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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Report: Facebook's Secret Android Project Isn't a Facebook Phone But a Home Screen Dedicated to Facebook
Obama plays 1st golf since automatic budget cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is on his first golf outing since automatic spending cuts known as the sequester went into effect on March 1.
Some conservatives have called on Obama to give up golf since popular public tours of the White House were canceled because of the budget cuts.
The White House has said the tours were canceled to keep Secret Service agents from being furloughed because of the spending reductions.
Critics of the decision to cancel the White House tours also noted that Obama's golf outings require a sizable Secret Service presence for security.
Obama hit the links Saturday on the course at Andrews Air Force Base. The White House said he was playing with his friend, Marty Nesbitt, and two White House aides.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-plays-1st-golf-since-automatic-budget-cuts-181017463.html
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APNewsBreak: Gas trade group seeks fracking probe
FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 17, 2013, Yoko Ono, left, and her son Sean Lennon visit a fracking site in Franklin Forks, Pa., during a bus tour of natural-gas drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania. Ono and Lennon have formed a group called ?Artists Against Fracking,? which has become the main celebrity driven anti-fracking organization. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 17, 2013, Yoko Ono, left, and her son Sean Lennon visit a fracking site in Franklin Forks, Pa., during a bus tour of natural-gas drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania. Ono and Lennon have formed a group called ?Artists Against Fracking,? which has become the main celebrity driven anti-fracking organization. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? A formal complaint filed with New York's lobbying board asks it to investigate whether Artists Against Fracking, a group formed by Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon, is violating the state's lobbying law.
The complaint obtained by The Associated Press was made by the Independent Oil & Gas Association to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
The energy trade group based its request for an investigation on an AP report that found that Artists Against Fracking and its advocates didn't register as lobbyists. Registration requires several disclosures about spending and activities.
A spokesman for Artists Against Fracking says the group's activities are protected because they were made during a public comment period. He also says celebrities involved in the group are protected because they are longtime activists, not lobbyists.
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
95% West of Memphis
All Critics (105) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (100) | Rotten (5)
A real-life horror story, made no less shocking by the familiarity of its early scenes.
While the "Paradise Lost" films captured events as they unfolded in the heat of battle, "West of Memphis" has the luxury of at least partial closure.
A true-crime story that begins with a notorious murder case and grows into a chilling indictment of the American justice system.
And justice for all? Hardly.
It tells the story of a terrible crime compounded by a grave injustice that's been remedied, but only in part, so it's impossible to have a single or simple response to the movie.
What sets this film apart from previous efforts to document the story is that Jackson and Walsh financed a private investigative team with legal and forensic experts who re-examined old evidence, conducted new interviews and found new witnesses.
We feel like we're watching an overlong true-crime television episode and not a movie.
I would have preferred Jackson's clinically-presented project display a bit more reverence for the three young lives that were brutally taken some twenty years ago.
Moving and gruesome, West of Memphis is an eloquent disquisition on the banality of evil.
"West of Memphis" re-examines evidence and retells the story in a methodical and procedural fashion in which even the false steps lead somewhere.
More a recap and appendix to the Paradise Lost trilogy... one can't help but feel that the celebrities involved needed this document of their efforts to appease their vanity.
The case is more intriguing than the film about it.
Isn't unnecessary, but it's often superfluous.
The film suggests these powerless, poorly educated young men were scapegoated because they would be missed by nobody of importance -- the justice system equivalent of the cannon fodder recruited from the same socioeconomic straits.
It's nice to have all the twists and turns of the iconic case contained tidily in one well-crafted film, although there are no real revelations here.
"West of Memphis" becomes a greatest-hits concert of prosecutorial misconduct, and you'll agree when the film asserts that prosecutors knew they had the wrong guys.
Incredibly, after three documentaries on the subject, there are still things to reveal about the West Memphis Three.
"West of Memphis" does nothing to displace its predecessor films as masterpieces of investigative filmmaking, but complements them as a riveting capstone to an epic and tragic tale.
West of Memphis is the real vindication - even if it is incomplete.
In the end it won't matter if this is the fourth movie about the same subject; you can never learn its lessons often enough.
West of Memphis caps off the Paradise Lost/West Memphis Three saga with a line up full of perpetrators including the media, the West Memphis PD, the legal establishment and suspect gift wrapped with a smoking gun.
Injustice in West Memphis, Arkansas
Berg lays out her case with the logic of a first-rate prosecutor and the theatricality of a born storyteller.
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Pope's foot-washing final blow for traditionalists - News, Weather ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
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VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis has won over many hearts and minds with his simple style and focus on serving the world's poorest, but he has devastated traditionalist Catholics who adored his predecessor, Benedict XVI, for restoring much of the traditional pomp to the papacy.
Francis' decision to disregard church law and wash the feet of two girls - a Serbian Muslim and an Italian Catholic - during a Holy Thursday ritual has become something of the final straw, evidence that Francis has little or no interest in one of the key priorities of Benedict's papacy: reviving the pre-Vatican II traditions of the Catholic Church.
One of the most-read traditionalist blogs, "Rorate Caeli," reacted to the foot-washing ceremony by declaring the death of Benedict's eight-year project to correct what he considered the botched interpretations of the Second Vatican Council's modernizing reforms.
"The official end of the reform of the reform - by example," ''Rorate Caeli" lamented in its report on Francis' Holy Thursday ritual.
A like-minded commentator in Francis' native Argentina, Marcelo Gonzalez at International Catholic Panorama, reacted to Francis' election with this phrase: "The Horror." Gonzalez's beef? While serving as the archbishop of Buenos Aires, the then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio's efforts to revive the old Latin Mass so dear to Benedict and traditionalists were "non-existent."
Virtually everything he has done since being elected pope, every gesture, every decision, has rankled traditionalists in one way or another.
The night he was chosen pope, March 13, Francis emerged from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica without the ermine-rimmed red velvet cape, or mozzetta, used by popes past for official duties, wearing instead the simple white cassock of the papacy. The cape has since come to symbolize his rejection of the trappings of the papacy and to some degree the pontificate of Benedict XVI, since the German pontiff relished in resurrecting many of the liturgical vestments of his predecessors.
