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Lenovo ThinkPad T420 Review: Kickin' It Old School
Introduction, Design, User Interface
As you may already know from my ultrabook editorial, I'm not entirely sold on them. There are disadvantages to being thin.
And as if to remind me of it, a Lenovo ThinkPad T420 suddenly appeared at my doorstep. Okay, that's exaggerating a bit - I did know it was coming - but the timing of receiving an old-school laptop couldn't have been better. Not only because I wanted to take a closer look at a laptop purposely designed to not be thin, but also because we haven't had a ThinkPad T series for review in, well, forever.
This is a return to form for me. I owned several ThinkPads during my late teens, my college days, and the years just after college. My favorite was a T42 with a 14-inch display.
Of course, laptops have come a long way since then. The ThinkPad T420 we received for review is a good example of a mid-range model. Let's look at the hardware specifications.
According to Lenovo's website, this configuration is the second pre-configured option available. It can be had for about $1000 after an eCoupon provided by Lenovo. All of the features above are standard, even the 1600x900 display and Nvidia graphics. They are standard only for this model, however - some less powerful versions are available at lower prices.
The only option that came with our review unit was a 9-cell battery, which will set you back $50. We received both the 6-cell and the 9-cell batteries, so we will be testing the laptop's battery life with both.
Continue reading our review of the Lenovo ThinkPad T420 laptop!!
At first glance, the T420 doesn't seem much different from the T42 I used about six years ago. The classic ThinkPad black matte construction remains present, of course, and it does a good job of obscuring the more subtle details of the chassis.
Not that there's much to obscure. Besides the laptop's ports and a display lid's latch at the front of the laptop, there's nothing notable here. That's the point. A business laptop is supposed to be like a business suit - handsome, but unobtrusive.
I don't think everyone agrees with this philosophy, but this isn't meant to be a debate about it. This T420 remains true to the core ThinkPad ideal of obsessive functionality. You either get it, or you don't. If you do, then you'll love how this laptop is built.
Durability is evident throughout the chassis. Picking up the laptop from any edge results in no groans of protest, nor is any flex evident when pressing upon various surfaces of the laptop (the middle of the display lid is an exception - but almost all laptops show some minor flex there). The display is attached by two large metal hinges that make it possible to open 180 degrees. More importantly, these hinges do not allow for any display wobble when typing.
Connectivity includes VGA and DisplayPort, four USB 2.0 ports (one of which is an eSATA combo port), a card reader, a 34mm Express Card Slot and a combo headphone/microphone jack. This impressive array is improved if you don't have the discrete graphics option found on our laptop - the space freed by the missing GPU allows for the addition of two more USB 2.0 ports. USB 3.0 is notably lacking.
Most of the ports are located near the middle or rear of the chassis, and none are located on the front, which means that connecting devices will interfere less with your working space. The power cable connects at the only proper spot - the rear of the laptop - keeping the cord and adapter out of your way.
User Interface
Like the design of the chassis itself, the keyboard on the T420 is a bit of a dinosaur. It has refused to change over the years, ignoring the trends towards an island style keyboard layout. Even HP's enterprise laptops have switched over to the more modern design.
But modern doesn't always mean best. As I pointed out in our retrospective of the Acer Extensa 5420, an old-fashioned laptop keyboard like the one found here has strengths. The most noticeable is key feel. When you press a key, it responds with significant travel, and it doesn't bottom out harshly. You can easily tell when you've fully depressed a key without looking at your display or the keyboard, resulting in more confidence when typing at high speeds.
The layout is a bit fussy, as is often the case with ThinkPad laptops. The FN (or function) key is where the Ctrl key is supposed to be, and this will cause new users to stumble. Lenovo also uses double-height Esc and Delete keys which feel awkward at first, but are probably more effective once you've learned them.
Below the keyboard is a small touchpad. It's adequate. If you buy the T420 you'll need to love - or learn to love - the trackpointer in the middle of the keyboard. The ThinkPad implementation remains the best, and once you become accustomed to it, you may never want to go back to a touchpad.
I love thinkpads, not flashy, solid, reliable, with awesome keyboards. The 14 inch t42 with sxga+ (1440x1050) is my favorite so far.
Thanks for the review. I might try to convince my employer to pony up the dough to replace my t61.
I hope they continue the good work, and not go down the shiny plastic route(nauseated shudder...). But Im A little bummed about the 16x9. 16x10 is better for getting stuff done.
Thanks for the review. Im going to try to get my boss to upgrade me for free. :D
Just FYI, you can get this same thing on the Lenovo site for less right now... I just ordered a T420, but I went for the one without the graphics card.
I like the review!
For actually working, traveling, and working while traveling, this laptop is hard to beat.
Typing this comment on a T520, which I work 6 to 10 hours a day on and what a relief compared to working on chicklet keyboards (looking at you HP, and most of the others!)
I will add the docking station may be small, but is well angled, also feels rock solid, and very sturdy.
Suggestion : When reviewing business class laptops, please include a section for their docks, useful for those working with their laptops instead of just sipping low fat mokachinos or something...
It is apparent that you don't work with this computer on a daily basis as we do. Lenovo T420 is a notebook that I wouldn't give to my worst enemy.
We have done over forty RMA's for the defective NIC's on this computer in the last 6 months. This is just a plain stupid design defect. The rentention clip on the NIC is plastic and breaks in matter days. Most times it ships broken.
The placement of the USB cables on this model is terrible. One USB cable on the back, one on the left and one the right side. What a bone-head devised this setup.
The driver support is terrible. We have had countless tickets for the audio on this model. We call this the "Summer Sound" problem. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Lenovo support is a joke. Call about any non-warranty issues and the standard response is "that will be a $700 charge".
The worst part of the last Transformers Movie for me was all the Lenovo product placement. Seeing Lenovo's name in that so-so movie just ruined it for me.
Stay away from this noteboo. You have been warned.
You seem to have phobia based on seeing a movie.
NIC clips don't ship broken as you state. The T420 machine here is fine. If you claim it isn't you should supply evidence.
Where do you want the USB ports. On the lid?
Driver support is automatic from the pre-installed Lenovo app. There are no issues with audio drivers, even in Win 7 64 bit.
You need to define what non-warranty support issues cost $700. Perhaps you exaggerate.
The T420 is as solid as they come. Unlike your comment.
[quote]92.7 degrees Celsius at the rear left bottom of the laptop. The forward right bottom warmed no more than 82.1 degrees Celsius. These figures are low, and they translate to a laptop that's comfortable to use in most situations.[/quote]Did you mean F? 92 and 82C would burn.
Nice review, I strongly considered a Thinkpad T last time I was notebook shopping.
Yes. 92 degrees Celsius would be a bit too toasty. I'll correct that...
Typing this from a T420, and I love it.
My only complaints are that whatever is powering the audio seems to lose faith in itself when you plug in an extra monitor. It can be perfectly loud, and then you plug in a monitor and in a few minutes you'll notice the sound output has gotten significantly quieter.
The other is that the Intel graphics driver loves to crash when you have multiple monitors connected. I routinely hook up a monitor by DisplayPort, and another by VGA, but if I lock the computer and come back 5 minutes later, after it blanks out the screen, the Intel driver manages to crash and flashes the screens every few seconds. The only way I've found to get it to reset is to unplug the monitors wait for Windows to realize it only has the single laptop monitor, log back in, and then hook the monitors back up. Very annoying.
