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A New Editor Cannot Save the Washington Post
The flagship paper of The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) dumped its chief editor, Marcus Brauchli, formerly of The Wall Street Journal, and replaced him with the editor of an even more troubled paper, the Boston Globe, currently owned by The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT). Martin Baron ran the Globe during a period when the Times, concerned about deep losses, nearly sold it and was forced to sharply cut costs. Baron has no chance to halt what is likely to be a last-ditch effort to make the Post highly profitable again. If his past is any indication, he could not be a worse selection.
Brauchli left because of disagreements with publisher Katharine Weymouth, who likely holds her job because she is related to the Graham family, which controls the parent company. The fact that the paper has decided to bring in Baron signals that Post management believes he will be more cooperative, which is too bad. The Post needs a counterweight to balance decisions that would harm its reputation, if that reputation is to be to some extent based on job cuts, particularly in the newsroom.
The Globe posted a slight increase in circulation in the most recent period measured by the industry standard, the Audit Bureau of Circulations. But the circulation of the print paper dropped 6% on Sunday and 9% daily. The New York Times announced that for the ABC period, "The Globe has 26,000 digital-only subscribers to BostonGlobe.com, which launched in October 2011, as of the end of the third quarter of this year." The number is small enough to be meaningless. Buried in the third-quarter announcement for The New York Times Company is the actual performance for The New England Media Group - primarily Globe properties. Over the first nine months of the year, advertising revenue dropped 7.8% to $132.7 million. Circulation revenue fell 2.1% to $116.2 million. In both cases, the numbers trailed that performance of The New York Times, based on percentage change.
The Post's recent financial performance is an indication that Brauchli has been a good steward of the paper, at least financially. The parent company announced that:
Newspaper publishing division revenue totaled $137.3 million for the third quarter of 2012, down 4% from revenue of $143.5 million for the third quarter of 2011
Revenue generated by the Company's newspaper online publishing activities, primarily washingtonpost.com and Slate, increased 13% to $26.9 million for the third quarter of 2012, versus $23.8 million for the third quarter of 2011
Not many newspapers can brag about that level of digital success.
It is a mistake to believe that new editors are the key to reversing the falling tide of newspaper fortunes, even assuming that the editors who join are substantially better than those who leave. The record shows that Baron's record is not as good as Brauchli's, and may be considerably worse.
The Post, and all other major dailies, have a simple decision to make. They can either post very low margins, or losses, and serve readers as they do now, or they can sharply cut costs and hope that digital paywalls may add revenue to make up for print sales declines. So far, that formula has only worked well at few papers, which include The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The same effort did not work at the Globe under Baron. A change in editors at the Post will not alter the nature of its severe problems. It will only paper them over briefly.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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Página 116 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Página 324 - For the mystery of iniquity doth already work ; only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way ; and then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming...
Página 344 - And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent : and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail ; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Página 47 - For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth ; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Página 354 - I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the ^bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. " And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled; &nd.
Página 48 - The like figure whereunto even Baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God) by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ...
Página 350 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth : he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Página 175 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Página 323 - But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ; Thy walls are continually before me.
Página 270 - Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law ; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool : but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

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Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops and delivery of data over the cloud.
The graphics company Tuesday announced improvements to its VGX technology, which virtualizes the GPU and makes it a resource that can be shared with CPUs and memory in servers. Hardware and software improvements to VGX will allow a graphics board to deliver multiple virtual desktops. Previously, VGX could deliver only one virtual machine per graphics board.
Virtualization enables efficient use of server resources in a distributed computing environment and GPUs could help cut electric bills through fast delivery of virtual desktops. GPUs are considered faster than CPUs in some cases and are used in some of the world's fastest computers for complex calculations, as well as by Web browsers for faster graphics rendering. Virtualizing graphics processors could enable servers to deliver games over the cloud and make high-performance resources available to remote users.
Nvidia worked with virtualization company Citrix to make improvements at the hypervisor, driver and hardware levels, said Sanford Russell, director of Grid marketing at Nvidia. The VGX improvements will work only with Citrix's Xen products, including XenServer and XenApp. Ultimately, Nvidia hopes to bring the VGX improvements to virtualization technologies from VMware and Microsoft, but Russell could not provide a specific date on when that may happen.
Graphics processors from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices are already being used for virtualization, with server makers Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM offering servers designed for the hyperscale environment. But the virtual desktop user sessions were shorthanded by limited resources.
The updates to VGX will deploy virtual desktops running full Windows 7 and users will be able to run multiple applications in each session, Russell said.
"What we are delivering is a true PC experience," Russell said.
The Nvidia Grid K1 graphics board, which has four graphics processors and 16GB of DDR3 memory, will be able to support up to 32 virtual machines simultaneously. The Grid K2 board, which has two graphics processors and 8GB of GDDR5 memory, will be able to support up to eight VMs. The virtual machines will be able to tap into on-board DirectX 11 support to boost multimedia performance.
The graphics processors are based on Nvidia's latest Kepler architecture and the boards have independent schedulers and memory management units to handle virtual-machine deployment. VGX enables GPUs to skip CPU cycles and to directly deploy and manage virtual machines.
Virtualization is key in rendering cloud services via GPUs, but the VGX improvements could be ahead of their time, said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research.
"This is overkill for what people need and not everyone will make use of the resource," McGregor said.
Nvidia is offering a new set of server products and graphics boards under the brand name Grid as the company connects GPUs to the growing number of virtualization and cloud deployments. Nvidia offers the Grid Visual Computing Appliance (VCA), which does server-side processing of multimedia and other applications for cloud-based delivery to virtual desktops on thin clients, PCs or tablets. The company has also partnered with server makers IBM and Dell to offer GPU-rich Grid servers. Nvidia also said Cisco will start shipping the VGX Grid server called UCS C240 M3 starting this month.
But GPUs are already becoming more practical in servers with gaming going online and more applications being written using parallel programming tools like OpenCL and CUDA, McGregor said.
Servers deal with different types of workloads and GPUs still require CPUs to function in distributed computing environments. Instructions to the GPU are funnelled through the CPU.
"Using [GPUs] as a processor architecture in the cloud is no different than using a [CPU] or custom processor," McGregor said.
Nvidia and AMD are designing chips and establishing open standards that make GPUs a more accessible resource. The AMD-led HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation has introduced a uniform memory architecture called HUMA, which will make different memory types accessible to all processors. Nvidia's next graphics processor called Maxwell, which is due next year, will also pool together CPU and GPU memory.
Technologies like VGX make GPUs more relevant in server environments, McGregor said.
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In conventional combat aircraft, the target generally needs to be in both the pilot's field of vision and within the sights of the plane itself. That is, the plane needed to be pointed in the general direction of whatever you're shooting at. But in the case of the new Eurofighter Typhoon, pilots can squeeze off a few Sidewinders at bogies incoming from any direction thanks to a super helmet that links their eyes to the plane's electronic brain.
All those bumps on the back of the helmet are IR LED tracking lights. A three-sensor system above the pilot's head follows the orientation of the LEDs, understanding it as the angle and direction the pilot is looking. Both the plane's exterior sensors and weapon systems follow the pilot's gaze in real-time, allowing him to spot, track, lock onto, and fire upon incoming fighter craft and missiles using just his eyes and a few voice commands.
What's more, information gathered by the plane's external sensors along with vital performance data—speed, heading, altitude—can be projected directly onto the pilot's visor. This appears as a 40 degree, fully overlapped, binocular display. Additional pertinent information from local command can also be piped in.
And then there's the X-ray vision. It's not as good as Superman's but it's still better than any other targeting system available today.
1. The Typhoon's nose-mounted radar detects an enemy aircraft hidden from the pilots view by his fuselage.
2. The system alerts the pilot and projects an image of the enemy onto his visor as he tilts his head down to see it. This is accomplished using the head-tracking LEDs.
3. The pilot can then issue a voice command to engage the automated weapons system tracking.
4. And if another bogie appears over his shoulder while he's closing in on the first target, the pilot simply has to look at the second enemy and issue the voice-command to track it. He can even prioritize between the targets before giving them both barrels.
"This is a major advance in terms of combat capability and is something that gives Typhoon pilots a significant advantage when it comes to air combat," said Mark Bowman,Chief Test Pilot in a press statement.
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard-delta wing fighter jet developed by Germany, the UK, Italy and Spain over the past three decades and has been in service since 2003. The latest iteration of the plane, the €90 million Tranche 3, which features this new helmet system, is undergoing final testing and will begin rolling out to airfields across Europe (and some parts of the Middle East) later this year. [Defence Talk - Wikipedia 1, 2 - BAE Systems 1, 2]


