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@tim Google often finds out about new Android phones the same day the rest of the world does. The joys of an open platform!
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Clears up why they rely on "activations" to find out what's going on in the market.
@tim Google often finds out about new Android phones the same day the rest of the world does. The joys of an open platform!
via (1) Twitter / Home.
Clears up why they rely on "activations" to find out what's going on in the market.
That means no seamless integration with Gmail. No Google Latitude. No multitouch in the map app, either. And in place of the free and fantastic turn-by-turn Google Navigator app, Verizon installed its VZ Navigator service — a feature which costs $10 a month to use.
It would be one thing for Verizon to set the default search and map app to Bing with the option to switch back to Google. But it's utterly inexcusable for Verizon to destroy the possibility of a switch without the user having to root the device and, under Verizon's company policies, void their warranty. And on top of that, repeatedly charge you for a sub-par service instead of keeping the gold standard of navigation apps for free.
And as bad as that is, there's now a rumor that Verizon will be doing this again. On every single one of its Android devices.
After speaking with a Verizon representative about the Bing debacle on the Fascinate — who also lied about the existence of a search alternative — The Droid Guy contacted two Verizon tipsters who told him that the carrier "is dropping the Google Search from all future Android Devices and offering Bing in it's [sic] place."
via Verizon Rumored To Replace Google With Bing On All Android Devices | Markets | Minyanville.com.
Lots more in the linked article.
This story just keeps getting better and better.
Regardless of motivations, the restriction if broadly applied would have Verizon reneging on its pledge to support the openness of Android and reflects a wider trend of the OS being artificially restricted by carriers. Most US providers are disabling Android 2.2's tethering support in favor of their own, and AT&T has banned non-Market Android apps under the pretext of security. The moves paradoxically leave Apple's iPhone more open in some areas, as its users can choose Google, Bing or Yahoo for search and don't have first-party apps deliberately hidden or broken.
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In recent articles I highlighted the acceleration in iTunes App downloads where the rate is approaching 18 million apps per day and the cumulative total apps which is about to overtake the cumulative songs downloaded.
We now turn our attention now to constructing the iTunes income statement: namely total sales, gross margins and deduce its operating budget.
To obtain the top line (income) for iTunes we need to know the average selling price (ASP) for songs and for apps. Apps are easy, we received that info in June: $0.29 per app. For songs, it was easy before early last year: $0.99/song. After the selective price increase, the blended price needs to be estimated. I chose $1.10 for 2009 and $1.2 for 2010. These are just assumptions and can be adjusted but should give us a rough estimate:
I followed the convention of using income rate or $/month to show the history of sales. It shows that even with a price less than a third of the music product, apps are generating over half of the sales of music. In other words, apps are adding 50% to iTunes sales today. If the decline in music units continues and the app sales increase with the current trajectory then app sales value will overtake music sales next year, consistent with the cross-over of cumulative units sold.
If we know how much Apple pays music licensors and developers (i.e. cost of goods sold) we can calculate how much it keeps for operations (gross margin). Apple's app margin is 30 percent. The music margin was never official but the consensus has been 10 percent for a while.
Using these figures, we get the following chart:
This shows that what is left after paying the content license, Apple "keeps" about $50 million every month to run the App store (iTAS) and another $30 million to run the Music store (iTMS).
Apple has made a point of saying that both iTAS and iTMS are run at "break even" implying that the gross margin is used up in operating costs (CAPEX, R&D, SG&A). To be sure, the cost of bandwidth and the data center(s) needed must be considerable.
But the operating budget for the store is beginning to reach a level that may be beyond what can be spent reasonably. The amount left over for operations has increased from ~$30 million a month in 2009 to $75 million/month today.
In fact, if this burn rate is maintained (even though it's increasing) the operating budget for iTunes is nearing $1 billion/yr.
I'm not an expert on the cost of operating data centers but $ 1billion a year seems like a lot. I would love to see an analysis of how this could be allocated.
I would also add that because of the increasing mix of apps, the overall gross margin percent is increasing. I estimate that to be a blended 17%–a healthy margin for a content store–and an increase from 10% before the app store came online.
Finally, one implication of the economics involved is that a budget like this may provide a significant barrier to entry for any competitors looking to take on the iTunes juggernaut. iTunes has reached content critical mass (12 million songs), user base (160 million users) and wide distribution (23 countries for songs and 80+ countries for apps).
These are non-trivial operational issues that even the best in the "cloud" business models will find challenging.
This discussion excludes video sales, rentals, book sales as we don't have solid histories for these product lines. However, we can do a spot check on the cumulative totals:
iTMS content downloads have generated $16.4 billion in sales to date.

