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Nonprofits: Leave A Comment for a Chance to Win a Dell Computer with Windows 8
Today, I was honored to be one of the changemakers interviewed in Catchafire's Generosity Series, a celebration and investigation of bold generosity with the goal of understanding its causes, its benefits, and how to inspire more. The goal of the series is to understand how small acts of generosity rather than exclusively deep-pocketed philanthropy can make a difference.
To celebrate, I'm giving away TWO Dell Computers equipped with Windows 8. I've been doing giveaways on this blog for years, mostly books that I've read and wanted to give a copy to a deserving nonprofit. I've also been lucky to have been offered items like printers to giveaway as part of a promotion. A few weeks ago, the agency for the Microsoft Windows team for small and midsize business activities invited me to host a giveaway for two Dell XPS 12 PCs with Windows 8 to get them into the hands of nonprofits. How could I say no to that?
How To Enter:
I will pick two nonprofits based on the answers to this question: How could a new Dell Computer with Windows 8 help your nonprofit have more social impact? If you want a chance to win, please add a comment to this post with your answer and also include: Your nonprofit organization's name and web site url and your email. I will accept comments on this post until Dec. 31st and announce the winners in early January.
Let me give you more information on the specs of these two items:
Windows 8 Pro
- Windows 8 Pro was created especially with small and midsize businesses in mind and delivers the experiences people want, along with new levels of productivity, security and mobility, without sacrificing performance or choice.
- Windows 8 Pro includes everything people love about Windows 7 Professional but is faster, higher performing and more beautiful.
- Windows 8 Pro offers a completely reimagined experience for small and midsize businesses from the moment they boot their device, with things like Picture Password and the new Start screen that is built of tiles and allows users to put the things they rely on and care about most for their business right in front of them.
- Another key benefit of Windows 8 Pro is the option to pick between using touch or a traditional mouse and keyboard. The capability to have one app that can easily be used on a touch screen or be used with mouse and keyboard just as effectively gives businesses the choice to use the kind of hardware that makes them the most productive – like the Dell XPS 12.
- Windows 8 Pro has great new features that make it easier for businesses to get connected and stay connected, whether they're on-site with a customer, waiting for a flight or working from a coffee shop – with things like built-in mobile broadband, Remote Desktop and Offline Files.
- Windows 8 Pro offers users increased security with the added feature of BitLocker – which helps protect business data on PCs that include a TPM chip and encrypts hard drives more quickly, helping to keep data safe without significantly interrupting worker productivity – and also Trusted Boot that helps protect the end-to-end boot process and virtually eliminates the possibility for malware to interfere with the boot process or hide from antimalware software.
- Windows 8 Pro has been designed to simplify the way the system works with things like being built to deploy right alongside an existing Windows 7 system, meaning existing processes and tools for managing and updating systems will keep working the same way in Windows 8 Pro as they did in Windows 7.
- Also, Windows 8 Pro now offers the Windows Store, which already offers hundreds of apps and provides easy access to Windows 8 apps that can be run from the Start screen. These apps are full screen, easy to use and provide small and midsize businesses close contact with the information that's most important to them.
Dell XPS 12
- The Dell XPS 12 allows you to go from work to play on a convertible and multi-touch 12″ Ultrabook and tablet made with premium materials and craftsmanship.
- Flexible Design. Transform the Dell XPS 12 Ultrabook to a tablet with a fluid flip-and-fold motion with its premium flip-hinge design. Have the best of productivity and entertainment right at your fingertips.
- Introducing Windows 8. The Dell XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook works with the new Windows 8 Pro operating system to deliver the latest apps for work and play in an enhanced touch-based experience — all without sacrificing PC functionality.
- Always up to date. No more waiting. Intel Smart Connect Technology automatically updates email, work contacts, social networks and favorite apps, even when the Dell XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook is in sleep mode.
- Premium Craftsmanship. The Dell XPS 12 convertible Ultrabook is constructed from durable materials — machined aluminum, bonded Corning Gorilla Glass and carbon fiber — for an experience that's premium in every way.
For more about the computers, see this post on the Windows Blog
How To Enter:
I will pick two nonprofits based on the answers to this question: How could a new Dell Computer with Windows 8 help your nonprofit have more social impact? If you want a chance to win, please add a comment to this post with your answer and also include: Your nonprofit organization's name and web site url and your email. I will accept comments on this post until Dec. 31st and announce the winners in early January.
Update: Winners:
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Africana Studies
Studies (University of Pennsylvania)
The African Studies Center at Penn is an interdisciplinary program that offers undergraduate students an opportunity to explore the historic and cultural diversity of sub-Saharan African peoples.
Studies Center (Michigan State University)
The African Studies Center at Michigan State University coordinates teaching, research, and public service programs related to Africa throughout the university. A wide variety of courses on Africa are taught in various disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and professional fields.
and African American Studies (University of Kansas)
African and African-American Studies are disciplinary pursuits. Fields of study focus mainly on the humanities and the social sciences and are genuinely interdisciplinary.
African and Afro-American
Studies (Washington University)
African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University, St. Louis is an interdisciplinary academic program, largely concentrated in the social sciences and the humanities. Principal geographical areas of concentration are the sub-Saharan African continent and the United States of America.
James S. Coleman African Studies Center (UCLA)
The African Studies Center at UCLA was established in 1959 to further stimulate the growing national interest in the region and to develop outreach, academic, and research programs on Africa.
Center for African Studies (University of California - Berkeley)
The Center was established in 1979 as an interdisciplinary research center to support basic research and training of scholars. The Center provides opportunities for students majoring in traditionally defined fields to develop a comprehensive interdisciplinary program in African Studies.
Studies Resource Center (University of Kansas)
The African Studies Resource Center represents the African Studies Council of more than thirty Africanists across the University of Kansas. It is one of several area studies centers that reports to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and works with the Graduate School and Office of International Programs.
African Studies Program (Ohio University)
The African Studies Program at Ohio University, designated a Title VI National Resource Center for Africa, provides students, scholars and members of the broader community opportunities to develop their understanding of this important world region. Facilities for research and language instruction, as well as formal degree studies are available through the program. Students may earn a Master of Arts in International Affairs (MAIA) degree with a major in African Studies through the Center for International Studies.
Department of African-American and African
Studies (Ohio State University)
The primary mission of the African-American and African Studies Department is to stimulate teaching and research about the Black experience in the U.S., Africa and throughout the African Diaspora.
of African Studies (Northwestern University)
In 1948, Melville J. Herskovits convened Northwestern's Program of African Studies (PAS). The first center of its kind in over nearly half a century, scholars associated with the Program have produced vital and innovative scholarship and trained over three hundred Africanists through the doctorate.
Studies Center (Boston University)
The African Studies Center at Boston University, established in 1953, was one of the first graduate programs in the United States to offer a multidisciplinary African Studies curriculum.
Studies (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
The African Studies Outreach Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has constructed this World Wide Web server with the Educator and the general Africanist in mind.
Studies (Central Connecticut State University)
The African Studies Program is a part of the Central Connecticut State University International Area Studies Program.
Studies Resources (Princeton University)
These resources are provided by the University of Princeton African Web Site, it includes a compehensive archive on Africa-related resources.
Joint Center for African Studies
On May 18, 1991 the Stanford Committee on African Studies (CAS) voted to offer a certificate in African Studies to undergraduates fulfilling the requirements which were set following consultation with the Director of the Program in African and Afro-American Studies and the directors of other area studies programs at Stanford.
for Afroamerican and African Studies (University of Michigan- Ann
The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies was established in 1970 in response to African American students who wanted to bring a richer representation of the Black experience into the University of Michigans curricular offerings. The Center's multi-disciplinary and inter-departmental programs utilize historical, sociological, cultural, psychological, economic, and political approaches to the comparative study of people of African descent living in Africa and the Americas.
