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Saturday, February 2, 2013
After Nearly 30 Years, Apple Fans Still Flock to Macworld
In the days before Apple split with Macworld, fans of the company's products used to pack the event in feverish anticipation of watching Steve Jobs tell them what new goodies his company had in store for them. How things have changed: The show has a new name, Macworld/iWorld, and an actor who will be playing the late Jobs in an forthcoming biopic took center stage.
Distro Issue 76: Will a duo of phones and a new OS bring BlackBerry back to life?
After delays and a software preview, RIM BlackBerry finally pulled the wraps off of it's new hardware and operating system that we'd been looking for the end of January to bring. In this week's edition of our e-publication, we take a look at all of the wares that the Canadian company unveiled in order to determine if it's enough to reinvent the outfit. We also rundown the history of the unit formally known as Research in Motion to paint a complete picture of the road leading up to this week's proceedings. Of course, there's more than just BlackBerry stuffs to peruse. Hands-On visits NAMM 2013, Weekly Stat tallies up earnings season and we get cozy with the Pebble Smartwatch. There's plenty of time for a bit of weekend reading, so head to your favorite repository to snag the goods.
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Video: Despite Data, Will January Rally Continue?
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13 Things I've Learned About Writing | Wonder of Children Blog
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Lucy Calkins has long been a curriculum mentor of mine.? Her writing for teachers expanded from her work at Teachers? College and? reaches far beyond New York City.? Over the years, I?ve followed her work, wrestled with her curriculum and seen the amazing writing produced by students who are lucky enough to have teachers who guide and listen to them authentically, deeply, intently.? Lucy brings remarkable knowledge and compassion to the writing process for children.? The clarity of? her body of work guides legions of teachers to bring out the best in student writers.? When I first viewed her video Being a Good Writer: Writing tips and strategies from Lucy Calkins, I felt as if she was speaking to me; only in the final seconds was it clear that she was speaking to students.? Then again, writers are all students, walking similar paths, following a similar process with unique challenges and joys.
One year while I was teaching third grade, I put myself to the test.? The writing test, figuratively speaking.? During our daily writing workshop, I committed myself to spending part of each of those 50 minute blocks to my own writing. That brought on it?s own inherent conflict (How will I conference with writers? How will I assess their progress? How will I be able to observe their work to offer reminders and reinforcements?). Eventually, I admitted this was a lofty and unrealistic goal, so I revamped that to spending part of one writers? workshop writing AND? two personal blocks of writing outside school hours.? It wasn?t easy. It wasn?t always fun. But within a few weeks, was hooked.
Writing became a challenge I looked forward to but yet was still reluctant to share it with others.? I soon decided the only way to get over this fear wasn?t, in the words of Pema Chodron, to ?itch it? and let it grow larger, but to be with it and share it with others so I could witness where it would go.? By letting go of my attachment to ?it? (i.e., my writing), my blog audience grew and I learned many lessons.
Here are just 13 things I?ve learned from writing like we ask of children:
1. Writing is hard. Really hard sometimes.
2. Writing is messy at first, but then often brings great clarity.
3. Writing can bring up feelings of insecurity and fear, but also pride, joy, satisfaction and relief.
4. Writing can serve the writer, the audience or both.
5. Writing is a process. A time-consuming one. And sometimes an all-consuming one. It needs to be scheduled and that time revered so the process can unfold.
6. Writing can offer quite solitude or feel like solitary confinement.
7. Writing can be enhanced by technology and it can also bring up a whole crop of new, technical issues.
8. Writing needs to be a commitment to be rich and meaningful (See # 5 above).
9. Writing often never feels like it?s over. There is almost always more (Again, see #5 above).
10. Writing offers so many ways to consolidate and synthesize experiences and information, and just as many ways to continue growing.
11. Writing is a goldmine. Keep digging, be persistent, and you?ll be rewarded.
12. Writers ? all of? us ? need support. Good organization and planning, a cheerleader to keep your spirits up and a mentor to ask you tough questions that move you forward when you?re stuck and validate your hard work.
13. Writing is to be shared. Somehow, someway, even if it?s something you read aloud to yourself and bow to yourself in gratitude and appreciation.
I?m writing a lot these days and I?m reading a lot of other writers.? I look to the work of Lucy Calkins for inspiration, along with other writers and observers of life and learning,? such as Caltha Crow, Chip Wood, Peter Bregman, Jonathan Fields, Jennifer Weinser, Maya Angelou, Malcolm Gladwell, Jonathan Kozol, Anne Lamott, Anna Quindlen and many, many others.
Who do you read for inspiration?
What have you learned from writing?
How have you learned to empathize with child-authors?
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Procrastination And Productivity: What Helps And What Hurts
There's a difference between killing time and Me Time.
About 26 percent of Americans call themselves procrastinators, but regular breaks throughout the day can actually make you more productive. That's right: Forcing yourself to power through that project doesn't necessarily mean it'll get done any faster.
Regular breaks throughout the day, even just in increments of a few short minutes at a time, can improve focus, productivity and creativity, according to a 2011 study.
"When you do the same thing for a long time, performance falls," says Alejandro Lleras, author of that study and an associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "At any point of time you have multiple possible concerns or thoughts you could be having. It's difficult to maintain one particular [focus] for a long period of time. If you break that pattern and force yourself to think of something else very briefly, when you go back to your task you get a refreshed focus."
Lleras says this plays into what we know about the brain's process of habituation. Our minds are constantly dulling any information that feels constant -- like the smell of bread in a bakery -- so that we will be alert to threats -- like the smell of something burning in the bakery. In terms of survival, "it makes sense that there would be a time of expiration for how long we can keep an idea in our mind," he says.
