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Although not quite the right time of year for spring cleaning, Microsoft has chosen this December period to freshen up the Windows Azure cloud computing portal and platform with new open source capabilities, SQL Azure database enhancements, and a simplified Windows Azure billing and management experience.
With an arguably quite attractive page refresh, Azure's web resources are still presented with the same welcome, tour, scenarios, and case study information they have sported for a while now. Looking deeper, developers will find tangible changes like the first Windows Azure software development kit (SDK), which includes language libraries for Node.JS with support for hosting, storage, and service bus.
Microsoft also specifies that it is delivering an Apache Hadoop-based service for Azure to bolster the platform's "Big Data" functionality for, logically, more advanced data analytics. The maximum database size for SQL Azure will triple, moving from 50GB to 150GB and will include a new price cap for the largest SQL Azure databases, reducing the effective price 67 percent per gigabyte. Industry comment has suggested that a price cap will now be introduced at $499.95 as the upper limit here.
According to Microsoft's (server, tools, and business) STB blog, "We've been working hard to make the experience of getting started and managing applications on Windows Azure even easier for new and existing customers. Today's update offers a truly free 90-day trial and spending caps that simplify the sign-up process. Also, customers can check out the new Windows Azure Management Portal to view real-time usage and billing details that put them in control of how much they spend and use on the cloud platform."
Updates will include a free 90-day trial period with spending caps that aim to simplify the sign-up process. Developers are urged to check out the new Windows Azure Management portal to view real-time usage and billing. Sources report that North America and Europe will enjoy reduced pricing for data transfer as the rack rate slides from $0.15 per GB to $0.12.


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Use this section to check your eligibility before proceeding further. Eligible applicants should email a booking application form to the Research Station. There are separate forms for different users: Researchers, Groups, and Station Volunteers.
People who are eligible to use the Lizard Island Research Station's facilities usually fall into one of the following categories.
Researchers, Including Research Students
Any person who will be conducting bona fide scientific research during his/her visit to Lizard Island is eligible to use the Research Station's facilities. Eligibility extends to assistants who are necessary to accomplish the project and (except during peak periods) family members who are not involved in the research.
Researchers must provide sufficient detail about their proposed project to satisfy the Station's Directors that the research is genuine. In general, the research must have the capacity to contribute towards a scientific publication or a postgraduate thesis, or it must be a requirement of an undergraduate course. Researchers will generally have a university or research institute address.
If the research being conducted at Lizard Island is not intended for publication in the public domain for commercial reasons, the trip is considered to be commercial usage and commercial rates will apply.
Conditions of research bookings
Research booking request form
School or University Student Groups
Groups of students from schools or universities who are undertaking an educational visit led by academic staff from their own institution are eligible to use the Station's facilities.
The trip need not be a formal part of a course of study or contribute to course credit, but there must be a significant and genuine educational component. This would generally be demonstrated by at least some of the following activities being organised by the group leader during the visit: lectures by academic staff; guided field trips involving recording of observations or data collection; individual or group research projects; verbal presentations and/or written reports by students.
Additional adult supervisors are also eligible where they are necessary for safe and effective conduct of the group's activities. For example, a high school group may require an adult supervisor for every four students, whereas a university group may only require one academic staff member for 10 or even 20 students.
Conditions of group bookings
Group booking request form
Special Interest Groups
Groups of people who share a common special interest relevant to coral reefs may be eligible to use the Research Station's facilities. For example, group trips are sometimes offered for Australian Museum Members who are interested in learning more about coral reef biology and ecology. Such tours are led by a Museum scientist who gives lectures and organises a structured field program. Eligibility of such special interest groups is considered on a case-by-case basis by the Station's Directors.
Contact the Research Station to determine eligibility
Station Volunteers
Anyone who is older than 18 years and is capable of and willing to perform outdoor manual work is eligible to become a Station Volunteer. People with an interest in marine science are preferred. A maximum of two people will be accepted as Station Volunteers at any one time.
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Commercial Users (includes commercial research and educational documentaries)
Individuals and companies may use the Research Station's facilities for commercial purposes that are appropriate to the Station's role as a research and educational facility. However, research and educational usage have priority over commercial usage.
Most commercial projects that are conducted at the Station have an educational component, and many of these involve making documentaries for television.Scientific research is considered to be commercial if it is not intended for publication in the public domain for commercial reasons.
To arrange a visit to the Research Station for commercial purposes, please use the researcher booking form.
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Phage genomics research in biology laboratory classrooms
Why research?
The Biology department at Gonzaga is convinced that you learn science best by doing science. Doing science means investigating a question or a problem and finding an answer that makes a new, intellectual contribution to the field. In other words, what you find is important to better understanding nature.
Why in lab classes?
It is true that you can apply to do independent research in professor's labs, and that many upper-division lab courses do research. Many opportunities await you as you become an advanced college student. But why wait? At Gonzaga, you will start doing research the first week of freshman year in the introductory biology lab: phage genomics research.
What is phage genomics?
Bacteriophages (phages for short) are viruses that infect and grow in bacteria. They
are the most numerous life form on the planet, estimated at 10^31. This is a million times more than the number of stars in the observable universe! We know relatively little about these viruses. For example, how many different kinds of phages are there? How many different kinds of genes do they carry? How do they affect the biosphere? How do they evolve? One way to study phages today is to discover new ones and sequence their DNA. This is called genomics. So phage genomics is studying the DNA genomes of phages. Gonzaga is participating in a nation-wide research project to discover and study the diversity of bacteriophages that can be found in the environment. The project is called SEA-PHAGES (Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science) and we are part of the Science Education Alliance (SEA) of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Phage Discovery Lab
The first course you'll take is the Phage Discovery Lab, which is the lab associated with the introductory biology course, BIOL 105. Here, you will discover your own phage from a soil sample, purify it, grow it up, examine it with an electron microscope, and extract and characterize its DNA. You will name you phage and it will be archived at the end of the semester for future study.
Phage Genomics Lab
When you take the Genetics lab, BIOL 207L, you will continue studying your phage. You will use DNA cloning techniques to clone and sequence a fragment of DNA from your phage genome. Sequence analysis may help you discover which other phages are closely related to your own. And, as a research group, you will learn computational bioinformatic methods and use them to analyze the full genome sequence of a novel phage that was discovered at Gonzaga. At the end, the research group will submit the annotated genome to the public genome database GenBank at NCBI.
Your name will be on the author list of scientists who have contributed the sequence for the rest of the scientific world to study. (See the genome of the phage GUmbie at NCBI, for an example of a GU phage.)
Phage genomics research integrated into the biology curriculum is supported by a National Science Foundation TUES grant, and the Science Education Alliance of HHMI.
Read more about it.
News about Gonzaga joining the Phage Genomics project
- Gonzaga Bulletin News: Grant helps launch biological research
- Gonzaga Bulletin News: Discovery-Bound
- Gonzaga to Join Major National Science Education Effort
Student experiences in Phage Courses at other colleges
Info from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who is sponsoring this project
A description of why biomedical scientists are so interested in bacteriophages these days
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The thermal conductivity, λ, is the quantity of heat transmitted, due to unit temperature gradient, in unit time under steady conditions in a direction normal to a surface of unit area, when the heat transfer is dependent only on the temperature gradient [Ref. 2].
