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Statement on Upcoming Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
January 12, 2007
On Eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger—former President of University of Michigan, whose Affirmative Action policies made Supreme Court Precedent—Calls for Continued Progress on Equal Opportunity
New York, Jan. 12, 2007—Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger—a former dean of the law school and president of the University of Michigan who was named defendant in the cases of Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger that upheld the University's affirmative action programs – today issued the following statement in advance of the national holiday observing the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Last week, the University of Michigan was forced to comply with curbs on affirmative action as a result of last November's Michigan Proposition 2 referendum.
On Monday we will mark the seventy-eighth birthday of America 's "trumpet of conscience," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We pause to remember his historic accomplishments in ending legal segregation and winning the voting rights of every American—and to consider the work we all still have to do to make his dream of equal opportunity for all a living reality in our nation.
Many want to believe that prejudice is a relic of history. Others of us wish this were true, but conscience and experience tell us better. In the last year, we have seen a majority of Michigan voters pass a ballot measure to dismantle all public affirmative action programs—thus toppling the ladder of equal opportunity in higher education that so many of us fought to build and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in 2003. Even as I write, the Court is considering two public school cases out of Washington and Kentucky that seek to erode Brown v. Board of Education's resounding principle that "separate is inherently unequal."
Having taken such long strides toward the freedom Dr. King could only imagine from his Birmingham jail cell, we now find ourselves struggling merely to keep from sliding backwards from the kinds of diversity that make our universities, our businesses, our military, and our society so much stronger. As Dr. King knew so well, "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle." I hope that, not just on this day of the year but every day, we will honor Dr. King by joining in that continuous struggle to ensure that our country lives up to its highest ideals.


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The Crew Juniors Under-12 Girls West Gold captured the Ohio South Youth Soccer Association (OSYSA) State Cup Championship by defeating TFA Elite 6-5 on Sunday in come-from-behind fashion. The Crew Soccer Academy Under-18, Under-16 and Under-14 squads returned from play in Missouri and have a bye this upcoming weekend.
The U-12 Girls West Gold win marked the first OSYSA State Cup Championship for the Girls Crew Juniors program. Trailing by a seemingly insurmountable deficit of four goals early on in the contest, the team chipped away at the TFA lead until they were able to tie the game at five just before the end of regulation. From there, the team carried momentum into stoppage time where they scored an early goal to secure the comeback and put away TFA Elite for good by a final of 6-5. The U-11 Boys East Gold and U-12 Boys East Gold also had successful Cup Championship appearances as they both made it to the semifinal round in their respective divisions.
The Crew Soccer Academy U-18, U-16, and U-14 squads will resume U.S. Soccer Development Academy play on Saturday, November 2 when the sides square-off against affiliate program Crew Soccer Academy Wolves.
Heading into the bye this weekend, the most recent action between the three teams featured battles in Missouri on October 5-6 against the St. Louis Scott Gallagher Missouri and Metro sides for a combined record of 2-2-2, with the U-18s going a perfect 2-0-0 on the trip.
The U-18s recorded a pair of 1-0 victories, a welcomed turnaround after a 1-4-0 start to the campaign. October 5th's 1-0 win over St. Louis Scott Gallagher Missouri featured a 75th-minute headed goal from Javier Meneses-Wallace – his first of the season -- on a cross from Noah Hutchins. In the Sunday test against Scott Gallagher Metro, the club found another late-game goal with Matt Dudon finding his first goal of 2013 in the 74th minute off of a corner kick. In the last three matches, the U-18s are 2-0-1 with three shutouts over the last three weeks to improve to 3-4-1.
While the U-18s benefitted from a goal in the final 15 minutes to win on October 5, the U-16s found a late goal-against to be the difference in 1-0 loss to St. Louis Scott Gallagher Missouri. Despite several opportunities in the match, the U-16s were unable to convert and suffered the loss. The team would salvage a point on the weekend to go 0-1-1 after a 1-1 draw with Scott Gallagher Metro on Sunday, October 6. After trailing early at the 20th-minute mark, Devyn Etling found space and find the equalizer in the 54th minute.
In similar fashion to the weekend for the U-16s, the U-14s bounced back from an October 5 loss to secure a draw on October 6 to finish 0-1-1 on the weekend. After dominating possession in the first half against St. Louis Scott Gallagher Missouri, two goals in the first 15 minutes into the second half of play downed the visiting Crew. The October 6 result – a 0-0 draw against Scott Gallagher Metro – saw windy conditions in the first half as both teams had chances to go ahead. Injuries to Erick Gonzalez and Sean Zawadzki limited the Crew's attacking potency, and even with a barrage of attempts late in the game, the match ended scoreless.
Crew Youth Update: October 17
The Crew Juniors Under-12 Girls West Gold captured the Ohio South Youth Soccer Association (OSYSA) State Cup Championship by defeating TFA Elite 6-5 on Sunday in come-from-behind fashion. The Crew Soccer Academy Under-18, Under-16 and Under-14 squads returned from play in Missouri and have a bye this upcoming weekend.


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MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) -- A Native American tribe in Southern Oregon is buying a cattle ranch outside Medford near sites significant in the Rogue Indian Wars of the 1850s.
Wayne Shammel, attorney for the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, said Wednesday that the pending purchase is part of a continuing effort to diversify economic development, so the tribe is not so dependent on its casino in Canyonville.
He added it has no intention of building a casino on the ranch to compete with another tribal casino proposal in Medford.
The Rogue River Ranch covers 1,700 acres on the north side of the Rogue River between Upper and Lower Table Rocks. Shammel said it is near, but does not include, the site where a treaty was signed in 1953 creating a reservation for local tribes, and where an encampment of local Indians was attacked by a group of settlers, rekindling the wars.
"Historically, the location is absolutely unparalleled in terms of Southern Oregon native and pioneer history," Shammel said.
While the Rogue Valley was south of the Cow Creek Band's traditional territory, there was intermarriage, the two groups shared a common language, and ancestors of modern Cow Creek tribal members lived on the Table Rocks reservation, Shammel said.
Indians from the Table Rocks reservation were marched north to reservations on the coast, where many died of diseases.
The pending purchase was first reported by the Mail Tribune newspaper (http://bit.ly/11CyxDu ).
If the purchase goes through, it would double the agricultural holdings of the tribe, said tribal spokeswoman Susan M. Ferris.
"Everyone knows Indian casino gaming will not last forever," she told the Mail Tribune. "Tribes working to diversify their economy know that."
The Cow Creeks own the Seven Feathers Casino on Interstate 5 in Canyonville and have opposed a proposal by the Coquille Tribe to build a second casino in Medford. The Coquille Tribe owns The Mill casino in North Bend on U.S. Highway 101.
There are about 150 Cow Creek tribal members in the Rogue Valley, and the tribe is opening a medical office in Medford, Shammel said. The tribe hopes to use the ranch, which includes a small feedlot, to grow hay and alfalfa and raise cattle.


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Saturday, September 1, 2012
Caramel cookie bars
My sisters are here, and my littlest sister likes to bake stuff with me. I was flipping through the things I've starred in google reader and came upon this recipe for salted caramel chocolate chip cookie bars by gourmet girl. Ok! Looks good! We used caramels I had bought and I tossed in white chocolate chips since we didn't have enough milk chocolate chips. So good, dudes. Have people coming over? Make this. I halved the recipe since the recipe was huge and there are only three or four of us eating these, but feel fee to double.
Caramel cookie bars
Adapted gluten free from gourmet girls recipe
2 c gf flour mix
1/2 t xanthan gum
1/2 t salt
1/2 t baking soda
1 1/2 sticks of butter, melted
1 c brown sugar
1/2 c white sugar
1 egg + 1 yolk
1 T vanilla
a 12 oz bag of chocolate chips (or about a cup of each white and milk chocolate chips)
about 15 salted caramels or regular ones
Preheat the oven to 350 and grease an 8x8 pan. Beat together the flour mix, xanthan gum, salt and baking soda. In another bowl, beat together the butter and sugars. Stir in the eggs and vanilla, then the flour mix. Dump in the chocolate chips and stir. Spread half of the cookie mix on the bottom of the pan. Spread out the caramels over the top, then scoop the rest of the dough on top, and bake for 25-30 minutes. Cool mostly before cutting, because the caramel is molten lava.
