Apple?s CEO Tim Cook apologizes for Apple?s Map app

Apple has been hit hard by the critics and users regarding the Maps app in iOS 6. Apple removed the Google-powered iOS Maps application and replaced it with their own in-house app that?s powered by
Tom Tom. The biggest drawbacks of Maps are the inaccurate mapping data, lack of public transit routes, and missing street and addresses that caused controversy since it was released.

News organizations have compared the problems with Maps to the previous iPhone 4 ?antennagate? problem that happened days after Apple launched their iPhone 4 2010. The matter has gained so much
criticism from bloggers and customers of iOS devices that Apple?s CEO Tim Cook published an?

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It's all hilarious ? until someone sues ? Business Management ...

These days, who couldn?t use a little humor amid all the stress?

You know the gags: Post-it notes labeling everything in Greg?s cubicle. Duct-taping Stacey?s office door. Photoshopping Dave?s picture on a photo of a Sumo wrestler.

Of course, as a manager, you must also consider that some individuals may have lost (or never had) a sense of humor and would not appreciate a joke made at their expense.

Humor in the workplace has often resulted in decidedly not-so-funny claims of harassment and defamation, or claims of workers? compensation when injury resulted.

Consider the following case: A relatively new employee was shocked when a co-worker superimposed his picture on a suggestive photo. He was even more shocked when it happened again. He complained to management, and the individuals involved were subsequently reprimanded.

That didn?t stop one of his co-workers, though. She passed around at a sales meeting a photo of the employee?s face superimposed over that of former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey. The related newspaper article detailed McGreevey?s homosexual activities.

Claiming that his reputation was damaged by the association with the disgraced governor, the employee sued for defamation. A jury awarded him $5,000. (Viglione v. Express Times, et al., Northampton Cty)

Advice: Verbal reprimands that don?t stop the behavior need to be backed up with other disciplinary measures. You might also want to give employees a heads up that pranks could result in personal liability. Knowing that they could be sued might just be the motivation jokesters need to cease and desist from their inappropriate ways.

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September is Self Improvement Month!

One thing that I have been focusing on a bit more lately is myself. It is weird to say, and even weirder to type out ? but I have been trying to make some positive changes in my life for nobody else but me.

I guess sometimes you just have to focus on yourself a bit, ya know?

September is Self-Improvement Month

While I try to focus on self improvement on a daily basis, this month has been a big life changer for me. I found out that I had a soy allergy, I started really paying attention to what I was eating and the products that I was using, and I made health and fitness a much bigger priority for myself.

I also realized that for my mental well being (including my sanity and outlook) that I needed to let go of the things that I can?t change, and I need to accept that, and make the best of it when I can.

So far this month, I have really started to get the hang of clean eating, learning how to recognize hidden soy in food items, and I have lost 11 pounds (woo-hoo!). I am still working on de-stressing myself? I have been having anxiety over many things lately, and this is a big hurdle that I have to overcome.

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US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000

FILE- In this file photograph made on July 29, 2010, upon landing after a helicopter rescue mission, Tech. Sgt. Jeff Hedglin, right, an Air Force Pararescueman, or PJ, drapes an American flag over the remains of the first of two U.S. soldiers killed minutes earlier in an IED attack, assisted by fellow PJs, Senior Airman Robert Dieguez, center, and 1st Lt. Matthew Carlisle, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan have surpassed 2,000, a grim reminder that a war which began nearly 11 years ago shows no signs of slowing down despite an American decision to begin the withdrawal of most of its combat forces. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

FILE- In this file photograph made on July 29, 2010, upon landing after a helicopter rescue mission, Tech. Sgt. Jeff Hedglin, right, an Air Force Pararescueman, or PJ, drapes an American flag over the remains of the first of two U.S. soldiers killed minutes earlier in an IED attack, assisted by fellow PJs, Senior Airman Robert Dieguez, center, and 1st Lt. Matthew Carlisle, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan have surpassed 2,000, a grim reminder that a war which began nearly 11 years ago shows no signs of slowing down despite an American decision to begin the withdrawal of most of its combat forces. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

FILE - In this May 8, 2010 file photo, a tattoo on the back of U.S. Army Sgt. James Wilkes of Rochester, N.Y., is seen through his torn shirt after a foot patrol with 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, of the 5th Styker Brigade, in Afghanistan's Kandahar province. The full tattoo reads, "Sacrifice. Without fear there is no courage." .U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan have surpassed 2,000, a grim reminder that a war which began nearly 11 years ago shows no signs of slowing down despite an American decision to begin the withdrawal of most of its combat forces. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

FILE - In this March 26, 2003 file photograph, U.S. Military personnel pray as they attend the memorial service for their their comerades in Kandahar, Afghanistan. .U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan have surpassed 2,000, a grim reminder that a war which began nearly 11 years ago shows no signs of slowing down despite an American decision to begin the withdrawal of most of its combat forces. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan, File)

FILE - In this Sept 11, 2008 file photograph, US soldiers attend a ceremony marking the 7th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, at the U.S Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan. .U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan have surpassed 2,000, a grim reminder that a war which began nearly 11 years ago shows no signs of slowing down despite an American decision to begin the withdrawal of most of its combat forces. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? U.S. military deaths in the Afghan war have reached 2,000, a cold reminder of the human cost of an 11-year-old conflict that now garners little public interest at home as the United States prepares to withdraw most of its combat forces by the end of 2014.

The toll has climbed steadily in recent months with a spate of attacks by Afghan army and police ? supposed allies ? against American and NATO troops. That has raised troubling questions about whether countries in the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan will achieve their aim of helping the government in Kabul and its forces stand on their own after most foreign troops depart in little more than two years.

On Sunday, a U.S. official confirmed the latest death, saying that an international service member killed in an apparent insider attack by Afghan forces in the east of the country late Saturday was American. A civilian contractor with NATO and at least two Afghan soldiers also died in the attack, according to a coalition statement and Afghan provincial officials. The U.S. official spoke on condition of anonymity because the nationality of those killed had not been formally released. Names of the dead are usually released after their families or next-of-kin are notified, a process that can take several days. The nationality of the civilian was also not disclosed.

In addition to the 2,000 Americans killed since the Afghan war began on Oct. 7, 2001, at least 1,190 more coalition troops from other countries have also died, according to iCasualties.org, an independent organization that tracks the deaths.

According to the Afghanistan index kept by the Washington-based research center Brookings Institution, about 40 percent of the American deaths were caused by improvised explosive devices. The majority of those were after 2009, when President Barack Obama ordered a surge that sent in 33,000 additional troops to combat heightened Taliban activity. The surge brought the total number of American troops to 101,000, the peak for the entire war.

According to Brookings, hostile fire was the second most common cause of death, accounting for nearly 31 percent of Americans killed.

Tracking deaths of Afghan civilians is much more difficult. According to the U.N., 13,431 civilians were killed in the Afghan conflict between 2007, when the U.N. began keeping statistics, and the end of August. Going back to the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, most estimates put the number of Afghan civilian deaths in the war at more than 20,000.

The number of American dead reflects an Associated Press count of those members of the armed services killed inside Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion began. Some other news organizations use a count that also includes those killed outside Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, the global anti-terror campaign led by then-President George W. Bush.

