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The murky legacy of Henry Ford?who would?ve been 150 today?centers around a few familiar ideas like the assembly line and the $5 workday. Less familiar is Ford?s biggest failure: Fordlandia, a city in the rainforest that was abandoned as quickly as it was built.
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With the Optimus G Pro already available on AT&T and a Verizon variant rubber-stamped by Uncle Sam, Sprint is bringing up the caboose. A smartphone bearing the model number LG LS980 has just passed through the FCC, and it's a dead ringer for a G Pro destined for Big Yellow. Not only does its model number jive with the other carrier-specific incarnations of LG's device, but it packs support for Now Network-friendly CDMA and LTE over band 25, alongside the usual GSM radio. There's no telling when the Now Network will start offering the phone, but federal approval means it's clear to arrive when LG pleases.
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[prMac.com] Luxembourg - Houdah Software today is proud to announce the immediate availability of ACTPrinter 4.4 for iPhone and iPad. This update to the popular virtual printer adds the ability to create PDF from web pages, documents and the clipboard - right on iPhone or iPad. ACTPrinter also includes a document scanner feature to be unlocked by an in-app purchase.
When we released ACTPrinter back in 2009 we thought of it as a paperless repository for travel documents, reservation confirmations, electronic tickets and boarding passes. Soon our customers found it many more uses. They were printing all sorts of documents from their Mac to their iPhone. Many even printed whole books.
ACTPrinter has since seen many revisions. These brought support for iPad, sections for organizing printouts, and more. A big step forward was the addition of a Windows printer driver. Not so long ago ACTPrinter 4.0 brought a fresh design to allow more rapid access to existing feature. More importantly though it created room for new features.
At its core, ACTPrinter remains a virtual printer: Save paper. Print documents, electronic tickets, travel plans, web pages, ... to your iPhone or iPad. Read on the go. Be prepared and have your documents always with you.
ACTPrinter 4.4 gives users even more option helping them to save paper:
* Web printer: save web pages as PDF printouts
* Clipboard printer: copy text or images in any iOS application. Save the selection to PDF in ACTPrinter
* Document printer: convert many popular file formats to PDF printouts
* Transfer documents between instances of ACTPrinter on iPhone, iPad, Mac or Windows PC
Should a paper copy be needed after all, ACTPrinter stands to help:
* Print to printers attached to a Mac or Windows PC
* Print to Apple AirPrint enabled printers
Feature highlights:
* Print from any Mac / PC application to iPad, iPhone or iPod touch (*)
* Mac / PC and iOS device pair seamlessly using Apple Bonjour aka ZeroConf
* Save web pages, documents and clipboard contents as PDF printouts
* Send printouts to other applications. Share via email
* Forward printouts to printers attached to a Mac or Windows PC (*)
(*) Requires a free helper to be installed on the Mac or PC
* Compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard through 10.8 Mountain Lion
* Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8
Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPad or iPod running iOS 5.1 or better
* Mac with AirPort card. Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.8
* PC with WiFi card. Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8
Pricing and Availability:
ACTPrinter 4.4 is priced at $2.99 (USD) and available exclusively through Apple's App Store. Sale 30% off: For a limited time, ACTPrinter - with all the new capabilities - will remain available at the old price of $1.99. The Mac client software, ACTPrinter Mac, is available for free from the Houdah Software web site. The Windows client software, ACTPrinter Win, is available for free from the Houdah Software web site.
Founded in 2005 by Pierre Bernard, Houdah Software is a small company based in Luxembourg, Europe. Houdah Software specializes in quality software for Mac, iPhone and Apple iPad. Our mission is to pair quality products with excellent customer support. Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Houdah Software s. r.l. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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The second generation model of the Google Nexus 7 is expected to replace the NVIDIA Tegra 3 that is powering the device with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor because of the better power efficiency with the Snapdragon chip. The 7 inch screen will have improved resolution of 1980 x 1200, up from the 1280 x 800 resolution seen on the original 7 inch glass. That will raise the pixel density smartly from the current 216ppi. Speaking about the panel, it will offer a narrower bezel, providing the user with more real estate. Most new devices are coming to market these days with a thinner, narrower bezel. The slate will come with a camera on back (5MP) and one on front (1.2MP) and is expected to be priced in the range of $199-$249 for a version with Wi-Fi connectivity.
The original model of the Google Nexus 7 sold about 6 million units thanks to its low price. But with a number of new 7 inch models launched with lower prices, the Google Nexus 7 needs more than just affordability in order to be competitive. Thus, the revised specs, which could help the slate compete enough to reach 8 million in sales.
source: DigiTimes
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The film is touching, filled with taste and care, but not enough to avoid being coy and sentimental.
On the surface, this indie does sound like standard-issue material, but its dynamics are far more complex than its simple exterior.
What Maisie Knew gives the audience a ground-eye view of its mesmerizing title character, a plucky, charismatic New Yorker who navigates downtown bars and building lobbies with the street savvy of a pro.
The result is a film that deeply engages us on multiple levels. Not only do we wonder what Maisie knows and how she knows it, we want to get this seedling to a place where she won't have to be transplanted every day.
It's a study of human nature, not at its worst, but at its most typically pathetic, and it goes to show that the more things don't change, the more they stay lousy.
Intimate, unnerving and entirely addictive.