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Oh wow, these bars sound sooooo good! I love salted caramels in any form. Great recipe!ReplyDelete
- Natalya1:21 PM
Oh my goodness, that sounds amazing! My daughter doesn't like caramel though! But I will definitely have to give this a try. :)ReplyDelete
Natalya, Ruff House Art
Hurray! My family has a big pre-thanksgiving dessert night, since we are always too full after thanksgiving dinner to actually eat dessert. And my daughter had to go gluten free this year so I've been trying to think of a dessert I could take that wouldn't be avoided by everyone but me and her. I think this is it! Thank you!ReplyDelete
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Patient or user experience has never been more important in the healthcare industry than now.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers report found that customer experience and not price is the overriding factor when it comes to choosing a healthcare provider. In fact, only 8% rated price as the No. 1 purchase driver in healthcare decision-making, compared with 69% in the airlines/leisure industry and 55% in retail.
The survey of 6,000 consumers across several industries formed the basis of the new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, which found that the "consumerism movement gained traction as individuals were asked to spend more of their own money on services and products such as insurance premiums, deductibles, and copayments."
The report talks about four factors that are shaping the customer experience in healthcare.
- As patients pay more for healthcare, they are demanding the same type of customer experience they derive from other industries.
- As the government and others have pushed for value, organizations are trying to compete more for members and that has led to prioritizing quality, transparency and managing costs.
- Telemedicine, mobile health, social media, and retail clinics have led to an increasing appetite for on-demand healthcare.
- Greater access to information and the desire for it is also fundamentally altering how information flow occurs in the industry and prompting a review of it.
At the same time that customer experience is being colored by these factors, healthcare stakeholders need to realize that when it comes to healthcare, consumers may not be as willing to share their positive experiences.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers report from 2011 found that only 44% of consumers actually share their positive experience in the health insurance industry, 54% in the health provider industry compared with 70% share good experiences in retail, and 64% in the hotel industry.
While they may not be as willing to share their good experiences, personal experiences still count the most when choosing a provider or a hospital.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers report found that 42% reported that personal experience counted the most when selecting a doctor or hospital compared with 21% who felt that personal influence had the biggest impact on their choice in the retail sector.
All of which means that this is the "moment of truth" in the healthcare industry when it comes to understanding and enhancing the healthcare experience.
Some specific recommendations from the report include:
- open up forums for customer feedback;
- give employees the freedom and train customer-facing employees well so that they can have the power to change the customer experience;
- and focus on developing solutions that increase transparency, knowledge, and convenience for customers.
This article, which first appeared July 27, 2012, was reprinted from MedCityNews.com with permission from MedCity Media.


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I'm hooked, so completely hooked. The popular 39 Clues series now has another fan after I read book 1: The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones. Meant for middle school children ages 8-12+, the series reminds me of an interactive The Da Vinci Code for kids, sans religion. The multi-media adventure series combines 10 books, an online game, collectible cards and cash prizes in a way sure to excite even the most reluctant readers. (You must read the books in order to fully participate in the online game. However, the book series can be read and enjoyed without playing the online game.)
Power, riches, codes, exotic destinations, and famous individuals. The members Cahill family don't fully realize the history of their family lineage until the matriarch of their family, Grace, dies. After an unusual reading of her will, they must choose between a million dollars or a dangerous, mysterious race that will send them all across the world to discover the Cahill family secret. The plot centers around orphan siblings, Dan (age 11) and Amy (age 14) as they try to find and decode the 39 clues before their evil, sneaky relatives beat them to it. In The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones - Book 1 they follow messages involving their ancestor Benjamin Franklin, end up in Paris and try to discover the first of many clues.
The exciting adventure captivated me and left me wishing I could read the entire series immediately. What kind of secret could make one the most powerful person on the planet? I must admit, I'm intrigued. I've heard many kids find the series just as fascinating. One fellow blogger sent this response via twitter, "My youngest, 13 yo boy loves those books and the game!" What an exciting way to encourage children, both boys and girls, to read. I briefly logged into the online game, but did not get much of a chance to play around yet. The winners of the first episode have been selected but readers can still join and try for subsequent episode prizes. My only complaint: the books include sets of cards that have unique ID numbers for use online. The numbers can only be used one time, so if you have multiple family members that want to play, each will need to get their own set of cards.
The Maze of Bones is the first book in the 10-book series. Each book in the series is written by a different author and includes a set of collectible game cards. A prominent figure from history is featured in each book, the first two books involving Benjamin Franklin and Mozart, respectively.
The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones - Book 1 by Rick Riordan. Scholastic (September 2008); 220 pages; ISBN 9780545060394Related links:
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Book 3 by Peter Lerangis – The 39 Clues: The Sword Thief – comes out March 3!
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Aaron Lewis Berates Crowd For Not Being Quiet, Storms Off Stage
WARNING: Language
For the second time in as many months, Staind frontman turned Big Machine country music recording artist Aaron Lewis has hard cussed a crowd out for not being quiet enough during one of his acoustic concerts, and then stormed off stage, not finishing the full show. The most recent incident occurred Saturday night (3-9) at the Criterion in Oklahoma City near the end of his set, and was especially jarring.
"Shut the fuck up!" Aaron Lewis shouted at the crowd after he had unplugged his guitar, and stood at the edge of the stage to play his song "Thank You." "Listen, I'm fucking good. I don't have to do this."
After waiting and strumming his guitar a bit to see if the crowd would calm down, Lewis then walked back to the microphone to say, "Listen, if you don't shut the fuck up, you can't even hear the guitar. I've got three more minutes. Three. Can you please for once, through the whole fucking evening. You guys have talked all fucking night. Shut the fuck up, or I'm done."
Lewis then walked back out to the front of the stage, saying off the mic, "It's so fucking ironic that this song is a thank you, and I can't get you to shut the fuck up to hear it." Shortly thereafter, he stormed off.
The incident is very similar to one that occurred at the Pharr Events Center Saturday, February 2nd when Lewis also walked off the stage, complaining the crowd was too loud. Some news outlets jumped on the story as one of racial insensitivity after one fan told Lewis he needed to tell people to be quiet "en Español." Pharr is a Texas border town adjacent to McAllen that is 93% Hispanic. Lewis responded, "I'm sorry, I don't know how to speak Spanish, I'm American."
In both instances, the majority of noise from the crowd that can be heard on video is not heckling or booing, but other people in the crowd trying to quiet their fellow concert goers, ironically exacerbating the crowd noise. As annoying as concert talkers can be at any show, they're especially caustic at a solo acoustic performance. Ultimately though, it's often up to the performer to hush the crowd with their music.
Aaron Lewis has been performing at solo acoustic shows for many years in between tours with Staid and full band country shows. His next record, State I'm In, is scheduled to be released on Big Machine April 12th.
READ: Bebe Rexha Throws F-Bomb Tantrum After Crowd Won't Sing "Meant To Be"


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William J. Casey's parents died when he was a boy and he was raised by his grandparents and his aunt in Shrewsbury and Rumson, New Jersey. He graduated from Red Bank Catholic High School and enrolled at St. Bonaventure College, where he studied, gained a reputation as a boxer and earned a reputation as a prankster and a nickname that stuck: "Wild Bill." Graduating with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1941, Casey was commissioned a second lieutenant in the field artillery through the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. His uncle had taught him how to fly a Curtis "Jenny" Biplane when Casey was a young man and Casey was one of the first Bona men accepted as an Army Air Corps student in the summer of 1941. He completed flight training school in February 1942 and earned his aviator's wings.
In the midst of his training, the United States entered World War II and Casey's first assignment was as a P38 fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater. In June 1942, while flying in the Battle of Midway, his two-engine fighter was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire and one engine was disabled. The plane lost altitude and skipped across the waves until, having run out of fuel, Casey ditched in the Pacific Ocean. He eventually made contact with an American submarine and was returned to his unit. Soon after this, he was transferred to the Eighth Air Force in the European Theater of Operations and assigned as a B17 Flying Fortress pilot. His comrades would remember that although he had switched to flying bombers, Casey continued to fly as if he was a fighter pilot.
Casey flew his first bomber missions in a 367th Bomb Squadron B17 named "Banshee" and on November 23, 1942, after delivering his ordnance on a German submarine base at St. Nazaire, France, a large formation of Focke-Wolfe 190 fighters attacked the American formation. Diving in and firing at the Americans from as close as 50 feet, the German fighters damaged a number of planes, but Casey's crew, during the ensuing hour-long battle, accomplished the extraordinary feat of shooting down seven German fighters in twelve minutes. The citation for the Air Medal Casey received read that "his action undoubtedly saved his own crew and aided materially in the defense of the other planes in the flight."
