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On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams accused a federal judge of bringing politics into the judicial process simply by ordering the Justice Department to explain controversial comments President Obama made against the Supreme Court: "Politics are ideally supposed to stay out of the nation's courtrooms, but that's not what happened this week in a federal courtroom in Texas."
In report that followed, correspondent Pete Williams proclaimed: "The political controversy spilled into a Texas federal court, where the rules are designed to filter out politics, interrupting arguments about a challenge to part of the Obama health care law." Williams noted how Judge Jerry Smith "put a Justice Department lawyer on the spot" to explain the President's attack on the court system and made sure to point out that Smith was "a Reagan appointee."
Kyle Drennen is a Media Research Center news analyst and serves as a contributing writer to NewsBusters. He joined the MRC in 2007 after graduating from Providence College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science.
On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams accused a federal judge of bringing politics into the judicial process simply by ordering the Justice Department to explain controversial comments President Obama made against the Supreme Court: "Politics are ideally supposed to stay out of the nation's courtrooms, but that's not what happened this week in a federal courtroom in Texas."
On Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry informed viewers that reviews were in for Sarah Palin's Tuesday guest-hosting stint on the broadcast: "...we had a pretty interesting morning around here on Tuesday, as you may remember, with Sarah Palin as our guest host. And there's been some reaction, in fact a lot of it, in fact, has been mixed."
Later, fellow co-host Matt Lauer highlighted Palin-bashing by Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who mocked: "It's Sarah Palin co-hosting the Today show! And she was there performing a medley of her greatest hits from, 'I don't read newspapers,' to 'I write on my hand.' To that old chestnut, 'I passive aggressively hate Matt Lauer with every ounce of my being.'" After the clip, Lauer joked: "Thank you, Mr. Stewart for the cross promotion there. We really appreciate it."
Stewart went on to further slam Palin's appearance: "It's just another place for you to tout your brand of homespun nonsense unchallenged!"
While serving as guest host on Tuesday's NBC Today, Sarah Palin literally gave HBO's hit piece on her, Game Change, a thumbs down, and declared: "I didn't see the movie. And I wouldn't waste my time seeing the movie....because I don't waste my time on false narratives, on lies." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Palin made the criticism during the Today's Professionals panel segment, causing shock among the liberal pundits. Advertising executive Donny Deutsch wondered: "So you didn't like Julianne Moore?" Attorney Star Jones proclaimed how much she liked the movie and asked in disbelief: "Are you telling the truth? You didn't see it?" Co-host Matt Lauer chimed in: "You didn't see Game Change? You never saw it?"
In his Tuesday interview with Sarah Palin on NBC's Today, co-host Matt Lauer insisted the economy was getting better and wondered why voters should bother voting out President Obama: "Some people would say if things seem to get better, or be getting better, why would I take that chance and change the person in the White House?" [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Lauer referenced a March 28 interview he conducted with House Speaker John Boehner: " Even the Speaker of the House, I sat down with him, John Boehner, last week, I said is the economy improving? He said yes, it is. And I said, so how do Republicans run against an improving economy? He said, you say, 'It should be better.'" Palin interjected: "It should be a lot better and it could be a lot better." Lauer countered: "But is that a bumper sticker that's going to inspire people?"
While discussing a new Facebook app that allows users to list their enemies during the Tuesday panel segment on NBC's Today, liberal advertising executive Donny Deutsch claimed guest host Sarah Palin had done the same thing with President Obama: "I was listening to your interview and your whole point was anybody but Obama....Setting up the enemy versus this is what we need to do."
Deutsch was referring to Palin's comment to co-host Matt Lauer during an interview earlier in the show: "I've been of the mind-set that anybody but Obama will be so much better for our country....I honestly believe that anybody running on that GOP ticket would be infinitely better than what we have today, with these failed socialist policies."
In that interview, Palin confronted Lauer on media bias.
On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer pressed Sarah Palin on whether the Republican nominee should pick a vice presidential running mate with more experience than she had in 2008. Palin hit back: "I would say it doesn't matter if that person has national level experience or not, they're going to get clobbered by the lamestream media, who does not like the conservative message." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Lauer denigrated Palin's qualifications as he asked: "When you were plucked from obscurity in 2008 you'd been Alaska's governor about two years. You didn't have any real experience on the national stage....Do you think, if Mitt Romney's the nominee, he should choose someone with more experience on the national battlefield than you had at the time?"
At the top of Saturday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt scared viewers with an ominous declaration: "Disaster warning. Scientists sound the alarm. If you think this season's wild weather is extreme, wait until you hear what's to come." Introducing the later report, Holt wondered: "...what has been causing all this strange and extreme weather we've been seeing in recent months?"
Holt predicted "a lot more come" as he touted a "new report out this week brought deepening concern about climate change." Environmental correspondent Anne Thompson described the "wacky and unpredictable winter" with "more than 6,000 daily record highs broken" in the U.S. and "an arctic blasts killing hundreds" in Europe.
Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman slammed Mitt Romney by suggesting even Aborigines tribes in New Zealand and Australia were mocking him: "I just came back from New Zealand, okay? I mean, you have people living in the outback of Australia who look at Mitt Romney and say, 'Ha, ha. Not authentic.' I mean, it's just so – it is just so obvious." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Fill-in host Joe Scarborough chimed in: "That's just not good." Friedman proclaimed: "I mean, you know this is a guy who is running against everything he's believed his whole life. I mean, and it is just so staggeringly obvious."
