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1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters You can discard any number of cards to return the same number of cards from the field to the hand.
1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters You can Tribute monsters to inflict damage to your opponent equal to its Level x 200
1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters. When this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, you can Special Summon that monster to your side of the field in face-up Defense Position.
"Relinquished" + "Thousand-Eyes Idol"As long as this card remains face-up on the field, other monsters cannot change their battle positions or attack. Select 1 monster on your opponent's side of the field, and equip it to this card (this effect can only be used once per turn, and you can only equip 1 monster at a time to this card). The ATK and DEF of this card become the same amounts as the monster equipped to this card. If this card is destroyed as a result of battle, the equipped monster is destroyed instead.
1 Tuner + 2 or more non-Tuner monstersWhen this card is Synchro Summoned, you can activate this effect to remove from play up to one card each from your opponent's hand, field and Graveyard. (The card in the hand is chosen at random.)
This card can only be Special Summoned by removing 1 LIGHT and 1 DARK monster in your Graveyard from play. Pay 1000 of your Life Points to send all cards in both players' hands and on the field to the Graveyard. Inflict 300 points of damage to your opponent's Life Points for each card that is sent to the Graveyard by this effect.
FLIP: Destroy all monsters on the field. Both players then pick up 5 cards from the top of their respective Decks and Special Summon all Level 4 or lower Monster Cards among them on the field in face-up Attack Position or face-down Defense Position. The rest of the cards picked up are added to their respective hands.
Pay 5000 Life Points. Special Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Fusion Deck to the field in Attack Position.
When this card is Normal Summoned or Special Summoned successfully, you can add 1 Spell Card from your Graveyard to your hand. A monster that is destroyed by this monster as a result of battle is removed from play instead of going to the Graveyard. When this card is destroyed or removed from the field, it is removed from play.
When this card is Special Summoned from the Graveyard: Draw 2 cards.
FLIP: Both players unite all their respective cards on the field, in their hands, and in their Graveyards with their respective Decks and shuffle them. Then both players draw 5 cards from their shuffled Decks.
If you control a face-up level 3 or lower WATER monster, you can discard 1 card to Special Summon this card from your Graveyard. If this card is used as a Synchro Material Monster, the other Synchro Material Monsters must all be WATER monsters.
You can send the top card of your Deck to the Graveyard and Special Summon this card from the Graveyard. Each player can only use the effect of "Glow-Up Bulb" once per Duel.
Pay 1000 Life Points to Special Summon 1 level 6 or lower Fusion Monster from your Fusion Deck in face-up Attack or Defense Position. That Fusion Monster cannot attack your opponent's Life Points directly and is returned to your Fusion Deck at the end of the turn.
FLIP: Select 1 Magic card from your Graveyard and return it to your hand.
During the turn this card is sent to the Graveyard, the owner of this card can activate Trap Card(s) from his/her hand.
You can pay 800 Life Points and Tribute 1 Psychic-Type monster,excpt "Mind Master" , to Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Psychic-Type monster from your Deck in Face-up Attack Position
During your Standby Phase, if a "Sinister Serpent" exists in your Graveyard, you can return the "Sinister Serpent" to your hand.
You can Tribute 1 monster to Special Summon 1 "Frog" monster from your Deck, except "Frog the Jam". "Frog" monsters, except "Frog the Jam", cannot be destroyed by battle.
Discard 1 card from your hand and declare 1 type of monster to destroy all face-up monsters of the declared Type on both sides of the field.
When this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard, move 1 monster with a DEF of 1500 or less from your Deck to your hand. Your Deck is then shuffled.
This card cannot be Special Summoned. This card returns to the owner's hand during the End Phase of the turn that it is Normal Summoned, Flip Summoned or flipped face-up. When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points, your opponent skips his/her next Draw Phase.
Pay 800 Life Points. Select 1 face-up monster on your opponent's side of the field. Take control of the selected card until the End Phase of the turn this card is activated.
When a monster is Special Summoned to the field from your Graveyard, you can draw 1 card from your Deck.
Select and control 1 opposing monster (regardless of position) on the field until the end of your turn.
This card can only be activated at the start of your Main Phase 1. Until your next turn, neither player can activate or Set Spell or Trap Cards, or activate their effects.
Pay 1000 Life Points. Look at your opponent's hand, select 1 card in it and discard that card.
Pay 1000 Life Points. Randomly select and discard 1 card from your opponent's hand. Your opponent then selects and discards another card from his/her hand.
Returns all Magic and Trap cards on the field to the respective owner's hands.
Draw 3 cards from your Deck, then discard any 2 cards from your hand.
Destroys all of your opponent's Magic and Trap Cards on the field.
You can only use this card's effect once, and only during this turn. When a monster on your side of the field is sent to your Graveyard, you can Special Summon 1 monster with an ATK of 1500 points or less from your Deck. Then shuffle your Deck.
Offer 1 monster on your side of the field as a Tribute to Special Summon 1 Fusion Monster of the same Level in face-up Attack or Defense Position from your Fusion Deck. Monsters used for a Tribute Summon or that are offered as Tribute due to other card's effects are excluded.
Select 5 cards from your Deck and show them to your opponent. Your opponent must select 1 card that will be added to your hand. Discard the remaining cards to the Graveyard.
Draw 2 cards from your Deck.
Pay 800 Life Points. Select 1 Monster Card from your Graveyard, Special Summon it on the field in face-up Attack Position, and equip it with this card. When this card is destroyed, the monster is also destroyed.
Destroy all monsters your opponent controls.
Take control of a monster on your opponent's side of the field that is equipped with this card. Increase your opponent's Life Points by 1000 points during each of his/her Standby Phases.
Look at your opponent's hand, then select 1 card and return it to his/her Deck. The Deck is then shuffled.
Tribute 1 DARK monster with 1000 or less ATK. Check all monsters your opponent controls, your opponent's hand, and all cards they draw (until the end of your opponent's 3rd turn after this card's activation), and destroy all monsters with 1500 or more ATK.
As long as this card remains face-up on the field, negate the effects of all Spell Cards. Pay 700 Life Points during each of your Standby Phases. If you cannot, this card is destroyed.
Destroy 1 face-up monster and inflict damage to both players equal to its ATK.
Your opponent skips the Draw Phase of his/her next turn.
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Public Intellectuals and Democracy
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The New Alliances of the 21st Century
Read this article: Global Brief (Fall/Winter 2015), 48-52.
A Generation in Need of Hope
Read this article: E-International Relations (13 May 2014).
Operation Diplomacy: Revitalizing the Non-Military Parts of American Foreign Policy
Read this article (co-written with Robert Hutchings): Alcalde Magazine (January/February 2014), 26-29, 95.
The Railroad and the Making of Modern America
Read this article: Center for Railroad Photography and Art exhibit catalog (Spring 2014).
