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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tickled Pink
The reason for this pink post is two-fold.
1. Danielle and I are tickled pink by the response to yesterday's post about our search for The Everygirl interns and photographers. There is so much talent out there, and we are so excited to add it on our team! By all means, continue to apply if you are interested. Just email your portfolio and resume to firstname.lastname@example.com. More specifications about each of the jobs can be found here.
And reason 2. I am still on a pink binge. Help me. My name is Alaina, and I'm a pinkaholic. I don't know what it is, but I find myself wanting to walk around the city throwing pink confetti at everyone. But because I'm not a crazy person [averts eyes], I'll keep that thought to myself (too late) and instead sprinkle pink accents around my house. I've already added the pink rug. I've already picked up my favorite Tippi sweater in pink. And my bestie D bought me West Elm's pink plates for Christmas. She knows me so well. Here are a few other items I wouldn't mind incorporating into my life on a more permanent basis.
Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
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You and me both! Just call me Elle Woods. Side note, those pink glasses are insane!ReplyDelete
I couldn't agree with you more about going through a pink phase right now! I would definitely love to add some of those pink items to my wardrobe!ReplyDelete
Definitely loving pink as well!ReplyDelete
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AGH! I love pink too. I NEED those pink skinnies! AND that kitchen makes me want to scout out more pink kitchens!ReplyDelete
That last image of (what I think) is a young girl's room is incredible. How can you not be the most fashionable kid at school if you live in a room like that?ReplyDelete
love it!! I'm obsessed with anything pink for the kitchen so I def want those knives :)ReplyDelete
Pink is my favorite color! What I really want to add to my home is a pink kitchen aid mixer : )ReplyDelete
I am loving pink this season as well! I recently purchased a pink dress from a local boutique during an out-of-town work trip, and can't wait to wear it. I was going to wait until spring, but after these photos, am inspired to take it for a night in LA much sooner!ReplyDelete
I adore pink! I have pink mixing bowls that my Mom gave me. At first I thought they were too much, but every time I bake with them they just make me feel happy! I love your picks. :)ReplyDelete
I'm with you! I used to be somewhat apathetic about pink, but now I can't get enough. I'm wearing a hot pink v-neck today, actually, and saying it's in honor of today being the first day of February!ReplyDelete
This is such a pretty pink post. I love the light shade of those jeans. Can't wait to see how your rug looks!ReplyDelete
Love those jeans! And I love the pillow cover. Don't think my husband would ever allow me to put that in our house, but mmmm....unless I have a baby girl ;)ReplyDelete
Definitely need more pink in my life — like those skinnies!ReplyDelete
Love this post! I did a similar post on my blog today too :]ReplyDelete
I'm loving those pink sunglasses!! and the rooms are just gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Girl, you stay crazy pink! That color does wonders! ;)
I know, I can't get enough pink! LOVE Jamie's bedroom, one of my all time favs!ReplyDelete
Can't believe I'm not a follower already, following along now!
Pink everywhere! Just perfect for me and all the girl girls out there.ReplyDelete
I love that pink jumper. This season is great i love everything in the shops !ReplyDelete


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Justin Bieber is okay after a minor fender-bender in Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon.
The 17-year-old pop star was driving a Ferrari when a Honda Civic tapped the car. No one was hurt, and there was no damage. The drivers also did not exchange insurance information.
Bieber called the police, who evaluated the accident and determined there wasn't enough damage to warrant filing a report.
By the way, for you parents of Bieber fans who might have been concerned that the news about the Bieb's posh wheels might lead to a run on kids asking for Ferraris of their own, you can exhale — Bieber apparently doesn't own the car.


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A recent move brought me close to an old high school friend. Sue and I are both concerned about our food supply, produce gardens and preserve much of our own food.
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I live on a rented farm site, where I've planted an orchard and range chickens and geese for meat and eggs. My old farmhouse still has a root cellar in the basement, and we've installed a walk-in freezer in the barn.
Sue lives in town, has a vegetable garden, and shops the local market fair for additional food. She not only purchased some of my chickens, but she and her husband Rick also came over to help with the butchering.
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We share a concern about energy security.
While I'm planning a spring Resilience Fair in our barn, with an instructor for a do-it-yourself workshop on how to build and install your own solar panels, Sue is canning her chickens because she doesn't think we can depend on electricity to run a freezer. She and Rick are preparing a 2-year food supply that's independent of the energy grid.
Even so, we're teaming up to share what each has to offer, to learn together.
Sue and I have adopted a pattern in our relationship that could certainly have emerged from engaging in Transition. It's based on building relationships and a web of support to increase resilience. Not just for ourselves but also extending out into the network of our communities.
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There are important differences between us as well. Our motivation for engaging in these activities couldn't be further apart.
Sue doesn't believe in what she calls the "myth" of climate change. And she's not interested in the peak oil conversation. She follows a couple of conservative talk show hosts and does what she does because of what they've forecast for our economy.
The outward signs of my life read much the same as hers, but my motivation comes from concern about environmental degradation, energy scarcity, and the economic implications of both. I'm progressive and listen to public radio.
Yet Sue and I can work side-by-side because we've taken the time to listen to each other, to learn about and understand our different perspectives. We've chosen not to argue the details, but to welcome each other to the work that aligns to address our shared concerns.
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In the world of Transition, we're all motivated to work together as communities to build resilience, honor diversity, be inclusive, and enjoy ourselves along the way. Does our definition of diversity extend to include those who don't think like we do?
Transition is all about relationships—building a web of connectivity among people to build community resilience. That includes everyone who wants to be a part!
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Valtteri Bottas says his debut season in Formula One will be "all about learning" and that he won't put too much pressure on himself.
Having replaced Bruno Senna at Williams, Bottas steps up to a race seat following glowing praise from team principal Sir Frank Williams who described him as "quite simply one of the most talented young racing drivers I have come across" and added that "we expect great things from him in the future."
Bottas admits that his long-term ambitions match those of his team principal but for now he is focusing on building up experience in his debut year.
"Being successful in the future, that is my goal as well and I'm in F1 now because I really want to compete against the best in the world," Bottas is quoted by Sporting Life. "I want to do well and one day I want to be the world champion, but next year it's all about learning, getting up to speed as quickly as possible, minimising mistakes and bringing home points.
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Every radio station's greatest challenge is reaching listeners.
