The Bering Strait School District was recently awarded a $10,000 New Visions grant, from the Alaska State Council on the Arts, which is designed to increase arts education across the district. The three year project will focus on professional development for staff, curriculum writing, leadership training and bringing Alaskan Teaching Artists to work with students. The district was one of only three in the state to receive funds and technical assistance support. District staff responded to surveys in November indicating a high level of interest in integrating the arts across the curriculum, so training and artist residencies will focus on showing teachers how to add the visual arts, music, drama, dance, and Native Arts to daily instruction. Research and common sense have shown that the arts can inspire and motivate students like no other subject, and teach them critical and creative thinking, problem solving, and expressive communication skills. These are all critical attributes for success in the 21st century. For more information contact Greg Johnson [email protected] or Kim Sweeny [email protected] .
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Report: UAW considering selling famed Black Lake compound
Filed under: Earnings/Financials, UAW/Unions
The United Auto Workers is many things to many people. To some, it’s the reason why all of our manufacturing hasn’t been shipped over to China. To others, UAW added costs are the reason why American cars can’t compete with imports. Whatever your opinion, the facts are that the UAW is not nearly as strong as it once was. Back in 1979 the UAW claimed 1.5 million members on its rosters. In 2008 that number shrank to just 431,000 souls.
Obviously, something’s got to give. And the UAW did give a little, agreeing to partially fund its Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Associations (VEBAs) with GM and Chrysler shares (as opposed to cash) when both automakers went bankrupt in 2009. Even more obviously, that’s just not enough.
Meet the UAW’s Black Lake compound. It sits on just over 1,000 acres in Onaway, Michigan. The main lodge was built back in the 1930s by a Detroit advertising executive. Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball spent their honeymoon there. Notorious ex-boxer, Union buster and Henry Ford’s right hand man, Harry Bennett was once late to a bargaining session because he was vacationing at the Black Lake. Bennett even showed photos to the UAW folks. UAW leader Walter Reuther replied, “after the revolution we will own that place.”
And in 1967, that’s exactly what happened. Purchased by the UAW to be a family education center, Black Lake was even given a world-class golf course in 2000 (ranked #34 in the world by Golf Digest). Trouble is, since 2005 Black Lake has lost $23 million. Obviously, with the state of not just the UAW but American auto making in general, this sort of extravagance won’t stand. Says current UAW President Ron Gettlefinger, “We regret that current financial conditions require us to explore the possible sale of the property.” The real stumbling block is Michigan’s severely depressed real estate market, which might make selling Black Lake a less than profitable endeavor.
[Source: The Detroit News | Image: Black Lake Golf Club]
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Report: Suzuki breaks off alt-power partnership with GM
Filed under: Europe, Japan, GM, Suzuki, Volkswagen, Earnings/Financials, Renault, Peugeot, Electric, Diesel
According to Reuters, Suzuki plans on ending joint development programs with General Motors next month – the two had been partnering on innovative hybrid and fuel-cell technologies. The news follows on the heels of last month’s announcement that that Suzuki and Volkswagen had tied the knot (as part of that agreement, VW bought 19.9 percent of Suzuki and effectively became the automakers biggest shareholder – a position formerly held by GM). As the theory goes, it soon become clear that working with GM was no longer necessary. According to the report,“Suzuki is in a comprehensive alliance with Volkswagen. In every field including hybrid, diesel and electric cars, we will carry out joint development with them, or we will learn from them,” Osamu Suzuki, chairman and chief executive, said at the briefing in Hamamatsu, central Japan.The new relationship with VW will also affect Suzuki’s association with PSA Peugeot-Citroën and Renault SA, automakers currently supplying diesel engines to Suzuki. After all, VW brings extensive diesel engine technology to the table – making those relationships equally as moot.
[Source: Reuters]
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Visteon shows us its next-gen tech, a dash that can tell if you’re sleeping, and an in-car Tegra 2 [w/video]
Filed under: CES, Technology
Click above to view the videos after the jumpNews hasn’t exactly been great for Visteon of late, what with getting delisted, filing for bankruptcy and attempting to end the pensions of thousands of retirees. That’s the bad news. The good news? A suite of impressive prototype dashboards on display at the Consumer Electronics Show that ranges from the pedestrian, multi-colored model in the Mustang, to the crazy 3D dash powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipset. We’ve got photos, videos and plenty of impressions after the break.Gallery: Visteon next-generation dashboard
