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Monday, August 23, 2010
The best of all possible worlds?
But, really, how do we know? Would a different agent have had the same success with Hosseini? Had Harry Potter been published by some other house, might it have flopped? (Wow, imagine what publishing today might look like had that happened.) I'm sure I've talked here before about my discussion with an editor who turned down a book that would go on to win the Caldecott Medal. She expressed no regret, saying "had I been the editor, it wouldn't have won."
Has anyone read the late Olivia Goldsmith's The Bestseller (which I don't think it was)? It was about the fortunes of five books on a publisher's list--what hit, what flopped, what surprised-- and the attendant personal drama among the authors and editors. Pulpy but engrossing, it showed me how much luck goes into the whole business. Or am I naive?
42 comments:
- Gregory K. said...
This is kind of publishing's equivalent of baseball's "fallacy of the next pitch." Take a ballgame with your team trailing by two with a runner on first base. The runner tries to steal second and is caught. on the next pitch, the batter hits a home run - if that runner had been on, the game is tied!!!! Ahh, but would that event have happened with the runner on first? The pitcher would've thrown from a windup, not the stretch; the catcher wouldn't be calling a pitch based on the runner being on; the batter wouldn't be thinking of hitting behind the runner to advance him....
So, I think you're right: other agents or editors or publishers might have had different results for a whole slew of reasons. This doesn't diminish from the achievements we make, it just means those achievements aren't predetermined and we were lucky enough to get in the way.
- 3:59 PM, August 23, 2010
- Michael Grant said...
Alternate interpretation: a lot of agents and editors don't know what they're doing.
I wonder if any of the 12 who turned down Harry Potter were fired? They cost their companies potential billions. Billions of dollars because they didn't see the potential of the biggest phenomenon in publishing history? And that's passed off with a shrug and a "No regrets?"
I suspect in publishing the accountability is all on the negative. You might be punished for buying too many flops, but is there a punishment for missing a hit? While we're at it, why shouldn't editors be rewarded for spotting the successes with a little taste of the profits?
Publishing is so 19th century. Which would be cute, if they weren't on the verge of losing their business.
- 4:20 PM, August 23, 2010
- Andrew Karre said...
It's a beloved trope and it's a slightly silly one. I have rejected books that have gone on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies. I'm sure I'll do it again. If I felt bad about this, I'd be insane by now. And I don't understand why the story of 30 agent rejections for Hosseni is particularly remarkable (at least it shouldn't be for PW's readership--no disrespect to Koster intended).
I think your question about how a house other than Bloomsbury or Scholastic might have handled Harry Potter is apt.The editor and the house are very big variables in this process, especially for debut fiction.
- 4:26 PM, August 23, 2010
- Elaine Marie Alphin said...
Loved The Bestseller, for all the pulp. Success and awards may be a matter of how a publishing house handles a book or a series, but I believe that a good book will draw its readers to it. I avoided Harry Potter because of all of the hype - it wasn't until the Science Fiction Book Club offered a bargain deal on Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets that I decided to give the series a try, and I was hooked. And one of my books that hasn't sold as many copies as other titles has netted me the most passionate reader correspondence. It took someone (a wise editor) to get that book into print, but it's the book itself that drew the readers, just as HP drew its readers, and The Kite Runner drew its readers. Luck is involved in getting the book to the right editor and in determining what that editor's house does with it, but I believe the book itself will find its level in the end.
- 6:15 PM, August 23, 2010
- J. L. Bell said...
If profit-seeking publishers knew which books would be huge successes, they wouldn't bother with anything else. After all, lesser successes and noble failures simply drag the numbers down.
So almost all of us authors have to be grateful that professionals don't have all the answers.
- 8:41 PM, August 23, 2010
- Kristin Cashore said...
Of course it's about luck. And I respect that editor who had no regrets for passing on a future Caldecott winner. As a writer, I wouldn't want an editor who didn't care for my book working on my book. Frankly, that would be terrible.
I agree that the question of how a house other than Bloomsbury or Scholastic might have handled Harry Potter is apt -- and fascinating. How many phenomenons never happened because books went to the wrong editor or house?
- 12:27 AM, August 24, 2010
- Michael Grant said...
Guys, you realize publishing is a business, right? And the difference between an imprint or house surviving or failing or being absorbed by one of the Big 6, is the profit generated by its employees. So when an editor makes a decision she can actually affect whether her company lives or dies.
Because 12 editors missed Harry Potter, 12 companies most likely ended up laying off employees. Maybe even went out of business. Multiply those kinds of bad decisions and you see why it's the Big 6 and a handful of munchkins.
Writers are also businesses. I know we're all supposed to pretend it's all about the art, but we are running businesses, too. We're running businesses that rise or fall on the judgment of editors and agents.
The last time I consulted an agent the agent gave me advice that would have killed just under 2 million dollars' worth of work. Neither the verb nor the number is an exaggeration. If I'd been a newbie I would have destroyed my career. Fortunately I don't listen much to agents -- I use a publishing lawyer.
Were people this glib about failures of judgment in banking? How about when their doctor makes a teeny little mistake? In what other business do you get to make a billion dollar mistake without consequences?
The whole publishing business is a deer staring at the bright lights of a Mack truck. I think a big part of the reason is the indulgent attitude they have taken toward their business. It's not a hobby, it's a business, and mistakes have consequences.
- 12:51 AM, August 24, 2010
- Andrew Karre said...
Michael, I think all the commentors realize publishing is a business--a complicated business.
I must respectfully disagree with your supposition about the 12 editors. You're reducing the book business to something more simple than it is. Sure, those hypothetical 12 editors could have put Harry Potter between cardboard and gotten it onto shelves (though the number of shelves and which shelves would have varied significantly). But to say they would have gotten 12 similar results is naive. Any house probably could have published Harry Potters 2 through 7 successfully--the pattern was clear at that point. But launching that first book took a lot more than any one editor's judgment that the manuscript was good. An editor can look at a manuscript and think: "This is quite good and could sell well, but I also know we have two similar books already under contract already; I know we have a track record of recent fantasy flops that will scare off buyers; I know we've spent three years emphasizing upper-level realistic YA in all our marketing; etc., etc., etc... I'd better not take this." That's editorial judgment just as good as that of the editor who makes the offer. It's certainly not failure.
Publishing, like all businesses, is full of mistakes--mistakes with consequences as you say. I wouldn't be too quick to count passing on a future bestseller among them, though.
- 8:43 AM, August 24, 2010
The one element --in my opinion, the most important one-- which isn't being considered is the public, any book's potential readers. Readers determine what will be a commercial success.
What if the Potter books had been published at another time? Two years before? Three years later? Would it have found the same market? How much of its success, of any book's commercial success, is effected by the moods and tastes of the time in which it's published?
When I was 10, in 1970, I could only find one run-down copy of The Phantom Tollbooth in a dark, dusty back room of Curious Books in East Lansing, MI. I only heard about the book because, being a young cartoonist, I'd heard that cartoonist/animator Chuck Jones had done an animated film of the book. Which had promptly flopped. But the idea of the book intrigued my mother and I, so we went hunting for a copy.
I tried to convince my 5th grade teacher to read The Phantom Tollbooth to our class. She said the book was too complicated for 5th graders, too weird, and unknown.
I didn't start seeing copies of the book in stores until years later. Now it's a "modern classic."
It's the same book now that it was in 1970. But back then, there wasn't a big enough audience for it. Somewhere between '70 and '80, it's quality was discovered and an audience developed.
Whenever I sit down to write, I go through the "OK, let's say I never find an agent...OK, let's say I get an agent, but I never get a publisher...OK, let's say my book is published, and vanishes into the mists of Forgotten Remainders in a year...." By that time I could be pretty damn depressed. So what I then say is, "What if I write a book, and it never finds an agent, a publisher, or a large audience, but my friends and people whose opinions I respect consider it to be damn good? I can live with that." (considering I've just started writing a book, I'm going through this process right now)
It's not necessarily a mistake if an agent or editor doesn't accept a book. It's impossible to guess whether a book will find an audience or not. (One of my favorite books is The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key, and I've never met anyone else who's ever read it.) If we could look into the future and know what will be a hit and what won't, publishing would be a breeze.
I might be pissed or hurt or confused if someone rejected my work (been there, done that), but, should my work later do well, I wouldn't want to rub the rejectors' noses in it......well, yeah, I would, but hopefully I'd restrain myself.
