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Dealing with Midlife Issues
By Michael MacMunn, LICSW, LADC
In this month's newsletter, I would like to help you explore the challenges and opportunities that come at midlife. You will have an opportunity to take a look at issues that are specific to the Baby Boomer generation. You will also have a chance to begin the process of your own midlife assessment with a list of questions presented at the end of the newsletter. I call this assessment the Midlife Checkup.
Benefits of the Midlife Checkup
Taking the time to assess how your life is going at this point can result in benefits such as these:
- It can help you identify and intensify your inner strengths.
- You can find your own voice and express it your own way.
- You can accept your changing physical self.
- It is an opportunity to forgive those with whom you've been angry.
- It can help you find ways to reduce stress.
- You can learn to simplify your life.
- You can reenergize yourself in preparation for the second half of your life.
The Baby Boomers
The Baby Boomer generation is at midlife right now. This generation includes almost 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964.
The Boomers are the largest generation in U.S. history. They have had a major impact on American society as they have passed through every life stage. They are passing through midlife in their own unique way, differently from their parents and differently from Generation X, the group born in the years after 1964.
The first Boomer turned 50 at the beginning of 1996, and the remaining 78 million will observe this anniversary sometime between now and 2014.
According to Rocking the Ages authors J. Walker Smith and Ann Clurman (researchers at Yankelovich Partners) and authors like Gail Sheehy, people passing through middle age typically experience the following kinds of feelings:
Great expectations:
Most Boomers are beginning to recognize their own limitations. Growing up in the comfortable 1950's, the Boomers learned to expect unlimited growth and endless possibilities. They believed their good luck would never end. Now that they are turning 50, many are shocked to discover that there are limits to life's possibilities.
As people reach midlife, they must face up to the loss of some of their dreams and regret the mistakes they have made. It is not easy for anyone to face the person one will never be.
At midlife, everyone has to face the loss of beauty and youth, valued by our society. In her book New Passages, author Gail Sheehy calls this experience "The Body Blues" or "The Vanity Crisis."
According to Sheehy, the "universal preoccupation" of the middle years is "the search for meaning in whatever we do." As they face the fact that time is limited, the Baby Boomers typically become even more intent on this need to analyze and search for significance.
The midlife years can be a time of radical change for many people. This is the result of endless questioning and evaluation of how one has lived life thus far. Many midlife crises become mid-life meltdowns, says Sheehy, because some people react to feelings of emptiness or disillusionment by destroying everything they have built.
The Boomers developed a value system that is based on a sense of entitlement and which values individuality. Because they hold these values, Boomers respond differently to each life stage than do other generations. You can see these values reflected in scenes like those from television shows from the 1950s and early 60s.
According to Smith and Clurman, four important characteristics of the Baby Boomer value system are:
The Boomers (once called the "Me" Generation) have the reputation of being more narcissistic than other generations. Because of the times they grew up in, they have always been fascinated with themselves. The indulgence they experienced at home in the 1950s and the world's seemingly limitless possibilities created a fascination with self and a feeling of specialness.
Sense of entitlement:
As a generation, the Boomers see themselves as superior to others. They have always assumed that they could have life their way and that the rules were meant for others, but not for them. They feel entitled to rewards and view themselves as winners. They expect success and cannot accept failure.
Need for control:
The Boomers need to feel certain and to sense that they are in control of life. They have a difficult time dealing with uncertainty.
Baby Boomers have always valued introspection and take pleasure in asking questions.
For most people, life at age 45 or 50 doesn't match the dreams they had at age 20 or 30. When people reach age 45 or 50 and are even slightly disappointed by their achievements and experiences, their feelings are likely to be compounded by these factors of self-absorption, sense of entitlement, and a need for control. But there is also a positive side to this. The tendency to reflect and explore can help one look for new possibilities instead of being stuck with feelings of disappointment.
Keep all of this in mind as you complete the Midlife Checkup. It is a list of 10 unfinished sentences that will help you assess your life to date. The items on this list provide a framework for conducting your own assessment. Please add your own ideas that you think will help you reflect on your life's direction.
The Midlife Checkup
1. My most important accomplishments are…
2. I am disappointed about…
3. I would describe the person I turned out to be as…
4. I want to change the following things about my self and my life…
5. Things I want to do before I die…
6. If I knew I couldn't fail, I would…
7. Things I have mastered…
8. Things I want to keep…
9. I want to keep these relationships…
10. Add your own items…
Please pass this newsletter along to a friend. Or call 562-8045 to request additional copies
Michael MacMunn is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor in Westfield. Call 562-8045 for a consultation.


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McCutchen's late homer not enough, Brewers beat Bucs 4-3
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Mike Fiers is happy to be pitching in the big leagues again in the middle of a pennant race, and he's not afraid to get a little emotional on the mound.
Fiers extended his successful run since being called up from Triple-A, winning his fourth straight start after holding the Pittsburgh Pirates to two hits in seven innings in a 4-3 win Sunday.
Approaching 100 pitches near the end of the seventh, Fiers yelled and pumped his right arm as he exited the mound after Pedro Alvarez lined to short for the third out.
"I knew that was probably going to be my last inning," Fiers said. "I'm just so pumped up to be up here and contribute to this team."
That might be an understatement — the lanky right-hander has a 1.29 ERA in 28 innings in four outings since replacing the injured Matt Garza in the rotation. Fiers has 32 strikeouts to just four walks in that span.
On Sunday, Fiers (4-1) fanned seven to help Milwaukee avoid a three-game sweep. He allowed Starling Marte's two-run shot in the second before retiring 16 of the next 17 batters.
"It has been incredibly impressive," outfielder Ryan Braun said. "I don't think anybody foresaw him coming up and being the best pitcher in baseball the last four starts."
Closer Francisco Rodriguez gave up a homer to Andrew McCutchen with one in the ninth. Rodriguez put the tying run aboard with two outs with a walk before striking out Alvarez for his 39th save.
Milwaukee knocked around Vance Worley (5-4) for four runs over the first two innings, with each hit coming with two outs. Pittsburgh had its three-game winning streak snapped and dropped to five back in the NL Central.
"Back-to-back innings, I haven't seen it very often, with two outs, nobody on, four straight hits," manager Clint Hurdle said. "And again it goes back to rhythm. I think his (delivery) angle."
Worley settled down after the first two innings, retiring 13 of 15 until leaving with one out in the seventh.
Jonathan Lucroy hit his National League-leading 43rd double for the Brewers, who snapped a three-game losing streak to increase their lead in the Central to 1 1/2 games over second-place St. Louis.
Lucroy singled home a run in the second after Carlos Gomez reached on a two-out double to left-center that glanced off McCutchen's glove. Aramis Ramirez followed two batters later with his second single of the day to drive home Lucroy for a 4-2 lead.
The Pirates had tied it at 2 in the top of the second after Marte homered on to the concourse above left-center. Fiers allowed just Russell Martin's single in the fourth from there, getting out of that inning with a pretty over-the-shoulder catch with two outs by shortstop Elian Herrera in shallow center to save a potential hit.
The 6-foot-2 Fiers' fastball tops only at about 90 mph, but his motion can be a little tough. When Fiers winds up, he raises his glove hand high in the air while rearing his throwing arm back from near the waist. Then Fiers swings the arm around from an nearly an over-the-top angle to deliver the pitch.
"It's all about location. Downhill angle, number one weapon that he's got," Hurdle said. "That size, he gets on top of the ball with downhill angle."
PIRATES: INF Clint Barmes could rejoin the team during a three-game series against St. Louis, which starts Monday in Pittsburgh. Barmes has been on the disabled list since July 6 with strained left groin.
BREWERS: Garza, who was supposed to throw a light bullpen session Sunday, is recovering from a strained rib cage muscle. Manager Ron Roenicke said Garza will throw again Tuesday if Sunday's bullpen outing went well. Garza went on the disabled list Aug. 5.
PIRATES: LHP Francisco Liriano (3-10) will try to rebound from a tough outing when he opens the Cardinals series. He gave up nine runs in four-plus innings in an 11-3 loss last week to Atlanta.
BREWERS: RHP Kyle Lohse (11-7) returns to the rotation to open a three-game series in San Diego. Lohse hasn't started since Aug. 13 because of a right ankle injury.

