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The Computer Science and Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position with a focus on cyber security, with a tentative date of starting employment in Fall 2017. This position is part of the College of Engineering's search for 12 tenure-oriented faculty members in thematic areas which are research thrusts of UTA's Strategic Plan 2020: Bold Solutions | Global Impact: Health and the Human Condition, Sustainable Urban Communities, Global Environmental Impact, and Data-Driven Discovery. The key objective is to hire faculty members with outstanding qualifications who share the University's core values of high standards of excellence in teaching, innovative and collaborative research, and service, combined with fostering an open and inclusive environment. Major emphasis will be on potential collaboration for research with faculty members from other departments across UTA and outside the University.
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Teach and develop undergraduate and graduate courses and conduct leading-edge research in the area of cyber security, including hardware and software security, data privacy, behavioral and human aspects of security. Develop externally funded research programs that result in publications in top-tier conferences and leading scholarly journals; supervise graduate and undergraduate students; and serve on departmental, college, and university committees.
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An earned Ph.D. degree (All-But-Dissertation, ABD, cases will be considered) in computer science, computer engineering, or a closely related field. The candidate should have a strong background in an emerging research area related to cyber security. Candidates must also show a strong commitment to teaching excellence at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme and the tune these days is becoming increasingly reminiscent of the ultra-low volatility and complacency of 2007. Despite increasing inflationary indicators, the markets appear quite convinced that any tightening by the Fed is highly improbable, with any eventual action being only the slightest brake tap.
All major asset classes are up on the year, even those that are typically inversely correlated, making for the broadest rally since 1993. This brings to mind another song from the past of prolonged Fed easing after a real estate and credit crash. That tune as well came to a rather abrupt change after unanticipated Fed tightening the following year. The most recent Bank of America Merrill Lunch poll of institutional investors reports that a net 48% are overweight equities, despite 15% believing that stocks are overvalued. Then there was Sunday's bomb.
The Bank of International Settlements (which provides financial services to national central banks and also acts as a setting where central bankers can discuss monetary policy and other issues like financial stability or bank regulation) issued its annual report. It contained an unusually loud warning: "overall, it is hard to avoid the sense of a puzzling disconnect between the markets' buoyancy and underlying economic developments globally." With respect to corporations, the organization stated additional concerns that "despite the euphoria in financial markets, investment remains weak...Instead of adding to productive capacity, large firms prefer to buy back shares or engage in mergers and acquisitions."
That last bit ought to really get your attention. If we look a bit deeper into the data, it turns out that the usual buyers of stocks such as hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds etc. have been, in aggregate, net sellers. The big buyers have been the companies themselves! Hold on a minute. Stock prices have been going up because companies are buying back their own stocks?
American companies have been buying back shares at an annualized rate of $400 billion in Q1, according to the Z.1 data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This is equivalent to 2.5% of GDP! The prevailing narrative has been that corporate balance sheets have never been healthier, so debt issuance for share buybacks ought not be a major concern. Yet the reality, according to Andrew Lapthorne of Société Générale, is that net debt in the US corporate sector is at a record $2.3 trillion, up 14% over the past year, with the ratio of long-term debt to total assets near the 2009 peak.
Now there isn't anything innately wrong with companies buying back their own stock and in fact we are often quite in favor of it. But there is a reason to be concerned when it appears that these buybacks are a significant driver of upward market momentum! We've seen a disturbing trend with these large-cap companies issuing bonds in order to buy back their own stock, which we are sure has nothing to do with executive compensation packages tied to stock performance, (not even attempting to hide the snarky undertone here) such as with Monstanto (MON), Apple (AAPL), Cisco (CSCO), and Fedex (FDX).
If we look at returns year-to-date by capitalization, we can see some of the impact of such buybacks, with the S&P 500 7.2% up, S&P Midcap up by 7.01% and the Russell 2000 (small cap) up by 2.89%. Clearly the equity market is frothy and on a price-to-sales basis the S&P 500 is trading at more than a full standard deviation above normal, while outlays have been cut to the bone with historically exceptionally low capital investment.
That being said, share buybacks, when properly funded, can be a fantastic way to reward shareholders without the taxation involved with cash dividends, which is a particularly prickly topic with the 3.8% surtax on investment income to fund the Affordable Care Act. The AdvisorShares TrimTabs Float Shrink ETF (TTFS) is an actively managed ETF that weighs a portfolio of 100 stocks equally, regardless of size, which have decreased outstanding shares over the past 120 days via strong free cash flows rather than debt issuance. Using this strategy, the ETF has handily beaten its benchmark, the Russell 3000, over the past two years.
The PowerShares Buyback Achievers ETF (PKW) also looks to take advantage of buybacks, by only including those firms that have reduced outstanding shares by 5% or more in the past 12 months, reconstituting its holdings annually at the beginning of the year and rebalancing on a quarterly basis, weighting holdings by market capitalization. To be included, a stock must also have an average daily cash trading volume of $500,000 and trade on the NYSE or NASDAQ. Firms that have reduced their shares outstanding by 5% or more over the previous year are unlikely to consistently do so, thus the fund can and has had a rather high turnover. PKW has also consistently outperformed the market with this strategy, handily beating the S&P500 over the past two years.
The most dangerous part of the market today though is in bonds, where corporate bond spreads are now just a handful of basis points shy of the 2007 cycle lows while we are seeing potential hints of rising default rates in high-yield, up to 2.1% from February lows of 1.6%. In three of the past six months, non-investment grade credit rating downgrades have outnumbered upgrades. We are also starting to see trading volumes in relation to the stock of outstanding emerging market debt falling. The bond market is starting to flash subtle warning signs. Investors ought to take heed, particularly if inflation runs hotter than expected.

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The ability to schedule reports in VCOPS is quite cool. Taken from capacity IQ these reports can be run weekly or monthly on a specific time and day of week allowing you to show the report as CSV (to process inside a spreadsheet) or as a readable PDF document. Once SMTP is configured you're able to send the report to multiple users (you, your manager) using comma (,) or semi-column (;) separated e-mail addresses. Also: you can schedule reports on ANY level on ANY object (World, Folder, Datacenter, Cluster, Host, VM, Datastore), and here, the management of all schedules, can become a mess since there is no overview on where schedules are set.
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Dearborn, Mich. Wal-Mart opened a new Supercenter geared toward Arab-American shoppers in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn.
Catering to the needs of the local community, which has a large Arab-American population, the store showcases a wide selection of multicultural merchandise. The grocery department will offer an expanded selection of Middle Eastern products, as well as a diverse selection of merchandise from health and beauty products to greeting cards.
In addition, associates' nametags will identify which languages they speak.
The Dearborn Supercenter has also partnered with the Henry Ford Museum and the Arab American National Museum to develop a unique display for the store. The permanent display, which consists of 10 photos from both museums' collections, depicts milestones in Dearborn history.


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New York: Taiwan tech firm Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd, parent company of Foxconn Technology Co. Ltd, will pay royalties to Microsoft Corp. to ward off a lawsuit over its production of devices using rival Google's Android and Chrome platforms.
A Microsoft statement late on Tuesday did not reveal the amounts the US company will be paid however.
The licensing agreement protects Hon Hai from claims that the cellphones and televisions it produces and which use Android and Chrome infringe on Microsoft's patented technology.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- With Amazon.com (AMZN) all but set to make deliveries via drone, it's tough to conceive a retail outfit such as Barnes & Noble (BKS) saving anything.
But hear me out.
While Barnes & Noble might not step to the plate, somebody else, somewhere -- with a significant physical retail presence -- has to do something, anything to salvage the notion of brick-and-mortar commerce.
At this stage, "innovation" in physical retail consists of little more than moving some sales online, taking orders via mobile devices and creating the lamest of lame "store within a store" experiences.
Very telling pic for sure. Check out this battle! @Rocco_TheStreet pic.twitter.com/HRliGIzwTg Brian Sozzi (@BrianSozzi) December 2, 2013
As I marvel ... no, check that ... as I fanboy all over Jeff Bezos, I can't help but think that there has to be somebody else out there with equally as mind-blowing ideas.
After all, Bezos took the place of Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs. Or, as iPod gave way to iPhone and iPhone made room for iPad, it's probably more accurate to say Bezos shared space with Jobs.
In any event, while in their own world, Bezos and Jobs were not/are not completely alone. Jack Dorsey created Twitter (TWTR). Mark Zuckerberg conceived Facebook (FB). And Reed Hastings likes to tell people he had the idea for Netflix's (NFLX) original DVD-by-mail concept. There's Elon Musk with everything from PayPal to the eventual hyperloop. Howard Schultz and his team have made Starbucks (SBUX) -- at the end of the evening, a mere coffeehouse -- the envy of a majority of mobile/digital companies.
Bezos. Jobs. Dorsey. Zuck. Hastings (cough, cough). Musk. Schultz.
