Take a lesson from Apple: iTunes U tops 1B downloads

iTunes U has surpassed 1 billion downloads with more than 60 percent of the downloads from outside of the United States.

By Steph Solis / February 28, 2013

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iTunes U passed the one billion mark for downloads, according to Apple. More than 60 percent of the downloads went to people from outside of the United States.

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?It?s inspiring to see what educators and students of all types are doing with iTunes U,? Eddy Cue, Apple?s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, says in the statement.

Users from all over the globe have accessed the world?s largest online catalog of free educational content, posted by universities, museums, and organizations.?More than 100,000 students are taking classes from Duke University, Yale University, Cambridge University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other institutions. Stanford University alone has received more than 60 million downloads.

iTunes U?s offerings range from "The Art of Video Games Exhibition"?from the Smithsonian American Art Museum and "Virology"?from Columbia University to "The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877" from Yale University.

One popular course is professor Matthew Stoltzfus? general chemistry course from Ohio State University, according to the statement. The course had more than 100,000 iTunes U students the first year it was offered.

?I?ve been working with high school teachers who use my iTunes U material to prepare to teach their own classes, high school students all over the world who are leveraging the course to tutor their fellow classmates, even retirees who download my iTunes U course to stay intellectually active,? Mr. Stoltzfus?says in the statement.

iTunes U has made some of the most popular college courses more accessible, including ?Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital? from Stanford University. The course, founded by Stanford junior Ernestine Fu, focuses on the funding, management, and other aspects of building new enterprises, according to the description. It ranks at number 5 in the iTunes U list of recent "top courses."

?Her course, which I?m proud to be a part of, is the best course I?ve ever seen in my life,? professor Thomas Kosnik, one of the class advisors, says in a phone interview. ?I?m thrilled that our course is reaching so many students around the world.?

Ms. Fu -- who, at age 21, is considered to be the youngest venture capitalist in Silicon Valley -- proposed the class to Mr. Kosnik, Bill Coleman of Alsop Louie Partners, and David Hornik of August Capital and brought them on as advisors. Since then, she has recruited students to continue the course and helped undergraduates start work with venture capital firms.

At the Mansfield Independent School District in Texas, more than 10,000 high school students and teachers use their iPad for lessons, according to Apple.

?I see success unfolding before me on a daily basis,? says Chrissy Boydstun, a teacher from the Mansfield Independent School District, in the statement. ?Students are engaged and working hard as they use the incredible amount of information at their fingertips in a way that is meaningful and impactful. I love the way iTunes U provides a roadmap to take students beyond what a typical lesson or lecture could achieve.?

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US: $60 million in new aid to Syria opposition

ROME (AP) ? The Obama administration said Thursday that it will provide the Syrian opposition with an additional $60 million in assistance and ? in a significant policy shift ? will for the first time provide nonlethal aid like food and medical supplies to rebels battling to oust President Bashar Assad.

"We need to stand on the side of those who want to see a free Syria," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said. "The stakes are really high and we can't risk letting this country in the heart of the Mideast being destroyed by vicious autocrats."

Kerry announced the new support and the decision to back the rebel fighters on the sidelines of an international conference on Syria in Rome, where European and Arab nations also signaled their intention to provide fresh assistance to the opposition.

"No nation, no people should live in fear of their so-called leaders," Kerry said.

Mouaz al-Khatib, leader of the Syrian opposition coalition, called on Assad to "for once in your life behave as a human being."

"Bashar Assad, you have to make at least one wise decision in your life for the future of your country," al-Khatib said.

Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, who hosted the meeting, said: "We must go above and beyond the efforts we are making now. We can no longer allow this massacre to continue."

Terzi issued a statement earlier Thursday saying the foreign ministers recognized "the need to change the balance of power on the ground." He said the countries "will coordinate their efforts closely so as to best empower the Syrian people and support the Supreme Military Command of the Free Syrian Army in its efforts to help them exercise self-defense."

Kerry said the U.S. decision is designed to increase the pressure on Assad to step down and pave the way for a democratic transition. The aid is also intended to help the opposition govern newly liberated areas of Syria and blunt the influence of extremists.

"For more than a year, the United States and our partners have called on Assad to heed the voice of the Syrian people and to halt his war machine," Kerry said. "Instead, what we have seen is his brutality increase."

He added, "The United States' decision to take further steps now is the result of the brutality of superior armed force propped up by foreign fighters from Iran and Hezbollah."

Washington has already provided $385 million in humanitarian aid to Syria's war-weary population and $54 million in communications equipment, medical supplies and other nonlethal assistance to Syria's political opposition. The U.S. also has screened rebel groups for Turkey and American allies in the Arab world that have armed rebel fighters.

But until now, no U.S. dollars or provisions have gone directly to rebel fighters, reflecting concerns about forces that have allied themselves with more radical Islamic elements since Assad's initial crackdown on peaceful protesters in March 2011.

