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Next on the holiday line-up is an early color Silly Symphony, with Santa Claus and his merry little gnomes!
In the summer of 1932, Walt Disney announced a new distribution deal with United Artists ─ a company built on independent creative control in the motion picture industry by its founders Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith. United Artists granted an advance of $15,000 per cartoon ─ more than double what Disney received from Columbia Pictures. Displeased with Columbia's budgets, the studio signed with United Artists in December 1930, a year and a half before their new cartoons were released under this agreement.
Their new arrangement with UA allowed Disney to produce his Silly Symphonies in color. Flowers and Trees became the first film produced in three-strip Technicolor. This film was intended to experiment with this new method, and showcased a full range of colors that made previous color processes (literally) pale in comparison. An immense sensation when released on July 1932, Disney decided all future Silly Symphonies would be made in color, while the Mickey Mouse series proceeded in black and white until early 1935.
Santa's Workshop – originally titled Santa's Toy Shop ─ was the fourth color Silly Symphony. The quick production schedule slated the cartoon for an early December release for the Christmas season; the story outline was approved on September 1932, with animation and layout underway in October. Besides using color in the series, the UA contract allowed Disney's studio to use high fidelity RCA sound, though the previous Powers Cinephone system is credited on the main titles.
The studio also experimented with casting principal human characters in the Silly Symphonies. In contrast to the pliable animation of the hunters from 1931's The Fox Hunt, Disney's cartoons from UA attempted plausibility with such characters. For instance, the introductory scenes of Santa Claus (voiced by Walter Geiger), reading children's letters to his scowling secretary (voiced by Pinto Colvig), required this type of engaging credibility in order to engross audiences, especially with a film depicting the jocular St. Nicholas.
The animators on Santa's Workshop are comprised of a few experienced artists, such as Les Clark, Norm Ferguson, Tom Palmer and Jack King, with Gerry Geronimi and Eddie Donnelly handling brief sequences. Like Ferguson, King and Geronimi, Donnelly moved from the East Coast; he left the Van Beuren studio on March 1932 and animated on a few Silly Symphonies. He left Disney's and arrived back to Van Beuren, for reasons unknown, in April 1933. He remained in the East Coast, animating/directing for Van Beuren, and later for Terrytoons as one of the three principal directors (along with Connie Rasinski and Mannie Davis).
Disney's higher budgets, brought along by the UA contract, allowed sequences with multitudes of characters that brim with activity and movement. The Christmas theme for this cartoon is rife with potential in these regards, especially in scenes with Santa's little gnomes preparing for Christmas Eve; the gnomes tending to Santa's reindeer, mass-producing children's toys in an assembly line, and the toy parade (marching along to Schubert's March Militare) are reliant on cycles. Such scenes were assigned to less experienced animators trained under Ben Sharpsteen's auspices ─ hence, the draft credits the artists with their assignments alongside Sharpsteen.
These artists include Ham Luske, Ed Love, Harry Reeves (a former artist from Pat Sullivan's studio), Fred Moore, Jack Kinney and Art Babbitt. George Drake, formerly Dick Lundy's assistant, supervised the in-betweeners in their own department around the time Workshop was in production. Drake might've assigned himself isolated scenes in the early '30s to technically stipulate his status as an instructor; he handles the Noah's ark toy in scene 34. The draft credits three or four artists in shots where the toys follow each other ─ rather than toys used as a focal point for gags, as others pass by ─ during the toy parade, indicating certain artists handled specific toys (i.e., Kinney animates the wind-up elephant and donkey in scene 31.)
Out of all the trainees, Babbitt's scenes are distinguishable in this cartoon; scene 5 is plainly more fluid than Clark's animation. Babbitt convincingly animates one of the gnomes struggling to pitch hay in the following scene. (The written surname "Babbitt" under scene 5 of the draft is author Russell Merritt's handwriting.) Readers may notice that scene 39 of Santa singing his farewell to his gnomes (animated by Eddie Donnelly) is divided into two parts in this cartoon. In the draft, it is only depicted as one shot; however, recent research indicated that the later draft typed after ─ not displayed here─ rectified this change.
I'd like to announce the new revised publication for J.B. Kaufman and Russell Merritt's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series. The original edition, published by La Cineteca del Friuli and distributed by a university press, is extraordinarily pricey. Disney Editions will publish this new edition, sometime around 2016. (As a matter of fact, one of the revisions in the book is the voice for Santa Claus in this cartoon.) Keep an eye out!
Enjoy this breakdown video! Listen for Walt Disney himself as one of Santa's helpers.
(Thanks to J.B. Kaufman, Michael Barrier, and Keith Scott for their help)


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Need to Know: Bruins at Maple Leafs, Game 4
The Bruins visit the Maple Leafs on Wednesday in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals. Here's what you need to know for the game.
Series: Bruins lead, 2-1
Where and when: Air Canada Centre, 7 p.m.
TV: NESN (Jack Edwards, Andy Brickley, Naoko Funayama)
Radio: WBZ-FM 98.5 (Dave Goucher, Bob Beers)
Goals: Nathan Horton, 3; Johnny Boychuk, 2; David Krejci, 2
Assists: Milan Lucic, 6; David Krejci, 5; 7 players with 1 assist
Points: David Krejci, 7; Milan Lucic, 6; Nathan Horton, 4
Maple Leafs
Goals: Phil Kessel, 2; Joffrey Lupul, 2; James van Riemsdyk, 2
Assists: Cody Franson, 2; 11 players with 1 assist
Points: James van Riemsdyk, 3; Cody Franson, 2; Jake Gardiner, 2; Phil Kessel, 2; Joffrey Lupul, 2
Projected starting goalies
Bruins: Tuukka Rask (3 games, 2-1-0, 2.36 GAA, .929 save percentage)
Maple Leafs: James Reimer (3 games, 1-2-0, 3.34 GAA, .915 save percentage)
Bruins: None
Maple Leafs: Mike Kostka (broken finger)
Stat of the day: The Bruins have won 70.6 percent of their defensive-zone faceoffs in the series, but in a sign of the Maple Leafs' improved puck possession as the series has progressed, Toronto has had more faceoffs in the Bruins' zone in each game (12 in Game 1, 22 in Game 2, 34 in Game 3).
Storylines: The Bruins go for a 3-1 series lead with another win in Toronto. … The Bruins' top line of Nathan Horton-David Krejci-Milan Lucic has dominated the Maple Leafs. They've combined for 17 points as Leafs coach Randy Carlyle has declined to use his top defensive pairing against them. … Faceoffs will be a point of emphasis after the Leafs complained to the series supervisor about the Bruins "cheating" on draws in Game 3. Boston won 45 of 75 draws Monday (60 percent). … The Bruins did a better job in drawing three penalties in Game 3 after having just nine seconds of power-play time in Game 2. … After holding Phil Kessel scoreless on one shot on goal in Game 1, he has two goals and nine shots on net in the last two games. … Eric Furlatt and Francois St. Laurent will be the referees. Scott Cherrey and Brian Murphy will be the linesmen.
Projected lineups
Milan Lucic-David Krejci-Nathan Horton
Brad Marchand-Patrice Bergeron-Tyler Seguin
Rich Peverley-Chris Kelly-Jaromir Jagr
Daniel Paille-Gregory Campbell-Shawn Thornton
Zdeno Chara-Dennis Seidenberg
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Wade Redden-Adam McQuaid
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Curious as to how New York's fundamentally corrupt political culture ac tually works? Look to Long Island — the land of the recession-proof teacher.
Gotham's eastern suburbs are providing an object lesson in how public-employee unions pick taxpayers' pockets — then instruct their political minions to hide the evidence.
