Bloomberg Businessweek just published a very strange article trying to guess how much Amazon paid for Goodreads, a social network where people share what books they're reading.
In essence, the writer, Kyle Stock, tried to find comparables in recent IPOs and private financings to arrive at a value per user for social websites, comparing Goodreads to Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Instagram. He came up with a figure of $880 million, which he rounded up to $1 billion.
Three problems with that:
Amazon did not disclose a price for the acquisition. Had it been as high as $880 million, let alone $1 billion, the company would likely have had to disclose it as a material transaction. (Stock acknowledges the materiality issue in an aside, but that observation should have prompted him to rethink the entire premise of his story.)
Investors value different companies in different ways. Instagram, for example, was valued so highly by Facebook not because of its revenues?it had none?but because it threatened Facebook's core photo-sharing franchise. LinkedIn, by contrast, is valued highly by investors not primarily based on its number of users but how well it monetizes them through diversified revenue streams.Technology consultant Anil Dash tore Stock apart in a comment on the piece:"This valuation is preposterous, because the methodology is preposterous. There is zero evidence that either the markets or investors use some arbitrary 'multiply users by a dollar amount' calculation to determine a valuation for these companies. Using such a formula to arrive at an absurd number is especially egregious here because people will now use the authority of this publication to say 'Businessweek reports that Goodreads sold for a billion dollars,' though that's almost certainly not the case."
Lastly, AllThingsD's Kara Swisher actually talked to some sources and asked them how much Amazon paid for Goodreads, which raised almost $3 million from angel investors and True Ventures. They told her the real number was $150 million.
Mar. 28, 2013 ? One of the leading causes of death in the United States is sudden cardiac arrest, which claims the lives of more than 325,000 people each year. In a study published in the April issue of the journal Resuscitation, Beaumont doctors found that cardiac arrests in K-12 schools are extremely rare, less than 0.2 percent, but out of 47 people who experienced cardiac arrest over a six-year period at K-12 schools, only 15 survived.
Survival rate was three times greater, however, when bystanders used a device called an automated external defibrillator, or AED, that helps the heart restore a normal rhythm.
The study "Cardiac Arrests in Schools: Assessing use of Automated External Defibrillators on School Campuses," was led by principal investigator Robert Swor, D.O., emergency medicine physician at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, and a research team including Edward Walton, M.D., Beaumont's director of pediatric emergency medicine.
A more widespread and standardized approach that would incorporate school drills and training in CPR and AED is needed to improve emergency response, the researchers say.
"Our findings highlight that schools are community centers and that emergency response planning in schools must focus not only on children and must extend beyond the school day," says Dr. Swor. Within the study population, most (31) of the 47 affected people were over the age of 19 and a third of the events occurred in the evening at schools.
This study is unprecedented, as no other published research explores the reasons why bystanders don't use AEDs. Such information is key to enhancing sudden cardiac arrest responses on school campuses. In one of every three cardiac arrests, an available AED was not used. The bystanders were either unable to recognize that the patient was having a cardiac arrest, were unaware that the school had an AED, or thought that the person was having a seizure rather than a cardiac arrest. Teaching potential bystanders how to recognize cardiac arrest and having regular drills would be an important aspect of emergency response training, the researchers say.
More attention is being paid to the need for standardized emergency response plans in schools at the governmental level. Rep. Gail Haines introduced a bill in February 2013 to mandate a cardiac emergency response plan that would include using and regularly maintaining AEDs, training high school students to use AEDs and perform CPR, and having frequent cardiac emergency drills in Michigan schools.
The research team used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-sponsored Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival and an Oakland County, Mich., registry of cardiac arrests. Telephone interviews were conducted to collect descriptive data about the nature of each incident.
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In breaking news, the Government Accountability Office has issued a report critical of the definitions states are allowed to use in determining whether racial or ethnic groups are overrepresented in special education. It has long been the contention of certain racial and?ethnic?groups?that their kids are included in special ed in ?disproportionate numbers.
In 2010, states required about 2 percent of all districts to use Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) funds for early intervening services to address the overrepresentation of racial and ethnic groups in special education. Based on definitions states individually developed to measure this overrepresentation-- referred to in IDEA as significant disproportionality--356 districts were required to provide services. Half of these districts were clustered in five states and 73 were in Louisiana alone. States have used flexibility provided by Education to develop their own definitions of significant disproportionality and GAO's analysis of 16 selected states found wide variation in definitions. Further, GAO found that the way some states defined overrepresentation made it unlikely that any districts would be identified and thus required to provide early intervening services. Nebraska and Louisiana illustrate differing outcomes that can result from different state definitions. In Nebraska, one of 21 states that did not require any districts to provide services in 2010-11, racial and ethnic groups must be identified for special education at a rate three times higher than for other groups for 2 consecutive years. In contrast, racial and ethnic groups in Louisiana districts must be identified for special education at twice the rate of other students in any year. GAO's analysis found if Nebraska had used Louisiana's definition, Nebraska districts may have been required to provide services and, conversely, Louisiana might have identified fewer districts under Nebraska's definition.
Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by infodollarman(m): 12:57pm On Mar 27
Nonverbal communication refer to those signs, signals and body language you display when talking with your partner. they include gestures,movements, tone of your voice and many more. they are very important if your relationship must be successful.
Here some of things you get from nonverbal communication
Knowing how truthful your partner is understand Whether they care or not How trustworthy your partner is or mistrustful they are Be more emotionally connected to your love and many more
Roles Of Nonverbal Communication
1. complimentary role 2. contradictory role 3. repetition role 4. substitution role
Ways Nonverbal Communication Can Be Displayed In A Relationship
1. going out of your way to help your lover 2. ignoring your lover 3. Forgetting their cherished dates like birthdays etc
In all nonverbal communication is paramount to a successful relationship. you must pay attention to not just only spoken words but actions and body languages displayed.
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Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by himclfgud: 5:40pm On Mar 28
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by Griffint: 5:41pm On Mar 28
In all nonverbal communication is paramount to a successful relationship. you must pay attention to not just only spoken words but actions and body languages displayed.
Psychologists will tell you that body language says more.
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Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by Imanuelle: 5:43pm On Mar 28
Reading these signs wrongly, or hastily concluding, could be a disaster!
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Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by Mikkyhandy(m): 5:44pm On Mar 28
Now I know. Good tip anyway
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by my love2011: 5:44pm On Mar 28
Okay I done hear........
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by fuckluv: 5:47pm On Mar 28
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by Abujafood: 5:49pm On Mar 28
These signs have helped me also know my real friends! It also applies to ordinary friendship!
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by iamswizz(m): 5:50pm On Mar 28
ok. tanks
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by knorkle2: 5:51pm On Mar 28
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by hay sal(m): 5:55pm On Mar 28
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by Nora4real: 6:00pm On Mar 28
Copied......
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by JideTheBlogger(m): 6:05pm On Mar 28
All these without money to spoil her with gifts etc is useless.
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Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by nekaa(f): 6:08pm On Mar 28
my love2011: Okay I done hear........
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by ichommy(m): 6:12pm On Mar 28
Good 1
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by Gudiza(m): 6:22pm On Mar 28
JideTheBlogger: All these without money to spoil her with gifts etc is useless.
Oh.... This is like more mature stuff.
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by lillyveezy: 6:27pm On Mar 28
is this thread too mature for Nairalanders?why is monosylabic response the order now?
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Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by Myne White(f): 6:46pm On Mar 28
Very important indeed, but don't be too hasty to make assumptions!
Assume = behind X u + me
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by bumzel89(f): 7:36pm On Mar 28
Would gladly note that
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by Cine(m): 7:53pm On Mar 28
If the only way for you two to speak is for you to call cos the other party never calls first.
then you may need to think twice
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by fitzmayowa: 8:11pm On Mar 28
Points noted...
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by Benardinho(m): 8:36pm On Mar 28
crious.
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by larayat(f): 8:54pm On Mar 28
Noted
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by dedons: 8:58pm On Mar 28
Are you telling me
Ok,i hear
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by Fadheelah: 9:22pm On Mar 28
True though, but one has to pay attention & be careful so as not to misinterpret d non verbal communication
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Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by a1solution: 9:25pm On Mar 28
All I can say is if you are man try to make enough money when you are young all other things would be added to you. If you are a lady beautiful or ugly try to be attractive then pretend as a good girl even if you are not one, all other things would be added to you.
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Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by sandra@4: 9:36pm On Mar 28
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by devigblegble: 10:21pm On Mar 28
Is there anything like relationship with money ? NO love without a dollar respect lucky dube
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by Yield(f): 4:55am
Fadheelah: True though, but one has to pay attention & be careful so as not to misinterpret d non verbal communication
+1
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by jaxxy(m): 6:12am
A fair attempt bt smwhat incomplete or nt comprehensive or explanatory enough for ur topic... Hence d monotonous replies...
I'll b back!