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Why wasn’t Gaines Adams’ condition detected?
SI.com reports: Dr. Paul D. Thompson, a cardiologist and an elite marathoner in the 1970s, says it can be very difficult to differentiate “athlete’s heart” from a diseased heart. Thompson says Gaines Adams’ underwhelming performance with the Buccaneers and Bears could have been a clue, even though most people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) have no obvious symptoms.
“When people aren’t performing well, you want to think of HCM,” says Thompson, noting that the thickening of the heart wall in HCM can result in symptoms such as fatigue and shortness of breath.
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Ninjas unbox the Nexus One
Yes, ninjas. What’s next? The Predator unboxing the Moto CLIQ?
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Nvidia GF100 Will Power Immersive 3-D Gaming
Nvidia is poised to roll out an advanced graphics processor unit that aims to usher in a new era of 3-D gaming. Called the GF100, the new graphics chip is expected to deliver the horsepower for running games across three panels featuring high-definition resolutions of up to 1920×1080 pixels — an immersive gaming environment that the company has dubbed “3D Vision Surround.”
Earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show, Nvidia demonstrated its technology on desktop PCs equipped with LCD panels from Acer, Alienware and others. Though the GF100 only supports two displays per chip, Nvidia expects to implement 3D Vision Surround through the company’s Nvidia SLI platform, which intelligently scales graphics performance by combining multiple graphics chips on an SLI-certified motherboard.
“This is because to drive the three 3-D displays, we effectively have to draw upward of 250 million pixels — or six times the norm,” said Nvidia spokesperson Bryan Del Rizzo.
Moving Beyond Pixel Acceleration
Integrating three billion transistors, the GF100 will be the first Nvidia GPU based on Fermi — a third-generation architecture featuring streaming multiprocessor technology. Among other things, Fermi offers support for up to 512 processor cores based on Nvidia’s CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) platform, which enables software programmers to code sophisticated algorithms with the standard C programming language and simplified extensions.
According to Nvidia, graphics chips are no longer only about the fast rendering of triangles and pixels. Though programmable shading techniques have allowed PC games to mimic film in per-pixel effects, the company noted that geometric realism has lagged behind — with the most advanced PC games today using one million to two million polygons per frame. By contrast, a typical frame in a computer-generated film uses hundreds of millions of polygons, Nvidia said.
“This disparity can be partly traced to hardware,” wrote…
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Reporters Invited To an Apple Event Set Next Week
“Come see our latest creation.” Thus reads the Apple invitation appearing in reporter’s inboxes on Monday. The e-mail — with the text displayed against a splashed-paint background — invites reporters to a Jan. 27 event at the Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco.
The Financial Times reported some weeks ago that Apple would announce on Jan. 26 a long-rumored tablet computer. Monday’s invitation — one day later than the Times reported but in the same location — indicates the newspaper had the story right and Apple may announce the tablet next week.
Of course, it’s not over ’til the fat lady — or in Apple’s case, skinny CEO Steve Jobs — sings, and it’s worth remembering that Apple has yet to announce a product. “Until Apple actually shows us a new product on Jan. 27, the tablet is still a rumored product,” Tim Bajarin, principal strategist for Creative Strategies, pointed out.
New York Times, too?
But with at least half a dozen tablets demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month, “there is clearly a strong industry push to make tablets the next major mobile computing platform,” Bajarin said.
New York magazine has reported The New York Times is close to announcing a new pay model for the newspaper’s online offerings. A few years back the Times tried to charge for select content, such as its most popular columns, but abandoned that effort.
The magazine reported Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is set to make the decision within days or weeks, fueling speculation that the announcement will come at Apple’s event. Back in October, Times Executive Editor Bill Keller made reference to an “Apple slate,” which most Apple tea readers took to mean that Apple and the Times were cooking up some sort of content deal for the tablet.
Extending iTunes
The expected introduction of an…
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New York Times May Charge for Its Online Content
The future of newspapers in the age of online content is not an abstract notion, but a real issue for the floundering industry. That future could mean that regular readers will need to pay for The New York Times online.
According to a Sunday report in New York Magazine online, the Times’ Chairman, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., is on the verge of announcing that the venerable publication will charge for access to its web site. The magazine cited unnamed sources, both inside and outside the Times.
