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I was invited to participate in an Amazon Roundtable. There were three authors present: CJ Lyons, Stephanie Bond, and Hugh Howey. The first two are Kindle Millionaires, or authors who have sold over 1 million kindle copies. Howey is apparently 300,000 sales away from that mark.
Also present was Nader Kabbani and Libby Johnson McKee from KDP and Createspace.
The others included Jane Friedman (formerly of Writer's Digest), David Vandagriff of the Passive Voice, Len Edgerly of the Kindle Chronicles, Porter Anderson (Writing on the Ether), Amy Edelman (Indie Reader), Jason Boog (GalleyCat) and Mercy Pilkington (Good E-Reader).
CJ Lyons shared that she was frustrated at the pace of traditional publishing. She is a prolific writer and self publishing suits her writing pace. Lyons also traditionally publishes but she did not speak of this much during the meeting. She self-published four titles in 2010 and by January 2011 was making a living writing.
She became a NYTimes bestseller when she put her title Blind Faith on sale for 99c. Most of her books are priced $4.99. She sent out a newsletter asking her readers to do her a favor and put her into the top 25 on the Kindle Bestseller list. They responded and she ended up #2 on the NYTimes list and #12 on the USA Today list. She said that her market share is around 250,000 to 300,000 readers and she is trying to grow her readership.
Stephanie Bond has published over 50 books. She was able to reclaim some of her backlist titles and put a dozen of them up for sale on Kindle in 2011. Within six months she was making a living off her KDP sales alone. She did not like traditional publishing's protracted book scheduled or the project by committee. She is thrilled to get her books out quickly. She has a new series called 2 Guys Detective Agency that is exclusive to Amazon and has been optioned by the producer behind Bones.
Hugh Howey calls himself an accidental bestseller. Howey was charming and self effacing and respectful of both Lyons and Bonds, and pretty much nothing like how he presented himself in the infamous blog post. It was quite the dissonance so I emailed Howey after the event which was kind of a strange thing because I hardly ever email anyone that I don't know unless it was about business. And this wasn't at all business related and I felt like I was attacking him in some way. But I also wanted to have the opportunity to share with him how the blog post came across to me and I have to confess that his explanation made sense to me. To wit, it never occurred to him that it would be taken in a sexually connotative way and now when he looks back on it, there is no other way for him to read it. I got the impression that he not only truly regrets ever saying it but that he has a new appreciation for gendered language.
I came away from the conversation both grateful that he took the time to explain his position and that he did so without rancor in response to my somewhat weird email.
He mentioned he could live off his audio book royalties alone. This is consistent with what I've heard about another major self publishing star – that her ACX audio book royalties are quite large.
The theme from the three authors is that Kindle Direct Publishing has made it possible for them to make a living as an author. This was echoed by Mr. Kabbani; the goal, Kabbani said, is to reach out to authors who are neglected and enable them to write for a living.
After the introductions there was actually very little time to talk. I recommended that Amazon create a nook conversion kit. I've heard from a lot of readers that they are ready to move from Nook to Amazon but have hundreds of epub books. Amazon has the capability of converting an epub to a mobi through its KindleGen program. I asked that they incorporate that into their Personal Document Service.
Len Edgerly recommended that they not have a two tiered system – treating books separately that you sideload (such as not showing public highlights and notes of books you may have purchased elsewhere) v. the ones you buy from Amazon.
There was some talk, led by Amy Edelman of indiereader, about promoting self published books as something unique and special, much like the indie music label or the indie film label. Authors felt that only a few of their readers knew that they were self published but that some readers did email to find out where the best place to purchase the book was. Hugh Howey believed that much of his cachet was due to being a self published author. When he was being courted by major publishers his question was how much they were going to pay him to give up the label of "self published." Admittedly, that is the source of much of his publicity and celebrity – like a small town boy made good.
IndieReader wants to capitalize on that type of sentiment that is attached to Howey. I admit to being a bit skeptical about the average reader caring that a book is self published or traditionally published and suggested that the major cachet of the self published book is price. I could be completely wrong about that (you let me know in the comments).
After the meeting, I was invited to do two things. Submit ideas about Goodreads integration with Amazon and submit ideas on how to improve the Kindle reading experience. I'd like to do this but I want to include your input. In the comments, would you share your gripes and wishes for an improved digital reading experience? I will send this thread and a letter to the two contacts I was given for this.
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Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday and later told ESPN that their talk was "very productive."
An NFL spokesman did not give an indication whether the league will suspend Roethlisberger, who has been accused of sexual assault twice since July, for violating its personal conduct policy.
"Our office will review all the facts and follow up at the appropriate time with the Steelers and Ben," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said in a statement.
The league could punish Roethlisberger for tarnishing its image even though he won't be charged after an accusation by a 20-year-old college student that he sexually assaulted her March 5 in Milledgeville, Ga.
The Steelers could discipline Roethlisberger, whom they made the richest player in franchise history two years ago when they signed him to an eight-year, $102 million contract.
The Steelers did not comment on Roethlisberger's meeting with Goodell. Ryan Tollner, Roethlisberger's agent, could not be reached for comment.
Tollner and David Cornwell, who is representing Roethlisberger in a civil lawsuit that alleges he sexually assaulted a hotel worker in Reno, accompanied him to New York.
Roethlisberger arrived at NFL headquarters wearing a suit and sporting a buzz cut.
It was a significant change in appearance from Monday night, when Roethlisberger read a statement at Steelers headquarters. Wearing a golf shirt and slacks, Roethlisberger addressed about 50 media members in the locker room with his hair cropped on the sides but slicked back on top and long in the back.
In the statement, Roethlisberger apologized to his family and the Steelers and promised to clean up his act and be a "role model to kids."
He did not answer questions and was not accompanied by Steelers coach Mike Tomlin or front-office personnel. It was his first public comments after the night of barhopping in Milledgeville.
A crisis management expert in Washington said Roethlisberger conveyed the right message but said it is only a small step in rehabilitating the embattled quarterback's image.
"Ben's going to have, just like Tiger Woods, just like Michael Vick, a long road ahead of him where small successes, small measures that he does in the community, that he does with his own behavior are going to over time change perception," said Jason Maloni, vice president of Levick Strategic Communication's Crises and Litigation team. "It's not going to happen overnight, it's not going to happen with a 75-second statement."
There has been a backlash from fans since a Monday news conference in which Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney Fred Bright said he did not have sufficient evidence to charge Roethlisberger.
