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The Human Costs of the Funding Shortfalls for the Dadaab Refugee Camps
The Human Costs of the Funding Shortfalls for the Dadaab Refugee Camps
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The needs in Dadaab, which hosts more than 465,000 people, remain urgent, but humanitarian agencies do not have sufficient funds to provide essential services for the care and protection of encamped populations in 2012. If more funds are not received immediately, the situation in the camps will deteriorate as vital health, nutrition, education, shelter, WASH and protection activities will either have to scale back or stop. Despite pressing needs elsewhere, the international donor community has an obligation to continue to provide financial support for the biggest refugee camp in the world and share with Kenya the burden of protracted refugee assistance. Efforts must also continue to find durable solutions for Dadaab.
When a mass influx of over 160,000 refugees poured into Kenya in 2011, donors responded to ensure that humanitarian agencies were prepared to meet their needs. A year after the latest crisis, refugees still living in the camp are unable to return to Somalia where conflict and continuing food crises persist. As the world's attention has shifted to pressing problems in other countries, cuts in humanitarian funding are threatening the health, security and livelihoods of refugee populations in Dadaab. As a result, aid programs are failing to meet minimum humanitarian standards and refugees are being denied their basic rights, diminishing their future prospects of self-sufficiency.
Recommendations to donors and the international community:
- Increase funds immediately to address the funding gaps in the Dadaab camps.
- The international community must live up to its pledges to support countries such as Kenya to meet the assistance and protection needs of refugees.
- Multi-year funding is required to improve planning and cost efficiency of programs.
- More funding is required for non-lifesaving activities such as education, vocational training and capacity building.
Some of the urgent gaps1 are highlighted below:
Health Care: More than 58,000 refugees without access to adequate health in two catchment areas of Hagadera
In Hagadera Camp, the most populated of the Dadaab camps, health posts are inadequate, overcrowded, understaffed and under-equipped. Overworked clinicians are unable to serve all the patients or provide timely, quality healthcare to ailing refugees. Congested waiting lines at health posts increase the risk of spreading infectious airborne diseases within health facilities. The minimum emergency standard is 1 health care unit for 10,000 people. In Hagadera, two health posts serve the needs of 78,000 people. Two additional health posts, four clinical officers, four nurses and 30 incentive workers (refugees who work with organizations on a casual basis to help deliver services, also helping to develop skills of these refugees) are urgently needed to meet the needs of this population.
Nutrition: No nutrition nurses in 2012 & 1,000 acutely malnourished children without care in Hagadera
During the emergency last year, the malnutrition rate in the camps rose to over 20 percent. Nutrition programs providing 24-hour care to the malnourished, as well as food, water, hygiene and healthcare, reduced the levels of severe acute malnutrition, but the most recent nutritional survey in the camps identified a high percentage of children who are still at risk and who continue to need care to recover. There is an average of 60 severely acutely malnourished children with medical complications per month. This requires the urgent deployment of nutrition nurses to ensure 24-hour care for these children.
No Community Health Workers (CHWs) from October 2012 in Hagadera: Risk of disease outbreak and death
CHWs play a major role in preventing and controlling disease outbreak, through active case finding, community-based management and referral. Without these very crucial health care providers, management of disease outbreaks in the camp would be difficult and would result in preventable deaths. Without CHWs, the identification and referral of more than 3,000 malnourished children in the camps would not be possible and it would be difficult to follow up and identify children in the community who have not been immunised against common contagious diseases such as measles, putting the lives of other children at risk. From October 1, 2012, given current funding shortfalls, there will be no CHWs for a population greater than 130,000.
Water and Sanitation: No water supply and sanitation services to 50,000 refugees from September 2012 in IFO II East and Kambioos
In the dusty camps in Dadaab where day time temperatures often exceed 105 F., water systems provide households with daily supplies of potable water needed to sustain lives and maintain proper hygiene. The funding to maintain these crucial water systems is set to run out at the end of August, which would deprive 50,000 refugees in Ifo II East and Kambioos of their only water source. The same fate awaits the sanitation programme in Ifo II East. Emergency communal latrines are filling quickly and require replacing. Refugee households have been active in digging their own pits for family latrines, which permit more safety, privacy and dignity for refugees, particularly women and children, but these activities need support. 2,800 pits have now been dug across IFO II East alone, but there is only enough funding to convert 1,000 of them into latrines, meaning that 1,800 households who have worked hard to dig a 5-meter-deep pit will nonetheless not have access to their own latrine. Inadequate coverage of latrines greatly increases the likelihood of disease outbreak.
Shelter: 130,000 refugees without adequate shelter in Dadaab
Shelter is essential for survival, personal safety, dignity and protection from disease, physical assault and the harsh climate in Dadaab. Currently there are thousands of families living in tents that are regularly destroyed by the severe weather and need to be replaced approximately every six months. The recurrent shelter costs for tents, plastic sheeting and support poles can be cut by providing refugees with structures better suited to withstand the climate. 160,000 refugees arrived in Dadaab last year and received tents, which are now overdue for replacement. There is a need for at least 30,000 shelters in the Dadaab camps, but funding is only available for 4,000. Unless funds are immediately availed, 130,000 refugees will remain without adequate shelter.
Education: More than 70 percent of the 221,000 children in the camps are out of school 2
Children and youth constitute 52 percent of the total population in Dadaab3, yet many are not enrolled in school. Education is crucial for the development and mental health of refugee children and is a fundamental tool for their protection. Education is an important factor in developing the skills that will eventually enable refugees to contribute to the reconstruction, peace and stability in their own countries, their host countries, as well as the greater region. The large number of out-of-school children and youth, and the limited employment and livelihood opportunities for them, lead to abuse, sexual and gender-based violence, idleness and potential recruitment by militias4. For the 57,000 children who enjoy access to education, conditions are extremely difficult as classrooms are congested: there is only one textbook for every 13 pupils; there are over 100 children per classroom; classes run in two shifts per day; and only one in five teachers has any formal teacher training. Though the quality of education is already compromised, funding shortfalls for construction of schools, payment of salaries of qualified teachers and running costs have resulted in lower enrolment and lower quality education for those attending school.
Protection: Twenty percent of refugee households face threats, harassment and discrimination
The camps of Dadaab continue to be the scene of significant insecurity, violence and protection concerns for the refugee population. While attempts are being made to strengthen police presence in the camps, the police are not trusted by the refugee population and are sometimes regarded as perpetrators of the violence5. Inside the camps, there have been shootings, rapes, murders, assaults, and gender-based violence. Outside the camps, Kenyan police often harass the refugees when they leave6. Sexual assault, domestic violence, inter-ethnic and clan violence and assaults against vulnerable persons such as Albinos, single mothers and those living with HIV/AIDS are also reported7. Twenty-five percent of the refugee population are elderly, living with a disability or unaccompanied children. These vulnerable groups struggle to access basic services and protection. In light of the recent incidences of insecurity, responsibility for aspects of service delivery has been handed over to refugee incentive workers. This is reported to have increased discrimination against the most vulnerable8. Despite the very stark protection concerns in the camps, particularly violence against women and children, funding for protection-related activities has decreased significantly.
