California Indian Heritage Center advocate awarded

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Date: Friday, September 14, 2012, 7:17am PDT

The San Francisco-based California Preservation Foundation awarded Cathy Taylor, district superintendent for the Capital District of California State Parks, with its President?s Award for 2012, reports staff writer Mark Anderson.

Taylor has also been leading the development of two new parks, the California Indian Heritage Center in West Sacramento and the Railroad Technology Museum in the historic Southern Pacific Sacramento Railyards.

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YouTube Moves API Discussions And Support To Stack Overflow, Ditches Google Groups

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Calling all developers, YouTube has taken steps to join Stack Overflow and bring discussions about its API there. For those who are using the API, you know that Google Groups hasn?t really been cutting it as far as getting updated information, details, and responses.

It?s an interesting move for a Google-owned property to jump outside of its own house, but one that?s necessary to properly engage with developers. Go to where people are comfortable, your own tools be damned if they?re not cutting it. Good stuff.

That should all change today. Here?s what the team had to say about it:

Many of you are already familiar with the terrific Stack Overflow website, which has become the de facto resource on the web for all types of programming questions. And many of you have been asking YouTube API questions on Stack Overflow for some time now, but haven?t received any official responses from the YouTube API Developer Relations team. That?s because, for the past five years or so, our focus has been on providing developer support via our dedicated Google Group. We?ve decided that instead of continuing to maintain a dedicated Google Group for YouTube API questions, it would help more users if we focused on responding to Stack Overflow posts.

The switch will happen officially on October 15, so get ready, as the official Google Group will go into archive-only mode at that time. This is another indication of how important a centralized communication hub for developers is, and Stack Overflow is in the mix for sure.

The YouTube platform team is also available on Google+, but I imagine that those are more conversational threads rather than nuts and bolts of the API itself.

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How your cell phone wrecks your relationships ? even when you're not using it

U.K. researchers discover that the mere presence of a nearby phone can dramatically affect the way you feel about the person sitting in front of you

It's understandably tempting to play with your shiny new iPhone when you're out for dinner. But new research suggests that you don't even have to shower attention on your smartphone to sour your relationship with your dinner mate; in fact, just leaving your phone on the table ? untouched ? can do interpersonal damage. Here, a brief guide to the research, and why, for the umpteenth time, you should really consider keeping your phone in your pocket:

What happened in these studies?
Researchers Andrew K. Przybylski and Netta Weinstein of the University of Essex in Britain wanted to see if the mere presence of a phone could affect interpersonal connections. In one experiment, they placed two strangers together in a private booth and asked them to discuss a "moderately intimate topic" (something that had happened to them in the last month, for example) for 10 minutes. The pair sat in two chairs facing each other. Off to the side, not directly in their line of vision, was a desk. Sometimes the desk had a notebook on it. Other times it had a cell phone. After the chat, participants were asked to complete questionnaires about the closeness they experienced with their new pal.

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What did they find?
On average, people who didn't have a cell phone lurking nearby experienced feeling closer and more connected to the stranger they just chatted with. Their curiosity piqued,?Przybylski and Weinstein decided to set up?a slightly different experiment.

What did the researchers do next?
They employed the same setting, but this time, they asked strangers to discuss either a "casual topic" (their thoughts and feelings about something like plastic trees) or a "meaningful topic" (their most important life events of the past year). Again, participants were given 10 minutes to chat, with either a cell phone or notebook on a nearby desk. At the end, they filled out questionnaires about "relationship quality, their feelings of trust, and the empathy they had felt from their discussion partners," says Helen Lee Lin at Scientific American.?

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And the results?
A cell phone's presence had no adverse effect on strangers discussing a casual, meaningless topic. But when a cell phone was near a pair discussing something meaningful, they reported feeling less trust in their their partners, and felt the person who sat across from them was less empathetic overall. "Thus, interacting in a neutral environment, without a cell phone nearby, seems to help foster closeness, connectedness, interpersonal trust, and perceptions of empathy," says Lin ? "the building-blocks of relationships."

Why are phones such a distraction?
The research team has a few ideas. Among them: While the increasing sophistication of phones certainly make the gadgets more diverting ? with games, apps, and social media all just a few taps away ? the gadgets also subconsciously signal a person's wider network of connections. The mere presence of a wired-up smartphone is a reminder that its owner knows lots of people, and chats, texts, and Facebooks with them on that phone ? even if it's not happening right at that moment. That inhibits?feelings of intimacy you'd otherwise get when you're sitting face-to-face with someone. The lesson? "Put your cell away when you're chatting with your partner or friend," says Diana Villbert at Care 2, "before your only companionship is Angry Birds."

