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Jul 25, 2012 11:21 AM PT
Uh oh. Apple has done the seemingly impossible: It failed to meet analysts' expectations for its quarterly performance.
Not that an investor would feel any sense of dismay by merely studying Apple's numbers. The company posted quarterly revenue of US$35 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.8 billion on Tuesday. These results compare to revenue of $28.6 billion and net profit of $7.3 billion in the year-ago quarter. Apple's cash pile rose to $117 billion, an increase of $7 billion during the quarter.
Apple sold 17 million iPads, exceeding forecasts. Where it sinned -- in the eyes of Wall Street at least -- was in the number of iPhones it sold: 26 million, which clocked in at the low end of expectations. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg had predicted 28.4 million in sales.
'Apple as in AAPL'
"Most CEOs would announce such results with goose bumps of excitement," Andreas Scherer, managing partner with Salto Partners, told MacNewsWorld. "But we are talking about Apple as in AAPL."
The missed iPhone sales mark was compounded by other disappointments in the report. Analysts had expected the company to report higher earnings, Scherer said. Also, Apple's fourth-quarter guidance disappointed: It forecast $7.65 a share for earnings on revenue of $34 billion versus analysts' expectations of $10.22 a share earnings on revenue of $38 billion.
How to Fix It
The wisdom of the Street shouldn't be ignored. To make up lost ground in the short term, Apple will have to release the iPhone 5, Scherer said. "People are waiting for it to hit the market."
There is a bigger question for Apple, though, and that is what will be its next mega gadget, he continued. "That enormous $117 billion stockpile of cash would allow the company to do all kinds of mergers and acquisition. Yet, given the type of company Apple is, I believe that the answer will come from Apple's own labs."
Ignore the Hype
Even with Apple's future product development plans opaque, at best -- and even considering the missed mark for iPhone sales -- the company is doing well, Azita Arvani of the Arvani Group told MacNewsWorld.
Overall, the Apple numbers look quite good, she said. "In particular, iPad sales at 17 million are 44 percent better than last year's and 84 percent better than last quarter's."
At 26 million units, the iPhone numbers are pretty respectable, she argued. "But some are disappointed since it was down from 35 million in the March quarter, even though it was up by 28 percent from last year. Given that iPad sales are pretty strong and iPhone sales are still quite healthy, I think we can write off the slowdown in iPhone growth to users waiting for the next big upgrade."
Most analysts had included this slowdown in sales of iPhones in their estimates, Arvani noted, "but it is hard to predict it accurately."
In fact, there is a silver lining to these numbers that Wall Street is missing, argued John Jackson, vice president of research at CCS Insight.
"It's that consumers are quite tuned into the cycle of iPhone launches at this point, so latent demand for the next-generation iPhone may be so strong that the financial results surprise in exactly the opposite direction either next quarter or in Q4, or both," he told MacNewsWorld.
Just Like the Rest of Us
What this quarter also showed is that Apple is not an invulnerable conglomerate immune to economic forces, said Arvani.
"It lives in the same universe as the rest of us," she quipped. "Some macro-economic trends happened to hit them as well: In Europe, sales were flat overall, with some countries like France, Greece and Italy doing poorly."
The good news, she said, is that Apple didn't feel any pain in the U.S. and China.


