Sunday, December 30, 2012

Windows 8 Touch screen - Budget of ?600 / $1000


1) What is your budget?
?600 / $1000 maximum

2) What size notebook would you prefer?
15" or under if possible but not important

3) Where will you buying this notebook? You can select the flag of your country as an indicator.
United Kingdom

4) Are there any brands that you prefer or any you really don't like?
Not important

6) What are the primary tasks will you be performing with this notebook?
University work, internet browsing, watching films, mid-level gaming etc.

7) Will you be taking the notebook with you to different places, leaving it on your desk or both?
To university etc.

8) Will you be playing games on your notebook? If so, please state which games or types of games?
Nothing really heavy

9) How many hours of battery life do you need?
4-6+

10) Would you prefer to see the notebooks you're considering before purchasing it or buying a notebook on-line without seeing it is OK?
I'll buy online no problem.

11) What OS do you prefer? Windows (XP or Vista or Windows 7), Mac OS, Linux, etc.
Windows 8

Screen Specifics

12) From the choices below, what screen resolution(s) would you prefer? Keep in mind screen size in conjunction with resolution will play a large role in overall viewing comfort level. Everyone is different. Some like really small text, while others like their text big and easy to read. Click here for Screen resolution information.
1080p if possible but will accept less as I know my budget is limited

13) Do you want a Glossy/reflective screen or a Matte/non-glossy screen?
Doesn't matter.

Build Quality and Design

14) Are the notebook's looks and stylishness important to you?
Yes, but I'm open to just about anything that fits my criteria so in this particular case I don't really care.

15) When are you buying this laptop?
As soon as possible

16) How long do you want this laptop to last?
A long time

Notebook Components

17) How much hard drive space do you need? Do you want a SSD drive?
500gb minimum and yes a ssd would be nice

18) Do you need an optical drive? If yes, a DVD Burner, Blu-ray Reader or Blu-Ray Burner?
No

Additional Comments

Touch screen is important as I want to use windows 8. Thank you

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Att Samsung Galaxy S3 - How to know if this is block ?




Yes...as long as it is unlocked you can use it with any carrier that provides a SIM card.

That is what I did. I use to be on ATT then I broke my contract to go with T-Mobile's partnered MVNO Solavei. It was a very easy transition.

While T-Mobile is still going through the re-farming stages and hasn't upgraded throughout St. Louis I still get EDGE in some spots and 4G in others because it is an ATT phone. That is something else you might want to think about if those are options for you when it comes to your phone and who the carrier will be.

Manny

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Best Green Energy Responses to Climate Crisis: IC???s 2012 Amun-Ra Award

I have created an annual Amun-Ra award for heroic green energy responses to our global climate crisis. Climate change is by far the most urgent of the threats to human existence that human beings can do something about. We are moving rapidly, by virtue of our massive carbon emissions, toward a climate that may be too unstable to sustain human life.

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The award is named for an ancient Egyptian composite deity, since Egypt is among the countries most threatened by rising seas over the next 80 years. Amun was a god of the wind and patron deity of ancient Thebes (modern Luxor). Ahmose I (c. 1550?1525 BCE), from Thebes, led a rebellion against the foreign Hyksos dynasty based in the Delta to his north, and managed to overthrow them and unite upper and lower Egypt. At that point, the local wind god Amun was joined to the national god of the sun, Ra, becoming Amun-Ra. Since wind power and solar power are two of our great hopes for avoiding the worst climate disasters that will be brought about if we continue to depend on coal, gas and oil, Amun-Ra is a good symbol for renewables.

There are many worthy activists and policy-makers in this field. Green Party figures in Germany and the present Chancellor, Angela Merkel, have made that country a powerhouse in the renewables field. Scientists such as James Hansen and Michael E. Mann have done the hard and dangerous work of demonstrating the reality of climate change. But since I can only give one this year, I decided to bestow the honor on the most ambitious practical policy-maker on the issue.

Winner: The 2012 Amun-Ra award goes the far-sighted First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, one of the contemporary world?s great heroes. Scotland gets the award because it has the ambitious goal of getting 100% of its electricity from renewables by 2020, and it is making amazing progress toward attaining it. Although many provinces or countries get 60% or more of their electricity from renewables, most of these depend mainly on hydro-electic. For those without riparian resources, the challenge is to implement other renewable energy generating technologies. Scotland is favorably situated to develop wind power, and is going for it in a big way.

Based on the performance of the first three quarters, Scotland was on track in 2012 to generate 15 percent more electricity from renewables than in the previous year (which also broke earlier records).

In 2011, Scotland was already getting 36 percent of its electricity from green energy, ahead of its target of 31 percent! In 2012 alone, renewables are estimated to have attracted $1 billion in investments. Pete Danko writes of these investments, which have produced 11,000 jobs at a time of economic retrenchment, ?Maybe this is what happens if you have a national policy that encourages not just incremental but radical transitioning to renewable energy: Not only do you get clean energy, you get a lot of the manufacturing infrastructure that comes with it.?

In 2011, Scotland had generated 13.735 gigawatt hours from renewable sources (up 44.3% from 2010 and an increase of 97.3% from 2006). Unlike in Portugal, a relatively small portion? only about a gig ? of that was from hydroelectric.

Scotland is planning the world?s largest offshore wind farm.