Re: Nonverbal Communication In Relationships by bigfat08: 10:54am
a very cruel way to communication in a relationship ..to bad
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Though we don't get to see its smartphone wares too often stateside or in Europe, NEC has always said its mobile division was a big part of its business. Now it looks to be trying to fob that arm off to PC venture partner Lenovo, according to unnamed Bloomberg sources. The Japanese company is also said to be eying potential domestic buyers if that doesn't pan out, and Reuters recently reported that it's selling retail subsidiary NEC Mobiling to the tune of $850 million. The move is said to be in the works to bolster profitability after two straight years of smartphone operation losses and 10,000 layoffs, but as always, such unattributed material needs to be digested with beaucoup salt.
CLYDE, Ohio (AP) -- Lawyers in Ohio filed a $750 million class action lawsuit Thursday against Whirlpool Corp. that's related to a child cancer cluster between Toledo and Cleveland.
The lawsuit attempts to link Whirlpool and others to the cancer cluster, though the families of the children who've been diagnosed with cancer aren't involved.
Three families filed the suit, including a man whose wife died at age 23 a year after she was diagnosed with cancer.
The U.S. EPA has said high levels of a chemical believed to increase the risk of certain cancers were found in soil samples from a former park Whirlpool once owned near the town of Clyde. Whirlpool has a washing machine factory in Clyde.
The findings, though, didn't link the contaminants with the cancer cluster that has been under investigation by state and federal agencies for more than six years. Nearly 40 young people have been diagnosed with cancer since the mid-1990s in the area.
Benton Harbor, Mich.-based Whirlpool hasn't been directly connected to the chemical found in the tests. A statement from the company said that it's reviewing the lawsuit.
"As a member of the community for over 60 years, with more than 3,000 employees in the area, we are also very interested in figuring out the facts behind this ongoing issue," the statement said.
Families whose children have been among the dozens sickened in an Ohio cancer cluster have hired a private company to test several spots around the area in northern Ohio.
Still, the odds are against coming up with an answer because pinpointing the cause of a cancer cluster rarely happens.
A partnership of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management?s real estate investment business and David Werner have purchased the the leased fee interest in The Milford Hotel in New York.
The investment is subject to a new 99-year ground lease and was acquired in an off-market transaction.
Rockpoint Group and hotel operator Highgate Hotels are selling the property in three pieces, the Wall Street Journal reported last month. The two remaining pieces are a retail condominium and the 1,300-room hotel itself.
The Times Square property encompasses a block-front along 8th Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets and is within walking distance to Penn Station, Madison Square Garden, the Jacob Javits Convention Center and numerous theatres and subway stations. The building was constructed in 1928 and is nearing completion of an extensive renovation that began in 2010.
?We are pleased to add this high-quality investment to our client?s portfolio,? Todd Henderson, head of real estate, Americas at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, said in a statement. ?Acquiring the leased fee interest in a prime New York City location is expected to provide strong and durable long-term returns.?
The sale price for the ground lease is said to be around $325 million, according to published reports.
The sellers bought the entire property in 2010 for about $200 million.
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management?s investment in The Milford Hotel follows other recent off-market transactions in New York City on behalf of its investors, including a $290 million mezzanine debt investment in a retail condominium at 717 Fifth Avenue, the acquisition of a retail condominium leased to the high-end retailer All Saints at 415 West 13th Street and the acquisition of 473-475 Broadway.
"He likes to show off. He goes to everybody, 'Hello, look at my car, look at my rock star shirt.' He starts singing and dancing - he's like a little performer!"
Samsung has another teaser video for its new flagship Android phone, the Galaxy S4. This is a follow up to the video from last week?where some kid named Jeremy gets a Galaxy S4 before everyone else.?
Don't get too excited though. You don't even see the phone, just a Pulp Fiction-like golden glow coming from a box.
And don't forget: Samsung will announce the Galaxy S4 at a big event on March 14. We'll be there covering it live. We're guessing Jeremy will be there too.
Please join us in congratulating Andrew Delbanco, author of College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be.
The book has just been named winner of the 2013 Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Education, University Professional and Continuing Education Association.? The award ?recognizes the author and publisher of an outstanding work of continuing higher education literature.?
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This is the THIRD consecutive year that PUP has won the Frandson Award. Previous winners include Taylor Walsh, Unlocking the Gates (2012) and Ben Wildavsky, The Great Brain Race (2011).
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Back in the early days of computing, magazines were one of the only sources of information about new software, games, trends and hardware. While you had your friends who sometimes know about things to come, and the BBS system if you had access to an expensive modem that was nearly as slow as sending the data via snail mail, there was not really a way around magazines at that time.
Magazines back then provided us with information that we were interested in and had a hard time coming by in any other fashion. While they surely were not of better quality than the magazines today, they had the advantage that they were one of the only sources for people interested in computers. Today, magazines face the same problem that newspapers face: they have new competition in form of the Internet.