Values are given at 25&176;C. To convert to W cm-1 K-1, divide by 100.
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A mother from Nanticoke is facing felony charges after her infant son overdosed on cocaine last month and nearly died, city police say.
Nanticoke police arrested 19-year-old Amber Morgan late Friday afternoon, charging her with endangering the welfare of a child.
The allegations stem from an incident Jan. 8 when city paramedics were called to Morgan's mother's Church Street home for the report of the 1-year-old child having a seizure from an accidental prescription drug overdose.
However, multiple toxicology screenings indicate the only drug in the baby's system was cocaine, police say.
"When a mother doesn't tell the truth to us to help her own child, that is very disturbing," Nanticoke police Chief William Shultz said. "The child could have died."
Morgan was arraigned late Friday afternoon by Magisterial District Judge Donald Whittaker, who ordered Morgan to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu of $75,000 cash bail.
Shultz said the child nearly died from the ordeal, spending days in critical condition in the hospital. He noted Morgan initially tried to cover up the overdose, trying to induce the baby to vomit with a baking soda/apple juice cocktail for 30 minutes before calling 911.
"Those moments were very critical," Shultz said.
Morgan still claims she doesn't know how the cocaine got in her baby's system, Shultz said.
The child is now living with his father. Police arrested Morgan at Luzerne County Children and Youth, where she was having a supervised visit with the child, Shultz said.
Even if the baby had overdosed on prescription drugs, Morgan would have been charged, but the grading would have been a misdemeanor, Shultz said. Her willful "course of conduct" to cover up the reason behind the overdose allowed police to charge her with a felony, he said.
"She continued to tell us, EMS personnel, paramedic, hospital personnel, that the only drugs in his system were the grandmother's prescriptions. None of those drugs were in his system. It came back as cocaine," Shultz said.
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How important is religion to you? Well it's important to someone, as several of these new red-hot religious book have a starting print run of 200,000 copies.
Here are a few titles that just came off the mountain at DPL for your perusal:
Sylvia Browne – End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies about the End of the World
The world has become a scary place—religious wars, global terrorism, and genocide are all over the news, and thanks to the Internet, the Information Age has ushered in the Anxiety Age. Who better to lead the way out than Sylvia Browne, the most popular psychic working today?
Jack Kerouac – Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
Published for the first time in book form, an account of the life of the Buddha by the author of On the Road
T.D. Jakes – Before You Do: Making Great Life Decisions
A guide by the author of Reposition Yourself identifies twenty-five spiritual and psychological tools for reevaluating one's place in life before making decisions about relationships with family, friends, and others
A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists: Musings on Why God Is Good and Faith Isn't Evil
Social Psychologist David Myers admits that many people throughout history who have claimed to believe in God have caused much evil in the world. He is respectful of his atheist interlocutors, like Richard Dawkins, preferring to discuss how Surely, in some ways I'm wrong, you're wrong, we're all wrong.
The lost ark of the covenant: Solving the 2,500 year of fable of the biblical ark
With painstaking historical scholarship, groundbreaking genetic science, and hair-raising fieldwork, Parfitt, who the Wall Street Journal calls "a British Indiana Jones," debunks the previous myths and reveals the shocking history of the Ark and its keepers. From Israel to Egypt, Ethiopia, and the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, the journey leads to places Parfitt could never have imagined.
Anne Rice – Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession
In a haunting memoir, the best-selling author of Interview with a Vampire presents an intensely personal journey of faith that records her New Orleans Catholic childhood; loss of faith and involvement with secular humanism; the alienation and tragedy that marked her life; and her eventual return, after thirty-eight years as an atheist, to New Orleans and a belief in Christ
Joel Osteen – Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day
An anthology of inspirational and motivational readings by the pastor author of Become a Better You includes pieces that illustrate his seven principles for leading an improved life


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DIVERNON — The Vandalia seventh-grade boys basketball team never let up in Wednesday's sectional game, but hot shooting from Southwestern allowed the Birds to come away with a 44-37 victory.
Nathan Casey led the Jr. Vandals (16-9) in scoring with a game-high 18 points, and Marcus Zimmerman added 13 points, eight rebounds and four steals.
Vandalia led 15-13 early in the second quarter, but Southwestern (22-3) used a 10-0 run over the final 2:48 to take a 23-15 halftime lead.
Carrying the confidence of a winning streak and a strong game plan, the third-seeded Vandalia seventh-grade boys basketball team didn't even care that Greenville brought a 21-2 record into last Thursday's regional championship game.
Or, for that matter, that the top-seeded Blue Jays had three times defeated the Jr. Vandals during the regular season.
VANDALIA – A freshman made the first overtime basket, but it was the senior class that finished out the extra period and gave Vandalia the victory.
Freshman Karlie Bright had an open drive to the basket 10 seconds into the overtime period against South Central Conference rival Roxana last Thursday, and seniors Morgan Whightsil and Amber Bruno made 7-of-10 free throws in the final 1:17 of a 66-56 victory on senior night.
LITCHFIELD – Despite a tough time in the championship semifinals, five Vandals finished in the top three at the Litchfield Invitational to give Vandalia a fourth-place team finish.
Six Vandalia wrestlers were in the semifinals on Saturday, but only freshman Chaston Womack prevailed at 106 pounds. His second-place finish would lead the Vandals, who scored 141 team points.
PANA – The Vandals suffered one of their worst losses in the past several years, and if the problems that led to it aren't fixed soon, a new cast of players will likely see extended playing time.
Vandalia trailed just 12-10 early in the second quarter, but poor rebounding and ball handling for the rest of the game let Pana run away with a 71-29 South Central Conference victory on Tuesday night.
The Jr. Vandal eighth-graders came from behind in the fourth quarter to take a 34-33 win from Hillsboro on Tuesday to advance to the regional championship game.
Third-seeded Vandalia trailed by two going to the fourth quarter, but outscored No. 2 Hillsboro, 7-4, in that period to secure the upset in the Class 3A regional at Greenville Junior High.
The Jr. Vandals take on top-seeded Roxana at 6 p.m. on Thursday. The winner will face Auburn at the Vandalia Sectional next Wednesday at 6 p.m.
St. Elmo senior Megan Maxey has committed to play softball for Kaskaskia College for the next two years.
Maxey, who will be counted on as one of the top hitters in the Lady Eagles' lineup this spring, signed her letter of intent last Friday.
Her older sister, Brooke, played volleyball for KC the past two seasons.
Vandalia native Seth Von Behren was inducted to the Waterloo Bucks Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Von Behren played for the Bucks, an Iowa collegiate summer team in the Northwoods League, in 1998 and 1999.
"This is probably a top one or two places in the country that you could send a kid to play summer baseball, and it's because of the fans and the atmosphere," Von Behren said in his induction speech. "I appreciate everything you did for me and my family."
St. Elmo junior Levi Maxey was the only area player named to the all-tournament team at the 78th annual National Trail Conference Tournament on Saturday after leading the Eagles to a sixth-place finish at Altamont High School.
Brownstown placed eighth in the event, and South Central was eliminated in the consolation semifinals.
