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As is usually the case when Facebook adds new features, the rollout of its “frictionless sharing” has caused controversy because of privacy and oversharing issues. But more than anything, what Facebook’s changes illustrate is that we still need better filters for our growing signal-to-noise problem.
The fact that books are digital now means it should be easy to share our favorite books or passages, but competing rights, standards and platforms mean these features are available on a tiny fraction of books, and that keeps most readers inside proprietary corporate silos.
Facebook’s recent launch of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “frictionless sharing” has caused a lot of controversy over whether the feature is an invasion of privacy. But the reality is that Facebook is simply adapting to the increasingly social way we are living our lives online.
The Apple Store went down this morning, and there’s still no official explanation as to why. But one thing did change: all Mac Pro and iPod classic models now feature drop down arrows that let you share the product on either Facebook or Twitter.
Facebook’s approach to data is that of a one way street. Use any of its products — Connect, Comments, Likes — and you keep sending data into the giant Facebook brain. When you want to take something out of the Facebook borg — well, tough luck!
Apple moved into second place in worldwide smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2011, according to market research firm IDC. Apple is led only by Nokia, and is followed by Research In Motion, Samsung and HTC, to round out the top five.
New information from comScore shows Android extending its lead over Apple’s iPhone during the three month period ending in December 2010. Google’s mobile OS is now within close striking distance of Research In Motion (RIM), the U.S. smartphone market leader.
Don’t want to wait until iOS 4.3 becomes publicly available to share your iPhone’s data connection? There’s a way to do it, but you’ll need to also have a Mac handy. It isn’t the most portable solution, but it gets the job done.
Do We Share Too Much?
I’m probably more comfortable sharing my work with other people; I also tend to share information about other parts of my life online. Occasionally, I like to step back and think about how much is too much when it comes to sharing details about my life.
Despite Steve Job’s obvious distaste for the company, RIM has long remained ahead of Apple in the global smartphone market. Not any longer, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, which yesterday reported the iPhone shipped more units than did BlackBerry during 2010’s third quarter.
Apple’s stock price reached a lofty milestone in pre-market trading early this morning, crossing the $300 mark for the first time in company history. It reached as high as $301.50, and remains above $300 after opening bell today. Analysts predict it will go higher still.
Google (s goog) bought AdMob, and Android has been catching on with consumers like a brush fire on a dry midsummer day, but Apple (s aapl) is still holding the reins as far as smarphone advertising goes, according to new data released by Millenial Media.
What if you are on the road with your spouse or children and want to try out one of their apps, or share one of your own? Apple provides an easy way to do this…just don’t abuse it.
Nineteen-year-old Davina Scott overcame poverty in her native Jamaica and the embarrassment of not being able to read and write to rise to become one of 10 students who have received a New York Times College Scholarship.
The scholarships, which are financed by reader donations and an endowment fund, have helped hundreds of students afford tuition at top-tier universities across the United States (US) since their launch.
In an interview with The Gleaner, Scott explained the challenge of assimilating into American culture when she migrated there to live with her grandmother after her mom died of kidney failure.
“When I came here, I didn’t know how to read or write, because I never went to school in Jamaica because it was too expensive and because we were paying our mother’s medical bills at the time, but after she died, I came here (America),” Scott said.
She arrived in the US when she was seven years old and found the transition to living there very difficult – “a lot of people think it’s easy when you come here” – especially the inconvenience of squeezing 11 family members into one house, she recounted.
According to Scott, she was at a “distinct disadvantage” when she started attending school in New York.
“That was very hard because people would make fun of it, trying to understand why I was much older than the rest of children, yet I was placed in the same class with them. It was my grandmother who actually taught me how to read, because I was having a hard time in school.
“I was placed in [remedial] classes to teach me English – actually, speech therapy. It was extremely hard on me mentally because I was put back two grades,” she said.
That intervention transformed her life, lighting the flame of a voracious appetite for books and setting the foundation for her academic rise.
In response to the growing demand for 4K screens and its still-fledgling television business, Sony has allegedly stopped commercial development on OLED sets.
Japanese business news publisher Nikkei has reported that Sony put its OLED sets "on ice" and plans to reassign people involved in that department to other tasks such as the development of 4K-related products. The Japanese company apparently doesn't think speedy, high-contrast displays will match the global popularity ...
While this news is surprising, it follows the abrupt end of a Panasonic collaboration late last year. Many reports and industry insiders have also wondered if Sony is having trouble keeping up with rivals, such as LG an Samsung, especially since its television business has lost $7.8 billion over a decade. The company i...
It's worth noting that hit-and-miss site DigiTimes also claimed in December that Sony was giving OLED to focus on 4K screens. Sony was one of the first companies to make OLED screens, with its 11-inch Sony XEL-1 that costed £1,300. That's always been the problem - price. And even now OLEDs aren't really affordable: a S...
READ: Sony and Panasonic to abandon OLED in favour of 4K?
