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Poet Sunni Patterson is one of New Orleans' most beloved artists. She has performed in nearly every venue in the city, toured the US, and frequently appears on television and radio, from Democracy Now to Def Poetry Jam. When she performs her poems in local venues, half the crowd recites the words along with her. But, like many who grew up here, she was forced to move away from the city she loves. She left as part of a wave of displacement that began with Katrina and still continues to this day. While hers is just one story, it is emblematic of the situation of many African Americans from New Orleanians, who no longer feel welcomed in the city they were born in.
Patterson comes from New Orleans's Ninth Ward. Her family's house was cut in half by the flood waters and has since been demolished. Despite the loss of her home, she was soon back in the city, living in the Treme neighborhood. She spent much of the following years traveling the country, performing poetry and trying to raise awareness about the plight of New Orleans. But her income was not enough–her post-Katrina rent was twice what she had paid before the storm, and she was also putting up money to help her family rebuild as well as preparing for the birth of her son Jibril. "I wound up getting evicted from my apartment because we were still working on the house," she said. "In the midst of it, you realize that you are not generating the amount of money you need to sustain a living."
Patterson's family had difficulty presenting the proper paperwork to receive federal rebuilding dollars — a problem shared by many New Orleanians. "We're dealing with properties that have been passed down from generation to generation," says Patterson. "The paperwork is not always available. A lot of elders are tired, they don't know what to do."
Just as the storm revealed racial inequalities, the recovery has also been shaped by systemic racism. According to a recent survey of New Orleanians by the Kaiser Family Foundation, forty-two percent of African Americans – versus just sixteen percent of whites – said they still have not recovered from Katrina. Thirty-one percent of African-American residents – versus eight percent of white respondents – said they had trouble paying for food or housing in the last year. Housing prices in New Orleans have gone up sixty-three percent just since 2009.
Eleven billion federal dollars went into Louisiana's Road Home program, which was meant to help the city rebuild. The payouts from this program went exclusively to homeowners, which cut out renters from the primary source of federal aid.
Even among homeowners, the program treated different populations in different ways. US District Judge Henry Kennedy recently found that the program was racially discriminatory in the formula it used to disperse funds. By partially basing payouts on home values instead of on damage to homes, the program favored properties in wealthier – often whiter – neighborhoods. However, the same judge found no legal obligation for the state to correct this discrimination for the 98% of applicants whose cases have been closed.
At approximately 355,000, the city's population remains more than 100,000 lower than it's pre-Katrina number, and many counted in the current population are among the tens of thousands who moved here post-Katrina. This puts the number of New Orleanians still displaced at well over 100,000 – perhaps 150,000 or more. A survey by the Louisiana Family Recovery Corps found that seventy-five percent of African Americans who were displaced wanted to return but were being kept out. Like Patterson, most of those surveyed said economic forces kept them from returning.
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As New Orleans approaches the fifth anniversary of Katrina and begins a long recovery from the BP drilling disaster, the media has been searching for an uplifting angle. Stories of the city's rebirth are everywhere, and there are reasons to feel good about New Orleans. The Saints' Superbowl victory was a turning point for the city, and the HBO series Treme has gone a long way towards helping the story of the city's vibrant culture and struggle for recovery get out to a wider audience. Music festivals like Jazz Fest and Essence Fest, which are so central to the city's tourism-based economy, have brought in some of their largest crowds in recent years. Because of a combination of grassroots pressure, independent media, and federal investigations, the city's corrupt police department seems to be on the cusp of real reform.
But despite positive developments in the city's recovery, more than 100,000 New Orleanians received a one-way ticket out of town and still have received no help in coming back, and these voices are left out of most stories of the city. Many from this silenced population complain of post-Katrina decisions that placed obstacles in their path, such as the firing of 7,000 public school employees and canceling of their union contract shortly after the storm, or the tearing down of nearly 5,000 public housing units – two post-Katrina decisions that disproportionately affected Black residents.
Advocates have also noted that among those who are not counted in the statistics on displacement are the New Orleanians who are in the city, but not home. They fall into the category that international human rights organizations call internally displaced. The guiding principles of internal displacement call for more than return. UN principles number 28 and 29 call for, in part, "the full participation of internally displaced persons in the planning and management of their return or resettlement and reintegration." They also state that, "They shall have the right to participate fully and equally in public affairs at all levels and have equal access to public services," as well as to have their property and possessions replaced, or receive "appropriate compensation or another form of just reparation."
In other words, these principles call for a return that includes restoration and reparations. As civil rights attorney, Tracie Washington, has said, "I'm still displaced, until the conditions that caused my displacement have been alleviated. I'm still displaced as long as Charity Hospital remains closed. I'm still displaced as long as rents remain unaffordable. I'm still displaced as long as schools are in such bad shape." In the US, Katrina recovery has fallen under the Stafford Act, a law that specifically excludes many of these rights that international law guarantees.
Among those who are back in New Orleans but still displaced are members of the city's large homeless population. In a report this week, UNITY of Greater New Orleans estimated from 3,000 to 6,000 persons are living in the city's abandoned buildings. Seventy-five percent of these undercounted residents are Katrina survivors, most of whom had stable housing before the storm. Eighty-seven percent are disabled, and a disproportionate share are elderly.
Cultural Resistance
Sunni Patterson can't remember a time when she wasn't a poet. The words flow naturally and seemingly effortlessly from her. When she performs, it is like a divine presence speaking though her body. Her frame is small but she fills the room. Her voice conveys passion and love and pain and loss. Her words illuminate current events and history lessons – her topics ranging from the Black Panthers organizing in the Desire housing projects to domestic violence to injustice in Africa and war in the Middle East.
You can hear Sunni Patterson's influence in the performances of many young poets in New Orleans. And in the work of Patterson, you can hear the history of community elders passed along, the chants of Mardi Gras Indians, and the knowledge and embrace of neighbors and family and friends. And Patterson is part of a large and thriving community of socially conscious culture workers. Since the late '90s, you could find spoken word poetry being performed somewhere in New Orleans almost any night of the week. And many of these poets are also teachers, activists, and community organizers.
