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I was sitting in a storefront on the coldest night so far this year, light snow coming down, waiting for a Chinatown bus to New York that was already a half-hour late. Not where you'd expect to buy an iPhone, but...
The only other guy in the place was an older dude in a torn coat who kept bumming my cigarettes. All the shops around were closed. I was thinking about how good a hot chocolate would taste, and trying ignore the older guy talking way too loud on his PTT Nextel.
"Yeah," I heard him say, "ask her if she got a iPod charger. I got a phone—one of them iPod phones—somebody gave me. Try to get some money for it. A hundred dollars, some shit. These things go for I don't know how much—six, seven hundred. I better get two hundred dollars, real talk."
Now, I got the first iPhone at launch (and hacked it to work in Canada, where I live), traded up for the 3G when it came out, and then the 3GS—but then I started school, and in the first month somebody stole it while I was asleep at the library. I was locked into a contract, and there was no way I could pay to get another one at full price.
So I got another smartphone, which I pretended was better (it's more efficient and businesslike! Less of a toy!) and felt secretly bummed out every time another one of my friends got a new iPhone. And when the 4 came out this year, I was still on my same shitty contract, still a student, still broke, and just kept replacing the keyboard and trackball on my phone.
So I had to say something: "Hey, you're selling an iPhone?"
Breeeep "Hang on," he said into the Nextel. "Yeah, I got an iPhone. You got two hundred dollars?"
I said I probably did, and he handed me the phone. There it was: what looked like a brand-new iPhone 4, and when I turned it on, the lockscreen lit up with a picture of a baby about six months old: a full head of blonde hair, sitting on the floor surrounded by toys and looking at the camera.
"Do you know this kid?" I asked the guy.
"Man, are you stupid or what?"
"Seems like whoever owns this phone would want it back, don't you think?"
"Probably! What's that got to do with me?"
"Well, seems like the nice thing to do would be to give it back." I scrolled through the contacts. "Look, here's a phone number we can try right here."
"Man, do I look like I'm in the position to be altruistic?" He seriously said that. "You want the phone, you can give me the money and do whatever the fuck you want with it. If not, no problem."
I looked in my wallet: $27, a Canadian five-dollar bill, and a coupon for a free pack of something called "snus". I told him to hang on a second, went outside, and ran to a sandwich shop a couple blocks away (it was the only thing open in the neighborhood) only to find that their ATM was broken.
Running back I saw that the bus had arrived. It was the last one of the night, and I knew it wouldn't wait long. I started running faster.
"Hey!" the old guy yelled—he was outside smoking one of my cigarettes—"Don't miss your bus!"
I stopped. "Uh, listen, I know you said you wanted $200 for the phone, but is there any chance you'd take $27?"
"Yeah!!" He said it like it was the best thing he'd heard all night.
I gave him the money, he gave me the phone, and I started running again. "Hang on," he said, "gimme the rest of them Newports, too." I threw him the pack, and as I caught the bus I heard him shout, "Now get the HELL out of here!"
We got on the Turnpike and headed north; everyone else on the bus had been riding since Baltimore, and they were all asleep with the lights out. In the dark I turned on the phone to look for the owner's number. Playing with it and looking at all the new apps and gadgets they'd added since I last had one to play with, I got a familiar feeling of delight, and then an awful thought: I'm not giving this back, am I?
And then somehow I opened the photo library, and the first picture was of a woman about my age, with just the first suggestions of a pregnant bump under her sweater. As I scrolled through the pictures, she got bigger and bigger, smiling at her husband behind the camera. And then there were pictures of him painting their nursery, and putting together a little wooden crib, and then her getting bigger and bigger still—
And then all at once, pictures of a bright hospital room in the summer afternoon sunshine, and a brand-new baby all red and crying in a bassinet, and the beaming mother holding him for the first time. And then the baby's first time in the crib I'd seen built, and his first clothes, and him crawling and eating and smiling, and finally that first photo I'd seen on the lockscreen.
I found the couple's home number and called it; the husband answered. He was really grateful and incredulous when I told him what happened.
He actually just came to my house to come get the phone a couple hours ago. It was weird; I felt like I knew him, and I wanted to ask after his family. But I didn't say anything except Merry Christmas.
I made him give me the $27 back, though. I'm not in the position to be altruistic.
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Jennifer Bizley is a Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow & Professor of Auditory Neuroscience.
Our research seeks to link the patterns of neural activity in auditory cortex to our perception of the world around us. While sounds within an environment, such as a person talking, may be clearly intelligible at their source, noisy and reverberant listening conditions often combine to degrade the intelligibility of the sound wave arriving at the ear. The sound wave that arrives at the ear results from the combination of all of the different sounds that exist in our surroundings. This complex sound wave is decomposed into individual frequency components by the cochlea and transmitted via the auditory nerve to the auditory brain via the auditory nerve. The challenge for the brain is then to separate different sound sources from one another in order that they can be identified or understood - a process also known as auditory scene analysis. The brain must regroup the sound elements that arose from each individual source. Different sources can be desribed according to their characteristics - they might have a particular pitch, or a characteristic timbre. Our research falls into three broad themes:
- How are perceptual features of sounds, such as pitch, timbre or location in space encoded by neurons within auditory cortex?
We might expect to see neurons in auditory cortex whose responses match our own perception so that they could perhaps represent a particular sound pitch irrespective of whether it is played by a violin or piano, to our left or right. However, most neurons in auditory cortex represent multiple features of a sound, that is their activity is often modulated by more than one stimulus dimension. Information may be 'multiplexed'
within single neurons since it is possible to extract information about different stimulus parameters from single neurons at different time points in the neural response. Moreover, responses of ensembles of broadly tuned neurons (none of which alone demonstrate invariant
encoding) can be decoded to provide estimates of a stimulus that are robust to changes in irrelevant stimulus features. However, we know little about how sensitivity to particular sound features arises, or what sort of neural representation underlies our perception. Current work is exploring (i) how spectral timbre, which determines vowel identity in speech, is extracted by auditory neurons and (ii) how auditory space and in particular the relative spatial locations of sound sources are represented in auditory cortex.
