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Sunday, September 30, 2012
San Juan and Cincinnati Microsoft Stores to open in November
This weekend, Microsoft launched four more permanent Microsoft Store locations; two in New York and one in New Hampshire and Delaware. Microsoft will keep the ball rolling on its retail store strategy in November with the official announcement of two more opening dates and locations.
The official Microsoft Store Facebook page has confirmed that the Microsoft Store in San Juan, Puerto Rico will open its doors on Thursday, November 1st. Microsoft will also open a new retail location in Cincinnati, Ohio one week later on Thursday, November 8th. Microsoft previously announced it would open a store in Toronto on November 16th, making it the first such store outside the US; Microsoft has a goal of opening 44 of these kinds of stores by mid-2013.
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced plans to open over 30 temporary retail stores across the US and Canada in order to sell Microsoft-based products for the 2012 fall and holiday shopping season. So far, there's no word from Microsoft on when any of these temporary "pop up" stores will launch or what products they will have on sale, although we would suspect the Surface tablet will be one of them.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
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Teen Beats Cancer, Wins the Lottery
Teen Beats Cancer, Wins the Lottery
SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
In a reversal of fortune, a 19-year-old cancer survivor wins $250,000 in the Maryland Mega Millions lottery. WBAL?s Kim Dacey reports.Source: http://www.happynews.com/news/9292012/teen-beats-cancer-wins-lottery.htm
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Minneapolis gunman's family feared mental illness
An informal memorial sits on a bench in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 in tribute to UPS driver Keith Basinski, 50, who was among five victims killed in the shooting rampage that took place late Thursday afternoon at Accents Signage Systems, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minn. Police say Andrew Engeldinger, 36, was fired from the company that afternoon and responded by fatally shooting others there before he turned the gun on himself. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, David Joles) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
An informal memorial sits on a bench in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 in tribute to UPS driver Keith Basinski, 50, who was among five victims killed in the shooting rampage that took place late Thursday afternoon at Accents Signage Systems, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minn. Police say Andrew Engeldinger, 36, was fired from the company that afternoon and responded by fatally shooting others there before he turned the gun on himself. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, David Joles) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
An informal memorial for shooting victims stands outside Accents Signage Systems, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minn., Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. Six people, including the suspected gunman, were shot to death Thursday afternoon at Accent Signage Systems. Police say Andrew Engeldinger, 36, was fired from the company that afternoon and responded by fatally shooting others there before he turned the gun on himself. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, ) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
Father and son UPS employees Dan Miller, center, and Nathaniel Miller, left, walked around the Accents Signage Systems, Inc. building saying prayers and singing in Minneapolis, Minn. Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. Dan Miller found a heap of crime scene tape outside the building and carried it to place on the memorial site. Six people, including the suspected gunman, were shot to death Thursday afternoon at Accent Signage Systems.. Police say Andrew Engeldinger, 36, was fired from the company that afternoon and responded by fatally shooting others there before he turned the gun on himself. In the foreground sweeping away leaves is Joe Sedlachek, a neighbor to the business. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, ) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
This July 2012 photo shows Andrew Engeldinger working at Accent Signage in Minneapolis. Police say the gunman who killed four people inside a Minneapolis sign company had been fired hours before the attack. Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan told a Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, news conference that the gunman in Thursday's attack was 36-year-old Engeldinger of Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Finance and Commerce, Bill Klotz) MANDATORY CREDIT
An informal memorial for shooting victims stand at the base of a flagpole, with the flag at half-staff, outside Accents Signage Systems, Inc. in Minneapolis, Minn. Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. Six people, including the suspected gunman, were shot to death Thursday afternoon at Accent Signage Systems. Police say Andrew Engeldinger, 36, was fired from the company that afternoon and responded by fatally shooting others there before he turned the gun on himself. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, ) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? Andrew Engeldinger's parents were worried about their son's growing paranoia. In 2010, they sought help, enrolling in a 12-week class for families of the mentally ill.
For the last 21 months, the family said they reached out in hopes he would seek treatment. It was to no avail, as Engeldinger spurned their attempts at contact.
On Thursday night, they learned he was the gunman in Minnesota's deadliest workplace shooting. Police say Engeldinger fatally shot five people and injured three at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis before turning the gun on himself.
"It's not unusual when you're isolating yourself, which we know that he did, that eventually the only people you have left is your family and your co-workers, and often your paranoia translates to them," Sue Abderholden, a mental health organization executive who is serving as spokeswoman for Engeldinger's family, said Saturday.
Police say the 36-year-old Engeldinger shot and killed Reuven Rahamim, the founder of Accent Signage Systems; employees Ronald Edberg, Rami Cooks and Jacob Beneke; and Keith Basinski, a UPS driver who made a delivery at the wrong time. Two other employees remained hospitalized, one in critical condition and the other in serious condition.
The officers who responded to what Police Chief Tim Dolan called a "hellish scene" eventually found Engeldinger's body in the basement. Officers who searched his south Minneapolis home later Thursday found another gun and packaging for 10,000 rounds of ammunition.
Police and company representatives have not yet said why Engeldinger was fired from a job he had held since the late 1990s.
Jim Dow, a sales representative who frequently visited the business, said Saturday that he'd spoken to Accent employees and family members of victims. He said they told him that in recent months, Engeldinger had been running afoul of managers with confrontational behavior and unexplained absences from work.
"He was getting mouthy, belligerent," Dow said. Cooks, who's been described as Rahamim's right-hand man, "would take him aside and tell him that's not acceptable," Dow said. "He'd straighten up for a while and then this would crop up again."
