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A controversial video poker bill state gambling regulators fear will allow the operators of illegal machines to stay in business throughout the state was approved 81-26 Wednesday in the Illinois House.
The measure, which expands on the General Assembly’s legalization of video gambling in bars and restaurants last year, now goes to Gov. Pat Quinn for final approval.
The legislation seeks to define the Illinois Gaming Board’s power to deny licenses. Gaming board Chairman Aaron Jaffe says the legislation would require a felony conviction on gambling charges before regulators could deny a license to operate video gambling machines in
Illinois. He criticized the measure as a “disaster” for gambling enforcement in Illinois.
But supporters said the legislation would allow a variety of ways to deny a person a license, ranging from a gambling-related conviction to having a shady past.
The provision was quietly amended to a bill without opposition in the Senate earlier this month, but has stirred quite a debate since gambling regulators were made aware of it.
“My main concern with this bill is that it is midnight legislation adopted just a short time before the end of the session,” said Art Bilek, executive vice president of the Chicago Crime Commission. “It it is such a good thing for the people of this state, then why did it have to be done in such a surreptitious manner.”
The bill is designed to rein in a new gaming board rule that would have required applicants to attest under oath that they had never operated the machines before they were legalized.
It was shepherded by some well-connected lobbyists for the Illinois Coin Machine Operators Association, including Joseph Berrios, a longtime ally of House Speaker Michael Madigan and Madigan’s choice to become the next Cook County assessor.
Berrios, who also is the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, has been spending time campaigning for assessor and lobbying for the bill. His campaign issued a statement praising the legislature for its favorable vote.
"I’m pleased that I could help get this bill passed during such a difficult fiscal time," Berrios said in an e-mail from his campaign. "However, as I have noted since last fall, once I become assessor I will resign as a lobbyist and my sole priority will be serving the people of Cook County with fairness and efficiency."
Berrios and other supporters of the measure have argued that Jaffe’s rule is too broad and vague to be applied in an even-handed way. They say the gaming board retains authority to deny video gambling licenses for wide range of reasons.
"At a time when the state is struggling for revenue, this measure will bring in $250 million to $500 million a year for use in state capital projects like roads and school construction," Berrios said. “It’s a win-win for the state. Our unemployment rate is at an all-time high and our schools are crumbling. This new revenue will help in so many ways."
In addition to what critics call an “amnesty” provision for all those operators who have been illegally paying off on the video machines, the bill also extends to truck stops and VFW posts the right to operate the machines. Last year’s law only allowed bars and restaurants to operate the video poker games.
Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie, told colleagues on the House floor the Gaming Board already has “broad and substantial powers” to deny a license to anyone found by the board to have a criminal record, bad reputation or activities that would pose a threat to the public.
At the center of the debate is that the Gaming Board created a rule that determined any establishment caught operating illegal games after Dec. 16 would be unable to get licensed, Lang said.
But he argued that the board “curiously” added a provision that said anyone operating illegal games before Dec. 16 “may” be unable to be licensed, a standard that was too vague.
Thousands of potential applicants “have a right to know the rules and regulations and laws and statutes … don’t say ‘may,’” Lang said. “They have a right to know … what will be investigated and what won’t be investigated.”
Lang also advanced a follow-up proposal that would allow a restaurant to have video games in its own establishment if it, for example, rents space to an off-track betting parlor. The restaurant and OTB parlor would be prohibited from sharing proceeds from the video gambling.
Anti-gambling activist Anita Bedell told the House Executive Committee that the move represented a further “foot in the door” to a broader expansion of gambling throughout Illinois. The panel voted 10-1, sending the legislation to the full House.
Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock will forge her career comeback at the MTV Movie Awards in Universal City next month.
“She will be attending,” the actress’ rep confirmed to PEOPLE Magazine on Wednesday in response to online reports that Bullock would appear at the annual show. The appearance will be the star’s first on the red carpet since husband Jesse James admitted to mass infidelity in a headline-snatching sex scandal in March.
The Blind Side star — who is nominated for Best Female Performance, Best Kiss, and Best Comedic Performance at the event — will be honored with the coveted MTV Generation Award, the network said Wednesday.
“Sandra Bullock will receive the MTV Generation Award during the 2010 MTV Movie Awards for her riveting and diverse contributions to the film industry and for entertaining generations of the MTV audience over the last two decades. The first female recipient to be honored with this revered award, Bullock is one of the most accomplished, multifaceted and beloved actresses of her time. She has made legions of moviegoers both laugh and cry through heartfelt and wide-ranging roles that continue to break the mold and box-office records,” MTV Chief Stephen Friedman said in a release.
