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Israel seeks clarification of U.S. stance on Iran's 'capability'
TEL AVIV -- A visit to Israel this week by the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, should help clarify two issues: the nature of Israeli-U.S. resolve to stop Iran's nuclear program; and, what exactly the U.S. perceives that program to be.
Questions about resolve were raised by an American-Israeli statement that an upcoming joint military exercise had been postponed to the second half of 2012.
Immediate speculation focused on the recent intensification of the "covert war" being waged by the West against Iran and Iran's sabre-rattling responses -- threatening to stop oil shipments from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz and its announcement that it had started enriching uranium at a fortified facility.
The postponement might be a move in this cold war environment.
The reason, however, was less intriguing -- it was simply a budgetary matter.
Last week, the Netanyahu government adopted an ambitious education plan that grants free education to Israeli children beginning at the age of three.
To finance this plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut budgets across the board and notified Washington, which agreed to the "austerity challenge 12" and postponed the exercise.
Thus, Gen. Dempsey's visit is meant to reinforce the message that the U.S. and Israel share the same concern about Iran, military exercises notwithstanding.
It is that the closer Iran gets to its nuclear goals, and the more it demonstrates its willingness to confront the international community, the more the U.S. stands with Israel to confront it.
Dempsey's arrival also comes at a time when the U.S. and its allies need to craft a new strategic response to Iran's brinkmanship.
The opening of Iran's new uranium-enrichment facility in Qom confronts the U.S. and its allies with a critical decision: How far they are they to go in their efforts to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions?
Before coming to Israel, Dempsey was quoted as saying that he "does not know" if Israel would give the U.S. advance notice should it decide to militarily attack Iran alone.
That is baloney. Gen. Dempsey knows quite well not a single Israeli leader would contemplate such a move.
There is, however, one point that has must be clarified between Israel and the U.S.
In an interview with Face the Nation, U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta made the following observation;
"Are they (the Iranians) trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they are trying to develop nuclear capability. That's what concerns us.
"Our Red Line to Iran is -- don't develop a nuclear weapon. This is Red Line for us."
By implication, Panetta's remark could mean the Americans make a distinction between "capability" and "production."
Israeli officials are certainly going to verify this point with Gen. Dempsey this week.
Sam Segev is the Winnipeg Free
Press Middle East correspondent.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 17, 2012 A11
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See, the arguments about the job prospects for non-aba grads is not that great of a point. In fact, I have a job that most people graduating from an ABA approved school would die to have! So the argument about not having a job upon graduation is of no merit to me at all.
I think you're missing the point. If your job as a commodities trader doesn't require a JD for advancement, then it doesn't matter where you go to law school. Most people who go to law school, however, intend to practice law. For those people it does matter where they graduate from. Most firms (big, medium, and small), government offices, and corporate legal departments will not hire online grads. Personally, I think it's silly, but it's true nonetheless. That matters to people who plan on spending tens of thousands of dollars on an online JD in hopes of passing the bar and getting hired.
Of course, not all doors are shut. Some small firms will consider an online JD, and others will go into solo practice. I know lots of people who graduated from non-ABA (Calbar/CBE accredited) law schools who have successful careers, and I don't think the current ABA scheme is the only game in town. That said, I've worked at a couple of private and government law offices who would hire a CBE grad, but would never consider an online JD.
My company has agreements with several so called online degree colleges like Capella, Regis, and others so that employees can get their degree. In fact, the vice-president of my company, which is a fortune 500 company got his MBA from Regis. The thing is that most people who claim to know about job prospects etc are still in law school and have no real corporate world experience, they're talking out their ass!
MBAs and JDs are very different. Have any top 500 law firms hired online grads? Hell, many of those firms are so snooty they won't even hire ABA grads from less-than-prestigious schools. It's the same story at most mid-sized and government offices, too. I'm sure you can find a handful of exceptions, but that doesn't defeat the general rule.
I totally agree with you on the second point. Students with experience and street smarts will beat out green, naive competitors every time. I went to law school in a part-time evening program, and the evening students seemed to do much better when it came to finding jobs. They already had experience, were more mature, made connections, etc.
it's just a matter of time before a schoo like Concord becomes accredited. And who knows, maybe by the time I and the original poster graduate, we will be graduating from either a temporarily approved ABA school or better an ABA approved school. Nonetheless, it doesn't matter to me, I'm set and the sky is the limt!
The ABA has not shown any movement on this issue, neither has Calbar (the only state bar that might be expected to accredit online JDs.) There is no reason to believe that online JDs are going to be accredited anytime soon. According to the new ABA rules, a schools' first time bar pass rate must be within 15% of the statewide ABA average. That means Concord would have to raise it's bar pass rate from 35% to about 62% (assuming that they use CA's bar pass rates as the baseline).
I'm not against online education. An online JD can be the right move for the right student. However, I think people should be entirely informed and realistic about the limitations of any unaccredited law degree. It doesn't mean that the education is inferior, but to pretend that it makes little or no difference is to ignore reality.


