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Eriq Gardner, who writes most often for The Hollywood Reporter, did a single piece for us. It was on Righthaven, the infamous copyright lawsuit outfit from Las Vegas which crashed and burned so badly that its principals are being investigated by the Nevada State Bar. And it got him sued, by Righthaven, in federal court.
The lawsuit was obviously bogus. Gardner had used a black-and-white image from one of Righthaven's own court filings in a news article about the company—textbook fair use—and they came to him seeking statutory damages up of to $150,000. When I called Righthaven to ask what was going on, I was told that the company had suffered some "confusion" about the photo and that "an internal error" or a "clerical mistake" of some (unspecified) kind had led to the suit. They dismissed the case.
But Gardner now wonders if Righthaven wasn't on to something. In a new ABA Journal cover story called "The Righthaven Experiment: A Journalist Wonders If a Copyright Troll Was Right to Sue Him," Gardner explores the idea of mass copyright litigation.
The title is rather misleading; even fellow copyright trolls are quoted as bashing Righthaven, and Gardner has no doubt that Righthaven should not have sued him. But he's interested in the idea of these mass lawsuits, and the piece is especially interesting for the quotes it contains. Case in point: despite court-ordered debtors' exams, US Marshals targeting Righthaven assets, the loss of the company's domain name and intellectual property, the dressing-downs from judges, and the State Bar investigation of his work, Righthaven CEO Steve Gibson can still say:
Righthaven remains the vehicle for dealing with infringements on the Internet. Those who write poems, those who create movies, those who want to publish need to have a sense of protectability. If you want to have newspapers survive, protected from aggregators on the Internet, you've got to think about the vehicle through which that protection can occur. I don't think anyone besides Righthaven has thought about that.
The hogwash here is of a pungent variety. Let's remember what Righthaven was actually doing: at one point, it targeted a key source for the very story over which it was suing, who had freely given the paper what it needed and had then posted the resulting article to his organization's (small) website. Righthaven targeted people for articles that had received only a few dozen hits. It went after posters deep in obscure subforums who wanted to discuss a story with their peers. And it routinely demanded that the courts award Righthaven the domain name of each targeted organization—a ludicrous remedy that judges refused. As for "no one else has thought about this," sites like Ars have thought about it for years.
Gardner notes that papers have been hard-hit in the last decade, which is true, but he doesn't explain why. The real reasons (which are complicated but include aggregators, Craigslist, the Internet's power to make national papers available "locally," increased digital competition from blogs, and so on) have nearly nothing to do with the people sued by Righthaven (occasional cases like that against the Drudge Report did at least address the real issue more directly).
The copyright problems plaguing the news businesses differ from those that afflict music and movies. (Newspapers are more concerned about "hot news," rewrites, aggregation, and automated tools like Google than about direct copies of entire works, though of course these can sometimes pose problems, too.) But might both industries benefit from even more mass lawsuit campaigns, like the ones waged previously by the RIAA and currently by some indie movie studios and porn producers?
Anything is an improvement
Not under the current regime (and not if "benefit" means something like "long-term sustainability"). Copyright cases are federal matters, and federal court is expensive for both sides. Combine it with a statutory damages regime out of the pre-Internet age and you have a system set up for handling a few corporate infringements—not many tiny noncommercial ones. It's ripe for abuse; users feel extorted into settlements, while rightsholders feel like they have no good way to enforce their copyrights online.
Monetizing distribution rather than controlling it is certainly one route to go, but let's not underestimate the technical and political impediments to making such a system work robustly. And incredible legal options are necessary—but "really good" options like Netflix, Rdio, Spotify, and Amazon Prime Videos are already here. In the short term, some form of "patched" legal regime looks like the most practical way to stop ruining people's lives through the legal system and to give those who choose legal enforcement of their copyright a chance to do so on a broader scale.
Given the petty nature of most individual infringements, going to federal court is a bit like using an axe to slice your cheese. Gardner's article notes one possible way forward: "In particular, many are following discussions under way at the US Copyright Office about a small claims circuit for copyright claims." The new "six strikes" Copyright Alerts system, coming this summer from most major US Internet providers, provides another approach, though with problems of its own.
But really, just about anything is preferable to the system we've watched in action for the last decade. And the less we see of anything like Righthaven, the better. This was the company backed by a Las Vegas newspaper which talked about Righthaven in the most thuggish terms possible. As Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Vin Suprymowicz wrote of content "thieves": "I hate them with a passion. Lawsuits? They should have their godd**ned hands cut off and nailed to the wall of City Hall." And publisher Sherman Frederick warned his own readers, "I'm asking you nicely once again—don't steal our content. Or, I promise you, you will meet my little friend called Righthaven."
At least some little good came out of the Righthaven debacle: the company's incompetence actually bolstered US fair use law.


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The Mamu Rainforest Canopy Walkway is a spectacular walk through the canopy of World Heritage rainforest. It is an iconic tourist attraction in the heart of the Wet Tropics. With a 350 metre long elevated walkway through the canopy, a cantilever, a 37 metre observation tower and more than 1200 metres of walking tracks, this attraction is a must do for anyone visiting the region.
The cantilever provides tantalising views over the North Johnstone river gorge. The 37 metre observation tower emerges high above the canopy, offering sweeping views over a pristine rainforest-clad mountainous landscape, homeland of the Mamu Aboriginal people.
Located within Wooroonooran National Park, the attraction was built in natural clearings in the rainforest caused by cyclone Larry in March 2006 and constructed from durable unpainted galvanised steel and recycled plastic. It is located close to other National Park walking tracks and picnic areas, making a day visit to the area, armed with a picnic hamper and walking shoes, a must-do experience!
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The chaotic and disjointed style of Kevin Rudd and his close circle during the 2013 election led to ''one of the most disappointing'' campaigns in Labor's long history, an internal review has found.
The 25-page post mortem has identified ''serious difficulties'' in lines of communication between Mr Rudd's travelling party, headed by political adviser and confidant Bruce Hawker, and campaign headquarters in Melbourne, led by campaign director and ALP national secretary George Wright.
The review, conducted by Victorian MP Jane Garrett and former ALP Queensland boss Milton Dick, has urged that in future campaigns the campaign director be given the final say on all messaging and strategy.
They found the Rudd travelling party had a narrow focus on ''low-level campaign decisions at the expense of more significant decisions, which were subsequently left too long to be
''This fundamentally resulted in the reduced effectiveness of the campaign materials, announcements and overall media strategy,'' the review states.
Media reports emerged during the middle of the campaign about a breakdown between the members of the team surrounding Mr Rudd and the campaign team which had been weakened by the upheaval in the parliamentary ranks when ministers loyal to former prime minister Julia Gillard quit en masse.
The reviewers highlighted the decision of Mr Rudd to parachute a group of American advisers who had spearheaded the digital campaigning for US President Barack Obama in his storming 2008 election victory.
''In May 2013, the Labor Party held a two-day trial in campaign headquarters with the campaign team. The technology held up, processes predictably needed refining, but there was a large and committed team who were ready to fight despite the well understood odds Labor was up against,'' Ms Garrett and Mr Dick wrote.
''A month later the campaign lost about half of that team as a result of the leadership change. The campaign director had to pull together a new team immediately. At the same time the new prime minister's office had to fill its staffing positions and ministers were finding their feet in new portfolios.
''More than half of campaign headquarters staff turned over weeks before the election.
''It is important to note that the new prime minister's office sought to make a number of specific changes to the campaign staffing and structure, including late involvement by overseas consultants. This created some significant disruptions, confusion and inefficiencies within the campaign.
''All of these experiences confirm the opinion of the reviewers that final decisions in a campaign must rest with the campaign director.''
They said unit directors within campaign headquarters did not feel confident that decisions they made within their area of responsibility would not be overturned by the travelling party.
The review received 550 submissions from MPs and ALP members, most of which had a ''remarkably similar structure''.
''They began by despairing at the Rudd/Gillard government's leadership woes,'' the review found.
The authors have advised that Labor pursue its primary vote at the expense of any appeasement or partnership with the Greens, identifying an ''extremely unfortunate and very counterproductive trend of minor progressive parties and organisations focusing their criticism, energies and political activity almost entirely on the Labor Party and its policies and approach in order to maximise their own electoral successes''.
''The raison d'etre for the Greens Party over the last decade has been to attack, undermine and/or colonise the Labor Party's policies with an increasing ferocity, in an attempt to win one or two inner city seats in Melbourne and Sydney,'' the review found.
''The effect has been that these policy objectives have themselves been undermined, attacked and turned into political footballs driven by insular and often circular debate that has proved alienating to the mainstream community.''
The review praised ''smaller victories'' in the overall ''self-inflicted'' defeat of 2013, including come from behind wins in the Parramatta, Greenway, McEwen, Kingsford Smith, Adelaide, Moreton, Blair, Lilley and Fowler.
''Labor's defeat in 2013 is a tragedy for the party, largely because it was self-inflicted but a greater tragedy because of the harm being caused to Australians under an Abbott government,'' it found.
Heath Aston is the environment, energy and corporate correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age