Since I work in IT... Flashing your BIOS would definenetly help...
nope, there's no BIOS update for me. Just the Windows 8 BIOS update. But I'm running Win7, so it's of no use. bummer.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one with the crashing Intel driver problem. I'll have to try the BIOS flash the other commenter suggested.
We just received T420 at work with i5 processor ofcourse which was a deal breaker cause currently i am using a Dell E6420 with a i7 processor. Dell is a little bulky and never disapoints me over performance. I was thinking about switching my Dell E6420 with this Lenovo T420 but never had the guts to trade in my i7 processor with LED display for this Lenovo i5 processor. Only if it had a i7 with Led display, till than I am not trading in my E6420 for T420 or anythig with i7 processor.
meant to say "not trading in my E6420 for T420 or anything with an i5 processor because that would be downgrading for me.
Been using Thinkpads for more than 10 years. They are unbeatable for business. I use them at home as well. Present crop is x220s and T210s, they play older games fine but really are business machines. Lenovo often does 30% discounts so sign up to their mailing lists. The Lenovo software to keep the machines up to date is flawless as well. We have 15 in our office ranging from 12-28 months old. None have needed repairs of any kind to date.
Bah- should have been T410s.
I had a T410 and the noise from the fan was very annoying. Supposedly the new sandybridge based T520 and T420 have the same problem. Google Fan noise for Thinkpad T520 & T420.
Lenovo have released a few BIOS updates that so far have been very unsuccessful in rectifying the problem.
I Bought this model recently. Absolutely love it. So far so good. No complains. i placed review on my blog as well.
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Echoes of Greenland
by Eve Lamborn
Editor's Note: The world's oceans are rising every year, and scientists are watching polar ice sheets carefully. Perhaps melting caused by global warming is contributing to the increase in water level. Come along with University of Kansas student Eve Lamborn now, as she recounts her Fantastic Journey to Greenland last summer with KU scientists who used radar to measure the ice.
It was early June and I was shivering.
Though I was wearing my winter coat, the brisk wind set my teeth chattering. The cold was forgotten as a sharp crack echoed across the boulder field where I was perched — and was followed by a deep boom.
The wind I felt was blowing off the Greenland ice sheet. I was 56 kilometers (35 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, watching chunks of ice fall off a glacier. I could see a crack that had been slowly widening for the last half an hour across the face of the glacier, a tantalizing hint that a giant piece of ice was going to give way. I just knew that it was going to fall any second. Of course, I had been thinking that for 30 minutes now.
As I sat there listening to the wind and counting the minutes, small pieces of ice dropped into the water. Then, without warning, a huge piece split off and thundered down. The chunk broke apart as it fell, and the impact sent a wave of water and projectiles hurtling into the air. The reverberations echoed across the rocks.
That piece, which could have smashed a large house, was a tiny fraction of the ice sheet, which is 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) thick in some places and covers 80 percent of Greenland.
Last summer, I was in Greenland (the world's largest island) on the ultimate field trip. Scientists at the University of Kansas, where I go to school, have developed two types of airborne radar to measure Greenland's polar ice sheet. Every summer, they travel into the field to operate their radar and gather data, and I got to tag along as the science reporter.
They are studying polar ice because they think that global warming is making the ice melt more than usual, causing the ocean level to rise. Their research is funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation.
KU scientists led by Prasad Gogineni have developed a radar that measures the thickness of the ice. KU scientist Pannirselvam Kanagaratnam has developed one that maps layers formed by snowfall, which helps determine if snow is accumulating on the ice. Using these two tools, we hope to make useful discoveries.
The plane we flew in, a P-3 Orion, is a former submarine hunter used by the United States Navy and later purchased by NASA. Instead of torpedoes, the bomb bay underneath the plane carries scientific equipment. Instead of flying over oceans searching for enemy subs, the plane flies over ice gathering scientific data.
The inside of the plane was filled with lasers, global positioning systems, radar equipment, and computers. This was no regular airplane!
I received a safety briefing before my first flight. Pilot Chris Pali showed me how to operate the emergency escape hatch, breathing systems, escape rope, and life rafts. He explained how to use the rescue flares and signal mirror. Should we be stranded on the ice, everyone on board had a winter survival kit, complete with parka and boots.
I got to sit in the cockpit for a premium view of the spectacular scenery. Sometimes the ice looked soft and hazy, like waves on the water, and other times it was jagged and sharp. Sometimes we were so far out on the ice that it stretched to the horizon like a huge, frozen ocean. Other times we skimmed over glaciers that were dropping icebergs into the sea. The ice was so white, it hurt my eyes.
During the first flight, I wasn't prepared for the bumpiness. I felt like I was on an amusement park ride as I tried to take pictures while the plane pitched and rocked.
The town we stayed in, Kangerlussuaq, is the home of Greenland's major international airport, and that's about it. There aren't many people in Greenland, but there are caribou, musk ox, and lots of mosquitoes. Instead of grass, tundra covers the ground, and we were so far north that it didn't even get dark at night.
The natives of Greenland are the Inuit people, and they speak Greenlandic. I learned that I already knew two words in their language: kayak and igloo.
The scientists took their data home to begin analyzing it, trying to understand how the ice is changing so that they can predict what it might do in the future. I was sad to leave the pristine wilderness and rugged hills behind when I returned home, but it was nice to watch a sunset again.
- What kind of a biome is Greenland?
[anno: Greenland is a tundra.]
- Compared to a tropical rain forest, are there many living things in Greenland's kind of biome?
[anno: Because Greenland is a tundra, it does not have as many plants and animals as a tropical rain forest.]
- Even though Greenland and a tropical rain forest are very different, why are they both important places for scientists to study? Write a few sentences to explain your answer.
[anno: Answers may vary. Possible answers could include that the tropical rain forest is important because it has many different species of plants and animals, and we might find new medicines amongst these plants and animals. It also produces a lot of oxygen for the planet. The tundra in Greenland is important because it contains a lot of fresh water that has been frozen for a long time in the ice sheets. If the climate is changing quickly on the planet because of human activities, we might see these effects on melting glaciers in Greenland.]


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The algorithm I am going to present is quite naive and would require a lot of refinement for commercial deployment. But my goal was RenderScript benchmarking so the algorithm's tolerance to all kinds of environmental disturbances was not relevant. We will do voice fingerprinting that takes a voice sample array, compares this sample to a reference sample and returns true or false depending on whether the voice sample is sufficiently similar to the reference sample. The algorithm should return true if the voice sample contains the same word from the same speaker, false otherwise.
I implemented Dynamic Time-Warping (DTW) for the purpose. DTW compares two data series assuming that the timing between the two series may be different. For example the same speaker may say the same word with slightly higher pitch. Therefore DTW calculates a so called warping path, a pair of corresponding timestamps from series1 and series2. E.g. a part of a warping path may be (1,1), (1,2),(2,3),(3,3) meaning that a[1] (data at index #1 from series1) corresponds to b[1], a[1] corresponds to b[2], a[2] corresponds to b[3] and a[3] corresponds to b[3]. Knowing the warping path and a cost function, the distance between the two series can be calculated. DTW finds the warping path with the lowest cumulative cost (i.e. the sum of cost between the corresponding data items along the warping path). A detailed introduction to the algorithm can be found here.
