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For Those Freaking Out Over Pinterest's Terms Of Service, Have You Stopped Using Every Other Internet Site Yet?
from the calm-down,-sparky deptLast month we suggested that copyright holders stop freaking out over Pinterest. At the time, we noted there were two areas that people were panicking about: one was the terms of service and the other was whether or not Pinterest itself was violating the copyrights of images that are "pinned" by its users. We focused on the latter issue (and pointed out it was stupid) and breezed past the first issue by noting that the terms of service issue was silly, because the terms are mostly boilerplate language used by pretty much every online site.
Unfortunately, it appears that not everyone reads Techdirt (tragic, that) and the freakout has continued -- and it only seems to have grown over the past few weeks. We keep seeing more and more articles giving the terms of service issue attention. So many of the articles point back at a silly blog post by a lawyer describing how she "tearfully deleted" her Pinterest boards after reading the terms of service. For whatever reason, this story went viral, despite the fact that even the way she wrote it suggests this is one of her first forays into internet terms of service and copyright issues. She also notes in her post that "you have no right to reproduce this article or any portion thereof" which is a copyfraud statement, overclaiming rights. Yes, I do have the right to produce "portions thereof" in situations where it's fair use, and I will do so -- such as here, when I am commenting on her article.
Either way, her "tearful" post covers ground that's been covered many times before. This same issue comes up every so often when people read online terms of service for the first time. In the past we've seen similar freakouts about Twitpic, Google Plus and other sites as well.
Thankfully Nancy Sims, the copyright librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries, puts the smack down on the FUD that people are kicking up concerning Pinterest's indemnification, right to share and copyright license clauses. She notes that these elements are found in just about every user-generated content site's terms of service, and goes through the details of Tumblr, YouTube, Facebook and even her own University's terms of service:
This kind of stuff is standard. Hell, even we've got some similar terms over at the Insight Community (and we had to fight with our lawyers to push back on some of them). All of these terms are pretty standard. They're basically meant to prevent the company from getting sued if you abuse the service, which is kind of silly since the companies are mostly protected by safe harbors anyway, and no tech startup would ever actually use one of these indemnity clauses against an ordinary user because they'd then lose every single other user they have.
Indemnity: "Subscriber will indemnify and hold Tumblr, its directors, officers and employees, harmless, including costs and attorneys' fees, from any claim or demand..."
Right to share: "Subscriber represents, warrants and agrees that it will not contribute any Subscriber Content that (a) infringes, violates or otherwise interferes with any copyright or trademark of another party [...] (c) infringes any intellectual property right of another or the privacy or publicity rights of another..."
License of copyrights: "...hereby grants and agrees to grant Tumblr a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable right and license (with the right to sublicense), to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works..."
Indemnity: "...you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless YouTube, its parent corporation, officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees)..."
Right to share: "You affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to publish Content you submit.." AND "You further agree that Content you submit to the Service will not contain third party copyrighted material, or material that is subject to other third party proprietary rights, unless you have permission from the rightful owner of the material or you are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant YouTube all of the license rights granted herein."
License of copyrights: "you license to YouTube all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to such Content for publication on the Service" AND
"you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content..."
(Not to mention points 9 and 10, in all their caps-locked glory.)
Indemnity: "If anyone brings a claim against us related to your actions, content or information on Facebook, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from and against all damages, losses, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such claim."
Right to share: "You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law."
License of copyrights: "For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content) [...] you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License)."
(Props on their use of human-readable language!)
Full Facebook Terms of Service
And finally, from a user agreement for uploading content onto a server the University of Minnesota Libraries hosts! (Yes, I think these are reasonable terms of use, because I was involved in drafting them! (Although I'd still simplify the language a little.))
Indemnification (sort of): "I agree that I am solely responsible for the Content and for any consequences of uploading it to the [Server] and making it publicly available..."
Right to share: "I am the sole creator and the owner of the copyrights and all other rights in the Content; or without obtaining another's permission, I have the right to deposit the Content in the [Server]" AND "The Content does not infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of another, nor does the Content violate any laws or another's rights of privacy or publicity. The Content is solely my original creation or if not, those portions that are not my creation are used with the copyright holder's express permission or as permitted by law."
License of copyrights: "I grant [...] the following non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, world-wide rights and licenses: to access, reproduce, distribute and publicly display the Content, in whole or in part, to secure, preserve and make it publicly available, and to make derivative works based upon the Content in order to migrate the Content to other media or formats, or to preserve its public access."
I recommend people read the rest of Sims' article about all of this, as she notes that there's a tremendous amount of FUD making the rounds concerning Pinterest, which seems to be creating an unnecessary chilling effect against using the site.
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Due to the frequency of large-scale security breaches, it's only a matter of time before bad password hygiene will burn you.
Whether it's reusing the same passwords for multiple accounts or using passwords that just aren't strong enough, bad password hygiene is an unnecessary risk that is easily fixed.
LastPass helps you make immediate changes to your password security by auditing your accounts with the LastPass Security Challenge. With the results, you can track progress as you fortify your online life with stronger passwords.
Why does this matter?
Over 1 billion data records are estimated to have been leaked in 2014 alone. And over 348 million Internet users in the US alone had their identity compromised in 2014.
Adobe, LinkedIn, Gawker, eHarmony, Evernote, and hundreds of other companies have suffered large-scale security breaches that compromised user information and account passwords.
As if it weren't bad enough that millions of people have their personal information and passwords floating around out there, hackers can use the same username and password combinations to start trying to login to other websites.
Websites like PayPal, Gmail, Dropbox, and others have reported that hackers have tried logging in to user accounts and successfully gained access when the same username and password combinations were being used.
While services do what they can to stop this type of unauthorized access, simply using a unique password for every account would prevent these break-ins and the resulting fraud.
Every single website and app you use should have a unique, long, sterk wachtwoord. No password should ever be used on more than one site. Furthermore, you should only be creating a handful of passwords yourself. Why? Humans are notoriously bad at creating their own passwords. Leave that work to a password generator.
The only passwords you should have to create yourself are the master password to your password manager and the passwords you use to lock your personal computers and mobile devices.
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Importing is an easy way to pre-populate your LastPass vault. If you use one of our recommended installers to set up LastPass, you have the option to import passwords. The importer will gather any passwords stored in your browsers, and automatically add them to your LastPass vault.
If you have already signed up for LastPass, you can import from your browser or other password managers at any time from the LastPass Icon > More Options > Gevorderd > Import and follow our instructions to import from the selected source.
You can also start browsing to the sites you regularly use, and start saving the logins to LastPass. For more help on getting started with saving and filling logins with LastPass, see our tutorials in our guide.
Auditing your passwords with the LastPass Security Challenge
Once you have added as many passwords as possible to your LastPass vault, you can run the LastPass Security Challenge.
You can launch the Security Challenge at any time from either the LastPass Extension Icon > More Options > Security Challenge.
OR find it on the left menu in your vault.
Alternatief, you can visit this URL directly: https://lastpass.com/?securitychallenge=1&lpnorefresh=1
Eerste, you'll be prompted to enter your master password.
