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Conducting user research can produce some amazing insights... but how do you communicate these findings to the rest of your team? This is where personas can step in. Personas, when used effectively can communicate the results of user research in ways that means the results are taken into account throughout the design/development cycle.
Why have personas?
The first step for a user centred design process is to conduct user research. Through this you can learn about your users - their behaviour, attitudes and needs. The problem is once you get all this lovely, useful rich data, how do you communicate it across to the rest of the design/development team? One popular option available to you is personas.
Personas are a common technique used to communicate findings from user research in a simple and accessible manner. They're very useful as they can communicate this information quickly and (if done well) in a fun way that will stick with the design/development team through the rest of the process, ensuring the user research is taken into account throughout the course of the project.
The popularity of personas comes from the personalisation of the user research data. It puts a 'real' face onto the sometimes rather dry results from user research.
What are personas?
Personas are essentially made-up people, based on the data generated by user research conducted previously.
There should be at least one persona to represent each major segment of your users. The word major is used as ideally you should be using 3-5 personas, and with most sites there are a lot more user groups. Each of the personas should have their own personality and be memorable - put too many in front of people and they start to all blur into one. Any more than 5 personas and people often start to feel overwhelmed.
What information should be in personas?
Personas take a variety of shapes and sizes. The information they contain will be entirely dependent on the user research on which the personas are based, what information is needed by the design/development team and how the personas will be used.
Most personas contain a description, picture and some summary of their needs/goals:
- Pictures are particularly useful as they help people to visualise the persona, to make it seem real. They also help designers/developers empathise with the personas more easily.
- A description gives a brief summary of the persona, which often contains demographic information (sometimes going into surprisingly large amounts of detail). The description might include (among other information) their job, their technology, any pressures they're under and the situation they're in when they use the system/site.
- Needs, goals & features can either be a straight list for each persona, or a table comparing each persona against each possible need/feature/goal. This can help define a priority list for features (or the needs from which to develop features) before development starts.
Personas may contain a whole variety of other pieces of information, including:
- A 'quote' from the persona
- This should summarise their needs/goals into a single sentence. This can be a double edged sword, as this single sentence runs the risk of oversimplifying the personas issues. Quotes do have the added advantage of giving the personas further personality.
- Frustrations
- These are issues that the persona encounters, either with the existing system or because there's no existing system. These can clarify to designers/developers exactly what the biggest issues this persona faces.
- Ideal features
- This is very similar to features, but with no restrictions placed on their feasibility... these may be impossible to produce, but sometimes help designers/developers think of alternative approaches that are more realistic.
- 'Need to know'
- Any information the persona needs when trying to do their goal. These help designers/developers understand the key information needed to communicate to users.
- Behaviours
- These are the typical behaviours the persona exhibits. They're usually only shown if the personas different behaviours lead to different needs/requirements of the system in development.
- Scenarios
- These are sample use cases the persona may do. They can be based on either their goals or their use of an existing system. This can clarify exactly how a system will be/is used.
What do I do with personas?
The whole purpose of personas is to communicate user research, and ensure it's remembered and used throughout the project lifetime. In order for this to happen, the personas must be adopted by the design/development team. Exactly how this adoption is done varies from company to company. The most common solution is to put up posters of the personas, after introducing the personas to the design/development team for the first time. Any way that increases the profile of the personas is a good idea; one company produced quick referral 'flash cards' for its staff so they could refer to the personas whenever they went.
There are more... alternative methods. Another company produced full size cut outs of its personas - even putting aside seats in meetings for them!
It'll be clear when the personas have been adopted when people start referring to them on first names, "Dave wouldn't want to do that"... and others don't ask who Dave is.
After the personas are adopted, the design/development team should be able to design and build for the personas, as their 'users'. In doing so, they'll design and build taking into account the earlier user research the personas are based on without even realising.
Personas are a great way to distil user research into easily understood, bitesize forms. They can include a variety of information, tailored to the particular project and the team's needs.
However in order to be any use, they must be adopted and used. If they fade into the background, or are only attended to for the meeting they're introduced, then all the effort/money put into the user research and creating the personas is lost.


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My fiance and I are looking for a preschool where our daughters can learn French. Right now they speak mostly English at home with a bit of French and we would love for them to be in a nurturing preschool environment where they can learn and grow and be ready for kindergarten ... and get an extra boost of French throughout the day. We have looked at Ecole Bilingue De Berkeley and The Renaissance International School (TRIS). Does anyone have any additional suggestions or even if you have looked at these two programs, if you had a preference. Thanks!! Kristin
This far EB has been an excellent experience for us, and for our son. The teachers are excellent; they are usually from France or from Francophone countries and really know their stuff -- and they really know your kid. We like the teaching style, which is structured and curriculum-driven, but in which singing and art are integrated into all aspects. The EB community has created an excellent private school but one without a feeling of privilege and exclusivity. Our son is speaking and reading French with no help from us; we are totally non-Francophone. He has become an eager reader in both languages, and a budding essayist (albeit one in dire need of Spellcheck). Please feel free to email me if you have further questions. And good luck with your choice of school! Isha
We are trying to figure out where our daughter will go for preschool and possible through 8th grade. We are looking at 3 schools, but the two we are having a hard time deciding between is EB and Renaissance.
We have a very social, bright and energetic child who might have attention difficulties as she gets older. Both parents are ADHD. We would like her to be challenged and engaged in school.
We are looking for advice on why you either chose one school over the other. And also individual school reviews. I have read what is on BPN and there does not seem to be many recent reviews for EB and The Renaissance school has many new reviews, but I am wondering who has had their child go to TRIS through 8th and how has their kid done the transition to high school. Also how trilingual has your child become?
Thank you for your help. choosing a preschool is hard
Why did we choose EB (and why do we continue to love it?)? #1 for us was diversity. EB is not just diverse in the sense we all hope and expect Berkeley schools to be--it's internationally diverse. 40+ countries represented. There's just no other student body in the East Bay bringing the world together like that on one campus, and that opportunity to broaden our son's perspective not just in theory but with a broad multi-cultural experience was something we couldn't pass up.
Our actual experience of that diversity has been everything we had hoped and more. He has had teachers from Africa, France, and the U.S. just in his two years. He has friends who speak Farsi, German, French (of course), and Hebrew.
All of these cultural strains produce challenges--which is great! We love the different perspectives, norms and values that different kids/families bring. And EB has a really good environment to make those differences work: small class sizes; a tolerant but structured setting; a genuinely warm and caring school community. So you get the benefits of international diversity with the intimacy that helps bring it together.
We also chose EB due--truthfully--to the engaged classrooms we saw during our campus visit. We were pretty blown away by the energized, focused kids we witnessed even as they got up into the classrooms filled with pre-teens. The school does a really good job of promoting a love of learning.
As for the ADHD factor, I can't speak to that specifically, but I can say that the admin has been overall very responsive about whatever needs we and our friends have brought up (from allergies to shy children struggling to present special projects to their classmates). And EB is certainly challenging and will keep your child engaged. It's a pretty rigorous curriculum (but not until first grade--until then it's mostly community-building, social skills building, play-based, and language intensive of course, etc.)