Some of the Scottish have even put in solar panels and use solar thermal to heat water. Although solar is a harder technology to profit from in overcast Scotland than wind, it can be part of the renewable mix there. The government is also now experimenting with wave energy, which could be huge for Scotland, as well as tidal energy.

The UK in general is now wavering on commitment to renewables, under the Tory government of David Cameron, and national policy may hobble Scotland?s efforts a bit. BP and other Big Carbon interests (and Donald Trump) are propagandizing against wind as ruining the beauty of the countryside, as though oil rigs do not, or as though catastrophic climate change would be better.

Here is a short documentary on Scotland?s remarkable push toward renewables:

A warm congratulations to First Minister Salmond, and heartfelt thanks from this member of the small McIlwee clan (my maternal grandfather?s line) for making Scotland a leader in saving our world.

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Judge approves Toyota's settlement

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SAN FRANCISCO --?A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Friday to Toyota Motor Corp's $1.1 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by consumers who lost value on their cars due to sudden, unintended acceleration.

U.S. District Judge James Selna in Santa Ana, Calif., scheduled a hearing in June for final approval of the deal, which was announced this week. It provides $500 million in cash for plaintiffs, plus installation of break override systems and a customer support program valued at about $600 million combined.

"Settlement will likely serve the interests of the class members better than litigation," Selna wrote.

Plaintiff lawyer Steve Berman said he was pleased with the favorable comments in Selna's order. Toyota spokeswoman Julie Hamp said the company was gratified by Selna's approval of the settlement, "which will provide value to our customers and provides an extra measure of confidence in their vehicles."

About 16 million Toyota, Lexus and Scion vehicles sold in the United States spanning the model years 1998 to 2010 are covered by the settlement. Company officials have maintained that the electronic throttle control system was not at fault, instead blaming ill-fitting floor mats and sticky gas pedals.

A study by federal safety officials at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and NASA found no link between reports of unintended acceleration and Toyota's electronic throttle control system.

Toyota, the No. 3 automaker in the U.S. market, admitted no fault in proposing the settlement, one of the largest U.S. mass class-action litigations in the automotive sector. One plaintiff's law firm called it the largest settlement in U.S. history involving auto defects.

However, the deal does not cover wrongful death or injury lawsuits, believed to total more than 300 according to a Toyota filing in June.

Toyota's recall of its vehicles between 2009 and 2011 relating to the unintended acceleration issue hurt its reputation for reliability and safety.

But the automaker's sales were up almost 29 percent in 2012 through November, compared with a 14 percent increase in the industry, and Toyota's share of the U.S. market has risen to 14.4 percent from 12.7 percent in 2011.

In his order on Friday, Selna said the settlement is fair, given the risks of further litigation and the complicated legal rulings he has issued throughout the case.

"Some of these rulings have been favorable to plaintiffs, some have been favorable to Toyota," Selna wrote. "Were the parties to proceed to a fully litigated result, virtually any outcome would face the risk of uncertainty upon appellate review of these rulings."

Selna also approved up to $200 million in attorneys' fees, saying the amount falls within 25 percent of the total settlement which is the benchmark established by appellate law.

The case is In re: Toyota Motor Corp. Unintended Acceleration Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, No. 10-ml-02151.?

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/judge-oks-toyota-settlement-over-sudden-acceleration-1C7753062

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Stomach bug knocks Nadal from Australian Open

FILE - In this June 10, 2012, file photo, Spain's Rafael Nadal wipes his face as he plays Serbia's Novak Djokovic during their men's final match in the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Nadal will miss the Australian Open because of a stomach virus, further delaying his comeback after being sidelined since June.(AP Photo/David Vincent, File)

FILE - In this June 10, 2012, file photo, Spain's Rafael Nadal wipes his face as he plays Serbia's Novak Djokovic during their men's final match in the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Nadal will miss the Australian Open because of a stomach virus, further delaying his comeback after being sidelined since June.(AP Photo/David Vincent, File)

(AP) ? Just when Rafael Nadal had recovered from a knee injury, a stomach virus has delayed his return to tennis by a couple of months.

Nadal announced Friday he will miss next month's Australian Open and probably won't play again until the end of February. The Spaniard said he needs time to recover from the virus that already prevented him from coming back this week at Abu Dhabi.

Nadal has been sidelined since June with a knee injury, which forced him to miss the London Olympics and U.S. Open. He had planned to rejoin the ATP tour at the Qatar Open in Doha next month before the Jan. 14-27 Australian Open, but pulled out of both.

"We just hope he gets better quickly and we see him back on the tour as soon as possible," Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley said. "Tennis fans across the world have been missing him."

While he is expected to recover from the virus in time for the year's first Grand Slam tournament, Nadal and his team said he wouldn't have the proper preparation for a five-set event.

Nadal stressed that his decision had nothing to do with the tendinitis in his left knee. That injury prompted him to take a break following a second-round loss to then 100th-ranked Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon in June.

"My knee is much better and the rehabilitation process has gone well as predicted by the doctors," Nadal said in a statement from his hometown of Manacor on the island of Mallorca. "But this virus didn't allow me to practice this past week and therefore I am sorry to announce that I will not play in Doha and the Australian Open."

The former No. 1 hopes to return at a tournament in Acapulco, Mexico, starting Feb. 27. He left open the possibility of playing at an earlier tournament if his recovery went well.

"As my team and doctors say, the safest thing to do is to do things well and this virus has delayed my plans of playing these weeks," Nadal said. "I always said that my return to competition will be when I am in the right conditions to play and after all this time away from the courts I'd rather not accelerate the comeback and prefer to do things well."