Estado moderno y protestas populares (The Modern State and Global Protests)
Read this article in Spanish: Política Exterior (January/February 2014), 2-11.
Offensive Charm: Why Vladimir Putin Tried – and Failed – to Woo the US Public
Read this article: Foreign Affairs (16 September 2013).
The 21st Century Individual in World Affairs
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The US and the Cold War: Four Ideas that Shaped the 20th Century World
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Frontier U: The Historical and Contemporary Mission of America's Public Universities
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Are Today's Politicians Ready for the Challenges and Opportunities of our Time?
Read this article: Austin Statesman (7 October 2012).
Why the State Still Matters
Read this article: Global Brief Magazine (Spring/Summer 2012), 12-16.
Anxieties of Empire and the Truman Administration
Read this article: in Daniel S. Margolies, ed., A Companion to Harry S. Truman (Blackwell, 2012), 49-66.
The Lingering Cold War
Read this article: in The Establishment Responds: Power, Politics, and Protest since 1945, eds., Fahlenbrach, Klimke, Scharloth, and Wong (2012).
Diplomatic Dead End? Henry Kissinger and the Arab Spring
Read this article: Reform Judaism Magazine (Winter 2011).
Transnational Influences on American Politics
Read this article: Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History (2011), 559-65.
How do We Talk to One Another? The Future of Diplomacy
Read this article: Global Brief Magazine (Spring/Summer 2011), 14-18.
Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
Read this article: History Now 27 (March 2011).
Conflict and Cooperation in the Cold War: New Directions in Research
Read this article: Journal of Contemporary History 46 (January 2011), 5-9.
Orphaned Diplomats: The American Struggle to Match Diplomacy with Power
Read this article: in The Prudent Use of Power (Tobin Project, 2010), 13-30.
Where are the Kissingers for the 21st Century?
Read this article: Global Brief (Winter 2010), 32-35.
Disarmament Attempts Past: Successes and Failures
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American Grand Strategy After the Cold War's End to 9/11
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The Rise and Fall of an International Counterculture, 1960–1975
…Existential angst was not unique to the period, but it became pervasive in a context of heightened promises about a better life and strong fears about the political implications of social deviance. Ideological competition in the Cold War encouraged citizens to look beyond material factors alone, and to seek a deeper meaning in their daily activities.
Read this article: The American Historical Review, 114:45–68, February 2009
Henry Kissinger, the American Dream, and the Jewish Immigrant Experience in the Cold War
Read this article: Diplomatic History 32 (November 2008), 719-47.
Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of Global Conflict since 1945
Read this article: International Journal 63 (Autumn 2008), 1013-29.
Détente and Human Rights: American and West European Perspectives on International Change
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The Promise and Failure of 'Developed Socialism:' The Soviet 'Thaw' and the Crucible of the Prague Spring, 1964-1972
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The Cold War, Decolonization, and Global Social Awakenings: Historical Intersections
Read this article: Cold War History 6 (August 2006), 353-63.
Non-Governmental Organizations and Non-State Actors
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The Cultural Contradictions of Cold War Education: The Case of West Berlin
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Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus?
Read this article: Journal of Cold War Studies 4 (Fall 2002), 60-92.
America's Search for a Technological Solution to the Arms Race: The Surprise Attack Conference of 1958 and a Challenge for "Eisenhower Revisionists"
Read this article: Diplomatic History 21 (Summer 1997), 417-51.
The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam
On the morning of October 27, 1969, a squadron of 18 B-52s — massive bombers with eight turbo engines and 185-foot wingspans — began racing from the western US toward the eastern border of the Soviet Union…Codenamed Giant Lance, [President] Nixon's plan was the culmination of a strategy of premeditated madness he had developed with national security adviser Henry Kissinger.
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The world the superpowers made
The devastation of Europe and Asia in 1945 left two states with inordinate influence on the future course of international affairs – the United States and the Soviet Union. These were the only two countries to emerge from the Second World War stronger than before they entered it. They had mobilised their vast resources for maximum effect: building more weapons and placing more citizens under arms than ever before in either nation's history. They had also expanded their territorial control and influence far beyond previous limits. When US President Harry Truman and Soviet General Secretary Josef Stalin met in Potsdam, Germany in July 1945 most observers recognised that the decisions of these two men would determine the future course of world history.
Read more at History in Focus (Spring 2006) …
Reinventing NASA, Part Two: 'New frontiers' and the tempests along the way
Historians will look back on early 2004 as a momentous period in the life of our universe. The landing of two exploratory vehicles on Mars and President Bush's speech at NASA headquarters indicate that the world has embarked on a new age of exploration…At first glance, Bush's words evoke parallels with President John F. Kennedy's muscular rhetoric in the early 1960s.
Read more at San Francisco Chronicle (February 1, 2004, page D-5) …
Henry Kissinger's Lessons for George W. Bush
Although Kissinger's insights from fighting the Vietnam War have not helped in Iraq, his maneuvers with China do provide a model for navigating relations with Iran. Here is a roadmap for President Bush and Kissinger's closest contemporary counterpart, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to begin their historic opening to Iran.
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VAIL - The free weekly Wednesday Art Walks and tour of Vail Village with the town of Vail's Art in Public Places begin Wednesday. The tour meets at 3:30 p.m. each Wednesday afternoon Wednesday through April 3 at the Vail Village Visitor Information Center on the top level of the parking structure.The hour long walking tour of Vail Village and the public art collection with the town's Art in Public Places Coordinator starts with an introduction to the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum. The tour then winds its way through the Village with discussions of the history of the Vail Valley, the founding of Vail mountain, the master planning of the Village, and the importance of site-specific art. The town's public art collection includes 40 works ranging from painting, sculptures, murals, playground components, to site-integrated art. The tour also visits The Logan Ice Theater on the Gore Creek Promenade. The first of its kind outdoor movie screen created from blocks of ice is a part of this year's Triumph Winterfest, an annual snow and ice sculpture installation. The tour lasts approximately one hour.Contact Molly Eppard, Art in Public Places Coordinator for more information at firstname.lastname@example.com or 970-479-2344. To learn about the town of Vail's public art collection visit our interactive google map on artinvail.com.
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Kelowna Mounties ask for help finding pizzeria robber
Mounties are on the hunt for a robbery suspect who hit up the Papito's pizzeria in Rutland for a slice and some cash.
The Kelowna RCMP received a report of a robbery at Papito's Pizza on Rutland Road South, April 30 at 7:47 p.m.
"A Caucasian man ordered a pizza, waiting in the lobby for his pie to be cooked," said Const. Kris Clark.
"When his order was up he stated he was robbing the place, demanding they open the till. The man took a small amount of cash, and his pizza, before fleeing on foot. No weapon was produced and no one was hurt."