- How do neurons in auditory cortex create 'invariant' perceptions?
Sound identification - and speech comprehension - require that we are able to generalise across highly variable acoustic stimuli. For example we are able to recognize vowel sounds whether they are spoken by a high or low pitch voice, across accents and genders and in noisy environments. We seek to understand how such invariance, i.e. the ability to maintain perceptual constancy in the face of identity preserving transformations, arises within auditory cortex. We examine neural and behavioural discrimination of sound features - such as spectral timbre - across varied listening conditions including in the presence of noise. By recording populations of neurons across multiple auditory areas we hope to track the emergence of invariant representations.
- When and how does what we see influence how we perceive sound?
We often unconsciously rely on what we see to make sense of what we are hearing (and vice versa). For example, we look at lip movements when we are trying to listen to what someone is saying in a noisy situation.
Traditionally information from different sensory systems, such as the eye and the ear, were thought to be processed independently within the brain. Recent studies have revealed that even at the earliest stages of sensory cortex there is considerable cross-talk between sensory modalities. For example, in the auditory cortex a sizable proportion of nerve cells are sensitive to visual stimulation. Why should neurons in auditory cortex be responding to light? A possible explanation is that visual inputs might increase the spatial acuity of auditory neurons.
Another is that visual inputs might help to parse the auditory scene into its constituent sources.
Our research methods combine human and non-human psychophysics, computational modelling and behavioural neurophysiology. Since attentional state, behavioural context and even the presence of visual stimuli can modulate or drive activity in auditory cortex, we believe that auditory cortical neurons should not be seen simply as static filters tuned to detect particular acoustic features and that visualising neural and behavioural sensitivity simultaneously is key to understanding how neurons in auditory cortex support sound perception.
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September 28, 2010
DefenseReview (DR) contributor Chen Lee a.k.a. "SMGLee" recently got the opportunity to run a FERFRANS SOAR (Special Operations Assault Rifle) gas piston/op-rod AR SBR (Short Barreled Rifle) out in the desert. During the test, he fired the weapon one-handed to see just how controllable FERFRANS SOAR select-fire 5.56mm NATO (5.56x45mm NATO) SBR/PDWs are. In the video below, Lee performs a one-handed 30-round full-auto mag dump, and the weapon stays right on target.
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Of course, if you're going to employ one-handed full-auto fire operationally, it's probably better to employ it in short bursts while firing from the shoulder, as demonstrated by a Falcon Security Group (FSG) PSD operator/instructor, here:
Hear all those "dings"? Those are all hits on an 8-inch (8″) steel plate. In the above video, the operator/instructor keeps his weak hand on the principal/protectee while engaging the threat one-handed.
Even if you're shooting two-handed, it's nice to have a controllable select-fire/full-auto gun. After all, if you have to hit the happy switch (selector switch) and go rock n' roll on the threat (like an enemy ambush, for instance), you're probably going to be moving while shooting, so you most likely will not be able to get into that perfect shooting stance to control the weapon. That's the beauty of the FERFRANS SOAR SBRs–you can fire them on full-auto while you're off balance and still keep all the rounds on target(s). If you're going to use a select-fire gun, why not go with one that allows you to apply surgical full-auto fire, even one-handed?
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Revolutionary Industrial Designs for Smartphones, Tablets and Ultrabooks Using Atmel's XSense Flexible Touch Sensors and Damage-resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CES Unveiled 2013 -- Atmel® Corporation ATML, a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, today announced that Atmel® Corporation and Corning Incorporated GLW are demonstrating Atmel XSense™ flexible sensor functionality on thin IT-sized and curved Corning Gorilla Glass form factors. These respective innovations will be showcased during the CES Unveiled and Digital Experience events. This work potentially enables innovative and cost-effective capacitive touch modules. Atmel's XSense flexible touch sensors will usher in a new era of user interface designs over a variety of sizes for consumer electronic displays. Notably, the flexible touch sensor allows capacitive touch to be wrapped around the side of a device, potentially eliminating the need for mechanical buttons that can wear-down when exposed to moisture and dirt.
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Today's demonstrations with both flat and curved samples of Corning Gorilla Glass illustrate the compatibility of the Atmel XSense sensor with the industry's standard chemically strengthened cover glass for touch-enabled displays. Atmel is confident that industrial designers can now develop touchscreens with stylish and contemporary form factors, without compromising reliability, functionality and optical clarity, even in the most demanding and rugged environments.
"We are excited to coordinate with Atmel for this demonstration. These results further demonstrate Corning Gorilla Glass' compatibility with emerging touch technologies," said Paul Tompkins, director, commercial technology, Corning Specialty Materials.
"Touchscreens in inventive, unique form factors are fast becoming an ideal way to differentiate new consumer devices," said Jalil Shaikh, vice president and general manager of touch materials, Atmel Corporation. "These efforts allow our customers the ability to work with more flexible materials and damage-resistant glass. We look forward to an ongoing, collegial relationship with Corning."
See Us at 2013 CES
These innovative concepts with Atmel's flexible XSense sensor can be viewed during the following press events:
- CES Unveiled on Sunday, January 6, from 4:00 – 7:00 pm PT at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Level 3, South Seas Ballroom C
- Digital Experience on Monday, January 7, from 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm PT at the MGM Grand Hotel
Demos will also be showcased in private meeting rooms managed by Corning and Atmel.
More Information on Atmel
Atmel XSense Flexible Touch Sensors: www.atmel.com/xsense
Atmel YouTube Channel: www.atmel.com/youtube
Embedded Design Blog: www.atmelcorporation.wordpress.com
Twitter: www.atmel.com/twitter
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About Corning
Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 160 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy, and metrology.
