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'Newsweek' Editor Brown On Print Edition's Demise
Newsweek editor Tina Brown announced last week that the news magazine will end its print edition in January. It will become a digital edition for tablet devices called Newsweek Global, a partner to Brown's website, The Daily Beast. As Brown tells Steve Inskeep, Newsweek's venerable past will make a big difference to its digital future.
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The word tenacious can also describe Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, and also a regular guest on this program. She had made headlines at many magazines over the years and also made headlines on those magazines. Last week, Brown announced that Newsweek will end its print edition in January. But instead of going out of business, she says she wants to go on. She wants to turn Newsweek into an electronic magazine for tablet readers, like the iPad, supported by advertising and reader subscriptions.
TINA BROWN: Newsweek is a very, very powerful global brand. This is a brand with an 80-year deep background, deep history. It is widely, widely recognized. It is very difficult, I think, to launch from scratch a digital magazine product. But I think, you know, a brand like Newsweek, when there are only three or four such big news brands in the world, you know, and Newsweek is one of them.
INSKEEP: But you're trying to get people behind a pay wall with this one here.
BROWN: Yes. We have people subscribing now. You know, we have 44,000 subscribers just beginning in January with our Newsweek iPad, and we're going to be able to transfer many of our subscribers from Newsweek print to Newsweek digital, and we believe we can grow on that. And we've also - have a business plan, however, that, you know, has other ways as well to make revenue. And we have a digital parent company, NIAC. It was really print that in a sense was an anomaly in that company, so we're, you know, we're going to be in a much better place now to maximize our digital assets.
INSKEEP: Here's one of the challenges of people publishing digitally. It seems that many of the most successful news websites are basically aggregators. They either link to or rewrite other people's original material and get readers very cheaply that way. It is harder to make money if you are producing original content. Can you make the budget work to be producing original content that is sufficient for people to buy it and still make a profit?
BROWN: We do believe that, yes, because The Daily Beast has developed such an extraordinarily strong following amongst a high demographic who are now beginning to go to The Daily Beast as their - really as their prime news site, which was something we didn't even aspire to when we began. And that, of course, only happens with original content. We have broken so much news in the last few months. I mean we have really led on the whole Libya story from Eli Lake's brilliant reporting. That is original. That's not about aggregation.
INSKEEP: There was some sour response to this announcement, which you should have an opportunity to respond to. There was a columnist, for example, for Reuters, Felix Salmon, I think is how you pronounce his name.
BROWN: Mm-hmm.
INSKEEP: Felix Salmon writes: Newsweek is going to have to suffer a painful and lingering death. There's no way that first-rate journalists are going to have any particular desire to write for this doomed and little-read publication...
INSKEEP: ...especially if their work is stuck behind a pay wall.
BROWN: Well...
INSKEEP: He just thinks you ought to kill it off.
BROWN: I know he does. Well, you know what? I've been going against naysayers all my life. For instance, so many people when I launched The Daily Beast did exactly the same thing. They said who needs another online news site? Why do we need The Daily Beast? Well, The Daily Beast has grown 70 percent in the last year. The Daily Beast is on fire with its traffic. We have proved all those naysayers wrong.
INSKEEP: If you look at other publications that have tried to put up a pay wall, some have succeeded, some have failed. Who works? Who is an example you'd want to follow?
BROWN: Well, I think that, you know, we're seeing the, you know, the quote, porous paywall work for The New York Times, for The Wall Street Journal...
INSKEEP: Oh, that's where you can get through to a lot of articles...
BROWN: Yeah. Yeah.
INSKEEP: But at some point, if you use it a lot, they're going to start charging.
BROWN: Precisely. And that's very likely the direction that we're going to be going to.
INSKEEP: One other thing, Tina Brown, as you say goodbye to the print edition of Newsweek, you became quite famous - even more famous than you were - for the covers in Newsweek.
BROWN: Mm-hmm.
INSKEEP: Some of which were criticized and controversial. I think of the one where there was an illustration of what Princess Diana would look if she were still alive.
BROWN: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
INSKEEP: Do you regret any of those covers?
BROWN: Absolutely not. The notion that somehow a cover should be some kind of quiet, you know, unobtrusive event has never been part of my lexicon. It never was at Vanity Fair when I did the Demi Moore cover for which I was roundly criticized at the time, and is now an iconic cover in every magazine...
INSKEEP: Oh, that was Demi Moore being quite round at the time, you're talking about, sure.
BROWN: That indeed it was. Demi Moore pregnant at the time, and the notion that I was somehow praised for that is absolutely not correct. I mean it was a most controversial cover that, of course, took Vanity Fair from 700,000 to 1.2 where it - million - where it rests today, and which is in every iconic cover book.
