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The Electrical Engineering PhD and former CEO of Northrop Grumman will join Apple’s board of directors and serve as the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee.  The spot was vacated when Jerome York passed away in March.

“Ron is an engineer at heart, who then became a very successful business leader. We are very excited to welcome him to Apple’s Board,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “In addition to having been the CEO of a high-tech Fortune 100 company, Ron has a Ph.D. in engineering and has been involved in the development of some very sophisticated technology.”

A little background from Wikipedia:.

Ronald D. Sugar (born 1949) has been chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a global defense company, since 2003. On September 16, 2009, he announced that he would retire as CEO from Northrop Grumman at the end of the year, to be succeeded by now Chief Operating Officer Wesley G. Bush. He has also been a director of Chevron Corporation since 2005. In 1968, he graduated summa cum laude in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCLA in 1971. He is a member of the USC Board of Trustees.

Press release follows.

The college preparatory schools would be restructured to teach by modules (the vocational schools could be similarly designed). For each grade level, a curriculum would be established identifying the subjects to be mastered to complete that grade. These might include fifteen to twenty topics each for math, science, history, language arts, fine arts, etc. Students would choose a topic module (e.g., beginning algebra: how to solve an equation), attend the classes, take a test (which might be written or oral), and have that module signed off by the teacher. Modules may be taken in any order, and students need not attend class to have a skill signed off; that is, they may study on their own or test on prior experience. Once all requirements for a grade were completed, the student would be awarded a diploma for that grade. Students would no longer achieve "high school graduation," but would be a graduate of the grade completed with a diploma for each level of achievement. Dropouts would no longer exist because every student would be a diploma-holding graduate of the last grade he/she completed successfully.

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The Electrical Engineering PhD and former CEO of Northrop Grumman will join Apple’s board of directors and serve as the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee.  The spot was vacated when Jerome York passed away in March.

“Ron is an engineer at heart, who then became a very successful business leader. We are very excited to welcome him to Apple’s Board,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “In addition to having been the CEO of a high-tech Fortune 100 company, Ron has a Ph.D. in engineering and has been involved in the development of some very sophisticated technology.”

A little background from Wikipedia:.

Ronald D. Sugar (born 1949) has been chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a global defense company, since 2003. On September 16, 2009, he announced that he would retire as CEO from Northrop Grumman at the end of the year, to be succeeded by now Chief Operating Officer Wesley G. Bush. He has also been a director of Chevron Corporation since 2005. In 1968, he graduated summa cum laude in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCLA in 1971. He is a member of the USC Board of Trustees.

Press release follows.

The college preparatory schools would be restructured to teach by modules (the vocational schools could be similarly designed). For each grade level, a curriculum would be established identifying the subjects to be mastered to complete that grade. These might include fifteen to twenty topics each for math, science, history, language arts, fine arts, etc. Students would choose a topic module (e.g., beginning algebra: how to solve an equation), attend the classes, take a test (which might be written or oral), and have that module signed off by the teacher. Modules may be taken in any order, and students need not attend class to have a skill signed off; that is, they may study on their own or test on prior experience. Once all requirements for a grade were completed, the student would be awarded a diploma for that grade. Students would no longer achieve "high school graduation," but would be a graduate of the grade completed with a diploma for each level of achievement. Dropouts would no longer exist because every student would be a diploma-holding graduate of the last grade he/she completed successfully.

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The Electrical Engineering PhD and former CEO of Northrop Grumman will join Apple’s board of directors and serve as the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee.  The spot was vacated when Jerome York passed away in March.

“Ron is an engineer at heart, who then became a very successful business leader. We are very excited to welcome him to Apple’s Board,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “In addition to having been the CEO of a high-tech Fortune 100 company, Ron has a Ph.D. in engineering and has been involved in the development of some very sophisticated technology.”

A little background from Wikipedia:.

Ronald D. Sugar (born 1949) has been chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a global defense company, since 2003. On September 16, 2009, he announced that he would retire as CEO from Northrop Grumman at the end of the year, to be succeeded by now Chief Operating Officer Wesley G. Bush. He has also been a director of Chevron Corporation since 2005. In 1968, he graduated summa cum laude in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCLA in 1971. He is a member of the USC Board of Trustees.

Press release follows.

The college preparatory schools would be restructured to teach by modules (the vocational schools could be similarly designed). For each grade level, a curriculum would be established identifying the subjects to be mastered to complete that grade. These might include fifteen to twenty topics each for math, science, history, language arts, fine arts, etc. Students would choose a topic module (e.g., beginning algebra: how to solve an equation), attend the classes, take a test (which might be written or oral), and have that module signed off by the teacher. Modules may be taken in any order, and students need not attend class to have a skill signed off; that is, they may study on their own or test on prior experience. Once all requirements for a grade were completed, the student would be awarded a diploma for that grade. Students would no longer achieve "high school graduation," but would be a graduate of the grade completed with a diploma for each level of achievement. Dropouts would no longer exist because every student would be a diploma-holding graduate of the last grade he/she completed successfully.

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Launched 3 days ago by Abraaj Capital one of the world’s 50 biggest private equity groups Riyada Enterprise Development (RED) has $500 million in cash to invest on around 100 SMEs over the next 2-3 years. And they’ve kicked it off with investing in 5 already.