- 9:14 AM, August 24, 2010
Elaine, I avoided the Potter books because of the hype, too! For me, it took Rebecca Marjesdatter, poetry editor of Tales of the Unanticipated, to convince me to give it a try. If it hadn't been for so many adult science fiction and fantasy fans discovering Harry Potter, when most adults would never touch a "children's" book, I wonder how big a hit the books would have been?
- 9:38 AM, August 24, 2010
I, too, think timing was important for the Harry Potter success. It came out right as the masses were getting online in a big way (especially kids) and word of mouth spread like wildfire through the Web. But the Web was still relatively quiet then, so it didn't get lost in all the noise.
I remember a time when I could actually keep track of all the web pages devoted to Harry Potter, before Scholastic and Warner Bros launched their own sites. There were about 12 Potter fan sites, most of them created by kids.
Does anyone else remember when Warner Brothers tried to quash all the HP fan sites? There was one 11-year-old kid who stood up to them, called them He Who Shall Not Be Named, and made them look ridiculous so they backed down quickly. This was about the time corporations began to realize they could use internet-savvy fans as an unpaid promotions staff.
Harry Potter was one of the first things to go viral. If Rowling's agent had sold it sooner, that might not have happened. It's hard to say if it would have had the same impact without the buzz from early readers.
- 11:37 AM, August 24, 2010
"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
Nothing new under the sun here.
- 11:38 AM, August 24, 2010
KT, just two days ago I watched a (not very good) documentary, which focused in part on the young girl whose page, The Daily Prophet, was sent a Cease and Desist letter from Warner Brothers, and who then began an international boycott of all HP products, except the books. The huge response in her favor apparently caused Warner Brothers to reassess their attitude towards fan pages.
The documentary is We are Wizards. I rented it from Netflix, but it may be available elsewhere. (Personally, I don't think it's well done at all, but your opinion may be better than mine.)
- 11:48 AM, August 24, 2010
The young girl wasn't the only one who was sent a letter. She was just the only one who refused to Cease or Desist.
It's interesting how often it's a adolescent girl who takes a stand, something that struck me in Susan Campbell Bartoletti's book "Kids on Strike." The same is true in a lot of school censorship cases, such as Tinker v. Des Moines Public Schools.
- 12:16 PM, August 24, 2010
To J. L. Bell, I agree with much that you say, and I'll even raise you one. I don't think *anyone* has all the answers about what will be a hit. I've been in the business for more than 25 years and am at my third children's house, and my philosophy remains consistent. My colleagues and I acquire books we adore that we believe we see the audience for, we do our utmost to publish and promote them well, and then, if one starts to really take off, we run with it with everything we've got. You are absolutely right that somewhere up the executive chain, there's often someone who points out that "little books" don't make much money, aren't worth our time or investment, etc. But…a lot of books that our industry has projected small to moderate things for have become iconic, and that's what we always remind them. (Except we use business lingo. "This book has a huge upside.") The first printing of the Giving Tree was 500 copies, and at Viking, our first printing of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs was a then medium-sized 12,500. Etc. Etc.
I have often talked about writing a reader's report as a young assistant at Viking that recommended we pass on Owl Moon. I now realize that's because I don't understand poetry at all, and now I would be smart enough to say "this isn't my thing, someone else should take a look." BUT, as I have told Roger (and discussed with Jane Yolen), our brilliant art director did not know the work of John Schoenherr, and Patty Gauch, Owl Moon's editor, did. Had we acquired the manuscript for Owl Moon at Viking, we would have selected a different artist. And that's why it would not have won the Caldecott.
Re. Harry Potter, I remember the auction in the US, and I can tell you it was heated, though of course no one had any idea at the time how far the book would go. Still, people could tell it was a great read. So in the US, this was not a book that got rejected! And because I know the publisher who lost the auction and they are brilliant and have a great track record of bestsellers, I do believe the publisher would have gotten the book to kids, in the early days, quite effectively. And I agree with K.T. that that's how it all grew.
- 12:49 PM, August 24, 2010
You are not alone. I loved The Forgotten Door when I read it as a kid. We still have a copy at my library.
Irene Fahrenwald
- 6:46 PM, August 24, 2010
Oh, yeah, Moira, me, too! I've collected several beaten up paperbacks of The Forgotten Door at library booksales. The best thing about the internet is finding out how many people have read that book you thought only you knew about.
It's my understanding that every time one of these big conglomerates buy up a publisher and expect it to run like a real business . . . they lose money. Maybe publishers don't know how to run their businesses, but nobody else seems to, either.
- 8:13 PM, August 24, 2010
Oh, yeah, Moira, me, too! I've collected several beaten up paperbacks of The Forgotten Door at library booksales. The best thing about the internet is finding out how many people have read that book you thought only you knew about.
It's my understanding that every time one of these big conglomerates buy up a publisher and expect it to run like a real business . . . they lose money. Maybe publishers don't know how to run their businesses, but nobody else seems to, either.
- 8:13 PM, August 24, 2010
I am so glad you guys reminded me about The Forgotten Door! My copy went the way of a lot of my old paperbacks, but I'm going to hunt down another and reread. Thanks.
- 10:50 PM, August 24, 2010
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Yup--Viking was one of five publishers to pass on OWL MOON, mostly citing it as "too quiet." But as Liz rightly points out, no one else even had Schoenherr on their radar. He'd never done a picture book, had basically walked away from doing books at all, content to paint large animal paintings that sold very well to collectors. And further, Patti Gauch bought OWL MOON as her first purchase as an editor. Finally, having been a teacher who taught English lit to Schoenherr's kids, she knew his work and. . .well, the rest is history.
Jane Yolen
- 2:18 AM, August 25, 2010
I recently had dinner with an editor in the adult world, and mentioned to her a book I had just read and loved. She said that one of her colleagues was fired for rejecting that book (and one or two other hits). I was shocked to learn that on the adult side, editors actually do get fired for passing on bestsellers.
- 10:13 AM, August 25, 2010
Yay, The Forgotten Door's not forgotten!
I would love to see a good movie adaptation of that story. But I'm terrified what a studio might do to it.
- 4:56 PM, August 25, 2010
Michael wrote: "Were people this glib about failures of judgment in banking? How about when their doctor makes a teeny little mistake? In what other business do you get to make a billion dollar mistake without consequences?"
I had to laugh. The banker monsters got away with EVERYTHING. Greed, destruction, and their mega-bonuses to boot.
- 5:40 PM, August 25, 2010
- Michael Grant said...
Sure. But they're mostly criminals.
- 9:19 PM, August 25, 2010
- Roger Sutton said...
I think the point is, Michael, that those editors weren't necessarily making mistakes. Not every book is right for every house at every time. Firing someone for rejecting a manuscript that went on to success someplace else sounds like very feeble management.
- 10:19 AM, August 26, 2010
- Michael Grant said...
I think these are rather poetic arguments in what is after all, a business.
Harry Potter was a good book. It was also a product. Scholastic did a great job with that product in the US. But could Harper or Disney or Random have done as well with that product? Very likely. And the evidence I'd submit is the fact that it did so well all around the world in the hands of different publishers.
Publishing is like two very different systems operating simultaneously in the same space. Seven Sisters MFAs who love books, businessmen who love profits, and somehow the result is a system that clogs shelves with vampire stories.
The system also destroys a lot of good books. What if 13 had not been the charm for Ms. Rowling? Would everyone still be so glib about the failure of a dozen professionals to recognize the merit of the book? Well, of course we wouldn't know, would we? Because Harry would never have been published. And somehow no one would be to blame for that.
With great power comes great responsibility. (That's right, I'm quoting Spiderman's uncle.) You can't take a job where you hold other people's lives, and the health of literature itself, in your hands and maintain that you bear no responsibility for the results.
- 11:19 AM, August 26, 2010
I wonder what the effect of firing editors who missed a bestseller would be on the field? I suspect more fear in publishing houses, more copycatting, and less discovery of the sort of authors and works that stand the test of time and make their publishers a great deal of money over the long haul. In other words — how can I say this with a minimum of poetry? — I think that as a hard-nosed business decision, that policy would suck.
I once mentioned a high profile, best-selling, award-winning title to an editor who replied, simply and without regret, "I don't know if I would have published that." He had published plenty of other high profile, best-selling, award-winning titles already. I don't think the two things are unrelated. His success — artistic and financial — came about because although he recognized the field is a business, he also recognized that if you want to excel in it, it can't be treated only as a business. If you want to be the editor who makes a hit out of what twenty other people have ignored, then you're also going to have to be the editor who ignores what someone else might love. Judgement calls, personal taste, and hits and misses are part of the price of entry in this field.
