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Sunday, 30 September 2012
Minneapolis gunman's family feared mental illness
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? Andrew Engeldinger's parents were worried about their son's growing paranoia. In 2010, they sought help, enrolling in a 12-week class for families of the mentally ill.
For the last 21 months, the family said they reached out in hopes he would seek treatment. It was to no avail, as Engeldinger spurned their attempts at contact.
On Thursday night, they learned he was the gunman in Minnesota's deadliest workplace shooting. Police say Engeldinger fatally shot five people and injured three at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis before turning the gun on himself.
"It's not unusual when you're isolating yourself, which we know that he did, that eventually the only people you have left is your family and your co-workers, and often your paranoia translates to them," Sue Abderholden, a mental health organization executive who is serving as spokeswoman for Engeldinger's family, said Saturday.
Police say the 36-year-old Engeldinger shot and killed Reuven Rahamim, the founder of Accent Signage Systems; employees Ronald Edberg, Rami Cooks and Jacob Beneke; and Keith Basinski, a UPS driver who made a delivery at the wrong time. Two other employees remained hospitalized, one in critical condition and the other in serious condition.
The officers who responded to what Police Chief Tim Dolan called a "hellish scene" eventually found Engeldinger's body in the basement. Officers who searched his south Minneapolis home later Thursday found another gun and packaging for 10,000 rounds of ammunition.
Police and company representatives have not yet said why Engeldinger was fired from a job he had held since the late 1990s.
Jim Dow, a sales representative who frequently visited the business, said Saturday that he'd spoken to Accent employees and family members of victims. He said they told him that in recent months, Engeldinger had been running afoul of managers with confrontational behavior and unexplained absences from work.
"He was getting mouthy, belligerent," Dow said. Cooks, who's been described as Rahamim's right-hand man, "would take him aside and tell him that's not acceptable," Dow said. "He'd straighten up for a while and then this would crop up again."
Dolan said it was clear that Engeldinger targeted some victims while bypassing others. Many of those killed or injured were management.
Engeldinger wasn't always a problematic employee.
Barry Lawrence, an ex-employee, trained Engeldinger on a sign engraving machine and recalled that he was "sharp, intelligent." He said though Engeldinger mostly kept to himself, he'd occasionally join his co-workers for drinks after work.
But, upon hearing of the shooting, Lawrence said he had a gut reaction.
"To tell you the truth, my first thought was Andy," said Lawrence, who left Accent in 2003. "He was pleasant enough to work around, but he just seemed a little off all the time. You get a feeling about people, nothing you can put your finger on."
Abderholden, the executive director of Minnesota's chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, said she didn't know when Engeldinger's family first became worried that he had a mental illness. Two years ago, Chuck and Carolyn Engeldinger ? who raised Andy and his two siblings in the Minneapolis suburb of Richfield ? enrolled in NAMI's free, 12-week "Family to Family" course.
The classes, offered nationwide and taught by people who have had loved ones suffer from mental illness, include scientific and medical information about causes and symptoms, as well as concrete steps for trying to deal with the sufferer. They also have guidance for family members to cope.
"Sometimes it doesn't work, but you still are at least armed with the information to help you know what to do," Abderholden said.
Andrew Engeldinger never sought treatment to his family's knowledge, Abderholden said, and was never diagnosed with a specific illness. It wasn't long after his parents took the class that he cut off contact with the family, although Abderholden said she didn't know if pressure to seek help led to the estrangement.
The Engeldingers declined an interview request.
As he withdrew, Engeldinger's main point of contact with the outside world appeared to be his job. Several people in the Minneapolis neighborhood where he bought a home in 2004 said they never exchanged more than pleasantries.
Brian Jorgensen, who lived next door, said they only occasionally acknowledged each other when both were cutting the grass or shoveling sidewalks. He said Engeldinger wore sunglasses all the time.
Engeldinger was "just a quiet person who kept to himself but did not engage with us. And we didn't engage with him either because it just felt like he didn't want that kind of contact."
Outside of Accent Signage on Saturday, some residents of the Bryn Mawr neighborhood laid flowers at a memorial. Another swept up leaves in front.
A father-son duo of UPS employees, Dan and Nathaniel Miller, walked around the building and prayed. Basinski's death "hit me really hard," Dan Miller told the Star Tribune.
Abderholden said the likelihood of violence by a mentally ill person is very low, and that Engeldinger's family wouldn't have had reason to suspect he was capable of such violent acts. She called the family "extremely close" and said they are distraught.
"They just have deep sorrow about what happened, and if there was any way they could bring those lives back they would," Abderholden said. "They don't want to detract from the focus on those lives."
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Associated Press reporter Amy Forliti contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/minneapolis-gunmans-family-feared-mental-illness-192015293.html
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Saturday, 29 September 2012
Looking for partners?
Looking for at least one long term rp partner, if not several. I have many,many ideas to rp. I'm not really sure how to do this here, been forever. Just put out some ideas.
Biela/Amber : My character, Amber Aelston is an elf living on the planet Biela. Her family is a bit on the old and noble side who live in the Country/City Corlea. Biela has been a warring place for thousands of years but of a sudden, the small amount of magic that had been held to only the most fey of creatures blossomed/grew/evolved? and all manner of beings suddenly found themselves possessing magical gifts. This turned the small scale wars between countries into a hell storm of death and destruction. Amber herself received an elemental gift of wind. The story could be anything,really. It's wide open for what we could do. There are four main countries in the world: Proclys. Capital City: Gilead Government: Parliamentary. Corlea Capital City: Corlea Government: Monarchy. Viratora Capital City: Vitorilla Government: Plutocracy. Caspicor Capital City: TBA Government: Theocracy? I have a couple profiles I could link you to that would go much more indepth if you're interested.