Several days later, while part of a 91st Bomb Group mission, Casey saw another American B17 trailing smoke and being harassed by enemy fighters. "Smoke and flames were spurting from [the plane] as Casey, abandoning ordinary flight procedure, wheeled his big ship around like a fighter, climbed over the low-flying Fortress, and flew above it" while the enemy attacked. Having entered an aerial hornet's nest, Casey protected the crippled plane as it returned safely to England, and the "Banshee" claimed two more enemy fighters. In recognition of his talent and bravery, Casey earned several Air Medals and for action on 27 February 1943, the Distinguished Flying Cross, as he continued to fly his B17. On 17 April 1943, he was wounded when his Flying Fortress was shot down over Bremen, Germany. Having ejected from the plane, he was subsequently taken prisoner and eventually held near Dachau. In April 1945, Casey escaped from the camp and joining with other Americans, acquired a German ambulance which he drove through enemy lines to freedom at a British air base. The War in Europe ended while he convalesced.
Casey remained in the United States Air Force until retiring as a major in 1960. He married and had a son. He earned a doctorate in political science and as a Fulbright Fellow studied in El Salvador for 18 months. He taught at the University of Florida and at St. Leo College before retiring from teaching and passed away on 17 March 1988.
Louis V. Iasiello grew up in Staten Island, New York and graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a BA in History in 1972. He went on to earn an M.S. in Education from Niagara University in 1973, and that same year entered the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) and began his preparation for solemn vows and ministry. He was awarded a Masters of Divinity from the Washington Theological Union in 1977 and following ordination to the diaconate, he ministered in Anapolis, Brazil. After his ordination to the priesthood, he was assigned to a Franciscan parish in a Hispanic community in the Bronx and then became chairperson of the Modern Languages Department at Bishop Timon High School in Buffalo, New York.
Iasiello was commissioned as a Navy Chaplain Lieutenant (Junior Grade) in the Naval Reserves in 1981, and in July 1983, he was recalled to active duty. His active duty assignments include: Naval Air Station, Memphis; U.S. Coast Guard, Kodiak, Alaska; USS Ranger (CV-61) during Operation Earnest Will in the Iran-Iraq War and other deployments to Korea and the Persian Gulf; Second Marine Division; (8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Regiment, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Special Operations Capable [MEU SOC] and Marine Forces Panama (including two deployments to Norway, Operation Just Cause, Panama, and deployments to the Mediterranean.)
A Distinguished Military Graduate of Command and Staff Naval War College in 1990, Father Louis Iasiello has served as Assistant Fleet Chaplain, U.S. Atlantic Fleet and Deputy Chaplain, U. S. Atlantic Command; Staff Chaplain Joint Task Force JTF-160 (with deployments to Cuba and Haiti); Director for Operational Ministry, Atlantic Fleet, and Director, Naval Chaplains School. After his selection to flag rank, he became the first chaplain flag officer to hold both the positions of Deputy Chief of Navy Chaplains and Chaplain of the United States Marine Corps.
He also has served as a representative to the Presbyteral Council of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, since 1994, as a member of the Board of Trustees of Saint Bonaventure University since September 2000 and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society since 2003.
In 2003, Father Louis earned his Ph.D. from Salve Regina University, writing a highly respected dissertation entitled Jus In Bello: Key Issues for a Contemporary Assessment of Just Behavior in War.
Father Louis is currently the twenty-third Chief of Navy Chaplains, and the highest ranking graduate of St. Bonaventure currently serving on active duty. His personal decorations include the Legion of Merit (Gold Star in lieu of two awards), the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal (three awards); Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medal (two awards), Coast Guard Commendation Medal; Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal; the Combat Action Ribbon; and numerous other unit and service citations and awards.
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Via Sports By Brooks, here's video of Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy absolutely losing his shit on the media following Saturday night's 49-45 win over Texas Tech.
Gundy was disgusted with Jenni Carlson's recent column that suggested OSU quarterback Bobby Reid had a questionable attitude. As you can clearly see, Gundy wasn't having any of it. Hell, it was almost enough to make him want to puke. (And that, my friends, is not an easy thing to do!)
Man, I can't wait to have kids.
Mike Gundy Rants And Raves Over Columnist ... [Sports By Brooks]
Reid Is Still The Most Talented Signal-Caller, But Attitude Is Reason For Change [The Oklahoman]


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A facial reconstruction based on the skull of King Richard III is unveiled by the Richard III Society, in London on Feb. 5, 2013.
The face of England's King Richard III was revealed for the first time in more than 500 years on Tuesday following a reconstruction based on a skull unearthed from a parking lot in the city of Leicester.
After carrying out a series of scientific investigations on bones exhumed from the site last year, the University of Leicester announced on Monday that the remains belonged to Richard III, who died in battle in 1485.
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Michael Ibsen, a descendant of England's King Richard III, poses for pictures with a plastic model made from the recently discovered skull of the king, during a press conference in London on Feb. 5, 2013.
As detailed by NBC News Science Editor Alan Boyle, DNA was extracted from bone samples and compared with modern-day mitochondrial DNA from two direct descendants of Richard III's family, including Michael Ibsen, a Canadian-born cabinetmaker who is a 17th-generation descendant of Richard III's eldest sister, Anne of York.
The skeleton's relatively delicate structure was consistent with descriptions of Richard III's physical appearance, University of Leicester historian Lin Foxhall said.
The bones of Richard III, who reigned for two years, have been discovered in Leicester, England, and they indicate that his spine was twisted by scoliosis and that he received eight head wounds in battle. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.


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In Mali, Islamic militants beat journalist, close radio station
NEW YORK, August 8, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Members of an Islamist militant group attacked a radio journalist in Mali on Sunday and ordered his station off the air, according to local journalists and news reports. The attack was in retaliation for the station's coverage of local protests, according to local journalists and a leader of the Islamist group.
Four gunmen of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), a Salafist militant group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, stormed the studios of Radio Adar Khoïma in the northeast town of Gao shortly after 9 p.m. and attacked Malick Aliou Maïga, a journalist hosting a live show, local journalists told CPJ. The men dragged Maïga, who is also a local correspondent of the U.S.-government-funded station Voice of the America (VOA), out of the studio and used rifle butts to beat him until he became unconscious, VOA told CPJ.
The assailants were led by Aliou Mahamar Touré, the man appointed police chief by the MUJOA. The group is one of a number of Islamist militant groups in the country linked to Al-Qaeda's North African offshoot who have overtaken Mali's vast Saharan north and imposed strict Sharia law, news reports said.
The armed men dropped Maïga off at a hospital after they beat him, according to Boubacar Djibrila, the station's director. Maïga is slowly recovering from his injuries at the hospital, Djibrila told CPJ.
Djibrila told CPJ that during the attack Touré had ordered Radio Adar Khoïma off the air until further notice, and did not give a reason for the shutdown. The station, which operates exclusively in the evening hours due to electricity shortages, has not aired since Sunday, Djibrila said. The station has been in operation since 2004, he said.
In an interview with CPJ on Monday, Touré said, "Mr. Maïga does not know how to speak. That is the reason he was taken yesterday night-to give him some advice." Touré also said the journalist had used the station to incite the public to protest against the group. Hundreds of protesters gathered on Sunday to prevent the MUJAO from cutting off the hand of a man accused of stealing, according to news reports.
"We condemn the brutal assault of journalist Malick Aliou Maïga and are concerned about the safety of all journalists working in Mali," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita from New York. "Radio Adar Khoïma must also be allowed to resume broadcasting, and should not be penalized for its reporting."
The Malian government condemned the attack on Maïga in a press statement, which did not reference the closure of the station, according to news reports. In a press statement sent to CPJ, VOA condemned what it termed a "brutal attack" on Maïga, describing him as "one of the very few independent journalists still reporting from the region," and "urged all sides in the region to refrain from targeting journalists."
Maïga has been reporting for VOA since 2007, the station told CPJ. Sunday's attack was the third time he has been attacked by hardline Islamists since April, according to VOA.
At least a dozen Malian journalists have been either arrested, kidnapped, detained, assaulted or threatened since a March 22 coup that ousted President Amadou Toumani Touré (no relation to the Islamist police chief), according to CPJ research.


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ONE Spirit is a Native American service organization founded to assist and support American Indians. We are proud to think of our organization, ONE Spirit, as a group of people who exchange friendship with American Indians. At present, our focus are the Oglala Lakota in South Dakota. We invite you to become part of ONE Spirit's network of sponsors, partners, friends and volunteers, to dream with the Lakota people a new dream - and to help the dreams come alive!
