communications server hosted in india: has to turn over keys or just the data to the government if asked.
A BES or any communications not hosted in india: Can make a legal fight out of it, might not have to turn data over.
Any communications via RIM are insecure from within india.
You're really stretching here. Sorry, but when it takes manpower and possibly complex legal action (to say nothing the expense!) for the Indian gov't to read my messages while it takes virtually no effort for the Indian gov't to read messages on other platforms, my platform is more secure.
It's like saying Fort Knox is just as insecure as my tool-shed because a highly-trained team of tactical and explosive experts explosives could get in if they really tried.
RIM is the only secure option -- the playing field has not be leveled.
In what way is RIM more secure than anything that implements OTR? e.g. Gibberbot on Android
As others have pointed out, this doesn't affect BES - they're as secure as ever in the enterprise.
Thing is, they've always given this level of access to governments (or we reasonably assume this is the case, anyway) for their BIS service The difference is officials in India needed to save face and made a big deal out of this - even though they're getting only what they were told they could get from the start, and certainly no more than any other government.
Well now they don't have to call to waterloo, and argue over just what they need to get the data. Now they can do whatever they want.
Also, BES for indian companies is a separate issue, because companies already have to turn those keys over to the government because they're subject to indian law.
No, there is no legitimate need to wire tap without any kind of warrant
I didn't talk about the requirements. Because 'requiring a warrant' is stupid. It's not stupid in the US legal system, but that doesn't mean that's appropriate for india, or oman, or the emirates or whatever. India has it's own legal system, it's up to them to decide what is or is not a sufficient condition for wiretapping, and that's a separate discussion.
Businesses in india will already be subject to indian laws though. RIM isn't subject to indian law, that's why they've been able to squabble over this as long as they have.
I understand that India has a legitimate security need to be able to wiretap communications and so on..
Nope. This is a landgrab. Law enforcement is constantly talking about "going dark", where in fact, the light they have is much brighter than they've ever had before -- technology only made it possible to snoop on everything, and now they want the laws for actually doing so, and to lever out any countermeasures the user may take.
In the 80ies, wiretapping actually meant either a) placing a wiretap in the users phone or b) going physically to the phone switch where the user was connected to, and placing the tap there. Both only done with a judical warrant, and for very specific cases. Wiretapping was _complicated_.
Now, wholesale wiretapping is easy; so easy that a lot of people and companies take countermeasures. And now law enforcement wants "to have back" capabilities it never had?
Part of the appeal of RIM was that you knew governments weren't out there stealing secrets sent across your network. I understand that India has a legitimate security need to be able to wiretap communications and so on. But this isn't going to 'help' RIM. This takes away the only major competitive advantage they had, which was that using RIM meant you knew no one in the indian government was going to steal your work and sell it to someone else (which is a serious concern in india).
If anything, this just levels the playing field. And that's bad for RIM, because they aren't competitive.
I suspect that it will help them more than being kicked out of the country, though it certainly won't improve their product in any absolute sense...
... to a democratically elected government...
The government in india is democratic, but that doesn't make it any less corrupt to the bone. I wouldn't trust anyone in the indian government with my business secrets. Including my own relatives (who are in the civil service).
India is fully entitled to demand wiretap access. Democratic or not. But the whole reason to choose RIM over a competitor in india was precisely because the government couldn't get into the system, because you can't trust people in government to not just steal your secrets and sel
India's corruption puts any Western government to shame. Want to get anything done? You WILL pay a bribe, and a good one at that, down to the "untouchable" cleaning out poop out of the sewer.
The caste system still stays there, same with the attitude of helping people is considered bad juju since it interferes with their divine punishment.
Also remember: India isn't a friend to the West. During the Cold War, they were doing their best to cozy up to the Russians, and were willing to do almost anything for
India's corruption puts any Western government to shame. Want to get anything done? You WILL pay a bribe, and a good one at that, down to the "untouchable" cleaning out poop out of the sewer.
If you belong to the banker "caste" in the United States.. the laws apply differently to you. You can steal from the people, defraud them, gamble their pensions on the stock market, and then get bailed out by the Government
If you belong to the executive branch "caste" you can do anything you want, including assassinate your own citizens abroad via drone strikes. You can lie your way into invading and killing civilians in other countries and
To a very corrupt democratically elected government. The keys will be in the hands of Russian mobsters in a few days.
Evidently I should have enclosed the above in tags.
*sarcasm* tags. (original filtered out by
Democratically elected doesn't mean jack anymore, if it ever did. Do you know any democratic government that's not for sale to the highest bidder?
/me evidently thought that *sarcasm* tags were not necessary for this audience. Don't know why...
