Friday, October 26, 2012

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Special Education Law Blog: Sometimes My Job Is Very Cool - Part II

OK so it isn't the Virgin Islands. But still my work often takes me around the incredible state of West Virginia.? Here is one scene I drove past yesterday.? Guess where the "Almost Heaven..." idea came from.


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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Real Estate Investment Property Management

Property Manager Provo Purchasing real estate can be a profitable and enjoyable venture as you monitor the growth and profits of your investment over a long period of time. It can also be an incredibly time-consuming process with money to collect, residents to find, and areas to update and repair. If you have purchased real estate but also have other responsibilities and projects, you probably don?t have the time to properly manage your investment. Select a reputable property manager to help correct this problem. Property managers can assist in the process of finding residents, collecting rent, and communicating with the residents of the property. We will work diligently to be the source of the very best property management services you will find anywhere. We know that different properties need different procedures and we are flexible and innovative. For a great solution to your property management concerns, call us today. Investment Property maintenance

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CONTINUITYX DEPLOYS CLOUD-BASED SOLUTION PORTFOLIO ...

ContinuityX takes advantage of Cologix platform to on-ramp customer demand from data centers in 151 Front Street in Toronto and 1950 North Stemmons in Dallas.

Denver, Colorado ? October 23, 2012 ? Cologix?, a network neutral interconnection and colocation company, announced today that ContinuityX Solutions, Inc. (CUSX), a unique provider of business continuity and disaster recovery services, has selected Cologix to expand their service offering in Toronto and Dallas.? ContinuityX will add nodes in Cologix?s 151 Front Street data center in Toronto and in Cologix?s new expansion facility at 1950 North Stemmons in Dallas to their North American network.? With this deployment, ContinuityX becomes a significant platform customer of Cologix.

?We are committed to continually supporting our customer?s application and infrastructure growth in strategic network locations,? stated Kathy Godwin, senior vice president-operations for ContinuityX.? ?Our presence with Cologix in Toronto and Dallas expands our network breadth, including a presence in Canada, which provides additional robustness to our portfolio and enables access to a new set of customers looking for a consultative approach to continuity services.?

ContinuityX provides consulting services and management of business continuity, virtual/cloud hosting, managed equipment and storage, monitoring, VoIP and voice needs. Their mission is to provide clients with business continuity and disaster recovery solutions faster, more efficiently, and more cost effectively through their unique consultative approach.

?As the demand for cloud based solutions continues to grow, Cologix is committed to offering a stable, scalable, network neutral environment for our customers,? stated Rob Devita, General Manager, Cologix Dallas.? ?We welcome the opportunity to support ContinuityX across our North American platform.? Our customers will value the presence of ContinuityX in our facilities, including the broad range of carriers in our Meet-Me-Rooms as an on-ramp to their cloud services.?

Cologix operates data centers in the carrier hotels in both Toronto and Dallas.? Cologix has recently announced Tier 3 expansions in each market which will be operational in the coming months, bringing total footprints to well over 40K SQF in each market.? With data centers in Dallas, Minneapolis, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, Cologix provides one of North America?s largest neutral marketplaces where network operators and network buyers interconnect.? Cologix offers over 300 network choices, manages thousands of interconnections and has over 550 customers that utilize Cologix colocation and interconnection services in order to grow their networks rapidly and cost-effectively.

About Cologix, Inc.

Cologix, Inc. is a network neutral interconnection and colocation company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, that provides massively scalable interconnection services and secure, reliable colocation services in densely connected, strategically located facilities in Dallas, Minneapolis, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.? With more than 300 network choices and eleven prime interconnection locations, Cologix currently serves over 550 carrier, managed services, cloud, media, content, financial services and enterprise customers. The company?s experienced team of communications infrastructure professionals is committed to providing its customers the highest standard of local customer support.

For more information about Cologix, please visit the company?s website at www.cologix.com.

About ContinuityX

ContinuityX provides consulting services and management of business continuity, virtual/cloud hosting, managed equipment and storage, monitoring, VoIP and voice needs.? The company?s unique consultative approach provides clients with business continuity and disaster recovery solutions faster and more cost effectively than competitors.? The Company offers application development and management, migration and re-engineering, system integration and cross connects, and IT infrastructure services including data center, converged networks (public/private cloud) services and transformation solutions.? ContinuityX markets its services and expertise alongside Level3, XO Communications, Zayo Group and other leading carriers and strategic channel partners.

