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Newcastle manager Alan Pardew was given a two-match touchline ban and a £20,000 ($31,783) fine after accepting a Football Association (FA) charge of improper conduct on Monday.
Pardew was sent off during his side's 2-1 win over Tottenham at St James' Park last month after he shoved linesman Peter Kirkup when the official failed to award his side a throw-in.
The Magpies boss apologised immediately after the match, but was charged by the FA and an Independent Regulatory Commission handed down the punishment at Monday's hearing.
Pardew's suspension will take place with immediate effect, meaning the former West Ham and Southampton manager will be forced to sit in the stands during Newcastle's Premier League games against Everton and Norwich.
"Following an Independent Regulatory Commission held today (Monday 3 September 2012), Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has been given a two match touchline suspension and fined £20,000 after he accepted an FA charge of improper conduct," a statement on the FA's website announced.
"Pardew, who requested a personal hearing, was charged following an incident which occurred during his side's match against Tottenham Hotspur on 18 August 2012.
"The suspension will take place with immediate effect."
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Thursday, March 25, 2010 01:49 pm
How to spend $8,000
Bright ideas for spending your tax rebate: on your new home
So, you've closed on a home and that federal first-time homebuyer's tax credit should be coming your way soon. Now what?
First of all, realize it might take several weeks for the tax-credit form to get processed. Even then, some homeowners will only see the credit as savings on their taxes, so don't necessarily expect a check in the mail. Also, remember that the first-time buyer credit's maximum is $8,000 -- it is equal to 10 percent of the purchase price of the house. With this is mind, there are still many smart ways to spend or save the government's gift. Here are some expert tips to get you thinking in the right direction.
Improve, improve, improve
- Improve the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system "[You]
can replace an old 10 SEER HVAC system with a higher performance unit,"
says Paul Zuch, president-elect of the National Association of the
Remodeling Industry, Des Plaines, Ill.1
- Replace old, drafty windows This will save you hundreds of dollars a year in lower utility bills. Plus, in 2010 you can receive a tax credit for 30 percent of the cost of qualified energy-efficient windows and doors, up to $1,500. According to Remodeling magazine's "2009 Cost vs. Value Report," window-replacement projects recouped approximately 75 percent of their cost at resale.
- Turn off wasteful water heating "Tank-type water heaters maintain a constant hot water temperature 24/7, 365 days a year," Zuch says. "They can be replaced with a tankless water heater that only heats water as it is being used and provides an endless supply of hot water."
- Add better attic insulation This also is a great way to lower the cost of utilities.
- Upgrade to green, water-conserving fixtures "Reduce water consumption by hundreds of gallons a month with dual-flush toilets, water-saver shower heads and rain-sensor-equipped lawn irrigation systems," Zuch says.
Save it safe
- Put it in the bank "I think saving the money is a fabulous alternative, especially for buyers who have exhausted all their savings just to scrape up the down payment or closing costs," says Tara-Nicholle Nelson, a real estate broker and attorney in Oakland, Calif.
- Pay down credit card debt This will "[free] up so much money on a monthly basis, allowing buyers to make their mortgage payments with more ease," Nelson says.
Splurge on small luxuries
- Make your bathroom a spa paradise "You could paint it a bright color, buy a new lighting fixture or a new faucet or even invest in gorgeous towels or other small bathroom luxuries," says interior designer Jill Vegas, the author of Speed Decorating (Taunton Press, 2009).
- Invest in a new kitchen countertop "This is a great alternative if you don't have the cash to gut the kitchen," Vegas says.
- Facelift your home's facade "Paint the front door, get some new building numbers, a new doorknob or knocker or light fixture," Vegas says. "That would be a really quick thing to make your new place a home."
- Splurge on top-quality linens "Buyers should look for the small luxuries that will make their everyday life just a little better, a little nicer," Vegas says.
- Go for the big screen If you're going to spend your time lounging on a new sofa in a new living room, why not make the most of it by mounting a new HDTV on the wall?

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I bought my first issue of Linux Format today. Its the October 2005 issue, that was meant to have a DVD AND two CD-ROMs on it. But the store I sold it to didn't have teh CD's. The cashier checked for me, only the DVD was there. I was quite distraught, cause the magazine said there were TWO cd-roms, and my laptop has no DVD drive, so I can't use the DVD that DID come with it.
Can I possibly request the CD's from somebody? How much would that cose? I already paid $21 (canadian) for a magazine without the CD's.
Nice magazine by the way. Linux Journal was way to boring to look at, but Format seems to be a very visually interesting magagain, maybe a Linux newbie section could be added it to it to, that would be nifty. :3


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Privacy Bill of Suggestions
In this country, that's progress. However, we are still woefully lacking compared to the EU, where privacy is taken very seriously and most industries are required to disclose any and all personal data held and delete it upon request. And I'm not talking the "We just hid it from our homepage" delete either, but a bona fide "We don't have it anymore, anywhere, and if we do we could be sued for a very large amount of money."
It's stuff like this that has firmly convinced me that while the US might have been the origination point of the internet, it is no longer a leader, or even in the race, when it comes to either innovation or culture. My country's only political agenda is its GDP. It will do so even if it means feeding its own citizens to the wolves in the process... Anything to make a buck.
In this country, that's progress.
How is NOT moving forward considered progress again?
If they don't have to respect the suggested "rules", then it isn't doing ANYONE a favor. At all. Period.
Which is why people want to mandate EVERY LAST DETAIL. How would you mandate people respect privacy? Would you throw people in jail for violations, even if accidental/innocent? If someone "poor" violated the mandate (law), would you fine them, jail them if they couldn't pay, ignore them?
The problem isn't with the goal (protect privacy), it is always with implementation, and how it never fixes the problem it intends to.
Which is why people want to mandate EVERY LAST DETAIL. How would you mandate people respect privacy? Would you throw people in jail for violations, even if accidental/innocent? If someone "poor" violated the mandate (law), would you fine them, jail them if they couldn't pay, ignore them?
The problem isn't with the goal (protect privacy), it is always with implementation, and how it never fixes the problem it intends to.
I am pretty sure that the vast majority of "privacy violations" have nothing to do with individuals selling your personal information. It is typically with corporations, who CAN be fined for their actions. However, the fines mean nothing if they are meager amounts like $50,000 fines going to, say, Google for leaking your home address, phone number, date of birth and the size shoe you wear.
February 23, 2012, 12:59 PM — At hastily arranged call-in conference last night, the Obama White House and
So tired of hearing how privacy is so highly upheld in the EU, while at the same time reading about government after government mandating the retention of every tweet, email, text, gps position of every single citizen. Give it a rest, will ya?
Yea, progress towards another watered down piece of shit that does more harm than good.
You don't seriously think the government is going to do something in our interests that might inconvenience corporations even slightly or impede their ability to invade our privacy do you? There is no financial motive for doing so.
"We don't have it anymore, anywhere, and if we do we could be put in jail for a very long time."
Corporations would be willing to take the risk if it's only a financial penalty that they need to worry about.
Obama is president, not king. He can't force companies to do anything unless Congress first gives him the power to do so, and there's no chance in hell that the current Congress would give him the Heimlich if he were literally dying in front of them, let alone pass a bill at his suggestion.
Nor does he want to force them to do anything. All he's doing is posturing for the election with another meaningless piece of shit legislation.
So this is a Privacy Bill of Suggestions
This bill of rights will go the same way as the last "Bill of Rights", the way of the Constitution.
... with how his Administration (or the previous one, before you partisan bedwetters get all bunched up) has treated the *actual* Bill of Rights. So I don't have much hope for its respecting the goals of this one.
Don't be silly! Of course they'll be interested in supporting the goals of this legislation!
Look, it's already generating positive sound bytes for his campaign, and is non committal enough he'll surely still get oodles of corporate contributions!
Mr. President,
Please let me know when you plan on respecting our privacy rights w/r/t warrant-less wiretaps and data-mining of personal information of American citizens by the NSA, FBI, and etc.
Otherwise your so-called "Privacy Bill of Rights" is just a shallow gimmick designed to score brownie points from the less informed and less attentive among us in the electorate.
Otherwise your so-called "Privacy Bill of Rights" is just a shallow gimmick designed to score brownie points from the less informed and less attentive among us in the electorate.
Unfortunately, the "less informed and less attentive" far, far outnumber the rest of us.
We have two options. First is advocacy (make the people more informed and, hopefully, more attentive). This has worked pretty well in stopping at least some of the bullshit.
Secondly is getting people who are all about the whole "fair play" kinda thing - you know, respecting the Constitution and civil rights, acting for the benefit of the people instead of the benefit of corporations, etc. - actually elected into offices. That is much more difficult and I really wish someone with a fanbase would step up and leverage that social power towards getting elected and making a particular change in our government.
