Teresa Mahoney: From Egg Lady to Egg-xecutive

My mom, egg artist Daniela Mahoney, celebrated her 30th anniversary as a nationally-recognized Czech folk artist in the United States this year. After many professional setbacks under the oppressive communist Czechoslovakian regime, she finally found personal and financial freedom through the traditional craft of egg decorating in the United States.

The letter below explains how an Oregon journalist inspired Mahoney to pursue the craft that shaped the course of the rest of her life.

Dear Diane:

My name is Daniela Mahoney and we met 28 years ago in Cedar Mill, Oregon in front of Mike's Auto Parts. It was shortly before Valentine's Day and you were shopping in the neighboring Bales Thriftway store at that time. I was standing in front of Mike's Auto Parts, selling crochet crafts, to raise funds for my upcoming wedding. The merchandise included black crochet poodles (wine bottle covers) and potholders.

You came to me and asked a lot of questions. I tried to answer them with my limited English. As our conversation progressed, you told me that you are a reporter from the Oregonian and would write a story about me if I could do something more newsworthy (in terms of crafts). Since Easter was coming up, I chose the art of egg decorating. My future mother-in-law went to the local library and gathered some books about the subject and fall in love with Ukrainian eggs. For the next six to eight weeks I decorated eggs day and night and contacted you later when ready for an interview.

Back in 1983 you wrote almost a full-page article about my art and my story for the Oregonian newspaper. Based on that story I got an exposure to local TV and was featured in the AM Northwest show with Paul Linnman, Faces and Places with Jack McGowan, and later in 1989, became a feature artist for the Grand Opening of MGM studios in Walt Disney World.

All these events inspired me to become a full time artist and I found my new identity in the USA -- I became "The Egg Lady." Patrick and I got married on April 9, 1983 (and are married to this date). Our son Patrick was born in 1984 and daughter Teresa in 1987.

Years have passed. Years of laughs and tears, hope and despair. Our son was diagnosed autistic at the age of four and my career path, as well as personal life, were greatly impacted by our son's disability. I later pursued a degree in Accounting and Marketing at PSU and eventually got a Master's degree in Social Work at PSU (currently work for the State of Oregon). Patrick Jr. moved to a group home to live with other disabled young adults. Teresa studied in college and now lives in New York to pursue her Master's Degree in Journalism at Columbia University.

I continue decorating eggs in addition to my full time job as a social worker. People wonder why. I guess, I simply lost my heart and my mind. I love decorating eggs and now have a customer base nationwide. My main customer in Oregon has been Made in Oregon since 1987.

Since I now have a master's level education, I could say that I have graduated from an Egg Lady to an Egg-xecutive. Last year, 2012, will mark the 30th anniversary of my coming to America. I am the first generation in our family to finally make it to the U.S. since 1923 when my grandfather Vaclav first attempted to come through Ellis Island without success.

The most important thing for you to know is that you were the person who changed my life forever. Our unusual encounter in late winter of 1983 took me into exploring a professional path that I would have never imagined. I have decorated more than 80 thousand eggs in the past 28 years, taught thousands of children how to decorate eggs and published several children's books. You gave me the inspiration to explore my artistic talents and helped me to enhance my self-esteem and sense of self-worth during my humble beginnings in the U.S.

I would love hearing from you.

Best regards,

Daniela Mahoney

Diane responded to Daniela and they met for lunch to catch up. You can find Daniela's egg art at danielam.com.

The video below shows how Daniela Mahoney uses a high-speed dental drill to engrave freehand onto the surface of a painted egg shell. She works out of the workshop in her garage in Portland, Ore.

Daniela Mahoney: Egg Artist from Teresa Mahoney on Vimeo.

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Sometimes, wishes are quickly granted.? Sometimes, they already were.

Steelers safety Troy Polamalu wants player input in rule changes.? But the players already have input.

?I do wish . . . that the NFL did have a voice from the players? side, whether it?s our players? union president, or team captains, or our executive committee on the players? side,? Polamalu said earlier today on ESPN.? ?Because we?re the guys that realize the risk, we?re the guys on the field.?

As MDS pointed out, the players have a voice in the rule-revising process.? Specifically, this year?s the rule changes were discussed with NFLPA president Domonique Foxworth, who worked with Lester Archambeaux, Charlie Batch, Ernie Conwell, Matt Hasselbeck, Brandon Moore, Jeff Saturday, Ben Watson, and Eric Winston in providing input to the Competition Committee.

