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Since the release of the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii, the world of video gaming has never been the same. Kids, teenagers, and even adults are hooked to the growing fascination of such game consoles, and the addictive games that they each have to offer. Whether it?s finishing a mission, conquering a level, or completing a scenario, gamers just can?t seem to get enough of them. Among the most enticing feature that these new generation of game consoles have is the ability to connect online and allow users to find Wii games download, as well as games for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. Gamers will never have to leave their seats to buy a single game ever again. This is quite an amazing feat, considering what the nineties game consoles, like the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis, were only capable of.

Downloadable game content, or DLC, is among the main features of video game consoles nowadays, which was originally initiated by Microsoft?s Xbox and Sega?s Dreamcast as an experimental concept. But in the recent years, DLC has become rather common in many video games. Many of the video game developers have taken advantage of this feature to extend the lifespan of a game franchise, especially the bestselling titles. A good video game does not have to end in a game disc, now you can download bonus stages, expansion packs, and other extra game materials.

The Xbox Live, the Wii Shop channel, and PlayStation 3?s Network are what gamers can use to download game content for their existing game title. Although most downloadable content have charges, there are game extras that can be downloaded for free. With the growing demand for DLC, the number of gamers who want to learn how to download Wii games as well as games for the other two consoles, have also significantly increased.

However, as with everything else, there are advantages and disadvantages when talking about downloadable content, or DLC. Prior to the existence of DLC, games stored in discs typically end up in shelves or disc holders once the gamer completes the game several times. But having the ability to download game materials like additional missions or levels, new characters, extra episodes, as well as other in-game ad-ons, through Wii games download or Xbox Live, can extend the fun factor and lifespan of the game.

When it comes to the quality of the additional content, there are some downloadable game extras that are actually worth their price. This is actually quite a relief, since some of the extra content can be quite costly. There are, however, free downloadable game contents that the gamer can enjoy, but some of them are just not worth downloading at all, especially since some services, like the Xbox Live, will charge you just for subscribing. Some developers even hold back several game components from its initial release, just so they can charge extra for the DLC. By the time you figure it all out, you have already spent more than a hundred bucks on a single game title alone.

Ultimately, downloading extra game content is an option that you have to make for your own. Learning how to download Wii games, Xbox 360 games, or PlayStation 3 games is also up to you. If you are an occasional gamer and not really the hardcore type, then why bother? Just enjoy the games that you already have. Why spend all that money when you can only spare a few minutes playing with your video games?

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Nexus 7 8GB coming to UK mid-July for ?159, 16GB version arriving at retailers July 27th for ?199

We've just had word from ASUS that the 16GB variant of the Nexus 7 will arrive on UK shelves on July 27th -- slightly later than the 8GB model, which will be sold exclusively through Google Play from mid-July. Brits are looking at £159 for the 8GB tablet and £199 for 16GB. The latter is actually shipping to big stores like PC World, Comet, Tesco and eBuyer around July 20th, so those who pre-order may end up signing for that Special Delivery even earlier.

Update: the 16GB slate will also be sold through Carphone Warehouse, either for the same price as above or free on a tethered contract (but check those sums before signing up, obviously). PR added.

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Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm: Another Reason To Hate Citizens United

We talk a lot about the influence of money in politics. It's the defining issue of this era.
But in case you need one more reason to loathe the flood of money in politics, let me offer a different perspective. That of the politician.

It may be easy to assume that politicians love being showered in money. But here's a secret: the truth is, most of us hate it. Hate it.

Candidates almost always enter politics with high-minded notions of changing the world. But, whether their race is local, statewide or national, they have to spend hours upon hours every single day raising the money to run. You may not think that's a big deal. I'm telling you -- it's all-consuming.

Even the most jaded among you would be shocked to know how much time it takes to raise the money necessary to win an election. It's worse than you think.

On Tuesday, President Obama spent his entire day raising money at five, yes five, fundraisers. And he's the incumbent! That's a whole day that could have been spent on more important priorities, like ... well, just about anything.

But he's about to be outspent 10-to-1, so if he doesn't compete financially, he's not going to have the chance to act on those important priorities in a second term. It's tough enough for politicians to do essentially two jobs - campaign and govern - but in this age of billion dollar campaigns, a third job - fundraiser - has become completely dominant. According to The Center for Responsive politics, the candidate with the most money wins 9 out of 10 congressional races and 8 of 10 in the Senate.

It's just as bad for other candidates. I've run for office -- and won -- three times, twice as governor. But I spent hours and hours every single day and night raising the money to do it.

In my re-election, I ran against a billionaire who could vastly outspend me on his own, so I had to compete. I didn't have money. I had to fundraise. And it made me sick.

I hated every minute of fundraising. I would sit in a cheap, temporary office for hours with stacks of call sheets, dialing and begging people to donate. Friends avoided my calls. If I didn't reach my daily goal, I pulled overtime - at a tiny desk with one of those thermometer charts tracking my progress. And as a sitting governor, like all governors, believe me - I really did have better things to do.

That's what killed me. I so wanted to do my job as governor. That's what people elected me to do. But as my fundraising people reminded me, over and over again: you won't be able to do that job unless you raise the money.

And believe me: I am certainly not alone in this story.

My experiences all took place before Citizens United. I can't even imagine how much worse the pressures are now. That case has corrupted our political system, so our politics is no longer about doing the will of the people, it's about raising the money from some of the people.

There just isn't time to do anything else. You can see why so many good men and women are no longer willing to serve in elected office.

This isn't a partisan issue - this is a national crisis. And the fix to get money out of politics is clear: we need to amend our constitution to save our democracy.