Nadal's doctor, Angel Ruiz-Cotorro, said in the same statement that the player needed at least a week to recover from the virus. That ruled him out for the Qatar Open, which starts Jan. 2.

Nadal's coach and uncle, Toni Nadal, said going straight to a five-set tournament after being sidelined so long was "not appropriate."

"It is simply not conceivable that his first event is a best-of-five sets event," he said in a statement. "He wouldn't be ready for that."

Nadal's knee injury prevented the 11-time Grand Slam winner from defending his Olympic singles gold medal at last summer's games, where he was supposed to be Spain's flag-bearer in the opening ceremony. He also had to pull out of the U.S. Open and Spain's Davis Cup final against the Czech Republic, which his teammates lost without him.

Nadal, ranked No. 4, won the Australian Open in 2009. Last year, he lost to top-ranked Novak Djokovic in a title match that lasted 5 hours, 53 minutes, the longest recorded Grand Slam final.

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Worst CEO of 2012: Best Buy's Brian Dunn | Daily ... - Yahoo! Finance

As 2012 comes to a close, it's that time of year again to list some of the best and worst CEOs over the past 12 months.

Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and author of ?Why Smart Executives Fail? and ?Think Again," shared his annual "Worst CEOs" list with The Daily Ticker.

Two of the CEOs were so bad they are no longer on the job. For the CEOs who remain on the payroll, watch out. All of the CEOs on Finkelstein?s 2011 list have been shown the door.

While stock price is an important part of Finkelstein's criteria, it is not the only determining factor. The lack of corporate governance also plays an important part.

Without further ado, the top two ?Worst CEOs of 2012? are Brian Dunn of Best Buy (BBY) and Audrey McClendon of Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK). Honorable mentions also go to Facebook?s (FB) Mark Zuckerberg and Groupon?s (GRPN) Andrew Mason.

1. Brian Dunn, former CEO, Best Buy (resigned April 2012)

?Brian Dunn...there is really not a lot of great things to say,? says Finkelstein in the accompanying interview. ?You have a company that is in a virtual free fall. The stock is down something like 50% this year; cash is down; EPS is down; same-store-sales are down. You name it?s down.?

Dunn resigned this past spring; during his tenure Best Buy stock has fallen 80% in five years.

The electronics retailer's competitors ? like Amazon (AMZN), Wal-Mart (WMT) and Apple (AAPL) ?have been breathing down its neck for years and Dunn did little to fight back, says Finkelstein. Dunn also deserves blame for not improving Best Buy?s customer service, Finkelstein adds. Dunn also "completely wasted" $6.4 billion in company cash on stock repurchases, says Finkelstein. Dunn was also accused of dating a 29-year-old female employee.

2. Aubrey McClendon, CEO, Chesapeake Energy (resigned as chairman, still CEO)

?Aubrey McClendon is a classic entrepreneur who breaks all the rules,? says Finkelstein.

While he was a visionary in his line of work, he also pushed the envelope when it came to mixing business finances with personal finances. For example, McClendon used the corporate jet for his personal use and he cut a corporate sponsorship deal with a sports team he privately owned.

According to Finkelstein, McClendon's inappropriate behavior includes:

  • Documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show that several major Wall Street banks lent McClendon money and then received lucrative work as public-offering underwriters or financial advisers to Chesapeake.

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  • Personally borrowed $500 million from EIG Global Energy Partners, which had also been a large financer for Chesapeake. In securing personal loans from his company's business associate, McClendon exposed himself to a potential conflict of interest, as it's reasonable to expect him to feel pressure to serve EIG's interests in future corporate transactions, potentially at the expense of the best interests of shareholders.

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  • Reuters exposed a $200 million hedge fund trading oil and gas McClendon ran at the same time he was CEO of Chesapeake -- an obvious conflict of interest.

?Nothing is illegal, everything is disclosed (as far as we know) but it sure doesn?t look good,? says Finkelstein.

3. Andrea Jung, Avon, Chairman of Board (resigned as CEO April 2012)

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Andrea Jung of Avon (AVP) made this year?s list of worst CEOs due to a long string of poor performance and her inability to remedy operational issues, says Finkelstein.

Avon?s stock price is down 18% in 2012 and was down more than 80% in the last quarter.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are also looking into Avon's potential bribery of foreign officials. The investigation has been ongoing since 2011 and to date Avon has spent $300 million in legal fees.

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4. Mark Pincus, CEO, Zynga

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Mark Pincus of Zynga (ZNGA) made the list because of the huge declines in Zynga's stock price.

Zynga?s stock price is down 75% in 2012. Even though the number of users is increasing, the number of paying customers is shrinking, notes Finkelstein.

On top of that, there has been an ?incredible exodus of top executive talent, always one of the biggest warning signs for impending disaster," says Finkelstein.

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Another foreboding sign is the fact that the gaming company is dependent upon Facebook for 90% of its revenues.

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5. Rodrigo Rato, President, Bankia (Spain)

Rato became the chief executive officer in 2010 and resigned this year after wrongfully promoting the health of the bank and its shares. The Spanish government had to step in and bail out the financial institution.

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You can also look us up on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Aaron Task on Twitter at @aarontask.