Since its inception more than two decades ago, that challenge has been more pronounced at the University of North Florida. Limited to online streaming radio and simulcasts on cable channels for most of its existence, the college radio station succeeded in training communications students but not in reaching the majority of UNF students.
After more than two decades, UNF is closer than ever to reaching those students as well as broadcasting over the air and potentially reaching thousands of Jacksonville residents who live near the Southside campus.
The Federal Communications Commission issued the university a permit to construct a low-power FM transmitter Feb. 6, and Spinnaker Radio will be able to broadcast on 95.5 FM via a 100-watt signal, extending the station's reach to off-campus listeners at a distance of about 3.5 miles in every direction on a clear day.
"Before, people had to be logged in on their computers to listen," Spinnaker Radio station manager Scott Young said. "Now, all people will have to do is turn on the radio and enjoy the show."
UNF has 30 days, from Feb. 6, to pick call letters with Spinnaker Radio staff making recommendations that will ultimately go to UNF President John Delaney's desk. The station's call letters that once had been used unofficially on campus — WOSP — belong to the Ohio State University.
The 3.5-mile radius that the station may now serve on a clear day would reach north to about Atlantic Boulevard, south to Baymeadows Road, east to San Pablo Boulevard and west to the edge of Tinseltown on Southside Boulevard.
Originally known as the University of North Florida Broadcasting Association — a UNF club — when station manager Todd Hardie started it in 1993, the station endured, despite a lack of over-the-air broadcast. Known as Osprey Radio for most of its existence, the station relocated to the UNF Student Union with other student media outlets in 2009. Recently, Osprey Radio and Osprey TV were rebranded with the student print publication as Spinnaker Radio and Spinnaker TV.
Now, the FCC building permit will allow Spinnaker Radio to truly grow with the campus and the surrounding community.
"On-campus living has increased tremendously since my time there, and the station will still continue to reach that audience, but now it can also reach the surrounding community," Hardie said. "[Three and a half] miles may not seem that far, but it will still get people in for things like baseball games or any other events that they might not have known about otherwise."
Young said the stars aligned with the university's last application to the FCC, but by no means did the approval fall from the sky. He said this is the product of years of hard work and diligence from the university and Spinnaker Radio.
"This is a great opportunity for us," Young said. "We've been operating as an online radio station for many years, and now we have the opportunity to advance beyond that and become an active presence in the community."
According to Media Adviser John Timpe, the station wasn't held back from LPFM approval by lack of ratings or ambition or from noncompliance with FCC standards. Until last year, there simply wasn't enough room on the dial under the old rules.
When the window to apply for the permit rolled around last fall, Spinnaker Media staff was surprised to not catch any friction from competitors, Timpe said.
"For whatever reason, fewer applied than we thought, and we received no competition for that spot on the dial," he said. Timpe expects the estimated cost of construction for the transmitter, other equipment and labor is expected to be $35,000 to $40,000.
Scott expects to have station broadcasting on LPFM by the end of the summer semester in August.
"The station has so much potential to grow," Young said. "The only thing that's keeping UNF from growing into a more influential community presence like the University of Florida was FM transmission capability."


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Guilty as charged, I generalize too much. I sling mud at Ubuntu without taking care not to splatter the other Ubuntus in the process. So I'm going to amend that over the next few days.
Some will call me a glutton for punishment for starting off with Kubuntu. Others will slap themselves soundly on the forehead and mutter, "Out of the frying pan, into the fire."
And both will be right; straight Ubuntu might swallow a mighty chunk of memory just to get off the ground, but Kubuntu 11.04 gobbles it greedily.
But I won't harass Kubuntu as much as Ubuntu for being a memory hog … even though my system is consuming as much as 290Mb on cold boot. 😯
(That's on the core duo, of course. I dare not run it on anything else. 🙄 )
No, I'm not prejudiced, I just always seem to remember KDE eating up more. So I expected it. It's not delightful, but it wasn't a surprise either.
But I'm going to go back and really rub vanilla Ubuntu users' noses in it, and repeat what I said years ago:
It's already got all the effects, the gloss, the shimmer, the bling and the splash. It came prepackaged with everything you see above … and more.
So if you're working hard to prettify Gnome — either as a developer or as an end user — why are you fighting it? What you really want is KDE.
Next stop is the purported lightweight of the family. 😈


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S.F. bids to be host city for Super Bowl
Mayor Lee, 49ers seek starring role for city in '16 or '17
Mayor Ed Lee, the 49ers and several prominent civic leaders have been quietly working together on a bid for San Francisco to be the host city of the Super Bowl, The Chronicle has learned.
The National Football League is expected to announce Monday whether San Francisco will be in contention for American sports' most widely watched event in early 2016 or 2017. While the game itself would be played in the team's new $1.2 billion Santa Clara stadium, San Francisco would be designated as the official host city and center of myriad pregame activities in the week leading up to the championship game.
"San Francisco is our home," 49ers CEO Jed York said in a phone interview Friday. "If and when we win a Super Bowl, the parade will be on Market Street."
Not lost on the mayor is the symbolic significance of the team and the city teaming up on a mutually beneficial project of this magnitude. His relationship with York represents a refreshing turnabout from the permafrost that existed between their predecessors: Mayor Gavin Newsom and John York.
City Hall was caught off guard Nov. 8, 2008, when the 49ers abruptly announced that they were abandoning plans to build a new stadium at Candlestick Point.
Some San Franciscans still feel jilted by the team's move from its ancestral home city to a site adjacent to an amusement park 40 miles south. Asked about it at a recent editorial board meeting, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a former San Francisco mayor, made a quip about the "Santa Clara Microchips."
At the same time, some longtime season ticket holders have expressed displeasure about the five-figure price tag for rights to similar seats at the new stadium.
A San Francisco-hosted Super Bowl could go a long way toward healing those wounds, which seems to be a priority at City Hall and team headquarters.
"I really wanted to approach them differently," Lee said of the rapport he has established with Jed York. "I really couldn't do much about it except create a relationship that wasn't there with the mayor's office."
Of course, this being San Francisco, the mayor and the 49ers are determined to give this Super Bowl a distinctively progressive stamp - in technology, in philanthropy and in environmental sustainability.
Lee turned not to one of the titans of commerce but to a pioneer of entrepreneurial philanthropy, Daniel Lurie of Tipping Point, to lead the bid effort. Founded in 2005 by Lurie, Tipping Point has grown exponentially as a one-stop clearinghouse to raise money for antipoverty programs and to make them more effective and efficient.