About Atmel
Atmel Corporation ATML is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel provides the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on industrial, consumer, communications, computing and automotive markets.
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Beckett, Red Sox steamroll flat Rockies for 1-0 lead
• Summary: Josh Beckett struck out the first four batters he faced and Dustin Pedroia hit a leadoff homer in the bottom of the first to start the scoring deluge for the Red Sox. Boston blew the game open in the fifth inning with seven runs and had eight doubles by the end of the fifth, tying a World Series record for most in a game.
• Beckett shines: He struck out the first three batters he faced, making him the the first pitcher to strike out three batters in the top of the first in Game 1 of the World Series since Juan Guzman in 1993. Beckett also lowered his career postseason ERA to 1.73, placing him third behind Mariano Rivera (0.77 ERA) and Chrisy Mathewson (1.15 ERA) among pitchers who have thrown at least 70 postseason innings.
• Figure this: The Red Sox are the first team in MLB postseason history to score 10-plus runs in three straight games.
• Figure this II: Colorado's Brad Hawpe struck out to end the game, finishing 0-for-4 with 4 strikeouts. He's the fourth non-pitcher to go 0-for-4 with 4 Ks in a World Series game.
• Quotable: "Not sure what the final score was, but we were a little rusty." -- Colorado's Todd Helton
-- ESPN.com news services
Red Sox 13, Rockies 1
BOSTON (AP) -- Josh Beckett, Dustin Pedroia and the Boston Red Sox were revved up and ready. Not so the Colorado Rockies, who lurched into Beantown with all the zip of a creaky old stagecoach.
Back in the World Series with no Bambino's curse to worry about, the Red Sox flattened the Rockies 13-1 in Wednesday night's opener.
Beckett got off to the most overpowering start since Sandy Koufax, Pedroia became only the second player to lead off the Series with a home run, and then a relentless offense led by Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz racked up hit after hit.
"Not sure what the final score was," Colorado's Todd Helton said, "but we were a little rusty."
The Red Sox kept scoring ... and scoring ... and scoring in Wednesday's 13-1 win over Colorado in Game 1 of the World Series. Boston set a record for most runs scored in Game 1 of the World Series, but here's a look at some of the teams Boston passed.
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|2007 (vs. Rockies)
|1996 (at Yankees)
|1932 (vs. Cubs)
|Red Sox
|2004 (vs. Cardinals)
|1978 (vs. Yankees)
|White Sox
|1959 (vs. Dodgers)
Despite the lopsided score there was no boasting from Boston.
"I executed just enough pitches today to survive," Beckett said. "That's a good lineup over there. You can tell how hungry they are."
Boston set a record for runs and victory margin in an opener and finished with 17 hits, becoming the first club with eight doubles in a Series game since 1925. After taking a 6-1 lead against Colorado ace Jeff Francis, the Red Sox piled on seven runs in the fifth, when Rockies reliever Ryan Speier walked three straight batters with the bases loaded -- the first time that ever happened in the Series.
Make no mistake, these Red Sox are slick, and not just because of an on-and-off drizzle that seemed to dampen the noise from 36,733 fans in Fenway Park. Counting their comeback from a 3-1 deficit against Cleveland in the AL Championship Series, the Red Sox have outscored opponents 43-6 in their last four games. In the first five innings against Colorado, the Red Sox were 11-for-15 (.733) when batting with two outs.
"We definitely had a lot of momentum going," said Boston first baseman Kevin Youkilis, who doubled twice. "Our motto is always early and often."
Colorado has the altitude -- the series shifts to mile-high Coors Field this weekend -- and had won 21 of 22 coming in. But after a record eight days off, the Rockies looked like a team starting spring training. Just four batters in and trailing by only a run, the Rockies moved their infield in.
"That's not the way we drew it up," Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said.
Boston showed the veteran attitude and stretched a Red Sox Series winning streak to five for the first time since 1915-16. While the Rockies lined up for the introductions on the foul side of the third-base line, looking every bit the World Series rookies they are, the Red Sox stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the infield side, knowing they belonged.
In one game, the Red Sox put up more runs than the Rockies' pitching staff had allowed in the entire NLCS, and almost as many hits and extra-base knocks. Here's a look:
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|Hits allowed
|Extra-base hits allowed
|* -- Ties 1925 Pirates for most XBH in WS game.
With stubble on his upper lip and a hint of a soul patch on his chin, the 27-year-old Beckett pitched in the manner of a young Roger Clemens. Coming off his ALCS MVP, the 2003 World Series MVP blew away the Rockies with 95-97 mph fastballs the first time through the order, then started mixing in a 77 mph curve.
Beckett allowed six hits in seven innings, struck out nine and walked one, improving to 4-0 with a 1.20 ERA in the postseason this year.
"We're not done and he's not done," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said.
Pitching on 12 days' rest, Francis fell behind 3-0 in the first inning and was finished after four, giving up six runs and 10 hits. Colorado, which had matched the 1976 Cincinnati Big Red Machine by sweeping its first seven postseason games, lost for just the second time since Sept. 15. The Rockies allowed just eight runs in their sweep of Arizona in the NL Championship Series and gave up nearly twice that in five innings.
"We're not worried about a layoff," Francis said. "We didn't execute."
Boston tries to make it 2-0 Thursday night when Curt Schilling, 10-2 in postseason play, pitches against rookie Ubaldo Jimenez. The winner of the opener has gone on to win nine of the last 10 World Series and 62 of 102 overall. While the 1959 Chicago White Sox and 1996 Atlanta Braves both won their openers by 11 runs, they went on to lose the Series.
"This is a tough series and a tough team," Youkilis said. "There's a reason why they're here."
It was looking a lot more like March than October by the late innings. Boston brought out bench players, the Rockies rotated relievers and some fans headed home early.