This example program implements classic DTW calculating every possible pairing between the data items of the two series. This requires an NxM matrix where N is the size of series1 and M is the size of series2. DTW(i,n) (element at position (i,n) in this matrix) is the accumulated cost value (sum of the cost function values) of the optimal warping path that leads through the position at i,n. (i.e. with assuming that index i in series1 and index n in series2 correspond to each other). The function calculating DTW(i,n) is thus:
where c(i,n) is the cost between a[i] and b[n]. The example program uses
Cells at the edge of the matrix are initialized like
Classic DTW can require a large amount of space. Take for example a short voice sample. With a sampling rate of 44100Hz/5=8820Hz, even a short word can generate easily a vector of 5000-8000 elements. If the reference vector is of a similar size, the DTW matrix will consist of 25 million to 64 million elements, all of them integer (meaning 4 bytes each). A data item of that size may easily exhaust the fixed maximum process space allocated to Android applications. Therefore we do a simple optimization. The output of our algorithm is the optimal distance which will be found at DTW(M,N), the right-bottom element in the matrix. In order to calculate elements in row i, we need only elements in row i-1 plus the already calculated elements in row i. We can drop row i-2 and calculate DTW(i,0) on the fly, when we get there. This will reduce the memory requirement to 2*M data items instead of N*M.
DTW, however naive its application in the example program, satisfies our RenderScript benchmark needs because
- The kernel function is non-linear, it is not so evident to break it down to sub-ranges (although FastDTW does precisely that).
- Calculation of matrix cells depend on an intermediate result of the calculation and not only on the input values.
The example program is available here. The application exercises the DTW algorithm on speech samples. Launch the application and record a reference sample. E.g. record a word like "four". Then record a same or different word from the same or different speaker and observe the distance that DTW calculates. If the environment is not too noisy, you will find that same word from the same speaker yields a (normalized) distance below 1000-1200 while other words from the same speaker or the same word from a different speaker yields higher distance. The calculation takes a bit of time because the DTW algorithm is executed twice, once in Java and once in RenderScript. The application displays the execution time for both implementations.
For now, you can observe that RenderScript execution times are 4-5 times smaller than Java execution times even (Update: visit this post for an updated number. After optimization, RenderScript is still 2.3 faster). though the implementation does not exploit any parallelization features. I will go deeper into this observation in the next post.


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October 23, 2010
Alexina Levesque and Pierre Valcourt - Another great mystery solved
7 comments:
- Kate said...
Dear Lucie,
I am a descendant of Noel Doiron, said to be the leader of the Acadians who were lost on the Duke William on 13 December 1758. I would like to copy your account from the Pennsylvania Gazette into a Word document to send to my family and to attach to Noel's entry on my family tree. Could I have permission to do this?
Thank you for considering this request.
Very best wishes,
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- Lucie LeBlanc Consentino said...
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Thank you.
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- Average Joe said...
Pierre VALCOURT and Clara MICHAUD are my great grandparents on my mother's side. Their child, Jacqueline, is my maternal grandmother. I am working on the family tree so I may be able to help (eventually) with more of the details. My great aunt might have the date of marriage.
Tim Theberge (Riopelle/Valcourt)
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- Average Joe said...
Pierre VALCOURT and Clara MICHAUD are my maternal great grandparents. I might be able to help with the date of marriage. Let me check my records.
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I would certainly appreciate any help you can give me for Pierre and Alexina's marriage. She was my mother's sister.
Thank you.
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I would greatly appreciate that. you can send to my address at luciemc at (@) gmail dot com
Thanks so much. I look forward to hearing from you.
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November 8, 2012 in China, Travel by pacejmiller
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The last time I was in Beijing was 1990, merely 8 months after Tiananmen Square. I don't remember much of that visit apart from my sister enjoying a Forbidden City bento box no other member of the family would touch out of hygiene concerns. This time, I'm going as a reporter to cover China's 18th National Congress.
For those of you who know jack, the national congress is a big deal in China — and these days, the entire world. It happens once every five years and every second congress they swap Communist Party leaders. This year, Hu Jintao is handing over his title of Communist Party General Secretary to his successor Xi Jinping. It's gonna be very RED.
The 18th National Congress runs from Nov. 8-14, and it's going to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I'll be in Beijing for a total of 11 days, including 2 days before and 2 days after for contingencies. Not like I really had a choice in saying no, but for me, the only drawback is that I'll be away from my wife and 10-month-old son. And it's a major drawback. In the 10 years I've been with my wife (including before we were married), I had only been away from her for more than a week on two occasions — Hong Kong for a month in 2003/4 and Singapore for a week in 2006 — both for work purposes. And needless to say, I'm dreading being away from my son. What if I miss his first unaided steps or more new words?
Anyway, this was the day I travelled to the Chinese capital, and it was quite a journey. I had been battling the effects of a nasty stomach virus in the days leading up to the departure and my head was still stinging by the time I got to the airport, which was jam packed with Chinese tourists. One particularly memorable image was three Chinese tourists on a travelator heading towards their (my) gate. For some inexplicable reason, they stood about 10m apart from each other, though it did not prevent them from having a full blown conversation that sounded much more like a screaming match.
The plane ride was also an experience. As I had not selected my seats until check-in, I ended up smack bang in the Chinese tourist section right at the back. It was unlike anything I had ever seen or heard before. It sounded like a meat market and people were literally climbing over each other and testing the limits of the overhead cabinets by cramming in things that probably should have been checked-in. The middle-aged woman who sat next to me was quiet enough, but she kept encroaching onto my space while attempting to find a comfortable position to sleep in. In the end I basically just let her lie against me.
Luckily the Xanax I took for my severe flight anxiety mellowed out any intentions I had of biting her in the face.
I landed at Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport (because it's the capital, duh) at around 7pm. It's supposed to be the biggest airport terminal in the world, bigger than all 5 Heathrow terminals combined. I must admit, I had some preconceived notions of Beijing despite everything I had heard about it, and my first impression of the airport was that it looked just like every other major airport in the world.
It wasn't until I was waiting in line for my taxi to the hotel that I experienced my first real taste — of thick clouds of cigarette smoke in an area with 47 "No Smoking" signs (I counted)…and phlegm hocking on surround sound. Not to mention the little bald man who thought no one would notice if he just squeezed in front of everyone.
The hotel booked for me (by a colleague from a sister paper) is situated in the Dongcheng district and about a 20-minute walk from the Great Hall of the People where many of the congress sessions will take place. It's a 3-star hotel. Not that I look down on 3-stars because most 3-stars are perfectly fine, but my fear was that it would be a "China 3-star", if you know what I mean. I had been too pampered on former business trips working for a rich law firm where everything was business class, 5-star hotels and gourmet meals, so the type of travel "perks" you get from a poor news agency (well, maybe not poor, but definitely cheap) came as a rude awakening.
The ruder awakening, however, was finding out upon arrival that my hotel room had been cancelled. As it turned out, my colleague typed the wrong mobile number in the booking form and when the hotel called to confirm the booking the woman on the other end said she had never heard of me (because she hadn't!).
