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Adobe Merges Business Units Serving PCs, MobileBy Reuters - Print
Adobe restructures after some long-time executives retire.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc (ADBE.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it was putting under one roof businesses selling software for computers, phones and consumer electronics to make them run on a single technology platform.
The announcement is part of a series of management restructuring moves Adobe is making following the planned retirement of two long-time executives, effective May 1. A spokeswoman said no employee job losses would result.
The move represents the further consolidation of its 2005 Macromedia acquisition with the broader Adobe organization while also recognizing the growing convergence of once-distinct software and the need for it to run across a range of devices.
The merging of the different business units may appear on its face to be simply an organizational restructuring, where the Mobile and Devices Business Unit will be folded under Adobe's Experience and Technology group.
But the changes also are part of Adobe's effort to create a unified technical underpinning for software that serves everyone from Japanese phone users to YouTube watchers.
Adobe said its mobile and devices business unit is joining the experience and technology group led by Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch, a former Macromedia executive.
Gary Kovacs, vice president of product management and marketing for the mobile and devices unit, has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the business unit and will report to Lynch from May 1.
Kovacs takes over for Senior Vice President Al Ramadan, who is leaving Adobe effective April 30, after nearly 10 years with Adobe and, before that, Macromedia. Kovacs was previously vice president of product marketing at Macromedia.
Separately, the company said 16-year Adobe and Macromedia veteran David Mendels, senior vice president of its Business Productivity Business Unit, would leave at the month's end. The division is best known for its Adobe Acrobat document management software.
Mendels will be replaced May 1 by Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president of corporate development, who joined the company last year from EMC Corp (EMC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and, before that, Documentum.
Paul Weiskopf, Adobe's vice president of strategy, mergers and acquisitions and investments, will succeed Tarkoff.
Weiskopf joined Adobe in 2005, where he worked with senior management on long-term investment strategies and played a key role in the acquisitions of Macromedia, Scene 7 and Virtual Ubiquity. Previously he was a corporate strategist at Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N: Quote, Profile, Research).
Shares of Adobe closed 5 cents lower at $36.92 in regular session trading on Nasdaq ahead of the news. Following the announcement, the shares traded up 21 cents at $37.14. (Editing by Braden Reddall)
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Introduction to SCA Combat
Salutations, and en guarde!
In the SCA there are several combat forms. Heavy combat, Light combat (Archery), Period Fencing (Rapier), Seige Warfare and Equestrian.
The Kingdom Marshals page contains all the rules and forms relating to SCA combat forms. Please read the rules before making your armour. If you wish to come along to a fighters practice to see what its about, and if you want to have a try, please bring your own groin protection (e.g. cricket or martial arts 'box') and a water bottle.
Fighters Practice is where the combatants of Darton practice their art.
Contact the Marshal for details about Darton heavy fighter and rapier practices.
The Role of the Darton Marshal is to be responsible for promoting combat, of all types, in Darton. They may have deputies who promote some of these forms. As part of the Marshal's report to the Moot at Darton Anniversary, they will give an account of the state of the Darton Militia.
The Darton Champion is selected by a Heavy Combat Tournament held each year at Darton Anniversary. Originally the role of Champion was open to any who wished to enter the tournament, but in A.S. XXXX, reflecting on the growing strength of the Shire, it was felt appropriate to restrict the role of Darton Champion to locals only.
Past Darton Champions include:
A.S LII- To be contested in August
A.S XLVIII-XLI- Master Bernard Stirling
A.S XLVII- Lord Ulrich von Mannheim
A.S XLIV- Lord Ulrich von Mannheim
A.S XL-XLIII Baron Sir Asbjorn Pedersen
A.S. XXXIX Sir Inigo Missaglia?
A.S. XXXVII-XXXVIII Sir Ulf de Wilton
A.S. XXXVI Baron Callum McLeod
A.S. XXXIV Sir Vitale Giustiniani
Combat Resources
Coat of Plates Pattern <broken link> A pattern for building a coat of plates, with Word, CAD and WMF versions.
Armour Archive A site with discussion boards, patterns for making armour, and essays on armouring.
Butted Mail A guide for making mail armour, including patterns for coifs and hauberks, and excellent advice on tailoring mail to fit.
The Arador Armour Library A site with discussion forums, essays on armouring and galleries of period and reconstructed armour.
Heavy Combat Advice
No Shield to Hide Behind A guide to fighting with two-handed weapons.
Legio Draconis This site has a variety of articles on diverse topics, including: health and fitness, melee and tournament combat, and advice on Roman costume.
The Way of the Warrior <link removed> Another site with links to a number of articles on SCA combat.
Lochac Fighters List A page for all Lochac fighters to discuss fighting whether it be heavy, light or fencing, tournament or war, the philosophy, skills and tactics thereof. To discuss the future and past and build a better fighting fraternity in Lochac.
Military Science
De Re Militari Homepage of the Society for Medieval Military History. The site has many links to primary and secondary sources.
The military institutions of the Romans An e-text of the 1767 translation of the "Epitoma Rei Militaris" by Vegetius, the most important European manual on the art of war in the middle ages.
MyArmoury.com A site with discussion forums, picture galleries, and many feature articles on swords and sword collecting.
The Oakeshott Institute has a useful article on the metallurgical study of armour and weapons.
War Unit Combat
The Pentamere Free Company This site has several articles on leadership in SCA combat.
SCA-War A discussion list devoted to an exchange of information and experience regarding war tactics and strategy (and related subjects) as practiced by the SCA.
Military logistics is the art and science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of military forces. This page provides links to information about travelling to events in Lochac, and to merchants who sell equipment that can be used in SCA martial arts activities.
Merchants of War
Living History New Zealand Manufacturers of munitions grade armour, knives, and metal weapons for re-enactment and display purposes.
The Ring Lord An online store in Canada that claims to be the world's largest supplier of in stock chainmail supplies.
Icefalcon Armoury An online store of medium-high quality SCA armour. As supplies permit, they have some armour built using aircraft aluminium.
Waldryk's Arms & Armour An online store with frequent updates to its in stock page.
Windrose Armoury An online store, which is now the supplier of the injection moulded rubber thrusting tips that were made by Mandrake Armoury. They also do custom armour. Our unofficial policy for including links to Merchants is that someone in the Shire of Darton should recommend them for inclusion here after having had business dealings with them.
War Fighting with the Darton Militia
Darton has a long history of participating as a unit in War Scenarios while away from home. We have livery, and a bit of a reputation for boosting smaller sides, where we are not fighting for the King.
Membership of the Darton Militia is open to all authorised combatants residing within the borders of Darton.
The militia uniform is per pale or and sable (Gold and black divided vertically.) A badge of a gold hunting horn may also be worn. All combatants intending to take the field with the Darton Militia are encouraged to wear the badge and/or the livery in a garment of their choice.
The Darton Militia originated as a simple name for a group of fighters from the Shire of Darton who chose to fight together when at events. The Darton Militia was named as such at least as early as A.S. XXXVIII (2004 C.E.), after the Shire was renamed Darton in the August of that year. In the Shire's petition, to Their Majesties Alaricus and Kissa of the Kingdom of Caid, for cipient recognition of the Shire, it was noted that the Shire had "raised a levy of fighters."