Most of the people here on
Perhaps we could arrange for them to be electrically shocked while it bit them on the arse, and simultaneously, offer the smell of raw steak.
Please, the BES keys have not been handed over... because they can't be...
http://crackberry.com/rim-encryption-keys [crackberry.com]
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I wouldn't want to spoil the story for you, but the point is that one must read announcements of this type very carefully as there is generally far more hidden in them that appears on the surface. So your assurances are not entirely... reassuring.
Please, the BES keys have not been handed over... because they can't be...
I don't know how BBs work, so this is pure speculation, but when connecting to a BES server, does the device require a specific key that is tied to that server, or merely any valid key? If the latter, then a man-in-the middle system could allow connections to BES servers to be spied upon.
It needs a specific key. A BES connection is secured by a key-pair that is generated when the BlackBerry is added to the BES. This allows for the 3DES encryption to occur for all communications over the BES connection.
The situation you're talking about applies to BIS where any handset can decrypt the encrypted messages.
This mis-understanding of the differences between BIS and BES lead to a lot of FUD unfortunately.
And you know Apple is keeping an eye on this... cuz India will be coming after them too for access to their iMessage comms, if they have not already done so.
Note that BES servers by default use 3DES and (i think?) MD5, but can with the click of a button be transitioned to AES / SHA.
Yeah, my bad. An old throw back reference to the good old days.
Moral of the story: If you do not control end-to-end encryption yourself, it is not secure.
In this case you don't even control ANY part of the encryption, not even on your end. Something that is the absolute bare minimum for any kind of security.
Moral of the story: If you do not control end-to-end encryption yourself, it is not secure.
This ^ period.
Except there's no story here, as BES, the service that corporate Blackberry deployments use, _is_ end to end--the encryption key pairs are generated by the company that deploys a BES installation, and neither RIM nor anyone else has access to them, unlike SSL certificates etc. The article is about the consumer BIS service and doesn't affect enterprise.
as BES, the service that corporate Blackberry deployments use, _is_ end to end--the encryption key pairs are generated by the company that deploys a BES installation, and neither RIM nor anyone else has access to them, unlike SSL certificates etc.
Everyone in this thread seems to assume that all SSL keys are generated and provided by public CAs, who then could leak your private key. You can roll your own anytime you want. Then just tell the users and your servers to trust your public key. Works the same
Half the country has been unable to recharge their Blackberries for two days in a row anyway.
from the fine article:
"But he said there was no access to secure encrypted BlackBerry enterprise communications or corporate emails as these were accessible only to the owners of these services."
The reality is BES uses keys assigned by the owner of the BES server, RIM HAS NOT and CAN NOT give those to anyone, because they dont know them. This has been RIM's position from the begining, and still is. What they HAVE done is give access to the messaging services they run (and therefor have keys to) to the Indian authorities. My understanding is that this was always the case. The article really does not make the distinction between the two clear.
TLDNR: RIM gave what they always give anyone, some minister is useing it to try and save face. Poor reporting means it worked.
"Although not all of a BlackBerry's messaging functions are encrypted, RIM has long maintained that it is unable to grant anyone access to its corporate e-mail service, which is encrypted from end-to-end. RIM responded in a statement late on Wednesday, saying it was necessary "to correct some false and misleading" information" that had appeared in the Indian media."
"RIM is providing an appropriate lawful access solution that enables India's telecom operators to be legally compliant with respect to their BlackBerry consumer traffic, to the same degree as other smartphone providers in India, but this does not extend to secure BlackBerry enterprise communications," the company added."
There goes the customers to some other solution that can't be eavesdropped.
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ATTLEBORO - The Winter Night Festival attracted cheery families who braved the blustery chill to mill about food stands, historical exhibits, and a giant inflatable slide erected in the center of this small city on the Rhode Island state line.
Walking unnoticed among the revelers that recent evening was a slender, youthful-looking man with close-cropped light brown hair. Only the blue, white, and yellow sticker attached to his windbreaker identified him, and his purpose: Sean Bielat for Congress.
Bielat stopped to gaze silently at a large bonfire. He chatted briefly with a Mary Todd Lincoln reenactor. He watched as his sole campaign volunteer on the scene gathered a signature. It was not until he wandered into Scorpio's Italian Eatery and Pizzeria that someone finally recognized him. Then it was back out into the dark and cold.
"There's not much here,'' Bielat said, cutting short his campaigning for the night. "People just aren't thinking about this stuff yet.''
They will soon enough.
