text: That Week On TV: Broadchurch, ITV; Bluestone 42, BBC3 Can a British crime drama match up to the best of Scandinavia? Maybe but not quite yet, says Jack Seale in his weekly TV review Comments Written By Jack Seale 8:00 AM, 10 March 2013 When The Killing appeared from nowhere in January 2011, it threw icy water in the face of every British TV writer churning out murder dramas. The genre was reset: no, you do it like this. Give yourself more time, give more attention to the effect of the crime on the victim's family, make that subplot about local politics earn its place, give your obsessive maverick cop more interesting gifts and flaws. Go on. Off you go. Leave time for The Killing to sink in and, then, for a new show to be thought up, green-lit and made, and two years later we have Broadchurch (Mondays ITV; ITV Player), a British original that freely admits the influence and has a similar story. In a peaceful coastal town, an 11-year-old is found dead on the beach. Incidentally, much was said about BBC1's Mayday - a drama by the same production company which was stripped across this week and was also about a youth slain in a small community - clashing with Broadchurch. Indeed, it mercilessly ripped off The Killing's famous shot of the young female victim running, terrified, through woodland. Mayday turned out to be a big red herring, however – it was an enjoyably potty boiler set in a crazy magic village where everyone had a horrific secret, to the point where the guy who'd actually done the murder struggled to stand out. Broadchurch was the more serious offering. Episode one made clear the obstacles it has to overcome if it's to wash away British crime-drama cliché. The Killing's extra weapon was that it was complete strangers all talking in foreign, so elements that weren't really new at all felt fresh anyway. Broadchurch groaned with familiar actors putting on fruity, changeable accents that instantly told you the action was set in either Devon or Norfolk. The slight whiff of Doc Martin got stronger when we met Andrew Buchan's popular local plumber: unaware that his son had been killed, he walked down the high street, stopping every six feet to be wished a good morning by a different colourful local. The way the scene was directed made it a surprise when he didn't do a song. Broadchurch's preamble had nothing to match that unforgettable moment when Sarah Lund realises the woman she is talking to is the mother of the victim. Jodie Whittaker played the mother here, who was at school sports day before she realised – as other kids who hadn't been murdered did sack races in ironic slo-mo – that her boy had gone missing overnight. Afterwards, the news from another driver that the jam they were in had been caused by the police closing the beach caused her to abandon her car and run, already knowing what was on the sand. Once she saw her son's shoes sticking out of a police tarpaulin and the story began, Broadchurch's heavyweight cast showed its strength. Whittaker's highly physical interpretation of a woman being told for sure that she'd lost her child had raw power, offset by Buchan's quieter shock and useless bravado. Everyone, though, was in the wake of Olivia Colman, who is the best actress in Britain now. As the policewoman investigating the case who is also a friend of the family, Colman was fraught with horror, resolve and grief. Her crumpling face as her character saw the body immediately made us feel the tragedy of the story, and the urgency to solve the case, in a way that most murder mysteries never do. The weak link so far is an unexpected one. Nobody doubts David Tennant can act, but he might have been miscast here as DI Alec Hardy, the new sheriff in town who was parachuted in over the Colman character's head despite a questionable record elsewhere ("I was completely exonerated!"). He hasn't yet justified this in terms of police work, or any characteristics outside the troubled-detective norm. Tennant's natural strengths – intense energy, frail vulnerability or both at once – aren't there and haven't been replaced. At the moment he just looks hung over. Broadchurch is set to go deeper and wider as the murder ripples out. One theme is media scrutiny of the investigation and the victim's family, but this was hilariously undermined in the scenes leading to the arrival of Vicky McClure as a gorgeous/evil national tabloid reporter: Chris Chibnall's script misunderstood the basics of Twitter in two different ways within a minute, then gave us McClure's editor telling her an unsolved child murder wasn't a big story and she should let an agency cover it. Accurately portraying journalism or tech still seems to be an obstacle no British drama can hurdle. As the first episode ended, all those quirky locals looked shifty as they listened to a TV appeal by DI Hardy. With luck, Broadchurch won't go down the shame-behind-closed-doors route Mayday parodied to death. It needs to stick to the Danish template of hard sleuthing and even harder emotion. Even the great Olivia Colman will require assistance. Bluestone 42 Is now, or ever, the right time for a sitcom set among soldiers serving in Afghanistan? Bluestone 42 (Tuesdays BBC3; iPlayer) tested the question with its tales of a British army bomb-disposal unit. Bluestone 42 is written by Richard Hurst and James Cary, who have both worked on Miranda and are experienced comedy technicians. They kept scenes to a minimum length, filled any gaps with gags, and efficiently established their characters and the central plotline of smooth captain Nick (Oliver Chris) chasing cute female padre Mary (Kelly Adams), who finds him attractive despite herself but constantly rebuffs him. It was a bit too efficient. This was a fairly conservative workplace sitcom, hung on a talking point that was likely to get commissioning editors and journalists interested. There's no cause to question Hurst and Cary's research, or their interest in the subject matter. What is uncertain is whether the comedy and the subject matter meshed together in the right way. The soldiers were comedy types: a fussy man, a tomboy, an exceptionally vulgar Scot, an omniscient boss (Tony Gardner) who pops up at inconvenient times. They schemed and joked with each other as the captain and the padre set a will-they-won't-they arc going. With Bluestone 42 unwilling to offer comment on the war itself, the driver for episode one's plot could have been a lost lever-arch file or someone scratching the MD's car. In fact it was an American colonel (Mike McShane) being fatally shot in the head, the flip treatment of which might well have troubled you if you view Western soldiers in Afghanistan as making a grim but glorious sacrifice. But if you see them as oppressive occupiers, Bluestone 42 had that covered too. The Yank's death was softened in advance by his annoying habit of crowing endlessly about his tour of duty in Fallujah. Fallujah. Fallujah. The word became a punchline. It's just one of those funny place names, isn't it? Like Penge, or Kidderminster. At least it might be for viewers who are a bit hazy on what happened to the locals there in 2004. Anyway, Nick the raffish captain sorted out all the palaver about the team being fired on by launching an RPG into the Afghans' hut, killing them all and letting us get back to the comedy. Of course a sitcom in a warzone isn't off-limits. But Bluestone 42 shows that it's... a minefield. Follow @jackseale Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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If you do not have hands, you will not hold a gun, a knife, a club, or use your hands themselves to kill someone.Modus.Ponens wrote:marc108 wrote:you are painting unlikely extremes and taking what i said out of context. again this boils down to will you protect yourself if you need to, with or without a gun? that's the real issue here.