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Courts consider pensions marital property. So, if you file for divorce, a judge may award your ex-spouse part of your pension or other NYSLRS benefits. The process for dividing retirement assets after a divorce can be complex. Here are four things you need to know:
1. NYSLRS Requires a DRO
To divide your NYSLRS benefits, we need a domestic relations order (DRO). This court order, issued after a final judgment of divorce, gives us specific instructions on how your benefits should be distributed. NYSLRS provides on online fillable DRO that complies with the plan's requirements for implementation. You are not required to use the online form; however, the System will give priority review to these DROs since the language is pre-approved.
2. A Judge has to Approve Your DRO
Before we can implement a DRO, a trial court judge must review and sign it, and you need to file it with the appropriate County Clerk's Office. That can be a lengthy process; our Matrimonial Bureau can check your DRO for compliance with the law before you submit the draft order to the court. This way, if the DRO does not meet the requirements, you will have a chance to make revisions.
Once a judge does sign off, we'll need a certified copy of the DRO and your judgment of divorce. We start payments to your ex-spouse once we've calculated and finalized your retirement benefit. If we receive the DRO and judgment before we finalize your retirement benefit, we'll make retroactive payments back to your date of retirement.
3. Some Beneficiary Designations are Revoked
Reviewing your beneficiary designations periodically is always important, but after a divorce, it's essential to make sure your benefits will be distributed according to your wishes. As of July 7, 2008, beneficiary designations for certain benefits are revoked when a divorce, annulment or judicial separation becomes final. Please read our Guide to Domestic Relations Orders and review our DRO FAQs before you finalize your divorce.
4. Contact an Attorney with DRO Experience
This last one is not a fact, but it's a good idea. A lawyer, who's worked with DROs previously, can help ensure the DRO you submit to the court fairly represents the intentions of both parties.
How Can NYSLRS Help?
We developed an online template that makes it easier to create a properly formatted DRO. Just enter your tier, plan and employment status, and answer the questions that follow.
To submit your proposed DRO for review, email it, along with scanned copies of your judgment of divorce, to our Matrimonial Bureau at email@example.com. For DRO proposals prepared using our online worksheet, the review process is simplified and we can complete our review faster.
If you have any questions about divorce and your benefits, please contact our Hearing Administration and Matrimonial Bureau staff.
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Nuance Communications has reportedly held talks regarding a sale of the company with an unknown number of prospective buyers, according to a report.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Nuance had held discussions with Samsung as well as a number of private-equity firms, the paper said. The paper said that it hadn't nailed down whether those talks were serious, or would lead to a deal.
Nuance, a combination of a number of different companies, was origianlly a spinoff of SRI in 1994. One of the early scanner companies, Visioneer, acquired ScanSoft in 1999 and then merged with Nuance in 2005, taking the Nuance name. Today, Nuance is mainly known for its Dragon voice recognition software and its early work in developing intelligent assistant software. At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, for example, several top PC makers including Dell said that they would include the Dragon Assistant in upcoming PCs.
Nuance, however, is seen as one of the companies that can challenge Apple's Siri (itself an SRI spinoff), Microsoft's Cortana, and Google's Google Now technology in the emerging market for digital assistants. As more and more consumers begin buying into mobile, desktop and even automotive ecosystems, developers like Google have tried to build the data these devices collect into a cohesive whole.
Nuance has so far played the role of outsider, building relationships with companies like Amazon, Ford and Subaru to take their technology where the others have not. Nuance has even experimented with trying to forge emotional relationships with its users, in the style of the Spike Jonze movie, Her.
As the Journal noted, however, activist investor Carl Icahn is the company's largest stakeholder, at 19 percent. That's the most potent evidence in favor of an argument that Nuance is shopping itself.
Who might buy Nuance? A number of possibilities present themselves. Samsung, for example, is trying to build itself into the dominant player in the Android ecosystem. Amazon is, as well, with rumors that a smartphone is around the corner. And if Google's vision of a self-driving car comes to pass, an intelligent agent to manage things would be a virtual necessity.
Nuance continues to lose money, making a sale more likely. But the company's technology may make it a prize for the taking.


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Rankism is "abusive, discriminatory, and/or exploitative behavior towards people because of their rank in a particular hierarchy".[1] Rank-based abuse underlies many other phenomena such as bullying, racism, hazing, ageism, sexism, ableism, mentalism, antisemitism, homophobia and transphobia. The term "rankism" was popularized by physicist, educator, and citizen diplomat Robert W. Fuller.
Rankism can take many forms, including
- exploiting one's position within a hierarchy to secure unwarranted advantages and benefits (e.g. massive corporate bonuses);
- abusing a position of power (e.g., abusive parent or priest, corrupt CEO, bully boss, prisoner abuse);
- using rank as a shield to get away with insulting or humiliating others with impunity;
- using rank to maintain a position of power long after it can be justified;
- exporting the rank achieved in one sphere of activity to claim superior value as a person;
- exploiting rank that is illegitimately acquired or held (as in situations resting on specious distinctions of social rank, such as racism, sexism, intellectualism, wealth, religious beliefs, hereditary, marital status, gang affiliation, criminal record, egotism or classism).
Rankism can occur in any social hierarchy, such as governments, corporations, families, non-profit organizations, and universities.[2]
Use of term[edit]
The term rankism first appeared in print in the Oberlin Alumni Magazine for fall of 1997.[3] It later appeared in a book called Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank, written by Fuller and published in 2003.[4]
The first use of the term in a management journal occurred in 2001 in a Leader to Leader Institute article. The piece questioned the abuse of rank in work hierarchies.[5] The idea of rankism has since been widely covered in the media, including The New York Times, NPR, C-SPAN, The Boston Globe, the BBC, Voice of America, and O, The Oprah Magazine.
Other notable references of rankism include Fuller's second book on the subject, All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity,[6] and an action-oriented guide titled Dignity for All: How to Create a World Without Rankism.[7]
The Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (Human DHS) network has also accepted the concept of rankism as core to its mission. It asserts, "...the mission we have undertaken at Human DHS is the confrontation of abuse, rankism and the humiliation endemic to it, on the historical scale."[8]
Professional mediator Julia Ann Wambach uses Fuller's definition of rankism to explore the abuse of position within a hierarchy from both up and down the lines of power, including how rankism feeds on itself in group contexts.[9]
Rankism and dignity[edit]
According to Fuller, the abuse of rank is experienced by victims as an affront to their dignity.[10] Fuller and his supporters have launched a new social movement to promote the creation of a dignitarian society. The Dignity Movement's goal is to overcome rankism in the same way that the civil rights movement and women's movements target racism and sexism.
See also[edit]
- Abuse
- Bullying
- Caste
- Class discrimination
- Discrimination
- Elitism
- Exploitation
- Minority influence
- Power harassment
- Ranked society
- Structural violence
- Supremacism
- ^ Fuller, Robert. "Rankism: A Social Disorder". Retrieved 2008-09-16.
- ^ Fuller, Robert. "Democracy's Next Step: Building a Dignitarian Society". Retrieved 2008-09-19.
- ^ Fuller, Robert (Fall 1997). "Campus Activities (sidebar)". Oberlin Alumni Magazine.
- ^ Fuller, Robert W. (2003). Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank. Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publishers. ISBN 0-86571-486-X.
- ^ Fuller, Robert W (Summer 2001). "A New Look at Hierarchy: How do we make sure that rank is exercised appropriately?". Leader to Leader. 21.
- ^ Fuller, Robert W. (2006). All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. ISBN 978-1-57675-385-9.
- ^ Fuller, Robert W.; Pamela A. Gerloff (2008). Dignity for All: How to Create a World Without Rankism. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. back cover. ISBN 978-1-57675-789-5.
- ^ The Human DHS Team. "Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies: Who We Are - A Brief Overview". Retrieved 2008-09-24.
- ^ Wambach, Julie Ann (2008). Battles between Somebodies and Nobodies: Combat Abuse of Rank at Work and At Home. Brookside Press. ISBN 978-0-9814818-0-7
- ^ Fuller, Robert. "Dignity: A Universal Right". Retrieved 2008-09-16.
Further reading[edit]
- Berger, Daniel (August 2005). "Book review: Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank". Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 198 (8): 571. doi:10.1097/01.nmd.0000172656.22250.24. Archived from the original on 2013-01-11.
- Ehrenreich, Barbara (2008). This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-8840-3.
- Kleiner, Art (2004). "Diversity and its discontents". Strategy + Business (Spring 2004).
- Knisely, Robert (April 2003). "Rank prejudice". Washington Monthly. 35 (4).
- Richardson, Elaina; Richards, David; Cale, Timothy (April 2003). "Respect". O Magazine. 83 (31–34): 3549. doi:10.1080/14786430310001599405. S2CID 135956512.
- Scheff, Thomas (2009-12-10). "Chapter 7: A New Goffman: Robert W. Fuller's Politics of Dignity". In Jacobsen, Michael (ed.). The Contemporary Goffman. Routledge. pp. 185–198. ISBN 978-0-415-99681-5.
- Schultz, Connie (January 14, 2006). "Taking it out on the clerks". The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
- Wambach, Julie Ann (2008). Battles between Somebodies and Nobodies: Combat Abuse of Rank at Work and at Home. Brookside Press. ISBN 978-0-9814818-0-7.
External links[edit]
- Academe Online - Anonymous, (September/October 2006) "Class Issues Outside the Classroom"
- Brazen Careerist - Penelope Trunk, (August 27, 2006) "Battle Cry Against Power Tripping" interview with Robert Fuller, at Brazen Careerist
- Breaking Ranks - Bibliography on Fuller's website
- Breaking Ranks - Other articles by Fuller
- Canadian Living - Diana Fisher, "Rankism: Bullying someone of a lower rank at work"
- Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies - an organization composed of over one thousand academics and practitioners from around the globe dedicated to confronting humiliation
- Dignity – SpiritualWiki article
- Right-Rank.com Archived 2006-06-14 at the Wayback Machine – Right-rank is the use of communication skills by anyone within a hierarchy to promote respect for the dignity of everyone regardless of position.
- SomebodyBook.com - I Feel Like Nobody When... I Feel Like a Somebody When... (children's book that introduces issues related to rankism), Stephanie Heuer (2005)
- YubaNet.com - '"Executive" monkeys influenced by other executives, not subordinates', Duke University Medical Center (March 22, 2006)


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Crowdfunding roundup: 'tasty' cord organizers, bike navigation tool, air quality detector, more
As the success stories keep piling up, so do the number of projects filling up crowdfunding websites with, among other things, neat hardware- and software-related products. Some projects, like Pebble, gain thousands of supporters as well as millions of dollars in funding (and end up at Best Buy's retail stores). Other projects flop and don't reach their necessary funding amount.
Rather than make you sift through all of these projects, we're rounding up the best or most notable projects from around the web and delivering them to you in a simple roundup.
If there's a project that you've backed – or even a project that you founded – be sure to leave a link below so it can be considered for the next roundup.
- The Tastiest Cord Solution: Cord Taco, Cordito, Cordlupa (Kickstarter project) – It's probably not the best idea to actually eat these cord organizers. However, the unique designs allow you to beautifully wrap up your headphones, USB cords, and Mac charging block in style. Just three days into it, this campaign is half way to meeting its $15,000 goal.


