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Kaba Group and ICEPAT AG today signed a worldwide licensing agreement that allows Kaba Group to develop, produce and operate access solutions for mobile phones in the hotel and temporary accommodation sector, as well as giving it the right to pass on these solutions to customers.
Kaba has installed a mobile access system at The Cromwell in Las Vegas. Cloud-based Kaba keys operate in all hotel rooms, allowing guests to open their room doors with their own mobile phone or device as an alternative to a classic RFID card. The use of Bluetooth Low Energy means that Apple iOS smartphones are supported.
A proposed settlement has been reached between the representatives of the plaintiffs and Kaba with regards to the 2010 class action litigation in the USA. The court has granted the preliminary motion and a final hearing is scheduled before the end of FY 2014/2015.
At today's Capital Market Day, Kaba Group will be providing in-depth information about its investments in innovation and markets. The event will focus on market developments and product innovation in the Access + Data Systems (ADS) business in general, and the ADS Americas Division in particular.
Kaba Group has acquired Advanced Diagnostics, a specialist in developing programming equipment for the automotive industry.
With the acquisition of Canadian company Keyscan Inc., a recognized specialist in networked access control solutions, Kaba strengthens its product offering in North America.
Shareholders have approved all proposals at the Annual General Meeting of Kaba Holding AG. Therewith, all statutory amendments necessary as a result of the adoption of the Minder Initiative have already been implemented this year by Kaba Holding AG.
Kaba Group has posted pleasing results for the 2013/2014 financial year. The company reached the major milestone of one billion Swiss francs of sales: consolidated sales rose 4.1% to CHF 1,003.5 million (prior year: CHF 964.3 million). In local currency, sales even went up by 5.2%. This outcome easily exceeded Kaba's target of 1.5% to 2.5% organic growth.
Kaba Group completed the acquisition of an additional 25% of shares in Dorset Kaba (India) on 31 July 2014, and now owns 74% of this joint venture. All formalities of the transaction have been settled and the Indian authorities have given the necessary approvals for the announced acquisition.
Kaba is adjusting its group structure. The existing Access + Data Systems (ADS) EMEA/AP division is being split into an ADS EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) division and an ADS AP (Asia Pacific) division. ADS EMEA will remain under the proven leadership of Roberto Gaspari. Jim-Heng Lee will take over responsibility for the new ADS AP division as COO and Member of the Executive Board.
Patrick Grawehr is resigning from his position as Chief of Staff and member of the Executive Committee of Kaba Group, with effect from 31 October 2014.
In the future Kaba customers can simply use their smartphones to obtain access to buildings. In Switzerland this application has been brought to smartphones by the Wallet-App Tapit. Tapit is supported by the three telecommunication providers Swisscom, Orange and Sunrise and have thereby achieved excellent coverage.
Kaba invites HITEC attendees to experience secure mobile credential deployment via a cloud-based mobile access system and a BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) enabled at-lock guest experience.
Kaba acquires another 25% of the shares of the Dorset Kaba joint venture and gets majority stake (from 49% to 74%). This will give the company the opportunity to establish a stronger presence in the Indian market. Kaba now has direct access to a distribution network of more than 1,800 retailers and distribution partners. Dorset Kaba employs around 1,000 people and achieves annual sales of CHF 22 million.
At the DC Tower 1, Kaba access control systems are used for the smart management of visitor flows. At 250 meters and 60 storeys high, Austria's tallest building now dominates the Vienna skyline. The tower, which was opened in February 2014, has been praised for its cleverly designed infrastructure, low operating costs and energy consumption, and its innovative use of building technologies.
Kaba reported growth of 3.3% for the first half of the 2013/2014 financial year, generating sales of CHF 480.9 million. In local currency, the Group grew by 4.3%. The company achieved EBITDA of CHF 74.7 million, giving an EBITDA margin of 15.5%. Net profit came to CHF 40.1 million.
The Board of Directors of Kaba Holding AG has decided to change to Swiss GAAP FER for the preparation of the company's consolidated accounts as from the new financial year (starting 1 July 2014). Kaba's registered shares remain listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and are still included in the Swiss Performance Index (SPI).
By acquiring Task Sistemas de Computação S/A, based in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Kaba Group is expanding its activities in the promising Brazilian market. The company, which has its own assembly operation, supplies private and business customers through three offices and more than ten distribution partners.
The terminal B-web 96 00 impressed the jury of the 2014 iF product design award with to its conservative form and clear lines. The awards ceremony, the 2014 iF design awards night, will be held on February 28, 2014 in Munich as part of "Munich Creative Business Week".
Judging by the great interest shown by around 140 participants at Kaba's special event on "Food Defence", the company has hit a nerve with its focus on improving security in the food industry. The event was also transmitted live over the internet by LIVE Webcast.


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Greetings Everyone: I've often wondered about the advanced Aviation Technology. I'm aware that alot of it is from the Ufo that crashed in Roswell in the 40's. Especially the SR-71. In some of the Star Wars movies they used that as a model! How cool! I think Star Trek and all the Star Trek tv episodes espeically "Enterprise and Star Trek The Next Generation" have alot of truth and are right on the money. My Grandpa was a Pilot and used to be in the Military before he passed a number of years ago. I recall my Mom saying my Grandma was not able to talk about where and what my Grandpa (Harry Perl)did.
I'm sure he did alot of top secret stuff. Not to say awhole lot but it's just intriguing. I wonder if he has seen stuff. I got to fly alot with my Family when we went on trips. We went to Houston,TX to see the Space facility, way awesome! I feel alot of Aviation Technology is connected to the Ufo and advanced technology that our Government has developed. My Grandpa developed a glider which is a motorless airplane called "The Penetrator" it's in a museum in New York.
I learned to fly in a two place K-13 and a Cessna 206. I LOVE to fly! My Uncle had his log book signed by Orville Wright. My Family and I went to San Diego where they lived and I got a winch tow at Torrie Pines when they turned that landing strip into a Historical Monument that day. Talk about adreniline having a wich tow in a glider over a cliff near the ocean was fantastic what a blast! This is a photo of a glider, they are so cool! Not sure who the Pilot is, but both my parents are Pilot's as well. I'm hopeing to get mine soon! Really expensive trying to save up. Will be worth it though!
Here's an article my Mom wrote, enjoy!
History of the Northern California Soaring Association
By Toodie Perl-Marshall
The spring of 1947, saw a group of soaring enthusiasts gather at the beautiful grass strip known as Warm Springs Airport, to decide on how to form a glider club. Fellows from Ames Research and Lockheed who loved to fly, felt by pooling their money to purchase a glider, they could start a club. The Ames group formed first, then as more people started coming out, decided another overall club would work well. Since only a hand full of pilots were flying in all of Northern California, logically, they felt that they represented Northern California, thus the name Northern California Soaring Association was chosen.
Warm Springs Airport was located at the southern end of Mission Ridge, easy towing and landing when soaring on the long ridge. While at Warm Springs, the club held two soaring contests. Some of the gliders attending the first one were; two slick LK's (Lister-Kaufmann), a swell Pratt Reid (side by side), the Ames club TG-3, Les Arnold's TG-3 Redwing, and Ted Nelson's Hummingbird.
Ralph & Betty Salisbury, the operators of the field, lived above the large hanger, were very friendly folks who loved the glider activity. However, Ralph always wanted to fly for an airline, he went to work flying for United Airlines. Derrill "Gabby" Hansen who worked over at Ames Research became the airport manager while Ralph was away.