As soon as you enter your master password and hit Enter, it will run a scan to check your vault locally on your machine. The results will be sent to us later.
Once the results load, you will see three scores at the top of the page.
Your Security Score: This is a combined rating of how strong your passwords generally are, looking at how long and complex your passwords are overall. Whether or not you use two-factor authentication also accounts for 10 points of the total security score. The highest possible score is 100.
Your LastPass Standing: This compares you against all other LastPass users who have run the Security Challenge. You are placed in a percentile according to your current security score. The lower the percentage, the better your ranking.
Master Password Score: This rates how strong your master password is, based on how long and complex it is.
Under "Improve Your Score", detailed results then show exactly which sites have weak passwords, duplicate passwords, compromised passwords, and old passwords.
In each panel, you can see which accounts you should take immediate action on to update the passwords. Notice in each panel, the sites are split up based on those where you can use "Auto-Change Password" and those where you launch the site directly and login to use the LastPass password generator to replace the password.
Under "Detailed Stats", you can see a breakdown of how many sites have weak, duplicate, gecompromitteerd, old, or blank passwords.
The password strength meter gives you a rating for each password listed – passwords under 50% are deemed "weak". Again there is an action button next to each site that you can use to replace the password automatically or launch the website to replace the password with the generator.
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There are two ways you can immediately start improving your score. Depending on how many passwords you have that are flagged as insecure, the password replacement process can take just a few minutes or more than an hour.
Auto-Change Password: LastPass can automatically replace passwords for you on a growing number of sites. For any website listed with "Auto-Change Password", you can select that option and LastPass will launch the website, login to that account for you, and update the password to a new one for you. The new password will automatically be saved to LastPass.
Launch Site: For any website listed with "Launch Site", clicking this open will open the website for you. You can then login with your account, and make your way to the site's password change page.
Typically, a change password page will require that you re-enter the old password (which you have stored in LastPass) and that you generate a new password.
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Will Justin Bieber have to say sorry?
Casey Dienel, an indie artist who goes by the stage name White Hinterland, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Bieber for allegedly stealing a vocal rift from her song "Ring the Bell" and using it in his hit song "Sorry."
Dienel claims Bieber and producer Skrillex used a "virtually identical" riff without permission. TMZ first reported on the suit Thursday.
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In addition to Bieber and Skrillex, the lawsuit, which was filed in Nashville, also names Universal Music Group as a defendant. E! News has reached out for comment. Universal is E!'s and NBC's parent company.
The songstress also claims the hit track uses synthesizers, samples, synth bass, drums and percussion that sound similar to those used in "Ring the Bell."
The indie songstress also says she reached out to the "Love Yourself" crooner to discuss a potential resolution but was "ignored." Dienel is seeking unspecified damages, including profits from "Sorry," which has been viewed more than 1.4 million times on YouTube.
Dienel's lawsuit comes on the heels of Bieber's lambasting of awards shows. The "What Do You Mean" crooner not only performed at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards, but he also took home awards for Top Male Artist and Top Social Media Artist. Despite his victories, he didn't feel great.
"I don't know about these award shows... No disrespect to anybody at any of the shows or the people running it. Nothing but love for you guys and your support. But I don't feel good when I'm there nor after," Bieber, 22, wrote. "I try to think of it as a celebration but can't help feeling like people are rating and grading my performance. A lot of people in the audience there to be seem worried about how much camera time they will get or who they can network with."
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Bieber is in the middle of his Purpose World Tour, where he says he feels the love and devotion from his fans. Awards shows, on the other hand, don't feel genuine, he argued in his Instagram rant. [[238904721, C]]
"When I'm doing a regular show I feel they are there for the right reasons and to strictly have a good time! But these award shows seem so hollow. I get the premise is to award people for their accomplishments, but is it really?" he asked. "Because when I look in the audience I see a bunch of fake smiles so that when the camera hits them they look happy."
Of course, Bieber acknowledged how grateful he is for the genuine support he's received from the industry. "I am privileged and honored to be recognized by my peers, but in these settings I can't feel the recognition. There's an authenticity missing that I crave! And I wonder, does anybody else?" he said, without finishing his sentence. "Sorry, not sorry, about grammar it's not my strong point."


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Preakness lives up to crazy reputation
It's not hard to envision the Triple Crown's three jewels as a royal family of sorts.
In the Kentucky Derby, you have the matriarch, with a sense of tradition and pageantry that accompanies the most famous horse race in the world. In the Belmont Stakes, you have the patriarch, stubborn and difficult to satisfy, but one whose challenges reveal the true greats of the game.
And in the Preakness, well, you have your stereotypical crazy uncle.
Nowhere else in horse racing can you go from wandering the grandstand and handicapping a race to enjoying what is, for all intents and purposes, the biggest college keg party in Maryland in the infield. While Churchill Downs does hold a party in its infield on the first Saturday in May, tell me, would the Kentucky Derby ever associate itself with a half-horse, half-overweight man named Kegasus, as the Preakness did a few years ago?
The Preakness is an experience that you just don't get anywhere else in the Sport of Kings, and it's something I got to process first-hand Saturday afternoon. The day began with me leaving my home in Clifton Park at 2:50 a.m., it ended with a long ride home through Pennsylvania to avoid the numerous parking lots on I-95, and I'm still a little hazy on what happened in between.
All I know is that the crazy uncle pulled another practical joke on us.
Gary Stevens winning one of America's biggest races at fifty-something? D. Wayne Lukas winning his first Preakness since Charismatic in 1999 and setting the record for most Triple Crown wins by a trainer? Calumet Farm, one of the most well-known names in the glory days of thoroughbred racing but a barn that nearly went bust two decades ago, finding glory in the 2013 Run for the Roses? What kind of story are you pitching to Hollywood, and who do you expect to make it into some low-rate inspirational movie?
And while I'm asking questions, where the heck was Orb? Orb, the latest greatest horse in the world, was supposed to circle the field and give Shug McGaughey the chance at horse racing's first Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978. You're telling me Joel Rosario, probably the hottest rider in the world coming into the Saturday card at Pimlico, moved Orb too soon down the backstretch, couldn't keep up with a horse he beat by almost 10 lengths two weeks ago, and faded to fourth?
Even Gary Stevens couldn't believe this, and he lived it.
"When I hit the half-mile pole, I said, 'Are you kidding me? Is this happening?,'" he said in a post-race interview on NBC. "The race was over at that point. I just walked the dog to the half-mile pole."
The Hall of Famer turned back the clock, as he has, really, since he began his comeback earlier this year. The only place he was slow to was the post-race press conference, but Lukas was certainly not going to rush him along.
"I'm in no hurry," he said with a smile as wide as Inner Harbor. "It's going to be a long night!"
Stevens, Lukas, and the Calumet brass will undeniably use the next few days to celebrate a win nobody saw coming six months ago. The racing world will try to find some rational explanation for everything, from why Orb struggled to how the heck Gary Stevens got away with such reasonable early fractions.
