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PBCS Standings: "The Devil Inside" Makes You Wonder How The Other Half Dies
I swear that I had no clue about the existence of "The Devil Inside" until I looked at the box office chart this morning. I think that's probably because I'm an old person, or perhaps because the film was shrewdly marketed to young audiences, and the studio made no attempt to appeal to old people who are totally out of it. Either way, I'm old and lame. Here's a little movie that cost nothing and just blew apart the box office over the weekend. That sounds like a recipe for success in our dopey little PBCS formula. First, let's look at the final box office chart via Box Office Mojo.
1. The Devil Inside - $34.5M
2. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - $20.5M
3. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $14.1M
4. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - $11.3M
5. Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - $9.5M
6. War Horse - $8.6M
7. We Bought A Zoo - $8.5M
8. Tintin - $6.6M
9. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy $5.8M
10. New Year's Eve - $3.3M
"Devil Inside" made back its budget 34 times over this weekend. LOOK AT IT GO, LOOK AT IT KICK... That's just the kind of box office sorcery needed to take down the unstoppable force that is George Clooney. BEHOLD!
1. The Devil Inside - 839
2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - 753
3. The Artist - 292
4. The Descendants - 275
5. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - 242
6. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - 86
7. War Horse - 67
8. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - 52
9. We Bought A Zoo - 51
9. Young Adult (tie) - 51
"Devil Inside" got some of the year's worst reviews, but I'm heartened to see that critical adoration isn't the overriding factor in these little rankings. Clooney maintained his death grip over our formula for too long with his emotive Hawaiian antics. Time for a good old fashioned terrible horror movie with no budget to remind people that bad movies deserve a chance too! Elsewhere, you see that "MI:4" is still going strong. and will end up being Tom Cruise's biggest movie in years, perhaps ever. And both "TTSS" and "The Artist" are riding the awards-season wave to big numbers. Be on the lookout for "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close", which is in limited release and could crack our top 10 if people decide that twee 9/11 movies are, like, a thing now. I'm too old to know.


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The law-enforcement task force canvassing the Vallecito community for clues to the disappearance of 13-year-old Dylan Redwine has discarded the possibility that he ran away Nov. 19 from his fathers home north of the reservoir, La Plata County Sheriffs Office spokesman Dan Bender said Wednesday.
Theres a combination of factors, Bender said. Theres been the passage of time without any sightings; Dylan was not a visitor but had friends here; he has a history of staying in contact with his family and friends; and theres been nothing on his cellphone record since he was reported missing.
Twenty law officers on Wednesday continued their door-to-door visits and inspection of buildings that began Tuesday with the hope of finding someone with information who can help solve the mystery of Dylans disappearance.
The task force has officers from the Sheriffs Office, Durango Police Department, FBI, Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Bayfield Marshals Office.
A telephone tip line has been set up: 382-7511.
The task force is gathering any form of information, Bender said. The information may not be applicable now, but could be in the future.
Specifically, investigators would like to talk to anyone who was taking photos or shooting videos that show vehicles along the typical routes between Vallecito and Durango from 6 p.m. Nov. 18 to noon Nov. 19. That would include County Road 501 and Florida Road (County Road 240).
Anyone who can supply a copy of his or her photos or videos is asked to call the La Plata County dispatch center at 385-2900.
Three canine units belonging to La Plata Search and Rescue returned Wednesday to Vallecito to explore areas adjacent to the reservoir but not along the shore, Bender said.
A dive team from the New Mexico State Police used cadaver dogs, sonar and divers last weekend to explore an area near the reservoir dam that the dogs had signaled as being hot. Nothing unusual was found.
Bender said cadaver dogs dont have to pass over every square foot of reservoir surface. The scents they are trained to detect emerge from the water, like smoke from a chimney, and dissipate, Bender said.
Dog handlers work into the wind to give the dogs the best opportunity to sniff out scents.
The story has received national attention and was featured on Nancy Graces show Wednesday night on CNNs Headline News network.
Dylan was visiting his father, Mark Redwine, under court order during the Thanksgiving holiday. The parents divorced in 2007. Elaine Redwine moved with Dylan and his brother, Cory, 21, to Colorado Springs.
Mark Redwine alerted law enforcement about Dylans absence just before 6 p.m. Nov. 19, Bender said.
Mark Redwine made his first public appearance Tuesday night at a vigil in Bayfield. But when reached at his Vallecito home Wednesday morning, Redwine declined any possibility of more comment, saying he wanted the attention to stay on his son, not him. He declined to be formally interviewed.
He said a million things were running through his head about what could have happened to his son. He said he doesnt think Dylan ran away.
He has nothing and no one to run away from, Mark Redwine said.
He said he will continue to stay in his house, saying he thought that was what would be best for Dylan. Mark Redwines brother also is staying with him.
Mark Redwine said Dylan had made tentative plans to meet friends at 6:30 a.m. Monday morning, but nothing was etched in stone. Bender said Dylan didnt contact the friends then.
Mark Redwine said he had questioned why the 13-year-old would want to wake up that early in the morning.
Ryan Nava, 13, a friend of Dylans said in an interview Saturday with The Durango Herald that Dylan originally was going to Bayfield to visit his friends Sunday night but then changed that to meet them early Monday morning.
Mark Redwine said he was going to give Dylan a ride to his friends house and tried to wake him up when he left Monday morning but said Dylan was out like a light.
The father said he had to go to Durango that morning to run errands and speak to his divorce lawyer.
The Vallecito area was quiet Wednesday morning with people walking their dogs and opening stores for the day, evidence that life goes on for the residents as authorities continue their investigation.
Authorities redirected the search for Dylan on Tuesday, and went door-to-door canvassing the neighborhoods after they used divers and sonar equipment to search Vallecito Reservoir.
About 150 people attended the vigil for Dylan on Tuesday night in Bayfield. Residents say they are still hoping he will return safely home.
I want my gut to tell me that hes still hiding out there, but my gut is telling me something more is going on, said Vallecito resident Richard Scarbeary on Wednesday morning.


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MOVIE REVIEW- Unfilmable? <i>Watchmen </i>thrills fans, confuses the rest
There are two kinds of people in the world: "Watchdawgs," or whatever the out-and-proud geeks who are familiar with the Watchmen comic books/graphic novel call themselves; and "Watchvirgins" like myself.
Unlike most polar opposites– male and female, Democrat and Republican, Israeli and Palestinian– the twain shall meet this weekend, when Zack Snyder's (300) adaptation of the "unfilmable" tale occupies every available multiplex screen as 2009's first designated blockbuster.
Who will leave happy? A thoroughly unscientific poll after a preview screening found geeks anywhere from pleased to over-the-moon with the movie, while the rest of us– well, I was the only one I could find.
Since the fanboys have their own expectations, their own yardsticks and their own grapevines, this review is intended for people like me who have heard, perhaps read some of the hype, but are basically going in cold in hopes of being entertained by the movie.
You'll come away wishing you had done more advance research. That means Watchmen breaks one of my cardinal rules, that a movie should be self-contained, giving viewers all the information they need to appreciate it. (There are exceptions, such as sequels no one is likely to see without having seen the originals.)
The Watchmen (and Watchwoman) are superheroes, but most of them have no superpowers, which makes them garden variety costumed vigilantes. They couldn't use powers if they had them, because in the story's alternate version of 1985 these outlaw-fighters have been outlawed. President Richard Nixon (Robert Wisden) is in his fifth term by 1985, having won the Vietnam War by using Dr. Manhattan/Jon Osterman (Billy Crudup) as his secret weapon.