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Cool Downtown Minutiae — Saturday, March 29, 2014
John and Marsha Sue love identifying Sebastopol's secret treasures including all the special features that make great towns great. Come enjoy some fun and unusual aspects of our downtown's past and present.
Meet in the Plaza at 9:00 a.m. for walking three relaxed miles. Wear comfortable shoes, a hat, and bring water, sunscreen and a snack.
Leaders: Marsha Sue Lustig and John Eder, Sebastopol City Council Member
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I'd go straight to Windows Server 2012 R2. Windows 2008 is going to be out of support soon (if it isn't already) so moving stuff to that OS isn't the best idea. I'd go as current as possible so that when you don't want to upgrade for another 10 years you aren't 14 years behind the ball. Also in a few years finding people willing to / know how to support Windows 2008 will start getting harder as everyone wants to support the newer stuff.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Tuesday after the S&P 500 hit its highest level in four years as the benchmark index faced technical resistance and traders cashed in recent gains.
The S&P 500 index hit 1,426.68, its highest intraday rise since May 2008. Volume has been light, as expected in August, and only three of the past 12 sessions have seen moves of 0.25 percent or more by the S&P.
"It's not uncommon that you run into some resistance at new highs," said Jim Paulsen, chief investment officer at Wells Capital Management in Minneapolis.
"Traders sort of play for a while to see which way the market is ultimately going to resolve itself."
Stocks rose early in the session and the euro rallied to a seven-week high against the U.S. dollar, bolstered by talk that the European Central Bank will act to lower Spanish and Italian borrowing costs. Bets on action from central banks in support of their stalling economies have helped move stocks higher.
However, U.S. stocks lost momentum after the first hour as traders took profits.
The slow but steady climb over the past six weeks was partly due to better-than-expected data, including payrolls, retail sales and housing numbers that countered a previous string of disappointments.
"The U.S. economy is showing signs of picking up again," said Wells Capital's Paulsen.
Still, he said major indexes will likely stall until the end of the month. He sees equities "teetering around this high until September, then we decide if the market is indeed making a move higher or if it's going to fail."
The Federal Reserve and ECB hold separate policy meetings next month that could decide whether further stimulus to the U.S. recovery and measures to control the euro zone debt crisis are coming.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 68.06 points, or 0.51 percent, to 13,203.58. The S&P 500 Index .SPX dropped 4.96 points, or 0.35 percent, to 1,413.17. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC lost 8.95 points, or 0.29 percent, to 3,067.26.
The CBOE Volatility Index .VIX or VIX, Wall Street's fear barometer, was up 7.4 percent at 15.05 after hitting a five-year low of 13.30 last week.
Technology stocks were among the day's underperformers.
Facebook Inc (FB.O) director Peter Thiel sold roughly $400 million worth of shares in the online social networking company last week, cashing out most of his stake. The sale comes as Facebook's stock lost 50 percent of its value since its IPO earlier this year. In Tuesday's session, Facebook shares fell 4.3 percent to $19.16.
Best Buy Co (BBY.N) shares slightly pared losses after falling to $16.25 to nine-year low. The company suspended its profit outlook and share buybacks for the year. Shares closed down 1.4 percent at $17.91.
Shares of clothing retailer Urban Outfitters (URBN.O) rose 18.2 percent to $36.98 after several brokerages raised their price targets on the stock.
After the closing bell, shares of Dell Inc DELL.O fell 3.7 percent to $11.88 after the No. 2 U.S. PC maker narrowly missed revenue estimates."
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Transmission is the fire from heaven, brighter than a billion suns, which releases the soul from its entanglement from the ego's illusory identity
Nine years of Enlightenment, nine years of teaching - the same fire, The Transmission, which seared through the ties of my old identity, continues to burn away at the mistaken identification suffered by everyone who takes birth on this planet.
Transmission is the Holy Spirit which lifted up a simple, ordinary man to be the Christ, propelling him out of the wilderness, and into the cities to end the illusory path of mankind - which inevitably led to the end of his physical life. But Transmission, cannot be stopped, it is here from age to age because we tourists on Earth, yearn to be re-connected to our Homeplace.
Transmission will connect you to that place, the Source of Creation, from which you come, and to which you will return.
2009 is the year of opportunity wherein you can make a permanent connection to the Transmission, expand your limited identity and experience Life, Creation and Consciousness in all of its fullness. Make the connection; take the opportunity, because in life there is no guarantee of finding it this easily ever again.
Book your online classes now at daveoshana.com. Please don't try to get in at the last minute - it might not work - we might go over quota or the need to give you tech support. Plus if you apply in good time then you will receive a helpful email about preparing for the class.