Cross-posted at "The War Room" blog. "The War Room with Jennifer Granholm" airs weeknights at 9/8c on Current TV. Follow Jennifer Granholm on Facebook and Twitter and The War Room on Facebook and Twitter.

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South Korea And Japan Set To Sign Historic Defense Agreement

Wounds from history heal slowly in Asia. Yet, despite pervasive resentment against Japan's control over their country in the early 20th?century, South Korea now looks ready to move forward to establishing closer security relations with its eastern neighbor.

The South Korean government gave the nation a shock on Wednesday. It announced the approval of a landmark decision to sign a new military agreement with Japan.

The General Security Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) would allow the two counties to pass classified military intelligence to one another directly, improving cooperation and consensus amid Northeast Asian security crises.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura confirmed on Wednesday that negotiations between the two countries would soon be concluded. By Friday, South Korea's Ambassador to Japan, Shin Kak-soo, could be sitting down with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba to put the pen to the new pact.

South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the Korean Cabinet finalized the decision on Tuesday.

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The GSOMIA has long been pushed by Japan and South Korea's mutual ally, the U.S., to improve military contacts and intelligence transfers between Seoul and Tokyo. Previously, the U.S. had served as something of a middleman for intelligence that moved between the two countries.

Incentives for the new agreement are largely seen to have come from diminishing tolerance in both countries for North Korean provocations and rising concerns over China's military growth.

The North Korean government followed the announcement by making a statement saying the government of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was "selling the nation out."

That was a sentiment which many South Koreans themselves echoed. Members from 48 civil society groups gathered to protest the decision outside of government offices. The short span between the approval and public disclosure has led opposition politicians and activist groups to harshly criticize the government.

Japan and South Korea remain embroiled over divergent interpretations of their recent past. Koreans remain deeply emotional over the annexation of the Korean Peninsula by the former Japanese Empire, from 1910 to 1945. Coupled with ongoing territorial disputes between the two over the Dokdo Islands (which South Korea administers, but Japan calls Takeshima and says belong to its Shimane Prefecture), historical memories and national narratives of past Japanese oppression leave many Koreans wary of a close diplomatic relationship.

No surprise then, that some called the new agreement an implicit absolution of war crimes committed by Japan during WWII, including forced sexual slavery of "comfort women" by Japanese army officers then stationed in Korea.

The Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, an activist group which seeks to publicize wartime abuses of women, issued a response to the government saying that it had "insulted the victims of sexual slavery."

The leader of the opposition Democratic United Party told Korean news angencies that the Cabinet had broken an earlier promise to consult the National Assembly (legislature) before making their decision.

In 2006, after learning that Japan prepared to send oceanographic vessels to survey the area around the Dokdo islands, the government of then president Roh Moo-hyun announced that it would send 20 armed ships to the area to stop any trespassing Japanese vessels. That spat was only six years ago -- and that indicates how effective pressure from a changing balance of power in East Asia has forced both governments to begin working past their differences.

Nevertheless, President Lee's New Frontier Party will now face closer scrutiny over the issue of the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA). That agreement could further strengthen Korean-Japanese defense relations by allowing for exchanges of military equipment (except combat arms and weapons). The ACSA could allow Japanese troops to enter South Korean territory (with invitation), something that hasn't taken place since the end of WWII.

A formal alliance between the two countries remains largely wishful thinking. Nevertheless, American policy makers increasingly see a trilateral relationship as the key to securing Northeast Asia as the U.S. executes its "pivot" to an Asia-centric strategy.

"We welcome closer ties between our allies, Japan and the Republic of Korea," said the U.S. State Department on Wednesday.

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SBA Communications buys TowerCo assets for $1.45B ...

SBA Communications agreed to purchase all of TowerCo's 3,252 tower sites in 47 states across the U.S. and Puerto Rico for $1.45 billion, substantially increasing its domestic cell site footprint.?

The deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2012, includes $1.2 billion in cash and 4.6 million shares of SBA Class A common stock. The acquisition also represents the second multibillion-dollar deal SBA has made this year. In February SBA?purchased 2,300 tower sites in the U.S. and Central America from?Mobilitie for $1.09 billion and other assets in a cash-and-stock deal. Privately held TowerCo, which was the fifth-largest independent tower company in the United States, was formed in 2004 by industry veterans Richard Byrne and Scot Lloyd.

During a conference call with investors, SBA CEO Jeffrey Stoops said the deal with TowerCo will be the last major one SBA will make?this year. The acquisition, he said, "represents a rare opportunity to materially increase the size of our domestic business." Stoops added that 67 percent of the towers SBA is acquiring are in the top 50 U.S. markets, and that most of the towers overall are located in urban and suburban markets.?

A large chunk of the towers SBA is acquiring form TowerCo are towers for Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S), which TowerCo purchased from Sprint in 2008, and the deal will push SBA's share of total revenue that it gets from Sprint from 23 percent to 28 percent. Revenue from AT&T? Mobility (NYSE:T) makes up 20 percent of SBA's revenue, T-Mobile USA makes up 15 percent and Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) contributes 12 percent.

The deal reflects growing momentum in the acquisition of tower assets.? T-Mobile USA's proposed sale of its wireless towers has attracted interest from major tower companies American Tower and Crown Castle, according to a recent Bloomberg report, which cited an unnamed source.

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Jamal Lewis the Latest Pro Athlete to File for Bankruptcy | Lawyers ...

Former Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis filed for bankruptcy protection in April but failed to provide required financial documents or appear for a mandatory interview with court officials. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

Former National Football League star running back Jamal Lewis, 32, has filed for bankruptcy protection in Georgia, saying that he can?t pay $10.6 million in debts.

