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>>> we wanted to show you something interesting today, i spent the day with tim cook , the head of apple for an exclusive interview, the first of its kind he ever granted. the conversation will air on "rock center." unlike the man he replaced, he was able to walk across grand central station . once he got to his apple store , that changed, his fans approached and he was treated like a rock star . we'll treat to you that exclusive interview next thursday night.

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Cold, mold loom as hazards in Sandy disaster zones

City officials estimate at least 12,000 New Yorkers are trying to survive in unheated, flood-damaged homes, despite warnings that dropping temperatures could pose a health risk.?Many families have returned to coastal homes contaminated with mold or filled with construction dust.

By David B. Caruso,?Associated Press / December 1, 2012

John Frawley sits on the porch of his house, which was damaged during Superstorm Sandy, on the Rockaway Peninsula in New York. Many families have returned to coastal homes that are contaminated with mold. Others have been sleeping in houses filled with construction dust, as workers have ripped out walls and flooring.

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A month after Sandy's floodwaters swept up his block, punched a hole in his foundation and drowned his furnace, John Frawley still has no electricity or heat in his dilapidated home on the Rockaway seashore.

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The 57-year-old, who also lost his car and all his winter clothes in the flood, now spends his nights shivering in a pair of donated snow pants, worrying whether the cold might make his chronic heart condition worse.

"I've been coughing like crazy," said Frawley, a former commercial fisherman disabled by a spine injury. He said his family doesn't have the money to pay for even basic repairs. So far, he has avoided going to a shelter, saying he'd rather sleep in his own home.

"But I'm telling you, I can't stay here much longer," he said.

City officials estimate at least 12,000 New Yorkers are trying to survive in unheated, flood-damaged homes, despite warnings that dropping temperatures could pose a health risk.

IN PICTURES:?Sandy: Chronicle of an unrelenting storm

The chill is only one of the potential environmental hazards that experts say might endanger people trying to resume their lives in the vast New York and New Jersey disaster zone.

Uncounted numbers of families have returned to coastal homes that are contaminated with mold, which can aggravate allergies and leave people perpetually wheezing. Others have been sleeping in houses filled with construction dust, as workers have ripped out walls and flooring. That dust can sometimes trigger asthma.

But it is the approaching winter that has some public health officials worried most. Nighttime temperatures have been around freezing and stand to drop in the coming weeks.

New York City's health department said the number of people visiting hospital emergency rooms for cold-related problems has already doubled this November, compared with previous years. Those statistics are likely only the proverbial tip of the iceberg.

Mortality rates for the elderly and chronically ill rise when people live for extended periods in unheated apartments, even when the temperature is still above freezing, said the city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Farley.

"As the temperatures get colder, the risk increases," he said. "It is especially risky for the elderly. I really want to encourage people, if they don't have heat in their apartment, to look elsewhere."

Since the storm, the health department has been sending National Guard troops door to door, trying to persuade people to leave cold homes until their heating systems are fixed. The city is also carrying out a plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars helping residents make emergency repairs needed to restore their heat and hot water.

Convincing people that they could be endangering themselves by staying until that work is complete, though, isn't always easy.

For weeks, Eddie Saman, 57, slept on sheets of plywood in the frigid, ruined shell of his flooded Staten Island bungalow. He stayed even as the house filled up with a disgusting mold that agitated his asthma so much that it sent him to the emergency room.

Volunteers eventually helped clean the place up somewhat and got Saman a mattress. But on Sunday the wood-burning stove he had been using for heat caught fire.

Melting materials in the ceiling burned his cheek. A neighbor who dashed into the house to look for Saman also suffered burns. The interior of the house ? what was left of it after the flood ? was destroyed.

Two days later, another fire broke out in a flood-damaged house across the street, also occupied by a resident trying to keep warm without a working furnace.

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Safety personnel apply for grant to upgrade radio communication ...

WEST NEWBURY ? Public Safety officials got permission to investigate a $500,000 Community Innovation Challenge grant in hopes of improving regional communications and addressing problems with in-town emergency radio capacity.

At a meeting last week, police Chief Lisa Holmes and fire Chief Scott Berkenbush told selectmen the grant would be applied for jointly by safety personnel in Amesbury, Merrimac, Newburyport, Salisbury and West Newbury. The microwave radio system would provide a foundation that each community could tap into, Holmes said following the meeting.

It would facilitate inter-town communications among police, fire and dispatcher departments. And it would also improve radio transmission from West Newbury?s dispatch center to local safety personnel working in certain areas of town where currently the connection can be sketchy or non-existent.

The town has radio repeaters located at Page Elementary School and Pentucket High School, but communication from the dispatch center to police and fire radios in the valley sections of other parts of town can be unreliable, Holmes said. This creates a dangerous situation for both first responders and the public they are aiming to serve.

