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Q My husband is from China and visits family there every couple of years. I would like to see our relatives, but the idea of a 12- to 14-hour nonstop flight has become daunting as I have aged. Is there any route or airline that is cost-effective and lets me break up the flight to a reasonable degree?
A There are a couple of ways to give yourself a break on that long journey. One is practical and comes from travel agent Tina Erskine, the owner of Tina's Travel Network in Pflugerville, Texas. The other requires the luxury of time and money and comes from my dreams.
Once upon a time, travel agents were happy to book airline tickets for you. Some still are. But many must charge a service fee because airlines don't compensate them. Erskine is in the camp of those who think leisure travelers are better off booking their own tickets. If you don't feel confident booking online, she'll coach you on how to do it.
She likes using an aggregator search engine such as Kayak.com instead of a booking site (that's an online travel agency such as Expedia, Travelocity or Orbitz). Also, there's no service fee if you book with the airline, and if you have trouble on your trip, you go through the airline rather than a third party.
For an itinerary such as this reader's, she suggests using the "multicity" option that Kayak offers and entering a stopover city (Honolulu). "It would ultimately cost her about $200-$500 more, plus hotel stays, but it might be worth it to her," Erskine said.
The itinerary (late-spring dates chosen at random) is LAX-Honolulu (US Airways), overnight, Honolulu to Beijing (Korean Air with a 1½-hour stop in Seoul). The return is the same routing, reversed. Total price: $1,797.89. If our reader flew on those dates, the best fare I found on Kayak was $1,635 nonstop (Air China), $1,110 on China Eastern/China Southern (stop in Shanghai) and $1,001 for two stops (ANA, with stops in San Francisco and Tokyo).
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This past month the sign-up period for a Small Cities Development Grant Program was extended until the end of October in hopes that the Granite Falls EDA, working in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce, could round up an additional 28 home, rental and commercial property renovation applications.
The extension proved worth the effort as the final push allowed the city to exceed the overall number of applications required to be considered for the federally funded, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) administered, program.
When all was said and done, EDA Director Dennis Van Hoof said that the city received applications for 36 owner-occupied homes, 40 rental and 21 commercial property rehabs.
"Thanks goes out to the Upper Minnesota Valley Regional Development Commission (RDC) for extending the city's application deadline, and to [Director] Nicole Zempel and Sarina Otaibi at the Chamber of Commerce, who were integral in aiding the city reach the goal," he said.
Van Hoof said that the city is still a long ways from being accepted into the program, with the city still having to get through two rounds of the application process before it hears the final word.
At present, the RDC is preparing the city's preliminary application to be submitted to the state by November 15. Word on the preliminary application is expected in January. If approved, the city will be considered amongst a final round of applicants.
"It is a highly competitive grant," said Van Hoof. "A lot of communities across the state are competing for these funds. Some of these will be funded and we hope that we will be one."
The program will come at some expense to the city. The preliminary application will cost the EDA $4,000, whether or not it is approved, and then another $2,000 if the community makes it the final round of applicants.
If funded, locals chosen to take part in the program would be responsible for 25 percent of the cost of improvements, while 75 percent of project costs (up to $18,750) would be covered in a deferred/forgivable loan in which 1/7 is forgiven each year over a seven year period. Expenses in excess of this figure would be the responsibility of property owners.
In a collaborative effort Granite Falls and Clarkfield were awarded a small cities grant in 2009 which was completed in November 2011. As a result nine single family and eight renter occupied units renovated in Granite Falls and twelve owner occupied units and one commercial unit were renovated in Clarkfield. With the previous application partnering between communities was strongly encouraged by the State while with this application it is discouraged.
Van Hoof said that the city's application should benefit from what has become a strong community display of program interest, and that Granite Falls has a "reasonable shot" of being awarded the grant.
Page 2 of 2 - Of the grant applicants, only a portion will be chosen to receive the grant. Those who filled out preliminary applications will be considered first. Said Van Hoof, "We would anticipate that we would be able to complete seven commercial projects, 10 single family owner occupied and 10 rental properties."
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A richly imagined historical novel about memory and family secrets from the New York Times bestselling author of Island Beneath the Sea, Inés of My Soul, Daughter of Fortune, Zorro, and House of the Spirits.
In nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her regal and ambitious grandmother Paulina del Valle, Aurora grows up in a privileged environment but is tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she explores the mystery of her past.
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LCME Institutional Self-Study Task Force: LCME Medical Students Subcommittee
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience
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Dr. Krystal is a leading expert in the areas of alcoholism, schizophrenia, and post-traumatic stress disorder. His work links psychopharmacology, neuroimaging, and molecular genetics to study the neurobiology and to develop novel treatments for these disorders.
He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. He also serves in a variety of advisory and review capacities for NIAAA, NIMH, Wellcome Trust, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the Karolinska Institutet.
He previously served on the National Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Advisory Council (NIAAA), the Department of Defense Psychological Health Advisory Committee, the NIMH Board of Scientific Counselors (chair, 2005-2007), American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (president, 2012), and International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (president-elect).
Dr. Krystal also edits the journal, Biological Psychiatry (impact factor: 10.255).
Education & Training
|Yale University (1984)
|University of Chicago, Behavioral Sciences (1980)
|Yale University School of Medicine
Honors & Recognition
Henri Begleiter Award for Research ExcellenceResearch Society on Alcoholism (2015)
Paul Hoch Research AwardAmerican Psychopathological Association (2014)
Exemplary Psychiatrist AwardNational Alliance on Mental Illness (2011)
MemberU.S. National Academy of Medicine (2010)
Jack Mendelson Award for Clinical ResearchNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2010)
Stanley Dean Award for Schizophrenia ResearchAmerican College of Psychiatry (2010)
Anna-Monika Prize in Depression ResearchAnna-Monika Foundation, Munich, Germany (2009)
Kempf Award for Contributions to Schizophrenia Research through Research and MentorshipAmerican Psychiatric Association (2005)
Joel Elkes AwardAmerican College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2001)
Professional Service
President-Elect International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2014 - 2016)
President American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2011 - 2012)
International Activity
Schizophrenia Treatment Taichung, Taiwan (2013 - 2014)
Consulting regarding novel treatments for schizophrenia and ketamine-related psychosis.