Me? I'm just wondering how the crazy uncle will be received by the rest of the family.
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The state of Illinois faces the worst pension fund shortfall in the nation. Terrifying as are the state's unfunded liabilities, however, it also counts one imposing asset: an Illinois president in the White House. Will President Obama say "yes" when Illinois comes asking? Not if he listens to Brett Joshpe at Forbes.com:
While bailouts of various private entities in the financial sector may have been necessary, if not extremely unseemly, to prevent a global economic meltdown, different considerations apply in the case of public sector pensions that demand federal forbearance. Any bailout, of course, presents a moral hazard, but there are particular reasons why public pension bailouts would create unacceptably perverse incentives.
First, they would implicitly encourage states to keep spending and doling out entitlements, as doing so is popular for politicians, even if unsustainable. This is especially the case in more liberal-leaning states where public sector unions dominate.
If states and municipalities know that benefits are backed by the full faith and credit of the federal government, then there is simply no incentive to cut back and to end the political patronage that is destroying our nation's finances. This will create little Fannie's and Freddie's that fear no liability knowing their obligations ultimately could transfer onto Uncle Sam's balance sheet.
Similarly, the moral hazard inherent in public pension bailouts not only will encourage politicians to offer excessive benefits, but it will invite plan sponsors to underfund their plans. This frees public funds to be used for other purposes, i.e. more spending. So, the possibility of bailouts conveniently incentivizes states to promise benefits and but then spend on things having nothing to do with benefits. There is a word for that. It's called Greece.
Finally, knowing that the feds will bail out broken pensions will free sponsors and their portfolio managers to take excessive risk in the hopes of realizing higher returns. Modern portfolio theory dictates that to reap higher returns, investors must assume greater risk. The more pension funds are underfunded, the greater returns that are necessary to close the liability gap, and the greater risk they must take. It becomes easier to pursue such returns and justify higher risk knowing that a bailout could result.


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Proust's Way?
Swann's Way
We'll say there are two kinds of novelists: the snail and the swallow. The swallow is quick, agile, and able to speed across long, tireless stretches. Nothing a swallow does goes wrong; mistaken turns are instantly corrected, bad weather is put to good use, and poor judgment can be tweaked just enough to look like a flash of genius. In the implacable assembly line of prose, nothing is ever wasted or thrown away. By contrast, the snail is slow, deliberate, fussy, cramped. Swallows travel and seek out the world; the snail burrows into itself. The swallow acts; the snail retracts, guesses, speculates. A swallow chugs life down the way whales take in water, plankton and all, while the snail ingests choice bits down a multichambered spiral, where its appetite, like its vision, is eternally whorled. Balzac, Dickens, and Fielding are swallows, even Tolstoy.
Not Gogol, not Stendhal, not Meredith, certainly not Proust. The difference between them is neither the speed with which each author turned out works of fiction nor the emphasis some have placed on plot or style. It lies in something else. If to the swallow life is an open book, to the snail it is unfathomable. Everything, from love, friendship, desire, and death to the very art that portrays love, friendship, desire, and death, is essentially twisted and coiled along a narrow passageway where good judgment and clear thinking are less likely to lead to truth than paradox and guesswork.
Consider this passage from Jane Austen's Emma:
Mr Knightley's eyes had preceded Miss Bates's in a glance at Jane. From Frank Churchill's face, where he thought he saw confusion suppressed or laughed away, he had involuntarily turned to [Jane's]; but she was indeed behind, and too busy with her shawl…. Mr Knightley suspected in Frank Churchill the determination of catching her eye—he seemed to be watching her intently—in vain, however, if it were so—Jane passed between them into the hall, and looked at neither….
In the crowded room where Mr. Knightley, Jane Fairfax, and Frank Churchill happen to be playing psychological hide-and-seek, Mr. Knightley begins to suspect that something is afoot between Frank and Jane. Frank, who just a while earlier had inadvertently compromised Jane by almost letting out the secret of their flirtation, is trying hard to communicate a silent apology to her. It's all a very tricky, shifty business, and sorting out this congested traffic of touch-and-go signals requires not just an observant cast of characters but a highly articulate and agile pen.
We are in the domain of the snail.
Writing such prose may be difficult enough, but translating it—over and beyond the unavoidable problems of accuracy—is no easy task either. The subject is too subtle; one wrong word or misplaced accent and an insight is instantly flattened or snuffed out. One may succeed in translating these insights correctly and still fail to convey their luster, the sense of difficulties overcome, or the thrilled pleasure that went into writing them down.…
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Exercise in almost any form can act as a stress reliever. Being active can boost your feel-good endorphins and distract you from daily worries.
You know that exercise does your body good, but you're too busy and stressed to fit it into your routine. Hold on a second — there's good news when it comes to exercise and stress.
Virtually any form of exercise, from aerobics to yoga, can act as a stress reliever. If you're not an athlete or even if you're out of shape, you can still make a little exercise go a long way toward stress management. Discover the connection between exercise and stress relief — and why exercise should be part of your stress management plan.
Exercise increases your overall health and your sense of well-being, which puts more pep in your step every day. But exercise also has some direct stress-busting benefits.
It's meditation in motion. After a fast-paced game of racquetball or several laps in the pool, you'll often find that you've forgotten the day's irritations and concentrated only on your body's movements.
As you begin to regularly shed your daily tensions through movement and physical activity, you may find that this focus on a single task, and the resulting energy and optimism, can help you remain calm and clear in everything you do.
A successful exercise program begins with a few simple steps.
Walk before you run. Build up your fitness level gradually. Excitement about a new program can lead to overdoing it and possibly even injury.
For most healthy adults, the Department of Health and Human Services recommends getting at least 150 minutes a week of moderate aerobic activity (such as brisk walking or swimming) or 75 minutes a week of vigorous aerobic activity (such as running). You also can do a combination of moderate and vigorous activity.
Also, incorporate strength training exercises at least twice a week.
Starting an exercise program is just the first step. Here are some tips for sticking with a new routine or reinvigorating a tired workout:
Set SMART goals. Write down SMART goals — specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-limited goals.
If your primary goal is to reduce stress in your life and recharge your batteries, your specific goals might include committing to walking during your lunch hour three times a week or, if needed, finding a baby sitter to watch your children so that you can slip away to attend a cycling class.
Whatever you do, don't think of exercise as just one more thing on your to-do list. Find an activity you enjoy — whether it's an active tennis match or a meditative meander down to a local park and back — and make it part of your regular routine. Any form of physical activity can help you unwind and become an important part of your approach to easing stress.