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Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/worst-ceo-2012-best-buy-brian-dunn-124535841.html

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Friday, December 28, 2012

Birdsong study pecks theory that music is uniquely human

Dec. 27, 2012 ? A bird listening to birdsong may experience some of the same emotions as a human listening to music, suggests a new study on white-throated sparrows, published in Frontiers of Evolutionary Neuroscience.

"We found that the same neural reward system is activated in female birds in the breeding state that are listening to male birdsong, and in people listening to music that they like," says Sarah Earp, who led the research as an undergraduate at Emory University.

For male birds listening to another male's song, it was a different story: They had an amygdala response that looks similar to that of people when they hear discordant, unpleasant music.

The study, co-authored by Emory neuroscientist Donna Maney, is the first to compare neural responses of listeners in the long-standing debate over whether birdsong is music.

"Scientists since the time of Darwin have wondered whether birdsong and music may serve similar purposes, or have the same evolutionary precursors," Earp notes. "But most attempts to compare the two have focused on the qualities of the sound themselves, such as melody and rhythm."

Earp's curiosity was sparked while an honors student at Emory, majoring in both neuroscience and music. She took "The Musical Brain" course developed by Paul Lennard, director of Emory's Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology program, which brought in guest lecturers from the fields of neuroscience and music.

"During one class, the guest speaker was a composer and he said that he thought that birdsong is like music, but Dr. Lennard thought it was not," Earp recalls. "It turned into this huge debate, and each of them seemed to define music differently. I thought it was interesting that you could take one question and have two conflicting answers that are both right, in a way, depending on your perspective and how you approach the question."

As a senior last year, Earp received a grant from the Scholars Program for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research (SPINR), and a position in the lab of Maney, who uses songbirds as a model to study the neural basis of complex learned behavior.

When Earp proposed using the lab's data to investigate the birdsong-music debate, Maney thought it was a great idea. "Birdsong is a signal," Maney says. "And the definition of a signal is that it elicits a response in the receiver. Previous studies hadn't approached the question from that angle, and it's an important one."

Earp reviewed studies that mapped human neural responses to music through brain imaging.

She also analyzed data from the Maney lab on white-throated sparrows. The lab maps brain responses in the birds by measuring Egr-1, part of a major biochemical pathway activated in cells that are responding to a stimulus.

The study used Egr-1 as a marker to map and quantify neural responses in the mesolimbic reward system in male and female white-throated sparrows listening to a male bird's song. Some of the listening birds had been treated with hormones, to push them into the breeding state, while the control group had low levels of estradiol and testosterone.

During the non-breeding season, both sexes of sparrows use song to establish and maintain dominance in relationships. During the breeding season, however, a male singing to a female is almost certainly courting her, while a male singing to another male is challenging an interloper.

For the females in the breeding state every region of the mesolimbic reward pathway that has been reported to respond to music in humans, and that has a clear avian counterpart, responded to the male birdsong. Females in the non-breeding state, however, did not show a heightened response.

And the testosterone-treated males listening to another male sing showed an amygdala response, which may correlate to the amygdala response typical of humans listening to the kind of music used in the scary scenes of horror movies.

"The neural response to birdsong appears to depend on social context, which can be the case with humans as well," Earp says. "Both birdsong and music elicit responses not only in brain regions associated directly with reward, but also in interconnected regions that are thought to regulate emotion. That suggests that they both may activate evolutionarily ancient mechanisms that are necessary for reproduction and survival."

A major limitation of the study, Earp adds, is that many of the regions that respond to music in humans are cortical, and they do not have clear counterparts in birds. "Perhaps techniques will someday be developed to image neural responses in baleen whales, whose songs are both musical and learned, and whose brain anatomy is more easily compared with humans," she says.

Earp, who played the viola in the Emory orchestra and graduated last May, is now a medical student at the Cleveland Clinic.

So what music makes her brain light up? "Stravinsky's 'Firebird' suite," Earp says.

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Malawi analysts look for improved politics, economy in 2013 ...


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Malawi ?political scientists and human rights campaigners are looking back at 2012 as a year of both progress and setbacks. Over the past 12 months, Malawi gained its first woman president after the death of president Bingu wa Mutharika.

And, though the economy grew slowly, there was a return of donors who had withdrawn aid in protest over Mutharika?s human rights and governance policies.

Mustapha Hussein, a political scientist at Chancellor College of the University of Malawi in Zomba, says ?there have been ups and downs and some negative things as well as positive things. On the positive side, the current government [of President Joyce Banda] has tried to stabilize the political environment. Politically, Malawi can be said to be stable. Unlike Bingu?s regime, there are no tensions between or among parties or between government and its citizens.?

Cry Bingu wa Mutharika: Hussein says Mutharika?s death?gave hope for changes for both on the political front as well as on the economic front.

Hussein says despite the stable political atmosphere, the country has not been faring well on the economic front.

?The issue of devaluation and floatation of the kwacha,? he says, ?has led to price increases that are affecting the disposable income of the people. They are suffering economically and the economic?status?of Malawi is fragile.?

Hussein says the change in the country?s top leadership helped calm the country?s contentious political atmosphere.

?The death of Bingu wa Mutharika was a sad occasion,? he says, ?but at the same time, it gave hope for changes for both on the political front as well as on the economic front.? Prior to that there were political tensions; there were misunderstandings between the government and civil society which culminated in the demonstration in July (2011) where we lost lives.?

However some Malawians have been accusing human rights groups of deliberately muting their criticisms of the new administration. They say the administration has failed to respond to consumers affected by currency devaluation and price hikes.