You mean to tell me that's all we got?
I don't believe for a second there's not a way forward for a company like Barnes & Noble. One that still offers consumers the foundation and, in parts, the core of a solid experience. It doesn't look like there's a way because there's very little, if any, will. And there's no courage to step out and get crazy -- but still run a damn solid business -- the way Bezos has for more than a decade.
Barnes & Noble limps through the motions. As if all they can do is sit in the corner and fend off punches from Amazon. That's the problem. There's nothing inherently wrong with the company's business or even position. It's just that, stunningly, there's no meaningful recognition of the need for profound change. And there's probably a whole slew of internal excuses as to why we can't do this or that.
Yes, when I was in Barnes & Noble I purchased $100 worth of merchandise from Amazon.com. However, the Barnes & Noble experience prompted me to spend the money. The pessimist looks at that and says, You idiot. They put books on shelves like we've been doing for hundreds of years. You call that an experience. You derive hope from that?
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Picture This! takes US rights to Voleurs De Chevaux
Picture This! Entertainment has acquired US rights from Paris-based Rezo to first-time feature director Micha Wald's Voleurs De Chevaux.The company will release the epic adventure this summer under its English title In The Arms Of My Enemy following the US premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.The film centres on two sets of brothers who embark on an adventure following ...
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Atlantis foils cashier cage heist
Guardian Business Editor
Published: Sep 23, 2012
The largest resort in The Bahamas foiled an attempted robbery on Sunday afternoon targeting its casino operations, according to top management.
At around noon today, three bandits flooded an employee-only area with pepper spray not far from the gambling floor at Atlantis on Paradise Island.
The perpetrators were arrested by security and taken into custody by the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
Executives at the hotel said 16 employees were taken to hospital from exposure to the pepper spray. Tourists were barred from the casino floor during the investigation.
"It is a foiled robbery attempt and our security teams did an outstanding job in apprehending the perpetrators. It happened just after noon today," said George Markantonis, president and managing director at Kerzner International (Bahamas).
Top management said the robbery was "ill-advised" considering the sophistication of the security systems and teams.
Access to the Paradise Island Bridge was restricted following the botched heist.
"We want to thank the Atlantis security team, the Royal Bahamas Police Force, and the Bahamas Emergency Services for their quick espouse and professionalism in this matter," Atlantis said in a statement.


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Driving yesterday and today from Portland, Oregon to Salt Lake City, Utah. What beautiful country. The hues on the mountains....the colors of the fields, the wild life. Absolutely beautiful. Listened to business training cd's (probably a good idea since I'm coming to a business meeting) and worship music. Great day!
Thanks for connecting Leta. I'm looking forward to being part of the group.
Thanks for your invite and your comments. I too have been out of touch with this and am trying to get back into the swing of things. Perhaps we can keep each other motivated!!
Again, thanks and will catch up with you later.
Hi Leta,
Thank you so much for offering your friendship- I really appreciate it. I'll reciprocate when I figure out how to do it. I'll also look at what you suggested- you will hear from me on that.
I am honored you want to invite me into your circle. I hope your trip will be profitable and inspiring. Talk to you later.
Let me know when you are around Boise again and we can meet up.
I'm in SE Portland. Just moved here last July, and I'm loving it so far!
Hi Leta,
Thank you for adding me as your friend.
What have been some of your favorite finds here on the site? You are invited to join us in finding your voiceand get in the conversation.
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Thanks so much for connecting with me. Sounds like we're kindred spirits in helping others find their passion. I'd love to hear more about the opportunities you come in contact with.
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The Illinois Supreme Court ruled (4-3) in favor that Jon Burge, a former Chicago police captain accused of overseeing the torture of hundreds of people of color, will get to keep his monthly pension of $4,000.
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled (4-3) in favor that Jon Burge, a former Chicago police captain accused of overseeing the torture of hundreds of people of color, will get to keep his monthly pension of $4,000.
More than 3,000 people in Ferguson, Mo. have registered to vote since the death of Michael Brown — a sign of rising interest that may indicate that the city of 21,000 is ready for change.
Since Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, shot and killed Brown, 18, voter registration booths and cards have popped up alongside protests in the city.
The following post was published in the New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and Matt Apuzzo.
By: Peter Baker and Matt Apuzzo
The two men in open-collar shirts sat facing each other, papers and a BlackBerry strewn on a coffee table, sober looks on both their faces. One leaned forward, gesturing with his left hand, clearly doing the talking. The other sat back in his chair, two fingers pressed to his temple as he listened intently.
When violence erupted last week after a police shooting in Missouri, President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. huddled on Martha's Vineyard where both were on vacation. But as the most powerful African-Americans in the nation confront its enduring racial divide, they come at it from fundamentally different backgrounds and points of view.
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been found guilty of corruption.
After deliberating for over six hours, jurors decided that Nagin had accepted over $500,000 in benefits in exchange for millions of dollars in city contract work.
When Kanye West made the rounds last week during radio interviews, he used Arsenio Hall as an example of what could happen to him if people stopped supporting his music.
Well, Arsenio Hall was asked about West's remarks and had this to say:
One of the police officers accused of publicly humiliating a black man by making him sing and dance like a chimp has admitted to the unacceptable behavior.
55-year-old Michael Scipio accused Grosse Pointe Park police of making a spectacle out of him during a routine walk in the park.
Between Reality TV, Media Pressure and Social Status, we now live in a world where people feel the need to live in someone else's shoes. We have leaders walking around as followers and followers perpetrating as leaders. This comes from a lack of personal and cultural Identity. This is a battle that a lot of us have struggled with and some of us even find ourselves now.
Style, or the way we construct our dress, seems capable to achieve political goals—equal to the power of protests. Speaking from experience, I did not know that my clothes upset the authority figures. Since my professor claimed that I was funny-looking last night, I've found a complement in my teacher's words. Where he was speaking from started at a position, of a certain way of looking at the body. Each new generation violates the laws for presenting the body of the previous generation. This historical function should reveal another strategy for change, another method of power.
So I'm sick and tired of conversations about the state of Black youth ending with the same played-out solutions—restoring strong family values. Now don't get me wrong, of course family is important, but we are mistaken if we think that broken homes are the main factors fueling gang violence. If we should blame anything it should be the freedom of humyn kind. That's right, all moral impositions—respect, honest work, luck—remain fluid and vulnerable to one's departure. It's the social situation that determines the logic and integrity of any value.
In a time where words are abbreviated into consonants and symbols and three letters can signal an entire sentence, it becomes interesting to look at language in depth. Whether our 'wyd' for "what are you doing?" is a reflection of life lived on the go or a need for differentiation, our words and phrases change faster than Merriam & Webster can look up aardvark in the dictionary. How often do we analyze the reason behind our speech or think before we speak to choose our words meticulously? We are constantly deciphering messages from those around us via the internet, television, and in person. It may be useful to probe the source of our daily thoughts, conscious and subconscious, received through our constant contact with others.
Recently, I saw a movie called Waking Life, which posed various questions about our world and below is the clip on language.
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A WOMAN had to be cut out of her car after a crash with a lorry at the Chequerbent roundabout in Westhoughton.
The Park Road junction of the roundabout was shut between 1.45pm and 4pm today while emergency services cleared up the smash.
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Watch: First Trailer for Animated 'Starship Troopers: Invasion' Sequel
by Alex Billington
March 18, 2012
Source: IGN
"I always get the shakes before a drop." While we expect this to go straight-to-DVD, I'm such a big Starship Troopers fan, and kind of on a sci-fi high with Prometheus (and Hunger Games), I wanted to feature it anyway. IGN has debuted the first teaser trailer for Starship Troopers: Invasion, the new CG animated movie that Sony is making. We first covered the announcement for it last year, including that Casper Van Dien might be back to voice one of the characters, but there's still not much confirmed yet. That said, we do get a quick tease here, and while it's not much I'm kind of intrigued. Take a look and tell us what you think.
Watch the first teaser trailer for Shinji Aramaki's Starship Troopers: Invasion, originally from IGN:
The story centers around two teams of Roughnecks: the Alpha 1 team embarking on a mission to rescue the distant outpost Fort Casey and the K-12 team already stationed at Fort Casey. The two war-depleted squads must band together with a common objective, but personalities and ambition ensure a bumpy ride.
Starship Troopers: Invasion is directed by Japanese filmmaker Shinji Aramaki, of Appleseed & Appleseed: Ex Machina, as well as a Halo Legends segment previously. The script is by Flint Dille (Dragonstrike), obviously based on Robert A. Heinlein's novel, and this version is supposed to be more of a sequel to the original 1997 Starship Troopers movie than any of its crappy sequels. We don't have much release info yet, but it is expected to go straight-to-DVD sometime this year. For updates, follow the film's production blog.
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Women in Leadership and Philanthropy
Women get to know each other at a reception at The Grove.