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June 29, 2008
Export Data from Google's Services
* iGoogle lets you download the list of gadgets, feeds, themes and their corresponding options if you go to the settings page and scroll down to the "Export / Import" section. The resulting XML file can be imported to another Google account and those who are familiar with XSLT could covert iGoogle's data file to OPML, so you can subscribe to the feeds in Google Reader or any other feed reader.
* Google Calendar has options to export your calendars one by one as iCal files, but it's much easier to export all the calendar you created by going to: http://www.google.com/calendar/exporticalzip.
* Google Docs lets you export your documents as an archive of HTML files and images. To export your files, restrict the Docs list to documents, select all the files and choose "Save as HTML (zipped)" from "More actions". Zoho can already import your documents and there's a Greasemonkey script that helps you download all the files from Google Docs, not just the documents.
* Blogger added in the experimental version available at draft.blogger.com an option to export the posts and comments from your blogs as an Atom feed. Hopefully, developers will write scripts that convert Blogger's feeds to the formats accepted by other blogging services.
* Google Bookmarks can be exported as a HTML file, but for some reason browsers can no longer import the bookmarks. The web history or search history can be exported as a RSS feed: http://www.google.com/history/lookup?q=&output=rss&num=1000 (replace 1000 with the number of items you want to export).
* Gmail lets you export your contacts as CSV or vCard, but Google automatically adds all the people you send a reply in the list of contacts.
It would be nice to export all your data from a single page, so you can delete a Google account or switch to a competing service without losing your data.
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- AnonymousJune 29, 2008 at 10:19 AM
What about Google Notebook?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Being able to download your Google Talk chat history would be helpful too...ReplyDelete
Reader lets you export your subscriptions in OPML, too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Last I checked the max number of bookmarks you can get from the rss feed is 1000. If you want more than that you need to make multiple calls, changing &start=0 to something else like &start=1000ReplyDelete
How about Gmail?ReplyDelete
To download your GMAIL, set up POP or IMAP (recommended) access in your GMail account(s). Then use an email client such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird (recommended) to download all your mail. Mac users can use Apple's Mail which is built in. After downloading all your mail, you can use your chosen client to export it to whatever format you wish.
I'm waiting to be able to export my Custom Search Engine list. There are many times when I wish to review the list, but Google's display options are not adequate.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2008 at 8:01 PM
FYI: Firefox 3 imports Google Bookmarks just fine. It just uses folders instead of tags.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 30, 2008 at 10:32 PM
importing gmail is not perfect, like, you couldn't download chat, and i've already tried everything,sending chat to inbox, marking as unread, marking as specified label, etcReplyDelete
otherr thing we MUST need is export to google analyticis
- AnonymousJuly 2, 2008 at 5:34 PM
I use Google Docs since it was Writely. I always wanted to have a webdav like environment to manage my docs from any computer.ReplyDelete
This way, it could really be portable, using offline suites like OpenOffice or MS Office to edit and manage documents and folders hosted on Google servers.
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2008 at 11:34 AM
I just finished up a greasemonkey script for exporting notebooks to atom or html in the same sort of way you do it for google docs.
how about Google App Engine?ReplyDelete
People who want to download "Google/gmail chat history" can have a look at "How to do that", without use of any softwareReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 28, 2010 at 9:33 AM
The link referenced by CandorZ is ok, but the exports do not include dates and in my case has some strange characters included as well. This lack of a clean export utility by google is annoying. I need chat history for my fiance visa application and google chat is the worse choice.ReplyDelete
Yahoo, MSN, skype, these were all very easy to get by comparison.
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2011 at 8:36 AM
or you can use this - https://snapshottool.comReplyDelete


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BEIJING (REUTERS) - Chinese police have detained 1,094 people and rescued 382 infants in a nationwide crackdown on four online baby trafficking rings, state media said on Friday, as criminals prey on citizens yearning to escape strict population curbs.
Child trafficking is widespread in China, where population control rules have bolstered a traditional bias for sons, seen as the support of elderly parents and heirs to the family name, and led to the abortion, killing or abandonment of girls.
About 118 boys are born for every 100 girls in the world's most populous country, against a global average of 103 to 107 boys per 100 girls.
The imbalance has created criminal demand for kidnapped or bought baby boys, as well as baby girls destined to be brides attracting rich dowries in sparsely populated regions.
"Child traffickers have now taken the fight online, using 'unofficial adoption' as a front," state news agency Xinhua quoted an unidentified police official as saying. "They are well-hidden and very deceptive."
The traffickers used websites with names such as "China's Orphan Network" and "Dream Adoption Home", highlighting a trend of online deals that make it harder to hunt down the criminals, Xinhua added.
But it did not say what steps authorities were taking to reunite the rescued babies with their parents.
In a separate article, Xinhua warned parents to guard against kidnappers who could pose as nurses in hospitals or lie in wait outside school gates to bundle unsuspecting children into vans or speed off with them on motorbikes.
Last month a Chinese court handed down a suspended death sentence for a doctor who sold seven newborns to human traffickers in a case that sparked public anger.
Zhang Shuxia, 55, an obstetrician in north-western Shaanxi province, was found guilty of selling the babies for as much as 21,600 yuan (S$4,458) each between 2011 and 2013, the court said.
Last year, China, which has a population of about 1.4 billion, said it would ease family restrictions, letting millions of families have two children, in the country's most significant liberalisation of its strict one-child policy in about three decades.