1948 Ted Nelson bought the Bowlus Aircraft Company, moved everything to San Leandro, where Ted lived, including Harry Perl and family. Harry had worked for Hawley at the time. Ted changed the name to Nelson Aircraft Company. He and Harry set about designing a two-place tandem motor glider with retractable engine and steerable nose wheel. The first Hummingbird flew from the Hayward Airport, then over to Warm Springs Airport. Ted loved flying in waves and flew a lot in the early side by side Hummingbird. Both Ted and Harry joined the NCSA. Stan and Dorothy Hall also moved to the Bay Area from Southern California, about the same time joining the NCSA too. Stan wrote many technical articles on soaring for Soaring magazine. He eventually designed the popular glider home-built kit, called the Cherokee. Les Arnold was already active in soaring, flying as a teenager out in the Altamont hills east of Livermore, so driving to Warm Springs from Hayward, where he lived, was fast. Les became one of the most active members for a long time to come.
The group grew, having a great time learning the soaring conditions of the Bay Area. However, into the second year at Warm Springs Airport, the owner of the field would not renew the lease, the group was forced to move. They found an airfield north of Warm Springs called Centerfield in Centerville, now Fremont. The airport was farther west and north of Mission ridge, there was some doubt about returning to the airport after soaring at the ridge. But, it turned out that the distance was not a problem. Centerfield or as everyone called it, Centerville, was on the corner of Blacow and Mowry Rd. near where the Oakland Center is now located. This was 1952. This same year Dick Johnson and his new bride, Alice, moved to Northern California joining the NCSA flying his RJ-5. The NCSA purchased a Myers Biplane as their tow plane, it climbed 1,000 feet per min using a metal Maculley prop. (I remember, as a kid, getting rides and hearing the wires sing!) During one particular tow by tow pilot Jim Hutton, he just passed the fence at the end of the field at about 100', when the prop decided to part company with the Myers landing Jim in the next field, and the prop nearby. Jim was pretty excited about towing that day! At this time TG-3's were being sold by the Government for $2,500 each. The Ames club had one and so did Les Arnold, his was called "Redwing." Many pilots, including me, got their glider rating in ole "Redwing," as Les fondly called her.
At that time the gliders could not go any higher than 4000', the CAA after some persuasion (now FAA) gave a waiver that allowed gliders to fly higher – no more ADIZ Zone restrictions. (started along time ago!) Fellows holding a Commercial license were; Harry Perl, Fred Matteson, Earl Menefee, Art Hunter, Phil Howland, Ralph Salisbury, Derrill (Gabby) Hansen, and Jack Stephenson. They were available to give instruction.
In 1950, the annual meeting was held for the NCSA at Onstads Smorgasbord Restaurant in San Leandro. Dinner price was $2.00 which included tax and tip! Bob Symons (Bishop wave fame) was the featured speaker. Ted Nelson set a new altitude record on October 29th in a south wind wave, 12,550 feet. Two other fellows, one flying a Dragonfly and one a Baker McMillan Cadet quickly joined the fun attaining an altitude of 10,000 feet and 9,600 feet respectively. The Cadet was without a vario! Membership costs were; $2.00 Assoc., $3.00 Active, and $5.00 family.
The early '50's saw many pilots from the Bay Area, traveling to El Mirage and Torrey Pines soaring sites, for soaring contests. This was an exciting time in soaring - new ships - new pilots - new soaring conditions to explore. Ted and Harry with the Hummingbird, made a survey of soaring conditions in Reno, Nevada area in 1951-1952. They reported - terrific thermals! But very dangerous country for sailplanes to the north and east. Reno Airport and the Minden Airport were willing to have sailplanes fly there. Many auto tows were done at the Minden airport - teaching all of us youngsters to fly! Only one big wooden hanger graced the many runways available to us, no other traffic! Only sage brush, jack rabbits, dust, and heat! A BT-13 was one of the tow planes, very slow, and we were low for a long time, but once into a thermal, the rising air would lift the TG-3 up, up, until the beauty of Lake Tahoe would come into view. Worth the tow! We all had a blast, Bill Bullis, Bob Gomes, Gabby Hansen, Earl Menefee, Jean Arnold, Les Arnold and many other NCSA members. A summer of learning to fly! Frequent trips to Bowers Mansion for a swim with dinner at one of the few casinos, or the JT Bar in Gardnerville. This was the beginning of many soaring flights made from that wonderful location.
In April of 1951, Emil Kissel got to 6,500 feet at sunset, in a TG-3 trying to set an endurance record, thinking the wind would blow all night! However, the wind quit during darkness and Emil was forced to land, but where? He could not tell where the airport was as there were very few lights to guide him back, but being resourceful, Emil made it!
March of 1952, Gabby Hansen and Ralph Salisbury made a trip to Sacramento at the request of John Flynn and Vic Swierkowski, they were thinking of starting a soaring club. The NCSA gave them the necessary help to start their Sacramento Soaring club. They chose to fly from the Lincoln Airport, which was like Minden with many runways, they flew there for a long time. Vic later went on to run the commercial glider operation, during the summers, at the Truckee Airport.
The third annual NCSA contest was held at Oakdale Airport June 13-14th, in 1952. By then the Sacramento group had purchased a damaged TG-3, it took a year of rebuilding to get it into the air, they were happy to be able to fly in the contest. A Baby Bowlus owned by Glen Rogers came, and Vic Swierkowski brought his LK. TG-3's, Pratt-Reid's and Lks were the ships of the day at these contests. The Sacramento group began holding contests at the Lincoln airport in later years. There was a lot of enthusiasm in those days. Then the Napa Club formed June 4,1954. Falk Falkenberg got things rolling through the help of the Sacramento club and NCSA. They had eight members which made purchasing a ship rather difficult from a financial point of view. However, the group finally purchased a TG-3, but not without more than five months of looking at ships that were not suitable, causing a lot of disappointment and frustration. Bob Penn became their technical advisor, and helped them with plans to operate a winch. They got a souped-up '48 Plymouth engine which developed 95 horsepower. The cable was 4000' enabling them to reach the Napa hills, for many hours of soaring fun. Their membership included; Falk Falkenberg, Dick Hill, Enno Penchnik, Harold Quill, John Robinson, William Romans, Ed Sherry, and Bob Penn.
In 1954, the NCSA Board consisted of Dick Bray, President, Fred Jukich, vice-president, Sect. Tres. was Walt Bybee, with Asst. Tres. John Sawyer (Sawyer Award named after him) and Board; Les Arnold, Earl Menefee, George Congdon, Ted Nelson and Gabby Hansen. Bill Bullis had joined the club as an Ames club member along with Bob Gomes. Harry Perl had designed the Perl Penetrator, a high performance single place ship for the time period, it won the design award at the Nationals in 1954 at Lake Elsinore, CA.
In 1956, the NCSA & Ames soaring club was invited to move to Hummingbird Haven, home of Alice-Ted & Jerry Nelson. Ted had acquired 80 acres at the corner of Greenville Rd. and Patterson Pass Rd. in Livermore. The clubs knew they would be forced to move once again due to development, and they were right. Ted and Alice Nelson's generous offer was excitedly accepted, and we all moved out to the Livermore Valley. Stan Hall built us a wonderful tetrahedron that stood for the 34 years we operated there. "One Never Landed Against the Tetrahedron!" Harry by that time, had become the airport manager for Ted, over seeing the whole operation until Ted and Alice moved to Reno, most members never knew how stressful that position was for Harry. The beginning of 1959, the first "John B Sawyer Memorial Participation Award" was given out. Dr. Sawyer was killed in his Mitchell Nimbus at the Nationals held at Bishop, CA the year before. Doc Sawyer as we all called him, contributed greatly to the NCSA over the years, he flew with the group during the Centerville days. In the Spring of '59, Les Arnold moved back to Centerville, starting his own operation called "SkySailing" which was very successful. He later moved to the Fremont airport, next to the Fremont Drag strip off the Nimitz Freeway. But, before he left, Les gave many a fledgling pilot his glider rating including my brother, Larry Perl. Jerry Nelson flying his Dad's Hummingbird with Dad (Jerry in the backseat, because all the engine controls were in the front) learning to take off and land, later switching to a real glider for his rating. In the ensuing years he and Larry, as teenagers, would fly the Hummingbird in many waves over Livermore and Mt. Diablo. Jerry later earned his power license with an IFR rating, and graduated from San Jose State with an Engineering Degree. He now owns the Nelson Aircraft Co. in Hillsborough, Oregon designing and building model airplanes. Jerry was the International model airplane Champion in the 1970's.