If your wondering what an SME is exactly, RED defines it as any company with an enterprise value of less than $50 million. That provides good reason to make your mouth water.

The industries they cover include process food, pharmaceutical, diapers, media, it services, medical testing, educational products and services, , media content, construction material, specialized logistics, child support solutions, clean energy can and should be addressed by SMEs in the region.

Some of their local partners are in Palestine the Palestine Investment Fund, in Jordan it’s Jordan Enterprise, in Lebanon it’s CISCO, and Banque Nationale d’Algérie in Algeria to name a few.

The people from Abraaj Capital successfully attempted to put the money together by contacting developmental finance institutions around the region along with a $50 million they put forward since last year. One of which was OPIC: United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

The OPIC allocation following president Obama’s 2009 speech was a $500 million tender for development in the Middle East, which RED received the largest single chunk of, which is $150 million. They added another $200 million from their investor base. And before you know it, they got the local funds to chip in getting it up to $500 million.

They started screening companies, 180 companies in total from around the region in 4 months. 160 of them weren’t of interest, the remaining 20 were. As a result they ended up investing in 5:

1. E3 is a regional medical IT Services company


2. Egypt-based integrated agriculture company which specializes in Artichoke growing/producing


3. Egypt-based regional IT services firm OMS


4. Kuwait-based Teshkeel Media Group lead by Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa creator of The 99 comic book


5. Jordan-based Arabic online portal d1g.com

D1g.com is obviously the most interesting investment to us because it not only represents in an investment in an Arabic online portal, but an investment in digital Arabic content as well.

Having Usama Fayyad’s Yahoo!’s former Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Strategic Data Solution as Executive Chairman of D1G encouraged us to attend a presentation of his during the Celebration of Entrepreneurship in Dubai and the numbers are staggering.

Since Arabic Internet content is less than 1% of all Internet content yet the Arabic language is ranked second according to the number of native speakers of that language after Mandarin, the crisis is offline as much as it is online. Another interesting fact is that only 2% percent of Arabic speaking Internet users are comfortable with doing their business/personal matter in English.

So if 98% of Arabic speaking people can’t comfortably access the content online, the Internet revolution is actively leaving them behind.

Now if we consider the offline Arabic content dilemma it’s also rather concerning. 330 books get published per year, when comparing the number of ‘quality articles’ on D1G.com, the amount of content would be equivalent to 368 books per year. And that is more than the entire book industry in the Arab world for one year.

It appears RED has made a successful investment, at least in the Arabic content generation industry we hope will catch on to other platforms and online industries.

As you probably know, Matt Taibbi has a new book out, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America. Within it, Taibbi moves from his established gig reporting on the weirdness that is modern American poltical campaigning…

... Being in the building with Palin that night [of her acceptance speech for the VP nomination] is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. A scary-as-hell situation: thousands of pudgy Midwestern conservatives worshipping at the Altar of the Economic Producer, led by a charismatic arch-priestess letting loose a grade-A war cry. The clear subtext of Palin’s speechi is this: other politicians only talk about fighting these assholes. I actually will.



Palin is talking to voters whose country is despised internationally, no longer an industrial manufacturing power, fast becoming an economic vassal to the Chinese and the Saudis, and just a week away from an almost-total financial collapes. Nobody here is likely to genuinely believe a speech that promises better things.



But cultural civil war, you have that no matter how broke you are. And if you want that I, Sarah Palin, can give it to you. It’s a powerful, galvanizing speech, but the strange thing about it is its seeming lack of electoral calculation. It’s a transparent attempt to massmarket militancy and frustration, consolidate the group identity of an aggrieved demographic, and work that crowd up into a lather. This represents a further degrading of the already degraded electoral process. Now, not only are the long-term results of elections irrelevant, but for a new set of players like Palin, the outcome of the election itself is irrelevant. This speech wasn’t designed to win a general election, it was designed to introduce a new celebrity, a make-believe servant of the people so phony that later in her new career she will not even bother to hold an elective office.



The speech was a tremendous success.

... to a thorough, even obsessive, discussion of the new finance-based reality:

Our world isn’t about ideology anymore. It’s about complexity. We live in a complex bureaucratic state with complex laws and complex business practices, and the few organizations with the corporate willpower to master these complexities will inevitably own the political power.

Amazon’s currently advertising Griftopia for half off the cover price, and if you order through the link in the right-hand column, I understand you’ll be adding a couple pennies to Tunch’s personal catfood commission. If the Amazon teaser isn’t enough for you, Rolling Stone has an excerpt on “how our cash-strapped country is auctioning off its highways, ports and even parking meters at fire sale prices.”

The witty and foul-mouthed TBogg will be leading an online discussion of Griftopia at the FDL Book Salon on Saturday afternoon, November 27. If you are a faster typist than I, there should be some excellent back-and-forth shared there.

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Launched 3 days ago by Abraaj Capital one of the world’s 50 biggest private equity groups Riyada Enterprise Development (RED) has $500 million in cash to invest on around 100 SMEs over the next 2-3 years. And they’ve kicked it off with investing in 5 already.

If your wondering what an SME is exactly, RED defines it as any company with an enterprise value of less than $50 million. That provides good reason to make your mouth water.

The industries they cover include process food, pharmaceutical, diapers, media, it services, medical testing, educational products and services, , media content, construction material, specialized logistics, child support solutions, clean energy can and should be addressed by SMEs in the region.