Neuroimaging studies of schizophrenia and related disorders Chengdu, China (2012 - 2014)
Neuroimaging studies of brain structure and function associated with psychosis
Rapid Acting Antidepressant Treatment Taipei, Taiwan (2012 - 2014)
Consulting to a study conducted evaluating the antidepressant effects of ketamine, led by Dr. Tung-Ping (Tom) Su.
Ketamine Psychosis Guangzhou, China (2010 - 2014)
Studying the phenomenology and genetics of ketamine psychosis in relation to schizophrenia
Clinical Archives Project Cherite Hospital Berlin, Germany (2006 - 2014)
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But the experiment has gone catastrophically wrong, and whilst the first twelve experimental subjects have indeed become immortal, they have also become something else, something that cannot be contained. Ninety years later, a teenage girl arrives out of the blue at one of the last bastions of civilised humanity in the world, a fortified town in California. Her arrival triggers a dangerous cross-country journey back to the source of the infection, and a series of revelations about the true nature of the threat they face, and how to combat it. The Passage is still months away from publication, but is already a major success story. The publishing rights for the book and its two sequels were sold for $3.5 million, whilst the film rights were purchased by Ridley Scott's company for a cool $1.5 million for the first book by itself. Based on the book, this is understandable: I have rarely read a book that screams "Blockbuster hit!" as loudly as The Passage. Unusually, however, the book combines its mass commercial appeal with an impressive intelligence and a much stronger writing style than might be expected from a big horror novel (the Stephen King cover quote helps as well). The fact that the 'main' publishers rather than their SF&F imprints are publishing the book is also a sign that they are taking this book very seriously. The Passage is an evocative novel that borrows and combines styles from other sources to terrific effect. The first third of the novel, in which the virus is released and civilisation falls, is reminiscent of the brilliant opening half of Stephen King's The Stand (although, unlike The Stand, Cronin doesn't badly fumble the ending). We then move ninety years further on to a world of crumbling freeways, unstable overpasses and weed-choked ruins which is much more in the vein of Cormac McCarthy's The Road (albeit nowhere near as sparse). We then get some thrilling battle scenes between humans and 'virals' set in a shopping mall and the surrounding countryside which is much more in the vein of the Fallout computer games (and possibly Dawn of the Dead), whilst the idea of humanity cowering behind walls from the threat beyond recalls Carrie Ryan's recent novel The Forest of Hands and Teeth and its sequel. Yet the book never feels derivative, more playing with the tropes of the post-apocalyptic horror genre in interesting and original ways. The novel has its own rhythm and cadence, based around rich descriptions of the environment and strong characterisation. The structure of the novel is also successful, with the first third forming an effective prologue to the remaining post-apocalyptic sequence. Initially this move appeared unwise, with Cronin abandoning the well-described situation and memorable characters of the opening of the book to start over from scratch, but the new situation and characters are just as effective, if not moreso (especially Alicia, a devastatingly effective viral hunter, and our main protagonist Peter). This does represent a shift in the pacing, with the first 250 pages rocketing by like a page-turning thriller, whilst the next sequence is more relaxed, but this is necessary to establish the new characters and situation. Then, once the journey into the unknown begins, the pacing and tension ratchet up again. In this latter sequence Cronin gives us a series of episodic adventures, such as the travellers stopping at another settlement built around a ruined prison where nothing is as it seems and a terror-filled journey across Las Vegas, which would make memorable horror novels by themselves, but here are merely smaller parts of a much greater whole. The novel is but the first part of a trilogy, so whilst the book has definitive end-point and a series of compelling revelations about the setting and the world, there is also something of a cliffhanger ending which we will have to wait some time to see resolved (given it took the author over three years to write this first book, I assume the second is still a while off), which is just about the only negative thing about the book I can think of. Otherwise this is a page-turning, compulsive read. The Passage (*****) is a superbly-written, well-paced and convincingly-characterised novel where the situation and characters remain in the imagination long after it is finished. This could be the start of something major indeed. The novel will be published on 8 June 2010 in the USA and on 24 June in the UK.


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The Milford Garden Club is meeting on Tuesday, September 10th, at 1:00 PM, at the First Presbyterian Church on Broad and Ann Streets, Milford, PA. The topic will be Plants for Winter Interest. The program will be presented by master gardeners of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Orange County.
All are invited. New members are always welcome. Please follow them on their website at milfordgardenclub.com to see all they do.
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Watonwan County Public Health is sponsoring a free flu clinic for adults who qualify, on Jan. 15, 2013 at the Watonwan County Human Services building in St. James, from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Qualifications include being over the age of 18 and do not have medical insurance or adults that receive medical assistance.
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FORT WORTH, Texas – Senior Jessica Jammer powered the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's basketball team for the second straight game with 14 points and seven rebounds, but the Islanders' dropped its final non-conference game to TCU, 69-38, Saturday evening at the Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.
The Islanders (1-10) tallied 15 steals and led the paint but the Horned Frogs (7-4) were hot from three-point land, triggering 12 for the game. TCU was paced by Kamy Cole's 23 points, including six three's and Donielle Breaux chipped in 10 points. TCU led the boards 49-28, behind by Latricia Lovings' 17 and Veja Hamilton's 10.
Freshman Janae Blount and junior Brandi Huff each chipped in six points apiece. Junior Taryn Gregory collected four steals and Blount added three in a game that featured all 11 dressed Islanders.
TCU opened the game on a 6-0 run with back-to-back three pointers before the Islanders put together a 5-0 run with a trey from Alisa Roberts and a layup from Jammer. The Horned Frogs followed with its third three and nailed a jumper before Blount cut the deficit to three on a three pointer.
After TCU put together a 15-3 run, Morgan Schwartz got on board with a layup. TCU's Cole triggered another three before Jammer trimmed the deficit to 14 with a jumper. Huff and Jammer capped a 7-0 TCU run with back-to-back buckets to end the half.
The Horned Frogs went into the locker room with a 36-19 halftime lead behind Breaux's 10 points and Lovings 10 boards. Jammer paced the Islanders with eight points and four rebounds. Blount collected three points, two assists and two steals.