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ROCHESTER — There were happy, lopsided smiles on the faces of the Spaulding High School girls basketball team Tuesday night.
They were well deserved.
After all the Red Raiders had just beaten Concord in Division I action, 39-25. It meant a rare two-game win streak and an even rarer double figures win for Spaulding, which is now firmly back in the D-I playoff picture with a 3-9 record.
"This game was a must-win for us," said Spaulding coach Karen Malsbenden. "We've been steadily improving, but we still didn't execute as well as we wanted to. But we were happy to keep them under 30 points."
The Red Raiders, who beat Exeter on Friday, 35-28, used clutch shooting from seniors Chloe Routhier and Ashley Lemery to keep the Crimson Tide (0-11) at bay.
Clinging to a 20-14 lead early in the third quarter after a steal and hoop by Concord's Cassidy Emerson, Routhier answered with two foul shots and a 10-foot shot off the glass to get the margin back up to 10, 24-14.
"I was just feeling it," Routhier said. "I had more confidence, so I took it to the hole, got fouled, and then hit that shot."
Spaulding led 26-15 after a rough and tumble third quarter, and then Routhier and Lemery combined to put the game out of reach early in the fourth quarter.
Routhier hit a 3-pointer at 7:22 to make it 29-15.
"I knew I was open, I knew I had to take the shot and it felt good," Routhier added.
Concord's Maegan Cudworth drilled a 14-footer to cut the lead to 12, but Lemery followed with an old-fashioned 3-point play and a trey of her own to widen the gap to 35-17 at 5:40.
"We stepped up when we needed to," Malsbenden said.
The Crimson Tide, which made just 10 of 46 shots from the field, did not get closer than 12 the rest of the way.
"To Spaulding's credit they've really improved," said Concord coach Mike Achilles. "They played really good defense. My girls played pretty good defense, but offensively it seemed like we couldn't get the ball in the basket."
Lemery led the Red Raiders with 12 points, while Routhier added nine, all in the second half. Seana Flynn chipped in with six and Lyndsee Thompson notched five.
Emerson led Concord with a game-high 14 points. The Crimson Tide came in with a thin bench due to injuries. They suited up eight players, including three swing players, but played just seven.
"(Spaulding was) able to sub a lot," Achilles added."Some of my girls, even though they played very hard on defense, I could see they would let up and Spaulding would take advantage of that let up. Then we'd make a run, but have another let up, instead of being able to put fresh legs in."
Spaulding came out nervous and flat and led 7-6 after the first quarter.
Leading by three, 13-10, in the second frame after a drive by Concord's Emerson, the Red Raiders ended the frame on a 7-2 run. Lyndsee Thompson scored two buckets and Jade Lawler buried a 3-pointer with 15 seconds to go to send Spaulding into the locker room up eight.
"We've been looking at the big picture," Malsbenden added. "These girls have been working hard and they want to make the tournament. They want to impact the tournament."
Spaulding, which won one game last year, will look to add to its win total at home Friday against rival Dover (5-6). With six games to play, the Red Raiders will likely have to win at least two more games to have a shot at getting into the 16-team tournament.
Two years ago they won four games to make the playoffs.
"We need to get that win," Routhier added. "We're going in strong. We know we can do it."
Spaulding, 39-25
CONCORD (25) — Emerson 5-4-14, Osgood 0-1-1, Morrill 2-0-4, Daniels 1-0-2, Sinotte 1-0-2, Cudworth 1-0-2, Monroe 0-0-0. Totals: 10-5-25.
SPAULDING (39) — Flynn 3-0-6, Lemery 5-1-12, L. Thompson 2-1-5, Routhier 3-2-9, Lavertu 1-0-2, Benway 0-2-2, J. Lawler 1-0-3, Douglas 0-0-0, Tremblay 0-0-0, S. Thompson 0-0-0. Totals: 15-6-39.
Concord (0-11) 6 6 3 10 — 25
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Let me take you back to 1993. IBM had posted an $8 billion loss, and its share price was in free fall. Technology was changing the world, and IBM wasn't adapting. It was losing hardware business to Dell and Hewlett-Packard, and losing software sales to Microsoft and Oracle. Wall Street panicked.
But this was a solid company with a long history. It was just three years removed from its most profitable year ever, and although times were tough, new CEO Louis Gerstner had a vision to turn the ship around. Indeed, Gerstner and his new management team came on board and taught that old elephant to dance.
In one of the greatest turnarounds in history, IBM has bounced back -- and then some. Investors who endured the hysteria in 1993 were rewarded with outsized profits; an investment made during the lean years would have yielded 820% returns. That's right. This classic turnaround, once considered at death's door, gave investors a nine-bagger.
Wouldn't you love to find (and, more importantly, invest in) the next IBM? Especially now, when many excellent companies have seen their share prices plummet by 30% or more in a matter of weeks?
Yeah, we all would, and I think we're smart to aim high. That's what we search for here at our Motley Fool Inside Value investment service. And history shows us that dream stocks -- like IBM -- occasionally become available on the market. For cheap.
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I'm talking about the kind of stock that will help you sleep at night -- one that's underpriced and comes with a long-term, sustainable advantage over its competitors; a high return on invested capital (ROIC); a sterling balance sheet; loads of cash; consistent dividend payments; a high credit rating; and a history of share buybacks.
When I happen upon that kind of company, I want to make it part of my core holdings for at least 10 or 20 years. Those dream stocks are like perennial plants, coming back year after year and multiplying along the way, without fertilizer or sprinkler systems.
And, believe it or not, dirt cheap dream stocks are available right under your nose. By snooping around the market, it's possible to find underappreciated stocks that Wall Street has unfairly penalized. Analysts are bearish. The public is selling.
To spot a turnaround, look in specific places: wounded elephants, former glamour stocks, or fallen angels, to name a few. You should demand several things from a candidate, including a solid management team, free cash flow, competitive advantages, and attractive tangible assets.
Take, for instance, Johnson & Johnson. The venerable American brand bottomed out near $30 (split-adjusted) in March 2000, in part because its heartburn medicine, Propulsid, which had $940 million in 1999 sales, was yanked from the market.
Also consider Altria, which in the spring of 2003 was reeling from lawsuits, increased taxes, and discount competitors in its Philip Morris USA unit. Bankruptcy talk was in the air. Fears of large-scale litigation drove the stock price down to bargain prices -- but those fears were overblown.
IBM, J&J, and Altria have all regained focus and have come roaring back. Investors spotting these stocks would've been handsomely rewarded for sticking with such solid companies when others were selling.
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Prices are split- and dividend-adjusted and include spinoffs, if any. Data from Yahoo! Finance.
The purpose of this table is not to cherry-pick or play rearview-mirror tricks. It illustrates the point at which several truly great companies were facing their greatest struggles, and experiencing deflated share prices as a result. These companies have come a long way, and their returns reflect that. Ask yourself: Would you have had the guts to buy at the bottom?
Value investors probably would. History has proven that, over time, the value approach gives investors the potential to hit home runs. In an article last year, I cited an Ibbotson Associates study showing that value investing outperformed both growth investing and the S&P 500 from December 1968 to December 2002. During that time, value stocks returned 11% per year; the S&P returned 10.2%; and growth stocks, 8.8%.
Mimic the masters
The first step toward those great returns is to follow the trails blazed by legendary investors such as Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett. In their value approaches, they've searched for unloved companies with solid management, free cash flow, and attractive assets. While Graham was more conservative, Buffett has gone a step further: He'll pay fair value for a strong business with high ROIC and long-term competitive advantages.
Follow in their paths, and the approach is simple: Search for unloved companies. Read the newspapers to search for castaways. Listen to ideas from others (I frequent our wonderful Foolish community of message boards). Scour 52-week-low lists, which today seem like a who's-who of blue-chip names: Adobe Systems
Run the numbers via stock screens. For instance, below I've provided you with four companies that have been beaten down in the past year but that have some attractive features:
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*Last 12 months. Data from Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's.
I'm not recommending these companies per se -- they'll require further research and due diligence on your part -- but their operational efficiency, mixed with their current multiples, warrants a closer look.
When searching for juicy value bargains, I calculate a stock's fair value based on my discounted cash flow analysis. Then it's just a matter of sitting back and waiting patiently.
I wait for the actual stock price to slip below the fair value estimate, giving me a margin of safety. When I spot such a bargain, I jump in ... and I patiently wait again, this time for the market to recognize the undervaluation, thereby driving up the price of the stock to levels at or above my intrinsic value estimate.
In short, I seek good deals at great prices. Having a margin of safety allows me to minimize the risk while aiming for solid returns.
Putting it all together
Don't be turned off by terms like solid and patient. Although value investing isn't a get-rich-quick scheme, we're giddy to use descriptors like tremendous or out of this world to characterize our returns.
Sometimes, the down-and-out companies stay down -- and then bow out. Follow the value luminaries and learn the difference.
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This article was originally published on April 13, 2005. It has been updated.
Philip Durell is the co-advisor of Motley Fool Inside Value. He owns shares of Dell, but of no other companies mentioned in this article. Microsoft, American Express, and Dell are Motley Fool Inside Value recommendations. Johnson & Johnson is an Income Investor choice. Precision Castparts is a Stock Advisor pick. The Motley Fool owns shares of American Express and has a disclosure policy.


