Naked statues of Donald Trump appear in various US cities
Friday, August 19, 2016
A number of statues depicting US presidential candidate Donald Trump without his clothes on were erected in various US cities yesterday morning.
File photo of Donald Trump, 2011.
Image: Gage Skidmore.
The statues were unveiled in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle. Titled “The Emperor Has No Balls”, the project was devised by the anarchist collective INDECLINE, presenting present Trump in an unflattering and humiliating way.
A spokesperson for INDECLINE told The Washington Post the project was inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” which depicts a vain and overconfident leader. The spokesperson also said the project is meant to poke fun at the tendency for those in authoritarian positions to raise monuments of themselves.
The statues are credited to a Las Vegas-based artist called Ginger, who said he was approached by INDECLINE because of his pervious work designing monsters for horror movies and haunted houses. A video of Ginger creating these statues went up on INDECLINE’s YouTube page.
The New York City statue became a busy tourist spot until the parks and recreation department took it down. A spokeswoman for the NYC parks and recreation centre stated: “NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small.”
Sources[]
- Peter Holley. “These protesters wanted to humiliate ‘Emperor’ Trump. So they took off his clothes.” — The Washington Post, August 19 2016
- AFK. “Naked Donald Trump statue leaves New Yorkers with the giggles” — The Daily Telegraph (UK), August 18 2016
- Tracy Bloom, Kacey Montoya. “Naked Donald Trump Statues Pop Up Around U.S., Including in Los Angeles” — KTLA, August 18 2016
August 24, 2015
Okanogan Complex wildfire becomes largest in Washington state history
Okanogan Complex wildfire becomes largest in Washington state history
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The Okanogan Complex wildfire, which started as a series of smaller fires caused by lightning strikes on August 15, has burned 256,657 acres (103,865 ha) in Okanogan County, Washington as of the morning of August 24, surpassing the 2014 Carlton Complex fire to become the largest wildfire in Washington state history.
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- InciWeb. “August 24 Okanogan Complex Update” — National Wildfire Coordinating Group, August 24, 2015
- Fieldstadt, Elisha. “Okanogan Complex: Washington Wildfire Is Now Largest in State History” — NBC News, August 24, 2015
- Bush, Evan. “Okanogan Complex wildfire now biggest in state history” — The Seattle Times, August 24, 2015
- Geranios, Nicholas K.; Skoloff, Brian. “Okanogan wildfire is now largest in state history” — KOMO News, August 24, 2015
- August 24, 2015
April 29, 2015
US Soccer: Seattle Sounders defeat Portland Timbers
US Soccer: Seattle Sounders defeat Portland Timbers
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
In Seattle, on Sunday, Seattle Sounders FC beat the Portland Timbers 1–0 in the Cascadia Cup battle. Stefan Frei notched his fourth shutout this season while Clint Dempsey scored the winning goal in the 77th minute with an assist from Andy Rose. Seattle is now 1–0 in the cup while Portland falls to 0–2.
Portland almost scored minutes later when sub Fanendo Adi rattled the crossbar in the 81st minute. The Timbers also led the Sounders in shots with 11–10. Seattle was glad to have points before hitting the road. Head Coach Sigi Schmid added “We’ve got 13 points now in seven games, so we’re happy with that and we want to come back from these three road games with as many as possible.”
The total crowd on Sunday was tallied at 41,451. Seattle now stands at 4-2-1 with Portland struggling at 2-3-3. Portland hosts the Vancouver Whitecaps next weekend and Seattle travels to face New York City FC.
Sources
- Ari Liljenwall. “Seattle Sounders 1, Portland Timbers 0” — Major League Soccer, April 26, 2015
- Justin Lester. “Match Profile: Sounders FC 1, Portland Timbers 0” — Seattle Sounders FC, April 26, 2015
- Don Ruiz. “Dempsey makes difference again as Sounders nip Timbers” — The News Tribune, April 26, 2015
- April 29, 2015
April 22, 2015
US Soccer: S2 lose two on the road
US Soccer: S2 lose two on the road
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Seattle based soccer club Seattle Sounders FC 2 (S2) lost their initial two away games of the season despite having entered the road trip undefeated with three wins. First, they played the Tulsa Roughnecks who won 4–3 on Thursday. Next, S2 traveled to nearby Oklahoma City to battle Energy FC on Saturday but lost 2–1.