Doctor Who: I have an OC that I like to rp in the DW universe. Don't particularly care which doctor though I do like Ten more than the rest.
Ambre: Sky pirate on Jupiter's moon of Ganymede, she's a bit of a nutter. First Mate on the ship Stephanie's Day. Sci-fi/fantasy/futuristic. wide open space and adventure rp.
I have a crapload of other characters and ideas. If anything sounds appealing, give me a ring. Edit. My writing tends to be a kind of organic style. Doesn't have to make sense in a totally logical fashion, just needs to flow and feel right. Let the story grow.
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Rowling launches novel to fanfare, mixed reviews
LONDON (AP) ? After months of hype and anticipation, J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults has appeared, swept into the arms of hopeful booksellers and an army of grown-up Harry Potter fans eager to find out what his creator has done next.
A gritty and darkly humorous tale of ugly realities in a pretty English village, "The Casual Vacancy" seems a long way from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and reviewers gave it a mixed reception. But Rowling said Thursday she wasn't worried about the response.
"I've had my books burnt," said the author, whose magical stories were condemned as Satanist by some Christian groups. "I've got quite a way to go to upset people that much with 'A Casual Vacancy.'"
A story of ambition, envy and rivalry, the novel recounts the civic warfare sparked in the fictional Pagford when the unexpected death of a town official leaves a vacancy on the governing body. Characters set on a collision course range from the affluent lawyer Miles Mollison to the Weedons, a ramshackle clan living in The Fields, the run-down housing project on the edge of town.
Rowling told a 1,000-strong audience at London's Southbank Centre that the idea for the book ? "Local election sabotaged by teenagers, basically" ? came to her on a plane several years ago.
Writing for a more adult readership, she said, had been "freeing" ? though "in other senses it's a challenging book," told from multiple viewpoints.
Rowling said the book's focus on teenagers, the heart of Pagford and of the novel, was not a million miles from her previous work ? although these troubled and profane youngsters are "not Harry, Ron and Hermione."
"They are very different teenagers," Rowling said. "They are contemporary teenagers."
The book's sex and swearing have drawn the most comment so far ? some audience members were startled to hear the F-word pass Rowling's lips during Thursday's reading. But the presence of death is perhaps the book's most adult element, and one that loomed over Harry Potter's world, too.
"Death obsesses me," Rowling said. "I can't understand why it doesn't obsess everyone. Think it does. I'm just a little more 'out.'"
Five years after the last Potter book appeared, Rowling remains the world's most successful living writer. The lines were shorter and the wizard costumes missing, but "The Casual Vacancy" appeared to some of the same fanfare that greeted each Potter tome, with stores wheeling out crates of the books precisely at 8 a.m. as part of a finely honed marketing strategy.
And Rowling retains the intense loyalty of Potter fans. In contrast to the tight security that preceded the book's release, the atmosphere at Thursday' reading was warm; it felt like a reunion. Several audience members asked Potter-related questions, which Rowling answered at length. One young man, wearing a "Rowling is our Queen" T-shirt, asked if her could give her a present. Rowling accepted it graciously.
Many in the crowd were young adults who had grown up on Harry Potter and we keen to follow her wherever she wanted to go.
"She's been such an inspiration to everyone," said 18-year-old university student Milly Anderson. "She's not just influenced people's childhoods ? she's molded them."
Anderson said she was loving "The Casual Vacancy" ? once she'd got over the change from stories of the boy wizard and his Hogwarts chums.
"There's swearing and sex," she said. "It's a bit of a shock."
"The Casual Vacancy" is already at No. 1 on Amazon's U.S. chart, and bookmaker William Hill put 2-1 odds on it outselling "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which shifted 2.6 million copies in Britain on its first day.
Reviews have been mixed. The Associated Press judged it a challenging but rewarding read full of emotion and heart.
However, The New York Times' influential critic, Michiko Kakutani, was damning.
"The real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly cliched that 'The Casual Vacancy' is not only disappointing ? it's dull," she said.
The Guardian newspaper's reviewer, Theo Tait, said it was "no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny."
The Independent's Boyd Tonkin found the sometimes "long-winded and laborious" writing soared when Rowling focused on her teenage characters.
Others, though, felt the lack of likable characters might alienate readers and Daily Mail reviewer Jan Moir slammed Rowling's stark focus on Pagford's haves and have-nots as the work of a "left-leaning demagogue" painting "a bleak and rather one-sided vision of life in modern England."
Technical problems also arose Thursday. Kindle readers and other e-book users in the U.S. complained that the font was so small they could hardly read it. The American publisher, Little, Brown and Company, issued a statement late Thursday afternoon acknowledging "there were issues with that file, including the adjustability of font color and size and adjustability of margins." The publisher said the problem had been fixed and that those with a flawed text should ask retailers to send a new one. Some readers also were unhappy with the e-book's list price, $17.99, although that didn't keep the digital version from topping the Kindle charts.
It's likely nothing Rowling publishes will ever match the success of the Potter books, which have sold more than 450 million copies around the world.
But booksellers are confident "The Casual Vacancy" will be one of the year's best-sellers, whatever reviewers say.
"A lot of children have grown up with Harry Potter. They're now adults who love books," Susan Sinclair, divisional manager for the Foyles bookstore chain, said.
"I think it's going to be a really big seller at Christmas. It'll be an easy gift ? but also a good one."