Note to Friedman, New Zealand and Australia are actually different countries. So much for being an expert on international affairs.
Filling in for Matt Lauer on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Hoda Kotb made a bizarre proclamation about race relations in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting: "Skittles obviously has become really kind of a symbol in the whole Trayvon Martin case. A symbol of racial injustice. You see people holding up the bags of Skittles in their hands and it clearly means something." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Kotb made the comment to advertising executive Donny Deutsch during a segment about how the candy maker should deal with new attention to the brand caused by the fact that Martin happened to have a bag of Skittles on him when he was shot. Surprisingly, Deutsch was actually the voice of reason in the exchange: "If you're Skittles point of view, you put your head down and you wait for it to go away."
While supposedly updating viewers on important news of the day on Friday's NBC Today, fill-in news anchor Savannah Guthrie touted an Obama campaign public relations effort: "Well, just days after joining Pinterest, that online scrapbook, President Obama's catching some good-natured heat. He posted a family recipe for chili, always a topic of culinary debate." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams touted how "plans for Mitt Romney's home near San Diego include a four-car garage and a car elevator for each of the cars," and that "his opponents and Democrats will no doubt have at it." Later, on NBC's Rock Center, Williams announced: "So where does tonight's story come from? NBC News can confirm it came directly from the opposition research of a rival candidate." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Introducing a Rock Center report by correspondent Willie Geist on political opposition research, Williams proclaimed the Romney story was "only going to add to an image problem that includes Swiss bank accounts and, as he put it famously, 'a couple of Cadillacs.'"
In a piece of propaganda that would make Cuba's Castro regime proud, on her Tuesday MSNBC program, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell cheered the communist state's "highly regarded" health care system, "and especially one of Fidel Castro's signature projects, which is training doctors, doctors who then provide free medical care throughout Latin America."
Mitchell proclaimed: "As the U.S. debates health care....We went back to the Latin American medical school here to talk to American medical students about what they're learning about medicine, about Cuba, and about themselves." That soon became disturbingly apparent as student Cynthia Aguilera gushed: "...after graduating with no debt, no worries about paying off loans and having to get a high-paying job, we can return to our communities [in the U.S.] and work in them and try to uplift them the same way that Cuba uplifted us."
In an interview with House Speaker John Boehner aired on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer depicted the November election as a futile effort for the GOP: "[The economy] does put some Republicans in a difficult position. You've got better job numbers, you've got better manufacturing numbers. Consumer debt is down. Consumer confidence is up. Isn't it hard to run against a recovering economy?"
Moments earlier, Boehner explained: "I would argue that it should be doing a lot better. It's doing better in spite of what Washington is doing to the economy." Later, Lauer quipped: "Is that – and I hate to, you know, condense things to bumper stickers – is that the slogan, 'It can be better'?"
Responding on Tuesday to NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer wondering if Tim Tebow would be the "right fit" for the New York Jets, advertising executive Donny Deutsch predicted the faithful quarterback was doomed: "Wrong. Couldn't have made a worse move. This will be his Waterloo. New York will take him down. We are a very tough, jaded city. They're not going to buy this unconditional love."
Lauer set up the question to the show's Today's Professionals panel by describing the New York culture as antithetical to Tebow's Christian values: "Is this a fit? This is New York City. The city that never sleeps. This is Joe Namath town, that he owned as a swinging bachelor. It's the city of A-Rod and Donald Trump."
Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today, left-wing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow spun the Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare as being a judgment of how partisan the high court has become: "...this may as much be a referendum on the Supreme Court and whether or not the Roberts court is so conservatively politicized that it will make a decision to hurt the President, rather than sticking closely to precedent here."
Maddow touted a recent Bloomberg poll, "that 75% of people think that the Supreme Court will decide based on their political beliefs, not on the law." She conveniently left out the results of the latest CBS News/New York Times poll that showed only 36% of Americans approve of ObamaCare, while 47% disapprove. A recent Rasmussen poll showed 56% favoring repeal of the law.
On Monday's NBC Today, Tom Brokaw reported on veteran Mike Wright returning from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan to continue work at New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant: "Entergy, Wright's employer, supported his deployments. Veteran hiring is a priority for the company, not out of sympathy, but as an investment in the bottom line....Mike Wright and Entergy, that's how it's supposed to work."
Now compare that praise for the plant's hiring practices, with NBC News fear-mongering almost exactly one year ago, shortly after the earthquake and nuclear crisis in Japan. On the March 20, 2011 Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt ominously warned: "A government report has found the plant with the highest risk of core damage from an earthquake here is just about 35 miles from our studios here in New York City at the Indian Point plant."
Sinking to a new low in their disdain for Dick Cheney, the hosts on Monday's NBC Today wondered if the former vice president should have received a recent heart transplant, with Ann Curry declaring at the top of the broadcast: "...even though he has waited longer than most to receive his donor heart, some are questioning whether someone that old should be getting one..." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Fellow co-host Matt Lauer described Cheney as "somebody who tends to stir controversy," who "can cause all kinds of controversy if he orders a cup of tea."
In the report that followed, NBC's left-wing chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman sounded like a one-person death panel, as she fretted: "...this has raised a lot of ethical questions, moral questions, about whether the Vice President, in fact, should have received his heart against – ahead of other people. And, raises the question, how old is too old to receive such a precious transplant?"