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As I was reading Jonathan's post, a remark about Rosmarie Waldrop's use of the "I" in her introduction to Curves to the Apple came to mind. "This 'I'," she says, "has lately been confused with the expression of unquestioned subjectivity and identity. But it simply indicates that language is taking place." She doesn't say who "has lately been confused", but it may well be those anthropologists and their students, who think that demanding "originality" of authors is tantamount to requiring them to be "geniuses". Now, Waldrop is a poet and her remarks resonate nicely with those of another poet, Tony Tost. He also doesn't say exactly who he has in mind, but he seems to be correcting a common misconception when he says, "One is not condemned to a perpetual present, nor to the immediacy of seemingly random, unconnected signifiers. In summary, one is here because one has remembered to be here. In conversation, one discusses what rises" (Invisible Bride, p. 46). There's something distinctly postmodern about the "immediacy" he rejects. But, like Waldrop, he suggests that we should just keep talking. Perhaps it's just language.
Allen Grossman, a poet of Waldrop's generation (b. 1932) who recently died, also seems to hold an "eighteenth century" notion of the "in some ways isolated" self. Explicitly so, in fact: he invokes Descartes, the godfather of the "isolated subject". In his postscript to Descartes' Loneliness he tells us that "We, each one of us alone, think in our solitude about our own mind and about the world, in language—and each finds out thought about the self, about other persons and their claims upon the self, speaking and answering by means of language." There it is again—language. Grossman, if I recall, is one of Tost's influences, and perhaps we see a bit of it on the same page I already quoted: "Talking becomes a conscious stammering not in one's language, but in how one thinks," he writes; "a conversation represents not so much a break with solitude, but a newer form of solitude, a revision of the logic of solitude."
I became aware of Tost's work back in 2003, when I read a poem that, interestingly enough, was made by patching together materials found on the Internet by searching for variations on the phrase that constitutes the title, "I Am Not the Pilot". It had a profoundly liberating effect on me. The poet, as I've noted elsewhere, is rejecting the sort of "competence" that is demanded of him, and is performing that rejection precisely by plagiarising every word of the poem. (This "Google sculpting" has since become the hallmark of so-called "Flarf" poetry.) I have never held this against him. He remains my favourite living poet.
I'll continue this soon. There's an obvious tension here between the poetic sense of self and language and the anthropological one. At the same time, Tost's "I Am Not the Pilot" is perhaps a sign of a "revision of the logic of solitude", the logic that is characterized by Grossman as "Descartes' loneliness". That revision may be, as Blum suggests, driven by technology. That doesn't mean that we are, to use Tost's word, "condemned" to lose ourselves. What was it William Carlos Williams said? "When I am alone I am happy."
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
A Revision of Solitude?
According to Susan Blum, academia is beholden to an "eighteenth century model of the self and author [which assumes] a singularity and essence that [is] fixed, unchanging and in some ways isolated (unaffected by others' influence)." But she and her fellow anthropologists have been questioning these assumptions, noting that recent technological developments render them obsolete and should have us rethinking our basic approach to higher education. Shaped by social media, "our students have become folk anthropologists, speaking out about the impossibility of singularity, the shared quality of discourse, the reality of fragments of texts incorporated into every utterance (or written document) and the collective nature of cultural creation." As Jonathan Mayhew has pointed out, this sort of thing has become pretty orthodox in the social sciences, travelling under the banner of "postmodernism". He's not exactly impressed.
Monday, November 17, 2014
"Originality is Impossible"
One of the most interesting professional tensions that I experience in my work as a coach is the resistance of anthropologists to my ideas about the writing process. So I guess I shouldn't be surprised to find myself in a disagreement with an anthropologist about the nature of authorship itself.
Susan Blum has provided a useful summary of her distinction between the "authentic self" and the "peformance self" in the American Anthropological Association's Anthropology News (March 2008). Two things stand out for me. First, she casts the "anthropological" notion of self as a foil for the traditional "academic" sense of self. That is, she suggests that there is a tension between what professional anthropologists know to be true about the self and what academics in general presume about it. Second, and more worryingly, she believes that students, unlike their university teachers, are in possession of this anthropological truth about themselves. That is, the students, qua "folk anthropologists", are right.
In defending the "academic", "authentic" self let me begin with what I think is a common misconception among patchwriters about originality. Here's one of Blum's subjects, i.e., a student she talked to during her fieldwork:
Ideas are gonna get recycled. There's no way that a hundred kids in a class could write papers with all fresh ideas. That'd be a hell of a class if you could. In fact, I'd be willing to say that no one—not even one student—will come up with something that's never been come up with before. And that's not an indictment of them, it's just these ideas are all over the place.
Now, academics know this as well as any student. When teachers ask students to submit "original" work, they are not asking them to "come up with something that's never been come up with before", they are merely asking them to submit for evaluation their own ideas, i.e., ideas that, whether actually "original" or not (in the hyperbolic sense invoked by the student), are ones they actually "came up with". They will have arrived at these ideas on the basis of their reading, and it's therefore important for the student to properly reference the reading they have done, leading up to the part that they came up with themselves, so that the teacher can assess their abilities and give them a grade. Now, if they pass off some part of their reading as their own ideas they are plagiarizing, cheating. The are pretending they came up with something themselves that they just read in a book. But the fact that the teacher already knows what the student has "discovered" is not in and of itself a strike against the student. It's only a problem if the student hides the source.
