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Microsoft also cited Google's dominant position in websites' search boxes. It complained that Google enters into exclusivity agreements with Web properties that prevent Microsoft from distributing its online products like Hotmail, cloud storage and Windows Live to those sites.
Google's attempt to gain access to a large volume of "orphaned" books, which a U.S. federal judge smacked down last week, also came up in the complaint. And Microsoft joined in a chorus of companies that want more transparency in how Google ranks its advertisements.
The complaint will be added to an ongoing investigation into Google's business practices by the European Commission. Microsoft's voice is by far the largest among those opposed to Google's position -- though a Google spokesman noted that Microsoft's complaint comes as no surprise, since Ciao, a Bing subsidiary, was one of the original complainants.
"For our part, we continue to discuss the case with the European Commission and we're happy to explain to anyone how our business works," a Google spokesman said.
Google controls 65% of the search market in the United States but 90% of the market in Europe, which is why Microsoft said it filed the complaint there.
Of course, there's a "man bites dog" aspect to Thursday's filing, which Microsoft acknowledged.
"There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today's filing," the company said. "Having spent more than a decade wearing the shoe on the other foot with the European Commission, the filing of a formal antitrust complaint is not something we take lightly. More so than most, we recognize the importance of ensuring that competition laws remain balanced and that technology innovation moves forward."
The shoe, as the say, is now officially on the other foot.
GRAMBLING, LA (KSLA) - The next step in the selection of Grambling State University's 13th president will occur July 26.
That's when the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors will meet in Baton Rouge to discuss, among other things, the selection process. The board already had a special meeting set for that date to interview UL System president finalists.
The board is looking to replace former Grambling State President Willie Larkin, who submitted his resignation during the panel's meeting June 23 at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.
At the time, Larkin told board members: "I want to say to those individuals that maybe had some other ideas for the direction of the university, support your leader. Support the person that comes here as president. Here's my last statement: Mr. James Bradford, please leave Grambling State University alone."
That comment apparently referenced former Grambling University National Alumni Association President James Bradford, who now leads the association's Jackson Parish chapter. Bradford and the alumni association are among those who sued the UL System, Grambling State and others in 2006 over disagreements about the university's direction at the time.
Larkin, who had been on the job less than a year, was scheduled to work through the end of June.
Bidding to succeed Larkin are 7 applicants. (Click on the applicant's name to view his or her application).
Dessie Mae Sanders, a 9th-grade English and literature teacher at Uplift Education at Summit International Prepatory High School in Arlington, Texas, who also is a great niece of Grambling State founder Charles P. Adams.
a desire to maintain strong professional relations with state, regional and local elected officials.
The Epic Discovery zipline at Breckenridge Ski Resort.
Both Breckenridge Ski Resort and Copper Mountain Resort will re-open operations for the summer season on Friday. Each resort will feature zip lines, obstacle course challenges and opening weekend giveaways, among other activities.
This summer will be slightly different at Copper Mountain as the resort will not have lift-serviced mountain biking, scenic lift rides or access to the Big Island Terrain Park until September at the earliest due to construction of the new American Flyer and American Eagle chairlifts. The resort will also not offer its Woodward Copper mountain biking camps this summer due to the construction.
However, Copper Mountain spokeswoman Taylor Prather said hiking and mountain biking access will still be available on the Colorado Trail through Copper. Also, the Copper Creek Golf Course will not be affected by the construction as the full course will be open for business from June 8 through early October.
The resort is still offering all of its Center Village activities all summer, including the Woodward WreckTangle obstacle course and the Rocky Mountain Coaster, which will be open for its first summer after opening last December.
The resort is also touting an opening weekend deal this Saturday and Sunday where visitors who spend $15 at one of Copper’s on-mountain restaurants, bars or retail stores will be able to redeem that receipt for a free Summer Activity Day Pass at any of Copper’s guest services locations. The stipulation is the free day pass offer must be redeemed the same day as the $15 purchase. Included in the summer activity day pass — which is typically $69 — are three bungees, one zip line ride, two passes through the Woodward WreckTangle, one ride on the Rocky Mountain Coaster and one go-kart session, plus unlimited access to mini-golf, lake activities and Copper’s climbing wall.
The deal coincides with Copper’s “Colorado Days” in Center Village, which will feature local artisans, food, live music and more. As part of “Colorado Days,” visitors will be able to take a free family portrait from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.
