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Change in Translation Epitomizes Bishops' Debate Over Gays
The tug-of-war at the Vatican over calls for the Catholic Church to be more open to gays and cohabiting couples intensified Oct. 16 as conservative bishops sought to rein in or renounce draft language they feared might condone lifestyles not in accord with church teachings.
The lobbying at the two-week summit of church leaders — a synod on family life that is set to wrap up Saturday with a final report — was epitomized by the retranslation of a headline from "welcoming homosexual persons" to "providing for homosexual persons."
In the text, the line "Are we capable of welcoming these people, guaranteeing to them a fraternal space in our communities?" was changed to, "Are we capable of providing for these people, guaranteeing … them … a place of fellowship in our communities?"
The change in the English version was not made in the Italian original, where the term "accogliere," which means "to welcome," was kept.
The Vatican's chief spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the first document was only a "transitory text" and suggested there were errors in translation.


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Definition of Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)
Philadelphia chromosome (Ph): The chromosome abnormality that causes chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Abbreviated as the Ph chromosome.
The Ph chromosome is an abnormally short chromosome 22 that is one of the two chromosomes involved in a translocation (an exchange of material) with chromosome 9. This translocation takes place in a single bone marrow cell and, through the process of clonal expansion (the production of many cells from this one mutant cell), it gives rise to the leukemia.
The discovery in Philadelphia in 1960 of the Ph chromosome was a landmark. It was the first consistent chromosome abnormality found in any kind of malignancy. The discovery led to the identification in CML cells of the BCR-ABL fusion gene and its corresponding protein. ABL and BCR are normal genes on chromosomes 9 and 22, respectively. The ABL gene encodes a tyrosine kinase enzyme whose activity is tightly regulated (controlled). In the formation of the Ph translocation, two fusion genes are generated: BCR-ABL on the Ph chromosome and ABL-BCR on the chromosome 9 participating in the translocation. The BCR-ABL gene encodes a protein with deregulated (uncontrolled) tyrosine kinase activity. The presence of this protein in the CML cells is strong evidence of its pathogenetic (disease-causing) role. The efficacy in CML of a drug that inhibits the BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase has provided the final proof that the BCR-ABL oncoprotein is the unique cause of CML.
The Ph chromosome is also found in a form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). It seems highly probable that this form of ALL is due to the same chromosomal and molecular mechanisms as CML.
Philadelphia chromosome The hallmark of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome is an abbreviated chromosome 22 that was shortchanged in an a reciprocal exchange of material with chromosome 9. This translocation occurs in a cell in the bone-marrow cell, and causes CML It is also found in a form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). On a molecular level the Philadelphia chromosome translocation results in the production of a fusion protein. A large portion of a proto-oncogene, called ABL, on chromosome 9 is translocated to the BCR gene on chromosome 22. The two gene segments are fused and ultimately produce a chimeric protein that is larger than the normal ABL protein. The malignant state is a consequence of this process. Understanding this process led to the development of the drug imatinib mesylate (Gleevec) the first in a new class of genetically targeted agents, a major advance in cancer treatment..
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Patricia Field Hosts Swim-Sational Disco Soiree
New York--Patricia Field, famous for her "Sex and the City 1 & 2 costume design, had quite a week last week, beginning with … [Read more...]
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New York--Athletic footwear and activewear brand Nike is targeting revenues of $27 billion by the end of fiscal 2015, led by … [Read more...]
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New York--In conjunction with Earth Day's 40th anniversary on April 22, the first The GreenShows EcoLux, a pop-up boutique … [Read more...]
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- Well, ok. Here is the cast of Downton Abbey as dogs? I hardly understand this, but I do understand that it has Downton Abbey in it and I do understand that it has dogs in it and I do understand that this is the Internet, so, here we are. -BuzzFeed
- The teen blog Rookie Mag has a recurring Q&A segment called "Ask A Grown Man," and the grown man this time is Dave Hill! Oh, great! We love him because he is the best! -Rookie
- Apparently the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo DVD looks like a burned copy of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and this is confusing some people. Obviously. I would probably also be confused because COME ON. -Telegraph
- Jimmy Fallon did another Tim Tebowie performance last night. What's the deal with Tim Tebow? Is he only famous because of his religion? This is a real question, please answer it if you know the answer. -Popwatch
- Here is a terrifying video of someone cutting in line at a gas station, resulting in a fireball, that I am only OK with watching because I read the description first and in the description it tells you that nobody got hurt. You guys! Don't drive cars! Just stay in your homes! -TheDailyWhat
- Here is a bit of RED HOT celeb gossip. Guess what? Johnny Depp could have possible spent the night with an Olsen twin and also could have possible DONE IT with her that night. Whoawhoawhoawhoawhoa! Your dream come true! -Dlisted
- Darron Aronofsky cast Russel Crowe as Noah in his Noah's Arc movie. Every time I see a picture of Darron Aronofsky I think, "NO, really?" And then I think, "What?" And then I think, "I guess I remember…" That guy looks not how you'd picture him! -FilmDrunk


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Shaq is on MyVegas with a chance for fans to win jerseys and balls by playing CaddyShaq or ShaqJack on MyVegas on Facebook.
Shaq is on MyVegas with a chance for fans to win jerseys and balls by playing CaddyShaq or ShaqJack on MyVegas on Facebook.
Famous last tweets are always interesting to read. Your final words preserved forever as a digital legacy. Here's Leonard Nimoy's last tweet, it's perfect.