Now, like so many other former New Orleanians, she cannot afford to live in the city she loves. "I'm in Houston," she says, seemingly stunned by her own words. "Houston. Houston. I can't say that and make it sound right. It hurts me to my heart that my child's birth certificate says Houston, Texas."
One of the hardest aspects of leaving New Orleans has been the loss of her community. "In that same house that I grew up, my great grandmother and grandfather lived," she says. "Everybody that lived around there, you knew. It was family. In New Orleans, even if you don't know someone, you still speak and wave and say hello. In other cities, there's something wrong with you if you speak to someone you don't know."
New Orleanians were displaced after the storm to 5,500 cities, spread across every US state. Although the vast majority of former New Orleanians are in nearby cities like Houston, Dallas, or Atlanta, many are still living in further locales from Utah to Maine. While she is sad to be gone from the city, Patterson wants to see the positive in the loss. "The good part is that New Orleans energy and culture is now dispersed all over the world," she says. "You can't kill it. Ain't that something? That's what I love about it. So we still gotta give thanks, even in the midst of the atrocity, that poetry is still being created."


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Some Earth-like Worlds May Have Foliage of Colors Other Than Green
In the next decade, when scientists are able to study
Earth-sized worlds around other stars, they may find that foliage on some of the planets is predominantly
yellow--or orange, or red. It all depends on the color of the star the planet orbits and the stuff that makes up the planet's
is an illustration of what plants may look like on different planets.
That's the conclusion of researchers from the Virtual Planetary
Laboratory, a NASA-funded initiative at the California Institute of
Technology, who are announcing today results from a series of comprehensive computer models for guiding the future search for plant life on other
worlds. Two related papers on what to expect out of photosynthesis are being issued in the journal
Determining the range of possible colors is important because scientists need to know what to look for when they begin getting spectra of light from faraway
Earth-sized planets, says lead author Nancy Kiang, a biometeorologist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space
Studies, and currently a visitor at Caltech's Spitzer Science Center.
"The dominant color of photosynthesis could be yellow, or orange, or maybe
red," Kiang explains. "I think it is unlikely that anything will be
blue--and, of course, green plants are also a possibility, since that's what we have
"What makes this study unusual is the highly interdisciplinary method by which planetary
scientists, atmospheric scientists, biologists, and others have pooled their efforts in modeling the possible spectra of light available to plants on
Earth-like planets orbiting around other stars," says Vikki
Meadows, an astrobiologist at Caltech and lead scientist of the Virtual Planetary
Laboratory. Because the study requires data about everything from the type of photons given off by a
main-sequence star in a particular stage of its life, to the depth of water that an aqueous plant might
prefer, a huge variety of information is required.
"No single astronomer or biologist or atmospheric scientist could have attacked this problem individually to get the
simulation," says Meadows, who is herself an astrobiologist whose original academic training was in
astronomy. "So these papers are truly interdisciplinary pieces of
The researchers focused on the way plants use light for energy to produce
sugar--which is pretty much the definition of photosynthesis--because photosynthetic pigments must be adapted to the available light
spectrum. The available light spectrum at a planet's surface is a result of both the light from the parent star and filtering effects of gases in the
atmosphere. For example, ozone absorbs ultraviolet light, so that not much reaches Earth's
"It turns out that the spectrum of the number of particles of light is what is
important, and on Earth there are more particles in the red," Kiang
explains. "This could explain why plants here on Earth are mainly
On Earth, plants absorb blue light because it is energetic, and red light because the photons are
plentiful. There is more than enough energy from the blue and red in
sunlight, so plants do not really need more. Therefore, they reflect away relatively more green
light, which is why plants appear green to us.
A planet orbiting a star with the size and temperature roughly like our
sun, and with Earth's particular mix of oxygen and what-have-you, would tend to have plants that like to soak up light in blue and red and less in
green. But the situation could be different on other planets, where other colors of the spectrum might
predominate. In those cases, another color like red might not be so
useful, and the plants would mostly appear red.
There are many other factors, such as the role not only ozone plays but also carbon dioxide and water
vapor, how the stellar radiation creates chemical reactions in the
atmosphere, whether the star is prone to solar flares, how much water is on the
planet, how much light gets to the surface, what gases are produced by the plants
themselves, and so on. This is why a complex computer model was
Also, one might wonder what things could live on a planet with very little
ozone, for example, where radiation would be a daily assault on living
organisms, and energetic particles from solar winds would be like deadly microscopic
bullets. Meadows says the modelers have taken such scenarios into
consideration, and they think that there might be a "sweet spot" a few to tens of feet below the surface of the water where life is protected from UV
"We found that the sweet spot could be up to nine meters underwater for a planet orbiting a star significantly cooler than our
sun, and photosynthesis could still take place," she says. "Something with a floatation capability could be protected from solar flares and still get enough photons to carry
In short, the new model provides a powerful tool for looking for life on other
worlds, Meadows says.
"We once thought that planets around other stars were exceedingly
rare," she explains. "But every time telescopes have gotten
better, we've been able to find more and more Jupiter-sized planets. So there's no reason to think that there aren't a huge number of
Earth- sized planets out there as well.
"We may not find anything like ourselves, but it's possible that bacterial life is prevalent on these
Earth-like planets," Meadows adds. "If we have the environment for life to
exist, then we think that it's likely that life will emerge in these
The other authors of the two papers are Antigona Segura-Peralta, Giovanna
Tinetti, Martin Cohen, Janet Siefert, and David Crisp, all of the Virtual Planetary
Laboratory, Govindjee, of the University of Illinois, and Robert
Blankenship, of Washington University.
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory was formed as part of the NASA Astrobiology
Institute, which was founded in 1997 as a partnership between NASA, 12 major
U.S. teams, and six international consortia. NAI's goal is to promote,
conduct, and lead integrated multidisciplinary astrobiology research and to train a new generation of astrobiology
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The deep sea does not begin at the beach; it encompasses the waters from surface to seafloor that lie beyond the continental shelf. Shallow coastal waters overlie the shelf, which can extend a hundred miles or so from shore. There, at the true edge of the continent, where the water is about 600 feet deep, the topography steepens. The seafloor plunges some 6,000 feet down the continental slope, then declines more gently down the continental rise and onto the abyssal plain. The average depth of the plain is 13,000 feet, but it is interrupted by trenches as deep as 30,000 feet, or by mountainous ridges and volcanic seamounts, some of which reach the surface to form island chains, such as Hawai'i [see illustration left].