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Dolan to pray at Democratic National Convention
By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
(CNN)–-Cardinal Timothy Dolan has accepted an invitation to give the closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, next week, which will also feature a nun in a speaking role.
Dolan, the archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, also will give the closing benediction at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday.
When he accepted that invitation, Dolan said his appearance would be prayerful, not political, a sentiment reiterated by his spokesman in announcing his appearance at the DNC.
"It was made clear to the Democratic Convention organizers, as it was to the Republicans, that the Cardinal was coming solely as a pastor, only to pray, not to endorse any party, platform, or candidate," cardinal spokesman Joseph Zwilling said.
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A nun who has been critical of the Republicans' federal budget will also have a speaking role at the Democratic convention, a source with the President Barack Obama's re-election campaign said Tuesday.
Sister Simone Campbell, the executive director of a social justice group NETWORK, who helped lead a recent "nuns on the bus tour" against Rep. Paul Ryan's federal budget, will speak, the source said.
Ryan is presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney's running mate.
Stephanie Niedringhaus, a spokeswoman at NETWORK, said that Campbell would speak next Wednesday and that she was out of the country and unavailable for comment.
Cardinal Dolan to offer closing prayer at Republican Convention
The Vatican has been critical of American nuns recently, alleging that they have not focused enough on hot-button social issues and that they have given a platform for radical feminism at conferences.
Typically, a local bishop would speak at a convention like this. Zwilling said that Dolan "consulted Bishop Peter Jugis of the Diocese of Charlotte, who gave the Cardinal his consent to take part in the convention that will be taking place in his diocese."
Dolan's diocese is one of many in the midst of a lawsuit against the Obama administration over a Department of Health and Human Services mandate that forces employers to pay for contraceptives coverage for their employees. While churches and select other religious organizations are exempt, not all religiously affiliated groups are, and that has riled many religious groups that oppose contraceptives on religious grounds.
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The Nativity Story
New Line Cinema has launched the official website for director Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story, opening worldwide in theaters on December 1.
At the site, you can watch the new teaser trailer and a featurette on the drama. You can also view a photo gallery and read the synopsis.
Written by Mike Rich, the film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Ciaran Hinds and Shaun Toub.
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Screenwriter: Mike Rich (Finding Forrester, The Rookie, Radio, Miracle)
Starring: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Oscar Isaac, Ciaran Hinds, Shaun Toub
Produced By: Wyck Godfrey & Marty Bowen
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: THE NATIVITY STORY chronicles the humble and miraculous story of Mary (Oscar-nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes, Whale Rider) and Joseph (Oscar Isaac) that spans nearly two years – culminating in their departure from Nazareth and their 100-mile journey to Bethlehem,
to the birth of Jesus Christ.
The studio and filmmakers have worked hard to ensure that the film is both historically and biblically accurate. A wide spectrum of Christian New Testament scholars and historians has been involved in the pre-production process. This is the first time in over 50 years that a biblical story has been released by a major motion picture studio…
If you watch the "extras" section, you'll see me on the set! (Look closely; it goes by fast… Sr. Rose)


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Feb 6, 2012
Super Bowl Ads: Which Ones Generated the Most Pre-Game Buzz?
Feb 6, 2012
In these days of social media saturation, the idea of waiting for the Super Bowl to catch the best ads seems so yesterday. Advertisers are looking to generate product awareness through their blurbs long before kick-off, as evidenced by the vast number of commercials "leaked" this past week.
General Sentiment is a social media analytics company that measures consumer impact and awareness for marketers and advertisers, using a formula it calls Impact Media Value -- basically, who's getting the most bang for their advertising bucks prior to the game.
Here's their take on the brands advertising during this year's Super Bowl and the daily revenue that General Sentiment estimates they generated through social media. The lists tell us which companies got the biggest boosts, which made the most money via their investments and which companies --based on their Twitter following-- dropped the ball by not advertising around the Super Bowl.
The first list is ranked in order of the largest Impact Media Value percentage increase over the last two weeks.
1. Dannon
$105,576 + 1,170.4%
Average Daily Impact Media Value (January 16 - 29, 2012)
Percentage Increase Above 3-Month Baseline
Dannon, a first-time Super Bowl advertiser, quickly reaped the benefits of its association with the big game; the company, which received limited media attention during the previous three months, caused a stir on January 19 as it announced that Dannon would feature Oikos Greek Yogurt and actor John Stamos in its Super Bowl ad.
The Super Bowl buzz could not have come at a better time for E*TRADE; the online brokerage's stock fell in Q4 as a result of mounting credit losses. The company hopes that its memorable talking baby campaign will make a splash at the Super Bowl and facilitate a stronger 2012.
3. Doritos $1,335,985 + 676.4%
Doritos' sixth annual "Crash the Super Bowl" campaign is creating lots of online buzz, and hundreds of thousands of contestants are participating this year. Doritos has also guaranteed $1M to any contestant whose advertisement reaches number one in USA Today's ad rankings.
After its fifth consecutive quarter with reduced profits, the Swedish clothing retailer needs its Super Bowl ad to succeed. The company chose British soccer superstar David Beckham to sport the brand's new bodywear collection. The announcement of the company's Super Bowl ad generated increased buzz for H&M during the last two weeks.
5. Kia $2,217,277 + 479.0%
The Korean car company scored with the ad campaign for its midsize sedan, the Optima, which featured NBA star Blake Griffin. Kia hopes for more success from its Super Bowl ad featuring supermodel Adriana Lima, MMA fighter Chuck Liddell and rock band Mötley Crüe. Kia created a great deal of Twitter buzz for the brand by releasing its ad to 18,000 movie theaters on January 27.
The brands listed below shared the largest amount of Twitter followers with the NFL and its teams as of January 31, 2012.
1. JetBlue
Total Shared Twitter Followers with NFL and NFL Teams
JetBlue meshes with the NFL well because JetBlue offers DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket in-flight for passengers traveling to more than 50 destinations. The airline will also broadcast the Super Bowl live in-flight. During the game, all drinks, including beer, wine and spirits, will be sold for $1, rather than the usual $6 or $7, and free Snyder's Buffalo Wing Pretzels will be available. Why would an NFL fan fly any other way?
2. Amazon.com
The NFL shop on Amazon.com is the main avenue connecting the two brands. Amazon sells NFL apparel and items from all 32 teams, and the website also sells Madden NFL video games and NFL films and documentaries. A clever Kindle Fire spot would have been perfect for this year's game.
3. Starbucks
Two things many Americans love are coffee and football. Starbucks and the NFL are two of the nation's most prominent brands, so the fact that the two companies share a large number of Twitter followers comes as no surprise. Fans of both could share their analysis of Sunday's game at their local Starbucks.
4. TV Guide
TV Guide and the NFL are not a shocking brand match. On Sundays, millions of Americans sit glued to their televisions, eating snacks, with remotes and cell phones in hand. To the satisfaction of many fans, they can search for the starting time and channel of every NFL game on TVGuide.com and plan their entire week of football fixes without leaving the couch.
5. Nike
The titan of the sports apparel industry signed a long-term deal to provide uniforms for the NFL. Rumors circulated that Nike will make some significant changes to the uniforms. Nike could have used the opportunity to reveal some sneak peeks of the new digs and build excitement for its apparel.
The brands listed below shared the largest percentages of Twitter followers with the NFL and its teams as of January 31, 2012.
1. Visa
Total Shared Percentage of Twitter Followers with NFL and NFL Teams
45.73 %
Visa's ad campaign, entitled "Visa presents: Ned's Journey To The Super Bowl," drew a lot of buzz during the NFL season as it promoted a sweepstakes by which one lucky Visa cardholder would get to take 10 friends to the Super Bowl. However, Visa decided not to advertise during the Super Bowl this year after years of memorable ads. Visa does have plans for promotions, though, which likely involve Twitter.
2. Under Armour
41.05 %
While Nike controls the rights to NFL uniforms, Under Armour sponsors the NFL Combine and has the rights to supply the players' cleats. NFL player reps for the Baltimore-based sports apparel giant already sported commemorative 9/11 cleats in September. And there is no better place for Under Armour's "Protect This House" slogan than the Super Bowl.
3. Arby's
27.52 %
Arby's franchises in Colorado and Wyoming began selling commemorative Denver Broncos cups this season. The on-field success of the Broncos and quarterback Tim Tebow made the campaign a huge success. Arby's current slogan, "It's Good Mood Food," would complement fans' excitement well on Sundays.
4. Papa John's
27.42 %
In the midst of a three-year contract that makes Papa John's the official pizza of the NFL and the Super Bowl, the company has built a strong association between itself and the NFL. Thousands of families across the country will be ordering Papa John's during the Super Bowl, and an ad on Super Bowl Sunday would only increase fans' appetite for the pizza chain.
5. Outback Steakhouse
26.29 %
Many fans associate Outback Steakhouse with the NFL. The restaurant chain sponsored the league (as well as college football and NASCAR) on a national level. Outback gained distinguished former NFL player and coach John Madden as a national spokesperson, and the chain placed its name on the Madden Cruiser. An ad could encourage some fans to get off the couch and join the crowd at Outback.
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By Daisy Quaker
Whether it's for business or networking use, social media has exploded to become a staple to any Internet user's day. Checking your Facebook or Twitter accounts and connecting with people has become a necessity for business or personal use. Everyone is on social media, by everyone; I am referring to, for example, the 901 million Facebook users.
You can't afford to ignore social media.
I can relate to this because I tried. When Twitter came out, I thought it was a fad. I assumed it was for the egocentric that wanted everyone to know what they were thinking at every minute. I was not eager to share my thoughts with the world. But a year passed, and then another, and another, and Twitter was not going away, quite the opposite, it kept growing. Until I finally had to swallow my pride, and admit that the social network was here to stay.
In that time where I was stubborn, I missed out on learning how to use it as a networking and business platform, all because I stuck my head in the sand.
Are you ready to develop your social media strategy?
Download the FREE guide: The Newbie's Guide to Social Media (No commitment, no obligation)
Even if you have some accounts out there, understanding the power and potential of each can set your business apart, and worth following.
But with the so many platforms out there, finding the right tools to work for your business can be a challenge, and can occupy a full day's work. Big companies and brands can afford to have a dedicated social networking professional managing their multiple accounts, but what about small businesses?
It is tricky figuring out which social media platform is right for your business if you don't know how they can each be applied. Most marketers are not even talking about how to build your brand on social media anymore, the conversation has moved from what is it, and why use it to how to manage it.
This guide initially started out as a post, but as it progressed I decided a better course of action would be to offer it as a short free guide is yours to download, share, e-mail or whatever you wish to use it for.
This free guide does 3 things:
- Breaks down the basic definition of each platform
- Gives a snapshot of the number of user on each network
- Talks about how to apply each network for marketing your business
The market and users are on social media, your business should be too. So without further ado here is the Newbie's guide to social media platform, because it's never to late to join the party.
Download the guide free of charge at no commitment. Use as you wish, share with people you think might find it useful and enjoy.
Click this link to download this short, free guide.
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This post is part of a weekly series, on the essentials guide to Marketing Planning, and Online Brand Development.
Daisy Quaker is a freelance internet marketing consultant, specializing in social media strategy, content marketing, e-mail marketing and internet marketing strategy, find her on Twitter and tell her what strategies work for your business.