The 2001 invasion targeted al-Qaida and its Taliban allies shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, which claimed nearly 3,000 lives.

Victory in Afghanistan seemed to come quickly. Kabul fell within weeks, and the hardline Taliban regime was toppled with few U.S. casualties.

But the Bush administration's shift toward war with Iraq left the Western powers without enough resources on the ground, so by 2006 the Taliban had regrouped into a serious military threat.

Obama deployed more troops to Afghanistan, and casualties increased sharply in the last several years. But the American public grew weary of having its military in a perpetual state of conflict, especially after the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq at the end of last year. That war, which began with a U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to oust Saddam Hussein, cost the lives of nearly 4,500 U.S. troops, more than twice as many as have died in Afghanistan so far.

"The tally is modest by the standards of war historically, but every fatality is a tragedy and 11 years is too long," said Michael O'Hanlon, a fellow at the Brookings. "All that is internalized, however, in an American public that has been watching this campaign for a long time. More newsworthy right now are the insider attacks and the sense of hopelessness they convey to many. "

Attacks by Afghan soldiers or police ? or insurgents disguised in their uniforms ? have killed 52 American and other NATO troops so far this year.

The so-called insider attacks are considered one of the most serious threats to the U.S. exit strategy from the country. In its latest incarnation, that strategy has focused on training Afghan forces to take over security nationwide ? allowing most foreign troops to go home by the end of 2014.

Although Obama has pledged that most U.S. combat troops will leave by the end of 2014, American, NATO and allied troops are still dying in Afghanistan at a rate of one a day.

Even with 33,000 American troops back home, the U.S.-led coalition will still have 108,000 troops ? including 68,000 from the U.S. ? fighting in Afghanistan at the end of this year. Many of those will be training the Afghan National Security Forces that are to replace them.

"There is a challenge for the administration," O'Hanlon said, "to remind people in the face of such bad news why this campaign requires more perseverance."

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Associated Press writers Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez in Kabul and researcher Monika Mathour in Washington contributed to this report.

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Ryan rallies Falcons

By PAUL NEWBERRY

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 3:35 p.m. ET Sept. 30, 2012

ATLANTA (AP) - Matt Bryant kicked a 40-yard field goal with 5 seconds remaining and the Atlanta Falcons remained unbeaten, rallying past the Carolina Panthers 30-28 on Sunday.

The Falcons (4-0) are off to their best start since 2004, when they reached the NFC championship game. Despite taking a career-high seven sacks, Matt Ryan threw three touchdown passes for Atlanta. Bryant added three field goals.

The Panthers (1-3) nearly clinched it on Cam Newton's run with just over a minute remaining, but he fumbled the ball while trying to dive for the necessary yardage. Carolina recovered and wound up punting, downing the ball at the Atlanta 1. But Ryan immediately got the Falcons out of the hole, throwing a 59-yard pass to Roddy White.

Four plays later, Bryant won it.

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No-hitter! Reds' Bailey brilliant against Pirates

Homer Bailey of the Cincinnati Reds threw the season's seventh no-hitter, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 on Friday night. The seven no-hitters matches the modern record for most in a season, tying 1990 and 1991. There were eight no-hitters in 1884.

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UK teen who ran away with teacher found in France

LONDON (AP) ? A 15-year-old British schoolgirl who sparked an international search when she went missing along with her math teacher was found safe and well in France on Friday, police said.

Megan Stammers was located along with 30-year-old Jeremy Forrest, a teacher at her school, police in the southern England county of Sussex.

France's Sipa news agency said the pair were in a car when they were found in the city of Bordeaux in southwestern France. Back in the Sussex town of Lewes, Stammers' stepfather Martin expressed relief at the news.

"We just can't wait to be reunited with her. Our family are overjoyed at the outcome. As you can imagine it's been an absolute emotional rollercoaster," he told reporters.

Police say Forrest has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction and Stammers has been taken into protection. Sipa reported that she would undergo unspecified medical tests.

Stammers failed to show up for school in her hometown of Eastbourne, near Lewes, on Sept. 21, and authorities said she had been spotted on a ferry to France with Forrest the same day.

The parents of both Stammers and Forrest made emotional televised pleas for them to get in touch. Police said the two were located as a result of media coverage of the case in France.

Britain's Channel 4 News reported that the schoolgirl would be flown out of Bordeaux airport back to the U.K. later Friday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-teen-ran-away-teacher-found-france-161452447.html

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Top Dems Tell Tax Law Writers: Start With Romney's IRA | TPMDC

Brian Beutler September 28, 2012, 1:33 PM

Top Democrats are pushing tax writers in both the House and Senate to close the tax loopholes that likely allowed Mitt Romney to use a savings vehicle for middle class workers to build a nearly $100 million retirement fortune.

Romney?s financial disclosures have famously revealed that his tax-deferred individual retirement account holds upwards of $100 million, an uncomfortable demonstration of enormous wealth, but moreover a source of key ethical questions.

IRAs were designed to allow workers to nest away modest sums of money each year, tax deferred, to finance a middle class retirement. There?s even a legal limit ? now $6,000 ? on how much each IRA holder can contribute annually.

Romney?s managed to amass more than 100,000 times that much.

So early last month, Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), George Miller (D-CA) and Sander Levin (D-MI) wrote to the Treasury and Labor departments to make an example of Romney. They asked federal tax officials to explain whether the tax strategy Romney likely used to mushroom his IRA ? circumventing the contribution limit by undervaluing assets ? is legal, how much revenue it costs the U.S. treasury each year, and whether it should be forbidden.

In response, Mark Mazur, assistant treasury secretary for tax policy, said the scope of the problem remains unknown, but the government knows it exists and is examining ways to curb the practice.

?[T]he IRS has pursued these issues diligently and last year convened a working group to study ways of improving compliance and enforcement in this area,? Mazur wrote. ?The group will consider whether any statutory changes would be helpful to this effort.?

Miller and Van Hollen see that as a jumping off point ? both to bring Romney?s IRA back into the political spotlight, but also for tax law writers, who will be forced to address this and similar loopholes if and when they overhaul the tax code next year.

?[T]he Internal Revenue Service is currently studying ways to prevent abuse of tax-preferred individual retirement accounts (IRAS) for tax evasion purposes,? the Democrats wrote to the chairs and ranking members of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. ?We encourage you to consider this particular area of law as Congress considers tax reform legislation or other legislation that would address the fiscal cliff in a balanced way.?

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Brian Beutler is TPM's senior congressional reporter. Since 2009, he's led coverage of health care reform, Wall Street reform, taxes, the GOP budget, the government shutdown fight, and the debt limit fight. He can be reached at brian@talkingpointsmemo.com.

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Electoral College math: Not all votes are created equal

WASHINGTON (AP) ? When it comes to electing the president, not all votes are created equal. And chances are yours will count less than those of a select few.

For example, the vote of Dave Smith in Sheridan, Wyo., counts almost 3 1/2 times as much mathematically as those of his wife's aunts in northeastern Ohio.

Why? Electoral College math.