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The deep-sea midwaters are home to an unusual cast of characters: lanternfishes with glowing lights, silver hatchetfishes with telescopic eyes, and viperfishes with tremendous fangs, among many others. But midwater fishes are sea monsters in appearance only: most are no longer than a foot. Because of their diminutive size and relatively low density, no extensive deep-sea midwater fishery has yet developed.
The continental slopes are another story. At depths between 600 and 6,000 feet, the slopes are where the fishing happens. Animals living there are bigger and more abundant than in the midwaters of equal depth, largely because the bottom provides both structure and a collection place for food particles falling from the productive surface waters.
Yet despite the increasingly heavy commercial fishing there, much remains unknown about continental slopes. Worldwide, just a fraction of 1 percent of their total area has been explored, and investigators have only recently begun to appreciate the complexity of slope habitats. In part, that's because most of the slopes appear to be featureless expanses of dull mud. Only a few areas, such as the hot vents of tectonically active ridges and trenches, were acknowledged as dynamic and structured ecosystems. But it turns out that even the mud is home to thriving populations of crustaceans, sea stars, urchins, worms, and myriad other creatures. Recently, even deep-sea coral beds have been discovered to be widespread on the world's continental slopes. They play host to a highly diverse and little-known fauna, and it is likely that their tangled structure provides protective cover to juvenile fishes.
The fishes of the continental slope display numerous adaptations to deepwater living, which include cold tolerance; longevity; and enhanced vision, hearing, and sound production for making their way in darkness. Certain species, such as deepwater rays, rockfishes, and eelpouts, bear live young or build nests to give their young a head start in a tough environment. Many slope dwellers are relatively large—between one and three feet long—which enables them to forage over broad areas. Many also live in schools. Both their size and schooling behavior have made certain species attractive targets of fisheries—which has in turn brought about the fishes' undoing.


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KDE Software Compilation 4.5 RC3 Release Announcement
Monday, 26 July 2010
KDE Software Compilation 4.5 Release Candidate 3 Available: Codename "Canny"
KDE Community Ships Third Release Candidate of the 4.5 Workspace, applications and development platform
Today, KDE delivers the third release candidate of the upcoming KDE Software Compilation 4.5. The KDE Software Compilation consists of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, a large number of applications for all purposes and the KDE development platform the applications and workspaces are built upon. The final version will be available next week This last RC is intended for verifying no showstoppers will creep into the final release of 4.5.0. It will also interest those who want an early look at what is coming to their desktops and netbooks this summer.
The KDE Community continues to fulfill the promise of delivering state of the art architecture with its Development Platform. The Applications in Software Compilation 4.5 take advantage of this, introducing improvements across the board in terms of innovative new features, greater ease of use, accessibility, good looks, better networking and further internationalization.
KDE SC 4.5 sports many improvements, among which are:
- A reworked notification area. Thanks to the new, D-Bus-based protocol that replaces the old "system tray", a uniform look and consistent interaction scheme can now be guaranteed across applications and toolkits.
- KWin-Tiling makes it possible to automatically place windows next to each other, employing the window management paradigm also found in window managers such as Ion. Advanced graphical effects, such as blurring the background of translucent windows make for a more pleasurable and usable experience.
- Users that prefer WebKit above the KHTML rendering engine currently used in Konqueror, KDE's web browser now can install the WebKit component and switch Konqueror to use WebKit as rendering engine for web sites. The WebKit component for Konqueror is available from KDE's Extragear repository, is based on the popular KPart component technology and fully integrates with password storage, content-blocking and other features users already know and love in Konqueror.
- A special focus of this release cycle is the stability of the software delivered with KDE SC 4.5. While there are many exciting new features, developers have spent considerable amounts of time finishing off features and polishing those that haven't come to full bloom yet.
Initially planned for KDE SC 4.5.0, the KDE PIM team have decided to delay the release of the Akonadi-based KMail. In the meantime, the stable version of KMail from KDE SC 4.4 will be maintained. Akonadi will centralize syncing and caching of PIM data, deliver wider support for groupware servers and makes handling PIM data, such as contacts, calendaring and email more efficient by sharing it across applications.
To find out more about the KDE Plasma desktop and applications, please also refer to the 4.4.0, 4.3.0, 4.2.0, 4.1.0 and 4.0.0 release notes.
KDE, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various binary formats from download.kde.org and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or with any of the major GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today.
To download source code or packages to install go to the KDE SC 4.4.95 Info Page.
Note that the changelog is usually incomplete. For a complete list of changes that went into KDE SC 4.4.95, you can browse the Subversion log. KDE SC 4.4.95 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages.
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Karl Cook couldn't have had a much better trip to the Las Vegas National. He earned the top two spots in the $50,000 Fisker Automotive Grand Prix CSI-W, the feature class of the competition held Nov. 13-18, winning on Jonkheer Z and taking second on ASB Conquistador. To top it off, Cook took blue in the $30,000 Las Vegas Speed Classic on Notories Utopia.
Not bad considering that just six months ago, he nearly quit the sport.
Cook enjoyed a spectacular career as a young rider. He helped Zone 10 clinch gold at the FEI North American Junior and Young Rider Championships twice, and he stood on top of the individual young rider podium as well in 2007. Since then he's become a consistent winner on the West Coast amateur and grand prix circuits. But this spring, things started backsliding.
Cook traveled east and competed in the USEF Olympic Selection Trials during the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival (Fla.) where he put in a series of subpar performances, and when he returned to California, he couldn't get back in the groove. He was riding badly, his horses weren't at their best, and he just couldn't seem to find clear rounds, no matter how high the jumps stood.