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Thirty-six percent increase in reports of sexual violence, yet inadequate services to meet the needs of gender-based violence survivors
Gender-based violence (GBV) was already an issue of grave concern in Dadaab before the emergency of 2011. The mass refugee influx has overwhelmed existing services. Women and children have particular protection needs in the camps, especially with regard to "entrenched sexual violence"9 which remains widespread and goes unpunished. Women and girls remain exposed to GBV while collecting firewood, using poorly lit latrines and on long walks to access services. Across the camps, services for GBV survivors are inadequate to meet the needs. There are not enough available, well-trained staff to provide quality psychosocial care and follow up and, in some camps, there are no organisations providing GBV response or prevention services. Whereas reporting of sexual violence has increased by 36 percent between February to May 2012, compared to the previous three months, funding for GBV programming has decreased by 50 percent. There are approximately 20,000 to 30,000 refugees who continue to live on the outskirts of Hagadera camp, without access to shelter and with increased exposure to the risk of GBV. Destined to be relocated to Kambioos, this population will remain in their current conditions without access to minimum humanitarian services for the foreseeable future due to the uncertainty of the legal status of Kambioos.
Child Protection: 7,120 children without access to any child protection support in Kambioos alone
Of the more than 13,000 refugees in Kambioos, 8,900 are children. Despite the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence, harmful traditional practices and large numbers of unaccompanied and separated children in Kambioos alone, estimated to run into their hundreds, funding shortfalls have prevented the presence of a dedicated child protection agency in Kambioos. Even when a recently-appointed child protection agency commences its activities in July 2012, funding constraints will limit its services to 1,780 children, meaning that 7,120 (80 percent of the children) will not benefit from access to child protection services. Across the Dadaab camps, well over 3,000 separated and unaccompanied children have been identified and followed up since January 2011. It is estimated that many more separated and unaccompanied children are still to be identified, especially since the suspension of registration in October 2011. The ideal solution for unaccompanied children is to place them with foster families or draw on other appropriate community protection mechanisms. However, the current lack of services and livelihood opportunities in Kambioos means that an additional child would represent an additional burden to a family that has no income, insufficient food and water and inadequate shelter. Funding shortfalls across all the Dadaab camps mean there are inadequate numbers of staff to conduct outreach activities to identify cases of separation, and insufficient funds to permit case continuity and completion – leaving unaccompanied children exposed to the continued risk of GBV, abuse and exploitation.
The current situation of Dadaab is untenable: there are more than 465,000 refugees, a volatile security situation and restrictions in the movement of humanitarian workers. The Dadaab camps have existed for more than 20 years, but in 2012, the needs of the refugees are greater than ever before. It is unacceptable that after a massive humanitarian crisis last year, there is insufficient money to care for the population in Dadaab in 2012, let alone for the next few years.
A change in approach to Dadaab is urgently needed. Donors, humanitarian agencies and the Kenyan authorities should develop a long-term vision for Dadaab, in which refugees are no longer dependent on subsistence-level assistance or less; refugees and local organisations have the capacity and skills to carry out a greater proportion of the humanitarian services in the camps; refugee operations benefit and are seen to benefit the districts and provinces where they exist through employment creation, infrastructure development and creatively linking services to Kenyan service providers; and realistic and creative durable solutions for the protracted Somali displacement that comply with international legal standards are explored, discussed and funded.
However, while such a vision is desperately needed, it will realistically take many years to realize and is almost entirely dependent on the generosity of the Government of Kenya, with support from donors, to continue to host such large numbers of refugee populations. Until such time, the international donor community has an obligation not to turn its back on the Dadaab camps and its refugee inhabitants.
Recommendations to donors and the international community:
- Increase funds immediately to address the gaps in the Dadaab camps. The resources should be commensurate with the needs and take into account the additional costs of operating in an insecure environment. The safety, needs and dignity of refugees must be met by allocating funding required to meet minimum humanitarian standards.
- The international community must live up to its pledges to support countries such as Kenya to meet the assistance and protection needs of refugees. Such cooperation must not be driven by the politics or visibility of a crisis but by needs of the refugees. At a recent Ministerial Meeting held in December 2011, the international community pledged10 to support countries which host large numbers of refugee populations, such as Kenya, to meet the assistance and protection needs of refugees. Governments must live up to these commitments in respect of Dadaab.
- Commit to strategic multi-year funding for refugee operations in Dadaab. Some donors have already committed to multi-year funding and other donors should follow their example in order to enable proper planning and increase cost-efficiency of programs.
- Provide enough funds for non-lifesaving activities to be implemented. Prioritising lifesaving activities, whilst necessary with scarce funds, means that critical activities such as education, vocational training, community-based self-reliance and capacity building are sacrificed. The costs are greater in the long term if these programs are not carried out. Refugees should be able to use their time in exile to foster knowledge, attitudes and skills critical for their eventual return.
This paper is signed by CARE, Catholic Relief Services, Danish Refugee Council, International Rescue Committee, Lutheran World Federation, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam and Terre des Hommes
1 This document could not list all the urgent funding shortfalls of humanitarian agencies
2 NRC: "Why are children not in school? Multi-agency assessment of out-of-school children in Dadaab Refugee Camp," Kenya, June 18, 2012
3 UNICEF/UNHCR Dadaab Education Update, April 2012
4 Refugee Consortium Kenya, "Asylum under threat: Assessing the protection of Somali refugees in Dadaab Refugee Camps and along the migration corridor," p.68
5 RCK, "Asylum under threat," op. Cit. p.88 and Human Rights Watch: "Kenya: Refugees describe abuse by police," http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/23/kenya-refugees-describe-abuse-police
6 Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, "Kenya Assessment Final Report: Evaluation of Humanitarian Assistance to Colombian Refugees in Ecuador and Somali Refugees in Kenya: Supporting Protracted Refugees" Livelihoods, Protection Space and Self-Reliance," August 16, 2011, p.4
7 BPRM, Kenya Assessment, Op. Cit, page 40
8 RCK, "Asylum under threat," p.89
9 RCK, "Asylum under Threat," p.88
10 See paragraph 6 of the Ministerial Communiqué, Intergovernmental event of the Ministerial Level of Member States of the United Nations on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 50th Anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, December 8, 2011, HCR/MINCOMMS/2011/6. Note also the principle of burden sharing within the international community for all countries hosting refugee, called for by the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation – Ashgabat Declaration of International Ministerial Conference of the OIC on refugees in the Muslim World, May 11-12, 2012.


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- Professional gaming is at the same point professional poker was when it was getting started. The technology is finally in place for it to become more popular. Now, professional poker shows up on mainstream sports networks like ESPN. But you probably won't see professional video game players on channels any time soon, because the audience likes to stay online.
