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March 4, 2014
Lord, Abbett & Co.: Streamlined, multichannel publishing
Money management firms know a thing or two about ROI. So when Lord Abbett chose to expand its publishing efforts and adopt a more versatile web content management system, achieving a rapid return on investment was also a goal. After evaluating solutions, Lord Abbett chose Adobe Experience Manager for content creation and distribution and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for creating digital publications that engage customers on tablet devices.
Integration between DPS and Experience Manager enables the firm to streamline asset creation and content management and easily repurpose content for mobile devices. Lord Abbett replaced its quarterly publication, The Lord Abbett Review, with Perspectives, a digital app created with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite that supports faster delivery of more relevant content.
With the combined Adobe solution, Lord Abbett could deliver compelling experiences wherever customers are, taking the wealth of content already created for print and web to mobile apps—faster, easier, and at a lower cost.
Lord Abbett previously relied heavily on third-party agencies to create the quarterly Lord Abbett Review—a process that would slow time to market and increase publishing costs. Now, with Perspectives being created using a combination of Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, creation and delivery time has decreased dramatically. Most production has been brought in-house, reducing costs and enabling the firm to deliver the publication on a more frequent basis.
In addition, the Lord Abbett team has the flexibility to pivot quickly and update content if economic trends change. Previously, changing content at the last minute required that the quarterly print issue be pulled from the printer and reworked. With Adobe Experience Manager, the team at Lord Abbett can efficiently create content using predesigned, preapproved templates and house that content—along with associated assets—in a central repository. The assets are then transferred to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite – even when content changes – and prepared for delivery to devices.
"We've accelerated time to market by at least two weeks compared to working with agencies—that's a 50% improvement," says Stephen Reilly, Director of Digital Communications for Lord Abbett. "From a financial standpoint, we anticipate fast and significant savings in terms of both cost and effort."
For Lord Abbett, the ability to accelerate publishing processes is opening many new possibilities to become more relevant and engaging to customers.
Learn more
Read the Lord Abbett case study
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February 20, 2014
Celebrity Cruises: Connecting with today's travelers
Today, DPS customer Celebrity Cruises announced its 2015-2016 sailings around the globe – and their DPS-produced vacation planning apps form a core part of how the company is inspiring and engaging customers with its adventures and itineraries. Traditionally, the printed travel guides that Celebrity Cruises creates are beautifully illustrated with photographs of destinations and ship accommodations. To extend the reach of its marketing materials while capitalizing on the popularity of tablet devices, Celebrity Cruises created digital vacation planning apps using DPS.
Using DPS, the cruise line publishes apps for iOS and Android that highlight ship layouts, amenities and ports-of-call – all illustrated with gorgeous photography, video and interactivity that encourage travelers to imagine themselves on a Celebrity cruise. Using DPS allows the cruise line to publish these apps across platforms – cost effectively and on a regular basis. Additionally, travel agents can use the apps to promote Celebrity Cruises vacation offerings and travelers can lean back and immersive themselves in potential destinations, increasing the likelihood that they will book a cruise.
Tina Alexander, head of Web & Digital for Celebrity Cruises, says, "The travel apps align with our brand image, are sleek and easy to use, and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite helps us marry the interactivity of function with content. We've created something clear and informative that reinforces the brand."
Celebrity Cruises is also using the analytics capabilities in DPS to monitor downloads and article to gain a strong understanding of how users are engaging with content and interactivity. Other features the company plans to explore include push notifications for content updates and social sharing to enable customers to share their vacation dreams and plans with their social networks. The apps were produced by DPS agency partner JWT/Casa Miami.
Learn more
Read more about the Celebrity Cruises destination apps (PDF, 783 KB)
Download the Celebrity Cruises apps from the Apple App Store or Google Play
May 3, 2013
National Geographic Named Best Tablet Magazine of 2013
A hearty congratulations to Declan Moore and the team at National Geographic for taking home the award for Best Tablet Magazine of 2013 at last night's ASME awards. According to ASME judges, Nat Geo won because of its in-depth reporting, world-class photography, beautiful design, smooth navigation, immersive interactivity, social media integration, plus engaging extras like a cheetah darting across a cover. They have gone to great lengths to integrate some of the most powerful features of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) into their award winning app. Their hard work has paid off–Nat Geo has one of the highest global paid digital circulation of any magazine (330,000), and, according to Declan Moore, is seeing about 10% of their publishing revenue come from digital content.
If you'd like to hear firsthand how National Geographic transformed into a digital publishing powerhouse don't miss Adobe's Digital Publishing Summit on May 14 in NYC where Declan Moore will share this riveting story. Registration is open, RSVP here.
We're also proud to report that of the five nominees in this category–National Geographic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bon Appétit, Esquire and Money–three of them use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) to publish their digital issues. Congrats to Bon Appétit and Esquire for their nominations.
May 1, 2013
Latest Release Drives Readers through Purchasing Funnel
The newest features in Adobe Digital Publishing Suite enable publishers and organizations to drive readership, consumer purchase, and customer loyalty. Available today, the latest features of DPS are designed to entice readers toward purchase by allowing them to view publications on a website, sample free articles within an issue, and have optimized reading experiences on iPhone 5 and Android.
Embed Publications within Websites
Many of our customers use the social sharing feature in Digital Publishing Suite. Once an article has been shared to a social network such as Facebook or Twitter from within the DPS app, readers can experience DPS articles in a web view (through what is officially known as Content Viewer for Web). Social sharing has proven valuable in helping our publishing and corporate partners reach a wider online audience and ultimately drive digital uptake of content. If you have not yet experienced the social sharing web view, view a video of social sharing that we released last year.
We have now taken this one step further. Publishers and brands can introduce new readers to your mobile publication by embedding it into your website. The highly designed mobile reading experience can be replicated online in the context of your branded website, taking advantage of web traffic to generate awareness of high value mobile content. In order to drive purchase of mobile content showcased on your site, you can designate specific articles as free, set up metered paywalls, and even create a web-only folio with articles designed specifically for online viewers. Watch Colin Fleming's video, Embed Publications within Web Sites.
Free Article Preview on iPad
Last release, we launched the "First Folio Free" feature. Publishers use this feature to give first-time readers immediate access to the most recent issue, allowing them to "try before they buy" and enticing them to make subsequent in-app purchases of additional issues or a subscription.
Free Article Preview on iPad gives publishers more options to convert browsers into buyers. Instead of offering an entire free folio, you can pique readers' interest with selected free articles and encourage them to purchase the folio by displaying teasers or upsell prompts for additional premium content. Watch Colin Fleming's video on Free Article Preview to see the full experience, as well as how to set it up paywalls associated with the free articles.
iPhone 5 Support
The iPhone 5 provides more real estate for publishers to deliver an improved reading experience. That extra space provides easier navigation within the app and full screen video without letter boxing. Content built for iPhone 4S and below will still appear as letterboxed on the iPhone 5.