Superpowered as the result of an accident in a research lab, Dr. Manhattan can teleport people and things at will or take them apart and put them back together with his mind. He can also blow himself up to about 10 times normal size. Oh, and he's bright blue and usually naked, except when he occasionally puts his schlong in a thong.
Though his friends call him Jon he's unable to switch out of his Dr. Manhattan persona. He lives with a second generation superhero, Silk Spectre II/Laurie Jupiter (Malin Akerman), whose mother, Silk Spectre/Sally Jupiter (Carla Gugino) is an alcoholic who was part of an earlier vigilante group, the Minutemen.
Laurie's only other friend, and obviously waiting in the wings in case she and Jon break up, is Nite Owl II/Dan Dreiberg (Patrick Wilson). His owl costume looks suspiciously like a bat and he used to do his crimefighting in Archie, which functions as a flying Batmobile. (Oops!)
There are plenty of gaps in their individual and collective stories, which emerge gradually through flashbacks. The present events are narrated by Rorschach/Walter Kovacs (Jackie Earle Haley), who sounds like he's imitating Travis Bickel from Taxi Driver. With his face covered by a mask with constantly shifting patterns, he's still serious about cleaning up New York– deadly serious after someone kills The Comedian/Edward Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), another survivor of the Minutemen.
"Maybe someone's pickin' off costumed heroes," Rorschach theorizes. "An attack on one is an attack on all of us." He's unable to arouse much enthusiasm from his cohorts, including Ozymandias/Adrian Veidt (Matthew Goode), the smartest and possibly richest man in the world.
All this unfolds in a world on the brink of nuclear war, with the Soviet Union preparing to invade Afghanistan. There's a cancer scare, too. There's a lot of paranoia in this movie, which shows that heroes are just like you and me, only more heroic. And sometimes they dress funny.
Except for the ending, the story is reportedly extremely faithful to the source novel. There was too much material to squeeze into a movie, even one running two and three-quarter hours; so Snyder and his adapters included what they could and put some more on a DVD to be sold separately.
Watchmen will make perfect sense to those who already know the whole story, while the rest of us can enjoy the visual effects and the film's highlights, which, except for Rorschach taking a Rorschach test, mostly involve sex and violence that put the "graphic" in "graphic novel."
The obvious aim is to stimulate a lot of repeat business, not just from people who like the movie but from those who are afraid to appear uncool by admitting they don't understand it.
They said Watchmen couldn't be filmed, and maybe they were right. Now they'll say the movie can't be sequelized, but Laurie addresses that in the final line: "Nothing ends. Nothing ever ends."#


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Now comes news that starting in June, Berkeley and Oakland residents hungry for their own pavement cuisine parties will have similar events tailored to the flavor of their respective communities.
In Berkeley, Off the Grid is partnering with the North Shattuck Association, a merchants group, to launch its first franchise outside SF. The event is slated to start June 1, permit approval pending, in Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto, which has a long history as the epicenter of a delicious revolution but could use some fresh culinary blood to draw a younger crowd. Eight mobile food folks will sell their street eats at the intersection of Shattuck and Rose; core vendors dishing up chow each week include Liba (falafel with a twist), Hapa SF (mod Filipino grub), The Taco Guys (self explanatory), and Cupkates (ditto). In the mix the first night as part of a regularly rotating trio: Skylight Snowballs (sweet, slushy treats), 510 Burger, and Fins on the Hoof (surf and turf).
When word first got out on the local site Berkeleyside revealing which street vendors were planning to set up shop in this town, more than a thousand (presumably) local residents responded with a thumbs up on Facebook and the news generated the most cohesive comment thread in, perhaps, that site's short life. (Berkeley residents are known for their strong, frequently differing, opinions. This writer knows because — full disclosure — she pens a Friday food post on Berkeleyside.)
No prize for guessing that Berkeley's Off the Grid will feature local, sustainable, and, as much as possible, organic food, in keeping with this city's prevailing food philosophy. No high fructose corn syrup, genetically modified corn, or factory-farmed meat from these roaming restaurants, which use recyclable and compostable materials to deliver their dishes. In addition, one truck (courtesy of Cohen) will serve as a venue to showcase the culinary creations of chefs from the immediate area. First up: Peter Levitt, co-owner of Saul's deli.
The event, slated to be held on Wednesdays in a space already reserved for farmers' market vendors on Thursdays, marks something of a turnaround in this town, which in the past has not been particularly food truck-friendly. Heather Hensley, executive director of the North Shattuck Association, who submitted a proposal to the city in conjunction with Off the Grid, emphasized the controlled event environment (and local merchant approval) as key to getting the city on board, a sentiment echoed by Dave Fogerty from Berkeley's Office of Economic Development.
Hensley sees cross-promotional opportunities for local venues — including music at nearby Cheese Board Pizzeria and Mint Leaf and drink specials (no alcohol is allowed at Berkeley's Off the Grid event) at participating restaurants. Cohen, who says he's exploring expanding into other East Bay locations, stresses that Off the Grid strives to preserve and build community, while offering affordable, creative, and ethnically-diverse street eats.
Even Pat Powell, who runs the cupcake shop Love at First Bite, doesn't see the weekly presence of CupKates as competition, although her business is open until 6p.m., an hour after Off the Grid starts. "Any event that brings people into the neighborhood is a positive thing in my mind," she says.
For their part, street truck purveyors such as Gail Lillian of Liba are delighted to have another venue (in her case close to home and her commercial kitchen) to provide the public gourmet meals on wheels.
Over in Oakland, Bites on Broadway kicks off on Friday, June 10 on the plaza in front of Oakland Technical High School. The food pod party is the brainchild of longtime East Bay events organizer Karen Hester (Temescal and Rockridge street fairs) and food truck owner and advocate Elizabeth August of Guerrilla Grub, which cooks up healthy comfort food. August is a member of Oakland Food Policy Council's mobile food vendors task force and recently formed the Oakland Food Truck Collective.
The family-friendly night, which includes live music and lawn games, has been embraced by the school's PTA, which hopes that down the road food trucks might offer students at Oakland Tech, an open campus, an affordable, healthy alternative to the nearby fast food joints currently frequented by students, says Hester. "We purposefully picked this stretch of Broadway, which is pretty bleak and doesn't have any brick-and-mortar restaurants in the vicinity," she adds. "It's a blighted neighborhood and we'd like to help revitalize this boulevard, which is the gateway to downtown Oakland."
Off The Grid's Cohen is considering sites in other Berkeley and Oakland locations where local stakeholders want to partner with his organization. While Hester thinks there's room for more food hub happenings, she'd prefer to see them powered by people from the immediate community. Bites on Broadway grew organically, out of something that is already happening in Oakland, so it's authentic," says Hester. "There's a lot of Oakland pride here. I'd like to see similar community-driven pods pop up in other neighborhoods."
Time will tell if there's a big enough appetite in the East Bay to sustain these recurring street food events. But if the number of new mobile food trucks buzzing around the Bay Area is any indication, residents are ravenous for mobile food fare.
This post originally appeared on KQED's Bay Area Bites.
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K-pop and "Korean Cool": tunes hitting Seoul, Tokyo, and further afield
Michel Lebon and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Korean pop (K-pop) is whirling its way throughout Asia and beyond because of great singers, fantastic imagery, passion, an abundance of talent, and sheer quality. Of course you will have great artists in all nations but currently it is the K-pop scene which is dynamic, forward thinking, and expressing "Korean cool."