The Islanders opened the second half with a 4-0 run with buckets by Roberts and Jammer but TCU answered with back-to-back three-point plays. Jammer nailed a layup before the Horned Frogs went on a 13-0 run. The Islanders answered with a 5-0 run to cut the lead to 56-32 with 6:24 to play but TCU held off the Islanders as time expired.
The Islanders will ring in the 2013 year with Southland Conference action starting on Friday, Jan. 4, at Sam Houston State. Tipoff is slated for 1 p.m.
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Definition of soft-shoe in English:
A kind of tap dance performed in soft-soled shoes: he could dance a jig or a soft-shoe [mass noun]: the choreography combines tap, classical ballet, and soft-shoe [as modifier]: a soft-shoe shuffle
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- The ball fell to Andy van der Meyde at the far post of the German goal, but before he could perform the necessary soft-shoe shuffle that would have enabled him to tee-up a shot, a German defender had closed him down.
- One-on-one with the goalkeeper, he does a little body-swerve, shows him the eyes, then takes the ball wide with a soft-shoe shuffle and rolls it over the line.
- The ancient Royal Mile echoed to nothing but the soft-shoe shuffle of an American tourist.
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1Perform a soft-shoe tap dance: I didn't remember Pearl could soft-shoe
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- Even Toll enjoyed the Danzig number; he amassed his strength and to a shocked audience began to soft-shoe to the music.
1.1 [with adverbial of direction] Move quietly and carefully so as not to draw attention to oneself: I soft-shoed after him figurative he soft-shoed into a safer topic of conversation
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This week marks the real kick-off of the 2013 football season, as the Brookfield Bulldogs will welcome the Mark Twain Tigers to Burlington Field in a Clarence Cannon Conference battle. Due to expected excessive heat, game time has been pushed back to 8 p.m.
The Dogs seem ready to go, at least according to their Head Coach, and are coming in off of last week's Jamboree and a summer full of activity.
"I think the team is gaining confidence in itself," said Head Coach Nile Thudium. "We think we've established an identity offensively and are beginning to eliminate mistakes. They are excited about getting the season started."
Offensively, the Dogs will have to compete with a large line, and a run-first attitude from the Tigers. "Mark Twain is always big and physical," said Coach Thudium. "They will try to impose their will on us with a physical running game. We must respond to that challenge."
Defensively, Mark Twain will look to challenge the Brookfield running attack, and force passes. The Dogs can expect to see a lot of pressure on the football.
"They will be in a Split 6 look," began Coach Thudium. "This involves a 4-4 formation with the outside linebackers rolled up on the line. They will load the box on us and bring a lot of pressure."
This week, and for the near future, Brookfield will be without standout sophomore Reed McBroom, who is suffering from an ankle fracture. McBroom is an All-Conference and All-District player from last season.
This will probably be the final bout between these two teams, as Mark Twain is in their final season in the Clarence Cannon Conference. The Tigers will be looking to a new conference that is a little closer to their home in Center.
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Hello, I am Becky Carlberg, gardening enthusiast from Southeast Oklahoma. I have degrees in Biology from Eastern Oklahoma State College and Oklahoma State University. Teaching, research work, and competing in art shows then followed. I earned my Master�s Degree in Plant Pathology from OSU and continued graduate work on a Doctorate of Botany at the University of Oklahoma.
With my family, we twice had an opportunity to live in Europe. We were in England for five years and then later in Germany for seven years. It was an excellent education for our sons. I returned to gardening, writing and art, became a Master Gardener, as well as an Oklahoma certified Master Naturalist. I am the gardener in charge of the Shawnee Japanese Peace Garden, a member of the Deep Fork Audubon Society, and now call my five acre Backyard Wildlife Habitat and Oklahoma Wildscape outside Shawnee home.
My name is Linda Workman Smith. The first step of my gardening journey began in the hills northwest of Van Buren, Arkansas, where my parents�both from farming families�raised seven children.
This is not to say that I�ve always had a love for gardening although over the years I�ve managed to keep my hands in the dirt. In 2000, my husband�s employment brought us to Shawnee where we settled on two acres west of town. Being unemployed for the first time in many years�and planning to stay that way�I started gardening on a small scale.
I have been a member of the Multi-County Master Gardener Association for several years and thoroughly enjoy being in the organization. I now have many flower beds and I�ve expanded my gardens to include lots of vegetable varieties, several fruit trees, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and grapes. Every year I try to plant something different. I don�t grow a lot of any one thing, but a little bit of lots of things!
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The Rescue. It does involve red cedars, tangled brush, barb wire fence and a large pond. First I told my mom we had rescued a dog. She reminisced of a time years ago, when our family happened upon a poor puppy that had been tied up to a pole and abandoned at Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, N.C. We all gathered around the starving thirsty thing, still alive, and took it to the vet. The vet could not save the animal.
Next I told our son that we had rescued a dog. "Oh no, not another one" he remarked. "Didn't the last one cost you $700"? That was last year, when a local family's house was repossessed, and they left with their possessions, but not their female pit bull. She remained chained at the house. They did come back once, broke into the locked house through a window, and threw her some moldy bread on their way out. Never saw the people again. The dog got loose, was caught, spent several days at the vets as she was in such bad shape, and then was taken to a place for rest and rehabilitation. A very big thank you to SPAR (Saving Pets at Risk). They helped with costs and finding a home for her. Happy and healthy, she was later adopted out to a wonderful family.
This last Saturday I heard a dog barking by the rancher/neighbor's pond across the road. I knew he had no dogs and raised cattle on that land. The sounds were coming from a wooded area by the water. Someone may have been out walking with his or her dog. I heard the dog, same place, that afternoon. Hmmm. I heard the dog Sunday morning. We talked with our rancher/neighbor, and he had heard a dog, but it sounded far away. That afternoon a man drove by, asking if we had seen an escaped beagle. No, but I told him I had heard this dog barking across the road. He checked it out and found nothing. The dog briefly barked later in the afternoon, the rancher/neighbor was again contacted, and he took his 4 wheeler around his pond. No dog.
