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The Maxtor OneTouch line has been around for awhile now, both in its external drive form and the "mini" versions, which are portable USB 2.0 drives. The company has revamped the series and launched the OneTouch 4 Mini with all new software and a new form factor.
The new design is rather slick, as the chassis is not much bigger than the drive inside. More importantly, it's much smaller than the previous generation drive. It's also thinner, and fits in the palm of your hand.
The drive is like every other OneTouch drive, in that it has a single button that can be pressed to perform a pre-selected backup routine. The default backup is of "my documents," but you can set it up to either run backup, sync folders, or open the application of your choosing.
The drive itself is packaged in a small metallic shell, with a two-headed USB cable. In most computers you should be able to get enough power from one USB port to run the drive, but older computers will require both USB cables to be plugged in.
The software package that is included, and is on the drive itself rather than a CD, is dubbed Maxtor Manager, and acts as a central hub to control everything from backups-to-syncing-to-security. It's an amazingly full-featured package, and easily offers more options than any backup drive we've ever tested. You can backup certain folders on a regular schedule, sync folders between computers, password protect the drive's contents, create an encrypted folder, and even create an image of your drive and totally restore your entire system in the case of hard drive failure. To say the software suite is great is an understatement of grand proportions.
The OneTouch Mini is available in 80GB, 120GB and 160GB and it works with Macs as well as PCs.
The OneTouch 4 Mini (on the right) is smaller in every way compared to the previous model.
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As soon as we pulled the mini out of the box and attached it to our computer, we got a pop-up asking if we wanted to install the software. Once we had, we were presented with a plethora of options.
The first tab just shows you that your drive is connected, and lets you change settings such as what the "one touch" button does, lets you test the drive, change power settings (to set the drive to go idle after a specified time period), and to check for software updates.
The Maxtor Manager suite offers five tabs of security and backup options.
The second tab is labeled "Backup" and lets you create and edit a backup schedule. You can set it to backup certain folders at certain times, and it works wonderfully. We set it to backup our "documents" in the dead of night and it worked perfectly every time. You can also restore files, and we have a complaint here. Instead of letting you just restore files back to their original location, it just shows you the files you have backed up, so you have to manually copy them back to where they used to be.
You can schedule certain folders to be backed up on a schedule of your choosing.
The third tab is labeled Sync, and it lets you syncronize folders between different computers, such as your notebook and your desktop. Unfortunately, we ran into a problem since our desktop runs Vista and our notebook runs XP – you can't sync folder between the two operating systems, which is a big problem in our opinion since a lot of power users are still running both operating systems.
The sync utility does not play nice with both Windows XP and Vista, unfortunately.
The fourth tab is named Safety, and it's not a misnomer. It lets you create a backup image of your entire computer in case disaster strikes. We actually decided to test this to its full extent, and came away fully impressed. We have a notebook that we are looking to sell, so we didn't care if it got hosed. We ran the Safety Drill utility, which makes a backup image of our hard drive. We then deleted the partition of the drive on the notebook. Next, we booted from the CD that comes with the drive, which is required for Safety Drill to work properly. Maxtor notes in bold text in the manual to NOT LOSE THIS disc, but it would be very much appreciated if an ISO of it was on the drive itself, in case one does lose the disc. Once we had booted to it, we selected our backup image from a list, and then after about fifteen minutes we rebooted, and our notebook was exactly as we had left it, with everything intact. This software works exactly as promised, and is perfect in our opinion.
We actually wiped our hard drive, and then restored it with the Safety Drill utility.
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The final tab is labeled Security, and lets you password-protect the drive and set up a 256-bit AES encrypted folder for "private" documents. You just make a password, type it in and the folder pops up. Drag stuff into it to encrypt it, and drag stuff out of it to decrypt it. It works beautifully, and we had no issues whatsoever.
You can create an encrypted folder on the drive to hide your "work documents."
As far as speed goes, it's a 5400rpm drive with an 8MB buffer, so don't expect any wonders. However, it was fast enough for our needs. We transferred a 740MB file in a scant 0:27, and a 1.84GB file in 1:06, which is fast enough to satisfy our need, our need for speed.
Maxtor has hit it out of the park with the One Touch 4 Mini as far as we're concerned. It's easy to stick a notebook hard drive into a chassis, but it's much more difficult to create intuitive, useful backup and security software to go with it. The Maxtor Manager software is the best suite we've ever seen for an external drive, and we give Maxtor (Seagate) maximum kudos for a job well done.
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Frostproof (7-3) picked up a 33-yard field goal by Lamar Bobb to take a 3-0 lead on their opening drive of the game but never scored again against a stingy Berkeley Prep defense.
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Reporters ask President-Elect Barack Obama to explain how Sen. Hillary Clinton, his Democratic primary rival, came to be considered for secretary of state.
6 Ask Obama Questions, None a Journalist of Color
President-elect Barack Obama unveiled his national security team at a Chicago news conference Monday, with the team on stage more diverse than the press corps covering it.