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Razer Atrox Arcade Stick Has A Release Date
After Razer's sponsored players like Fuudo and Latif have been using/testing the new Razer Atrox stick for what seems like years now, the product is finally coming to retail. Only for Xbox 360 the full feature list isn't too different from what we've seen from other manufacturers, but it does come with a screwdriver! The USB cable is also detachable and the stick is designed for easy modding with an interchangeable top panel. Check it out at razerzone.com/atrox where you can pre-order it now for $199 before its June 2013 release.


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You'd be forgiven for having that reaction to this photo of the Ames Monument, a pyramid in Wyoming built to commemorate the transcontinental railroad. But that strange, unearthly light is just the beginning of the weirdness on display here.
For the record, that strange light isn't a wormhole opening up over Wyoming - it's just the Moon. But because the image was captured just at the right moment as the Moon was setting, we can see both a bright lunar corona and a halo surrounding it.
This image, created by Colorado State University's Robert Arn, stitches together several different photos taken over the course of one night to create a single, 360-degree landscape. Because the photographs were taken at all different times, the shadows and light levels are weirdly mixed, creating a mosaic that you could never hope to see in real life. Those well-versed in the night sky should also be able to see how the stars are all wrong, with various constellations warped completely out of shape because of the random times at which photographs were taken.
If you look to the right of the image at the Ames Monument, you can see an interesting mixture of scales. All above the Ames Monument is the central band of the Milky Way galaxy, while at its bottom rights are the lights of the city of Cheyenne, creating a cool juxtaposition of the human scale and the cosmic.
You can see the full image over at NASA, and you can see a full discussion of all the weirdness in the photograph here.
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Collection Development
Digital Rights Management and Licensing
Electronic Collection Development
Selection (Includes tools and references for selecting in specific areas)
Collection Evaluation -- and De-Selection (Weeding)
See also the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Resources for Library Collections website.
Burgett, James, Linda L. Phillips, and John M. Haar. Collaborative Collection Development: A Practical Guide for Your Library. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004.
Evans, G. Edward, and Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro. Developing Library and Information Center Collections. Library and information science text series. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2005.
Hoffmann, Frank W., and Richard J. Wood. Library Collection Development Policies: Academic, Public, and Special Libraries. Good policy, good practice, no. 1. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Johnson, Peggy. Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.
Munroe, Mary Hovas, John M. Haar, and Peggy Johnson. Guide to Collection Development and Management Administration, Organization, and Staffing. Collection management and development guides, no. 10. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Perez, Alice J. Reference Collection Development: A Manual. RUSA occasional papers, no. 27. Chicago: Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association, 2004.
Cooperative Collection Development Interface: Volume 26 Number 3, Fall, 2004. Interface is the newsletter published by the ASCLA division of the ALA. This page lists all the articles that deal with the topic of cooperative collection development.
Specifically for School Libraries
Books Per Student Benchmarking
References to assist you in benchmarking your library against current national school library surveys include:
- Biannual survey which appears in the magazine, School Library Journal; the newest installment of the survey appears in the April 2009 issue, titled "School Library Journal's Spending Survey," by Lesley Farmer and Marilyn Shontz. For books per student, view Table 4. The survey indicates an average 27 books per pupil for elementary schools, 19 books per pupil for middle/junior high schools, and 16 books per pupil for (senior) high schools.
AASL Resource Guides for School Library Media Program Development: Collection Development An annotated list appropriate for all levels of school libraries.
Baldini, Michelle and Meghan Harper. [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/kqwebarchives/v36/364/354harper.cfm "Making Correlations," KQWeb, March/April 2008.
Bishop, Kay. The Collection Program in Schools: Concepts, Practices, and Information Sources. 4th ed. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
Hoffmann, Frank W., and Richard J. Wood. Library Collection Development Policies: School Libraries and Learning Resource Centers. Good policy, good practice, no. 2. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Lukenbill, W. Bernard. Collection Development for a New Century School Library Media Centre. Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 2002.
Totten, Herman L. and Risa W. Brown. Culturally Diverse Library Collections for Children. New York, Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc.: New York, 1994. Single source bibliography to help school library media specialists diversify their collections.
Reference Collections
Buckland, Michael K. 2007. "The Digital Difference in Reference Collections." Journal of Library Administration 46, no. 2: 87-100.
Delwiche, Frances A., and Nancy A. Bianchi. 2006. "Transformation of a Print Reference Collection." Medical Reference Services Quarterly 25, no. 2: 21-29.
Fernandes, Maria Isabel. 2008. "Ready Reference Collections: Thoughts on Trends." Community & Junior College Libraries 14, no. 3: 201-210.
Ford, Lyle, Lisa Hanson O'Hara, and Jared Whiklo. 2009. "Shelflessness as a Virtue: Preserving Serendipity in an Electronic Reference Collection." Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship 21, no. 3/4: 251-262.
Hellyer, Paul. 2009. "Reference 2.0: The future of shrinking print reference collections seems destined for the Web." AALL Spectrum 13, no. 5: 24-27.
Kessler, Jane. 2010. "Print Reference Collections in New York State: Report of a Survey." Journal of the Library Administration & Management Section 6, no. 2: 32-44.
Lee, Marta. 2009. "Weeding Is Not Just for Gardeners: A Case Study on Weeding A Reference Collection." Community & Junior College Libraries 15, no. 3: 129-135.
Polanka, Sue. 2006. "Options for the E-reference Collection." Booklist 103, no. 5: 93-95.
Puacz, Jeanne Holba. 2005. "Electronic vs. Print Reference Sources in Public Library Collections." Reference Librarian 44, no. 91/92: 39-51.
Quinn, Mary Ellen. 2010. "NEWS and VIEWS." Booklist 106, no. 16: 67.
Robbins, Sarah, Cheryl McCain, and Laurie Scrivener. 2006. "The Changing Format of Reference Collections: Are Research Libraries Favoring Electronic Access over Print?" Acquisitions Librarian 18, no. 35/36: 75-95.
Shachaf, Pnina, and Debora Shaw. 2008. "Bibliometric analysis to identify core reference sources of virtual reference transactions." Library & Information Science Research (07408188) 30, no. 4: 291-297.
Singer, Carol A. 2008. "Weeding Gone Wild: Planning and Implementing a Review of the Reference Collection." Reference & User Services Quarterly 47, no. 3: 256-264.
Singer, Carol A. 2010. "Ready Reference Collections A History." Reference & User Services Quarterly 49, no. 3: 253-264.