Nikkei noted Sony is an industry-leader when it comes to the 4K television global market. The company held 20 per cent of the value of all shipments in 2013. That means 4K sets could actually help Sony's television business grow for the first time in years. In fact, Sony plans to release eight 4K models in the coming m...
The new 4K models will constitute roughly half of Sony's total flat-panel lineup in 2014. That's a dramatic increase compared to the 10 to 20 per cent ratio from the year prior.
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Cabarrus County SHIIP volunteer and staff counselors have been trained and certified by the N.C. Department of Insurance to provide SHIIP and Medicare counseling to Medicare beneficiaries.
They can offer guidance on Medicare prescription drug plans, Medicare Advantage plans, Medicare supplemental insurance, Social Security Low Income Subsidy and general Medicare information and options.
Cabarrus County SHIIP has participated in Medicare’s annual open enrollment since 2005. Last year, Cabarrus DHS helped more than 800 people navigate the labyrinth of health plans.
Most people want guidance on the best plans available for them, Schooley said, what their monthly health care costs will be and, if they qualify for Extra Help, a low-income subsidy that offsets costs of the prescription drug plan.
SHIIP counselors can assist with screenings and applications for the Social Security Low Income Subsidy to help pay for plan premiums and prescription co-payments.
“The right plan can be different for everyone. The best plans are determined on the beneficiary’s coverage needs for medications and health care,” she said.
Anyone with Medicare-related questions can call a SHIIP counselor, even if they are not enrolled in Medicare. A session with a counselor usually lasts about an hour.
The service is available 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays at the Cabarrus County Senior Center on Corban Avenue Southeast in Concord.
For an appointment call the Cabarrus County Department of Human Services at 704-920-1400 (option 7, then option 2). SHIIP counseling is provided throughout the year at DHS.
An earth-moving truck rumbled behind Jesse Lovrien as he spoke with a reporter, proof that the largest planned residential development in Oregon history is at last becoming a reality after 15 years of politicking and planning.
"We're moving about 600,000 yards (of dirt) in our first phase," said Lovrien, vice president of operations for Newland Communities, the lead developer of Reed's Crossing. "Moving from high spots to the low spots."
Reed's Crossing will be the first development in the much bigger and broader planned residential community known for now as South Hillsboro.
When fully built over the next two decades, South Hillsboro's 1,400 acres will be home to roughly 20,000 residents. Approximately 8,000 homes of all types - large houses, small houses, townhouses, condominiums and apartments - are planned for the former farmland.
The South Hillsboro Community Plan also calls for 286 acres of new parks and open space, with 15 miles of new, multi-use trails linked to schools that will be built in the community. South Hillsboro - a placeholder name likely to be replaced with something more marketable -- also is expected to include a state-of-the-a...
Construction had at one point been scheduled to start in 2014. Stumbling blocks arose. Then construction was slated to start in 2015. Then more stumbling blocks.
Tuesday morning, Hillsboro Mayor Jerry Willey will lead a ground-breaking ceremony at the construction site - a symbolic coda for Willey. Term limits will prevent the mayor, first elected in November 2008, from seeking another four-year term. South Hillsboro has been in the works for Willey's entire administration to t...
The development could push Hillsboro past Gresham to become the state's fourth-largest city. (After Portland, Eugene and Salem.) More importantly to the Metro regional government, it would add a whole lot of housing capacity to the Portland area at a time population continues to surge and home prices are rising fast.
"With all the jobs increasing in the area, the city is desperate to increase housing so people will not commute long distances to their homes," said Hillsboro planning director Colin Cooper.
Earth moving began July 18 at the northern edge of the site, along Tualatin Valley Highway. The southern edge will roughly be Southwest Rosedale Road with 209th Avenue on the east, 229th on the west. The early work is expected to accommodate $40 million in construction of two, new main arterials: an extension of Cornel...
Homes built by Newland Communities - in the project called Reed's Crossing -- will be the first of three major residential construction components.
Lovrien, the Newland vice president, stood in the dusty field on a recent day and rattled off the project's particulars.
"Approximately 3,800 single family units with an additional 600 to 900 multi-family units and 90 acres of mixed-use with a town center right in the middle of it," Lovrien said. "We'll be building amenities to the town center (and) open spaces."
Reed's Crossing's name was inspired by Simeon Reed, the Portland liberal arts college namesake who once owned the property where the development will take place. Reed's partner in the farm was William Ladd, the former Portland mayor who created Ladd's Addition in the 1890s. The area where South Hillsboro will be built ...
The first houses on the 422-acre Reed's Crossing site, however, are not likely to be built until early- to mid-2018, Lovrien said, even though a website for the property says homes may be available in 2017.
When they are available, development fees to pay for new public infrastructure in the area will average about $52,000 per house, said Jamie Howsley, an attorney at Jordan Ramis representing Pahlisch Homes, one of two other large developers now involved in South Hillsboro.
"We're building basically a new city the size of Forest Grove," Howsley said. "It will have new parks, roads, sewers, water. To the extent everything will be new, that stuff will be passed on to the eventual home buyer."