We help the Lakota meet their basic needs and provide a culturally rich life for their youth. Our programs promote an intercultural relationship that recognizes that we are all related and that American Indians are an equal and valued part of our society. The goal of all programs is to reduce or eliminate hunger, to replace the high drop out and suicide rates among youth with an enthusiasm for learning and a pride in their Lakota heritage, and to provide protection from the winter cold that can drop to 40 below zero.
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I2P dev meeting, April 25, 2005
Quick recap
- Present:
cervantes, Complication, inkeystring, jdot, jrandom, lsmith, perv, spinky,
Full IRC Logg
16:12 < jrandom> 0) hi
16:12 < jrandom> 1) Net status and 0.6.1.17
16:12 < jrandom> 2) I2Phex
16:13 < jrandom> 3) ???
16:13 < jrandom> 0) hi
16:13 * jrandom waves
16:13 <@cervantes> 'lo
16:13 < jrandom> weekly status notes posted up @ http://dev.i2p.net/pipermail/i2p/2006-April/001283.html
16:14 < jrandom> while y'all skim that, lets jump into 1) Net status
16:14 < jrandom> so, as most of y'all have seen, we've got a new release out, and so far, the results have been pretty positive
16:15 <@cervantes> (yay!)
16:15 < jrandom> still not where we need to be, but it pretty much sorts out the main issues we were seeing
16:15 < jrandom> aye, 'tis nice to have halfway decent tunnel build rates again, at 2+ hop tunnels :)
16:16 * jrandom has 50%+ success rates on another router w/ 1hop tunnels
16:17 < jrandom> I think the last few changes in 0.6.1.17 should help avoid this sort of congestion collapse in the future as well
16:17 < jrandom> the user-visible result though is that we'll occationally see lease expirations, but rather than compounding itself, it'll back off
16:17 * cervantes sparks up azureus
16:18 <+Complication> This morning, I recorded client tunnel (length 2 +/- 1) success rates near 35%
16:18 <+Complication> Currently it's lower, since I tried making some modifications, and the latest of them wasn't so great :D
16:18 <@cervantes> jrandom: well done tracking that down - we were beginning to look like freenet for a bit :)
16:19 < jrandom> *cough* ;)
16:20 <+fox> <inkeystring> jrandom: would you mind briefly describing the backoff mechanism? i'm working on something like that for freenet 0.7 at the moment
16:21 < jrandom> inkeystring: we've had a transport layer backoff mechanism in place to cut down transmissions to a peer when the transport layer is overloaded, but that wasn't sufficient
16:21 <@cervantes> *cough* did I say freenet, I meant tor
16:21 <+fox> <inkeystring> :-)
16:22 < jrandom> inkeystring: the new change was to propogate that up to a higher level so that we stopped trying to build tunnels when our comm layer was saturated
16:22 < jrandom> (rather than sending more tunnel build attempts)
16:22 <+fox> <inkeystring> thanks - does the transport layer only back off when packets are lost, or is there some way for the receiver to control the flow?
16:23 * jrandom seems to recall discussing the impact of congestion *vs* routing w/ toad a few times (on irc and my old flog), though i don't recall any net-positive solution :/
16:23 < jrandom> the receiver can NACK, and we've got hooks for ECN, but they haven't been necessary
16:23 <+fox> <inkeystring> yeah the debate has resurfaced on freenet-dev :-) still no silver bullet
16:24 <+fox> <inkeystring> cool, thanks for the information
16:24 <+Complication> They're using UDP too these days, aren't they?
16:24 < jrandom> currently, the highly congested peers have trouble not with per-peer throttling, but with the breadth of the peer comm
16:24 <+Complication> (as the transport protocol)
16:24 <+fox> <inkeystring> breadth = number of peers?
16:24 < jrandom> yes
16:25 < jrandom> with the increased tunnel success rates, peers no longer need to talk to hundreds of peers just to get a tunnel built
16:25 < jrandom> so they can get by with just 20-30 peers
16:25 < jrandom> (directly connected peers, that is)
16:26 <+fox> <inkeystring> i guess that's good news for nat hole punching, keepalives etc?
16:26 < jrandom> otoh, w/ 2-300 active SSU connections, a 6KBps link is going to have trouble
16:26 < jrandom> aye
16:26 <+fox> <inkeystring> Complication: yes
16:27 <+fox> <inkeystring> (in the 0.7 alpha)
16:27 <+Complication> Aha, then they're likely facing some similar stuff
16:27 <+Complication> I hope someone finds the magic bullet :D
16:27 < jrandom> in a different way though. the transport layer is a relatively easy issue
16:27 <+fox> <inkeystring> i think they might have reused some of the SSU code... or at least they talked about it
16:27 < jrandom> (aka well studied for 30+ years)
16:28 < jrandom> but i2p (and freenet) load balancing works at a higher level than point to point links, and has different requirements
16:28 <+fox> <inkeystring> yeah it's the interaction with routing that's tricky
16:29 < jrandom> aye, though i2p's got it easy (we don't need to find specific peers with the data in question, just anyone with capacity to participate in our tunnels)
16:30 <+fox> <inkeystring> so there's no efficiency loss if you avoid an overloaded peer...
16:30 <+fox> <inkeystring> whereas in freenet, routing around an overloaded peer could increase the path length
16:30 <+fox> <inkeystring> anyway sorry this is OT
16:31 < jrandom> np, though explaining why the changes in 0.6.1.17 affect our congestion collapse was relevent :)
16:31 < jrandom> ok, anyone else have anything for 1) Net status?
16:32 <+Complication> Well, as actually mentioned before, while running pure .17, I observed a noticable periodism in bandwidth and active peers
16:32 <+Complication> And a few other people seem to experience it too, though I've got no clue about how common it is
16:33 <+Complication> I've been wondering about its primary causes, mostly from the perspective of tunnel throttling, but no solution yet
16:33 <+Complication> I managed to get my own graphs to look flatter, but only at the cost of some overall deterioration
16:33 <+Complication> Tried modifications like:
16:34 <+Complication> > _log.error("Allowed was " + allowed + ", but we were overloaded, so ended up allowing " + Math.min(allowed,1));
16:34 <+Complication> (this was to avoid it totally refraining from build attempts for its own tunnels)
16:35 < jrandom> ah right
16:35 <+Complication> (oh, and naturally the loglevel is wacky, since I changed those for testing)
16:35 < jrandom> we've got some code in there that tries to skew the periodicity a bit, but it isn't working quite right (obviously)
16:36 * perv just shot his system :(
16:36 <+Complication> But I tried some things like that, and tried reducing the growth factor for tunnel counts
16:36 < perv> is there an undelete for reiser4?
16:36 < jrandom> basically, if we just act as if tunnels expire (randomly) earlier than they actually do, it should help
16:36 <+Complication> Currently reading the big "countHowManyToBuild" function in TunnelPool.java :D
16:36 <+Complication> But I've not read it through yet
16:37 < jrandom> (though it'd obviously increase the tunnel build frequency, which prior to 0.6.1.17, wouldn't have been reasonable)
16:37 <+Complication> perv: there is something
16:37 < jrandom> hmm, putting a randomization in there would be tough Complication, as we call that function quite frequently
16:38 * perv considers salvaging and switching to gentoo
16:38 < jrandom> what i'd recommend would be to look at randomizing the expiration time of successfully built tunnels
16:38 <+Complication> perv: you're better off with reiser than ext3, certainly
16:38 <+Complication> perv: but I don't know it by heart
16:38 <+Complication> jrandom: true, sometimes it could overbuild this way
16:38 < jrandom> (so that the existing countHowManyToBuild thinks it needs them before it actually does)
16:38 <+Complication> (and sometimes it inevitably overbuilds, when tunnels break and it gets hasty)
16:40 <+Complication> Hmm, a possibility I've not considered...
16:41 <+Complication> Either way, playing with it too, but no useful observations yet
16:42 < jrandom> cool, i've got some tweaks i've been playing with on that, perhaps we can get those together for the next build to see how it works on the reasonably-viable net ;)
16:43 < spinky> Is there a stat where you can see the amount of overhead the i2p network adds to the application data?