"Given the stakes, the president will now extend food and medical supplies to the Syrian opposition, including the Supreme Military Council," Kerry said Thursday.

The $60 million will go to Assad's political opposition. U.S. officials said the rations and medical supplies will be delivered to the rebels through their military council, and is to be distributed only to carefully vetted members of the Free Syrian Army.

Kerry was asked if the U.S. contribution was enough to tilt the conflict the rebels' way. "We're doing this but other countries are doing other things," he replied, without going into specifics. "I am confident the totality of this effort is going to have an impact on the ability of the Syrian opposition to accomplish its goals."

The U.S. will be sending technical advisers to the Syrian National Coalition offices in Cairo to oversee and help them spend the money for good governance and rule of law. The advisers will be from non-governmental organizations and other groups that do this kind of work.

The foreign ministers' presentation was disrupted by one protester who called on them to "stop supporting terrorists."

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Post-2014 Afghan force of 8,000-12,000 discussed: U.S

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO allies discussed keeping a NATO force of between 8,000 and 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, but U.S. President Barack Obama has not decided how many American troops will remain there, Pentagon spokesman George Little said on Friday.

"A range of 8-12,000 troops was discussed as the possible size of the overall NATO mission, not the U.S. contribution," Little said after a NATO defense ministers' meeting in Brussels.

"The president is still reviewing options and has not made a decision about the size of a possible U.S. presence after 2014, and we will continue to discuss with allies and the Afghans how we can best carry out two basic missions: targeting the remnants of al Qaeda and its affiliates, and training and equipping Afghan forces," he said.

(Reporting by Phil Stewart, Adrian Croft; editing by Rex Merrifield)

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Effort to end Mo. renters tax break gains backing

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- An effort to abolish a Missouri tax break for seniors and disabled residents who live in rental housing is gaining some powerful support.

Senate President Pro Tem Tom Dempsey, a Republican, has filed legislation to end the tax credit that provides up to $750 annually to senior and disabled individuals with incomes below $27,500.

Dempsey's bill would implement a proposal by Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon to deposit the savings from the abolished tax credit into a new fund for programs that serve seniors and the disabled.

A commission appointed in 2010 by Nixon recommended ending the tax credit for renters while allowing it to continue for homeowners. Nixon initially had opposed the idea, and Dempsey had voted to keep the tax credit for renters in September 2011.

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myIDkey biometric password flash drive hits Kickstarter

Is it possible to remember all of one's passwords without the aid of a biometric Bluetooth flash drive? Possible, sure, but it's certainly getting harder and harder as the number of services we depend on continues to increase exponentially. Arkami has been floating its solution around for a bit, showing off its progress at CES and the like, and now the company is ready to get the public involved (or, the public's money, rather) by way of a newly opened Kickstarter campaign for myIDkey. The thumb drive stores passwords across various services, letting you take 'em on the run. There's a fingerprint scanner on-board, which unlocks the device, and a microphone, which lets you search for specific ones by voice. Plug the drive into your PC and it will autofill your passwords as needed, and if you're unlucky enough to lose it, you can instantly deactivate its contents.

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What's different? Pistorius and police on killing

Advocate Barry Roux, left, avoids journalists as he leaves the court after representing Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius for his bail application at the magistrate court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Pistorius faces a bail hearing after charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, who was cremated in her home town Port Elizabeth on the east coast on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Advocate Barry Roux, left, avoids journalists as he leaves the court after representing Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius for his bail application at the magistrate court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Pistorius faces a bail hearing after charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, who was cremated in her home town Port Elizabeth on the east coast on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Investigating officer Hilton Botha, sits inside the court witness box during the Oscar Pistorius bail hearing at the magistrate court in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. Olympic athlete Pistorius is charged with premeditated murder for the Feb. 14 shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The bail hearing continues. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius stands in court following his bail hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Pistorius fired into the door of a small bathroom where his girlfriend was cowering after a shouting match on Valentine's Day, hitting her three times, a South African prosecutor said Tuesday as he accused the sports icon of premeditated murder. The magistrate ruled that Pistorius faces the harshest bail requirements available in South African law, but did not elaborate before a break was called in the session. (AP Photo)

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? There are several key points where testimony conflicts between the prosecution and the defense in the Oscar Pistorius case.

KILLING

Police: Pistorius knew his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was in the toilet stall when he fired through the door.

Pistorius: The shooting was a tragic accident; he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder.

PROSTHETICS

Prosecutor: Pistorius, a double amputee, took the time to put on his prosthetic legs and walk to the bathroom where he fired the gun.

Pistorius: He did not put on the prosthetics and was on his stumps and felt vulnerable when he shot through the toilet door.

HE DIDN'T NOTICE STEENKAMP WAS NOT IN THE BED?

Prosecutor: He had to go through the bedroom to get to the bathroom and must have known she was not in the bed.

Pistorius: It was dark in the bedroom. He thought she was asleep in bed.