Originality in the sense of something "new under the sun" is of course very rare. But it is possible to distinguish clearly between what you have learned from reading and what you have thought out yourself. This is very important in school, where almost all of what you learn is already known to others. But it remains important in a research career where "originality" in the strong sense of making that rare "novel" contribution, depends on knowing what is already known.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Against Patchwriting
I've decided to confront the issue head-on, if only for the sake of clarity. So I'll just announce straight off that I am against patchwriting. I use that term in the sense coined by Rebecca Moore Howard: "copying from a source text and deleting some words, altering grammatical structures, or plugging in one synonym for another" (Howard 1999: p. xviii). And when I say I'm against it I mean that I refuse to "celebrate" it as some writing instructors do:
Describing the textual strategies of Tanya, a student who in traditional pedagogy might be labeled "remedial," Glynda Hull and Mike Rose celebrate her patchwriting as a valuable stage toward becoming an authoritative academic writer: "we depend upon membership in a community for our language, our voices, our very arguments. We forget that we, like Tanya, continually appropriate each other's language to establish group membership, to grow, and to define ourselves in new ways, and that such appropriation is a fundamental part of language use, even as the appearance of our texts belies it" (152).
These and other studies describe patchwriting as a pedagogical opportunity, not a juridical problem. They recommend that teachers treat it as an important transitional strategy in the student's progress toward membership in a discourse community. To treat it negatively, as a "problem" to be "cured" or punished, would be to undermine its positive intellectual value, thereby obstructing rather than facilitating the learning process. (Howard 1995: 788-9)
I believe, in short, that patchwriting is a problem that should be addressed, even a disease that should be "cured", and in some cases a crime that should be "punished". Though I don't think it really is a "punishment", one simple technique here is to ensure that patchwritten work receives a lower grade. But this is where the "criminal element" comes in, because, like classical plagiarism, it is often not immediately apparent on the surface of the text. The first problem with patchwriting, like other kinds of plagiarism, is that it must be detected. Patchwriting conceals the relationship between one's own writing and the writing of others, and that alone should dampen any possible "celebration" of the student's accomplishment in this art.
The toleration—and encouragement, if that's what "celebrating" can be taken to imply—seems to be founded on a fundamental misunderstanding about scholarly writing, which is clearly on display in the passage I've quoted. It is simply not true that "we forget that we ... continually appropriate each other's language to establish group membership". Good scholars are constantly mindful of these acts of appropriation and therefore continually acknowledge their sources. There are acceptable ways of appropriating the work of others, namely, through paraphrase and quotation, always with adequate citation. There is no mystery (though there are of course a few subtleties) about how this is done, nor when it is done right.
I'll be writing about this in the weeks to come, mainly as a way of reflecting on the work of Rebecca Howard and Susan Blum, both of whom I've written about before. Like I say, I'm going to be taking a hard line on this, mainly in the interest of being clear. Let there be no doubt that I think patchwriting is a problem, and one we need to do something about. It is no more "an important transitional strategy" toward mastery of scholarly writing than any other form of plagiarism, nor does it have "positive intellectual value". True, like plagiarism in general, it does offer a "pedagogical opportunity", or what we also sometimes call a "teachable moment", but only in the sense that it provides an occasion to talk about intellectual honesty. Patchwriters are faking their linguistic competence, and they must be told that that is what they are doing, and that that is the opinion competent scholars form of them when they discover the real source of their language.
It's not, I should add, just a problem among students.
Update: it's not a coincidence that I'm returning to this subject today. Andrew Gelman had warned us that a post about this was "on deck" today. And sure enough: here it is.
Friday, November 07, 2014
What are the implications of a theory paper?
Two years ago, thinking myself wittily obvious, I said that theory papers "accomplish their theoretical aims by purely theoretical means". Yesterday, talking to a PhD student about her theory paper, I found myself saying, perhaps, the opposite. Theory papers, I said, do not have theoretical implications; only empirical papers can truly have "implications for theory". Just because you've thought about something, I said, your peers don't necessarily have to change their minds. That would require some actual, empirical results—a tested theory.
Now, in one sense, that's not really true, of course. When you write a theory paper, you are actually trying to affect the minds of your readers. You're trying to get them to see the world differently, to expect different things to appear under particular circumstances. Rather than showing them such things under such circumstances, as you would in an empirical paper, you confront them with aspects of the available literature that they are unfamiliar with or, perhaps, have just forgotten about. Once those writings, or your particular reading of them, is presented to them, you presume, they will come to expect familiar objects to behave in hitherto unthought-of ways.
If you write your theory paper very convincingly you can accomplish this goal—of changing someone's expectations about an object of inquiry—without any new empirical evidence. At the very least, you can shake the reader's confidence in currently held assumptions about how the object behaves in practice. So was I simply misleading that PhD student when I said a theory paper doesn't have theoretical implications?
Not quite. I was making a formal point about the rhetoric of theory papers. The section that corresponds to the "implications" section of an empirical paper has a particular rhetorical goal, namely, to make explicit what "follows" (logically, rationally) from the rest of the paper. Since the whole paper is about theory, the "analysis" will already have established how the theory must change. It will not just have provided premises from which draw "theoretical" conclusions; it will have presented a complete theoretical argument, conclusions and all, just as an empirical paper will draw empirical conclusions already in the analysis (or "results" section), from which (again, in the empirical paper) either "practical" or "theoretical" implications will then follow.
Just as the implications of an empirical paper reach beyond the empirical material itself (into theory and/or practice), so too must the implications of a theory paper reach beyond the purely theoretical arguments the paper makes. As I said two years ago, and again two days ago, these implications will often be methodological. That is, if you convince your reader to expect something different of the object of their research, this will, probably, have consequences for how they do that research. If you convince them to see the world differently, they'll probably begin to do things differently. Minimally, it suggests doing a study to find out if you're right.