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Bank of America Hit by Another Discrimination ... - AOL Real Estate

Bank of America and foreclosed homes

The vacant property next door to Chicago resident Mae Campbell has cast a pall over her neighborhood of Austin for more than five years. The home, which she said was owned by Bank of America until very recently, has overgrown grass, water damage and boarded-up windows.

"We bought locks to chain it up to keep squatters out," Campbell said, referring to her and her neighbors' efforts to secure the home. "All of the pipe and wiring was taken out [by looters], all of the plumbing."

Campbell, who is black, lives in a minority neighborhood, and her tale of troubles with Bank of America-owned properties that have fallen into disrepair typifies a much wider problem facing minority communities across the country, according to the National Fair Housing Alliance.

The NFHA announced Tuesday that it has filed a third complaint with the Department of Housing and Urban Development against Bank of America, charging that the bank neglects its properties in minority neighborhoods while paying special attention to maintaining its homes in predominantly white neighborhoods.

The group's new complaint amends a previous one to add Chicago, Milwaukee and Indianapolis to a list of areas where the bank has allegedly discriminated against minorities through its management of bank-owned properties (an example one such home is pictured above). Two previous complaints identified California, Michigan, the East Coast, Orlando, Fla., and Charleston, S.C., as places with disparities in the way BofA maintained its foreclosures.

"Bank of America has an obligation -- a duty under federal law -- not to discriminate," Peter Romer-Friedman, counsel to the National Fair Housing Alliance, said at a press conference Tuesday. "Unfortunately, our investigation has revealed Bank of America has woefully failed to take care of its fair housing obligations ... when it comes to the maintenance and marketing of REO properties."

Bank of America did not respond to a request for comment.

The NFHA's amended complaint further expands an even wider anti-discrimination campaign that the group is waging against other major mortgage lenders, including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank.

'The Banks Are Back -- Our Neighborhoods Are Not'

NFHA's allegations stem from an investigation that found that bank-owned homes (also known as real estate owned properties or REOs) in minority communities were much more likely to have maintenance or marketing deficiencies, such as broken windows, water damage, unkempt lawns and no for-sale signs.

"REO properties in communities of color generally appeared vacant, abandoned, blighted and unappealing to real estate agents who might market the unit to homebuyers," according to the NFHA report on the investigation, titled "The Banks Are Back -- Our Neighborhoods Are Not." "On the other hand, REOs in white communities generally appeared inhabited, well-maintained and attractive to real estate agents and homebuyers."

Bank of America and foreclosed homes, subject of National Fair Housing Alliance report In Chicago, an REO in a minority neighborhood is twice as likely to have trash on its lawn, twice as likely to have dead grass on more than 50 percent of its lot, nearly five times as likely to have damaged steps or handrails, and 12 times as likely to have damaged windows, according to Anne Houghtaling, executive director of the HOPE Fair Housing Center, which participated in the NFHA investigation.

On top of that, 80 percent of REOs in those neighborhoods also did not have for-sale signs, making it harder for them to attract possible buyers, she said.

It's easy to identify an REO in a minority neighborhood because "from a block away, you see the trash," Houghtaling said. "In the white communities, the only way you might know [that the home is a foreclosed property] is when you see a for-sale sign."

Much More Than Just an Eyesore

Campbell is well aware of how such neglect can drag down a neighborhood. She said that the property next to hers isn't just an eyesore, it has also damaged the value of her home and caused her homeowner's insurance to rise.

A report released Wednesday by the Center for Responsible Lending underscored the unfair penalty homeowners like Campbell pay for living next to foreclosures.


The study found that foreclosures' negative effect on neighboring homes' property values disproportionately impacts minorities. Minority-owned homes have lost $1 trillion in value since 2007 due to neighboring foreclosures, the report found, half of the total property value lost to such "foreclosure spillover costs."


Campbell said that she tried to purchase the home, but Bank of America never responded to her offer. Just two weeks ago, the home, which has not had a for-sale sign in the yard for years, sold to an investor, she said. And she said the same thing happened to another REO next door to her, selling for just $6,000.

"I, as a person that lived in the community, was denied the right to purchase it," she said. "I got nothing but the runaround."

And investors snapping up foreclosures is not always a good thing.

"Investors don't necessarily care about neighborhood vitality. A person who lives next door is more likely to care," Douglas Robinson, a spokesperson for NeighborWorks America, told AOL Real Estate. NeighborWorks rehabs foreclosures and then sells or rents them to low-income Americans.