Pahlisch Homes will be building on 120 acres on the western side of the South Hillsboro site. Developer Joe Hanauer will build on a 189-acre site south of the Newland-led development.
"When I acquired it, I never had any view of developing it by itself," Hanauer said of the property he's held since the early 1990s. "I always felt it should be part of a larger master plan."
Hanauer said he is surprised the length of time it has taken to reach the point of development, though.
"When I acquired this property I always thought it would be a longer-term investment," he said. "But I didn't expect it to be 23 to 24 years."
The development of South Hillsboro comes none too early for Gerard Mildner, Portland State University associate professor of real estate finance, who says the project is desperately needed because of the region's housing shortage.
"We need to be producing more housing units," Mildner said. "We've been building at about 6,000 a year. We need to build more like 11,000 per year as a four-county region."
Mildner faulted Metro, the regional government that controls the urban growth boundary, for its role in the housing crunch.
"The Metro Council has been deluded into thinking we can solve the housing for in-migrants with high density housing," he said. "What they don't realize is that high density costs money." Mildner said, for example, the cost per square foot in a five story apartment building is about double that of apartments in a one-s...
When Metro added South Hillsboro to the urban growth area in 2010, its intent was to address the region's pressing housing needs, said Andy Shaw, Metro Regional Affairs Manager.
"It's taken a little while and Hillsboro has had to contend with some pretty significant infrastructure costs, but we're excited to see the project take shape," Shaw said.
Reality Check: Is US system a 'disaster for democracy'?
The claim: The Electoral College system is a "disaster for democracy" because it means a candidate can get the most votes and not win the election.
Reality Check verdict: It is true to say that in America you can win the popular vote and lose the election. This is also true of the electoral system in the UK and elsewhere. Such systems are democratic, although some people would like them to be changed to be more directly representative of how votes were cast.
In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted that the American electoral system was a "disaster for democracy".
Since being elected he has repeated this sentiment, saying he would rather see a system in which, "you get 100 million votes and somebody else gets 90 million votes, and you win".
But the president-elect has benefited from the system he dubbed undemocratic.
It is likely that the final tallies from last week's election will confirm that more people voted for Hillary Clinton, but Mr Trump won, under a system known as the electoral college.
Campaigning organisations such as National Popular Vote agree with Mr Trump, arguing that the candidate most people vote for should get into the White House.
Two days after seeming to stand by his words, however, Mr Trump tweeted that the electoral college was "actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play".
Instead of totting up each person's vote, in the US every state gets a certain number of votes depending partly on the size of its population. The way it's worked out means there's a minimum of three votes per state.
In most states, the most popular candidate wins all of its votes, even if 49% of people voted a different way. The system is different in Maine and Nebraska, where voting is broken down into Congressional districts, which means not all the state's electoral college votes have to go to the same candidate.
Winning a state like California, which gets 55 of the total 538 electoral college votes, will put a candidate a long way towards the 270 state votes needed to win the presidency. Even if they win that state by a single vote, they get all 55 votes.
It is better to win by a small margin in lots of states than win by a landslide in just a few - the scale of the win (and therefore the number of people who support you) is meaningless - you still only get one state with a fixed number of electoral college votes.
Candidates identify the states that are safely either Republican or Democrat - the ones they are bound to lose or win - and broadly ignore these in their campaign efforts. Instead, they focus their attentions on the states that tend to swing between the two parties.
This means that, arguably, the election is decided not by the nation as whole but by a small number of so-called battleground states.
Two-thirds (273 out of 399) of campaign events in the 2016 election were held in only six states (Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan).
If you live in a state where most people support one party, your vote against that party is wasted, whereas if you live in a more divided state your vote has greater influence.
Electoral college votes also do not match up exactly to population size meaning some people's votes have more clout than others. Because the minimum number of votes a state can have is three, the smallest states get electoral power disproportionate to their population.
The average state gets one electoral vote for every 565,166 people. But Wyoming, which only has a population of 532,668, gets a vote for every 177,556 people, giving those individuals more than three times the electoral influence of the average American.
For many, the idea that you can have the most people vote for you but still lose the election seems undemocratic. This has happened five times in US history, most recently in 2000 when Al Gore lost to George W Bush.
The fact that Mr Trump won several key swing states very narrowly, while Mrs Clinton won big majorities in some states is part of the reason she was able to get more votes but still lose the election.
It's important to recognise that politicians campaign to the system they are operating in - we cannot say that if the electoral system were different the result would definitely have been different since the candidates may well have campaigned accordingly.
Could you win a UK general election without winning the popular vote? Absolutely - it happened in 1951 and 1974.
As in the US, our first-past-the-post system means any votes you win in a seat where you don't have a majority effectively don't count - it doesn't matter whether you gain 40% or 4% of the votes.
There has been a long-running campaign in the UK to reform our electoral system. Campaigners have called for a system of proportional representation as far back as 1884.

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