We have a wonderful group of parent friends at EB, ranging from wealthy lawyer families up in the hills to artists struggling to make ends meet. Some go on ski trips all the time and some can't figure out how they'll pay for summer break activities. It's a pretty good cross-section and everyone seems to come together.
We're also excited about the much greener, more open campus that is coming in the next year or two as part of a major campus expansion and renovation.
Best of luck as you explore your choices! Happy and Impressed EB Parent
My name is Liana and my daughter who is 5.5 goes to TRIS. She started there at age 2 and honestly I thought it to be just a nice Montessori school at first. She started in the 2 year old class at pre-primary class from there she learned little steps to independence.
It is bilingual from 2 to 5 in pre-primary to primary (3 to 5 year olds) then when they transition to lower elementary (6-8) and then upper elementary they get lessons in English, Spanish and French. There are 3 teachers in every classroom. They have several art teachers and music teachers too.
It is hard to convince a parent that a school is good or not but if you are interested in TRIS ask to observe a classroom, attend a silent journey, speak to Leslie the head of school. You'll notice the kids are smart, independent, respectful of each other. They have an awesome art, music, math. I am yet to be convinced about science. The kids learn cursive at 3, reading fluently by 5. Before the kids transition to elementary they already know addition, subtraction, single digit multiplication and beginning division.
The school is not for everyone but I have a child who is smart and social but has a hard time focusing. I think the school really helped her focus and she is learning and not only how to work in a team, she learns to work independently and be self motivated. Now she is thriving in this unique learning environment and is happy. As a parent I am completely sold to this school as I see how my child is developing.
The tuition is not cheap but it is a special place. If you have any questions let me know. Liana
(I'm posting the above from another parent at the school -- both my children attend and are in the elementary program. I didn't feel we could address the language question you posed, since we transferred in at the elementary level, but for what it's worth, my kids are soaking it up like sponges. This is our second year at the school and our exposure is only at the elementary level. Of course we wished we had know about it earlier! Fan of TRIS
We chose EB because:
(1) We wanted an immersion education;
(2) Our colleagues at UC Berkeley with children at EB highly recommended the school for its academic as well as its cultural qualities;
(3) EB is accredited by the French government and the California Association of Independent Schools, which we thought gave the EB curriculum credibility and recognition;
(4) The parent community is exceptionally diverse -- in a global and not just in a US sense -- so EB children seemed to be in a mini-UN environment; and
(5) EB has been around for 30+ years and has an international network of alumni, many of whom remain close to one another long after their EB years.
We are staying with EB because:
(1) Our son loves his school, his teachers, his friends, his friends' parents, his after-care supervisors, his pretty much everything at EB;
(2) The teachers are excellent; they are usually from France or from Francophone countries and really know their stuff -- and, as important, they really know your kid;
(3) We like the teaching style, which is structured and curriculum-driven, but in which singing and art are integrated into all aspects of the curriculum;
(4) The EB community is wonderful -- truly international and socio-economically diverse -- creating an excellent school without a feeling of privilege and exclusivity; and
(5) Our son is speaking and reading French with no help from us; we are totally non-Francophone. (At least, we *think* he is speaking French when he's not speaking English, and the parents of his French, Canadian, Senegalese and Vietnamese friends seem to understand him).
Good luck with your choice of school. Each child is unique so it's always a bit of a leap in the dark when you choose a school for your child. But for us, at least thus far, EB has been a great way to go. IR
Hi BPN! I have a 15 month old and am looking for recommendations for daycare or preschool in Concord or nearby. Ultimately, I would love if the center had French immersion involved but I'm not sure I will find that in this area. Also, if you know of any French immersion care in Oakland/Berkeley please feel free to pass on this information anyway as I'd like to know what may be possible for our situation. Thank you in advance. RMS
Hello... I would like to hear from parents whose children have attended any of the French bilingual schools in the Bay Area, in particular Ecole Bilangue in Berkeley. I'd like to know what your overall experience was, what age you sent your children there, etc. Anything you didn't like? Would you do it again if you had a 2nd child ready for school? Our infant daughter has dual nationality (French + American) and we're looking into having her attending bilingual schools. I have heard a rumor that the French government offers tuition support for French nationals to attend a bilingual school -- anyone have experience with this? Thanks for your help! - new mommy
And here's an overview of the program in English from EB's web site: http://www.eb.org/index.html/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&Itemid=34&lang=en Jennifer Monahan, Communications Manager at EB
How the children adapt to the immersion program if they are not familiar with French is really individual. How each child and family finds their place in the school community is also very individual. It is a school that provides many, many opportunities for building community... for getting involved. What you choose to do with these opportunities is up to you... which is great because sometimes it might work for you to dive in up to your eyeballs and other times it may be necessary for you to be doing other things in your life.
Each of our children has had a very different experience due to their completely different personalities. Overall I would give the school the big two thumbs up! Yes, there have been times when problems have arisen. But what I have finally learned about life is that there will always be something somewhere that bugs you... and if it isn't there now, it will be someday. And it may be resolved only to be replaced by something else. Whatever issues any of my kids have had at EB they would have probably had somewhere else. On this topic I do really want and need to add that the teachers and the administration have ALWAYS been totally super, amazing, receptive to the feedback, questions, issues I have brought to them. And I have many, many friends who feel similarly. I will be sending my infant daughter there when she is old enough, provided we have the resources.
I would recommend you go to an information night and schedule a school tour. And if you want to talk more about EB, feel free to email me. Marjorie
I would like to know if there is any other private schools besides EB, French American School, The Academy and Bentley School that offers French Language from kindergarten onwards. And if there is any public schools that offer French Language from kindergarten onwards. Thank you Anon
There is: - French/Chinese School in East Palo Alto (beautiful new campus). - French School in Sunnyvale - French School, San FrancicoI don't know the exact names of these schools but know students who have attended these various schools. Shouldn't be hard to find the names. Don't know where you live and if you are close to any of these. Good luck. -Anon.
As far as french immersion programs go, EB is the best... hands down (in my opinion). The school's purpose is delivering a top-notch bilingual education and instilling a global cultural view. The student body is diverse... 40 nationalities are represented. At EB, the children actually learn in both languages, they don't just ''learn'' the language. By the end of first grade, the children can read, speak and write fluently in both languages. I didn't believe this until our family experienced it. Mathematics, art, music and physical education are all taught in french. Up through third grade the science curriculum is also covered in french.
If you have reservations for some reason about EB and would like to talk candidly with a parent about her family's experiences there, feel free to contact me. We are a non-native speaking, all locally born and raised family and have 3 children currently attending. the_missus
I posted this question a couple of weeks ago, but didn't get any responses, so I'm trying again. We are looking for a French preschool program for a three year old or French classes. We've looked into French For Fun in Lafayette, but wanted to see what other programs might be out there. We are not looking for a full-time program. Joy
We are looking ahead to preschool (we still have a few years to go) and I was considering the Ecole Bilingue, but it seems that it only offers a full-time program, even for the 3 and 4 year olds. Is this correct? Are there any other preschools that offer a bilingual French program (or even some French) that offer part time programs (either half-day or 3 days/week)? anon
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It turns out the "Krusty the Clown Show" on "The Simpsons" is a very different program in Jamaica. In a sneak peek clip from the next episode of "The Simpsons," someone gets a hold of the show's satellite feed, complete with "The Itchem & Scratchem Show."