Top-seeded Dieterich beat No. 2 Altamont, 68-54, for the championship, its first ever, and third-seeded Stew-Stras took third, with a 68-58 win against No. 4 Cowden-Herrick..
Tuesday, Jan. 29
regional semifinals
Mulberry Grove 46
Sorento 41
*MGJH advances to Thursday's title game at home at 6 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 25
Regional Championship
Patoka 53
Odin 48
Points: Cain, 30; Belcher, 17; Organ, 6.
Record: 21-4
*Patoka advances to the Rend Lake Sectional on Saturday at 6:15 p.m.
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Organization Charts (Org Charts) are one of the most popular templates in Visio. An org chart helps you create a visualization of your team or organization in terms of relationships among people. While org charts are commonly used to show employees within a reporting hierarchy, they can also be used for other purposes such as showing ownership of tasks and projects or to visualize virtual teams.
The new Visio pushes the boundaries of what org charts can look like and how easy it is to create them, by providing modern shape styles, automatic photo importing and a host of other improvements.
Let's jump in and explore how you can have more flexibility than ever in creating a professional, engaging and modern organization chart with the new Visio.
Introducing Org Chart styles
If you do an online image search for organization chart, you'll quickly notice the vast majority of org charts look the same–lots of rectangles with text in them.
The new Visio changes all of that by introducing a new Visio organization chart concept called "styles". A style lets you quickly change the entire look and feel of your org chart with a single click. Styles change both the geometry and layout of your org chart shapes.
Ten new styles are available, with over 60 new org chart shapes to support them. Also, each style has been designed to work with embellishments, a new theming concept explained in our "New themes, variants, and styles in Visio" blog post that lets you change your org chart's appearance from conservative to elaborate.
However, Visio org chart styles go beyond just changing shape geometry by automatically changing the layout (placement and spacing) of your shapes to one that is optimized for each specific style. This saves you time from having to manually select a layout style, and makes each style look that much more unique.
Tip: If you only want your shapes and not your layout to change when selecting org chart styles (handy if you have already customized your org chart's layout by hand), simply uncheck "Apply Automatic Layouts to Shape Styles" from either the Layout dropdown on the Layout chunk, or the Styles gallery on the Shapes chunk. Alternatively, you can change your style and just hit undo.
Ultimately, you have a variety of styles at your fingertips that range from minimal to professional to hip and playful–whichever is appropriate for the personality of your team or organization.
To try styles for yourself, simply open up the Organization Chart template, import your data via the wizard or drag and drop your shapes to the canvas, and try clicking on various styles from the gallery on the Shapes chunk of the Org Chart ribbon tab.
Automatic photo imports
You always hear people saying "I can remember faces, but not names." With automatic photo imports in the new Visio's org charts, you can create diagrams that are much more engaging and effective.
There are two ways you can import photos into your org charts in the new Visio.
Import photos via Microsoft Exchange
When you first open up the Org Chart template, you'll be presented with a wizard that will walk you step-by-step through the process of importing the data needed to create your org chart.
If you import your data via a Microsoft Exchange Server directory, you'll notice a new "Photo" field added to your "Displayed fields" by default. This will take the same photos you see people have in Outlook and import them into your org chart.
Import photos via a local folder on your computer
Alternatively, if you don't have photos on an Exchange server or have different photos you want to use, simply remove the "Photo" field from the "Displayed fields" in the dialog above, continue through the wizard, and you'll be presented with the following option that allows you to locate a folder on your computer that contains your photos:
Simply name your image files the same as the name on your org chart shapes, and we'll take care of the rest–mapping each photo to the corresponding shape and inserting it for you. You can even select a different field from the "Match pictures based on" dropdown to match your photos to. For example, some of you may have an Employee ID field in your Org Chart data that you could then select and use to name your photos by for matching.
Additionally, if you aren't using the wizard to create your org chart, you can simply go to Insert –> Multiple Pictures on the Picture chunk of the Org Chart ribbon tab to select a folder on your computer.
Images are easy to manipulate
Given we expect most of your org charts to now have photos in them, we made it easier than ever to manipulate and change these images.
An improved image cropping mode makes it super quick and easy to adjust an image to your liking. Simply select your org chart shape's image, click the Picture Tools Format tab on the ribbon that's highlighted in green, and click Crop Tool from the Arrange chunk.
You'll instantly be able to see a preview of the entire image, with the portions outside of your cropping area highlighted in gray, making it easy to see what will and won't be in your final field of view. Click and drag on the picture to position it to your liking, click off the shape, and you're done!
Org Chart ribbon refinement
The Org Chart ribbon tab has been reorganized and refined to put the most important controls at your fingertips. Besides the large styles gallery previously discussed, you'll notice a few other changes:
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Microsoft Patents TV That Watches Back, Counts Heads, Charges Admission
from the the-kinect-as-box-office/toll-booth deptHere's a scenario for you: at some point in the the near future, you sit down in front of your Xbox 720/960/1080 and queue up a little video-on-demand from the Live Arcade selection of movies. You select a film from the menu and, before you can press the "Play" button, you are greeted with another menu giving you several price points, depending on how many people will be watching.
It sounds ridiculous, but Microsoft has applied for a patent covering a method that could make this a reality. Geekwire (via Slashdot) has the details on a patent application utilizing the Kinect (or its successor) to count noses for content providers.
The patent application, filed under the heading "Content Distribution Regulation by Viewing User," proposes to use cameras and sensors like those in the Xbox 360 Kinect controller to monitor, count and in some cases identify the people in a room watching television, movies and other content. The filing refers to the technology as a "consumer detector."While it's a little early in the process to decide whether this is actually a pursuit Microsoft deems worthy of implementing or just some brainstorming put on paper, there's no denying that media companies and content providers would certainly not mind at all if an enterprising group could create something that would allow them to monetize every eyeball in the house.
In one scenario, the system would then charge for the television show or movie based on the number of viewers in the room. Or, if the number of viewers exceeds the limits laid out by a particular content license, the system would halt playback unless additional viewing rights were purchased.
While Kinect hackers have managed to crank out some very interesting uses of the body-tracking technology, it looks as though the in-house team has something a bit more devious up its collective sleeve. With this in place, PPV events could move to the Xbox to get the most bang for their buck during prize fights and MMA bouts. Movies rented through XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade) could rake in even more money by charging for each additional set of eyeballs, leading to Xbox owners treating their own living rooms like drive-ins and sneaking in additional viewers through piles of coats lying strategically on the floor.
Every use may not be as mercenary as the above scenario, however. The Kinect "Consumer Detector" could also prevent younger (or at least, shorter) eyeballs from being sullied by R-rated movies or, god forbid, porn.
The system could also take into account the age of viewers, limiting playback of mature content to adults, for example. This patent application doesn't explain how that would work, but a separate Microsoft patent application last year described a system for using sensors to estimate age based on the proportions of their body.Unfortunately, this will prevent pornstar midgets from viewing porn, but please, let's think of the children, each of whom represents a potential income stream.
The intro paragraph of the application lends itself to use for many different royalty collecting entities. In addition to the mentioned Pay Per View/Video-on-Demand possibilities, there's also performance rights organizations to be considered, because once you start talking licenses, they're never far behind.