Two years after he emerged from obscurity to gain national attention for his strong challenge to 16-term incumbent Barney Frank, Bielat stands to face off against a Democrat with nothing like Frank's record but with a storied name - Joseph P. Kennedy III - in what could be one of the most-watched congressional races in the country this year.
But first, the 36-year-old Republican must reacquaint voters with his own name. Soon after the 2010 defeat, Bielat disappeared from the spotlight, and briefly last fall moved to Pennsylvania during his wife Hope's second pregnancy to be closer to her family. While he was gone, the 4th District changed, adding a swath of communities in which he had never campaigned.
Now Bielat is engaged on a town-by-town effort to reintroduce himself, and hopefully gin up the kind of grassroots support - 1,700 volunteers, more than 20,000 individual donors - he enjoyed by the end of the 2010 race.
He is realistic about the odds.
"There's going to be a group of people who will just never consider voting for a Republican, there's going to be a group of people who would never vote against a Kennedy, and then there's everybody else,'' Bielat said in an interview after a meeting with about two dozen Republicans at Primavera Ristorante in Millis. "And so I have to try and convince as many of those everybody elses as I can.''
In restaurants, firehouses, classrooms, and street festivals from Brookline to Attleboro, the soft-spoken Marine Reservist is casting himself as a man of the people, a citizen-legislator who can boast a resume that the 31-year-old Kennedy cannot match.
"Yes, he has some advantages. I don't think they're insurmountable,'' Bielat said. "My background is going to resonate a lot more with people around the district than Kennedy's background. As we see more of him, as he becomes less of a myth, and more of a man, people will see.''
Bielat presents himself in quiet, articulate, and straightforward sentences, and chats with authority on subjects such as taxation, defense reform, and global energy policies. He punctuates his thoughts with humorous quips and off-the-cuff digressions and comes across as personable rather than fiery as he ticks off his accomplishments.
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In a conference room at the Hopkinton Fire Department building, Bielat told an audience of about 20 likely Republican voters that one of his grandfathers worked in a factory that produced shovels, the other was a prison guard, and his father served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War era.
Kennedy, on the other hand, "is the one percent of the one percent,'' Bielat said, drawing titters of approval. Bielat described working his way through college at Georgetown and earning master's degrees at Harvard and the Wharton School. He touted his service in the Marine Corps: He was on active duty from 1998 to 2002 - he was not deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan - and since then has been in the Marine Corps Reserve, where he holds the rank of major.
"I'll take the Marine Corps over the Peace Corps any day,'' he said, to applause, a reference to Kennedy's own postcollege service.
He also contrasted his business experience to Kennedy's brief tenure as a prosecutor for the district attorney's offices in Barnstable and Middlesex counties.
From 2006 to 2009, Bielat was an executive at iRobot Corporation in Bedford. There, he described leading a $100 million business line that built robots that have been used to destroy roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. During this time, he also led an international team of NATO experts who studied the potential for use of advanced reconnaissance technology in urban warfare.
He left in late 2009 to launch his first bid for Congress.
Bielat's recitation of his background won over Bob Harrold, 63, a Vietnam veteran who said: "You have to look at the qualifications of each candidate, and Sean's more qualified.''
On Election Day 2010, it appeared that Bielat - just possibly - was poised to pick off Frank, one of the giants of the Democratic Party and a favorite target of conservatives across the country, who had poured over $2 million into Bielat's campaign.
This anti-Frank sentiment, combined with Bielat's ability to connect with voters, had pulled the Republican within striking distance in some polls. In the end, the tally was not as close as some had predicted. Frank earned 54 percent of the vote to Bielat's 43 percent.
Once the race was over, Bielat stepped out of the public eye and went to work as an independent consultant for small and mid-size tech companies.
Last summer, he was hired to run a start-up that is developing a website that allows citizens to contact any member of Congress or committee about any issue that concerns them, or join the conversation on issues raised by other users. The idea is to make it easier for people to connect with their legislators by removing the red tape.
Bielat did not want to name the site, which is still being built, saying it is intended to be nonpartisan and that he does not want it to be associated with his campaign. But he says the spirit of the venture dovetails neatly with the way he thinks he ought to approach the job of representative.
"My target is people who don't care about politics and are disgusted by the headlines but don't feel listened to,'' he said in an interview after addressing students of a Global Policy class at Newbury College in Brookline.
Bielat steers clear of social issues like same-sex marriage and abortion. He has never identified himself as a Tea Party candidate but says he shares positions with the movement on debt reduction, limiting the powers of the federal government, "a return to traditional Constitutional values,'' and a strong national defense.
He is a member of group that helps shape national defense policy of Mitt Romney, the most moderate of the Republican presidential hopefuls.