Frankly, if anyone is in this field only for the business side of it, if someone wants to be in this line of work but to strip all the poetry out of it, I don't know what he's doing. There are better ways to make money.
- 1:27 PM, August 26, 2010
- Kristin Cashore said...
@Anonymous 11:19: Well said.
- 1:32 PM, August 26, 2010
- Roger Sutton said...
There was nothing about Harry Potter the First that screamed bestseller, and the idea that an editor failed to recognize its obvious bestersellerdom is an observation only made resonant because it was a bestseller. We can't know what would have happened otherwise--this isn't Fringe where we can see how alternate choices beget alternate worlds. Monday-morning quarterbacking, in other words.
- 1:53 PM, August 26, 2010
- Kristin Cashore said...
Oops! I meant my "Well said" for Anonymous 1:27. There was no Anonymous 11:19.
Blame it on sleeplessness. IOW, blame it on Mockingjay.
- 3:12 PM, August 26, 2010
- Michael Grant said...
I don't mean to drag this topic out forever, but how about a little pity for the writers -- maybe thousands of Rowlings -- who didn't have her persistence, who wrote great books and were dismissed by editors and agents and a schizoid system where we're all supposed to pretend it's not about money, until it is?
I once asked an editor (nameless, big kidlit house, and not one of my editors) whether she didn't feel a bit bad crushing the hopes and dreams of aspiring authors who might have spent years on their work. Nope. Not even a little. Never entered her pretty little head.
Why did she feel no concern? Arrogance. She assumed that anyone who was rejected did inferior work.
I should have asked her how she'd have felt if, because of her decisions we'd never known Rowling or Dahl or White, or pick a name.
What editors and agents ask for -- and to some extent receive -- is power and absolution in one neat package. You know who doesn't get that kind of deal? Writers. When we fail we do lose our livelihoods, we do suffer the consequences.
- 7:28 PM, August 26, 2010
Michael, your misogyny is showing. You should shut up now.
- 11:13 PM, August 26, 2010
Michael,let's say editors who reject manuscripts which other houses later buy and turn into bestsellers are fired. Firing is apparently meant as punishment, and to set an example, the lesson being, "Buy manuscripts which will be bestsellers, or else."
So, how, exactly and specifically, can one identify a guaranteed bestseller?
If you fire all the ms readers/screeners and/or editors who pick incorrectly, who's left?
This would create tension and paranoia. "Aw man, if I reject this manuscript, and it sells big someplace else, I'll be canned. But if I buy it, and it fails, nobody will be happy. It's a lose-lose situation."
That would make for really great judgment when reading manuscripts. "The plot and characters in this one stink....but so do the plot and characters of that book that was turned into a hit movie and merchandising franchise (*coughsparklyvampirescough*). So even though my personal and professional standards tell me to give this a pass, my need to support myself says 'Buy it!'"
And it's just so easy to guess correctly. There's a whole scientific system out there for making certain to back the right horse. With the threat of unemployment over their heads, editors are sure to never miss a future bestseller again.
Let me be a bit brutal myself. As for those writers who, you say, have their hopes and dreams crushed due to rejections, they should do what so many writers who are torn up by rejection do: Never show their manuscript to anyone except friends and family who will praise it. I know plenty of writers who, after one or two rejections, never attempted ever again to be published. I seem to always be seated next to them at conventions, where they whine about how no one gets published unless they "know" someone in publishing (Biblically or otherwise), or if they're already famous.
A friend of mine who's a film actor once gave me a quote from the book, and movie, Primary Colors: "They love you, and then they stop loving you." Sometimes, they never love you. Then you, the writer, have to decide whether to keep trying or not. Maybe you'll reexamine your work and decide that it needs more work. Maybe you'll stick it in the drawer and start something else.
What you shouldn't do is blame whoever rejected it for crushing your hopes and dreams of becoming a bestselling author. Because if your hopes and dreams are that easily crushed, you need, as my actor friend says, to get a job with no chance of rejection. And once you find it, email me and tell me what it is.
And yeah, "Never entered her pretty little head" brings to mind a word you yourself used. Arrogance.
- 12:03 AM, August 27, 2010
What is your argument, Michael? That editors shouldn't reject any submissions? That they should feel awful when they do? I once read that this was a business. Now you want pity for every hack who ever sent in a story. Which is it?
- 1:10 AM, August 27, 2010
- Kristin Cashore said...
I'm also not following your argument, Michael, though it might be because all I've got to reason with is a pretty little head.
- 1:40 AM, August 27, 2010
My mistake. Michael, I shouldn't have told you to shut up. I typed before I thought and I was rude. Believe it or not, it was advice well meant, but I know it didn't sound that way. I'm sorry.
Roger, sorry for being nasty on your site.
Anon 11:13
- 6:38 AM, August 27, 2010
- Roger Sutton said...
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- 9:07 AM, August 27, 2010
- Roger Sutton said...
Don't worry your pretty little head about it, anon 11:13 ;-) And, Michael, between castigating the Seven-Sister MFA types for unleashing the scourge of vampires, and railing about the pretty little heads of clueless editors (and, really, which way do you want it?), you're being kind of a dick.
- 9:08 AM, August 27, 2010
- 1:37 PM, August 27, 2010
- Michael Grant said...
Let me make two things clear: I'm not being autobiographical when I talk about having hopes crushed. I'm the author or co-author of just over 150 books. I've been very lucky.
Second, you all leap rather quickly to the assumption that "pretty little head" is misogynistic. You're looking for an excuse to dismiss me as a bad person. In fact, she was a pretty young woman. Had the editor in question been a guy I might have referred to him as a "buff young dude," or whatever other, sneering descriptor came to mind.
I am fascinated but not at all surprised really to discover in most of you this prejudice in favor of a system that routinely treats writers like cattle.
The system as it exists requires us -- the writers -- to toady and flatter the editors and agents. Generally that's what we do because most of us live in fear of editors and agents. It's their table and the aspiring writer is the dog hoping for a crumb.
I happened to watch an agent's panel a while back. The agents involved - several of whom had pretty little heads, and some less pretty or little -- seemed to be vying to top each other with stories about how long they had tied up a manuscript, how many rewrites they had demanded.
I was watching with a couple of other established, successful writers and believe me when I say that our dominant emotion was not admiration. But of course the conventions require that we pretend to think it's just swell that some egomaniac agent tied up a novel for a year while the writer went hungry.
There's a reason why neither my wife nor I use an agent anymore. They've never been anything but a waste of time and money. And the reason for their importance in the system is that publishers have decided to improve their profits by outsourcing the slush pile and passing the cost of screening along to writers.
As for editors, I've done business with more than most. Many have been great. Many have no idea what they're doing. And yet, they still get to dump on some poor aspring author who spent 10 years pouring his heart onto the page while enduring the taunts of his family and friends.
When that writer produces A Confederacy of Dunces -- to pick an obvious example -- and is rejected by some 20-something fresh out of college, yes, yes I think there should be guilt and self-doubt and maybe even (gasp) consequences. A shrug and a la-di-da is not enough.
Roger, it's your blog, and I am no doubt a dick. But what I'm saying is nothing but what most writers would say if they were lucky enough not to need to toady anyone. Don't forget, you're one of the people we are obliged to toady. Bear in mind that you may not always hear the unvarnished truth.
- 4:20 AM, August 28, 2010
I wonder how many editors will want to work with you now, Michael Grant. Stay classy!
- 10:28 AM, September 02, 2010
- Michael Grant said...
I am at present working with editors at three major publishing houses.
None of them seems to be horrified by the notion that they are merely human, that their colleagues may be even more human, that responsibility should be taken seriously even when it means feeling regret, or that bad decisions should perhaps be associated with consequences. They are grown-ups.
You will note that unlike you I make myself readily recognizable. Kind of think that is classy, actually.
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ms Zuiderdam Panama Canal Sunfarer: Zuiderdam Cruise Review by Crew News
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ms Zuiderdam Panama Canal Sunfarer
Destination: Panama Canal & Central America
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Pre-cruise hotel was at the Sleep Inn, Dania Beach for four nights prior to the cruise. There is a small strip mall across the street where we found three restaurants (Mexican, Italian, and Chinese) and a Publix grocery. The Publix had great carry-out food and we could purchase our carry-on beverages. There was also a Walgreen's Pharmacy adjacent to the hotel property. The hotel has a free shuttle to/from both the airport and cruise terminal.