Also, Will Montgomery of the Redskins presented video to the Competition Committee in connection with the rule that makes the snapper a defenseless player.

Former players also had a voice with the Player Safety Advisory panel, which includes John Madden, Ronnie Lott, Ernie Accorsi, Antonio Freeman, Patrick Kerney, Willie Lanier, Oliver Luck, Steve Mariucci, Anthony Munoz.

So, basically, Polamalu already got what he wanted, without finding a lamp or losing an eyelash.

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Online Classes for Entrepreneurs | Business Planning

By Rolfe Larson on March 12, 2013

Want to start a small business, but missing some skills? Here?s one option: take some online classes, where you might learn what you need, for a fraction of the time and cost. Improve your business plan AND your business. There are 100s of web-based business classes, many of them free (open source) or for a small fee. Many are taught through world-class universities, and offer more interactivity than you would get if you attended classes there.

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Too Many Pets and Not Enough Animals | Mother Jones

[This essay will appear in "Animals," the Spring 2013 issue of Lapham's Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted at Tom Dispatch and Mother Jones with the kind permission of that magazine.]

London housewife Barbara Carter won a "grant a wish" charity contest, and said she wanted to kiss and cuddle a lion. Wednesday night she was in a hospital in shock and with throat wounds. Mrs. Carter, forty-six, was taken to the lions' compound of the Safari Park at Bewdley Wednesday. As she bent forward to stroke the lioness, Suki, it pounced and dragged her to the ground. Wardens later said, "We seem to have made a bad error of judgment."

-- British news bulletin, 1976

Having once made a similar error of judgment with an Australian koala, I know it to be the one the textbooks define as the failure to grasp the distinction between an animal as an agent of nature and an animal as a symbol of culture. The koala was supposed to be affectionate, comforting, and cute. Of this I was certain because it was the creature of my own invention that for two weeks in the spring of 1959 I'd been presenting to readers of the San Francisco Examiner prior to its release by the Australian government into the custody of the Fleishacker Zoo.

The Examiner was a Hearst newspaper, the features editor not a man to ignore a chance for sure-fire sentiment, my task that of the reporter assigned to provide the advance billing. Knowing little or nothing about animals other than what I'd read in children's books or seen in Walt Disney cartoons, I cribbed from the Encyclopedia Britannica (Phascolarctos cinereus, ash-colored fur, nocturnal, fond of eucalyptus leaves), but for the most part I relied on A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, the tales of Brer Rabbit, and archival images of President Teddy Roosevelt, the namesake for whom the teddy bear had been created and stuffed, in 1903 by a toy manufacturer in Brooklyn.

Stouthearted, benevolent, and wise, the koala incoming from the Antipodes was the little friend of all the world, and on the day of its arrival at the airport, I was carrying roses wrapped in a cone of newsprint. The features editor had learned his trade in Hollywood in the 1940s, and he had in mind a camera shot of my enfolding a teddy bear in a warm and welcoming embrace. "Lost child found in the wilderness," he had said. "Lassie comes home." The koala didn't follow script. Annoyed by the flashbulbs, clawing furiously at my head and shoulders, it bloodied my shirt and tie, shredded the roses, urinated on my suit and shoes.

The unpleasantness didn't make the paper. The photograph was taken before the trouble began, and so the next morning in print, there we were, the koala and I, man and beast glad to see one another, the San Francisco Examiner's very own Christopher Robin framed in the glow of an A-list fairy tale with Brer Rabbit, Teddy Roosevelt, and Winnie-the-Pooh, all for one and one for all as once had been our common lot in Eden.

The Pantomime of Brutes

Rumors and reports of human relations with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of humankind's intimate acquaintance until somewhere toward the end of the nineteenth century, animals appeared as both agents of nature and symbols of culture. Constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted, but they also were believed to possess qualities inherent in human beings, subject to the close observation of the ways in which man and beast both resembled and differed from one another.

Unable to deliver lectures, the lion and the elephant taught by example; so did the turtle, the wolf, and the ant. Aesop's Fables, composed in the sixth century BC, accorded with the further researches of Aristotle, who, about 200 years later, in his History of Animals, set up the epistemological framework that for the next two millennia incorporated the presence of animals in the center ring of what became known as Western civilization:

"Just as we pointed out resemblances in the physical organs, so in a number of animals we observe gentleness or fierceness, mildness or cross temper, courage or timidity, fear or confidence, high spirits or low cunning... Other qualities in man are represented by analogous and not identical qualities; for instance, just as in man we find knowledge, wisdom, and sagacity, so in certain animals there exists some other natural potentiality akin to these."

