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Friday, May 31, 2013
iMore show. Today. 12:30pm PT/3:30pm ET. Be here!
The all-new iMore show returns today with special guest David Barnard of App Cubby. He'll be joining me and Peter Cohen to talk everything Apple this week, so make sure you join us!
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LinkedIn status updates can now include photos, other types of files
Given how simple and common it is to do it on Facebook, Twitter or Google+, you'd think being able to share images as part of a status update wouldn't be anything novel at this point. But for those inhabiting the popular (and inspiring) social networking site LinkedIn, this hasn't exactly been the case -- and that's about to change. As of today, users are able to add a little more flavor to things shared on the site, with LinkedIn letting it be known that they can now easily enclose more than just text when using the share box. And while picture uploads are certainly all the buzz, LinkedIn's also making it possible to include other file types, such as documents and presentations. Currently, the new feature only allows uploads to be done via the desktop version of the website, however LinkedIn did tell CNET that the content "will be viewable inside the mobile apps."
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How Should Writers Act in Public? - We Wanted to Be Writers
Finding Your Inner Extrovert
By Eric Olsen
Not long ago, as the date of a talk I was to give about the creative process drew closer, I found myself becoming more and more nervous. Like a lot of writers, or maybe like most of them, I?m an introvert. I dread speaking in front of a group; I?d rather write them a note if I think I have anything to say. In school, I was one of those kids who would always sit in the back of the room if he had a choice. I?d never raise my hand even if I knew the answer. I hated oral reports.
No doubt my introversion is one reason I found myself attracted to writing in the first place. And certainly it helps to be a bit of an introvert if you want to write, since writing means hours a day sitting at a desk, alone, lost in an imaginary world of one?s own making, ?a Borgesian mole? hiding in dark corners, as T. C. Boyle puts it in ?This Monkey, My Back.?
There are no dark corners on a stage, and certainly not on the small stage in Tsunami Books, the swell independent in Eugene, Oregon where I was to speak.
To try to manage my growing panic, I sat by myself, Borgesian mole that I am, and wrote out a script of my talk, resolving to memorize the sucker, as if that might help. But then when I would practice my talk in front of my wife Cheryl, I kept looking down at the script and reading ? I couldn?t help myself ??mumbling in a sort of zombie-like monotone, while she kept telling me to snap out of it, look up, make eye contact with the audience, you?re boring them to death, engage, engage, engage, jeez will you friggin? engage?! She sensed disaster in the offing?.
But then this introvert got lucky. Just before the talk, I met a couple of local writers for dinner at a place just down the street from Tsunami Books. One was Tom Titus, a biologist at the University of Oregon who wrote Blackberries in July: a Forager?s Field Guide to Inner Peace. The other was Valerie Brooks, a writer who some years before had helped start the Mid-Valley chapter of Willamette Writers, the group I?d be addressing later.
Our dinner conversation covered a lot of ground. Among other things, Tom regaled us with his adventures in Antarctica studying what he described as a particularly ugly fish that has evolved over millions of years to thrive first in a warm Antarctica, and now in a cold one. Valerie talked about the origins of the writers? group. Then the discussion turned, as discussions among writers these days tend to turn, to the matter of self-publishing, e-books, the evil ways of big publishers, and what the future holds.
Of course we all understood that these days a writer will have to promote his or her own book since publishers can?t be bothered, unless the writer?s a Big Dog like Boyle, maybe. And that means getting out of that dark corner now and then to give readings, talk to writers? groups, meet people, and engage. That is, a writer has to adapt to a changing publishing environment to survive, like Titus?s ugly mutant Antarctic fish adapted to a changing Antarctica.
But how does a Borgesian mole manage that?
No one?s really only an introvert or only an extrovert. Rather, we all operate somewhere on a continuum from the one extreme to the other. True, writers might tend to skew toward the extreme introvert end of the scale, but it is possible even for a scribbler to let that inner extrovert out into the light now and then.
I found my inner extrovert talking to Tom and Valerie at that dinner. By the time I got to the bookstore just down the street, I had decided what the hell, I?d toss the script and pretend I was simply continuing the discussion, as if I were still at dinner, and now the conversation had shifted from mutated Antarctic fish and the future of the lit-biz to the creative process.
So I got up on stage in front of about 50 writers, pretended they were my dinner companions, and began to blather, and with only the occasional brief glance at the script. I made eye contact. I cracked jokes. I waved my hands. I?m not sure I made much sense, but Cheryl tells me I didn?t stink up the joint. ?Look,? she said, ?you don?t have to make sense, as long as you engage with the audience. Engage with the audience, they?ll think you make sense whether you do or not. How do you think politicians get elected??
What?s the lesson here? How do you release that inner extrovert? First, it certainly doesn?t hurt to rehearse, and better yet rehearse in front of a critical spouse or other significant other.
Next, if you can swing it, have a drink or meal or at least a conversation with a few others in a casual setting as soon as possible before stepping onto the stage, like a warm-up. Ideally, talk with them about anything but what you?ll be talking about later, even ugly mutant Antarctic fish.
Of course, I was giving a talk, not a reading, and there are differences. A reading has particular advantages. For one, you get to, well, read. But a reading also presents particular challenges, not least the fact you are, well, reading. So you?ll have to learn to tear your eyes away from the page and look up now and then and engage. And since the folks in your audience can always buy the book and read it themselves, you?ll need to convince your inner extrovert to deliver more than making eye contact or not mumbling.