For more information on women and philanthropy, please visit the Women's Philanthropy Institute at Indiana University.
Click here to get contact information for the administrators for the WLP program.
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Erasing Signatures From History
In his 35 years as a high school English teacher in suburban Philadelphia, Thom Williams often encouraged his students to splash their most creative thoughts on the walls of his classroom.
Hundreds of students embraced his invitation, covering those painted cinderblocks with original art, quotes from favorite books, and deep thoughts born from teenaged angst.
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Scoring? Passing? Defense? Veteran leadership? Check them all off. Tokay's Trevor Mabalon and Tori Schallberger did just about everything on the hardwood during their senior campaigns, and the two have now been recognized for those efforts with spots on their Tri-City Athletic League first teams.
Mabalon, a lightning-quick and explosive point guard, played much bigger than his frame this season. The floor general bounced back from an injury-riddled junior year to lead his Tigers in scoring (17.1 ppg), assists (4.3) and steals (2.1).


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Robotic Fish Feeder, Because I'm Too Lazy » Yanko Design
I've got a Koi pond with fish just swimmingly enjoying life, you may ask yourself why you have to be the one doing all the work. Fish have it made! They just swim and eat.
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"No, he doesn't deserve to be in there with me, and I'll prove it.I'll prove it in under a round cause we see I tend to get tired in the second round. We're both in a similar spot in our career I guess. We're on the chopping block, and that's fine, I'm really happy with that. I feel like it, I'm on my own chopping block. If I lose to him, I'm quitting. I quit. I don't deserve to be in there. There's not a easy fight, there's no easy fights whatsoever."
While a guest on SPIKE TV's MMA uncensored last night, Jason "Mayhem" Miller discussed his upcoming UFC 146 bout with C.B. Dollaway.
After his UFC (re)debut against Michael Bisping, the "Bully Beatdown" host found himself at risk of possibly losing his contract. UFC president Dana White said he had the worst stand-up he had ever seen. However, luckily for Miller the UFC opted to give him another chance to prove himself.
His job is more than likely on the line already, but is it fair to put so much pressure on himself?
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Adobe Edge Animate 1.0 is available now, with a surprise!
The day has finally come — Adobe Edge Animate 1.0 is here! We're proud to announce that the first commercial version is now available from the Adobe Creative Cloud, as a perpetual (non-expiring) product. The surprise is that it's FREE as an introductory offer, as a thank you for the tons of feedback we received during the preview phase, helping us get to version 1.0. We hope by making it free, we'll get even more feedback and adoption. If you're new to the Creative Cloud, all you need to download Edge Animate for free is go to creative.adobe.com and sign up for a membership. You'll also have access to other Adobe Edge Tools & Services, such as Edge Inspect and PhoneGap Build.
Concluding the Preview Period
It's been a thrilling ride for the Edge Animate team, since we first sneaked an experimental prototype of it at MAX 2010. Less than a year later, on August 1, 2011, we released Preview 1 on Adobe Labs. We really didn't know how it would be received, but the response was overwhelming — there were 70K downloads on the first day, and major press coverage from publications like Cnet, USA Today, The New York Times, and Mac World. However, the most surprising aspect was that users were already showing off what they made with it within the first 12 hours of launch. It was incredible and flattering to know people had downloaded Preview 1, figured out how to use it, and posted their work on production sites in less than a day.
Looking back, some of us feel that Preview 1 was released too early. It only had a single timeline and couldn't handle user interactions at all. Just about the only thing you could do with it was create a static, linear animation. There was concern that people would look at the tool and write it off as too basic or primitive for real-world use. We made a conscious decision to release early and often, taking in user feedback to help us improve it. Our development philosophy was very different from what people came to expect from Adobe. In just over a year, we released six more previews. Each release incorporated user feedback and had a mix of major and incremental improvements to the previous version. There were over half a million downloads during the preview phase, and as I mentioned earlier, the feedback we received was instrumental in making Edge Animate 1.0 what it is today.
Here's a quick summary of the major enhancements of each Preview:
- Preview 1 (8/1/11) – Single timeline, import graphic files, open HTML files
- Preview 2 (9/7/11) – Fit and finish improvements and bug fixes
- Preview 3 (10/1/11) – Interactivity and access to the Edge Animate API
- Preview 4 (1/19/12) – Symbols, web fonts, element display lifetime
- Preview 5 (3/11/12) – Optimized publishing options, down-level support for non-HTML5 browsers
- Preview 6 (5/10/12) – Built-in lessons, localized in six languages, DPS and iBooks publishing
- Preview 7 (8/20/12) – Resizable layouts, new drawing tools, stage improvements
We plan on releasing more updates to Edge Animate, to add new capabilities as well incorporating more feedback. Stay tuned for more news! With that said, please download Edge Animate 1.0 and let us know what you think!
Rich Lee
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The Redskins have to be relieved that the MRI on Robert Griffin III showed no major damage in his right knee.
That's the good news, which was announced by the team on Sunday evening. That doesn't mean Griffin is healthy though. The team announced that the knee is sprained, which is no minor deal when it comes to his status for next week's game.
The Redskins might be smart to play it safe with their star rookie, though Washington is very much in the playoff race with a 7-6 record and it will be hard to sit him in a game at Cleveland if he can move well enough to play. There hasn't yet been any definitive word if the sprain will cause him to miss any time.
The injury came when he was hit by enormous Ravens defensive lineman Haloti Ngata at the end of a run. His knee hyper-extended in a painful-looking way. Griffin tried to gut it out on Washington's final drive of regulation but realized he couldn't go any further.
"I knew I needed to get out at that point. I couldn't move," Griffin said, according to Redskins.com. "At some point, you have to do what's right for the team. If I would have played for the rest of the game, I probably would have hurt myself even more."
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Griffin has already said he hopes to play next week, but if he can't, rookie Kirk Cousins got a bit of confidence from throwing a touchdown and running for a two-point conversion in the final seconds to tie the game that Washington eventually won in overtime. And signs were positive that Griffin could make a quick recovery.
"It's sore right now," coach Mike Shanahan said according to Redskins.com. "He wanted to go back in the game, which is a good sign."
At this point, in the big picture, the Redskins should be happy that Griffin has a chance to play at all in the near future. It could have been much worse.
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Ladies' Night in Downtown Bozeman
Additional Information
The Downtown Bozeman Association, our sponsors; My 103.5 and The Bozone, and the downtown retailers, restaurants and bars listed below are excited to bring you "Ladies Night" in Downtown Bozeman on Thursday, November 17 from 5-10pm with amazing retail promotions from 5-8pm and awesome restaurant promotions from 7-10pm. There's a little something for EVERYONE!!
Nobody enjoys a night on the town more than the ladies, and this event gives them MORE of what they're craving…a fun, stress-free evening of dining, cocktailing and pre-holiday shopping in Downtown Bozeman! There will be specials and promotions at over 40 downtown retailers, restaurants and bars! So, grab your friends and come downtown on November 17 for a fun and welcoming evening! Check out a list of ALL participating businesses and their specials listed below. Make your list of cannot miss spots before you head down!
Retailers • 5-8pm
1 Alara Jewelry
42 West Main Street
Ladies Night Wish List Party with…20% Off
everything but loose diamonds plus 10%
off future purchases on your wishlist. Also,
the unveiling and FREE sampling of Alara's
2 new gourmet chocolate lines
2 Altitude Gallery
134 East Main Street
One FREE hand-blown glass ornament
made by Molly Barnes with EVERY
purchase of $50 or more
3 Bent Lens
23 West Main Street
20% Off Storewide!
4 Blush at GW Design
9 East Main Street
FREE Brow Touch-ups, or schedule a future
appointment and receive a discount. Ask
about GW's additional holiday deals!!
5 Bozeman Running Company
448 East Main Street
10% off storewide, 15% off all apparel, and
FREE pair of logo'd socks with purchase of
$50.00 or more!
6 Bozeman Yarn Shop
126 East Main Street
$5 Coupon good towards any purchase of
$20 or more!
7 Bridger Kitchens
1 East Main St
Wusthof knife gift packs and sale prices.
Le Cruset Teakettles 40% off
Come in and preview the "Black Friday"
sale items.
8 Cello
18 South Willson
Enjoy a warm Sangria while you shop and
receive a FREE beautiful enclosure card
with any purchase.
9 Chalet Sports
108 West Main Street
Specials and Promotions throughout the
10 Country Bookshelf
28 West Main Street
FREE greeting card with $30 purchase
(your choice). Also, check our holiday
books guide!
11 Dari Rasa Trunk Show
132 East Main Street
Spend $50 & receive a FREE Pashmina &
pair of Earrings ($60 value)
Also introducing Recherch'e Locally
grown organic body care line! Join us for
Champagne & Chocolates.
12 Erotique
12 North Willson Avenue
10% Off Newest Toys, also featuring Male
Dancers & other fun activities, Women ONLY!