The people who are most able to affect such a change are the "leaders" - mayor, governer, president, etc. It is said that without compromise, nothing will ever get passed. Even the most honest politician will be stopped by an uncooperative legislature because he didn't sign off on their latest bad bill in order to get his good bill pushed through. The solution to this (that is rarely, if ever, resorted to) is twofold: first, directly tell the public that the city/state/national legislature is being a bunch of asshats and trying to stop this good thing from happening, and secondly to veto everything you don't like. (A lot of the votes in any given legislature are close enough that they are unlikely to pass a veto override).
We (as in those who use the Internet for more than lolcats and WoW) have a lot of power that we just need to get together and use to effect real change. Look at how we managed to stop SOPA and PIPA. Had the Patriot Act been proposed ten years later (instead of in the early 2000s when broadband penetration was still comparatively low), it would never have passed thanks to our efforts. We use it too often in a reactionary fashion instead of a pro-active fashion.
Please, someone who has the gusto to be honest step up and make a run for office. Any office. Try to be the mayor of somewhere insignificant like West Bumblefuck, Ohio, or Newark, NJ. Get the tech savvy people behind you, and use your connection with them to pull the populace out of its apathy. I'd do it if I thought I had a chance in hell, but I'm pretty sure I don't.
He's in campaign mode this year. That means he's less believable than ever. Watch for all of the "Ideas" he and his cabinet have been shooting down to re-emerge as his. Watch him try and reverse the tables on the massive energy melt down his group caused by shutting down our offshore drilling and like minded antics. This year should be epic on spin from the White House.
Yeah, shutting down off shore drilling is insane. I mean, it's not like anything happened.
No, Obama and his administration did NOT shut down offshore drilling, not even in the area of the doomed Deep Horizon platform in the Gulf.
He simply turned it over to people he likes better than US oil companies.
The oil company Petrobras of Brazil that George Soros heavily invested in just prior to Obama's decision. Obama even announced that the US was going to start engaging in more oil business with Brazil like it was a great thing.
But, I'm sure that having Brazil's oil company do the drilling rather than US companies will turn out to be much safer and better for the environment
Safer for Obama, his corrupt cronies, and the Left's agenda, not the Gulf of Mexico's environment. Of course, the environmental groups all ignore his actions, which just proves that the majority of the environmental movement organizations are simply partisan political action groups.
Dear Mr. President,
Howsa bout I vote for you again and then you introduce these proposals as actual Constitutional Amendments. You know--the kind that bind the executive branch.
Otherwise, your so-called "Privacy Bill of Rights" is not only a shallow gimmick, but also confuses the citizenry about what the real Bill of Rights used to be.
Hey Barack, how about a Bill of Rights that protects me against *your* NSA, CIA, and FBI reading my goddamned emails, listening to my phone calls, and asking my doctor how long my dick is without at least a court order?
...asking my doctor how long my dick is without at least a court order?
Most women would appreciate the government staying out of their vaginas as well. Unlike your joke about penis size, they have real intrusions to complain about on the privacy front.
they have real intrusions to complain about on the privacy front
You've got me curious. Could you name some? Abortion isn't a privacy intrusion and that's all I can think of.
Regardless of your view on abortion,
The Roe vs Wade ruling forming the basis of US abortion law today determined that abortion is a privacy issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade [wikipedia.org]
"the Court ruled that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion"
Abortion isn't a privacy intrusion
According to Roe v Wade, it all came down to a "right to privacy".
they have real intrusions to complain about on the privacy front
You've got me curious. Could you name some? Abortion isn't a privacy intrusion and that's all I can think of.
Birth control.
It needs to apply to government as well as the private sector.
Another problem is that it makes no sense to say that data doesn't "belong" to people who collect it. It clearly does, and there isn't really anything the government can do about it. If you wan't to keep something secret, keep it secret! It that so hard to understand?
The era of massive data mining is beginning. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ [forbes.com] And that's just your groceries, not your online behavior, which likely contains a lot more hidden clues.
When companies can decide to track and analyze your behavior in any way they want to, reasonably accurately predict things such as pregnancies, marriages, divorces, etc., and use it to their advantage, intentionally disguising all this from you... it's borderline absurd to say "people should just keep their secrets secret".
It's true that it's arguable whether this sort of behavior should be regulated (It's not "evil" that they just look what you've bought and try to predict your interests based on that) and if we decide to regulate it, we'll face a lot of problems... But it's quite odd to say that there shouldn't be a lot of public discourse around this subject (It's relevant to a lot of people and we already have some laws about ethical advertising and for a good reason) and just silly to say that people should take personal responsibility about how data miners figure out things they've never told anyone.
Probably a far better question is when your purchases at a grocery store are scanned who owns the scan data? Right now the grocery store sells it to a marketing company which analyzes is and sells the aggregated data back to manufacturers and the like.
So if you are in the business of selling toothbrushes wouldn't you like to know if your brand is being beat out by some upstart in Whole Foods stores but not in the low-cost no-frils stores? Would that not tell you something important? Literally, this is th
Making it unhappen puts all the same companies on the same level playing field. think about it.
Good luck with that. This is why harsh privacy laws already exist in some countries, germany and canada for example. They can try to mine whatever the hell they want, but the second that they violate the laws of the country and they operate here they're screwed.
Try to be more naive.... i bet you cant.
Obama is looking for issues that will take the public's attention away from Gas prices.
I would suggest the US use the EU standards, but lately the EU bends over anytime the US says boo.
I can't understand you people! President Obama is doing everything he can to help the people of the world and you whiners complain about your precious privacy! I hope he turns the NSA, CIA and FBI loose on you people and hunts everyone of you down and sends you to Gitmo. See how you like your precious privacy then!!!
Obama 2012!!!!
First, every website had to have its own "Privacy Policy."
Now, we need a federally-mandated one?
Anyway--a quick search reveals numerous existing "Bill of Rights," for example:
Voter's Bill of Rights
Patient's Bill of Rights
Donor Bill of Rights
Academic Bill of Rights
Landowners Bill of Rights
Taxicab Rider Bill of Rights (NYC; Ha! Figures!)
The eBook User's Bill of Rights
Visual Effects Industry Bill of Rights
Merchant Bill of Rights
Campus Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights
* Stop calling anything but our original Bill of Rights a "Bill of Rights" -- to do so is to diminish its significance and uniqueness
* With so many "Bills of Rights," collectively they mean little--just like so many "Privacy Policies"
That's the whole point of rights. All the rights in the bill of rights are negative rights. They don't tell people they can do stuff they say the government can't stop them doing it.
So for example, the freedom of speech doesn't say I can stand on a soap box and sing show tunes backwards. It says the government can't stop me from doing that.
It doesn't stay you can have a religion or beliefs. It says the government can't stop you from having them.
So on and so forth. They're more about restraining the government.
So... Is that what Obama has done here? Has he said the government can't do certain things? Because I rather doubt it. And if he hasn't then he's not offering anyone rights so much as putting additional regulations on ISPs. That isn't a right. If he wants to give me a right then he can agree the government will leave the internet alone.
Corporations and cartel are what the government used to be...so coorporation cannot do certain things to individuals...and that is the bill of right !
Really? How many millions of people have corporations killed in the last 100 years? Because governments have probably killed at least a billion people over the last 100 years.
There is no comparison. Saying corporations are the new government is ignorant.
If this is your standard about protecting individual rights...
Who has more control an individual rights your senator or Goldman Sachs ?
If killing people is your standard about lack of protecting individual rights...
Not a fair comparison.
No senator can do anything to your rights alone. However, the senate itself with the cooperation with the house can.
So a better comparison would be "who can control your individual rights more All the Big Corporations or The total might of the United States Government?
Here's a way to guess... who would win in a war between the major corporations and the US government?
The corps can't fight. The national guard could walk around through wallstreet and execute them all going door to door a
"Rights" are a rhetorical device. I can more easily convince you that my policy should be followed if I appeal to some mystical authority by talking about rights. I don't mind this conceit as a rule. My point is it's a bit silly to define rights as restrictions on the government's power when the term has no real meaning. Obama('s underlings) seem to be using it precisely as rhetoric here.
Strictly speaking, your assertion
All the rights in the bill of rights are negative rights. They don't tell people they can do stuff they say the government can't stop them doing it.
isn't true. For instance,
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial...
This gives a right to accused persons. It does not say the gove
As to the rights of the accused, it limits how much time the government has to present its case.
Effectively it says " the government must be ready to try a case shortly after arrest"...
Thus it remains a restriction on government action. You can't arrest someone and then not try them for years. The government must be ready to go to trial within a specified time or the accused must be released.
Try to explain Obama's position in the terms I used. You'll find that it's hard for you to call anything a right that
Your definition of rights as things telling the government what it can't do to the people is interesting, though not standard. The first definition I found, "That which is morally correct, just, or honorable," is decidedly different. This would seem to be the definition used in "The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights". That the actual Bill of Rights can be interpreted as limiting government power is immaterial. Rights in general, operationally at least, limit the power of some group or people, not necessarily
Maybe this will help you.
Do you know what a white list and a black list is?
Okay... The constitution contains portions that are both white list and black list.