INSKEEP: Are you disappointed at all, that the covers did not save the print edition of Newsweek?
BROWN: There was no cover that could save the print edition of Newsweek. It cost $43 million to simply print, manufacture, distribute before you've hired a single writer or photographer. So the economics of publishing print no longer worked and that's why we're going to go all-digital.
INSKEEP: Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, which is going to become a tablet publication after the first of the year.
Thanks very much.
BROWN: Thank you, Steve.
PAUL SIMON: (Singing) ...When the radical priest come to get me released, we was all on the cover of Newsweek. Yeah, and I'm on my way now, I don't know where I'm going...
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Two of the biggest stars in popular music will team up for a big 11th hour rally for President Obama. Brent Colburn, the National Communications Director for the President's campaign team Obama for America, tweeted that Jay-Z and legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen will support the President's re-election campaign in Columbus, Ohio on Monday.
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A global law enforcement operation led by Europol's European Cybercrime Center disrupted the Ramnit botnet, a dangerous threat known for stealing account credentials and draining bank accounts.
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HP CEO Meg Whitman says robust sales of industry-standard servers is just one sign that the HP turnaround remains on track.
With the acquisition of Intréis, ServiceNow beefs up its corporate governance expertise.
Cognitive Scale partnered this week with IBM to introduce its cognitive analytic solutions to the Bluemix platform. The self-learning technology can be used to build smarter apps for the health-care and retail sectors.
AirWatch by VMware, VMware's mobility management portfolio, on Tuesday released the newest version of its product for the mobility enterprise space, AirWatch 8.
HP shares fell 5 percent in after-hours trading following the company reporting a 5 percent sales drop for its first fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31.
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Dell's enterprise boss calls HP's white-box networking push too-little, too-late.
VMware's vCloud Air product marketing team sent a document to salespeople this week explaining why Microsoft's efforts to support vSphere server virtualization on Azure aren't going to work.
Organizations will pay a premium to attract and retain data scientists capable of managing big data analytics and business intelligence projects.Via itbestofbreed.com
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The adventure starts today!
All team members have safely arrived in Moscow without a glimpse of Edward Snowden.
After our long flights here we keep things pretty laid-back tonight with a light meet and greet, then headed out for a quick dinner. Not far from our hotel is a great little place that serves up some wonderful beef stroganoff, so that's where we went. We took a short walk to stretch the legs and get a little dessert and have now retired to our hotel to catch up on some much needed sleep.
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Hahaha Arthur, Dude calm down you'll think of something!" America yelled at the other blonde across the room, but England couldn't stop blabbering about how he couldn't think of a unique way of proposing to you.
"You don't get it Alfred, [Name] is a special lady! She needs to be proposed to in style!" America sweat dropped.
After a few minutes, England finally plopped down in his desk chair and began to slam his head down on the table rapidly. America franticly ran across the room and stopped England.
"Are you crazy!"
A smile slowly formed on England's face. "Nope, I'm a genius!"
"Ummm, Arthur is there a reason why I'm here?" you asked the blonde who was bustling around the kitchen.
"Yes love. I really wanted you to taste this new pie recipe I received not to long ago. Now go and watch television." You groaned. After eating that pie you would have another visit to the hospital… for a third time. You really couldn't resist those puppy dog eyes he gave you every time he showed you a new "cuisine".
Meanwhile, England was placing a wedding ring in a very deformed pastry.
'She's going to love this!' England thought while bringing the pie towards you.
"Wow Artie, It looks…. edible." you said trying to ease your terrified stomach.
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You picked up the fork off doom and placed it into the pie. "Hey Artie why don't you get me something to drink."
You wanted to distract the man so you could dispose of this new creation. "Alright, love." England made his way towards the kitchen.
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The three advocates who were on hunger strike at the High Court since Monday afternoon called off the agitation following an agreement with the State government.
The Cabinet sub committee comprising J. Geeta Reddy, M. Venkata Ramana Rao and P. Ramachandra Reddy visited the Gandhi Hospital to offer them juice to mark the withdrawal of the fast.
The advocates – S. Satyam Reddy, convenor of joint action committee (JAC) of Telangana advocates, G. Jyothi Kiran and M. Vijay Kumar Goud – were shifted to hospital from the High Court in the small hours of Friday.
They refused to accept food though they were administered intravenous drips and underwent check-up.
The JAC also withdrew its call for 'Chalo Secretariat' by advocates on Monday following the understanding.
A breakthrough was achieved over the demands of the Telangana advocates on Saturday night when the government offered an assurance to the Telangana Advocates' Joint Action Committee to ensure "equitable representation" to the candidates of the region in appointments of law officers in the High Court and tribunals, within three weeks.
The stalemate was broken after a meeting lasting four hours at the Secretariat between the Cabinet sub committee headed by Information Minister J. Geeta Reddy and the TAJAC representatives led by convenor M. Rajender Reddy.