Banks' failure to adequately market REOs makes it more likely that investors, who are more attractive buyers to banks because they pay cash, will purchase them at steep discounts.

"[Purchasing a foreclosure] takes wealth that was built up over generations" for minorities, said NFHA president Shanna L. Smith at Tuesday's news conference, "and redistributes it to investment firms."

An Expanding Campaign

The NFHA filed similar complaints against U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo before targeting Bank of America, partly because Bank of America had first initiated discussions with the NFHA aimed at heading off the possibility of a lawsuit.

But "Bank of America did not step up to the plate ... in maintaining and marketing REO properties," an NFHA spokesperson told AOL Real Estate. "When discussions break down, we take action."

The NFHA said that, to settle the complaints, banks must end their discriminatory management of REOs, provide relief to minority communities impacted by REOs and compensate the NFHA for their investigation.

See also:
Vacant Homes Plague Neighbors as Lenders Drag Feet
RealtyTrac Election Housing Report Finds Housing Market Worse Off than in 2008
Loan Officer Lifts the Lid on Deceptive Lending in 'The Liar and His Loans'

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How President Obama And Mitt Romney Compare On Student Loan Policy (INFOGRAPHIC)

At more than $1 trillion, there's more student loan debt than any other type of consumer debt in the United States.

But because of a 2005 law ushered through Congress by Republicans, student loans are the only type of debt that is nearly impossible to discharge in bankruptcy.

Members of the Obama administration have said Congress should rethink that rule, and who occupies the Oval Office for the next four years could have a huge impact on any attempt to change student loan policy.

Although student loan debt and policy weren't discussed much in the presidential debates, the good people at LawQA and BlueGlass Interactive, Inc. have come up with a handy infographic to break down some of the key differences between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on student loan policy.

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Monday, October 15, 2012

Sept. 11 trial rules under scrutiny at Guantanamo

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) ? A U.S. military judge is considering broad security rules for the war crimes tribunal of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks, including measures to prevent the accused from publicly revealing what happened to them in the CIA's secret network of overseas prisons.

Prosecutors have asked the judge at a pretrial hearing starting Monday to approve what is known as a protective order that is intended to prevent the release of classified information during the eventual trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has portrayed himself as the mastermind of the terror attacks, and four co-defendants.

Lawyers for the defendants say the rules, as proposed, will hobble their defense. The American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed a challenge to the protective order, says the restrictions will prevent the public from learning what happened to Mohammed and his co-defendants during several years of CIA confinement and interrogation.

The protective order requires the court to use a 40-second delay during court proceedings so that spectators, who watch behind sound-proof glass, can be prevented from hearing ? from officials, lawyers or the defendants themselves ? the still-classified details of the CIA's rendition and detention program.

"What we are challenging is the censorship of the defendant's testimony based on their personal knowledge of the government's torture and detention of them," said Hina Shamsi, an ACLU attorney who will be arguing against the protective order during the pretrial hearing at the U.S. base in Cuba.

The protective order, which is also being challenged by a coalition of media organizations that includes The Associated Press, is overly broad because it would "classify the defendants own knowledge, thoughts and experience," Shamsi said in an interview.

"It's a truly extraordinary and chilling proposal that the government is asking the court to accept," she said.

Protective orders are standard method in civilian and military trials to set rules for handling evidence for the prosecution and defense. Military prosecutors argue in court papers that the Sept. 11 trial requires additional security because the accused have personal knowledge of classified information such as interrogation techniques and knowledge about which other countries provided assistance in their capture.

"Each of the accused is in the unique position of having had access to classified intelligence sources and methods," the prosecution says in court papers. "The government, like the defense, must protect that classified information from disclosure."

Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor for the military commissions, said Sunday that the security precautions are necessary to prevent the release information that could harm U.S. intelligence operations or personnel around the world, and not to prevent embarrassing the government or to cover-up wrongdoing.

"Our government's sources and methods are not an open book," Martins said.

The U.S. government has acknowledged that before the defendants were taken to Guantanamo in September 2006 they were subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as the simulated drowning method known as water-boarding. Defense attorneys say the treatment will be used to form the basis of their defense but the proposed protective order limits their ability to make that case in court and in public advocacy on behalf of their clients.

"It's a way in which the government can hide what it did to these men during the period of detention by the CIA," said Army Capt. Jason Wright, a Pentagon-appointed attorney for Mohammed. "I think we need to bring the truth to the light of day on these issues."