Lewis broke into the league with a splash in 2003, running for 295 yards in the Baltimore Ravens? home opener in the stadium that had just been rechristened M&T Bank Stadium for the company that had bought the naming rights. Today, though, M&T Bank is one of the creditors listed in Lewis? court documents for a $350,000 judgment on a defaulted loan.

M&T Bank is among the companies saying that Lewis didn?t repay loans that he took out to finance several real estate ventures and a trucking company, as well as for houses and cars.

After filing for bankruptcy, however, Lewis failed to submit required financial records to the federal bankruptcy court in Atlanta and also didn?t appear for a scheduled interview with court officials. The bankruptcy trustee then asked the court to either dismiss Lewis? case or convert it from Chapter 11, which allows the creation of a repayment plan, to Chapter 7, which would allow the sale of his $14.4 million in assets to pay off the creditors.

A hearing has been scheduled for July 10.

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Financial Woes All Too Common for Pro Athletes

If Lewis? financial woes have a familiar ring, it?s because stories of millionaire athletes having difficulty handling their money have become commonplace. In 2009, Sports Illustrated reported that nearly 80 percent of NFL players are in financial trouble within two years after retirement.

Attorney Timothy Liam Epstein, who chairs the Sports Law Practice Group at SmithAmundsen in Chicago, considers the Sports Illustrated finding ?not at all surprising.?

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Epstein says there are a variety of reasons why so many professional athletes encounter financial problems.

First, he says, while their annual salaries are huge, their careers typically last only a few years and they often haven?t learned how to budget their money for their post-career lives.

?Exacerbating the problem, athletes often hire family or friends to manage their money and put too much trust in them,? Epstein says. ?This often leads to disastrous consequences, and the story is all too common. The person entrusted with managing the athlete?s finances is either not looking out for the athlete?s best interest or [is] equally na?ve when it comes to management of a professional athlete?s lifestyle.?

?Another reason, he says, is that young athletes are too often easy prey for companies that are seeking financial backing because they are ?rich, young, and often less educated.?

In addition, Epstein points out, young professional athletes face peer pressure to adopt a free-spending lifestyle that?s seen as emblematic of being a successful player.

?The trouble is that they are living this lifestyle without much knowledge or regard for the long-term financial consequences and often with no financial planning whatsoever. With proper financial counsel, athletes should have a general idea of what they are worth and how much they are spending, but the reality is that many are unadvised or misadvised, which is often worse.?

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Epstein: NCAA should do more

?Which raises the question: Should agents, leagues, teams, or the NCAA take greater responsibility in providing some degree of financial guidance to pro or pro-bound athletes?

According to Epstein, in recent years the NFL and NCAA have recognized the problem?at least to a certain extent?by partnering to host a ?Life Skills Education and Professional Development Summit? for the purpose of assisting student athletes? off-field personal and professional development. And he said this year?s summit produced a plan to develop a program called ?Banking on a Bright Future,? which would focus on financial literacy topics, ranging from budgeting to investment to retirement planning.

But he believes the NCAA and member schools could do more.

?There is no reason why the NCAA could not mandate financial courses similar to the program proposed at the NFL-NCAA summit,? he says. ?Educating future professional athletes at a younger age will instill a sense of responsibility and impute greater knowledge of financial prudence that will provide a much stronger foundation for future financial stability.?

The reality, Epstein says, is that once athletes have signed a contract and the big money is rolling in, it?s frequently too late.

?The fact is, once athletes start receiving big checks, it is all too easy for them to tune out their teams or agents,? he says. ?Educational programs and courses should be offered at the college level to properly prepare student athletes for their future.?

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Lochte, Phelps set for memorable 200 free final

Brendan?Hansen swims in the men's 100-meter breaststroke final at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Brendan?Hansen swims in the men's 100-meter breaststroke final at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Brendan?Hansen, left, is congratulated by Eric Shanteau after winning the men's 100-meter breaststroke final at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Brendan?Hansen, left, is congratulated by Eric Shanteau after winning the men's 100-meter breaststroke final at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Eric Shanteau kisses his wife Jeri Moss Shanteau after placing in the second in the men's 100-meter breaststroke final at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Omaha, Neb. Brendan?Hansen won the final. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Ryan Lochte gives a thumbs up after swimming in the men's 200-meter freestyle preliminaries at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps went stroke for stroke into the wall in the 200-meter freestyle. Lochte's hand got there first, with Phelps touching second.

Imagine what Wednesday night's final will be like.

The world's top two swimmers met up in the same semifinal Tuesday night, with Lochte winning in 1 minute, 46.25 seconds. Phelps was just behind at 1:47.27, setting up another memorable confrontation in the final.

"It's going to be a tough race tomorrow," Phelps said. "It's probably going to be another close one like that."

Phelps will be looking to win for the first time at the U.S. Olympic trials. He got beat by Lochte in the 400 individual medley on Monday, then got edged out again in the semis.

Phelps is the ultimate competitor, hating to lose even the smallest contest. But he knows what's really at stake in Omaha.

"It's about getting spots on the team, that's the only thing," he said. "The most important thing for me is to try and secure a spot, and from here I have 3 to 4 weeks to prepare myself and get some extra training in there. I think it's going to be a lot better than what it is here."

Lochte agreed nothing truly matters until the final.

"We're great racers, we just want to win," he said. "We definitely kicked it in gear the last 50, me and him. We know tomorrow night is going to be a lot faster."

There promises to be plenty of speed in the women's 100 backstroke final.