Many flights in the super wave over Mt. Diablo were made during those years by everyone who flew at Hummingbird Have. Ted was the one who attained the highest recognized flight of over 22,000', and, Ted was one of the first glider pilots to have a transponder in his Hummingbird. Summer wave conditions existed over the Del Valle Reservoir south of the field in the summers. We could tell when this wave condition would start, by looking over to San Francisco, seeing the fog push in from the coast and roll over the Golden Gate Bridge. Roy Moeller flying his Cirrus, was able to climb to over 15,000' in this wave on more than one occasion. I was in this wave condition at 8,000' when a lenticular formed underneath my AS-K 13, very spectacular soaring! Livermore had great thermals, wave, ridge and cu's, when a front passed by. We really had it all!
The 1970's saw the formation of PASCO, far thinking pilots realized that someday we would lose the soaring sites that doted the Bay Area, they all searched for a remote location that would provide a soaring site for a long time. Thus, Air Sailing was founded in the Palomino Valley west of Pyramid Lake, Nevada.
Flying at Hummingbird Haven, Dorothy and George Asdel had purchased a new Standard Cirrus, Dorothy become the first woman pilot to fly Diamond distance from Hummingbird Haven. Many Silver, Gold and Diamond distance flights were flown from our soaring site. The annual membership meetings were still held every year. Tom Jona won the most phone calls in one year to the club house to see how the conditions were. It WAS Always a Good Day at Hummingbird!
Hummingbird Haven was a wonderful location for the NCSA and Ames Club, we had a club house, pool and picnic area for the families. We held pot luck dinners every Saturday night. Lots of hanger flying after soaring, sitting on the bench's next to the hanger. Mac Snyder was able to stay up on practically nothing, his flights were amazing, as well as Tom Jona's. We purchased a new Super Cub - 9er9erZulu, what a wonderful ship that was, but as with most tow planes, better performance was needed, so we purchased a Bellanca Scout which is still in use today.
Most of the early driving members, Earl Menefee, Gabby Hansen, Les Arnold, Harry Perl, Fred Matteson, Jack Stephenson, and Dick Bray, started a most exciting club that is still active today. I was the first female President 1976, & 1984-5 and tow pilot. When Harry passed away in 1984, Bob Marshall became the Chief Tow pilot/Instructor, replacing Harry. Ted and Alice had sold the field moving to Reno, NV. Alice's health declined and passed on, with Ted following a couple of years later. We all knew that soon Hummingbird Haven would be no more. In 1989, we all gathered to tear down both hangers, moving them to the Byron Airport north of Livermore. The hangers were never rebuilt, but sold to the soaring group at Hollister. The adjustment was difficult as we had flown at a private field, and, now we had to share! The newsletter "Hot Air" gave way to "The Buzzard," which is still published. Contra Costa County took over the Byron Airport and built a new "Airport." The new Byron Airport is like any other, the soaring conditions are okay, the club is alive and well, and finally the NCSA absorbed the Ames Soaring Club.
Members still flying, or members of the NCSA, or past members from Hummingbird days are; Earl Menefee, Bill Bullis, Mary & Mac Snyder, Elena Klein, Marge Hayes, Charlie Hayes (commercial operator at AirSailing), Ed & Peni Thunin, Roy Moeller, Leslie & Mark Summers, Mike and Bill Green, Tom and Ann Jona, Bob McKay (President of Air Sailing), Mike Oshel, Dave Pelton, Dorothy Asdel, Marty Michaels, Mike Schnieder, Bruce & Polly Patton, Peter Kelemen, Ulf & Bea Gustafsson, Jerry & Jean Hartshorn, John Apps, Peter Deane, Brooke Sargent, Hal Ross, John Seronello, Ray & Bonnie Smith, Greg Triplett, Mort & Jinx Tyler, Rich Parker, Ben & Gay Badenoch,Tamas Csoboth, Joe Huelle, Dick Larder, Jere,David,Sabine Prather, Howard Harvey, Jim & Eleanor Wasley, Tom Cooper, Curt Laumann, Dick Cook, Dick Horn, Marty Michaels, Rolf Peterson, Kempton Izuno, Steve McRoberts, Dean Watts, Wayne Harshbarger, and Bill Reuland. Les and Claire Sebald went on to form Soar Truckee, we lost Les a few years ago, Claire is still her vivacious self. Toodie & Bob Marshall live & fly in Truckee. Bob is a District Director for the Truckee Tahoe Airport. If I have missed anyone, I apologize, many moons and much water!
Time moves on changing faces, soaring sites, and ships, what doesn't change, is the love of soaring that is passed on to the new pilots from the first pilots, who loved to fly. The soaring conditions are still the same–the same excitement of catching a thermal or wave – the same excitement soaring the skies that the early pilots were just beginning to understand!
These two poems were published in "Hot Air", taken from a flying magazine in the 1950's. The Author's are unknown. This is a challenging, solitary sport, returning a most special gift to those who dare to challenge the skies!
"The genius of man having conquered gravity and contrary winds and having touched the bird and found its secrets, soars from the earth a conqueror." Author unknown
"I don't know of anything more exhilarating than flying. It's something you give yourself–a gift of confidence and reassurance in your own abilities." author unknown
Cheers, Amanda Ashtar

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The Israeli Museum at the Yitzhak Rabin Center is the first and only museum in Israel to explore the development of the State of Israel as a young democracy.
Built in a downward spiral, the Museum presents two parallel stories: the history of the State and Israeli society, and the biography of Yitzhak Rabin. The Museum exhibits focus on historical turning points in the country's development, presenting the conflicts, social challenges and dilemmas the country faced at that time. Along the inner corridor and interwoven with the exhibits' narratives is the story of the life of Yitzhak Rabin, the connecting thread in the country's history.
The Museum's content was determined by an academic team headed by Israeli historian, Professor Anita Shapira. The Museum was designed by Uri Abrahamson and Mabatim Ltd. and included experts who facilitated the design of the Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C., the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Human Rights Museum in Birmingham, Alabama and the David Tower Museum in Jerusalem.
The Museum is incredibly rich with over 180 documentary films, 1,500 still photographs and hundreds of memorabilia. We recommend allocating an hour-and-a half to two hours for a visit.
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Apple unveils iPod nano (updated)
At its special event in San Francisco today, Apple introduced the iPod nano, a completely new iPod that's thinner than a standard #2 pencil and weighs only 1.5 ounces. The iPod mini replacement is available in 2GB ($199) and 4GB ($249) capacities in either white or black designs. The ultra-compact device features a high-resolution color screen, Click Wheel, and offers up to 14 hours of battery life.
"iPod nano is the biggest revolution since the original iPod," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. "iPod nano is a full-featured iPod in an impossibly small size, and it's going to change the rules for the entire portable music market."
The iPod nano has a standard 30-pin Dock Connector (allowing it to work with many current accessories), is compaible with both Mac and Windows via USB 2.0, and offers the ability to display photos and album art. Because it uses flash memory instead of a tiny hard drive for music storage, it provides completely skip-free playback. The updated iPod software also adds a new stopwatch, world clock and screen lock applications.