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I see the Theater Ghost referenced on Scenario #3 but I cannot find him on the map. Will someone at Cryptozoic comment?
I see the Theater Ghost referenced on Scenario #3 but I cannot find him on the map. Will someone at Cryptozoic comment?
Unfortunately, it looks like the Scenario card does indeed have an error on it. The Titanic Ghost on Tile M3 of the map is meant to be the Theatre Ghost instead.
Thanks for the feedback. I will make note. Is Scenario # 2 of the Scoleri brothers campaign correct? It states to trap 10 classes of ghosts to win but I don't even count 10 classes of ghosts on the entire map. Can you explain? I ended up skipping this scenario.
I've been told the map for Scoleri 2 is correct. With regards to the 10 classes of ghosts, though, there were a couple of points that I wanted to double-check were clear:
1. The objective is to deposit ghosts with a combined class total of 10 or more, not to deposit ghosts of 10 different classes.
2. Haunted Humans are ghosts.
Hopefully one of those two things is what was causing the confusion.
Thanks. That was the point of confusion. Getting a total of 10 class rating is a lot easier. I thought you had to deposit 10 ghost of different classes. Yeah that was confusing.


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They say wisdom grows with age, but that might not be the case when it comes to marriage.
The divorce rate among couples aged 50 and up has no less than doubled between 1990 and 2009, driving researchers in search of the reason why.
There are the usual culprits when it comes to sending happy unions down the toilet, such as age, race, finances and education. But a team of sociologists from Bowling Green University think they've come up with the key reason so many seniors are calling it quits: Past divorces.
In an upcoming study called "The Gray Divorce Revolution," researchers say adults in their second and third marriages have a 150 percent greater chance at splitting up than first timers, according to Total Divorce.
"Of the couples who stayed together, almost 60 percent had been married for more than 30 years, which suggests that marriages that occurred decades ago stand a better chance of surviving than more recent marriages," according to Total Divorce.
It's one thing to divorce a spouse when you're in your early thirties and have few assets to call your own. The legal implications of getting divorce only get more complicated with age, as children, homes, assets and finances tend to get more intertwined with time.
To protect yourself, drawing up a prenuptial agreement could be one of the most straightforward avenues. It's easier to do than ever, with the advent of sites like RocketLawyer and LegalZoom, which offer standard legal documents at a fraction of the typical cost.
If you and your spouse are both open-minded about the idea of getting a prenup, mediator could also help ease your way through the process. Plenty of churches offer pre-marriage counseling in this area but there are private specialists as well.


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9 Reasons Dave Ramsey Hates HELOCs
by JS
There is little room for doubt as to how Dave Ramsey feels about home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), and he tends to pull no punches when it comes to expressing his views upon these lending devices. It's certainly hard to argue with many of his points, and his extreme reaction is based in large part upon his experience in speaking with people who have encountered the darker side of these loans. Here are a few of the main points that I have taken from what Dave Ramsey has to say regarding HELOC loans and why they might not be as innocent as they seem.
1. Misunderstanding the Loan
As with almost any financial transaction, those participating in the transaction must be aware of the contract into which they are entering. Due to the financial ignorance of a large portion of American society today, we have seen the pitfalls surrounding the lack of understanding when it comes to loans as a whole. Whether it is with credit cards, mortgages, or home equity lines of credit, it appears that the vast majority of Americans just don't get it when it comes to understanding the financial responsibilities of loaned money.
2. HELOCs Sway With the Financial Breeze
The thing about a HELOC, is that while it might seem like a great idea when the economy is trending upward and home prices are appreciating, when things on the downslide and a homeowner is underwater on their home, taking on such a loan might appear in hindsight, somewhat moronic. Their vision blocked by the rising tide of economic success, it is the homeowner's inability to foresee the inevitable economic valleys that lie ahead, which can be the downfall of a HELOC.
3. Misrepresentation
Of course, we can't just blame "Joe Public" when it comes to calamity in the financial world. Financial institutions are also to blame for many of the misunderstandings when it comes to home equity lines of credit. Shady phrasing, terminology that could stump a CPA, and adjustable rates that might seem more in line with a credit card than a home loan, are just a few of the banks' methods of pulling the wool over the unsuspecting eyes of the average consumer when it comes to a HELOC.
4. Misuse
I may not like big banks, and Dave Ramsey might not like HELOC loans, but it isn't the banks who are forcing people to take out loans for things that they should be saving up to purchase. It appears that many people consider a HELOC an extra savings account to be used for their personal enjoyment purposes.
5. Abuse
The misuse of such loans can swiftly turn to abuse. A home equity line of credit may, by some, start to be viewed as a new type of credit card, only there to promote their immediate indulgence, and avoid having to delay their childlike gratifications for any extended period of time.
6. The Carousel of Debt Consolidation
Some will use a home equity line of credit as a docking area for unrelated debt where they consolidate debt from other areas into a HELOC, just pushing the inevitable payment of such debt away to be dealt with later. Moreover, if they don't fully understand the terms of the HELOC, they might be making a poor choice when it comes to the associated interest rate they could be facing compared to that of their previous debt.
7. Poor Saving Behavior
Being able to waylay the consequences of purchases and debt can also promote poor saving behavior. Knowing that one's purchasing whims may be satisfied by use of a HELOC is detrimental to the common sense saving practices that once ruled the not so recent past.
8. Debt Cancer
Not only do home equity lines of credit often encourage misuse, abuse, and poor saving habits, but they may also promote taking on further debt. By using a HELOC to consolidate or pay off credit cards, one is reopening the devices that may have created the need for the HELOC in the first place. This can invite a relapse into the cancerous debt that continues to eat away at assets.
9. Credit Crunch
Rather than a safety net only to be used in the most dire of financial situations, a HELOC may instead become a crutch. Making use of a HELOC crutch might buy a homeowner time, but it may not repair the financial injuries he has suffered.
References and Further Reading
Sheyna Steiner. Bankrate.com. Ramsey: Home Equity Loans Dangerous. [Online]. 2007. http://www.bankrate.com/finance/financial-literacy/ramsey-home-equity-loans-dangerous-1.aspx
Tom Becker is a writer who blogs about managing money for a comparison website based in Australia called www.moneycompare.com.au where it's easy to open a savings account with a high interest rate for the maximum return on your investment.


