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Friday, April 27, 2012
Body Glove DropSuit Rugged Case for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 only $10.95 [Daily deal]
For today only, the iMore iPhone accessory store has the Body Glove DropSuit Rugged Case for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 on sale for only $10.95. That's a whopping 45% off! Get it before it's gone!
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Nokia N900 rises from the grave, replaces robot's head
Nokia's buried-but-beloved N900 smartphone has performed many parlor tricks in the past, but its latest role as a carbon-fiber swaddled cyborg cranium just might take the cake. Using the equally forsaken MeeGo Maemo OS, a roboticist by the name of Sascha hacked his way into the phone's three-axis controller and other components in order to bring his Bioloid creation to life. The smartphone's video streaming and remote access functions may also give this bipedal mech a leg-up on the last N900 robo we admired -- but we'll need to see some video of it all in action before we make that call. Meanwhile, let's just hope that this unholy union of rejected parts doesn't become self-aware and turn on the company that cast it away.
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Nokia begins construction on Vietnamese production facility
In keeping with Elop's focus on Asia-based production, Nokia's just broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in Vietnam. The site, located in the country's Bac Ninh province, spans over 17 hectacres and is slated to begin production of mobile devices when it's completed in early 2013. The move marks a shift in strategy for the Finnish company, eyeing unmet demand for smartphones in the region, an area it's deemed a "high growth [economy]." In addition to supplying that emerging market with its portfolio of products, the new plant will also help to create job opportunities for locals -- a welcome turn of fortune given Espoo's recent track record of worldwide layoffs. You can check out the presser below for additional bits surrounding its newly minted Vietnamese arm.
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Did Caravaggio meet a grisly end - with the Vatican's complicity?
Citing documents from the Vatican Secret Archives, an Italian historian argues that 17th-century documents reveal Renaissance artist Caravaggio was assassinated by the Knights of Malta.
In one of his most graphic paintings, the rabble-rousing Renaissance artist Caravaggio?depicted his tortured face on the head of Goliath, slain and decapitated by the boy warrior David.
Skip to next paragraphAn Italian historian thinks that Caravaggio may have met just such a grisly end ? at the hands of the Knights of St. John of Malta, the chivalric order founded during the Crusades.
Vincenzo Pacelli, a Caravaggio expert from the University of Naples, has unearthed documents from the Vatican Secret Archives and state archives in Rome that suggest the Knights ordered the artist to be assassinated in revenge for him attacking and wounding on one of their members during a brawl.
They then dumped his body in the sea at Palo, north of Rome, which would explain why there are no documents recording his death.
Until now, conventional wisdom said Caravaggio died either from an illness or lead poisoning from the oil paints he used.
The murder was ?commissioned and organized? by the Knights of Malta and carried out with the complicity of the Vatican, Mr. Pacelli says in his forthcoming book, "Caravaggio ? Between Art and Science."
The historian found strange discrepancies in correspondence between Cardinal Scipione Borghese, a powerful Vatican secretary of state, and Deodato Gentile, a papal ambassador, in which the painter?s place of death was cited as the island of Procida near Naples, ?a place that Caravaggio had nothing to do with,? according to Pacelli.
A document written by Caravaggio?s doctor and first biographer claimed that the painter died at the age of 38 north of Rome, but the place name was later scrubbed out and replaced by the name of a town in Tuscany.?Pacelli also found an account written 20 years after Caravaggio?s death in which an Italian archivist wrote that the artist had been ?assassinated.?
He believes it all adds up to evidence of an assassination plot by the Knights of Malta which was then covered up.
Not all experts are convinced by the new theory.?John T. Spike, a Caravaggio expert at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., is skeptical of the idea that the painter was murdered on the Knights' orders.
?The problem with the theory is that the Knights had ample opportunities to kill him sooner ? either when he was living in Malta, or when he then went to Sicily, which is very close,? says Mr. Spike. ?Why did they wait so long??
The academic sparring will continue, but more than four centuries after his death in 1610, the true fate of Caravaggio remains an enigma.
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Parenting On Bad Information | News Roanoke
by Keith McCurdy
Doing a quick Google search it is easy to find some confusing information.? Mental health services have evolved and ballooned since the early 60s and yet we have more cases of depression reported than ever before.