Because she has been consistently updating radios within her operating budge t over the past five years to accommodate narrow banding, Holmes said if the grant were to be approved, hooking into the radio system would require ?very minimal funds.?

Gov. Deval Patrick recently announced $4 million in funding for the next round of CIC grant program. According to the state website, the program ? invests and incentivizes innovation amount local governments through regionalization and other reforms and efficiencies to maintain critical local services and stretch every taxpayer dollar as far as possible.? The deadline to apply for this round is today.

In other business last Tuesday, selectmen discussed the resignation of chief assessor Karen Rassais and the status of the Page Elementary School lease. Liquor licenses for West Newbury Foodmart and West Newbury Pizza Company were renewed.

The board OK?d use of the Town Annex for a retirement party in February and approved two street openings requests. A third street ? for 243 Main St. and Newall Farm Drive ? was not approved because it was unclear where National Grid was looking to install the gas line. Town counsel Michael McCarron reviewed minor changes to the Comcast contract renewal.

Selectmen meet next on Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. in the first floor hearing room of the 1910 Town Office Building. An agenda for an upcoming meeting can be accessed on the town website www.wnewbury.org

Source: http://www.newburyportnews.com/local/x2120609173/Safety-personnel-apply-for-grant-to-upgrade-radio-communication

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Looking at the news sites | The Legal Genealogist

Comparing terms of use

So there?s a new player in the online access to newspapers field as of yesterday. Ancestry.com launched its new Newspapers.com website, joining GenealogyBank.com and NewspaperArchive.com as the major players in the pay-for-play category.

Now The Legal Genealogist isn?t getting into the debate over whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, particularly for those of us who have those ?ber-expensive all-you-can-eat World Explorer subscriptions to Ancestry. You can read all about that in yesterday?s post by DearMYRTLE.

No, around these parts the concern is always first and foremost a website?s terms of use.

Terms of use, remember, are ?the limits somebody who owns something you want to see or copy or use puts on whether or not he?ll let you see or copy or use it. These are limits that are different from copyright protection, since the law says what is and isn?t copyrighted and you can own a thing without owning the copyright. So this isn?t copyright law; it?s contract law ? you and whoever owns the thing you want to see or copy or use reach a deal.?

So let?s take a quick look at exactly what the terms of use of each of these three websites say they?ll allow a user to do.

??NewspaperArchive.com

?You (or ?your? defined by your status as an adult user and/or parent or guardian for any minor which you allow to use the Service) may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute in any way any amount of material from this site including, but not limited to, all documents, images, written material, code and software. You may download Content from this site for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices and keep any and all Content intact.?

??GenealogyBank.com

?You, as an individual visitor to this site (the ?Site?), and subject to paying the applicable fee(s) to gain access to the Content (As defined under Section 4(a)) available on the Site, are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to browse, search, retrieve, view, print and/or download, the Content on the Site for your personal non-commercial academic, educational and research purposes. Printing and downloading are further limited to insubstantial portions of the data, for temporary storage. You understand and acknowledge that all use is subject to any additional restrictions and disclaimers that NewsBank or its suppliers publish, from time to time. ?

You shall not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices from the Content or Site, nor shall you distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use any Content from the Site for any public and/or any commercial purpose(s). These limitations apply to all Content on the Site, including but not limited to text, images, applications, computer code, audio and video. Any use contrary to these limitations is a violation of the intellectual property rights of NewsBank and/or its suppliers. ?

Consistent with the fair-use provisions of the Copyright Act of the United States, you shall reproduce and/or store only insubstantial portions of the Content, resulting from specific searches for your own personal non-commercial academic, educational and research purposes.?

??Newspapers.com

?You may access the Website, use the graphics, information, data, editorial and other Content only for personal or professional historical research. Republication or resale of any of the Content or other protected data is prohibited. All Content on the Website, whether protected by copyright, contract rights, or both, is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only as permitted through the functionality of the Website. If you download or print a copy of the Content for personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein. ?

Ancestry hereby grants you permission to use the Website according to these Terms of Use. All Users, whether a Visitor, Free Member or Subscriber, agree that they will use the Website for personal historical research only and not for any commercial purpose. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, professional researchers, professional historians and others conducting scholarly research may use the Website within the scope of their professional work. Ancestry does not claim an exclusive right to images already in the public domain that it has then converted into a digital format. However, the Website contains images and documents that are protected by copyrights or that, even if in the public domain, are subject to restrictions on reuse. By agreeing to these Terms of Use, you agree to not reuse these images and documents except that you may reuse public domain images so long as you only use small portions of the images or documents for personal use. If you republish public domain images, you agree to credit Newspapers.com as the source of the digital image, unless additional specific restrictions apply. If you wish to republish more than a small portion of the images and documents from the Website, you agree to obtain prior written permission from us. Except as provided in this paragraph, you agree that (i) you will not copy or distribute any part of the Website or the Service in any medium without Ancestry?s prior written authorization; (ii) you will not alter or modify any part of the Website or the Service other than as may be reasonably necessary to use the Website or the Service for its intended purpose; and (iii) you will otherwise comply with these Terms of Use.?