The judge's approval of the protective order, which may not happen this week, must occur before the Sept. 11 case can move forward. Defense lawyers cannot begin to review classified evidence against their clients until it is in place.

The protective order is the most contentious of about two dozen preliminary motions scheduled to be heard during a pretrial hearing expected to run through Friday. Other matters include whether the defendants can be required to attend court sessions, what clothing they are allowed to wear and defense requests for additional resources for what is considered one of the most significant terrorism prosecutions in U.S. history.

The families of people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks have been invited to military installations in the U.S. states of New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland and New York City to watch the pretrial hearings, which are closed to the general public. An earlier round of hearings in May was also transmitted to viewing locations for relatives of the victims, survivors of the attacks, and emergency personnel who responded to the disaster.

Mohammed and his four co-defendants are being prosecuted in a special military tribunal for war-time offenses known as a military commission. They were arraigned May 5 on charges that include terrorism, conspiracy and 2,976 counts of murder in violation of the law of war, one count for each known victim of the Sept. 11 attacks at the time the charges were filed. They could get the death penalty if convicted.

Mohammed, a Pakistani citizen who grew up in Kuwait and attended college in North Carolina, has told military officials that he planned the Sept. 11 attacks "from A to Z" and was involved in about 30 other terrorist plots. He has said, among other things, that he personally beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The other defendants are Ramzi Binalshibh; Walid bin Attash; Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi; and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali.

Their arraignment was an unruly, 13-hour proceeding in which the defendants stalled proceedings by refusing the use the court translation system and ignoring the judge. Subsequent hearings to handle pretrial motions were postponed because of scheduling conflicts, the Muslim holy period of Ramadan and Tropical Storm Isaac. Several more pretrial hearings must be held to litigate hundreds of motions before the start of the trial, which is likely at least a year away.

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Second act career

Dear Sam: I have been self-employed for 16 years as an Independent Manufacturers? Representative. The business has been successful and financially rewarding over the years, but due to industry consolidation and possible burn out on my end, I feel the need for a change. I would like to reenter corporate life, and not necessarily in my current Industry. I feel I have much to offer including experience in sales and marketing, business management, sales management, and?exposure to all facets of operating and owning a business. How would I market myself in this situation? I have been told that being self-employed for a good portion of your career?can be an obstacle to reentry. Any thoughts? ? Mik

Dear Mike: I work with, and speak to, a lot of clients seeking to return to corporate America, many of whom initiate the process for reasons similar to those you noted. I always explain to those clients that in order to overcome key barriers to reentry, they have to be very careful how they position independent or entrepreneurial engagements.

I first explain that entrepreneurs, or those that are self-employed, typically thrive in very flexible, independent roles, a structure that often doesn?t exist in most traditional corporate environments. Having said this, a hiring manager could fear that if employed, you would not be in an environment in which you would thrive. Additionally, if you took Entrepreneurial Skills 101, you would learn that entrepreneurs live for challenges, and once a challenge has been conquered they typically like to move on to the next opportunity. This doesn?t sit well with a hiring manager who either isn?t in a position to offer a challenge-based role, or needs someone to stick around for more than a couple of years.

Given these are some of the barriers you will have to overcome, let?s review how to do just that. I often use a combination format for my entrepreneurial clients, a format that allows for presentation of key achievements before the professional experience section and disclosure of self-employed status.

To start, begin your r?sum? with a strong qualifications summary specifically geared toward the opportunities you are interested in, being careful not to dilute the picture too much by presenting too many areas of expertise. Small business owners do possess a variety of skills?as they typically manage operations, accounting, sales, marketing, staffing, etc.?but finding a role in corporate America that will employ all of these talents isn?t likely. So, be careful not to present yourself as a jack-of-all-trades or an expert of everything, as suddenly you will dilute your experience and become an expert of nothing. Instead, thoroughly evaluate the opportunities that interest you and highlight related experiences, skills, and achievements. This may mean that you have to have a few modified versions of your r?sum?, although the changes won?t have to be extensive.

In the achievements section, highlight the value you provided in your past role. Answer questions such as: What were your sales results? How did you expand market share? How many products lines did you represent? How was your performance when benchmarked against other reps? How did you effectively manage numerous relationships? Use the answers to these questions to infuse your r?sum?, and this section, with personality and a strong presence on the page, leaving your day-to-day functions?and the presentation of your self-employed status?to fall to the bottom of page one or even page two. In the professional experience section, be careful not to present a summary focused on running a business, and instead focus the hiring manager?s attention on the functions you performed that directly relate to your current career goals.