Computer magazines had their purpose back in the days but today and in their current format, they do not really serve that purpose anymore.
Their contents are usually out of date when the magazine comes out. Most come out monthly which means that you may end up with information that you read about a month ago or even earlier elsewhere. It does not make sense to write about a security vulnerability or phishing attack that came out a a week ago or even earlier than that as it is old news.
The majority of contents they include are available on thousands of Internet sites as well. I do not really need a magazine anymore to tell me that a new program came just out when in fact it has been out for a while and reviewed on dozens of Internet sites already.
Most magazines do not offer exclusive contents, like well researched articles that offer insights that you do not find anywhere online. Instead, they tend to post the very same line of articles over and over again. In Germany, every computer magazine seems to run a monthly ?the ultimate USB drive? article that no one seems to be interested in anymore because it has been posted that often.
They can?t make direct use of the Internet. When I post a review, I can add a link to the developer website directly to it so that it does take a click to go there and download the program.
I suppose there is still room for magazines out there, but when it comes to that, it is usually the specialized magazines I?m interested in and not the mainstream tech magazines or game magazines.
What about you? Do you still read computer magazines? If so, which do you read? If not, what is your reason for not doing so?
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Kannur. Rapist on run Bitti Mohanty, who was found working in public sector bank after changing his identity, has said that it was a bad decision to join a bank to escape the law.
Politics is giving him hope
He says he should have joined politics instead.
?Joining a bank just helped me hide my identity, while joining politics would have helped me hide my crime,? Bitty claimed.
Bitt further said that he should have chosen Suryanelli instead of Kannur as his place of hiding in Kerala.
?I could have claimed that the charges were politically motivated, and could have even blamed the rape victim,? said the man convicted of raping a German tourist six years ago.
However, all is not lost for Bitti, who has now given up on his banking career and is planning to join politics once he completes the rape sentence.
?I won?t run away from jail or law again. In fact, I?m I am looking forward to it as a nice experience for my footing in politics,? he told Faking News.
The above statement by Bitti has come as a reprieve to bankers all over the world, especially those from the US, who have pointed out that politics, not banks, remained as the last refuge of the scoundrel.
In the movie Alien, the title character is an extraterrestrial creature that can survive brutal heat and resist the effects of toxins.
In real life, organisms with similar traits exist, such as the "extremophile" red alga Galdieria sulphuraria.
In hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, Galdieria uses energy from the sun to produce sugars through photosynthesis.
In the darkness of old mineshafts in drainage as caustic as battery acid, it feeds on bacteria and survives high concentrations of arsenic and heavy metals.
How has a one-celled alga acquired such flexibility and resilience?
To answer this question, an international research team led by Gerald Schoenknecht of Oklahoma State University and Andreas Weber and Martin Lercher of Heinrich-Heine-Universitat (Heinrich-Heine University) in Dusseldorf, Germany, decoded genetic information in Galdieria.
They are three of 18 co-authors of a paper on the findings published in this week's issue of the journalScience.
The scientists made an unexpected discovery: Galdieria's genome shows clear signs of borrowing genes from its neighbors.
Many genes that contribute to Galdieria's adaptations were not inherited from its ancestor red algae, but were acquired from bacteria or archaebacteria.
This "horizontal gene transfer" is typical for the evolution of bacteria, researchers say.
However, Galdieria is the first known organism with a nucleus (called a eukaryote) that has adapted to extreme environments based on horizontal gene transfer.
"The age of comparative genome sequencing began only slightly more than a decade ago, and revealed a new mechanism of evolution--horizontal gene transfer--that would not have been discovered any other way," says Matt Kane, program director in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research.
Galdieria's heat tolerance seems to come from genes that exist in hundreds of copies in its genome, all descending from a single gene the alga copied millions of years ago from an archaebacterium.
"The results give us new insights into evolution," Schoenknecht says. "Before this, there was not much indication that eukaryotes acquire genes from bacteria."
The alga owes its ability to survive the toxic effects of such elements as mercury and arsenic to transport proteins and enzymes that originated in genes it swiped from bacteria.
It also copied genes offering tolerance to high salt concentrations, and an ability to make use of a wide variety of food sources. The genes were copied from bacteria that live in the same extreme environment as Galdieria.
"Why reinvent the wheel if you can copy it from your neighbor?" asks Lercher.
"It's usually assumed that organisms with a nucleus cannot copy genes from different species--that's why eukaryotes depend on sex to recombine their genomes.
"How has Galdieria managed to overcome this limitation? It's an exciting question."
What Galdieria did is "a dream come true for biotechnology," says Weber.