Long Island pols, recall, were among the loudest whiners when Gov. Paterson called for mid-year cuts in state education aid to close New York's $3.2 billion budget deficit.
No surprise there: Receiving $2.6 billion a year, Nassau and Suffolk school districts are major consumers of Albany cash.
The pols, led by Democratic Sen. Craig Johnson, further argued that any cuts in state aid would only cause localities to raise property taxes to make up the difference.
But that's sophistry.
Local school districts can choose to impose economies of their own to balance their budgets. They can seek to postpone scheduled teacher raises, for example — and they can lay off teachers if the unions balk.
Harsh, but quite legal.
And necessary, it would seem.
A recent survey of teacher contracts on the Island underscores the point. Despite near-stagnant private-sector wages, contracts negotiated during the recession tended to hike wages by better than 2 percent a year.
The Floral Park-Bellerose district, which Johnson represents, awarded raises of 3 to 3.5 percent per year for three years.
And even those numbers don't tell the whole story: Thanks to seniority-based pay grades in the contracts, all but the most senior teachers throughout the island get automatic additional raises of up to 2 percent a year.
Fat city for teachers, in other words — but not so much for the folks actually paying the bills. Sen. Johnson is hoping the latter won't notice.
He called the contracts "a local decision" — doubtless shaking in his shoes at the prospect of angering the unions.
Problem is, state cash can't paper over this kind of lavishness for much longer.
Next year's state budget gap is projected at $8 billion — and any ensuing education cuts would make the teacher-contract/local-tax-hike nexus plain to already hard-hit locals.
Fed-up Long Island taxpayers tossed Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi out on his ear last month.
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You've probably seen Sunny Leone in a porn film. You've definitely seen her in the reality show Bigg Boss 5, now get ready to see her in a B-horror flick.
Ekta Kapoor has signed the adult film star for her spooky thriller Ragini MMS 2 - sequel to Ragini MMS.
Internationally, B-horror films are a genre by themselves and akin to works of art. They scare the audience to death and at the same time; have them coming back for more. A good horror movie actress is sexy and talented enough to keep the audience's attention and Ekta feels there's no one better than Sunny for her sequel.
An insider says, "Sunny has become the 'most sexy' actress in India today. Ekta and her production team feel she fits the role completely.
The original film revolved around the video footage of a girl named Ragini and was loosely inspired from the real story of a girl from Delhi. The sequel too is inspired by a real-life story. The scale of the sequel is much bigger than the first one and will be much scarier and it will be full of sex and sensuality."
Ekta confirms, "Yes, we have signed Sunny for the sequel. We wanted to take it to a higher level. It's a scary date movie meant for youngsters. Sunny represents sensuality at its peak, so for us she's the perfect choice."
The shooting of the film will begin after Sunny finishes shooting for Jism 2.
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B-movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. B-movies display a high degree of craft and aesthetic ingenuity; and usually have exploitationstyle content.
The subject is usually science-fiction or horror and they became more popular in the 1950s. The run-time of these films is usually 90 minutes or less. B-films are often ignored by critics and often inspire multiple sequels.
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Feasibility of Regional-Scale Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR): Scientific Uncertainties
By Carl R. Goodwin
The concept of pumping water underground during times of excess supply and recovering the same water later to supplement supplies is attractive as a water management tool. In fact, aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is functioning well in many localized areas throughout the country. The application of this concept on a regional scale is a logical next step and is being proposed as a key component of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan.
In areas of potential regional-scale ASR application such as south Florida, there are several significant scientific uncertainties that must be addressed to help assure that societal expenditures on such ventures are scientifically well founded and are afforded the greatest chance of success. Scientific uncertainties span a variety of disciplines, including hydrogeology, geochemistry, and microbiology. Uncertainties can be framed as questions whose answers are presently either unknown, only known in a very general way, or expected to be within a very large range of possibilities. Some examples are:
This presentation addresses and expands upon these scientific uncertainties, using schematics and animation sequences to better explain the concepts.
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As you may recall, my second attempt at the CSE (orals) is coming up and I've been studying like a mad man. I've compiled various study notes from numerous places and combined that with some very useful flash cards. Overall, I'm feeling even more prepared than last time. I even shelled out $40 for a hotel room just to make it easier to arrive on time. One of the things I did to help me study was transfer the study notes to a website so I could check it whenever and wherever I was. Unfortunately, it wasn't as practical for me as I hoped. I'd much rather stick to the actual flash cards and read the practice questions on paper than on screen. But that's not the end of it. While this endeavor wasn't as helpful to me, it doesn't make the information any less valid.
That's why I'm planning to keep Sharkitecture.NET up and running. A lot of the study material that's out there is either too expensive or too worthless to help anyone, but my new site is free and has been vetted for usefulness. I plan to add more as it becomes available or update information for clarity and accuracy and then venture into architectural related news. In the mean time, feel free to check it out and let me know what you think. And yes, the site layout may seem a little familiar, but that will likely change after my exam.
The California Architects Board (CAB) regulates the practice of architecture in California. In order to obtain a license to practice architecture in California, a candidate must pass not only the national examination but also the California Supplemental Examination (CSE), which is an oral examination. The CSE assesses minimally competent architectural knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for practice specifically in California.
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CSE? I see by the sharkitecture site that you must be an architect, but I am not familiar with CSE in that context. Good luck on the upcoming exams.
The California Supplemental Exam (CSE) is the final step in becoming a licensed architect in California. After taking nine (9) different written exams, I must sit in front of (3) commissioners and successfully answer about 30 questions orally.
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Along with many others, I am a self-confessed "political junkie" so sometimes during the weekend I watch many of the political talk shows. While channel surfing a while back, I accidentally happened upon a show that speaks to another interest of mine: technology. The name of the show is called "Press Here." The show always has interesting insights into technology as well as the latest happenings. This weekend I learned something fascinating. The highly touted Apple retail stores that Steve Jobs pioneered are the most successful enterprise in terms of retail sales relative to the space they occupy. The show today had a guest on who revealed the key to the "secret sauce:" emotions! In his estimation, it's critical that the customer make an emotional connection to the product whether they purchase something or not. The whole store is geared around making sure this happens down to the finest detail like making sure that all of the open laptops are not sitting at the stereotypic 90 degree angles but open just slightly wider. Why? Well, for one thing the hardware looks nicer that way but the real reason is that it forces the consumer to touch the product in order to adjust it. In the world according to Jobs, touching the product is the first necessary, essential step to making a purchase. However, whether you spend money or not, Apple wants you to do 2 things: feel good about your shopping experience & interact with the products. Also because employees are not paid on commission they are focused on addressing real customer needs so if someone comes prepared to spend three thousand dollars on a laptop but if their "geniuses [known as customer service to the rest of us] discover that they only want a system for light usage, they will suggest a much cheaper product because the customer will more likely feel better about their shopping experience.
Other Stores Are Catching Up
After seeing how well this all worked for Apple, other stores are now modeling their shops in the same ways. After all, as the saying goes, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" & in business if you are smart, you don't waste time & money "re-creating the wheel!" Now one would think the model wouldn't apply to all kinds of products. Not true. Although my strategy wasn't nearly as well conceived as Apple's, I used to live a "double life" indulging my passion-Italian wine & cheese which I sold on the weekends. I had a reputation for moving a lot of product but never because I strong-armed a customer but in retrospect, I see that I very much enabled them to make emotional connections to the products by sampling & helping them see how a given item could be applied to their specific need. It was a combination of sensory satisfaction [because of the quality of the product] as well as emotional connection. For anyone in retail, this really IS the "secret sauce!"


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My head is spinning. Really.
According to this article by Paul Thurrot, "Microsoft is creating seven versions of Vista for end users (nine if you count the N Editions that will target European markets). To differentiate these products, the company is carefully matching feature sets to the expected markets that will adopt each product version.