my understanding of how the Buddha presented Kamma does not include that having the ability to protect oneself will create the conditions that one would be more likely to need to protect oneself.
That's not the real issue. The real issue is: will you kill someone? A simple (real) story: a man went to a gas station and got into a fight with a second man. the second man, having a gun in his trunk, went for it and killed the other man. He imediatly repented and kneeled down crying.
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I've noticed a disturbing trend in one of the markets I study. Thirty percent of marketers say their top social media goal is creating brand impact, but only 10% tell us they measure brand impact — a gap of 20 percentage points. But then while just 4% say sentiment or engagement are their top goals, a whopping 26% measure these numbers —leaving us with an almost identical gap of 22 percentage points, but in the other direction. It's clear what's happening here: Marketers are using sentiment and engagement numbers as a proxy for brand impact surveys.
Deep down I love the idea of measurement proxies. A properly constructed and proven proxy could be a cheap, quick, and effective stand-in for direct measurement of things that are quite frankly hard to measure — like brand impact.
But there's a big problem here: I've been looking pretty hard for good measurement proxies for a while now, and I've found very few that could be described as "properly constructed and proven." And I'm pretty sure none of the marketers in our survey have proven their proxies — because if they'd tried, they'd have almost certainly failed.
In fact, Converseon, which we rated as a Leader in the listening platform space, tried to compare its standard sentiment data for one of its clients to that client's brand surveys and found what it called a "virtually nonexistent correlation." (That's a correlation coefficient of -.002 for you stats geeks.) So if you're busy using sentiment as stand-in for actual brand metrics, you may be interested to learn that one of the better vendors in the industry says there's probably no connection at all between the two sets of numbers. And that kind of "proxy" is pretty hard to love.
The good news is, there's hope that proxies can get better. For instance, by applying specially-designed weights and filters to its standard sentiment data, Converseon was able to improve the correlation between sentiment and brand surveys for that one client to .629 — still far from perfect, but a big step in the right direction. With any luck, it or another vendor will get that up to a more palatable .8 or better.
But until that happens, and until you cough up a good-sized amount of money to use one of these customized sets of weights and filters, your proxies probably aren't telling you what you think they are. And that's a big problem.
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Comment from Thomas Kennon (not verified) on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 08:08
I think your basic direction is insightful, but would love to suggest that you advise your readers and subscribers to treat their social media marketing programs with the same rigor they treat any of their other more traditional online initiatives when it comes to tracking, measuring and optimizing:
tag everything.
It really is that simple. We've been doing this with increasing science and precision for the past several years and you can too. Whenever your social channels managers drop a comment or a link into the social stream - encode it with the appropriate tags to track it. Simply using a free tool like Bitly will support a brand's actual tracking and measuring the effect of their social initiatives in this way.
Whenever you post a video for sharing, favoriting - encode it with a tracking code.
Whenever you tweet, encode the shortened URL embedded in the tweet.
Whenever you create a piece of social content, ensure it's got +1 embedded.
Whenever you post a pic or a note to your brand's Tumblr encode it with a trackable code.
Pushing a short, sweet post your brand's Facebook Wall? right, encode the shortened link to wherever the click takes the user from their stream.
Whether you're using Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends or free-loading happily with Bitly, you simply build these tracking measurements into your existing dashboards and weekly marketing campaign reports.
Then you optimize your social media programs accordingly.
I'm with you --- "sentiment" tracking is soo 2007. Treat your social media like all your other media and you will soon recognize the immense opportunity for shifting traditional "digital" budgets, with all their CPM-driven waste, over to the more scalable, trackable and infinitely more engageable social media of the brand.
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Advocacy is the best proxy for sales and share
Comment from David Rabjohns on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 10:04
In fact we spent a year with the statisticians at Northwestern in 2006 exploring all of the social metrics that we measured looking for the best correlations with sales or share.
We found that advocacy (brand recommendations) had the highest correlation. We have been validating this ever since and, to be honest, were surprised to find that it holds true in both high and low interest categories.
Some more information can be found here:http://www.motivequest.com/blog/index.php/social-media-measurement-roi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=social-media-measurement-roi and here: http://humanvoice.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/social-media-roi-advocacy-for...
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Charlotte Garden is an expert in labor law and the regulation of work & workers. She is an Associate Professor at the Seattle University School of Law, where she teaches Labor Law, Constitutional Law, Appellate Litigation and Legislation & Regulation. She also teaches in the Civil Rights Amicus Clinic, serves as the Faculty Advisor for the School's chapter of the American Constitution Society, and is the Litigation Director at the School's Korematsu Center for Law & Equality.
