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Japan's deputy foreign minister, Yasuhide Nakayama, told journalists in Amman late Friday that "the situation is in a state of deadlock." |
The Motorola Pro Plus is now available from Amazon for only £170; the smartphone is an attractive alternative for those looking for a handset that comes with a full QWERTY keyboard at a decent price and in a compact form factor. |
Motorola claims its 1500mAh battery will last up to eight hours; other enterprise friendly features include like encryption, remote wipe, QuickOffice plus 25 Exchange ActiveSync security policies - including PIN lock, auto-discovery of Exchange Servers, Extended Device Management APIs and 3LM integration. |
A recent review highlight the fact that "the small display is not the perfect option for surfing the net or watching feature-length movies, and the Gingerbread OS is starting to look a bit jaded, but nevertheless if you're looking for a viable alternative to a BlackBerry, the Motorola Pro Plus is it." |
Another person has died from mosquito-borne encephalitis, and four more cases were confirmed yesterday – bringing the number of definite cases to nine, officials said. |
One of the new confirmed cases was an 80-year-old man who lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn – the first case from that borough. |
Officials cautioned that they are still investigating the possibility that the man caught encephalitis away from his home. |
Another 80-year-old man, who became the third New Yorker to die from St. Louis encephalitis, lived in the 4-square-mile area of Queens where the first cases were confirmed Sept. 3, Health Commissioner Neal Cohen said. |
*A 78-year-old woman from Whitestone, a neighborhood in the originally designated area. |
*A 72-year-old woman from nearby Douglaston. |
*A 75-year-old man from Hillcrest, well south of the disease epicenter. |
Officials are now investigating 48 other possible cases – but were able to decide that 12 other possible cases were not encephalitis. |
City workers using hand-held sprayers were hitting areas near public schools in Queens to protect children, who, along with the elderly, are most susceptible to the worst effects of encephalitis. |
Several Queens parks and cemeteries were hit in the latest helicopter spraying blitz. |
Officials defended waiting until Sept. 3 to begin spraying, even though doctors at Flushing Hospital had informed the city about suspected encephalitis cases on Aug. 23. |
Dr. Marci Layton of the city Department of Health said early test results came back negative. |
“We didn’t receive confirmation until Friday [Sept. 3],” Office of Emergency Management head Jerry Hauer said. |
Detectives investigating an assault in Portsmouth where a man was left partially blinded, have made an arrest. |
Detectives investigating an assault in Portsmouth where a man was left partially blinded have made an arrest. |
The victim, 28, had been enjoying a night out with friends around Guildhall Walk and was walking home. |
He was assaulted on Hampshire Terrace around 2am, Saturday, October 30. |
A 28-year-old man from Portsmouth was arrested on Tuesday, January 25, on suspicion of wounding with intent. |
He was bailed until March 9th pending further enquiries. |
The $299 i2eye is a real eye-opener on the show floor in Las Vegas. |
D-Link today unveiled what it's characterizing as video conferencing for virtually everyone. The D-Link i2eye Video phone ($300 street) Internet appliance includes a built-in microphone as well as a camera that you can manually focus and tilt. There is no zoom feature on the camera. |
The i2eye connects to your television set with standard RCA jacks for both video and audio. It also plugs directly into your Ethernet network to take advantage of your broadband connection. A simple wizard interface which appears when you power up the appliance should, according to company representatives, help you thr... |
The i2eye uses industry standard H.323 for video and G.723 for audio. What this means is that this appliance can do point-to-point videoconferencing with commercial video conferencing systems costing thousands of dollars. In fact, at CES, D-Link demonstrated and i2eye connected to a PictureTel videoconferencing system. |
The i2eye employs MPEG4. With a maximum bandwidth of 512Kbps, the unit can, says D-Link, achieve close to 30 frames per second. You can set the speed manually, or the device will automatically fall back to lower speeds if your connection can't support the full rate. Picture quality is maintained, but the frames per sec... |
