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TUESDAY, 3 APRIL 2012, was Day II of An Event Apart Seattle, a sold-out, three-day event for people who make websites. If you couldn't be among us, never fear. The amazing Luke Wroblewski (who leads a day-long seminar on mobile web design today) took excellent notes throughout the day, and shares them herewith:
The (CSS) Future is Now – Eric Meyer
In his The Future is Now talk at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA 2012 Eric Meyer talked about some of the visual effects we can achieve with CSS today. Create shiny new visual elements with no images using progressive enhancement and CSS that is available in all modern browsers.
A Philosophy of Restraint
– Simon Collison
In his A Philosophy of Restraint talk at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA 2012 Simon Collison outlined his design philosophy and how he applies it to web projects. Embrace constraints; simplicity and complexity; design aesthetic; design systems as foundations that prepare us for future projects and complexity; affordances and type; focus and content; audit and pause — prevent catastrophic failures and shine a new light on what you've learned with each project.
Touch Events – Peter-Paul Koch (PPK)
In his Touch Events talk at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA 2012 Peter-Paul Koch talked about touch support in mobile browsers and how to handle touch events in web development. Includes a ranking of current mobile browsers; interaction modes in mobile versus desktop (mouse) and keyboard — how do we adjust scripts to work with touch?; touch events; supporting modes; event cascade; and "stick with click."
Mobile to the Future – Luke Wroblewski
Alas, Luke could not take notes on his own presentation. Here's what it was about: When something new comes along, it's common for us to react with what we already know. Radio programming on TV, print design on web pages, and now web page design on mobile devices. But every medium ultimately needs unique thinking and design to reach its true potential. Through an in-depth look at several common web interactions, Luke outlined how to adapt existing desktop design solutions for mobile devices and how to use mobile to expand what's possible across all devices.Instead of thinking about how to reformat your websites to fit mobile screens, attendees learned to see mobile as way to rethink the future of the web.
What's Your Problem? – Whitney Hess
In her What's Your Problem? Putting Purpose Back into Your Projects talk at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA 2012 Whitney Hess outlined the value of learning about opportunities directly from customers. Understand the problem before designing the solution. Ask why before you figure out how. There is no universal solution for all our projects, we need to determine which practices are "best" through our understanding of problems. Our reliance on best practices is creating a world of uniform websites that solve no one's problem. Leave the desk and interact with people. Rather than the problem solver, be the person who can see the problem.
Properties of Intuitive Pages
– Jared Spool
At An Event Apart in Seattle WA 2012, Jared Spool walked through what makes a design intuitive, why some users need different treatment, and the role of design. Current versus acquired knowledge and how to bridge the gap (how to train users, thus making your site or app "intuitive"). Redesigns and how to avoid disaster. Design skills. The gap between current knowledge and target knowledge is where design happens. Why intuitive design is only possible in small, short iterations.
Day III begins in 90 minutes. See some of you there.
Photos: AEA Seattle Flickr pool or hashtags #aea and #aeasea on Instagram.


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Here is one that I always wonder about - I get annual credit card rewards that I cash in - this year it was somewhere north of 300$. Do I need to report that or is it considered a "coupon" of sorts?
Today we're going to play a game called "Do I Have to Report This Income?" It will teach us a little about tax filing requirements and present some interesting situations about what income is taxable and what can be left off a tax return.
When doing taxes, there are a ton of ways to get around reporting income. How can the IRS track cash transactions? Nobody will report a few items you sell online, right?
While it may be easy to hide some money from the government, there can be serious repercussions. If caught, it could cost you a lot more in the long-term. (See also: Top 10 Red Flags That Trigger IRS Audits)
So if you're one of those trustworthy folks and are trying to file your taxes properly, you should be aware of which income you have to report.
Ready to learn what you need to include as income on your taxes? The questions will get increasingly harder, but I think you will catch on fairly quickly.
Definitely! Your employer sends one copy to you and sends another one to the IRS. If the amount of income from your employer that you report doesn't line up with the amount your employer reports, it will raise a red flag and you will be more likely to be audited.
If you earned over $10 in a bank account, you will likely be issued a 1099-INT. However, even if you aren't issued a tax form, you are still responsible for reporting it, no matter how small. You still earned it and are therefore responsible for reporting the income.
While these transactions are a good way to earn some extra cash, you are still earning some income in the process, so you technically have to report it. The fees that eBay takes out are fees for using their service and have nothing to do with taxes.
With no W-2 or 1099, there's no paper trail and that means you can just pocket the cash, right? Wrong! You are responsible for keeping your own records. In fact, you may need to make estimated quarterly tax payments! Suddenly, no paper trail really means more responsibility for you!
Congrats on your luck, but guess what? You have to count the value of the prize as income. So while you definitely come out ahead, you still have to pay taxes on that gift card. if it's a big prize, you may want to set aside some cash because you'll likely owe the government money come tax time.
By now, I'm sure you've caught on that you need to report all income you earn in any form. Hopefully I've hit on a few situations that most people don't consider, and now you'll be better prepared when filing your taxes in the coming weeks. Good luck!
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Here is one that I always wonder about - I get annual credit card rewards that I cash in - this year it was somewhere north of 300$. Do I need to report that or is it considered a "coupon" of sorts?
You oversimplified the example about selling stuff on eBay. If I buy something for $100, and later sell it on eBay for $90 (used) I do not owe any taxes on that amount. I already paid taxes on the money I spent to buy it. However if i sell it for $110, I would owe taxes on the $10 extra income ($100 already paid taxes on...so $10 left to pay taxes on).
If you sell enough on eBay that you treat it like a sole proprietorship or something like that then likely you'd also be deducting fees out of your income stream. So if you sold something for $110 that you only paid $100 for, but you also had $7 in fees, your actual taxed income from that sale would be only $3.
Wait a second, so are you saying if a win a gift card to Best Buy in a company raffle, I need to pay taxes on that?
While it might be interesting, in reality, most people are not going to be paying taxes on income unless it's their primary source. There is absolutely no way the government has the resources to track every teenager's income from babysitting or mowing lawns. My wife probably made $800 last year from babysitting, all cash. No way that is going into our taxes.
So if I get $200 worth of gift cards for Christmas, I need to factor that into my taxes in April? I thought if it was a gift it is exempt from taxes. In fact, I thought up to $13K could be received as a gift without paying taxes. I'm sure one could argue the $800 my wife received was a gifts and not income.
Sold my watch? I trust you meant for less than he paid, in which case, I don't see any tax due. Of course, I sell my 25 year old Rolex for a profit, there's tax due.
It's amazing the things that you have to claim as income. For instance, the $25 bonus I received at lending club for joining has to be reported as well. Also, the $100 bonus I received from my online brokerage for my initial deposit has to reported too. I have to admit in the past I never wouldve thought of this as income that is taxed.
This has to be one of the worst tax articles I've ever seen on a personal finance blog. As was pointed out already, your discussion of eBay is oversimplified and in many ways wrong. You only have income if the amount the item sold for is over what you paid, and the eBay and PayPoo expenses incurred in selling the item can reduce that taxable income.
