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Cornelia Orr
Cornelia Orr is the Executive Director of The National Assessment Governing Board. She provides support for members of the Governing Board regarding all matters being considered by the Board. Additionally, she oversees the development and implementation of the Board's budget and procurement activities and works collaboratively with the Board staff to implement Board policies and actions. Prior to joining the Board, she served the Florida Department of Education as the Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Accountability from 2003-2009. In that capacity she provided leadership and direction for Florida's K-12 and post-secondary assessment programs. Her career has involved assessments at both the local and state levels, including Director of K-12 Assessment, Director of Testing and Evaluation with the Leon County Schools, and a program specialist with the DOE on a variety of other assessment projects. Other professional experiences have included teaching assessment topics at the university level and work in the private sector as a consultant on assessment and evaluation projects for local, state, and national level organizations.
Mary Crovo
Ms. Crovo advises the Executive Director and serves as chief technical expert on all matters related to the design and conduct of the NAEP. She plans and coordinates the work of the technical staff to ensure consistency among Governing Board policies, guidelines, standards, and procedures. She also advises the Executive Director on the development of NAEP frameworks, specifications, and test items. Prior to joining the Governing Board in 1989, Ms. Crovo was chief of research and evaluation for the Maryland State Department of Education. She provides staff support for the Board's Assessment Development and Nominations Committees.
Lawrence Feinberg
A former long-time education reporter for the Washington Post, Mr. Feinberg serves as the Board's chief staff expert on reporting, disseminating, and analyzing NAEP results. His responsibilities include advising the Board on NAEP background questions and on data for disabled and limited-English students, as well other reporting and analysis issues. He has written extensively on student testing and on demographic topics and trends. Mr. Feinberg provides staff support to the Board's Reporting and Dissemination Committee.
Ray Fields
Mr. Fields serves as the Governing Board's principal advisor on policy formulation. He advises the Executive Director on matters related to legislation and budget, and on areas in which policy-related research is needed. His recent major policy projects include: revising the NAEP schedule of assessments; establishing a Task Force comprised of business leaders to provide input on NAEP-related policy; and redesigning NAEP to report on the preparedness of 12th-grade students for postsecondary education and training. He formerly occupied a number of administrative and policy posts in the U.S. Education Department and was a teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. Mr. Fields provides staff support for the Board's Executive Committee.
Stephaan Harris
A former journalist for several newspapers including USA Today, Mr. Harris serves as the Board's advisor on external communications issues. He advises the Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director on matters related to NAEP public releases, as well as outreach communications about NAEP and the Board with various constituencies, including journalists, policymakers, associations, educators, and the general public. He previously was senior media coordinator for the Economic Policy Institute. Mr. Harris provides staff support for the Board's Reporting and Dissemination Committee.
Michelle Blair
A former middle-school teacher and school district administrator, Ms. Blair joined the Governing Board in 2007. She provides research support, data analysis, and other technical assistance to Board program staff. Ms. Blair also provides staff support for the Board's three standing committees. Her prior experience includes teaching in Broward County, Florida and serving New York City's public schools by working on special initiatives for the Chancellor's office and helping to lead several youth development projects.
Sharyn Rosenberg
Sharyn Rosenberg joined the Governing Board in 2013 with an extensive background in education and psychometrics, as well as NAEP. Her work experiences include Horizon Research, where she conducted complex data analyses and provided psychometric expertise for projects, and the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where she provided research and psychometric support for NAEP. At AIR, Dr. Rosenberg most recently served as the Project Director for the NAEP research and technical support team where she managed and conceptualized NAEP research studies, as well as responded to technical requests from the National Center for Education Statistics' Assessment Division. The focus of her graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also earned a Certificate in Survey Methodology from the Odum Institute, was on measurement and quantitative methods. In 2011, Dr. Rosenberg co-authored with former Board member Gregory Cizek a chapter entitled, "Psychometric Methods and High Stakes Assessment: Contexts and Methods for Promoting Ethics in Testing," which appears in the Handbook of Ethics in Quantitative Methodology.
Dora Drumgold-Barnett
Ms. Drumgold-Barnett provides administrative support to the Governing Board and staff as an office manager. Her varied duties include establishment and maintenance of payroll, Board records, correspondence, publications, and staff files. She has primary responsibility for implementing the solicitation procedures of the nominations process for new Board members; reconciling financial records as a contracting officer; and arranging travel needs for the Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director. Ms. Drumgold-Barnett also serves as liaison for the Combined Federal Campaign.
Munira Mwalimu
Ms. Mwalimu serves as the Governing Board's Contracting and Executive Officer. In these capacities, she executes contracts for the Governing Board, manages the Board's budget submission and execution, and has oversight of the Board's administrative operations. In addition, she manages the personnel and administrative actions of Board members and staff. Ms. Mwalimu serves as the Board's Executive Officer, Principal Liaison Officer for the Office of Committee Management, and Information Technology Coordinator at the Department of Education. Ms. Mwalimu is the principal staff person responsible for the execution of the Board's quarterly meeting agenda and is the contact person for Federal Register notices.