The first half of the game against Tulsa was very exciting with five goals within the first twenty five minutes. Gibson Bardley scored immediately (2′) for the Roughnecks. This prompted two quick goals from Qudus Lawal who scored two along (9′, 10′) to put the Sounders back in the lead. Eli Galbraith-Knapp scored for the opposition in the 19th minute to bring the teams level but Jimmy Ockford (25′) notched one shortly after to give the Sounders three goals before the half. After the break, the Roughnecks were able to keep the Sounders from scoring but pulled ahead with two goals of their own from Steven Miller (69′) and Lucas Cordeiro (77′).
The Sounders struck first in the game against the Energy with a goal from Darwin Jones in the 33rd minute. This was a short-lived lead, however, with Oklahoma City scoring five minutes later with a goal from Chuy Sanchez. Energy FC might have led going into the half when they were awarded a penalty kick but Michael Thomas was unable to convert. The Sounders almost held on for a draw but Danni König scored in the 86th minute.
S2 next faces the Vancouver Whitecaps 2 away while the Roughnecks are to travel to Kentucky to face Louisville City FC. The Energy are to host Saint Louis FC.
Sources
- Jacob Landsberg. “Sounders 2 fall in Oklahoma, again” — Sounder At Heart, April 19, 2015
- “Seattle Sounders 2 vs OKC Energy FC (Apr 18, 2015) Soccer Box Score (Final)” — United Soccer League, April 18, 2015
- “Seattle Sounders 2 vs Tulsa Roughnecks FC (Apr 16, 2015) Soccer Box Score (Final)” — United Soccer League, April 16, 2015
- “S2 Match Recap: Sounders FC 2 falls to Tulsa Roughnecks FC in first loss of the season” — Sounders FC, April 16, 2015
- Matt Pentz. “S2 falls 4-3 to Tulsa Roughnecks for first loss” — Seattle Times, April 16, 2015
- “League – 2015 Schedules” — United Soccer League, April 16, 2015
- April 22, 2015
April 13, 2015
US Soccer: Seattle Sounders fall to LA Galaxy 1-0
US Soccer: Seattle Sounders fall to LA Galaxy 1-0
Monday, April 13, 2015
California-based soccer club LA Galaxy triumphed 1–0 over Seattle Sounders FC of Washington yesterday with a header from Alan Gordon.
Both sides were missing a key player; Clint Dempsey was out for the Sounders with a hamstring injury while Robbie Keane missed the match with a groin injury. This was LA’s first win since opening day and are now 2-2-2 while Seattle experienced their second loss of the season and stand at 2-2-1.
Seattle had ten opportunities on the night saved by Galaxy goalkeeper Jaime Penedo. Lamar Neagle could not find the back of the net with four on target. In the 53rd minute Sounders’ Rose had a clear shot against goal; Penedo again made the save when the ball was struck directly at the keeper.
The lone goal started with a cross from Juninho on the right side which found center back Omar Gonzalez. He was able to head the ball back to Gordon who then easily scored. This ended a goal drought for LA who were scoreless for 290 minutes, last scoring on March 21 against Houston.
LA next face Sporting Kansas City at home while the Sounders continue their road trip to the Colorado Rapids.
Sources
- Scott French. “LA Galaxy 1, Seattle Sounders 0” — Major League Soccer, April 12, 2015
- Oliver Todd. “LA Galaxy 1-0 Seattle Sounders: Alan Gordon heads in to lift Galaxy from foot of the Western Conference” — Daily Mail, April 12, 2015
- April 13, 2015
April 12, 2015
US soccer: Sounders 2 maintain win streak with 2-1 victory over Timbers 2
US soccer: Sounders 2 maintain win streak with 2-1 victory over Timbers 2
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Seattle Sounders FC 2 (S2) association football club have maintained a streak with their third home win at Starfire Stadium in Tukwila, Washington last night, this time against Portland Timbers 2 (T2).