A theory paper may also have "meta-theoretical" implications, or what can properly be called epistemological implications. That is, a reflection upon theory qua theory may lead us to rethink what knowledge is or at least what kind of knowledge we produce. Thus, the choice between "theoretical" and "practical" implications in an empirical paper is transformed into a choice between "epistemological" and "methodological" implications in a theory paper one. (Imagine the permutations for a methods paper!)
To sum up then: a theory paper does make a theoretical contribution but it does not, formally speaking, have theoretical implications.
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
Theoretical and Conceptual Papers
I originally proposed my forty-paragraph outline as a guide for the writing of what I call "the standard social science paper". This is the kind of paper that presents the result of an empirical study, framed by a familiar theory, guided by an accepted methodology, and with definite implications for theory or practice. I was recently asked about theoretical papers and, since I get this question often, I was sure that I could just point to a post on this blog that answered it. It wasn't quite as easy as I thought (though there is this post), and I thought the best solution would be to just write a fresh post on the subject.
What I will be offering here is not a normative guideline for what a theory paper should accomplish, of course. I'll leave that to the major theorists, especially those who serve as the editors of the journals that publish such papers. Instead, I will propose a way of organizing twenty hours work such that, at the end of it, you have produced the first draft of a 40-paragraph theory paper. This draft can then be edited into shape for publication. In outline, it will look as follows:
1. Introduction (3 paras)
2. Historical Background (5)
3. State of the Art (5)
4. Critical Occasion (5)
5. Conceptual Analysis (3 x 5)
6. Discussion (5)
7. Conclusion (2)
Remember that each paragraph should make a single, easily identifiable claim and either support it or elaborate it. It should consist of at least six sentences and at most 200 words. It should be written in exactly 27 minutes.
The introduction will consist of three paragraphs. The first paragraph should be devoted to a history of your field up to the present. The scope of this history will depend on your judgment. Whether your history starts in ancient Athens, in eighteenth-century England, or in Paris of 1968 depends on the contribution you want to make. The second paragraph should be devoted to the present state of the theory. What is the reigning consensus or standing controversy that defines your field of research. This, obviously, should be the state you want transform in some interesting way, either by settling a dispute or unsettling an agreement.
The third paragraph should announce your contribution. "In this paper, I will argue that..." Notice that "supporting or elaborating" this claim, which is about your paper not your theory, does not yet require you to argue your position. You only have to describe a paper that would make such a contribution. And that means you will essentially be outlining your paper. Now, you have already introduced the historical background in paragraph 1, which will have space to talk about in part two of the paper, so you don't have say anything more here. Also, in the second paragraph you have introduced the current state of the theory, which you will elaborate in greater detail the third part of the paper. What is left is to say something about how the theoretical problem you are interested in arose and why you are the right person to deal with it, to outline your analysis a little more, and to tell us why it is important, i.e., to summarize your discussion. That is, the conclusion ends with an outline of parts 4, 5 and 6 of the paper.
Part 4 takes the place of the methods section of a standard empirical paper. In a sense, you are still saying what you did, but it is perhaps more accurate to say that you are explaining what happened to you to force you into a theoretical reflection. It may simply be a development within your field (someone else's or your own empirical results, published elsewhere) or it may be an "event" like the publication of a correspondence or a translation of a previously untranslated work by a major theorist. World events, too, may be relevant here. After 1989 and 2001 there were all kinds of reasons to "rethink" the theories that framed work in a whole range social sciences. Since you're saying how the problem arose, you will also need to say what materials came into view: what texts have you read and how have you read them?
Part 5 will present your argument in detail. It's a good idea to divide the argument into sub-theses each of which can be demonstrated separately. Two to four sections of three to six paragraphs gives you some manageable space to work with here. Finally, part 6 will cash out your analysis in consequences, usually for theory, though sometimes for practice. (You might want to emphasize the important political consequences of your line of thinking.) An important class of "theoretical" implications here is "method". If you're right that we have to see the world in a new way (a theory is always a way of seeing the world) then perhaps we will have to do things differently too?
The conclusion should consist of two paragraphs, one of which states your conceptual argument in the strongest, simplest terms you can imagine. You may want to use the sentence that completes the key sentence of paragraph three (i.e., everything after "I will argue that") as a key sentence here. The last paragraph could suitably extend the history of the field that you presented in paragraph 1 and elaborated in part 2 by imagining a possible future.
I hope that's useful. Don't hesitate to add your own suggestions or questions in the comments.


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fifty reporters from 46 countries will get a front-row seat to history on November 6 as they cover election night from the United States for their audiences back home. They will live-blog stories from the polls in battleground states using an exciting new tool, the Global Editors Network's (GEN) Live Desk platform.
The journalists are participating in the Elections 2012 Visiting Journalists Program, a project run by the International Center for Journalists and funded by the U.S. Department of State Foreign Press Center. The reporters are positioned in critical states— Colorado, Florida, Wisconsin and others—for two weeks leading up to the election. This experience will allow them to provide their home audiences with firsthand reports on the voters, the key campaign issues and the candidates themselves. The participants have also been invited to submit stories to The Huffington Post.
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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Sony does a "Canon" (manufacturer ethics)« on: August 29, 2014, 10:30:30 AM »
i stop buying sony brand after its famous spyware/root kit in the past...