Financial Times Approach
Instead of the “pay wall” used by The Wall Street Journal, the new pay-to-read structure at the Times will be closer to the one used by the Financial Times. Under that system, users can read a certain number of free articles before being required to pay.
The Journal’s approach walls off some sections of its site as free and some as pay-only, as opposed to requiring payment after some articles have been read. A NPR-style membership model was also considered, but rejected. Diane McNulty, spokesperson for the Times, said the newspaper will “announce a decision when we believe that we have crafted the best possible business approach.”
Because the Times announcement is expected within a week and Apple’s announcement of a tablet computer is rumored for later this month, the magazine speculates that the two may be connected. Major publishers, including the Times, have reportedly been in discussions with Apple about providing content designed for the tablet.
The options have reportedly led to debate within the flagship newspaper, with some, such as digital head Martin Nisenholtz, arguing for the continuation of a free site. The Times has 20 million unique users, and the argument for keeping things as they are rests on the idea that its readership — and ad rates — could grow as other newspapers fail…
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Pro-Palestinian Group Hacks Jewish Paper’s Site
In the latest of a string of cyberattacks tied to Middle East strife, a pro-Palestinian group believed to be based in Turkey hacked the web site of the London Jewish Chronicle during the weekend. Visitors to the site on Sunday were greeted with a large Palestinian flag accompanied by anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messages from a group calling itself Palestinian Mujaheeds.
“Aren’t you ashamed of giving tolerance to Jewish [sic] who is the main actor of wars with being of children killers?” the message read in part. “Aren’t you ashamed of giving support to vampire who doesn’t care any human life? Aren’t you ashamed of showing respect to Jewish who makes revenge, hatred and rivality [sic] feelings between the people?”
The group was apparently protesting the blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces, which pulled out of that area in 2005.
Rapid Response
The newspaper’s staff was quickly alerted to the security breach and took it offline promptly, the Chronicle reported. The site was down about 18 hours while the breach was investigated.
“By 4.40 p.m., a mere 20 minutes after the site was breached, senior executives had received dozens of text messages and phone calls alerting them; from synagogues, the CST, Jewish organizations, and individuals,” said the paper, which also said police were investigating. CST, or Community Security Trust, is an organization that works with local and international authorities to safeguard the Jewish community in the United Kingdom.
The Chronicle quoted its information-technology staff as saying there was no penetration of the paper’s servers. “The version of the site that was running at the time was addressing a virtual file system only. It was similar to viewing a cached version of a page. It was temporary until rebooted. The file system on the server was not affected at all. No one had managed to write…
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iPhone App for California Bar Exam Is Priced at $999.99
A California-based developer is hoping to cash in on the most expensive application on Apple’s App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. Former law student Michael Gharray created BarMax, a $999.99 application to help law students study for exams while on the go, according to published reports.
Currently the most expensive application for the iPhone, BarMax is a study guide for the California bar exam. The largest app to hit the App Store at 1GB features lectures, outlines and exam questions from past bar exams.
Prices on the App Store vary, with some apps free. The only app similar to BarMax is BarBri, but in order to use the mobile application users must be enrolled in that company’s bar-review classes, which cost $3,000 to $4,000. The second most expensive iPhone app is iRa Pro, a video-surveillance application, at $899.99.
Seeking Mobile Value
The most expensive application to hit the App Store to date was the I Am Rich application, which cost $1,000. The app by Armin Heinrich drew a lot of attention by displaying a red ruby to indicate to others that you could afford it, but didn’t get a great response. As of August 2008, Heinrich’s app mysteriously disappeared, leaving users wondering if I Am Rich made it to a rumored Apple blacklist or if Heinrich pulled the plug.
Users weren’t willing to pay big bucks for an app that provided no value, and analysts wonder if BarMax will offer enough value to match its cost.
“I think that with this kind of pricing you need to have a very high quality app behind it,” said Carolina Milanesi, a Gartner analyst based in the U.K. “Generally, however, I would think that it will take a much higher degree of trust for someone to pay that kind of money without trying the app…
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CXXVI – Spring 2010 Collection Lookbook