16:43 < jrandom> "overhead" is such a loaded term... ;)
16:43 < jrandom> we call it the cost of anonymity ;)
16:43 < spinky> hehe
16:45 < jrandom> (aka not really. application layer payload on a perfect net w/ 0 congestion & 1+1hops gets something like 70-80% efficiency for the endpoints)
16:45 < jrandom> ((last i measured))
16:45 < jrandom> but thats really lab conditions
16:45 < jrandom> live net is much more complicated
16:47 < spinky> Right, I meant just the amount of extra data used for setting up tunnels, keys, padding etc
16:47 < spinky> ...compared to the application data transferred
16:47 < jrandom> depends on the message framing, congestion, tunnel build success rates, etc
16:48 < jrandom> a 2 hop tunnel can be built by the network bearing 20KB
16:48 <+Complication> I've wanted to test that sometimes, primarily with the goal of estimating the "wastefulness" of mass transfer applications like BitTorrent and I2Phex
16:48 <+Complication> But I never got around to doing a clean measurement between my two nodes
16:48 <+Complication> Some day, I'll get back to that, though
16:49 < jrandom> Complication: its pretty tough with chatty apps, much simpler to measure wget :)
16:49 <+Complication> How very true
16:50 <+Complication> In what I managed to try, no resemblance of precision was involved
16:54 < jrandom> ok, if there's nothing else on 1), lets slide on over to 2) I2Phex
16:55 < jrandom> Complication: whatcha upta? :)
16:55 <+Complication> Well, yesterday's commit was a fix to certain problems which some people experienced with my silly first-run detector
16:56 <+Complication> The first-run detector is now less silly, and bar reported that it seemed to start behaving normally
16:56 <+Complication> However, since I2Phex seems runnable already in current network conditions,
16:56 <+Complication> I'll try finding the rehash bug too.
16:57 <+Complication> If I only can
16:57 < jrandom> cool, i know that one has been haunting you for months now
16:57 <+Complication> What is interesting that mainline Phex may also have it, and locating + reading their observations is something I'll try doing too
16:58 < jrandom> but nice to hear the startup fix is in there
16:58 < jrandom> ah word
16:58 <+Complication> =is that
16:58 <+Complication> I can't confirm currently if mainline Phex has it or not, though - never seen it personally there
16:59 < jrandom> (intermittent bugs)--
16:59 <+Complication> It's difficult to cause in controlled fashion, and thus difficult to find
17:00 <+Complication> And on my side, that's about all currently
17:00 <+Complication> Later on, I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to limit the number of parallel peer contacting attempts I2Phex fires at a time
17:01 < jrandom> aye, likely
17:01 <+Complication> Since they'd create a whole bunch of NetDB lookups in a short time, and that could be potentially not-so-nice from an I2P router's perspective
17:02 < jrandom> and new destination contacts require elG instead of aes
17:02 <+Complication> But I've not read or written any actual code towards that goal yet
17:04 < jrandom> k np. perhaps the mythical i2phex/phex merge'll bundle a solution :)
17:04 <+Complication> And on my part, that's about all the news from the I2Phex front...
17:04 < jrandom> cool, thanks for the update and the effort looking into things!
17:05 < jrandom> ok, lets jump on over to 3) ???
17:05 < jrandom> anyone have anything else to bring up for the meeting?
17:05 < lsmith> hello! i just want to commend the devs on the fantastic improvements with the latest release, my total bw reads 0.9/1.4 KBps and i remain connected to irc... it's...insanely cool :)
17:05 <+Complication> :D
17:06 < jrandom> thanks for your patience along the way - supporting low bw users is critical
17:06 <@cervantes> lsmith: that's really good to
17:06 <@cervantes> * Connection Reset
17:06 < jrandom> heh
17:07 < lsmith> :)
17:09 < jrandom> oh, one other thing of note is that zzz is back, and with 'im comes stats.i2p :)
17:09 < jrandom> [wewt]
17:11 <+Complication> A quite useful source of comparison data :)
17:11 < jrandom> mos' def'
17:11 < jrandom> ok, anyone have anything else for the meeting?
17:13 < jrandom> if not...
17:13 < jdot> i have a post-baf question or two
17:13 < jrandom> heh ok, then lets get the baffer rollin' :)
17:13 * jrandom winds up...
17:13 * jrandom *baf*s the meeting closed


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Why bank stocks are immune to scandalAugust 24, 2012: 7:04 AM ET
Banks have had their share of bad publicity recently, but investors continue to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Standard Chartered (SCBFF) is a prime example.
The British bank's stock has recouped nearly all of the losses sustained earlier this month, when the bank was accused of laundering money for Iran.
U.S.-listed shares plunged to a low of $18.65 on Aug. 7, one day after banking regulators in New York threatened to revoke Standard Chartered's license. In the span of a week, the stock (both in the U.S. and in London) gained 14% after the bank settled the case, and is nearly back to where it was before the scandal.
Standard Chartered has plenty of company.
Barclays (BCS), another leading British bank, paid $453 million in fines to U.S. and U.K. regulators in June to settle allegations it manipulated key lending rates, including the closely watched Libor, going back to 2008.
The episode cost Bob Diamond his job as Barclays chief executive, but the bank's stock is now trading just below where it was before the settlement was announced.
Related: Bank stocks to go long on
Part of the reason why investors are so forgiving is that the fines pale in comparison to the size of the banks' assets.
"No matter how large a fine is, it's never meaningful in the long run," said Erin Davis, an analyst at Morningstar who covers Standard Chartered.
As part of its settlement with New York, Standard Chartered agreed to pay a $340 million fine, although the bank could still face federal penalties. The Treasury Department, Justice Department and the Federal Reserve are among those still investigating Standard Chartered.
Davis estimates the bank will pay an overall fine of $800 million, compared with its $600 billion of assets.
Another reason bank stocks tend to recover briskly is that the initial sell-off is often overdone.
"We've seen again and again that the market overreacts to litigation and regulatory issues," said Brad Hintz, a banking analyst at Sanford Bernstein. "That's because it is very difficult to judge whether you have permanent damage to the franchise, or just a headline issue."
Hintz said Standard Chartered "dodged a bullet" by settling with New York. But it's too soon to say the bank's reputation will not suffer long-term damage, he added.
Just take a look at UBS (UBS), said Davis.
After a rogue trader cost the bank $2 billion of losses last year, UBS has had to boost capital levels and scale back its activities in certain markets. The Swiss bank paid U.S regulators a $780 million fine in 2009 to settle criminal charges it helped wealthy Americans avoid taxes. UBS is also among the banks caught up in the Libor scandal.
U.S.-listed shares of UBS have declined 8% so far this year.
For banks that do not commit multiple transgressions, however, investors are willing to forgive and forget. "Investors often have short memories," said Davis.
Related: Standard Chartered should should deliver the truth
What's more, investors have become desensitized after being bombarded with bad headlines about the banking industry for the past four years, said Richard Bove, an analyst at Rochdale Securities.
Goldman Sachs (GS), Citibank (C), JPMorgan (JPM) have all settled charges they misled investors in complex mortgage-backed securities before the market crashed in 2008.
In April 2010, a federal judge approved a $26 billion settlement between states attorneys general and the nations top banks, including Bank of America (BAC) and Wells Fargo (WFC), over improper foreclosure procedures.
More recently, JPMorgan said that trading losses stemming from its London investment office totaled $5.8 billion, up from an initial estimate of just $2 billion.
Related: Libor and the folly of deregulation
Despite these high-profile scandals, bank stocks have recently helped lead the broader market higher.
The simple explanation for the resiliency is, in a word, profits. "Banks are making staggering amounts of money," said Bove.


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Monga Bay has an interview with Dr Karl Shuker about his new book The Encycloapedia of New and Rediscovered Animals.
In an interview with www.MongaBay.com, Shuker says the top three zoological discoveries since 1900 would have to be the okapi, the coelacanth, and the saola, also known as the Vu Quang ox. His new book highlights these three discoveries along with hundreds of others, including species discovered as recently as last year.
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a way for smaller businesses, as
well as laboratories or other third
parties, to get involved in developing and delivering warfighting
"If you build your system around
plug and play, there are going to be
other vendors watching," Oliver
said. "If they think they've got a
solution that they can bring to the
market more quickly, then at least
you have a backup, as opposed to a
proprietary legacy system that, once
you've locked in a contract, you're
locked in with the vendor for the
life of that system."
OA offers the potential of
addressing one of the major complaints of the defense industry:
that of development costs being
driven up by changing government
requirements. A plug-and-play OA
environment will enable industry
to more rapidly — and at less cost
— respond to changing requirements by changing out solutions
rather than re-architecting entire
combat systems.
Although the OA concept is founded on openness
and functions with standard interfaces, it actually
allows industry to preserve proprietary secrets within
"Nobody is saying they have to open up their black
boxes to give away their secrets, as long as they're willing
to meet the standardized interface requirements to allow
them to connect to the necessary systems," Oliver said.
By encouraging the best ideas to come forward, OA
opens up a program for more bidding by contractors
that are too small to be prime contractors on major programs. OA even allows program managers to acquire
components developed by nonprofit organizations.