A statistical analysis of the state-by-state voting-eligible population by The Associated Press shows that Wyoming has 139,000 eligible voters ? those 18 and over, U.S. citizens and non-felons ? for every presidential elector chosen in the state. In Ohio, it's almost 476,000 per elector, and it's nearly 478,000 in neighboring Pennsylvania.

But there's mathematical weight and then there's the reality of political power in a system where the president is decided not by the national popular vote but by an 18th century political compromise: the Electoral College.

Smith figures his vote in solid Republican Wyoming really doesn't count that much because it's a sure Mitt Romney state. The same could be said for ballots cast in solid Democratic states like New York or Vermont. In Ohio, one of the biggest battleground states, Smith's relatives are bombarded with political ads. In Wyoming, Smith says, "the candidates don't care about my vote because we only see election commercials from out-of-state TV stations."

The nine battleground states where Romney and Barack Obama are spending a lot of time and money ? Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin ? have 44.1 million people eligible to vote. That's only 20.7 percent of the nation's 212.6 million eligible voters. So nearly 4 of 5 eligible voters are pretty much being ignored by the two campaigns.

When you combine voter-to-elector comparisons and battleground state populations, there are clear winners and losers in the upcoming election.

More than half the nation's eligible voters live in states that are losers in both categories. Their states are not closely contested and have above-average ratios of voters to electors. This is true for people in 14 states with 51 percent of the nation's eligible voters: California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Georgia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Louisiana and Kentucky. Their votes count the least.

The biggest winners in the system, those whose votes count the most, live in just four states: Colorado, New Hampshire, Iowa and Nevada. They have low voter-to-elector ratios and are in battleground states. Only 4 percent of the nation's eligible voters ? 1 in 25 ? live in those states.

It's all dictated by the U.S. Constitution, which set up the Electoral College. The number of electors each state gets depends on the size of its congressional delegation. Even the least populated states ? like Wyoming ? get a minimum of three, meaning more crowded states get less proportionally.

If the nation's Electoral College votes were apportioned in a strict one-person, one-vote manner, each state would get one elector for every 395,000 eligible voters. Some 156 million voters live in the 20 states that have a larger ratio than that average: That's 73 percent ? nearly 3 out of 4.

And for most people, it's even more unrepresentative. About 58 percent of the nation's eligible voting population lives in states with voter-to-elector ratios three times as large as Wyoming's. In other words, Dave Smith's voting power is about equal to three of his wife's aunts and uncles in Ohio, and most people in the nation are on the aunt-and-uncle side of that unbalanced equation.

"It's a terrible system; it's the most undemocratic way of electing a chief executive in the world, " said Paul Finkelman, a law professor at Albany Law School who teaches this year at Duke University. "There's no other electoral system in the world where the person with the most votes doesn't win."

The statistical analysis uses voter eligibility figures for 2010 calculated by political science professor Michael McDonald at George Mason University. McDonald is a leader in the field of voter turnout.

Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming defends the Electoral College system for protecting small states in elections, which otherwise might be overrun by big city campaigning: "Once you get rid of the Electoral College, the election will be conducted in New York and San Francisco."

Sure it gives small states more power, but at what price? asks Douglas Amy, a political science professor at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts: "This clearly violates that basic democratic principle of one person, one vote. Indeed, many constitutional scholars point out that this unfair arrangement would almost certainly be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on those grounds if it were not actually in the Constitution."

Article 2 of the Constitution says presidents are voted on by electors (it doesn't mention the word college) with each state having a number equal to its U.S. senators and representatives. While representatives are allocated among the states proportional by population, senators are not. Every state gets two. So Wyoming has 0.2 percent of the nation's voting-eligible population but almost 0.6 percent of the Electoral College. And since the number of electors is limited to 538, some states get less proportionately.

Adding to this, most states have an all-or-nothing approach to the Electoral College. A candidate can win a state by just a handful of votes but get all the electors. That happened in 2000, when George W. Bush, after much dispute, won Florida by 537 votes out of about 6 million and got all 27 electoral votes. He won the presidential election but lost the national popular vote that year.

That election led some states to sign a compact promising to give their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner. But that compact would go into effect only if and when states with the 270 majority of electoral votes signed on. So far nine states with 132 electoral votes have signed, all predominantly Democratic states.

Because of the 2000 election, conservatives and Republicans tend to feel that changing the Electoral College would hurt them, George Mason's McDonald said, and after their big victories in 2010, the popular vote compact movement stalled. But that analysis may not necessarily be true, he added. McDonald said before recent opinion polls started to break for Obama there seemed to be a possibility that he could win the electoral vote and lose the popular vote because of weak turnout ? but still enough to win ? in traditionally Democratic states like New York and California.

Former Stanford University computer scientist John Koza, who heads National Popular Vote, which is behind the electoral reform compact, said Democrat John Kerry would have won the Electoral College in 2004 while Republican Bush won the popular vote, if only 60,000 Bush votes in Ohio had changed to Kerry votes.

History shows that candidates have won the presidency but not the popular vote four times, and in each case it was the Democrat who got the most votes but lost the presidency: 1824, 1876, 1888 and 2000.

The Associated Press analysis suggests that in this year's election, the current system seems to benefit Romney. The AP re-apportioned electoral votes based on voting-eligible population and not congressional delegations, so that, for example, Wyoming and the District of Columbia would have only one elector instead of three, and California would have 58 instead of 55.

Based on polling, states strongly in the Romney camp have 191 electoral votes in the current system but would have only 178 if the electoral votes were allocated based on voting-eligible population. Based on similar polling, Obama would benefit by about five electoral votes if electors were apportioned by that population. The nine battleground states would gain even more sway, jumping from 110 electoral votes to 118.

That would compound the perceived problem of a shrinking number of battleground states being all that mattered in the election, leaving the overwhelming majority of states standing around as "spectator states," Koza said.

John McGinnis, a professor of constitutional law at Northwestern University, defends the current Electoral College, arguing that while the mathematics of electoral proportionate calculations is correct, the conclusion that it over-represents small states is not. Larger states still have more sway because they have more electoral votes, he said.

Further, the historical agreement to give each state two senators regardless of their population and to base electoral votes on congressional delegation rather than population "was an essential compromise" when framers were drafting the Constitution, McGinnis said. Without that compromise, there might not have been a Constitution or nation, he said.

But Finkelman said his reading of history is that the compromise wasn't about power between small and large states as much as it was about power of slave-holding states. He said James Madison wanted direct popular election of the president, but because African-American slaves wouldn't count, that would give more power to the North. So the framers came up with a compromise to count each slave as three-fifths of a person for representation in Congress and presidential elections, he said.

Electoral College supporter McGinnis said the emphasis on battleground states is actually good because they are representative of the country. But he acknowledges as an Illinois resident, "I realize when I vote here it's completely irrelevant."

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Seth Borenstein can be followed at http://twitter.com/borenbears

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/electoral-college-math-not-votes-equal-172921664--election.html

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PEUGEOT AT THE PARIS MOTOR SHOW INSPIRATION, INTERNATIONALISATION, RANGE ENHANCEMENT

Peugeot will reveal many concepts and new products at the Paris Motor Show
New product features and stylish designs are moving the Brand upmarket
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Inspiration: Onyx Concept and Peugeot Design Lab

Exacting standards with emotion and appeal and the great tradition of the Marque's supercars, the stunning Onyx Concept Car will not fail to grab the attention and imagination of visitors to the Peugeot stand.