Francis also received the cardinals' pledges of obedience after his election not from a chair on a pedestal as popes normally do but rather standing, on their same level. For traditionalists who fondly recall the days when popes were carried on a sedan chair, that may have stung. In the days since, he has called for "intensified" dialogue with Islam - a gesture that rubs traditionalists the wrong way because they view such a heavy focus on interfaith dialogue as a sign of religious relativism.
Francis may have rubbed salt into the wounds with his comments at the Good Friday procession at Rome's Colosseum, which re-enacts Jesus Christ's crucifixion, praising "the friendship of our Muslim brothers and sisters" during a prayer ceremony that recalled the suffering of Christians in the Middle East.
Francis also raised traditional eyebrows when he refused the golden pectoral cross offered to him right after his election by Monsignor Guido Marini, the Vatican's liturgy guru who under Benedict became the symbol of Benedict's effort to restore the Gregorian chant and heavy silk brocaded vestments of the pre-Vatican II liturgy to papal Masses.
Marini has gamely stayed by Francis' side as the new pope puts his own stamp on Vatican Masses with no-nonsense vestments and easy off-the-cuff homilies. But there is widespread expectation that Francis will soon name a new master of liturgical ceremonies more in line with his priorities of bringing the church and its message of love and service to ordinary people without the "high church" trappings of his predecessor.
There were certainly none of those trappings on display Thursday at the Casal del Marmo juvenile detention facility in Rome, where the 76-year-old Francis got down on his knees to wash and kiss the feet of 12 inmates, two of them women. The rite re-enacts Jesus' washing of the feet of his 12 apostles during the Last Supper before his crucifixion, a sign of his love and service to them.
The church's liturgical law holds that only men can participate in the rite, given that Jesus' apostles were all male. Priests and bishops have routinely petitioned for exemptions to include women, but the law is clear.
Francis, however, is the church's chief lawmaker, so in theory he can do whatever he wants.
"The pope does not need anybody's permission to make exceptions to how ecclesiastical law relates to him," noted conservative columnist Jimmy Akin in the National Catholic Register. But Akin echoed concerns raised by canon lawyer Edward Peters, an adviser to the Vatican's high court, that Francis was setting a "questionable example" by simply ignoring the church's own rules.
"People naturally imitate their leader. That's the whole point behind Jesus washing the disciples' feet. He was explicitly and intentionally setting an example for them," he said. "Pope Francis knows that he is setting an example."
The inclusion of women in the rite is problematic for some because it could be seen as an opening of sorts to women's ordination. The Catholic Church restricts the priesthood to men, arguing that Jesus and his 12 apostles were male.
Francis is clearly opposed to women's ordination. But by washing the feet of women, he jolted traditionalists who for years have been unbending in insisting that the ritual is for men only and proudly holding up as evidence documentation from the Vatican's liturgy office saying so.
"If someone is washing the feet of any females ... he is in violation of the Holy Thursday rubrics," Peters wrote in a 2006 article that he reposted earlier this month on his blog.
In the face of the pope doing that very thing, Peters and many conservative and traditionalist commentators have found themselves trying to put the best face on a situation they clearly don't like yet can't do much about lest they be openly voicing dissent with the pope.
By Thursday evening, Peters was saying that Francis had merely "disregarded" the law - not violated it.
The Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a traditionalist blogger who has never shied from picking fights with priests, bishops or cardinals when liturgical abuses are concerned, had to measure his comments when the purported abuser was the pope himself.
"Before liberals and traditionalists both have a spittle-flecked nutty, each for their own reasons, try to figure out what he is trying to do," Zuhlsdorf wrote in a conciliatory piece.
But, in characteristic form, he added: "What liberals forget in their present crowing is that even as Francis makes himself - and the church - more popular by projecting (a) compassionate image, he will simultaneously make it harder for them to criticize him when he reaffirms the doctrinal points they want him to overturn."
One of the key barometers of how traditionalists view Francis concerns his take on the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass. The Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 meetings that brought the church into the modern world, allowed the celebration of the Mass in the vernacular rather than Latin. In the decades that followed, the so-called Tridentine Rite fell out of use almost entirely.
Traditionalist Catholics who were attached to the old rite blame many of the ills afflicting the Catholic Church today - a drop in priestly vocations, empty pews in Europe and beyond - on the liturgical abuses that they say have proliferated with the celebration of the new form of Mass.
In a bid to reach out to them, Benedict in 2007 relaxed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass. The move was aimed also at reconciling with a group of schismatic traditionalists, the Society of St. Pius X, who split from Rome precisely over the Vatican II reforms, in particular its call for Mass in the vernacular and outreach to other religions, especially Judaism and Islam.
Benedict took extraordinary measures to bring the society back under Rome's wing during his pontificate, but negotiations stalled.
The society has understandably reacted coolly to Francis' election, reminding the pope that his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, was told by Christ to go and "rebuild my church." For the society, that means rebuilding it in its own, pre-Vatican II vision.
The head of the society for South America, the Rev. Christian Bouchacourt, was less than generous in his assessment of Francis.
"He cultivates a militant humility, but can prove humiliating for the church," Bouchacourt said in a recent article, criticizing the "dilapidated" state of the clergy in Buenos Aires and the "disaster" of its seminary. "With him, we risk to see once again the Masses of Paul VI's pontificate, a far cry from Benedict XVI's efforts to restore to their honor the worthy liturgical ceremonies."
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If You?re Always Busy, You May Just Be Procrastinating
There's a difference between being always busy and having a lot to do and not enough time to do it in. You probably know at least one person at work who seems to always be stressed out and busy, but you know they don't have as much on their plate as other people do. If that person is you, or you're stressed out because you're having trouble managing your to-dos, the problem may be simple: procrastination.