Luggage: Our luggage consisted of two spinner bags, one with clothing and another with miscellaneous computer and camera accessories; large camera bag with three cameras and lenses; roll-on bag with two computers (business and personal), cruise documents, jacket, meds, and personal car keys; duffle bag (personal oxygen concentrator supplies, meds, and More spare batteries; a portable oxygen concentrator; and a four-wheeled walker. Two spinner suitcases and the walker were left with the curbside porter who placed them in the rolling cart that would transport them on to the ship.
Scooter: A scooter from Special Needs at Sea was waiting for us near the luggage drop-off location at the HAL terminal.
Embarkation: We arrived at the terminal at 10:30 AM and proceeded directly through the security checkpoint to the HAL Check-in counter. The five-minute process was efficient and with no waiting. We were pointed toward an elevator that took us to the second floor waiting area. We were the first passengers in the waiting area. Due to computer issues with the Border Control, embarkation was delayed until 12:00. The intrusive ship's photographic staff blocked all access to the doorway leading to the gangway but being the first passengers to board, we quickly proceeded past their cameras. I stopped at the Fron Desk to get a hole punched in my boarding card so that I could wear it on my HAL lanyard. Stateroom 6166 was ready for arrival and I dropped off my carry-on luggage before proceeding to the Mariner's Embarkation lunch. Our luggage arrived at 1:30 PM.
Ship's Furnishings: I will dispense with any comments about the decor as being very subjective and having no bearing on my level of satisfaction with the cruise. The artifacts as well as the coloring throughout the ship did indeed complete the intent of the designer.
Stateroom: SC5166 was ready for our occupancy when we arrived. The room was clean and all of the relevant documents were on the bed. We met our Room Steward and revieed our requirements We asked that our mini-bar be removed and this did not happen until the following day. We requested to large ice buckets be filled three times per day and this happened most of the time. The aft-wrap balcony was partially covered with four chairs, two loungers, a foot stool, and large table. At least 30 people could fit on the balcony. Even though our mini-bar was evacuated, we discovered a new bottle of water on the third day and a charge of $2.11 on our final bill. The charge was not worth standing in line at the Front Desk to contest. During the Panama Canal transit, the room temperature rise caused us to close our curtains and the air conditioning returned to normal.
Room Stewards: Hanofi was a good Room Steward but need reminding about laundry bags each day. He provided our free shopping bags on the last day of the cruise.
Dining -- General: Ron, Culinary Operations Manager, provided me the lunch and dinner menus for both the Lido and MDR for all of the Panama Canal cruises as well as for the 7-day Caribbean cruises for the 2013-2014 season. I also obtained the new Canaletto menu. All of the menus were scanned and are being provided to CC members upon request. There was no chocolate extravaganza night as on previous HAL cruises.
Dining -- Lido: The food was good with the Pepperoni pizza being especially favored. It must be noted that HAL pepperoni pizza does not have tomato sauce but rather a light brushing of olive oil. The cooked-to-order pasta was excellent. Line Servers would provide any quantity of items upon request. Of special note was the bread pudding and chocolate chip cookies. The Lido Restaurant management was active in speaking to diners about the service and quality of the food. The servers were friendly and offered their suggestions for those passing down the serving line. Tables were cleared quickly after diners left the table and a rolling cart with free beverages was in constant motion through the dining area.
Dining -- Terrace Grill: The nachos, available after 2:00 PM were a great snack almost every day. Since I often delivered a plate of nachos to the stateroom for an afternoon snack, I shall repeat my helpful hint for delivering nachos whether with melted or shredded cheese: put some cheese on the plate, before introducing the chips, to keep the nachos from sliding off the plate during delivery. The Taco Bar was not open for the first 48 hours due to mandatory Code Orange rules.
Main Dining Room (MDR): The five meals I ate in the MDR were well-prepared and served at the proper temperature. The Assistant Dining Room Manager visited every table on most nights and alos assited the servers on some occasions. The hot, silver, teapots were no longer available as tea water was poured at the server station. Since I ate alone, each meal was completed in less than one hour. On formal nights, I counted only 20 tuxedo-clad males passing my table near the MDR entrance.
Pinnacle Grill (PG): The embarkation night found the PG at only 25% capacity. My steak daine was perfectly cooked and the service excellent. My waiter, Harry, was able to answer lots of my questions since there were only a few customers. I ate two additional meals in the PG and added the Le Cirque as well. The Manager, Vliet, moved from table to table on each evening checking on the customers. The service was impeccable and the food of high quality on my four dining occasions. It must be noted that my cruise was the last with the old menu and a new menu is now in place as I write this review.
Room Service: As on every HAL cruise, food arrived almost to the first minute requested. The food was always at the correct temperature. The fresh-squeezed orange juice was always a treat. It must be noted that if you want an empty glass or chocolate croissants, you need only write it on the Room Service card before hanging it on your door handle
Facilities: The ship was clean and was in a constant state of scrubbing, vacuuming, and painting in all areas. The stateroom across the hall from ours had toilet overflow issues one evening. I wandered to the Crows Nest on a few occasions and always found the lounge chairs were completely occupied. I did not eat anything at the Explorations Cafe. The Library was only sparsely occupied on the few times I passed through it.
Neptune Lounge/Concierge: We had very little contact with the Neptune Lounge except to request a fan and obtain a copy of the new Canaletto menu. There was always a good supply of snacks and desserts.
Laundry: The Laundry was efficient and most days it was returned within 15 hours of my hanging it on my door. All laundered items were returned in excellent condition.
Shops: The Shops personnel were very helpful in finding correct sizes and answering questions. There was never a delay to checkout. The demonstations of liquor and jewelry continued as on all HAL cruises. .
Culinary Arts: I attended three cooking demonstrations and obtained a number of recipe cards.
Computer Classes: I attended one Microsoft class and was impressed with the instruction and technical skill of the instructor. The handouts were very well received by all attendees.
Casino: Since I don't gamble, I can only comment on the lack of smoke when walking past it when the casino was in full operation. There must be new exhaust fans installed.
Ports - Half Moon Cay: I remained on the ship during this stop since I had benn there on other cruises.
Ports - Curacao: With the oppressive heat, I remained on board but took some good video os fhe opening
and closing of the marine bridge.
Ports - Panama Canal: This was a fascinating experience seeing a huge cargo ship higher than my head on the lock just behind us. My pictures and videos will be treasured forever.
Ports - Colon: I remained on board to experience the transfer back through the Gatun Locks
Excursions -- Aruba Sunset Cruise: The heat of the day was oppressive but the catamaran slow cruise was very cooling. The open bar was a real hit and the sunset pictures were incredible
Entertainment: We did not attend any of the shows so I cannot comment on the entertainment.
Meet & Greet (M&G): There was no Meet and Greet held on this cruise.
Internet: The room had a Cisco internet repeater and I purchased the 1000-minute plan. The speed was 786 kbps during the evening hours. With the repeater, I did not have to leave my stateroom to get better reception.
Staff: The staff were exceptional. The Westerdam's officers spoke freely with the passengers when riding elevators or passing in the common areas. The traditional greeting, "How are you today," from the other
Room Stewards that you pass in the hallways was ever present. The dining staff, both MDR and Lido, had frequent interaction with passengers in my observation.
Disembarkation: What appeared to be an emergency situation with a passenger delayed disembarkation and that caused a huge congestion near the gangway. This was releived by routing passengers through the Vista Lounge. There were four Immigration agents available until one left while we were still in line. Passing through the handicapped line gave us only a 20-minute wait while others waited nearly one hour. Taxis were available across the street from the entrance.
Post Cruise: We stayed at the Sleep Inn, Dania Beach, due to its close proximity to the airport and three restaurants within walking distance. There was a two-hour wait until our room was cleaned before we could check in to the hotel.
Summary: As stated at the start of this review, the above are my impressions as a longtime HAL cruiser. I would highly recomment the ms Zuiderdam and especially passing through the Panama Canal during one's lifetime. Less
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Pleading guilty to domestic violence charges against her baby's daddy, Portwood is also told to graduate from school and provide for her child.
Infamous "Teen Mom" Amber Portwood went to an Indiana court on Thursday, June 9 to plead guilty to domestic violence charges. The world watched last September as she slapped and kicked Gary Shirley, father of her baby, right in front of the child.