Some of their local partners are in Palestine the Palestine Investment Fund, in Jordan it’s Jordan Enterprise, in Lebanon it’s CISCO, and Banque Nationale d’Algérie in Algeria to name a few.

The people from Abraaj Capital successfully attempted to put the money together by contacting developmental finance institutions around the region along with a $50 million they put forward since last year. One of which was OPIC: United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

The OPIC allocation following president Obama’s 2009 speech was a $500 million tender for development in the Middle East, which RED received the largest single chunk of, which is $150 million. They added another $200 million from their investor base. And before you know it, they got the local funds to chip in getting it up to $500 million.

They started screening companies, 180 companies in total from around the region in 4 months. 160 of them weren’t of interest, the remaining 20 were. As a result they ended up investing in 5:

1. E3 is a regional medical IT Services company


2. Egypt-based integrated agriculture company which specializes in Artichoke growing/producing


3. Egypt-based regional IT services firm OMS


4. Kuwait-based Teshkeel Media Group lead by Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa creator of The 99 comic book


5. Jordan-based Arabic online portal d1g.com

D1g.com is obviously the most interesting investment to us because it not only represents in an investment in an Arabic online portal, but an investment in digital Arabic content as well.

Having Usama Fayyad’s Yahoo!’s former Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Strategic Data Solution as Executive Chairman of D1G encouraged us to attend a presentation of his during the Celebration of Entrepreneurship in Dubai and the numbers are staggering.

Since Arabic Internet content is less than 1% of all Internet content yet the Arabic language is ranked second according to the number of native speakers of that language after Mandarin, the crisis is offline as much as it is online. Another interesting fact is that only 2% percent of Arabic speaking Internet users are comfortable with doing their business/personal matter in English.

So if 98% of Arabic speaking people can’t comfortably access the content online, the Internet revolution is actively leaving them behind.

Now if we consider the offline Arabic content dilemma it’s also rather concerning. 330 books get published per year, when comparing the number of ‘quality articles’ on D1G.com, the amount of content would be equivalent to 368 books per year. And that is more than the entire book industry in the Arab world for one year.

It appears RED has made a successful investment, at least in the Arabic content generation industry we hope will catch on to other platforms and online industries.

As you probably know, Matt Taibbi has a new book out, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America. Within it, Taibbi moves from his established gig reporting on the weirdness that is modern American poltical campaigning…

... Being in the building with Palin that night [of her acceptance speech for the VP nomination] is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. A scary-as-hell situation: thousands of pudgy Midwestern conservatives worshipping at the Altar of the Economic Producer, led by a charismatic arch-priestess letting loose a grade-A war cry. The clear subtext of Palin’s speechi is this: other politicians only talk about fighting these assholes. I actually will.



Palin is talking to voters whose country is despised internationally, no longer an industrial manufacturing power, fast becoming an economic vassal to the Chinese and the Saudis, and just a week away from an almost-total financial collapes. Nobody here is likely to genuinely believe a speech that promises better things.



But cultural civil war, you have that no matter how broke you are. And if you want that I, Sarah Palin, can give it to you. It’s a powerful, galvanizing speech, but the strange thing about it is its seeming lack of electoral calculation. It’s a transparent attempt to massmarket militancy and frustration, consolidate the group identity of an aggrieved demographic, and work that crowd up into a lather. This represents a further degrading of the already degraded electoral process. Now, not only are the long-term results of elections irrelevant, but for a new set of players like Palin, the outcome of the election itself is irrelevant. This speech wasn’t designed to win a general election, it was designed to introduce a new celebrity, a make-believe servant of the people so phony that later in her new career she will not even bother to hold an elective office.



The speech was a tremendous success.

... to a thorough, even obsessive, discussion of the new finance-based reality:

Our world isn’t about ideology anymore. It’s about complexity. We live in a complex bureaucratic state with complex laws and complex business practices, and the few organizations with the corporate willpower to master these complexities will inevitably own the political power.

Amazon’s currently advertising Griftopia for half off the cover price, and if you order through the link in the right-hand column, I understand you’ll be adding a couple pennies to Tunch’s personal catfood commission. If the Amazon teaser isn’t enough for you, Rolling Stone has an excerpt on “how our cash-strapped country is auctioning off its highways, ports and even parking meters at fire sale prices.”

The witty and foul-mouthed TBogg will be leading an online discussion of Griftopia at the FDL Book Salon on Saturday afternoon, November 27. If you are a faster typist than I, there should be some excellent back-and-forth shared there.

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Former bungee jumper now gets his thrills the way many people do -- from Fox News Channel.

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Former bungee jumper now gets his thrills the way many people do -- from Fox News Channel.

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Sarah Palin Passes On RNC - The Note

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Fox <b>News</b> Co-Host Bill Hemmer Is An Adrenaline Junkie

Former bungee jumper now gets his thrills the way many people do -- from Fox News Channel.

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Launched 3 days ago by Abraaj Capital one of the world’s 50 biggest private equity groups Riyada Enterprise Development (RED) has $500 million in cash to invest on around 100 SMEs over the next 2-3 years. And they’ve kicked it off with investing in 5 already.

If your wondering what an SME is exactly, RED defines it as any company with an enterprise value of less than $50 million. That provides good reason to make your mouth water.