Seventeen-year-old Missy Franklin was the top qualifier in the semifinals. Her time of 59.06 seconds was less than a second off Gemma Spofforth's world record. Teenagers claimed the next three fastest times, as well: 18-year-old Rachel Bootsma, 17-year-old Olivia Smoliga, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Pelton.

"I love where I'm at right now," said Franklin, the breakout star at last year's world championships and one of the top American hopes for London. "I feel strong, I feel powerful. It's so awesome to feel this way and I'm having a blast. This is what I came here to do."

Natalie Coughlin finds herself in the unexpected role of underdog in her signature event. The two-time defending Olympic champion barely qualified for the final with the seventh-fastest time of 1:00.63. That race came after Coughlin finished seventh in the 100 fly final.

"I was hoping to have a better 100 fly than I did, but you pay for it when you go out too hard like I did," Coughlin said. "After that, I just refocused on the 100 backstroke, knowing all that matters is I get a lane for tomorrow night. We'll see what happens. That's all I can do right now."

Coughlin won't have another event before the 100 back final, like she did Tuesday. She scratched the 200 individual medley, so if she doesn't qualify for London in the backstroke, her only realistic chance left to make the team will be the 100 freestyle.

"Having the morning off to rest and recover and go into that 100 back as fresh as possible will be really important for me," she said.

Olympic champion Rebecca Soni used her patented finishing kick to qualify fastest for the 100 breaststroke final in 1:05.88, more than a second ahead of world-record holder Jessica Hardy, who was second in 1:06.88.

"I always hold on to that last few yards as my strength," Soni said. "I'm always waiting to kick it into gear. I don't want to do it too early, but it felt good coming home, and I'm looking forward to having that same speed closing tomorrow."

Hardy won the 100 breast at trials four years ago only to lose her spot on the Olympic team because of a failed doping test. She served a one-year ban after an arbitration panel agreed with her contention that a tainted nutritional supplement was to blame for her positive test.

She battled anger and depression during the fight to clear her name.

"This is the first time I felt like I can actually have a happy ending," she said. "I can relax and finally have fun and feel grateful."

Matt Grevers is the favorite in the men's 100 backstroke final on Wednesday, going in with the top semifinal time of 53.10. Lochte had the second-quickest time in prelims, but he dropped out of the semis to focus on his next final against Phelps.

Brendan Hansen capped his comeback with a victory in the 100 breast, earning a spot in his third straight Olympics.

He won in 59.68.

Hansen is relishing having another shot at Japanese star Kosuke Kitajima, who swept both breast events at the last two Olympics and is in Omaha for the trials so he could keep up his training under American coach Dave Salo.

"It's cool that he got to see me swim," Hansen said. "Somewhere deep down, he's got to know I'm the only guy to beat him the last 10 years. That might carry some weight."

Hansen retired from the sport after the Beijing Games, having been disappointed in two straight Olympics. He took silver and bronze in the two breast events at Athens and was shut out of an individual medal in China.

"I don't know if my body language has shown it or not, but this is exactly where I want to be," he said.

"In 2008, I didn't really want to be here anymore, I was kind of worn down by the whole idea. Now I'm just having so much fun with it and I feel like I'm running on borrowed time. I'm just really proud of myself for saying that I was going to come back and then actually come back and be back."

Hansen will be joined on the team by Eric Shanteau, who specializes in the 200 breast but claimed the second spot in the 100 in 1:00.15.

Four years ago, Shanteau beat out Hansen for an individual spot on the team shortly after being diagnosed with testicular cancer. He put off treatment until after the games and has been healthy ever since.

"I've been back and forth with that event for so long," Shanteau said. "It's nice having it all come together when it counts the most."

Dana Vollmer, a gold medalist as a teenager in 2004, missed out on the team four years ago while battling injuries and health problems, but will go to London after her win in the 100 butterfly.

Vollmer was more than a half-second under world-record pace at the turn, but she faded on the return lap. But she had built such a commanding lead that she was a full body length ahead when she touched in 56.50.

Claire Donahue claimed the second spot for London in 57.57.

Also claiming a spot on the Olympic team was Allison Schmitt, who got off to a huge lead in the 400 free and held on to win in 4:02.84. Chloe Sutton earned the second spot in 4:04.18.

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Game of Thrones Author Draws SRO Crowd | American Libraries ...

Whether ALA attendees knew George R. R. Martin from his ongoing book series A Song of Ice and Fire or the hit HBO series Game of Thrones (namesake of book one), a standing-room-only horde of excited fans were on hand Saturday at ?Traveling the Spectrum: From Interstellar Adventures to Epic Fantasy, the Influence of Science Fiction and Fantasy on the World Today? to hear him speak about these genres. The program, which also featured Blake Charlton and Lois McMaster Bujold, was sponsored by the Library and Information Technology Association.

Charlton, author of the acclaimed novels Spellwright and Spellbound, kicked off the session with an entertaining and funny PowerPoint presentation detailing the personal experiences of his childhood that influenced his writing. Charlton said he grew up dyslexic and didn?t learn to read until he was 13 or 14 years old. As a result, he was in special education classes and had to ride the ?short bus,? he said, referring to the smaller school buses generally used to transport children enrolled in special education. Charlton said he always kept a list of the many cruel things other kids said to him, some of which he good-humoredly shared with the audience. (For example, ?Your wheel is spinning but your hamster is dead.?)

He said he has learned to ?respect [his] enemies in this life,? and gravitated toward fantasy because it is a ?literature of exceptional ability, possibility, and disability.? He eventually went on to graduate from Yale and later pursued medicine at Stanford.

Bujold spoke next, asking what the world would look like if there were no works of speculative fiction. She noted that the genre is not slowing down but is, in fact, speeding up. And despite the advent of ebooks, she said, many people read physical books in places where they are sometimes most necessary, such as hospices. ?Fiction gives our minds and souls another place to be,? Bujold said.

