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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Makerbot Is Finally Removing 3D-Printable Gun Designs
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
UW Oshkosh Today ? ?Craft-e? alumni turn hobby into a multimillion ...
?As a retail company, the gift-giving season is particularly busy for us,? Carrie said.
Craft-E-Corner grossed $1.2 million in revenue in its first year alone. About half of their annual sales take place in October, November and December.
?Our sales on Cyber Monday are typically the same as the entire month of July,? Dean said.
While the couple earned their degrees at UW Oshhkosh in fields of study that don?t typically relate to scrapbooking and other crafts, they said their experiences on campus prepared them well and contributed to their success.
Dean graduated with a bachelor?s degree in 1996 in secondary education, with a minor in economics and went on to earn his master?s in 2003 in educational leadership. Carrie earned her undergraduate degree in 1999 in psychology and her master?s in 2001 in industrial and organizational psychology.
?My graduate school experience at UWO prepared me with the hard skills I use every day in my work,? Carrie said. ?The skills of researching, analyzing,?organizing and producing conclusions have helped Craft-e-Corner change and grow.?
Dean said it takes leadership to make?your vision of a business become a reality.
?I learned a lot about leadership in the process of earning my degree,? he said. ?My father started his own business, and it was something I always wanted to do. When we had our first child, we decided that Carrie would leave her full-time job at Kimberly Clark to be home to raise a family.?
As a stay-at-home mom who enjoyed crafting and scrapbooking, Carrie began to sell used items on eBay.com to increase the earning potential to support her and Dean?s growing family.
?I enjoyed the task of selling out of our home, and it allowed me to enjoy many great moments with my daughters as they grew,? Carrie said.
Their top-selling product was a die-cutting machine called the Cricut.
?We were blessed with a lot of success selling this product,? Dean said.??From there, we added more and more craft products.?We also added a website and started selling on Amazon.com and other sites, as well.? That is when I decided to leave teaching and help her keep the business striving forward. We?ve been on a dynamic adventure ever since.?
Dean said Carrie really made the business happen.
?Carrie is the main reason why our business is successful,? he said. ?She is great at researching things and using that information to make good decisions. Plus, she is the hardest working person I know.?
Carrie attributes their success to their ?hard work, ability to problem solve, determination to work through challenges, willingness to take risks others wouldn?t, ability to see a situation from multiple perspectives and passion for accomplishing what some others only dream about.?
The company will celebrate its fifth anniversary in February, and Carrie said they could not be more pleased with the growth and the great employees they?ve hired over the years.
?Each day?Craft-e-Corner evolves, and we adapt to see where it takes us,? she said.
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Source: http://www.uwosh.edu/today/24051/craft-e-alumni-turn-hobby-into-a-multimillion-dollar-business/
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Fly Or Die: Google Maps For iOS
Just in case you haven't heard enough about the Google Maps for iOS app in the past few months, we decided to take the new app into the Fly or Die studios to figure out whether Google's navigational offering is worth its salt. As usual, John and I disagree over a couple of key points, but we both agree that Google Maps is an excellent upgrade to the old Google Maps, and it still has a leg up on Apple.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/bPSAhSpj6TQ/
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In new "cliff" bid, Obama seeks $1.2 trillion in revenue: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a major counteroffer that moves the White House and congressional Republicans closer to resolving the "fiscal cliff" standoff, President Barack Obama is now seeking $1.2 trillion from higher tax revenues, including increased rates on those earning more than $400,000 a year, a source familiar with the negotiations said on Monday.
In exchange, the president is willing to agree to $1.22 trillion in spending reductions, including some cuts achieved by changing the way cost of living adjustments are made to Social Security retirement benefits and other programs. By raising the threshold for tax increases to $400,000 from $250,000, the president is yielding on the level he had sought during his successful campaign for re-election in November
"We view this as a good offer that shows we have met the Republicans more than halfway on spending and halfway on revenues," the source said.
House Speaker John Boehner's office called the president's bid a positive, if flawed step toward a compromise on an impasse that many -- from governments to businesses to private citizens -- have been urging the two sides to resolve.
"Any movement away from the unrealistic offers the President has made previously is a step in the right direction, but a proposal that includes $1.3 trillion in revenue for only $930 billion in spending cuts cannot be considered balanced," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said.
Obama's spending reduction proposal counts $290 billion in interest among spending reductions, and does not count an estimated $90 billion in increases in revenue from cost of living adjustments, hence the different numbers.
"We hope to continue discussions with the president so we can reach an agreement that is truly balanced and begins to solve our spending problem," Buck said.
The proposal comes as the president and Boehner seek to iron out differences in an effort to stop automatic tax increases and spending cuts from going into effect early next year. Analysts have warned that the abrupt shock could knock the economy back into recession.