Additionally, your comment on credit card rewards is way off base. As Xin pointed out, the rewards are considered a non-taxable purchase rebate. The same applies for most credit card sign-up bonuses: these are technically rebates since they will normally require you to make at least one purchase on the card.
You are correct that most money that comes in should be reported as income, but at some point you have to be practical. Am I supposed to report income if I have a small savings account that earns $3 in interest, if I somehow sell a handful of small items on eBay for a profit, if I win a gift card at an office party, or if I find a dollar bill on the ground? Yes, but I'd argue it isn't a reasonable expectation for me to track a couple of dollars earned in an account I don't get a tax form for, the change I find on the ground, or to even try to determine if I made any money off the three items I sold on eBay last year. Not reporting that gift card you won isn't going to get you sharing a cell with Wesley Snipes! If you are aware of it then you should report it, but to suggest you need to go to great lengths to keep up with that is lunacy!
Thanks for the feedback.
While you're right that in most cases, nobody will find out that you're not paying taxes on small amounts of money, recording transactions comes with the territory of buying and selling products and opening savings accounts.
Plus, the beauty of savings accounts is that they tell you interest earned, so you don't need to calculate your own interest, they're happy to tell you!
Where do you start recording your 'business' transactions? After how many items? It's good practice to record everything.
i think the point this commenter is trying to make is that tracking business related stuff is fine, but trying to track every time someone gave you $20 for gas money, you found $5 on the ground, or your company gave you $100 for coming into work on a Saturday (happened to me last year), etc. is excessive and would end up costing a ton of time (money).
Plus, there is no way the govt will ever come after you for it, unless the amount is in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Even if you are audited, the IRS has no way of tracking cash.
Whenever your employer pays you, whether it's in cash or check, it should be documented and included in your compensation. Gifts and found money are separate issues and I can understand the viewpoint that 99.9% of people will not record such transactions. But when you work and get paid, no matter how you are paid, you need to record that as income, as does your employer.
The fact that the IRS won't find out is irrelevant. Some people can earn thousands of dollars in cash tutoring or babysitting. Very hard to track, but that's still income that should be reported.
"Guest" is correct. Other than pointing out the inaccuracies in the article and follow-up comment, my point is that at some point the record keeping burden becomes excessive. My thoughts on the three scenarios mentioned:
1. You win a gift card or are given one by your employer. As an employee, my view is that it is the employer's responsibility to track that and for it to flow through the employee's W-2. Two different employers I've worked for did just that and reported it on the W-2. If the employer, who should have a system for recording compensation costs, can't/won't track it, it seems unreasonable to expect the employee to track it unless it is a significant amount ($500+).
2. Small interest savings accounts. Those of us that have been playing the game for a while have several accounts, many of which will be largely inactive and holding tiny balances. Myself, I can think of a dozen such accounts that are in my name or my wife's name. Is it worth the time to go to each inactive account to track down the interest earned that I am certain is less than $2 or $3? Nope. On a side note, closing down these inactive accounts is one of my goals for the year so this becomes largely a moot point.
3. eBay. It is definitely a judgment call on when you start viewing these are "business" transactions and recording accordingly, but my thought is that unless you are purchasing items with the intent to resell them or you are reselling collectible items you know have increased in price there isn't a significant taxable income event here. If you are just cleaning out closets or the garage and reselling household items you are almost certainly getting back less than you originally paid for the items, at which point there is no taxable income. Not to mention most people won't remember or be able to document what they originally paid for those items anyway.
With regards to the comment from Guest about the IRS not being able to track cash, this is untrue. Although rare there are audits where the IRS will review your bank records and require you to explain or document the sources of large deposits to your accounts.
The IRS will only be able to see cash that you deposit in the bank. If my wife makes $100 for babysitting for a Saturday, that isn't going into the bank. I usually don't deposit cash into the bank unless it's $500 or more in which I probably (hopefully) are receiving that amount in the form of a check instead :)
I like you BillyOceansEleven.
Here are my responses, thanks for the fun conversation, I love debating personal finance issues.
1. The employer should no doubt be the recorder. But since it's our taxes, we're ultimately responsible. But keep track of how much you earn is pretty unlikely and I think it's a fair expectation for the employer to take care of it.
2. I'm glad you're planning on cleaning up, that's a ton of accounts! Why have them open if you can't keep track of them, even if it's a small amount?
3. Intent is a big part of taxes, and it's unfortunate becaues a lot of times it's a judgment call that we and they have to make. If there's intent to make money selling items rather than just trying to get some cash for things you have laying around, it's time to start being vigilant in your records.
Thanks Daniel! To answer your question on the bank accounts, several years ago when interest rates were decent and a lot of the online banks were trying to get a foothold competing against ING Direct it seemed like everyone was offering an account opening bonus, a super high interest rate (HSBC was at 6% for a while), or both. We'd open accounts for the bonuses and move the money around when someone offered one of the high rates. Most of the accounts had no fees so the only cost of leaving it open was the administrative burden of keeping up with the account. After several years of doing this I've come to realize it got way out of hand and have been trying to kill a bunch of these inactive accounts and pool cash in one spot. These days hardly anyone is offering account bonuses and most of the online banks are offering about the same rate anyway, so no reason to keep them open. The next step is killing credit card accounts that were opened for similar reasons, although because of credit scoring impacts has to be done much more carefully.
To reply to guest on the issue of cash, it is nearly impossible to track if you never let it hit your bank account. If it is a large amount an astute auditor could detect that your lifestyle couldn't possibly be supported by your reported income and documented assets, but you are right that babysitting cash will be virtually invisible to the IRS.
I'm over 21 but don't work and am still claimed as a dependent on my parents taxes due to illness. I do a little "get paid to" websites (ie: swagbucks, instagc, etc) on the side for extra spending money on myself and sometimes birthday/christmas gifts. Is there a certain amount I have to file by myself or do my parents include it on their form? I honestly have no idea as I've never filed before. Also, does it matter if I'm in the US and one of the sites I'm earning Paypal from is based in the UK? I don't want to get in trouble as I don't need that kind of stress.
This is an old discussion, but I have a new question. What about Amazon Reviewers? Example: I just starting doing Amazon Reviews. The company sends a product for free, I complete review. 95% of these items I have already given away. I sent a big box of things to my MIL's church for the women to puruse and choose from. But now I am wondering if I owe taxes on this. I don't get any money, and because I gave product away, I no longer even benefit so if I owe, it is like I PAID to give a bunch of strangers miscellaneous stuff. Please advise so I can choose wisely or not at all going forward.
Right around the time this was written I asked BIL, a revenue agent, about it. I made close to $400 last year from different survey companies, most of it in Amazon gift codes, a little in cash or Paypal. Do I need to report it on my tax return? He said "dont bother."
What if a twelve year old wants money on swag bucks? Does the parent have to put this on their taxes?