Two low-end versions of the product, Vista Starter Edition and Vista Home Basic Edition, won't feature the much-vaunted Aero UI that will adorn all the other Vista versions. Instead, these versions will use a lower-quality, XP-like UI that's more appropriate for the low-end hardware that infrequent PC users and emerging markets might use. Vista Starter and Vista Home Basic will also lack the rolodex, tab previews, and task bar preview features that other Vista editions will offer."
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When it became clear that the country was entering a protracted period of economic decline in 2007, traditional and non-traditional aged students alike flocked to nearby community colleges to undertake degree and certificate programs. Some sought to learn new skills in the hopes of retaining their current jobs, while others, laid off from companies tightening their belts, were in search of a completely new set of skills to make themselves more marketable.
As bad as the Great Recession was for many sectors of the economy, it was a boon for community colleges. From 2007 to 2011, the number of students enrolled at community colleges nationwide soared by almost 25 percent. Community colleges benefitted more from the recession than their four-year counterparts for several reasons. First, community colleges are far more cost efficient than four-year colleges and universities, with costs for tuition and fees just a fraction of those at their four-year counterparts. Second, community colleges typically offer more practical and vocational courses that can help students find employment in fast-growing sectors such as information technology and health care. These programs generally take two years or less to complete, therefore students can enter the workforce relatively quickly. Finally, community college is an attractive option for adults who have to work around family schedules and their occupations, because many community colleges offer evening, weekend, and online course options. Thus, when the employment outlook is poor, people can quickly reinvent themselves by obtaining a community college education.
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Nearly 50 million Americans suffer from knee pain. Painful knees can affect people of all ages, and the causes are many including knee joint injuries, inactivity and osteoarthritis, as well as the wear and tear of aging. But there are several things anyone can do to keep knees pain free and avoid knee replacement surgery.
The knees are key to mobility. From the time we learn to walk and run, they're under stress. The knee joint is a complex arrangement of ligaments, muscles and bone, and as we move and age, those structures are vulnerable to stresses, injuries and even poor diet. Here are five ways to ease knee pain – and keep your knees pain free.
Take a Walk
Humans were designed to walk on two legs. Especially if you're sedentary, taking a walk can help keep knees strong and flexible. Keep your walks easy and pace yourself. If walking isn't a part of your routine, ease into it and save hi8gh intensity fitness walking for later. Consider a hiking pole or fitness poles for stability. Walking can also be a good warm-up for knee exercises.
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The gentle sustained stretches of yoga can ease knee pain and restore flexibility. If you're new to yoga or very stiff, yoga props such as straps and blocks can help you get into the flow. Yoga has been used by injured athletes to speed recovery and by pool with joint and autoimmune disorders to maintain flexibility.
Do Sitting Exercises
Many of us spend too much time sitting, and that leads to knee stiffness as well as weakness in the core, glutes and back muscles – all of which play a role in stability and easing stress on the knees. Sitting exercises such as raising the legs and hips can increase knee joint flexibility and reduce pain.
Cycle or Spin
Cycling, whether on a stationary bike or taking a ride around the neighborhood, is a low impact way to keep the knees pain free and flexible. It places less stress on vulnerable joints than high impact activates like ruining, and also strengthens hips, back and the abdominal core to improve overall stability.
Change Your Diet
Knee health is a part of overall health, and adding vitamins and nutrients to your diet can also help reduce knee pain. Anti-inflammatory foods like salmon, eggs and olive oil can help painful knees, and so can adding more Vitamin E and C in the form of food or supplements. Calcium and Vitamin D also contribute to healthy, pain free knees, so consider adding generous amounts of low fat dairy products such as yogurt and cheese.
Knee pain doesn't have to be a part of life. Diet, exercise and regular activity can help anyone keep knees healthy and pain free – and avoid knee surgery.
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Vitamin E: Deficiency and its Treatment and Toxicity
There is no clearly known deficiency disorder of vitamin E. But there is also no doubt that humans need tocopherol or vitamin E in his diet. The deficiency of vitamin E is seen only after resection of small intestine and in prolonged malabsorptive diseases, like celiac disease. There is also a very rare familial form of vitamin E deficiency disease, which is due to defect in alpha-tocopherol transport protein.
Children may develop vitamin E deficiency due to prolonged cholestasis (stasis of bile) or cystic fibrosis of long duration and this is characterized by hemolytic anemia and areflexia. If children suffer from abetalipoproteinemia, they develop vitamin E deficiency very rapidly as they can not absorb or transport vitamin E.
Symptoms of Vitamin E Deficiency:
Vitamin E deficiency causes degeneration of large myelinated axons. Peripheral neuropathy is also a major sign which is characterized by at first areflexia that progresses to ataxic gait and decrease in position and vibration sensation. Pigmented retinopathy, ophthalmoplegia and skeletal myopathy are some other symptoms of vitamin E deficiency. Deficiency of vitamin E increases virulence of viral infection due to increase in viral mutation.
Diagnosis of Vitamin E Deficiency:
Laboratory diagnosis of vitamin E deficiency is done by measuring the blood levels of ? tocopherols. Vitamin E deficiency is if the level of ? tocopherol is less than 5µgm/ml or ? tocopherol is less than 0.8 mg per gram of total lipids. Read more…
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Sources, Daily Requirement and Functions of Vitamin E
Vitamin E is the name of a group of closely related compounds that occurs in nature as fat soluble compounds called "tocopherols" and "tocotrienols". Out of all the tocopherols, the alpha tocopherol is the most active and potent.
Sources of Vitamin E:
Vitamin E is widely distributed in nature, both in plant sources as well as animal sources. The rich plant sources of vitamin E are vegetable oils (tocopherols are present in sunflower oil, cotton seed oil, safflower oil, wheat germ oil etc. and gamma tocotrienols are present in corn oil and Soya bean oil etc.), nuts, cereals and foods that are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. Fruits and vegetables contain small amount of vitamin E. Rich animal source of vitamin D includes meat, egg (mainly egg yolk), butter, milk etc.
Daily Requirement of Vitamin E:
Daily recommended dose of vitamin E or RDA (recommended daily allowance) is dependent on the amount of essential fatty acids we consume. The more essential fatty acid consumption the more is the requirement of vitamin E. But the requirement is about 0.8mg/gram of essential fatty acid consumption. RDA is 15 mg/ day and the requirement is higher if more polyunsaturated fat is consumed.
Functions of vitamin E:
Vitamin E acts as a chain breaking antioxidant and is efficient in removing the chemicals that protects low density lipoproteins (LDLs) and polyunsaturated fats in membranes from oxidation. Other antioxidants like vitamin C helps to keep vitamin E in remaining reduced state. Vitamin E also inhibits synthesis of prostaglandins. Vitamin E is essential for optimal skin health.
Other Advantages of Vitamin E:
There are many other advantages of vitamin E, but these advantages can not be proved strongly. Vitamin E at high dose may prevent retrolental fibroplasia (opacity of cornea in premature infants due to administration of pure 100% oxygen after delivery or birth), bronchopulmonary dysplasia and intraventricular hemorrhage of premature infants. Vitamin E is supposed to have aphrodisiac effect. Vitamin E is also used in treatment of slowing aging process and intermittent claudication. High doses (60–800 mg/d) of vitamin E have been shown to improve immune function and to reduce colds in nursing home residents. When vitamin E is combined with other antioxidants, it can prevent macular degeneration of eye.
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, said on his Wiki list that he's looking for inspiration on buying copyrights to put them in the public domain:
I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of generating free replacements for, works that could in theory be purchased and freed.
Dream big. Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you like to see purchased and released under a free license?
Apparently he's been asked by someone who has the cash to spend and wants to help the community. I initially saw this via /., but have also seen it reported by BoingBoing.