Tessa Regis
Ms. Regis serves as the Governing Board's principal staff on matters related to financial management of program funds. Ms. Regis' major responsibilities include assisting in the development of the Board's fiscal year budgets; formulating and adjusting the annual operational plans based on financial allotments; tracking and monitoring Board expenditures; reconciling financial records and providing regular reports; monitoring contract delivery orders and payment files for Board contracts and purchases; processing and tracking invoice payments received from vendors; and serving as liaison for the Governing Board between the Education Department's Budget and Finance Divisions. Ms. Regis also provides administrative and technical support.
Angela Scott
Ms. Scott coordinates logistics and travel for the Governing Board, playing a major role in overseeing numerous details of projects and materials related to the Board's quarterly meetings. Prior to becoming a staff member, Ms. Scott had actually performed many of these duties for the Board for more than ten years as a contractor for both Lockheed Martin and previously Aspen Systems, acquired by Lockheed in 2004. For these two companies, Ms. Scott served numerous roles managing multiple federal government contracts, with responsibilities that entailed executing program needs, undertaking financial management, coordinating conference support, and negotiating contracts with hotels and vendors. Other clients included Educational Testing Service and ACT. Ms. Scott also previously directed sales and marketing in the hotel industry.
Tisha Phillips
Ms. Phillips joined the Governing Board staff in March 2013 as the Contract Specialist. In her role, she provides support on all contractual matters ,which include acquisition planning, negotiation, contract administration and close out. Ms. Phillips is a veteran of the United States Navy, having served honorably for over 20 years as a Logistician. Ms. Phillips' prior experience includes serving as a Contract Specialist for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program.


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Cabinet Appoints Scourge of Settlers as Deputy Attorney General
JERUSALEM, Israel, Sept. 9th–Israel's cabinet approved today the appointment of Shai Nitzan to the position of Deputy Attorney General for Special Assignments.
Nationalist activists and politicians say that as Deputy State Prosecutor for eight years Nitzan had a left-wing, anti-settlement, anti-nationalist agenda.
Speaking with reporters after the decision, Minister of Science Hershkowitz (Jewish Home) criticized the appointment, saying that trust has to be restored to the legal system and "this appointment does not restore trust."
Minister of Culture and Sport Limor Livnat (Likud), however said that Minister of Justice Ya'akov Ne'eman told the cabinet that Nitzan would not deal with settlement-related matters.
Such issues, which were under the jurisdiction of Mike Blass who is retiring, would now fall under the jurisdiction of Dina Zilber, whose appointment as Blass's replacement was approved in the same meeting.
About the Author: Daniel Tauber is a frequent contributor to various prominent publications, including the Jewish Press, Arutz Sheva, Americanthinker.com, the Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz. Daniel is also an attorney admitted to practice law in Israel and New York and received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. You can follow him on facebook and twitter.
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There's little choice but to wait and see but when was the last time "Bibi" appointed a "right wing, settler type" to ANY position whether or not it had anything to do with Judea and Sameria.


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A pile of gray ash and debris sits outside the construction site at the former Grant Elementary School in central Duluth. It was the last pile of material excavated from an old dump site workers uncovered as they renovate and expand the building to become Myers-Wilkins Elementary. The ash, found in a former creek bed that had long been covered, was dotted with old bottles, pottery and other items — some of which may date back more than a century. (Andrew Krueger / email@example.com)
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The well-timed and well-acronymed Tour de Frack, a two-week bike tour launched from Butler, Pa. (45 miles north of Pittsburgh) passes through Maryland this week before arriving in Washington D.C.
The Tour de Frack, a.k.a. the Freedom Ride for Community Awareness and Knowledge, is heading to the nation's capital via the Great Allegheny Passage and C & O Towpath, stopping in rural towns along the way. It may be a coincidence, but Tour de Frack riders are pedaling to D.C. at the same time cyclists competing in the 99th Tour de France — certainly a different type of ride — race from the Alps to the Pyrenees to Paris.
A community bike ride celebrating the Tour de Frack, followed by a concert in partnership with Save Western Maryland, is scheduled for 6 p.m. July 19 at the Great Allegheny Passage trailhead in Frostburg. The tour reaches Cumberland on Friday. The bicyclists continue Saturday along the C & O into Hancock, Md. and then head through Williamsport, Md. on Sunday, where a rest stop is slotted from 3 -5 p.m. at the Desert Rose Café.
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The 400-mile ride to Washington, where organizers will meet with elected officials, including Sen. Barbara Mikulski, is designed to raise awareness of the effects of the natural gas drilling process known as fracking in western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and West Virginia communities. As they travel, bicyclists are gathering letters from residents impacted by gas drilling and fracking, according to the Cumberland Times-News. The ride concludes at the Stop the Frack Attack Rally on Capitol Hill July 28.
"We're finding benzene and toluene — these are not things that were there before — also, naturally occurring elements like arsenic, and we are seeing an extraordinary number of people with arsenic poisoning," Tour de Frack cyclist Jason Bell, of Butler County, told a Pittsburgh public radio station. The group is carrying jugs of brown "drinking" water from Butler to D.C.