Instead of attacking each other with mallets, like Itchy and Scratchy, the Jamaican counterparts are wielding a bong and a gigantic joint. "They smoke, they toke. They smoke and toke and smoke," the theme song goes. From there, Itchy rolls up and smokes Scratchy. Sadly, this would be the perfect place for a Poochie cameo, but no such luck.
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The Fatal Shore (1986)
by Robert Hughes
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There's nothing like reading history to make you grateful. The past is a dark place.
Hughes doesn't strike me as entirely reliable, but he has a tremendous turn of phrase and eye for the novelistic detail. Highly recommended.
History of Australia's beginning as a penal colony. Well written but lengthy and detailed, with altogether way too much flogging. Wouldn't recommend it for casual reading but it's an impressive source for understanding the founding of modern Australia and Tasmania.
This book fascinates me for its scope and depth of reporting/analysis, no matter how many times I've dipped into a chapter.
This is what a non-fiction books should be: a wonderful, absorbing history book. He starts by describing Georgian England and the many crimes that could get you locked up or hanged. (He points out that there were more slang words associated with hanging than with sex.) The jails were full, so they put hulks of battleships in the Thames and filled them with prisoners. (Any of this sound familiar?) Still not enough room. I know – let's send them "beyond the seas" to this new land we just discovered, and make them support themselves. They can send back flax and timber from Norfolk Island, plus this will keep Boney and the Frenchies from claiming this part of the world! Win-win! Well, it didn't work out quite like that, but it's a fascinating story.
Tons of interesting facts from primary sources – letters, criminal records, etc. One example: apparently descendents of Irish convicts in Australia pride themselves on being the scion of political prisoners, when in fact political prisoners were only a tiny percentage – most Irish sentenced to transportation were common criminals. The Irish were treated more harshly than other convicts; there was one rebellion that was quickly crushed. Political uprising was easily quashed by dispersing the rebels – ending up on a remote farm where none of the other convicts had the energy to care pretty much put an end to that.
Australians also get a kick out of the idea that their formothers were whores, but that actually wasn't a transportable offence. They were just thieves, mostly.
There's a lot of interesting stuff about class issues and how historians disagree about whether the convicts can be considered a class; there was much loyalty amoung them, but as time went by some of them acquired wealth and disassociated themselves. Of course the military people and the folks who came over to farm (with land grants and convict labor) never saw them as anything but convicts, and the children of convicts were just as bad as their parents.
Along the way he mentions a bunch of stories of people that deserve to be made into books or movies: bushrangers; Eliza Fraser who was shipwrecked, along with her husband, on an island off the Australian coast, married a convict who'd lived with the Aborigines, and eventually returned to England (there is a book about that one, Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves); William Buckley, who escaped and was taken in by a group of Aborigines because they thought he was the returned spirit of one woman's husband and lived with them for thirty-two years; Mary Bryant and her family, who rowed to Timor in a six-oar cutter they stole from the harbor and claimed to be shipwreck survivors. James Boswell gave her a pension.
All I know for sure about Australia is that it has cool birds. Everything else I've had to learn from Hollywood. Here's what I've ascertained so far:
1) Tina Turner makes people fight on trapeezes.
2) Bowie knife-wielding Outback types turn into delightful fish-out-of-water characters, when you bring them to the big city.
3) Alligator wrestling and Great White Shark hunting are enormously popular.
4)This is the temple where Australians sacrifice kangaroos to a vengeful goddess they call "Olivia Newton-John":
Fatal Shore turned out to be a wonderful book to help fill whatever gaps might still remain in my knowledge about the Land Down Under. This is the way I like history written- not too much detail about this king or that governor- more about the social trends and economic activity that drove events. Robert Hughes masterfully relates Australia's early history as a British penal colony from 1790-1840. Looking at stock images of Australia's beautiful scenery now, it seems tragic that it was once used as a prison, but that's how it started.
How could such a thing happen?
The answer is really a convergence of several factors. One thing that surprised me was the extent to which American independence prompted Australia's colonization. In 1790, America had just recently won her independence. Prior to this, British convicts frequently worked sentences of indentured labor on American farms in Virginia, Pennsylvania and the Carolinas. With American independence, this was no longer an option. England turned to warehousing criminals in hulking prison barges on the Thames. This soon proved expensive, however, and was a breeding ground for disease.
While some worried themselves about the convict problem, senior leadership in government was more preoccupied with the state of the navy. The loss of the American colonies created a strategic vulnerability, in that America had been Britain's main source of quality shipbuilding materials. For over 100 years, the Crown felled America's ancient forests to construct its world-dominating fleet. Denied that, the best alternative woods lay in Russia… a decidedly less eager supplier. Likewise, the best flax for canvass and hemp for ropes also came from the American colonies. Another source was needed urgently. As if ordained by the stars, promising timber and flax were both discovered on Norfolk Island, off the Australian coast in 1784. Suddenly, establishing a British presence there became a national security priority- both to develop the resources, and to deter French claims on the land (the French possessing territories in "nearby" Tahiti). But how could Britons be convinced to leave their friends and family for a remote continent filled with unknown challenges? Scientist and explorer Joseph Banks hit on an elegant solution: why not use convicts? His proposal came to the attention of the Secretary of State, Viscount Sydney, who aggressively championed the scheme. Thus began the era of "transportation", as it was called …and none too soon; Britain was in the throes of a crime wave. Loss of American markets precipitated a dramatic falloff of exports, as well as a concurrent rise in commodity prices (Americas being the supplier of many raw materials). Massive unemployment resulted, starting in manufacturing, but spreading to other areas. Hired labor in the agricultural sector was hit hard; unlanded farm workers literally began to starve in the countryside. Crimes of desperation (stealing food, killing for food, and prostitution for food) broke out everywhere. Although many of these offenses were previously punishable by hanging, British judges were encouraged to commute the sentences to "transporation". Hughes' research here is impressive- he uncovers a wealth of letters bidding loved ones farewell forever from convicts embarking on the 14,000 mile one-way journey. That's a long trip even in today's small world; in 1790 it must have sounded the equivalent of being sent to the moon!
…And then it got complicated
But not in a bad way. Having established all this background information about why Australia was colonized with convicts, Hughes launches into how the grand social experiment played out. It starts with the brutal 14k mile journey from London to Botany Bay. Prisoners were packed below decks in squalor- fighting, hustling one another, getting seasick, killing and raping each other, stealing food, singing songs, telling stories, getting it on, bemoaning their fate, planning and attempting mutinies (2 attempted in the history of Transporation, neither successful), and passing the time in a thousand other ways. The text is peppered with song lyrics, dirty limericks, and excerpts from the ships' logs. It reads like a novel- I seriously forgot this was nonfiction.