There's a fierce debate currently going on at /., with more than a few ideas being bantered around. I'm sure this is exactly the kind of open convo that Wales was hoping to spark. If nothing else, at least Wikipedia's getting some good blogosphere press.


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Approval for 15 new projects in Interreg 2 Seas programme
At a meeting in Arras on 12/13 July the Monitoring Committee of the Interreg 2 Seas programme decided to approve 15 of the 28 projects submitted in the Second Call for Proposals. The decision means European funds totalling € 46 million become available for investment in the 2 Seas programme area.
The EU 2 Seas programme finances partnership projects between the coastal regions of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium and France. The programme offers support to crossborder partnerships in the area of technological and social innovation, low carbon technologies, climate issues and green growth. Organisations from the Dutch provinces of Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland, Noord-Brabant and Zeeland can participate in the 2 Seas programme. The Ministry of Economic Affairs coordinates and supports this programme in the framework of its top sector policy, with the objective of promoting the development of innovation projects in the border area that are in keeping with social developments in the European Union.
Zuid-Holland involvement
Three lead partners in Zuid-Holland made successful bids for the projects 3D&FPP (Hogeschool Rotterdam), SPONGE2020 (water board Hoogheemraadschap Schieland and Krimpenerwaard) and BIOBOOST (Westland municipality). Parties from Zuid-Holland are also represented in projects PACE and MET-CERTIFIED. That adds up to European subsidies of € 6.5 million for organisations based in Zuid-Holland Province.


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BMW to Return to Le Mans in 2018 With LMGTE-Class Effort
Automaker also partners with Andretti Formula E team
BMW has announced that it is reorganizing its auto racing efforts under one umbrella called BMW Group Motorsport. The racing structure will now include the activities of the Mini and "i" brands, and motorsports development will work toward the goals laid out in BMW's "Strategy Number One > Next" plan, which calls for cutting-edge technology. The brand also announced it will be returning to Le Mans in 2018. BMW last fielded a works effort at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2011.
BMW says the realignment makes its racing efforts "even more broadly positioned" and allows BMW Motorsport to focus on more key target groups. BMW is committing to GT racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, touring car racing in DTM, electric open-wheel racing in the FIA Formula E Championship, and off-road rally competition with Mini in the Dakar Rally. The automaker will also continue to offer support to customers racing in GT3 and GT4.
BMW specifically calls out Le Mans when it mentions the World Endurance Championship, and that's important considering the brand has been absent from the high-profile endurance race for five years. However, don't expect BMW to follow up its winning V12 LMR program and go for overall glory in the LMP1 class. In 2018, BMW will field a LMGTE effort to compete with the Ferraris, Corvettes, and Porsches that currently dominate the class. BMW currently races the M6 GTLM in the IMSA WeatherTech series, and also has the M6 GT3 and M4 GT4 for those respective classes. At the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, a BMW M3 GT2 finished third in the LMGTE class.
Additionally, BMW says the focus on production-based racing will be "further intensified," which likely means BMW won't race a hydrogen-powered prototype, as was previously rumored, anytime soon.
For its Formula E campaign, BMW is partnering with the Andretti Formula E team for the 2018/2019 season. The partnership includes engineering collaboration and the sharing of resources. BMW will also provide works driver António Félix da Costa for two seasons. BMW is the latest automaker to join Formula E, following Jaguar, Audi, and Faraday Future.


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TechAndComputer (Apr. 19, 2012) It turns out that all of those bad reviews of new computers, shoes, toys and other products at Amazon and other websites with consumer reviews have more impact than just helping shoppers decide if they'll buy the newest smartphone.
Bad reviews affect the stock price of the companies making those products, causing negative returns of as much as 8 percent, which could accumulate and spiral if the negative reviews aren't addressed, said Gerard J. Tellis, the Jerry and Nancy Neely Chair in American Enterprise and a professor of marketing, management and organization at the USC Marshall School of Business. The risk of negative chatter peaks about four days after it is posted online.
Tellis and former doctoral candidate Seshadri Tirunillai (now an assistant professor at the University of Houston) are publishing their study in the academic journal Marketing Science on how online chatter -- or user-generated content -- can predict stock market returns a few days ahead of time.
They beat the S&P 500 index by 8 percent in a hypothetical investment strategy by buying stocks on positive chatter and short-selling them on negative chatter. The Internet may be a black hole of many opinions, but those opinions can matter when it comes to reviewing products.
"The chatter on the Web is not cheap talk, it's valuable talk," Tellis said in an interview.
Negative reviews affected stock prices and trading volume the most, the study found. Negative chatter could erode about $1.4 million from the average market capitalization in the short term and $3.3 million over the 15 days following the chatter.
Negative opinions may have more of an impact than positive opinions for several reasons, the study found, including that positive information may be suspect, negatives may have more informative content than positives and losses loom larger than gains.
The study looked at 15 brands across six markets from June 2005 to January 2010: personal computing, cellular phones, personal digital assistants or smartphones, footwear, toys and data storage. A total of 347,628 consumer reviews and product ratings from the most popular websites for such reviews -- Amazon.com, Epinions.com, and Yahoo Shopping -- were studied.
Instead of just passively seeking information online, product reviews allow consumers to actively share their experiences, extending the typical word-of-mouth that helps sell things. An estimated 95.3 million people wrote online chatter in 2010, and 131.4 million people read the reviews.
Along with the investing opportunities, the study's results are important for product managers to gauge the performance of their brands and products through hourly and daily chatter, far ahead of infrequent sales and earnings reports.
Things can be done to combat negative chatter. A 1 percent increase in advertising expenditures increases chatter by .1 percent and decreases negative chatter by .19 percent, the study found. New product announcements have a positive impact on chatter on digital products such as cell phones and computers that online consumers are more responsive to, but not so much for toys and footwear.
Whether it's a faulty iPhone antenna, service problems at Dell or a guitar being broken by United Airlines, if a company's first reaction is denial, it likely won't help a stock price gain value.
"Denying is the bad way to go," Tellis said. "Admission, apology and correcting it are the best way to go."
The voice of the masses is loud and clear online, especially in what they say about what they consume.
"If it was uninformed talk it would not be leading the stock market," Tellis said.
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- S. Tirunillai, G. J. Tellis. Does Chatter Really Matter? Dynamics of User-Generated Content and Stock Performance. Marketing Science, 2012; 31 (2): 198 DOI: 10.1287/mksc.1110.0682
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The following is compiled from police reports from the Towson and Cockeysville precincts. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible.
Four men robbed a Parkville man at gunpoint at a bus stop in the 6800 block of Loch Raven Boulevard on June 30, a police report states. The incident occurred at about 2:15 a.m. during which the four robbers stole the man's cellphone, forced the victim to ingest some unknown white pills and then fled in a white van, the report said.
Taylor Avenue, 800 block, 10:30 p.m. July 2. Two men, one armed with a handgun, robbed Liquor Mart of cash, liquor and cigarettes.
Seth Court, 700 block, between 8:30 p.m. June 24 and 6 a.m. June 25. Black glove and medications reported stolen from unlocked 2013 Nissan Frontier parked in driveway.
West Timonium Road, 100 block, 10:45 p.m. July 5. Sunoco store robbed at gunpoint of cash and cigarettes.
Falls Road, 12000 block, 8:02 a.m. July 3. Electronic equipment and lawn equipment stolen from unlocked garage and vehicles on Grass Cutters Inc. property.
Burleigh Road, 1300 block, between 11 p.m. June 29 and 9 a.m. June 30. Lawn mowing equipment stolen from driveway.
York Road, 1700 block, between midnight and 11:59 p.m. June 16. Cash stolen from ATM using stolen bank card seven times.


