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I recently encountered the most bizarre appeal to authority. Someone actually rested his case for a U.S. domestic policy issue on what the "average global citizen" thinks about the issue. While the argument is fallacious on its face, I admit, I'm curious to meet this representative citizen of the world. What is he like?
First of all, he is male (1.014 males / 1.0 females as of 2014). He expects to live to the ripe old age of 66 (global male life expectancy 2014), the age at which the average American expects to retire. Average Global will die 16 years earlier than Average American, who is female and enjoys a life expectancy of 82. Both enjoy a similar death rate, however (around 8 / 1,000), but Average American (who will birth 2 children) is looking forward to facing an infant mortality rate of 6.17 / 1,000 compared to Average Global's 2.5 kids, who will have to deal with a rate of 37 / 1,000.
Average Global probably thinks the Average American's 2013 opinion that the minimum wage should be raised to $9 per hour is completely nuts, since he makes just $5 per hour (global median income for 2014 is $10,000). Average American is completely out of touch with Average Global, what with her being a part of the global 1% with her income of $51,000 (2012 median American income). She also enjoys the benefits of a per capita GDP 4 x Average Global's $13,100 (2013).
Since we're looking to assess public policy, we should consider how educated Average Global is compared to Average American. Average Global will spend 12 years in school compared to Average American's 17 years. He will be 80% literate, while she will be 99% literate. Average American can communicate and learn about the world by using the 1.5 phones and 80% rate of internet use at her disposal. Average Global- well, he's lucky to have 1.2 phones available, but he's pretty much in the dark when it comes to the internet (30% rate of internet use.)
All in all, things don't look too good for our Average Global Citizen. While he may deserve our consideration, respect, and sympathy, the weight we should give to his opinion when it comes to U.S. domestic policy is, on average, exactly zero.
With average affection,
S. Misanthrope


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Rick St Hilaire has a discussion of the ACCG's decision to file an appeal over the Baltimore Test Case. He clearly thinks that they are on very weak ground.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Baltimore Test Case: ACCG Appeal
Posted by David Gill at 9:57 PM
2 comments:
- Cultural Property Observer said...
Oddly, St. Hilaire failed to attach a copy of the brief to his blog so that the readers could judge for themselves the accuracy of his assessment. It is easily accessible here: http://www.accg.us/News/Item/ACCG_Appellant_Brief_filed_in_Cyprus_China_coin_seizure.aspx
- November 1, 2011 at 2:02 PM
- David Gill said...
Thank you for sharing this link.
- November 1, 2011 at 6:54 PM
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Ken Tucker is a well-seasoned blues rocker in the tradition of the Allman Brothers, Joe Walsh, Georgia Satellites, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Lynyrd Skinner.
"Looking For A Brighter Day" is the follow-up to Tucker's debut "Back Porch Pilgrims", and finds the burly Tucker joined by Josh Hammond on harmonica. Ken's specialty is hard rockin' blues of the "take-no-prisoners" variety. This is Southern-fried, rock 'em sock 'em blues that's finger-licking good. Like steaming racks of meaty BBQ at a summer music festival!
Indiana-based, Ken used to let his guitar do all the talking, but friends convinced him his "hard-as-nails" vocals would bump up the excitement. They perfectly complement his fiery guitar licks. The Ken Tucker band has made tremendous headway recently, like winning Best Emerging Artist for its stage and recording prowess at the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival. I should have been there!
Thirteen smokin' tracks on "Looking For A Brighter Day" raise the energy level enough to increase room temperature by about 15 degrees. Tucker's assertive guitar is the key that unlocks the door-throughout. The title track goes beyond another hook-laden piece of power pop thanks to Tucker's highly distinctive guitar riffs.
"The Sun is Always Shinin" is a slice of party-time blues with some wonderful interplay between Tucker's axe and Hammond's harp. "Walkin' Cane is a tradition-laced shuffler that perfectly sets the table for "Tin Cup Blues", an unabashed grinder with lots of distorted torrid guitar and emotionally-charged vocals----plus a very touching piano break from Larry DeVincent. And it has an unmistakable "Jimi Hendrix" vibe! "Guitar Man" is a case study in pure Southern rock.
Tucker does a couple songs with some religious overtones where restraint is the order of the day, facilitating the seriousness of the message as with "Lord You're All I Need" and "The King Is Comin'. "Why Do You Hurt Me"' is a rockin' anthem number that reminded me of Bruce Springsteen: more evidence of Tucker's seamless versatility. "Cold Rain Coming" is more rock-solid Blues, and may just be my favorite cut---but that could change.
For those who crave honest, unadorned Blues that rocks out and can excite a crowd by packing an unforgettable wallop, here's "two-thumbs-up" to Ken Tucker's "Looking For Another Day".


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Rebels Seize Gadhafi Compound; UN Envoy Says Libya to Be Liberated in 72 Hours
Rebels raise flag in Gadhafi's Tripoli compound; Pentagon says rebels in control of majority of Tripoli, Gadhafi forces' capabilities diminished.
Libyan rebels poured into Muammar Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli on Tuesday and were seen raising their flag and firing in the air in celebration.
Pro-Gadhafi forces initially tried to defend the vast Bab al-Aziziya compound, the seat of Gadhafi's political power and the principal base of loyalists seeking to rescue his 42-year rule, but their resistance later ended, the reporters said.
A column of black smoke rose over the compound as dozens of heavily armed rebels, along with some unarmed civilians, entered the complex cheering. A rebel tore a poster of Gadhafi while others tried to pull down a statue of a hand crushing a fighter jet.
Rebels had said on Monday that the compound had been protected by tanks and snipers.
Chanting and car horns could be heard in the area in apparent celebration, according to live television broadcasts.
Rebel fighters streamed into Tripoli over the weekend in the final push of a six-month war to oust Gadhafi.
Libya rebels fight on against Gadhafi in Tripoli
Gadhafi's whereabouts were unknown, though he has said in recent days over state television that he remains in Tripoli.
Meanwhile, Libyan UN envoy Ibrahim Dabbashi said on Tuesday that the country will be liberated within 72 hours.
Gadhafi's stronghold is "totally in the hands of the revolutionaries," Dabbashi, a key figure in the Libyan opposition movement, said at Libya's UN mission in New York shortly after the rebels entered the compound in Tripoli.
Declaring that Gadhafi's government "has already fallen," he predicted the city of Sirte, Gadhafi's hometown, would fall within the next 48 hours and that the entire country would be under rebel control within three days.
"We expect Libya to be totally liberated and totally calm and peaceful within the next 72 hours," he told reporters, speaking two days after anti-Gadhafi fighters swept into Tripoli following a six-month uprising.
Dabbashi said Gadhafi and other top officials were probably scattered in houses across Tripoli, although they could be in an underground shelter. "We will start soon looking (for) them and we expect all of them to be captured soon," he said.
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TOURISTS are flocking on far north Queensland in the hope of seeing a spectacular two-minute solar eclipse.
Shortly after dawn at 6.39 (local time) on November 14, the temperature will drop slightly in northern Australia and the sky will grow darker as the moon begins to pass in front of the sun.
"Totality" - the darkness resulting from a total eclipse of the sun - will last just over two minutes.
Pictures: Solar eclipse ring of fire
Weather permitting, sky-gazers will see a black disk with the sun's glowing corona stretching beyond it.
The full eclipse will be only visible from Kakadu National Park, passing over Far North Queensland and the South Pacific, finishing just off the coast of Chile.
In all other areas sky-gazers will only see a partial eclipse of the sun.
How much of the sun is covered by the moon will depend on how close you are to the path of totality. Unless of course you cheat and watch it on the internet.
Margaret Darveniza, regional development officer for Advance Cairns, said more than 50,000 tourists - up to half of them from overseas - were expected to travel to Australia to see the eclipse. Most will be in the Cairns-Port Douglas area in Queensland.