The iPod nano is available worldwide immediately through the online Apple Store. Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers will begin receiving shipments on or before this weekend..
iPod nano Accessories
Alongside the new iPod nano, Apple announced several new accessories for the device, which the company calls the "most fashionable and wearable iPod ever." The new gear includes lanyard headphones ($39), which integrate the headphone cables into the lanyard; armbands in five colors, including gray, pink, blue, red and green ($29 each); a set of silicone "Tubes" in five colors, including pink, purple, blue, green and clear ($29); and dock ($29).
iLounge editors Jeremy Horwitz and Dennis Lloyd have had the opportunity to test the iPod nano and check out all of its upcoming accessories. On the accessories front, most interesting is the fact that the new iPod nano Dock is the first such Apple device to include a "variable line-out" port, which attenuates the standard line-out signal downwards from the iPod's Click Wheel. The company's silicone "nano Tubes" provide complete protection for the entire iPod nano save its bottom ports, including thin coverage for the Click Wheel and top Hold switch. The lanyard headphones plug simultaneously into the iPod's bottom headphone port and Dock Connector, using the Connector solely as a securing mechanism and the headphone port as a means to direct headphone audio. Armbands in all of the various colors are similar in perforated arm design to Incase's recently reviewed iPod and iPod mini neoprene armbands, except open on their tops.
We've also learned that the iPod nano will be the company's first to include the "Universal Dock Adapter," a plastic plate which guarantees iPod nano docking compatibility with any accessory designed to include it. Nearly 20 companies are already planning products around the UDA design, which is similar to the plastic plates included with speaker accessories from Altec Lansing, Bose, iHome and JBL, and will eliminate the need for participating companies to design iPod-specific plates in the future. The UDA will come in the nano box alongside a USB-to-Dock Connector cable, headphones, the nano hardware, and iTunes 5 software.
We tested the iPod nano briefly with both stock and high-end Ultimate Ears UE-10 Pro earphones, and found the audio quality of the newest iPod to be similar to existing iPods. Bass performance does not appear to have been markedly improved in the nano, and other audio and feature functionality often requested by iLounge readers (enhanced equalizers, FM tuner, etcetera) has not been included. However, the nano's new stopwatch and lap timer works well, and features a nice metallic interface similar to the one in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. The new security screen lock and world clock work well and are also easy to set.
The iPod nano will be able to display photos and transfer them from iTunes. According to Apple representatives, it will not be compatible with Apple's or other photo connectors for straight-to-nano digital picture transfers, and will not be compatible with voice recorder devices, either. Like the iPod mini, nano is solely intended to be a device for media playback and storage, not creation.
Screen quality on the iPod nano is precisely what you'd expect from Apple: highly visible, with bright white backlighting and good resolution comparable to that used on the full-sized color iPod. Despite its small size, it displays text and photographs legibly, and with ease. It duplicates in all key ways the interface of the color iPod, and plays back all the same genres of audio - audiobooks, podcasts, music - without any problems.
Of the new products introduced today, iPod nano is unquestionably the superior, smarter offering. It takes all of the most popular features from the full-sized color iPod and makes them work in a smaller, cheaper enclosure. It's especially stunning in that it replicates the look and feel of a full-sized iPod in a matching enclosure, rather than shrinking the iPod mini's anodized aluminum body, as most expected it to do. The black version is especially slick, with its dark gray Click Wheel, but the white version offers familiar beauty in a small size. We cannot wait to provide our full review.
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As an iPhoto owner, I can tell you that protecting the screen is always a concern (not a big deal on my mini). Black or white, the nano will spend all the time in a sleeve. Think about that when choosing a color…
Posted by MacArt on September 8, 2005 at 6:44 AM (CDT)
Does anyone know if the black nano has white earphones?
Posted by Planet1960 on September 8, 2005 at 6:48 AM (CDT)
Let's expose the iPod nano for what it really is: a color-screened, flash-based iPod submini. Does Steve really expect anyone to actually buy this piece of crap? His Reality Distortion Field (RDF) just isn't strong enough to pull this one off. Even the most simpleminded of Windows enthusiasts should be able to see through this underhanded Apple ruse almost immediately. In fact, the 30 GB Dell DJ is on sale right now at dell.com for $239, less than the price of a 4 GB nano!
Posted by shixun on September 8, 2005 at 10:36 AM (CDT)
i see two reasons for naming this ipod the nano instead of going for a revised mini.
1. They wanted it to be a hot new product for the holiday. Last year the ipod mini was the toy everyone wanted, so this year they needed something new.
2. Would anyone buy a smaller thinner mini at $200 and $250 and get less memory than the last generation? If it was a new ipod mini, it would have to have 4 and 6 gb for it to sell. ipods have never lowered the capacity in new generations
Posted by mr cow on September 8, 2005 at 2:24 PM (CDT)
Does anyone (really) know if the iPod Nano can use the "Autofill" feature in iTunes, just like the Shuffle does??
I don't want to "think about" what gets loaded onto the Nano….
Posted by Jackson on September 8, 2005 at 4:07 PM (CDT)
Apple stole Creative's mp3 player name. Creative already has a player called the nano, I smell a law suite.
Posted by rb on September 9, 2005 at 12:24 AM (CDT)
I'm going to set the facts straight. The so-called iPod nano is one fourth the size of a standard iPod. nano- is a prefix denoting one billionth. This is clearly a case of false advertising and grounds for a class action lawsuit. I expect that Apple will be forced to pull the iPod nano from the market, or at least change its name to "iPod quarter." This nanofiasco is going to cost Apple gigabucks!
Posted by shixun on September 9, 2005 at 2:42 AM (CDT)
Back in Jan 2005 when Apple launched the iPod Shuffle, I bought one not only because I like all what comes out of Apple but because I found it the best and coolest MP3 player to take to the GYM, but after I used it I found out that the wires of the headphone are long which made it either get tangled with Lanyard that's holding the Shuffle or the weights am lifting or with the exercise machines at the GYM.
So I had to be extra careful when am exercising which was really annoying.
I thought what if the lanyard was the wire of the headphones? This way I would have less and shorter wires hanging from my nick.
So I photoshoped some photos to show how the headphone of the Shuffle should be and posted them on http://www.geocities.com/dandachikw/index.html
Then I posted the link on the discussions and asked how come apple did not think of this. And I started getting hundred of emails asking how can they can get the
Lanyard Headphone - the name I came up with-
To my surprise apple deleted the post and when a posted it again they canceled my user ID.
Now and after 9 month Apple decide to take my idea and bring it to life and introduce it with the Nano using the same name I came up with "Lanyard Headphones
Posted by ziza123 on September 9, 2005 at 4:13 AM (CDT)
The post that Apple deleted
Posted by ziza123 on September 9, 2005 at 4:34 AM (CDT)
nano is the smartest move ever
buy apple stock
remember how much everyone flamed mini when it came out
don't complain about price; you'll buy it anyway
inelasticity. econ theory.
Posted by samuel on September 9, 2005 at 9:12 PM (CDT)
BEFORE I said anything I went an tried the nano…you know it is just right ....it feel great in my hand the size is perfect…the wheel is actually much better ..it's just great…the color screen is nice….I was thinking the mini was cool..but nothing is has sexy as the nano..Apple may be in trouble after this ..I don't see how they can make ipod's any better…this is it…you can put more features or memory but that is it ..they can't make it any smaller they would lose the wheel.."look at the stuffle"...so this is the sweet spot…maybe it is time for apple to move on from MP3 and maybe get into something else like TV's or video..or dvd..I don't know….it's over….check the nano…you will be surprise….
Posted by kou on September 10, 2005 at 8:08 PM (CDT)
When the mini was demo'd, Jobs spent a lot of time dissing the high-end flash players.
Now, a couple of years later, Apple introduces… a high-end flash player.
Color me amused.
Posted by Demosthenes on September 11, 2005 at 10:32 AM (CDT)
The Apple Store still sells the ipod mini. In fact there were more minis out on diplay than the new nanos.
Posted by Mike on September 11, 2005 at 10:03 PM (CDT)
And look how fast the free nano offer came 'round: http://ipodnanos.freepay.com/?r=22236173 It worked for me before!