The NFL typically asks Super Bowl host cities to contribute $1 million to youth programs, a donation that is matched by the league.
$10 million for youth
"We would want to blow that out of the water," said Lurie, setting a target of "10 times that amount." He, Lee and York emphasized that the economic and public-relations windfall from the many thousands of visitors and television exposure would be felt through the region, from Wine Country to Silicon Valley.
San Francisco submitted its application to the NFL's Advisory Committee Aug. 9. Here is the timeline for the next steps:
-- On Monday, the NFL is scheduled to announce which cities are in contention for the 2016 and 2017 Super Bowls.
-- If, as expected, San Francisco is one of the candidates, it will formally submit its host-city plan May 7, and make its live presentation to the 32 NFL owners two weeks later.
Assuming San Francisco makes it past Monday's initial culling, Lurie will need to get to work to raise a six-figure bid package to present to the owners.
The ultimate cost of hosting a Super Bowl would be about $25 million, all privately financed.
$25 million 'doable'
"I wouldn't want to say 'easy lift,' but it's doable," said Lurie, who also said the corporate executives and wealthy individuals he has approached have been "super excited" about the project.
"These are people who have been to every major event on the globe and get invited to everything," he said.
Because the NFL requires that a host team play at least two full seasons in its stadium before hosting a Super Bowl, the February 2016 game would be the first possible opportunity for the 49ers, according to York. Their Santa Clara stadium is scheduled to open for the 2014 season.
The league has signaled that it wants to make a particular extravaganza out of its 50th anniversary game in 2016. Its bid specifications ask prospective host cities to be prepared to fund and manage a "10-day public celebration" with concerts, nightly fireworks and a "Super Bowl 50 Boulevard."
Time and again, San Francisco has shown its ability to accommodate events that would overwhelm a less experienced city - even several at a time, as was evident last weekend.
1 Super Bowl, then ...
"Once we host a Super Bowl, I think you will see we will be on the circuit," York predicted. New Orleans will be hosting its 10th Super Bowl in February, matching Miami. Just one Super Bowl has been held in the Bay Area: at Stanford Stadium in January 1985, when the 49ers defeated the Miami Dolphins, 38-16.
For the NFL, a 50th anniversary Super Bowl here would allow it to show off its $200 million investment in the 49ers' state-of-the-art stadium and return the game to the state of its origin. The first Super Bowl was held at the Los Angeles Coliseum before a sub-sellout crowd of 61,000.
There could be no better place than here to show how far the league, the game and the fan experience has advanced since Jan. 15, 1967.
John Diaz is The San Francisco Chronicle's editorial page editor. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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It's nearly a month since I last wrote about the injustices and danger faced by trans women in Kyrgyzstan and in the meantime, Anna Kirey, Senior Advisor and Board Member at Labrys Kyrgyzstan and I have exchanged a few emails. Although I don't want to go into too much detail in this public forum, I will say that it's been a very instructive exchange for me, and I hope we are able to continue it and that I can write further about it soon.
In the meantime, in her latest email, Anna sent a link to a 4-minute long YouTube video (made by Labrys in collaboration with the Global Fund For Women) which I'm posting here. It records one woman's experience of transphobic violence in Kyrgyzstan.
Trigger warning: The video and its subtitles contain graphic descriptions – including of rape and violence – of the experiences of a trans woman, and her subsequent mistreatment by the authorities when she and a representative of Labrys tried to report the attack.
If you feel this might be triggering for you, please do not play the video.
(Direct link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtVTgFuB79Y)
Previous related posts:
- Kyrgyzstan: "No penis, no passport" (July 6, 2010)
- T-World: Kyrgyzstan's First Trans Comic (July 6, 2010)
- Kyrgyzstan: These Everyday Humiliations (October 6, 2008)


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Beaufort County school principals, curriculum coordinators and teacher leaders will have the opportunity this Saturday to interview candidates for classroom teaching jobs at a district-wide teacher career fair.
The annual event at Bluffton High School will be from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. School leaders will interview more than 200 pre-registered applicants for potential teaching opportunities in the coming 2012-13 school year.
"The entire day's schedule is filled with people scheduled for interviews," said Jackie Rosswurm, the district's Chief Administrative and Human Resources Services Officer. "Our goal is to identify and recruit the best teaching talent, and our career fair lets us do that."
Jim Foster, director of school and community services for the Beaufort County School District, said one in every three teachers hired in the district is interviewed at the annual career fair.
Superintendent Valerie Truesdale said the annual event re-energizes school leaders across the district.
"It's always so encouraging and rejuvenating to see so much potential and talent in one room," Truesdale said. "Recruiting the most capable and creative people for our open classroom teaching jobs is critically important to building on our positive momentum in Beaufort County."
Because Saturday's 2012 Beaufort County School District Teacher Career Fair is at capacity with scheduled interviews, no additional interviews are being scheduled. But interested applicants can leave a resume and complete an online application (www.beaufort.k12.sc.us) to be considered for employment.
For more information or questions, contact Becky Randazzo, Coordinator of Recruitment and Retention, at (843) 322-2334.


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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the HegemonyJune 04, 2003
Why the Luxury Web idea wasn't destined to work, and more questions than answers.
There's nothing like a good talking to by Zeldman to make you reconsider your ideas in a real hurry.
Right on the money as always, he draws parallels to the Apple 'Switch' campaign. If they're not having luck, given their marketing budget and that they cater to an audience who responds enthusiastically, then a loosely gathered group of volunteers trying to lure people away from their current browsers won't make much of a dent.
It's tempting to call this particular comparison apples and oranges. Switching or upgrading an Operating System requires a hell of a lot more commitment and money to upgrade apps, not to mention the difficulty in rollbacks if things go awry. In reality, the scope is different but the underlying mindset is the same. "This is what I use. It's what I'm comfortable with. Leave me alone."
I believe he's dead on about browsers: the end user really can't care less about which browser they run. Which is why the Luxury Web concept focused on selling features, rather than selling browsers. But since, as Zeldman points out, this is precisely what others have tried and failed, then even that rudimentary thinking on the subject must be flawed.
My original thought was a reaction. It was a 'well we can't just sit here and take it, we have to do something!' The percentage of the population that fails to vote each election have no right to complain about their elected leaders if they don't speak up when they have the chance; it was my attempt at voting.
