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Sunday, August 4, 2013
DOJ to Apple: Give back Amazon's iPad bookstore
Amazon could soon bring back a link to the Kindle store in its iPad app.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
The DOJ proposed on Friday that Apple's competitors be allowed to provide links to their own e-bookstores within their e-reader apps. Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) has banned competitors from including those links since 2011. The Justice Department said letting Apple device users easily compare Apple's prices with those of Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500), Barnes & Noble (BKS, Fortune 500) and others would "reset competition to the conditions that existed before the conspiracy."
Two years ago, Apple controversially mandated that it get a 30% cut of all in-app sales. For that to happen, apps were barred from displaying "shop" links that routed users to separate stores on the Web that Apple had no control over, such as Amazon's Kindle store. If the court agrees to the DOJ's proposal, booksellers, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, could bring back those shop links.
Apple, which has said it will appeal the court's July decision, also filed a brief Friday strongly opposing the DOJ's proposals, calling them "unnecessary, overbroad, vague and punitive."
The proposal is just one of several submitted by the DOJ and 33 State Attorneys General to the court to "prevent a recurrence of the illegal activities." They also proposed that Apple terminate its existing agreements with the five major publishers with which it conspired. Those five publishers -- CBS's (CBS, Fortune 500) Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Pearson (PSO)'s Penguin Group, Macmillan and News Corp (NWS).'s HarperCollins -- decided to settle rather than go to trial.
If the court upholds the DOJ's proposals, Apple would also be ordered to refrain from entering certain new e-book distribution contracts for five years, from negotiating contracts with content providers that are likely to increase competitors' prices, and from retaliating against publishers for refusing to sell e-books on the so-called agency model. That model, in which the publishers set their own prices and Apple takes a 30% cut off the top, was at the heart of the conspiracy to raise e-book prices.
The DOJ additionally asked that an external monitor, whose salary would be paid by Apple, be appointed to ensure the company complies with the new mandates.
The court will hold a hearing on the proposed remedies on August 9. 
First Published: August 2, 2013: 11:07 AM ET
Source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_topstories/~3/kU9zbMKx_dM/index.html
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
NEW HAVEN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Former star Ty Grace returns as coach
New Haven women's basketball coach Ty Grace. (Photo courtesy of New Haven Athletics)
WEST HAVEN ? There?s one thing certain about Ty Grace in her new role as women?s basketball coach at the University of New Haven: She isn?t going to be intimidated by the competition.
That?s not to say that battling the likes of Northeast-10 powerhouses like Bentley isn?t difficult, but Grace has spent the last four years as an assistant at Seton Hall.
?I?ve been in the Big East,? Grace said. ?We?ve played UConn and Notre Dame, the best teams in the country.?
Grace replaces Jessica Smith, who left to take an assistant?s role under first-year coach Jessica Mannetti at Sacred Heart University. Smith led the Chargers to a 14-13 mark last season, a staunch improvement from the 3-23 mark the prior season.
?The foundation is here,? Grace said. ?Now we have to build on it.?
It is a homecoming for Grace, who graduated from New Haven in 1999 and registered over 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in her stellar career.
?I?m just so excited to be back,? Grace said. ?It?s going to be so much fun to play in alumni games and go to homecoming and see all my old friends. I haven?t been able to do that in so long because of my other commitments.?
Grace has 13 years of Division I coaching experience and served as a head coach at Ramapo College in New Jersey from 2004-06. She most recently served under current Connecticut Sun coach and Hall of Famer Anne Donovan while at Seton Hall as the top assistant and recruiting coordinator.
?Without a doubt (Donovan) is one of the best coaches I?ve ever worked for,? Grace said. ?I learned so much from her. We were building a great program there and I learned how to build from her. She?s also just a great person.?
Grace was instrumental in assembling recruiting classes ranked as high as 25th in Division I, including the signing of two McDonald?s All-America nominees. Continued...
Grace was Donovan?s top recruiter while at Seton Hall and hopes to hone that skill at New Haven. For now, however, she takes over a team with a full roster.
?We had no scholarships (to offer) so I?m just working for the 2014 season,? Grace said. ?To be a great team you have to have great players and I?m hoping that the relationships I?ve built will pay off. I?ve already been out recruiting and getting ready for next season.