Martin spoke last, recounting how the effects of growing up in a federal housing project and having no money influenced his life. For example, the housing projects didn?t allow people to have cats or dogs, so Martin kept pet turtles in bowls with toy castles and eventually began writing stories about them.

But what changed Martin?s life, he said, was reading Robert A. Heinlein?s Have Space Suit?Will Travel, which led him to decide that ?I like this ?reading books? thing.? Space Suit was a gift and would be the only hardcover he would own for another 15 years because he couldn?t afford to buy many books.

Martin said that the ?other thing that saved me was the Fifth Street Library? in his hometown of Bayonne, New Jersey. He said the annoying thing about the library ?is that they made me give the books back.?

With the introduction of books and the library, he said, ?Suddenly I was going places.? All of those places, he said in conclusion, are ones that he remembers vividly. ?We are the sum of our experiences. They are experiences we?ve incorporated and made part of ourselves. I remember the books.?

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Which is the Best International TV Network ? Al Jazeera, BBC ...

If you are well-traveled, both domestically and abroad, then you have a pretty good handle on the way people live in many parts of the world. You also know that is very unsafe to drink the water in many countries, and you are pretty aware of how you better be on your best behavior in certain places, and keep a watchful eye of your belongings, and your surroundings.

Now then, not everyone is well traveled throughout the world, and there is a lot to see, so many different cultures and people in countries and therefore it is important to take in a little bit of international news and reports. As a connoisseur of geopolitics and international news I often read Foreign Affairs Magazine, and any of the other knock off magazines of the same shape and size from competing publishers, as well as The Economist, Forbes China, Forbes India, and I also scan the headlines of various countries on all the continents.

Once you get a basic understanding of these countries and places, realizing there are over 300 sovereign nations, it is fairly easy to keep up on any major changes that happen in those regions; things such as natural disasters, political unrest, culture, religious beliefs, economic crisis, industry growth, and their place in the never ending saga of human conflict.

Now then, in the electronic age it makes sense to take online newsletters and updates if you want to stay up on everything that?s going on around the world. And what about 24/7 cable network television? You can watch Russian TV, Al Jazeera, BBC, CNBC worldwide, or even CNN international. Interestingly enough, the news formats in the financial realm are very similar around the globe, and the international segments are on popular topics and things you might expect.

The other day someone recommended that I watch CNN international, as I might learn something new, and so I went online and watched many of the clips and videos of what was going on this week. They were okay, decent, and typically what you?d expect. Their coverage of the crash in India was good and well thought out, as well as the segments on the riots in Thailand. And it was rather interesting watching Hillary Clinton Secretary of State for the United States and their coverage of her visits to South Korea and China.

Indeed, I guess my only problem with CNN is; where did Ted Turner?s ?early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise? turn into brainwashing the global masses with propaganda, promote chaos and controversy, and destabilize society and civilization? Not that Al Jazeera is any better, especially for someone living in the United States, as much of their content sure doesn?t show the USA in a very good light.

The BBC can be real persnickety when it comes to the USA from time to time, and if it wasn?t for the international business news sticking up for America I guess all the international news would be something that a proud American certainly wouldn?t want or care to watch. I guess I might give CNN international a ?B? and CNBC Worldwide a ?B+? and the BBC a ?B-? and Al Jazeera a ?C-? overall for international television coverage. Please consider all this.

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Historical, Vintage, Classic Car Museum holds award ceremony ...

KUWAIT: The Historical, Vintage and Classic Car Museum held an Awards Ceremony for thier second Automotive Photography Contest 2012 in the presence of Sheikh Mubarak Sabah Al-Salem Al-Homod Al-Sabah, who is a member of the Board of Trustees of the museum. The ceremony took place on Wednesday at the Museum?s Main Exhibition Hall in Shuwaikh. Mustafa Makhseed, Director of committees at the museum, said: ?We are happy to hold such a contest, and the management is happy to see developments in the style and quality of entries competing and the increased number of the participants.

We hope that the contest will be even bigger and better next year.? He also thanked His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah for his continuous support to the museum and the youth in Kuwait. He also thanked Sheikh Mubarak for his continuous support and for presenting the awards to the winners.
Zakaria Dashti noted that the museum is always keen to set up events to benefit its visitors and members. Regarding the Automotive Photography Contest 2012, he said: ?It is the objective of the museum to provide activities that benefit the community.

It?s evident from the popularity of the competition and the images uploaded on social networking sites that our members are interested in photographing cars, so we felt the need to develop this popular hobby. When we compare last year?s photos with this year?s photos, the development in both quality and content is evident.? Fadel Al-Oraier, Director of the library and imaging, said that the museum has built a photography studio inside the museum for photographers to gather and discuss their different experiences.

The Winners in the ?Overall? category are Yousef Mansour Hassan Qallaf, Nasir Amin Behbehani and Mishary Rashid Abdul Wahab. In the black and white category, the winners are Ahmed AbdulRazak Bin Eid,? Zeinab Hussein Mahmoud Al-Sayed? and Adnan Ahmed AlEssa. In the colored photograph category, the winners are? Samir Abdulrahman Hassan, Ibrahim Yousef Al-Awadi and AbdulWahab Ismail Baron. In the logo Categories, the winners are? Ali Mohamed Behbehani, Meshal Abdulaziz Al Baqer and Mohammed Ibrahim AlMuhaini.