Bright admonished Roethlisberger for putting himself in such a situation and said he needed to "grow up."
Steelers legend Terry Bradshaw chastised Roethlisberger while speaking to reporters Monday in Shreveport, La.
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Excerpts from a March 17 letter to District Attorney Fred Bright from the lawyer representing Roethlisberger's accuser:
• 'After a great deal of deliberation, our client has instructed us to advise you that she does not want to prosecute this matter further. While I am well aware that the prosecution decision rests with the District Attorney, and not a complaining party, it is appropriate that you be aware of this fact as you make your decision.'
• 'What is obvious in looking forward is that a criminal trial would be a very intrusive personal experience for a complainant in the situation, given the extraordinary media attention that would be inevitable. The media coverage to date and the efforts of the media to access our client have been unnerving to say the least.'
• 'This decision does not reflect any recanting of our client's complaint, but simply a realistic, personal decision as to what is in her best interests.'
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It's Friday, so you know what that means… Fashion Beauty Friend Friday! Today's questions are all about being unique!
1. With all the blogging events out there how do you determine which ones to participate in and which ones to avoid?
I participate in the events that I think are 1. important 2. wothwile and 3. FUN! If I see an event and it doesn't interest me or I know I won't have the time to do it or commit 100%, I won't bother.
2. Be honest, have you ever jumped on the bandwagon of some blogging movement/event for the wrong reasons? How did that turn out?
I've only had my blog since November 2010, so I haven't done many events. The first thing I did was join FBFF (and I'm glad I did because I've met a great group of ladies) and I also am participaing in the Go Red for Women campaign. But other than that, I haven't even participated in anything else. Oops, I totally forgot that I am a participant of Everybody, Everywear. I really wanted to do the 30X30 challenge but I just knew I wouldn't give my 100%, so I passed. I would like to challenge myself though and do it at some point in time.
3. How do you give your own flair to a blog event while still maintaining the general mission and purpose?
Wow! This is a good question… I'd say as I said before, I just continue to be ME! I don't try to be anyone else. I just stay true to myself!
4. When determining the best content for your blog what criteria do you keep in mind?
If I come across an event that sounds interesting, genuine, worthwhile and FUN, I'm all in. It's just gotta be FUN for me to do. After all, blogging is all about having FUN for me and relieveing stress. I don't want to take on a challenge that isn't FUN to do or stressful in planning it. LOL
5. While everything will not suit your blog, how do you try and support your fellow bloggers who are participating in something worthwhile but not your style?
Your blog is what YOU want it to be, so if oneday I decide to particpate in an event that has to do with "cooking" for example. As long as its FUN and getting great information out to my readers, I'd def do it. It would intrique my readers, I think, and allow them to learn something new about me.
FBFF: what should I wear…
TGIF!!! It's Fashion Beauty Friend Friday (FBFF) and today my fellow Bloganista's and myself are chatting about pre-planning our daily outfits. Katy Rose, a super fab chica, of Modly Chic sends us questions weekly, and we answer on our blogs each Friday.
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1. How do you determine what you will wear that day?
I really don't put too much thought into what I am going to wear. I usually wake up and the first thing I do is look in my closet and decide if I want to wear pants, jeans or a dress/skirt. After I decide that, I just start pulling and putting on.
2. Do you plan outfits out in advance for a whole week, month, weekend?
NO WAY!!!!! I wish I were that organized and planned things well in advance. LOL It would probably make my life a whole lot easier.
3. Do you have any specific way of tracking outfits and items already worn so you don't repeat?
Not really. Once I wear something, its put in a pile to wash or put in the cleaners. Once its cleaned, it gets put right back in the closet and ready to be worn again. I don't keep track of what I already wore and didn't wear. If it's in my closet, that means it's clean and ready to be worn. LOL
4. How do you discover new combinations of items in your closet? (Trial try-ons? Hanging items together?)
I usually just look at items and can pretty much, by eye, see if it's going to be a good combination or not. I pretty much already have in my mind an idea of what I want, so that makes it a lot easier.
5. To streamline the process for 2011 what is one new thing you can do to cut down your dressing time?
I could definitely start planning and deciding what I'm going to wear the night before rather than waiting until morning to decide. That would save me a whole lot of time!!
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Of course I did, when I first launched. I saw some AMAZING blogs and I thought to myself, "what have I gotten myself into?" LOL! But everyone is their own person and have put their own personal touch, so in the end, its all about what I wanted in MY blog. The others no longer mattered.
2. Do you (did you) feel pressure to meet some kind of undefined standard for fashion bloggers?
Not at all, I just do ME! I know what I want in my fashion blog and I stay true to that.
3. Many established fashion bloggers are also extraordinary DIYers, bakers, and crafty people. Do you think you need to combine all of these things to be successful at blogging?
I love how so many other bloggers are creative, especially the DIYers, but I never thought to combine anything like that with my blog. It would take away from what I want my blog to concentrate on, which is my passion for FASHION! But I do appreciate looking at others to get great recipe's, DIY, and see different crafts. So many talents I've discovered that I probably wouldn't have otherwise if I didn't stumble upon those blogs.
4. The most successful blogs are the ones that have their own personal voice – how are you developing your voice or how did you find yours?
I stay true to myself and my passion for fashion. I speak what's in my heart. I'm just being ME!
5. Toot your own horn… what's one thing you do that is unique to you and your blog? What gives your blog an edge?
I guess I am still trying to find my EDGE! lol I try to post daily outfits on a daily basis and try to be consistent with that and I try to give the best advice to my readers when it comes to Fashion. I treat my blog as if it's a Full Time job. It's my baby!


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In ancient times, I could've gone to the same health club as Yong Tae Mi.. I heard that in actuality, his body is accomplished and praiseworthy.
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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) -- Danica Patrick has crashed in final Sprint Cup practice at Watkins Glen International.
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Iconoculture: Big Ideas 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 7:30 AM
Join CEB Iconoculture as we present Big Ideas 2013, our annual look ahead at the key trends driving consumer behavior in the coming year. Kara McGuire will explore the key shifts taking place in consumer motivators and behaviors, highlight the trends that will have the most impact on the consumer landscape in 2013 and help you understand the implications for brands that are striving to develop compelling marketing messages.