Through the remainder of June, Copper’s REI Adventure Station will open for its first summer season. The new Ales & Astronomy course, where instructors will discuss the constellations of the Northern Hemisphere over beer and wine while observing the stars from the top of Copper Mountain, is one of many outdoor education classes this summer. Other REI Adventure Station courses to be offered include Adventure Race Navigation Techniques, Backcountry Self Reliance and a Spikeball Tournament, among others.
On June 17, Copper Mountain’s inaugural Summer Music Series will begin at 1 p.m.with a free concert featuring Blood, Sweat and Tears at 1 p.m. The music series will return on June 30 and July 1 with free performances from Jefferson Starship (June 30, 2 p.m.) and The Magpie Salute (July 1, 1 p.m.).
And on June 23 and June 24, the second annual Copper Mountain Film Festival returns with two free evenings of short and feature films for free. The event also features special guest speakers, Q&A’s with the filmmakers and a screenwriting contest hosted by the Denver Filmmakers Collective.
Breckenridge Ski Resort is anticipating a “festival-like atmosphere” for its opening weekend of Epic Discovery, including a Denver Zoo Show, live music, free giveaways and much more.
It all starts Friday at 9:30 a.m. when the resort’s Epic Discovery summer activities open on Peak 8. Those who show up Friday morning between 10 a.m. and noon will have the opportunity to get a free personalized Epic Discovery button with their photo at the Peak 8 basecamp. Then throughout the day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., DJ Tidal Wave Dave will perform while prize giveaways will be offered at the Ski Hill Grill Patio on Peak 8.
Then from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the resort will kick off its new free scenic hikes with U.S. forest rangers, who will share their knowledge of Breckenridge’s diverse flora and fauna during guided hikes beginning at Alpine Camp. As part of the first day of the scenic hikes, the resort is offering free Epic Discovery collapsible water bottles while supplies last.
On Saturday morning from 10–11 a.m., the Denver Zoo will host an interactive learning show at Peak 8 Basecamp. And on Saturday and Sunday mornings from noon to 2 p.m., Tina Ferguson will perform live music on the Ski Hill Grill Patio on Peak 8.
With Friday’s opening, Breckenridge will also open its first full season of Epic Discovery, which includes adventure activities above the Colorado SuperChair at around 11,000 feet. These include the two-hour, 10-tower Expedition Zipline Tour, the 15-feature Alpineer Challenge Course and the 16-route Gold Summit Climbing Wall. The resort also added that mountain biking and bike haul operations will begin as soon as trail conditions permit.
For these and all other on-mountain adventure activities, the resort offers its new Value-Added Epic Discovery Passes. The value-added pass provides a family of four the chance to purchase three Ultimate Adventure passes and receive a fourth pass free. And the resort is also offering guests the chance to turn a half-day pass into a full day by permitting guests who purchase and use an Ultimate Adventure Pass after 2:30 p.m. to use the same pass the next day. The cost of the Ultimate Adventure Pass is $89 online and $62 for those 53 inches and shorter.
Also new this year at Breckenridge is the $29 “Dining At Altitude,” lift and lunch at 11,000 feet on the Vista Haus deck, which is expected to open in mid-June.
Rolls-Royce Holdings has agreed to sell its ailing ship-design division to Norway’s Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, in what amounts to a state rescue for an oil-focused business by the country in which most of its 3,600 workers are based. The deal will have an enterprise value of £500m, Rolls-Royce said.
The marine arm has already closed sites and cut thousands of jobs after demand for its technology and services fell following a slump in the price of oil.
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics estimated that earnings grew at the slowest pace in more than a year in the second quarter, as analysts said weak smartphone sales probably offset record chip earnings.
Samsung shares fell 2% as the guidance gave investors insight into how badly the decline in smartphone profitability is hurting the company’s bottom line.
The world’s biggest maker of memory chips, smartphones and TVs said April-June operating profit would grow 5.2% to 14.8 trillion Korean won, just missing an average estimate of 14.9 trillion won from 18 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.
When you want to quickly capture simple information, Evernote and OneNote can be overkill.
Microsoft may have dumped its Cache experimental note-taking app, but Windows users have alternatives to the sometimes overwhelmingly complex Evernote, Google Keep, or Microsoft's own OneNote. When you just want to jot down a few ideas and save them for later, you have simpler alternatives. These four Windows 10-compatible apps combine the convenience of digitized notes with the old-fashioned simplicity of scribbling on a notepad. Reach for one of these the next time you need to capture that thought.