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Tantasqua Regional coach Aaron Powell says he has to watch game film a little more often and a little closer than usual these days, but he's not complaining.
As he, his coaching staff and players get together to watch film of the previous game, mistakes are getting harder and harder to find, which makes sense, if you look at the Warriors' steady improvement.
"Early in the year, we had to spend time going over some obvious mistakes, whether it was not being in the right place or missing a block," said Powell, whose team is 2-2. "Now, we feel as if the major points have improved to the point where we're getting into the more minuscule but important details of the game."
Tantasqua is running a new offense, a high-octane, no-huddle scheme designed to take advantage of what the Warriors have and, in a sense, cover up what the team is lacking.
"There aren't going to be many games where we're the physically bigger team," Powell said. "We got to the point where we were sick of getting pounded on and thought that if we can't match up with a team's size, our best shot at success was to use our speed and athleticism to force the pace, and, hopefully, wear defenses down by the fourth quarter."
The Warriors' two losses were to Hometeam media poll top-10 teams, No. 6 Northbridge High and No. 10 Doherty. In both of those games, Tantasqua led entering the fourth quarter.
"We certainly would have wanted to win those games, but we did add confidence in each other and our system," said senior quarterback Randy Harrington, a first-year starter at that position. "We don't have the biggest team, but we have a lot of athletes who are good in space, and if we can keep getting them the ball, we should do good things."
The skill position players include Dom Cruz, Eric Fleshman, Myles Gaudet and Spencer Duncan, all of whom have the ability to break a big play. Harrington is afforded time to find his targets thanks to a steadily improving line anchored by Ryan Kane, who missed last season with health problems.
"The kids really deserve credit for buying into an offense that was innovative and new, but also something that is tough to learn," Powell said. "Even though the kids were challenged, it's been an advantage, too. They've taken ownership of it and relied on each other to learn it, so that's brought added cohesion and camaraderie."
Tantasqua finished 3-8 last year, and can match that win total with a victory over Oxford this weekend.
"Nobody really gave us any credit coming into the season because we didn't deserve it," Harrington said. "It's still early, and we've done well so far, but we just need to stay hungry and keep improving. We really had about two weeks to really work on the new offense in game situations, so I think we're developing, and we should keep getting better."


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EAA takes FAA to court over AirVenture fees
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — The Experimental Aircraft Association is asking a federal appeals court to review payments to the Federal Aviation Administration for air traffic control services during its annual convention.
EAA filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago on Wednesday.
In May, the FAA told EAA officials the cost for 87 air traffic controllers and supervisors to come to Oshkosh for AirVenture would be $447,000.
Last month, AirVenture made a partial payment with the remaining sum to be paid after the FAA completes its duties at the convention.
EAA is asking the appeals court to reverse the FAA's decision to demand the payment and return the money already paid.
FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro said in an email Friday he couldn't comment on pending legal actions.


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JS© wrote:any cardio that you could suggest for somebody with a gimpy knee?
I'm not quite sure where I am as far as running yet. Steps still causing some pain when trying to run up them, and even the most minimal distance (anything more than a block or two) starts getting painful. Mentioned upthread is that the docs caught a bone bruise/ligament sprain along with some other stuff a few weeks back thanks to an xray and an MRI.
Or as awkward as this sounds in this thread, is rest the best thing for me right now? Just losing my mind at this point since I can't run or skate.


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Federal judge extends order on Ohio voter ID rules
Order extended to 2016
A federal judge extended a 2010 court decree that governs Ohio's provisional ballots and voter identification requirements, which voter advocates say has kept elections from becoming the "Wild West."
The agreement ensures that election officials count votes cast provisionally when voters use the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley said Monday. He extended the order until the end of 2016, after the next presidential election in the battleground state.
Marbley said that without the decree, "there is nothing to prevent boards of election from returning to those haphazard and, in some cases, illegal practices, which previously resulted in the invalidation of validly cast ballots from registered voters."
The case stems from a 2006 state law that specified when provisional ballots could be counted toward vote totals. Under the law, a person who provided the last four digits of his or her Social Security number could vote provisionally. Advocates for homeless voters challenged the law in a federal complaint that year. And in 2010, then-Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, the state's top elections official, entered into the consent decree.
The decree included more options for provisional ballots and voter ID. For example, it incorporated a directive from Brunner that allows letters from public universities to serve as government documents for voting purposes. In addition, it defined "current" as a document issued within a year immediately preceding the date of the election in which a person seeks to vote.
The decree was set to expire June 30, but it was temporary extended while the court weighed arguments.
Voter advocates had the decree extended indefinitely or at least until 2021. Marbley said the law didn't support an indefinite extension.
A lawyer representing homeless voters told the federal court in Columbus last month that without the decree, the state would return to the "Wild West," in which county election boards could apply vague requirements and some voters would be disenfranchised.
Secretary of State Jon Husted said there was no evidence that a single Ohioan would be denied the right to vote if the order expired. Husted's attorneys argued that the decree wasn't necessary, and Husted was committed to following the rules it sets out.
Marbley noted that secretaries of state change frequently, and there's no guarantee a Husted successor would make the same commitment.
"A citizen's right to vote, however, cannot be at the mercy of the shifting legal interpretations of a single state officer, no matter how well intentioned he or she is," he wrote.
A Husted spokesman said the ruling doesn't change how elections in Ohio are currently administered, and the office hasn't determined whether to appeal it.
"Until the General Assembly takes action to change the law, as it relates to these provisions, the courts are going to continue to rule on these matters," said Matt McClellan, a Husted spokesman.
Arguing for the extension, Cleveland attorney Subodh Chandra said in court filings that without the order, homeless and poor voters who lack identification would in effect have to pay a "poll tax" to cast a ballot because they'd have to pay for proper identification.
But attorneys for the state said the advocates' "strained" reading of the law was incorrect.
Chandra, who argued on behalf of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and the Columbus Coalition for the Homeless, praised the ruling. He said there was no reason for Husted to appeal.
"If the consent decree doesn't really do anything, as he claims, then why fight it?" Chandra said in an interview. "This is a good day for the right to vote in America's swing state."
The Ohio Democratic Party also joined the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
Marbley, who is black, grew up in the South and received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina. He has often spoken of the importance of voting rights to him personally based on events he saw growing up.
President Bill Clinton appointed him to the bench in 1997.