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So, you've been invited to speak | Lea Verou

I?ve been lucky enough to be invited to do?about 25 talks over the course of the past few years and I have quite a few upcoming gigs as well, most of them at international conferences around Europe and the US. Despite my speaking experience, I?m still very reluctant to call myself a ?professional speaker? or even a ?speaker? at all. In case you follow me on twitter, you might have noticed that my bio says ?Often pretends to be a speaker?, and that captures exactly how I feel. I?m not one of those confident performers that don?t just present interesting stuff, but also can blurt jokes one after the other, almost like stand-up comedians and never backtrack or go ?ummm?. I greatly admire these people and I aspire to become as confident as them on stage one day. People like Aral Balkan, Christian Heilmann, Nicole Sullivan, Jake Archibald and many others. Unlike them, I often backtrack mid-sentence, say a lot of ?ummmm?s and sometimes talk about stuff that was going to be later in my slides, all of which are very awkward.

However, I?ve reached the conclusion that I must be doing something right. I do get a lot of overwhelmingly positive feedback after almost every talk, even by people I admire in the industry. I don?t think I?ve ever gotten a negative comment for a talk, even in cases that I thought I had screwed up. Naturally, after all these conferences, I?ve attended a lot of technical talks myself, and I?ve gathered some insight on what constitutes a technical talk the audience will enjoy. I?ve been pondering to write a post with advice about this for a long time, but my lack of confidence about my speaking abilities put me off the task. However, since people seem to consider me good, I figured it might help others doing technical talks as well.

All of the following are rules of thumb. You have to keep in mind that there are exceptions to every single one, but it?s often quicker and more interesting to talk in absolutes. I will try to stay away from what?s already been said in other similar articles, such as ?tell a story? or ?be funny? etc, not because it?s bad advice, but because a) I?m not really good at those so I prefer to let others discuss them and b) I don?t like repeating stuff that?s already been said numerous times before. I will try to focus on what I do differently, and why I think it works. It might not fit your style and that?s ok. Audiences like a wide range of presentation styles, otherwise I?d be screwed, as I don?t fit the traditional ?good speaker? profile. Also, it goes without saying that some of my advice might be flat out wrong. I?m just trying to do pattern recognition to figure out why people like my talks. That?s bound to be error-prone. My talks might be succeeding in spite of X and not because of it.

1. Do something unique

There are many nice talks with good minimal slides (almost everyone has read Presentation Zen by now), funny pictures, good content and confident presenters. In fact, they dominate almost every conference I?ve been at. You can always become a good speaker by playing it safe, and many famous speakers in the industry have earned their fame by doing so. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, to stand out doing that kind of talk, you need to be really, really good. Hats off to the speakers that managed to stand out doing talks like that, because it means they are truly amazing.

However, if you, like me, fear that your speaking skills are not yet close to that caliber, you need to figure out something else that sets you apart. Something that will make your talk memorable. We see a lot of innovation in our discipline, but it?s limited to the scripts and apps we write. Why not to our presentations as well? Do something different, and make it your thing, your ?trademark? way of presenting.

For me, that was the embedded demos in my slides. I usually have a small text field where I write code, and something (often the entire slide or text field itself) that displays the outcome. This lets the attendees see not just the end result, but also the intermediate states until we get there, which often proves out to be enlightening. It also makes the slide quite flexible, as I can always show something extra if I see I have the time.

Of course, it also means that things might (and if you talk often enough, will at some point) go wrong. To mitigate this to a degree, I try to keep demos small, with a sensible starting state, so that I won?t have to write a lot of code. Which brings us to the next point.

2. Never show a lot of code on a slide

I have a theory: Attendees? understanding of code decreases exponentially as the lines of simultaneously displayed code increase. Avoid showing many lines of code at once like the plague. Although I?ve shown up to 10 lines of code on a single slide (maybe even more), I usually try to keep it well below five. Ideally less than three even. If you absolutely must present more code, try to use a technique to make the audience understand it by chunks, so that they still only have to process very little code at any given time.

One technique I use for that is showing little code at first, and writing the rest on stage, gradually, explaining the steps as I go. When that isn?t possible or it doesn?t make sense (for example when there is no visual result to see), I try to show parts of the code step by step, explaining what everything does as it appears. This doesn?t necessarily mean showing one line at a time. For example, if you are showing a JS function, it makes sense to show the closing brace at the same time as the opening brace and not at the end. Show the elements of the code in the order you would write them in a top-down implementation, not by pure source order (although in some cases those two may coincide). To make this more clear, here?s an example slide where I used this technique. It?s from my ?Polyfilling the gaps? talk at JSConf EU 2011, one of the very few talks of mine that had no live coding.

Also, it goes without saying that if you have to present a lot of code at once, syntax highlighting is a must. Comments aren?t: That?s what you are there for. Comments just add visual clutter and make it harder for people to interpret the actual code. Also, while explaining the code, try to somehow highlight the part you?re currently describing, even if your method is as rudimentary as selecting the text. Otherwise, if someone misses a sentence, they will completely lose track.

3. IDEs are not good presentation tools

I?ve seen this so many times: Someone wants to live demo a technology and fires up their IDE or text editor and starts coding. The audience tries to follow along at first, but at some point almost always gets lost. While these tools are great for programming, they are not presentation tools. They have a lot of distracting clutter, very small text and require you to show parts of the code that aren?t really relevant. They also require you to switch applications to toggle between the code and result, which disrupts the flow of your presentation.

In addition, the probability you will make a mistake increases exponentially with the amount of code you write, both in real life and especially in presentations where you are also nervous. Then the audience is stuck with an?embarrassed?presenter trying to find what?s wrong for five minutes, until someone from the audience decides to put them out of their misery and shout that a closing parenthesis is missing on line 25.