The move back to the corporate world can be done, it just has to be approached carefully so you position yourself as a highly qualified candidate with strong related skills, versus an entrepreneur who thrives in roles requiring autonomy and the ability to manage all business functions. I certainly wish you all the best with the transition.

Take a look at the example I have presented of a combination format r?sum?. As you can see, the qualifications summary and select highlights sections take up the majority of page one of the r?sum?. Based on this approach, the 4-7-second screening process will be spent almost exclusively on these high-value areas of the r?sum?, leaving any potential disqualifiers hard to hide in the professional experience section, to fall to the end of page one.

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Eleven Strauss Troy Attorneys Named Best Lawyers

Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named 11 Strauss Troy attorneys as ?Lawyers of the Year? in 12 legal practice specialties. They are:

  • Richard Wayne ? 2013 Best Lawyer Of The Year?(Cincinnati Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions ? Plaintiffs) Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions ? Plaintiffs
  • Anthony Barlow, Real Estate Law
  • Mark Berliant, Tax Law
  • Martin Butler, Real Estate Law
  • Daniel Demmerle, Banking and Finance Law, Project Finance Law, Real Estate Law
  • Andrew Giannella, Real Estate Law
  • Marshall Dosker, Tax Law
  • Martin Pinales, Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar, Criminal Defense: White-Collar
  • Pete Smith, Project Finance Law and Real Estate Law
  • Thomas Stachler, Commercial Litigation and Medical Malpractice Law ? Plaintiffs
  • Tom Rink, Tax Law

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The latest edition of The Best Lawyers in America(2013) is based on more than 4.4 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.?The lawyers being honored as ?Lawyers of the Year? have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity,? said Steven Naifeh, president of Best Lawyers. ?We continue to believe ? as we have believed for more than 25 years ? that recognition by one?s peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession.?

Strauss Troy Co., LPA, founded in 1953, has earned a strong reputation for providing the highest-quality legal services with a personal approach. As a full-service law firm, Strauss Troy has diverse expertise and a history of proven success. No matter what issue you face, the firm has the right professionals, who work together as a team, to get you the answers you need quickly and affordably. Strauss Troy?s areas of practice include: Corporate | Business, Criminal | White Collar Defense, Domestic Relations | Family Law , Labor | Employment, Litigation, Municipal | Government, Real Estate | Finance, Tax Planning | Compliance and Trust | Estate Planning. Learn more at www.strausstroy.com.

Strauss Troy is recognized as a leading law firm in the Greater Cincinnati | Northern Kentucky region and is a Martindale-Hubbell Top Ranked Law Firm? in Fortune Magazine. The firm is recognized as a U.S. News & World Report Best? Law Firm, and many of its attorneys are honored as peer-rated Martindale-Hubbell AV? Preeminent? Attorneys, Best Lawyers? in America, Super Lawyers? and Rising Stars. The firm is also listed as a top law firm by the Cincinnati Business Courier.

About Best Lawyers in America?
Based soley on peer review, being selected as a Best Lawyer? is a significant honor. For more than 30, Best Lawyers? lists have proven to be the most dependable, impartial source for legal referrals worldwide. Only a single lawyer in each practice area in each community is being honored as the ?Lawyer of the Year.?

A listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. For more than three decades, Best Lawyers? lists have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere.

Because of Best Lawyers? known credibility, our lists reach a broader and more important audience than any other legal publication. More than 17 million readers see Best Lawyers? lists in dozens of city and regional publications in the U.S. including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and New York Magazine, as well as in major business and general publications around the world, from Les Echos in France, to the Australian Financial Review, Business Day in South Africa, Expansion in Spain, and the Handelsblatt in Germany.

Three years ago, Best Lawyers partnered with U.S.News & World Report, the leading rankings publication in the U.S., to rank law firms in the United States.

Source: http://www.strausstroy.com/articles/eleven-strauss-troy-attorneys-named-best-lawyers/

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How to Take Better Photos With Your Smartphone [Photography]

There's a large contingent of photo enthusiasts online who will dismiss a photo straight away if they find out it was taken with a smartphone. The rally cry of "get a real camera" can be heard echoing through the rafters of comment sections for many websites. We think everyone should have a dedicated camera, but a good photo is a good photo, regardless of the gear used to take it. More »


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Why Europe needed the Nobel Peace Prize

It may seem odd timing to give the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union. What?s to admire right now, one might ask?