Professor Garden's scholarship focuses on the intersection of work/labor law the Constitution. Her articles have appeared in the Emory Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Fordham Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, and the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She regularly writes opinion and analysis pieces for non-academic audiences at popular outlets such as The Atlantic, SCOTUSblog, Salon and the blog of the American Constitution Society. Her legal analysis has been featured in the mainstream media, on platforms such as the New York Times, APR's Marketplace, Bloomberg News, the Washington Post, The Nation, and Politico. Professor Garden is a co-author of a Labor Law casebook, with collaborators Seth Harris, Anne Marie Lofaso, and Joe Slater.
In addition to her teaching and scholarship, Professor Garden serves on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law, is a co-chair of the Labor Rights Collaborative Research Network of the Law & Society Association, and is a co-editor of the Work Law section for the online legal journal JOTWELL. She also regularly authors amicus briefs in cases affecting unions and workers, most recently in Vergara v. California, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett, and Harris v. Quinn.
Before joining Seattle University, Professor Garden was a teaching fellow in the Appellate Litigation Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, where she also received her LL.M. While there, she argued cases before the Fourth and D.C. Circuits. Professor Garden then clerked for Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. A graduate of NYU School of Law and McGill University, Professor Garden also spent several years in practice as a public interest litigator. From 2005-2008, she was an associate at the union-side labor law firm Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC in Washington, D.C. Before that, she was a guardian ad litem at the Children's Law Center in Washington D.C., and held the Abraham Fuchsberg Fellowship at Public Citizen Litigation Group, where she focused on consumer safety issues, class action fairness, and Internet privacy.
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Union Made: Labor's Litigation for Social Change, 88 TULANE L. REV. 193 (2013).
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Is Uber's deal with the Machinists legal?
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Uber Drivers' $100 Million Deal May Set Pace for Gig Economy
April 21, 2016
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Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association & Why We Need Nine
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What Will Become of Public-Sector Unions Now?
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Justice Antonin Scalia's death could affect a high-profile union case at the U.S. Supreme Court, writes Professor Charlotte Garden. Her essay was also featured in RealClearPolicy, Politico's Pro Morning Shift, and OnLabor update.
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The End of Public Sector Agency Fees?
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Seattle allows Uber, Lyft drivers to unionize
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Professor Charlotte Garden says a tough job market makes workers vulnerable to restrictive contracts.
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Students take third place in national Indian law moot court competition
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January 26, 2015
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Space Needle Told To Stop Unfair Labor Practices, Rehire Workers
January 26, 2015
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The Dangers of Militant Orthodoxies
Eugene Borowitz, April 4, 1986
Topic: Religion and State, Freedom, Government
Name of Publication: Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas
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I have a 5.5 x 5.5 laundry room in a 100+ yr old Victorian. It was the original bathroom of the house, located on teh 2d floor. The previous owners converted the bathroom into a half-bath/laundry room when they put on an addition. They also installed a second full bathroom on the first floor. I'd like to re-convert the laundry room to a bathroom and the downstairs bathroom to a laundry room. The layout just makes no sense and a change will be more convenient for guests and kids. The problem I'm facing right now is this. The door is located right in the middle of the room. The sink and toilet are next to each other along the right hand wall. There is a frosted window directly across from teh door. The dimensions of the room are not great, it would be a tight bathroom and a tub is essential. Anyone have any ideas? The plumbing shouldn't be a major issue as the room contains a toilet and sink, but could the addition of a tub present any problems? Any door ideas - I'm afraid opening the door would smack the tub... I'm kind of lost in planning right now.
I would then convert the downstairs bathroom into a laundry room. It also has a shower, sink and toilet. I'd like to take out the shower and put the dryer and washer in it's place. Any plumbing concerns?
Well you either know what you are doing, or you don't. If you don't know how to do the plumbing , you should have a plumber out to the house to have a look at it and if you want to do it yourself, im sure he will steer you in the right direction. 80 bucks for a service call is better them ripping your bathroom apaert and finding out you don't really know what do do and have to call in a pro anyways.
A picture will get you the best response, but it sounds to me like there is not enough room in there for a standard tub.
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As a child, waking up on Christmas morning was all about rushing to the tree to see what Santa brought you. Now that most of us have evolved past the 6 am wake-up-and-squeal-over-presents stage of life, it's nice to have another special treat waiting for you on that most magical of mornings.
I love my family's Christmas breakfast tradition. Homemade cinnamon rolls, a spicy frittata, fresh orange juice and warm coffee cover the table, and we all sit around in our pajamas basking in the glow of another Christmas spent together.
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By Tulsa Drillers | April 6, 2008 5:35 PM ET
Batting leadoff, Wimberly had hits in each of his first four plate appearances and extended his consecutive hits streak to nine straight at-bats before striking out in the eighth inning. The consecutive streak was only three hits off the Texas League record. The infielder is now hitting a sizzling .818 (9-11) for the year.
Batting second and third, Fowler was 3-5 and Nelson was 2-5 to help the Drillers to a season high 16 hits. Eric Young Jr. added three hits and Duke Sardinha contributed two more.
Fowler and Young accomplished rare feats by getting two triples each. The last Drillers player to get two triples in a game was Ryan Spilborghs on April 24, 2005.
Starting pitcher Xavier Cedeno (1-0) picked up the win in his first outing of the year. Cedeno allowed seven hits and two runs (1ER) in five innings of work.
Matt Daley, Ryan Mattheus and Casey Weathers combined to blank the Missions on two hits over the final four innings. Mattheus struck out three of the four hitters he faced.
The Drillers fell behind 2-0 before striking for three runs in the top of the fifth inning. Young tripled and scored on a double Wimberly. Fowler then tripled him home before scoring himself on a base hit by Nelson.