The good folks at CXXVI just sent us over their new Spring 2010 lookbook. The New York based brand continues on with their line infusing naval themes in their range. Printed shirts, hoodies, bags, cases, and more are expected in their releases so be on the look out for their products very soon.
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Gramado (RS) – O charme da serra gaúcha no verão 2010
Aproveitei este último final de semana pra fazer um curto passeio à Gramado, enquanto metade da população da região metropolitana se acotovelava no litoral, curtindo um nordestão com chuva.Pra quem não costuma participar dos debates aqui no fórum, sou um dos mais fundamentalistas e chatos "anti-gramadenses". Por questões culturais e teóricas, acho impossível aceitar pacificamente a distorção da arquitetura gramadense, que chegou a pontos esdrúxulos de imitar técnicas construtivas como adorno de fachadas. Enfim, não vou me demorar nisso pq já discutimos exaustivamente em tópicos mais convenientes.
O fato é que Gramado tem seu charme. Um tipo charme que é impossível encontrar em outro local do Brasil.
Abstraindo a péssima qualidade da arquitetura, nos sentimos realmente em um local do famigerado "primeiro mundo". E nem falo da limpeza, jardins bem cuidados, comércio qualificado, ou paisagem imitando européia. Muito menos do clima. Falo da EDUCAÇÃO.
Os pedestres em Gramado, realmente tem prioridade. Sim, aquele motoqueiro que está fazendo uma curva a toda velocidade, VAI parar pra você atravessar a rua. É incrível, mas todos os carros param para o pedestre caminhar. È a população e os próprios visitantes primando pela boa experiência turística da cidade.Claro que, podemos observar que as mesmas pessoas que te respeitam em Gramado, são as que saem atropelando todo mundo em Porto Alegre, Novo Hamburgo e etc.
Novamente abstraindo a breguice kitsch da arquitetura, Gramado é sim, "chic" (pra não usar o hoje já pejorativo ‘chique’). Exageradamente às vezes, beirando o brega sim. Mas o comércio e a rede hoteleira e gastronômica de altíssima qualidade garantem um ótimo passeio, e tornam Gramado um dos principais destinos turísticos nacionais.
Por vários minutos, é possível se sentir em Campos de Jordão nesta época de verão, quando os gaúchos preferem as praias. Isso porque a quantidade de turistas paulistas é surpreendente. O sotaque paulista é ouvido pelos quatro cantos. Todos parecem gostar muito do passeio.
Gramado cumpre tudo que promete. Tem TODOS seus problemas. Culturais, ecológicos, etc. Mas cumpre tudo que promete como destino turístico.
Notem que a decoração natalina ainda persiste. O Natal Luz foi encerrado apenas ontem. Apesar disso, não fotografei muito a decoração natalina, que era bem mais completa do que os poucos pinheiros que saíram por acidente nas fotos.
Neste thread, vou mostrar um pouco da área urbana de Gramado. Tentei fotografar tudo que parecesse interessante mostrar – inclusive o que poucos tem mostrado, que são os pequenos chalézinhos de madeira que foram típicos até o começo dos anos 90. Pode acabar formando uma imagem de Gramado um pouco diferente do ‘luxo’ que muitos imaginam, mas que conste que essas casinhas são, hoje, minoria.
01 – A igreja de São Pedro, com a casa paroquial