It's unusual for a total eclipse to be visible from a resort area, said Kerri Anderson, spokesperson for Tourism Queensland.
Some hotels have been heavily booked for November 14 for three years. About 5000 tourists will stay in campers.
Visitors will view the eclipse from boats, trains, land - and even from hot air balloons.
Linda Bugbee from Virginia USA will be one of those tourists. She and her husband George have spent seven years chasing solar eclipses across the globe.
"It was a lot more emotional than I expected," Ms Bugbee said. "Time sort of stops, but you know it's only going to last a minute or so. You sort of take the universe and the planets for granted, but when this happens, it seems so real."
"Everyone gets really quiet," Ms Bugbee, a retired psychiatrist said.
"After people start seeing it for a few seconds, they start screaming and crying. When it's over, the party starts. People start dancing and singing."
When viewing the eclipse it is important that stargazers protect their eyes. Intense exposure to the sun's electromagnetic radiation can destroy the cells, and cause permanent eye damage.
The facts
The total solar eclipse will begin at 5.45am (Queensland time)
Totality - when the moon fully covers the sun - will occur at 6.30am
Totality is expected to last for two minutes
The Sun and Moon will be 14 degrees above the horizon at the beginning of the eclipse
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Brother MFC 9180 Mac PPD raster engine replacement?
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I've recently obtained a Brother MFC 9180 printer/fax/copier for free, but have had no success using it in Debian. The CUPS drivers for models similar to it do not work ( either they don't make the printer print or make it print postscript source without carriage returns ).
On the Brother site I found "Macintosh PPD drivers" for the printer. Hooray!
It turns out they were in compressed DMG form :( . A quick dmg2img and loopmount fixed that.
It took a bit of extraneous nested folder trawling to find the file in there that contained the needed drivers: BrotherMLDrivers.mpkg/Contents/Packages/Brother_MonochromeLaser.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz
I wondered what the .pax was. After ungzipping it, I found out it means the archive is stitched together ( eg like tar ) with cpio. After extracting that, I had to perform another wild goose chase to find the right PPD file: Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/Brother MFC-9180 CUPS.gz
Finally! The home-stretch! Or so I thought. The PPD requires a raster engine which is also in the CPIO archive, rastertobrother730. I extracted it out and changed the location for it in the PPD to suit. Now I have another error from CUPS:
Idle - /usr/local/printer/brother-MFC-9180/filters/rastertobrother730 failed
First of all, this rasteriser is not cleartext, but a compiled program. I believe I'm on the wrong architecture for the binary:
D [03/Mar/2011:19:32:36 +1100] [Job 84] /usr/local/printer/brother-MFC-9180/filters/rastertobrother730: Exec format error
Attached is the PPD. It is too long to put inside CODE tags.
No need! I told the printer to print out its configuration, and currently it is emulating a HP LaserJet 5P. Using that driver, it works a treat!
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Gehry to Design Facebook Campus Expansion
Facebook likes Frank Gehry; the famed architect is designing the social network's campus expansion, set to break ground in spring 2013. The space will be 10 acres of open floor plan, with internal "neighborhoods" — work pavilions sprinkled with cafes and lounges — that flow into one another, all topped by an impressive roof garden.
In other news, machines paint surveillance footage, and an HGTV rug line. See the headlines after the jump.
• Gehry Hard At Work On Facebook HQ Expansion | Architizer
• Spooky Machine-Made Paintings, Drawn From Surveillance Videos | Co.Design
• Shaw to introduce HGTV Home rugs at High Point Market | Furniture Today
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But people are going to use social tools for business whether the tools are provided by IT or not, warned Wendy Steinle, marketing director for Novell Pulse. Yes, for business and for pleasure, the Twitter tweets and Facebook posts still fly from phones and computers all the day long, no matter what an employer has to say about the matter. Sure, a company can give an offending tweeter the boot but thats a bit like locking the house after the burglar leaves with all your stuff. Sadder still if the offending post breaks compliance and the lawman locks you up for the burglary.
On the other hand, there are those companies that, when faced with a runaway staff of tweeters, let the reins fly and trust the team to arrive safely at the destination. These are typically the companies that hail social media for its marketing value. That approach, however, leads to even more confusion.
Further aggravating the situation is the lack of consensus over who in the corporate pyramid should be the Pharaoh of Prelection. In the aforementioned survey, more than half of respondents in the U.S., UK and Australia say the employee should be the most responsible party for his or her gaffes but the CISO, corporate IT CIO might have a teeny bit of responsibility too. In contrast, respondents in France believe HR, followed by information security, are most responsible for controlling employees social media forays. In Japan, legal followed by corporate IT are viewed as the most responsible parties.
In any case, nobody is in charge most of the time -- fine fleck of leadership that is.
But there are a few companies that have successfully harnessed their runaway teams into a quasi-tamed pace. Typically they begin with a strong policy that spells out what can and cant be discussed in public and the repercussions if any virtual lips slip. Just make sure you have usage policies, security guidelines and access rules put in place before you send your employees off to socialize with the company's data, advises Steinle.
But be prepared to take action if the rules are not followed.
If the policy is not clear and easily enforced, then the company's efforts to address the risks associated with social networking will be in vain, said Sam Kolbert-Hyle, vice president of Business Development and Strategic Initiatives at Smarsh, a company that provides hosted supervision and archiving solutions for electronic communications.
Enforcement is easier if you are aware that the offense has taken place. To do that, your company needs an arsenal of new tools. They come with a variety of purposes. Monitter, Twitterfall, TweetGrid, TweetDeck, Seesmic and HootSuite are tools that track conversations, keywords and hashtags on Twitter (some go beyond Twitter, too). CoTweet, built specifically for larger organizations, allows multiple people to respond to tweets at the same time.
Trackur and BrandWatch are tools that help companies find anything said by anybody about the company or its products. These tools are generally used for searching for specific message content rather than for specific users.
Companies such as Novell Pulse, Symantec, RSA, Check Point, Zecurion, Identitylogix, Smarsh, and SpectorSoft produce solutions that do everything from allow companies to review social media postings before employees post to tracking employee usage of social media inside company walls.
Data loss prevention tools such as Symantec Vontu or RSA DLP can give you much more fine-grained control over what information users post to Facebook et al, explained Rakkhi Samarasekera, CEO of rakkhis.com, a security startup. If employees upload company confidential documents or information, you can either block or investigate and take remedial action.
Trendrr takes a slightly different approach by tracking location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla plus it aggregates Facebook likes and reputation scores via Klout. (Trendrr also has a built-in sentiment analysis feature for tracking customer attitudes about brands and products.)
There is also a new freebie tool to track employee usage of enterprise and Internet social media on the market. NodeXL is a free, open network discovery and exploration add-in for Excel 2007 and 2010. It extends the familiar and favorite spreadsheet to collect, analyze and graph activity on social networks including Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, www hyperlinks, and your local company email.
NodeXL is a project from the Social Media Research Foundation and is supported by the Microsoft Research External Projects Group. The contributors are a list of notables from Microsoft Research, University of Porto, University of Maryland, Stanford University, Cornell, Oxford University, Australian National University, and the Illinois Institute of Technology, among others.
But there are ways to do some employee tracking yourself such as via the proxy server which keeps a lot of usage [data] and, with a bit of light scripting, the connecting IP addresses can be mapped back via Active Directory to the individual user, said Rakkhi.
From this you can collect stats, he says, such as usage, time spent on average, subsites visited (e.g. Facebook apps and games), and when used (e.g. during lunch and after-hours or during the work day).
You can then combine with any productivity or other HR issues if you need evidence to put on a performance improvement plan or to terminate, said Rakkhi. Also name and shame walls of Top 10 Facebook users are effective deterrents.