Monday morning, dog barked, still at the same location. I heard a short bout of barking in the evening, made another neighborly call, but neighbor had not heard the dog that day at all. My husband said he'd walk the area on Tuesday if the barking continued. Tuesday, silence. If there was a dog, he must be gone. Wednesday, one hoarse bark. That animal had to be found. I called my husband at work. Please, before the weather shifts, come and let's look for this dog. He drove back from work and together we walked down the road. My husband entered the wooded pasture while I walked up and down, listening for the direction of any bark. No bark, just whistling and "here pup, come here." I thought if we were quiet, the dog would tell us where it was. After a few moments of silence, the dog barked once. Where was it?
My husband walked back and forth around the trees, and up and down the hill. The dog barked twice. My husband circled a small copse of trees, looked inside, and there, with its rope tied and knotted around trees and brush, was a bound-up young beagle. He had worn down a place about 2 feet in diameter in his attempts to escape. The rope had to be cut, and the dog was led out, scrawny and thin, but strong and alive. We walked him back to our house and called his owner, whose telephone number was on the collar. Good idea.
The beagle drank water and ate some milk bones. My husband sat down and the dog sat in his lap, giving him a lick on his face every so often. You could see the thankfulness in those deep brown beagle eyes. The owner came and could not believe the dog was still alive. The beagle was taken back home and we breathed a deep sigh of relief. What would be the odds of this? I did not want to think of a dog unable to free itself, being caught out and exposed to this approaching unseasonably cold wet weather system…. especially since he had already been without food or water for 5 days.
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Why choose Deakin?
Deakin is a multi-award winning university with an international focus. We are young and innovative, offering excellent facilities and flexible learning.
- Leading the way
- Highest level of student satisfaction
- Careers and experience, not just courses
- Flexible learning to suit you
- Convenient locations and modern facilities
Leading the way
Deakin is forging a new path both locally and globally as a leading provider of innovative learning and a positive university experience. We are proud to be in the top 3 per cent of universities across all three of the major international university ranking systems (the Academic Ranking of World Universities, Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings), assessed from 17 000 universities worldwide.
Our current achievements include:
- ranked in the world's top 50 universities under 50 years of age – QS World University Rankings
- 5 stars out of 5 for student retention – The Good Universities Guide
- 5 stars out of 5 for overall satisfaction – The Good Universities Guide
- named International Education Provider of the Year, and won awards for Excellence in Education (University) and Excellence in International Education (Student Employability and Careers) at the Victorian International Education Awards 2014
- ranked in the top 400 in The Academic Ranking of World Universities
- ranked number 325 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings
- ranked number 360 in the QS World University Rankings
- Deakin's education discipline ranked 23 in the world – QS World University Rankings by Subject 2014
- Deakin's MBA and Bachelor of Commerce are internationally recognised and EPAS accredited by the European Foundation for Management Development
- 5 star rating for our MBA from the Graduate Management Association of Australia and QS accreditation
- five Deakin staff members awarded Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning at the 2013 Office for Learning and Teaching's Australian Awards for University Teaching
- receiving the top ranking of five – defined as well above world standard – in seven fields of research and a ranking of four – defined as above world standard – in 11 fields of research in the most recent Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rankings
- winning seven Linkage awards in the latest Australian Research Council Outcomes for 2014 funding. This represented a success rate of 43.8 per cent against a national average success rate of 35.9 per cent and the funds awarded totalled more than $2.5m
- awarded two Australian Research Council Future Fellowships, a success rate of 33.3 per cent, which was well above the national average of 18 per cent and was the highest success rate of any Victorian university
- awarded the Victoria's Exporter of the Year award in Education and Training at the Governor of Victoria Export Awards.
Highest level of student satisfaction
For five consecutive years, Deakin has achieved the highest level of overall student satisfaction amongst Victorian universities. These great results are based on 2010–2014 Australian Graduate Survey responses to 'Overall Satisfaction' amongst bachelor's degree graduates.
The 2012 Beyond Graduation Survey found that, of our 2009 bachelor's degree graduates who were available for full-time employment:
- 95.2 per cent of those surveyed were employed full-time three years after graduating, (the national average is 92.2 per cent)
- only 1.6 per cent of those surveyed were not working three years after graduating, (the national average is 3.4 per cent).
Deakin has over 50,000 students, with a third choosing to study online.
The Beyond Graduation Survey is conducted by Graduate Careers Australia (GCA).
Careers and experience, not just courses
We make it a priority to maintain close industry relationships so that everything you learn is modern and relevant to your future career. Many of our courses offer professional accreditation and endorsement through a range of industry placements and internship programs.
Deakin also actively encourages students to make the most of study abroad opportunities. We have over 100 partner universities in more than 40 countries around the world.
Flexible learning to suit you
Studying shouldn't mean that you have to put the rest of your life on hold, that's why Deakin has tailored our enrolment modes to give you flexibility. With a number of subjects and courses offered through Deakin's Cloud Campus, you can learn when and wherever you need to.
Convenient locations and modern facilities
Deakin has four great campuses throughout Victoria, Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waterfront, Geelong Waurn Ponds and Warrnambool. Each location provides a unique study experience and gives our students access to the latest tools and technologies such as the Deakin Motion.Lab and the Geelong Technology Precinct. Regional and outer metropolitan residents can also benefit from our Deakin learning centres.
As a Deakin student you can choose to undertaken different units of study within your course at different campuses, depending on your course rules. Contact a Deakin course adviser for more information.


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There's no point in having a world full of "ethical" but unemployed artists. I think there is an ethical compulsion for people with talent to use their talent (artistic talent is power which carries responsibility). And, since making money at doing it is frequently a requirement for that to happen sustainably, then making money at doing your art is also an imperative.
Seen this way, we aren't in a conflict between "ethics" and "making a living", we're in a conflict between two ethical imperatives, and we must balance them appropriately in order to live ethically. Artists need to make a living, and excellence should be rewarded.
Before we knew of an alternative, the copyright sales business was the most ethical path available to most. But we now have technology that enables new business models which in turn enable a new production culture. Or so we believe.