Dolan said it was clear that Engeldinger targeted some victims while bypassing others. Many of those killed or injured were management.
Engeldinger wasn't always a problematic employee.
Barry Lawrence, an ex-employee, trained Engeldinger on a sign engraving machine and recalled that he was "sharp, intelligent." He said though Engeldinger mostly kept to himself, he'd occasionally join his co-workers for drinks after work.
But, upon hearing of the shooting, Lawrence said he had a gut reaction.
"To tell you the truth, my first thought was Andy," said Lawrence, who left Accent in 2003. "He was pleasant enough to work around, but he just seemed a little off all the time. You get a feeling about people, nothing you can put your finger on."
Abderholden, the executive director of Minnesota's chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, said she didn't know when Engeldinger's family first became worried that he had a mental illness. Two years ago, Chuck and Carolyn Engeldinger ? who raised Andy and his two siblings in the Minneapolis suburb of Richfield ? enrolled in NAMI's free, 12-week "Family to Family" course.
The classes, offered nationwide and taught by people who have had loved ones suffer from mental illness, include scientific and medical information about causes and symptoms, as well as concrete steps for trying to deal with the sufferer. They also have guidance for family members to cope.
"Sometimes it doesn't work, but you still are at least armed with the information to help you know what to do," Abderholden said.
Andrew Engeldinger never sought treatment to his family's knowledge, Abderholden said, and was never diagnosed with a specific illness. It wasn't long after his parents took the class that he cut off contact with the family, although Abderholden said she didn't know if pressure to seek help led to the estrangement.
The Engeldingers declined an interview request.
As he withdrew, Engeldinger's main point of contact with the outside world appeared to be his job. Several people in the Minneapolis neighborhood where he bought a home in 2004 said they never exchanged more than pleasantries.
Brian Jorgensen, who lived next door, said they only occasionally acknowledged each other when both were cutting the grass or shoveling sidewalks. He said Engeldinger wore sunglasses all the time.
Engeldinger was "just a quiet person who kept to himself but did not engage with us. And we didn't engage with him either because it just felt like he didn't want that kind of contact."
Outside of Accent Signage on Saturday, some residents of the Bryn Mawr neighborhood laid flowers at a memorial. Another swept up leaves in front.
A father-son duo of UPS employees, Dan and Nathaniel Miller, walked around the building and prayed. Basinski's death "hit me really hard," Dan Miller told the Star Tribune.
Abderholden said the likelihood of violence by a mentally ill person is very low, and that Engeldinger's family wouldn't have had reason to suspect he was capable of such violent acts. She called the family "extremely close" and said they are distraught.
"They just have deep sorrow about what happened, and if there was any way they could bring those lives back they would," Abderholden said. "They don't want to detract from the focus on those lives."
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Associated Press reporter Amy Forliti contributed to this report.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
How consumer-electronics makers are faring
Makers and sellers of consumer-electronics devices have been releasing their earnings reports for the latest quarter. Here's a look at selected companies that report unit sales on phones, tablet computers and other devices. Some companies including Samsung Electronics Co. do not release data on unit sales.
? July 19: Microsoft Corp. says it shipped 1.1 million Xbox 360 consoles during the April-June period, down from 1.7 million a year earlier.
Nokia Corp. says sales of smartphones dropped 39 percent from a year ago to 10.2 million in the second quarter. The company blamed "strong momentum" of competing smartphones. All regions showed a decline except North America, where sales of the new Windows-based Lumia line offset declines in traditional Symbian devices. Sales of all cellphones fell 5 percent to 83.7 million.
? July 24: Apple Inc. says it sold 26 million iPhones, 28 percent more than a year ago. It also sold 17 million iPads, an 84 percent increase. But average selling prices for both products were down. Apple sold 4 million Macs, a 2 percent increase, and 6.8 million iPods, a 10 percent decline.
TomTom says it sold 1.7 million personal-navigation devices in North America, down from 2.1 million a year ago. In Europe, it sold 2.4 million, down from 2.8 million. TomTom says market share was relatively flat at 45 percent in Europe, but down to 19 percent from 23 percent in North America because of a GPS chip product issue.
AT&T Inc. says it activated 5.1 million smartphones in its latest quarter, down from 5.5 million in the same period a year ago. Much of the decline came because AT&T subscribers are holding on to their phones longer.
? July 25: Nintendo Co. says it sold 710,000 Wii units in the April-June quarter, down from 1.56 million a year ago. Nintendo is coming out with a successor, the Wii U, this year. It is forecasting 10.5 million units for the full fiscal year, which ends in March 2013. The company, meanwhile, sold 540,000 DS units, down from 1.44 million a year ago, and it sold 1.86 million 3DS units, up from 710,000 a year ago.
? Aug. 1: Garmin Ltd. says it sold 3.9 million GPS navigation and other devices in the second quarter, up 4 percent from a year earlier.
? Aug. 2: Sony Corp. says it sold 2.8 million PlayStation units, down from 3.2 million a year earlier. The figures cover both PlayStation 3 and the older PlayStation 2. Sales of the PlayStation Portable and Vita devices were at 1.4 million, down from 1.8 million a year earlier.
? Sept. 6: Samsung says global sales of its Galaxy S III smartphone have surpassed 20 million in a little more than three months. Samsung Electronics Co. launched the flagship smartphone powered by Google's Android operating system in Europe in late May. The U.S. got it in June.
? Sept. 24: Apple Inc. says that it sold more than 5 million units of the iPhone 5 in the three days since its launch, fewer than analysts had expected. The sales tally is a record for any phone, but it beats last year's iPhone 4S launch only by a small margin. Apple said then that it sold 4 million phones in the first three days.