Tulsa scored two runs in the seventh and two more in the eighth. In the seventh, Wimberly singled for his ninth straight hit and scored on Fowler's second three-base hit. Nelson brought Fowler home on a single to center field.
Fowler's two-run single in the eighth completed the scoring.
The Drillers will try to make it two wins in a row Monday night in San Antonio. Tomas Santiago will take the mound for Tulsa against Stephen Faris of the Missions. Game time will be 7:05PM.
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Hollywood paparazzo pioneer says he has no regrets
By Edith Honan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Hollywood paparazzo famous for being sued by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and getting his teeth knocked out by Marlon Brando is unapologetic about the guerrilla celebrity photography culture he helped pioneer.
But Ron Galella, who at 77 still has an active press pass, says he has little interest in being part of a celebrity photo industry that now values controversy over glamour.
Galella has a new book titled "No Pictures" that shows famous faces like Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger and actors Sean Penn and Elizabeth Taylor shielding themselves from his lens. He says celebrities who act like they do not want to be photographed are hypocrites who secretly adore the attention.
Galella says the paparazzi business has changed since his heyday.
"When I started it was one to one. Me and Jackie. Me and Liz Taylor," he told Reuters in an interview in his New Jersey home, which is decorated with pictures of just about every major celebrity. "I like glamour. I'm a romantic person.
"The photographers today ... they go for bad pictures, cellulite. I think it's a negative thing," he said.
"No Pictures," published this month by powerHouse Books, is Galella's sixth book and it shows how unpopular his technique often made him with some of his subjects. Penn is shown spitting on him and Jagger sticks up his middle finger.
To Galella it was all an act, especially in Onassis' case. Continued...


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Nokia's Ice Castle Melts as `Boring' Phones Force R&D Cuts
Last November, Nokia Oyj researchers north of Helsinki chain-sawed a one-ton block of ice into 50- centimeter slabs and mounted them with infrared cameras to trace heat trails left by hands. Their goal: to study touch screens.
The "whimsical experiment," inspired by Finland's tradition of ice sculptures, was conducted by the Nokia Research Center's Tampere branch, its website says. Together with projects such as building an electronic nose, stretchable electronic skin and sending anthropologists to Indian villages to observe rural mobile-phone use, it gave Nokia what analysts say is a bloated devices research and development budget.
At $4 billion a year, it is more than twice Apple Inc.'s entire $1.78 billion R&D budget. At least a third of it goes to Symbian and MeeGo platforms that Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop said last week Nokia is retreating from in favor of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone 7. Elop plans "substantial" R&D spending cuts as he struggles to claw back ground lost to Apple's iPhone and Google Inc.'s Android-based devices.
"There's a lot of fat in that research and development budget," said Adnaan Ahmad, a London-based analyst at Berenberg Bank. "They've plowed a hell of a lot of R&D money into competing with the iPhone and Google, but they've plowed it into a technology like Symbian that's from the 1990s."
With Nokia using Microsoft's operating system, software is one of the ripest fields for the Espoo, Finland-based company to cut costs and improve productivity. About four-fifths of Nokia's 18,000 to 19,000 R&D employees are in software, according to Credit Suisse estimates.
Painful Transition
On Feb. 11, within hours of Elop announcing the switch to Windows, hundreds of employees walked out in Tampere, where about half the 3,000 workers are Symbian developers.
"There's a long and painful transition period ahead," said Sami Sarkamies, a Helsinki-based analyst with Nordea Bank. "Development resources for Symbian and MeeGo will be clearly reduced and Nokia will be quickly building competencies related to Windows Phone 7 products." Based on Nokia's presentation, it may be planning to cut R&D costs by about a third, he said.
Symbian-related research costs for Nokia reached about $1.4 billion last year, with more than a third of its 17,200 R&D workforce assigned to the operating system, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Apple spent $772 million on the iPhone in 2010, when it introduced the iPhone 4, according to the broker. Apple's R&D was 2.7 percent of sales for the year ended September, while Nokia's 2010 devices R&D was 10 percent of the division's sales.
'Visibly Disappointing'
Nokia's R&D budget for handsets is a third higher than Samsung Electronics Co.'s, almost double BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd.'s and more than twice Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.'s, Sanford Bernstein estimates. With Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia's total R&D budget was $7.8 billion in 2010, more than Google's or International Business Machines Corp's.
Nokia's output for that R&D spending is "visibly disappointing," Sanford Bernstein analysts Robin Bienenstock and Pierre Ferragu wrote in a report this month.
Investors punished Nokia after Elop unveiled his new plan, with shares dropping 14 percent on Feb. 11, the most in almost 19 months. They fell as much as 4.4 percent today. Since Apple unveiled the iPhone in June 2007, they have tumbled more than 67 percent. Cutting R&D spending "is seen as a major area of potential upside for the company," the analysts wrote.
Nokia will get "billions" in benefits from its partnership with Microsoft, Elop said in Barcelona yesterday.
"The value transferred to Nokia is measured in the B's, not the M's," he said, without elaborating.
Not an Experience
Nokia's R&D budget may have been justified if it were gaining ground and commanding higher prices. On both fronts it's failing. It cut prices, pulling down margins. Fourth-quarter profit fell 21 percent to 745 million euros ($1 billion).
Since Elop became the first non-Finn to head Nokia on Sept. 21, Google's Android software has become the biggest smartphone operating system by shipments, passing Nokia's Symbian, according to researcher IDC. Nokia's share of the fast-growing smartphone market plummeted to 27.1 percent from 50.8 percent when Apple shipped its iPhone in 2007, according to Gartner Inc.