The white list is filled with all the powers the government is supposed to have. Things like national defense, ability to negotiate diplomacy, collect taxes, etc.
The bill of rights is all blacklist. Its not talking to the people and saying "you have these rights" it's talking to the government and saying "you can't do these things".
Read the bill of rig
I don't understand why you're disagreeing then... If you understood then why don't you agree?
Words are easy. Actions are harder. Here's an ABC reporter taking Obama's press secretary to task for using the Espionage Act to take whistleblowers to court again and again.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/wake-reporter-deaths-syria-white-house-grilled-aggressive-154806577.html [yahoo.com]
First, how about giving email the same level of privacy as postal email?
The problem with these rules are that bad actors don't have to follow them. We need things like actual end-to-end encryption so companies and malicious individuals can't snoop. (see Code is Law, Lawrence Lessig).
... our data belongs to us, not to companies that happen to collect it.
I know I'm in the minority on this, but I disagree with the underlying assumption that data belongs to you by virtue of being about you. Take it down to the simplest level: Adam sees Bob crossing the street. "Bob crossed the street" is the data, an observation that belongs to Adam (the observer) not Bob (the observed), by virtue of now residing in Adam's brain, which belongs to him, not to Bob. Everything else is just communication, storage, analysis, and technological assistance. It comes back to this fundamental point once you remove the obfuscating details, and Bob doesn't acquire the right to perform a partial lobotomy on Adam just because he doesn't like what or how much Adam knows about him, or whom Adam might tell, or what decisions Adam might make based on what he knows.
This assumes, of course, that Adam didn't violate Bob's rights in order to make these observations -- he didn't trespass by breaking into Bob's house, for instance.
I'd vote that they MUST tell us what they keep, so we can decide if that price is fair for the service received.
I'd vote against mandatory restrictions on what they can keep. I am willing to pay some level of privacy intrusion, just like I am willing to pay some amount of my attention by accepting advertisements in TV and web pages, so that I can avoid paying actual currency for many services these 'free' vendors provide.
Okay, but now assume we're not talking about some observation Alice (I like Alice as my A name better) made about Bob while Bob was out walking, but some personal information Bob specifically gave to Alice because Alice was doing something for Bob where she needed that information.
Nobody else needs that information. Bob has not agreed to let it be shared with anyone else. He gave it to her because it was necessary, not because he wanted to have everyone know it. You can say "tough shit" and then forced everyone to choose between having every fact of their life known or not getting anything done. I think a reasonable society can find a better middle ground.
Alice doesn't need to be lobotomized. She just needs to respect Bob's wishes that she not share the information with anyone else without his permission.
Why's that so much to ask?
If there was substance, it would be meaningful and might offend someone - either his corporate donor/masters, or his slavering popular worshipp...er, followers.
The previous president was no substance, and no image.
The current one has improved, he has "image" out the kazoo.
Everything listed in the "Privacy Bill of Rights" is common-sense, caveat emptor-type stuff, or is easily handled by a standard contract. But by making it part of a "Privacy Bill of Rights" enforced by some government agency, it implies that these "rights" are bestowed by the government, which means that they can be repealed in the future, which would actually harm privacy.
Maybe Barry should start small. Say with the whole indefinite detention thing, or maybe just something simple, like taking it easy with the drone strikes on American citizens abroad.
The problem is that this document never defines what it means by either "consumer" or "personal data" (although there are suggestions they're both far broader then we'd normally use the terms: "Still, data brokers and other companies that collect personal data without direct consumer interactions or a reasonably detectable presence in consumer-facing activities should seek innovative ways to provide consumers with effective Individual Control."). Given this will get the typically clueless implementation that Congress invariably comes up with on technology matters, this creates all kinds of possibilities for abuse.
Does The Church of Scientology have a right to control the content of its Wikipedia page? If a news organization does an undercover investigation of corruption at some company, do they have to approve the distribution of information that gets collected? Is talking about who's funding a particular interest group allowed?
I just cannot see the white house coming out with sensible policy for this.
Thus spake the master programmer: "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"


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Apple's profit climbs, but cracks are showing
Apple's remarkable growth streak - now more than a decade old - is starting to show its age.
Apple reported on Wednesday that its revenue for the last quarter climbed 5 per cent, to $US45.6 billion ($49.1b), from $US43.6 billion ($46.9b) in the same period the year earlier.
The company continues to generate lots of profit. Apple's earnings were $US10.2 billion ($10.9b), up from $US9.5 billion ($10.2b) in the same quarter a year ago. But the increase was still small compared with the tremendous profit growth that the company had even just a couple of years ago.
The latest results are almost certain to put pressure on Timothy D. Cook, the company's chief executive, to release products in new categories - perhaps with a so-called smartwatch or even an Apple television - to lift the company's financial growth.
On Wednesday, Apple used other means to please investors. The company said it would also buy $US30 billion ($32.3b) of its stock on top of the $US60 billion ($64.6b) it announced last year. It also raised its quarterly dividend by 8 per cent and said it would split its stock. In after-hours trading, Apple's shares were up 8 per cent.
In a call with analysts, Cook said the increased buyback was "a signal of the board and management team's strong confidence in the future of Apple".
The company sold 43.7 million iPhones - up from 37.4 million last year. But sales of its iPads, at 16.35 million, were slightly down, from 19.5 million last year, despite a recent major redesign for the bigger tablet.
It was almost certain that Apple's stratospheric rise, largely on the back of the iPhone, would plateau. It is the law of large numbers.
"If Apple grew the next five years like it did the previous five years, it would be approaching the GDP of Australia," said Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein.
"Psychologically, it's more the issue that here is this incredibly high-flying company two years ago growing at 50 per cent or more," he said. "And now, at least in this given quarter, it's basically not growing."
Apple's net income was slightly above the expectations of Wall Street analysts. They had expected revenue of $US43.5 billion ($46.8b), according to a survey of analysts by Thomson Reuters.
The big question that hovers over the company is whether it can maintain even modest growth. For years, Apple has blazed new trails for the tech industry with its iPhone and iPads. But analysts and investors wonder whether the company has already peaked.
If Apple grew the next five years like it did the previous five years, it would be approaching the GDP of AustraliaToni Sacconaghi, analyst
Apple's iPad sales are slowing down much faster than many expected. Apple sold about 3 million fewer iPads in the last quarter than it did in the same period last year. That may be because many cheap tablets that cost half as much as an iPad, like Amazon's Kindle Fires, have improved so much in quality, said Tero Kuittinen, managing director at Frank N. Magid Associates, a strategic consulting firm.
Apple had modest growth from iPhone sales, selling about 6 million more over the quarter than it did in the same period last year. Its recent partnership with China Mobile, the largest phone carrier in the world, most likely helped sales.
But a potential problem for Apple is that smartphone sales are slowing down industrywide, notably in China. Smartphone sales there are expected to grow only 20 per cent this year, compared with growth of 60 per cent in 2013, according to IDC, the research firm. Many people with stable incomes have already bought smartphones there.
"Overall Chinese smartphone growth has dropped a lot faster than people expected," Kuittinen said. "That's one of those curveballs that hits the whole industry every now and then."
The next quarter is looking to be even rougher for Apple. The company is widely expected to introduce new iPhones with larger screens later this year, so many consumers may be holding out on buying iPhones until the new models come out.
"That's when the pressure is going to be the most intense," Kuittinen said.
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Newspapers & Periodicals Research Guide
The American Antiquarian Society is the nation's chief repository for early American newspapers published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States, Canada, and the English-speaking West Indies. The Society has accumulated over 15,000 newspaper titles in 20,000 volumes. Today, AAS has more than two million issues on five miles of shelving. The Society's periodicals collection is also extensive and most titles are in AAS's online catalog. In the reading room there are checklists for American periodicals by subject, including temperance, women, children, Adventists, etc.
How to Find
- Search the Catalog
Almost all newspaper titles have a record in the AAS Online Catalog (major exceptions include amateur newspapers and some foreign newspapers)
- Other Places to Search:
- Clarence
The Clarence database provides item-level information on exactly which newspaper issues AAS holds. Clarence may be searched separately or there are links for the individual newspaper titles in the main catalog.
- Newspaper Inventories, Guides & Directories
Digital Access
Freely Available
- A few newspaper titles have been scanned by AAS, particular those in very fragile condition, and are available in GIGI, the AAS digital image archive
By Subscription (must be at AAS or an institution that has purchased the digital product):
- America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 (Readex) has digitized many of AAS's newspapers and includes subsections of African American Newspapers, Hispanic American Newspapers, etc. that can be separately searched
- AAS Historical Periodicals Collection, 1691-1876 (EBSCO) has digitized most of AAS's periodicals (linked to from the AAS Online Catalog)


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Foreign Parent Strategies, Control and International Joint Venture Performance
This paper develops and expands upon an important connection between foreign parent firm strategies, the manner in which they control their international joint ventures (IJVs), and the performance of those IJVs. Parent firms' strategies refer to strategic motives, importance, focus, and competitiveness. Foreign parent firm control is conceptualized across three dimensions including the control mechanism, the control focus, and the extent of control. Our empirical evidence is based on the survey data collected from Finnish firms that established IJVs with local firms in the 1990s. The empirical evidence show different strategies used in IJVs by foreign parent firms required different control structures in IJVs. In addition, the firms that adapted control structure in their IJVs according to their strategies were more satisfied with their IJV performance than those who did not. As such, the paper takes a step further from just being concerned about parent firms' strategies and moves our thinking toward understanding how to realize such strategies through proper control.