SUBSTANCE DISCOVERED

Police: Two boxes of testosterone and needles were found in the athlete's bedroom.

Pistorius' lawyer: It's an herbal remedy ? not a steroid or a banned substance.

WAS THERE AN ARGUMENT?

Police: The couple had an argument loud enough to disturb neighbors well before the shooting.

Pistorius: He and Steenkamp had gone to bed, falling asleep hours before the shooting.

PHONE CALLS

Police: No calls for help to police or ambulance service on any of the four cell phones found in the bathroom and bedroom. Estate guards called Pistorius who told them he was "all right." The call was not disconnected and they could hear him crying.

Pistorius: He called the manager of the housing estate and asked him to call for an ambulance. He also called a private paramedic service. His lawyers say they have a fifth phone that the athlete used to make the calls.

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Jake Owen: Dad's Cancer Fight Doesn't Get Him Down - The Boot

Jake Owen has faith his dad, Steve, will beat cancer. Last month, the "Anywhere With You" singer revealed that his pop was in Minnesota having "cancer surgery" on his neck at the Mayo Clinic. While Steve is now undergoing radiation treatments five days a week for six-and-a-half weeks, the 31-year-old is staying positive.

"I talk to him every day," Jake tells The Country Vibe. "I think he gets annoyed with it because he thinks that I'm over-analyzing the situation. But I'm not. I'm just careful and my main goal is to keep his spirits high. What he's going through in his mind isn't a big deal, because my dad is good at everything he's ever done and he works hard, so he can beat it. But I remind him sometimes, whether he wants to hear it or not, 'Dad, what you're going through is not easy. But I'm here for you, mom's there for you.'"

And they're not the only ones, Jake admits that he talked his father into getting a small dog to serve as his companion during the treatments. In addition, the Florida native assures the only adverse effects Jake expects his father to experience are the loss of his taste buds for at least a year, and a "horrible" sore throat, both as a result of the radiation.

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Thigh fat may be to blame for older adults who slow down

Feb. 18, 2013 ? A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that an increase in fat throughout the thigh is predictive of mobility loss in otherwise healthy older adults.

Lead author Kristen Beavers, Ph.D., and colleagues at Wake Forest Baptist said the findings suggest that prevention of age-related declines in walking speed isn't just about preserving muscle mass, it's also about preventing fat gain.

Walking speed declines with age, said Beavers, and in older adults slower walking speed is a predictor of disability, nursing home admission and even death. As such, she believes that walking speed represents an important, and potentially modifiable, predictor of independent living for older adults. Unfortunately, said Beavers, not much is known about what precedes this decline, although change in body composition seemed like a reasonable place to start the research. "As people age, they are more likely to gain fat in and around their muscles, and we speculated that gaining fat in the leg muscle itself would be related to slowed walking speed."

The researchers used data from the National Institute on Aging's Health, Aging, and Body Composition (Health ABC) study, a prospective cohort of several thousand initially well-functioning white and black adults aged 70-79. They looked at how changes in fat and lean mass affected walking speed, and were specifically interested in whether changes in thigh intermuscular fat or thigh muscle area were more predictive of slowed walking speed.

A study sample of 2,306 men and women was reviewed, with a mean age of 74.6 years. Walking speed was assessed by measuring the usual time it took participants to complete a 20-minute walk, and they were tested annually over a four-year period. Body composition measures were assessed via computed tomography (CT).

Results, published online ahead of print in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found both increasing thigh intermuscular fat and decreasing thigh muscle area to be significant, independent predictors of walking speed decline. Importantly, said Beavers, older adults who gained the most thigh fat and lost the most thigh muscle were at greatest risk of experiencing a clinically meaningful decline in walking speed.

Beavers said this study is the first of its kind to address the independent association between changes in sophisticated measures of body composition and walking speed. "As the burden of disability becomes increasingly common and expensive, identification of modifiable contributors to functional decline in older adults is emerging as a significant priority of public health research," Beavers said. "Future studies building on these findings should test whether targeted reductions in thigh intermuscular fat, augmentation of thigh muscle area, or both yield improvements in walking speed and prolonged independence for older adults."

This research was supported by the NIA (contracts N01-AG-6-2101,N01-AG-6-2103, and N01-AG-6-2106 and grant R01-AG028050), the National Institute on Nursing Research (grant R01-NR012459), the Wake Forest University Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (P30-AG21332), and an individual postdoctoral fellowship (F32-AG039186; to KMB) and supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, NIA.

Co-authors are: Daniel P. Beavers, Ph.D., Denise K. Houston, Ph.D., Barbara J. Nicklas and Stephen Kritchevsky, all of Wake Forest Baptist; Tamara B. Harris and Eleanor M. Simonsick, of NIA; Trisha F. Hue of University of California, San Francisco; Annemarie Koster, of Maastricht University, Netherlands; and Anne B. Newman and Stephanie A. Studenski, of University of Pittsburgh.