Notable Deeds of the Militia
Willim de Bredon of Darchester was the first fighter from Darton to authorise, at Canterbury Faire in A.S. XXXIV (although the written record of this, alas, has not come down to us), while Master Bernard Stirling was the first fighter to authorise in Darton, at Darton Anniversary in A.S. XXXV.
At St. Catherine's Faire in November A.S. XXXVIII the Darton Militia did successfully contest in a melee tournament for possession of a "Relic of the Cross". At Canterbury Faire the following February, the Darton Militia defended the Relic of the Cross, but was defeated by the Fighters of the Barony of Southron Gaard. Travelling to these lands from the East Kingdom, the engineer Oskar der drachen auf Klagenfurt, did settle in the northern marches of Darton (now known as Transalpine Darton), and there he constructed that marvel of the world, a wheeled ballista. At Canterbury Faire in A.S. XXXX, the Darton Militia did side with the Barony of Ildhafn, and this aid was instrumental in the victory of Ildhafn's forces over the Barony of Southron Gaard.
Travelling to War
Advice for travelling to Canterbury Faire.
Advice for travelling to Rowany Festival.
Advice for travelling to Pennsic.
War Scenarios
by Lord Miles Warde of Darton.
Army of Darkness
Divide the combatants into two teams. One team should outnumber the other by 10:1. The smallest team are the Zombies, the larger team are the Humans. Zombies may not run during the scenario, even when 'dead'. Zombies may resurrect from a predetermined point on the battlefield. When a Human is killed they join the Zombie team and resurrect. (Note: the Humans cannot win this scenario.)
Divide the combatants into three teams. This scenario requires at least 15 combatants.
Using haybales, build a ship in the middle of the war field. The ship should comfortably fit all of a team, and provide reasonable cover against archers. Along one side of the ship, mark out the edge of the ocean. Combatants who step into the ocean 'drown' instantly. If the combatants include non-contact combatants, such as Archers, a 'lifeboat' should be placed for them in the ocean so that they can escape from melees.
One team (the ship's crew) defends the shipwreck. Place suitable tokens inside the ship to represent the cargo (preferably something that can be safely carried). The other two teams are rivals, both attempting to loot the ship's cargo. At the end of any desired time limit, the team with the bulk of the cargo wins. This scenario can be played with or without resurrections.
Viking Battles
This three part scenario is inspired by Paddy Griffith's The Viking Art of War.
The Archer's Duel
For a pre-determined period of time, combatants may not come within 5 metres of each other. The goal of the scenario is for the archers to kill as many of the opposing side as possible, while the heavy combatants try and stay alive.
At the end of the time limit, all 'dead' fighters return to life for part two.
Shield Walls
Nominate a resurrection point for each side. If a combatant was killed in part one, they can resurrect once. If a combatant was not killed in part one, they can resurrect twice. Fight an open field battle until only one side remains.
A Heavy only scenario. As the battle continues, the shields break and splinter, until eventually they are discarded. All heavy combatants with suitable hand protection must discard their shields. Heavy combatants without suitable hand protection are requested to take up the smallest available shields. Fight an open field battle until only one side remains.
Piggy in the Middle
This scenario requires four or more teams. One team ('the piggy') starts with twice as many combatants as the other teams ('the wolves'), which are of equal size. For example, if you have 30 combatants, then piggy has ten combatants, and the four wolf teams have five combatants each.
The piggy team takes the center of the field. The wolf teams then start on the edge of the field, each team in a different place.
The winning team is the last team standing. Note that members of different wolf teams can kill each other at any time.

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The Greenleaf Inn & Admirals Quarters
Welcome to Boothbay Harbor and Midcoast Maine
Comprised of both The Greenleaf Inn and The Admiral's Quarters, these beautifully picturesque and historic buildings run together as one, yet are only separated by the much admired (and coveted!) parking area. The Inns, both built in the early 1800's as sea captain's homes, set the standard for Maine Bed & Breakfasts as well as the larger inns, resorts and hotels. Perched upon a knoll at the edge of the waterfront in downtown Boothbay Harbor. The Inn boast an extraordinary oceanfront location with panoramic views of the inner harbor, outer harbor and beyond. Whether it is lobster boats, schooners, harbor seals, sunrises, sunsets or the smell of the salty sea air, you will find these pure Midcoast Maine surroundings at The Inns at Greenleaf Lane.
At our Inn you will find meticulous attention to detail from the manicured lawns and pristine gardens, to the immaculately clean and superbly appointed rooms complete with freshly ironed premium linens. Enjoy the amazing views from your own private deck, the Adirondacks on the front lawn, or many of our common balconies overlooking the water. Then wake up in the morning and join us for a fresh gourmet breakfast, made with love and seasonal Maine Ingredients.
Amenities at The Greenleaf Inn Bed & Breakfast
- Ocean Views from every room
- Air Conditioning in every room
- Free Wi-Fi internet on entire property
- E-mail & high-speed Internet station in Our Library and parlor
- Private Fireplaces in every room
- Flat Screen TV's & DVD's
- Spacious living room with fieldstone wood burning fireplace
- Two wonderful sunrooms and porches
- Library with books, games & computer
- Spacious private bathrooms
- Variety of gathering places (private decks, living room deck, spacious grounds, sunny breakfast area, wrap around porch, spacious living room, sunroom)
- With the "Bed" comes the "Breakfast" and here at the Inns at Greenleaf Lane, we know how to do breakfast! We serve a full, gourmet breakfast each morning in the spacious Greenleaf Inn. Intimate private tables and outdoor café tables gaze out unto the water. Start your day off with your choice of coffee (or tea) from our Keurig system. The buffet, consisting of Fresh-squeezed Orange Juice, freshly baked danish & muffins, assorted breads with a variety of jams and spreads. Fresh Local Cheese, our Greenleaf Cereal Blend and more fresh items made daily. After enjoying all the buffet has to offer, we wil start you off with Fresh Fruit, Homemade Granola, and our greek Yogurt, followed by your sumptuous breakfast. Could it be a Wild Maine Blueberry stuffed French Toast with Lemon Curd and Blueberry Compote or perhaps, a Mushroom-crusted Quiche? Whatever is served, it will be the best Boothbay Harbor has to offer!
- Midcoast Coastal Maine Locale-hiking nature trails, swimming beaches and coves, boating trips to the islands, bird watching, sailing, visiting museums, galleries, antiques shops, and crafts shops, and more.


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Carol Strobridge, artist and homemaker, living in Springfield for 27 years
"We came for the schools initially. The commute to the Pentagon is very convenient. I like the art guilds in Alexandria and Springfield. The swim club was nice. Folks are decent out here. There hasn't been a radical change. It's very stable."
Connor Stang, high school student, living in Springfield 14 years
"There's no shortage of things to do. There are lots of places to hang out with friends. The high school is good and close and the neighborhoods are nice. [It's nice] to go to Burke Lake or bike around. There are lots of places to do outdoor things. Everything's close."
Suzie Eichhorn, college student, living in the same house in Springfield for 19 years
"It's close enough that you have easy access to city life, but it still has that feel of community. It's family oriented. It's close enough that in any direction you can find something to do. [I recommend] visiting as many places as you can, but remember that you'll always have a comfy place to come home to."