The Group's other members — Ministers M. Venkata Ramana Rao (Courts & Justice) and P. Ramachandra Reddy (Forests) — who did not turn up for the earlier round of talks held on Friday, were present along with Madhu Yashki, G. Vivekanand, both Congress MPs, and S. Indrasena Reddy, MLC.
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The teams behind every Olympic athlete: parents, friends, fans
Athletes at the Vancouver Olympics have usually gotten there with the backing of a small army of supporters who encourage, chastise, bolster, and fund. Just ask US skeleton's Noelle Pikus-Pace or US luger Mark Grimmette.
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When Elana Meyers – one of the fastest starters in the US – explodes off the starting line at next week's Olympic bobsledding competition here in Whistler, she'll be gunning for gold.
But thanks to a friend from grade school, she sees humility as even more important than winning.
"In school, we were always competing for the top grades," says Meyers, recalling the time she waved her higher test score in Katrina Howell's face. "She scolded me and I thought, oh, well, maybe I need to recheck my attitude.
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Behind every Olympian is an army of people whose help – whether in encouragement, chastisement, parenting, coaching, funding, or friendship – has shaped their character and provided stepping-stones to Olympic success. When athletes reach that ultimate goal, they in turn profoundly influence the lives of those who have helped them – making the Olympics the celebration not of an elite few, but of a pyramid of support.
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Alan Balutis is senior director and distinguished fellow at Cisco Systems' Internet Business Solutions Group.
I recently attended one of the many "Farewell, Vivek" events. Quite an evening: seven introductory remarks by six speakers representing five organizations. Fifteen-plus minutes of introductions for an eight-minute speech by the guest of honor. The night before, the CIO Council and the Office of Management and Budget powers turned out in force to wish Federal CIO Vivek Kundra well as he heads off for a semester at Harvard University. One of the topics on the minds of many of those IT leaders was the Aug. 8 memo from OMB Director Jack Lew titled "Chief Information Officer Authorities."
I've written several times about the challenging role of CIOs in the federal government, most recently about a soon-to-be-released Government Accountability Office report on how the position could be improved and strengthened. Lew's memo reads like a pre-emptive move to respond to and support GAO.
GAO found that CIOs do not consistently have responsibility for 13 major areas of IT and information management as defined by law or deemed critical to effective IT management. Specifically, most CIOs are responsible for seven key IT management areas: capital planning and investment management; enterprise architecture; information security; IT strategic planning; e-government initiatives; systems acquisition, development and integration; and IT workforce planning.
By contrast, they are less frequently responsible for information management duties such as information collection/paperwork reduction, information dissemination, information disclosure, statistical policy and coordination, records management, and privacy. Just over half of the CIOs reported directly to the heads of their respective agencies as required by the Clinger-Cohen Act. CIOs do not always have sufficient control over IT investments, and they often have limited influence over the IT workforce. Most telling perhaps is their limited control and influence over IT budgets. The GAO report concludes that, "despite the broad authority given to CIOs in federal law, those officials face limitations that hinder their ability to effectively exercise this authority."
Lew's memo, although likely intended as a response to GAO's report, is a somewhat puzzling missive. In a tone softer than expected even from a "kinder and gentler" OMB, it largely ignores the main findings of GAO's report. Instead, it presumes that CIOs have and are executing all the responsibilities and authorities given them and that we need to give them even more, to wit: "In addition to their statutory responsibilities through the Clinger-Cohen Act and related laws...there are four main areas in which agency CIOs shall have a lead role."
One could read that as "in addition to the other needed authorities denied them and their failure to have the required responsibilities, CIOs should also be denied the following four key authorities and responsibilities."
The four new areas are governance, commodity IT, program management and information security. As noted above, information security is already a CIO responsibility under statute. Left unclear is whether the remaining three will be added to the seven most CIOs are currently responsible for or to the six they are less frequently responsible for.
I predict the scoring in the next GAO report — released circa 2018 because the agency seems to do this report every seven years — will be 7 to 9, and they can keep the same conclusion. By the time the report is formally issued, yet another Cabinet agency will have downgraded the CIO in its organizational structure, as has already happened at the Social Security Administration, Defense Department, Health and Human Services Department, Agriculture Department, and others.
Who disagrees with me? I won't consider this matter closed until I hear from Paul "Just Read the Report Language" Brubaker.
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Mettā (Pali: मेत्ता in Devanagari) or maitrī (Sanskrit: मैत्री) is loving-kindness[1][2], friendliness[3][4][5], benevolence[2][4], amity[3], friendship[4], good will[4], kindness[6][3], close mental union (on same mental wavelength)[4], and active interest in others.[3] It is one of the ten pāramīs of the Theravāda school of Buddhism, and the first of the four sublime states (Brahmavihāras). This is love without clinging (upādāna).