Under its radical and sculpted silhouette of 4.65m, seated on 20" wheels, the Onyx, clothed in a carbon fibre shell, conceals at its heart a V8 hybrid HDi 3.7-litre 600bhp engine in a rear central position. Its suspension and six-speed sequential gearbox are the result of the exacting standards and expertise of competition at the highest level.

The bodywork stands out with the contrast of its materials and colours: pure copper for the wings and doors, and matt black carbon fibre for the other body panels.

Framed by the aluminium arches, the 'double-bubble' glass roof reveals the carbon structure and an innovative passenger compartment; a pod formed from a taut piece of felt so the occupants become one with a uniform part.

With the Onyx Concept, Peugeot continues its experimentation with materials: this is the case with the Newspaper Wood, produced from compressed used newspapers, from which the dashboard and centre console are made.

Next to the Onyx, the Onyx Concept Bike, an ultra-light superbike with a carbon fibre shell designed by the Peugeot Design Lab, and the Onyx Concept Scooter, a three-wheeled 400cm3 hybrid supertrike, serve as a reminder of Peugeot's historic expertise in the various modes of personal transport.

Rich with expertise resulting from more than 200 years of industrial creation and 120 years of motor vehicle creation, Peugeot presents at the Motor Show the first achievements of the Peugeot Design Lab, launched last June.

Peugeot Design Lab is a Global Brand Design studio the purpose of which is to develop strong and coherent brand strategies specifically to reinforce the identity, values and codes of external customers. Its main assignment is the design of non-automotive products, services and experiences.

The Peugeot Design Lab plays a part in several areas: brand imaging, creation, development, production and communications. The considerable expertise and technical resources of the Peugeot Design Centre give the Peugeot Design Lab unprecedented access to design trends over three continents, in Paris, Shanghai and Sao Paolo.

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Video: New Revolution: Great Ideas Needed

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Scientist at Work Blog: Getting Ready for the Storms of the North Pacific

Jim Thomson is principal oceanographer at the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington. He studies ocean surface waves and coastal processes.

Thursday, Sept. 6
47.601? N, 122.333? W

Ansel Adams always said that chance favors the prepared, but these days I wonder how far ahead he looked before taking his photos. Four years ago, my lab at the University of Washington started building a new buoy to measure the turbulence in breaking ocean waves. Now the chance to use it is fast approaching. Preparation is foremost on my mind.

Later this fall, we will embark on a research vessel toward an otherwise random spot in the north Pacific Ocean called Station P, more than 1,000 miles offshore. This station has a long history, with regular water samples from there going back 60 years. We?ll be looking for storms and big waves. If the data we have from the past couple years are any indication, we should see waves more than 10 meters (33 feet) high. The new buoys have been tested only in waves up to three meters high. That?s on my mind too.

It?s not like we?ve been avoiding the bigger waves; in fact, we?ve spent two years looking for them. The new instruments, which we call Swift buoys (for Surface Wave Instrument Floats with Tracking), have logged more than 1,300 hours of water time.

We have broken, battered and crushed all manner of things while trying to get these buoys into the roughest conditions possible. We have even capsized a small boat in the process. Indeed, the boat is part of the problem: To operate in big waves, we need a big boat. We need a global-class research vessel, of which there are only a handful in the United States and which cost $30,000 a day. This fall is our chance to use one of these vessels.

We know the waves in November will be big, because we have been measuring them for the past two years at Station P (usually referred to as Papa, according to the phonetic alphabet) with another type of buoy, called a WaveRider. The WaveRider is a recent addition to the station, one that is part of a larger effort to use the station for climate research. The station is 4,200 meters deep ?about 2.6 miles, a vertical distance equivalent to the average morning jog around the neighborhood ? making moorings, and everything else, difficult. The WaveRider mooring needs to be replaced, and that is the other goal of the trip. Another thing to prepare for.

Preparing involves a lot of incremental tasks. Yesterday was mundane: Joe was spooling mooring line at the warehouse, Alex was assembling a camera system to record waves from the bow of the ship, Mike was processing test data, and I was obsessively checking the satellite feed from the WaveRider (the battery is dying and thus always on my mind). Spare parts, fasteners and batteries were constantly arriving and being sorted according to a giant packing list. The lab was humming along at a reasonable, steady pace, and we were on schedule to go to sea in seven weeks.

Today, however, was not mundane. This morning, the ship coordinator called to say that the ship?s propulsion system had failed (chance?) and the necessary repairs would take the rest of 2012.

I braced for the worst ? we?re being canceled?

?Not yet,? was the reply from the fleet coordinator. Then: ?Let me see what the rest of the fleet has lined up.?

A few hours later, a salvage proposal came back. We could take a smaller vessel, departing three weeks from today, not seven. I said we would take it.

That reasonable, steady pace just left the building. To depart in three weeks means we send a shipping container with our equipment in one week.

Tomorrow, preparing will rapidly turn to packing. By Sept. 26, we will be ready. Then chance will drive the storms, and we will be driving ourselves ? to do more, to sleep less, to stay sharp amid the dark seas, and to make the most of our chance.

Source: http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/getting-ready-for-the-storms-of-the-north-pacific/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Enjoying our last few days as a family of three! - Surviving Motherhood

by Kimberly on September 26, 2012

We have SO been looking forward to the cooler weather this Fall and with the change of Seasons comes lots of fun Fall family activities! Lindsay has been talking about how much fun her kiddos had recently apple picking and sharing delicious recipes for all things Autumn has to offer!

We had a fun weekend recently and decided to head over to Irons Fruit Farm and enjoy our last few days of being a ?family of three?! This year, because of the frost, they aren?t offering u-pick apples but what I do love about Iron?s is the fact that they don?t nickel and dime you during your visit. The hay ride to pick your own pumpkin out from the field is free, you just pay by the pound for whatever pumpkin you choose. I also love all the yummy treats they have on offer, no one beats their home made apple spice donuts! YUM! The cider is also great and so is their offering of a ?whacked apple? which includes a fresh apple, warm caramel, whipped cream and topped with nuts!

The boys loved it!

I was planning to get a bag of apples but decided to wait for now, I have a hankering (errr?the last of my pregnancy cravings?) for apple pie and vanilla ice cream. This might be on my ?list? of food to ask my mom to bring over once the baby arrives!

Check out that baby BUMP! We are 40 weeks officially when we took this pic and now a couple days overdue so she will be getting an eviction notice soon! We?re in no rush for her arrival, just thrilled and excited to meet her! We will have an ultrasound next week and if all continues to look well we?ll wait two weeks before talking about possible induction. I think she will be like her big bro and be a few days late so we will see!
What are your favorite Fall activities to do with the Family?! Any fun Autumn traditions??

Video: Romney and Obama court battleground states

>>> good evening, i'm savannah guthrie in tonight for brian. there are few things that are guaranteed in presidential elections, but one thing is almost always certain. every four years, the state of ohio will be a battleground, hot licon tested for its trove of electoral votes and the way it has of picking the winner. tonight, the candidates are in ohio as the news shows that the win could be slipping away for the republican challenger. ron allen has more.