Feedback welcome.
Please be aware that the Enlightenment Transmission is extremely powerful, so make sure you drink enough water and take a relaxed posture, preferably on your back with cushion under you head and knees.
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Replays of all previous online classes are available upon request at daveoshana.com
Class Duration: 1 hour +
Price: 15€ via electronic bank transfer (suitable for Finnish bank account holders) (Paypal 16€ - an additional 1€ is added by Paypal's admin fee. Paypal button can be accessed from daveoshana.com bookings page)
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But that are some practical details that you should test NOW, and well before class, to ensure that you are in the front row and comfortably tuned in. It's all rather simple. Even a Windows 98 user can tune in. And your PC probably has everything that you need if you have listened to music or watched film online.
You are recommended to install Firefox browser and Real_Alternative - if you have not installed them already. Install your embedded browser players only when your browser is closed.
1. You need a media player (see list below). Install them all or find alternatives
2. Only if you don't have one already, you need to register a username account with daveoshana.com (free and simple)
3. Activate your account via the account activation email link (check your spam box or use the contact form if you don't receive one)
4. Test the media players, to see if you can hear whatever is playing now (probably the most recent AUDIOcast)
5. Be logged in 1 hour before class when we switch audio streams and see which player plays best.
6. Get a tall drink. Relax and listen. You're in!
Embedded Media Players
We recommend Firefox browser and have had good results with light non-commercial players like QuickTime Alternative and Real_Alternative.
You can also use Windows Media Player, QuickTime and Real Player for live classes. It seems that different people have different results with the various media players.
Installation note: you have to completely close all of your your internet browser windows *before* installing a player.
Alternative Media Players
The following non-commercial media players may work better than the commercial originals. They are light, tight and fit - and don't install rubbish.
QuickTime Alternative and Real_Alternative
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin
WMP for MAC
Quicktime Player
Quicktime Player - reportedly Windows QT only works with live stream, not 24 hour broadcast
Real Player
Windows Real Player (might not work in Internet Explorer)
MAC Real Player
Linux Real Player
Old PC, Windows NT4.0 / 98 / ME / 2000
Real Player, Gold 10.5
Dave Oshana is a spiritual teacher and guarantees Nothing-ness - lots of it. Oshana teaches a fully comprehensive belief-free results-based spiritual system which involves direct experience and practical living.
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Date: Sun, 31 May 2009, 17:00 EET - 5:00 EET
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What is Biografy? Biografy is a lifelogging app that automatically builds a timeline of each day. The Events view logs events from various apps including music, podcasts, videos, calls and chats. Each event includes rich detail such as the time, activity (stationary, walking, biking, etc.), and location/place. The Motion view lists car/transit trips, bike rides, runs, and walks. With the Map view, you can see where you were when each event occurred and gain insights like where you spend your time based on the clusters of pins.
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Intro When new technologies start gaining momentum in the Android community, the pragmatic (or lazy) among us eventually have to ask ourselves, "Is it worth it?" After the initial arrival and departure of the hype train, some of these become trusted tools we use in almost every app. Think RxJava and Dagger. React Native may be on its way to earning a place in the same club. Once we get past the fact that JavaScript on Android and HTML in JavaScript seem pretty damn weird at first, there's a lot to like.
I've lived in Berlin for a bit more than six months now. Here's a list of some of the things I've learned: It is possible to survive a summer without air conditioning. It's also possible to go all summer without a mosquito bite. I don't miss having a car. Public transit is great here so I typically only need one to haul things like furniture. And I can rent one on demand pretty easily with apps like DriveNow.
Anyone who has talked to me for more than 10 minutes has probably heard me mention my love for Berlin. I first visited the city about six years ago and almost immediately resolved to make it my home one day. I'm thrilled to finally announce that it's happening! I'll be joining Zalando in Berlin next month to do Android and hopefully step up my fashion game a bit. Radical Agility sounds like engineering nirvana to me!
This was my third time attending the Big Android BBQ in Hurst, TX and my third time to present at it. Perhaps my favorite thing about the conference (aside from the obvious BBQ) is reconnecting with old friends and making new ones. This year I've had the pleasure of meeting people from all over the world and learning that we know a lot of the same people. Small world, indeed.
I presented "Things That Suck About Android Development" at this year's mdevcon conference in Amsterdam. It's a great conference in an amazing city. I highly recommend it to anyone developing mobile apps. The title is admittedly a bit sensational, but my goal was to highlight many of the painful parts about developing for Android and how to avoid/fix them. Here are the slides!