A method of distributing content to a user, comprising: providing a selection of content available to the user; for each content, presenting a licensing option comprising associating a performance of the content with an individual user's consumption of the content at a display device; receiving a selection of one of the content and a license display option for said content; presenting the content to the display device if a number of user performances allowed for the content is equal to or less than the license option for which the selection is received; and monitoring the presentation of the content at the device to determine the number of users consuming the content during the performance.This description, along with the methods listed below it in the filing, seem to indicate that your fully-paid and relatively peaceful viewing of a movie or prize fight could come to an instant halt and ask you to feed the meter any time someone new walks into the room. Or better yet, the new system could push already-strained friendships to the limit. "Oh, hey. I'd invite you in but I'm only got enough money for five people. Sorry, man. Maybe next time." AWKWARD.
But beyond the fact that this patent, if granted and implemented, will create a whole new level of rent-seeking across a wide swath of the "creative industries," there's also privacy issues that need to be addressed. Does any company, whether it's Microsoft or any of the upstream content providers, have the right to basically scan your living room for signs of life simply because they're the one licensing the content? For that matter, is it any of their business how many people you have watching a movie or listening to music in your private residence? It certainly never has been before, but with the advent of digital distribution (and its accompanying "licenses"), the attempts to wring every last dollar out of every bit of content will continue.
Will "buying for five but watching for ten" become the new "piracy?" Pursuing this angle isn't going to make Microsoft any friends, at least not in terms of customers. Consumers' first reaction would probably be to toss the "Consumer Detector," in which case it's not difficult to imagine it becoming a mandatory piece of equipment for certain applications. After that, for consumers concerned about this, their only option would be to toss the Xbox. I don't think Microsoft has enough confidence in the future of its console line to take that chance.
Or maybe it's got nothing to do with the console. Maybe it's some groundwork for the new "Cloud TV" service Microsoft inadvertently announced via a job posting.
Microsoft is known for revealing additional product details in job postings, but a new round of listings has unveiled a brand new TV service. Described as a "Cloud-based TV platform," Microsoft is looking to hire engineers to build client applications for the service. LiveSide spotted several job postings related to Cloud TV recently that tempt job candidates to "get in on the ground floor of an ambitious new project."Combining this with the above patent opens up the possibility that Microsoft could be crafting the content delivery system that watches you back, delivering headcounts to media companies and cutting off customers who violate the license terms by exceeding the limits declared by the copyright holder. At this point, the whole setup is full of easily exploitable holes. The odds of this coming to market are extremely low, if for no other reason than the potential backlash against any company involved. But it's not impossible, either. There are many rent-seekers in the content market and many of them have never shied away from a new source of income just because it might be unpopular. (At least, not at first. Many have walked back ideas due to public outcry, but they rarely seem to discard bad ideas before trying to implement them first.) Microsoft doesn't seem to share the same enthusiasm for angering the public to make incremental gains, but its design team has crafted a handy backdoor for a whole new level of IP enforcement—one that will only widen the gap between what consumers feel are acceptable limitations and what the content industries believe they should be.
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Cosmic Collisions Galore!
Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars.
But galaxies have a dynamical side. They have close encounters that sometimes end in grand mergers and overflowing sites of new star birth as the colliding galaxies morph into wondrous new shapes.
Today, in celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 18th launch anniversary, 59 views of colliding galaxies constitute the largest collection of Hubble images ever released to the public. This new Hubble atlas dramatically illustrates how galaxy collisions produce a remarkable variety of intricate structures in never-before-seen detail.
Astronomers estimate that only one out of one thousand galaxies in the nearby universe in the act of colliding. However, galaxy mergers were much more common long ago when they were closer together, because the expanding universe was smaller. Astronomers study how gravity choreographs their motions in the game of celestial bumper cars and try to observe them in action.
For all their violence, galactic smash-ups take place at a glacial rate by human standards - timescales on the order of several hundred million years. The images in the Hubble atlas capture snapshots of the various merging galaxies at various stages in their collision.
Most of the 59 new Hubble images are part of a large investigation of luminous and ultra- luminous infrared galaxies called the GOALS project (Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey). This survey combines observations from Hubble, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The majority of the Hubble observations are led by Aaron S. Evans of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and Stony Brook University.
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Why are there two historic districts in Decatur?
Albany and Old Decatur were originally two separate cities begun at different times. Each neighborhood is connected to its own business district: Bank Street, which extends from the Old State Bank, one of Decatur's four antebellum buildings, was part of Decatur, while Second Avenue, home to the Princess Theatre, belonged to Albany.
Albany is one of the two historic districts of Decatur, Alabama, situated very near the Tennessee River and home to a wonderful collection of late 19th and early 20th Century homes, ranging from Queen Anne Victorians to Craftsman Bungalows. Our neighborhood is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Whether you're an out-of-town visitor, a history buff, or thinking of moving to Decatur, we're glad you've come to our website to find out more about Albany!
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Sounds good to me. My time is very flexible, now that I am at home with my girls. A good free place might be the Willowbend play area.
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Tombstone Tuesday – Warner LaRue & Carrie Breneman Jones
By Sherry Stocking Kline
October 20, 2009
Warner LaRue and Carrie Breneman Jones, my grandparents…
Warner LaRue Jones was born in Kentucky. Probably Barren County, to Willis Washington and Martha Ellen Smith Jones on March 13, 1880, and died in Sumner County, Kansas on November 1, 1947.
Carrie Esther Breneman Jones was born (I believe in Nebraska. I do not have all of my info here where I can double check), to Constantine "Tom" Breneman and Salinda (Rose) Breneman on Aug 15, 1876, and died Sept 13, 1956.
They are both buried in Ryan Township Cemetery, Milan, Sumner County, Kansas.
My grandmother, Carrie Breneman Jones, was gifted at painting & hand crafting things…
I never got to meet my grandfather, and I was young when my grandmother died. But I remember that she was extremely gifted at hand crafting things, crocheting beautiful doilies, and pretty doll clothes. She taught herself to paint when she was already a senior citizen, and painted very life-like pictures of animals, particularly our families' registered Ayrshire cattle.
We visited her often, and how I wish I had been old enough to ask the many questions that I now have!
Here is a photograph of their young family. My mother is the youngest child in this photograph, and there was one more child, Fern, born later. Fern died from pneumonia when she was sixteen, and is buried next to her parents.
My grandfather, Warner Jones, loved his favorite team of mules!
I can't resist adding one more photograph that I just love! Wish I knew the name of the mules, but my mother told me that my grandfather loved those mules very much!
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My ears always perk up when I hear the LaRue name. Our LaRue family is one that intrigues me, but haven't gotten around to digging into that far past yet.


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Friday, February 26, 2010
Interview/Giveaway: Erica Hayes
1. For any new readers, would you please tell us about your Shadowfae Chronicles?
EH: It's a steamy urban fantasy/romance series, set in a shadowy city where paranormal creatures are hidden from ordinary human eyes by glamour. Fairies, banshees, vampires, demons, incubi, they're all there, on the street, in the clubs, drinking coffee at Starbucks. Living next door, for all you know. Turns out Melbourne is run by a demon lord and his vampire gangsters. Who knew? It's a gritty, dirty, dark and colourful world.