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Kevin Jonas and his wife Danielle are expecting their first child, E! News reports.
"I was overjoyed," Kevin said. "It's been the most exciting thing in my life so far. I'm excited and I'm nervous."
The sexiest superhuman charactersDanielle talked about her baby fever with TVGuide.com last year, explaining that she didn't want to let outside pressure affect finding the right timing. "It's hard because you're trying to figure it out on your own and then you have people reminding you all the time," Danielle said. "It's like, 'Yes, I want to be pregnant and maybe I am,' but we want to [be ready] when we do have one and focus on it. But [the talk] is a constant reminder that it's next."The couple married in 2009 when the eldest Jonas Brother was only 22. Now, Kevin and Danielle star in Married to Jonas, an E! reality series that follows their lives as husband and wife.


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Popular Hymn "Amazing Grace" a 237-Year Inspiration
On March 10, 1748, during a church service in Warwickshire, England, the captain of the slave ship Greyhound converted to Christianity. John Newton, who was just 22 years old at the time, vowed to spend the rest of his life making amends for what he had done.
A quarter of a century later then ordained Rev. Newton delivered a New Year's Day sermon on the subject of faith. Although the text of that sermon has been lost, a hymn he wrote based on his notes went on to become one of the most popular gospel songs of all time. "Amazing Grace" has been recorded more than 1,800 times by such disparate musicians as Aretha Franklin, Rod Steward, the Dropkick Murphys and the Blind Boys of Alabama. In the early 1970s, a version by Judy Collins spent 67 weeks on the single chart in the United Kingdom. In 1972 an instrumental version by the Pipes and Drums and Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was No. 1 in England for five weeks.
In the past 237 years, Newton's grateful, graceful lyrics have given comfort and inspiration to many millions of people. And they no doubt will continue to do so for many centuries to come. We're all familiar with the first stanza of that lovely, memorable hymn. But here is the complete text:
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That sav'd a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.
"Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears reliev'd; How precious did that grace appear, The hour I first believ'd!
"Thro' many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.
"The Lord has promis'd good to me, His word my hope secures; He will my shield and portion be, As long as life endures.
"Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail, And mortal life shall cease; I shall possess, within the veil, A life of joy and peace.
"The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, The sun forbear to shine; But God, who call'd me here below, Will be forever mine."
May you be richly blessed, too.
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All kinds of of devices have been dubbed "sonic blasters" – from the Long Range Acoustic Device super loudhailer to the piercing Banshee to the Inferno ("most unbearable, gut-wrenching noise I've ever heard in my life" according to Danger Room's own Sharon Weinberger). But a new device, developed in Israel, merits the "sonic blaster" label more than most: the Thunder Generator really is a blaster, producing a series of ear-splitting explosions. Some are so loud, they could be deadly.
Israeli firm PDT Agro developed the Thunder Generator, based on a gadget to scare away birds. The design is very simple: gas from a cylinder of domestic liquid petroleum (LPG) is mixed with air and then detonated, producing a series of high-intensity blasts. Patented "pulse detonation" technology ensures high-decibel blasts. According to Defense News, the Israeli Ministry of Defense has now licensed a firm called ArmyTec to market the Thunder Generator for military and security applications.
The generator can produce up to a hundred blasts a minute, with a 12-kilogram cylinder of gas running to around five thousand blasts. ArmyTec say it can continue for "hours of continous operation," and suggest that a number of generators could be networked together to cover a wide area. Various configurations are possible, including a curved barrel for firing around corners.
Understandably, the device is designed to be used remotely. It has an effective range of up to fifty meters, and the makers say that it is extremely loud but will not do any lasting damage at this range. However, they warn that within ten meters the Thunder Generator could cause permanent damage or even death (!).
Explosive acoustic weapons are not in themselves a new concept. Explosives are one of the few ways of producing a sound loud enough to have a real effect. The Germans experimented with this in World War II without much success. Back in the 1990's Primex Physics Internationalcarried out development work on a crowd-control "acoustic blaster" which combined the output for four separate explosive-driven sources. The device was so large it had to be mounted on a truck, and while the company thought it might one day work out to a hundred meters this was not proven.
The tough part has always been getting the noise to blare in one direction. It is difficult to have an arrangement that can impact the target without deafening the operator. Prolonged exposure is even worse than sort blasts. Electronic devices like LRAD are fairly directional, but are by no means quiet for the user. The Thunder Generator gets around this by allowing the operator be be at a safe distance.
Perhaps it might be more accurate to see the Thunder Generator as a sort of repeating stun grenade; the fuel-air blast it produces is not dissimilar to the fuel-air explosion produced by the new Improved Flash Bang Grenade developed at Sandia National Laboratory. And in at least one case a large number of blast grenades were used for their sonic deterrent effect.
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. operated a number of floating river bases. There was a constant danger of attack from Vietcong swimmers, so they were kept at bay by explosive means, as this memorial site recalls:
"Seafloat was protected from swimmer zapper attacks by throwing concussion grenades into the water from 4 watch stations so that one grenade exploded underneath the ammo pontoons as often as every 30 seconds 24 hours a day. "
This approach seems to have been effective against swimmers, but it also resulted in cracks in the pontoons, which had to be pumped out daily.
The agricultural predecessor of the Thunder Generator has been used in Israel for nearly two years without accident. But there is clearly a risk of leaving an unattended system driven by a gas cannister. And of course there are countermeasures: as a British science program showed last year, with sufficient sound insulation even the LRAD can be damped to a tolderable level.
As with all non-lethals, what happens in practice is likely to be less important than the way it is used. The Thunder Generator could be a good way of keeping stone-throwing youths out of a sensitive area without using excessive force. Or it might be condemned as sonic harassment which exposes whole neighborhoods to incessant noise.
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See Also:
- I Was a Sonic Blaster Guinea Pig
- Nuke Lab Builds 'Beating Drum' Sonic Blaster
- British TV Boffins Battle Sonic Blaster
- Sonic Blaster Deployed to Political Events, Beach Competition ...
- U.S. Ship Repels Pirates With Sonic Blaster, Bullets (Updated ...
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- Sonic Blaster Firm Disputes Pirate Tale
- US 'Sonic Blasters' Sold To China
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One of the most important elements in the success of a project is the planning stage, which actually has many phases. The ones most commonly covered are the script, design, and storyboard phases, but it doesn't end there.
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You have to answer these and many other questions in a way that gets the project done on time and on budget. As you'll see, a good workflow, or pipeline, can be just as challenging to create as the artwork it facilitates.
The Project and Elements
The first step in creating a successful workflow is to examine the project and establish a list of the necessary elements. Typically this decision-making process is a collaborative effort including a director, producer(s), and visual effects supervisor(s). In cases involving a smaller production staff, the role of the visual effects supervisor is filled by the project lead, the technical director, or the lead artist—and in some cases, all three.
Sometimes the results of these meetings require a script rewriting, a change in the storyboards, or a reworking of preproduction designs. When every aspect of the project has been analyzed and agreed on, a shot-by-shot list should be compiled detailing the element requirements. At this time, the individual(s) fulfilling the role of visual effects supervisor must decide what talent and tools are needed to do the job.