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The Internet's Broken Heart
Originally, I announced this security breach vulnerability by reblogging Tumblr's announcement of it. But now I have a few further details. This is reblogged from my Blogger blog at:
Which is reproduced below for your convenience…
By now, you have heard of the bug, "Heartbleed" that has nearly all manner of websites updating their system servers. Heartbleed is a radical security hole that was identified on April 7th, 2014, which allows malicious hackers to bypass the encryption of OpenSSL software which secures a majority of servers on the internet.
Only OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f which utilize the Heartbeat extension are at risk. You will have to contact your host in order to see what if you use the OpenSSL system and whether or not your server uses a version that is affected with the heartbeat extension compiled in.
SSL Security Certificates themselves are not broken, though if you are using OpenSSL on your server, you should have your administrator upgrade to version 1.0.1g immediately, wipe the server cache, and then reboot.
You should also advise your users that they should secure their account with a new password because of the threat this security vulnerability.
Users who participate in any membership on any website should also make the rounds, find if your service has addressed the issue, make sure that they have or will, and once they have, change your password.
This is a huge frick'n deal. It will inconvenience all of us (at the least) for a very long time. The worse case scenario is that you might have your personal information that is stored on any server, stolen. So the whole of the internet, administrators and users, have to address this issue immediately.
Art Changes the World
I saw an ad on TV for some educational program that stated "Technology Changes the World". Wrong.
Technology complicates the world, for sure. It is intended to simplify life, but in fact we have to learn how to use new tools. But the more that technology advances, the more the world stays the same. We always will rely on technology. In fact, we count on and anticipate its advances. The law is often up-ended in its failure to keep-up with the swift advance of technology, but the main thing is that right is still right and wrong is still wrong. Leveraging a computer to cheat still has to be programmed in by a human. Cheating is still wrong, that has never changed.
Part of the problem is that lawyers and lobbyists step in and muck-up the mucky-muck law to take advantage of us. The rich and corporate entities that can influence the law do so in order to take advantage of it for their own gain at our expense. Hence, you have slave labor when corporations take advantage of us by paying minimum wage with no real benefits, no significant recognition or care of its employees, while it builds millions, even billions on their backs.
It is a shame that we, as a people are so dismissed by corporate society, when we are its very core. But technology won't change that, only art will. Corporations leverage technology to their advantage, but it doesn't change their attitude or outlook, only encourages their abuse of power.
Not all rich people or large corporations are like this. The few 1%-ers and corporations that are acting responsibly usually do well by doing right by its people, treating them as family. Employees are flocking their posted career opportunities and a culture is created that is nurturing and interested in each individual's lives. But this humanity does not arrive from technology, it arrives from humans making correct decisions and doing the right thing.
So where do we pick-up these inclinations to do right by others? You can look to religion, but perhaps a more important concept is the art of parenting. It certainly doesn't come from technology, as technology doesn't teach us what to do, it only enables and enhances our opportunities to either do right or do wrong.
Technology has never changed the world. It advances civilization, and the one constant in this world is change. Technology simply allows faster and further change with a broader reach. But change, real change that tugs at our soul comes from education. The teachings of which, are art. The art of writing, the art of communication, the art of understanding, the art of compassion, even our own morality and ethics are formed in an art of our perception of the world.
If you are like me, it is the art of Michelangelo, da Vinci, Raphael, van Gogh, Monet, Cézanne, Goya that inspires us to not just do our best, but appreciate other's work, even when it is not their best. the lessons we have to learn of morality and ethics are echoed through-out literature not just in education and leadership classes, but in the art of parenting (which by no means is a science).
Technology, on the other hand, gives art a new voice, and we see this in television and digital, where concious decisions are openly made to deceive the public not only in advertising, but even through the art of journalism by deep pockets that want to use art to twist the reality of politics, news, human rights and pacify the public with how well we should be doing, how great our slave nation has become.
Don't think that the slaves weren't paid. True, very little, but in better houses they were paid a bit to maintain their lives so that they were presentable and clean. And that seems to be all the growing working class poor can afford in this country, enough to keep their nose clean, but not enough to meet any life crisis or even afford their own healthcare.
And yet, there will be those that will try to convince you that it is better to have poor, because otherwise their own profits are robbed.
No, it is not technology that changes the world, but the artists that control and mold its impressions on us, and how we allow the arts, even fashion, to grab us and take a hold of us. How art moves us, in books, education, parenting, what we see in the beauty of art, in the humanity of others and how we feel about the art that they reveal through their lives…


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On Thursday, Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, preached at a memorial service for an aborted baby girl who was finally given the proper funeral and burial she deserved.
The child was intact and her body was retrieved after a late-term abortion. The memorial service, organized by Operation Save America, was held outside of City Hall in Orlando.
"We are here because this baby was killed in the darkness, and we come to honor her in the bright light of day," Fr. Pavone declared in his remarks. "The abortion industry wants to hide the violence done to these children, but we must be committed to expose it. Therefore we need to hold many more of these services, with tens of thousands of people looking at these children and recommitting themselves to end abortion."
During the service, the name "Esther" was given to the child.
Fr. Pavone invited any pro-life activists who obtain the remains of aborted children to be in contact with him to arrange for a proper wake service and burial.
The photo shows Esther in her coffin at the service at which pro-life activists honored her body and her life.


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Congress Ratifies Confederate Constitution
The states that left the American Union in 1860 and 1861 brought with them a rich tradition of constitutionalism.
Many Southern Leaders explained their support for secession in terms of the failure of the Federal compact. Most blamed Northerners for failing to live up to their obligations, although some thought it was structural flaws in the U.S. Constitution that made secession necessary.
The Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States of America signed on February 8, 1861, created a compact among six Deep South states. The Permanent Confederate Constitution, signed on March 11, 1861, created a political structure for what became the eleven-state Confederate nation. Both documents were similar to the U.S. Constitution. The differences between the two reflected the political struggles that had led to secession.
The Constitution of the Confederate States of America was the supreme law of the Confederate States of America, as adopted on March 11, 1861 and in effect through the conclusion of the American Civil War. The Confederacy also operated under a Provisional Constitution from February 8, 1861 to March 11, 1861. The original, hand-written document is currently located in the University of Georgia archives at Athens, Georgia.
In regard to most articles of the Constitution, the document is a word-for-word duplicate of the United States Constitution. The major differences between the two constitutions was the Confederacy's greater emphasis on the rights of individual member states, and an explicit support of slavery.
More information
Constitution of the Confederate States of America
The Library of Congress (1860-1865)


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One of the things I love about working with people all around the world is that I feel like an international woman of mystery. Unfortunately, by "mystery" I mean time zones and my propensity for mixing them up, especially since I live in a country that does not participate in daylight saving time.
Missing phone appointments or calling people obscenely early in the morning is embarrassing, so I was happy to install FIO (an acronym for Figure It Out). The free Chrome extension lets you pick a 12-hour or 24-hour clock and up to five locations, including your own. It then arranges the time zones in order and assigns each of them a color that shifts throughout the day. Bright orange means afternoon, while indigo blue signifies the middle of the night.
But wait, you might be thinking, why not just use the iOS world clock (which includes a map on iPad) or one of the many similar websites out there?
The answer (at least for me) is simple. There are days when I talk to people in at least five time zones and if I have to stare at yet another row of clock faces or world map, I will go crazy. The impact on my sanity is incremental, but very real, and I thank FIO for saving a little piece of my brain. FIO's colors and format can also help cut through the mire of jet lag if you frequently travel. I plan to use it alongside World Time Buddy, an easy-to-read time zone converter.
FIO's developers plan to add features like winter and summer clocks, as well as clocks based on major time zones, like Greenwich Mean Time, and make the site fully responsive so it can be used on mobile devices, too.


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When it comes to tires, Hankook may not be a household word...unless that household is home to a family of autocrossers who spend their free time crazily flinging cars around cones on abandoned airfields. Consider the most recent Tire Rack SCCA Solo Nationals in Lincoln, Nebraska, where the most popular street-tire class consisting of Honda S2000s, Mazda Miatas and the odd Toyota MR2 Spyder was running almost entirely on the Hankook Ventus R-S3. Thirteen of the top 17 trophy positions (64 entrants total) in Street Touring Roadster were on Hankooks in this hyper-competitive class, where the difference in time between 1st and 5th (the sum of a competitor's best runs on two separate, roughly 70-second courses) was 0.159 sec! Sneeze during one of these runs, and you'd drop five spots.
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But this Korean juggernaut has been quietly making inroads with mainstream passenger-car and light truck/SUV tires too (the Optimo and Dynapro lines, respectively) with more OE fitments by the day. The first big score was in 2004 when Hankook began supplying tires for the most American vehicle imaginable, the Ford F-150 pickup, the start of partnership with Ford that would grow to 3.5 million tires by 2006. Besides more obvious supply relationships with Kia and Hyundai, Hankook boasts the following clients: Chrysler, GM, Volkswagen, Navistar (a manufacturer of trucks and buses) and most recently, Mini, with the V-rated Ventus Prime² in a 195/55R-16 size for the Cooper S model.
100 Million Tires a Year by 2014
Currently the world's 7th-largest tiremaker, Hankook is growing rapidly, with plants under construction in Bekasi, Indonesia, and Chongqing, China, to augment existing plants in Korea (Daejon and Geumsan), China (Jiangsu and Jiaxing) and Racalmas, Hungary. This will take yearly production from roughly 89.5 million tires in 2011 to 100 million by end of 2014, in the process tying Pirelli for 5th largest. (By Hankook's reckoning, the four biggest manufacturers, in descending order, are Bridgestone Corp., Group Michelin, Goodyear and Continental AG.)
Hankook will accomplish this through a high level of automation, as we witnessed in a tour through the Geumsan plant, a 2-hour bus ride south of Seoul. Inside, one of the first things you notice is the eerie scarcity of humans. Laser-guided carts carrying rolls of rubber strips glide noiselessly toward preprogrammed destinations; there's the muted clatter of tires criss-crossing in chutes on ball-bearing rollers; and the whir of tires being spun up for dimensional accuracy checks. It's quite a contrast to the cacophony sometimes found in automobile final assembly plants. The workers oversee operation of the machinery, and a white-gloved technician hand-inspects each finished tire before applying a seal of approval, in the form of a bar-code decal on the tire's bead.
A Tire is Born
Although we weren't allowed to take close-ups of any particular process or machine (understandably, Hankook wants to keep its trade secrets close to the vest), we were given a good overall feel for how a tire comes to life. The initial step of mixing the rubber compounds, however, was completely out of view at a remote facility. Here, natural rubber, carbon black, silica, and a smattering of other secret ingredients are folded together in what's called a Banbury mixer, whose rotating elements are not unlike the vanes of a Roots-type supercharger.
Silica is wonderful stuff in that it can greatly reduce rolling resistance and improve wet and snow traction; the hard part is mixing it uniformly and getting it to adhere well to the compound's other components. And it's here that Hankook feels it has an advantage over its competitors.
Once the rubber is mixed, it's extruded into sheets of various thicknesses. Next comes a process called calendaring, where sheets of rubber are bonded to both sides of a sheet of belt material, whether it's steel, nylon, or other textile. Next, these calendared sheets are machine-cut to the required width, and the ends are cut to a specified angle. In a separate process, the tire's beads are pre-built, starting with hoops of brass-coated steel wire that are encased with an extruded filler.
It all comes together on a winding drum, where sheets that form the inner liner, internal plies and tread are stretched and wrapped around a cylinder, the sticky rubber acting as its own adhesive. The beads are slid on next (again, the machine operator oversees the process but never has to touch the tire), and then a quick burst of air inflates the assemblage into something that actually resembles a tire, albeit a puffy one you might see on an Alaskan Piper Super Cub. It's called a "green tire" at this stage.
In the final major step, the green tire is fed into a 2-piece mold that will give the finished tire its tread pattern and sidewall markings. Here, with a combination of heat and 120 metric tons of pressure, the tire undergoes the curing/vulcanization process. The heat (supplied by steam) and curing time varies with the type of tire. Truck tires? More of a crock-pot approach, with a cure time of 36–40 minutes at a temperature of 248 degrees F. Something like a Ventus R-S3? Just 12 minutes at a higher temperature, 280 degrees F. A more common passenger-car tire needs just 8–10 minutes.
After this, certain tires have their molding nubs shaved off, and down the line it's a series of computerized checks. Tires are given grades of A, B and C, with A-grade tires ready for shipping. B-grade tires can be reworked slightly to conform to A standards, while C-grade tires don't make the cut at all. A C-grade tire is a rare bird indeed....just 0.0001 percent of Hankook's tires achieve this infamy.
It's a fascinating process. There's a lot we take for granted when we jump into our cars and drive along on these amazing pneumatic donuts, whether it's a cruise to grandma's house or a violent slalom through a series of orange cones.


