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Although France's socialist government is experiencing major backlash, the center right is unable to muster strength.
Given the remarkable backlash from the markets and entrepreneurs of France against Socialist President Francois Hollande, you might expect France's major center-right party, UMP, to be gathering momentum.
In fact, quite the opposite is happening. Rather than take initiative, the party is locked in an embarrassingly and potentially dangerous internal leadership battle, and things are getting so bad that people are now begging for a Nicolas Sarkozy comeback.
The problem began at a Nov. 18 UMP vote, designed to find Sarkozy's successor as leader of the party.
Sarkozy disciple Jean-Francois Cope won that vote by a tiny margin, beating out his more centrist rival, Francois Fillon. However, the small size of that margin (just 98 votes), has led to acrimony, with accusations of voter fraud. Today Fillon called "precautionary seizure" of ballots cast "to protect them from tampering or alteration."
The situation has become downright embarrassing for the UMP, exposing the rift between the center-right and harder-right wings of the party that was only formed in 2002 as a merger of various right wing groups. The conservative newspaper Le Figaro called the controversy "live suicide" and begged the party to "Stop the killing!" Even France's Socialist Party commented in a tweet:
"This bad soap opera has to end because democracy needs an operational opposition."
On Sunday, former prime minister Alain Juppe, a center-right veteran, gave up his efforts to mediate. Today, Sarkozy — ousted as French president earlier this year — stepped in, holding a meeting with Fillon.
While Sarkozy may just be entering in an mediation-role at the moment, many would rather he come back for more. Reuters points out that two-thirds of UMP supporters polled would rather he was the UMP candidate for 2017 presidential elections.
Sarkozy had vowed to quit politics in May, but that hasn't stopped a huge amount of speculation in the French press (a key indicator is apparently his level of facial hair). According to one report, Sarkozy told a friend last month "Given the disastrous condition France is likely to be in five years from now, I will have no choice in 2017."
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We have just come back from a visit to France, which ended in Paris, where we stayed at the recently renovated Le Grand Intercontinental Hotel, across the street from the Opera House. I loved the location... there was lots of hustle and bustle but with little of the noise. We faced out onto the lovely Boulevard Capucines, which was lined with wonderful trees, and across from some beautiful typical Parisian style buildings, with their lovely mansard roofs and wrought iron trim. Because the hotel is so large, with 478 bedrooms, each wing is named for the street that runs in front of that wing. There was the Rue de la Paix, Rue Scribe, Opera, and the Capucines, which was where our room was located. We were on the fifth floor, so we were above the trees and any street noise. We had a long, narrow balcony and off in the distance, to my surprise and delight, we could see the top half of the Eiffel Tower. 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They did an elegant job of refurbishing this landmark, which was just completed last year. The hotel was closed for three years during this renovation. The classic style of the furnishings kept the historic mood of the hotel, while providing every modern comfort. Our room was decorated in gold and red. The lovely new furniture was all done in the Empire style of the mid-late 1800s. There was a leather-topped desk, matching chair, two end tables, a small table and another chair, crystal lamps, and an Empire headboard . We had a very comfortable king size bed, with down comforter and pillows. The linens were of a high quality and very soft. There was beautifully appointed carpeting, crown moldings, 2 layers of draperies, very attractive wallpaper, and gorgeous high gloss lacquered doors. There was also a beautiful, large cabinet, holding a mini-bar with a full set of glassware and a large color cable television sitting on top. Our room had two framed and matted musical scores with wall-light highlighting them and an architectural rendering of the Opera Garnier above the bed. With high hat lighting throughout the room, a double phone-line, and high-speed internet connection, the room had all of the modern state of the art conveniences. The room was a nice size, large by Paris standards, but the bathroom was incredible. It was enormous, all done in a beautiful modern tile, with a shower- bath combination with hand-held shower head, and a separate small shower stall. There was also a double sink and nice sized vanity, and a really thoughtful touch, a full shelf under the sinks to stow all of our travel essentials and toiletries. There was a separate closet area, with adequate hanging space, drawers, shelves, and a safe. There was even a light that automatically went on when you entered that area. 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The lobby, but especially the areas where they served drinks and tea or coffee were just gorgeous. It is a large glass-enclosed atrium, done in gilt and red, with much wrought-iron work and the soaring glass ceiling making it truly memorable. We enjoyed just sitting there relaxing, admiring the beautiful surroundings, taking pictures of ourselves amid the grandeur. I know it may sound silly, but it was just fun. We didn't actually order anything, since we weren't going to spend close to twenty Euros each for a beverage. ,which is close to twenty-five dollars U.S. dollars. This brings me to my main complaint about the hotel. The food and beverages were, in my opinion, quite out of line. The ridiculous cost of a continental breakfast, at 29 Euros a person, forced us to eat breakfast across the street at a neighborhood cafe that was only mediocre at best. 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Hello! I posted in another thread and it seems at the moment we are leaning towards Jameson Merrick. However... I have a bit of a problem.
One day I loved Jameson and now it just seems 'ehh'. And the problem is this happens a lot with my 'classic' names. One minute I love them and the next minute I'm bored with them! When I picture a little rosey cheeked boy in jeans and a sweater jumping in leaves, his name is Parker. When I picture a boy in overalls and messy blonde hair eating an ice cream come, his name is Jameson. I LOVE the classics. And I want a name I can picture on these little idealistic images of New England boys.
Then.... I want a name that sounds beachy and surfery! Because we have roots in Hawaii many generations back. So when I picture a little boy playing in the sand in swim shorts and a snorkel, I think Merrick! And that's perfect.
I'd love to use Sebstian or Connor because those seem to fit perfectly! But we can't use these because we have close friends/family with these names. Then there are the random names that we like that don't fit into either of these styles... My husband loves Octavius and Ignatius. I would never ever use such a long name on our baby.
Our girls names we have picked are Cora and Scarlett. Louisa for a middle name. So I guess we are both into some vintage yet modern sounding names. So I desperately need some name suggestions that are New England-y (guess that meand classic in my books), layed back enough to be surfer-y, possibly with some vintag flair?
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Jameson Merrick sounds great. Parker Merrick has a lot of K in it, is there another middle you'd consider? Maybe a family name or place name from the generations in Hawaii?
I think Octavius or Octavian and Ignatius are great names, for what it's worth. Parker Octavian is pretty fantastic.
What about Spencer? Graham? Grant?
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These are the 3 main criteria I've pulled from your thread:
1. Rosy cheeks playing in the leaves
2. Messy blonde eating an ice cream cone
3. Beachy and surfery
Here's what I think fit all of these descriptions:
Tobias or Toby
I agree that Sebastian seems perfect. It's a shame you can't use it.