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Opera has its own unique set of strong navigational features that make me come back to the browser: the mouse chords, the spatial-keyboard selection and the fast-forward+password button.
yes, it's biased. Why? A product announcement isn't a place for griping, IMO. I have my own complaints with Opera but some of them don't make sense to me:
#1 Why'd a user need to handle cache in the first place? The browser offers cookie and storage management which is good enough for most of us.
#2 I just moved the bookmark. It moved.
#3 "no reload" is a great thing. It lets me look at previous parts of the article very quickly than wait for it load. You want newer content? Press refresh, it retains the history
#4 I don't think browsers should have spell-checks in the first place. It should be done the way Cocoa does it, I don't have to gripe about american dictionaries being forced onto my british vocabulary. Yes, this is my opinion. So is #1 from the article's author.
I have my own gripes with opera -- it's still got the bugs with the Start Bar that I've complained about which pesters me the most. By what the author says, he doesn't use Opera much in the first place and he hasn't stopped to check if most of his complaints are true.


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Herb Parmesan Vegetable Penne Pasta
1 cup sliced julienne carrots
1 cup frozen peas
2 cups broccoli florets
1 cup diced eggplant or zucchini
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes, and parsley
1 clove minced garlic
Saute vegetables in 2 tablespoons olive oil, garlic, season with salt pepper and herbs till desired softness, we like them soft around 6-8 minutes. Set aside.
1 box penne pasta or pasta of choice
Boil salt water for pasta of choice. Cook pasta and set aside.
In the meantime make herb parmesan sauce.
In a large fry pan, melt 2 tablespoon butter, 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil saute 2 cloves of minced garlic in pan on medium heat. Lower heat and add 1 1/2 cups chicken broth. Season with salt pepper and a pinch of rosemary, add 1 teaspoon chopped parsley. Add 1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese. Stir all together. Add sauteed vegetables to this sauce. Serve over cooked pasta toss with more parmesan. Great over rice too.
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- Federica said...
What a wonderful pasta dish, rich and colorful. I like it very much. Bye, have a good day
- September 20, 2011 at 12:27 AM
- Dzoli said...
Looks like very healthy yummy pasta:)Love all the veggies in it;)
- September 20, 2011 at 12:45 AM
- Greg said...
That looks delicious! Those veggies and herbs add a lot of color to this dish. Can I have a bite?
- September 20, 2011 at 6:11 AM
- Belinda @zomppa said...
Great colors on such a classic.
- September 20, 2011 at 6:29 AM
- Becky said...
Your herrb veggie dish is beautiful. I love colorful veggies, and herbs add can add so much to dish, especially veggies.
Have a good week.
- September 20, 2011 at 7:45 AM
- Drick said...
nothing like homemade, maybe not as easy as out of a bag, but I now so much better... look at the love on that plate
- September 20, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Pretend Chef said...
I would love a bowl of this right now. Yummy!
- September 20, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- anthony stemke said...
This is so wonderful; actually going to make it today. Love the rosemary and parsley in the butter and oil.
Thank You.
- September 20, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- Dee at Deelicious Sweets said...
This looks so yummy! The ingredient list is scrumptious!
- September 20, 2011 at 7:26 PM
- redkathy said...
Oh GF you always remind me of home! Love the pasta veggie combo :)
Hope all is going well with you.
Have a great week.
- September 20, 2011 at 7:33 PM
- Lizzy said...
This looks like a delicious pasta dish, Claudia! I'd be delighted with this for dinner...and I could saute a few chicken breasts for the carnivores :) Hope you're having a good week!
- September 20, 2011 at 9:17 PM
- Reeni said...
Your veggie pasta is similar to a favorite in my house! So satisfying and easy to throw together.
- September 20, 2011 at 9:18 PM
- Torviewtoronto said...
:) I didn't think you have tasted string hoppers before it is like a steamed noodles (pasta made from scratch)
delicious looking combination and colour in your vegetable pasta
hope all is well in your end regards Akheela
- September 20, 2011 at 10:01 PM
- Vicki Bensinger said...
I literally was salivating reading how to make your sauce. Sounds heavenly and the variety of veggies add color and texture. YUM!
- September 21, 2011 at 12:02 AM
- Ann said...
Wow - that looks amazing! I love the veggies in it! Beautiful!
- September 21, 2011 at 11:25 AM
- Lana @ Never Enough Thyme said...
This looks fabulous, Claudia!
- September 21, 2011 at 1:23 PM
- Georgia Pellegrini said...
I love how creamy and comforting this looks!
- September 22, 2011 at 4:06 PM


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Woman Hits Bobcat, Drives It to Downtown Bangor, Realizes Her Mistake
A woman hit what she thought was a house cat while driving her van in Veazie late Tuesday night, according to Bangor police. But, after deciding to give the injured animal a lift to Bangor, found out her passenger was not your average tabby.
Bangor Police Officer John Robinson, while on patrol, stopped on Harlow Street near City Hall, where three people were standing next to the woman's van.
According to his report, the woman told him she thought the cat was seriously injured or deceased so she put the cat inside her van. Only after it became alert did she realize the cat was actually a bobcat. She then left the car, followed by the bobcat, which hid under the vehicle.
Sgts, Robert Bishop, Larry Weber and Officer Gary Decker arrived. Sgt, Bishop used a catch pole to secure the bobcat until Maine Game Warden Fahey arrived and took control of the animal.
The injured bobcat was later euthanized. Police did not release the woman's name and no charges were filed.
Bangor police took the opportunity to remind people that one should always be careful handling injured animals and call local animal control officer or Game Wardens when in doubt.


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LA Kings Retired Trainer Pete Demers Dealt With Much More Than Injuries To Players
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FROZEN ROYALTY EXCLUSIVE: In part five of an exclusive series based on an extensive interview with Los Angeles Kings head athletic trainer emeritus Pete Demers, Frozen Royalty takes a look at the most visible aspect of his job, caring for injured players…and trainers are definitely not immune from injury or illness, either…
LOS ANGELES — For athletic trainers in the National Hockey League, their most important job is to treat injured players and help them recover from their injuries, and in a 34-year career with the Los Angeles Kings, retired head athletic trainer Pete Demers has probably treated more injuries and illnesses than any of his colleagues, past or present, and not just those suffered by players.
To be sure, caring for injured players is the one aspect of the athletic trainer's duties that is the most visible, and for Demers, it was no different. Like other trainers, he was most noticeable whenever he jumped over the boards and scurried out onto the ice to care for an injured player.
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Chris Baldwin of Lexington won the June 22 Walmart Bass Fishing League N.C. Division tournament at Kerr Lake by topping a field of 78 fishermen with a five-fish catch totaling 16 pounds, 3 ounces. He received $3,247.
Chris Baldwin of Lexington won the June 22 Walmart Bass Fishing League N.C. Division tournament at Kerr Lake by topping a field of 78 fishermen with a five-fish catch totaling 16 pounds, 3 ounces. He received $3,247.
Raleigh's Manly Jones finished second with 15-04 that paid $1,623. Dennis Gilbert of Nathalie, Va., took the third-place prize of $1,082 with 14-09. Stuart Hicks of Statesville ranked fourth with 14-01 and collected $758 plus $390 for the big fish of the day, a 6-pound, 11-ounce bass. Greg Lahr of Fayetteville had 13-15 for fifth and $649.
Others receiving checks were Derek Dixon of Kings Mountain, sixth, with 13-01 for $595; Scott Hamrick of Denver, seventh, with 12-08 for $541; Junior Allen of Biscoe tied Bernie Davis of Charlotte for ninth with 11-15, each earning $406; David Williams of Maiden, 11th, with 11-14 for $341 plus a $300 Evinrude bonus; Tim Grein of Winston-Salem, 12th, with 11-07 for $314; Richard Bradford of Hoffman, 13th, with 11-05 for $303; Allen Eaker of Cherryville, tied Darren Gay of Richfield for 14th with 11-00, each earning $279.
Lexington's Robert Walser placed 19th with 10-13, earning a $300 Evinrude bonus.
Brad Wright of Granite Falls placed first among the co-anglers with 10-12 and banked $1,623.
Other co-angler scores were Greg Mauldin of Archdale, second, with 10-06, winning $812; Shorty Vaow of Cornelius, third, with 9-13, winning $541 plus $195 for the co-angler big fish with a 4-pound, 8-ounce bass; John Cook of Matthews, fourth, with 9-02, winning $379; and Vernon Adams of Durham, fifth, with 9-01, winning $325.