Bielat speaks against cuts to the defense budget that would reduce the country's combat capability, and said he would support air strikes against Iran if that country's actions threatened Israel.
Yet he believes the decision to go to war should not be made lightly - it should require an act of Congress, rather than an executive decree, as he said was the case in Libya.
Legislators, he says, must reflect the will of the people, not party loyalties.
Bielat made the decision to enter the race late last December, after his daughter, Seraphina, was born. In January, when the family came back from Pennsylvania, they moved to Norfolk instead of returning to Brookline, where they had lived previously.
In the early days of this campaign, it seemed his second run would prove easier. Frank had retired, leaving an open seat, and a city where he was soundly defeated in 2010 - New Bedford - had been replaced in the district by a more conservative cluster of communities along Interstate 495.
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A UMass Lowell-Boston Herald poll has given Kennedy a 60 percent to 28 percent advantage. Both campaigns are still organizing their financing, but as of Dec. 31, 2011, Bielat's campaign had only about $5,800, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Bielat acknowledges that he cannot match the nationwide buzz caused by Kennedy's announcement. He knows his chances of winning over such liberal bastions as Newton and Brookline are slim.
At a meeting with about 20 Republicans at the New Garden Restaurant in Needham, he remarked that "We're writing off Newton,'' prompting protest from a woman who is on the city's Republican committee. "OK, writing off wasn't the right word,'' Bielat sheepishly corrected himself.
A Bielat-Kennedy showdown in November is not yet a certainty: Three lesser-known Democrats - Herb Robinson, Paul Heroux, and Jules Levine - are also competing for their party's nomination, and Elizabeth Childs is competing for a Republican bid. But Bielat and Kennedy are widely believed to be the frontrunners.
Some political analysts said Bielat will give himself the best chance with just the kind of door-to-door approach that he is currently employing, rather than attacking the Kennedy name.
"You have to run on your own experience and against the lack of experience,'' said Wendy Schiller, associate professor of political science and public policy at Brown University. "I wouldn't run against the name, I'd run against the person.''
The message resonated with Raffaela Feinstein, 60, who was one of a half-dozen volunteers to show up at the Golden Spoon in Hopkinton to meet Bielat. She wore a Bielat sticker on her black felt hat and spoke the words the Republican hopes to hear repeated often.
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Yeah? How quickly? At what increase in price (or decrease in profits)?
And oh, by the way, your shiny new iPod is now obsolete. Wanna buy a new one?
I'll bet this has Apple salivating already. Might even cause them to overlook the deal MS cut with UMG to pay royalty rights regardless of how the Zune is used for "stolen" music that might be loaded by some users.
Or Dollars and Cents cheaper!
I had no intention of switching, but the review solidified things. I wouldn't have recommended the product to anyone (I'd say just get an iPod) and this only makes things worse.
Let's see what they've got to entice me away? I've got a large collection of music, but basically no DRMed AAC files so I would make an easy switch.
Let's face it, it's pathetic if they think they are going ANYWHERE with this. As for the "We're selling it in 3x as many stores"... who cares? Everyone who matters sells iPods. Target, Wal*Mart, CompUSA, Apple, Microcenter, Frys, Best Buy, Circuit City, Sears, Borders Books, and more. There are some I can't check (because I don't live near them) but I bet Meijers sells iPods. I've seen them in some odd places. They are everywhere. I think even those scam-on-poor-people places like Rent-A-Center probably sell 'em. They'll be more places for the Zune though? Let's see... who else would be a good partner for selling the Zune...
JoAnne Fabrics? PetsMart? I know I'm looking for an MP3 player that's not an iPod when I go into my local paint-ball gun store, but maybe that's just me.
No, wait, I don't go to paint-ball gun stores for consumer electronics.
About the only place I can think of is Radio Shack. I don't know if they sell iPods now but they are going down the tubes fast any way.
it all seems so deliberately complicated and multi-tiered like all of MS products. That can be a good bussiness strategy but it's not a user-freindly strategy. I predict people will prefer their music priced in way they can figure and don't have to work the angles to get the best prices.
In all fairness, Apple iTunes gift cards have many of these same problems. Values are multiples of $1 (as opposed to $.99), Apple keeps the interest, they can offer different prices to different groups, etc.
The big advantages, however, are that the customer is not required to use gift cards with iTMS and that a gift card is a simple, familiar approach with few gotchas and no conversion rate issues for those of use with US$.
Of course, that has always been the iPod way.... simple and familiar
Better in that he actually tested the Zune, measured its battery life (and found it to be 14% shorter than claimed), tested its WiFi sharing (and found it to not work as well as advertized), and actually used it.