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Chavez makes surprise return to Venezuela

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return from Cuba on Monday more than two months after surgery for cancer that has jeopardized his 14-year rule of the South American OPEC member.

The 58-year-old socialist leader's homecoming will fuel supporters' hopes he could return to active rule but there was no new information on his medical state and Chavez might be simply hoping to smooth a transition.

After a six-hour operation in Cuba on December 11, Chavez had not been seen or heard in public until photos were published of him on Friday.

"We have arrived back in the Venezuelan fatherland. Thanks, my God! Thanks, my beloved people! Here we will continue the treatment," Chavez said via Twitter after flying in.

There had been speculation Chavez was not well enough to travel despite wanting to return for continued treatment for the disease he was first diagnosed with in mid-2011.

But Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Chavez flew in at about 2:30 a.m. local time (2 a.m. ET) from Havana and was in a military hospital in Caracas, where a crowd was gathering.

"I remain attached to Christ and trusting in my nurses and doctors," Chavez also tweeted. "Onwards to victory forever! We will live and we will conquer!"

He added his thanks to Cuban leaders Raul and Fidel Castro for his treatment there.

FIREWORKS MARK RETURN

Chavez's arrival thrilled supporters in the nation of 29 million people, where his common touch and welfare policies have made him an idol to the poor.

"It's fabulous news, the best thing possible," Chavez's cousin, Guillermo Frias, told Reuters from the president's rural birthplace in Barinas state. "Venezuela was waiting for him, everyone wants to see him. Welcome home! Thank God he's back!"

Fireworks could be heard going off in some Caracas neighborhoods as news spread and celebrations began among "Chavistas."

Government ministers were jubilant with one singing "He's back, he's back!" live on state TV. They asked Chavez's euphoric supporters to respect the peace of patients at the military hospital.

Chavez's arrival implied some improvement in his condition, at least enough to handle a flight of several hours.

But aides have emphasized in recent days his state remains delicate. "It's a complex, difficult situation, but Chavez is battling and fighting for his life," Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said during the weekend as he described a recent visit to Chavez.

The December operation in Havana was his fourth for the cancer first detected in his pelvic area in June 2011.

USING TUBE

On Friday, the government published photos showing Chavez lying in a hospital. Officials said he was breathing through a tracheal tube and struggling to speak.

Chavez's pre-dawn return was a typical surprise move for the former soldier whose rule has combined constant political theatrics with thundering anti-U.S. rhetoric, tough treatment of opponents and lavish spending of oil revenues on the poor.

Opponents have been decrying government secrecy over Chavez's condition, and some have called for a formal declaration that he is unfit to rule. That would trigger a new presidential election within 30 days, probably between Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles.

Maduro, a 50-year-old former bus driver, is Chavez's preferred successor and would be favorite to win a close vote in such a scenario.

"Uncertainty over a possible presidential election remains intact, despite the president's return," Venezuelan political analyst Luis Vicente Leon said.

After winning re-election in October last year, and wrongly declaring himself cured, Chavez was unable to attend his own swearing-in ceremony in January. To the fury of his foes, Venezuela's Supreme Court ruled that he remained president and could be sworn in later.

That could now happen at the military hospital.

"Now the president is back, there can be no doubt about the democratic institutions working in Venezuela," Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said.

"There were some who dream of unseating Chavez and the revolution, but here we always said Chavez is the president elected and re-elected by will of the Venezuelan people."

Chavez's return will eclipse national debate over a recent devaluation of the local currency. It has proved highly popular among Venezuelans but opposition parties see it as evidence of economic incompetence by the government.

Unlike previous returns to Venezuela after treatment, state media showed no images of Chavez this time.

His lengthy absence in Cuba had fuelled a long-held opposition accusation that Venezuela's government was being manipulated and directed from Havana. Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is a political mentor and father figure to Chavez and Castro visited him regularly in the hospital.

Some 20 Venezuelan students have spent the past four days chained up close to the Cuban Embassy in Caracas in protest of what they see as interference from Havana in internal affairs.

Capriles welcomed Chavez back but pointedly said he hoped it would mean a return to order in government and attention to Venezuelans' daily problems.

(Additional reporting by Mario Naranjo; Editing by Angus MacSwan, James Dalgleish and Bill Trott)

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Organizing Our (Analog) Library - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The acquisition of books is by no means a matter of money or expert knowledge alone. ?Not even both factors together suffice for the establishment of a real library, which is always somewhat impenetrable and at the same time uniquely itself.?
?Walter Benjamin, ?Unpacking My Library?

[This is a guest post by Jonathan Sterne, an associate professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. His latest books are MP3: The Meaning of a Format(Duke University Press) and The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge). Find him online at http://sterneworks.org and follow him on Twitter @jonathansterne.--@JBJ]

Over the winter break, my partner Carrie Rentschler and I spent a few days organizing our library. ? For humanist academics who spend so much of their time engaged with books, we don?t really know what the hell we?re doing in terms of organizing them, and I suspect there are more scholars like us than not. ?