Be careful not to go too Big Brother with your efforts, however, as such is counter-productive.
The most successful enterprise social media deployments are those that strike the right balance between user control and free-flowing collaboration around data, says Steinle. Just because you want some level of management over social tools, doesn't mean you have to box yourself into a corner.
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Google's new Chromecast stick might already be a hit in terms of early sales, but it might not be the first streaming media device the company was planning to offer consumers.
Apparently there was another streaming gadget that Google demoed to a select few during the Consumer Electronics Show back in January, according to a Wall Street Journal report. This device, which was intended to debut during Google's Google I/O developer's conference in May, was much closer to a full-fledged set-top box (akin to a Roku). By contrast, the Chromecast is a simple device that expands the experience of media on your mobile devices by slinging that media to your television screen.
The prototype Google device also allowed people to use Google's Hangouts video chat service and contained motion gesture technology, which would put it in the same class as Xbox's Kinect. It also had support for mobile games, according to the WSJ report.
I've read some reports that suggest Google may still end up releasing such a device in the future, but I wouldn't bet on it. Google execs have indicated that all of Chromecast's functionality would be included in hardware running the company's Google TV technology via a software update. And producing a full-fledged set-top box would likely anger Google's Google TV hardware partners (Marvell, Sony, Vizio, etc.)


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Downing defends Reds' new boys
Stewart Downing insists Liverpool's new recruits should not be made scapegoats for the Reds' disappointing league form.
• Brewin: FA Cup final preview
Liverpool take on Chelsea in Saturday's FA Cup final as they look to claim their second trophy of the season.
But with Kenny Dalglish's side eighth in the Premier League, the likes of Downing, striker Andy Carroll, Charlie Adam and Jordan Henderson have come in for criticism.
But Downing believes the team will start to gel and perform consistently as a team next season.
"Others might take it hard, but it doesn't bother me," Downing said. "It's easy to look at the table and think just because it's not gone well in the league that it's the new players' fault.
"But that happens at every club. There are more than four or five players in a squad and we have all not done it, not just the new ones. It's as a team. Sometimes the new ones haven't played and we have lost games. It's a building process, it takes time, it's not overnight.
"There are seven or eight new players in the team and that's quite a lot. You're expected to come in and set the world alight but sometimes it doesn't happen. But there are positives. We are building a good team. To win the Carling Cup in the first season and potentially the FA Cup as well would be a great start."
Downing admits that Saturday's trip to Wembley has added meaning for him after the former Middlesbrough star revealed he has never forgiven Roberto Di Matteo for his goal for Chelsea against Boro in the 1997 FA Cup final.
"We all still remember Di Matteo's goal so early, going in off the bar - I've hated him ever since!" Downing said.
"It was my first ever visit to Wembley. Boro were massive underdogs and I was a schoolboy at Boro at the time and we'd got tickets off the club, who took us and our families down on the coach. It was a good day out but with bad memories of the final. What did I call him at the time? Nothing I could really repeat."
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I will be back in the air chair for this Saturday nights Those Were The Days on WRCO FM 100.9. I hope you enjoyed our time sweep that was featured on last weeks show. The show was obviously pre-recorded so I could go out on the town with my best girl friend. June likes to go on a date with me once in a while. This Saturday night all of the regular features return. We will be traveling back to this weekend in 1985. While I was driving the Ford Maverick to see Beverly Hills Cop (which was the number one movie for March of 1985), I was jamming to Only The Young by Journey, High On You-Survivor, Naughty Naughty-John Parr, and Turn Up The Radio-Autograph. It cost me $1.09 for a gallon of gas to go pick up June in Neptune and head to the big city of Richland Center.
This Saturday night we will spin some hits from the '85 chart, play your requests, and we will play trivia. You could win a ticket to see Vic Ferrari Symphony On The Rocks during this Saturday nights fifties through the eighties rock and roll party. Rock On!


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Daily Lit Recognition for April 22nd, 2014
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Featured by: Carmalain7
RevelationThe couch beneath me is old
The cappuccino machine across the room?
Younger than I am
For a moment I forget why I'm here
Coffee? Conversation? Company?
Feedback from the mic grates against my eardrums
While patrons chatter with excitement
One performer, two performer, three
Each one weaving words with artistic grace
The first lights a spark
Second sets down the tinder
Third fans the flames
I am pulled aside for a moment
My attention drawn to my heart
I lace my fingers through his
As he asks if I want to leave
I tell him no, It'll be over soon
But really I want to hear what they have to tell me
About myself, themselves
Heat and emotion mingles with smooth laughter
An amused look from my other half
Is met by a smile
Sweet words warm those who hear them
While leaving my bitter drink growing cold
The personal glances of an impersonal audience
Draws me inward
Old dreams reignited with the hope of a future
I thought was lost
It's only when the fourth artist speaks
With a da
A simple narrative that attests to the beauty of realized moments.
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seasonedshe has a wicked left hook.
with a loose fist, she swings -
room reeking of masculinity and fusty equipment.
fierce lights and a deafening crowd -
leather pummeled against flesh, striking the temple:
the skull gave way and her opponent, hollowed and limp,
collapsed to the canvas, staining the mat with sweat and blood;
she swings again, clenching a heavy fist on impact.
the bag buckles, harsh metal clanking.
Suggester says: "I really like this poem. I think it flows well and shows a good concrete image."
Featured by: Naktarra
I Belong HereI went down to the rainy river one night, hoping to lose myself in the cold, clear waters.
Foggy, warm, the smell of wood smoke drifting down the banks; I stood in the middle of the current, knowing if I was sucked under no one would find me for quite some time. I could hear the pealing of the church bells in the village, miles away, carried softly to me on the faint breeze. They reminded me of the distance I had put between myself and those walls, the distance between the people sitting in those pews and the world I had escaped to.
I blocked out the bells. I blocked out the birds coming down to the water for a drink before putting down for the night; I blocked out the howling of hunting dogs picking up my scent several miles down the trail; I blocked out even the sound of the water bugs, floating and flitting across the top of the rushing water. I blocked out all but the beat of my heart and the sound of the stars far above -- I could feel them calling to me, and even as I stood chest
A very lush and detailed piece of literature that just bleeds the creativity of this author's mind.
Featured by: SilverInkblot
Old FriendsThe visit happened suddenly, and to her complete nonsurprise.
She had been typing up a report on various South Asian butterflies when he had simply appeared in her room, as casually as if they had agreed beforehand to meet there. "Hello," he said calmly from the doorway. "Don't mind me."
"Hello there," she replied, just as casually. "You're always welcome here." She didn't bother turning around, knowing that, at her age, she would no longer be able to see him. She was aware that she was far beyond the age where visitations by imaginary friends, however beloved when younger, were considered acceptable. But she was about as bothered as she was surprised.
"It's been a while since I last visited," she heard him say mildly as he walked around the room, just out of her sight.
"It has," she agreed. "Sorry, I don't think there's another chair here."
"It's all righ
What do you say to a friend not seen in years? The sense of shyness but familiarity between the two in this scene really sells it.
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Reisefieber...Endlich es ist soweit. Der erste Urlaubstag.
Ich sitze am Bahnhof. Drei Stunden bevor mein Zug eintrifft, um mich dorthin zu tragen, wo ich mein Herz verlor. Noch drei Stunden warten. Aber ich liebe es auf dem Bahnsteig zu sitzen und die Atmosphäre zu genießen. Die ein- und abfahrenden Züge, die ein leises Singsang von sich geben. Nicht mehr wie früher, dass es einem beim Bremsen fast das Trommelfell zerriss. Sondern ganz modern. Es klingt fast wie eine Tonleiter, mit leisen Tönen, die mich friedlich einlullen.