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Not only that: a big-ass telescope that you can attach a camera to.
The Celestron CGE 1400 Aplantic Telescope is not for amateurs, unless you're an amateur with $10,000 to blow on a telescope that looks like it wouldn't fit in most single-car garages. For all you true Astrophotographers out there, the full details are available from Celestron. For those of you who'd rather just make jokes about what Adam Frucci may be looking at, I highly recommend the comments section below.


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Remembering Bill Thurston, Mathematician Who Helped Us Understand the Shape of the Universe
Even as he contributed to theoretical physics, Bill's work was proof that the most abstract math can have gorgeous practical applications.
Mathematicians and math enthusiasts are mourning the loss of William P. Thurston, who had a special place in the profession. Bill was one of our star authors when I worked at Princeton University Press, and a delightful person to edit and publish, paradoxically because he was a perfectionist who would not rush into print. Our anticipation only grew as we worked with him, and was more than justified. His long-awaited Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology is one of the most acclaimed books in its field.
Topology studies possible geometric deformations without tearing or cutting, regardless of measurements. (An old joke defines a topologist as somebody who can't tell the difference between a doughnut and a coffee cup.) The New York Times' obituary reminded me of how practical his work could be despite its apparent abstraction:
[C]osmologists have drawn on Dr. Thurston's discoveries in their search for the shape of the universe.
On a more unlikely note, his musings about the possible shapes of the universe inspired the designer Issey Miyake's 2010 ready-to-wear collection, a colorful series of draped and asymmetrical forms. The fashion Web site Style.com reported that after the show, the house's designer and Dr. Thurston "wrapped themselves for the press in a long stretch of red tubing to make the point that something that looks random is actually (according to Thurston) 'beautiful geometry.'"
Mathematicians can cite many other examples of surprising applications. Could the 19th-century founders of mathematical logic have imagined where Alan Turing would take their new field a hundred years later? With the computer science that Turing founded, the once-abstract field of number theory became a foundation of cryptography. The mathematics of origami have contributed to designing solar sails and automotive airbags. In the 1980s, the topological subfield of knot theory became a powerful tool in particle physics. Symposia have already been held on applications of topology to the design of industrial robots. I've even read the statement -- but haven't been able to find the reference again -- that every significant pure math idea has an application. We just haven't discovered some yet.
All this is timely, because in some quarters of neo-mercantilist, managerial academia, some mathematics is considered too pure for the national economy, especially in the UK.
In a famous paper on the uncanny way that math describes reality, the physicist Eugene Wigner concluded:
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.
Bill Thurston was one of the great bestowers of that gift.


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The worst earthquake to hit the Caribbean in 200 years struck Haiti on Tuesday. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the Haitian Capital of Port-au-Prince, where it devastated the tiny nation, causing an unknown number of deaths and widespread destruction. But despite being the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti's Internet connected devices were key tools in telling the rest of the world about the emerging crisis.
Twitter, Blogs, and Facebook
Twitter was a key tool for distributing images and information from Haiti -- just as it has been in a number of other crises across the globe. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that images sent via Twitpic and other Twitter-based photo services were hitting the Internet long before news agencies produced anything similar. And as Haitian officials were giving their reports on what happened, eyewitness accounts from Haitians in messages of 140 characters or less were already widespread.
Haitian radio and television host Carel Pedre was one of the most prominent figures using Twitter to communicate with the outside world. "DIGICEL IS WORKING! CALL UR FAMILY NOW!!" Pedre posted in one tweet early Wednesday morning. Another Twitter user, Miami-based Marvin Ady, posted photos on Twitpic he said he'd been receiving from Haiti. Richard Morse used Twitter to convey a sense of how the people were reacting to the devastation: "I'm hearing singing and praying from the carrefour feuilles area. My prayers go out to the folks there."
A Wordpress-powered blog called Haitifeed is also delivering a steady stream of first-hand accounts as well as mainstream media reports from across the globe.
Reports from citizen journalists are also coming in to CNN's iReport desk where they are vetted by CNN's editorial staff.
On Facebook, a group called Earthquake Haiti already has over 14,000 members. The group is largely being used for people to show support and trade news reports; however, there are some users who seem to be posting critical information including pleas for assistance to injured Haitians.
With telephone service toppled due to the earthquake, those on the ground turned to Skype to speak with the media, aid organizations, or to communicate with loved ones overseas. A Connecticut-based missionary organization that works in Haiti used Skype to communicate with their people there to get a sense of the devastation. Pedre also used Skype to give CBS News and many other media organizations a first-hand report about Haiti's crisis.
What's not clear, however, is whether Haitians are using these technologies to communicate and help each other. From what I've seen so far, the use of tools like Twitter and Facebook are more helpful for delivering news about Haiti to the outside world instead of aiding those directly affected by the crisis--a recurring theme that we've already seen play out in places like Iran and India.
Connect with Ian on Twitter (@ianpaul).
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caption="A little misunderstanding over a big red button."]
(CNN) - When it comes to Russia, the Obama administration has been talking about "pressing the reset button." It's meant to symbolize a possible new start in U.S./Russian relations, which "crashed" after Russia invaded Georgia last August.
So when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greeted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva Friday before sitting down to their working dinner, she was all smiles when she presented him a small green box with a ribbon.
Lavrov opened it and, inside, there was a red button with the Russian word "peregruzka" printed on it.
"I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: 'We want to reset our relationship, and so we will do it together.' ...
"We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?" she asked Lavrov, laughing.
"You got it wrong," said Lavrov, as both diplomats laughed.
"It should be "perezagruzka" [the Russian word for reset]," said Lavrov."This says 'peregruzka,' which means 'overcharged.'"
A quick comeback – and recovery – from Clinton: "We won't let you do that to us, I promise. We mean it and we look forward to it."
Ever the diplomat, Lavrov says he'll put the "reset" button on his desk.
A few minutes later, Clinton senior adviser Philippe Reines sent an e-mail message to reporters covering the Secretary of State.
"Since we're all learning a little Russian today, 'opechatka' is Russian for 'typo,'" he wrote. "So the *Opechatka* is being fixed, the gift will correctly read 'Perezagruzka' by the time of the joint press conference. If any of you travel with labelmaking devices equipped with Russian spell-check, please do let me know..."
Hmmmm, alright, not bad...just don't look him in the eye Hillary! LOL!!!
You'd think they'd have a translator on staff, or access to one, at least. Good thing they didn't accidentally come up with a dirty word, or something like that.
I'm sure no one on this blog has ever made a mistake...you're all perfect, right? I think it's a funny story in an otherwise gloomy week. If they laughed...why aren't you?
We are the ones that got the "overcharged" button.
Big government, you know.
To hell with the typo, did nobody at the State Department think it was bad taste to photographically symbolize relations between the US and Russia with two foreign ministers pushing a red button......even as a joke? Guess it's a good thing "peregruzka" doesn't translate to "launch."
What's the Russian word for "we-surrender-so-feel-free-to-invade-and- take-over-whoever-and-whatever-you-want-button?"
I wouldn't be joking about any buttons with the former Soviet Union...
Fire the fool who made that mistake.
Its not funny.
Wars can start over the wrong words.
GREAT, a Sec. of State who uses idiomatic expressions. World War III, here we come...
Ha haha!!! this is laughable and a bit side numbing. President Bush made huge flops everyday and he can't pronounce a simple word, yet I have seen a Republican wince at his misquotes.
There must be mistakes in every corner and correction will always work as long as no pun is meant.
The best minds can't get everything correct but since this was so important (the reset button) it should have been right.
Chalk it up to human mistake and not a dumb or ignorant flip. After all the years Bush spent as President, he still can't pronounce nuclear.
Glad they had a laugh over it. We all need a sense of humor.
A little levity used to make a point. Way too subtle for the average Republican! No wonder they're getting worked up.
Wanted: Russian Translator
Where: U.S. Department of State
Starting Date: Earlier this afternoon
Hillary is the only Obama's senior cabinet member who is doing a decent job. Obama's economic team appears still impotent with the bad economy we are in.
Hillary is a breathe of fresh air, who is comfortable in eihter foreign palaces or poor villages. She was welcome by the Empress of Japan to her home during Hillary's visit there, and no other american secretary of state could have been given this privilege.