13 The Gem Gallery
402 East Main Street
Stop by The Gem Gallery and pick out
some beautiful pieces of jewelry for
yourself or for others. Get your picture
taken with your favorite piece and we can
send it to that special someone to help
drop the hint! Meanwhile, enjoy some
wine and cheese with us for a fun night
out with your girlfriends.
14 GetN'Green
113 East Main Street
One FREE "Made in Montana" Hurraw! Lip
Balm with ANY purchase
15 Girls Outdoors
20 North Tracy Avenue
10% off storewide!
16 Great Rocky Mountain
Toy Company
111 East Main Street
Free small stocking stuffer with a purchase
of $5 or more!
17 Head West
24 West Main Street
Stop into Head West on Ladies Night
and warm up with spiced wine and
refreshments. Join our mailing list and fill
out a "wish list" for yourself and receive
20% your purchase that evening! We will
keep your wish list on file throughout
the holiday season to help your friends,
family with gift ideas for you.
18 HeyDay
7 West Main Street Suite 1B
Come as a two-some, save 10%, come as a
three-some, save 15% or come as a foursome
and save 20%
19 Indulgence
121 East Main Street
Now offering $25 spray tanning to get
your Holiday Glow started!! Save 10%
storewide on Ladies Night by booking
your appointment. Also make your
Holiday Wish Lists!! Send your mate in
without wondering if they'll get it right!!
Any gifts off of your list will be 10% off if
purchased by December 10th so come
in, get it down and send your' someone
special in to get in on the savings!!
20 Jewelry Studio
129 West Main Street
Offering our fabulous FREE Pandora
Bracelet promotion! Our compliments for
coming is $20 off any purchase of $100
or more, valid until Dec. 24, 2011. A $10
donation will be made for every "Santa's
Wish List" received and $10 donated back
to food bank with each purchase! Enjoy
Drinks, Diamonds, & Delicacies
21 The Leaf & Bean
35 West Main Street
Rolling discount with Indulgence and
tart: 5% at the first business, 10% at the
second, and 15% at the third. Buy one,
get one half off on all scarves AND get a
$5 gift card for every $25 in purchases.
Keep them for yourself, or cross more
names off your list!
22 LillyLu
424 East Main Street
20% off storewide
23 McNally Interiors
14 West Main Street
For every $75 Purchase, receive a FREE
Ornament of your choice!
24 Meridian
101 East Main Street
Stop in for Complimentary Champagne
and an enjoyable shopping experience
25 Montana Trails Gallery Inc.
402 East Main Street
10% off Storewide for ALL the Ladies
26 Mountain Home
224 East Main Street
Stop in to our new space on Main Street
to enjoy refreshments, also enter a raffle
to win 3 FREE nights at one of amazing
rentals properties.
27 Owenhouse Ace Hardware
36 East Main Street
Enter to win a gourmet kitchen knife!
37 South Willson Avenue
Join Us for a Special Trunk Show of
inspirational adornments by NYC artist
Satya. Enjoy 20% off all Satya jewelry
purchased. In addition, check out
the beautiful selection of fall/holiday
collections of clothing by Eileen Fisher,
Vince and Autumn Cashmere with
surprise savings for Ladies Only! We will
be open until 10:00 to share the fun!
29 Plume Bridal
40 West Main Street
10% Off Storewide
30 Old Main Gallery
129 East Main Street
15% off all framed and unframed artwork.
Also, featuring EXQUISITE Hand Crafted
Jewelry and Holiday Gift Registry
31 Poor Richards
33 West Main Street
FREE fountain drink for everyone! No
purchase necessary. Also, buy 3 cigars,
get a FREE single-blade cigar cutter.
FREE Poor Richard's shot glass for every
purchase over $30. Shot glass filled
upon request.
32 Powder Horn Outfitters
35 East Main Street
Additional 20% off ALL Womens' Footwear
and Clothing and an additional 20% off
Bargain Basement
33 Ro Sham Bo
17 South Tracy Avenue
15% storewide on in-stock items only!
34 The Root
36 West Main Street
15% off storewide! "Ornament thing!"
35 Schnee's Boots and Shoes
121 West Main Street
20% of proceeds for each pair of Tsubo
sold will go to the Help Center. Goodhew
Buy 1 get 1 free, FREE Vera Bradley gift
w/purchase over $100, Buy any women's
fashion boot up to $150 get a $15 gift
card or over $150 get a $25 gift card. Ask
about the Extreme Sock Makeover to be
given away! Also, enjoy wine and snacks
36 Suelto Boutique
23 South Tracy Avenue
Receive 10% off anything you purchase
during ladies night and if you set up
a wishlist, anything on your wishlist
will receive 10% off between now and
37 Sugar Boutique
424 East Main Street, Suite 102-A
One FREE Niki Biki tank top (value $) for
any purchase of $100 or more
38 tart,
111 South Grand Suite 107C
(in the Emerson Center)
Rolling discount with The Leaf & Bean and
tart: 5% at the first business, 10% at the
second, and 15% at the third. Red Ants
Pants Party – chance to try on tough, US
made workpants for women, signature
Red Ant Stinger cocktails and snacks, free
"paparazzi" black and white photos and a
free gift tag with every gift purchased.
Restaurants & Bars • 7-10pm
39 American Legion
225 East Main Street
ALL Wine ½ Price, ALL Vodka drinks $2,
Also enjoy FREE Appetizers from 7-10pm
40 Bacchus Pub
105 West Main Street
Get a Cheese Board and 2 glasses of select
Wine for just $21!
41 Bar IX
311 East Main Street
2 for 1 top shelf martinis and 2 for 1 fruit
infused wines!
42 Cannery/Burger Bob's
43 West Main Street
$5 Stoli Martinis and ½ Price Appetizer Sampler
43 Crystal Bar
123 East Main Street
NOW serving La Tinga dinners from 5-8 for
Ladies' Night! These dinners come with
$2 Pacificos or Coronas, also enjoy a $3
44 Emerson Grill NORTH
111 South Grand Avenue
(in the Emerson Center)
25% off your entire ticket (gratuity not
included) at the Emerson Grill North.
Don't forget about our Happy Hour from
5-7 pm!
45 Over the Tapas
19 South Willson
½ off ALL Bottles of Wine for all
participating Ladies
46 Pub 317
317 East Main Street
$4 Cosmos for ALL the Ladies!
47 Ted's Montana Grill
105 West Main Street
A special "Northern Light" Martini $7,
House Wine $5 and ½ order Onion rings
for $3.50 (one offer per person)
48 Tarantino's
321 East Main Street Suite 1F
2 Topping 8" Pizza and 4 Side Salads
for $24
Restaurants & Bars • 7-10pm
SPONSORS: MY 103.5, Downtown Bozeman and The Bozone
This event will go on snow or shine and is FREE to the public! Visit www.downtownbozeman.org or call 406-586-4008 for more information!


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Color MFPs prove capable and costly
Our six MFPs prove feature-rich, but their prices may be tough to justify
The Aficio 2238C astounded us by printing legible 1-point type. Even at normal sizes, letters looked crisp and black, and copied text looked almost as clean. The MFP's limited gray-scale range resulted in murky-looking monochrome graphics, whether printed or copied. Broad areas of color, such as pie-chart wedges, had somewhat uneven coverage, and color gradations showed somewhat abrupt transitions.
Ricoh's control panel can be overwrought. Making a copy requires at least two steps: choosing a mechanical button for monochrome, two-color, or four-color mode, then pressing the Start button. You set a scan's resolution and color in one window but set its file format in a different window. And in some views it's hard to distinguish dialog-box tabs from -- yes -- subtabs, such as the stack of windows in the Edit/Color Creation area.
After you've learned your way around, however, you'll be impressed by the system's capabilities. For example, the Job Cancel allows you to change the number of copies before killing a job. One scan setting is tuned for copying maps, and another for copying degraded copies of copies. You can crop or knock out parts of an image by entering x, y coordinates on the control panel. You can also combine duplex, N-up, and rotated images into one document and then assign page numbers, date stamps, and watermarks. You can give your documents a colored background using a canned color or one of 15 that you can mix and name yourself. You can also transform colors completely -- for example, turn a gray sky blue or convert all the red cells in a spreadsheet to black. On a more practical note, you can set up scan-to-folder destinations at the control panel by browsing the LAN as if you were at a PC.
Ricoh made some regrettable mechanical decisions. The Aficio 2238C's auxiliary tray is sturdy, but its plastic finger-like extension to support tabloid-size paper popped off repeatedly. The four 500-sheet main paper trays feel flimsy. We like the trays' automatic paper-size sensors, but their stick-on paper-size labels are potentially messy.
The list prices we gathered for this review should be taken with a grain of salt. The $20,210 price tag on our test configuration seems steep, however, for a color MFP with no offset-stacking or stapling capability as standard equipment.