The suspect is described as:
- Caucasian
- 25-30 years old
- Approximately 6 feet tall
- 200lbs
- short dark-blonde hair
- lanky with a medium build
- wearing a blue hoodie
Anyone with information is asked to call the Kelowna RCMP at 250-762-3300, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.crimestoppers.net to report.
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Techcrunch.com writer Peter Ha reports
Gogo Granted Spectrum Approval In Canada, Will Take Flight In 2013
. He says, "Gogo announced today that it has been granted a subordinate spectrum license in Canada. (They've leased spectrum from SkySurf, in case you were wondering.) Cell site construction will begin in the last quarter of this year and will the system will operate on the same frequency as Gogo's existing network in the United States. Rollout of the ATG (air-to-ground) service is expected sometime towards the end of 2013.
The service uses frequencies in the 800 MHz band and EV-DO Rev. B technology similar that used by cell phone companies for 3G wireless. Gogo'a new ATG-4 technology uses directional antennas allowing speeds up to 9.8 Mbps.
Dish Nixes FCC Plan to Shift AWS/MSS Spectrum
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Dish urged the FCC not to shift its satellite spectrum holdings
. Dish holds mobile satellite service (MSS) spectrum at 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz. The FCC is considering shifting the 2000-2020 MHz spectrum up by 5 MHz as part of its AWS-4 rulemaking that would allow some satellite spectrum to be repurposed for terrestrial use.
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Publishing a compact disc.
When your members need a professional query answered immediately, what do they do? Ask a colleague, pick up your association's reference to me, call your information department, or turn on the modem? Any of those options probably takes several minutes--at best--to provide an answer or delivers limited information. Now picture a member turning to a personal computer, typing a few key words, and getting the answer on screen in only a few minutes. It's not magic. It's CD-ROM.Compact disc-read-only memory, or CD-ROM, is a technology meeting the educational and informational needs of a number of association memberships nationwide. At the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), Schaumburg, Illinois, our first venture into CD-ROM technology was publishing DermInfodisc. The compact disc is similar to an audio CD but with digitally stored text, color images, graphics, and even audio and video. One CD can hold more than 500 megabytes of data--comparable to the amount of data 400 floppy disks can hold. To make use of all this information, the CD includes software known as a search engine. This allows a computer equipped with a CD player (a CD drive) to quickly retrieve any data according to criteria the user specifies for each search.
What that means for DermInfodisc is that one CD offers nearly instant access to four dermatologic data bases and assorted other data bases. It also includes the last three years of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (the years before 1990 were not available in an electronic format), with full text plus color images and graphics, and the index of JAAD's first 10 years. We'll add another year with each new CD edition. The CD-ROM also has a series of educational exercises for dermatologists to assess their own skills and knowledge through interactive self-assessment.
AAD traveled a long road to DermInfodisc, but found the effort worthwhile. Your association may also find that this is the road to the future of information access and to increased member education and satisfaction.
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More than 10 years ago the academy made a strategic commitment to become technologically oriented. Dermatologists are typically solo practitioners, so an easily accessible resource for diagnostic, therapeutic, and pharmaceutical reference is essential. Photo images are very important here. With our nonprofit research arm, the Sulzberger Institute for Dermatologic Education, AAD began a long-term collaboration with the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, investigating the image reproduction capability of various electronic media.
In particular, a team of NLM staff and AAD volunteer members compared CD-ROM, laser disc, and other digital computer technologies with the quality of 35-millimeter color slides, the unsurpassed standard for dermatologic images. As the hardware and software capabilities for CD-ROM improved, CD-ROM began to look like the most effective technology for our product needs. About five years into this research, we were ready to begin CD-ROM development.
In the meantime, though, AAD started members out on the high-tech road with DermInfonet. In the early 1980s, DermInfonet started as a series of subscription-based on-line dermatologic data bases accessible by, modem. At its peak, the program had 1,200 subscribers among AAD's 7,000 national (and another 3,000 international) members. Eventually, members found modem access cumbersome and long-distance charges prohibitive. The academy decided to revise the service and convert DermInfonet to a series of data bases purchased individually on floppy disks. In this format, DermInfonet has proved to be more functional and user friendly--although it's not practical to deliver images on floppies and it is time-consuming to, use several floppy-disk data bases at once.
Assessing feasibility
An important consideration in beginning a CD-ROM publishing program is to assess your membership's interest in and access to electronic media. The academy first polled its members five years ago. At that time, 8 percent of those polled indicated having access to a CD-ROM player and computer. Two years later, the number had increased to 17 percent. Last year the number of respondents with access to CD-ROM was more than 20 percent, and another 5 percent indicated they intended to purchase a CD-ROM player in the next year.
An exact formula for making a cost-effective choice is difficult. AAD is committed to technology-oriented education regardless of the numbers. But, since about 70 percent of our members already use personal computers for word processing and research and CD-ROM is becoming more available and less expensive, the academy is confident that its investment in CD-ROM products is wise and will reap notable gains.
Much of this needs and feasibility assessment is conducted at the association by the AAD Task Force on Technology Evaluation and Applications. This group also tests the product for useability.
AAD offers training at the annual meeting. In on-site computer labs, staff and volunteers work with users from beginner to advanced.
Developing a product
As you evaluate publishing with CD-ROM, keep in mind the cost and time factors. This type of project needs considerable lead time for development. Consider, for example, whether the material you might publish (data bases, existing print publications, instructional material, and so forth) exists already in some electronic format, such as on your word-processing system or on magnetic tape. If not, conversion--by optical scanning, for instance--will cost more time and money. AAD spent five years developing and refining two prototypes with our vendor's help.
Related to time is cost. CD-ROM technology is expensive, and AAD had help. A new data base we'll include on the next edition of DermInfodisc, for instance, is "REACTION," a reference for skin reactions to various pharmaceuticals. Funded by a grant from our Sulzberger Institute, a member converted his published hard-cover book to an electronic format, so AAD had practically no up-front development costs. Similarly, we hope to fund a CD-ROM "Library of Dermatology" with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. This product will include all of DermInfodisc plus a complete dermatology textbook, an encyclopedia of dermatology, and 1,500 clinical photos. Do investigate opportunities for similar industry grants or relationships with appropriate groups.
Gathering material in electronic form for a CD is one expense. Pressing the master is another. Creating the original that you reproduce costs between $1,500 and $3,000. Now that AAD is through its research stage and moving into annual production, we budget $15,000-$22,000 a year for new editions of DermInfodisc.
Contracting with a vendor
Your best development option relates to your choice of vendor as well. You will need to contract for the physical production of the CD-ROM. For example, AAD (with the assistance described above) spent money up front to create the material included on DermInfodisc. A contractor produced the CD-ROM. In this arrangement, AAD earns profits from sales and the vendor earns royalties for the use of its search engine (the CD software).
