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Monday, April 15, 2013
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Watch apple board member Bill Campbell discuss the future of intimate technology
Longtime Apple board member Bill Campbell gave a talk at Intuit, where he once served as CEO and currently serves as chairman of the board, about the future of technology and how it will likely become more intimate with everything from Google Glass to Apple initiatives he wasn't at liberty to discuss (but fill in your own iWatch, at least short term). According to Ashlee Vance of Businessweek:
The conversation started with a look ahead toward future products. Noting that he was not at liberty to give away specific details on future Apple gizmos, Campbell did tell the audience to expect to see ?a lot of things going on with the application of technology to really intimate things.? He pointed to Google Glass as one such intimate object. ?It?s a phenomenal breakthrough,? he said. ?When you start to think about glasses or watches, they become as intimate as the cell phone was.?
Technology is absolutely becoming more personal and more intimate. (No, not that kind of intimate, though that kind of intimate will no doubt be a subsection of the greater movement.) Huge room-filling mainframes became large, desk-filling personal computers are becoming small lap or hand filling tablets and phones will one day become tiny wrist or collar filling watches or broaches will one day become nearly invisible parts of us. It's terrifyingly exciting, as only the future can be.
The entire talk is fascinating, and also touches on Campbell's thoughts about former Apple executives Tony Fadell and Ron Johnson. Check out the entire video above, read more about it via the link below, and then let me know what you think -- how personal can technology get, and does the idea of increasingly intimate devices concern you at all?
Source: Businessweek via 9to5Mac
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Russia bans 18 Americans after similar U.S. move
MOSCOW (AP) ? Russia on Saturday banned 18 Americans from entering the country in response to Washington imposing sanctions on 18 Russians for alleged human rights violations.
The list released by the Foreign Ministry includes John Yoo, a former U.S. Justice Department official who wrote legal memos authorizing harsh interrogation techniques; David Addington, the chief of staff for former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney; and two former commanders of the Guantanamo Bay detention center: retired Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller and Adm. Jeffrey Harbeson.
The move came a day after the U.S. announced its sanctions under the Magnitsky Law, named for Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was arrested in 2008 for tax evasion after accusing Russian police officials of stealing $230 million in tax rebates. He died in prison the next year, allegedly after being beaten and denied medical treatment.
The U.S. State Department released a statement Saturday in response to Russia's latest decision.
"As we've said many times before, the right response by Russia to the international outcry over Sergey Magnitsky's death would be to conduct a proper investigation and hold those responsible for his death accountable, rather than engage in tit-for-tat retaliation," according to the statement.
Neither Washington nor Moscow put high-ranking or politically prominent figures on their lists, perhaps aiming to limit the effect on U.S.-Russian relations that have deteriorated, despite President Barack Obama's initiative to "reset" relations with Moscow.
The Magnitsky law infuriated Russian authorities, and parliament quickly passed a retaliatory measure than banned Americans from adopting Russian children. Russia also has banned U.S. funding for any non-governmental organization deemed to be engaging in politics.
"I think that both sides showed a definite restraint because in Washington and in Moscow there were hotheads demanding to inflate the list to an unthinkable size," parliament member Vyacheslav Nikonov, who focuses on foreign affairs, was quoted as saying by the news agency Interfax.
The ITAR-Tass news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying there also is a "closed part" of the list of banned Americans and that the U.S. knows of its existence. The U.S. law in turn allows the administration to compile a separate classified list of Russian officials subject to visa bans.
The public U.S. list includes Artem Kuznetsov and Pavel Karpov, two Russian Interior Ministry officers who put Magnitsky behind bars after he accused them of stealing $230 million from the state. Two tax officials the lawyer accused of approving the fraudulent tax refunds, and several other Interior Ministry officials accused of persecuting Magnitsky, also were on the list. Absent were senior officials from Russian President Vladimir Putin's entourage whom some human rights advocates had hoped to see sanctioned.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement Saturday that the U.S. sanctions struck "a strong blow to bilateral relations and joint trust."
Also on Russia's list are 14 Americans whom Russia says violated the rights of Russians abroad. It does not give specifics of the alleged violations, but includes several current or former federal prosecutors in the case of Viktor Bout, the Russian arms merchant sentenced in 2012 to 25 years in prison for selling weapons to a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist group.
A federal judge, one FBI agent and four U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents also are on the list. Some of them were involved in the case of Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot convicted for drug smuggling.
"It's important that the criteria on which the Russian list was composed differ fundamentally from the Americans'. On the Russian list, including the closed part, are people actually responsible for the legalization of torture and indefinite detention of prisoners in Guantanamo, for arrests and unjust sentences for our countrymen," Ryabkov was quoted as saying.
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Associated Press writer Anne Flaherty in Washington contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russia-bans-18-americans-similar-us-move-083713754.html
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
A Lego Neck Strap Sets This Bricked Camera Apart From the Rest
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY ? Thomas & Friends: Railway Mischief ...