T2 struck first when defender Harrison Delbridge headed the ball in from a free kick in the 30th minute. Seattle responded with Pablo Rossi converting a penalty kick in the 47th minute and Giuliano Frano tapping a lobbed pass into the net in the 88th minute. Final score, 2–1 Seattle.
In the 30th minute, T2 midfielder Blair Gavin placed the ball nicely for Delbridge who connected cleanly with the ball to head it past S2 goalkeeper Charlie Lyon. At half, the game still stood with Portland in the lead 1–0. In the first minutes of the second half, S2 Andy Craven was pulled down in the penalty box by T2 Andy Thoma. Rossi was able to convert the penalty with a strong strike to the top left corner. T2 keeper Jake Gleeson was unable to stop the shot. Frano’s goal came in the 88th minute as he was able to chip the ball into the net after nice build up play by the Sounders. The Timbers did look dangerous on corners having earned 8 to Seattle’s 3.
The Timbers suffered their first loss of their season while the Sounders experienced their first ever comeback victory. This was also the first match between the two Cascadia rivals. T2 now stand at 7 points with a record of 2–1–1. S2 and Arizona United SC are now the only Western Conference teams still undefeated. Portland next faces defending champions Sacramento Republic FC away on Saturday, April 18 while Seattle hits the road to battle Tulsa Roughnecks FC on Thursday, April 16.
Sources
- Portland Timbers. “T2 loses for first time in 2015 season, 2-1 to Sounders FC 2” — The Oregonian, April 11, 2015
- “Undefeated S2 rolls on with last-minute victory over Cascadia rivals” — Seattle Sounders FC, April 11, 2015
- “Portland Timbers 2 vs Seattle Sounders 2 (Apr 11, 2015) Soccer Box Score (Final)” — United Soccer League, April 11, 2015
- April 12, 2015
April 12, 2014
Wikimedian Cindy Ashley-Nelson dies at conference in Berlin
Wikimedian Cindy Ashley-Nelson dies at conference in Berlin
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Saturday, April 12, 2014
File photo of Cynthia Ashley-Nelson from 2006
Image: Cynthia Ashley-Nelson.
Cynthia Ashley-Nelson died the night before last while attending the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, Germany. She was very active in the Wikimedia movement, and was named the vice-chair of Wikimedia’s Affiliations Committee on Thursday, the day prior to her death, after only having joined the Committee earlier this year. The day before she died, she spent a lot of time talking to a number of the event’s attendees and spent time with several members of the Affiliations Committee.
An announcement regarding her death was made on the main Wikimedia mailing list this morning by Bence Dakamos, a conference attendee and the previous chair of the Affiliations Committee. In part, the e-mail announcement said, “We are sad beyond words and so is everyone who came to Berlin to participate in the Wikimedia Conference. Her passing is a great loss for everyone in the Wikimedia movement. This morning all the conference attendees gathered together to grieve and talk about the loss of Cindy. We decided that all of us at the Wikimedia Conference could choose to continue the conversations about the future of the movement Cindy cared so much about, as well as spending our time here to remember and celebrate her. She will be greatly missed.”
Fellow Affiliations Committee member Gregory Varnum said, “The Lord giveth, and The Lord taketh away. While the passage of time may allow us to forgive whatever greater presence you may believe in for taking her away, the passage of time will not result in us forgetting the amazing person she was, her passion for our movement, or the brilliance she brought to her volunteer work.”
Wikimedia Foundation board member María Sefidari said in her part on her personal blog, “I got to know Cindy a bit beyond that, for she wanted to test ideas and potential directions in which to take the movement. We would send each other long emails about movement roles and how to move forward with the movement. And as it usually happens, conversations turned from the more formal to the informal, eventually including little snippets of our every day lives, the good things that happened to us and the not so good. When we met for the first time face to face two days ago, we gave each other a big hug. In the session we had during the AffCom meeting she once again showed her passion and commitment to help reimagine the role of AffCom and how to help emerging and new affiliates. And at the end of that session, she was confirmed as the new vice-chair of AffCom. That speaks to the impact she made inside the committee in such a short time. I think our last interaction was about getting together at some moment during the conference to just hang out and talk. She had a great smile.”