Our recently released second project has a different scenario. The Dermatology Multimedia Teaching File contains 175 brief research presentations, with audio recordings and slides, culled from talks at our 1993 annual meeting. Practitioners can search the CD by topic, key terms, and author. In this case, our contractor-publisher put up about $100,000 over one year to collect the material and create the disk. AAD collects royalties for use of our material, while the publisher profits from sales (and pays for marketing).
Choosing a vendor for our CD-ROM projects was similar to any contractor search. We collected names from a number of production companies that advertise in computer magazines and asked for references from associations that had done similar projects. After narrowing the choices to four, we invited those firms to make presentations to a joint member-staff committee at our annual meeting. This group considered each firm's track record (although the technology is so new many have not been around long) and product. AAD's basic criteria for evaluating CD-ROM products are cost and useability. Currently, our for-profit service subsidiary has the contract to produce DermInfodisc, and our long-time journal publisher will produce the multimedia CD.
Keeping your options
This is a publishing venture, so copyright is an issue, as are assignment of royalties, duration of contract, and so forth. Have an attorney work with you, and allow up to six months the first time you work out a contract.
One final issue to consider is the possible obsolescence of hardware and software. The rate of technological evolution is difficult to keep pace with. At the moment, CD-ROM technology may be superior to laser disc or other options for our members' needs. However, in the future a new technology might prove better and require a costly and time-consuming conversion to the new or revised medium. Kodak, for instance, is promoting a photo CD; this device is much simpler than a CD-ROM player and could replace the slide projector as the standard for presentations.
The best you can do to keep up is to read the computer publications and watch for what's coming. Most media convert to other formats, so be sure anything you publish is in some electronic medium and systematically archive the original data so that it is easy to retrieve.
* BEFORE BEGINNING A CD-ROM publishing venture, determine your membership's interest in and access to electronic media.
* ALLOW SUFFICIENT LEAD TIME for developing a CD-ROM product. Consider, for example, whether the material you plan to publish already exists in electronic fom--if not, plan in more time and money for conversion.
* INVESTIGATE opportunities for industry grants to defray costs.
The CEO's Role in New Technology Development
The chief staff executive is a key player in bringing any innovation to the association, and new computer technology is no exception. The chief executive has four jobs in this venture.
1. Speak to and for the membership.
Articulate your vision of CD-ROM use--its advantages for members---and publishing prospects. Be aware that there is still plenty of technophobia about, and computer literacy is nowhere near 100 percent in most groups. You will also have strong member advocates of the new technology, and you need to be sure their ideas are not too far ahead of the greater membership.
2. Assess feasibility and profitability. The chief executive is ultimately responsible for success, so be sure your project team accurately assesses the number of members who will benefit from CD-ROM, the number likely to buy it, and the amount the association must commit to its development. Look at your possible markets. The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) has been quite successful marketing CD-ROM to international members, for instance.
3. Create a task force. Search out the staff and members most interested in this technology and assemble a task force.
4. Smooth staff adjustment and concern. Be prepared to deal with worry among staff with a stake in print media; they may see CD-ROM as a threat. At AAD, we don't intend to eliminate print, and the chief executive officer communicates that clearly to staff. Include publishing staff in the planning process and, if possible, give them a stake in the outcome.
The Task Force's Task
To oversee our foray into CD-ROM publishing, the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) created a member task force. For your association, look for about five technology-oriented members and include one or two appropriate staff members. Since this group will also test product useability, don't include anyone working on developing the actual CD-ROM.
With direction from the association chief executive officer, the task force's basic charge is as follows:
* Explore the products and services to which CD-ROM might apply, such as data base reference, color images, and educational modules.
* Articulate a detailed development, field testing, and production plan, including staff and budget needs for the various project phases.
* Build bridges to staff and member segments that may feel threatened by this technology.
Another way to structure this committee's work is to list questions it should be able to answer:
1. What is the extent of member interest in CD-ROM applications? How many members have the computer hardware needed to use CD-ROM products?
2. What applications that can be provided by the association lend themselves to the CD-ROM technology? Data bases do, for instance, but specialized billing system software does not. A related question is whether this a one-time effort. Start-up is the longest and most costly phase, so it is more economical to continue producing CDs.
3. Is the association leadership willing to commit to a multiple-year development cycle for CD-ROM prior to any revenue return? AAD started 10 years ago, and although it won't take you that long now, don't count on making a profit in 12-18 months.
4. How will you reconcile conflict between those who have a stake in print media and those with a stake in CD-ROM? Can yon develop a joint stake between the two groups?
5. Can this task force evaluate the project from such perspectives as content, ease of use, and research protocols? Do you have special criteria for evaluating the CD and the project?
6. Have you met with attorneys to protect your association's legal rights in and ownership of the CD-ROM product and its content? If the CD deals with some recommended procedure, have you included a disclaimer?
7. Have you established procedures for member review and evaluation of the product before it is ready for sale?
Get Your Hardware Ready
Here are the steps we took to bring staff hardware up to speed.
For users with personal computers already installed, we first evaluated two critical items: the size of the memory and the monitor. We found that 10 megabytes of memory was sufficient to run the most popular commercial CD-ROM software currently on the market. We increased existing memory as needed, upgrading in four-megabyte increments at approximately $2.50 each.
The existing monitors were evaluated for display resolution capabilities (sharpness of picture). Most CD-ROM software requires a Super VGA monitor, and this type of display is a necessity to display images. All existing personal computers were brought up to this standard at a cost of $300-$500 each.
Finally, we added a CD-ROM drive (player) to each machine. The average cost for CD-ROM units ranges from $300 to $500.
For all new machines, the academy's information services department set standards for purchase to maximize processing capabilities when working with CD-ROM software. Standards set include processor type speed, memory, and monitor resolution.
Your best option at the time of purchase is the newest processor chip available and the fastest megahertz speed. This is currently 55 megahertz. These two components directly affect the response time. As a standard, we require at least 10 megabytes of memory and a Super VGA monitor with at least one megabyte of memory on the video board. This will ensure compatibility with CD-ROM products available today and in the near future. The CD-ROM drives selected must be Multimedia PC compliant, a computer industry standard.
You may select an internal or external CD-ROM drive. Both function with the same effectiveness. Choose an external drive for personal computers with multiple diskette and cassette drives and no space for an internal drive. The approximate cost for a multimedia system with the above requirements is $2,800-$3,500 per unit.
Lawrence E. Rosenthal is deputy executive director of the American Academy of Dermatology, Schaumburg, Illinois. Thomas G. Pearson is director of education, and Susan M. Curtin is director of information systems.