A furious search for other hotels in the same chain ensued, and a moment later I was told that I had 30 minutes to get to this other hotel or that booking would be cancelled too. I was also told — while carrying a big suitcase and a massive backpack and all — that it would be difficult hailing a cab at that time of the night and I was better off catching a bus and walking.
I passed on that brilliant idea and found a cab. I grinned whenever the cab passed another bus with passengers packed like sardines.
At around 9pm, I finally checked into the hotel. To be fair, the hotel room is no worse than any of the 3-stars I stayed in during my Eurotrips. A flatscreen TV, a table, a big bed and free internet access. Notwithstanding that it was unnaturally dark in the room even with all the lights on, I though the room was more than good enough for me.
And so that ends the first day of my Beijing trip. I look forward to the rest of it with a mix of fear and excitement. If I don't post on this blog again, I think it is safe to assume that I ended up like Richard Gere in Red Corner.


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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Here Comes the Sun
Ah, Spring! Here comes the sun, along with:
COMMUNITY on Thursday
SPRING BREAK on Friday
TEMPS IN THE 80s this week.
Not only that, but I actually spent part of last weekend MAKING A CARD.
And I say
It's all right.
I have not made a real honest-to-goodness card for about 2 months (I had some occasions where a card was required, but I just sort of limped along and/or CASEd myself). And then I was tasked with making a baby card for a coworker whose nursery theme is owls.
I love you this much" card (I actually had to use my own tutorial to refresh my memory on it, so I'm glad I made it, if only for myself to use).
Thanks to everyone that dropped in to say 'ello during my blogging break (I wish I had a better excuse other than lack of mojo)--I hope to get back to commenting during Spring Break, and maybe even make another card or two!
27 comments:
- Lindsey said...
Really? You're geeky enough to still pay attention to Ken Jennings, too? :D
On to the card, which shows no cobwebs, or rust, or whatever might be expected following a two-month break. In fact -- total awesome cuteness! Especially the way they all hold hands, er, wings.
- March 13, 2012 at 7:59 PM
- Emily Leiphart said...
How cute!!! I do love their gingham bellies and I think it's hilarious that you had to use your own tutorial. :P Sorry you lost your mojo for so dang long, Meg, but I'm glad you're back with a bang... er, pull-out! LOL
- March 13, 2012 at 8:05 PM
- onecraftymama said...
Hooray for spring break :) We're on March Break, always called such because dang it, spring is NOT here yet...freezing rain & ice pellets happening here right now. Ugh!
Such a super cute card - and it sucks so bad that your mojo was on vacation. Can't wait to hear what you've been reading!
- March 14, 2012 at 4:22 AM
- Smilie girl said...
Such a clever and cute baby card.
It was so lovely to have a post from you pop up in my reader.
Hope you start to thaw out soon and enjoy the sun.
- March 14, 2012 at 6:29 PM
- Jen W. said...
What an awesome card to return with! Must check out that tutorial again and I love the gingham bellies!
- March 15, 2012 at 12:16 PM
- Maria@Crafty Cre8tions said...
Yahhhh!!!!!!!! So happy to see a blog post from you!!!!!!! Lucky US in blogland!!!
And you come back with a doozy! Isn't this the most adorable card?? You rock girl!!!
I've missed you :)
- March 15, 2012 at 3:28 PM
- Lisa Arana said...
Genius! So happy to see you in blogland again Meg. You are such a crafty girl, love the adorable owl card!
- March 15, 2012 at 5:57 PM
- Lisa Arana said...
Oh, I forgot to say I am super excited Community is coming back too!
- March 15, 2012 at 5:58 PM
- Angela said...
First, can I just say that I KNOW we had tornadoes here on Thursday, yet I still found it inexcusable that news coverage went on RIGHT THROUGH COMMUNITY!!!
Gonna have to catch up on Hulu, I guess.
ANYway, that card? So adorable!! The gingham-y owls, the BABY gingham-y owl, the interactive element...even the Ken Jennings reference...good to have you back, Meg!
- March 20, 2012 at 6:20 AM
- Emily (stampingout on SCS) said...
Hi Meg! Welcome back. I have missed your fabulous designs. I love how your card pulls out to reveal the baby owl. You are so darn clever.
Sometimes taking a break is a good thing (not for us, though)!
- March 20, 2012 at 12:09 PM
- Jocelyn Olson said...
Ack! That is the cutest and cleverest baby card! I love how you made the fold to cover the baby. Awesome card, Meg! Don't worry about taking a blogging break! I thought of you today when I saw the (former) baby Corgi...he's gotten much bigger, but he still has that puppy-like spring in his step. So cute!
- April 7, 2012 at 10:41 PM
- jrksiddha said...
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well g7capsules ):
- April 26, 2012 at 7:32 AM
- Cath said...
Oh I love it! Baby makes 3! :)
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- Anni said...
This is so super cute!
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- Quip1320 said...
This is totally adorable!
- May 18, 2012 at 6:14 AM
- Lyndal said...
VERY gorgeous interactive card Meg :) :) :)
- May 18, 2012 at 6:42 AM
- Jaclyn Miller said...
How stinkin' clever! Love it.
- May 18, 2012 at 7:06 AM
- Deirdre said...
Fantastic interactive card - so fun.
Congrats on the Moxie Fab Shout Out.
- May 18, 2012 at 7:08 AM
- Jingle said...
Awww! That is just too cute!
- May 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM
- donna mikasa said...
super cute idea!
- May 18, 2012 at 2:03 PM
- Chunyuan said...
it is the cutest pull out card.
- May 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM
- Gabby said...
Found your link on the Moxie fab blog. This is a DARLING pull out card! I absolutely LOVE it! :)
- May 19, 2012 at 3:15 AM
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So adorable! Congrats on getting the mention in Out & About in the Moxie Fab World
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Justin Timberlake took New Orleans by storm last night, and rocked the house at a pre-Super Bowl party. He performed old and new songs alike, and fans who may have questioned if he could really make a strong comeback after his nearly five-year absence on stage, got some reassurance big time.
Rave reviews are coming in from all fronts. As MTV reported: "Justin fans have nothing to worry about, as his music, dancing and showmanship are at the same level or higher than they've ever been."
The highlight was when surprise guest Jay-Z joined JT for his new song "Suit and Tie," and the crowd at Mark Cuban's DirecTV Super Bowl party went wild. The rapper definitely kicked things up a notch. Check it out after the jump.
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But Justin also stood strong on his own. He debuted new songs, "Little Pusher Love Girl" and "That Girl," both of which I personally like better than "Suit and Tie." See what you think:
It's good to see him back up on the stage, no? It seems his absence may have just made him grow stronger. He ended the night with his hit "SexyBack," and it's clear that he and his sexiness are back indeed. I can't wait to see if he tops this at the Grammys next week.