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The Good Life
Disarmingly, Cheryl Mendelson concludes her introductory definition of morality by saying, "This is a slightly cranky but, I hope, clarifying use of the term morality." Just how cranky and indeed unclarifying her definition is can be quickly illustrated. Morality, she tells us, began with the Protestant Reformation. It is a specifically European and by extension "Western" phenomenon that began in the sixteenth century, flourished in the eighteen and nineteenth centuries, and declined in the twentieth. "I refer," she says, "to other codes of right and wrong, with their own histories and psychologies, as 'ethics' or as nonmoral codes and cultures." Plato therefore, although "admirable and great" was not "in our sense of the term, moral." Which happily "is not to say that Plato was immoral or that we cannot measure his merit on a moral yardstick."
A virtue of this approach, Mendelson claims, is that it avoids the problem of relativism; if the only morality is that of modern (post-sixteenth century) Western culture, then any difference from it in such codes of conduct as those of the Hopi, Bedouin, or Aztec, cannot represent a clash of moralities. Problem solved, by definition.
Let it be acknowledged straightaway that Mendelson's book is not without its merits. By its end she has arrived at the same point as Socrates, though by an eccentric route, in saying that anyone who grasped the good would not willingly choose to live other than by its light. But it otherwise has to be said that this extraordinary and confused view about the nature of ethics, morality, their relationship, and the relationship of both to their psychological underpinnings in shared human nature, simply will not do.
Ethics and morality are different things, and not just because the former has a Greek root and the latter a Latin root. In formal philosophical studies ethics denotes the study of moral concepts and systems. In this usage, morality is practice, ethics is the second-order study of that practice and the ideas assumed in it.
But there is a more important use of ethics to denote the principles that shape an individual's (or a corporation's or nation's) character and the actions and relationships that it determines. In this usage ethics is cognate to ethos, and the Socratic challenge to reflect on the question "What sort of person should I be?" is a challenge to consider one's ethics.
Morality is an important and central component of ethics, but only part of ethics. It concerns our duties and responsibilities to others, and in certain ways to ourselves. Morality and mores are closely related, because mores -- customs -- help to organize and smooth the way people interact, minimizing conflict in the interests of cohesion and cooperation.
The difference between ethics and morality can be illustrated in the following way: it is an ethical matter what color you paint the front door of your house, since this expresses something about your view of yourself, your presentation of yourself to the world, your tastes, and more. But it is only a moral matter if it is such a hideous color that it offends the neighbors -- and you refuse to care about their reaction.
It follows from these characterizations that any system of ideas and beliefs that influences how people behave is an ethical system, and that anything in that system that identifies certain actions, attitudes, utterances, and relationships as right or wrong is the morality it contains.
The important point is that this is universal. There is no community anywhere in the world or time that does not reflect upon and at least attempt to negotiate the ways its members live together, measuring how far its members succeed in the process and rewarding or punishing as appropriate, whether by praise and disapproval or by more emphatic methods.
This universality is a function of some simple but deep facts about human beings. The first is that humans are essentially social animals, where the word essentially carries great significance. We live in communities, from families to whole societies, and not just need to but have to. Although a great deal of conflict, greed, unkindness, selfishness, and worse is generated by the frictions of close community life, there is vastly more cooperation, mutuality, kindness, friendship, and plain old rubbing-along than there is conflict. The majority story in humanity is the millions of acts of ordinary courtesy and collegiality that, every minute of every day in every town and city, characterize the vast majority of the interactions between people, including strangers -- in shops, on the street, on the telephone, in trains, in restaurants.
This is human nature: its essential sociality. Following from this is the fact that most human achievements are collaborative ones. Look at the buildings, streets, electricity supply, schools, hospitals, sewage pipes, train tracks, airports -- these are the result of teamwork, and the story of humanity is a team story. Of course there are the individual geniuses and creators, the artists and writers, thinkers and leaders whose solo efforts can turn the tide of history. But that does not happen unless there are others to follow.
There is a simple test of the truth that people of all cultures have shared moral instincts. It is that all but the minority of abnormal folk will spontaneously shout out a warning when they see another -- whoever that is: unless it is an acknowledged enemy -- in unsuspected danger. If you see someone standing beneath a wall on top of which there is a teetering pile of bricks about to fall, what do you do? You yell a warning, without thinking about it, no matter who or what the endangered person is.
For these reasons the implication of Mendelson's subtitle, "…in an antimoral world," does not ring true to me. Ours is a moral world, and we are upset and outraged, disturbed and troubled by the bad things that happen in it precisely because the background is moral, not amoral or immoral. This is why regimes of human rights can and ought to be regarded as universal, and why murder, rape, slavery, torture, female genital mutilation (perhaps -- as we see Germany now legislating -- all genital mutilation), and cognate crimes of similar severity, are wrong without qualification or exception: morally wrong, corrosive of ethical existence, destructive of social life, anti-human, repugnant, and hateful. Such terms are themselves illustrative of the great importance all people everywhere attach to their opposites: to what builds community, binds people together, sweetens relationships, and enhances good possibilities.