The review is not all negative, and is worth reading.
Actually, I just learned from the article [nytimes.com] that all the Beatles albums on the Zune store are broken links or something, since Microsoft hasn't licensed them yet.Until you experienced a blue screen of death while playing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", your life is utterly meaningless
The bigger problem, though, is the draconian copy protection on beamed music (though not photos). You can play a transmitted song only three times, all within three days. After that, it expires. You're left with only a text tag that shows up on your PC so that -- how convenient! -- you can buy the song from Microsoft's store.
The article goes on to say t
Well maybe some effort... I'm not sure how your itunes-DRMed AAC file will play on your cellphone. Fortunately I don't have any of those to worry about.
I bet Meijers sells iPods. I've seen them in some odd places.
The Meijers near my house sells them. I once bought one out of a vending machine at an airport in Atlanta, because I was about to fly out to the boonies and was getting nervous about whether I would have enough storage space for photos.
Which brings me to the main reason I won't switch: I always carry a couple of iPods when I'm shooting long assignments so I can use them to store photos. Clamp on a readily available CF card reader and they make excellent portable hard drives that just happen to play music. If a Zune won't work as a generic HD or keep up with iPod's HD size I can't use it.
The coolness factor is also useful in my position, iPods are recognized by the most unlikely people in the most unlikely places and can get you out of difficult situations. Like when the KLA though I was on the wrong side and wanted to detain me. Lets see a Zune do that.
Honestly, I'd rather buy a RocBox [playerblog.com] which was probably the most illconceived product ever -- and blatant atempt to "cash in" on the iPods success just like the Zune.
Microsoft didn't bother trying to put sprinkles on a turd, they just released the turd directly to the public!
Cars don't come with 'IPod connectors'
Sure they do.
My car (truck actually) has a connector and I can control my iPod from my steering wheel, something that can't be via with an audio input jack. There are also several aftermarket solutions that work over CAN-BUS and the like, that allow control of the player via factory radio, as an AUX device.
"How sad is it when you have to run away from your own established brand to try to sell something"
Every time I walk into EB Games or Gamestop I'm assulted by a pimply-faced teenager pushing the damned Zune on me. I've been insluted to my face because I have an iPod.
One of these kids claimed his boss "was just talking to Peter Moore the other day and he said Peter said that they were making the wi-fi work for downloads." After staring at him and realizing he had convinced himself that this was true, I had to laugh in his face. (I did confirm with his boss lat
"Mama always said to share. Now you have an opportunity to do it with music and photos. With wireless Zune to Zune sharing you can send your favorite tracks and photos to friends.[1]
Picture this: You're walking down the street. Or you're in a room with a bunch of friends. Or at a concert. Or at the airport. Or on the bus (you get the picture) and then you whip out your Zune and see all these other Zune devices around that you can choose from. Zap! You're connected to your best friend and send the new song your band recorded in the garage last weekend. Another friend gets the hilarious podcast your kid brother made at school, plus that song you just downloaded from the Zune Marketplace and can't get out of your head. And hey, lookee here, your friend wants to send you something that you might like and buy, too."
you gotta love the cool talk complete with a foot note to remind you about the DRM on the sharing
I know I'm looking for an MP3 player that's not an iPod when I go into my local paint-ball gun store, but maybe that's just me.
Target practice?
He does an even-handed job of describing what Zune has over the iPod
It doesn't have a scroll-wheel.... the genius of the iPod. It LOOKS like it, but it's really just a D-pad hidden under some round plastic. That's just pure genius for you
Despite what everyone says I don't see how the scroll-wheel on the iPod is anything special. I use a Zen Vision:M and can jump to any song I want within seconds with it's vertical touch pad.
And this is more of a personal problem, but I'm unable to to use iPods with my right hand because I have funky joints which don't work with the scro
What few seem to realize is that the Zune is not aimed at the iPod market. The iPod is aimed at the self-absorbed cool kids who either have a Mac or would like to. The Zune is aimed at a more social demo.
The signal event to highlight the difference was Steve Jobs crowning himself King of the Geeks when he dismissed the Zune sharing feature because it wouldn't help you pick up a girl. iPod owners everywhere agreed.
Note that Zune advertising is about Zune sharing. The Zune isn't a media machine with sharing
The Zune is taking aim directly at the iPod, what media player wouldn't be at this point, from it's design to it's music store that "plays for sure" with the Zune and nothing else.
The iPod is marketed towards everyone, not just the "self-absorbed cool kids". Walk down a New York street and you can see a good percentage of poeple of all demographics using their iPods.