PDF Content on Android
Reduce authoring costs and improve the reader experience with new support for PDF content on Android devices. By building PDF content for Android and iOS devices, publishers can reduce authoring costs and folio file sizes, and therefore download times. Not only can readers access content sooner, but they can also scale content using pinch and zoom. During the design and preview stages of development, publishers can now view PDF content on Content Viewer for Desktop.
Watch Colin Fleming's video, PDF Content on Android.
Updates to Analytics
Web Viewer Analytics: As the web viewer becomes more integral to the DPS experience, analytics are following suit. Analytics for web viewer is available with a Site Catalyst account so that publishers can understand how many readers are viewing content via web viewer, which content is the most popular, and how often each type of overlay was started.
Track Preview: In order to understand the impact of Free Article Preview, Site Catalyst in DPS allows publishers to find out how many readers are previewing content, which articles are most frequently previewed, and the number of purchase conversions driven by free articles.
Completed Article Analytics: Which articles hold readers' attention until the end? Now, DPS Site Catalyst customers can find out how many readers read a full article. In addition, publishers can find out if readers are using the Table of Contents to discover articles and move around the issue.
For a complete listing of all Site Catalyst data available in DPS, read the Adobe® SiteCatalyst Digital Publishing Report Guide
This blog post only scratches the surface on the latest features available in Digital Publishing Suite. View more detailed information on the following DPS sites:
- For a detailed overview of the new features, visit Bob Bringhurst's DPS Help Site, What's New in This Release.
- Watch Colin Fleming's new videos for this release:
- Visit the Digital Publishing Suite Developer Center
- Free Article Preview
- Promoting Free Content to Gain Readership
- Read new iPhone 5 content added to Colin Fleming's Building multi rendition articles and DPS authoring with InDesign for iPhone and iPod Touch
- Embedding Web Viewer Content Into Your Web Page
- Read the latest updates to the Adobe® SiteCatalyst Digital Publishing Report Guide
April 25, 2013
Are Digital Magazines For Real?
Earlier this week, Adobe Digital Index released the State of Mobile Benchmark, an analysis of the latest Internet browsing trends in mobile device OS and manufacturer as well as insights around the transition in the digital publishing industry to mobile apps. We're excited to report that the data showed that purchases of digital content published by Adobe Digital Publishing Suite have reached an all-time high: 80 percent of content consumed in February was paid for in the form of a subscription or purchase of a single issue. That's a 15 percent increase in paid-for content over the last 12 months. Further, digital magazine subscriptions now outsell single issues three to one.
What's more, the number of weekly issues delivered by Digital Publishing Suite has been steadily climbing for the past two years – ninety million issues have been downloaded to-date. There's no reason to expect this trend to end.
What is the big take away? Consumers are buying digital magazines at an ever-increasing pace. We're at the point where digital magazines are moving from early adopters to the mainstream, print-reading audience and they have the potential to deliver a massive amount of ad dollars. People who consume digital magazines are proving to be very high value customers given their propensity to pay for content.
Digital magazine growth is also being driven by new devices coming onto the market. According to a February 21, 2013 article in the Economist, with the introduction of the iPad in 2010, "the market had its first electronic device that could replicate and even enhance (with features like video) the curated, tactile experience of a magazine." The introduction of the iPad Mini last November added more momentum.
Therefore, it is no surprise that The State of Mobile Benchmark report indicates that tablet readership is up dramatically in the last 7 months – a 200% percent average increase in readers of titles published with Adobe DPS. As more devices come in market, readers are voraciously consuming content – from their favorite TV show totheir favorite magazines and newspapers - on devices.
And of course, consumers want their choice of devices. While tablet usage continues to skyrocket, smartphone apps are starting to also contribute to overall readership. The State of Mobile Benchmark report also indicates that 75 percent of the time consumers are reading content on tablets and 25 percent of the time they are reading content on smartphones.
For publishers this means content ought to be available to readers whenever and wherever they are and ready for any device. Even if readers don't always have their tablet with them, they'll most likely have a smartphone. We've found that reading behavior is dictated by device so publishers need to give readers an opportunity to engage with content regardless of circumstance – at home, at work, on the go. And that's key
Engagement Drives Revenue
Additionally, smart use of interactivity has been shown to increase reading times and deeper engagement with content. Case in point. Top Gear a leading UK publisher recently switched from a PDF replica publishing platform to DPS and found that engagement times with their content grew dramatically due to increased interactivity built into their issues.
This in turn has driven greater purchase of content with a sixty percent increase in paid download, eighty percent increase in single issue purchase and 165% increase in subscription revenue. Publishers are able to monetize content on devices, unlike the Web. One last point. Ad revenue jumped up 200%.
As the number of digital magazine readers continues to expand, the opportunity for increased ad revenue from interactive ads is real and immediate. Ads in a digital publication are the best of both worlds: they offer immersiveness and bring products to life. They create connection between reader and advertiser, offering creative ways to extend a brand. A recent ad engagement study from Adobe indicated that interactive tablet ads drive greater brand engagement and 2 times greater product recall as compared to static PDF ad replicas on tablets.
To get a feel for how exciting interactive ads can be, check out these examples below. Then take a look at Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. The readership and engagement metrics tell a great story, but don't take your eye off the creative potential Adobe DPS provides to make awesome digital content and ads.
Read the complete Adobe Digital Index PDF report here: State of Mobile Benchmark
*Updated May 14, 2013
April 17, 2013
DPS Getting Started Guide: Now Available!
Digital Publishing Suite Enterprise and Professional customers: your DPS Getting Started Guide is here! If your company just purchased a Digital Publishing Suite license, this comprehensive, step-by-step guide will help your team learn to plan, create, and distribute apps.
Similar to the step-by-step guide available for Single Edition customers, this PDF will explore basic concepts and setup, folio creation, interactivity, distribution, workflows and more! This guide pulls together content from the many resources available online into a simple, straight forward, and linear format. Serving as a central hub of instructional content, it illuminates the process of building apps with Digital Publishing Suite.
Before the publishing process begins, it's important to put a strategic plan in place. Plan your app deployment carefully by getting clarity on supported platforms and devices. Explore single vs. multi folio app creation, subscription models, and multiple ways to distribute apps created with DPS. Your team can control the production and publishing workflow from the DPS dashboard, complete with analytics capabilities and more. From basic terminology to setup, this guide will serve as your business' tour guide to initiate the app building process.
We have worked closely with first time users and designed this guide to simplify the onboarding process as much as possible. Catering to Enterprise and Pro users just getting started, we dive deep into two complex concepts:
- Account administration: You will explore the distinctions between administrator, application, and DPS app builder roles.