- Justin.tv founder and president Justin Kan sucks at StarCraft. But his CEO Emmett Shear is pretty good — he's hit one of the highest rankings in the game. Kan and Shear are both huge gamers, which contributed to their interest in Twitch.
- The gaming audience is very attractive to advertisers. Gamers usually sit on the site for nearly an hour, which means professional gamers can make between $50 and $200 for each commercial they run, depending on the time of day and a few other things.
- Justin.tv is making money. Kan wouldn't disclose just how much, but he said Twitch, which launched in June and didn't really hit its stride until August, is already a majority of Justin.tv's revenue.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Are you guys planning on running both Justin.tv and Twitch.tv at the same time?
JUSTIN KAN: Twitch.tv is a big focus for us. They started working on it as a small team, month over month they would grow and more and more resources would be focused on Twitch. Now, most of it is focused on Twitch. All the effort is on Twitch. Emmett (Shear) is still heading the project. The COO of Justin.tv, Mike, spun off SocialCam and Emmett is basically the COO of the company now.
BI: What happened with SocialCam?
JK: Twitch has a business model, it makes money, and it's built on the Justin.tv platform. SocialCam, we thought mobile video was really interesting, but there was no model, it was pre-revenue. We thought it was best-suited as its own company so we spun it off. They're working in their own office.
MATT DIPIETRO: It's the Instagram of video, they're doing really well.
BI: So it's safe to say you guys have made a pivot to Twitch
JK: This is the main focus, exactly.
BI: What is it about Twitch, I know it's been growing insanely fast, but what is it that makes it really exciting?
JK: There's a couple things. People are super passionate about gaming, and you see that reflected in the growth and in person. I was just at DreamHack, a 20,000 person event in gaming, and the finals were basically like a real sports match. It was in a hockey arena. Day[9] (a very popular professional gamer) is on stage, they're announcing the players, and the arena is packed and the audience is massive. People follow it like real, traditional sports.
When we saw that we were like, this is amazing, we want to be a part of it. It's an awesome way to apply the really broad vision of the company. We were a platform and we grew as a platform to 30 million uniques but we were never really good at any one thing, except for scaling our technology. With gaming, we're able to really serve this community that's super-passionate, there's a viable model that makes money and you get to work with all these awesome partners, and we're at the forefront of creating this new sport. To us, that's super exciting.
MD: It helped that Justin and Emmett are big gamers.
BI: StarCraft?
JK: We're all StarCraft players, we play in the office after work all the time. I suck at it, I'm like platinum in StarCraft. (There are several ranks in StarCraft, with platinum being the fourth.)
BI: Did you guys think it would have grown as fast as it has?
JK: We started working on gaming about a year ago, it was just a category on Justin.tv. It was growing really consistently, between 10 and 20 percent month over month. Every month, 15 percent gets harder to do, but we were optimistic. We've kept it up. It wasn't too surprising, I guess. We see this massive amount of head-room in gaming. There are all these people that are potential viewers of content.
If you look at YouTube, gaming is the number 2 category right after Music. More and more people are being introduced to games through iPhone games and Android games. The audience for this content is just gonna grow. When we looked at why people were watching, I like to say it's similar to poker — 20 years ago, to hear that poker would be a big televised sport, you'd be like "what are you talking about." There were a few factors that contributed to that. There was a massive base of players and there's a technology advancement with the card cam. With some basic commentating, that made the game accessible to the casual viewer. They put it on ESPN and it's been pretty popular since then.
The same thing is happening with StarCraft. The game was dominant for 10 years and it's super popular, and then they built a spectator mode that you can watch and commentate over. They made it easy for you to create video content over the game. There's this new method of distribution with online streaming where people can create content really easily and get it to the global aggregate audience of gamers. People tried to put e-sports on television but there wasn't enough density for that to make sense. But by putting it online, I don't even own a TV any more, I watch all my content on the iPad and iPhone. That's where younger people are consuming entertainment — that's where Twitch and other online video services come in.
BI: You guys pretty much beat Ustream to the punch on this. Why were you able to jump them?
JK: We used to compete, the past couple years we would compete for events and music. One thing we found is that was really hard to monetize unless you sell directly to partners. It isn't a very scalable or repeatable solution, it's hard to monetize because the content isn't regular. What we found with gaming, the content happens over time. We were never very good about the business development around the entertainment industry, buying content like they would. We're more technologists focused on building a well-engineered platform. When it came to gaming it was cool because people were streaming gaming consistently over time. It was easy for us to identify with the vision of building a gaming video site.
MD: We've always been focused on building the platform for other people to build content on top of, whereas some of our competitors were far more interested in going out and selling content experiences — red carpet stuff, big celebrity entertainment things. While we're building the platform, we can keep a much closer eye on the content that's being created organically by our users. That's where the gaming category came from, it came out of nowhere — all of the sudden it was a huge portion of the content on the site. They took it, they decided we're gonna put some resources into it. This community deserves its own space and its own features.
BI: What threshold?
JK: We said 10 percent month-over-month on views, not uniques. Views have scaled much quicker than uniques. We exceeded that goal by quite a bit.
BI: Around when did you set those goals?
JK: Around the end of 2010. It totally worked. Then we decided on Twitch and went into launch mode. We don't really even consider Ustream competition, I don't even think they care about gaming. They did announce that South Korea thing, but I think one of the things they do, every time Livestream or we announce anything they announce the same thing. Often times, I think that's been a mistake. We've made mistakes in adding a feature to the site, in retrospect that didn't make sense. We think other sites like YouTube are our more real competitors.
BI: What kind of reaction have you guys seen for the Twitch app so far?
JK: People love it, it's a very clean-looking app. You can chat on it, it's the full experience. What we found is people really want to engage in the content on the go. They expect content to be where they are and that's one of the big focuses for next year — being ubiquitous and being on every platform. More like a Netflix strategy.
BI: What is it about watching gaming is so popular among your users?
JK: If you look at the time spent for sports, tennis say, 100 years ago 100 percent of your time around tennis would be playing it. Now it's 10 percent playing it, 50 percent watching it and 40 percent reading about it on ESPN. Activities around gaming 10 years ago is just playing it, then you added on reading editorial content about it, and now watching it is a thing. Video games are a cultural phenomenon, it's bigger than the movie industry, it's a $65 billion industry. Every person who's like our age and younger grew up playing as many video games as they did playing sports. People are passionate about watching sports and engaging in it, and I think the same is true in gaming.
BI: Where do you go from here? What's coming in 2012?
JK: Our main goal is to grow the audience. 12 million far exceeded expectations but we think there's a lot of headroom. We want to be the gaming website. Building out for more platforms, figuring out ways people can find and consume the content. Our discovery is very rudimentary. We can do a lot better to get people the videos that we want them to see. Facebook is a big push, sharing on Facebook, we can improve the website reach. You should be able to find games from certain players. Right now that's not very exposed through the interface. Another thing is really enabling more and more people to do this as their full-time job by getting them more revenue and ramping up their advertising. We want to put more dollars in the hands of our partners.