Our library had been a chaotic mess for years and we?d recently run out of room for books in our condo. ?We moved from Pittsburgh to Montreal in 2004, then moved apartments in 2007, and Carrie moved offices last year. ?The result has been a slowly decaying edifice of systematicity. ?Categories that made sense in Pittsburgh in 1999 or whenever we last thought about it had long ceased to work. ?Now we have digital book (and article) collections, the digital books are easy?organized by author and name, and often OCR searchable. ?The analog books, well, as Benjamin knows, that?s an old problem. ?And I still like the analog books better, except when I?m traveling.

A brief search online yielded little in the way of help. ?There?s Library Thing, of course, which is great on the book geek front but seems less helpful in the putting books-on-shelves part of it. ?There?s also the reality that neither of us will take time to log every new book we get in a digital database before shelving it. ?Wayne Bivens-Tatum has a lovely post on organizing his research life, but it focuses on research tools and materials, and largely leaves out the question of putting books on shelves. ?Some ?ber nerds (I use the term with reverence in this case) actually use the Library of Congress system, which I love in libraries but again can?t manage maintaining. ?This thread on the Chronicle of Higher Education Forums was similarly enlightening to the degree that every system seems idiosyncratic. ?We could find nobody that had a really easy and portable system for home users. ?An informal poll of friends yields accounts of home libraries organized by size and shape, color, date of acquisition, and dozens of other arbitrary measures. ?

We decided to organize by gross categories, alphabetical by author (or title if there is no clear author). ?We chose to go with big categories. ?This means if a book is ambiguous and could go in more than one place, you only have to look in a couple places. ?It also slows down the browsing process as you encounter a broader field of associations, which is also advantageous. ?This also seems like a simple solution for over 2000 books. ?Although in a way this skips at least a hundred years of information-science-know-how, we couldn?t really find a system that would be easier for two busy people to maintain and more intuitive to use.

The categories are idiosyncratic to us, naturally. ?Everyone has to make up their own if they?re not going with more precise library classifications. ?There?s a huge potential for overlap, but because we think a certain way and do certain kinds of work, we should be able to find things without too much trouble. ?You will, obviously, need your own categories. ?If you don?t happen to be married to someone in a different subarea of the same field, you will also have a different experience. Nevertheless, here are ours, structured by our book-buying habits and research interests:

1. ?Theory (with a capital T): this includes all those translated authors imported into the English-speaking world as ?theory? even if they?re not, standard works of philosophy, Marxist theory, feminist and queer theory, some literary theory. ?(A large portion of the feminist theory books reside in Carrie?s office at school).
2. General Social Sciences (more accurately, social thought): sociology, anthropology, economics, non-psychoanalytic psychology, etc. ?A large group of older social science books, some from my father?s collection, live in my office at school for now (we are not routinely referred to Talcott Parsons). ?Carrie?s amassing a big collection on the history of social psych that will eventually wind up here.
3. Space: architecture, geography, urban studies. ?This is a smaller section but we often look for these books together.
4. Cultural Studies and general humanities: histories appear in other categories, but this is where general histories go (also historiographic theory, just to keep it with histories of history), along with our rather vast cultural studies holdings, art history and visual culture, literary criticism, books on politics and culture, interpretive journalism of some kinds, etc.
5. Communication and Media Studies: pretty much every iteration of our home fields can be found here?communication theory and intellectual histories of the field, media histories of all kinds, media theory, what people are now calling media archaeology,?journalism, advertising, public relations, rhetoric, and so on. ?Film and TV Studies used to have its old section in the old system but we decided to collapse it into the bigger category for better browsing. ?This and ?theory? are our biggest and most shared sections.
6. History and Philosophy of Technology, Science and Technology Studies, New Media: this category probably makes no sense to anyone else, but it works perfectly for us. ?Although there?s some overlap with #5, these books all have a certain flavor to them.
7. Sound: the library?s half mine, so what did you expect? ?There?s also a rather large overflow from this section in my office at school.
8. ?Bodies: Trauma studies, disability studies (yes, we know that?s a problematic pairing), critical studies of medicine and disease, death. Carrie?s got tons more trauma books at school.

I keep all my popular music studies books at school along with dusty social theory. ?Carrie keeps all her books on crime and violence at school, as well as a large feminist studies and feminist media studies collection. ?We bring home stuff for current use and then bring it back.

Smaller sections:

9. A few textbooks that we?ve taught or cribbed from.
10. Pedagogy, style manuals and academic career guides, etc.
11. A shelf of books that have portions written by us.
12. ?Shelves of ?in use for current writing and teaching projects? right next to our desks.