Other peoples in other parts of the world developed different sets of relations with animals worshipped as gods, but in the European theaters of operation, they served as teachers of both natural and political science. The more that was learned about their "analogous and not identical qualities," the more fabulous they became. Virgil's keeping of bees on his country estate in 30 BC led him in book four of the Georgics to admire their work ethic?"At dawn they pour forth from the gates?no loitering"; to applaud their sense of a public and common good?"they share the housing of their city,/passing their lives under exalted laws"; to approve of their chastity?"They forebear to indulge/in copulation or to enervate/their bodies in Venus' ways."

The studies of Pliny the Elder in the first century demonstrated to his satisfaction that so exceptional were the wonders of the animal kingdom that man by comparison "is the only animal that knows nothing and can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak, nor walk, nor eat, nor do anything without the prompting of nature, but only weep."

To the scientific way of looking at animals adapted by the Greco-Roman poets and philosophers, medieval Christianity added the dimension of science fiction?any and all agents of nature not to be trusted until or unless they had been baptized in the font of a symbol or herded into the cage of an allegory. In the illuminated pages of tenth-century bibles and the rose windows of Gothic cathedrals, the bee became a sign of hope, the crow and the goat both references to Satan, the fly indicative of lust, the lamb and the dove variant embodiments of Christ. Instead of remarking upon the extraordinary talents of certain animals, the holy fathers produced mythical beings, among them the dragon (huge, batwinged, fire breathing, barbed tail) and the unicorn (white body, blue eyes, the single horn on its forehead colored red at the tip).

The resurrection of classical antiquity in fifteenth-century Italy restored the emphasis on the observable correlation between man and beast. The anatomical drawings in Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks (of horses, swans, human cadavers) are works of art of a match with The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. He saw human beings as organisms among other organisms participant in the great chain of being, the various life forms merging into one another in their various compounds of air, earth, fire, and water. Giuseppe Arcimboldo's 1566 portrait of a man's head anticipates the conclusion reached in 1605 by the English bishop Joseph Hall: "Mankind, therefore, hath within itself his goats, chameleons, salamanders, camels, wolves, dogs, swine, moles, and whatever sorts of beasts: there are but a few men amongst men."

The eighteenth-century naturalists shared with Virgil the looking to the animal kingdom for signs of good government. The Count of Buffon, keeper of the royal botanical garden for King Louis XV, recognized in 1767 the beaver as a master architect capable of building important dams, but he was even more impressed by the engineering of the beaver's civil society, by "some particular method of understanding one another, and of acting in concert? However numerous the republic of beavers may be, peace and good order are uniformly maintained in it."

Source: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/lewis-lapham-animal-conquest

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Roli's Seaboard is a rubber-keyed piano that may redefine the way you play

Synths are nothing new, of course -- so what makes Roli's digital piano so novel? The instrument has a patent-pending rubberized surface that lets you bend and twist the keys as you play, freeing you from fiddling around with knobs, so you can directly, physically affect the way it sounds. Think of it as the difference between bending a string on a guitar, rather than stepping on the wah-wah pedal. It's the sort of thing you really have to see in action to appreciate -- thankfully, we've got the instrument's creator Roland Lamb giving us a demo after the break.

Gallery: Roli Seaboard Grand hands-on

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Half Price Harman Kardon Headphones Are Your Deal of the Day

Well, hello there, price-matching. At some time during the wee hours of March 10, 2013, several sites across the Internet — except for the Apple Store — cut the price of the Harman Kardon CL headphones in half. They were $200, but now they're $100. That's an enormous price drop that's rarely seen for headphones of this caliber. Giz alum Adrian Covert reviewed these headphones last year and only had nice things to say: More »

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Tech-savvy Newark Mayor Booker: Government flunking social media

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Cory Booker, the constantly tweeting mayor of Newark, New Jersey, who intends to run for the U.S. Senate, said on Sunday that the federal government needs to reinvent the often overly formal way it uses social media.

"It's just using it as an announcement system, like you used to listen to in class: ?The cafeteria will be serving roast beef, and I will be at this place or that place'," Booker told Reuters after an appearance at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. "But that's not interaction, that's not collaboration."