“Sandra is one of those rare individuals who is adored by our audience as both an actress and a role model. Recognizing her remarkable talent, amazing range of films and her visceral connection to our audience around the globe, we are honored to present her with our ‘MTV Generation Award.’”
Hosted by Aziz Ansari, the 2010 MTV Movie Awards will broadcast live from the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, Calif., on Sunday, June 6 at 9PM/8PM C.
It’s not often you hear of a copyright claim concerning a text that was supposedly written more than 2,500 years ago. The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Wayne Dyer, a “self-help” guru, has been sued for copyright infringement for using text from “Tao Te Ching: A New English Version,” by Stephen Mitchell, in his own book. But, of course, if the Tao Te Ching is from two plus millennia ago, what’s the copyright claim? Well, it turns out that Mitchell is now claiming that his new English version is very new indeed. So new that it’s not actually a translation at all, but more or less his own version of what he thought the Tao Te Ching really meant:
As a result, “rather than provide a literal translation, the book embodies language that conveys Mitchell’s version of Lao-tzu’s meaning and the spirit of his teaching,” the complaint says. “Accordingly, Mitchell’s book is a highly original work.”
If true, there certainly could be a new copyright on the work, though it does seem a bit odd to rewrite it, and then still call it the Tao Te Ching. Basically, it looks like Mitchell wants the best of both worlds. To be able to pretend his version is the ancient version when it works for marketing purposes, but then to consider a brand new work when it comes to copyright.
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Pocketnow have uploaded this video showing the HTC HD2 Official Extended battery in action. They report the 2300 mAh battery, which costs about $50 ad also fits the US HD2, provides up to 2.5 days of active use, which seems pretty low for the bulk, but the kick stand still looks pretty cool and does a lot to make up for the brick-like nature of the resulting unit.
The battery is available from Clove here.
Read more at Pocketnow here.
It wasn’t that long ago that Moblin and Maemo joined forces to form the MeeGo variant of Linux for mobile devices. In a rush to release, MeeGo 1.0 for Netbooks is available as a free download for those of you who like to play with alternate OSes. Brad Linder of Liliputing grabbed MeeGo and has recorded a video overview of the OS running on his MSI Wind netbook. MeeGo looks surprisingly complete and even though Brad is running it on a USB flash drive it is very responsive. It looks very much as I would expect Chrome OS to eventually look like.
Brad’s only physical problem with MeeGo was getting it downloaded, the installation was without event and he seems pleased with the results. There is an app store cleverly dubbed the MeeGo Garage, but it is a garage that is currently pretty bare with little content available. MeeGo is using the Chrome browser and in the video response is good and browsing is nice. I like the MeeGo “zones” that make working with running programs very easy to do. The whole running experience is optimized for small screens with good mouse controls. If you try MeeGo, let us know in the comments how it is working for you.
Related research on GigaOM Pro (sub req’d): Report: The Future of Netbooks
The keyboard accessory we were looking forward to in Rock Band 3 is supposedly actually a KEYTAR. Good, I suppose, for mobility and rockitude, but not for learning how to actually play the keybo…oh god I’ve become an old man. [Ars Technica] More »
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Morris Stockholm’s Spring/Summer 2010 collection is a mixture of high class prep, beach wear, and casual day attires. The brand has a very colorful way of telling their fashion story this season and it extends not just from your regular slacks and tops worn in the city, but also to the life around the beach. There’s a dandyesque quality to the range which some will appreciate, especially if a coastal vacation is in your sites this summer.
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Our buddy Andrew over at Androinica has brought up something rather disturbing about the EVO’s front-facing camera–it shows everything as a mirrored image. This “glitch” shows itself when taking photos, videos, and while video chatting/streaming.
When video chatting with Skype, for example, the program will show you as a mirror image to yourself (since people are used to looking in the mirror) , but to the person you’re speaking with, it will show you normally, as you’d appear if he or she was looking right at you. However, on the EVO, you still show up as a mirror image to your friend. This is very strange behavior for a camera. You can see exactly what I’m talking about if you watch my video of Qik in action (pay attention to when the guy swipes his hand up and down when demonstrating the delay).
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When you use the camera on the back of the phone, images and videos come out normally. Why should the front-facing one be any different? Since the problem exists in both the camera app as well as Qik, it’s safe to say that the problem is due to a software issue on HTC’s part. As far as we know, there’s no way to manually flip it back to normal. This can probably be fixed with a simple software update, though we don’t know if HTC, or Sprint, has anything in the works.