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NEW: Russia says new sanctions will harm relations with Washington
Expanded sanctions target Russian banks, arms industry, oil development
EU joins Obama after initially balking due to economic concerns
Another possible option: take the 2018 soccer World Cup from Russia
More Russian aggression in Ukraine. More U.S. and European sanctions imposed on Moscow.
What seems like diplomatic tail-chasing so many months into the Ukraine conflict invites questions about how Western powers can defuse the worsening conflict in Eastern Europe.
U.S. President Barack Obama and the European Union raised the stakes on Tuesday, announcing long-threatened sanctions that target Russia's state-owned banks, weapons makers and oil companies, along with top cronies of President Vladimir Putin.
They want Putin to stop arming pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukraine government and instead support a political process that entrenches President Petro Poroshenko's elected leadership.
A deeper concern is that Putin may be planning to grab more territory from the former Soviet satellite following Russia's annexation of Crimea earlier this year.
Russia denies such ambitions and criticizes sanctions as unproductive, with the Foreign Ministry saying Wednesday that the new penalties will harm relations with the United States and "create a poor environment in international affairs where the cooperation between our countries often plays a key role."
Here is a look at the latest sanctions and what might come next.
How did we get here?
The Ukraine crisis developed from huge protests in Kiev late last year that led to the February ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
In the ensuing political chaos, the pro-West Poroshenko got elected while Russia grabbed control of Crimea, an ethnic-Russian territory home to its Black Sea fleet.
U.S., EU hit Russia with more sanctions as Ukraine fighting continues
Obama and U.S. allies protested by suspending Putin from the G8 summit and imposing a series of limited sanctions, warning of tougher measures targeting specific economic sectors if Russia's aggression continued. It did, with the separatists armed and trained by Moscow rebelling in eastern Ukraine.
In response, Obama announced expanded U.S. sanctions on July 16 that targeted two Russian state-owned banks, two energy companies, eight weapons makers, along with some Putin associates and separatist leaders.
Europe's major economic ties with Russia – about $500 billion in trade and investment per year – caused the European Union to balk at joining Washington then.
The next day, a missile fired from separatist-held territory downed a Malaysia Airlines jet in the conflict zone, killing all 298 people aboard.
Now the separatists are hindering access to the crash site amid fighting in the area, and Russia is sending heavy weaponry to them while deploying troops along the Ukraine border.
MH17 crash: Investigators must have full access, Malaysian PM says
What the European Union did
Almost two weeks after Obama initially expanded the U.S. sanctions, European leaders agreed Tuesday to coordinate similar steps.
In a major expansion signaling new resolve, they went after eight of Putin's top associates, along with Russia's finance, energy and weapons industries.
The new EU sanctions will restrict Russian state-owned banks from accessing European capital markets, and stop or slow the export of oil-related equipment and technology to Russia.
They also will stop new contracts for arms imports and exports between the European Union and Russia, and prohibit the export of goods and technology that can be used for both military and civilian purposes.
"It is meant as a strong warning: Illegal annexation of territory and deliberate destabilization of a neighboring sovereign country cannot be accepted in 21st century Europe," the EU said in a statement.
To punish Russia, Europe must be prepared to suffer
What Obama announced
Two hours later, Obama told reporters that the United States expanded its July 16 sanctions to include three more state-owned banks and another weapons company, while also targeting technology for deep-water, Arctic and shale oil production.
While expanding on the earlier moves, the latest sanctions include limits.
They don't affect Russia's current oil production, instead targeting the ability to develop new areas, senior administration officials told reporters on a background call. The European sanctions on weapons trade only involves future transactions, allowing France to complete an existing helicopter deal with Moscow.
However, Obama cited the joint action as significant, saying that "because we are closely coordinating our actions with Europe, the sanctions we are announcing today will have an even bigger bite."
"If Russia continues on its current path, the cost on Russia will continue to grow," he added, calling the moves "a reminder that the United States means what it says, and we will rally the international community in standing up for the rights and freedom of people around the world."
What is the impact?
The senior administration officials said the expanded sanctions prevent Russia's state-owned banks, which have all or most of their debt in U.S. dollars, from getting more medium- and long-term financing in America.
They noted the sanctions already have contributed to a downturn in the Russian economy, a flight of foreign capital and weakening of the ruble currency.
"Russia is not a very good bet right now for international investors," one of the officials said.
On Tuesday, shares in British oil giant BP fell by 2.5% after the company warned that it would suffer from the tougher EU sanctions. BP owns a significant stake in Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil company, which no longer can access long-term financing from U.S. sources.
Meanwhile, shares in French automotive manufacturer Renault slumped by 4.5% as the company warned about a sharp slowdown in emerging markets, including Russia. Russia is Renault's third largest market, based on sales.
Geopolitically, Obama denied that a new Cold War with Russia had started, but the head of the foreign affairs committee in Russia's State Duma – the lower house of parliament – disagreed.
Aleksey Pushkov tweeted Wednesday that Obama will make history as "the statesman who started a new Cold War."
To Gideon Rose, the editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, the expanded sanctions mean that "the temperature in the room has just dropped a few degrees."
"The fact that the Europeans have now finally recognized what they need to do and that the administration has been able to bring them on board" was a "positive development," Rose told CNN.
Map: Europe's thirst for Russian gas
Will it matter to Putin?
To the U.S. officials, the sanctions announced Tuesday are "the most significant tool we have to shape Russian decision-making."
Analysts questioned whether economic hardship would change Putin's thinking.
Steven Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine now with the Brookings Institution, told a congressional committee last month that Putin could use sanctions "as a scapegoat and attempt to put all the blame on the West for Russia's poor economic performance."
To fellow Brookings analysts Clifford Gaddy and Barry Ickes, Russia's economy can absorb the shocks of sanctions without deteriorating to the point of forcing Putin to change his overall goals and policies.
"For that, sanctions would have to reduce Russia to its condition of the 1990s, when it was simply too weak and dependent on the West to oppose the international order created by the West after the Cold War," they wrote in an article on the Brookings website. "It is clear to us that no feasible actions by the West today can recreate the weak and compliant Russia of the 1990s."
One reason: such a move would seriously harm the global economy, too, a step Washington and the European Union won't take, the pair said.
Opinion: Putin, just evil enough
Where do things stand?
Obama and EU leaders made clear that Putin could avoid the increasing international isolation Russia faces by working with Poroshenko's government in Ukraine, instead of helping the separatists fight against it.
The senior administration officials listed four conditions for getting sanctions eased: recognize Poroshenko's government as legitimately elected; stop arming the separatists; stop massing Russian forces at the border; and influence the separatists to enter an inclusive political process in Ukraine.
"It didn't have to come to this. It does not have to be this way," Obama said. "This is a choice that Russia and President Putin in particular has made."
The European statement specifically cited the annexation of Crimea as another grievance, while the U.S. officials did not mention it.
However, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Tuesday against any further expansionist ideas by Putin, such as invading eastern Ukraine.
"That would be taken, needless to say, as not just a violation of all notions of international law, but an exceedingly dangerous action which would wind up with, you know, the most severe possible kinds of isolation and sanctions possible," Kerry told reporters. "And Germany, France, other countries in Europe, would clearly join into that in ways that would have a profound, profound impact on the Russian economy."