Sharp AR-BC320 Color Imager
Sharp's AR-BC320 scored well in features and ease-of-use. If its MSRP means anything, it's also one of the more economical choices we tested -- which could persuade some offices to overlook the machine's shortcomings in speed and output quality.
Our test unit augmented the standard 500-sheet letter-size input tray and 250-sheet tabloid-size auxiliary feed with two 500-sheet, tabloid-size trays and a duplexer. The top of the printer incorporates the standard output tray. Other feeders and finishers are also available. The paper trays feel flimsy when you pull them out and act finicky when you push them in. Also, they cannot automatically sense paper size.
The scanner/ADF that sits atop the AR-BC320 cannot telescope to accommodate thick documents, and it has to flip pages to scan duplex. Some MFPs we've tested have dual scanners to capture both sides simultaneously. We do appreciate the red light that flashes when we forget to remove originals from the platen.
The AR-BC320's abundant features appear mostly as soft buttons on the monochrome LCD. You can blow up copies into multisheet posters -- the biggest size is four tabloid sheets in each direction. The Repeat feature puts multiple copies of the same image on one page and has the most layout options we've seen. Active jobs appear in separate print, scan, and fax queues, and you can change their order.
Of the few hard buttons on the control panel, we especially liked the separate monochrome- and color-copy buttons. Although you can, of course, adjust settings further before pressing either button, this completely straightforward design saves time and prevents accidental color copies. The machine's administrator can also PIN-protect color copying.
The control-panel design sometimes confused us. On the principal soft buttons -- Original, Output, Paper Select, and others -- the label and the button look alike. The lack of a Cancel button when choosing settings made us wonder how to exit without saving. Some windows have two OK buttons -- one for the menu level you're working in and one for the whole setup -- which saves time for experienced users but could confuse novices.
As did all the devices tested for this review, the AR-BC320 printed too slowly to satisfy an active office. Text pages crept out at 15.1 ppm, graphics at a mere 3 ppm. Copying times were better: a zippy 29.7 ppm for plain-text documents and 14.6 ppm for graphics pages.
The MFP's output quality is acceptable for general-business documents. Printed and copied text both looked good; in the latter, diagonal strokes looked jagged. Color graphics, both printed and copied, displayed uneven coverage in large areas of solid colors. Color photos looked dark and dotty but managed to preserve some detail.
Xerox WorkCentre Pro C2636
Xerox's WorkCentre Pro C2636 rates highest among the color MFPs in our roundup because it's fast, well-equipped, and adept at combining sophisticated capabilities with the user-friendliness that a busy workgroup needs. It also seems to offer competitive pricing.
The WorkCentre Pro C2636 is carefully designed and mostly well made. The scanner, ADF, and control panel sit securely on the arms of a steel exoskeleton; the printer component nestles underneath. A small plastic shelf on the machine's left side provides a convenient place to park papers while you're setting up a job. Access doors and paper trays feel sturdy; the latter are easy to adjust. Only the foldout auxiliary input tray feels a bit flimsy, as most do.
The configuration we tested included the High-Capacity Feeder option, which stacks two 520-sheet, tabloid-size trays plus dual 1,000-sheet letter-size feeders underneath the printer. Between the printer and the scanner you'll find a standard, 400-sheet output tray that can offset collated copies. Several external finishers are also available. With the fax option, our unit lists for $17,890 -- at first glance a good value, though we don't know what a real-world, negotiated price for any of these MFPs would be.
The WorkCentre Pro C2636 is very approachable, thanks to a control panel designed around two physical buttons -- Features and Access -- that divide most functions between managing the system and using it. In Feature mode, the color-coded LCD displays a row of buttons for principal functions, each complemented by tabs of hierarchically arranged settings. Access, where you set up the machine's defaults, follows a similar structure.
The features go deep into production-level controls. For example, when building a complex copy job from several batches of originals, you can mix documents scanned on the platen with ones sent through the ADF, mix simplex with duplex pages and number some pages but not others, run a sample copy, and correct individual settings without reprogramming the whole job. After setting up the job, you can switch to Program mode and save it. Unfortunately, the machine stores only 10 programs, and it labels these with numbers instead of meaningful names.
The WorkCentre Pro C2636 also provides good capabilities for ordinary users. You can adjust the color of scans and copies with preset schemes called Lively, Warm, and so on, and it can check color swatches on the LCD to see what the adjustments should look like. The machine automatically detects mixed-size pages in the ADF and pulls appropriate paper from different drawers. Job Status, a physical button, displays all pending jobs in the queue in one list, where you can move jobs around.
Xerox designed the WorkCentre Pro C2636 to be partly user-serviceable via Smart Kits. Smart Kits include the tube-shaped toner cartridges and the imaging drums, which are a snap to replace, and the waste-toner collector, which is a little trickier to install. Smart Kits won't save you any cash because they simply take the place of a service visit, but they can keep you from waiting on a technician.
The WorkCentre Pro C2636 aced our image-quality and performance tests. Its 18.1-ppm speed printing black text outpaced the rest, and the text itself looked impressively matte-black, clean, and crisp at all sizes. Grayscale photos showed a somewhat limited range of shades, but images still looked highly detailed and smooth. Color graphics -- always the Achilles' heel of performance -- printed at a comparatively good 4.5 ppm. And samples such as Excel pie charts and wide swaths of color on PowerPoint slides showed some minor patchiness. Speaking of patches, we had to install one for the WorkCentre Pro C2636's PostScript driver to fix a PowerPoint 2003 rendering issue: When using the standard image-quality setting, some colors printed inaccurately.
Copy speed and quality in our tests were similarly impressive. Plain-text copies appeared at a zippy 31.1 ppm, color graphics at a competitive 16.8 ppm. All copied documents looked saturated and fairly solid; copied color photos displayed delightfully sharp focus.
Substance over style
When you shop for a color MFP, keep these factors in mind: The MFPs we tested all offered similar lists of features but differed more in terms of how easily, quickly, or well they executed on those features. Take the time for a full demonstration of the unit and its options, and try using the control panel yourself before you buy. Also, think of the machine not just as a printer/copier/scanner/fax but as a device that can help you smooth office workflow and document management. Storing forms electronically for on-demand printing, scanning documents directly into a database, running custom applications -- these are some of the real reasons an MFP could be a good upgrade for your office.
|InfoWorld Scorecard
Print quality (25.0%)
Ease of use (15.0%)
Management (10.0%)
Speed (25.0%)
Features (25.0%)
Overall Score (100%)
|Canon Color imageRunner C3220
|HP Color LaserJet 9500mfp
|Lexmark X762e
|Ricoh Aficio 2238C
|Sharp AR-BC320 Color Imager
|Xerox WorkCentre Pro C2636


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Yesterday, Obama visited SXSW; during a talk he tried to convey a sense of balance in the dispute between Apple and the DOJ. The government wants Apple to build a special version of iOS to unlock an iPhone that was used by deceased terrorist Syed Farook. Apple has refused to comply with a court order because of fears that such code would end up in the wrong hands. That would make every iPhone user on earth vulnerable to having the private information kept inside their phone, stolen by hackers. Just the other day, the DOJ threatened to force Apple to turn over the source code to iOS along with the electronic signature needed to access it.
But instead of siding 100% with Apple, or 100% with the Justice Department, Obama talked about finding a delicate balance between both sides, adding that he is "of the view that there are very real reasons why we want to make sure the government cannot just willy-nilly get into everybody's iPhones or smartphones…" On the other hand, the president asks "How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot? What mechanisms do we have available to even do simple things like tax enforcement if, in fact, you can't crack that at all. If the government can't get in, everyone is walking around with a Swiss bank account in their pocket."
At the same time, Obama says that we need to stop "fetishizing our phones above every other value." You can watch his speech by clicking on the video below.
source: WhiteHouse via BGR


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Star Couplings: Janet Jackson Is Ready For Motherhood
- Janet Jackson reportedly lost weight for her Qatari beau Wissam Al Mana and is ready to make babies with him. [Celebitchy]
- Julia Roberts says the "love of a good man" keeps her looking young and beautiful. Bragger. [PopEater]
- Queen Latifah and her rumored girlfriend Jeanette Jenkins are on a double vacay with newlyweds Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz. [Dlisted]
- The relationship between "Basketball Wife" Gloria Govan and NBA baller Matt Barnes wasn't the happy picture she painted on the VH1 reality show because they have called off their wedding. [The YBF]
- Shannon Price, Gary Coleman's ex-wife, is upset his estate is trying to sell the house they shared. [TMZ]
- Tony Romo is ready to marry his girlfriend and says he hopes Jessica Simpson finds the same happiness. [Hollywood Life]


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This article was published 25/4/2013 (1580 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Given a choice between a new Toyota Corolla or the latest iPhone, 16-year-old Allison Katz of Irvine, Calif., says that's an easy one.