Institute of African Studies, School of International
& Public Affairs (Columbia
The Institute of African Studies, one of eight regional institutes at Columbia University's School of International Affairs, provides a special forum for students, faculty and others with an interest in the multitude of issues facing the African cont inent.
African Studies Program (Indiana
The Indiana University African Studies Program was founded in 1961 by the late J. Gus Liebenow and has, over the past three decades, been recognized as one of the nation's leading language and area studies centers for the interdisciplinary study of Africa.
African Studies
The Harvard University Committee on African Studies is an interdisciplinary group of scholars appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to coordinate teaching and research and advance knowledge and understanding of Africa within Harvard.
Studies Department (Howard University)
The Department of African Studies offers graduate programs leading to the Masters of Arts and Doctors of Philosophy degrees. The master's program consists of a two-year professional program, while the Ph.D program is research oriented. The department offers students both historical and current perspectives on the socio-economic, cultural, technological, and political developments of Africa.
Center for African Area Studies (Kyoto, Japan)
The Center for African Area Studies of Kyoto University was created in 1986 as the only academic research institution in Japan devoted to African Studies.
Center for African Studies (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign)
The work of the African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is diverse.On campus it promotes teaching and research about Africa; off campus it offers community and educational groups a variety of teaching, curriculum development, and informational resources relating to the African continent.
Center for African Studies (University
of Florida)
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Rican Studies
de Estudios Puertorriqueños (Hunter College, CUNY)
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies is the only university based research institute in the United States devoted to the interdisciplinary study of the Puerto Rican experience. Founded in 1973 the Centro has grown into a major research and educational resource cente. In addressing major inequities in social conditions affecting Puerto Ricans, Centro research bears important implications for the study of Latinos in the United States and other contemporary diasporic communities.
Institute For Puerto Rican & Latino Studies (University
of Connecticut)
The Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies (IPRLS), which has operated since the Fall of 1994, serves as a multipurpose interdisciplinary research and teaching program with a comparative focus on the Puerto Rican, Mexican, and other Latin American origin populations in Connecticut, the northeast,and other regions of the continental United States, as well as in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Department (Rutgers
Using a comparative approach, the curriculum focuses on the formation and evolution of the peoples and societies of that region. The courses examine the historical background and the migration experience, and the reformulation of identities, in their racial, class, cultural and gender dimension.
of Latin American & Puerto Rican Studies (Lehman College,
The Department of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Puerto Rican studies, an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The department also participates in the interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Program, and the Women's Studies Option.
Rican and Latino Studies (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
The PRLS dept. offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate major in Puerto Rican and Latino Studies and three minor concentrations, including a course sequence and minor in bilingual education (16 credits) in conjunction with the elementary school program of the school of education.
for Chicano-Boricua Studies (Wayne State University)
The Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies (CBS) has its origins in the Latino en Marcha Leadership Training Program established in 1971 by Wayne State University. The program became an academic center in 1972.The center actively promotes a Latino perspective and an awareness of Latino issues inside of Wayne State and contributes to the university's continuing efforts to nurture a rich campus cultural environment. The center's curriculum provides the university with a substantial part of its courses on Latin America and Latinos in the United States.
Studies Institute (City College CUNY)
Housed at the City College of New York, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute was conceived to address the current lack of useful and reliable information on Dominicans available to students, scholars, and the community at large.The Institute is an interdisciplinary research unit devoted to the study of Dominican life in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and elsewhere.
Julian Samora Research Institute (Michigan State University)
The JULIAN SAMORA RESEARCH INSTITUTE is committed to the generation, transmission, and application of knowledge to serve the needs of Latino communities in the Midwest. To this end, it has organized a number of publication initiatives to facilitate the timely dissemination of current research and information relevant to Latinos.
Program for Latino Research (IUPLR)
The IUPLR, through its activities, shall seek to: A) Enlarge the scope and raise the quality of research that has a bearing on U.S. Latino communities.B) Raise the visibility of and create a strong institutional presence for Latino research.C)Maintain a voice for Latino researchers through its national projects, and its grants program. D) Establish a link between the Latino research community and the public policy arena.
Research Institute (Florida
International University)
Located at the Latin American and Caribbean Center of Florida International University, the CRI's purpose is to utilize the substantial Cuba-related resources of the University and the greater Miami community to produce research and develop programs that serve faculty, students, and a community vitally interested in Cuban and Cuban-American issues.
Research Center (Arizona State University)
The Hispanic Research Center at ASU was founded in 1985 and is a university- wide interdisciplinary unit dedicated to research and creative activities. The purposes of the HRC include the performance of basic and applied research on a broad range of topics related to Hispanic populations, to disseminate research findings to the academic community and the public, to engage in creative activities and make them available generally, and to provide public service in areas of importance to Hispanics.
Studies Research Center (University of California - Los Angeles)
Founded in 1969, the Chicano Studies Research Center promotes the study and dissemination of knowledge on the experience of the people of Mexican descent and other Latinos in the United States. The CSRC primarily supports UCLA faculty and the training of the next generation of scholars engaged in this area of inquiry.
Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development & Public
Established in 1989 at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, the goal of the Gastón Institute is to inform the public and policymakers about issues vital to the Commonwealth's growing Latino community and provide the information and analysis necessary for the effective participation of the Latino community in public policy development.
American and Caribbean Studies
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
The largest professional Association in the world for individuals and institutions engaged inthe study of Latin America. With over 4,800 members, twenty-five percent of whom reside outside the United States, LASA is the one Association that brings together experts on Latin America from all disciplines and diverse occupational endeavors, across the globe.
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (University
of Connecticut)
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies coordinates both undergraduate and graduate programs in Latin American Studies.The Center sponsors a wide range of seminars, public lectures, conferences, films and colloquia on Latin American subjects.The Center also serves as a clearing house for information about events on and off campus, employment opportunities, new avenues for research, and research funding for those interested in all aspects of Latin America.
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (New York
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at New York University is an interdisciplinary teaching, research, and public information program. It opens channels of communication and encourages the sharing of ideas and observations across disciplinary boundaries.
American and Caribbean Center (Florida
International University)
The Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) came into existence in 1979. As a federally supported National Resource Center for Language and Area Studies, LACC has a mandate to promote graduate and undergraduate education, faculty research, and public education on Latin American and Caribbean affairs.
for Latin American Studies (Stanford University)
Since its inception over 25 years ago, the Stanford Center for Latin American Studies has been one of the leading foreign area programs in the United States. Housed in its own facility, Bolivar House, the Center fosters a wide range of teaching and research activity designed to advance knowledge and understanding of Latin America. The principal components of this activity include graduate and undergraduate training, interdisciplinary research, scholarly exchange, and outreach to the local, national, and international communities.
American Studies Program (Cornell University)
Cornell's Latin American Studies Program (LASP) was founded in 1961. The National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Language and Area Center established LASP in 1966 as one of the nation's premier Latin American centers. Today, the Latin American Studies Program provides a focus for all activities oriented toward Latin America on the Cornell campus.
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Michigan State University)
The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS) was founded in 1962 and has grown to become one of the leading programs in the nation. The Center was designated a National Resource Center in 1991 by the U.S. Department of Education. As a National Resource Center, CLACS generates and disseminates knowledge about Latin America and the Caribbean at national and state levels.
Latin American Network Information Center
Socioroute Latino-Americaine - Resources on Latin-American sociology. Editor: Manuel Cisneros. (French and Spanish versions).
Sociology in Latin America - A small collection of links to sociological material in Latin America.
On Hemispheric Affairs
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) was founded at the end of 1975 to promote the common interest of the hemisphere, raise the visibility and increase the importance of the inter-American relationship, as well as encourage the formulation of rational and constructive U.S. policies towards Latin America.Since its inception, COHA has been one of the most active and broadest-based U.S. private bodies dealing with the entire spectrum of political, economic and diplomatic issues, as well as the economic and political challenges confronting the nations of this hemisphere.