? Sept. 25: Research in Motion Ltd. CEO Thorsten Heins says he is convinced that the company's BlackBerry phone is poised to regain its stature as a trailblazing device even as many investors fret about its potential demise. Heins took the stage at a conference for mobile applications developers to rally support for the upcoming release of BlackBerry 10, a new operating system that RIM is touting as its salvation after years of blundering. Investors appeared to be heartened by what they heard and saw. The company's stock gained 30 cents, or nearly 5 percent, to $6.60. That's still far below the stock's peak price of about $148, reached in June 2008.
? Sept. 27: Research in Motion Ltd. posts another large loss in the second quarter, but it's not quite as bad as analysts expected. The company shipped 7.4 million BlackBerry smartphones in the quarter, down from 10.6 million last year. RIM says there will be "continued pressure on its operating results" for the rest of its fiscal year.
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Make San Jose State University Your University of Choice
Job Title: Associate Vice President, Marketing and
Communication
Job ID: 22453
Full/Part time: Full-time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Department: Marketing and Communications, University Advancement
Compensation:
This position is classified at the Administrator IV level of the Management Personnel Plan.
The hiring salary will commensurate with experience.
About the Position:
This is a position in the CSU - Management Personnel Plan (MPP), and serves at the
pleasure of the President.
Under the general direction of the Vice President for University Advancement, the Associate Vice President for Marketing and Communications develops and manages the university marketing, branding and communications plan utilizing innovative, cutting-edge strategies. The position oversees the university website and social media presence; plans and executes internal and external communications; oversees fundraising communications; publishes the university's flagship magazine, Washington Square; and provides design, editorial and other communications services for a wide variety of stakeholders throughout the campus and broader community.
The AVP is responsible for implementing a university-wide integrated marketing and communications plan that will positively impact the University's mission, goals, strategic objectives, and constituency relations in alignment with the campus' Vision 2017. In addition, the AVP advises campus executives on innovative communications and builds working partnerships with campus leaders and stakeholders including college deans, faculty members, and the broader community.
Key responsibilities for the position are to:
- Develop, implement and measure results from an innovative, cutting-edge marketing and branding strategy that effectively positions and provides visibility for San Jose State in the region.
- Manage a talented team of marketing and communications staff.
- Leveraging emerging trends and principles in the industry, create and promote the use of key university messages and ensure campus-wide commitment to the university's brand identity.
- Manage the university's print, digital, web and social media presence for marketing, branding, and communications.
- Provide leadership, strategic direction and execution of campaign and other development communications.
- Work collaboratively with the public affairs team on advocacy and emergency communications.
- Serve as speechwriter for the president and for the other top administrators as needed.
- A Bachelor's degree from an accredited university is required.
- Ten years of progressive marketing, communication and branding experience is required; five of which is at the senior level with demonstrated background in management and leadership.
- Experience in innovative marketing strategies that utilize social media and web services.
- Experience in managing complicated assignments with multiple contributors, editors, and stakeholders in a highly organized fashion.
- Specialized skills to direct a marketing program, including the development of strategic marketing plans for promoting the image of the university, producing publications, managing and supervising the operation of a fast-paced unit, and managing cooperative working relationships with students, staff, faculty and alumni.
- Strong writing skills in a variety of formats, including strategic communications plans that include timelines and deliverables, messaging documents, website or digital media-friendly content.
- Expertise in and experience working with new and emerging media outlets, including blogs and social media.
- Thorough knowledge of feature writing, magazine production, procedures and practices, and communication and dissemination techniques and methods.
- Knowledge of design as a communication tool; understanding of how design supports key messages and effective communication overall.
- Knowledge of web trends as well as an understanding of the role these technologies play in overall communications.
- Knowledge of software applications such as: Microsoft Word, database management and design tools.
- Knowledge of development and campaign communications, publications and marketing techniques.
- Demonstrated interest in and familiarity with public higher education.
- Ability to apply principles and practices, especially as applied in a college or university.
- Ability to effectively present ideas and concepts in written and presentation formats as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Ability to develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintain them over time.
- Ability to work with representatives from public and private entities and handle potentially sensitive situations.
- Ability to observe, receive, and obtain information from all relevant sources; analyze information and evaluate results to choose and present the best solution and solve problems.
- Ability to develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintain them over time.
- Ability to keep management informed and aware of public attitudes and the concerns of the many organizations, groups and stakeholders.
- Ability to perform accurately in a detail-oriented environment, handles multiple work priorities, organize and plan work and projects, and meet deadlines.
- Ability to quickly learn and apply a variety of state, federal, CSU and SJSU policies and procedures.
- Must demonstrate initiative, flexibility and a willingness to work as a team player in an organizational environment.
September 25, 2012
First Screening Date:
October 9, 2012
This position is open until filled; however, applications
received after the first screening date will be considered at the discretion of the university.
**All applications are to be submitted to R. H. Perry and Associates. Prior to submitting an application, please read the Executive Search Profile, located at www.rhperry.com . Review of applications begins immediately. All communications may be directed in strict confidence to Mr. Paul G. Doeg or Mr. Matthew J. Kilcoyne, Senior Consultants, at sjsumktg@rhperry.com. **
Required Application Materials:
Resume
Letter of Interest
References
Examples from your
portfolio of an integrated marketing and branding campaign.
Note to the Applicant:
Evidence of degree(s) or certification(s) may be required at time of hire. Every
applicant who reaches the final level of interviews will be required to submit their fingerprints to the Live Scan Prints Service through
the University's Police Department. SJSU will pay all costs associated with this procedure.