Both Moore and Coogan are note-perfect.
This is a film that deals in subtle details, and its value lies in the way the filmmakers draw out small moments of surprise or truth from the familiar scenario.
It's far from the first story of a child dealing with the consequences of parental break-up -- but it may be one of the best.
The worthwhile subject matter becomes trivialized.
A wonderful modernized re-telling of the 1897 Henry James short story.
It's an intimate, well-acted and nuanced film that provides a fresh angle on an all-too-familiar struggle.
Onata Aprile is never showy and always authentic, a rare find in a child actor. In fact, she is one of the most self-possessed actors I've seen of any age.
A movie that's much easier to admire than to actually enjoy, no matter how well done or acted.
Onata Aprile's short career should blossom as people react to her subtle performance here.
Despite the big-name adults around her, it's the unknown Onata Aprile who is the star of this movie.
Gazing on Maisie, you want to know what she knows. That you can't is at once your dilemma and your opportunity, what adults must engage in order to be adults.
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Source: www.japantoday.com --- Tuesday, July 09, 2013
A new scam going around Facebook is increasingly targeting users in Japan with "friend requests" from fake accounts that use the names of those already on their friend lists. Growing numbers of users in the country have been receiving these fake friend requests, as identity thieves seek to gain access? ...
Source: http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/number-of-facebook-identity-thieves-on-the-rise
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NEW YORK ? Actress Amanda Bynes, wearing a long blue wig and sweat pants, appeared briefly in court on Tuesday on charges of marijuana possession and throwing a bong out a window and a judge postponed her case until September.
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Amanda Bynes arrives at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Tuesday.
Bynes, 27, made no comment during the hearing but has previously denied the charges of possession, reckless endangerment and attempted tampering with evidence.
All the charges against Bynes, who has made headlines in recent months for erratic behavior, odd posts on Twitter and legal problems, are misdemeanors.
In addition to setting a Sept. 26 court date, Judge Diana Boyar set an Aug. 26 deadline for filing motions to dismiss the charges.
Bynes, who wore a tank top, big sunglasses and false eyelashes in addition to the wig and sweat pants, was rushed out of the courthouse after her appearance.
"All we told her (the judge) was that there was no resolution yet and she gave us a new date," said Ross Kramer, one of Bynes' lawyers.
Kramer said Bynes' team would continue to work with the prosecutors to see if they can reach a resolution to the case.
Bynes was taken into custody in May after police were called to her high-rise apartment building after an employee reported someone smoking marijuana in the building's lobby.
Police said they were directed to Bynes' apartment and smelled marijuana after the actress invited them in. They also saw a bong, which is used for smoking marijuana.
Bynes was taken into custody after she grabbed the bong and threw it out of a window of the 36th-floor apartment, police said.
During a court appearance in May, Bynes' attorney accused police of entering the apartment illegally and said nothing was recovered during the search.
Bynes gained early stardom at the age of 13 when she had her own comedy show on the Nickelodeon television network. She also had a major role in the movie "What a Girl Wants" but has not appeared in a film since 2010's "Easy A."
Bynes has faced violations for drunk driving and hit and run in the past year and is on probation in California for driving on a suspended license.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Before becoming Zynga's new CEO earlier this month, Don Mattrick tried to buy the company when he was head of Microsoft's Xbox division, according to a published report.
Mattrick and Zynga founder and CEO Mark Pincus started negotiating a possible acquisition by Microsoft in 2010, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources "with knowledge of the matter."
The talks later fell apart, but Mattrick and Pincus stayed in touch. In March, the relationship got more serious as the two started going on bike rides together and discussing potential opportunities for Mattrick at Pincus' company.
Microsoft's effort to buy Zynga wasn't previously
This undated photo provided by GlobeNewswire shows Zynga's new CEO Don Mattrick, right, with Zynga's founding CEO Mark Pincus. (AP Photo/GlobeNewswire) (Uncredited)
disclosed. The purpose of the purchase would have been to boost the Xbox's game lineup at a time when Microsoft's game console was vying with Nintendo's Wii, which was known for its casual games, for leadership of the gaming market.Zynga and Microsoft representatives declined to comment on the report or confirm its details.
San Francisco-based Zynga announced this month that Mattrick would replace Pincus as its CEO. In the past two years, Zynga has struggled with disappointing earnings, declining popularity of its Facebook games, the departure of numerous executives, at last two rounds of mass layoffs, a plunging stock price and, most recently, falling sales.
Mattrick
comes to the company after leading Microsoft's games division from being a chronically unprofitable business to one that is making money and leading the U.S. market in sales. Before that, he served as president at Electronic Arts (ERTS).In 2007, the same year he joined Microsoft, Mattrick and some other former EA employees founded BigPark, which specialized in free casual games for the Web. Two years later, Microsoft purchased BigPark.
Contact Troy Wolverton at 408-840-4285. Follow him at Twitter.com/troywolv.
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There has never been as big a runway domestically or internationally to craft solutions to climate change. President Obama's climate plan, announced at Georgetown University on June 25th, is the most profound and important step the U.S. federal government has ever taken on climate change. Key audiences need to recognize that and act on it.
