Don't expect any money.

Spent the entire weekend finishing an article to submit for publication.  No that I'm finished, I can correct a stack of papers (from two classes) and try to finish designing my online course, and... and... and...
and I can't wait until Christmas vacation!

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne

Meaning:  if two people act the same way, it is not necessarily the same.

Apple klaut SBB-Uhr - Swisscom

Die Schweizer Bahnhofsuhr gefällt offenbar auch der Firma Apple: Der Computerhersteller brauchte das Design für ein Uhr-Icon im neuen iPad-Betriebssystem. Nun verlangt die SBB eine finanzielle Abgeltung.

Erst kürzlich gewann Apple einen Prozess gegen Konkurrenten Samsung, weil dieser Designelemente des iPhones kopiert hatte. Jetzt steht Apple selbst unter Beschuss.

«Zwar haben wir Freude, dass die Schweizer Bahnhofsuhr bei Apple zum Einsatz kommt. Das ist ein Beweis mehr dafür, dass sie ein echtes Designerstück ist», sagte SBB-Sprecher Christian Ginsig zu einem Bericht von «Blick am Abend» vom Donnerstag. Dabei handle es sich aber um eine unautorisierte Nutzung von Apple.

Die SBB sei die alleine Besitzerin der Marken- und Urheberrechte der Bahnhofsuhr, sagte Ginsig. Das Bahnunternehmen werde nun Kontakt zu Apple suchen. Angestrebt werde eine rechtliche und finanzielle Lösung.

Apple 'paid £13million to Swiss national rail operator' after using its iconic clock design without permission | Mail Online

• Apple agreed to pay out lump sum to SBB in October after using the unique clock face design without first seeking permission
• Size of the settlement was supposed to be confidential but Swiss paper leaked details, quoting several unnamed sources

Apple has reportedly dished out £13million to compensate Swiss national rail operator SBB for using its famous clock without permission.

The company agreed in October to pay a lump sum so it could continue using SBB's Swiss-designed station clock face on its iPads and iPhones.

The size of the settlement was supposed to have been kept confidential, but a Swiss paper leaked details on its website, quoting several unnamed sources.

 

One thing I definitely got wrong.  Four years ago, I said on dKos that the stimulus might was the most important act of Obama's first term, and that failing to pass a sufficiently large stimulus bill might well cost Obama re-election.

Turned out the stimulus wasn't the most important thing.  Nor was it health care or the war or bin Laden or whatever.

It was saving Chrysler.  Which I was iffy on, because while I thought GM could be turned around, Chrysler was probably dead anyway.

Well, reading the county-level results, it turns out that the key to Ohio last Tuesday wasn't Coal Country or the kids in Columbus or black folks in Cleveland.  It was winning NW Ohio -- Toledo and the surrounding areas.

Home of Jeep.

Ol' Mittens picked a really dumb thing to lie about.

(h/t Mig for the pic)

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

Felix Salmon inadvertently explains why only the government can fun disaster relief: The problem with the Red Cross (By Felix Salmon, Reuters, November 12, 2012)

The trick to being a disaster relief organization is that you need the money and the resources before disaster hits, so that you're prepared when it happens. The Red Cross should have used its balance sheet to go to work as soon as Sandy arrived, should then spend whatever is necessary for as long as it is necessary, and then should use whatever's left over from its latest $117 million windfall to be better prepared for the next disaster.

Nobody can spend out of their balance sheet "whatever is necessary for as long as necessary". You need the only entity that is solvent by fiat, not by balance sheet (the government) to mobilize available resources by spending money into existence. The sovereign money issuer is there for, first and foremost, enabling disaster relief.

You don't hoard money and resources before a disaster, that's a waste of money. You may stockpile some resources but you should mostly create money to commaandeer existing resources.

I distribute. You re-distribute. He gives your hard-earned money to lazy scroungers. -- JakeS

Just got back from the bank ... found out it was closed for what is now called "Veteran's Weekend". I'm not into the whole "Are you unemployed cause all the factory jobs were shipped overseas by corporations? So grab a weapon and enable these same corporations to plunder other lands." crap. So I now proclaim this day "Hurray for Truffle's fat ass day!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wp4O7v5320

another day spent cleaning casks and then filling them at a brewery. Helen is tired and achey again

keep to the Fen Causeway

November 12 edition.

I distribute. You re-distribute. He gives your hard-earned money to lazy scroungers. -- JakeS

Are neuroscientists the next great architects? - Salon.com

Early in his career, when he was still struggling to find a cure for polio, Jonas Salk retreated to Umbria, Italy, to the monastery at the Basilica of Assisi. The 13th-century Franciscan monastery rises out of the hillside in geometric white stone, with Romanesque arches framing its quiet courtyards. Salk would insist, for the rest of his life, that something about this place--the design and the environment in which he found himself--helped to clear his obstructed mind, inspiring the solution that led to his famous polio vaccine.

"He really thought there was something to this," says the architect Alison Whitelaw, "that the quality of the built environment could affect the performance of the brain."

Today, the near 10-year-old Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture believes that neuroscience could make science's greatest contribution to the field of architecture since physics informed fundamental structural methods, acoustic designs, and lighting calculations in the late 19th century. In September, the academy held its first national conference at, fittingly, the Salk Institute, in La Jolla, California. When the academy solicited proposals from anyone who might have insight or research to contribute, Whitelaw expected a handful of takers. The conference instead received dozens of proposals from all over the world--"from people," Whitelaw says, "we didn't even know were working in this field."

Now, thanks to a $500,000 gift from the estate of solar-energy pioneer Harold Hay, the academy has dedicated resources to fund research at the intersection of these seemingly disparate fields.

It's a fine line between homage, parody, and consumer opportunism. Jess Walter

From The Forward

An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix on Saturday because he failed to vote in the election, police said on Monday.

Holly Solomon, 28, was arrested after running over husband Daniel Solomon following a wild chase that left him pinned underneath the vehicle.