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I think you're over thinking it. The name you have picked out now fits your criteria perfectly.
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For those of you ironing out the details of your Cinco de Mayo party ideas, this post features cocktail recipes, flower suggestions and styling tips for fiesta decorations. Beyond Cinco de Mayo, we love the idea of a throwing a Mexican themed party all Spring and Summer long. For Birthdays, Engagement Parties, Graduations, Anniversaries, Weddings or Full Moons; there are so many great reasons to kick back and have fun with the bold, brilliant culture of a Mexican Fiesta!
My favorite part of the process? Arranging the flowers! I hand picked these bouquets from the local florist shops: hot pink and orange gerbera daisies, fuchsia and navy anemones, sorbet and rose quartz ranunculus, peach and yellow pincushion protea, a sunflower and a few stems of viking poms.
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We tracked RAX-2 during six passes this past week but unfortunately were unable to communicate with the MHX 2400, RAX's backup radio. We attempted direct communication with the radio, which if the radio were turned on, should work independently of the flight computer. Given the silence and previous work with the UHF radio, this indicates that both radios are inactive and the silence is caused by an upstream anomaly on the flight computer or power system. We didn't have time to work with the 150 ft dish to hunt for onboard electrical activity this week, so that will be saved for a later date. A big thanks to Bryan Klofas and our colleagues at SRI International for supporting the work at the dish!
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Cutting Edge Prints, Week 49/11 Tweet week 49 /52 • 2011 The Cutting EdgeThe Cutting Edge is a weekly article showcasing recently sold or newly uploaded high-quality wall art products.Since we approve each and every print that gets sold, we discover amazing gems every day, and we just can't keep them to ourselves! Check out these amazing prints submitted by deviants just like you! New Prints That Left Their Mark Lovecraftian Colors by *robbingraves Featured PrintPremium giclée prints on canvas and paper available ready to hang!Loading Featured Print...This Web site uses scripting to enhance your browsing experience.
Cutting Edge Prints, Week 06/12Cutting Edge Prints is a weekly article that features recently sold and brand new selected high quality wall art products that caught our eyes. Check out the amazing art your fellow deviants have submitted and art lovers have bought in the past week! Tweet week 06 /52 • 2012 The Cutting EdgeThe Cutting Edge is a weekly article showcasing recently sold or newly uploaded high-quality wall art products.Since we approve each and every print that gets sold, we discover amazing gems every day, and we just can't keep them to ourselves! Check out these amazing Prints submitted by deviants just like you! New Prints Tha
Cutting Edge Prints, Week 47/11 Tweet week 47 /52 • 2011 The Cutting EdgeThe Cutting Edge is a weekly article showcasing recently sold or newly uploaded high-quality wall art products.Since we approve each and every print that gets sold, we discover amazing gems every day, and we just can't keep them to ourselves! Check out these amazing prints submitted by deviants just like you! New Prints That Left Their Mark Winter Fable by ~mortalitas Featured PrintPremium giclée prints on canvas and paper available ready to hang!Loading Featured Print...This Web site uses scripting to enhance your browsing experience.Please e
How to feel better and like a lot of things moreA lot of people seem to be convinced that in order to feel better, others need to change, that things need to change, need to be changed, by others.Though bad change is bad and must not happen.As if you're the center of life and as if you're so entitled to be completely satisfied that it's everyone else's duty to make that happen for you.Everything and anything that isn't right for me is the most important thing, more important than anything else!Or so we wish.Nobody is entitled to anything at all.Self-entitlement is but a twisted sense.Nobody owes you your own happiness.It's only you.You could like a whole lot of things much more if you would stop yourself from insisting that everything exists in accordance with your comfort zone.You could feel a whole lot better that way.You could also feel a whole lot better if you'd allow yourself to take things just for what they are, as they are, whatever they may be.Admit to yourself that barely anything that you insist is so importa
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Robin Williams - Light out of DarkI originally wrote and posted this elsewhere, but I just need to post it here too and expand on it a bit. This is the only place where I'd publicly go this deep.Robin Williams made light for the whole world out of his own personal darkness. He is irreplaceable. People like him are a true gift to life and often paying dearly for it, sometimes the ultimate price. That fact about him was not a secret.It's deeply profound and sad when someone who caused so much joy for so many people for so long is suddenly just gone, let alone the ultimate circumstances thereof.It is often wondered 'How can someone this funny be so sad?', or the other way around. You know how people like to refer to sad clowns without thinking any further than just this attempt at making an ironic statement.Often enough the sad truth is that someone is as great at making people laugh as he or she is because he or she are deeply sad or depressed or otherwise very troubled on the inside. Maybe bringing joy to others is
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Pro Tip: Don't wait to report a problemHere and there we receive bug reports that state "I've had this issue for almost a year now!". Sometimes it's just a few months or weeks.Usually I just ಠ_ಠ at that, maybe (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻) if it's a serious problem that makes me wonder how the reporter put up with it for so long, but then I just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and get on with handling the ticket.But seriously, if you encounter a technical problem on deviantART, do not wait weeks or months or even a year! You don't have to do that and you shouldn't.However, it's alright to wait a day, if you wanna see if you can fix the problem yourself, or if it might magically go away by itself, which does happen sometimes (often in the not so magical form of browser cache or cookies flushing).So, if you got a problem with
Pimps and Whoas - February 9, 2012PimpsOfficial dA News Celebrating Deviousness - February 2012 Pin Up From Objectification to Empowerment The Great Valentine Exchange Site Update Comment Counts on Thumbs and More Giving Your Stacks an Introduction
Community Relations News - January + February 2012>Table of Contents1. Daily Deviations2. Bi-weekly Critique Nights3. Volunteer Openings4. Share Your Opinions5. Community Projects6. Official Contests7 Project Educate 2011/20128. Art History9. News from the Galleries1. Daily DeviationsRecently, I announced changes to Daily Deviations in this journal and I'm happy to say that the response has been favorable. To review, we have made the following changes:a> The "3-month rule" is now the "6-month rule" meaning an artist cannot receive another DD if they have had one in the last 6 months.b> Daily Deviation selectors are limited to a maximum of one selection per day. This has been put in place to focus on quality vs quantity.The hard-coding of these new guidelines is now in place (special thanks to ZombieCoder for that ). These changes are part of an ongoing initiative to better our Dai
Pimps and Whoas - January 12, 2012PimpsOfficial dA News How Malware Works via Banner Ads Prints Payments Q4 The Timeless Code of the Eternal Outsider 2011 As Seen Through Art deviantART is Hiring Odyssey Into 2012 - In Retrospect Celebrating Devi