Institute (University of Notre Dame)
The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies is designed to advance understanding of Third World development, particularly in Latin America, through research, education, and outreach. In its study of Latin America and other developing areas, the Institute focuses primarily on democratization and the quality of democracy; paths to development; religion and the Catholic Church; social movements and organized civil society; and public policies for social justice.

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Vid The iPad's soft keyboard has been caught failing to pass key presses to applications, introducing errors and letting the typist take the fall.
The iPad's on-screen keyboard indicates a successful press by turning the key grey, but Reg reader Dave Addey filmed his typing in slow motion and established that a decent proportion of those key presses aren't being passed to the applications. It seems the iPad relies on the application's autocorrect function to pick up the missing keys, or lets the user think they're just crap at typing.
In his testing, typing an unfamiliar paragraph, Addey made three errors of his own but the keyboard introduced another 20 and autocorrect only fixed eight of those. That left him with paragraph a long way from the original, despite Addey only being responsible for three of the errors.
Real typos are green, blue were spotted by autocorrect, red remained
That test was conducted with Pages, but he then repeated the test using Notes and Mail with similar results – so the problem seems to be common across iOS apps. One can speculate that the keys are deliberately dropped to maintain the smooth performance of the iPad, or perhaps they're just lost in transit. Addey's video is below.
But the test does gel with the anecdotal experiences of iPad users, who almost universally agree that the soft keyboard isn't suitable for typing anything longer than a few paragraphs. They generally blame the lack of response and difficulty in locating their digits, but such problems have never affected users of FingerWorks keyboards, which are equally unresponsive and almost as smooth (FingerWorks 'boards do have a couple of nobbles on the home keys, but it's hard to use them without pressing the underlying keys).
As someone who uses FingerWorks on a daily basis, your correspondent was surprised by how poorly he touch-typed on an iPad – the gadget appears to make touch-typing effectively impossible – but blamed the cramped size of the iPad screen which doesn't lend itself to touch typing by any but the most petite of mitts.
British schools don't teach typing any more. They stopped when typing pools disappeared – which was ironically just in time for the generation who most require the ability to be denied it – so the majority of computer users can't type properly at all. But now they can blame Apple, as long as they've got an iPad.
El Reg contacted Apple, which had not responded at the time of publication. ®


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According to internal documents obtained by the British newspaper and published online Thursday, the Guardian reports that more than forty state-level conservative groups are planning a "US-wide assault" on "education, healthcare, income tax, workers' compensation and the environment."
If you want to know how the right-wing State Policy Network—in concert with a network of other national and state-level conservative policy groups—has been able to overrun state legislatures with "model legislation" that carries the interest of the nation's wealthiest corporations and individuals while undermining workers and communities, the ream of grant proposals obtained by the newspaper tell the tale.
"[Groups like the State Policy Nework] appear to be advocating purely local interests but what they are promoting is part of a larger national template to radically remake our government in a way that undermines public institutions and the rights of workers." –Lisa Graves, Center for Media & Democracy
For the second time this week, the Guardian has published internal documents from an influential U.S. conservative organizing group that reveals rare insight into how they operate and the way smaller, local groups vie for portions of the large amount of money made available by people like the Kochs brothers and other funders of the conservative, Tea Party cabal.
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Conservative groups across the US are planning a co-ordinated assault against public sector rights and services in the key areas of education, healthcare, income tax, workers' compensation and the environment, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The strategy for the state-level organisations, which describe themselves as "free-market thinktanks", includes proposals from six different states for cuts in public sector pensions, campaigns to reduce the wages of government workers and eliminate income taxes, school voucher schemes to counter public education, opposition to Medicaid, and a campaign against regional efforts to combat greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
The policy goals are contained in a set of funding proposals obtained by the Guardian. The proposals were co-ordinated by the State Policy Network, an alliance of groups that act as incubators of conservative strategy at state level.
Partnering with local news outlets, the Guardian shared some of the documents in obtained in order to have journalists more familiar with state politics and trends explore the implications of how these nationally-coordinated conservative policies, if enacted, would play out with the communities that will ultimately feel them.
As part of their reporting on the documents, the Guardian published all forty of the proposal sent by state-level groups to SPN for approval.
In the most northeastern state in the country, Maine, a group called the Maine Heritage Policy Center was among the groups who applied (pdf) for a grant through the wealthy national group in order to push a proposal to make the poverty-stricken Washington County a "tax-free zone" in order to promote "economic activity" in the state.
As the Portland Press Herald reports, however, most citizens of the county seem skeptical of the proposal even as Republican legislators in the capital of Augusta and Republican Gov. Paul LePage have begun pushing the idea publicly.
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While open to considering its merits, many business and political leaders think the proposal is philosophically out of step with local efforts, which have emphasized homegrown revitalization rather than reliance on special breaks for the long-struggling county. [...]
Under the Maine Heritage Policy Center's "FreeME" initiative, Washington County residents and businesses would cease to pay state income taxes or collect sales taxes until economic conditions reach the statewide average and stay there for three years running.
The initiative, introduced last summer and now being evaluated by Gov. Paul LePage's administration, would make America's easternmost county the first to waive such taxes in a state that has them. It is intended to showcase economic libertarians' contention that taxes are a central impediment to economic development.
But Paul Molyneaux of East Machias, a fisherman and writer who has done all manner of work to make ends meet, told the newspaper that the "tax-free" proposal would do little to improve his life.
"Suppose I go to the store and buy $50 worth of clothing and save $3 in taxes – that's nice, but it's not going to do much for me over the long haul," Molyneaux said. "It seems like a 'give a man a fish' instead of a 'teach him how to fish' argument, because without access to resources, it's not going to carry you very far."
As the Guardian's reporting emphasizes, the kind of influence that large outside groups can have on small and often struggling communities can be vast and without a picture of how these proposals make their way from the minds of conservative ideologues to the floor of state legislatures can leave communities oblivious to who exactly is ultimately benefiting from the policies. The Guardian also raises questions about the tax-exempt status of these networks, explaining:
Last week the Obama administration announced a new clampdown on those groups that violate tax rules by engaging in direct political campaigning.
Most of the "thinktanks" involved in the proposals gathered by the State Policy Network are constituted as 501(c)(3) charities that are exempt from tax by the Internal Revenue Service. Though the groups are not involved in election campaigns, they are subject to strict restrictions on the amount of lobbying they are allowed to perform. Several of the grant bids contained in the Guardian documents propose the launch of "media campaigns" aimed at changing state laws and policies, or refer to "advancing model legislation" and "candidate briefings", in ways that arguably cross the line into lobbying.
The documents also cast light on the nexus of funding arrangements behind radical rightwing campaigns. The State Policy Network (SPN) has members in each of the 50 states and an annual warchest of $83m drawn from major corporate donors that include the energy tycoons the Koch brothers, the tobacco company Philip Morris, food giant Kraft and the multinational drugs company GlaxoSmithKline.
According to Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media & Democracy, which has tracked the work of the State Policy Network and similarly-styled American Legislative Exchange Council, such groups are betraying the communities they claim to represent by introducing "model legislation" that undoubtedly are desigend to serve the interests of large corporations and the wealthy.
"They appear to be advocating purely local interests but what they are promoting is part of a larger national template to radically remake our government in a way that undermines public institutions and the rights of workers," Graves told the Guardian.
And in the case of Washington County in Maine, according to CMD's Rebekah Wilce, "Groups like MHPC paint this work as 'economic development' but we need to look at where they are coming from and who is funding their agenda."
The right-wing, anti-populist agenda of the State Policy Network, she told the Press Herald, is to pass laws that "benefit corporate funders, not the people of Maine."


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Sites We Like: Uber, Desk.com, and HistoryMiami
A new Uber app, great customer support, and Miami's history in this week's sites we like.
Uber turns the stressful ordeal of hailing a cab into an easy, modern experience. Fittingly, their website achieves a similar effect with the legible and contemporary sans serif, FF Clan. The high x-height and no-frills architecture makes FF Clan a perfect choice for both Uber's new website and their mobile app. You can license FF Clan Web from FontShop and bring your license over to Typekit.