The cultivation of loving-kindness (mettā bhāvanā) is a popular form of meditation in Buddhism. In the Theravadin Buddhist tradition, this practice begins with the meditator cultivating loving-kindness towards themselves,[7] then their loved ones, friends, teachers, strangers, enemies, and finally towards all sentient beings. In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, this practice is associated with tonglen (cf.), whereby one breathes out ("sends") happiness and breathes in ("receives") suffering.[8] Tibetan Buddhists also practice contemplation of the Brahmavihāras, also called the four immeasurables, which they sometimes call 'compassion meditation'[9]
"Compassion meditation" is a contemporary scientific field that demonstrates the efficacy of metta and related meditative practices.
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Mettā meditation is regularly recommended to the Buddha's followers in the 2,500-year-old Pali canon. The canon generally advises radiating metta in each of the six directions, to whatever beings there may be.[10] A different set of practical instructions, still widely used today, is found in the 5th CE Visuddhimagga. In addition, variations on this traditional practice have been popularized by contemporary teachers and applied in modern research settings.
Contemporary instruction for the cultivation of loving-kindness – such as is found in the works of Sharon Salzberg,[11] the Triratna Buddhist Community's Kamalashila,[5] and Matthieu Ricard[12] – is often based in part on a method found in Buddhaghosa's 5th c. CE Pāli exegetical text, the Path to Purification (Pali:Visuddhimagga), Chapter IX.[13][14] This traditional approach is best known for identifying successive stages of meditation during which one progressively cultivates loving-kindness towards:
One should avoid choosing someone to whom one is sexually attracted or who is dead.[21] For a "neutral" person, choose someone that you might come into contact with every day, but who does not give rise to strong positive nor strong negative emotions. For a "difficult" person, traditionally choose an enemy, but avoid choosing a person who has just wrecked your life, unless you are very well grounded in awareness.
Matthieu Ricard has recommended that metta practitioners choose to meditate on a person for whom it is very easy to feel unconditional love and compassion.
Mettā signifies friendship and non-violence, "a strong wish for the happiness of others" and also less obvious or direct qualities such as showing patience, receptivity, and appreciation. Loving-kindness is a very specific feeling – a caring for the well-being of another living being, independent of approving or disapproving of them, or expecting anything in return.[22] Practice includes reciting specific words and phrases in order to evoke a "boundless warm-hearted feeling," or visualizing suffering and wishing well for those beings. Non-referential compassion, also known as "pure compassion", involves simply experiencing the feeling of caring for another sentient being.[22] One special technique recommended by Matthieu Ricard is to, "imagine," the state of another.[22] Richard J. Davidson has shown metta to induce changes in the tempoparietal lobe.[23] Loving-kindness is the application of love to suffering. Metta is applied to all beings and, as a consequence, one experiences another of the sublime states: joy (mudita), which is true happiness in another being's happiness.
The benefits of metta practice are both extolled by ancient texts and increasingly identified by contemporary research.
The most ancient extant Buddhist collection of texts, the Pali Canon, identifies a number of benefits from the practicing of metta meditation, including:
The Canon also upholds fully ripened metta development as a foremost antidote to ill will:
Buddhists believe that those who cultivate loving-kindness will be at ease because they will see no need to harbour ill will or hostility. Buddhist teachers may even recommend meditation on loving-kindness as an antidote to insomnia and nightmares. It is generally felt that those around a person full of loving-kindness will feel more comfortable and happy too. Cultivating loving-kindness is thought to contribute to a world of love, peace and happiness.
Meditation on loving-kindness is considered a good way to calm down a distraught mind and an antidote to anger. Someone who has cultivated loving-kindness will not be easily angered and can quickly subdue anger that arises, being more caring, more loving, and more likely to love unconditionally.
A few recent psychological studies suggest that loving-kindness meditation may impact health and well-being. One study done at Stanford University suggests that a short 7 minute practice of loving-kindness meditation can increase social connectedness.[26] Loving-kindness meditation has also been shown to reduce pain and anger in people with chronic lower back pain[27]. Researcher Barbara Fredrickson at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that loving-kindness meditation can help boost positive emotions and well-being in life, fostering the personal resources that come from experiencing positive emotion.[28] More research is needed to see whether loving-kindness meditation is appropriate for all populations, whether it works similarly for everyone, and to understand how much practice is needed for the benefits of the practice to manifest.