>> reporter: good evening to you, savannah, mitt romney just wrapped up an event here, the third of the day. he has really been trying to pick up the pace , spending more time here in ohio than any other state. at every campaign stop, mitt romney has hit the same theme. i care about you.

>> these are tough times, even for families with jobs. i know what it takes to get this economy going again. i care about the people of america.

>> reporter: as new polls show ohio slipping away . romney down by ten points in a new poll out this morning, and nearly that in another recent poll. after that video of romney talking badly about the 47% who pay no income tax. today, from romney , more compassion in a new minute-long tv ad .

>> president obama and i both care about poor and middle class families. the difference is, my policies will make things better for them.

>> reporter: romney 's problem is historic, nobody has won the white house without winning ohio , romney sounded optimistic today in an interview with nbc news.

>> can you win ohio ?

>> i'm going to win ohio , in part because i have for support of people in ohio .

>> reporter: but the problem, obama is here, too, today, his 29th visit since taking office, and not letting anybody forget that other number, 47%.

>> i don't believe we get very far with leaders who write off half the nation as victims who never take responsibility for their lives.

>> reporter: the president stopped at campuses, ralliy young supporters. such a crucial day, both men took the stage at almost the same time this afternoon, and almost crossed paths as president obama headed to kent state , and romney to toledo.

>> if you're registered, you can start to vote in six days. and this is important because you have a big choice to make.

>> reporter: romney got support from golfing legend jack nicklaus . and romney zeroed in on an issue he believes he can exploit.

>> in my opinion, it is immoral to pass on obligations like that to the next generation.

>> reporter: for his part, romney is reminding voters that the economy is improving, that the economy is below the national average, because of the auto bailout. more reasons why this could be a tough state for romney .

>> all right, in toledo, ohio tonight, thank you.

Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/49186866/

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Tom Cruise Is Missing Suri Post-Divorce

Tom Cruise is not happy being away from his little girl.

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Sul Ross to host NIRA rodeo this weekend - Alpine Daily Planet

West Texas Food Bank

2101 FM 1703 Alpine, TX 79830 www.WTXfoodbank.org/ Mission: to address the critical issue of hunger in the West Texas area by securing donations of surplus foods and grocery products for distribution through a network of charitable organizations dedicated to feeding the hungry covering 45,000 square miles in 22 West Texas counties. Contact: Lulu L?pez, 432-837-1580; mlopez@feedingamerica.org

Tierra Grande Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists

PO Box 133 Alpine, TX, 79831 Contact: Ellen Weinacht, 432-294-2421; ellen@rionet.coop

Sunshine House

205 E. Sul Ross Alpine, TX 79830 Mission: to provide fellowship and meals for senior citizens of the Alpine area. Volunteer Opportunities: Meals on Wheels Contact: Laurel Schuelke, 432-837-5402; laurel.sunshine@att.net; sunshinehouse@sbcglobal.net

San Vicente Independent School District

Mission: to educate the whole child while providing a safe and nurturing environment that promotes a passion for lifelong learning, respect for self and others, and an appreciation for individual differences. PO Box 195 Big Bend National Park, TX 79843 http://svisd.com/ Contact: (432) 477-2220

Saluvida

PO Box 819 Marfa, TX 79843 Contact: Genevieve Basham, 432-729-4572

Salvation Army

Volunteer opportunities during Red Kettle Days, every weekend between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Please contact for other times. Contact: Liz Hightower, 432-294-4321; office@fbcalpine.com

Rotary Club of Marfa

301 S. Highland Marfa, TX 79843 http://marfarotary.blogspot.com/; www.rotary.org Mission: to serve the Marfa community. Contact: Jon Johnson, 432-729-4344

Rotary Club of Alpine

www.rotary.org Mission: to provide service to others, promote high ethical standards and advance understanding, goodwill and peace through its fellowship of business, professional and community leaders. 801 N. Bird? Alpine, TX 79830 Contact: Lou Pauls, 432-837-3356; lucasawtx@sbcglobal.net

Relay for Life

PO Box 1666 Alpine, TX 79831 Contact: Dot Leavitt, 837-2472; Shirley Eoff, 837-51890

Presidio Public Library

1200 E. O'Rielly St.; P.O Box 2440 Presidio, TX 79845-2440 Contact: Carmen Elguez?bal, 432- 229-3317; Carmen_el@yahoo.com

Permian Basin Community Centers

401 E. Illinois Midland, TX 79701 www.pbmhmr.com/Index.htm Mission: to provide supports, resources, and opportunities to enable people with mental illness, mental retardation, or chemical dependency to live satisfying, responsible, and productive lives to the fullest extent of their abilities. Brewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio counties Contact: 800-542-4005; webmaster@pbmhmr.com

Overland Trail Museum

Fort St. and 3rd St. Fort Davis, TX 79734 Mission: to provide historical records, pictures items of historical interest relating to Jeff Davis County, culture and physical history of Fort Davis and the Big Bend area. Contact: Bob Miles, 432-426-2467; Daisy McCutcheon, 432-426-2011

The Nature Conservancy (Davis Mountains Preserve)

PO Box 2092 Fort Davis, TX 79734 http://www.nature.org/ Mission: to protect vital habitats in Texas and around the world. Contact: Chris Pipes, 432-426-2390; cpipes@tnc.org

Native Plant Society of Texas, Big Bend chapter

HC65 Box 28-G Alpine, TX 79830 http://npsot.org/ Mission: to preserve our state's rich heritage for future generations. NPSOT is a non-profit organization run by volunteers who work to promote native plant appreciation, research, and conservation Contact: Pollyanne Melton, 432-364-2577; melton@bigbend.net

Museum of the Big Bend

Box C-101 Sul Ross State University Campus Alpine, TX 79832 http://www.sulross.edu/museum/index.html Mission: to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the materials that relate to the prehistory and history of the Big Bend of Texas and northern Mexico, with an awareness of the region?s cultural?diversity. Contact: Liz Jackson, 432-837-8143, ejackson@sulross.edu

McDonald Observatory

82 Mt. Locke Rd. McDonald Observatory, TX 79734 http://nexus.as.utexas.edu/ Contact: 432-426-4263

Marfa Public Radio

111 S. Highland Ave.; PO Box 867 Marfa TX 79843 info@marfapublicradio.org; www.marfapublicradio.org Mission: to provide radio that unites the community and promotes cultural enrichment through presentation and focus on the importance of art, education, quality of life and the local economy. Volunteer Opportunities: Music filing, loading, audio editing, clerical duties, and potential on-air hosting of news programs. Station Director: Tom Michael, 432-386-0601; tom@marfapublicradio.org Programming & Production Manager: Rachel Lindley, 432-729-4578; rachel@marfapublicradio.org

Marfa Public Library

PO Box U Marfa, TX 79843 http://www.marfapubliclibrary.org/cgi-bin/index.pl?action=main Contact: Gloria Applegate,;432-729-4631; gloria@marfapubliclibrary.org

