Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan was released from prison Wednesday after more than five years in a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., for corruption. Ryan, a 78-year-old father and grandfather, reported to a halfway house in Chicago just before 7 a.m.
The former governor, convicted in 2006 of federal corruption charges, was given a strict schedule to get from the prison to the West Side facility about four hours away. He arrived wearing a suit and tie and flanked by staffers and surrounded by the media.
There was speculation that Ryan made a request to stop to visit the grave site of his late wife, Lura Lynn, who died in 2011 of lung cancer and pulmonary fibrosis and whose funeral he was not allowed to attend. His family has said it would hold off having a formal memorial for her until his release.
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Once at the halfway house, Ryan faces a new reality that's at the same time starkly different and very much the same as prison.
He?s expected to stay for a maximum of six months at the same Salvation Army facility where dozens of onetime politicos from Illinois made their transition back to freedom. They included former City Clerk James Laski and Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese.
Ryan?s former chief of staff, Scott Fawell, said Monday this will be the place where Ryan will most likely mingle with the hardest criminals he will see during his entire stay with the Bureau of Prisons.
"You can be in the same room with guys who have done 20 or 30 years in prison, where he?s used to a little different clientele," Fawell explained.
Ryan will be required to take mandatory classes on such mundane skills as opening a bank account, writing a check, and making out a resume. It sounds ridiculous for a former governor but is par for the course in the Bureau of Prisons' one-size-fits-all approach to corrections.
"It?s for everybody," Fawell said. "Whether you?ve done 30 years or three months."
After orientation, it will be time for the former Springfield dealmaker to go to work. Every halfway house resident is required to have a job and to work 40 hours each week. Ryan will have to sign out when he departs in the morning and call when he arrives at his job site. He is to be back at the Salvation Army facility at Ashland and Monroe by 7 p.m. every evening.
Ryan is said to have lost weight during his time in prison and appears in good health except for some pending dental problems.
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Weekend Highlights: FOSS Patents reports that Samsung vehemently opposes Apple's request for a re-hearing of the U.S. Nexus decision; Reuters reports that Apple won't blindly pursue market share, refining their position on the report from the Shanghai Evening News; Apple's rumored cheap iPhone was said to be denied by Phil Schiller, but Reuters has since pulled the report sending a mist of intrigue throughout the blogosphere, but what Phil stated is that cheap phones "will never be the future of Apple's products"; others say Apple already has a cheap iPhone in the iPhone 4; reports and opinions aplenty in our Apple/Macintosh, and Op/Ed sections; meanwhile in China, Tim Cook quoted saying China will likely overtake the United States as their biggest market; and Cook discussed with China Mobile chairman "bilateral cooperation" but didn't reveal much else due to confidentiality agreement between the two companies; report says Apple plans to open more than 25 stores in China; Kodak's patents approved for sale to Apple, Google alliance; Microsoft's Surface RT has been jailbroken to run OS X; Macworld feature shows how photographers can use their DSLR with FCPX; Don Melton posts another bit of history behind Safari's development and subsequent release; Apple scores Emmy for streaming engineering technology; Apple brings another Xerox "product" on board, this one is human, named Luca Maestri, who will become the corporate controller reporting to Peter Oppenheimer; Jimmy Iovine, CEO of Beats, said to have spent years selling music subscription service to Steve Jobs; AppleInsider reports that DoCoMo hoping to land iPhones as Japanese competitors gain steam; another batch of rumors that iPad mini 2 with Retina, and iPad 5 to debut this March; iOS 6.1 is being readied for developers; will Apple be doomed again?; looks like Samsung isn't finished copying Apple art, see here the similarity in these icons.