The industries they cover include process food, pharmaceutical, diapers, media, it services, medical testing, educational products and services, , media content, construction material, specialized logistics, child support solutions, clean energy can and should be addressed by SMEs in the region.

Some of their local partners are in Palestine the Palestine Investment Fund, in Jordan it’s Jordan Enterprise, in Lebanon it’s CISCO, and Banque Nationale d’Algérie in Algeria to name a few.

The people from Abraaj Capital successfully attempted to put the money together by contacting developmental finance institutions around the region along with a $50 million they put forward since last year. One of which was OPIC: United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

The OPIC allocation following president Obama’s 2009 speech was a $500 million tender for development in the Middle East, which RED received the largest single chunk of, which is $150 million. They added another $200 million from their investor base. And before you know it, they got the local funds to chip in getting it up to $500 million.

They started screening companies, 180 companies in total from around the region in 4 months. 160 of them weren’t of interest, the remaining 20 were. As a result they ended up investing in 5:

1. E3 is a regional medical IT Services company


2. Egypt-based integrated agriculture company which specializes in Artichoke growing/producing


3. Egypt-based regional IT services firm OMS


4. Kuwait-based Teshkeel Media Group lead by Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa creator of The 99 comic book


5. Jordan-based Arabic online portal d1g.com

D1g.com is obviously the most interesting investment to us because it not only represents in an investment in an Arabic online portal, but an investment in digital Arabic content as well.

Having Usama Fayyad’s Yahoo!’s former Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Strategic Data Solution as Executive Chairman of D1G encouraged us to attend a presentation of his during the Celebration of Entrepreneurship in Dubai and the numbers are staggering.

Since Arabic Internet content is less than 1% of all Internet content yet the Arabic language is ranked second according to the number of native speakers of that language after Mandarin, the crisis is offline as much as it is online. Another interesting fact is that only 2% percent of Arabic speaking Internet users are comfortable with doing their business/personal matter in English.

So if 98% of Arabic speaking people can’t comfortably access the content online, the Internet revolution is actively leaving them behind.

Now if we consider the offline Arabic content dilemma it’s also rather concerning. 330 books get published per year, when comparing the number of ‘quality articles’ on D1G.com, the amount of content would be equivalent to 368 books per year. And that is more than the entire book industry in the Arab world for one year.

It appears RED has made a successful investment, at least in the Arabic content generation industry we hope will catch on to other platforms and online industries.

As you probably know, Matt Taibbi has a new book out, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America. Within it, Taibbi moves from his established gig reporting on the weirdness that is modern American poltical campaigning…

... Being in the building with Palin that night [of her acceptance speech for the VP nomination] is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. A scary-as-hell situation: thousands of pudgy Midwestern conservatives worshipping at the Altar of the Economic Producer, led by a charismatic arch-priestess letting loose a grade-A war cry. The clear subtext of Palin’s speechi is this: other politicians only talk about fighting these assholes. I actually will.



Palin is talking to voters whose country is despised internationally, no longer an industrial manufacturing power, fast becoming an economic vassal to the Chinese and the Saudis, and just a week away from an almost-total financial collapes. Nobody here is likely to genuinely believe a speech that promises better things.



But cultural civil war, you have that no matter how broke you are. And if you want that I, Sarah Palin, can give it to you. It’s a powerful, galvanizing speech, but the strange thing about it is its seeming lack of electoral calculation. It’s a transparent attempt to massmarket militancy and frustration, consolidate the group identity of an aggrieved demographic, and work that crowd up into a lather. This represents a further degrading of the already degraded electoral process. Now, not only are the long-term results of elections irrelevant, but for a new set of players like Palin, the outcome of the election itself is irrelevant. This speech wasn’t designed to win a general election, it was designed to introduce a new celebrity, a make-believe servant of the people so phony that later in her new career she will not even bother to hold an elective office.



The speech was a tremendous success.

... to a thorough, even obsessive, discussion of the new finance-based reality:

Our world isn’t about ideology anymore. It’s about complexity. We live in a complex bureaucratic state with complex laws and complex business practices, and the few organizations with the corporate willpower to master these complexities will inevitably own the political power.

Amazon’s currently advertising Griftopia for half off the cover price, and if you order through the link in the right-hand column, I understand you’ll be adding a couple pennies to Tunch’s personal catfood commission. If the Amazon teaser isn’t enough for you, Rolling Stone has an excerpt on “how our cash-strapped country is auctioning off its highways, ports and even parking meters at fire sale prices.”

The witty and foul-mouthed TBogg will be leading an online discussion of Griftopia at the FDL Book Salon on Saturday afternoon, November 27. If you are a faster typist than I, there should be some excellent back-and-forth shared there.

Books, C.R.E.A.M., Excellent Links, Seriously, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, the Great American Bubble Machine | 7:47 pm |

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Sarah Palin Passes On RNC - The Note

Sarah Palin isn't running…for one job at least. She doesn't appear to be a candidate to Chair the Republican National Committee. The Note, authored by ABC News' Rick Klein, covers politics, the White House, Congress, Democrats, ...

Fox <b>News</b> Co-Host Bill Hemmer Is An Adrenaline Junkie

Former bungee jumper now gets his thrills the way many people do -- from Fox News Channel.

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Sarah Palin Passes On RNC - The Note

Sarah Palin isn't running…for one job at least. She doesn't appear to be a candidate to Chair the Republican National Committee. The Note, authored by ABC News' Rick Klein, covers politics, the White House, Congress, Democrats, ...