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Outcome of the OECD workshop on metals specificities in environmental risk assessment
On 7-8 September 2011, the OECD organized a workshop in Paris on metals specificities in environmental risk assessment.
The goals of the workshop were to :
Concepts of bioavailability, effects assessments, fate and bioaccumulation specific to metals were presented with illustrative examples. Participants generally agreed with proposed concepts and recommended the development of further guidance on BLM application, on statistical approaches for SSD derivation, the application of more stringent relevancy criteria for the selection of test data, and further discussion on the interpretation of bioconcentration and bioaccumulation for metals.
Below are the presentations from speakers at the workshop:
Generic presentations :
Session A- Bioavailability
Session B- Effects assessment
Session C- Bioaccumulation and fate
Workshop report (will be available towards the end of 2011)
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Facebook Effect: Foursquare Had Its Most Signups Ever Today — Leading up to Facebook's location announcement, there were two schools of thought. Either you thought Facebook Places was going to destroy Foursquare. Or you thought that this new service would help the startup by bringing more awareness to the location field.
Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, ReadWriteWeb and Softpedia News, more at Mediagazer »
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Is Facebook Places a Foursquare killer? CEO Dennis Crowley isn't worried
Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb: Foursquare Notes Record New Signups, The Day After Facebook Places Launches
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Confusing Stages Of Opting Into Facebook Places — Earlier today we had a bit of a fire-drill at TechCrunch Headquarters. As I checked into TCHQ on Facebook Places, I also tagged a few of my coworkers, fully expecting their checkins to be delayed until they actually opted into the feature …
Discussion: Gawker
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
One Big Reason Why Facebook Places Beats Foursquare: Clarity of Identity — So Facebook has begun rolling out Places, its answer to Foursquare, Gowalla, MyTown, and every other mobile service that lets you broadcast your location by checking into local businesses and other locations.
Discussion: Ray Valdes, PC Magazine, louisgray.com, Boy Genius Report and Guardian
Lance Ulanoff / PC Magazine: Facebook Places Will Crush Foursquare
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report: Foursquare CEO responds to Facebook's launch of 'Places'
Paul Smith / Guardian: Facebook Places: should Craigslist be worried?
Kurt / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
How to Protect Your Privacy on Facebook Places
How to Protect Your Privacy on Facebook Places
Discussion: Ars Technica, OUT-LAW News, PC World, Bloomberg, WebProNews and Logic+Emotion
Juan Carlos Perez / PC World: Experts Give Preliminary OK to Facebook Places
Benny Evangelista / Bloomberg: Facebook's Places raises more privacy debate
Chris Crum / WebProNews: Checking In with Facebook Places
David Armano / Logic+Emotion: Facebook Places From A User Perspective
Vic Gundotra / Google Mobile Blog:
To 100 million and beyond with Google Maps for mobile — Almost five years ago, we launched Google Maps for mobile to help you get where you needed to go from your phone instead of a paper map. Today, more than 100 million people a month are now using Google Maps for mobile to get from point A to point B …
Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, FM Blog, 901am, SheGeeks.net, Erictric, WebProNews, Screenwerk, The Social, Search Engine Land and dailywireless.org
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Google touts mobile maps as Facebook launches Places
John Battelle / FM Blog: Friday Signal: Crowdsourcing the Placeweb
Corvida Raven / SheGeeks.net: Mobile News Wave: Facebook Places, Foursquare, and Google
Bertrand Vasquez / Erictric: Google Maps for Mobile Now Used by 100 Million Individuals Every Month
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Google Counts 100 Million Maps For Mobile Users
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: Just in Case you Forgot about Google Places
Caroline McCarthy / The Social: Facebook Places: One check-in to rule them all
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: Making Sense of Facebook Places
Sid Yadav / VentureBeat:
Google's social czar picks a location fight with Facebook — Google's timing can be peculiar — but rarely coincidental. A day after Facebook launched its first location feature, the search giant revealed in a blog post Thursday that more than 100 million users check Google Maps on mobile devices.
Discussion: CNET News
Tom Krazit / CNET News: Facebook Places takes aim at Google
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Tries To Steal Facebook's Thunder, Plays Up Impressive Maps Userbase
Google Tries To Steal Facebook's Thunder, Plays Up Impressive Maps Userbase
Discussion: Google LatLong and The Official Google Blog
Shannon Guymon / The Official Google Blog: Biking directions added to Google Maps
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Time Inc. breaks the iPad logjam — This week's People app is free to subscribers. Time, SI and Fortune are expected to follow — Image: Time Inc. — There's more to the iPad issue of People that appeared on the Apple (AAPL) App Store this morning than Sandra Bullock's new joy.
Discussion: MobileContentToday, iPad Weekly, blogs.ft.com, PadGadget, MarketingVOX, AppleInsider, everythingiCafe, MacRumors, MacDailyNews and iLounge
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / blogs.ft.com: People get ready — If you've been having trouble keeping …
Tim Barribeau / everythingiCafe: Magazine Subscribers Get Free iPad Editions
Charles Starrett / iLounge: iPad digital magazine apps gain print subscription option
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
People Magazine Subscribers to Receive Free Access on iPads
People Magazine Subscribers to Receive Free Access on iPads
Discussion: Gizmodo
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel exec Renee James discusses goals for McAfee (Q&A) — Renee J. James, senior vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group at Intel, discussed Intel plans to buy security company McAfee for $7.68 billion in an interview with CNET on Thursday.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Intel Buys Cyber Security Giant McAfee For $7.68 Billion In Cash
Intel Buys Cyber Security Giant McAfee For $7.68 Billion In Cash
Discussion: The Register, Digits, Bloomberg, Telegraph, cloud computing, Associated Press, News Stories, Mashable!, New York Times, CNET News, BBC, DealBook, Computerworld, eWeek, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily, Pulse2, Boy Genius Report, McAfee Security Insights Blog, Hardware 2.0 Blog, PC World, Silicon Alley Insider, DailyTech, Softpedia News, Geek.com, Macsimum News, I4U News, TechFlash, dailywireless.org, The Firewall, VentureBeat, Reuters, Associated Press, Financial Times, Fast Company, internetnews.com, Graham Cluley's blog, Smallbiztechnology.com, Ars Technica, WebProNews, SFGate, Teens in Tech, Xconomy, ReadWriteWeb, SmoothSpan Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Guardian, Download Squad, MacNN, BetaNews, Techie Buzz, 24/7 Wall St., Inquirer, Digital Daily, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, Neowin.net, broadstuff, GigaOM, Black Web 2.0, Tech Eye, Between the Lines Blog and silicontap.com
Roger Cheng / Digits: Intel's McAfee Deal Could Boost Mobile Plays
Patrick Darling / News Stories: Intel to Acquire McAfee
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Intel Acquires McAfee For $7.68 Billion
Ashlee Vance / New York Times: Intel Buys McAfee for More Than $7.6 Billion
Lance Whitney / CNET News: Intel to buy McAfee for $7.68 billion
Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld: Intel-McAfee deal baffles security analysts
Don Reisinger / eWeek: Intel Buys McAfee: 10 Possible Outcomes
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget: Intel acquires McAfee for $7.68 billion
Amit Chowdhry / Pulse2: Intel Acquires Anti-Virus Company McAfee For $7.68 Billion
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report: Intel to buy McAfee in $7.7 billion deal
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0 Blog: Why did Intel buy McAfee for $7.7 billion?
Tony Bradley / PC World: Making Sense of the Intel McAfee Purchase
Joe Weisenthal / Silicon Alley Insider: Another Mega Deal: Intel Buying McAfee For $7.7 Billion
Matthew Humphries / Geek.com: Intel to acquire McAfee for $7.68 billion
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: Intel to acquire McAfee
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Intel buys McAfee
Sam Churchill / dailywireless.org: Intel Buying McAfee for $7.68B
Richard Stiennon / The Firewall: Intel Should Not Consummate McAfee Acquisition
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: Intel buys security software firm McAfee for $7.68B
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press: Intel buys McAfee for $7.7B in push beyond PCs
Quin Street Corporation / internetnews.com: Intel Acquiring Security Vendor McAfee for $7.7B
Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley's blog: Intel sells anti-virus business, waits 12 years, buys anti-virus business
Chris Crum / WebProNews: Intel Buys McAfee for $7.68 billion
Daniel Brusilovsky / Teens in Tech: Intel Picks Up McAfee For $7.68 Billion In Cash
Wade Roush / Xconomy: Mega-Merger: Intel Buys McAfee
Klint Finley / ReadWriteWeb: Securing the Internet of Things: Intel Buys McAfee
Josh Halliday / Guardian: Intel to buy McAfee
Lee Mathews / Download Squad: Intel buys McAfee for nearly $8 billion
Pallab De / Techie Buzz: Intel Acquires McAfee for $7.68 Billion
Lawrence Latif / Inquirer: Intel shells out $7.68 billion for McAfee
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Intel Gets into Protection Racket, Buys McAfee for $7.7 Billion
Tzvi Friedman / Neowin.net: Intel buys McAfee, has hardware security in the crosshairs