She'd take the phone.
Texting drives her social life. She doesn't have a driver's licence and hasn't rushed to get one.
"I mostly stay near my house except for soccer practice, and then Mom or Dad drives," Allison said.
It's enough to keep an auto executive awake at night.
Thirty years ago, nearly half of 16-year-olds had a driver's licence, their passport to independence. By 2010, that figure had dropped to 28 per cent, according to research from the University of Michigan.
The cultural shift is largely the result of technology that keeps teens connected to one another and the coolest new stuff without ever getting into a car. All the adolescent staples -- music, movies, clothes, books -- are available with a mouse click or smartphone swipe.
Driving once allowed teens "to go where you want, do what you want, see who you want and, in some sense, be who you want," said Lindsey Kirchoff, 23, of marketing software company HubSpot and a millennial-trend marketing consultant. "The Internet has made the freedom that comes with a licence anticlimactic."
This generation's waning interest in driving has serious long-term consequences for automotive sales and marketing. Before selling young buyers on any particular model -- say, a Honda Civic versus a Chevrolet Cruze -- automakers have to persuade them they need a car at all.
Drivers ages 15 to 20 accounted for 3.4 per cent of U.S. new-car sales in 1985, or about 500,000 vehicles, according to CNW Research, an automotive-market research firm. That dropped to two per cent last year, or just 300,000 vehicles.
The implications for automakers go deeper than a few lost or delayed sales to young drivers. Many of today's teenagers won't form the same emotional attachment to driving as their parents, who aspired to luxury or performance cars as status symbols.
Many teens without licences say they will eventually learn to drive. But they won't have "parked" up. Fast food will be walk-up rather than drive-through. They won't make formative memories in cars or develop a passion for driving. Status now comes from gigabits instead of horsepower, from the newest iPad with Retina display rather than a BMW.
This generation probably will buy fewer cars in their lifetime than their parents, concedes Jack Hollis, who heads marketing for the Toyota car brand in the U.S. That's a function of competing interests, increased auto durability and recession-honed pragmatism.
Nearly three-quarters of millennials ages 18 to 34 would rather shop online than in stores, according to a December survey by Zipcar, the hourly car-rental company. Given the choice of losing their phone or computer or their car, 65 per cent would go without their car.
"This is the Xbox generation," said Scott Griffith, Zipcar's former chief executive. "They manage their social lives as easily on the information highway as we did on the paved highway.
"The automakers are very worried."
The auto industry could help itself by better integrating technology into their cars, Toyota's Hollis said.
"The auto industry has not pushed itself with technology and design at the same speed as the rest of society. You would be hard-pressed to say that any automotive company has out-innovated its competition."
But fun-to-drive cars with dynamic styling can capture young buyers, Hollis said, noting Toyota kept that in mind when it redesigned its flagship Camry sedan. Now, 12 per cent of Camry buyers are younger than 29, up from seven per cent for the previous model.
Ford is trying to recapture young buyers on college campuses by subsidizing rental rates for its vehicles, available through car-sharing services such as Zipcar.
"Once these students have been exposed to Ford products, they will be more likely to consider buying them," said Sheryl Connelly, Ford's manager of global trends and futuring.
Chevrolet is marketing to younger buyers by focusing on their shifting priorities, Landy said. "In the past, it was all about horsepower and torque, and now it is about technology, connecting to smartphones and fuel efficiency."
Chevy's Spark and Sonic small cars offer MyLink radio, which enables drivers to purchase a $50 BringGo smartphone app to display a navigation program and traffic updates. The system mimics an embedded navigation system -- at a fraction of the cost -- and also syncs with other apps such as Pandora and Stitcher music services.
Chevrolet also is working on a "mirror link" feature that would display on a dashboard screen any app deemed safe for driving.
All this will help, but what the automakers really need, Griffith said, is "an iPhone with wheels."
-- Los Angeles Times


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JUDY WOODRUFF: The political conventions won't begin for almost two weeks, but President Obama, Mitt Romney and their running mates are already campaigning in earnest.
Today, they spread out across the country, focusing on everything from energy to taxes.
REP. PAUL RYAN (R-Wis.): You know, it's great to be here in Colorado.
GOV. MITT ROMNEY (R),: Now, this is my — my second chance to be on a bus tour across Ohio this summer.
VICE PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN: We need you to stand with us.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: It has been great to be back in Iowa.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The four men on the two presidential tickets blitzed four states that will be critical this November. President Obama was on the second day of a three-day bus tour across Iowa, talking up energy policy.
In Oskaloosa, the president argued his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, has dismissed the whole idea of alternative energy.
BARACK OBAMA: He said that new sources of energy like wind are imaginary. His running mate calls them a fad.
During a speech a few months ago, Gov. Romney even explained his energy policy this way — I'm quoting here — "You cant drive a car with a windmill on it."
BARACK OBAMA: That's what he said about wind power. "You can't drive a car with a windmill on it."
JUDY WOODRUFF: Iowa has become a center of wind energy production, and the president said Romney has a lot to learn about it.
BARACK OBAMA: The wind industry now supports 7,000 jobs here in Iowa, 75,000 jobs across the country.
BARACK OBAMA: These jobs aren't a fad — aren't a fad. These are good jobs and they're sources of pride that we need to fight for. And if he — if Gov. Romney understood what you have been doing, he'd know that we used to have to import most of the parts that were used for wind turbines. They're now being made here in America by American workers in American factories.
That's not imaginary. That's real. That's part of what were fighting for in this election. So, I want to stop giving $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies that are going to oil companies that are making huge profits and have been subsidized for 100 years, and let's keep on investing in the new homegrown energy that is creating jobs right here in Iowa. That's a difference in this election.
JUDY WOODRUFF: At the same time, Romney was in Ohio's coal country, arguing it's the president who's forsaken a ready-made energy source. He was flanked by a group of coal miners in Beallsville.
MITT ROMNEY: We have 250 years of coal. Why in the heck wouldn't we use it? And so I want to take advantage of those energy resources. Of course I like all of those sources of energy. You have probably heard the president say he's for all of the above.
And I wondered what he meant, because I see how he's been waging war on coal. And I wondered how could he possibly say that? Then it came to me. He's for all the sources of energy that come from above the ground, none of those that come from below the ground, like oil and coal and gas.
I'm for all of the above, whether it comes above the ground or below the ground. We're going to take advantage of our energy resources to save your jobs, to create more jobs. And, by the way, when we use our plentiful energy resources, our inexpensive carbon-based energy resources, you're going to see manufacturing come back to America.
It's not just in this community that jobs will be grown and created. It will be in other parts of our nation as well. We're going to bring jobs back in part by that first step I'm going to take, which is to take advantage of our energy resources.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Then-candidate Obama won Ohio in 2008, but today Romney said the president has not lived up to promises he made to the Buckeye State.
MITT ROMNEY: He said if he's said elected president and his policies get put in place, the cost of energy would skyrocket. That's one he has kept.
He also said that you could go out and build a new coal plant if you want, but if you do, you will go bankrupt. That's another promise he's intent on keeping. His vice president said coal is more dangerous than terrorists. Can you imagine that?
MITT ROMNEY: This — yes.
This tells you precisely what he actually feels and what he has done. And his policies over the last 3.5 years have put in place the very vision he had when he was running for office. But now he wants to get reelected.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Meanwhile, Romney's vice presidential pick, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, hit the same theme in Lakewood, Colo.
REP. PAUL RYAN: We are offering solutions. And among those solutions we are offering are, number one, make sure that we use our own energy because we have our own energy in this country, all of it.
REP. PAUL RYAN: You have it all here in Colorado. We have our own oil and gas. We have nuclear. We have all of the above, wind, solar, coal. Let's use it. Let's make our energy independence.
REP. PAUL RYAN: Let's create jobs. Let's stop sending jobs overseas by buying oil overseas.
REP. PAUL RYAN: Now you have the technology here, the wherewithal here, the oil and gas here. We want to reward that. We should be tapping our resources, which we know we can in an environmentally sensitive way. We want to get the government out of the way.
REP. PAUL RYAN: President Obama has done all that he can to make it harder for us to use our own energy.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Vice President Joe Biden steered clear of energy as he stumped in Danville, Virginia. He called the Republican ticket men of fundamentally flawed judgment.
JOSEPH BIDEN: Romney wants to let the — he said, in the first hundred days, he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street.
JOSEPH BIDEN: They're going to put you all back in chains.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Biden then zeroed in on Republican calls for extending and adding new tax cuts.
JOSEPH BIDEN: Now, you got to hear it. Now, I want you to listen, because you will think I'm making this up if you didn't listen hard — $800 billion over the next 10 years will go to people with a minimum income of a million dollars.
Now, wait, no, hang on. And of that $800 million — billion — $400 billion will go to 120,000 households, $400 billion going to 120,000 households, while we cut Medicaid, while we cut education, while we cut infrastructure.