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"Apple won't blindly pursue market share, Chinese paper Reports"?Reuters?7:20 AM
"Apple Still Has the Upper Hand in Phone, Tablet War"?Barron's [Paid subscription required]?7:23 AM
"Parents told to beware children running up huge bills on iPad and iPhone game apps: Developers are urged to make it less easy for a child to spend hundreds on 'in-app' purchases"?The Guardian?8:13 AM
"Apple CEO: China Will Be Biggest Market" ["China Mobile chairman Xi Guohua and Cook discussed 'bilateral cooperation,' the phone company said in a statement. It said release of other details was barred by a confidentiality agreement between the companies."]?Associated Press?1/11
"Tim Cook: China will be Apple's top market"?CNNMoney?1/11
"Apple's Tim Cook has big plans for China ... and so does China Mobile"?MarketWatch?1/11
"Tim Cook: China to become Apple's largest market/Cook plans to have more than 25 Apple stores in China"?IDG News Service?1/11
"8 Ways Apple Could Make A Cheaper iPhone: To build an iPhone that's affordable in emerging markets, Apple will have to cut some corners or rethink the iPhone entirely. We break down some options."?InformationWeek?1/11
"New intrigue on trail of cheaper iPhone: Reuters has cryptically withdrawn a story pegged to remarks purportedly made by Apple's Phil Schiller in China."?CNET News?1/11
"Rumor of cheaper iPhone gets new life after Reuters pulls report"?CBS News?1/11
"Apple: Cheap phones will never be our focus"?TechRadar UK?1/11
"Apple rejects 'cheap' iPhone: Apple's head of marketing has prompted a new round of speculation about Apple's potential plans for a budget iPhone by telling a Chinese newspaper that 'cheap smartphones' will 'never be the future of Apple's products'."?Telegraph?1/11
"Cracking the China code: Microsoft vs. Apple"?asymco?1/11
"Apple Is Undergoing Massive Changes And Having A Very Strange Quarter"?Business Insider?1/11
"How many iPads did Apple sell last quarter?"?Fortune?1/11
"Ericsson hands over 2,000 patents to licensing company suing Apple, Google and RIM"?ZDNet?1/11
"Apple, Google Deal for Kodak Patents Approved by Judge"?Bloomberg?1/11
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"Apple Takes Action To Block Java Security Flaw On Macs"?AppleBitch?11:41 AM
"Apple Remote Disables Java on Macs After Major Security Alert"?The Mac Observer?1/11
"Apple blacklists Java on OS X to prevent latest 'critical' exploits"?Ars Technica?1/11
"New malware exploiting Java 7 in Windows and Unix systems: Mal/JavaJar-B is a cross-platform exploit of a new zero-day vulnerability in the latest Java runtimes."?MacFixIt?1/11
"Mac OS Spotted 'Running' On A Jailbroken Microsoft Surface RT"?TechCrunch?1/11
"Mac OS on Windows RT? A hacker makes it happen"?VentureBeat?1/11
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/This week, readers e-mailed in questions about Software Update, Notes, and how to record movies and video on a Mac."?MacFixIt?1/11
"OS X 10.8.2 fix for Active Directory lockouts"?MacWindows?1/11
"Reader networking problem with Parallels 8 and OS X 10.8"?MacWindows?1/11
"Anyone else having trouble with iTunes Match syncing playlists"?iMore?1/11
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"How to manage OS X Gatekeeper from the command line: Apple provides three basic settings for Gatekeeper in OS X Mountain Lion, but you can manage this service in finer detail if needed."?CNET Reviews?1/11
"How to use Final Cut Pro X with your DSLR"?Macworld?1/11
"Using the Guest Account in OS X"?Mactuts+?1/11
"How to Remove Duplicate Entries from OS X's 'Open With' Menu"?The Mac Observer?1/11
"Protect Your Shared iTunes Library And Playlists With A Password [OS X Tips]?Cult of Mac?1/11
"Bored With iMovie? Can't Afford Final Cut Pro X? Try This New, Affordable Mac Video Editor"?Mac 360?1/11
"Radio Isn't Dead. Yet. How To Use Your Mac To Bring The News To Your Ears Every Hour"?Mac 360?1/11
"How To Customize The Mac's Launchpad, Dashboard, And Mission Control Absolutely Free"?NoodleMac?1/11
"A Very Simple But Not Quite Free Way To Share Another Mac's Screen"?TeraTalks?1/11
"Just When DVDs Are Dying Out There's A Better Way To Rip DVDs On Your Mac"?BohemianBoomer?1/11