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TLC began its life as The Learning Channel, and that's where the acronym comes from. Nowadays it's anything but a learning channel, mostly dealing in reality shows, the weirder the better. And what do those shows teach us about women?
Well, women should have lots of children, lots. This is true of two of the TLC shows, including the show about the Duggars with nineteen children: Nineteen Kids and Counting.
Add to that a new show about a polygamous family: Sister Wives. This one consists of one Mormon husband with three wives and a bride. It looks like TLC believes that women should have both lots and lots children but only a fraction of a husband.
Should we take these lessons seriously? After all, reality shows of the type TLC specializes in are supposed to be about unusual families. But note that none of the TLC shows are about polyandry or about truly egalitarian marriages.
What unites the TLC shows about the Duggars and about polygamy is that they are about religious fundamentalist families. Such families do not believe in the equality of men and women in marriage, even though the TLC shows tend to skate over that fact. The reason Michele Duggar has nineteen children is not some accident: She is following a religious imperative of the Quiverfull movement to have as many children as possible. The reason some Mormon women* agree to (illegal) polygamy is because their religion requires that.
Do the TLC shows address this? Do they cover the negative aspects of these living arrangements? Even non-feminists might wonder how the polygamous Mormon families can justify The Lost Boys: the extra males which have to be thrown out with the trash if the community is to remain polygamous. Likewise, even non-feminists might wonder if aiming at having nineteen children is the best thing for a woman's health or even the best thing for those children. Indeed, both of these shows would give good examples of families where the role of the father must be stretched over a very large number of children. Does any of this get criticized in the shows?
My impression is that the shows are pretty much cheer-leading for the lifestyles of these religious extremists. Everyone is happy! Having nineteen children is great and doable on just your average single-earner income! Training your daughters to dream of nothing but childbirth is just dandy! Having lots of sister wives causes no jealousy, no competition for the husband's affections or time, no quarrels at all! These are happy families.
Try to think some suitable reversals by replacing "women" in this discussion with some other demographic group, and you might notice how very anti-women's-rights these shows are:
In the TLC program, the Duggars are portrayed as a wholesome American family who just happen to have a lot of kids; in one episode we see their resourcefulness as they shop for baby clothes at a thrift store. Absent from the screen, and smoothed over in the public representation of the "Baby Conference" (as well as in much of the homeschool movement in which the Duggars work with Phillips and Vision Forum) is the specter of biblical patriarchy, which is completely at odds with contemporary notions about the roles and the rights of women.
Biblical patriarchy or Mormon patriarchy. Either way, it's patriarchy, and it is indeed at odds with contemporary notions about the roles and the rights of women.
This video shows how very differently polyandry is treated in the media:
*As a commenter points out, this applies not to Mormons in general but to the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints sect.
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BEDFORD, Va. – A driver has been convicted of animal cruelty and fined $100 after Virginia authorities found a goat stuffed in the trunk of her car.
Bedford County sheriff's deputies discovered the goat bound and in the trunk during a drunken driving checkpoint in June.
Fiona Ann Enderby of Washington, D.C., told police she bought the goat from a farmer to give to four passengers in her car, who are from Kenya but reside in Lynchburg in central Virginia. The goat was panting heavily and animal control officers say the temperature in the trunk was 94 degrees.
The goat is now living at a Bedford County farm.
Information from: The Roanoke Times, http://www.roanoketimes.com


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Solidarity fund
The EI Solidarity Fund was established to assist member organisations in emergencies such as natural disasters, famine, war, persecution or other life-threatening situations. The assistance provided by the EI Solidarity Fund has been used mainly for short-term relief to help ensure the survival of organisations and their members.
The Fund, established with voluntary contributions from member organisations and administered by the EI Secretariat, represents a visible example of solidarity between teachers around the world. Natural and man-made disasters that threaten the lives of teachers and their families call for our solidarity through the delivery of immediate and effective assistance.
At the EI World Congress in 1998, the role of the Solidarity Fund was extended to providing financial support for development cooperation activities with member organisations in developing countries. The decision of the EI Congress opened the way for the Fund to not only be reactive to emergency situations, but to also be pro-active by cooperating with teacher organisations in developing countries and countries in transition. The Congress also decided that EI and its member organisations should be invited to allocate 0.7% of their annual income to this work. EI contributes 0.7% of its annual income to the Solidarity Fund.
Education is one of the most important tools for combatting poverty and terrorism, and for establishing democratic political systems. As an international trade union organisation, EI is duty-bound to ensure that colleagues in member organisations are able to carry out their professional role, even in life-threatening situations.
EI prioritises assisting education unions and unionists, and on extending emergency support to unions through capacity-building over short or longer periods.
All member organisations are invited to contribute to the Fund on an annual basis, according to their means. These contributions make it possible for EI to react immediately to organize and coordinate assistance to colleagues in the most efficient and appropriate ways.
In addition, as stated above, a resolution that mandates EI to allocate 0.7% of its annual budget to the Solidarity Fund was passed by the 2nd World Congress in 1998.
Specific appeals for additional contributions are also made to member organisations from time to time, to assist member organisations affected by major unforeseen disasters. Some member organisations donate the budget they would normally spend on Christmas Cards to the EI Solidarity Fund.
The Fund is maintained in a special interest-bearing account that is separate from other EI accounts. In some cases, the amount of funds collected exceed the capacity of EI and beneficiary unions to implement activities. In such cases, if the funds have not been spent after a period of 3 years, the EI General Secretary may decide to reallocate them to another solidarity project.
The Fund is subject to an external audit, which is published separately in the financial report to the EI World Congress.
To obtain assistance from the Fund, member organisations must make a request for assistance, outlining the purpose for which the assistance will be used, listing the proposed recipients, describing the activities proposed as part of the effort, as well as the monitoring and evaluation processes foreseen. The EI General Secretary then decides to allocate funds on the basis of the information provided, and in accordance with the principles of the Fund. The EI General Secretary reports on the Fund to the EI Finance Committee and to the EI Executive Board.
Recipients of funds from the Fund must provide a report to EI head office on the use of the funds allocated. These reports are sent to EI member organisations on an annual basis.