An EEG study by Richard J. Davidson of people who meditate in metta, with a minimum of 10,000 hours practice, showed substantial differences in the magnitude of gamma waves as well as gamma synchronization, particularly during meditative sessions, and directly afterwards. During baseline states, where the subject was not doing metta, there was a signature brain wave pattern that distinguishes the metta practitioners, lay people as well as monks, from people, at baseline, who have not extensively practiced compassion meditation. This study also showed, during meditation, an increase in the activity of brain areas such as the temporoparietal junction, insula, and amygdala and increase the subject's ability to see things from another's perspective, and actually change the area of the brain that is involved the autonomic system so that the meditator's heartbeat increases. These studies show that the amygdala is modulated during compassion mediation.[23] Compassion meditation has been shown to lower the participants reaction to inflammation and distress, both of which are associated with, "major depression, heart disease and diabetes," in response to stressors, a change that was dependent on the amount of time spent practicing, with practitioners who spent more time meditating having corresponding more significant changes in their brains.[29]
In the Pāli Canon, statements regarding the use of loving-kindness (metta) traditionally employ one or more of the following devices, often using a stock formula:
The well-known Kakacupama Sutta and Karaniya Metta Sutta use striking metaphors to give these traditional devices vitality. Other canonical materials, such as in the Paṭisambhidāmagga, elaborate on these basic devices in a manner that is perpetuated by the later traditional commentaries. Other canonical sources, such as the Abhidhamma, underline the key role of loving-kindness in the development of wholesome karma.
In the Sutta To Cunda the Silversmith (Cunda Kammaraputta Sutta, AN 10.176), the Buddha explains that mental or intentional purity (manasā soceyyaṃ) is threefold: non-greed, non-ill-will and non-delusion. Regarding the manifestation of non-ill-will the discourse describes a virtuous person in the following manner (in English and Pāli):
He bears no ill will and is not corrupt in the resolves of his heart. |
Avyāpannacitto hoti appaduṭṭhamanasaṃkappo, |
This basic statement of intention and verse can also be found in several other canonical discourses.[32]
In over a dozen discourses, the following description (in English and Pāli) is provided for radiating loving-kindness in six directions:[33]
He abides, having suffused with a mind of loving-kindness |
So mettāsahagatena cetasā |
In the canon, this basic formula is expanded upon in a variety of ways. For instance, a couple of discourses[36] provide the following description of "the path to the company of Brahmā" (brahmānaṃ sahavyatāya maggo) along with a memorable metaphor:
Incorporating facets of the above textual methods in a series of increasingly vivid similes, the Parable of the Saw Discourse (Kakacupama Sutta, MN 21) provides the following culminating scenario:
The Karaniya Metta Sutta (Sn 1.8) combines both the interpersonal and radiant aspects of canonical expressions of loving-kindness.
This is what should be done |
Karaṇīyam- |
Whatever living beings there may be; |
Ye keci pāṇa bhūtatthi |
The seen and the unseen, |
Diṭṭhā vā yeva addiṭṭhā |
Let none deceive another, |
Na paro paraṃ nikubbetha |
Even as a mother protects with her life |
Mātā yathā niyaṃ puttaṃ āyusā |
Radiating kindness over the entire world |
Mettaṃ ca sabbalokasmiṃ |
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down |
Tiṭṭhaṃ caraṃ nisinno vā sayāno |
According to the Pāli commentaries, the Buddha originally gave this instruction (of loving-kindness meditation) to monks who were being harassed by the tree spirits of a forest in which the monks were trying to meditate. After doing this meditation in the forest it is said that the spirits were so affected by the power of loving-kindness that they allowed the monks to stay in the forest for the duration of the rainy season.
In the Khuddaka Nikāya's Paṭisambhidāmagga, traditionally ascribed to Ven. Sariputta, is a section entitled Mettākathā (Ps. 2.4, "Instruction on Loving-Kindness").[43] In this instruction, a general formula (below, in English and Pāli), essentially identical to the aforementioned Cunda Kammaraputta Sutta verse (especially evident in the Pāli), is provided for radiating loving-kindness:
"May all beings be |
Sabbe sattā |
In addition, this instruction categorizes twenty-two ways in which "the mind-deliverance of lovingkindness" (mettācetovimutti) can be radiated as follows:
Moreover, the directional pervasions can then be applied to each of the unspecific and specific pervasions. For instance, after radiating loving-kindness to all beings in the east (Sabbe puratthimāya disāya sattā ...), one radiates it to all beings in the west and then north and then south, etc.; then, one radiates it to all breathing things in this fashion (Sabbe puratthimāya disāya pāṇā ...), then all creatures, persons, and so forth until such is extended for all those born in the lower realms.