The Photography Galleries: Why and How to SuggestSo many of my watchers and other members of the community suggest fantastic pieces for Daily Deviations every week. But I need more. I need to be more specific about my rules now too, so that you understand what I do and do not look for. But above all that, it's time to get You more exposure. Think you have an awesome photograph in your gallery? Why not consider self suggesting right now. I actively encourage it. If you send me your own work I will greet you with pompoms and latex free balloons. Srsly. Read on for more info:The Community Relations Team is your first stop when sending a Daily Deviation. The full team is listed there and it's pretty self explanatory of whom you should select to send your note to. If the deviation you are suggesting is in, for example, Animals, Plants and Nature - then there isone designated Community Volunteer that
How They Did It: The Story Behind the ShotHTDI:TSBTS aims to guide emerging photographers by showcasing tips, techniques, and stories generously shared by some of dA's most accomplished Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature artists. At the same time, we hope to shed light on the often overlooked amount of effort that is required to create striking images like these. Making a great photograph takes time, planning, a creative eye, and solid photography skills. What happens behind the lens is just as important as the final product!I am sure many of you have been told "Great photo! You must have an awesome camera!" or "Wow, you sure were lucky to get that shot!" While a "good camera" and "luck" are small ingredients when creating a visual feast, we photographers would like to remind everyone that technical competency, determination, patience, and creative vision are the real meat and potatoes of any tasty photo."Was it luck that I happened to wake up at 3am fi
Project Educate: The Art of PhotomanipulationHello, deviantART! How are you? I'm back to tell you a little bit about my very favorite form of art here on dA: photomanipulation, often referenced simply as, manipulation or manips. Hope you enjoy! What is photomanipulation? The general consensus in our community seems to be that photomanipulation involves taking elements from at least two photographs (and/or, by some definitions, other sources like 3D work or brushes) and fitting them together to create something that is seamless and distinct from the original sources. Some people argue that a photomanipulation can be made with one photograph as long as the final piece of art is drastically different from the picture from which it originated. If it is not dramatically different—i.e., if the final product is similar to the original photograph but perhaps a bit cleaned up or minor edits are added without including any new elements—we might call it a retouch<
Accepting Feedback Positively55%of how we feel about words comes from body language.38%comes from the voice.7%comes from the actual words.Whether or not you're willing to take Dr Mehrabian's research at face value, it's undeniable that a lot of what we feel comes from what we see. A friend can say something that would be totally mean, but if they're giggling halfway through the words it's not hard to tell it's a joke. If someone's telling you they had a great day and their voice is quavering the whole time, you can be suspicious.Languages aren't universal, but most facial expressions translate well across completely unrelated cultures. Is it surprising that we're better able to recognize facial expressions and vocal tones rather than focusing entirely on the words?So how does th
6 Fatal Flaws for PhotomanipulationHey everyone!After nearly a month (!!!) of viewing DD suggestions and generally browsing around the community looking for new and interesting things to feature, I have come up with a list of the most common mistakes that photomanipulators make. Other photomanip CVs, especially kuschelirmel, conzpiracy, and IreneLangholm, have posted a lot of great articles and tutorials about each of the items I'm going to discuss. I therefore will not go into terribly much detail right at this time. I'll be happy to re-address them in later articles.What is our primary goal in making a photomanipulation? We want it to be seamless, right? We want to transport the viewers into another world and make them believe that it is real.Let's talk about some dead giveaways that break that illusion.Flaw 1: Failure to crop elements properlyArtifacts from original stock images, like pixels that surround your cut-out after you extract it from its original background, are a dead gi
Photomanipulation: Voices of ExperienceHello, deviantART!As the Community Volunteer for Photomanipulation, it will be my honor over the coming months to share the community I serve with you all and to show you the vast diversity, expertise, and creativity that defines us as artists.Tonight I wanted to share some voices of experience with you all. The individuals I have chosen to interview for this piece have all been a part dA for at least five years. They have all been leaders in the photomanipulation community by setting high standards of quality through their exquisite works, by being involved in the community, and by setting a positive example for us all to admire.These artists are::iconautumnsgoddess: JenaDellaGrottaglia :icondecrepitude: MarcelaBolivar:iconfrozenstarro: FrozenStarRo :iconj-u-d-a-s: J-u-d-a-s
Thank you Labyrinthcreations and Kuschelirmel
January's Complaint Challenge - DDsIntroductionThis activity is part of my year-long project to address complaints from the dA community. January's complaint is Daily Deviations!"I find that the DD system needs to be expanded. Why? Sadly, it has become the only major channel on this site for artists and writers to receive exposure, and the selection choices are limited. On my journal, =Flyvapnet wrote that '[i]t smacks of a good-old-boys system, wherein Deviations are considered for recognition only if they're suggested by those who have an in-crowd relationship with someone in the award-giving hierarchy'. There are great artists out there who don't have any exposure simply because they can't get DDs, and the selections are biased: for example, they almost never include parts of novels. Offering more artists this exposure would help DA with what
Introducing the deviantART Collection on FotoliaToday, we are announcing the launch of the deviantART Collection on Fotolia, a selection of over 3,000 images from artists on deviantART. It is a grand experiment bringing together the excellence of work on deviantART with an opportunity for artists to gain worldwide commercial exposure for their work. What is the deviantART Collection?A while back, we announced our partnership with Fotolia.com through the StockProject group, where you can find hundreds of free stock images. We teamed up with Fotolia once again to create the deviantART Collection. A team of professional photo editors started filtering through images on deviantART looking for excellent photographs that would work on commercial websites, like Fotolia, that sell images for designers and art directors to use in magazines, advertisements and product packaging. The team then offered artists on deviantART an opportunity to
An Interview With Pixel-Spotlight An Interview With Pixel-Spotlight 1) If you could bring one deceased legendary artist back to the current time, who would it be and why them?This is tricky. There's so many people I would love to meet and just talkto, artists going right back to Exekias and Phidias, it would be soincredible to speak to them and gain just a little of their knowledgeabout their art and their life times.There's the cliche artists such as Michelangelo (I turn into a complete raving fan girl over hisdrawings and sculptures, but I'm not so mad about his paintings) and Janvan Eyck.More modern artists, oddly enough, I wouldn't pick aphotographer. I'd probably say the recently decided Lucian Freud. He wasone of my close friends' grandfather and whenever I saw him is was atrue inspiration to talk to.TL;DR answer to this is idk but I'm a Classical geek so probably an ancient Greek artist.