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The Lamar County Trojans got rolling early and knocked out Spalding's quarterback en route to a 44-14 shellacking of the Jags Friday night at Trojan Field. Realtime scoring from the game was provided by Walter Geiger.
Photo slideshow inside.
Lawrence Austin (1) bursts through a hole in the Jag defense following the blocks of Matt Presley (71) and Juan Tucker (5). (Photo: Walter Geiger)
Trojans roll over Jags 44-14
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Markus Haering probably didn't intend to emulate Lex Luthor when his company's drilling triggered a series of minor earthquakes. But the geothermal energy mogul is up on criminal charges for his earth-shaking exploits.
In 2006, Haering's company was drilling in Basel, Switzerland, as part of a project to convert heat in the underground rocks into electricity. But Swiss authorities charge that the drilling activated the major fault line that runs underneath the city, triggering a series of small earthquakes. Although the most intense of these quakes only rated a 3.4 on the Richter Scale and resulted in no injuries, the Swiss government claims Haering's drilling caused $9 million worth of property damage. Furthermore, they claim there is a 15 percent chance that, had the drilling continued, it would have triggered a major quake that could have caused $500 million in damage.
If Haering is found guilty of deliberately triggering the quakes, he could be jailed for up to five years. But this wouldn't be the first time human actions led to shaky ground. Wired lists five ways humans can cause earthquakes of their very own, including examples of a handful of other accidental Lex Luthors.
Switzerland geologist on trial for 'causing quakes' [BBC via Slashdot]


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by Tim LaRocco | on July 6th, 2013 | 0 comments
Tim LaRocco is an adjunct professor of political science at St. Joseph's College in New York. He was previously a Southeast Asia based journalist and his articles have appeared in a variety of political affairs publications. He is also the author of "Hegemony 101: Great Power Behavior in the Regional Domain" (Lambert, 2013). Tim splits his time between Long Island, New York and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Twitter: @TheRealMrTim.


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Romney, Mormonism, and the American Compromise -- Sightings
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is an enigma to most Americans. Many of us know Mormons personally. Growing up some of my best friends were Mormons. We know them to be good people, with strong moral foundations, and committed to family. We may also know them from their famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir. No one does The Messiah quite like them. And of course, BYU has produced quite a few strong armed quarterbacks. But theology is an area that always complicates the discussion. As Terryl Givens notes below, Mormons have essentially let others define them, and thus the most esoteric elements are the pieces we hear about. Givens suggests that Mitt Romney's candidacy has opened up that can, and it can't be left untouched. This is especially true as Romney has hinted at his pastoral roles in the LDS church. So, what do Mormons actually believe, and does it matter?
Sightings 2/16/2012
Romney, Mormonism, and the American Compromise
-- Terryl Givens
Mitt Romney is threatening to disturb the American compromise with Mormonism.
Nineteenth-century observers were largely indifferent to the new religion Joseph Smith founded in 1830. Most dismissed his claims about angels and gold plates as just another example of American gullibility. "Had we not seen in our own days similar impostures practiced with success," yawned one Illinois contemporary, "[Mormonism] would have excited our special wonder; as it is, nothing excites surprise." But in Missouri and Illinois local tensions erupted in violence, and national concern intensified when Brigham Young—relatively safe in the refuge of Utah—announced a system of plural marriage in 1852. For the next forty years, from the popular press and pulpits alike, cries for the eradication of this "relic of barbarism" streamed forth from the pulpits, press, and party platforms. Then came concessions—but limited concessions—from both sides. Mormons abandoned polygamy and political isolationism. And America granted partial accommodation. The deal was signed in 1893—but it was a devil's bargain. Here is what happened.
At the choral competition of the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, on Friday September 8, in front of packed crowds, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir dazzled the audience and the judges alike, to win the silver medal. (The general consensus of Mormon and non-Mormon alike was that they had actually earned the gold.) The recipients of rapturous acclaim, the choir had suddenly become America's sweetheart. They were invited to provide the patriotic music for the placement of the Liberty Bell at the Chicago Exposition. Their farewell concert was standing room only, journalists raved to a receptive public about the singing sensation, and concert promoters lobbied the choir to tour the east. Suddenly, Mormons were not just legitimate, they were popular. And then, a funny thing happened on the way to the festivities. In conjunction with the grandiose Columbian Exposition, organizers had planned a World's Parliament of Religion for September 11-22, 1893, in order to "promote and deepen the spirit of human brotherhood among religious men of diverse faiths." Over three thousand invitations had been sent worldwide, to bring together representatives of every world faith and Christian denomination in a momentous gesture of interfaith respect and dialogue. Many faiths were underrepresented—but only one group was deliberately and conspicuously left out altogether. And that was, not unpredictably, the Mormons. So even while the choir was singing its way into history and America's heart, the Mormon church was emphatically denied a voice in the nation's first attempt at a comprehensive interfaith dialogue. What seemed like a contradiction was actually a compromise.
In the century since the Chicago fair, Mormons have been lauded for their choirs and their football. They are largely respected as good, decent, family-centered people, who are welcome to sing for presidents and dance with the stars—and everyone agrees to avoid theological questions. But as presidential nominations near, Romney's candidacy threatens this compromise, because what a Mormon presidential candidate actuallybelieves seems far too important to table. And when Mormon theology enters the public discussion, the words Charles Dickens wrote in 1851 strike many as still apt: "What the Mormons do, seems to be excellent; what they say, is mostly nonsense."
But this is only true because in acquiescing to the compromise, Mormons have largely left others to frame the theological discussion. In opting to emphasize Mormon culture over Mormon theology, Mormons have too often left the media and ministers free to select the most esoteric and idiosyncratic for ridicule. So jibes about Kolob and magic underwear usurp serious engagement, much as public knowledge about the Amish is confined to a two-dimensional caricature involving a horse and buggy. But members of a faith community should recognize themselves in any fair depiction. And it is the fundamentals of Mormonism that should ground any debate worth having about Mormon beliefs or Mormon membership in the Christian community. What are these fundamentals?
- God is a personal entity, having a heart that beats in sympathy with human hearts, feeling our joy and sorrowing over our pain.
- Men and women existed as spiritual beings in the presence of God before progressing to this mortal life.
- Adam and Eve were noble progenitors of the human family, and their fall made possible human life in this realm. Men and women are born pure and innocent, with no taint of original sin. (We find plenty on our own).
- God has the desire and the power to save, through his son Jesus Christ, the entire human family in a kingdom of heaven, and except for the most perversely unwilling, that will be our destiny.
- Heaven will principally consist in the eternal duration of those relationships that matter most to us now: spouses, children, and friends.
None of these beliefs is relevant to a political candidate's fitness for office. But they should be the starting point for any serious attempt to get at the core of Mormon belief. And there should be no compromise on that point.
Terryl Givens is Professor of Literature and Religion at the University of Richmond.
This month's Religion & Culture Web Forum is by Emanuela Zanotti Carney, on Voices of Despair and Gestures of Grief in Rituals of Mourning and Italian Marian Laments in the late Middle Ages. As devotion to Mary as the "mother of sorrows" flourished in the late Middle Ages, poetic narratives of Mary's lamentations at the foot of the cross became an important sub-genre of Marian literature. Emanuela Zanotti Carney studies Marian laments written in the Italian vernacular, arguing that "poets and compilers ... conveyed the emotional experience of the Virgin at the cross by embodying traditional rituals of mourning performed by women (thecorrotto) into their lyrical and dramatic texts" (2-3). Seeking an emotional reaction to Mary's grief, these laments "transformed audiences from passive recipients of a sacred story to active and engaged participants in the history of salvation" (32). Read Voices of Despair and Gestures of Grief.
Sightings comes from the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School.