If we're actually wrong (as the existing proprietary culture dissemination industry apparently believes), then we're in the wrong because our efforts at being "ethical" in terms of user freedoms are violating the imperative to create. However, if you're reading Free Software Magazine, there's a pretty good chance you don't believe this, and I know I don't. But this is the reason why those "pragmatic" arguments that so many people like to dis are important. We must prove the pragmatics in order to validate the ethics (or to put it another way, "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions"). Charity is a fine thing, but it's industry that moves mountains.
If this new free culture is actually viable (which is a precursor for being ethical—if you believe as I do that not expressing your talent is "unethical"), then it should be able to prove it by sustaining itself. However, nobody expects an infant to pull its weight. The commercial success of free culture is retarded by competition from the proprietary production culture, which, from our point of view at least, does not "fight fair", but uses its existing success to promote its future success.
The priority, in my opinion, is to establish "safe zones" (or "incubators" or "nurseries") in which artists can produce by free culture rules. There are at least two distinct types of such safe zones: ones designed to protect amateur production and ones designed to protect professional production.
Copyleft is the primary means of protecting amateur production. In the specific case of software, this turns out to have a professional side because software is often used as a means of conducting professional work, so refining it, even if it is not a cash center, is directly related to professional production. But works of purely aesthetic value lack this incentive.
Needless to say, there are important works that can be achieved entirely by amateur production. That's essentially what made Wikipedia, for example.
However, for the "excellent few", the proprietary system of monetary reward, based on restrictive copyrights is still the best system.
And that means that we now have a system that preferentially locks away only the best works of our time. Surely that's a bad deal from a public good perspective?
In order to construct a system more in tune with professional needs, we need a halfway zone. Incubators that encourage the production of free cultural artifacts. There are many ways to construct such incubators.
One important idea is "collective patronage". There are several ways you could do this. Some have suggested doing it at the level of national government programs. But, of course, it's also possible to do it through certain kinds of business models.
Imagine, for example, a subscription "digital art channel" which permitted subscribers to evaluate works submitted, using, for example, a "favorites" or "Top 100" scheme. The same algorithm used for instant run-off voting could be used to convert this information to a global popularity index, which could in turn have a power-law distribution applied to it (maybe Pareto if you want to closely mimic the behavior of conventional markets). The resulting evaluation would then be used to divide a collective percentage of subscription sales among the contributing artists.
It's possible to imagine other formulas based on "reads" or other automatically-collected criteria (such methods might be most appropriate for dividing advertising-based income). In fact, I would probably design a rather more complicated algorithm, and it might be something that would typically be considered a trade secret, much as the methods used by banks to evaluate loans.
Such a system would have a number of advantages in that it would reward artists according to an "objective" (or more accurately a "collective subjective") criterion, it would reward them on a smooth slope rather than on a plateau, so it would reward excellence much as a conventional art market does, and it would also be attractive to indirect funding, and it could generate wealth without restrictive licensing.
To be realistic, temporary semi-restrictive licensing (e.g. the Creative Commons' "non-commercial" module) might be used to encourage subscription. This is exactly the sort of business model I see enabled by a sunset type of license.
Such a system would create a safe professional production zone mimicking the original US concept of copyright: a limited-time, limited-scope monopoly that sustains the artist in exchange for timely commission to the public domain (or more accurately, the free-licensed domain). In fact, this original US copyright system can be viewed as a collective patronage arrangement managed by the US federal government (which might be a good way to look at it: it makes it very clear why the current regime is so bad—it's currently a very sub-optimal collective patronage mechanism because it serves the patrons so poorly, e.g. not giving them any free-licensed works until after they are dead!).
In my opinion, our task should be focused more on how to make our own system work and sustain itself rather than trying immediately to displace the existing system. Unlike free software, free culture has yet to acquire adequate safe zones to nurture a strong professional artistic production environment. Until it does, there won't be much point in complaining about the problems with the existing proprietary professional production environment. The onus is on us to find viable systems and make them work. Safe zones, however they are implemented, are a way to allow such a system to coexist—perhaps for a long time—with the existing proprietary culture.
Copyright © 2006 Terry Hancock / Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CreativeCommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)
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Great post--thanks, Terry. I think free culture can and will work also, but it is difficult to see how the transition will happen. There is lots of great free stuff out there now by people of varying talent levels, but how to adequately reward it, especially for the very best whose work we really want to enjoy?
I'm not as worried about incentive as some of the IP maximalists seem to be, but it is a factor. Talented, creative people will create in any environment, I think, but if someone can make their living from their art, they will produce more.
There needs to be a way to convert (earned!) reputation to reward for new works, so that if someone gained a large following and widespread recognition for their art, they could make their money up front. There are sites like http://www.fundable.org that can act as mediators for collecting the money and paying the artist if the work is produced. (This would be available to everyone, not just the well-known, of course, but it seems less likely that you'd be able to raise a large sum up front as a newbie.)
There's the old question of micropayments, which I think will be a challenge to use effectively. There are a lot of good arguments about why they are ineffective and impractical, but wouldn't it be nice if you had a web site with 50,000 visitors per day and you could collect a penny from each of them? (Ah, daydreams...)
With micropayments there is the problem of people (myself included) preferring a flat rate. What if we had some kind of pooling mechanism. Let's say there are about 30 web sites that I read regularly and think they are substantial enough to support financially. I allocate $100 per year towards the sites as a group, and then we have a way to divide the money among the web sites based on the amount of time (or some other factor) that I spend at each. So if most of my time and attention is directed to 3 sites, they get a larger percentage of the money. If another site gains more of my interest, they get a larger cut, and so on.
Obviously there'd be the issue of gaming the system or outright fraud with these kinds of systems, but it could be worked on. I also see a lot of privacy issues with the possible accounting methods, but there are always privacy concerns and we can work on ways of making it work satisfactorily.
How would subscription methods work? If I'm in a pool of web sites with a common payment method, is our work only available to subscribers? That doesn't seem very free. Available to subscribers only for a period of time, say a week or month, and then to everyone? Again I'm not thrilled by that. I don't know if we can rely on enough people to voluntarily pay for free culture up front, but I really don't want to rely on any system that gives control to producers after the work has been published.