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Our entire crew would like to gladly welcome you to the St. Martenslane Maastricht. Design Hotels are plentiful, but this one is a prime example of its type. It has all of the advantages you would expect, and more. Our cushy hotel is easy to reach on foot from the station, just0,22 km. If you are travelling by car or bike, we have secure parking for bikes and ample car parking spaces available. We provide car parking space at the hotel for your convenience while you stay with us. A complimentary welcome drink awaits you on arrival. Make yourself at home Our experienced staff at reception will take care of your important documents, money or jewellery. Alternatively you can keep them in the safety deposit box in your own room. You can either use the stairs or our elevator to reach your appealingly arranged room on the upper floors. Where you will stay You will find a radio, a safety deposit box, a writing desk as well as a hair-dryer in all the hotel rooms. We offer our visitors their own TV (cable) in each and every room. Pop in your favourite film in your room's DVD-player. A shower, a bathtub and a hairdryer can be found in the bathroom of your room. In your room's bathroom you will find a shower as well as heated towel bars. A hair-dryer and make-up mirror are provided as well. For the comfort of our guests, all hotel windows are soundproof. Business hours of reception: Every day: from 00:00 to 00:00 .


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Steve Jobs, as everyone knows, died last week at 56.
As a Mac man—and I don't mean McDonald's—all my days on a computer, I feel a debt of genuine gratitude to Jobs for developing and manufacturing products that come with an absolute minimum of jigeroos. iMacs, iPhones, iPads, Jobs's refinements of all these, while he was the head of Apple, were never-ending. Apple products cost more than competing items, but they hold up better, and thus bear out the apothegm—so comforting only when it proves true—that one gets what one pays for.
Eulogistic claims followed Steve Jobs's death that he was an authentic American genius, the Thomas Edison of our day. This was understandable hyperbole. The computer and its affiliated toys—cell phones, tablets, notebooks, and the rest—have gone a long way to making access to information and communication easier, in the way that the motor car was a grand improvement over horseback and carriage. But neither the digital nor the motorized vehicle revolutions has been absolutely fundamental in the way that Edison's development of electricity for industrial and domestic use was. In my amateur's ignorance, I would say that Steve Jobs was less an inventor than a perfector, less a genius than an impressive designer and thoroughly admirable industrialist.
Except for one realm in which I am now about to claim genius for him. He once stuck one of the cheapest men I have known with a dinner check in New York for more than $400. The man never got over it. The fellow was himself what I call a "small-advantage man," the academic equivalent of the sort of man who moves his savings account from one bank to another to get the free electric blanket or toaster. While he didn't mind spending on himself, this man would con publishers out of review copies, glom vast quantities of jiffy bags from the office supply depot, keep check on the market value of his first editions of second-class novels, take advantage of a handicap parking sign years after his temporary handicap had long since expired. The pleasure he took in these small advantages was deep and abiding.
He happened to have gone to dinner with Steve Jobs because of a family relation, too elaborate and boring to go into here. He mentioned Jobs's sticking him with the check to me perhaps 10 times, always with a look of befuddlement crossing his face. He never explained exactly how Jobs did it—perhaps he never grasped the actual mechanics of it himself—leaving me to re-create the maneuver in my imagination.
I imagine a scene of great general bonhomie in a crowded and noisy New York restaurant. Whether Jobs or someone else at table with knowledge of currently fashionable restaurants chose the place is not known, but I suspect it must have been Jobs. I see the waiter viewing Steve Jobs as the man at the table with most authority, an old and trusted customer—the fellow to whom the sommelier pours the first sip of wine for him to taste and pass judgment upon.
Such a man orchestrates the meal, and Jobs in my mind does so here. Heedless of the prices on this costlyà la cartemenu, he orders a copious dinner: cocktails, starters, ample entrée, a good bottle of wine, salad, dessert, and coffee, disdaining only a cognac at the finish. Then, before the check arrives, after exclaiming to everyone at the table how much he has enjoyed himself, Jobs announces he has a fairly important meeting and really does have to buzz off. I see him press a corner of the expansive white napkin delicately to his lips just before rising and taking his leave. I prefer to think of him patting the small-advantage man on the back as, smiling, he briskly departs the restaurant.
The waiter sets the check before small-advantage man, the oldest male at the table. His eyes squint as he attempts to grasp the sum of the check; a vein appears on his forehead. His fingers tremble as he removes his credit card from his wallet. His mind boggles as he contemplates the immensity of the tip required.
Steve Jobs, meanwhile, is out on the street, entering a cab. As he bangs close the door—Eureka!, it hits him how to make the iPhone even smaller than it now is, so that it can fit into the key pocket of his Levi's, and to do so while adding to it at least four additional gigabytes of memory.
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Feb 20, 2014; West Lafayette, IN, USA; Purdue Boilermakers guard Terone Johnson (00 prepares to shoot a free throw at Mackey Arena. Mandatory Credit: Sandra Dukes-USA TODAY Sports
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Occasionally, Terone Johnson will experience a play that reminds him of his first two seasons in the Purdue men's basketball program.
The senior captain just hasn't seen those moments nearly enough.
"At times you'll see it and it will be a tight play and you'll be 'OK, we're doing it right,' " Johnson said. "Next thing you know, there will be a couple of possessions in a row like, 'How did we get here?' It's frustrating at times, but you've just got to try to keep it together." ...


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Rajan Pur, Punjab: An aerial view of flooded areas. | Photo by Mk Chaudhry/EPA (via The Guardian: Pakistan Floods: The Displaced and the Saved)
Triggered by monsoon rains in late July, Pakistan has been experiencing its worst flooding since 1929. Rivers burst their banks and entire communities have been destroyed. More than 20 million people have been affected by the floods, which is more than the number of people affected by the 2005 South Asia tsunami, the 2005 South Asia earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. Pakistan's infrastructure is severely crippled, and millions of displaced people are at risk of falling ill from water borne disease, food shortages, and lack of access to clean water and medical care. The United Nations' Ban Ki-moon counts it as the worst natural disaster he's witnessed, and presses for increased international attention. Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, has even compared the challenges the country now faces to those during the 1947 partition of the subcontinent in which around half a million people were killed in mass violence. So how can we as a digitally connected global society lend a hand?
Crowdsourcing, using a group of amateurs or volunteers to solve a problem, has been repeatedly mentioned as a new tool to address development needs. It has been cited often in the news and blogs as capable of mobilizing the public for Pakistan's flood victims. It is accessible, and allows anyone with an internet connection or a cell phone to get connected and be of service through multiple channels. (We've covered crowdsourcing before on Worldchanging, see for example these post on: on deliberative and collaborative democracy, governance, and Jeff Howe, who coined the term.)