I'm a bit late with my annual Top 10 list, but here it is roughly ranked by Google Music play count: Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside I was finally lucky enough to see him live and he didn't disappoint. Another great release. This soundtracked numerous skateboard and chill sessions. Vince Staples - Summertime '06 His "Hell Can Wait" EP made my list last year and I knew this one would be on this year's list right away.
Before the Design Support Library was announced at Google I/O last month, I had numerous third party libraries in my projects for various elements of Material Design. I've enjoyed replacing the nav drawer, tabs, and parallax scrolling libraries with their support library counterparts. However, on one of my projects, we needed an expanding floating action button (FAB) similar to the one in Inbox, which the support library does not currently provide.
I've had a pretty big secret for the past month or so; something that only my friends and family know about. We've all been there, sneaking around interviewing for a new job like we're having an affair. Only this time, it was different. As an Android developer, this was like trying out for the majors. No…seriously, y'all…Google invited me to interview. My adventure started early last month as I was triaging my inbox.
I've been working with Firebase lately in preparation for adding data synchronization to my Music Library app. Their docs did a great job of getting me set up. Using the sample app as a guide, I even got Google+ OAuth working without much trouble. From there, it didn't take long to load data into a Firebase instance partitioned by Google account. All that was left was to query the data out of Firebase and I'd be able to see the sync magic in action.


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Mette Siedentopf (1971)
Artist of the year; Denmark 2008
· Teacher from School of Art and Crafts.
· Art project – drawing and painting
· School of Art and Music
· Trained painter at Royal Copenhagen.
Back as long as I remember, I had this dream of being able to make painting my way of living and through galleries, which I have been a part of the last 7 years, I manage to build up a client base and now actually see my self as a painter. The way of expressing my self has over the year?s changes forms, collars and style, from the very delicate watercolours studies over the abstract further on to landscape and portrait paintings. About 10 years ago I found a place, were I felt secure and at home, a place were the source of new work never will be emptied, hundreds of stories just waiting to be told and I feel that I can choose freely.
I hope my paintings contribute to spread happiness and laughter among the viewers. My hope is that they dare to enter the 'no access' sign and find all the things that are hidden underneath the thick layers of paint, thoughts and feelings.
I try to capture moments from everyday life. With my brushes, pens and sprays I retell everyday stories, both funny and crazy, jet also serious and peculiar ones. My characters are silly, funny and ugly. Many observers would probably call them naive and childlike, but I always enjoyed the way children are trying to reproduce the human body and that is the reason why, I try to place as little bit of that into my work.
In the universe of my pictures everything is allowed and a figure or character may very well have 3 fingers, long crooked legs, a head that is far too large and a big green nose.
The colours I choose have a significant impact on the paintings; I explore the world of colours and go hunting for the perfect shade. I like the humorous expression and fell a relief when I hear someone laugh and recognize the situations in my paintings.
I am a steadily artist at the Gallery X and Gallery ArtCompaz where it is possible to see my work in the beautiful surroundings of the galleries.


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Lets talk Ethics Soft Skills as important factor in your application
Working in childcare means working in an industry that is loaded with ethical and moral questions, values and opinions; even more so when it is in-home childcare. It can be quite easy to oversee what lies right in front of you. That's why we as recruiters try to point out the important facts right from the beginning. And besides a screening of your 'hard' skills, such as knowledge of child development, skills in settling, nappy changes and activity planning, this also involves an assessment of your 'soft' skills such as communication skills and, you guessed it, ethical values and positions.
Of course as a Nanny agency we are committed to keeping all children safe, happy and healthy. Since we rely on our field employees working in the families' homes, we need to have full trust in them and in their work ethics. I suppose you can guess that we wouldn't get a very valid picture if we would just ask you as the applicant directly whether you are reliable, honest and trustworthy, dedicated to their job, respect confidentiality and are tolerant. So we have a list of soft skills we need to see and we have certain ways on how to assess them.
Below you find a list of some of the most important ethical positions and values we expect in our future employees, why we value them and how we assess them. Rest assured, we pay attention to the little things so it will pay back to ensure that your interaction with us reflects your ethical values from the very first contact.
Dedication to Nannying as professional career path
It is important to show the recruiter that you actually like the job you're applying for since it is a lot more likely that you will commit to it and perform it in a professional way for many years. In order to see whether applicants are dedicated to the job as a Nanny, we not only ask why they want to work as a Nanny but we also assess how much time and effort they put into their application, how relevant the information is that they provide or whether we received just a generic CV suitable for all or no job in specific. If the latter is the case the applicant is more likely to apply for Nanny positions among others and won't be as dedicated to child care as expected. The way you talk about previous experience and jobs to come can also tell a lot about your dedication. Do you show excitement and enthusiasm? Do you have a clear understanding of the position and the duties included? Finally we also ask your referees about your approach to nannying and childcare within a previous job.