This is not exact science. ?There?s a lot of intuition. ??Formative? authors for us, like Marx or Foucault, have all their books grouped together regardless of subject. ?Donna Haraway is in #6, though she could be in 1, 4, or 5. ?We split up Lewis Mumford and Henri Lefebvre depending on subject matter.
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Of course we have smatterings of other books. ?Another bookcase and a half is taken up with books more like those in non-academics? home libraries:?art books, travel, nonfiction, fiction, poetry, how-to, reference, manuals, medical, foreign languages, etc. ?We did not touch the cookbooks (which live in a separate space). ?

Let us not speak of the cookbooks.
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To organize the library,?we started with a large part of our collection having spent a couple months in boxes ? a side effect of getting new shelves. ?We guessed at what books would be essential for end-of-term writing projects and kept those out. ?The rest went into hiding until it was time to reshelve.?Once we had the categories, we cleared off every table in the place, and pulled books out of boxes, organizing them by subject. ?We?d then alphabetize and shelve by subject, and also pull from the books we?d kept out and add them as appropriate. ?It took us a couple solid days, and will clearly require some fine-tuning. ?But the basic system is WAY better than what we had. ?Already it?s working: I can find books very fast, and usually there?s a book nearby of interest that I hadn?t thought of to go with it (example: I?m pulling Raymond Williams off the shelf to see what he says about color, and there?s Gilbert Seldes nearby?right!).

Having just dropped a lot of money on massive new bookshelves, I secretly fear that I will find the perfect e-reader for academics, libraries and publishers will actually work something out to make large volumes of old material available digitally, and the need for the shelves will be obviated. ?Then the historian of intellectual property in me kicks in and I realize this is unlikely in the near future. ?Regardless of what happens in the next few years, our new library is a huge improvement over our old one.

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Source: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/organizing-our-analog-library/46503

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Bonds' appeal of obstruction conviction begins

SAN FRANCISCO -- Today's federal court hearing for Barry Bonds' appeal of his obstruction of justice charge lasted 40 minutes. Bonds' attorney, Dennis Riordan, says his client did not lie to a grand jury back in 2003. However, an attorney for the U.S. government says Bonds made statements that were false, evasive and misleading.

U.S. Attorney Merry Jean Chan:

"A defendant can essentially cure his evasion. If he goes and directly answers the question but he has to answer it truthfully. And that's the premise, that's the assumption the defense wants you to make that what he answered was truthful. The Jury rejected that. The District court found specific evidence to support that it was false."

Bonds' attorney, Dennis Riordan offered this:

?This is a critical thing here, he was asked the question, 'did you self inject?' He could have gone outside for 15 minutes to talk to his lawyers. During those 15 minutes he answered that question three times directly. How could that be obstructive of justice? How could that be an evasive answer?"

Chan says nine years ago, Bonds lied to the grand jury to protect his friend, trainer and alleged steroid supplier Greg Anderson. She says his denial of knowledge is an example of obstruction of justice.?

Prosecutors asked Bonds during his 2003 grand jury appearance whether Anderson ever gave him "anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with?"

Bonds referred to his father, former major leaguer Bobby Bonds, when he responded "that's what keeps our friendship. You know, I am sorry, but that - you know, that - I was a celebrity child, not just in baseball by my own instincts. I became a celebrity child with a famous father. I just don't get into other people's business because of my father's situation, you see ..."

But Riordan says on December 4th of 2003, Bonds was honest during the grand jury investigation. He says Bonds testified for two-and-one-half hours and was never obstructive in his testimony.

There's no timetable for when the three ninth circuit judges will announce their decision. Both lawyers declined to speculate on how the judges might rule. The former Giant watched the hearing on TV, but preferred to attend court.

Riordan:?

"He very much wanted to be in the courtroom today. And we eventually concluded, for the sake of reason discourse which you saw today. His presence would probably distract from the proceedings themselves."

If Bonds' conviction is upheld, he will have to serve 30 days house arrest.

The Associated Press contributed to this report?

Source: http://www.csnbayarea.com/giants/bonds-appeal-obstruction-charge-begins-sf

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Eagle's Semanko resigns as council president

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Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:10 AM

EAGLE -- Eagle City Council President Norm Semanko announced his resignation Tuesday night, citing "the increasing demands" of his personal and professional life.

The resignation is effective March 15, 2013. Councilwoman Mary Defayette was elected to take his place.

Semanko is the Executive Director of the Idaho Water User's Council, serves on several Eagle City boards, and is widely recognized in state politics.

Semanko recently served as chairman of the Idaho Republican Party, where he supported the controversial decision to close Idaho's Republican Primary in 2012.

He subsequently ran for Eagle Mayor in 2012, but lost the race to incumbent Jim Reynolds.

Semanko's ties to the water user's council made headlines in 2011 on the heels of a $161,000 loan he accepted from the quasi-governmental entity -- a controversial, but legal, practice.

In a letter to?the mayor, city council, and others, Semanko outlined his reasoning for giving up the post:

Mayor, fellow Council members, residents of Eagle, City staff and friends,

With the recent death of my father and the increasing demands of my personal and professional life, my priorities have necessarily changed. I apologize for missing the State of the City address today; the first time that I have missed that as a Council member.