Over at GTD blog Next Action Associates, they point out the many ways that procrastination can work its way into our day and convince us that we're actually busy and active, when in reality we're wasting time:
Here's the thing: when we're busy we can easily trick ourselves into thinking that all of that activity means that we're not procrastinating. We're busy, sure, but we're not focused on the things that should really have our attention. If someone were to tap us on the shoulder and say, "that thing you're doing, is that the best use of your attention right now?" we would hesitate to agree.
We're busy procrastinating.
It's a bit of a backhanded suggestion, but the impact of being "busy" doing all the wrong things instead of focusing on the things that are most important or really need our attention is clear: we work longer hours, and our health relationships suffer. We've talked about how to say "no" without wrecking your career, how to say "no" without being a jerk about it, and even how to prioritize when everything is important and nothing can come off your plate. Those are the keys to making sure you're working on the right things in the right order.
Next Action Associates offers up another tip:
Ask yourself: what are the odds that that e-mail at the top of your inbox is the best thing to focus on next? If not and you choose to deal with it anyway, then you're being driven by "latest and loudest," letting your channels dictate your priorities.
Or maybe your procrastination looks like this: you're snacking on quick wins. This is what I quite often see when people say they're "cleaning up email." They're scrolling down into the older strata of their inbox, looking for things that can be handled quickly, ideally without much thought or energy. But in doing that I'll often see them scroll right past something that's strategic, critical even. But it's too big, or too complex. So it doesn't get any attention.
If you're struggling with procrastination, then what's to be done? To get it under control, we need to make getting moving on the right things as attractive and friction-free as possible.
All of this is a double-edged sword though?the quest to be productive should be focused around giving you more time to do the things you want to do and optimizing the things you have to do, not just getting you to stop procrastinating. Remember, sometimes procrastination is essential to your health, and taking breaks helps you do more and stay creative. Hit the link below for more tips.
Too Busy? Maybe You're Procrastinating. | Next Action Associates via GTD Times
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Kicking Off Our Flip Off - Meet The "TechCrunch Weekly" Magazine On Flipboard
Flipboard this week?announced a new version of its app that allows anyone to make a “Magazine,” which is a curated collection of stories based on any topic that you can think of. The company has shared that over 100,000 magazines have been created since the feature launched. We’ve decided to put together our own magazine called “TechCrunch Weekly,” which will be full of the best TechCrunch stories from the past week, refreshed every Friday afternoon. As you know, our staff works hard to write about every technology topic imaginable, and it’s hard to keep up with all of it. Along with the really great “flipping” experience of Flipboard on mobile devices, using the app is one of the best ways to catch up on news that you missed because you were checking Facebook working, or to give yourself a chance to re-read something that you only skimmed the first time. Just to give you an idea of what you’ll find in this week’s edition, there’s possibly a Facebook Android OS coming out, Bitcoin’s worth a billion, Google Glass explorers got the boot, BlackBerry did things wrong, OUYA is a real product and paying for things with fingerprints is a thing. We’ll also be sharing some of our more interesting guest posts from the weekend. That’s a pretty full week of news, and now you can sit back, relax and flip through all of the stories with Flipboard and TechCrunch Weekly on your iOS or Android device. Click or tap here to check it out, or search for TechCrunch on Flipboard. Under the main navigation up top, find the magazine, subscribe, read and wait for a new edition to show up with new content every Friday afternoon. This is the future of publishing and it’s fun to be involved.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/phBWG7gvDoc/
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Where did Saturn's rings come from? Mystery gets a new clue.
Saturn's rings are one of the most recognized features of the solar system, but scientists don't know how they got there. New data suggest they're older than some theories suggested.
This image of Saturn and its rings was captured by the Cassini spacecraft.
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EnlargeNew evidence from the US-European Cassini mission to Saturn suggests a very early birth for ices in Saturn?s spectacular system of rings and moonlets, dating back to shortly after the planet itself formed.
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The results deepen a mystery that has bedeviled Saturn watchers since Galileo first spotted what later would be interpreted as rings in 1610: How did the rings form? And, more recently, what sustains the ring system?
?No one actually knows why the rings can survive for 4.5 billion years,? says Scott Kenyon, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. ?At the moment, we don?t have a good model? that explains this longevity.
The apparently implausible life span of the ring system has led some researchers to propose that the system didn?t form shortly after the planet did.?
Instead, it might have formed perhaps 100 million years ago. The raw material for the rings and moonlets could have come from the debris spawned by a collision between close-in moons, or between a close-in moon and a comet.
But the recent-ring scenario has had a troubled existence.?
In 2007, for example, scientists reported evidence from Cassini?s Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer indicating that the rings had significant age differences and that the material in the rings was constantly being recycled as moonlets collided. Some of the debris later would form into new moonlets.?
That evidence didn?t support a single, recent violent encounter between objects as a source of material for the ring system.
Now, researchers using another of Cassini?s instruments, the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), have uncovered further evidence for this recycling as they have mapped changes in the composition of the ring material and moonlets that form a 40,800-mile-wide band around the planet.
Perhaps more important, Cassini has uncovered far more water ice in the system than comets could deliver.
The system ?is very ice rich,? says Bonnie Buratti, a researcher at NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and a member of the VIMS team.
To Dr. Kenyon, the results showing ices throughout the system speak to a primeval origin.
?All of the stuff inside the really major moons is composed of the same stuff as the major moons,? he says. ?That?s really nice to know because that tells you the rings are 4.5 billion years old.?
But that still leaves the question of longevity.
Left to their own devices, the moonlets would migrate ever farther from Saturn, leaving the ring system within perhaps 100 million years or so.
Cassini has revealed that moonlets form from material that accretes at the outer edges of the rings, explains Phillip Nicholson, an astronomer at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and a member of the team reporting the VIMS results this week in the Astrophysical Journal.
One possible solution to the conundrum would be to give the ring system more initial mass than researchers have presumed.
Modeling work by Robin Canup, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., has suggested that some 2 million to 5 million years after it formed, Saturn had ? and devoured ? several moons the size of Titan, the planet?s largest existing satellite. But these other Titan-scale moons orbited too close to the planet to survive.