So what do we do now? No one but Microsoft is going to be content with letting the situation stand. Rapid evolution and occasional revolution have been a given in the computer industry for decades. When they slow down, we react. It happened last time; it will happen again. The question is: how?
And just for the sake of having it out there one more time, I don't, in fact, think we're in that bad of a spot right now. "…be thankful we're even this far. Being stuck with IE6 for the next 7 years is way better than being stuck with NN4." It could always be worse.
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When the obvious is explored, true creativity can shine. At least this will be some kind of standard: the current situation is not likely to change, MS won. However, this will give other browsers more time to catch up and get to the level of IE6 (like screenreaders, pda's etc). So in the end this won't probably defeat the purpose of CSS based webdesign.
Since XP came out, my strategy has been to send as many of those error reports to MS as I could…I figure they'd get the point and fix stuff, but alas, it's probably going to the vast nether of emptiness like all those Santa letters.
I just got onto this CSS bandwagon today, so there is hope. As the number of people creating CSS based sites increases the probability that MS will cater to us will increase…logically thinking, of course. You never know with MS, though.
I can't stomach the idea that we, as developers, designers, and techies, should even consider siting back, accept being locked into a time-capsule for the foreseeable future, and simply 'making the best of it' – it goes against the very nature of what we do.
So yes, how do we react? Time for thought indeed.
this ties into the conversation i had with you about designers and developers. large corporate entities are more focused on the *design* of web design than the *technology* of web design; most notably because clients/users dont see or care about how a site is done so long as it looks and works well.
(and to some degree, i agree)
there is a sect of individuals who feel that things such as browser compatibility, code compliancy, proper backend integration, and system/performance optimization are important. these people are called developers. ;)
you ask why the star war prequels suck? it's because the story stunk. no amount of technology (CGI, jar jar, pod ship marketing) could have saved their ass. making internet is no different.
Zeldman's argument is pretty bad, and really misses the whole point. I won't repost here though, as I posted on web-graphics already: http://www.web-graphics.com/mtarchive/000881.php#chatty001730
This isn't anti-IE per se anyway as explained in my post, but how in the world someone who supposedly advocates standards can say IE6 is not a bad browser, or has even been improved much since IE5, is beyond me. From PPK's site (http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/css2tests/):
Which browser is The Best?
Counting 'Yes' as 1 point and 'Buggy/Incorrect/whatever' as 1/2 point, I come to the following score (out of a possible total of 45 points):
1. Opera 7: 42.5 points
2. Mozilla: 38 points
3. Konqueror/Safari: 30 points
4. Opera 5 & 6: 29.5 points
5. Explorer 5 Mac: 28 points
6. Explorer 6: 21.5 points
7. Explorer 5.5 Windows: 20 points
Explorer 5 Windows: 20 points
9. Explorer 4 Windows: 16.5 points
10. Explorer 4 Mac: 12.5 points
11. iCab: 6 points
Netscape 4: 6 points
Omniweb: 6 points
My younger brother has been taking the "do what you can with what you have where you are" approach.
During the past year, while he's lived on campus, he's been helping lots of dorm-mates install firebird on their PCs (most people want it for the pop-up blocking). OS bundling aside, college-age kids are the "sweet spot" for new browser acceptance.
I suspect the most comfortable way to make progress is one person at a time.
And that's exactly why browser manufacterers should be refreshed on their moral obligation to the web and its users and standards, and when they pretend to be be deaf, sent to court for the destruction of innovation. ;)
One point I wanted to add was that the whole idea of "marketing" is misguided here, I think. The last thing needed, I would suggest, is a marketing campaign with shiny designer buttons and slogans to avoid. Think of this rather as offering sincere expert advice to your friends, your site visitors.
People trust you. They visit your site. On it you offer them your products, your opinions, your recommended books and links. -Why would you not offer them your expert advice on browsers, just as you do with friends offline?
[div class=�yourNormalClass bestweb�]Are you missing out on [a href=�http://mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/why/� title=�Find out why we think so�]the web at its best?[/a][/div]
Of course, modify the blurb/link/title as desired.
This displays in all except Opera 7, Konquerer (so I assume Safari), and Mozilla. (For a different combination, see http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Eppk/css2tests/)
It's not going to "save the day" or anything, but it certainly helps move things in the right direction and at least you're doing something positive.
The basic reason that people don't switch browsers, or operating systems for that matter, is quite simple: they've become commodities. I'm a web developer by profession, so I have a number of browsers installed on my worstation. In fact, I've recently switched my default browser to Firebird and frankly, I think it's a terrific little piece of technology. But that's simply because I'm a geek – I am representative of maybe 0.01% of the Internet population.
At home, I run IE 5.5 on Windows 95. That's right – 95. Why? Because upgrading an OS is a pain, and it's perfectly fine for the things I do at home. Same with the browser – it's good enough to get the job done. And that's the main reason why IE 5.x and 6.x will be around for a long, long time – for most things, it's perfectly alright. OK, so it can't handle a transparent PNG. So what? It's a pain to me as a web developer, but Joe and Jane Average couldn't care less, even if they did know what PNG meant.
Until there is a competing browser with capabilities way beyond IE, then it will continue to be the way most people browse the web. And as much as I like pop-up blocking, adherence to CSS standards, better cookie management, Venkman, etc… they have way too little relevance to the average person to make them move to another browser.
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The percentage of the population that fails to vote each election have no right to complain about their elected leaders if they don�t speak up when they have the chance; it was my attempt at voting.
except it misses the important (again!, as in so many others with political agendas) - People who don't vote these days don't complain because there is no one to listen them even if they do.
Ivan, you're right of course. As I was making that analogy I realized it was flawed because, if this were an election, we'd already be well into the second term of the winner.
But if no one has a voice, and Microsoft has won because they keep bundling and integrating and the end user doesn't care, then it's hard to imagine another election coming any time soon. If nothing changes then we live in a dictatorship and this whole issue is moot. Standard code is moot. Welcome to the new standard: IE.


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WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders said Tuesday that they would insist on changes to the Senate health care legislation to make coverage more affordable for middle-class Americans and to tighten control over the insurance industry.
But it remains unclear how much leverage the House will have in negotiations given that Senate Democrats cannot spare a single vote without jeopardizing the bill's chances. The White House will also have a big role in the final product.
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, met Tuesday with her top lieutenants and the three committee chairmen directly responsible for the health care bill, as they prepared for negotiations to begin in earnest this week.