Nannies need to be reliable when working in families' homes. We expect you to arrive on time and work for the booked hours. We expect you to contact us and the family in case you can't arrive on time or go to work. We expect you to update your details and perform all duties to the expected standards.
We think that reliability is more a general characteristic and an ethical value rather than just a behaviour pattern observed in a specific job. Based on this we assess your behaviour during the recruitment process and see whether you are reliable when it comes to providing information for the interview, following up on outstanding documents and reference checks or responding to messages and phone calls from us.
Being invited into someone's home is a great privilege and we need to be sure that all our nannies can be trusted. Besides police checks and reference checks we can get a first idea on whether you are trustworthy by checking on whether they provide the same information in verbal answers to interview questions and in your CV. We will always read your CV thoroughly in advance to be able to pick up on possible discrepancies.
Professionalism is very important especially in an industry where many nannies were previously employed cash in hand and without a professional approach. In short, in order to hire a professional nanny we need to take into account all aspects of the application starting from a professional resume, professional communication and presentation at the interview right through to attention and questions at the induction. A professional nanny will not only interact professionally with the agency but also maintain professional boundaries with families, communicate professionally with them and approach the daily job responsibilities in a professional (that means guided by set standards rather than individual gut feeling) way.
Good work mentality
Since nannies work most of the time without supervision we need to be sure that you won't check personal social media during working hours, don't engage in private relationships with clients, provide a high quality service, respect the family's parenting style and be pro-active but respectful at all times.
We can get an idea about this characteristic when asking in interviews behavioural questions about how you would behave in a certain situation but we can also get clues from your approach to the application. Do you ask questions about how to perform certain tasks according to company standards? Do you understand the professional Nanny-Family-Relationship? Do you go the extra mile to impress us by being especially well prepared, having read about the company in advance and participating actively in every step of the recruitment process?
Looking at integrity we want to see whether you as the Nanny are a good role model for children, will always respect them as individuals and interact with them according to their needs providing a stimulating, safe and nurturing environment. How we perceive is often how we think a family will perceive you. So we consider whether we feel respected and recognised. Of course it is different interacting with adults and children but if you don't feel respected it is definitely a red flag and needs to be analysed further.
Assessing all those points will give us an idea on the ethical attitude of you but it is always worth remembering that especially interviews are exceptional situations where excitement might influence performance. Assessing ethical values is only another piece we add to complete the picture of an applicant.
Which ethical values are most important for you as the Nanny? Share your experiences in the comments below.
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The Tour de Cure is a series of fundraising cycling events held in 44 states nationwide to benefit the American Diabetes Association. The Tour de Cure "Ship to Shore Bike Ride" will be in Long Beach on Sunday, April 26, 2015.
The Tour is a ride, not a race, with routes designed for everyone from the occasional rider to the experienced cyclist. Whether you ride 10 miles or 100 miles, you will travel a route supported from start to finish with rest stops, food to fuel the journey and fans to cheer you on!
Each Tour de Cure event has its own character and style - from unique starting points to gorgeous scenery and more! No matter where you ride you'll enjoy a fun day on your bike for a great cause.
For more information, please visit www.diabetes.org/shiptoshoretourdecure.


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At Hartbeeps we put your child at the heart of our big fun magical, musical and sensory adventures. All of our classes are set to a soundtrack of original songs, remixed nursery rhymes and lullabies. We take you and your little one on a sound journey and bring the story to life. Come and experience the amazing world of Hartbeeps with classes to complement and enhance every stage of your child's early years, from birth to preschool.
Hartbeeps highly interactive sessions transform everyday environments into colourful, tactile wonderlands using clever state of the art music production, songs and sound play, lighting effects, puppetry, innovative props and a vast array of multi-sensory techniques. Come along and play with us.
About Happy House
Take a sound journey into story land. Our fun-filled, highly interactive toddler class for busy toddlers, pre-schoolers and their little siblings! We put the children at the heart of our story as we explore the Happy House and beyond! Expect music, drama, creative play, dance and movement all set to a fantastic soundtrack of remixed nursery rhymes, funky, original kids songs and familiar lullabies. Happy House is all about confidence as well as physical and emotional development. The class helps prepare young minds for a lifetime of learning through play.
About Baby Beeps
Our bouncy, interactive baby development class that focuses on early language acquisition. Every class is a fun-filled adventure through Baby Land with wacky characters, lighting effects, cool props and parachutes that you won't see anywhere else.