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text: Mike Morgan Photography / Washington DC Photographer / Maryland Photographer / Virginia Photographer My passion is creating memorable portraits and images that embody the heroism, vulnerability or humor of my subjects: evoking the sense of pride that comes from hard work, the courage of choosing to be an individual. I grew up on California's Central Coast and came east for college, but deeply identify with my roots: I've always felt the landscapes and solitude of places like Big Sur run through my work and have indelibly informed the way I look at the world, within the camera and without. I very much love what I do and though I'm based in the Baltimore/Washington DC region, I will travel anywhere for an interesting and challenging campaign. My clients will get images that bring a fresh and creative look to their publication, pictures with an edge. I live on Kent Island in the Chesapeake Bay. When I'm not at work I can be found hiking with a stack of good books. Partial Client List:AARPAllstateArchitect MagazineBaltimore MagazineBP SolarBritish TelecomBuzzFeedChesapeake Bay FoundationCitigroupConsumer Reports MagazineDe StandaardESPN the MagazineFast Company MagazineFruit of the LoomGarden & Gun MagazineGoethe-InstitutGoogleGuardian Weekend UKHGTVHSBCIndiviorInstitutional Investor MagazineJohns Hopkins UniversityKey BankMaryland Food BankMeyer FoundationNational Minority AIDS CouncilNavy SEALSNeustarNikeNorthwest AirlinesNPRPBSPBS NewsHourPeople MagazinePhiladelphia MagazinePsychology Today MagazineSan Francisco MagazineSHAPE MagazineShell ChemicalsSmithsonianSouthern Poverty Law CenterSpaldingStanford UniversityUnited States Naval AcademyUSA Today Weekend MagazineUSAAUS LacrosseVerizonWall Street JournalWashington Post MagazineWashingtonian MagazineWorth Magazine


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For all the boasting Donald Trump and his campaign made, they have still not released the speaker's lineup list for the Republican National Convention, NBC News reported.
The campaign has not responded to repeated requests about the list and when it will in fact be released, but despite their silence about who will address the thousands of delegates, reporters and politicos who descend on Cleveland next week and the millions watching from home, several speakers themselves have confirmed their participation.
So far, we know of 14 speakers who will make remarks at the convention in Cleveland, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Mitch McConnell. Click through to find out who else will speak at the RNC.


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Performance mufflers reduce exhaust back pressure and improve the sound of your truck's engine. Restore your truck's horsepower, reduce its emissions, and pass smog inspections with a new catalytic converter. Long and short-tube exhaust headers improve your engine's power and performance. Customize the most visible part of your truck's exhaust with polished, chrome, or black exhaust tip. Improve the throttle response from your turbocharged engine with a new turbo downpipe. Performance Y-Pipes and Mid-Pipes offer improved power and exhaust tone for both on and off-road trucks.


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- Post a photo (or two or three) of your books to-be-read
- Share your buying or book accumulating habits - how bad of a problem do YOU have?!?!?
- Do you keep all the books you've read, or do you give them away or sell them?
- Can you walk past a bookstore and not go in? If you go in, do you impulsively purchase?
First of all, I would not classify myself as a hoarder. I am too fond of organization and clutter-free environments to allow myself to go that far. I am not a very sentimental person either, so I will often go through phases where I need to "toss and pitch" various items in the house in order to give myself more breathing room.
I have never been much for collections. In high school I toyed with the idea of collecting unicorns, but that didn't last long. I do tend to collect postcards when I travel, but those are easily stored and serve a practical purpose. My mom used to collect angels for years and years...and while I have always enjoyed her angel room, my first thoughts tend to run towards, "How do you keep all of those knick-knacks dusted?" So no, I do not tend to collect, or hoard, or stash away.
I would occasionally allow myself to browse through the new releases, but I was hesitant to spend money on a hardback book that I was not sure I would enjoy. Ah...but then all of you came to my rescue!
You would review all of these new books in such a way that I not only knew that I would like the book - but I absolutely had to have the book right now! I would read your back posts and discover "new" books of two or three or five years ago that I also had to have. I would take notes on your posts and write down any mention of books that you found similar to the one being reviewed. I would write down new-to-me authors and then research their oeuvre, knowing that if they wrote a series, I would have to start with the first one.
A Novel Challenge. This opened up another door for me to expand my literary horizons and add to my overflowing shelves. You have such a way of exciting the reader in me, that I simply cannot say no. I am somehow intrigued by challenges that focus on genres that I normally do not care for: The Once Upon a Time Challenge (fantasy has always been difficult for this realist to grasp) - the Graphic Novel Challenge (still difficult for me, but I continue to persevere); and I am hypnotized by challenges that are tailor-made for my reading interests: Everything Austen and RIP are the first ones that come to mind. Joining these challenges causes the TBR list to expand exponentially!
Now the positive side of all this book lust is that my family is never at a loss for what to buy me for Christmas, Birthday, Mother's Day, etc. A gift card to any bookstore will always yield squeals of delight and hours of enjoyment.
To give you an idea of how much my personal collection has grown over these past few months - view the photos of my bookshelves taken in February, 2009, and compare them to the photos here. I may not be a hoarder - yet - but I do have an obsession. So much so that I did a search for used bookstores in Chicago before we left town. I discovered that there is a Powell's in Chicago - as well as Myopic Books. Not quite sure my husband had planned on making those kind of scenic stops on this anniversary weekend!


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I would like to know how software updates work for my Ubuntu Server 10.10.
I have been recommended to use
apt-get install for installing new software and
apt-get update for updating software for a Ubuntu Server in production use. Because these packages are tested for Ubuntu in contrast to download source code and compile the software on the box.
But on my Ubuntu Server 10.10, I don't get the latest stable version of PostgreSQL (9) or the latest stable version of Nginx (8) using
apt-get install. So how is this working, will these software be updated when I later run
apt-get update or do I have to later run
apt-get install again, or do I have to wait for the next release of Ubuntu to get them?
And are patches and security updates managed in the same way? Or can they be updated automatically? If there is such a setting, how do I check what my system is using?