Organizations like Crisis Commons are mobilizing volunteers from the Silicon Valley to London for Pakistan, and are also providing additional crowdsourcing resources to facilitate volunteer participation.
Aid organizations are taking notice of the effectiveness of crowdsourcing, and both private and non-profit partnerships are taking hold: CrowdFlower, a for-profit company, generously donated their software to PakReport, which is primarily a map of real-time data collected from aid agencies, the media, and direct reports by email and text messaging. The map shows what resources are needed in flood affected regions and volunteers all over the world can process the requests:
For the time-intensive task of translating, categorizing, and geolocating these messages, volunteers from anywhere in the world can come online to help process each report simply by reading the message and filling out a form.
CrowdFlower's internal workings allow us to automatically cross-check this work among multiple volunteers so that the information is not susceptible to the potential errors of any one volunteer. This ensures data-quality for the aid agencies using the data and means that the volunteers can help without fear of accidently introducing bad information. (via)
If you'd like to volunteer with PakReport click here.
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Google is also getting on board with Pakistan reliefe with a crisis response page listing news sources, ways to give, and crowdsourcing links.
Crowdsourcing is a democratic philanthropy model for those of us who cannot afford the time and resources needed to fly to areas in need of volunteers. Additionally it expands options for participation beyond monetary donations (although that is also needed!). The digital public is being asked to actively participate, to give time, energy, and effort to truly make a difference, and crowdsourcing is the vehicle.
Editor's Note: Pakistan is still in need of millions of dollars in flood-aid (you can see how current pledges stack up country by country at The Guardian). Here are some additional links to organizations that are working in Pakistan and could use your help:


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A group of Einstein students recently got some real-world clinical experience by practicing on some unusual "patients": pigs.
About 60 students turned out for the annual suturing workshop hosted by Einstein's Emergency Medicine Society (EMS) on Thursday, January 31. Guided by a half-dozen emergency medicine physicians from Montefiore and Jacobi medical centers, the students learned how to perform interrupted suturing on pig feet.
"I think our members really benefit from having exposure to emergency room [ER] residents and attendings, sharing an experience that is part of everyday work in the ER," said Samim Atmar, a second-year student who helped coordinate the event.
The society is one of more than a dozen student-run interest groups devoted to individual medical specialties. The EMS hosts similar annual workshops on phlebotomy and intubation, as well as an annual discussion panel with emergency physicians. The intubation workshop will be held in the next couple months, according to Mr. Atmar.
"Drawing blood, suturing, and intubating aren't exclusive to emergency medicine per se," he added. "But by working with physicians in this way, we get an idea of the demands of this fast-paced specialty.
"What's more, our ER panel is a great way for students to get a grasp of the daily life of ER physicians, including the work hours, social life, residency years and other aspects."
The hands-on experience should help students like Mr. Atmar in their future training and professional work. A refugee from Afghanistan who came to the United States a decade ago, Mr. Atmar hopes to use his medical training to help refugee communities worldwide.
"Having lived as a refugee, I can relate to these populations, and want to do what I can to serve them. Einstein is providing real-world experiences to prepare me for that mission."
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Ads turn to realistic obesity imagery to incite consumer action
PRO Trend Implications - Despite the onslaught of PSAs that seek to encourage healthier lifestyles, the accessibility of fast food has resulted in consumers frequently disregarding the need for nourishment. As a method to incite greater urgency into consumer behavior, marketers are turning to methods of foreshadowing to demonstrate what lack of action can result in. The use of grim precautionary imagery reflects the need for marketing approaches that dive deeper into consumers' psychologically inherent fears. [More]


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XYZ Machine Tools has revealed that Mills and Coombs has selected the company's CNC/manual bed mills to produce replacement parts and specialist cutting knives for paper-bag making machines.
The variable speed VM 3500 bed mill has a 1372 x 355mm table with travels of 762 (X) x 508 (Y) x 508mm (Z), while the two larger 7.5HP/5000rev/min SMX 5000 bed mills have a 1930 x 356mm table with travels of 1524 x 596 x 540mm, providing a 5ft-plus cutting length for larger components.
Tim Cousins of Mills and Coombs runs the CNC/manual bed mills to make the knives, and selected the machines due to the simplicity of the Prototrak control.
He said the choice of an XYZ VM 3500 CNC/manual bed mill was based on the ease with which its Prototrak CNC could be programmed simply by following plain English prompts, and being able to use the Traking facility to manually wind the machine through the entire program to check for problems before beginning the machining process.
The three bed mills have been installed at two-yearly intervals, with XYZ Machine Tools helping to arrange the appropriate financial package on each occasion.
Cousins said that XYZ's after-sales support and training has been helpful and technical advice is readily available free-of-charge over the phone.
He has also bought a right-angle head attachment from XYZ as it is relevant to another part of his business, making the stringer needles and other spares needed for machines that punch a hole through each batch of 100 paper bags and thread through the cord by which the bags can then be hung up.
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Turning compressed buffalo hide, drilling and taper cutting opposed elliptical forms in pure copper and brass are a far cry from normal machine tool operations. But two recent installations by XYZ Machine Tools are enabling Thor Hammer to maintain its high orders of quality and safety in use.
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XYZ Machine Tools has announced the 20-year anniversary of Prototrak, a control concept that aids the programming and setting up of lathes and milling machines by machinists with no prior knowledge of CNC.
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Mollart Engineering has incorporated an XYZ Proturn SLX 1630 CNC lathe into a special machining cell to perform a series of seven progressive turning operations, leading to a final hard stage profile turn of a high-strength, nitriding steel shaft destined for use in the rotor assemblies of helicopters.


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Honorable Beatrice Achieng Nas was my title in January 28, 2011at the inauguration ceremony at the King's Palace. I was selected as one of the Ministers under the King of the Jopadhola - Tieng Adhola (The Jopadhola Cultural Union). The Tieng Adhola is the Tribal Government of the Jopadhola Tribe of about 700,000 Ugandans.
Little did I know that someone was observing me somewhere. With the king's speech "We appoint people who are proven outstanding in character and values", I did not think he, - His highness Kwari Adhola Moses Stephen Owor, a man of wisdom, known for his career achievements, networking and visionary would ever get to know me. I am not anybody popular neither known to many. Among thousands of the Jopadhola and hundreds educated , I was chosen as a Youth Minister.