"New To The Mac? Got Lots Of Windows Outlook Email To Import? Get The Free MailRaider App"?Mac 360?1/11
"Finally, A Mac Screen Record And Capture Tool That's Simplified And Affordable"?McSolo?1/11
Op/Ed
"Safari is released to the world"?Don Melton?1/11
Press Releases
"Pro Version of Popular Logo Game Hits Apple App Store"?prMac?8:53 AM
"Curious About OmniFocus? Get a Free License"?FairerPlatform?7:15 AM
"Tweetbot For Mac 1.1.1: Bug Fixes, Performance Tweaks"?RazorianFly?1/11
"Gehry Technologies announces Digital Project V1R5"?Architosh?1/11
"ArchiCAD STAR(T) Edition 2013 rolls out today"?Architosh?1/11
"BitTorrent brings torrent discovery, downloading directly to the browser with Surf Chrome extension"?The Next Web?1/11
"Disc Golf 3D Released Through Mac App Store"?prMac?1/11
"Skype for Mac 6.1 Improves Click to Call, User Profile"?FairerPlatform?1/11
"Mac Printer Drivers: Brother, HP Drivers Updated"?FairerPlatform?1/11
"How One Vegas Casino Uses iPads To Loosen Up Gamblers"?Cult of Mac?7:37 AM
"Apple wins engineering Emmy for streaming TV tech"?Electronista?1/11
"Apple Awarded Technology & Engineering Emmy At CES [CES 2013]?Cult of Mac?1/11
"Xerox CFO Luca Maestri to Leave Company: Xerox today announced that Luca Maestri, executive vice president and chief financial officer, is leaving the company, effective February 28, to assume the role of corporate controller at Apple."?Business Wire?1/11
"Xerox CFO Maestri Leaving to Become Apple's Corporate Controller"?Bloomberg?1/11
"Apple's Controller Hire Shows Its Recruiting Power"?WSJ Blogs?1/11
"Xerox CFO leaving to join Apple"?Reuters?1/11
"Apple appoints Xerox CFO Luca Maestri as new corporate controller"?The Next Web?1/11
"CFO Maestri to leave Xerox for position at Apple as corporate controller"?9 to 5 Mac?1/11
"Apple Hires New Corporate Controller Luca Maestri Away From Xerox"?TechCrunch?1/11
"Xerox CFO joins Apple as new corporate controller"?ZDNet?1/11
"Xerox CFO Luca Maestri to join Apple as Corporate Controller"?Edible Apple?1/11
"Phil Schiller Interview Casting Doubt On Possible Low-End iPhone Updated, Prompting Reuters Withdrawal"?BGR?1/11
"Cheaper iPhone story withdrawn after 'substantial changes' to China report"?AppleInsider?1/11
"Apple dismisses cheaper iPhone story withdrawn"?Reuters?1/11
"iPhone 5 with $45 Straight Talk Unlimited plan now at Walmart"?GigaOM?1/11
"Beats CEO spent three years trying to convince Steve Jobs to launch streaming music service"?The Verge?1/11
"Beats CEO Jimmy Iovine Tried to Sell Music Subscriptions to Steve Jobs"?iPhoneinCanada?1/11
"Beats CEO spent years trying to convince Steve Jobs to do a music service"?iDownload Blog?1/11
"Beats' Iovine: I talked to Steve Jobs about music subscriptions/The famed record company giant says that he tried to sell Jobs on launching a music-subscription business for three years to no avail."?CNET News?1/11
"Jimmy Iovine discusses his attempts to sway Steve Jobs on a subscription music service"?Edible Apple?1/11
"How Computer Scientists Are Trying To Stop Smartphones And Tablets From Breaking The Internet"?BGR?1/11
"Japan's NTT DoCoMo wants iPhone access as Apple partners gain subscribers"?AppleInsider?1/11
"Japan's NTT DoCoMo says it's open to carrying Apple's iPhone"?The Next Web?1/11
"Amid Customer Loss, Japan's DoCoMo Carrier Opens Door to iPhone"?The Mac Observer?1/11
"NTT DoCoMo changes its tune, now open to carrying iPhone"?TUAW?1/11
"Apple adds subscription TV and movie service Watchever to Apple TV in Germany"?The Next Web?1/11
"Best of CES iOS device accessories [Gallery]?9 to 5 Mac?1/11
"CES 2013: iLuv booth tour"?TUAW?1/11
"Nostalgia Tech 4: 20 Vintage Apple ads"?ZDNet?1/11
"Chinese Apple online store publishes New Year Gift Guide"?MacNN?1/11
"Java allows 'open hunting season' for hackers, experts find"?ZDNet?1/11
"Teaching women to code"?VentureBeat [Free Registration Required]?1/11
"ST-Ericsson uncloaks 2.5GHz Jekyll & Hyde smartphone chip: First out of the gate with FD-SOI and power-saving eQuad tech"?The Register?1/11
"Quantum Dots Get Commercial Debut in More Colorful Sony TVs: Technology from QD Vision replaces the conventional backlight in LCDs, allowing for purer colors."?Technology Review?1/11
"E Ink's future foretold at CES: Next-gen will be high-res, support color"?PCWorld?1/11