Once on land, the whole raison d'être for the colonies fell apart. The timber and flax on Norfolk Island had entirely different properties than those grown in America, and proved unsuitable for shipbuilding. No matter- England's convict disposal problem was being relieved; alternative work would need to be found for them. At first, this meant construction of government buildings and the governor's home. Later on, labor was directed to agriculture- which met with variable degrees of success, as colonists experimented with which crops took to the local soil and which did not. Free and convicted alike almost starved to death those first few years. If you like tales of survival (I'm looking at you, Karen) there is plenty here to satisfy. Eventually, wool became the first bumper export. With few natural predators, and practically limitless grazing land, raising sheep was extremely profitable. It was also a relatively unskilled endevor, so was easy to teach convicts, regardless of their previous education (or lack thereof).
The deal with transportation is that once a prisoner served his sentence (no less than 7 years, and more commonly 14 to 21 years), he would have an additional period of probation, where he was treated as an essentially free man, except he was not permitted to return to England. As a practical matter, most convicts shipped off to Australia never made it back to Britain. Their experiences in Australia varied from pastoral to unspeakably brutal. It mostly depended on the attitude of the local overseers and wardens, who were given wide latitude on how they treated their charges. Some, like the fair-minded and humane Alexander Macononchie regarded the isolation of Australia to be punishment enough. He administered a labor camp with a mind toward rehabilitation, and allocated a fair portion of the camp's budget to teaching inmates trade skills to use when they got out. He was naturally beloved, and even received fan mail from prisoners after he left his station! In stark contrast, John Giles Price was a mean-spirited sadist who used every slightest excuse to have prisoners tortured in a sickening variety of creative ways. He was naturally not beloved, and died in a prison uprising when inmates beat him with their work tools until he resembled a gritty blood-colored paste on the cobblestones in front of his residence.
One point of curiosity I was hoping would be covered in Fatal Shorewas the matter of English-Aboriginal interaction. Hughes does quite well on this count, and again condensed obviously extensive research into pleasurable reading. The aborigines have inhabited Australia for at least 40,000 years, and live in small groups as nomadic hunter-gatherers. Their population was sparse, and the state of their technology ill-equipped to stand up to the British. On many occasions, they were slaughtered, mistreated, and otherwise abused in all the ways indigenous peoples have been by empires through the ages. But to leave it at that would be a bit of an oversimplification. In the British settlements, males outnumbered females eight to one, so it is not shocking to read that on gaining their freedom, a lot of ex-cons took up with "native" women, if opportunity allowed. Then there are cases of escaped convicts who were only able to survive in the unfamiliar environment by "going native" and joining up with aborigines as members of their community, living with them side-by-side in their traditional lifestyle. This wasn't a common occurrence, but it happened. For the most part, contact with the British was not a positive thing, and the fate of the aborigines has many parallels with that of Native Americans. One interesting twist, though: whereas Native American populations were decimated by Europeans killing off buffalo herds, a sort of reverse dynamic played out in Australia…while the aborigines stood little chance of successfully fighting settlers directly, they soon learned they could destroy a settler's livelihood by relentlessly picking off his sheep when he wasn't around. Some settlers were bankrupted by this, and forced to abandon their lands. Unfortunately, the response to this was frequently organized colonial posses hunting aborigines, and even official payouts for killing them. Convicts could even earn reduced time from their sentences, and free settlers could earn cash rewards by turning in the heads of aborigines to local government offices.
If I know my GoodReaders (and I think I do) there's two things they love to read about: incest and cannibalism. Well come and get it! This is the infamous true story of Alexander Pearce and his gang. They escaped the savagely punitive prison in Macquarie Harbor, Tasmania (then called "Van Diemen's Land"), and planned to live off the land. Unfortunately, none of these city boys had the skills to do so. They stumbled around the wilderness for several days, until the supplies they brought with them ran out. There were seven of them at first… then one of them got the bright idea they should draw lots and consume the loser. What's that? That isn't how you were taught camping in the Boy Scouts? Well, don't judge- by all accounts, the unlucky Thomas Cox was delicious. Unfortunately, he didn't last that long. When the gang started to get hungry again, some members weren't so sure they liked the diminishing odds of drawing straws again. I don't want to ruin the story here; it's a good one, and it's all true. You really should read this book!
Oh damn.. there's a bunch of other stuff I want to talk about, but as usual my review is running long… long enough to test the patience of even the most determined reader. To show you how much more great stuff is packed into this book, I'm just going to throw together a little list of fun and fascinating subjects contained on these pages:
1) The plight (mostly) and delight (sometimes) of being a woman (free or convict) in early Australia
2) Irish solidarity among the convict population
3) Governors lying to the Colonial Office back in London
4) Fooling the French
5) Sad songs
6) Official vs. unofficial policies regarding homosexuality among the convicts
7) The insane, truth-is-stranger-than fiction tale of James Porter's escape from Tasmania and his miraculous journey to Chile, where he managed to pass himself off as a nobleman (for a while)
8) The evolution of the Australian dialect as a distinct entity
9) Pirates, stowaways, and one amazing escape to Java on a homemade raft!
10) Cool birds
11) Australia's first train (powered by convicts!)
12) Out-of-touch British nobles trying to live opulent lifestyles in the middle of a prison camp
13) Snarky tattoos
14) Sex in the great outdoors
15) Meddlesome American whalers
16) How some places got their names
What more can I say to convince you to read this? Looking back on it, I can't believe how much information Hughes packed into 600 pages… and I also can't believe how much fun this was to read! I must admit I came to this book in a state of almost complete ignorance about Australia. I have no illusions of expertise now, but Fatal Shore has at least hinted at how much more there is to learn about the place… the book is, after all, only a history of Australia's first fifty years!
-G'day Mates!
Hughes' descriptions of sadism and suffering, desperate escape attempts, rape, murder, cannibalism, and forays into the bush to exterminate the aboriginal and other indigenous peoples, become, in their accumulation, wearying, mind-numbing. Yet it is the story of the founding of a modern nation whose development was coetaneous with the last century of America's slave period, if even more savage and barbaric. "The Fatal Shore" is an unexpected, original and important work of history.
In the early 1970's, while filming a television program on Australian art in Port Arthur, Tasmania, the Australian-born art critic Robert Hughes became curious about the city's prisons, which date from the period (1788-1868) when criminals were shipped from the British Isles to Australia. The prisons are ''the monuments of Australia - the Paestums,'' he said recently in his New York apartment, and the period ''was an extraordinary time - an effort to exile en masse a whole class. The English felt that just as shoemakers make shoes, this class produced crime.''
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Harmony of Despair's multiplayer design isn't fleshed out well enough to make you forget about the grind.
There's a single-player option in Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, but if you're the sort of person that only likes to play games by yourself, don't buy Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. Actually, with its kooky, grind-heavy design, I don't know that I'd recommend that anyone buy Konami's latest downloadable Castlevania game, but the game's definitely built to be played as a group.
Unlike traditional Castlevania games, there's no meaningful story element to Castlevania HD, and you aren't really exploring a large, singular castle. Instead, the game is broken up into six different chapters, each with its own map and boss. Also, each chapter comes with a time limit. So you're not expected to linger around in any one part of the game. In fact, you should probably get moving, even if you're playing alone, because nothing stops the clock. You can't pause the game at all. It's one of those kinds of games.