The tipping point came when he picked up 16 faults on Jonkheer Z in a 1.40-meter grand prix in May that the Zangersheide, in Cook's words, "should have been able to walk around with one eye closed and two and a half legs."
Cook felt dejected and knew he needed a radical change. He considered hanging up his hard hat, but he just couldn't imagine a life outside horses.
"It sounds silly, but I didn't know how to do anything else," admitted Cook, 21. "I really didn't want to go to school, so it was either that and be very unhappy, or really get after riding."
Total Recall
Cook chose the latter, and he set about rebuilding his program from the ground up. That meant leaving his longtime trainers Butch and Lu Thomas and pairing up with Eric Navet of France. It was a tough change, as Cook had been training with the Willow Tree Farm team for 12 years, and his mother, Signe Ostby, had ridden with them since the 1980s.
"It was difficult to get Eric to agree to work with me—not because of any financial reason, but because he only does things if he really wants to and enjoys it," said Cook. "But we get along really well. We're both quiet and go about our own business, and we have a good understanding of how things work."
Cook spent the summer out of the show ring, shipping three horses to Normandy, France, to work with Navet. He had to convince Navet he was up for the challenge of living in an isolated area without knowing any French, but Cook knew it would be the perfect distraction-free environment where he could reconstruct his entire system.
"I needed to change a lot quickly," he said. "When Eric and I started, he asked what I wanted to work on, and I told him we need to work on everything. I have a big record for my age, but we need to go back to basics, all the way down. We completely changed my riding style, completely changed my approach, completely changed my program."
Cook swapped from riding in half seat to a more vertical position, changed his hand position, shortened his stirrups, put less weight in his heels and revamped his body position over the fences—a major difficulty, as he's struggled for years with back issues. He rides all his mounts, save his two longtime rides, Uno De Laubry and Notories Utopia, in his new style.
"People asked me how I did it," he said. "Where I was earlier this year, it was either change quickly, or I wasn't going to ride anymore. I was open to learn and change, which made it possible. You can't teach someone who doesn't want to change. I had to redo all my muscle memory."
At first, the radical revamp had Cook feeling like a beginner all over again. If he focused too much on his leg, his shoulders would tip forward. If he concentrated on his own position he would lose sight of what the horse was doing. Cook's still getting more comfortable with his new seat, and he reminds himself about his form with plenty of focus and keeping a virtual tape recorder of Navet in his head.
Time in the tack was just one part of the radical change. Cook also had to work on his horsemanship in the barn. Previously, he hadn't been intimately involved with the daily maintenance of his mounts, but Navet encouraged him to reconsider his approach. Cook started working with Philippe Benoit, DVM, redoubling his efforts to get his horses to peak condition and keep them there.
And Cook, who rides as an amateur, also took stock of his stable and realized he needed to re-evaluate how he and his family purchase horses.
"We're trying to buy them for what they're going to be used for: a second horse, a No. 1 horse, a speed horse. They all have a place and purpose," he said.
Cook bought Jonkheer Z last year, and the stallion had been competing at the 1.45-meter and 1.50-meter level in Europe. But when Jonkhher Z landed stateside, he suffered an inguinal hernia, where his small intestine dropped into his scrotum and wrapped around one of his testicles. The Belgian Warmblood (Jetset-D—Ulderina van Westleven, Skippy II) spent an extra month in quarantine recovering from the surgery to remove the affected testicle. Despite the surgery, "Johnny" remains one of Cook's more fertile stallions.
Since the revamp, Johnny has made great progress, putting in clear rounds in five of the seven World Cup qualifiers they've contested.
"When he's paying attention and in good form, it feels like we're jumping a children's/adult class," said Cook. "He's not a fast horse—it's kind of like steering a cruise ship. He's quicker than that, but he spends a lot of time in the air."
Now that Cook is back on track, he's already looking ahead, hoping to qualify for this year's Rolex FEI World Cup Finals in Gothenburg, Sweden.
If you enjoyed this article and would like to read more like it, consider subscribing. The original version of "Karl Cook Rebuilds His Riding Style For A Vegas Win" ran in the Dec. 3, 2012, issue. Check out the table of contents to see what great stories are in the magazine this week.


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17 comments:
what happened to red?ReplyDelete
They both can't coexist?ReplyDelete
From whence comes the blue/green striped surcingle? The bow?ReplyDelete
The bow is J. Press. What the hell is a surcingle? I wikipedia'd it and I'm still not sure.ReplyDelete
Those Jack Purcell's are killer. Do you know where they can be had?ReplyDelete
Awesome post LAS. Love those boat boots (for lack of a better term).ReplyDelete
Surcingle is the type of belt above the second watch strap.
As used here, it's the blue/green belt. The wiki entry is confusing . . .ReplyDelete
Mr. M- The belt is J. Press as well.ReplyDelete
Amar- As far as I know those Purcell's are not currently available.ReplyDelete
The felt hat!! Yes. Very much yes.ReplyDelete
Where's that come from?
Next Wednesday you could wear all of that stuff and get away with it!ReplyDelete
Where are the green bucks from? They are amazing. Trickers are doing a similar pair in suede for The Bureau in Belfast.ReplyDelete
Schorsch- The hat is BillyKirkReplyDelete
The Lowell Connector- Bucks are by Sanders and were available at Oi Polloi.
The Lowell Connector said... green bucks from?ReplyDelete
Sanders, via the boys at Tibb Street, Mancunia
what style of sperry top siders are those? can't seem to find them on their website. they resemble the bahama chukkas but they're nicer.ReplyDelete
JLP- Sperry x Band of Outsiders:ReplyDelete
ah, of course. thanks.ReplyDelete


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A Vancouver police officer has been unable to return to the force after being struck by a distracted 'L' driver during a recent traffic stop.
The officer was writing a distracted driving ticket for another driver along the McGill Street on-ramp to Highway 1, near the Second Narrows Bridge, on Sept. 23.
Dash cam footage taken by a witness and released to the public Wednesday shows the moment of impact.
The officer and his police car – unmarked, but with its emergency lights flashing – are pulled over on the right shoulder when a grey Mazda comes up from behind, veers over, and smashes right into the back of the police car.