"Yahoo Adds Flickr Creative Commons Images to Search"?PC Magazine?1/11
"Firefox getting built-in HTML5-based PDF viewer to improve security: The new PDF viewer in Firefox 19 will be more secure than third-party plug-ins, Mozilla says"?IDG News Service?1/11
"Ray Kurzweil lifts lid on Google AI project"?ZDNet?1/11
"Google Chrome, Now With Cinema-Style 3-D Effects"?Webmonkey?1/11
"Google revs up Chrome, crushes bugs: Patches 24 vulnerabilities in first upgrade in nine weeks"?Computerworld?1/11
"Skype founder browses globe for next tech earner"?Reuters?1/11
"After Just Two Years, Nearly Half of Verizon's Data Traffic Is on LTE"?AllThingsD?1/11
"RIM Turns to Carriers to Help Avoid a Repeat of Palm"?Bloomberg?1/11
"Get ready for pricey 'Ultra HD' TVs"?CNNMoney?1/11
"SAP Challenges Oracle by Boosting Flagship Software Speed"?Bloomberg?1/11
"Tablets rule: Every shape, size, and OS emerges at CES"?PCWorld?1/11
"iPhones, tablets... Pah: By 2020, we'll froth over hot new SOFTWEAR/Cyborg me up - I'm ready and waiting for it, says El Reg's Trevor"?The Register?1/11
"This Touch-Sensitive Hologram Makes Your Touchscreen Phone Look Old"?Business Insider?1/11
Publications/Podcasts
"From New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Courtney Seiter Profiles RavenInternet Marketing Tools"?MacVoicesTV?7:16 AM
"The TouchArcade Show - 86 - Crazy Volume Edition"?Touch Arcade?1/11
"Special guest Dan Frommer joins John Gruber to discuss CES 2013, the disparity in display size between the iPhone and all of its competitors, and Dan's new endeavor, City Notes."?The Talk Show?1/11
"Gene Steinberg meets author Kier Thomas, Macworld's Dan Frakes, and Bob 'Dr. Mac' LeVitus, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?1/11
"From New Media Expo ? TravelVegas Helps You Get More Out of Sin City"?MacVoicesTV?1/11
"The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 14"?AnandTech?1/11
"Rumor: Fifth-gen iPad, second-gen iPad mini to debut in March"?AppleInsider?1/11
"iPad Mini 2 To Launch Alongside Thinner, Lighter iPad 5 This March [Rumor]?Cult of Mac?1/11
"Apple testing Retina panels for iPad mini 2 - report: China Times says Apple has received samples of OGS Retina-class displays from Foxconn subsidiary SCST"?Macworld UK?1/11
"Rumor: iPad Mini 2 And iPad 5 Will Launch In March 2013"?AppleBitch?1/11
"Apple to Launch 3G iPad Mini in China in Late January"?BrightWire?1/11
"Final iOS 6.1 beta being prepped for developers - report"?AppleInsider?1/11
"iOS 6.1 Golden Master Testing, Dev Release Coming Soon"?Tapscape?1/11
"iOS 6.1 GM / Final Beta Being Readied For Developers, Could Release Next Week"?Redmond Pie?1/11
"Apple awarded more than a thousand patents in 2012"?TUAW?1/11
"Imitation Apple: Hardware knockoffs through the years" [Slideshow]?Macworld?1/11
AppleCare/Helps
Price Trackers/Deals
"Fish Heroes For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:49 AM
"Chicken Revolution For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:49 AM
"ZomNomNom For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?10:48 AM
"Refurbished Mac Pro: Save Hundreds on an Apple Tower"?FairerPlatform?7:13 AM
"HDR Fusion For iPhone Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?1/11
"TeuxDeux For iPhone Is Free Right Now (Previously $2.99)"?Apple Sliced?1/11
"Crumble Zone For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?1/11
"15" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?1/11
"13" MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?1/11
"MacBook Air Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?1/11
"Apple MacBook Pro Buyer's Guide -15 Inch Models -Prices From $950 to $3,049 -Best Prices, Reviews & Information"?MacReviewZone?1/11
"Apple MacBook Pro Buyer's Guide -13 Inch Models -$739 To $2,199 -Best Prices, Reviews & Information"?MacReviewZone?1/11
"Apple MacBook Air Buyer's Guide -Prices $700 To $1,599 -Prices, Reviews And Information"?MacReviewZone?1/11
"iPad mini Buyer's Guide -Best iPad Prices Reviews & Information"?MacReviewZone?1/11
"The Cheapest Place to Buy an iPhone 5 is Walmart: $127!"?OS X Daily?1/11
"PadGadget Daily App Deal ? 17 iPad Apps on Sale"?PadGadget?1/11
Deal Brothers Daily Deal: Headed to CES and need a cheap flight?