On Friday's NBC Today, news anchor Natalie Morales worried about the safety of reality star Kim Kardashian after a "nasty surprise" at a red carpet event: "...a woman threw white powder on the starlet. Paramedics were called to the hotel, but Kardashian refused treatment....The woman who allegedly threw the so-called flour bomb was detained but later released."
The same concern was never extended to Republican presidential candidates who endured glitter-bomb attacks from radical gay activists at campaign events. In fact, NBC actually depicted those incidents as gaffes and stumbles for the candidates.
On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams touted the handiwork of Planned Parenthood's vicious attacks against the Susan G. Komen foundation: "The nation's largest breast cancer charity remains in turmoil tonight after a controversial attempt to cut off its funding of Planned Parenthood. Donations to the Susan G. Komen Foundation are down sharply in many areas."
NBC News, and Williams particularly, were quite complicit in furthering those attacks on Komen. On the February 1 broadcast, Williams declared: "A decision that's making a lot of women furious at the world's largest breast cancer organization. Why did it cut off funds for critical breast cancer screenings?"
On her eponymous MSNBC program on Wednesday, host Andrea Mitchell slammed congressional Republicans for voting down reauthorization and funding of the U.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank: "If I'm sitting out there and watching this program, I would, you know, likely say right now these people in Congress are idiots." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
Mitchell interviewed the bank's director, Fred Hochberg, and lobbed softballs: "What happens in the real world with an agency that is supposed to create jobs is going to have to lay people off if you don't get reauthorized?" What she failed to ask Hochberg about was the bank providing loans to companies fronting for Mexican drug cartels or to European companies hoping to buy solar panels from bankrupt solar energy company Solyndra.


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I have a combo-box in which the values are being displayed in a template.
Now, I want the width of the template to be more than that of combo-box and hence I am using matchFieldWidth:false as mentioned at the link - ExtJS ComboBox dropdown width wider than input box width?
But when I do so, then in the list of values there is no scrollbar displayled due to which the user is able to see only the first two values. The complete list gets displayed as soon as matchFieldWidth:false is removed, but then the width of template is reduced to that of combo-box which is not what is wanted.
Below is my code:
xtype: 'combo',
id: 'testId',
name: 'testName',
displayField: 'vslCd',
valueField: 'vslCd',
fieldLabel: 'Vessel Code',
store: storeVesselCodeVar,
matchFieldWidth: false,
queryMode: 'remote',
listConfig: {
loadingText: 'Loading...',
width: 400,
getInnerTpl: function () {
return '

Vessel Code:{vslCd}

Vessel Name:{vslNm}

';
Could anyone please suggest that what can be the reason behind this and how to resolve this? Attached is a screenshot related to the problem.
I am using this ExtJS4 and IE9.

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plants in which harvesting also makes new plants
Here in the part of California where I live, the native Miwok used to harvest Brodiaea bulbs at the right time of the year, using a digging stick. When they did this, it would break up the corms and make more Brodiaea bulbs. When the Europeans arrived and ended the Miwok's land management practices such as harvesting these bulbs, Brodiaea became a very rare plant, when it used to be abundant.
As a permaculture designer, this is a dream scenario. I am still trying to figure out where to find Brodiae bulbs to propogate in my garden, but I'm am also wondering about other plants that can be sown at the same time they are harvested in this manner.
Anybody know of any?
Lots of bulb-type plants grow corms. The one that I get the most use out of is elephant garlic. The corms take a couple/few years to make a full elephant bulb, but you will get an edible "round" after one year in the ground. I harvest the elephant garlic (not a true garlic) in the summer and replant corms in the fall after an hour soak in water.
Walking onions have bulbils at the top of the stems and propagate like mad.
Hardneck variety garlics grow bulbils that can be replanted as well. Of course I always miss a head or two and the whole garlic sprouts in the bed.
Archaeologists think that wheat varieties that we cultivate may have been selected for by how easily the seed is removed from the plant during transport home (accidentally, not on purpose). Similar effect I suppose.
John Scheepers has several varieties:


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Variable Recombination Efficiency in Responder Transgenes Activated by Cre Recombinase in the Vasculature
- Bochiwe Hara-Kaonga,
- Yu Alice Gao,
- Matthew Havrda,
- Anne Harrington,
- Ivy Bergquist,
- Lucy Liaw
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Cre recombinase has become a ubiquitous tool in transgenic strategies for regulation of transgene expression in a tissue-specific manner. We report analysis of two SM22αCre lines and their ability to mediate genomic recombination in five independent Cre-responsive transgenic lines. One of the SM22αCre lines developed was a tet-on system based on the reverse tetracycline transactivator. Our goal was to use this strategy to inhibit the Notch signaling pathway specifically in smooth muscle cells. Our responder transgenes contained a constitutively expressed marker gene (chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, CAT), flanked by loxP sites in direct orientation, upstream of Notch-related transgenes. We developed two dominant negative Notch transgenic responder lines activated by Cre-mediated DNA recombination. The first is the extracellular domain of human Jagged1, and the second is the extracellular domain of the human Notch2 receptor. Despite high expression of the marker gene in all responder lines, we found that Cre-mediated genomic recombination between these five lines was highly variable, ranging from 46 to 93% of individuals using an SM22αCre activating strain, or 8–58% of individuals using an inducible SM22αrtTACre. In all cases examined, detection of recombination by PCR correlated with expression of the transgene as determined by Western blot analysis. Our studies reflect the variability in recombination success based on the responder strain, presumably due to inaccessibility of the locus of integration of the responder allele.