Soon after the episode aired, MTV was forced to give up the footage for further investigation. Amber was then charged with two felony domestic battery charges which could keep her behind the bars for three years or cost her $10,000 fine. But result from the court session on Thursday was far from prison or money.
Entering a plea that kept her off jail, she is put on two years probation by the Indiana judge who also ordered that she undergoes 30 days of inpatient therapy. Amber is also to obtain her high school diploma and put $10,000 in a college fund for her 2-year-old daughter.
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The clubhouse hasn't even opened yet and it has already been a long day. Then again, any day that begins with a 5 a.m., wake-up call will be long. Made even longer, of course, by the inevitable flight delay.
My seat in the DC pressbox was right next to the wireless antennae, but it doesn't work there. Had to move, right behind a post in the third row, for the wireless to work. I felt like the guy on top of the roof, standing on one leg and holding the antennae over his head to pick up the signal. Got it! Don't move.
All this, of course, explains coming late to the post.
I did have an interesting cab ride out here. He had to be well into his 70s. He wanted to talk about ball players and girls. I can't imagine where he'd get the idea where ballplayers liked the ladies.


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Sprint Confirms Raising Early Termination Fee
Sprint confirmed Wednesday that it is raising its early-termination fee to $350 on most advanced devices, putting it at parity with the ETF fees other carriers charge.
Now, Sprint will charge consumers a maximum of $350 to get out of their contract before the terms expire; the fees apparently apply to just about every device Sprint sells, save for modems and older feature phones.
"Beginning September 9, Sprint is introducing a new pro-rated policy for early termination fees (ETFs) for customers who enter into Service Agreements for advanced devices such as smartphones, tablets, notebooks and netbooks," a Sprint spokesman said in an emailed statement. "Customers with these advanced devices will be subject to a $350 ETF (which will be pro-rated based on the number of months remaining) should they decide to cancel service before the end of their service agreement."
AT&T and Verizon already charge a $350 ETF fee; T-Mobile's early-termination fee is $200, which begins dropping on a pro-rated basis after 180 days. (AT&T's ETF would most likely have taken precedence if the AT&T and T-Mobile merger would have taken place; as of Wednesday, however, the Department of Justice sued to block the merger, citing antitrust concerns. The FCC also weighed in, as well.)
Sprint's ETF increase might be seen as a bit suspicious, coming on the heels of rumors that it might be getting the iPhone 5. On that point, Sprint employees have been ordered to give a "no comment," however.
Sprint is also holding a "strategy day" on Oct. 7, where the company is expected to discuss its plans for 4G technology, including the use of LTE. In April, Sprint agreed to prop up Clearwire, the chief WiMAX proponent, with $1 billion in funding.
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Report: Apple cuts retail store budgets, refocuses on profits
Retail policy changes and cutbacks at Apple Stores are quietly continuing, according to a new report from ifoAppleStore, placing more emphasis on revenues and profit over customer satisfaction. The report claims that Apple has cut back in several budgetary categories, while decreasing hours for many employees, and instituted sales-focused performance metrics that threaten to further undermine morale within the retail division.
Last month, Apple Senior VP of Retail John Browett reportedly instituted a number of new staffing policies, including reducing hours, laying off new, probationary employees, and limiting overtime, leading to outcry from retail employees. According to a subsequent follow-up in The Wall Street Journal, Browett later reversed these changes and denied that any employees had been laid off, however, ifoAppleStore's sources disagreed with at least some of these claims, indicating that layoffs had in fact occurred, and that affected employees were later rehired.
This more recent spate of changes within Apple Retail involve a reduction in workshops at many stores, continuing limits on available overtime hours, and assigning of only minimal hours to part-time employees. Further, new employee performance measurements emphasize contract sales of iPhones, as well as the number of accessories such as cases that are sold alongside major products. Additionally, the report indicates that employees are being told to promote use of the EasyPay app, despite the fact that EasyPay sales are not credited to any specific employee, thereby having no positive impact on individual performance reports. Sources also indicate that no explanation or apology has ever been received from Browett or store management about the original staffing cuts, despite public claims to the contrary. Instead, employees have been told not to discuss the situation with anybody, leading to an overall decrease in employee morale.
iTunes Festival now available on Apple TV
Apple has quietly added a new content section to the Apple TV for the upcoming 2012 iTunes Festival in London. The Festival will feature 30 nights of free, live music from more than 60 artists performing at the Roundhouse in London. Apple has already released a universal iOS app for the iTunes Festival providing users with both live streaming of shows and later on-demand viewing, and users will also be able to stream content to iTunes or to the Apple TV via AirPlay from an iOS device or directly within the new iTunes Festival section. Previous shows are expected to be available for only a limited time, and it is unclear for how long the iTunes Festival content will remain available on the Apple TV following the conclusion of the event on September 30th.
Apple engineeering SVP Mansfield unretires, Riccio promoted
Following up on a late June announcement that Apple senior vice president of hardware engineering Bob Mansfield would retire, transitioning his responsibilities to vice president Dan Riccio, Apple unexpectedly announced today that Mansfield will remain at Apple, though Riccio will assume most of his leadership responsibilities for Apple's hardware engineering teams. As a new senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, Riccio will lead the Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod engineering teams, reporting directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook and serving as a member of Apple's executive management team. According to Apple, Mansfield will be working "on future products," also reporting to Cook, though his biography on Apple's web site indicates that he is keeping his prior title, and is listed as overseeing the Mac hardware team. Apple also announced that Craig Federighi, vice president of Mac Software Engineering, is being promoted to a senior VP role with the company.
Update August 31, 2012: Apple has updated its web site to reflect that Mansfield remains a Senior Vice President, working on future products, and no longer leads Apple's hardware engineering teams.
Apple requests sales ban of eight Samsung phones
In the wake of Friday's decision in Apple's favor in the Apple vs. Samsung patent trial, CNET reports that Apple has now specified eight Samsung devices that it wants banned from sale "to address a portion of the immediate, ongoing irreparable harm that Apple is suffering" and including details on which design, utility and trade dress patents each device has been found to infringe. The list of devices includes the Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S2 AT&T, Galaxy S2 Skyrocket, Galaxy S2 T-Mobile, Galaxy S2 Epic 4G, Galaxy S Showcase, Droid Charge and Galaxy Prevail; of these, the Galaxy S 4G is the most infringing, found to have infringed on a total of seven Apple patents.
NFC chip found in next-gen iPhone? (Update: No)
More alleged next-generation iPhone photos appearing on Apple.pro over the weekend have revealed the presence of a previously unseen square chip near the top of the new iPhone design, believed to be the first confirmation of previously rumored near-field communication (NFC) hardware in Apple's next-generation iPhone. While the actual functions of the chip are not clear from the photos, software support for NFC was discovered in June by 9to5Mac in code dumps taken from iPhone prototype hardware, and the location of the new chip corresponds to diagrams in Apple's iWallet patent from May of 2010. NFC capabilities would enable the new iPhone to serve as a virtual wallet, communicating with wireless payment terminals at stores to transfer stored value, rather than requiring users to carry separate credit cards. The feature would likely tie into Passbook, a new addition to iOS 6 that holds tickets and other virtual proof of payment documents for iPhone users.
[via 9to5Mac]
Updated August 28, 2012: Following an Anandtech analysis concluding that NFC would not be in the new iPhone, Apple-sourced blogger Jim Dalrymple appeared to confirm the analysis as correct. [via MacRumors]
Apple vs. Samsung: jury finds Samsung violated Apple patents, trade dress, owes over $1 Billion
Following several days of deliberations in the Apple vs. Samsung trial, the jury reached verdicts on a number of design and utility patent infringement allegations brought against Samsung by Apple, finding numerous violations by Samsung. The jury also found that Apple possessed certain trade dress rights in the iPhone—namely, that certain elements of iPhone designs were famous and protectable—and were diluted by some of Samsung's products. Other asserted iPhone and iPad trade dress rights were not found to be famous or protectable.
The jury was specifically asked to determine whether Samsung had infringed a number of different Apple patents across a wide collection of different Samsung devices, and given a questionnaire to answer "yes" or "no" for each Apple patent on each Samsung device. While not every Samsung device was found to have infringed all of Apple's patents, multiple Samsung devices were found to be infringing on one or more patents. Moreover, a number of Samsung's infringements were determined to be willful—not accidental—subjecting the company to higher penalties. The jury also said that Samsung had failed to demonstrate that Apple's patents were invalid, a possible defense, and found that Apple had not violated a number of Samsung patents, contrary to claims by Samsung.