This is a great opportunity for me to address the communities in different occasions about the rights of women and children especially and the importance of education. I will use this chance to introduce not only the Jopadhola women but the entire Ugandan women to World Pulse, her vision and mission.
I request for your mentor-ship in this race for the good and development of my nation, Africa and the globe at large.
Welldone Beatrice! I am so much happy at the level you are going, please carry all women and children along. You are the voice and you can be the voice of others too. That is why we are here.
The Sky is the begining. Ride of Honorable Beatrice.
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January 1, 2013
The Build-Out
The newly finished South Los Angeles Animal Shelter is an innovative facility that aims to raise the status of shelter pets, while the new Harmony Equine Center outside of Denver has the capacity to offer refuge to hundreds of horses.
November 1, 2012
Coffee Break: Designing a New Animal Shelter
Animal Sheltering readers share what features they'd include if they were building a new animal shelter, and explain why they think those elements are important.
October 2, 2012
The HSUS's Shelter Design Packet
Our special design packet just for shelters includes information on how to figure what size shelter you'll need, how to choose an architect, materials, and much more!
July 1, 2012
The Build-Out
This installment of The Build-Out highlights three shelter construction and renovation projects that varied greatly in scope and budget—from under $2,000 to $12 million!
June 12, 2012
UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program
The shelter medicine program at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine has a wealth of information on disease control, facility design, animal housing and many other topics.
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UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program - Facility Design and Animal Housing
The shelter facility and the housing there-in has implications far beyond the shelter walls. The design of the facility will impact disease levels, behavioral health, staffing needs and the daily cost of care (and therefore how much time and money is left over for other important programs).
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The Build-Out
Check out recent shelter construction and renovation projects from the SPCA of Texas, the Randolph County Animal Shelter in North Carolina, and Chicago Animal Care and Control.
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New Digs and Renovations
Check out recent shelter construction and renovation projects from the Maryland SPCA, the Marin Humane Society, and the Atlanta Humane Society.
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Done properly, group housing can produce happier cats, delighted visitors, and more adoptions. Learn what you need to know before you start your own colony room.
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Through the sale of pet photo tiles for the shelter wall and inscribed bricks for the exterior walkway, the Asheville Humane Society raised funds for its shelter and lifted spirits in the community.


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QUESTION:State lawmakers met in Tallahassee this week to discuss how Florida will implement the federal Affordable Care Act. The week before, Gov. Rick Scott was in Washington to discuss the details with federal officials. Explain what the state is planning to do, how much it will cost and how it will affect the wallets of average Floridians.
FISHKIND: There are two issues. One, whether the state sets up its own health care exchange. And the second is whether the state expands Medicaid enrollment. And those are two different things. If the state fails to establish its own health care exchange, the federal government will do that, it wouldn't cost the state anything. The state could have more control, but it doesn't cost the state anything.
The real issue is whether Florida expands Medicaid. The federal government will offer the states upward of 90 percent of the ongoing costs, and in the initial years 100 percent of the cost, to expand Medicaid. Some states have chosen to take the federal government up on that offer, others have not.
Q:Either way the state goes on these two matters, it's going to cost the Florida residents some money.
FISHKIND: There's no doubt about that, but there would be significant added benefits.
Q:Such as?
FISHKIND: For each dollar that the state spends on a steady basis, the federal government's going to contribute $9. So this would cause a huge increase in health care expenditures. It would create far better health care in the state. It would reduce the load of indigent health care under the current system, which would be a significant cost savings, and it would create a substantial amount of new jobs.
Q:Now, what I think a lot of people are wondering as this program is phased in over the next couple of years is, what is it going to be like and how much is it going to cost for me? Now, suppose I'm either someone who is unemployed or I work for - as many people do in Central Florida - for the tourism and hospitality industry, and my employer is not offering health coverage. What will the process look like and how much is it going to cost?
FISHKIND: It kind of depends upon what the state does. So assume that Florida does not expand Medicaid and does not open its own health care exchange, then those who are working can get their health care insurance from the new health care exchanges run by the federal government and that policy would be subsided depending upon their income. Those who aren't working probably cannot afford even the policies under the health care exchanges (and) they wouldn't be covered under Medicaid, so their condition probably wouldn't change much. By contrast, if the state expands Medicaid enrollment, then many people who would not be able to get their health insurance from the exchanges, would be covered by the expansion in Medicaid .
Q:Some employers are still saying that implementation of so-called Obamacare is going to cost them millions of dollars to implement. They say they can't afford it and say that they are going to have to lay off people because of the expense of this. Is there a validity to their concerns and what will really happen?
FISHKIND: Well, for some companies, especially in the restaurant business, there is some validity to those concerns. But those companies that fail to provide health care will find that their best employees go to the companies that do provide health care.


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The Bitcoin Crypto-Currency Mystery Reopened
A New Yorker writer implies he found Bitcoin's mysterious creator. We think he got the wrong man, and offer far more compelling evidence that points to someone else entirely.
In a recent issue of the New Yorker , Joshua Davis wrote a story about Bitcoin, the crypto-currency that has ignited the imaginations of the technorati and led to a rush of media coverage. But this is no usual magazine feature. Not only does Davis, a marvelous writer whose work I've long admired, offer a primer on Bitcoin—what it is, how it works, why it's important—he sets off on a journey to find its mysterious, secrecy-obsessed inventor, who goes by the name Satoshi Nakamoto. I think the man he found at the end of his search is the wrong guy. And by transparently sharing my own process for tracking Bitcoin's elusive inventor, I will show how a stream of stunning coincidences can end up pointing to not one, but three potential candidates.
What The Hell's A Bitcoin?
// Bitcoins are a decentralized virtual currency that rely on public-key cryptography. If you buy something with a Bitcoin you're simply transmitting a symbolic token stamped with a complex number that transfers ownership to someone else. Unlike traditional banking, which keeps customer information private, Bitcoin transactions are transparent so the "market" knows when a bitcoin is spent but not the owner's identity. Money supply is increased by users who "mine" bitcoins by dedicating computer processing power to the Bitcoin network. Bitcoins are not regulated by any government or bank, and the currency has seeped into criminal activities. As a result, legislators are threatening crackdowns, and some claim it is a vast scam.