How Malware Works Via Banner Ads by $Heidi Tweet How Malware Works Via Banner Ads As many deviants know, deviantART has been working hard to combat malicious banner ads that infiltrate our advertising network, and we've previously addressed this issue in April 2011 and August 2011. In our ongoing effort to keep the deviantART community safe, we wanted to share the following USA Today-produced video that explains how malicious ads inundate the Web. How Malicous Ads Inundate the Web (Source: USA Today) Protect Yourself Malware advertising is an Internet-wide problem that affects many of the Net's top sites. Keep
Photography Trouble Shooting: LightingRecently during a projecteducate week focusing on Still Life Photography we asked for you to share the issues that you might have when trying to obtain some great Still Life Shots. Through this series of articles we hope to answer some of the queries or give you that push you need to step outside boundaries and get creative. The first frustration came from 1510 who struggled with Lighting additionally a further 19 Deviants voted on the poll to indicate they had the same issues."Lighting. I always have to use just window or lamps which are nevergood. kind of given up on still life photos, even I have still tons ofideas..." 1510"1510 lamps and natural light are a perfectly good way of lighting a subject. Many 'professional' lighting solutions, particularly the ones that burn 'hot' or constantly, are not much more than high wattage incandescent light bulbs often with some sort of cooling (to prolong the lifespan of the bulb).
nobody makes art. there is just stuff.i feel the urge to publish my latest thoughts on the excessively tired topic of what is art and what isn't.i deem it as a tired topic because it doesn't fucking matter what is art and what is not.further, i feel like most people's ideas on what art makes art is just backward.nobody makes art.again!nobody makes art.people simply create stuff they want to create. maybe it's art in their mind.other people who consume any sort of such creation may deem it art or not in their minds.whatever anybody has in their mind about any such creations doesn't make nor change those creations.a painting, photograph, sculpture or song doesn't give a flying fuck whether you consider it art or not.it won't feel sad if you don't, and it won't change itself in an attempt to become art in your mind.it is what it is, and that's stuff.locations don't make art either.there are museums and galleries that are as full of garbage as they are full of art.there are also basements, attics and garages fill
i'm confident it's gonna take another 1,000 years before a large enough portion of mankind may agree on such terms and just create stuff they want to create without stubbornly arguing who's perception of stuff is more superior.


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Canberra will decide by the end of the year whether to proceed with building a second Sydney airport at the long-favoured site of Badgery's Creek.
In a speech opening Airservices Australia's Waypoint conference, assistant transport minister Jamie Briggs says he expects the government to make a decision on the site before Christmas, which will "provide certainty to the aviation sector."
Badgery's Creek was selected in the 1980s as the preferred site for a second airport, but the previous government favoured building the airport at an alternative site in Wilton.
A report from the Department of Infrastructure and Transport released last year noted, however, that the Wilton site would present significant environmental and technical challenges. The department has since been undertaking further geotechnical analysis of the site.
In July, IATA chief executive Tony Tyler called on the government to move forward with selecting and building a second airport. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has also called for faster progress on the issue.
During the recent election campaign, the previous Labor government had promised to start construction of a second airport, likely at Badgery's Creek, in the next three years if it was re-elected.
Recent government studies have suggested that Sydney's existing airport at Mascot will not have enough slots to meet demand by 2033, which would ultimately impact the country's economy.
Sydney airport handled a record 36.9 million passengers in 2012, an increase of 3.6% year on year.


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Android Powers NEC LifeTouch Note Netbook Michael Kwan / Friday, February 18, 2011, 12:50 pm / No CommentsAndroid isn't just for smartphones and tablets anymore. If NEC has its way, you'll be wanting to get your hands on its Android-powered LifeTouch Note netbook too.more → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: Android, android 2.2, android netbook, froyo, lifetouch, nec, netbook
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New Huawei IDEOS Smart Devices Revealed At MWC Michael Kwan / Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 4:50 pm / No CommentsYou know, one company that has been quietly making a lot of headway in the last year or so is Huawei. It's been able to dig into the inexpensive market for Android smartphones and this trend continues with some unveilings at Mobile World Congress.more → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: android 2.2, android 2.3, android tablet, froyo, gingerbread, huawei, ideos, mwc
Official: LG Optimus 3D Dual Camera Smartphone Revealed Michael Kwan / Monday, February 14, 2011, 6:06 pm / 1 CommentLG wasn't very good at keeping this phone a secret, so they've finally let the last bit of the cat out of the bag. The LG Optimus 3D may look like any other Android smartphone but it does 3D in more ways than one.more → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: 3d camera, 3d smartphone, android 2.2, froyo, gingerbread, lg, omap4, optimus 3d, ti
ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro Tablet Dual Boots Windows and Android + Dual Sim V350 Smartphone Michael Kwan / Saturday, February 12, 2011, 9:30 am / 2 CommentsMaybe you've already decided that you don't want an iPad and you're not interested in webOS. That leaves you with Windows 7 and Android for your tablet needs, if you cannot choose between the two you might want the ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro, then, since it sports a dual booting.more → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: android 2.2, android tablet, dual sim, froyo, mwc, smartphone, v350, viewpad, viewpad 10pro, viewsonic, windows 7, windows tablet
Liquid Metal In Your Pocket – The Acer Liquid mt On Rogers Michael Kwan / Friday, February 11, 2011, 8:11 am / No CommentsThe current Acer Liquid E is starting to look pretty dated next to its newer Android stablemates, so it's about time for an upgrade. We first saw the Acer Liquid Metal in November, but now it's back with a different name: the Acer Liquid mt. Because, you know, lower-case letters are cool.more → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: acer, android 2.2, froyo, liquid metal, liquid mt, rogers wireless
Telus going big with HTC Desire HD Michael Kwan / Thursday, February 10, 2011, 3:35 pm / 3 CommentsThe original HTC Desire is getting replaced at Telus by the bigger and hotter HTC Desire HD. Sprint has been rocking the HTC EVO 4G for a while, it's good to see its GSM counterpart hit our shores too.more → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: android 2.2, desire hd, evo 4g, froyo, htc, htc desire hd, smartphone, telus, telus mobility, touchscreen
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T-Mobile to sell Dell Streak 7 with 4G for $200 on contract Michael Kwan / Monday, January 31, 2011, 3:14 pm / No CommentsOld Magenta has formally announced that the seven-inch slate will hit shelves this week for just $199.99. That's assuming, of course, that you want one of those two-year contractsmore → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: android 2.2, android tablet, dell, hspa, nvidia tegra2, streak 7, t-mobile, tegra2