Marfa Lions Club

PO Box 296 Marfa, TX 79842

Marfa Chamber of Commerce

207 N. Highland Ave.; PO Box 635 Marfa, TX 79843 www.marfacc.com/; info@marfacc.com Contact: 432-729-4942; 800-650-9696

Marathon Rural Health Clinic

PO Box 145 Marathon, TX 79842

Marathon Public Library

106 N. 3rd St.; PO Box 177 Marathon, TX 79842 Contact: Carol Townsend, 432-386-4136; marathonlib@yahoo.com

Marathon Chamber of Commerce

PO Box 431 Marathon, TX 79842 www.marathontexas.com/index.htm Mission: to provide creative leadership for appropriate economic development in Marathon and the Big Bend area. Contact: tel. 432-386-4516; sconemaker@hotmail.com

Lions Club of Fort Davis

PO Box 114 Fort Davis, TX 79734 Mission: to empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs. (Local focus is to provide financial assistance for eyeglass exams and glasses to our community and scholarships to local high school graduates). Contact: Don Sheffield, 432-426-3759; dw_sheffield@mztv.net

Lions Club of Alpine

PO Box 274 Alpine, TX 79831 http://lionwap.org/eclub/sites/alpinetx/ Mission: empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs. Contact: Dave Rogers, 432-837-3375; drogers@wtnb.com

Kiwanis Club of Alpine

PO Box 982 Alpine, TX 79830 Mission: to focus on the needs of ordinary people and children to create extraordinary life-changing moments. Contact: David Martin, dmartin@sulross.edu.

Jeff Davis County Library

100 Jefferson Sq.; PO Box 1054 Fort Davis, TX 79734 Contact: 432-426-3802

Jeff Davis County Child Welfare Board

Fort Davis, TX 79734 Contact: Barbara Medley, 432-426-3561, barbarajmedley@att.net

Helping Hand Thrift & Gift Shop

510 State St. Fort Davis, TX 79734 Mission: a retail store representing Grand Companions Humane Society, which receives 100% of its proceeds Contact: Carrie Branum, 432-426-3724

Grand Companions Humane Society

PO Box 1156 Ft. Davis, TX 79734 www.grandcompanions.org Mission: always reaching for the best journey home for homeless pets Contact: Laura Langham, 432-426-3724; laura@grandcompanions.org

Girl Scouts of the Permian Basin

Camp Mitre Peak? PO Box 2098? Fort Davis, TX 79734 Contact: 432-364-2201; campmitrepeak@gspb.org

Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest

5217 N. Dixie Odessa, TX 79762 www.zia.org/ Contact: 432-550-2688 ext. 320

General Federation of Women's Clubs

509 E. Harriet Alpine, TX 79830 Contact: Amanda Smith, 432-837-9890; once_and_again@sbcglobal.net

Frontier CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)

PO Box 1232 Alpine, TX 79831 www.texascasa.org; www.frontiercasa.org Mission: to provide assistance for an abused or neglected child by providing factual information to the court on behalf of a child in the CPS legal process. Director: Ronnie Harris, 432-837-7448; frontiercasa@hotmail.com Volunteer Coordinator: Suzanne Bailey, 432-837-7448; frontiercasa@hotmail.com

Friends of the Marfa Public Library

PO Drawer U Marfa, TX 79843 www.friendsofmarfalibrary.org/cgi-bin/index.pl?action=main Mission: to serve Marfa through the continuous support and contributions of the entire community. Contact: Evelyn Luciani, 432-729-4631; eluciani@sbcglobal.net

Friends of the Marathon Public Library

106 N. 3rd St.; PO Box 177 Marathon, TX 79842 Contact: Carol Townsend, 432-386-4136; marathonlib@yahoo.com

Friends of the Jeff Davis County Library

PO Box 425 Fort Davis, TX 79734 http://www.friendsjdcl.org Mission: to make Jeff Davis County Library an increasingly important asset by encouraging greater public awareness, use, and support of the library and by assisting the librarian and staff in improving services and facilities. Contact: Cyndee Barnes, 432-426-3671; cyndeebarnes@yahoo.com

Friends of the Alpine Public Library

203 N. 7th St Alpine, TX 79830 Mission: to work to provide and strengthen library services and support a varied menu of programs for the citizens of our area, consistent with the goals and objectives of the Alpine Public Library and its Board of Directors. Contact: Don Wetterauer, suelos@sbcglobal.net; 432-837-3272

Friends of Fort Davis National Historic Site

PO Box 1023 Fort Davis, TX 79734 http://www.ffdnhs.org/ Mission: to support the National Park Service in its efforts to preserve, restore, interpret and publicize Fort Davis National Historic Site. Contact: 432-426-3224 x 20; info@ffdnhs.org

Fort Davis National Historic Site

PO Box 1379 Fort Davis, TX 79734 Contact: John Morlock, 432-426-3224

Fort Davis Independent School District

400 Buckeye; PO Box 1339 Fort Davis, TX 79734 www.fdisd.com/ Contact: Sup. Larry Butler, 432-426-4440; www.fdisd.com

Fort Davis Chamber of Commerce

4 Memorial Square; PO Box 378 Ft. Davis, TX 79734 www.fortdavis.com/; info@fortdavis.com Contact: 432-426-3978; 800-524-3015

Food Pantry of Marfa

PO Box 819 Marfa, TX 79843 Contact: Genevieve Basham, 432-729-4572

Food Pantry of Jeff Davis County

PO Box 244 Ft. Davis, TX 79734 Mission: to provide supplemental food distributed for qualified clients of Jeff Davis County and emergency food and school supplies Contact: Tex Harrison, 432-249-1820; tex@mztv.net

Food Pantry of Alpine, Inc.

PO Box 1366 Alpine, TX 79831 info@foodpantryofalpine.org Mission: to establish a community-supported food pantry which coordinates a monthly distribution of food at no cost to those in need regardless of race or creed. President: Greg Schwab, 432-386-3400; gschwab@sulross.edu

D?j? Vu Thrift Store Family Crisis Center of the Big Bend Friends of the Family Crisis Center of the Big Bend

PO Box 1470 Alpine, TX 79831 Mission: to strengthen communities by empowering individuals. Volunteer Opportunities: D?j? Vu Thrift Store (proceeds benefit Family Crisis Center) Contact: Executive Director: Lovika De Koninck, 432-837-7254; lovika@msn.com Business Administrator: Webbie Carvajal, 432-837-7254; webbie@sbcglobal.net Friends president: Dona Ward, 837-2225, dblevins@farmersagent.com

Children?s Advocacy Center of the Big Bend

1002 E. Nations Alpine, TX 79830 www.cactx.org/local/display/28 Mission: to reduce the trauma of children who are victims of sexual abuse and/or serious physical abuse in Brewster, Jeff Davis, Presidio, and Terrell Counties and to increase the likelihood of convicting the perpetrator through the cooperation of law enforcement, child protective services, prosecution, mental health, and medical personnel. Contact: Shanna Sullivan, 432-837-1515; cacbb@sbcglobal.net

Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center & Botanical Gardens (formerly CDRI)

Box 905 Ft. Davis, TX 79734 https://cdri.org/index.html Mission: to promote public awareness, appreciation, and concern for the natural diversity of the Chihuahuan Desert region through research and education. Director: Cathy Hoyt, 432-364-2499; choyt@cdri.org Contact: Cynthia Mcalister, cmcalister@cdri.org