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Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 09-18916. Albert A. Breud, II, Esq., Referee Schiller & Knapp, LLP 950 New Loudon Road Latham, NY 12110 Attorneys for Plaintiff 822806 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 05/18/2011 4x 5/18/11 #229-RECORD PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that the PLANNING BOARD of the Village of Amityville will hold a Public Hearing at the Amityville Village Court Room, 21 Ireland Place, Amityville, N.Y. at 7:00 P.M., Wednesday, May 4, 2011 to consider the following applications: APPLICATION OF PAUL M. IVERSON OF M & G SERVICES AS AGENT FOR SEABOARD REALTY INC., LESSEE WALGREENS for a variation to the sign code pursuant to the erection of an L.E.D. readerboard pursuant to Sec. 144-17. Premises located on the east side of Broadway approximately 100' N/o Railroad Ave. in a Business 1 Zone k/a 270 Broadway aka SCtm#101- 4-1-119.1. By Order of the Planning Board, Village of Amityville Diane Sheridan, Administrator/ Clerk Dated: 4/21/2011 2X 5/4/11 #234-RECORD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BY THE TOWN OF BABYLON ACCESSORY APARTMENT REVIEW BOARD Pursuant to provisions of Local Law # 9 of the Babylon Town Code, notice is hereby given that the Town of Babylon Accessory Apartment Review Board will hold a Public Hearing in the Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, New York on Tuesday evening, May 10, 2011. Public Hearings begin at 7:00 P.M. RENEWAL BY AFFIDAVIT 1. Raymond Sr. & Dolores Kilcarr and Raymond Jr. Lf Est. 34 Florida Street, Deer Park, NY SCTM#0100-26-2-39 2. Frank J. Micciche Lf Est. c/o Charles & Janice Micciche 138 Burlington Avenue, Deer Park, NY SCTM#0100-27-1-99 3. William & Anne Mc- Shane 268 W. 20th Street, Deer Park, NY SCTM#0100-84-2-116 4. Dominic Alfano 254 W. 19th Street, Deer Park, NY SCTM#0100-84-3-21 5. Vincent & Edelmira Ortiz 338 W. 5th Street, Deer Park, NY SCTM#0100-86-2-23 6. Lena Barraco Irrevoc Trust 172 W. 4th Street, Deer Park, NY SCTM#0100-88-1-18 7. Francesca Papa 121 Oakland Avenue, Deer Park, NY SCTM#0100-88-3-46 8. Hamid & Naila Rafi 87 Headline Road, Deer Park, NY SCTM#0100-92-1-17 9. Marshall & Gladys Rhein 95 Headline Road, Deer Park, NY SCTM#0100-92-1-19 10. Grace Savino 119 Westchester Avenue, N. Babylon, NY SCTM#0100-104-3-6 11. James Shinnick 29 Durhamoc Lane, N. Babylon, NY SCTM#0100-114-2-39 12. John & Carol Tavitian 17 Colfax Lane, N. Babylon, NY SCTM#0100-114-2-54 13. Guy Morinville 103 Seley Drive, N. Babylon, NY SCTM#0100-119-2-19 14. Kim Quy Nguyen & Taun Chau 10 June Street, Lindenhurst, NY SCTM#0100-127-2-72 15. Marek Ozarowski & Dorota Witkowski 50 Winchester Drive, Lindenhurst, NY SCTM#0100-128-4-29 16. Jose & Amarilis & Juan & Angela Espinal 55 15th Street, W. Babylon, NY SCTM#0100-137-1-19 17. Charles Privitera a/k/a Cirino Privitera 1564 5th Street, W. Babylon, NY SCTM#0100-138-1-100 18. Helen Carreras 84 Forest Avenue, W. Babylon, NY SCTM#0100-139-3-71 19. Lucy & Rene Pabon Lf Est. 1286 America Avenue, N. Babylon, NY SCTM#0100-141-5-15.001 20. Francesca Sambo 340 Sheffield Avenue, N. Babylon, NY SCTM#0100-145-2-52 21. Alexander & Maria Lopez 3 Melody Lane, Amityville, NY SCTM#0100-173-2-20 22. Patrick Kearns 265 Maple Court, Copiague, NY SCTM#0100-194-2-25 23. Robert & Madeline Figueroa 843 Brook Street, W. Babylon, NY SCTM#0100-209-1-45 24. Mark & Elizabeth Lavenziano 11 Woodridge Court, W. Babylon, NY SCTM#0100-217-1-11 25. Glenn J. Cabral Sr. 120 Verona Parkway, Lindenhurst, NY SCTM#0100-226-4-73 Printing Instructions: RENEWALS BY AFFIDAVIT APPLICANTS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO APPEAR. ALL CASES WILL BE HEARD IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE ADVERTISED. All interested persons should appear at the above time and place by order of Michael Johnson, Chairman, Accessory Apartment Review Board, Town of Babylon, North Lindenhurst, Suffolk County, New York. Babylon Beacon: Thursday, May 5, 2011 Amityville Record: Wednesday, May 4, 2011 1x 5/4/11 #237-RECORD "Notice of Formation of MD Organix,LLC Filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on Jan. 31, 2011. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY is designated as agent Of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process To: 7200 New Horizons Blvd, N. Amityville, NY 11701. Purpose: any lawful activity." 6X 6/8/11 #239-RECORD NOTICE TO BIDDERS The TOWN OF BABYLON Commissioner of General Services will receive sealed proposals for BID #11G36 HERBICIDES – PRAMITOL 25E, PRODEUCE, BRUSHMASTER OR EQUALS until 10:00 a.m. on THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2011 at the Town Hall, 200 E. Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, New York, 11757, at which time they will be publicly opened and read in the Division of Purchasing office. No bids will be accepted after 10:00 A.M. on the date of bid opening. NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE GRANTED. Do not remove any pages; all proposals are to be submitted intact. The contract documents may be obtained at the Town Hall Purchasing Department between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 4:30 P.M. daily except Saturday, Sundays and Holidays on and after, THURSDAY, MAY 05, 2011. In addition, bid packages may be obtained at the Town of Babylon website, under eBids. For further information call (631) 957-3025. The Town reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The Town encourages minority and women owned businesses to participate. Pat Kaphan Commissioner of General Services Date: 5/05/11 1x 5/4/11 #240-RECORD Notice of Formation of Opus 118, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with NY Secy. of State (SSNY) on 4/21/2011. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Paul Schenly, P.O. Box 639, Hudson, OH 44236 which is also the name and address of the registered agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity. 6x 6/8/11 #241-RECORD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF BABYLON - ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS Pursuant to Chapter 213, Article II of the Building Zone Ordinance of the Town of Babylon, notice is hereby given that the Town of Babylon Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a Public Hearing at Babylon Town Hall, 200 East Sunrise Highway, North Lindenhurst, New York on Thursday, May 19, 2011 to consider the following applications at the time listed or as soon thereafter as may be heard. 6:00 p.m. 1. Application #11-089 of Francis Ricci, 343 West Drive, Copiague, NY. Permission to diminish rear yard setback from 30' to 20'. All in connection with an existing 2nd story rear deck. Property located on the east side of West Drive, 1,027.17' south of North Drive, Copiague, NY. SCTM#0100-191-1-72 Zoning District: Residence C Zone 6:00 p.m. 2. Application #11-092 of Dingle Bay Enterprises, 325 E. Sunrise Highway, Suite C, Lindenhurst, NY. Permission to decrease lot area from 10,000 sq. ft. to 9,147.5 sq. ft. All in connection with the erection of a one (1) family dwelling with an internal garage and front porch. Property located on the north side of Spring Place, 212' east of Oregon Road, W. Babylon, NY. SCTM#0100-104-2-53 Zoning District: Residence B Zone Premises: 23 Spring Place, West Babylon 6:00 p.m. 3. Application #11-094 of Teuta Pasholli, 17 Barbara Lane, Farmingdale, NY. Permission to diminish north side yard from 10' to 6'; diminish total side yard from 25' to 16' with 2' roof overhand encroachment. To diminish distance to south lot line from 6' to 0.06' for accessory building (shed); to diminish distance to rear lot line from 2' to 1.7' for accessory structure (metal shed). All in connection with an existprises), ing side awning, accessory building (wood shed) and accessory structure (metal shed). Property located on the west side of Barbara Lane, 311.89' south of Conklin Street, Farmingdale, NY. SCTM#0100-46-2-21.001 Zoning District: Residence C Zone 6:15 p.m. 4. Application #11-096 of Sunrise Home Sales, Inc./ L.A.K. Enterprises Corp., 116 W. Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst, NY. Permission to diminish width at front street line from 80' to 50'; to diminish total lot area from 10,000 sq. ft to 7,698.5 sq. ft. All in connection with an existing one (1) family dwelling. Property located on the south side of Steele Place, 535.43' west of Albany Avenue, Amityville, NY. SCTM#0100-169-2-19 Zoning District: Residence B Zone Premises: 169 Steele Place, Amityville 6:15 p.m. 5. Application #11-093 of Nassau Fire Apparatus (tenant) / Venture Holding & Management Corp. (prop. owner), 120 Otis Street, W. Babylon. Renewal of a special exception permit to conduct a public garage as an auto body repair shop. All in connection with an existing building. Property located on the southwest corner of Patton Avenue & Otis Street, W. Babylon. SCTM#0100-77-1-32 Zoning District: Industry Gb Zone 6:15 p.m. 6. Application #11-088 of Sunrise Plaza Associates, L.P., 45 N. Station Plaza, Great Neck, NY. Renewal of permission to increase sign area from 75 sq. ft. (maximum allowed) to 113 sq. ft. All in connection a previously approved nonconforming multi-tenant directory ground sign (previously approved for one (1) year). Property located on the northeast corner of Sunrise Highway & N. Clinton Avenue, Lindenhurst, NY. SCTM#0100-207-3-19.005 Zoning District: Business Eb Zone Premises: 52-66 Sunrise Highway, Lindenhurst 6:30 p.m. 7. Application #11-091 of Thomas Joyce/1985 Deer Park Avenue Realty LLC dba Deer Hills Service LLC, 1985 Deer Park Avenue, Deer Park, NY. Renewal of permission for outdoor storage of two (2) cages of propane tanks (not permitted). All in connection with an existing gas station (previously approved for one (1) year). Property located on the northwest corner of Deer Park Avenue & Nicolls Road, Deer Park, NY. SCTM#0100-21-4-94 Zoning District: Business E Zone 6:30 p.m. 8. Application #11-095 of Deer Park Enterprises, LLC dba BJ Wholesale Club, 300 Robbins Lane, Syosset, NY. Requesting a special exception permit to conduct a public garage as a tire center. All in connection with the erection of a retail store with tire center. Property located on the east side of Commack Road, 1,432' north of Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, NY. SCTM#0100-68-1-46.020 Zoning District: Industry Ga Zone Premises: 455 Commack Road, Deer Park 6:30 p.m. 9. Application #11-090 of Shahi Mulk (S & U Enterrecord
257 Bayshore Road, Deer Park, NY. Permission to increase total building area from 1,500 sq. ft. maximum allowed to 1,700 sq. ft. (over by 200 sq. ft.) for convenience store. All in connection with an existing gas station. Property located on the northeast corner of Bay shore Road & Skidmore Road, Deer Park. SCTM#0100-118-2-19 Zoning District: Business Eb Zone ALL PERSONS OR THEIR DULY APPOINTED REPRESENTATIVE MUST APPEAR IN PERSON AT THE ABOVE HEARING. ALL CASES WILL BE HEARD IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE ADVERTISED, TO BE FOLLOWED BY ADJOURNED CASES. BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS MICHAEL KANE, CHAIRMAN Dated: Babylon Town Hall Lindenhurst, New York April 26, 2011 1x 5/4/11 #238-RECORD


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Vox Mobile Collaborates with NQ Mobile(TM) to Provide Enterprise Mobile Security
Nov 13, 2012, 08:00 ET
BEIJING and DALLAS, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NQ Mobile (NYSE NQ), a leading global provider of mobile Internet services, and Vox Mobile, a leading provider of managed mobility solutions for enterprise, today announced their collaboration to integrate and offer enterprise endpoint mobile security solutions to Vox Mobile customers globally.
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NQ Mobile's security features provide enterprise customers and their employees with the privacy and security features they need to protect their businesses by securing sensitive device data from mobile threats and unsecure mobile environments.
NQ Mobile's enterprise mobile security solution takes advantage of its proprietary, cloud-based security solution, which has been recognized by third-party testing facilities around the world as the most effective solution for detecting and combating mobile threats. With approximately 242 million user accounts in over 150 countries, NQ Mobile is the only mobile developer to approach security and privacy holistically; developing consumer and enterprise solutions that deliver complete protection for your devices, your personal information and your loved ones.
"As the largest global provider of mobile security solutions, NQ Mobile is pleased to announce our collaboration with Vox Mobile," said Omar Khan, Co-Chief Executive for NQ Mobile. "BYOD enterprise users are demanding endpoint mobile security and privacy solutions and our partnership with Vox Mobile enables us to jointly address this market need."
"As an effect of BYOD and workforce deployment programs, our enterprise clients believe that it is no longer a question of if they will add Android solutions to their mobile environments but a question of when. Given NQ's world-class security capabilities, 2013 should be the year that Android gains acceptance in the enterprise," offered Kris Snyder, Chief Executive Officer for Vox Mobile.
Capabilities of NQ Mobile's enterprise security solution:
- Award-Winning Mobile Security: Fights malware, spyware, phishing, viruses, hacking, and more.
- Privacy Protection: Protects the data stored on your phone, ensuring that your social networking, email, and financial accounts can't be hacked and your personal calls can't be recorded. Password-protects your confidential messages and call logs. Hides your private contacts and messages folder.
- Anti-Theft/Anti-Loss: Remotely locates, locks, or deletes information from a lost or stolen mobile device, and sounds an alarm to help you find it.
- Backup and Restore: Safely and seamlessly stores your contacts so you can easily access them from any Web browser.
- System Optimization: Provides control over running apps and power consumption.
- Traffic Monitoring: Provides real-time updates on data usage and caps on maximum data usage.
About Vox Mobile
Since 2004, enterprises in North America and around the globe have come to rely every day on Vox Mobile solutions to ensure their mobile connected workforces are productive, their mobile data is secure and their business models are benefiting from business anywhere capabilities. Vox Mobile is a Gartner-recognized leader in Managed Mobility Services (MMS) providing world-class support and services to over 600 organizations throughout the US and Canada. Vox Mobile's six category-leading products include Advise (strategic consulting), Deploy (device configuration and deployment), Assist (24/7 Help Desk), Command (platform monitoring and management), Control (expense and program management), and Source (customized procurement portals and services). As a founding member of the Global Enterprise Mobility Alliance (GEMA), Vox Mobile provides global, follow-the-sun, in-country support in 41 languages. Vox Mobile operates 24/7 support centers in Cleveland, Ohio and Waterloo, Ontario and sales and consulting offices throughout North America. For more information visit www.voxmobile.com.