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Google management update is fianally here
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text: News What is Happening at the Law School? Current Events and news Appointment A warm welcome to our new colleague Martin Eggel, full professor of private law with focus on civil code. Martin Eggel has joined our team on 1 August 2020. Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court The Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court is a contest where a fictional commercial dispute is heard by an arbitral tribunal. It represents the largest international legal competition with over 390 participating universities. After the final oral rounds in Vienna had to be cancelled due to the COVID 19 pandemic, this year's competition was conducted virtually. In the 27th edition of the Vis Moot Court, the team from the University of St.Gallen was able to advance to the round of the best 16 teams out of 240 participating universities. This is not only the best performance among the Swiss teams, but also a new record for the University of St.Gallen. The Law School congratulates the team on this achievement despite the unusual conditions. Honorary Professor Dr. Julia Hänni Dr. Julia Hänni, Federal Judge, was appointed adjunct professor for Philosophy of Law by the Senate of the University of St.Gallen. Honorary Professor Dr. Raoul Stocker Dr. Raoul Stocker was appointed adjunct professor for Philosophy of Law by the Senate of the University of St.Gallen. Adjunct Professor Dr. Thomas Werlen Dr. Thomas Werlen, attorney at law, was appointed adjunct professor for Financial and Capital Market Law by the Senate of the University of St.Gallen. Honorary doctorate in law for Prof. Dr. Andreas Kley The University of St.Gallen thus honours a personality who has a distinguished record with his research work on political rights in the Confederation and the cantons, as well as on the history of public law, and whose independent voice inspires people to engage in a critical reflection of government and law. International Workshop: The International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion in Chagos On 11 and 12 April 2019 Thomas Burri (LS-HSG) und Jamie Trinidad, University of Cambridge, organize a workshop at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. Here is a summary of the workshop. Conference on Autonomous Systems On 2-3 May 2019 Thomas Burri (University of St. Gallen), Markus Christen and Markus Kneer (both at University of Zurich) organize a conference on Ethical and Legal Aspects of Autonomous Security Systems. Chagos Workshop The video from the workshop on the Chagos advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice with comments by some of the participants is now available here. Workshop on the topic "The International Court of Justice and Chagos" On 19 and 20 October 2018, an international workshop on the topic "The International Court of Justice and Chagos" was organized by Prof. Dr. Thomas Burri and Dr. Peter Sand at the University of St. Gallen. Researchers in law from the universities of Cambridge, Lancaster, Ljubljana, London (Queen Mary), Luxembourg, Milano (Bicocca), Munich (LMU), Newcastle (Northumbria), Oxford, Rotterdam, Tarragona, and Trier were invited along with practitioners and observers to discuss the UN General Assembly's pending request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the status of the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The output from the workshop will be available as soon as possible, likely in the form of a brief video with statements by some of the participating scholars and a series of blog posts. Video: Should robots and artificial intelligence become legal persons? Prof. Thomas Burri organised a MIL mid-term event on 19 April 2018, a debate with Prof. Shawn Bayern and Dr. Andrew Walton on the topic «Should robots and artificial intelligence become persons?» A video is available here. Double degree programme The Law School is pleased to announce the launch of a double degree programme in partnership with the renowned Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Boston. Much like the HSG, The Fletcher School takes an interdisciplinary approach to education and has an international focus. Students in the DD programme will earn a LL.M from The Fletcher School and a master's degree from HSG (MLaw, MLE or MIL). For HSG students, the DD takes two years (three semesters at HSG and one semester at Fletcher). This unique programme gives master's-level students the opportunity to study in two different legal systems. They benefit from access to two outstanding programmes and the chance to examine matters of international law from both US and Swiss perspectives. New law journal "ex ante" Assistants at the Law School published the first edition of the journal "ex ante" in July 2016. This journal for young legal academics in Switzerland is successor to the "Schriftenreihe der Assistierenden der Universität St.Gallen", which celebrated its ten-year anniversary in 2015. "ex ante" is a platform for young legal academics to publish their research findings, ideas and interests. The journal will carry on the traditions of the original series of publications. The first edition of "ex ante" focuses on various legal issues relating to energy. More information about the original series and the journal is available here


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During my career as a programmer I've seen various programmers and testers, and many of them didn't/don't like each other. I mean, programmers think that the job of a tester is not a "real" job, and testers think that programmers are too "proud".
Is this the right decision made by me, why is it, and what can we do to avoid these kind problems?


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Finance & Development, September 1981 »
Volume/Issue: 18/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1981
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781616353469.022
Keywords: development banking, banking, drainage, irrigation
This paper discusses the appointment of A. W. Clausen as the new World Bank president. Mr. Clausen, 57, joined the Bank of America in 1949 as a trainee just out of the University of Minnesota law school and rose to...


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It's easy to take a LEGO minifig and paint it to look like something. What's harder is taking a ton of actual LEGO bricks and turning them into the likeness of a range of cartoon video game characters.
Matt De Lanoy has done just that, though, recreating the cast of Valve's Team Fortress 2 in blocky, old-school LEGO bricks.
Looking sharp! Quite literally. The edges on that Scout look like they could take a chunk out of a toddler's wrist.
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or, How We Spent the War in VietnamPhotographs by Tod Papageorge
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Coolly observational yet intensely engaging, American Sports, 1970 draws a subtle but sharp parallel between the war in Vietnam and the American attitude toward spectator sports during a time of conflict. In 1970, a watershed year for popular opinion against the war, Tod Papageorge was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation grant. His ostensible subject—sports and its role in American life—quickly became charged with the political, racial, and sexual conflicts ignited by the war. Picture after picture is electric with disquiet: military men in uniform parading on the field or relaxing in the stands; cheerleaders rehearsing under the eyes of police; a couple sprawled and embracing in the debris of the Indianapolis 500; and hundreds of fans, drawn in unsettling group portraits, at various stadiums and in the stands of many classic American sporting events. Papageorge eloquently captured the palpable civic and psychic distress of the time on the faces of his subjects and in their gestures and interactions. This is a remarkable, unexpected body of work—published here for the first time—by a photographer and teacher who has shaped the creative efforts of many of the most influential American photographers of the past three decades.
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Does the Left Know We Had a Housing Bubble?
Over the last week, speaking at a variety of events, I heard three different representatives of the Left; first a Democrat US Senator, then a senior member of the Obama Administration, and finally a "consumer" advocate, all repeat the same narrative: all was fine in the housing market until predatory lenders forced hard‐working honest families into foreclosure, which reduced house prices, bringing the economy to a crash. That's correct, apparently the Left believes we all would still be seeing double‐digit home price appreciation if it wasn't for those evil lenders.
Undoubtedly foreclosures, especially those that result in houses that remain vacant for a considerable amount of time, have an adverse impact on surrounding property values. Many constitute a serious eye‐sore and provide a haven for criminal activity. But did foreclosures really drive down prices, or were foreclosures first driven by price declines resulting from a bursting housing bubble? While causality is always difficult to establish with certainty, we do know that the rate of house price appreciation peaked and started declining about 18 months before the dramatic up‐turn in mortgage delinquencies. If one prefers a more rigorous test, economists at the Boston Fed have directly tested if prices first drove foreclosures or whether foreclosures drove prices. Their results conclude that its was declining prices that matter, and that the price effect of foreclosures is minimal.