Concept "tube" phone swaps its guts with cartridges Michael Kwan / Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 7:23 pm / 4 CommentsWhat if you could maintain the exact same outward appearance for your phone while completely upgrading its internals? Rogue designer Antoine Brieux is exploring precisely this idea with his HTC Tube smartphone concept.more → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: android 2.2, concept phone, froyo, htc, htc tube, snapdragon, windows phone 7, yanko design
Google's not a thief: Oracle code not in Android OS Michael Kwan / Monday, January 24, 2011, 8:08 am / 6 CommentsGoogle says that, above all else, it will do no evil. We've seen it tread into some gray waters already (as evidenced by cases like Google Books), but now it's possible that Google was an outright thief. Well, a virtual thief. And there's evidence to back it up.more → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: Android, android 2.2, android 3.0, developers, google, java, lawsuit, oracle, sun
Froyo update for T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant is out, not OTA Michael Kwan / Saturday, January 22, 2011, 10:48 am / No CommentsThe Galaxy S line of smartphones from Samsung are pretty impressive. Unfortunately, the line happens to lag pretty far behind when it comes to getting Android updates. I guess you could say that it's better late than never?more → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: android 2.2, froyo, froyo update, galaxy s, ota, samsung vibrant, t-mobile
Leaked: Samsung Galaxy S Mini with 3.5-inch Super AMOLED Michael Kwan / Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 10:10 pm / 2 CommentsMaybe you like the idea of owning one of the Samsung Galaxy S smartphones, but you don't want something so large an unwieldly. If that's the case, you might be pretty stoked to hear about the possibility of a Samsung Galaxy S Mini… as pictured here.more → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: android 2.2, froyo, galaxy s, galaxy s mini, samsung, super amoled
Analysis: Who gets the newest Android versions first? Michael Kwan / Sunday, January 16, 2011, 12:19 pm / No CommentsDonut. Eclair. Froyo. Gingerbread. Google Android is filled with all sorts of delectable treats, but not all phones are treated alike. Even when Google officially announces and releases a new version of its mobile operating system, you don't get to enjoy that new Android OS right away; you have to wait for the carrier and manufacturer to push it to you (unless you like unofficial ROMs). So, who reigns supreme in this regard?more → Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged with: Android, android 2.2, att, dell, froyo, htc, lg, motorola, ota update, samsung, sony ericsson, sprint, t-mobile, verizon, vzw


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Over at XXL, I talk about how old man rap really isn't going out of style. Like Betty White.
READ: Slang Editorial: Is Old Man Rap Really Obsolete?
Posted in Hip Hop | Tags: slang editorial
it is if bloggers like you don't return email and i get love on Gawker before i even get a reply from the circle of blogger friends
Mighty Casey "Crackhead Superheroes"
The game is so watered down that people stick with what hasn't failed them - the vets in the game. The rookies in the game are trying to re-create the same shit and fail miserably. Most are cornballs. Most are not believable. Most are actors, bragging and boasting about shit they know nothing about over and over again. This is part of the reason Hip Hop continues to be a riotous unintentional comedy. It's a culture where marketable fakers get put on cuz they're willing to play the part and cater to the sheep with multiple features and "big name producers & co-signs" and real talent goes without shine.
Never heard of old man rap. I listen to Hip-Hop.
Ease up on the thesaurus.
Mighty Casey<probably becasue of the quality levels need to be upped dude.
Extremely off topic, but i figured that putting it up top would give me the best chance of getting an answer but shake or meka u have any idea if longterm2 has a release date yet
Ghostface is far and away the best example of aging in hip-hop. He'll be in his 60's and still entertaining as hell because he raps with so much emotion and honesty.
yah diggy, you tell him, that Crackhead Superheros shit sounds like it was done on a webcam microphone
well i'll take constructive criticism but 36 chambers sounded like it was done on an old 4 track and it was still dope...i was writing for Meka when he was at hiphopdx and would just like an email back if he don't like it he don't like it..gawker put it up of a cold call email yet all these blogger circle of friends who i see at industryparties all the time can't even do me the decency to tell me what diggy did
co sign level the fuck is old man rap
Mighty Casey<i think the concept is good tho. sound quality just needs to go up.
well jay-z has more records sold than there are lethergic negroes on welfare so theres some oldies still doing it big.
and the bookdocks hasnt been hittin like it used to btw. return of the king + the passion of ruckus > all
Yeah, this is what I've been saying, "What about when all you young fucks get old?" you won't want niggas to push you out! Plus if rappers are still adequate then I'm fine with "old rappers" it's when they get like LL, smh.
OC and AG have a real dope Old Man Rap album,Oasis! I was ridin round jammin that joint this weekend. As long as the lyrics still on point, I will buy niggas' shit that I been diggin since '92 or whatever!


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How America Ceded Capitalism's Bastion to Germans Seizing NYSE
July 6 (Bloomberg) -- Richard A. Grasso can now reveal the secret ingredients.
The clam-juice cocktails at the private Stock Exchange Luncheon Club, where brokers lined up three deep at the raw bar, contained tomato juice, cooled water from boiled chowder clams, ketchup, celery salt and the option of a freshly shucked clam. Add vodka and they called it a Red Snapper.
"Everyone for years tried to duplicate it, and it was dead wrong," said Grasso, 64, who started at the New York Stock Exchange as a clerk for $81 a week in 1968, a year after the NYSE first accepted a woman as a member.
The clam-juice cocktails are long gone, along with the club, which closed in 2006. So is Grasso, who quit in 2003 as chief executive officer amid furor over his $140 million compensation.
The NYSE's domination of U.S. stock trading is gone, too. Once it handled 82 percent of the share volume involving companies it listed, with most of those deals done by brokers in colored smocks shouting orders on the exchange floor. Now the NYSE and a sister exchange's shrunken 35 percent share of those transactions is executed mainly by computer servers stacked in a brick building in suburban Mahwah, New Jersey, about 33 miles (53 kilometers) from Wall Street. What mostly remains at the neoclassical Manhattan headquarters is a TV stage where business executives and celebrities such as Miss USA or Snooki from MTV's "Jersey Shore" ring open and close trading sessions.
The Big Board most of the world knows has been reduced to a server farm and a bell.
Symbol of Capitalism
The 219-year-old symbol of American capitalism, now called NYSE Euronext, is about to complete a $9.42 billion merger with Deutsche Boerse AG that will give the Frankfurt-based firm 60 percent of what would be the biggest exchange company in the world. The deal is the culmination of a decade of scandal, regulatory mandates and a technology arms race that opened the industry to electronic upstarts and forced the old Wall Street boys' club to become an international company that makes most of its money from businesses other than stock trading.