When you first start hacking away at a chapter, you'll probably be a little underpowered. That's because a lot of the game revolves around finding better gear or, depending on which of the five protagonists you decide to use, repeatedly using your attacks to increase their power. Those power increases aren't explicitly stated, and the game only lets you swap gear when you're at specific points on the map, making the whole system a bit more obfuscated than it probably should be. Maybe a more standard leveling system that gives you XP for kills would have been easier to follow.
The game allows up to six players to play, and there are some paths on each map that can only be taken if the players are working together, like switches or platforms that turn off flames or otherwise open doors that help everyone get to the boss fight faster. But since a big part of the game is hunting down more interesting equipment--and it feels like better equipment shows up in multiplayer games--you're better off scouring the four corners of each map before triggering the boss fight to see if you can find anything worthwhile. I'd say around 95% of the stuff I find is essentially vendor trash, though the stores don't sell good enough items to make your gold worth saving. It's like the game is driven by loot lust, but almost all of the loot is totally uninteresting.
At least the game has a specific look to it. Though it abbreviates to "Castlevania HD," it's hard to call Harmony of Despair a "high-definition" game. The characters look like they right out of the various Nintendo DS Castlevania games, and the game has a deliberately blocky look to it. That's not a bad thing, as it gives all of the visuals a very specific style, but it's hard not to feel like this game was thrown together to make a quick buck with existing assets. As a result, the only amazing thing about the game is its music.
But you're probably not looking to spend $15 on a soundtrack that you can only hear on your 360. Castlevania: Harmony of Despair has some neat ideas, but a lot of it's hidden behind a bevy of poorly explained menus and user-unfriendly mechanics. The expectation that you'll grind your way through the six chapters over and over again, only to do it all over again in hard mode is kind of ridiculous, and there just isn't enough of a reward there to make all of that grinding feel like anything other than, well, a grind.


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Woman who fled court captured in Mass.
A woman who escaped from sheriff officers at a court hearing in Nashua was caught less than 24 hours later in Lawrence, Mass. Tammara Wallace, 45, fled Hillsborough County Superior Court on Tuesday morning but was caught Wednesday morning, county Sheriff James Hardy said. During her escape, she was seen wearing a Santa hat. Hardy didn't provide details of how Wallace escaped custody and fled the courthouse, citing a pending investigation. It is unknown if Wallace had already appeared for a hearing on a theft charge when she fled. This marks the second time in nearly four months that someone has broken free from Hillsborough County sheriff officers. In August, a man with a lengthy criminal record hit a court officer in the face and struggled with security before leading police on a massive manhunt.At one point during her journey, Wallace was spotted at Bugaboo Creek restaurant in the Nashua Mall plaza, county Sheriff Lt. Bill Barry said. While wearing a Santa hat, Wallace asked the staff to use a phone, he said. It is unknown how Wallace traveled from the Spring Street courthouse to the mall on Broad Street, but city buses run routes from downtown to the shopping plaza. Wallace was arrested in her Lawrence residence, Barry said. She was slated to be arraigned in Lawrence District Court on Wednesday afternoon, and an attempt will be made to extradite her, he said. In New Hampshire, she will eventually face a charge for failing to meet bail conditions, and likely will face charges for her escape, Hardy said. A superior court judge late Tuesday revoked her bail for failing to meet three or four conditions, he said. She was in court on a theft by unauthorized taking charge, Hardy said. Two county sheriff officers staked out her 22 School St. residence in Lawrence on Tuesday night, Barry said. The next morning, the officers got a tip that Wallace was inside, and she was soon arrested, he said. Wallace was arrested in Lawrence last month on a trespassing charge, Barry said. Having violated her bail conditions, she was extradited to New Hampshire for the Tuesday court hearing, he said. Nashua police were called to Hillsborough Superior Court some time after Wallace fled, police Lt. Bruce Hansen said. Nashua police officers helped try to find Wallace near the court, but by then, "she was long gone," he said. In August, 43-year-old Peter Gibbs escaped sheriff's officers at Nashua District Court by assaulting one of them, prosecutors charge. Gibbs, who has several felony convictions and is awaiting trials on more, jumped into the Nashua River but was pulled out by police.


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July 1 brings us to an epoch in the history of Hartland Institute. For a quarter of a century, God has sustained this ministry. How thankful we are to Him and to all who have been our faithful supporters and prayer partners over the years!
During these 25 years there have been difficult times. Sadly, some of our staff and, tragically, one of their children have been laid to rest. Several constituents and board members are now awaiting the call of the Lifegiver, and three of our students have met untimely deaths. There has been disharmony over important issues. There have been strong visions. There have even been severe criticisms of Hartland, often built on false rumors or great exaggerations.
Yet, above it all, I have only thankfulness to God for His patience and unbounded blessing. I rejoice in the young people who have gone out from this institution, for most of our graduates are working diligently and faithfully in the service of the Lord.
Gratefulness fills my heart when I remember the many people whose health and spiritual lives have been restored through the ministry of the Lifestyle Education Center. I think also of the tens of thousands who have had the opportunity to read the truth-filled literature which comes from Hartland Publications and Last Generation magazine.
Several ministries which began here are now continuing elsewhere. One such example is Young Disciple magazine, led by the Evert family. This wonderful magazine for young people is now being produced in Washington State. There is also the Ellen G. White Sabbath School Comments now compiled and printed by Brother and Sister Tompkins of Tennessee. These have been such a blessing to many. More recently, blessings have also come from the media department through CDs, DVDs, and the streaming of the everlasting gospel through our website, www.egntv.com. I also reflect on the mission trips, health ministry, public evangelism, personal evangelism, extension schools, and educational seminars which have led many to the Lord.
For our 25th Anniversary Camp Meeting this summer, we have invited graduates from many parts of the world to preach, conduct seminars, and present mission stories. I pray that many of you will be with us for this very special occasion. Remember to stay for the special Sunday afternoon program to which the public, including government representatives, will be invited.
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Gallery: Suoi Re Village Community House in Vietnam Built from Rammed E...
A rammed-soil wall with heavy stones supports the structure, and a bamboo roof frame adorned with dense palm leaves tops everything off, providing protection from above.
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achei esta idéia muito interessante,desenvolvo um trabalho em uma comunidade que sofre com a desigualdade social,e possuo uma área de 5.0000m2 no mesmo local,onde penso em formar uma pequena vila com autosustentabilidade para mais ou menos 15 famílias,seguindo o modelo corretamente ecologico.Que acham dessa idéia?Aceito sugestões e ajuda.
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UST School of Law student Juno Nayagam has been appointed Lt. Governor for 8th Circuit Events for the ABA's Law Student Division. As a part of the 8th Circuit Lieutenant Governor Team for 2011-2012, Nayagam joins law students from 14 other law schools who were appointed based on their qualifications, leadership skills, and desire to serve the law students of the 8th Circuit. The 8th Circuit includes the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
The ABA website indicates that the Law Student Division section focuses on practical and professional skills development for law school students and provides assistance in the search for jobs, both during and after graduation from law school. Additionally, the Division offers leadership training, public service opportunities, career development programming, and practical skills competitions. The Law Student Division is comprised of fifteen circuits (not to be confused with the federal judicial circuits) to better serve the needs of students on a regional, as well as national level.