A good reading is a performance. That means rehearsing. Better yet, rehearse before an audience, whether a critical spouse or other relative, or a friend or two. If you have the nerve, videotape yourself and watch yourself later, a brutally painful process for some of us, but valuable practice. If you can, try to memorize bits of what you?ll read, if not all of it, so you can more easily look up while speaking.
If you can manage it, give your various characters ? if you have them ??unique voices. Select passages that have some action and movement. Keep the long passages of exposition to a minimum, if possible. Feel free to compress. Of course if your book is all narrative, cool, but try to find passages to read that have the most movement, whether of action, of scene, or rhythm. Feel free to break in now and then with a personal aside, what you were thinking when you wrote this part, what you felt, that sort of stuff. In truth, I especially enjoy readings where the author talks to the audience now and then, whether to set up a new passage to be read, or to comment on the passage during or after reading it.
I always like to hear from the author about why or how the book came about, whether in introductory remarks or along the way. Was there research involved? Were there surprises? Did the author have to overcome any particular challenges to get the book done?
At my talk, I left a list of books about creativity and the creative process for anyone who was interested. It had my name and contact info on it, in case anyone had more questions. For a reading, it might not hurt to leave a list of your favorite books, or books that influenced your work, or whatever. With your contact info, of course.
For millennia, before the Sumerians invented writing, all literature was oral. Storytellers told stories. They performed before an audience because there were no books. We call ourselves ?writers? these days but we?re still part of a long line of storytellers, and painful as it may be for us introverts, maybe it?s not such a bad thing to get back to our roots now and then and engage with an audience. From such engagement come ideas and material, maybe something like an ugly mutant Antarctic fish?.
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Judge limits texts, photos in Trayvon Martin case
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? Attorneys won't be able to mention Trayvon Martin's drug use, suspension from school and past fighting during opening statements in the trial for the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot the teen, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Circuit Judge Debra Nelson also refused to allow jurors to travel to the shooting scene during trial, and rejected a defense request to delay the trial set to begin June 10.
The judge also ruled that some of the Martin's texts and other social media statements won't be allowed in opening statements, though some of his personal material could be allowed later depending on how the case progresses.
Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara, told the judge that Martin's marijuana use and past fighting was central to the argument that Zimmerman used self-defense when he confronted Martin last year at a gated community in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
"We have a lot of evidence that marijuana use had something to do with the event," O'Mara said. "It could have affected his behavior."
The judge ruled against a defense request that the pool of jury candidates be sequestered during jury selection. She said jurors will be referred to by their jury numbers and prohibited their faces from being photographed. Nelson denied a prosecution request for a gag order that would prohibit attorneys from talking about the case.
O'Mara said he is concerned potential jurors could be affected by publicity the case is receiving.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Chicago simmers over school closings. Is that bad for Mayor Emanuel?
Chicago?s controversial decision to close 50 public schools was challenged by a third lawsuit Wednesday, inflaming a public relations war between City Hall and the teachers union that polls say is being waged at a time that Mayor Rahm Emanuel is more vulnerable politically.
Two federal lawsuits were filed last week by parents saying that the closings violate the civil rights of special needs children and those living in poorer, marginalized neighborhoods.
On Wednesday the Chicago Teachers Union announced it is filing a lawsuit in Circuit Court against the Chicago Public School System, saying the school board violated its own code guidelines in closing 10 elementary schools.
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In each case, the union and the parent groups say they want the closures delayed for at least a year, giving time for the matter to be given due consideration in court.
Both the Chicago Public School System (CPS) and its challengers say they are pressing forward for the sake of Chicago?s schoolchildren. The CPS is making the case that the closings ? it is the largest mass school closure in US history ? are justified to achieve meaningful reform in the lagging school district, while its critics say the sheer magnitude of the closings will create irreparable harm to those neighborhoods, which are suffering the most from neglect, and will heighten gang violence.
Becky Carroll, chief communications officer for CPS, says union leadership ?remains committed to a status quo that is failing too many children trapped in underutilized, under-resourced schools.?
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CPS, which came under fire from teachers and parents groups when it proposed the closings months ago, announced last week it would close 50 schools, the majority on the South and West sides of the city.
A prime reason cited for the closures is financial. The city?s public school system, which is the third largest in the nation and operates under the control of City Hall, faces a $1 billion budget deficit in the new fiscal year. It maintains that each closed school will save the district $500,000 and $800,000.
CPS also says that transitioning children from low-performing schools to higher-performing ones will inevitably make them better students.
Critics are disputing those assertions, and many say that while they expected some consolidation, the high volume of schools closed suggests that Mayor Emanuel is paving the way for more charter schools, and is intent on crippling the teachers union.
?He is creating a vacuum to bring in the charters. [Emmanuel] always had this Republican attitude for school reform, there?s no other way to describe it,? says Chicago Alderman John Arena of the city?s 41st Ward. ?This is probably one of the worst approaches to [school reform] I can imagine.?
One of the biggest issues to emerge is violence. Critics say that the closings will force children to travel a longer distance to school, which will inevitably expose them to competing gang turf.
According to the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago, students travel an average of 3.5 miles to higher-performing schools in the city, while those in lower-performing schools travel about half a mile.
Marisa de la Torre, a director at the Consortium, says her research shows consolidation only improves student achievement when students are reassigned to schools that are in the top quartile of all CPS schools.