In addition to thanking President Obama, climate policy strategists who have labored in the vineyards for decades on building efficiency, clean transportation, renewable energy, energy finance, international agreements, resiliency, and climate science education all ought to be sprinting full speed to make sure everything the president has proposed happens over the next thrree years. The plan lays out scores of objectives the president has now made federal policy priorities and tasked his administration to implement.
It is critical now as well that grassroots advocates, who have made climate change such a public issue with their resistance to tar sands and the Keystone pipeline, embrace the [resident's plan and not just sit back and smile about all they have wrought. Few thought they could pull it off and even fewer imagined their urgency and moral suasion would translate into much more than a fight about a single pipeline.
Advocates need to shift gears and be prepared, assuming the president and Secretary Kerry do reject the pipeline permit, to work as hard and valiantly for the president's ambitious solutions agenda as they did to say no to the pipeline. It's always easier to shout no than it is to argue yes, but advocates need to turn that corner and become a determined force supporting solutions. If they do and if they are consistent about it over the next three years, they can shift the national conversation on climate in the process.
At the same time, the president and his political advisers need to realize how critical pipeline advocates are to the success of his solutions agenda. It won't be possible to move the sprawling June 25th agenda without the passion the pipeline advocates have brought to Keystone. If advocates feel disappointed, they will inevitably snipe and complain, and the President will feel slighted, and he will not be likely to engage the climate agenda again with the passion he showed at Georgetown. As a result, this is a tricky moment.
Presidential political advisers, please protect your president. Do not let him suffer the slings and arrows of a disappointed Keystone mob. He will have so much more fun with the climate agenda if you protect his back on Keystone and unite all the potential forces of yes on this issue. Smart politics suggest that the president reject the pipeline quickly so the full force of the environmental advocacy community can come together in support of the president's plan now.
Meanwhile, climate champions in local, state, business, investor, faith, youth, and national security communities, you too cannot sit back. Leadership needs to come all levels to achieve the President's objectives. It is time to get to work and organize around the parts of the plan you have an ability to affect. This is a golden opportunity.
The Koch Brothers-fueled dirty energy industry attack machine, the hyper-partisan Chamber of Commerce, and others are swarming. They have already reinvigorated their attacks on democrats in coal states. While climate naysayers and coal status quo-ers are in a minority according to every poll on climate out recently, they are determined and well-funded and in their ranks are some very desperate coal industry executives who see their customer base shrinking before their eyes. Sectoral leaders, because you care about climate change and about the huge clean energy economic opportunity that is emerging, please get to work.
Though the president has enormous executive authority, he also needs to know that his actions are broadly supported. Solutions rallies as vociferous as the keystone rally on the Washington Mall are needed in every mall across the country, and a solutions voice needs to remain assertive for the remainder of the president's time in office. Inside and outside the federal government, practical, determined efforts are also needed to smartly engineer the solutions agenda that is now possible given the president's impressive leadership.
Europeans meanwhile must also maintain the resolve internationally that they have shown for the last dozen years, and push for such things as ending public financing for dirty energy and for crafting a next generation international climate agreement. Europeans have been incredible leaders during the past twelve years. Now European and other international leaders have a partner in the White House, who has tipped his hand that he supports a strong new international agreement in 2015. Please don't lay back. This is a good time to double down.
Anyone who reads the science on climate change knows how serious it is. In the U.S., we've all been deadened to some degree by the political intransigence on climate of the past dozen years. Now we have a very important opportunity to surge forward. Please let's realize it. Thanks go to President Obama. He has done a great service, but he is going to need support and strong can-do partners. The fractiousness and division in U.S. politics is atrocious, and in its maw is a fierce and wild resistance to sensible action. Let's use the clarity of the nearly unanimous climate science and the broad and growing public support for practical action and for clean energy to push back on the fringe deniers and move forward to a clean, healthy, bright economic future.
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and not of his employer.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.
Largely beyond the public spotlight, the decades-old pursuit of bones and other MIA evidence is sluggish, often duplicative and subjected to too little scientific rigor, the report says.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the internal study after Freedom of Information Act requests for it by others were denied.
The report paints a picture of a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, a military-run group known as JPAC and headed by a two-star general, as woefully inept and even corrupt. The command is digging up too few clues on former battlefields, relying on inaccurate databases and engaging in expensive "boondoggles" in Europe, the study concludes.
In North Korea, the JPAC was snookered into digging up remains between 1996 and 2000 that the North Koreans apparently had taken out of storage and planted in former American fighting positions, the report said. Washington paid the North Koreans hundreds of thousands of dollars to "support" these excavations.
Some recovered bones had been drilled or cut, suggesting they had been used by the North Koreans to make a lab skeleton. Some of those remains have since been identified, but their compromised condition added time and expense and "cast doubt over all of the evidence recovered" in North Korea, the study said. This practice of "salting" recovery sites was confirmed to the AP by one U.S. participant.
JPAC's leaders authorized the study of its inner workings, but the then-commanding general, Army Maj. Gen. Stephen Tom, disavowed it and suppressed the findings when they were presented by the researcher last year. Now retired, Tom banned its use "for any purpose," saying the probe went beyond its intended scope. His deputy concurred, calling it a "raw, uncensored draft containing some contentious material."
The AP obtained two internal memos describing the decision to bury the report. The memos raised no factual objections but said the command would not consider any of the report's findings or recommendations.