BI: How valuable is your audience to advertisers?
MD: We can't speak to specific numbers, but it's far better than industry average on video advertising, because the audience is really valuable and the content is really sticky. The engagement is crazy, the average viewing session is 47 minutes. People like watching the content. On the advertising side we're figuring out ways we can ramp that us.
BI: How does the advertising work?
JK: We allow our content partners to show advertising when they want. They can show commercials. When a StarCraft pro player is practicing, they'll play for like 3 hours and every 20 minutes between matches he can type in "/commercial" and show commercials to all his viewers. It increases the yield by quite a bit. Our viewers know specifically that the advertising supports the broadcaster specifically. They're so ravenous about the personalities that they're happy to watch because they want this stuff. People beg for advertising — how often do you see that happen? The community is really passionate, they want to see it succeed and they're willing to do what it takes.
BI: How much money do you make off the matches?
JK: Some of the top players, if you get 20,000 concurrent viewers, that's anywhere between $50 and $200 per commercial depending on the seasonality of advertising, the time of day, so on and so forth.
BI: So if I'm a total badass at StarCraft, this can be my full-time job?
JK: A lot of the pro-players, they still compete for money in tournaments, but they might win only once every couple months or so. If you look at the players' winnings, even the best players don't win every tournament. Streaming and creating video content on Twitch is something that really helps regulate the income and smooth it out and gives you a monthly way to support yourself.
BI: Then you guys collect royalties?
JK: They run ads, we revenue share 50-50 with them. We do all the sales for the ads. The only side of the advertising business they see is a button and a check, basically.
BI: So are you starting to see real revenues that you weren't seeing at Justin.tv?
JK: A huge percentage of our revenue this year will be attributed to Twitch and it's loaded toward the later months. In the beginning it was 1 percent of our revenue, and it's definitely gonna be a significant part of our bottom line now.
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Estranged couple Seal and Heidi Klum reportedly will put their differences aside over the holidays and spend Christmas Day together for the sake of their children.
The German supermodel separated from the singer last January after almost seven years of marriage, and she filed for divorce in April.
They have three children together, and the singer also adopted Klum's eldest daughter, Leni, from a previous relationship.
The split recently turned nasty when Seal criticized his former partner for embarking on a romance with the former couple's bodyguard, but they look set to put the animosity behind them this Christmas.
New York Post gossip column Page Six reports the former couple has made peace and will spend the holidays together in Los Angeles to keep the kids happy.
A source tells the publication, "They're trying to be co-parents and show up for their children."


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Neverwinter and Star Trek Online developer's new office to focus on polishing and improving Champions Online.
Neverwinter and Star Trek Online developer's new office to focus on polishing and improving Champions Online.
Account names and encrypted passwords stolen by intruder during "unauthorized access" 16 months ago; no indication credit card info taken.
Digital distribution behemoth launches new software line with five titles: Champions Online, Alliance of Valiant Arms, Spiral Knights, Global Agenda, and Forsaken Worlds.
Chinese MMORPG developer buys Star Trek Online, Champions developer from Atari for $50 million in cash.
Publisher's new focus on fewer releases limits revenues to $80.3 million for the full fiscal year, but also helps curtail losses to $8.8 million.
Publisher looking to sell Star Trek Online and Champions Online developer, attributes $25 million in losses to studio over past two years.
Check out a new trailer for Champions Online.
Online revenues soar 493.5%, but publisher's $55.8 million nine-month earnings offset by plummeting packaged goods business.
Check out the trailer for the now free-to-play Champions Online.
Atari and Cryptic Studios' superhero-themed MMORPG taking live microtransaction-based payment scheme later this month.
Ghostbusters-less half-year sees sales plummet 56.8 percent; Champions Online, Star Trek Online revenues boost bottom line.
Atari and Cryptic's superhero-themed MMORPG picking up hybrid microtransaction/subscription model in early 2011; beta begins November 9.
Riot Games wins five categories including Best New Online Game and Audience Award; Ultima Online receives first spot in the Hall of Fame; MUD creator Dr. Richard Bartle honored.
Blizzard North and Flagship cofounder bids adieu to chief creative position at Champions Online dev after less than two years.
Publisher narrows net loss as revenues down more than 15 percent year-over-year, subscription and digital distribution sales now 11 percent of total business.
The new Nemesis trailer showcases how you can traverse the cold depth of space, battle fierce alien gladiators, and stop Shadow Destroyer before he can tear the fabric of space ...
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The Watershed Management Division is responsible for protecting, maintaining, enhancing and restoring the quality of Vermont's surface water resources. Inherent in this effort is the support of both healthy ecosystems and public uses in and on Vermont's 800 lakes and ponds, 23,000 miles of rivers and streams and 300,000 acres of wetlands.
The Division includes three media-specific programs, Wetlands, Rivers and Lakes, that provide for the comprehensive management of these resources through science based management and permitting programs and activities. The Division also administers federally delegated Stormwater and Wastewater permitting programs that regulate discharges to surface waters. The Monitoring, Assessment and Planning program serves to integrate the Division's program work through strategic monitoring and the development of tactical basin plans that identify priority implementation projects to both protect high quality waters and restore impaired waters. The newly reorganized and renamed Vermont Clean Water Initiative program (formerly the Ecosystem Restoration Program) is responsible for education, outreach, implementation and funding activities associated with Vermont's new Clean Water Act (Act 64) and Clean Water Fund, and cleanup plans for Lake Champlain, Lake Memphremagog, Long Island Sound, and other major ecosystems. The Division also recently consolidated its administrative, financial and compliance services into a new Business Operational and Support Services program to promote efficiency, enhance consistency, and better leverage technology.


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Putting the recession and 9/11 behind them, several Indian software companies and Indian arms of multinational corporations have started employing people for fresh projects. Most have also started expanding offices and operations to take care of the increase in project flow into India. Some have even taken recourse to recalling retrenched staff.
How is India going strong while the rest of the world finds it difficult to manage? Experts feel costs have multiplied in a recession-hit US, making project development unmanageable. This has forced them to send projects offshore to cut costs. And India is a natural choice. Says Arjun Malhotra, chairman, Techspan: "The slowdown in the US motivated a lot of people, who earlier didn't think of it, to go offshore. This has accelerated after 9/11 and we are seeing business going up in India." Says Sapient India managing director Amit Govil: "Officially, the US is in recession, yet Indian IT companies are expected to grow by 25-30 per cent. With a definite increase in acceptance of India as a software destination, there is a trend in the US to leverage India for software projects."