Take any subway train and you can see schoolkids and couples sharing one iPod listening with one set of headphones each with 1 earphone. Seem
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Why the Dolphins didn't trade down for James or consider Moses or Kouandjio; and second round draft thoughts
Dolphins GM Dennis Hickey acknowledged Thursday night that he had calls for potential trade downs at No. 19.
New Orleans traded a 3rd rounder to Arizona to move from No. 27 to No. 20. You'd think the Dolphins could've orchestrated a similar deal and still drafted Ja'Wuan James at No. 27.
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Capt. Bill Porter expected five to six volunteers to show up at the Larimer Humane Society to learn about a new animal rescue group.
Instead, 32 people wanted to become part of the Disaster Animal Response Team following an introductory training session Saturday, May 3, where they learned about the team's role. The Humane Society and Colorado State University co-sponsored the day-long training session.
"That really says something about the community, that they're interested in helping out people with their animals," said Porter, director of animal control for the Larimer Humane Society.
DART volunteers will undergo additional training to help staff the animal shelter during disasters and emergencies to make sure animals' needs are met. They will be trained to help animals during or after a disaster, such as a wildfire or an apartment fire, or as a result of an animal cruelty case of hoarding or animal confiscation.
The Humane Society initiated DART after seeing the need for more skilled and trained people to help care for displaced animals during both the High Park fire in summer 2012 and the mid-September 2013 flood.
"It was really taxing on the staff," Porter said.
Staff put in extensive overtime and experienced exhaustion while they handled both regular calls and responded to the disaster, Porter said.
"It just wasn't a smooth-running machine," he said.
DART volunteers will be trained in animal handling, learn about the necessary supplies and resources for setting up and operating temporary animal shelters, and find out what needs to be done to conduct field rescue missions. Specifically, they will be trained in how to offer support in communications, equipment, operations, logistics, administration, finance, resource distribution and the daily care required to exercise and provide enrichment for animals.
The volunteers are required to deploy on a moment's notice to assist animals in times of disaster or crisis. They will be required to undergo at least 20 hours of training, plus ongoing training.
"We can't just show up to an emergency, 'Hey, we're here.' That would create chaos," Porter said.
There are four specific focus areas for DART that include sheltering at the shelter or a co-location, becoming part of an emergency operations center, providing triage and veterinarian care for animals, and providing communications for bringing in and serving the animals and their owners.
Anyone interested in volunteering with DART can go to the Humane Society's website to sign up at larimerhumane.org.
"My goal is to have folks ready by the end of June because we are approaching the fire season," Porter said.
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Anzhi Makhachkala coach Guus Hiddink lamented his side's missed chances after they crashed out of the Europa League 1-0 to Newcastle.
A late goal from Papiss Cisse was enough to edge the Magpies past the 10-man Russians, who had Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez sent off for two yellow cards.
And Hiddink believes his side were clearly the dominant force at St James' park, but paid the price for not displaying a ruthless streak.
He told reporters after the game: "If we would have had a jury tonight we would have won unanimously. We needed to be more effective. Newcastle proved their effectiveness with their final chance.
"We created three to four open chances in the first half and could have killed the game within 17 minutes. We can blame ourselves. We failed to have a lethal weapon."And after playing the final 35 minutes of the game with 10 men, the 66-year-old criticised the referee for succumbing to the pressure of the home support.
"We were still organised after that. Of course it is bitter when you lose in the last minute," he added.
"I wanted to sub the player but he got a second yellow before I could do it. I think the referee was influenced by the booing of the crowd. It [the second yellow card] was not a wise decision by Carcela.
"Playing like this gives us confidence for our future in the Russian Premier League."


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For anyone looking for a variety of interesting online reading, Tulsa's blogosphere provides.
At last count, Tulsa was home to more than 100 blogs, and those are just the ones to which I've been alerted and subscribe. Needless to say, then, in the pages of Tulsa blogs, there's something for everyone.
I got such a great response from last week's edition that I decided to round up my favorite posts written by Tulsa bloggers this week.
Camp Out with your Heart Out
It's camping season, y'all, and the Okie bloggers behind The Art of Manliness have some campfire cooking tips and recipes for you to try as you set out for wide open spaces.
Sushi Love
Carrisa of And So She Blogs gives a report of the grand opening celebration at Joebot's last week, confessing that, theretofore, sushi made her gag. Thanks to Yokozuna, that is no longer.
Jonni at That's Baloney! is a member of the Real Housewives of Oklahoma, who gathered Monday night at Joe Momma's for their weekly Open Mic Night event. While they were waiting for Dave of Accidentally Albino to take the stage with his big comedy set, they saw this. And were horrified. And promptly put it on the Internet.