However, out of all the elementary schools where displaced children will be reassigned this fall, only three are in the top quartile.
?If the goal is to improve the academic outcome of the student, clearly the only thing to keep in mind is that the receiving school plays a big role into that,? says Ms. de la Torre. ?We see a changed education outcome of students when they go to the highest performing receiving school.?
Steve Tozer, director of the Center for Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago, says the CPS budget dilemma is very real because it is funded at a much lower level than other districts in the state.
?The Illinois school funding disparity is such that if Chicago were funded at a level as some neighboring districts were funded, we would not have this budget crisis,? Professor Tozer says.
Compounding the difficulties is the district?s failure to create a long-term plan, and the push for more charter schools. Combined with the budget shortfalls, they create a ?perfect storm that is causing disruption that nobody, including [CPS], wants to see.?
Emanuel has remained largely mute on the subject since last week, when he released a statement saying, ?More hard work lies ahead, but I am confident that together with teachers and principals, engaged parents and community support, our children will succeed.?
The closings come at a time when polling shows a growing vulnerability for the mayor. According to a Chicago Tribune and WGN-TV poll released in early May, 50 percent approve of his job performance while 40 percent disapprove; a year ago, those numbers were at 52 and 29 percent respectively.
His lowest approval numbers are from black voters: 44 percent approve of his performance and 33 percent disapprove; last year, 48 percent approved while 40 percent disapproved.
The poll was conducted by phone in late April among 800 Chicago voters with a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
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New book: Philosophy makes better mathematicians
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Does mathematics consist of absolute truths, and are mathematical results always indisputable? Most people would probably respond yes without thinking twice, but the answer is actually also in part no. Mathematics can also be approached from a philosophical angle - and it is important to do so. Otherwise, we cannot ask the big, important questions in life, writes University of Southern Denmark-scientist in a new book.
The author is Jessica Carter, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Southern Denmark. She teaches philosophy, and together with Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen from Roskilde University Center in Denmark she has written about the importance of learning some philosophy and history in order to become a competent and reflective mathematician.
The book is called "International Handbook of Research in History, Philosophy and Science Teaching" and it will be published by Springer Verlag in June 2013. The two authors have contributed with the chapter: "The Role of History and Philosophy in University Mathematics Education".
"Many believe that mathematics cannot be discussed. But it can - and it is important to do so. When discussing mathematics from a philosophical point of view, we stop learning equations and formulas by heart and start talking about all the different ways we can work with mathematics and the places it can take us."
According to Jessica Carter it is important to stamp out the long-lived myth that mathematics is indisputable.
"There are many examples of matters within mathematics that can be discussed. I do not believe that the rigor of mathematics is up for discussion, but I think we should deal with the fact that it is changing and evolving as all other sciences."
A philosophical question, that can evoke many thoughts from a mathematician, is: "Has mathematics always existed, and do we know about it, because we have discovered it? Or has man created mathematics? "
The Greek philosopher Plato believed that mathematics is eternal, because concepts and ideas have their own existence. Opposite to this idea later philosophers believed that concepts and ideas cannot exist independently of man, and therefore mathematics is something that has been invented.
"When I teach philosophy to our mathematics students and ask them to think about this question, my main point is not to give them an answer to the question. The aim is rather to teach the mathematics students to think philosophically about mathematics, to think critically, to ask questions, to analyze arguments and to assess assumptions. Mathematics is a subject which, like all other subjects has undergone development, and mathematicians, too, get smarter by thinking philosophically, reflecting and putting the subject into perspective."
Several centuries before Christ the Greek thinker Pythagoras believed that numbers were the basis of everything in the world. He explained the world from natural numbers and operated only with these and fractions (the ratio of natural numbers).
Pythagorean numbers were only positive integers, and this limited toolbox worked fine until one of his students discovered that the diagonal of a square with sides being integers could not be described only using integers. The problem was that the square root of 2 was not a rational number, but an irrational number. Immediately the problem was removed by throwing the presumptuous student in the sea, where he drowned - a radical, though not long-lasting solution. There was no getting around the fact that integers and fractions were not enough to describe the world. The mathematical way to solve the problem was to expand the concept of numbers and introduce irrational numbers. Negative numbers were also needed, but they came only later.
"This story illustrates that mathematics is not fixed. Even mathematics has undergone an evolution, and it will continue to do so. Today's mathematicians are in the process of developing new mathematics, and mathematics students should be made aware of this, "says Jessica Carter.
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Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Southern Denmark
All students at the University of Southern Denmark are taught philosophy of science. The course runs over seven weeks and is 5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System. 300 ECTS corresponds to a typical five-year university degree).
Contact: Jessica Carter, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark. Tel: +45 6550 2358th Email: jessica@imada.sdu.dk
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Public release date: 28-May-2013[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Birgitte Svennevig
birs@sdu.dk
45-65-50-29-36
University of Southern Denmark
Does mathematics consist of absolute truths, and are mathematical results always indisputable? Most people would probably respond yes without thinking twice, but the answer is actually also in part no. Mathematics can also be approached from a philosophical angle - and it is important to do so. Otherwise, we cannot ask the big, important questions in life, writes University of Southern Denmark-scientist in a new book.
The author is Jessica Carter, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Southern Denmark. She teaches philosophy, and together with Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen from Roskilde University Center in Denmark she has written about the importance of learning some philosophy and history in order to become a competent and reflective mathematician.