Ms. Pelosi and the majority leader, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, also met at the White House with President Obama. The top Senate Democrats, Harry Reid of Nevada and Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, joined the meeting by telephone.
Aides said that the White House would convene meetings of House and Senate staff perhaps as early as Wednesday to begin clearing away some of the easier differences between the bills, with Congressional leaders to meet face-to-face next week.Continue reading the main story
After the meeting at the Capitol, House Democrats said they would push the Senate to provide more generous subsidies to help moderate-income Americans buy insurance, but expressed willingness to drop the idea of a government-run health plan.
The House bill includes a government-run health insurance plan, or public option, to compete with private insurers. The public option was dropped from the Senate bill after centrist Democrats said they would oppose any measure that included it.
House Democrats said they could live without the public option provided that they had sufficient guarantees that other steps would be taken to increase options for consumers and to tighten the clamp on any abuses by private insurance companies.
Representative Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland and a member of the House leadership, said some of his colleagues would press to end the insurance industry's exemption from federal antitrust laws, a step strongly opposed by Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, who has said he would oppose the bill if the House made any changes that he did not like.
"We understand the realities of what happened in the Senate," Mr. Van Hollen said. But he said House leaders still found aspects of the Senate bill lacking in terms of providing affordable health coverage to people who are now uninsured.
"We don't think it achieves enough in the way of competition and choice," he said.
Even as Democrats made plans to reconcile the bills, Republicans renewed their criticism of the legislation, which they have pledged to fight to the end.
Although Congress routinely reconciles major legislation without formal conference proceedings, Republicans seized on a request by C-Span, the public access television network, to broadcast the closed-door talks between House and Senate Democrats as evidence that Democrats were being less than transparent.
The Democrats, including Ms. Pelosi, dismissed that criticism, noting that Republicans were simply out to kill the legislation. And they noted that the full text of the House bill, for instance, has been posted on the Internet since before it was adopted on Nov. 7.
Ms. Pelosi said she was confident that differences between the two measures would be resolved and that a bill would be sent to Mr. Obama for his signature in relatively short order.
"We will reconcile this legislation in a way that is a AAA rating — affordability for the middle class, accountability for the insurance companies and accessibility to many more people in our country to quality, affordable health care," Ms. Pelosi said.
To help pay for the bill, the House has proposed an income surtax on individuals earning more than $500,000 and couples earning more than $1 million, while the Senate has proposed an excise tax on high-priced insurance policies and an increase in the Medicare payroll tax for individuals earning more than $200,000 and couples earning more than $250,000.
The House bill would cost slightly more than $1 trillion over 10 years, while the Senate bill would cost $871 billion. In each case, the expense would be more than offset by new taxes and fees and reductions in government spending, particularly on Medicare, so the bill would reduce future federal deficits, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
"We think that we have the fairest approach in our bill," Ms. Pelosi said. "I always say when it comes to tax policy around here, it's like a mirror. 'Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?' The Senate thinks theirs is fairer. We think ours is. We'll see which mirror cracks."
And even as Senate Democrats do not have a single vote to spare, House leaders warned that they also had careful counting to do.
"I think the Senate should know that we need 218 votes," said Representative Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of New York.Continue reading the main story


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Blue Jays ink shortstop GonzalezClub will offer arbitration to free-agent catcher Barajas
By Jordan Bastian / MLB.com
11/26/09 6:43 PM ESTTORONTO -- The Blue Jays would love nothing more than to have a shortstop in place who fits within the organization's long-term blueprint. For now, Toronto is content with having a short-term solution while the club continues to assess its future.
On Thursday, the Blue Jays signed free-agent shortstop Alex Gonzalex to a one-year contract that includes a club option for the 2011 season. The move came one day after the Blue Jays re-signed veteran shortstop John McDonald to a two-year deal.
The low-risk moves solve an immediate hole and give the Jays a pair of strong defensive shortstops who can help Toronto's young pitching staff. Gonzalez is scheduled to earn $2.75 million in 2010, and he could be in line for another $2.5 million the following season if his performance convinces the Jays to keep him around.
In the meantime, Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos is still searching for a long-term option for shortstop. It is likely that the Blue Jays will target top shortstop prospects in any trade involving ace pitcher Roy Halladay, but Anthopoulos stuck to his policy of not commenting on the specifics of such a scenario.
"There's no doubt we'd like to have a long-term solution," Anthopoulos said, "somebody that can be here for multiple years at a time going forward and be part of the next core of players, but we're very excited to have Alex and we like the flexibility that the contract allows."
Now that Anthopoulos has seemingly concluded addressing the shortstop position for 2010, he said his top priority is to find a starting catcher. The Blue Jays' GM said that it is looking unlikely that free-agent catcher Rod Barajas will re-sign with the team, but Toronto still plans on offering the 34-year-old veteran arbitration before Tuesday's deadline.
Barajas is a Type B free agent, so the Jays would receive a sandwich pick between the first and second round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft if he declines arbitration and signs with a new team. Toronto also will offer arbitration to shortstop Marco Scutaro, who is a Type A free agent, meaning the Jays would net two compensatory picks if he declines and signs elsewhere.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that the Jays have interest in free-agent catcher Yorvit Torreabla, who also has garnered interest from the Giants and Rockies. A source indicated that Toronto was expected to extend an offer to Torrealba soon.
Anthopoulos said it appears that accepting arbitration is the only way that Barajas or Scutaro will be back with the Blue Jays next season.
"From having talked to Rod's agent and from Marco's agent, the only opportunity that we have to bring both of them back is going to be on one-year, non-guaranteed deals," Anthopoulos said. "That's the way it looks right now, but we'll see how it goes.
"My understanding is that there's significant interest in [Barajas], and it seems as though he's got a very good opportunity to get a multiyear deal. So, it's probably unlikely that we'll be able to see him back here."
The same goes for Scutaro, who fashioned a career year last season with the Jays and has a suitor in the Red Sox, among others. Anthopoulos said the Jays would welcome Scutaro back and find a way to divide up the playing time, but the reality is that the shortstop likely has a multiyear contract available.
That became clear as negotiations between Toronto and Scutaro began to break down.
"We just couldn't come to terms," Anthopoulos said. "I don't think anyone's right or wrong. He had a tremendous year and obviously his agent and Marco are evaluating the market place. The values that we placed, with the alternatives and so on, weren't able to align with what Marco and his agent felt was appropriate at this time."
