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February 22, 2013 by Ramin Zahed

Valencia, Calif,-based California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) has partnered with online course platform Coursera to offer a variety of free massive open online courses (MOOC) to students all over the world. Three CalArts? classes will launch in Fall 2013: Introduction to Programming for Digital Artists, taught by Ajay Kapur, Ph.D, Director: Music Technology: Interaction, Intelligence and Design (MTIID) at CalArts; Creating Site-Specific Dance and Performance Works, led by Dean of CalArts Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance Stephan Koplowitz; and Live!: A History of Art for Artists, Animators and Gamers, with CalArts? Provost and Faculty in the School of Art Jeannene Przyblyski, Ph.D.

?It is our goal at Coursera to offer our students a rich variety of academic opportunities,? said Coursera co-founder, Andrew Ng. ?As an institution focused solely on the arts, CalArts provides a unique roster of rigorous arts-based courses that are now accessible to students globally.?

?We are deeply gratified to be the first arts institution included in Coursera?s selection of top universities,? said CalArts president Steven Lavine.??As an internationally renowned school of the visual and performing arts, developing the creativity of individual students is a key to the CalArts education?and Coursera, the premiere innovator in its field, is the ideal partner for extending our reach to students around the globe. Creativity is a key to success in today?s world and we can now offer students far beyond our campus the ability to hone and develop their own creative problem-framing and problem-solving skills.?

Those who successfully complete CalArts? Coursera offerings will receive a Statement of Accomplishment signed by the instructor.?Coursera classes are open to all students and free of charge. Students can now register for classes at www.coursera.org.

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Source: http://www.animationmagazine.net/schools/calarts-and-coursera-to-offer-free-online-classes/

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Adblock Plus gets shins kicked by Google "security measures" - Hexus

Google has made it much more difficult to use the ad-blocking utility Adblock Plus on its latest Android OS and in its desktop Chrome browser. Adblock developers observed recent software changes implemented by Google and made some workarounds utilising automatic proxy server configuration, so that people could still use its ad-blocking utility. Google seems to have reacted to this and made Adblock Plus?s new workarounds on Android much more complicated and manual - in the name of system security. It sounds like this is a high stakes game (advertising revenue) of internet cat and mouse.

Android

The Adblock Plus Android app will no longer work on non-rooted Android 4.1.2 or 4.2.2 devices without going through an eight-stage configuration of a proxy server.

Till Faida, co-founder of the Adblock Plus project told The Register that ?We are not opposed to the fix per se. We just think Google shouldn't deliberately break any functionality when fixing something?. Faida went on to say that Adblock coders have raised the issue on Google code forums and hope that the ?do no evil? company will help ?provide a solution that addresses security concerns and still respects user's choices?.

some of the fiddly manual proxy config stages

Chrome

Google also seems to have taken part in snake-like, body-swerving, goalpost-moving behaviour regarding Adblock Plus running within its Chrome browser. First of all the Adblock Plus extension stopped appearing in searches of web browser extensions/apps available to Chrome users, as the updated search function only looked at ?apps?. Then, when Adblock was made into a Chrome app, it was only available for 12 hours before being removed.

Honesty is the best policy

If Google wants to stop the use of Adblock Plus on its platforms on commercial grounds, as it is a major online advertising industry player, it should just come out and say so. I think most people could understand that action and the business motives behind it. Are all these Adblock shenanigans really just about the security of end users?

Source: http://hexus.net/business/news/internet/51997-adblock-plus-gets-shins-kicked-google-security-measures/

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Lady Gaga says she's had hip surgery

NEW YORK (AP) ? Lady Gaga says she's had surgery to fix her hip.

The 26-year-old singer posted on her blog late Wednesday that she had hip surgery and it "happened so fast." She canceled her "Born This Way Ball" tour last week.

She thanked her fans in the post, saying they gave her "a lot of strength." Lady Gaga said that as she was wheeled to surgery, she reflected on her fans. She wrote: "Sometimes you are so brave that it terrifies me. I wonder how it's even possible."

Lady Gaga canceled more than 20 dates on the remainder of her tour, which began last April. She originally postponed four dates last week after experiencing difficulties during her concert in Montreal. She explained to fans on Twitter that she'd hurt herself while performing some time ago.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lady-gaga-says-shes-had-hip-surgery-153541912.html

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Twitter's shortened links a little longer now

Devin Coldewey , NBC News ? ? ? 6 hrs.