Kim Gregg, mother, living in Springfield for 48 years
"I grew up in Springfield. As far as raising a family, there are lots of opportunities for kids to participate in sports and theater. Although there's the quick trip to the Kennedy Center, there's stock theater [in the area]."
Dale Brogan, retired teacher, living in Springfield for 24 years
"I grew up in Alexandria and Arlington. I came [to the area] when I was 5. I came [to Springfield] for the school system, which is outstanding, when my son was 4. We're close to everything. We can get into Washington easily and the Metro's close by. With the weather, we rarely get extremes. We don't get droughts or floods. I personally like having four seasons. We're in a sort of hub. We're not that far from the ocean. We're close to Skyline Drive and the Appalachian Trail. You go in any direction for two or three hours, you'll find all kinds of things."


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Cadiz what to see: a trip in the most ancient Andalusian pearl!
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The floral embroidery in typical Andalusian style!
Like every years the arrival of summer puts me in a good mood! These days in Andalusia were absolutely breathtaking and the thing that most of all attracts me is the Andalusian vegetation so lush and rich in colorful flowers! I often take inspiration from my travels in choosing clothes and accessories I will wear in the next few months… Read more →
The story of my "Alice in Wonderland" bracelet!
My "Alice in Wonderland" VHS is gone. Literally consumed. When I was eight years old I spent whole days watching and watching that beautiful Disney VHS, with a pretty, blonde haired Alice, who unexpectedly made her way into a funny and disturbing but always fascinating world. With time passing I found out that his fabulous creator, Lewis Carroll, was a British… Read more →
An amazing sea just behind the corner: luxury Malta! (part 3.. Gozo and the north!)
As promised, here's the last part of the story about our trip on the beautiful island of Malta (and while I'm writing I'm looking for flights, it's the urge to return!!). For the second part of our trip, me and my beardy boy decided to move to the north of the island and stay at the wonderful Ramla Bay Resort, which I… Read more →
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As everyone could have seen coming, Brett Favre was the winner of the 2010 Sports Human Of The Year award. Karen F. Owen made it close, but Favre had 53.41 percent of the vote.
He did not throw away the award in the final seconds.
We congratulate Favre, who is certainly going to show up at Gawker Media offices to accept his award as soon as he has the opportunity.
Your past winners:
2006: Barbaro.
2007: Isiah Thomas.
2008: Baby Mangino.
2009: Tiger Woods.
2010: Brett Favre.
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Chester is a town in Windsor county, Vermont. It was formed in 1617 in England from the following county/ies: Flamstead, though the following competing claims for its origins are N.Y. 1647. The probate and court district for Chester is Windsor. For more information, contact the town at 556 Elm St., P.O. Box 370, Chester Depot 05143. On the attached map, Chester is shown as 23 in Windsor county.
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Land use change influences continental water cycle
Forests, and tropical forests in particular, play an important role in the global water cycle. Delft University of Technology PhD researcher Ruud van der Ent (TU Delft, The Netherlands) has recently shown that evaporation from the Amazon forest is for more than 50% responsible for the rainfall in Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil, where it feeds crops and rivers. Similarly in Africa, the Congo forest exports tons of water through the atmosphere to the West-African countries. Van der Ent also shows that land use changes such as irrigation, dams, and deforestation can alter evaporation patterns in a region, potentially affecting water resources in distant regions. With his research, Van der Ent has won the 2011 WMO (World Meteorological Organization) Research Award for Young Scientists.
Van der Ent won the WMO prize for his Water Resources Research paper 'Origin and fate of atmospheric moisture over continents', co-authored by Prof. Huub Savenije, Bettina Schaefli en Susan Steele-Dunne (all TU Delft). The paper shows that water falling as precipitation in one region may have originated in a distant region, or that it may be recycled moisture that originated as evaporation within the region. Global wind patterns, topography, and land cover all play a role in moisture recycling patterns and the distribution of global water resources. Land use changes such as irrigation, dams, and deforestation can alter evaporation patterns in a region, potentially affecting water resources in distant regions.
Many studies of moisture recycling have had a regional focus up until now. To provide a global perspective, van der Ent et al. created global maps showing the sources of atmospheric moisture for various regions. The researchers estimate that on average 40% of terrestrial precipitation originates from land evaporation, and 57% of all terrestrial evaporation returns as precipitation over land. They found that some regions rely on recycled water from within the region, while others get moisture from different regions. For instance, water evaporating from Eurasia is responsible for 80% of China's water resources, and the Rio de la Plata basin in South America gets 70% of its water from evaporation from the Amazon.
Related research by recent TU Delft PhD graduate Miriam Gerrits looked into the way forests evaporate their water to the atmosphere. Gerrits found that forest floors are for a large part responsible for evaporation in forests. Removal of forests will thus not only reduce the evaporation from the trees, but will also reduce the evaporation from the forest floor. The resulting local decrease of evaporation is very likely to have global consequences for rainfall, water resources and food security.
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The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday confirmed what we already knew: The U.S. faces a rising tide of red ink, with the national debt as a share of the economy projected to nearly double over the next 30 years — even without factoring in the likely extension of some tax cuts and spending increases.
In its annual report on the long-term budget outlook, the nonpartisan CBO projects that debt held by the public will rise from 78 percent of GDP now — the highest level since shortly after World War II — to 100 percent by the end of the next decade and 152 percent by 2048. "That amount would be the highest in the nation's history by far," the report says.
Other key details from CBO's outlook:
- By 2034, federal debt will reach record levels, surpassing the peak of 106 percent of GDP recorded in 1946.
- By 2048, interest on the debt would about equal spending on Social Security, the largest federal expenditure. Interest costs will also surpass all discretionary spending by then.
- The major drivers of rising debt remain Social Security and health care, primarily Medicare — programs that will see costs rise as the population ages — as well as increasing interest costs.
- Spending as a share of GDP is projected to grow from under 21 percent this year to 29.3 percent by 2048. Revenues, meanwhile, would rise more slowly, going from 16.6 percent of GDP this year to 19.8 percent in 2048.
- Given that widening imbalance, the annual deficit is projected to climb from 3.9 percent of GDP in 2018 to an average of 8.4 percent of GDP from 2039 to 2048.
- If lawmakers wanted to keep debt stable at its current share of the economy, they would have to cut spending and/or raise revenues by a total of 1.9 percent of GDP a year, or about $400 billion for 2019. That translates to a 10 percent cut in spending or an 11 percent increase in revenue, or some combination of those changes.
The report warns: "The amount of debt that is projected under the extended baseline would reduce national saving and income in the long term; increase the government's interest costs, putting more pressure on the rest of the budget; limit lawmakers' ability to respond to unforeseen events; and increase the likelihood of a fiscal crisis."
And remember – that's all without accounting for the additional tax cuts Republicans hope to enact or higher spending levels that Congress may keep in place. "If lawmakers changed current laws to maintain certain policies now in place, preventing a significant increase in individual income taxes in 2026, for example, the result would be even larger increases in debt," CBO says.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that, if the tax cuts and spending increases are extended, the debt will reach a new record by 2029, five years earlier than in CBO's baseline projection, and will hit 200 percent of GDP by 2048.