(P.S. I felt conspicuous when you highlighted pragmatic arguments and those who oppose them. Not that you were talking about me, but I have written about the importance of ideology over pragmatism, so I felt at least the edge of the spotlight. However, I agree that practical considerations are important. As you pointed out, free software has been shown to work, but free culture mechanisms haven't been proven yet, and it is up to us to do so. And from my post last week, I think we must do so.)
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"How would subscription methods work? If I'm in a pool of web sites with a common payment method, is our work only available to subscribers? That doesn't seem very free. Available to subscribers only for a period of time, say a week or month, and then to everyone? Again I'm not thrilled by that. I don't know if we can rely on enough people to voluntarily pay for free culture up front, but I really don't want to rely on any system that gives control to producers after the work has been published."
Note that with a "sunset" license, the producer is not "in control" of the licensing terms after publication: the work becomes free at a specified date and they can't change their mind (because they've already agreed to the license -- it's just post-dated). It would simply "flow" from the proprietary to the free commons on a pre-defined time table.
The problem with "up front" payment methods is that they don't provide any kind of assurance of quality or reward for excellence. If a work is better than expected, the artist receives no extra benefit for that; if it is poorer, then the patron has overpaid. Thus there is no market force to select and promote artistic excellence.
The only real exception to that is in the case of series works (and producer loyalty which is much the same thing). Quality works get greater reputation, and artists (or series) which are consistently good might see a gradual increase in funding.
However, a competitive free market is probably better.
I don't feel that a sunset licensing scheme is better than a free license from the patrons' point of view: clearly you're better off with something like By-SA, but that's getting back to amateur production.
Currently, there is one very popular license which attempts to protect professional production while being somewhat "free", and that is the Creative Commons' By-NC or By-NC-SA. The business model of companies like Magnatune is based on this license.
However, the By-NC is a very non-free license in the sense that most free software advocates mean. It chokes off amateur production, because it kills the primary means of sustaining it (almost everybody is at some level a "commercial" user. Having Google ads on your page is enough to disqualify you from distributing NC works!).
Because of this, the sharealike (SA) module in By-NC-SA is basically a joke. There's really no point. If you're going to use NC, you might as well use the "ND" (non-derivative) license, because you won't get significant collaboration. NC works simply do not "feed the commons".
So I see the need for a halfway license that works in a different way, so that it does feed the commons. And the only way to do that that I can see is to work on the "limited times" rather than the "fair use" aspect of the copyright license. So, instead of limiting use to non-commercial users, give yourself a little time to make money off of people who want to see your work early, then release it under a real free license. That way, the work follows a guaranteed path into the commons, which makes it attractive to people who are interested in commons-based values (i.e. they might want to derive something from it).
In fact, of course, the two would work nicely together: the NC license that Magnatune uses is fine for simply downloading and listening to music. It's only when I'm looking for tracks to included in a free software package that I get seriously disappointed (How much for a commercial license?!).
So I see a system of licenses that release a work immediately under a By-NC-ND license, with an extra By-SA license (or By) that applies after a specified period from publication: I was thinking of standard intervals of 1 month, 3 months (1 quarter), 1 year, 3 years , and 7 years. Since the actual license grant is made immediately upon publication, the producer is not in control (they can't revoke the license any more than they can with the immediate license), but the terms don't actually apply until a specified date.
Note that you don't actually need to write new licenses to implement this. What you use is a "license grant statements" or a "superlicense" that refers to the two licenses. Of course, for convenience, one could make these superlicenses available as boilerplate.
In my opinion, works licensed this way would be much "freer" than works licensed under a "non-commercial" regime, and would serve many of the same purposes.
Note also that, since the primary value of the commons is to derive new works from old, it's mostly "old" works that the licensing matters for: you may want to listen to "today's tunes", but it's really the "goldie oldies" that you're going to want to remix.
Our copyright regime is supposed to do this already, but it's broken, because 80+ years is just way too old to be relevant, even for remixing (there are exceptions, of course, but not many). These long delays, plus the fact that the delay keeps getting longer has led to an incredible stagnation of the public domain, which starves new derivatives.
I was reflecting on this recently when I was reading Heinlein's juvenile SF works from the 1950s: particularly The Rolling Stones. This work is well written, and a lot of fun to read, but it's getting extremely dated. I could imagine a project to produce an annotated version with updated science and technology notes. It'd be particularly interesting to note where Heinlein was accurate (even prophetic) in his predictions and also where he failed utterly (in brief, he was pretty sharp on the evolution of rocket technology, but woefully inaccurate in materials science and computer science).
When these books were written, Heinlein's motivation was a copyright that would last for 28 years plus an optional 28 year extension. Even if he extended it, therefore, it would have expired in 2006, so I would be able to do that project. However, in 1978 the copyright was changed retroactively to "life + 50", which put the expiration in 2038. Now, after two or more extensions, I believe the expiration is in about 2068. By then, my project would become sort of pointless (not least because I'll most likely be dead).
Looking at this sort of problem, it seems to me that licenses that effectively reduce the term of restrictive copyright licensing would have a definite niche.
This idea, of course, is similar to Creative Commons' Founder's Copyright, but the Founder's Copyright is badly implemented. A delayed free license is a much simpler solution.
Mind you, there are other ways to encourage subscription. If you funded such a program with tax money, as some have suggested, then you are effectively forcing everyone to subscribe (I'm not too happy with that idea myself), or you can simply distribute free-licensed works, but only to subscribers, relying on the delay caused by natural network delays to protect your subscription base (i.e. it's just more convenient to subscribe than to try to hunt the web picking up freebies).
So, there are models without the sunset license approach, too.
And, no Scott, you're not the main person I was thinking of when talking about "dissing pragmatic arguments". There are plenty of other people who do that. I understand where they're coming from, but I think you have to realize that pragmatics matter, even from an ethical perspective: what's right and what's wrong are highly dependent on predictable outcomes.
From a first-principles "ethical" approach I might argue that I should be able to drive my car anywhere I want (any restriction violates my freedom!), but in reality the picture is very different if "anywhere I want" happens to be through your car (or house, or lawn...). Likewise, throwing waste products into the environment might seem "unethical", but it really depends on what they are and what harm they might do. Predicting outcomes requires "pragmatic" analysis.
