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Coast Guard saves Michigan couple stranded on Lake Huron during wedding proposal

Couple gets stranded in canoe on Lake Huron during proposal

Published On: Sep 05 2012 07:14:38 PM EDT   Updated On: Sep 05 2012 07:36:38 PM EDT

When getting married, every couple hopes the engagement will be something special.

For one Madison Heights woman, that moment is memorable because of the surprise they both received.

"He completely caught me off guard," said May Gorial, a 32-year-old French teacher at Bishop Foley High School.

Her 27-year-old boyfriend, Nathan Bluestein, of Northville, proposed last weekend while the two were in a canoe in Lake Huron. He put a note in a bottle and dropped it into the water for Gorial to find it.

According to Gorial, the note read in part, “I can’t imagine spending the rest of my life without you. That being said…”

At that point, Bluestein pulled out a ring and popped the question.

“Of course I said yes,” Gorial said.

According to the couple, that’s when things got really interesting. The canoe got caught in the lake currents and started carrying them off course.

“And so we’re paddling for a half hour and I’m giving it all I’ve got and she looks at me and says, ‘honey we haven’t moved. In a half an hour we haven’t moved’,” Bluestein said.

They eventually drifted to North Island.

“The wind started crashing in and the waves started crashing in against the canoe and I’m sitting there with my head down,” said Gorial. “I was really cold and he covered me up with a couple of towels. He was shivering. We were just waiting."

They used Bluestein’s cell phone to call 911 and were towed to safety by the Coast Guard a couple hours later.

“It was really nice. We got to see the sunset. The sky was really beautiful with a full moon. Almost like I planned it,” said Bluestein.

They have a church picked out and plan to get married next April.


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Democratic Rep. Conyers wins 25th consecutive term

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Democratic Rep. John Conyers has defeated Republican Harry Sawicki to win his 25th term in Congress.

The 83-year-old from Detroit had been expected to easily win the heavily Democratic district, though some experts had warned he could be vulnerable after staving off strong challenges in the August Democratic primary.

Conyers had represented the 14th District for decades. He moved over to the 13th district after Republicans redrew district boundaries. The 13th District stretches from Detroit south to Ecorse and west to Westland, Wayne and Romulus.

Conyers is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and a founder of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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On Local 4, and particularly here on this blog for the past six months, we have hit hard the budgetary disaster that is Wayne County government and its largest financial problem; the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office.

Usually when we do these stories Sheriff Benny Napoleon is either too busy or otherwise indisposed and we usually get a written statement from one of his media relations people taking on the subject du jour. We felt that was inadequate and asked during about a month’s time to actually sit down with the Sheriff himself and discuss the issues of sheriff’s vehicles whose gasoline cards have been cut off because of lack of payment, having to use the Maintenance yard near Detroit Metro Airport to fuel those vehicles, the fact that the Sheriff has 32 appointees, many making six-figure incomes with six-figure benefits packages to go with them along with their take-home cars and gasoline cards.

We have questioned the fact that there are 90 gasoline cards and 166 Sheriff’s Department vehicles. [It owns a 1931 Model A for promotional appearances, a dozen Harley motorcycles for motorcades, and dozens of vehicles confiscated by the now closed down drug unit].

Napoleon says worrying about these issues is small beer.

"You’re swatting at flies when there's a lion in the room. The lion in the room is 1,000 people a day [inmates] I’m responsible for that I have absolutely no control of getting rid of," Napoleon said.

So let’s talk about the lion. Napoleon is responsible for three jails. Since the 1970s Wayne County has been under a consent agreement with the state of Michigan that put a judge in charge of the jail. That judge tells the Sheriff he must be capable of properly housing 1,800 inmates every day [The actual number is 1,778 but we’re rounding here].

The problem comes when Wayne County Executive Bob Ficano and the Wayne County Commission put pencil to paper at budget time and see that number and budget accordingly. The jail Friday was actually housing 2,210 inmates and another 600 are out of the jail but on house arrest with electronic tethers on their ankles. Those prisoners are monitored and have a cost attached to them too. So in the end Napoleon says a $30 million deficit is baked into his cake every year by a jail population that he must, by law, house. This is why he ends up looking so bad with his spending. He says he’s in the process of making significant cuts to his 2014 budget to address the kinds of spending we have hit him for. He says unless the Wayne County Commission and the executive start giving him the money he needs to manage 2,800 inmates, this problem will persist, as it has under pretty much every Wayne County Sheriff for the past 40 years and that includes when Bob Ficano was Sheriff.

What’s more, Napoleon told Local 4 "that I believe that they know it, it’s like stuffin' money under the mattress but acting like it ain't there. But at the end of the year, you’re short, 'Oh I’ve got some extra money; I put it under the mattress.' They know they’re gonna have to pay for this."

They do and they pay. But here is the real problem with this: For all of the beatings Napoleon has taken this summer from us, the fact of the matter is he is just a member of a team that simply doesn’t get it.

We are not saying Napoleon doesn’t get it personally. The jail is the biggest boat anchor in the county’s budget and it is not being properly managed. In fact, the entirety of the Wayne County financial situation is being mismanaged. There are staggering numbers such as the County’s pension is 50 percent underfunded, the "fringe factor" the amount of benefits each of the 3,500 employees above their regular pay is 93 percent.

So, in essence, employees are making in benefits what they are making in salary. These are the numbers the state of Michigan’s Treasurer’s office is watching. The county is teetering on the edge of financial management. For all of the finger pointing we see here, for all of the desire to let someone else's line item make up for the deficit spending on mine, the whole entity is in serious danger.