"You can be sure if a small business that knew the
technology and knew the concerns [was] in the room,
it could challenge somebody who was proposing a
solution that wasn't optimum or might have been giving an existing vendor some kind of an advantage,"
Oliver said.
"That's the importance of bringing all the players
together and not having it done behind closed doors,"
he said. "Even if you have to do some making of the
sausage in smaller groups, [it helps to] roll it out on a
regular basis to get people to be able to poke holes at it
just to make sure that it's not being unduly influenced
by one group or another."
The Navy's new Littoral Combat Ships are being built with open architecture
computer hardware and software systems employing a modular design that
promotes greater interoperability and plug-and-play capability, and a means for
quickly upgrading system components. The newly commissioned USS
Freedom, the first Littoral Combat Ship, is shown here arriving at the U.S.
Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Dec. 10 before traveling on to Norfolk, Va.,
for post-delivery tests and sea trials.
Implementation of an OA marketplace structure is requiring industry to undertake changes to its business models.
"Industry is naturally reluctant to do this if they are
uncertain as to the government's intentions over the
long term," Benedict said. "As we become more consistent in our message about the use of OA principles and
practices, industry will be more focused on delivering
those values back to us. Our message to industry is
most powerful when we put it into our contracts."
The nexus of implementing OA is the program
manager, whose job has become more challenging —
and potentially more rewarding — with the acquisition
changes brought about by the OA emphasis. PEO IWS
has published the "OA Contract Guidebook for
Program Managers," which is mandatory for consultation for all new contracts issued by the PEO.
"We're asking program managers to assume a lot more
risks than they had when they had a prime contractor to
deliver [the systems]," Oliver said. "But did they really
not have the risks before? They were depending on that
prime vendor to coordinate all the risks, so it takes a different kind of perspective for the program manager."
Oliver said top leadership will need to reward program managers for assuming the increased risk of
depending on more small vendors and help the them
to adjust to the culture change.


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Apple Unveils New iMac — All New Line Features Sleek Aluminum 20- and 24-inch Designs — Apple® today unveiled an all new all-in-one iMac® line featuring gorgeous 20- and 24-inch widescreen displays encased in elegant and professional aluminum and glass enclosures.
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited, DailyTech, Podcasting News, Digital Trends, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and The Apple Core
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian Unlimited: Almost live from Apple launch
Tuan Nguyen / DailyTech: Apple Announces New iMacs and Accessories
Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends: Apple Refreshes iMac, Announces iLife '08
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core: The silent type: Apple quietly revs Mac mini
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple unveils new iMacs, updated apps — Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced two new iMacs at the start of an event held Tuesday at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. — The 20-inch and 24-inch iMacs are the latest editions of Apple's all-in-one iMac design.
Discussion: Crave, Ars Technica, Computerworld, WinBeta and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Rich Brown / Crave: The gadget blog: Mac Mini updated to Core 2 Duo CPUs
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica: New iMacs, iLife '08 arrive from Apple
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: Apple refreshes iMacs, as expected
Arneh / WinBeta: Apple unveils new iMacs
Apple Introduces iLife '08 — Major New Versions of iPhoto & iMovie — Apple® today introduced iLife® '08, the most significant upgrade ever to Apple's award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, featuring a major new version of iPhoto® and a completely reinvented …
Discussion: Infinite Loop, DailyTech, Compiler, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Engadget and Podcasting News
Charles Jade / Infinite Loop: iLife '08 makes its debut
Brandon Hill / DailyTech: Apple Quietly Updates Mac mini Lineup
Michael Calore / Compiler: Apple Debuts iLife '08, Revamps and Upgrades Galore
Chris Ziegler / Engadget: Apple updates .Mac
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Apple's new iMac — Who could've seen this one coming? Apple surprised no one this morning with brand new iMacs. Built from aluminum and glass, the new all-in-one desktops feature a complete redesign and will come in two sizes: 20-inch and 24-inch. There's the usual compliment of ports like USB 2.0 …
Discussion: Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, The Boy Genius Report, ZDNet, Tech Blog, Joystiq and DigitalBattle
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi: Live blogging from Apple's new iMac debut
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: The redesigned iMac desktop range emerges
Ross Miller / Joystiq: New iMacs feature DirectX 10-compatible ATI Radeon GPUs
James Hyde / DigitalBattle: Apple Unveils DX10 Comatible iMacs
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple's new iMac and keyboard: first hands-on
Apple's new iMac and keyboard: first hands-on
Discussion: The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Michael Gartenberg:
Apple Introduces New iMacs, iLife, .Mac and iWork - First Take
Apple Introduces New iMacs, iLife, .Mac and iWork - First Take
Discussion: Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi and Chuqui 3.0.1 Beta
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi: Live blogging from Apple's new iMac debut: .Mac's new web gallery features
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Live Blogging: Apple Media Event: New iMacs, iWork, iLife, Dot Mac upgrades
Live Blogging: Apple Media Event: New iMacs, iWork, iLife, Dot Mac upgrades
Discussion: PC World: Techlog, The Mac Observer, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Bits and The Utility Belt
Harry McCracken / PC World: Techlog: Live From Apple Event: New iMacs, iLife '08, iWorks '08
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi: Live blogging from Apple's new iMac debut: new versions of iLife applications
Saul Hansell / Bits: The Event at Apple Is About Events (in More Ways Than One)
Holly M. Sanders / New York Post:
TIMESSELECT CONTENT FREED — The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned. — After much internal debate, Times executives - including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - made the decision to end …
Discussion: Yahoo! News, paidContent.org, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Rev2.org, Insider Chatter, mathewingram.com/work, Screenwerk, Google Blogoscoped, WebProNews, Brad Linder's digital home, Techdirt, Epicenter, Threat Level, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, Digital Trends, BloggingStocks, Todd Watson, ClickZ News Blog, jkOnTheRun, The Gong Show, Silicon Alley Insider, michael parekh on IT, Geek Speaker, Lost Remote and Journalistopia
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org: TimesSelect Watch: Yes, No, Maybe Redux: NYP Says Yes
Brandon West / Rev2.org: New York Times "Select" Goes Free
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter: Perfect Online Newspaper Storm: Digital Ads Explode, Pay Wall Implodes
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: Report: Times Abandons 'TimesSelect' for Free
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Rumor: NYT to Kill Paid Content Model?
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Rumor: TimesSelect Pay Service Ending
Joe Weisenthal / Techdirt: R.I.P TimesSelect? — The New York Times' plan to lock …
Adario Strange / Epicenter: Rumor Control: Post Says Times Select To Go Free
Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab: Research Note: Strategic Errors Mini Case Study - TimesSelect
Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends: New York Times Nixing Online Subscriptions?
Kevin Kelly / BloggingStocks: NYT TimesSelect becomes freely available
Zachary Rodgers / ClickZ News Blog: TimesSelect Headed to the Guillotine?
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Times Select going free? Is Times Reader content next?
Andrew Parker / The Gong Show: NYT Opening Up TimesSelect Content
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: NY Times To Can TimesSelect
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote: Report: NY Times to axe Times Select
Danny Sanchez / Journalistopia: NY Post report: TimesSelect is a goner
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
New York Times To Fold TimesSelect Presaging The Death of Paid Content
New York Times To Fold TimesSelect Presaging The Death of Paid Content
Discussion: Conversion Rate Marketing Blog, Associated Press and The Next Net
Robert Gorell / Conversion Rate Marketing Blog: The Death of Paid Newspaper Content
Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net: The Last Wall is About to Fall at the NYT
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
New York Times to ax premium online content, rival says
New York Times to ax premium online content, rival says
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: New York Times Sees Sense: Paywall Comes Crashing Down
New VSS Forecast Released — Shift to Alternative Media Strategies Will Drive U.S. Communications Spending Growth in 2007-2011 Period; Consumer Media Usage Expected to Level Off Going Forward … While communications spending growth accelerated in 2006, outpacing nominal GDP for the fourth …
Discussion: HipMojo.com, Epicenter, Searchviews, Recovering Journalist, paidContent.org, Business Week, Boing Boing, BuzzMachine, 901am, WebProNews and E-Media Tidbits
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Television Olympian-Sized Nightmare
Adario Strange / Epicenter: Forecast: Digital Content Kills Newspapers By 2011
Drupad Sil / Searchviews: Advertising Sales Shift to New Media
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org: Online Ad Spend To Overtake Newspapers By 2011: Report
Heather Green / Business Week: Blog, Podcast RSS Online Sales To Be Nearly Half Size Of Mobile Sales
Rhiza Sanchez / 901am: Online ads to overtake newspapers in 2011?