Each book has a new heroine and hero, and a HEA, but there's an over-arching story too, and you'll meet lots of recurring characters, like Kane, the demon lord, and his enemies, the shady DiLuca clan.
2. Each book features a new heroine. Who will we meet in book two, Shadowglass?
EH: Fairies! The heroine is Ice, a waterfairy thief looking for that one big score that'll set her up for life. What she finds, of course, is trouble — she steals a magic mirror from a demon, and it erodes her common sense and her sanity. Not only that, she's now being chased by vengeful demons, nasty shapeshifting gangsters and a spooky body-snatcher. Not to mention Indigo, a sexy hot-eyed metalfairy with mirror-madness problems of his own.
In my world, fairies are trash, the unwanted ones — they aren't strong or particularly powerful, and no one really cares if they live or die. Ice isn't physically strong or magically formidable, and she has to use her wits and wiles to get by against enemies who are far more powerful than she is. She's a trick-ass heroine :)
And she has friends. A lot of heroines seem to be loners, but Ice can't survive without her two fairy besties, Blaze and Azure. So when the mirror puts their friendship in jeopardy, she fights back.
If you'd like, you can read an excerpt and watch the trailer at me site: http://www.shadowfae.net/
3. How many books will there be in the Shadowfae series? Are you currently working on any other projects you would like to share with us?
EH: At the moment I'm contracted for four books, and I'm writing book 4 now. I'm hoping to do more — I do have an ending in sight — but I guess we'll see! Other than that, I've got a science fantasy idea in the works. But that's a sekrit, so don't tell anyone.
4. Prior to publication, you had several different careers including Air Force officer and Musician. Did you every think you would wind up as an author?
EH: I've always written, but I never really gave it serious thought as a career. Writing for a living was something other people did. But I was lucky enough to get an opportunity to take some time off work to concentrate on writing, and I never went back! I've had some interesting jobs (the air force was fun, though I didn't have much of a clue!) as well as some mind-numbing ones. But for me, nothing beats working for myself, keeping my own hours, doing something I love.
5. Given the choice, which kind of paranormal creature would you want to be?
EH: Hmm... I think I'd be a vampire. Vampires don't take nonsense from anyone, and they live for a long time. And the diet can't be worse than fast food.
6. A man in a long trench coat approaches you on the street. He whips open his jacket and you see...VIALS. He is selling magic potions for health, love, beauty, wealth, anything you desire. Which potion do you take?
EH: So many problems could be solved if I only had the time — so I'll take the one for eternal youth, thanks. So long as I can afford it. No doubt he's asking an exorbitant price. And so long as it doesn't come with pesky small print about spending eternity in hell, or something.
7. If you won a dream vacation with a famous guest, where would you go and which person would be at your side?
EH: I'd love to visit Tahiti. Lounging in one of those overwater bungalows, sipping cocktails, a massage or three... Do I have to take anyone? How about Jamie Oliver, so he can cook for me? Or Johnny Depp, just so I can look at him (mmm) and absorb his aura of coolness.
Erica, thankyou for taking the time to interview with us. Congratulations on your new release!
EH:Thanks for having me!
For more information about Erica and her books, visit her website.
Preorder Shadowglass at Amazon or Barnes and Noble. If you are new to the series, but sure to read Shadowfae.
*Erica has offered a copy of her new release Shadowglass to a lucky reader. To enter, please complete the form. You can earn an extra entry by spreading the word! Don't forget to leave Erica some love in the comments section! Please enter by 3/6. Open to those with a US mailing address. Good luck.
43 comments:
- Book Crazy Jenn said...
Loved your interview, I love reading about Authors in Interviews like this, I have Shadowfae it's high in my TBR pile, I cant wait to pick it up! :) It sounds like such a great series!
- February 26, 2010 at 9:20 AM
- Nina said...
Great interview. The cover of the book is great!
- February 26, 2010 at 9:35 AM
- Stacy said...
I can't wait to read Shadowfae, it has been on my wish list since it came out and I recently broke down and ordered it! Thanks for the chance to win the next in the series, can't wait!
- February 26, 2010 at 10:21 AM
- Book Addict Girl said...
GREAT interview! I've read Shadowfae and I think it's Hellbound? The short prequel on Erica's site. OOOH boy, STEAMY! :D
Thanks for having the contest, Elie! :)
- February 26, 2010 at 10:44 AM
- Orchid said...
Nice interview. Sounds like an intersting series. :)
- February 26, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- StephTheBookworm said...
I've gotta read this series now! Sounds so cool!
- February 26, 2010 at 10:57 AM
- KMichelleC87 said...
This series looks really good. I can't wait to start it. Thanks for the contest.
- February 26, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Misty said...
Great reviwe Elie! This looks like something my book club would love; we're pitching ideas next month for upcoming selections; I may have to write this one down. And I l-o-v-e the cover of Shadowglass. Gorgeous.
- February 26, 2010 at 12:29 PM
- Kelsey said...
This series sounds awesome! I'd love a chance to read and review it on my blog.
- February 26, 2010 at 12:39 PM
- elaing8 said...
Great interview.I have the first book and look forward to reading it,I've read a lot of great reviews for Shadowfae.
- February 26, 2010 at 12:41 PM
- s7anna said...
Hey Erica,
You're a new author for me and I can't wait to dive into your series...they look fab!!!
Anna Shah Hoque
- February 26, 2010 at 12:45 PM
- CallMeKayla said...
Lovin' the cover! Hot hot hot! Book sounds great, I'll have to read this at some point..
- February 26, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- CallMeKayla said...
Lovin' the cover! Hot hot hot! Book sounds great, I'll have to read this at some point..
- February 26, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- Lisa M. Basso said...
You totally sold me on SHADOWGLASS, not that I needed to be sold. SHADOWFAE has been on my wish list for a while now. Congratulations on the release!
- February 26, 2010 at 3:25 PM
Great interview! The book looks fantastic! =3
- February 26, 2010 at 3:39 PM
- Rosie said...
Thanks for stopping by and the great interview. I haven't read your first book yet (it's still on my HUGE tbr pile), but this series definitely sounds like a winner!
- February 26, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- throuthehaze said...
Great interview! I still need to read the first book but I can't wait to read it
- February 26, 2010 at 7:53 PM
- cait045 said...
Hey Erica I am very excited to read your series....its very awesome.
- February 26, 2010 at 9:09 PM
- Marianna said...
Have not read anything by Hayes yet, but I really want to. The covers just draw me to the books.
- February 26, 2010 at 9:37 PM
Great Interview! Loved questions 6 & 7... Though I must say: Back off, JOhnny Depp is Maehn!! =P lol
Loved Shadowfae and cannot wait for Shadowglass! ^-^
- February 26, 2010 at 9:41 PM
- Stephanie said...
This series sounds awesome. I haven't had a chance to read any of the books as of yet, but I will certainly remedy that as soon as I can. Thanks for a great interview.
icewoman96 at gmail dot com
- February 26, 2010 at 9:54 PM
- xxsquigglesxx said...
This series sounds great. I would love to read it one day.
- February 26, 2010 at 10:34 PM
- Dottie (My Blog 2.0-Tink's Place) said...