"The Macalope Weekly: Jaded"?Macworld?10:15 AM
"How Apple Has Transformed Digital Nomad Living"?Cult of Mac?7:10 AM
"Cheap" iPhone Rumors
"Huawei Blames 'Lack of Innovation' on Loss of Steve Jobs"?Tom's Hardware?1/11
"Apple Will Never Make A 'Cheap' iPhone"?Forbes?1/11
"Here's What Apple REALLY Said About A Cheap iPhone (We Think)"?Business Insider?1/11
"'A cheaper iPhone? Not for us,' says Apple's marketing chief as he rubbishes low-end rumours"?ZDNet?1/11
"Mystery: Did Apple Exec Phil Schiller Really Shoot Down A Cheap iPhone?"?Business Insider?1/11
"Why Did Reuters Pull its iPhone Mini Report?"?Mashable?1/11
"Reuters Withdraws Schiller 'Cheaper iPhone' Rebuttal Following Changes to Source"?Mac|Life?1/11
"Less Expensive iPhone Rumors Continue To Be Cloudy"?AppleBitch?1/11
"Is Apple Coming Out With a Cheaper iPhone? The Answer Is Unclear"?Mashable?1/11
"Cheap iPhone: When Does No Not Mean No?"?Tapscape?1/11
"Cheap iPhone Good or Bad for Apple?"?Zacks?1/11
"Cheap iPhone will 'never be the future of Apple'"?Crave @ CNET?1/11
"Don't count out the cheap iPhone yet: Reuters rescinds Apple exec denial"?VentureBeat?1/11
"Apple rubbishes rumours of iPhone for the masses"?The Register?1/11
"Apple Not Focused On Developing Cheaper iPhone, Says Marketing SVP Phil Schiller"?TechCrunch?1/11
"As Reuters Pulls 'iPhone mini' Story, But No One Seems Sure Why"?Reuters?1/11
"Reuters withdraws story on Phil Schiller's reported denial of 'cheap' iPhone"?The Verge?1/11
Apple Op/Ed
"CES 2013: How to Avoid Getting Sued by Apple? Have Good Lawyers, Source Says"?DailyTech?1/11
"Will Apple Copy Xerox's Generosity?"?WSJ Blogs?1/11
"Selling Windows Phone: Microsoft's Ben Rudolph on why iPhone and Android users will love and buy his device"?VentureBeat?1/11
"Working as an Apple Genius Is Good Training For Future -Like Parenting Toddlers"?The Mac Observer?1/11
"Android's next big challenge to the iPhone: The new breed of Android devices exceed the iPhone 5 in every category - hardware, operating system, and apps."?CNET News?1/11
"So, what is Apple's next big thing going to be?"?ZDNet?1/11
"iPhone 6 rumor rollup for week ending Jan. 11: Smaller, cheaper; bigger, cheaper; bigger, more expensive"?Network World?1/11
"Apple: One Analyst's Post-CES Wish List For Future Products"?Forbes?1/11
"Is Apple Releasing Products Too Fast?"?TheStreet?1/11
"Why Apple's iOS will win the platform war over Google's Android"?MacDailyNews?1/11
"Office for iOS may be coming (yawn)"?AppleTell?1/11
"How many iTVs would Apple sell?"?Fortune?1/11
"The less expensive iPhone"?iMore?1/11
"A Story About Steve Jobs, Steel Balls and Gorilla Glass (You, with the Cracked Phone: Read This)"?Techland?1/11
"The Flipside: Embracing Closed Gardens Like The Apple App Store Shows Just How Un-Free You Want To Be"?Techdirt?1/11
"Apple's Marketing Nazi: 'No Cheap Apple Products For You!"?PixoBebo?1/11
"Is Apple A Hardware Or A Software Company? Or, A Struggling Web Services Company?"?Mac 360?1/11
Non-Apple
"Has the Wii U had a good reception?"?Tapscape?1/11
"CEA on 'Booth Babes': The Name Is the Problem"?Mashable?1/11
"10 Pros and Cons of Gmail's New Compose Feature"?Mashable?1/11
"The Decision: Why I picked the Samsung S3 over iPhone and Windows"?GeekWire?1/11
"Nvidia's Project Shield Can Succeed Even If It Fails"?Techland?1/11
"Review: Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 Windows 8 convertible Ultrabook"?The Register?1/11
"How to nominate someone for Internet Hall of Fame: Who will join Cerf, Berners-Lee and Torvalds in online-only Hall of Fame?"?Network World?1/11
"Would You Pay $100 to Message Mark Zuckerberg?"?PC Magazine?1/11
"Top Patent Recipients in 2012: IBM and Samsung"?PC Magazine?1/11
"Why cloud computing ROI tools are worthless"?InfoWorld?1/11
"How to get a new PC without Windows 8"?InfoWorld?1/11
"OLED and 4K at CES 2013: The fantasy and the reality (video)"?PCWorld?1/11
"CES 2013: Land of the Dongle, Year of the Little Guy"?Wired?1/11
"CES 2013 round-up: Paper tablets, eight-core chips and Ballmer surprises"?V3?1/11
"In Pictures: Gadgets Galore at the Consumer Electronics Show" [Slideshow]?Techland?1/11