As they were drawn to their doom, the tidal forces Saturn exerted on the last victim stripped a thick icy crust and mantle from the moon?s rocky core. The ice broke up to begin forming a ring, while the core continued its death spiral into the planet.
Such a ring would have hosted far more mass than today?s rings do, according to the study, published in 2010.
The ring in the modeling also mimicked observed ring behaviors: losing mass over time while forming moons at the outer edges of the ring, for instance. The moons it formed were similar in mass to the icy moons out to and including Tethys.
The hope is that a knowledge of the composition of ring material and the moonlets in Saturn?s ring system will shed light on the ring-forming process.
Cassini launched as the Cassini-Huygens mission in October 1997 and began orbiting Saturn in July 2004. The following December, the spacecraft released the European Space Agency?s Huygens probe toward a successful landing on Saturn?s moon Titan. Since then, the orbiter has been touring the planet?s moons and rings, giving researchers an unprecedented look at the Saturn system.
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Startup Diaries: Get Techy, Get Financial, Go Mobile & Automate ...
It is an exciting time to be in business ? the ideas being created online are shaping the future of the Internet and how we consume.?
I started my business 2 years ago by putting up a single poster in a shop which attracted my first clients and today I am still trying to translate that idea of the local in the wider world of the Internet. ?
The single most important route to market is through word of mouth advertising, and this is where one begins.
I run a childcare agency called Nanny Network, connecting parents in London with nannies and babysitters.? We offer a wide range of services, and most recently added a new ?emergency childcare? helpline, which is keeping me on my toes.? I have also started another company ?Book a?Babysitter? which is still being designed but is already very popular.
I started my business with no funding and no money at all while I was working myself as a nanny - ?this gave me a great head-start and meant I could really offer value to my customers right from the beginning.?
I created the business in the area I grew up in so I know it really well and this hyper local element meant the business had some authenticity online.?
I also did thorough research into my competitors ? I was offering the same service as them but I wanted to deliver it in an improved and more modern way.? I posed both as a nanny and a parent online and also in person to really understand what competitors were offering and how I could do it better.
Creating my website was in two important stages. The first step was in the design of my website ? I wanted it to be fresh and aesthetically pleasing rather than just a holding page with some random information.? In order to offer a decent website you have got to get techy ? you have got to understand what goes behind a website and how search engine optimisation works.? Once you build the correct front and back end of your site, the second step is to engage properly with your customers.? You won?t be able to do this unless you know very well who your customers are and where they hang out online. ??Once you are sure, you need to monitor what is happening in their world, and listen to them.? Find out what bothers them and offer a solution. ??
The more you know about your customers, the more you can offer them.
I wanted everything we do online and offline to be simple and transparent for our clients.? By simple I mean easy to use and convenient ? both for the clients but also for me as I didn?t want to be drowning in a sea of admin every day.? In making everything transparent ? in terms of how we recruit and who we recruit I was listening to my customers and I was adding honesty to the business which some other agencies have neglected to do.?
Marketing is something I find fascinating and especially now with the power of social media you can have really cheap marketing because other people are doing it for you! Today the dissemination of information means everybody has a voice online and if you can manipulate that song so they are mentioning you then are on to a winner.? Social life has migrated online and so you really need to get tuned in with the flow of online marketing and how to manage it. ?
In the beginning I felt like I was making everything up as I went along and I just said yes to every customer.?
Now I still say yes but the difference is I now know how much work is involved and how to price accordingly.? It is really important to get a tight business model in place as soon as possible so you have a map in your head to work with. You also need to know where those roads lead to as being an entrepreneur you must think innovatively and always be prepared to change the route if necessary.
An interesting theory is the ?Lean Startup? I find this type of work exciting ? reading about this made me see how I can experiment in my business and I love doing this ? it is a great progressive way to business ? constantly changing how you operate or offer a service and measuring the response.?
Sometimes you never know how people respond to something until you test it and this is fundamental to being successful.?
For example, after one year of running Nanny Network I decided to create a new website, one that could offer more information and certainly do more for the customers.? The new website was also cleaner, slicker and much more professional.? When I launched it - the phone stopped ringing and I couldn?t work out what went wrong.? It seemed that people were responding well to the old website which although looked patchwork, made customers feel at ease and emotionally they felt at home.? The new one was almost over the top and I had suddenly lost the simplicity and the sentiment of the old one.? However, I stuck with the new version, old customers came back and the new ones loved it ? they loved that you could view nanny profiles online and that you could book and pay online.? There was no point in putting back up the old one ??business and entrepreneurs need to be progressive and reinvigorate old ideas.?This is the ethos behind the ?Lean Startup? theory.
I am inspired by some big websites out there.? My favourite is Airbnb.? This is such a wise idea, creating a simple and beautiful website, which relies on people sharing their thoughts on places to stay.? In the chaotic world of todays Internet, this is they key to standing out.? If people can enjoy looking at and using a site and they can interact with it by sharing information or thoughts - they will spread the word for you.? Airbnb absolutely nailed this idea and created a website which is stripped down, and is a simple pleasure to use.? I love their use of huge dreamy visuals on the homepage with a very simple search box to find what you need. ?Makes you want to book a holiday there and then.? Far too many websites are too text heavy ? makes you want to fall asleep !
Mine still needs a lot of development but I am seeing it as a work in progress.?I see my whole business as a work in progress.?I am still responding to what customers need and I am certainly still learning how to go about it all. ??
At times it felt more like a project and at other times it was a real struggle financially and I felt like I was interning in my own company.
I am very into the idea of growing my business organically ? I am still looking for investment for a new idea, I have had some offers but they weren?t good enough.? I?m still shopping around for the best deal.
Networking is very important no matter what your business ? I shied away from these kind of events for ages but it is actually vital to being an entrepreneur.? I was once at an event and a woman was on at me about her cosmetics company and she certainly gave me my ?lightbulb? moment.? I had been playing around for a while with an idea in my head about supplying babysitters to top hotels in London and she said when she was struggling, she simply took her tiny bottles of smells to a few 5-star hotels and asked if they wanted to stock them.? The idea was simple ? I just approached the top hotels in London in person and asked if they wanted our babysitters ? now we are close to signing contracts with some very big hotel conglomerates.? I would not have seen the simplicity in the idea if I had not got talking to that lady over a free glass of wine.?