This article was written just before the beautiful and exquisite Kan Mi Youn releases her latest record called "Won't Meet You" on September 29. Therefore, comments will be made once her latest tune is released but the teaser points to yet another powerful song like "Paparazzi" but with a completely different format.
Recent tunes that have made a big splash in South Korea in the last few months or have just been released include "Syndrome" by Chocolat, "So Cool" by Sistar, "Top Girl" by G.na, "I Remember" by Bang Yong Guk and "Step" by Kara. Other tunes have also hit the streets of South Korea, Japan and much further afield. However, these tracks stand out from an international point of view because of energy, connection and vibrancy.
"I Remember" by Bang Yong Guk was an instant success and the style, lyrics and video all came together. The ending of the video is a little over dramatic but the scene of the body on the ground while holding a lady was a good touch. If other tracks by Bang Yong Guk have the same energy and creativity then surely his career will bloom.
The track "I Remember" by Bang Yong Guk would certainly appeal internationally because despite the dramatic scenes of the video the singer gives you "a raw street image."
"Syndrome" by Chocolat impacted on the charts and was full of energy and will appeal to the market it is aimed at. Not the raw energy of Bang Yong Guk but clearly a different style of music and shouldn't really compare.
Clearly Chocolat have a bright future and "Syndrome" is a track which would do well in Japan. It will be interesting to see how these beautiful and talented ladies progress over the next twelve months because they have so much to offer and I can't wait for their next track.
"Top Girl" by G.na was turned into a lovely track by this very elegant lady who sings with a lovely melodic voice. Energy is one thing that all these tracks have and clearly K-pop is doing this to a T.
The track "Top Girl" itself was average with regards to the lyrics but G.na made it special because of her individualistic style and vibrant nature. G.na is certainly adding to the K-pop buzz and long may she continue to bless the world with her talents.
"So Cool" by Sistar was a catchy tune but the video was a mismatch of energy, uncertainty of where it should go and then back to girl power. Music wise, a track which will appeal because of the raw energy of the group and the sex appeal adds to the dimension because they are all stunning ladies.
I get the feeling that Sistar are about to reach new heights because they certainly have something special about them. The track "So Cool" seemed to contain them in the video after reaching a high. Therefore, listening is where the power of the track belongs and these ladies provide such a positive image and work together elegantly.
"Step" by Kara had a great beat, lively lyrics despite simplicity, movement, vibrancy, and a strong connection with the listener who likes this style of music. All ladies ooze power, energy, freedom and you can feel their passion when you watch the video or you can hear their love of music when you listen to the track.
Kara is a group which is widely respected in Japan and they project such a positive image of K-pop.
Overall, in the last few months you have had many fantastic tunes coming out of the K-pop scene and clearly not all the great tracks have been mentioned. However, K-pop is rising and with so many groups and solo artists around then the future looks fantastic for "Korean cool."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5wO8ejwVRI "Top Girl" by G.na
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYoYoBtLqOY&ob=av2n "Step" by Kara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ucP3UhrhF8 Chocolat – Syndrome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHrx5dWxcJ4 Bang Yong Guk – I Remember
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj3q0ZChgFE Sistar – So Cool
http://www.thecnstar.com/ Magazine for latest K-pop/culture/entertainment
http://moderntokyotimes.com/2011/09/04/korean-pop-music-continues-to-hit-the-heights-in-japan/ – Article highlighting K-pop by Modern Tokyo Times
http://moderntokyotimes.com/2011/09/22/kanstyle-magazine-to-open-up-south-korean-fashion-k-pop-culture-in-japan/ – Highlighting Kanstyle Magazine
http://moderntokyotimes.com/2011/09/27/kan-mi-youn-and-k-pop-new-powerful-song-to-be-released-on-sep-29/ – Kan Mi Youn


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Woot!! 100 weeks of Friday Favorite Finds.
This weekly feature at Finding Joy in My Kitchen started out as a way for me to give you all some blog love – all your delicious cooking & baking was making my "to try" list of recipes grow out.of.control. {here's the very first one!!}
So, I started posting these recipe finds here. On Fridays. And, you started commenting. Out of that grew the interest in having a linky so that you all can share your recipes to try too!
The face of Friday Favorite Finds has changed a bit over the years….
But, I find myself always looking forward to Fridays!
Thank you so much for making this linky a part of your week.
I know there is so much going on in all our lives and in all of blogland – so it is extra special for me that you come back here week after week and participate and visit one another's links. You are all wonderful.
As a "THANK YOU" to you, I am going to give away an Amazon Gift Card to one of our regular participants here. After the linky closes this week, I'll choose one of you to receive the $25 Amazon Gift Card. The only criteria – you have to have linked up to at least one prior Friday Favorite Finds.
For this week, I went back through my old Friday Favorite Finds Posts, pinned some oldies and want to share with you some of the recipes I've found… that I still haven't made….but I was pleasantly surprised by the number of finds I actually have made!
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Michelle System Verification Plan
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The following letter is being circulated to the Gemini community as of September 14, 2004.
MICHELLE, a 10-20 microns imager and spectrograph is now permanently moved from UKIRT to Gemini. Queue observing in imaging mode is already under way. Although work remains to improve its performance at Gemini, MICHELLE's spectroscopic observing modes are now working well enough that we feel that they can be made available to the Gemini community. Therefore we are pleased to invite the Gemini community to propose System Verification (SV) programs for MICHELLE SPECTROSCOPY. We anticipate 4 nights of SV time will be made available during January 2005. There is a possibility that a limited number of programs could be observed in early October 2004. (Note that no MICHELLE observing time is scheduled between early October and January).
System verification is the final step of testing prior to general use of the instrument by the Gemini community. It is intended to be "end-to-end" testing, verifying the readiness of the entire system from observation definition to data reduction. It is also intended to exercise the various modes of an instrument and demonstrate to the community, through interesting and challenging science programs, the potential of MICHELLE spectroscopy.
The following summary is extracted from the Gemini SV web page:
"SV observations will be selected by SV team members and approved by the Gemini Director. They will span a wide range of targets and perspectives and the SV teams will be responsible for providing written, in depth assessments of SV observations and mode verification within two months of data acquisition. The data obtained during SV will be made available by ftp to the international Gemini community and the assessments will be published on the Gemini SV web pages. Community participation will help ensure that Gemini + MICHELLE spectroscopy is a success from the first date of scheduled observations."
MICHELLE spectroscopy on Gemini can be considered as having two observing modes:
- 1. Low resolution (R=100-200) - covering the full 7-13um or 16-24um "windows."
- 2. Medium-High resolution (R in the range 1,000-40,000) - covering narrow spectral intervals within the 7-13um and 16-24um "windows, using the R=1000 or 3000 gratings and the echelle)."
For both modes we are interested in both point sources and extended objects, and in observations within both the 7-13um and 16-24um wavelength intervals. We anticipate scheduling 2 nights for each mode.
More information about MICHELLE and its capabilities can be found at http://www.gemini.edu/sciops/instruments/michelle. Note that sensitivity estimates for spectroscopy are available only in table form for some wavelengths, and not in the Integration Time Calculator. You will need to use the table to estimate total time needed for your proposed program.
To submit a program, you must use the 2005A Phase I tool and include observing constraints, target lists, and instrument configuration information. Export the program to an xml file and EMAIL THE XML FILE directly to email@example.com by October 15, 2004. If you wish your program to be considered for the early October MICHELLE run, you must submit your file by September 24, 2004.
Scientific justifications should be brief and clearly state which modes are being tested. Technical justifications should be complete enough that feasibility can be assessed easily.