Desk.com, a customer support management platform (which we proudly use for our own support here at Typekit), pairs the approachable Myriad with the workmanlike FF Basic Gothic, an excellent alternative to Verdana. The result is a pleasing, easy-to-navigate website.
HistoryMiami is a cultural institution dedicated to teaching and celebrating the history of Miami, Florida. They establish a nice contrast of geometric sans and humanist serif, using Proxima Nova for headings and navigation and Adobe Garamond for body copy.
That's all for this week; share sites that you like in the comments!
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I liked the colors and fonts on History Miami.
I like the fonts on http://www.wheninportland.com
Good collection. A combination of responsive, typographical websites.
Personally i liked the historymiami site. color combination and typography was better there
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Laila Ali will offer the keynote address at Club Industry 2007 at 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11. Ali will speak about how a motivational plan is necessary to living a healthy lifestyle. Ali found this out first-hand — she did not work out prior to taking up boxing. She realized that if she wanted to become a world champion like her father, Muhammad Ali, she had to dedicate herself to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Her commitment to train and compete helped her become the current undefeated super middleweight champion of the world. She also became a finalist on the ABC show "Dancing with the Stars" this year. Ali has used her training knowledge to reach out to others by making a cardio fitness DVD with another boxing champion, Sugar Ray Leonard.
Dr. Mike Nichols will speak at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 12, about his medical experience and how he feels a well-informed fitness professional can benefit the health club industry. Nichols founded TempusClinic in Los Gatos, CA, in 2002 after more than 20 years of experience working with patients at the Saratoga Walk-in Clinic in Saratoga, CA. Nichols channeled his education from the University of Chicago, Loyola (IL) University and Stanford Medical School to treat patients who suffered from coronary artery disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases. At TempusClinic, Nichols paved the way for Advanced Early Detection Diagnostics, which helps in detecting early stages of chronic diseases.


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Hey Sue & Oldhway,
I'm more of a red wine person myself. Just had a glass of Charles Shaw Merlot. You can buy it at Trader Joe's and there is one in Madison. It sells for $2.99 a bottle and we buy it by the case. It's not in the top 100, but the price is right.
We call it "two-buck-Chuck" in Indiana
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Headliners Luncheon with Major League Baseball Commissioner, Rob Manfred
Wharton Club members & their guests are invited to this Headliners Luncheon at National Press Club with
- Just one day before the first pitch flies at the Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star Game at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, MLB Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr., the 10th Commissioner in the history of the league, will appear at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on July 16 to discuss the state of America's game.
- Manfred first signed-on with the MLB full-time in 1998 as Executive Vice President of Economics and League Affairs. In this role, Manfred negotiated the MLB's first drug testing agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) in 2002, represented the MLB in several negotiations with the MLBPA over new collective bargaining agreements, and led the MLB's investigation of the Biogenesis scandal in 2013. Manfred was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2013, and when Commissioner Bud Selig announced his plans to retire, MLB owners elected Manfred to succeed Selig as MLB Commissioner for the 2015 Season. As commissioner, Manfred has made quickening the pace of play one of his top priorities, and has already instituted a number of new rules intended to address that issue.
Click here to reserve your seat(s) for the luncheon.
Meet Rob Manfred:
- Robert D. Manfred, Jr. was elected as the 10th Commissioner in the history of Major League Baseball on August 14, 2014 by a unanimous vote of the 30 Major League Clubs. He officially became the sport's leader on January 25, 2015.
- Manfred had served as Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball since September 30, 2013. In this role, Manfred managed the Commissioner's Office in New York on behalf of Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig. He worked closely with Club ownership and management executives and has long addressed a variety of the industry's economic, governance and policy issues. As COO, Manfred oversaw labor relations, baseball operations, baseball development, finance, administration and other key areas.
- Before becoming COO, Manfred served as MLB's Executive Vice President for Economics & League Affairs, reporting directly to Commissioner Selig and responsible for major economic matters such as revenue sharing and the debt-service rule, as well as franchise-specific matters involving the 30 Major League Clubs. From 1998-2012, he was Executive Vice President for Labor Relations & Human Resources. In both capacities, Manfred directed all issues related to collective bargaining with the Major League Baseball Players Association, including the successful renewals of the Basic Agreement in 2002, 2006 and 2011. Those agreements helped realize Commissioner Selig's vision of competitive balance and club financial stability through reforms such as increased revenue sharing, more aggressive payroll taxes, reform of the amateur talent acquisition process and strict debt regulation.
- The 2002 labor pact was the first in more than 30 years to be settled between the two parties without incurring a work stoppage. MLB is currently in the midst of a period of at least 21 consecutive years of labor peace, a stretch that is unprecedented in the sport's history. Manfred also represented MLB on all upgrades to the game's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, which stands as the toughest and most comprehensive in American professional sports.
- Manfred is a 1980 graduate of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. In 1983, he received his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, Manfred served as a clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro in the District of Massachusetts.
- Following his clerkship, Manfred joined the Labor and Employment Law Section of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, resident in the Washington, D.C., office. He became a partner in the firm in 1992.
- Active in professional organizations, Manfred is a member of the Labor Section of the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts and District of Columbia Bar Associations and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Sports Lawyers Association and the Partnership for Clean Competition. Manfred was named Labor Counsel of the Year in 2008 by the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel and was awarded an honorary degree by LeMoyne College in 2010.
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- 1:00-2:00 p.m.: The speaker's remarks and Q&A from the audience.
Please call Alan Schlaifer at 301-365-8999 if you'd to be considered to attend the reception (if there is one) from 12:30-1:00 pm with the speaker. (He may only bring a few guests, so early sign up helps; preference for President's Club and Lifetime Members).
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Tony Blair, the British former prime minister, the new Middle East peace envoy for the group known as the Quartet, is on a doomed mission.
The Quartet, made up of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia, ostensibly sent Blair to the region to aid in improving the infrastructure, the economy and government operations in the West Bank as the first step toward establishing the mythic Palestinian state.
But based on Blair's primary message during his initial visit to Jerusalem last week, the Quartet is courting diplomatic disaster. Blair, following the dictates of George W. Bush, will not talk with Hamas, the militant Islamic group now in control of the Gaza Strip after it militarily ousted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his secular Fatah Party. Abbas and Fatah now control the West Bank.
Although the two Palestinian population centers are now both diplomatically and geographically split, Blair hypocritically claims that he is working for the good of all Palestinians and the region as a whole.
"I am nothing if not an optimist," he told senior representatives of the Quartet. "I will probably have need for all that quality of optimism for this task ahead, but I am determined to try."
In a veiled rejection of Hamas, Blair said: "There is a sense that we can regain momentum. That's the crucial thing. And if we are able to regain that momentum, then a whole lot of things become possible, not least the fact that those people of peace can then feel that the force is with them and not with those who want conflict."
Translation: "Those people of peace" are Abbas and Fatah, who apparently can tolerate Israeli occupation and continued construction of illegal settlements on Palestinian land. "The force" is the Quartet, led by Bush, who gave Israel a free hand in Palestine for the last six years. And "those who want conflict" represent Hamas, the democratically elected leaders of the Palestinians, who reject Israeli occupation and the unrelenting construction of illegal settlements on Palestinian land.
Blair is foolishly and unnecessarily demonizing Hamas. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who travels to the region this week, lent her vacuity to Blair's mission when she told reporters: "Hamas, I think, knows what is expected for international respectability."
Blair will fail precisely because he intends to blow off Hamas, which is an integral part of Palestinian aspirations for an independent state.
"We warn the new envoy that any attempt to marginalize the Hamas movement will cost him his credibility," Hamas hard-liner Mahmoud Zahar, a former Palestinian foreign minister, told the Associated Press.