In the Abhidhamma's Dhammasaṅgaṇi, the causes of "good" or "wholesome" (kusala) and "bad" or "unwholesome" (akusala) karmic states (dhammā) are described (Dhs. 188ff.). The three causes of wholesome karma are stated to be the non-greed, non-hate and non-delusion (alobho adoso amoho; cf. kleśā). Non-hate is then defined in the following manner:
The absence of hate, hating, hatred; love, loving, loving disposition; tender care, forbearance, considerateness; seeking the general good, compassion; the absence of malice, of malignity; that absence of hate which is the root of good (karma).[46] |
Yo adoso adussanā adussitattaṃ metti mettāyanā mettāyitattaṃ anuddayā anuddayanā anuddayitattaṃ hitesitā anukampā avyāpādo avyāpajjho adoso kusalamūlaṃ, ayaṃ vuccati adoso.[47] |
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Pros:I do not have any TF cards, so I am not able to offer any "pro's" for this device, which I purchased for it's claimed ability to read microSD and microSDHC cards.
It DOES not read MicroSD's, well- actually they dont fit into the port. It does "add a device" and a drive letter. Even with modification to "force" the microSD card into the adapter, it still does not read the memory card (yeah, I used very cheap one for that test!)
The packaging apparantly is misleading in the first degree. And I ordered two of them which is a double letdown. I am only assuming it works on TF (don't have any of them!)
If TF is what you need, its probably the coolest thing you will have (if it in fact does work on TF.) But it is CERTAINLY not a MICRO SD ADAPTER as advertised, and even with mechanical modifications to allow the card to enter the slot- it still does not read it. (modded reader is not returnable now of course!)
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I don't know what to do, Ipage hijacked my domain name and site.
Well, if you can't get at the content, I don't know if you can import anything. You can certainly start a site here though, and you already have: http://jordanswain.wordpress.com/. See if they'll give you an export file of the old blog, and then you should be able to import it here.
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Although GIMP is useful, it's showing its age, and the time is coming soon when it either will adapt or be shuffled to the wayside by more capable tools. For the photographer working in Linux, as well as for the high-depth CGI artist, both Krita and CinePaint are welcome tools. Each is strong where the other is weak. As both programs continue to develop, we can expect great things from them—they have both proven themselves to be well-designed packages with deliberate and capable teams behind them. The odd mix of Darwinian competition and cooperation has given us a new generation of these tools, and they're ready to be used. Enjoy!
HDRI: Faking Film's High Bit Depth
High Dynamic Range Imaging was originally developed for lighting 3-D scenes, as a way to capture the real-world range of luminescence, and has been a boon to realistic 3-D lighting work for many years.
But, it has another use. By tone mapping the image, HDRI's wide contrast range can be represented in 8-bit space to stunning effect—preserving details in the shadows and minimizing clipping in highlights. As this aesthetic became popular, several techniques have developed to create HDRIs from digital snapshots and then convert them for display on monitors or in print.
Creating HDRI images from digital photographs requires Bracketed Exposure—taking a set of photos with different exposure settings to give a wider collective latitude than the camera natively allows (Figure A). Afterward, the bracketed images are combined into a single HDRI. Although this can be in the terminal, it's far easier with CinePaint's self-explanatory Bracket to HDR plugin (included in the package). Once created, the HDRI either can be turned into a light probe (for lighting a 3-D scene) or tone mapped for display and/or printing (Figure B).
Tone mapping interpolates an HDRI into 8-bit space without clipping the high and low ends—it compresses the image nonlinearly to preserve the details otherwise lost. The result is a much richer image than could normally be captured by 8-bit equipment. At the moment, tone mapping isn't available in CinePaint or Krita (although it is on Krita's to-do list). Instead, pfstools, a command-line suite of algorithms for configuring the interpolation curves, does the job.
Fortunately, for those of us who don't like experimenting blindly in the terminal, a thoughtful soul has written a GUI that offers the full range of options available at the command line, with a preview window. The program, Qpfstools, along with an introduction and tutorial, can be found here: theplaceofdeadroads.blogspot.com/2006/07/qpfstmo-hdr-tone-mapping-gui-for-linux_04.html.
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qpfstmo is junk
qpfstmo is junk. Very clunky gui at best.
I recommend qtpfsgui. It is a much nicer gui and more intuitive interface to pfstools and tonemapping. Threaded too, so it works on dual core machines nicely.
I agree. GIMP is dead for
I agree. GIMP is dead for the reasons listed above. Hopefully, Krita will have a longer lasting architecture and that the Koffice 2 series will bring the rest of the suite up to a quality standard after the lack of development early on.
GIMP devs are working on the
GIMP devs are working on the problems listed in this article, I don't think GIMP should be written off that quick. :)
As the Gimp is Cross platform it stays for now
One of the great advantages of GIMP is that it is cross platform. If kde apps were easier to use on windows and macosx
too that would be great. I would love to use more of koffice but I have to support one that one platform.
So for me I am stuck with the GIMP and Openoffice :-(
Krita (KDE4 in general) works on Windows as well.