The Blue Jays were in discussions with free-agent shortstop Orlando Cabrera, but a source said that he was asking for a two-year contract worth around $12 million. Reports on Cabrera indicate that his defensive range and arm strength are diminishing, leading Toronto to turn to the more affordable and defensively-sound Gonzalez.
Gonzalez did not qualify as a ranked free-agent, so his signing will not cost the Blue Jays any Draft picks.
The 32-year-old Gonzalez only hit .238 between stints with the Reds and Red Sox last season, but he did post a .284 average with five home runs in 148 at-bats after being acquired by Boston in an August trade. If Gonzalez performs better than expected, the Jays might possess a good trade chip, or at least a possible starter for 2011.
"We felt at this time bringing Alex Gonzalez on board with a one-year deal and a club option made a lot of sense for us," Anthopoulos said. "We certainly feel that there's a lot of upside to this player. Look at the way he played for Boston the last six weeks and into the postseason. He played very good defense. We had a lot of our scouts see him. Offensively, he swung the bat very well."
One problem, though, is the potential loss of Scutaro leaves a hole in the Blue Jays' leadoff spot. Anthopoulos said he will continue to look for a new leadoff man this winter, but added that would likely be a longer process. The GM noted that he is also looking for help in the outfield and possibly in the rotation and bullpen.
While discussing his club's needs, Anthopoulos also said that he has informed young outfielder Travis Snider -- the Jays' top pick in 2006 -- that he is not guaranteed a spot on the Opening Day roster. Snider began last year as Toronto's left fielder, but he endured an inconsistent season and bounced between the Major and Minor Leagues.
"I told him he needed to make the team," Anthopoulos said. "There's certainly no assurances that he's going to be an everyday player for us. His Spring Training is going to dictate a lot of that, so we do want to be prepared. I don't think we necessarily want to hand out jobs. Certain guys are obviously entitled to that from their past performance, but we do want to try to create a little bit of a level of competition going forward."
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this week the path is clear in his chamber for consideration of trade adjustment assistance (TAA) and long-pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
Reid indicated action on TAA and, later, the FTAs could begin following Senate consideration of legislation related to transportation funding and disaster assistance, both of which have had some delays in recent days.
Still, even with an uncertain timeline, Reid said the trade measures could be considered by the end of the month.
The plan going forward is uniquely Washingtonian in its complexity:
- First, the House passed a bill last week to renew the generalized system of preferences (GSP), a largely non-controversial program designed to provide developing countries reduced trade duties.
- Following clearance of the transportation and disaster measures, the Senate should soon take up GSP, attaching TAA provisions, which many Democrats, including President Barack Obama, have made a requirement for consideration of the FTAs.
- The GSP/TAA bill would then go back to the House, where it is expected to pass.
- At that point, all political roadblocks should be cleared, and the Administration should be willing to send the FTAs to Capitol Hill for consideration.
While new roadblocks could emerge in the form of procedural objections or amendments to the GSP/TAA package before final passage, the path as outlined is the clearest it has been since the agreements were signed more than four years ago.
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2011 has been quite the year for me.
In February I got a Kitchenaid, and love it as much today as I did the day I brought it home squealing all the way from Chiswick to New Cross. I still often stand in the Kitchen stroking it in a way that isn't particularly normal for a girl and a stand mixer.
In March left a job that I for some time despised with a rousing chorus of so long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu, adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu. And yes I did sing it LOUDLY as I was leaving. Lots of Jägermeister may have been involved.
Then in April I buggered off to Madrid on a whim to see Manowar, visit twin baby pandas and eat cupcakes.
Then I started working in baking - first in a cafe in Brixton where I covered the bakery for two days a week while the other girl had time off. It was great while it lasted but alas I couldn't survive on just 5 or so hours of work a week and thankfully one of my favourite bakers in London was hiring and I was lucky enough to get the job. This led to months of baking, and learning, with someone I really admired. It also led to me getting more work with another fab baker. I can honestly say the time with these two has been the best time I've had at work in many years. I've learned lots - including NOT to turn a Kenwood to pulse just after adding the red colouring to red velvet batter or to turn it to pulse while only cream cheese is in the bowl. You will not look pretty afterwards. Mainly, don't pulse anything ever. And check the baking powder, bicarb each and every time - then recheck. Oh and don't pick up cake tins straight out of the oven with bare hands. This hurts. Lots.
I'm hoping 2012 leads to lots more baking and lots more good cake! Oh and can we hope that it's the year when some crapcake purveyors stop peddling their old tasteless poor excuses for cake please?
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For decades, Congress has relied on the Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) for solid, unbiased data to build legislation upon. That won't change with the new farm bill and as the committees take up the new legislation in earnest, FAPRI delivered its latest baseline report to Congress on March 5.
For the latest FAPRI baseline report, see here.
"The 'super committee' process last fall had its ups and downs," says Pat Westhoff, co-director of the University of Missouri-based FAPRI. "One upside was it got a lot of people talking to each other who otherwise might not have been talking prior to the heat of the farm bill debate.
"So, there have been a lot of attempts to put things together that would be satisfactory to a variety of groups.
"Of course, there is a tough row to hoe getting a farm bill done in an election year. It's hard to step back from the politics of a presidential election and put together packages that can gather bipartisan and bicameral support. The longer they wait, the harder it will be to get a farm bill accomplished.
"I think the Senate Agriculture Committee in particular is trying to come up with a set of proposals that both Democrats and Republicans can live with. I won't predict success or failure but will say they're working hard."
Westhoff, who spoke with Farm Press on Wednesday (March 7), also touched on the main findings of the current baseline, where FAPRI sees key crop performances over the next decade, along with food inflation and dairy and meat prices. Among his comments:
Main things that jumped out from the baseline…
"In the briefing book prepared for Congress, we deliberately made sure the very first chart shows that 'weather matters.' The fact that we had sub-average, back-to-back corn yields in 2010 and 2011 is largely why there have been above-average grain prices.
"If we can just go back to having more normal crops this summer, that would put pretty serious downward pressure on prices. That's one of the reasons we've got a $4.81 projected corn price for the 2012/13 marketing compared to this year's near $6.
"Of course, that's a very simple point that folks in farm country are well aware of. But it's something that some of the people we speak with in D.C. need to have driven home.
"Another thing to note is that the state of the general economy matters, obviously. We have relatively modest rates of income growth – a couple of percent GDP growth -- in the general economy over the next couple of years. We won't be in recession but it isn't the kind of growth we'd like to see.
