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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Global Digital Oil Field Market By Services (Automation & Instrumentation, Information Technology) & Geography Forecasts To 2022
Global Digital Oil Field Market By Services (Automation & Instrumentation, Information Technology) & Geography Forecasts To 2022
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Digital Oil Field Market By Services (Automation & Instrumentation, Information Technology) & Geography - Forecasts To 2022" report to their offering.
Digital oil field technology is a combination of IT and automation & instrumentation technologies, as an improvement of the existing technologies in the oil & gas industry. This integrated operations technology makes the analysis faster and easier with software involved in efficient data management, provides more realistic image of the reservoir and the availability of resources, helps to optimize process required for production, and renders much safer operations with the inclusion of remote surveillance and collaborated environments. Digital oil field technology includes segments of IT such as outsourcing, software services, and equipment based expenditure. Automation & instrumentation is another segment of digital oil field market, which includes key networking processes and communication technologies such as SCADA, PLC, smart well, safety systems, and wireless systems.
Digital oil field is an integrated operation system that helps in reservoir optimization, production optimization, drilling and well completion, and other processes. The above mentioned are the process improved by the implementation of the technology. This smart field based technology reinvents production using new techniques such as creation of smart wells and establishing agile communication using remote surveillance & operating and high-end technology.
Revival of the older methodologies in the oil & gas sector became essential to increase and minimize the deficit in supply. The high average age of oil & gas industry professionals indicated more retirements in the near future, resulting in reduction of man power in the industry; hence this was met by automated production platforms, intelligent machinery and systems. The safety factors proved to be high after installing digital oil field technology based machines and systems. These are the reasons which are driving the market apart from the regulations from government bodies in some parts of the world.
This Global Digital Oil Field Market report profiles leading players of this industry with their recent developments and other strategic industry activities, namely Schlumberger Ltd (U.S.), Halliburton Company (U.S.), Baker Hughes Incorporated (U.S.), Emerson Electric Company (U.S.), ABB Group (Switzerland), Microsoft Corporation (U.S.), International Business Machines Corporation (U.S.), TIBCO Software Inc. (U.S.), Tata Consultancy Service (India), Accenture Plc (Ireland), Redline Communications Group Inc. (Canada), Paradigm Ltd (U.S.), and Kongsberg Oil and Gas Technologies AS (Norway).
Key Topics Covered:
1 INTRODUCTION
2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
3 MARKET OVERVIEW
4 GLOBAL DIGITAL OIL FIELD MARKET, BY SERVICES
5 GLOBAL DIGITAL OIL FIELD MARKET, BY PROCESS FOCUS
6 DIGITAL OIL FIELD MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY
7 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
8 COMPANY PROFILES
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Sequester square-dance
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republicans and other fiscal conservatives keep insisting on more federal austerity and a smaller government. Without much fanfare or acknowledgement, they've already gotten much of both.
Spending by federal, state and local governments on payrolls, equipment, buildings, teachers, emergency workers, defense programs and other core governmental functions has been shrinking steadily since the deep 2007-2009 recession and as the anemic recovery continues.
This recent shrinkage has largely been obscured by an increase in spending on benefit payments to individuals under "entitlement" programs, including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and veterans benefits. Retiring baby boomers are driving much of this increase.
Another round of huge cuts ? known in Washington parlance as the "sequester" ? will hit beginning March 1, potentially meaning layoffs for hundreds of thousands of federal workers unless Congress and President Barack Obama can strike a deficit-reduction deal to avert them.
With the deadline only a week off, Obama and Republicans who control the House are far apart over how to resolve the deadlock. While last-minute budget deals are frequent in Washington, neither side is optimistic of reaching one this time.
Even as the private sector has been slowly adding jobs, governments have been shedding them, holding down overall employment gains and keeping the jobless rate close to 8 percent, compared with normal non-recessionary levels of 5 to 6 percent that have prevailed since the 1950s.