The i2eye has a dialing directory that lets you store frequently used IP addresses. Additionally, D-Link is launching a directory service that will allow you to contact other i2eye-equipped systems. The company was in the process of setting this up, so this feature wasn't demonstrated. You can dial either with the IR r... |
There are three views available to an i2eye user. The default screen shows the remote party in a large box, and the local picture (you) in a small box on the screen, like a picture-inpicture image. Alternatively, you can choose to have the remote party displayed full screen. The third view, one that will appeal to tec... |
Other features let you mute audio, kill the video stream, and choose the type of call you are willing to accept (none, audio only, video only, or audio/video calls). |
PELHAM, Ala. — Mavric Parks had a flurry of late-game stops to help Birmingham beat Fayetteville 3-2 on Saturday night and extend their best-of-three Southern Professional Hockey League playoff series to a decisive third game. |
The teams will square off Sunday night at 8 CDT to see which of them will advance to the league semifinals. |
Birmingham narrowly won despite more than doubling the Marksmen in shots on goal, 48-20. Cole Golka's power-play goal with 9:57 left to play proved to be the game winner. |
The teams were tied after one period on power-play goals by Birmingham's Josh Harris and Fayetteville's Sam Wilbur. The latter goal came with one second left on the clock. |
Fayetteville then took a 2-1 lead on Brian Bowen's second-period goal at 4:45. The Bulls tied the game on Taylor Dickin's goal with 6:01 left in that period. |
Parks stopped 18 shots in earning the win one night after losing to Fayetteville on the road. Marksmen goalie Jason Pawloski, Friday's victor, made 45 stops. |
First period — 1, BHM, Harris (Golka, Crisfield), 15:35 (pp); 2, FAY, Wilbur (Hauswirth, Cook), 19:59 (pp). Penalties — FAY, Brown (Delay of game), 5:44; FAY, Cook (interference), 10:04; FAY, Mazurek (interference), 14:50; FAY, Cook (unsportsmanlike conduct), 14:50; BHM, Parks (unsportsmanlike conduct), 14:50; BHM, Top... |
Second period — 3, FAY, Bowen (McMartin, Kielich), 4:45; 4, BHM, Dickin (Simchuk, Apperson), 13:59. Penalties — BHM, Kulczycki (slashing), 0:16; FAY, Cook (roughing), 0:19; BHM, Simchuk (slashing), 7:30; BHM, Crisfield (roughing), 8:17; FAY, Cook (roughing), 8:17; FAY, Mazurek (slashing), 8:45; FAY, Cook (interference)... |
Third period — 5, BHM, Golka (Crisfield, Schmitz), 10:03 (pp). Penalties — BHM, Golka (high sticking), 3:42; FAY, Jeke (holding), 9:06; BHM, Harris (holding stick), 13:48. |
Shots on goal — Fayetteville 6-5-9—20, Birmingham 17-19-12—48. |
Power-play opportunities — Fayetteville 1 of 5, Birmingham 2 of 7. |
Goalies — Fayetteville, Pawloski (48 shots-45 saves); Birmingham, Parks (20 shots-18 saves). |
Beautiful 3.26 acre building parcel in the prestigious Village at Sawmill Farms just a short drive to the Mount Snow ski resort, the downtown Village of Wilmington, or the Mount Snow Golf Course just up the street. This level lot is ready to build the home of your dreams and has sewer, community water, great mountain v... |
Nassim Taleb is not a fan of economists. |
If you have read his books or if you follow him on Twitter or Facebook, you'd know. |
He even engages individual economists, like Karl Whelan earlier this year, in debates worthy of reality TV. |
An economist is a mixture of 1) a businessman without common sense, 2) a physicist without brain, and 3) a speculator without balls. |
A prostitute who sells her body (temporarily) is vastly more honorable than someone who sells his opinion for promotion or job tenure. |
The artificial gives us hangovers, the natural inverse-hangovers. The joys of post-exercise, breaking a fast, meeting a friend, helping someone in trouble, or humiliating an economist are examples of inverse hangovers. Antifragility = series of earned inverse hangovers. They don't come for free. |
Those with brains no balls become mathematicians, those with balls no brains join the mafia, those w no balls no brains become economists. |
To have a great day: 1) Smile at a stranger, 2) Surprise someone by saying something unexpectedly nice, 3) Give some genuine attention to an elderly, 4) Invite someone who doesn't have many friends for coffee, 5) Humiliate an economist, publicly, or create deep anxiety inside a Harvard professor. |