Why does any of this ultimately matter? Because if we craft policies to avoid the adverse impacts of the next property bubble based upon a narrative of "consumer protection" — as is being pushed by the Obama Administration, we will do little to avoid the creation of the next housing bubble and its damaging aftermath. Instead we should be focusing attention on those policies that contributed to the creation of the housing bubble: expansionary monetary policy and the Federal government's blind pursuit of ever‐expanding home‐ownership rates at any cost.


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Yesterday, I posted a Blog entry on the Timeline Feature of Family Tree Maker. In reading a Genea-Blogger friend's blog, Bill West put this challenge out to us.
THE SECOND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR GENEALOGY BLOG CHALLENGEI used the timeline feature last year, when trying to find the Parents of a Civil War ancestor. His name was mentioned in a PBS series of Gettysburg. Over the course of a couple of months, I found out who his parents were along with a lot of other interesting pieces of information about this soldier.
One of the Finds that I found was the history of his unit.
2nd Infantry Regiment Maryland
Since that article listed all of the Battles that the 2nd Infantry (CSA) faught in, I thought that I would enter it into Family Tree Maker, so that I could track what battles he fought in, and what battles he was NOT in. As it turned out, he was wounded in Gettysburg, but returned to be wounded again about a year later in another battle.
In the link above, listed the dates and places of the battles. That entered, here is what the timeline looked like.
Using the Timeline Report (Publish Workspace), Person Collection, the two battles are there and based on the information on this soldier, I made a note as to his two woundings.
How was this done? Simply created a New, Unrelated "person". To be able to show how long the Unit has been in place, I added a "birth" and "death" fact, for the unit, as the Organizational Date and Muster Out Date. That would tell me that he was wounded during the 7th month that the unit had been established and again at 21 months.
Looking at this soldier's Timeline, we see that he had enlisted into the CSA before his unit was formed, at the age of 18. He was wounded at 19 (the first time)
Looking down the timeline a little further, we see the 2nd wounding and his final "retirement" from the CSA. His Civil War Record showed that he was absent on August 14 because he was in a hospital in Charlottesville. Returned to Duty September 1863.
He lived to be 83 years old.
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Conjure up a list of all-time great blues harmonica players, and high up on it you'll see the name James Cotton.
Cotton's music begins at the source: He was born in Tunica, Miss., and started playing harp at the age of 9, learning directly from Sonny Boy Williamson II. He eventually made his way to Chicago, where he played for a dozen years in Muddy Waters' band before he struck out on his own.
James Cotton is now in his 69th year of performing. Throat cancer has captured his singing voice, but his harmonica continues to wail. Or, as he tells it: "The voice is gone, but the wind is still there."
Cotton's latest album on Alligator Records is called Cotton Mouth Man. It features guest appearances by — among others — Gregg Allman, Delbert McClinton and Keb' Mo'. NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Cotton and Keb' Mo' about making the new album; click the audio link on this page to hear their conversation.
Conjure up a list of all-time great blues harmonica players and high on up you're going to hear the name James Cotton.
SIMON: James Cotton's music begins at the source. He was born in Tunica, Mississippi and started playing harp at the age nine, learning directly from Sonny Boy Williamson II. He eventually made his way to Chicago, where he played for a dozen years in Muddy Waters' band before he struck out on his own. James Cotton is now in his 69th year of performing. Throat cancer has captured his singing voice, but his harmonica continues to wail. His latest album on Alligator Records is called "Cotton Mouth Man." It features guest appearances by, among others, Gregg Allman, Delbert McClinton and Keb' Mo'. James Cotton joins us now from the studios of member station WBEZ in Chicago. Thanks so much for being with us, Mr. Cotton.
JAMES COTTON: I'm so glad to be here with you.
SIMON: And we also welcome, in our studios in New York, Keb' Mo'. Keb' Mo', thank you very much for being with us.
KEB' MO': Thank you. I'm glad to be here.
SIMON: Mr. Cotton, you're 77, right?
COTTON: Yeah, I am.
SIMON: Well, you suck the reeds right out of your harp. How do you do that?
COTTON: Well, wind. The voice is gone but the wind's still there.
SIMON: The voice is going but the wind's still there.
COTTON: Yeah. The wind's still blowing.
SIMON: The wind's still blowing. Keb' Mo', you have vocals and guitar on a couple of tracks. What brings you to this project?
KEB' MO': Well, to work with Mr. Cotton is, you're working with a real blues man. And it's an honor because I remember I first met Mr. Cotton - he probably doesn't remember - I first met him in the early '70s in Connecticut at a club called The Shabu.
SIMON: I didn't know there were blues clubs in Connecticut.
KEB' MO': I don't know if it's a blues club. It was a club.
SIMON: A club. OK.
KEB' MO': Called the Shabu Inn with...
COTTON: Yeah, well, we made a blues club out of it.
SIMON: You made a blues club out of it.
SIMON: Well, we have you singing, Keb' Mo', on this track, "Mississippi Mud."
KEB' MO': (Singing) I'm in limbo breaking ground. When the earth was bone dry, digging and sweating underneath that blazing Delta sky. You put your seeds in the ground and pray for rain, all for the chance to do it all again. It's in my soul and in my bones, that old Mississippi mud.
SIMON: Is it - can I ask, Keb' Mo' - a little intimidating to play alongside a blues legend?
KEB' MO': I wouldn't say intimidating. I would say it would be - just it's a huge honor and a huge responsibility to sing on a James Cotton track, you know. I felt on that track like I was representing the voice of James Cotton, you know. I was trying to channel his spirit in the song, his story, and sing as if I were him.
COTTON: Thank you so much.
KEB' MO': (Singing) That old Mississippi Mud.
SIMON: May as I ask you, Mr. Cotton, does it hurt for you to speak?
COTTON: No, it's - it don't hurt. But the words don't come out plainly all the time.
SIMON: The words don't come out plainly all the time.
COTTON: No, no, they don't.
SIMON: Keb' Mo', you're on another cut called "Wasn't My Time to Go." What can you tell us about this tune?
KEB' MO': Well, it's kind of an autobiographical journey through James Cotton's life, about his trials and tribulations and his brushes with disaster. And he came out smelling like a rose, so to speak.
COTTON: Great.
KEB' MO': And so it's him saying, like, putting towards his sense of faith in life and his gratitude toward being here.
COTTON: Yeah, I'm really glad about that.
KEB' MO': Yeah.
KEB' MO': (Singing) Father went first, then my sweet mother, then it was just me, my sister and my brother. Before too long, they were up and gone. I had to make my way on my own. I guess it wasn't my time, wasn't my time to go. How I got this far, I'll never know. It just wasn't my time to go.
COTTON: I guess I was born with the blues. And I don't know nothing else but the blues.
KEB' MO': When you get one thing right in life, you know.
COTTON: Yeah.
KEB' MO': Yeah. That's all you need to do, is get one thing right in life. You know, you get a whole bunch of things and that one thing right that you get in life. But if you do that one thing and you put your heart into it, that makes it easy.
SIMON: So, Mr. Cotton, when you listen to Keb' Mo', do you have a sense that he's kind of saying what you would?
COTTON: Yeah, I think so. I know so. I can feel it. You know, it feels good to my soul.