"It's a massive drag on the economy. We lost three-quarter million public-sector jobs in the recovery," said economist Heidi Shierholz of the labor-friendly Economic Policy Institute. "We're still losing government jobs, although the pace has slowed. But we haven't turned around yet."
A larger-than-usual decline in federal spending, notably on defense programs, helped push the economy into negative territory in the final three months of 2012. Economic growth, meanwhile, has been inching along at a weak 1-2 percent ? not enough to significantly further drive down the national unemployment rate, which now stands at 7.9 percent.
Although federal spending is projected to decline from 22.8 percent of the gross domestic product recorded last year to 21.5 percent by 2017, it still will exceed the 40-year-average of 21.0 percent, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Spending peaked at 25.2 percent of GDP in 2009.
The budget office also said the economy is roughly 5.5 percent smaller than it would have been had there been no recession.
The Defense Department already has made deep spending cuts, and outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said 800,000 civilian Pentagon employees were notified this week they likely are to be placed on periods of unpaid leave due to lawmakers' failure to act.
The recent downsizing in government is most pronounced at the state and local levels. Most states have constitutional or statutory requirements for balanced budgets.
That means nearly all states are prohibited from running budget deficits, while the federal government is not.
Not only can the federal government run deficits, but it can print money ? through actions by the Federal Reserve ? something states are prohibited from doing.
Those calling for a smaller government mostly don't take notice of the wave of recent cutbacks. Their clarion call remains Ronald Reagan's mantra: Government doesn't solve problems, it is the problem.
"This spending issue is the biggest issue that threatens our future," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, says. "When are we going to get serious about our long-term spending problem?"
And Florida Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, delivering the GOP response to Obama's State of the Union address, said "a major cause of our recent downturn was a housing crisis created by reckless government policies."
Soaring recent government deficits are partially a side effect of the worst recession since the 1930s, which took a huge bite out of tax revenues at the same time spending increased on recession-fighting programs like unemployment compensation and stimulus measures under both Presidents George W. Bush and Obama.
"The problem going forward is one of demographics and rising health care. It is the baby boom generation retiring," said Alice Rivlin, a White House budget director under President Bill Clinton. "It's the fact that everybody is living longer."
Republicans argue that entitlement programs should be on the cutting board as well as other government programs. Democrats generally have been more protective of them, although the president and many congressional Democrats acknowledge some paring of these popular programs is in order.
The federal budget deficit for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 is estimated to be $845 billion ? the first time it's dropped below $1 trillion in five years. But it's on track to rise again as more and more baby boomers retire and qualify for federal benefits and as interest payments on the national debt keep going up.
The national debt first inched past $1 trillion early in the Reagan administration and has grown in leaps and bounds ever since through both Democratic and Republican presidencies. It now stands at $16.6 trillion and is on a path toward soon becoming unsustainable, both parties agree.
Unchecked, entitlement payments will add roughly $700 billion to the debt over the next four years.
For now, though, "the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression," top White House economic adviser Alan Krueger says.
Under the sequester law, roughly $85 billion in federal spending would be slashed in the remaining seven months of this fiscal year and a total of $1.2 trillion in cuts over 10 years.
While entitlement programs and uniformed military personnel would be exempt, the rest of the government would be hit with indiscriminate across-the-board cuts.
Obama wants government deficits trimmed through a mix of selective spending cuts and new tax revenues, mostly by ending deductions and tax credits frequently claimed by the wealthiest Americans.
Republicans oppose any new taxes, even if for closing loopholes rather than increasing rates.
The looming spending cuts were first scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1. But they were postponed to March 1 as part of year-end "fiscal cliff" negotiations that also raised tax rates on affluent Americans. Republicans insist that's enough tax increasing for now.
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New breast cancer treatment approved
A drug that presents a new way to knock out cancer cells was approved Friday to treat patients with a certain type of late-stage metastatic breast cancer.
The drug, referred to as T-DM1 during clinical research, will now be known by the brand name Kadcyla, the Food and Drug Administration said in its approval announcement. It's a new therapy for women with HER2-positive breast cancer.