As with his four previous news conferences as president-elect, Obama called on no journalists of color. Questions went to Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press, Caren Bohan of Reuters, Jake Tapper of ABC News, Peter Baker of the New York Times, John McCormick of the Chicago Tribune and Dean Reynolds of CBS News, according to identifications provided by FishBowl DC. Fox News also was left out.
By contrast, Obama introduced a team that included African Americans Eric Holder as attorney general and Susan Rice as cabinet-level ambassador to the United Nations, in addition to Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as secretary of homeland security, Robert Gates, reappointed as defense secretary, and Gen. James L. Jones, the former NATO commander, as national security adviser.
"Clearly, there's diversity at the very top," MSNBC's Chris Matthews said approvingly after the news conference. "Bill Clinton was accused of tokenism" when he made his appointments in 1992, but "nobody's looking at this group suggesting anyone got it by anything other than qualifications."
Correspondent Pete Williams, also on MSNBC, noted that despite the presence of an African American president and an African American attorney general, neither said anything about rejuvenating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. "I guess it would be just a given," Williams said.
The lack of high-level appointments of Latinos or Asian Americans, a concern voiced by some in those communities, apparently went without comment. It was the appointment of Clinton, Obama's Democratic primary rival, that garnered most of the attention. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who is Hispanic, is expected to be named secretary of commerce.
Twice during the news conference, CNN gave African Americans a priority within the State Department they might not have known they had. The onscreen bio for Rice, assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1997 to 2001, identified her as "Fmr. Asst. Sec'y of State for African American Affairs."
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Papers' Ad Revenue Drops $2 Billion in Third Quarter"Newspaper ad revenue fell almost $2 billion in the third quarter for a record 18.1% decline, according to new statistics from the Newspaper Association of America," Nat Ives reported on Monday for AdAge.com. "What's worse, newspapers' online ad revenue fell for the second quarter in a row.
"The historic drop resulted from a worsening economy that sharply exacerbated long-term challenges already confronting the newspaper industry, and it affected all kinds of newspaper ads. National ad sales fell 18.4%, classifieds sank 30.9%, and the biggest category, retail, slid 11.7%. Newspapers' online ad sales, where everyone is hoping some part of the future business model resides, accelerated their decline with a 3% drop. Online ad sales slipped 2.4% in the second quarter.
"This fall's financial collapse affected only some part of the latest results. However, the rest of the year is likely to look even worse.
"The performance in the third quarter was affected only partially by the worldwide financial panic that froze the credit markets in mid-September, throttling the already waning demand for hiring, auto sales and home purchases," said Alan Mutter, the newspaper veteran turned Silicon Alley entrepreneur, on his blog, the story continued. "The outlook for the final period of the year is worse," as classified ads "are likely to experience the full impact of the economic meltdown,'" Mutter said.
The news came as it was confirmed that, "The United States economy officially sank into a recession last December, which means that the downturn is already longer than the average for all recessions since World War II, according to the committee of economists responsible for dating the nation's business cycles," as the New York Times reported.
Johnson Network Would Have "Public Interest Focus"
Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, says his proposed new network has "got to have a public interest focus" and that he might be "going out to Hollywood and talking to some of the top African American producers to see what they'd like to see on television that they can't get on."
As reported last week, Johnson has asked the Federal Communications Commission to approve plans for a new "urban" television network that would share the signal on 42 stations owned by Ion Media Networks, Inc. With digital television, the signal could be split between two networks.
Such an arrangement is already being challenged by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association as "unconstitutional and unnecessary."
Harry A. Jessell of TV Newsday interviewed Johnson and published an edited transcript Tuesday. Here is an excerpt:
Q: Did you come up with this idea or did Ion bring this to you?
A. Interestingly enough, this came about by my thinking about what's possible in television. I've had conversations with [former congressman] J.C. Watts about his news channel and what he was trying to do. I've also been looking at doing something in the Internet space and so I was thinking about that particular platform. And remember when the Sirius guys were told they had to create minority channels on satellite radio? So, I got to thinking about whether you could do the same thing with television spectrum. That's when I got introduced to [Ion CEO] Brandon Burgess and we began talking.
Q. So what do you envision in terms of programming?
A. I really don't know yet. I know it's got to have a public interest focus. It's got to serve the broad base of the urban population, which is sorely underserved. So, I'm thinking about a range of things — going out to Hollywood and talking to some of the top African-American producers to see what they'd like to see on television that they can't get on. Maybe I'd invite some of the top minority entertainers and producers to co-invest in developing the channel.
Let me ask you: How many hours could Tyler Perry produce? He's got his own studio; he's got his own brand. How much could Jamie [Foxx] or Damon Wayans do? They pitch pilots and the pilots get turned down. Could they go into Procter & Gamble and say, "Hey I've got distribution now. It's sort of like syndication. I've got 42 stations. It has this footprint, this distribution. How about I produce six shows that integrate Procter & Gamble products in it?"
Another possibility might be an all-news, all-talk TV channel. Another is the biggest issue facing this country, particularly African-Americans: health and wellness lifestyle. Ion has some experience in doing that. Another is personal finance — employment, job opportunities, business opportunities.
Another approach is to make the channel available to individual program bidders who would come in and say, "I've got an idea for a program I want to do." We cut a deal where they program the channel and take half the spots.