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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless
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AP National Writer Hillel Italie in New York contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rowling-launches-novel-fanfare-mixed-reviews-193122300.html
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Friday, 28 September 2012
Smart Photo Import
With so many options for importing your digital photos into your PC?including the one built into the operating system?why would you pay for a separate app for the job? If you do a Web search for "photo import software," Smart Photo Import always shows up at or near the top, and even more than once for download sites that offer it. So I thought I'd take it for a spin. Nothing in the experience really answered the above question in a convincing way.
Smart Import's site claims that it's not just intended for getting new photos from your camera media: It's also about organizing photo files already scattered around your hard drive. And beyond just photos from cameras, it can also use WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) to acquire images from scanners.
Setup/Signup
Smart Photo Import costs 13 euros, or about $18 USD, but you can download and install it as a full-featured free trial. And there's no time limit; paying for the registration just gets you priority support and more comprehensive documentation.
Interface
The app's interface has a shiny chrome-like look that was fashionable among program skins several years ago. You can change the design from the Skin menu to two different choices, though they don't change the look of the buttons. A standard menu bar across the top offers File, View, Action, Tools, Skin, and Help choices. Below are two tab options for PC Drive and WIA (for scanner input).
Functionality
As you'd expect, Smart Photo Import adds an entry to the AutoPlay option that pops up when you insert camera media into a USB slot. Clicking this button populates the app's main window with thumbnails of the photos. You have quite a few options for how these thumbnails are displayed, dropdowns offer captioning by filename, date, size, title, author, and comments. A vertical slider lets you enlarge the thumbnails.
Double clicking on a thumbnail opens the full image. The program had no problem importing native raw image files from my Canon T1i , and it also supports the T2i, but the T3i and T4i aren't yet on its compatibility list. Adobe Camera Raw (used by Lightroom and Photoshop ) already supports those newer models. Also, loading full raw images was a bit slow. But Windows doesn't offer the raw import on its own, and the Adobe products cost considerably more.
When viewing images for import, you can sort by name, date, file size, or type. You can also filter the view to just files of certain types?raw, video, or a custom date range. You can rotate individual or all photos before importing them. You can also choose to have the photos renamed using a description and counter.
But there's quite a lot that you can't do, and that includes things you can do with Windows' included photo importer. You can't rate the photos or apply keyword tags to them. And the pro tools like Lightroom actually let you perform preset photo adjustments before import. And I didn't see any option to ignore duplicates during importing.
To actually import the photos to your PC, you click the COPY button, which can be switched to MOVE, if you don't want to keep the photos on the original media source. A dialog pops up telling you how many files you'll copy and to where, and you then can add a Subject for the folder name and hit CONFIRM.
To test, I tried copying 170 raw files of about 20MB each. During the import, I saw a series of progress bars, with no information as to what the current activity or file being imported was. At one point, I hit Esc to cancel, and to my surprise, there was no confirmation asking whether I really wanted to cancel, just an Aborted message box. Smart Photo Import took about the same amount of time as Windows picture import and Lightroom to import the 170 images?6:30 minutes. Smart Photo Import creates a folder structure under Documents (not Photos) in the format MyPhotos/2012/06/17/project name. Frankly, the free Windows photo importer does just as good a job of organizing created folders by date as Lightroom does.
Scanning with Smart Photo Import is no more intuitive and helpful than importing photos. It was able to turn on my scanner, but it really offered nothing over Windows Fax and Scan, which is actually clearer to use.
The Smartest Way to Import Photos?
Smart Photo Import is a program that probably has outlived its usefulness. Windows' built-in Import pictures and videos feature actually does at least as good a job, and if you're serious about digital photography, you'll get better import features from an app like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, which offers even more import options and supports more raw camera file formats. But even free options like Picasa or Windows Photo Gallery offer more in the way of organizing your photos. Smart Photo Import does do everything it claims, and doesn't crash; I just can't recommend it when there are better, free options.
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Thursday, 27 September 2012
Foldit: multiplayer online science game
Online gaming meets the laboratory in Foldit, a virtual way to solve real-world biomedical puzzles.
Last year, two teams of gamers co-authored a paper describing an HIV-related protein that had long stumped scientists. Not only did they puzzle out the protein?s elusive shape, but they did it in just three weeks. Their scientific method: play a multiplayer online game called Foldit.
Read more in PM?s October 2012 issue ? on sale on 24 September.
Source: http://www.popularmechanics.co.za/science/foldit-multiplayer-online-science-game/
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The Audi A8 Hybrid Sedan is here | Latest Auto Reviews
The A8 hybrid is a sedan with the electric range. The customers using this car are educated, young and have a good income . They value the environmental changes and re happy to drive the A8 hybrid because of its electric option.
- ? The A 8 hybrid is a
? 6 cylinder
? 245hp of system power
? Aluminum light weight body
? Front wheel drive
? Lithium battery provides 1.3kWh energy
? Top speed is 235km/h
? It takes 7.7 seconds to reach from 0 to 100km/h
? Weight of the car is 1870 kg
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It has a all electric mode where the top speed is 100km/h
? You have an option of running the car in either of the three ways .
? Design is very sleek. The A8 hybrid is 5.24 meters. The interiors are simple and sporty. The instructions can be read on the display panel. The seats have both the massage and the ventilation option. Good lighting is also there. A folding table is also available.
? The music is rocking with the Bose system
? The navigation and information is with the touch screen to enter the letters.
? The Bluetooth car phone connects you to the internet. U can surf your mails and any information required.
? It also can give you the traffic update and any relevant information.