Fox <b>News</b> Co-Host Bill Hemmer Is An Adrenaline Junkie

Former bungee jumper now gets his thrills the way many people do -- from Fox News Channel.

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The Solar Dynamics Observatory never fails to deliver absolutely stunning images from the Sun: as of 18:49 UT today, the above picture is what the Sun looked like in the ultraviolet spectrum. The prominence that you are seeing looping ...

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Sarah Palin Passes On RNC - The Note

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Fox <b>News</b> Co-Host Bill Hemmer Is An Adrenaline Junkie

Former bungee jumper now gets his thrills the way many people do -- from Fox News Channel.

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Qualcomm, the firm most commonly associated with the Snapdragon platform that powers many Google Android devices and literally every Windows Phone 7 device, is rumored to have spent $55 billion acquiring New York based Sandbridge Technologies. They specialize in what’s known as “software defined radios”, or in plain English: they make processors that can connect to a cellular network that uses one type of technology, say GSM, then when it wants to support something totally different, like CDMA, it can just by shifting a few bits around. It’s been the Holy Grail for mobile phone manufacturers, to be able to shove one of these into a handset, but problems such as power consumption and heat have prevented the technology from taking off. Qualcomm is no stranger to software defined radios. They sell a product dubbed “Gobi” that goes inside many high end enterprise laptops as it supports literally every networking standard on the planet.

Will Strauss, President and Principal Analyst with Forward Concepts, the guy who tipped off the world to this unannounced purchase, says Qualcomm just wants the patents Sandbridge has amassed since being founded in 2001. Some talented engineers may also get a job, but don’t expect Sandbridge’s product line to be continued going forward. Of note is that in 2006 Samsung invested over $15 million into this firm, so they’re not just a bunch of dunces patenting things for the sake of making money off royalties. They were also given the title of “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum in 2004.

Why exactly would Qualcomm keep this a secret? It’s unknown, but Sandbridge’s website is down so something is definitely up. After Intel purchased Infineon’s wireless unit earlier this year, things became heated in the semiconductor business. If Intel starts using their fabs to build chips that support LTE then we’re going to see the pace of wireless innovation ramp up so fast that none of us, especially our wallets, are going to be able to keep up with.

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The other weekend in San Antonio over 600 people gathered for the 50th anniversary re-premiere and celebration of one of the great American-themed epics of the early 1960s, John Wayne’s The Alamo. People came from far and wide to watch a director’s cut of the film on the River Center Imax screen and attend a dinner, concert and museum exhibit at the real Alamo featuring costumes, props and art work from this 1960 classic.

Seeing The Alamo on a big screen where it was meant to be experienced really emphasizes the powerful imagery that has helped this film endure for fifty years. Wayne’s Alamo defenders are as one biographer described, “…an undisciplined group of rugged individualist from Tennessee and Texas who love freedom and resent authority.” Sounds like a bunch of lovable Tea Party members to me. That innately American sense of unbridled freedom celebrated in The Alamo is one of the reasons the film still resonates so well with so many people here and even abroad.

Made during the heyday of widescreen roadshow epics like El Cid and Lawrence of Arabia, Wayne’s film has always been a highly popular DVD title for the financially ailing MGM/UA. The biggest movie star ever, Wayne directed, produced and starred in this uniquely American story.  Nominated for seven Academy Awards, contrary to unsubstantiated claims of box-office failure the film was actually one of the top ten domestic grosser of 1960-61, but The Alamo’s then huge $12,000,000 budget initially cut into its profit margin and could have bankrupted Wayne. The film set box-office records in London, Paris, Rome and Japan eventually earning a then $28,000,000 world-wide during its initial 1960-61 release.

Unfortunately Wayne sold United Artists his participation in the future profits of the film.  He so believed in the power of the Alamo story that he had mortgaged his own home, other real estate and even his family cars and reluctantly agreed to star in the epic in order to bring it to the screen his way. At the time Wayne told the press, “I’ve gambled everything I own in this picture – all my money… and my soul.”

His daughter Aissa has reflected, “I think making The Alamo was my father’s own form of combat. More then an obsession, it was the most intensely personal film of his career.” The Alamo’s beautiful female lead, Argentinean actress Linda Cristal once said, “John Wayne loved the Alamo like a man loves a woman once in a lifetime—passionately.”

Forty-something Christophe Lambert, who wasn’t yet born when The Alamo first hit movie screens, came all the way from France for the film’s new premiere and celebration. Former sergeant major of Britain’s famed 24th Regiment of Foot, Maurice Jones traveled from far off Wales where he runs The Alamo Film Forum, and there were a number of other British attendees. The Alamo is still very popular in Great Britain were it often plays at various retrospective film festivals. People also came from Germany, New Jersey, New York and not a few from California including Joe Musso, a highly respected storyboard and studio artist who has worked for everyone from Clint Eastwood to Alfred Hitchcock.

Other dedicated fans of this film cover a wide range of backgrounds from successful New Jersey radiologist Murray Weissmann, retired New York City Fire Captain and author Bill Groneman, professional musician Tony Pasqua, JPL technical writer Jerry Laing, history teacher Larry Grimsley and more then a few Texans of all stripes and persuasions. Youngest Wayne daughter Marisa and Duke’s granddaughter Anita LaCava Swift represented the family at the San Antonio event genuinely impressed by the incredible enthusiasm of the crowd.  Like Wayne himself Marisa and Anita were always warm and receptive to The Alamo’s numerous fans.