Posted by shane on September 13, 2005 at 9:02 PM (CDT)
I have a nano! Whatever you do! Do not get a white one! Black rules!
Posted by Your mom is a seal on September 20, 2005 at 10:46 PM (CDT)
iPod nanos look very cool. The only way they could possibly be cooler is with a battery that is EASILY REPLACEABLE BY THE USER.
Posted by Jack on September 21, 2005 at 4:36 AM (CDT)
dudez!!!!!!!!!,i have to say that ipod nano rocks, got the 2gig white nano for my b-day and 2 me, it is the opitomy (dont know if thats spelled right) of portable music players. its so small. u barely even feel it in your pocket. only downers are no firewire and the audio jack is on the bottom so you have to keep unplugging the earphones everytime you charge it. dont matter to me though, i still think it rocks man!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by xbox nerd on September 22, 2005 at 7:55 PM (CDT)
dudez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, like, does any 1 know when the nano tubes are coming out? i want 1 man!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by xbox nerd on September 22, 2005 at 7:57 PM (CDT)
NANO Rulz!!!!! its a beast and a half!
but i rekon white all the way. just feels more ipoddish
Posted by crazy jim on September 23, 2005 at 9:36 AM (CDT)
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Philip Roth turns eighty-one today. You must be wondering: How can you, little old you, partake of such an historic occasion? Well, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. You could masturbate into a piece of raw liver, à la Alexander Portnoy; you could masturbate on your mistress's grave, like Mickey Sabbath; or you could masturbate into your beloved's hair, as David Kepesh does.
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NASHUA — It was a roller-coaster season for the Dover High School boys basketball team. So it was only fitting it ended with a roller-coaster game.
"A lot of people wouldn't do that," Romps said about intentionally fouling in a tie game. "We felt like he was going to miss them, and we put our faith in our rebounding." Disaster then struck for the Green Wave when, following a timeout, Josh Cote was called for a double dribble with three seconds to go. South's Tim Preston was fouled on the ensuing inbounds pass, and he drained a pair of free throws to put the game on ice. "We were going for the 3," Romps said. "I thought we were starting to get a little bit gassed. We hat it set, but it dribbled off our foot, or whatever it did. Double dribbled. That's just the way it goes." Things went downhill quickly for Dover from the start as the Panthers jumped out to a 10-2 lead which stood at 15-8 at the end of the first quarter. Dunham drilled a pair of 3-pointers, his third and fourth of the night, to start the second quarter, expanding Nashua's lead to 21-8. Dunham and Preston led the Panthers with 19 points each.
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Western Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs has opened its 75th brick-and-mortar store.
The Kroger Co. is making flu shots available on a walk-in basis at all of its in-store pharmacies and The Little Clinic locations.
Next month, Sam's Club pharmacy locations plan to provide free diabetes and vision screenings for members and the public.
The Supreme Court of Canada has cleared the way for Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. to proceed with its challenge of Ontario's ban on private-label generic drugs.
Pharmacy is a vital business for Target Corp. and one that continues to grow at a healthy rate, says senior vice president of health and beauty Jose Barra.
Customer satisfaction with pharmacies is high overall, but the level of satisfaction varies noticeably by channel, according to research from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc.
A leadership realignment at Supervalu Inc. will have ramifications for the food and drug retailer's pharmacy operation.
Navarro Discount Pharmacy has expanded its menu of vaccines at all of its 31 drug stores in South Florida.
The emergence of Health Mart as a major force in community pharmacy is one of the industry's most compelling stories in recent years.
Doug Long, vice president of industry relations for IMS Health Inc., has received the Harold W. Pratt Award, the highest honor bestowed by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.
The National Community Pharmacists Association is calling on lawmakers in Pennsylvania to pass legislation to establish fair standards for pharmacy audits by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
Donors to the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation recognized leaders in community pharmacy with contributions at the 2012 NACDS Pharmacy and Technology Conference.
Supervalu Inc. is now administering flu immunizations at its nearly 800 supermarket pharmacy locations.
Walgreen Co. has launched an application built into the social media website Facebook that enables users to print their photos, including "likes" and comments, at any Walgreens drug store nationwide.
Few other pharmacies fill as clear a niche as those operated by Costco Wholesale Corp. "I think the single thing that most sets us apart is low price," senior vice president of pharmacy Victor Curtis says.
A federal judge has dismissed most of the claims made by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, the National Community Pharmacists Association and nine independent pharmacies in their antitrust lawsuit against the merger of Express Scripts Inc. and Medco Health Solutions Inc.
Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. has begun providing flu vaccinations at all of its in-store pharmacies.
Duane Reade has proven equal to the challenge of creating a worthy successor to its flagship store at 40 Wall Street in Manhattan, which after its debut in July 2011, quickly became a model of what the 21st-century drug store can be.
Chain drug pharmacies are not just reacting to change in the health care system. They're driving it.
At the NACDS Annual Meeting this past spring, I talked a lot about the "wellness kick" that is sweeping the nation. Consumers are looking for ways to improve their total health — physically and emotionally. Community pharmacy is uniquely positioned to help patients achieve total health, and now we have an even greater opportunity to take it to the next level.
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The racing really started with just 4 miles covered when Lorraine Manning - Ulster IRC, attacked and this drew Gill, Louise Moriarty - Dublin Skip, and Colette Swift - Surrey League but it was the fist climb of Harbourstown that set the seal. It was here that Gill forced the gap over her fellow breakaways and went clear.
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In this short videoclip former President of Mozambique Joachim Chissano elaborates on the concept of democracy. What is democracy according to him and how can it work?
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The hamlet of Groppo is just a scatter of houses high up on the hill behind Manarola, but it's here, in two rooms of a converted private house, that you'll find the best restaurant in the Cinque Terre. Chef Maurizio Bordoni is passionate about the local peasant cuisine, which has always been equally balanced between land and sea. This is reflected in the binary menu, which offers two routes through the meal: The menu di terra might kick off with a humble but delicious focaccina, sprinkled with grains of sea salt and filled with local testa in cassetta salame and red pepper purée, and continue with stuffed leg of rabbit in pine-nut and lemon sauce. The menu di mare offers a fishy selection, which almost always features the dish that gives the restaurant its name: Cappun Magru, a rococo assemblage of pesce cappone (a type of gurnard), ship's biscuits, steamed vegetables, broccoli pesto, oysters, mussels, and clams. In each case you pay a fixed price (around $50 for the land menu and $60 for the sea version) and generally get two choices for each of the three courses. Bordoni's German wife, Christine, who takes your order, is a trained sommelier: Ask her to recommend a bottle from their good selection of smaller local producers. If you don't have a car, you'll need to get a taxi from Riomaggiore or La Spezia.
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Robin isn't ready to give up on his marriage just yet! The 'Blurred Lines' singer revealed in a new interview that he is begging his beautiful wife, Paula Patton, to take him back. Watch the heartbreaking video right here!
Is there still a chance for Robin Thicke and his high school sweetheart Paula Patton? When the longtime loves first announced their split, they said it was mutual, but Robin confessed on Feb. 27 that he's desperate to win back Paula's heart!
Paula Patton & Robin Thicke Back Together Soon? — His Heartbreaking Plea
Robin stepped out in Washington, D.C., for the first time since he announced his separation from Paula. And while he was smiling on the outside, we think it's safe to say that he's hurting deep down.
When a TMZ photographer approached Robin at a D.C. airport and asked how he was doing after splitting from Paula, Robin, 36, candidly replied, "You know, just trying to get her back, man."
Aww! Poor Robin. We know he hasn't been on his best behavior lately, but we hope Paula will give him a second chance — if only for their 3-year-old son Julian's sake.
Robin Thicke Changing His Ways To Win Back Paula Patton
After displaying some questionable behavior in the past — grinding up on Miley Cyrus, grabbing a model's butt, and partying with beautiful women — Robin is determined to change his wild ways and win Paula back. Robin's tour resumed on Feb. 27 in Washington, D.C. but he will not be partying after his concert like he usually does, according to a new report from TMZ.