The team is in the process of trying to budget for next year and I have been told it doesn’t balance and likely will not. Bob Ficano flew a trial balloon of a $70 million tax increase to deal with the problem. But with $120 million in the ground with a failed jail construction project and a pending FBI probe coupled with the current economic environment, good luck with that tax hike at the polls.

There is serious trouble brewing on the horizon and there is no one person at fault but someone, anyone in the Guardian Building needs to DO something and soon.


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A Central Florida college campus remains on alert after a student said she was attacked while on her way to class.

It happened April 24 around 8:30 a.m. at Seminole State College on the first floor of Building B, according to an alert issued to students and staff.

The alert also said a man approached the student, grabbed her arm and pulled her up to the second floor, where he touched her on various parts of her body.

SSC spokesman Jay Davis said the victim is a 19-year-old student and reported the attack a day after it happened and said she does not want to press charges.

The alert to the rest of the campus was issued on Tuesday.  Local 6 reached out to school officials several times to find out why students weren't immediately alerted after the attack but never received a response.

School is out for the spring semester, but security on campus has been beefed up where the incident happened.

Seminole State said security personnel didn't follow the correct procedures in reporting the attack, causing a delay in alerting students on campus. According to the report, the school resource officer wasn't notified about the attack until Monday but the victim reported the incident on April 25--almost five days later.

School officials said the college is addressing the time lapse and mishandling of the reported incident with employees and will take appropriate action.

It's unclear how the victim was able to get free, but Davis said the incident is being investigated by the Seminole County Sheriff's Office as a misdemeanor battery.

"Seminole State's Safety and Security Office and the Seminole County Sheriff's Office have maintained a visible presence on campus and especially inside Building B since the incident was reported," said Davis in an email to Local 6. "The Sheriff's Office also has been in frequent contact with the victim."

Davis went on to say security is visible on campus and especially in Building B, which houses an adult high school. A SCSO resource officer and a campus security guard are routinely positioned inside the building, and each have offices inside the building as well, said Davis.

The assailant was described as a white man, about 5 feet 11 inches tall, with a scruffy facial appearance.  He was last seen wearing a gray shirt and skinny jeans.

The following is the email sent to students and staff:

April 30, 2013

"All Seminole State College employees and students are encouraged to be extra vigilant and aware of surroundings. The Campus Safety and Security Department is reporting that an incident occurred Wednesday, April 24, 2013, on the Sanford/Lake Mary Campus.

A Seminole State student reported that at about 8:30 a.m. she was approached by an unknown male on the first floor of Building B while she was waiting for class. The student reported that she was grabbed by her arm, pulled upstairs to the second floor of the building and that the suspect touched her on various parts of her body.

The student described the suspect as a white male; approximately 5 feet, 11 inches; with a scruffy facial appearance; last seen wearing a gray shirt and skinny jeans. The suspect is at large, and the Seminole County Sheriff's Office is investigating."


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Josh Jacobs was Yahoo's top display ad exec and head of strategy for the Yahoo Publisher Network.

Josh Jacobs, Yahoo's top display advertising executive, has defected to Glam Media to help the niche network make further inroads with premium advertisers.

Jacobs was VP and general manager of marketing technology at Yahoo, as well as head of strategy and marketing for the Yahoo Publisher Network. At Glam, where he started on Monday, he is SVP of brand advertising products and marketing, a new position that puts Jacobs at the top of the company's display operation. He will also be responsible for global marketing and communications at Glam.

Jacobs chose to leave Yahoo, the Web's number one display ad publisher, according to Comscore, for Glam, which is number nine on the list, for the opportunity to build something "exciting," he said.

"It's a chance to put together a network that is much more deeply integrated than just purely supply sourcing, with really creative, rich applications for advertisers," he said, "We're going to focus on delivering new and compelling and very unique solutions for brand marketers."

Glam has built its reputation on helping lifestyle and beauty advertisers reach young, affluent women, a highly sought-after category in which the network claims dominance. The venture-backed company announced that it had achieved profitability earlier this year, and says it now has 113 million monthly users spread out over 1,400 publishers.

"In addition to leading our brand advertising product initiatives, Josh will leverage his publishing and digital media experience as a key member of our company's executive leadership team", Samir Arora, chairman and CEO of Glam, said in a written statement. "No one has the triple play of deep experience in Internet, display and digital media that Josh does."

Jacobs will report to Jack Rotolo, president of Glam Media North America.

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This video segment from 'Earth: The Operators' Manual' explores how we know that today's increased levels of CO2 are caused by humans burning fossil fuels and not by some natural process, such as volcanic out-gassing. Climate scientist Richard Alley provides a detailed step-by-step explanation that examines the physics and chemistry of different "flavors" or isotopes of carbon in Earth's atmosphere.

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Welcome to the Cloudy Nights Imaging/Sketching Contest!

Over the years, we’ve noticed we have some exceptional talent in our forums, and we’ve decided that we would like to show it off. Each month our readers will choose an overall winner, and that winning image or sketch will be displayed on the front page of the Cloudy Nights website until a new winner is chosen.

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A galaxy in Hydra. North up, west right. As observed on May 16 and 17, 2012 with my 16” Newtonian from a ridge on the Allegheny Plateau in Pennsylvania (altitude 2400 ft, latitude 42N). M83 was culminating over an unusually transparent horizon. I measured 21.2 mag/sq arcsec in the area of M83 (21.7 overhead). The observation time was approximately two hours. The scope-side sketch in ball-pen was a composite of views obtained at various magnifications between 75 and 225. To produce the drawing presented here, the sketch was scanned, inverted, and finished on a computer using a simulated pencil, blender, and airbrush. A Wacom Intuos 4 pressure- and tilt-sensitive pen tablet and the Corel Sketch Pad software were employed at this stage.