"CES 2013: Amazing spectacles and awkward moments"?PCWorld?1/11
"The worst of CES 2013" [Slideshow]?PCWorld?1/11
"CES 2013: The technology you'll actually want/In a sea of retread and me-too products, here are the 5 technologies that stand out" [Slideshow]?InfoWorld?1/11
"CES: When The Going Gets Weird, The Weird Turn Pro"?Forbes?1/11
"Five intellectual property trends to watch in 2013"?EE Times?1/11
"Android Smartphone Developments At CES 2013"?BYTE?1/11
"Java Under Attack Again, Disable Now: Java zero-day vulnerability is under attack by at least four active campaigns. Oracle has yet to respond. Here's what to do."?InformationWeek?1/11
"Clouds Come Up Against Open Source Ethics"?TheStreet?1/11
"NVIDIA's Mobile Future Isn't as Rosy as You Might Think"?The Motley Fool?1/11
"The Best Laptops of CES 2013: What Laptops?"?Gizmodo?1/11
"Introducing The Chinese Grey Market Android Tablets"?Tech.pinions?1/11
"Sorry Microsoft, I am breaking up with the Surface"?ZDNet?1/11
"Living with the Samsung GALAXY Note II: How users are faring a few months after launch"?TechRad
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Apple expects China to overtake the United States as its biggest market, the company?s chief executive has told a Chinese government news agency. ?China is currently our second largest market. I believe it will become our first. I believe strongly that it will,? the Xinhua news agency quoted Tim Cook as saying in an interview. The report gave no details of when Cook thought China, already Apple?s second-biggest market, might pass the US. Apple spokespeople in China did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Apple has said sales in China more than doubled in 2010 and 2011, though growth has slowed in the past year. Apple?s iPhones, iPads and other gadgets are popular with China?s highest-earning consumers but the country?s fast-growing smartphone market is dominated by handsets that run on the rival Google Android system. Cook was in Beijing to meet Chinese regulators and managers of state-owned China Unicom, the first Chinese carrier to support the iPhone. (via Apple expects China to overtake US as biggest market | Technology | guardian.co.uk)
Have you been trying to break into the online world of business and need internet advertising help? You?re not alone. Although many small businesses realize the importance of the internet, they often do not take advantage of what Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines have to offer. And many people don?t even know what Google Maps is all about ? but this is essential if you own a brick and mortar business. Similar services exist in Bing and Yahoo too.
These are just some of the many internet advertising places. There are many other venues that you can use to promote your business, products and services:
1. Article Directories and Content Sites. Registering with Ezine Articles (and the hundreds of other article directories), Hub Pages and Squidoo is completely free. Your goal with these sites is to create informative articles about your products/services and publish them here. Doing this will earn you credibility, expert status and possibly higer ranking in the search engines once you start bringing in traffic to your site.
2. Search Engine Pay Per Click Platforms: All of the major search engines and many other search engines offer the possibility for you to advertise on their sites and some of the most sophisticated internet advertising help. It works like this. . .you place an ad based on some keywords that are relevent to your business, products or services. All of the search engines give you free tools that you can use to find the keywords that you want to target. You will bid on each keyword that you advertise and the search engines will also help you to identify what your bid should be. Once you have placed your ad, whenever anyone types in the keyword that you targeted into that search engine, your ad will come up. Where it appears depends on how high you placed your bid and how relevent your ad is to the keywords that you specified.