Ladies and gentlemen — and on top of that, Romney comes along, the governor comes along, as does the congressman, and says we need an additional tax cut for the job creators. I'm serious. We need an additional $1.6 trillion for the job creators, on top of all this.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The Romney camp protested the Biden remark about putting people back in chains, calling it a new low. The Obama campaign replied, saying it was in response to a frequent GOP call to unshackle the private sector from consumer regulations.


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To make the most of this tutorial you'll need previous experience building applications with Adobe Flash Builder as well as some knowledge of development techniques using .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio.
In this tutorial you'll learn about Remote Shared Objects (RSOs) and how to use them from either the client or server side. You'll also develop a small application based on a simple word game that will access and modify RSOs using from client-side (ActionScript) and server-side (C#) code using the WebORB Integration Server to marshal the communications between client and server. You'll need to have an IIS server running and WebORB installed on your server.
RSOs track, store, share, and synchronize data between multiple client applications.
An RSO is an object that lives on the server. It resides in the scope of a messaging application that clients connect to. More than one client can connect to an RSO, and all of them will have access to the data in the RSO. WebORB, in this case, is responsible for managing the RSO and providing access to it for various clients.
RSOs are particularly useful when they are used on several clients at the same time. When one client changes data that updates the RSO on the server, the server sends the change to all other connected clients, enabling you to synchronize many different clients with the same data. RSOs can also be updated and accessed by the server, giving developers more options for application development.
To sum it up, RSOs can be used to:
In this tutorial, you will use RSOs to create a simple online version of the Add-a-word game. The object of this game is to add a word to a sentence, one user at a time, and eventually come up with a very long sentence (that still makes sense).
Consider the following example:
The server-side code for this application keeps track of all connected users, assign turns, and add words to the sentence.
Note: The code snippets included in the steps below are not complete; rather they are used to illustrate the main concepts in the server-side implementation. For the complete code, see WeborbSharpRSO.cs in the sample files for this tutorial.
Follow these steps to create the server-side DLL:
namespace WeborbSharpRSO
public class WeborbSharpRSO : ApplicationAdapter
The ApplicationAdapter class has several methods that let you know when an application is started, when a new room is created, and when a client connects or disconnects. An application can have several rooms running simultaneously. Each room may have one or more clients connected and sharing information. Clients connected to one room share information only with other clients in the same room.
For this example you'll use the following two methods to detect when a client joins or leaves a room:
public override bool roomJoin(IClient client, IScope room)
public override void roomLeave(IClient client, IScope room)
public string sharedObjectName = "addWord";
roomJoin() method, first check if the user can connect to the room. Then check if the room has the Remote Shared Object. If not, create it and add a SharedObjectListener to it. This listener will detect any changes in the RSO.
public override bool roomJoin(IClient client, IScope room){
if (base.roomJoin(client, room)) {
ISharedObject so;
if (!hasSharedObject(room, sharedObjectName)){
createSharedObject(room, sharedObjectName, false);
so = getSharedObject(room, sharedObjectName);
so.addSharedObjectListener(new MySharedObjectListener());
so = getSharedObject(room, sharedObjectName);
Note: The code in roomJoin could also be placed inside of the appStart method.
The next step is to check and update the values of some attributes of the RSO, such as the number of users connected and whose turn is next. These attributes hold all the information you want to share across clients.
For example, your code will get the existing number of users connected to the room from the shared object (SO) and then increment that number by one. This value is then written back to the SO:
totalUsers = so.getLongAttribute("totalUsers");
so.setAttribute("totalUsers", totalUsers);
In addition to
totalUsers, the RSO shares the following data:
userList: List of all the clients connected to the same room
currentUser: id and name of the client whose turn it is to add the next word
sentence: the actual sentence being formed
word: the last word submitted
Each client that connects to a room is assigned unique ID based on the connection order.
roomJoin() function, add the following code, which sends this ID to the client using the
invokeClients method (explained in more detail below):
object[] args = new Object[] {client.getId()};
invokeClients("SetUserId", args, client.getConnections(room));
public class MySharedObjectListener : ISharedObjectListener
This class provides methods that can be used to check for different types of changes on the shared object. This tutorial focuses on the
onSharedObjectUpdate() method, which is used to check for changes on the remote object. A change on the
word attribute of the RSO invokes a method that will process the information and set the next user.
onSharedObjectUpdate() as follows:
public void onSharedObjectUpdate(ISharedObjectBase so, string key, object value){
if (key == "word")
WeborbSharpRSO.nextUser(so, value.ToString());
nextUser() method is called when there's a new word to add to the sentence. Even though you could modify the RSO directly in this function, do not use this approach.
When the server-side code changes the RSO during a client-side request, the client that initiated the request does not get the changes added by the server. The server-side accumulates all the changes as independent events. The accumulated events are sent out to the original sender first and then to all other subscribers. Each event has a corresponding RSO version number. If there are multiple change events all going out with the same version number, Flash Player lets only the first one through. This will cause the client that initiated the request to get only the changes it requested, not the changes added by the server to the RSO on the same request.
public static void nextUser(ISharedObjectBase so,string word) {
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(ChangeCurrentUser, new object[] {so, word});
ChangeCurrentUser() function to actually change the RSO on the server. Here's where you add the word to the sentence and write it back to the RSO:
public static void changeCurrentUser( object state ){
if( word != "" ){
string text = "";
if( so.hasAttribute("sentence") )
text = so.getStringAttribute("sentence");
so.setAttribute("sentence", text += " " + word);
so.setAttribute("currentUser", newCurrentUser.ToString() );
roomLeave() method to handle clean-up tasks when a user leaves the room. This method updates the list of clients still playing the game.
Note the three-step process: the content of the
userList attribute is retrieved and set to the
users dictionary, the client that is leaving the room is removed from the dictionary, and then a copy of the content of this object is put into a
newUsers dictionary. The reason behind this awkward process is that the server won't detect the change on the original
users object when an element is removed. As a result, if you send back the same object to the RSO, the changes will not be sent to the clients.
users = so.getMapAttribute("userList");
if (users.Contains(client.getId()))
newUsers = new Dictionary<string, string>();
foreach (DictionaryEntry de in users)
newUsers[de.Key] = de.Value;
so.setAttribute("totalUsers", totalUsers);
invokeClients() to the main class. This function uses the
connection.invoke method to call ActionScript methods on the client. You will need to pass the name of the method to call, any needed parameters, and the list of client connections. The name used in the
functionName variable must exist as a function name in the client application:
private void invokeClients(string functionName, object[] args, IList<IConnection> ILconn ){
foreach(IConnection conn in ILconn){
((IServiceCapableConnection)conn).invoke(functionName, args);
A detailed explanation of the invoke() method is outside of the scope of this tutorial. For more information about this method please consult the WebORB documentation or see Invoke ActionScript functions from .NET.
You'll need to configure WebORB before your application will work. Specifically, you need to add a messaging application so WebORB is aware of its existence and can manage the user connections. Follow these steps:
Open the WebORB management console (see Figure 1) using a web browser. If you installed WebORB using the default settings, the console is available at: http://localhost/weborb4/weborbconsole.html
Note: If the MyRSO application doesn't show up under the list of applications, but you can see the folder in the hard drive, you may need to restart IIS and then reload the WebORB console.
If you cannot see the MyRSO folder in your hard drive you may need to check your permissions. For more information on permissions, refer to the WebORB installation and deployment documentation available through the Help/Resources tab of the WebORB console.
With the server-side code in place, you're ready to open Adobe Flash Builder and develop the ActionScript code.
Note that you could have made many of the changes to the RSO directly with ActionScript using WebORB's own SharedObjectsApp messaging application. This tutorial used a more convoluted path to illustrate RSO access and modification from the server.
Note: The code snippets included in the steps below are not complete; rather they are used to illustrate the main concepts in the client-side implementation. For the complete code, see WeborbRSO.mxml in the sample files for this tutorial.