PIs seeking Januuary time will be informed of the results of the selection process by November 15, 2004, and Phase II files (using the Observing Tool) for selected programs will need to be completed by December 15.
Disclaimer: Submitting an SV program or even having a SV program selected as high priority does not guarantee that data will be taken. Selection for SV will also be based on the abilities of the proposers to reduce the data and return feedback within a reasonable time. The proprietary period for SV data is two months. PIs and their collaborators will need to provide reduced data for public release.
Please feel free to contact us with questions or comments-- we look forward to hearing from you and reading your proposals.
Scott Fisher (email@example.com) and Tom Geballe (email@example.com)
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Adapting to a Changing Climate
As the scientific consensus concerning climate change is widely understood, there is an increased awareness of the impacts communities need to prepare for. Extreme precipitation events, flooding, drought, and warmer temperatures are the "new normal". These new normal conditions affect important public infrastructure, local economies, public health, and natural resources and will continue to do so throughout New Hampshire. Communities need to plan and prepare for these impacts while we all continue our work to decrease our contribution to a changing climate.
New Hampshire's climate has already changed, and will continue to change over the next several decades. Communities in our state have experienced losses and damages from extreme weather events. Many communities have already begun to adapt to these changing climatic conditions and we all need to continue to do so to ensure that the current and future impacts of climate change do not significantly impact the health of our residents, the strength of our economy, and the character of our natural environment. Adaptation actions need to be evaluated and implemented as necessary. Remember that actions can be implemented in a phased approach; addressing the most vulnerable areas first and planning for future needs.
By preparing for climate change early, communities can avoid significant costs, whether economic, social or ecological. In an effort to plan for future events and develop strategies for adapting to our changing climate, communities are incorporating climate change into their existing planning efforts. A Workgroup of the NH Energy & Climate Collaborative has developed this Adaptation Toolkit that provides communities with a path to take in planning for future extreme weather events.
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Week sixteen of the session is done, we have completed the official calendar but we have not adjourned. The activity level intensified this week as we finally were able to deal with the appropriations bills sent over from the Senate. There is much more to be done. We do not yet have resolution on any of the bills already sent to conference committee: education reform, budget appropriations bills, or property tax reform.
Liability Indemnity for Farmers
Earlier this week the Republicans in the Iowa Senate attempted to attach an amendment to a Senate bill to re-instate our historic indemnity of liability for farm landowners that the Iowa Supreme Court took away in the Sallee vs. Stewart decision. The amendment was defeated on a strict party line vote, all 26 Senate Democrats voted against the amendment to protect Iowa's farm landowners. The House Republicans are still working on coming to resolution to protect our farm landowners, but time is running short and so are our options.
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Throughout my campaign I frequently expressed my support for the right to life for unborn children. The debate over the right to life of an unborn child is, in my view, the civil rights issue of our time. I am confident that the majority of my constituents support that position as well. Within that debate there has been an ongoing nationwide discussion over the use of taxpayer funds for abortions and taxpayer funds being distributed to organizations that provide abortions. Lately, a few states have been successful at finally preventing taxpayer funds from being distributed to organizations that provide abortion along with other family planning services.
Wednesday, May 1, the Iowa House debated and passed Senate File 446 as amended by the House. This is a bill that provides the funding for Iowa's Health and Human Services including distribution of federal Medicaid along with state funds. These appropriations are used for autism treatment, nursing home payments for the indigent elderly, state facilities such as the Iowa Veterans Home, Iowa Juvenile home, the Eldora Juvenile Detention center, and the many other appropriations dealing with Iowa's health care system. This bill also provides funds for family planning services for low income Iowans. The House Republicans inserted language into this bill that will make the necessary restrictions to accomplish the goal of keeping taxpayer funds out of the hands of abortion providers and being used for abortions.
It will not be easy to keep this language in the bill. This effort has been ongoing in the Iowa legislature for years, stymied by the impasse created by a legislature split between the two parties. Now that the House has passed the Health and Human Services appropriation bill it will end up in another joint conference committee. That committee will be charged with recommending a compromise bill that both chambers can accept, setting up for a showdown between the House and Senate on this issue as well as other funding and policy issues.
Closing Comments
My clerk, Tyler Heeren, is done for the session. He will be greatly missed. Tyler did an excellent job of keeping me organized, performing research on bills, and graciously hosting many visitors and giving them tours of the capitol dome. It has been a great pleasure working with Tyler; he's always been very positive, supportive, professional and capable. I commend him highly for his service to me and the people of district 72. Tyler will be seeking summer employment, and hopefully continuing his education by entering law school in the near future.
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Abell, Peter; Felin, Teppo; Foss, Nicolai (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Micro-foundations have become an important emerging theme in strategic management. This paper addresses micro-foundations in two related ways. First, we argue that the kind of macro (or "collectivist") explanation that is utilized in the capabilities view in strategic management - which implies a neglect of micro-foundations - is incomplete. There are no mechanisms that work solely on the macro-level, directly connecting routines and capabilities to firm-level outcomes. While routines and capabilities are useful shorthand for complicated patterns of individual action and interaction, ultimately they are best understood at the micro-level. Second, we provide a formal model that shows precisely why macro explanation is incomplete and which exemplifies how explicit micro-foundations may be built for notions of routines and capabilities and for how these impact firm performance. Keywords: Routines, capabilities, micro-foundations, production function. JEL Code: L2, M1 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7474
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Abstract: We discuss the behaviorist and empiricist foundations of the organizational routines and capabilities literature, specifically the extant emphasis placed on experience, repetition and observation as the key inputs and mechanisms of behavior, learning and change in organizations. Based on this discussion we highlight several concerns associated with specifying experience and repetition as antecedents of routines and capabilities, namely, (1) the problem of origins and causation, (2) the problem of extremes, (3) the problem of intentionality, (4) the problem of new knowledge, and (5) the problem of the environment. We highlight the "poverty of stimulus" argument and more generally discuss how internalist or rationalist, choice-based approach might provide a more fruitful (though preliminary) foundation for extant research on organizational routines and capabilities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7954
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Abstract: We discuss the microfoundations of routines and capabilities, including why a microfoundations view is needed and how it may inform work on organizational and competitive heterogeneity. Building on extant research, we identify three primary categories of micro-level components underlying routines and capabilities: individuals, social processes, and structure and design. We discuss how these components, and their interactions, may affect routines and capabilities. In doing so, we outline a research agenda for advancing the field's understanding of the microfoundations of routines and capabilities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8401
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A Research AgendaFoss, Nicolai J.; Argyres, Nicholas; Felin, Teppo; Zenger, Todd (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: For decades, the literatures on firm capabilities and organizational economics have been at odds with each other, specifically relative to explaining organizational boundaries and heterogeneity. We briefly trace the history of the relationship between the capabilities literature and organizational economics and point to the dominance of a "capabilities first" logic in this relationship. We argue that capabilities considerations are inherently intertwined with questions about organizational boundaries and internal organization, and use this point to respond to the prevalent "capabilities first" logic. We offer an integrative research agenda that focuses, first, on the governance of capabilities and, second, on the capability of governance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8426
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Abstract: Organizational scholars have recently argued that economic theories and assumptions have adversely shaped management practice and human behavior, leading not only to the incorporation of trust-eroding market-mechanisms into organizations but also unnecessarily creating self-interested behavior. A number of highly influential papers have argued that the self-fulfilling nature of (even false) theories provides the underlying mechanism through which economics has adversely shaped not just social science but also management practice and individual behavior. We question these arguments, and argue that there are important boundary conditions to theories falsely fulfilling themselves, boundary conditions that have hitherto been unexplored in organizational research, and boundary conditions which question the underlying premises used by organizational scholars and social scientists to attack economics. We specifically build on highly relevant findings from social psychology, philosophy and organizational economics to show how (1) objective reality and (2) human nature provide two important boundary conditions for theories (falsely or otherwise) fulfilling themselves. We also defend organizational economics, specifically the use of high-powered incentives in organizations, and argue that self-interest (rightly understood) facilitates in creating beneficial individual and collective and societal outcomes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7466
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A prostatectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland. Abnormalities of the prostate, such as a tumor, or if the gland itself becomes enlarged for any reason, can restrict the normal flow of urine along the urethra and may need to be corrected surgically. A prostatectomy may be discussed when a diagnosis of prostate cancer is given. Approaches to this procedure include traditional open surgery, conventional laparoscopic surgery or da Vinci Prostatectomy, which is a robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery.