Booker, 43, a rising star in the Democratic Party who has more than 1.3 million followers on Twitter, told the Austin audience that he can't be a mayor who sits behind a desk and waits for the world to come to him.

Last year, the Newark mayor was hailed as a hero for inviting into his home neighbors who, he learned on Twitter, lost power because of Superstorm Sandy.

He also uses Twitter to give city phone numbers to constituents, share inspirational quotes, declare his love for the TV series Star Trek and answer questions from local students while admonishing them not to tweet in class.

"On it," he replied to a resident who complained recently of a broken street light.

Booker, who made a failed run for Newark mayor in 2002 before winning the job in 2006, said he's been hooked on Twitter since actor Ashton Kutcher called and told him why he should dive into the micro-blogging site.

'TELLING YOUR TRUTH'

Booker said it was important to be himself on social media - and that this would still be true if he were in the Senate.

"Life is about telling your truth and being who you are, 100 percent," he said. "This world desperately needs authenticity, people who have the courage to tell their truth every single day, and I would not stop being who I am just because of the title that's before my name."

One of his Twitter followers, Shuronda Robinson of Austin, said she took her 12- and 13-year-old sons to his appearance at South by Southwest and made sure he shook the boys' hands.

"I was so inspired," she said after Booker's remarks to an audience that didn't fill a large auditorium. "I wanted my boys to see someone living with purpose."

Newark, eight miles from Manhattan and New Jersey's largest city, was once a thriving manufacturing center but for the last half century has battled political corruption, urban blight and high crime.

Booker, a former Rhodes Scholar, has made reducing crime a major priority. In March 2010, Newark experienced its first murder-free month since 1944.

While Booker's national profile is rising, some Newark residents have criticized him for being absent from the city as he travels around the country, appears on TV programs and meets business leaders.

Booker said that traveling has helped him secure benefits to Newark, such as a $100 million gift to its schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

"He didn't come to Newark to say, ?Hey, I want to give you $100 million,'" Booker said. "We were at a conference together."

Booker has filed papers to run for the Senate in 2014. Senator Frank Lautenberg, 89, a long-serving New Jersey Democrat, has said he will not seek re-election. Booker has been leading in New Jersey polls for the seat.

"It is even my intention to run, but I'm not going to come to any conclusions until after November," Booker told Reuters.

(Reporting by Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Philip; Barbara)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tech-savvy-newark-mayor-booker-government-flunking-social-012635134.html

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Government rejects call to stiffen bank leverage rules

By Matt Scuffham and Steve Slater

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will resist calls to impose far stricter rules on how much banks can leverage their capital for investments and lending, insisting that there is no need to do so before 2018.

The government is forcing banks to limit leverage to 33 times their capital, in line with international regulations, and rejected a call on Monday from a panel of parliamentarians to stiffen the rules to curb risk-taking even more.

"Our view is that at this time we should follow the international approach, to press for countries to have a power to set a higher ratio for 2018 following a review in 2017," said Greg Clark, Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

The head of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (PCBS), which has been asked to find ways to reform banks, said he was disappointed that the government did not consider a tougher rule and that current proposals to change the industry fall short of what is required.

"There remains much more work to be done to improve the bill," Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie said.

Tyrie had also called on the government to adopt legislation that could force the full break up of banks' routine retail operations and riskier investment banking arms if new rules designed to protect taxpayers fail.

But Clark rejected that proposal, too.

The government will instead force banks to "ring-fence" the retail operations. This would keep the two business segments within a bank's overall control but protect the retail side from risks in other areas.

"If a future government considered that ring-fencing was no longer the right solution, then it should consider a full analysis for further reforms, and in the light of that analysis bring forward new legislation," Clark said.

ELECTRIFIED RING-FENCING

The government has said it supports a proposal by Tyrie to "electrify" the ring-fence, meaning that any individual bank that tried to find a way around the new rules could be broken up by the regulator.

Clark was speaking as he delivered the Banking Reform Bill to parliament. The bill is aimed at preventing a repeat of the need for taxpayer-funded bank bailouts after the 65 billion pound double rescue of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group in 2008.

He said the challenge was to safeguard the banking industry without imposing excessive costs.

"The system of regulation failed, as did the culture of the banking sector in not preventing or resolving the crisis without recourse to taxpayer money. That is why fundamental reform is needed," Clark said.