? The A8 hybrid has four small cameras which assist you for night vision and parking .
? The electric motor and the combustion engine are located behind each other linked to the clutch.
? The AVS increases the efficiency and the torque depending on the engine speed
? The ANC removes any kind of engine noise .
- ? It has a electric motor which is disc shaped connected to the clutch . It runs very precisely and smooth.
? The center control has the select options for the driving program to use. The EV mode, D mode and the S mode.
? When the car is not moving the srive source deactivates itself.
? The A8 hybrid is a perfect combination of the luxury car and a sport car
? The tires are the 19 inch with 255/45 R19.
? The chassis is adjusted for the electric mode.
? The power steering is an electromagnetic one instead of the hydraulic one.
? Almost the whole car is made up of Aluminum.
? It has the ASF body and design
? The rear is very spacious and comfortable
? When driving the car as a sports car you can feel the electric motor helping you to boost the maneuverability as long as the battery is charged.
The Audi A8 hybrid is a super new generation luxury car best suited for the young, well paid , stylish customers who would love to drive it in the city as well as take it out for long drives . Keeping the mileage in mind too it is perfect for this segment.
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Fantastic Fest 2012: 'The Conspiracy' ? clever filmmaking ...
The Conspiracy
Directed by Christopher MacBride
Screenplay by Christopher MacBride
2012, Canada
Though it boasts a fictional storyline and plenty of fabricated found footage, The Conspiracy is fascinated with the earnest yet untenable obsession of the real conspiracy theorist. Ostensibly a straight-faced mockumentary about two filmmakers (Aaron Poole and Jim Gilbert) interviewing local conspiracy theorist Terrance G. (Alan C. Peterson), the opening third of The Conspiracy is Christopher MacBride?s sounding board for popular real-world conspiracies. The audience is inundated with speculation about 9/11, the JFK assassination, massive surveillance operations, and the New World Order?all presented with respect but objective detachment by MacBride.
This allows for the necessary introduction into the film?s world, but MacBride also draws the viewer into the frenzied mindset of conspiracy theorists. Whether you are a believer or not (and it?s unclear where exactly MacBride stands), it is nonetheless fascinating and rewarding to imagine the world that exists above and behind our own, providing its own sinister will in place of tragic chaos. And once it?s tapped into that reservoir of paranoia and awe, the film pretty much has your rapt attention.
In the process of filming the doc, Jim and Aaron discover that Terrance has gone missing. After finding his apartment ransacked, Aaron logically gathers the clippings and items of interest from Terrance?s conspiracy board and recreates it at home. At first seeming to be a collection of random and disconnected events and legislations, Aaron quickly discovers the?through-line?that Terrance had been plotting. As he descends into conspiratorial lunacy, Jim begins questioning the continued investigation. But the evidence stacks up and, with the help of the mysterious Mark Tucker (Bruce Clayton), the two launch a dangerous caper. The acting here is naturalistic and by and large seamless with a fantastic gallery of characters.
The first half, even with its wild postulating, is recognizable, by-the-numbers documentary filmmaking. It?s convincing and interesting, but also totally routine. In the second half, though, MacBride crafts a tense and taut found-footage thriller that uses its format unexpectedly well. It?s a surprising turn that?s not only exciting but begins to undermine the assumed nature of the film and reveal its hidden complexity. It?s impossible to describe what exactly Macbride does here without spoiling the fun, but suffice it to say this is very clever filmmaking that knows exactly how to toy with with its audience.
-Emmet Duff
Fantastic Fest runs September 20th ? September 27th.
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4 high schoolers held over alleged sexual hazing
By NBC News staff and wire reports
LOS ANGELES -- Four Los Angeles-area high school students have been arrested in an investigation into complaints that varsity soccer players sexually abused younger team members in hazing rituals that victims said were conducted with the complicity of a coach.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department opened an investigation at the request of the school district after a parent of one boy who claimed to have been harassed by teammates came forward to lodge a complaint, school officials said.
In a statement on the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District's website, its superintendent Barbara Nakaoka said she shared people's "shock and sadness."
"Our school community faces the tragic allegation that student-to-student hazing was taking place between members of a sports team at La Puente High School. The allegations are deeply concerning, and they have understandably caused tremendous anxiety and anger among students and parents," she said.
Comparisons to Penn State 'unfounded'
Nakaoka said the media had been "aggressively covering the story" amid comparisons with events at Penn State, where assistant football coach Jerry?Sandusky abused boys both on and off campus. In June, Sandusky was convicted of 45 offenses.
"I cannot allow this comparison to go unchallenged; if I were to let these unfounded comments go unchecked, then I would be indirectly telling students that their voices are not heard," she said.
A statement issued on Monday by the sheriff's department special victims bureau said more than 70 students at La Puente High School have been interviewed about allegations of hazing, and that four were arrested and released to the custody of their parents.
"The hazing incidents have gone on for several years and may have risen to the level of a crime," sheriff's Sergeant Al Fraijo said.
"At this point, there is no information to indicate that any member of faculty or coaching staff were directly involved," he added.
Sandusky victim sues Penn State for 'shameful' handling of complaints
But a lawyer representing the families of four boys who claim they were victimized said the hazing and assaults were carried out by team members against younger fellow players "at the behest and encouragement" of a coach.
The attorney, Brian Claypool, said the coach "lured young boys to a back room to facilitate varsity members of the team sexually assaulting the boys by attempting to sodomize them with a foreign object."
The attorney representing the four alleged hazing victims has now hired a clinical psychologist to help them cope with what they say is sexual assault, NBCLosAngeles.com reported.