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In 2-4 years time, I expect people with Sony/Nikon cameras to be taking and editing photographs that Canon people simply can't - at least not with the same level of detail and color. I fully expect Sony/Nikon cameras to have 15, if not 16, bit ADCs in 4 years time. As for the system? They'll fill that in. The vast majority of users don't need more than a handful of lenses - thus "a system" that has macro, T/S, etc, is meaningless to the average photographer that will buy a camera plus lens kit and use that for the next n years without buying anything else. How many people is that? There's a thread on here somewhere... the number of people that buy extra lenses is less than 10%. i.e the "system" is meaningless to 90%+ of the people that buy Canon cameras.
The only part I'd be concerned with is the ability of the A7r to hold a long/heavy lens on a tripod.
er... what? The tripod holds the lens, the lens holds the camera.
post your or raw file with meta data files here so that people know what i am talking about.... "Unfortunately it gets converted to sRGB for the web" <-- if this in rgb format, it look much like CRAAAAPPPPP
I've looked at the images you've posted to CR and if you're proud of them then I'll just say that we have very different tastes in photographs or what makes a photograph good.
- neuro: have shared knowledge via discussion and have contributed times to provide good examples.
- aglet: nothing but trying to bash canon, talk crap and take crap images (A2BArt.com - moving your imagination )
- dilber: ditto (same exact the next previous one, aglet, except link to website)...
note: beside canon, i also like nikon, fuji, pentax... but NOT sony and hp
Let me put it another way:
neuro: bashes every camera/lens manufacturer except Canon, regardless of how good/bad the product is.
dilbert: bashes any company that dilbert sees as having a weak product
[and i am, here in this topic, to let you have a chance to prove that your images are better than my images. and i will prove you wrong...
Are you referring to the images that show up in your posts already on CR?
I propose a poll to see who among the CR members neuroanatomist, dilbert, or Aglet has provided the most helpful/useful/beneficial information to the other members of the forum. The one with the most votes earns a pat on the back, the other two are permanently banned from CR forums. I'll abide by the results if you two agree to do so as well. What do you say, gentlemen...are you ready to put your reputations on the line?
It would seem that you post here for a completely different reason than I do, namely your ego needs stroking.
I post here mainly because I enjoy helping people, sharing knowledge (I enjoyed teaching medical and graduate students, and I rather miss teaching), and good technical discussions in which I can both contribute and learn from others.
Up until the point where you mentioned that you wanted/expected a pat on the back, I might have believed you (that your goals weren't ego driven.)
Yes, a 3 year old camera is a 3 year old camera, but as long as your camera is the still current model, your resale value will not drop as quickly as a model that has a replacement model on the market... When a new model is launch, the price of the older model will drop even if the different between the new model and the old model is just the colour of the camera... A model with a replacement model in the market will sound older than it really is.
Have a nice day.


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Last update: Friday 21 November 2014 [228 news items]
Jun 6, 11:22
Touchscreen controller IC vendor Elan Microelectronics has reported revenues of NT$728.6 million (US$24.38 million) for May, up 4.8% sequentially and 9.3% on year. For the first five...
Touchscreen notebook proportion expected to rise to 40% in 3Q13
Jun 3, 20:21
As vendors will launch more touchscreen notebooks, the proportion of notebooks sold in the Taiwan market with touchscreens is expected to rise from 10-15% in the first half of 2013...
EETI launches single-chip touchscreen ICs for notebooks, tablets and all-in-one devices
May 31, 12:24
Egalax-empia Technology (EETI) has rolled out a single-chip touchscreen IC solution which has been adopted by a number of desktop and notebook companies for their new models slated...
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Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
May 23, 12:03
Intel, MediaTek and Elan Microelectronics combined have taken up over 60% of global touchscreen controller ICs market, according to industry sources.
One quarter of all notebooks to ship with touchscreens by 2016, says IHS
May 23, 11:38
Driven by falling prices and a major initiative from Intel, shipments of touch-enabled mobile PCs are expected to enjoy rapid growth in 2013 and the coming years, rising to about...
Elan shipping touchscreen controller ICs for new Nexus 7
May 22, 21:42
Elan Microelectronics reportedly has begun shipping touchscreen controller ICs for Google's new Nexus 7 tablets, which will help ramp up the revenues of the Taiwan-based IC design...
Touch screen IC, LED driver IC suppliers to post strong performance in May
May 21, 14:44
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China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
May 17, 14:11
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Touchscreen IC suppliers to see May sales increase
May 10, 11:25
Touchscreen controller IC suppliers Elan Microelectronics and Egalax-Empia Technology (EETI) are expected to post significant growth in May sales driven by demand from the PC sector,...
Price gap between touch and non-touch notebooks may drop below US$50 in 3Q13
May 7, 11:59
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Touchscreen models to account for 50% of Acer notebook shipments in 2014
May 6, 22:38
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Acer set to launch US$399 touchscreen notebook in May
Apr 29, 21:37
Acer plans to release an 11.6-inch touchscreen notebook in mid-May, priced at only US$399 and since such a price point has already hit brand vendors' bottom line, there is unlikely...
Hybrid touch-screen notebooks account for over 20% of all notebooks in 1Q13, say Taiwan hinge makers
Apr 18, 14:24
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Intel recommends 3 touch solution providers to ultrabook ODMs
Apr 18, 12:35
Intel, in line with boosting touch screens in third-generation ultrabooks, has recommended three touchscreen solution providers, Cambrios Technologies, FlatFrog and UniPixel, to ODMs,...