- Agency-client workflow: When agencies build digital publications for clients, both companies need to come to an agreement about license purchase and account administration. This guide walks through several agency-client scenarios so that your team can decide how to structure the relationship.
Enterprise and Pro licensed users: your guide is here! We welcome your comments and feedback so we best help you get acquainted with the DPS workflow. Read the complete PDF here: DPS Getting Started Guide.
April 2, 2013
Men's Health – Optimized for iPhone
Publishers looking for new ways to connect with audiences on the go need look no further than the device many people carry with them every day—their smartphone. Rodale, publisher of Men's Health magazine, is doing just that with an enhanced version of the magazine now available on the iPhone. You have seen our App of the Week videos and news announcements. Today, you can learn directly from the Rodale Publishing team, in both video and PDF format.
Using Digital Publishing Suite, Men's Health was able to create the iPhone version in-house in just 40 days, without hiring outside programmers. Icons and strong, consistent typography provide visual cues that help readers navigate and each animated workout exercise is presented on a single page, sequenced to walk the reader through the entire workout tutorial.
Built-in analytics in Digital Publishing Suite show that readers are spending up to an hour or more interacting with the brand. Subscription rates are booming–they now have more than 125,000 digital subscribers, 20% of whom are engaged with their iPhone edition.
Read the Success Story PDF here:
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March 29, 2013
Corporate Publishing Session at Adobe MAX
Digital Publishing Suite is not just for magazines. Corporations are embracing the technology to create digital catalogs, event apps, and sales tools to reach both internal stakeholders and customers. The possibilities are endless! Check out the new Adobe Digital Publishing sessions at MAX designed for corporations interested in efficiently expanding into the mobile space using InDesign resources! Sign up now to reserve your seat in the sessions below:
Engaging Your Customers and Employees with Mobile Apps
Day/Time: Tuesday, 8:30 AM – 511A
Session ID: S7824
Presenters: Brooke Entsminger (Lung LLC), Christian Russo (Sotheby's International Realty), Jose Andrade (Publicis Life Brands Medicus)
- Learn to drive customer and employee engagement through digital publications on tablets and smartphones from top corporations/agencies.
- View examples of compelling brand loyalty, merchandising, customer communications, sales enablement, and retail catalog applications.
- Explore insights from deep analytics to deliver content that encourages customers and employees to engage with your brand and content.
March 28, 2013
Adobe Meets MPA: April 2 in New York
New York, we're coming your way! Join the Digital Publishing Suite team and The Association of Magazine Media (MPA) in New York on April 2nd to learn what's new and relevant for your digital publishing business.
Zeke Koch, Senior Director of Product Management for Digital Publishing Suite, will explore the latest release and even share some juicy details about what else the team is working on. You'll also get a taste of what Adobe Analytics, the analytics service in DPS, has to offer. Educate yourself to leverage these tools and make the best editorial, design and business decisions for your organization.
Looking to gear up with the best tools and insights to run your digital publishing business? We'll show you how. New York, New York: see you April 2nd!
Event Information:
Tuesday – April 2nd, 2013
MPA Board Room
810 Seventh Avenue, 24th Floor 12noon – 2pm
New York, NY 10019
March 19, 2013
App of the Week – Renault Captur
As a follow-up to yesterday's post about how Adobe Digital Publishing Suite fits into Renault's brand engagement strategy, we are featuring Renault Captur in our App of the Week Video Series. This gives our readers a chance to see specifically how Renault uses the features in Digital Publishing Suite to "capture" the attention of readers and tell the brand's story.
Highlights from the video:
- Slideshows outline the design from concept to reality
- Pan and zoom shows the car in gorgeous detail
- Image sequence gives readers control over their view of the car, from 360 rotation to breaking the car into its constituent parts
- Audio can be played throughout the app, and paused by the reader
Check out the Renault Captur App of the Week video.
March 18, 2013
Renault showcases new Captur vehicle using brand engagement app
Renault, the French auto manufacturer, recently launched a gorgeously designed app using Digital Publishing Suite that features its new urban crossover vehicle, Captur. Through video, audio and interactivity in the app, Renault not only engages consumers with its products and brand – but also tells the story of how Captur went from "concept to reality". The app showcases the attention-to-detail that Renault infuses its products – and allows potential customers to experience these features in a way only the tablet app medium can provide.
For example, one portion of the app allows the user to interactively explore the different lighting features the car offers – illuminating not only the beautiful design of the car, but allowing the user to engage with the product as they are considering purchase. In addition, through video interviews with the designers of the vehicle and a special "making of" video that explores the genesis of the project, customers can become thoroughly acquainted with the brand and product line.
In considering the strategy for the app, Laurence Hertzberg, Director of Digital Marketing at Renault notes, "Today's applications are expected to be intuitive, fun and informative. We chose to use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite because of its unique technology which allowed us to create an immersive experience that is also very rich in content."
Renault designer Boris Petrovitch-Njegosh also writes, "Captur is the fruit of long, careful reflection about the design of our vehicles and offers a glimpse of the future. It was consequently vital for us to produce an application of the same calibre in terms of its design, user-friendliness and clarity of content. Adobe Digital Publishing Suite turned out to be the ideal solution that gave us exceptional creative freedom and, as well as a comprehensive, near-industrial approach the development process."
See a short video about the app (subtitled in English), and also download from the App Store below.
- Download the Renault Captur: From Concept to Reality app on the App Store
- View the App of the Week video highlighting the Renault app
March 15, 2013
New app from the Republic of Ireland commemorates Irish culture & St. Patrick's Day
In time for St. Patrick's Day, the Royal Irish Academy, in conjunction with its partners, announced today a new, interactive app produced with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite that engages users with the history and culture of Ireland. Exploring the rich heritage of the country through the lens of significant cultural objects, the app, "A History of Ireland in 100 Objects", not only marks St. Patrick's Day, but also Ireland's ascension to the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Rich with video, audio and animation, the app showcases Irish history and culture through the country's treasures. Designed to promote engagement with the country's ideals and heritage, the app immerses readers into the country's history and encourages them to learn more.
"Fintan O'Toole, a journalist from The Irish Times, launched the project in 2011 with a series of newspaper columns highlighting 100 objects from Ireland, the UK and Norway that connect with Ireland's rich past," writes Joe Zeff, whose design firm produced the app. "Those columns became a hardcover book, and that book became the series of apps that we designed and developed for multiple platforms using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite."
Seeking to make the app available to the widest spectrum of users possible, the Royal Irish Academy used the multi-platform functionality of Digital Publishing Suite to deliver the app on iPad, iPhone and on Android tablets, including the Amazon Kindle Fire. The iPhone version is of particular note because it delivers formatted, well-thought out content that fits the on-the-go consumption habits of iPhone users – especially to visitors to Irish museums.