The book is called "International Handbook of Research in History, Philosophy and Science Teaching" and it will be published by Springer Verlag in June 2013. The two authors have contributed with the chapter: "The Role of History and Philosophy in University Mathematics Education".
"Many believe that mathematics cannot be discussed. But it can - and it is important to do so. When discussing mathematics from a philosophical point of view, we stop learning equations and formulas by heart and start talking about all the different ways we can work with mathematics and the places it can take us."
According to Jessica Carter it is important to stamp out the long-lived myth that mathematics is indisputable.
"There are many examples of matters within mathematics that can be discussed. I do not believe that the rigor of mathematics is up for discussion, but I think we should deal with the fact that it is changing and evolving as all other sciences."
A philosophical question, that can evoke many thoughts from a mathematician, is: "Has mathematics always existed, and do we know about it, because we have discovered it? Or has man created mathematics? "
The Greek philosopher Plato believed that mathematics is eternal, because concepts and ideas have their own existence. Opposite to this idea later philosophers believed that concepts and ideas cannot exist independently of man, and therefore mathematics is something that has been invented.
"When I teach philosophy to our mathematics students and ask them to think about this question, my main point is not to give them an answer to the question. The aim is rather to teach the mathematics students to think philosophically about mathematics, to think critically, to ask questions, to analyze arguments and to assess assumptions. Mathematics is a subject which, like all other subjects has undergone development, and mathematicians, too, get smarter by thinking philosophically, reflecting and putting the subject into perspective."
Several centuries before Christ the Greek thinker Pythagoras believed that numbers were the basis of everything in the world. He explained the world from natural numbers and operated only with these and fractions (the ratio of natural numbers).
Pythagorean numbers were only positive integers, and this limited toolbox worked fine until one of his students discovered that the diagonal of a square with sides being integers could not be described only using integers. The problem was that the square root of 2 was not a rational number, but an irrational number. Immediately the problem was removed by throwing the presumptuous student in the sea, where he drowned - a radical, though not long-lasting solution. There was no getting around the fact that integers and fractions were not enough to describe the world. The mathematical way to solve the problem was to expand the concept of numbers and introduce irrational numbers. Negative numbers were also needed, but they came only later.
"This story illustrates that mathematics is not fixed. Even mathematics has undergone an evolution, and it will continue to do so. Today's mathematicians are in the process of developing new mathematics, and mathematics students should be made aware of this, "says Jessica Carter.
###
Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Southern Denmark
All students at the University of Southern Denmark are taught philosophy of science. The course runs over seven weeks and is 5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System. 300 ECTS corresponds to a typical five-year university degree).
Contact: Jessica Carter, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark. Tel: +45 6550 2358th Email: jessica@imada.sdu.dk
This press release was written by press officer Birgitte Svennevig.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Lavrov says convening Syria conference 'a tall order'
By Arshad Mohammed and John Irish
PARIS (Reuters) - Holding a conference to end Syria's civil war will be a "tall order", Russia's foreign minister said on Monday after talks with his U.S. counterpart, but he saw some chance of success.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said they would do their utmost to bring Syria's warring parties to the table, as fighting intensified and new allegations of chemical weapons use surfaced.
The proposed conference - expected to be held in mid-June in Geneva - reflects the first serious diplomatic effort in nearly a year to end the conflict in which more than 80,000 people are believed to have died and millions have fled their homes.
While emphasizing the challenges of getting the conference, proposed by Kerry and Lavrov this month, off the ground, Lavrov was not entirely downcast.
"It's not an easy task. It's a very tall order. But I hope that when the United States and the Russian Federation take this kind of initiative, the chances for success are there," he said after the two met by themselves for roughly 90 minutes.
Sitting side by side in a Paris hotel, Kerry told reporters that he and Lavrov had discussed the timing and the participants for the conference and they had voiced worry about the possible use of chemical weapons.
"Both of us expressed our mutual concerns about any potential use of chemical weapons and the need to really get the evidence and ascertain what has happened in that regard," Kerry said. "Both Russia, and the United States- if it were being used - object to that very, very strongly."
Heavy fighting raged on Monday around the strategic Syrian border town of Qusair and the capital Damascus, and there were further reports of chemical weapons attacks by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
Syrian government offensives in recent weeks are widely seen as an attempt to bolster Assad's negotiating position before the planned conference.
Both sides in the conflict, now in its third year, have accused each other of using chemical weapons.
Syria's government has said it will attend the conference, but the Syrian opposition is still struggling to reach unity in their fractious ranks and has not yet committed to attend.
One point of disagreement between the United States and Russia is whether Iran should attend any meeting, with Moscow arguing that it should and Washington making clear it has little interest in this, although not absolutely ruling it out.
"We believe that this circle could be expanded to involve all key outside players who have influence on the situation on the ground," Lavrov said in an allusion to Iran, although he did not cite it by name.
Iran is believed to be one of the main arms suppliers to the Syrian government and it also has significant influence over Lebanese Hezbollah, which has become an increasingly active player on the ground by fighting with government forces.
After the meeting, Kerry and Lavrov dined with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, whose nation, along with Britain, has been pushing to end an EU arms embargo that has preventing them from giving weapons to the rebels.
European Union countries appeared to have failed to agree on easing the embargo at talks in Brussels on Monday.