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Sequim Valley Airport – ORBX – review (4*)
Sequim Valley Airport for ORBX FTX Pacific Northwest. A nice small airport by ORBX. It's not perfect but it's strong points make up for little flaws.
Pros and cons
What I like in Sequim Valley Airport?
- autogen (!!!)
- photoscenery around the airport
- buildings and caravan
- static planes
- people at the airport
- small objects (quality)
- detailed textures
- 3d grass and bushes
What I do not like in W28?
- low-resolution textures
- airport photoscenery
- mesh around the airport
- small objects (quantity and distribution)
- airport night lighting (no runway lights?)
What can be improved?
- small mistakes
- 3d grass placement
Sequim Valley Airport (W28)
Sequim Valley Airport is a small airport located on Olympic Peninsula 4 miles outside Sequim, WA. Created in early eighties it serves the local community and tourists visiting the scenic Olympic Mountains – just a few miles south from airport.
Technically there are two runways – asphalt and grass but judging from the photos – the asphalt one is mostly used. Both runways run parallel from east to west. Both are 3500ft long. Grass runway crosses two paved taxiways connecting apron to the asphalt runway.
Runways at W28 use southern patter – right patterns for 27 and left patterns for 09.
There is a warning about deer on and in vicinity of airport.
Grand View International Airport (WN23)
Yes, I wrote "International Airport". I really appreciate someone's sense of humor. This is a 1700ft long turf runway located just 1500ft to the north of Sequim Airport. Plus a single hangar, owner's house, a trailer with some barrels and a barbecue grill (I am not sure if the last to elements exist in the real world but it's possible).
What to fly and where?
With more then 500 airports Washington state is a general aviation pilot dream. Coincidentally the airport is also called the pilots dream thanks to it's "sunny location and excellent approach conditions". Additionaly there is a 24/7 self service gas station (100LL fuel only).
SkyVector shows the following traffic statistics. Annual GA Local Operations: 2500, Annual GA Itinerant Operations: 5500, Annual Military Operations: 50. About the last – I saw photos of army Black Hawks landing in Sequim.
After browsing through airport's photo albums I can say that single engine piston planes are in majority. There are also some twins and occasionally turboprops. Jets are extremely rare – I think there was only a single photo showing a business-jet parked on this airport.
If you need some inspiration – take a small plane (a Cub or a 172) for a scenic flight into Olympic Mountains or along Olympic Peninsula coastline. Other ORBX airports for the states of Washington and Oregon make great destinations.
For more inspiration and information about the airport – visit it's website.
ORBX W28 Sequim Valley Airport
Sequim Valley is the first airport designed by Jordan Gough. It covers Sequim Valley airport and a small area around it (including WN23 airstrip less then a mile north from W28). The scenery also covers nearby Olympic Mountains with a 1m/px photoscenery.
The product requires FTX Pacific Northwest scenery to be installed (read FTX PNW 5-star review here). It should work fine without FTX PNW but some elements may be missing.
ORBX product page for W28 Sequim Valley Airport redirects to FlightSimStore where W28 can be purchased for 14,95 Australian Dollars. That is about 10 Euro or 11USD (September 2015 rates). It makes Sequim one of the cheapest ORBX airports.
ORBX wrapper requires product key, order number and order date to launch the installer. Apart from this – installation was fully automated. You do not have to worry about placing W28 in Scenery Library – ORBX Central will take care of that once you activate Northern America.
Run a config tool from FTX Central to turn on or off the following features:
- high 3d grass
- static aircraft
- animated people
- animated animals
- clutter
- vehicles
- animated balloon
- grass at WN23
- clutter at WN23
If you encounter performance problems – turning off some of this effects may help.
2015-style ORBX manual. Much prettier than earlier manuals. Contentwise – not much different. It contains:
- product information,
- configurator manual,
- FSX setup suggestions;
- credits and copyrights.
First impressions (4****)
When I saw the airport for the first time I had conflicting feelings about it.
There is a gas station close to where planes are parkeg. It it extraordinary! The resolution of signs and information panels is superb – I could easily read AVGAS. Even 100LL in small lettering is visible and sharp. Price of $5.74 is not much different from current prices ($5.95).
A different impression was made by the ground where the aircraft is parked. It has a color and texture of a dirty, stained carpet owned by someone who has no taste at all.
Airport photoscenery (3***)
Green grass patches are mixed with sandy-yellow ground color. That's ok. But there are also unfortunate pinkish, purple-ish and green-ish (vibrant!) stains that look like high ISO noise that was not removed or masked in the photo. It may be a chromatic aberration between two colors on the photo. Without getting too deep into technical details – it is something that should be corrected. It does not matter when looked from an altitude of 1000ft, but seen from the ground – it's awful.
Beside the colors of grass at airport – using photoscenery for the airport grounds is not the best idea at all. 30cm (per pixel) is a nice resolution everywhere around the airport. It looks nice on approach and when aircraft departs. But may be not enough when viewed from a taxiing plane – and I did a lot of taxiing on the grass. The turf runway has no texture beside the 30cm photoscenery – it should! I do not like to take off this runway – that is why I nearly always chose the paved one.
Photoscenery – elsewhere (5*****)
Once I took-off my opinion about the photoscenery changed drastically. 30cm/px image resolution close to the airport is well chosen. 60cm/px images further form the airport also make a great impression (I flown at 1000ft or higher).
There is also a photoscenery covering Olympic Mountains above the tree-line. The resolution of 1m/px makes it nice if you fly 1000ft above or higher but strangely – it's not that bad when you get closer (that surprises me – usually 1m/px looks bad from 400-500ft).
Airport (4*****)
It's a small one. It's easy to list all the buildings at W28 – two hangars, shed, small office building and owner's house. That's all… at the airport. WN23 has two more buildings and there is a detailed farm close to the airport – another two or three buildings plus two combine-harvesters.
I did not have great expectations. At about half the usual ORBX price I did not expect the quality and details of $30 scenery. But the impression is good. Building models have enough details to be viewed from a taxiing plane. Texture resolution is low compared to other ORBX sceneries I have, but it is almost the same as the market average. This means that if you park your plane just next to the hangar – it will look blurred. Choose a spot on the grass (beside other aircraft) and your view will be much better. You can also taxi to the smaller hangar – it's resolution is much higher.
There is a nice gas station next to the larger (higher) hangar. Excellent details and texturing! The only problem with this gas station is… that it disappears in winter. There's just a gray polygon on the ground left.
The scenery includes seven static planes at the airport. I like it when there are planes in the scenery so I do not have to use AI Traffic. Apart from a strange looking low-poly Trislander – these static planes look very nice.
Small objects and people (5*****)
Let's go for a walk. We will start by the owner's house. Usually I look at it from my plane (100m / 300ft away) so the lack of detailed windows or door does not matter. What can be distinguished from this distance is modeled nicely – a balcony and a deck with barbecue grill. A man is reading his newspaper on the deck. He is calm, but from time to time he rises his head to look – like he was watching a bird on a tree in front of him.
There is also a pick up truck, some crates and a fence in front of the house. A trailer stands next to the truck. It's the same model (with the same barrels) that I found at the "International Airport" (WN23). I don't mint cloned objects – it's a good idea to re-use this model to add more clutter to the scene. As I move towards the airport I find the third trailer – this time without barrels (the plates match – N592W). Still – good idea to place it behind the office building.
The office building is a first place where the varied level of details can be seen a a problem. The building itself lacks high resolution textures. Wooden walls are far from sharp and the windows are full of compression artifacts (that should have been cleaned). On the other hand – there are all the small objects that make up for building's imperfections. Budget (car rental company) dropbox is modeled. A information above it states that you need to "Fill out contract folder" and "Drop keys and folder thru mail slot".