Touchscreen notebooks may enjoy strong shipment growth in 2Q13
Apr 15, 23:35
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Touchscreen notebook costs may fall in 3Q13
Apr 15, 15:03
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Apr 10, 13:46
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Apr 8, 22:34
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Notebook brand vendors to secure touch panel supply with security deposits
Mar 28, 14:10
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Taiwan market: Asustek launches touchscreen Transformer AIO series
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Asustek Computer on March 7 unveiled the Transformer AIO, a tablet which can be docked into a pad to become an all-in-one (AIO) PC, for launch in the Taiwan market. The AIO pad features...
Touchscreen notebooks to enjoy at least 10% price cut after Windows 8 discount
Mar 7, 13:49
Touchscreen notebook prices are expected to drop at least 10% when the recently reported Windows 8 licensing fee discounts provided by Microsoft go into effect, while some entry-level...
Touchscreen models may account for 10% of 2Q13 notebook shipments
Mar 5, 15:40
Touchscreen notebooks are estimated to account for 5-6% of total notebook shipments in the first quarter and with the launch of new models, the percentage may reach 10% in the second...
Google announces a high resolution touchscreen Chromebook
Feb 22, 15:41
Google has announced its latest notebook product, the Chromebook Pixel, featuring a display with a density of 239ppi and touchscreen functions, and an anodized aluminum alloy chass...
Intel demands Haswell ultrabooks be equipped with touch screens, say Taiwan makers
Feb 1, 12:21
Taiwan-based supply chain makers have said they have received notification from Intel that all Haswell-platform ultrabooks should be equipped with touch panels to qualify for subsidies...
CES 2013: Lenovo unleashes new Windows 8 touch devices
Jan 8, 16:24
Lenovo has announced its new lineup of consumer and business Windows 8 touch-optimized devices at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Headlining the collection...
Touch panel supply and pricing keys to boosting Windows 8 demand
Jan 2, 16:08
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Touchscreen offers new opportunity for PC brands: An interview with Acer president
Dec 27, 15:56
The PC industry saw several major developments in 2012, such as the rise of ARM-based products that greatly weakened the influence of the Wintel platform and Microsoft's launch of...
Goodix to expand presence in China
Dec 13, 21:47
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Acer originally believed that tablets would soon lose their attractiveness to consumers helping notebooks to regain their influence; however as market watchers and IT players mostly...
Touchscreen notebooks helping to maintain notebook ASPs during the year-end holidays, says Acer
Dec 12, 22:02
Due to demand for touchscreen notebooks, Acer has seen ASPs during the year-end holidays, rise from US$433 originally to US$477, according to company chairman JT Wang.
Notebook vendors gearing up for touchscreen devices
Nov 29, 22:14
Acer, Asustek Computer and Lenovo are gearing up to promote their new touchscreen-based notebooks in 2013. Touchscreen devices are expected to account for 10-15% of overall notebooks...
Black Friday to be crucial market test for convertible notebooks, say Taiwan makers
Nov 21, 15:28
The Black Friday peak sales period starting from November 23 in the US is seen as a crucial market test for convertible notebooks which combine features of ultrabooks and tablets,...
Notebook ODMs offer extra services to attract tablet orders
Nov 19, 22:55
With notebook shipments estimated to only have a single-digit percentage growth on year in 2013, notebook ODMs including Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Wistron, are aggressively...
Taiwan market: ViewSonic unveils 22-inch touch-control monitor
Nov 16, 12:16
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Sinbon Electronics capitalizes on IoT
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17 October, 2014
GPUG 2014 Wrap-up
Alex Rode
As the 2014 GPUG Summit draws to a close this afternoon in the wonderful city of St. Louis, the entire Panatrack team would like to take a moment and thank all the attendees and sponsors for their contributions that make this a premier Dynamics gathering. We are sure everyone has had their fill of knowledge, tips & tricks, and good times during this exciting week. We know our team had a wonderful experience connecting with customers and partners from all over, providing them with as much information as possible about the inventory capabilities present within Dynamics GP.
If you happen to be interested in a personalized web demo or would like to continue exploring how PanatrackerGP can significantly (and easily!) extend to the power of Inventory Management within Dynamics GP, please contact our team at email@example.com or by phone at 262-361-4950.
Thank you to all who were part of making these 5 days a rousing success. We look forward to seeing you all at the next Dynamics event!
13 October, 2014
Visit us at GPUG 2014 in St. Louis
Alex Rode
Panatrack is proud to be a sponsor and exhibitor at this year's GPUG Summit in St. Louis. Over the next 5 days GP users from all over are coming together for one of the premier networking and knowledge sharing events in the Dynamics Community. With sessions to cover any questions you may have combined with an expo featuring the most popular an effective ISVs GPUG is sure to send all attendees home with something new to share.
Stop by the Panatrack Booth #1413 to speak with our solutions team and learn more about the Inventory, Fixed Asset & Mobile Sales solutions we offer. Panatrack will be happy to answer any questions about our applications and even take the time to show off some of the recommended hardware. Keeping with the GPUG spirit we want you to leave having had the opportunity to learn more about the potential of Dynamics GP with the addition of the PanatrackerGP Solutions.