We're also developing a social networking site called Point of View. It would allow people to produce programs and air them on the Internet and comment back and forth. Maybe some of these programs would be attractive and purchased by the networks. So we create a place for pilots to sort of incubate.
Q. So the programming is pretty much up in the air.
A. That's right. We really want to be creative.
The one thing we do know is that we are not looking to compete with BET or TV One and what they do. First of all, they're doing a great job at what they do. They're serving a market and there's no sense trying to split that market. It's probably not big enough to splitanyway.
So our goal would be to come up with something innovative and new that has far more deeper meaning in the urban market. I keep coming back to health and career and jobs. [Added Dec. 2]
Gregory Reportedly NBC's Choice for "Meet the Press""NBC News plans to name David Gregory as moderator of 'Meet the Press,' infusing one of television's most prized franchises with a sharp edge leavened by a youthful style and versatility, according to network executives," Mike Allen reported Tuesday for Politico, following a report by Danny Shea Monday on the Huffington Post.
Gwen Ifill of PBS has said that she had informal conversations about the job with NBC officials several weeks ago.
"Ifill's presence would 'help signal a new era at "Meet the Press,"' Matea Gold wrote last week in the Los Angeles Times. "Currently the moderator of 'Washington Week' on PBS, the anchor would be the first African American moderator of the NBC program, a timely milestone that would coincide with the inauguration of the country's first black president."
Other candidates were said to be NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell and NBC political director Chuck Todd.
Allen wrote, "Gregory, 38, celebrated his 30th birthday – complete with cake – aboard George W. Bush's presidential campaign plane, the assignment that solidified his stature as a network rising star. Enjoying a gravitas boost from his prematurely salt-and-pepper mane and friendships with Tom Brokaw and other of the legendary figures of NBC News, the Los Angeles native quickly became one of the hottest personalities in network news.
"The plan to anoint Gregory is not final but will be as soon as today, the executives said. NBC spokespeople refused to comment, saying the network would make the announcement.
"The decision was made by Jeff Zucker, president and chief executive officer of NBC Universal, and Steve Capus, president of NBC News."
On Monday, NBC responded to Politico regarding the Huffington Post report, saying," I don't know where they are getting this. We have nothing to announce." [Added Dec. 2]
What Newspapers Can Learn from Obama's CampaignIf those running the show at newspapers were wise, they might see deeper implications in Barack Obama's victory that relate to their long-term survival, Phyllis Kaniss, who teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote for the American Journalism Review.
"Among the lessons they might consider:
"The suburbs are in play and realigning with cities. Barack Obama won in large part because many suburbanites turned away from the Republican Party and joined city dwellers to vote Democratic. For three decades, metropolitan newspapers have struggled in their efforts to capture affluent suburban residents living in small, fragmented political jurisdictions with waning interest in the central city. They have mostly been unsuccessful, whether experimenting with zoned editions that tried to compete with suburban papers or when turning their backs entirely on the dismal news of their struggling cities. But the campaign showed that there might be some real common threads uniting city and suburb. are likely to experience the full impact of the economic meltdown.'"
Her other lessons:
"New media can build personal relationships that boost engagement."
"Entertainment can be a lure, but not a substitute, for serious ideas."
"Revenue can be raised from the little guys as well as the big guys."
"Volunteers can further your mission."
Obama Urged Television Industry to Reflect America"Long before he set out for the White House, Barack Obama sought to adjust the colors on America's TV sets," Greg Braxton reminded readers of the Los Angeles Times on Saturday.
"Four years ago, fresh off his star-making keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, Obama challenged the television industry to live up to its responsibility as the country's 'most powerful media' and accurately reflect the nation's population. 'TV ought to reflect the reality of America's diversity and should do so with pride and dignity, not with stereotypes," he told the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. But as Obama prepares to move into the White House in January, he and his family will be hard pressed to find blacks like themselves represented on any of the major networks — ABC, NBC, CBS or Fox.
"In fact, not only will they have great difficulty locating any black family in a leading role on the networks, they also will see it's nearly impossible to find a scripted comedy or drama that features a young person of color in a central role."
In the New York Times, Bill Carter put it this way on Saturday:
"It may say something about the state of American television that there is one more black president-elect of the United States than there are black actors with individual lead roles in a network television drama."
But Carter was optimistic:
"After years of ensemble dramas sprinkled with nonwhite supporting actors, the excitement surrounding the election of Barack Obama could help to open doors for more minorities in leading dramatic roles, executives from television production studios said," he wrote.