Well: let us suppose that Mendelson had taken the wiser course of saying that she was going to focus upon modern Western morality, rather than trying to redefine morality as what modern Westerners think is right, and test another of her views. This is that morality is a construct that we build around a premoral psychological core. She accepts the view of Marc Hauser and others that our moral psychology is (in Hauser's words) "an evolved capacity of all human minds" but then says "it does not follow…that morality is genuinely instinctual." She attempts to escape a charge of contradiction by again employing the strategy of redefinition, here redefining instinct so that it does not apply to our morally relevant sensitivity to others. But this again will not do: since morality specifically concerns our relationships, and since the nature and conduct of our relationships is a function of our highly evolved psychologies, there is no way that considerations of morality can be detached from considerations of psychology.
The point is, therefore, that there is no such thing as a "premoral core," despite the apparent anarchy of the infant and the belief that socializing a child is a process of repressing its wild animal nature. Another way to put this is to say that "wild animal nature" is a myth even as applied to animals. For consider: inter-individual and group behavior of other social animals is instinctive and evolved; that is plain. The fact that humans can and do reflect on their behavior, and can modify it if other trumping considerations are in play, does not alter the fact that the instincts are evolved from the same source as in the chimpanzee or dog. That is not a reductionist remark; it is a fact of evolutionary biology, but it acknowledges the place that other evolved features, in this case importantly both intelligence and self-awareness, have in the subtle, complex, multifarious, and sometimes difficult business of relating to others. It also explains why humans do bad things to one another in ways that most other social animals (but alas, not other primates) do not.
I should not like these disagreements to mask the fact that there are other aspects of Mendelson's argument, construed as a discussion about Western moral values, that are interesting and right. I agree with her about abortion as justifiable, and in opposing authoritarian types of society that subordinate women. On the first matter she makes the good point that anti-abortion campaigns are "pseudomoral": the campaigners' "rage, powerful enough to result in cruel harassment, threats, and murders of abortion providers, does not arise out of moral concern. It is pseudomoral, and their often striking air of bad faith and playacting is evidence of this. Their angry denunciations of baby murder are one more example of the way contemporary antimoralism attempts to use the power of moral condemnation to undermine morality itself."
I am not so sure about another of Mendelson's anxieties, that we need to be concerned about the changes in child-rearing practices forced by the demands of our Western economies. The need for both parents to work, and the hours they are required to work, jointly result in child care being carried out by surrogates for some part of the family week. Is this a danger, as Mendelson suggests? For one thing, children are very adaptable. For another, not all families are as good as professional child carers (teachers, principally) at the business of helping a child to mature -- perhaps because in the family setting more emotion is invested in the process. This does not mean a Platonic "state nursery" system should replace family life. But Mendelson's concern that the passing on from generation to generation of moral values will be derailed if it does not happen in specifically family contexts perhaps goes too far in the other direction.
These are all points that a community debates with itself, and negotiates with itself, because all communities find themselves faced with moral choices, and often with moral dilemmas, that they continually have to have conversations about. Moral consensus traverses a range, back and forth as concerns, experiments, and experience direct. Mendelson's book, for all its quirky definitions, is a contribution to the continuation of those conversations. The more such there are, the better.
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Professor Grayling, I am the author of The Good Life, and I write because I fear you read in haste and misunderstood in a way that skewed your take on the book, and may mislead readers of this review. You accuse me of trying to solve the problem of relativism by a definition of "morality." Of course, that would have been both silly and naive, but I plead not guilty.
First, I offered no definition of "morality," but said I would use that term to refer to one specific historical, cultural value system, and that I would refer to the world's many codes of right and wrong as "ethics." This was a matter of convenience, as I carefully explained, among other reasons, because this is a book about that specific Western tradition, explicitly addressed to those within that tradition. Further, while the book acknowledges that the term is legitimately used in other ways, it points out that its own usage is also legitimate, that the word in its modern sense originates in the tradition it names, as its name, and that it is best suited by far to the purposes of the book. I did not attempt to solve the problem of relativism or claim or believe or imply that I had. I claimed that my usage avoided some awkwardnesses and confusions, given the book's purposes, and I am still confident that it does. At the end of the day, however, usage, by itself, leaves philosophical questions about relativism standing.
Second, I point out, as a matter of fact or observation, that this specific historical system is universalistic, for example, in its adherence to such familiar ideals as a universal brotherhood of man and universal equality and in its view of its obligations as applying to all people. I did not define morality in such a way as to be universalistic, but made a descriptive claim that it is, among other things, a universalistic value system.
Third, this book is in no way a work on moral theory and offers no theories of that nature. It is a book about ominous changes in American culture and morals. It carefully points out that I am writing from within this moral tradition, as an adherent to its universalist values, and addressing others who do so as well. Its universalism is a normative moral position, a moral commitment, not a meta-ethical theory and not a piece of moral epistemology.
Fourth, because I accepted this normative position (adherence to universalist moral values), I also took great care to explain that it did not lead to intolerance, self-righteousness, judgmentalism, arrogant interference, and so forth—but, in fact, to tolerance and humility. I thought it particularly important to do so because so many readers regard relativism as necessary to avoid such evils.