A trader listened to the firm's "chief" economist's predictions about gold, then lost a bundle. The trader was asked to leave the firm. He then angrily asked him boss who was firing him: "Why do you fire me alone not the economist? He is too responsible for the loss." The Boss: "You idiot, we are not firing you for los... |
Discussing growth without concern for fragility: like studying construction without thinking of collapses. Think like engineer not economist. |
OPEN DISCUSSION: Back to skin in the game. It looks like skin in the game does not necessarily work because it makes people more careful, rather but because it allows the risk taker to exit the gene pool and stop transferring the risk to others. A bad driver exposed to harm would eventually die and stop killing people ... |
Success in all endeavors is requires absence of specific qualities. 1) To succeed in crime requires absence of empathy, 2) To succeed in banking you need absence of shame at hiding risks, 3) To succeed in school requires absence of common sense, 4) To succeed in economics requires absence of understanding of probabilit... |
[On his greatest disappointment]: That I am unable to destroy the economics establishment, the press. |
Friends, I wonder if someone has computed how much would be saved if we shut down economics and political science departments in universities. Those who need to research these subjects can do so on their private time. |
Being nice to the wicked (or economist) is equivalent to being nasty with the virtuous. |
Nov. 8, 2018, 11:24 a.m. |
Is the email newsletter a business product or an editorial responsibility? |
Newsletters abound in 2018’s reshaping media market — helping to expand the subscription funnel and subvert social media algorithms, among other causes. There are plenty of panels, case studies, and lists of questions about how you can improve yours in the newfound age of email newsletters. |
But saying “make me a newsletter” is easier than actually putting in the work for the newsletter to happen successfully. |
For the Single Subject News Project, Caroline Porter surveyed eight news organizations this summer on their internal structure and strategy for newsletters. “They are both editorial and business products, and unlike an advertisement or a news story, their place within news organizations is an open question,” she wrote ... |
Half of organizations surveyed described newsletters’ place in the organization charts as sitting among the “audience” team, or “engagement” team or “digital team,” while the rest used “editorial” or the “newsroom” labels. |
Each newsletter has at least one editorial review before publication, and in some cases involves draft sign-off by upper management, including those in the editor in chief, executive editor, and editorial director roles. |
It makes sense, especially in smaller organizations, that when it comes to workflow many people pitch in to produce a newsletter. In larger organizations, we found that it was more common to have one staff member, such as an engagement reporter, dedicated to the tent-poll newsletters. |
According to our survey, news outlets dedicate between four to 58 hours per week producing newsletters. For three of the news orgs, it’s about 40 hours per week. |
Good product design is also critical. Keeping the newsletter to a certain size, understanding the impact of images, and experimenting with interactive elements are all examples of powerful tools for successful newsletters. |
Schmidt, Christine. "Is the email newsletter a business product or an editorial responsibility?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 8 Nov. 2018. Web. 22 Apr. 2019. |
Schmidt, Christine. "Is the email newsletter a business product or an editorial responsibility?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 8, 2018. Accessed April 22, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/is-the-email-newsletter-a-business-product-or-an-editorial-responsibility/. |
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We reported on a £608 4K TV just yesterday and now an even cheaper 4K UHD TV has landed, the £550 Kogan 55-inch UHDTV. |
The Vizio P Series TV is actually $999 which converts to £608, but might not hit the UK. Kogan, on the other hand, does operate in the UK and has said in its email to us that the 4K TV will cost Australian $1,000 (£550). |
Kogan is well known for selling high-end electrical goods at ridiculously good prices as it sources everything itself at manufacturer level. |