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A da Vinci Prostatectomy is a robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy performed in a minimally invasive approach. In prostate cancer treatment, millimeters matter. Nerve fibers and blood vessels are attached to the prostate gland. To spare these nerves, they must be delicately and precisely separated from the prostate before its removal. Surgeons use the precision, vision and control provided by da Vinci Surgical System to assist them in removal of the cancerous prostate while preserving important nerves and blood vessels.
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The SOCCKET is a soccer ball with an internal mechanism that turns movement into stored energy that can be accessed through a built in jack. It's marketed as a "FUNctional solution to real-world problems" – specifically the lack of access to reliable electricity and the negative side effects of using kerosene lanterns, diesel generators, and wood-burning stoves. It's garnered a lot of praise and accolades.
Last week I wrote a critical post that kicked at the SOCCKET and its maker Uncharted Play from a number of angles. Among other critiques, I thought that marketing the equivalent of four weakly-rechargeable AA batteries inside a relatively expensive soccer ball as a solution to anything grossly overplays the potential of the ball and misleads investors and buyers about the social impact they get for their money.
Below, Julia C. Silverman, the Co-founder & Chief Social Officer of Uncharted Play responds to my post 'Deflating the SOCCKET ball'. I've already said most of what I wanted to say, but I'd like to hear from you. Is the case for the SOCCKET overinflated? Does Julie adequately defend the SOCCKET's place in the social enterprise playing field? Is this thing a game changer for the poor or just another example of bad aid? Would you invest in the SOCCKET or wish it deflated for good?
Hi Aaron,
As a heads up, some of the copy below is from the email responses I sent earlier this week to Bill Easterly and Seth Gitter. Just want to be transparent here.
At any rate, as co-founder of Uncharted Play and a co-inventor of the SOCCKET, I want to thank you for your interest in, and perhaps more importantly, your critique of our movement. Constructive comments like yours help us to confirm that we are on the right track to creating the maximum positive social impact in communities around the world (and I mean that without irony). As an aside, with regard to the title of your post, I'd like to note that the SOCCKET ball itself cannot be deflated!
I wanted to respond personally to your submission since I, too, come from a background in the social sciences. In fact, prior to launching Uncharted Play, I worked on a team of development economists at the World Bank in the Africa Sustainable Development division following several years of fieldwork on the ground in sub-Saharan Africa. Hence, I am no stranger to the development aid dialogue, both on the international and grassroots levels.
At any rate, the overarching point I'd like to highlight is that Uncharted Play is focused on facilitating FUN and letting kids be kids. This stance – and the very simplicity of what we do – resonates with our partners and fans. Providing SOCCKETs is not just about creating change that numbers can track; it's about letting magic exist in the life of a child.
If it were just about producing as much energy as cost- and time-efficiently as possible (which it seems is the unswerving position of engineers and economists alike), Uncharted Play would be distributing a hand-crank. The big difference is that, unlike a hand-crank, a soccer ball is fun. We are working to distribute a product that emphasizes the joy in life, not something that simply reminds users of what they lack. As you acknowledge in your post, there is nothing particularly joyful about bed nets, deworming pills, bore holes, or even shoes, but the whole point of SOCCKET – it's very essence – is that it's supposed to be fun and exciting.
Further, I'd like to clarify Uncharted Play's business model for the SOCCKET product because this seems to be a particularly sensitive point. We are a social enterprise, not an NGO; we answer to our investors and are kept afloat by revenue, not donations as your post implies (in fact, we only added a contribution page on our site due to overwhelming demand from people wanting to contribute to our movement). Given the distribution of accountability, it would be all too easy for us to simply pay lip service to our social mission while dedicating the bulk of our financial and human resources to sales, marketing, etc.. However, as I mentioned above, this is not the case: we are truly focused on collaborating with communities to implement meaningful, catalytic programs, and – rather than resting on our laurels or focusing strictly on profit – we are taking aggressive action to engage closely with our partners and participants and track outcomes so that we can drive toward maximal positive impact.
Uncharted Play's chief aim for the SOCCKET movement is to sustainably distribute as many of the balls as possible to resource poor communities around the world. In order to deliver the SOCCKETs, build context-relevant curricular programming around the ball, and collect data to monitor and evaluate our impact, we partner with best practice NGOs on the ground in our target areas, such as Instituto Promundo in Brazil, Children International in Mexico, Homeless World Cup in Haiti, and Universidad Pedagogica in El Salvador.
We have devised a unique business model so that we can simultaneously maintain financial sustainability and pursue our social goals. We take a two-pronged approach, which allows us to reach users in developing and, eventually, developed settings.
For our users in disadvantaged communities, corporations and public institutions underwrite the cost of SOCCKET distribution through bulk/wholesale ball purchases. Users (children) "earn" the balls by participating in the programming of our official NGO partners. For those in wealthier areas, SOCCKETs will soon be available for commercial retail on our website (in late 2012/early 2013), and we will aim to expand to an in-store presence during 2013. Revenues from the direct-to-consumer sales stream will go toward our SOCCKET social impact activities. Like you, many people are eager to get a ball of their own!
As you can imagine, we've dealt with the opportunity cost question before (and, given my own background, it's a point I know not to take lightly). That said, I can confirm that, rather than taking funding away from other causes, the SOCCKET is actually attracting investment that would not otherwise come to the sustainable development space. Our corporate partners are wonderful, but they are not development institutions. When they were deciding to work with us, they were evaluating whether to put marketing dollars into SOCCKET sponsorship or into another campaign, not another charity.
We are a new company (just over 1 year old), and we certainly do not have unlimited resources. This has implications for where and how we have implemented our programming thus far. In the near future, we hope to "target failure" by going to countries with limited infrastructure; however, those initiatives will be more expensive to execute and will require more careful planning (e.g., getting in and out of the DRC is no easy task). Moreover, our initial programs in the countries that do not have the so-called "most glaring cases of need" will provide useful guidance in shaping improved technical, logistical, and social impact plans.
Uncharted Play remains extremely sensitive to the potential unintended consequences of our initiatives. We are well aware of the unfortunate fate that befell the PlayPump, and we took measures to make sure play with the SOCCKET will never become a chore for our users. For example, we capped the SOCCKET's power storage capacity so that children would not be forced into "play slavery." Further, we designed the SOCCKET product in collaboration with our end users rather than in a vacuum. Indeed, children's feedback from pilot studies in Mexico, South Africa, El Salvador, Nigeria, and Brazil has been critical as we continue to iterate our technical designs for the SOCCKET.