Much of the continent is in recession. The eurozone could split up. Germany has doubts about its pivotal role. Britain, always the odd man out, feels even more out. Spain and Greece brace for more riots over imposed austerity. Turkey has all but given up joining this grand experiment.

Yet precisely because of such woes, the Nobel?s Norwegian committee was smart to remind Europeans of the power of gratitude in recognizing past successes as a way to help heal the current rifts and stresses. This year?s prize is both a slap on the back and a prod to count one?s blessings.

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Those blessings are often easy to forget.

The EU has prevented war like those of the 19th and 20th centuries among its 27 sovereignty-surrendering members. By integrating step by step, it has also expanded democracy, human rights, and prosperity ? and the ability to influence others to imitate or join that progress. Europe also has the largest economy, the most medals at the last Olympics, and the most desired tourist destinations.

Those achievements should not be neglected while the EU convulses over a big bump in the road ? a faltering common currency and swooning debts. It?s quite a feat to join up so many people of so many cultures in only six decades. Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East have hardly begun.

?The main message is that we need to keep in mind what we have achieved on this continent, and not let the continent go into disintegration again,? said Thorbj?rn Jagland, head of the Nobel committee, in announcing the peace prize.

Gratitude is less employed in affairs of state than it is in personal relations or religious worship. Yet it carries the same ability to hold to what is true and good during trying times, serving as a light in the dark.

Leaders of a nation in crisis often cite past achievements, but few call for public displays of gratitude. More should. The best example in history was Abraham Lincoln?s declaration for a regular Thanksgiving Day. He did that during the darkest days of the Civil War as a way to lift the Union?s thoughts above the violence to the eternal ideals it stood for and a common God.

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This year?s peace prize could also serve another purpose. For too long, the EU has hung together for what it opposed ? a Soviet threat, a return to fascism or an aggressive Germany, or even to America?s global dominance. This negative identity isn?t enough to get it through a crisis like the current euro debacle. The EU must also promise more than shared wealth.

What unites Europe the most are shared principles of liberty, rights, and peace. The Nobel committee, made up of people from a country (Norway) outside the EU, lobbed a big ?thanks? to Europe, providing the light of gratitude to help the EU get out of its temporary thicket.

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Friday, October 12, 2012

AMD could slash up to 30 percent of its workforce according to reports

AMD could slash up to 30 percent of its workforce according to reports

AllThingsD and CNET are reporting that 30 percent of AMD's workforce could be laid off, though one of several unnamed sources notes the cuts could be as low as 10 percent. If these reports hold true, this would be the second round of layoffs for AMD within a year's time. The reductions will reportedly affect the firm's engineering and sales employees, and may be serious enough to cause a paring back of product lines. The silicon giant could potentially reveal its plans as early as next week, which would coincide with the announcement of its third quarter financial results. With the company expecting a ten percent revenue drop in Q3, it looks like the latest figures will continue the trend of less than ideal results.

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Report: U.S. Broadband Providers' Pay-TV Focus May Be Killing The ...

The U.S. risks falling behind on online product innovation because it isn?t gaining a critical mass of subscribers to superfast broadband services (of 25Mbps+). That?s the scenario being painted by the Broadband Stakeholder Group, an advisory group to the U.K. government, writing in a new report examining global demand for superfast broadband services.

In a section on services, the report notes that in order to develop a new generation of internet services that utilise superfast broadband speeds Internet companies need a critical mass of subscribers in place before they can launch services ? in the same way that demand for first generation broadband prefigured the creation of successive waves of online companies

The problem facing the next wave of U.S. Internet innovators is that uptake of superfast broadband is relatively low ? the BSG calculates it?s less than three percent of total U.S. households ? meaning it?s a long way from reaching the necessary critical mass of users. Why is demand so low??According to the report,?the incentive for U.S. broadband providers to compete on speed grounds ? and thereby drive demand for superfast services ? is being suppressed by a focus on selling bundled pay-TV services, rather than standalone superfast broadband.

The report notes

Despite widespread availability [in the U.S.] over the last few years, superfast broadband has not yet taken off.?This can likely be explained by two factors. The first is that both cable operators and copper?incumbents are focusing on selling their TV services first, with broadband part of the bundle?with that service. Although this has usually been the approach for cable TV providers in most?markets, in the US the focus on Pay-TV services by the copper incumbents above the?broadband service is unique.