About NQ Mobile
NQ Mobile Inc. (NYSE: NQ) is a leading global provider of trusted mobile Internet services built on its world-class acquisition, engagement and monetization platform. The company was one of the first to recognize the growing security threats targeting smartphone users and now has about 242 million registered and 85 million active user accounts globally. NQ Mobile's cloud-based trust platform has been recognized by third-party testing facilities around the world as the most effective solution for detecting and combating mobile threats. NQ Mobile is recognized as a global pioneer in mobile innovation and technology leadership. NQ Mobile maintains dual headquarters in Dallas, TX, USA and Beijing, China. For more information on NQ Mobile, please visit http://www.nq.com
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Then I found out about EZproxy, which allows the students to log into all the databases with their regular school user name and password! Voila, I thought, problem solved! no more emails!
It turns out I created a problem that might just be a stumbling block in getting the students to use the databases.
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When bookmarking the database articles (or saving/sharing the URL in diigo, google docs, Word, NoodleTools, etc), if you save the permalink, durable link, bookmark, or whatever the database calls the link to go back to for the saved article, the bookmarked web address doesn't have the right prefix to the url that would give the students access from home. So, they have to put a prefix on the URL to get back to the article. I am not sure how many of my students are running into this problem, but I see it could happen more and more with all the collaborative GoogleDoc work going on at my school.
Now, all my LibGuides have this information:
Often you will want to save a link to an article in GoogleDocs or bookmark an article to Diigo, Evernote, or another information organizer.You access our databases through EZproxy, which allows you to use your Brentwood School login. In order to save URLs or bookmarks for future use, please follow these instructions:
1. In the database look for a link called Bookmark or Permalink. If the database offers these types of permanent links, those are best to use. Otherwise copy and paste the URL (Gale and ProQuest have these special links to their pages. ABC Clio and SIRS do not).
2. When accessing your saved links from home, put the following in front of your link: http://library.bwscampus.com:2048/login?url=So, a link to an Encyclopedia Britannica article would look like this:http://library.bwscampus.com:2048/login?url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/364937/mariachi
3. If you are having trouble, try opening the database first, and then click on your saved link.
4. If you are still having trouble, contact Ms. Abarbanel for help.
Did I just create something even more complicated than teaching how to access the database passwords? Which is more complicated for 7-12 grades? And teaching the faculty how to link to an article is a whole other can of worms. I certainly can't teach it both ways. I have to pick a way and publicize it. Which is better? Do you use EZproxy? How do you deal with it? Am I missing something?


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The op-ed by Drs. Joshua M. Sharfstein and Laura Herrera and Charles Milligan ("Caring about costs, too," Sept. 27) offers a compelling set of recommendations to improve the quality of health care while reducing costs. Unfortunately, they neglected to describe the best single evidence-based practice — eliminating private health insurance.
Private health insurance adds only costs, but no value, to the delivery of health services. A Cambridge Medical Care Foundation study found that 31 percent of health care spending in the U.S. — equal to more than $600 billion annually — pays for administration, marketing, and the profits of private insurance. In 2007, the Congressional Research Service reported that the U.S. spends seven times as much per person on administrative and insurance costs as do OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, and with far worse health outcomes here.
Vermont is implementing a health care system that will save money while covering everyone in the state with the same high quality health insurance. As the Vermont Strategic Plan notes, "Interacting with insurers costs an estimated $83,000 per year per physician in the U.S. — four times as much as in Canada" — without four times better health care. By the way, the Vermont model includes global budgeting for all hospitals — another important evidence-based practice mentioned by Dr. Sharfstein and his colleagues.
We will only solve our health care cost problem by directing our health care dollars toward actual health care. Let's look to the north for a truly effective solution.
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* This report is arranged in a chronological order.
Panel: New IP Developments
1. Copyright's view on libraries in a connected world
Vicky Breemen does have an eye for details. She delivered a presentation on a common, yet little-reserched (in this Kat's view...) subject: libraries. She looked into the concept of "library" and addressed the following legal and regulatory issues: does the present design of the so-called "library privilege" in copyright law sufficiently cater for the current realities of a connected world? If not, how should it be changed? To answer these questions, she scrutinized the issues through a copyright lens, mostly standing on a European point of view but including comparisons where relevant. She examined copyright's views on libraries from the perspective of an institutional organization, its purpose and functions, in the context of several key EU legal documents (e.g. Rental and Lending Rights Directive, CJEU decision in VOB/Stichting Leenrecht, Copyright Directive, art. 5(3)(n)).
In conclusion, the study was based on a set of central assumptions, which informed the story explicitly or implicitly. First, libraries and copyright law have partly shared functions and goals regarding the organization and dissemination of information, furthering free speech and culture. Secondly, human rights colour the functioning and role of copyright law and libraries. Thirdly, both copyright law and libraries had responded to technological developments, which in turn shaped their relationship. Fourthly, taking the foregoing assumptions together, the speaker contended that the 'library privilege' in copyright law should balance all interests involved, in that sense containing a 'minimum safeguard' for all sides. Fifthly, as the privilege needs to be delineated to some extent, she concluded that a combined institutional and functional approach is inevitable in the context of the library privilege's contours.
2. Portability as a specific category of the conformity with contract
In 2015 the European Commission presented the first part of the Digital Single Market package which contained i.a. "Digital Goods Directive Proposal". Although it will not have direct impact on copyright laws and other IP laws, it will strongly influence the contractual relations between the "digital goods supplier", and the "digital goods consumer (user)".
Pavel Koukal addressed a number of questions:
1) To what extent can EU law regulate intangible assets in the same way as tangible goods (especially when assessing the conformity of the digital content with contract)?
2) When focusing on the use of the software, in which aspects will the Digital Goods Directive affect the wording of the EULA in EU countries?
3) What will be the relations between the Portability Regulation and national laws of EU Member states after the transposition of the Digital Goods Directive, especially when we concentrate on duties of the digital goods supplier concerning the accessibility and functionality of the digital content?
The speaker concluded that it makes little sense to regulate portability issues at the level of an EU regulation and at the same time adopting a directive which governs the same issues (obligations arising from the "conformity of the digital content with the contract" - Art. 6 Digital Goods Directive). If the EU legislation is to be coherent, it would be more sensible that all rules relating to the "functionality, interoperability and other performance features such as accessibility, continuity and security" [Art. 6 para. 1 (a) Digital Goods Directive Proposal] were contained in the same piece of legislation.
Panel: Collective Management of Copyright
1. The calculation of private copying levies – How much harm do rightholders suffer from private copying?
Mina Kianfar explored the private levy system that compensates authors for private reproductions of their works. She compared the criteria collective management organizations (CMOs) use for the setting of tariffs, also in light of the Collective Management Directive, with the requirements formulated by CJEU case law following Padawan case. She addressed the question of "whether tariffs provide for a fair compensation that corresponds with the amount of harm rightholders suffer due to private copying".
Specifically, in terms of the harm which caused by the making of private copies, Mina summed up five "No", namely: No harm in the case of licensed online services (since the rightholders have already received a license fee); No harm when technical protection measures are used; No harm in the case of unlawful copies (e.g. illegal file sharing; illegal streaming platforms); No harm in the case of minimal prejudice; No harm when devices/media are sold for professional use.