The failings cited by the report reflect one aspect of a broader challenge to achieving a uniquely American mission ? accounting for the estimated 83,348 service members still listed as missing from World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
This is about more than tidying up the historical record. It is about fulfilling a promise to the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and sons and daughters of the missing. Daughters like Shelia Reese, 62, of Chapel Hill, N.C., who still yearns for the father she never met, the boy soldier who went to war and never returned.
She was 2 months old when heartbreaking word landed at her grandmother's door a week before Christmas 1950 that Pfc. Kenneth F. Reese, a 19-year-old artilleryman, was missing in action in North Korea. To this day, the military can't tell her if he was killed in action or died in captivity. His body has never been found.
"It changed my whole life. I've missed this man my whole life," she says.
She's not alone.
Reese is among 7,910 unaccounted for from Korea, down from 8,200 when the war ended 60 years ago this month.
A sense of emptiness and unanswered questions haunted many families of the missing throughout the second half of the 20th century, when science and circumstance did not permit the almost exact accounting for the dead and the missing that has been achieved in Iraq and Afghanistan. While the government's efforts have provided closure for hundreds of families of the missing in recent years, many others are still waiting.
Over time, the obscure government bureaucracies in charge of the accounting task have largely managed to escape close public scrutiny despite clashing with a growing number of advocacy groups and individuals such as Frank Metersky, a Korean War veteran who has spent decades pressing for a more aggressive and effective U.S. effort.
The outlook for improvement at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, he says, is not encouraging.
"Today it's worse than ever," he says.
People disagree on the extent of the problem. But even the current JPAC commander, Air Force Maj. Gen. Kelly K. McKeague, says he would not dispute those who say his organization is dysfunctional.
"I'd say you're right, and we're doing something about it," McKeague said in a telephone interview last week from his headquarters in Hawaii. He said changes, possibly to include consolidating the accounting bureaucracy and putting its management under the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, are under consideration.
The internal report by Paul M. Cole was never meant to be made public. It is unsparing in its criticisms:
?In recent years the process by which JPAC gathers bones and other material useful for identifications has "collapsed" and is now "acutely dysfunctional."
?JPAC is finding too few investigative leads, resulting in too few collections of human remains to come even close to achieving Congress's demand for a minimum 200 identifications per year by 2015. Of the 80 identifications that JPAC's Central Identification Laboratory made in 2012, only 35 were derived from remains recovered by JPAC. Thirty-eight of the 80 were either handed over unilaterally by other governments or were disinterred from a U.S. military cemetery. Seven were from a combination of those sources.
?Some search teams are sent into the field, particularly in Europe, on what amount to boondoggles. No one is held to account for "a pattern of foreign travel, accommodations and activities paid for by public funds that are ultimately unnecessary, excessive, inefficient or unproductive." Some refer to this as "military tourism."
?JPAC lacks a comprehensive list of the people for whom it's searching. Its main database is incomplete and "riddled with unreliable data."
?"Sketch maps" used by the JPAC teams looking for remains on the battlefield are "chronically unreliable," leaving the teams "cartigraphically blind." Cole likened this to 19th century military field operations.
Absent prompt and significant change, "the descent from dysfunction to total failure ... is inevitable," Cole concluded.
He directed most of his criticism at the field operations that collect bones and other material, as opposed to the laboratory scientists at JPAC who use that material to identify the remains. Cole is a management consultant and recognized research expert in the field of accounting for war remains; he still works at JPAC.
More broadly, the government organizations responsible for the accounting mission, including the Pentagon's Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, or DPMO, which is in charge of policy, have sometimes complicated their task by making public statements that their critics view as disingenuous or erroneous.
The head of DPMO, for example, retired Army Maj. Gen. W. Montague Winfield, said last month at a public forum that the U.S. government has "no evidence" that U.S. servicemen taken prisoner in North Korea during the 1950-53 war were later moved to the former Soviet Union against their will and never returned.
Washington made a detailed case in writing to Moscow in 1993 that such transfers did happen, and the AP has obtained a videotape produced by U.S. officials and given to the Russians at the same time to support the U.S. case.
The tape, which has never before been made public, was provided to the AP by a former government official who was not authorized to release it. It says that based on interviews and other research, U.S. investigators believe "10s if not 100s" of American POWs were transferred to the territory of the former Soviet Union. In some cases they were moved to Russia through rail transfer points in China, the tape asserts.
"Certainly we understand that these operations were never meant to see the light of day," the film says.
The Russian government has repeatedly denied it received American POWs from Korea.
Mark Sauter, a private researcher and co-author with John Zimmerlee of "American Trophies and Washington's Cynical Attitude," an e-book about POWs to be published this month, found in government archives a U.S. intelligence report from August 1955, two years after the war, calling for a bigger intelligence effort to learn about such POW transfers.
"Continued and numerous fragmentary intelligence reports give credence to possible detention of a large number of American POWs in China, Manchuria, U.S.S.R., and North Korea," it said. It cited one "significant report" describing "a large number of U.S. POWs being shipped into U.S.S.R. by rail" from northeast China.
Accounting for the nation's war dead has been a politically charged issue for decades. The debate is not about the practicality of the mission, which some might question, but how it should be pursued.
Sometimes overlooked amid the squabbling is the emotional toll on the families of the missing. They are often bewildered by the bureaucracy and left to watch hope wear away with the passage of time.