Unlike the 2004 failed politically correct film version of the battle where 189 American, Texan, European and Tejano (Texas Mexican) patriots sacrificed their lives fighting against brutal Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s thousands, Wayne’s version celebrates the bravery and dignity of the common frontier people who settled this country.  Wayne’s The Alamo has endured with viewers because it speaks so well to the value of our own treasured legends that have a strong basis in reality. He evoked the spirit of the battle of the Alamo, not the often now disputed “facts” as “interpreted” by modern revisionist historians with a definite far-left bias who keep poisoning the minds of the impressionable and uninformed.

The Alamo really captured that essence of America’s frontier peoples and even celebrated the dignity of the opposing Mexican army. Wayne shot one wonderfully realized scene that takes place right after the first failed attack against the old mission where Mexican Army camp followers look amongst the dead for their husbands and loved ones. One of Davy Crockett’s Tennesseans comments quietly, “Speaks well that so many are willing to die fighting for what they believe is right.” As a high school student I once watched a reissue of the film amongst a primarily Hispanic audience in San Jose, California. You could have heard a pin drop in the theater when during the same scene a wonderfully wrinkled, elderly female extra knelt over a fallen Mexican infantryman and made the sign of the cross. 

The Alamo includes a large number of these kinds of magnificent scenes, and still some of finest battle footage ever put on film by director of photography William Clothier, John Wayne as Davy Crockett, a stellar performance by Lawrence Harvey as the Alamo’s stiff necked but brave commander William Barrett Travis and a knockout score by Dimitri Tiomkin. The beautifully realized Alamo set was as much a star of the film as any of the actors and Wayne wisely filmed it as such. Unlike most war films today where bloody gore splatters the screen, Wayne’s The Alamo, while graphic for its’ time never uses the violence of combat for shock and exploitive effect.

Over my mantle hangs a framed letter John Wayne personally wrote to me about The Alamo two years before his death in 1979. As a college student and huge fan of the film, tired of seeing it butchered on television screens I had naively written to him care of his company offices inquiring if we would ever again get to see the film as he intended it to be seen. Part of Wayne’s answer still resonates today:

“Our damned liberal friends are screaming about violence to take our minds off of the pornographic bad taste that is being made in the motion picture business by their confreres.”

Several weekends ago in San Antonio John Wayne’s spirit must have been looking down from afar and grinning ear to ear as the audience laughed in all of the right spots, paused in awe at the magnificent visuals and tapped their toes to the wonderful musical score. Remember the real Alamo and remember John Wayne’s The Alamo, because both still live on.

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Will Strauss, President and Principal Analyst with Forward Concepts, the guy who tipped off the world to this unannounced purchase, says Qualcomm just wants the patents Sandbridge has amassed since being founded in 2001. Some talented engineers may also get a job, but don’t expect Sandbridge’s product line to be continued going forward. Of note is that in 2006 Samsung invested over $15 million into this firm, so they’re not just a bunch of dunces patenting things for the sake of making money off royalties. They were also given the title of “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum in 2004.

Why exactly would Qualcomm keep this a secret? It’s unknown, but Sandbridge’s website is down so something is definitely up. After Intel purchased Infineon’s wireless unit earlier this year, things became heated in the semiconductor business. If Intel starts using their fabs to build chips that support LTE then we’re going to see the pace of wireless innovation ramp up so fast that none of us, especially our wallets, are going to be able to keep up with.

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The other weekend in San Antonio over 600 people gathered for the 50th anniversary re-premiere and celebration of one of the great American-themed epics of the early 1960s, John Wayne’s The Alamo. People came from far and wide to watch a director’s cut of the film on the River Center Imax screen and attend a dinner, concert and museum exhibit at the real Alamo featuring costumes, props and art work from this 1960 classic.

Seeing The Alamo on a big screen where it was meant to be experienced really emphasizes the powerful imagery that has helped this film endure for fifty years. Wayne’s Alamo defenders are as one biographer described, “…an undisciplined group of rugged individualist from Tennessee and Texas who love freedom and resent authority.” Sounds like a bunch of lovable Tea Party members to me. That innately American sense of unbridled freedom celebrated in The Alamo is one of the reasons the film still resonates so well with so many people here and even abroad.

Made during the heyday of widescreen roadshow epics like El Cid and Lawrence of Arabia, Wayne’s film has always been a highly popular DVD title for the financially ailing MGM/UA. The biggest movie star ever, Wayne directed, produced and starred in this uniquely American story.  Nominated for seven Academy Awards, contrary to unsubstantiated claims of box-office failure the film was actually one of the top ten domestic grosser of 1960-61, but The Alamo’s then huge $12,000,000 budget initially cut into its profit margin and could have bankrupted Wayne. The film set box-office records in London, Paris, Rome and Japan eventually earning a then $28,000,000 world-wide during its initial 1960-61 release.

Unfortunately Wayne sold United Artists his participation in the future profits of the film.  He so believed in the power of the Alamo story that he had mortgaged his own home, other real estate and even his family cars and reluctantly agreed to star in the epic in order to bring it to the screen his way. At the time Wayne told the press, “I’ve gambled everything I own in this picture – all my money… and my soul.”