"When I started in the business, Deutsche Boerse was open for two hours a day and the New York Stock Exchange was THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE," said Thomas Caldwell, chief executive officer of Caldwell Securities Ltd., a money-management firm in Toronto, who has worked in the industry since 1965. "You just have to stop and say, 'Wait a minute here -- Deutsche Boerse, New York, equal partners? How did that happen?'"
Faster, Cheaper
Over the years, trading has gotten cheaper and faster, benefiting investors. Buying 1,000 shares of AT&T before 1975 would have cost $800 in commissions, Charles Schwab, who founded discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp., told the U.S. Senate in February 2000. That's about 100 times more than the fees paid by some retail stock-pickers today.
Even so, many of those same investors abandoned equities after the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, the benchmark measure of U.S. stocks, plummeted 6.2 percent in 20 minutes on May 6, 2010. Though the NYSE was the only exchange that didn't have to cancel transactions after the so-called flash crash, the plunge created the perception that markets in general weren't safe because high-frequency traders, who buy and sell in milliseconds, are beyond the reach of regulators and enjoy trading advantages on exchanges, said Joe Saluzzi, co-head of equities trading at Themis Trading LLC in Chatham, New Jersey.
"We have a two-tiered market," Saluzzi said. "Some traders have information and speed, and the exchange caters to them because that's where it makes its money." The merger won't change that formulation, he said.
Equal Access
The NYSE is required to allow all customers access to all services, said Richard C. Adamonis, a NYSE Euronext spokesman. Other markets don't have that requirement, he said.
The deal with Deutsche Boerse needs the approval of half the NYSE Euronext shareholders, who are scheduled to vote tomorrow, and three-fourths of the German firm's stockholders, who will decide by July 13. The companies have wooed shareholders by agreeing to pay about 620 million euros ($895 million) in dividends.
"There's this sentiment out there that we're not what we were, and that's right, we're not," NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan L. Niederauer, 51, a former co-head of equities trading for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said in an interview. "The NYSE doesn't want to be what it was. The game changed. We're obliged to get into new services, new products, new asset classes, new regions. If we do that successfully, that's a great story, not a sad story."
Niederauer, Francioni
Niederauer is slated to be CEO of the combined NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse. Reto Francioni, the head of the German company, will be chairman.
New products, namely derivatives such as options and interest-rate swaps, are what Niederauer is counting on to revive a company whose stock has lost almost half its value since it started trading in March 2006. NYSE Liffe, Europe's second-biggest derivatives market, will join Eurex, the biggest, owned by Deutsche Boerse.
After doubling each year from 2005 to 2007, NYSE Euronext's operating income has since slowed, falling 32 percent in 2009 and growing 3.7 percent last year.
Combined, Liffe and Eurex may earn $1.18 billion in three years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, Credit Suisse Group AG and Macquarie Group Ltd. Applying the average valuation of its three closest derivatives-market competitors would result in a business worth more than the combined companies before they agreed to merge -- and that's leaving out their other operations.
The Specialists
The old NYSE ran with the help of a group of stock traders called specialists. In 2002, seven NYSE-designated firms, including LaBranche & Co., had the job of stepping in and trading stocks when there were imbalances between buy and sell orders so that ups and downs could be smoothed. Specialists were also required to hang back as long as NYSE customers could trade with one another.
LaBranche, created in January 1924, became the first independent specialist firm to sell shares to the public in August 1999. With their central role in trading and their access to market information, specialists were a closed and lucrative club.
In papers prepared for its initial public offering, LaBranche disclosed that it regularly turned about 71 percent of sales into profit before paying its managing directors. Earnings before that expense climbed at least 25 percent every year from 1995 through 1999, almost doubling in 1998. That year, 34 managing directors split a compensation pool that gave each of them an average of about $1.7 million, according to regulatory filings.
Charges Filed
Technology and the government would undermine the specialists' profitability.
In 2004, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged all seven specialists, including LaBranche, with making $158 million from trading when they didn't need to step in and filling orders at levels that were inferior to the best prices. Specialist firms settled with the regulator for $247 million.
The U.S. government's pursuit of criminal charges against 15 individual specialists for securities fraud went nowhere. Some were acquitted while others saw their charges dismissed. One jury conviction of a Fleet Specialist Inc. employee was overturned by a federal judge, who said prosecutors hadn't proved fraud. The guilty pleas of two others were set aside.
No More Peeks
After the scandal, the specialists' role at the NYSE declined as trading became more automated and rules changed. LaBranche never posted annual net income after 2006, and it sold its NYSE market-maker business to London-based Barclays Plc in 2010 and the rest of the company to Cowen Group Inc., a New York investment bank, in June.
The specialists have been replaced by "designated market makers," who no longer see all the orders coming into the exchange and don't have to wait until others trade, though they must continue to smooth order imbalances and maintain what the NYSE describes as fair and orderly markets.
Grasso, who became CEO in 1995, defended the specialists, running interference for them with the media and the government at the expense of investing in new technology to make its market faster, said Alfred R. Berkeley, president from 1996 to 2000 of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., the NYSE's biggest rival for corporate listings.
The decline of the traditional NYSE reflected "regulatory policy, nothing the exchange management did," Grasso said.
Talcum Powder
The NYSE was a men's-only club until 1967, a place where brokers could leave their dress shoes on the stairs leading to the trading floor after they changed into sneakers for the work day. It was a place where paper orders, crumpled and discarded, would pile so high that cleanup workers looked like they were shoveling snow.
Traders kept containers of talcum powder in their desks, said James Maguire Jr., 49, who first worked on the NYSE floor in 1979 as a college freshman on Christmas break. When famous visitors arrived, one trader would distract the celebrity or CEO and another would shake the talcum on their shoes. When New York Jets quarterback Richard Todd showed up in white shoes, they used cocoa, he said.
"It was good-natured fun," said Maguire, who worked as a clerk, a broker and a specialist until 2004. "The idea was that you may be a big shot in the board room or in politics, but you're on our turf. You're one of the guys."
The back-slapping extended to NYSE governance, according to a 2003 letter by William H. Donaldson, 80, chairman and CEO of the Big Board from 1990 to 1995, and chairman of the SEC, the exchange's chief regulator, from 2003 to 2005.
Protecting Investors
Until 2003, the CEOs of 10 brokerages regulated by the NYSE sat on the exchange's board, and half the NYSE's 12 public directors, designated to protect investors' interests, were presidents, CEOs or former CEOs of firms that traded on the exchange, such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer William B. Harrison Jr.
The board allowed Grasso to pick the directors who set his compensation. One Grasso choice was Kenneth G. Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot Inc., who became chairman of the compensation committee. Grasso, in turn, sat on the board and compensation committee of Home Depot.