KEB' MO': Yeah. I felt, it was really - it was just a very unique thing. I've guested on, like, records before and done things, you know, but this was really special because, you know, it was like, I've heard James Cotton sing, and when he was singing, he was an amazing singer.
COTTON: (Singing) You women have heard of jalopies, you heard noise they make, well, let me introduce my new Rocket 88. Yeah, it's straight, just won't wait. Everybody likes my Rocket 88. Baby, we'll ride in style, moving all along. A V8 motor, baby, it's modern design. Black convertible top and the girls don't mind. Sportin' with me riding all around town for joy...
KEB' MO': I will never be the vocalist that James Cotton, you know, was when he was singing, you know, but I did my best to really take on the task and to honor it, you know.
COTTON: You did it.
KEB' MO': Oh, thank you. That there - that's a million dollars right there. I think this is a testament to who the man is that when you take away a skill that someone can do - it's like when Beethoven couldn't hear anymore, you know, like, I always think about, like, what if I couldn't play the guitar, you know. But what I'd do, I'd have to really lean more heavily on the spirit of what I'm doing. And, you know, who you are shines because when you strip away everything, you know, it's like who are you? So I think Mr. Cotton without a voice, you're going to really see who he is now. And when he plays - I saw him. I had the pleasure to be on a show with Mr. Cotton in Switzerland and I saw him perform. And James leading that band - he drove it. He drove it with his harmonica and with his spirit.
SIMON: From WBEZ in Chicago, James Cotton. And from New York, Keb' Mo'. The new CD is called "Cotton Mouth Man." Gentlemen, thanks so much.
KEB' MO': Thank you.
COTTON: Thank you. Thank you, Keb' Mo'.
KEB' MO': Thank you, Mr. Cotton. Thank you so much.
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Charles Schwab today released new survey data showing that active traders are expressing renewed faith in the market, despite continued volatility. The latest Charles Schwab Active Trader Sentiment survey polled nearly 260 individual investors who trade frequently. Findings include:
- 8 in 10 respondents (81 percent) report a neutral or bullish outlook for the market in the next six months, virtually unchanged from the last survey in February 2009.
- 53 percent expect the economy to show clear signs of recovery within the next 12 months.
- 63 percent plan to increase their trading activity in the next six months, up from 49 percent in the February 2009 survey.
The survey also finds more evidence that active traders are looking for ways to better manage risk in their portfolios. For example, there is a clear increase in the number of traders who use exchange traded funds (ETFs) as a way to gain exposure to sector or industry trends. 43 percent of respondents are trading ETFs and 28 percent say ETFs are their preferred investment vehicle (up from 24 percent in February 2009).
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Also posted at EmirWeb by Emir Hasanbegovic.
Recently Pivotal Labs decided to push mobile devices to the limit by connecting multiple devices to one other in order to have them behave as one. Through the use of image recognition, optical character recognition, persistent low cost connections and a whole lot of ingenuity Pivotal Labs was able to put together an innovative and unique experience. Below, we have collected all the accounts of the key individuals involved in bringing to life this piece of innovation and technology.
How we did it
Engineers at Pivotal Labs came up with an idea to use multiple devices to orchestrate a unique unified experience. With so many people interested in contributing to this idea, a hackathon ensued where engineers worked in groups, each group contributing on the separate pieces needed to make this happen.
While most of the tasks were accomplished during the hackathon, a few projects lingered beyond the hackathon, such as building the stand and working on the general stability of the framework. The source code is available for those who want to try to replicate this flow.
OTA and Architecture
By Emir Hasanbegovic (website, twitter, GitHub)
Before we could start building the applications that would run in this unified experience, we needed to build a software layer to run these applications.
We split the main communication layer into 3 parts. The server, the client and the client server. You can read in more detail the idea behind each of these here.
The server would be our communication protocol layer, RabbitMQ and apache in this case, the client would be the phone applications and the server client would be java applications running server side.
In short, the server clients and the clients would communicate between each other using the server. The server client would keep track of the entire state of the unified experience and report to each client their particular state with respect the unified experience. Each client would then render their respective state. The clients would also collect sensor events such as touch and send this information back to the server client. Think of it as one big MVC where the views are the clients, the controllers are the server clients and the models are replicated on boths sides.
To get the interactive and responsive experience we wanted, we knew we had to innovate on what kind of technologies we needed to bring to mobile. In this case we brought RabbitMQ's implementation of AMQP to help move messages between devices.
We built libraries and services that would manage all the connection details,
allowing the client developers to focus on the content they were transmitting as opposed to the delivery system. This made development of the individual games and applications possible in a very short time. In some cases a single day.
Architecture diagram of libraries
The red parts represent the sections that app developers were responsible for. The rest was provided by the libraries team.
Screen Detection
By Greg Weresch (twitter, GitHub)
We had heard of the OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) library before, and it looked powerful with many potential applications. We started looking for an opportunity to play around with it and realized that one of the interesting problems that we'd want to solve for the Device Wall would be to determine where the device screens were relative to each other. We took this as an opportunity to give OpenCV a spin!
OpenCV is a library that focuses on image processing. It analyzes and manipulates images. This was useful after setting up the devices on the wall. We could take a picture of them to determine where their screens were relative to each other and identify each device.
The process starts by running an app on each of the devices. This application communicates with a server to get a unique id. The devices then each show a white screen with their id in the center. We take a picture of all these devices and analyze it.
We detect contours in the picture and throw out those that don't have four corners and a minimum area. At this point we've found all the rectangles of sufficient size in the picture.
Luckily devices have rounded corners and perfectly rectangular screens, so we only detect their screens.
We then iterate over all the various rectangles we've found to find the outermost points.
These define the boundaries of the virtual screen that they all make up together.
We use the virtual screen's dimensions and fit an image to it. Knowing all the screens' points relative to this virtual screen, we can cut out pieces of that image and show them on their respective devices.
The final step is determining which screen belongs to which device. We crop each screen individually from the picture, using ImageMagick, then run the open source optical character recognition (OCR) program Tesseract to detect the two digit id in the middle of the screen. We used two digits since it greatly improved the accuracy over using single digit numbers.
Finally we can match the id to each virtual screen and we can determine the relative position of the screens to their corresponding virtual screen. We write all this out into a JSON string, which the server will use to cut an image up and deliver to the devices.
The Process
Memory Game
By Devin Fallak (twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub)
The Memory Game is a game enjoyed by children of all ages around the world.
The rules are simple: flip up a card to see what it is, then flip up another card to see if you can find the same card. If the cards are the same, the cards stay flipped up. If they are different, the cards flip over again. Repeat until all cards are flipped up.
We built this game into the Xtreme Screen by making each phone represent a card, and each tablet represent two cards. If there are an odd number of cards, one phone will remain empty or a tablet will only show one card.
The game state resides on the Memory Game server client. When the game is initialized, all cards are shuffled and flipped down. The assignments are sent to the clients. When the user touches a card, events are sent to the server client. The server client responds by sending a message back to the client telling it to flip up the card if appropriate. It then either flips the two cards back over if they don't match, or if they do match, it either does nothing if there are more cards to be flipped, or displays a win message to the user if they have flipped over all the cards and won the game.