But now that many of us are desk jockeys rather than cave people, we're asked to focus on one thing (namely, work) for extended periods of time. And that means we're vulnerable to slumps in productivity. In fact, after about 40 minutes of focus, our attention begins to wane.
You can avoid many of these dips in productivity simply by renewing your focus to the task at hand by briefly letting your mind escape. In laboratory settings, says Lleras, even just a few seconds make a big difference.
However, "not all breaks are created equal," he says. A few minutes spent doing the wrong thing could instead derail your entire afternoon (don't believe us? Type "cat videos" into YouTube and see how long you're stuck in that void).
So what are the most productive ways to procrastinate -- and what is wasteful? We asked Lleras to help us figure it out.
Instead of browsing YouTube, watch your favorite really funny video.
The best breaks are "easy to engage and disengage from" says Lleras, so giving yourself free-range to browse YouTube might suck you in too deep. However, laughter really is great medicine. A belly laugh certainly relaxes you, and may also increase productivity. Planning to watch that single funny video means you can quickly return to the task at hand.
Instead of perusing your social networks, call a friend.
You'll get the same calming benefits of fostering a connection, and a break from the screen at the same time. Changing your environment helps you to truly leave your work behind, Lleras says. "If my office is the place where I'm working all the time, not being in my office allows me to more cleanly cut myself off from that task momentarily," he says. The cleaner the break, the more likely you are to return to your task reinvigorated.
Lleras notes that you might not want to call someone you know will make you too emotional, though, like a partner if you're in the middle of a fight. "An emotional conversation is going to be difficult to stop thinking about once you start," he says.
Instead of watching TV, take a nap.
If you're looking to really zone out, you might be tempted to settle down in front of the television. But before you know it, a few minutes turn into an hour-long episode, and then one episode becomes two. Get the same mental check-out with a quick nap. As long as you don't snooze for more than 30 minutes, you'll wake up feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the job.
Instead of eating at your desk, take a real lunch.
Face it -- you're not very productive when you're typing with one hand and you've got a sandwich in the other. In fact, eating at your desk has been found to drain you of energy and decrease productivity, according to U.S. News. Instead of pretending to power through that project, take a few minutes to recharge midday away from your desk. (It's covered in germs, anyway!)
Instead of having a snack, take a walk.
Eating to avoid finishing a to-do item is different from eating because you're hungry. Getting a little exercise instead can distract you from mindless snacking and help you refocus on getting stuff done. If you have the time and flexibility, plan your full workout for the middle of the day. Studies suggest that exercise during the work day -- even if it means time away from your desk -- increases productivity (and boosts your health, too). If not, even just five minutes can help.
Instead of daydreaming, run an errand.
While it can be relaxing to picture your upcoming tropical vacation, daydreaming doesn't have that finite ending that you're looking for in an ideal break, says Lleras. But if you find yourself distracted by thoughts of the prescription waiting for you at the pharmacy, go pick it up. The change of scenery will help you clear your mind to come back with renewed intensity, he says, and you'll check something else off your to-do list to boot!
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American Automobile Association sues owner of AAAclubs.xxx and ...
AAA sues to stop adult entertainment site from using AAA in its name.
The American Automobile Association, commonly known as AAA or ?Triple A?, has sued the owner of AAAclubs.xxx, AAAclubs.com, AAAclubs.net, and AAAclubs.us.
According to the lawsuit (pdf), AAA became aware of the defendant in December 2011 when it filed a trademark application for ?AAA Clubs of America? for use in conjunction with discount programs. AAA offers discount programs to its membership.
AAA contacted the defendants the next month and believed that they had acquiesced.
The lawsuit alleges that in December 2012, AAA discovered that the defendants had ?transitioned into the business of online pornography? with its AAAclubs.xxx domain name.
Hence, the lawsuit.
The plaintiff is asking for $100,000 per domain under the anti-cybersquatting act, and that the defendant cancel its registration of the domains.
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Dazzling nighttime photos of NASA rocket launch
When NASA's newest satellite soared into space late Wednesday (Jan. 30), a team of photographers captured dazzling views of the rocket streaking into orbit.
A series of long-exposure rocket launch photos released overnight by NASA show the unmanned Atlas 5 booster carrying the agency's new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite K (TDRS-K) as a bright arc of light climbing spaceward from a pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rocket lifted off at 8:48 p.m. EST (0148 Jan. 31 GMT), rising like an artificial sun as it flew into space.
One image, by launch photographer Tony Gray, shows the Atlas 5 rocket just seconds after liftoff as it appeared from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, which is near the Air Force Station launch site. NASA's cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building stands stoically in the foreground as the rocket hovers in mid-flight on the photo's right side.
Another view, captured by photographer Rick Wetherington, shows the Atlas 5 rocket as a blazing arc of light as it passes behind a lighthouse at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
A final image by photographer Glenn Benson shows the rocket streaking up into the night sky, its blindingly bright engine plume reflecting off the waters around the seaside launch pad.Another view, captured by photographer Rick Wetherington, shows the Atlas 5 rocket as a blazing arc of light as it passes behind a lighthouse at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The TDRS-K satellite is the first of three next-generation communications satellites to be launched in order to upgrade NASA's aging TDRS satellite constellation. The satellites serve as relays between NASA ground stations and the agency's Earth-observing satellites and other spacecraft currently orbiting the planet. TDRS-K is expected to spend at least 15 years in service once it begins operations, according to a NASA mission profile.
The first TDRS satellite was launched into space in 1983, with TDRS-K marking the 11th satellite to join the fleet. The launch provider United Launch Alliance oversaw Wednesday's Atlas 5 mission for NASA.
You can follow SPACE.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik on Twitter?@tariqjmalik.?Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter?@Spacedotcom?and on?Facebook.
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