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- Title
- Variable Recombination Efficiency in Responder Transgenes Activated by Cre Recombinase in the Vasculature
- Journal
Transgenic Research
Volume 15, Issue 1 , pp 101-106
- Cover Date
- 2006-02-01
- 10.1007/s11248-005-2541-8
- Print ISSN
- 0962-8819
- Online ISSN
- 1573-9368
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Cre recombinase
- Jagged1
- Notch
- reverse tetracycline transactivator
- SM22α
- vascular
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Bochiwe Hara-Kaonga (1)
- Yu Alice Gao (1) (2)
- Matthew Havrda (1)
- Anne Harrington (1)
- Ivy Bergquist (1)
- Lucy Liaw (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, 81 Research Drive, Scarborough, ME, 04074, USA
- 2. Corning Life Sciences, Kennebunk, ME, USA


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Plantronics Savi W730 Wireless Headset
The Plantronics Savi W730 is part of the Plantronics Savi 700 series of DECT headsets. The single ear Savi W730 has an over the ear wearing style, a noise-canceling microphone that reduces background noise interruptions, and triple connectivity for use with desk, soft and mobile phones.
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The Plantronics Savi 700 Series is changing the way productivity-focused office professionals communicate. With three-way connectivity, easily manage and switch between PC, desk phone, and now mobile calls from a single wireless headset. With a new convertible headset Plantronics has added the lightest DECT headset on the market to our suite of wearing styles so you can choose the one that's best for you. Optimized for Unified Communications, the Savi 730 updates your status* to "busy" on PC, mobile and even desk phone calls so colleagues can see your availability. This intelligent system combines best-in-class sound quality, hands-free mobility and hours of talk time for ultimate efficiency. Once you experience a Savi 730 you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
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End Search TEASER
It's the beginning to the end for the search in this teaser. You've heard of this project, you may have seen or donated to it on Kickstarter, now it's time to see the start of this project.
It's the beginning to the end for the search in this teaser. You've heard of this project, you may have seen or donated to it on Kickstarter, now it's time to see the start of this project.
Think Thank Snowboarding Almanac presents "Methods of Prediction" The Teaser. Scattered across the wind worn plains a group of free spirited snowboard life enthusiasts search for magical moments and the future of fun. Armed with snowboards, shovels, 2 white vans, various propulsion devices, cones, cans and combat like bond of friendship the Think Thank crew […]
The sixth time is the charm for the Sane crew. Sanezeta has all their premier riders hitting everything from powder to urban rails while giving it that humorous homie movie vibe.
The JKD crew from Spain has finalized their movie and it will drop November 10th. Till then this is the last teaser for Finisterre which is chalk full of bangers and slams that will make you go "god that looks painful."
There's certain things you can count on when the Sexual Snowboarding crew makes a movie. Slams, humor, and then more humor with slams. Thank you Halldor and crew for doing this.
Get ready for this east coast crews movie dropping sometime this winter. Yes, that's right this movie totally captures the rough and rugged riding of the right coast. You know you want to watch it.
The Yougofirst Collective has done it yet again. They made an audio and visual feast for our shred souls with their latest offering Heterotopia.
From 2012 to early 2014 the Nasty Slugz set out to make a snowboard movie. Two years in the making they finally have a trailer for this project.
The teaser for this short as fuck film by the On Donuts and Biscuit crew will leave you glazed over. You'll stare into space and wonder how this Tahoe crew was able to get any clips in a season that got next to no snow there.
Translating the Japanese description of this movie into English yields some very interesting results. Rather than try to decipher it lets just say the pow riding speaks for itself.


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Grading the top 10 after Darlington
Grading the top 10 after Darlington
Grading the top 10 after Darlington
Sporting News
Here's our weekly grading of the top 10 drivers in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series points standings. All race and performance references are from Sunday's Dodge Avenger 500 at Darlington Raceway.
1. Jeff Gordon, A; 1,881 points. Team 24's gamble paid off, which reminded me of Tony Stewart's win at Kansas last year. Question: If this were a Chase race, would the 24 have stayed on the track?
2. Jimmie Johnson, C; 1,650. I know Johnson posted another terrific finish, but I can't get past the 48's decision to pit with the lead. Question: If the 24 weren't running in clean air at the end, would it have made it to the finish? I don't think so.
3. Matt Kenseth, A; 1,582. Kenseth started 31st and finished seventh. His average start through 10 races is 23.7; his average finish is 8.5. Question: Would he have more than one victory if he didn't have to spend so much time and energy fighting through the field every week? Still, the cat is third in points.
4. Denny Hamlin, C; 1,539. Hamlin's grade dropped a letter for each time the front tire changer dropped lug nuts. Hamlin has led 611 laps this year, second only to Gordon's 674. Gordon, though, has three wins; Hamlin has none. Hamlin deserves much better. Question: Who has led 27 laps in 2007 but has a win? Answer: Keep reading.
5. Jeff Burton, B; 1,486. The answer is Burton (who finished 10th Sunday), and he led one lap when he won at Texas -- which was the last time he finished in the top 10. Burton started 34th but was able to work his way through the field. He must be getting used to that. His past four starts have been from 34, 39, 42 and 31, although the 42 at Talladega was by design.
6. Tony Stewart, A; 1,375. Smoke really wasn't in the center of the action. He didn't lead a lap, and his average running position was 13th; only Burton's 18th was lower among drivers in the top 10. But you know what? Stewart finished sixth, and that's what matters.