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"The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards" NBC telecast and champagne dinner in The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom is officially cancelled.
"We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007's outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television. We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year's Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled."
The "announced on the date originally scheduled" in question just means a watered-down version in a form of a 1-hour press conference, telecast "live" from The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom on January 13th. NBC will officially beam-out the live telecast worldwide.
So, I guess we have to shove the champagne back into the fridge and hope that this writer's strike does not claim its 2nd victim: The Academy Awards. Now that will be heart-breaking.


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This week we posted America Under Communism, a propaganda comic about life in Soviet America. Here's If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?, probably the only evangelical Christian grindhouse horror movie ever made about life in Commie America.
This 1971 film was directed by exploitation film director Ron Ormond. Prior to surviving a plane crash in 1968, Ormond's oeuvre consisted mostly of films like the science fiction sleazefests The Monster and the Stripper and Mesa of Lost Women. These films contained lurid scenarios, lascivious ladies, and seemingly no production budget. Post-plane crash, Ormond discovered religion and his film output become way more Jesus-centric. However the director couldn't escape his exploitation roots — even his religious films, such as his later flick The Burning Hell, carried that Z-Grade veneer.
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?, which is based on the teachings of the fire-and-brimstone Reverend Estus Pirkle, depicts a United States under the thrall of Communist overlords. This is no flight of fancy, mind you. The film claims that if miniskirts, rock-and-roll, premarital sex, and other forms of secular fun are not replaced by nationwide piousness, the United States will be taken over by a Red fifth column by 1973. Once the Commies are in power, they'll brainwash us with uncreative chants and uncomfortable benches.
A version of that chant was famously sampled and looped by the experimental sound collage group Negativland. Here's another example of the gleeful torture porn of If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?
And for those of you who are gluttons for punishment, here's the whole movie. Hat tip goes out to LightningLouie for recommending this dystopian trashterpiece.


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What do you think about the JPA bridge project?
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The old bridge should have been replaced with a prefabricated one, and the job should have taken a couple of months, not a couple of years.
I was told another company bid on the project with a much faster time frame to complete but were outbid . Looks like this approach will cost thousands in lost revenue for neighboring businesses, and sales taxes for the city.
It's coming along, but has been kind of a nightmare for those of us on Stribling - the gravel road that everyone and their brother is now using is constantly washboarded and overused. Poor planning for the lack of a formal detour, or a fabricated bridge option.
Speaking as someone who both lives on Stribling and works at Wayside its been a nightmare. Whom ever planed the construction project of the bridge could have cared less about the impact on the residents and businesses. Lest see how city government feels when Belmont bridge is replaced, bet they sing another tune when its in their backyard.
This is a non event. Wait until VDOT shuts down US RT 250 @ Shadwell next Spring for several months to repair bridge over RR
Amanda Sovik-Johnston: "I'm excited that it's bringing some more commercial interest to the area and possibly increasing the home prices. I feel bad for the businesses on that corner, especially Hoo's Brew, because they are such kind and lovely people. And it also takes me a lot longer to get to and from work every day."
Amanda- you are a little out of touch!
Just like DC, the powers that be here in this little cow town are not concerned with its inhabitants.
2 years? Really! So they are sculpturing it by hand?
Ice Dogg- out of ice!
I would bet if it were the RAILROAD building a bridge over the road and they had to close the tracks to do so it would be done by now....
just sayin...
I can't wait for the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony so all the angry villagers can tar and feather the schmucks who awarded this asinine contract.
The "detour" down Stribling Extended is truly a nightmare. Couldn't this road, at least, be paved? As is, it is riddled with potholes and irregularites that wreak havoc on cars.
Additionally, the connection at Fontaine has created a dangerous u-turn situation. While this state of affairs might be tolerable for a month or two, the 18-month timeline is unfathomable.
Who planned this and how could they not think through better options for neighbors and businesses??
Your City Council is 50% repsonsible for the debacle- DOT si the other culprit.
Fairly good "looking" plan in Waynesboro- large bridge. No railroad involved, but a PLAN taking into consideration those businesses which will be affected on a MAJOR road for sure.