Police said the driver, a 47-year-old man with his learner's licence, wasn't paying attention.
"Please drive with care and keep your eyes on the road," Vancouver police tweeted.
Sgt. Aaron Roed told Black Press Media in an email that the injured officer has not returned to work. The drivers of the other vehicles were not hurt.
"Unfortunately, this is the type of unsafe driving behaviour that we continue to see on the roads," Roed said.
The 'L' driver received multiple fines, including a $368 ticket for driving without due care and attention, a $109 ticket for disobeying driver's licence restrictions, and another $109 for failing to display the 'L' magnet on his vehicle.
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Returns of online holiday gifts to hit record
Jan 2, 2012
After the holiday party comes the hangover for retailers: handling millions of returns this week. With a Christmas season that has seen record e-commerce sales coming to a close, returns should hit an all-time high on Tuesday for United Parcel Service (UPS.N).
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The delivery company expects to handle more than 550,000 returns on Tuesday, a record, and up almost 8 percent from a year earlier. Several other days during the first week of 2012 will also top half a million returns, UPS said.
"This will definitely be the busiest year for returns," Ken Burkeen, marketing director of the retail and consumer products division at UPS, told Reuters.
The good news for retailers is that most of the jump is simply a reflection of the explosive growth in e-commerce this Christmas season: U.S. online sales were up 15 percent between November 1 and December 26, according to data firm comScore.
Burkeen said UPS expects returns to rise 7.7 percent, meaning returns as a percentage of total sales have actually dipped despite more customer-friendly return policies.
A lot of that has to do with how much better web sites have gotten, including the ability to rotate the image of a product 360 degrees.
Diana Ku, a 25-year-old elementary school teacher from the San Francisco area, said she buys more from Nordstrom Inc (JWN.N), in part because of the quality of the photography on the upscale department store chain's web site.
Such improvements to many e-commerce sites have lowered the risk for a customer like Ku of placing an order only to open a package and find the item wasn't what she was expecting.
Ku has yet to return a product she bought online this holiday period. "I do return quite a lot normally, but I didn't this year," she said.
It's expensive for retailers to take back products they have already sold, check they are still in good condition, repackage them and integrate them back into inventory for resale.
Kurt Salmon retail strategist Al Sambar said that the returned items often end up in the discount bin, meaning a further danger to margins during a holiday season that has already seen steep discounting.
But retailers have found that easier returns policies, online or off, can be good business.
Nordstrom this year stopped taking $6 off of refunds on returns when an item bought online is mailed back. Kohl's Corp (KSS.N), a mid-priced department store chain, has long been praised by retail strategists for its policy of accepting returns without receipts.
Even when returns spike, that can be good news. If shoppers know they can bring products back to stores or mail them back to online retailers, they are likely to buy more from that retailer.
"Making it easier to return increases loyalty and doesn't increase returns per se," said Fiona Dias, chief strategy officer for ShopRunner, a company that manages returns and shipping for the e-commerce sites of retailers including American Eagle Outfitters (AEO.N) and Toys R Us TOY.UL.
"If retailers make it difficult to return, the customer is left with an overall bad taste in their mouth about the brand."
UPS is seeing a "surge" in returns of electronic devices, Burkeen told Reuters.
When consumers buy electronics online, they do not get a chance to try out the devices first. So often, after the products arrive, "they play around with the product and decide they would like to return it for another product," he said.
Consulting firm Accenture last month estimated that returns would cost U.S. electronics stores and makers $17 billion this year.
Several top electronics retailers, including Amazon.com (AMZN.O), Best Buy Co (BBY.N) and Apple Inc (AAPL.O), have extended their normal return windows to accommodate the large number of people who will need to initiate returns or refunds over the next few weeks, according to STELLAService, which rates the customer service of the largest retail websites.
Categories with the highest percentage of returns will also include apparel and footwear.
Such items are not easy to purchase online because they need to fit properly and require being tried on before consumers commit fully.
For such items it is becoming common practice to offer fast, easy and even free returns, according to Jordy Leiser, chief executive officer of STELLAService.
Zappos, a unit of Amazon which sells mostly shoes and apparel, pioneered free shipping both ways - including returns.
ShopRunner's Dias said that only about 10 percent of retailers offer free shipping on returns but predicted that would grow quickly in the coming years.
Bonobos, a fast-growing online men's clothing retailer, specializes in selling pants that fit right. A crucial part of its service is to allow consumers to mail back poorly fitting pants as many times as needed.
(Reporting By Phil Wahba and Lynn Adler in New York and Alistair Barr in San Francisco; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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I recently inherited this 93 in. X 58 in. (5x7) Indian rug. It was my Grandfathers favorite because of all the red in it. I know it is very old because my mother recalls it as long as she can remember (she is 78) It was on the floor in my grandparents home for many many years, it shows very little wear and a few stains. This rug is made 100% wool (i think) and is very thick compaired to many I have seen, I cannot find this perticular pattern anywhere and I would like to know more about it. Should I have it cleaned? and how? Is it Navajo? if not what? How the colors are made? and possibly it's rarity and value. I would appreciate any and all info.


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This year 'Las Chicaz' had their gathering at the one and only Nude Bowl in desert hot springs. All crews had their tents pitched up and got ready to shred. On the first day during the day the skate conditions were favorable, but on the second day the afternoon clouds rolled in and light droplets of H2O started to come down and were persistent all through the night. At the crack of dawn the rain had gone away leaving the bowl with a considerable amount of rain water. Bucket and garbage can detail started the duty of extracting water and after several hours of hauling buckets and garbage, can loads of water and drying the bowl with blowers and blankets , "las chicaz" proceeded to pay tribute to this iconic skate spot.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA – Celebrities are donating their breast milk to raise money for cheese.
In the latest twist on celebrity baby bumps and the bleeding heart cause du-jour, a handful of pregnant and nursing celebrities have committed to donating their breast milk to noted New York chef Daniel Angerer to raise money for his charity 'Cheese for Children'.