Finally, I do not try to prove this normative position—and certainly not by a fiat of definition. I deliberately assume a broad framework of moral value as a starting point for the book's fundamental purpose--to describe the specific moral plight of the moral individual in an increasingly antimoral culture. I tend to think that the only support that it can be given is the kind that I do give it: an explanation of the moral mentality (or mind or character) that makes it clear that anyone who understood it would choose it, if such a choice were possible. As you correctly point out, this is similar to Plato's answer in The Republic. It rests, however, on nothing like a Platonic psychology or theory of the soul.
I thank you for your other thoughts in this review, which readers will recognize are well worth reading on their own account.
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I was reading one of the stories under "miscellaneous" that seemed to fit this. A 9mo, left alone in the car for under 4 minutes while her mom ran inside the grocery, became tangled in a carseat strap and strangled herself.
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The scary thing is, couldn't the 9mo have also choked herself on her carseat strap while mom was driving and thought she was asleep? Aren't some children still rear-facing at this age? I'm not saying I'd feel comfortable leaving my baby to go into a grocery store -- but this seems like a case where something was wrong with the carseat strap, for her to be capable of strangling herself with it.
My conclusion was that she either had a faulty car seat, or she did not have her child properly buckle in, in which case this has ZERO to do with leaving the child alone, and everything to do with user-error. The child could have done the same thing while she was driving.
Maybe there would have been a noise. If the child is rear-facing, the mom wouldn't necessarily have known anything was wrong. My kids make noise all the time while I'm driving. If the child choked to death in under 4 minutes, then it could have easily happened while the mom was driving...and depending on the circumstances, there's absolutely no guarantee that the mom could have done anything about it. There are places where pulling over safely is nearly impossible. I'd guess that the most likely scenario would have been that the mom would have arrived at her destination and found her baby dead. Something went very wrong there.


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OKLAHOMA CITY -- It's dubbed the "World's Smallest Jet" and one of Oklahoma's Own is flying it.
The airplane's design was originally developed in the 1970's, but a new and improved version is slowly making a comeback.
The small plane was originally called the BD-5, a build it yourself airplane that was also featured in airshows. It was designed by Jim Bede of Bede Aircraft, Inc. However, BD Micro Technologies, Inc. has worked for the past 20 years to update the BD-5 with today's technology. Oklahoma pilot Justin Lewis has helped the company. The result is the FLS Microjet.
"It's just an upgraded BD-5," said Justin Lewis, pilot of one of the FLS Micro Jets. "We've had a lot of structural improvements, a lot of systems improvements, we have a glass cockpit and we have an engine with a brain on it."
Lewis said in its heyday, the small jet was one of the most famous airshows of all time. Even James Bond flew the jet in the 1980's movie "Octopussy."
"He flew it through a hangar to dodge a missile," Lewis said. "That actually has pretty strong ties to Oklahoma because that scene was filmed in the Oklahoma City area at Page Airport. The hangar still exists out there today."
And so does the jet. Lewis says he has one of only four of the FLS Microjets in flight right now around the world. Last year, he started taking his jet on airshows.
"When that jet comes out there, all is has to do is show up," Lewis said. "It's so small, so unique that people are just amazed to see that this thing exists. The next thing they want to see is if it actually flies."
Weighing only 416 pounds before adding fuel and the pilot the FLS Microjet can fly. In fact, Lewis says the jet can reach up to 320 miles per hour.
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Lewis will have to put his airshows on hold though. He says his unit, the 188th Fighter Wing with the Arkansas Air National Guard, is heading out soon for a three-month tour in Afghanistan.
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I had an Apple TV 3 in Nov 2012 and it came loaded with ATV OS 5.0.1. The Apple TV Airplay worked flawlessly on all my iDevices, my G4 powerbook and my G4 Mac Mini. I didn't update the Apple TV at all because it was working perfectly.
Then this ATV 5.2 update was released. Apple servers pushed this update constantly to my Apple TV causing my Satellite Internet provider to throttle my connection due to overages on low bandwidth caps. If Apple TV was unplugged nothing was ever downloaded but 2 mins after powering up the Apple TV, the download graph showed the update attempting to start over on another update. To prevent further ISP issues, I installed the update with no problems. Unfortunately, now none of my G4 PPC computers can use Airplay to the Apple TV. The icon shows in iTunes but it tries to connect to the ATV via Airplay and simply stops after 2 mins. I found out the hard way that this ATV 5.2 update is based on iOS6.1 and apparently is NOT compatible with PPC computers for Airplay use. My ipads and ipad touch devices can still use Airplay successfully. The ipads are still using iOS5.1.1 because iOS6 is incompatible with G4 PPC macs (to sync). So any of you who have pre-Intel Macs and use Airplay with an AppleTV, do not update your ATV to 5.2 or you will lose that functionality. |
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What you are talking about sounds like Homesharing where any videos in your iTunes is readily available on your AppleTV via the computer right? Did you try unplugging, letting it sit for 30 seconds, and replugging in your AppleTV?
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I thought Airplay had always required at least an Intel processor.
You've been able to mirror your desktop from a PPC Mac to AppleTV all this time? |
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The OP never said anything about video, mirroring or otherwise. My guess is that modingo is talking about streaming music from iTunes.