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I brought a bit of Spring into my home. After the week of warm Spring weather here, we've had cold and snow this week. So a bit of color inside is just the right thing to brighten the day.
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you know what I will ask from you right????..... our little secret!!! ;)ReplyDelete
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Hahaha! Meeta dear. Of course I know you! I was just trying to be funny, mocking at people thinking we 'should' comment. :) Looks like my comedy failed miserably. :(ReplyDelete
I have not commented here though, but have visited this blog many times and always awed by your prof pictures.
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Lovely picture! Can't wait for Spring to finely be sprung!ReplyDelete
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Inji, No you did not fail at all! I just do not expect everyone to know me! But what I do find great is that we have at least broken the silence code and hope to see you around more here. I'll be visiting you too!
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Physical goods imported into Japan are taxed. And according to the Japanese media, starting in 2015, foreign downloads will be as well.
Content such as digital music, e-books, apps, and games downloaded from foreign servers will levied with a consumption tax, reports Nikkei.
Going on info from government sources, Asahi, one of the largest papers in the country,explains that individuals in Japan who buy digital content from Amazon.com can get their content at a discount, because it's currently not taxed. Downloads, however, sold through domestic Japanese servers are taxed.
Thus, this has given foreign-based retailers an advantage—something about which Japanese vendors have complained. And next year, that means taxes for digital foreign goods.
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By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An Alaska glacier is exposing remains from a military air tragedy six decades later.
Relics from an Air Force cargo plane that slammed into a mountain in November 1952, killing all 52 servicemen on board, first emerged last summer on Colony Glacier, about 50 miles east of Anchorage.
That discovery, by Alaska National Guard crews flying training missions out of Anchorage, put into motion a sophisticated recovery program carried out by the Hawaii-based Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.
After last year's initial work - when nearly everything that rose to the glacier's surface was picked up - the JPAC team came back this summer to collect additional relics pushed out of the ice since then.
"As the glacier melts and the glacier moves, more material comes up to the surface," Dr. Gregory Berg, the forensic anthropologist who leads the team of specialists examining the crevasse-ridden ice field, told reporters at a news briefing last week.
Among the personal items collected so far: A tiny fishing kit, a compass, a survival kit, a survival suit, a hockey puck, and a mini-box of Camel cigarettes. Those and other items are being saved for a future memorial, said Doug Beckstead, a historian at Anchorage's Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
Also collected were some human remains, which Berg declined to describe in detail. But he said the material, encapsulated for decades in ice, is well-preserved and includes "things we believe to be tissue" - a contrast with conditions in Southeast Asia or other hot climates where the team travels to retrieve military remains long ago decomposed.
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No positive identifications have yet been announced. It usually takes several months to complete laboratory work, said Lee Tucker, a JPAC spokesman who traveled to Alaska. Identifications are expected to be announced "in the near future," Berg said.
Berg and his team must tread carefully, skirting deadly crevasses and deep water-filled holes while trying to collect as many items and remains as possible.
They want the grinding glacier, as it moves over time, to reveal more relics over what is expected to be a years-long project, but they do not want it to carry the items all the way into the terminus lake, where they would likely be lost forever.
So far, only the lightest pieces have been pushed to the glacier's surface, and only a small portion of the 154-foot aircraft has emerged. "We don't have all 52 guys lined up neatly, ready to be located," Berg said.
The wrecked cargo plane, a C-124 Globemaster II, slammed into Mount Gannett in midwinter, an accident blamed on bad weather. Although officials knew the site of the crash, remoteness and winter weather made recovery impossible at the time. The wreckage was soon buried under snow and gone from sight.
When finally spotted last year, the debris was 12 miles from the crash site, having been shifted by the glacier. The ice has flowed another 275 meters (902 feet) downslope since last year, Berg said.
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Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, said he made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 6.8 miles (35,853 feet/10,928 meters) to a point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench that is the deepest place on Earth. His dive went 52 feet (16 meters) lower than the previous deepest descent in the trench in 1960.
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Police cars should be easy to recognize and project authority. They need an interesting, cool design that makes them stand out. Here are ten departments that really missed the mark with their cruisers.
10.) Tennessee State Troopers
Apart from being very beige, Tennessee State Troopers also have to deal with the questions surrounding that break in the line at the back.
Is there such thing as baby shit-motif?
Suggested By: anotherburneracct, Photo Credit: James Williams/Policecarwebsite.net
9.) Toronto Metro Police
There's nothing wrong with yellow apart from it being the official taxi color in North America. The Canadians got confused, again.
Embrace it's sunshine glow. I also just learned that even though this model was called the Gran Fury in the US, it was sold here in Canada as a Caravelle. I wish I was making this up.
A Police department used a vehicle named the Plymouth Caravelle.
Suggested By: KamikazePigeon, Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
8.) Aspen Police
If you were in a rush to the slopes in Aspen, you wouldn't stop for this.
I'm not sure if I'd pull over had the police in Aspen tried to stop me, simply because I don't think I would have recognized it as a police vehicle had I not seen images of Aspen police vehicles beforehand.
Why would you want your police cars to be so anonymous that you just colour them grey, which I'll add is a colour that is not so indistinguishable from silver, the most common colour on cars in the US?
Suggested By: Vargius, Photo Credit: Oppositelock
7.) Rowan County Sheriff
Would you like a cheeseburger and a gun with that sir? Oh, you already have a firearm! Good times.
This hideous design is better suited for Team America than patrolling the streets. Luckily they're in the process of phasing in another one.
Suggested By: Captain Intenso, Photo Credit: rowancountync.gov
6.) Ridley Township Police
Triborough finds this confusing:
I think someone wanted to be a fireman.
Fair guess.
Suggested By: Triborough, Photo Credit: rwcar4/policecarwebsite.net
5.) Halton Regional Police
Neutral President goes as far as calling these Canadians lousy:
I work as a designer, and sent the Toronto Police Service a scathing email when their new "swoosh" motif first rolled out, because i thought it was really weak and a poor reflection of the job the police service does. It was designed internally and voted on by the members. Yeah. Like police know anything about design or branding.
Suggested By: Neutral President, Photo Credit: Larry Thorne/policecarwebsite.net
4.) Detroit Police
Somebody was watching too much C.S.I.? Well, investigate imjack's comment:
Even worse when you remember they stole the cityscape off of an artists work and the guy sued them for it. So ugly and costs the taxpayers.
You can read the full story of the artist/graphic drama right here.
Suggested By: Remainingthird, Photo Credit: Brian Havlicek/policecarwebsite.net
3.) Sao Paulo Polícia
Even the officers know their cars look like a joke.
Even the cops here are ashamed of this paint... theyu call it "palhaço' - (clown).
Now you learnt something in Portuguese!
Suggested By: DConsorti, Photo Credit: André Gustavo Stumpf
2.) West Virginia State Troopers
You will be terrified by the looks alone.
Looks like an old man's landau top.
A landau with deadly force.
Suggested By: specialfunk, Photo Credit: rwcar4/policecarwebsite.net
1.) Maryland State Police
You'll be happy to jump in the back just so that you don't see it anymore.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
I Saw You...: A List of the Lovelorn
Big news for us here at Satisfactory Comics headquarters this week: our work appears in a newly-published book. We have a couple of pages in a new collection edited by Julia Wertz and published by Three Rivers (an imprint of Random House) called I Saw You...: Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections.
The anthology collects about a hundred short comics by about a hundred cartoonist contributors, each responding to the request to tell a story based on a "Missed Connection" Craigslist posting. It's a fun book to read, an excellent late Valentine's Day gift, and a fascinating sample of the strange and diverse world of alternative / minicomics cartoonists.
There are some big names in the book—Mike and I are thrilled to be between two covers with Peter Bagge, for example—
... but for me, to tell the truth, the greater pleasure is to be in a book with so many of our cartoonist friends: it's great to see Damien Jay, Tom Hart, and Jesse Reklaw in the book, along with people I know less well but really like, like Cathy Leamy, Alec Longstreth, and Sarah Glidden.
(Here are a couple of panels from Sarah Glidden's contribution to the book, featuring a couple that fails to meet at a Dada / Duchamp museum exhibit.)
As I said, it's a lot of fun just to read I Saw You..., but for some reason I have also been thinking about the book in terms of its possible classroom uses, even though I know I'm not likely to be teaching "Creative Writing: Comics" any time in the immediate future. Maybe this is because the conceit of the book is almost like a creative-writing exercise: "Find a Craigslist 'Missed Connections' post and make it into a story."
And in fact, one of the most interesting things about the book, for me, is the number of ways that the contributing cartoonists have responded to this prompt. There are several straightforward or not-so-straightforward illustrations of the scene of meeting (or not-quite-meeting), like the Sarah Glidden story I just quoted. But there are also a number of other takes. Several of the pieces show the ad in the process of being written, often by a grotesque mass of lusting flesh, as epitomized in this drawing by Ken Dahl:
Humor can come from deliberately misreading or exaggerating some part of the original posting—"I'm sorry I didn't react better" is illustrated with the poster delivering an uppercut to an unsuspecting young man in The Ink Lab's contribution; and Kenny Keil's simple five-panel joke offers a positively Wenthean take on "exchanging smiles." There's plenty of fun to be had, too, in simply playing up the ridiculous strangeness that anonymous posting can allow.
A more poetic take on the recurring lonely monologues of the Craigslist board can be seen in Damien Jay's contribution.
Two of my favorite pieces in the book, the ones by Gabrielle Bell and Aaron Renier, don't quite follow the formula but instead tell autobiographical stories about undocumented missed connections and other uses for the missed-connections column, respectively. Both of those stories manage to pack a lot of complicated emotion into just a few pages, and they do a lot to extend the range of the book. Here are a couple of panels from Aaron's story:
But by and large I Saw You... is a really interesting casebook in transforming found materials into narrative. I imagine assigning it to a group of student cartoonists, then asking them to scour Craigslist and draw comics based on the postings without using any of the same strategies. It'd be a really hard assignment, though.
The other thing that I found fascinating about the book—and to tell the truth, even a little disorienting—was the way that it serves as an anthology of cartooning styles. There are no rules or house styles for drawing in the world of minicomics, and I Saw You... contains a really broad range of drawing styles, as you can already see from the images I've posted. The cartoons range from gawky naïve simplicity to photo-referenced hyperdetail, from clear-line elegance to exuberant brushwork, and from crude and sketchy to careful and tidy.
The best thing this book could do in a classroom for cartoonists, really, would be to liberate their sense of what good cartooning can look like. Would that sequence by Sarah Glidden be more effective if it were drawn more like this sequence by Kaz Strzepek?
Certainly not, but both of the stories work very well in the styles they're drawn in, and young cartoonists could easily learn a lot from both of these cartoonists.
There are even, necessarily, a few cartoonists that (for me, at least) would serve as negative examples. I'm not a fan of the stiff, photo-referenced, Photoshop-toned "good drawing" visible in the piece by Dan Henrick, for example ...
... though I do recognize that, as one of the book's reviewers pointed out, there's a clever detail in it: the book that the man's holding in this image should have told the woman that her chances were slim.
In fact, thinking about appealing cartooning styles reminds me that I Saw You... has tipped me off to a few cartoonists I'm going to have to watch—people whose work I don't remember seeing before, who seem to be really capable and interesting. These would include, for example ...
Indigo Kelleigh, whose cross-hatching is some of the most attractive in the book, and ...
Jonathan Hill, who has a really appealing brush line.
In short (as if that were still possible), I strongly recommend I Saw You..., and not only for Satisfactory Comics completists. It's a small book that packs a big punch. Just remember, in the words of Jeffrey Brown,
7 comments:
- Ben Towle said...
This sounds like an awesome anthology. It's now officially on my "to buy" list. Congrats on placing a piece among such great company!
- February 15, 2009 at 10:48 AM
I bought this over the weekend and enjoyed it! I think it's a fantastic idea and great post highlighting the different styles. :)
- March 2, 2009 at 10:53 AM
- March 21, 2009 at 2:02 PM
- Isaac said...
No hard feelings, Dan —
For what it's worth, I think your strip would have looked a lot better without the Photoshop gradients. That's a question of personal taste, not any sort of objective aesthetic judgment.
- March 21, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Yeah, no, I actually think you're being completely fair and your points are well-taken.
I've come from a digital background, and the gradients especially do not translate to the printed page at all.
This piece was also done at a time where I was really getting into Gene Ha and Matthew Woodson's work, and I was trying to incorporate some of their aesthetics into my work. I'm not entirely happy with the result, and for reasons you've pointed out. Your review here is a good piece overall, and it gives me some things to think about in the future.
- March 21, 2009 at 3:32 PM
- Not Since You comic said...
What a great review! I'm proud to be in this fun little book.
And hey Dan - I liked the style of your strip.
- March 22, 2009 at 1:23 AM
- Melissa Center and Ash Archambeau said...
I came across your work because of Julia Wertz's book. I actually have a web-series inspired by Missed Connections and am in the process of trying to expand my reach. I would love for you to check it out! I want to develop a community of sorts of artists and civilians alike who are as fascinated by Missed Connections as I am. Let me know if you have thoughts/ideas
My very best,
Melissa Center
- May 17, 2010 at 6:12 PM