As a result of these changed priorities and the demands on my time, my wife and I agreed this past weekend that I will step down as President of the Eagle City Council, effective immediately. Since that office should not remain unoccupied, I plan to make a motion to add the election of a new City Council President to tonight's meeting agenda.

In addition, I hereby resign as a member of the Eagle City Council, effective at the close of business on Friday, March 15. Therefore, barring a special meeting, the March 12 Council meeting will be my last. I wish the Mayor and Council members well in the process of selecting a replacement to fill my seat until the November election. I do hope it will be a collaborative process.

Of course, my resignation will also end my tenure with the Urban Renewal Agency and the Community Infrastructure District boards. Again, barring a special meeting, I will attend one more of each of those board meetings before March 15.

It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the residents of Eagle since my appointment to the City Council on January 8, 2008 and my subsequent election in November, 2009. I will always be grateful for the opportunity to have given something back to the community through public service. As former Interior Secretary Franklin Knight Lane said, "A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public." I hope that I have done some measure of good while occupying the office.

I wish each of you and our city well.

Regards,

Norm Semanko
Eagle City Council
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

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Source: http://www.ktvb.com/news/politics/Eagles-Semanko-resigns-as-council-president-191050621.html

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Israel confirms it held mystery 'Prisoner X'

Israel confirms it held mystery 'Prisoner X'

The man, identified by Australian media as Mossad agent Ben Zygier, known as "Prisoner X", died in a secret prison near Tel Aviv in 2010 in a case Israel went to extreme lengths to cover up, imposing media gag orders.

Israel broke its silence after the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said the man was a dual Australian-Israeli citizen and reported that he was a spy for Israel's intelligence agency.

"For security reasons the man was held under a false identity although his family was immediately informed of his arrest," Israel's justice ministry said.

The man was found dead in his cell and a judicial inquiry ruled he took his own life, the ministry added in a statement, although it did not reveal his identity or the charges against him.

"Following an extensive investigation it was ruled six weeks ago that it was suicide," said the ministry. "The prisoner was held in jail under a warrant issued by a court."

But other details of the case remained under a gag order, leaving local media obliged to quote foreign reports.

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr initially said he only became aware of the man's incarceration after his death, but on Thursday admitted the government knew of his detention at the time.

He told a parliamentary committee the information was gathered through intelligence channels.

"They provided the name of the citizen, in relation to serious offences under Israeli national security legislation," he said, adding that Canberra sought assurances that he was not being mistreated.

He said at no stage did the government receive any request for consular support, adding that he would determine Canberra's next step after receiving a full report from his department into the case.

"With the benefit of that full report, I'll determine what representations to the government of Israel are most useful," he said.

The story first emerged in June 2010 when Israel's Ynet news website briefly ran a report about a prisoner being held in top secret conditions whose identity and alleged crime were not even known to his jailers.

The story was quickly taken offline and a complete media blackout imposed, but it resurfaced on Tuesday through Australia's public broadcaster.

Israeli media did report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had Tuesday called an urgent meeting with top editors to ask them to withhold "publication of information pertaining to an incident that is very embarrassing to a certain government agency," Haaretz newspaper said, in a clear allusion to Mossad.

Shortly afterwards, three MPs raised questions over the issue in parliament, effectively sidestepping the censor in a move that forced a slight easing of the reporting restrictions.

While Israel has not revealed the charges, The Australian newspaper suggested he was detained for treason.

It cited Israeli Army Radio as saying: "Why was he interned? The suspicion is because of treason against Israel."

The newspaper's foreign editor, who interviewed Netanyahu last year, said for a Mossad agent to end up in jail something serious must have happened.

"If a former Mossad agent has ended up in an Israeli prison, this can only indicate that something has gone terribly wrong," Greg Sheridan wrote.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Zygier was being investigated by Australia's overseas espionage agency ASIS, which suspected him of using his Australian passport to spy for Israel.

The Herald said he was one of at least three dual Australian-Israeli citizens who emigrated to Israel in the past decade whose cases were probed.

It said that in each case the men used the passports to travel to Iran, Syria and Lebanon -- countries that do not allow Israelis to enter.

When the newspaper confronted Zygier in early 2010, he angrily denied he worked for Mossad.

"I have never been to any of those countries that you say I have been to," he said at the time.

"I am not involved in any kind of spying."

Source: http://news.malaysia.msn.com/top-stories/israel-confirms-it-held-mystery-prisoner-x-2

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The tri-state area has the smallest number of apartments available for sale or for rent in years, putting would-be home buyers in a difficult position of deciding whether to continue renting or to buy from a home selection much smaller than they'd like.

"Whether it's Manhattan, the Hamptons, Miami, Los Angeles, we're seeing the inventory fall sharply," said real estate expert Jonathan Miller.

People may want a bigger home, "but you don't have things to buy," said Miller. "You don't have the selection."