I have sent an email to Sprint regarding the issue and will update this post if I hear anything back.
Apple overtook Microsoft this afternoon as the world’s most valuable technology company, and the second most valuable US company behind Exxon Mobil (as if it needed a spotlight).
Apple shares rose 1.8
percent, giving the company a value of $227.1 billion, as shares of Microsoft fell, which gave the company a market
capitalization of $226.3 billion, according to the New York Times.
Where’s Google, you wonder? A bit behind, with a market cap value of about $150 billion according to Yahoo Finance. Rounding out the top six, as of March 2010, according to the Financial Times Global 500, are Wal-mart, Berkshire Hathaway, and General Electric.
Microsoft – Apple – Market capitalization – Google – Berkshire Hathaway
CAUSAL PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
by
Yun Seon Kim
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Advisor: Kyoung-Yun Kim, Ph.D.
May 28th 2010 from 2pm -4pm at Conference room in the IME building (4815 4th St., Detroit)
Abstract
The US engineering industry base is facing a significant loss of knowledge due to large numbers of employees retiring in the next decade. Problems in various product developments including product design may arise when the expertise is no longer available or the knowledge is forgotten. Also, most of product design knowledge is not reusable, because product design knowledge in an organization
remains un-codified. Generally, knowledge-based system can solve or infer these problems. However, knowledge-based systems have been developed solely through the use of rule-based approach, which allows for easy modeling of expert reasoning, but such an approach is not general and for a specific use;
thus, existing experience and analyses show that this approach has serious limitations on associations between observable findings and diagnostic hypotheses. Furthermore, the product development knowledge cannot be appropriately acquired, represented, and reused by these techniques. To address
these challenges, this research develops new methodologies and tools to capture, represent, store, and reuse domain knowledge from experts and implement a novel web-based causal product design knowledge management system to systematically utilize the knowledge from experts, who are currently
working or retired. The particular emphasis is on these research areas: 1) design knowledge acquisition,2) causal knowledge representation, 3) causal knowledge evaluation and index, 4) causal knowledge integration, 5) and causal design knowledge management system.
On the eve of their graduation from Harvard College, 11 of the military’s newest officers received their commissions at a ceremony today (May 26) in crowded, sun-splashed Tercentenary Theatre.
Honored from the Class of 2010 were David F. Boswell, Josue Guerra, Sarah A. Harvey, and Karl J. Kmiecik (U.S. Army second lieutenants); Talya Havice and Shawna L. Sinnott (U.S. Marine Corps second lieutenants); and Joshua D. Foote, Michael B. Kaehler, Christi E. Morrissey, Katherine E. O’Donnell, and Olivia Volkoff (U.S. Navy ensigns).
A 10th student, Alex Prado, will receive his U.S. Army commission this summer. He graduates Thursday (May 27) with a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Administering their oaths was Michael G. Vickers, U.S. assistant secretary of defense for special operations, low-intensity conflict, and interdependent capabilities. During the 1980s, he masterminded the Central Intelligence Agency’s arming of the Mujahideen rebels in Afghanistan, a step that many say spelled doom for invading Soviet troops.
Vickers thanked the parents of the new officers for instilling in them “honor, courage, respect, and selfless service.”
He called the dozen students arrayed on stage “the very best our nation has to offer,” praising them for volunteering in a time of war. “You have elected to forgo a more comfortable life,” said Vickers, a Special Forces soldier from 1973 to 1986, “and with eyes wide open have courageously and selflessly offered to put yourselves in harm’s way on behalf of your fellow citizens.”
He warned them too, saying that the hardest challenges are still ahead, and that to surmount those obstacles they would do well to listen to the combat-seasoned soldiers under their command.
Former interim U.S. Sen. Paul G. Kirk Jr. ’60, J.D. ’64, a Boston lawyer and veteran — as well as a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) graduate at Harvard — offered more words of praise and advice.
“You were the first in your class to answer a fundamental question,” he said of the new officers, not “What shall I do with my Harvard degree? No, your question was more profound. You asked yourselves … what shall I do with my citizenship?”
Kirk added, “A Harvard College education also teaches us to remember always our responsibilities as American citizens.”
He praised the students for volunteering. “In doing so, you bring honor to yourselves and to your families. You bring honor to your classmates and to this University, and — not least — you have honored your country.”