The official Star Wars trailer you need to see today is not the one from JJ Abrams. Star Wars: The Force Awakes is genius. The trailer you need to watch is the original, from Star Wars A New Hope, and then ask yourself how this film rose above the cheese to become the film that defines generations.
There is a very simple and easy Ikea Hack to build a stand up desk for your computer. A table and shelf from Ikea is all you need to do it Hootsuite style.
Parks Canada has released an app to teach you how to camp. From common sense to tips and tricks and recipes, it's all here for free.
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To get the most MyVegas free chips, you need to follow perfect MyVegas strategy. Here's how to play the games and collect bonuses for free comps in Vegas.
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'Now, now – it is the Lord who speaks –
come back to me with all your heart,
fasting, weeping, mourning.'
Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn,
turn to the Lord your God again,
for he is all tenderness and compassion,
slow to anger, rich in graciousness,
and ready to relent.
Who knows if he will not turn again, will not relent,
will not leave a blessing as he passes,
oblation and libation
for the Lord your God?
Sound the trumpet in Zion!
Order a fast,
proclaim a solemn assembly,
call the people together,
summon the community,
assemble the elders,
gather the children,
even the infants at the breast.
Let the bridegroom leave his bedroom
and the bride her alcove.
Between vestibule and altar let the priests,
the ministers of the Lord, lament.
Let them say,
'Spare your people, Lord!
Do not make your heritage a thing of shame,
a byword for the nations.
Why should it be said among the nations,
"Where is their God?"'
Then the Lord, jealous on behalf of his land,
took pity on his people.
Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness.
In your compassion blot out my offence.
O wash me more and more from my guilt
and cleanse me from my sin.
My offences truly I know them;
my sin is always before me
Against you, you alone, have I sinned;
what is evil in your sight I have done.
A pure heart create for me, O God,
put a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence,
nor deprive me of your holy spirit.
Give me again the joy of your help;
with a spirit of fervour sustain me,
O Lord, open my lips
and my mouth shall declare your praise.
We are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ's name is: be reconciled to God. For our sake God made the sinless one into sin, so that in him we might become the goodness of God. As his fellow workers, we beg you once again not to neglect the grace of God that you have received. For he says: At the favourable time, I have listened to you; on the day of salvation I came to your help. Well, now is the favourable time; this is the day of salvation.
Jesus said to his disciples:
'Be careful not to parade your good deeds before men to attract their notice; by doing this you will lose all reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give alms, do not have it trumpeted before you; this is what the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win men's admiration. I tell you solemnly, they have had their reward. But when you give alms, your left hand must not know what your right is doing; your almsgiving must be secret, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.
'And when you pray, do not imitate the hypocrites: they love to say their prayers standing up in the synagogues and at the street corners for people to see them; I tell you solemnly, they have had their reward. But when you pray, go to your private room and, when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in that secret place, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.
'When you fast do not put on a gloomy look as the hypocrites do: they pull long faces to let men know they are fasting. I tell you solemnly, they have had their reward. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that no one will know you are fasting except your Father who sees all that is done in secret; and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.'
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Moses said to the people: 'See, today I set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin on you today, if you love the Lord your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs, you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to make your own. But if your heart strays, if you refuse to listen, if you let yourself be drawn into worshipping other gods and serving them, I tell you today, you will most certainly perish; you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today: I set before you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live, in the love of the Lord your God, obeying his voice, clinging to him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends your long stay in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob he would give them.'
Happy indeed is the man
who follows not the counsel of the wicked;
nor lingers in the way of sinners
nor sits in the company of scorners,
but whose delight is the law of the Lord
and who ponders his law day and night.
He is like a tree that is planted
beside the flowing waters,
that yields its fruit in due season
and whose leaves shall never fade;
and all that he does shall prosper.
Not so are the wicked, not so!
For they like winnowed chaff
shall be driven away by the wind.
for the Lord guards the way of the just
but the way of the wicked leads to doom.
Jesus said to his disciples: 'The Son of Man is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the third day.'
Then to all he said, 'If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, that man will save it. What gain, then, is it for a man to have won the whole world and to have lost or ruined his very self?'
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Thus says the Lord:
Shout for all you are worth,
raise your voice like a trumpet.
Proclaim their faults to my people,
their sins to the House of Jacob.
They seek me day after day,
they long to know my ways,
like a nation that wants to act with integrity
and not ignore the law of its God.
They ask me for laws that are just,
they long for God to draw near:
'Why should we fast if you never see it,
why do penance if you never notice?'
Look, you do business on your fast-days,
you oppress all your workmen;
look, you quarrel and squabble when you fast
and strike the poor man with your fist.
Fasting like yours today
will never make your voice heard on high.
Is that the sort of fast that pleases me,
a truly penitential day for men?
Hanging your head like a reed,
lying down on sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call fasting,
a day acceptable to the Lord?
Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me
– it is the Lord who speaks –
to break unjust fetters and
undo the thongs of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and break every yoke,
to share your bread with the hungry,
and shelter the homeless poor,
to clothe the man you see to be naked
and not turn from your own kin?
Then will your light shine like the dawn
and your wound be quickly healed over.
Your integrity will go before you
and the glory of the Lord behind you.
Cry, and the Lord will answer;
call, and he will say, 'I am here.'
Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness.
In your compassion blot out my offence.
O wash me more and more from my guilt
and cleanse me from my sin.
My offences truly I know them;
my sin is always before me
Against you, you alone, have I sinned;
what is evil in your sight I have done.