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- Earl Ofari Hutchinson, syndicated: Behind the Screwy Obama Birth Certificate Controversy
- David Paul Kuhn, politico.com: Publishers bet big on 'Obama as hero'
- Wil LaVeist, Mix Magazine: Obama's Perfect Storm
- Lori L. Tharps, theRoot.com: The Obama Effect on Publishing
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On World AIDS Day, Reinvigorating the Fight
In a message for Dec. 1, World AIDS Day, Phill Wilson, CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, wrote, "We cannot relegate the AIDS fight to the government alone, not even with President Obama at the helm. So, here are several high-priority actions that Americans and our new government, together, should immediately take to reinvigorate our fight against HIV/AIDS:
"Support efforts to develop a National AIDS Strategy
"The U.S. government requires all foreign countries that receive assistance from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to have a national strategy to respond to HIV/AIDS. Shockingly, America has no national strategy for its own epidemic. No national targets are in place for reducing the number of new HIV infections or lowering the annual number of AIDS deaths. Multiple federal agencies own different pieces of the national AIDS response, yet in the absence of any national coordinating mechanism they stumble over each other, fight for turf, and leave critical priorities unaddressed."
He also urged communities, "Partner with the Obama administration to strengthen HIV prevention"; "Make knowledge of HIV status a universal community norm"; "Deliver treatments to those who need them" and "Build community capacity on AIDS."
Separately, the U.S. Agency for International Development noted that a U.S.-backed program has just completed training 1,000 journalists in Africa and Asia on how to prevent AIDS, saying the reporters and editors in turn have reached millions of people with their messages.
"The 1,000 journalists received five to seven days training by Internews, including visits to the home of a person with AIDS. The reporters learned to record background sounds and create a news magazine-style piece, which is new to Africa and other developing media. Some 70 percent of training focused on journalism techniques and 30 percent on medical knowledge."
Susan E. Rice, Obama's choice to be ambassador to the United Nations, is a former board member of Internews.
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Asian Journalists Name Ellen Endo Executive Director Ellen Endo, a former manager in the television industry, has been appointed the new executive director of the Asian American Journalists Association, the association announced on Monday.
Endo replaces Rene Astudillo, who has led AAJA since 1999 and had said he wanted to step down.
"Endo spent 24 years in TV industry senior management positions, serving as executive vice president of Republic Pictures Productions, senior vice president of MGM/UA Television, vice president of Embassy Communications, and program executive with the ABC network," a news release said. "She was instrumental in developing numerous television series, mini-series, and movies, among them the Emmy-winning 'Separate but Equal,' which dramatized the desegregation of schools by Brown vs. the Board of Education, and Golden Globe winner, 'One Against the Wind,' a historic drama set in World War II."
Endo also served as managing editor of the Los Angeles-based Rafu Shimpo, which calls itself the nation's leading bilingual Japanese American daily newspaper, and as chief operating officer of the nonprofit Go For Broke National Education Center, which offers programs about the history of Japanese American soldiers of World War II, the Japanese American incarceration, and the civil liberties issues raised by those events.
Indian Journalists Criticized from Many Directions"Indian media was itself a major news item as the Mumbai terror attacks came to a conclusion over the weekend," Patrick Frater wrote Sunday for Variety.
"The country's broadcasters were summoned Friday by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to deal with charges that the live saturation coverage had helped the terrorists. At the same time, however, traditional media were criticized as too slow and inaccurate by legions of 'citizen journalists' using Internet services such as Twitter and photo site Flickr.
"The deputy commissioner of police argued that the terrorists, who were holed up in two major hotels and became involved in floor-by-floor firefights with police, were gaining tactical information from TV. Using powers under Section 19 of the country's Cable Television Networks Act, he ordered a blackout of TV news channels.
"Cable and satellite channels went off air for nearly half an hour before the order was rescinded.'Indian journalists were also critiqued on the Web site of the South Asian Journalists Association.
"Thanks to all the incredibly young, obviously inexperienced reporters who took on the task of talking nonstop for interminable hours, rushing from one vantage point to another. And don't forget being shoved, pushed and jostled by milling police, journalists, crowds and ducking every time there was an explosion. Forget the cadences, [intonation,] grammar, this was raw,  reportage coming to you from the terrifying landscape of grenades, guns and panic," Prem Kishore wrote.
But Saqlain Imam said, "The worst part of this whole drama . . . is the jingoistic Indian media and their anchorpersons. These media celebrities believe that they are the voice of people, while the fact is that they are merely goofs! In order to advance their commercial interests they are using the Indian nationalism as a commodity and trying to sell it as much as possible."
- AlterNet: Mumbai Attacks: Piecing Together the Story
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- Martha Nussbaum, Los Angeles Times: A cloud over India's Muslims
- Brian Stelter and Noam Cohen, New York Times: Citizen Journalists Provided Glimpses of Mumbai Attacks
- Judith Townend, journalism.co.uk: Mumbai bloggers interviewed - video collection
Weta Ray Clark Dies at 44, Was Editor at Raleigh Paper"Weta Ray Clark, whose nearly five years as an editor at The News & Observer were distinguished by her creativity and her efforts to engage readers, died Saturday morning after a lengthy battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma," David Ranii reported on Sunday for the Raleigh, N.C., newspaper.
"Clark, who was 44, joined The N&O as home and garden editor in October 2003 and last year took the additional role of features day editor. In September, she chose to leave the paper by taking a voluntary buyout offered to employees as part of a cost-cutting effort.
"'Weta was talented, creative and passionate about her work,' said John Drescher, executive editor. 'She really took ownership of the Home and Garden section, and she poured her heart into it.'