(Additional reporting by Catherine Bremer; Editing by Alison Williams)
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Man's Video Gaming Prompts Wife To Petition For Divorce - Kotaku
A young Chinese man in Sichuan province is in a little hot water with his wife and the courts because of his affinity for video games. The man, Zhang Ping, is being taken to court by his wife for neglecting his household chores in order to play online games, reports News Guangdong.com.
25 year-old Zhang Ping married his college sweet heart, Wang Juan, in 2011. The two enjoyed a short period of marital bliss before everything started to go wrong. Originally, Zhang was a "model husband;" after returning home from work, Zhang would help Wang with the household chores.
Late last year, Zhang started to change. According to Wang, Zhang became lazy. Instead of helping his wife around the house, Zhang began laying around playing video games. Whenever Wang asked Zhang for help with anything, his reply was to blow her off. Help make dinner, "the weather is too hot, let's go out and eat." Help clean the floor, "why bother? The floor is clean." Zhang's favorite excuse to use was this one: "I work all day, my work is boring, I need to relax. Video games excite me, it helps me relax".
Zhang's reluctance to do any house work caused a lot of grief between the couple. Wang says the couple would fight and argue all the time because of Zhang's attitude. When it got too much for her, she decided to petition the courts for a divorce from her husband.
Wang's petition cites Zhang lacks responsibility, and that he is an overly selfish man with an attitude problem.
At the court hearing, Zhang said he doesn't agree with his wife's request for divorce and is willing to work things out. Unfortunately for Wang, the courts also didn't agree. The judge asked the two to work together to reach a mutual understanding.
After listening to the judge, Wang agreed to drop the lawsuit against her husband.
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Amazon workers in Germany stage strike
BERLIN (AP) ? Amazon's German workers are staging a short-term strike in a push for higher wages.
The ver.di union said Monday employees in Leipzig are walking off the job in a one-day warning strike.
The union is pushing the online retailer to adopt wage agreements similar to those governing retail and mail-order workers, which include Christmas bonuses and extra pay for working nights, Sundays and holidays. The agreements could mean as much as 9,000 euros ($11,700) more annually for Amazon workers.
Amazon says its distribution warehouses in Germany are logistics centers, and employees are already paid on the upper end of what workers in that industry earn.
Ver.di represents some 2,000 workers in Leipzig and 3,300 employees at Amazon's Bad Hersfeld center. They staged a first strike earlier this month.
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Monday, May 27, 2013
Questioning the Definition of Astrology: King Among The Horoscopes
The most powerful sun sign, the Leo, is long thought to be an egotistical sign that radiates arrogance and pompousness. Unsurprisingly, Leo as a zodiac, is the most dominant, creative, and extrovert of all the characters of the Horoscopes. In grandeur of manner, splendor of bearing, and magnanimity of personality, the Leo is the monarch among humans as the lion is king of beasts. As many as the signs of the Horoscopes are, the Leo character has complicated facets under these sweeping remarks.
Leos are natural and instinctive leaders. They are leaders either in support or in revolt of the status quo. Leos usually follow politics, entertainment, arts, or any career that puts them in the limelight and gives them the power to influence other people. They are most effective when holding a position of command. They are effective leaders because they know exactly what path they want to pursue and how to achieve their goals. They also have the charm and magnetism to attract and command respect from their peers and subordinates. Among the signs of the Horoscopes, Leos are the most ambitious and stubborn. Leos treat setbacks as challenges to overcome; they thrive on the adversity. NapoLeon Bonaparte, Marcel Duchamp, Jackie Kennedy, Coco Chanel, Madonna, and Alfred Hitchcock are some of their most famous Le os who triumphed to achieve success.
Despite their majestic demeanor, Leos are also idealistic, humane, and beneficient. They favor intelligence, philosophy, and change. Leos are also of strong minds; they cling and pursue their beliefs with complete sincerity. No wonder Bonaparte started the French Revolution, and Duchamp made everyone believe that a toilet is a work of art. But Leos are not without faults, and as grand as their virtues are, their faults are also baser than the other members of the Horoscopes.
Extremely negative Leos are the most unpleasant person that could ever exist. Leos are given to pride, arrogance, and quick tempers. Among the Horoscopes, Leos are the most power-hungry. Leos would not hesitate to use cunning, lies, and trickery to discredit an opponent. Negative Leos are extremely self-centered with a greed for flattery and grandeur. They see other people as lowly creatures but they use their charm to manipulate others to carry out their orders. Leos are also hedonists, with unlimited sexual lust and a craving for passion. Extremely negative Leos are persons better off alone if you can resist them.
You may wonder how Leos managed to succeed given all the excesses in which they seem to thrive. Do not forget that Leos are driven individuals. They are capable of controlling and denying themselves to achieve their goals. Leos are rarely so undisciplined to give way thoroughly to a list of vices. Their vices and excesses are usually balanced by an innate wisdom. Among the signs of the Horoscopes, Leos live on a precarious balance of instinct and wisdom. Those who are afflic ted with the vices also have the intelligence to consciously and actively overcome them. Leos are not called kings among the Horoscopes for nothing.
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NY plane crash passengers ID'd as patient, wife
EPHRATAH, N.Y. (AP) ? A brain cancer patient and his wife were on board the volunteer medical flight piloted by a Connecticut man that crashed in a wooded area of central New York, authorities said Sunday.