For in sacrifice you take no delight,
burnt offering from me you would refuse,
my sacrifice, a contrite spirit.
A humbled, contrite heart you will not spurn.
John's disciples came to Jesus and said, 'Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?' Jesus replied, 'Surely the bridegroom's attendants would never think of mourning as long as the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come for the bridegroom to be taken away from them, and then they will fast.'
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Gray Hooded Cloak by ThalyWatch
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Simple cloak with hood and buttons. I made it out of really coarse wool with a lot of thick, prickly fibres in the weave. It looked lovely but is extremely itchy and I won't be using that type of fabric again, which is a shame because it had a lovely shimmer and blends really well into a nature backdrop. Oh well...at least I got a good photo out of it.
It's very nice.
Why didn't you make lining to get rid of the itching?
Why didn't you make lining to get rid of the itching?
You're not far off. ^..^ We'd taken some bouncy arrows along and had great fun shooting each other. In a friendly sort of way.
Ah, that grin. You look like you've just shot someone with an arrow and the result was amusing somehow.


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The Mikveh's Spiritual Effect (13:02)
In this short clip, Rabbi Ginsburg analyzes the three words used in the Torah to describe the ritual bath that was meant for removing spiritual impurity. We explore the inner experiences that are alluded to in this phrase and how we can purify ourselves through immersion in these qualities.
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Maes said last week that an international environmental group that promotes Denver's B-Cycle program is part of a "greater strategy to rein in American cities under a United Nations treaty."
The group to which Maes was referring, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, is an association with more than 1,200 communities as members, half of which are in the United States. Denver became a member in 1992.
Maes made the comments at a rally where he criticized Democratic Mayor John Hickenlooper's initiative to increase bicycling in the Denver through the bike-sharing program. B-Cycle allows people to use about 400 bicycles at dozens of stations around the city for a daily or monthly fee.
"This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms," Maes said in comments that were first reported Wednesday by the Denver Post.
Maes' campaign said the candidate was illustrating the "larger picture of what this organization represents" and its "extreme" views on global warming.
Nate Strauch told The Associated Press that Maes was trying to say that the biking initiative is a "gateway program" being pushed by ECLEI on cities that eventually lead to extreme measures, such as the promotion of abortions and population control.
Maes is facing a primary challenge Aug.
Hickenlooper's spokesman, Eric Brown, said Denver joined the group long before Hickenlooper became mayor and that the city has limited contact with ECLEI.
Maes said he thought promoting more bicycling was pretty harmless at first, but he realized later "that's exactly the attitude they want you to have."
"It's all part of this population control mentality that we as humans are the disease," Strauch said, adding: "He never said that biking is inherently wrong."
Bicyclists who gathered outside the state Capitol on Wednesday to ride with cycling champion Lance Armstrong weren't impressed with Maes' view.
"It's sad that they play politics with something that's good and healthy and pro-environment," said Ron Beall, 48, of Denver. "Isn't there enough issues that we can talk about instead of stereotyping bicyclists? It's crazy."
Information from: The Denver Post, http://www.denverpost.com


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Pronunciation: /umiˈljare/
Translation of umiliare in English:
verbo transitivo
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I've noticed a few iPhone UX inconsistencies and issues in my cursory poking at the device.
Widgets everywhere: Upon playing with the iPhone, it's pretty clear that most of the apps are actually widgets. My first thought is that you can consider all of the 12 icons on the upper part of the screen to be widgets. Stocks, weather, clock, calculator, and notes are the most obviously widget-y of them, since they're already familiar to OS X dashboard users. Only the four apps in the lower part of the screen (phone, mail, Safari, iPod) are real apps. I wonder if Apple will allow developers to create iPhone widgets before they'll allow developers to create real apps.
Yahoo! everywhere: The iPhone is getting a lot of data from Yahoo! instead of other sources. The OS X weather widget gets its data from AccuWeather, and the stock widget gets its from Quote.com. This is a great opportunity for Yahoo! to try to rebuild its mindshare in the face of the Google juggernaut. Okay, so strictly speaking, this isn't an issue. It's just interesting to note the difference between them.
iPhone widgets aren't identical to their OS X counterparts: While many of the widgets are ones that are already on OS X, there are a few differences in them. The only difference between the OS X calculator widget and the iPhone calculator widget is that the iPhone one doesn't have an orange border. The iPhone weather widget is vertically-oriented instead of horizontally-oriented. The iPhone stock widget is virtually identical, but here's a couple of minor differences in how you enter additional stocks.
Reordering in widgets: The clock is the most fully-featured of the widgets, and it's the one that introduces the UX inconsistency. In the clock, enter the edit mode, and add your cities. The resulting city tiles have a little grab-handle on the right side, which you can use to drag them around. However, the other widgets just don't have that. The only way to get the items in those widgets in the right order is to enter them in the correct order from the beginning.
How much information is there?: Apps with more than one screen of information have scrollbars, but they only become visible when you're scrolling the screen. In some apps, it's obvious that you have more below the fold. But in some apps, such as the clock widget, it's easy to glance at the screen and not realise that there's more below it. One easy way to solve this without having to show the scrollbars is to not make the tiles fit perfectly on the screen. Instead, show me half of one of the tiles that's off-screen. Then I know there's more below (or above).