The effects of recession have been severe on the global software sector in the last few months. Companies across the world have downsized, laying off hundreds of software professionals to make numbers look healthy. The September 11 attacks on the US made matters worse. Indian firms, which are heavily dependent on American corporations for their survival, had to bear the brunt too for some time. With companies recording less than normal orders, analysts across the board scaled down growth projections for Indian companies. The sector, which has always recorded handsome growth—in 2000-01, it grew by about 50 per cent—was expected to take a beating this year. According to Nasscom estimates, it was expected to grow by only about 30 per cent in this year.
But with American companies focusing on India again, it may be time to rework on those calculations. "The slide is finally over. We were all expecting Q3 results to be flat but the flurry of activity in this sector has made us believe that it will be much better than that," says Sunil Mehta, vice-president, Nasscom. Malhotra, whose company plans to double its workforce in 2002, agrees: "We see a flattening out of the depression. Things will only look up from here."
The recruitment spree more than endorses this view. According to Nasscom, while over 185 Fortune 500 firms are outsourcing their software needs from India, more MNCs are setting up shop or expanding operations in India post-September 11. Consider this:
- IBM Global Services, Bangalore, has bagged a 10-year project from AT&T. More than 5,000 people could be working on this project.
- Sun Microsystems has identified its Indian operations as one of the top five locations with potential to earn over $1 billion revenue over the next five years. Its manpower in India may increase from 400 to 4,000 in the coming years.
- Cisco has bought 29 acres of land in Bangalore and plans to invest Rs 900 crore over the next few years in expanding operations.
- HSBC plans to hire 1,400 people for software development and IT-enabled services.
- GE plans to invest $800 million in IT and expects software exports from India to rise to $3 billion by 2004 with software outsourcing expected to account for a third of the export targets.
- Intel is investing $25 million in India for a technology development centre in Bangalore and could expand engineering staff by 50 per cent.
- Computer Science Corporation is setting up development centres in Noida and Hyderabad with a staff strength of 400 people.
- Accenture, which recently started its new technology development facility in Mumbai, plans to expand.
- Consultancy firm Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is planning to set up its second software development centre in India, which will double its employee strength.
Others in expansion mode and hiring include Sapient, Silverline Technologies, Technova and Hewlett-Packard. In fact, Silverline is reported to have recalled 40 per cent of its retrenched staff and Sapient is hiring here even as it lays off in the US. It has taken new office space in Gurgaon near Delhi.
Suresh Rajpal, president and CEO, Technova, feels that traditionally a market moves six months ahead of the actual scenario. When the market showed recession, no one was ready to accept that. Things are now turning around. Says he: "Markets have come back last month, so we can expect that in six months, normalcy will return." Adds Arun Thiagarajan, president, Hewlett-Packard India: "Customers have started visiting India again. As more US companies work towards regaining competitiveness, they will move projects offshore and India has a clear cost and skills advantage."
According to a Goldman Sachs survey, the cost saved by shifting from in-house to offshore development of computer applications could be as high as 70 per cent. It feels India will remain the world's geographical focus for this: "India remains the primary focus, and we expect this to be the case for the foreseeable future. Although other countries are used to varying degrees (China, Eastern Europe, South America), India offers the best combination of same language, cultural fit, the possession of a large, highly-skilled workforce and favourable tax holidays."
It also says that post September 11, there was a tendency among US corporations to go "near-shore" to countries like Canada and Mexico, but the capabilities in newer technology application development were improving in offshore firms, primarily in India. Says Govil: "With the Afghan crisis over, the trend is changing and 'near-shore' is giving way to offshore, specially India." Adds Rajpal, "9/11 is three months old and people are getting back to the business of business."
To add to India's edge, several international consultancy firms have, in the last two months, re-endorsed India's prowess in this field. Said a report from the Forrester Group last month: "Simply put, other developing nations lack India's advantages including more than a decade of offshore experience, high levels of English fluency, supportive government policies and a focus on CMM and ISO 9000 quality processes."
McKinsey & Co declared in October that the "productivity and quality in remote processing centres in India was higher than that achieved in parent countries". According to McKinsey, costs in India were 30-80 per cent lower compared to development in Europe and the US and almost all Indian software professionals were familiar with state-of-the art development technologies.
IT research company Giga Information Group's November report says offshore outsourcing will grow by at least 23 per cent in 2002 with India dominating. It says: "As companies struggle to do more with less, they will realise the incomparable quality and cost benefits that India has to offer. Indian vendors will continue to move up the value chain by offering architecture, design and high-level strategy services." Says Mehta: "Typically, the annual billing rate of a software professional in the US is $200,000. In India, it's $60,000."
India has 32 software companies with a Level-5 certification from SEI-CMM—the ISO equivalent in IT—with another 19 in Level-4 and six in Level-3. Says Mehta: "More than half of the world's SEI-CMM certified companies are Indian." Govil adds his bit: "Although India is not the cheapest destination, the skill level and quality education brings companies here."
With the world standing behind India for software development, the sector seems to have regained—if not extended—its global superpower status.


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HENDRICKS COUNTY – The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) announces US 136 from State Road 39 to just west of State Road 267 will be restricted to one lane in the area the contractor will be working. This will allow crews to perform microsurface construction. Construction is scheduled to begin this week and be completed by the end of May.
Microsurfacing is a thin, polymer-modified asphalt emulsion mixture that provides a new wearing course over aged and oxidized pavement. It is applied in slurry form, fills ruts in the pavement and improves friction. No compaction is necessary for this method of pavement preservation and it takes about 1-2 hours to fully cure and reopen to traffic.
A.C. Pavement Striping Co. was awarded the $747,791 contract.
The work schedule is subject to change in the event of inclement weather. INDOT reminds motorists to use caution and consider worker safety when driving through a construction zone. For the latest news and information about INDOT, please visit the agency's website.


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INDIANAPOLIS -- Ryan Newman won NASCAR's Brickyard 400 for the first time on Sunday after a lengthy pit stop cost Jimmie Johnson a record fifth victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
"This is a dream come true for me," Newman said. "It will take a week or so for this to set in."
Although Newman started on the pole, Johnson was dominating in his No. 48 Chevrolet for much of the Sprint Cup Series race, leading 73 of its 160 laps.
But when Johnson made his last pit stop and got four new tires with 28 laps left, it took his Hendrick Motorsports crew an unusually long 17.2 seconds to service his car.
That enabled Newman to take the lead while Johnson pitted. Then, two laps later, Newman made his final pit stop in much quicker time to maintain the lead until the end.
Johnson finished second in the crash-free race, Kasey Kahne was third and two-time Brickyard 400 winner Tony Stewart was fourth.
"Came up a little short, definitely not what we wanted," Johnson said. "We win as a team, we lose as a team."
Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished sixth, Kyle Busch was 10th, Carl Edwards was 13th and Danica Patrick finished 30th in the 43-car field, two laps down to the leaders.