Reports varied on whether Apple had also prevailed on an antitrust claim against Samsung. According to an initial report by CNET, the jury found that Samsung had unlawfully monopolized markets related to the UMTS standard, while finding that Apple had not violated antitrust laws on UMTS.
Although an early report suggested that Samsung would be liable for roughly $2.5-billion in damages for infringements in various products, the judge clarified that total damages assessed against Samsung were in the $1.05-billion range, and due to the large number of infringing Samsung products, the numbers apparently had to be re-checked after the verdict was read. As Apple was not found responsible for any violations of Samsung patents, no damages were assessed against the Cupertino company. [via CNET]
In addition to seeking damages for these violations, Apple has attempted to block sales of allegedly infringing Samsung devices, a decision that is being left to the judge in this case. Late Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously noted that the company had sought patent protection for all of the inventions embodied in the iPhone, and patents have subsequently been granted on numerous aspects of the iPhone, as well as later devices such as the iPod touch and iPad. Current Apple CEO Tim Cook has signaled that the company will in some cases license patents, while in other cases reserving the inventions to Apple for its own products, and suing companies that infringe.
Following the verdict, Apple's and Samsung's public relations teams each issued statements, with Apple praising the jury for listening to a story it was "thrilled" to "finally" tell regarding Samsung's copying of Apple's products, and Samsung suggesting that the "verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer," as Apple had patented obvious concepts that "will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices."
Apple, Samsung found guilty of infringement in Korea
A South Korean court has ruled that Apple and Samsung both infringed on each other's patents, the New York Times reports. As a result of the rulings, the Seoul Central District Court ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, original iPad, and iPad 2 in South Korea, claiming that they infringed two of Samsung's patents. Likewise, the court banned sales of the Galaxy S2 and other products for infringing upon one of Apple's patents. Notably, the two companies' most recent products, including the iPhone 4S and Galaxy S3 smartphones, were unaffected by the ruling. In addition to the sales bans, Samsung must pay Apple about $22,000, while Apple must pay Samsung roughly $35,000.
Apple debuts new locking Dock Connectors at retail stores
Apple has started to roll out new Dock Connectors for its iPhone, iPad, and iPod displays that double as security locks, according to a new report. Citing a reader report that was subsequently confirmed by a number of Apple Store locations, AppleInsider reports that the cable may be in short supply, as not every device has one—they are primarily being used for third-generation iPads and products near the stores' entrances—and not all stores have started to use them. The cable itself is very similar in appearance to a standard Dock Connector cable, only with a lock icon on the top, and new internals that prevent the unit from disengaging.
Apple seeking more iPad display space ahead of 'mini' debut?
Apple is seeking additional table space for iPad displays in the shops of Apple Premium Resellers in Europe, according to a new report. Citing multiple resellers, MacRumors reports that Apple has requested that the shops set aside additional table space for iPad displays over the next few weeks. One source reportedly cited September 12—the same day Apple is expected to hold its next media event—as the Apple-imposed deadline for the changes to be made, while another source said their store is already in the process of tripling the amount of display space dedicated to the iPad. The extra space is coming primarily at the expense of Mac Pro and Mac mini computers, which are reportedly being removed from display entirely, while iPod and headphone displays are also being trimmed back. While the exact reason for the change isn't clear, the September 12 date suggests that the move has something to do with Apple's media event, at which it is expected to introduce the next-generation iPhone and could also unveil the long-rumored "iPad mini".
Fair Labor Association finds progress at Foxconn
The Fair Labor Association has published a status report on implementation of its recommendations following its assessment of three Foxconn facilities in February and March. According to the group, the review covered items slated for April and May, finding that Foxconn has completed all of the 195 actions that were due. In addition, 89 items were completed ahead of their deadlines, with 76 items due over the course of the next year. The report also found that Foxconn has already reduced working hours to under 60 per week—including overtime—with the goal of reaching full compliance with the Chinese legal limit of 40 hours per week plus an average of 9 hours of overtime per week.
"Our verification shows that the necessary changes, including immediate health and safety measures, have been made. We are satisfied that Apple has done its due diligence thus far to hold Foxconn accountable for complying with the action plan, including the commitment to reform its internship program," said Auret van Heerden, President and CEO of the Fair Labor Association. "The next phase of improvements will be challenging for Foxconn because they involve major changes in the working environment that will inevitably cause uncertainty and anxiety among workers. As Foxconn prepares to comply with the Chinese legal limits on work hours, consultation with workers on the changes and implications will be critical to a successful transition."
"The verification confirmed that Apple and Foxconn are ahead of schedule in improving the conditions under which some of the world's most popular electronics are being made," added van Heerden. "Apple and Foxconn's progress since the March assessment, combined with the additional actions planned through July 2013, would create the roadmap for all Chinese suppliers in the tech industry." Apple was the first electronics company to join the FLA, a "coalition of universities, non-governmental organizations and businesses committed to improving the well-being, safety, fair treatment, and respect of workers", in January of 2012.
Petition urges FCC to challenge AT&T's stance on FaceTime over Cellular
Free Press has started a new petition aimed at getting the FCC to force AT&T to change its policies regarding FaceTime over Cellular. The feature, which is part of iOS 6, allows users to participate in FaceTime video calls over cellular networks; AT&T has said that the feature will only be available to customers on the company's new Mobile Share plans. "Dear FCC Commissioners," the petition reads, "AT&T just announced it's blocking the FaceTime video calling app on its customers' iPhones unless they subscribe to a more expensive text-and-voice plan."
It continues, "[t]his is a clear violation of Net Neutrality and of your own Open Internet rules. AT&T knows that if it can get the FCC to condone this kind of Net Neutrality violation, then they can get away with just about anything. I urge you to put a stop to AT&T's anti-consumer and anti-Net Neutrality actions."
Apple to open retail stores in Russia
Apple is planning to begin direct sales of its products in Russia, according to a new report. Citing Russian-language Kommersant, the Moscow News reports that Apple has registered a new company name, Apple Rus, and has assigned local legal advisor Vitaly Morozko to act as its director general. According to an unnamed manager of an Apple distributor, direct sales in the country could start as early as next year, although there seems to be no timetable for opening a retail store. The report notes that Apple managers travelled to Moscow in search of a potential retail store location in 2011, but came away empty.
Motorola Mobility files new patent case against Apple
Google's Motorola Mobility unit has filed a new patent-infringement complaint against Apple. Bloomberg reports that the suit claims that certain features on some Apple devices, including the virtual assistant Siri, infringe its patents. The complaint, filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), alleges that Apple's products infringe on seven Motorola Mobility patents, including location reminders, email notification, and phone/video players. "We would like to settle these patent matters, but Apple's unwillingness to work out a license leaves us little choice but to defend ourselves and our engineers' innovations," Motorola Mobility said in a statement. The complaint seeks a ban on U.S. imports of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers.
Apple files plans for Oregon data center
Apple has filed its master plan for its data center facility in Prineville, Oregon. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the plan shows two buildings with more than 500,000 sq. ft. of "data halls"; the overall facility is expected to cover about 107 acres. No time table is given in the plans for construction. "They really didn't say how long they are looking at," Prineville senior planner Joshua Smith said. Apple is already building a 10,000 sq. ft. data center on the Princeville property it purchased in February.
Apple in talks with cable operators over live TV
Apple is in talks with some of the U.S.' largest cable operators about letting an Apple device serve as a set-top box for live television and other content, according to a new report. Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reports that no deal has yet been reached with any of the operators, possibly due to their reluctance to let Apple establish a larger presence in the TV business. Although the report does not state whether the device in question is an iteration of the current Apple TV or a more sophisticated device, it does cite two people briefed on the matter who claimed that the technology could be embedded in a television.
Apple granted Radial Menus Patent
Apple has been granted a major patent relating to a new radial menu design for computer applications, according to a report from Patently Apple. In the newly granted patent 8,245,156, Radial menu selection, Apple describes a design for radial menus that can be used for both desktop and portable devices, working with a mouse or touch interactions using a finger, stylus or iPen, presenting menus and submenus at optimal locations. Such a new radial menu system would be an alternative method of presenting menu options from the traditional linear pull-down menus that have been used in most computer applications and operating systems to date.