OP, is there an update to iTunes available on your PPC Mac that has yet to be installed? The intel iTunes software was updated at the same time as the last ATV update if memory serves. Hope this helps! |
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Streaming music is not part of Airplay, and has been around since the Airport Express was released. |
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The Apple page may only reference streaming from iOS devices, but you can also do it from new Macs, and even Apple TV's (audio only, with the latest version releases). |
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What all of you are referencing is airplay mirroring, which is different from airplay itself. Airplay should work on any apple device that is updated enough to support it. OP, as someone else said check for an update. Or try and restart both your Mac and Apple TV.
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as others have said, reboot your mac and the aTV.
but also reboot your router. i've had this fix my airplay a few times. |
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But, according to Hitwise's numbers, simply adding the registration barrier has cut traffic to the site almost in half. Prior to the change, The Times was seeing somewhere in the neighborhood of four to five percent of the traffic going to the print news media category; after, it was hovering around two percent.UK paper requires free Web accounts; traffic plungesHitwise also tracked where users were going once they hit the registration page. About a third stay on one of The Times' properties, but many head straight to another news site (The Telegraph and The Guardian are big winners here), or simply to Google.
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wederas says:
Re #6: 50% of the site's readers aren't paying for it, they have however given News Corp their email address.
Readership will tank further when the Times puts up a paywall and asks readers to pony up £2 a week. Which may actually be fine with Murdoch — at least he's got paying readers. But it provides a great opportunity for other British papers (both left- and right-oriented) to take readership away from the Times — as it is the Times is a vapid rag anyway. We'll see how many readers really can't live without it.
Anonymous says:
The Times is not a vapid rag. However much I despise Murdoch it has become a seriously good newspaper in the last two to three years – far better than the Guardian, which sinks further every week with increasing 'lifestyle' and celebrity articles dominating the front page.
I've always thought that it must be possible to have system where to read an article you pay a few pennies/cents. Usually I have time to read 3-4 articles from each online paper I read. I'd be happy to pay 5p per article, but less happy to pay two pounds a week when there are times when I am on business and don't have time or access to the site. Surely more than 10% of the existing readership would be happy to pay a token sum each time. A million readers paying 5p per article per day? Surely that would be profitable?
alllie says:
Hey, I love the Guardian. And on top of everything else they are taking scifi seriously these days. Which I love too.
arnique says:
An idiot could have predicted this. I liked the Times because it had the best layout and funny football coverage. Now I stick to the Independent and the Guardian.
Ugly Canuck says:
They ought not to use such a sharp-edged regwall, then.
ADavies says:
Best to keep in mind that this is really a large scale pilot project. Murdoch has plenty of papers, and can afford to take a risk with one of them.
Anonymous says:
5p???? If each article in a physical newspaper cost 5p they wouldn't be nearly as cheap as they are. I could sometimes end up paying a pound a day on that madness
The adverts on web news papers, as with regular newspapers, are what bring the money, you don't need to click on the ad to generate money for the paper, just view the page without any powerful ad blocker you may have on. That's how come most of them are managing to survive.
tompolley says:
However icky Uncle Rupert may be, this sort of thing didn't originate with him, and it won't stop with his papers.
We all know that newspapers are flatlining, and we're going to see a lot of experimentation with alternate revenue models, to use some businessdroid jargon.
And why is that bad? Sure, some –most!– of the experiments won't turn out, but isn't that the nature of experimentation and innovation? To get a success, you have to go through a lot of failures.
And for that matter, who's to say that this will be a failure? If they're registering users to get more qualified, and therefore more valuable, users, great: less Punch the Monkey, lowermybills.com and U of Phoenix banner spam. If you're registering them to eventually institute a paywall, well, charging people for your product doesn't seem like a crazy business model to me.
It turns out that giving your stuff away free or below cost actually isn't that great an idea — ask kozmo.com for details.
Long story shorter: Rupert=gross. Trying new things=necessary, even if it fails, and even if it pisses off people who like to get things free. -
Anonymous says:
new GNU project: a firefox plugin that automatically scrapes and uploads anything behind a paywall to a communal cache. The plugin checks the communal cache for content that is already uploaded, before allowing the user to proceed past a paywall.
If you're the first person to a paysite, you have to cough up, but then anyone else following the same link can read from the cache without having to pay money for redundant information.
That way the Times only has to collect income from half a dozen or so people a day, until the whole site (or the pages of interest) are loaded into the communal cache. It will be much more efficient.
Anonymous says:
It's because of the "barrier to entry": Paul Graham said in Hackers and Painters that his online shop business Viaweb succeeded because the barrier to entry was made as low as possible – people could see it, try it without hassle and create a working shop. In that case registration was necessary because you wanted to be identified.
Here, readers have no patience – you don't want to have to remember and manage yet another username and password just to read the news.
vetnoir says:
Um, yea… Well, I'm a huge Top gear fan and read May's, Hammond's and Clarkson's articles every week in the online versions of three different London papers. Or at least I used to… I'll be missing Clarkson, but there is no way i'm paying for it…
Anonymous says:
newspapers make plenty of money. just not enough to support bloated multinational publicly held corporations. once the rich greed-heads get out of the business, smaller local newspaper will thrive again.
Brainspore says:
newspapers make plenty of money. just not enough to support bloated multinational publicly held corporations.