We used custom view animations to animate the card images in the Android app. In order to save time, we leveraged the Flip 3D view transition project.
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If even a small Frappuccino seems like too much of an indulgence, Starbucks is now selling a mini version of the sugary coffee drink.
The Seattle-based chain said is started selling mini Frappuccino on Monday and will have them on the menu through July 6.
The new size is just 10 ounces, compared with 12 ounces for a small, known as a "tall" at Starbucks.
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Starbucks isn't the only one trying to tempt people with more modest serving sizes. Sonic also offers ice cream shakes in a mini size, and Coke has been playing up its mini cans.
Starbucks says the regular mini Frappuccino without whipped cream has 120 calories and 24 grams of sugar. That's compared with 180 calories and 36 grams of sugar for a small.
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(February 28, 2011) Yesterday was an amazing day at NRB 2011. It began with a standing-room-only worship service as Dr. James MacDonald gave a dynamic expository message from Acts 12.Posted on February 28, 2011
(February 27, 2011) Join your brothers and sisters in Christ this morning at the very special NRB 2011 Worship Service.Posted on February 27, 2011
(February 26, 2011) Congratulations to the five new NRB Officers were elected this morning at NRB 2011.Posted on February 26, 2011
Get Acquainted on a Super Saturday (February 26, 2011) Is this your first trip to the NRB Convention & Exposition? Get the scoop at the First Timer's Orientation at 8:00 a.m. (Bayou E).Posted on February 26, 2011
(February 25, 2011) There's lots of activity on the Exposition Floor.Posted on February 25, 2011
(February 17, 2011) Mark Ramsey and Rey Mena will speak during the Saturday Super Session at NRB 2011 on February 26th. Ramsey will discuss social media and Mena will focus on sound digital strategy.Posted on February 17, 2011
(February 16, 2011) The Super Session at NRB 2011 on Sunday, February 27th features a presentation titled: "Connecting with Audiences in an Age of Distraction: A Conversation about Movies, Entertainment, and the Future of Media" with Michael Flaherty and Simon Swart, and with special comments by John Schneider and Mark Joseph.Posted on February 16, 2011
(February 16, 2011) WDAC-FM will receive the prestigious NRB Milestone Award during the March 1st Banquet at the NRB Convention & Exposition.Posted on February 16, 2011
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There's a gadget out there for every woman, whether she's a fashionista, artiste, athlete, or gardener. For this Mother's Day, get your mom something she's bound to love!
For the practical, yet fashion-forward: CM4 Q Card Case, $40
One of the winners of our recent smartphone case test, the CM4 Q card case is a fashionable and functional phone protector. She can use it to tote around her work ID, some cash, and credit cards along with her phone and stop schlepping around a cumbersome bag.
For the working mother: Amethyst Fabric Clutch, $189
If she can't give up carrying around a pocketbook, the Everpurse will give her room for her glasses, lipstick, and checkbook as well as her phone and will even charge her phone while it's docked inside (no more carrying around a charger). And since the clutch is stylish, she won't have to go home and change her bag after work for evening events! Overnight, the purse charges itself on its own charging mat. For a few dollars more, you can treat her to a wristlet, cross-body strap, or higher-end finish.
For the multi-deviced maven: Ogio Hamptons Tote, $65
And if a phone or a small purse just won't do for your tech savvy mom, there's a device-friendly tote! While I can't vouch for the durability of the bag itself, I can tell you that in addition to having compartments for her laptop, tablet or eReader, pens, and mobile phones, there's plenty of space for a beach towel, sweater, sun tan lotion, and water bottle.
For the artistic mom: Sensu Brush, $40
The Sensu brush is a digital paintbrush that will give her an authentic painting experience on her tablet. Whether she uses an iPad, Kindle Fire, or other touchscreen device, she'll get the feel and functionality of a real brush, without the mess! When she flips the Sensu around, she'll be able to use the other side as a stylus for jotting down notes.
For the woman with a green thumb: Click and Grow Smart Herb Garden, $79+
Does she wish she had more time to garden? The Click and Grow plant system is self-watering so it practically takes care of itself. She'll have homegrown herbs without putting in much time or effort. In the past my basil plants have died rather quickly, but with this I was able to grow delectable herbs with minimal effort that lasted for several months!
For the golf aficionada: Golf Sense, $130
Is she always looking to better her game? This glove captures information on your swing in real time, and then provides recs based on your movement to improve it. And no worrying about added bulk or connecting the device to your computer - you just Velcro it to your glove and it wirelessly uploads via bluetooth to your mobile device.
For the fitness buff: Nike Fuel Band, $150
In our recent test of fitness trackers, the Nike Fuel band came out on top. Testers loved the real-time feedback on calories, steps, and daily progress, finding it motivated them and encouraged them to stay active. It's also comfy and fashion-friendly; both great attribute perks for something she'll be wearing on her wrist.
For the mom looking for an easy-to-use laptop: Chromebook, $250
If your mom's looking for a simple, portable device, the Samsung Chromebook Series 3 laptop is the one she'll want. Most of the computing's done over the cloud through WiFi, so it's a good option if she has easy and reliable WiFi access. It's ideal if she does light word processing, writes an occasional letter, and really just wants a device to surf the web and send emails and maybe listen to music or watch TV through Hulu.
For the mane queen: Sarah Potempa Curling Iron, $200
One of our 2013 Very Innovative Product (VIP) Award recipients, this curling iron is like a personal stylist, and what mother wouldn't like one of those? The wand automatically winds up with a touch of a button - making it faster and easier to use than traditional curling irons. As it's a personal fave of mine, my mom might just be getting one this Mother's Day!
As you can see, there's a tech gift for just about any mother. Let me know in the comment below if I missed any great gadgets that you think would be great for Mother's Day!And if you're looking for other helpful tech tips or gadget related products and news, follow my Twitter handle @GHGadgetGirl. I give a glimpse inside the prestigious testing facilities of the Good Housekeeping Research Institute daily - or you can sign up for a tour and see the labs in-person!


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Friday, October 30, 2009
REVIEW: Random Magic by Sasha Soren
When absent-minded Professor Random misplaces the main character from Alice in Wonderland, young Henry Witherspoon must book-jump to fetch Alice before chaos theory kicks in and the world vanishes. Along the way he meets Winnie Flapjack, a wit-cracking doodle witch with nothing to her name but a magic feather and a plan. Such as it is. Henry and Winnie brave the Dark Queen, whatwolves, pirates, Struths, and fluttersmoths, Priscilla and Charybdis, obnoxiously cheerful vampires, Baron Samedi, a nine-dimensional cat, and one perpetually inebriated Muse to rescue Alice and save the world by tea time.
Click here to read a writing sample from Random Magic.
My thoughts...Imagine yourself in a vivid dream. One where things are real, but dreamy, extra colorful, animated and magical. Now you are ready to enter the world of Random Magic.