Kadcyla is a combination of the targeted drug trastuzumab -- better known by the brand name Herceptin -- and a powerful chemotherapy drug called DM1. It's designed to work when Herceptin alone can no longer keep cancer in check.
DM1 is too toxic to deliver directly into a patient's bloodstream, like other chemotherapy drugs. The Herceptin part of the new drug homes in on cancer cells, sparing other healthy cells, and delivers DM1 into the cell.
"Kadcyla delivers the drug to the cancer site to shrink the tumor, slow disease progression and prolong survival," said Dr. Richard Pazdur, director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in a statement. The drug is the fourth approved to target the HER2 protein.
Genentech, the company that developed the drug, is working to get it to patients "imminently," said spokesman Susan Willson. "As soon as humanly possible, but within two weeks at the outside."
Kadcyla will cost about $9,800 monthly, which Willson said is "similar to the cost of other treatment regimens in this line of therapy." The estimated cost of a course of Kadcyla -- 9? months -- is about $94,000.
But "we want to ensure that people who are eligible for this medicine have access to it," Willson said. Genentech plans to initiate patient assistance programs for the drug to help those who might not be able to afford it; those without health insurance or those who have reached the lifetime limit set by their insurance companies may qualify to receive Kadcyla for free.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women, according to the National Cancer Institute and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
HER2 is a protein involved in normal cell growth. It's found in increased amounts on some types of cancer cells. In HER2-positive breast cancers, the increased amount of the protein contributes to cancer call growth and survival. Nearly 20% of breast cancers have increased amounts of HER2.
Researchers announced the results of a large three-year clinical trial of Kadcyla in June, saying they were optimistic about it. One significant benefit, according to lead study author Dr. Kimberly Blackwell of Duke University, is the lack of significant side effects and a better quality of life for patients on the drug.
Patients participating in the trial, she said, were the first group for whom officials worried about fixing their hair for media interviews.
Kadcyla, known as an "antibody-drug conjugate," represents "a completely new way" to treat HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer, said Dr. Hal Barron, chief medical officer and head of global product development for Genentech.
An antibody-drug conjugate is described by the company as "a new kind of targeted medicine that can attach to certain types of cells and deliver chemotherapy directly to them."
"We currently have more than 25 antibody-drug conjugates in our pipeline and hope this promising approach will help us deliver more medicines to fight other cancers in the future," Barron said in a statement.
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Tyson sues Live Nation over alleged embezzlement
FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 file photo, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson smiles during a promotional event for former five-time champion Evander Holyfield's Real Deal barbecue sauce at a Chicago grocery store. Tyson and his wife sued SFX Financial Advisory Management Services, a subsidiary of Live Nation Entertainment on Wednesday Feb. 20, 2013, claiming a former employee of the financial services company embezzled more than $300,000 from them and cost them millions in lucrative contracts. (AP Photo/Charlie Arbogast)
FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 file photo, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson smiles during a promotional event for former five-time champion Evander Holyfield's Real Deal barbecue sauce at a Chicago grocery store. Tyson and his wife sued SFX Financial Advisory Management Services, a subsidiary of Live Nation Entertainment on Wednesday Feb. 20, 2013, claiming a former employee of the financial services company embezzled more than $300,000 from them and cost them millions in lucrative contracts. (AP Photo/Charlie Arbogast)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Mike Tyson sued a financial services firm owned by Live Nation Entertainment on Wednesday, claiming one of its advisers embezzled more than $300,000 from the former heavyweight champ and cost him millions more in lost earnings.
The lawsuit claims that Live Nation and its company SFX Financial Advisory Management Enterprises haven't given the boxer and his wife, Lakiha, a full accounting of their losses. The company returned some of the embezzled money but wanted the Tysons to sign a nondisclosure agreement, which they refused, the suit states.
The lawsuit seeks more than $5 million in damages for breach of fiduciary duty, negligent hiring, unjust enrichment and other claims.