?Millions of Americans, including children, are prescribed anti-depressant medications as several studies report their effectiveness being virtually the same as a placebo.? Technological advances that have reported to make our lives ?easier? are now sources of consistent conflict in the average American home ?. Facebook, cell phone usage, video games, computer and television exposure.
Our children have the fewest chores and burdens on them than any previous generation and yet, they are more depressed and anxious than ever.? Is our population really this sick or are we not equipping our children the way we used to?
Over the last two decades, the vast majority of children that I have worked with have been ?normal.?? Yes, they may have had a myriad of diagnoses, but they were normal.? Regardless of their presenting problems, most often reported by parents, the majority of their issues were resolved by working with Mom and Dad.
We have gone from a nation that looked at our children as very durable and capable to one that is commonly asking what is wrong with our child.? Yet the more we have been led to believe that children suffer more and more with mental health issues and the more services we provide ?.. the worse the overall picture has become.
Here is a simple example: When you were in junior high school how many people did you know that cut themselves?? Very few of us will come up with even one example of this.? Now ask that same question to a room of 100 junior high schoolers today and two thirds will raise their hands.? Yet their burdens of life have never been less than any generation before.? Oh yes, there are those that will say there is more stress on kids today than in our generation but I disagree.? There may be more stressed out kids, which is actually what the studies show, but the inference that their lives are more stressful is not clearly supported by evidence.
Our current efforts have been greatly misdirected.? We are always hearing about the need for more programs for children.? The efforts need to be directed toward the family, more specifically the parents.? Today when a child demonstrates wrong, problematic, odd behavior we immediately ask what is wrong with them ? we assume a malfunction.? The first place we really need to look is to our parenting.
This does not mean that our parenting guarantees any particular outcome with our children, it does not.? It is not that our parenting causes so many issues; it is that the lack of good parenting does not effectively equip our children to navigate and handle the struggles of life.
?To do this though, we have to understand that we will be operating ?counter culture.?? The world around us does not support good parenting on most fronts.? Whether it is Disney who continues to elevate the entitled teenager with one series after another where parents are portrayed as irrelevant or just sources of funding; Technology which gives the notion that all things Apple or Xbox are great but fails to give warnings about how electronic intrusion into the home alienates family members and often kills work ethic in children; or even many in my own profession who value emotions over convictions and push the false goal of being ?happy? over learning to accept that life will always have struggles and that how we learn to deal with those issues is much more important than how we feel about them.
We have to realize that not only are parents relevant, we are the most important steering mechanism in our children?s lives and we have to decide to take back that role.? Warning:? If you begin to equip your children they will no longer be protected from the normal pain and suffering of life.? You will be in conflict with many families in your own neighborhood who are still over concerned about whether their child is happy or not.? You will begin to see your child as normal, which includes all kinds of goofy and problematic behaviors I refer to as uniqueness.? Others will no longer use you as an example of ?. ?well, Jimmy?s parents let him do that? ?.because you won?t.? All in all you will probably be seen as ?old fashioned? or ?mean? ?. Excellent!
We are instructed to ?train up? our children and we need to take it seriously because the culture does not.? We no longer need to focus on fixing our children or their problems; we need to equip them to handle life.
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Locating Quick Plans For Outsourcing Companies
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One thing probably many internet marketers are not prepared for is the all the different things (skills) that need to be learned in the beginning. The attrition rate is very high in online marketing for many reasons, and perhaps some of those reasons is due to the high learning curve considering all the various tasks and skills that are required. Before you can begin the process of outsourcing your business tasks, you should sit down and figure out what would be the best tasks, for you, to have done for you. We?ll go a bit deeper into some solid suggestions you can consider before outsourcing anything for your business.
After you have made a clear choice about what you want others to do, the next assignment is to set about finding the best person for you and the job. Most marketers don?t immediately rush to the usual freelance websites, instead they try to get recommendations from people they trust. If you?ve never seen these sites, the concept is simple in which people bid for jobs, and others post projects or jobs for others to consider. You can get work done for very cheap because people will bid low to out-bid each other, but you do need to exercise caution with anyone you hire. Also, the more reputable sites use the services of escrow companies to the exchange of money and work can be safely accomplished.
Even though you are paying for the service, it is being done by a service provider and not a regular employee so you must agree on the desired result beforehand. The outcome of your business lies in your hands. You are building the business but making sure that your team is performing is a major part of the business building process. Starting to understand why there should be a clear line of communication between you and your team? If a problem comes up because of your outsourcing, it may affect more than the performance of your business. Try Goodman Heat Pump for intelligent advice.