The report goes on to claim that this is Robin's attempt to prove to Paula that he can be a good husband and that he is dedicated to Paula and to saving their marriage.
This new info comes on the heels of a report claiming that Robin canceled his Feb. 21 concert in Atlanta, Georgia in order to jump on a plane to Vancouver, Canada to beg Paula to change her mind after she told him over the phone that she was calling it quits.
What do you think, HollywoodLifers? Are Robin's gestures too little, too late? Or should Paula give in and take him back? Be sure to vote and comment below!
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Any man that would humiliate his wife, son and family behaving the way he did with the song Blurred Lines video with naked women then the display with Miley has some serious character defects. His moral thermometer is at zero. She is better off without him for now, save her dignity and see if he works on developing some character.Sleezy guy!!!


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Today the FTC announced that it has settled a complaint against RockYou, on charges that the company's inadequate security led to a breach of consumer data, and that the company collected personal information from children it knew to be under 13 without parental consent.
RockYou had several security problems. First, they collected unnecessary information, including the passwords to users' email accounts. (RockYou asked users to enter a new password after users confirmed their accounts, but research suggests some consumers re-use their email passwords.) Second, the company's website had several vulnerabilities, including SQL injection and several cross-site scripting (XSS) problems. Third, internal data management practices were weak: passwords were stored in the clear, and data was not separated internally.
I don't have space to write about all of these problems, but to give a flavor of the kind of thing that can go wrong if adequate precautions aren't taken, let's talk about what an "SQL injection vulnerability" is.
SQL is a computer language that is used to send queries to databases. Suppose a school has a database of students, and you want to get information about the student named Bobby Tables. You can do this by sending the following SQL command to the school's database:
SELECT * FROM students WHERE name='Bobby Tables'
The database will respond by sending the record it has for the student named Bobby Tables.
Now suppose you want to look up the record of a student whose name will be provided by a user. An easy way to do this (but insecure, as we'll see) would be to build an SQL command by pasting together a prefix (SELECT * FROM students WHERE name='), followed by the name that your user provided, followed by a single-quote character. If the user provides the name Joe Blogs, then the resulting command will be:
SELECT * FROM students WHERE name='Joe Blogs'
This will get you the information for Joe Blogs, which is just what you wanted.
This might look okay, but there is a problem lurking. Suppose you connect this to a web page, so that arbitrary people on the Internet can supply student names that your web server will then look up in your database. Now a malicious person can attack you. Rather than supplying the name of a real student, they give you a deviously chosen "student name" that looks like this:
Robert'; DROP TABLE students; --
When you paste together your command, according to the recipe laid out above (prefix plus name plus single-quote), you'll get this:
SELECT * FROM students WHERE name='Robert'; DROP TABLE students; --'
This will give you a nasty surprise. The database, knowing that SQL uses semicolons to separate commands, will see this as a sequence of three commands separated by semicolons. The first command (SELECT * FROM students WHERE name='Robert') gets information for a student named Robert–which is harmless enough. But the second command (DROP TABLE students) will delete all of the student records in the database! The third command is harmless but that isn't much consolation now that all of the student records are gone.
(The example is based on a classic XKCD strip. For those not in the know, XKCD seems to be every techie's favorite webcomic.)
This is an SQL injection attack. In general, the attacker can do things other than delete your data–he can leak your data, change password information in the database to give him access to user accounts, and so on.
The moral of this story is simple: don't ever take input from an untrusted user and paste it directly into an SQL command that you're going to send to an important database. If you're going to use untrusted input to build an SQL command, you have to take care to do so safely–and there are known methods for doing that.
This is a basic rule of secure website programming, which RockYou apparently failed to follow. That, plus some other failures, led to a data breach that affected millions of consumers–and to an FTC case.


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Women and smoking is now declining in the developed world and increasing in the developing world.
The cigarette industry began a strong marketing campaign geared toward women beginning in the 1920s in the United States. These campaigns became more aggressive as time has progressed and marketing in general became more prominent. The practice of marketing aimed exclusively at women has continued into the present day and has now expanded globally.
In 1911, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act divided the American Tobacco Trust into several different companies, making market share critical to each company's survival. The resulting competition spurred innovations in both product and marketing, and eventually progressed to the idea of brands. By 1915, Reynolds' Camel had become the first truly national brand. Soon to follow were Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield and the American Tobacco Company's Lucky Strike. These brands were modern and appealed to the modern sensibilities that were taking over the people of the United States at the time.[1]
In the early part of the 20th Century the anti-tobacco movement was aimed primarily at women and children. Smoking was considered a dirty habit and smoking by women was seriously frowned upon by society. As the century progressed so did women's desire for equality.[2] The suffrage movement gave many women a sense of entitlement and freedom and the tobacco industry took advantage of the marketing opportunity. Tobacco companies began marketing cigarettes to appeal to women during the burgeoning women's movement of the 1920s. The American Tobacco Company began targeting women with its ads for Lucky Strikes. Lucky Strike sought to give women the reasons they should be smoking Luckies. They employed ads featuring prominent women, such as Amelia Earhart, and appealed to the vanity of women by promising slimming effects. Most of the ads also conveyed a carefree and confident image of women that would appeal to the modern woman of the 1920s. The ads grew more extravagant with paid celebrity testimonials and far-reaching claims of how Lucky Strikes could improve your life. Their most aggressive campaign directly challenged the candy industry by urging women to "reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." These aggressive campaigns paid off making Lucky Strike the most smoked brand within a decade.[3]
Other companies followed the successful ad campaigns of the American Tobacco Company with their own versions. The Phillip Morris Company introduced Marlboro cigarettes in 1925. Marlboros were advertised as being as "mild as May" and featured elegant ivory tips that appealed to women.[4] Other brands offered similar ads appealing to a woman's sense of beauty and style and made cigarettes an alluring part of many women's lives. The ads linking vanity and beauty were quite women specific and did exactly what they were supposed to do. Fear of weight gain remains a chief reason women continue to smoke. The ad campaigns successfully promoted cigarettes as a product possessing specific qualities including equality, autonomy, glamour, and beauty.[5]
The late 1950s and early 1960s brought about a new onslaught of cigarette brands. Each new brand of cigarette introduced during this time advertised its unique benefits. The major new innovation in tobacco marketing was the filtered cigarette. Filters made cigarettes less harsh to smoke and offered the appearance of removing potentially harmful particles. The 1950s began the rebranding of Marlboros from an elite cigarette to an everyman's cigarette and also saw the introduction of strong Marlboro men, such as athletes, and more famously cowboys.[6] This change in Marlboro branding meant Philip Morris was lacking a cigarette aimed at women.
The 1950s also began a boom in advertising for tobacco companies. Ads featuring prominent movie and television stars became commonplace and tobacco companies also began sponsoring television shows, game shows, and other widespread media. One of the most popular was Philip Morris's sponsorship of the I Love Lucy show. The opener featured the two stars of the show with a giant pack of Philip Morris cigarettes. The show Your Hit Parade was proudly sponsored by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike brand.[7]
In 1965, it was reported that 33.9% of women were smoking.[7] Virginia Slims came on the market in 1968, and used the catch phrase "You've come a long way baby." This was the first cigarette to be marketed solely as a woman's cigarette. The cigarettes were longer, slimmer, and overall more elegant and feminine. The ads depicted photos of glamorous women set against photos of women doing mundane tasks such as laundry or housework.[8] 1970 saw the release of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company's entry into women specific cigarettes, Eve. Eve cigarettes were decidedly more feminine than Virginia Slims. Eve featured flowers or other feminine motifs on both the packaging and the cigarette themselves.