7. Kurt Busch, B; 1,325. Busch finished 12th, fading at the end -- he was third with 37 laps to go. Still, his finish was strong enough to move him two spots higher in the points standings.
8. Kevin Harvick, B; 1,315. An untimely caution flag buried the No. 29 two laps down. He spent the rest of the race climbing back to the lead lap and ultimately finished 17th on the lead lap. Nice effort.
9. Clint Bowyer, A; 1,302. Bowyer got his first pole and responded with a ninth-place finish aided by the No. 07 team's best day on pit road -- Bowyer's pit crew earned him 16 positions in the pits.
10. Carl Edwards, A; 1,291. Edwards had fun at his favorite track, starting fourth and finishing fifth. He might have had more fun if not a for a commitment-line penalty that forced him to restart 25th on Lap 189. Still, Edwards made up the ground for his best finish since November 2006 at Phoenix.
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Chalk one up for the monkey in the middle of a copyright brouhaha.
U.S. copyright authorities issued a report Thursday suggesting that a monkey's selfie cannot be copyrighted by a nature photographer whose camera was swiped by the primate in the jungle during a 2011 shoot in Indonesia.
The female crested black macaque went bananas, taking hundreds of selfies. The best of the bunch, showing her smiling toothily into the lens, went viral.
A dispute began after British wildlife photographer David Slater, whose equipment was used to shoot the photos, asked Wikimedia to remove one of the shots from Wikimedia Commons, a repository of images free for public use. Slater argued that he owns the rights to the monkey shot. Wikimedia refused, saying the copyright isn't Slater's because he didn't take the photo.
Thursday's report comes two weeks after Wikimedia, the nonprofit foundation behind Wikipedia, declared that the monkey's photos are in the public domain.
Two Texas A&M University School of Law professors offered their viewpoints on the matter in a video posted on the school's website Thursday. The video mixes a discussion of the case shot in the Texas A&M law library with shots of monkeys at the Fort Worth Zoo.
The dispute boils down to a question of authorship, says Megan Carpenter, director of the Fort Worth school's Center for Law and Intellectual Property.
"Can you author a photograph? What you're doing, really, is framing reality," Carpenter says. "There's a lot of creativity that goes into photography. That element of control over the subject matter, the timing, the rendition of the subject, the posing — all of that can go into the authorial nature of the photographer."
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Keith Richards Year By Year: 1963-2015 Photographs
Here's a photograph from every year of Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards' over five-decade long career.
As one half of the fabled Glimmer Twins, Keith Richards doesn't make many solo albums. Still, it could be argued that one of them helped save the Rolling Stones. His gold-selling 'Talk is Cheap' LP arrived in 1988 as the Stones were at a low ebb, and sparked Richards' first-ever solo tour. Not long after, Richards reunited with a suitably impressed Mick Jagger, though a second Richards project followed in 1990. Richards also moonlighted with Rolling Stones bandmate Ron Wood as a member of an all-star late-'70s group called the New Barbarians, and on some of Wood's albums. More recently, Richards has taken up acting as part of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie franchise. A 1978 solo version of 'Run Rudolph Run' remains a holiday staple on classic-rock radio stations.
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I like this hotel but I not used to the way the staff treat their guess I felt they were fake and acting not real at all . I hope this hotel will be a little more friendly and make you feel more at home . the place is clean and the bellmen are
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Posted by Manish Bahl on October 31, 2011
Forrester expects two different patterns of urbanization will emerge in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan (APEJ), each with its own rate of technology adoption, maturity of implementation, and ways in which cities will use technology to support urbanization. Forrester defines two categories of urbanization: cities in countries with low-to-moderate urbanization (LMU), and those with high urbanization (HU). Each of these is prevalent in a different set of countries, has different technology requirements, and will emphasize a different set of technology underpinnings for its eGovernment efforts.
Nevertheless, Forrester predicts that seven technologies will be common to all cities to underpin their efforts to grapple with urbanization:
Posted by Dan Bieler on October 31, 2011
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This was possibly the most important Nokia World event ever. Nokia had to demonstrate that it can deliver against its plans. In February 2011, Nokia communicated its intention to team up with Microsoft to develop its new platform and to "entrust" its Symbian operating system to Accenture. In total, 3,000 visitors from 70 countries attended Nokia World 2011 in London to hear and see what the "new Nokia" looks like.
In essence, it was clear what Nokia World 2011 would be all about before the actual event had even started. Nokia had to produce a device that can take on the iPhone and the Galaxy. At the event, Nokia announced the launch of the first "real Windows phone" in the form of the Lumia 800. The result is an impressive device that certainly secured Nokia a seat at the table of the tripartite of leading smartphones platforms.
At a price point of €420, the Lumia 800 impresses through a very intuitive and refreshing interface. And yes, the choice of Microsoft as a partner has certainly produced the best ever Nokia device. It will give Apple and Samsung a run for their money. It was all the more noticeable that Microsoft was absent during the key note address. Nokia also unveiled its emerging market flagship "Asha" device series, which sits somewhere between feature and smartphones. The Asha family comprises four models that target the youth segment in emerging markets. These devices are priced between €60 to €115, feature touch and QWERTY, games like Angry Birds, and one of them is also dual SIM.