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iOS 5 beta 6 is available for developers!
September 1, 2011 by Chad Faith | Leave a Comment
Apple has just recently launched the iOS beta 6 for developers. Available as an OTA (over the air) update, it measures 144 MB and it requires the user to use an iPhone , an iPad or iPod touch with the iOS 5 beta 3 installed or more recent versions of the iOS. So what does […]
Refurbished iPhones sold as new devices in China? Another trial for the Cupertino company!
September 1, 2011 by Chad Faith | Leave a Comment
Apple has another new trial on their hands, after the attack from HTC, who faced them in court on the subject of patents. This time, the American company came under legal action due to the complaints from customers in China. They were unhappy that they have purchased refurbished iPhone units that were sold as brand […]
No more PCs for HP… is this the future?
August 31, 2011 by Chad Faith | Leave a Comment
It seems that last week's rumors about HP are true, the company being on the verge of the biggest restructuring in its history. And besides giving up on the WebOS, which was inevitable, HP really wants to get rid of the PC division, despite the fact that it is the number one notebook brand boasting […]
Nokia launches Symbian Belle on August 24; could also present several new phone models: Nokia 600, 700, 701!
August 30, 2011 by Chad Faith | 1 Comment
Nokia fans, unite! Unite and watch the countdown present on Nokia's Facebook page. We should expect something new and special on August 24th as it turns out that Symbian is not dead…. It's probably about the beginning of Symbian Belle, as confirmed by a teaser that popped up on the web but it was recently […]
Dish out your purses, ladies! Two new HTCs for you – Bliss and Pico!
August 20, 2011 by Chad Faith | Leave a Comment
If little tidbits were heard in the past about the HTC Bliss and its affinity for women's purses, the HTC Pico terminal is a somewhat unknown device that escaped our radar. Its resemblance with the HTC Glam – another HTC device for the ladies – makes us think that the Taiwanese manufacturer is preparing a […]
Samsung has snatched the developer of the CyanogenMod
August 18, 2011 by Chad Faith | Leave a Comment
If you are using the Android operating system and wanted, even for a second, to get the full potential of your phone, then you certainly have heard of the CyanogenMod, the custom ROM for Android devices. Well, the brain behind this software, Steve Kondik also known as Cyanogen, has just been co-opted in the Samsung […]
Apple-Samsung War Continues
August 16, 2011 by ArijitKRoul | Leave a Comment
Apple and Samsung are still going strong at war. The latest allegation that Apple has made on Samsung is that its most popular and widely sold tablet Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a copied design and closely resembles iPad. Apple has slapped a lawsuit asking for an order to stop the sale of this tablet. Apple […]
Apple's TV Wonder
March 24, 2007 by Abhinav Kaiser | 3 Comments
Apple has started shipping the revolutionary Apple TV, a box that lets you play the downloaded movies, pictures and music on TV. It has been priced at $299 and it comes inbuilt with a 40GB hard disk which can store up to 50 hours of movies, 9000 songs or 25,000 pictures. The Apple TV box […]
Rumor: Gucci Phone in the making?
March 13, 2007 by poeloq | Leave a Comment
This rumor doesn't surprise me, after many other top brands (most recently Prada) Gucci seems to be planning their own branded mobile phone. This rumor is not the best sourced, as it is based on two pictures that appeared on the photo sharing site Flickr. [Source] Hot Tags:gucci phone, gucci, gucci telefon, gucci telephone, telefon […]
Tesco offer Internet phone adapter
March 5, 2007 by davidallen | Leave a Comment
Tesco the giant UK retailer are ever expanding into new and unexploited areas, their new area of interest in VOIP, with superstore offering its customers the opportunity to buy an adapter that will allow them to use VOIP to make calls to their friends, relatives and work colleagues not just in the UK but abroad […]
SonyEricsson Patent: Mobile with Remote
March 3, 2007 by poeloq | 2 Comments
This is an image from a new patent SonyEricsson is applying for: a remote control and mobile phone in one device. Not very original or before it's time, in my opinion, but still something very worthwhile for us gadget lovers with way too many devices. [via Core77 Design Blog]
Sony 8GB Memory Stick Soon.
March 2, 2007 by Static | Leave a Comment
Sony Japan announced their new MSX-M8GS Memory Stick PRO Duo that will have a capacity of 8GB. But, the massive flash memory card unfortunately will not work with all of the Sony products. It is said that the Sony Cybershot cameras and the Sony VAIO laptops will not be compatible with this memory stick; that […]
ThinkSecret: MacOS X Leopard screenshots
February 28, 2007 by poeloq | Leave a Comment
ThinkSecret, a reliable rumor source for anything Apple related, has uploaded several new screenshots of the upcoming MacOS X Leopard release, expected by ThinkSecret to be released around the end of March. Click here for the Gallery. [Site very slow, presumably due to huge traffic from around the web]Next Page »