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As Davis reported, Nakamoto published a research paper in 2008 that detailed the ideas underpinning Bitcoins and wrote hundreds of posts to a forum in "flawless English." After one last post in April in which he claimed he had "moved on to other things," he vanished, yet his footprints are everywhere. Davis pored through Nakamoto's online writings, all 80,000 words and searched for clues. The mystery man's prose was quite clean, he noted, very few typos, and after his first post, in which he employed American spellings, he switched to the Queen's English for all the rest. Color was "colour," gray, "grey," an apartment was a "flat" and he wrote "bloody hard" at least once. What's more, embedded into the Bitcoin code is a tag that relates to a Times of London headline from January 3, 2009, on the government being on the brink to rescue Britain's banks with a second bailout. Then Davis interviewed a leading computer security researcher who sifted through Bitcoin's code, searching for flaws. He didn't find any, concluding that Nakamoto would have to be "a world-class programmer" with "a deep understanding" of C++—the programming language—and an extensive background in cryptography, economics, and peer-to-peer networking.
Davis reasoned that Satoshi Nakamoto was probably a British national and set off for the Crytpo 2011 conference in Santa Barbara to find him. It led him to Michael Clear, a 23-year-old graduate student in cryptography at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Clear had worked at a bank, co-authored a paper on peer-to-peer, and, unsurprisingly, employed British spellings. The first time Davis asked Clear, who was named Trinity's top computer student in 2008, if he were Bitcoin's creator, Clear just laughed. The next time Davis asked, Clear replied, "I'm not Satoshi, but even if I was I wouldn't tell you."
After the article was published and numerous media outlets picked up on the sleuth-mystery angle, Clear denied he was Satoshi Nakamoto. He told IrishCentral, "My sense of humor when I said 'even if I was I wouldn't tell you' is missing, this was said jokingly." Clear "found it funny that the New Yorker reporter thought I was Satoshi, but I have always (beyond conversational jokes like the quote above) vehemently denied it. I could never allow myself to be even remotely given credit for someone else's creativity and hard work."
This is where I come in. Like Davis, I too had been trying to find Satoshi Nakamoto and had accumulated a body of circumstantial evidence—including some crazy coincidences—that, taken as a whole, led me to believe that Bitcoin's creator was probably someone else entirely. I wondered if the British spellings and the headline inserted into Bitcoin's code were red herrings, placed there to throw pursuers off the scent. Wasn't Nakamoto's first post written with American spellings? It wouldn't take much for someone as bright as Nakamoto to create a modest disinformation campaign.
But I wasn't confident I could confirm my suspicions. The man (or men) behind Bitcoin had shown he wanted to disappear, and unless he would agree to talk, there was no way I could ever be sure. Unlike, say, Dan Lyons as "Fake Steve Jobs," who confirmed his pseudonymous identity when finally confronted, Satoshi Nakamoto wasn't likely to cooperate, even if promised anonymity in exchange for an interview. For months I sat on this research. Then Davis's article came out.
So I offer my process here, with the caveat that these unlikely coincidences could end up being just that, even though in my opinion my evidence is much more convincing than Davis's. (Said with respect, yo!)
First, most believe that Satoshi Nakamoto is a made up name, and it seems a person as learned as Bitcoin's creator might be tempted to choose a pseudonym that encompasses a deeper meaning. In Japanese Satoshi translates into "clear-thinking; quick-witted; wise." "Naka" can mean "inside" or "relationship" while "moto" is defined as "the origin; the cause; the foundation; the basis." So we have "clear-thinking" "inside" "the foundation." Mystical, isn't it?
I started with some amateur textual analysis of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin paper, extracting fragments of phrases and running them through Google. I figured I'd see if any of the ones in the paper appear elsewhere online. People tend to repeat themselves. The trick is to plug in unique-sounding fragments and place them in quotes. That way you only get a handful of results to comb through. I struck out on the first few, which all appeared solely in the Bitcoin paper, and there was one irrelevant link. Then I tried the term "computationally impractical to reverse." It resulted in 26 results, the vast majority related to the Bitcoin paper or to bitcoins themselves. Except for one of the last ones—a patent application:
Updating And Distributing Encryption Keys invention
Feb 18, 2010—... the outputs of which are fixed-size strings that are computationally impractical to reverse-map. In this manner, the shared secret, ...
It was for a "system and method for providing secure communications." Initially, "an exchange protocol, such as a password-authenticated key exchange protocol, is used to create a shared secret. From the shared secret, two keys are created: a utilized key and a stored key. The utilized key is used to encrypt messages between nodes. When it is time to replace the utilized key to maintain security, the stored key is utilized to encrypt messages for generating/distributing a new shared secret. The new shared secret is then used to generate a new utilized key and a new stored key. This process may be repeated any number of times to maintain security."
After reading that, I wondered if it could be related to Bitcoin's technology. What are bitcoins but shared secrets? Encryption plays a vital role, and they are certainly dynamic.
I looked at the date on the patent application filing: 08/15/2008.
Now take a look at the domain bitcoin.org. It was registered three days later.
Domain Name:BITCOIN.ORG
Created On:18-Aug-2008
Now that is one hell of a coincidence. What are the odds that a phrase in Nakamoto's Bitcoin paper would be replicated in a patent application filed the same year? Further, what are the odds the domain name for Bitcoin would have been registered 72 hours after the patent application was filed?
Based on the timing, I wondered if one of the people on the patent application—or perhaps all three—had based the Bitcoin concept on research that led them to this patent application. The three inventors listed on patent #20100042841 are Neal King, Vladimir Oksman, Charles Bry, and all three have filed numerous patent applications over the years.
Neal King (he also goes by Neal J. King from Munich, Germany) is listed on a number of patent applications, notably "UPDATING AND DISTRIBUTING ENCRYPTION KEYS" (#20100042841) and "CONTENTION ACCESS TO A COMMUNICATION MEDIUM IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK" (#20090196306), both of which seem Bitcoin-y to me.
Charles Bry, who also resides in Munich, has filed several applications, many dealing with nodes and networks.
Vladamir Oksman, who lives in the U.S., has several patent applications, too, and they too seem related to networks, nodes.
I found another patent application that lists the three of them as inventors, filed June 2008—two months before the Bitcoin.org domain was registered.
"Abstract One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for key management in a communications network. In this method, a public key authentication scheme is carried out between a security controller and a plurality of nodes to establish a plurality of node-to-security-controller (NSC) keys. The NSC keys are respectively associated with the plurality of nodes and are used for secure communication between the security controller and the respective nodes."
Could that also be related to Bitcoin?
Now, another coincidence: The Bitcoin.org domain was registered by a Finnish provider, based in Helsinki.