Frank and Evelyn Amerosa of Utica were aboard an Angel Flight on Friday night when the twin-engine aircraft went down in Ephratah, a sleepy town about an hour west of Albany, according to police and family members.
Officials and family said John Campbell, 70, of Stamford, Conn., was flying the couple back from the Boston area, where Frank Amerosa was being treated for brain cancer.
The bodies of Campbell and Evelyn Amerosa have been recovered from the rural crash site. Dozens of searchers, including a helicopter crew, continued searching the woods and water Sunday for Frank Amerosa, 64, who was presumed dead, said Sgt. Brian Van Nostrand of the Fulton County Sheriff's Department.
Frank Amerosa, a retired trucker, had been diagnosed with brain cancer more than a year ago. Evelyn Amerosa, 58, worked at an area nursing home directing residents in activities like bingo and trips ? a job she loved, said her daughter Heather Theobald. She said her mother had been with her step-father for at least 16 years. The couple loved to travel and had recently returned from the Bahamas.
"Very happy, very much love, very optimistic, they did everything for anybody," Theobald told The Associated Press. "They were just very good people. They were loved by a lot of people."
Campbell was volunteer pilot for Angel Flight, a nonprofit group that arranges free air transportation for the sick. Angel Flight Northeast said it has set up free air transportation and medical care for more than 65,000 children and adults on about 60,000 flights covering more than 12 million miles. It was founded in 1996.
"John loved to fly and truly believed in the mission of Angel Flight. He loved volunteering his time and we take some solace in the fact he died doing something he loved while trying to help others," according to a family statement read to The Associated Press by his daughter Kimberly Conti, of Rutherford, N.J.
Rescue workers on Sunday scoured the woods and searched a big, murky pond where the bulk of the aircraft was submerged. Wreckage from the crash was dispersed over a large area, with pieces of the plane found as far as 5 miles away.
Town Supervisor Todd Bradt said more than 100 rescuers searched for Frank Amerosa into Sunday night but did not find him. The search will continue Monday.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators who returned to the crash site Sunday aim to retrieve the bulk of the wreckage from the water over the next few days, said agency spokesman Eric Weiss. They are looking for smartphones, GPS devices, computer tablets or other items that could "give the investigators some electronic evidence of what happened in the last minutes of flight," he said.
The Piper PA 34 had departed from Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass., and was headed to Rome, N.Y., before it crashed just after 5 p.m. Friday, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. The plane did not issue a distress call before losing radar and radio contact, the NTSB said.
Terence Kindlon, an Albany attorney who is a volunteer pilot for Angel Flight, said he and another lawyer, Dale Thuillez, had flown the couple to Boston on Friday morning in Thuillez's plane. He quickly found out he had something in common with Frank Amerosa.
"We were both former Marines and had been in Vietnam pretty close together in time," Kindlon said. "We hit it right off. He was a nice guy."
The two lawyers flew back to Albany in Thuillez's plane after dropping off the couple in Boston.
While the cause of the crash remains under investigation, Kindlon stressed that "the standards for being an Angel Flight pilot are rigorous."
Authorities had initially said the bodies of two passengers were found after the aircraft went down Friday night. But Van Nostrand corrected that report Sunday, saying the bodies of the Evelyn Amerosa and Campbell had been found.
Witnesses described the destruction that started in the air above Ephratah.
Joan Dudley, owner of Granny's Ice Cream Shanty, which is less than a mile from the crash site, said she and her employees saw the plane flip, then fall apart Friday night.
"Parts and pieces of it were flying through the sky, and a body fell out," Dudley said.
They called 911 as they parked their car and ran to the crash site in the rain to see if they could rescue anyone.
"Airplane parts were all over the place," she said. "They were picking them up all over."
Ephratah resident Roger Berry, 75, said he was outside chopping wood when the plane crashed.
"When I heard it, I knew something was wrong," Berry said.
Berry said he heard a bang, then saw pieces of the plane fall from the sky. The motor fell 50 feet from his neighbor's bedroom, where she was sleeping, Berry said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ny-plane-crash-passengers-idd-patient-wife-184910540.html
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
Finding: Collaborative Economy Startups and Social Networks ...
I?m continuing my research on business disruptions, with a honed in focus on the Collaborative Economy, you can read all my posts on how this impacts corporations. One of my thesis that I sought to test is the following: ?Sharing startups in the collaborative economy are using social technologies?. To find out, we conducted research by analyzing 30 of the features on well known collaborative economy startups to find out the differences and similarities.
What did we find? These sharing websites are utilizing a great deal of social technologies, but instead of sharing ideas, they?re sharing products and services. In fact, nearly 3/4 had social profiles and over half already had Facebook Connect, we should expect those rates to only increase as it spurs adoption. Like online social business communities hosted by Jive, Lithium, Bazaarvoice, Adobe, Mzinga, Telligent, GetSatisfaction or Uservoice, nearly 3/4 had reputation features to rate and rank experiences or other members.
Above: See how AirBnb utilizes Facebook connect to find trusted reviews, and hosts who you may know and trust.
Above: We tallied the social features and integration of the collaborative economy startups and found striking similarities
Above: As social data spills over to sharing economy startups, these markets will only further intertwine.
What role do corporations play if customers buy once then share with each other?