To create your ActionScript code, follow these steps:
<s:State name="login" />
<s:State name="game" />
TitleWindow with two
textInput controls (Room Name and User Name) and a Connect button:
<s:TitleWindow includeIn="login" verticalCenter="0" horizontalCenter="0" width="300" height="180" >
<s:VerticalLayout gap="5" verticalAlign="middle" horizontalAlign="center" />
<s:HGroup verticalAlign="middle">
<s:Label text="Room Name:" width="80" textAlign="right" />
<s:TextInput id="txtRoomName" text="Test1" width="150" />
<s:HGroup verticalAlign="middle">
<s:Label text="Your Name:" width="80" textAlign="right" />
<s:TextInput id="txtYourName" text="Damian" width="150" />
<s:Button label="Connect" click="onConnect()" />
HGroup that displays a list of the connected users on the left, the sentence the users are forming on the top right, and a
textarea control where the users can type the next word at the bottom right:
<s:HGroup includeIn="game" verticalCenter="0" horizontalCenter="0">
<s:TitleWindow title="User List ({totalUsers})" width="150" height="300">
<s:List id="lUsers" dataProvider="{userList}" labelField="Name" width="100%" height="100%">
<!-- We use an item renderer to color red the name of the current user -->
<s:ItemRenderer height="20">
<s:Label id="myLabel" width="100%" verticalCenter="0" text="{data.name}" color="{data.userId==data.current?0xff0000:0x000000}"/>
<s:TitleWindow title="Add a Word -- {userName} -- User Id:{userId}" width="500" height="300">
<s:VerticalLayout verticalAlign="middle" horizontalAlign="center" />
<s:TextArea editable="false" selectable="false" width="450" height="200" text="{text}" />
<s:HGroup id="hgSendText" gap="10" horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle" enabled="{userId==currentUser?true:false}">
<s:TextInput id="txtAddText" width="400" />
<s:Button label="Add Word" click="onSendText()" />
The Connect button in the login state invokes the
onConnect() function. This function connects to the server and obtains the remote shared object.
onConnect() to the block:
public function onConnect():void{
roomName = txtRoomName.text;
userName = txtYourName.text;
SharedObject.defaultObjectEncoding = ObjectEncoding.AMF0;
* Establish connection
* */
nc = new NetConnection();
nc.client = this;
nc.objectEncoding = ObjectEncoding.AMF0;
nc.addEventListener( NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, onNetStatus );
nc.connect( urlServer + "/" + weborbApplicationName + "/" + roomName );
* Get Remote Object
* */
so = SharedObject.getRemote( sharedObjectName, nc.uri, false ,false);
so.client = this;
so.addEventListener( SyncEvent.SYNC, onSync );
so.connect( nc );
The server URL, name of the WebORB application, and name of the remote object are previously declared in variables. The name of the chat room is obtained from the login window. Users can login to different chat rooms to work on different sentences.
public function setUserId(userId:String):void
this.userId = userId;
setName = true;
onSync() function, which is called each time there's a sync event on the remote shared object. Use this function to set the client's name the first time they login. Also use this function to enable/disable the button to submit text as well as to update the list of users logged in. Each time there is a change, this function creates the list and sets the id of the user whose turn it is. (See WeborbRSO.mxml for the full implementation.)
onSendText() function, which send the word to the server. This function is called when the user clicks the Add Word button. It simply sets the
word property on the shared object.
public function onSendText():void {
txtAddText.text = "";
This add-a-word game is just a simple application that showcases some of the possibilities of Remote Shared Objects. Of course, there are several ways to improve this application. To start with, you could limit the content sent by a user to just one word, and not allow any number of words. You could also use the RSO to keep track of several sentences at a time inside the same room if you wanted.
This tutorial demonstrated that RSOs can be used in many different situations, ranging from sharing information between clients to managing and synchronizing real-time online games. Now that you're familiar with them, you can adapt these techniques for your own applications.
You can try this application at Anden Solutions.
For more information about WebORB for .NET visit its overview page.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license, pertaining to the examples of code included within this work are available at Adobe.


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TAMPA — An attempt to take the politics out of the annual Hillsborough County Commission chairman selection appears headed toward the rocks, a victim of politics.
Republican insiders have rallied in opposition to Democrat Les Miller's proposal to rotate the position instead of having commissioners vote among themselves to pick their leader. They say the idea snubs the will of voters, who have elected a 5-2 Republican supermajority to the board, by making it easier for a Democrat to lead it.
Now two Republican commissioners, including one who repeatedly has been passed over for the job by his colleagues, say they are leaning against Miller's proposal.
"How do you create the best football team?" said Commissioner Mark Sharpe. "Do you let everyone rotate in at quarterback? I don't think so."
Just two weeks ago, Sharpe told Miller, "I like what you're trying to do." Now he and Commissioner Sandra Murman — who recently said she was "fully supportive" of Miller's plan — are not so much in favor of it.
Both say they are leaning toward a proposal by Republican political consultant and blogger Chris Ingram. He contends that commissioners should still pick a chairman by voting amongst themselves. But to partly address one of Miller's concerns — that the annual contest results in needless backbiting — he says no board member should serve more than once every four years.
That's like a rotation, Sharpe and Murman said.
Commissioners elected Republican Ken Hagan as chairman this year for the fourth time in five years. That followed weeks of lobbying by supporters of Hagan and other commissioners who wanted the job. Most of the commissioners, including Hagan, said it was the nastiest year of arm twisting they could recall.
The job is largely ceremonial, but comes with a $10,000 annual stipend and greater recognition.
"I applaud Les Miller," Ingram said. "But I think his idea goes too far and is too complicated and I think to some extent is a Democratic power play."
He noted that, had such a system been in place, ex-commissioner Kevin White, recently convicted of bribery, could have been chairman.
Miller's proposal would give everyone on the board a chance to be its chairman. The job would move from one seat to the next, in roughly numerical order by district.
Commissioners tentatively voted 5-2 last month to move the idea forward, with Victor Crist and Al Higginbotham, the outgoing chairman, voting no. A change of heart by Sharpe and Murman would mean Miller's proposal most likely will die.
That's what many Republican insiders said should happen when that party's county-level executive committee met that same week. The topic is scheduled for a formal discussion at the next party meeting on Dec. 13.
"To suggest every member of the County Commission should be chairman and would do a good job strains credulity," said party treasurer Josh Burgin, speaking for himself, not the party.
Ingram said commissioners should have to decide for themselves who they think is best suited to be chairman and not simply submit to "Russian roulette."
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West Midlands accountancy firm Harben Barker succeeded in convincing the Court of Appeal to overturn the £1m negligence claim brought by a client who alleged they had not advised him properly about his tax avoidance options as a non-domicile.
Mehjoo was an entrepreneur who was granted asylum in the UK in the 1980s and became a UK citizen in 1996. During the 1990s he built up the company Bank Fashion, which he sold for £8m in 2004. He paid £800,000 in tax under the CGT taper relief that applied at the time, but then attempted to shelter his money in a capital exemption scheme arranged by Montpelier. When the scheme failed and Montpelier went bust, Mehjoo was advised to sue his accountants.
At the initial trial, KPMG's David Kilshaw testified that as because of his background, Mehjoo could be considered as a non-domiciled taxpayer, so he shouldn't have entered a capital redemption scheme - a bearer warrant scheme would have been more appropriate.
Bearer warrant schemes are not the domain of most High Street accountants. But the implication of the original High Court verdict from Mr Justice Silber was that even if an accountancy firm didn't know of such esoteric arrangements, it should refer clients to specialists in that area.
The decision put the six-partner firm through a nightmare that could have closed down their firm.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Man Group (EMG.L) reported a rise in sales to private investors in its first quarter, raising hopes of a recovery of fund flows into the sector and boosting its shares.
In a statement on Thursday, Man Group said it attracted net inflows of $1.9 billion (1.2 billion pounds) from private investors into its funds, which aim to deliver positive investment returns whether markets rise or fall, helping offset net outflows of $3.3 billion from institutions such as pension funds.
"This is a significant positive for the company, especially as gross asset gathering has remained strong even during the worst quarters of the credit crunch," analysts at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch said in a research note.
"Man (stock) is far too cheap for a company where (there) is clear evidence that it retains the ability to generate profitable organic growth," the note said.
Shares in the world's largest listed hedge fund firm, which fell on Wednesday to their lowest in more than a month, were up 2 percent at 244 pence by 10:11 a.m., outpacing gains in the FTSE 100 .FTSE and having touched 250p earlier in the session.
Private investors have generally been quicker than institutions to pull their money from the $1.3 trillion hedge fund industry, and slower to return.
At last month's GAIM hedge fund conference in Monaco speakers said the immediate outlook for flows was tough, although institutional investors could re-enter this year.
Over the past year, Man Group's assets have fallen sharply due to poor performance and through outflows. Man said its funds under management had dipped to $43.3 billion at the end of its first quarter on June 30, down from $44 billion at the end of May, as currency gains failed to match the outflows.
Man said early redemption figures for the second quarter marked "a significant reduction in the quarterly rate," saying it had paid out a gross $1.8 billion in institutional outflows so far.
Most outflows are booked and paid at the beginning of the quarter, it said, implying any further inflows will reduce the net outflows figure to below $1.8 billion.
Gross redemptions from private investors were "considerably lower" than in the previous two quarters, it said.
The asset total was helped by currency movements but suffered a $1.5 billion blow after Man cut leverage levels in some private investor products following poor performance in its flagship AHL offering, which was down 11.2 percent in the first five months.
In May Man Group Chief Executive Peter Clarke said he expected redemption requests from institutional investors to "shift significantly downwards from here." In the year to March the company saw net outflows of $2.1 billion.
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