The app is free for download until March 31, 2013 and is a project of the Royal Irish Academy, the National Museum of Ireland and The Irish Times supported by the Presidency of the European Council of the European Union and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland. Preview the app through a short video below.
March 12, 2013
App of the Week: Sockupied by Interweave Press
By Teresa Demel
Sockupied is a digital-only magazine designed for knitting enthusiasts. It is published by Interweave Press, which owns 15 consumer art and craft magazines such as Crochet and LiveWire (both of which are built with DPS and available on Apple Newsstand). I am not a knitter myself, but many of my friends are. They pore over pictures and patterns of sweaters and socks, looking for their next creation. Sockupied feeds their appetite, with images of inventive knitting patterns, and easy to follow instructions.
"Sockupied is that feeling you get when you wish your ride were a little longer so you could finish your heel turn."
- Sockupied Editor Anne Merrow
As I have mentioned before when I reviewed Cook's Illustrated and National Geographic Kids, Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is a great way to enhance any tutorial in a publication. Slideshows, nav-to and videos allow publishers to break down instructions and visually demonstrate how to do something. Sockupied is no exception.
In this app of the week video, I demonstrate three levels of engagement with the Sockupied audience. For inspiration, the publication uses slideshows to show multiple views of pairs of socks. It provides basic instruction on how to measure a foot in preparation for knitting, as well as what patterns to follow. For more complicated techniques, such as heel turns, it uses video to flesh out the procedure.
- Watch the Sockupied by Interweave app of the week video to see an example of a motivational and instructional knitting magazine.
- Download Sockupied for your iPad
March 1, 2013
App of the Week: Macalester Today Alumni Magazine
By Teresa Demel
Ever since I graduated from Macalester College (ahem… awhile ago), I've received the college's alumni magazine, Macalester Today, on my doorstep. Accustomed to the peripatetic nature of new graduates, they successfully found me when I moved not just from St. Paul to Seattle, but also between about 10 apartments and houses.
Imagine my recent delight when I discovered that my alma mater had adopted Digital Publishing Suite to create an iPad version of Macalester Today. I always enjoyed reading the beautifully designed quarterly print magazine, staying on top of the news about my professors, organizations, and colleagues. As the Adobe "DPS app of the week video guru," I embraced the chance to show my Mac pride.
In this week's video, I highlight the ways in which the alumni magazine—with all the same great content as ever—has added interactive touches that truly bring the print publication to life. The cover page uses a lively auto-play slideshow to show students assembling into the new building. Videos illustrate current campus activities, from intense rowing down the Mississippi River to a quirky how-to video on cafeteria concoctions. The alumni news section has an interactive timeline that DPS designers must check out. Merging scrolling frames and nav-to buttons, it lets me quickly select my year and navigate immediately to the news about my own classmates.
"We believe that the special features available in an iPad version of our magazine are bringing the college to life for our alumni," says Macalester Today editor Lynette Lamb. "From an audio snippet of a professor reading from his just-published book to a video of the crew team rowing on the Mississippi, the iPad magazine allows us to reach our graduates around the world in a new, multi-sensory way."
We are seeing great examples of higher education uses of Digital Publishing Suite. Notre Dame and University of Oklahoma are using it for their Gameday Apps. Other examples include University of Dayton Undergraduate Viewbook, Academy of Art University's Alumni magazine, UCLA Anderson Assets magazine, and Indiana University's IU Libris.
- Download Macalester Today and these other great apps to see examples of how you can create magazines
- Watch the Macalester Today App of the Week video.
February 15, 2013
The Human Face of Big Data: Using DPS to Digest Our World today
As you probably know, Adobe is obsessed with Big Data. As the Big Data revolution sweeps all facets of daily life, humans today are presented with real-time visualization of data streaming in endless formats. This enables new ways to sense, explore, experience, and measure all components of our world. The Human Face of Big Data is a globally crowdsourced media project focusing on humanity's new ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize these vast amounts of data in real time.
Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt, cofounders of Against All Odds Productions, have partnered with digital designer/photographer, Dan Marcolina, to introduce a new iPad app: The Human Face of Big Data. With photography and design experience at Time, Life, National Geographic and Day in the Life, this power team has successfully orchestrated visual excellence with enhanced storytelling.
The pioneering app is a seamless blend of interactive elements and groundbreaking ideas that complement the print book sharing the same title. With the tools and services in Digital Publishing Suite, the creators have been able to encapsulate the concept of Big Data into a ferociously exciting journey.
What's so "Big" About "Big Data?"
In Smolan's own words:
"Big Data is an extraordinary knowledge revolution sweeping, almost invisibly, through business, academia, government, healthcare, and everyday life." It is "enabling us to provide a healthier life for our children. To provide our seniors with independence while keeping them safe. To help us conserve precious resources like water and energy. To alert us to tiny changes in our health, weeks or years before we develop a life-threatening illness. To peer into our own individual genetic makeup. To create new forms of life. And soon, as many predict, to reengineer our own species. And we've barely scratched the surface…"
As Smolan said in an AppleInsider interview about the book and app, "What we're trying to do is start global conversation." Encouraging humanity to think about how Big Data leaves a lasting footprint in our world is just the beginning. The efforts continue to evolve and we are thrilled to see how Digital Publishing Suite played a role in the production of this app.
Diving Deeper
The Big Data app takes on a big challenge: helping readers understand and extract meaning from the ocean of information in which we live. Did you know that by 2040, 75 percent of all cars on the road will be self-driving, reports the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. You'll find a plethora of fascinating facts such as this dispersed throughout the app. With 60-plus pages of interactive articles, impressive infographics and stunning photography, this app brings to life a brilliant experience.
Curious what else this app has to offer? Come explore the ocean of data and feel the massive impact social networking plays in stirring mass movements with an interactive 24-hour timeline of protest tweets. Reflect in your digital mirror with powerful graphics and articles that decode genetic makeup and DNA tests. Quantify yourself and the world you live in as you experience gigabytes of data that unfold in one second in Major League Baseball by gliding a baseball across the screen of your iPad. This stimulating blend of interactive features with premiere content is just a taste of what this app has to offer.
The journey continues with refreshingly simple yet effective infographics, embedded video clips, animated images, and delicious design.
Giving Back
And if you needed just one more reason to download- here it is! 100% of proceeds from the app will be donated to charity: water, a nonprofit organization that brings safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations.
Experience Big Data
- Download The Human Face of Big Data iPad app
- Learn more about The Human Face of Big Data project
- Check out the impressive Press Room highlighting Big Data's impact


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RWJF appoints Donald Schwarz, MD, MPH, to help make health contagious. He will join RWJF as Director of its portfolio dedicated to catalyzing demand for healthy places and practices.