Posted by Dan Bieler on October 28, 2011
In recent weeks, Sprint's shares have been hammered. The share price has fallen by 40% since the beginning of the year, reflecting investors' concerns about the long-term position of Sprint in the US wireless market. Not surprisingly, Sprint has been the most vocal opponent of the planned $39B acquisition of T-Mobile US by AT&T, which was announced in March 2011. Sprint argues that the deal would manifest itself in a loss of competition in the US wireless market if the fourth- and second-largest wireless carriers in the US merge (Sprint is No. 3). The US Department of Justice (DoJ) seems to share this concern and blocked the acquisition in August 2011 in order to preserve a vibrant and competitive marketplace.
Despite the DoJ's opposition, most observers expected some form of compromise to emerge, even if it took a court fight to do so. Both AT&T and Deutsche Telekom (DT) reiterated their eagerness to pursue the deal as the DoJ announced its decision. However, in our view, Sprint's challenging situation increases the likelihood that the deal will not go through as planned: Sprint looks weaker now than several months ago. Its announcement in October 2011 that it will take on additional debt to fund the rollout of its LTE network only increases liquidity concerns. This will sway the DOJ's position further toward rejecting the deal for good in an effort to support a healthy US wireless market.
Posted by Frank Gillett on October 27, 2011
HP made the right decision today to keep the Personal Systems Group. Beyond the reasons cited, supply chain and sales synergy and expense of spinning out, it's also crucial for HP to remain in the market for personal devices, which is entering a period of radical transformation and opportunity. The innovations spawned first by RIM with the BlackBerry, followed by the transformative effects of Apple's iPhone and iPad are beginning to ripple into the PC market. Apple's MacBook Air and Lion operating system, combined with Microsoft's Metro interface for Windows 8 herald the beginning of a transformation of personal computing devices. By keeping PSG, HP has the opportunity to innovate and differentiate in the PC market that will move away from commodity patterns.
For vendor strategists at vendors of all sizes, one of the lessons of HP's decision is that consumer businesses are becoming more relevant to succeeding in commercial products for end users. During the announcement call today, CEO Meg Whitman talked about the importance of "consumerization" in winning business from enterprises. I heartily endorse that view and look forward to sharing a report soon on how consumerization is changing commercial product development.
Do you think consumerization was a part of why HP kept PCs?
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Posted by Andrew Bartels on October 27, 2011
Tech vendors got two pieces of good news today.
First, European leaders appear to have reached agreement on a three-phase initiative that will 1) reduce the debt burden on Greece by about half, reducing its debt-to-GDP level to a potentially affordable level of 120%; 2) push European banks to increase their capital by about $150 billion so they can better withstand writedowns on their portfolio of Greek, Portuguese, Irish, and potentially other government debt; and 3) increase the funding for the European Financial Stability Facility to about €1 trillion (US$1.4 trillion) in order to extend credit if needed to Italy and Spain in addition to Greece, Italy, and Portugal. Taken together, these initiatives if followed through will go a long way to defusing the debt problem that has hung over European economies. It is premature to say the European debt crisis is over -- European leaders have consistently been several months late and several hundred million euros short of the aggressive rescue efforts that the US took to deal with the Lehman Brothers financial crisis. Still, this is the first time that European leaders have come up with a plan that matches the scope of the problem they face. While weak economic growth and continued downturns in most heavily indebted European countries will still persist, we think the risk of a serious recession in Europe may have been averted.
Posted by Dan Bieler on October 24, 2011
It's easy to bash incumbent telcos, to count them as being among the losers in the digital revolution. Cloud services players are taking business from telcos in the storage and server capacity space. Over-the-top providers are free-riding on the telco infrastructure. Software firms are eating into the communication business. Regulators are pressing for further price reductions. And to top this scenario, telcos are continuing to undercut each other in price wars.
During a round of executive discussions with Forrester, Orange Business Services (OBS) has shown that against these odds, it keeps a pretty even keel regarding the most hyped topics in ICT, most notably cloud and mobility. OBS is selective in its cloud offerings, focusing on UCaaS and IaaS. UCaaS is a natural extension of its communication business and thus falls into OBS' home turf. All telcos should see communication services from the cloud as a natural extension of what they have always done.
OBS' drive into IaaS, meanwhile, looks like a less convincing pitch. Its IaaS offering essentially comprises a virtual data centre offering with virtual firewalls and load balancing. The question is: How OBS can compete against the dominant cloud players in the storage and server space? In the short term, such an approach is conceivable. However, OBS will need to provide a much broader range of virtual infrastructure choices to avoid slipping into a low-margin market segment.
Posted by Ted Schadler on October 22, 2011
My colleague Gene Leganza has pulled off a consumerization coup for enterprise architects (EAs) and those who work with them. EAs must wrestle with the best way to harness the innovation of HEROes -- highly empowered and resourceful operatives (the protagonist of our book Empowered) -- while protecting the long-term interests and technology strategy of your company. To do so, they need to assess and come up with a strategy for the major consumer technologies coming in through the employee door.
Gene has done a real service to categorize and deliver a strategic assessment on the most important consumerization technologies, including business collaboration, file sync, tablets, and self-service business intelligence. He did this using Forrester's TechRadar methodology in a report titled, "TechRadar For Enterprise Architect Professionals: Technologies For Empowered Employees: Q4 2011." For content & collaboration professionals, this TechRadar includes an assessment of business collaboration, a category fueled by employee-purchased technologies such as Google Docs, Smartsheets.com, and Huddle.
Posted by Ted Schadler on October 20, 2011
Mobility in the enterprise is a goat rodeo waiting to happen. Are any of these things going on in your company?