…or enough to pay for full-time international reporting.
I love my local weekly, but I know its limits.
soubriquet says:
I used to visit The Times' website quite often, But no longer.
A number of commenters here seem to think this is a free website, just requiring a login? Well, no, it's a paid access website now, and in order to sign up, you have to answer a load of intrusive questions, including your postal address. Okay, you don't have to pay just yet, The Times is "giving you a free preview". Ha.
I did not complete the registration, because a)I have no intention of ever paying to read their website, and b) because I see no reason to answer all their questions.
They do NOT need to know my address, other than to hit me with junk mail.
So, I don't buy their print edition any more either. I'll read the Grauniad instead. -
tumblingwall says:
Free accounts might as well be paid accounts. Anyone that would bother signing up for an account are probably the same people that would pay.
It would be interesting to see if this paper is more profitable now even with less viewers.
alllie says:
The New York Times has the same problem. When I post links to NYTimes articles on reddit they never get many upvotes, regardless of how interesting the article is, because so many people refuse to register, even for the best newspaper in the world.
davidasposted says:
… because so many people refuse to register, even for what was the best newspaper in the world forty years ago.
Fixed that for you.
ikegently says:
what is the best newspaper in the world today? in your opinion.
davidasposted says:
The best newspaper in the U.S. is probably The Sacramento Bee or The Detroit Free Press. I'd have to give more thought to that question re: world papers. Frankly, I'm much more familiar with some regions than others.
ikegently says:
That is interesting. I'm just curious what your basis is for that judgment. Those are both good papers, but they are not really in the same category. So what is your unit of measurement for "best newspaper?"
davidasposted says:
Why are The Sacramento Bee and The Detroit Free Press not in the same category as The New York Times? They're ranked in the top 25 for circulation rates in the U.S.:
They're as old as their NYC competitor (indeed, the "Freep" is actually older by two decades) and have many Pulitzer Prizes credited to their print and photo journalists. What distinguishes The Sacramento Bee and The Detroit Free Press from the their NYC competitor is that the former continue to maintain a high degree of journalistic integrity and independence, whereas the latter, particularly in the last two decades or so, simply has not. Consequently, in my estimation, The Sacramento Bee and The Detroit Free Press are better newspapers.
ikegently says:
I'd be interested to see the Bee's circulation numbers outside of California. It seems like the NYT is read all over the place, while I would guess the the Sac Bee has a readership that is disproportionately interested in California news and politics.
I am not disagreeing with you that these are great papers. I never meant to give that impression. I also think that there really should be more papers competing with the NYT. However, I think that the NYT is basically the newspaper of record for the United States. I'd love to see a west coast paper compete on this. I think it would be good for the country. But I don't really think that the Bee does that. Now, that doesn't make the NYT better than the Bee. BUt it is a pretty important newspaper. And, come on, it is full of really good articles on really important stuff. If I had to only read one paper, it would be the NYT.
Brainspore says:
Why are The Sacramento Bee and The Detroit Free Press not in the same category as The New York Times?
I don't believe that either of those papers have international bureaus, for one. If something newsworthy happens in Ghana we're probably not going to learn about it from a Bee reporter.
Comparing local papers to international ones is a little unfair to both since they each have distinct strengths and weaknesses.
davidasposted says:
I don't think The Sacramento Bee or The Detroit Free Press have international bureaus either, and in fact many U.S. newspapers and TV outlets have significantly reduced their foreign presence during the past couple years.
That said, if something happens in Ghana (and I am glad you use that example, because I am quite familiar with reporting in/on the African continent) The New York Times publishes information from wire reports provided by subscriber organizations such as the Associated Press, of which The Sacramento Bee and The Detroit Free Press are also members.
If that something happening in Ghana becomes a larger story, The New York Times might send someone from the bureau based in Dakar, but at that point information is generally no longer the issue, but rather analysis. During the past two decades in particular, The New York Times has not been a reliable source for analysis of foreign affairs (c.f. Judith Miller). In your specific scenario, if for whatever reason I did not trust or did not have access to local analysis from a source like The Accra Daily Mail or the Ghanaian Chronicle, or else another newspaper from the region such as The Independent (Nigeria), then maybe I would turn to one of the Grey Lady's more reliable global competitors on the subject of foreign analysis, like The Wall Street Journal and/or The Los Angeles Times (though likely not The Washington Post, for the same reasons as I would abstain from The New York Times).
However, if the something happening in Ghana did become a larger story, at that point I would just as likely turn to a news service not based on the U.S. with a record of quality analysis. And if that something happening in Ghana happened for longer than a few days, I'd probably read about it in a news magazine like The Economist, assuming I wasn't already reading it online. Hell, the BBC news web site would do.
davidasposted says:
Incidentally, I haven't read it in a few years, but when I did I quite liked The Chicago Reader. It is an alternative weekly and ultimately does not compare to the other papers I mentioned in terms of breadth and coverage, but its take on life around the city, investigative work, and literary chops almost guaranteed a good read every time I picked it up.
Also, apropos to the BB op, its business model is interesting and set the tone for many other alternative weeklies in the U.S.