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+1 for 70-200 mk ii
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Canon 5D Mark III | Canon 24-70mm F2.8L II | Canon 70-200mm F2.8L IS II | Canon 580EX II
Another vote for 70-200 f2.8 IS II........why carry too many lenses, unless, you want to show off your camera gear to your clients.
Body: 1DX -- 5D III
Zoom: 24-70L II -- 70-200L f2.8 IS II
Prime: 40mm -- 85L II -- 135L -- 400L f2.8 IS II
Zoom: 24-70L II -- 70-200L f2.8 IS II
Prime: 40mm -- 85L II -- 135L -- 400L f2.8 IS II
70-200 F2.8L II, Must have lens. +1
+1 for the 70-200 f/2.8 IS II
It's the best lens I own. Weight really isn't a problem for me either. And it's super sharp. Why buy 2 lenses when you can get the job done with 1 great one? just my thought on it
It's the best lens I own. Weight really isn't a problem for me either. And it's super sharp. Why buy 2 lenses when you can get the job done with 1 great one? just my thought on it
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I would go for 135L + 70-200mm f/4 IS. Then you can use the 70-200 when you need the range and the 135L when you need the extra stops of light or want the bokeh.
If you want a zoom for the range, imho the 70-300L (or something other -300) would be a better choice next to the 135L.
As for the 70-200Lis2 and weight - be sure to try for yourself: Get a 5d2/3, put a 70-200Lis2 on plus a 580ex2/600rt-type flash - it does make a difference, esp. to the torque on the wrist. But if you're going pro for weddings and are not on a budget this probably is the lens to get anyway because the phase af is faster @f2.8, esp. because the 5d3 puts lenses into arbitrary groups (read the manual :-)).
70 - 200 mkII one of the best
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The 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM is awesome for weddings and portrait sessions, very versatile and sharp. You already have the 50mm f/1.2L for low light and soft bokeh. Down the road, I'd sell the 24-105mm and Tamron and pick up the new Canon 24-70mm II or the new Tamron 24-70mm with IS. Or, pick up the 135L later on if there are times you want to go lighter.
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Hi All,
Well i've been thinking about this dilemma for a few days and have narrowed it to 3 choices. Which one would you choose below?
1. Buy the 70-200mm IS MK II for about $2099 new
2. Buy the 135L used at about $800 in craigslist + a 70-200mm 2.8 non-IS $1299 new
3. Buy the 135L used at about $800 in craigslist + a 70-200mm f/4 IS $1099 new
4. Any other suggestions based on my use below?
Im new to paid photography though been a hobbyist for years. Recently upgraded to 5D MK III which makes me think that i dont need the 2.8 with IS since i can always bump up the ISO to compensate and i don't do sports photography.. Also interested with the 135L since i have never seen a bad review on it. I am and will be shooting 80% indoor/outdoor portraits for babies, engagement shoots and fitness models. I do predict that about 20-30% of my business will be weddings in 2013. As of now only have 1 wedding book and another on the way for 2013 so mostly portraits/engagement shoots at the moment.
anyways let me know what you think..
Current equipment: 5D MK III, 24-105 f/4 L, 50mm f/1.2 L, 28-75mm f/2.8 Tamron
canon 16-35 f2.8L II $1469
Sigma 85 f1.4 $779
Total $2248
I could easily shoot a whole wedding with just these 2 lenses preferably on 2 bodies though
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3 pt hitch for Cub ??
Although i havent ever considered doing this or wanted to, a friend asked me about this the other day. Just thought i would pass this question on to you guys for your suggestions and comments and experiences. I told him I'd follow up this weekend.
What is the best way to add a three point lift to a Farmall Cub?
Re: 3 pt hitch for Cub ??
There were kits for both fast hitch tractors and non fast hitch I believe. I don't think it was ever a good idea/setup IMO. I believe there have been some discussions on this about the weight being too much for the cubs hydraulics for most implements, not to mention the pto is wrong direction and too fast for anything pto driven. It would be ok I guess for a York rake. Still wouldn't justify the setup worth while.
Re: 3 pt hitch for Cub ??
You can purchase a 3pt hitch kit for a Cub through "Worksaver Manufacturing." It ain't cheap, and like Chris says, it has limited usefulness.
It's a Category 0 hitch and with the PTO issues you're pretty much relegated to york rakes, back blades, box scrapers, and middle busters. IMHO these hitches aren't any good for plowing due to lack of depth control or draft control.
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Agreed, and thus my reasons for never considering this. I guess for someone without access to several tractors or funding for a Designated 3 pt. hitch tractor would want to try this.
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This is in the For Sale section. Good price $225
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About the only thing I use mine for is when I need to use my rear blade or the forks.
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Very nice pictures Barnyard! Thanks for the input and responses guys. I presume the guy doesn't have a Fast Hitch, and I'm sure that'll spark a whole nother conversation! I'll be able to handle that though since it's a factory option and a widely used one.
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Only way to go, but they are very expensive and rare!!
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Maybe I'm going crazy, but I didn't see a link of KubKraft for a 3pt hitch.
You did not see one. Rick built some in 2005 I think. There is lots of time and material that goes into one. But they are the greatest. Unless you have lots of fast hitch implements. I would advise selling all them and the fast hitch and modernizing your Cub. But it want be original anymore but mines not anyway. http://picasaweb.google.com/jamhudson/3 ... 8Z46BBXGa8
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Make your own 3-pt as I did!! makes a whole new tractor out of a cub!----I also made a half dozen imps. to match the tractors abilities. ---wouldnt be without them!---hitch cost biggest expense is the 2 pull arms and top link!--the rest can be made real cheeeeepo!! thanks; sonny
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Thanks Dan, and you are correct. I only built a few and things turned out way too expensive to make any to sell on a regular basis. Mine had it's own cylinder for lifting and a float kit in the control valve to let the rear implements follow the ground(up pressure/down pressure/float). I still have one mounted on the back of my 48 snowplow cub and use the 3 point for either the rear scraper(winter) or the landscape rake(summer). I also use it for the sod cutter or sub soiler or any other implement I need to move around. I used to have a box blade, but sold it to the neighbor once the backhoe/loader cub was finished. Jim Hudson and Sunday Sailor ended up with the full hydraulic 3 point version. I have some scattered pics in the photohost
Mine you could still run a mowing deck or use the factory hitch mounted in place. Worksaver you can't use anything to my knowledge.
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That is Some fine work you have done there Rick. You have amazing talent!
Re: 3 pt hitch for Cub ??
I think there are many considerations to think about, depending on why somebody wants a different hitch.
I'm in the process of fabricating a hitch right now, actually. I want to use implements that don't fit with the Cub's mounting system (such as various rear cultivating tools, tine weeder, bed preparer, etc), and I want to be able to adjust things easily. And I want to be able to change implements quickly with pins, not bolts or clamps, since there can be a number of implement switches over the course of a day of farming.