Beckett began by fanning Willy Taveras, Kaz Matsui, Matt Holliday and Helton, becoming the first pitcher to strike out the first four batters in a Series game since Koufax got five Yankees to start the 1963 Series, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. And what a five those were: Tony Kubek, Bobby Richardson, Tom Tresh, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris.
Boston's batters started right where they left off in Series play. When the Red Sox completed their sweep of St. Louis in 2004, leadoff man Johnny Damon homered on Jason Marquis' fourth pitch.
Pedroia sent Francis' second offering over the Green Monster in left. The only other player to homer starting a Series was Baltimore's Don Buford against Tom Seaver and the 1969 Miracle Mets. When Colorado moved the infield in with a runner on third, Ramirez singled over Troy Tulowitzki -- who might have caught the ball had he been playing back at the normal shortstop position. J.D. Drew's double made it 3-0.
Tulowitzki doubled in a run in the second, but Ortiz had an opposite-field RBI double in the bottom half -- a ball that went just over Tulowitzki and rolled to the wall. Varitek's two-run double made it 6-1 in the fourth, and the rout was on.
"It's a big loss, Game 1 of the World Series," Helton said. "But knowing the heart of this team, we'll come back tomorrow."
Game notes
With 64 postseason RBIs, Ramirez moved ahead of David Justice for second all-time behind Bernie Williams (80). ... The 12 combined doubles were a Series record. ... The 1932 New York Yankees and 1996 Braves scored 12 runs each in their openers. ... The 1906 Chicago White Sox and 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates also had eight doubles. ... Franklin Morales got just two outs and was charged with seven runs for a 94.50 Series ERA. He was called for the first Series balk since David Weathers of the Yankees in 1996.
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- Home Plate Umpire - Ed Montague
- First Base Umpire - Laz Diaz
- Second Base Umpire - Ted Barrett
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5271.0.55.001 - Discussion Paper: Cultural and Creative Activity Satellite Accounts, Australia, 2013
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The economic contribution of culture
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released a discussion paper about measuring the economic contribution of cultural and creative activity in Australia.
In Australia and internationally, there is strong public interest in the role of these activities in the economy, as highlighted recently by Australia's National Cultural Policy Creative Australia.
Statistics have been published for these activities in other countries such as Canada, Finland, the United Kingdom and Spain.
The ABS' discussion paper explains how cultural and creative activity could be measured in Australia and invites comment on the proposed approach, data and investment priorities.
The proposals in the discussion paper were prepared in consultation with key government organisations and academics.
The ABS is seeking comments on the proposals by 30 August 2013.
Further information can be found in Discussion Paper: Cultural and Creative Activity Satellite Accounts (cat. no. 5271.0.55.001), available for free download from the ABS website (www.abs.gov.au).
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Yes. If you have asthma, smoking is especially risky because of the damage it does to the lungs.
Smoke irritates the airways, making them swollen, narrow, and filled with sticky mucus — the same things that happen during an asthma flare-up. That's why smoking can cause asthma flare-ups (or "attacks") to happen more often. They also might be more severe and harder to control, even with medicine.
You may have started smoking because friends do or because you grew up in a house where other people smoked. No matter why you started, if you're thinking about quitting, it would probably help your asthma.
Here are some other reasons to quit:
If you decide to quit, you don't have to go it alone. Get support from other people — like friends, family, or other smokers who are trying to quit. Ask your doctor about medicines or things you can do to crave cigarettes less. Your doctor wants to help you quit!
Even if you don't smoke, you may still run into smoky situations at parties, events, or even at home. Secondhand smoke is a known asthma trigger. You'll want to avoid it as much as possible if you have asthma.
If you hang out with smokers or have a family member who smokes in the house, you're likely to have more frequent and severe asthma symptoms. That might mean more medicine and more trips to the doctor's office or ER.
There's not much you can do about other people's behavior. But let your friends and family know that what they're doing is making your asthma worse. Ask them not to smoke in your house or car.
Some people with asthma might think that e-cigarettes ("vaping") are a safe alternative to smoking. E-cigarettes don't fill the lungs with smoke, but do put nicotine in your system. Besides being an addictive drug, nicotine is also toxic in high doses, and raises blood pressure and heart rate.
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When Mandy Harvey took the stage on "America's Got Talent" carrying her ukulele, she appeared as yet another singer stepping in front of the judges to share her voice.
And she did. The only difference is, she couldn't hear it.
The 29-year-old deaf singer-songwriter who was born in Ohio and raised in Colorado lost her hearing when she was 18 years old due to a connective tissue disorder, which deteriorated her nerves.
She had just begun studying vocal music education at Colorado State University when she says she got what she thought was an ear infection.
"It just got worse and worse and by Christmas I was borderline legally deaf in both ears," Harvey said.
She ultimately left the music program and continued to study education.
"Everything that I'd ever wanted was just going away and I couldn't stop it," she said.
But her father knew that his daughter, who had been singing since the age of 4, still "had the music in her."
Harvey, standing without shoes on the AGT stage, uses her feet to feel the tempo through the floor then sings using her muscle memory and visual tuners.
"Music now isn't about the sound, it's about the feeling," she said. "It's not the dream that I always had. That's OK, because I showed up and I did something I never believed I could do."
Harvey went on to perform a song she wrote called "Try," a song she said was inspired by her journey back to music.
"After I lost my hearing I gave up but I want to do more with my life then just give up," she told the judges.
"I don't think you're going to need a translator for this," judge Simon Cowell said seconds before hitting his golden buzzer, sending Harvey through to the live rounds.
"Honestly I never think I'm going to be surprised or amazed by people and then you turn up," he said. "Just the fact that you are you but it was your voice, your tone, the song was beautiful."
An emotional Harvey walked off the stage in shock.
"What just happened?" she shouted.