Ashley-Nelson was actively involved in many parts of the Wikimedia community beyond her position on the Affiliations Committee. She served as a moderator on the Wikimedia Foundation’s gendergap mailing list, a list dedicated to addressing the under representation of women as contributors. She became an Open-source Ticket Request System agent, handling requests from Wikimedia users who had problems they needed assistance with issues like copyright. She was an administrator on English Wikipedia. She had previously been a member of Wikimedia’s Grant Advisory Committee, where she assisted in reviewing grant applications submitted by members of the Wikimedia community. She was involved with Wikimedia’s Global Education Program, assisting students and professors with improving articles about global and United States public policy. She was also involved in the education program as an Online Ambassador, a member of the Ambassador Selection Team and Wikipedia Ambassador Steering Committee.
An active Wikipedia contributor since 2007, she made over 30,000 contributions to English Wikipedia. She wrote eight Did You Knows that appeared on the front page of the project, and contributed to two Good Articles, the Washington: A Life article and the Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury article. The day prior to her death, she welcomed a number of new users to the project and did other editing tasks like removing copyright violations and cleaning up promotional language found in articles.
A Washington state resident, she was the founder and Executive Director of Catalyst Resource Network, having started the organization in December 2006. During the course of her professional career, she also worked for the Sycamore Street Review as a staff writer, Hookers for Jesus as the organization’s Vice President, the Mental Health Planning and Advisory Council for the State of Washington, and several other roles for the State of Washington. She was honored several times in connection with her work.
Members of the Affiliations Committee got together for a breakfast before heading to the conference. A grief counselor was available at the conference. A brief tribute was held at the start of today’s proceedings, which Sefidari described as “touching”.
Related news
- “Wikimedian activist Adrianne Wadewitz dies” — Wikinews, April 10, 2014
Sources
- “Affiliations Committee” — Meta-Wiki, April 12, 2014 (access date)
- Cynthia Ashley-Nelson. “User:Cindamuse” — Meta-Wiki, April 12, 2014 (access date)
- Cynthia Ashley-Nelson. “User:Cindamuse” — English Wikipedia, April 12, 2014 (access date)
- “Cynthia Ashley-Nelson” — LinkedIn, April 12, 2014 (access date)
- “Editcount: Cindamuse” — Wikimedia Labs, April 12, 2014 (access date)
- “Contributions: Cindamuse” — English Wikipedia, April 12, 2014 (access date)
- Wikimedia Foundation board member María Sefidari. “Cindy, in memoriam” — WordPress.com, April 12, 2014
- April 12, 2014
November 16, 2013
Wikinews interviews academic Simon Ličen about attitudes towards US Paralympics
Wikinews interviews academic Simon Ličen about attitudes towards US Paralympics
Saturday, November 16, 2013
A Russian stamp for Paralympic Games in Sochi in 2014
Image: Почта России/Russian Post.
On Thursday, with 110 days until the start of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, Wikinews interviewed Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership, Sport Studies and Educational/Counseling Psychology at Washington State University Simon Ličen about attitudes in United States towards the Paralympics.
Licen has recently joined the Sport Management Program at Washington State University to develop its sport media and communication research and teaching contents. Originally from Slovenia, he served as the Director of Media and Communications of a WTA Tour event and was a member of the UNESCO Slovenian National Commission. He was also the Team Manager of the Slovenian wheelchair basketball national team.
Wikinews
: Why do you think the Paralympic movement has so little visibility in the US compared to other countries like Australia, the United Kingdom and even Canada?
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- Simon Ličen: Sports in the United States largely reaffirm existing relations of power in society. It emphasizes consumerism, the belief that success always goes to people who merit it due to their abilities, dedication and qualifications, and reinforces, rather than changes, existing ideas related to gender, ethnicity and nationality. Paralympic sport brings attention to athletes who are typically overlooked in American society because the majority of the population does not want to identify with people who are disabled. Although disability is not contagious, interest in disabled sports might put into question the masculinity of the males following it. Disabled athletes also challenge existing relations of power by displaying dedication, hard work and perseverance in different contexts than those most sports fans are accustomed to.