If so, you're not alone. It's natural in a fast-moving environment to tackle things piecemeal in the hope that you can handle the problems later. But that approach leads to chaos and confusion and lack of coordination. And that can lead to huge problems that are happening already or are lurking just behind the goat rodeo gate.
It's time to take a deep breath, call an offsite meeting, and put a mobile strategy playbook together. In a recent report for Forrester customers, Building An Operations Stairway To The Mobile Future, my colleagues and I mashed together seven things that have to come together to make mobile operations work. It's not the full chapter list in the playbook, but it's a good operational start.
Posted by Ted Schadler on October 18, 2011
I spend a lot of time delivering PowerPoint presentations, pitching ideas and data and hopefully some pizzazz and inspiration. And that means I'm lugging my 7-pound laptop and 1-pound charger around, projecting via a dodgy VGA cable with doubtful video qualities, and mouseclicking my way through the story. It's all good because it's all I've ever known. And it beats swapping foils on an overhead projectors. (Why do they call those transparencies foils??)
But, sometimes it would be so much more convenient for me to toss my 1.3-pound iPad2 sans charger into a small bag, hop on the US Airways Shuttle to New York, and pitch the deck while leaving the laptop and charger at home. And if it's true for me, then it has to be true for your iPad-totin' sales teams.
Until now, I've not found a decent PowerPoint solution on iPad. As much as I believe that Microsoft will eventually offer PowerPoint on iPad, I need an answer now. Apple's Keynote requires a big adjustment for me (and for the rest of my ecosystem), and PDF rendering kills the thrill of PowerPoint builds and messes up my storytelling punchlines.
Then along comes SlideShark from online presentation vendor Brainshark. It's animation-complete, hassle-free, PowerPoint-on-iPad (PoiP). So far it works like a champ.
Brainshark is known for its ability to host presentations with voiceover and other stuff as a way to train sales folks and others online and on mobile devices. The company has been around since 1999 and has won over many enterprise customers. Their favorite factoid is, and I quote, "A Brainshark is created every 3 minutes and viewed every 2.5 seconds, with over 1 million views/month."
Posted by Nigel Fenwick on October 17, 2011
It's strange, but some things about the CIO role change very little from year to year -- and one of the most consistent priorities for CIOs has always been achieving better "alignment" with "the business." But should this really be a top priority?
I can't help it, I really dislike the term "alignment" -- it suggests to me that CIOs are trying to bring together two separate and distinct things: "the business" and "IT." But the really successful CIOs already know this specific language sets everyone up to perceive IT as something apart from the business. And we all know that every business has technology woven intricately throughout -- to suggest technology is not a vital part of business success is simply wrong. So instead of talking about aligning IT with the rest of the business, we need to focus on ensuring the business is using technology to achieve defined goals and deliver business results.
Unfortunately, for many companies, IT appears to be in the software development business -- responding to "orders" from "internal customers" and busily delivering applications. CIOs need to ask: "what business are we in?" For most CIOs, the answer will undoubtedly NOT be the technology business. For these CIOs, the most precious skill IT can bring to the organization is business knowledge and process understanding coupled with technology know-how. By helping identify how technology can change the business dynamics and move the organization more efficiently toward its objectives, IT becomes the foundation for competitive advantage. In other words, IT needs to be in the business of helping shape business strategy.
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Fab hotel, best location in Krakow
Stayed for 3 nights in November. was concerned at the pictures on the hotel website as the rooms look a bit old fashioned, but based on reviews booked anyway. Was very impressed by the hotel - seems to have been newly refurbished, our bathroom was immaculate. Sheets changed daily, hotel breakfast was great, staff very friendly. View from the room was fabulous, best we have had. Only downside was that the square is being resurfaced on one side so was a bit of a mess, but this should be done in the next couple of weeks. Guidebooks I bought - Dorling Kindersly and Insight guide so not cover this hotel and must be out of date as they have the Wentzl restuarant situated in the basement which it isn't. The Insight Guide was pulbished in 2006 (?)
Krakow is very beautiful and historic - go there before the stag parties take it over and turn it into Prague 2.
Fantatsic find
Stayed at the Wentzl from 10th - 14th November 2005 and having read all the other reviews I can honestly say it was one of the best hotels we have ever stayed in. The staff were very friendly and helpful and the service was exceptional.We dined in the restaurant one evening and the food was wonderful and beautifully presented and we didn't think that it was all that expensive.The hotel is located right on the market square in an excellent position. The hotel has no lift so you should bear that in mind when booking. All in all a good choice and we would definately return to the hotel and to Krakow.
A great hotel but...
This great hotel should be 4 stars but does not have a lift. You need to be fit to climb those stairs. The restaurant is one of the best in Krakow and reservations are required. The only minus point is that the walls are wafer thin. You can hear everything that is going on in the room next to you. This of course for some could be a plus! However it has put us off returning to the Wentzl. Bit of a pity really.
Loved it!
This is a fabulous old hotel with all the modern conveniences. Great service, free internet for laptop users in your room. The service was exceptional, our room fabulous, the breakfasts to die for. They are adding 6 more rooms, for a total of 18 and adding an elevator, we were told, early next year. What more can I say!!! Krakow is fabulous but I'd come just to stay at this Hotel!!
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3 nights at the Wentzl. What a glorious location! View of Market Square, with great people watching. I was concerned about noise, but the windows are well insulated. The room was comfortable and well appointed, although the artwork on the walls was very unusual for a hotel. There is no elevator here, so 3 long flights of stairs does add up after several times a day. The restaurant is excellent; they are very professional and helpful. Indeed, the staff of the hotel was very efficient, and willing to run errands for me (buy stamps, etc.) and arrange a private car for Auschwitz. Again, the location can not be beat, and the eccentricities of the hotel were exceedingly charming in my book.