Using pins means there's no longer a solid connection between the implement and hitch (like a fast hitch point, or clamps, or the Cub 6's toolbar welded to the arms), so the implement spins on the two lower link pins, requiring the third point (toplink) to keep the implement level. Also the toplink can adjust the pitch of the implement, and since the hitch can be a parallel-ish linkage, the angle of the implement relative to the ground doesn't change much when it's raised or lowered. A solid connection between implement and hitch means the implement raises in an arc, which is less useful. I'm designing mine with lower link arms that extend under the tractor (similar to the Cub 6's), so that the hydraulic system gets better leverage when lifting something. That makes it less of a parallel linkage, but not too far off where it counts.
A fast hitch has many of these functions, but I can't make one, and you can't straddle a row of crops with a fast hitch.
I didn't start out to create a modern 3-pt hitch, just a hitch happens to have 3 points, because that makes it useful to me. It may or may not be able to accept modern 3-pt implements, because their spacing isn't what fits the Cub, and my lower link arms are prevented from swinging side-to-side, which makes it hard to move the arm over to slip the ball over the pin! I'm using a different pin setup.
I'm also fabricating some belly-mounted implements which will also use a three-point mounting setup, for the same reasons.
I think there are few modern implements that would suit a Cub, even with a modern 3-pt hitch, but that there are lots of reasons to figure out a better hitch system for the Cub.
Barnyard, I appreciate your pictures! I hadn't thought to build a new rockshaft, too, but doing it like the fast hitch like you did makes a lot of sense.
Re: 3 pt hitch for Cub ??
How useful a 3 point hitch would be depends on the user. I made something I called the 1 hour 3 point hitch since it took around an hour to make. Useful for me, boom pole and middle buster type thing, but may not be a fit for everyone.
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Mine is made to cat. 1 specs. and ANY factory 3-pt. equipment will fit/work with it as well as my homemade stuff. thanks; sonny
Re: 3 pt hitch for Cub ??
My three point conversion was made from a two point fast hitch converted to a point fast hitch. The problem was the weight of the hitch itself plus the weight of the implement plus sitting too far back cause the front end to come of the ground. It wouldn't lift my heavy dearborn back blade and even with the york rake I had to take the gauge wheels off. Luckly I have other tractor for my 3pt needs. If you can keep your three point arms as close as possible to the tractor without the implement hitting the back tire would probably be best and something to consider.
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Antivirus Firms Release Free Tools for Cleaning Macs Infected by Flashback
While Apple works on its own official solution, other parties have continued to develop their own increasingly user-friendly tools for dealing with the threat and cleaning infected machines, with some of those tools making their way into the public's hands.
Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab, which has played a key role in monitoring and publicizing the threat of Flashback, yesterday announced the launch of a free web-based checker where users can simply input the hardware UUID of their Mac to see if it has registered on the firm's servers as an infected machine. The company has also released Flashfake Removal Tool, a free app that quickly and easily detects and removes the malware.
Antivirus firm F-Secure has also announced its own free Flashback Removal app. The app generates a log file detailing whether it has found Flashback on a user's system, and if so quarantines it inside an encrypted ZIP file for disposal.
F-Secure also points out that Apple has yet to offer any protection for users running systems earlier than Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Flashback uses a vulnerability in Java to install itself without user authorization, and Apple released software patches for Java on Lion and Snow Leopard last week to close that hole and prevent infection on updated systems. Machines running earlier versions of Mac OS X do, however, remain unprotected. Specifically, F-Secure notes that over 16% of Macs are still running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, marking a substantial user base that remains vulnerable to the threat.
Update: Kaspersky Lab has informed MacRumors that the Flashfake Removal Tool has temporarily been pulled after the discovery that in some cases it could erroneously remove certain user settings. A fixed version of the tool will be posted as soon as it is available.
Update 2: The patched version of the Flashfake Removal Tool is now available through the Kaspersky Lab site.
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I checked and was not infected. I'm always skeptical about companies doing anything for free. What's the catch with Kaspersky?:rolleyes:
I think in time they will try to get you to open your walletsky so you can spend some of your moneysky on their Mac anti-virusky.
'infected' suggests its a virus. thought macs didnt get viruses. haha
Gosh you must be on to something. I guess Mac users are all idiots.
The "solvers" of the biggest infection in Mac history. (Right?)
I downloaded and used an app to do the same (https://github.com/jils/FlashbackChecker/wiki) and also the F-Secure Flashback Removal app. They both also came up negative.
I used the web-based checker in this article, put in the hardware UUID of my Mac and surprise, surprise, it came up positive.
I would have thought that MacRumours would've tested them and saw that the Kaspersky Lab web page is bogus!!!!
All Mac antivirus software is a scam. My mom's friend paid a lot of money to get her Mac cleaned of "viruses". Anyway "Mac antivirus" is an oxymoron.
People who don't admit that "virus" and "malware" mean the same thing to most people miss the point.
If your identity and credit card numbers are sent to criminals in the Ukraine - is it "OK" if malware sent the info and "bad" if a virus sent the info?
I'd think that most people would label it as "bad" regardless of minor technical details of the infection.
And add to that the simple truth that viruses aren't really that common anymore - OS changes have made the threat of viruses fairly small. When you get a product like Norton, you're buying "anti-malware" protection - even if the product name contains the word "antivirus" for historical familiarity.
'infected' suggests its a virus. thought macs didnt get viruses. hahaThey don't, since this isn't a virus. Viruses aren't the only form of malware that can infect computers.
I guess being too lazy and, frankly, cheap to spend that $29 seems pretty stupid now, doesn't it? :DChoosing not to upgrade to Snow Leopard or Lion doesn't have anything to do with being lazy or cheap. There is no need to upgrade, simply for the sake of upgrading. Leopard still runs quite well for many users.
Company offers free antivirus software?There are many free antivirus apps on both Windows and Mac platforms. It's nothing new.
Either way as I'm waiting to buy a new iMac I'm less than happy to hear about Mac viruses.You can be happy again. This isn't a virus, and there never has been one since Mac OS X was released. This is a trojan, and not the first one.
I used this and it said it removed it and then when I restarted my mac i ran the web checker again and it said I still had it?To be certain, just use the Terminal commands (http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_k.shtml) that have already been posted everywhere.
Macs are not immune to malware, but no true viruses exist in the wild that can run on Mac OS X, and there never have been any since it was released over 10 years ago. The only malware in the wild that can affect Mac OS X is a handful of trojans, which can be easily avoided by practicing safe computing (see below). Also, Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion have anti-malware protection (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4651) built in, further reducing the need for 3rd party antivirus apps.