"This is not hazing, this is a sexual assault. These boys when I saw them were in serious trauma. I did a suicide assessment on one of them," psychologist Michelle Golland said according to NBCLosAngeles.com, adding that the alleged victims were going through something akin to post-traumatic stress disorder.
"PTSD untreated will go into serious anxiety, serious depression. All of the families involved, they all need therapy as well, because they are in this vortex of trauma," Golland said.
One of the alleged victims, named as "John," told the Dr. Drew Show on cable channel HLN that six or seven people had thrown him to the floor and were "beating on me" in one incident.
Florida A&M University suspends dance group amid new hazing probe
The Los Angeles Times and other media reported on Tuesday that a coach, who has not been identified, has been placed on administrative leave.
Claypool also said the hazing occurred next to a coach's office, and that "the school knew or should have known that these horrific acts were being carried out on school grounds."
Texas mother furious that male vice principal spanked her daughter
He accused school officials of "attempting to cover up the ongoing hazing incidents," and said he planned to file suit against the high school and the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District.?
Reuters and NBC News' Ian Johnston contributed to this report.
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Selling With Stories - Duct Tape Marketing
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This is certainly not the first time I?ve written about using stories in business and it certainly won?t be the last.
I?ve been spreading the message of employing personal stories in marketing and selling for over fifteen years now and it?s incredibly encouraging to see how this concept routinely accepted these days. It wasn?t always the case.
I remember participants in speaking events actually recoiling at the notion that I suggest they share something personal in their marketing materials. There was a time when people didn?t share with the world what they just had for lunch ? I know, hard to believe, but true.
Now, some may suggest that social media sharing has opened the world up to a new level of personal storytelling and some might suggest that perhaps we are sharing ?too much information?, but either way, the power of a relevant story to help educate, connect and yes, sell, is undeniable.
I want to share a recent story about how a story moved me to act.
My wife and I were attending a local art fair in our neighborhood. I first must share that I have a fondness for woodworking and am often drawn to booths of the makers of wooden furniture, bowls, train sets, etc.
On this incredibly splendid first day of Fall I found myself in the booth of a Wisconsin woodworker named Dan Dunbar. I was admiring a simple writing desk and chair for both its beauty and incredible functionality.
As a writer I?ve found that I have to be sitting in precisely the right spot to get much done. I can?t lounge around on the couch or sit at the kitchen table, I have to be very intentional about where I write in order to be productive.
I admired this writing desk for its decidedly analog feel. I also picked up the style and engineering of the well known Japanese-American woodworker George Nakashima. Years ago I purchased his book, The Soul of a Tree, and have admired his signature look ever since.
As I studied the desk, the artist approached me and started to tell me a little about the joinery, design approach and types of woods he used (Sugar Maple and Paduak.)
But, it was what he shared next that made me need this desk.
He told me about this maple tree he had admired on many walks in a nearby wood and how he noticed a few years back that it had developed a disease and was rotting. He saw the rot was worsening so he felled the tree before it rotted completely out.
When he cut clean across he learned by the tight rings that the tree had struggled its entire life for light, growing slowly, but for 360 years the tree had grown thick and with intention.
He had cut this desk and chair from the tree and allowed the material to guide him in finding both its form and its function. He showed me how the piece held itself together and how each separate components cooperated in making a useful object that could be art.
By the time he finished telling his story I felt as though I knew this desk, that I had met the original tree on one of my many treks in the woods and that I connected with the intention and purpose of the artist so thoroughly that I had to acquire this piece. Price, while always a factor, was no longer a constraint. Don?s story sold me a piece of art.
One of the most important elements of this telling is to also understand the role of the story I (the prospect) was telling myself. Dan did not know I was a writer, he did not know I admired Nakashima, he did not know that I enjoy spending time in nature, but he told me a story about himself and his craft and allowed my inner story to do the rest.
So, what?s your story? How can you use stories to bring seemingly inanimate objects to life? How can you use your story to help others build stories? How can your stories help clients connect?
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Source: http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2012/09/25/selling-with-stories/
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Euro zone to boost bailout fund firepower to 2 trillion euros: report
BERLIN (Reuters) - Euro zone states are preparing to allow the bloc's permanent bailout fund to leverage its capital in the same way as its predecessor so it can reach a capacity of more than 2 trillion euros and rescue big countries if necessary, Der Spiegel said on Sunday.
The weekly news magazine said that the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) would have two instruments like its predecessor, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), that would only allow public money to be used for particularly risky transactions such as buying Spanish bonds, while private investors would provide the rest.
It had always been expected that the ESM, which is expected to come into force on October 8 with a capacity of 500 billion euros, would have the same leverage ability as the EFSF and euro zone finance ministers reiterated this at their meeting in Cyprus earlier this month.
If the ESM gets approval to use the same leverage techniques as the EFSF, it would have a lending power of around 2 trillion euros without countries having to contribute any more capital to the fund.
But these leverage options have not been approved by all euro zone member states and Finland is especially reluctant to agree to them.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble supports the plan but Finland is preventing the Eurogroup from passing it quickly, the report said.
A spokeswoman for the German finance ministry confirmed that following the German Constitutional Court's ruling on the ESM, the guidelines in Europe were being reworked and that part of this would be covered by the ESM while the rest would come from private investors, which would be a kind of leverage.
This part was in the process of being approved in Brussels, she said.
The spokeswoman said that the ESM would have the same tools as the EFSF.