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Posted 01 January 2013 - 11:56 PM

Well, not much of a competition, but I accept ;)

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Posted 02 January 2013 - 11:20 AM

This is a very fine sketch of a difficult target from so far north.

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Posted 03 January 2013 - 03:27 PM

This is a very fine sketch :).

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Schroeder quits football team; Enos says return is possible

Dan Enos knew he had some holes to fill when he was hired as CMU’s football coach Jan. 11.

Three record-setting cogs of the team’s offense — quarterback Dan LeFevour and wide receivers Bryan Anderson and Antonio Brown — departed for the NFL and graduation. Now, he will be without another offensive weapon.

Bryan Schroeder, the team’s leading rusher at the running back position, met with Enos this week and decided to leave the program.

“He’s taken a leave of absence, if you will,” Enos said. “Bryan came and met with me. We didn’t want him to, but he just felt like it was in the best interest of where he is at in his life right now. We’ve kept the door open so if he wants to earn his way back on, we’d be more than willing to let him do that.

“But, at the same token, we want guys who want to be here, too.”

Schroeder, who would be a junior next season, rushed for 559 yards and five touchdowns on 100 attempts despite missing three games because of injury. His rushing total ranked second on the team behind LeFevour’s 713 yards and 13 touchdowns. He also caught 34 passes for 284 yards and three touchdowns.

According to multiple reports, Schroeder will not play football for another school as the number of injuries has he has suffered in his two seasons and family issues have hindered his passion for the game.

“College football is a hard game, and your heart has to be 100 percent into it if you want to do it,” said linebacker Nick Bellore, who will be a senior next season. “Obviously, he had some stuff he had to take care of and that’s fine. I wish him the best and he’ll always be a friend and a teammate. We just have to move on and it’s the next man in.”

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Schroeder, a 5-foot-9, 216-pound native of Corydon, Ind., missed time last season because of ankle and rib injuries, but came back to record two 100-yard games — 105 yards against Toledo on Nov. 11 and 128 and two touchdowns against Northern Illinois on Nov. 28. He also tallied 72 yards in the Mid-American Conference title game on Dec. 4 and 73 on Jan. 6 in the GMAC Bowl.

Schroeder also was held out of the team’s first five games of the 2008 season because of a knee injury.

“A door closes somewhere, there’s going to be a door open somewhere else, and someone else is going to step up,” Enos said. “I’ve worked with the running backs the past few days and I’ve been really impressed with how they’ve worked and their athletic ability.”

Schroeder’s departure gives several running backs the opportunity to impress Enos.

Carl Volny, who will be a senior, will battle with junior Paris Cotton and sophomore Tim Phillips, who was moved from running back near the end of last season. Phillips has said he wants to return to the position, and Enos said he is open to positional maneuvering.

“Right now, we’re in the process of evaluating them,” Enos said. “But we’re going to get guys on the field where we need them.”

Enos said he looks to recruit bigger backs because of their versatility and value in goal-line situations, but also said he was impressed by the 5-foot-9 Cotton’s mix of agility and power in the team’s three workouts thus far.

He also added that Javon Ringer, a 5-foot-9 All-American running back whom he coached at Michigan State, did not need size.

“(Cotton)’s not very big but, if a guy’s strong and explosive and he breaks tackles, you don’t have to be a real big guy to do that,” Enos said. “We’re going to recruit the best players we can, but I do think it’s good to have a mixture of guys.”

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Enos said the only other player to leave the program thus far was sophomore punter Jake Linklater.

Bellore said despite the duo’s departures, he has not seen the kind of changes that occurred when former coach Butch Jones was hired.

“We haven’t had that so far and I don’t anticipate that,” Bellore said. “I think everyone’s on board and coming together for the common goal of winning another championship.”

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Mild winter expected to end next week, according to National Weather Service

Winter might finally arrive in mid-Michigan.

After a mild winter with little snow accumulation, snow showers are expected throughout the weekend, coupled with low temperatures, which may lead to some accumulation, according to the National Weather Service.

“This winter has been quite unusual; one of the least snowy on record,” said Brandon Hoving, NWS meteorologist and Central Michigan University alum.

Hoving said mid-Michigan usually receives around 10 to 12 inches of snow per month, but it has only seen an average of nine inches of snow during the entire winter season so far.

“The perception is this winter has been quiet. We are looking at more active patterns next week,” he said.

Temperatures are also expected to be colder than normal, Hoving said.

CMU meteorology professor Marty Baxter said it is hard to say if Mount Pleasant weather will return to normal conditions, but agrees it will feel like winter in upcoming days.

“We are low on snowfall, just like we were last year at this time,” Baxter said. “In the near term, it looks like it will get really cold next week, which increases the likelihood we will get snow.”

Michigan winters last longer than in his native state of Missouri, he said.

“It can get cold there, but less snow and we have more sunshine. The winter doesn’t last nearly as long; we just wait for it to get warm again in March,” Baxter said. “Here, it doesn’t get warm until May.”

Sue Ann Kopmeyer, director of Isabella County Parks and Recreation Commission, said this year’s attendance at the parks is about the same as last year, despite low snow totals.

“People have been skiing, and people have been able to sled. Now (that) it’s a bit chillier, I hope we will get some snow for our poor cross-country skiers,” Kopmeyer said.