There is a warning panel located next to the office building – most of the texts are sharp and readable – that is a level of details that I can only wish for. It's perfect. I would not mind if some of this texts were unreadable.
Generally speaking – all panels and texts in this scenery are outstanding! Check out this panels at the end of the runway and by the taxiways – they could not be better.
There is more. The place around the airport office is the best part of the scenery. A caravan stands on the left. There is a parking lot on a right – wooden logs mark it's edges. A couple is sitting at the table – they are animated too. Do not expect complicated animated scenes – moves are basic and delicate. Just a turn of a head or a slight movement of hands – but it's enough to put live into people.
Moving further east – in direction of hangar – I see a gas station. Once again – a marvelous model and textures. Too bad that the hangar next to it is covered in low-res images. A something is placed next to the gas station. I have no idea what is it… a black object… it could be a cat sitting on a small wall. But I am not sure. From the side it looses cat's shape.
Another couple (by their looks – the same as before) sits on a crate next to the hangar. A giant pixelated (and awful) cockroach lurks behind them on the hangar wall. Did I say that the hangar texture resolution is too low? I can not say what the thing on a wall is – but it looks scary.
Three other things worth mentioning – there is a large stone next to the taxiway. A portable toilet is located at the end of the eastern hangar and there are beautifully designed runway and taxiway lights. Unfortunately – the number of small objects decreases in the eastern part of the airport.
In terms of small objects this airport is slightly above the market average. It's clear that the designer has potential to create something great next time. In here… it was a move in a right direction… but he stopped before he reached the goal. When compared with a real world photos (or just a common sense) – this airport lacks many small objects that could have easily been placed here – even simple crates, warning cones, a chair or a ladder next to the eastern hangar would make it perfect. Instead – it's just good.
Mesh (2**)
I do not see any examples of a good mesh. The only place where the mesh is visible at or around the airport is where the ground suddenly rises a feet or two in some distance around the airport (actually quite close to the eastern end of the runway). It does not look good.
3d grass (4****)
Good – generally. Perfect – in places. Missing – often.
I like how it looks at WN23 runway – dense and realistic. On the other hand – there is no grass on W28 grass runway… Grass grows only around the paved runway and on apron. There is also no grass around WN23 runway and apron – that looks strange – I thought that grass should be more visible around the runway and trimmed on it…
Buildings and vegetation – autogen (6*****)
It's good. No – it's perfect. Extraordinary. Good job Jordan!
You have probably already noticed tree lane leading to the airport. What a marvelous thing. But it's not the only place where trees look so good. Everywhere around the airport trees are matching the photo-background.
There is this place right beside the approach to runway 27 where the trees grow dangerously close to aircraft flight path. For a moment I fought that it's a common scenery bug – trees on approach – someone have not thought it over or never checked… but then I looked at the Google Maps and there is something growing in the exactly same spot. So I went to airport's navigation warnings – "60 ft Trees 830 ft from runway, 40 ft right of center". Spot on! Just think of it – 40ft right of center. The runway is 40ft wide. These trees grow just 20 feet (6 meters) right from the extended runway… scary.
Buildings are equally well placed. I even noticed that they were placed at the same angle to the road as the real buildings. It makes flying at low altitude a pleasure.
Night lighting (2**)
Runway and taxiway lights are broken… Sorry – this is a serious bug (confirmed – other users have the same problem, even some reviews mention it).
Performance – very good
I did not see any adverse effect on my frame rates.
Summary (rating – 4****)
Considering it's price level – it's a good scenery. It has several strong points and some flaws – apart from the night lighting bug – all flaws I mentioned are something that you can expect in a cheaper scenery. On the other hand – in some ways this scenery reached the level of products that I consider perfect. That is why I can recommend it to you. It's a good addition to Pacific Northwest area scenery and a nice place to fly to. I'm looking forward to the next scenery published by this developer.
Quality to value ratio – very good
10 Euro is a small price for a scenery. At this price it's a very good choice.
Product page – W28 Sequim Valley Airport
Add-ons visible on my screenshots:
- P-51 Mustang – A2A
- Piper Cub – A2A
- Cessna 337 – Carenado
- Phenom 300 – Carenado
- Beechcraft Duke – RealAir
- Sky and clouds – REX 4 Texture Direct
- Clouds – REX Soft Clouds


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From the innovative makers of the original Buckyballs comes an elegant new desktop ornament: the LIBERTY BALLS. Now available in Canada from Magnet Montreal, this fun desk gadget is the perfect corporate gift! It comes as a set of 8 nickel-plated ferrite magnets on a wooden desktop base (of approx. 9cm x 9cm x 2.5cm). The LIBERTY BALLS are safe to use as they are quite big (33mm diameter). LED Montreal offers you a choice of 2 appealing colors: black and multicolored (use the drop down menu to choose your preferred color). Shape them in various ways, they're great for taking a few minutes to zone out and relieve stress at the office!
The LIBERTY BALLS were brought to life as part of the "United We Ball" campaign, an initiative put in place to support Craig Zucker's legal battle against those who threw his former company (Buckyballs) out of business. Many judge overzealous the treatment Zucker is receiving from the US government, claiming the lawsuits and regulations imposed on him were unfair and that the customers were duly warned of the potential risks of injury (if ingested). After all, Buckyballs were not sold as toys. You can now show your support by ordering a few of these amusing magnetic desk gadgets!
Do not ingest!
Choking hazard – small ball.
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Sky Deutschland has announced it will launch Sky Q in Germany and Austria from next month.
The service will be made available to customers free of charge via a software update to the Ultra-HD-capable Sky+ Pro receiver overnight. Sky Q will also be available for all existing customers who do not yet own a Sky+ Pro receiver as well as new customers.
The Sky Q app will also be available on Apple TV (4th generation) and Samsung Smart TVs (2015 and above models).
Sky Deutschland has also announced that from this summer it will launch Sky Soundbox, the multi-room IP box. Sky Q Mini and Voice Control will also be introduced. Following its launch in the UK, Netflix will also be integrated into Sky Q in Germany, Austria and Italy.
Sky Deutschland is also planning to relaunch its content packages and pricing structure to coincide with the Sky Q launch.


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I clearly remember September 2008 when the HTC G1 debuted in partnership with Google and T-Mobile. Google's first usable Android-driven handset arrived some fifteen months after the iPhone had gone on sale in June 2007 and tech die-hards were startled that it didn't incorporate the pinch-zoom gesture.
Android would be deployed across lots more handsets before eventually implementing not only pinch-zooming, but other familiar iPhone features as well. There was an unconfirmed rumor at the time that Google removed multitouch gestures from initial Android builds at Apple's request.
In all honesty, the notion seemed a bit crazy. Why would Google take the iPhone head on and yet cave in to Apple's demands? According to a new 272-page book titled Dogfight: How Apple And Google Went To War And Started a Revolution by Fred Vogelstein, Apple's then CEO Steve Jobs imposed that choice on Google's Android head Andy Rubin by sheer willpower…
Jobs thought Rubin was a "big, arrogant f**k," according to a Dogfight excerpt spotted by Jay Yarow of BusinessInsider. The book also shatters some common misconceptions about Apple, Google, the iPhone and Android.
The Internet giant started work on Android after snapping up Andy Rubin's startup for about $50 million back in 2005. At that particular point in time, Apple was already developing the iPhone project, Google's then CEO Eric Schmidt still had a seat on Apple's board of directors and Jobs had trust in Google's cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Despite Apple going to great lengths to keep the project shrouded in secrecy, people in the industry were aware that Apple was attempting to build a cell phone.
Ethan Beard, an early Android business development executive told the book author:
We knew that Apple was going to announce a phone.