Sanctions: Top 10 Russian targets
What if the sanctions don't work?
Obama and European leaders have repeatedly said the Ukraine crisis requires a diplomatic solution, which rules out military intervention – at least for now.
Beyond sanctions, another idea floated by some European officials would be to move the 2018 soccer World Cup planned for Russia to somewhere else.
Such a move, considered premature at this point by major soccer nations and organizations, would deliver a bitter blow to Putin following Russia's successful hosting of the Sochi Olympics earlier this year.
Things to know about Russia and sanctions
CNNMoney's Alanna Petroff and CNN's Ray Sanchez and Alla Eshchenko contributed to this report.


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text: SNL_20130726_628_Getty MOBILE, AL - JULY 26: The group frequents gay clubs in Mobile, and also travels to clubs in Florida and Louisiana. They rarely drink alcohol, often dress in matching uniforms, and use nights out at the club to practice their routines. They see clubbing as a means for self-promotion and an opportunity to perform and dance in front of audiences. Since a video of team dancing at an LGBT basketball game went viral after being tweeted by former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, the team has gained semi-celebrity status around Mobile, has been flown out to Los Angeles to appear on a TV talk show, and is currently filming a reality show about their lives. The Prancing Elites are a group of young, gay, black men who practice J-Sette, a form of dance birthed at Historically Black Colleges that is characterized by sharp, cheerleading-style movements and hip-hop performed to an eight-count beat. Traditionally, men cannot join college dance teams, so young gay black men have been forming their own J-Sette "lines," organizing competitions, and creating their own outlets to practice this type of dance. (Photo by Sara Naomi Lewkowicz/Getty Images Reportage)


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The Willow Street Residence, a renovated townhouse with a historic façade was located on a quiet, tree-canopied street. This site had gone through several architectural changes before architect Robert Kahn's renovation. Once a horse stable, and then 7 separate apartments, the home features a design that preserves its unique history by including some of the previous materials. Stable horse rings still grace the exposed brick walls, and the wooden beams that once separated the home into separate apartments have been salvaged to create the dining room table and the wooden ledge that accents the living room's lounge area. The garden areas, landscaped by Susana Drake, also salvaged on-site materials during the renovation, while the pea gravel and plants have created a permeable surface to absorb surface runoff into the NYC ground water system.
The renovated Boerum Hill rowhouse was designed by the homeowner himself, architect Jordan Parneass. When Parneass and his wife, artist Melanie Crean, purchased the turn-of-the century rowhouse in 2004, the interior was so dilapidated that it required a complete gutting and makeover. Luckily, the two had plenty of creative inspiration for the task. Making use of every square foot, the home's very functional design includes split level work/lounge spaces, plenty of contemporary art and striking furniture, and a rear façade with floor to ceiling windows to capture plenty of natural light. Additional environmentally conscious design features include the warm bamboo floorboards and paperstone kitchen counter, which visitors marveled at for its soft matte touch.
The juxtaposition of preserved, historic facades with modern interiors and environmentally conscious design details left us very impressed with the City Modern Home Tours collaboration. We hope Dwell and NYmag will join together to bring New York more examples of smart, sophisticated city design once again in the future! For now, those of you lucky enough to live in the Silicon Valley or San Diego have a chance to see the City Modern Home Tours for yourselves this November.


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Since we posted our Mac App Store FAQ Thursday, I've received a lot of questions about the nitty gritty details of what you're legally entitled to do with an app you buy from the Mac App Store.
I've updated the original FAQ story with those details, but I thought it was worth restating them here, too. So here goes.
Rights and sites
When you buy an app on the Mac App Store, you're getting the rights to run that program on any Macs you own and operate, for your personal use. Basically, if your household has a half-dozen different Macs, including desktops and laptops, you can buy a copy of Gratuitous Space Battles and play it on every single one of them. Consider a purchase of consumer software via the Mac App Store to be a bit like buying a household site license for the app.
The situation is slightly different for apps that are considered commercial or professional in nature. For apps that fall into this category— Aperture's a good example—the Mac App Store license says that you essentially can install that item on computers you use or on a single computer shared by multiple people. Basically think of it as a one-seat license for a pro app.
In other words, the Mac App Store's purchasing system is not designed so that a podcasting company can spend $15 for GarageBand and equip 30 different Macs with a copy. But if you want to buy a game and put it on your desktop Mac, your laptop, your wife's laptop, and your daughter's laptop, go for it.
Copy protection
Mac App Store apps aren't wrapped in digital-rights management software, really. In fact, copy protection is not mandatory on Mac App Store apps. Developers can add an identity check if they want, though. The way that identity check works is, the app itself (not the Mac App Store App) sees if it's got authorization to run. If it doesn't, it asks for your Apple ID and password and then verifies that information with Apple. Once it gets the OK from Apple's servers, it saves that authorization and continues running.
That's it. There's no authorizing or deauthorizing of Macs, like you do with iTunes media. There's no five-Mac limit, or device limit of any kind. If you are a Mac hoarder who has 55 different Macs at your house, all running OS X 10.6.6, you can fly that Guns of Icarus Zeppelin on every single one of them.
Now, let's compare this news with the licensing rules I mentioned above. You can put two and two together, can't you? Beyond entering in your Apple ID and password, this is all on the honor system. Just as you can install a single-user copy of iWork '09 or iLife '11 or Snow Leopard on an infinite number of Macs, you can install Mac App Store software on as many Macs as you can get your hands on. It'd just be against the terms of the Mac App Store you agreed to before you started buying things. Bad karma and all that.
So, to sum up: Apps bought in the Mac App Store have license limitations on use, just like apps you buy in a box. They don't have any serialization systems, nor do they have checks to limit the number of copies you can use at once. Beyond your iTunes ID, it's all on the honor system. But, to be sure, all the developers of Mac software would prefer that you be honorable, so they can afford to keep developing that software.


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Remember the morphing table that can replicate your body and movements in real time? It's name is inForm. Daniel Leithinger—from the Tangible Group at MIT Medialab—just told Sploid about their first official video. This thing is so damn awesome.
Meet Microsoft's New Surface Laptops
They added a screen in portrait mode so you can see the person who is remotely manipulating the objects thanks to the morphing table. Cameras on the remote location read the hands movements in 3D, scanning the body parts and moving the table elements to reproduce them.
I imagine the day in which remote presence systems are completely indistinguishable from reality and I just can't wait.
They also have other functions, including some kind of nagging mode to tell you someone is calling you. So neat!