Recent problems across Britain's banks - including interest rate rigging at Barclays and RBS, mis-selling scandals and accusations of an over-aggressive banking culture - have added to calls for Britain to take a lead with financial industry reform.

Mervyn King, the outgoing Governor of the Bank of England, and his successor, Mark Carney, have indicated that they support a higher leverage ratio to curtail risk-taking.

Tyrie said that a "robust" leverage ratio was essential and 3 percent was "almost certainly too low". The PCBS did not say what the ratio should be, but an independent commission last year suggested 4 percent, which would limit banks' leverage to 25 times capital.

Banks have warned that the severity of the proposed reforms - more rigorous than those in France and Germany - could put British banks at a disadvantage against continental rivals such as Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas.

The British Bankers' Association, which has previously warned that UK banks will find it harder to raise capital and fund lending if reform is too onerous, on Monday urged the government to work with other European countries to coordinate reforms.

(Editing by David Goodman)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-says-stick-three-percent-bank-leverage-ratio-172456935--sector.html

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Top CAD programs for Interior Designers: review | L' Essenziale ...

Undoubtedly? CAD software has become today an essential part of Interior Design business. If several decades ago it was impossible to imagine Interior Designer who cannot draw, today it becomes reality: more and more Interior Design students do all renderings by means of CAD software. We can discuss long hours the downside of this phenomenon and the benefits of ability to produce hand drawn renderings, however this is not the subject of this article.

If you look at job vacancies, you will see that even to get an Internship in the company Interior Design student is expected to have perfect CAD skills. We can like it or not but CAD is a must thing to learn nowadays to stay competitive on the market. However, many of professionals are actually stuck with the choice of software as there are so many available. This article is aimed to review all popular programs used today in order to help you to make the right choice. It is based on several opinions of real interior designers and architects and covers main pros and cons of each program.

Some programs are more sophisticated and will require to attend special courses or hire a tutor to understand the principles of it. Another programs are quite easy and you can actually learn them by yourself. There are a lot of books and online courses available, for example lynda.com, where you will need to pay a monthly fee to get access to tutorials and then study them at your own pace.

Archicad

As the name suggests this software was created mainly for architects, thus mainly focuses on their needs. It is perfect for creating architectural plans, elevations and sections.

Pros

2) Quick and simple to use, straightforward, no hidden settings

3) Great for creating technical drawings

4) Includes PDF maker

5) Allows to see changes made in 2D format to instantly see in 3D model

6) New Morph tool of the latest version (ArchiCad 16) allows to create complex geometrical forms

7) Large library of BIM components (Interior Design objects)

8) Choice of MAC or Windows

Cons

1) Expensive

2) Arhicad 16 is quite difficult to learn for new users

3) Limited possibilities for creating non standard objects with complex geometry (this was improved in the latest version by introducing Morph tool)

4) Lack of single key commands

AutoCAD

This is one of the most popular CAD software that interior designers use. It is available both in Windows and Mac versions and you can download a free trial from the Autodesk website. Although Autocad gives a lot of opportunities to a user, it is not an easy program to learn. You don?t need to be a techno guru, but you will need a lot of patience and determination, but as award you will be able to produce very realistic renderings.

Pros

1) One of the main pros of this software is its popularity ? it is used in many architectural and design companies

2) Allows to create detailed and sophisticated drawings

3) Ease of use for 3D visualization and animation

Cons

1) Expensive

2) Complicated for a new user and difficult to learn

3) Models created in Autocad are not possible to read in other programs

Autodesk Revit?

This is a special program created for architects allowing to design a building and its components in 3D.

Pros

1) Provides better understanding of architectural structure of the building

2) Allows to quickly create? plans, elevations and sections

Cons

1) In order to make great drawings one needs to study thoroughly the program which requires lots of time and desire to ?dig?

2) Expensive as all other Autodesk programs. Perhaps is more suitable and workable in terms of self-repayment for large architectural bureaus rather than small Interior Design businesses

Autodesk 3Ds Max

This software allows creating 3D models, animations and images. It is frequently used by architectural and Interior Design studios for rendering, simulation and visualization purposes.

Pros

1) High standard of 2D and 3D data exchange

2) Easy to learn

3) Large variety of available tools and plugins

4) A lot of helpful information in the Internet ? tutorials, courses, conferences and books

Cons

1) Quite slow

2) Poor compatibility with other modeling software

3) A lot of available functions makes it difficult to thoroughly learn this program

Chief Architect

This software was specifically designed for the home building industry. Its simplicity allows to use 3D design tool by novice computer users or by those who find other CAD software too complicated.