The BSG notes that neither Verizon nor AT&T are heavily promoting superfast broadband services ? and suggests the commercial threat from?online video services such as Netflix is likely far more front of mind for the companies than ?the limited competition on broadband that is?restricted by the existence of the territorial duopolies?.??This has meant that operators have?not competed on broadband speed in the same way that they have in other markets,?particularly in Europe,? the report adds.

It continues

The US was the home to online service innovation for the first generation of broadband. A number of these companies have become global giants. Whether such innovation will occur in the US this time, for next generation broadband, is perhaps a more open question. We have already seen that the US has a very low number of subscribers on genuinely superfast services, even counting those cable subscribers that have been uplifted. With the relative lack of competition in the US market, there is less of an incentive to compete on broadband speeds
when the dominant product in the bundle is the Pay-TV service ? this applies as much to the cable operators as it does to the copper-line incumbents.

If this is to continue for any period of time, then the US will not reach a critical mass of superfast subscribers, and so will not reach the type of addressable market size that encouraged the early broadband innovators to develop new services ? we have previously noted Google?s foray in to FTTH buildout in Kansas City as perhaps a sign that they do not perceive the US?s broadband to be developing as they would wish.

The report goes on to suggest that if the U.S. does not act to accelerate superfast broadband adoption there is a potential opportunity for Europe to leverage faster uptake of superfast broadband to become the playground for the next wave of web innovation.

?If an addressable market of superfast broadband users can be created in Europe then it may become the new test-bed for online service innovators,? the report adds ? although it also notes that just having the users is not in itself a guarantee of anything, pointing to?high levels of superfast broadband uptake in Asian markets that have nonetheless failed to result in the development of ?an innovative online service environment based on superfast broadband?.

?There remains an open question as to where the next wave of innovation?will come from,? the report adds.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/11/report-u-s-broadband-providers-pay-tv-focus-may-be-killing-the-next-wave-of-web-innovation/

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

TweetDeck Gets A Visual Refresh On All Platforms, Now Looks More ?Twittery?

3814989915_13f9ae1493_zFor you hardcore Twitter users, the main app just doesn't cut it. You need multiple windows and notifications and more windows and stuff like that. For me, I enjoy the simple original web version of Twitter, but what do I know. Today, TweetDeck for all platforms, except iOS, was updated, and you can now go check it out and rejoice.

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Carpenter pitches Cards past Nats 8-0 for 2-1 lead

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Chris Carpenter throws against the Washington Nationals in the first inning of Game 3 of the National League division baseball series on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Chris Carpenter throws against the Washington Nationals in the first inning of Game 3 of the National League division baseball series on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Chris Carpenter reacts after hitting a double in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the National League division baseball series against the Washington Nationals on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

St. Louis Cardinals' Pete Kozma hits a three-run home run in the second inning of Game 3 of the National League division baseball series against the Washington Nationals on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Washington. Watching behind the plate are home plate umpire Joe West and Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

St. Louis Cardinals' Pete Kozma, right, high-fives teammates David Freese and Daniel Descalso after batting them with on a three-run home run in the second inning of Game 3 of the National League division baseball series against the Washington Nationals on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson, right, protests a call with first base umpire Jim Joyce after Washington's Danny Espinosa was called out at first base in the first inning of Game 3 of the National League division baseball series on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Set aside the high-pressure task of postseason pitching that Chris Carpenter routinely masters for the St. Louis Cardinals and think about this:

Even the take-it-for-granted act of breathing feels odd on occasion now that he's missing a rib and two neck muscles.

Taking the mound for only the fourth time in 2012 after complicated surgery to cure numbness on his right side, the 37-year-old Carpenter spoiled the return of postseason baseball to Washington by throwing scoreless ball into the sixth inning, and the defending champion Cardinals beat the Nationals 8-0 Wednesday to take a 2-1 lead in their NL division series.

"To go from not being able to compete, and not only compete but help your team, to be able to be in this situation," Carpenter said, "it's pretty cool."

Rookie Pete Kozma delivered a three-run homer, and a trio of relievers finished the shutout for the Cardinals, who can end the best-of-five series in Thursday's Game 4 at Washington. Kyle Lohse will start for St. Louis. Ross Detwiler pitches for Washington, which is sticking to its long-stated plan of keeping Stephen Strasburg on the sideline the rest of the way.

"We're not out of this, by a long shot," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. "Shoot, I've had my back to worse walls than this."

With the exception of Ian Desmond ? 3 for 4 on Wednesday, 7 for 12 in the series ? the Nationals' hitters are struggling mightily. They've scored a total of seven runs in the playoffs and went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base in Game 3.