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Smart Way Speed Test: How to check your Smart Way internet speed? Is Smart Way Speed Test fair enough to evaluate the internet speed offered by your Smart Way internet service provider? What internet speed test Smart Way tool is the best to check the internet speed delivered by your internet service provider? These are the questions that often trigger your mind and most of the customers do not know whether their ISP in USA is actually offering them the speed they promised for.
If you wish to test Smart Way internet speed, you may go ahead with taking the Smart Way internet speed test offered by your internet provider but prior to taking the Smart Way Speed Test, it is obvious that you would like to check its reliability. Speed Test Smart Way is completely free and it is a web-based html5 internet speedtest tool that one can use to see the available bandwidth of the internet that one has. In other words, we can say that Smart Way Speed Test tool gives you a general idea of how fast is your upload speed or download speed or how smooth is your browsing experience and much more.
It's important to ensure that we receive consistent as well as reliable results, and so you may run this test multiple times using different devices like desktop, laptop, PC and a smartphone on the same connection to make sure that the devices didn't affect the results.Further, while conducting the test except for the google chrome all the programs shall be closed and the plugins disabled. This leads to the creation of a repeatable environment for performing the upload speed test, download speed test, ping speed test, jitter speed test, ping speed test, latency speed test and more.
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It's a commonplace observation to note that the entire professional riding class is 'fitter' compared to thirty or forty years ago. The days when a professional rider would arrive at the start line of Paris – Nice with about '500 miles in my legs' from the previous season are long gone.
Those early season training camps where riders jumped on a set of scales to be laughed at by team mates have also been consigned to history. As the principals of exercise physiology slowly established themselves in the professional peloton, so too have modern ideas about diet, nutrition and power output. The links between body weight, lean muscle mass and performance have become better understood in recent decades.
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The truth is that there are technologies and information available to anyone with time and money that were unheard of by winners of the Tour de France 20 years ago.
There's no doubt that Pro teams take every aspect of preparation much more seriously. In the same way that Premier League football teams will insist that a potential signing undergoes a medical examination, the same broad principals are being followed in the top tier of cycling.
Meals on wheels: Juan Antoni Flecha fuels up
Gone are the days when a rider needed to win a decent selection of races to sign a contract. Now, a rider with promising results will more than likely have to undergo a full medical, blood chemistry examined, VO2 max, power output and threshold tests are all carried out before a rider gets handed his new bike and kit. These days, results are not enough.
A taste of home
Predictably, there isn't much by way of records when it comes to analysing historical data. Teams didn't employ nutritionists and dieticians until relatively recently – in the mid 1990s – and the nutritional needs of a team were left to the hotel chefs where the teams stayed during races. To say that the quality of food served to teams was variable would be an understatement and, in the end, teams began to take matters into their own hands.
Italian teams who decamped to Belgium for a month during the Spring Classics season would often bring their own pasta and book their own hotels where they knew, from previous experience, that the kitchen and the staff were up to the task and understood the meal time needs of the team.
Tour riders certainly get their fill
The Ariostea team of the mid 1990s was one of the first to understand the importance of keeping the riders happy and healthy and one of the ways they did that was to bring enough Italian pasta (De Cecco, as it happened) in team vehicles to last the duration of the Belgian campaign. With almost 20 staff and riders for the Spring campaign, that was a lot of pasta. The fact that they stayed in a hotel run by Italians also helped…
Soul food
Almost inevitably, teams started to look at every aspect of nutrition and decided they couldn't always trust the hygiene of some hotel kitchens and would bring not only food but also a chef. This year 8 of the Tour teams are bringing their own mobile kitchens; converted trucks tricked out with the latest kitchen equipment and wall to wall stainless steel.
No longer are teams at the mercy of no star hotel kitchens and cantankerous hotel staff, they have their own kitchens and chefs to hand any time a rider wants a snack rustled up.
But nutrition isn't simply about calories in and calories out, or even the nutritional quality of food. There's a psychological element when it comes to food for cyclists too. For Pro team riders, slurping down gels and energy drinks on daily basis, their palettes quickly become jaded.
Food is reduced to mere fuel, something that you have to put into your stomach to make sure that there's always energy to power the muscles. The pleasure of eating has much of enjoyment leeched out of it and becomes mere grist for the intestinal mill.
Laying down the claw: Kristiansen checks on the fish
When the RadioShack Trek pro team installed a chef with the team for the first time, Levi Leipheimer was amazed: œWhen we sat down at the dinner table for a great meal it took our minds off the race and brought us together as a team. We had escaped the typical drudgery of eating for the sake of eating."
It's a common complaint and, considering the number of calories that a pro rider in a stage race has to consume, it's understandable that you hear phrases like "the last thing I want to see or eat after riding hard for five hours for the fourth day in a row is some white bread, pasta and flavourless boiled chicken. It cracks me mentally."
Bland food stuffs, easy to digest but quick to pall (chicken breast, boiled rice, pasta) are consumed in industrial quantities by bike riders, but the business of mealtimes should normally be a pleasure and a smart team will always find ways to produce something tasty that doesn't 'infringe' the rules laid down by a Pro team nutritionist.
Carbs are kings
In the UK, influential coach Peter Keen was an early enthusiast and advocate of using whatever nutritional and diet strategies he felt were appropriate. Nutrition fell into that category of variables that could be described as 'marginal gains' and Keen's strategy of looking for advantage in every area saw him encourage the use of dilute glucose polymer solutions (OK, 'energy drinks' if you must) in feeding bottles.
It was a step up from tap water, that's for sure and since then energy food design has stepped up even further with greater knowledge of which type of carbohydrates work fastest, and how to maximise the amount of carbohydrate absorbed.
And yet, again, we are confronted with the brute facts of physiology. The best way to transfer the energy in food into the blood stream and thence to muscle fibres is if can pass quickly and easily from the wall of the intestine into the blood stream. Energy drinks that offer rapidly absorbed carbohydrates are possibly the greatest ergogenic aid endurance sport knows.
Old and new truths – Food facts
The truth is that the human body hasn't changed much since the invention of the bicycle and neither has its nutritional needs. The nutritional composition of the contents of the average musette and race food haven't really changed.
What has changed is our understanding of the importance of hydration and the best way to ingest calories while riding a bike.
Old-school nutrition
Alan Lim…and the Peace Race rice cakes
Ex-pro John Herety, now manager of the Rapha Condor team, was one of the few British riders to win a stage in the legendary Peace Race, a ferocious race in which the former Eastern Bloc nations used to knock lumps out of each other.
As its name suggests, it was supposedly about peace, love and understanding rather than global supremacy and the teams' race food was supplied by the organisers. Herety, who trained as a chef before turning pro, recalled "In 1979, we were all given a supply of rice cakes before every stage, two slices of rice cake with a filling in the middle, either apple or sultanas – although I'm not sure if some of the East German teams got extra vitamins!
Anyway, I was reading Alan Lim's book about race food and funnily enough there was a recipe for rice cakes, although his were seasoned and filled differently. The fact is though that we were eating rice cakes in races back then without having the nutritional science to explain why it was good to eat." Some things never change.
The Feed Zone Cookbook
If you're a cyclist who loves food… then you will love 'The Feed Zone Cookbook' by Biju Thomas and Allen Lim.
Lim, with his doctorate in 'integrative physiology' was instrumental in developing training and nutritional strategies for Lance Armstrong, Floyd Landis as well as the Garmin and RadioShack teams.
Between Lim and chef Biju Thomas they have come up with a 317 page hardback crammed with real world advice, anecdotes, cooking tips, nutritional science basics and recipes that even the most baking-phobic rider will want to concoct.
There's advice on pre- and post-ride meals as well as the best set of recipes for 'portables' to cram into your back pockets during rides.
Mouth watering – and it looks beautiful in the pictures!
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India is now the world's third-largest grain producer after China and the United States. The adoption of higher-yielding crop varieties and the spread of irrigation have led to this remarkable tripling of output since the early 1960s. Unfortunately, a growing share of the water that irrigates three-fifths of India's grain harvest is coming from wells that are starting to go dry. This sets the stage for a major disruption in food supplies for India's growing population.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 15 (UPI) -- NASA reports the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon around Neptune, bringing the total of bodies orbiting the distant blue-green planet to 14.
Estimated at no more than 12 miles across, the moon dubbed S/2004 N I is the smallest known moon in the Neptunian system, the space agency said Monday.
Small and dim -- roughly 100 million times fainter than the faintest star that can be seen with the naked eye -- the tiny moon even escaped detection by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, which surveyed Neptune's system of moons and rings as it flew past in 1989.
Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., discovered the moon July 1 while studying the faint arcs or segments of rings around Neptune.
"The moons and arcs orbit very quickly, so we had to devise a way to follow their motion in order to bring out the details of the system," he said. "It's the same reason a sports photographer tracks a running athlete -- the athlete stays in focus, but the background blurs."
Showalter tracked the movement of a white dot that appeared in more than 150 archival Neptune photographs taken by Hubble from 2004 to 2009.
The moon, located between the orbits of the Neptunian moons Larissa and Proteus, completes one revolution around Neptune every 23 hours, he said.


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Mobile Mandelbrot - set in our ways?
The ever-decreasing circles of technology miniaturisation are not quite taking us down the roads followed by Star Trek or Dick Tracey. Sure we have the smart and small communicators and gadgets, and a cloud of networks and services, but we still rely on many old concepts. Tablets and smartphones are all well and good, but you still need a desktop or notebook PC to do real work – at least that's what some say.
In that way of working, the devices keep shrinking, but they are always only ever seen as mobile companions reliant on a big fixed brother – once it was only handheld PDAs, then smartphones and tablets, but is now pushing all the way to the wearable edge with smart-watches and wristbands.
This idea of 'iJewellery' is not new – Dallas Semiconductor had finger wearable JavaRing computers based on its iButton technology in the late 1990s, and these could download and run 'applets' of Java software when briefly touched into a reader. In this way, they would communicate with and complement an application running on the device the reader was attached too (a laptop or desktop PC) and ultimately a server in the cloud (or as it was called in the 1990s, the network).
Whether tethered or wireless, this type of functionality is not really symbiotic, but more parasitic, in that the wearable device has little or no function on its own – it's just a peripheral in the same way a Bluetooth audio headset typically has no standalone function.
Some more recent wearable technologies are peripherals too, but increasingly peripheral to the cloud, with over the air (OTA) connections for updates and data exchange. These include those wristbands increasingly worn by trendy types, and politicians, to measure their fitness (for health, not yet, for office). These are reliant on services in the network for the majority of storage and processing capability and also most likely reliant on other devices for taking a view of what information and insights have been gathered.
The evolution (note, not revolution) of the machine-to-machine (M2M) or badly termed 'internet of things' sector, links very closely with portable and wearable wireless devices. In all cases it is the gathering of data via some form of sensor that adds value and context to the personal or business process – location, proximity, energy usage, ambient conditions, user environment. These are especially important to the individual user if they make operation simpler, streamlining a process, such as automatically capturing data that might be needed later, or presenting information in a form that is most relevant at that moment.
Connecting this 'personal cloud' of data and devices into the larger cloud of available services is where things get interesting from a business process perspective but it introduces another overhyped expression de jour, 'big data'. How big is often not nearly as important as how fast, how complete, how relevant and how directly usable. These are the areas that directly impact on business processes, yes causing some 're-engineering' and change, but perhaps this time for the better. This is real work where mobile and wireless technology can deliver efficiency.
The current crop of operating systems on smartphones and tablets have already given up the need to be synchronised to a desktop which tethered their earlier cousins. This was the beginning of the end for the desktop (or laptop) as the most important computing device that everyone would aspire to. 'Real work' is already being done with mobile devices; sure it might not be lots of typing, but apart from certain types of roles (analysts included of course!), who really wants the typing of long documents to be their main contribution to their work? Do organisations not constantly say they want to minimise bureaucracy, or get rid of red tape and paperwork?
Business processes were set up to work with the constraints of the technology available; paper memos, typewriters, filing cabinets and in/out trays have gradually been replaced by desktop PCs, email and mass storage. We never really achieved the utopian paperless office, but there is no reason why we cannot with current smart, small and connected technologies achieve a 'less paper' office. Time to throw off the chains to the desk and join the ever smaller 'Mandelbrot set' of connected mobile devices. We might not ever give up the desktop, but many are very unlikely to spend as much time at it in the future as they did in the past.