If you cannot make the GPUG Expo, please feel free to contact our solution team at 262-361-4950 or firstname.lastname@example.com
28 August, 2014
Tame Out-Of-Control Inventory With Better Tools
Michael Burnham
You may have only started out with a few key products but business has grown and so have your product lines. It's nearly impossible to track dozens or hundreds of the product variations that are passed through your warehouse every day. Add additional warehouses or regional distribution centers to that equation and you may find yourself swimming in inventory data that may be questionable, if not outright inaccurate, which can lead to an even bigger nightmare. Tame out-of-control inventory with a better business management tool.
A small volume of products may be easily managed by specialty software or simple spreadsheets; however, as business grows, these entry-level solutions may not be able to keep up. Manually counting and handling inventory can also lead to skewed data, which could cause procurement to order more inventory than is necessary or not enough. Customers that experience delays or stock-outs could become frustrated and turn to a competitor. Support your growing business with a better technology, a robust warehouse management solution such as PanatrackerGP.
PanatrackerGP brings time-saving automation and barcode technology to speed up and improve accuracy behind inventory management. You can use barcodes to track raw materials, assemblies, and finished products as they enter, move around your warehouse, and are shipped to customers. PanatrackerGP also enables tracking of items that may be shifted between bins, if using multiple bins, or between warehouses and distribution centers. You can have accurate inventory data and know where it is located in real time.
Configuration settings in PanatrackerGP Transaction Manager enable you to define your unique data capture routine. Hand-held barcode computers and the easy-to-use interface will improve productivity throughout the warehouse. You can also add features to integrate PanatrackerGP with order fulfillment, project accounting transfers, shipping and receiving, and other parts of your manufacturing or distribution operations. Use the features that make sense for your team and your business operations and tame the chaos associated with inventory management.
If your business and product lines are growing and your business solutions aren't, it may be time to implement better tools. Contact Panatrack to learn how to tame out-of-control inventory with PanatrackerGP.
25 July, 2014
Do you know what's in your warehouse?
Michael Burnham
In today's fast-paced marketplace, you need to have an accurate count and location of your inventory which is no easy task. With 24/7 customer orders, multiple warehouses, and bin changes, stock count can change in a moment which can have repercussions. As your inventory increases in volume, so can the complications. It may be time for a better inventory management system.
As your business grows and you expand product lines, it can be difficult to track inventory as it's coming and going. Manufacturing operations may increase to keep up with customer demands and before you know it, inventory is getting lost, misplaced, or miscounted. A robust enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, such as Microsoft Dynamics® GP, offers robust warehouse and inventory management features. However, you can give your warehouse technology and your team a bigger boost with PanatrackerGP.
Replace inaccurate, paper-based inventory tracking with a more modern technology to improve warehouse productivity and the accuracy of inventory movements. Your team will appreciate the added mobility and ease of using handheld computers and barcodes to track inventory and warehouse managers will appreciate the real-time data. Your warehouse team can track inventory at the point and time it's received, handled, and shipped with PanatrackerGP software. Track adds, moves, and counts including bin and site transfers. You can also integrate order fulfillment, product assembly, and shipping and receiving operations.
PanatrackerGP is also fully integrated with Microsoft Dynamics GP. Your sales team can check on real-time stock availability for customers, for example, and procurement can make strategic inventory decisions that can save money and improve profit margins. Adding automation to warehouse activities with a solution like PanatrackerGP can provide the control and insight you need to improve both warehouse operations and inventory management.
Today's manufacturing and distribution marketplace is fast moving and highly competitive. Greater inventory control is essential for maintaining superior customer service and protecting your bottom line. Contact Panatrack Inventory & Asset Tracking for more information about using PanatrackerGP to keep track of your inventory with greater efficiency and accuracy.
27 June, 2014
Connect Field Service Teams with the Office
Michael Burnham
Your sales representatives may do some of their best work in the field, at customer offices, or at work sites. Fruitful outside sales, combined with busy in-house sales activities, can wreak havoc on inventory control. Connect your teams, wherever they are located, with your inventory and with a business management solution that can improve productivity and sales insights, as well as inventory control.
It can be challenging to track fast moving inventory in the warehouse and even harder to track inventory when it's on the move with sales and field service teams. Sales representatives may be participating in conferences or trade shows and field teams may be working on customer projects. Each group may have a selection of inventory items that could be used or sold on the spot. The more inventory you have in the field, the harder it can be to track with the inventory in the warehouse. Over time, lack of insight and control over inventory that's on the move can lead to poor procurement decisions, stock-outs, and unsatisfied customers.
Introducing a mobile solution will make it easier to maintain real-time inventory numbers, no matter where your inventory is located. The PanatrackerGP Field Sales and Inventory solution can be added to your enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, such as Microsoft Dynamics® GP. Your field teams can record inventory used or sold at job sites, conferences or tradeshows, or at customer offices – wherever there is a network connection. The updated inventory figures can then be synchronized with those at the warehouse so that you always have real-time inventory data.
In addition to keeping accurate inventory counts, your sales and field teams can use PanatrackerGP Field Sales & Inventory to accept cash or check payments for transactions made in the field. They can also manage deliveries, including delivery confirmations with signature capture, from this same mobile solution. Payments can be automatically deposited in Microsoft Dynamics GP so you can also have real-time sales figures.
Instead of processing paperwork at the end of each day, your field teams can use PanatrackerGP Field Sales and Inventory software to process inventory and accept payments as they happen. Contact us for more information about using a mobile solution to stay connected with your sales and field teams and have greater inventory control.