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Battlefield 3's Caspian Border, packed with vehicles and jets, is getting one last test before the open beta shuts down.
Developers DICE writes on the Battlelog blog that they're opening up the map this weekend to do some load testing using 64-player matches.
Do keep in mind that this is a beta and a stress test, so it is likely not going to be the smoothest online gaming you've participated in.
"As we are again specifically testing 64-player server configurations, this test will be for PC only. The Caspian Border servers will be available for all PC players to join. Caspian Border will be available starting Friday, October 7, in the afternoon (CET)," according to the blog post.
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Multi-Asset Insights: What are the implications of CSPP for corporate behaviour?
Multi-Asset Insights: What are the implications of CSPP for corporate behaviour?
The intention of any accommodative central bank intervention is to encourage more risk taking by economic agents.
Historically, central banks pursued countercyclical intervention during the steepest declines in productivity to stall a deep recession and spur a recovery phase. Today, central banks' action and accommodative policies have become second nature.
Of the G4 central banks - the Federal Reserve (Fed), Bank of Japan, ECB and (for now) the Bank of England – the ECB has been relatively muted in the use of its balance sheet for quantitative easing, and arguably the one market where asset prices have inflated the least.
CSPP – Background and progress so far
The Eurosystem started to buy non-financial corporate sector bonds under the CSPP on 8 June 2016, aiming for a more direct boost to inflation. All non-financial entities rated as investment grade (BBB and above) by at least one of the four rating agencies are eligible for purchases of up to 70% of outstanding issuance.
In the first 11 days of the programme the ECB bought €6.4 billion, representing almost 0.5% of the total eligible market size (source: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, based on Euro Non-Financials Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index, July 2016).
If continued at this pace, the CSPP would hold almost 25% of the eligible market by the planned end date of March 2017. The effect on the European corporate bond market has not gone unnoticed, as CSPP-eligible bonds have seen spread tightening of 7% greater than ineligible issues (source: Citi, 20 July 2016) .
Corporates' historical preferences
It remains unclear how European corporates will take advantage of lower funding costs and use the historically "cheap" funding effectively.
From a simplified perspective, corporations can choose to use their excess cash in one of three ways:
- Build a cash pile,
- Invest in capital expenditure (capex); or
- Return the cash to shareholders via dividends or share buy-backs.
Building cash to help weather uncertainty has merits but investors may have trouble seeing their cash sitting idle after too long. This either forces re-investment, or during uncertain times, a return of cash to shareholders.
For a number of reasons the preferred cash distribution method in the US has been share buy-backs with European corporates preferring dividends. There are a number of reasons for this, such as differing tax regulations, the fact that share buy-backs have been legal for almost twice as long in the US (34 vs 18 years), differing regulation on the extent to which buy-backs are allowed (25% vs 10% of market capitalisation) and the greater structural demand for income from European insurers and pension funds.
The case for enhanced return of shareholder capital
Numerous studies have been undertaken on the drivers of return of capital to investors. In particular, a recent study (Oxford Economics Research Briefing: Will ECB measures spur share buybacks?) cited depressed equity valuations, ample cash on balance sheets, reduced capex opportunities and, most importantly, cheap cost of debt as the key drivers of returning capital to investors.
As the cost of debt continues to fall and European capex spending moderates while cash piles grow, there is potential for increased cash distribution to shareholders.
The negative sentiment typically associated with dividend downgrades should dampen European corporates' appetite for increasing their dividend policies in an otherwise uncertain economic environment. Therefore, there is notable scope for a preference for debt-fuelled buybacks at depressed equity valuations.
Longer-term impacts
In the event that the CSPP becomes a more prominent vehicle in the context of the ECB's ongoing monetary stimulus, it will likely consume a significant portion of the eligible market.
This will further depress borrowing costs and increase the relative cost of equity capital. In the absence of capex opportunities, this may encourage corporates to return cash to shareholders with a preference for debt-fuelled buy-backs.
While this could provide a tailwind for such companies' equity performance, it will be accompanied a deterioration of credit fundamentals.
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I'm not sure where the spark came from, but sometime last week I set forth on a mission to create a meatball sub. I figured this would be laughably easy. From what I could tell, there were only four elements: meatballs, sauce, bun, and cheese. But most recipes waste well over 12 ingredients on meatballs alone, which put them out of the Dinner Tonight territory before I even began. My goal then became to make a tasty meatball sub in less than an hour using as few ingredients as possible. And I needed to make the meatballs from scratch. For help I consulted the Joy of Cooking, which cut down the meatball ingredients without compromising loads of flavor.
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- 4 ounces Parmesan, cut into chunks
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 1/2 pound ground beef
- 1/2 pound ground pork
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- Salt and pepper
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 28 ounces tomato sauce
- 6 Italian rolls
- 1/4 pound thinly sliced provolone
Toss the garlic, parsley, Parmesan, and onion into a food processor. Process until grated. Dump into a large bowl. Add the ground beef, ground pork, breadcrumbs, and the egg. Season with a few pinches of salt and pepper. Mix the ingredients together with your hands until evenly distributed.
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Say that five times fast.
Yesterday I ran out to pick up some books. A bunch of books. From two lines, all the new titles from each of the two lines. It's research, which any writer will understand. I'm figuring out what makes each of these titles appropriate for these lines. Then, I'm going to make sure what I'm submitting falls into the publishers' criteria for publishing. Just research. To make a long story short, I had a pile of books when I got to the cashier who was a young man. His brows lifted. He looked at me, then the books, then back at me. He smiled, and began to scan.
"Like to read, huh?"
"I do."
"Huh. Never got into that, really. Is this what you read? Romance stuff?"
"Uh huh." I reached for my wallet, swallowing a snort of laughter. "It is."
The guy began to bag the books. "Huh. Wonder who writes this stuff, anyway?" He glanced at the register, which had finally stopped beeping. "That'll be $**."
I handed him the cash, smiling. "I do."
You know, the kid was speechless when he handed me my change. I know it was mean, but I smiled, hefted my bag and walked away, wondering how to adequately describe the wonderful, glowing shade of red he'd turned.
Fire engine? Candly apple? Tongue swallowing crimson? Santa's bloomers scarlet?
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- Marianne Arkins said...
Oooh... Oooh... which line??? Email me offline if you want, because I just did THE SAME THING (minus embarrassing the clerk).
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WASHINGTON -- As Billy Wagner concluded his career with Atlanta in 2010, he was introduced to a hard-throwing young prospect named Craig Kimbrel, who at the time was referred to as the right-handed Billy Wagner.
Three years later, Wagner finds himself as just one of the many Braves fans who have enjoyed watching Kimbrel develop into one of the game's elite closers.
"He's doing so well," Wagner said. "He's going out and he knows what he's trying to do. He competes well and he holds himself with a heightened awareness. I told him it's like looking at myself in the mirror. I sit there and think, 'I wish I was that good.' He's fun to watch. He handles himself so well."
Wagner reconnected with Kimbrel and some of his other former Atlanta teammates when he visited the Braves' clubhouse before Tuesday night's game against the Nationals at Nationals Park. The former closer is the head baseball coach at the Miller School of Albemarle and enjoying the retirement life at his home in Crozet, Va.