Mac Virus/Malware FAQ (http://guides.macrumors.com/Mac_Virus/Malware_FAQ)
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[*]Uncheck "Open "safe" files after downloading" in Safari > Preferences > General
[*]Change your DNS servers to OpenDNS servers by reading this (http://guides.macrumors.com/Mac_Virus/Malware_FAQ#Why_am_I_being_redirected_to_other_sites.3F).
[*]Be careful to only install software from trusted, reputable sites. Never install pirated software. If you're not sure about an app, ask in this forum before installing.
[*]Never let someone else have access to install anything on your Mac.
[*]Don't open files that you receive from unknown or untrusted sources.
[*]Make sure all network, email, financial and other important passwords are complex, including upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters.
[*]Always keep your Mac and application software updated. Use Software Update for your Mac software. For other software, it's safer to get updates from the developer's site or from the menu item "Check for updates", rather than installing from any notification window that pops up while you're surfing the web.
That's all you need to do to keep your Mac completely free of any virus, trojan, spyware, keylogger, or other malware. You don't need any 3rd party software to keep your Mac secure.
If you insist on running antivirus, ClamXav (http://www.clamxav.com/) is one of the best choices, since it isn't a resource hog, detects both Mac and Windows malware and doesn't run with elevated privileges. You can run scans when you choose, rather than leaving it running all the time, slowing your system. ClamXav has a Sentry feature which, if enabled, will use significant system resources to constantly scan. Disable the Sentry feature. You don't need it. Also, when you first install ClamXav, as with many antivirus apps, it may perform an initial full system scan, which will consume resources. Once the initial scan is complete, periodic on-demand scans will have much lower demands on resources.
'infected' suggests its a virus. thought macs didnt get viruses. haha
I think technically it's malware, since it tricks the user into installing it. Viruses get in on their own.
People infected with lead poisoning usually don't necessarily "catch" it, you might have accidentally ingested it.
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This week's Unshelved Book Club is full of books about Gary Hart's scandal, a boy who fantasizes about being a girl, 4th and 5th graders playing the World Peace Game, Hemingway's time in Paris after World War I, driving around India in the world's cheapest car, short stories from a young Indian-American's life, a teenage girl afraid of shadows, and another who falls for the most popular guy in school.
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Emma Sharpe, granddaughter of world- renowned art detective Wendell Sharpe, is a handpicked member of a small Boston- based FBI team. For the past decade Emma and her grandfather have been trailing an elusive serial art thief. The first heist was in Ireland, where an ancient Celtic cross was stolen. Now the Sharpes receive a replica of the cross after every new theft—reminding them of their continued failure to capture their prey.
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Every day, more than one billion people around the world rely on the Superior Accuracy™ of AccuWeather to help them plan their lives, protect their businesses, and get more from their day. The AccuWeather for Windows Phone weather app has the very latest in weather news and information, including current, hourly, and extended forecasts plus severe weather alerts and radar maps. Our forecasts are also easily seen from your Windows Phone 8 lock screen! Key features of AccuWeather include: • Accurate, local forecasts for nearly 3 million global locations in 27 languages. Forecasts include current conditions, hourly forecasts for the next 72 hours, and extended forecasts for the next 15 days. • The Local Forecast Summary, a brief summary of what you can expect from the weather over the next 3-5 days for your location. • Severe weather notices for all locations – visible from anywhere within the app. • Fully interactive, full-screen Bing Maps overlaid with AccuWeather's precise weather data, including U.S., Canadian, European, and Japanese radar. • Current weather conditions displayed with location name and time, temperature, wind speed, wind gust speed and wind direction, precipitation and amounts, humidity, visibility, UV Index, cloud cover, pressure, and AM and PM times for sunrise and sunset. • Unlimited location storage for your GPS location and all your favorites. Nickname your locations and easily swipe between them using the panoramic view and by saving them to your Start screen. • Windows Phone 8 users: Populate your phone's lock screen with a snapshot of the weather forecast for your home location including severe weather alerts and a beautiful weather image. • Also for Windows Phone 8 users: Three-Size, customizable Live Tiles for multiple locations that peek and automatically update the forecasts on the Start screen. Download AccuWeather for your Windows Phone today for free! Push notifications for severe weather alerts
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The Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguars should be a throwaway game in the week's final season. However, there is plenty riding on this game in terms of the 2012 NFL Draft. If Indianapolis wins, they take themselves out of the top spot in the draft and the right to draft Andrew Luck, assuming the St. Louis Rams lose. A loss keeps Indy on top.
Jacksonville has continued to struggle, even after firing their head coach. Mostly, they struggle to score points, averaging fewer than 15 per game. That's why the over/under on this one is sitting at 37 points, the lowest of the week.
The Jaguars opened the week as five-point favorites. A two-game winning streak from the Colts, in which they beat the Titans and the Texans, narrowed the line by about two points to three and a half. Both teams own a 6-9 record against the spread this season, a year in which neither have found themselves favored very often.
Both coaches will be looking for the win to secure their own futures, so any thoughts of one team phoning it in for draft position can be dismissed now.
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Caveat emptor is an adage most of us have grown up with since childhood. (Those high school and college Latin classes have really come in handy.) Seriously, we check Consumer's Report to determine what stove, refrigerator, camera, or car to purchase, but when it comes to a company looking for an ISO 9000 registrar many fail to investigate and do their homework before signing a contract. Worse yet, many companies are only concerned with price and sign up with unaccredited registrars, which end up taking them to the cleaners.
This in-depth report analyzes economic and market trends, legislative/regulatory activity impacting supply and demand, business opportunities and threats, materials pricing, manufacturing technology, as well as growth strategies being implemented by thermoformed packaging companies.Learn more
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The Z Palette is the only one of its kind that includes both a clear window and an open magnetic base to fit any size shadow, blush, bronzer and even some foundations.
The patented Z Palette is an exclusive custom palette ideal for home and portable for travel. It features a sleek and clean design that offers the strength of a plastic palette, while using eco-friendly recyclable materials. Simply fold the top portion completely under the bottom portion for a space saving feature on your vanity or makeup station. Replace colors as often as you would like to your preference.
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Shreveport Police Investigators need your help to identify an armed man who robbed a local eatery at gunpoint.
Surveillance video released Wednesday by police show that at about 9:30 p.m. on January 4, a man about 21 years old, armed with a handgun and wearing an orange bandana and an orange pullover, entered the Popeye's chicken restaurant in the 500 block of E. 70th Street and robbed it of an undetermined amount of cash.
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Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law: American and European StrategiesBook
Amichai Magen - Former Visiting Scholar at CDDRL
Thomas Risse - Professor at Freie Universität Berlin
Michael A. McFaul - CDDRL
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European and American experts systematically compare U.S. and EU strategies to promote democracy around the world -- from the Middle East and the Mediterranean, to Latin America, the former Soviet bloc, and Southeast Asia. In doing so, the authors debunk the pernicious myth that there exists a transatlantic divide over democracy promotion.