Stop with the stock apps: What is it about new gadgets that make people think that the one app that I simply must have is something to keep track of my stocks? Yes, I do own some individual stocks, but I'm not a day trader. I pay very little attention to what my stocks are doing on a daily basis, or even a weekly basis. I'm vaguely annoyed that I have to have this stock widget on my iPhone screen all the time, even though I'm never going to open it after I've set up my stocks in it the first time.
For all of my wibbling yesterday, and my GM's hypnotism today, there really wasn't a question as to whether I'd buy an iPhone. I couldn't queue up today, so I was vaguely concerned that I wouldn't be able to get one. Turns out that I didn't need to be concerned. I walked up to the Palo Alto Apple Store at 7pm, and had my shiny new iPhone by 7:05. It took significantly longer to activate the phone than it did to actually acquire it in the first place. I just did a completely non-random sample of the iPhone availability page (California, New York, and Washington), and none of the Apple Stores are sold out. I wonder if the people who queued up overnight (or longer ... ), or who paid people to queue up overnight, feel like they wasted their time/money.
I'll soon find out how well the iPhone handles being synched with multiple computers. My work laptop is the keeper of my contacts and calendar, but I don't have any music at all on it. I don't want to have to transfer a subset of my music collection to the work laptop. It'll either sync with my server at home or the Mac Mini in my office. The former has my complete music collection, the latter has a very small subset of it (enough to be serviceable in the office, but nowhere near the couple hundred gigs that I've got at home).
I'm seeing some Safari screen-painting issues on Edge. I used this blog as my testbed for it on Edge, and clicked on a comments thread for an earlier post. Doing so jumps you into the post right down to the comments. Safari paints that properly, but if I scroll up, I just see white. I did get the whole page when I let the screen go to sleep and wake back up. Hmmm.
This geekgirl is sleepy (I've been up since 5:30), so it's time to stop now. I'll continue playing tomorrow.
I've reached a new low in my career. My boyfriend has convinced my new GM to try to hypnotise me so that I'll buy an iPhone.
It's hard enough living in a geek household, but it's entirely not fair that he had to pull my big boss in on it. And given that it's review season 'round here, how does this factor into it? Eeeep.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Woz is going to queue for the iPhone just like the rest of us.
Hmmm, there are only two San José Apple stores, so figuring out which one he's at can't be too hard. I wonder if anyone will notice if I take off to go queue up with Woz ... ;)
Edit, 3:19pm PDT: Woz is waiting at the Valley Fair Apple Store, according to pictures posted in Engadget's iPhone multi-city line blog.
Okay, I admit it. I'm wibbling about the iPhone. On one hand, it's new and shiny and cool and waaaaaaaant. On the other hand, there are some limitations to v1 that I'm not sure I like. EDGE is one of them, uncertainty about Exchange support is another.
Craig, our new all-knowing and all-powerful GM, stopped by my office to chat. At the MacBU-California all-hands meeting yesterday, he made it pretty clear that he's going to have an iPhone in his hands as soon as humanly possible. (We reminded him that we have a bunch of summer interns here, so we can send them out to the various stores and have them wait in line to ensure that he gets one.) Today, when I expressed my reservations about it, he whipped out his current smartphone and went on about how EDGE is pretty good for most things and he's pretty pleased with it.
So it turns out that the new GM is an enabler. I'm hoping this bodes well for my future hardware requests, that he won't mind when I try to upgrade my laptop every time Apple releases a new one. Hmmm, maybe I can convince him that an iPhone is a business purchase, I need to fully understand its UX so that I'm ready if Apple does release a full SDK.
Article title: Understanding Memory Triggers for Task Tracking'
Authors: AJ Bernheim Brush, Brian R. Meyers, Desney S. Tan, Mary Czerwinski
Publication: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
Year of publication: 2007
In this CHI '07 short paper, the authors discuss a field study aimed at understanding how participants use memory triggers to write their status reports. The authors originally developed and deployed software to monitor the users' computer activities and thus assist in the status report activity, but found that it was not as widely used as they had hoped. Thus, they conducted a field study with eight participants (four at two companies, one of which is our esteemed employer) to better understand the underlying activity that they want to support.
The field study had four research questions:
In the course of the field study, the authors discovered that the participants fell across a continuum for their processes. Some participants kept a running tally of their tasks, while others relied on triggers (such as email, calendar events, tasks, and notes). Many participants wanted high-level triggers instead of detailed information. Participants cared about tracking time only when they needed to do it for an external reason, such as time reporting for a client. The content of their reports was selected based on their perception of their audience and their level of interest in the information provided. Interestingly, participants tended to think that they spent less time on the task of writing their status reports than they actually did.
While the findings in this study aren't big or earth-shattering, this is useful when considering how to better enable users to write their status reports. I found it interesting that the functions typically associated with a PIM are the ones that are most useful when tracking time.
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ACM Digital Library page for this paper
Microsoft Research page for this paper
AJ Brush's website
Brian Meyers' website
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Geek t-shirts are pretty much universally black. It turns out that geek laptops are also black. For every white MacBook I saw at WWDC last week, I saw at least 20 black MacBooks. I found myself wondering if I'd trade in my MBP if it came in black. Apple, you guys might be missing a marketing opportunity there ...
Today's Wall Street Journal features an article titled PowerPoint turns 20 as its creators ponder a dark side to success. I did a quick poll of the PowerPoint:Mac team here today, and between us, we've got boxed copies of all versions of PowerPoint:Mac. The lead program manager has version 1, I've got version 2, and one of the developers down the hall has everything from version 3 on. Being a geek, I've got versions 1 through 4 installed on one of my machines at home.