Everyone knew that.
We just didn't think it would be that good.
When Steve Jobs took the MacWorld Expo stage to deliver his legendary January 2007 iPhone introduction, Rubin was driving in a Las Vegas cab watching the keynote unfold.
He made the driver pull over so he could see the whole thing. He said, "Holy crap, I guess we're not going to launch that phone."
Indeed, here's what an early Android handset prototype looked like pre-iPhone.
"What we had looked so … nineties," an Android engineer told Vogelstein.
He was referring to the software Google was ready to launch a few months after the iPhone hit the market. Seeing what it's up against, Google then rebooted Android by starting from scratch and eventually released the G1 in September 2008.
By that time, the iPhone had already been fifteen months on the market.
After seeing the G1 and new Android build, Jobs went berserk:
"Everything is a f**king rip off of what we're doing," Jobs said of Android.
The mercurial CEO insisted Google make a bunch of changes:
There was a meeting with Jobs, Scott Forstall, who designed the iPhone's software, and Google's Larry Page, Alan Eustace, and Rubin. Vogelstein cautions that it was hard to know exactly what happened in the meeting, but says that it was confrontational and nasty.
"It got incredibly personal," says one Apple executive who was briefed by Jobs on the meeting. "Jobs said that Rubin was steamed, telling him his position was anti-innovation.
And this is where Steve was demeaning to Andy, saying Andy was trying to be like him, look like him, have the same haircut, the same glasses, the same style."
Interestingly enough, Rubin himself was described as being a tyrant with Google employees, abrasive and difficult to work with. Anyway, as a result of the meeting Google had agreed to drop multitouch features like pinch zooming.
Steve Jobs demonstrates pinch-zooming at the January 2007 iPhone introduction.
The company also changed the Android phone unlock feature and Jobs even told Google how to take things out of Android. Rubin went through the roof over the concessions his bosses were willing to make in order to avoid Jobs's wrath.
Bottom line: after a few Android iterations, Google felt confident enough to add Apple's iPhone features like the pinch zoom gesture, prompting the iPhone maker to go thermonuclear on Android by launching proxy legal fights against prominent Android backers like HTC, Motorola and Samsung.
As for Rubin, he eventually stepped down as Android's lead in March 2013.
One juicy gossip has it that Rubin was forced to quit, allegedly because current CEO and co-founder Larry Page saw him as a threat because his influence was growing exponentially on booming Android device activations.
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The fifty-five miles from Campbell to San Francisco is one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero Serra Freeway, a grand and remarkably empty highway that abuts the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Known as 280 to locals, it is one of the best places in Silicon Valley to spot a start-up tycoon speed-testing his Ferrari and one of the worst places for cell phone reception. For Andy Grignon in his Porsche Carrera, therefore, it was the perfect place for him to be alone with his thoughts early on January 8, 2007.
This wasn't Grignon's typical route to work. He was a senior engineer at Apple in Cupertino, the town just west of Campbell. His morning drive typically covered seven miles and took exactly fifteen minutes. But today was different. He was going to watch his boss, Steve Jobs, make history at the Macworld trade show in San Francisco. Apple fans had for years begged Jobs to put a cell phone inside their iPods so they could stop carrying two devices in their pockets. Jobs was about to fulfill that wish. Grignon and some colleagues would spend the night at a nearby hotel, and at 10:00 a.m. the following day they—along with the rest of the world—would watch Jobs unveil the first iPhone.
Getting invited to one of Jobs's famous product announcements was supposed to be a great honor. It anointed you as a player. Only a few dozen Apple employees, including top executives, got an invite. The rest of the spots were reserved for Apple's board of directors, CEOs of partners—such as Eric Schmidt of Google and Stan Sigman at AT&T—and journalists from around the world. Grignon got an invite because he was the senior engineer for all the radios in the iPhone. This is a big job. Cell phones do innumerable useful things for us today, but at their most basic they are fancy two-way radios. Grignon was in charge of the equipment that allowed the phone to be a phone. If the phone didn't make calls, connect with Bluetooth headsets, or connect to Wi-Fi setups, Grignon had to answer for it. As one of the iPhone's earliest engineers, he'd dedicated two and a half years of his life—often seven days a week—to the project. Few deserved to be there more than he did.
But as Grignon drove north, he didn't feel excited. He felt terrified. Most onstage product demonstrations in Silicon Valley are canned. The thinking goes, why let bad Internet or cell phone connections ruin an otherwise good presentation? Jobs's presentations were live, however. It was one of the things that made his shows so captivating. But for those in the background, such as Grignon, few parts of the job caused more stress. Grignon couldn't remember the last time a Jobs show of this magnitude had gone sideways. Part of what made Steve Jobs such a legend was that noticeable product-demo glitches almost never happened. But Grignon found it hard to recall the last time Jobs was so unprepared going into a show.
Grignon had been part of the iPhone launch-preparation team at Apple and later at the presentation site in San Francisco's Moscone Center. But he had rarely seen Jobs make it all the way through his ninety-minute show without a glitch. Jobs had been rehearsing for five days, yet even on the last day of rehearsals the iPhone was still randomly dropping calls, losing the Internet connection, freezing, or just shutting down.
"At first it was just really cool to be at rehearsals at all—kind of like a cred badge. 'Fuck yeah, I get to hang out with Steve,'" Grignon said. Like everything else that surrounded Jobs, the preparations were as secret as a U.S. missile attack on Afghanistan. Those who were truly in felt as if they were at the center of the universe. From Thursday through the end of the following week, Apple completely took over Moscone. Backstage it built an eight-by-eight-foot electronics lab to house and test the iPhones. Next to that it built a greenroom with a sofa for Jobs. Then it posted more than a dozen security guards twenty-four hours a day in front of those rooms and at doors throughout the building. No one got in or out without having his or her ID electronically checked and compared with a master list that Jobs had personally approved. More security checkpoints needed to be cleared once visitors got inside. The auditorium where Jobs was rehearsing was off-limits to all but a small group of executives. Jobs was so obsessed with leaks that he tried to have all the contractors Apple had hired for the announcement—from people manning booths and doing demos to those responsible for lighting and sound—sleep in the building the night before his presentation. Aides talked him out of it.
"It quickly got really uncomfortable," Grignon said. "Very rarely did I see him become completely unglued. It happened. But mostly he just looked at you and very directly said in a very loud and stern voice, 'You are fucking up my company,' or, 'If we fail, it will be because of you.' He was just very intense. And you would always feel an inch tall [when he was done chewing you out]." Grignon said that you would always ask yourself two questions during one of these lectures: "'Is it my shit that broke this time?' and 'Is it the nth time it broke or the first time?'—because that actually mattered. The nth time would frustrate him, but by then he might have figured out a way around it. But if it was the first time, it added a whole new level of instability to the program." Grignon, like everyone else at rehearsals, knew that if those glitches showed up during the real presentation, Jobs would not be blaming himself for the problems, he would come after people like Grignon. "It felt like we'd gone through the demo a hundred times and that each time something went wrong," Grignon said. "It wasn't a good feeling."
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The iPhone didn't work right for a good reason; it wasn't close to being finished. Jobs was showing off a prototype. He just didn't want the public to know that. But the list of things that still needed to be done before the iPhone could be sold was enormous. A production line had yet to be set up. Only about a hundred iPhones even existed, all of them of varying degrees of quality. Some had noticeable gaps between the screen and the plastic edge, others had scuff marks on the screen. Thus no one in the public was allowed to touch an iPhone after Jobs unveiled it, despite a day of press briefings and a whole exhibit set up for them in the convention center. The worry was that even the best prototypes wouldn't stand close scrutiny, Grignon said. They'd look fine at a distance and for Jobs's demo, but if you held one in your hand, "You would laugh and say, 'Wow, this thing really looks unfinished.'"