Last week, in response to a meeting between representatives of the group of 22 Arab nations with Israelis in Jerusalem, Mouin Rabbani, senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group in Amman, Jordan, pointed out a dangerous reality that seems to elude the Quartet and Israel when they reject Hamas: "There is a potentially embarrassing situation where senior Arab diplomats are meeting with Israel officials but don't meet with Hamas."
Blair and his Quartet superiors are so hell-bent on their wrongheaded crusade that they even are ignoring the wisdom of their friends and fellow insiders.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said during a recent interview with National Public Radio that the international leaders should talk with Hamas: "I don't think you can just cast (Hamas) into outer darkness and try to find a solution to the problems of the region without taking into account the standing that Hamas has in the Palestinian community. They won an election that we insisted upon having. And so, as unpleasant a group they may be and as distasteful as I find some of their positions, I think through some means, the Middle East Quartet or other international organizations, Hamas has to be engaged."
And none other than Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator and currently director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative at the Century Foundation in Washington, said in the Sunday Telegraph recently that Blair must talk with Hamas just as he talked with extremists in resolving the conflict in Northern Ireland.
"For any process to have sustainability, legitimacy, and to guarantee security," Levy said, "it will have to be inclusive, not divisive, and to bring in Hamas over time. ... Mr. Blair, with his Northern Ireland experience, may understand this better than most."
Perhaps Blair does understand peacemaking better than most. Unfortunately, by snubbing Hamas, he has abandoned his instincts for peace in order to remain an instrument of Bush's blind support of Israeli policies, many of which the Hague Tribunal has deemed to be illegal.


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5 comments:
- Jason Kilborn said...
Wow--this is awesome, Emily! Would you be so kind as to share a reading list?
- February 26, 2009 at 9:58:00 AM EST
- Edward M. "Ted" McClure said...
Yes, please! To have this all in one place would be (shivers down spine).
- February 26, 2009 at 3:43:00 PM EST
- Emily Kadens said...
I don't have a reading list. I've written, translated, or quoted it all. It's about 600 pages of stuff that badly need to be reedited, but I haven't had the time.
- February 26, 2009 at 5:54:00 PM EST
- Jason Kilborn said...
If you're looking for editorial assistance, you've come to the right place! In exchange for the pleasure of reading your compilation, I'd gladly help with editing. I know you mentioned to me once in Austin that you'd been (quite rightly) discouraged from pursuing a textbook-type project pre-tenure, but if you want to begin thinking about that kind of project, I'd be very glad to contribute however I can. I suspect your product would find a ready audience (i.e., $ market!), and Carolina Academic Press would, I'm sure, be glad to publish it for you.
- February 26, 2009 at 6:25:00 PM EST
- Emily Kadens said...
Perhaps I should have said edited and revised, and some new chapters written (in the next couple weeks, since I will be teaching them soon!)
- February 26, 2009 at 10:13:00 PM EST


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Augustana Hosting Second Annual Lego League Scrimmage
Augustana is hosting the second annual Sioux Falls First Lego League scrimmage on Saturday, November 21, in Gilbert Science Center. The scrimmage provides local teams an opportunity to prepare for the state event.
Augustana to play Missouri Western in Mineral Water Bowl
The 2009 Augustana football season is not over quite yet. The Vikings (8-3) have been selected to play in the 45th Annual Mineral Water Bowl, scheduled for Saturday, December 5, in Excelsior Springs, MO.
Forty-five Augustana Students Selected to Who's Who
Forty-five Augustana students are included in the 2010 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, an elite group of students from more than 2,000 institutions of higher learning across the country.
Center for Western Studies launches Native American Initiative
The Center for Western Studies (CWS) at Augustana today announced a Native American Initiative with a series of events in 2009-10. The series launches Wednesday, November 18 and continues throughout the academic year.
Access to Clean Water Objective of Silent Auction, Concert
Providing clean water for the world is the objective of a silent auction and concert to be held Monday, November 23, in the Chapel of Reconciliation on the campus of Augustana College. The event begins at 6:30 p.m.
USTA Grant to Support Huether Tennis Centre
Augustana has received a $32,500 grant from the United States Tennis Association (USTA) in support of the recently completed Huether Tennis Centre. The new facility at 33rd Street and Grange Avenue was completed in September.
SD Economic Outlook Seminar Features Augustana Professor
Dr. Robert Wright, the Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana, was the keynote speaker Tuesday during the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry Economic Outlook Seminar in Sioux Falls.
Alumna receives Milken Educator Award
Kira Christensen, a 2004 Augustana graduate, is the recipient of a $25,000 Milken National Educator Award, recognizing her work furthering excellence in education.
Augustana Represented in International Day of Action
Members of Augustana Green will be participating in the Sioux Falls 350 International Day of Action event on Saturday, October 24. The global art action and party at Falls Park is one of more than 4,000 events around the world.
College Joins Philadelphia Grade School in Pennies for Peace Effort
A year ago Augustana participated in the Pennies for Peace campaign, raising $12,000. The drive continues this year and Augustana has teamed up with a sixth grade class in Philadelphia, where Nick Jackson, class of 2008, is teaching.


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It was almost two decades ago in 1992 that Canada proposed a World Oceans Day, which was unofficially celebrated until the United Nations approved the day just last year.
In 2009, Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, spoke about the importance of protecting the world's oceans:
The theme of World Oceans Day, "Our oceans, our responsibility", emphasizes our individual and collective duty to protect the marine environment and carefully manage its resources. Safe, healthy and productive seas and oceans are integral to human well-being, economic security and sustainable development.
Ki-moon also stated that "human activities are taking a terrible toll on the world's oceans and seas," which is even more apparent now than it was a year ago. The BP oil spill may have occured just of the coast of the United States, but it has global implications.
So it's appropriate, then, that this year's theme is "Oceans of Life." With that in mind, Ki-moon, UN members and visiting professors met at the United Nations Headquarters to discuss just that.
Through its World Oceans Day website, The Ocean Project invites us to participate in World Oceans Day in a number of ways. The site urges use to change our perspective — "to think about what the ocean means to them and what it has to offer all of us with hopes of conserving it for present and the future generations."
How many of us are, in light of the recent spill, becoming all too aware of the spill's ill-effects? If you watch the news at all (or follow as many water-related people on Twitter as we do), you can't help but be disturbed by the photos of oil covered birds, of fish gone belly-up in black water. We wince a little bit when we hear that this is possibly the country's worst environmental disaster, or when we think of the many, many years it will take to recover from it.
I would never suggest that the BP oil spill was a good thing. But if there is anything we can take away from it, it is that this tragedy has turned a nation's eyes upon a resource that it might often take for granted.
Remember World Oceans Day 2009? Me either.
It's a shame it took a disaster of this magnitude for many of us to realize the importance of the world's oceans, but if we are to learn anything from it, we have to remember the theme not only of this World Oceans Day — "Oceans of Life," but also of last year's — "Our oceans, our responsibility."
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The funds — granted over two years — will enable OGS to hire a technician, obtain equipment, and travel to the heritage organizations to scan the material.
The project will:
- provide a digitized version of one-of-a-kind records, increasing security
- allow small organizations access to digitizing they otherwise could not afford
- increase the exposure of small organizations
- increase access to records significant to Ontario's heritage
- allow an income stream to heritage organizations if they wish so that it can provide a Canadian not-for-profit portal as an alternative to foreign commercial portals
OGS President, Don Hinchley, said, "I believe this grant will give many more genealogists throughout Ontario and the world access to materials without the necessity of travelling to the museum or local archive."
This project will help protect the culture and heritage of Ontario, some of which is in delicate condition and could be lost if it is not copied.


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It's been a couple of years since I've done any Comichron Flashback columns, but with the January 2013 data now reported, I wanted to look at resuming the effort during months when time allows.
I've added a snapshot of what one retailer is charging for the top-sellers; Comichron isn't a price guide site, but sometimes it's interesting to see how once-popular titles held up.