Deerfield Nature Park, 2425 W. Remus Rd., deemed Isabella County’s own winter wonderland, is the place to be once the flurries are landed, she said. Ski conditions are reported to be fair, though trails have not been groomed yet.

The weather has not affected the county park system since people still come out to enjoy the outdoors when it is warmer, but Kopmeyer said it would be nice to get more snow.

The Mount Pleasant Riverwalk Trail has seen an increase in visitors because of nicer temperatures, said Chris Bundy, director of Parks and Public Spaces.

“Overall, I think Michigan is seeing warmer temperatures, and it is affecting people's habits for outdoor activities,” he said.

However, people are adaptable, he said, especially outdoor types.

“It doesn’t matter what the weather is; people will run or walk,” Bundy said.

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Bombay Beach

Directed by: Alma Har'el

2011 | USA/Israel | 80 minutes | Unrated

Friday, September 30, 2011, 7pm - 9pm

Bombay Beach documents the lives of three protagonists living in Bombay Beach, on the shores of the Salton Sea. The film follows its three primary subjects through their daily lives, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Benny; an aspiring teen football star, Ceejay; and Red, a former oil field worker.

Alma Har'el will be present on October 7 to introduce the film and for Q&A.

"This is an incredibly moving portrait of failed economic development and the humanity that continues to persevere even though forgotten in one of the poorest communities in southern California located near the Salton Sea. Three subjects are chosen to represent the community. Each is followed in their day-to-day routines, their interactions with families, neighbors, and friends examined in a perfectly crafted, cinema-verite style. Decayed buildings and rubble are the backdrop, but they're not the focus. Alma Har'el's debut feature showcases an assured talent. Bombay Beach offers a sincere look at people that are rarely given this attention." - The Playlist

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CMT and Alison Krauss & Union Station Hit the Road Together for the “New Favorite Tour”

Fans Can Enter CMT's “Bluegrass on the Bay Sweeps” for Chance to Win Trip to San Francisco Concert

Win a trip to see Alison Krauss & Union Station in San Francisco.

CMT is teaming up with one of America’s hottest bluegrass groups, Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas , to travel across the nation as the official sponsor of the “New Favorite Tour.” The tour runs from Sept. 28 through Dec. 9.

Fans may enter the CMT “Bluegrass on the Bay Sweeps,” where they’ll have the opportunity to win an all-expense-paid trip to see Alison Krauss & Union Station perform at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on Oct. 27. The grand prize winner will receive round-trip airfare for two, hotel accommodations and tickets to the concert. Fans may enter the sweepstakes through Friday, Oct. 12 by logging on to

The CMT trucks will be at each “New Favorite Tour” stop, playing the best in country music videos and offering visitors a variety of games and prizes. The trucks also have two private viewing stations where fans can watch their favorite CMT programs with state of the art DVD audio and video technology.

CMT and Alison Krauss & Union Station have developed a rich history together. Krauss has an impressive CMT catalog of 18 videos including “Maybe,” “Forget About It,” “Baby, Now That I’ve Found You,” “When You Say Nothing at All,” and “Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart” (with Shenandoah). Her current video, “Lucky One,” is on the CMT Top 20 Countdown. The group appeared on CMT Most Wanted Live in August on the release date of its critically acclaimed album New Favorite. The album made a strong debut, selling nearly 40,000 units in its first week, placing it at No. 35 on Billboard magazine’s Top 200 sales chart, No. 3 on the country music sales chart and No. 1 on the internet sales chart. Krauss and the members of Union Station were recently nominated for multiple International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards.

Alison Krauss & Union Station also continue to receive accolades stemming from their extensive participation on the hit motion picture soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou? The success of the O Brother soundtrack has garnered multiple CMA Awards nominations including album of the year, single of the year for The Soggy Bottom Boys’ “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” featuring Union Station member Dan Tyminski, and two vocal event of the year nods for “Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby” featuring Krauss, Emmylou Harris, and Gillian Welch and “I’ll Fly Away” with Krauss and Welch.

Alison Krauss + Union Station Tour Schedule:

• Nov. 27 — Birmingham, Ala. / Alabama Theatre
• Nov. 28 — Clearwater, Fla. / Ruth Eckerd Hall
• Nov. 30 — Ft. Myers, Fla. / Barbera P. Perf. Arts
• Dec. 1 — Pompano Beach, Fla. / Pompano Beach Amphitheatre
• Dec. 2 — Melbourne, Fla. / King Center for Perf. Arts
• Dec. 6 — Knoxville, Tenn. / Tennessee Theatre
• Dec. 8 — Richmond, Va. / Richmond’s Theatre
• Dec. 9 — Columbia, S.C. / Township Auditorium


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Miranda Lambert Scores No. 1 With Platinum

Luke Bryan's "Play It Again" Penthouses for Fourth Week

How clever! Miranda Lambert can claim a No. 1 platinum album straight out of the box. That’s because Platinum is the name of her new album that now tops both Billboard‘s country and all-genres charts.

Her first-week sales total, according to Nielsen SoundScan, is 179,646 copies, which is a pretty good start toward industry-certified platinum, the official designation that a million albums have been shipped or sold.

The world continues to look rosy for Luke Bryan, too. His “Play It Again” is spending its fourth week at No. 1 on the country airplay chart.

There are two other new albums in the Top 5 and three more farther down the charts. The multi-artist collection Now That’s What I Call Country, Volume 7 stands at No. 3 on sales of 30,223 units.

At No. 4, with 18,236 copies sold, is Lucy Hale‘s Road Between.