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Report: Online Advertising To Triumph In 2011
Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Online ads to overtake US newspapers — The rapid growth of online advertising is expected to see the sector overtake US newspaper advertising in terms of size by 2011. — The forecast comes against a backdrop of declining advertising sales reported by newspaper groups this year in spite of continued strength in the US economy.
Discussion: HipMojo.com, WebProNews, Mark Evans, Liberate Media, Business Week, 24/7 Wall St., Podcasting News and Silicon Alley Insider
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: 2011 vs 2021: The Web Shall Inherit the Earth
Heather Green / Business Week: Net Ad Spend To Surpass Other Media (By Including Net Sales at Traditional Sites)
Laurie Petersen / MediaPost Publications:
Internet Ad Spending Set To Overtake All Other Media By 2011: VSS
Internet Ad Spending Set To Overtake All Other Media By 2011: VSS
Discussion: HipMojo.com, Search Engine Land, Bits and Screenwerk
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Why the Web Confounds TV Playbooks
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: Forecast: Internet Expected To Exceed All Other Ad Media By 2011
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: VSS: Internet to Be No. 1 Ad Medium by 2011
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An update is available that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista … INTRODUCTION — This update resolves issues that may affect some Windows Vista-based computers. These issues have been reported by customers who are using the Error Reporting service or Microsoft Customer Support Services.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft posts two major Vista fix packs for download
Microsoft posts two major Vista fix packs for download
Discussion: Microsoft Help and Support and Windows Connected
Arneh / WinBeta:
Windows XP SP3 Released To Small Group (Updated)
Windows XP SP3 Released To Small Group (Updated)
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Shhhh! Pre-beta Vista SP1 is out there
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Michael Santo / Alice Hill's Real Tech News: Vista SP1 Pre-Beta in Circulation?
Stephen Chau / Google LatLong:
More Street View Cities — Since the launch of Street View we've been working hard on extending the service to more cities. — We're excited to announce that Street View is now available in San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando. Like the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego features high-resolution imagery.
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Four more cities added to Google street View
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Google Street View Adds Four Cities
David Pett / FP Trading Desk: Immersive Media's Google deal in jeopardy
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Google Street View Expands To Four New Cities
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: New Cities in Google Maps Street View
Haochi / Googlified: 4 More Street View Cities
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Los Angeles Times:
Google Maps redraw the realm of privacy — As street-level photos are added to the site, fears of intrusion arise. — Google Inc. has been watching you, Southern California. — A caravan of cars and trucks mounted with cameras has been driving city streets for months …
Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable! and GigaLaw.com Daily News
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: Houston, This is Google Street View
Microsoft Lowers Price of Xbox 360 by $100 in Canada — Price drop coincides with release of "Madden NFL 08" on Xbox 360, one of many titles that make up the greatest holiday lineup in video game history. — Microsoft Corp. today kicked off the greatest holiday lineup in video game history …
Discussion: CNET News.com, Neowin.net, Xbox 360 Fanboy, CyberNet Technology News, Ars Technica, Geek Speaker, Forever Geek and Gamerscore Blog
John P. Falcone / CNET News.com: Xbox 360 price drops now official
Todd Tanner / Neowin.net: Canada gets Xbox 360 price cut loving also
Richard Mitchell / Xbox 360 Fanboy: Canada shares in 360 price drop love
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica: Microsoft confirms price drop on Xbox 360 hardware
Johnporcaro / Gamerscore Blog: Canada, Mexico Announce Xbox 360 Price Drop
Frank Caron / Opposable Thumbs: Xbox 360 price cut doubled in Canada
Chris DiBona / Official Google Blog:
Joining OIN — You'll often hear members of our open source team say, "Every time you use Google, you're using Linux." It's absolutely true. Check a Google engineer's workstation, and you'll probably find it's running Linux. Do a search on Google.com, and a Linux server will return your results.
Discussion: InformationWeek, Between the Lines, WebProNews, Linux-Watch.com, Computerworld and TechSpot News
Charles Babcock / InformationWeek: Google To Join Group To Protect Linux From Possible Patent Challenge
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Can Google get OIN over the enterprise hump?
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Google Joins Linux-Oriented OIN
Justin Mann / TechSpot News: Google joins Open Invention Network
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Google signs on with Open Invention Network
Discussion: CNET News.com, Mashable! and Inquirer
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: Google Joins OIN Open Source Community
Egan Orion / Inquirer: Google takes first end-user OIN licence
Wall Street Journal:
Music Publishers Join YouTube Copyright Suit — A trade association representing major music publishers signed on as plaintiffs in an existing lawsuit accusing YouTube of copyright infringement, joining a growing list of parties who argue Google Inc.'s video-sharing service routinely violates intellectual-property rights.
Discussion: Ars Technica, Reuters, NewTeeVee, Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer, BloggingStocks and paidContent.org
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: Class-action suit against YouTube grows to eight parties
Jackson West / NewTeeVee: Tuesday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines
Douglas McIntyre / BloggingStocks: More copyright troubles for YouTube
Terrence Russell / Epicenter: YouTube Expands Its Class-Action Suit Collection
Leelefever / Common Craft:
Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English — We made this video because we want others to feel the power of social bookmarking and how it works to make web pages easier to remember, organize and share. — This video is focused on Del.icio.us, but you could also try social bookmarking sites like Magnolia or Furl.
Discussion: cybersoc.com, Digital Inspiration, Beth's Blog, davidrothman.net, PC4Media, edu.blogs.com, Download Squad and Full Circle Online …
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration: How to Explain del.icio.us Bookmarks To Your Mom
Peter Caputa / PC4Media: Back in Techmeme Index — Maybe I never left. Who knows?
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Americans Support Ban On Texting While Driving — Eighty-nine percent of American adults believe that sending text messages or emails while driving is dangerous and should be banned according to a new survey commissioned by mobile messaging service Pinger and conducted by Harris Interactive.
Discussion: PC World, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, MobileCrunch, Global Nerdy and Reuters
Heather Havenstein / PC World: Americans Say Texting While Driving Should Be Illegal
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi: Driving while texting: polls says it should be illegal
Joey deVilla / Global Nerdy: I Want to Know What the Other 1 Out of 10 are Thinking
David DeJean / InformationWeek:
Smartphone Browser Shootout: Palm, BlackBerry, HTC Vs. iPhone — Has Apple succeeded in setting a new mobile Web-browsing paradigm? We examine how the Palm Treo, BlackBerry Curve, and HTC Wing stack up against the iPhone. — This spring has seen a flood of new smartphone models, many of them with larger, more Web-friendly screens.
Discussion: Slashdot
The new Nokia Prism collection: progressive design cut with personalized style — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today unveiled the Prism collection, its latest range of mobile phones aimed at style-conscious consumers. The Prism collection consists of the Nokia 7900 Prism and the Nokia 7500 Prism …
Discussion: PC World, Engadget, IntoMobile, Phone Scoop, BetaNews and Gadget Lab
Tom Spring / PC World: Nokia Prism Phone Features OLED Display
Chris Ziegler / Engadget: Nokia makes Prism collection officially official
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile: Nokia Prism Collection: The 7900 and 7500 are official
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Your View: New Teacher Evaluation in Some Columbia Schools
COLUMBIA - At the beginning of October KOMU 8's Jon Rehagen reported on a new teacher evaluation program being piloted by some mid-Missouri schools. After airing the story, some viewers commented saying we didn't provide enough facts.
In this week's Your View we take a look at Rehagen's reasons for excluding some details.
Todd Fuller of the Missouri State Teachers Association said, "There's a lot of emphasis on what a principal needs to do in terms of being in the classroom of a teacher and thats, thats important we recognize thats important."
This evaluation would give more responsibilities to administrators to ensure they do a better job of evaluating their teachers.
But one viewer did not think the KOMU 8's reporter included enough details about what the new duties the administrators would perform.
Dave Lineberry wrote, "The story never identifies what these new burdens on administrators are. Todd Fuller's interview suggests but does not state that somehow the additional burdens on administrators are about making them do something in the classroom. Is that true? If so, what IS it the administrators are required to do?"
Rehagen says the story is still developing and he did not want to focus on too many specifics that may not end up in the teacher associations plan.
University of Missouri journalism professor Greeley Kyle says sometimes it's time constraints that end up shaping a story. "It's hard to come out here and give you all these details when it's so early on and that when it's kind of a vague process right now. They haven't really got done. They are still piloting it. While Jon's story could've used a few more details one of the things you have to keep in mind is that a broadcast journalist is limited. This story can only be two minutes long and so he can't compress all that information into one story. And a journalist has to make some hard decisions on selection and what facts to put in and what facts to leave out."