Grasso was hailed as a savior of Wall Street for his work to restore the NYSE following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which halted U.S. equities trading for four days, the longest shutdown since 1933. When terrorists flew two hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center's twin towers, just blocks away, Grasso used the public-address system to urge staff and traders to remain calm.
Trusting Grasso
"I saw their reaction to his voice, and I was impressed," Bill Silver, a floor trader, said in an interview six days later. "He's a respected authority there and they trusted his judgment."
Grasso was "spectacular" in working to reopen the exchange, said Harvey L. Pitt, who at the time was chairman of the SEC.
"He called me the first thing every morning and the last thing every night, to check in with me, find out what I wanted, to offer suggestions," Pitt said.
The attacks highlighted the vulnerabilities of concentrating so much of the U.S. equities market in one location.
The aftermath of the restoration also provided an early glimpse into the compensation issue that would result in Grasso's ouster. He received a $5 million bonus in 2001, in part for his work in reopening the exchange.
$140 Million Package
Kurt Viermetz, a JPMorgan vice chairman at the time, praised Grasso at a dinner in June 2003 for his role in restoring the capital markets -- with one catch.
"For some, our American hero was a little overpaid," Viermetz added.
Later in 2003, the NYSE board went further, awarding Grasso $140 million -- enough for almost 8,000 years of tuition at New York-based Pace University, where Grasso was given an honorary degree. As Grasso's predecessor as CEO of the NYSE, Donaldson had received annual pay of about $2 million.
After he found out about Grasso's compensation, which followed the specialist scandal, Donaldson, Pitt's successor as SEC chairman, demanded an explanation. "Grasso's pay package raises serious questions regarding the effectiveness of the NYSE's current governance structure," Donaldson wrote in a letter to the NYSE board.
Nothing Wrong
"In my opinion, nobody did anything wrong except there were judgments made about compensation that people can debate," Harrison, the former JPMorgan CEO, said in an interview. "A lot of people thought it was too much. Some people didn't." Harrison wouldn't say which side he came down on.
Institutional investors trading on the NYSE, however, had few qualms about questioning the board for paying Grasso so much, and some called for Grasso to quit, which he did.
Grasso had previously lobbied the NYSE board to oust Donaldson, according to Charles Gasparino's book, "King of the Club," and "Donaldson had a long memory," Pitt said. "This was his chance to get even."
In an interview, Donaldson said there was nothing personal about his battle with Grasso over the pay package.
"It was a tough thing to do," Donaldson said. "I felt this was a really bad situation, a self-regulatory agency was writing rules for corporate America and not having any guidelines for its own governance."
Grasso's compensation didn't constitute a scandal, Langone said in an interview.
'The Last Emperor'
"There was nothing illegal or criminal about it, or unethical, which is even better," he said. "It was the members deciding how much Mr. Grasso was worth, and he was paid that amount of money. It was the members' money. It wasn't some charity."
"Grasso was the one person who personified the institution, who knew everyone and knew where every body was buried," said John C. Coffee, a securities professor at Columbia University's law school in New York. "Dick Grasso was the last emperor."
The Grasso compensation and specialists scandals reduced the NYSE's political power and gave the Donaldson-led SEC more leverage to push through new rules that reshaped the U.S. stock markets, according to James Angel, a finance professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington.
Horse and Buggy
"You can't have your monopoly and eat it, too," Angel said. "In 2001 they were operating a horse-and-buggy market where humans screamed at humans. When you add the scandals, that led to a regulatory environment that made it easier for competitors to compete."
In 2005, the SEC approved Regulation NMS, for national market system. The new rules were designed to drive down trading costs for investors and increase competition among exchanges, eroding the dominance of NYSE and Nasdaq's exchanges by moving trading onto as many as 50 markets.
Reg NMS was the final nail in the coffin for the old New York Stock Exchange.
It altered and expanded the trade-through rule, which gave exchanges 30 seconds to fill orders sent by a rival. Critics said the rule led to delayed executions, cherry-picked orders and sometimes less-than-best prices for investors. Reg NMS gave a boost to faster electronic markets and increased competition for the NYSE. Prices on exchanges that weren't fully electronic, like the NYSE at the time, could be ignored, the SEC said.
Bats, Direct Edge
Nasdaq, which had faced competition from electronic trading systems since at least the late 1990s, acquired the Inet electronic equity market in 2005 and consolidated U.S. equity trading onto the company's platform within a year. The company had bought Brut, an early electronic communications network, or ECN, in 2004.
Since 2000, Bats Global Markets, based in Lenexa, Kansas, and Jersey City, New Jersey-based Direct Edge Holdings LLC, each of which now runs two stock exchanges, have grabbed 18 percent of a marketplace that used to be dominated by the NYSE.
The owner of the Big Board increased its commitment to electronic trading in 2005 when it announced it would buy Archipelago Holdings Inc., a Chicago-based electronic exchange operator.
Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, operates Bloomberg Tradebook, an electronic trading system.
Market Free-Fall
While all this market fragmentation drove trading costs down, it also has been blamed for the May 6, 2010, market free-fall. Between 2:40 p.m. and 3 p.m. New York time that day, a plunge in stock prices erased $862 billion of market value. Accenture Plc, a Dublin-based technology consulting firm, fell as low as a penny from about $41.
The decline was triggered partly by one firm's trade in stock-index futures, according to a study released Oct. 1 by the SEC and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The trading algorithm employed by the firm, identified by two people with knowledge of the findings as Overland Park, Kansas-based Waddell & Reed Financial Inc., sparked the rapid selling of stock futures because it took into account volume but not price or time, the report said.
Volume increased as high-frequency traders, who buy and sell based on split-second price movements, traded as stock futures fell, prompting the mutual fund to increase its sell orders to the market. Disparate rules across stock exchanges and delays in the dissemination of trading data, especially for companies listed on the Big Board, led to confusion in the equities market, the report said.
Creating a Vacuum
"What we learned is that there are so many venues that trade the same product and don't have the same rules," Grasso said. That created a "vacuum" on May 6, he said. "The institutional difference is profound."
The flash crash highlighted a trade-off that continues. Buying and selling stocks is cheaper and faster, but can also be riskier.
"People sometimes feel that the computers are too much in control," John A. Carey, a Boston-based money manager at Pioneer Investments, which oversees about $250 billion, said of exchanges in general. "In the old days, at least you had specialists on the floor who could get a sense of what was going on and could calm people down."
Since the May 6 crash, the SEC has instituted so-called circuit breakers for some of the largest stocks and almost 350 exchange-traded funds. If a security drops 10 percent or more in five minutes, trading in those shares stops for five minutes. The SEC is in the process of altering the curbs to limit price moves instead of halting stocks.