But human rights activist Billy Banda, who is the executive director for a rights lobby group Malawi Watch, says they were silent because they wanted to build support for the new government considering the many problems it had inherited.

?We were not deliberately keeping quiet,? he says, ?but were lobbying silently so that the new administration [with its difficulties] ?would be given sufficient support. But by giving support, that does not necessarily mean that were condoning the current administration.? We are urging the administration to open a?window?of interaction so that whenever people raise concerns they should take heed.?

In her Christmas?address?to the nation,President Joyce Banda cited the country?s struggling economy and asked Malawians to remain patient.? She did so amid threats of protests by the Consumers Association of Malawi over the rising cost of imported fuel and farm inputs.? They?ve contributed to a drop in living standards.

Analysts say the success of the new year depends in part on whether the government?s austerity measures ? blamed by some for increasing hardships ? can help turn around the economy.

Tags: Billy Banda, Bingu wa Mutharika, economy, Joyce Banda, Mustapha Hussein

Source: http://www.nyasatimes.com/malawi/2012/12/28/malawi-analysts-look-for-improved-politics-economy-in-2013/

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UK's Pearson invests in Barnes & Noble's Nook

LONDON (AP) ? Pearson, the U.K. publisher and education company, is to take a 5 percent stake in Barnes & Noble's NOOK e-reader as technology companies seek new inroads into the potentially lucrative business of digital textbooks for schools.

Pearson PLC will pay $89.5 million cash for a 5 percent stake in NOOK Media LLC which includes the bookseller's e-reader and tablets, its digital bookstore and its 674 stores serving U.S. colleges. Barnes & Noble will hold 78.2 percent of the business and Microsoft will have about 16.8 percent, the company said Friday.

Major tech companies have looked for inroads into the industry, seeing tablets like the iPad and the NOOK as replacements for the dozens of books that students must lug to and from school each day.

Walter Isaacson in his biography of Steve Jobs wrote about meetings between the co-founder of Apple Inc. and major publishers to accomplish just that before his death last year.

Janney Capital Markets described the tie-up between Pearson and Barnes & Noble as an "online education dream team."

"After this investment from Pearson, it is more clear that Nook Media has its sight set on transforming the way education is administered in the U.S. and around the world," analyst David Strasser wrote.

Pearson is the largest higher educational publisher in the world and the largest in kindergarten-through-high school publisher in the United States, Janney said. The company, which also owns the Financial Times and whose Penguin book brand is in the process of being merged with Random House, reported that its textbooks and training made 1.9 billion pounds ($3 billion) in revenue the first six months of 2012.

Will Ethridge, CEO of Pearson North America, says his company had worked with Barnes & Noble for decades and have invested heavily in providing engaging and effective digital reading experiences.

"It is another example of our strategy of making our content and services broadly available to students and faculty through a wide range of distribution partners," Ethridge said.

Barnes & Noble Inc. has invested heavily in the Nook e-reader. It has faced tough competition from online retailers like Amazon.com and discount stores, with shoppers moving away from traditional books in favor of electronic books.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uks-pearson-invests-barnes-nobles-nook-144500793--finance.html

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

PFT: Arians won't just run from Colts for new gig

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Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman continues to wait for the ruling on his appeal of a four-game suspension for a violation of the league?s performance-enhancing drug policy.

It?s been over a month since it was first reported that Sherman and teammate Brandon Browner were facing suspensions for testing positive for a banned substance. Browner dropped his appeal and will be eligible to return for the playoffs, but Sherman has continued to fight his positive test.

Even if the decision (expected on Thursday) goes against Sherman and he is suspended by the league, he plans on continuing his fight. Sherman said Wednesday that he will continue to explore other legal options and could ultimately end up suing the league.

?I can?t get back playing regardless. I can just sue the league, and that?s probably what I?m going to do if they suspend me,?? Sherman said.

Adam Schefter of ESPN has reported that Sherman?s appeal was based around a supposed break in procedure in the collection process. The cup used to collect Sherman?s urine sample was apparently broken, requiring a second cup to be placed underneath to prevent leakage. The seal on the second cup was also broken.

Sherman tweeted on Christmas some more thoughts on the basis of his appeal to the league.

?Hoping we play in a just League @nfl. Not a league that allows a tester to mix urine samples. A tester with a history of errors. Has has had to have 6 other tests thrown out and he has only been testing 6months,? he tweeted.

Sherman was also asked Wednesday about his thoughts on how the appeal has played out to this point.

?It?s been pretty standard other than the league telling you they can break rules,? Sherman said. ?They don?t care if you took it or you didn?t take it, if the sample is tainted or it isn?t tainted, they said it doesn?t matter. The collective bargaining, there?s policies, there?s rules in the policies that they said should not apply to them and they wrote them. That?s just how the league does things.?

With the track record of PED suspensions being overturned, it appears likely that Sherman will be suspended on Thursday. While he won?t have a recourse to get the four games back, Sherman appears adamant in continuing this fight in whatever fashion he has to.

If he?s suspended, Seattle could get Sherman back in time for the Super Bowl if they play in the first round of the playoffs. If they manage to backdoor into the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye with San Francisco and Green Bay losses this weekend, Sherman?s season would be over.

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Birdsong study pecks theory that music is uniquely human

Dec. 27, 2012 ? A bird listening to birdsong may experience some of the same emotions as a human listening to music, suggests a new study on white-throated sparrows, published in Frontiers of Evolutionary Neuroscience.