The remaining newcomers are Big Smo’s Kuntry Livin’ (No. 9), Megan and Liz’s Simple Life EP (No. 35) and Randy TravisHymns: 17 Timeless Songs of Faith (No. 50).

Returning to action is Jon Pardi‘s Write You a Song (No. 43).

The country airplay chart boasts three new songs: Little Big Town‘s “Day Drinking” (No. 32), Rascal Flatts‘ “Payback” (No. 46) and Jana Kramer‘s “Love” (No. 56).

(Is there no end to these one-word titles?)

The No. 2 and No. 5 albums this week are Brantley Gilbert’s Just as I Am and Bryan’s Crash My Party, in that order.

Marching directly behind “Play It Again” within the Top 5 songs cluster are Brett Eldredge‘s “Beat of the Music,” Lambert’s “Automatic” and Justin Moore‘s “Lettin’ the Night Roll” and Jake Owen‘s “Beachin’.” .

So how about these title tune mashups — “Shotgun/Payback” and “Love/Day Drinking”?

You are too kind, he thought, bowing to the imagined applause.

Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.


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iPad Programming-Faculty & Staff News - Carnegie Mellon University

Friday, March 2, 2012

iPad Programming

Course Extends Learning Opportunity To Thousands Through iTunesU

The students sitting in lectures at CMU for a new iPad programming course are just the very tip of the iceberg.

"Developing iPad Applications for Visualization and Insight" has proved popular with students from across the university and the world.  About 90 students showed up for the first day of class though the course had enrolled its limit of 30. And more than 20,000 subscribers are watching class lectures for free at Carnegie Mellon on iTunes U.

"The response has been tremendous and we're really excited to be seeing these numbers," said Niki Kittur, an assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute who is co-teaching the course. "I think one big draw of our course is that it gives people not only the practical skills in building iPad applications, but also the conceptual tools to envision new ways of interacting with information."

In addition to Kittur, a team of top industry iOS developers, led by Paul Hankes Drielsma, are using the project-based course to teach students about the design and implementation of iPad applications that help users visualize and make sense of large data sets.

Kittur said with the new iTunes U structure the team is able to put pretty much the entire class online - not only HD video of lectures, but also the assignments and readings - so that people can get very close to the real class experience, but follow along at their own pace on the Web.

Students are learning a basic background in visualization and in understanding the cognitive processes involved in transforming visual representations into mental representations, insight and discovery, and instruction on implementing these techniques in real applications for the iPad.

"We're not only teaching students how to program," Kittur explained, "but what they should be programming. We want to think of new, user-centered ways for people to consume information and then implement those on an iPad."

Kittur added, "The idea is that we can help students not just understand how to program but also what to program: how to develop iPad apps that take information and turn it into knowledge and insight."

The software engineering topics taught focus on the latest technologies available in the newly released iOS 5.

For those interested in following along, object-oriented programming experience is recommended.

"Right now we have interested students from all over the school - from computer science to HCI to design to electrical engineering; I think this is a really popular area now," Kittur said.

Watch the course on iTunes U or on any iOS device with the free iTunes U app.

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March Highlight - Dean's Choice

CopernicusEarth Moved and Sun Centered

Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543.
De Revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Nuremberg, Petreius, 1543.

Copernicus made systematic astronomical observations for many years, basing his calculations on trigonometry. His heliocentric theory of the planetary system became the cornerstone of modern astronomy. He demonstrated how a heliocentric concept made it possible to calculate planetary positions and distances from the sun accurately and to explain the cycle of seasons, precession of equinoxes and retrograde motion of planets.

Henry Posner Sr. (1888-1976) bought the book from rare book dealer H.P. Kraus in 1955; it was one of the first important scientific titles in the Posner Collection. This copy was owned at one time by Harvard astronomy professor Robert W. Willson and retains his bookplate.

Selected by Keith Webster, Dean of the University Libraries


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The Corporate Tax Game

James Best Jr. | New York Times

Republicans and Democrats in Washington rarely agree on anything these days. But in recent months almost everyone seems to have coalesced around the notion that the corporate tax system is broken and needs to be fixed.

President Obama is for it. So are the two leaders of the tax-writing committees in Congress: the House Ways and Means chairman, Dave Camp, a Republican, and Max Baucus, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who plans to retire next year and may be seeking a capstone for his career. The country's biggest companies have declared loudly that they are in favor of revising the nation's business tax system, too.

Despite the widespread support, the campaign for an overhaul is exposing deep fault lines within the business world that suggest it may fall apart. The problem is how to pay for everything lawmakers and businesses want without adding to the deficit.

The main goal of the advocates on both sides of the aisle is to lower the official corporate top rate from 35 percent, the highest among industrialized nations. Republican leaders and a large number of giant companies also want to end what they regard as the noxious practice of taxing the profits that multinational corporations earn abroad. The United States is one of the few countries to do so.

The only way to tackle such goals without losing revenue, however, is to close specific corporate tax preferences intended to promote various activities considered worthwhile by their supporters. There is plenty of money to be found: a Government Accountability Office study in March estimated the 80 or so business tax exemptions added up to about $181 billion in 2011, roughly the same size as total corporate tax revenue.

Yet each of these corporate tax breaks is worth a fortune to the industries they benefit—and fierce campaigning is under way, employing teams of lobbyists in Washington, to keep them in place.

"It is going to be practically impossible to get the rate down," said Howard Gleckman, a fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. "No one wants to cut their preferences."

Since the last reduction in United States corporate tax rates, in 1986, other nations have reduced their own business rates; corporations complain this is putting them at a sharp competitive disadvantage. In reality, though, few companies pay the official rate.