Great location
Directly on the main square, you can stand at your window for hours and watch the action. And walking up 84 steps to your room will soon work off the effects of all the Polish dumplings. Do not worry if you are a light sleeper, the very thick double windows block out all nocturnal noises.
Best Location
This is the only hotel that looks onto the central plaza. We had a terrific view from our third floor room. Caveat: there is no elevator so if you have health reasons preventing you from climbing stairs or are just lazy, you might want to think twice. Also, the walls seem a little thin. Still, well worth it for the view and location.
Surelt the best and most unique hotel in cracow
This hotel has the best view in cracow overlooking the market square. The rooms are spotlessy clean the showers are very efficient. the breakfast room and restaurant are fit for royalty (check out the hotel photos they have been there). The staff are courteous and most helpful which is a rarity in some places around cracow. This hotel represents true value for money. It only has twelve rooms and no lifts so not suitable for immobile people. Even though our room overlooked the square it was quiet and warm. (room has air con and radiator heating. The restaurant has food cooked and prepared to an exceptionally high standard at an exception value for money. our 3 course meal complete with drinks was �48. The meal was one of the best we have had anywhere in the world (and we have travelled) Even if you dont stay here have a meal, but be sure to book, guests get 11% discount. The rates include breakfast which consists of FRESH fruit salads, cereals, meats and cheese, breads and a selection of dishes cooked fresh (eggs vienna was our favourite).
Wonderful staff
Staff are wonderful, nothing is too much trouble for them - including getting their baklery to deliver me some of their wonderful breakfast bread to bring back to the UK! Beds are a bit hard... rooms were really warm (-20 outside), water hot, resturant good but not cheap by Polish standards - fish soup to be particularly recommended!
A great hotel
What a fantastic hotel.
Great location,very helpful,friendly staff,amazing view,wonderful restaurant and an amazing price!
i really cannot recommend this hotel enough.
everything was just perfect.
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SAEX Solid 2Q13: 37.7% Upside With Limited Downside And 3:1 Reward/Risk 0 commentsAug 14, 2013 9:01 AM | about stocks: SAEX
SAEX reported its first stand-alone quarter as a public company, and will release its 10Q filing on or before August 19th. It was an excellent quarter - we're getting a clearer picture of the earnings power and just how little we're paying for the underlying business. For a deep dive on the quality of the company see the prior posting on TRIO.
- Guidance was unchanged and EBITDA by my estimate is tracking at the high end of the full year range. Management reiterated its underlying business optimism for 2013 and beyond.
- Operating income was up 13% year over year in 1H2013 vs. 1H2012
- Backlog was up 41% to $285mm from $200mm in the prior year quarter
- $126mm of new contracts recorded in 2Q2013 in South America, North America and Southeast Asia - majority to begin in Q32013 and continue through Q12014
- The top line was down slightly year over year because of a one-time benefit in the prior year quarter.
- Given that Operating Income is on a $34mm run rate and that the D&A figure we have from 1Q13 annualizes to $15mm, the company is on pace to generate $49mm of EBITDA for the full year. That is the high end of the $46mm-$50mm guidance range and implies that the company is today trading on just under 4.4x 2013E EBITDA. Too cheap! We will get precise numbers later this week in the 10Q, or perhaps tomorrow on the conference call.
- This company has a market cap in the neighborhood of $146mm but can throw off $31mm/year in free cash when it slows capex, and has 1.4x Net Debt/EBITDA. That's remarkably cheap: a free cash flow multiple of $146/$31 = 4.7x. Below please see how I get to that free cash flow estimate.
'13E EBIT(1-t) 22.1mm = 34mm x (1-35%) after tax EBIT Plus: D&A $15mm annualizing 1Q13A Less: CAPX <$5mm> maintenance capex Less: Net W/C <$1mm> high side to be conservative FCF Est. $31.1mm total
8. Here is an updated valuation table:
SAEX Low Mid High '13E EBITDA 49.0 49.0 49.0 TEV/EBITDA 4.5 5.0 5.5 Implied TEV 220.5 245.0 269.5 Less: Net Debt 69.2 69.2 69.2 =Equity Value 151.3 175.8 200.3 Fully Diluted S/O 15.0 15.0 15.0 Share Price $10.09 $11.72 $13.35 % Up/Dn ($9.70) 4.0% 20.8% 37.7%
If one puts the shares on say 4.0x '13E then the stock trades to $8.45, or 12.9% down - and 37.7% up (on 5.5x) to $13.35.
Remember all the good things we like about SAEX (sound management, limited working capital and capex intensity, ability to deploy incremental capital at high rates of return, less seasonal, less sensitive to oil and gas prices, less geographically sensitive etc).
The SPAC deal succeeded and the first stand-alone quarter looks good. The stock has a reward/risk approaching 3:1, limited downside, and a profitable growing franchise.
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Diagonal Mesh Inset Leggings
Style # 217137
AVAILABILITY: Unavailable for immediate shipment.
Amp up your weekend style with this pair of bebe leggings, featuring geometric sheer mesh panels and a fresh lightweight stretch. Try yours with a high-low tunic and a pair of embellished heels to dress them up.
- 92% nylon, 8% spandex
- Hand wash according to care label
- Made in USA
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
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