Radial menus would appear as a collection of menu options presented as a set of wedges surrounding a central cursor position on a display, with submenus cascading from the first circle of wedges as necessary. Apple's patent describes several unique aspects of radial menu implementations using sweep-based gestures, including Sweep Commands, Selecting and Activating Menu Items with Sweep Commands, Predicting Stopping Location of Sweep Commands, Serial Sweep Commands, Moving Menus and Spring-Load Commands. The patent was originally filed in 2008 and lists Charles Migos and Jean-Pierre Mouilleseaux as the inventors.
Apple: Microsoft licensed iOS patents, Samsung declined
In recent testimony given in the Apple and Samsung patent trial, Apple patent licensing director Boris Teksler revealed that Apple has licensed its design patents to Microsoft, although the deal includes an "anti-cloning agreement" that prevents Microsoft from directly copying the iPhone and iPad in its own designs. Teksler described Apple's decision to license its patents to Microsoft as consistent with its corporate strategy as the deal prohibited Microsoft from building direct copies of Apple's products.
Teksler went on to note that Apple also offered a patent licensing arrangement to Samsung in 2010, although it viewed patents related to the "unique user experience" as a highly protected category, which included design patents involved in the current lawsuit between the two companies relating to the "look and feel" of the iPhone and iPad. Teksler told the court that he could "count on one hand" the number of times that Apple had actually licensed those patents. The two companies were ultimately not able to come to a licensing agreement at that time and Apple filed a lawsuit in federal court in April 2011.
Apple Stores now price-matching iPhone discounts
Apple's retail stores have started to match retailers' and carriers' discounted iPhone prices, according to a new report. Citing an unnamed source, MacRumors reports that the stores have received authorization to match "Market Support-approved" prices from major retailers and carriers. As such, a discount of $49.01 will be taken off select iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S models, depending on the carrier. The report notes that customers will likely need to cite the source of the lower pricing in order for Apple to honor the offer; the policy appears to apply only at Apple's retail stores and not to online orders.
iOS 6 adds Wi-Fi Plus Cellular data option
The fourth beta version of iOS 6 has added a new Wi-Fi Plus Cellular data option for iPhones and iPads. AppAdvice reports that in the General>Cellular section of iOS 6 beta 4's Settings app lies an option called Wi-Fi Plus Cellular. According to the screenshot posted in the report, the option is designed to "allow apps having trouble with Wi-Fi to use cellular data." Notably, iOS 6 beta 3 appeared to enable such behavior by default; this switch in beta 4 is effectively adding a way for users to turn the feature off. Apple is set to release iOS 6 this fall.
Apple now offering refurbished third-gen iPads
Apple is now offering a range of refurbished third-generation iPads on its online store. Pricing for the refurbished units starts at $449 for a 16GB Wi-Fi model and goes up to $779 for a 64GB Wi-Fi + Cellular model. Notably, both black and white versions of both models are available, as are both AT&T and Verizon variants of + cellular models. As with all Apple refurbished products, all of them include a full one-year Apple warranty.


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Police detained the main financier and strategist of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood opposition group Thursday, security and group officials said. According to the AP, the Brotherhood conveyed police also arrested some 200 of the group's supporters.
Mohammed Khayrat el-Shater, 55, was taken from his home early Thursday, security officials said.
The Brotherhood said police also arrested more than 180 students and university members including el-Shater's son-in-law. El-Shater joined the Brotherhood in 1974 and has been imprisoned four times, for a total of seven years behind bars, on charges relating to his membership in the movement.
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college football
The Crimson Tide held the lead for three quarters, but the Tigers turned it all around in the game's final few minutes. Continue reading
A "60 Minutes Sports" report on Tuesday uncovered more details of the Baylor University sexual assault case. Continue reading
Do college players need a union? Continue reading
The deal would restore 112 victories to Penn State's football record and make former coach Joe Paterno the winningest coach in the college sport's history. Continue reading
The first-ever college football championship playoffs will kick-off on New Year's Day. But there's been confusion about and criticism for the semifinal selection process. Judy Woodruff turns to Mike Pesca of Slate to sort out the new system. Continue reading
The college football season kicks off this weekend amid swirling controversies over offseason ethics scandals — the most explosive involving the University of Miami and a former booster. Overall, at least 10 major programs have faced investigations or punishment in recent months. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue reading
After a series of offseason ethics scandals, the most explosive involving the University of Miami, college football kicks off its season this weekend. Jeffrey Brown discusses the recent space of scandals with Kevin Blackistone of ESPN and the University of Maryland and Chad McEvoy of Illinois State University. Continue reading


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Shipments of the Apple iPad could drop to as low as 10 million units in Q3
The outlook for the next quarter calls for more of the same. With any new iPad models not expected to launch until late in the quarter or in the fourth quarter, Apple will have to continue to compete with low priced 7 inch Android models. As a result, insiders in the upstream supply chain see shipments of the Apple iPad for the company's fiscal fourth quarter to drop to 10 million to 12 million units.
During the fiscal third quarter, the breakdown of iPad shipments had 10 to 11 million tablets consisting of the full-sized 9.7 inch Apple iPad while 3.6 to 4.6 million were shipments of the 7.9 inch Apple iPad mini, according to those in a position to now. These sources claim that seasonal factors and low-priced Android slates hurt the Apple iPad during the quarter. In the calendar first quarter, Android tablets made up about 50% of the 50 million tablets shipped in the three-month period with the iPad accounting for 40%. In the second quarter, Apple's tablet is said to have seen its share of the market drop to 30% to 35%.
source: DigiTimes
25 Comments
1. PunyPoop (Posts: 752; Member since: 18 Jan 2013)
wow! so here's a newshttp://blog.gsmarena.com/sony-issues-android-4-3-jelly-bean-aosp-for-the-xperia-tablet-z-doesnt-recommend-it-as-a-daily-runner/
2. Jason2k13 (Posts: 1311; Member since: 28 Mar 2013)
do you work for sony?
8. PunyPoop (Posts: 752; Member since: 18 Jan 2013)
ow sorry wrong link..
3. SingDaFire (Posts: 74; Member since: 21 Jun 2013)
Wat a news.... This kind of news makes me feel good.... Down south apple :D
12. omarr (banned) (Posts: 149; Member since: 15 Sep 2012)
Nexus 7 to be a flop , Moto X to score a home run , down south android tablets :P
4. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 3718; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
Drop it to 0.
11. omarr (banned) (Posts: 149; Member since: 15 Sep 2012)
Burn in hell , hater
13. darkkjedii (Posts: 24974; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Why do they hate on suck a fine product, when all they Have to do is not buy it if they don't like it?
18. roscuthiii (Posts: 2244; Member since: 18 Jul 2010)
The product is only the recipient of misgivings... however, those misgivings are not generated by the products, but by the company's policies and actions.
5. KiranPAUSER (Posts: 73; Member since: 15 Feb 2013)
Windows pro tablets will gain traction once haswell chip is brought to the conveyer belts.
6. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Not bad, but that's still 10 million too many.
7. number29 (Posts: 185; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
Why is it 10 million too many?
9. darkkjedii (Posts: 24974; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Why is that 10 million too many ilia, how does it effect you?
16. ilia1986 (unregistered)
Easy. When Apple and companies like Apple will be dead and buried in the ground, the entire consumer electronics industry will shift towards open source, which means more free stuff for us, consumers.
No more DRM. No more proprietary software. No more software copyrights. No more walled gardens or closed ecosystems. Freedom!!!!!
17. darkkjedii (Posts: 24974; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
Wake up dude...please
19. ilia1986 (unregistered)
lol just did.
I want to live in a world in which I pay for HARDWARE, and SOFTWARE is either free, or ad supported, and the code is open source.
20. number29 (Posts: 185; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
You can get all of that now, but the quality of the experience suffers as a result. For instance, Android is open source and free for all to use, but it provides a worse user experience than iOS and Windows Phone, which are both closed source. Linux on desktop is open source and free to use, but it's software library pales in compairson to what's available on the closed source Windows. Android devices use standard MicroUSB and other connectors, yet the accessory market is awash with products for Apple's iPhone which uses a proprietary connector. It just goes to show that open source is NOT the way to go as there's a complete lack of control over the finished product.
21. number29 (Posts: 185; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
I certainly do not want to find the market in a situation where we have nothing but half-arsed open source products to choose from just because some people have dictated that everyone should buy products based on ideology rather than whether they are actually any good. That sounds like a bunch of hippy crap to me (we know who the real hipsters are!)
23. ilia1986 (unregistered)
You do realize that Windows is much more popular because the company which made it spent zillions on marketing and promotions, right? Not because it's closed source. And definitely not because it's somehow better (lol) than (Lol) Linux (LOLOLOL).