18 June, 2014
Webinar for Barcode Inventory Management with Vicinity Manufacturing
Michael Burnham
We recently presented a webinar with our friends at Vicinity Manufacturing that demonstrates how easy it is to add barcode inventory management to Dynamics GP and Vicinity Manufacturing software. Below is the recorded version of the webinar.
This informational webinar demonstrates how barcode scanning simplifies inventory management. You will be introduced to the benefits of barcode technology — the key tool to efficient inventory tracking. We walk you through the life of inventory tracking from receiving, stocking, usage, and order fulfillment using PanatrackerGP and directly updating Dynamics GP and Vicinity Manufacturing.
Gaining confidence in your inventory is easier than you may think. Provide your workforce with an easy-to-use tool to record inventory transactions as they occur. We hope you enjoy the webinar.
14 May, 2014
Interview at the Convergence Panatrack booth
Alex Rode
Our friends at Admirial Consulting Group just published this interview with our president at Convergence. In the video, Mike briefly explains our Dynamics GP solutions and the benefits. Check it out.
25 March, 2014
Is it barcode or bar-code?
Michael Burnham
It amuses me that Panatrack has been in the business of developing barcode-enabled solutions for many years, yet still often debate internally over how to spell "bar-code". In a recent update to our PanatrackerGP WMS Inventory whitepaper, we even found a few inconsistencies in the same document.
Thinking as a software guy for a moment: let's temporarily go with barXcode, and postulate that "X" can be null. Plus, it is fun to say barXcode, as it makes me think of labeling yappy little dogs.
Aren't we all trained as schoolchildren to "look it up"? Well, the Oxford dictionary definition of barcode states that it is one word. Solved. It's Craft Brew time.
Hmmm…except the Merriam-Webster dictionary claims it is "bar code". Well, that "authoritative dictionary plan" unravels faster than a cheap sweater.
Surely, the authoritative GS1 Organization, known as the "world's official provider of bar code numbers for retail", can help us. Looking on their Need A Barcode page, I notice their inconsistent usage of "bar code", "barcode", and "BarCodes". Seriously? That last one is just cheating.
I make the following case for a single word spelling:
- As a verb, as in "let's barcode that Chihuahua", it is much less confusing than "to bar <slight pause> code something".
- As a noun, as in "slap a barcode on that Chihuahua", it is also less confusing without the space.
- As an adjective, as in "that zebra looks kinda barcodey", it just plain works.
People drive "pickup trucks", they don't drive "pick up trucks". It's a weak argument, but it seems to support my case.
The reality is that as long as people might do a web search for barcode or bar code, it's best if we go either way. If you landed on this page because you were also confused, then it worked. Welcome to Panatrack. We create solutions to track inventory and assets using technologies such as barcoding. Or is that bar coding?
10 March, 2014
Another great Convergence show in Atlanta
Michael Burnham
We'd like to thank everyone that stopped to visit with us during the Microsoft Dynamics Convergence expo in Atlanta last week. It's always great to visit with our partners and customers, as well as meet some new friends.
This year's event was held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. For those of us that attend the show regularly, we have been to this hall a few times before. Atlanta is a great venue for the event and the get-togethers in the evening hours. There were great keynotes and seminars, and the expo hall was as amazing as it always is.
We were delighted to receive so many positive comments on our new booth design. To quote the "A-Team" television series, I love it when a plan comes together.
See everyone in Chicago next year!
2 February, 2014
Panatrack participates in ISV Summit
Michael Burnham
Panatrack was delighted to participate in the annual Independent Software Vendors (ISV) Leadership Summit was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico January 26th-28th. As you likely know, an independent software vendor is a company specializing in developing software that is designed for a specific horizontal or vertical market. Microsoft Dynamics has a comprehensive ISV program and includes software for manufacturing, human resources, payroll, barcode scanning, fixed asset tracking, business intelligence and more.
The ISV Leadership Summit is a round-table gathering of leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) in the Microsoft Dynamics Channel. Its attendees share their business strategies ranging from leadership, sales, marketing, and business development. The goal: learn from each other and enrich each participating business.
The event was founded by Mark Rockwell of Rockton Software, who crafts solutions to make Microsoft Dynamics GP work simpler and easier. Mark explains the genesis of the ISV Leadership Summit by saying, "I wanted to get like-minded business owners together to discuss the hard realities of running businesses. Talking together, we've inspired one another to do things differently and shared ideas that have helped each other work differently and better. Ideas we've shared have even launched whole lines of business for some of us. Because we all do the same thing, we get to share how to make processes more efficient, commiserate about the challenges of business management, swap great vendor recommendations, and being a part of the Microsoft channel."
The event involves networking between partners, sharing and creating new ideas through discussions facilitated by the summit. New this year, attendees were invited to participate in the Microsoft ISV Showcase, at Microsoft Headquarters in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The ISV Showcase gave each member of the ISV Summit the opportunity to give a brief presentation of their products and services with businesses and Microsoft partners in Puerto Rico and neighboring islands.
This year, partners participating in the event included Rockton Software, Solver, Inc., Panatrack, Horizon's International, Olympic Systems, Integrity Data, Vicinity Manufacturing, Njevity, and GPC Systems. We gained a lot of value spending time with these other companies. We also got to spend a week where the temperature was almost 100 degrees higher than it was at home in Wisconsin. That's a win.