For the California edition of the MacBU tenth anniversary party, I brought in a still-functional PowerBook 180, installed version 1, and re-did the old Columbus example presentation as if I were trying to convince Microsoft to continue funding PowerPoint. Okay, so that probably only amused me. Of course, it's nothing like David Byrne's PowerPoint presentations, but I was running on old software and hardware.
Last week, after Steve Jobs announced that the current development path for the iPhone is to develop web apps, I was asked by a young Mac-head why web apps aren't good enough. I see that the Cult of Mac blog is singing the same song, pointing out the crop of apps that have appeared on the iPhone application list. Of course, some of the iPhone apps are a bit on the lame side -- why exactly do I want a t-shirt search engine on my iPhone? And how exactly can PhoneDango claim to give you 'the look and feel that you're used to on iPhone'?
The lameness of some of the pre-launch iPhone apps aside, it's not that web apps aren't good enough. You can do some great things on the web (Pandora, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace, ...). The problem is that you're limited to the web metaphor for navigation: links, forward, back, etc. With a touch screen, the iPhone's interface is ripe for innovation. App developers just don't have access to the full power of the interface if they are limited to developing web apps.
Should Apple decide to make an iPhone SDK available in the future, one of the first games that we'll see on it is Breakout, which we can view as a nice little nod to the early part of Woz's career. Take a look at the interaction for Breakout. You've got a little paddle at the bottom of the screen, and you move it around to keep the ball in play. This is an absolutely perfect game for a touch screen, and will work well on such a small screen. Will this game even be possible as a web app? I did a quick search and only found Java apps, which the iPhone doesn't support at this time.
The iPhone interface promises to make some fundamental changes to the user experience. Some of them are quite subtle (how you scroll, for example). Some of these changes aren't subtle, and that's where application developers should come in. We Mac lovers have a lot of innovative apps available to us. Just think of the innovation that we would see if we let Mac developers loose on something like the iPhone.
And that's why I want an iPhone SDK. There's a lot of opportunity in the iPhone, and I want developers to be able to fully take advantage of it. This doesn't preclude some great web apps specifically developed for use on the iPhone; full apps and web apps should complement each other.
Book title: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
Author: Alan Cooper
Cooper's argument in this book is simple: you have to know your users, and you have to understand what they're trying to accomplish with your software. The method that he puts forth for achieving this understanding is personas, richly-described archetypical users.
The book is easy to read and understand. He begins with a detailed description of the problem with software design as carried about by programmers who can only imagine themselves as the users of their software. This results in software that makes really difficult things possible but doesn't bother to make easy or common things quick and easy.
After making the argument that programmers shouldn't design interfaces and making the case both for usability and interaction design, he lays out the personas concept. Cooper's guidelines for creating personas and using them are well-written and well-thought-out. However, his examples of applying them to some of his own customers are rather repetitive, and sometimes come across as somewhat whiny.
Now that it's time for me to revisit the Office:Mac personas and determine what needs to be tweaked for our next version, I decided that I should revisit the book that first advanced the idea. It has stood up well to the test of time (something that not many computer books can do). I highly recommend it, both to usability and design professionals, as well as programmers.
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New Paris St Germain signing Javier Pastore has explained that he chose a move to France due to the potential the club possesses.
PSG have been taken over by wealthy Qatari investors and the Argentine's arrival from Palermo in a reported French record 42 million euros (£36.5 million) move has made them among the favourites to win the French title this season.
They lost their opening home match 1-0 to Lorient on Saturday with Pastore in the stands but the club are ultimately aiming to become a top European force after years of underachievement.
"I came in search titles which hasn't happened up until now. That was my motivation," Pastore said on Monday in his first news conference since signing.
Inconsistent Palermo lost the Italian Cup final last season to Inter Milan, who were managed by Leonardo before the Brazilian decided to leave the three-times European champions to join ambitious PSG as sporting director.
Leonardo said Pastore, 22, had "his whole future ahead of him".
"His signing is in line with the club's policy of recruiting young, ambitious players," Leonardo added having also brought in Jeremy Menez, Salvatore Sirigu, Mohamed Sissoko, Kevin Gameiro and Blaise Matuidi.
PSG have splashed out over 80 million euros since May but coach Antoine Kombouare has been retained despite last term's fourth-place finish when modest Lille won the league and cup double.
"My team mates had only just finished their pre-season preparations," Pastore said to explain the surprise defeat by Lorient at a packed Parc des Princes he described as having a "formidable atmosphere".
"The group is full of attacking talent and is strong at the back. We have everything in our favour to be fighting for the top positions," he added, denying it was strange to move to France from the more high-profile Italian league.
"A step backwards? No not at all. Ligue 1 is a championship that will soon be able to compete with its Italian and English rivals. It is a league which is going to improve further in terms of quality and play."
Pastore is not sure when he will be match fit to play for his new team having just come back from a two-week holiday.
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Willoughby says about two weeks ago, a motorist ran into the rear of a school bus near the intersection of Broad Street and Congress Boulevard and in the other accident, on Wednesday of this week, another vehicle pulled from a side street and struck a bus near the intersection of Broad Street and LeFever Street in Smithville.
Children were apparently on board the buses at the time of the accidents but no one was injured.