Clark's previous newspaper jobs included acting weekend editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer; senior copy editor and national/foreign wire editor at the Houston Chronicle and copy editor at New York Newsday. She was the mother of seven and had two grandchildren.
Short Takes
- "The willingness of people to walk over another human being to get at the right price tag raises the question of how they got that way in the first place," David Carr wrote on Sunday in the New York Times, commenting on the death by trampling Friday of a temporary worker, Jdimypai Damour, at a Wal-Mart store in Long Island, N.Y. "But in the search for the usual suspects and parceling of blame, the news media should include themselves. Just a few days ago, the same newspaper writers and television anchors who are now wearily shaking their heads at the collective bankruptcy of our mass consumer culture were cheering all of it on."
- Chuck Leonard, perhaps the most recognizable face on local television in Columbus, Ga., has been suspended by WTVM-TV and won't return to the air until Jan. 7, according to Richard Hyatt, a retired reporter and columnist at the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. Leonard joked on a morning radio show that President-elect Obama is not the first African American to serve in the White House because there have been African American servants in the White House, Hyatt wrote on his blog.
- A week of a wide-ranging activities recalling the history of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the legendary Harlem congressman who would have turned 100 years old on Saturday, concluded that day at New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. An online remembrance by Sadiq Green noted that "Powell fought to have Black journalists admitted to the Senate and House press galleries." Powell's son, Adam Clayton Powell III, told Journal-isms that that "was a major (and eventually successful) fight. It grew at least in part out of his experience as a newspaper editor in NYC in the 40's. In addition, there was the reality that the only people who were reporting his (and Dawson's) activity in Congress were the Afro, the Amsterdam, the Defender and the rest of the black press," references to Rep. William L. Dawson, D-Ill., the Afro-American newspapers, the New York Amsterdam News and the Chicago Defender.
- Oprah Winfrey, music producer Sean Combs and author Terry McMillan will be among those honoring Susan L. Taylor, former editor in chief of Essence magazine, at a ceremony in New York on Tuesday, UPI reported. The event benefits Taylor's National CARES Mentoring Movement, which is dedicated to pairing vulnerable African American children with a caring mentor.
- "Across the country, longtime local TV anchors are a dying breed." Brian Stelter wrote Sunday in the New York Times. "Facing an economic slump and a severe advertising downturn, many stations have cut costs drastically in the last year, and veteran anchors, with their expensive contracts, seem to be shouldering a disproportionate share of the cutbacks. When station managers are forced to make cuts, hefty anchor salaries are a tempting target."
- About 30 Hispanic activists gathered in front of Fresno's ABC-TV station last week to seek changes after remarks about Hispanics by the station's former general manager, Bob Hall, Brad Branan reported for the Fresno Bee. The activists said they want the station to start a weekly public affairs program about Hispanics and initiate scholarships and internships for Hispanics.
- Howard W. French, former New York Times China and West Africa correspondent, is hosting a one-hour Webcast on Tuesday at 1 p.m. Eastern time in his new role as a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Anyone can listen live at this link or by dialing 646-915-9583. One can also listen to a recording later. "He will discuss his career, his courses and much more," an announcement says.
- The Phoenix Media/Communications Group, which publishes alternative weekly The Boston Phoenix and the free glossy Stuff@Night, has bought the Spanish-language newspaper El Planeta, the company said Monday, the Boston Business Journal reported. The Spanish weekly newspaper has a circulation of 50,000.
- Security forces in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia arrested five men in the kidnapping of two European journalists who are being held in the hills east of Bosasso, the local governor said on Sunday, the Shabelle Media Network in Mogadishu reported on Monday. "Gunmen seized the British reporter and Spanish photographer on Wednesday in the latest attack on foreigners working in the lawless Horn of Africa nation."
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Why is that headline news? Serious question. I need the article to then explain why it's important that Obama called on two journalists of color. You've told me nothing about these two journos except that they have more melanin than others in the WH press corps, and yet based on that, I'm supposed to feel victorious? You can't be serious. I agree that we need a diverse press corps. But implying that Obama should call on these reporters because of their color, is a cheap strategy, unworthy of the goal. I'd prefer a serious discussion of how the WH press corps has managed to remain, literally, the white press corps. And I'm pretty sure that the reasons have nothing to do with the POTUS, whomever s/he may be. Unless you want Obama to issue a decree stating that henceforth he'll reserve at least 2 questions for journos of color? (Please do not answer that with a yes) Otherwise, I love the aggregation of news on here. Keep it up. Also, can you redesign the page so that comments flow after the target article and not at the end after all the day's articles? Thx.
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D70 board honors heroic student
He saved a Colorado Springs man from drowning in a pool
The calm demeanor and quick actions of a Pueblo County High School student helped save a Colorado Springs man who nearly drowned in a private swimming pool in August.
Jake Rasco, 16, was honored recently by the Pueblo County District 70 school board for his swift actions on Aug. 17 when he pulled an unconscious Jose Sanchez, 20, from a pool and started life-saving resuscitation efforts.
Jake, a junior, said he was visiting his friend, Vince Gumina, when the pair decided to go swimming in the Colorado Springs mobile home park pool where Vince's mother lived.