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The removal of custom profile boxes and profile tabs for applications has been painful for many developers, including iLike who has seen their daily active user base drop from over 430,000 to under 100,000, a more than 75 percent decrease.
While many developers were aware that the change was impending, it wasn't clear publicly what this would result in. It's now clear that many developers have been significantly damaged by the overall experience. Slide, for example, has lost more than 90 percent of its daily active user base from the Top Friends application, dropping from 178,000 daily users to a little over 15,000. TripAdvisor has watched its "Cities I've Visited" application drop substantially, losing more than 65 percent of its daily active user base, although it now appears to be growing back slowly.
Plenty of other applications have been hit hard as the entire experience revolved around profile interactions which users implemented as a way to express themselves. Many applications have watched hundreds of thousands of daily users disappear from their applications. While the value of those tabs were questionable from an impressions stand point, clearly some form of interaction took place on a daily basis, and overnight a huge part of the Facebook Platform has been killed.
One developer posted in the developer forum that he had seen a 39 percent drop in traffic however aside from that things have been silent. Any top developer that had a huge profile tab presence saw this coming, however the application statistics are now finally beginning to illustrate the developer carnage. With every Platform change that Facebook has made over the years, many have lost huge portions of their business, and only a few have managed to recover with each subsequent change.
In the world of the Facebook Platform, this isn't new. Instead this post will serve as a memory for the fallen apps: you will be remembered.


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Scott A. Mitchell, Center for Computing ResearchMeshing Papers
Bill Thurston also wrote a newsgroup article outlining a proof that is similar to my paper: "Hexahedral decomposition of polyhedra, sci.math, 25 Oct 1993." David Eppstein has a copy of this online.
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Rates On the DeclineSubmitted by Rich Toscano on October 5, 2006 - 5:17pm
After what seemed like an unstoppable rise since the beginning of the year, long-term mortgage rates have since plummeted in an equally relentless manner. Here in San Diego, though, the majority of buyers do not use 30-year fixed rate mortgages like those depicted by the blue line in the chart. The local housing market is influenced less by fixed rates than by adjustable mortgage rates, the the decline in which has been less dramatic. (category: )
A Year or Two?Submitted by Rich Toscano on September 27, 2006 - 1:49pm
People now widely acknowledge the once-blasphemous: that the housing market can slow, that home prices can decline, and that both of the above are happening here and now. But we are a cheerful people, apparently, and such admissions are often quickly followed with the disclaimer that the housing market should be back in action soon enough. Take, for instance, the following quote from El Cajon Councilman Gary Kendrick, as appearing in a recent U-T article on El Cajon's stalled condo conversion market. Mr. Kendrick is singled out only because this is a very typical example of the many similar proclamations I've heard expressed by assorted authority figures in recent times. Says Gary: Well, maybe I'm singling him out a little bit because that last line is so priceless. You may wish to record it for future generations to enjoy. (category: )
Expanding Homeownership?Submitted by Rich Toscano on September 20, 2006 - 11:25am
Yesterday, Scott Lewis wrote a great piece on the logical inconsistencies of some of the the city's affordable housing efforts. One such policy, while having escaped Scott's truculent attentions, nonetheless deserves to be highlighted as especially irrational. It is described in a recent Daily Transcript piece called "Sanders seeks action on affordable housing" (subscription required): ...the [San Diego Housing Commission] is continuing its efforts to expand homeownership through the creation of two new, first-time homebuyer programs... Giving people money to buy houses artificially stimulates housing demand (sorry, "expands homeownership"), the effect of which is to render housing less, not more, affordable. It's effectively a government subsidy for the housing bubble and entirely the wrong way to approach the problem. (category: )
Median ProblemsSubmitted by Rich Toscano on September 13, 2006 - 8:44pm
Now that this month's housing data has arrived, I thought it would be a good time to briefly review the trouble with the "median price" as a measure of real estate pricing power. Many observers, noting that the median home sale price was 2.2 percent lower in August 2006 than in August 2005, would assume that the typical home is now worth 2.2 percent less than it was a year ago. But this assumption is not necessarily correct. Because while the median price is a decent measure of how much the typical buyer paid, it does not tell us what that typical buyer got for the money. When it comes to measuring actual changes in home market values, the median price can be thrown off by the following: (category: )
Mystery Solved... Kind OfSubmitted by Rich Toscano on September 7, 2006 - 7:22pm
The plot thickens. Or maybe it... thinnens. I don't know. The point is that the folks at the San Diego Chamber of Commerce have gotten to the bottom of our recent mystery about why their population data differed so much from that of the Census Bureau. Yet their answer has only raised another question. The Chamber's Rachel Laing elaborates: (category: )
More Job DissectionSubmitted by Rich Toscano on September 6, 2006 - 9:27am
As a follow-up to the prior post ("Job Dissection"), I wanted to zoom in on the past year and have a look at how the various industries have fared more recently. The results are found in the accompanying chart. Construction is up 3 percent from last year. This makes sense--as housing demand erodes, developers are scrambling to finish their construction projects sooner rather than later. (category: )
Dissecting the Job MarketSubmitted by Rich Toscano on September 4, 2006 - 11:44am
A longstanding premise of mine has gone as follows: to argue that housing will continue to flourish because of San Diego's strong economy is circular reasoning, because in reality the economy owes much of its purported strength to the housing boom. I thought it would be fun (that's right, fun) to chart out some of the characteristics of San Diego's job market during the big housing boom. I have designated as my starting point the year 2000, chosen primarily and somewhat arbitrarily as a "neutral" year for residential real estate. The depths of the mid-90s housing bust were well behind us, housing mania was still a couple of years away, and home valuations were in the middle of their historic range. San Diego's housing market was, in other words, neither too hot nor too cold. It was just right. (category: )
Migration MysterySubmitted by Rich Toscano on August 25, 2006 - 3:45pm
As I recently tooled around the San Diego Chamber of Commerce website, I came across a document called the "San Diego Economic Bulletin: Forecast 2005 & 2006." This document is a gold mine of the kind of local data that causes a nerd like me to mewl with delight. But my delighted mewling turned to confused mewling as I read the section on population growth. The first accompanying chart indicates the U.S. Census Bureau's take on who's coming and going in San Diego. (Readers who are particularly interested or lonely can find the gigantic Census Bureau spreadsheet here.) (category: )
Liar LoansSubmitted by Rich Toscano on August 24, 2006 - 5:25pm
Over the two-plus years I've been publicly rambling about the San Diego housing market, I've spilled very little ink on the topic of stated income mortgages--the so-called "liar loans" that require no proof of borrower income. It's not that I find this particular spawn of the housing bubble uninteresting. Far from it. But the fact is that I try to concentrate my efforts in the realm of the measurable and verifiable, whereas most information about stated income loan abuse is of the more anecdotal variety. There ever plenty of anecdotes, to be sure--I think we've probably all heard a version of the story wherein the landscaper or Starbucks barista is mysteriously pulling down six figures. But there has really been no way to measure how serious the problem really is. It seems now that some more reliable information is beginning to surface. (category: )