"According to HIS Global Insight, the group we rely on for macroeconomic forecasts, it will be 2014 before we get enough economic growth to cut into unemployment in a serious way.
"What will happen with the oil price in the near term will also matter quite a bit. The report highlights just how important the market uncertainties really are – from weather, from the macro-economy and oil prices and any number of other factors."
How did the new farm bill play into the report's assumptions?
"That's an important component. This is a 'baseline projection' and we try to avoid using the 'F-word' – that being 'forecast.' By saying forecast it implies we know what will happen in the future; we don't.
"So this projection assumes current policies remain. That isn't because we think that's the most likely outcome. In fact, if you asked me to bet, I'd put my money on having less spending on farm programs in the next year or two than is in this baseline.
"But we want to have a point of reference so that when we do further analysis for Congress, we can say how much difference it will make if the law is changed in one way or another. Also, it will provide a perspective on what would have happened if current law was kept in place.
"The Senate, particularly, are trying to move on a fairly accelerated pace (towards writing a new farm bill). They're trying to have some draft proposals together in short order."
On ethanol and grain…
"In the near-term, we don't expect to see much change in ethanol production in 2012 or 2013. That's in sharp contrast to the years of rapid growth we've had since 2005 and the constant upward push in terms of the demand for corn and other feedstocks.
"There are several reasons for that. One is the end of the 45-cents-per-gallon tax credit. With that going away there's less incentive for ethanol producers to make more than the mandates require.
"The second thing is high corn prices, which mean less incentive to produce more ethanol than is necessary.
"Third, we're largely consuming all the ethanol in 10 percent blends that we can in the country. If we produced more ethanol for the domestic market we wouldn't know what to do with it. While E-15 may happen at some point, it hasn't yet.
"That combination of factors means we'll level off with ethanol for the next couple of years. Once we get past the next two years, there may be a bit more growth in ethanol production because we can use up to 15 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol to satisfy the RFS (Renewable Fuel Standard) by 2015. That's a bit more than we produce today. It will be tough to use that much unless E-15 becomes available and people are willing to buy it."
Insurance, cotton, rice, beef
On crop insurance…
"Crop insurance has become a much more important part of the farm program portfolio over the last several years. The value of crops insured has gone up dramatically.
"That has led to a lot of indemnities paid in years like 2011 when there were much greater losses than in previous years. We've now topped the $10 billion milestone for the 2011 crop.
"Looking forward, and assuming a range of average weather, we expect crop insurance to become as important – or, perhaps, even more important – than any single crop program. That includes direct payments."
On livestock…
"There are a couple of interesting things going on.
"One big-picture thing to consider is U.S. meat consumption over the last several years. Since 2007, the amount of meat consumed by the average American has dropped by about 22 pounds. That's a heck of a drop-off in a relatively short period of time.
"There are a lot of reasons for that. One of the most important ones is that we've not had the supplies available. Cattle herds have been reduced with the weather problems in Texas and elsewhere for the last couple of years. At the same time, there has been relatively strong export demand for beef and pork – more of the production we do have has been sent to foreign markets.
"The economic recession also slowed down demand for meat. Higher feed costs have also played a role in reining in supplies.
"We do think that if feed prices moderate from the high levels we've seen recently that may help keep the rate of growth of meat prices at the consumer level from being what they were at the recent past. That should allow a little expansion in meat consumption.
"If we're wrong about that – if consumption if flat or continues to decline – it would be a big thing for the cattle, hog and poultry industries.
"Due to the sharp pull-back in cattle production there have been record-high cattle prices. We expect those prices to stay high for the next several years. It will take some time to rebuild herds and get supplies growing again leading to lower beef prices."
On food price inflation…
"Last year, we had 3.7 percent food price inflation. We expect the 2012 rate to be similar.
"That is a bit misleading because the food price inflation is actually slowing. But we had a pretty high rate in the last part of 2011 and that pushes up the average annual rate for 2012.
"We do think that by 2013, if there are no surprises, we'll see food price inflation back down to the overall inflation level for the U.S. economy – about 2 percent per year."
On cotton…
"We've seen big price swings in world markets the last couple of years. It's quite amazing how dramatic the changes have been.
"We do expect to see fewer planted acres in 2012. We noted that the National Cotton Council survey indicated there would be more than 13 million acres of total cotton planted. We're only a bit under that figure – but not dramatically so.
"And our harvested acreage projections are very similar with the NCC at 10.75 million of upland cotton for 2012. If weather holds, that would yield roughly an 18-million-bale upland cotton crop.
"Unless we have a really strong recovery in demand, we'd be rebuilding stocks and probably means lower prices. So, our projected price for the 2012 marketing crop is about 75 cents per pound. That's just below the recent USDA estimate."
On rice…
"I should note these projections were put together back in January. I believe the situation for rice has grown more pessimistic in the last few weeks than for any other major commodity in the baseline. So the $14.48 average all-rice price we're showing for 2011/12 is probably a bit more optimistic than it should be."
On soybeans…
"Soybeans are an interesting story. There are multiple pressures.
"On one hand, there are stronger corn prices and we expect to see corn cut into soybean acreage in some of the major Corn Belt states.
"On the other hand, some parts of the country – notably, North Dakota – weather problems kept some crops from being planted. Those two factors may offset each other.
"The South American crop currently appears to be smaller than we anticipated. That's resulted in a rally of soybean prices in the last few weeks. That is obviously a benefit to U.S. producers and could lead to more acres of soybeans being planted here."
On dairy…
"There have been big swings in dairy prices since 2008.
"There was some recovery in the last couple of years but we expect to see somewhat lower prices in 2012.
"One positive thing for the dairy producers is we expect forage prices to come down assuming a more normal hay crop in 2012. That would benefit a lot of the folks who have been paying record-high prices for forage.
"However, there is concern that demand won't be quite as strong as earlier estimates and could push prices lower. We do not expect, on average, for dairy producers to make great profits. But in any given year, there could be a very positive or very negative situation. That's one of the many reasons why there's been a push by Congress to try to make changes to dairy legislation that could smooth out some of those variations."
Anything else?
"We did have record levels of net farm income in 2011. Even when correcting for inflation, last year's farm income was the second-highest since 1970 by USDA's reckoning. That's a pretty amazing accomplishment.
"We do expect farm income to drop a little bit in 2012 – but only a very small amount."