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How do I get my book featured on AALBC.com (for free)?
"How do I get my book featured on AALBC.com?" is a question often posed to me by authors, publishers and publicists.
Of course the best and fastest way to obtain prominent placement on AALBC.com is to purchase advertising. However when the above question is posed, subsequent follow up sometimes reveals the inquirer does not have a budget for advertising. This is fine, because there are many ways one can promote their work on AALBC.com for free.
While AALBC.com has funded the creation of 1,000's of pages of content featuring profiles and interviews with authors, critical book reviews, book club reading and bestseller lists, we simply can not cover every author. In an environment where 3 million (see note) new titles are published annually, no entity can — nor would they want to. If one is unable to purchase an AALBC.com ad, how does one get their book featured on AALBC.com at no cost? Here are three simple ways:
1 – Introduce Your Book on Our Discussion Forum
Visit our African-American Literature Discussion Forum (better known as Thumper's corner); http://aalbc.it/bookdiscussion.
Over at Thumper's Corner we have been discussing books on-line since 1997. This is the perfect place to post information about your book.
You can post your book's cover, and a brief description of your book, post a link back to you website, insert a YouTube video and more. Creating an account is simple; if you have a Facebook or Twitter account you can use those accounts to get started sharing information about your book, your work and yourself.
One of the best ways to take advantage of this platform is to post information about your book in direct response to a related post. For example, if someone says that are looking a good children's book. If you've written a children's book please feel free to reply with information about your book.
There is also an events calendar http://aalbc.it/BookEvents. You are encouraged to post your events there as well. I actively review the discussion boards to discover information on new or interesting books, authors and events to include in my eNewsletter and for my own reading pleasure.
What Not to Do on Our Discussion Boards
Please do not post information about your book on our discussion board every single day. Do not post information about your book in response to an unrelated conversation. This is spam and will result in your access being terminated. More importantly it will turn off potential readers and irritate the discussion boards moderator (read: me)
2 – Introduce Your Book on AALBC.com's Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/aalbcfanpage/
AALBC.com Facebook's fan page was not only created to notify "fans" about AALBC.com content, but it was also created to provide another platform for readers and authors/publishers to directly engage AALBC.com and our fans. Authors are encouraged to introduce themselves and their work. As with the discussion boards; I always review the AALBC.com Facebook fan page for information about authors and books.
I read everything that is posted on the fan page. I visit every link and watch every video posted. Time does not always permit me to respond to every post but I do look at everything.
What Not to Do
Again do not post information about yourself or your book every day. Once every few months is plenty, unless you are responding to a related post or question posted on the Facebook page.
Additional What Not to Do on Facebook
- Do not post information about your book on someone else's personal Facebook wall. Use your own wall for this activity
- Do not tag others on photos, comments or videos that are promotional material for your book or yourself
- Do not add people to Facebook groups without their permission (invite them to join)
While Facebook allows you to do all of the above it is considered spam. One might think it is clever, to expand their reach by posting on other Facebook friends walls, in reality this just irritates those friends.
3 – Send Us A Photo With an AALBC.com Branded Product
This is really a very simple way to obtain free placement of AALBC.com. This ad appears at the bottom of every AALBC.com page. These ads get hundreds of thousands of impressions a month. Just order an AALBC.com mug or any branded merchandise, email a photograph of you with the produc and send us a short blurb with a link to your site. We will setup the rest. You can also hold a copy of your book or anything else to promote your brand. This free AALBC.com advertisement will be limited to the first 10 published authors Click here to learn more.
These Techniques are Universal
The techniques listed above (with the exception of the AALBC.com branded product), can be used on other discussion boards, blogs and social media. In fact these are some of the techniques I utilize to promote AALBC.com.
Remember not to spam other websites when posting comments or information. Ask yourself are you moving the conversation forward or contributing in a meaningful way or are you merely engaging in shameless self promotion?
With the increase in the number of books published, I get more requests to be featured on AALBC.com than ever before. As a result, the techniques described are even more valuable in an increasingly competitive environment.
For more information about getting your book on AALBC.com, and AALBC.com in general, please visit: http://aalbc.com/faq.htm
In 2010 more than 300,000 new books (or new editions) are published via traditional means. If we factor in print on demand and other non-traditional titles published in 2010 that number exceeds 3 million (read more about these figures).