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We have a monolithic code base. It is something you end up with if you keep adding classes, without thought to larger modules. So how to solve the problem. Break the code up into modules. Also figure out how to combine these into applications. Then look at whether to run these together in the one JVM or separately.
One problem that comes up is tool support. Ant on its own does provide ready made solutions to this.
We needed a higher level build system on top of Ant that provides a default means of dependency management, multi-project relationships, and generation of build artifacts such as jars, wars, and ears.
A look around shows a number of approaches: Ant + Ivy, Maven, Ant + Antlib for Maven and Maven + antrun plugin.
Maven is a popular and widely used build system which handles dependency management and multi-project relationships. It operates at a higher level than ant, sort of like what Hibernate is to JDBC. Maven scripts tend to be much shorter than Ant scripts to get an amount of work done.
Maven provides:
- a dependency management system. no more ?lib/*.jar? dependencies
- a standard for an artifact repository that handles packages and version numbers, javadocs and source code (of releases), either centralised or proxied.
- a ?standard? project lifecycle where you can ?plug? special processing. All projects go through: generate source, compile, package, install etc?
- Simple project setup that follows best practices – get a new project or module started in seconds
- Consistent usage across all projects means no ramp up time for new developers coming onto a project
- Superior dependency management including automatic updating, dependency closures (also known as transitive dependencies)
- Able to easily work with multiple projects at the same time
- A large and growing repository of libraries and metadata to use out of the box, and arrangements in place with the largest Open Source projects for real-time availability of their latest releases
- Extensible, with the ability to easily write plugins in Java or scripting languages
- Instant access to new features with little or no extra configuration
- Ant tasks for dependency management and deployment outside of Maven
- Model based builds: Maven is able to build any number of projects into predefined output types such as a JAR, WAR, or distribution based on metadata about the project, without the need to do any scripting in most cases.
- Coherent site of project information: Using the same metadata as for the build process, Maven is able to generate a web site or PDF including any documentation you care to add, and adds to that standard reports about the state of development of the project. Examples of this information can be seen at the bottom of the left-hand navigation of this site under the "Project Information" and "Project Reports" submenus.
- Release management and distribution publication: Without much additional configuration, Maven will integrate with your source control system such as CVS and manage the release of a project based on a certain tag. It can also publish this to a distribution location for use by other projects. Maven is able to publish individual outputs such as a JAR, an archive including other dependencies and documentation, or as a source distribution.
- Dependency management: Maven encourages the use of a central repository of JARs and other dependencies. Maven comes with a mechanism that your project's clients can use to download any JARs required for building your project from a central JAR repository much like Perl's CPAN. This allows users of Maven to reuse JARs across projects and encourages communication between projects to ensure that backward compatibility issues are dealt with. We are collaborating with the folks at Ibiblio who have graciously allowed the central repository to live on their servers.
Potential Issues with Maven
The historic issues with Maven and the current status are:
- Maven was poorly documented. This has been improved somewhat, particularly with a freely downloadable PDF book on Maven2.
- Is their a critical mass out there? There now is. It is becoming very common to see pom.xml's in projects. pom.xml comes up on Google in a 1:4 ratio with Ant. So it has critical mass and is not going away. Ibiblio has a very large number of projects in its repository.
- The changeover from Maven 1 to Maven 2 was untidy and confusing. Now everyone is one maven 2
- Maven has an initial learning curve. You need to dive into black magic to develop a maven plugin when you need to do custom things and this is hard. You can always call into an ant script. Developing a plugin is optional.
- The central repository may not be available. The solution is to use a local repository. See http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/daisy/documentation/g1/1164.html
Ant + Antlib for Maven
Maven 2.0 now comes with a set of Ant tasks that can be used to utilise Maven's artifact handling features from within Ant. Included are:
- Dependency management – including transitive dependencies, scope recognition and SNAPSHOT handling
- Artifact deployment – file and SSH based deployment to a Maven repository
- POM processing – for reading a Maven 2.0 pom.xml file
See http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks.html
Remaining Problems with Ant
Ant files tend to become huge. Can be solved, as of ant1.6, by the ant import nd macrodef tasks.
Each project ends up with duplicated Ant code. Can be solved, as of ant1.6, by the ant import nd macrodef tasks, although you then need a common artifact
No standardised build structure. This can be enforced manually.
Ant + Ivy
Ivy works very much like Ant + Maven Antlib. It has arguably a better dependency management process. It does not have a central repository of projects. You have to package third party stuff up and put it in your Ivy repository. It does not provide the extra features of Maven beyond dependency management.
Making a Choice
Relative Popularity
In terms of what projects are using, one way to tell is to search google for the config files that are used by each tool.
A google search for build.xml returns 3,240,000 results.
A google search for pom.xml returns 786,000 results.
A google search for ivy.xml returns 17,900 results.
Both Ant and Maven are mainstream. Ivy is a niche player by this measure.
Thought Leaders
Matt Raible was an eager Ivy user, then moved to Ant + Maven Antlib then moved to Maven as of September 06.
The Spring project is moving to Maven.
Much of CodeHaus and Apache have/are moving to Maven.
I know people who use Maven and those that use Ivy. Both Maven and Ivy are part of Apache.
The Maven project is extremely poor at fixing bugs and getting releases out. Ivy has a better reputation.
Summing UpIf you are an open source project, the chances are that you need to publish your releases to the Maven central repository anyway. This requires you to have a Project Object Model (pom.xml). In your pom.xml you need to specify your dependencies. It is not that much more work to simply delete your lib directory and plug in the Maven Antlib to your ant build. This is what I have done with ehcache and jpam, two of my open source projects. If you are an open source project Ant +Maven Antlib seems a safe choice.
I have not made the move to pure Maven because I think it would take a fair bit of work. I have started to do so then run into limitations or bugs. The large numbers of unresolved bugs trouble me greatly.
If you are doing Corporate development, like using Ant and have existing projects you want to solve the dependency management problem for, I would say go either with Ant + Maven Antlib or Ant + Ivy.
At work we opted to go pure Maven and convert our existing Ant projects. I am not sure at this point that it has been worth it.


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The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) will release the most comprehensive report on the effectiveness of medications for opioid addiction and on the arbitrary restrictions on these FDA-approved drugs by many state governments and insurance companies. Drug overdoses now kill more Americans than drunk driving car crashes, an epidemic led by misuse of opioid pain medication and use of heroin. Yet, safe and effective medications to treat opioid addiction are seriously under-utilized, resulting in preventable suffering and death. "This report will show how we could be saving lives and effectively treating the disease of addiction if state governments and insurance companies remove roadblocks to the use of effective, FDA-approved medications," said Stuart Gitlow, MD, President of ASAM.
The report will be released at a press event at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, June 20, at The National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, Washington, 20045.