Pros

1) Simple to use and easy to learn

2) Allows to create schematic drawing within minutes

Cons

1) Very basic, doesn?t allot to create very complex objects

SketchUp

This is 3D modelling program acquired by Google.

Pros

1) Easy to learn and use

2) Big online library (called 3D Warehouse) of models (doors, windows, furniture, etc.). It allows designers to download and share free models.

3) Allows access to 3-rd party ?plug-in? programs with additional possibilities (e.g. near photo realistic renderings).

4) You can import photos of the things which clients already own and set them within the space

5) Available free limited version

Cons

1) Difficulties with 3D visualisation especially with complex models

2) Difficulties with modelling complex surfaces especially with curved, ?organic? forms. Detailing of such objects makes them ?heavy?

3) Absence of controlled point lights which is essential for Interior Design projects

4) Rendering in SketchUp is very basic, however it can be attractive as it imitates the hand drawings. For making photo-realistic renderings the program can be compatible with special programs -? ?Render? plug-ins.

Vectorworks

Unlike other CAD products which can be used for architecture and engineering, Vectorworks was specifically designed for Interior Design needs.

Pros

1) Successfully integrates 2D and 3D design

2) Very useful? worksheets feature ? allows to create schedules, material lists, cost sheets, etc.

3) Great tool for creating floor plans (2D drafting) .

4) Cost-effective

5) Supports a lot of formats (PDF, SketchUp, 3Ds, etc.)

6) Latest version includes some of the SketchUp functions, such as push/pull

7) Good lighting and texture effects.

Cons

1) Base price doesn?t include high-quality 3D-render

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Each of the reviewed programs is great and gives user a lot of opportunities. If you still don?t know which program to choose, remember that CAD skills are important but not everything in Interior Design.? It is just a tool which helps you to visualize your ideas. So make yourself a coffee, decide which one is? better for you and start learning!

Can you state any other pros and cons of these programs? Which software do you use? Do you like it?

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Jeb Bush: Political reporters are 'crack addicts'

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks in Austin, Texas. Jeb Bush has long resisted pressure from supporters to run for president. Now the former Florida governor is signaling that he?s at least open to the idea, a shift that comes as he promotes a new book and as a divided Republican Party struggles to right itself. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks in Austin, Texas. Jeb Bush has long resisted pressure from supporters to run for president. Now the former Florida governor is signaling that he?s at least open to the idea, a shift that comes as he promotes a new book and as a divided Republican Party struggles to right itself. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Sunday likened political reporters to "crack addicts" and "heroin addicts" during a tour of morning talk shows that drew repeated questions about the still-distant 2016 presidential election.

Bush, capping a media-heavy week that sparked chatter about a presidential campaign for a third member of his family, tried to keep the conversation focused on his book "Immigration Wars." But as Bush wrapped up a conversation with NBC's David Gregory," he likened journalists and their questions about the 2016 campaign to drug addicts.

"Who's the hottest Florida politician right now? Is it you or Marco Rubio?" Gregory asked, referring to Rubio, a senator who is also a potential GOP contender. "Who are we more likely to see in the White House?"

"Man, you guys are crack addicts. You really are obsessed with all this politics," Bush replied.

The "Meet the Press" host interrupted, saying he'd been called a lot of things, but never a crack addict.

"OK, heroin addict. Is that better?" shot back Bush, the son of former President George H.W. Bush and brother of former President George W. Bush.

"We've got big challenges, and Marco Rubio, to his credit, is working on those. And he deserves a lot of credit for it, and I'm very proud of him," Jeb Bush said of his potential rival.

After Bush left the Florida governor's office in 2007, some urged him to jump into the 2012 race against President Barack Obama. But his brother's low approval ratings could have dragged him down, and there seemed little interest in a national campaign.

But with Republicans looking for a new message and messenger, Jeb Bush is signaling he's open to the possibility.

"I'm not saying yes. I'm just not saying no," Bush told NBC News last week.

Speaking Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," Bush said, "When you asked me before 2012 ? Was I going to run in 2012? ? and I said no, I went through the process and decided it wasn't appropriate."