Sometimes you can over-complicate an idea in your head and you just need somebody to point out the obvious.?
Here are some of my (perhaps obvious) tips:
- Do not ever be afraid to pick up the phone if you want something whether it is simply information or a potential new client.
- Surround yourself with people who inspire you.
- Clean up your act online ? are there Facebook pictures available publicly of you drunk in first year? Get rid of them.
- Smarten up ? A big chunk of what I do is recruitment.? I can tell you first impressions are everything.? Get a haircut, polish your shoes, do what it takes to appear smart and fresh always.
- Be friendly, polite, and savvy but never gushing.? It?s over-bearing and puts people off.
- Always follow up, always say thank you.
- Get techy ? you can?t afford not to.? Same with financials.?? Get to grips with this ? if the numbers don?t add up ? you don?t have a business.
- Automate every possible corner of what you do so you can free up your valuable time.
- With every opportunity there is ?risk? so don?t get too excited at each hand shake.
- Realise what you are good at and also what you are bad at.? Hand over the things you can?t get your head around to somebody else and pay them for their time.? You will save tons in the long run.
- Have a ?power hour? every day, twice a day.? I learnt this from my old boss.? Productivity goes through the roof.
- Is your site ?mobile friendly?? It has to be.
- Look at video marketing ? 90% of all traffic is through videos, I?m missing out ? we are all missing out on this and it?s the future.?
Lucia Borraccino, the Director and founder of Nanny Network is 27 years old and is from Hackney, London. She launched Nanny Network two years ago and has also started a new project,?Book a Babysitter.?Lucia has provided nannies and babysitters for many families across London and also for some celebrity clients for whom she offers a discreet and simple service. Lucia currently works in a co-working office to keep sane and is hoping to start a part time MBA in September.
Source: http://www.thenextwomen.com/2013/03/28/startup-diaries-get-techy-get-financial-go-mobile-automate
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Friday, March 29, 2013
Google TV's PrimeTime app update welcomes Amazon Prime content
An update to the PrimeTime Android app for Google TV has been released, bringing with it some bug fixes, as well as a "subscription selector" which means Netflix, HBO Go and Amazon Prime content now shows up as free if you're paying for any of those services. Wait, Amazon Prime content, you say? Well yes, we did, as the Amazon Prime Instant Video catalogue has been worked into the new version of the guide and recommendation app. Yet more ways to make sure we're up to date with The Good Wife? Sounds fine to us.
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The descent of Mann's legal standing | Watts Up With That?
Story submitted by Rob Ricket
Mann plays the victim in article from ?The Scientist?
Opinion: Life as a Target
Attacks on my work aimed at undermining climate change science have turned me into a public figure. I have come to embrace that role.
By Michael E. Mann| March 27, 2013
As a climate scientist, I have seen my integrity perniciously attacked. Politicians have demanded I be fired from my job because of my work demonstrating the reality and threat of human-caused climate change. I?ve been subjected to congressional investigations by congressman in the pay of the fossil fuel industry and was the target of what The Washington Post referred to as a ?witch hunt? by Virginia?s reactionary Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. I have even received a number of anonymous death threats.
My plight is dramatic, but unfortunately, it is not unique; climate scientists are regularly the subject of such attacks.
This cynicism is part of a destructive public-relations campaign being waged by fossil fuel companies, front groups, and individuals aligned with them in an effort to discredit the science linking the burning of fossil fuels with potentially dangerous climate change.
My work first appeared on the world stage in the late 1990s with the publication of a series of articles estimating past temperature trends. Using information gathered from records in nature, like tree rings, corals, and ice cores, my two coauthors and I had pieced together variations in the Earth?s temperature over the past 1,000 years. What we found was that the recent warming, which coincides with the burning of fossil fuels during the Industrial Revolution, is an unprecedented aberration in this period of documented temperature changes, and recent work published in the journal Science suggests that the recent warming trend has no counterpart for at least the past 11,000 years, and likely longer. In a graph featured in our manuscript, the last century sticks out like the blade of an upturned hockey stick.
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http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34853/title/Opinion?Life-as-a-Target/
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This header from Dr. Mann has some important legal value:
Attacks on my work aimed at undermining climate change science have turned me into a public figure. I have come to embrace that role.
A public figure has a higher burden of proof in defamation cases, such as the one where Dr. Mann is suing Dr. Tim Ball and Mark Steyn at The National Review. For example:
According to the public figure doctrine, prominent public persons must prove actual malice on the part of the news media in order to prevail in a libel lawsuit. Actual malice is the knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard of whether a statement is true or false. The public figure doctrine makes it possible for publishers to provide information on public issues to the debating public, undeterred by the threat of liability.
Source: http://definitions.uslegal.com/p/public-figure-doctrine/
Further, Dr. Mann is going to have to prove that the statements by Tim Ball and NRO weren?t parody or satire:
Whether parodies should be potentially actionable as defamation depends on whether the statement is deemed factual and thus potentially actionable, or is a matter of protected opinion and not actionable.
Although plagued by confusion and lack of consensus, under the prevailing trends of constitutional law and/or state substantive defamation law principles, four core bases have emerged for classifying a statement as protected opinion:
(a) it did ?not contain a provably false factual connotation;?
(b) it ?cannot ?reasonably [be] interpreted as stating actual facts;??
(c) it consists merely of ?rhetorical hyperbole, a vigorous epithet,? or ?imaginative expression;?
(d) it does not state or imply undisclosed, unassumed, or unknown defamatory facts.
Source: http://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/ulr/article/viewFile/74/66
I think with his public figure admission, combined with the recognized first amendment right to satire and parody of public figures,? he just took his two legal cases out back and shot them dead.