The 1970s ushered in the end of television advertising and the beginning of print ads carrying health warnings regarding the dangers of smoking. The 1970s also brought nearly annual reports from the Surgeon General's office regarding the health consequences of smoking.[9] In 1970, a reported 31.5% of women were smokers. Tobacco companies were barred from advertising on television, but smartly moved the market focus to sponsoring sporting and entertainment events. In 1973, a widely publicized tennis match dubbed "The Battle of the Sexes" featured Billie Jean King, a long-time spokesperson for Virginia Slims, bedecked in the brand's sequins and colors. American was tennis wild in the 1970s and Billie Jean King was a superstar. Virginia Slims sponsored the Women's Tennis Association Tour for close to twenty years. The 1970s ended with filtered cigarettes almost completely overtaking the market.[7]
The 1980s began with the first Surgeon General's Report on the Health Consequences of Smoking for Women.[9] This report—published nearly 15 years after the original 1964 Surgeon General's Report[10]—came nearly sixty years after tobacco companies began marketing their products to women. The smoking rate of women in 1980 was at 29.3%. In 1987, Brown & Williamson introduced the Capri cigarette, which following suit with other feminine cigarettes was a long, slim, elegant cigarette geared toward feminine hands.
1990 saw the women's smoking rate at 22.8%, continuing its slow decline. The Virginia Slims tennis tour came to an end in 1994, after 23 successful years. This was just one of many broad spectrum advertising methods that ended in the 1980s and 1990s as public sentiments regarding smoking began their shift. The 1990s were marked by continued restrictions on smoking in public and workplaces. The late 1980s and 1990s were also marked by increased marketing to teenagers and young adults. Many of the same marketing strategies used with women were used with this target group. By 1998, the women's smoking rate had dropped to 22%. 1998 also marked the year of the Master Settlement Agreement.[7]
The beginning of the 21st century saw women smoking at a rate of 22.8%, which was a slight increase compared to the previous decade.[11] Advertising and marketing remained static after the 1998 Settlement Agreement. Advertising campaigns looked to present more modern and cutting-edge packaging and language, appealing to a younger and hipper demographic. In 2001, the most recent Surgeon General's Report in regards to women and smoking was released.[12] RJ Reynolds entered the women's market in 2007, with its Camel No. 9 cigarette. The packaging is very contemporary in feel, and very feminine at the same time. It features pink edging as a distinct contrast on the black packaging and the interior of the package is lined in pink foil. The cigarettes are sold in light and menthol light varieties, with the latter featuring a teal highlight and foil, instead of the pink of the regular lights.[13] The first decade of this century has also been marked by mass smoking regulations. A multitude of cities, municipalities, and states have passed legislation prohibiting smoking in public places, such as bars, restaurants, and an assortment of other public venues.[11] This is a growing phenomenon, which will help to reduce smoking rates in the United States. The overall smoking rate in the United States has dropped from approximately 46% in 1950 to approximately 21% in 2004.[14]
In Edo period or earlier than it, tobacco had come to Japan. Prostitutes (ja:遊女 yūjo?) were the main smokers among Japanese women by early 19th century.[15]
In 2010 the Hamas-led Islamist government of Gaza imposed a ban on women smoking the popular nargilas in public. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry explained that "It is inappropriate for a woman to sit cross-legged and smoke in public. It harms the image of our people." [16] The ban was soon lifted and women returned to smoking in popular venues like the cafe of Gaza's Crazy Water Park.[17] The park was burned down by masked men in September 2010, after being closed by the Hamas.[18] The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Gaza Strip) has arrested women for smoking in public.[19]
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and produces substantial health-related economic costs to society."[20] During the time between 1995 and 1999, smoking resulted in approximately 440,000 premature deaths per year and about $157 billion in "health-related economic losses." Smoking has been known to increase to the risks of, and has been linked to, a plethora of adverse health effects. For instance, "Cigarette smoking accounts for about one-third of all cancers, including 90 percent of lung cancer cases. [Smoking also] causes lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema, [it] increase the risk of heart disease, including stroke, heart attack, vascular disease, and aneurysm." [21] According to the Surgeon General's Report of 2004, titled "The Health Consequences of Smoking," other consequences of smoking include increased risk of cataracts, lowered levels of antioxidants, especially vitamin C, heightened inflammation, and periodontitis.[22]
In the United States, although general rates of smoking are declining – "24.1% in 1998 to 20.6% in 2008," [23] and there are higher rates among men – the gendered health consequences illustrate that women are at a greater disadvantage. "In 2008, smoking prevalence was higher among men (23%) than women (18.3%)," [23] however that gender gap appears to be narrowing. Prior to recent increasing smoking rates, females usually experienced different effects of smoking compared to males. For instance, a decrease in lifetime expectancy is greater for female smokers when compared to male smokers. On average, while an adult male loses 13.2 years due to smoking, an adult female smoker loses 14.5 years of life.[24] This decreased life expectancy for male smokers mirrors the gender differences in life expectancy overall. However, when it comes to smokers in particular, males tend to smoke more heavily than women do.[25] Yet still women continue to show more deleterious results.
As it has been previously mentioned, smoking is attributable to the majority of lung cancer cases. Over the years lung cancer mortality has dramatically increased among women. "In 1987, lung cancer surpassed breast cancer to become the leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women." [26] Smoking now accounts for 80% of lung cancer deaths specifically among women. Although, there has been a more pronounced campaign to raise funds for breast cancer research and a possible cure, more women are dying from lung cancer. Research also continues to question whether women tend to be more susceptible to lung cancer, regardless of similar exposure as their male counterparts. However, making a definitive answer has been difficult, thus the issue remains controversial.[27] In looking at other aspects of the respiratory system, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is another major issue among women who smoke. The risk of having COPD is increased with amount and duration and smoking accounts for 90 percent of COPD mortalities.[28]
The effects of smoking on women's cardiovascular health begin to show more sex differences. Heart diseases continue to be the leading cause of death nationwide,[29] and one of the risk factors is smoking. Unique to women, smoking lowers their estrogen and their high-density lipoproteins that prevent arteries from blockage.[30] For many women the effects of smoking on the heart's health truly become obvious later on in life. Among current female smokers, "the chance of dying from heart disease or lung cancer exceeds the chance of dying from breast cancer from 40 on (and does so by at least a factor of 5 after age 55)." [31] The habit becomes particularly crucial when women are also taking birth control because these two in concert increases, even more so, women's chances of having a stroke or a heart attack.[32]
When observing older women, research has illustrated that those who are smoking in their postmenopausal stages tend to have a lower bone density along with more hip fractures when compared to their non-smoker counterparts.[33] For the younger cohort of women, during their reproductive stages, smoking affects their reproductive health as well as pregnancy outcomes. Research has revealed that smoking does make it more difficult for women to conceive and it can also result in infertility.[33] Females, who smoke while they are pregnant, increase their chances of having an early delivery and low-birth weight babies.[34] One of the many serious effects on the fetus itself is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Studies have shown that "infants of mothers who smoke during and after pregnancy are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than babies to non-smoking mothers.[34]
As smoking levels decline in the developed world they are increasing in the developing world. The major cigarette manufacturers have more than tripled the number of cigarettes exported in the last 35 years.[35] Tobacco companies are using similar strategies to attract women in other countries that they used in the early days of attracting American women. Offering appealing ads that depict cigarettes as modern, empowering, and liberating draws in women smokers who make every effort to be as western as possible.[36] The smoking bans occurring in the United States are happening around the globe. In other countries (as in the United States), tobacco manufacturers circumvent advertising restrictions by sponsoring events, retail endorsements, and advertising in alternative markets such as satellite television channels.[37] These methods have proven quite successful for the tobacco industry. Overwhelmingly, in the global market the trends point toward the market becoming increasingly female in the future, but only time will tell for sure.[38]
When discussing smoking among females it is crucial to also take into account the fact that smoking, and tobacco use in general, is a global issue that is not confined to the borders of the Western world. The World Health Organization (WHO) notes the stark difference between women in various geographic locations as it states that "[a]bout 22 percent of women in developed countries and 9 percent of women in developing countries smoke tobacco." [39] However, numerically the number of women could be more in developing countries.[40]
In his article, Fred C. Pampel looks into why these differences may exist and suggests reasons pertaining to gender equality, cigarette diffusion, economic factors and smoking policies.[41] For women in countries where traditional gender roles had been changed, it becomes more socially acceptable for women to initiate smoking.[41] However, this evidence should not hinder a deeper look into the smoking among women in developed countries.
