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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
publication suspended for week for strategic business planning retreat
Traditional newspapers are suffering from falling circulation and declining revenues.? A fundamental newspaper business problem is that, unlike the older generation, young persons no longer reach for a newspaper when heading for their regular morning bowel movement.? Instead, young persons are active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Vine, and other social-media sites in the bathroom and everywhere else.?? The results have been disastrous for newspapers.
Concerned about the future of the newspaper business, the Ode Street Tribune's management is suspending publication of the Tribune for this week.? The Tribune's publisher, editors, and sub-editors will be meeting at a resort in South Carolina to discuss big ideas for re-invigorating the newspaper industry.? Heading the agenda is a proposal for a national-wide, print ad campaign with the theme "Newspapers Keep You Moving." The Tribune's journalist will remain in Rosslyn, working on a story about how the Rosslyn bunnies are responding to the destruction of their habitat.
Publication of the Ode Street Tribune will resume on July 8.
Source: http://www.odestreet.com/2013/07/publication-suspended-for-week-for.html
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Sony camera UI leaks from 'Honami' system dump, gets ported to existing Xperia devices
We've been hearing stacks of rumors recently about a Sony flagship called Honami, which will supposedly come with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 and a 20-megapixel camera. A system dump, purportedly from a Honami phone, surfaced last week and now XDA developer "krabappel2548" has managed to dissect the camera app and get it working on some existing Xperia devices -- including the Xperia Z, ZL and Tablet Z, so long as they've been suitably prepped for hacking. From the resulting screenshots, it looks like Sony is set to introduce features such as augmented reality, "Time shift" (which sounds a lot like HTC's Zoe feature), live filters and an image search engine dubbed "Info-eye." All of this sounds reasonably in tune with the "One Sony" strategy of focusing on mobile and imaging. If Honami is real, and if it comes with the right hardware to support the updated camera module, it could be a big deal.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Sony
Via: XPERIA Blog (1)
Source: XDA Developers
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/W9MFpHoKKQE/
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You Can Watch Live TV In-Flight on Your iPad on Southwest Now
Flying can be so very boring. But Southwest Airlines is making it a little less of a yawn fest, and it won't cost you anything. The airline just added a free, on-demand and live TV inflight streaming service called TV Flies Free in partnership with DISH.
TV content is accessible through the Dish Anywhere and Hopper Transfer app on the iPad. You don't even have to buy a Wi-Fi pass to watch TV, and you don't have to be a DISH customer. Everyone gets access to 13 channels and more than 50 episodes of popular TV series. TV Flies Free is already available on all 400 Southwest Wi-Fi-enabled planes. The only downside is, it's iPad-only. But you're not stuck watching reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond like on American flights and you're not trying to sleep through the sound of babies crying, so there's really nothing to complain about here. [BlogSouthwest via 9to5Mac]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/you-can-watch-live-tv-in-flight-on-your-ipad-on-southwe-645198415
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Monday, July 1, 2013
TJ's Story: My 2013 so far...
Already past the half way point of 2013 and it has been a mix of highs and lows so far. It is almost the one-year anniversary of me leaving Orlando for Texas and it has been quite an adjustment for me to make. I still have been at my job at Adventure Landing for almost a year and have seen a lot of changes there including the friends that don't work there no more and new people that do...I swear, it is as if I do not even recognize the place anymore. Can't tell if that is a good thing or a bad thing, but it affects me more to either keep working there and hope something good happens or leave and find better work elsewhere.
As for life at home, it seems to be settling more despite my little dog, Ollie, getting sick over the past weekend. The poor little thing had to be put in the vet hospital for 3 days and so far has seen a lot of improvement. My little brother, Andrew, unfortunately had to put his culinary dreams on hold and is currently working at a craft store called Hobby Lobby. His friend, Brine, is currently looking for work as well. My mom still does a lot of arts and crafts hobbies at home while her husband, Charly, continues to do more work for the movie theater, Cinemark, and I must say he does a lot more travelling for his work than all of us.
A lot of things coming up in the future such as my little brother, Stephen's wedding to his high school sweetheart, Deanna and I am currently looking forward to returning to my home town of Key West, Florida...a place that I have not been to since moving away from there in 2009, and I am eagerly looking forward to seeing what has changed since then. I'm also looking forward to seeing the rest of my family and wondering what they have been doing for the past year.
Not a lot of great things to look forward to for my sports teams though as most of my favorite pro teams are in last place or close to it...pretty much sucks to be a fair weather fan, but I can live for it as long as the future remains bright for those teams. Definitely can't wait for football season though...there's no better time in sports than that!
I can only hope for the best that 2013 will end on a very high note personally and mentally too. I hope everyone else out there has a great rest of 2013 as well!
Peace and love to everyone out there!