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Heading off a toxic iceberg from space
Concern about hydrazine fuel leads to Pentagon's satellite intercept plan
By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC
updated 5:56 p.m. CT, Thurs., Feb. 14, 2008
HOUSTON - Less than a month ago, White House officials said a falling spy satellite would likely pose little threat to humans — but on Thursday, the Pentagon said President Bush himself approved an unorthodox plan to destroy the satellite with a missile strike.
What could warrant such a change of heart? It's the realization that the spacecraft could be bringing a toxic iceberg back down to Earth.
Aboard the 2.5-ton derelict satellite, designated "USA-193," is a fuel tank containing half a ton of hydrazine. Since the satellite went dead within hours after launch 14 months ago, the fuel has not been depleted by normal rocket maneuvers.
Hydrazine is a nasty chemical that could poison the area where it is released. Until recently, U.S. officials were saying that the tank would be crushed as the satellite fell through the atmosphere, sometime in early March. If that were the case, the toxic hydrazine would almost certainly be burned off and safely dispersed during the fiery fall.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin sketched out a different scenario, however, during Thursday's news conference with Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Griffin said NASA experts calculated that the hydrazine was frozen solid due to the satellite's yearlong drift through the cold of space. The tank, with its half-ton ice core of hydrazine, would thus become one of the most perfect re-entry vehicles ever to fall back to Earth.
Griffin explained that the contents of the tank could turn to slush during the fall, but would very likely survive and leak toxic gas over the crash site. Another expert told msnbc.com privately that the solid ice would provide structural support against the 20 to 25 G's of deceleration experienced by the satellite during re-entry.
Safety first?
Pentagon officials said it was that safety concern, rather than the intention to test a potential anti-satellite weapon, which led them to develop the plan for a missile intercept. They hope the impact of the warhead on a modified Standard Missile-3, or SM-3, will shatter the satellite — and particularly the spherical hydrazine tank. The first shot could occur as early as next week, after the space shuttle Atlantis' return from its mission to the international space station.
Would a direct hit be required? Experts on space debris told msnbc.com that even a glancing blow would likely be enough. The force of a missile hitting an orbiting object is much more violent than the force of a bullet striking a target, or even an anti-aircraft missile hitting an airplane. In the space case, the tremendous speed of the impact carries so much kinetic energy that both
vehicles literally explode due to the hypersonic shock waves sweeping through their structures.
If the missile strike leads to such a disintegration, sharp observers should be able to spot the ice fragments from the fuel tank. As the fragments evaporate in direct sunlight, they could create mini-comets visible from Earth's surface, lasting for hours before dispersing.
Pentagon officials said the intercept would occur within range of military optical and radar sensors. Their goal would be to confirm the existence of dispersed hydrazine in the debris. If the sensors don't show the fuel dispersing, missile operators would target the fragment judged most likely to be the still-surviving fuel tank. A second shot could occur within a day or two of the first.
Giving the missiles a boost
Last week's orbital readings indicated that the satellite was circling Earth at an altitude between 160 and 168 miles (255 and 268 kilometers) and descending at an increasing rate, currently about six-tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) per day. Gen. Cartwright said the intercept would be attempted when the satellite descended to about 150 miles (240 kilometers).
The SM-3 has typically been used for testing the Pentagon's missile defense system, and reaches a nominal maximum altitude of just 100 miles (160 kilometers). For the satellite intercept, three missiles — one each on three different AEGIS-class Navy cruisers — will be modified to reach the higher altitude.
This isn't the first time hydrazine has posed a problem in space: The fuel freezes at temperatures below 36 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), and satellites without active heating will drop to temperatures below that — as a case involving the Soviet Salyut 7 space station demonstrated dramatically in 1985.
After Salyut 7's power system failed, the water in its supply tanks froze solid, along with the hydrazine in its propulsion system. A pair of cosmonauts reached the icy station and were able to activate its electrical system, and then carefully thawed the frozen tanks.
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Midwestern University College of Veterinary Medicine in Glendale, Ariz., is now the 29th college of veterinary medicine in the United States to become a member of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC). Midwestern's inaugural class of 100 veterinary medicine students is scheduled to enroll in August 2014.
Members of the AAVMC, which include all 34 veterinary medical schools in the United States and Canada, must be accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Council on Education. Midwestern's veterinary college has met the AVMA's standards required for successful accreditation, so the council has granted it a form of preaccreditation—a "letter of reasonable assurance"—that clears the way for AAVMC membership and for the college to begin admitting students. Midwestern will be eligible for provisional accreditation in 2014 and full accreditation in 2018 upon graduation of its first class.
As a member, Midwestern will be able to vote on AAVMC decisions and utilize its Veterinary Medical College Application Service, which streamlines the application process for prospective students, along with other services. The application cycle for prospective students seeking admission to veterinary college during fall 2014 began June 5.


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Submitted to: Journal of Food Analytical Methods
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Publication Acceptance Date: 12/7/2011
Publication Date: 12/20/2011
Citation: Chen, G. 2011. Screening of fluoroquinolone residues in caprine milk using a 5-kg luminescence photometer. Journal of Food Analytical Methods. 5:1114–1120.
Interpretive Summary: A terbium-sensitized luminescence (TSL) method was developed to screen presence of residues of four fluoroquinolones (FQ) registered in goat milk in the European Union (EU): enrofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, flumequine, and danofloxacin. After extraction and cleanup, TSL was measured using a portable fluorometer. Flumequine was designated to set the screening criterion; other FQ drugs can also be effectively screened because of their higher signals at their maximum residue limits. The potential of this work is to reduce a large sample pool to a small fraction, and subject only those presumptive positives to confirmation. Excellent sensitivity of our portable instrument enabled screening at rigorous EU regulation for FQ drugs at 30-100 parts per billion in milk. Satisfactory results were obtained on 48 blind samples. The method and instrumentation are both field deployable to facilitate field testing on dairy farms, and hence to promote timely decision making and food safety.