Apparent concessions by the president, who originally proposed $1.6 trillion in new tax revenues, and the House speaker's willingness to entertain the proposal, raised hopes that the two sides can find a way to avoid the dreaded fiscal cliff.
"Everyone I talk to is increasingly optimistic that folks are more serious about a deal -- maybe December 24 or 31, but a deal nevertheless. We'll see," a lobbyist for a major U.S. financial services firm said.
The president's latest offer shows him willing to give on an item that some of his supporters had sought to protect -- linking Social Security benefit increases to the chained consumer price index, a step that would lead to lower payments.
"The chained CPI would be a growing benefit cut that is most harmful for the oldest and poorest beneficiaries of Social Security," said Dave Nathan, a spokesman for AARP, which represents older Americans.
However, the president's proposal would seek to protect those on whom that change would fall hardest, the source said.
The chained, or superlative, CPI, is considered a more accurate gauge of inflation that the government began to report in 2002. It is estimated to be 0.22 percentage points lower than the traditional CPI.
Obama's offer asks for Congress to increase the national borrowing ceiling for two years using a parliamentary procedure proposed by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. That demand may be a hard sell for many lawmakers who may be reluctant to relinquish power over the nation's purse strings.
The president's offer also would seek to provide the sluggish economy a boost by extending unemployment benefits and increasing infrastructure spending.
Obama's proposal would stop harsh automatic spending cuts due to go into effect under the sequestration process. However, some automatic cuts would continue to hang over the administration and Congress's heads as a prod to work out further budget reforms.
The president's proposal calls for "fast track processes" for further tax and spending reforms, the source said.
A senior Republican congressional aide familiar with the negotiations said that while there were "substantive differences" with the White House, he still was hopeful "that we can at some point get to a framework that allows us to move forward on tax and entitlement reform."
The aide emphasized that negotiations with the White House had not yet gotten into detailed discussions on potentially complicated reforms to the tax code and big social programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
For example, the aide said no decisions had been made on where Medicare and Medicaid savings would come from - beneficiaries or medical providers.
"All that is still to be decided," the aide said.
(Additional reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Eric Beech and Lisa Shumaker)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cliff-bid-obama-seeks-1-2-trillion-revenue-011908218--business.html
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HTC Reportedly Scrapping Plans For A Big-Screen Windows Phone 8 Handset
HTC is said to be dropping a planned big-screen Windows Phone 8 smartphone, which was intended to go toe-to-toe with some of the latest Android devices with large displays, including HTC's own Droid DNA. The reason HTC scrapped the plan is reportedly a lack of high resolution screen support in Windows Phone 8, according to Bloomberg, since Microsoft's mobile OS only offers up to 720p resolution, while big-screen devices are mostly now using 1080p or greater.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/2e0WZPvCgB0/
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Christmastime is tamale time across the USA
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Christmastime is tamale time in South Texas, and Valerie Gonzalez is in the middle of another busy day at Delicious Tamales, the business she has owned for 30 years on San Antonio's largely Latino west side.
Moving quickly between answering the phone and greeting customers in English and in Spanish, she says that December is her busiest month when it comes to the steamed Mexican delicacy that is a holiday tradition among Hispanic families.
Customer Jesse Villanueva, 54, of San Antonio, came to buy some for his family.
"As far as I'm concerned, it wouldn't be Christmas without tamales," he said.
Gonzalez said she is seeing something new this holiday season: She's shipping tamales all over the United States.
"We have a lot of people who have moved across the United States and there are sorts of people, all classes of people, who are finding out about tamales for Christmas," she said.
At a time when the U.S. Census Bureau reports a surging Hispanic population - one in six U.S. residents is Hispanic, a number that's expected to grow to nearly one in three by 2060 - is the tamale becoming the new fruitcake?
"I think that's true," says Margaret Zuniga-Healy of the Progresso Tamale Parlor in Hollister, California, which has been owned by her family since 1939. "As people become more familiar with Mexican American cuisine, they're willing to try more things."
The tamale - called a "tamal" in Spanish - takes its name from the Aztec word meaning "wrapped food." It is believed to be among the oldest continuously eaten foods in the Western Hemisphere, with roots dating back more than 2,500 years, according to Jeffrey Pilcher, a historian at the University of Minnesota and the author of "Planet Taco, a Global History of Mexican Food."
Tamales began to be associated with holidays in the Pre-Columbian era, Pilcher says, when several families would gather to make the labor-intensive food. The delicacy often features beef, chicken or pork and masa (corn dough) steamed in a corn husk, though there are many variations throughout Latin America.
Zuniga-Healy said Americans are embracing Mexican food the same way they embraced Italian food in the 1920s, and the tradition of Christmas tamales is part of that discovery of new food.
The tamale is like the fruitcake in another way, Pilcher said: It is easily given as a holiday gift.