Speakers include:
-- Stuart Gitlow, MD, President of ASAM
-- Tom McLellan, PhD, Executive Director of Treatment Research Institute, former Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
-- Whitney, opioid addiction patient and expectant mother taking buprenorphine, an FDA-approved addiction medication
-- Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
-- Michael Botticelli, Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
The American Society of Addiction Medicine is a national medical specialty society of over 3,000 physicians. Its mission is to increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment, to educate physicians, and other health care providers and the public, to support research and prevention, to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the care of patients with addictive disorders, and to establish Addiction Medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health care services and the general public. ASAM was founded in 1954, and has had a seat in the American Medical Association House of Delegates since 1988.


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CELLPHONES liberated many of us from the need to wear a wristwatch – they not only tell you the time, they also let you check Facebook. But the watch is poised to make a comeback. "Smartwatches", which let you check text messages and social media, could be the next big thing.
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Verizon Wireless is offering select customers in Los Angeles and San Diego a $99 monthly plan that includes unlimited talking, text messaging and data usage. Normally, Verizon offers an unlimited talk and text option for $90, but in those California markets, the plan is now on offer for $70. With a $30 unlimited data plan for smartphone devices, the total price has now dropped to $100. This competes directly with Sprint, which also offers its Simply Everything plan for $99. Similarly, T-Mobile offers a $100 all-in plan, and the carrier will cut that to $80 with no annual contract if you don't buy a phone at a subsidized price.
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Saving Sarasota Watershed from sea level rise and stormwater; preserving economy
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Sarasotaâs rapidly changing population makes it difficult to keep up with preserving its watershed. At a three-day symposium that concluded today, professionals in different fields reviewed ways to pick up the pace for the countyâs biggest attractor.
The threat of sea level rise has environmentalists worried about damage to homes, roadways, and anything else along coastal areas. Sarasotaâs fresh water habitats could also be contaminated by encroaching salt water. Improvements have been made of the last quarter decade, but environmental scientist Jack Merriam said it hasnât been enough.
We said 25 years ago, local comprehensive plans should address it, permitting processes should ensure that infrastructure should be functional throughout its estimated lifetime. I donât know that we are there yet in terms of addressing it and beginning to integrate. We as taxpayers pay for a lot of the infrastructure and if itâs along the bay front and itâs under water, it probably wonât work well.
Sarasotaâs crawling environmental progress can be in part attributed to the quick population turnover in the area. Former Sarasota Mayor Kelly Kirschner said the revolving door of residents makes it necessary for the same conversations to repeat.
Statistically, every seven years Long Boat Key turns over in population. That your entire population in Long Boat Key is new. So, by the time we have this conversation again in 25 years, you will have cycled through two generations of residents of Long Boat Key. On the mainland, I think the fact that every five years we have a 25% cycling through of our population.
Activists are also trying to improve storm water management. According to Kirschner, in the 80âs local politicians took advantage of opportunities to develop miles of canals to make residential expansion both doable and lucrative. Now those areas have inadequate drainage. But, Kirschner said because the problem is spread over a fairly large geographic area, it presents more of a cost to fix than it does an environmental threat.
Storm water management is perhaps 20% of the remaining issue, but 80% of the total cost which creates one of these really large challenges and the limits that we have right now.
And poor drainage also causes problems on land. Merriam, the environmental scientist used Sarasotaâs tourist hotspot of St. Armandâs Circle as an example. During floods the city uses pumps to manage excess water flow. That road serves as an evacuation route to residents. Merriam said that alone should light a fire to start retrofitting drainage.
Our drainage system is very old. In many instances, itâs probably 50 plus years old and so at a high tide, if we get a heavy rain, we currently have areas where the road doesnât drain well. So, those kind of things will only get worse. We donât have to debate, is it man made or is it real or not? The road floods. Itâs a real problem today.
But again, turnover stands in the way of progress. Tommy Von Birch who is an environmental activist said people who would be willing to change behaviors to improve and preserve Sarasotaâs watershed should be educated on how. Unfortunately, she added, not everyone is easy to convince.
We need to educate our newly elected officials. And sometimes, like on our city commission, they change over rather rapidly. I think weâve got nine months and two years experience on the city commission right now and they need a little help.
Sea walls to block out sea level rise. Expensive drainage retrofits. Educational campaigns to get stuff done. It all costs money. So, former Sarasota Mayor Kelly Kirschner told a story that pointed out one valuable watershed asset that would actually put money into the Sarasota area economy.
The water was black with mullet this past year. Her father whoâs 88 years old, whoâs lived in Cortez his entire life, said heâs never seen that in his life. Make sure that we embraced that, that we cultivate it and come back here in 25 years with that much more in success stories to celebrate. I think thatâs critically important just as the recap for politicians right now because everythingâs about job creation.
Kirschner said Mullet export to Cuba, if the embargo is ever lifted, could be a money-maker and a way to bring some historical significance to the area that once had a thriving trade with Cuba. Mullet roe is also an expensive delicacy in Japan. Symposium organizers have created a Watershed Wiki page containing information about how to educate the people on problems and solutions.comments powered by Disqus


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A rash of burglaries on the southside of La Crosse have police potentially pondering suspects. The latest couple of crimes happened this week-end with reports of a break-in to a houseboat and an accounting business on the far southside near the river. Neighbors have called us to complain about suspected criminal activity in a house on south 13th street and with their frustrations about the apparent lack of police interest in making arrests in the cases. But police appear to be still investigating.


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MSI is set to follow up its ultra-slim X320 notebook with an X340 model that will integrate Intel's new Consumer Ultra Low Voltage (CULV) processors. The notebook initially will be available with either the Celeron M 725 processor, running at 1.2GHz with 1MB of L2Cache, or the Core 2 Solo SU 3500 CPU offering a clock speed of 1.4GHz with 3MB of L2Cache.
President Obama has proposed a spectrum licensing fee that will apply to wireless operators, in an effort to create a new source of revenue to battle the enormous deficit, according to CNET News. The fees would apply to carriers that license part of the wireless spectrum from the government, with prices starting at $50 million per user this year and growing to $200 million in 2010. Licensees eventually will each pay $550 million after ten years.
A leaked press photo provides a better visual reference of Motorola's i465 iDEN handset. The image, posted on mobile review, shows the device's full QWERTY keyboard and dedicated button for the browser. Although the exact operating system remains unknown, the phone should offer Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, a 0.3-megapixel VGA camera and Push to Talk capabilities.
Hard drive and flash-based memory maker Seagate announced on Thursday that is has dropped its patent suit against competitor Stec and that Stec has likewise dropped its countersuit, Forbes reports. Seagate said in a statement that pursuing the matter is no longer cost-efficient and the recent poor economic conditions have slowed Stec's sales of the technology that was being disputed in the lawsuit.
A recent HD Guru report claims to know the release dates and pricing information for much of Sony's 2009 HDTV lineup first introduced at this year's CES. The new-look L-series models will be available in 22-, 26-, 32- and 37-inch sizes, all with 1366x768 (720p) resolutions, a built-in ATSC/QAM tuner and 8,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio for the smallest model and a 13,000:1 ratio for the other four. Bravia Sync and Bravia Link compatibility is included, as are 1080p 60/24 inputs and Energy Star 3.0 compliance. They will be priced starting at nearly $500 for the KDL22L4000, $550, $600 and $800, respectively.