Nokia's R&D was always about a checklist of features, not an experience the way Apple's is, says a former Nokia Research Center developer who didn't want to be identified because he still works in the mobile-phone industry. Nokia, which worked with touch screens and accelerometers years ahead of the iPhone, couldn't get them into products, he said.
Nokia's research labs working on leading-edge technology in far-flung countries were fragmented and not tied to any particular product group, leaving developers working on prototypes they knew weren't going anywhere, he said.
'Boring' Nokia
Nokia's haphazard efforts resulted in clunky products that drove customers to easier-to-use devices. Phones running on Symbian require users to input more keystrokes to perform tasks such as updating a contact than iPhone and Android phones.
"It's not a question of the amount of money, it's how much you can productize," says Howard Anderson, who founded Boston technology consultants The Yankee Group and now teaches at MIT's Sloan School of Management. "It ought to be called development and research, because these days it's more short-term tactical stuff rather than long term."
Take India's Micromax Informatics Ltd, which is challenging Nokia's leadership in the world's second-largest mobile-phone market. Employing 12 people in R&D and using off-the-shelf technology from Taiwan and China, it makes cheap phones with features sought by Indians including slots to insert multiple SIM cards to carry multiple phone number. One such customer, 28- year old software engineer Pradip Bakshi, checked out Nokia phones in New Delhi last week, called them "boring" before taking off with a $130 Micromax device.
'Ahead of the Duck'
Nokia will have to come up with better innovations to fulfil Elop's strategy of standing out in the Windows Phone 7 market against Samsung and LG Electronics Inc., the world's second- and third-largest handset makers. Longer term, he wants to leapfrog Apple and Android, although can't say how.
"We have significant investments in the next disruption, the next wave of mobile innovation," he said in an interview. "It's impossible to say what that disruption will be but we want to shoot ahead of the duck, to use the Finnish phrase."
Elop plans to ship one product this year based on MeeGo, a platform it's developing with Intel Corp., as "an opportunity to learn" before redeploying MeeGo team members and product elements to Windows Phone 7 and future platforms. He says the company needs to explore the frontiers of engineering --"future materials, future chemicals, all sorts of things that are way in the future" -- if it is to leapfrog competitors.
Keep Control
"Something like an ice touch screen quickly turns into an examination of some of the most advanced mechanisms for sensor detection," he said. "Sometimes it may seem a bit playful but in the end it has a direct impact on our long-term plans."
At the investor meeting in London, he enthused about adding better cameras and imaging, "advanced sensors, GPS accelerometer, gyroscopes" and other hardware to Nokia's Windows phones to differentiate them from others.
Some investors say Nokia should stay with a few such projects and not throw the baby away with the bathwater.
"The danger for Nokia will be if they let Microsoft take complete control," said Mario Bellusci, a Milan-based technology fund manager for Eurizon Capital, which holds Nokia shares. "If Nokia goes down the Hewlett-Packard route and starts to drastically cut R&D for short-term profitability, in the long term they will suffer a lot."
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The Commission authorized staff to file a motion in federal district court to prevent the merger of BP Amoco p.1.c. and Atlantic Richfield Company. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleged that the merger would reduce competition...
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Hoechst AG and Rhone-Poulenc S.A., to be renamed Aventis S.A
A final order settled charges stemming from Hoechst's merger with Rhone-Poulenc S.A. According to the complaint, the merger (the merged firm would be renamed Aventis S.A.) raised antitrust concerns in the market for cellulose acetate and direct thrombin acetate. The order requires the...
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President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has claimed a ''landslide victory'' in Zimbabwe's election as tallies suggested it had won at least two-thirds majority in parliament - enough to change the country's constitution.
The Justice Minister and member of Mr Mugabe's politburo, Patrick Chinamasa, called for the West to lift sanctions and said it was time for Zimbabwe to be welcomed back into the international fold.
But Morgan Tsvangirai's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said it would refuse to accept the result, claiming it was tainted by widespread electoral fraud and vote rigging.
By late on Friday, Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission said Zanu-PF had already won 137 of 186 seats declared in the 210-seat parliament - including in former strongholds of Mr Tsvangirai's MDC such as Masvingo and Manicaland.
Mr Chinamasa said the party would now push forward plans to take majority ownership of foreign companies in Zimbabwe.
He dismissed as ''preposterous'' claims that as many as 1 million voters had been disenfranchised by fraud, adding that Mr Tsvangirai was free to challenge the result in court.
Zanu-PF also predicts that Mr Mugabe has won as much as 75 per cent of the presidential vote and could be sworn in as early as next week. Last night, the MDC's senior officials met to decide whether to take court action, send their supporters on to the streets or disband the party.
''We will not accept this result,'' party spokesman Douglas Mwonzora said. ''No one can believe this has happened. Our supporters are extremely upset, disappointed and angry. We are saying let's have another election, but this time something credible and fair.''
Former Nigerian president and the African Union's chief observer Olesegun Obasanjo, said he had ''grave concerns'' about the voters' roll, extra ballot papers that were printed and the ''high number'' of people who were assisted to vote.
But he said no election was ''perfect'' and flaws in the process were most likely ''honest mistakes''.
Australian ambassador Matthew Neuhaus said the process was ''fatally flawed'' and there was no question of his country lifting its sanctions on Mr Mugabe and his inner circle.
''I believe there should be a complete re-run,'' he said. ''I personally observed the misusing of ballot papers, of people who had always voted in the same place being turned away or told they were registered 200 miles away. I personally observed people being bussed in from other areas. There's no doubt about what has happened here.''