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In a truly strange 'mystery noise' case out of Canada, a man has been tormented by a persistent humming sound for over a decade and it has seemingly followed him from one home to the next. The extraordinary story of Dana Negrey reportedly began back in 2008 when he noticed an odd sound that he likened to "locomotive diesel engine idling in the distance" which never stopped. Fortunately for him, there were others in his community who also heard the continuous hum and the search for the source became a brief media sensation that ultimately proved futile.
His experience with what has come to be called the 'Richmond hum' ended four years later when Negrey moved nearly 200 miles away to the city of Edmonton. However, much to his consternation, the beleaguered man's story soon took a maddening turn when he settled into his new home and, like a scene from a horror film, he heard the sound once more. Musing to himself, "oh no, here we go again," Negrey set out to solve the mystery of the hum once and for all.
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I am disgusted. Absolutely disgusted.
After 5 years of this game, I thought that I had seen the worst that WoW had to offer. I had seen the seamy underbelly, the lows that sometimes people go to in this game. But I was wrong. Never before had I seen such disgusting behavior as I saw last night. And the worst part of it? Apparently it was some of our own innocent efforts that brought this deplorable behavior to our front door!
Ok, I am probably losing people. Perhaps, I should back up a bit here and start my story from the beginning. Yes, I think I probably should do just that.
The Beginning
This all started a couple of weeks ago, I think. When we decided that we needed to replace a few folks on our roster and opened up recruitment. Not massive recruitment, just a few people to bolster our roster. A Holy Paladin and a couple ranged DPS. We were looking at adding maybe 3 or 4 people to our fairly healthy roster. We our roster was sitting at about 30 active people, and we prefer a little more wiggle room than that (especially during the summer months!), usually hosting 33-34 progression raiders. This helps us to make sure everyone gets ample raid time, but also gives us the leeway to have a handful of people out without being a detriment to our raids.
Once the decision was made to bolster the roster some, the usual recruiting posts went up. Our realm forums, EJ, and the WoW Recruitment forums. I made my usual cry to ask people to help me bump the recruitment threads, because they drop off the front page so quickly. Through our efforts, we received a number of applicants that we have been sorting through, interviewing; and we have offered out a couple of invites.
We are somewhat selective with our applicants, because it is important to us that someone is going to be a good fit for our guild, not just performance wise, but personality wise as well. As a result, it sometimes takes us awhile to finish our recruiting efforts. It's not because we aren't getting applicants, per se, it's largely because we don't always think the applicants that we do get will be a good fit for our guild.
All in all, we are a fairly healthy and very well established guild on our server. Sure, during holiday weekends and as summer kicks in, we have a raid here and there we are short handed, and we deal with it (hello "Been waiting a long time for this" with 23 people!). We try to mind our own business and meet the progression goals that we, as a guild, have set for ourselves. We might not be the fastest at getting things done, but I'll be damned if we don't get them done.
The Deplorable Act
Last night, Brade and I decided to largely take off. No alt runs, and maybe no WoW. I had stopped on the way home to pick up some steaks and corn on the cob for some summer grilling (and a very tasty dinner!). We popped onto WoW while the corn was soaking, and in the short period of time that we were on, Brade, on an alt, received a tell from a level 1 shaman named "Cnoctem" asking for an officer. As we were advertising an opening for an elemental shaman, we really thought nothing of it, and Brade asked if he could help him.
At this time, the shaman again said he wanted to speak with an officer, to which Brade indicated that he was an officer and happy to chat with him. And here is where it starts to get interesting. This shaman indicates that he is the guild master of a guild named Cárpe Noctem on the Sen'jin server and that they saw our recruitment post on the recruitment forums and figured we must be having attendance problems and he wanted to know if the officers would be interested in leaving our guild and bringing our top few players over to Sen'jin to join them.
Now, I wouldn't normally call someone, or an entire guild, out by name here on my blog. But the actions that are being taken disgust me so much that I feel justified in identifying those that are taking them.
Ok Mr. Cnoctem, let me see if I have got this right: You saw our recruitment post on the official forums (oh look 9/12 HM, they must be geared and have some skilled members?), and you thought it was an acceptable and honorable act to contact the leadership of a guild and ask them to cherry pick their top players and tear their guild apart and come and join you? Seriously? This doesn't bother you? Even just a little bit? And you would seriously want people who were OK with doing such as members of your guild?
Not only are you trying to poach players from another guild that aren't actively seeking to leave, and haven't applied to your guild, but you are actively seeking out guild leadership that would scoop up their top players and just abandon ship? Are you fucking kidding me? How is this even a sensible practice in your mind?!
And wait! It gets better! At this point, Brade identifies himself as the Guild Master. Indicates that we've been a guild on the Llane server for FIVE YEARS, and really have zero interest in leaving. That the foundations of our guild go back to EQ1, and that some of our players have been involved with gaming together for A DECADE! We indicated that we really weren't interested in his great "proposition". Not only that, but while we are a progression guild, our members generally tend to enjoy our guild for the environment that we provide and our flexibility.
What kills me about this, is that ALL of this information is in our recruitment post! It very clearly states our history as a guild. It states our goals and objectives, including our philosophy on progression. A philosophy that is discussed in depth with any new recruit, and we make sure that they are OK with it before extending an invite. And if this guy had actually read our recruitment post past 9/12 HM LFM, perhaps he would have thought twice about approaching us for his poaching attempts.
But that's not even the end of it. From what this guy had communicated to Brade, it seems that he has been trolling the official recruitment forums, not for individuals that are seeking a new guild, but for well progressed guilds that are looking for more people. It seems that he is using the assumption that these guilds are having attendance issues, and that he can entice people in their leadership away with their 11/12 HM progress. (Hi! If you are having trouble getting folks to show up for HM LK attempts, perhaps try engaging your guild in other ways?!).
So here are guilds, like mine, that are earnestly placing adverts on the guild recruitment forums, such as I did, and in addition to getting potential applicants we are becoming the target of poachers. And this behavior wasn't a one off, limited to just us, this guy indicated to Brade that if we weren't interested he was going to "talk to other guilds with the offer" and "search elsewhere".
So has it come to the point where posting your recruitment needs on the recruitment forums is more of a detriment than an asset?
I get that the combination of summer + expansion is hard. I really do, and no guild is immune from it. Look at the recruitment forums and you will see hundreds, if not thousands, of guilds looking to pick up a person here and there to battle the summer sun and cataclysmic burnout. Even we are looking to beef up a few to ensure that we have continued raid progress and meet our goals this expansion (HM Putricide at 13% that sucker is going down!).
But I'm sorry, this isn't the way to recruit. Leaving other guilds in a lurch just to try and prevent your progression stymie is flat out wrong.
If this is the kind of behavior guilds are turning to in order to fill their roster, I can't help but wonder if actually advertising that you are recruiting may potentially be causing more harm than good. I trust my guild mates. I try to stay in tune with them. I try to know what they are pleased with and what they are unhappy with. And I trust that if we aren't offering them what they need, they will tell us. I trust that if they feel they need to move on to get what they need from their gaming, they will let us know. But that doesn't mean that things like this don't worry me, and put up my radar. And I'll be damned if it doesn't make me protective of my guild. The guild that cost my blood and tears to build.