From the kids' engagement with our prototypes, I can tell you that, even without the ball's energy-generating functionality, the SOCCKET is indeed a "boon" for our users. In the communities where we work (and hope to work), children are used to fashioning make-shift balls from whatever is available, such as a bundle of plastic bags, an empty bottle, or a piece of garbage – I've even seen a brick. Since the SOCCKET is an honest-to-goodness sphere that does not need inflation, cannot be deflated, and lasts multiple years instead of mere weeks, the ball has been very well-received indeed by users.
In terms of the added impact of SOCCKET's energy component, kids have found the product to be truly magical. The response has been universally positive, and variations on the same scene unfold each time we first introduce the ball. First, it's pure joy – and that is before the kids even know there is anything different about the ball. When we actually say that the ball is special, that it can harness energy and power a lamp or a phone, there is always a collective yell of excitement. Then, when we plug in a lamp to demonstrate, the kids' eyes just pop out of their heads, and you can see the wheels beginning to turn. There's a moment of silent amazement, and then, right away, kids start brainstorming their own ideas. "We should make one that has a soda fountain in it!" or "We can make it different colors so it looks like a rainbow when you kick it!". Just seeing a cool idea like the SOCCKET immediately inspires kids to unleash their own imaginations. I certainly think that type of creative inspiration qualifies as a "boon" for our users even if there is no MDG that adequately captures it or tried-and-true metric for recording it.
Thanks again for getting in touch. I hope my responses have helped to illustrate the delicate balance Uncharted Play has worked to achieve as a social enterprise that is both financially sustainable and socially responsible. I say this not as an excuse for any failings you might perceive, but as a call to action for other organizations to follow our example and place social impact as a central objective in their mission and, more critically, their operations.
Keep in touch. I'll make sure my team lets you know when the ball is available 🙂
Cheers – Julia


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Consensus Report
Review of the St. Johns River Water Supply Impact Study: Report 1 (2009)Water Science and Technology Board
Topics: Environmental Quality, Health, and Management Natural Resources and Ecology Water Water Pollution, Water Quality Water Resources Ecosystems Environmental Health Ecological Studies, Environmental Impact Ecological Studies, Environmental Impact River Basins Environmental Management Drinking Water Aquatic Ecology Environmental Management Water Supply and Sanitation
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Key Messages
- It will be important for the District to clearly define the actual distribution and frequency of Phase II sampling,
- Additional water withdrawals may increase the likelihood, duration, and areal extent of water column stratification and bottom water hypoxia in the lower St. Johns River under low-flow conditions, which was not discussed in the Phase I report.
- Amphibians, reptiles, invertebrates, and plants have proven to be valuable indicators of hydrologic impacts to wetlands in monitoring programs and might be considered as indicators in Phase II.
- Based on the modeling results, the change in the average discharge of groundwater following water withdrawal was not predicted to be particularly significant in the middle and upper basins, although the change in chloride flux was predicted to be significant.
- During Phase I, the District predicted that projected future water withdrawals could have dramatic consequences on SAV in some areas, especially where V. americana populations now fluctuate in the lower St. Johns River. Although V. americana presumably could migrate further upstream, there is less shallow water area there, so a net loss of habitat is still expected.
- Experimental studies should be done at as large a spatial scale as possible to avoid artifacts caused by trying to extrapolate results from small sample sizes and small containers to the ambient environment.
- Improved hydrodynamic and hydrologic modeling during Phase II is expected to provide more spatially explicit predictions of the salinity increases in the littoral zone.
- It will be important for the District to assemble basic water and nutrient budget information for the St. Johns River basin and its major subunits.
- More careful analysis in the form of advanced hydrologic and wetland modeling is needed to determine the area to be dewatered as a result of lower water levels, including the timing and duration of dewatering events.
- Nutrient budgets are needed to conduct a credible analysis of the impacts of water withdrawals on algal blooms in the river and especially in the large lakes that constitute major parts of middle portion of the St. Johns River
- SAV is a focus of the WSIS because the proposed surface water withdrawals are likely to exacerbate salinity intrusions in the estuarine portion of the river, which could have detrimental effects on local SAV populations.
- The District should carefully study potential impacts to all fishes in the middle and upper St. John River but particularly those that require shallow areas for spawning and foraging, including but not limited to the centrarchids.
- The District should consider broadening the range of taxonomic groups used in monitoring wetland impacts.
- The Phase I report does not adequately address the type or frequency of additional water quality and biological monitoring data needed to adequately assess the impacts of water withdrawals on TMDLs and plankton.
- The biogeochemistry workgroup identified seven potential effects of additional water withdrawals on biogeochemical processes, all related to the possibility that soil accretion will be reduced and/or oxidation of organic soils will be enhanced in the extensive floodplains of the St. Johns River as a consequence of changes in river stage induced by additional water withdrawals.
- The committee supports the District's commitment to study the effects of water withdrawal on benthic invertebrate communities.
- The district has proposed investigating additional species in the Phase II work plans; however, there is no detail or methodology provided on how the different assemblages presented (e.g., reptiles, amphibians) might be used to indicate impacts.
- The effects of high concentrations of CDOM (that may result from water withdrawals) on phytoplankton ecophysiology were not explored during Phase I, although the biogeochemistry workgroup did consider increased concentrations of CDOM.
- The fish data analyses need to be integrated with other components of the regional biota (e.g., benthos, decapods, SAV) that also may be influenced by salinity shifts.
- The hydrodynamic modelers should have a documented process for determining scenarios and data needs for the other six workgroups.
- The primary goal of the Phase I groundwater modeling was to predict whether discharges of groundwater into the St. Johns River would change if the river stage dropped due to water withdrawals.
- Three of the potential effects were considered to have potentially high significance: (1) reduced nutrient sequestration, (2) increased release of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM), and (3) increased production and reduced sequestration of greenhouse gases produced within inundated organic soils.
About this Report
Authoring Body:Committee to Review the St. Johns River Cumulative Impact Assessment
Primary Board:Water Science and Technology Board
Other Report(s) in this series:Review of the St. Johns River Water Supply Impact Study: Report 2 (2009)
Review of the St. Johns River Water Supply Impact Study: Report 3 (2010)
Review of the St. Johns River Water Supply Impact Study: Final Report (2011)


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I like the commercial; They showed real gameplay and well... the transforming controller takes the cake home.
Dear God, Sony just astonish me with how they can almost always miss the mark with their adverts. Once again, Style over content. I'll always have a Sony console, but they need to advertise properly. Just show actual full screen gameplay and then show two (NORMAL) looking individuals playing it and enjoying it. It's not difficult.
All that advert says is: COD on the Vita. They could do that with a 5 second printed message. The excitement should be demonstrated through the gameplay, not through some guys leaping around.
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Adam Driver: The Girls actor and Emmy nominee, 30, is TV's favorite hipster. Before hitting it big on the HBO series, Driver spent nearly three years in the U.S. Marines shortly after 9/11. He was deployed to Iraq before injuring his sternum in a biking accident and received an honorable medical discharge.
Oscar Isaac: The Golden Globe nominee, 35, showed off his musical chops and earned rave reviews for his performance as a struggling folk singer in Joel and Ethan Coen's 2013 drama Inside Llewyn Davis. Before working as an actor, Isaac played in a band called the Blinking Underdogs.
Domhnall Gleeson: The rising Irish star, 31, may be recognized for playing Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. His father is veteran actor Brendan Gleeson, who also appeared in Harry Potter as Alastor "Mad Eye" Moody. The Tony nominee's big break came last year when he starred in the romantic drama About Time with Rachel McAdams. Moviegoers can see Domhnall in Angelina Jolie's second directorial feature, Unbroken, out in December.