Affordability WarsSubmitted by Rich Toscano on August 22, 2006 - 10:54pm
The California Association of Realtors (CAR) recently announced a new index to measure home price affordability for first time buyers. The distinguishing feature of this new affordability index appears to lie in its looser definition of what exactly is affordable: whereas the prior index assumed a 20 percent down payment and a maximum of 30 percent of household income spent on housing costs, this new index allows for a 10 percent down payment and up to 40 percent of income devoted to house payments. This is entirely ridiculous. Buyers now shell out a record portion of their earnings for home payments, as well as taking on previously unthinkable levels of debt in order to purchase their homes. The fact that people are so commonly forced to stretch their fiscal limits does not, as CAR would seem to imply, indicate that it is now more affordable to do so. It means precisely the opposite. (category: )
ARM Wrestling with BernankeSubmitted by Rich Toscano on August 11, 2006 - 1:26pm
San Diego homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages can breathe a sigh of relief. After 17 consecutive -- albeit modest -- rate increases, the Federal Reserve has decided to stand pat and keep its federal funds target rate at 5.25 percent. The accompanying chart shows the seemingly unstoppable rise in the 1-Year Constant Maturity Treasury, an index often used to adjust monthly mortgage payments, during the Fed's tightening campaign. (category: )
Housing Will Fall 25%, Assuming...Submitted by Rich Toscano on June 7, 2006 - 10:05pm
So let's just say, for the sake of argument, that San Diego is going to experience a housing downturn. Either way, in order to get on with this article, we need to allow the assumption that there will be a housing bust. Because our task today is to try to figure out what past housing downturns say about how our hypothetical bust might play out. (category: )
The Meaning of the MedianSubmitted by Rich Toscano on May 31, 2006 - 9:13pm
When real estate analysts want to quantify price movements in the housing market, the metric they invariably use is the median home price. It's certainly true that the median conveys some useful information about the housing market, but its accuracy as a gauge of pricing power is often overstated. (category: )
Renting Money vs. Renting HomesSubmitted by Rich Toscano on May 27, 2006 - 5:02pm
San Diego renters often express frustration at having missed the housing boom of a lifetime and fear that they will now never be able to purchase a home.
Well, I think they ought to buck up. Relatively speaking, they are getting an amazing deal. Even as San Diego home prices headed to the stratosphere these last few years, local rents grew at a fairly subdued pace. (This fact should, but apparently does not, cause people to doubt the fundamental underpinnings of the housing boom -- but I digress!) The end result is that it costs quite a bit more to buy a given home than to rent that same home. (category: )
Soft Landing Re-RevisitedSubmitted by Rich Toscano on May 18, 2006 - 11:28am
Last week, I began to discuss why the San Diego housing market's oft-foretold soft landing is something less than the shoo-in that everyone thinks. The definition of "soft landing" is a bit of a moving target. At best, the soft landing will be a period of 5-percent-or-so appreciation before home prices really start to take off again. At worst, it is to consist of several years in which home prices remain flat until incomes grow enough to render housing affordable once more. The entire spectrum of soft-landing predictions are predicated on the idea that past housing booms have been followed by price flatness -- unless, that is, economic times got so hard that many people were forced to sell their homes. The essence of the problem with this analysis is that it completely fails to account for the fact that we've just been through the mother of all housing booms. (category: )
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The group's aesthetic, though more refined and pronounced on their newer material, is indeed largely a product of Sporting Life's loop-laden production and Hak's odd mixture of spoken word, sung melody, and straight-up rap verses—no longer solely a platform for Wiki to showcase the wit and intricacy of his rhymes. Songs like "Comic," a glitchy, fast-paced track added to the XL re-release of Wiki93, as well as cuts leaked off their forthcoming LP So It Goes, show Ratking moving away from retro rap and toward something more inventive, a style bound less and less by the five boroughs. The beats are noisy and industrial, pushing the sound closer to that of California punk/rap outfit Death Grips than, say, Jay-Z's classic Reasonable Doubt or Wu-Tang's 36 Chambers (two albums that Ratking members still reference constantly in conversation). Hak's role in the band has also been amped up, and his dueling vocals with Wiki give the songs a certain amount of tension and drama they once lacked.
The result is something fresh, weird, and a little bit schizophrenic, like we're listening to Ratking wrestle with its own potential. The title track from So It Goes (the name is a nod to Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five) continues in a similarly manic vein; the group says they've started to build a collage of ideas found in literature, film, art, magazines—even words they've seen carved into city sidewalks—in order to create something new.
"[So It Goes] is not necessarily more experimental, but it's more mature—even with 'Comic,' I didn't necessarily have my hands completely around the sound I was going for," explains Sporting Life, who says he strives to construct a record the same way that Quentin Tarantino pastes elements of classic film genres together in his movies. "'Comic' was like a rest stop on our way."
Wiki jumps in: "Yeah, it's not just past it, it's past it and then that way and that way," he says, pointing left and then right.
Though there's no release date yet, Ratking has finished tracking between 12 and 14 songs for So It Goes. The album was recorded by Young Guru—the Grammy-nominated audio engineer who has mixed 10 of Jay-Z's 11 albums—and New York's DJ Dog Dick, and will be a chance for the group to see if artistic ambition can translate to staying power in a genre that doesn't always reward it.
"We're trying to merk Hot 97 and merk the art world at the exact same time," says Sporting Life. "We wanna box with the big dogs."
Fresh from SXSW, Ratking are hitting the road for a mini-tour with Wu-Tang Clan's GZA starting in late March. For more info, visit ratkingnyc.com or follow @RatKing on Twitter.


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Marcelo Rios speaks about PEDs
Found this old quote by Marcelo Rios about PEDs in tennis. Rather interesting. Just plug in the names of the current big stars for Agassi and Sampras and it does make some sense...
"I know that if nandrolone were found on Agassi, they would not disclose it. He is a very prominent, very popular player and if he were to fall, the world of tennis would fall with him. The ATP would not say it. They are such a large dependent organization that it would be a problem if Agassi or Sampras tested positive. [We] the South Americans have discussed it repeatedly. It is a complicated subject. I do not have problem in saying it: we always said, (we asked ourselves) who publicly certifies the doping tests of Agassi or Sampras?" "I would love to be able to see and certify Agassi's doping tests because now I currently have no idea who is doing the test, and who decides who gets it and who doesn't." "I know that if they were to find nandrolone on Agassi, they wouldn't say it to anybody. It would taint his reputation and bring tennis down dramatically. ATP would not say it. It is such a large organization that it would be a problem if Agassi tested positive." [Taken from the book Marcelo Rios: The Man We Barely Knew] |
Well he was right in that according to Agassi himself the ATP looked the other way when he tested positive for his party drug.