If you believe technology has never bettered the simple effectiveness of the Post-It Note, then this app is for you. Sticky Notes 8 replicates the no-frills organization scheme of physical stickies minus the clutter.
Sticky Notes 8 replicates the simple convenience of Post-Its without the paper clutter.
Capture your notes (in text or images) on individual stickies just as you would on their paper counterparts. The app provides three sticky sizes—small, large, and wide—and a variety of colors to help you keep things neat and organized. You can pin your notes to the Windows 10 Start screen and sync them to OneDrive for access on all your devices.
Sticky Notes is available in an ad-supported free version, which you can upgrade for $2.
A favorite among Mac/iOS users, this veteran app was recently made available for Windows.
As its name makes clear, Simplenote is designed for uncomplicated note taking. It doesn’t support media files, web clippings, or email integration. You can’t even format the text. Its plainness makes it as close to pen-and-paper note taking as you’re likely to find in an app.
Simplenotes’ unembellished interface is the next best thing to a paper notepad.
Where this free app improves on handwritten notes is in its organizational features. You can tag notes, pin them for easy access, and publish them with their own URLs. And its clean, lightweight design makes searches blazing fast.
Notepad has been a feature of Windows since version 1.0. This third-party app brings Microsoft’s popular text editor to Windows’ “modern” environment—and makes note taking delightfully retro.
Notepad Classic brings the long-standing text editor into the “modern” era.
Harking back to a time “when a text editor was just a text editor,” this free app gives you a spacious white canvas on which to write and a simple toolbar. Features are minimal—Find, Replace, time stamping, and a line and column readout are about it—reminding that Notepad was the original distraction free writing tool.
If you use a Microsoft Surface or touchscreen laptop, you have the option of taking notes free-hand. Scrble provides a familiar setting in which to do it.
Scrble is a great note taking tool for touchscreens.
Choose from a lined-paper, blackboard, or whiteboard background and write out your notes with your finger or stylus. As you approach the right page margin, the screen auto-scrolls so you can continue to write uninterrupted. Beyond basic note taking, you can import images and PDFs for annotating.
Scrble is free to try and $4 to upgrade to the full version.
César Chávez is one of the greatest labor leaders and human rights activists in the United States history and the world. He fought for a better life for migrant farm workers, and founded the first successful farm workers’ union. César was the president of the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO.
César Estrada Chávez was able to accomplish his goals through the philosophy of non-violence that he inherited and followed from leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King.
César read about St. Francis of Assisi, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Dr. King. St. Francis was an Italian monk who lived from 1182 to 1226. He devoted his life to helping the poor. Gandhi was spiritual leader and a non-violence revolutionary who lived in India from 1869 to 1948. He practiced the philosophy of non-violence. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Civil Rights Leader in the United States. These men profoundly influenced César Chávez, and he realized that great leaders are those who set good examples.
César Chávez adopted and practiced the philosophy of non-violence.
On March 31, 1927, Cesar Estrada Chavez was born. His parents, Librado and Juana Estrada Chavez, lived on a small farm near Yuma, Arizona, that his grandfather homesteaded during the 1880’s.
The Chavez family lost the farm during the Great Depression and began travelling between Arizona and California as migrant farmworkers.
Chavez’s father was injured in a car accident. Cesar quit school to take his father’s place in the fields.
Along with his brother and sister, he thinned lettuce and beets with a short-handled hoe; a practice he later helped to outlaw.
In Delano, California, Cesar Chavez challenged the segregation policy in theaters by refusing to sit in the “Mexicans” section; he was detained by the police for one hour.
Chavez enlisted in the U.S. Navy. While serving in the Pacific during World War II, he witnessed discrimination against Americans of other nationalities.
Chavez was discharged from the Navy and returned to his family in Delano, where he resumed work in the fields. At this time, Chavez joined his first union, the National Agricultural Workers Union.
The Chavez family joined the National Farm Labor Union (NFLU) and participated in a cotton strike.
The Chavez family moved to San Jose, California, where Cesar worked in a lumber mill.
Chavez met Father Donald McDonnell, a Catholic priest from San Francisco who was sent to work with the farm laborers and braceros. Fr. McDonnell educated the workers on labor organizing and social justice.
Chavez read the papal encyclicals on labor, books on labor history, the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi, and Louis Fisher’s The Life of Gandhi . These works heavily influenced his philosophical approach to the farm workers movement.