02 – Igreja de São Pedro, ainda com a decoração de natal

03 – Caminho na frente da igreja

04 – Vista do belvedere próximo ao centro da cidade (Vale do Quilombo). Incrível como está sendo devastado e como estão despontando casarões bregas no alto desses morros.

05 – O Belvedere

06 – Resquícios da Gramado de outrora parte I: lateral de um chalézinho típico

07 – O chalézinho inteiro, já modificado pro comércio. A ‘inocência’ lembra muito os municípios vizinhos de Gramado, chegando a ficar já deslocado na quantidade exorbitante de breguice de concreto da cidade.

08 – Fake neo-colonial

09 – Resquícios da Gramado de outrora parte I: chalézinho pré-fabricado que foi "onda" em Gramado logo no começo do crescimento turístico da região. Pena a cor horrorosa.

10 – Outro nas mesmas características do anterior.

11 – Mais um, este decorado pro natal

12 – Outro chalézinho típico da cidade. Todos estão sumindo pra dar lugar aos prédios de concreto armado com inspiração "suíça", "bávara" ou raio que o parta, desde que passe climas brego-serranos o bastante pra obter desconto de IPTU.

13 – Um dos primeiros grandes hotéis da cidade: Hotel Serra Azul. Representa o "estilo gramadense" surgido na década de 80. Ainda não haviam os exageros de imitação do enxaimel. A onda eram os lambrequins e trabalhos em madeira, inspirados pelos artesãos locais. Pena que tudo isso se perverteu, Gramado seria muito mais charmosa com prédios assim.

14 – Mesmo hotel

15 – Prefeitura de Gramado. Na foto um dos vários onibus turísticos que estão sempre circulando pela cidade. O turismo em Gramado acontece o ano todo.

16 – Kitsch arquitetônico

17 -Lambrequins do hotel Serra Azul – ainda da época com a inspiração na concepção artística dos artesões locais

18 – Torres – e a poluição visual dos fios elétricos ainda presente nas vias transversais

19 – Chalé pré fabricado atual, usado pra fins comerciais

20 – Igreja de São Pedro e um pinheiro

21 – Receptivo turístico, na praça Major Nicoletti.

22 – Algumas das árvores, decoradas pelos comerciantes da rua num concurso. Ao fundo, um exemplar da nova moda serrana: imitação de tábuas na fachada. Pelo menos esqueceram um pouco o enxaimelóide

23 – Encontro das duas igrejas de Gramado (a luterana está à esquerda, ao fundo.)

24 – Os canteiros sempre bem cuidados de Gramado.

25 – Turistas fazendo um passeio. Há várias opções de passeios turísticos pela cidade. Particularmente acho Gramado pequena demais pra um passeio desses… Mas como a carrodependência não deixa as pessoas curtirem uma boa caminhada pelas simpáticas e abandonadas calçadas do município… [ressalto ainda que tem jardineiras mais bonitinhas que essa, que fazem o tour]

26 – Os relógios, incluídos durante a revitalização da rua principal. Ainda parecem novos. Vandalismo é raro dentro de "parques temáticos"!

27 – A rua principal (Borges de Medeiros), e a antropofagia urbana. Lotes constantemente em renovação.

28 – A bela rua coberta, cheia de vegetação e de restaurantes/bistrôs bacanas

29 – De novo a rua coberta e sua cobertura translúcida. A vegetação é um charme a parte!

30 – Mesinhas na rua coberta. Uma ideia ótima!

31 – Mais uma

32 – Mais uma

33 – Chalé com lambrequins e demais madeiras provavelmente engolidas de algum prédio histórico autêntico da região

34 – Parece que alguém roubou a vareta do maestro… É, na verdade vandalismo existe em parques temáticos…

35 – Renas ainda da decoração de natal. Cada casa comercial decorou sua rena.