Rookie phenom Bryce Harper's woes, in particular, stand out: He went 0 for 5, dropping to 1 for 15. He went to the plate with an ash bat and no gloves in the first inning, tried wearing anti-glare tinted contact lenses on a sun-splashed afternoon ? nothing helped.

"Nothing I can do," the 19-year-old Harper said. "I just missed a couple."

All in all, quite a damper on the day for a Nationals Park-record 45,017 red-wearing, towel-twirling fans witnessing the first major league postseason game in the nation's capital in 79 years. They didn't have much to enjoy, in part because of the problems created by Nationals starter Edwin Jackson, who was on the Cardinals' championship team a year ago.

"I didn't feel like I was out of rhythm. I didn't feel like I couldn't throw strikes. I just missed across the plate with a couple of balls and it cost me," Jackson said.

He gave up four consecutive hits in the second, the biggest being Kozma's first-pitch homer into the first row in left off a 94 mph fastball to make it 4-0. Kozma took over as the Cardinals' everyday shortstop in September, replacing injured All-Star Rafael Furcal, and only had 72 at-bats during the regular season.

But he's only the latest in a series of "Who's that?" stars of this postseason.

With the Capitol Dome rising beyond left field, the crowd of today was ready to root, root, root for the home team, breaking into chants of "Let's go, Nats!" after player introductions and again after a four-jet flyover. And, boy, did they boo ? when Cardinals outfielder Jon Jay was announced as the game's first batter, when first-base umpire Jim Joyce missed a call, when catcher Yadier Molina trotted to chat with Carpenter, even when Carpenter paused between pitches to tie his red-and-gray right shoe.

"Carp's been a dominant pitcher his whole career. Big-game pitcher. He showed up," Washington's Jayson Werth said. "He pitched well today. We had him in some spots. We had him on the ropes a couple of times. We were just one bloop away from a totally different ballgame."

The Cardinals won 10 fewer games than the majors-best Nationals this season and finished second in the NL Central, nine games behind Cincinnati, sneaking into the postseason as the league's second wild-card under this year's new format. But the Cardinals become a different bunch in the high-pressure playoffs ? no matter that slugger Albert Pujols and manager Tony La Russa are no longer around.

Carpenter still is, even though even he didn't expect to be pitching this year when he encountered problems during spring training and needed what Cardinals manager Mike Matheny termed a "radical" operation in July to correct a nerve problem.

"Everyone had written him off, kind of," Jay said. "It could have been a season-ending injury, where he could have just gone home and said, 'See you later.'"

The top rib on Carpenter's right side was removed, along with muscles that were constricting blood flow up there. After Wednesday's game, he squeezed his big right hand with his left, explaining, "Basically, my nerves were getting squished down by all the scar tissue and all the muscles and everything. There wasn't enough space."

Still adjusting to the way breathing feels different, he returned Sept. 21, going 0-2 in three starts totaling 17 innings, so it wasn't clear how he'd fare Wednesday.

Yeah, right.

Carpenter allowed seven hits and walked two across his 5 2-3 innings to improve to 10-2 over his career in the postseason. That includes a 4-0 mark while helping another group of wild-card Cardinals take the title in the 2011 World Series, when he won Game 7 against Texas.

The 10 victories tie Carpenter for seventh-most, behind Andy Pettitte's record 19.

"If the baseball world doesn't know what an amazing competitor he is by now, they haven't been paying any attention," Cardinals left fielder Matt Holliday said.

Carpenter collected a pair of hits, including a double off the wall in the fifth that was about a foot or two away from being a homer. When he reached second base, he raised his right fist.

Earlier, Carpenter stepped to the plate for his first at-bat and chatted with umpire Joe West.

"I say hello to him. And he said hello back, and he talked about what a beautiful day it was to play a baseball game. And I was like, 'You ain't kidding,'" Carpenter recounted. "Beautiful weather. The crowd is going crazy. ... There's no question you take time to reflect on that."

NOTES: Holliday fouled a ball off his left leg in the eighth, stayed in to deliver a two-run single, then left for a pinch runner. ... Lohse beat the Braves in the wild-card game. ... Detwiler will be making the first postseason appearance of his career. His last regular-season start also came against the Cardinals, and he went only 2 1-3 innings, giving up seven runs. ... Wednesday was the 88th anniversary of Washington's only World Series championship, won by the Senators on Oct. 10, 1924.

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