Many pay at a much lower effective rate, taking advantage of numerous tax breaks and loopholes and using aggressive tax strategies to shift profits to more generous tax territories abroad. Among the companies benefiting from lower effective rates is General Electric, which has paid total corporate taxes—federal, state, local and foreign—equal to 17.9 percent of its cumulative $81 billion in earnings over the last five years, according to an analysis by S&P Capital IQ.

FedEx paid 20.1 percent, Amazon.com 6.6 percent and Ford Motor 4.2 percent. G.E. said its tax rate was unusually low over this period because it had big losses during the financial crisis. FedEx said it took advantage of temporary incentives to make new investments.

Congress, under relentless pressure from business interests, has allowed corporate taxes to dwindle as a source of revenue. In 2012, they amounted to about 1.6 percent of gross domestic product, half the level collected in 1970. By comparison, the individual income tax generated 7.3 percent of G.D.P. last year.

Many industrialized countries collect more than that percentage, although they, too, have to contend with a competitive globalized world where multinational companies can shift profits beyond the reach of local tax authorities.

"Income is increasingly difficult to nail down," said Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University. "It is like nailing jelly to the wall. And the problem is only going to get worse rather than better."

The two biggest corporate tax breaks are for accelerated depreciation of machinery and equipment, which saved corporations an estimated $76 billion in 2011, and deferral of foreign source income.

Deferral allows big multinational corporations to postpone paying United States taxes on foreign earnings until they bring those profits home. It saved them $41 billion in 2011. American corporations had amassed about $1.7 trillion in offshore profits by last year, analysts at JPMorgan Chase estimated, a figure that is now believed to be almost $2 trillion.

Mr. Obama wants to claw some of this back by imposing a minimum tax on foreign earnings.

A new coalition called LIFT America started a campaign last month to prevent that from happening. They want the United States to adopt what is called a territorial system, in which companies pay taxes on profits only in the country where they were earned, in line with the practice in many other nations.

"It is not a tax that our competitors pay when they bring profits home to their countries," said Claire Buchan Parker, a spokeswoman for LIFT America, which includes international powerhouses like Coca-Cola and Hewlett-Packard.

Last month, the Business Roundtable, which represents mostly big businesses, started a separate lobbying campaign, called Home Court Advantage, to adopt a territorial tax system as well as a lower rate.

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Another coalition, called Reforming America's Taxes Equitably, or Rate, which includes more domestic-oriented companies like AT&T and Macy's, is less interested in getting rid of the United States' worldwide tax system. Instead, it is concentrating on lowering the corporate tax rate, proposing to pay for it by ending many domestic tax breaks. But it will not say yet exactly which loopholes its members would surrender to make up the lost tax revenue.

To make the numbers work, economists say, Rate's plan would inevitably need tax revenue from the multinationals' foreign earnings—revenue that the multinationals are eager to save for themselves, of course.

"We have different coalitions with different interests," said Edward D. Kleinbard, former chief of staff of Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation. "That makes it difficult for the coalitions to speak with one voice."

In Congress, Mr. Camp, the Michigan Republican who runs the Ways and Means Committee, favors a 25 percent corporate tax rate and elimination of the worldwide system. He wants to pass a bill out of the committee this year, and Speaker John A. Boehner says he will give priority to any debate about rewriting the tax code.

"Companies have testified before the committee that they are willing to put everything on the table in tax reform," Mr. Camp said in an e-mailed response to questions, suggesting there would indeed be enough revenue generated by closing loopholes and generally tidying up the tax code. But companies and trade groups are bombarding the committee with outside comments, underlining the difficulties of getting everyone to agree on a formula for change.

For example, the Retail Industry Leaders Association wants to eliminate all loopholes, because retailers benefit from few tax breaks. But the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers are fighting to preserve many of them, including the research and development tax credit, which yielded $8.3 billion in tax savings in 2011, according to the G.A.O.

The National Association of Water Companies wants to protect the tax deduction on borrowing, another preference that saves companies billions. And a trade association for oil and gas suppliers, Western Energy Alliance, is defending tax subsidies for fossil fuels against Mr. Obama's budget proposal to end them, potentially raising $44 billion over 10 years.

Another powerful constituency—made up of businesses that are not organized as corporations—is preparing to fight for its turf, adding to the opposition to an overhaul. After the previous tax reform in 1986, thousands of companies shifted to this status; these pass-through entities still benefit from many corporate tax breaks but often pay a lower personal rate of taxation. Their numbers have increased so much that they now account for more than half of net business profits, according to the Tax Policy Center.

They are now worried that they will be singled out to help pay for a corporate tax overhaul.

According to a study last year by the Joint Committee on Taxation, even if Congress eliminated many corporate tax deductions, it could not push the official rate below 28 percent. (At the time, Mr. Camp described the study as incomplete, and some analysts say there may be loopholes to close beyond the official list.) Still, given corporations' opposition to getting rid of their panoply of cherished tax breaks, any rate cut could be vanishingly thin, undermining the whole point of the exercise.

Robert S. McIntyre, director of the left-leaning Citizens for Tax Justice, says he thinks most of the interest in changing the corporate tax system is actually being driven by entrepreneurial lobbyists who sense an opportunity to generate extra business from various interest groups. If any bill managed to get through Congress, he argues, it would happen only because lawmakers had ignored the prescription to keep the overhaul from losing revenue.

"They don't care about the deficit," he said. "They just care about their own corporate taxes."