Investors Yank Money
That didn't stop the acceleration of investors fleeing equity markets that began with the collapse of confidence in credit markets following the Sept. 15, 2008, bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Retail investors pulled $96.6 billion from U.S. stock funds between May and December 2010, even as the S&P 500 rose 6 percent, according to data from Washington-based Investment Company Institute and Bloomberg. That represented 2.3 percent of the 2010 year-end assets in U.S. equity funds, ICI data show.
At the same time, bond funds were gaining, with about $121 billion in inflows during the same period. It wasn't until the start of 2011 that investors returned to stocks, adding $11.4 billion in January, the most in 20 months. They withdrew more than $5 billion in March and have taken money out every week of May and June, ICI data show.
Many Millionaires
Under John A. Thain, who was president of Goldman Sachs before he became NYSE CEO in January 2004, the exchange went public by completing its merger with Archipelago in March 2006, making multi-millionaires of the specialists and brokers who owned seats on the NYSE. Thirteen months later the company paid 9 billion euros for Euronext NV, which operated exchanges in Brussels, Lisbon, Paris and Amsterdam, where it was based, and the Liffe derivatives exchange.
Derivatives offer NYSE Euronext's biggest operating margin and are an increasing share of the company's profit. As late as the first quarter of 2009, NYSE Euronext said stock trading and listings made up 61 percent of net revenue. In the first quarter of 2011, that unit contributed 48 percent, while 35 percent came from derivatives trading and 17 percent from its technology division, according to a regulatory filing.
After the merger with Deutsche Boerse, the derivatives business would account for 37 percent of the combined company's revenue, while stock trading and listings would shrink to 29 percent, the company said at an April shareholder meeting, citing 2010 pro forma data.
Ethnic Cliques
Changes have swept out the industry's clubby atmosphere, said Berkeley, formerly of Nasdaq and now chairman of Pipeline Trading Systems LLC in New York.
"There were WASP cliques, Jewish cliques and Irish cliques when I came into the business in the early 1970s," Berkeley said. "Technology blew that away. Technology doesn't care what color you are. It cares how much you know."
Technology has also made the NYSE floor "way quieter" than it used to be, said Maguire, who told the talcum-powder story.
"When I walk in now, there's that absence of the buzz," he said. "The business is still out there, but it's being done by computers."
Those computers are located in a high-security building on a neatly landscaped 28-acre (113,300 square meters) former quarry in Mahwah, a northern New Jersey crossroads just south of the New York state border. Everything there is big. Pipes 20 inches (51 centimeters) in diameter bring water to cool the computers. The 20 surge protectors that guard against power outages are each as big as a Hummer H4. Generators on hand in case the facility loses utility power can keep cranking electricity on their own.
The Grid
Brokerages and high-speed trading firms can pay a basic fee of $8,000 a month to have their computer servers hooked up to the trading grid, where orders are executed, according to the NYSE Web site.
The landscape is very different from the one Dick Grasso left eight years ago.
"You know what? You never look back," Grasso said, wearing a black suit with a pink tie and a 9/11 lapel pin depicting an American flag on a New York Police Department badge, during a recent interview. "The tape goes in one direction." He thrust out his hand and moved it slowly, following an invisible stock ticker. "Remember that. It only goes in one direction."
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ByDuring CeBIT 2011 open source projects such as OpenEmbedded which supports the building and designing of Linux distributions on embedded devices, will have the opportunity to showcase what is currently in active development.
Short and sweet: How would you describe your project in one or two sentences?
OpenEmbedded supports building and designing of Linux distributions for embedded devices. It is suitable for various kinds of devices like routers, smarthphones, PDAs, settop boxes and many more.
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How many active members does the project have?
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The OpenZaurus community could not fulfill all of its requirementswith the so-called buildroot build system and better designed one wasnecessary. This idea brought OpenEmbedded to live.
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At our stand beginners and interested people can get to know what canbe done with OpenEmbedded und they the possibility to talk tocontributor who are with the project for many years. People withknowledge in embedded Linux get the chance to make contacts and/orexchange ideas.
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OpenEmbedded is supposed to appeal to developers wanting toaccomplish a project using embedded Linux. It does not matter howeverwhether this is someones personal pet project or a professional userwishing to control industrial machines using Linux.
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The tightrope walk between specialisation - one software for onepurpose - and generalisation - one software serves many needs - is anespecially hard feat in the embedded world. OpenEmbedded tries toconfront this requirement with its highly flexible configuration systemand is still forked in order to gain a better adjustement towardscertain needs. This in turn leads to a lot of redundant work and we arecurrently trying to get the other parties (=projects) involved and solvethe issues together.
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OpenEmbedded main tool 'bitbake' is in need of a performance upgrade.The project's metadata is growing steadily and bitbake parse activitytakes longer and logner. There are workarounds but they do not solve theproblem once and for all and stand in the way of more useful enhancements.
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RSS reader, to-do list, drawing pad, and more
Feed Your Head
To keep abreast of the news, Makagiga includes an integrated RSS reader. In the drop-down list, right-click and select Delete to remove the pre-installed feeds. Then select File | Import | Import Feed List to import an existing list of RSS feeds into the program. Here you can select Edit | Preferences and then use the slider in the Feeds tab to set the Keep for date for the content and automatically remove obsolete articles that are, say, more than a day old. Unfortunately, this feature did not work in our lab.
When you select a feed in the tree view, the feed updates and displays a color-highlighted list of articles. Clicking an article changes its color while displaying a summary of the RSS entry with a matching link. If you follow the link, the page appears in your preset browser.
If you right-click the empty space below the link instead of left-clicking the link, a drop-down appears that lets you copy the content from the feed to a note and post it on your bulletin board. This means that you can quickly create a note about an important feed article. Unfortunately, the feed reader has one disadvantage: If you collect several similar feeds in a folder, in contrast to many other feed readers, clicking the folder will not display all the articles.
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Because I don't have enough space to look at all the other features in depth, a quick overview will have to suffice. Tools | Plugins lets you add more functions to your version of Makagiga by downloading plugins off the Internet [2]. For example, one extension adds YouTube searching to the search field. Clicking Get More Plugins at the bottom of the window takes you to a list of extensions available off the Internet and lets you point and click to set them up. Other tools in the same menu are Delete private data, which lets you delete your cookies and logfiles, and Backup, which lets you create an archive of any files and folders you have created previously. Then you could burn the results to a DVD for safekeeping, for example.
Makagiga includes its own miniature software universe and is well worth investigating. The software is not just for Linux fans that need to organize their lives or for lateral thinkers, it is also useful for newcomers and anybody involved in a learning process.
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