36 – Livraria, surpreendentemente tem uns títulos bons, apesar do sempre destaque aos best sellers

37 – Igreja de São Pedro e suas flores

38 – Igreja luterana "do relógio". Não cheguei a me aproximar dela desta vez, mas enxerga-se a quantidade de hortênsias no morro onde ela se situa.

Rua paralela a rua principal, um local onde a cidade se relaciona mais consigo mesma do que com o turismo, embora o perfil esteja mudando:
39 – Prédio fake de madeira

40 – Remanescentes da gramado de outrora – um chalézinho todo modificado

41 – Residencial

42 – Residencial II

42 – Mais chalézinhos da Gramado de outrora. Não devem durar mais uma década.

43 – Remanescentes da Gramado de poucos anos atrás: as casas ‘serranas’, algumas bacanas e sinceras como esta, estão dando lugar agora aos prédios.

44 – Prédio de influencia norte-americana, com torre pra ‘germanizar’

45 – Beco residencial

46 – Residencial

47 – Mais um dos antigos chalés modificados pro comércio.

48 – Outro dos antigos chalés modificados

49 – Mais um chalé sobrevivente, modificado. Difícil imaginar que Gramado já esteve cheia deles. Hoje são minoria [embora minha seleção de fotos possa fazer parecer que são muitos]

50 – Prédio velho

51 – Neo-o-que-mesmo? Gramado perdendo a própria identidade fake… A onda é lembrar qualquer coisa serrana ou européia, vale tudo: só não vale perder desconto de IPTU!

52 – Rua charmosa no centro

53 – Um dos chalés que insistem em desafiar a especulação imobiliária e turística

54 – Hotel

55 – Vista da Borges de Medeiros, sem fiação elétrica aérea e com bom mobiliária urbano e áreas de lazer. Fake ou não, é inegável que é um dos lugares mais aconchegantes pra se visitar no Brasil.

56 – Eca: enxaimelóide!

57 – Hotel casa da montanha

58 – A pouco vista igreja luterana da IELB. Me pareceu um prédio de linhas retas, recentemente adaptado aos gramadismos.

59 – A Borges, se afastando do ‘centro turístico’

60 – Prédio com painel de mosaico

61 – Rua perpendicular à Borges, se afastando da área "turística"

62 – Fonte

63 – Um dos clássicos barezinhos art-deco brasileiros, bem provavelmente dos anos 50. Incrível como resiste em decadência, em plena rua Borges de Medeiros, no centro de Gramado. Parece parado no tempo por dentro, com características de boteco do interior.

64 – Outra rua perpendicular

65 – O que é este "Bistekão"? hehe Até os fakes dão um show de arquitetura perto disso

66 – O mesmo fakezão de antes

67 – A IELB de novo

68 – Casa da Montanha e jardim

69 – Casa da Montanha e jardim II

70 – Casa da Montanha e Anjos da decoração natalina!

71 – Borges e mobiliário urbano

72 – Casa de antiguidades

73 – Rua perpendicular à Borges

74 – Um "protesto" aos enxaimelóides, ainda que seja tão medíocre quanto

75 – Mais da Borges

76 – Pra mim o fake mais pesadão, exagerado e feio EVER!

77 – Gramado também tem decadência! Momento portoalegrense na serra. Mas calma, está em obras apenas.

78 – Em frente ao local da foto anterior, mais um chalé persistindo. Gramado e suas "rugosidades", utilizando o conceito do geógrafo Milton Santos.

79 – Essa imobiliária preferiu ficar sem o desconto de IPTU e lançar uma fachada de vidro bem no centro de Gramado. Deve estar faturando com a fakezada que anda vendendo.

80 – Área central de Gramado

81 – Chalezão típico , ainda são um pouco mais comuns em áreas afastadas do centro.

82 – Dentro do mini-mundo

83 – Por poucos milésimos de segundos dá pra se fingir estar na Alemanha…hehehe Réplica reduzida do castelo de Neuschwanstein, no Mini-Mundo

84 – Outro chalé típico, fruto dos artesões/marceneiros da cidade que não existem mais. No caso, o marceneiro que idealizou o Mini Mundo e a Prefeitura de Gramado.