Selected candidate may be required to sign a conflict of interest disclosure and may be required to complete the conflict of interest training within six months of assuming the position.
SJSU IS NOT A SPONSORING AGENCY FOR STAFF OR MANAGEMENT POSITIONS (i.e. H1-B VISAS)
Equal Employment Statement:
SJSU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to
nondiscrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender status, marital status, pregnancy,
age, disability, or covered veteran's status consistent with applicable federal and state laws.
It is the policy of SJSU to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified persons with disabilities.
University Shared Values:
Learning: Valuing education and promoting life-long learning.
Student and
Employee Success: Placing our highest priority on academic success and personal growth.
Excellence: Setting the highest standards in all
we do.
Integrity: Being honest, fair and accountable for our actions.
Diversity: Respecting diversity and recognizing the strength
this factor brings to our community.
Community: Valuing collaborative relationships.
Contact Information:
Mr. Paul G. Doeg or Mr. Matthew J. Kilcoyne, Senior Consultants, R. H. Perry and
Associates. Email: sjsumktg@rhperry.com or the Website: www.rhperry.com.
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"SJSU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender status, marital status, pregnancy, age, disability, or covered veteran's status consistent with applicable federal and state laws. This policy applied to all SJSU students, faculty, and staff as well as University programs and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided for applicants with disabilities who self-disclose."
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China volcano shows signs of unrest
A very hazardous volcano at the border of China and North Korea is growing more active, and might erupt in the next few decades, researchers studying the area say.
About 1,100 years ago, the Changbaishan volcano in northeastern China erupted, shooting superheated flows of ash and gas up to 30 miles (50 kilometers) away and blasting a 3-mile-wide (5 km) chunk off the tip of the volcano. The explosion, known as the Millennium eruption because it occurred close to the turn of the first millennium, was one of the largest volcanic events in the last 2,000 years.
Since the Millennium eruption, Changbaishan has seen three smaller eruptions, the most recent of which took place in 1903. Starting in 1999, driven by signs of resumed activity, scientists established the Changbaishan Volcano Observatory.
Now, data collected over the past 12 years suggest that changes in seismic activity, ground deformation and gas emissions all spiked during a brief period of heightened activity from 2002 to 2006. This suggests the magma chamber beneath Changbaishan has awakened, researchers studying the volcano say.
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The researchers saw the number of earthquakes increase dramatically during this burst of activity. From 1999 to 2002, and from 2006 to 2011, researchers detected seven earthquakes per month. However, from 2002 to 2006, this rate increased to 72 earthquakes per month, peaking in November 2003, which saw 243 events. Most of these quakes are tied to a region 3 miles beneath the volcanic crater that has risen slowly over the years, which suggests magma is creeping upward.
Gas emissions from hot springs near the volcano show rises in carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium and nitrogen gases. The researchers say this could be related to outgassing from magma. The ground also expanded briefly and rapidly during the 2002-2006 period. [ Album: Volcanoes from Space ]
Although Changbaishan does not seem in danger of imminent eruption, the researchers say this unrest suggests an explosion could be expected in the next couple of decades. Changbaishan is at the most risk of eruption of the dozen or so volcanoes in mainland China, and potentially could have the most catastrophic effects of all of them, said researcher Jiandong Xu, a volcanologist at the China Earthquake Administration in Beijing.
The researchers will focus on analyzing what hazardous effects an explosive outburst on the scale of the Millennium eruption might have in the future.
"We need to upgrade our current monitoring system in order to be able to meet the need for the early warning system for Changbaishan," Xu told OurAmazingPlanet.
The scientists detailed their findings online Aug. 22 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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Suspect in killing of Los Angeles woman was actor
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Johnny Lewis, an actor who played Kip "Half Sack" Epps on the cable TV show "Sons of Anarchy," has fallen to his death after apparently beating to death his elderly landlady at a hillside home, authorities said.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office on Thursday identified the bodies as those of Lewis, 28, and Catherine Davis, 81.
Coroner's Watch Cmdr. Larry Deitz said he could not identify Lewis as being the actor. But the name and date of birth match, and both victims lived at the same address.
The causes of their deaths were unknown pending autopsies.
Neighbors called police Wednesday morning to report a woman screaming and three men fighting.
Officers went to a home in the Los Feliz area near Hollywood and found the body of a woman in the driveway, Sgt. Frank Preciado told the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/Or6s0E ). Investigators believe she was struck or beaten.
The body of the suspected killer, who may have rented a room from the woman, was found about six feet from a wall, Preciado said.
The man climbed a wall and fought with a housepainter at a neighboring home, returned to the woman's home and climbed the wall again to fight with the painter and the owner of the second house, Preciado said.
The man apparently fell while trying to scale the wall again, Preciado said.
The men who fought with him were treated at the scene for minor injuries, he said.
Jonathan Kendrick Lewis had a career spanning more than a decade, mainly in small roles. He played Ricky in the 2007 movie "AVPR: Aliens vs Predator ? Requiem" and was Dennis 'Chili' Childress for two seasons on TV's "The O.C." He played Epps on FX's "Sons of Anarchy" in 2008 and 2009 episodes.
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Video: The 'Cure' For the Common Cubicle
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Todays Step-Parenting Links for September 25 ... - Blending families ...
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- Parenting Matters: 10 ways to better argue with your kids Welcome to the Collaborative Youth Team's column, ?Parenting Matters!? The Collaborative Youth Team is a partnership of 20 youth and family service organizations and agencies that are here to serve you. Each month, a different partner will offer ?