While discussing the calculation of harm, Mina covered three aspects, namely: the requirements under Collective Management/Enforcement/Copyright Directive, Guidance from CJEU/AG, and Method of tariff setting by CMOs.
She also indicated that some basics were not clear yet, which led to the consequence that some substantial discussions could not go anywhere. For instance, the confusions caused by the Court's mixing-up of the notion "the harm caused by the introduction of the exceptions" and "the harm caused by the making of private copies".
2. New EU developments in collective management of copyright
Sylvie Nerisson talked over new EU developments in collective management of copyright, which plays a role at the crossroad of copyright reforms (multiterritorial licenses, the position of publishers, opt-out schemes…). EU intervenes in this field today more than ever: Directive 2014/26/EU came into force on 10 April 2016; the CJEU upset both some old deal (cf. C-572/13, HP v Reprobel) and bold lawmakers (cf. C-301/15, Soulier/Doke); and the EU Commission rushed into the house of cards with its copyright package of 14 September 2016.
The draft directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market introduces for example the possibility to extend collective licences regarding out-of-commerce works (art. 7), while the Court of justice just questioned the legitimacy of ECL schemes in the Soulier/Doke decision. Similarly, art. 14 of the draft directive on Copyright in the digital single market apparently intends to anchor the symbiosis of authors and publishers after the CJEU broke it in the HP v Reprobel case.
Collective management of copyright in Europe today therefore raises many topical questions that interest both national and European judges, stakeholders and lawmakers.
3. Reflections on the scope of mandate of European CMOs
Weeks after the TILTing Conference, in this Kat's head, Lucie Guibault's passionate remarks regarding mandates remain quite fresh: "Who grant permission to the SOFIA to allow it to grant licenses? Where does the SOFIA get her mandate? There is no mandate!"
In a nutshell, Lucie talked over the brief reflections on the recent developments in the area of collective management of copyright. In particular, she critically explored the background and consequences of the Soulier case and examined the ramifications of the Reprobel case for the newly proposed exceptions and limitations, such as for visually impaired persons and data-mining.
She concluded that CMOs still play a major role in providing income to authors. In particular, they help negotiate with the very powerful parties. Yet, in some cases, the right question never gets asked: SOFIA's mandate. Meanwhile, in some cases, the question gets answered, namely in the Reprobel case, yet the solution is circular. And In the end, the position of the most vulnerable party, namely the author, stays the same.
Panel: Copyright Law-making in the EU
Ana Ramalho, the author of the book The Competence of the European Union in Copyright Law-making, chaired the panel. During the introduction, she provided some background on the topic of the panel, focussing inter alia competence issues and constitutional guidelines in relation to copyright law-making.
1. Fundamental rights and European Intermediary liability in copyright
Christina Angelopoulos discussed the "Normative guidance of human rights in copyright law – the example of intermediary liability".
Starting from a review of the current EU intermediary liability framework, she brought in the key issue: "intermediary liability as aconflict between fundamental rights". As she discussed, the protection of IP is indeed enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, yet as the CJEU has stated "nothing whatsoever in the wording of it or its case-law has suggested that the right is inviolable and must for that reason be absolutely protected".
Meanwhile, as stressed in the Promusicae (Case C-275/06), when transposing EU directives, the Member States must take care to rely on an interpretation of the directives which allows a "fair balance" to be struck between the various fundamental rights, for instance the freedom to conduct a business, protecting personal data and the freedom of expression, which are protected by the EU legal order.
As regards seeking a "fair balance", Christina provided insights regarding the balancing criteria, case law indications, and the approaches that are worth taking in response to the fundamental rights in question. She suggested that two roads lie now ahead: one is to relyon existing EU law, as the Opinion of AG Szpunar suggested in the case of Stichting Brein v Ziggo; the other is the adoption of new EU law, i.e. a new proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.
2. Finding the right policy: is blanket licensing an alternative?
Balázs Bodó provided a methodological perspective. He opened his speech by addressing the (problematic) status quo: music streaming seems to be working nowadays, but online copyright infringement is still significant. Enforcement is ineffective and costly; and the enforcement fallout is significant. Access (esp. for AV content) is still limited; rights markets are fragmented, inefficient, transaction costs are high; network effects favour monopolistic middlemen. Streaming royalties leave many creators unsatisfied.
Is blanket license, which authorizing the non-commercial use of digital content for a monthly fee on broadband connections, an alternative in terms of finding the right policy?
To answer that, he pointed out three preconditions of policy change: legal feasibility (no politically unrealistic change to the current copyright framework), economic viability (overall social welfare must not decrease), legitimacy (consent of the public). As goals, these preconditions then thereof define the research methods, namely: define the legally permissible policy space; formulate different policy alternatives that fit into that space; ask a representative sample of citizens about their preferences and calculate the economic consequences of their choice.
In the end, he presented the key takeaways: it is possible to survey citizen support for complex copyright policy alternatives, which deserves a try; behind the happy surface of streaming, consumers are not getting what they want. Access to AV content is the next frontier. The most avid digital consumers are the most dissatisfied with the status quo; maintaining exclusivity is very costly: hundreds of millions are left on the table every year. Plus, missions are wasted on destructive and ineffective enforcement.
For all the publications for the project Copyright in an Age of Access: Alternatives to Copyright Enforcement, see here.
Keynote Speech
Professor John M. Golden delivered a very insightful speech on IP (focusing on patent and copyright) design, progress, and civil society in the US context. First, he broadly defined the concept of civil society which plays important roles in social welfare and democracy; then he introduced the American constitutional promotions for IP and progress and their close connections, and the reasons why progress could strain society, institutions and IP.
He suggested that IP could bring about several benefits. For instance, it can harness and encourage private initiative (quote Abraham Lincoln: "... it added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius"), shape civil society and nature of civil discourse, shape civil society and economy, and provide hope and opportunity in unheroic age. But, IP could also potentially foster entrenchment and control, so several questions need to be answered when designing IP for a healthy civil society:
- Access and proper rewards for all? (i.e. concerns with fees, litigation expense, discrimination against business models)
- Fostering dynamic and multipolar power structure, or entrenched control? (i.e. encouraging/enabling entrepreneurs)
- Nurturing/allowing opportunity and hope? (i.e. leaving adequate room for non-proprietary, non-commercial, or collective activities outside IP's common focus?)
He then identified and illustrated five IP design principle for better IP, namely: pluralism, redundancy, adaptability, devolution and administrability, which were generated from various papers he had written (e.g. The Supreme Court as 'Prime Percolator': A Prescription for Appellate Review of Questions in Patent Law, Principles for Patent Remedies, Patent Privateers: Private Enforcement's Historical Survivors, The Fracking Revolution, Redundancy: When Law Repeats Itself). Finally, he concluded that after all, society will ultimately determine the future of IP and progress more generally.
In the end
As mentioned in the very beginning of this serial report, this Kat did see this exceptional conference as a quite enjoyable feast of thinking. Yet, she doubts that this plain text report could capture and convey to the readers all its fullness ... Better to attend this biennial conference in person: maybe see you guys at TILTing 2019!
TILTing Perspectives 2017 report (2): The IP session and the Key Note Reviewed by Tian Lu on Tuesday, June 06, 2017 Rating:
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