Source: http://tonyjones21.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-2013-so-far.html
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Ailing Mandela still able to unite South Africans
Get well soon messages and drawings are seen outside Nelson Mandela's house in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, July 1, 2013. Former president Nelson Mandela remains in a critical condition at the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria on Monday . (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Get well soon messages and drawings are seen outside Nelson Mandela's house in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, July 1, 2013. Former president Nelson Mandela remains in a critical condition at the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria on Monday . (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Get well soon messages and drawings are seen outside Nelson Mandela's house in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, July 1, 2013. Former president Nelson Mandela remained in a critical condition at the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria on Monday . (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Jessica Mbangeni, center, performs a poem for former South African President Nelson Mandela outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Monday, July 1, 2013. Former president Nelson Mandela remained in a critical condition on Monday. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
A man kneels on the street to pray for former South African President Nelson Mandela outside the side entrance of the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, July 1, 2013. Former president Nelson Mandela remained in a critical condition on Monday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A young woman sings, in support of former South African President Nelson Mandela at the entrance of the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, July 1, 2013. Former president Nelson Mandela remained in a critical condition on Monday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) ? The spelling and grammar need work, but the message has its own eloquence.
A 10-year-old's note to Nelson Mandela, the prisoner who fought South African apartheid, or white racist rule, and became a global emblem of unity and humility, addresses him as "the greates president are land has ever had it is realy bad that you are in the hospital. But realy cool that you stopt apartit. you maid are land A beter place"
It is one of hundreds of messages that have been placed at two makeshift shrines by South Africans and others who are celebrating the life and legacy of Mandela, 94, even as some openly lament that his life may be approaching an end.
The South African government said Monday that Mandela remains in "critical but stable" condition in the hospital where he was admitted on June 8.
The hospital in downtown Pretoria is one of those pilgrimage sites; the other is his home in Houghton, a tree-lined neighborhood in Johannesburg where high walls ring expansive homes.
A swell of well-wishers has deposited letters, paintings, candles, stuffed bears and bouquets of flowers outside these spots, reflecting the cathartic mood of a nation whose identity is so closely linked to an ailing man who is out of public sight. It is a bittersweet time for South Africa, proud of its power to reconcile amid racial conflict but struggling to fulfill expectations of a better life two decades after the end of apartheid.
The former president is visited daily by his family, and on Monday the three other surviving defendants in the sabotage trial in which Mandela was sentenced to life in prison in 1964 visited the hospital.
Even in this most vulnerable moment, Mandela is again emerging as an enabler, this time for a new generation, across racial and gender lines.
"I am a 16 year old girl who wanted to meet you very much. Unfortunately I did not have the oppurtunity, but even in the early stages of my life I decided that I wanted to be a caring, loving person just like you," writes Carien Struwig, who left her telephone number on a note at the Mediclinic Heart Hospital entrance, perhaps hopeful that she might get summoned inside.
"Ps. I am Afrikaans, sorry for any incorrect spelling or grammar," she writes in English.
Mandela reached out to the Afrikaner community that devised apartheid and jailed him for 27 years, negotiating an end to white minority rule and allaying fears of widespread racial war. Freed in 1990, the anti-apartheid leader was elected president in an all-race vote in 1994, an event that electrified people around the world because of its sense of peaceful promise.
The mood at these impromptu shrines is partly festive and partly mournful, likely a harbinger of the outpouring that will accompany Mandela's inevitable demise. His protracted illness, the final struggle of a momentous life, has become a time for national introspection and a chance for people to be a part of something bigger than themselves.
People pray, hands pressed to faces. Choirs sing and sashay. On Saturday, a group of Pentecostal worshippers stood outside the hospital gates, wailing, shouting and gesturing. A wall of photographers recorded the emotional paroxysm.
An artist displayed a painting of a robust-looking Mandela with a finger on his lips, symbolizing his perceived desire for quiet as he battles a recurring lung infection and other ailments. When President Barack Obama was visiting South Africa this weekend, three men in dark suits and sunglasses, apparently members of the presidential security detail, soaked up the scene at the hospital entrance. One of the men politely declined to speak to an Associated Press reporter, saying he was off-duty and would get in trouble if he spoke to the media.
The sense of occasion is across the country, including Cape Town, where an exhibition about Mandela recently opened in a civic center; in coastal Durban, where a mass prayer session was held; in Qunu, the rural village where Mandela grew up and where he is expected to be buried; and Soweto, the area of Johannesburg where he once lived.
On Soweto's Vilakazi Street, a tourist hub where Mandela's old brick home has been turned into a museum, two rappers sang about Mandela, patting their chests for a beat. Impressionist Peter Bopape imitated Mandela's raspy, deliberately paced voice.
"I decided to come out of the hospital today, just to come and thank all the South Africans and the support that you're showing me," Bopape said in Mandela's stately tones.
Mandela often said many people played a role in making South Africa better. That it was not only his doing, that he made mistakes. But the written tributes to Mandela suggest there is no one like him in the country, and possibly in the world, who can connect with people of all walks at their core.
"Families like ours exist partly because of you!" reads a caption below a photo of two white women and two black children who are seated with a third woman in an apron who appears to be a housekeeper.