Being organized will take your outsourcing efforts to a whole new level. For more effective outsourcing organization, you can use Basecamp, an online project management service. With this service you will easily be able to communicate with your team. Also, these services employ file sharing which means that you can add tasks that your workers can download and they can upload them when they are completed. It makes your whole project management easier, which makes it a sensible decision to invest in such a system. So, outsourcing is a tremendous method to hire professional work and save you time. It?s not really the best use of your time to learn all there is to know and do, so then you can turn to outsourcing to qualified professionals who?ll do the job right for you. If you do this, your task will be to make sure you get into profits so it will be a good investment. Whatever you?re outsourcing, be it product creation or traffic generation, just ensure that you don?t under-pay or over-pay your outsourcing partner. But no worries about it, it?s not hard and the more you engage in the process the better it will go for you.
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Friday, April 20, 2012
'Hot Girl Problems' confirms Internet hates teenage girls
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Thanks to their awkward and tuneless YouTube video "Hot Girl Problems," two 17-year-old girls from Los Angeles have the dubious distinction of being dubbed "the next Rebecca Black."?
Why? It's not that we need a new version of the adolescent girl behind "Friday," the Auto-Tuned masterpiece of mediocrity which became 2011's cool thing to hate. It's just that ? well ? when you work in the media, adjectives can be hard (apparently). It's just easier to call pretty much anything "the next blah blah blah."
And while "anti-bullying" is all the rage, it's still cool on the Internet to hate on teenage girls ? especially if they're acting like ? um ? teenage girls. ?What's more, you don't need to be a troll in a chat room to do it, you can work in the media as well.?
Thanks to main stream media coverage, "Hot Girl Problems" -- as written and performed "Doubletake" (Drew Garrett and Lauren Willy) has more than?than 2 million views and 71,000 "dislikes."?
Here's a sample of how it's been covered:?
"'Hot Problems' might just be the worst song of 2012 -- if not of all time" is the headline ABC News went with.?
"These "hot" girls' problems are now everyone's problems," reads the first sentence in a snark-filled story on the girls from the Huffington Post.?
"The Video That Destroyed my Faith in Humanity," headline's The Next Web's post.?
True enough, it's an awful video.?The girls speak/sing in that annoying nasal tone of ... well ... teenage girls. Meanwhile the lyrics -- tongue-in-cheek or no -- aren't much better.?For example: "Boys call me stuck up; girls say I'm conceited, on behalf of all hot girls, those comments aren't needed."
I know, right? It sounds like something ... um ... teenage girls would say.
Which is my point exactly.
Yes, yes, you?re very astute. I am, indeed, a member of the media whose actual job it is to make fun of stuff on the Internet and as such, the last person in cyberspace who can safely throw stones. But?I bagged on this story when it first went ?viral,? because, as I told my boss, comedy ain?t funny when it mocks those without power. These girls may or may not enjoy more privileges than others their age, but they?re still teenage girls, and that?s a comparatively powerless thing to be, especially on the Internet.?
If we've learned anything from the deadly combination of Twitter and Justin Bieber, it's that teenage girls can be annoying and obnoxious, and especially to each other.?True, Garrett and Willy have aged out of the True Belieber crowd, nearly aged out of high school, and if they're even remotely familiar with the hate fest that is YouTube comments, they can't be surprised to see themselves slammed. But --?and this can't be stressed enough --?they are teenagers. And yet, with "Hot Girl Problems," Internet girl hate goes mainstream.?
Before Rebecca Black -- who was harassed by 4chan's infamous /b/board --?we had Jessi Slaughter. You may remember her from her now-deceased father who gave us the father gave us the meme quote, "consequences will never be the same." Jessi's obnoxious quest for Internet fame resulted in death threats and worse.
Then there's Angie Varona, who at 14, became a star of Reddit's underage girl-oogling forums when her photos were scraped from her Facebook profile and other online accounts. As Gawker's Adrian Chen noted, "Young girls who try to be famous are cut down in a rage of vicious comments and death threats. And young girls like Angie Varona who aren't trying to be famous? That's just a turn on, whether they like it or not."?