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Boston's longest-serving mayor seen not seeking reelection
By Scott Malone
BOSTON (Reuters) - The longest-serving mayor in Boston history plans to tell voters on Thursday that he will not seek a sixth term in office, setting the stage for the city's most competitive mayoral race in decades.
Mayor Tom Menino, 70, is expected to declare his intention not to seek reelection to the office he has held since 1993 at a Thursday afternoon event at Boston's historic Fanueil Hall, according to an official who asked not to be identified ahead of the event.
The decision comes after the mayor was hospitalized for a month last year with a virus and back pain that cut short a vacation in Italy. The Democrat told local media he was growing concerned about how much longer he would be able to keep up his grueling work schedule.
"I can work a mayor's schedule, but not a Menino schedule," the mayor told WBZ news radio on Thursday morning. "I like to work 18 hours a day."
Prior to today, only one other candidate had jumped into the race - fellow Democrat John Connolly, 39, a Boston city councilor who has focused his campaign on improving schools.
But observers expected more local leaders to enter the race now that they know they will not be facing a powerful incumbent.
"Boston mayors are rarely defeated for reelection, so if you are going to make a run for it, this is the time to do it," said Peter Ubertaccio, chairman of the political science department at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, south of Boston. "The city councilors are going to be jockeying for this position."
Menino had a formidable campaign organization that he has used both for himself and fellow Democrats - his supporters played a key role in Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren's successful 2012 campaign to unseat Republican Scott Brown.
He has declined to endorse either of the Democratic Congressmen, Edward Markey and Stephen Lynch, currently vying to fill the Massachusetts seat in the U.S. Senate that became available when John Kerry was named Secretary of State.
Voters will go to the polls in that special election on June 25, a little more than four months before November's mayoral race, making for one of Boston's most lively political calendars in recent years.
On the national stage, Menino has stood out as an advocate for gun control and gay rights, often working alongside New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Menino became mayor in July 1993, after predecessor Raymond Flynn resigned to become U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
His fellow politicians were quick to offer praise.
"Tom Menino said yes for 20 years to economic inclusion, immigrant entrepreneurship, social and economic justice for all," said state Treasurer Steven Grossman. "We will miss his leadership at City Hall."
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Paul Thomasch)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/boston-mayor-menino-not-seek-sixth-term-boston-024857747.html
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Cancer biologists find DNA-damaging toxins in common plant-based foods
Mar. 27, 2013 ? In a laboratory study pairing food chemistry and cancer biology, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center tested the potentially harmful effect of foods and flavorings on the DNA of cells. They found that liquid smoke flavoring, black and green teas and coffee activated the highest levels of a well-known, cancer-linked gene called p53.
The p53 gene becomes activated when DNA is damaged. Its gene product makes repair proteins that mend DNA. The higher the level of DNA damage, the more p53 becomes activated.
"We don't know much about the foods we eat and how they affect cells in our bodies," says Scott Kern, M.D., the Kovler Professor of Oncology and Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "But it's clear that plants contain many compounds that are meant to deter humans and animals from eating them, like cellulose in stems and bitter-tasting tannins in leaves and beans we use to make teas and coffees, and their impact needs to be assessed."
Kern cautioned that his studies do not suggest people should stop using tea, coffee or flavorings, but do suggest the need for further research.
The Johns Hopkins study began a year ago when graduate student Samuel Gilbert, working in Kern's laboratory, noted that a test Kern had developed to detect p53 activity had never been used to identify DNA-damaging substances in food.
For the study, published online February 8 in Food and Chemical Toxicology, Kern and his team sought advice from scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture about food products and flavorings. "To do this study well, we had to think like food chemists to extract chemicals from food and dilute food products to levels that occur in a normal diet," he says.
Using Kern's test for p53 activity, which makes a fluorescent compound that "glows" when p53 is activated, the scientists mixed dilutions of the food products and flavorings with human cells and grew them in laboratory dishes for 18 hours.
Measuring and comparing p53 activity with baseline levels, the scientists found that liquid smoke flavoring, black and green teas and coffee showed up to nearly 30-fold increases in p53 activity, which was on par with their tests of p53 activity caused by a chemotherapy drug called etoposide.
Previous studies have shown that liquid smoke flavoring damages DNA in animal models, so Kern's team analyzed p53 activity triggered by the chemicals found in liquid smoke. Postdoctoral fellow Zulfiquer Hossain tracked down the chemicals responsible for the p53 activity. The strongest p53 activity was found in two chemicals: pyrogallol and gallic acid. Pyrogallol, commonly found in smoked foods, is also found in cigarette smoke, hair dye, tea, coffee, bread crust, roasted malt and cocoa powder, according to Kern. Gallic acid, a variant of pyrogallol, is found in teas and coffees.
Kern says that more studies are needed to examine the type of DNA damage caused by pyrogallol and gallic acid, but there could be ways to remove the two chemicals from foods and flavorings.
"We found that Scotch whiskey, which has a smoky flavor and could be a substitute for liquid smoke, had minimal effect on p53 activity in our tests," says Kern.
Liquid smoke, produced from the distilled condensation of natural smoke, is often used to add smoky flavor to sausages, other meats and vegan meat substitutes. It gained popularity when sausage manufacturers switched from natural casings to smoke-blocking artificial casings.
Other flavorings like fish and oyster sauces, tabasco and soy sauces, and black bean sauces showed minimal p53 effects in Kern's tests, as did soybean paste, kim chee, wasabi powder, hickory smoke powders and smoked paprika.
Funding for the study was provided by the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute (CA62924) and the Everett and Marjorie Kovler Professorship in Pancreas Cancer Research.
In addition to Kern, Gilbert and Hossain, other scientists involved in the research include Kalpesh Patel, Soma Ghosh, and Anil Bhunia from Johns Hopkins.