Twitter users will soon find they have less room than usual to spell out how they're feeling and include a link, as a slight tweak to the social network's link-shortening service reduces the number of characters you can use to as few as 117.

It's a small change, but every character counts in the hyper-condensed messages Twitter is used for. So why the change?

Tweets are limited to 140 characters to begin with, which allowed them originally to be sent within the 160-character limit for texts (the remaining 20 characters were used for system purposes). You can still use all 140 if you're just writing text, but if you like to add links to your tweets, that'll cost you two extra characters.

Twitter's built-in link-shortener, t.co, currently uses 20 characters per link (for example, "http://t.co/pGYmGHu7"), or 21 with https:// links. But they're lengthening it to a maximum of 22 or 23 characters, meaning if you're pasting a link in your tweet, you'll have just 117 left to work with.

Why do they need more space? It's not clear. The original 8-character sequence in t.co links has trillions of combinations of letters and numbers, meaning they can't be running out. NBC News contacted Twitter for an explanation of the character cut, and we will update this post if the company responds.

The update appears to have already gone out, so users should notice the change immediately. Developers were warned of the update back in December, so apps and services should continue to work as normal.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/twitters-shortened-links-little-longer-now-1C8455522

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Logo's? - UK Business Forums

Hi Martin

I specialise in Branding and Logo Identity. I can't type my URL on here as I am a new member of UK Business Forums, if you would like to send me a message I will be able to discuss further.

My Logos start from just ?99 and I have worked with some large brands such as Thomas Cook, Henleys, Masterchef Winner (to name a few) but I also love working with new start up businesses, with people who are extremely passionate about what they do.

I would like to find out more about yourself and your business.

Look forward to hearing from you.

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Source: http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=288566

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Suit: Hospital granted request for no black nurses

FLINT, Mich. (AP) ? An African-American nurse claims a Michigan hospital agreed to a man's request that no black nurses care for his newborn.

Forty-nine-year-old Tonya Battle tells the Detroit Free Press she didn't know how to react when she learned about the request in October at Hurley Medical Center in Flint. Battle sued last month in Genesee Circuit Court seeking punitive damages.

Battle's lawsuit claims a note was posted on an assignment clipboard reading "No African American nurse to take care of baby." She says it was later removed, but claims black nurses weren't assigned to the baby's care for about a month.

Hurley President Melany Gavulic said in a statement Tuesday the father showed Battle's supervisor a swastika tattoo, which angered the staff. She says supervisors were concerned for the staff's safety.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/suit-hospital-granted-request-no-black-nurses-213602758.html

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Twitter Launches Its Own Advertising API

Much like its social rival Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Twitter has faced continued skepticism about its monetization capabilities despite the network?s ever-expanding popularity. Features like promoted posts help assuage prospective advertisers somewhat, but the return on investment is rarely as clear as brands want it to be -- particularly if a business that already has a strong social media presence can get the same results with its own Twitter handles alone. New ideas like the American Express (NYSE:AXP) partnership with Twitter to ?unlock the purchasing power of the #Hashtag,? meanwhile, are promising but entirely untested. An advertising API, in contrast, gives businesses room to develop their own unique content while still remaining firmly entrenched within the Twitter ecosystem.

?Since we launched Promoted Tweets in April 2010, marketers have come to Twitter to reach new audiences and engage with more than 200 million active Twitter users on the web, on mobile devices, and on tablets,? Twitter?s revenue product manager April Underwood said in a blog post announcing the API Wednesday. ?As interest in Twitter has grown, our focus has been on delivering better ads for users, not more ads.?

Despite Twitter?s reputation for inviting users -- be they average customers or fully-fledged businesses -- from oversharing in every conceivable way possible, the focus on ?better ads? rather than simply having ?more ads? shows that the company is once again realizing the benefits of expanding its core services beyond 140 characters.

?We believe our system is working well because users like the ads experience on Twitter,? Underwood added. ?Our system rewards marketers for being good, not for being loud. And this approach encourages ads that are engaging, relevant and useful.?

The new API was therefore designed to give advertisers "the ability to work with our initial set of Ads API partners to manage Twitter Ad campaigns -- and integrate them into your existing cross-channel advertising strategies," Underwood said.

The API is being launched with five starting partners: Adobe, Hootsuite, Salesforce, SHIFT and TBG Digital.?

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/twitter-launches-its-own-advertising-api-1098028

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