Those ?girls gained their uneasy Internet fame thanks to forums such as 4chan and Reddit. Now that "viral" equals "news," capricious gals don't need?Internet trolls to make them famous in the worst possible way. Mainstream media is happy to take the helm.
Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on ?Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+.?Because that's how she rolls.
Inspiring Mom Opens Up the Only Preschool for Children With Cancer in the Country
When her toddler was diagnosed with Leukemia, Nancy Zuch was heartbroken that her daughter had to go to the hospital while her peers played together at preschool. For turning this issue into the Morgan Center, a preschool for children with cancer that is both a social and safe environment, we honor Nancy Zuch as Woman of the Week.
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Readers Respond to "The Coming Mega Drought" and Other Articles
January 2012
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During my 30-year practice of diagnostic radiology, I spent many hours educating physicians and surgeons on the importance of false positives and false negatives in the diagnostic process. No diagnostic test is 100 percent accurate. My mantra was always: don?t treat initial test results. Always confirm the diagnosis with other independent data before performing surgery or prescribing pharmaceuticals with serious side effects.
I applaud the general theme of mathematician John Allen Paulos in ?Weighing the Positives? [Advances]. First he makes the valid argument that medical tests will be positive for some patients without disease. He then illustrates this with a statistical analysis of mammography on one million patients, resulting in 9,960 false positives. He makes a monumental error, however, in stating, ?If the 9,960 healthy people are subjected to harmful treatments ranging from surgery to chemotherapy to radiation, the net benefit of the tests might very well be negative.?
Because mammography, prostate-specific antigen levels and all other initial testing for common cancers are merely screening tests, no patient ever receives definitive treatment for cancer before these tests are confirmed by a biopsy. Cynical health care watchdogs may cite this as excessive testing, but such measures avoid the negative effects of overtreatment that Paulos invokes.
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PREDICTIVE PREJUDICE
In ?The Department of Pre-Crime,? James Vlahos mentions the potential danger of prejudging individuals by using predictive policing techniques but avoids discussion of a more serious potential consequence of such ?crime forecasting?: the positive-feedback reinforcement of existing biases to more deeply criminalize certain populations and deepen injustice.
If police are already focusing on and arresting in some neighborhoods over others, feeding information into the machine may result in still greater police presence, more arrests, more predicted crime, still more police presence and still more arrests. If the initial bias is for factors other than actual crime, the result may be the deepening of injustice, not a reduction of crime.
The racial, ethnic and financial divides in crime and justice in the U.S. are well documented. The most obvious examples are in the discrepancies in drug laws, where the use of ?crack? cocaine gets far more serious penalties than the powdered version, with the meaningful difference being that crack is used primarily in black communities.
African-Americans are perhaps eight times more likely to be incarcerated than whites. Poor people are much more likely to be convicted and sent to prison than wealthier people. Young people in poorer, nonwhite neighborhoods have a much different experience with respect to the police than whites. They are probably more likely to get a criminal record than their white counterparts in wealthier communities who engage in the same behaviors.
Once into the criminal system, people can lose their right to vote, have their reputations and futures tainted, and have reduced access to jobs. They are, in a sense, trained to continue and pass on a more criminal culture.
Michael Jacob
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OVERRATED DOWN UNDER?
Although the gist of the ?The Coming Mega Drought? [Forum]?Peter H. Gleick and Matthew Heberger?s essay on the possibility of Australia?s Millennium Drought being repeated in the southwestern U.S.?rings true, the comments praising Australia?s response to its drought need a bit of context. There is unfortunately a political aversion to human reuse of water in Australia. (I have heard a specific put-down: ?Would you like to drink poo water??) The $13.2 billion being spent by the country?s five largest cities to add to desalination capacity is extremely wasteful as the same end can possibly be achieved by treatment and reuse. Desalination is also energy-intensive.
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Wimborne, England
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Alienware's M11x is no more, bigger is apparently better
While Alienware's revealed a trio of updated machines for its gaming laptop range, one device, the M11x, was conspicuously absent. Yes, the 11-inch gaming midget won't be getting the same attention and will be "phased out", according to Alienware at a recent press event. While the device was critically well-received when it launched, gamers were now apparently looking for greater keyboard space and a larger screen in their mobile gaming purchases -- and this went for battery-life too. Those looking for a small form-factor in their mobile gaming rig will have to step up to the hulking 14-inch M14x. Hey, don't get too upset -- at least there's now an optical drive option.
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