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It?s time to travel down the tracks with Thomas and his engine friends for mischievous adventures on the Island of Sodor in the all-new Thomas & Friends?: Railway Mischief arriving on DVD April 9, 2013 from Lionsgate and HIT Entertainment. Featuring five brand new episodes and a bonus, collectible ?Calling All Engines? poster, this DVD will be available exclusively at Walmart for a limited time for a suggested retail price of $14.98. So grab your train whistles, put on your engineer?s caps and get ready for trainloads of fun with everyone?s favorite Number 1 Engine!
Cinders and Ashes! There?s trouble on the tracks for Thomas and his friends. Gordon and Cranky don?t want to listen to really useful advice from Paxton and Kevin. Scruff, Winston and Stafford lose track of themselves, causing confusion and delay! Sometimes engines need a little help from their friends to chuff and puff full steam ahead!
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Gardeners in My Family | Western District Families
It was the Afternoons program on 774 ABC Melbourne that got me thinking about my gardening pedigree.? Presenter Richard Stubbs asked listeners how they came to take up gardening.? Was it passed on from someone else?
I grew up in a gardener?s house and remember constant talk of? Spring and Autumn annuals, Marigolds, Petunias, Camellias, Dahlias, the constant moving of sprinklers and manure.
When Nana came to live with us in the late 1970s, the garden talk doubled and if my Great Auntie Rosie came to visit, well.? Auntie Rosie was Nana?s sister and they had other siblings that were keen gardeners too.
One was my great-uncle Bill Hadden.? Visiting his garden was special.? I remember fish ponds, orchids and a large television antenna tower that I had an urge to climb every time I went there.
This is a lovely photo of Uncle Bill as young man in his parent?s backyard at 78 Coleraine Road, Hamilton, planting seed in neat rows with help from his niece, Margaret.? It was about 1934.
I too lived at 78 Coleraine Road.? Mum and Dad lived there when they first arrived in Hamilton after their marriage in 1967.? I came along in March 1968 and we lived there for about a year after my birth.? I wish I had have been older to remember the house, which was later pulled down, as that was the family home of my great grandparents, Thomas Hadden and Sarah Harman and where Nana and her brothers and sisters grew up.? Four generations lived in that house.
I showed Mum the photo of the backyard at 78 Coleraine Road and she was able to tell me more about it.? She said there was still a fence across the backyard when we there but it is was then made from? chook wire.?? Auntie Rosie had lived there before us and she kept chooks.? After the photo, cherry plum and blood plum trees were planted and an apple tree, seen in the photo, was still there 33 years later.
Uncle Bill had his own home built after returning from WW2.? It was at 80 Coleraine Road, next door to his parents.
The photo above, shows Mum and Nana, on the left, and Mum?s cousin Norma, right, in the front yard of Uncle Bill and Auntie Bess.? Although a reasonably new house, Uncle Bill already had an established garden and neat concrete and lawn driveway.? He later added a garage and sheds at the end of the driveway.
Alma, another of Nana?s sisters was also a green thumb.? When I visited her a few years ago, when she was in her late 90s, I was amazed at her beautiful potted cyclamen on her back porch. Despite almost no vision, she tended them with care.? She was often found pottering around the garden that she knew so well and was able to move around nimbly.
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Before Nana came to live with us, she and my grandfather, Bill Gamble lived in Ballarat and I have great memories of visiting their house.? The backyard was small but? the space was well used .? Bill grew espalier apples, among other things, and had a shed with three sections lining the back fence.? From my memory, the left section was a fernery, the middle a utility shed that held grain to feed the occupants in the third section, the chooks.? I did like to admire the maiden hair ferns and their cool, soft foliage,? and the feed shed where I dipped my hands into oats in a large wooden barrel. But I did not go in the chook shed.
When I checked my memory against mum?s she told me the left side of the shed was interchangeable, depending on her father?s interest at the time.? He used to have budgies too and I can now remember budgie boxes in that part of the shed and attached to the fence.? She couldn?t remember the maiden hair ferns, but her father did grow Pelargoniums at one point.? That must have run in the family, as the following is a photo of one of Mum?s Pelargoniums.
The next photo was taken looking across the Gamble backyard.? We have several photos taken from this angle.? It must have been the ?photo spot?.? Nana (centre) is? flanked by Bill?s aunt, Jane Diwell and a friend of Jane?s from Geelong.? In the front is my Uncle Peter.? Hopefully the photo shoot did not go on too long as there may have been an accident.
Of interest here is the espalier apple tree on the fence, the concrete garden edging my grandfather put in himself, the sack of oats and the Bergenia or ?Elephant?s Ears? along the toilet wall.? Mum? used to call them ?toilet flowers?.
Auntie Shirley, Bill?s sister is also a keen gardener.? We visited her in the past year and her garden was beautiful, a result of much hard work on her part.? She is now in her 80s.