"We found that the same neural reward system is activated in female birds in the breeding state that are listening to male birdsong, and in people listening to music that they like," says Sarah Earp, who led the research as an undergraduate at Emory University.

For male birds listening to another male's song, it was a different story: They had an amygdala response that looks similar to that of people when they hear discordant, unpleasant music.

The study, co-authored by Emory neuroscientist Donna Maney, is the first to compare neural responses of listeners in the long-standing debate over whether birdsong is music.

"Scientists since the time of Darwin have wondered whether birdsong and music may serve similar purposes, or have the same evolutionary precursors," Earp notes. "But most attempts to compare the two have focused on the qualities of the sound themselves, such as melody and rhythm."

Earp's curiosity was sparked while an honors student at Emory, majoring in both neuroscience and music. She took "The Musical Brain" course developed by Paul Lennard, director of Emory's Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology program, which brought in guest lecturers from the fields of neuroscience and music.

"During one class, the guest speaker was a composer and he said that he thought that birdsong is like music, but Dr. Lennard thought it was not," Earp recalls. "It turned into this huge debate, and each of them seemed to define music differently. I thought it was interesting that you could take one question and have two conflicting answers that are both right, in a way, depending on your perspective and how you approach the question."

As a senior last year, Earp received a grant from the Scholars Program for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research (SPINR), and a position in the lab of Maney, who uses songbirds as a model to study the neural basis of complex learned behavior.

When Earp proposed using the lab's data to investigate the birdsong-music debate, Maney thought it was a great idea. "Birdsong is a signal," Maney says. "And the definition of a signal is that it elicits a response in the receiver. Previous studies hadn't approached the question from that angle, and it's an important one."

Earp reviewed studies that mapped human neural responses to music through brain imaging.

She also analyzed data from the Maney lab on white-throated sparrows. The lab maps brain responses in the birds by measuring Egr-1, part of a major biochemical pathway activated in cells that are responding to a stimulus.

The study used Egr-1 as a marker to map and quantify neural responses in the mesolimbic reward system in male and female white-throated sparrows listening to a male bird's song. Some of the listening birds had been treated with hormones, to push them into the breeding state, while the control group had low levels of estradiol and testosterone.

During the non-breeding season, both sexes of sparrows use song to establish and maintain dominance in relationships. During the breeding season, however, a male singing to a female is almost certainly courting her, while a male singing to another male is challenging an interloper.

For the females in the breeding state every region of the mesolimbic reward pathway that has been reported to respond to music in humans, and that has a clear avian counterpart, responded to the male birdsong. Females in the non-breeding state, however, did not show a heightened response.

And the testosterone-treated males listening to another male sing showed an amygdala response, which may correlate to the amygdala response typical of humans listening to the kind of music used in the scary scenes of horror movies.

"The neural response to birdsong appears to depend on social context, which can be the case with humans as well," Earp says. "Both birdsong and music elicit responses not only in brain regions associated directly with reward, but also in interconnected regions that are thought to regulate emotion. That suggests that they both may activate evolutionarily ancient mechanisms that are necessary for reproduction and survival."

A major limitation of the study, Earp adds, is that many of the regions that respond to music in humans are cortical, and they do not have clear counterparts in birds. "Perhaps techniques will someday be developed to image neural responses in baleen whales, whose songs are both musical and learned, and whose brain anatomy is more easily compared with humans," she says.

Earp, who played the viola in the Emory orchestra and graduated last May, is now a medical student at the Cleveland Clinic.

So what music makes her brain light up? "Stravinsky's 'Firebird' suite," Earp says.

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Scott Brown: Obama Sent Fiscal Cliff Proposal - Business Insider

A frantic day in fiscal cliff negotiations has produced contradicting reports over a possible new offer from the White House and the news that the House of Representatives will reconvene unexpectedly on Sunday, hours before the nation is set to go over the cliff.

President Barack Obama reached out and provided Senate Republicans with another offer to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown wrote on his Facebook page. But CNBC and others quickly disputed that report, saying that Democrats and the White House were denying the report.

An aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid aide flatly denied Brown's statements, responding "yes" when asked if Brown's posts were false.

Meanwhile,?House Speaker John Boehner has called the House back in session on Sunday ? one day before the nation reaches the so-called fiscal cliff. The House will be in session at 6:30 p.m. ? 29.5 hours before the deadline.

Brown's initial Facebook post sparked speculation that Obama would send a bill to Senate Republicans as soon as today:

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"I'm rushing to get on plane and thought I would keep you all informed," Brown wrote.

Meanwhile, CNN's Dana Bash reported?that Obama told Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that he would send him a "scaled-back" bill that would likely erase some, but not all, of the tax hikes scheduled to hit beginning Jan. 2. It would include extensions of Bush-era tax breaks for incomes of less than $250,000, the current estate tax rate, and unemployment insurance.

Shortly after Brown's Facebook post and CNN's report, CNBC's John Harwood contradicted both:

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Bash later amended her initial report, citing McConnell aides who told her that details of the plan ? not a concrete bill ? were expected to be sent to the Senate Minority Leader today.

Brown later tried to clarify his own statement in a Facebook post, saying it was based on an email sent from McConnell to GOP Senators earlier in the day:

Just an update. This AM I received an EM from leader McConnell letting the GOP members know that the President called him last night and would be giving him a proposal to avoid the cliff. I was excited and hopeful that upon our return to business tonight we would be able to review or discuss it.