The standings looked rather strange at the June 22 Anglers Choice Marine N.C. Division tournament at High Rock Lake without any local teams at the top.
Damien McMahon of Pilot, Va., and Phillip Vanderveer of Va. took top honors with a stunning five-fish catch weighing 23.86 pounds that included a 6.09-pound bass, the big fish of the day.
Scott Stallings of Kannapolis and John Allen finished second with another heavy bag of fish totaling 20.65 pounds that was anchored with a 4.89-pound bass.
William Kemp of Scotland Neck and Scott Griffin ranked third with 17.59 pounds and placed a 4.36-pound bass on the scales.
Brian Morgan of Newton and Ramon Stockham of Greensboro finished fourth with 17.14.
Two familiar names occupied the fifth spot with Thomas Ludwick of Salisbury and Marty Williams of Thomasville bringing in 15.54 pounds. High Point's Brian Sorrel took sixth with 15.46 pounds, and Jack Vanderford and Phillip Hedrick of Salisbury placed seventh with 15.13 pounds.
Dwayne and Chuck Hughes of Lexington won Saturday's Yadkin Team Tournament contest at High Rock Lake with 18.34 pounds that paid $386. They also took the big-fish prize of $71.50 with 4.61-pound bass.
The two anglers caught their fish by flipping jigs with Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver plastic trailers into bushes.
"It wasn't easy," said Dwayne. "With high water, the fish are widely scattered. It took us all day to catch what we had."
Runners-up Vanderford and Hedrick also used jigs to probe the bushes for a catch of 17.36 pounds, collecting $200.
Jamie Benton of Denton and Scott Eggleston of Salisbury finished third with 12.22 pounds and received $85.
Jon Morgan of Rockwell and Rodney Eller of Landis won the Fishers of Men Piedmont Division tournament Saturday at Tuckertown Lake with 18.06 pounds and shared $1,480.
Chad Poteat of Mt. Airy and Jason Riggs of Lexington placed second with 17.73 pounds and banked $662. They crawled Zoom Ol'Monster worms along the main channel edges to get their fish.
Gary and Pete Payne took the third-place prize of $396 with 17.47 pounds.
Robert Mixon of Lexington and Robert Lambert of Denton ranked fourth with 17.25 pounds and banked $260. They also won the season's points championship worth $900.
Anthony Brooks of Albemarle and Dwayne Saunders of Star ranked fifth, with 17.35 pounds, winning $198. Bo Russell of Richfield and Mark Tarlton finished sixth with 16.44 pounds for $150.
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Indians release Chris Perez, re-sign Jason Giambi
A two-time All-Star, Perez wore out his welcome in Cleveland. He lost his job in the final week of the season as the Indians were trying to clinch a wild-card berth. It capped another tumultuous year for the right-hander, who was arrested in June after drug agents followed a package containing marijuana to his home. He and his wife pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge.
Perez always seemed to be at the center of something. He angered Indians fans for saying they didn't support the team and he rankled Cleveland's front office when he said it wasn't spending enough to win.
Perez, who was eligible for salary arbitration this winter, recorded 25 saves this past season. He had 124 in five seasons with the Indians, who acquired him in a 2009 trade from St. Louis.
But Perez's saves were rarely routine as he often put runners on base to make things difficult, raising the blood pressure of Cleveland fans and managers.
After he gave up four runs in the ninth inning of a win over Minnesota late in the season, Perez walked into manager Terry Francona's office and told him he didn't want to cost the team a possible playoff berth. Francona promptly pulled him from the closer's role, and there was speculation Perez would be left off the postseason roster.
However, Perez was one of 25 players on the roster for the wild-card loss to Tampa Bay.
Giambi provided leadership to the Indians from the moment he arrived at training camp last spring.
The 42-year-old, who was a finalist for Colorado's managerial job last year, was signed to a minor league contract but it didn't take him long to have a major impact in Cleveland's clubhouse and he contributed some memorable moments on the field.
He twice became the oldest player in major league history to hit a walk-off home run. He broke the record set by Hank Aaron on July 29 against Chicago and then bettered his own mark on Sept. 24 with a two-run, pinch-hit homer with two outs in the ninth to beat the White Sox, a shot that helped propel the Indians to a 10-game winning streak to end the season.
Giambi wrapped Francona in a bear hug after crossing the plate, a snapshot of their tight relationship which grew stronger during the season. Franconia felt Giambi was the team's MVP for his many contributions.
''When you get a guy like that, sometimes it can be once in a lifetime,'' Franconia said of Giambi, whom he has known since he played in the minors. ''He's changed people in the organization. He's made me better. He's made everybody he touches better. That's a very special person.''
Francona and general manager Chris Antonetti made it clear following the season that wanted Giambi back -- in any capacity he wished.
''We would like to continue our relationship with G,'' Francona said, ''probably as long as he would like to.''
Giambi relished his mentoring role last season, when the Indians won 92 games and made the playoffs for the first times since 2007. He feels like he can still be a productive player and the Indians are thrilled to have him back.
Perez was eligible for arbitration, and based on his stats and a $7.3 million contract last season, he was in line for a hefty raise. But Perez's struggles, along with his tempestuous past, resulted in the Indians cutting ties with him on the first day after the World Series ended.
In 54 games, Perez posted a 4.33 ERA and recorded 54 strikeouts in 54 innings. But after Aug. 1, his ERA was 7.52 ERA and he allowing six runs in his final two appearances.
The Indians also made a minor trade with San Diego, acquiring left-hander Colt Hynes from the Padres for cash considerations. The 28-year-old spent the second half of last season with San Diego, posting a 9.00 ERA in 22 relief outings.


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Many of you have asked me over and over why Patrick Turner isn't active on Sundays because you continue to be frustrated by other Miami receivers that don't necessarily light up scoreboards or stat sheets with explosive plays.
Well, today I asked coach Tony Sparano his reasoning for not having Turner active and that resulted in some interesting stuff.
First, Sparano promises Turner's day is coming. He doesn't want this season to end without having a grasp of whether Turner is a possible contributor long term or not.
But, secondly, Sparano really likes what his current crop of receivers bring to the table -- yes, it's hard to believe, but stay with me on this.
"Pat is getting better, but it also has a lot to do with the other players and the jobs they do and how they're doing in the game," Sparano said Wednesday. "I mean Davone Bess is second in the NFL to the guy in New York [Steve Smith] in third-down receptions. OK? Well, [Greg] Camarillo is 10 of 10 [on third down] right now. He's had 10 balls thrown at him right now and he's converted 10 of them. So he's eighth on that list.
"We think they don't make plays but those guys are making plays. It's one of the reasons we're second in the league on third down conversion. Teddy [Ginn] is a return guy for us that's been getting better and better at it. Ginn, I thought had a good game the other day returning the football and is also a receiver that can make a big play for us.
"And [Brian] Hartline has been productive out there in a lot of phases. What you don't see is Hartline is in there about 8 to 10 plays on special teams and has been productive there, too."
So it becomes hard, in Sparano's mind, to bench one of the four guys already playing ahead of Turner. And playing five is pretty much out of the question at the moment.
"We're not going to take five to the game at this second," the coach said. "I don't feel like that's a good deal right at this time. You never know. That can change. But somebody's got to stay back. At this point it's been Pat. But I do want to get Patrick Turner involved."
Let's hope so because regardless of how much the other guys are bringing to the game, it simply has not been good enough. The Dolphins are 29th in the NFL passing the football. That is, well, terrible.
Miami wide receivers have combined for two touchdowns this year. I count 26 individual receivers among the NFL's top 60 scorers that have at least four TDs. There are 37 individual receivers with at least three touchdowns. Like, by themselves.
My opinion?
The Dolphins love special teams contribution but the contribution they're talking about with Hartline is not game-changing. He's not going to take a punt to the house. He hasn't made a TD-saving tackle. He has not blocked a kick. So would the Miami special teams collapse if Hartline isn't playing Sunday? I don't think so.
Turner, on the other hand, might be a solid red zone threat and a tough matchup against almost any cornerback. I have no clue how well he's improved his blocking (which needed improvement) but the idea of a 6-5, 220-pound perimeter blocker doing work downfield is enticing to me.
Anyway, at some point, Sparano promises Turner will get a looksee.
"I want to get him involved," he said. "He's got to keep working in practice like he is and at some point his number is going to get called."
By the way, Sparano disagrees with anyone who believes Miami's passing game problems are mostly found in the WR corps. Aside from being 29th in passing, the club is also 29th in passing net yards per play, suggesting no one is picking up YAC (yards after catch).
The fact is the Dolphins are the only team in the NFL whose passing game could be described as "Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust."
But the coach says the receivers aren't exceedingly responsible for the passing game problems.