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FILE - This Nov. 5, 2012 file photo shows singer and celebrity judge Britney Spears at the "X-Factor" Finalists Party in Los Angeles. A person familiar with plans for Fox's "The X Factor" says Britney Spears is out of the show. Spears was a mentor on the singing contest for one season, reportedly drawing a $15 million paycheck but failing to pull reviews to match. The person who confirmed reports of her departure wasn't authorized to comment publicly, speaking Thursday on condition of anonymity. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - This Nov. 5, 2012 file photo shows singer and celebrity judge Britney Spears at the "X-Factor" Finalists Party in Los Angeles. A person familiar with plans for Fox's "The X Factor" says Britney Spears is out of the show. Spears was a mentor on the singing contest for one season, reportedly drawing a $15 million paycheck but failing to pull reviews to match. The person who confirmed reports of her departure wasn't authorized to comment publicly, speaking Thursday on condition of anonymity. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - This Nov. 5, 2012 file photo shows singer and celebrity judge Britney Spears at the "X-Factor" Finalists Party in Los Angeles. A person familiar with plans for Fox's "The X Factor" says Britney Spears is out of the show. Spears was a mentor on the singing contest for one season, reportedly drawing a $15 million paycheck but failing to pull reviews to match. The person who confirmed reports of her departure wasn't authorized to comment publicly, speaking Thursday on condition of anonymity. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, file)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Britney Spears is out of "The X Factor" after a season in which the pop star failed to deliver a ratings boost for the singing contest, a person familiar with the show's plans said Thursday.
Creator Simon Cowell and fellow producers are discussing replacements for Spears and another panelist, record producer Antonio "L.A." Reid, said the person, who lacked authority to comment publicly and insisted of anonymity.
Reid previously announced he was leaving after two seasons. Demi Lovato appears likely to return, joining Cowell on the revamped panel. The show is due to return in the fall.
The departures are yet another shake-up for "The X Factor," Cowell's attempt to strike magic with a U.S. version of his successful U.K. series. Cowell replaced panelists Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger and host Steve Jones after a disappointing first season, and ratings dropped in the second season.
The December season finale drew 9.7 million viewers, compared to about 11 million for the first year's season-ender. Although the series has failed to match Cowell's bold pre-debut predictions, and certainly hasn't eclipsed sister Fox show "American Idol," it's helped shore up the network's fall schedule.
Pop star Spears, however, proved less than a one-season wonder.
Combining fame and a history of erratic behavior, she was seen as a potential spark for better ratings. But reviewers faulted her for appearing inexpressive to the point of boredom and a repetitively dull use of the word "awesome."
On Tuesday, Fox network chief Kevin Reilly defended Spears, saying she was doing "a really good job" during a Q&A with the Television Critics Association.
"She came on, people remain fascinated with her and always will be," he said. "Maybe some people were waiting for more drastic displays of some nature that never came, so for those expecting that, it didn't happen."
Asked whether Fox would be on board to bring Spears back, Reilly replied "yeah" ? this despite the fact producers have been talking since Christmas about substitutes for her and Reid.
Mario Lopez and Khloe Kardashian joined the show as co-hosts this season.
January 11, 2013 (MMD Newswire) -- Mayor Richard Riordan will be the keynote speaker today at LA5
-- The Rotary Club of Los Angeles and Los Angeles' leading civic organization -- at its 11:30-1:30 meeting at the California Club in downtown Los Angeles. Media interested in attending should call John Lockhart, Rotary volunteer, at (805) 746-2445. Note the California Club has a dress code and no camera policy.
On Friday, Feb 8, 2013 LA5 will welcome the Mayoral candidates to a luncheon debate hosted by former California Governor Gray Davis. Media are invited to attend and cover. That event will be held 11:30-1:30 on Friday, Feb 8th at a downtown location still to be determined (not the California Club). If interested please call John Lockhart, Rotary volunteer at (805) 746-2445 or email jlockhart@peoplemediagroup.com
For those of you who are down on yourselves
because you can?t lose weight, please realize the complexity of the issue. Forget will
power and self-discipline, calories in and energy out. The truth is, many factors affect our eating and size.?
Out
of body experiences by Julie Deardorff (Sarasota
Herald Tribune, Health and Fitness, 10/30/12) provides the lowdown on how our weight is affected by environment. I guarantee that on your own you?d never have imagined that some of these factors would impact your weight, so three cheers for scientific studies.