This is made more difficult by the fact that people who value "economic success of the society" don't always realize that that's what their worldview implies. So they often have difficulty communicating in "ethical" terms. Likewise, "ethicalists" actually make many pragmatic assumptions (e.g. that you need source code to be able to modify software) which they are often unconscious of making.
I view these conflicts primarily as semantic: every "pragmatic" argument can be expressed in terms of "ethics" and vice-versa. People who prefer pragmatism can always demonstrate that our "ethics" arise from a need to meet certain pragmatic necessities of society (and hence individual dependent on that society), while all "pragmatic" arguments can be reduced to meeting necessary outcomes to attain "ethical" imperatives. This is why I reject the whole issue as a false dichotomy.
Heinlein and Comp Sci
Lots of interesting thoughts and plenty of potential followups, but just re your comment about Heinlein's take on computer science, it reminds me of my earliest SF experience with his work. My dad was (and is) a big SF reader and always had books laying around. One day when I was about 12 (the golden age of science fiction!), I picked up Red Planet and realized I could follow it enough to enjoy it. I wondered what a "slide rule" was supposed to be, and quickly determined from context that it must be some futuristic gizmo. This would have been 1982. :-)
1982 is about when I first learned to use a real slide rule!
We were required to learn it in high school. The slide rule is actually a really cool device, I don't regret learning it at all. It makes it extremely clear why logarithms needed to be invented.
Red Planet was actually the first novel I ever read. I think I was about 8 at the time. I still have my original paperback copy, though it's awfully worn by now.
Still, it is pretty funny reading about people figuring trajectories with slide rules and pencils when a computer capable of solving the entire navigation problem can fit in your hand and run on less energy than the light it takes for you to read the output.
More subtlely, I was intrigued by the idea of "trim weights" i n Rolling Stones to get a spacecraft to exactly match the mass used in the trajectory calculations. Today, we would regard this as wasteful: it'd be more efficient to recalculate based on the exact weight (Heinlein was assuming that this would require the job to be sent off to a central batch-processing computer on the ground, instead of something you could trivially recompute with an onboard computer).
Makes you wonder what we are discounting, doesn't it?


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TUSCALOOSA | There weren't many statistical categories in which Alabama surpassed Kentucky on Tuesday night.
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But there is no line on the statistics sheet that measures intestinal fortitude.
Alabama overcame an 11-point first-half deficit by making the game a battle of wills and gradually overcame visiting Kentucky 59-55, giving the Crimson Tide its fourth straight win in Southeastern Conference play.
Alabama opened the second half on an 11-1 run to take the lead, went ahead for good on Andrew Steele's 3-point play with 9:42 to go, withstanding challenge after challenge from UK (12-6, 3-2).
The Wildcats' best chance to regain the lead came with 1:20 remaining.
Kyle Wiltjer, who led UK with 14 points, was fouled and went to the line with the 'Cats trailing 51-50. But he missed the front end of a one-and-one, and Nick Jacobs, Alabama's second-half hero, responded with a crucial tip-in basket at the other end, putting UA up 53-50 with 50 seconds to go. After a Wildcat miss, Alabama then made four of six free throws to seal the victory.
"I love that kind of game," UK coach John Calipari said. "It was a gut game. Alabama just gutted it out."
"I thought in the first half, the emotion got to us," Alabama coach Anthony Grant said. "In the second half, we defended much better."
Jacobs led Alabama with 14 points, including 10 in the second half. Defensively, Moussa Gueye had a career-high five blocked shots.
"Both Moussa and Nick were huge," Grant said. You look at the numbers and they are good, but the awareness they had, the things that don't show up in the stats were really big for us."
"We just didn't close out," Wiltjer said. "They made their run and we didn't make stops, didn't make shots."
Kentucky played well in the first half, including a 15-6 run late in the half to take a 31-20 lead.
But Alabama increased its defensive intensity with 3:20 left in the half to shut UK down and keep the game from getting out of hand, then took the fight to UK in the second half.
"They just were aggressive and we were tentative," Calipari said. "The thing that killed us was three offensive rebounds late in the game. Our guards felt like it wasn't their job to go get it and it got rough in there.
"We had our chances. You have got to give Alabama credit. They played with confidence. They played to win and we played not to lose, which young players will do on the road."
Alabama will be back in SEC action on Saturday, playing at Tennessee.
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Sparrow Come Back Home
Sparrow Come Back Home is a project by British-born collaborators Mark Harris and Carmel Buckley whose ceramic installation archives the legacy of Trinidadian singer/songwriter, The Mighty Sparrow. Born Slinger Francisco in 1935, The Mighty Sparrow's oeuvre is visually represented as 270 digital ceramic decals on tiles depicting Francisco's multitudinous album covers. Growing up in England, Harris first heard calypso music at home while listening to his Trinidadian mother's record collection. This exhibition evolved as a result of Harris' early exposure to Caribbean music. The viewer is invited to consider the function of this silent sound monument as a conceptual work of art that metaphorically echoes the unheard voices of many historic figures like Franciso. Full of dynamic, colorful, and evocative imagery, the work also functions as a visually-striking display that reflects album cover design from the 1950s to the present.
This exhibition provides a forum for discussing the nature of Mighty Sparrow's achievements. In comparison with African and South American examples of celebratory popular music, acclaim for Sparrow's remarkable achievement has not spread far beyond West Indian communities. Despite its hi-octane beat, its lyrical humor, its carnivalesque bawdiness, and frequent political commentary, the music has not enjoyed the kind of wide audience typically drawn to world music.
The project applies research in sound ecology towards a better understanding of issues facing the conservation of Caribbean popular music and it extends recent studies in silence to experiment with the impact of a large repository of silent artifacts on enhancing an understanding of marginalized music.
In this way the project engages with what is coming to be known as "non-cochlear sound" (the non-acoustic indexing of audible phenomena through image or recording) in order to reflect on the unprecedented accessibility and ubiquity of music through streaming audio. Sparrow Come Back Home develops its model for a displayed archive in the context of current exhibition practice and theory by questioning the alternatives facing galleries for the presentation of material culture.