As they walked to the indoor pool, Jake said he was met by two young boys who came rushing through the door, asking for help for their cousin who was drowning.
"At first I thought they were joking because they weren't all excited," Jake said in a recent interview from his Vineland home.
As Jake got closer to the pool, he realized the situation was real.
He said he tore off his clothes and jumped from the door of the pool complex into the water, landing right where Sanchez was lying at the bottom of the pool in about 9 feet of water.
Surveillance video showed Sanchez had been underwater about four minutes before the rescue.
"I grabbed hold of him and held his head up as I got up out of the water and paddled to the edge of the pool," Jake said.
Jake called for Vince to help him get Sanchez, who was not breathing, out of the water.
After the teens got Sanchez out of the water, Jake said he did chest compressions on Sanchez.
With no formal CPR training, Jake said he knew what to do from watching TV.
Jake said he took a brief break from doing CPR to call for help.
"All of a sudden he threw up water that went about 2 feet in the air and then he started making gurgling noises and was breathing real weird," he said.
Jake said he continued following instructions from a dispatcher until rescue crews arrived and took over.
It wasn't until Sanchez was taken away in an ambulance that Jake said he realized what had just happened.
It would be a couple of days before Jake said he would learn whether Sanchez had survived.
"Those first few days I felt terrible. I just didn't know whether the guy made it and whether I had done enough (to save him)."
When Jake heard Sanchez, who was in a coma for days, would survive, he was ecstatic.
"I was so glad he was OK," said Jake, who eventually met Sanchez following his release from the hospital.
Jake said Sanchez was grateful for what he did.
"He didn't show a lot of emotion, but he just kept thanking me over and over, so I know he was really thankful."
Sanchez could not be reached for comment.
Jake said he doesn't consider himself a hero. He said he was glad he reacted the way he did that day.
"At the time, I didn't realize what I had done but now that I've had time to think about it, it is kind of amazing."
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Central Australia's unique environment is home to many unique trees, and a lot of them have an interesting story to tell.
If you go to the Olive Pink Botanic Gardens you'll find not one but three different types of trees named after local Des Nelson, the Alice Springs Desert Park is home to a couple of bloodwoods that often have visitors taking a second look, and find out why a couple of trees once prominent in the Alice Springs CBD are no longer there for you to enjoy.
Click on the link down the side to hear these stories and more in detail.
You can hear the series on interesting and unusual local trees each Tuesday after 9am on Mornings with Nadine Maloney.
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Civil engineering firm, Aas-Jakobsen in Oslo, Norway, wanted to provide its staff with the tools to maintain a high level of productivity. The firm standardized on Microsoft® software, and as its staff grew to 90 people, wanted to reduce its software licensing costs. Working with OfficeTeam, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, the firm acquired a Microsoft Open Value Subscription with the single-platform option. Through this subscription Aas-Jakobsen pays a fixed cost per desktop for the operating system, Microsoft Office Professional, and client access licenses for core server products. The firm can add or subtract PCs or upgrade products covered under the subscription without changing the cost per desktop. As result, Aas-Jakobsen reduced desktop administration time by 25 percent, lowered licensing costs by 27 percent, and gained more value and predictable licensing costs.
Aas-Jakobsen, a civil engineering consulting firm based in Oslo, Norway, specializes in structural engineering for building, bridge, road, and railway projects of all sizes. The company was started in 1937 by Andréas Aas-Jakobsen to design shell structures for buildings and industry; it branched out into building bridges during World War II. The company also designs, engineers, and verifies offshore structures for oil and gas exploration, and has contributed to large railway and tunnel projects in Norway. Most of these projects involve multidisciplinary design teams that consist of the most qualified professionals in each field, from within Aas-Jakobsen and from cooperating companies.
The firm uses technology wherever possible to maintain a very high level of productivity and efficiency. Designers and engineers use Autodesk AutoCAD computer-aided design (CAD) tools, Autodesk Revit Architecture software, and Tekla Structures building information modeling software on HP workstations in tandem with desktop productivity and communications applications to create designs, proposals, and specifications for their projects. With one IT manager and 90 employees—80 of whom work with resource-intensive CAD applications—high performance, reliability, and ease of management are important to the firm's success.
To reinforce its in-house IT resources, Aas-Jakobsen engaged Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner OfficeTeam, also based in Oslo. An OfficeTeam technical manager works closely with the Aas-Jakobsen IT Manager to provide technical support and training; help plan, develop, and deploy new solutions; and troubleshoot existing systems.
"Our business is based on billable hours, so keeping the servers up and running is critical, to make sure that everyone is able to do their work," says André Torgersen, IT Manager at Aas-Jakobsen.
The firm has projects across Norway, in other European countries, and in Thailand, Korea, and Australia, so workers need remote access from job sites in those areas. To meet often tight deadlines, the firm's employees in Oslo also frequently work on projects at home in the evening and access network resources through a virtual private network. They were able to use the CAD tools through the network but they often also needed to use Microsoft Office programs, which required another Microsoft Office license for each home user.