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Double-Dip Fear Is a 'Very Good Thing': Mobius

Fears of a double-dip recession are good for markets, as this will pressure global central banks to stay liquid, said Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group.

"They're going to have to print and they're going to have to continue money supply increases, and that's good for the global market because it means there's more money available globally," Mobius said on CNBC Thursday.

The bigger worry on Mobius' mind right now is the rapid rise in IPO activity, as that could eventually put downward pressure on prices.

"Unless investors finally say 'look, enough is enough we want better prices'... I think there's going be a downward pressure on prices of new IPOs."

Over $90 billion has been raised so far this year through initial public offerings in emerging markets, Mobius noted, far exceeding the $89 billion raised in 2009.

Opportunities in Risky Markets

While Wall Street stocks have wiped out their gains for the year, Mobius highlighted that markets in Pakistan, Thailand and Russia have risen compared with other markets.

"These are perceived to be very, very risky but the valuations are good because we see going forward, a positive trend in these markets. We think the year will end up rather than down."

Mobius said H-shares, or Hong Kong-listed Chinese companies, and red chip stocks, which are China firms incorporated outside of China, continue to look attractive as their domestic China-listed counterparts face foreign exchange controls and liquidity problems. However, he warned that the tremendous amout of IPOs taking place there could have a "depressing effect".

He also sounded a note of caution about Chinese property prices, saying he expects them to fall more than 10 percent on the mainland, particularly the coastal areas in the main cities along the coast.

That's one of the reasons why Chinese banks are raising more money because they see a flood of non-performing loans coming down the pipe, Mobius said.

However, the growth rate in China will continue to stay at a high level, he added, thanks to the government's efforts to keep the growth rate at a higher level.

"I still see 8-9 percent growth for China this year."

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Is the Fed Too Bearish on Unemployment?

The Federal Reserve may have too bearish an outlook on unemployment.

As the pseudonymous blogger DutchBook points out at the Stone Street Advisors blog, the Fed shifted its predictions for unemployment to a far more bearish stance in the beginning of 2011. Now, however, it looks like this was just a temporary uptick in unemployment.

Here are the charts that show that the Fed has been consistently overestimating unemployment for a few months now.

In the first, you can see how the Fed's economic projections underestimated unemployment in 2011.

Then the Fed revised its views, and almost immediately began overestimating unemployment.

Jobs numbers are coming in hotter than expected. Consumer creditkeeps blowing away expectations.

“With a breakeven rate of unemployment around 400k on claims, as I have been advocating on Twitter, this disconnect looks to be further exacerbated in coming months,” Dutchbook writes.

The Fed getting unemployment expectations wrong can have serious consequences. It could result in the Fed easing too much for too long, for example.

On the other hand, the Fed sees this kind of data even before the markets. So perhaps it is already revising its expectations. This might be another nail in the coffin of QE3.

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The Quadtec timepiece keeps you on deadline all day

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The breakneck pace of life in the 21st century often requires us to be on deadline from the moment we wake up. Yet we've been using the same method of keeping time since, well, the beginning of time (as we know it, anyway).

Quadtec aims to change all that with a watch that essentially tells time backwards. We'll try to explain: Rather than focus on how much time has elapsed, as traditional clocks and watches do, the Quadtec timepiece tells you how much time you have remaining before an appointed hour or minute. You can, for instance, break down a day into 15-minute blocks, counting down the minutes to each quarter-hour. Why? The idea is to help time-management-challenged individuals stay on track better.

Frankly, our biggest fear is that someone actually gives us one. Perhaps the next version of the Quadtec should include a blood-pressure monitor as well.

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Apple is in negotiations with entertainment companies to change the way customers interact with its long-rumored television, according to a new report.

Apple has been holding talks with ESPN, HBO, Viacom, and several other major networks to ink deals that would see those firms bring their programming to apps on its rumored television, the Quartz news site reported on Thursday, citing people who claim to have knowledge of the iPhone maker's plans.

Although it's not clear exactly what Apple has planned, some of Quartz's sources say that Apple is trying to create a pay-TV service that would include content from several different networks. Apple's customers would apparently pay a fee to access its service, and thus have the ability to watch programming delivered by networks. The company would ostensibly turn into a cable-TV provider, but use the Internet to deliver that service, Quartz says.

Rumors have been swirling for years now suggesting Apple will launch a television. Analysts have predicted that the set would come with advanced screen technology, access to apps, gesture control, and a host of other features. The idea of an Apple television was first floated by late co-founder Steve Jobs, who said he had "cracked" the code on delivering an appealing TV experience.

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Similarly, Apple would not confirm to Quartz that it's holding discussions with media companies for content to be delivered to a television. However, ESPN confirmed to Quartz that discussions are ongoing, though they are "very, very exploratory in nature."

HBO told Quartz that it has no desire to change its current business model and deliver programming to Apple in a different way.

Apple's chief issue now, however, might be the television industry's complexity. According to Quartz, Apple is exploring everything from setting up the aforementioned pay-TV service to becoming a cable provider all its own by delivering programming over the Internet to partnering with cable companies. Whether the cable companies would actually want to partner with Apple, however, is unknown.

Quartz's sources didn't have a solid grip on exactly what will play out with Apple, but based on their comments, it appears Apple still has a ways to go to get what it wants in the TV space.

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The Good The GE X5 offers a lot for its low price, including a 15x wide-angle zoom lens and semimanual and manual controls.

The Bad The X5's shooting performance is really slow, and it's not good indoors without a flash and in low-light conditions.

The Bottom Line The GE X5 megazoom is a very good value, as long as you understand its photo and performance limitations.