This ceramic work explores the potential for an index and archive to stand as an alternative kind of monument.


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SANTA CLARA -- Former baseball manager Tony La Russa is a big fan of the 49ers' Jim Harbaugh, and not just because Harbaugh showed up for an Animal Rescue Foundation benefit last weekend in Walnut Creek.
"He's a players' coach, but only for the players that do it right," La Russa said in a phone interview Monday. "He'll set someone straight if need be. I really admire him."
That goes for Harbaugh's tight-lipped responses during media interviews.
"I love the way he does press conferences," La Russa added. "He's not there for the fans to say, 'Oh what a great personality.' He's there for his players to say, 'I trust that guy and he's there for us.' "
La Russa retired 14 months ago after winning his third World Series title in 33 seasons as a big-league manager. Those titles came in 1989 with the Oakland A's, and in 2006 and 20011 with the St. Louis Cardinals.
La Russa's friendship with Harbaugh goes back many years, and La Russa visited the 49ers' Dec. 28 practice.
La Russa raved about Harbaugh's ability to instill a team-first approach, adding: "He's got a perfect blend of getting his message across, that they've got to take a test with the best of their abilities, but they've got to prepare for it."
La Russa is also close with Harbaugh's counterpart this Saturday, Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy. That circle of friends has another layer: Harbaugh's brother-in-law, Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean, is the one who introduced McCarthy to La Russa after a ballgame.
Instead of attending Saturday night's playoff game between Harbaugh's 49ers and McCarthy's Packers, La Russa will be at the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation dinner in Los Angeles.
La Russa's 49ers-Packers prediction: "My favorite competition is the kind where the players decide the outcome, because there's an outstanding coach and staff on each side that will get their teams ready to play. McCarthy does a great job and so does Jim. This game won't be decided because one coach or staff doesn't do a great job."
La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation did a phenomenal job last weekend in hosting its 22nd annual Stars to the Rescue Gala.
After 49ers practice Friday, Harbaugh drove up to attend ARF's comedy night that featured Dana Carvey, Kevin Pollak, Rob Schneider, Mark Pitta and John Wing. Saturday night's variety-act gala closed with an ever-hilarious Robin Williams, followed by epic-entertainer Tony Orlando. The gala's silent auction included a 49ers helmet that Harbaugh autographed, as well as jerseys from Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis.


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Today: After 10 consecutive days of gains, the Dow Jones finally dips. But it is just a pause before another record-breaking week? Also, Apple (AAPL) shares gain as Samsung's new Galaxy S4 smartphone may not be as formidible a foe as some thought.
Market dips, but it's likely just a speed bump
The Dow's 10-day winning streak, its longest in more than 17 years, came to an end Friday, as all three major stock indexes fell. Still, the losses were incremental, and further high-water marks seem in sight as the U.S. economy continues to show signs of recovery.
Both the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 dipped about 0.2 percent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 0.3 percent. The Dow slipped 25 points from its record high, and the S&P 500 is still just 5 points from its all-time high of 1,565.15, set in October 2007.
A bigger-than-expected rise in inflation and worries that the Fed would ease back on monetary stimulus gave investors pause, according to experts. "(Inflation is) real and it's a drag, and I think people are growing concerned that it can get out of control quickly," hedge fund manager Peter Tchir told the Associated Press.
A University of Michigan report that found consumer confidence unexpectedly fell in March didn't help matters either. The widely-watched consumer-sentiment index fell 5.8 points to its lowest point since the end of 2011. That may reflect the feeling that while the numbers say the economy is improving, the gains are being felt more by corporate executives than by American workers.
Still, few expect those concerns to be more than a speed bump on Wall Street. "I don't think that one or two days' movement is really going to change the underlying momentum of this market, which I still think is pretty strong at this point," asset allocation manager Cam Albright told Reuters.
"This is a market that is digesting, it's a market that is in watchful wait mode, and waiting either to continue this pullback or getting ready for the next leg," Prudential market strategist Quincy Krosby told Bloomberg News. "It's healthy to have these gaps between run-ups."
Apple gains as Samsung threat eases
While most other big tech stocks fell Friday, Apple surged ahead, gaining 2.6 percent, or $11.16, to close at $443.66, its highest point this month.
The bump came as investors apparently breathed a sigh of relief after Samsung's release Thursday afternoon of its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4. While the new phone will likely prove to be a worthy challenger to Apple's iPhone 5 and the upcoming 5S, its release was not seen as a game-changer. Though featuring a bigger screen, faster processor and software to track eye movement, the Galaxy S4 didn't blow away experts.
"There was no 'Wow' factor, it only proved to the world that it's getting harder to make a difference on the hardware side," Dongbu Securities analyst Kwon Sung Ryul told Bloomberg News. "But the number of carriers that will offer Galaxy S4 has increased from that of S3, so the overall sales are expected to improve."
Jeffries analyst Peter Misek concurred. "We believe the S4 will certainly sell well and it is incrementally negative for Apple," Misek said, according to CNet. "However, the device is not revolutionary, in our view."
Piper Jaffray analyst and Apple bull Gene Munster was even more underwhelmed, saying the Galaxy S4 "an incremental update akin to iPhone S models," according to CNet, with new features that are "minor compared with what Siri was to the iPhone 4S or even Google (GOOG) Now to Android." Munster said he remained confident Apple will hit its iPhone sales goals this year, and said that the Galaxy S4 will likely have a bigger impact on sales of competing Android phones than it would on iPhone sales.
Silicon Valley tech stocks
Up: Apple, Oracle (ORCL), Cisco (CSCO), HP
Down: Google, Intel (INTC), eBay (EBAY), Yahoo (YHOO), Netflix (NFLX), Facebook, Zynga, LinkedIn, Juniper
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Down 9.86 , or 0.30 percent, to 3,249.07.
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Down 25.03 or 0.17 percent, to 14,514.11.
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Down 2.53, or 0.16 percent, to 1,560.70.
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I'd love to see a sticky in the Feature Suggestions sub-forum with the ideas the developers like and hope to use.
It doesn't have to be anything to detailed. Just a very brief acknowledgement of whatever ideas that the devs like.
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