And you know what, Fuck You Cnoctem. Trying to poach leadership, or have guilds cherry pick their "top" members and then recruit them away is just flat out disgusting behavior and you should be ashamed to be partaking in it. To build a guild on the destruction of another is an awful practice. Guilds are built from the foundations up, and if you are building your foundations on greed and disloyalty, I think that says a lot about what kind of guild you are building.
When I was discussing this with another member of our guild, I learned that just a few days before he had been approached by a complete stranger trying to recruit him. This guy comes to him with a story of how their GM finished his Shadowmourne and then bailed on the guild and they are reforming, and looking for people that might be interested in joining them. Now…he happened to approach a member of our guild that was one of those EQ1 players that I was talking about earlier. A person that has been associated with this guild for 10 years. A person that I am 100% confident wouldn't be seeking or applying for a new guild. Boy did he pick the wrong person to try and recruit away.
But again, here it was. Someone openly trying to recruit people away from established guilds. I have to say that the poaching attempts absolutely disgust me.
Maybe it's because we have always very firmly believed that we will only recruit people actively seeking a guild. Unless you app, are unguilded, or have requested information regarding joining our guild, we aren't going to try to recruit you. We do not approach people who aren't looking for a guild and try and entice them away into ours. It's dishonest, it's dirty, and it's just downright deplorable.
Maybe it's because even when we have someone that applies from another guild and that we end up recruiting, I feel bad. Guilty about taking them, even though they sought us out, and applied indicating they were unhappy in their current home and seeking a new one. Maybe it's because I have standards and morals, even though "it's just a game".
Just when I thought I'd seen the lowest of the low…
I always knew that poaching members from other guilds occurred, even if it wasn't a practice that we took part in. But I have to say, I have never seen it to this extent. And I'll be honest, behavior like this makes me sick. I have always tried to do the right thing, even though I knew others took shortcuts. But I have to ask? Have we gotten to a point where this kind of thing is acceptable?
I certainly hope not.
Regardless, I wanted to warn those of you out there trying to recruiting honestly, and trying to keep your ranks plush for summer: There are people out there like this, that have become desperate enough to take actions like this. People that are trolling your recruitment posts, not looking for a new guild, but looking to see if they think you are ripe for poaching.
What I do know is that it's made me wary of the official WoW recruitment forums, as I can only imagine that this type of deplorable behavior will get worse as summer wears on and Cataclysm grows nearer.
Has anyone else experienced this yet?


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Just one in four children in the state is prepared for kindergarten, according to preliminary data presented to the Kentucky Board of Education on Tuesday. The preliminary data is showing that 24 percent to 28 percent of children are considered prepared for kindergarten, said Karen Dodd, director of strategic planning for the education department.
"That's big, guys," education commissioner Terry Holliday said during a meeting in Frankfort broadcast on the Web. "What we're telling you is that only about a quarter of the students coming to kindergarten are ready for kindergarten."
The data is from preliminary results of kindergarten readiness tests taken by 34,500 children in more than 100 school districts, officials said. Next year, all 174 districts will be required to use the assessments, developed with a company called Brigance.
Holliday told the board he was alarmed by those results when he first saw them, but he is confident there will be swift improvement, partially because he expects the numbers to go up when all school districts use the tests next year.
He said between 50,000 and 55,000 kindergartners enroll in public schools in Kentucky every year.
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Officials had originally said the K-PREP scores would be released sometime in late October. The state Department of Education has been telling school districts and members of the public for months to expect the scores from the new tests to be lower than the scores have been for the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System, or CATS, especially in math and reading. That's because the K-PREP tests are based on new benchmarks.
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With a red carpet event seemingly every other day in the midst of awards season, not every look can be a hit. It would appear that celebs saved their second-rate ensembles for the untelevised Producers Guild Awards.
After working white at the Golden Globes, Angelina Jolie went back to her tried-and-true Morticia Addams style, except this time with a major bra faux pas.
Zachary Quinto was the sharpest on the red carpet, although Chenbot and Les Moonves, both in black, were probably the handsomest couple. Evan Rachel Wood passed up a dress for smart tux.
Simply boring: Viola Davis, Jessica Capshaw, Penelope Ann Miller, and Shailene Woodley kept it snoozeville. (On the bright side, that color looks fantastic on Davis.)
Sofia Vergara, Missi Pyle, and Jessica Chastain were among the very few who bothered with sparkles.
Kat Kramer looks like she got rolled up in one of those optical illusion images at the Franklin Institute. Rita Moreno's entire outfit is shouting "HEY, YOU GUYS!" And it's kind of amazing to see how quickly wearing a foundation garment as a top can liken someone (Alicia Keys) to a bored housewife who sexually harasses pool boys.


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Sheryl Crow Drops Asking Price on Nashville-Area Home…Again!
Sheryl Crow's Cross Creek Farm, a sprawling estate located in the Nashville area, remains on the market and the singer has once again dropped the asking price. The home, up for sale since 2010, is now listed at $3,850,000, down from the original asking price of over $7.5 million.
Crow had lowered the price to $5.8 million in August of last year. She's now dropped it another two million, which may suggest that she wants to unload the property as fast as possible and is looking to attract a buyer on the quick. It's been a buyer's market in the real estate realm for several years now.
It's quite a spread, with six bedrooms and seven-and-a-half baths, situated in College Grove, Tenn. Other amenities include walk-in closets, a wood-burning fireplace, a guest house, a hot tub and a recording studio!
You can take a virtual tour of the home here. Want to gawk at this gorgeous abode some more? The listing is here, complete with photos and further details.


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Jay Greene / Business Week:
The Bug in Microsoft's Ear — The software giant is mulling its own digital device that adds gaming to music and video, in an effort to compete with Apple's iPod empire — After getting trounced for four years in the digital music business by Apple Computer (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) finally seems poised to do something about it.
Discussion: The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Joystiq, eHomeUpgrade, Michael Gartenberg, IP Democracy, Kotaku, Slashdot and Gamecloud
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Microsoft ponders creating an iPod killer
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Joystiq: Microsoft working on plans for portable gaming device
Alexander Grundner / eHomeUpgrade: Microsoft Considering to Develop a Sony PSP-Like Handheld
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: Is Microsoft Gearing Up to Offer an iPod Rival?
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Google admits online stumble — Google Inc., trying to extend its dominance of Internet search into the market for videos, said it made a mistake with the design of an online store. — Shows for sale weren't well promoted on the home page of Google Video, which was introduced earlier this month …
Discussion: Micro Persuasion and Techdirt
Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Google Launches Service in China
Google Launches Service in China
Discussion: RConversation, Guardian Unlimited, Joho the Blog and ...My heart's in Accra
Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation: Testing the "Castrated" Google
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Can we use the Sullivan Principles to help reform China?
David Weinberger / Joho the Blog: Google in China — "...purity is an idea for a yogi or monk...