"Galdieria has acquired genes with interesting properties from different organisms, integrated them into a functional network and developed unique properties and adaptations."
In the future, genetic engineering may allow other algae to make use of the proteins that offer stress tolerance to Galdieria.
Such a development would be relevant to biofuel production, says Schoenknecht, as oil-producing algae don't yet have the ability to withstand the same extreme conditions as Galdieria.
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Worst case, you take a couple of less than stellar jobs at low pay as you build a bit of a rep, then move up or around. After a few years, your accomplishments are more important than your education, anyway. A 4.0 from MIT might help when securing an interview for Google but most places are more concerned about your ability to reliably deliver. If you can save costs, be it through math, engineering, or intuition, at the same time, most places will be glad to have you. You won't be a rockstar but, unless you like a startup culture, it's not a big deal.
If you don't have the prestigious degree, don't worry about it. Instead, work on business skills (e.g., accounting, taxes, business management, networking, and leadership). Straight out of school in 2003 (less-than-prestigious university), I landed a contract as a software tester. Here's a list of my fuck-ups. - I didn't know the difference between a contractor and an employee. I just knew that it didn't mean stocking shelves at Home Depot at night for minimum wage. - I didn't know what I was worth and it may have cost me the job; I was second choice and given the position after first choice bailed. - I didn't know what I was worth, so I was underpaid. - I didn't incorporate straight away, how to keep books, or what could be written off. The result is that I've probably paid an extra $15k-$20k in taxes over the past decade. - I went to H&R Block (Taxes R Us) to get my taxes done the first time I started writing stuff off and trusted them way more that I should have. They missed some deductions and also have a few oddities in my tax filings that could get me audited. - I didn't socialize enough, which left me out of the loop on important things, like other opportunities and even knowing what the contracting organization was paying other contractors. This probably cost me $5k-$10k in my last year alone. - I didn't stay in touch. People move around and up; your middle manager today may become a senior manager on a high-profile project tomorrow. Keeping in touch will have more opportunities come to you and will give you a leg up in anything you apply to. - Stepped on toes like I was drunkenly dancing in clogs. I was fortunate enough to have a manager that was willing to insulate me from the office politics so I could get work done.
What I did do right: - Studied hard. You'd be amazed how far reading the damn book or instruction manual will get you in life. Study the API, read books on the basics, etc. and you'll be above most people. - Worked diligently. Good performance gets attention. In my case, I was the lone tester and managed to bring down the defects to a very low level. - Looked for ways to save time. By the end, I used my programming skills plus some off-the-shelf software to be able to write and perform about 300 pages of tests in the course of a week. - Asked for that letter of recommendation. When my original supervisor announced he was leaving the organization, I asked if he'd be willing to write a letter of recommendation. That baby is the head-shot of job hunting; whenever I fire off an application, it gets me an interview. - Joined LinkedIn. Sounds corny but it's a great way to keep contact info at your finger tips. It also makes it easier for ex-bosses to prescreen you for a position; open hiring is time consuming and expensive, so it's possible that there will be a choice between hiring you and starting the massive machinery of open hiring. Remember that most people aren't looking for the best person for the job, they are looking for a person that will do the job well.
The skills I learned at school allowed me to execute my duties well. However, from a personal standpoint, I would have done a lot better if I had embraced the business side of things more. Sadly, I learn mostly from my mistakes and not from the mistakes of others.
Mobile phones have given the Chinese a voicePublic release date: 8-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Jun Liu liujun@hum.ku.dk 46-462-223-005 University of Copenhagen
Mobile technology has provided the Chinese with an opportunity to voice individual and collective popular protests. And with over 1 billion mobile subscribers in China, the voices are heard. A new PhD thesis from the University of Copenhagen presents several case studies on the use of the mobile phone for political participation in Chinese society and points to the concept of guanxi an individual's network of social relations and obligations as central to understanding the success of alternative mobile communication in China.
In 2007, in the city of Xiamen in southeast China, authorities were forced to relocate a chemical plant because of popular protests that were initiated and coordinated largely by text messaging. And according to PhD Jun Liu of the University of Copenhagen, who has recently defended his PhD thesis "Mobilized by Mobile Media. How Chinese People use mobile phones to change politics and democracy", this is merely one of many recent examples of the way in which mobile phones influence Chinese society and provide the 'communication have-nots' with a voice.
"As early as in 2003, the mobile phone played a vital role when people shared information about the SARS epidemic that the government tried to suppress. And the mobile phone has become even more significant since then because virtually everybody has one today; not only is the mobile phone inexpensive, it is also easy to use and thus allows citizens to express their discontent and organise individual and collective resistance to the party's authority just by sending a text message," says Jun Liu from the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication.