85 – Entrada do Mini-mundo.

Por enquanto é só!
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Mobile Donations For Haiti Top $7 Million
Remove the barriers to giving, and people will give. That seems to be the lesson many charities are learning in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti on Tuesday. Within 36 hours, mobile donations to relief efforts for Haiti have topped $7 million, according to the Mobile Giving Foundation.
The organization says it represents a mobile-giving record in terms of funds raised for a single cause. U.S. and Canadian supporters have been texting on behalf of a variety of organizations, as the Mobile Giving Foundation has been activating new short codes. The orgs include:
—the Yéle Foundation, the leading contributor to rebuilding Haiti founded by Wyclef Jean: Text the word “Yele” to 501501 to donate $5
—the Clinton Foundation Haiti Relief Fund: Text the word “Haiti” to 20222 to donate $10
—the International Medical Corp: Text the word “Haiti” to 85944 to donate $10—the International Rescue Committee: Text the word “Haiti” to 25383 to donate $5
—the the Red Cross in the U.S.: Text the word “Haiti” to 90999 to donate $10
—the Salvation Army Upper Wisconsin: Text the word “Haiti” to 52000 to donate $10
—the Salvation Army in Canada: Text the word “Haiti” to 45678 (In Canada Only)
—the Plan Canada: Text the word “Haiti” to 30333 (In Canada Only)The charges show up as a one-time fee on a users’ wireless bill, and the Mobile Giving Organization says 100 percent of the proceeds go to the charity (meaning no carriage fees get collected).
In related news, American Express and Visa said that they would waive or rebate all merchant transaction fees for donations made via credit card, in the wake of widespread criticism by media outlets like HuffPo. Amex will rebate the merchant fees for charities listed on the website of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) between Jan 12 and Feb 28; Visa will rebate fees generated through the end of Feb as well (via the AFP).
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Google Drops The Price Of The Nexus One As Devices Flood eBay
While Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is already dropping the price of some of its Nexus One devices by $100, others are hoping sell them for much more on eBay.
Google has now change the pricing options of the Nexus One. For a completely unattached, unlocked version, it remains $529, but for T-Mobile customers who are eligible for a phone upgrade the price has dropped to $279 from $379. And, for those signing up for new two-year T-Mobile contracts, it costs $179. Google explained the reason behind the change to PhoneScoop.com: “Previously there were two price points for those fully eligible for T-Mobile upgrades. Those without data plans were paying $279 for the Nexus One, and those with data plans were being charged $379. We worked with T-Mobile and are now able to offer the higher upgrade discount to all existing fully eligible T-Mobile subscribers.”
Meanwhile, eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) is flooded with listings for the Nexus One, who are perhaps overly optimistic that they can resell the phone for between $300 to $1,000, BusinessWeek reports. Likely, the second-hand market is being flooded by all those phone Google gave to its employees over the holidays.
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Boost Mobile To Show Off Prepaid Wireless In Super Bowl Ad
Boost Mobile may offer discounted prepaid wireless plans, but the company is not cutting any corners when it comes to raising brand awareness.
The Sprint (NYSE: S) division will secure its first-ever Super Bowl commercial this year, featuring some of the 1985 Chicago Bears, including former football players Jim McMahon, Willie Gault and Mike Singletary. The trio ill re-create their famous “Super Bowl Shuffle” rap song and video, which first appeared in 1985 when the Bears won Super Bowl XX, according to the WSJ. “Prepaid is no longer living in the shadow of contract plans. Choosing prepaid is really mainstream. That is a big shift, and the economy was a catalyst for that,” said Bob Stohrer, Sprint’s VP of marketing for the prepaid group.
Sprint obviously feels like it must spend a lot of money on getting that message out. It declined to say how much it was spending on the ad, but media buyers are estimating that an ad will cost between $2.5 million and $2.9 million for 30 seconds. The spot is expected to run in the first quarter of the game on Feb. 7. In general, Boost has been advertising heavily, and in the first nine months of 2009 spent $66.3 million on marketing, or more than double what it spent a year earlier, according to TNS Media Intelligence, an ad-tracking company.