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Warning for BlackBerry Forensics
BlackBerry devices come with password protection. The owner has the capability to protect all data on the phone with a password. The user may also specify the amount of attempts for entering the password before wiping all data from the device.
If you exceed your password attempts limit (defaults to 10, but you can set it as low as 3), you will be prompted one last time to type the word BlackBerry.
The device will then wipe. It will be reset to the factory out-of-the-box condition (default folder structure), and the password reset. You will lose everything in the device memory, with no possibility of recovery. It will not reformat the microSD card, since that's not part of the factory configuration. The phone will still be usable, and the operating system will be unchanged. So this technique cannot be used to roll back from an OS upgrade problem.
Obviously this is a serious problem if you need to perform forensics on the device. The best work around is to work with the owner of the device and hopefully get them to disclose the password.
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2. Click "Options" then "Connection Settings"
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6. Click "OK" to return to the main menu
7. Double click "Backup and Restore"
8. Click "Backup"
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Opening Blackberry Backup Files (.ipd)
1. Purchase Amber BlackBerry Converter from [1]
Download Trial Version
2. Use File | Open and point the program to the BlackBerry backup file (.ipd).
3. Navigate to the appropriate content by using the navigator icons on the left.
Information Available From Amber BlackBerry Converter
Blackberry Simulator
This is a step by step guide to downloading and using a Blackberry simulator. For this example I downloaded version 4.0.2 in order to simulate the 9230 series.
1. Select a simulator to download from the drop-down list on the [2]Blackberry website. Click Next.
2. Look through the list and download BlackBerry Handheld Simulator v184.108.40.206.
3. Enter your proper user credentials and click Next to continue.
4. On the next page, reply accordingly to the eligibility prompt and click Next to continue.*
5. Agree or disagree to the SDK agreement and click Submit to continue.*
6. The next page will provide you with a link to download the .ZIP file containing the wanted simulator.
- - If you disagree at any of these point you will not be able to continue to the download.
7. Extract the files to a folder that can easily be accessed (I used the desktop).
8. In that folder, find the xxxx.bat file (where xxxx is the model number of the device that is being simulated). The simulator should now open an image that resembles the phone.
Below is an example of a 7510 simulator. These simulators ARE capable of connecting to Blackberry Desktop Manager.
Acquisition with Paraben's Device Seizure
As an alternative to acquiring the Blackberry through Amber Blackberry Converter, Paraben's Device Seizure is a simple and effective method to acquire the data. The only drawback, is that this method takes significantly more time to acquire than using Amber Blackberry Converter.
1. Create a new case in Device Seizure with File | New.
2. Give the case a name and fill in any desired information about the case on the next two screens. Nothing is actually required to be entered. The third screen is a summary of the data entered. If all data is correct click Next and then Finish.
3. You are now ready to acquire the phone. Go to Tools | Data Acquisition.
4. You are prompted for the supported manufacturer. Select RIM Blackbery (Physical).
5. Leave supported models at the default selection of autodetect.
6. Connection type should be set to USB.
7. For data type selection select Memory Image.
Blackberry Protocol
Here is a useful link to the Blackberry Protocol as documented by Phil Schwan, Mike Shaver, and Ian Goldberg. The article goes into great description of packet sniffing and the protocol as it relates to data transfer across a USB port.


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Picture: Miranda Kerr - Opening night of Broadway's Romeo and Juliet at the Richard Rodgers Theatre-Arrivals. - New York, NY, United States - Thursday 19th September...
Supermodel Miranda Kerr took her mind off her marriage split from Orlando Bloom by mixing with the fashion crowd at a Vogue magazine prizegiving in Los Angeles on Wednesday night (23Oct13).
A representative for the couple confirmed on Friday (25Oct13) that they had separated several months ago after six years together.
Just days before the shock announcement, Kerr attended the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund Awards, which celebrate the work of 10 up-and-coming designers at the Chateau Marmont hotel.
The Australian beauty looked carefree as she mixed with fellow guests including Victoria and David Beckham, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, actress Lena Dunham, model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and stylish couple Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson.
Kerr had hinted at the split by removing her wedding band, but she kept her huge diamond engagement ring in place.
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We are unaware what possessed the San Diego Natural History Museum almost 100 years to purchase a number of fossils collected by Charles Sternberg, as the museum's mission is "interpreting the region of southern and Baja California."
It isn't uncommon, as many museums throughout the world display artifacts uncovered by perhaps the most famous fossil-collecting family whose name adorns the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays. But the San Diego museum obviously isn't impressed with the large vertebrate fossil specimens in its collection, judging by a press release posted to its website.
"While these fossils have historical significance in that they were collected by Charles Sternberg," the release reads, "and it is our hope that they remain in the public trust, it is our opinion that they do not add significantly to the evolutionary and scientific history of these groups of organisms."
While we admit a certain parochial bias to all things Sternberg, we thought that dismissive statement rather insulting.
Others in the paleontological community did not share our sentiment. It could well be they were more focused on the San Diego museum's intent to sell the fossils at public auction.
An auction house in New York was scheduled to take bids this week on several Sternberg finds, including a 13-foot-long Xiphactinus, a 17-foot-long mosasaur, a mosasaur tail, a panel of swimming crinoids, a hadrosaur tail and a large Xiphactinus skull. The items could have fetched six figures collectively, which the museum planned to use to purchase other fossils, gems and minerals.
The scheduled sale generated criticism from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and paleontologists throughout the country, including representatives of the Sternberg Museum.
"Natural history specimens, once in public museum should stay there," said Laura Wilson, curator of paleontology at the Sternberg.
"Historically, I consider them all priceless," said Sternberg adjunct curator Mike Everhart, "because they were collected by Charles Sternberg."
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology issued a reminder to the San Diego museum that: "The barter, sale, or purchase of scientifically significant vertebrate fossils is not condoned, unless it brings them into or keeps them within a public trust."
Unable to guarantee the auction wouldn't result in the precious fossils falling into private hands, the San Diego Natural History Museum pulled the pieces from the sale.
That was the correct call.
But there is one more step the museum should take in order to fully repent for its momentary lapse in judgment: Give the Sternberg items to the namesake facility in Hays. While the local museum might not have the cash its San Diego counterpart originally was seeking, it does have expertise and knowledge that could prove equally useful. And the goodwill that would be generated by such a generous donation would be priceless.
Editorial by Patrick Lowry


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