In Urlaubsstimmung.
Gespannt sitze ich auf der Bank und beobachte die Gesichter der Menschen, die von einem Gleis zum anderen eilen. Es macht mir Spaß sie zu beobachten. Die Hektik in ihren Augen. Das Heimweh oder auch die Sehnsucht in die Ferne. Ich fühle es direkt in mir.
Teile ihre Anspannung und Entspannung. Menschentrauben sammeln sich um mich. Studieren ihre Fahrpläne und auch ich schaue nun zum Xten- mal auf meine Fahrkarte.
Noch zw
Suggester writes: Subject is an apparently everyday situation. A woman standing on a platform, waiting for her train. And yet it is quite a wonderful mixture of the descriptions of everyday observations and the increasing expectant tension of the protagonist who drives back home to her loved one. Commonplase, human ... and so beautiful to fall in love with.
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Results for Debt
- Dollar Default Now Underway?
In a macro (or general) sense, is potentially today the clearest sign yet a USA currency destabilization is now well underway toward capitulation and chaos. As of 1240 PM CDT...10 Year Treasuries up 30/32 from yielding 2.84% to 2.95%. Now at 110 ...
Forum topic - Nichoman - Apr 17 2009 - 1:17pm - 2 comments
- The US owes the FED 4.8 trillion, whereby the FED pays 97% of its profits to the treasury. We could just default?
I cant just get my head around this. The fed has "assets" of 4.8 trillion in US treasuries, whereas the US government has liabililites of 4.8 trillion to the fed. But, the FED pays 97% of its profits to the US treasury. So technically, doesnt ...
Forum topic - Subprime JD - Apr 16 2009 - 12:18pm - 11 comments
- U.S states start printing their own currencies
The idea, borrowed from the Depression era when the currencies were known as "scrip", is designed to boost local spending and keep money circulating within the community. ...
Forum topic - investorzzo - Apr 14 2009 - 6:07pm - 0 comments
- Cuppa coffee time: how bad will it get?
Talk to the Fabian Forum: The Global Financial Crisis: How bad will it get? Published in April 13th, 2009 Posted by Steve Keen in Debtwatch , Money dynamics , RBA No Comments ...
Forum topic - Damnthematrix - Apr 12 2009 - 11:29pm - 1 comment
- Good Article Regarding Banks and Their Strategy Regarding Debt
Obama's New World Order This is a good article regarding banks, IMF, and the overall strategy to nurture perpetual indebtedness. It's a bit lengthy, but worth the read. Re: Good Article Regarding Banks and Their Strategy ...
Forum topic - michaelh - Apr 10 2009 - 8:08pm - 2 comments
- Taking on a new mortgage - Is this a bad idea?
Just wondering what opinions are out there concerning a new home mortgage right now? Is that a crazy thing to do? When my wife and I sold our house in GA and moved to the West back in '07 we could see that housing prices were unsustainable ...
Forum topic - sensei - Apr 5 2009 - 9:44pm - 11 comments
- Help with a speech topic
I am giving a speech in my class, and i want to do it on the topics referred to in the crash course. But in this speech you have to argue 3 "expert" views using point, counter point arguement. Basically taking a view from the opposing side ...
Forum topic - DWShultz - Apr 2 2009 - 7:31pm - 3 comments
- Jim Rogers Believes World Is Heading for Depression
Great interview. Rogers reiterates his disgust with the recent government economic interventions, especially in London and Washington DC. He believes we are making the same mistakes that were made in the 1930s, which led to the Great ...
Forum topic - investorzzo - Apr 2 2009 - 6:23pm - 6 comments
- We need this guy in America!
Daniel Hannan Rips Gordon Brown a New One Re: We need this guy in America! I am not trying to be rude, but this is old news and was already discussed on this forum 2 weeks ago. Re: We need this guy in America! ...
Forum topic - investorzzo - Apr 2 2009 - 5:55pm - 4 comments
- I'm In a Whole Lot of Debt, and a Whole Lot of Trouble!
Deleted. Spam. Re: I'm In a Whole Lot of Debt, and a Whole Lot of ... Norman - We got out of debt using Dave Ramsey's program; You'll find him at www.daveramsey.com He has a radio show you can listen to: 3 hours daily, ...
Forum topic - norman - Sep 20 2010 - 6:04am - 6 comments
- War Pigs - Cost of a Global Empire
ny doubt that the Military Industrial Complex is as strong as ever should be removed after examining Obama's 2010 budget just put forth. It calls for 26% more in spending on Defense than President Bush spent in 2006. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, ...
Forum topic - investorzzo - Mar 31 2009 - 10:14pm - 1 comment
- Geithner's Plan for Bad Assets: Part of the Master Program
http://seekingalpha.com/article/128495-geithner-s-plan-for-bad-assets-pa... And if you want other opinons: ...
Forum topic - investorzzo - Mar 30 2009 - 6:00pm - 0 comments
- What else are the Banks hiding?
The bankers got away with dumping the toxic mortgages on to the tax payer, how will they get rid of this mess? Tax payer bailout again...They managed to give the money back afterwards. Saying they don't want to live by the rules of the government ...
Forum topic - investorzzo - Mar 27 2009 - 2:09pm - 1 comment
- It's Time for a New Monetary System
With the federal bailouts of the financial system and the recession, the debt load has increased by $4 trillion in the last six months. What are we going to do with even more debt coming? ...
Forum topic - investorzzo - Mar 26 2009 - 5:45pm - 7 comments
- The U.N., China Want to Ditch the Dollar
Earlier Monday, China's central bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, offered a bold proposal to overhaul the global monetary system and replace the dollar with the IMF SDR (Special Drawing Right). ...
Forum topic - investorzzo - Mar 23 2009 - 6:21pm - 0 comments
- How Are We Going to Pay for All of This Stimulus?
Dollar collapse is in the cards............ http://seekingalpha.com/article/126916-how-are-we-going-to-pay-for-all-o... (Current News & Events, children, Debt, insanity, Must Read) Dollar collapse is in the ...
Forum topic - investorzzo - Mar 19 2009 - 10:06pm - 0 comments
- Whats another 1.5 Trillion?
The printing presses will be working 'round the clock to fund purchases of up to $300 billion in long-term Treasuries over the next six months which, in combination with an increase in purchases of mortgage backed securities and agency debt ...
Forum topic - investorzzo - Mar 18 2009 - 6:07pm - 1 comment
- The FDIC: as Rock Solid as Social Security
We all should be painfully aware by now that there is nothing held inside the Social Security and Medicare trust funds but a bunch of IOUs. http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/delta/2009/0316.html (Current News & Events, ...
Forum topic - investorzzo - Mar 16 2009 - 5:54pm - 0 comments
- China et al: hidden agendas?
What if the US is working with China and other large US Treasury debt holders on some unknown agenda, and part of this agenda involves the US going into a huge amount of debt? I started thinking about this because of the talk lately of what China (and ...
Forum topic - brjohnson789 - Mar 16 2009 - 8:51am - 3 comments
- China "worried" about US Treasury holdings
China 'worried' about US Treasury holdings http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_us_economy Re: China "worried" about US Treasury holdings If China can see risks to a decline in the ...
Forum topic - Rob Z - Mar 13 2009 - 2:51pm - 1 comment


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In recent blogs I have discussed the growing hype and momentum around mobile banking. However, much of the innovation in mobile banking services so far has come from outside the banking industry itself, with O2 recently announcing its mobile wallet and Google
launching its wallet offering next month. There are some banks that are ramping up their investment in services across the mobile channel, namely Barclaycard, but how many banks are seriously considering it?
Well according to a recent poll of banking professionals, 40% believe their banks will have a mobile banking operation up and running within the next 12 months, if there isn't one in place already. The survey also found that nearly half (47%) of the respondents
expect to see up to 30% of their customer base using these mobile banking services within the next three years.