See all stories on this topic ? - Author Paul Tough doles out parenting advice
- Greg Sailor, GPN New research says helicopter parenting isn't just part of the parenting vernacular, it's a distinct form of parenting that can have positive effects for adult children, but some negatives as well. So what's a parent to do? Are parents too pushy or ?
See all stories on this topic ? - First Presbyterian Church Parenting Group offers eighth annual video series The Parenting Group of First Presbyterian Church of Monticello is offering a six week workshop. The workshop will meet on Tuesday, October 2, at 6 p.m. and will meet at the same time on the following five Tuesdays. A meal and childcare are provided at ?
See all stories on this topic ? - Parents should slow down to help their kids' success The author of "Fed Up With Frenzy: Slow Parenting in a Fast-Moving World" and the blog Slow Family, Lipman suggests that we parents ? not schools, kids, our work, our partner or the myriad other villains ? are creating our own stress. "When children ?
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Video: Romney Hits the Road to Grab 'Swing' Votes
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Nats' magic number still at 5 after loss to Phils
By Rob Maaddi
AP Sports Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 10:16 p.m. ET Sept. 25, 2012
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Ross Detwiler and his teammates watched the Philadelphia Phillies celebrate enough division titles, hoping one day to return the favor.
Not this year.
Darin Ruf homered for his first major league hit, Carlos Ruiz and Domonic Brown also went deep and the Phillies beat the playoff-bound Washington Nationals 6-3 on Tuesday night.
The Nationals' magic number for winning the NL East remained at five because Atlanta beat Miami 4-3. Their lead over the Braves dropped to four games with eight left.
The loss assured that Washington won't pop bubbly in Philadelphia this week. The earliest the Nationals can secure the NL East is Friday. Philadelphia clinched three times against Washington in the past five years.
"We'd like to have celebrated on their field like they did with us," Detwiler said. "I didn't let it happen."
Detwiler (10-7) gave up five runs and five hits in five innings to lose for the first time since Aug. 22.
"When I don't have a fastball, that's what happens," Detwiler said. "It was embarrassing."
Cole Hamels (16-6) overcame five shaky innings to set a career high in wins and help the five-time defending NL East champion Phillies keep their faint postseason hopes alive. Hamels allowed three runs and seven hits, tying his shortest outing of the year.
Philadelphia is 5 1/2 games behind St. Louis for the NL's second wild-card spot. Milwaukee and the Los Angeles Dodgers also are ahead of the Phillies in the standings with eight games remaining.
Ruf earned the nickname "Babe" by leading all minor leaguers with 38 homers this season, breaking Ryan Howard's season record at Double-A Reading.
He didn't take long to show his power stroke.
Ruf connected off Detwiler in the second inning, turning on an inside pitch and hitting a towering drive out to left-center. The rookie got the silent treatment in the dugout. Players held back smiles and ignored Ruf until the inning ended before congratulating him with high-fives. Fans in left field gave him a standing ovation when he jogged out to his position.
Control problems hurt Detwiler in the third. He walked John Mayberry Jr. and Chase Utley to start the inning. Howard followed with an RBI single on an 0-2 pitch. Ruiz then lined a three-run shot to left to make it 5-1.
"He has such a good fastball that sometimes that's all he wants to throw," Nats manager Davey Johnson said.
Hamels, the 2008 World Series and NLCS MVP, won 15 games in 2007. The three-time All-Star hadn't won more than 14 since until now.
This wasn't one of his better outings.
Five Philadelphia relievers tossed four innings of one-hit ball. Jonathan Papelbon finished for his 37th save in 41 tries.
Hamels issued a two-out walk to Danny Espinosa in the second. Espinosa stole second and scored on Kurt Suzuki's single to center for a 1-0 lead.
Bryce Harper hit an RBI single with two outs in the fifth to cut it to 5-2. Harper alertly advanced to second on the throw to the plate and scored Ryan Zimmerman's single that got the Nationals within two runs.
Brown gave the Phillies a 6-3 lead when he blasted Craig Stammen's first pitch way out to right leading off the bottom of the sixth.
NOTES: Hamels is 13-5 vs. Washington. ... Detwiler is 7-2 vs. NL East teams. ... The Nationals fell to 13-10 in September. They are the only team in the majors with a winning record each month. ... Kyle Kendrick (10-11) faces John Lannan (3-0) on Wednesday night. Lannan is 2-12 vs. Philadelphia.
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Freddie Freeman hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to put the Atlanta Braves back in the playoffs with a 4-3 victory over the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night.
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Got TouchWiz? Some Samsung Smartphones Can Be Totally Wiped By Clicking A Link
I've never been a huge fan of the TouchWiz UI Samsung throws onto most of its smartphones (for aesthetic reasons, mostly), but now it seems there's another reason to be wary of the custom Android interface. At a recent security conference in Argentina, Technical University Berlin researcher Ravi Borgaonkar showed off a slightly disturbing vulnerability that could prompt a Samsung phone to wipe itself completely after an unsuspecting user clicks a link.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/hTOE4KywtkU/
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Video: Automatic building mapping could help emergency responders
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving. The prototype system, described in a paper slated for the Intelligent Robots and Systems conference in Portugal next month, is envisioned as a tool to help emergency responders coordinate disaster response.
In experiments conducted on the MIT campus, a graduate student wearing the sensor system wandered the halls, and the sensors wirelessly relayed data to a laptop in a distant conference room. Observers in the conference room were able to track the student's progress on a map that sprang into being as he moved.