Jimmie Johnson leads Brickyard 400 at halfway point
Angels slugger Albert Pujols likely to miss rest of season
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Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
Italian, 1675–1741
The Death of the Stag of Sylvia, c. 1720
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Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of the Women's Committee
Though born in Venice where he trained briefly, Pellegrini's early travels to Vienna to assist his teacher, and then to England at the invitation of Charles Montagu, later 1st Duke of Manchester, saw him establish his reputation largely outside of Italy. In England Pellegrini worked on a variety of projects, including fresco and painting commissions for the residences of Charles Montagu; Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle; and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington. Working at the height of Rococo taste in England, he made set designs for the Haymarket and other theatres with Marco Ricci who had travelled to London with Pellegrini. The shooting and death of the stag of Diana is well known in Greek mythology; however, it appears that the stag in this drawing is the one belonging to Sylvia that was killed by Ascanius. The event, which led to great bloodshed and involved Juno and the fury Alecto, is documented in Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid.
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Among individuals with a fasting plasma glucose of less than 100 mg/dL as children, increasing levels were associated with greater risks of prediabetes (P<0.001) and type 2 diabetes (P=0.03) in adulthood, according to Gerald Berenson, MD, of Tulane University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and colleagues.
There appeared to be a threshold -- 85 mg/dL -- above which the risk of adult problems began to increase, the researchers reported in the February issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
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- Explain to interested patients that this study suggests that children with fasting plasma glucose levels above 85 mg/dL might have an increased risk of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in adulthood.
"It is not surprising that a higher fasting glucose level in childhood predicts prediabetes and diabetes in adulthood," Matthew Gillman, MD, of Harvard, wrote in an accompanying editorial.
More surprising, he said, was the existence of the apparent threshold, although "the authors are appropriately circumspect about recommending lowering glucose cutoff points to diagnose children at risk of developing prediabetes or diabetes."
"Even if there is a threshold over which children are at substantially higher risk of later prediabetes, it is unclear exactly how high the risk should be to make changing guidelines a good thing," he wrote. "After all, the right interventions for individuals with prediabetes are still obscure, so identifying more of them may be more trouble than it's worth."
According to Berenson and colleagues, 19 million U.S. adults have type 2 diabetes. More common is a prediabetic state of impaired fasting glucose, affecting about 54 million.
Previous studies have suggested that higher plasma glucose levels, even if still in the normal range, might be a predictor of diabetes.
Berenson's group wanted to see whether elevated fasting plasma glucose in childhood would predict prediabetes or type 2 diabetes in adulthood.
To find out, they turned to the Bogalusa Heart Study, which began tracking children from that Louisiana town in 1978. All had a fasting plasma glucose lower than 100 mg/dL.
The current analysis included those same individuals assessed as adults after a mean follow-up of 21 years -- 1,723 were normoglycemic (99 mg/dL or lower), 79 were prediabetic (100 to 125 mg/dL), and 47 had type 2 diabetes.
Using a childhood fasting plasma glucose of 86 mg/dL or higher as a predictor for prediabetes yielded a 76.9% sensitivity and 85.2% specificity. For diabetes, sensitivity was 75% and specificity was 76%.
In a multivariate analysis controlling for anthropometric, hemodynamic, and metabolic variables from childhood to adulthood, as well as baseline fasting plasma glucose level, those individuals who had a childhood level 86 mg/dL or higher had increased risks of both prediabetes (OR 3.40, 95% CI 1.87 to 6.18) and type 2 diabetes (OR 2.06, 95% CI 1.01 to 4.23) as adults.
The authors acknowledged some limitations of the study, including the lack of data on postchallenge glucose, in vivo insulin action and secretion, and glycosylated hemoglobin in childhood.
Gillman, the editorialist, also noted that the findings' generalizability to children today is unclear because obesity was much less prevalent when the adults in this study were children.
The study was supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging and the American Heart Association.
The editorial was supported by a grant from the NIH.
Neither the study authors nor the editorialist reported any conflicts of interest.
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Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Source Reference: Nguyen Q, et al "Fasting plasma glucose levels within the normoglycemic range in childhood as a predictor of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in adulthood: the Bogalusa Heart Study" Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2010; 164: 124-28.
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Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Source Reference: Gillman M "Predicting prediabetes and diabetes: Can we do it? Is it worth it?" Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2010; 164: 198-99.


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Need to know about the Wikipedia blackout? In this occasional feature, the National Post tells you everything you need to know about the a complicated issue. Beginning midnight Wednesday, crowd-sourced knowledge database Wikipedia went dark and will be offline for 24 hours as a protest against proposed anti-piracy legislation in the United States. We give you the inside scoop on why the sixth most popular website on the planet has decided to turn itself off for a day and how you can access its pages even though it is offline.
Lost without Wikipedia? The National Post's got you covered. Steve Murray answers your fact-finding inquiries right now at natpo.st/postipedia
How long will the site be blacked out?
The blackout started at 12:00 a.m. eastern time (5:00 a.m. GMT) on Wednesday morning and will last until 12:00 a.m. eastern time on Thursday (also 5:00 a.m. GMT).
What exactly is blacked out?
The English-language version of Wikipedia is offline and has been replaced with a message related to the anti-piracy legislation going through Congress, SOPA, in the United States. Other language editions of Wikipedia will be unaffected.
Additionally, popular community website Reddit has also gone offline, as well as Boing-Boing and several smaller websites.
WordPress is suggesting users black out their own websites, but is not forcing any blackouts. Google is also staging a homepage protest (see image below).
Whoa, SOPA? What the heck is that?
SOPA, which stands for the Stop Online Piracy Act, is a piece of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives. The act is designed to target copyright infringers online through a series of harsh penalties.
In the U.S. Senate, a separate companion bill is called the Protect Intellectual Property Act or PIPA.
What are the battle lines in the debate?
The fight over SOPA is generally seen as a major clash between Hollywood and old media, and Silicon Valley. The backers of the legislation include the Motion Picture Association of America (the MPAA), the major movie studios and television networks, most major book publishers and several ISPs. They say that without the legislation at least 2.2 million industry jobs would be at risk.
A large number of Internet content companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! and several others have publicly come out against the legislation. Certain companies, such as Google, have spent a great deal on lobbying against they bill. They say the legislation would turn the Internet into a police state.
Read more on efforts to change the proposed legislation: 'Three key section of the existing legislation seem likely to remain, a person familiar with the matter says. They comprise provisions aimed at getting search engines to disable links to foreign infringing sites; provisions that cut off advertising services to those sites; and provisions that cut off payment processing. 'But critical provisions that would require Internet service providers such as Verizon Communications and Comcast Corp. to cut off infringing sites through a technology known as DNS blocking are now likely to be eliminated'
2.2 million jobs sound like a lot. Why do the SOPA opponents say it would turn the Internet into a police state?
Several of the provisions in SOPA force American Internet service providers or ISPs hosting websites to remove a site from the Internet if there's a claim it's infringing against copyright, even if it has not been fully proved in court. The argument is that this would make it easy for someone to make false or weak claims to take a website offline while the case makes its way through the courts.