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Sources: Care 2, New York Daily News,?Scientific American

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Business Insider's Retail Section - Business Insider

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That's me, Kim Bhasin, covering the opening of the Grand Central Apple Store

Welcome to Business Insider's brand new Retail section!

We'll be covering all the daily happenings at big box chains and apparel brands, and in e-commerce and the restaurant industry.?

Not only will we be reporting major business news at mega-retailers like Walmart, Target and Amazon, but we'll have extensive coverage of the culture of the retail and restaurant industries.?

We'll take you inside retailers like JCPenney, Best Buy, Sears, Gap and Victoria's Secret so that you know what employees are doing, thinking and talking about ? both in stores and at corporate HQs.

On the restaurant side, you'll know what the baristas at Starbucks are up to, how McDonald's workers are liking their McJobs and how Taco Bell comes up with all its crazy ideas.

And we're going to address the big trends in the retail world, as companies scramble to figure out what it'll take to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.

I'm Kim Bhasin, your retail editor, and I'm?always looking for new contacts and ways to make the section better, so shoot an email to?kbhasin@businessinsider.com?or our retail reporter Ashley Lutz at alutz@businessinsider.com.

Follow BI Retail on Twitter at @BI_RetailNews,?@KimBhasin, and @AshleyLutz.

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Reds to host Angels in 1st interleague opener

One of baseball's traditional home openers will have an innovative twist next season.

The Cincinnati Reds will host the Los Angeles Angels on April 1, becoming the first teams to start their seasons with an interleague matchup. The Reds, the first professional team, celebrate opening day with a parade and have opened all but four seasons at home.

Major League Baseball announced its 2013 preliminary schedule Wednesday, with several format changes caused by the shift of the Houston Astros to the American League. A National League franchise for its first 51 seasons, the Astros start AL play on April 2 when they host cross-state rival Texas.

Houston moves from the NL Central to the AL West, creating six divisions of five teams each. Under a move announced last November, the Astros will become only the second team since 1900 to switch leagues, following Milwaukee's entry to the NL for the 1998 season.

Because there will be 15 teams in each major league for the first time, interleague play is necessary nearly every day. Since its inception in 1997, interleague play had been concentrated mostly during periods in late May and June.

Eleven of the 15 series on the final weekend of the regular season, Sept. 27-29, will involve division rivalries. The exceptions have the Yankees at Houston, Milwaukee at the Mets, Detroit at Miami and Washington at Arizona.

MLB is abandoning its two-year experiment with midweek openers, reverting to a Sunday night start in a nationally televised game on ESPN that will be determined later.

In another shift, the New York Yankees and Mets for now are slated to open at home on the same day for the first time, with Boston visiting the Bronx on April 1 and San Diego playing in Queens. ESPN could move Red Sox-Yankees to the March 31 Sunday night slot.

Other AL openers on April 1 have Kansas City at Chicago, Detroit at Minnesota and Seattle at Oakland. NL games that day are St. Louis at Arizona, Philadelphia at Atlanta, San Francisco at Los Angeles, Colorado at Milwaukee, Chicago at Pittsburgh and Miami at Washington.

Tuesday openers include Baltimore at Tampa Bay and Cleveland at Toronto.

Under the new schedule format, a team plays 19 games against each division rival for a total of 76, and six or seven against each league opponent in the other two divisions for a total of 66. Each club will play 20 interleague games over eight series, with rivalry games ? such as Cubs-White Sox and Dodgers-Angels ? in consecutive two-game series during the week of May 27.

In the old format, teams in the AL East, AL Central, NL East and NL West played division rivals 18 times each, while AL West played in-division opponents 19 times apiece and NL Central teams met 15-18 times. AL interdivision opponents met six to 10 times and NL interdivision opponents six to nine times. While AL teams played 18 interleague games, the total varied from 12-18 in the NL.

In addition to traditional rivals, interleague play next year has the AL East playing the NL West, the NL East facing the AL Central and the AL West meeting the NL Central.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/reds-host-angels-1st-interleague-opener-171059151--mlb.html

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Amazon Web Services Expands in Japan

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding in Japan through the opening of a new availability zone. The move means that AWS will most likely be adding more data centers to keep up with the steady demand in service it has had since it first began offering its service in Tokyo 18 months ago. AWS breaks its regions into availability zones. Each availability zone can encompass multiple data centers. For example, the AWS US East region in Northern Virginia now occupies more than ten data centers. That means it is likely AWS could be building new data centers in Japan for its new availability zone as well as the two it opened since early 2011.

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Fujifilm to stop making film for movies: Kyodo

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