Gonzalez says it's not surprising that tamales are becoming popular in parts of the United States where Christmastime is a lot colder than it is in the traditional Mexican American areas of the Southwest.
"Tamales keep you warm, the more tamales that you eat," she said. "Especially the ones with the jalapenos in them."
(Editing by Corrie MacLaggan and Phil Berlowitz)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/christmastime-tamale-time-across-usa-014655969.html
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NKorea displays Kim Jong Il a year after his death
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ? North Korea unveiled the embalmed body of Kim Jong Il, still in his trademark khaki jumpsuit, on the anniversary of his death Monday as mourning mixed with pride over a recent satellite launch that was a long-held goal of the late authoritarian leader.
Kim lies in state a few floors below his father, national founder Kim Il Sung, in the Kumsusan mausoleum, the cavernous former presidential palace. Kim Jong Il is presented lying beneath a red blanket, a spotlight shining on his face in a room suffused in red.
Wails echoed through the chilly hall as a group of North Korean women sobbed into the sashes of their traditional Korean dresses as they bowed before his body. The hall bearing the glass coffin was opened to select visitors ? including The Associated Press ? for the first time since his death.
North Korea also unveiled Kim's yacht and his armored train carriage, where he is said to have died. Among the personal belongings featured in the mausoleum are the parka, sunglasses and pointy platform shoes he famously wore in the last decades of his life. A MacBook Pro lay open on his desk.
North Koreans paid homage to Kim and basked in the success of last week's launch of a long-range rocket that sent a satellite named after him to space.
The launch, condemned in many other capitals as a violation of bans against developing its missile technology, was portrayed not only as a gift to Kim Jong Il but also as proof that his young son, Kim Jong Un, has the strength and vision to lead the country.
The elder Kim died last Dec. 17 from a heart attack while traveling on his train. His death was famously followed by scenes of North Koreans dramatically wailing in the streets of Pyongyang, and of the 20-something son leading ranks of uniformed and gray-haired officials through funeral and mourning rites.
The mood in the capital was decidedly more upbeat a year later, with some of the euphoria carrying over from last Wednesday's launch. The satellite bears one of Kim Jong Il's nicknames, Kwangmyongsong, or "Lode Star," a moniker given to him at birth according to the official lore.
North Koreans across the country stopped in their tracks at midday to bow their heads and honor the former ruler as the national flag fluttered at half-staff along streets and from buildings.
Pyongyang construction workers took off their yellow hard hats and bowed at the waist as sirens wailed across the city for three minutes. Earlier, Kim Jong Un attended a solemn ceremony to reopen the sprawling granite mausoleum where his father and his grandfather lie in state in separate halls.
Tens of thousands of North Koreans gathered in the frigid plaza outside, newly transformed into a public park with lawns and pergolas. Geese flew past snow-tinged firs and swans dallied in the partly frozen moat that rings the vast complex in Pyongyang's outskirts.
Speaking outside the mausoleum, renamed the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the military's top political officer, Choe Ryong Hae, said North Korea should be proud of the satellite, calling it "a political event with great significance in the history of Korea and humanity."
Much of the rest of the world, however, was swift in condemning the launch, which was seen by the United States and other nations as a thinly disguised cover for testing missile technology that could someday be used for a nuclear warhead.
The test, which potentially violates a United Nations ban on North Korean missile activity, underlined Kim Jong Un's determination to continue carrying out his father's hardline policies even if they draw international condemnation.
Some outside experts worry that Pyongyang's next move will be to press ahead with a nuclear test in the coming weeks, a step toward building a warhead small enough to be carried by a long-range missile.
Despite inviting further isolation for his impoverished nation and the threat of stiffer sanctions, Kim Jong Un won national prestige and clout by going ahead with the rocket launch.
At a memorial service on Sunday, North Korea's top leadership not only eulogized Kim Jong Il, but also praised his son. Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of North Korea's parliament, called the launch a "shining victory" and an emblem of the promise that lies ahead with Kim Jong Un in power.
The rocket's success also fits neatly into the narrative of Kim Jong Il's death. Even before he died, the father had laid the groundwork for his son to inherit a government focused on science, technology and improving the economy. And his pursuit of nuclear weapons and the policy of putting the military ahead of all other national concerns have also carried into Kim Jong Un's reign.
In a sign of the rocket launch's importance, Kim Jong Un invited the scientists in charge of it to attend the mourning rites in Pyongyang, according to state media.
The reopening of the mausoleum on the anniversary of the leader's death also follows tradition. Kumsusan, the palace where his father, Kim Il Sung, served as president, was reopened as a mausoleum on the first anniversary of his death in 1994.
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Associated Press writer Hyung-jin Kim contributed to this report from Seoul, South Korea. Follow Jean Lee, AP's bureau chief for Pyongyang and Seoul, at www.twitter.com/newsjean.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nkorea-displays-kim-jong-il-death-110407431.html
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