The class is set to a funky soundtrack of original baby songs, remixed nursery rhymes and lullabies. From the everyday to the truly spectacular, everything we do in Baby Beeps is magical.
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Call for Papers: 'Pushing Form: Innovation and Interconnection in Contemporary European Performance' 25-26 April 2014, NUI Galway
12 December, 2013
Pushing Form:
Innovation and Interconnection in Contemporary European Performance
25 - 26 April 2014
Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
Keynote Speaker: Dr Milija Gluhovic, University of Warwick, author of Performing European Memories (Palgrave, 2013)
Keynote Speaker: Sodja Zupanc Lotker, Artistic Director, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space
Roundtable Panelists: Joe Devlin (Focus Theatre), Junk Ensemble, PaperDolls and Willie White (Dublin Theatre Festival)
European and Western performance discourse historically has often presumed a hegemonic and majority white field of practice despite an increasingly diverse European population. How does the present reality of European theatre and performance challenge traditional assumptions? And how specifically does formal innovation provide the space for critiques of power and hierarchy that may rework the concept of "Europe" as realized through performance? How have artists responded through form to neoliberalism and globalization in the wake of the most recent world economic crisis and how does their specifically European context set the terms of this response?
This conference queries what it means to define the field of European performance. As such, we are committed to supporting the publication and wide dissemination of our conference proceedings. We invite submissions that will consider key debates in terminology surrounding innovative emerging work, seeking also to build on older genealogies of practice in Europe and beyond. For the purpose of this discussion, we use "European performance" to designate work that happens within the continent as opposed to the European Union exclusively, although these differential power dynamics will be crucial to our inquiry.
By considering macro-European trends in relation to national case studies, "Pushing Form" will explore the meaning of "contemporary," "European" and "performance" in relation to each other. We hope to map not only the current field, but what may lie just beyond it.
Presentations might address topics including but not limited to:
• Trends in experimental contemporary performance from a national and/or international perspective. For example, how has Live Art transformed in its journeys across Europe from its origins in the UK? • Theoretical debates: The postdramatic and beyond? • The relationship between theatre and performance practices more broadly as sites of innovation • The status of written drama in the 21st century • Arts infrastructure and funding post-economic crisis • The ways in which language and visual aesthetics in performance relate to making and disseminating work through European networks • The politics of arts festivals and touring • The impact of territorial disputes, ethnic conflicts and migration on, not only national, but European identities more broadly • The role of theatre and performance in culture schemes for the European Union • Hierarchies of prestige within and outside the European Union • Linkages between European performance and other world trends including individual or networked relationships between European artists and companies and other international colleagues
Abstracts (max 500 words) outlining proposed presentations can be submitted as email attachments to each of the conference organizers on or before 1 February 2014:
Dr Charlotte McIvor, NUI, Galway: email@example.com
Dr Siobhán O'Gorman, Trinity College Dublin: firstname.lastname@example.com
Dr Miriam Haughton, University of Ulster: email@example.com


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30 Jun 2014
A selection of typewriter parts (also, parts needed)
Facit TP1: Viking grey model, with case
Underwood De Luxe Golden Touch: Blue with the gold front plate, some rusted parts, no case.
Adler Tippa: Tan and off white plastic body, some cracks in the body pieces, with lid.
Adler Contessa: Off white plastic body, y and z typebars have been taken from it; with lid.
Montgomery-Ward 511D: Blue metal large Brother portable, with case.
Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe: Grey and off white, with case.
I also happen to need a couple of parts for my own repair projects, as follows:
Hermes Rocket/Baby: Mainspring, I believe any era post-Hermes Featherweight will do, but check with me. This will be for my Smith-Corona Empire (Hermes clone, not Skyriter) portable, the British-made mainsprings seem to be particularly bad, while the Hermes ones don't break so easily.
Everest Mod 90/K2: Plastic card guide piece and it's two screws. This can be from either a Mod 90 or else an early K2. It's missing on my lovely Mod 90 and makes feeding paper difficult.
Royal QDL/Aristocrat/Arrow: Pair of shift springs from a 1940s model, as on mine (keychop rescue 1941 burgundy Aristocrat) they are too weak to hold the type basket up.
Contact me at schreibstang at gmail dot com. I'll also be cross-posting this to the facebook typewriter classified page.
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Sad to hear about the delivery services. I've had great results with UPS and FedEx ground services. The USPS is somewhat dependable. Most all depends on proper packing.ReplyDelete
I think I have a Skyriter mainspring.