In 1975, more than two decades after Pfc. Kenneth F. Reese was declared missing in Korea, his widow, Chris Tench, who had by then remarried, described her feelings in her local newspaper, the Gastonia (N.C) Gazette.
She wrote that initially she was relieved to realize that the policeman who delivered the news about Reese on Dec. 18, 1950, was saying that her husband was missing, not dead. He might turn up alive, she recalled thinking.
Later she thought differently.
"No, missing isn't dead," she wrote. "It's worse than dead."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-mia-efforts-risk-total-failure-074140790.html
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If you've ever been frustrated by the way Spaces or full-screen apps have been supported on multiple displays, those days will soon be behind you. When OS X Mavericks is released this fall, Macs will finally get truly useful, independent support for multiple displays.
Macs have supported simple-to-use multi-monitor displays since an era when they were unknown on PCs. Like, back when Macs were still predominantly black and white machines, when people wore suits with huge shoulder pads and big hair was all the rage. (I once had an SE/30 equipped with a video card that powered an external display.)
But when OS X Lion came out in 2011, Apple backslid when they introduced full-screen apps, which would cause one monitor to display a pattern while the other one held the app. And using Spaces since Lion - especially with multiple monitors - was an exercise in teeth-grinding frustration. Apple's changing that in Mavericks, making multiple displays finally work the way they're supposed to. And it looks like a lot of you are looking forward to it - based on our recent poll, more than half of respondents are enthusiastic about these improvements.
Here's what Apple has to say about multiple display support in Mavericks:
OS X Mavericks takes full advantage of every display connected to your Mac, giving you even more flexibility to work the way you want. There?s no longer a primary or secondary display ? now each has its own menu bar, and the Dock is available on whichever screen you?re working on.
First of all, multiple displays in Mavericks can work independently. Each monitor can have its own menu bar. Let me repeat that so it sinks in: every monitor can have its own menu bar. That's never happened in OS X before, without installing third-party software.
What does this mean in practical terms? It means you can have two applications running on two separate displays, each one with its own independent menu bar. That means a lot less moving the mouse back and forth: up until now, you've had move the cursor back to your "primary" display to access the menu bar for the app running on a second display. Inelegant and confusing.
The Dock is available in any screen to screen - so if you move your cursor to the bottom of the screen (or wherever you've designated the Dock to appear), the Dock will be available.
Full-screen app support finally works the way it's supposed to, as well. Go full-screen on one monitor and the app will, predictably, take over the display. But the second monitor is unencumbered. You can go full-screen with another app on that one, or just use it in regular windowed mode if you prefer.
Mission Control, OS X's built in window management utility, now shows you an overview of what's running on each display. And you can easily rearrange the location of apps on each display by clicking on its thumbnail and dragging it to a new screen.
If you don't have the money or room to spring for a second display but you'd still benefit from Mavericks' new functionality, there may be a solution, assuming you have an HDTV hooked up via AirPlay, such as one that's connected through a second or third-generation Apple TV. Mavericks recognizes an AirPlay-connected television as a completely independent and functional display - you can display content from one app on your TV while using others on your Mac's monitor. At WWDC, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi demonstrated multiple monitor support running on an Apple laptop, using a primary, secondary and Apple TV display simultaneously.
OS X Mavericks' multiple display support is leaps and bounds better than what's available in Mountain Lion, and it finally puts to rest outstanding issues that have dogged Macs for years.
Is multiple display support in Mavericks something that you'll use? Are you more likely to use it, now that Apple's ironed out some of the deficiencies that have plagued recent releases of OS X? Let us know in the comments, and for more info, hit these helpful links:
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ? To cover his political flank, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has forged an alliance with tea party darling Rand Paul, picked up support from other national tea party leaders and brought in a campaign manager from the upper echelons of the tea party movement.
The GOP's fiscally conservative wing has proven particularly powerful in Kentucky, and elsewhere it has felled incumbents including McConnell's longtime Republican colleague U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar of Indiana. But McConnell's efforts to make inroads with the tea party movement have clearly paid off, virtually ensuring that no would-be challenger can get the kind of infusion of cash from tea party channels that allowed Paul to win here in 2010.
Paul, who has presidential aspirations and is looking to run in 2016, needs McConnell's connections to the wealthy donor base of the Republican establishment. Meanwhile, McConnell needs Paul's tea party influence to keep potential primary challengers at bay and to energize his general election campaign against the likely Democratic nominee, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.
While the alliance with the family that includes former Texas Rep. Ron Paul may not be enough to ward off a challenger in next year's Republican primary, observers say McConnell has little to fear in securing the nomination.
McConnell's new allegiances go deep into the Paul family. Jesse Benton, who married the older Paul's granddaughter, signed on last year to lead McConnell's re-election campaign. Benton has previously served as campaign manager and political adviser to both Pauls, and his affiliation with McConnell sends a not-so-subtle signal to would-be tea party challengers to stand down and to potential donors to support McConnell or keep their wallets in their pockets.
"Mitch McConnell is an important ally and a conservative voice in Washington for the people of Kentucky," the younger Paul said in a statement to The Associated Press. "The commonwealth is stronger because of his service and I look forward to continuing to work with him."