Hi Erica and Elie!
I have Shadowfae, which I've started reading and may I say, pretty darn good so far!! (Hellcursed was great too.) I'd love to have the next in the series!
Dottie :)
- February 26, 2010 at 11:26 PM
- Erica said...
Lovely interview! Shadowfae looks so incredibly good! And has a gorgeous cover!
- February 27, 2010 at 12:52 AM
- Isi and Jas' mom said...
Can't wait to read this one! sounds like a great series
mstlee2000 @ hotmail.com
- February 27, 2010 at 1:34 AM
- booklover0226 said...
Goodness, I'm running behind. I have Shadowfae on my TBR list and here is book two! I have my work cut out for me!
I can't wait to start this series.
Tracey D
booklover0226 at gmail dot com
- February 27, 2010 at 11:26 AM
This book sounds amazing! I can't wait to read it! Even if I don't win!
- February 27, 2010 at 9:35 PM
- justpeachy36 said...
This sounds really good.
- March 1, 2010 at 11:08 PM
- Misusedinnocence said...
Sounds awesome! Thanks so much for the giveaway. =)
- March 3, 2010 at 12:37 PM
- mis(h)takes said...
Ah, Tahiti haven't been there myself Erica but it's just funny you mentioned the place. I just saw a surfing movie in IMAX for it and Tahiti was simply gorgeous!
Thansk for the interview ladies, really enjoyed it =)
- March 3, 2010 at 3:11 PM
- E.J. Stevens said...
Great interview! I've added your book to my to read pile!
- March 3, 2010 at 7:20 PM
- van_pham said...
great interview! looking forward to reading this
- March 4, 2010 at 1:11 AM
- Aik said...
I really enjoyed reading the interview! I hope I can read this book!
- March 4, 2010 at 5:51 AM
- CrystalGB said...
Hi Erica. Great interview. Your books sound good. Love urban fantasy books.
- March 4, 2010 at 1:47 PM
- heatwave16 said...
The covers for the books are excellent. How much feedback do you get into the design?
Series sounds read, definitely on my list.
- March 4, 2010 at 10:01 PM
- misskallie2000 said...
Great intereview. The reviews I have read rave about Shadowglass. I look forward to reading. Maybe I can win..Thanks for opportunity.
- March 5, 2010 at 1:06 PM
- elizabeth said...
Great interview! Love the book covers
- March 5, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- Cherie J said...
Wonderful interview! I just love learning about new authors. The book cover is awesome!
- March 5, 2010 at 4:30 PM
- Amanda Leigh said...
Wonderful interview! I can't wait to read these!
- March 6, 2010 at 4:24 PM
- Billy Burgess said...
Great interview!
- March 7, 2010 at 1:20 PM
- Erica Hayes said...
Thanks so much to everyone for dropping by :) and to Elie for hosting me on her blog.
@heatwave16: re: my input into the cover art. Uh... that'd be none :) and it's no doubt better that way!
- March 8, 2010 at 3:59 AM
- jellybelly82158 said...
Great interview. Can't wait to read this
- March 12, 2010 at 11:23 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Nice I love finding new books! looks like a great book
- March 14, 2010 at 10:54 PM


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Liberal Obama reappears to tax the rich
THE liberal President who emerged from the election and reintroduced himself at last month's inauguration reappeared at the State of the Union address, outlining a second-term agenda that would tax the rich, boost the minimum wage and force action on climate change.
With the damaging automatic spending cuts known as the sequester set to begin in just over a fortnight, Barack Obama ignored Republican demands to cut the deficit, instead promising policies to stabilise spending, while increasing revenue by closing tax loopholes enjoyed by the wealthy and maintaining benefits.
''We can't ask senior citizens and working families to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while asking nothing more from the wealthiest and most powerful,'' Mr Obama said.
The President argued investment in renewable energy and fuel-efficient technology would make the US energy-independent and create jobs, and that revenues from newly accessible fuel and gas reserves could be channelled into the development of technologies to shift the US road fleet away from fossil fuels.
The President was even more aggressive on climate change, insisting that if Congress failed to pass legislation to cut carbon pollution, he would direct cabinet to come up with executive actions his office could take.
As expected Mr Obama detailed immigration reforms, boasting about his administration's tough stance on border protection, but calling for changes to allow many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants to have a chance to become citizens - a measure the Republican Party has embraced.
More controversially, he announced he would pursue an increase in the minimum wage to $9 per hour.
''Working folks shouldn't have to wait year after year for the minimum wage to go up while CEO pay has never been higher,'' he said.
On foreign policy, Mr Obama announced a further 34,000 troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of the year and signalled that America would continue its war against terrorism with a far smaller commitment of troops, suggesting drone strikes would remain crucial.
''We will need to help countries like Yemen, Libya and Somalia provide for their own security, and help allies who take the fight to terrorists, as we have in Mali,'' he said.
''And, where necessary, through a range of capabilities, we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the gravest threat to Americans.''
Mr Obama promised to ''maintain the best military in the world''. Tellingly in the next breath he spoke of reducing waste, suggesting the Pentagon would face budget cuts.
After an election that saw voters in many parts of the nation either prevented from voting or left waiting for hours at polling stations, the President announced a bipartisan commission to reform voting regulations.
The most soaring rhetoric of the address was reserved for discussion of gun control. Mr Obama introduced the parents of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, who was shot dead in a park in Chicago last week as he addressed his proposed gun reforms.
Sitting with the first lady, they were among two dozen people affected by gun violence who had been invited to attend, including a police officer shot 12 times responding to a shooting in a Sikh temple.
''They deserve a vote [in Congress],'' said the President.
''Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote.
''The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote,'' he said to swelling tears and cheers within the chamber.
But the President emphasised the importance of universal background checks for gun buyers, without mentioning the ban on semi-automatic rifles - a reform that would be harder to secure and could cost his party dearly in future elections.
Finally he made a case for mutual responsibility as being at the heart of the American character. ''We are citizens. It's a word that doesn't just describe our nationality or legal status … It describes what we believe … that our rights are wrapped up in the rights of others.''
Nick O'Malley is a senior writer and a former US correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


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Behind the ScenesNovember 22, 2004
Cameron Moll wants screenshots again. I completely missed the last round, so I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring with this peek at the editing process.
This is editing in all its glory. Notes and deletions, insertions and corrections, it's all in there. Word tracks changes as everyone involved makes them, so no text ever goes truly missing — it's just removed for production purposes. This is a particularly fun example due to the large amount of stuff going on. The inline highlighting can also be turned off, and for the most part it's impossible to follow along after a few paragraphs of this so I generally do so.
We are aware that Word has a comment feature that's much less potentially harmful to the production process, but this is how the New Riders style guide recommends inserting notes. I say potentially harmful, because it's possible one or two of these may slip through the production process and make it into the final text. Maybe I'm alone in this, but I love finding little production mistakes like that in other people's work; it's like an Easter Egg in a book. And having said that, I'm sure I've just doomed ours to more than our fair share.
How's progress? Coming along nicely. I guess I'm more or less done writing, now we just have the editing and reviews. We're not too far off our estimated delivery date, and still aiming for a January release. (The date on Amazon is wrong, and always has been — sorry about that, not much we can do but wait for the update.)