That?s why live coding has gotten a bad reputation over the years.

As you?ve probably figured from tip #1, I?m not against live coding. Done well, it can really help the audience learn. However, if not done properly, it can end up completely wrecking a talk. Even if you absolutely have to use an external tool, try to make the experience as smooth as possible:

• Hide any toolbars, sidebars, panels. If your editor doesn?t allow you to hide everything that isn?t relevant, use another editor.
• Make the text BIG. If possible, as big as the text in your slides. Remember: Text in slides is big, because you need even the attendees sitting in the back rows to still be able to read it. Why is it that this simple consideration seems to escape so many presenter minds when they switch from slides to code?
• If parts of the code are needed but not relevant (e.g. CSS files in a JavaScript talk), put them in separate files and reference them. Try to minimize the code you will actually show as much as possible, and then even more.
• If applicable, use LiveReload and have the browser window and code editor side by side.

4. Don?t aim to beginners (only)

Some of the nastiest criticism I?ve seen against people?s talks was that they were too elementary. Getting feedback like that has almost become a phobia of mine. Of course, it?s always better if your entire audience is at the same level, and you are fully aware what that level is. However, that?s almost never the case, so you will have to err on one side. Do your best to cater to the median, but when you have to err, err on the side of more advanced content. A somewhat selfish reason would be that?when people find your talk too elementary, they will blame you; when they find it too advanced, they will blame themselves.?However, it?s not just covering your ass, it?s better for your audience as well. Someone who didn?t learn anything new gets absolutely nothing out of your talk (unless it?s an interesting performance on its own, e.g. so funny it could have been stand up comedy for geeks). A person that learned many things but didn?t understand some of the more advanced concepts will still have gotten a lot out of it.

If someone learns a useful thing or two from your talk, that?s what they?ll remember. Even if the rest of the talk was elementary or too advanced for them, they will walk out with a positive impression, thinking ?I learned something today!?. Even if most of your talk is elementary, try to sneak in some more advanced or obscure bits, that not many people know.

My favorite approach to cater for a diverse audience with very different levels of experience, is to pick a narrow topic, start from the very basics and work my way up to more advanced concepts. This way everyone learns something, and nobody feels intimidated. On the flip side, if you are in a multi-track conference, this also limits the potential audience that might come to your talk.

5. Eat your own dog food

I?m a huge fan of HTML-based (or SVG-based) slideshows. I?ve always been, since my first talk. It?s a technology you?re already accustomed to, so you can do amazing things with it. You can write scripts that demonstrate the concepts you describe in some visual way, you can do live demos, you can embed iframes of other people?s demos, you know how to style it much better than you likely know how to use Keynote. Yes, if you?re used to traditional presentation tools, it might be hard at first. Many features you?ve been taking for granted will be missing. Styling is not visual, there are no presenter notes, no next slide preview, no automatic adjustment to the projector resolution to name a few. But what you gain in potential and expressiveness, are totally worth the trade-off. Also, rather than having the talk prep keep you from writing code and becoming better at what you do, it will now actually contribute to it! It?s also a great chance to try experimental stuff, as it?s going to be run in a very controlled environment.

You don?t even need to write your own presentation framework if you don?t want to. There are a ton available now, such as my own CSSS, impress.js?and many others.

6. Involve the audience

There is an old Chinese proverb that goes like:

Tell me, and I?ll forget
Show me, and I?ll remember
Involve me, and I?ll understand

I?ve noticed that audiences respond extremely well to talks that attempt to involve them. Seb-Lee Delisle?gave a talk at Fronteers 2011 where he involved the audience by ideas like demonstrating Web Sockets through making their iPhones flash in such a way that he could create light patterns with the audience. Even though some of the demos failed (I think something crashed, don?t remember very well), the audience loved every bit. I?ve rarely seen people that excited about talks.

Involving the audience was something I wanted to do for a while. In my recent Regular Expressions talks, I had a series of small ?challenges? where the audience tried to write a regexp to match a certain set of strings as quickly as possible and tweet it. I provided a link to an app I made especially for that. The person who got most regexes right (or more right than others) won a book. This was also very well received and lots of positive feedback mentioned it. When it feels like a game, learning is much more fun.

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Washington Retirees Pick Up A Chainsaw, Carefully, For A Love Of The Land

Joshua McNichols
06/25/2012

Next time you buy a box of tissues, you might notice the letters FSC stamped on the box. That means the wood for the tissue was harvested in a way that promotes wildlife habitat. Most FSC wood fiber in Washington comes from land owned by the state, but a respectable chunk comes from a very unusual group of loggers.

TRANSCRIPT

In a forest just East of Yelm, Ken Lallemont teaches his students how to inspect a chainsaw.

Ken Lallemont: "Chain brake, chain catch, throttle lock, looking for any loose nuts and bolts, exhaust system is intact ? "

You could call this class lumberjack safety. These students are learning how to cut down trees. And where to stand ?

Sound: Tree hitting ground.

? for this.

These aren't your typical loggers. Most of them are new to logging, and most of them are over 50 years old. A few of them, much older. Lallemont has some special advice for the class.

Ken Lallemont: "There are guardian angels out there whose job it is to keep young fools alive. There's not enough of them to go around, so they have no time for old fools. If you don't catch on as you get older, you're gonna get hurt or die. "

What would entice these men to spend their retirement doing this dangerous job? The land.

Class participant Elvin Borg fell in love with 75 acres just east of Centralia, Washington.

Elvin Borg: "We had looked at about, oh, 80 different places in the area. And I saw this place and my wife hadn't seen it. And I called her and I said 'You've got to see this one.' Because it was pretty streams, and beaver ponds, and trees of different ages, and it looked like a park. And I thought, how can one person own something like this? And yet it was feasible."