If the card reader is available from the TP1 I could use one.Replies
Twice I've actually had a well-packed typewriter damaged by FedEx, although not enough to be unusable.Delete
What do you mean by card reader?
What's wrong with the Montgomery Ward portable?ReplyDeleteReplies
Also, could it be fixed--like a problem with the ribbon color selector, etc.? If not, will the case work on an older Signature Portable, like the 510?Delete
I can't apologise enough for the rubbish quality of the Corona Empire. My initial reaction would be to grab another for £10 and strip the spring/motor from it but then it would still be OEM (though mine seemed in fine enough fettle when I sold it last year). Trouble is the price of Babies! Hopefully someone will turn up with a parts-Baby and help you on the way.ReplyDeleteReplies
If it weren't for the bad mainspring, I think I'd like mine ( http://typewriterdatabase.com/1959-empire-smithcorona-empire.1645.typewriter ). I'll reserve judgement for it until after I've got it running again. XDDelete
Is this post still accurate? I am looking for a "3" key for an Adler Contessa de luxe : )ReplyDelete


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Stalin ends the man-made harvest by lifting the quota restrictions for the harvest of 1933, including in Ukraine.
Soon after, however, Stalin makes Ukrainian nationalism an offense punishable by death. Many Ukrainian Communists are purged from the government in Ukraine.
Other people, whom Stalin perceives as threats, are also also arrested, tried and executed. Still more people disappear, never to be heard from again (or are sent to the regime's forced-labor camps to build such things as an Arctic railway, never finished, which became known as the "Dead Road").
It is a time of internal terror in the Soviet Union.
No one is really sure how many people die during "Stalin's Reign of Terror" (not just in Ukraine but in other parts of the Soviet Union, including Moscow). No one is really sure how many people disappear (or are sent to labor camps in the GULAG).
Today scholars and historians still debate whether the famine—which devastated parts of the North Caucasus, the Volga Basin and Ukraine between 1932 and 1933—was man-made. Political agendas have a way of impacting people and shaping "the facts."
At least on the issue of reporters, James William Crowl—in his 1982 book, Angels in Stalin's Paradise—offers a kind of explanation on why journalists stuck to the agenda instead of reporting the facts:
Most of the reporters took shelter behind the censorship and kept quiet about the famine. They wrote about it only when they left Russia, and even then they found that their accounts were met with disbelief.
Eugene Lyons, for instance, returned to New York late in 1933 and began to write cautiously about the famine. Soviet sympathizers and liberals treated him as a renegade, he recalls, though his first descriptions of the famine fell far short of the horrible conditions that he knew had existed.
A few correspondents, among them [Walter] Duranty and [Louis] Fischer, went beyond mere compliance with the censorship. While most of their colleagues passively accepted the famine cover-up, they echoed Soviet denials of the famine and blasted anyone who carried word of conditions to the West.
Their distortion of the news, then, went beyond the demands of the censorship and was a vital factor in convincing the West that there was little or no truth to the famine stories. Moreover, by their active role in the cover-up they made it more unlikely that the foreign press in Moscow might force some kind of showdown with the censors or confront the West with the truth about Soviet conditions. (See Crowl, at pages 141-142.)
Fake news, one can fairly conclude, is not just a 21st-century phenomenon.
Clip from "Harvest of Despair: The Unknown Holocust."
Produced and directed by Slavko Nowytski for the Ukrainian Famine Research Committee in Canada, with the assistance of the National Film Board of Canada.
Narration writer and story consultant, Peter Blow
Photography by Thomas Burstyn and Yuri Denysenko
Edited by Yurij Luhovy
Music by Zenoby Lawryshyn
Distributed by International Historic Films, Inc.
Released, 1984
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The Price Was A Steal
(I'm watching the register for a coworker on his break. A young man enters the store and sets a paper bag on the counter.)
Customer: "I need to do a return." *empties contents of bag onto the counter*
(I pick up the two gas fittings: one has a tag, the other is completely stripped and destroyed. I look at the receipt and the one with the tag isn't on it.)
Me: "Sir, this fitting isn't on this receipt. Did you have another receipt for it?"
Customer: "No. I don't have a receipt for it because I didn't pay for it."
Me: *stunned* "Wh-what? Did… did you just take it then?"
Customer: "Yeah, I was going to pay for it and I realized I didn't have enough money to buy it, so I just took it home. But it didn't fit, either. So my buddy came out and fixed the problem for me and I don't need it anymore. Sorry."
Me: "Oh, um, well… okay. I'm just going to keep this one, then."
(I take the stolen fitting and place it in the return box, but then I look at the other fitting.)
Me: "You really did a number on this one, though."