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The idea that Senator Coburn is talking about the traditions of the Senate is ridiculous. Look what happened last time we did this. Senator Coburn held up action on dozens of bills for narrow, personal reasons, demanding debate and four amendments. These bills were held up for months; the Senate had to waste precious time to allow him to offer a few amendments. Each amendment failed by overwhelming bipartisan margins (63, 76, 67, 73 votes against), and the final bill passed 91-4 (Coburn, DeMint, Vitter and Inhofe being the only Nos). That is not debate and amendment; it is abuse, obstruction and delay.
Jim Manley, meet Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT). Sanders has been insisting upon fast-track consideration of his bill to vastly increase taxpayer subsidies for heating oil, which is important to his New England State. Implicit in Sanders' demand is a threat to obstruct and delay other bills until his concerns are satisfied.
Given that polls suggest a bigger Democratic majority in the 2009 U.S. Senate, Reid's interest in curtailing the over two century-old power of Senate minorities to have their interests taken into account may be obvious.
Were Reid to have the unchecked powers of a latter-day Lyndon B. Johnson during a Democratic Administration, the leftist dream of another burst of Great Society-style legislation would be close to fruition: national health care, amnesty for illegal aliens, card-check unionization and every other plank of their agenda nearly would be unstoppable.
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I was toying around with some stars and threw in the astronomical symbols for fun. The smaller stars fit within 50x50 pixels, so they would be great for DA icons or other types of avatars. (I think it could also be useful for creating brooch or wand designs for Sailor Moon!)
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Singleton buys another daily paper and further locks up the Bay Area market .Where's the U.S. Attorney General and the California Attorney General?
By Bruce B. Brugmann
And so it comes to pass that Dean Singleton, already weighted down with 56 daily newspapers and l20 non-dailies in l3 states, including a virtual monopoly of the Bay Area daily market, is buying the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
The story in the San Jose Mercury News/Singleton paper is a snapshot of how things stand in California journalism.The announcement came from out of state (Singleton himself from his Denver headquarters). The paper was bought in a quick shuffle aimed at giving Singleton an even tighter lock on the Bay Area market: Ottaway of New York, a subsidiary of Dow Jones, sells to another New York-based firm (Community Newspaper Holdings Inc) two months ago. And then CNHI sells to Singleton and Singleton says without blushing in a house press release, "We are delighted to accquire the Santa Cruz Sentinel and expand our reach in this very competitive region. The Sentinel is a fine newspaper today but it will be strengthened by the resources of our existing papers." Chop, chop, whack, whack.
Technically, the Sentinel will be acquired by a Singleton-controlled entity called the California Newspaper Partnership, with the Gannett chain headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and Stephens Media, out of Las Vegas and Little Rock, Arkansas, as the remaining partners. Meanwhile, as the newly unsealed federal court documents show, Singleton out of Denver and Hearst out of New York have been collaborating on several levels and Hearst is now a major investor with Singleton and helping finance his acquisitions.
This is Singleton's modus operandi: he doesn't compete, he clusters and collaborates. I once asked him, back when the old Hearst Examiner was up for sale, why he didn't come to town and buy it. "Dean," I said, "come to San Francisco and compete with the Chronicle and we'll make a real man out of you." Nope, he replied in five words, "Too much energy, no profit." And that was that. In short, Singleton and his "competitors" are now partners and there will be no real daily newspaper competition in the Bay area. Why is the only major impediment to this monopoly mess Clint Reilly and his attorneys Joe Alioto and Dan Shulman? Where is the outrage?
Repeating: where is the U.S. Attorney General and the California Attorney General as the monopoly noose of ever more conservative newspapers tightens on one of the world's most liberal and civilized areas?
Not a peep from former AG Bill Lockyer, who lived under the thumb of Singleton in Hayward with the Hayward Review, and not a peep from current AG Jerrry Brown, who lives under the Singleton thumb in Oakland with the
Tribune and an East Bay monopoly now stretching all the way south to Santa Cruz and Monterey and north to Vallejo. Thank God there are three lively alternative newspapers in the area: the Santa Cruz Good Times and the Santa Cruz Metro and the Monterey County Weekly in nearby Seaside. There's now even more for them to do. B3


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Shirley Stirling She was born Feb. 20, 1872 and her husband Holmes Burce was a blacksmith and worked in a shop owned by Esquire Peter West in 1838, perhaps earlier. I found this in History of the Town of Industry, Franklin County, Maine. He had lived previously in Stark. One of their sons Silas was also a blacksmith in Industry (my 2nd Great Grandfather). In this book they spelled the name Bruce instead of Burce or Burse or Bearse. On our family tree Lydian & Holmes had 7 children & each just 1 marriage. I would like to know where she was born and when they were married. Their 1st child was born when Lydia was 19 years old and their oldest when she was 41. I do not have a death date.
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Shirley Stirling Correction: Lydia (Givens) Burse was born Feb. 20, 1782.
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William here. Last time, I talked about 64-bit installations, applications and hardware. So now let's start looking at what upgrade and migration options are available for Windows 7. You've probably heard some grumblings about this already. Mac users seem to voice the complaints the most (though few seem to remember the OS 9 to OS X days [you know: classic, blue box, Carbon, etc.] or the fact every release from Cheetah to Snow Leopard has been a dot rev of 10).
The simple truth is Windows Vista represented a radical departure from previous releases of desktop Windows operating systems. Windows 7 is the continuing evolution of this brave new world. This brave new world brought PC users truckloads of new features and capabilities, including
This brave new world put up a dividing line between earlier desktop releases of Windows and everything that comes after. It is the reason why you can't upgrade Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows XP to Windows 7. Setting aside Windows XP for a moment, why in the world would you want to drag forward Win 95/98/ME baggage? That would be a nightmare even if you could as you're coming from what was primarily an MS DOS and 16-bit world to full on 32-bit (and 64-bit options largely didn't even exist back then).