Kirk was an aide to U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy during his presidential run in 1968, served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and most recently filled a Senate seat following the death of Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Harvard President Drew Faust, herself the daughter of a decorated World War II veteran, was also on hand, as she always is during ceremonies honoring the University’s links to the military.
“Take what Harvard has given you,” she told the new officers, praising them for their fitness, intellect, and courage. “Generate a new surge of ideas to use in the nation’s service. Help reinforce the long tradition of ties between Harvard and the military, as we share hopes that changing circumstances will soon enable us to further strengthen those bonds.”
Student cadets and midshipmen drill and study with units at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This year, Harvard has 20 undergraduates enrolled in ROTC.
A pioneering former ROTC member took a bow at the ceremony, Charles “Chuck” DePriest ’77. He cross-enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, opening a new route — after much University debate — to such training. A radiologist, DePriest spent 10 years on active duty with the U.S. Air Force and retired as a major. With him was Oscar “Butch” DePriest ’74, who took his ROTC commission while in dental school at Boston University. He is a brigadier general in the U.S. Army Reserves.
The brothers are great-grandsons of Chicago Republican Oscar Stanton De Priest (1871-1951), the son of former slaves who was the first African American elected to Congress in the 20th century.
Just before the ceremony, David Boswell ’10 stood waiting, his uniformed shoulders bare of insignia. Behind him was a boyhood in the Solomon Islands, where he scoured the jungles for World War II artifacts. Ahead is a career as an officer in the Army Medical Service Corps, where he will train as a medical evacuation helicopter pilot.
Is ROTC the end of a long adventure? “Yes,” said Boswell, “and the beginning of another long adventure.”
T-Mobile USA has officially announced their Garminfone with a June 9th release through their website and select stores and authorized dealers. Landing just in time for Father’s Day, the handset will be available for $199.99 (after $50.00 mail-in rebate) with a new two-year agreement.
To help get things started, T-Mobile is kicking off a two-week Twitter sweepstakes which will see five Garminfones given away. The contest is called the ‘T-Mobile Garminfone Navigate Your Life Sweepstakes‘ and is already underway. To enter the contest, Twitter users must follow @TMobile_USA and need to tweet at them with #needgarminfone in the body. Let them know about a time when you were lost without GPS in 140 characters or less. Entries must be received by 11:59 AM on June 9. A full list of official rules can be found at http://ow.ly/1PPFr.
If you’ve ever watched old-timey Dr. Who, you probably wondered how they made the music for that series. It’s simple, really:
In 1963 Delia Derbyshire working for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop created one of the most significant and innovative pieces of electronic music, even before the availability of commercial synthesizers.
Starting with a score written by composer Ron Grainer, Delia created every note by cutting, splicing, speeding up and slowing down segments of analog tape recordings of plucked strings, white noise, and the simple harmonic waveforms of test-tone oscillators which were used for calibrating equipment and rooms, not creating music.
Below are pictures of Delia Derbyshire and the studios of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Greenpeace photographers posted some sickening images of crude oil infiltrating the Louisiana marsh.
It takes hours for a crew in biosuits to collect samples from the area. Actually cleaning the area will be an inhuman task.
The organization has graciously let us run their nausea-inducing photos.
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Harvard President Drew Faust has renewed the University’s partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to assist eligible veterans in meeting the costs of their education through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Last year, in the program’s inaugural year, 69 Harvard student-veterans received more than $350,000 in institutional assistance that was matched by the VA for tuition costs. Building on this effort, all of Harvard’s Schools are participating again this year. About 180 veterans were enrolled at Harvard this academic year.
Just days after being ordered to wear a SCRAM alcohol-monitoring device on her ankle, Lindsay Lohan is reinventing herself….with new hair!
The scandal-scarred starlet, 23, has swapped her chocolate locks for a mane of sunkissed curls. Lohan, a natural redhead, was photographed leaving the Andy LeCompte Salon in West Hollywood on Tuesday night, sporting the spankin’ new ‘do after spending nine-hours in a stylist’s chair. 
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Which LiLo ‘do is more fab? Blonde or Brunette?
Remember Applegirl? Now she has some serious competition. Using what looks to be a Samsung Galaxy A this young lady shares a beautiful rendition of Take a Bow by Rhianna. From the YouTube comments it appears that someone other than the artist uploaded the video, anyone know who this gal is? I know we’re interested, and maybe Samsung would be as well. In the meantime, enjoy! Thanks, NickF227!
Update: Meant to mention she’s playing the "Solo" app. [Market link]
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