Chavez is recruited into Saul Alinsky’s Community Service Organization (CSO), a barrio-based activist group that fought against racial and economic discrimination against Chicano residents.
Chavez was sent to Oxnard, California, by the CSO. Chavez documented abuses by the Farm Placement Service, organized a boycott of local merchants, and organized sit-ins and marches to protest the lack of jobs for local residents. These tactics become standard techniques used by the United Farm Workers Union.
The Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) was founded in Stockton, California, by Fr. Donald McDonnell, Fr. Thomas McCullough and Dolores Huerta.
Cesar Chavez resigned from the CSO and moved his family to Delano, where he founded the Farm Workers Association (FWA). He began recruiting workers and opened a credit union to provide for members with financial emergencies.
Chavez persuaded his cousin, Manuel Chavez, to help with the organization, and convinced Dolores Huerta to quit the CSO and join the FWA.
The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), a forerunner of the UFW, was formally established at an organizing convention. Chavez was elected president and executive officer, Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla were elected vice-presidents, and Antonio Orendain was elected secretary-treasurer. The Union flag of the black eagle on a red background was accepted as the official emblem, and “Viva la Causa” was accepted as the official motto.
The NFWA had 1,000 dues paying members and 50 locals. The union headquarters opened in Delano.
“El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker” becomes the official newspaper of the NFWA.
The Civil Rights Bill is passed, banning discrimination in voting, employment, and public accommodations.
The Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), with support from the NFWA, led Filipino workers in a strike against grape growers in Delano. They received further support from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality. After a ten-day strike, the Filipino workers won a raise for themselves and Mexican-American workers.
NBC airs “A Harvest of Shame,” a television special which depicted the tragic conditions of migrant laborers in the United States.
The NFWA and the AWOC launched a campaign to boycott grapes. Walter P. Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers, met with Chavez in Delano, which brought national attention to their cause.
Chavez led a flower workers strike in McFarland, California, that brought about wage increases.
Migrant workers in Porterville, California, went on strike to protest rent increases in migrant farm worker camps.
Senator Robert Kennedy openly expressed his support for the NFWA grape boycott and strike during the Senate subcommittee hearings on agricultural labor in Delano.
On March 16th, Cesar Chavez led 75 people in a march from Delano to the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento, California, to call attention to the plight of farm workers. They receive the endorsement of the AFL-CIO.
On April 14th, the marchers arrived 250 miles later in Sacramento, California. Ten thousand people attended the rally.
The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) and the Filipino American Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) merge to form the United Farm Workers (UFW), affiliating with the AFL-CIO, the national labor federation.
On February 14th, Cesar Chavez began a 25-day fast as a rededication to his call for a non-violent movement.
On March 10th, Cesar Chavez breaks his fast with his wife, Helen, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy by his side.
Farm workers developed symptoms of pesticide poisoning. The union began researching the dangers of pesticides to the workers and consumers. A nationwide boycott of all California grapes is called.
The UFW declared May 10th International Grape Boycott Day. Throughout the year, shipments of California table grapes were stopped in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal and Toronto. In England, British dockworkers refused to unload California grapes.
Chavez organized a march from the Coachella and Imperial Valleys to the United States-Mexico border to protest the use of undocumented immigrants from Mexico as strike breakers. He is joined along the way by the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Senator Walter Mondale.
During contract renegotiations, the farm workers union added clauses which called for the regulation of pesticide use and its exposure to the workers.
Chavez and union leaders picketed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to protest pesticide hazards.
On December 14th, Cesar Chavez was jailed for defying a court injunction against boycotting. He was visited in jail by Coretta Scott King and Ethel Kennedy. On Christmas Eve the California State Supreme Court ordered Chavez released, pending appeal.
On January 25th, outside the Talisman Sugar Plant near Belle Glade, Florida, Nan Freeman was killed in the second week of a UFW picket. Despite repeated complaints to local police of harassment from truck drivers, Ms. Freeman, an 18-year-old college student, was knocked unconscious when a trailer load of cans knocked her against a guard railing.
On May 12th, Cesar Chavez began another fast to promote a recall campaign against Arizona Governor Jack Williams. Medical problems forced him to end the fast on June 4th. During the campaign, UFW members registered many new voters, which led to the election of the first Mexican American governor in Arizona’s history, Raul Castro.
In California, Proposition 22, an initiative to outlaw boycotting and limit secret ballot elections to full-time non-seasonal farm workers, is defeated.