As always, this reflects what Diamond Comic Distributors (and, in earlier times, other distributors) sold to retailers, not what the retailers themselves sold. In recent times, retail inventory is much more tightly controlled, so the numbers are more representative of actual sales. In the distant past, not so much.
For comparison with the past, this January's top title, Superior Spider-Man #1, had first-month orders of over 188,000 copies, as seen in the charts here.
January 2012 was the best January since 2008 for comics orders, thanks to the ongoing DC relaunch, which was in its fifth month.
Justice League #5 was the top seller, with nearly 138,600 copies sold in its first month; another 6,100 copies of the Combo edition were sold. By the end of the year, the total for the main edition was 148,500 copies.
The top-selling graphic novel was the Batman: Through the Looking Glass hardcover. It had initial orders of more than 6,400 copies; that would rise to 7,400 by the end of the year.
Click to read the original Comichron analysis for the month. And check out the sales chart for the month here.
January 2008's top seller was was Hulk #1, with initial orders of 133,895 copies in the direct market. Later months brought it up to at least 139,800 copies. There were irregularities in Diamond's initial reporting that month that led to a revised list being published; in that list, Hulk #1's orders were combined with its Phoenix Comicon variant, allowing it to leapfrog the first "Brand New Day" issue of Amazing Spider-Man, #546. It came in second, at 127,856 copies in its first month.
As of the time of this posting, the main version of Hulk #1 had an aftermarket price of $8 in Near Mint at MyComicShop.com.
On the trade paperback front, Savage Sword of Conan Vol. 1 topped the list, with more than 6,200 copies ordered.
Click to read the original Comichron analysis for the month. And check out the sales chart for the month here.
January 2003 remained Jim Lee's "Hush": Batman #611 topped the list with preorders of approximately 129,400 copies; reorder months brought it at least to 142,500 copies. It was the second issue of the storyline to top the list, and six more issues would be in the #1 position before it was over.
At the time of this posting, Batman #611 had an aftermarket price of $2.40 in Very Fine at MyComicShop.com.
CrossGen was still active at this point; Sojourn #19 being its top entry at 80th place and 24,600 copies. DC and Marvel fielded smaller slates in this winter month — 76 new comics for DC and 49 for Marvel — resulting in a whopping 51 publishers placing titles in the Top 300, including names such as Gutsoon, Geek Punk, Peter Four, Girl Twirl, and Lumakick, to name a few. That compares with 22 publishers in January 2008's list.
And January 2003's top trade paperback? A little book called 30 Days of Night — selling 6,200 copies to retailers, the first of many. It stayed on the top trades list for months.
Check out the sales chart for the month here.
January 1998 was deep within the comics recession, a year in which the "dead quarter" very definitely lived up to its name. Marvel was still fresh off its return of Avengers, Captain America, Fantastic Four, and Iron Man from its "Heroes Reborn" Jim Lee/Rob Liefeld experiment. Second and third issues of those titles, renumbered as "Volume 3," each made Diamond's Top 10, garnering preorders of between 108,000 and 139,000 copies.
But the top-charting titles of the month were both issues of X-Men — Uncanny X-Men #353 and "adjectiveless" X-Men #73, at 154,400 and 148,600 preordered copies respectively. Spawn #70 was in fourth place, the first of four Image titles in the top 12 (including Witchblade, Darkness, and Curse of Spawn).
At the time of this posting, Uncanny X-Men #353 had an aftermarket price of $2.30 in Near Mint at MyComicShop.com.
DC's only items in the Top 25 were three JLA titles. But DC outpaced Marvel in the overall dollar shares, 27.56% to 27.41% — a consequence of DC's much larger backlist of trade paperbacks in those days; in terms of sheer numbers of releases, Marvel was relatively later to the TPB party. Marvel's comics line was thinner as well in this Chapter 11 era for the publisher: DC had 77 titles in the Top 300, while Marvel had only 50.
Marvel, DC, Image, and Dark Horse accounted for 70% of dollars of product preordered in the month. There were 40 publishers placing books in the Top 300, as opposed to 22 in January 2008. While Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse dollar shares were lower in January 1998 than they are today, Image's was higher, at 11% — WildStorm still a part of the company at that point.
The top-selling trade paperback was the Divine Right Collected Edition from Image; this was the last month that Diamond did not report sales figures with trades, so we don't know how many copies it sold. In February 1998, Diamond began reporting sales data for trades.
Check out the sales chart for the month here.
January 1993's top seller was Image's Darker Image #1. Capital City Distribution sold 257,125 copies of the issue by Sam Keith and Rob Liefeld, which included the first appearances of The Maxx and Deathblow. At Diamond, the title also ruled, selling more than 30% more copies than the #2 title, Amazing Spider-Man #375. (At Capital, Darker Image sold 24% more.)
While we don't know details on Image's overall sales, we do know a bit more about Marvel's in this era. Archival documentation pegs the Direct Market sales of Amazing Spider-Man #375 at 914,300 copies, not counting newsstand: that's enough, according to this report, to make it the top-selling issue of Amazing Spider-Man of all time to date.
As speculators in those days learned, a lot of copies doesn't make for investment value. At the time of this posting, Darker Image #1 had an aftermarket price of $1.10 in Near Mint at MyComicShop.com. Amazing Spider-Man #375 fares somewhat better, at $4 in Near Mint.
At Diamond, the top graphic novel was the first Books of Magic collection.
Check out the sales rankings for the the overall year here.
January 1988's top seller at Capital City was Uncanny X-Men #229. The issue had orders through that distributor of 71,800 copies. According to archival sources, total Direct Market orders for the issue were 296,100 copies, with another 109,800 copies moved through the newsstand; all channels, including subscriptions, brought the title to orders of just over 450,000 copies.
At the time of this posting, Uncanny X-Men #229 had an aftermarket price of $3.30 in Near Mint at MyComicShop.com.
But while Marvel had the top title, DC led the market share by what Capital City called "a record" 13 percentage points, 42.62% to 29.62%. According to the distributor, Marvel cut its production back greatly for January 1988 and increased prices on most titles from 75¢ to $1: DC also led graphic novel sales with the $50 Watchmen hardcover limited edition. Capital appears to have sold 2,322 copies of the book in the month, meaning it made 62% more money than Uncanny #229 made.
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At the time of this posting, Uncanny X-Men #169 had an aftermarket price of $3.40 in Near Mint at MyComicShop.com.
Once we get to 35 years ago, the data is spare, and it becomes trickier to judge what items came out in the same month. (I'm not looking at cover dates here, but likely ship dates, to keep things squared up with present practice.) The known information is incomplete enough that most of what follows is conjecture. A good guess for January 1978, however, would be Marvel's Star Wars #10, which between newsstand and Whitman bagged editions would have likely sold close to 400,000 copies.
Superman #262, whose average annual sales were 309,318 copies per issue, on top.
And again, relying on the Postal Statements, for 45 years ago we're likely looking at Superman (636,000 copies average in the year) — but if there wasn't a Superman issue shipping in January, which appears to be likely, then we'd probably be looking at Archie #180 (566,587 copies average).
And 50 years ago we don't have Superman data, because DC didn't publish it — but it's likely the industry leader at around 640,000 copies. If not that, then Superboy — likely, issue #103, selling slightly fewer copies.
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TSO (The Stationery Office) has been sold to Williams Lea, the move which was completed on the 10th of January has been "well received" by by Clients and customers. TSO is the leading document supply company in the public sector, the sector is expected to grow by 24% in 2008.
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Stay Debt Free Over The Holidays
It's already Cyber Monday, and I've heard nothing on the radio today but about how much money people are going to be spending today - an estimate of over $1.5 billion - and more to come. With the most possible shopping days before Christmas, retailers are exhorting people to make the most of them. And making the most of them is going to put a lot of people into unnecessary debt.
My gift to you this year? My suggestions and tips on how to avoid sliding into debt over the holidays.