Connected to the array of sensors is a handheld pushbutton device that the wearer can use to annotate the map. In the prototype system, depressing the button simply designates a particular location as a point of interest. But the researchers envision that emergency responders could use a similar system to add voice or text tags to the map ? indicating, say, structural damage or a toxic spill.
"The operational scenario that was envisioned for this was a hazmat situation where people are suited up with the full suit, and they go in and explore an environment," says Maurice Fallon, a research scientist in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and lead author on the new paper. "The current approach would be to textually summarize what they had seen afterward ? 'I went into this room on the left, I saw this, I went into the next room,' and so on. We want to try to automate that."
Fallon is joined on the paper by professors John Leonard and Seth Teller, of, respectively, the departments of Mechanical Engineering and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and EECS grad students Hordur Johannsson and Jonathan Brookshire.
Shaky aim
The new work builds on previous research on systems that enable robots to map their environments. But adapting the system so that a human could wear it required a number of modifications.
One of the sensors that the system uses is a laser rangefinder, which sweeps a laser beam around a 270-degree arc and measures the time that it takes the light pulses to return. If the rangefinder is level, it can provide very accurate information about the distance of the nearest walls, but a walking human jostles it much more than a rolling robot does. Similarly, sensors in a robot's wheels can provide accurate information about its physical orientation and the distances it covers, but that's missing with humans. And as emergency workers responding to a disaster might have to move among several floors of a building, the system also has to recognize changes in altitude, so it doesn't inadvertently overlay the map of one floor with information about a different one.So in addition to the rangefinder, the researchers also equipped their sensor platform with a cluster of accelerometers and gyroscopes, a camera, and, in one group of experiments, a barometer (changes in air pressure proved to be a surprisingly good indicator of floor transitions). The gyroscopes could infer when the rangefinder was tilted ? information the mapping algorithms could use in interpreting its readings ? and the accelerometers provided some information about the wearer's velocity and very good information about changes in altitude.
Adjudicating the data from all the other sensors is the camera. Every few meters, the camera takes a snapshot of its surroundings, and software extracts a couple of hundred visual features from the image ? particular patterns of color, or contours, or inferred three-dimensional shapes. Each batch of features is associated with a particular location on the map.
Seeing is believing
If the person wearing the sensors returns to an area that he or she has previously visited, the system's location estimate could be off: For instance, its compensation for the tilt of the rangefinder might not have been perfect, and a wall now looks several feet farther away than it did, or its inference of position from accelerometer data could be off. In such cases, a fresh snapshot and a comparison of the visual features with those already stored can help correct its location estimate.
The prototype of the sensor platform consists of a handful of devices attached to a sheet of hard plastic about the size of an iPad, which is worn on the chest like a backward backpack. The only sensor whose volume can't be reduced significantly is the rangefinder, so in principle, the whole system could be shrunk to about the size of a coffee mug.
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Fish eaters run lower risk of heart attack, despite some mercury content, study suggests
ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2012) ? Eat fish, but avoid fish with the most pollutants. This is the conclusion drawn by a group of researchers at Ume? University in Sweden after having weighed the risks of mercury content against the advantages of healthful fatty acids.
The work was done as part of an international collaborative effort.
Fish is healthful food, and several studies have shown that people who eat fish have a lower risk of cardiovascular diseases than those who eat very little or no fish. At the same time, some fish contain environmental pollutants that can be hazardous to our health. One such pollutant that is suspected of increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease is methyl mercury, which is found in varying degree in different kinds of fish. If people eat fish with much pollutants, this would lead to increased risk of disease, but at the same time if people are overly cautious and eat too little fish, the risk of disease also increases.
In order to attain a better understanding of what the golden mean might be, researchers at Ume? University, in collaboration with researchers from Finland and elsewhere, examined how the risk of heart attack (acute myocardial infarction) is contingent on the amount of omega-3 fats and mercury from fish that people have in their body. The content was measured in blood and hair samples from people that had previously participated in health studies in northern Sweden and eastern Finland. The Swedish blood samples were from the Medical Biobank in Ume?. Those who experienced a heart attack after the health check-up were compared with those who did not.
The findings are now being published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN). It turned out that mercury was linked to increased risk, and omega-3 fatty acids to decreased risk, of having a heart attack. The increased risk from mercury was noticeable only at high levels of this environmental pollutant in the body and if the level of the protective omega-3 fatty acids was concomitantly low. In other words, what is important is the balance between healthful and hazardous substances in fish. The environmental pollutant in this study was mercury. For organic pollutants like PCB and dioxin, the problem complex is similar, but no study of this kind has yet been undertaken.
The conclusion is simple: Eat fish, but avoid fish with the most pollutants. The Swedish National Food Agency recommends that people should eat fish 2-3 times a week, but their intake of predatory fish (e.g. pike, perch, pike-perch), which contain a great deal of mercury, should be limited (see link below). This study supports that recommendation. According to a recent study from the National Food Agency, 7 of 10 Swedes eat too little fish.
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Can castration really prolong a man's life?
Analysis of records of court eunuchs in Korea suggest that castration prolongs life. Does it really, or are there other explanations?
What did the analysis find?
Documents detailing the lives of 81 eunuchs who lived in Korea between the mid-16th and mid-19th centuries showed that, on average, they lived 14 to 19 years longer than their non-castrated peers. "It provides some of the most compelling evidence yet that the male sex hormone, testosterone, reduces male lifespan," says Kyung Jin Min of Inha University in Incheon, South Korea. The conclusion supports the theory that testosterone-fuelled reproduction comes at a price, increasing the risk of heart disease and cancer, and reducing the strength of the immune system.