Technical Abstract: A terbium-sensitized luminescence (TSL) method was developed to screen presence of residues of four fluoroquinolones (FQ) registered in caprine milk in the European Union: enrofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, flumequine, and danofloxacin. After extraction in McIlvaine buffer and SPE cleanup, TSL was measured at excitations = 300 nm and emmision = 546 nm using a portable fluorometer. A screening threshold was established based on flumequine's TSL signal at its maximum residue limit, the lowest among four FQs. Among 48 blind samples randomly fortified with one FQ up to three times of its MRL were 12 false positives and no false negative. This field deployable protocol has the potential to significantly reduce sample numbers for confirmation, hence improves sample throughput and saves assay costs.


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AYER (Massachusetts) - The Boston Marathon bombing suspect is being held in a small cell with a steel door at a federal medical detention center about 65 kilometers outside the city, a federal official said on Saturday.
Federal Medical Center Devens spokesman John Collauti described the conditions under which 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being held in the Ayer facility after being moved there from a hospital on Friday.
Tsarnaev was injured during a police chase on Thursday in which his brother, also a suspect in the bombing, was fatally wounded.
Collauti said in a telephone interview that Tsarnaev is in secure housing where authorities can monitor him. His cell has a solid steel door with an observation window and a slot for passing food and medication.
Collauti wouldn't discuss specific details related to Tsarnaev, but said that typically medical workers making rounds each shift monitor the inmates. He said guards also keep an eye on some cells with video cameras.
Also, inmates in the more restrictive section do not have access to TVs or radios, but can read books and other materials, he said.
"Really this type of facility is fully capable of handling him and it's not that much of an inconvenience because it's more or less business as usual," Collauti said.
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David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others — This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned.
Discussion: Boing Boing, Technology News, PC World, New York Times, BetaNews, Techdirt, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Technologizer, MediaMemo, Between the Lines, NPR Blogs, Electronista, TechFlash, Maximum PC all, Computerworld Blogs, Gawker, GeekTonic, jkOnTheRun, CrunchGear, GottaBeMobile.com, Gravitational Pull, Cool Rules Pronto, Gadgetwise, Techgeist, kottke.org, Mashable!, Daring Fireball, ExtremeTech, Joho the Blog, Talking Points Memo and digg.com
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing: Amazon zaps purchased copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles
Peter Glaskowsky / Technology News: The 1984 Kindle kerfuffle — Oh, for heaven's sake.
Melissa J. Perenson / PC World: Amazon Removes E-Books From Kindle Store, Revokes Ownership
Michael Masnick / Techdirt: Doubleplusungood: That Copy Of 1984 On Your Kindle Is Now Gone
Harry McCracken / Technologizer: Orwell on the Kindle: It's Orwellian!
Omar L. Gallaga / NPR Blogs: Do You Really Own What's On Your Kindle?
Pulkit Chandna / Maximum PC all: Whose Kindle Is It Anyway?
Barbara Krasnoff / Computerworld Blogs: Amazon goes Orwellian
Brent Evans / GeekTonic: Big Brother = Amazon The Kindle Books That Disappeared
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Amazon Reminds Us — We Don't Own Ebook Content
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear: Amazon puts Orwell e-books in the memory hole
Stephen Williams / Gadgetwise: Amazon Offers Free Replacements for Cracked Kindles
Michael Klurfeld / Techgeist: Amazon Pulls Books From Users' Kindles
Jason Kottke / kottke.org: Renting books on the Kindle
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: Big Brother: Amazon Remotely Deletes 1984 From Kindles
Mark Hachman / ExtremeTech: Shades of '1984': Amazon Removing E-Books from Kindles
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE — Big, big, big step backwards for the Kindle book platform.
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Amazon Says It Will Stop Deleting Kindle Books — By deleting two unauthorized Orwell books from the Kindle devices of readers who had purchased them, Amazon highlighted how poorly real world expectations apply to the digital world. — Amazon on Thursday began e-mailing a few hundred owners …
Discussion: CNET News and Open IT Strategies
Ina Fried / CNET News: Amazon says it won't repeat Kindle book recall
Joel West / Open IT Strategies: Renting vs. owning information
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Amazon Remotely Deletes Legitimately Purchased Books From Thousands of Kindles — Amazon basically guaranteed that I'll never buy a Kindle last night by bending to the wishes of a publisher and deleting every single legitimately-purchased copy of 1984 and Animal Farm from all Kindles remotely.
Discussion: Engadget and The iPhone Blog
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon, Why Don't You Come In Our Houses And Burn Our Books Too? — So plenty has already been said about this, but we're going to weigh in too because it's just so ridiculous. Amazon began remotely deleting books from Kindles this morning. Illegal books? Nope.
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits: An Orwellian Moment for Amazon's Kindle
Ina Fried / CNET News: Amazon recalls (and embodies) Orwell's '1984'
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: Amazon: We Won't Remotely Delete Books Again
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Verizon's Handset Concessions Target AT&T, iPhone — Updated: Verizon said today it will offer smaller carriers access to any cell phone model it uses — even those exclusive to Verizon. Carriers who have fewer than 500,000 subscribers will have access to phones after only six months …
Discussion: Tech Beat, PC World, The Register, Techgeist, Boy Genius Report, FierceWireless, iLounge, MobileCrunch, CNET News, VentureBeat, DSLreports and Tech Trader Daily
Olga Kharif / Tech Beat: Verizon to Curb Handset Exclusivity
Michael Klurfeld / Techgeist: Verizon To Share Phones, Make AT&T Look Bad
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report: Verizon Wireless deflects heat by shortening exclusivity terms, sort of
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: Verizon offers small carriers a deal on handset exclusivity
Charles Starrett / iLounge: Mix: Yale on iTunes, Palm SDK, Verizon, Pocketpedia
Matt Burns / MobileCrunch: Verizon intros the 2-in-1 Novatel Wireless PC770
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News: Verizon Wireless shortens exclusive cell phone deals
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat: Verizon agrees to limit exclusive handset deals
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
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Saul Hansell / Bits: Verizon Defends Exclusive Handsets, Except for Small Carriers
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews: Verizon Will Limit Handset Exclusives To Six Months—For Smaller Carriers Only
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch: Verizon loosens up their exclusive deals - sort of
Bernie Arnason / Telecompetitor: Verizon Wireless Limits Handset Exclusivity
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile: Verizon cutting all device exclusivity to six months for small carriers
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile.com: Verizon to Ease Up on Exclusivity Sorta, Kinda
Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop: Verizon Agrees to Shorten Exclusivity Period to Six Months
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Slouching Toward a Coddled and Toothless Blogosphere — Remember when blogs were going to be fiercely independent firebrands who, purified of old media insidery stench, would pull no punches against traditional power structures? So much for that. Today's laptop media is shaping up to be nothing but lapdogs.