And speaking of Joe Momma's, Erin Conrad offers a peek into Boomtown Tees, now open right next door. The Turkey Mountain tee is my favorite, too, Erin.
And I Annoy With This Message
It's campaign season, and Jill of All Trades is already sick and tired of it.
Girl Gets Around
Briana at Sheez Krafty has a write-up on last weekend's Woody Fest in Okemah, with a little excursion to Grape Ranch thrown in. In a different post, she gives kudos to StreetCats Inc., a local no-kill animal shelter, for her fuzzy friends.
Speaking of fuzzy friends, Holly over at Hollyrocks has some fuzzy friends of her own - beady-eyed, dog-food-eating ones.
Will You Sign My...Books?
Heather at Audrey Eclectic wrote about how she was star-struck at meeting Audry Niffenegger last week when she stopped by Philbrook Museum of Art.
Buford the Brave
Cindy at Cindy's Clipboard has an update on the condition of Buford, the injured mascot of Harvard Meats. And I'll just go ahead and say it: Some children are evil.
For Dinner Tonight
Saving the tastiest for last, Fran at Fran's Findings sings songs of praise for the fish tacos at El Rio Verde. In her own words? The most amazing thing you have ever put in your mouth.


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Byron Janis is considered one of the great concert pianists of the 20th century and perhaps, in American history; yet few know his story. THE BYRON JANIS STORY recounts the musician's miraculous, unusual and inspiring life. Janis overcame every challenge - a tragic childhood accident, five hand surgeries, severe bursitis and debilitating arthritis - and today serves as an inspiration for those who have triumphed over adversity. In his own words, the legend talks about his boyhood trauma; his tutelage under the strong-willed Vladimir Horowitz; his debut at New York City's Carnegie Hall in 1948; his cultural exchange with the Soviet Union in 1960; his appearance on the Ed Sullivan Showand his 1984 performance at the White House, in which he revealed his battle with arthritis to the public for the first time. THE BYRON JANIS STORY also features interviews with conductor Lorin Maazel, actress Marian Seldes, pianist Emanuel Ax, and Byron's second wife, Maria (Gary Cooper's daughter) and his son, Stefan.
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Long Beach to select firm to rebuild boardwalk Thursday
Long Beach will select Thursday a firm to rebuild its oceanfront boardwalk from a group of bids that came in higher than the city's $40 million estimate.
The city council will hold a special meeting to award a bid to replace the 2.2-mile boardwalk, which was destroyed by superstorm Sandy, Thursday at 7 p.m.
The city originally estimated it would cost $25 million to rebuild the boardwalk, and upped that to $40 million last month. Six bids for the project came in between $40.8 million and $65 million, city officials said Tuesday.
The city is likely to take one of the low bids, officials said.
"Our boardwalk process is moving forward," City Manager Jack Schnirman said, adding that the construction of the boardwalk will use "skilled workers from our local Long Island workforce."
The new Long Beach boardwalk will be stronger than its predecessor because it will be made of resilient tropical wood, representatives from project engineer LiRo of Syosset have said. The stronger materials are also a driving force behind the boardwalk's higher price tag.
An oceanfront boardwalk has been a fixture in the city for a century, but the old boardwalk was demolished and carted away in February after Sandy ruined it. The new boardwalk will have antique aesthetic touches and a wave-break wall made of vinyl and fiberglass, LiRo representatives have said.
Long Beach public works Commissioner Jim LaCarrubba said a "considerable" amount of the boardwalk will be completed by the end of the summer.
The city also plans "to be able to open up sections during the summer as they become completed," he said.
City officials have said they hope to pay for the project with Federal Emergency Management Agency dollars.
Thursday night's meeting, at City Hall, is open to the public. City Hall is located at 1 West Chester St. in downtown Long Beach.


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Mitt Romney is trying to transition back to private life, but he keeps popping up on the Internet.
TMZ has paparazzi-style shots today of the former Republican presidential candidate and his wife, Ann, walking back to a gleaming Audi Q7 after a workout.
Overnight, a person identified only as "mkb95" posted on Reddit a photo of Romney pumping gas into a vehicle.
And over the weekend, TMZ also reported that the Romneys caught the latest Twilight movie at a theater in Del Mar, Calif., near their vacation home in La Jolla, Calif. The couple then went across the street for pizza.
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First place in the American League West will be on the line Monday when the Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics kick off a critical three- game series at O.co Coliseum.