FYI, all major KDE4 components work on Windows now. Check http://windows.kde.org .
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Outplay Entertainment is updating their smash-hit Monster Legacy. Now players can enjoy pitting their monsters against each other with the new PVP battles.
You can play against your friends or connect with other players all over the world in turn-based championships. Win fame points and see where you stack up on the global leaderboard. The game now also includes in-app purchases so you can buy power-ups.
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Title: | NON-ADHERENCE TO PATIENT SAFETY GUIDELINES: AN EVOLUTIONARY, ECOLOGICAL HYPOTHESIS |
Authors: | de Almeida Neto, Abílio César |
Keywords: | Evolutionary Psychology Patient safety Hand hygiene Psychological reactance Team work Inter-professional collaboration |
Issue Date: | 16-Apr-2012 |
Abstract: | Often well meaning health care workers do not adhere to patient safety guidelines or recommendations, with serious consequences; patient injuries and mortality. Non-adherence has been attributed to external limitations, such as heavy workload, the non-availability of resources or how health care workers perceive the expectation of their superiors towards their performance. This paper presents new thoughts and ideas on such non-adherence. It presents a theoretical argument for how current policies for promoting patient safety in health care delivery might be hindered by a particular evolved mechanism that has not been considered. Non-adherence is argued to be an adaptation, or, more specifically, it is argued to be structured in such a way to generate adaptive outcomes when elicited by those in positions of power in dominance hierarchies wherein it is an efficient strategy. The core explanatory dynamics of non-adherence to patient safety guidelines are presented in terms of the social dominance hierarchy within which physicians function and that accounts for these evolved adaptations that enable maintenance of dominant status and cohesive (cooperative) group living and social rank-related mate selection behavior. Applied approaches to minimizing non-adherence to patent safety guidelines among health care workers (primarily physicians) are also presented. |
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Myocardin is a SAP (SAF-A/B, Acinus, PIAS) domain transcription factor that associates with serum response factor (SRF) to potently enhance SRF-dependent transcription. Here we describe two myocardin-related transcription factors (MRTFs), A and B, that also interact with SRF and stimulate its transcriptional activity. Whereas myocardin is expressed specifically in cardiac and smooth muscle cells, MRTF-A and -B are expressed in numerous embryonic and adult tissues. In SRF-deficient embryonic stem cells, myocardin and MRTFs are unable to activate SRF-dependent reporter genes, confirming their dependence on SRF. Myocardin and MRTFs comprise a previously uncharacterized family of SRF cofactors with the potential to modulate SRF target genes in a wide range of tissues.
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Vincent P. Hill, 69, Kiski Township, died Saturday, July 16, 2011, at home.
He was born Nov. 22, 1941, in Kittanning, a son of the late Ernest and Henrietta (Kriser) Hill.
Mr. Hill lived in Kiski Township for the past 30 years.
He married Darcia Lynn (Hyrtanski) Hill, who preceded him in death March 18, 2003.
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"If it wasn't for that Kershaw guy we'd be in good shape," manager Don Mattingly quipped.
The takeaways from the Arizona Diamondbacks' 4-1 victory over the Dodgers at Salt River Fields on Wednesday were limited, to put it mildly.
Among the more meaningful performances, Yasiel Puig twice faced Brandon McCarthy, who will almost certainly be in the Diamondbacks' major-league rotation if he's healthy. Puig singled to right field in his first at-bat and doubled in his second at-bat. The latter hit gave the Dodgers their only run when Carl Crawford scored all the way from first base.
Kershaw pitched two innings, allowed five hits, three runs (all earned), walked one and struck out two. He threw 42 pitches — 26 strikes — then "faced two hitters" by throwing about 15 more pitches in the bullpen.
"I wasn't throwing the ball where I wanted to," he said. "There were some off-speed pitches I needed to throw better. That one to Montero I struck him out on was probably up, honestly. That one that Pollock hit, there's just some balls that I left up. Just a lot to work on."
Kershaw didn't downplay his pitching line.
"I'm a results-based guy," he said. "I want to see outs. Today left a lot to be desired."
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India's domestic air traffic declined substantially by over nine per cent in February compared with the same month last year, in average terms, as over a quarter of seats remained vacant on flights in this period, according to global airlines' body International Air Transport Association.
In its latest global passenger traffic results, the IATA has found out that the domestic traffic in India has dropped 9.1 per cent in February compared to a year ago.
This decline occurred even while the global passenger demand rose 3.7 per cent compared to February last year.
The results also showed that the overall passenger load factor slipped to 74.5 per cent, implying that on an average only so much of seats in an airplane in India was filled up.
Passenger load factor is a measure of how much of an airline's passenger-carrying capacity or aircraft seats offered was used.