A guanxi-message can be trusted and forwarded
According to Jun Liu, what makes illicit mobile communication possible in an otherwise highly regulated society is, first, that the Chinese authorities find it increasingly difficult to cut off mobile communication; government officials themselves rely on mobile services in their daily work and integrate mobile devices into their propaganda system. The concept of guanxi, second, guarantees that the information a person receives from his network is reliable and can be forwarded to other members of the network.
"Surprisingly few studies on mobile communication in China have addressed guanxi which is inextricably part of Chinese society; technology and cultural practices are not separate entities, but influence each other," Jun Liu points out.
"Guanxi is essentially the sum of an individual's personal connections, and all these connections are bound together by, among other things, obligations, favours, and personal trust. In the case of mobile communication e.g., a text message received from a member of one's guanxi is considered trustworthy and will be passed on to other members of the network if required because of the reciprocal nature of guanxi; a message with contentious content can therefore be distributed widely in a very short time. And the government can do very little about it," Jun Liu concludes.
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About the thesis
Jun Liu defended his thesis "Mobilized by Mobile Media. How Chinese People use mobile phones to change politics and democracy" on 11 February 2013 at the University of Copenhagen. The thesis consists, among many other things, of qualitative interviews carried out between 2003 and 2011 and a number of case studies on the use of mobile communication for distributing contentious content.
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PhD Jun Liu
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Mobile technology has provided the Chinese with an opportunity to voice individual and collective popular protests. And with over 1 billion mobile subscribers in China, the voices are heard. A new PhD thesis from the University of Copenhagen presents several case studies on the use of the mobile phone for political participation in Chinese society and points to the concept of guanxi an individual's network of social relations and obligations as central to understanding the success of alternative mobile communication in China.
In 2007, in the city of Xiamen in southeast China, authorities were forced to relocate a chemical plant because of popular protests that were initiated and coordinated largely by text messaging. And according to PhD Jun Liu of the University of Copenhagen, who has recently defended his PhD thesis "Mobilized by Mobile Media. How Chinese People use mobile phones to change politics and democracy", this is merely one of many recent examples of the way in which mobile phones influence Chinese society and provide the 'communication have-nots' with a voice.
"As early as in 2003, the mobile phone played a vital role when people shared information about the SARS epidemic that the government tried to suppress. And the mobile phone has become even more significant since then because virtually everybody has one today; not only is the mobile phone inexpensive, it is also easy to use and thus allows citizens to express their discontent and organise individual and collective resistance to the party's authority just by sending a text message," says Jun Liu from the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication.
A guanxi-message can be trusted and forwarded
According to Jun Liu, what makes illicit mobile communication possible in an otherwise highly regulated society is, first, that the Chinese authorities find it increasingly difficult to cut off mobile communication; government officials themselves rely on mobile services in their daily work and integrate mobile devices into their propaganda system. The concept of guanxi, second, guarantees that the information a person receives from his network is reliable and can be forwarded to other members of the network.
"Surprisingly few studies on mobile communication in China have addressed guanxi which is inextricably part of Chinese society; technology and cultural practices are not separate entities, but influence each other," Jun Liu points out.
"Guanxi is essentially the sum of an individual's personal connections, and all these connections are bound together by, among other things, obligations, favours, and personal trust. In the case of mobile communication e.g., a text message received from a member of one's guanxi is considered trustworthy and will be passed on to other members of the network if required because of the reciprocal nature of guanxi; a message with contentious content can therefore be distributed widely in a very short time. And the government can do very little about it," Jun Liu concludes.
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About the thesis
Jun Liu defended his thesis "Mobilized by Mobile Media. How Chinese People use mobile phones to change politics and democracy" on 11 February 2013 at the University of Copenhagen. The thesis consists, among many other things, of qualitative interviews carried out between 2003 and 2011 and a number of case studies on the use of mobile communication for distributing contentious content.
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Welcome to Show and Tell Friday! ?Last weekend I met up with my nephew Andrew (my brother's son), my niece Erin (my sister's daughter) and my daughter, Lauren for lunch. ?The only cousins missing from my side of the family were my son and my other niece. ?My niece Erin lives in Arizona and I hadn't seen her in a very long time so I was so excited when she said she was coming to California to visit! ?She was born here but moved to Arizona right after high school. ?She's the first grandchild of my parents and I was just a freshman in high school when she made me an Aunt for the first time. Since then she's made me a Great Aunt and has two beautiful children and so does her sister! I have two great-nieces and two great-nephews! Boy does that make me feel old!