I have not watched the movie Alice In Wonderland in years, but I do remember the characters and certain aspects of the story. All of my preconceived notions about this book were wrong. Alice is not the main character in the story as I expected. The story is so much more than a girl in Wonderland.
For me, the prologue was confusing and the first few chapters were mainly background informataion about howHenry,our hero,winds up in Edgeland. Now we arrive at chapter 3 and we meet Winnie. This is where the story really takes off. Winnie is a doodle witch and she helps Henry navigate through her magical world in search of Alice. Sasha Soren takes the reader on an incredible journey. The descriptions of the locations and beings they encounter are incredible, you can tell the author is an artist because she writes with all of her five senses. You really feel like your are there.
There are many strange and unusual characters in Random Magic. First off, this is a love story. For me, this wasn't obvious until half way through the story. I noticed significant character development with Henry and Winnie and I grew more attached to the characters as the story progressed. Several other characters thoughts pop into the story occasionally, while at times I did find this annoying, it helped with the story development and visual imagery. One of the other characters I enjoyed was Professor Random, he does not play a big part, but I loved his absentmindedness.
The ending concludes Henry's adventure, for better or worse, but leaves enough room for an additional story. Actually any number of characters in the book could have their own story.
I enjoyed being part of this book tour and interacting with the kind and lovely Sasha Soren. Be sure to click the Random Magic link on the sidebar to continue to follow the tour.
For more information on Sasha Soren and her book, please visit her website.
Want more Random Magic? Check out these posts...
Random Magic Book Trailer
Character Quiz
The Garden of Muses
Interview with Sasha Soren
6 comments:
- Tales of Whimsy said...
Great review! I'm definitely going to link back to this one.
- October 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- Michelle Greathouse said...
Great post. :)
I like the way you compared Random Magic to a dream world.
I agree that the writing is very vivid - the book played out like a movie in my head. :)
- October 30, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- Elie said...
It felt like a story you would read aloud as a bed time story. Thanks for reading my review.
- October 30, 2009 at 11:05 AM
- Unknown said...
Interesting review. I am now on Chapter 5 and agree that the prologue was pretty confusing. The story is just beginning to get interesting and so far I like Winnie. Never expected it to be a love story so that's something for me to look forward to. Thanks for sharing
- October 30, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Kerja Keras Adalah Energi Kita said...
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God is always with us. May the peace and prosperity of the world can be created. Indonesia We invite bloggers to participate reconciling the world. We finished all the hostility and war that had happened. Indonesian peace-loving
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- November 1, 2009 at 9:32 PM
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"He has normal vision other than his vision is not quite right."
Monday, August 10, 2009
And Another One!
"He has normal vision other than his vision is not quite right."
8 comments:
- Peg said...
I am really beginning to see that I am smart enough for med school...
- August 10, 2009 at 1:41 PM
- danielle said...
wow - can you send it back and ask him to really read what he sent you??? And then to explain it???
- August 10, 2009 at 1:44 PM
I really hate it when people use their professional jargon on me.
- August 10, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- Scritches.com said...
And these people went to school for how long?
- August 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- Mari-Ann said...
You are a magnet to the Weird of the World and we are your disciples. Please keep sharing. Although my secret verification word is "preck" so maybe it's rubbing off faster than I thought. Use it in a sentence today :-)
- August 10, 2009 at 4:31 PM
As a retired medical transcriptionist, I can honestly and sadly say I've heard these types of statements thousands of times in my career and it only seems to get worse. In the last ten years or so I have noticed that many of the newer docs cannot properly pronounce medical terms or drug names, cannot put four words together and have it make sense, and they certainly do not know how to spell. I've often wondered how they made it out of high school, let alone medical school.
I just stumbled upon your blog a few days ago and am totally enjoying your venting.
- August 10, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Maybe it was left or left over or sinister or something.
- August 10, 2009 at 7:11 PM
It's not necessarily that vague. I supposedly have 20/20 vision but I still feel like I don't see correctly, like it requires effort or something. One ophthalmologist suggested some eye exercises. I guess it's a focusing problem. No doctor I know seems to know how to better describe what I tell them. Maybe this situation is similar.
- September 7, 2009 at 3:53 AM


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Hace un par de años estuve lo más cercano a la muerte de lo que alguna vez soñé o quise estar. No temo a la muerte, no me aferro a la vida, pero no creo estar listo para aceptar el cese de mi existencia aún. Nadie lo está. Ni siquiera quienes quieren ver el otro mundo o el paraíso, o incluso reencarnar en condiciones más favorables. Fue un experiencia bastante interesante, con relativas pocas consecuencias para mi, pero todo un despertar. Ese poner mi mundo de cabeza me ...
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A bright student joins a medical college. He falls in love with a girl who is his classmate from primary school. They are good friends, and he is afraid of expressing his love for her, thinking she might reject. Finally he manages to ask her after eight and half years together as graduate and postgraduate students. Something happens that neither of them could have imagined would happen.
Family life, love, working hard for the love of the family that Lindsay and her husband thrive for is a lesson for all of us on the outside looking in. Do we belong in this town, can we spot Lindsay in a supermarket?
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Jane Blake, 37, suddenly leaves her mother, with whom she has lived since the death in a car crash of her fiancé thirteen years previously, to try to make a life of her own before it is too late. This action sparks a profound crisis, and she finds that, living alone for the first time, as well as trying to decide what to do with her new freedom, she must re-examine her life in order to make sense of this freedom, that is, discover who she really is.
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Kleine roman over drie generaties. Herhaling van zetten is het belangriekste. Zuud-Oost Drenthe tussen 1940 en 1990. Nedersaksisch dialect.
When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other's past? Buy the the paper back at Turner Maxwell Books
Aislinn of Bairdhe dreams of becoming a lady knight to honor the death of her fallen brother. To her mother's horror, King Patrick grants Aislinn's wish and she begins her long years of training. Despite the mockery of the other pages, and the disdain of Prince Caelan who also trains to be a knight, Aislinn commits herself to her dreams and embarks on a journey of self-discovery and bravery. Through the years, Aislinn and Caelan grow from sparing classmates to good frien...
In The Love Divine, Wright's unparalleled poetic power will provide the reader with new love stories that delve into the heart of his immortal beloved, revealing the mysteries behind this spiritual journey to the ultimate destiny. The author becomes a character of a man in praise of her beauty and grace, in a world that takes love beyond heavenly and earthly bounds. This book will redefine the romantic genre forever.
Theological Immortal Romance is an Elysian love story written in poetic form by author Kevin Brian Wright about, love, devotion, and the angelic beauty of his beloved - Isabella. Within the story the reader embarks on a spiritual journey of love and romance seen through the eyes of the author. Many transcendental occurrences evolve during this journey through each chapter of the book. With each poem you are visually enlightened by his reverence and love to her. Mystery t...
Morgan Gable first falls for Daniel Connolly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for awhile. Five years later, she and her troubadour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true. Daniel entices her into a marriage of convenience. Can she save him from the treacherous political legacy of his l...