The McConnell alliance also is a boon for Paul in other ways, such as providing leverage to push his political agenda. McConnell has even signed on to one of Paul's and the tea party's top political priorities, legalizing industrial hemp farming.
McConnell, a skilled political tactician, watched Paul rise from relative obscurity as a Bowling Green eye surgeon to be elected U.S. senator. Paul knocked off McConnell's own hand-picked candidate in the GOP primary and then went on to defeat a strong Democrat in the general election.
McConnell, who had been reluctant even to meet with Paul during the primary, reached out after his primary victory, helping him to raise money from the GOP establishment and offering general election counsel in a state where no one knows the political landscape better.
That won McConnell not only Paul's favor, but his early endorsement for re-election. TheTeaParty.net also endorsed McConnell. The group's founder, Todd Cefaratti, called McConnell "an indispensable ally of conservatives in the Senate."
The group's chief strategist, Niger Innis, said tea party activists in Kentucky largely "seem to be circling the wagons around Sen. McConnell."
Still, one of Kentucky's most outspoken tea party activists, David Adams of Nicholasville, has been bent on fielding a serious tea party challenger to McConnell. So far, he has no takers, though Louisville resident Matthew Bevin continues to toy with the idea. Bevin, who has offered no timetable for making a decision, has kept a low profile, declining interview requests. He has attended several GOP meetings, including a dinner last month where he sat three tables away from McConnell.
A millionaire businessman and investor, Bevin has no choice but to weigh the symbiotic relationship that has developed between Paul and McConnell.
Louisville attorney Mike Karem, a Republican activist who worked for the Nixon and Reagan administrations, said the relationship between Paul and McConnell has essentially cleared the path for McConnell to the GOP nomination. "They worked out a backroom deal," Karem said. "Nobody can say McConnell is dumb."
University of Kentucky political scientist Stephen Voss agreed McConnell has "shored up his right flank" and really has nothing to fear from potential GOP challengers.
"Upsets are never impossible, which is why incumbents always run scared," Voss said. "But it's hard to believe that Mitch McConnell is going to see a serious threat in the primary."
Voss said McConnell has been delivering "olive branches" to tea party activists as a vocal opponent of federal health care reforms and other Obama administration policies and initiatives. He also won favor with conservatives back home by filing legislation earlier this year to force the federal government to speed up the process for approving permits for new coal mining operations.
Kentucky has lost more than 4,000 mining jobs since 2011, largely due to market factors. But in the Kentucky coalfields, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking blame for "regulatory overreach" that political leaders insist is making it difficult for coal operators to open or expand mines, thereby costing jobs. McConnell toured the coalfields when he filed the legislation and was heralded a champion for Kentucky miners.
Adams, who served as Paul's campaign manager through the 2010 primary but has since fallen into disfavor with him, doesn't dispute that McConnell has appeal within the tea party movement, including some "who would lay their heads on a train track for him." Adams isn't one of those. He insists McConnell is vulnerable to a strong Democratic challenger and should be pushed aside for a tea party nominee in the primary.
Voss said he doesn't expect that to happen.
"There's no clear stalking horse to come after him in the primary," Voss said.
What is clear is that McConnell has a strong Democratic challenger to face in next year's general election. Grimes announced recently that she will take on the Republican stalwart who already has raised some $13 million for his re-election campaign. When Grimes stepped up, several other potential Democratic candidates stepped aside, including former Miss America Heather French Henry of Louisville, the wife of former Lt. Gov. Steve Henry.
Defeating McConnell would be the Democrats' biggest prize of the 2014 election. His seat is one of 14 that Republicans are defending, while Democrats try to hold onto 21.
McConnell, who has served in the U.S. Senate since 1984, has never lost an election. He spent more than $20 million in 2008 to beat Democratic challenger Bruce Lunsford, a wealthy Louisville businessman, by 6 percentage points.
Most think McConnell could spend as much as $30 million on the upcoming next race. Republican super PACs could spend an additional $30 million, making the race Kentucky's most expensive ever.
McConnell told GOP supporters in Kentucky that he's bent on winning re-election with hopes that voters will elect enough additional Republicans to the Senate to allow him to move up to majority leader.
"You know, I've had a lot of experience as defensive coordinator," he said. "I want to get a chance to call the plays."
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The new president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition said on Sunday he expected advanced weapons supplied by Saudi Arabia to reach rebel fighters soon and change their military situation, which he described as weak.
Ahmad Jarba, who has close links to Saudi Arabia, told Reuters in the first interview since he was elected president of the coalition on Saturday that the opposition will not go to a proposed U.S.- and Russian-sponsored peace conference in Geneva unless its military position becomes strong.
"Geneva in these circumstances is not possible. If we are going to go to Geneva we have to be strong on the ground, unlike the situation now, which is weak. We cannot go to Geneva unless we are strong," Jarba said after returning from the northern Syrian province of Idlib, where he met commanders of rebel brigades in the rugged Jabal al-Zawiya region.
Asked if shoulder-fired weapons that could blunt Assad's massive advantage in armor would reach the rebels after Saudi Arabia took a lead role in supporting the opposition in recent weeks, Jarba said: "We are pushing in this direction."
"I think the situation is better than before. I think these weapons will arrive to Syria soon," he said.
"My priority to secure two-tier support for the Syrian people: military and humanitarian. We are working qualitative and medium and other weapons to reach the Free Syrian army and the liberated areas."