1. Holidays are about people - or should be. Have conversations with your family about what really matters to you and what you want most. Explain to your son that this year you won't be buying a new video game console, but you'll offer $25 or $50 towards buying it. Discuss with your spouse whether you really want to exchange gifts or maybe set strict spending limits - and stick to them. Explain to your kids that they will receive fewer gifts this year because the focus is shifting. The wee ones know that Jesus got three gifts, and they get three gifts. And they're fine with that.
2. With extended family members or groups of friends where you regularly exchange gifts, have a similar conversation. Do you want to exchange gifts? Can you maybe simply purchase gifts for the kids and not the adults? What about drawing names and buying one gift for someone in the group instead of each buying a gift for every person? Have you ever though of doing a white elephant exchange with a $5 or $10 limit? They are so much fun.
3. Don't add anyone else to your gift giving list. I know you love you new best friend or there's someone who you could start the gift exchange with, but ... don't. In all likelihood they need a gift from you just as much as you need one from them, so save the cash on both sides. Go out for a drink or dinner instead. Bake cookies and share them. But don't start giving more gifts if you can help it.
4. Don't just spend money, raise it. If I look around my house, I see so many things that I no longer need or want - from gifts that people gave me to books the wee ones no longer read to clothes they've outgrown to kitchen gadgets I don't use. The season for garage sales is over in Chicago, but Craigslist is your friend. So is eBay. And I told you about the awesome Buy/Sell/Trade groups on Facebook. If you're going to spend money, make sure you have it.
5. Speaking of those gifts people gave you that you've never actually opened or used... regift. I have no issues receiving an item that someone else received as a gift that didn't fit for them so long as it is a good fit for me. If you don't cook and received an immersion blender and need to get me something, pass that sucker along. No one will know - or care (or if they do, shame on them) - and this is a great way to upcycle items that are otherwise just taking up space.
6. Put away the credit cards. This one is an obvious one, I suppose. It's really easy to forget how much you're spending when you don't have to open your wallet and remove the green. In fact, figure out how much you can afford to spend, put it in an envelope marked "Christmas money" and use that to buy everything. If you run out, you're done. And if you have some left over, deposit in the bank. It is not a windfall. It's your hard earned money that you can use for something else you really need later.
7. Create your own gifts. Giving the gift of time or talent is wonderful. So many of us have more than we need. Instead of another... thing, give people you. Create a gift certificate for an hour of organizing or a home cooked dinner or babysitting or three hours of window cleaning or anything that you can do that your recipient would appreciate. Maybe it's a date to the movies. Maybe it's reading to your niece before bedtime. Those are the gifts that people remember fifteen years from now. Those are the ones I want to receive.
8. Buy the large gift baskets and split them up. I do this all the time, especially for gifts I need to purchase for teachers and therapists where all of a sudden, I have to purchase 11 more gifts for the people who do so much for my children. If I buy a large gift basket, I suddenly have a bunch of gifts that are much cheaper than they were individually. And they are often pre-wrapped very prettily, which saves me time.
9. Search for coupons for every item you want to buy. It's amazing what's out there. I was looking for a Black & Decker smart battery charger (or something similar) for my car the other day. I first found one for $157. After searching and coupons, I managed to bring the price down for the same model to $84.53. Search. Whether you're buying offline or on, search for a coupon both for the item and for retailers where you might purchase it.
10. Save your receipts. You may have thought you got the best deal ever when you went shopping on Black Friday. But maybe you didn't. Or maybe that perfect gift wasn't perfect and now you've found the perfect gift - and it's cheaper. Save your receipts so that you can return any unwanted items that you bought in the heat of the moment and you can bring back the items that are now cheaper at another retailer. Plus, many retailers will credit you with the newly discounted price within a certain time period (usually two weeks) if they now sell it for a lower price. You simply have to bring in your receipt, and they'll credit you for that amount.
I'm staying out of debt this holiday season - and beyond. What are your tips beyond the ten I've shared here?


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The Chinese space agency (China National Space Administration) has just announced on its Facebook page, that there is hope yet that its rover is still functional. The reversal of fortune comes two weeks after reports that little Yutu had only lasted a month.
Official news: Yutu is still alive! Mission control is busy working on it. Please give them more time.
Earlier today a brief news dispatch was published by China Daily, which reported that Jade Rabbit has been permanently lost, after in late January, China's maiden lunar rover experienced a "mechanical control abnormality." But the latest edict is an encouraging sign that Yutu might still be kicking.
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Good morning, James Franco! The AV Club accidentally premiered the Howl trailer early. It stars James Franco and you can watch it here. The adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go features Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley. After watching the trailer, I have a feeling it's going to be a three hankie film. --Kim
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In Theo's experience, when you showed someone a blindfold, they tended to interpret it in one of two ways: it represented either a game, or kidnapping.
The interesting part, to Theo, were those few wavering moments, as he tied it on, while they tried to decide which one it was.
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Dir/scr: Zaza Rusadze. Georgia. 2013. 70mins
One of those films that you come out of not sure what you've just seen, Georgian director Zaza Rusadze's feature debut is, just possibly, a mix of gay love story, satirical reflection on today's Georgia and its political miasmas, and poignant generational comedy. But it never quite declares itself to be any of these things – and it's this shape-shifting nature that makes A Fold In My Blanket such an intriguing and at times frustrating viewing experience.
Though it's head-scratching more than life-affirming, A Fold In My Blanket is nevertheless original enough to score some action in urban arthouse markets.
Say 'Georgian bittersweet comedy' and Rusadze's compatriot Otar Iosseliani immediately springs to mind, but in fact the tone here is altogether less sentimental and more deadpan. Roy Andersson, Nanni Moretti, Walter Mitty, Chekhov, Ionesco and even Kafka are all lurking there in the background; but so too is a more recent post-realist strand of European arthouse cinema that includes films like Lourdes or Yella, in which parable-like stories are artfully staged and characters are not quite of this world.
Though it's head-scratching more than life-affirming, A Fold In My Blanket which opened the Berlinale's Panorama sidebar, is nevertheless original enough to score some action in urban arthouse markets. Its short 70-minute running time could prove problematic, but this never feels like less than a complete film – and the director was probably right to stop where he did, as quirkiness is a difficult mood to sustain over the full two hours.
Although the film is shot on location in Georgia, there's little to identify the setting for those not familiar with the country. Sad-eyed, rather aimless twenty-something Dimitrij (Tornike Bziava) has returned here from some foreign clime, and is given an administrative job at the courthouse where his father (Zura Kipshidze) works as a magistrate. Life for Dimitrij pans out between the Soviet-era courtroom offices and a series of stuffy, retro domestic interiors belonging to his parents; his Alzheimer-afflicted aunt Irina (Ljudmila Mgebrishvili-Artemieva) and her sister Anna (Marina Janashia); and an elderly doctor, Alexander (Avtandil Makharadze), who appears to be an old flame of Irina's.
Dimitrij's only escape is going climbing in the hills outside of town. When he meets Andrej (Tornike Gogrichiani), a handsome, restless young man of his own age., Dimitrij soon persuades him to accompany him on a climbing expedition. Later, perhaps they return to the hills and explore a cave; or perhaps this is all in Dimitrij's head. Meanwhile, a uniformed flag-man – a dig, perhaps, at Georgian nationalism, though he's a mild-mannered sort of chap – is going around the neighbourhood distributing flags for people to hang from their balconies. Andrej's fury with the flagman, or what he represents, will represent a dramatic crux towards the end – though this said, this is not really a film that deals much in drama; it's more of a deadly serious comedy.
Rusadze keeps firm control over the film's deadpan tone, helped along by some Felliniesque casting, Wouter Zoon's wonderfully arch retro-Soviet production design and a varied soundtrack that mixes opera with Georgian ballads and Krautrock-infected disco. A Fold In My Blanket is an acquired taste, perhaps – but many will agree that it's a taste worth acquiring.