The Kogan 55-inch UHDTV will offer a 3840 x 2160 resolution LED display. It will also be capable of upscaling Blu-ray and DVD to UHD. The TV is powered by Android 4.2 with Google Play access. It can be connected to the internet via Wi-Fi or Ethernet cable. The TV is also future-proofed with a USB 3.0 port as well as US... |
It's a really impressive offering for only £550. If you're thinking of adopting early this might be a great option. Check back when we've got our hands on a unit to see how it performs. |
Published: Nov. 9, 2011 at 07:52 a.m. |
Up next for the streaking Giants? A stretch of games that reads like an NFC playoff run, with tilts against the 49ers, Eagles, Saints and Packers. |
Yes, the Giants are 6-2 for the fifth time under Tom Coughlin, but we've been here before. Many of those teams crumbled in the second half of the season (Coughlin's 24-32 down the stretch since 2004), but Osi Umenyiora says this year's different. |
"Not this time, man," Umenyiora told the New York Daily News this week. "We've been through that too many times. There's going to be no collapses. |
"We started 6-2 so many times, had a good start to the season and kind of collapsed. That's getting old for me. We'd put some games together, then we'd fall apart. Whatever that reason is, we don't know." |
What they've lacked before is this season's version of Eli "I'm not a 25-interception quarterback" Manning. He's as sure-handed as he's ever been, with the Giants scoring 20 or more points in seven straight games. If they make it eight against the 49ers on Sunday, it ties a feat set by the franchise's 1990 Super Bowl s... |
Pretty fine company for a team people are aching to write off. |
Is Baseball Hall of Fame ready for Yankees' Thurman Munson? |
Thurman's Army pushing to get Canton's Munson inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. |
Thurman's Army is marching, in spirit, toward the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. |
The group — led by Manhattan attorney Larry Schnapf — has plotted, planned and unleashed a strategy they hope gets Thurman Munson voted into the Hall later this year. |
"This is like a political campaign," explained the 65-year-old Schnapf, a former Yankee Stadium season ticket-holder, who idolized Mickey Mantle, then Munson and Don Mattingly. |
Munson grew up in Canton and graduated from Lehman High. He was the New York Yankees' starting catcher from 1970 until his death on Aug. 2, 1979. He was 32 years old when the Cessna Citation jet he was piloting crashed near Akron-Canton Airport. |
Although considered one of the top catchers of his day, Munson never came close to Hall of Fame induction during 15 years on the ballot. His best showing was in 1981, his first year. He was named on 15.5 percent of ballots cast by the Baseball Writers' Association of America — well below the 75 percent required for Hal... |
The knock on Munson was that he didn't play long enough to accumulate the volume of career statistics typically required for Hall admission. Baseball purists and historians had long looked for certain 'magic' numbers in a player's lifetime totals to prove he's Hall-worthy, such as .300 batting average, 500 homers or 3,... |
Munson had none of those. |
The offensive star threshold for catchers is admittedly less than for other positions. After all, catchers endure a physical beating behind the plate from wild pitches, foul tips and incessant pressure on their knees. But Munson's lifetime batting average was .292. And he only had 113 homers among his 1,558 hits. |
When Munson's Hall eligibility expired after 1995, it appeared he'd go down in history as one of many who fell short. |
But there is a second-chance option to get into the Hall. |
Four separate "Era" committees are in place to review veteran candidates. It's the same way Harold Baines was selected in December. And Thurman's Army is encouraged because Baines had less support on his conventional ballots than Munson. |
"There's been a real change in the way players are being evaluated," said Schnapf, whose Hall campaign was officially announced and set into motion on Feb. 5 at the AHRC New York City Foundation's 39th annual Thurman Munson Awards Dinner. |
Schnapf's Thurman's Army is following a written plan and timeline, which began in 2018 with the creation of the munsonhof.com website. |
"I'm 100 percent blown away," said Mike Munson, one of Thurman Munson's three children. "All the work they've done; time they've taken; the enthusiasm they have. At the dinner, they acted like it was some great honor to meet me ... I was honored to meet them." |
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