Of the mobile channels banks are looking to invest in, mobile web is only slightly more popular than other options. 47% of respondents said their banks are considering mobile web while 40% said they will be investing in mobile apps and another 40% said mobile
Unsurprisingly, banks are primarily looking to cater for iPhone and Android phones as these smartphones are proving to be the most popular with consumers in the UK (according to recent YouGov statistics). A third of respondents say they are investing in
the Apple iOS as part of their bank's mobile strategy with another third saying they are investing in the Android operating system. By contrast, only a fifth of respondents said their bank is looking to provide a service for the BlackBerry operating system.
Interesting but again unsurprising is that the primary obstacles preventing banks from providing mobile services is their budgets (20%) and security (20%). While tight budgets may be more down to macroeconomic factors, security does not need to be a barrier
to adoption. The threat of malicious activities aimed at mobile consumers will never go away but these risks should be tackled proactively. Mobile applications and services may be safer than many realise and in the case of smartphone apps, they offer a degree
of security in advance of the online world. Spreading this message will be crucial if banks want to fulfil the mobile potential.
TowerGroup recently pointed out that most mobile banking apps in the USA were build for iPhone and Android whereas most banking customers used Android and BlackBerry! Hopefully, banks in the UK have decided their choice of platform based on the installed
base of different mobile operating systems among their customer base rather than in the general market.
© Finextra Research 2017


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Housing, which zoomed up 18.4 percent in price last year, faces "uncertain" prospects this year, according to Tim Sullivan, newly named local chairman of the Urban Land Institute.
Sullivan, a real estate industry consultant, said last year's housing market was one of "exuberance."
"Now I'd characterize the 2014 outlook as one of optimism but still with a level of uncertainty," Sullivan said, "because we had such a nutty 2012 and '13 with home prices moving up quickly and a little bit of land selling -- maybe a three-year period of exuberance jammed into one. The market is now reeling again and there's concern and uncertainty."
His outlook, offered up during an interview with the U-T on Monday, was brightened somewhat by the firming up of occupancy rates for retail, office and industrial space and rental rates rising enough to justify some new construction, particularly for build-to-suit projects.
"From a residential side, it's very solid -- prices are up -- but now we have a concern, after a year of affordability," he said. "We can't win for losing and we can't lose for winning."
The local 500-member San Diego-Tijuana district council, one of 55 internationally maintained by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, is enlarging its scope beyond the usual San Diego city-centric set of issues.
Mary Lydon, the local executive director, said 15 local ULI members will participate on a two-day technical advisory panel next month on development ideas surrounding a new convention center complex north of downtown Rosarito Beach.
"All the land around it is vacant," she said, and the property owner wants advice on how it should be developed to take advantage of the expected growth in convention business.
With San Diego City Councilman Kevin Faulconer scheduled to become mayor Monday, Lydon said ULI stands ready to help improve local land-use policies -- from promoting environmental sustainability to working out the future of Civic San Diego, the city's nonprofit that oversees downtown and arranges public-private partnership deals in other neighborhoods.
Another focus will be promoting zero-net-energy developments, as is ULI's role in closing the gap between developers and not-in-my-backyard project opponents.
"The days of having money overpowering the little guy or having political connections that circumvent requirements -- that window has closed or is so narrow that it's not even a concept," Sullivan said. "It's getting to a point where all parties have to be accountable and participate."


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Every so often a record comes along that, no matter how much you want to hate it, you can't help loving it. This year's best example of that is Is This It, the maddeningly addictive debut album by the ludicrously hyped New York City band the Strokes. A close second, though, is musicforthemorningafter, an extraordinary collection of scrappy, tuneful love songs by New Jersey-via-Los Angeles singer-songwriter Pete Yorn.
Though the work itself is an amiably modest album, the buzz around Yorn--whose brother Rick is a Hollywood player with lots of friends in showbiz's high places--has been all but inescapable since the March release of music. Magazine features, fashion shoots, TV and movie soundtrack slots, fat opening gigs on big-name tours. Still, Yorn's record remains an endlessly appealing hunk of postmodern pop smarts--straightforward songcraft dressed up in twisty-turny sonic surroundings. At home in L.A. a few days before leaving on tour for the second time in several months, Yorn recently explained why.
Dallas Observer: Your album takes its time revealing itself. The more you listen, the more detailing you notice. Did you plan that making the record?
Pete Yorn: I had all these songs I'd written on acoustic guitar, and I'd been experimenting in the studio for years, as far as textures and stuff like that. A lot of the songs kind of just sounded all country if I played them just on acoustic guitar, and I had such a love for so many other kinds of music that I thought that just presenting them in that way wouldn't be... I'd get bored of that quick, and it wouldn't be showing exactly what I'm all about. Like, I love synth strings; I love Joy Division and New Order and the Cure and stuff like that. I love Pulp, and I love those kind of textures, so I wanted to take that and lay them into some of the songs--over, like, rootsy-sounding songs.
Pete Yorn with JJ72
Gypsy Tea Room
November 17
DO: Was that kind of stuff in your head all along, or did it emerge in the studio?
PY: That kind of stuff was pretty much in my head. We were working in my friend's garage, and I knew pretty much everything that we had at our fingertips. So I'd be like, "Well, let me run over there and play this part and do that," and just kind of run from instrument to instrument, just throw stuff down.
DO: So there was some improvising during the actual recording?
PY: Yeah. Some songs, you know, I knew all the parts I wanted to have, and I was really focused on that. And other songs, I purposely almost didn't even finish the whole way--like, I finished them 75 percent with the studio in mind, knowing that I would go in and... I get very inspired when I'm in the studio, especially this particular garage studio I'm talking about, the way it's set up and the guy who I work with, Walt [Vincent]. We just really feed off each other and inspire each other.
DO: When Columbia signed you, working in a professional studio obviously became a choice that you didn't have prior to that. Yet you chose to stay in the garage, right?
PY: This is the first record I ever made for a label. I remember before I got the deal, I was recording in the garage with my buddy Walt, doing stuff that was cool. And I got signed and Columbia threw some money at us, and it's like, "Well, we could go to some fancy studio and blow all the money in a couple weeks, or we could just stay in here." I just wanted to keep things simple and keep things the same, so we stayed there. There was no rush. Sometimes we would take two weeks off and just wait; we would just let things simmer.
DO: Do you feel now like you didn't take advantage of an opportunity you could have?
PY: Not really. It opened doors, just being on Columbia Records, early on. Also, it gave a little more clout or whatever. But, I don't know, I wanted to keep it simple, and we knew what we were working with. We didn't even have ProTools; we just had this thing called Digital Performer. But you could go into a big studio and you could make a record, and it could sound like crap. I gotta say, I'm really proud of how this record sounds; I think it sounds amazing. To know that it came out of a G3 computer, with not even good inputs or anything like that, is a testament I think to the way that... Walt Vincent is just a wonderful engineer; he's like the guy that I've been looking for for years. I think it's not so much the car, but it's the driver.
DO: What I especially like about the record is that for all its left-field elements--the keyboards and recording things you guys did--it still coheres really well.
PY: I describe the record as elements of all my favorite bands that I've just kind of taken from and put into songs within one another--a Peter Hook bass line, a Lou Reed vocal, Hal Blaine drums. Just random stuff like that, and then just throwing it all together--that's what I kind of picture my music to be. But I remember right when we were done mixing, I was looking over at Walt, like, "Dude, this record's all over the place. They're gonna fucking bag on this." And he just started laughing. And it is--it's all over the place, but that's what I think people like about it, that it has that and at the same time, there is some sort of cohesiveness to it. I think it's my voice, and I think it's my sensibilities. If you know those kinds of music, if you know those genres and bands I'm ripping off, we're just kind of putting it into a big melting pot, and you can see how it is cohesive, you know?