Most of the landowners in this class bought acreage formerly owned by Weyerhaeuser. The company is still the biggest private landowner in Washington. But over time, Weyerhaeuser has consolidated its holdings in the southwestern corner of the state. Those forests are closer to a big mill and an international port. That's left much of the state's private timberland for small landowners like Elvin.

Elvin wants to get his land certified with the FSC, the Forest Stewardship Council. That would indicate his timber was harvested according to strict environmental guidelines. A forest certified by the FSC is open to sunlight. It's home to a variety of trees and wildlife. It's different than your typical industrial forest. Weyerhaeuser says for them, it's too expensive.

KUOW: "Does it pencil out for you?"

Elvin Borg: "I don't even know. It probably won't. That is secondary actually, for me."

That's not an unusual response, according to Kirk Hanson. He's the director of Northwest Certified Forestry. He spends a lot of time reaching out to small landowners like Borg.

Kirk Hanson: "Often times they say they'd like to grow their forests out to look more like a natural forest and less like a plantation. Some of them are even interested in managing their forests to become old growth. Obviously that's beyond their life time."

And out of their control.

Kirk Hanson: "Of course also with the next generation acquiring that property they may have a completely different value system than their grandparents or their parents did."

Elvin Borg is talking to his heirs now. He's not sure what will happen to his land in the long run.

Elvin Borg: "We're just here to take care of it for a while and then it's somebody else's."

For now he's focused on the goal at hand: felling a tree without getting smooshed.

For KUOW, I'm Joshua McNichols.

? Copyright 2012, KUOW

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Couple Uses Prometheus Camera to Film First Hi-Def, 3-D Wedding Video

Just a friendly wedding-planning advisory: a recent pair of newlyweds has ensured that your upcoming nuptials will not be the most magnificent of all time, technology-wise at least. During an outdoor ceremony at the Mirador Estate, in Montecito, California, a tech-savvy couple exchanged vows in front of RED Epic cameras on 5K resolution, the same type of cameras used by Ridley Scott in Prometheus and Peter Jackson in The Hobbit. According to Gizmodo, Julia and Stuart boldly opted out of having the event photographed, since ?each frame can also be extracted as a high resolution 3D still image.? A teaser trailer (!) for said 3-D wedding video is available above.

It is unclear what Julia and Stuart do for their day jobs, what inspired them to take this innovative route, and why they would want to torture friends and family with a third dimension to their wedding playback. In 2010, Sydney-based cinematographer Abraham Joffe made history by filming what is believed to be the first professionally executed, multi-camera 3-D wedding video for Australian newlyweds Narelle and Ian Haines.

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Family Fun: Day Trips : Ideas for Women Home and Family Blog

Day Trips can be a lot of fun for families. They are cost effective as you don?t have to stay in a hotel and are easy on young children since they don?t always have to do a lot riding in the car. To start day tripping is not hard at? all. First you need to decide how far it is that you want to travel.It could be just a few miles down the road, the next town over, or if you live close enough maybe the next state over.

Next check out what sort of attractions there are that you and your family would enjoy. You don?t have to see them all, in fact that can create fun overload. Pick one or two and enjoy them. If there are several close by you can pick one a few times during the summer or even the year. Some good choices are always large amusement parks, centers. Because they are popular they are almost always crowded. Instead opt for places that are less likely to be full of people. Museums are always a good choice.

The idea is to be able to spend quality, fun time with your family without costing an arm and leg. So hit the road and enjoy!

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For minority college students, STEM degrees pay big

Friday, June 22, 2012

Minority college students who major in the STEM fields ? science, technology, engineering and math ? earn at least 25 percent more than their peers who study humanities or education, according to the results of a new study.

And those who took jobs related to their STEM degrees earned at least 50 percent more than their classmates who majored in humanities or education fields.

Published in the June issue of Research in Higher Education, the study followed more than 1,000 Asian and Pacific Islander, Latino and black students over nine years. The students were scholarship applicants for the Gates Millennium Scholars Program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which awards grants to highly motivated, low-income minority students.

While minority groups continue to be underrepresented in the STEM fields, the study's researchers believe this will change if students understand how much more money can be earned in those fields.

"The premiums for majoring in STEM fields are huge," said lead author Tatiana Melguizo, associate professor of education with the USC Rossier School of Education. "We need to educate students that if they get a job in a STEM-related occupation, they have an even higher earning premium. Otherwise, students aren't reaping the economic benefit of all the hard work they went through as undergrads."

Overall, Latinos reported the highest average earnings after college - $42,180 annually - relative to the other minority groups. Black students reported earning $35,900 and Asian Pacific Islanders earned $40,261 (data in 2006 dollars).

Latinos majoring in STEM fields also reported the highest earnings among the groups studied: an average of $56,875 per year, higher than the reported average salaries of $39,365 for blacks and $47,530 for Asian Pacific Islanders.

The study's authors said more research must be done to determine whether these discrepancies are attributable to different career preferences among racial/ethnic groups or employers' hiring decisions, as well as the role colleges and universities play in the career and occupational development of minority students.

"Among the high achieving minority students we studied, Latinos not only reported the highest annual earnings overall, but also reported the highest annual earnings among STEM majors," said study co-author Gregory Wolniak, a senior research scientist at the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago. "Preliminary findings suggest this may partially be due to Latino students' ability to find jobs related to their major. These findings are encouraging signs that strengthening the pipeline of underrepresented students into STEM careers offers a viable solution to our nation's growing competitiveness problem in engineering and science fields."

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