She also said that German liability remained capped at 190 billion euros and added that when work had been completed at an EU level, the result would be presented to the German Bundestag lower house of parliament for approval.
The figure of 2 trillion euros was, however, incomprehensible, she said.
A spokesman for the European Commission declined to comment.
A separate report in Germany's Focus magazine said that Schaeuble and German Chancellor Angela Merkel wanted to beef up the position of the EU Currency Commissioner to give him the sole power to decide in deficit proceedings against states which do not stick to their targets.
Merkel and Schaeuble also want the EU Currency Commissioner to have the power to demand amendments to draft budgets which include excessive deficits, the magazine said.
A spokesman for the finance ministry declined to comment on the Focus report and pointed both to ongoing discussions and to the task of heads of government to think about ways to strengthen the currency union.
(Reporting by Michelle Martin and Thorsten Severin in Berlin and Luke Baker and John O'Donnell in Brussels; Editing by David Cowell)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/euro-zone-boost-bailout-fund-firepower-2-trillion-082601845.html
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Steve Wozniak Australia - Business Insider
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The Australian Financial Review is reporting that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak would like to become an Australian citizen.
But unlike others, who have sought foreign citizenship for financial reasons, that's not the case with Woz.
Mr Wozniak told The Australian Financial Review in Sydney that he had spoken to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and was in support of the federal government?s fibre rollout.
?I spoke to him and they plan to roll it out to everyone in the country,? Mr Wozniak said.
?I support it very much. It?s one of the reasons why I actually like this country and want to become a citizen. I live in a country where we don?t have any regulation of telecommunications.?
In fact, it sounds like he wants to keep his US citizenship. He really seems to like the country's broadband plan, and that's why he wants to be a citizen.
(Via Bloomberg)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-australia-2012-9
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Gamer Syndrome - Video Game Blog, Video Games Reviews & News
StreetPass, as 3DS owners know, is the greatest free feature on the system. Its simple yet vastly compelling, with the puzzle piece collecting in Puzzle Swap and the mini-RPG gameplay in Find Mii/Streetpass Quest incredibly addictive. But the ingenuity at hand goes beyond?a fun, free little distraction for ourselves.
Here are three groups of people that are also benefitting from this fantastic little add-on.
1: Nintendo
The service serves as an indirect form of advertising for Nintendo. You see, if it weren?t for StreetPass, you might not feel like carrying a 3DS everywhere with you every day ? whether its because you know you won? t have time to play it on your travels or you don?t have any games you feel like playing at the moment. But because of the addictive nature of StreetPass, we take our systems around with us anyway, because there?s nothing more pleasing than seeing that green light shine to indicate you have a new visitor in your Plaza.
And because more people are rewarded for taking their portable everywhere, there are more 3DS? people will see being played across the world ? in parks, on public transport, schools, shopping centres, you name it. This undoubtedly attracts new customers ? people are willing to follow the crowd if they keep seeing the latest gadget flaunted about everywhere, or at the very least helps plant the 3DS? existence in people?s minds. With the rise of iOS platforms threatening the handheld competition, Nintendo need all the support they can get when spreading the word of their 3DS, and this is a fantastic method.
2: Publishers and Developers
A sad fact about the games industry is that there are fantastic games out there that just won?t sell. When the sales numbers don?t meet expectations, fans are commonly disappointed because a sequel isn?t financially possible. Luckily, there?s a neat feature on StreetPass that shows a little information about you (if you wish to share it) ? name, bio, hobbies, and most importantly: the game you were last playing.
There?s already tons of niche 3DS games that won?t grasp the mass public?s attention like a Brain Training clone or yet another Sudoku collection sadly will. Games like Cave Story 3D, Tales of the Abyss, Bit.Trip Saga and more can get free publicity ? and all you have to do is play them! Underrated eShop gems such as?Mutant Mudds, Mighty Switch Force and?VVVVVV can also partake in this alongside retail games. When a fellow Nintendo fan happens upon greeting your Mii into their Plaza, they may get to see a game they haven?t heard of before. Not only that, but by selecting the ?Most Recent Software? option, they can find out more about the game from the eShop in the palm of their hands.
3: Consumers
There are many great advantages for us too, besides having an already great feature to play with. As the aforementioned new customers that are drawn in continue to increase, this means?more 3DS owners and therefore more StreetPass hits for us.
Nintendo is no stranger to encouraging us to exercise with the Wii (and Wii U?s) motion controls and fitness titles. The StreetPass functionality persuades us to get outside and go for walks just to gain more hits, thus?subliminally?getting people worldwide to become more active. Which also means we have yet another factor to argue with when the idiotic tabloids still insist on spouting nonsense that video games are bad for everyone.
So there you go: 3DS? StreetPass is good for everyone and everything in every way every day. Its also (probably) the cure for every terminal disease in the world. Sharing Kirby puzzle pieces with one another is surely taking us a step closer to world peace.
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My name is Reece, and pictured here is my Goomba! I'm an aspiring writer from England. I've been into gaming since I was about 4 years old, playing the Game Boy, PSOne and Sega Mega Drive (Genesis to you Americans!). Having these systems around during my youth lead to the greatest and most-anticipated Christmas ever - the year I got my N64! Open to any system and genre, I remain completely unbiased as a proud owner of a Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 and 3DS. Come on Vita, give me more reasons to buy you too! My favourite games are Resident Evil 2, Zelda: The Wind Waker, Streets of Rage 2, Left 4 Dead, Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. I also write news for Explosion.com. You can catch me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReeceH92Source: http://gamersyndrome.com/2012/video-games/3-reasons-why-streetpass-one-of-nintendos-best-ideas-ever/
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Monday, 24 September 2012
Rocker Billie Joe Armstrong getting treatment after public meltdown
Billie Joe Armstrong, the front man of rock group Green Day, has entered treatment for substance abuse, according to a statement on the band's website.