Josh / Bokardo:
Microsoft Didn't Give User Data to DOJ in Privacy Case (podcast) — First, the podcast: Microsoft, Google, and the DOJ Privacy Case (7.21 MB mp3 ) — During a meeting today at the Microsoft Search Champs Conference in Redmond, WA, Yusuf Mehdi, Senior VP of MSN Information Services …
Discussion: Microsoft News Tracker
David Hunter / Microsoft News Tracker: Microsoft defends response to porn probe
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Search Champs grilling MSN execs
Search Champs grilling MSN execs
Discussion: Search Engine Watch Blog
Alexbarn / Alex Barnett blog:
Discussion: web2.wsj2.com and WeBreakStuff
Doc / Doc Searls' IT Garage:
Disrupting the VC Business and Exploring the Because Effect — I keep running into Rick Segal. Doesn't matter how remote or large the event might be, there's Rick. It happened last summer in Copenhagen, when Rick was the first guy I recognized in Denmark — sitting in a steetside cafe on the evening before Reboot started.
Discussion: Don Dodge on The Next …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Rick Segal, an unusual VC
Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
A VC Rant with an opportunity — Short story. "Joe" has been working for 5 years to bring a software product to market while keeping the day job waiting & bussing tables. He has a wife, two kids, a dog and they live in a small nothing apartment. — For years, Joe toils away while pounding …
Google founder defends China portal — Also: How the powerful make their way to Davos, and what they're doing instead of networking. — DAVOS, Switzerland (FORTUNE) - The World Economic Forum, a gathering of leaders from the business world, media, academics, and assorted hollywood stars and do-gooders, is taking place this week.
Discussion: Techdirt, Rough Type, Message, Google Blogoscoped, Tom Raftery's I.T. views and ZDNet.com
Mitch Ratcliffe / ZDNet.com: Google will face Congressional hearings over China
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Yahoo's New CPO Loves His Mac — You might have worked for the company for a decade, but that doesn't mean you will get a new cappuccino machine. It does mean that you get a new ID card, that says you have worked for the company for 10 years, and it also means you get a new gig.
Discussion: VoIP Watch, Message, The Kelsey Group and Andrew Lark
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch: Yahoo Messenger for Mac
Greg Sterling / The Kelsey Group: MyYahoo! to Get Push It Deserves?
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Google Cache Ruled Fair Use — A district court in Nevada has ruled that the Google Cache is a fair use. — Blake Field, an author and attorney, brought the copyright infringement lawsuit against Google after the search engine automatically copied and cached a story he posted on his website.
John Borland / CNET News.com: Court: Google caches aren't copyright infringement
William Patry / The Patry Copyright Blog: Google Caches One — A recent decision from the unlikely venue …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: Google Cache is legal
Jordan Running / Download Squad: District court rules Google Cache doesn't violate copyright
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog: Google & Search Engine Cached Pages Legal, If They Offer Opt-Out
Marty Schwimmer / The Trademark Blog: Google Cache Found To Be Fair Use
EFF: Breaking News:
Nevada Court Rules Google Cache is Fair Use
Nevada Court Rules Google Cache is Fair Use
Discussion: IP Democracy
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: Court Upholds Google Caching as Fair Use
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Yahoo Will Buy Digg - Announcement Early Next Week — I've now heard from two sources close to Yahoo which tell me that Yahoo is going to be buying Digg for nearly $30M. I haven't yet heard from anyone working for Yahoo that this is 100% (they obviously had 'no comment') …
Discussion: Search Engine Journal, Conversion Rater, Mark Evans, the j. botter weblog, Peer Pressure, Guardian Unlimited and ben barren
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal: Yahoo Buying Digg?
Pat McCarthy / Conversion Rater: Rumors Swirling That Yahoo Will Buy Digg
J. Botter / the j. botter weblog: More Digg-ing — Kevin Burton says he's heard from two sources close …
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Will Yahoo buy Digg?
Redbarren / ben barren: Angelina Yahoo Adopts Digg Says Burtanator
Cingular Patents the Emoticon :( — The USA based mobile operator, Cingular Wireless has managed to get a patent on the concept of using emoticon on mobile phones. While the aim of the patent is to enable the displaying of MSN style graphics on handsets, they also managed to patent …
Discussion: Techdirt, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and mopocket
Alice Hill / Alice Hill's Real Tech News: Cingular Patents The Emoticon : (
Justin Oberman / mopocket: DON'T SMILE ON YOUR PHONE JUST YET :-(
Marc Perton / Engadget:
Government turns up volume on GPS — The US governmentflicked the switch today on a new GPS signal, known as L2C. The signal, according to the government, is transmitted ata higher effective power, allowing it to "work better in urban areas and indoors." The new signal, beingtransmitted …
Discussion: Phone Scoop, Ubergizmo and All Points Blog
Adena Schutzberg / All Points Blog: GPS Update Details
Roblimo / interviews.slashdot.org:
MS Security VP Mike Nash Replies — You posted a lot of great questions for Mike Nash last week, and he put a lot of time into answering them. As promised, his answers were not laundered by PR people, which is all too common with "executive" interviews with people from any company.
Discussion: Download Squad and TechBlog
Jordan Running / Download Squad: Slashdot interviews Microsoft's VP of Security
Dwight / TechBlog: Follow-up: Surviving the Linux den
Ancient flaws leave OS X vulnerable? — OS X contains unpatched security flaws of a type that were fixed on alternative operating systems more than a decade ago, according to a security researcher credited with finding numerous bugs in Apple's increasingly popular platform.
Tom Taulli / Forbes:
Tapping Into The Blogosphere — LOS ANGELES - Without bloggers, Indeed.com may not have survived. — To increase visibility for the beta version of his jobs-search engine, Paul Forster decided to contact influential bloggers, including John Battelle, the blogger behind Searchblog and author of The Search.
Discussion: B.L. Ochman's weblog and Weblogs Work
Brian Oberkirch / Weblogs Work: What's a Blog Worth? Pt. 3
John Scalzo / gamingtarget.com:
The Video Game Librarian: It's The End of the Year As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) — Specials: Harry Potter is the most popular game to people that come to a library. Anybody surprised? Anyone? — It has been one year since the "Great Video Game Experiment" was started at the public library where I work.
Discussion: Cathode Tan, Joystiq, Kotaku and Boing Boing


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In these last days of summer, I seem to be continually amazed by how young people are giving back to their communities.
Earlier, I told you about the Union County libraries event, and yesterday I got to talk to Devon Blair, who ran nearly 24 miles for the Wounded Warrior Project – even though he doesn't really like running.
He's 17 and from Selisngrove and completed the first run last year as part of his graduation project requirements.
Devon said that he realizes how special and important the Wounded Warrior Project is and he simply wanted to give back. And, he said., if running 24 miles is the best way to do that and draw attention to the cause, he will continue to do that.
Devon was also joined by about 5 friends and family members, including his father. All of them should be commended for their efforts to run and raise money for a good cause.
Here's the group celebrating at the end of the run, which finished up at Knoebels in Elysburg:


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John-Locke wrote:I finished watching Samurai Champloo last night, what a great ending to the series. KC let me know when you have seen them all so we can talk spoilers.
Who do you prefer Jin or Mugen or are you all about Momo San, the flying Squirrel?
Ribbons wrote:I wanna get into Cowboy Bebop. I've seen a couple episodes on adult swim and dug 'em. And the one with the assassin clown dude was creepy as all get-out
John-Locke wrote:I was't going to keep the Avatar up past tonight but with the responses I'm getting I may keep it just to make you poor fools suffer.