Andy Serkis: As the go-to actor for motion-capture roles (he played Gollum in the Lord of the Rings, the title role in King Kong and Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes), the Brit, 50, is expected to act as a digital shape-shifting creature in the new Star Wars film, which is set 30 years after 1983's Return of the Jedi.
John Boyega: Best known for the 2011 science fiction horror comedy Attack the Block, the 22-year-old newcomer studied at the Identity Drama School in London.
Max von Sydow: The 85-year-old Oscar nominee hails from Sweden and starred in classic films such as The Exorcist and The Seventh Seal. He's also appeared in Minority Report with Tom Cruise, and with Sandra Bullock in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
Daisy Ridley: Virtually an unknown, the young British actress has appeared in several British TV series, including Mr. Selfridge starring Jeremy Piven. According to her agent's website, Ridley is a swimmer, jazz singer and jazz dancer.
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Topic: iOS 6
iOS 8 adoption cracks 80% mark in latest App Store data
04/29/2015, 12:04 pm
Adoption of iOS 8 among iPhone, iPad, and iPod owners is up to 81 percent of active devices, Apple said on Wednesday in the latest update of its App Store distribution data, measuring traffic from April 27.
iOS 7 now installed on 78% of active Apple handheld devices
12/31/2013, 09:12 am
The latest official data from Apple reveals that 78 percent of active iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices are running the company's latest mobile operating system, iOS 7, up four percentage points from earlier this month.
iOS 7 seeing slower uptake than Apple's iOS 6 - report
10/18/2013, 12:10 pm
Apple's redesigned iOS 7 did not experience the same rapid ramp-up in adoption during its first week of availability as its predecessor, iOS 6, new data indicates.
Apple's iOS 7 now accounts for 52 percent of iOS Web share one week after launch
09/25/2013, 05:09 pm
The newest version of iOS is off to a roaring start, with iOS 7 now accounting for more than half of iOS Web traffic across North America, according to one study.
iOS 7 shines as Apple bests Android, Windows Phone in 'user experience shootout'
09/24/2013, 01:09 pm
Following the public release of iOS 7, Apple's newest operating system is thrown into the fire against its strongest competitors in a battery of user experience tests, and coming out on top against Samsung's customized Android build and Microsoft's Windows Phone.
Version distribution of Apple's iOS remains stable ahead of iOS 7 launch
09/09/2013, 08:09 pm
Ahead of an expected Golden Master release of iOS 7, version distribution of Apple's iOS mobile operating system is holding steady from June, with the current iOS 6 on a majority of iPhones and iPads.
Apple now charting App Store iOS fragmentation just like Google's Android
06/20/2013, 07:06 pm
After first announcing that 93 percent of App Store customers are using the latest iOS 6 at WWDC last week, Apple has added the chart to its public developer site, mirroring Google's reporting of Android users in Google Play.
Ahead of iOS 7 reveal, Apple's iOS 6 is on 93% of iPhones
06/06/2013, 03:06 pm
While next week will likely see the introduction of the newest version of iOS, a new study finds that the current version of Apple's mobile operating system is installed on more than 90 percent of all North American iPhones.
Pentagon officially grants security clearance to Apple's iPhone and iPad
05/17/2013, 10:05 am
The U.S. Department of Defense announced on Friday that it has officially approved Apple devices running iOS 6 or later to access its secure government networks.
Samsung's new Wallet app has numerous similarities to Apple's Passbook
02/27/2013, 08:02 am
Samsung on Wednesday introduced a new smartphone application called "Wallet," which bears a striking resemblance to Apple's own Passbook feature.
Apple reportedly rejecting 'cookie tracking' apps in push for its Ad Identifier
02/25/2013, 08:02 pm
Apple is reportedly denying apps that use "cookie tracking" methods from entering the iOS App Store, suggesting that the company may be making a more aggressive move to have developers use its first-party Advertising Identifier technology.
Latest iOS 6.1.3 beta fixes exploit used in Evasi0n jailbreak
02/25/2013, 04:02 pm
The most popular jailbreak in iOS history will come to an end when Apple releases the forthcoming iOS 6.1.3 update, as the new operating system reportedly patches at least one of the exploits used by the untethered liberation tool.
LG ad riffs on Apple's panorama commercial, and expands on it
02/22/2013, 10:02 am
A new ad out from LG pays homage to an Apple ad showing off the iPhone 5's panorama capabilities, right before it skewers the ad by showing the expanded panoramic capabilities of the Optimus G Pro.
Apple to release iOS 6.1.2 to address passcode vulnerability by February 20 -report
02/15/2013, 09:02 am
Apple is already working on an update to iOS 6 to address a dangerous passcode vulnerability discovered earlier in the week, with one report claiming that the company anticipated issuing the update as early as next week.
Evasi0n 'jailbreaks' 7M iOS devices, update already available for iOS 6.1.1
02/12/2013, 06:02 pm
The Evad3rs team on Tuesday rolled out an update for the Evasi0n untethered jailbreak tool, fixing bugs found in the initial software while adding support for the Apple's iOS 6.1.1 mobile operating system just one day after its release.
Apple releases iOS 6.1.1 for iPhone 4S owners to address battery, 3G issues
02/11/2013, 03:02 pm
Apple on Monday released iOS 6.1.1 to address a number of bugs for iPhone 4S owners who recently ran into a handful of issues following the release of iOS 6.1 for all of Apple's mobile devices.
Apple's first beta of iOS 6.1.1 aims to strengthen Maps in Japan
02/06/2013, 01:02 pm
Apple on Wednesday released the first beta of iOS 6.1.1 with a clear focus on improving its much-criticized Maps application, specifically in regards to turn-by-turn navigation in Japan.
iOS 6 jailbreak arrives; URL detection bug crashes most OS X apps
02/04/2013, 02:02 pm
Hackers on Monday released a long-awaited untethered software "jailbreak" of Apple's iOS 6. Separately, a newly discovered bug causes most Mountain Lion applications to crash by typing in just 8 characters.
01/28/2013, 07:01 pm
With the release of iOS 6.1 on Monday, Apple addressed a potentially serious bug introduced in iOS 6 that would override a user's Mobile Safari JavaScript settings after visiting a webpage with a so-called "Smart App Banner."
Apple seeds fifth iOS 6.1 beta version to developers
01/26/2013, 12:01 am
Apple on Saturday released a fifth iOS 6.1 beta to developers, continuing the testing phase of the company's mobile OS that will bring users a number of features, including enhanced mapping options and Siri-integration, when it launches later this year.


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Ken-Mac Metals, a division of ThyssenKrupp Materials NA, Inc., has ordered a precision multiblanking line from Red Bud Industries, Red Bud, IL. The new line will process stainless steel, aluminum and prepainted materials at the Ken-Mac service center in Kansas City, MO. It will include the Red Bud precision grip-feed system and a CNC programmable slitter, and will produce blanks with width and length tolerances of ±0.005 in. An automatic strip-divider positioning system will automatically set up the dividers in the strip stacker as the operator sets up the slitting head.
Ken-Mac will employ the line to process coils weighing as much as 50,000 lb. at widths to 72 in. and in sheet thickness to 0.135 in.
Red Bud Industries: 800/851-4612; www.redbudindustries.com
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I definitely don't support this couple, but the thought was cute, hmhm. <3 I haven't drawn anything for candybooru in a while, it was fun sketchin' characters that aren't mine again. :V
MikeXDaisy... Oh why can't it be so?
Gaww... :3
mike with a blue scarf
that daisy is a spy!