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Joseph (Joe) Manuel Ortiz, 49, of Lodi, California, passed away on March 7, 2014 after a three day battle to survive a brain clot and hemorrhage. He was born on December 14, 1964 in Palo Alto, CA to June J. Watson and Gonzalo Ortiz. He graduated Lodi High School in 1983 and the University of the Pacific in 1987. He married his high school sweetheart, Rose on March 4, 1989, and celebrated their 25th anniversary during his hospital stay. He loved sports and coaching. He was drafted to Milwaukee Brewers and then 2 years later was traded to the Oakland A's. When he retired from professional baseball he dedicated his life to coaching young athletes in all sports. Joe was a loving husband and father. He is survived by his mother, June J. Watson, his brothers, Dwayne Ortiz, Eddie Ortiz and Buzz Watson, his sister Maria Villanueva, wife Rose Ortiz, daughters Brooke and Halle Ortiz and son, Trent Ortiz. Funeral Mass will be held at Saint Anne's Church on Wednesday, March 12th at 11:00 AM followed by a graveside service at Cherokee Memorial Park. A continued celebration of his life will be at St. Anne's Hall.


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- From: Robert Burns <email@example.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:08:08 -0500
- To: HTML Working Group <email@example.com>, email@example.com
- Cc: Sander Tekelenburg <firstname.lastname@example.com>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <email@example.com>, Chris Wilson <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Hello all, I've intended to put together some tests for some time, and Chris's question prompted me to do it. I find it crazy the steps authors go through to display non-text media into their pages. In my view, OBJECT should should just be a simple container that an author can attach any of the most common media types two to embed content. For all of the common cases, it should be as simple as: <object data='afile'>the fallback content</object> Well, we may be getting closer to that goal. I put together a page to test the ability of browsers to handle this simplest authoring practice. This page is to test the treatment of the OBJECT element in various browsers and other UAs. It includes images that have intrinsically small dimensions and intrinsically large dimensions repeated three times for: PNG, GIF and JPEG. There are also three time-oriented files: an MP3 audio file; a video file using 3rd Generation Partnership Project 3GP container with H.264 content.baseline profile; and a Flash video file (SWF). The 3GP might not have been the best choice since I'm not sure how much support there is for that format. I think the other formats should be widely supported in most user's environments. The page is located here: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Aug/att-0027/ TestObject.html> What I've found is this: • Safari 3.0 beta: Poor support for images beyond particular intrinsic dimensions. It expects images to be smaller than a particular size and then provides scrollers for any larger images. Time-based media (audio and video) do not load,.except for flash. • Safari 3.0 beta with recent nightly build of WebKit: The large still images problems are fixed. Still no luck with time-based media except for flash. • Mozilla (22.214.171.124): Still images work fine: both small and large. Time-based media does not load except for the audio track, which plays automatically on load. • Opera (9.0.2 build3512) handles still images fine. Time-based media is also handled nicely in a sane default way. All media begins playing immediately on load. Video is visible. Audio is audible. Small unobtrusive controls are provided for: forward, revers, volume, play/pause, and an quicktime menu. • iCab (3.0.3) Same as Opera. Handles still images fine. Time-based media is also handled nicely in a sane default way. All media begins playing immediately on load. Video is visible. Audio is audible. Small unobtrusive controls (probably from QuickTime) are provided for: forward, revers, volume, play/pause, and an quicktime menu. • IE7 (7.0.5730.11): Fails every test. It presents the fallback content for every image, video and audio file (sorry Chris). This could be due to the video formats I chose, but since the images were not handled either I doubt it. I would imagine that anyone with a recent QuickTime/iTunes installed on Windows should be able to handle this content. A couple of caveats here. These are all very current browser releases. Who knows how well this simple approach works for the large base of older browsers out there. It looks from these results that OBJECT still could not replace IMG as a simple container for still images providing a fallback mechanism even in the latest releases. For video (including flash) and audio Opera is the hands down winner. It basically passed every test. What a simpler World we would live in if every browser handled other media so nicely. I could imagine changing minor things about Opera's implementation, but for the most part, the other browsers just need to do what Opera is doing (for example, the audio OBJECT would be better handled if the CSS box generated for it wrapped only the controls by default; vertical- alignment and other CSS properties might be used to further change that). The one idea that occurred to me in putting together and running these tests is it might be desirable to have an attribute on OBJECT to turn on or off time-based controls. Perhaps this is something CSS should handle, though in these sorts of inherently visual objects, I'm inclined to think it should be handled in both layers: semantic and presentation. Take care, Rob On Aug 21, 2007, at 5:07 AM, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > > At 10:01 -0700 UTC, on 2007-08-20, Chris Wilson wrote: > > [...] > >> Could someone describe the exact issue, and tell me if it is still >> present >> in IE7? I know we still don't deal with 404 errors properly, but >> OBJECT >> fallback was dramatically improved in IE7. > > Just search the email@example.com Archive. (There's plenty of > specific > questions to you/Microsoft that haven't been responded to yet.) > Here's a > selection: > > <http://firstname.lastname@example.com> > <http://www.w3.org/mid/ > firstname.lastname@example.com> > <http://esw.w3.org/topic/ObjectTestResults> > <http://firstname.lastname@example.com> > <http://email@example.com> > > And two relevant test cases: > <http://santek.no-ip.org/~st/tests/object/> > <http://santek.no-ip.org/~st/tests/picturetag/> > > I don't have IE7 available, but I'm sure you do ;)
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Stream-ripping, or the conversion of streamed content into downloadable files, has become a major problem for the recorded music industry, which reports a 50 percent increase in such unauthorized ripping in the U.S. from 2013 to 2015.
The industry in the U.S. sent a message Monday that it aims to stop the practice with organizations representing key record companies filing a copyright infringement and technology circumvention suit against a website called YouTube-mp3 (YTMP3) and its German operator Philip Matesanz in a federal court for allegedly ripping music from YouTube.
The industry rates the website, which is located at the web address www.youtube-mp3.org, as the largest in stream-ripping, with more than 60 million unique users per month.
In the U.K., the BPI, representing local record labels, put the stream-ripping site on formal notice of intended legal action if it does not cease infringing.
The lawsuit, has however been criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for "grabbing for power to conscript Internet intermediaries as content police," as it wants certain orders served on Internet intermediaries like web hosts and domain-name registrars to block access to their routines services to YTMP3 and related websites.
YTMP3 is charged with seamlessly removing audio tracks of videos streamed from YouTube by its users, converting those tracks to MP3 format audio, and copying and storing them it on its servers, according to a complaint filed Monday by record companies including Sony Music and Warner in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
The website then distributes copies of the MP3 audio files from its servers to its users in the U.S., enabling them to download those MP3 files to their computers, tablets, or smartphones, according to the complaint, which added that all of this happens without the permission of the music companies or of YouTube.
YTMP3 could not be reached for comment. On its website, it says that its service is completely free. "We need approximately 3 to 4 minutes per video," it added. "Different from other services the whole conversion process will be perfomed by our infrastructure and you only have to download the audio file from our servers," it added on its website.
The industry complaint has, however, been criticized by EFF as it asks the court to enjoin the defendant and all third parties "with notice of the Order, including any Web hosts, domain-name registrars, domain name registries, and proxy or reverse proxy services, and their administrators, from facilitating access to any or all domain names, URLs and websites" through which the defendants infringe the complainants' copyrights.