"Now, I've decided to defer any consideration of it until the proper time to make those kind of considerations, which is out, you know, more than a year from now, for sure," he said.

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'Star Trek' Trailer And Poster Dive Deep 'Into Darkness'

The latest teaser trailer for "Star Trek Into Darkness" should strike you as familiar since there are many, many references from popular culture, including "Tron" and what many people are calling "Star Wars" influences. (Side note: Wouldn't it be cool if J.J. Abrams directed a "Star Wars" movie? It could never happen though.) Anyway, the [...]

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/03/11/star-trek-into-darkness-trailer-and-poster/

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Arkansas bans abortion at 12 weeks, earliest in U.S

LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) - Arkansas adopted the most restrictive abortion law in the United States on Wednesday, mostly banning the procedure after 12 weeks of pregnancy as both houses of the state legislature overrode the governor's veto.

The law, the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act, will likely go into effect in August, if it survives expected legal challenges.

The Republican-controlled House voted 56-33 on Wednesday to override the veto by Democratic Governor Mike Beebe, which followed the state Senate's override on Tuesday. In Arkansas, lawmakers can override a veto with a simple majority vote.

Arkansas will have the earliest abortion ban in the country, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.

The measure prohibits most abortions at about 12 weeks of pregnancy, once a fetal heartbeat can be detected by a standard ultrasound. It includes exemptions for rape, incest, danger to the life of the mother and major fetal conditions. Doctors who violate the prohibition would have their licenses revoked by the state medical board.

"This bill seeks to limit those abortions that are done for birth-control purposes," said Jerry Cox, president of Family Council of Arkansas, which supports the measure. "This is the strongest pro-life bill passed in Arkansas since the (Supreme) Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973."

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said her group was deeply disappointed.

"The majority of Arkansans ? and the majority of Americans ? don't want politicians involved in a woman's personal medical decisions about her pregnancy," she said.

SHIFT TO STATEHOUSES

Battles over abortion in the United States have largely shifted from the federal courts to statehouses.

States in 2011 passed a record-breaking number of new abortion restrictions, 92, and in 2012 passed the second-highest number, 43, according to Guttmacher.

This year, for example, the Indiana Senate passed a bill that would make the state the ninth to require an ultrasound prior to an abortion.

In Arkansas, the fetal heartbeat bill was one of several bills introduced by Republicans this year seeking to restrict abortion. This is the first time the party has controlled both chambers since the Reconstruction era following the Civil War.

Under another law that took effect February 28, Arkansas bans most abortions after 20 weeks. That measure also became law after legislators overrode the governor's veto.

In both of his veto override letters, Beebe questioned the constitutionality of the bills. He said the bills contradicted the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion until a fetus could viably survive outside the womb. A fetus is generally considered viable at 22 to 24 weeks.

CHALLENGE EXPECTED

The ACLU of Arkansas was expected to challenge the 12-week ban in court.

Holly Dixon, an attorney with the ACLU of Arkansas, said that if the 12-week ban is successfully challenged in court, then the 20-week ban would still stand.

Previous Arkansas law limited abortions after 25 weeks.

Laurie Lee, a resident of Cabot, Arkansas, said that the newly passed 12-week law is a reflection of the will of the people of the state.

"I am encouraged as a woman and a mom," she said. "I'm thankful to the men and women of the Arkansas legislature for standing on the promises they made to Arkansans to vote according to the views and morals of the citizens they represent."

But in Little Rock, Karen Sykes said she believed the law was overreaching.

"When I chose to have a baby out of wedlock, I didn't ask the government if it was OK, because it was none of their business," Sykes said. "Arkansas women are intellectually and emotionally capable of making our own decisions."

(Reporting by Suzi Parker; Editing by Corrie MacLaggan, Gary Hill, Leslie Adler, Steve Orlofsky and Lisa Shumaker)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/arkansas-bans-abortion-12-weeks-earliest-u-001230293.html

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Business Data Modeling And Planning Software Company Anaplan Raises $33M From Meritech, Shasta And Others

After acquiring Vue Analytics, Anaplan, which provides a cloud-based solution for businesses to model and plan for sales, operations, and finance; is announcing $30 million in new funding led by Meritech Capital with existing investors Granite Ventures and Shasta Ventures participating. We've also learned that Anaplan will e closing another $3 million in funding as part of this round, bringing the total to $33 million. This brings the company's total funding to $50 million.