Steady on. Isn't it a bit much to claim that castration is the key to long life?
Yes. Min says that many earlier studies show that castration prolongs the life of animals, from 24 to 27 months in rats, for example. But previous studies were equivocal, showing life extension in castrated mental patients but not castrati musicians, for example.
How reliable were the sources?
How reliable are any ancient documents? Min and his colleagues relied on the Yang-Se-Gye-Bo, a record of eunuchs who served in courts of the ancient Korean Chosun Dynasty. They also used genaeological records of thousands of members of three Korean family lines ? the Mok, the Shin and the Seo. Min says three of the 81 eunuchs were centenarians compared with the current incidence of one per 3500 in Japan and one per 4400 in the US.
What do other experts in ageing say?
"When testosterone is lacking, the demand for amino acids to support cell proliferation and muscle-building is decreased, and it's thought that the body then shifts the use of these basic building blocks towards cellular defence and stress resistance," says Holly Brown-Borg, who studies ageing at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. She guesses that the eunuchs were smaller and less muscular, with lower levels of cancer and heart disease.
What would happen if I were to get castrated now?
It depends how old you are. Any increase in lifespan may only occur if men are castrated as boys. "It's possible that testosterone reduction therapy extends male lifespan, but Korean eunuchs were usually castrated before adolescence, so we don't know the effects of castration on lifespan in older men," says Min.
What other explanations could there be?
Eunuchs probably avoided life-shortening sexually transmitted infections, but there's no way of knowing. Min tried to control for the eunuchs' high social status by comparing their life expectancies with those of the kings and other males in royal households, which turned out to be just 47 and 45 respectively. He suggests looking at eunuchs in the Chinese and Ottoman empires.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Windows 8 Chrome Uses Same Profile for Desktop and Metro
When Google released initial version of Chrome for Windows 8 we reviewed the comparison between metro Chrome and desktop Chrome we did noted that both versions don?t share add-ons, theme as if they?ve different profiles for Metro and Desktop, that?s true at that point. Few days back with Dev channel update things were changed altogether, one change we just covered is how to relaunch Chrome on desktop from Windows 8 Mode, another one is Chrome on Windows 8 uses single and same profile for desktop and Windows 8 modes where extensions or themes installed for one version available in other since they use the same profile. So the? Changes made to either of them will reflect in another, so some confusion has been avoided with this.
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NFL labor dispute: Players, owners should learn from baseball
Opportunities to avert disaster don't come often. Right now, the NFL and its union, by agreeing to a 24-hour extension of their collective bargaining agreement, have taken a step back from the edge. Let's hope it is progress, not just gamesmanship.
As NFL owners and their players find themselves at the first of what may be many brinks in their negotiations, they should learn from baseball's horrid battle of 1994-95. That dispute cascaded into failure, in part because both sides thought they'd win before anything awful happened.
In baseball, as in the current NFL ruckus, the owners spent years laying the groundwork to roll back gains made by the players. In both cases, the players felt sure that labor law was on their side. The owners felt they were getting squeezed and had the financial muscle to change that balance. Both sports were enjoying boom times. That cushion of overconfidence, plus so much money to be split up, proved a perfect prescription for a brawl.
Baseball set deadlines, extended them, then let them pass. Both sides postured, pretended to be negotiating seriously while actually playing for advantage with the public and in the media. There were many baseball days back then that felt a lot like Thursday's NFL talks. Marathon meetings, new last-minute proposals: There's progress! Don't fret.
Yet the 1994 World Series was lost; the aftershocks are still shaking the sport today. Reflect on this cautionary tale, lords of football and players, too.
And reach a deal fast, even if it's far sooner than your original battle plan.
At the moment, both sides are acting serious, but is there really any sense of urgency? The owners have been planning their strategy since 2008, when they reopened the CBA two years early. Aren't they tempted to see how their brilliant strategies will play out? Baseball's owners sure were.
As for players, you already hear quotes about, "Oh, no games until September." When they get their first paychecks. Who cares about missing OTAs? I've covered 10 sports labor battles for The Washington Post, including two NFL lockouts in the 1980s. Ignore history if you want. But the longer you wait, the harder to deal, the easier to go to the mattresses.
There's another side of the coin: our side. Fans of the NFL, even the most ardent, should also learn something from baseball's misery: Don't care. Or care as little as you can. Don't live and die with the latest twist in talks. If the current 24-hour extension leads to progress, that's great. But if this moment of hope leads to nothing, be prepared to mock both sides and, when you can, try to laugh. That's the only pleasure we're going to get.
Because there is one certainty when labor fights get this intense: Neither side cares about you. If you pick a favorite and scream your opinion, then you're probably the sucker. The owners will only listen to those who back them. The same goes for the players.
The sound that really worries them is silence. Try to provide it.
Perhaps the scariest parallel between baseball then and football now is the idea that the healthier the sport, the less likely a disaster. That's backward. Lots of money on the table brings out the worst in people, seldom the best.
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Should you upgrade to the iPhone 5?
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- The iPhone 5's speed is a significant upgrade for gamers and photographers
- The new, taller screen size is perfect for widescreen movies, but many apps don't fit the new size yet
- Owners of iPhone 3GS and older models should definitely consider upgrading
- Decision is harder for owners of later models
(CNN) -- Deciding when to upgrade is a funny, sometimes expensive thing. Carrier contracts that subsidize the cost of a new iPhone are usually for two years, so it's traditional to upgrade every other model or less. You also want to time it just right, during the iPhone development cycle, so you don't buy a phone months before it's outdated.