As the Aas-Jakobsen firm grew, so did its information stores. All project files and data were stored on the servers, but there was no centralized way to search for information unless they already had a good idea of where it was. The firm wanted to set up an intranet where employees could access important company information and also quickly and easily search for information on a specific project or client.
Aas-Jakobsen refreshed its workstations every three to four years and typically upgraded to the latest version of Microsoft software with each new PC. This effort was not only costly, but meant that the firm typically had a mix of Windows operating systems and versions of Microsoft Office applications. Each PC had a separate set of media and a separate product key, which meant that Torgersen had to track and manage 90 product keys and manually apply updates to 90 workstations one at a time. This situation made more work for the administrator to ensure that all the workers could communicate and share files efficiently. And it made it more difficult to ensure licensing compliance.
"Because we had multiple workstation configurations involving current and older versions of Microsoft software, it created challenges for workers who needed to collaborate on projects and it definitely required a lot more administration," says Torgersen. "Productivity is the most important issue for us because we bid projects based on the time it takes to complete them. If our staff can't do their work efficiently it definitely affects our competitiveness and our revenue streams."
Aas-Jakobsen wanted a more efficient way to acquire Microsoft software, keep it up-to-date, and track its licenses. It also wanted to be better able to predict licensing costs so that it could plan for new technologies as needed.
To take advantage of easier server administration, streamlined configuration, and enhanced performance and security features, Aas-Jakobsen started upgrading its network to Windows Server 2008 Standard in December 2008. "The improved security, support for Windows 7 and Windows Vista®, and easier administration capabilities in Windows Server 2008 help to increase our IT productivity," says Torgersen. By November 2009 most of the firm's servers were running on Windows Server 2008, and the company expects to complete the migration by the second calendar quarter of 2010.
After streamlining its network, Aas-Jakobsen turned its attention to simplifying its desktop management. The company wanted to upgrade its desktops to Microsoft Office Professional 2007 but wanted to accomplish that without having to acquire 90 separate packages, activate 90 separate product keys, and track 90 individual licenses. So in January 2008 the firm enrolled in the Microsoft Open Value Subscription Volume Licensing program.
Aas-Jakobsen chose the single platform option, which includes licenses for Windows desktop operating systems, Microsoft Office suites, and the Core client access license (CAL). The Core CAL includes CALs for Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Standard, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Standard; and a Configuration Management License for System Center Configuration Manager 2007. With the subscription agreement, Aas-Jakobsen received a 15-percent discount on its first-year payment for the full packaged product licenses they already had for Microsoft desktop products.
The Open Value Subscription program gives the firm the flexibility to upgrade all desktops at once or to upgrade gradually. This flexibility is especially useful because some employees are using templates created with Microsoft Office Professional 2003 that need to be updated before they can use them with Office Professional 2007. "With the Open Value Subscription, those who want to upgrade can, but those who are in the middle of a project and have templates created with a previous version of Microsoft Office can stay on that until they have time to update the templates," says Torgersen.
Aas-Jakobsen also takes advantage of several Software Assurance benefits that are included with the Open Value Subscription agreement, including:
To further streamline and simplify management and license tracking, Aas-Jakobsen implemented Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 in 2008. System Center Essentials 2007 provides a single console solution for managing servers, clients, hardware, software, and IT services. It is built on the foundation technologies for System Center Operations Manager 2007, Windows Server Update Services 3.0, Microsoft SQL Server® 2005 database management software, and Microsoft Update, and provides proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, automated management, and asset tracking to help keep the IT environment secure and up to date. System Center Essentials 2007 also provides integrated reporting for components like inventory, and update status to help the firm track software assets, thus simplifying annual reporting for the Open Value Subscription program.
In October 2009, Aas-Jakobsen started implementing an intranet on Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard, from which employees can access company information and news, and search for project files and other data. "We are using Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search to index all the files on the file server so employees can search across the organization for what they need," says Torgersen.
The enterprise search solution combines desktop search with fast intranet searching capabilities to access multiple data sources with a single query. Eventually the company will use this capability to search for people with specialized knowledge and expertise to aid in building multidisciplinary project teams. The company also plans to migrate some Lotus Notes applications, such as team collaboration modules and information sheets to Office SharePoint Server to improve collaboration and gain a better overview of information.
The next big project on Torgersen's list is upgrading to the Windows 7 operating system later in 2010. "We're looking forward to the easier deployment and administration, and enhanced security features in Windows 7 to help further increase productivity and provide a better user experience for our engineers and designers," says Torgersen. "And because we have Software Assurance as part of our Open Value Subscription, we don't have to set aside new budget for Windows 7 because it's already figured into our agreement cost."
By licensing its Microsoft software through the Open Value Subscription program, Aas-Jakobsen saves administration time, lowers licensing costs by 27 percent, gains more value for its licensing expenditures, and is better able to predict its Microsoft software licensing costs.
Perhaps one of the biggest benefits Aas-Jakobsen has gained with the Open Value Subscription is reduced Microsoft license management and product activation time. "Before, we had to install the software on each of 90 computers and activate each one separately," says Torgersen. "Now we can centrally roll out the latest versions of Microsoft software to our current PCs or to new PCs and report the total number installed at the end of the year. That probably cuts desktop administration time by at least 25 percent."