Acer Japan recently announced it will soon launch its network attached storage PC, the Aspire easyStore H340. The NAS uses Intel's 1.6GHz Atom CPU, along with 1GB of RAM and the 945GC Express mainboard. The PC runs Windows Home Server operating system and can share its multimedia content, including photos, videos and music with up to 10 connected PCs. The four-bay NAS is offered in two versions, with a 1TB drive or three 1TB drives preinstalled into it.
Alaska Airlines recently announced it will offer a satellite-based trial Wi-Fi service during its flights to users with Wi-Fi-enabled notebooks, smartphones and other personal electronics devices with wireless Internet access. The service, offered by Row 44, has been in development for the past two years and will be available on the Airlines' specially-outfitted Boeing 737-700 passenger jets. Most common features will be accessible, including web browsing, online music and games, e-mail, IM chat and connections to Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).
LG may be the next to discard plasma TVs, company vice president Lee Gyu-hong says. The executive has told Kyodo News that a sustained poor world economy would make it unprofitable to keep developing and selling the more expensive display technology. If no recovery seems likely, Lee estimates that plans to exit plasma would be made public before the end of the year.
TippingPoint has revealed that the 2009 edition of the Pwn2Own hacking contest will shift its focus to smartphones this year in one of the first few cross-platform tests of mobile OS security to include iPhones. The 3Com-owned security group will challenge guests at the March 18th CanSecWest conference to gain full OS-level control of both Apple's device as well as one phone each for Google's Android platform, RIM's BlackBerry OS, Symbian and Windows Mobile. The contest take place in two phases and allow only network-based exploits on the first day; the second will let experts target the pre-installed software.
The thin 10.2-inch Acer Aspire One netbook spotted just two days ago has been highlighted yet again by German site NetbookNews, this time with specs and more images. Unlike previously believed, however, the new, thinner (just under one inch) netbook will not have a solid state drive, but a traditional hard disk with a 160GB capacity.
AMD's RV740 graphics chipset has been tested today by Guru3D and will potentially upturn performance expectations. Informally titled the Radeon HD 4750, the card will use a much smaller 40 nanometer chipmaking process to double the number of stream (effects) processing units to 640 versus today's Radeon HD 4670 and would carry much more memory bandwidth, moving from 2GHz GDDR3 to 3.2GHz GDDR5. The net effect should be nearly twice as many calculations per second at 900 gigaflops versus the earlier 480.
A mandatory Internet censorship plan in Australia proposed by the government is facing stiff opposition, with an independent senator's decision to block legislation that would start the blockage of certain websites with morally questionable content, the Thursday edition of the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The Green and Opposition parties have blocked the measure and have been joined by independent Senator Nick Xenophon, who changed his position on the mandatory ban. All now believe a filter would not be effective at blocking unsafe content and would slow Internet access while carrying a risk of blocking legitimate websites.
A new gamepad is in the works for Nintendo's Wii console, an official Japanese site reveals. The Classic Controller Pro is based on the existing Classic Controller, which serves as an alternative to the signature Wii Remote, and helps in playing GameCube or Virtual Console titles. New to the Pro is a different layout, most noticeably in the form of grips similar to those on an Xbox 360 controller. Some gamers may find grips more comfortable in long play sessions.
Samsung has recently introduced its newest 3G-network compatible flip phone, the SPH-W6450. The phone's top half can also open sidways as well as straight up with the screen facing the user, much like a notebook PC. The LCD screen is sized at 2.8 inches, features a 240x400 resolution and has a virtual touchpad for use in notebook mode that takes the place of a mouse. Another common high-end feature of Korean phones includes the DMB tuner that lets users watch streaming video content from eight broadcasters as well as audio content from nine sources.
After being sued on Wednesday by Microsoft over a patent lawsuit, navigation systems maker TomTom responded on Thursday saying it has not breached any patents and "will vigorously defend" themselves in court, according to a Thursday report. Microsoft was hoping to have TomTom settle and has announced it remains open to a quick resolution if TomTom agrees to an IP licensing agreement, something the two companies have not been able to accomplish in more than a year of negotiations.
HP has quietly updated the Pavilion dv7t with a key new display change and improved graphics. The updated model switches from the original, 16:10 ratio 17-inch display to a new 17.3-inch, 16:9 screen with a sharper 1600x900 resolution. It also gets AMD's new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 as its baseline graphics chipset and can climb as high as the Mobility Radeon HD 4650.
Microsoft late Wednesday confirmed that Windows Vista's Service Pack 2 has reached a Release Candidate version. The update is available today for MSDN and TechNet members and indicates a near-final status that should lead to a finished version reaching the public during the spring. Unofficial reports have previously corroborated the February RC timeframe and have predicted an April timeframe for a 'gold' release.
While far from official, CanonRumors has recently quoted an e-mail from an undisclosed source that has Canon launching its next-generation Rebel digital SLR camera, dubbed the EOS-500D, on June 23. The camera will reportedly ship bundled with a new EF-S mount prime lens, the 30mm f/2. This represents a delay of the launch, apparently due to Canon's weariness of the economy and "waiting to see what Nikon comes out with."
As promised, Dell today started taking orders for the Inspiron Mini 10. The finished product has just one stock configuration at $399 and ships by default with a 1.33GHz Atom, 1GB of memory, a 160GB hard drive, a 1.3-megapixel webcam and a 16:9 ratio 1024x576 display. Dell's earlier warnings about initial upgrades have proven true and won't let users upgrade either the memory or hard drive.
Acer is planning a nettop of its own that would occupy the high end of its market, if a set of leaked presentation slides from Turkish site Donanimhaber are accurate. The Hornet would have a highly stylized blue case but would center around its use of NVIDIA's Ion platform, which would let it play 1080p video and more modern games while still using either a single- or dual-core Atom processor. It would also come with a Wii-like remote that could be used either for games that support the motion-sensitive feature or else just as an airborne mouse for the living room or meetings.
Dell on Thursday started shipping its first two consciously eco-friendly LCDs. The 22-inch G2210 and 24-inch G2410 are both tuned to use power only when necessary and have ambient light sensors that auto-adjust the backlight to match the environment. They also have a PowerNap feature that more quickly cuts power use and are built from one quarter recycled material.
Verizon this morning made another attempt at the touchscreen phone market by launching the LG Versa. The handset also known as the VX9600 tries to stand out from its close competition by letting users choose either greater control or a smaller size: while the phone normally has a leather-like case with a built-in QWERTY keyboard and an external OLED for call notifications, owners can detach just the core touchscreen phone and keep the phone small while using an onscreen keyboard.
Gefen on Wednesday announced its Wireless HDMI Extender, a device that provides users with cable-free HD extension for up to 30 feet within a line-of-sight. The Wireless HDMI Extender is designed for ceiling mounted displays, outside applications, and rooms where users want to avoid putting in extension cables. The add-on provides users with two HDMI inputs and one component HD video input that can be shared using UWB wireless that allows up to three HD signals to be sent to one location, including with 5.1 Dolby surround.
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