Besides the sole fact that you stated that Android provides a worse experience than WP or iOS shows just how biased you are.
24. number29 (Posts: 185; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
And the fact that you're stating that Android doesn't provide a worse experience shows just how biased you are. Why shouldn't I have an opinion?
22. Googler (Posts: 813; Member since: 10 Jun 2013)
"Worse" is relative to the user. For me, being restricted with iOS and WP is worse. Each person has their own needs and desires, not everyone looks at things like you do.
25. number29 (Posts: 185; Member since: 25 Jan 2013)
I fully understand that, but I'm perfectly entitled to my opinion :)
10. darkkjedii (Posts: 24974; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)
This should be expected, as people hold their cash for the new iPads. I skipped the 4, and first mini to get this years models.
14. Finalflash (Posts: 3530; Member since: 23 Jul 2013)
Still, in a rising market, it is a troubling sign to see a drop in sales so significant. If it was a marginal drop it would be expected, but this is too much when all others are rising. Especially for the iPad series which honestly still holds its own against for the most part (not counting the mini though, which was too shafted spec wise).


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Kenner — As plans for Kenner's first charter school firm up, the city's public officials are buzzing, particularly since a chunk of the spots at the school will be set aside for Kenner residents.
Kenner officials have been discussing the opening of the Discovery Health Sciences Academy Charter School for months, but the Kenner City Council officially welcomed the group at its meeting last week. Dr. Patty Glaser, the school's chief executive officer, gave the council a brief overview on how the school will operate and how it will select students. She told the council that Kenner residents are guaranteed preferential enrollment for 40 percent of available seats at the school.
Glaser said school officials hope to take some national models for operating charter schools with a health science focus and repurpose them for an elementary school. Typically schools that focus on health sciences are limited to middle schoolers and high schoolers, but Glaser said it's never too early to learn about healthy lifestyle choices.
While the school will still teach the standard elementary school curriculum, it will get students acclimated to ideas in one of the fastest growing professions in the country. The flexibility charter schools have in crafting their own curriculum is what draws many parents to them, particularly in the young professional demographic Jefferson Parish is hoping to target.
"We aim to grow the health care professionals of the future," Glaser told the council. "We really believe it will be a national model for health sciences… It provides educational choice for families."
Council members gushed over Glaser's plans. She noted that although the Jefferson Parish School Board approved a five-year lease of the former Joseph Maggiore Elementary School, eventually the academy hopes to have a new permanent facility at Vintage Drive and Loyola Drive on vacant property there.
School leaders want to open a total of three different facilities on both sides of the Mississippi River by 2016, Glaser said.
Mayor Mike Yenni's economic development committee has long pointed to the opening of a charter school as a key piece of Kenner's future growth. Yenni said Glaser's plans will bring the city one step closer to its ultimate goal.
"This was one of the first things we were able to check off that box," Yenni told the council.
Councilman Kent Denapolis noted that Kenner tried to get Holy Cross School to relocate to the Vintage Drive site after Katrina, but that deal fell through.
He said it's becoming clear that charter schools are the way education is trending, and those schools with targeted curriculums are particularly popular.
"That's just going to be a tremendous addition to what Kenner can offer its residents," Denapolis said.
Although the school is an open enrollment facility, it will give special preference to city residents, Glaser said. Those children who live within an area bounded by Lake Pontchartrain, the city's Duncan Canal, the Jefferson Parish and St. Charles Parish line and Interstate 10 will get first choice for up to 25 percent of the school's available slots. The next 15 percent of available seats will go to any city residents, and the remainder will be available to everyone in the parish, Glaser said.
The school will start with pre-K through third grades, along with grades five and six. Glaser plans to add three more grades within two years. Councilman Joe Stagni even promised to do some street repairs around the school, as a sort of welcome gift that nearby residents also will appreciate.
"I have no doubt that this is going to be very successful," Stagni said.


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Meet the New Jersey Nursing Initiative
Aug 29, 2012, 9:00 AM
This is part of a series introducing programs in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Human Capital Portfolio.
New Jersey has a staggering 10.5 percent vacancy rate for nurse faculty.
If those positions are not filled, nursing schools may have to turn away prospective students, which would exacerbate the shortage of nurses required to meet the state's growing health care needs. That shortage could have a significant negative effect on health and health care in New Jersey.
Additionally, many faculty at New Jersey nursing schools are approaching retirement, and there are not enough people in the pipeline to fill the positions. The situation is dire, but a relatively young statewide initiative is working to change that.
The New Jersey Nursing Initiative (NJNI) is a multi-year, multi-million-dollar project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation. NJNI's goal is to increase the number of nurse faculty in the state, so there will be enough nurses to meet the health care needs of New Jersey residents.
Since its launch at a state Senate hearing in May 2009, the initiative has prepared young nursing scholars to take on leadership roles and has brought the issue of the nurse faculty shortage to the attention of policy-makers, businesses, academia, and health and community leaders.
Its signature Faculty Preparation Program is preparing 61 RWJF New Jersey Nursing Scholars to become the next generation of nurse faculty in the state. Of those, at least 21 will be doctorally prepared candidates.
More than 1300 New Jersey nursing students in graduate study are receiving assistance through the Nursing Academic Resource Center of New Jersey (ARC). The ARC is an online tool that helps graduate nursing students with their writing; its goal is to strengthen students' skills and, in so doing, improve student retention. It is supported by NJNI and Partners Investing in Nursing's Future, an initiative of RWJF and the Northwest Health Foundation.
NJNI's website is a valuable resource on nursing in the Garden State. It includes fact sheets, nursing program data, county-specific information, profiles of nurse faculty and more. The NJNI blog provides a weekly news roundup of nursing news in the state and other updates.
NJNI's newly launched WeTeachNursingNJ.com, a website providing important information about what a career as nurse faculty involves and the pathway to that career, is the first such resource in the state.
NJNI also serves as the headquarters for the New Jersey Action Coalition, part of the national Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action, a collaborative effort to implement solutions to the challenges facing the nursing profession and to build upon nurse-based approaches to improving quality and transforming the way Americans receive health care.
The New Jersey Nursing Initiative has achieved a lot since its launch three years ago, and has more still to accomplish. Keep up with the program at www.NJNI.org.
Learn more about the New Jersey Nursing Initiative and its leaders and scholars here, here, here and here.
This commentary originally appeared on the RWJF Human Capital Blog. The views and opinions expressed here are those of the authors.


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Warsaw (Mar. 28)
Prof. Hoses Alerhand, of Lemberg, has been unanimously elected by the Sejm a member of the Supreme State Tribunal. The other seven members on the Tribunal are Poles, the Jews being the only minority group now represented on it.
The Supreme State Tribunal is the ultimate judiciary body of Poland, and has the power to pass upon the constitutionality of Sejm legislation.


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I have a situation with an activation issue..... I think.
I purchased an iphone 1.0.2 a while back and activated it using itunes (I have At&t service). I then went ahead and installed Apptapp and all third party apps including Anysim. Now I need to use the phone on another service provider. I tried using Anysim and it said it was successful but I inserted a Porta/Movistar sim and it did not work, I got the "Invalid sim" error. Now I was reading somewhere this is due to me activating through itunes.
Do I have to reactivate the phone? If so can I just use jailbreakme dot com or do I need Independance? I would love to use jailbreakme dot com to unlock my service but I believe it's only for 1.1.1. Can I do a restore on my iphone and upgrade to 1.1.1 just by using itunes? Another thing is that i sent my phone to Ecuador so I don't think that upgrading to 1.1.1 is an option (unless I send the 1.1.1 update to the person over there to install manually?!).
As you can see I'm in a bit of a bind......... I know I'm asking a lot of questions but any help would be greatly appreciated!


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You might be tapped out when it comes to Tebowmania. We've been hearing about the Denver Broncos' quarterback ad nauseum for a number of weeks now. However, even if you're completely sick and tired of hearing about this guy, I don't see how you fail to find the humor in this peanut video recreation.
Tebow is obviously a religious guy. I don't find the humor in this video, which makes light of Tebow's strong faith, to be disrespectful though. It's not making fun of religion. It's not trashing Tim Tebow. It's simply making a far-fetched, yet humorous, joke. For the people who take offense to this video; do you really think the Steelers are in hell now? Of course not. Have some fun with this video and don't take things seriously to a fault.
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