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Column: The NHL needs the Olympics
Anze Kopitar's participation in the Olympics is one of the feel-good stories of Sochi.
The Los Angeles Kings star and his father, Slovenia coach Matjaz, helped his home country of Slovenia, enormous underdogs to even make the Olympics, reach the quarterfinals on the grandest stage.
Slovenia has a population of 2 million people, and fewer than 200 registered hockey players. And now, it has one big Olympic Games victory over Slovakia.
The NHL seems intent on stopping any future NHL stars from doing well in the Olympics.
"I would've been pretty upset if we qualify again and can't go," said Kopitar, still in his Olympic euphoria after returning to the Toyota Sports Complex on Monday. "It was the first time we qualified, it was a lot of fun, and you want to do it again."
You know, two weeks every four years is just such an inconvenience.
Unfortunately, you might not see hockey's biggest stars participate in the 2018 Olympic games in South Korea because of small-minded owners and NHL executives who are worried about potential injuries, ticket sales and building.
In other words, they're concerned about money, money, money.
The NHL wonders why it is never on solid footing, especially compared to the NFL, NBA and MLB.
The Olympics causes a two-week break once every 1,460 days, so arenas can deal with it. Corporate sponsors can deal with it. Players can get injured anywhere, and it's unfortunate, but it's part of any sporting event. Even curling. Kendrys Morales had an awful ankle injury from a home-plate celebration.
Things happen.
Let's not forget, the NHL lockout in 2012 lasted 119 days, and I believe the NHL survived. So what's two weeks for tremendous goodwill?
Apparently too much for NHL owners.
What would basketball in the Olympics be without LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant? Tiger Woods, the most recognizable golfer in the world, will tee it up in Rio as golf makes its debut in the Olympics in Brazil in 2016. You couldn't imagine it any other way.
How can the NHL not want the world's best players playing on a worldwide stage?
The NHL wants to trot out second-tier hockey players most people haven't heard of and gut Olympic hockey.
How very Grinch-like.
The NHL should embrace Slava Voynov representing Russia, the Olympic host, and Kopitar representing his native country. He's helping grow the game of hockey. The best players in the world will gravitate toward the U.S. The next Slovenian star could've been born through watching the Sochi Olympics, and helping the NHL sell tickets and jerseys in 10 years.
How many Slovenians might buy Kopitar's No. 11 Kings jersey online now that they're in a hockey state of mind?
Sidney Crosby's star power was raised even more by helping Canada to a gold medal, and yes, his star power is big but not big enough. Crosby walks around Los Angeles in the offseason and hardly ever gets recognized.
The U.S.-Canada men's game, in which the Canadians won 1-0 for the right to advance to the gold medal match, was surely the subject of much water cooler chatter. You think folks would care as much if T.J. Oshie, Crosby, Drew Doughty, Dustin Brown and Jonathan Quick weren't on the ice?
Let them play!
Funny that NHL executives are crying about potential lost ticket sales and such. Doesn't really wash when you think about the NHL lockout that lasted 119 days in 2012.
Everyone sure lost a lot of money then, too. But that was OK because it was a battle of billionaires versus millionaires. NHL players went overseas to play during that time.
Everyone lived to tell about it.
After the Sochi Olympics, hockey might be the next best thing in Slovenia. The Olympics should be super impactful, and that's not the only heartwarming story won over by the world's best hockey players skating on Sochi ice.
"We hope so," Kopitar said of the dividends of the Olympics. "There are 150 registered players and seven rinks (in Slovenia). We hope we can expand the (player) base a little bit. Last year, qualifying was good. Us winning the Stanley Cup helped and us qualifying for the Olympics and doing well helped."
So let the NHL owners and executives help by staying out of the players' way and letting them play in Pyeonchang in 2018.


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We also got the Mavs unprotected first rounder the following yr in the deal, which increased our chances of landing Duncan significantly, but we ended up with Ron Mercer with that pick (in hindsight we should of taken T-Mac). I remember Montross during his rookie season. He wasn't bad and that playoffs was rather exciting. Sherman was the man. Last playoffs in the original Garden. Thing about coming into the NBA bald? You age better. Montross looks the same.
It's incredible how Mercer was so solid his first 2 years, did have a couple of other great years where I want to say he averaged close to 20ppg (without looking) and then fell off the face of the earth.
Hmmm perhaps a segue into the NEXT WTTHT lol...
I was actually very excited when the C's drafted this guy and he played quite well the first year. He became a stiff quite quickly..what a waste of money! I also remember the hugely long contract he got, something like an 8 year one or so...was it from us?
Yeah Bohemian it's like the entire league figured him out. I mean he wasn't spectacular his first year- but very solid. I really thought he could be the center for the next 10 seasons.
Not sure if the C's gave him that contract...
Eric's career went down hill fast I am not going to argue that fact but ML Carr was a moron. He didnt know how to use Montross, his rookie season 29 mins per game 10 pts 8 rebs 2nd year 23 mins 7pts and 6rebs per. Say he plays 35 to 40 mins per that's probably 15pts per and 10 rebs. Also would have killed the C's to keep Robert Parish around for his rookie season and maybe his second season to teach him. Parish was awesome and I am sure he could have taken Montross under his wing oh well. The what ifs ?
Interesting take last Anonymous with Parish around. The thing is Montross was really slow and was prone to foul trouble- not sure he could be a 40 minute a night guy, ever.
Eric Montross= WORST CELTIC OF ALL TIME! Hysterical article tb.
Seriously? Worst of all time? You didn't watch many Celtics games in the 80s/90s... I can think a several bench scrubs (guys mentioned profiled in WTHHT) who were worse


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I love me some "Robocop" remake updates. You know this about me. I've said it countless times. Need proof? Gaze upon my rock hard nipples while I tell you that Jennifer Ehle, who was in "Contagion", has signed on to join the cast. She'll play someone named 'Liz Kline'. I don't remember who that is from the original. But you're not thinking about that anyway are you. You're thinking you want to see me cut glass with these puppies. Well keep waiting.
Oh how the mighty have fallen. 13 years ago M. Night Shyamalan was our love child and today we get news that he's working with Syfy on a new pilot titled "Proof". "Proof" will focus on a young man who offers money to anyone who can prove there's life after death when his parents die tragically. I can only hope Tiffany will pop up in the cast somewhere.
Little known fact, I am not the German kid in that popular internet video where the kid freaks the F out while playing "World of Warcraft". I know it's an honest mistake, I get it all the time. I've never actually played the game but apparently people go nuts for it but the obvious big screen version has been riddled with problems. Well today's there's some good news for the project in the form of Charles Leavitt being tapped to write the script. I think that's good news. I mean he wrote "Blood Diamond". You basement dwelling virgins should be pumped he'd touch your silly game.
At this point I'm at a loss as to who looks at Brendan Fraser and says "Yeah, get that guy in my movie" but yet again he's been cast. This time in "Split Decision", a new film about two children being hunted by a couple murderers after they accidentally witness the killing. Fraser will play the father who tries to save them. Alright I can't even lie, I find the guy charming as crap. Did you see "Looney Tunes: Back in Action"? I can't not watch that whenever it's on TV.
It's a known fact that anything toddlers do is adorable. Although I've never seen a mother directing her 2 year old to fight the 3 year old she's babysitting so I can't 100% confirm this rule still holds true. I can confirm that posting a video of it online will 100% get you arrested.
It's been a long time since I was a single man but not a day goes by that I don't think about how awful it was. Trying to meet a woman, being rejected, dating someone for weeks only to find out they don't share their cheese fries at Outback. It's terrible. So I can't say I agree with this guy who peed on a woman after she rejected him at a bar. I'm just saying I understand where his frustration is coming from.