Pregnant women who breathe high levels of diesel
fuels/hydrocarbons are more likely to have obese children than
those who don?t. These chemicals can be found outdoors, but are also in
?cigarette smoke, candles, incense, and home heating fuels.?
The intake of antibiotics in infancy may upset
the balance of gut bacteria which in turn affect ?hormones related to
metabolism.?
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Sleep deprivation ?may decrease resting
metabolic rates, or the number of calories burning while doing nothing? and
alter ?the circulation levels of the hormones that control hunger.?
?Children of older women are more likely to be
obese? and ?overweight pregnant women can?pre-program their
offspring for obesity.?
?Inhaling increased amounts of carbon dioxide,?
making blood more acidic, may lead to ?increased appetite and
decreased activity.?
?
Because colder temperatures can activate
calorie-burning brown fat, higher room temperatures inadvertently may be
helping us store more calories.
?
Air-conditioning keeps folks indoors rather than
outdoors where they get more exercise. Moreover, when we allow
our bodies to get hot, we end up eating less.
Bisphenol A (in plastics) and other chemicals
may ?mimic or block the body?s hormonal actions? which may cause
obesity in children.
Respiratory or gastrointestinal infections ?may
infect fat cells, making them grow more quickly.?
Some medications may promote weight gain.
Because ?nicotine increases energy expenditure
and may reduce appetite,? people may gain weight after stopping
smoking
As you know, I?m all for focusing
on eating, not weight, but it?s
important for you to realize that there are factors outside your control that
affect your size. So, please, go a little easier on yourselves. You can only do
what you can do.
Best,
Karen?
http://www.eatingnormal.com/
http://www.nicegirlsfinishfat.com/
PLEASE NOTE: ?Please post your comments and suggestions for
future blogs at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foodandfeelings.
Jan. 4, 2013 ? A University of Alberta researcher's examination of fossilized dinosaur tail bones has led to a breakthrough finding: some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage to attract mates, much like modern-day peacocks and turkeys.
U of A Paleontology researcher Scott Persons followed a chain of fossil evidence that started with a peculiar fusing together of vertebrae at the tip of the tail of four different species of dinosaurs, some separated in time and evolution by 45 million years.
Persons says the final vertebrae in the tails of a group of dinosaurs called oviraptors were fused together forming a ridged, blade-like structure. "The structure is called a pygostyle" says Persons. "Among modern animals only birds have them."
Researchers say fossils of Similicaudiptery, an early oviraptor, reveals feathers radiating from the fused bones at the tail tip. Similicaudiptery was not known to be a flying dinosaur and Persons contends its tail feathers evolved as a means of waving its feathered tail fans.
No direct fossil evidence of feathers has been found with the fossils of the oviraptors that followed Similicaudiptery, but Persons says there is still strong evidence they had a feathered tail.
Persons reasons that because the later oviraptor had the same tail structure as the feathered Similicaudipteryx, the tails of later oviraptors' still served the same purpose, waving feathered tail fans.
Persons says the hypothesis of oviraptor tail waving is supported by both the bone and muscle structure of the tail.
Individual vertebrae at the base of an oviraptor's tail were short and numerous, indicating great flexibility. Based on dissections of modern reptile and bird tails, Persons reconstruction of the dinosaur's tail muscles revealed oviraptors had what it took to really shake their tail feathers.
Large muscles extended far down the tail and had a sufficient number of broad connection points to the vertebrae to propel oviraptor's tail feathers vigorously from side to side and up and down.
Oviraptors were two-legged dinosaurs that had already gone through major diversifications from the iconic, meat eating dinosaur family. Oviraptors were plant eaters that roamed parts of China, Mongolia, and Alberta during the Cretaceous period, the final age of the dinosaur.
"By this time a variety of dinosaurs used feathers for flight and insulation from the cold, "said Persons. "This shows that by the Late Cretaceous dinosaurs were doing everything with feathers that modern birds do now," said Persons.
In addition to feathered-tail waving, oviraptors also had prominent bone crests on their head, which Persons says the dinosaur also may have used in mating displays.
"Between the crested head and feathered-tail shaking, oviraptors had a propensity for visual exhibitionism," said Persons.
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W. Scott Persons, IV, Philip J. Currie, and Mark A. Norell. Oviraptorosaur tail forms and functions. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2013; DOI: 10.4202/app.2012.0093
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