Is it really that disturbing?
John-Locke wrote:Now that is sick, it looks like it's inside out.
Thanks for ruining my day
Coldfire24 wrote:Cowboy Beebop is the shit. That series is the one that turned me on to Anime. Ok i'm going to say this both Cowboy and Samurai both end about 20 something episodes in. Either the guy is a genious for ending these series before the concept gets old or he sucks for depriving the world of two awesome shows.
John-Locke wrote:Zombie, without going into detail in fear of Spoilers, where would you see the movie for Samurai Champloo going? I mean their story is told, you know a lot about each characters History. Maybe they could do a series based on the Detective & the remaining characters could pop in through coincidence?
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The Campsh@ck is now firmly pointed eastward, and our slow trek to Michigan has begun. Some portions of this journey I dread, but we've tried to spice it up with some variations in our route that enable us to stay in some new campgrounds while visiting some old favorites (I say old favorites like we've been doing this for 20 years.) Hard to imagine that this is only our sixth winter of wandering away from Michigan winters.
Maricopa County AZ (Phoenix area) has several regional parks with great facilities. We've stayed at two so far, and decided to swing by White Tank Regional Park to check it out this time. While I don't think this is my favorite, we enjoyed a few nights camping. It was a big change from the cool California mountains – this campground is hot and sunny. With a bit of blind luck, we stumbled into reserving one of only two sites (#24) that had a bit of shade to offer. What luck – it was really hot! I'll admit that we were pretty smug watching our neighbors sit outsite in the broiling sun, while we were chillin' in the shade.
White Tanks gets it name from the watering holes (or tanks) that collect the scarce rainwater here in Ford Canyon for all the wildlife here. So, we naturally decided to hike over there to see them, since they aren't visible from the campground. The first few miles of trail were flat and rather boring, as we wound our way to the back of the Canyon. Then, we came upon this odd warning sign – something about hazardous Indians and rumnoel runs – whatever that is. Perhaps we should have been warned, but we forged ahead. The hike became difficult after these point – a sharp increase in elevation had us snaking around obstacles, and wedging toes into tiny footholds. We finally wound our way up then down to the tank area, which was worthy of the effort to get there. There was just a bit of brackish water in some of the deeper holes.After another mile or so, we decided to turn back, as we had drunk half our water, and the trip ahead was twice as far as the trip back. In hot/dry conditions, we don't second-guess our water supply. All in all, it was a great hike.
Our next destination was to Fool Hollow State Park (AZ),where we had stayed for a single night several years ago. It's a beautifully maintained, cool area at about 6300′ in Show Low AZ. We were eager to escape the Phoenix heat (projected to be 95 on the day we left). I can't say enough good things about this wonderful park. Hard-working camp hosts and attentive staff treat this gem as if it were their own. The drive up from the Phoenix area was filled with some spectacular rugged territory. This roadside project caught our eye as we passed – it's hard to see, but that big shovel is very precariously perched as it moves dirt around. Not a job for the faint of heart!
We didn't do anything particulary noteworthy at Fool Hollow, but we did meet Paula and Molly – two single women who are both full-time campers. After sharing dinner and camping tales for two nights, we have two new friends – Paula in her Oliver trailer, and Molly in her Casita. Why are most of the full-time campers we meet women? I can only think of one or two men we have met over the years who live full-time in their small trailers or campers. Interesting….it takes a lot of moxie to sell your home and hit the road fulltime. These ladies have it all together.
Here we are now, camped in the middle of of a fairly young lava field that's 45 miles long, a mile wide, and 50-150 feet deep. And the fact that we're perched on an island over the top of it – amazing. Valley of Fires ranks among one of the more unique spots we've camped. Lava has spewed from vents in the earth (as opposed to flowing down a mountain) on at least two separate occasions in the last 1500-5000 years, creating a mysterious, crusty spot to explore. A well-signed scenic walkway winds around a mile or so of the area, with many spots to walk off the path and onto the lava beds.Our campsite is right in the middle of the above photo. You can barely see the curve of the Campsh@ck to the right of the ramada which covers the picnic table. It's fascinating. I can't briefly explain the geology to you in a coherent way, but would encourage you to check out the above link if you're interested. The pristine campground is small (about 25 sites), but inexpensive. We have a big site with water/electric for $9/night with our senior pass. Of course, there are superclean bathrooms and showers.
Our time here is marred only by the strong New Mexico spring winds which we have come to dread every year. It really is no joy to be outside in 30-40mph winds, and there isn't anyplace to hide from them. Although we have the windows open a bit, we have them tied down with bungies and ropes to keep them from blowing open and tearing off the trailer. Having that happen to us once in Death Valley, we're not chancing it again.
The next two weeks are taking us to several new campgrounds as we move across the vast state of Texas. Hope our nasty winds subside, and I hope spring is finally going to move into the Midwest and Northeast. You have paid your winter dues in spades, my friends. Enough!


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After reading about this for two days, I still can't find a record of precisely what Perkins said to alienate the base chaplain who canceled the invite. If he really has been disinvited for doing nothing more than opposing "don't ask, don't tell," it's a disgrace. He's a Marine, he claims he wasn't planning to say anything political at the luncheon, and he is, after all, in line with the military's official policy on gay servicemen. (The Corps' commandant expressed his own support of DADT two days ago.) Disagreeing with The One shouldn't make you persona non grata. If, however, he said something more incendiary, then it's a question of how incendiary was it. Politico cites this recent quote on the Family Research Council website — "Do not let our military be used to advance a radical sexual agenda" — which is essentially boilerplate for a religious leader, but Perkins has had more colorful things to say in the past.
Long story short, this is a test case on how the military's going to balance creating a comfortable environment for gays in the ranks with the rights of religious servicemen to disapprove vehemently. The chaplain's statement via the Wash Times:
"The Joint Base Andrews Chaplain's Office sponsors a voluntary, annual prayer luncheon, focusing this year on deployed personnel, families and prayer. The Chaplain's Office retracted Mr. Perkins' invitation after his recent public comments made many who planned to attend the event uncomfortable," the office said in a statement.
"This was a local decision made by the Chaplain's Office who wanted the luncheon to be inclusive for the entire base community. The Chaplain's Office respects and defends Mr. Perkins right to express his opinions, and regrets any inconvenience to him. We thank and respect him for his prior military service."
And Perkins's reply, seizing the political moment, via CBN:
I am very concerned, however, that this merely foreshadows the serious threat to religious liberty that would result from repeal of the current military eligibility law. Such legislation would not merely open the military to homosexuals. It would result in a zero-tolerance policy toward those who disapprove of homosexual conduct.
Military chaplains would bear the heaviest burden. Would their sermons be censored to prevent them from preaching on biblical passages which describe homosexual conduct as a sin? Would they remain free to counsel soldiers troubled by same-sex attractions about the spiritual and psychological resources available to overcome those attractions?
Conservative leaders are lining up behind him. The civilian protocol here would be to let Perkins speak and allow protesters outside, but political demonstrations aren't encouraged on military bases. Why not invite him and balance him with a gay speaker at some later date, then? I don't get it.