The flurry came?just hours after Reid slammed House Republicans on the Senate floor, saying that?Boehner was running a "dictatorship" and preventing a deal from getting done. He warned that it "looked like" the U.S. would go over the fiscal cliff.

The White House said Thursday that Obama had spoken with McConnell and the other three Congressional leaders on Wednesday before leaving Hawaii and heading back to Washington, D.C.?McConnell's office said that it was the first call a Democrat had called him since Thanksgiving.

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Relationships Repaired with Christian Counseling | Bellevue ...

By Benjamin Deu, MA, LMHC, Seattle Christian Counseling

Part 1 of 3

Intimacy is intimidating, but it doesn?t have to be. This series explores why couples can?t connect and how they can change that.

References ?Passionate Marriage? by Dr. David Schnarch and ?A Celebration of Sex? by Dr. Douglas E. Rosenau

Intimacy is that close physical and emotional connection experienced with the person you love. Individuals are looking for a partner they can share their hopes, dreams and private moments with. Men and women may date many different people in order to find that intensely intimate, ?perfect connection,? with another person. At the beginning of every relationship is a period of intense physical and emotional connection. During this time each couple learns about and is fascinated by everything their partner does. This intense feeling is temporary; and fades with continued understanding of and exposure to the other person. While starting a new relationship is a beautiful time in the life of a new couple, it is only the beginning. Your relationship and your sex life will not always be the intense, wild passion you experience at the beginning of your relationship. Intimate connections are meant to grow and deepen with time.

?1. You?re Afraid of Intimacy

It?s okay to feel uncomfortable or intimidated by intimacy. It feels embarrassing and awkward to voice your innermost desires and feelings to your partner. However, if you allow those feelings to get between you and your partner, your relationship, (particularly the sex part), will never get any better.

?Normal sexual styles typically don?t include intimacy-promoting behaviors, since we often don?t want to do the most intimate things. That?s why a couple?s sexual style is typically designed to keep intimacy to tolerable levels.? (Schnarch 187) It?s like when you?re talking to someone you are attracted to, and there?s that split second when something about the eye contact shifts and you feel like they?re seeing into your soul. The emotional penetration of intimacy can be intensely uncomfortable. This is why many spouses keep their eyes closed during sex.

?2. You Hide Behind a Wall of Insecurity

People are afraid of intimacy because they?re afraid of rejection. ?We are afraid we wouldn?t be loved if we were truly known. We tune out our partner, (or ourselves), to tolerate getting close enough to touch.? (Schnarch 188) Being intimate with another person puts you in a vulnerable position. This vulnerability can be unnerving. It feels likes your partner has a certain amount of power over you. People are taught to be strong, independent and confident. Allowing yourself to enter this vulnerable, or intimate, space with your partner can be difficult.

To build a truly intimate relationship with your partner you need to build a trusting relationship. You need to know that no matter what your differences are the person you are with loves and accepts you unconditionally. Under these conditions, there is no need to feel insecure or afraid of intimacy. You are free to explore and enjoy each other in a loving and accepting environment.

One example Schnarch gave was of a husband who would try to manually pleasure his wife before she was ready. (Schnarch 194) This husband was focusing on the sexual act and not paying attention to the intimate needs of his wife. Simply going through the motions of sex can leave both partners lacking the feeling of closeness that can be felt in an intimate relationship. To increase intimacy the husband should have discussed his wife?s preferences with her and the wife should have honestly told him what she likes. By not communicating with each other in the bedroom, the couple in Schnarch?s example will not experience God?s gift of true intimacy between couples.

?3. You?d Rather not Really ?see? Your Partner

Schnarch refers to the average couple as ?sexual ostriches.? ?They?d rather make love to the fantasy in their head, than the partner in their bed, only to complain five years hence, ?You?re not the person I thought you were!?? (Schnarch 188) People don?t always deal with the realities of their relationship. Like sex, relationships are not like what you see on the screen; or read about in a book. It is difficult to sustain the bliss of your honeymoon. You can get on each other?s nerves and shut each other out of your innermost thoughts. It is important to admit when marriage problems arise and deal with them.

You can?t pretend your partner away. It?s not fair to them, or your relationship. Schnarch said he did a radio show once about a topic we?ll discuss in a follow-up article, open-eyes kissing. The interviewer asked, ?Why on earth would you want to see who you?re kissing?? Because you love them and like looking at their face, maybe? If you?d rather live with the spouse inside your head than the one in your bed, you need to step back and seriously contemplate the condition of your marriage. (Schnarch 187)

?Spiritual Intimacy

These three barriers constrain couples from experiencing intimacy the way God intended. Spouses are to love their spouse the way God loves them, ?The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying, ?Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you.?? (Jer. 31:3 NKJV) God loves us so much he even bothers to remember how many hairs we have on our head. You can?t model this degree of passion if you insist on keeping parts of you hidden from your partner. ?Commitment is intrusive and makes life-changing demands, but without the total surrender of deep commitment there can be no true intimacy.? (Rosenau 179)

?Christian Counseling for Couples Struggling with Intimacy

If you and your spouse struggle to connect emotionally and/or physically, consider getting in touch with a professional Christian counselor in Seattle. You can also read the next two articles in this series about (connecting emotionally with your spouse LINK TO THE NEXT ARTICLE. Counselors are prepared to talk with both of you about relational, or sexual dissonance, and help to figure out what may be blocking the connection. Sexual dysfunction is not caused by stagnation, or boredom, so much as by emotional friction. And all the toys and positions in the world can?t fix that. Find trustworthy Christian counselors in Seattle that will help you with therapeutic techniques and biblical principles.