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Our web site has been set up to automatically guide you in the tire buying process for your vehicle whether you're looking for same-size replacement tires or considering upgrading tires and rims to a larger size. To find Continental tires available for your specific vehicle, select your make, model, and year. You'll notice a range of sizes appear on the left (anywhere from 15 inches to 21 inches in diameter for example). When you're ready, choose your current size or browse from other diameter sizes that will typically fit on your vehicle. Next, you have the option of narrowing down your search further with preferences of all-season, summer, or winter tread designs. Then, you can choose between tires with tread designs optimized for types of driving: performance, all-terrain, or economy. If you'd like to discuss details with a live tire and wheel expert, we have specialists available 7 days a week to help guide you.


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FOXBOROROUGH, Mass. — Some have suggested that he is danger of sliding down the depth chart.
FOXBOROROUGH, Mass. — Some have suggested that he is danger of sliding down the depth chart.
Others have gone so far as to speculate that he is in danger of sliding off the 53-man roster altogether. Coming off a severe knee injury (a torn anterior cruciate ligament suffered in Week 5 of the Patriots' 2013 season) and playing at an advanced age (he'll turn 34 in December), Tommy Kelly will have none of that.
"You don't want anyone out there to think you're a weak link," the 6-foot-6, 310-pound defensive tackle said following a recent training camp practice. "I've never been a weak link in my career and I'm not going to start being a weak link.
"I've been working my tail off on the side with my conditioning so I make sure when it's time for me to get out there they see the same player as when I left," Kelly continued. "Or a better player — that's what I'm shooting for. I'm not trying to come back and be the player I was, I'm trying to come back and be a better player than I was."
He is well aware of the ramifications.
"This is a very hard team to make, so if you don't go out and put it on the line every day you're not going to be here," said Kelly. "Simple as that."
If there are odds to be beaten here, well, Kelly has beaten them before. Undrafted out of Mississippi State, Kelly signed with Oakland on April 30, 2004, and went on to appear in 129 games (starting 117) over nine seasons with the Raiders, totaling 419 tackles and 34 sacks in that time.
Released by the Raiders on March 27 of last year, Kelly signed with the Patriots two weeks later. If Kelly is aging, he certainly didn't show it at the outset of his abbreviated first year in New England. Starting alongside Vince Wilfork (until he suffered a season-ending Achilles tear in Week 4), Kelly totaled 23 tackles, 2½ sacks and recovered one fumble prior to tearing the ACL in his right knee in the Patriots' 13-6 loss at Cincinnati last Oct. 6.
Now, he finds himself on the comeback trail. Kelly began camp on the physically unable to perform list, but he was quickly activated and looked none the worst for wear this past week. As Kelly points out, he's been through it all before — albeit while still in his 20s.
"I've been here before — back in '07 when I blew my knee out the first time (seven games into that season)," said Kelly. "I've been down that dark road and I know how it feels, how you doubt yourself. But I also know if you work your tail off every day it's going to come back. You just have to keep stacking and every day don't get discouraged, don't get too high or too low. Just come in there and work your butt off and your knee is going to be fine."
While the Patriots' defensive line is densely populated at the moment — the team is currently carrying 15 linemen, including young holdovers like Sealver Siliga, Chris Jones and Joe Vellano, all of whom got the opportunity to start and play last season — Kelly remains confident in his ability.
"Me personally, I'm never worried about competition," said Kelly. "I love competition, you know what I'm saying? You don't ever worry about what's behind you. You worry about what's in front of you. I've always been very confident in myself ...; I just go out there and play. If I let my talent take over I'll be OK."


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This week Microsoft is quietly delivering a flurry of updates to its developer community, including the release candidate version of Silverlight, the new rich media competitor to Adobe's Flash Player. Also available for download will be a Silverlight plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 -- another huge hunk of bits Microsoft is making available for download this week. None of this would be complete without Beta 2 of the 3.5 version of the .Net Framework itself, also ready for downloading.
"With included support for ASP.Net AJAX and the Silverlight Add-in for Visual Studio 2008, developers can also build a spectrum of rich interactive applications for the Web," said Prashant Sridharan, group product manager for Microsoft's Developer Division.
Rather than bundling Silverlight with Windows or Internet Explorer or pushing it to customers via Windows update, Microsoft is trying to convince high-traffic, rich media websites to adopt the technology and encourage users to download a browser plug-in. With Flash already on more than 700 million desktops, the company may have an uphill battle.
The 3.5 version of the.Net Framework will include new project and template tools to support major functionality introduced in the 3.0 version, including Windows Communications Foundation, a large set of protocols for building and orchestrating Web services, and Windows Workflow Foundation, which provides a means to create process-oriented applications. Workflows can string together functionality from Office 2007 to create so-called Office Business Applications using Visual Studio Tools for Office, now included in Visual Studio.
Sridharan notes that the Microsoft platform will deliver "further increases in capabilities through the delivery of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008." At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference earlier this month, the company announced that both of those products -- along with Visual Studio Server 2008 -- will ship in the US on February 27, 2008.


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We've been enjoying learning a lot more about John Picacio's process for creating the 2012 calendar for George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. But now, here's some amazing new art for the 2013 calendar, by artist Mark Simonetti. Check out more of this picture of the Kingsmoot, plus three other astounding pictures, below.
Warning: Book spoilers ahead!
The 2013 Song of Ice and Fire Calendar comes out July 10, and it notably includes scenes all the way through A Dance With Dragons. (So beware spoilers, if you've only read the first couple of books.) Here's our exclusive first look at the calendar's amazing artwork. Click to enlarge!
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The computer scientist Peter Norvig argued in his essay Teach Yourself To Program in 10 Years that you need about 10,000 hours of practice.
But Jeff Atwood argued in his post How To Become a Better Programmer by Not Programming that he believes the only way to become a better programmer is by not programming.
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American City also publishes specialty publications, which include a high-tech business newspaper, a law journal, and Hemmings Motor News. In 2009, ACBJ took over management of Portfolio.com, a website formerly associated with the now-defunct Condé Nast Portfolio.[2]
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Co-founded by Michael K. Russell and William Worley in August 1982.[7]

|L.A. Biz
|Los Angeles, California
|Online only
|Business First of Louisville
|Louisville, Kentucky
|Memphis Business Journal
|Memphis, Tennessee
Founded by Ward Archer as Mid-South Business, one of the first local business papers published in the United States.[citation needed]

|Milwaukee Business Journal
|Milwaukee, Wisconsin
|Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
|Minneapolis–Saint Paul
|Nashville Business Journal
|Nashville, Tennessee
|Orlando Business Journal
|Orlando, Florida
|Philadelphia Business Journal
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|Phoenix Business Journal
|Phoenix, Arizona
|Pittsburgh Business Times
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|Portland Business Journal
|Portland, Oregon
|Puget Sound Business Journal
|Seattle, Washington
Acquired in 1986 with purchase of Scripps Howard Business Journals[4]

|Triangle Business Journal
|Raleigh, North Carolina
|Sacramento Business Journal
|Sacramento, California
|St. Louis Business Journal
|St. Louis, Missouri
|San Antonio Business Journal
|San Antonio, Texas
|San Francisco Business Journal
|San Francisco, California
Acquired in 1986 with purchase of Scripps Howard Business Journals.[4] In 2008, East Bay Business Times merged with the San Francisco Business Times.

|Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
|San Jose, California
|South Florida Business Journal
|Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Florida
|Tampa Bay Business Journal
|Tampa, Florida
founded as Tampa Bay Business, renamed in the late 1990s as The Business Journal Serving Tampa Bay

|Washington Business Journal
|Washington, D.C.
|Wichita Business Journal
|Wichita, Kansas
The Business Journals
The Business Journals is the online media division of American City Business Journals which operates websites for each of the company's 40 print business journals as well as its first web-only local business news and information site for Los Angeles, California.
The site contains local business news from around the nation, updated throughout the day, along with an archive that contains more than 2 million business news articles published since 1996. The Business Journals' sites have more than four million unique visitors each month.
Forty under 40 Award
The Business Journal's Forty Under 40 is an annual list compiled and published by the Business Journal newspapers since 1992.[9][10] The purpose is to list the 40 most successful entrepreneurs under the age of 40. The 40 are usually nominated from within individual areas in range of the local business journal's publication.
- ^ "About Us". American City Business Journals. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
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- ^ "ACBJ Chairman Ray Shaw dies at 75". July 20, 2009. Retrieved July 20, 2009.
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- ^ Small Business News | April 2001 | Page 2[dead link]
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- ^ Kaberline, Brian (March 1, 2009). "Kansas City Business Journal | March 1, 2009 | "KCBJ co-founder, developer Mike Russell dies at age 69"". Bizjournals.com. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search
- ^ Kass, Mark (January 5, 2012). "Business Journal names Forty under 40 winners".
- ^ "Columbus Business First 40 under 40 search". January 20, 2012.
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Arthur Benjamin is perhaps the world's leading mathemagician and, in today's talk, he aims to show the creativity, beauty and wonder that is as much a part of math as logic. [ted_talkteaser id=1862]Stepping onto the TEDGlobal 2013 stage, Benjamin takes us on a spirited tour of the Fibonacci numbers, where the patterns to be found go far beyond simply adding two consecutive numbers to get the next. Math is the science of patterns, says Benjamin, and isn't it incredible that as we note the arithmetical significance of this sequence, that we can also see it in action all around us?
"Fibonacci numbers appear in nature surprisingly often," says Benjamin. "The number of petals on a flower is typically a Fibonacci number. Or the number of spirals on a sunflower or a pineapple."
Benjamin's talk reminds us of several other TED classics. Human beings have a proclivity for patterns, and…
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"I have heard a lot of 'chatter' from the communications bar, Wall Street analysts and reporters, just in the past 72 hours," noted Federal Communications Commissioner Robert M. McDowell during a talk before the Federalist Society on Monday. "This morning, speculation abounds."
McDowell was referring to the ample quantity of buzz out in Capitol Hill-land over whether the FCC is actually going to issue net neutrality rules in the near future.
"Let me say at the outset that, as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, appointed by two presidents and unanimously confirmed by the Senate each time," he added. "I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen or when or even if."
"That will happen"
Well, we can be a little more categorical than that. We predict that FCC is either going to issue some kind of open Internet order, or it won't.
Last week FCC Chair Julius Genachowski said it would. "That will happen," Genachowski promised the Hill at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. "We will make sure that we get the rules right, we need to make sure that what we do maximizes innovation and investment across the ecosystem."
And he even threw a dig at Verizon and Google for proposing their own version of open Internet rules, which would exempt wireless broadband from discrimination restrictions. "I would've preferred if they didn't do exactly what they did when they did it," he explained. "It had the effect of slowing down some other processes."
It was a rather interesting comment, given that the Verizon/Google manifesto was probably at least partially percolated at a serious of controversial "back door" meetings (which everyone knew about) that the FCC set up for various stakeholders.
But the next thing you knew there were all sorts of reports flying about that these aforementioned rules would be proposed at the agency's next open meeting in December. We e-mailed the Commission to find out what was what.
"We haven't circulated the December agenda," came the reply. "These rumors from outside, uninformed sources are pure speculation at best."
And indeed, there's no mention of any open Internet rules on the FCC's Items on Circulation page.
A deal this large
But wait—net neutrality, or something like it, could arrive via another route. The New York Times reports that various government officials are miffed that Comcast has announced a new management slate for NBC Universal, despite earlier promises that it would wait until the FCC and Department of Justice green-lighted the entertainment group's proposed merger with Comcast first.
"For a deal this large, and one that hasn't been approved, Comcast's behavior is presumptuous and arrogant," one official told The Times. The article suggests that the agency might attach some net neutrality strings to deal, or at least prohibit Comcast from denying competitors NBCU content over the Internet.
Two of the biggest boosters of a net neutrality requirement or some variant of it are Public Knowledge and the Earthlink ISP. PK wants the agency to just plain old require Comcast to adhere to open Internet rules in exchange for the merger. Earthlink wants the Commission to require Comcast to sell its broadband lines to smaller competitors at wholesale rates.
In fact, last week Earthlink met with the FCC's entire Comcast/NBCU transaction team and several Commissioners to push this position.
'EarthLink explained that mandating wholesale standalone broadband directly addresses the harms [that the ISP thinks the merger poses] to broadband affordability and online video," the company explained. "Independent broadband providers such as EarthLink are in a superior position to meet the needs of consumers that want or need broadband at an affordable price, rather than an expensive bundle."
Into the abyss
As for McDowell, no surprise that he's not a big fan of any of this.
"I hope that, before the Commission takes a giant leap into a potentially dark and dangerous regulatory abyss, it would seriously consider an idea that I have suggested for several years now," he told the Federalist Society.
The agency should hook up with the Federal Trade Commission, trade associations, consumer groups, and engineers, McDowell suggested, and create a "new alliance" that "could spotlight allegations of anticompetitive behavior and use already existing consumer protection and antitrust laws to punish bad actors and aid consumers."
It sounds something like what Comcast suggested last week—a self-regulatory approach. "My door remains open for discussing the creation of such a framework," his comments concluded.