Now back to Windows XP. You can't upgrade directly from Windows XP to Windows 7. Only Windows Vista includes upgrade paths from Windows XP. This is because the baggage required to support the transition from Windows XP (a legacy OS) to the new architecture is enormous. If you absolutely must upgrade, you could upgrade Windows XP to Windows Vista and then upgrade Windows Vista to Windows 7. Licensing options should be available, as you likely only need a few Vista licenses to support such a transition (but would need to confirm for enterprise scenarios). But again, why drag around legacy baggage? Why not make a clean break to the new architecture? Your installations will be cleaner and your PC operations will run more smoothly.
As both Windows Vista and Windows 7 implement the new architecture, you can of course upgrade Windows Vista to Windows 7. The upgrade options are fairly straightforward but there are some gotchas and these gotchas exist because Windows gives you so many options.
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If you've purchased a computer with a home edition of Windows Vista, you may want to go to a business edition of Windows 7. You can do this, and without having to shell out the additional cash for Windows 7 Ultimate. As with Windows Vista, Windows 7 supports anytime upgrades. With an anytime upgrade, you can go from more basic editions of Windows 7 to higher editions of Windows 7. This means you can upgrade from:
Thus, you could upgrade a home edition of Windows Vista to a home edition of Window 7 and then anytime upgrade that home edition to Windows 7 Professional. And if you've done an anytime upgrade before, you know it's fast and easy.
Well, that's it for now. In my next post—Windows 7: Inside Track, Part 3 "More on Upgrades and Migrations"—I'll resume this discussion and dig deeper into upgrades and migrations.
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You could say that I've slowly been losing my mind since I heard the news that a Where's Waldo? film was going to happen. Of course, you could also say that I've slowly been losing my mind ever since I mixed Shrooms and Carpet Fresh back in sophomore year of college. And you'd be right either way, somehow. Maybe I'm growing obsessed with the absurdity of adapting Waldo into a movie, or maybe I'm just pissed that no one is considering a Magic Eye adaptation despite the growing 3D trend.
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Ted Simons: The recent bombings in Boston were a stark reminder that the threat of terrorist activity on U.S. soil is still very much alive. Efforts to keep the Phoenix area safe from attacks continue on a variety of levels, though there is concern over recent drops in federal Homeland Security funds. For more on this we're joined by Mesa city councilman and firefighter Scott Somers. Also joining us, Scott Krushak, the emergency management coordinator for the City of Phoenix. Good to have you here. Let's start with an overview, the status of Homeland Security in the Phoenix area.
Scott Somers: Well, Homeland Security dollars have shrunk about 60% to our region over the last two years. So that's something to be concerned about. But we're utilizing those dollars to build really a regional capability, regional capacity to respond to incidents of national significance, like the bombing attack you saw in Boston.
Ted Simons: Is that different from what we've seen in years past?
Scott Somers: The regional approach is something that the federal government has been really keen on through the national preparedness goal. We have seen far more in the Valley than you have nationally. We really are one of the best at taking a regional approach through fire, police and our health care system.
Ted Simons: Has Homeland Security in your mind overall -- we'll talk about the funding in a second -- strengthened, weakened, changed? What have you seen?
Scott Krushak: It's changed over the years. It's really evolved. We came out of 9/11 with really a not good understanding of terrorism and how things should be. We had very traditional systems, poor information sharing. Our response systems worked independently in silos. The regionalization meant the whole community, whole response, all hazards approach didn't really exist. We're in a different world now. Things are way different than they were pre-9/11. I have to say from my perspective we're better.
Scott Somers: Particularly local police agencies, federal and state agencies, these grants have really helped to train local officers, and it's helped fund information sharing centers and fusion centers, which have been seen as best practice in the industry.
Ted Simons: With that in mind, who's in charge? State? County? City? Feds? Who calls the shots here?
Scott Krushak: Depends on who you ask. The reality is everything starts at the local level. From us in the City of Phoenix, if we have an event in our city, we are in charge. We do not relinquish that. You've seen that, in the recent event in Boston. Boston is in charge of that. FBI and supporting agencies come in, 9/11, who was in charge? Very clearly the mayor of that city was in charge of that event. And nobody was going to take that, one of the biggest acts of terrorism in the world, nobody took that away. It happens locally with support.
Ted Simons: Talk about response capabilities here. Community emergency response teams, what are we seeing right now? Give a team grade.
Scott Somers: Give a team grade of A. These have been graded by the Department of Homeland Security in as innovative best practices. Things to be replicated throughout the United States. That's what's happening here in the Valley. We have one of the best response systems in the country.
Ted Simons: We have one of the best response systems in the country. Do we have enough equipment? Do we have enough training? Kind of easing back to this federal funding situation.
Scott Krushak: We're in a really interesting situation right now, because this happened, 9/11 was a while back, things change. Equipment wears out. People go out of the system. So we need to maintain and sustain current capabilities and capacities. And so we have to keep going. We have to keep doing this. If we don't, bad things will happen and we won't be prepared because we won't have trained people and current equipment.
Scott Somers: Right. One of the programs suffering right now is the metropolitan medical response system, set up to handle mass casualty incidents in the country. Phoenix is one of those MMRS units. Mesa also has one. We're finding because MMRS, that funding was zeroed out in the budget last year. We're having difficulty replacing our medications, like these antidote kits that I brought with me. We carried them on nearly every truck in Mesa, we're now down 30% because most of them are out of date and we're having to consolidate.