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Patricia Skinner / Search Engine Journal: Why All the Fuss about TechCrunch? — A few days ago …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown: TwitterGate: Out Damned Spot!
Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld: Possible Twitter lawsuit would dive into murky blog waters
Staska / Unwired View:
Google to monetize Voice via ringback advertising auctions? — The newly announced Google Voice looks like a great service that should ease your communication problems on multiple devices significantly. — And Google is already thinking of the ways of monetizing Voice. In a way it knows best - through advertising.
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat: Roundup: Ad models, ad deals and Twittergate
John Timmer / Ars Technica: Google patent could bring ads into your phone
Justin Mann / TechSpot: Google seeks to bring ads to phones?
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Advertising coming to Google Voice?
Jason Chen / Gizmodo: Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
Alexia Tsotsis / Style Council:
Is All of Hollywood the Bitch in Twitter "Sex Tape," or Just P. Diddy? — Regardless of what you think of Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington's ethics, what has been revealed via the Techcrunch #twittergate is some of the most fascinating information to have hit the mediasphere in a long time.
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Briansolis / bub.blicio.us: Are You Internet Famous?
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider: 10 Things Twitter's Stolen Docs Taught Us
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Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 BETA - Includes enhancements for Windows 7-based computers — We are pleased to announce the Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta which improves the Windows Home Server experience with Windows 7 and Windows Media Center by providing the following new features …
Mark Hachman / AppScout: Microsoft Announces Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Announced, Adds Enhancements for Windows 7 PCs
Shane McGlaun / DailyTech: Windows Home Server Beta Power Pack 3 Update Available
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Ina Fried / CNET News: Microsoft testing Home Server update
Donald Melanson / Engadget: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 beta adds Windows 7 conveniences
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Windows 7, netbook support in the works for Windows Home Server
Imran Hussain / ithinkdifferent: Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta announced - focus on Windows 7 computers
Jordan Golson / GigaOM:
Fearless Feedback! Tech Workers Dish Dirt on Their Employers — Thinking about making a move to another company? Sure, the economy is in tatters and layoff announcement have become commonplace, but it's always nice to know whether or not people at other companies are as miserable enjoying their jobs as much as you.
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Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac: Apple employees have very high Jobs satisfaction rate
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer: Why Can't All Software Installation Be Like This?
Mark Hachman / AppScout: IE8 To Make Default Browser Choice Even More Explicit
Stephen Shankland / CNET News: Microsoft eases back on IE 8 default
Marius Oiaga / Softpedia News: IE8 RTW Evolves for Windows 7, Vista SP2, and XP SP3
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com: Microsoft change IE8 setup settings
Kelly Fiveash / The Register: Opera slams Microsoft's Windows 7 E move - again
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Blockbuster selling Archos 10 netbooks at retail stores, we're not sure why either — Looking for a place to buy a netbook? Have you tried any of the thousands of online shops that offer them? Oh, they don't look quite desperate enough for you? Perhaps you'd rather go somewhere that really needs your money: Blockbuster.
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Shawn Ingram / Gadgetell: Netbooks coming soon to Blockbuster
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile.com: BlockBuster to Sell Archos 10 Netbook
Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq: Microsoft retail stores coming this fall
Financial Times:
Microsoft-Yahoo talks intensify — Negotiations between Microsoft and Yahoo over an alliance that could reshape the internet search business have intensified in recent days. — However, it is not yet clear if the latest talks will get any closer to a deal than discussions that failed earlier this year …
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Sumeeth Evans / Bink.nu: Yahoo Search Ad Deal With Microsoft "Down to the Short Strokes" …
Quentin Hardy / Forbes:
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Yahoo!'s Earnings Quagmire
Charles Arthur / Guardian: Why a deal with Microsoft could spell the end of Yahoo
Mary Kathleen Flynn / Dealscape: Yahoo! earnings preview, Microsoft deal rumors
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek: Microsoft Bing Gained Market Share in June, Says comScore
Chris Taylor / Fortune Small Business:
Getting Things Done guru goes digital — David Allen's time-management system helped his disciples get things done, but it required reams of paper. Now, at last, software comes to the rescue. — (Fortune Small Business) — I am obsessed with personal-management systems.
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Ex-Microsoft manager's Web startup, Sampa, shutting down — A year after receiving $1 million from angel investors, Redmond Web startup Sampa is shutting itself down. — Sampa was a social networking/photo and web hosting site aimed at extended families.
Discussion: Marcelo Calbucci, ReadWriteWeb, TechFlash, GigaOM and Xconomy
Dana Oshiro / ReadWriteWeb: Cat's in the Cradle: Family Websites Long Forgotten?
John Cook / TechFlash: Sampa pulls the plug
Jennifer Martinez / GigaOM: Farewell, Sampa — Sampa, a secure, weblog-style site …
Gregory T. Huang / Xconomy: The End of Sampa — Gregory T. Huang wrote:
Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Slowing down the Netbook train — Cheaper or faster? — That's going to be the burning question for computer shoppers perusing the aisles of electronics retail stores this fall. That's when the new line of notebooks powered by consumer ultra-low voltage (CULV) chips will start appearing in force.