Additionally, it would force ISPs to block non-U.S. websites accused of having infringing material, meaning sites from other countries might not be available in the United States. Opponents say this might destabilize the Internet and allow loopholes for hackers to exploit.
Which sites that I use would this affect?
Most obviously, Wikipedia. There are millions of users who constantly update the site, and sometimes things are posted that might have questionable copyright provenance. If Wikipedia were shut down or blocked every time it was challenged over copyright, the site would likely cease to function.
YouTube would be another site that would be harshly affected by the measures. Since millions of people upload videos to YouTube, sometimes copyrighted material slips through. Currently, this is dealt with by individual videos being taken down after a complaint. Google has stated YouTube probably wouldn't exist if a SOPA-like law had been in effect in 2004 when the site launched.
Some interpretations of the bill say that sites that even link to other sites accused of infringing might be at risk.
Basically, any site that has a large user-generated component is worried about SOPA. This is the document Wikipedia references when explaining why they are against the bill.
How can I get around the blackout?
If you do a Google search for a Wikipedia page, you should be offered the option to use a "Google Cache" version of the page. This is a past version of the page Google has stored on its own servers.
Doesn't the blackout hurt Wikipedia's reputation as a neutral source of information?
Possibly. On its page explaining the blackout, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner had these words: "In making this decision, Wikipedians will be criticized for seeming to abandon neutrality to take a political position. That's a real, legitimate issue. We want people to trust Wikipedia, not worry that it is trying to propagandize them. But although Wikipedia's articles are neutral, its existence is not." Read more about Sue Gardner in a profile on the Canadian-born Wikipedia executive from FP magazine.
Why aren't Google and Facebook blacking out like Wikipedia?
Unlike Wikipedia, which is a not-for-profit, Google and Facebook have a huge number of shareholders to appease.
Google has, however, altered its home and search pages to alert people to the blackout day. This change is only visible in the United States. You can see the company's altered home page on the right and you can read their argument here.
This all sounds pretty bad, why are so many people for it?
The argument is best summed up by News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch as posted on Twitter: "Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying."
Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying.—
Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 14, 2012
Additionally, Robert Bennett, a senior research fellow at a technology think tank and whose work both SOPA and PIPA are based on, told the San Francisco Chronicle that "The critics either don't understand what the bills do or are misrepresenting what the bills do." Bennett further stated that the bills wouldn't be as far-reaching or sweeping as critics state.
Read more on Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation: 'One of Gardner's initial priorities after taking control of the foundation was identifying the best ways for the organization to sustain growth. At the time, Wikimedia was operating with a staff of just seven people on a shoestring budget of about $1 million. Among her first tasks was helping the foundation move in 2007 from St. Petersburg, Fla., to San Francisco, where it would be in close proximity to the bright minds — and big wallets — of Silicon Valley'
What does the White House have to say about this?
The White House released a statement on the legislation coming out against it, a key point of which was the quote: "We must avoid creating new cybersecurity risks or disrupting the underlying architecture of the Internet."
However, President Barack Obama has not specifically come out and said that he would veto the bill if it came across his desk.
It sounds like people could use this legislation to simply black out speech they don't like.
It isn't that extreme. A complainant would still need to get a court order to shut the site down.
Still … wouldn't that be unconstitutional?
This argument isn't a new one. In fact, the Stanford Law Review posted an article in late December basically saying that the entire thing was unconstitutional. Regardless of if the legislation would be struck down in the Supreme Court (and that isn't certain), it would likely take years to push it through the system.
Hasn't the legislation been blocked already?
Support for the bill has fallen through in the House and Senate, and Eric Cantor has stopped work on the bill in the House. While this effectively kills the current iteration of SOPA and PIPA, the bill is still being worked on by its proponents, who wrote a letter to the Senate majority leader asking to keep the bill going. You can read about how the bill is being reformed on the FP Tech Desk.
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on July 11, 2010 at 9:15 pm | angry anon
You have been in enough corp meetings to know that no one would every say "Meerly a set back".
WHAT WOULD BE SAID is something like
Mike: I told you so
Actievil Ilidan Lord:
"I don't think we are getting our good news message message across"
"Mike I want you to set up a cross functional team with Marketing, Sales, and Legal to make sure we fine tune our corporate communications"
"Remeber it's not a 'Portal to the Twisting Nether Hell'"
"It's a gateway to FaceTime Nirvana… where we get spiffs on all merchant click throughs…*cough*"
Mike: "Evil Lord I'm a software engineer not a miracle worker"
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text: I'll ask Steve to say something about this. He's much more in the loop regarding our manufacturing process than I am. Michael Tim Niemeyer wrote: > Hello Michael Shiloh, > > can you please clear this? > > * "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <mail at 3v1n0.net> [18-04-08 17:45]: >> I'm re-posting here some mails from the openmoko-devel "Future Button >> and LED software spec" thread [1] in which there are some infos about >> Freerunner hardware that I think they should be more visible. >> >> Summarizing, they say that the GTA02v6 hardware version fixes an >> hardware bug that causes the LEDs to use about 150mW instead of 25mW. >> Btw Werner Almesberger stated there that the first batch of GTA02 to be >> sold will be composed by GTA02v5 phones while GTA02v6 hardware will be >> sold only in a second phase. >> The hardware differencies between the two versions [2] (I've updated >> with this LEDs issue) don't seem so worthless since there are some power >> fixes (not only this one). >> Read below: >> >>> Andy Powell wrote: >>>> Shawn Rutledge wrote: >>>>> Werner Almesberger wrote: >>>>> Right now, we could only leave them (the LEDs) permanently on, which >>>>> comes with a >>>>> hefty electricity bill, particularly on GTA02v5 (each LED burns about >>>>> 150mW). In GTA02v6, this should come down to about 25mW, maybe less. >>>> But GTA02v5 is not going to ship, is it? >>>> >>>>> Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: >>>>>> Werner Almesberger wrote: >>>>>> Last thing I've heard, the first units will be GTA02v5 :-( >>>>>> >>>>>>> thomasg wrote: >>>>>>> @Werner: do you know - or can you figure out - how many GTA02v5 will >>>>>>> leave the factory and reach the customers? >>>>>> I've heard something like "thousands". However, I've also heard that >>>>>> there'll be some sort of fix for the LED problem in these GTA02v5. >>>>> Why this? Why not selling v6 directly? And... Which are other diffs >>>>> between v5 and v6? I think that the power usage of every element of the >>>>> phone is vital. >>>>> And which kind of fix for v5 is planned? >>> I certainly think that this should be made very very clear to people >>> buying the first batches and not just left as a passing comment on the dev >>> list. >> So why shipping semi-bugged hardware if there's a fixed version ready? >> >> [1] http://tinyurl.com/6p2mct >> [2] http://tinyurl.com/6knk5m >> >> -- >> Treviño's World - Life and Linux >> http://www.3v1n0.net/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community at lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > > > Tim Niemeyer


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The Critic, Facebook for the 1880s
The Critic was a weekly society paper bringing "news, society, drama, and history" to Richmond from September 1887 to December 1890. The paper entertained its readers with articles and jokes, household advice, etiquette, and a gossip column called "Society Chat", while serving as a vehicle for advertisements directed toward women. Columns such as "The Stage", a theatrical review, and a weekly column dedicated to ladies' fashion, as well as advertisements for bicycles and sewing machines, and features about bathing and other leisure activities at the seashore, provide a window to the culture of Richmond society during the Gilded Age.