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Chiropractic care assists us on the path to smart exercise. We want to do our work, making gradual progress toward increased strength and cardiovascular fitness. But even if we're really doing smart exercise, injuries may happen. Chiropractic care helps prevent unexpected injury and helps us recover faster if an injury does occur.
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We all want to get the most out of the time we spend exercising, and it's natural to think that exercising harder is going to provide a bigger, faster payoff. But exercising harder without adequate preparation often leads to injury. Then there's recovery time, possibly the need for rehabilitation, and ultimately you're back at the beginning in terms of fitness, strength, and endurance. Injuries are to be avoided, if at all possible. The best way to avoid injury is to exercise smarter. Exercising smarter is also the best way to achieve continual, progressive gains in fitness, health, and well-being.
Exercising smarter means doing what you're capable of doing, and then doing a little bit more. For example, if you're a runner and typically run three miles a day, three times a week, it wouldn't be smart to do an eight-mile run the next time you go out. The likely outcome would be a strained muscle, shin splints, or worse. If you lift weights and typically bench press 100 pounds, it wouldn't be smart to find out what it feels like to bench press 150 pounds. What it could feel like is a back, neck, or shoulder injury. In either scenario, the price paid for attempting to train "harder" is at least two weeks of down time, possibly much longer, while you recover from your injury. Of course, we've all made mistakes and sometimes training injuries just happen, but tempting fate by doing too much is not, in fact, "smart."
The goal with any type of exercise is to progress gradually over time.1 For example, if you're 60 years old and haven't exercised for many years, a walking program is a good way to begin. On your first day, walk at a comfortable, steady pace for 10 minutes. That may not feel like much, but you will be increasing your total time over the next four to six weeks. The next day, add a couple of minutes. As long as you're continuing to feel good, add a couple of minutes on every second day or so, building up consistently to a total of 30 minutes per day. At this point, you're walking 30 minutes per day, five times per week. Next, every second day or so, increase your pace by a bit.
Don't increase your pace if you feel uncomfortable or feel as if you're working too hard. Be in tune with what you're doing. After four to six weeks of gradually increasing your pace, you'll probably be able to walk 30 minutes per day, five days a week, at a nice brisk pace.2 You may also notice that you've lost some weight,3 you feel more flexible, you're standing more upright, your skin has a nice, healthy glow, and you're sleeping more soundly and more restfully.