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Kitty doesn't know her wonderful new toy is a child's cherished dollhouse. To her, it's a purr-fect playhouse to explore. Lenox shares her adventure in Kitty's Playhouse, a sculpture that couldn't be more realistic. A gray-and-white cat rubs against the side of a dollhouse filled with tiny furniture and toys. And wears an expression of close-eyed contentment. The house is charming as well, with meticulously sculpted and hand-painted details.
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Breast Cancer - Male - Overview [1]
ON THIS PAGE: You will find some basic information about this disease and the parts of the body it may affect. This is the first page of Cancer.Net's Guide to Male Breast Cancer. To see other pages, use the menu on the side of your screen. Think of that menu as a roadmap to this full guide.
Breast cancer in men is rare, accounting for less than 1% of all breast cancer cases. Although breast cancer in men occurs less frequently than breast cancer in women, the diseases are similar in many ways. Cancer begins when normal cells in the breast begin to change and grow uncontrollably, forming a mass called a tumor. A tumor can be benign (noncancerous) or malignant (cancerous, meaning it can spread to other parts of the body).
The breast is mainly composed of fatty tissue. Within this tissue is a network of lobes, which are made up of tiny, tube-like structures called lobules that contain milk glands. Tiny ducts connect the glands, lobules, and lobes to the nipple, located in the middle of the areola (darker area that surrounds the nipple of the breast). Blood and lymph vessels run throughout the breast; blood nourishes the cells, and the lymph system drains bodily waste products. The lymph vessels connect to lymph nodes, which are tiny, bean-shaped organs that normally help fight infection.
The main types of breast cancer are the same for men and women. Most breast cancer cases start in the ducts or lobes. Almost 75% of all breast cancers begin in the cells lining the milk ducts and are called ductal carcinomas. Approximately 25% of male breast cancers are lobular carcinoma (cancer that begins in the lobules).
A type of breast cancer that has spread outside of the duct and into the surrounding tissue is called invasive or infiltrating carcinoma. The majority of male breast cancer cases are infiltrating ductal carcinomas (IDC).
Disease that has not spread is called in situ, meaning "in place." Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is the most common type of in situ breast cancer, but it is uncommon in men.
Inflammatory breast cancer [3] makes up about 1% to 5% of all breast cancers. Paget's disease of the nipple begins in the ducts, but spreads to the skin of the nipple. Paget's disease is more common in men than in women. Other, less common subtypes of breast cancer include medullary, mucinous, tubular, or papillary.
Cancer may begin as a single, genetically abnormal cell. As this one cell divides, it eventually becomes a tumor and develops a blood supply to nourish its continued growth. At some point, cells may break off from the primary mass and move to other parts of the body in a process called metastasis.
Breast cancer spreads when breast cancer cells move to other sites in the body through the blood vessels and/or lymph vessels. A common site of spread is the regional lymph nodes. The lymph nodes can be axillary (located under the arm), mediastinal (under the sternum or breast bone), or supraclavicular (located just above the collarbone). The most common sites of distant metastasis are the bones, lungs, and liver. Less commonly, breast cancer may spread to the brain. The cancer can also recur (come back after treatment) locally in the skin, in the same breast (if it was not removed as part of treatment), other tissues of the chest, or elsewhere in the body.
Breast cancer in men is detected the same way as breast cancer in women isâthrough self-examination, clinical examination, or mammography (x-ray of the breast). Changes in the breast may be easier to detect because men have less breast tissue. However, the awareness of breast cancer in men is much lower than it is in women; therefore, men may not perform regular breast self-examinations or talk with their doctor about the disease.
Looking for More of an Overview?
If you would like additional introductory information, explore these related items on Cancer.Net:
- ASCO Answers Fact Sheet [4]: Read a one-page fact sheet (available in PDF) that offers an easy-to-print introduction for this type of cancer.
- Cancer.Net Patient Education Video [5]: View a short video led by an ASCO expert in this type of cancer that provides basic information and areas of research.
Find out more about basic cancer terms used in this section [6].
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The Psychology program at ISU encourages a spirit of active inquiry and critical thinking, life-long learning and development and social responsibility. The curriculum is based on the premise that any student of psychology, regardless of program goals, should be well-informed about basic principles of behavior. The undergraduate degree in psychology prepares students for graduate studies in psychology and related fields as well as employment in a variety of settings including health services, research, government and business.
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Getting guns off the street is the idea behind those gun buyback programs popping up across the state and around the country.
Arizona lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it a lot harder to give away a gun and have it destroyed.
A recent gun buy back program in Tucson was a big hit with more than 200 firearms collected and destroyed.
HB 2455 is taking direct aim and how these gun buyback programs operate.
HB 2455 would prohibit Arizona towns, cities and law enforcement agencies from destroying any firearm seized or received voluntarily.
It would also require the agency to sell the weapon instead.
State Rep. Brenda Barton (R-Payson) is the bill's sponsor.
"I believe it's a waste to destroy something that can supplement their budget and budget line items," said Barton. "We're at a place in our economy where we need to make the best use of everything we can."
Hildy Saizow, with Arizonans for Gun Safety, is against the bill.
She's said that this is another example of Arizona lawmakers following the National Rifle Association's playbook, looking for any way to keep more guns in circulation, even if it means telling someone who wants to turn in their gun and have it destroyed that they can't do it.
"For decades, Phoenix and Tucson police departments had policies that any guns coming in, whether crime guns or voluntarily surrendered, they' were all destroyed," said Saizow. "That's what police chiefs want, that's what mayors want, that's what crime victims want and that's what citizens want, so it makes no sense for the legislature to be involved."
Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton recently announced a major gun buyback program to take place in May, with the help of the Phoenix Police Department and a $100,000 anonymous donation.
If HB 2455 becomes law that event could be in jeopardy.
HB 2455 has passed the House, and now moves on to the Senate.
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SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) -- Officials say a sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man is seriously unstable and they think it will grow.
Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill says no one can go into the house right now because they are afraid of losing more lives. Engineers say the soil around the house is very soft and there is a potential for another collapse.
Jeff Bush was presumed dead Friday after the earth opened up beneath his bedroom. Five other people were at the home when the bedroom floor collapsed late Thursday night, but no one else was injured.


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please don't go..., there is more to boxing than pac
please don't go..., there is more to boxing than pac
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i just want to get this off my chest and let my filipino brothers know that there is more to boxing than pacquiao. i know he's fallen...but u still have donaire. i never really had faith in mercito gesta...sorry. but seriously, there are plenty of other great boxers that aren't filipino. become a fight fan...not a fighter fan. there is so much to love about boxing. educate yourselves on the sport! don't abandon it...or the boards for that matter. feel free to ask questions and i will be more than happy to help you find answers. boxing is beautiful. stick around!!!
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