Angerer, who first raised eyebrows–and the ire of the New York Health Department–last March by making a panna cotta-style amuse-bouche with his wife's breast milk which he served to patrons of his Chelsea restaurant 'Klee Brasserie,' is determined to make human breast milk cheese both an accepted and useful staple of the American diet.
'I just feel like there's this huge reservoir available to us,' said Angerer when interviewed over breast milk chevre canapés at Klee. 'I mean, it's a food that's organic and healthy and full of nutrients that's not being properly utilized.' The canapés were served with a chilled Rosé from Northern California.
'Cheese for Children' plans to sell the celebrity-sourced cheese on eBay, starting the auction at ten-thousand dollars per five ounces of product. They expect the winning bids to range from fifty to two-hundred-and-fifty thousand dollars depending upon the breasts the milk was drawn from. Executives at eBay are already excited about the buzz they expect from food critics, celebrity stalkers and animal rights activists, among others.
Proceeds from the auctions will be used to fit undernourished children in third-world countries with porcelain veneers. The charity's administrator, Bob Blanco, explains, 'If they don't have good teeth, obviously they can't chew solid food. We're here to promote dental functionality so that undernourished kids worldwide can take advantage of the American surplus of hard grains and tough proteins. Like buffalo meat.'
Action film heroine Angelina Jolie was one of the first to sign on to the project, which is not surprising given her huge involvement with both charities and children. Through a spokesperson, Jolie told WWN, 'I feel really strongly that this is a significant step in ending the crisis of world hunger.
Women everywhere should step up to the plate and give what they can. I'm still breast-feeding Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne, but I have prolific milk glands and am confident I will be able to produce more than enough milk for a village of cheese.'
Natalie Portman, pregnant and recently engaged to fellow 'Black Swan' actor Benjamin Millepied, also plans on donating her breast milk to the charity. A close friend of the couple, Davis Chaussures, stated via email, 'Natalie and Benjamin are looking forward to the next phase of their lives and they want to create good in the world from the fruit of their union.'
Chef Angerer expects to list his first batch of high-end breast milk cheese on eBay as early as next week. The identity of the owner of the inaugural breasts has not yet been released to the press.
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Celebrities are donating their breast milk to raise money for cheese.


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A negative self image can be detrimental to many facets of your life. Indianapolis area dentist Dr. Brad Houston understands the positive life-changing power that a healthy and beautiful smile can bring to you. Here at Comfort Dental Care, we don't want you to be embarrassed any longer. Why not take your smile - and even your life - to a new level of self-confidence and beauty?
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What do you want from your relationship with your dentist? Oftentimes, this question is answered when there is a dental problem or emergency requiring immediate attention. There is a different approach to your relationship with your dentist that relates to your own needs and dental health.
This approach is designed to help you create the kind of experiences you want with your dentist. You have a choice about this relationship and how it can support and assist you in your life. It begins with the simple question stated at the beginning of this article: What do you want from your relationship with your dentist?
The answer to this question can take many forms. For some people it may mean having a lot of information about their dental health and future. They seek facts to know they are making good, informed decisions. Others may want a friendly relationship in which openness and communication are valued.
They want information but, more importantly, they want to know they are important to the dentist and the dental team. Some individuals want minimal information and discussion -- just the facts and the solutions to take care of any problem.
We all have different wants in our relationships with health professionals such as dentists. Here are four tips to assist you in deciding what you want in your relationship with your dentist:
Each person looks for different things in their relationships. It is your responsibility to determine what you want and look for that in the relationship with your dentist. The answers to the questions above will tell you something about this.
The next step is communicating what you want so that you are understood. Only you know when someone else understands you. Here are four tips to assist you in this communication process:
Communicating what you want is important to your dentist for it is the best way for him or her to plan for the optimal dental health for you.
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Q. What is endodontics?
A. Endodotics is the area of dentistry that specifically deals with what is called the dental pulp within a tooth.
Q. What is dental pulp?
A. The dental pulp is a soft tissue comprised of tiny arteries, veins, nerves and lymph vessels for the tooth.
Q. Where does the term root canal come from?
A. The tooth is comprised of three basic components. The first component is the crown/enamel, which is seen by the naked eye.
The next level of the tooth is dentin, which is under the enamel and the "housing" for the dental pulp.
The final component is the dental pulp and is the core of the tooth. This bulk of the dental pulp is in the center of the tooth or the pulp chamber, and is connected to the Mandibular Canal through the root canals. The root canals are like veins for the dental pulp.
Q. What does the procedure root canal mean?
A. Root canal has become a term for a procedure involving the dental pulp. When the dental pulp has been exposed and damaged, it must be treated professionally and this process is usually referred to as getting a root canal.
Q. What does a root canal procedure entail?
A. Once the dental pulp has been infected, it must be removed from both the pulp chamber and the root canals. Once it has been removed, the pulp chamber and root canals are thoroughly cleaned and enlarged. Based on the level of infection, the dentist may choose to clean the area more than once. After the area is free of infection, the dentist will fill the root canals and pulp chamber with a filling that will prevent any bacteria from entering the area. Finally, the dentist will place a crown over the tooth to restore it to its original shape.
Q. What causes dental pulp to become damaged or infected?
A. Normally, when a deep cavity occurs, it exposes the dental pulp to the bacteria inside the mouth. When exposed to this bacteria, the dental pulp can become infected and thus cause the inside of the tooth to be infected.
Q. What can happen if infected dental pulp is not treated?
A. Overtime, the infected pulp will die. At the same time, pus from the infection will develop at the base of the tooth and cause an abscess to form. If this occurs, it is not uncommon for the abscess to cause the bone holding the tooth to deteriorate. If this deterioration becomes too severe, the tooth will fall out.
Q. What role does the computer play in the dental care industry?
A. In the future, patient records may be kept on computer disks, including visual images captured on intraoral cameras. A computerized workstation beside the patient's chair will give the dentist the ability to view the patient's history from disk.
Also, the dentist might use a voice-recognition system to ask the computer to assist in finding that data, or create a "before and after" image so the patient can preview the result of dental work before it is done.