In plain English:

Website	PersonalUse?	Professional Use?	CommercialUse?	RepostingAllowed?
GenealogyBank.com	Yes	No	No	No
NewspaperArchive.com	Yes	No	No	No
Newspapers.com	Yes	Yes	No	Some

Clearly, for anybody who?s doing research for others, the terms of use suggest that eventually, when the offerings are more extensive, one of these services is likely to win out over the others.

But for the average individual genealogist, researching and writing and speaking about genealogy, none of these are frankly good enough. The Legal Genealogist simply has no idea why these websites don?t rewrite their terms of use to provide the service that subscribers most assuredly think they?re buying: the right not just to read the material but the right, consistent with copyright law, to use some reasonable small portion of it in our work.

There?s no reason why, for example, all three websites couldn?t make it clear that copyright law doesn?t apply to anything published in the United States before 1923, so all newspapers published before then are in the public domain, and the terms of use should allow people to use, re-post and re-publish some reasonable portion of that public domain material.

Now we all understand that these services don?t want some data miner to come in and scoop up everything they?ve painstakingly collected ? that would put them out of business. But hey? how about saying flat out you can use, say, no more than five individual clippings from newspapers that are in the public domain in a blog post or in a presentation or in a book or in an article you?re writing without having to ask permission?

How about terms of use that say use of any material from newspapers that are still under copyright protection is governed by the fair use doctrine of copyright law and not by the terms of use of the website?

And if permission is required for a use, perhaps because of a contract with one of the newspapers, how about a button on the results page linking to a request form?

Come on, folks. Make it easy for us. And do your best to give us what we want.

Because you?re not the only game in town? and there?s always the Library of Congress? Chronicling America collection of pre-1923 newspapers where the terms of use are, basically, play nice and don?t fight.

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Source: http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2012/11/30/looking-at-the-news-sites/

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R.I.P. Frothy Times, A Return To Normalcy

Whatever it is it is palpable. A sort of buzz in the Valley that all is not well, and a slight nervousness among entrepreneurs, investors and startup employees as they flit about their day-to-day. We may not be in the middle of an outright private market collapse, but there will definitely be fewer tigers and monkeys at this year's holiday parties. The fingernail biting is not just caused by the Series A crunch, which has been happening for a year, although that is definitely a part of it ("20 percent of companies that have gotten a seed round in the last year will be able to raise a Series A" Sarah Lacy wrote on Wednesday, aptly comparing the current jostle for venture money to a game of musical chairs).

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com)????New York's Museum of Modern Art said Thursday that it has acquired 14 videogames to kick off a new permanent collection that includes old favorites like "Pac-Man," "The Sims" and "Tetris."

The museum has fixed its sights on 26 other games, too, as it expands the new collection curated by Paola Antonelli. Housed in the department of architecture and design, the exhibit will open in the Philip Johnson Galleries in March.

"Are video games art?" Antonelli, a senior curator at the museum, wrote in a blog post announcing the acquisitions. "They sure are, but they are also design, and a design approach is what we chose for this new foray into this universe."

The collection spans decades of games, from 1980's 8-bit hit "Pac-Man" to 2009's iPhone game "Canabalt." But Antonelli said she hopes to round out the exhibit with such dinosaurs as the 1962 game "Spacewar!" and "Pong" and "Snake" from the 1970s Atari-ancestor, the Magnavox Odyssey console.

Visitors will be able to play the games, though games that take longer will have a time limit. Some will also be re-coded into a newer format if the games' physical cartridges are too weathered to withstand a steady flow of gamers.

But some popular games????how did they miss "Angry Birds?"???didn't make the cut.

"Because of the tight filter we apply to any category of objects in MoMA's collection, our selection does not include some immensely popular video games that might have seemed like no-brainers to videogame historians," Antonelli said.

She said they are eyeing games that allow the curators to explore behavior, aesthetic, space and time.

Here is a full list of the games MoMA has acquired:

 Pac-Man (1980)

 Tetris (1984)

 Another World (1991)

 Myst (1993)

 SimCity 2000 (1994)

 vib-ribbon (1999)

 The Sims (2000)

 Katamari Damacy (2004)

 EVE Online (2003)

 Dwarf Fortress (2006)

 Portal (2007)

 flOw (2006)

 Passage (2008)

 Canabalt (2009)?

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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/ingame/moma-acquires-14-video-games-permanent-collection-1C7342403

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The Daily Roundup for 11.29.2012

You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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