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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Whitbourne, Richard
WHITBOURNE, Sir RICHARD (fl. 1579–1626), writer on Newfoundland, born at Exmouth in Devonshire, was 'a traveler and adventurer into foreign countries' at fifteen years of age. His journeys extended to 'France, Spaine, Italy, Sauoy, Denmarke, Norway, Spruceland, the Canaries, and Soris Hands.' He made his first voyage to Newfoundland about 1579 in a vessel of 300 tons, freighted by Edward Cotton of Southampton. He visited the island again in 1583 in a Southampton vessel of 220 tons, and was eye-witness of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's formal annexation of the country, the ceremony taking place in the harbour of St. John's. In 1585 he paid a third visit in a ship of which he was part owner, and saw Sir Bernard Drake [q. v.] capture 'many Portugall ships laden with fish.' In 1588 Whitbourne equipped a ship at his own expense to serve against the Spanish armada, commanding her in person, and on taking leave of the English admiral, Lord Howard, received 'favorable letters' from him. He made several other voyages to Newfoundland, and occasionally fell in with pirates. In 1611 he met the famous Peter Easton, for whom he subsequently solicited a pardon at court, and in 1614 encountered Sir Henry Mainwaring. On 11 May 1615 he sailed from Exeter in a bark equipped at his own charge bearing a commission from the court of admiralty to hold courts of vice-admiralty in Newfoundland, the first attempt to create a formal court of justice in the country. He proceeded to the various harbours, called the masters of the English ships together and held courts, in which he carefully inquired into disorders committed on the coast, receiving presentments and transmitting them to the admiralty.
In 1616 a ship of Whitbourne's was rifled 'by a French pyrate of Rochell,' one Daniel Tibolo, by which he lost more than 860l. In 1617 he was sent for by Sir William Vaughan [q. v.], who was attempting to people Newfoundland with Welshmen, and in the year following was entrusted with the conduct of a second detachment of colonists, who were conveyed in a ship belonging to Whitbourne to Vaughan's settlement, Golden Grove, now known as Trepaney Harbour. The venture was a failure, owing chiefly to the idleness of the Welsh colonists, and it nearly ruined Whitbourne, who says pathetically that, 'after the more than forty yeeres spent in the foresaid courses, here remaines little other fruite vnto me, sauing the peace of a good conscience' and the contentment of health. In 1620, while residing in London 'at the signe of the Gilded Cocke in Pater-noster-Row,' he published his 'Discovrse and Discovery of New-fovndland, with many reasons to prooue how worthy and beneficiall a Plantation may there be made, after a far better manner than now it is. Together with the laying open of Certaine Enormities and abuses committed by some that trade to that Countrey, and the meanes laide doune for reformation thereof. Imprinted at London by Felix Kyngston, for William Barret,' 4to. Whitbourne's treatise found favour with James I, and the archbishops of Canterbury and York were enjoined by letters from the lords of the council to recommend the work and to assist in making collections for Whitbourne in the 'severall parishes of this Kingdome' to defray the cost of printing it. By a proclamation, dated 12 April 1622, James reiterated these injunctions, and granted Whitbourne the sole right of printing his book for twenty-one years. In 1622 Whitbourne supplemented the original edition with ' A Discourse containing a loving invitation … to all such as shall be Adventurers … for the advancement of his Majesties … Plantation in the New-foundland,' London, 4to. Some copies also contain a letter from the bishop to the clergy of his diocese directing them to recommend the work from their pulpits, and to make a special collection for the author. The 'Discourse' was dedicated to the king, with a supplementary address 'to his Maiesties good Subiects,' and an autobiographical introduction. The account of Newfoundland is interesting and valuable, full of amusing detail, and written with a literary skill hardly to be looked for in one who had been a mariner from fifteen years of age. The 'Discourse' had considerable fame at the time of its appearance, and is several times quoted and referred to by Captain John Smith. Another edition of the 'Discourse' was published in 1623 (London, 4to).
Whitbourne soon after received the honour of knighthood; but his circumstances continued straitened, and he grew tired of the inactivity of his life ashore. On 13 July 1626 Edward Drake wrote to Edward Nicholas, recommending him as peculiarly qualified to command a ship, and on 10 Nov. he himself solicited the favour of Buckingham, sending a certificate of his good services and losses, signed by Sir Edward Seymour, John Drake, and eight others (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1625-6, p. 374, Colonial 1574-1660, p. 82). On 11 Oct. 1627 he wrote to Hugh Peachey, stating that he had been appointed lieutenant on the Bonaventure, under Sir John Chudleigh, to hasten the ship round the Downs (ib. Dom. 1627-8, p. 382). The date of his death is unknown.
A rough draft of Whitbourne's 'Discourse,' in manuscript, with many alterations in the author's own hand, is preserved in the British Museum (Addit. MS. 22564). The 'Discourse' was abridged and translated into German by Theodor de Bry in 1628, for the thirteenth part of his 'Historia Americee,' a collection of the writings of explorers of all nationalities. It also appeared in a similar collection by Levinus Hulsius (Theil 20), published in 1629 at Frankfort-on-Main, and in 1634 in the Latin version of De Bry's collection. Some parts of the 'Discourse' were also reprinted in 1870, under the editorship of T. Whitburn, with the title 'Westward Hoe for Avalon,' London, 8vo.


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The following summarizes a few thoughts for 2003. To say the least, it was a year of extremes inside and outside of agriculture, which has implications on management.
Dry in the west and wet in the east, both hindered quality and quantity of crops.
High prices for beef and low painful conditions for the dairy industry.
Land prices continue to be strong because of urban pressures, government supports, low interest rates and the desire to own a piece of America.
My Canadian friends survived despite four major hits: SARS, the blackout, the Mad Cow breakout and forest fires in the West.
Top five concerns of producers going into the next year:
Weather and water
Healthcare costs
Balancing time and family
Consolidation of the food sector
Global markets
The stock market and economy are making a fragile but nice recovery, but not for the workers.
Thoughts on managing in this environment:
Prices are established globally, and costs, locally. Low overhead cost per unit will be a critical element to examine in your business structure.
Analyze trends, not specific points in time. Is it a good year and good trend or bad year and bad trend?
Cash and financial liquidity is still king, allowing you to get through the valleys of low earnings and cash flow and capitalize quickly on opportunities.
What's your people strategy? Whether it is suppliers, employees or acquaintances, getting the right people on your business bus in the right seats works well in any environment, whether it is farming, small business or coaching.
Balance, in a multi-tasking world with cell phones, e-mail, and a 24-7 environment, is a key word in everyone's playbook. Occasionally sit down by the log cabin and old mill and watch the river flow.
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Editors' note: Dave Kohl, The Corn and Soybean Digest Trends Editor, is an ag economist at Virginia Tech. He recently completed a sabbatical working with the Royal Bank of Canada. He is now back at Virginia Tech with his academic appointment, which is teaching, extension, and applied research.
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We're willing to admit here at TTHQ that we knew CoLab: Prague's third speaker pretty well: a long-time friend and annoyingly intelligent guy, Tibor Varady is a former environmental lawyer turned owner of one of Hungary's prime coffee destinations, Espresso Embassy, as well as a finalist in both 2013 World Brewers Cup and World Aeropress Championship.
Tibor's talk is refreshingly candid and insanely useful to anyone wanting to either start or progress a career in specialty coffee: speaking very frankly about how he reviews and interviews prospective candidates, Tibor offers a much-needed glimpse into the mind of many specialty coffee shop owners when it comes to hiring.
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Microsoft's Windows Live services and applications will officially emerge from beta this week, and the company is planning a marketing campaign for its online properties that it expects to reach an audience of 10 billion on the Web over the next two months.
For the first time, users will be able to access and download all available Windows Live services from the Windows Live dashboard online, said Brian Hall, general manager of the Windows Live business group at Microsoft. Previously, users would have to search the Web for specific product betas, which was a calculated move by the company, he said.
"We were not trying to get massive adoption," he said. "We were waiting until we were ready to cross-promote [the offerings]."
To accompany the full release, Microsoft will begin advertising and marketing Windows Live across its Web properties. The company expects 10 billion impressions for the campaign in the next two months, Hall said.
Windows Live is the brand name for a set of Web-based services and applications Microsoft hopes will allow it to sell online advertising to compete with Google, which is raking in advertising dollars at an alarming rate. Sources close to the company said that while Microsoft is not worried about its own profitability in the near term, it fears Google's ability to monetize online services through advertising. It is trying to future-proof its own Web business to avoid losing any more ground to the search giant, they said.
Microsoft divides its Windows Live offerings into two sets -- online services such as Windows Live Hotmail, and applications that users install on their PCs, such as Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Photo Gallery. A complete list of offerings that are available in full release now can be found on the Windows Live home page.
Not all the products that had been in beta are in full release, however, Hall said. Two services will remain in beta and will be released in final versions at a later date, he said. Those are Windows Live Skydrive, an online file-storage service, and Windows Live Calendar. "They'll be ready when we feel like the quality and scale is there," he said.
Microsoft will continue to release new Windows Live services in beta form over the next year as it does quarterly updates to its current round of services. The company will do another major release of services when a new wave is ready, Hall said.
Microsoft's marketing push around Windows Live is based on linking the offerings to the Windows Vista OS. In fact, on a Web site dedicated to the campaign, Microsoft dares users to "Open up your digital life" with "Windows Vista + Windows Live."
Microsoft has made no secret of the fact that it aims to leverage its most popular and far-reaching product, the Windows OS, to promote the company's online strategy. In fact, in September, Microsoft made available an installer for Windows Live that will automatically update any Windows Live services or applications that users have on their PCs through Windows XP or Vista.


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Management's remarks will be available live through Vertex's website at www.vrtx.com in the "Investors" section under the "News and Events" page. A replay of the conference webcast will be archived on the company's website.
About Vertex
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that aims to discover, develop and commercialize innovative medicines so people with serious diseases can lead better lives. In addition to our clinical development programs focused on cystic fibrosis, Vertex has more than a dozen ongoing research programs aimed at other serious and life-threatening diseases.
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