The industry also wants the court to enjoin all third parties with notice of the order from maintaining, operating, or providing advertising, financial, technical or other support to YTMP3 and related domain names, URLs and websites, and also want a ban on any app that interoperates with YTMP3 and related sites through which the complainants copyrights are infringed.
"By asking all of those intermediaries to block all 'websites through which Defendants infringe Plaintiffs' copyrights,' without specifying the URLs, the labels are seeking to conscript all of these companies as investigators who must chase down the defendants and block every website they use, under any name," EFF wrote in its post Monday.


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One of the biggest natural tragedies of recent years is the deterioration of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a vast structure of coral off the continent's east coast that supports a profusion of wildlife. In addition to overfishing and nutrient pollution, the world's largest natural structure has suffered from rising ocean temperatures. But, perhaps less well known, Australia's west coast has some massive reefs of its own, offshore in the southeastern Indian Ocean. Massive stony corals of the genus Porites swell to the surface, and new research published February 2 in Science suggests those located in the colder waters farthest south are growing better than ever—thanks to warming ocean temperatures.
"Where we see strong warming, there is a marked response," says marine scientist Timothy Cooper of the Australian Institute of Marine Science. "To date, it is the changes in temperature that are having the dominant impact on coral growth as evidenced by the increasing calcification rates at our southernmost locations."
The findings suggest that temperature changes play a bigger role, at least in the near term, in the fate of corals than any ocean acidification—where rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are absorbed into seawater, rendering it more acidic.
Corals—microscopic polyps—build reefs by pulling calcium from the surrounding water and using it to create tiny shell-like homes for themselves, which can accumulate over centuries into massive structures. This process, known as calcification, is sensitive to temperature and acidity, both of which can hinder growth. In addition, the corals themselves are sensitive to temperature, and temperatures that are too warm can lead to so-called coral bleaching events that can kill a reef.
Cooper and his colleagues drilled into reefs of Porites at six locations spanning roughly 1,000 kilometers from north to south off Australia's west coast. They extracted 27 core samples. Each one revealed a record of the annual density of the calcium-based homes of the Porites coral. By comparing the coral's annual rate of calcification to the average density from 1900 to 2010, Cooper and his colleagues revealed when and where any unusual changes occurred. Then the researchers compared that record to the data on monthly sea-surface temperatures to try to understand whether temperature had an impact and, if so, what it was.
They found that those Porites at the southern end of Australia's west coast have been growing thicker and thicker homes in recent decades as the colder ocean water warms. Farther north, the reverse is true: Porites in already warm subtropical and tropical waters suffer as the ocean heats too much. "Where there has been little warming, there has been little change in calcification," Cooper says. "To date, it is the changes in temperature that are having the dominant impact on coral growth as evidenced by the increasing calcification rates at our southernmost locations."
The cores suggest that the increasing acidification of the ocean has had, so far, less impact on coral than temperature has had. Eventually, however, acidification is expected to take a toll on coral growth—water temperature notwithstanding. "Ocean acidification will increasingly become another limiting factor for growth of tropical coral reefs," Cooper suggests.
But a flaw in this study may prove to be the monthly temperature records used. Corals respond to temperatures on the scale of days or weeks—hence bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef or elsewhere in the world—that can then "slow colony growth for years," says marine biologist John Bruno of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who also studies corals but was not involved in this research. "Unfortunately, this [temperature] information does not exist." It is such fine-grained data on local temperature changes that would be needed to better understand how temperature, acidity and coral growth interact, although it is becoming increasingly clear that impacts from warmer ocean temperatures will determine the fate of coral reefs.
It is also clear that both of the impacts of rising human CO2 emissions—global warming and ocean acidification—are making life harder on the reef, including rapidly declining growth for Porites coral in the Great Barrier Reef. And there is no easy cure: Bruno's work shows that even marine protected areas, essentially ocean parks, cannot protect reefs from global problems like climate change. As Cooper adds: "Changes such as this with the relatively modest amount of global warming to date—compared with what is predicted for the next few decades—is cause for concern."


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It's been nearly five years to the day since Amazon introduced its groundbreaking Simple Storage Service -- or S3, as it's more commonly known. But despite that offering's track record, many enterprise IT executives still struggle with the notion of using cloud-based storage services to hold their corporate data.
Whether they're in manufacturing, finance, health care, or education, IT professionals are as concerned as ever about data security and privacy, with regulatory compliance weighing heavily on their minds, so they fret about sending data offsite. Likewise, they wonder if performance will be adversely affected if there's a long distance between an application and its storage site.
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For reasons such as those, "we're really not seeing much willingness to put enterprise data in the cloud yet," says Gartner analyst Adam Couture, who covers storage services.
That isn't to say that enterprises are shying away from cloud storage entirely. Many companies in vertical markets of every ilk have found the cloud to be a perfect fit for their backup, archival, and file data. In other words, the cloud makes sense when speed of retrieval isn't an issue.
And Couture says the perception of the cloud's suitability as a storage medium for mission-critical data and applications will change over the years, as enterprises grow to accept public cloud computing in general.
"If you're running Amazon EC2 [the company's cloud computing service] and S3, and the storage is the same physical location as the server, latency becomes a nonissue, and you won't be charged every time you move the data, because it's local," he says.
Storage that's simple
In fact, you can already find notable organizations using cloud storage in a variety of industries. Turning to the cloud is a logical move when you're involved in distributing a lot of data to a website, perhaps with the help of a content delivery network. Indeed, prime examples of cloud storage users are companies in media, retail, and other verticals that are accustomed to finagling content delivery over the Web.
"When we think about who's using the public cloud for storage, it's really those like media companies that have need for fluctuating storage, and a lot of it. They go to the cloud, plop stuff in extra storage that they need for a certain period of time -- it's a fluid resource for them," says Ruthbea Yesner Clarke, an analyst at IDC.
Streaming media is the perfect use case for public cloud storage, Clarke adds.
"That's extremely storage-heavy. It's constantly being pinged, but it also involves lots of peaks and valleys and back-and-forth flow to a main pile of storage," she says.
For example, PBS Interactive stores 90 percent of its streaming video content in the Amazon S3 cloud. "S3 is brain-dead simple -- you put stuff in it and take stuff out of it," says Drew Engelson, chief architect and senior director of platform development at PBS in Arlington, Va.
In PBS's case, S3 is the origin server for media assets that get delivered via Amazon's CloudFront content delivery network. "We put the high-bit-rate original files on S3 for permanent storage and for ingestion into transcoding workloads. So we'll drop a high-bit-rate file into a particular S3 bucket that is being monitored by a transcoding service," he says. "The transcoding service will pick up that high-bit-rate file, transcode it into our final output format and drop those into a different S3 bucket. From there we can deliver those files through CloudFront."
It would have been possible, but difficult, to stream video content using a traditional infrastructure, according to Engelson. "We're a media organization, with a goal of delivering as much PBS content to end-users as possible. We've simply found that this is one way that makes it easier to do that," he explains.
Success stories like that have helped generate interest in public cloud storage, says Couture. After all, the model does come with considerable positives -- scalability up and down, pay-by-use pricing, vendor-provided management, and software agnosticism. Those qualities, of course, are particularly appealing to lean startups and small and midsize companies, he says.