We had lunch in downtown Campbell just down the street from my favorite little shop "Vintage & Vogue" so of course we had to stop in there! ?I found this cute little honey pot there and my sweet daughter bought it for me!
Thank you Lauren! I love it!
Here's a photo of me shopping at "Vintage and Vogue" that my niece took. I really need to go back in there and take some photos of the shop to share with you! ?It looks different every time I go in there!
and here we are again after shopping acting all silly! I know my dad is going to love seeing these photos! I wish he could have been there!
This weekend is a weekend away in Santa Cruz with my girlfriends and Tuesday I leave for Hawaii!??I'll be blogging from Hawaii next week but if?for some reason I don't have a post up I either lost track of time or I didn't have an internet connection!
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An elderly woman being cared for at a California retirement facility died following the refusal of a nurse at the facility to perform CPR on the woman after she collapsed, authorities said.
When Lorraine Bayless, an 87-year-old resident of Glenwood Gardens, Bakersfield, collapsed at the facility around 11 a.m. Tuesday, a staff member called 911 but refused to give the woman CPR, according to a recording of the call.
In refusing the 911 dispatcher's insistence that she perform CPR, the nurse can be heard telling the dispatcher that it was against the retirement facility's policy to perform CPR.
During the exchange between the nurse and the dispatcher, the dispatcher can be heard saying "I don't understand why you're not willing to help this patient.''
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An ambulance arrived several minutes after the call and took Bayless to a hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. She has been identified as a resident of the home's independent facility, which is separate from the skilled and assisted nursing facility.
The retirement facility released a statement extending its condolences to the family and said its "practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives.''
The statement also said a "thorough internal review of the matter'' would be conducted.
A call to the facility by The Associated Press seeking more information on the incident was not immediately returned.
Bayless' daughter told a reporter for KGET, the NBC affiliate in Bakersfield, that she was also a nurse and was satisfied with the care her mother received.
Mar. 3, 2013 ? The Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft was berthed to the International Space Station at 8:56 a.m. EST Sunday. The delivery flight was the second contracted resupply mission by the company under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract.
Space station Expedition 34 crew members Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn of NASA used the station's robotic arm to successfully capture Dragon at 5:31 a.m. The capture came one day, 19 hours and 22 minutes after the mission's launch. The station was 253 miles above northern Ukraine. Following its capture, the spacecraft was installed onto the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module through ground commands issued by mission control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"The newly arrived scientific experiments delivered by Dragon carry the promise of discoveries that benefit Earth and dramatically increase our understanding of how humans adapt to space," said William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate in Washington. "Spaceflight will never be risk-free, but it's a critical achievement that we once again have a U.S. capability to transport science to and from the International Space Station. The science delivered and to be returned from the space station has the promise of giving us a unique insight into problems that we face on Earth. As the patch of Expedition 34 states: 'Off the Earth...For the Earth.'"
The Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:10 a.m. Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Shortly after spacecraft separation from the rocket's second stage, the Dragon lost three of its four thruster pods. Solar array deployment was delayed while SpaceX engineers worked to purge blocked valves and get the pods back online. Ninety minutes after launch, Dragon's arrays were deployed. By 3 p.m., all four thruster pods were online and attitude control was regained.
Following a series of tests to ensure the spacecraft could safely approach the space station, Dragon was approved to approach the orbiting laboratory Sunday morning, one day after its originally planned arrival, which is not expected to impact any of the scientific investigations being delivered.
Dragon is loaded with about 1,268 pounds (575 kilograms) of supplies to support continuing space station research experiments and will return with about 2,668 pounds (1,210 kilograms) of science samples from human research, biology and biotechnology studies, physical science investigations, and education activities.
Newly delivered investigations include studies of how molecular biology, cells and plants grow in microgravity. One experiment, titled Coarsening in Solid Liquid Mixtures-3, will examine solid and liquid mixtures made of lead and tin that contain a small amount of tin branch-like structures called dendrites. By understanding how temperature and time control the growth of such dendrites, researchers hope to develop more efficient and economical means of producing higher-quality products derived from the casting of molten metals. New student experiments include observing how gravity changes the growth of E. coli bacteria, studying the long-term impact of space travel on small coin-cell-sized batteries, and producing ammonium aluminum sulfate crystals of higher purity than is possible on Earth.
Experiment samples coming back to Earth will help researchers continue to assess the impact of long-duration spaceflight on the human body. Returning plant samples will aid in food production during future long-duration space missions and enhance crop production on Earth. Crystals grown aboard and returning from the station could help in the development of more efficient solar cells and semiconductor-based electronics.