Charles Bry traveled to Finland in late 2007, six months before the domain was registered. In addition, Bry, who is a senior system engineer, lists German, English, French, and Italian as languages he speaks, and went to college in Paris. He works for a company called Lantiq.
Then there's Neal J. King, and there are more oddities. A Neal J. King has a Facebook page that is sketchy with personal information, yet if you search for "Neal J. King" in Facebook's search box, his profile doesn't pop up. His wall is filled with posts about the recent Wall Street protests, banking, and criticism of the Patriot Act. Keep scrolling down and he "likes" blau.de, a German mobile phone sim card site. He also claims highbrow taste in literature and books, and it seems he's an avid reader, having reviewed 46 books on Amazon—many deal with astronomy, biology, cryptography, linguistics, literature, mathematics, philosophy and physics. I read through his reviews, and his writing is excellent. Very clean. No typos. His sentences are elegant yet there are no extra words. The writing style reminds me of Satoshi Nakamoto's posts in the Bitcoin Forum minus British spellings, which, as I noted above, I believe is a canard.
Finally, I looked up Vladamir Oksman's LinkedIn profile (there are a couple of guys with this name, but he was easy to find).
He is a staff software engineer at Samsung, driving integration and commercialization of Android-based smartphones, and also has a vast technical background, including Linux, Msft, etc. Oksman lives in New Jersey.
[Correction, May 22, 2013: The Vladamir Oksman described above is the wrong one. The right one is listed on LinkedIn as having worked as a technical marketing director for semiconductor company Lantiq. When the Oksman Penenberg contacted later in this story replies "wrong person," he's correct. We have changed the LinkedIn link above to direct to the right profile.]
Here's another subtle connection, and I'm not sure what it means. If you google "Vladimir Oksman bitcoin" you get a handful of results, including his LinkedIn profile, a patent application listing him as an inventor, and his resume. Yet "bitcoin" does not appear on any of these pages. When I checked cached versions of the first two results, it said, "These search terms are highlighted: vladimir oksman. These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: bitcoin."
So the word "bitcoin" appears in links pointing to this page? Why? I tried this with the two other inventors on the "Updating And Distributing Encryption Keys invention" patent. "Neal King Bitcoin" gets you two useless results, and neither have links with bitcoin pointing to their pages. '"Charles Bry Bitcoin" has zero results.
In conclusion, each of the three inventors listed on the patents can be circumstantially tied to Bitcoin. A fairly obscure phrase from the Bitcoin paper leads to a patent application that explores a similar technical topic and was filed that same year. The bitcoin.org doman was registered three days after the patent application was filed. The three inventors seem to have the skills, and King's writing shares similarities with Nakamoto's, as do his interests.
But are they Satoshi Nakamoto? I showed my research, including the patents, to several computer security professionals—ranging from experts in cryptogaphraphy to network analysis pros—and there was a wide range of opinions. Meanwhile Charles Bry denies that he and/or his co-inventors are related in any way to Bitcoin: "I hope I do not disappoint you too much by saying that I am not Satoshi Nakamoto, nor am I associated with him or with Bitcoin in any way. I believe I can state with absolute certainty the same of the other co-authors of our cryptography patents." I also messaged Vladamir Oksman through LinkedIn, and he replied with a terse "Wrong person."
Neal J. King offered the most detailed response. He said the technical topics between his patent application and Bitcoin, "are very different, excepting that both relate to authentication to some extent." He claims he "had never heard of Bitcoin until this question came up," and had to look up Bitcoin on Wikipedia, concluding that, "It's not a very good idea: Nakamoto's algorithm is a solution in search of a problem." He finds fault with the lack of a guaranteed value for Bitcoins. "As long as people want to play the game, they can pretend that a Bitcoin has value, but if someone refuses to accept it, you can't make him; and it would be seriously unwise for him to accept it." He contrasts this with the U.S. dollar, which "also has no intrinsic value" but since it can be used to pay taxes it can be used to settle debt. "If the U.S. government loses the ability to enforce payment obligation on that person, a $1 bill will also have no value beyond the paper."
He concludes: "So whether I have dazzled you with my insight, or baffled you with my obtuseness, I think you will agree that no one who would write the paragraphs above would have invested the considerable amount of time Nakamoto spent elaborating the Bitcoin concept."
I didn't find his argument particularly persuasive. For one, it begs credulity that someone who has filed patent applications dealing with cryptography had never heard of Bitcoin until I asked about it. That would be like a journalist claiming he never heard of Twitter. And just because a currency is accepted by a government to settle taxes doesn't mean its citizens will continue to believe in its value. When a currency suffers hyperinflation—like in Zimbabwe, for example—people adopt other currencies, namely the dollar or euro. And recall that Joe Klein, who was eventually outed as "Anonymous," the author of Primary Colors—that oh-so-mid-1990s literary mystery—also initially denied writing the book.
But the point of this column isn't to claim we found Satoshi Nakamoto. It's to show how circumstantial evidence, which is what the New Yorker based its conclusions on, isn't synonymous with truth. I doubt the New Yorker found the right guy. I also believe that our evidence is far more compelling, yet we also probably haven't nailed it either. In fact, we may have to wait a Deep Throat length of time before we ever find out who the real Nakamoto is, and by then it might not matter.
In the end, Nakamoto's greatest, uncrackable code might be his own identity. In Davis's New Yorker article he describes the impenetrable nature of Nakamoto's code. Every time his computer security researcher thought he found a hole, he would discover a taunting message from Nakamoto indicating it had already been patched. It was, Davis said, like a thief tunneling under a bank only to discover that someone had poured concrete into his path "with a sign telling him to go home."
Just like Davis, I found all this information that pointed directly to someone, but in the end I ran into a brick wall, albeit accompanied by far more gentler denials.
Classic Nakamoto.
Adam L. Penenberg is a journalism professor at NYU and a contributing writer to Fast Company. Follow him on Twitter: @penenberg.
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If there was a strain of herpes and the only know cure was to screw somebody else and leave it with them, Bitcoiners would be acting as if it was the greatest thing ever!
Why not Nick Szabo?
A really interesting article but then "..we may have to wait a Deep Throat length of time...". How did that get there? lol
Probably a Freudian slip.