Gartner is projecting 100 percent year-over-year growth in public cloud storage services for the next five years -- though Couture points out that that's starting from a minuscule base. For 2011, Gartner projects that cloud storage revenue will hit $150 million to $200 million. "That isn't an extensive neighborhood," Couture says.
For example, financial services companies, by nature conservative, generally aren't going to put customer-specific data in the cloud, says Andrew Reichman, an analyst at Forrester Research. But then again, he adds, they tend to be big companies with the wherewithal to build their own data centers cost-effectively and therefore have less of a need to use the public cloud.
When you consider public cloud storage in terms of vertical industries, you have to think about security and risk, says Reichman. "Public cloud storage is certainly getting a lot of attention," he says. "But the questions are about where it can fit down the road. It's not a ready-to-go thing."
Whether public cloud storage providers thrive or wither away may depend on how well they understand two things, Reichman says: how companies in different industries use data, and how important it is for those companies to keep their data secure.
A new crop of cloud providers, including Cirtas Systems, Nasuni, Panzura, and StorSimple, have developed gateway storage products designed to be flexible enough to accommodate enterprises' varying storage needs. In essence, these vendors enable users to build hybrid clouds, using local caches for data that is used frequently, must be accessed quickly, requires tight security, or is otherwise unsuited for the cloud, while sending the rest out to public storage.
"If a service provider can say, 'We know your workflow. We know how you deal with your customers. We know that this data is sensitive and that data is not, and we propose to do a better and cheaper job of holding the nonsensitive data for you,' then it's much more viable for that company to say, 'This offering will meet your needs,'" Reichman adds.
Data management service provider Iron Mountain, for example, has added an onsite storage option to supplement its Digital Record Center for Medical Images, a cloud storage service for medical data. The combination gives health care organizations greater flexibility in crafting their access and backup processes, says Iron Mountain.
But while many providers claim that their offerings enable compliance with specific regulatory mandates, there are few cloud storage services that are truly oriented to specific vertical industries, according to Reichman. "It would be hard for me to say that there is any major vertical where core applications are moving to the cloud yet," he says.
Cloud pays off for accounting firm
"Like everybody else, our storage needs are very diverse, and there are many different reasons for putting data in the cloud or not," says Peter Henley, CIO at Clark Nuber, a Bellevue, Wash.-based accounting firm.
For example, the company has solved version-control problems since it started using the cloud to store data that Clark Nuber accountants and clients closely collaborate on, he says. The firm keeps its data in Amazon's S3 cloud and has a file-sharing application from ShareFile on the front end. That setup has been a huge hit with users, according to Henley.
"We tried a highly collaborative portal, where we'd have contact lists, calendars, tasks and all that, but nobody used it -- and we still needed to collaborate on file storage or file manipulation," he explains. "We needed a place where everybody could go, and this is so simple. People see a file, they download the file, they put it back and we pick it up."
When Clark Nuber was deciding on a file-sharing provider, security was a prime consideration. "We needed a provider that was large enough -- certainly larger than us -- with volume on its side so it could afford a much more secure data center than we could," says Henley. "Security was an easy call, actually. Security is going to be much better at a place like Amazon than it is at Clark Nuber -- we don't have armed guards outside our server room, if you get my point."
Clark Nuber clients who want data security assurances can get a SAS 70 audit report from Amazon, as well as statements from ShareFile and Clark Nuber itself on their roles in the security chain. "They're all different. ShareFile and Clark Nuber don't provide physical security for the data; Amazon does that. Clark Nuber doesn't provide any management of how the data gets to browsers; ShareFile does that. Neither Amazon nor ShareFile assigns users or has access to passwords; Clark Nuber does that," Henley explains.
Because Clark Nuber doesn't audit public companies, it doesn't have to take into account U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission mandates. But it does anyway, Henley says. For example, it ensures that data is encrypted while in transport and locked down while at rest, and it can assess audit logs should a breach occur.
Use of cloud-based file-sharing was once a competitive differentiator among accounting firms, but that's not necessarily the case anymore. "Everybody's getting into this now," says Henley.
Education group goes off-campus
For WhippleHill Communications, which provides a hosted Web communications platform for private schools, the need for a better backup strategy led to the cloud, says Doug Smart, IT manager at the Bedford, N.H., company.
Today WhippleHill backs up critical data using a public cloud backup service from Zetta. The company had been backing up those files to disk and storing them in a different building on the corporate campus, Smart says. "We decided that really wasn't offsite enough for data like our source code, documentation and Wikis. We needed to get those out of here, and Zetta made it easy," he adds. He points out that Zetta helped WhippleHill write automated backup scripts and that it offers Windows sync capabilities and support for a wide variety of file system protocols -- including Secure Shell FileSystem, which WhippleHill uses for Linux server backups.
Still, Smart says he's not ready to entrust highly sensitive data, such as human resources information or credit card numbers, to cloud storage. And he wouldn't change his mind on that before thoroughly investigating Zetta's policies and procedures for ensuring that its customers can meet mandates such as the those of the PCI Security Standards Council. "Frankly, I haven't talked to Zetta about encryption on its end, because it hasn't been important for what we've got out there now," says Smart, noting that the data is encrypted across the wire and protected by passwords.
Local government alleviates risk
Brian Moynihan, IT director for Clinton, Mich., a small town 20 miles northeast of Detroit, faced similar data storage decisions.
"Of course, we do the industry-standard backups, with multiple copies on RAID drives and online storage in vaults. But ultimately we realized the township in and of itself is a centralized location. No matter how many copies of data I have in buildings around the township, in the face of a natural disaster, we still have a single point of failure in terms of our stored data," he says.
A year and a half ago, Clinton's steering committee began exhaustive discussions about how best to address that problem. It eventually decided to turn to public cloud storage, but at that time the most readily available options were consumer-oriented offerings from Carbonite and Mozy, Moynihan says.
"We began investigating what it would take for us to do honest-to-goodness cloud-based offsite storage but didn't initially find anything that provided a real good fit for what we wanted to do, which was to have an archived, easily accessible offsite copy of our data," he says.
Then officials discovered AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service, a pay-as-you-go storage option that was particularly attractive to the revenue-strapped municipality, Moynihan says. Although the township hasn't yet begun using the Synaptic service (Moynihan says key municipal decision-makers move at a glacial pace), it intends to rely on it for daily system backups and operational backups of financial management applications and other systems used on a day-to-day basis. Later, it will use Synaptic for long-term archiving of documents such as death records and property deeds that must be accessible, essentially, forever.
With the daily system and operational backups, Moynihan says, compliance isn't an issue. But the steering committee has concerns about the archiving. While the Freedom of Information Act requires that much of the township's historical data must be readily accessible, "that doesn't mean we want to publish everything openly on the Web," he says.
When choosing a public cloud storage provider, Moynihan says, officials had to consider where in the world the data might be kept. "For emotional and political reasons, people here don't want our data across borders," he explains.