"I wouldn't say too much," Sparano said. "I would say part of it is we're fourth in the league or third in the league in rushing so we've run it a bunch. We've had a lot rushing opportunities. I think there's a lot of people responsible for why you don't throw it. Right now we have 23 sacks -- that's responsible for why you don't do well throwing it.
"There's a lot of elements involved. The quarterback's involved. The receivers are involved, no doubt about it. We've had some dropped balls, some unexecuted route depths, those type of things are things from the receiver position that can be different."
Gotta be different, actually.
Injury update: Paul Soliai (ankle), Joey Porter (knee), Justin Smiely (shoulder) and Erik Walden (hamstring) did not practice Tuesday. Anthony Fasano (hip) was limited. Channing Crowder and Jason Ferguson are back to full practice.


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Merry Christmas from the Ubuntu One team! As announced at UDS in Orlando in November, the Ubuntu One team have been working on a project to allow application developers to sync data to Ubuntu One, and we've now reached the tech preview stage. Here's the details.
U1DB is a database API for synchronised databases of JSON documents. It's simple to use in applications, and allows apps to store documents and synchronise them between machines and devices. U1DB itself is not a database: instead, it's an API and data model which can be backed by any database for storage. This means that you can use U1DB on different platforms, from different languages, and backed on to different databases, and sync between all of them.
Data sync is an essential part of what we want to offer with Ubuntu One. We already offer file sync, and that's also part of our developer story (the APIs for file sync and music streaming are documented at https://one.ubuntu.com/developer/); U1DB is designed to offer data sync. Some information in your personal cloud is best done as files: your music, your photos, letters written in Word, things you want to back up. However, applications work with data: contacts, metadata about your files, todo lists, preferences and settings, and most stuff an application works with. We're building U1DB to allow app developers to work with the same data on every platform and in every language; to save data and sync it between devices without having to manage that themselves.
We've been working on U1DB enough to have a working implementation, and now we want to get it out to all of you. We're calling this a tech preview — it's a working version of U1DB, with the intention that developers look at it and play with it and start working with it. We're very interested in hearing your thoughts on the current implementation, the API, and its use in applications. Give us your thoughts in comments here or on the U1DB mailing list at https://launchpad.net/~u1db-discuss or just join us at #u1db on freenode for a chat. The tech preview is of the reference implementation — this is written in (and to be used from) Python on Windows or Ubuntu or anywhere Python runs, and it's where we work on the algorithms and API used across all U1DB implementations. This tech preview contains the library to work with U1DBs from Python, and an example server and client implementation — U1DB is peer-to-peer syncing, so it's perfectly possible to run your own server and sync to that, and this tech preview has an example server to play with.
You can see (early) documentation of U1DB, the API, and example usage at http://people.canonical.com/~aquarius/u1db-docs/. We are also working on Vala and JavaScript implementations of U1DB: you can find the Vala implementation at http://launchpad.net/shardbridge, and we plan to build implementations of U1DB for iOS (Obj-C on SQLite) and Android (Java on SQLite) in the future.
The tech preview is mostly about getting input into the product so we can make sure we build something that is useful for people. We also have listed a number of open questions on detailed technical subjects which we'd like to hear opinions on from people who would be interested in using U1DB or writing a new implementation for another platform or language or database backend. Give us your thoughts on these too!
Open Questions
- In general, creating an API that is conceptually portable across many languages has some difficulties. For example, currently, the reference implementation provides a Document object, where doc_obj.content is a JSON string of the document content. This means that app developers using the Python API need to json.loads(doc_obj.content) to edit the content of a Document. Should a Document be addressable as a dictionary? This is an obvious thing to do in Python, but it does not necessarily make sense across many platforms; how would you envisage a Document object looking in C? In Java? In Objective C? In your choice of language?
- Revision IDs for a U1DB Document are currently quite verbose, but this makes them easy to read (and makes it easier to debug issues). Should we use a less readable but more compact format for these version vectors?
- Ubuntu One's U1DB server will have a direct HTTP API, so that apps can retrieve and store data directly in the cloud without syncing. The HTTP API is also used for syncing U1DBs to Ubuntu One. What form of authorization should be used for this HTTP API, both for syncing and for direct access? Other Ubuntu One services use OAuth 1.1; should we examine OAuth 2, or other alternatives, or is it more important to be able to use the same tokens and auth libraries as other Ubuntu One services?
- Indexing is a tricky issue. Letting users provide code to do the indexing is tricky and creating a reasonably thorough DSL is a lot of work. We're currently taking the DSL route; index expressions are basically a domain-specific language for querying a u1db. Is there a middle ground?
- Index expressions can not only name fields but also apply transformation functions to them. For example, lower(fieldname) stores the lowercased contents of a field as an index key, and splitwords(fieldname) splits the contents of the field on whitespace and stores each item as an index key. What are the basic transformation functions we should support? What are the use cases for your proposals? What do apps need?
- Each peer in replication has a replica uid, a name for that device. Should those ids be just uuids (as they are currently)? Can we use hostnames? Can we detect a db copied across machines? How about a db copied locally? Is identifying these important?
These questions are the stuff we are discussing currently. Any comments on these or other issues not covered here will be most welcome.
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Slightly better than No. 2 but still crude and very violent.
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Parents need to know that the third installment in the blockbuster Transformers franchise is less crude than the first sequel but more violent than the original. Tween and teen boys in particular will be interested in seeing this movie, but even younger kids who are familiar with the Hasbro toys may be curious about yet another live-action adaptation. Like all of director Michael Bay's films, there's a constant threat to all the characters -- in fact, humanity in general -- and an accompanying body count to match that sense of peril. Some robot deaths are particularly startling. Language is edgy, with frequent uses of "a--hole," "bitch," and "s--t" and two variations on the F-bomb. This is a dream movie for car, weapon, and military aficionados, but not so much for young girls, since the only three women in the film are stereotypes -– the young blond "hottie," the tough older careerist, and the wisecracking middle-aged mom.
Messages: Despite the requisite underlying themes of friendship and loyalty, there are a couple of shady messages about what it takes to succeed as a woman (be beautiful and sexy) and a few negative stereotypes and jokes.
Role models: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and the other Autobots are extremely loyal to Sam and humans in general, even when the government turns against them. Sam also will stop at nothing to help his Autobot friends and to save the love of his life. Other characters are brave, but it's their job to defend the innocent.
Violence: Incessant loud, explosion-based violence, usually featuring the robotic Transformers and human beings. The evil Transformers don't care about collateral human damage, and they routinely cause mass destruction to buildings, bridges, cars, and even national monuments like the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. There's a high body count, even though the camera never lingers on any human death (it does linger on Transformer deaths, including those of sympathetic secondary characters and one that's particularly gruesome). The military (including the Air Force special ops and Navy SEALs) uses technologically advanced weapons and gear to battle the Transformers that are threatening to turn humans into a slave race.
Sex: No outright sex, but every scene Carly is in features her in either underwear (the actress is a famous Victoria's Secret model) or a revealing outfit. She and Sam kiss in bed and several other times. Her entire purpose is to be attractive and have others make comments about her "hotness." Sam's mother makes inappropriate references to sex and even speculates about how "big" he is to have had two gorgeous girlfriends. In one scene, a sexily dressed Latina character is referred to as a "hoochie mama," and her anger is called a "Latin meltdown."
Language: Surprisingly frequent use of the following words: "a--hole," "bitch," "s--t," "hell," "damn," "crap," "ass," "d--khead," and "oh my God." One mouthed "f--k," and one memorably (and humorously) said "clusterf--k."
Consumerism: Not only is the entire series based on Hasbro toys, but there's also an extremely high number of product placements: from cars (General Motors, Mercedes, Corvette, and more) to electronics (Apple computers, iPad, Lenovo desktops) to water (Arrowhead) and apparel (Adidas, Nike, etc.).
Drinking, drugs and smoking: At a couple of dinner parties, adults are shown briefly with glasses in hand.
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Definitely better than some of the other recent Christmas episodes. Was a bit sappy in places, but I enjoyed it. Thought the script was quite decent given the fact that the writers had to include a "new companion" storyline to go with the main plot.
It was also quite clever how they reconciled the appearance of the new assistant with her appearance earlier on in the show. She wasn't nearly as irritating this time round either.


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The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council unanimously approved an initial Gulf Coast restoration plan Wednesday that could take shape within a year.
A panel that will oversee spending of billions of dollars in BP oil-spill fine money approved an initial plan money aimed at restoring the Gulf Coast's environment and economy.
The federal-state Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, which will oversee 80 percent of BP's Clean Water Act fines, approved the plan Wednesday in New Orleans.
The plan calls for regional, science-based projects. It's short on specifics because state plans aren't yet complete and BP's fines are in litigation.
The council will oversee the spending of 80 percent of the Clean Water Act fines from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to five Gulf Coast states. Under the Restore Act, approved by Congress last year, BP can be fined $1,000 to $4,300 per barrel leaked after the deadly rig explosion. That could add up to fines of between $5 billion and $20 billion. The remaining 20 percent will go into a trust fund to prepare for future oil spills.