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- M. Zulfiquer Hossain, Samuel F. Gilbert, Kalpesh Patel, Soma Ghosh, Anil K. Bhunia, Scott E. Kern. Biological clues to potent DNA-damaging activities in food and flavoring. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2013; 55: 557 DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2013.01.058
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Google Translate on Android gains offline support for thrifty globetrotters
Travelers face a dilemma: they'll often leave a phone in airplane mode to avoid expensive roaming rates or a foreign SIM, but staying offline can break the translation services that might prove vital in a strange land. Google must have heard their plight, as a new version of Google Translate on Android adds the option to download offline packs for 50 different languages. They aren't as full-featured as their cloud-based equivalents, although there's good reason for the trimmed dictionaries -- at least some packs are over 150MB each. Unless space is just too tight, however, anyone with at least Android 2.3 can ask dónde el baño es without risking some bill shock.
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Do You Really Need an SEO Expert for your Local Business Website?
This article aims to provide valuable information that will help small business owners to leverage the benefits of launching their business online. Is it really easy for them to handle their business and online stuff together? Well? I would say it?s not that easy, though it?s not that much harder as well!
Starting a local business and expecting local customers from offline marketing techniques like word of mouth publicity, local daily ads and other offline stuff is understandable but running your business online and targeting customers and sales on the web is another thing and it requires special tactics. I am going to explain some of those tactics in this article that will give you immense knowledge, confidence and determination to get started with your business online.
Steps to put your business online:
- The foremost step is to have a neat and clean website depicting your business specifications and services. Many a times I have seen people giving not much preference to the design of the website and that results in a shady image online. You can easily find information regarding how to create a website on Google. I would suggest that you hire a web designer to do that task for you. Just book a nice domain name for your website and book a hosting space from a credible hosting provider. This is a simple and common thing which many small business owners do not tend to focus on ? so make sure you get your basics right.
- Once your website is ready online, let?s get started with local SEO or in other words, local promotion within and nearby your area. To begin with, create an account on Google Places to list your business online. You can visit www.google.com/places and sign in with your Gmail account details.
- Once you are on the listing page, you will need to enter information like company name, address, website URL, phone numbers and other things. Make sure you enter all the information correctly. Google will then verify your information through a telephone call before creating map listing of your company. This process may take couple of weeks. You can also do a basic yahoo directory listing as per your category and?geographic location.
- Once placement of your business on Google Places is done, it is your job to encourage your current customers to take out some time to visit your Google Places profile and provide honest reviews about your products and services. A Google Places account with customer reviews stands ahead of your competitors and also instills a sense of credibility and reliability in new potential customers.
- The next step is to collate a list of local business websites wherein you can enter your company details. Some useful local business websites can be Yellow Pages, Craigslist, SuperPages, Insider Pages, and others. These websites will help spread your company?s presence online. Make sure you are mentioning your company address and phone numbers in all these local websites so that the potential customer can easily contact or reach you.
- You should keep your website up-to-date with all the information you want to pass on to your customers. Outdated websites tend to get lost in the overcrowded online marketplace.
- Do not forget to make your presence social through social media websites, as they prove to be a real destination to get targeted customers for your products or services. I would say this is the perfect platform to show the USP of your company and the products you offer. You can create your company pages on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and other social networking websites and showcase your products and special festive deals, if any. Doing regular updates of your social accounts with special deals will attract hoards of people to like your page and to become your ultimate customers.
- If you have a product-based business, then you can tie up with other e-commerce websites to list your products as such e-commerce or shopping websites have gigantic traffic that gives you a good chance to reap good amount product sales. This will further help in generating company awareness among the populace.
- You can also leverage classified ad websites like eBay, Craigslist and others to sell your products. It may require more time than you expected to create and maintain these accounts and that could become a problem for you. Later on, you?ll be able to afford a dedicated person who will do the marketing for you through classified ad websites.
I do not think that the above mentioned points require much money and time to give a real boost to your online business. I haven?t mentioned any technicalities whatsoever such as On-Site Optimization, Search Engine Optimization, Paid Advertising and so on. Google can make things happen in two ways ? simple way or the technical way!
Let?s first get started with the simple way and when you will get time and money for the resources, you can always go for the technical method.
Conclusion
If you are one of those small business owners who think that you need to hire an SEO expert to bring your business online, will you will at least ?forget that perception and give this a try yourself?
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Mike Dell's former lieutenant leads coup attempt
By Nadia Damouni, Poornima Gupta and Greg Roumeliotis
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dave Johnson finds himself once again pitted against a former employer.
In leading Blackstone Group's 11th-hour bid for Dell Inc, the acquisitions expert and famously tough negotiator has seated himself across the table from ex-boss and company founder Michael Dell. Their relationship has now become a crucial element in the battle over the largest private equity-led buyout since the financial crisis.
There may even be echoes of the way Nabisco Brands President John Greeniaus ended up switching sides from RJR Nabisco's CEO Ross Johnson in the struggle for control of the food and tobacco conglomerate in the leveraged buyout boom of the late 1980s.
Blackstone's Johnson, a former IBM executive with a reputation for working through the night rather than early in the day, may be joining the party late. But he could still up-end Michael Dell's original proposal to take the company private for $24.4 billion.
Whether the two former confidants can work together may decide the fate of the world's No. 3 PC maker.
The soft-spoken Red Sox and New England Patriots fan is described by people who have known him for a long time as likeable, smart and loyal. But that loyalty has been questioned twice as he has headed for the exits under controversial circumstances - once after more than 27 years at IBM, and then when he left Dell.
IBM unsuccessfully sued Johnson when he departed in 2009, alleging he violated a non-compete agreement.
Now Michael Dell - who told his executive team that Johnson would remain a close and personal adviser when he left to join Blackstone in January - is fighting to hold onto his company against a bid mounted by Blackstone less than three months later. Blackstone has not mentioned a role for his former boss.
"For all the good he does in an organization, the exit always seems to burn him," said a person close to Johnson.
"There was a lot of goodwill (at IBM) but in the last two minutes, he completely erases 25 years of history. Same thing at Dell."
The stakes are high for both men. Michael Dell could lose control of a company he nursed from a dorm-room operation into a global personal computer maker. He doesn't only have Blackstone breathing down his neck but has to also contend with a competing offer from billionaire investor Carl Icahn. Meanwhile, Johnson's first deal could be one of the most ambitious in technology for Blackstone in years.