In addition to the slowing economy, IATA said that the Indian carriers have been reducing capacity from previously unsustainable levels. This capacity declined 7.5 per cent in February, it said.
The decline in India's domestic air traffic seemed to be an exception, as the global traffic results showed that the demand growth was "accelerating on the back of stronger business confidence, particularly in emerging regions."
Since October last year, global passenger demand has been growing at an annualised rate of nine per cent, which was "almost double the growth trend over the first nine months of 2012."
In the international market, Asia-Pacific carriers recorded an increase of 4.5 per cent during the same period.
"Continuing improvements in China's economy and growth in intra-Asian trade provided strong support to the passenger business of the region's airlines. With this robust performance, demand associated with Asia-Pacific's emerging markets has been a major driver of the stronger growth in international traffic seen recently," the IATA said.
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Another strategy ANAD uses is to report that the various sites contain pornographic images of half-clothed and emaciated young girls, many of whom are underage. While servers such as Yahoo, Lycos and MySpace have been particularly responsive to removing pro-ana and pro-mia Web sites, according to Hayashi, some sites have refused to cooperate with ANAD's requests, citing First Amendment arguments.
Advocacy sites like ANAD offer tips for parents to recognize the early-warning signs of eating disorders. Among them: a sudden interest in calorie counting, wearing baggy clothing, excessive caffeine consumption, fanatical exercise and a general obsession with weight. These groups urge parents to monitor their children's Internet activity, and keep a watchful eye out for pro-ana an pro-mia sites.
As Hayashi say, parents' vigilance could be a matter of life and death. "The danger of these sites is the sense of community and support they provide. A community some know will mourn them when, not if, they die."
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text: On 3/16/07, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/16/07, Jonathan Oksman <jonathan.oksman at gmail.com> wrote: > > > The same semantics caused a simular bug with umask. My user > > (jonathan, group jonathan) got the default umask of 002 because of his > > uid being equal to gid. After compiling gpm and su-ing, I installed > > gpm user and group read-writable as root:root. Why? Because umask > > settings are controlled through /etc/profile, and su ignores it. > > I'm not a huge fan of that default umask, but I suggest you set a sane > default umask for whatever user is doing the building. I actually > expect that umask gets set to 022 (the default) after you su. But some > packages aren't smart about how they create files for installation and > don't set the permissions. > I agree with you, I actually changed the default behavior of that script as of yesterday. After thinking about it, there are very few users that I want to actually have group read/writable as a default. > > The first fix I want to suggest breaks standard convention. The only > > way I see this consistantly working without running scripts multiple > > times would be to set PATH with /etc/bashrc instead of /etc/profile, > > and remove the settings from /etc/login.defs all together. This would > > provide root, no matter how you logged in, with the intended default > > PATH. > > I don't really agree with setting PATH from a non-login shell, but > you've certainly highlighted the spot where this convention breaks. > Once again, I completely agree - I'd rather not do it like this if it is preventable. In fact my whole reason for "restoring" root's PATH was because of su's decision to change it. > It works differently with PAM. If you have pam_env.so in your su > configuration, it will read settings from /etc/security/pam_env.conf > and you can set the default path there. > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/shadow.html > Beautiful, I will play with that once I get to installing PAM in my BLFS 6.2 environment. It might not be necessary for me, though since... > I agree that not maintaining PATH sucks. I'd look at sudo for the > quick fix solution. Anything else short of patching shadow's su will > have undesired behavior in a different way. Yeah, I've been playing with sudo for a few hours now and while the configuration is kind of crazy, the defaults are sensible. Setting umask and leaving PATH alone addresses both of my concerns and leaves the login scripts alone to their natural order. sbin's aren't necessary for installing packages anyways, but I did want it to factor /usr/local which it does correctly now (as long as the user has it in their PATH to begin with). I'll probably start abolishing su, it's gradually seeming less reliable to me. I remember back before I used LFS when /etc/suauth worked... I never did find out what happened with that. Maybe it was a distribution specific patch. On a simular topic now that we've started discussing sudo, I noticed the book tells the user to just read the sudoers man pages for configuration. A good call since it has some bizarre syntax. However, the default options for sudo log authentication info into /var/sys.log. Perhaps either the configure option --log-fac=auth or the /etc/sudoers "Defaults syslog=auth" option should get an honorable mention in that section to keep authentication messages in /var/auth.log. I'm leaning towards --log-fac since discussion of sudoers is left to the reader as an exercise. Jonathan


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How to Write an Amazing Article
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15 Fantastic Finds on the Google Code Repository
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10 RSS Feeds for Design and Development Job Seekers
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The Internet has been a breeding ground for controversy from the start. Part of this is a result of the fact that the Internet is the great neutralizer; it empowers everyone to have a voice.
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