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- Other countries, including the ones you mention, have stronger social orientations in all aspects of society. Even though legislative support may be less strong than the one provided by the Americans with Disabilities Act, many social institutions including the media are more receptive to this form of diversity.
WN: What do you think the impact will be for the Paralympic movement will be with the Games being televised live in the United States for first time?
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- Simon Ličen: The impact depends on a number of aspects. One of them is the channels that NBC as the broadcasting rights owner for the United States will use to air the Paralympic Games on. Will they be shown nationally or regionally, on NBC or on any of the company’s multiple cable networks? A second aspect is the parts or hours of the day the Paralympics will be shown. Remember that there is a nine-hour difference between Sochi and New York, and a 12-hour difference between Sochi and the US West Coast. So daytime events will be shown live in the United States in the middle of the night, and evening prime-time events will be shown — indeed live — in the morning U.S. time. So showing the Paralympics live on United States television might turn out to be less glamorous than it appears. A third important factor is the way the event will be mediated: will NBC have its best sports broadcasters following the event after having worked the Winter Olympics? Will they treat and announce the competitions as they do all others — for better and worse? Will they take it as an opportunity to educate viewers about disability and diversity while showing superb athletic performances without engaging in a discourse of pity? All in all, I think this is a terrific opportunity to improve sports coverage in a multitude of aspects; but we will have to wait until after the event to assess to what extent the broadcasters will meet these expectations.
USA skier Ralph Green last year at the 2012 IPC NorAm Cup.
Image: Bidgee.
WN: What role should the media be playing in promoting the Paralympic Games? Why does the US media provide so little coverage of the Paralympics compared to other sports?
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- Simon Ličen: I don’t think the media should be promoting any sports event. I think the role of the media is to inform about the event and to cover it fairly. It is not just the Paralympic Games, or disable sports in general that yield very little media coverage; a recent study has shown that women’s sports only account for 1.3%–1.6% of televised news media. The situation improves considerably during the Olympic Games and prime-time Olympic coverage comes close to equal coverage of both men’s and women’s sport. Outside of that, however, U.S. media coverage is largely limited to the men’s four major leagues, college football and college basketball. Again, the media decide which sports to cover based on their perceived entertainment value and its potential of generating sponsor revenues. The Paralympic Games are complex to understand and its participants hard to identify with because there are less instances of dominating performances and long-standing rivalries, which are concepts that are understandable even to the casual fan.
WN: What role does the fact that the Paralympics are about people with disability competing at sport play in the American public’s reception of the Paralympics?
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- Simon Ličen: I would speculate that the American public is largely indifferent to the event as it is currently represented in the media. The majority of people are oblivious of the Paralympic Games. They might greet an American medal winner as this would reaffirm the success, supremacy and tenacity of an American representative in a global field. In more general terms, however, the American public chooses to largely overlook disabled sports as the average able-bodied person likely does not want to be represented by, and thus identify with, a disabled person.
WN: Is the fact the US Olympic Committee is the national Paralympic Committee a hinderance or help in the development of the Paralympic movement in the US?
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- Simon Ličen: In general terms, this is both an opportunity and a risk: it can activate its sizable financial, promotional and media influence to bring attention to the Paralympic movement, but at the same time might choose to push disabled sports to the side in order to accommodate influential sponsors. I am not familiar with the specific work done by the US Olympic Committee in terms of supporting, popularizing and expanding the Paralympic movement so I cannot speculate which way the actual work done by the USOC sways.
WN: What conditions need to exist in the US for Paralympic athletes to get sponsorship similar to their Olympic counterparts?