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Oct 5th, 2012 @ 10:57am
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Maine GOP Apparently Believes That Playing World Of Warcraft Makes You Unfit For Office
Take a look at her brutal-looking Orc avatar. Looks like she's got what it takes
to handle herself in the Senate.
Oct 4th, 2012 @ 5:44am
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Teenage Engineering: If Our Parts Are Too Expensive, Here's How To Print Your Own
I understand the analogy now. Thanks.
Oct 3rd, 2012 @ 11:39pm
Re: What might this mean for the GPL?
Some Good, Some Bad In New Ruling On Whether Or Not WoW Bot Infringes Copyright
Since it involves a third party withholding only the modifications he has made, I don't see how that could be a breach of the original copyright. After all, the modifications were not present in the original copyrighted code. They belong to the modifier.
Instead, it is failing to deliver the promised consideration, namely to make the new code (the modifications) publicly available in return for the use of the original code. Therefore it is a breach of contract, as you say.
Of course, copyright law is the basis of the ownership rights of the original software maker in his code.
So here are my two questions:
(1) Does copyright law merely create and define an ownership right, to be enforced by already-existing law concerning property, or does it have specific penalties?
(These penalties give meaning to "violation of copyright" as a specific offence distinct from simply failing to fulfill a contract.)
(2) In law (outside of copyright), when does failing to fulfill a contract, or not paying for something you're supposed to pay for, become a crime rather than a civil matter?
Oct 3rd, 2012 @ 9:51pm
Re: The problem
Blizzard Blocking Iranian WoW Players Due To US Sanctions
Of course.
Oct 3rd, 2012 @ 9:44pm
Teenage Engineering: If Our Parts Are Too Expensive, Here's How To Print Your Own
I don't understand this cryptic remark.
Oct 3rd, 2012 @ 9:43pm
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Blizzard Blocking Iranian WoW Players Due To US Sanctions
Well put.
Oct 3rd, 2012 @ 9:39pm
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California To Commission 50 Open Textbooks For 2013; Finnish Teachers Write One In A Weekend
Hooray for the Finnish weekend achievement!
The world of publishing is cracking and falling about us, great porches and cornices of Atlantean masonry crashing into the sea. "Let... the wide arch / Of the ranged empire fall..."
I don't think universities are interested in prolonging the life of expensive textbooks. The faculty are too creative and independent, and very few -- maybe 1 in 1000 -- make enough money from royalties to care about that. The majority are motivated to produce their output not by money but prestige -- the Thorvalds-type energizer of status within a community because of what you contribute. The academic world has already for many years lived and embodied certain Techdirt ideals concerning the form that remuneration might take when the intellectual products themselves are given away for free.
Has Techdirt ever covered the long-standing campaign -- starting with Rob Kirby in Berkeley in the 1990s or even 1980s -- against the high prices and monopoly character of academic journal publishers? When he published a comparison price chart in the AMS Notices, it attracted a lawsuit from the named publishers for price fixing or something like that -- totally bogus and simply a violation of his freedom of speech.
The war continued over the years with various initiatives such as walking away from expensive publishers (Springer, Elsevier ...) to start much cheaper journals with no middleman. It has heated up recently with Gowers' campaign.
The idea has been around for a long time, but the practical value of classic publishers is large and it only really cracks and crumples when there is new technology. Direct distribution is simply much easier than it was in 1995. Things are really ready to pop.
Aug 31st, 2012 @ 12:08pm
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UK Court Says You Can't Be Defamed If The Article You're Complaining About Doesn't Even Mention You
Mike, you are a great journalist and commentator, but I am afraid that both you and Mr Justice Tugendhat are mixed up. Mr Tilbrook was suing precisely
he wasn't mentioned in the article and so his name was not connected with racism in the public eye. How else can he reach his base constituency except through the media?
Aug 31st, 2012 @ 11:55am
Re: Total dumbness.
Libel Tourism Law Official... Including Important Nod To Section 230 Safe Harbors
Totally refreshing comment.
Aug 31st, 2012 @ 11:50am
Re: WTH
Libel Tourism Law Official... Including Important Nod To Section 230 Safe Harbors
The US law in question only applies in the US. It just means UK actors will not get US cooperation in these libel prosecutions. They can still be pursued in the UK against UK assets of the US companies in question (ISPs, forums, search engines).
Incidentally I agree with you on the McKinnon case.
But if you believe on sovereignty grounds that McKinnon should not be extradited to the US for UK-based acts that reach into the US but are presumably crimes only in the US, then logically you should also believe that the US is not obliged to support US lawsuits against ISPs for hosting (not producing) libelous content in the US, even if the audience and victim are in the UK, and even if ISPs are liable in the UK -- because they also don't support those lawsuits when all actors are internal to the US.
The producers of the libel can still be sued in the US, just not the host.
Aug 31st, 2012 @ 11:34am
Re: How much was the bribe paid by Google to Steve Cohen?
Libel Tourism Law Official... Including Important Nod To Section 230 Safe Harbors
It's tongue in cheek... he's clearly angling for google to sue techdirt in uk.
May 22nd, 2012 @ 5:11pm
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Postal Service Could Be On The Hook For Millions For Daring To Memorialize The Korean War Memorial
But you shouldn't argue against retaining rights to intellectual property that is developed under a government contract. The contract says what it says, and it should be followed. If it does not sell all the rights, the legal presumption is that this is reflected in a lower contract price and that both sides benefit.
Many transactions with the government are purely commercial, and we should not encourage the great beast to abuse its dominant bargaining position in every single transaction.
For me what makes the difference in this case is that it is a public monument of national significance. Whatever you may think of war, if soldiers are to be honored at all, they must be honored in a way that is transcendent -- that establishes commonality or solidarity. There really isn't any other way to do it. They can't receive royalties.
The artist is uniquely positioned to convey this to the public -- after all, he is the artist. I don't see how he possibly can do this while suing for royalties. He damages the monument and undermines the honor of being its creator.
On the other hand, if the original contract was simply clear in giving him contingencies on future income as part of his compensation, then -- as long it was not exorbitant, and that could easily cover figures like 50,000 or 100,000, couldn't it -- no-one would have objected or even noticed.
What is really shaking people is the public display of cupidity, not the payment or the rights. In that sense this article is really not about property rights at all, but other kinds of obligations.
This brings me to the question that is bothering others-- since when do building designers or their customers even *have* intellectual property rights in photographs of their buildings? It seems that these rights are either ignored 99% of the time or nonexistent. Am I missing some obvious cases where such rights either are supported in law or should be?
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Government Technology takes a look at airport Wi-Fi networks in the U.S. that pass and fail on providing free and fast Wi-Fi connectivity.
Waiting in an airport terminal can often seem endless, especially if you have long layovers or flight delays. But with technology upgrades in various international airports within the U.S., passing the time can be a little more bearable, specifically when these airports provide Wi-Fi.
Government Technology's select list identifies airports that have in recent years made efforts to deploy free Wi-Fi, but acknowledges those that have not quite taken flight. So the next time you jet set, be sure to keep an eye on the following airports.
Soaring High
1. Sacramento International Airport (Calif.) – SMF
After SMF's Terminal B received a $1.03 billion upgrade in October 2011, which included some major technology overhaul, the airport rose in the ranks as one of the nation's most tech-friendly airports.
2. Detroit Metropolitan Airport – DTW
Last month, DTW announced a free and unlimited Wi-Fi service upgrade in both of the airport's terminals provided by Advanced Wireless Group LCC. Prior to September's Wi-Fi launch, the airport's Wi-Fi connectivity was only available through a paid subscription provided by Boingo Wireless.
Flying at Low Altitude
O'Hare International Airport (Chicago) – ORD
Travelers departing or arriving in Chicago's O'Hare may be excited to learn that last spring free Wi-Fi was launched at the airport, but there's a catch. The free access only gets users access to about 30 websites with information like weather and news as well as shopping sites. Unfortunately for frequent checkers of Facebook, the social media website is not available through O'Hare's Wi-Fi connection.
Still Taxiing
1. Los Angeles International Airport – LAX
After a much hyped upgrade to LAX's Tom Bradley International Terminal, the airport still falls short on one major area: free and unlimited Wi-Fi. After investing $1.9 billion into the terminal, the airport still only provides free Wi-Fi service for up to 45 minutes. After that, patrons can use the older service that offers connectivity at $4.95 an hour or $7.95 for a day.
2. Honolulu International Airport – HNL
Honolulu may be a popular getaway destination for U.S. and world travelers, but the island's airport Wi-Fi won't make the trip seem like fun in the sun. According to Airfarewatchdog, Honolulu has one of the most expensive Wi-Fi service plans in the nation, totaling $6.96 for two hours of use and $8.95 for the day.
Airports to Watch
Although some airports still require a user fee to access Wi-Fi in their terminals, a few of those may receive an upgrade to free connectivity in the near future. Here's a look at a few airports to watch.
1. LaGuardia Airport (NYC) – LGA
2. John F. Kennedy International Airport (NYC) – JFK
3. Newark Liberty International (N.J.) – EWR
All three airports currently require users to pay $4.95 an hour and $7.95 daily for Wi-Fi connectivity in their terminals, but that may be about to change. The airports are currently under contract to provide Wi-Fi service from Boingo, but the contract is almost complete.
City Council members have signed onto a resolution that requests the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to renegotiate its contract with Boingo by ending the requirement for travelers to pay for Wi-Fi connectivity. No official decision has been made as of yet.
Which other U.S. airport Wi-Fi networks soar or taxi? Sound off in the comment section below.
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