My grandfather, Auntie Shirl and Auntie Jane were descended from a keen gardener, Richard Diwell, Jane?s father.? Richard was a member of the Hamilton Horticulture Society. His specialty was chrysanthemums.? The society often attended shows in nearby towns and the following? item is from 1896 when the Hamilton growers headed to Portland to show of their blooms.? Richard won three prizes in his class.
The chrysanthemums exhibited by the Hamilton growers were impressive, some a little too impressive for an amateur show.
Richard also liked ferns and apparently had a fernery.? He was a keen photographer too, and this is one of the photos we have that he ?staged? and took himself with a camera timer.? A selection of plants are in the foreground including a maidenhair fern.
Richard & Elizabeth Diwell and family
A garden photo that interests me is from the backyard of Richard?s daughter, Edith Diwell, my great-grandmother.? The photo is of three of her sons, including Grandfather Bill on the left.? This was either at a house in Mt Napier Road, Hamilton or Skene Street, Hamilton.? Either way, they would have only been in the house a short time before the photo was taken, so the garden layout was not the work of Edith.? However, it still gives an example of a 1920s backyard.? There is a vegetable garden, with wooden edging and the boys are standing in front of a Yucca.? A fruit tree stands in the background.
My paternal side of the family, the Riddifords, did not have the same influence on my love of gardening.? Dad has never grown anything.? Well, at least that?s what I thought.? Mum told me how he thought cauliflowers could be a profitable venture, sometime around 1967, and planted them in the backyard at 78 Coleraine Road.? Turns out there was little market for his produce and that was the end of his gardening days.? We probably ate cauliflower with white sauce for some time afterwards.
Dad?s father, Percy Riddiford, did like to garden.? It was not until? recent years that I came to know how much.
Prior to her death, my Grandma, Mavis, gave me a binder of Your Garden magazines collected by Grandpa.? I knew he liked roses as they lined the perimeter of their front yard, but I didn?t realise his passion went as far as buying gardening magazines.? It just happened that the year the magazines were from was 1968, the year I was born.
I did enjoy visiting Grandma and Grandpa?s in Ballarat.? A sign, ?The Riddifords? hung proudly on the letterbox. ? A terrace garden was at the back of the steep block.? Three large steps led to the top of the terrace and I recall that as a small child, I would haul myself up the steps and teeter on the top to look across neighbouring backyards to see Sovereign Hill in its infancy, sprouting up on a nearby hill.? I would cry out that I could see the ?historical park?.
I recently drove past Grandma and Grandpa?s old house to see if Grandpa?s roses were still there.? I do remember them there, but look old and gnarly, not the many years ago.? They are now gone, but suckers grow were the roses were.? A little reminder of Grandpa.
?My gardening history started in a rented house, but now with a? home of my own, more passion is imparted.? In the 13 years we have lived here, I have gardened through a 10 year drought, dogs, goats, child and recently a plant shredding hail storm.? Inspired by Edna Walling and dispirited by Mother Nature and her creatures.
My garden is probably not at the point I would like it, but it has changed over the years thanks, I suppose, to the drought.? I started with a range of cottage perennials, including some unusual varieties, but full water restrictions (no mains watering) did not help many of those thirsty English plants.? Anything that survived I have planted more of, and more natives and succulents have come in.
One of my favourite plants is the Aquilegia or ?Granny Bonnet?.? It was also a favourite of Nana?s.
One day my ?Zephirine Drouhin?? roses will cover the arch they grow beside.? But every year, just as the juicy new shoots show, two white creatures manage to break into my garden and indulge in one of their favourite delicacies.
The Sedum is an underrated plant and one that dates back to 19th century Australian gardens.? It transforms itself throughout the year giving ongoing variety in its form and it can cope with dry weather.? I have filled my borders with different varieties and they never disappoint.? The following description of the Sedum is from 1911.
If you would like to get an idea of how your ancestors? gardens may have looked or you would like to recreate a garden from earlier times, Cottage Gardens in Australia by Peter Cuffley is a beautiful book and an excellent resource for studying Australian gardens right back to Colonial days.
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Stocks open mixed on Wall Street ahead of earnings
NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks are mixed in early trading on Wall Street as traders gear up for the beginning of corporate earnings reports.
The Dow Jones industrial average was off 23 points, or 0.2 percent, at 14,541 shortly after the opening bell Monday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down less than a point, or 0.04 percent, at 1,552. The Nasdaq composite rose five points, or 0.1 percent, to 3,208.
Investors are turning their attention to U.S. corporate earnings results following a dismal report on employment on Friday.
Aluminum maker Alcoa becomes the first company in the Dow Jones industrial average to report its results later Monday, after the close of trading.
European markets were slightly higher.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stocks-open-mixed-wall-street-ahead-earnings-134714285--finance.html
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