Texas found itself six games back of the A's as recently as July 29, but won 13 of 14 and took advantage of a slumping Oakland team to move atop the division on Aug. 9 and has been there since.
"Every game has implications now," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "It doesn't matter who we're playing. You come down to less than 30 games, each game is as important as the next. Now certainly when you're playing the Rangers, who are ahead of us in the division, you're always looking to hopefully move up and do well within your division."
Oakland enters this series red-hot after sweeping a three-game set from the Tampa Bay Rays and moved within a game of Texas on Sunday following the Rangers' loss in Minnesota.
"Each series is different," said Texas skipper Ron Washington. "We certainly still have to go up there and play our best baseball. If we don't play our best baseball, and they play their best baseball, they could beat us. The only thing we're going to worry about is going up there and making sure we play our game. If we play our game, I'll take it. I don't care who we're playing."
Oakland, of course, leads the wild card standings and has won seven of nine after a 5-1 win over the Rays on Sunday.
"To me, it's pretty exhausting to look at all the Wild Card implications right now," Melvin said. "I think any team's goal and focus is to win their division so you don't have to deal with that one-game playoff."
Hoping to keep the A's in the win column on Monday will be righty Dan Straily, who is 7-7 with a 4.41 earned run average. Straily beat the Detroit Tigers his last time out, holding them to a run and eight hits in six innings.
Straily is 1-1 in four starts against the Rangers with a 4.37 ERA.
Texas, meanwhile, will counter with lefty Derek Holland, who is trying to become the first pitcher to record double-digit wins for the Rangers in three consecutive seasons since Rick Helling did so from 1998-2001.
"It's been a big year for me," Holland said. "I was motivated by last year. I was disappointed with my end of the year last year, so I want to make sure I needed to do what I should be doing to meet my expectations."
Holland hasn't received a decision in his last four starts and is 9-6 on the year with a 3.00 ERA. However, he is 7-1 with a 2.85 ERA in 14 road starts
Against Seattle on Tuesday Holland allowed three runs and six hits in six innings of a 4-3 win.
In 14 games (10 starts) against the A's, Holland is 5-2 with a 2.64 ERA.
Texas has won eight of 13 from the A's this season.


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A spaceship salvage team drags the TARDIS on board, sending its systems into meltdown. As the Doctor marshals the motely salvage crew outside, he realizes Clara is still trapped within his malfunctioning ship, pursued by a dangerous group of ossified monsters. He has just 30 minutes to find Clara and save his TARDIS before it self-destructs.
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Let (X,T) be a topological space. then int(B) = unification {U | U is a subset of B, U is in T}
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When I first got a look at Chuck Bender's William & Mary bookstand in the November 2010 issue (#186),
it was clear that the piece would grace the pages of the Popular
Woodworking Magazine. The fact that a book stand from this period was
around and in a collection was amazing – you should check out the
article for a historical perspective on the bookstand. This is a piece
that I would have snapped up and built for the magazine if it hadn't
been something Chuck brought to my attention.
If you take a look
at the stand, you have a study in joinery, William & Mary joinery.
As pointed out in the article, that translates into chunky dovetails and
not the refined super-tight pins we see in later periods. There are
mortise-and-tenon joints throughout the project and you even get a bit
of turning, too. This is a project that could be built entirely with
power tools, with nothing but hand tools or any combination of the two,
depending on your type of woodworking.
There was a bit of a problem with the cut sheet, but you can get an updated list here.
Everything else you need to build the book stand is in the article.
What you didn't get in the article is a step-by-step description of the
finish technique that the author uses to complete the stand so it looks
as though it could sit on top of a period chest of drawers without
calling attention to itself – a 300 year old finish that was applied
just months ago. When I got to see the book stand in the Acanthus Workshops
booth at the Woodworking in America conference, I was in awe of the
finish. Also, you didn't get a chance to see the additional photos that
Chuck had taken during the build.
Not wanting to disappoint
readers – and to get woodworkers to his visit his web site and blog –
Chuck is posting more about the bookstand. So far he has piqued our
interests about the finish and posted some of the additional photos of
the building process (everyone asks for more photos). He also says that
he'll post even more photos, explain the surface preparation for the
upcoming finish and will eventually walk through the complete finish
method via his blog, Parings – A woodworker's journal.
If he gives me a few extra days, I'll get the bookstand built and I can work on the finish as he runs through the steps.


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air date: 9/21/13 9:00 AM
Marianne Fons was inspired by the colors she saw in the campfires near her lakeside cottage. Marianne and Mary demonstrate how to string piece on a paper foundation and how to construct the blocks for Marianne's quilt. They also share a shortcut for making your quilt go together more quickly.
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