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Samsung Galaxy S3 Among 20 Phones To Receive CyanogenMod 10.1 Android 4.2.2 Update

CyanogenMod, a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution for Android operating systems offers customized versions of the latest OS that can be installed on devices independent of its original firmware. Such ROMs are often used in order to attain specs and features not available on official firmware distributed by vendors of the supported devices, or in order to get OS updates much quicker that they are released by vendors.

The latest version of its more stable ?Monthly? release for Jelly Bean has been pushed out fairly quickly since its initial CM10.1-M1 release in mid-January. Then seen on only a handful of phones, M2 is now available for the following 20 devices:

Acer Iconia a700

Google Nexus S (crespo, crespo4g)

Google Nexus 7 (grouper, tilapia)

Google Galaxy Nexus (toro, toroplus, maguro)

Google Nexus 4 (mako)

Google Nexus 10 (manta)

Google Nexus Q (steelhead)

Hardkernel Odroid-U2

HTC One X (evita)

HTC Incredible 4G LTE (fireball)

HTC Evo 4G LTE (jewel)

HTC One S (ville)

LG Nitro HD (p930)

LG Optimus LTE (su640)

LG Spectrum (vs920)

Samsung Galaxy S (captivatemtd, galaxysbmtd, galaxysmtd, epicmtd)

Samsung Galaxy SII (i9100g, hercules, skyrocket)

Samsung Galaxy SIII (US variants d2att, d2cri, d2mtr, d2spr, d2tmo, d2vzw)

Samsung Note (quincytmo, quincyatt)

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (p3100, p3110)

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (p5100, p5110)

While some mobile carries have begun pushing out the Android 4.2.2 update, some others see their most popular phones still suck on even Android 4.1.1. For example, Sprint has rolled out its Android 4.1.2 update for the Galaxy S3, and Verizon recently announced that it will soon roll out 4.1.2, while AT&T, U.S. Cellular and T-Mobile have yet to do so, according to Gotta Be Mobile.

Samsung Galaxy S4: What are they waiting for?

Since the release of Android 4.2 in November 2012, such phones as the LG Nexus 4 and Samsung's Nexus 10 have tasted ?A new flavor of Jelly Bean,? as the OS?s slogan from Google suggests.

Meanwhile the progression of the highly anticipated release of the Samsung Galaxy S4 has many predicting that the Korean-based Company and mobile carriers alike may be holding out on updating a number of their more popular devices until the S4 is on the market or much closer to being released.

A rumored April or May release for the smartphone may see consumers waiting for the phone?s debut ? as it is expected to run Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean natively ? as opposed to waiting for an update for an older OS on an older device.

With Samsung reportedly working toward a lofty sales goal of 100 million handsets in 2013, the company may be attempting to shift focus from its old phones to its new device that is already projected as its bestselling for the year.?

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-s3-among-20-phones-receive-cyanogenmod-101-android-422-update-1112455

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Look, no hands! Galaxy S 4 may track your eyes

Devin Coldewey , NBC News ? ? ? 11 hrs.

Users of the upcoming Galaxy S 4 (which was teased in a video Monday) may get to test out a whole new kind of hands-free experience. It's possible that Samsung's latest phone will utilize powerful new eye-tracking technology.

The system, first reported by the New York Times' Bits blog, would monitor the user's eyes and take action accordingly. For instance, when a person's gaze reaches the text at the very bottom of the screen, the phone could automatically scroll down.

There are other possibilities as well: The phone could pause a movie when you look away, or allow you to put in your unlock password with just your eyes. Such features have been demonstrated in other eye-tracking rigs like the Tobii Rex peripheral, but no mobile phones have anything like it.

Indeed, it's hard to imagine it possible ? although with a high-definition camera on the front side of the phone, it would just be a matter of writing the software to detect and track the user's face and eyes. It sounds fancy, but Samsung isn't one to skimp on specs.

It may sound like a feature for incredibly lazy folks who don't want to even move a finger to go to the next page, but eye-tracking is very useful for the millions worldwide who are disabled, missing limbs, or otherwise unable to operate a phone normally. So while it may be just a neat trick for the tech-savvy among us, it could be of huge value to more than a few people.

The Galaxy S 4's eye-tracking system and other innovations will be described in detail at its launch event on March 14. We'll be reporting live then, but will also keep on the lookout for further leaked features in the meantime.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/look-no-hands-galaxy-s-4-may-track-your-eyes-1C8687458

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