The announcement came two days after the rocker had a meltdown onstage at the iHeart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas.
Armstrong became angry after the band was flashed a one-minute warning sign to wrap up the set on Friday. The front man stopped singing and delivered a profanity-laced tirade that was captured on a video that quickly went viral.
"You're going to give me one [expletive] minute? You've go to be [expletive] kidding me," he screamed. "It's a [expletive] joke!"
When the one minute ran out, the "American Idiot" singer smashed his guitar on the stage.
"Let me show you what one one [expletive] minute [expletive] means!" he said before flipping the middle finger and walking off stage.
The band issued a statement apologizing for Armstrong's outburst at the festival.
"We would like everyone to know that our set was not cut short by Clear Channel and to apologize to those we offended at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas," the statement said.
The band had to cancel some promotional appearances for their new album, "Uno," which was due to be released Tuesday.
Earlier this month, the singer was admitted to the hospital in Italy, forcing the band to cancel a concert in Bologna.
His band mates, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt, released a short video apologizing to their fans.
"We apologize profusely, you know, this is really unfortunate, but Billie got rushed to the hospital last night due to illness, and the doctors don't think it's a good idea for him to play today," Dirnt says in the video.
"We're beyond devastated and sad," Cool adds, "Billie is extremely upset about it, and we'll see you soon."
Armstrong had reportedly been suffering from "gastric problems." No further information has been released about his condition.
The rocker is set to debut on season 3 of NBC's "The Voice" as a mentor on Christina Aguilera's team.
ABC News' Erin McLaughlin contributed to this report.
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Sunday, 23 September 2012
Toca Band iPad app review
Toca Boca makes delightful apps for children. The lastest, Toca Band, is no exception. The app features a range of cartoon characters, each of which sings part of a song. Some of them sing parts of the vocals, for example, while others handle bass or percussion.
By placing them in different positions on stage it's possible to create very different pieces of music. The higher up the stage you place a character, the more active they are in the song. That means you can create something very beat-driven by placing the percussion high up, or remove the percussion entirely and have something more relaxed.
At the top, in the centre, is a star stage. Put a character on here and you will be able to improvise with them, adding your own style to the song.
As always, the animation and artwork is enjoyably silly and the app follows Toca Boca's usual model of providing an open-ended toy that children can play with in their own way. Younger children will simply enjoy dragging the characters on and off the stage, while older children will be able to spend more time creating exactly the song they want.
The downside is that there is just one song. This lack of variety won't bother small children, who will happily play for hours, but it might start to drive parents to distraction well before then.
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Friday, 21 September 2012
Facebook shutting down facial recognition in the EU, gets stamp of approval from Ireland DPC
Earlier this year, Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner, a body whose decisions impact Facebook's policies in Europe at large, made several recommendations to bring the website in line with regional privacy laws, calling for greater transparency on how users' data is handled and more user control over settings, among other things. The DPC just officially announced that Zuckerberg et al. have for the most part adjusted its policies accordingly. The biggest change involves the facial recognition feature, which attempts to identify Facebook friends in photos and suggest their names for tagging. The social network turned off this functionality for new users in the EU -- and it will be shutting it down entirely by October 15th. It's not like Ireland, home to Facebook's European HQ, is the first to give the site flack about such features: Germany was having none of it when the site introduced facial recognition last summer.
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Syrian activists: airstrikes kill at least 30
In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo,a Free Syrian Army fighter soldier stands at the front line in the Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo,a Free Syrian Army fighter soldier stands at the front line in the Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo, the body of an elderly man, said by rebels to be a Coptic Christian, lies at the door of a hospital controlled by the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo, Syria.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo, a man lies in the hospital after being shot by a Syrian Army sniper near his home in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo, a Free Syrian Army sniper stands at the front line in the Amariya district in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
In this Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 photo, blood stains a wall in a hospital controlled by the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo, Syria.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian opposition activists said a regime airstrike hit a gas station in the north of the country Thursday, setting off an explosion that killed at least 30 people and wounding dozens more.
The explosion went off in the town of Ain Issa, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the Turkish border, said Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Abdul-Rahman said witnesses told him they saw at least 30 bodies, but that the death toll was likely to rise. He said dozens of people were wounded.
Abdul-Rahman quoted one witness as saying the blast was caused by an airstrike, but that the Observatory could not independently confirm the cause of the explosion.
Another group of anti-regime activists, the Local Coordination Committees, reported intense attacks by warplanes on the gas station.
The group did not give a death toll, saying only that many people were killed or wounded. It said more than 70 wounded people were taken to a hospital in the provincial capital of Raqqa.
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Unusual symbiosis discovered in marine microorganisms
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Single-celled algae and nitrogen-fixing bacteria help fertilize the oceans
Scientists have discovered an unusual symbiosis between tiny single-celled algae and highly specialized bacteria in the ocean.
The partnership plays an important role in fertilizing the oceans by taking nitrogen from the atmosphere and "fixing" it into a form that other organisms can use.
Details of the finding, published in this week's issue of the journal Science, emerged from the investigation of a mysterious nitrogen-fixing microbe that has a very small genome.
First detected in 1998 by Jonathan Zehr, a marine scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), the microbe now appears to be the most widespread nitrogen-fixing organism in the oceans.