Torgersen also uses System Center Essentials 2007 to get an accurate view of all software and hardware assets, which makes it easier to stay in compliance. "Now I know how many licenses I have and how many more I need, so I can maintain compliance," says Torgersen. "Before, I was never quite sure if I had too many or too few licenses."
Acquiring Microsoft software through the Open Value Subscription reduced the firm's Microsoft licensing cost per desktop by approximately 27 percent. And because the firm spreads the cost over three years, it reduces its annual software costs further. "A big advantage of the Open Value Subscription model is that we are paying for use, so it comes out of the operating expense budget rather than the capital expense budget," says Torgersen. "That gives us a little more room to introduce new technologies that can help us further improve productivity."
With Software Assurance benefits such as new version rights and the Home Use Program, Aas-Jakobsen is gaining much more value for its Microsoft software expenditures. "We're able to add and upgrade to software covered under the subscription, at a time that works best for us, because the cost is already figured into our subscription," says Torgersen. "For instance, we can start testing Windows 7 with a small group of employees and then deploy it to the whole business without having to wait for new budget allocation."
In addition, all employees take advantage of the Home Use Program, which helps them be more productive when they work from home and also gives them the opportunity to improve their software skills when they're away from the office.
Rather than having to pay for new Microsoft software licenses every time it adds a new computer during the year, Aas-Jakobsen pays a fixed cost per desktop each year for the three years of the agreement. If the company needs to add new desktops during the year, it just reports that increase at the end of the year and it is amortized over the remaining period of the agreement. "With the Open Value Subscription, I know how much licenses will cost for Microsoft software, so I can better plan for other technology projects. It's much more efficient," says Torgersen.
Microsoft Volume Licensing Microsoft Volume Licensing offers customized programs that are designed to meet the needs of your business. Tailored for companies of different sizes and purchasing preferences, these Volume Licensing programs provide simple, flexible, and affordable solutions that can help you manage your licenses with ease. Whether you have five or thousands of desktop PCs, Microsoft Volume Licensing has the right program for you. To acquire the latest Microsoft technology at a significant cost savings through Microsoft Volume Licensing, contact your Microsoft Partner or local reseller.
To learn more about Microsoft Volume Licensing, visit: www.microsoft.com/licensing
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Aas-Jakobsen is a civil engineering consulting company with special expertise in structural engineering and multidisciplinary skills. Based in Norway, the firm employs 90 people.
The firm wanted to enhance productivity and reduce software administration by deploying more consistent software tools across the organization.
Aas-Jakobsen licensed all of its Microsoft® desktop software through the Open Value Subscription program to gain the rights to use the software for a three-year term at a significant discount.


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New Gitmo Rules May Violate 6th Amendment and Atty.-Client PrivilegeWritten by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Rear Admiral David Woods, has suggested a fundamental rule change regarding the military's right to access and review written communication exchanged between Gitmo prisoners suspected of being co-conspirators in the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the attorneys representing them.
In a decision a plaintiffs' lawyer called an effort "to put lipstick on a pig," a panel of the in San Francisco upheld Thursday a congressional grant of immunity from law suits to telecommunications companies that had surrendered records of their customers phone calls and electronic communications to warrantless government searches. The three-judge panel unanimously affirmed a lower court ruling holding the congressional action constitutional. The case consolidated 33 lawsuits filed against various telecom companies, including AT&T, Sprint Nextel, Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp, on behalf of the companies' customers.
Ron Paul Calls National Defense Authorization Act "Slip Into Tyranny"Written by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
"A dictator enjoys unrestrained power over the people. The legislative and judicial branches voluntarily cede this power or it's taken by force. Most of the time, it's given up easily, out of fear in time of war and civil disturbances, and with support from the people, although the dictator will also accumulate more power with the use of force." Those prescient words of Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) are taken from his book Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom.
A mother in North Carolina complained to her local school district after her son came home with a New Testament, telling her that he got it for free at his school. According to the Asheville, North Carolina, Citizen-Times newspaper, Ginger Strivelli, whom the paper identified as a "pagan," was upset when she learned that her son's school, North Windy Ridge in Weaverville (left), appeared to be distributing New Testaments. What made her even more upset was that school officials "were not apologetic" about the apparent New Testament handout, the paper reported. "It's totally inappropriate they think they can get away with this," Strivelli told the Citizen-Times. "It's absolutely unbelievable and their attitude is ridiculous."
How well can a shrimp perform on a treadmill? It's a question that has puzzled mankind for ages. Fortunately, some researchers at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, are in the process of answering it — at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of a mere $682,570 (and counting).


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Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much-celebrated literary career that has spanned seven decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays, and numerous superb short-story collections, including "The Martian Chronicles" masterfully rendered stories of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun.
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor of crystal pillars and fossil seas where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn first a trickle, then a torrent rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, the grandmaster of science fiction enthralls, challenges, and delights us, exposing in stark and stunning spacelight our strengths, our weaknesses, our follies, and our poignant humanity, on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.
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In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2011 at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.
Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, "Live forever!" Bradbury later said, "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."