DO: Yeah, I do. But that quality also makes me wonder who this record is connecting with. Because it kind of dips from a bunch of different wells; it doesn't really have a built-in audience.
PY: I didn't know what the audience would be. I'm just for the first time seeing who the fans are, going out and touring. It's all over the place. It's total indie-rocker guys and girls, total frat guys, old guys and old girls, sometimes young, high school kids. Which I think is cool. A lot of bands that I love, I've always thought of them being more from the indie scene or just stuff that was never mainstream. But it's cool to see [my record] embraced by kind of mainstream people as well.
DO: It seemed like the record came out of nowhere.
PY: It did. It came out of nowhere to the label, too. They were like, "Huh?"
DO: What were those first couple of tours like, before anyone had heard you?
PY: This is our second headline tour. After we started getting fans and all that, when we did our first headlining tour, compared to the two opening tours we did before that, it was just like night and day. Like, holy shit. Just having everyone at the club know the record and everything like that, or most of the people anyway, just makes it really fun. The first tour we did was with Sunny Day Real Estate, and that was last October, way before the record came out, and that was really cool. No one knew who the hell we were, but we'd just go out and try and win these people over. I'll see on the message boards or I'll meet people who are like, "Dude, I saw you when you played with Sunny Day!" And we'll have fans from that. The day after the record came out, we went on tour with Semisonic. We won a lot of fans from that, too. Then we went out with Blues Traveler, which was totally a different type of experience, different type of fans, older crowd. But they were also into what we were doing.
DO: There was a total press blitz when the record was released.
PY: I'm thankful for that. That helped me so much. My label, they like my record and they were into it, but they didn't really know what they were gonna do with it. And when they sent the advances out and the press came back so favorable, it made the label like, "Whoa, we better fucking get behind this."
DO: A part of the attention seemed to be connected to this whole idea that the singer-songwriter is making a comeback. Guys like David Gray were being talked about a lot, and you sort of got roped into that scene. Do you feel like you're a part of it at all?
PY: I don't know. It's cool to be a part of that. I don't really feel like I connect with David Gray so much, even though he's cool, he's a good songwriter. It's just good to see that the singer-songwriter can garner some attention right now. I'm just happy to be in the game right now.
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DO: The big question that records like yours and Badly Drawn Boy's--
PY: I like Badly Drawn Boy a lot.
DO: I figured you would, from the sound of your record. What I think the two albums have in common is that they both use elements of recording and the studio to sort of edge away from more standard singer-songwriter fare. But then the question is whether people are attracted to that because it's a refreshing change from the overload of teen-pop and rap-metal, or whether those recording elements are a way to keep up with that, to not get lost in the fray.
PY: I don't know. That's a heavy question. I mean, people our age, we've seen at most two cycles of music, where it goes super pop and then it gets super dark. One theory could be that people... Everything sounds the same over and over again--all these bands, they look the same, they sound the same. And something that's just kind of a little different, sometimes people gravitate towards that. And they almost set themselves up for that, when something is embraced so much by pop culture--it's totally setting itself up for the pendulum to swing back, inevitably. But that's just a theory. I just think that there's a large audience of people out there who appreciate a certain kind of music and a certain kind of sensibility, and they just need to know where to find it. And it's cool that a little bit more you can find in mass media what a few months ago was harder to find.


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Spectrum for Nothing?
Where does the author of this article get the idea that the original GSM 900 and 1800 operators got their spectrum for nothing? They have always paid a commercial annual licence fee for each individual 256 kHz channel they operate on, resulting in several 100s of millions going into Government coffers over the past 20 years. The 3G auction in 2000 was at the peak of the dot com boom when the Radio Communications agency as it was called then was instructed by HMG to maximise the revenue for this spectrum.
When O2 (nee BTCellnet) was split from BT in 2001, the 3G licence was an asset of the company, just as all switch, base sites, offices, call centres, staff etc where so if O2 got their 3G licence free then so where all other assets from your statement.
O2 wrote off the cost of this licence in 2003 when 3G was still being rolled out and the company recorded a huge £2bn+ loss as a result.


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By Michael Felger
Four quick thoughts from a terrific NFL Sunday:
Credit the Patriots win on Sunday night to Aaron Rodgers' concussion. If the Packers starter played, it's hard to imagine the Packers would have burned the clock like they did late in the game and it's hard to imagine the Pats, given the way they were playing, would have been able to stop him. As it was, the Pats made Matt Flynn look like a star (or at least Colt McCoy) and won only thanks to a pair of unlikely returns one by guard Dan Connolly of all people, and another by corner Kyle Arrington.
The Pats were not particularly sharp offensively or defensively on this night, but they made just enough plays on both sides of the ball to eek out the victory. That's an improvement from the last time they looked like this, Nov. 7 at Cleveland, when their mistakes proved fatal. This time, they just proved a nuisance.
Still, Bill Belichick will have plenty of teachable moments to show his team. Ideally, this will be the kind of reality check game the Browns contest was, only without the negative impact of a defeat.
Then again, the Pats had been playing so well recently that a more human performance was probably in the cards. And it may very well show the fans the reality of the situation: The path to the Super Bowl won't be as easy as the Pats were making it look.
I don't know how you feel about it, but I consider the Colts winning over Jacksonville to be a mediocre result for the Patriots.
With the win, the Colts assumed the lead in the AFC South, and if the season ended today they would hold the No. 4 seed. As of now, that makes them the Pats' most likely opponent for their first playoff game at Gillette Stadium next month. (The Pats, as the presumed No. 1 seed, will face the lowest remaining seed in the AFC in the divisional round. If both home teams win on wild card weekend at this point that would be the Chiefs and Colts then the Pats get Indy).
I'd rather face any other team in the AFC than the Colts.
The history is well-known. Peyton Manning and Indy came into Foxboro last month having won five of the last six meetings with Belichick, and only a diving James Sanders interception in the closing moments prevented that run from going to 6-of-7.
Yes, the Pats defense has improved. Yes, Manning's offense has been depleted by injuries (Austin Collie suffered another concussion yesterday). Yes, the game will be played outside in January, and Manning has only rarely played well in those conditions. I understand all those things.
And I still don't want to face the guy. He figured you out a long time ago.
Great win for the Jets in Pittsburgh. One of those statements games. They may not be as good as the Pats, but they don't suck. They're a worthy playoff team. They are NOT the "same old Jets."
All that being said, they still do stupid things as a team and a coaching staff that will eventually catch up to them. Two things stood out in Pittsburgh:
The first was the way they defended Ben Roethlisberger. The book on the Steelers quarterback is well known: His best plays come off scrambles. He loves rolling right and throwing into the right flat. He's not as effective staying on the spot, or scrambling left. Everyone knows this.
So what did the Jets do? They sent blitz after blitz off Roethlisberger's left side, forcing him out of the pocket to his right. The results were predictable: Roethlisberger shredded them on third downs
The other was the Jets total lack of clock awareness in the final five minutes. On several occasions, Jets ball carriers stepped out of bounds, stopping the clock and allowing the Steelers to preserve time outs. Receiver Braylon Edwards did it twice. Running back LaDainian Tomlinson did it at least once. And if that wasn't bad enough, offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer kept calling pass plays, most of which naturally fell incomplete, again stopping the clock and allowing the Steelers to keep their stoppages.
Finally, after what happened yesterday in New York, how can you not want Michael Vick and the Eagles in the Super Bowl, should the Patriots make it that far?
I know some of you want revenge on the Giants. And I know some would like the fireworks associated with a matchup against the Saints for Falcons. A few of you would appreciate an easy matchup with Chicago.