?One thing that I?m looking for is great kids, too. I want to have great players, but they have to be great kids.?
The most difficult task that Grace may face is evaluating her current players. Grace not only didn?t recruit them, she?s never seen them play.
?I?ve gotten a chance to talk to each one of them and they?re all excited,? she said. ?Right now I?ve be watching tapes on them. But it will be fine. We?ve got time to work together and build a team.?
Grace said she wasn?t about to put a timetable on making the Chargers a conference contender.
?That?s the goal,? she said. ?New Haven wouldn?t have hired me if they didn?t think that I could do it and I wouldn?t have taken the job if that wasn?t in their plans. It?s going to be a process. I don?t know if it?s going to take four years or so, but we have a high level of expectations.?
Grace is the 16th head coach in program history and was inducted into the New Haven Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010.
Source: http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/08/01/sports/doc51fb2aeddfc51325596599.txt
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Doppler effect takes a spin
Light's twistiness allows researchers to measure rotating object's speed
By Andrew Grant
Web edition: August 2, 2013
A twist on the physics that cops use to clock speeding drivers can determine how fast an object is spinning. The approach could be used to protect wind turbines from damaging winds, learn about distant astronomical objects or detect tornadoes.
The Doppler effect is familiar to anyone who has heard the pitch of a siren rise and fall as an ambulance whizzes past. It describes how the frequency of light waves (or the pitch of sound waves) emitted by a moving object becomes higher as the object approaches an observer and lower as it moves away. Today people exploit the Doppler effect to track the motion of raindrops, cars and galaxies.
But Doppler?s kryptonite has always been rotating objects that are neither moving toward nor away from the observer, like the second hand on a clock.
Physicist Martin Lavery at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and colleagues thought that they could measure rotational speed by determining how a spinning object changes light waves? orbital angular momentum. In focused beams such as lasers, successive waves of light move like ocean waves on a beach: straight on, with periodic crests and troughs. But most light is messier: The waves wind around like a corkscrew.
Lavery?s team plated a plastic disk with aluminum foil and hooked it up to a spinning motor. Then the researchers bounced a light beam off the disk that had a special property: Its waves twisted either clockwise or counterclockwise.
When Lavery?s team measured the light after it bounced off the disk, they found that the frequency of waves twisting in the same direction as the disk was spinning had become higher, while the light twisting in the opposite direction had a lower frequency. The change allowed the researchers to calculate the disk?s speed of rotation, they report in the Aug. 2 Science.
?This is the first experimental evidence that this is possible,? says Bo Thid?, a physicist at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala.
Lavery and his team then did a similar experiment with ordinary light to prove that, even with waves twisting in all directions, they could take advantage of the Doppler change in angular momentum to measure the speed of the disk?s rotation.
Engineers could exploit the technique to protect wind turbines, which can get damaged by violent, swirling air currents. Lavery envisions a sensor on the nose of a turbine that would detect dangerous vortices and switch the turbine off.
Thid? says that weather radar could exploit the rotational Doppler effect to detect tornadoes before they reach the ground. Two years ago, he proposed a similar method to detect the rotation rate of supermassive black holes like the one lurking at the center of our galaxy (SN: 3/12/11, p. 14). ?This experiment tells the rest of the world that there?s a lot to be gained by using this technique,? he says. ?It will push people to go ahead and start to build applications.?
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/352081/title/Doppler_effect_takes_a_spin
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Friday, August 2, 2013
Outfit with DIY Tom Ford's Bag!
Hey guys, how are you?
Today I'm posting the outfit of Sunday ... during a karting racing in the city, for the occasion wearing the bag diy inspired by Tom Ford,?here?the tutorial, a pair of palazzo pants, very fresh right about the hot day (although these are a diy, but it is a different story).The bag I love it, it isn'Dt nice to you?
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Hey ragazzi, come va?
Oggi vi posto l' outfit di domenica... ambientazione karting cittadino, per l' occasione indossavo la borsa diy inspirata Tom Ford,?qui?il tutorial, un paio di pantaloni palazzo, molto freschi vista la giornata calda ( anche questi sono un diy, ma ? un' altra storia).?La borsa mi piace tantissimo, non ? bella secondo voi??
Un bacione e a prestissimo
Source: http://www.blogher.com/outfit-diy-tom-fords-bag
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