Busy Bee Quilters

205 E. Sul Ross Alpine, TX 79830 Contact: Laurel Schuelke, 432-837-5402

Buffalo Trail Council of the Boy Scouts of America

1101 W. Texas Ave. Midland, TX 79701 www.BuffalotrailBSA.org/; info@buffalotrailbsa.org Mission: to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Alpine contact: Don Wetterauer, suelos@sbcglobal.net; 432-837-3272

Brewster County Tourism Council

PO Box 479 Alpine, TX 79831 www.visitbigbend.com Mission: to promote visitation to Brewster County. Primary volunteer opportunity is for people to staff an area information booth at Texas State Fair each year beginning the last Friday in September and running for 24 days straight. Volunteers usually work 4?5 days, and the Council pays their travel expenses, lodging, and meals. Contact: 432-837-3915; info@visitbigbend.com

Brewster County

PO Box 1630 Alpine, TX 79831 Contact: Judge Val Beard, 432-837-2412; val.beard@county.brewster.tx.us

Boys & Girls Club of Fort Davis

Mission: to provide after-school and summer youth programs. PO Box 1054; 100 Memorial Square Fort Davis, TX 79734 Contact: 432-426-3802; director_bgcfd@yahoo.com

Big Bend Regional Medical Center

2600 N. Highway 118 Alpine, TX 79830 www.bigbendhealthcare.com/Pages/home.aspx Contact: Mary Clare Spear, 432-837-3447; Mary_Clare_Spear@chs.net

Big Bend National Park

PO Box 129 Big Bend National Park, TX 79834 Contact: Natasha Moore, 432-477-2251; Natasha_Moore@nps.gov

Big Bend Arts Council

106 W. Sul Ross Ave., Suite D Alpine, TX 79830 www.bigbendartscouncil.net/; www.bbacgallery.com/index.html Mission: to provide a forum for supporting and promoting the arts in the Big Bend region. Contact: admin@bigbendartscouncil.net

Big Bend Amateur Radio Club

1402 N. 5th St Alpine, TX 79830 Purpose: to establish a benevolent, eleemosynary, nonprofit organization of members, and to render public service through amateur radio, and to gather and disseminate information concerning amateur radio operation. Meetings 2nd Tuesday 7:00 pm, West Texas National Bank Contact: Jim Fowler, 432-386-3041; wa5roe@juno.com

American Cancer Society

PO Box 1666 Alpine, TX 79830 Volunteer Opportunities: Relay for Life yearly fund-raiser. Contact: Shirley Eoff, 432-837-5190; sleoff@gmail.com

Alpine Valley Care Center

1003 Loop Rd. Alpine, TX 79830 Contact: 432-837-3343

Alpine Recycles/Keep Alpine Beautiful

100 N. 13th St. Alpine, TX 79830 Mission: to educate and engage citizens to take responsibility for improving their community environment. Contact: Martha Latta, 432-294-3183; info@alpinerecycles.org

Alpine Public Library

203 N. 7th Alpine, TX 79830 www.alpinepubliclibrary.org/; alpinepl@sbcglobal.net Mission: to connect our diverse community with information resources to promote reading and lifelong learning. Contact: Paige Delaney, 432-837-2621; alpinepl@sbcglobal.net

Alpine Independent School District

704 Sul Ross Ave. Alpine, TX 79830 www.alpine.esc18.net/ Mission: to provide our children with learning experiences to be responsible, productive and successful citizens of an ever changing world. Contact: Marsha Roach, 432-837-7700

Alpine Humane Society

PO Box 1464 Alpine, TX 79831 www.ci.alpine.tx.us/humanesociety.html Mission: to shelter homeless and abused animals, operate a progressive adoption program, investigate abuse cases, and encourage the spay/neutering of animals in order to control overpopulation. Contact: George Bradley, gbradley1938@gmail.com

Alpine Chamber of Commerce

106 N. 3rd St Alpine TX, 79830 www.vistorcenter.alpinetexas.com Mission: to promote, develop, and unite the business community in and around the Alpine area to accomplish economic growth. Contact: J.R. Smith, 432-837-2326; visitalpine@alpinetx.com

Alpine Ambassadors

PO Box 1341 Alpine, TX 79831 Purpose: to support and promote the Alpine community and its businesses, provide ribbon cuttings for new and existing businesses, support business activities as called upon, act as hosts for various community activities and act as good will ambassadors for the Big Bend Region of West Texas Contact: Mary Jane Morgan, 837-5739; mjmorgan@mztv.net

Aliviane, Inc.

500 W. Avenue H, Ste. 115 Alpine TX 79830 Mission: to provide a comprehensive and integrated continuum of high quality behavioral health interventions, treatment, and education services Contact: Nadine Mata, 432-837-3215; nmata@aliviane.org

Pilot Club of Alpine

PO Box 1404 Alpine, TX 79831 Mission: to provide volunteer community service that contributes to the quality of life in the Big Bend Region Volunteer Opportunities: Meals on Wheels, Family Crisis Center, Alpine Public Library, Sunshine House, Lifeline Contact: Liz Jackson; 837-8143; ejackson@sulross.edu

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These Gadget Ads Show A Total ... - Business Insider

Gadget case-maker Speck Products has a series of ads out that will annoy anyone who understands Venn diagrams.

Many of the diagrams are impossible, such as the following, tweeted out by Brendan Berg:

This ad suggests that there is an overlap between (1) people who check the slot for quarters, (2) peoiple who don't check the slot for quarters, and (3) people who did until they touched slot gum.

It is impossible to have an overlap between people who do and people who don't. These are mutually exclusive groups.

Here's another from blog 40 going on 28:

And another from YMFY:?

Other ads show diagrams that are confusing, even if technically possible, like the one we saw on an NYC subway that suggested there was a group of New Yorkers who (1) did not bike and (2) did not ride the subway but (3) owned bikes that were transported on the subway.

Speck has responded to complaints over Twitter by saying "We're just trying to have a little fun ;)"

Which is fine, but the math geeks still aren't happy. Also these ads have nothing to do with the product they're supposed to sell.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/speck-products-misuses-venn-diagrams-2012-9

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Bell & Webster precast concrete business streamlined ? Construction ...

Aaron Morby | Tue 25th September | 7:38

Construction software and building products group Eleco said it was on course to return to profit after a wave of redundancies during restructuring at its concrete business.

The firm said it had been forced to cut capacity at its loss-making Bell & Webster Concrete and Milbury Systems businesses because of a downturn in demand for student accommodation and hotel construction activity.

A new business division ElecoPrecast has been formed under a new management team to steer the streamlined business.

John Ketteley, Eleco executive chairman said the restructuring of its precast concrete interests as well as a welcome improvement in the performance of it roofing and cladding products operations came too late to return ElecoBuild to profit in the first six months of the year.

He said: ?ElecoBuild?s costs and production capacity over the past three years have been substantially reduced so as to bring them into line with the lower levels of activity in the UK construction industry.

?As a consequence, we believe that ElecoBuild is now in a better position to respond and take advantage of an upturn in demand.?

In the first half of the year ElecoBuild made an operating loss of ?418,000 before exceptional redundancy costs on turnover slightly down at ?10.1m.

Overall the group, which includes construction software products, made a pre-tax loss of ?480,000 on stable turnover of ?18m.