Jarba offered Assad's forces a truce for the duration of the holy month of Ramadan to stop fighting in the besieged city of Homs, where rebels face a ferocious ground and air onslaught by Hezbollah-backed troops and militias loyal to Assad.
Jarba was speaking in Istanbul where he had been elected president of the Syrian National Coalition at a meeting this weekend.
(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis; Editing by Ralph Boulton)
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It has become clear that ARM is invading the data center as chips built using its designs grow more powerful for enterprise computing loads and as the workloads and economics of webscale computing make the ARM architecture more attractive. But using ARM cores also changes the cost of designing a new chip, and frees the non-CPU elements on the chip from being dictated by a specific vendor.
Both of these trends are driving webscale companies to discuss making custom CPU cores for their specific workloads, and are allowing startups to try to break into the world of interconnect fabrics and memory management that used to be locked to a specific x86 core. Right now big web companies like Google and Facebook are designing and building their own gear but soon they may want to have a few chip designers on hand as well.
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Andrew Feldman, GM and corporate VP at AMD, explained this idea in a series of conversations with me over the last few weeks in which he estimated that one could build an entirely custom chip using the ARM architecture in about 18 months for about $30 million. He compared this to the three or four-year time frame and $300 million to $400 million in development costs required to build an x86-based server chip.
He wrote in an email:
This vast change in the cost and time to market opens the door for large CPU consumers (mega data center players) to collaborate with ARM CPU vendors?say by paying part of the cost of development? in return for including custom IP that advantages the Mega Data center owners software/offering. There are conversations underway on this topic with nearly every major megadata center player in the world. The mega data center owners are building warehouse scale computers. It is not surprising that they have ideas on custom IP that would advantage their own software and would like that IP embedded into a CPU ? ARM makes this feasible by bringing down the cost and development time of CPU creation.
This is a deeper component to Feldman?s talk at Structure about how the shifts in personal computing habits from PCs to less powerful mobile phones and tablets has changed the infrastructure needs of web companies that do most of the computing in the cloud for these devices.
Yet custom chips aren?t limited to improving the computing economics at webscale vendors. Feldman said there is a company using custom-made chips on boards to mine Bitcoins, a rumor I had heard at our Structure event, but couldn?t confirm. I?m not sure if the custom-chips are using ARM cores however.
The point however is the same. Building a custom-chip that can efficiently mine Bitcoins is totally worth the cost of building such a processor.
So the Facebooks, Amazons and Googles of the world may soon make their own chips so they can take full control of their computing economics. It may already be happening: Back in 2010 Google bought a company called Agnilux that reportedly was trying to build a power efficient server chip, and details about what Google did with that company are scant. Maybe it?s designing its own server silicon already, much like Apple designs its own iPhone and iPad processors.
But the use of ARM cores for the CPU also means that there?s a secondary effect for startups and webscale vendors. Today?s CPUs are generally composed of the CPU core and all the related IP associated with how the CPU gets and sends bits; things like I/O, memory controllers, PCI Express interconnects and other elements that most people don?t ever think about are also on a typical x86 chip. Feldman calls these other elements Bucket 2 (the core is Bucket 1).
He wrote:
Because Intel and AMD were the only x86 game in town we each developed our own cores (Bucket 1) and each developed our Bucket 2 items as well. There has no been ecosystem, and little innovation in Bucket 2. We have limped along with incremental improvements from one generation to the next. It hasn?t made sense to start a company to do an on-chip fabric (to more intelligently tie cores together), or a better memory controller, or an application accelerator, because you only have two prospective customers, Intel and AMD both working on competitive projects. (Who wants to start a company with 2 potential customers?)
But in the ARM world things are different. Because any number of players can license an ARM core, each one is looking for points of differentiation outside the core (some with architecture licenses are looking to tweak the core itself) and can make chips with better I/O or specific workload accelerators. An example here is Calxeda, which is using an ARM core in highly dense servers but has also built a custom interconnect to send information rapidly between its hundreds of ARM cores.
So when the mega data centers look at the opportunities presented by ARM, it?s not as simple as buying a piece of silicon from Marvell or Applied Micro, or a Calxeda box from HP. According to Feldman, web giants are looking at co-developing ARM-based chips that will take advantage of the greater levels of customization offered outside of the CPU so they can optimize for their own applications? needs.
This is a huge shift for the industry with big implications from players as diverse as Intel, the server makers and corporate IT buyers who suddenly may face higher cost computing than the web and cloud giants ? making the move toward outsourcing IT more practical.