The Dragon capsule is scheduled to spend 22 days attached to the station before returning for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California March 25.
This flight is the second of at least 12 SpaceX cargo resupply missions to the space station through 2016. The resupply contract with NASA is worth $1.6 billion.
NASA's Space Network, which includes the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, provided space communications for SpaceX from launch through berthing with the space station.
SpaceX built and tested new cargo spacecraft under NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. NASA initiatives like COTS and the agency's Commercial Crew Program are helping develop a robust U.S. commercial space transportation industry with the goal of achieving safe, reliable and cost-effective transportation to and from the space station and low Earth orbit. In addition to cargo flights, NASA's commercial space partners are making progress toward a launch of astronauts from U.S. soil within the next few years.
While NASA works with U.S. industry partners to develop and advance these commercial spaceflight capabilities, the agency also is developing the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS), a crew capsule and heavy-lift rocket to provide an entirely new capability for human exploration. Designed to be flexible for launching spacecraft for crew and cargo missions, SLS and Orion will expand human presence beyond low Earth orbit and enable new missions of exploration in the solar system.
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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 photo, a man uses the NFC payment Visa system at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 photo, a man uses the NFC payment Visa system at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, a man uses the NFC communicate library system at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, a man uses the "Paypal here" system of payment with the phone at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Mobile money may seem like a hot concept, but consumers aren't warming to it.
At the world's largest cellphone trade show, here in Barcelona this week, the 70,000 attendees are encouraged to use their cellphones ?instead their keycards? to get past the turnstiles at the door. But very few people took the chance to do that. The process of setting up the phone to act as a keycard proved too much of a hassle.
It's a poor omen for an industry that's eager to have the cellphone replace both tickets and credit cards. Companies are building chips antennas into phones that let the gadgets interact with "tap to pay" terminals and other devices equipped with short-range sensors, like subway turnstiles. But getting the technology to do something useful and convincing people to adopt it is a slow process.
To make a payment in a store with your cellphone, "you need a lot of things to align," said Reed Peterson, who heads the Near-Field Communications initiative for the GSM Association, a global trade group for the wireless industry. The phone needs to be properly equipped with NFC hardware and software; the store needs to have the proper equipment and training. The phone company needs to support the transaction, and banks and payment processors need to be in on it.
Some of these things have fallen into place, Peterson said, but the network of commercial agreements that supports these payments needs to expand. And consumer demand remains elusive.
"I want to get to the point where the consumer goes into the store and says 'Show me only the phones that have NFC'," Peterson said.
Today, a buyer is quite likely to go into a store and ask for an iPhone, and that's an obstacle to NFC adoption. Apple Inc. is the lone holdout among major smartphone makers, and hasn't built NFC into any of its devices yet.
Visa, the global payments network, announced a coup at the show: it has struck a deal with Samsung Electronics to take charge of the "secure element" in the next flagship phone from the South Korean company. The Galaxy S IV is expected to be launched at an event in New York on Mar. 14, though the name has not been confirmed.
The "secure element" is sort of like a safe inside the phone. Whoever controls access to it decides which credit cards, transit passes or other verified "documents" the phone can store. A bank that wants to let customers use their Samsung smartphones as virtual credit cards will have to go through Visa.
Control of the secure element is a crucial battleground for NFC. The GSMA, which is dominated by cellphone carriers, advocates putting the secure element not in the phone itself, but in the subscriber identity module, or SIM card, which plugs into the phone to identify the user and supply a phone number to the network. SIM cards are issued and controlled by the carriers who would like to be the ones in control of the secure element.
While Visa, phone companies and Google (which has its own payment initiative) duel over the secure element, eBay Inc.'s PayPal is wondering what all the fuss is about. The online payment network thinks NFC is a lot more trouble than it's worth. The company isn't afraid to say so at the wireless industry tradeshow.
"If you want to change something, you have to solve problems that people have in everyday life," said David Marcus, the president of PayPal. "It's not like everyone is thinking 'Oh, I wish someone came up with something better'" than paper money and credit cards.
PayPal is putting a lot of effort into making cellphones central to the way we shop, but is focusing on the shopping experience itself, rather than payments. The company's ideal vision for buying a cup of coffee: You pull out your phone on the way to the store, fire up PayPal's app to order your double-skim latte and pay for it in advance. When you arrive at the counter, the barista has your picture and your coffee, and gives it to you right away. Then you're out the door.
Thirty years ago, Marcus said, store clerks knew the people in their neighborhood and greeted them by name.
"We think with this technology, we could recreate that personal connection," he said. "We feel this is going to leapfrog the efforts of NFC."
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