Source: http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2012/09/25/bell-webster-precast-concrete-business-streamlined/

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Sports Report: B-BP Girls Tennis Wins 3 Consecutive Matches ...

This team update was provided by B-BP Girls Tennis Coach Keith Scharfschwerdt. Thanks for sharing!

The Bayport-Blue Point Varsity Girls' Tennis went 3-0 in 3 straight matches?last week, improving it's overall record to 5-2.

On Wednesday, the team defeated League V rival Mt. Sinai by a score of 4-3.? Laura Torsiello, Fiona Stickney, and Emily Morgenbesser all had decisive straight-set victories in singles, while the doubles team of Caitlin Mitchell and Meagan Schantz came up huge for the team winning in straight sets as well.

On Thursday, a home non-league match versus West Islip was a classic.? Laura Torsiello, Fiona Stickney, and Emily Morgenbesser?won the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd singles?matches in straight sets.

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The team needed one more victory to win the match.? The doubles teams battled tough, two of the matches?went to three sets, but couldn't outplay the strong doubles lineup of West Islip.? It was at fourth singles where the Phantoms found the win to clinch the match. Paige Faherty, playing in only her second career singles match, defeated her opponent after outplaying her?in a third set tie-breaker. This match also marked senior Laura Torsiello's 100th career win!?

In a 5-2 victory over Middle Country on Friday, Laura Torsiello, Brianna Filangeri, and Meg Moloney were victorious in singles and the doubles teams of Fiona Stickney/ Emily Morgenbesser and Paige Faherty/Lexie Lessing took home wins as well.

This week is a tough week of non-league matches with William Floyd (away) on Monday, a night match versus Sayville at the St Joseph's College outdoor athletic facility on Thursday at 5:30, and a home match versus Westhampton on Friday.

Are you a big fan of a B-BP or Sayville sports team and would love to get the team coverage like this? You can by sending in photos, an article on latest game action or just a photo with a quick caption on current season standings. Just email it to the editor: judy.mottl@patch.com

Source: http://sayville.patch.com/articles/sports-report-b-bp-girls-tennis-wins-3-consecutive-matches

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Facebook starts tracking users' offline buys

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Ben Weitzenkorn , SecurityNewsDaily

In?Facebook's latest attempt to prove the efficacy of advertiser dollars, the 950 million-member site will begin tracking what its American users buy in offline stores even as it phases out its controversial facial-recognition feature in Europe.

Although they are separate pieces of technology, the two programs raise concerns about privacy and about just how much of themselves, their tastes and their behavior social?network users are willing to put into the hands of engineers and marketing executives.

Criticism from data-protection regulators in Ireland and users all across Europe prompted an order from the European Union that Facebook drop its recently acquired facial-recognition technology in all EU member states. Facebook Europe is an Irish company.

Facebook's facial-recognition feature uses data from photos in which individuals have already been tagged to make suggestions for tagging similar-looking individuals in new ones. In a sense, Facebook "knows" what you look like and can identify you and your friends with remarkable accuracy.?

The EU said the social network needs to ratchet up its privacy-protection efforts before the "Tag Suggest" feature will be allowed back on the pages of European residents.

The campaign for Tag Suggest's ouster in Europe began when Max Schrems, an Austrian student, received a 1,200-page document about himself from Facebook after he had requested a copy of all the data the company kept on him.

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In the document, Schrems found he had been automatically tagged by the facial-recognition software without his assent. The document has also been pointed to as evidence that photos and comments aren't actually deleted from Facebook, even when users think they are.

Photos and activities stay on Facebook's servers for at least 30 days after they've been "deleted" by users, if they're ever totally purged at all.

Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), which was charged with reviewing Facebook's privacy policies by the EU, suggested a total of 45 changes and has asked the company to get rid of facial profiles created by the facial-recognition software by the middle of October.

The social network acquired the face-recognition technology in June when it bought Face.com, an Israeli company that had already worked with the Menlo Park., Calif., site for two years.

Facebook constantly walks the tightrope between satisfying its users and its customers, whose desires and goals are often opposed. Users want privacy and a clean interface, while advertisers seek prime placement, personal information and behavioral data to better target their marketing campaigns.

Facebook users have accused the social behemoth of behaving in a cavalier fashion when it comes to protecting user data. The site has also come under fire for offering controversial marketing tools to advertisers, such as "sponsored" newsfeed items that places a person's name and face next to an advertiser that that person "likes" without his or her knowledge or permission.

Data hungry
Months after an initial public offering that CEO Mark Zuckerberg said has "obviously been disappointing," Facebook is trying another tactic as it continues to make the case that ads on its widely used platform, as well as the ads it sells on other sites, are a worthwhile investment.

The company is partnering with the marketing-research company Datalogix in an attempt to prove a direct correlation between the ads a user sees and the products they buy.

Datalogix buys information gleaned from gift cards and loyalty programs that paint a picture of consumption for some 70 million American households shopping at over 1,000 retailers. According to the Financial Times, which broke the story of the Facebook partnership, Datalogix also "creates incredibly detailed profiles of nearly every US household," including the sort of financial information most people wouldn't tell their neighbors.

By comparing this data about individual shoppers with Facebook's information about the same people, Datalogix can determine whether or not a user purchased a particular product in a brick-and-mortar store after seeing an ad for it on Facebook.

According to Facebook, the program is working. The company said that out of the 45 ad campaigns that have been analyzed using Datalogix, 70 percent made $3 in sales for every dollar they spent on Facebook's marketing products.

While that's strong proof that Facebook ads are effective, not everyone is pleased about all the data matching.

The correlated data Facebook receives from Datalogix, and then hands off to advertisers, is anonymized. User data is reported statistically, not individually.

In reports to Facebook and its advertisers, Datalogix splits users who bought a particular product into groups of those who did and didn't see an ad. They do not provide Facebook with consumer information about particular individuals or households.

But at some point in the information-sharing chain, the data is not anonymous at all. In order for Datalogix's service to work, it and Facebook must match real information each holds about real individuals, such as their email addresses, to properly cross-reference their data sets.

Between Facebook and Datalogix, the companies know who you are, where you live, what you're worth, how much you owe and what you drive. If you've got a Facebook app on your smartphone, they could also find out where you are at any given moment.

The Financial Times said privacy advocates are concerned about whether the new practice violates a $9.5 million settlement between Facebook and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission after Facebook was caught deceiving users about privacy practices.

It's not clear when the partnership between Datalogix and Facebook began, but the move was not announced to users, nor were users given a chance to opt out of the program.

In order to be excluded from this data-culling practice, users have to visit the Datalogix site, where they are offered a link that presumably clears their Datalogix browser cookies in a single click. The link leads to a page that tells you that you have "successfully opted out of Datalogix cookie-enabled online advertising."

However, the first result in a Google search for "Datalogix opt out" brings the user to the same completion page. There is no prompt to enter an email address or any other personal information.

Facebook has a history of rolling out new metrics or features that change user privacy without notifying users or giving them the option of opting out.

According to Facebook, an independent monitor is auditing its data-use practices.

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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/facebook-stops-recognizing-europeans-starts-tracking-americans-offline-purchases-1B6075586

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