Discussion: I4U News, jkOnTheRun, Lockergnome Blog Network, Technologizer, bit-tech.net and SlashGear
Robert Evans / I4U News: Will CULV's Kill The Netbook Craze?
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: ASUS Eee PC 1101HA Illustrates Next Choices: Netbook or CULV?
Harry McCracken / Technologizer: Sorry, Consumers, You Still Mistakenly Like Netbooks
Gareth Halfacree / bit-tech.net: Intel predicts rise of the ultra-thins
Chris Davies / SlashGear: Intel push for CULV "ultra-thin" adoption over netbooks
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Did Your Mom Tell You Not To Talk To Strangers? Don't Show Her FlyChat. — I sat down thinking I was going to write about how FlyChat, a new iPhone app, is kind of creepy. Then I realized it's actually a lot like Twitter in some regards. And that's not to say that Twitter isn't creepy in some ways.
Discussion: internetnews.com, IntoMobile and Mashable!
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!: flyChat: The Strangest Social Game to Ever Hit Your iPhone
Tim Mullaney / Bloomberg:
Juniper Backer NEA Makes 26-Fold Return on Data Domain After EMC Purchase — New Enterprise Associates, the venture capital firm that backed Juniper Networks Inc., made a 26-fold return on its stake in Data Domain Inc., the biggest payout for a venture firm this year, partner Scott Sandell said.
Discussion: SiliconBeat
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Wikipedia's controversial video player coming soon — Wikipedia users will be getting new tools for uploading, editing, and viewing video very soon. According to a Beet.TV interview with Erik Moller, who is the deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, we'll see all of these things shortly.
Discussion: Beet.TV
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV: Get Ready for Video on Wikipedia: Al Jazeera Has Started.. …
Noah Robischon / Fast Company:
What Would a Facebook Collaboration With Apple Look Like? It Almost Happened... How would Facebook be different today if its social operating system was built into Apple's OS X? The two companies spent a lot of time collaborating early on. But, as Facebook's senior platform manager …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and Gizmodo
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac: What if Apple and Facebook had collaborated on Snow Leopard?
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Apple's former real estate chief now working on Microsoft stores — Looks like Microsoft will have some very well-informed assistance as it tries to replicate the success of Apple's retail stores. Former Apple real estate chief George Blankenship, who helped lead the early rollout …
Luke Anderson / OhGizmo!: Microsoft To Open Retail Stores This Fall
Brian Crecente / Kotaku: Microsoft Gears Up For Fall Opening Of Retail Stores
Chris Nuttall / blogs.ft.com:
App stores are not the future, says Google — Apple customers may have downloaded 1.5bn applications from its AppStore in the past year for their iPhones and iPod touches, but the service does not represent the future for the mobile industry, according to Google.
Pulkit Chandna / Maximum PC all: Google Believes Mobile Web Browsers Will Supplant App Stores
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab: Google Says Mobile App Stores Have No Future
Greg Sterling / Local Mobile Search: Apps and the Mobile Web: Or vs. And
Robert Evans / I4U News: Google: Apps Are Obsolete, Browsers Are The Future.
Renee Blodgett / down the avenue: What Will it Take to Bring Mobile Marketing Mainstream?
Alex Wilhelm / Techgeist: Google Bets That Browser, Not Apps Mobile Future
Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog: Why downloadable apps matter
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch: Google Says Mobile Web Apps Will Win In The Long Haul
Preston Gralla / Computerworld Blogs: Google: iPhone apps are so 2008
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat: MobileBeat: USA will leapfrog Europe
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Google: Browser is the Platform of the Future, Even on Mobiles
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch: Google Feeling Heat From App Stores
Brian Heater / AppScout: Google Exec Downplays Mobile App Stores
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Here's how you make money out of Twitter - charge £495 for a search interface — UK entreprenuer Colin Gilchrist has developed Tweetabits, effectively a Tweet-deck style interface layered over Twitter search. — Developed for a franchise with 56 offices across the UK (which he won't name) …
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC:
Wikipedia painting row escalates — The battle over Wikipedia's use of images from a British art gallery's website has intensified. — The online encyclopaedia has accused the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of betraying its public service mission. — But the gallery has said it needs …
Discussion: Wikimedia blog
Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
Concerns raised as LA looks to Google Web services — LOS ANGELES — Security and privacy concerns have been raised over a multimillion-dollar proposal by Los Angeles to tap Google Inc.'s Internet-based services for government e-mail, police records and other confidential data.
Zee / TheNextWeb.com:
The EV-Files: Your chance to stop Arrington from publishing more documents! — The Ev-Files is a lighter take on the Twitter/TechCrunch saga. An amusing online game from Entrepreneur/Developer Alex Tew, founder of viral hits MillionDollarHomePage, Sock and Awe and most recently PopJam.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Apple/Microsoft sued over iPod/Zune controls — Apple, Microsoft and some 20 other companies are being sued for patent infringement by a Texas firm which claims to have invented the touchpad. — Tsera LLC filed the suit earlier this week at the US District Court, Eastern Texas Division.
Discussion: The Register
Rik Myslewski / The Register: Apple, Microsoft sued over iPod, Zune controls
Chris Kanaracus / PC World:
Experts: Oracle Database Option Price Hikes No Accident — Oracle's decision to hike the price of some add-ons for its flagship database by about 40 percent was far from a random act, since the modules are crucial to getting the database to perform at the highest level, a pair of experts said Friday.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Steven Walling / ReadWriteWeb: Desperate Measures? Oracle Prices Shoot Up 40%
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
A Harvard homecoming for Facebook tell-all — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Ben Mezrich's new book "The Accidental Billionaires," a dramatic and contested account of the early days of social network Facebook, is on the fast track to Hollywood. — But Thursday night's inaugural public event for the book …