His daughter Aissa has reflected, “I think making The Alamo was my father’s own form of combat. More then an obsession, it was the most intensely personal film of his career.” The Alamo’s beautiful female lead, Argentinean actress Linda Cristal once said, “John Wayne loved the Alamo like a man loves a woman once in a lifetime—passionately.”

Forty-something Christophe Lambert, who wasn’t yet born when The Alamo first hit movie screens, came all the way from France for the film’s new premiere and celebration. Former sergeant major of Britain’s famed 24th Regiment of Foot, Maurice Jones traveled from far off Wales where he runs The Alamo Film Forum, and there were a number of other British attendees. The Alamo is still very popular in Great Britain were it often plays at various retrospective film festivals. People also came from Germany, New Jersey, New York and not a few from California including Joe Musso, a highly respected storyboard and studio artist who has worked for everyone from Clint Eastwood to Alfred Hitchcock.

Other dedicated fans of this film cover a wide range of backgrounds from successful New Jersey radiologist Murray Weissmann, retired New York City Fire Captain and author Bill Groneman, professional musician Tony Pasqua, JPL technical writer Jerry Laing, history teacher Larry Grimsley and more then a few Texans of all stripes and persuasions. Youngest Wayne daughter Marisa and Duke’s granddaughter Anita LaCava Swift represented the family at the San Antonio event genuinely impressed by the incredible enthusiasm of the crowd.  Like Wayne himself Marisa and Anita were always warm and receptive to The Alamo’s numerous fans.

Unlike the 2004 failed politically correct film version of the battle where 189 American, Texan, European and Tejano (Texas Mexican) patriots sacrificed their lives fighting against brutal Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s thousands, Wayne’s version celebrates the bravery and dignity of the common frontier people who settled this country.  Wayne’s The Alamo has endured with viewers because it speaks so well to the value of our own treasured legends that have a strong basis in reality. He evoked the spirit of the battle of the Alamo, not the often now disputed “facts” as “interpreted” by modern revisionist historians with a definite far-left bias who keep poisoning the minds of the impressionable and uninformed.

The Alamo really captured that essence of America’s frontier peoples and even celebrated the dignity of the opposing Mexican army. Wayne shot one wonderfully realized scene that takes place right after the first failed attack against the old mission where Mexican Army camp followers look amongst the dead for their husbands and loved ones. One of Davy Crockett’s Tennesseans comments quietly, “Speaks well that so many are willing to die fighting for what they believe is right.” As a high school student I once watched a reissue of the film amongst a primarily Hispanic audience in San Jose, California. You could have heard a pin drop in the theater when during the same scene a wonderfully wrinkled, elderly female extra knelt over a fallen Mexican infantryman and made the sign of the cross. 

The Alamo includes a large number of these kinds of magnificent scenes, and still some of finest battle footage ever put on film by director of photography William Clothier, John Wayne as Davy Crockett, a stellar performance by Lawrence Harvey as the Alamo’s stiff necked but brave commander William Barrett Travis and a knockout score by Dimitri Tiomkin. The beautifully realized Alamo set was as much a star of the film as any of the actors and Wayne wisely filmed it as such. Unlike most war films today where bloody gore splatters the screen, Wayne’s The Alamo, while graphic for its’ time never uses the violence of combat for shock and exploitive effect.

Over my mantle hangs a framed letter John Wayne personally wrote to me about The Alamo two years before his death in 1979. As a college student and huge fan of the film, tired of seeing it butchered on television screens I had naively written to him care of his company offices inquiring if we would ever again get to see the film as he intended it to be seen. Part of Wayne’s answer still resonates today:

“Our damned liberal friends are screaming about violence to take our minds off of the pornographic bad taste that is being made in the motion picture business by their confreres.”

Several weekends ago in San Antonio John Wayne’s spirit must have been looking down from afar and grinning ear to ear as the audience laughed in all of the right spots, paused in awe at the magnificent visuals and tapped their toes to the wonderful musical score. Remember the real Alamo and remember John Wayne’s The Alamo, because both still live on.

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Will Strauss, President and Principal Analyst with Forward Concepts, the guy who tipped off the world to this unannounced purchase, says Qualcomm just wants the patents Sandbridge has amassed since being founded in 2001. Some talented engineers may also get a job, but don’t expect Sandbridge’s product line to be continued going forward. Of note is that in 2006 Samsung invested over $15 million into this firm, so they’re not just a bunch of dunces patenting things for the sake of making money off royalties. They were also given the title of “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum in 2004.

Why exactly would Qualcomm keep this a secret? It’s unknown, but Sandbridge’s website is down so something is definitely up. After Intel purchased Infineon’s wireless unit earlier this year, things became heated in the semiconductor business. If Intel starts using their fabs to build chips that support LTE then we’re going to see the pace of wireless innovation ramp up so fast that none of us, especially our wallets, are going to be able to keep up with.

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The other weekend in San Antonio over 600 people gathered for the 50th anniversary re-premiere and celebration of one of the great American-themed epics of the early 1960s, John Wayne’s The Alamo. People came from far and wide to watch a director’s cut of the film on the River Center Imax screen and attend a dinner, concert and museum exhibit at the real Alamo featuring costumes, props and art work from this 1960 classic.