The scarce supply is what keeps Shannon Mulvihill searching rigorously for new listings for three-bedrooms for sale for her family.?

"I think there are so few available it makes sense to look when they come to the market," she said. "You know there's a risk if you don't put an offer in, that somebody else could get it."

Experts say the inventory problem extends to red-hot neighborhoods like Hell's Kitchen. It's being attributed to a slowdown in new construction projects in the still sluggish economy.

Stephen Kliegerman of Halstead Property said the next trend could be eager consumers buying from blueprints before they've even seen the finished apartment, although Kliegerman admits it could be "a little scary for some buyers because they don't know what the quality of the product's going to be."?

Still, some experts say renters could be in a surprisingly strong position, especially if they stay put for just another year because there's expected to be a construction boom in 12 to 18 months that should add inventory and give renters more flexibility to negotiate.

Mulvihill and her husband don't want to keep renting while interest rates are so low.

"It's always appealing to think you can actually own with more space versus renting right now," said Mulvihill.?

So she'll keep looking and perhaps take a risk -- what some experts call the sign of a healthier real estate market.?

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Finger-pointing trumps problem-solving on budget

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Just about everyone in official Washington is in agreement that big across-the-board spending cuts at the Pentagon and throughout domestic federal programs on March 1 are a bad idea.

So far, however, the warring tribes in the nation's capital seem more interested in finger-pointing than problem-solving.

Top House Republicans have embarked on a PR campaign reminding the public that the idea for the across-the-board cuts originated in Obama's White House.

Senate Democrats are preparing a bill to substitute about $120 billion in alternative deficit cuts over 10 years and prevent the automatic cuts ? in Washington parlance, a sequester ? through the end of calendar 2013. Its biggest component is a $47 billion tax increase on the rich; that is sure to prompt a GOP filibuster, probably successful, that will give Democrats political cover ? and ammo.

"We again find ourselves in sad and familiar territory," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. "Democrats sit on their hands until the last minute. Then they offer some gimmicky bill designed to fail."

Then there's President Barack Obama. He appeared before reporters at the White House last week to urge lawmakers to come up with a short-term plan to avoid the sequester. But Obama offered nothing specific, even though there are plenty of options at the ready after several recent rounds of failed Washington budget negotiations.

House Republicans do not have a plan to shut off the cuts and instead point to a spending cut bill that passed twice last year, most recently by a slender 215-209 vote in December. The GOP now controls eight fewer seats in the House and there's hardening sentiment among some tea party Republicans to allow the automatic cuts to take effect. It's not clear whether GOP leaders like Speaker John Boehner of Ohio could muster enough support to stop them.

The Senate bill would replace the automatic spending cuts with a tax increase patterned after the so-called Buffett Rule, which would require people with million-dollar incomes to pay a minimum 30 percent income tax. The rule is named after billionaire Warren Buffett, who championed it on the grounds that it wasn't fair for his secretary to pay a higher effective tax rate than him. That's because taxes on most earned or wage income are generally higher than taxes on investments.

The Buffett rule was a wedge issue in last year's campaign and was rejected by Senate Republicans in April. It's sure to prompt Republicans to scuttle the upcoming Democratic bill in a filibuster vote expected to be held just days before the cuts take effect March 1.

Republicans say the moment calls for presidential leadership.

"The president warned of grave economic consequences if the sequester were to go into effect, but he didn't announce any specific plans for how he would address it," Boehner told reporters last week. "He didn't bother to actually outline how he would replace the sequester that he suggested and insisted upon."

Senior White House aide Jason Furman said last week that any short-term plan should include "a balanced combination of spending and revenue measures." He would not elaborate. Nor have Obama and Boehner talked recently, other than pleasantries at the inauguration. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., haven't been in touch either, even as the cuts loom ever closer.

The idea for the sequester came from the White House during negotiations in the summer of 2011 to increase the government's borrowing cap. Then, the White House pushed it as a way to avoid a second vote to increase debt limit that would have occurred in the middle of Obama's re-election campaign.

Whatever their reservations, top Republicans voted for the idea.

The sequester was intended to be so harsh that its prospect would drive a deficit-cutting "supercommittee" created by those talks toward an agreement. It did not.

The cuts were originally due to hit Jan. 1 but lawmakers gave themselves a two-month reprieve in last month's deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff.

Many Republicans see the prospect of the sequester as their best chance to force Obama to agree to cuts in government benefit programs like Medicare, and some tea party Republicans are willing to absorb the sequester cuts if he won't go along. GOP leaders across the board say they won't agree to tax increases demanded by Democrats as part of any solution.

Obama carries the power of his office and the fact that he's more popular with the public than Capitol Hill Republicans into the battle. So Republicans already have been working overtime to remind voters that the sequester idea came from Obama's administration. Still, blaming the president for something some GOP members are embracing promises to be a tightrope exercise for Republican leaders.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/finger-pointing-trumps-problem-solving-budget-074249014--finance.html

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