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The Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI)?at the University of Alberta invites you to our 14th Annual Summer School, July 8-26 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ?This summer we are offering a total of 20 University-accredited courses in the areas of language documentation, education and revitalization. ?Credit is available at both the graduate and undergraduate level, and bursaries/scholarships are available?for both Canadian and International students.

For the first time this year, we are offering a full three weeks of intensive?Cree and Michif?language courses. ?In addition, we are proud to offer two brand new courses this summer:

LING 311 Online Tools for language Revitalization

This course provides an introduction to the use of new technologies to aid in language revitalization in both home communities and urban settings.? Topics will include computer-based learning tools, online language courses, and the innovative use of social media sites.? Students will examine how these new technologies are being used in indigenous language communities around the world, and will design a language technology plan appropriate for their own community.

ANTH 485?Landscape, Meaning and Culture: The Social Meaning of Place

This course explores how and why particular places are invested with social meaning by different cultural and linguistic groups.? Students will analyze place-naming practices in their own and other Indigenous languages, and examine the ways in which people talk about place in both? conversation and narrative.? Students will also investigate various perspectives on map-making, and the ways in which Indigenous cultural and worldview can be incorporated into community mapping projects.

The full listing of our Summer School courses is shown below. ?Courses marked (CLC) are part of our Provincially-recognized Community Linguist Certificate program, now in its seventh year.

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With the digital and mobile era clearly setting in across the global landscape, media is continuing to transform on a daily basis. As smartphones and tablets begin to overthrow PCs, advertisers and publishers alike are stuck in a search for a way to hit their target audience and still generate revenue. With new doors opening and others closing nearly everyday in the world of publishing, 2013 will be the year that mobile consumption finally raises the bar on both advertising and publishing in the digital age.

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Tr?s belle initiative que celle du?Journal du Net?qui a r?cemment publi? le?Dictionnaire politique d'Internet et du num?rique.

Coordonn? par Christophe Stener, consultant en strat?gie d'entreprises, ce document s'est appuy? sur l'aide d'une centaine d'acteurs ?conomiques, politiques, universitaires et sociaux, tous charg?s de r?fl?chir aux enjeux d'Internet aujourd'hui.

Ce dictionnaire se donne pour objectif de rendre accessible au plus grand nombre les contours d?un ph?nom?ne structurant de notre soci?t?. Le lecteur pourra ainsi mieux appr?hender le sens de mots et de concepts qui sont rentr?s dans notre vocabulaire quotidien tels que : "blogosph?re", "cybers?curit?", "fracture num?rique", "Hadopi", "haut d?bit", "neutralit? d'Internet" ou bien encore "Acta".

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No matter how many documents you write, how many years you spend practicing, improving your craft, you can always make yourself a better writer.

Remember binders full of women? How about redneckognize? Check out the new phrases, words and terms that became a part of our collective vocabulary in 2012.

Translation Contest to Honor Abraham Sutzkever

Summer Literary Seminars?has announced itsAbraham Sutzkever Translation Prize,?marking the centennial of the birth of one of the most acclaimed Yiddish poets of the 20th century.

?To me, he is the leading Yiddish poet, the epitome of Yiddish literature in the 20th century,? Mikhail Iossel said of Sutzkever. Iossel, a Soviet ?migr? and associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal, is the founder and director of the literary, creative writing and historical workshops that have taken place in St. Petersburg, Montreal, Nairobi and Vilnius. The Sutzkever Prize is associated with the?SLS Lithuania?program for summer 2013.

The new prize is being added to a lineup of already existing ones that are given through theSLS Unified Literary Contest,?awarding winners with tuition, stipends and publication assurances. The winner of the Sutzkever Prize will receive tuition to SLS Lithuania plus $500 toward travel expenses. In addition, the winning entry will be translated into Lithuanian, and read at a celebration in Vilnius on the centennial, on July 15, 2013. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2013.

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A series of seminars organized by the OU?s Contemporary Cultures of Writing Research Group in collaboration with the Institute of English Studies, UL.

In the context of a Research Group (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/contemporary-cultures-of-writing/events.shtml) whose focus is on the cultures shaping contemporary modes of writing, this seminar series will look at the kinds of creativity involved in writing and translation with a view to highlighting the re-versioning and re-visioning at the heart of creative and literary endeavour. It will also seek to interrogate notions of translation both literal and metaphorical and to reflect on the challenges posed by multilingual writing and self-translation for both Creative Writing and Translation Studies.?
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Neoclassical Compounding

Special issue of the Verbum journal

Guest Editors: St?phanie Lignon and Fiammetta Namer

Among all the available morphological processes for lexical creation in languages, the neoclassical compounding involves specific models. Compounding is a constructional process during which at least two base lexemes are combined in order to construct a new lexeme (tea bag). Two types of compounding may be distinguished: standard compounding (also called popular) on the one hand which involves the modern vocabulary (porte-bagage), and neoclassical compounding on the other hand which involves lexemes borrowed from ancient languages, often Greek and Latin (anthropophage).

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