This is exactly the question I plan to answer. Last week, I shared on video how these markets are coming together to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, next week I?ll be keynoting LeWeb (after Etsy) and launching a report on this same topic. If you are in a social business career at a corporation, social software startup, or agency, you must pay attention to the sharing movement as this is the next phase in social business, Katie Soo sees it.
If you are in social business, you must pay attention to the sharing movement ?this is the next phase of your career.
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Self Improvement Guidelines To Help You Grow- testdrive: frustikus
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
Glover Teixeira gets quick win at UFC 160 in front of his hero, Mike Tyson
Glover Teixeira had two thrills on Saturday at UFC 160 in Las Vegas. Not only did he win with a submission in the first round of his bout with James Te Huna, but he was also congratulated by his hero, boxing legend Mike Tyson.
Teixeira fought the exact fight he wanted to. Early in the first round, he took Te Huna down, kept him on the ground, and worked a perfect guillotine. Te Huna tapped at 2:38 in the first round, and Tyson stood and cheered for Teixeira.
Secondly, after the fight was called for Teixeira, Tyson was in the cage with UFC Hall of Famer Chuck Liddell, who is one of Teixeira's training partners. He congratulated Teixeira and shook his hand. The fighter who was ferocious just moments before morphed into an awestruck 12-year-old who was so excited to meet his hero.
"I couldn't be happier! Mike Tyson is here!" Teixeira said to UFC commentator Joe Rogan after the bout. Rogan asked Teixeira if he was more excited that he won, or that Tyson was there to watch it.
"I don't know. I met him yesterday, and I was so excited. I said I was going to be like him! I watched his highlights before I fought."
Teixeira is becoming a hero, too, as he continues an impressive run in the UFC's stacked light heavyweight division. The win over Te Huna was his 19th straight, including four in a row in the UFC.
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Peter Mutharika attacks Malawi govt. for ignoring 'Ndata' University ...
| By Nyasa Times Reporter | May 25, 2013 ????? 0 Comments | |
?Email This Post President of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Peter Mutharika says he is very disappointed with government?s lack of reference to centers of higher learning and Nsanje inland port in the 2013/14 national budget which finance minister Ken Lipenga presented in parliament?on Friday.
In his preliminary reaction to the budget statement, Mutharika said he was surprised and disappointed that nothing was said about universities which he said showed government?s lack of ?commitment towards institutions of higher learning in the country.
?I am surprised that nothing was said about universities. There was no reference to higher education. No reference to Malawi University of Science and Technology which is sitting there [Ndata Farm in Thyolo]. I was hoping that there would reference on when the university should be opened to our children. We understand that the existing universities have no spaces and I thought there will be a reference to that,? he said.
He emphasized this is another area that needed more attention.
Peter Mutharika: Why abandoning Nsanje port?
?When I was the minister of education, for the first time in the history of Malawi I established the Council for Higher Education to make sure that there is quality control but??nothing has been mentioned about that and I was surprised about that,? said Mutharika a former minister of education and university lecturer in United States.
According to the budget on education, the government is expected to employ 10,500 primary and 1,975 secondary school teachers.
He added: ?Another thing is that I was surprised to that there was no reference to Nsanje port, this is another important project. To me there is a personal commitment to it but I am disappointed that the government decided to ignore that?.
Mutharika however said there are a number of things which he is happy with like government?s commitment to continue with some of social programs that the DPP started , citing the farm input subsidy and school feeding programs, saying ?these are extremely important programs.?
In the budget the government has maintained the fertilizer subsidy program with the allocation of K60.1 billion, at the same subsidized price of K500 per 50kg bag of both basal and top dressing fertilizers.
Lipenga said that it is expected that the fertilizers will have been bought from the suppliers by September 2013 and that distribution will start immediately.
?Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has already worked out the specific details on the distribution modalities and schedule which includes the participation of the private sector to ensure timely distribution and without regularities,? he said.
In the same budget government has totally removed import duty on bicycles and also reduced import duty on motorbikes as a way of providing cheaper and affordable modes of transport to the under-privileged.
?Import duty on motorbikes of engine capacity not exceeding 250cc has been reduced to 15 percent and exercise tax on these motorbikes has also widely been removed considering that this mode of transport is widely used especially in the rural market areas,? said Lipenga.
On taxation of buses, Lipenga said duty on motor vehicles of seating capacity of eleven to 31 persons including the driver had been reduced to 15 percent. This also includes motor vehicles of seating of 32 to 44 people including the driver depending on the year of make.
?Zero percent for new and used motor vehicles not exceeding eight years, 10 percent for used motor vehicles exceeding years but not exceeding 12 years and 25 percent for used motor vehicles exceeding 12 years.?
He then urged operators in the sector to ensure that the benefits trickle down to the consumer through reduced transport fares.
In order to make clean energy affordable to all Malawians, Lipenga said import duty payable on inverters has been removed considering that inverters are critical in the generation of solar power.
He added that exercise tax on products such as matches has been removed considering that it is a basic commodity and has no negative externality that could make it liable for tax.
?In addition, exercise tax in ball point pens has been removed,? said Lipenga.
Leader of Opposition in parliament, John Tembo described the budget as ?creative? as it was just a summary, did not contain full details and that it would not benefit the poor. ?Additional reporting by Malawi News Agency.
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Judge: Ariz. sheriff's office profiles Latinos
PHOENIX (AP) ? A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up years of allegations from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's critics who say his officers violate the constitutional rights of Latinos in relying on race in their immigration enforcement.