I dislike Rios vehemently, based on what I've read of him he's a piece of crap. When was this quote made? Any reason for plugging in Agassi and Sampras?
Ahhh Rios..........a classy Piece of Sh** as a pro and continues to not disappoint in his old age.
The original quotes included the names Agassi and Sampras. But if you exchange today's big star names instead of Agassi and Samp, the insinuation by Rios does make sense. Who knows. |
Wagner's son and son-in-law were a different story. It looks like "modern training methods" really help the current crop of tennis "stars", most of whom could not pick up the racket of Hoad or Gonzales, who were genuine athletes. |
Haven't heard anyone call them the noblest race on earth in a long time, if ever, by anyone. Haven't heard anyone call Rios a noble sportsman either lol.
Let's shoot that messenger! |
He called it "the preservation of favoured races in the struggle of life". Darwin believed that "superior" races would prevail. Darwin's ideas on anthropology are no longer considered polite or acceptable. They have not withstood the test of time, but in the late 1800's they were very dominant in academic circles. |
Wonder what conclusions Charles Darwin would surmise about Marcelo Rios? : )
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Detection handler requirements
Would anyone be so kind as to point me in the right direction on finding the information (or who I should talk to) for the handler legal requirements for training a (drug) detection K9?
Most of the cities in my area do not have K9 units and use teams from the private sector for detection work. I am having quite a bit of trouble finding the information. I'm trying to figure out if I can even train and work a dog as a civilian, if I would need special licensing, or if I would have to train with/under a K9 officer/ police department. Any information appreciated. |
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Most police departments would not permit a civilian handler to train drugs with them. There are liability issues and issues with the use of drugs for training aids. There is nothing preventing a civilian from training and working a drug/explosives/cadaver or any of the other detector type dogs. There would be an issue for possessing the drugs necessary. The options would be to obtain an ATF license for explosives; a DEA license for drugs etc. There are some civilians that provide a service to private industry and private citizens in the area of drug detection. A civilian drug detector would not be required to report presence of drugs or make arrests. They could turn the matter over to the business owner, or house owner etc. Law enforcement couldn't do that as they would be required to take action.
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However, I too am interested in this training for Lisl for the private sector for corporations and large public works projects for on-site detection.
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DFrost is right on, as per usual I know some civilians that train with pseudo...but typically, most law enforcement usually does not. I believe DFrost is of that opinion as well, but I certainly won't speak for him. Some of the products seem to be getting better, but there really is nothing like training with "the real thing".
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Let me add to DFrost that depending on your state you might be required to be with a private security company to contract. Also as a civilian you will have a problem with getting the dog certified which is a necessity for working with law enforcement.
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Thank you all for the info! It's a big help with my research. I will be checking on my state and city laws for more info on working with the police dept. as a civilian, as I am not able to be in law enforcement myself (can't pass the physical due to luxating patellas). I am also checking out private security outfits, since that seems to be where the bulk of the work is in this area.
What are your thoughts on training a private security detection dog on pseudo-scents? I do realize that the real thing would be best, but if is impossible for me to do so would pseudo give me decent training results? I'm asking because I would assume that the private jobs we would take would be relatively "small time" busts. |
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I have no experience with pseudo narcotics but will say I have seen dogs NOT trained on the pseudo cadaver scents who will indicate on new and unusual cadaver odors (for example a dog that has never been exposed to burnt flesh will still indicate on it) notice but NOT indicate on pseudo.
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Google reports third quarter net of $2.97 billion
Motorola's revenue of $1.18 billion accounted for 8% of Google's revenue, down from the $1.78 billion that accounted for 13% of its parents top-line last year. In the 2012 period, Motorola posted an operating loss of $192 million.
Paid clicks from ads rose 26% year-over-year in the third quarter, and rose 8% sequentially from the second quarter. The cost to Google for each click dropped 8% from the 2012 quarter and 4% from the second quarter of this year. This is positive for Google as it means that money is coming in much faster than it is being used to acquire business.
Excluding one time charges and the like, Google earned $10.74 a share for the third quarter, beating analyst's estimates of $10.34 a share. After hours, Google shares are up over 8%, or $73, to $962.
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1. Shatter (Posts: 2036; Member since: 29 May 2013)
Motofailola, why did Google buy them. They are barley contributing anything to them.
2. Googler (Posts: 813; Member since: 10 Jun 2013)
Too early to say that. Motorola is releasing better phones this year than last year. I can see that pattern continuing.
6. Finalflash (Posts: 2074; Member since: 23 Jul 2013)
Yea, plus they are innovating the most in the industry right now with features like always on and specialized hardware. Hopefully that pays off for them and we see increased innovation all around. Plus they've been getting high praise for several different products. 2014 is shaping up to be Android's best year I think. Apple might even end up being super good on their next release (although they are shafting more and more recently). MS...is well MS, so no bets on those guys, even though they just pirated jacked one of the best handset makers on the planet.
7. Googler (Posts: 813; Member since: 10 Jun 2013)
I still remember negative comment after negative comment about the Moto X, but tons and tons of reviews praise it as being an outstanding phone. Users and owners love it because it's not just about a spec sheet, it's about tying it all together into a smooth handset. Motorola is finding their groove again and the future looks good. As for Android, it's found it's own. Handsets are there and Google has done a great job since ICS. I think you're right about 2014.
14. Napalm_3nema (Posts: 1486; Member since: 14 Jun 2013)
The X is a great phone. It's a shame their past practices and Samsung's huge marketing budget have marginalized it.
19. lsutigers (Posts: 798; Member since: 08 Mar 2009)
Agreed, Google is doing very well on it's own and Motorola is a good brand but it's too early to tell whether or not they will be a successful business unit of Google. The Moto X is selling well at the big 3 carriers and Moto has plans for a less expensive model of the X for emerging markets.
The big disappointment has been the Droid line at Verizon which is NOT selling well at all with stiff competition from Moto's own X, Samsung's, HTC's, Apple's and even LG's new offerings as well as the Nexus line.
3. joey_sfb (Posts: 3981; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)
i disagree. Moto is a good brand. 'We invented the mobile phone!'
11. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 5628; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
The word good is loosely tossed around here.
15. PapaSmurf (Posts: 9689; Member since: 14 May 2012)
If it wasn't for Motorola, you wouldn't be carrying a cellphone.
17. stealthd (Posts: 1025; Member since: 12 Jun 2011)
If it wasn't for Motorola someone else would have come up with it. Radio communications weren't new when the cell phone was invented.