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Open source deployments are becoming more pervasive as enterprise IT shops get more comfortable using the software. But open source can present challenges, and organizations would be wise to follow some best practices.
Clearly, open source has arrived as an enterprise IT strategy. A research report released by Gartner Inc. in November 2008 shows that adoption of open source software is becoming pervasive, with 85% of 274 worldwide companies surveyed by the Stamford, Conn., firm currently using open source and the remaining 15% expecting to in the next 12 months.
But the same survey shows that there's a need for more discipline when it comes to implementing open source. Nearly 70% of the companies surveyed still have no formal policy for evaluating and cataloguing open source usage in their enterprise, Gartner says, opening up potential liabilities for intellectual-property violations.
The research firm says a lack of governance was the number one challenge for open source users in the survey, followed by conflicting terms and conditions and the availability of too many license types and forms.
Here are some recommended best practices that can help organizations launch successful open source deployments:
Create an open source policy that includes governance over how open source will be procured and used. Surely some departments and individuals will use open source software on their own, and companies will launch broader, enterprise use of some applications. Organizations need to have a formal policy in place to oversee how open source is being implemented and to measure its effectiveness.
It's important to understand how open source is used in the organization, says Bernard Golden, CEO of Navica, a San Carlos, Calif., consulting firm that focuses on open source. "Is it solely used within the firewalls of the organization, is software distributed?" Golden says. "Understanding this is vital to ensure compliance with open source licenses. The quid pro quo for free software is expectation of license compliance."
Part of the governance effort includes tracking and project management to identify when and where open source is used, Golden says. Organizations should consider creating an "open source review board" to examine requests to use open source within the company.


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It stirred my soul as a child and is one of the reasons I wanted to try to be a writer — I wanted to be able to say something like that some day. The resolve in that speech is what has sustained my years of effort in the pro-life movement. And one of the most endearing memories I have of my late mother is watching her tearing up as my 10-year-old daughter delivered, loud and proud, a lengthy excerpt.
"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."
I know that Martin Luther King's dream was so powerful that we retreat into the dream against all evidence to the contrary sometimes. I know that this longing we have for racial equality and the guilt we have for slavery makes us overlook some things and exaggerate others, and that America's racial history has twisted us in ways that we have barely begun to unravel.
But I also know that there was something pure and true and quintessentially American about King's speech, and I know that the narrative that race is intractable and that America is a racial powder-keg waiting to blow is also untrue.
So, as the Drudge Report pounds out "the dream is gone" links, I wanted to share some recent black heroes lest we overlook this aspect of the race story in America.
Faith vs. the Gunman
"It was scary because I knew at that moment that he was ready to take my life along with his, and if I didn't say the right thing we all would be dead."
That's what Antoinette Tuff told a local news station in Decatur, Ga., about her hour-long conversation with Michael Brandon Hill, suspected would-be school gunman, on Aug. 20.
Tuff was working in the front office at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy when the gunman came in. "He had a look on him that he was ready to kill," she said. He told her that he was going to die that day.
"I realized at that time it was bigger than me. He was really a hurting young man. So I just started praying for him," she told a reporter. "And then I just started talking to him and telling him some of my life story and what was going on with me and that it was going to be okay."
"I just explained to him I loved him," said Tuff. "I didn't know his name, I didn't know much about him but I did love him," she said.
One of my favorite parts of the 911 tape that overheard part of what she said is when he had finally agreed to give up but seemed to be having second thoughts.
"It's going to be all right, sweetie," she tells the gunman. "I just want you to know I love you, though, OK? And I'm proud of you. That's a good thing that you're just giving up and don't worry about it. We all go through something in life."
And of course she does not consider herself a hero: "I give it all to God. I'm not the hero. I was terrified," she said.
"But you kept it together," the interviewer points out.
"Through his grace and mercy I did," she corrects her.
Did you hear about Lancaster, Pa., teen Temar Boggs?
It was July 11. Boggs, 15, was helping a neighbor move her couch when he heard that a 5-year-old girl had been abducted from their neighborhood.
The story that he tells in an interview with the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era shows just how heroic he and his friends were.
"We went out there and made a little search party of all of our friends," he said.
It didn't take long. "We saw a suspicious car, we looked in the passenger seat: the little girl was in the car. We chased it for about 10 to 15 minutes and I guess he got scared and let her out in the corner."
The details of how he brought the girl home while following bike safety rules are classic.
"I picked her up—well, no, I didn't pick her up, she ran to me and said she needed her mommy, and I rode her back home," he said. "Well, halfway, 'cause the way I had her was dangerous so then I carried her back halfway home."
Why did he chase down a kidnapper to save a little girl?
"It was just out of heart. It wasn't to get attention or anything. It was just to help somebody in the community, help make sure another little life was okay and make sure her future could be possible."
Another recent black hero is a little more ambiguous in his heroism.
Charles Ramsey, the neighbor who helped Ariel Castro's victims to safety, is a hero at once representative of what is amiss and what is right with the black underclass. He has been arrested for domestic violence. His recounting of the afternoon rescue of Amanda Berry and the other kidnap victims has been partially (though not substantially) disputed. His refusal to take reward money was a noble decision on the spur of the moment; a decision that has evolved a bit, it seems.
But his essential humility and basic decency shine through, I think. I love the moment in his interview with Anderson Cooper when Cooper has a hard time getting him to focus on matter at hand instead of his own self-effacing assessment of himself.
RAMSEY: Mm-hmm. And I took her to my house. Now I'm nervous as hell so I'm fumbling with my phone, so I finally get it right. She can't wait and I don't blame her. So what I do was tell her go across the street and use their phone. Now we're both calling 911. Now she gets through and I get through. She deal with a moron, me, too.
COOPER: You said there — what do you mean, a moron?
RAMSEY: Idiot.
COOPER: I heard the 911 call for her –
RAMSEY: Imbecile.
COOPER: And the woman kept –
RAMSEY: Shouldn't have a damn job.
His good humor, willingness to do the right thing and desire to help the girls even after the initial rescue are to his credit.