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: Clouds an' McAfee — Intel bought McAfee fo 60% over share price today - GigaOm:
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Intel to Buy McAfee for $7.68B to Secure Its Growth in the Cloud
Mike Magee / Tech Eye: Intel buys McAfee for $7.68 billion
Andrew Nusca / Between the Lines Blog: Intel to acquire McAfee for $7.68 billion; cloud security becomes key priority
Andrew Jaquith / Forrester Blogs:
Intel-McAfee: Horseless Carriage Vendor Buys Buggy-Whips
Intel-McAfee: Horseless Carriage Vendor Buys Buggy-Whips
David DeWalt / McAfee Security Insights Blog: McAfee Agrees To Be Acquired By Intel
Mike Rothman / Securosis Blog: McAfee: A (Secure) Chip on Intel's Block
Tom Simonite / Technology Review: Intel Seeks Security in Silicon
Neil J. Rubenking / PC Magazine: Analyst's View: Intel Buys McAfee, Thousands Cheer?
Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg: Intel to Buy McAfee for $7.68 Billion
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: Intel's McAfee Buyout Inspires Head Scratching
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Google Founders Sergey Brin And Larry Page Get Feature Film Treatment — EXCLUSIVE: The founders of Facebook aren't the only game-changing geeks poised to have their story told on a movie screen. Michael London's Groundswell Productions has teamed with producer John Morris to acquire movie rights …
Discussion: VentureBeat, Fortune, Gizmodo, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Gizmodo Australia, more at Mediagazer »
Seth Weintraub / Fortune: Feature film to be made of Google founders
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Google founders may get their own Hollywood film
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Exclusive: Dell Thunder prototype preview (video) — Christmas came early at Engadget HQ this year, as evidenced by the picture above — you're looking at two Dell Thunder prototype smartphones, each with some surprising quirks, and hints that they might include global HSPA, AWS for T-Mobile, and maybe even a dash of CDMA support.
Discussion: Softpedia News, Fone Arena, Android and Me, IntoMobile, Electronista, TmoNews and Phones Review
Omkar Dutta / Fone Arena: Dell Thunder Prototypes Previewed
Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me: Dell Thunder prototypes get hands-on treatment
Blake Stimac / IntoMobile: Dell Thunder Android phone prototype previewed, loved
Andrew / TmoNews: T-Mobile to Hear (Dell) Thunder?
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple testing iOS 4.1 alongside next-gen iPod touch, iPad and 'unknown' product — Apple is internally testing the first material update to its iOS 4.0 mobile operating system against a handful of new devices, including next-generation iPod touches, an iPad revision, and an "unknown" product, AppleInsider has discovered.
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, MacRumors Page 2, I4U News, The Apple Core Blog, Phones Review, everythingiCafe, iLounge and Gizmodo Australia, Thanks:usamabenn
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac: Apple testing unknown device for iOS 4.1?
Eric Slivka / MacRumors Page 2: Model Identifiers for Next-Generation iOS Devices Again Appear in iOS 4.1
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: iOS 4.1 beta Config File reveals new iPod touch, new iPad …
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core Blog: iOS 4.1b3 outs iPod touch hardware refresh
Tim Barribeau / everythingiCafe: Apple Testing New iPod Touch, iPad, And Something Else?
Charles Starrett / iLounge: Unknown Apple device appears in internal iOS 4.1 code
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo Australia: Apple Tests iOS 4.1 In Mysterious Gadget
David Pogue / New York Times:
State of the Art: OpenDNS Simplifies Life for Web Users — I'm about to make your life better. No need to thank me. — But first, a warning: On the way to understanding how your life will get better, you'll have to read about some technical, fairly arcane topics. Trust me: It'll be worth it.
Discussion: Lockergnome Blog Network
Matt Hartley / Lockergnome Blog Network: OpenDNS Has A History Of Stability
Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:
Auto-Tune the News Hits the Billboard Top 100 — Online video stars The Gregory Brothers continue making strides towards world domination. Their latest hit Auto-Tune the News single, Bed Intruder, debuted at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 today. — Billboard uses a number …
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
A smartphone retrospective — This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007: — Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws. — Then this happened:
Discussion: Scripting News
James Niccolai / Computerworld:
HP: WebOS tablet coming early next year — Hewlett-Packard will release a tablet PC based on Palm's webOS operating system in "early 2011," the head of HP's PC division said Thursday. — Hewlett-Packard will release a tablet PC based on Palm's webOS operating system in "early 2011," the head of HP's PC division said Thursday.
Discussion: Engadget, PreCentral.net, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, netbooknews.com, 9 to 5 Mac and CrunchGear
Sean Hollister / Engadget: HP confirms webOS tablet for 'early 2011'
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net: Official: webOS Tablet coming in 'Early 2011'
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: HP says rival tablet sales weakened laptop revenues; confirms HP tablet coming
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint: HP WebOS tablet confirmed
Peter Cartwright / netbooknews.com: HP webOS Tablet Coming Q1 2011 (Update - Confirmed)
Matt Burns / CrunchGear: HP Confirmed The Palmpad's Rumored 2011 Launch
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Hurd's last hurrah: HP hits earnings targets
Hurd's last hurrah: HP hits earnings targets
Discussion: Inquirer, Tech Eye, Business Wire, Datamation, eWeek, Neural Net Worth, Electronista and Between the Lines Blog
Shaun Nichols / Inquirer: HP posts strong quarterly results
Quin Street Corporation / Datamation: HP Posts Solid 3Q Results As Post-Hurd Era Begins
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek: HP Posts Strong Enterprise Sales, but No Hurd Replacement
Quentin Hardy / Neural Net Worth: Odds Rise Insider Gets HP Spot
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog: Is it Dell's time to shine vs. HP?
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple adds "Compare Macs" option to Apple Store — Apple on Thursday added a new option to its online Apple Store called "Compare Macs." — The new option allows customers to quickly bring up specs on the hardware, included software and technical specifications for each system.
Discussion: Softpedia News, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacStories and TUAW
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Store adds 'Compare Macs' feature
Eric Slivka / MacRumors: Apple Tweaks Online Store With 'Compare Macs' …
Federico Viticci / MacStories: Apple Launches "Compare Macs" Option in Apple Store
Dave Caolo / TUAW: "Compare Macs" option added to Apple Store
Chris Tolles / TechCrunch:
When Attorneys General Attack — Earlier this year Topix CEO Chris Tolles got the call no one wants to get - that they are under investigation by a government entity. Two attorneys general, one of which was deep into his senate run, were leveling accusations of abuse at Topix.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Why Are There So Many Porn Ads on Britney Spears' Facebook Page? — Britney Spears' official Facebook page, which has over four million fans, is rife with links to escort services. — Apologies for the link-bait, but it's true: Britney Spears' Facebook page is overrun with erotic pictures …
Discussion: the Econsultancy blog
Patricio Robles / the Econsultancy blog: There's no such thing as "cruise control" with social media
Justin Uberti / juberjabber:
Google voice and video - now available for Linux! — Google voice and video chat is now available in Gmail for Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions. As the comments on this blog indicate, I know many folks have been waiting very patiently for this day!
Discussion: Gmail Blog, Google Operating System, Softpedia News, Digit - Tech News and NewsGrange
Tristan Schmelcher / Gmail Blog: Use Linux? Now you can video chat too
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: Gmail Voice and Video Chat for Linux
Kshitij Sobti / Digit - Tech News: Google bring voice and video chat to Linux
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange: Google Brings Voice and Video Chat to Linux
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
What's that phone number? Google disables area code look-up tool — Got a call from a strange number? If you were in front of a computer, you could have used Google to look up where that caller probably was phoning from before you heard the second ring.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Rogue Apple Exec Trashes Rivals' 'Mediocre Engineers' — It's amazing that Phillip Shoemaker still works at Apple. The app store director obsessed with porn and escorts, as we reported yesterday, has also used Twitter to attack execs at rival companies and media critics, we've learned.
Discussion: Computerworld, Neowin.net and Cult of Mac
Brandon Boyce / Neowin.net: Director of Apple's app store sells his own fart apps
John Brownlee / Cult of Mac: App Store Director Has Side Job Making Fart Apps
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Groupon Having A $4 Million Day Thanks To The Gap — Groupon is having a smashing day, likely generating over $4 million in net revenue, thanks to a deal with the Gap. — Today's Groupon gives users a $25 discount at the Gap if consumers spend over $50 at the store.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Forbes, the Econsultancy blog, Future Tense and Blog.games.com
Christopher Steiner / Forbes: Meet The Fastest Growing Company Ever
Patricio Robles / the Econsultancy blog: Groupon goes national with Gap
John Moe / Future Tense: GROUPON BREAKS THE WHOLE TEH INTERWEBZ.
Kinsey Jamison / Blog.games.com: Get Playfish Cash and a deal at Gap with Groupon