At CES earlier this month, Boost Mobile revealed that it was expanding its popular $50 ‘Monthly Unlimited’ plan on Jan. 13 to the CDMA network. Previously, Boost operated on Sprint’s Nextel network. The launch includes three handsets: Kyocera’s Sanyo Mirro SCP3810; Sanyo Incognito SCP6760, and the BlackBerry Curve 8330 (which will cost $60 a month). There will be no contracts. Typically, Sprint’s recently purchased Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) division operated on the CDMA network, while Boost operated on the Nextel network. However, going forward, those two divisions are likely to be divided by demographics, not network technology.
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Entertainment Industry Explains How True Net Neutrality Is Just Another Word For Theft
With comments due last week on the FCC’s proposed new net neutrality rules, we’ve already covered some of the filings, while noting the problems of carving out a special exemption for copyright. But, of course, that special exemption for copyright means everything to an entertainment industry that has no interest in adapting its business models. Both the RIAA and MPAA filed their own comments, which were pretty similar, and equally misleading. The RIAA’s filing (pdf) repeatedly referred to copyright infringement as “theft” (you would think lawyers would know the difference) and insisted not just that there should be a copyright exemption, but that the FCC itself should require ISPs to act as copyright cops. The MPAA’s filing (pdf) is almost a carbon copy of the RIAA’s. There is very little difference between the two.
But if you want to see an even more extreme argument, check out the filing from the Songwriters Guild of America (SGA) (pdf), who we’d already pointed out was running around aimlessly screaming that network neutrality would mean more unauthorized file sharing (they call it “piracy”). In the SGA’s filing, they claim that net neutrality wouldn’t solve any actual problem, and the real problem is the inability of songwriters to get paid in the way they used to, back in the idyllic days before the internet existed. So they’d much rather that the FCC break the internet in order to bring back those days. That’s a bit of a paraphrase, but it’s really not that far off.
The language used by the SGA goes even beyond that of the others, referring to things like “rampant looting” and insisting that with net neutrality we would face the end of songwriting. Seriously. While the SGA claims that it wants to promote new innovation and technology, it appears to only mean technology that can be used to block file sharing. It’s very excited about those technologies, and not at all concerned about all the technologies (even the ones used by lots of folks every day) that would be broken without a neutral internet.
Not that any of these filings are all that surprising, but it does show how low the entertainment industry has decided to stoop in trying to get others to bring back old business models, rather than adapt to the changing times.
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New Insulin Dosage
Can anyone out tell me how they’ve adjusted to Lantus Solostar Pen and Novolog Flex Pen? Son just got a 2nd opinion from another doctor. Been diagnosed since 5yrs old. He was on same meds for the last 8 yrs which was insulin-mixed Humolog and NPH. He was taking 10u H + 30u NPH before breakfast and 10u H + 20u NPH at supper. His A1c was 8.6 as of this past Thursday. However, this new doctor has put him on 35 u of Lantus at bedtime and 10 u of Novolog before each meal. I’d like to know some experiences you all have had with the Lantus and Novolog pens, if any. I know most are suggesting the pump, but right now the pump is just not an option for him. He would like to exhaust all of his options before going back on the pump. (Previously had a bad experience with pump that led to him being admitted in the ER for DKA). -
Cardinals’ Pujols in no rush to sign extension
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: Albert Pujols said Monday he feels no urgency to negotiate a contract extension with the Cardinals and that he will not carry any pending talks into the season.
“My timetable is when I’m a free agent,” said Pujols, who is eligible for free agency after the 2011 season. “Right now we’ve got a couple years. I don’t need to worry about that right now.”
Pujols made it clear he is comfortable with the possibility of eventually testing free agency.
“If it comes to that, it’s fine. That’s a decision they make,” Pujols said. “I want to play baseball. If I have to, I can play somewhere else.”
Get the full story: stltoday.com
Read the original article from Tribune News Services.
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