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H2o2 (how long until pumpkin helps with diarrhea?)
Well, on Saturday my puppy decided that a pump hairspray bottle was a toy after my cat knocked it off the shelf. I was in the shower and the puppy was in the bathroom with me (the cat too of course). I got out of the shower and seen Geist chewing on the bottle and the top part was gone. The bottle wasn't opened just that little knobby part was gone. So I call the vet, she stated to give hydrogen peroxide (5mL/10 pounds). Vomiting was induced and the spray part wasn't in his emesis. I called the vet again and she said, since it's plastic it won't show on X-Ray, keep an eye on him and if his behavior changes to call a specific phone number she gave me. No behavior change happened and I kept listening for bowel sounds with my stethoscope through the day and on Sunday night the puppy brought me the little plastic thing I thought he ate.
Since Saturday, Geist has had diarrhea. He's drinking very well and is very playful so I'm not too overly concerned about dehydration at this point but I did give him 1 TBS pumpkin this morning to help perhaps stop the diarrhea. I went to the vet this AM to have the vet check him out and she thinks he's doing fine.
Now, I know too much of a good thing can cause the opposite effect so I want to refrain from doing it, but how long does it take for pumpkin to regulate his system? Should I do another dose in the evening? He's a bit over 10 weeks old right now.
Give him an activated charcoal capsule (260mg.). if in am...Repeat in pm.
I had a friend who had two JRT's. one was a hellion and consumed a whole bottle of baby oil...this dog tooted oil for a week leaving yellowy stains and a raw rectum
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Jerry Barber: I heard you're not coming to my wedding.
Sam Swarek: What? Who told you that?
Jerry Barber: It's the word on the street. (Sam scoffs) It's too bad 'cause I thought you'd be my best man.
Sam Swarek: (happily) Thought you'd never ask.
Jerry Barber: All right, so this is the thing with the best man, he usually comes to the wedding.
Sam Swarek: Couldn't just have it at city hall, huh?
Jerry Barber: Okay, you know what? Why don't you just tell Andy the truth? It's not such a big deal. So you're afraid of flying.
Sam Swarek: I never said that. I just hate taking my boots off at the airport.
Featured Music:
"Without My Love" by Carmen Townsend (opening sequence with Nick and Gail making out in the storage closet)
"Home Tonight" by Eux Autres (Gale is visibly upset by Traci and Andy discussing Traci's wedding plans at Andy's apartment)
"Sail" (InnerPartySystem remix) by AWOLNATION (Gail walks down the stairs into the hotel restaurant and strikes up a conversation with the bartender, who pours them a few shots of tequila each while she waits for her "date")
"Trust" by Trinity
Special billing was given to Ben Bass (and) for this episode.
Additional credits:
Heather Crepp - Set Supervisor
Trina Grismondi - Assistant Costume Designer
Allison Barber - Publicist
Caitlin Cronenberg - Stills Photographer
Original International Air Dates:
United States - July 26, 2012 on ABC
United Kingdom - October 21, 2012 on Universal Channel/Universal Channel HD
Czech Republic - November 6, 2012 on Universal Channel
The episode was shot on location in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Noelle Williams: Peter what?
Oliver Shaw: Peter. Peter. (wink) Parker.
Oliver is referring to Peter Parker, the teenage high school student behind Spider-Man's secret identity. Spider-Man is the fictional superhero character in Spider-Man, the name of two comic book series created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko and published by Marvel Comics (1990-1998, 1999-2003). Spider-Man has also appeared in cartoons, movies, coloring books, novels, records, and children's books
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How to Feng Shui Your Toronto Loft
A Toronto loft is the perfect place to settle in and begin your adventures in the city. Although, there are some tricks that you can use to make the most of the space you have and impress your friends with your interior design expertise. Learn how to feng shui your loft and balance your environment to live a happier and more comfortable life.
The first tip is to avoid any unnecessary clutter in your living space. Clutter makes a space look much smaller than it really is. Be creative and find new ways to organize so that your mess is neatly put away in a practical way. One great tip is to create hidden storage compartments and conceal all of your knick-knacks this way. Hidden storage compartments can be within a unit of drawers or an ottoman — making sure to use up every space that your loft provides.
The use of mirrors around your Toronto loft is also a great way to open up your environment. Mirrors visually expand the space you already have and reflect any light in your apartment. Adding a mirror to an entrance way or a living area will really make a difference in the space.
Adding dividers to your apartment will also compartmentalize your Toronto loft and make your loft feel more like home. Add a divider in your living room like a plant, wood screen or bookshelf and watch the space evolve. It's an easy way to create walls, new rooms and areas of living space without the renovations.
Toronto lofts are the perfect environments to live in and with these feng shui tips — you will optimize your space and create a cozy, open home within the big city.
Use these feng shui tips to optimize the amazing space we have in our Campbell Lofts and take a tour today!


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Frame: "On goths & gables" (Sep/Oct 2007)
Sint Lucas art academy in Boxtel, the Netherlands (FAT)
FAT has created an identity for an anonymous school building by concealing it behind a decorative screen.
Words David Keuning
Photos Sint Lucas
The architects of London architecture firm FAT are often faulted for being superficial provocateurs. The name of the agency has something to do with this indictment (FAT stands for Fashion Architecture Taste, placing a discipline that takes itself extremely seriously between two more lightweight concepts), and the criticism is further reinforced by the firms humorous and yet cynical manifestos (including How to Become a Famous Architect). To be labelled a provocateur may come in handy at the beginning of your career, but when you want to be taken seriously, too frivolous an image is not terribly helpful. And all indications are that FAT, now ten years old and with a small number of buildings and a slightly larger number of interiors in its portfolio, wants respect. Yet the most recent FAT project does not forsake its origins: when even a student at a school for set design dubs your renovation of that school superficial stage scenery, you have not yet lost your talent for provocation.