7.0 Overall
  • Design 8.0
  • Features 7.0
  • Performance 6.0
  • Image quality 6.0

Reviewing budget cameras is tricky. Add in a brand name that is synonymous with another product category like light bulbs and appliances and taking the camera seriously is even more difficult. Such is the case with the GE X5.

During the 2010 holiday season I received a few reader e-mails asking me about the X5, and frankly I knew nothing about it. There are so many point-and-shoots released each year that brands like GE don't generally show up on my radar because reader interest is low. (The cameras are actually made by a company called General Imaging, but it licenses the GE brand.) But since readers took the time to e-mail me about it, I figured I should check it out.

It turns out that the X5 has several features that are important to what seems like a fairly large group of consumers: a wide-angle lens with a 15x zoom; an electronic viewfinder (EVF); semimanual and manual shooting modes; and power from AA-size batteries. There are other models with these features from more-recognizable camera brands, but not at the X5's price; it starts at $180, but can easily be found for less than $130.

It's that price and its feature set that helped earn the camera its above average rating. The X5 is capable of taking some nice photos, too, under the right circumstances. Pixel peepers will likely be disappointed, but its photos should be satisfying for many, especially considering the financial investment. It does not compete with a digital SLR, and something like the Canon PowerShot SX130 IS produces better photos (though it costs a little more and doesn't have an EVF). Its shooting performance is slow, too, so if you're considering this for photos of kids or pets, you'll probably want to look elsewhere (and, unfortunately, spend more money).

Key specs GE X5
Price (MSRP) $179.99
Dimensions (WHD) 4 x 2.9 x 2.7 inches
Weight (with battery and media) 15.8 ounces
Megapixels, image sensor size, type 14 megapixels, 1/2.3-inch CCD
LCD size, resolution/viewfinder 2.7-inch LCD, 230K dots/Electronic
Lens (zoom, aperture, focal length) 15x, f3-5.2, 27-405mm (35mm equivalent)
File format (still/video) JPEG/Motion JPEG (.MOV)
Highest resolution size (still/video) 4,320x3,240 pixels/ 640x480 at 30fps
Image stabilization type Mechanical and digital
Battery type, CIPA rated life AA (4, alkaline or NiMH rechargeables), 300 shots (alkaline)
Battery charged in camera No
Storage media SD/SDHC
Bundled software Arcsoft Photo Impression 6 (Windows)

While the photo quality from the GE X5 isn't spectacular, it is good for a point-and-shoot and actually a bit better than expected given its specs and price and, frankly, its brand. Like most in its class, it's good up through ISO 200; above that you get more noise, softness, and off colors, making photos only suitable for small prints and Web use. Even still, you probably won't want to go above ISO 800. So despite the availability of ISO 1,600 and ISO 3,200 settings, I wouldn't use them. Basically, the more light you have, the better off you'll be. If you do a lot of indoor shooting in dim lighting and don't want to use the flash, I would not buy the X5. The Auto ISO setting actually goes down to ISO 64, which resulted in some very nice photos suitable for 8x10 prints or slightly larger. But, in general, its photos are best suited for use at small sizes--either as prints or for computer/Web use.

There is some visible barrel distortion at the wide end of the lens and some very slight pincushioning when then lens is extended. Center sharpness is fairly good, and the lens is consistent for the most part, softening slightly out at the edges and in the corners. I've seen far worse on more-expensive cameras, though. Fringing can be very bad at times around high-contrast subjects. However, in most of my photos, it was faint enough where it didn't pose a problem and was only visible when photos were viewed at 100 percent on a computer screen.

Color was very good from the X5 at or below ISO 200. Above that, colors get washed out and dull-looking. White balance outside was spot on, but indoors both the auto and presets were off. There is a manual option that's easy to set, and I recommend using that whenever possible under unnatural light. Exposure is inconsistent, or at least it was on my review sample. One shot would be correct, but then I would get a string of shots that were black or severely underexposed. However, this only seemed to occur when using the camera's aperture priority and auto scene recognition modes. As I could not regularly reproduce the issue and could find no user complaints expressing a similar issue, my guess is that it was just an issue with my review camera.

Video quality is OK; it's good enough for nondiscriminating Web use, but really nothing else. Panning the camera will create judder; that's typical of the video from most compact cameras, though. The zoom lens does function while recording and it has continuous autofocus. The AF is a little slow to respond, but at least it and the lens movement are quiet, barely picked up by the mono microphone.

General shooting options GE X5
ISO sensitivity (full resolution) Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1,600, 3,200
White balance Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Fluorescent CWF, Incandescent, Manual
Recording modes Auto, ASCN, Manual, Shutter priority, Aperture priority, Movie, Scene, Portrait, Panorama
Focus modes Center AF, 13-point multi AF, Face Detection AF
Macro 2 inches (Wide); 6.6 feet (Tele)
Metering modes Multi, Center-weighted average, Spot
Color effects Black & White, Sepia, Vivid
Burst mode shot limit (full resolution) Unlimited continuous

It's rare that you find a sub-$200 camera these days with aperture priority, shutter priority, and manual shooting modes, but the X5 has them. At the wide end, the apertures are: f3, f3.3, f3.8, f4.6, f5.8, and f7.3; in telephoto you have a choice of f5.2 or f6.6. Shutter speeds go from 1/2,000 second to 30 seconds. What's nice is that the X5 has graphics on the aperture and shutter speed onscreen controls, giving you an idea of what setting to use for a subject (e.g. fireworks at the 30-second shutter speed position). If you need manual focus, though, you're out of luck; the X5 has autofocus only.

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