Under the act, the states get 35 percent of that money to spend directly. The council will oversee the spending of 60 percent of that money. Thirty percent will go to projects chosen by the council and the other 30 percent to projects chosen by the states. Science and education projects get the remaining 5 percent.
Gov. Bobby Jindal said the money coming to the Louisiana will be used in accordance with the state's coastal restoration and protection master plan.
"We need to get money to the states as soon as possible," Jindal told the panel.
In phone interviews, coastal advocates from Terrebonne and Lafourche said they are cautiously optimistic.
"For a long time we've needed to have a lot of these federal partners with us. It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out," said Simone Maloz, executive director of the Thibodaux-based Restore or Retreat coastal advocacy nonprofit. "It's important to see this be successful."
The fund has already banked $320 million of the promised $800 million, its share of environmental fines levied against Transocean, owner of the drilling rig that exploded and sank in 2010. The final decision in the ongoing civil trial against BP, which will determine the remaining fines, could be more than a year away. The trial resumes Sept. 30 in U.S. District Court in New Orleans.
Jindal said BP has focused too much on its image and needs to turn its attention to the real problems.
"BP needs to stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars on their public relations campaign telling us how great they are and start proving it by addressing their Clean Water Act and Natural Resources Damage liabilities now," Jindal said at the meeting. "While Transocean has stepped up to the plate and paid much of their liability, BP has not."
BP Vice President Geoff Morrell disputed Jindal's complaints.
"Any suggestion that BP has failed to address the clean up of the Louisiana coastline is both false and irresponsible. The facts, however, are irrefutable, and our progress in Louisiana has been significant," Morrell said in a news release after Wednesday's meeting. "Overall to date, we have spent $26 billion on response, cleanup and claims. Repeated assertions that we have spent more money on advertising than this are grossly in error and seem purposefully intended to mislead the public."
The comprehensive plan is incomplete; it doesn't say how much money each state will get or list specific projects, as required by the Restore Act, because the total in fines against BP and its drilling partners remains uncertain.
Instead, the council passed a list of broad goals that will guide how the money is spent. They include enhancing resiliency, conserving habitat, replenishing marine resources and revitalizing the Gulf Coast economy.
"It's encouraging to see so many state and federal agencies working together for a common goal," Terrebonne Coastal Restoration Director Nic Matherne said.
Maloz said the plan is full of basic concepts, but it's the undetermined details that will really matter.
"Almost everybody agrees with the concept and guiding principles. It's going to come down to which projects they pick, how they choose to share their pot of money and how that compares to Louisiana's master plan," Maloz said. "They're still a ways away from that."
Lafourche Parish Administrator Archie Chaisson agrees, noting that the real focus is on how the money will be spent.
"This is a huge opportunity for us to fund some of the master plan projects, specifically some of the parish priority projects," Chaisson said. "It is our hope that we have a process with measurable outcomes and the best interest of the affected communities at the forefront."
Officials from the Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation released a statement urging the council to embrace the Louisiana Coastal Master Plan as a guiding document for restoring the Mississippi River Delta.
"Since the Mississippi River and its surrounding wetlands are a driving force behind ensuring a healthy Gulf Coast ecosystem, thriving local economies and protected communities, these Mississippi River Delta restoration projects will create an important cornerstone for Gulf-wide ecosystem restoration," the organizations said in the statement.
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said the Restore Act, which she authored with U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., created the council and tasked it with drafting the plan to ensure the fines are invested in a way that would maximize Gulf restoration efforts.
"This plan protects the carefully crafted balance between environmental and economic recovery that was established by the Restore Act. It is a significant improvement over the draft plan released earlier this year, and today's unanimous vote by the council shows the strong support we have for this holistic approach to recovery," Landrieu said.
This story includes information from The Associated Press.


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Otherwise a good chunk of papers produced by research done in the UC system will be submitted to Springer journals first.
If I write a paper, I'm going to try to get it in the best journal I can so it looks better on my resume. Open access does not factor into it. I'm not about to sell myself short and publish in a lower impact journal, and hurt my career, just to make sure everyone can access it free of charge.
That said, springer does have some high impact journals, and there could be other details I'm missing to sweeten the deal. All else being equal though, if faced with a choice between higher value publication and open access, it's not a question, and won't be for many other people.
I think that seems short-sighted - even petty. I prefer to look at it from a different point of view.
I'd rather my papers be read & cited by more people, than that they have some fancy brand-name associated with them.
So, unless you're talking about the top tier journals like Science or Nature, I'd rather publish in PLoS [plos.org] or similar open journals, so that I can distribute my papers as widely as possible.
I'm interested in doing good science - not labels - or packing my resume. Sorry, but your first sentenc
Pathetic? I'm a grad student. If I didn't come off as pathetic, I'd be putting on a good act. In all honesty, my views on open access and whatnot are of little value. I don't get to judge my own CV. When I'm a tenured professor, then I could have some choice in the matter, but right now I'm far from it. Selling my paper short (for a cause I'm pretty apathetic about anyway) would have no effect.
Out of curiosity, anonymous person, what field is your lab in?
Out of curiosity, anonymous person, what field is your lab in?
I (as a CS PhD student) do actually care about open access. You have no idea how many times I run into a dead end trying to look something up and end up following a trail of breadcrumbs into a Springer journal. It's a major pain in the butt to go through my university library to track down the article, when I'm not even sure if it's useful yet. So yeah, open access is a good thing.
So yeah, open access is a good thing.
I have nothing against open access, I think it's a good thing and have run into that too. The solution is to force journals to be open access, not expect researchers to choose against their best interests to support it. I was just saying I don't believe in it so much I'd weaken my CV to support it.
You don't have online access to your university's journal subscriptions from your university network?
-another PhD student
I have access to a lot, but not SpringerLink.
It's a major pain in the butt to go through my university library to track down the article, when I'm not even sure if it's useful yet. So yeah, open access is a good thing.
That's right! In my day, going to the library to track down an article was called research.
Out of curiosity, anonymous person, what field is your lab in?
I'm a biochem post-doc working in a molecular-microbiology lab. We're studying E.coli O157:H7 and attempting to inhibit intimin formation.
intimin is a protein on the surface of the cell membrane which allows the bacteria to adhere. no intimin and the bacteria stay in solution, therefore no more quorum sensing, no more bio-film and no infection! voila!
Sounds easy, right? Those little critters just won't cooperate though!
But, back to papers. At the institutions I've been at it's quantity first, quality 2nd, a
ntimin is a protein on the surface of the cell membrane which allows the bacteria to adhere. no intimin and the bacteria stay in solution, therefore no more quorum sensing, no more bio-film and no infection! voila!
Sounds easy, right? Those little critters just won't cooperate though!
I worked in a bacterial lab as an undergrad, and know that membrane protiens are hard to work with, so no, that doesn't sound easy to me at all. Although, I kill E.coli every time I try to do any cloning, so maybe it's not that tough...
But, back to papers. At the institutions I've been at it's quantity first, quality 2nd, and brand-name distant 3rd. Quantity is easy. Quality is harder - it's best judged over time by the number of cites. If your peers cite your papers as the basis for their work, you're doing something right. Scientists are being rated [wikipedia.org] by their citations now.
Brand name does factor into it though, while "supported open-access publications" doesn't. And you have to admit at my stage, grad student, brand-name publications are a little more important than at the post-doc or especially professor stage. I'll only have one to three p
If I write a paper, I'm going to try to get it in the best journal I can so it looks better on my resume.
If I write a paper, I'm going to just put it on my webpage, or maybe at arXiv as public domain or under a licence that allows other people to copy it, and in this way any journal that wants to print it can do so. I see no reason why I should submit my writings to anyone since now with the Internet we all can publish our papers on our servers/websites. People who search for papers will find them, whether they are on personal sites or journals, just as they already find whatever they look for now.
As for the
When I write papers, I submit them to journals so that they can be peer-reviewed, and I can get some feedback. This is usually the second publication, since I usually put an informal write-up on a blog before I start the paper (which I can point to if someone else gets a journal paper accepted first, since I have a public record of having published it first).
Almost every journal and conference I've submitted papers to, including those owned by Springer, has allowed me to put a copy of the PDF on my own
I see no reason why I should submit my writings to anyone since now with the Internet we all can publish our papers on our servers/websites
Credibility. Say what you will about peer-review and it's shortcomings, but a peer reviewed article is a lot more trustworthy in a lot of fields than just published online.
I think it's bad for science to try to make ourselves look better based on how prestigious a journals that accepted our writings is (and what is prestige anyway?). I prefer people to judge me from the quality of my work, rather than from shortcuts like which journal published me or such things.
It is unfortunate, but someone reviewing 300 applications realistically isn't going to judge the quality of publications for themselves. It's not about pride or prestige, it's about working where I want to next.