The institute in question is the Sint Lucas Art Academy in Boxtel, the Netherlands, a vocational school for creatives in training, as the nameplate next to the entrance on Burgakker Street indicates. Besides courses in spatial design (of which set design is a component), its approximately 1250 students can also select courses in media design, interior design and restoration. As for the school buildings, they are a mishmash of styles and periods: two detached volumes date
the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the main building is composed of sections
the 1950s, 60s and 90s. The most recent expansion in 1999 provided the school with an accommodation that, while it served its function outstandingly, had the anonymous look of your average provincial hospital - hardly inspiring for creatives in training.
When alumnus Erik Kessels of the Amsterdam advertising agency KesselsKramer devised a new communications strategy for the school in 2002, he advised the school board to hire FAT for the architectural adjustments to the building. The architecture firm, which had also designed a new interior for KesselsKramers offices in an old church in 1998, was asked to merge the individual buildings in Boxtel into a unified whole and to give the school a distinctive identity, all with minimal resources. Architecture as representation - right up FATs alley. The firm is adept at imparting meaning to nondescript places or buildings with simple means. The architects derive their visual idiom
disciplines outside architecture, and the iconography of advertising (and of communications in general) is one of the more important among them. The message in Boxtel had to be: Here is an open institution with a rich history and great creative potential.
The vector of FATs message, on the outside of the building, consists among other things of a striking, partly Gothic and partly modern palisade snaking its way across the site, mainly in the form of a screen that conceals the existing buildings. FAT created unity in the interior by applying a Gothic-inspired design to the friezes along the ceiling and by incorporating, in the floors of the main public spaces, a geometric pattern derived
a graphic design by Dutch monk and architect Dom Hans van der Laan. This pattern has also been applied to part of the outer walls and in the new fences. Spatial interventions are modest: the most significant is the conversion of the old gymnasium into a multipurpose hall, whereby the architects shifted the changing rooms to the adjacent hallway in order to create a spacious corridor. Most of the decoration, including furniture
Artifort and Gispen, was selected by a group of seven students and is not FATs work.
Architect Sean Griffiths of FAT takes great pains to emphasize that his interventions are not an example of superficial postmodernism or cynical provocation, and that they are anchored in the historical setting of the school: the project is contextual in many respects. The screen is a reference to the ecclesiastical origins of the school, he says. Hence the name Sint Lucas. It also refers to the convent that was originally on the site, and to the tradition of collegiate architecture common throughout Europe. The form is therefore appropriate to an educational institution.
There are many more such references. According to Griffiths, the screen is also a response to the physical context of the building. It is a series of gables, which is a common form in many of the towns most important buildings, such as the castle, the town hall, the library and St Peters School, he says. The screen reorients the building towards Burgakker, an important historic street that leads
the castle to the church. At the south end, where the context is more suburban, the building is treated to look like a small factory in the suburbs. This is where the administration and workshop blocks are. Thus it refers to two different aspects of the school, Griffiths explains: An educational institution with religious origins whose ethos is about teaching design in a vocational way, with strong links to industry. The idea is to create a kind of narrative to suggest that the school has been built amongst the ruins of a strange amalgam of monastery and factory although the ruins are, of course, entirely false. The treatment of the screen at the front is also a nod towards Goth fashion, which is worn by some of the students.
The question remains whether FAT, with this project, has proven it has outgrown the status of superficial provocateur. For those who ascribe a timeless character and objective values to architecture, a building that seems unable to surpass the ephemerality of a theatrical backdrop is probably difficult to swallow. The interventions in Sint Lucas are also undeniably provocative: they revive the traditional debate about the relationship between function and meaning. But they are certainly not superficial. FAT has woven multiple layers of meaning into a clear message, which has been interpreted positively by many of the students. And for that one student to whom the project is nothing more than scenery, Griffiths has an answer that denotes a postmodern sense of perspective: From our point of view, the screens are much more than mere decoration. But if people read them as such, thats okay too.


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This beachfront romantic 4 bedroom 2 bath home is the upper level of a duplex. The full kitchen, separate bar, and living room open up onto a large oceanfront balcony with a barbecue. There is a shared beachfront patio with patio furniture and fire pit. This Unit comes fully furnished with a huge entertainment room. This home is perfect for a family vacation or couples wanting a romantic getaway.
This vacation rental is a home away from home. You will find everything you need right in the rental, from beach towels to linens, from spices to coffee grinders. We have stocked the kitchens keeping in mind you might be cooking a Summer feast. Just imagine all of the memories that will be made on your vacation on the beach
This home is located in the coastal town of Oceanside, where the beaches are nothing short of spectacular, with wide sandy beaches and gorgeous waters year-round. After a day at the beach, take a walk to the pier perhaps, wander down and either watch the surfers, or go fishing.. When it is time for dinner, there is an endless amount of delicious restaurants and cafes for you to choose from, but many choose to cook their meals at the vacation rental. There are also great local activities, horse racing season is coming up and the Del Mar Race Track is only a 20 minute Drive. LegoLand takes 10 minutes and Disneyland is 50 minutes. Life doesn't get much better than having your close friends and family around for a vacation.
Keywords: beach front, on the beach living, amazing views, spacious, vacation rental, monthly rental, family getaway, romantic vacation, surf, upstairs unit, duplex, four bedroom, two bathroom, kid friendly.