In March of 1890, proprietor and editor William Cabell Trueman transformed the paper into a weekly periodical offering more satire, fiction, and artwork with the intent to appeal to the whole family while still publishing a popular genealogy column and the familiar society, fashion, and household content. Under Trueman, The Critic aspired to rival Life magazine, promising to be a "startling innovation not only in Richmond, not only in Virginia, but in the South!"
While preparing the title history for The Critic, I was amused by similarities in social networking sites of today, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, to the paper. At one point, as I scrolled through the reel of microfilm, I exclaimed to no one in particular, "It's the printernet!" Thank goodness nobody heard me.
A stroll through your typical Facebook news feed of 1888 might go something like this:
Your friend William Cabell Trueman has shared an article, "Animals that Laugh".
As you may already know, even as far back as the 1870s humans were obsessed with ridiculous photos of cats. Maybe The Critic didn't invent LOLcats, but it certainly supplied a demand. Right now … read more »


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NEW YORK - Increasing the number of hamburgers and other red meat people eat on a daily basis is linked to a higher risk of developing diabetes down the road, according to a new study.
"I think the difference is enough to encourage people at least not to increase red meat consumption, and then think about ways to reduce the consumption," said the study's lead author An Pan, a professor at the National University of Singapore, in an email to Reuters Health.
The study can't prove eating red meat causes diabetes, but past studies have tied eating it to the risk of type 2 diabetes, which is what happens when the body either does not produce enough insulin or ignores the insulin it needs to turn food into energy (see Reuters Health story of February 6, 2013 here: reut.rs/11KIqyp).
About 26 million Americans have diabetes and between 90 and 95 per cent of those cases are type 2, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Earlier studies on red meat - such as beef, pork and lamb - didn't account for participants changing how much of it they ate over time, Pan said.
For the new study, Pan and colleagues followed about 149,000 US men and women for 12 to 16 years. Every four years, the participants were asked about how much red meat they ate per day.
Overall, the participants reported eating between half a serving and two servings every day. A serving is equal to about two slices of bacon, one hot dog or one three-ounce hamburger.
By the end of the study, there were 7,540 cases of type 2 diabetes reported.
There were 1,758 cases of diabetes among the 41,236 people who didn't change how much red meat they ate on a daily basis.
People who added more than half a serving per day of red meat had about two cases of diabetes per 300 people, compared to about one case in the group who didn't change the amount of red meat they ate.
Decreasing the amount of red meat a person ate was not tied to any differences in the first four years.
But after the researchers took into account factors such as how much red meat people initially ate, whether they were married, and family history of various conditions, eating less red meat was tied to a 14 per cent decreased risk of developing type 2 diabetes over the next 12 to 16 years.
Pan told Reuters Health it could be that "if you are doing some 'bad' things, you will see the impact immediately, but for the 'good' lifestyle habit to have an effect, you may need to wait longer and accumulate more moderate changes."
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In an invited commentary accompanying the new study in JAMA Internal Medicine, William Evans, head of the Muscle Metabolism Discovery Performance Unit at GlaxoSmithKline in Durham, North Carolina, said it may be misleading to simply warn people away from "red meat."
"I think fundamentally 'red meat' has become a pejorative term… There are cuts of beef that have less fat than some chicken," Evans, who also teaches at Duke University, said.
Alice Lichtenstein, director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at Tufts University in Boston, said it's important to consider the whole diet.
"If someone reduces their meat intake by substituting cheese, I don't think they're going to realise any benefit," said Lichtenstein, who was not involved with the new research.


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Kristen Stewart was spotted yesterday at the salon. They were testing out new wigs and hair options. Am told that are looking into the possibility of not weaving it so that she can just rip that sh-t off at the end of the day and be done, although it probably takes forever and a lot more effort. They're still figuring it out. And there's still time.
Shooting began yesterday on Eclipse – am told exclusively that they filmed scenes involving "Jasper & Maria" in a dessert dream sequence that takes place in Texas from way back in the old days, like the 1800s. Jackson's been training on horseback and so far they say he's looking pretty comfortable. It's the natural bow in his legs, non?
Meanwhile Nikki Reed and Elizabeth Reaser hooked up again for some shopping, helping boost the Canadian economy. You'll note Reaser is carrying a small Blubird bag. It's a good store with a better Missoni selection than Holt Renfrew and last winter I bought a gorgeous Hanii Y dress there on sale for a steal.
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Navy sailor Lindsay Cooper, age 24, tearfully told the New York Post about her radiation sickness: "My thyroid is so out of whack that I can lose 60 to 70 pounds in one month and then gain it back the next. My menstrual cycle lasts for six months at a time, and I cannot get pregnant. It's ruined me."1
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1 – "Navy sailors have radiation sickness after Japan rescue." Laura Italiano and Kerry Murtha, New York Post, December 22, 2013.
2 – "Fukushima Radiation Hits 'US West Coast.'" DNA, topinfopost.com, December 29, 2013.
3– "The adaptive potentials of those who worked in the cleanup of the aftermath of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station under the influence of different treatment methods." Lik Sprava, Ukraine, Apr-Jun 2000.
4 – "Spirulina- natural sorbent of radionucleides." Research Institute of Radiation Medicine, Czech Republic. Belarus, Sep 1993.
5 – "Evaluation of radioprotective action of a mutant (E-25) form of Chlorella vulgaris in mice." Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 1993.
6 – "The radioprotective effects of aqueous extract from chlorococcal freshwater algae (Chlorella kessleri) in mice and rats." Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1989.
7 – "Iodine tablets: how iodine protects the thyroid from radiation." Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2011
8 – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Potassium Iodide
9 – "Elevated airborne beta levels in Pacific/West Coast US States and trends in hypothyroidism among newborns after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown" Open Journal of Pediatrics, March 2013.
10 – "Radioprotection by metals: selenium." Advances in Space Research, 1992.
11 – "Radioprotective role of selenium after single-dose radioiodine (¹³¹I) exposure to red blood cells of rats." Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology, 2011.
12 – "The influence of Parachlorella beyerinckii CK-5 on the absorption and excretion of methylmercury (MeHg) in mice." The Journal of Toxicological Sciences, Feb. 2010.
13 – "Effect of prolonged dietary zeolites on survival rate and intestinal reaction toward irradiation in mice of different age." Radiats Biol Radioecol, Russia, 2001.