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Classic, Dave. Just classic. Glad *you* can make sense of all that…
Good Grief, how do you guys read that?
Wow, that's hella confusing. I never realized that book writers actually used that feature.
PS: Your link to the book on Amazon is faulty.
I think it's pretty readable, actually—just think of it like reading a wikipedia talk page. Are those multiple editors (ER, SI, CE)?
"Are those multiple editors (ER, SI, CE)?"
Yep, that's exactly what you're seeing. It really isn't so bad once you get used to the formatting. Various colors symbolize the person who made the change, really all you're looking for in regards to actual edits are what is strike-through and what isn't.
Not to say it's the best system of course; I'm still paranoid that all the visual noise means that trailing periods will go missing or duplicate… but that's what we have a final review stage for.
Wow! As long as the person in charge understands it :D. I've never seen anything like it. In the simplistic eitgh grade we don't edit much. Just turn our boring, aweful papers in, and hope for an A.
I thought the image was a really bad cut ´n paste job at first… And I used to concider neasted tables and bad html messy looking! :S
Do people really use Word for this sort of thing? I thought there would be a fancy i'm-book-editor type package, you dissapoint me greatly!
Yeah, 'fraid so. Word is *it* when it comes to publishing. What's amazing is how much stuff is built in that non-editing types would never need, ie. 99.5% of the population. Apparently Microsoft did their homework with this one.
Dave, is there a link to the New Riders guide online? or is it a printed thing? I'd love to see what goes into all this writing and revising (over and over again) of books like this.
You might find this interesting:
This guy was looking through some of Microsoft's releases, and noticed that the editing meta data had been left in. Lots of interesting things in there, and so deliciously ironic. :)
Yep, the Office System is incredibly powerful, if you go to the effort of using all it has offer…
A good example is management of multiple contributions through Sharepoint Team Services (or Portal Server) - at any given moment, you can have a list of all documents, contributors, who last modified, who's currently got a document checked out, and what the version history looks like. When working with more than a few contributors, it becomes indispensable!
For interest's sake, have you ever used OneNote?
Dave, you've officially turned me off ever wanting to write a book… that looks insanely nerve wracking…
Can't wait to see the finished product, though… (we have to talk about that local launch party when you're finished editing…)
ok, for that reason, I'll never write a book … what a cluster!
Horrible, truly horrible. And I thought the W3C Drafts were an assault on the eyes.
I wonder if any text editors have this kind of functionality. It would be useful for programming. Rather than commenting out old code while trying new, you could just declare it as old code and then hide/show it when necessary.
So what software do you use for that? I need to write a couple of articles and send them out to an editor, and that would be a really cool feature to use :)


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Welcome to the Asia Stocks live blog, a running account of what the region's share markets are doing, along with other news. Today, the markets may remain cautious ahead of the monthly U.S. jobs data, while among individual names, Sony is drawing attention with its latest profit warning.
4:10 am | Markets check -- 4:09 p.m. in Hong Kong
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 0.2% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.6% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.2% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.1% (closed)
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.9% (closed)
2:43 am | Markets check -- 3:43 p.m. in Tokyo
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 0.2% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.5%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.2% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.1%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.2%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.9% (closed)
1:59 am | Markets check -- 1:59 p.m. in Hong Kong
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 0.3%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.7%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.2%
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.1%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.3%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.9%
1:15 am | What's up next week in Asia... | by Mike Kitchen
Here's a look at some of next week's important events in Asia:
Monday: China HSBC manufacturing PMI, Japan and South Korea closed for holiday
Tuesday: Reserve Bank of Australia policy decision; Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea closed for holiday
Wednesday: Softbank earnings results
Thursday: China April trade data, Toyota Motor earnings, Australia April unemployment
Friday: China April consumer and wholesale price data
1:09 am | Chinese official squanders millions on fengshui | by Laura He
Many Chinese officials and businesspeople believe in fengshui, the ancient art of positioning of buildings and objects in order to bring good fortune. But sometimes, fengshui is a double-edged sword.
A top Chinese official was fired from office this week, partly because he spent millions of dollars on fengshui, including seeking advice from and hiring fengshui experts to help him solve problems involving public investment projects. He even reportedly paid to have his father's grave moved (In fengshui, the site and structures of one's tomb is believed to have a major impact on the fates of the deceased's family members.)
Li Chuncheng, the former vice party chief of China's western Sichuan province, was sacked due to "serious violations of laws and party discipline," including accepting large bribes, misusing government funds, and taking part in "feudal superstitious activities," according to an announcement issued earlier this week by China's top corruption watchdog.
Caixin Magazine reported earlier that Li had spent tens of millions of yuan to have the fengshui experts move his father's grave to Dujiangyan, a famous cultural city located in the province. He also hired Taoist priests to practice magic and "exorcise" a failing investment project in Sichuan's capital Chengdu, according to Shanghai-based China Business News.
Apparently, these acts didn't help him.
12:45 am | Markets check -- 12:44 p.m. in Hong Kong
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 0.4%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.5% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) flat
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.2%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.2%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.8%
12:43 am | Bank of America: Yes, China still matters | by Mike Kitchen
True, China's trade account has been shrinking recently, and true, it's economy has slowed compared to its growth in years past, but as a new chart from Bank of America notes, it's presence on the world economic stage hasn't dimmed.
Specifically, the chart shows how, even amid a pullback in Chinese imports, the number of nations counting China as their top export market has been growing each and every year since 2008, and is well higher than at the start of the millennium.
On the other hand, the chart (based on IMF data) shows 36 countries for which China is currently the top destination for exports — a small number compared to the nearly 200 nations on earth. But, Bank of America says, the list does include some major players.
10:22 pm | Markets check -- 10:22 a.m. in Hong Kong
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 0.2%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.7%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) flat
Seoul (Kospi) down 0.1%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.8%
10:16 pm | Hong Kong stocks: Telecoms slapped by tax plans | by Laura He
Hong Kong stocks are not seeing much movement in their post-holiday return, with the Shanghai markets still closed and investors awaiting the U.S. jobs report due out later in the day. At this point, the Hang Seng Index is up 0.2%, with telecom shares among the weakest links.
China's Finance Ministry announced earlier this week that the country's telecom companies will be included in an ongoing value-added-tax trial program, starting June 1. According to the rules, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom will all have to pay an 11% basic tax rate, as well as a 6% rate on value-added telecom services.
The trio of state-owned telecom responded Thursday by issuing warnings, saying the new scheme could affect their short-term profitability, although the negative impact might fade over the following years. And so, China Mobile is down 1.8%, China Telecom is falling 2.5%, and China Unicom is suffering a 3.9% loss.
On the other hand, tech and casino stocks are rebounding: Tencent Holdings is up 2.6%, and software provider Kingsoft Corp. is advancing 1.9%. Casino operator Wynn Macau is jumping 4.6%, and rival MGM China Holdings is up 2.6%.
As for the mainland Chinese markets, they are scheduled to resume trading Monday.
9:14 pm | Sydney stocks: Steady as she goes, mate | by Mike Kitchen
The ASX 200 is trading flat, apparently in a holding pattern ahead of the U.S. jobs numbers, with weak miners offsetting some gains elsewhere.