This is the forth year of our home away from home. It is so nice to come back knowing were everything is at or where it will fit. It is right on the beach and close to shopping and eateries, it is also close to the life guard station- if that is important. The beach is gorgeous with fun for the whole family, with lots of sea shells and dohins.
Like I said we love it and plan on coming back for years to come.
This was the third year my family has stayed at this fantastic home and we plan to come back every year for many years to come. It is right on the beach, close to a life guard tower, shopping and eateries. We love it.
Jose Salgado
Overall this is a good property. The location is great for a SoCal vacation. We visited LA, Hollywood, San Diego, La Jolla, and Disneyland. It is right on the beach. You get the surf, and beautiful sunsets. There are two things that you should know. First, there is no AC. It may be abnormal for SoCal, but we had a couple of 85 degree evenings in the condo. Second, there is an empty lot beside the property. This empty lot is "beach access" for all of the locals coming down to swim, tan, and surf. Unfortunately, it isn't as private as we would have expected.
This property was fantastic and the view of the coastline was amazing. The place was immaculate but had just a bit of funk that made it perfect for a multi generational getaway. There was plenty of room for our group of 10. The kitchen was fully stocked with pots and pans making our thanksgiving dinner a breeze to make. There were 2 refrigerators which was great for our large crowd. There were numerous beach toys and chairs available which meant we did not have to bring our own. We used the fire pit on the property one night which was really fun. And did I mention parking? In addition to the garage, there was readily available street parking right next to the unit.
The owner Julie was terrific and accepted all my inquiries prior to going. I can't recommend this place enough. It is literally on the sand and you can sit on the balcony and watch all the little ones playing on the beach.
We are definitely going back!
Wonderful vacation!! There were 9 of us ranging in age from 6 to 64. Everyone had more than a great time. There was plenty of room for all of us and more. The location was exactly what we were looking for - from the views, beach, sunsets, availability to shopping and restaurant and the pier! They had everything the kids needed to play in the sand and ocean - the 3 boys claimed they were bogie board experts by the time we left and the girls brought home several hundred shells. The walks on the beach in the mornings and evening we're very special. Our 12 year old slept in the big recliner by the balcony so he could see the ocean as soon as he woke. Downtown has a Thursday open market with food, music, vendors, acts and more.
The unit was all that is claimed and the owners are more than friendly and helpful. They even dropped of some fresh caught tuna for us to barbecue -great people. There's an outdoor shower to rinse off from the beach and more towels than you can use. Games, movies, 3 TV's so everyone can watch what they want if you even turn them on. The Beach Break cafe is a great place for breakfast - the kids favorite. Lego land is very close and the San Diego zoo is only a 45 minute drive.
We can't say enough good things about our stay, the unit and the owners. We'll be back!!
Our family has stayed at this condo for the past 4 summers, including this year. It is the best condo in the area and includes fantastic views, with the top floor above most other units on the beach. It is large enough for my entire family with four bedrooms and the game room in the back. We have had a great relationship with the owners and they have been helpful and available when we need them.
The condo has everything we need and is close to so many activities from downtown San Diego up to Camp Pendleton. We spend our days enjoying the sun and water and then relax around the dinner table, large enough for 10 people. It is my favorite week of the entire year, with all our family together!
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4 night minimum stay
Rates are negotiable and subject to change until reservation is confirmed.
Oct. thru March rate per night is $400
April thru Sept rate per night is $500
4 Night Minimum
Cleaning Fee of $300
Credit Cards are not accepted


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prop commisions, props I made fot others! ^_^
OMG those chakrams i want them x_x everything looks awesome ^^
You are fantastic ^_^
i love the props *_* i want them all LOL what are they made from?
Most of them wood, the Esther Rosette is made of craftfoam! ^_^ I usually use craftfoam for details as well!
Love Esther's rosary. Really nicely done.


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Besides offering the glasses-free 3D display, the Gadmei T863 offers a higher level of specs than what you might normally see with tablets in this class. While there is no dual-core processor under the hood, what you will find there is a single-core 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 chip together with 1080p-capable Mali-400 graphics and an HDMI video slot. Corners have been cut to keep the price down, but this price cutting has been limited to 512MB of RAM and one VGA camera in the front. The tablet comes with 8GB of storage and does have a slot for a microSD card. Android 2.3 is installed.
With the cost-cutting, Gadmei has been able to price the tablet at $199, roughly the same as the Amazon Kindle Fire. The Gadmei T863 might not be as fast as the Kindle Fire, but it does have a camera and the 3D display. Speaking of the display, the resolution on the Gadmei T863 is higher than the screen on the Apple iPad.
Brando is taking orders for the tablet starting today. If you are interested in owning the first tablet with a glasses-free 3D display, click on the sourcelink.
source: Brando via electronista


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Formerly also known as ETXexpress®, Kontron offers a broad product range for the COM Express® basic form factor modules(125 x 95 mm) that adhere to the type 2 and 6 pin-out definitions. Click here for more details about old and new names for Kontron's COM Express® basic modules.
With the new pin-out type 6 definition, COM Express® basic offers USB 3.0 and substantial more display output interfaces. That makes it interesting for multiple display solutions like Digital Signage or cost-efficient high-data transmission applications like industrial vision solution with high-speed USB 3 video cameras.
The newest additions to Kontron's offering of COM Express basic modules include: the COMe-bIP# that features Quad Core technology, USB 3.0 and up to 3 independent Displays. The COMe-bSC# which supports up to 8x USB 2.0 and ECC system memory as well as being Intel® vPro capable.
Kontron is long-time member of PICMG® and originator of the working group that developed the the original COM Express® standard in. 2005
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