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In this Wednesday, July 3, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians inspecting the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrike and shelling, in the al-Hamidiyyeh neighborhood of Homs province, Syria. Gunfire echoed and tank shells slammed in Homs Friday in what activists and residents described as one of the worst barrages on the central city in a furious attempt to recapture opposition-held districts in the country's strategic heartland. The U.N. warns of a humanitarian catastrophe involving up to 4,000 civilians trapped in city amid severe shortages of food, water and medicine. (AP Photo/Lens Young Homsi)
In this Wednesday, July 3, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians inspecting the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrike and shelling, in the al-Hamidiyyeh neighborhood of Homs province, Syria. Gunfire echoed and tank shells slammed in Homs Friday in what activists and residents described as one of the worst barrages on the central city in a furious attempt to recapture opposition-held districts in the country's strategic heartland. The U.N. warns of a humanitarian catastrophe involving up to 4,000 civilians trapped in city amid severe shortages of food, water and medicine. (AP Photo/Lens Young Homsi)
In this Wednesday, July 3, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows buildings damaged by Syrian government airstrikes and shelling, in the Jouret al-Chiyah neighborhood of Homs, Syria. Gunfire echoed and tank shells slammed in Homs Friday in what activists and residents described as one of the worst barrages on the central city in a furious attempt to recapture opposition-held districts in the country's strategic heartland. The U.N. warns of a humanitarian catastrophe involving up to 4,000 civilians trapped in city amid severe shortages of food, water and medicine. (AP Photo/Lens Young Homsi)
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows anti-Syrian regime protesters holding Syrian revolution flags, during a demonstration in the neighborhood of Bustan Al-Qasr in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, July 5, 2013. Syria's main opposition bloc on Friday urged the international community to take action to protect civilians in the cities of Homs and Daraa that have been targeted by military as part of a government campaign to regain control of the territory it lost to the opposition. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)
This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows anti-Syrian regime protesters holding a banner and Syrian revolution flags during a demonstration at Kafr Nabil town in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday, July 5, 2013. Syria's main opposition bloc on Friday urged the international community to take action to protect civilians in the cities of Homs and Daraa that have been targeted by military as part of a government campaign to regain control of the territory it lost to the opposition. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)
This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows anti-Syrian regime protesters holding banners and Syrian revolution flags during a demonstration at Kafr Nabil town in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday, July 5, 2013. Syria's main opposition bloc on Friday urged the international community to take action to protect civilians in the cities of Homs and Daraa that have been targeted by military as part of a government campaign to regain control of the territory it lost to the opposition. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)
BEIRUT (AP) ? Backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militants, Syrian troops unleashed some of the civil war's heaviest bombardments on the central city of Homs on Friday, pounding opposition-held areas with artillery and airstrikes for the sixth straight day, activists said.
In Geneva, the U.N. agency for human rights said it is "extremely concerned about the human rights and humanitarian impact" of the government offensive in Syria's third largest city.
Homs is the latest target of a series of government offensives aimed at driving rebels out of areas they control.
A city of about 1 million people, it has been an opposition stronghold since the early days of the uprising against President Bashar Assad. Mass Arab Spring-inspired protests there, starting in early 2011, brought repeated army offensives onto the city. Hundreds of people were killed and thousands driven from their homes.
The government now controls much of Homs, though several neighborhoods in the center are still opposition strongholds. Building on its capture of the strategic town of Qusair between the Lebanese border and Homs last month, the army launched an offensive Saturday, battling rebels in the old part of Homs and the northern district of Khaldiyeh, where fighters are entrenched.
"It appears the regime wants to take Khaldiyeh, no matter what the price is," said Tarek Badrakhan, who is based in Khaldiyeh. He said troops are focused on taking the district because from there, they could cut off rebel units in their other strongholds of Old Homs and the areas of Jouret el-Shayah and Qusour. Badrakhan was speaking to The Associated Press via Skype.
He said there were two airstrikes on Khaldiyeh early Friday. Army troops, pro-government militiamen and members of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group are shelling Khaldiyeh from three sides with rockets, tank and mortars shells. The activist said government forces are facing strong resistance from the rebels and have not advanced far in the six-day battle.
Hezbollah fighters were instrumental in helping Syrian troops capture Qusair last month. The group has not confirmed its troops were fighting in Homs, as the activists claim, and the reports could not be independently verified.
The Syrian National Coalition appealed to the United Nations and Western countries that have supported the opposition in Syria's civil war "to intervene immediately" and provide food and medicine to the besieged, rebel-held areas of Homs and in Daraa in the south, where the uprising against Assad's regime began March 2011.
"The areas under attack in Homs have been cut off from the rest of the world and suffer from an urgent shortage of medicine and food," the SNC's statement said Friday, appealing to its Western backers to support rebel units and provide them with more sophisticated weapons.
Meanwhile, the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement Friday the number of civilians trapped in the heavy fighting in and around Homs is believed to be between 2,500 and 4,000. Shortages of food, water, medicine, electricity and fuel in besieged areas are severely affecting civilians, including women and children.
Recent reports suggest that armed opposition groups are operating inside residential areas, increasing the risk for civilians, the statement said.
The appeal by the Syrian National Coalition came as opposition leaders are meeting in Istanbul to elected new leaders, including an interim government that will try and govern territories under opposition control in Syria.
More than 93,000 people have been killed in the conflict that began as peaceful protests but turned into an armed revolt after opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown.
In recent months, rebels fighting in the north have received more powerful weaponry, including anti-tank missiles and surface-to-air missiles, likely supplied by Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The U.S., which has provided opposition fighters with non-lethal aid, said recently it was willing to supply them with arms, but has been reluctant to do so for fear they could end up in the hands of radical Islamic groups that have been the most effective fighting force on the opposition's side.
In Rome, United Nation's food agencies said that Syria's food security situation has significantly deteriorated over the past year, leaving at least 4 million Syrians unable to produce or buy enough food to survive.
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Associated Press writer Bassem Mroue contributed to this report.
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