20. cc3493 (Posts: 158; Member since: 06 Jul 2013)
and if it wasnt for apple you wouldnt be carrying a smarthphone either but that shouldnt be the point...
23. DigitalJedi_X2 (banned) (Posts: 346; Member since: 30 Jan 2012)
Uhhh... Smartphones were around long before apple jumped in the game. How did you not know this?
4. Sniggly (Posts: 7230; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
In the last quarter Motorola and Google got a completely new manufacturing plant up and running. Hell, until the last month of the quarter Motorola didn't even really have anything to sell on the carriers. Give them a break.
10. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 5628; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Won't be long before it starts bleeding expenses. Manufacturing in America just to uphold a silly slogan doesn't really add anything meaningful.
16. Sniggly (Posts: 7230; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
It adds better quality control. It adds a precedent which Google will follow up on. It adds jobs, which means it helps the economy grow. "Made in America" may not pull patriotic heartstrings in you or me, but it's a huge value add for a lot of average customers. A strong manufacturing core is needed again for the American middle class to reappear. See, if you add a factory that ships 100,000 units a week, that feeds into shipping, parts supply, local food, and human transportation. Now, let's add three or four more around the country, as Google seeks to make one/two day delivery of customized smart phones (and tablets and laptops too) to all corners of the country. Then let's add in more factories as other companies see the value customers seek paying off for Google.
If the Moto X is even moderately successful, Motorola and Google may have just saved the American economy. It may sound like hyperbole, but it's not.
22. sprockkets (Posts: 1503; Member since: 16 Jan 2012)
except when apple does it, since they are doing it with their imacs you know, right?
24. JMartin22 (Posts: 1538; Member since: 30 Apr 2013)
It's actually not that much more expensive than manufacturing the parts in China. As China's standard of living is on the raise. But you are an iDiot. So enjoy that iPhone of yours you overpaid for by a good gross of 30%.
8. woodshop20 (Posts: 459; Member since: 14 Sep 2013)
Motorola is actually improving a lot. We've seen what companies like Sony can do when they start following trends and listening to their customers.
Apple should take note. No retina display for iPad mini? They're just shooting themselves in the foot.
18. PapaSmurf (Posts: 9689; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Except patents and delivering one of the best phones at a great price.
21. xfire99 (Posts: 598; Member since: 14 Mar 2012)
Google bought Moto for its huge patents folio and not for the devices. Since Apple were suing everyone at that time include Google. With Moto patents folio, Google had a huge arsenal with patents to use and Apple wont stand a chance.
25. bloodline (Posts: 703; Member since: 01 Dec 2011)
Motorla and google have both said that their is a pipe line to clear before the good stuff can start coming.
I think its pretty obvious that if you buy failing business you don't expect it to really add value until a few years after your influence.
5. Sniggly (Posts: 7230; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Interesting that despite increased costs from opening an entirely new plant and only having a lineup to sell during the last month of the corner, Motorola's losses this quarter were only 15 percent higher than they were for the same quarter last year.
9. TheLolGuy (Posts: 483; Member since: 05 Mar 2013)
That's because of the massive layoffs they did to get rid of the bad apples. They're in the process of assimilating Motorola and bringing their corporate culture into the company.
Restructuring plans always take time. I'd say by the end of next year will probably be when Motorola will see stable quarterly reports again barring major screwups. I think Dennis Woodside is doing a fine job.
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Just imagine if Google just add $20.00 more on top of their already low price of Nexus Brands, and made 1 Phablet and 1 Phone...they would make a killing!!!!


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Donald Sterling received the harshest penalty the NBA could give on Tuesday, after he was slapped with a lifetime ban and a $2.5 million fine for his racially discriminating words on the audio recording leaked by TMZ last weekend. NBA commissioner Adam Silver also disclosed the league's plan to force the billionaire to sell the Los Angeles Clippers franchise with the affirmation of the majority of the Board of Governors.
"Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the NBA in response to racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation. NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he will try to force the controversial owner to sell his franchise. Sterling has also been fined $2.5 million, and Silver made no effort to hide his outrage over the comments," ESPN reported.
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"He really didn't want to comment on the record," Gray said. "However, the team is not for sale and he will not be selling the team."
With Silver's punishment set to be imposed immediately, all eyes will be on the NBA Board of Governors, which is consists of the 29 other team owners, to finish the job by booting Sterling out of the league for good through voting.
"Under the terms of Paragraph 13 of the constitution, NBA owners also have the right, by three-fourths vote, to revoke ownership if an owner "fails to fulfill" a "contractual obligation" in "such a way as to affect the [NBA] or its members adversely," Leigh Steinberg of Forbes reported.
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Simulink® model of a simple Bluetooth® wireless data link. Includes error correction, GFSK modulation, frequency hopping and a 100MHz channel.
NOTE: A version of this model which works with the current release of MATLAB® and Simulink® is shipped with the Communications Blockset™.
See also: 1) 'Bluetooth Full Duplex Voice and Data Transmission' -http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/2283
2) 'Bluetooth Voice Transmission' - http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/907
me interesa , la simulación de la version 2.0 + EDR la cual corresponde a modulaciiones pi/4 PSK y 8 DPSK, si alguien a obtenido las curvas de BER vs EbNo para estas modulaciones, se lo agradeceria.
I'm looking to simulate with the modulation types specified in Bluetooth 2.0, which are 4 and 8-ary PSK. Has anybody seen updated models to accommodate the more recent standard?
I was wondering if this model takes all the 80 Bluetooth channels into account or just 79, since the M-ary FSK [de]modulator is set by default at 79 (at least in my downloaded model). Also, wouldn't it be more appropriate to use bigger value for the second randint argument, since 100 may not be enough to spread over all the channels? I'm using 99999. Thanks a lot for the model, it is quite useful !!
In above bluetooth simulation How to analyze the signal levels in different differnt levels ( example signal between Bernouli Binary generator cyclic encoder ) . I am used scope to analyze siganl levels but it gives differnet ....differnt errors .....
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Is it possible to calculate BER vs SNR with this model. Any help will be greatly appreciated. please mail me to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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this is very useful.
I was wondering if i could use the same program, but instead of bluetooth modulation, erform BPSK. I require frequency hopping though.
That's great ,But,How could I import this Model to Matlab/simulink function ??
because I can't open this model into the program
please tell me about this more detail information!! thanks!
802.11b = bluetooth
For education purposes
I am interested in 2 problems with thismdl: 1)How can I modify the sample time for the bernoulli data source(let's say 1/50/384)because a lot of errors occurs when I do this (and I tried in many way) 2)How can I implement multiple users but their hops to not get interference(an idea at least please)
Really great tool! I really recommend using this if your working in this area!
Very Good. There is a need to look at power consumption however.
Great!!Very useful!!
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