Production companies: Zazarfilm, Studio 99
International sales: Media Luna New Films, www.medialuna.biz
Producer: Zaza Rusadze
Executive producers: Ineke Smits, Els Vandervorst
Cinematography: Goga Devdariani
Editor: Taruma Karumidze
Production designer: Wouter Zoon
Music: Natalie Beridze, Kai Lillich
Website: www.zazarusadze.com
Main cast: Tornike Bziava, Tornike Gogrichiani, Zura Kipshidze, Avtandil Makharadze, Giorgi Nakashidze


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Courtesy Peggy Havnes
Kyle Kenyan, who committed suicide in January, is pictured in his last school picture in September 2011.
Officials at a high school in Minnesota are drawing the ire of more than a hundred of its students and parents for refusing to memorialize in its yearbook a student who committed suicide.
Kyle Kenyan would have been a senior this year at Menagha Public School in Menagha, Minn., but he committed suicide on Jan. 8. When word got out that school staff wouldn't memorialize the teen in this year's yearbook due out in May 2013, classmates started a petition to appeal their decision.
Even though this year's senior class has less than 50 students, about 100 students throughout the rest of his school have signed the petition to get a memorial page in their yearbook, something his mother, Peggy Havnes, would also like to see.
"When I heard about it last week, I sort of fumed underneath because it's not my fight to fight," Kyle's mother, Peggy Havnes, told NBC News. "My main concern is the kids, and I want to stand up for the injustice that goes to Kyle's classmates, the class of 2013."
But Menahga Public Schools Superintendent Mary Klamm said the school district's policy on the issue is clear and firm.
"Long before Kyle's death, we made the decision not to include memorials in our K-12 yearbook while we were updating our crisis manual," Klamm told NBC News. "During that process, we took a lot of time to decide how to properly respond to the death of a student or faculty member, and we were recommended not to memorialize suicide because of the possibility of copycats. That's our biggest fear."
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Klamm said a decision against a memorial page for Kyle in the yearbook, which will go to the school's 876 students, does not mean he'll be excluded from the yearbook entirely.
But students who have persisted in their quest to get a memorial page, Havnes said, have been told by school staff they could lose their walking privileges at graduation if they don't end their campaign. And the clash between students and administrators over her son, she said, has only served as a reminder of her of his death months ago.
"We were so saddened by this tragedy, and it's very hard because all of our personal feelings that we had as a family when Kyle died have resurfaced," Havnes said. "He was battling with some depression and we were trying to get him some help and it just didn't come in time. We have a lot of family and community support and the least amount of support is coming from the school."
Klamm said the movement to get a memorial page for Kyle was started by only "a couple of really loud" seniors who "completely circumvented school officials" and instead made public their pleas for the memorial.
Regardless, Havnes said there would be a clear lesson in the decision to include her son in the yearbook.
"I think we need to use this as a teaching tool because this can happen in anybody's family and we need to take into consideration that this is not just my child but the community's child," Havnes said. "And if we can prevent any other family from going through this then we've accomplished something."
Klamm said she has been in contact with other school administrators and they have made the same decision on yearbook memorials. "This is something schools have to deal with."
In a similar incident, officials at the Winnisquam Regional School District in Tilton, N.H., were wrestling this month with a campaign waged by high school students who wanted to pay tribute in this year's yearbook to a classmate, Alexandria "Ali" Nixon, who committed suicide in May 2010.
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After students were allegedly told no mention would be made of Nixon in the yearbook, they started a petition on the website Change.org, which garnered some 1,500 signatures from people in several states and foreign countries. One student's father even offered to purchase an entire page of the yearbook to dedicate to Nixon's life but was refused by school administrators.
School officials denied ever mentioning that no mention would be made of Nixon. Members of the yearbook staff said the student responsible for drafting, circulating and submitting the petition ended up shredding it -- something the student subsequently confirmed.
School officials stressed that they followed school district protocol and affirmed that they would acknowledge Nixon in the yearbook, but they "did not want to glorify a death by suicide," said Tammy Davis, the Winnisquam Regional School District superintendent.
Though the deadline for the Menagha High School yearbook is Nov. 1, Klamm said the issue is not closed because modern technology makes changes possible.
"Best practices tells us that that's not the best thing to do," Klamm said. "Are we going to have a memorial page? No. But we are going to continue to have a discussion to see what other options are available to memorialize Kyle."
"The kids want this memorial and this memory page for Kyle," Havnes said, "and I think the kids should have a say-so in what they want in their yearbook. It's not to remember a suicide, it's to remember Kyle."
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Illinois surges past St. Francis 89-64
Illini only had eight turnovers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Tyler Griffey scored 17 points and Tracy Abrams had 15, leading Illinois to an 89-64 win over St. Francis (N.Y.) Monday night.
Brandon Paul added 14 points and six assists for the Illini (2-0).
Akeem Johnson led St. Francis (1-1) with 13 points, Ben Mockford added 12 and Jalen Cannon had 11 rebounds.
Illinois couldn't shake the Terriers early, but closed the first half on a 15-0 run to take a 45-25 lead. The Illini held St. Francis scoreless for 7:11 during the spurt.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Europe needs to "reposition" itself in a changed world as she welcomed European powers' unity over Iran.
Mrs Merkel said in an interview with Germany's daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung that Europe needs "forward-looking" arguments and stressed that "simply pointing to seven decades of peace is no longer enough to justify Europe".
Before European Parliament elections on May 23-26, she said there is "no doubt that Europe needs to reposition itself in a changed world," in which some post-Second World War certainties no longer hold.
She acknowledged that Europe appears weak in the stand-off over Iran because, with the dollar's role as a leading global currency, it struggles to counter US sanctions as it tries to salvage the nuclear deal with Tehran. But she said that Europe has also made progress.
"Germany, France and Britain are taking a different approach from the US on the question of the Iran agreement," she said. "For all our other differences, we even have common interests here with Russia and China."
"That Europe is no longer divided on this important question as it was in the Iraq war is a value in itself," Mrs Merkel added. Germany and France opposed the US-led war in Iraq in 2003, while countries including Britain and Poland supported Washington.
However, she added that Europe has a "realistic" assessment of its capabilities and "must strengthen them for the future". She said it is making good progress on defence cooperation.
Asked what effect global challenges from China, Russia and the US are having on Europe, she said that they are making the EU find common positions, which is often difficult "but we succeed" — for instance in policy on Ukraine and Africa. She conceded that "our political strength doesn't yet match our economic capabilities".
Next week's EU elections are expected to boost populist parties at the expense of the political centre.
Asked how much populism the 28-nation EU can take before it collapses, Mrs Merkel said that "this is indeed a time when we have to fight for our principles and fundamental values".
European leaders will decide "how far to let populism go, or whether we ultimately have the will to take on joint responsibility."
"So far, we have always managed to do so," she added. So as not to endanger Europe, she said, "everyone needs to put themselves in others' shoes, to be willing to compromise, remain honest and always treat each other carefully."


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John H. Fitzgibbon, 2 Headed Girl, Millie-Crissie, ca. 1870 (1573.1990)
Ollivier Photo, Millie Christine: The Carolina Twin, surnamed the 2-headed Nightingale, ca. 1880 (1546.1990)
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Millie-Christine McKoy (1851-1912), twins joined at the lower spine, was born into slavery on a North Carolina plantation. From infancy onward, she was exhibited to paying audiences as freak, wonder, and medical curiosity at venues such as state fairs and P. T. Barnum's museum. The twins' career was managed for most of their lives by Joseph Pearson Smith, a North Carolina merchant, and his family. As she grew up, touring Europe and America as "The Two-Headed Nightingale," Millie-Christine became a accomplished performer–playing the piano, dancing, and composing songs and poetry. Millie-Christine's performances earned her a great deal of money and she was able to buy the plantation on which she were born and retire comfortably around 1900. Cartes-de-visite of Millie-Christine served an important role as publicity for her performances.