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Microsoft and Nokia are set to unveil an alliance on Wednesday that will likely reveal a plan to deliver Microsoft's Office applications on Nokia handsets.
The president of Microsoft's Business Division, Stephen Elop, and Nokia's Kai Oistamo, executive vice president for Nokia Devices, will host a teleconference from New York Wednesday morning to discuss an alliance, Microsoft said in a news alert Tuesday. It didn't say what the alliance will involve.
Given that the news is coming from Microsoft's Business Division, which oversees Microsoft Office, Exchange Server and other business software, it is likely to be a plan to put Microsoft Office 2010 applications or their Web-based counterparts, Office Web Apps, on Nokia phones, said Matt Rosoff, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft.
The companies have an existing alliance around Exchange Server, but the news Wednesday is likely to be about more than that if a Microsoft president is taking part, he said. Nokia already licenses ActiveSync, the protocol for allowing devices to talk to Exchange Server and upload business e-mail to mobile devices.
Microsoft has said it wants to make Office Web Apps, which are Web-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote, accessible to people on devices other than the PC, so putting them on Nokia phones would make sense. Microsoft is expected to unveil a test preview of Office Web Apps this month and then make them widely available around the same time it releases Office 2010 in the first half of next year.
Chris Hazelton, research director for The 451 Group's Mobile & Wireless team, was more cautious about predicting Wednesday's news, saying it is more likely to involve improving the performance of Exchange-based e-mail on Nokia's Symbian-based phones rather than delivering new applications.
Hazelton sees the two companies strengthening their partnership, particularly in making Exchange-based e-mail more user-friendly on Nokia's Eseries smartphones for business users. There is room for improvement in terms of the user interface and the management capabilities for network administrators, he said.
Nokia currently has a basic e-mail client for delivering Exchange-based e-mail on those phones. "You can't get HTML e-mails and people miss formatting," he said. "It's not like the iPhone or even Windows Mobile. So there is a lot they could do."
Another possibility is a plan to make Microsoft's ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) applications accessible on Nokia handsets, in a move to better compete with SAP. Earlier this year the German software company said it was partnering with Sybase to offer its business applications on mobile devices, including the iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian and Palm devices.


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Ninth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week!
We are excited to announce the upcoming 9th annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) starting late February in Europe and moving to various countries through the month of March.
New video trailer released:
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual international series of events (including rallies, lectures, cultural performances, film screenings, multimedia displays and boycott of Israel actions) held in cities and campuses across the globe. Last year's IAW was incredibly successful with over 215 cities participating worldwide!
IAW seeks to raise awareness about Israel's apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and to build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel campaign.
To accommodate various university schedules and cities from around the world, IAW will take place in slightly different weeks but all in the months of February and March. Here is a list of dates for regions confirmed so far:
Europe: February 25 – March 10
Palestine: 8-15 March
United States: March 4 – 8 (flexible)
Canada: March 4 – 8
South Africa: March 11 – 17
IAW offers ordinary people around the world an opportunity to partake in something truly global. If you would like to get involved and organize your own IAW event or action let us know so that we can share with you the IAW Basis of Unity and organizing principles. Here are some ways that you can actively get involved:
1. Organize a film screening
Consider hosting a film. For more info or for suggestions contact us at email@example.com
2. Arrange a lecture, workshop, rally or protest
There are many speakers ranging from academics, politicians, trade unionists and cultural activists that we can suggest for you to host. Be in touch with us and we can put you in contact.
3. Organize a BDS action
Organize with others a practical boycott of Israel action or have a BDS motion tabled at your relevant student council, municipality etc.
4. Join us online
Help us spread the word online. Click here for the IAW Facebook and Twitter.
5. Be creative
Be creative! Draw attention to Israeli apartheid with a Mock Israeli Apartheid Wall or Checkpoint, a flash mob, a concert or poetry reading, street theater, protest etc.