Rehagen agrees time was a factor, but he also says he could have done things differently.
"I think that if I could have done it better I would have asked more specific questions only on administrative duties, what they're going to be picked to do. If there was, if there was, and someone was saying I don't know yet. Maybe use that."
What do you think? Should we have provided more details about this new teacher program evaluation program? Or given the time and information constraints did we do a good enough job of reporting on this story? Let us know on Facebook, Twitter, or Google Plus. Then watch Friday nights at 6 as we report your view of the news.


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BTW, I just noticed that this forum doesn't show up in the mobile view.
Sounds like I need to learn a new spell!
BTW, I have been trying to respond to the OP since the topic was started and only just now have I been able to get back in to post! Guess you have to expect something like that to happen when you've been away for so long ...
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The number of employees of Los Angeles County, CA was 14,592 for farming, fishing, forestry in 2010. The number of employees of Riverside County, CA was 9,237 for farming, fishing, forestry in 2010. The number of employees of San Diego County, CA was 6,165 for farming, fishing, forestry in 2010.
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Initial Claims by County (all programs) - The number of claims submitted for all UI programs. Initial claims totals are not representative of the number of individuals filing as a claimant can have multiple initial claims. ∙ Initial Claims by County - The data provided is the number of Unemployment Insurance (UI) initial claim counts, which includes new claims, additional claims, and transitional claims. • A "new claim" is the first claim for a benefit year period (e.g., for the regular UI program it is 52 weeks). An individual would only have one new claim during a benefit year period. • An "additional claim" is when another claim is filed during the same benefit year and there is intervening work between the current claim and the previous claim. For example, an individual files a new claim, goes back to work, gets laid off and files another claim before the benefit year period of the first claim expires. An individual can have multiple additional claims during the same benefit year if the individual meets the eligibility requirements. • A "transitional claim" is when a claimant is still collecting benefits at the end of their benefit year period and had sufficient wage earnings during that year to start up a new claim once the first benefit year period ends. ∙ The data by county represents the mailing address given by the claimant at the time of filing for UI. It is possible that an individual can reside in a different county than their mailing address. Also, this information does not represent the county where the individual worked. It is also possible that a claimant could have moved or changed their mailing address after filing for UI which would not be reflected here. Data for claimants residing outside of California but collecting benefits are not included in these figures nor are invalid addresses in California where a county cannot be determined. "∙ Initial claims does not represent total individuals as an individual can have multiple claims. For example, someone may begin collecting UI benefits, then go off UI to return to work, then get laid off and go back on UI. In this example, the individual would have two claim counts. " ∙ Data includes the regular UI program and the federal extended benefit programs. The Federal extended benefit programs are: ∙ Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Tier 1 - California began paying benefits in July 2008. ∙ Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Tier 2 - California began paying benefits in January 2009, payments retroactive to November 2008. ∙ Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Tier 3 - California began paying benefits in December 2009, payments retroactive to November 2009. ∙ Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Tier 4 - California began paying benefits in January 2010, payments retroactive to December 2009. ∙ FED-ED - California began paying benefits May 2009, payments retroactive to February 2009.
Vital Signs: Migration - Bay Areadata.bayareametro.gov | Last Updated 2019-10-25T20:40:04.000Z
VITAL SIGNS INDICATOR Migration (EQ4) FULL MEASURE NAME Migration flows LAST UPDATED December 2018 DESCRIPTION Migration refers to the movement of people from one location to another, typically crossing a county or regional boundary. Migration captures both voluntary relocation – for example, moving to another region for a better job or lower home prices – and involuntary relocation as a result of displacement. The dataset includes metropolitan area, regional, and county tables. DATA SOURCE American Community Survey County-to-County Migration Flows 2012-2015 5-year rolling average http://www.census.gov/topics/population/migration/data/tables.All.html CONTACT INFORMATION firstname.lastname@example.com METHODOLOGY NOTES (across all datasets for this indicator) Data for migration comes from the American Community Survey; county-to-county flow datasets experience a longer lag time than other standard datasets available in FactFinder. 5-year rolling average data was used for migration for all geographies, as the Census Bureau does not release 1-year annual data. Data is not available at any geography below the county level; note that flows that are relatively small on the county level are often within the margin of error. The metropolitan area comparison was performed for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area, in addition to the primary MSAs for the nine other major metropolitan areas, by aggregating county data based on current metropolitan area boundaries. Data prior to 2011 is not available on Vital Signs due to inconsistent Census formats and a lack of net migration statistics for prior years. Only counties with a non-negligible flow are shown in the data; all other pairs can be assumed to have zero migration. Given that the vast majority of migration out of the region was to other counties in California, California counties were bundled into the following regions for simplicity: Bay Area: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma Central Coast: Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz Central Valley: Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, Tulare Los Angeles + Inland Empire: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura Sacramento: El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba San Diego: San Diego San Joaquin Valley: San Joaquin, Stanislaus Rural: all other counties (23) One key limitation of the American Community Survey migration data is that it is not able to track emigration (movement of current U.S. residents to other countries). This is despite the fact that it is able to quantify immigration (movement of foreign residents to the U.S.), generally by continent of origin. Thus the Vital Signs analysis focuses primarily on net domestic migration, while still specifically citing in-migration flows from countries abroad based on data availability.


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(Pocket-lint) - The Mini, or E-PM1 to give it its full product name, is the baby of the newly announced Olympus Pen family and Pocket-lint was at the European launch of the new camera to get a hands-on play to see what it's all about.
We say hands-on, but sadly this wasn't a fully working model. What we were shown at the Olympus event was a mock-up of the yet to be priced camera. This means we can unfortunately only run you through the physical feel and aesthetics of the camera, rather than tell you how the supposed world's fastest autofocus actually works.
That out of the way, what do you get? Well the camera boasts the same TruePic VI powered 12.3-megapixel MOS sensor as the more expensive bigger brothers. It even manages to squeeze an interchangeable lens system onto a body that is smaller than some compacts.
On the back of the Pen Mini is a 3-inch LCD display with rotating clickwheel to the right. It looks like a lot of buttonery of the E-PL3 and E-P3 has been done away with to simplify the camera for the beginner. That said, Olympus has still managed to pack a 1080i AVCHD capable sensor into the body which is even capable of the same 12,800 ISO as the other more expensive Pen offerings. If you ask us, that is a seriously powerful quasi-compact if we ever saw one.
The plastic finish definitely doesn't feel quite the same quality as the other Olympus Pen cameras, but then this was a mock-up so we can't be sure. Ergonomically the E-PM1 definitely sat well in the hand, it is exceptionally tiny for an interchangeable lens camera but thankfully the M.Zuiko Pen lenses are so light that things never feel front-heavy. One thing worth noting on the tiny-front is that an extendable zoom lens or even pancake lens stuck on the front fo the E-PM1 means you won't fit it in a pocket. Unlike a compact you need a piece of glass in front of the sensor to keep it safe, meaning whilst small, you will still need it round your neck.
Both the white and red cameras were on display as well as the silver and and black offerings.Personally we are big fans of the more restrained approach to camera colour, but some may like the shiny approach to some of the other choices.
The E-PM1 has a hot shoe mount on top, meaning external flash can be used in low light situations. There is a lack of mode dial, which means presumably settings will have to be applied via the rear display. An on/off button sits next to the shutter which given the size of the camera, means we could see some accidental switching off occuring.
Given that Olympus decided to unleash a trio of cameras at the same time, all of which have the same powerful MOS sensor inside, it is difficult to pick a current favourite. Expect a good versus to be carried out once more time is spent with the Pen E-PM3.
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The GST-70x Series Smart Media Converter can allow two types of segments
connecting easily with efficient and cost effective. These Smart Media
converter can be use as a standalone when its power on by its DC adapter. Or
use as a slide-in module to the PLANET new 19-inch Web Smart 16-Slots Media
converter chassis (MC-1600MR/ MC-1600MR48). With this Web Smart Media
converter chassis, the GST-702S are able to manage and monitor status through
the local RS-232 console and remote web interface.


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The RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 offers world-roaming capabilities as well as Bluetooth, GPS, and a 3.2-megapixel camera. The smartphone offers a great design that combines a sharp display and an easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard in a fairly compact size. The smartphone lacks Wi-Fi. The Web browser falls short of the competition, and there's a bit of shutter lag on the camera. You can't save applications to a media card.
With a winning design and fast performance, the RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630 is one of Verizon Wireless' top smartphones for both business users and messaging fanatics.