Customer: "Yeah, it was the wrong thread, I think. I tried to twist it on but I ended up stripping it."
Me: "Well, I can't return this it since you destroyed it. It's yours for life now."
(I hand him back his receipt and the broken fitting.)
Customer: "Well, I thought I'd try anyway. Thank you." *leaves*
(The next customer in line is just as stunned as I am. He sets his things on the counter and watches the young man leave.)
Customer: "Did he just return something he stole and apologized for it because it was the wrong size?"
(I nod.)
Customer: "Man, makes you wonder what he would have done if he actually stole the right part!"


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We aim to provide useful, pertinent and sometimes fun insights into the world of document collaboration and the workings of a technology company
The other half of marketing...
Over the last three years, a key arm of our marketing strategy has been to raise PleaseTech's profile amongst the analyst community from a starting point of almost zero. How did we do this? Quite simply we began to brief the key analysts who focus on the document collaboration space.
In 2013, this led to us being named as a Gartner Cool Vendor in the 'Cool Vendors in Social Software and Collaboration, 2013' report, describing us as 'innovative players in the collaboration and social software space, emerging to address specific gaps in the offerings from the more established vendors or are breaking new ground in creative ways in the social media space'. This had a huge positive PR impact and also led to several exciting new sales leads.
Another great success was from Ovum, who reviewed PleaseReview 5.0, our collaborative review and co-authoring solution, stating that, "This is a specialist area and document management and enterprise content management (ECM) platforms do not always include the required level of control. PleaseReview provides tight management for the entire process."
We also featured in an Ovum article entitled 'On the Radar' and have appeared in analyst blogs, radio and print interviews.
We continue to strengthen relationships with key analysts through a series of briefings as we roll out updates and cutting edge enhancements to PleaseReview. As business sector experts and the middle man between the end user and software provider, analysts provide insightful feedback, and we very much value their opinions.
In addition to one on one conversations, for the first time this year, we're working with a leading firm on a more formal basis. Osterman Research, headed up by Micheal Osterman, provides timely and accurate market research, cost data and benchmarking information to technology-based companies.
Led by Osterman, in December 2014 we conducted a survey to look at document collaboration amongst knowledge workers, in both regulated and non-regulated industries, to examine the impact inadequate IT systems have on productivity and indeed the wider issue of employee retention in a buoyant labor market.
The results are quite startling…Osterman found that knowledge workers collaborate on an average of 69.4 documents per month, or 3.3 documents per workday. If we conservatively assume that each document requires approximately only 20 minutes of collaborative work, this equates to each knowledge worker spending 66 minutes per day in document collaboration activities, or about 14% of a typical eight-hour workday, adding up to more than 34 days per year.
And the impact of inadequate tools? You'll have to register for our forthcoming webinar to find out. Led by Michael Osterman and co-hosted by David Cornwell, CEO of PleaseTech, it will be taking place on:
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I'm trying to change the value of
/sys/bus/usb/devices/4-3/power/wakeup at every boot (4-3 according to my
lsusb, it's the keyboard ID).
The default value is:
# cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/4-3/power/wakeup
The classic "online" editing works as expected:
# echo disabled > /sys/bus/usb/devices/4-3/power/wakeup
# cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/4-3/power/wakeup
I'm using a systemd distro so I'd like to use the systemd-way to edit "temp files"
I have created the following file:
# cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/disable-usb-wakeup.conf
w /sys/bus/usb/devices/4-3/power/wakeup - - - - disabled
but after every boot I still have the default value in this file (i.e. enabled)
Am I doing something wrong?
Here another test:
# cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/scheduler.conf
w /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler - - - - deadline
and this one works fine! After booting I get:
# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
noop [deadline] cfq
(the default one was the cfq scheduler)
So, why this one works and the other one doesn't?
- Because
/sys/bus/usb/devices/4-3/power/wakeupis a symlink to
- Because
/sys/bus/usb/devices/4-3/power/wakeupcontains only one word? (i.e. no spaces)


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Following the historical structure of the United Nations mechanism and its procedures, Rotaract Global Model United Nations aims to bring young people's solutions to global problems to the attention of the UN. To achieve this dream, Rotaract Global Model United Nations promotes excellence in education, professionalism in organization and integrity in performance.
Rotaract Global Model United Nations transcends from a mere simulation to an actual youth decision-making process. It goes beyond a simple conference and ensure that the outcomes of your discussions and debates are presented, edited and transmitted in a clear and concise manner to the regional and international decision-making bodies (such as EU and UN) and the world at large. Through this novel and innovative approach, Rotaract Global Model United Nations brings a new vision to the MUN Network and to the other conferences of this type.