Snow, whose ruling came more than eight months after a seven-day, non-jury trial, also ruled Arpaio's deputies unreasonably prolonged the detentions of people who were pulled over.
The ruling marks a thorough repudiation of the immigration patrols that made Arpaio a national political figure, and it represents a victory for those who pushed the lawsuit.
"For too long the sheriff has been victimizing the people he's meant to serve with his discriminatory policy," said Cecillia D. Wang, director of the ACLU Immigrants' Right Project. "Today we're seeing justice for everyone in the county."
Monetary damages weren't sought in the lawsuit but rather a declaration that Arpaio's office engages in racial profiling and an order that requires it to make policy changes.
Stanley Young, the lead lawyer who argued the case against Arpaio, said Snow set a hearing for June 14 where he will hear from the two sides on how to make sure the orders in the ruling are carried out.
The sheriff, who has repeatedly denied the allegations, won't face jail time as a result of Friday's ruling.
Tim Casey, Arapio's lead attorney in the case, said an appeal was planned in the next 30 days.
"In the meantime, we will meet with the court and comply with the letter and spirit of the order," he said.
A small group of Latinos alleged in their lawsuit that Arpaio's deputies pulled over some vehicles only to make immigration status checks. The group asked Snow to issue injunctions barring the sheriff's office from discriminatory policing and the judge ruled that more remedies could be ordered in the future.
The group also accused the sheriff of ordering some immigration patrols not based on reports of crime but rather on letters and emails from Arizonans who complained about people with dark skin congregating in an area or speaking Spanish. The group's attorneys noted Arpaio sent thank-you notes to some who wrote the complaints.
The sheriff said his deputies only stop people when they think a crime has been committed and that he wasn't the person who picked the location of the patrols. His lawyers said there was nothing wrong with the thank-you notes.
Young, the group's lawyer, said he was still reading the decision Friday but noted it contained "very detailed findings of discriminatory intent and effect."
Casey said that MCSO's position "is that it has never used race and will never use race in its law-enforcement decisions." He added the sheriff's office relied on "bad training" from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
A call to ICE officials in Phoenix for comment wasn't immediately returned Friday evening.
Arpaio, who turns 81 next month, was elected in November to his sixth consecutive term as sheriff in Arizona's most populous county.
Known for jailing inmates in tents and making prisoners wear pink underwear, Arpaio started doing immigration enforcement in 2006 amid Arizona voter frustration with the state's role as the nation's busiest illegal entryway.
Snow wrote that "in the absence of further facts that would give rise to reasonable suspicion or probable cause that a violation of either federal criminal law or applicable state law is occurring," Arpaio's office now is enjoined from enforcing its policy "on checking the immigration status of people detained without state charges, using Hispanic ancestry or race as any factor in making law enforcement decisions pertaining to whether a person is authorized to be in the country, and unconstitutionally lengthening stops."
Snow added "the evidence introduced at trial establishes that, in the past, the MCSO has aggressively protected its right to engage in immigration and immigration-related enforcement operations even when it had no accurate legal basis for doing so."
The trial that ended Aug. 2 focused on Latinos who were stopped during both routine traffic patrols and special immigration patrols known as "sweeps."
During the sweeps, deputies flood an area of a city ? in some cases, heavily Latino areas ? over several days to seek out traffic violators and arrest other offenders. Immigrants who were in the country illegally accounted for 57 percent of the 1,500 people arrested in the 20 sweeps conducted by his office since January 2008, according to figures provided by Arpaio's office.
At trial, plaintiffs' lawyers drew testimony from witnesses who broke down in tears as they described encounters with authorities, saying they were pulled over because they were Hispanic and officers wanted to check their immigration status, not because they had committed an infraction. The sheriff's attorneys disputed such characterizations, typically working to show that officers had probable cause to stop the drivers based on a traffic violation.
Plaintiffs' lawyers also presented statistics to show Latinos are more likely to be stopped on days of immigration patrols and showed emails containing offensive jokes about people of Mexican heritage that were circulated among sheriff's department employees, including a supervisor in Arpaio's immigrant smuggling squad.
Defense lawyers disputed the statistical findings and said officers who circulated offensive jokes were disciplined. They also denied the complaint letters prompted patrols with a discriminatory motive.
The ruling used Arpaio's own words in interviews, news conferences and press releases against him as he trumpeted his efforts in cracking down on immigrants. When it came to making traffic stops, Arpaio said in 2007 that deputies are not bound by state laws in finding a reason to stop immigrants.
"Ours is an operation, whether it's the state law or the federal, to go after illegals, not the crime first, that they happen to be illegals," the ruling quoted Arpaio as saying. "My program, my philosophy is a pure program. You go after illegals. I'm not afraid to say that. And you go after them and you lock them up."
Some immigrant traffic stops were made "purely on the observation of the undercover officers that the vehicles had picked up Hispanic day laborers from sites where Latino day laborers were known to gather," the ruling said.
The judge also said the sheriff's office declared on many occasions that racial profiling is strictly prohibited and not tolerated, while witnesses said it was appropriate to consider race as a factor in rounding up immigrants.
"This is a blow to" the sheriff's office, said David A. Harris, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who studied racial profiling and wrote a book on the subject.
Arpaio's lawyers will have "an uphill climb" in the appeals process because of all "the gross statistical evidence," he said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/judge-ariz-sheriffs-office-profiles-latinos-225627617.html
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