One message to Mandela comes from a day care center, another from a group of platinum mine workers.
One writer recalled seeing Mandela raise his fist after being released from prison in Paarl, the writer's hometown.
"My whole life, you'd been in prison, and now you were stepping out, surrounded by the very mountains that held me every day as I grew up," the handwritten note says.
"In 1994 I walked along Pretorius street to the Union Buildings to witness your inauguration. I raised my fist as the helicopters flew over with rainbow nation streaks of smoke trailing behind them. For the first time in my life I felt patriotism and pride in the leader of my country."
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PAT CAPUTO: Detroit Pistons, NBA Draft, Joe Dumars and defending the seemingly indefensible
Detroit Pistons' President of Basketball Operations Joe Dumars, from left, stands with draft picks Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (5), Tony Mitchell (9) and Peyton Siva(34) while they hold their uniforms at the NBA basketball team's training facility in Auburn Hills, Mich., Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
By drafting Kentavious Caldwell-Pope with the eighth overall selection instead of local favorite Trey Burke, the Pistons created a firestorm.
Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars only turned up the heat on the already hot seat he sits upon after a disappointing season and the firing of yet another coach.
Not only is Burke, the consensus national college player of the year at the University of Michigan, well known and extremely popular in this town, Caldwell-Pope was unfamiliar to the vast majority of Pistons? fans before the NBA Draft.
It doesn?t necessarily mean Dumars made the wrong selection. It was a gutsy choice, and perhaps a sign the Pistons are headed in the right direction.
Would I have taken Caldwell-Pope, a highly productive player in a non-descript college program at the University of Georgia, eighth overall? Probably not. Would I have been suggesting the Pistons missed with their first-round selection had it been Burke instead? No.
What I don?t agree with is this premise the Pistons passed on the next sure-thing great NBA star in favor of a player with little chance to have impact.
The easy out for the Pistons would have been to select Burke, sell a few more tickets by building a marketing campaign around him and then continue to flounder on the floor ? even if they feel he isn?t the right fit.
Dumars? assertion the Pistons lack a consistent scorer with size from the wing is a correct one. They also need a player in the two-guard spot who can defend top-line NBA scorers. They see that in Caldwell-Pope, who is a shade above 6-foot-5.
This notion Brandon Knight, apparently held by the majority of fans and media, is done as an NBA point guard is ridiculous. He has had growing pains thrust into a prominent role after leaving the University of Kentucky as a freshman, but he played well at times, too, in two NBA seasons. He is being judged too harshly, unfairly and far too soon.
Dumars was the master of one of the biggest draft blunders ever when he passed on Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade in the 2003 NBA Draft in favor Darko Milicic. Continued...
Burke is a tremendous talent, but he is undersized by NBA standards. He is not nearly the same sure thing as Anthony and Wade coming out of college. The Pistons picked eighth overall this season, not second overall like in 2003. It makes the Darko comparison absurd.
Caldwell-Pope was a big-time recruit out of high school, who was a proven performer in college. Darko was a figment of Dumars? imagination ? and many, many others. There is a lot more legitimate game tape of Caldwell-Pope than there the wavy, 1980s quality video of Darko dunking in a league less athletic than many rec leagues.
But on draft day 2003, it was a sacrilegious to suggest Dumars had made a monumental mistake. Those of us who did, were in the vast minority and treated as if we didn?t know the difference between the 3-point stripe and free-throw line.
The major reason at the time was because the Pistons were winning and Dumars couldn?t have been more popular and trusted. It was justified. Dumars had just re-tooled the Pistons into a team that would soon win the NBA title.
Now, the perception has completely changed. I?ve heard it said a few times in the days following the draft that Dumars has really put his job in danger. Well, he was already in that situation.
Dumars knows Burke well from his association with his son, Jordan, who attended Michigan. He played in the same backcourt with one of the greatest undersized guards of all-time, Isiah Thomas. If he thought Burke was another Isiah, he would have taken him.
Seven other teams in the draft passed on Burke. The team that selected him ninth overall, Minnesota, immediately flipped the choice into two later selections in the first round, 14th and 17th, in a trade with Utah. It wasn?t like he was dealt for Kevin Durant.
It?s not like Dumars and the Pistons were the only NBA entity not believing Burke isn?t the next Chris Paul. This was widely regarded as the weakest pool of players in any NBA Draft, yet there wasn?t exactly a clamoring to take Burke early in the lottery phase.
I don?t know if Dumars made the right selection.
But it?s clear he did what he felt was right to help the Pistons where it ultimately counts ? on the floor and in the standings. Continued...
For that he should he be saluted rather than lambasted.
Pat Caputo is a senior sports reporter and a columnist for The Oakland Press. Contact him at pat.caputo@oakpress.com and read his blog at theoaklandpress.com. You can follow him on Twitter @patcaputo98.
Source: http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles/2013/06/29/sports/doc51cf6a813e7c3775435509.txt
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