What's the difference between physical and
non-physical currency? Investment Banking has been digitizing currency since
the push of a button. Electronic Funds Transfer is the way we transact and pay
our obligations be they public or private. What's the difference if we pay our
bills in CASH, CHECK or ELECTRONIC TRANSFER? Gold and Silver is obviously not
currency rich, you must exchange it TO SPEND IT. Once currency has been
detached from a Value Indicator then ...for all intents and purposes currency
is out the window with the baby's bath water. WORTHLESS. This is the method
Germany incorporated during the roaring twenties to survive from the
reparations of The Great War, the only thing missing was a Market Crash in
America, which was finally engineered in October 1929 for the benefit of
Regulated Commercial Banking interests. After that it was nothing more than the
working legislation and another war that kept the Scheme a float, it was all
just conspiracy back in the day. Yet TODAY the FACT remains... without some
form of energy source bitcoin cannot transact. So what comes first Energy Source
or Digitization? Both of which cannot produce without the other. Energy and
Digital are connected at the hip, opposite sides of the same Bitcoin? Bitcoin
is the quintessential counterfeit currency. LOL
Bitcoin is an inventory management system for thin air. Gold and silver atoms are not infinitely divisible. Bitcoin is infinitely divisible because it was always nothing in the first place. Zero divided zero times is not one, but the Bitcoiners forgot to put that into their hashing algorithm.
I want to note, that on the Bitcoin paper Satoshi used firstname.lastname@example.com - where GMX is a german email provider or at least widely used in Germany. This would correspond with your observations that Neil King and Charles Bry live in Germany.
It's not commonly realized, but the coding styles of individual developers are highly idiosyncratic. For instance, I can often identify who is responsible for code in my companies code base without consulting source control. I know my co-workers styles and their styles are as unique as their handwriting. Now, consider that all the code in the original bitcoin system was written by Satoshi and can easily be extracted from the bitcoin repo. Thats effectively a big of "handwriting" sample to do comparisons with. Next consider that there are probably only a few thousand crytographers worldwide who would have the expertise to create bitcoin, so one doesn't have to do all that many comparisons....You really dont have to settle for the weak fairly tale you have spun above, when matching code styles between Satoshi and a suspect would be unambiguous proof of identity
I think it's actually very commonly realized that personal coding style preferences are quite distinctive. For this reason, if this is a single individual trying to conceal their identity, it would seem quite obvious that they'd pick a coding style which cannot immediately be associated with other things they did in the past.
If this is a group, a coding standard may simply have been dictated which isn't the personal preference of the author anyway. I write code very differently for my employer from what I do on my own time. I'm also quite aware of minor differences between my own style and the style of other co-workers within the degree of variation permitted by the in-house coding standard; I could easily adjust if I were to make an effort to hide who I am.
There are also code formatters which could be used for the same purpose. In short, I think most developers have made the same experience as you - I too can tell the difference between styles, and I'm sure "Satoshi" can as well, and we can easily adjust if needed.
Wouldn't the forum have IP logs? Terrific journalism.
ip? really?
"In a recent New Yorker story, Joshua Davis wrote a story on Bitcoin..." This is the lede of a journalism professor at NYU? Wow.
"I believe I can state with absolute certainty the same of the other co-authors of our cryptography patents"
That's would be a bit presumptuous to say on behalf of his 2 partners surely. I certainly think this is a very convincing lead.
"So whether I have dazzled you with my insight, or baffled you with my obtuseness, I think you will agree that no one who would write the paragraphs above would have invested the considerable amount of time Nakamoto spent elaborating the Bitcoin concept."
That makes him sound a bit to earnest to prove not non-involvement. And the argument is clearly flawed. The trip to Finland seems another interesting correlation Maybe you should try to contact the Finnish company.
I find the article very believable.
Penenberg doubts that it would be possible to work in
cryptography without having heard about Bitcoin. With all due respect,
this shows that Penenberg is essentially someone who approaches
technology from the outside: He learns about technological advances
because people are talking about them. But if you are developing a
solution to a problem that you have before you (and in the case of the
patent in question, a problem related to securing telecommunications
privacy), you can be completely unconcerned with and unaware of how
someone else may be applying the same area of technology to an entirely
different application (in this case, cyber-currency). In industrial
settings, necessity (not technology) is the mother of invention.
In the meantime, I'm cashing in on Warhol's prediction of 15 minutes of
fame – albeit for something I DIDN'T do! The only practical consequence
seems to be that I got about 100 "Facebook friend" requests last week
from Russian programmers. Unfortunately, not a single Bond girl among
them …
Ok that was pretty convincing. The three day gap with the domain registration and the identical "computationally impractical to reverse" would be pretty amazing coincidences though.
The part about Google saying links containing bitcoin point to those pages has an explanation though. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G... All it would take is for anybody, anywhere on the internet to have linked to those pages with 'bitcoin' in the anchor text. I would guess it was on a forum or something where people were either sleuthing for Satoshi or discussing bitcoin programming topics - and his name came up somehow.
I am pretty sure bitcoin is made by somebody from Bilderberg.
Yes, a sort of "crowd-sourcing" mode of outing Satoshi Nakamoto.
I think you should put together a "The Writing of Satoshi Nakamoto" book so that everyone can look into the matter.


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Heading into the Williamstown girls' basketball game against Trimble County, junior Chelsea West needed 17 points to reach the 1,000th career points milestone.
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• Members of CETA (Community Enrichment Through the Arts) will meet at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Grant County Tourism Commission office at the Grant County Chamber office in Williamstown.
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Bryan Marshall, staff writer for the Grant County News, won two awards including a first place and a third place for column writing.
Marshall won first in the general news category for a story he wrote about the ? trial.
Nick Hamm and Heather DeVore of Crittenden would like to announce the birth of their first child.
Alexandria Rose Hamm was born at 11:06 a.m. on Dec. 17, 2009, at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Edgewood.
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Her maternal grandparents are Steve and Lisa DeVore of Corinth. Her maternal great grandparents are Ken and Marsha DeVore of Florida and Herman and Becky Wilson of Tennessee.
Her paternal grandparents are Herman and Lillian Hamm of Dry Ridge.
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After more than two days of testimony,Douglas Brandon Barnhill was foundguilty of the murder of 1-year-old Kiara Smith on Friday.
The Grant County jury deliberated for less than two hours before delivering the verdict against the Crittenden man.
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Hoping to make a name for Grant County, four girls' soccer players tried out for the Kentucky Olympic Development Program.
Grant County Middle School eighth graders Mollie Pelfrey and Bethany Lawrence were selected, along with Grant County High School freshmen Gwen MacAdams and Alexis Willen.
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The 25-year-old Crittenden man was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years.
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