"They keep saying I'm a hero," Ramsey has said. "Let me tell you something, I'm an American, and I'm a human being. I'm just like you. I work for a living. There was a woman in distress, so why turn your back on that?"
Justice Clarence Thomas is my next hero. He is a hero for two reasons: For being a reliable vote for right reason on the Supreme Court when we desperately need one, and for doing so despite the scorn and patronizing comments of his many vociferous critics. Not many people on earth could do what he does. Thank God he is doing it.
If there were more justices like him, "marriage" would still mean in America what it has for the rest of history in the rest of the world. It would still mean in America what it does in every major religion. But we don't, so it doesn't.
But it was the decision he wrote in the Association for Molecular Pathology et al v. Myriad Genetics Inc. that really showed off his abilities this year.
In Clarence Thomas Shows How It's Done at National Review, Wesley Smith wrote:
"That's how a Supreme Court decision should be written: Precise. Limited in scope. No bloviating. To the point. Applying, not creating law. Bravo Justice Thomas. Would your colleagues knew how to do it as well."
Emily Bazelon at Slate said much the same thing, albeit in a more backhanded way:
"I'm trying to remember if I have ever read a Supreme Court opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas with the pleasure I read the one he wrote this morning."
I love what Thomas had to say at the Manhattan Institute in 2008:
"There are really only two ways to interpret the Constitution — try to discern as best we can what the framers intended or make it up."
Thomas isn't one of the justices who makes it up.
King's Dream
I also like that Clarence Thomas is Catholic, of course. The Catholic Church has been ahead of the curve on racial equality in America at least since the Knights of Columbus started to integrate in the 19th century.
And we Catholics understand what's at the basis of MLK's dream.
"With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day."
We pray for the increase in faith in God that will be necessary for King's 50-year-old dream to come true.


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F-Zero GX is the culmination of a painful realization for Nintendo: you can't go it alone in the console race. With so many established franchises and a high demand for sequels, it'd be virtually impossible for Nintendo to deliver the goods and work on new titles at the same time. Lucky for us, ex-rival Sega and Nintendo have found each other and promptly tasked the makers of Super Monkey Ball with the creation of a true F-Zero sequel for the both the arcades and GameCube. Amusement Vision delivered a smashing F-Zero experience on GameCube -- and it's faster and more difficult than ever.
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Emmanuel Guibert is an innovative French comic artist, who works in styles varying for hyperrealistic to Clear Line. Born in Paris, Guibert briefly attended art school, and did his first professional work in the storyboard and illustration field. He made his comics debut in 1992 with 'Brune', a painted comic story about the rise of fascism in Germany during the 1930s. He then did several comics for Lapin, the magazine of the innovative publishing house l'Association. One of Guibert's most impressive comics works of this period, 'La Guerre d'Alan', recounted the war experiences of Guibert's friend Alan Ingram Cope, who served as an American soldier in World War II, and later retreated to France.
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In 2000, he joined the Atelier des Vosges in Paris, where he worked alongside Frédéric Boilet, Didier Tronchet, Émile Bravo, Christophe Blain and Joann Sfar. With the latter, he created the critically acclaimed comic 'La Fille du Professeur' in the Humour Libre collection of Dupuis in 1997.
He additionally scripted 'Sardine de l'Espace' for Sfar and 'Ariol' for Marc Boutavant, that were published respectively in Maximum and J'Aime Rire by Bayard in the early 2000s. 'Sardine de l'Espace' was continued with the artist Mathieu Sapin from the 8th book in 2008.
The Photographer
With David B. as his scriptwriter, Guibert created the one-shot 'Le Capitaine Écarlate', in the Aire Libre collection of Dupuis. He teamed up with Joann Sfar again in 2001 to create 'Les Olives Noires', a series about a Jewish child in Judea. In 2003, he commenced working with Médecins Sans Frontière photographer Didier Lefèvre and colorist/scenarist Frédéric Lemercier on 'Le Photographe', a mixture of comic and photobook, based on Lefèvre's photo's taken in Afghanistan. Emmanuel Guibert was invested with a knighthood in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2013.
He additionally made a graphic contribution to the anti-racism collective comic book 'Rire Contre Le Racisme' (Jungle!, 2006).
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In 2012, Macworld put together a magazine feature called "12 Things Every iPhone and iPad User Should Know", and we also made an enhanced iPad edition available on the iBookstore. This feature proved so popular that we decided to go back and thoroughly update the content to reflect iOS 6, the iPad mini, and the iPhone 5—and it's available as a free update for previous buyers of the book, or $2.99 for new purchasers.
The original 12 Things book offered extra text not found in the magazine feature along with exclusive videos, animations, and photo galleries, all created with iBooks Author. We've not only updated the entirety of the text in this 2.0 version—we've also created new videos and photo galleries and added a brand new section on iOS photography.
While using an iOS device isn't hard—and that's partially why we love them—even savvy users like Macworld readers have holes in their iPhone and iPad knowledge. Maybe you know everything there is to know about Safari caching, but you're in the dark when it comes to iPhone photography. Or perhaps you're a Mail maestro, but you'd like to be faster at composing emails on a digital keyboard. Whether you've forgotten an iOS trick or you want to learn some new ones, our editors have you covered.
We polled our community—and our staff—for the 12 essential iOS topics every iOS user should know about; this expanded feature is the result. Learn about syncing your accounts and data, managing your apps, working with Bluetooth, and shooting the perfect photo. We'll also walk you through troubleshooting meddlesome battery issues and help you brush up on your security and backup options; and we'll explain the basics of multitasking, editing text, and working with PDFs.
This book was built with iBooks Author, which means it only works on your iPad and iPad mini running iBooks 2 or later. (iPhone users are, unfortunately, currently out of luck.) If you purchased the first edition of 12 Things Every iPhone & iPad User Should Know, you can download it for free from the iBookstore; new readers will find it on sale for $2.99.
And while you're in the iBookstore, be sure to check out some of Macworld's latest Superguide titles, including our iCloud Starter Guide, iPhone 5 Superguide, iPad Mini Starter Guide, and iOS 6 Upgrade Guide.