If you are an iPhone owner who is pondering an upgrade to the new iPhone 5, here are some things to consider:
Do you long for more screen space/watch a lot of movies?
Perhaps you've heard that the iPhone 5 is taller. This is true. After testing its tallness we've found that there is more space on the screen, which is no longer as short as the previous iPhone screens.
The phone retains its width but is now 9 millimeters taller -- that's one extra row of icons. The dimensions are perfect for watching widescreen movies, which were previously smaller and letter-boxed. The space also gives all other apps a bit more breathing room. Third-party applications must now redesign their apps to fix the new aspect ratio -- which requires time and resources -- so until then, older apps will be shown at normal size, the bar of unused screen space cloaked in mourning-black.
There is a market for much larger smartphone screens, and companies like Samsung have delivered with spacious, high-resolution smartphones. This is largely a matter of preference, but if you find that the iPhone 5's screen is still just too small for you, you may need to defect to something like the Samsung Galaxy S3 which has a 4.8-inch screen.
Does your current phone feel slow?
Each iPhone is typically faster than its predecessor, and phones tend to slow down over time. Apple has added a speedier processor to the iPhone 5 in the form of an A6 chip. The company claims it is up to twice as fast, and after testing, the difference is definitely noticeable.
Holding on to a slightly slower iPhone might not be much of an issue if you primarily use it for common tasks -- calls and texts, e-mailing, Twitter and Facebook, reading, even watching movies. If you don't find yourself grumbling at how slow your phone is, and you're still reeling from the speed improvements over the last iPhone you bought, you can probably carry on blissfully unaware of the difference.
However, if you use your iPhone for bigger tasks like playing graphic games, the speed is a very welcome bump indeed. Another place it's a noticeable improvement is the camera (more on that in a moment).
There are also free steps you can take to try and speed up your current phone. Free up some hard drive space by uninstalling apps you never use, emptying Safari's cache and clearing out photos, videos and music (see exactly what's taking up space in Settings->General->Usage). Make sure you regularly close any apps running in the background.
Is your iPhone your primary camera?
Thanks to decent image quality and the ability to share photos and videos instantly, the iPhone is probably more popular as a camera than a telephoning device. The iPhone 5 has the same 8-megapixel camera sensor as the iPhone 4S, but Apple did make a few hardware tweaks to make it fit into the thinner body and to improve image quality.
The best camera improvement is actually just plain old speed. You can take rapid-fire shots as fast as your finger can tap on the shutter button. Tapping to focus is instant. For anyone who has ever missed a moment because of the iPhone's lagging trigger, this is just awesome.
The new iPhone 5 lets users take panorama images.
Apple added a new panorama feature to the Photos app, and while there are numerous third-party panorama apps available, such as Microsoft's Photosynth, the Apple feature manages to beat them at their own game. The stitching is both faster and higher quality than competitors, and the final image is higher resolution.
Other adjustments to the camera include improved low-light images and reduced noise.
Do you use your phone for navigation?
If so, there is a slight caveat.
Every iPhone release comes with its own bit of drama. Sometimes it's overblown, like Antennaga2te, when holding your case-less phone in a very specific position could cause it to drop calls. iPhone 4S users reported battery issues. For the iPhone 5, the issue de jour is its new maps app.
Every iPhone 5 comes with iOS 6 pre-installed. That means the old maps app is automatically out, replaced with Apple's first go at a map application. It adds turn-by-turn directions and nice 3D graphics, but drops transit directions and decreases accuracy.
Apple has always excelled at design and smart user interfaces, but it is not a data company. While it continues to work to make this app what it should be, the best solution is to wait for Google to release its own third-party maps app for iOS. (The company is mum on when exactly that will be, but it will probably happen soon.) In the meantime, there are many other map apps in the Apple App Store, and you can still access Google's service through Safari, thought the experience is slower and less intuitive.
Do you like beautiful things?
The most impressive part of the new iPhone is its design. Apple is comparing the level of construction to a "finely crafted watch." Like a luxury item, its design is impeccable, the attention to detail visible on every seam and surface. It also tells time.
Not everyone integrates their iPhone 5 into an outfit like a Rolex. If you are one of the many people who protect their iPhone with an opaque case, the details won't be visible to people around you. In that situation, you still get the satisfaction of a well-made device, but previous iPhones were also finely crafted and are still in perfectly good shape.
The most dramatic physical difference of the new phone is that it is thinner and lighter. But while a great overall improvement, that's not enough of a reason to warrant upgrading unless you find yourself constantly bemoaning how heavy and fat your existing phone is. If you wear skinny jeans, this might be the one upgrade you were waiting for.
Do you have anything older than an iPhone 4S?
If you have an iPhone 3GS or earlier, upgrade. Do it for the screen. The retina display introduced on the iPhone 4 has been further refined for the iPhone 5 and in side-by-side comparisons with all screens at full brightness, the colors do look more vivid on the iPhone 5.
If you have an iPhone 4, the decision is harder. Consider what new features you really need. If you would get a lot of use out of the Siri voice-assistant, for example, this is a good time to upgrade. If you are a hardcore mobile gamer or serious iPhone photographer, the speed is worth it. But if you find that your two-year-old, well-crafted iPhone is holding up nicely, perhaps stick it out for another year.
IPhone 4S owners should just relax and enjoy their current phones. Wait a year for the next iteration, when your carrier will offer you the upgrade at the subsidized price and all the iPhone 5 owners will suddenly be stuck with old technology.
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