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- Simon Ličen: Sport sponsorships are indeed strongly influenced by the media prominence of competing individuals. Individual disabled athletes have already been able to secure profitable sponsorship and endorsement contracts; perhaps the most notable example is Oscar Pistorius who was in this sense a true groundbreaker before falling off the pedestal due to his pending trial. This is even more true when one considers that not all Olympic athletes are able to secure profitable or even exaggerated contacts: an Olympic archery champion is less appealing than an Olympic champion javelin thrower, a female javelin thrower is less appealing than a male sprinter, and a Jamaican champion sprinter is less appealing than an American elite basketball player. Sporadic media appearances, such as those during the Paralympic fortnight, will hardly suffice to land disabled athletes major contracts; an athlete has to be in the constant media and popular spotlights to secure lucrative contracts. Until Paralympic athletes […] [are] able to achieve that kind of media presence, high sponsorships are likely to elude them.
USA skier Andrew Earl Kurka at the 2012 IPC NorAm Cup
Image: Bidgee.
WN: Many countries provide federal money to support their Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Should the US consider this as a way of increasing visibility for the Paralympics, supporting increased opportunities for people with disabilities and increasing the US Paralympic medal count?
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- Simon Ličen: Focusing on the US medal count will successfully keep the Paralympic Games away from mainstream attention! A focus on the medal count as a means to establish supremacy is typical for American professional sports, and the Paralympics will never be able to beat the Olympic Games or the major leagues at their game. This is why the Paralympic Games should involve a different narrative.
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- Countries typically allocate governmental support to the more vulnerable groups in society because those who are strong can protect their interests through their vast financial and social means. In this sense, the United States should support participation in the Paralympic Games to promote adaptive sports in general and thus increase sports participation among people with disabilities. People with disabilities are among those who most benefit from participating in sports and physical activity due to their health and social advantage; however, they also have much fewer opportunities for sport participation and often require expensive adapted sports equipment. Public funds should contribute to their sport activity in general, and federal funding of Paralympic athletes could certainly provide an excellent example for local communities. Unfortunately, I fear that even the most progressive congresswomen and congressmen will be [reluctant] to increase that funding given the current federal budgetary situation.
Related news
- “US Congresswoman Jackie Speier comments about Obamacare, Paralympics” — Wikinews, November 9, 2013
Sources
- “Licen, Simon Assistant Professor” — College of Education, Washington State University, November 16, 2013 (access date)
External links
- November 16, 2013
September 19, 2013
CyanogenMod: Open-source smartphone OS goes commercial
CyanogenMod: Open-source smartphone OS goes commercial
Thursday, September 19, 2013
CyanogenMod’s mascot, Cid.
Image: Cyanogen Inc.
The developers of CyanogenMod, an open source free Android-based operating system for smartphones, announced yesterday their incorporation following a successful venture capital campaign which netted the open-source project a US$7 million nest egg, and plan to roll out a simple installation app on Google Play for their Android firmware.
Android runs nearly 80% of new mobile devices; CyanogenMod operates on at least 7 or 8 million of those. CyanogenMod replaces the read-only-memory image in android devices which have been ‘rooted’ —control acquired of the device’s superuser account— allowing continuing development for, and backporting abilities of new generations of the operating system to, older devices.
Investor Mitch Lasky wrote on his blog “We believe that CM is poised to become one of the largest mobile operating systems in the world.” Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures are part of the capital providers to form Cyanogen Inc.
The CyanogenMod team, including dog.
Image: Cyanogen Inc.
“The only limitation we have right now is with the number of engineers and designers we currently have. As we hire more people and build this company, we’ll be able to work on so many cool things”, said Koushik ‘koush’ Dutta, who took questions alongside Steve ‘cyanogen’ Kondik and team social media manager Abhisek “ciwrl” Devkota in a Reddit Ask Me Anything event shortly after making the announcement on the CyanogenMod blog. The team of 17, including Boost co-founder Kirt McMaster as CEO, are in Palo Alto, California and Seattle.
Kondik says Cyanogen mod is named after him. “I’m terrible with names, so I just slapped ‘mod’ onto the end of my handle and ran with it”, he explained in the incorporation announcement.
An early question raised in the Reddit event concerned profit-making: “Monetization isn’t an immediate concern and our investors […] feel the same”, said Dutta, adding “Creating disruption in a multibilion dollar market is enough to make any investor raise their eyebrow.” This means CyanogenMod would continue to be free. Follow questions asked if the company was planning to release their own model of android device. “We certainly couldn’t take on the monumental task of building/testing hardware [right now]. Hardware would be one of many potential very long term paths we could take”, said Dutta.