But come on. There is no more exciting or controversial player in the NFL than Vick. It's guaranteed entertainment both during the week (can you imagine the dog nuts in Dallas?) and come game time. That's the matchup I want.
The only downside, and it's a significant one, is having to share the city of Dallas with the knuckle-draggers from Philadelphia. I'll just be sure to bring the Hazmat suit.
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Amazon Appstore generates three times more revenue per user than Google Play: Flurry
In a study of top-ranked applications across iOS, Amazon and Android, Flurry Analytics found that the Kindle Fire manufacturer delivers more than three times the revenue in its app store compared to what Google generates for developers.
The report compares the ability for app developers to generate revenue from in-app purchases across the major stores and found that while Apple reigns supreme, Amazon is not far behind. Android, however, lags the other two significantly.
?The issue comes down to commerce friction,? said Peter Farago, vice president of marketing at Flurry Analytics, San Francisco. ?Amazon has all consumers payment-enabled, manages a curated store and has deep merchandising understanding.
?For example, when a consumer receives a new Kindle Fire, she already has her account associated or is asked to set up an account complete with a credit card,? he said. ?The Android Market, renamed Google Play, is not on par with Amazon.
?Based on the numbers we are seeing, developers should consider building tablet form factor apps for Amazon, and marketers should encourage them.?
Expect more Kindle apps
The number of apps continues to grow thanks to robust consumer interest in apps and developers are finding new and interesting ways to engage mobile device owners. In March, Apple crossed a record 25 billion downloads from more than 550,000 available apps while Google said several months ago that it had crossed 10 billion downloads from 400,000 available apps.
With the ability to generate revenue a key factor in developers? decisions about how much to support different platforms, the new data from Flurry suggests that there could a spate of Kindle Fire app introductions this year. At the same, Google may find itself struggling to maintain developer support.
Flurry examined top-ranked apps that have a similar presence on iOS, Android and Amazon and compared the revenue generated via in-app purchasing between mid-January and the end of February. In-app purchases generate the majority of revenue for apps, per Flurry.
The mobile app research firm found that Amazon Appstore revenue per active users is 89 percent of Apple Appstore revenue while Google Play revenue per active users is 23 percent of Apple?s.
In other words, for every $1 generated by an app in the Apple Appstore, $0.89 is generated in the Amazon Appstore and $0.23 is generated in Google Play.
The results point to the early success of the Kindle Fire and suggest that an increasing number of developers will support apps for the media tablet this year.
OpenTable, Citi and Papa John?s are among the brands now offering Kindle Fire apps.
Commercial strength
One reason for Amazon?s strength in generating in-app purchases is the company?s commercial strength. Amazon invented the one-click purchase and delivers a best-in-class online shopping experience.
Apple, too, is a retail leader and known for providing a strong shopping experience for customers.
Google?s strengths, on the other hand, are in search and advertising technology. Running a digital store is not a core competency.
The results suggest Google will need to reduce commerce friction in order to maintain strong developer support.
?Many top developers have their apps available for Kindle Fire already,? Mr. Farago said. ?At this stage, in our view, it makes sense for developers to make their apps available for both Android and Amazon Kindle Fire.
?The installed base for Kindle Fire will only increase, and with strong purchase conversions, this appears to be a strong, up-and-coming market,? he said.


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(This is a continuation of my first tasting note today.)
After the first steep, the flavor changes pretty dramatically. Jin Die starts off like a typical black tea, but my second to sixth steeps all tasted like pu-erh!
So I used 3:30 for the first steep, and then 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30 and finally 6:30. I gave the six and last one a bit longer because the color faded on the fifth steep.
I'll absolutely be resteeping this one from now on. It's like I get 2 different teas with just one teaspoon of leaves. I can't believe how on the second steep it suddenly becomes so earthy, smoky, slightly malty and just pu-erh`y. I used a small teapot for this, next time I'll do shorter resteeps with my little gaiwan. :)
Up'd the rating due to the awesomeness of this tea.


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Dozens of people know I carry. We have a security team at church with 8 or 10 people. We all obviously know that all the others carry. Quite a few other church friends are also aware. My whole family knows. Most of my friends know.
I don't understand the big secret. I feel no need to
it to anyone but I see no need to pretend its a security protocol to keep it a secret either.
I'm a gun guy. Gun guys have guns. Some gun guys carry guns. Some don't.
Everybody in the CCW class that was required knows and I don't know them from Adam. Big deal.
Farmer up the road knows. The guy that owns the grocery store (I know he carries too!) Egad!
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The best part of these Sunday comics…you can join in! If you have a funny that happened during your week or in the past, why not make it into a comic?!?
You can do this with your software choice and link it here each Sunday. Don't have one? A simple online search will yield you some of varying complexity, most free. I use ToonDoon.com.
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Silver Motorola Xoom Caught on Camera; GSM, Wi-Fi Versions on the Way
With the Motorola Xoom sure to make an encore performance at Mobile World Congress next week, and inching closer to release, we now have news that we might be seeing a little more Xoom in the near future. A silver-backed version of the Moto Xoom has shown up in the wild on a video walkthrough shot in Dubai and displayed on website tbreak.com. To top off what appears to be a silver model, the rumor mill has spun out news that a WiFi-only Xoom is on the way, and a GSM model as well.
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The tablet will be hitting Verizon before we know it, sporting the extremely high price tag of $800, which is still not verified as the actual price. Here's hoping it's not. I'm not sure if Moto and Verizon realize it or not, but most of us are still living in a recession-riddled country. Right now a cheaper, carrier-free, Wi-Fi version is sounding great. Be sure to check out the video below, it does a good job of showing off what a Honeycomb Tablet will offer the Android community.
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Like you, I've been watching Chris Christie's unfolding bridge scandal with a combination of horrified fascination and an eerie sense of déjà vu.
It's all so Nixonian, with "I am not a bully" replacing "I am not a crook" as the iconic catchphrase. Of course, Nixon turned out actually to be a crook, and I have no doubt that New Jersey legislators who have crossed swords with the combative governor in the past will start trotting out other examples of his bullyboy style.
As of this writing, there is still no smoking gun connecting Christie directly to the bridge closure. But he has the reputation of being a control freak, to put it mildly, and it strains credulity to believe that his closest aides would dare to pull this off without his OK.
What's harder to understand is why politicians engage in such risky behavior, especially when it's so unnecessary. Nixon was already coasting to re-election in 1972. The economy was on the upswing, the Democrats were in disarray, the country was dazzled by his opening to China, and Henry Kissinger had come back from the negotiations with the North Vietnamese in Paris announcing, "Peace is at hand." (It wasn't, but we didn't know that at the time.)
So why did Nixon need to gild the lily by breaking into DNC headquarters at the Watergate? Why did Christie, who was already riding a 22-point lead in the polls, need to bludgeon Democratic mayors into endorsing him? And why did he — or, at least, his closest aides — take it so personally when one mayor refused, to the point of retaliating by paralyzing his city for four days?
I think the answer is that some very neurotic people get into politics. Nixon's mental problems are well known, and Christie may have been scarred for other reasons. Sometimes a neurosis can be an asset in politics, especially if it makes you obsessive in pursuit of your goal. But neurosis also has a downside: like actors, politicians often confuse the cheers of the crowd with love. And the more cheers they get, the more loved they feel.
So for Nixon, it wasn't enough to win 49 states; he wanted all 50. He wouldn't settle for a landslide; only an avalanche would do. And he was willing to take some serious risks to get it.
Ditto for Christie. He wanted to pad his victory margin so badly, he wasted $12 million of the taxpayers' money scheduling a special election for a vacant Senate seat in October rather than waiting for the regular election a month later, just so he wouldn't have to share the ballot with a popular Democrat — Newark Mayor Cory Booker — who was running for the Senate.