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Scientists from Buffalo, Cleveland, and Oklahoma City made a huge step toward making the blind see, and they did it by using a form of gene therapy that does not involve the use of modified viruses. In a research report published in the April 2010 print issue of The FASEB Journal, scientists describe how they used a non-viral, synthetic nanoparticle carrier to improve and save the sight of mice with retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited disease characterized by progressive vision loss and eventual blindness.
"We hope the results of our study will be instrumental in generating a cure for the debilitating blindness associated with retinitis pigmentosa and other inherited and acquired retinal diseases," said Muna I. Naash, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. "Compacted DNA nanoparticles are an exciting treatment strategy for these diseases and we look forward to exciting new developments."
To make this discovery, Naash and colleagues used groups of mice with the retinal degeneration slow (Rds) gene, which causes retinitis pigmentosa. The mice received one of three types of "treatments:" nanoparticles containing the normal copy of the Rds gene, the normal gene alone, or saline solution. After these treatments were delivered to the mice, the structure and function of the retina were analyzed by comparing them to untreated mice with retinitis pigmentosa and healthy mice with the normal Rds gene. Researchers also measured the level and pattern of Rds gene expression, as well as functional, structural and biochemical improvements in disease symptoms. They discovered that mice receiving the nanoparticle gene therapy show significant signs of healing. These mice had structural improvement in their retinas, as well as functional vision improvements, which lasted throughout the duration of the study. The mice that received the gene alone or saline continued to lose their vision. The nanoparticles were safe and well-tolerated with no adverse effects.
"Making the blind see was once called a miracle," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "As we have expanded our understanding of evolution, genetics, and nanotechnology, chances are that "miraculous" cures will become as commonplace as those claimed by faith-healers past and present."
According to the National Institutes of Health Office of Rare Diseases Research, retinitis pigmentosa is a group of inherited eye diseases that affect the retina. Retinitis pigmentosa causes cells in the retina to die prematurely, eventually leading to vision loss. There is no cure.
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Mathematicians try to work systematically so they can see how they worked something out, and see patterns which messy work might not reveal. Here's a selection of tasks where having good ways to sort and organise can be very helpful.
You and your friends are probably quite good at imagining things and seeing things in lots of different ways. Here you'll put that to use in doing some maths challenges.
Have a go at exploring as you look at these challenges, maybe with others. Talk about how it is going and if a slip-up occurs, then find a way out!
Here are some exciting activities for you - have a go at them and then see what happens if you change one of the little questions. You may be able to change it more than just once!
Here are some challenges that you can work on and then see if you can convince someone that your solutions are right! Have a go!
Sometimes it's not easy to know how to start a problem. Try talking to a friend about how to start, and what sort of plan you'll have to carry on.
These activities make use of things you probably already know and help you to understand them even better for solving problems!


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You have got to be kidding me. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, the research company's annual enterprise IT conference, Gartner vice president David Mitchell Smith said, "In many ways we're nowhere nearer understanding what cloud is." Oh, come on!
The year is 2016, but Smith continued, "There are still a lot of gray areas and blurriness in the cloud business." He thinks 80% of vendors' "private clouds" aren't strictly speaking cloud, along with 30% of public cloud services.
Listen, if you're a CIO and you don't know what a cloud really is by now, then you should be fired.
Unlike what Gartner said, most of you do seem to get it. A recent Uptime Institute survey of 1,000 IT executives found that 50% of senior enterprise IT executives expect most IT workloads to be running on the cloud soon. Of the respondents, 23% expect the shift to happen next year, and 70% expect it to occur within the next four years.
What is going on, and does confuse things if you're not paying attention, is that many vendors just stick a cloud label on their old offering and expect you to buy their "new" service. This is called cloud-washing. Companies slap a new coat of cloud paint on any old program or service, add 10% to the price, and call themselves a cloud company. I'm looking at you, Oracle.
But Oracle isn't alone. For example, Adobe Creative Cloud isn't a cloud. It's a software rental licensing business model. True, you can share files with its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) storage, but you could always do that with network file sharing or third-party cloud services such as Dropbox.
If you think there's a Photoshop in the cloud, you're wrong. To use Creative Cloud, you download a fat client to use it. Despite the name, this is not a software-as-a-service (SaaS) play.
If you're a system admin who's nervous about losing his or her job, I can understand pointing out such examples as proof that cloud computing is just marketing hype. I expect better from CIOs.
I mean, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defined cloud computing for us in 2011.
Doesn't ring a bell? OK, here's a refresher.
NIST tells us: "Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."
NIST continued to say that a cloud must have five essential characteristics: On-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity or expansion, and measured service.
Let's look closer. With on-demand self-service, users can unilaterally provision or access computing resources as needed. Usually, but not always, you do this with a web browser. Users spinning up a service with ordinary provisioning shouldn't require any technical support handholding. If a technician has to manually spin up a server for you, you're not using cloud computing. If you need to call the vendor to get a server instance up, you're not on the cloud.
By broad network access, NIST doesn't just mean that that cloud services must be available over the internet. It's just that the cloud resources must be made available over the network for all devices, from PCs to smartphones, using open standard protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, XML, Java and SOAP. If it needs proprietary network standards or clients, you're moving away from the standard open cloud to a proprietary solution.
With resource pooling, according to NIST, "The provider's computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. There is a sense of location independence in that the customer generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter). Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, and network bandwidth."
Ignore the jargon. It means the cloud could be next door, or it might be in the next country. With a hybrid cloud, which uses both private and public cloud resources, it may be both. IT should know the specifics of what's where. For the ordinary Joes and Janes in accounting, the resources are just in the cloud. From their seats, the cloud is just at their fingertips, the same way the internet is.
Rapid elasticity and expansion are vital. In a cloud, you don't ask for five more servers; you go out and get them. Your computing resources are dynamically assigned, released and reassigned at your request. In the best clouds, users don't even know they're asking for more resources. They just get on with their job, and if their work requires more resources, the cloud simply provides them.
So, for example, if you suddenly need two dozen extra processors to handle an unexpected job, the cloud can deliver those compute resources to your application without any manual intervention. Then, when the job is done, those resources should automatically be returned to the cloud. No fuss, no muss.
Finally, just as with any ordinary utility, such as your electricity, on a cloud you must be able to monitor your cloud systems usage and be billed for it according to your use of the "service." The only difference is that instead of kilowatt hours, you're billed for storage, processing and bandwidth usage, and possibly for active user accounts.
If your cloud service doesn't provide all of these features, what you're using may not be a cloud.
That may not be a problem. It may still work perfectly well for you. There's nothing inherently wonderful about a service just because it's offered over a cloud. But you may want to take a close look at your services. After all, from a practical viewpoint, the big differences between cloud services and other models is that the cloud tends to be cheaper and far more expandable and flexible.
And surely you, as a CIO, already know all that. Right?


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Remington 700/40x Style with Top Left Saftey (HVRLTS)
The Jewell trigger is a great choice to upgrade your factory trigger. The HVRLTS (Hunting Varmint Rifle) trigger, in this configuration, includes a top left safety, and is pre-set for a 1lb pull. The trigger pull can be adjusted from 1-1/2 oz to 3 lbs using the included springs.
THE JEWELL TRIGGER USES ALL STAINLESS STEEL CONSTRUCTION, THE INTERNAL COMPONENTS ARE CNC MACHINED USING 440C STAINLESS STEEL HEAT TREATED TO RC58 FOR IMPROVED DURABILITY. Adjustment screws are fitted with a nylon insert to maintain your trigger settings without using thread locking compounds.
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