The firm’s first announced step is to improve the process of installing the software on owner’s devices, which Kondik described as “hideous”. A new installer app is planned to be released “in the coming weeks” on Google Play. The installer app will not require rooting the device, instead installing by simply clicking a button.
A further step, broadly described without any details, is a project with an unnamed original equipment manufacturer (OEM). “We have a least one OEM partnership in the works, there will be an announcement next week regarding our plans there”, said Kondik. The team mentioned OEM licensing several times during the Q&A session on Reddit.
In addition to these corporate steps, there were questions regarding the roadmap for development of the ROM, which already has improvements regarding privacy and security over the native android loader. With “plenty of things in the product pipeline already” Dutta lists additional security features, AirPlay mirroring, screen recording, and Voice+ as upcoming. The mood throughout the event was jovial, with humourous questions such as “can you guys PLEASE release a CM build for my toaster? I’m not sure what model it is, but it’s white and I got it at Savers.” Kondik promised “Ship it to me and I’ll duct tape a G1 running CM to it”. Dutta said his “10 of your favorite lines of source code” are “The ones that worked when they shouldn’t have.”
Sources
- Nicole Kobie. “CyanogenMod targets mainstream with easy install app” — PC Pro, September 19, 2013
- Steve Kondik. “A New Chapter” — CyanogenMod, September 18, 2013
- cyanogen, koushd. “We are Steve (cyanogen) Kondik and Koushik (koush) Dutta of the CyanogenMod Project. Ask Us (Almost) Anything!” — Reddit, September 18, 2013
- Russell Holly. “CyanogenMod becomes Cyanogen Inc, prepares user-friendly installer” — Geek.com, September 18, 2013
- Kim-Mai Cutler. “Cyanogen Mod Raises $7M To Find A Direct-To-Consumer Route For Android Firmware” — TechCrunch, September 18, 2013
- Mitch Lasky. “Cyanogen Mod” — MithLasky.biz, September 18, 2013
- Press release. “Gartner Says Smartphone Sales Grew 46.5 Percent in Second Quarter of 2013 and Exceeded Feature Phone Sales for First Time” — Gartner, August 14, 2013
- September 19, 2013
April 29, 2013
Australian Jesse Williams drafted in fifth round by the NFL\’s Seattle Seahawks
Australian Jesse Williams drafted in fifth round by the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks
Monday, April 29, 2013
Sunday, the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks drafted Brisbane, Australia native nose tackle Jesse Williams in the fifth round of the NFL Draft. Going into the draft, there were some expectations by the Brisbane Times and other media outlets that Williams might be selected in the first round. Injuries, which resulted in Williams being unable to participate fully in the NFL Combine, likely were reasons why he was not selected higher.
Gridiron football is not the most popular football code in Australia, with rugby league, rugby union, soccer, and Australian rules football all being more popular participation sports. Williams’ youth sporting career reflected this, with Williams playing rugby union until he was 15 years old at which time he switched codes and joined the local gridiron team, the Bayside Ravens. A year later, his playing ability earned him a scholarship offer from the University of Hawaii. He could not meet the university’s academic standards so eventually he attended Western Arizona Community College instead. In 2011, he transferred to the University of Alabama and played for the Alabama Crimson Tide for two seasons. Both seasons, his Crimson Tide team won the national championship.
Williams’ selection is unique amongst Australians as most Australians who have played in the NFL have been kickers. He is also only the second Australian ever to be drafted in the NFL Draft.
Sources
- Dan Nancarrow. “Jesse Williams drafted by Seattle” — Kiama Independent, April 28, 2013
- Jerry Brewer. “In Jesse Williams, Seattle Seahawks might have made another deft NFL draft pickup” — Seattle Times, April 27, 2013
- Phil Lutton. “Jesse Williams tipped to go in first round” — Brisbane Times, April 23, 2013
- “1301.0 – Year Book Australia, 2012” — Australian Bureau of Statistics, May 24, 2012
- April 29, 2013