Anonymous says:
That's right. Once the Ny Times went to a registration scheme to read, I quit reading it. It always irritates me when someone links to a walled Ny Times article. If the description is interesting, I'll google it and find another source to read about it.
SamSam says:
As several people said, is there any evidence that this constitutes any drop in actual revenue at all?
If the 50% is now a targetable demographic, and you also know exactly which articles every single member of those 50% read and which ads they click on, advertisers are almost certainly going to be willing to more-than double the price they'll pay for showing ads.
So The Times's web-based revenue may well have increased. I bet Murdoch's chuffed.
Anonymous says:
That's actually very good news for the Times. If you can convert half of an anonymous audience into a potentially premium advertising demographic, it has at least a chance of sustaining some sort of ad-revenue model.
None (with a capital N) of the "free" + "reg-free" online newspapers have managed to make anonymous ads profitable or even self-sustaining.
The only other option that seems financially viable at this point is paid subscription, and it's generally the last thing that anyone wants.
Anonymous says:
Not a great loss. I really don't read the NYT that much anymore. Not since Murdoch bought it. Now it's entertainment rather than news. Like the WSJ.
Ah the old days when there actually was news in newspaper and TV news programs.
michael holloway says:
I went over there and bounced out, just to add one more number.
But actually, I would have liked to have read the article on the Isner-Mahut marathon at Wimbledon, but I'm boycotting Rupert Murdoch properties.
Clayton says:
Way to kick em' while they're down. michael holloway: 1, free-market capitalists: 0
michael holloway says:
"free-market capitalists"??
That died about the time Adam Smith worked it out enough to put it on paper.
Monopoly capitalism rules. Free markets are the markets empires own. Individuals add innovation that the establishment then buy out, usually.
Rupert Murdoch doesn't believe in free markets, he believes in his markets; all others can stick it.
mdh says:
Well said. Much as "Freedom of the Press" involves owning the press.
Rob says:
FTFA: "All told, the analysis concludes that The Times' new system is costing them readers, but it hasn't been "catastrophic" for the site's traffic"
50% isn't catastrophic? That's a pretty significant bump.
Clayton says:
If 50% of the 50% that stuck around after the registration redirect stick around after full pay-access, I suspect this move will be a financial success and Rupert Murdoch will make money?
elix says:
I'd like to be the first to say that NONE OF US ON THE INTERNET saw this coming IN A MILLION YEARS. EVAR. Seriously. I am shocked, I say, shocked.
Your move, Murdoch.
noah django says:
maybe Murdoch will finally understand what a little bitch he is. probably not.
Anonymous says:
Is this the Noah Django that lived in ktown in the 90s? If so, I've been looking for you everywhere!!! Please get in touch.
Stooge says:
I'd keep the schadenfreude on hold for now. Non-paying registered users are much, much more valuable than unregistered ones because the registration data can be used to target ads much more effectively. It'll take a much bigger drop than 50% to offset that added value.
Ryanwoofs says:
I guess it depends on what is more lucrative: a million pairs of eyeballs and the occasional $0.03 click on an advertisement, or 10,000 paid subscribers.
Anonymous says:
Why doesn't Murdoch just start putting boobies on page 3? He should stick to what he knows best.
robotlovesyou says:
Well, The Times themselves are expecting to loose over 90% of their online readership when they go behind the paywall so I don't expect this is going to have them all that worried to be honest ==> http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-sunday-times-preparing-to-lose-90-percent-of-traffic-behind-paywall/
Anonymous says:
So the real news here is that The Times is getting 50% of the people who used to read the site for free to now pay for it? Doesn't sound too bad to me.
Anonymous says:
No. It doesn't mean that 50% of people refuse to pay. It means that 50% of people refuse to spend 30 seconds on *free* registration and login.
We can only guess how many of the remaining 50% will be willing to pay when the time comes to pay for access
Baldhead says:
I think they're going for something similar to what Prince did when he left Warner- Sell 100 000 and make $.10 per copy (or whatever measly cut artists get on album sales), or sell 10 000 and make $4 per copy.
Smaller audience that's collectively paying more is still profitable.
mdh says:
"Smaller audience that's collectively paying more is still profitable"
The smaller audience is because you can only fool some of the people all of the time, and if you've bought into what the Times is selling then you're already paying for it, many times over.
In short, Eff You Judy Miller.
Anonymous says:
"Eff You Judy Miller"
What does she have to do with this? This isn't the NY Times….
hershmire says:
Isn't the solution just to create a general sign-in account published so that everyone can use it? That's always what I saw before. I suppose the average net user isn't going to bother with that, though.
/Funny how I had to log in to comment….
Anonymous says:
Back in the day, the universal login used to be cypherpunks/cypherpunks.
CAPTCHA: helpless redhead
jgs says:
"Isn't the solution just to create a general sign-in account published so that everyone can use it?"
You just described bugmenot.com.
oasisob1 says:
Lots of working regs to use.
Of course, they might dry up when the paywall is activated.
Or, they might not.
Anonymous says:
hershmire #6
You did not have to log in to comment, anymore then I did………
Anonymous says:
No. Read the story. This includes people registered for free on the pre-pay wall trial.
Having said that, I still think 50% is surprisingly good.


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