With hard commodities softening overnight, we have BHP Billiton down 0.9% (but Rio Tinto off just 0.1%), Oz Minerals down 0.8%, and Atlas Iron down 0.6%. The often-volatile gold miners are seeing heftier losses, with Evolution down 4.1%, Kingsgate down 3.8%, and Newcrest down 1.5%. On the other hand, Fortescue is managing a 0.4% gain.
The financials are more of a mixed bag this morning: ANZ and NAB are each up 0.2%, while CBA is up 0.4%, and Westpac is down 0.1%.
Ah, but then there's Macquarie — the investment bank posted an almost 50% jump in net profit for the year through March, but it's getting no love on the market. Shares are down 1.3%, possibly due to its outlook suggesting earnings this year will show little growth (read more here.)
Then again, it may be karma for Macquarie: It just downgraded mall developer Westfield to neutral from outperform, with Westfield shares currently down 1.1%.
8:44 pm | Markets check -- 9:44 a.m. in Tokyo
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) down 0.2%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.3%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1%
8:35 pm | Japan brakes for jobs report | by Mike Kitchen
Japanese stocks are taking a trip to the downside, with the Nikkei Average off 0.4% to trim a little from yesterday's 1.3% rally, and with action today expected to be in a relatively tight range ahead of the U.S. jobs numbers due out later in the global day. More broadly, the Topix is 0.3% lower.
Data out ahead of the market showed a surge in March consumer spending, and April is expected to show an even larger plunge, given the April 1 increase in the national sales tax (see earlier post on today's live blog).
But same-store sales numbers for last month are showing that, in some cases at least, the post-tax-hike drop isn't as heavy as feared.
For instance, J. Front Retailing shares are up 0.2% this morning after sales at its Daimaru and Matsuzakaya stores fell "only" 15.3%, while Isetan Mitsukoshi is up 0.5% after its sales lost a mere 7.9%. On the other hand, Takashimaya's more-than-13% fall is pushing its shares down 1.4% currently.
The Wall Street Journal quotes Nomura's chief economist Tomo Kinoshita as having expected a 20% April drop for department-store sales as a whole.
Meanwhile… Sony. The electronics-cum-finance-cum-entertainment conglomerate issued its third profit warning in six months, cutting its expected operating profit by a full two-thirds. (Read more about the warning here.) As a result, Sony shares are currently down 2%.
That said, some techs are bucking the downtrend, with Fujitsu up 1.6% (it's been gaining since its strong earnings), Apple supplier Murata Manufacturing up 6.8% (it said its operating profit more than doubled in the fiscal year ended in March), and Nintendo up 2.3% (not immediately clear why — its main news today was the rollout of its latest Mario Golf videogame).
In a less dramatic move, Japan Display is up 0.6% after SMBC Nikko initiated coverage of the stock with an outperform rating. And beyond the techs, Bridgestone is up 0.4% after a Nikkei news report tipped record-high first-quarter profit, thanks to robust winter tire demand.
Still, it is mostly a down market, with many of the big names taking modest losses: Toyota Motor and Hitachi are down 0.5% each, Softbank and Daiwa are down 0.3% each, etc. etc.
7:55 pm | Japan consumer spending surges, but whatever... | by Mike Kitchen
An as-expected print for Japanese unemployment and a more-than-expected surge in household spending are proving powerless to move the yen, with investors more focused on what next month's numbers will show.
The Finance Ministry reported that the March jobless rate was 3.6%, unchanged from February's level and matching the median forecast from a Wall Street Journal survey of economists.
Spending was more of a surprise, with consumption by households of two or more people jumping by 7.2% in March from a year earlier, after its 2.5% drop the previous month.
This was well ahead of the Wall Street Journal survey's projected rise of 1.8%, and largely reflects people rushing to make purchases ahead of the April 1 increase in the national sales tax, to 8% from 5%.
The key, several economists have said recently, will be how much the number drops off in the April result, reflecting the drag from the tax hike.
The yen showed little reaction following today's data, with the dollar holding tight at ¥102.30 immediately after the release, though 10 minutes later, the U.S. currency had eased slightly to ¥102.28.
Really though, the market's muted moves may be mostly a function of investor caution ahead of the ever-so-closely-watched U.S. employment data, due out at 8:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern time.


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This year, Redskins training camp has been overtaken by talk of Robert Griffin III's knee. Which has prompted questions regarding the wisdom of a team talking about injuries, especially in the preseason when there's no obligation to say anything.
Last year, the Redskins adhered to that approach, as it related to linebacker London Fletcher.
On Thursday, Fletcher explained to reporters that he suffered a concussion during the 2012 preseason, via Tarik El-Bashir of CSNWashington.com. Fletcher told the team about it, he eventually passed the concussion protocol, and he returned to action with no one knowing about his head injury.
It's a legitimate approach in the preseason. No team has an obligation under league rules to say anything about player injuries until the days preceding the regular-season opener.
After Fletcher returned, he struggled from time to time with balance issues. He now claims that the balance issues had no relation to the concussion. He nevertheless admits that he concealed the balance problems from the team.
"Every now and then, I would have a little sway," Fletcher said. "I would notice it [but] nobody else would notice it. I never told the team about that. It wasn't until later in the year when we played the Giants, I had a hamstring injury, so I figured I might as well get this [balance] stuff looked as well."
Ultimately, Fletcher didn't miss a game, extending his consecutive regular-season streak to 240. He says the balance problem ultimately was attributed to a neck injury. Fletcher says his performance was affected by worries regarding the condition.
"You're concerned about your future," Fletcher said. "I'm seeing all these former players and the deals they've got going on. So you're wondering like, 'What's going on? Am I doing further damage to myself?' So you're not excited about throwing your neck up in there, making tackles and things like that, having that little irritation in there. Once I got that situation taken care of, I was also able to be relaxed from a mental standpoint. My play down the stretch, the last seven or eight ball games, once I got that taken care of, I played some really, really good football."
Regardless of whether the balance issues came from a concussion or from a neck injury, it's clear that Fletcher has played with concussions.
"It's football, man," Fletcher said. "I play inside linebacker, and I like to play it physical. I don't know, it can happen a couple of times a game. I wouldn't classify them as concussions. They're just, like I said, bell ringing. You'll see stars for a second and then you're back to normal after two, three seconds or whatever the case may be. It's just the way the game is."
One thing we've all learned in recent years is that a "bell ringing" is a concussion. Fletcher's comments reconfirm that players, who now clearly know the risks, are still wired to accept those risks and play.
Fletcher's ability to stay on the field despite concussions also highlights one of the new strategies in which some players may engage. Two years ago, Fletcher signaled to the Eagles sideline for trainers when it appeared that Mike Vick had suffered a concussion, in an obvious effort to get Vick removed from the game.
(Maybe Vick simply got his bell rung. Or dirt on his face.)
Fletcher's admission demonstrates that, despite recent advances in concussion awareness, plenty of players won't be inclined to say or do anything that will cause them to be removed from action, whether the problem is a brain injury, a neck injury causing balance issues, or any other condition. Including dirt on the face.


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