Among people who know Michael Dell and Johnson, there is little agreement about how well the two men get along now.
The relationship was still close when Johnson, who led some $10 billion worth of deals during his time at Dell, worked to bolster the company's non-PC-making businesses in areas such as software and enterprise services.
Johnson was said to have weighed the offer from Blackstone for a while before taking the plunge, one of the people said.
Three others said Johnson left Dell alienated, and that some members of top management were unhappy with his track record and had few qualms about letting him leave for the world's largest private equity firm.
"Dave came into Dell as a change agent. Change agents have a tough job, and their job is to break glass," one of these people said. "And sometimes where you are breaking glass, people don't like what you are doing."
A spokesman for Michael Dell declined to comment, while a Blackstone spokesman declined to comment on behalf of Johnson. A Dell Inc spokesman also declined to comment.
WHEELING AND DEALING
During more than three years at the Texas-based computer maker, Johnson oversaw 18 to 20 acquisitions, according to a Dell spokesman. He reported directly to Michael Dell.
People who know him say Johnson is more comfortable wheeling and dealing in smaller settings, less at ease in the spotlight of major presentations such as Dell's analysts' day.
He was also known for keeping late hours.
"You can ask anyone at IBM," one of the people said. If Johnson's assistant scheduled a meeting early in the morning it probably "wasn't going to happen," this person said.
Johnson oversaw the 2009 purchase of Perot Systems Corp, which catapulted Dell into the technology services market alongside IBM and HP. Other deals during his tenure included Quest Software, SecureWorks, SonicWall Inc and Wyse Technology.
At Dell, Johnson was brought in to help beef up the company's enterprise-related portfolio and diversify away from its reliance on PCs. To that end, Johnson went on an acquisition spree for small to mid-size companies. A big believer in the proper integration of acquired companies, Johnson often told team members that "the real success of a transaction is in the integration."
The 61-year old brought discipline and rigor to Dell's M&A machine, instituting a playbook that aimed to standardize the M&A and integration process, one of the people said.
That playbook, for example, had templates for documents and contained a list of internal subject-matter experts.
While Johnson's strategy helped Dell expand its portfolio and reduce its reliance on PCs, the strategy was also criticized for being slow to offset a decline in PC sales and for failing to integrate the acquired companies fully with Dell to take advantage of scale.
But Carr Lanphier, analyst with Morningstar, said it is too early to tell whether Johnson's term at Dell was a success as his effort at diversification is not complete.
When Johnson joined Blackstone, the private equity giant had been looking for ways to bolster its technology team after having suffered a couple of dealmaker losses. These included Chip Schorr, who left Blackstone in 2010 after serving as its global head of technology investing.
Johnson is working on Dell with Chinh Chu, one of Blackstone's most experienced partners, who has been carrying out transactions for the firm since 1990.
Blackstone has reached out to a number of candidates who could run Dell should its bid succeed, replacing Michael Dell.
Sources involved in the fast-evolving discussions said Michael Dell and Johnson have competing visions for the company.
Two people close to Michael Dell have said he was concerned that Blackstone's buyout offer would dismantle the PC maker. Other people familiar with the situation have said Blackstone has considered a potential sale of Dell's financial services business as part of a strategy to turn things around.
Divestitures are not part of the plans by Michael Dell and his buyout partner, the private equity firm Silver Lake, two of the sources said.
(Editing by Edwin Chan, Tim Dobbyn and Martin Howell)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mike-dells-former-lieutenant-leads-coup-attempt-042912111--sector.html
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LGBT Legal Eagles Jon Davidson and Jennifer Pizer Await DOMA ...
Here's Lambda Legal Legal Director Jon Davidson and National Marriage Project Director Jennifer Pizer in line outside the Supreme Court this morning, awaiting entrance for the consideration of the Edie Windsor DOMA case.
Davidson reports on Twitter: "Smaller crowds today, but those present clearly are aware of how momentous the case being heard shortly is. Can the federal government disregard some couples' marriages? How should courts judge constitutionality of laws that discriminate based on sexual orientation? Weighty issues indeed...Waiting in line for hours gives me a whole new appreciation of the legal question of 'standing.'"
Said Pizer: "Pizer: No protesters yet. It's a lot calmer."
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Call for proposals for TCUK13, 24-26 September | Kai's Tech Writing ...
Posted on 27 March 2013 by Kai
You have 10 days, until Friday 5 April, to submit a proposal (or two) to speak at Technical Communication UK (TCUK) . TCUK 13 takes place in Bristol from 24th to 26th September 2013. It is the UK?s leading technical communication event, and without a doubt the friendliest professional conference you can find.
As well as three days of workshops and presentations, TCUK is your opportunity to meet and network with other technical communicators from across the UK and many other countries. We have planned social activities including receptions and a Gala Dinner (where we present the ISTC?s annual technical communication awards). In previous years delegates have organised a number of popular conference fringe events, from quiz events and late-night salsa dancing to early morning runs, and there are sure to be similar activities this year.
The call for proposals is open but closes on 5th April, so if you want to have a chance to speak at TCUK make sure you submit your ideas on time. Regardless of whether you want to present for the first time or you are a seasoned conference speaker, we want to hear from you. We don?t mind if you are new to technical communication or if you have worked in this field for ever, if you have something to say to other technical communicators then TCUK 2013 is your chance to say it.
As well as topics relating to our specialist stream The Management of Technical Communication, you may submit proposals on any topic that you feel will be of interest to technical communication professionals. Have a look at the list of suggested topics and use that as a jumping off point for your imagination. What do you think would be of interest to other technical communicators? We?re waiting to hear from you.
- If you?ve ever considered speaking at a tech comm conference, I want to encourage you personally to submit a talk: TCUK was my first speaking experience in 2010, and it was immensely positive and rewarding! For more reasons, see my Top 6 reasons to consider speaking at TCUK?2013 and Why TCUK is such a cool?conference.
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