Evaluation committees don't look only at the number of lines in your CV, but at how frequently your papers are cited. Papers in closed-access journals are much less frequently cited than papers in open-access journals. At the very least, if you publish in closed-access journals and don't want to shoot yourself in the foot, you should put up a PDF on your website so potential citers can actually get your article rather than just shrugging and giving up on it (sometimes this is permitted, sometimes officially
If I write a paper, I'm going to try to get it in the best journal I can so it looks better on my resume. Open access does not factor into it. I'm not about to sell myself short and publish in a lower impact journal, and hurt my career, just to make sure everyone can access it free of charge.
But by making an article open-access you increase its distribution*, and thus you potentially increase the rate at which it is cited. Which in turn leads to a higher impact factor for the journal hosting the article. So this is actually a smart move for Springer (especially since they are getting UC to pay for it all).
* I'm part of a university that pays for access to most academic journals, but if I can immediately access a PDF via Google Scholar (rather than the horrendous proxy handshaking required to ac
You could always Self-Archive [eprints.org] your papers...
And just in case no-one can see his point, consider that pharmaceutical researchers will be required to purchase a different license to use medical research published under a CC-non-commercial license to actually make drugs that save lives. In a way, this announcement is a step backwards, as previously there was no explicit non-commercial requirement on scientific papers. In fact, it was assumed to be the opposite.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ [creativecommons.org]
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode [creativecommons.org]
4. Restrictions. The license granted in Section 3 above is expressly made subject to and limited by the following restrictions:
b. You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation.
and section 3 is:
3. License Grant. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) license to exercise the rights in the Work as stated below:
c. to Distribute and Publicly Perform the Work including as incorporated in Collections; and,
d. to Distribute and Publicly Perform Adaptations.
See that "Publicly Perform" bit? You may not do that for commercial advantage.
+5 Clueless ?
The license covers the written paper not the subject of the paper.
In the wording of the license, "the Work" refers to the paper, not to whatever the paper is discussing.
If applicable, the subject of the paper would be protected by patent.
What part of this is hard to understand? Science is a derivative process. Taking a scientific paper, extending it, editing it, making corrections and republishing it is a normal part of science. Demanding that people make no profit from doing such things is just a great way to discourage it.
IANAS and maybe I misunderstand, but I think it more likely you are intentionally being obtuse here.
A scientic paper is a report on work done. The work is not at issue here, the paper is.
A scientist certainly expands upon existing work, but he doesn't expand upon existing papers like a programmer does. Scientists don't take a paper, edit a few words, insert a paragraph, delete a paragraph, rotate a figure, and call it a new article.
When someone appropriates Mickey Mouse for their own cartoon, they get in
Wow! The only conclusion I can come to after reading that is that you are simply not a scientist and have absolutely no familiarity with the modern scientific process.
I'm a post-doc at a major university biochem lab. If I did what you just described, the ethics committee would have me out the door in a heartbeat and I'd probably never work in my field again.
What you described is basically plagiarism.
We do NOT take someone's paper and extend, edit & republish it as our own.
We read papers - 10s, 100s of p
We're talking about a copyright license on the text of a scientific paper here. The normal status is "all rights reserved". Cc-by-nd is strictly more permissive than the default copyright. The restrictions on commercialization, public performance, etc., are all part of the copyright license on the text of the paper, nothing more. The ideas in the paper are protected, if at all, by patent law.
The ideas in the paper are protected, if at all, by patent law.
Patents are for inventions. Or rather, should be.
Legend has it that at one time you had to build a model or prototype to qualify for a patent. So much for progress...
IANAL, and I haven't read more than your post and a couple of others. But I interpret that "publicly perform" refers to "perform" in the theatrical sense. As in you can't go to a conference and present this paper in public. As for the concepts described in the paper, I don't see how anything other than patents can bind you not to use them once they're public.
IANAL and all that, but "perform" doesn't mean what you think it means...
This is a _copyright_ license, not a _use_(EULA, etc) license. Section 3 grants you a subset of the rights that a copyright holder has, namely distribution and creation of derivative(adapted) works. The wording "publicly perform" is a specific reference to the rights granted under copyright law.
For science, none of that matters. Copyright only covers things like wording and data, and if you copy those, copyright violations will pale
See that "Publicly Perform" bit? You may not do that for commercial advantage.
Right -- that means you can't get up on stage and read the article and charge a fee at the door for people to hear you doing so. Similarly, you can't record such a spoken-word performance, etc. etc.
It in no way prevents you from using the ideas therein towards your own research by my reading and standard usages of licenses.
And just in case no-one can see his point, consider that pharmaceutical researchers will be required to purchase a different license to use medical research published under a CC-non-commercial license to actually make drugs that save lives.
But if they're working for a for-profit enterprise, then they can afford to purchase a different license!
Rubbish, they can just not use the articles themselves for commercial purposes, i.e. they could not take the article and put it in e.g. a book and then sell that book. They can still use the findings in the articles for whatever way they want. They findings are not under copyright.
Summary of all Creative Commons licenses:
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ [creativecommons.org]
Is there some easy way I could become "UC-Affiliated" without actually having to become a student/professor there and thus get my papers published under an open license?
It has always bothered me that the papers I publish get locked up in "digital libraries" and inaccessible to most of the world when a major point of academia is spreading ideas. In the past Springer has been particularly egregious in this regard. Maybe this will be a step in the right direction.
You can get a job gardening. I believe food and cleaning are outsourced at UCI, so gardening might be too. Still, given their wages, you're better off buying the article you need.
How about not submitting any papers to journals whose policies you disagree with?
Um, like who? The three biggest publishers in computer science (ACM, IEEE, Springer) all charge for online access(*). In addition depending on the topic (I do functional programming) there may only one or two conferences or journals for which a paper is appropriate.
(*) Though if on a university campus you may not notice if the university has already payed for you.
Springer allow you to put a copy of the paper on your own site, as long as you don't use their formatting. When you submit the paper to them, they will add their own documentclass to generate the PDF for publication, but you can still put the paper online using the standard article style. Not making access to your publications free is your choice, not theirs.
Most of the professional societies that publish journals use the profits from journal publishing to cross subsidize annual meetings. In many cases journal profits also help to pay for unnecessarily large staffs at the society headquarters.
In my experience, the societies that are most dependent on journal subscriptions to fund the operations of the society are the ones that are most opposed to open access, allowing the posting of online preprints, and so forth- they've got the most to lose.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith


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Fermi and Swift Observe Record-setting Gamma Ray Burst 107
symbolset writes "Phys.org shares a visual image of a 'shockingly bright' gamma ray burst observed April 27th, labelled GRB 130427A and subsequently observed by ground optical and radio telescopes. One gamma ray photon from the event measured 94 billion electron volts — three times the previous record. The burst lasted four hours and was observable for most of a day — another record. Typical duration of a gamma ray burst is from 10 milliseconds to a few minutes. Astronomers will now train optical telescopes on the spot searching for the supernova expected to have caused it — typically one is observed some few days after the burst. They expect to find one by the middle of May. The event occurred about 3.6 billion lightyears distant which is fairly close as gamma ray bursts go. Click on the GIF to view the actual burst."


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PITTSBURGH (MCT) — Three teenagers were injured in a shooting after they left their Pittsburgh high school Wednesday afternoon, and authorities say they are questioning six people in connection with the incident.
The shooting may be tied to a drug-related fight at the school last month, police spokeswoman Diane Richard told reporters. The fight had led to a lockdown of the 1,400-student campus, she said.
The shooting took place around 3 p.m. EST outside Brashear High School. Officials said as many as three gunmen were involved and that they fled through the nearby woods.
Hours later, television footage showed SWAT officers leading at least four handcuffed people away.
"We are questioning six people of interest right now," Acting Police Chief Regina McDonald told reporters at a televised news conference. She said police had yet to determine whether charges would be filed.
No other suspects are being sought in connection with the shooting, she said.
Officials said the shooting took place outside the school, which was immediately locked down. The students were leaving the building when the assailants confronted the group, police told reporters.
All three of the injured students were taken to hospitals, where officials described their conditions as good or fair.
One student was grazed in the head, another grazed in the neck and shoulder, and the third student was shot in the foot and arm, Richard told reporters.
None of the victims was cooperating with police, she said.
"We do have some leads on the actor or actors," Richard said.
Richard refused to say whether Wednesday's shooting was a retaliation attack. She said the previous fight "may have been drug-related."
She did not give additional details.
Cody Muller, 18, who said he was a senior at Brashear, told the Los Angeles Times in a telephone interview that he heard three or four gunshots as he was leaving school.
He said he spotted a gym teacher about to wrap her hoodie around a wounded 11th-grade student who was bleeding from the head on the road outside the school.
"As she was pressing it on his head, all I saw was blood running down the side of his head. It was all over the hoodie — it was on the ground," Muller said. "They were asking him questions. He wasn't aware that he was shot. He was like, did I fall? Why am I all bloody? The teachers told him, 'You just fell and got hurt,' so he wouldn't freak out."
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