Ted Simons: As far as other equipment, I think we had an example here earlier today, brought in what looks like a bomb detonation suit? What are we looking at?
Scott Somers: It's an explosive ordinance disposal suit that we purchased, you can see it on your screen. Mesa Police Department's bomb suit. These bomb suits are no doubt expensive. But the EOD team is really an example of that regional cooperation we have across jurisdictional boundaries. We only have five EOD teams. Phoenix, Tempe, Glendale, Mesa, I think the sheriff's office has one, and the department of public safety has one throughout the state. But not every department can afford that. Not every department can afford to have a hazardous materials team. These are teams that respond throughout the Valley and the state, wherever the emergency is.
Ted Simons: What are the urban area security initiative grant?
Scott Krushak: That is me.
Ted Simons: That's you, congratulations.
Scott Krushak: Thank you. I am the coordinator for that. The initiative is major metropolitan areas across the United States. Originally it was about 64, that recently got cut to about 31, 32 . And those 30 now are the major areas where the possibility and the risk and threat and consequence from national level acts of terrorism would exist. So those are specific within jurisdictions. Regionally here, City of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Phoenix area urban security initiative.
Ted Simons: How much money does this account for and how much is spent?
Scott Krushak: We get about $11 million, I would say, and we spend it all. We use it. That's a regional asset, don't forget, so we all sit together as a region, and how do we make this work.
Scott Somers: It's not just for the equipment, it's great stuff to look at. But it goes from tremendous training too, the bomb techs have to be trained, the hazardous materials folks have to be trained. Firefighters have been involved in spotting activities that might have resulted in a significant event.
Ted Simons: You mentioned equipment. What's this cylinder thing here?
Scott Somers: This is an interesting device, a radiological meter. We use to it sweep for weapons of mass destruction. We can use this at the Super Bowl, golf tournaments, the kinds of big events that might be targets in the Valley. We'll use it again in the Super Bowl coming up. We were able to detect somebody in an audience from a distance away who had just had a radiological procedure done the day before.
Scott Krushak: There it is.
Ted Simons: I'm pointing this -- That's a Thermos mug or something.
Scott Somers: It's extremely sensitive equipment. We train our folks to use it, they are experts at it.
Ted Simons: I hate to keep coming back to money, but we've got the sequester going on, as well. Impact of the sequester on future funding.
Scott Krushak: The grant programs are in flux, we're not really sure. The President says it should look this way, Congress says it should look this way. So we really don't know what it looks like. We move forward with our plans and our processes, and then we take it to see what's going to happen. Just to sum up, I'm going to say one word. Boston. Because that changes everything. Boston, you saw the Congress and some of Congress saying, hey, we need to eliminate these response systems, MMRS, we don't need all that stuff. Those are toys, we don't need it. Well one word on Boston. They needed it.
Scott Somers: And I would use one word, two words, Tyler, Texas. Nobody's ever heard of Tyler, Texas, because the FBI working in a fusion center with local police stopped the terrorist attack that was going to use weapons of mass destruction.
Ted Simons: Yet we will hear critics say the funding for Homeland Security in general, a waste, all sorts of abuse. Money is being used to buy snow-cone machines, a submarine for Columbus, Ohio. How do you respond to that?
Scott Krushak: I have to say that we spend our money correctly here in the region. We do have several best practices, we regionalize, across the U.S. we're known for that. I have to say we know the Secretary of Homeland Security very well, and she knows us very well. Our fusion center was started by her and it's the national model. That's the way things should be. We don't have any snow-cone machines.
Ted Simons: The money maybe needs to be tightened a little bit or better monitored, how do you respond?
Scott Somers: We want to make sure that we spend our money wisely. The Phoenix region has been held up as an innovative best practice. We are truly the model nationally, particularly with our training and interoperable nature by which our police, fire, state and local and federal jurisdictions are operating.
Ted Simons: Ever-evolving?
Scott Krushak: And we are good stewards of taxpayer dollars. I have to say that. That's what this is about. This is about taking those funds and using them correctly for the community, and that's what we do.
Ted Simons: Gentlemen, good to have you both here.
Scott Krushak: Thank you.
Scott Somers: Thank you.


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The Toronto Blue Jays have announced that, in 2013, their AAA farm club will leave Las Vegas and become the Buffalo (New York) Bisons.
Professional baseball in Buffalo began in 1879, when another team named Bisons joined the National League. There was also a Buffalo team named Bisons in the Players' League, in its only season, 1890. (If you think MLB has had its share of recent labor trouble, research the Players' League someday.)
The current Bisons are the New York Mets' AAA club. Bisons' ownership, dissatisfied with low attendance in four years of Mets affiliation, chose not to re-up with the Metropolitans, and made the smart move by going with the Jays.
With use of the disabled list increasing, and the need for players more frequent, it's better to have your top farm team close to home. The Jays had kept their best prospects at AA New Hampshire, still some distance from Toronto but closer than Vegas.
Replacements will now be 90 freeway minutes away. Hard core Jays fans who can't get enough baseball can also check out the Bisons when the big club is on the road.
And now, demoted Blue Jays will be shuffled off to Buffalo. If there's ever a prize offered the first blogger who works that and the 1933 musical "42nd Street" into a post, Your Jays Writer will be up late thinking of ways to do so.