And, as the rates of smoking among people in developed countries are on a slow decline, smoking rates among middle and low-income countries are increasing.[41] particularly affects women within developing regions because they are most at risk when male cigarette use is high.[41] Recent statistics show that about 70% of tobacco users live in developing countries, and about half of the men in these countries are smokers.[42] Although women are not mainly the ones to smoke, they are still exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). When among men who smoke, the risks of passive smoking increase for women whether they are at home or at work. When referring back to the gender-specific effects of smoking on women, we know that smoking and second-hand smoke not only affects the female body but had detrimental results on the health of their children. This issue is compounded in developing nations that may already have limited medical care for women.
A particular study that focused on pregnant women in a few Latin American and African countries, India and Pakistan, it was shown that "[w]omen in Latin America had the highest level of tobacco use." [42] The probability of living with a tobacco user was also high in Latin America but highest in Asia.[42] Specific countries such as Argentina and Uruguay had the highest percentages of women who were once regular smokers, who had smoked during their current pregnancy and who thought is was acceptable for women to smoke.[42] As we continue to look at the Latin American region, we can see that one-fifth of the world's largest tobacco producers are in this region, which includes Argentina and Brazil.[43] With such increased production in these countries, the prices of cigarettes become significantly lowered. In these two latter countries, a pack of premium cigarettes such as the Marlboro brand can cost between US$1 and US$1.99.[43] With these prices, cigarette accessibility is easier and consumption is encouraged. This has serious implications for the population as whole. The smoking rates among women alone are also a point of concern. In Argentina, 22.6% of the women smoke, while in other countries such as Uruguay the percentage is 25.1 percent.[43]
As the rate of tobacco use among men is predicted to decrease, the rate among women is estimated to rise to 20% of the woman population by 2025.[40] A major catalyst for this increase in smoking among women is globalization because it allows for the increase in the marketing of tobacco products to middle and low-income areas. In their efforts to expand their markets, multinational tobacco companies are paying particular attention to women. The advertisements tend to include words such as 'menthol', 'mild' and 'light,' and seek out women through "alluring marketing campaigns, linking smoking with emancipation and glamour." [40] Consequently, the rates of tobacco use among women in regions such as Asia, Africa and Latin America have begun to increase.[44] The lack of strict tobacco control polices in developing countries sets up an environment where little to no advertising restrictions and taxation [45] are not in place to buffer the impending increase in smoking among women. What puts women in developing regions at an even greater disadvantage is the significant shift in tobacco production to their areas, where they are mainly involved in the harvesting.[45]
With all these influences, cessation can be very difficult for women. There has been research surrounding this topic among many developed nations in order to explore and find the most successful methods, even for women. Many of these studies have expressed that women who attempt to quit on their own "were less likely to quit initially or to remain abstinent at follow up." [40] When speaking of women in developing countries however, they would experience added barriers due to their low-income status. While women in the developed countries have cessation programs available, not many programs are available to women in developing countries. The latter group of women could significantly benefit from educational programs that teach of the adverse effects of smoking on their health as well as the health of their children. Although these programs may not be set in place in the various areas they are most needed, several organizations have made an effort to draw smoking among women to the public's attention. For instance, the World Health Organization (WHO) published The Tobacco Atlas [46] which is helpful in showing the scope of the issue among women on a worldwide scale. This organization has also negotiated the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control which is a treaty supported by 164 Parties and was done "in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic." [47] This initiative has been particular about pointing out how women are also being affected. In sum, when looking at smoking among women beyond the boundaries of the Western world, the full scope of the issue comes into view.


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Navarro, Reyes homer as Blue Jays beat Red Sox 7-3
recalled Goins and selected RHP Esmil Rogers from Triple-A. To make room, Toronto optioned C Erik Kratz and OF Darin Mastroianni to Triple-A and designated LHP Brad Mills for assignment. ... Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic served the first
Encarnacion hits walk-off homer, Blue Jays win 7-4
a bunt when Reyes was forced at third. Darin Mastroianni struck out but Encarnacion ended it with ..... lefty Zach Duke came on, Toronto sent Mastroianni up to pinch hit for Lind. But Mastroianni bunted into a double play, stumbling out
Blue Jays recall OF Mastroianni from minors
AP) The Toronto Blue Jays have recalled outfielder Darin Mastroianni from Triple-A Buffalo. Toronto also sent left ..... Saturday's game against the Chicago White Sox. Mastroianni was claimed off waivers from Minnesota in April
A's move to closer committee ... for now
lineup tonight. The Twins' outfield issues have forced them to call up the speedy Darin Mastroianni , who missed most of 2013 with an ankle injury. Mastroianni stole 35 bases between the minors and majors in 2012. See you back here Monday morning
Twins 2014 positional preview: Outfield
other outfielders throughout the 2013 season, including Clete Thomas for 92 games, Wilkin Ramirez for 35 games and Darin Mastroianni for 30 games. Chris Herrmann, who is primarily a catcher, also played 14 games in right field. Minnesota also
Twins reassign OF Darin Mastroianni
the Minnesota Twins reassigned Darin Mastroianni to minor league camp on Sunday ..... as the outfielder's past. Mastroianni , a 28-year-old acquired ..... because of two ankle surgeries. Mastroianni hit .231 (6-for-25) in
Twins trim roster down to 40
optioned while left-hander Sean Gilmartin, outfielders Darin Mastroianni and Jermaine Mitchell and infielders James Beresford and Brandon Waring were reassigned. Mastroianni has the most major-league experience among the cuts
2014 Twins preview: Front office adds arms, but will it be enough?
is who will be the leadoff hitter. It'll likely be whichever center fielder -- Aaron Hicks, Alex Presley or Darin Mastroianni -- wins the starting job. Minnesota believes a position change for catcher-turned-first baseman Joe Mauer will
Brothers-in-law Kubel, Tonkin hoping to make Twins roster
competition brewing for its corner outfield spots, as well as designated hitter. While Aaron Hicks, Alex Presley and Darin Mastroianni are all battling for the center-field job, guys like Kubel, Wilkin Ramirez and Chris Parmelee are hoping to land
Twins' Hicks looks to go on offensive in making club
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The Times has a report about their new poll on today's front page. As Adam Nagourney and Dalia Sussman put it in their lead, Obama "is confronting declining support for his handling of the war in Afghanistan and an electorate confused and anxious about a healthcare overhaul." While that's true, the most interesting part of the poll isn't reported until near the end of the story, where we find this:
On one of the most contentious issues in the health care debate–whether to establish a government-run health insurance plan as an alternative to private insurers–nearly two-thirds of the country continues to favor the proposal, which is backed by Mr. Obama but has drawn intense fire from most Republicans and some moderate Democrats.
Indeed, what theTimes asked was whether people supported "the government offering everyone a government-administered health insurance plan like Medicare." That would be more ambitious than even some of the "public option" proposals discussed in Congress, which would not necessarily be available to "everyone." In other words, the public–in the face of a hostile and/or dismissive media system–prefers a substantially more progressive health care plan than anything being discussed in the Beltway or in the corporate media. In fact, they seem to support something resembling the "Medicare for all" concept that was trashed in the Sunday New York Times. You might find that newsworthy…but not if you're the New York Times.


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