It belongs to a group of photosynthetic bacteria known as cyanobacteria, but it lacks the genes needed to carry out photosynthesis.
Apparently its association with the algae makes those genes unnecessary.
"The cyanobacterium is a nitrogen-fixer, so it provides nitrogen to the host cell [the algae], and the host cell provides needed carbon to the cyanobacterium, which is lacking the machinery to get its own," says Anne Thompson, a lead author of the paper and researcher at UCSC. Rachel Foster of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology is the other lead author.
The finding has uncovered a symbiosis between two types of microorganisms that had remained hidden until now, says Matt Kane, program director in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research along with NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences.
"Genomic analysis indicates that the partnership between these organisms in some ways models the one that led to the evolution of plant organelles," says Kane.
This is an interesting symbiosis from an evolutionary perspective, says Zehr, "because it can be seen as analogous to an early stage in the endosymbiosis that led to chloroplasts in plants."
Chloroplasts, which carry out photosynthesis in all plants, evolved from symbiotic cyanobacteria that eventually were incorporated into host cells in a process known as endosymbiosis.
In previous work, Zehr's team had studied the cyanobacteria in samples processed at sea and brought back to the lab.
The researchers were able to sequence the microbe's complete genome. They discovered that it's missing the genes for several key metabolic pathways, suggesting that it might live in association with another organism.
The scientists were only able to see the symbiotic partners together when they sorted freshly collected seawater samples onboard a research vessel.
"Our collaborators at the University of Hawaii, Dave Karl and Ken Doggett, put a cell sorter into a portable laboratory--a lab in a box--so now we can take the machine to sea and sort cells that minutes before were in their natural environment," says Thompson. "That's how we found the association."
Zehr noted that it's difficult to estimate the contribution of this symbiosis to global carbon and nitrogen cycles.
Other algae are more abundant and may be more important in terms of the ocean's carbon cycle than the algae hosts in this symbiosis, he says. But the cyanobacteria partners likely make this a significant contribution to global nitrogen fixation in the oceans.
"Planktonic symbioses are very difficult to study," says Foster. "The associations are often fragile. Here we used multiple tools to identify one of the first examples of this kind of partnership in plankton."
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In addition to Thompson, Zehr and Foster, the co-authors of the paper include Andreas Krupke, Niculina Musat and Marcel Kuypers of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology; Brandon Carter of UCSC; and Daniel Vaulot of the Station Biologique de Roscoff and the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.
The research was also funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Max Planck Society.
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Single-celled algae and nitrogen-fixing bacteria help fertilize the oceans
Scientists have discovered an unusual symbiosis between tiny single-celled algae and highly specialized bacteria in the ocean.
The partnership plays an important role in fertilizing the oceans by taking nitrogen from the atmosphere and "fixing" it into a form that other organisms can use.
Details of the finding, published in this week's issue of the journal Science, emerged from the investigation of a mysterious nitrogen-fixing microbe that has a very small genome.
First detected in 1998 by Jonathan Zehr, a marine scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), the microbe now appears to be the most widespread nitrogen-fixing organism in the oceans.
It belongs to a group of photosynthetic bacteria known as cyanobacteria, but it lacks the genes needed to carry out photosynthesis.
Apparently its association with the algae makes those genes unnecessary.
"The cyanobacterium is a nitrogen-fixer, so it provides nitrogen to the host cell [the algae], and the host cell provides needed carbon to the cyanobacterium, which is lacking the machinery to get its own," says Anne Thompson, a lead author of the paper and researcher at UCSC. Rachel Foster of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology is the other lead author.
The finding has uncovered a symbiosis between two types of microorganisms that had remained hidden until now, says Matt Kane, program director in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research along with NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences.
"Genomic analysis indicates that the partnership between these organisms in some ways models the one that led to the evolution of plant organelles," says Kane.
This is an interesting symbiosis from an evolutionary perspective, says Zehr, "because it can be seen as analogous to an early stage in the endosymbiosis that led to chloroplasts in plants."
Chloroplasts, which carry out photosynthesis in all plants, evolved from symbiotic cyanobacteria that eventually were incorporated into host cells in a process known as endosymbiosis.
In previous work, Zehr's team had studied the cyanobacteria in samples processed at sea and brought back to the lab.
The researchers were able to sequence the microbe's complete genome. They discovered that it's missing the genes for several key metabolic pathways, suggesting that it might live in association with another organism.
The scientists were only able to see the symbiotic partners together when they sorted freshly collected seawater samples onboard a research vessel.
"Our collaborators at the University of Hawaii, Dave Karl and Ken Doggett, put a cell sorter into a portable laboratory--a lab in a box--so now we can take the machine to sea and sort cells that minutes before were in their natural environment," says Thompson. "That's how we found the association."
Zehr noted that it's difficult to estimate the contribution of this symbiosis to global carbon and nitrogen cycles.
Other algae are more abundant and may be more important in terms of the ocean's carbon cycle than the algae hosts in this symbiosis, he says. But the cyanobacteria partners likely make this a significant contribution to global nitrogen fixation in the oceans.
"Planktonic symbioses are very difficult to study," says Foster. "The associations are often fragile. Here we used multiple tools to identify one of the first examples of this kind of partnership in plankton."
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In addition to Thompson, Zehr and Foster, the co-authors of the paper include Andreas Krupke, Niculina Musat and Marcel Kuypers of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology; Brandon Carter of UCSC; and Daniel Vaulot of the Station Biologique de Roscoff and the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.
The research was also funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Max Planck Society.
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ZTE will launch smartphones with Mozilla?s Firefox OS early next year
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