The phone's software was in even worse shape. A big chunk of the previous four months had been consumed figuring out why the iPhone's processor and its cell radio wouldn't reliably communicate. This huge problem was akin to a car with an engine that occasionally doesn't respond to the accelerator, or wheels that occasionally don't respond to the brake pedal. "It almost brought the iPhone program to a halt," Grignon said. "We had never seen a problem this complicated." This was ordinarily not a problem for phone makers, but Apple's obsession with secrecy had kept Samsung, the manufacturer of the phone's processor, and Infineon, the maker of the phone's cell radio, from working together until Apple, in desperation, flew teams of engineers from each company to Cupertino to help fix the problem.
Jobs rarely backed himself into corners like this. He was well-known as a master taskmaster, seeming to always know just how hard he could push his staff so that they delivered the impossible. But he always had a backup, a Plan B, that he could go to if his timetable was off. Six months prior he'd shown off Apple's upcoming operating system, Leopard. But that was after letting the date for the final unveiling slip.
But Jobs had no choice but to show off the iPhone. He had given this opening keynote at every Macworld since he'd returned as Apple's CEO in 1997, and because he gave public presentations only once or twice a year, he had conditioned Apple fans to expect big things from them. He'd introduced iTunes here, the iMac that looked like a fancy desk lamp, the Safari web browser, the Mac mini, and the iPod shuffle.
It wasn't just his own company that Jobs had to worry about disappointing this time. AT&T was expecting Jobs to unveil the iPhone at Macworld too. In exchange for being the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in the United States, AT&T had given Jobs total control of the design, manufacture, and marketing of the iPhone. It had never done anything like this before. If Jobs didn't launch on time, AT&T could back out of its deal. It's not hard to explain that a product called the iPhone that couldn't make calls would sell poorly. Days before, Jobs had flown to Las Vegas to give AT&T's top mobile executives a limited demo of the iPhone. But they were expecting a full show at Macworld.
Lastly, the iPhone was truly the only cool new thing Apple was working on. The iPhone had been such an all-encompassing project at Apple that this time there was no backup plan. "It was Apple TV or the iPhone," Grignon said. "And if he had gone to Macworld with just Apple TV [an experimental product back then], the world would have said, 'What the hell was that?'"
Dogfight is available on the iBookstore for $12.99.
I just bought the book the other day, but haven't had the time to read it through yet. When I do, I'll be making sure to blog here about any relevant and previously unknown details which led to the creation of the iPhone and Android.


text: SIS Switzerland School Locations SIS Rotkreuz-Zug Education Levels Primary School Our students, bilingual education and a healthy performance-based approach are central to teaching and learning at SIS.At our bilingual Primary School, teaching is based on the curriculum of the canton of Zug. This curriculum is supplemented by elements of international educational practice as well as by pedagogical standards developed by SIS. By attending our Primary School, children are ideally prepared for the transition into our Secondary School. Students can transfer from and into the public school system at any time. Bilingual InstructionEach of our primary school classes has two teachers: one is a native speaker of German, the other a native speaker of English. The development of language skills in German and English is of paramount importance at this level, which is why we have developed our own bilingual reading and writing curricula. Furthermore, subjects such as mathematics or humanities are taught in both languages, ensuring that our students acquire a broad vocabulary. Additionally, French is taught as a foreign language from grade 5.Diverse TeachingOur fully qualified teachers are conscious of the importance of catering to varied learning styles. Each class is equipped with an interactive board with students currently refining their knowledge of working with tablets to enrich their learning.Further ActivitiesAnnually we incorporate our month-long reading challenge, book week, project week, assemblies, camps, sports carnival and charity run as well as student council initiatives to enrich school life. With the support of our parent association's initiatives, the school community stretches well beyond student-teacher relationships. Benchmarking TestsFrom grade 3 onwards, our students sit national and international benchmarking tests, in which they regularly achieve very good results.Transition to SIS SecondaryStudents of our Primary School who have a corresponding grade point average may change without examination to our bilingual Secondary School. Day School StructureLessons take place from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., and school days are divided into regular intervals with time for learning, play and relaxation. We also offer after school homework supervision from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. children can choose from our varied selection of clubs or use this time to read, play, cultivate friendships, or relax.


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The Mercy Corps Finance Department is responsible for all financial functions in Nairobi, Lodwar, Marsabit,Wajir, Garissa and Isiolo doing among others the following functions: accounting, payments and banking, payroll, budgeting, financial reporting, and grant financial management and compliance. The Mercy Corps Finance Department ensures compliance with donor regulations as well as Mercy Corps' internal policies and procedures. In its role as a support to the Program Department, the Finance Department provides timely reports and assistance to the Country Director and the Program team to ensure that financial resources are used efficiently and effectively.
Job Description
Working in the Finance Department under the direction of the Grants and Finance Coordinator, the Finance Assistant will assist in the processing and recording of payment transactions in timely and accurate manner to support the program team activities.
Essential Responsibilities
Financial Management
- Supports field connection transaction entry with the assigned batch.
- Prepare cash payment vouchers and ensure that all cash transactions are fully ad properly documents.
- Assist gathering transaction documents required for donor reporting.
- Assist compilation of the monthly intercompany vouchers and assist with preparations of documents for month end package.
- Assist with audit related requirements (timely documents retrieval, filing after audit completion, proving additional assistance as necessary).
- Assist with scanning, copying, printing, and uploading of financial documents on relevant folders.
- Ensure quality control of financial documents for completeness and proper referencing before archiving.
- Maintain petty cash and perform daily, weekly and monthly cash counts together with Finance and Grants Coordinator
- Ensure all finance documents are properly labelled, filed and stored in a clear and easily accessible manner following Field Finance Manual
- Submission of all original vatable invoices to Nairobi for VAT claim on timely basis for VAT claim
- Responsible for cash and bank vouchers filing, statutory audit reports and other financial documents filing and maintenance of filing system (Hard copy and electronic) according to MC Procedures; manage finance archives and ensure monthly update of the Finance archiving index
- Any other duty as may be assigned
Grants Management
- Assist with follow up for sub award compliance issues and audits and document resolutions.
- Ensure proper organization of sub award files.
- Assist in sub award site audits and prepare site visits reports.
Organisational Learning
As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.
Accountability to Beneficiaries
- Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
- Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues.
Supervisory Responsibility
- Reports Directly To: Grants and Finance Coordinator
- Works Directly With: County Coordinators, Program Managers, Country Finance/Grants Teams, Program Teams, Implementing Partners.
Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills
- A diploma or degree in accounting or relevant business field.
- Minimum CPA II or other relevant accounting qualification.
- At least one year experience in accounting, bookkeeping or cashiering, including experience with double-entry accounting preferably in an international NGO.
- Familiarity with computerized, double-entry accounting software.
- Strong computer skills in MS Office programs, particularly Excel
- Accuracy in the processing of cash transactions, mathematical aptitude, and attention to detail.
- Excellent oral and written English skills.
Success Factors
A successful Finance Assistant will be a strong team player, with good communication and interpersonal skills. S/he will have knowledge on the application of best practices in basic financial management and knowledge of financial management software. S/he will be flexible, thorough have the ability to pay attention to details, proactively solve problems, follow procedures, meet deadlines, and work independently and cooperatively with team members and above all of high integrity.
Ongoing Learning
In support of our belief that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities we serve, we empower all team members to dedicate 5% of their time to learning activities that further their personal and/or professional growth and development
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world's most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact. We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.
Safeguarding & Ethics
Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC and have signed on to the Interagency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct elearning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.
How To ApplyInterested and qualified? Go to Mercy Corps on recruiting2.ultipro.com to apply