Seeing The Alamo on a big screen where it was meant to be experienced really emphasizes the powerful imagery that has helped this film endure for fifty years. Wayne’s Alamo defenders are as one biographer described, “…an undisciplined group of rugged individualist from Tennessee and Texas who love freedom and resent authority.” Sounds like a bunch of lovable Tea Party members to me. That innately American sense of unbridled freedom celebrated in The Alamo is one of the reasons the film still resonates so well with so many people here and even abroad.

Made during the heyday of widescreen roadshow epics like El Cid and Lawrence of Arabia, Wayne’s film has always been a highly popular DVD title for the financially ailing MGM/UA. The biggest movie star ever, Wayne directed, produced and starred in this uniquely American story.  Nominated for seven Academy Awards, contrary to unsubstantiated claims of box-office failure the film was actually one of the top ten domestic grosser of 1960-61, but The Alamo’s then huge $12,000,000 budget initially cut into its profit margin and could have bankrupted Wayne. The film set box-office records in London, Paris, Rome and Japan eventually earning a then $28,000,000 world-wide during its initial 1960-61 release.

Unfortunately Wayne sold United Artists his participation in the future profits of the film.  He so believed in the power of the Alamo story that he had mortgaged his own home, other real estate and even his family cars and reluctantly agreed to star in the epic in order to bring it to the screen his way. At the time Wayne told the press, “I’ve gambled everything I own in this picture – all my money… and my soul.”

His daughter Aissa has reflected, “I think making The Alamo was my father’s own form of combat. More then an obsession, it was the most intensely personal film of his career.” The Alamo’s beautiful female lead, Argentinean actress Linda Cristal once said, “John Wayne loved the Alamo like a man loves a woman once in a lifetime—passionately.”

Forty-something Christophe Lambert, who wasn’t yet born when The Alamo first hit movie screens, came all the way from France for the film’s new premiere and celebration. Former sergeant major of Britain’s famed 24th Regiment of Foot, Maurice Jones traveled from far off Wales where he runs The Alamo Film Forum, and there were a number of other British attendees. The Alamo is still very popular in Great Britain were it often plays at various retrospective film festivals. People also came from Germany, New Jersey, New York and not a few from California including Joe Musso, a highly respected storyboard and studio artist who has worked for everyone from Clint Eastwood to Alfred Hitchcock.

Other dedicated fans of this film cover a wide range of backgrounds from successful New Jersey radiologist Murray Weissmann, retired New York City Fire Captain and author Bill Groneman, professional musician Tony Pasqua, JPL technical writer Jerry Laing, history teacher Larry Grimsley and more then a few Texans of all stripes and persuasions. Youngest Wayne daughter Marisa and Duke’s granddaughter Anita LaCava Swift represented the family at the San Antonio event genuinely impressed by the incredible enthusiasm of the crowd.  Like Wayne himself Marisa and Anita were always warm and receptive to The Alamo’s numerous fans.

Unlike the 2004 failed politically correct film version of the battle where 189 American, Texan, European and Tejano (Texas Mexican) patriots sacrificed their lives fighting against brutal Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s thousands, Wayne’s version celebrates the bravery and dignity of the common frontier people who settled this country.  Wayne’s The Alamo has endured with viewers because it speaks so well to the value of our own treasured legends that have a strong basis in reality. He evoked the spirit of the battle of the Alamo, not the often now disputed “facts” as “interpreted” by modern revisionist historians with a definite far-left bias who keep poisoning the minds of the impressionable and uninformed.

The Alamo really captured that essence of America’s frontier peoples and even celebrated the dignity of the opposing Mexican army. Wayne shot one wonderfully realized scene that takes place right after the first failed attack against the old mission where Mexican Army camp followers look amongst the dead for their husbands and loved ones. One of Davy Crockett’s Tennesseans comments quietly, “Speaks well that so many are willing to die fighting for what they believe is right.” As a high school student I once watched a reissue of the film amongst a primarily Hispanic audience in San Jose, California. You could have heard a pin drop in the theater when during the same scene a wonderfully wrinkled, elderly female extra knelt over a fallen Mexican infantryman and made the sign of the cross. 

The Alamo includes a large number of these kinds of magnificent scenes, and still some of finest battle footage ever put on film by director of photography William Clothier, John Wayne as Davy Crockett, a stellar performance by Lawrence Harvey as the Alamo’s stiff necked but brave commander William Barrett Travis and a knockout score by Dimitri Tiomkin. The beautifully realized Alamo set was as much a star of the film as any of the actors and Wayne wisely filmed it as such. Unlike most war films today where bloody gore splatters the screen, Wayne’s The Alamo, while graphic for its’ time never uses the violence of combat for shock and exploitive effect.

Over my mantle hangs a framed letter John Wayne personally wrote to me about The Alamo two years before his death in 1979. As a college student and huge fan of the film, tired of seeing it butchered on television screens I had naively written to him care of his company offices inquiring if we would ever again get to see the film as he intended it to be seen. Part of Wayne’s answer still resonates today:

“Our damned liberal friends are screaming about violence to take our minds off of the pornographic bad taste that is being made in the motion picture business by their confreres.”

Several weekends ago in San Antonio John Wayne’s spirit must have been looking down from afar and grinning ear to ear as the audience laughed in all of the right spots, paused in awe at the magnificent visuals and tapped their toes to the wonderful musical score. Remember the real Alamo and remember John Wayne’s The Alamo, because both still live on.

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