Nixon's won his big victory, but his risky behavior ended up destroying his presidency. And while Christie might be able to salvage his job as governor — but not if any more evidence linking him to the closure or the "traffic study" cover-up pops up — he can forget about being president. I'll bet Rand Paul, Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz are already preparing their attack ads.
Marx was right: "History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
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Meanwhile, a cold front will stretch from the southern Plains to the Great Lakes. The northern portion of the cold front will be relatively dry as light scattered rain and snow will be possible across the Great Lakes. Meanwhile, a surge of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico will allow for rain and thunderstorms to develop across the Gulf Coast and Southeast.
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Designer and founder of visvim, Hiroki Nakamura has announced the forthcoming women's collection from visvim. WMV, as the women's line is called, was unveiled at visvim's Fall/Winter 2013 presentation. Although Nakamura has dabbled with small capacity production of women's pieces in the past, this will be his first time entering the market with a complete collection. The collection is expected to contain anywhere between 60-70 items, ranging from footwear to garments, and will likely be akin to its menswear counterpart.
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EA Access adds Backwards Compatible Dead Space to Xbox One
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World War 1: 100 years on10:09
Moira Geddes chats with News Corp's national defence writer Ian McPhedran and The Daily Telegraph's history editor Troy Lennon about the Great War and the parallels with modern times.
AUSTRALIA'S Great War history is set to be rewritten to identify a Townsville sailor as the first man to die in an Australian uniform in World War 1.
Twenty-nine-year-old Able Seaman John Courtney fell during the little known first Australian battle of the war and the first amphibious assault on September 11, 1914 at the village of Bita Paka on the island of New Britain.
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Courtney, whose birth name was John Edward Walker, was a navy reservist attached to the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force. His service number was 45.
Most official websites barely even mention Courtney and none has an image of the sailor which is published for the first time by News Corp Australia.
The image was uncovered by the museum at HMAS Cerberus in Victoria.
His force, which included several warships and about 500 men, was ordered to capture the German wireless station at Bita Paka in what was then German New Guinea.
The station was defended by eight German troops and 60 Melanesians.
Six men from the Australian side were killed during the battle including medical officer Captain Brian Pockley, from Sydney, and Able Seaman Billy Williams, of Melbourne, who have long been regarded as the first Australian casualties of the war.
However after being mortally wounded early on during the action they were transferred to the troop ship HMAS Berrima where they died later in the day.
Historians, including Michael Kelly from the Australian War Memorial, believe that Courtney died before the two men on the ship.
The nephew of Billy Williams, Ron Mullinger, doubted that 100 years of history was incorrect.
'The navy records show that Billy Williams was shot first and taken to the Berrima,' he said.
'It seems funny that the records should be changed on the 100th anniversary of the battle.'
He was attached to a reinforcing force under the command of Royal Navy officer Commander Charles Elwell and he was shot and killed instantly by a sniper around midday on September 11. Elwell, a British citizen, was killed soon afterwards and the men were buried together near where they fell.
According to Melbourne historian David Howell, who traced some of the rare photos of the six men killed and the official documents showing Courtney died first, the facts have not been hidden but the record had simply never been corrected.
'There is no doubt that John Courtney or John Edward Walker was the first Australian to die in an Australian uniform in World War 1,' he said.
'All the evidence in the reports puts Courtney dying first.'
One report from the Admiral Patey's flagship HMAS Australia off Rabaul dated September 26 states that Courtney was shot 'about the same time as Lieutenant-Commander Elwell. Shot through the chest, probably heart and also base of skull. Died before being brought down to shore was buried near where he fell, grave beside that of Lieutenant-Commander Elwell'.
Mr Howell said he believes that Courtney changed his name to his Godmother's surname so he could join the Merchant Navy early in the 20th century.
The first Australian citizen killed in action in the Great War was Lieutenant William Malcolm Chisholm, 22, who died in a British uniform on August 27, 1914 in France, serving with the East Lancashire Regiment.


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text: > Max Rabkin wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Andrew >> Coppin<andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote: >> >>> A few reasons: >>> >>> 1. I never knew it existed. ;-) >>> >> >> A good reason. However, it's good to do a quick search over Hackage >> before uploading (or before writing) so you know what's out there. >> >> Also, if you hadn't used an "AC-" prefix, you'd have had a name >> collision. Is there a particular reason why you want your name in the >> package name rather than just the author field? >> I find it amazing that you independently chose to spell colour with a `u'. It makes me feel better about my choice. >>> 2. It's mind-blowingly complex. >>> >> >> Colour *is* complex. Which is why I'm so glad Russell O'Connor did all >> the hard work for me :) >> > > Well, no, because now I'm going to have to spend a few hours trying to > find out what CIE is before I can even use that library. > > I think really it's just aimed at a different problem. It looks like > it's trying to specify actual real-world colours. [It's news to me that > this isn't fundamentally impossible...] I'm only trying to specify > colours on a computer screen. And as we all know, computer screens > aren't calibrated in any way, and the same RGB value looks different on > each display. But then, I'm only trying to write a fractal generator, so > CIE specifications are somewhat overkill here. ;-) You can use by lib without worrying about the CIE. You can use my library without ever importing or using the word CIE. However, the CIE stuff is there for those who need it. Perhaps I (maybe with some help) need to make a tutorial on the haskell wiki to try to make it less intimidating. >>> 3. It doesn't appear to provide arithmetic over colours. >>> >> >> It provides darken, blend and addition (though addition is called >> mappend rather than (+)). signum, abs and fromInteger don't make a >> huge amount of sense for colours. >> > > Yeah, I implemented signum and so forth for colours and vectors, but > they're not particularly meaningful... [Insert remark here about > Haskell's numeric class hierachy.] > > So mappend gives you colour addition [with the perplexing comments about > "gamut", presumably some kind of small mammal?], but there's no > subtraction? No multiplication? No linear blending? Linear blending is done by the affineCombo function. I think the darken function will do what you mean by multiplication Colour subtraction can be done by adding (using mappend) a colour that has been darkend by a factor of (-1). I don't believe there is any demand for a colour subtraction fuction, so I don't have a name for it. I suppose these sorts of questions can be put nicely into a short tutorial on the wiki. >>> 4. It's parameterised over the component type; my library is hard-coded > to >>> specific types for speed. >>> >> >> My feeling would be to trust the specializer until it lets me down. >> Has it let you down in the past? >> > > Heh, my colour library includes a custom floor implementation that talks > to the GHC primops directly because calling floor is too slow... > > [In case that sounds like idle talk, I had a program go from 10 seconds > to less than 1 second just by using this function. There's a few tickets > about it on the GHC Trac.] Certainly speed is an issue that I haven't tackled yet since I don't know too much about how to optimized Haskell code. I was thinking of sprinkling in some SPECIALIZE pragmas and maybe adding some RULES to make operations more effecient. For example we could have a rule to rewrite floor to some sort of GHC specific fast floor function. (Although that rule probably deserves to be in some sort of more general location). Any help in this direction would be appricated (perferably while keeping things as portable as possible). This all being said, the major problem my code solves is doing blending in a linear colour space. This necessarily make converting to non-linear sRGB for output much slower. So for people who want speed over proper blending, then probably AC-Colour is the package they need to reach for. Essentially the two packages do fill different niches! >> BTW, the EasyRaster package looks useful. >> I haven't looked at EasyRaster yet, but I got excited when I saw it announced. :) -- Russell O'Connor <http://r6.ca/> ``All talk about `theft,''' the general counsel of the American Graphophone Company wrote, ``is the merest claptrap, for there exists no property in ideas musical, literary or artistic, except as defined by statute.''


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This is disappointingly small. Be sure to look at the measurements. I did not. It is a cool toy and my son loves it, but I just wish it was bigger.
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