Question is, what is she doing with her other hand.
holding onto him dearly one would assume
People need to chill, this is so adorable, I luv the hair you kinda added to Daisy and Mike loox so sweet. X3 his hannnd, omg. You're such an awesome artist, draw more, plzz! I love your other works, too. :3
cuuuute! i miss your drawings on the booru
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So says Kirsten Powers in the Daily Beast. Forget Republicans and Democrats, the center-left commentator writes — this election is about Baby Boomers vs everyone else in America. Mitt Romney has chosen the first major-ticket representative of what Powers calls The Screwed Generation, and Ryan may be their last hope to keep from falling into economic servitude to the Boomers for life:
Unfortunately, the future looks as bleak for today's young people. No amount of coddling by their well-provided-for Boomer parents can save Generation Y and the Millennials from the dire economic conditions they face, including criminal levels of educational debt. Pensions have gone the way of the horse and buggy. You want to retire with health-care benefits, as both my professor parents did? Good luck. As the 1994 movie turned Gen-X mantra has it: Reality Bites.
Generation X chronicler Jeff Gordiner, has written that Gen-Xers suffer from "athazagoraphobia"—"an abnormal and persistent fear of being forgotten or ignored." Except it's not really a phobia; it's been reality for a long time. Maybe that is about to change.
Enter Ryan. While Democrats attack his Medicare plan as "radical" and portray him as pushing granny off the cliff, young people don't seem to be buying this caricature. Or maybe "radical" is what they want. …
Jon Cowan, the CEO of the centrist think tank Third Way told me, "Ryan is doing the country a huge service by putting this on the table." Cowan is the former founder of Lead or Leave, a Gen X group that gained prominence in the 1990s as it rang the alarm bells for reducing the deficit and dealing with entitlements. He doesn't believe Ryan's plan is the best way to reform Medicare, though he concedes that it is a serious plan. He cautions that Democrats may find themselves in political peril in the next 10 years if they don't come up with a substantive alternative plan. He says, "There are a lot of younger voters who say of the Ryan plan, 'at least I get something… at least there is a plan'. If you don't get in there and offer a plan you give up the high ground on policy."
Yes, our expectations for government benefits when we retire have been lowered so much that the idea that we would get anything at all seems like a bonanza. Ryan's plan also seems a lot less scary when you consider that his partner on it is the liberal Oregon Senator Ron Wyden.
It's not just Zogby's numbers that back Powers' argument. Survey USA polled registered voters in Florida, where Ryan's addition to the ticket supposedly spelled doom for Romney in a state heavy with current retirees. Surprisingly, Ryan polled best among seniors — and almost as good with voters under 35. On the key question of whether Ryan made voters more or less likely to vote for Mitt Romney, Ryan was a +15 overall at 57/42 among those whose minds were changed at all. Among seniors, it's a +28 (64/36), but among those under 35, it's +28 at 62/36, and this demographic had the highest percentage of mind-changing by far at 30% (14% of seniors changed their mind with the Ryan pick). That's a direct challenge to Obama's base of voter enthusiasm.
That's why I write today in my column for The Fiscal Times that Romney's gamble on Ryan is already paying off, both in polling and in the direction of the debate:
Romney took a big gamble with Ryan in two ways – in betting that Obama wouldn't take the challenge for a substantive debate, and that voters will know the difference. A few days later, it's clear that Romney won the first bet, and is at least ahead on the second. …
That still left the risk that Obama would take the gauntlet flung down by Romney's selection of Ryan and go toe-to-toe with Romney in a debate between supply-side and populist economics. In times of economic hardship, populism sells, as politicians well know, mainly because of its simplistic division of haves and have-nots as the basis for redistributive policies. As the Associated Press acknowledged yesterday (and many of us have argued since the first Recovery Summer in 2010), we have the worst post-World War II economic recovery in US history in nearly every category, which means that the populist One Percenter populism which Obama has fed since last year might still have life left within it.
That risk still exists, but at least from the way Obama and Joe Biden have reacted to Ryan's appointment, it has faded considerably. Has Team Obama taken up the gauntlet and offered a rebuttal to Romney's view of government? Hardly. On Tuesday of this week, ABC's Jake Tapper reported from three separate events [note: now four times — Ed] that the President of the United States was reduced to talking about Seamus The Roof Riding Dog, a story dug up from a 1983 Romney family vacation, as an argument for his re-election. The super-PAC run by his former White House media staffer "accidentally" had its controversial ad run in Ohio, which strongly implied that Romney caused the cancer-related death of a laid-off steelworker's spouse.
That was hardly the worst of it, though. On the same day, the Vice President spoke to a crowd in Danville, Virginia about Romney's plan to unleash Wall Street from all regulation. Speaking to a crowd with a significant number of African-American voters, Biden slipped into a Southern cant to warn them that "they goin' to put y'all back in chains." When confronted about Biden's race-baiting, the Obama campaign refused to apologize, claiming that the Romney campaign took the remark out of context.
Clearly, the incumbents have no desire to engage Romney and Ryan in a serious debate. Romney's big all-in raise with Ryan has now made that crystal clear.
Actually, in my column I explain why shifting to a larger scope of the structure of the federal budget, entitlements, and staggering unfunded liabilities wasn't really that big of a gamble — and how sticking to just jobs and the economy may have been a bigger risk. Be sure to read the whole thing.
This race is far from over. However, the disarray in Team Obama to Ryan's entry into the race makes it clear that Romney has won the first round in this high-stakes move, and it may keep paying dividends all the way to the election.
Update: Gary Gross has more thoughts on KP's essay. And thanks to Jack Fowler for linking my column at The Corner with some kind words about my argument why it wasn't all that much of a gamble.


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Gunshots were fired in three separate incidents across West Yorkshire over Christmas.
Detectives say they are "very concerned" following the trio of firearms discharges from the early hours of Christmas Eve on Saturday.
The first shots were fired in Shipley and a man was injured, but not seriously according to police, in Market Square at 4am on Christmas Eve.
In the second incident, a man wearing a Spiderman mask got out of a vehicle and fired shots at a grey Mercedes at 3.10pm on Saturday at Harpe Inge, Huddersfield.
And officers were on Christmas Day called to Sackville Street, Bradford, at 4.10am after an assault.
While police were on scene speaking to the victim, a gun was fired at a marked police car, damaging its windscreen.
The three incidents are not thought to be linked but police say they are treating them all seriously.
Assistant Chief Constable, Russ Foster, said: "We are very concerned about this recent increase in firearms related incidents and are appealing directly to the community to help us bring those people responsible to justice.
"In each of the incidents we have immediately deployed armed officers to the scene to offer protection to victims and to provide reassurance to law-abiding members of the public looking to enjoy the Christmas period.
"Detectives from the Homicide and Major Enquiry Team are investigating each incident to see exactly what has happened and have been working closely with colleagues in the Bradford and Kirklees districts to carry out thorough and professional investigations and exploit every opportunity to bring the perpetrators to justice.
"It is vital therefore that the communities we serve feel reassured that, despite this recent spate of gun related crime, the chances of becoming a victim of such an incident in West Yorkshire are very low. It is also important that anyone with any information, no matter how big or small, about any firearms related incident comes forward with it.
"This includes information about illegally held firearms which we can then take off the streets and stop them getting into the wrong hands. In January this year we held a weapons surrender during which 80 guns were handed in. That's 80 guns that can now never fall into the hands of people who could cause harm with them and its timely that we repeat the same weapons surrender in the early New Year".
Anyone with with information is asked to call police on 101.
Alternatively, people can also call the independent crime fighting charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.


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