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One of the criticisms levelled at the new Sean Penn movie This Must Be The Place is that whilst it captures the quirkiness of small-town America almost perfectly, it fails to comment on it. A fair enough point, and one that reminded me of the wonderful writing of Woody Guthrie, whose lyrics and music take the listener on a road trip through the heart of a fascinating country: Mark Twain set to an acoustic guitar, or a musical Kerouac (just about) on the wagon. In the documentary Man in the Sand Guthrie's daughter Nora describes him as "Huckleberry Finn, floating past the settled folk on the shore, and very glad to be floating by", combining the vernacular and the deeply personal with the political commentary that coloured the likes of 'This Land is Your Land'.
After her father's death at the young age of 55, Nora Guthrie discovered that he had written over 3,000 lyrics without music. Given Guthrie's importance in both folk music and American culture it would be almost crass to allow all his work to go undiscovered; after all, he was the voice of the dispossessed, the sunken American Dream, the 'Dust Bowl troubadour', the man who inspired the music and poetry of Bob Dylan . It seems obvious now that Billy Bragg, with his famed beliefs in both liberal ideals and folk revivalism, should set to music the writing of a man whose guitar bore the legend 'This machine kills fascists.' Equally obvious it seems is that the work should be a collaboration with Wilco in their post-Being There guise, riding on the back of one of the finest alt-country Americana record of the Nineties.
The collaboration, which picked up 10,000 Maniacs' Natalie Merchant and blues/reggae luminary Corey Harris along the way, yielded two volumes of Mermaid Avenue albums, here expanded to three and packaged neatly with the Man in the Sand documentary for Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions. Wilco and Bragg have long been supporters of Record Store Day, and this year being the hundredth anniversary of Guthrie's birth makes it an apposite time for this wonderful reissue.
For those who haven't heard the originals, this is as opportune a moment as any to unearth some of the strongest songs in either artist's back catalogue from a pair of albums that tend to merit small mention in discussion of their discographies. 'Birds and Ships' showcases Merchant's voice at its most beautiful, "The wind and sun are in the words you say, where might your lonesome lover be?" sung in a broken falsetto capturing the romance of the American heartland perfectly; 'Ingrid Bergman' the lovelorn dream of the stars. The likes of children's song 'Hoodoo Voodoo' and country rocker 'Airline to Heaven' are the perfect showcase for American optimism, and the highlight 'California Stars' oozes the warmth of a Sonoma pinot noir imbibed under starry west coast skies: "I'd give this world just to dream a dream with you, on a bed of California Stars".
It's interesting that Man in the Sand, the standard 'making of' documentary film, follows Bragg on his journey to get to know Guthrie. Whilst this is no surprise, given it was he whom Nora Guthrie approached to work on the project, there's always a sense that this very English punk is never anything but the proverbial outsider looking in; Bragg comes across as someone observing his hero and his his homeland rather than ever actually getting to know it. This is reflected in the album, where Wilco sound far more at ease, and in a way it's far more their record than Billy Bragg's. There's no denying that 'Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key' is a highlight and that Bragg does the song justice, but there's still something slightly off when he sings "I lived in a town called Okfuskee" in his thick Barking accent. Jeff Tweedy on the other hand owns Guthrie's lyrics completely, and on the likes of 'One By One' you believe lines such as "One by one the words come falling off the page/One by one my dreams are fading in the twilight" could easily be his own.
Recorded in the same sessions, the new material is a similar proposition to Volume II: a deeper introspective into Guthrie the writer and the person of varying quality. 'Jailcell Blues', 'Bugeye Jim' and 'When the Roses Bloom Again' wouldn't have seemed out of place on the original release, and the heavier folk orientation makes it more suited to Bragg on tracks such as 'Go Down to the Water'. There are lulls though, and the likes of 'Gotta Work' and 'Ought to be Satisfied Now' sound like half-finished demos that could have done with more work before seeing a full release.
Even for those who already have both of the previous volumes, Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions is a fascinating look at one of America's greatest writers. As Nora Guthrie puts it in her liner notes, "Billy and Wilco single-handedly burst through time itself, altering every previous perception anyone ever had about Woody Guthrie; his look, his language, his tone, his rhythm, his purpose, his heart and soul. All of our thoughts about him have now been forever altered in some way."
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Dir: Erik Matti. Philippines. 2013. 121mins
International audiences with a fondness for trigger-happy Jason Statham mayhem might be persuaded to vary their diets with On The Job, a boisterous, pacy thriller inspired by true events from the lawless streets of the Philippines.
The film is all forward momentum as we are fed information on the bigger picture and the moral dilemmas facing the central characters.
Director and co-writer Erik Matti seems more comfortable with staging action sequences and generating noir-like atmosphere than creating nuanced characters or subtle dialogue but the basic story of crime and corruption at the heart of a rotten society is involving enough to forgive any infelicities.
A stellar Filipino cast and the explosive subject matter will make this essential viewing on its home territory. Well Go's decision to purchase US rights confirms the film's potential to make an impression internationally although the blandly uninviting title does it no favours.
On The Job finds parallels in two sets of characters; the father/son relationships both mirrored in aspects of mentor and protégé status. Veteran prisoner Tatang (Joel Torre) and cocky, young apprentice Daniel (Gerald Anderson) are both part of a clandestine operation that uses prisoners on day release as hired killers.
Their incarceration provides the perfect alibi and their orders come from high ranking members of a ruling elite. NBI (National Bureau Of Investigation) cop Francis Coronel (Piolo Pascual) is assigned to investigate the death of one of their victims. His father-in-law has invited him into the inner circle of power and expects him to respond with special favours and knowing where his best interests lie.
As it becomes clear that all roads lead to the politically ambitious General Pachero, Francis must decide where his loyalties lie just as Daniel discovers whether he has the ability and ruthless streak that will allow him to succeed Tatang. Matti and cameraman Francis Ricardo Buhay III capture a real sense of the bustling street markets and sweaty menace on every corner of Manila as they duck down narrow alleys and weave their way around a maze of shanty town dwellings, shadowy corners and oppressive crowds.
The film is all forward momentum as we are fed information on the bigger picture and the moral dilemmas facing the central characters. Tatang has a wife and daughter that he tries to keep in the dark about the true reason for his home visits whilst Coronel has a wife who cannot understand why he would rock the boat and endanger a father who has been so generous to them.
The arrival of a gleaming new Range Rover is a small token of the father's largesse. Erwin Romulo's pulsating score adds urgency to the chases and shootouts but seems less appropriate and cheesier when setting the mood for the quieter, emotional scenes and the montages that try to connect the central characters.
Production company: Reality Entertainment Inc, Star Cinema
International: XYZ Films, www.xyzfilms.com
Producer: Erik Matti
Screenplay: Michiko Yamamoto, Erik Matti
Cinematography: Francis Ricardo Buhay III
Editor: Jay Halili
Production designer: Richard V. Somes
Music: Erwin Romulo
Main cast: Piolo Pascual, Gerald Anderson, Joel Torre, Joey Marquez