A spokeswoman for Live Nation Entertainment Inc. said the company had not been served with the lawsuit and could not comment on it.
The lawsuit claims the embezzlement prevented the Tysons from emerging from bankruptcy, and forced them to hire new advisers and turn down lucrative contracts. The couple trusted Brian Ourand, their adviser at SFX, so much that he attended their wedding, the case states.
Ourand, who could not be reached for comment, has since left SFX, according to the lawsuit. The filings claim his conduct has not been reported to regulators.
"Defendants did not secure, protect, safeguard and appropriately apply the Tysons' finances for their intended purposes," the case states, "but instead misappropriated said funds for the benefit and enrichment of SFX/Live Nation.
The former boxer has broadened his career in recent years, including appearing in "The Hangover" and leading a one-man autobiographical show, "Undisputed Truth."
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Williamsburg Penthouse Gets Most Amazing NYC ... - AOL Real Estate
@DouglasElliman smacked down the competition to be the winner of this week's #housepornthurs contest with this immaculate white penthouse in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. Those amazing views of the iconic Williamsburg Bridge and the Manhattan skyline would win anyone over! We do want to give props to the runner-up, @BrandonRSwanson. He pitched this totally rad hobbit-like dome home in Goleta, Calif., which got us really excited. Better luck next time!
If you're a bit of a socialite, then this place is in the perfect location. Some of Brooklyn's trendiest restaurants and high-end shops are just steps away. And for the commuter, convenience is key, and this place is close to subways and a 15-minute water taxi to Manhattan. The building has concierge service, glass elevators and a common roof deck.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Microsoft's Outlook takes aim at Google's Gmail
FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2009 file photo, the Microsoft logo is seen at the company's exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it is about to spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S. starting Tuesday Feb. 129, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2009 file photo, the Microsoft logo is seen at the company's exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it is about to spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S. starting Tuesday Feb. 129, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it is about to spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S.
The barrage begins Tuesday when Microsoft's twist on email, Outlook.com, escalates an assault on rival services from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., AOL Inc. and a long list of Internet service providers.
As part of the process, all users of Microsoft's Hotmail and other email services operating under different domains such as MSN.com will be automatically converted to Outlook.com by the summer, if they don't voluntarily switch before then. All the old messages, contacts and settings in the old inboxes will be exported to Outlook.com. Users will also be able to keep their old addresses.
Email remains a key battleground, even at a time when more people are texting each other on phones.
People still regularly check their inboxes, albeit increasingly on their smartphones. The recurring email habit provides Internet companies a way to keep people coming back to websites. It gives people a reason to log in during their visits so it's easier for email providers to track their activities. Frequent visits and personal identification are two of the keys to selling ads, the main way most websites make money.
That's why Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have been retooling their email services in recent months.
After keeping Outlook.com in a "preview" phase since July 31, Microsoft Corp. is ready to accept all comers.
To welcome new users, Microsoft is financing what it believes to be the biggest marketing blitz in the history of email. Outlook.com will be featured in ads running on primetime TV, radio stations, websites, billboards and buses. Microsoft expects to spend somewhere between $30 million to $90 million on the Outlook campaign, which will run for at least three months.
The Outlook ads will overlap with an anti-Gmail marketing campaign that Microsoft launched earlier this month. The "Scroogled" attacks depict Gmail as a snoopy service that scans the contents of messages to deliver ads related to topics being discussed.
The Gmail ads are meant to be educational while the Outlook campaign is motivational, said Dharmesh Mehta, Outlook.com's senior director.
"We are trying to push people who have gotten lazy and comfortable with an email service that may not be all that great and help show them what email can really do for them," said Mehta.
By Microsoft's own admission, Hotmail had lost the competitive edge that once made it the world's largest email service. The lack of innovation left an opening for Google to exploit when it unveiled Gmail nearly nine years ago.
Gmail is now the industry leader, although estimates on its popularity vary.
Google says Gmail has more than 425 million accountholders, including those that only visit on smartphones and other mobile device. The latest data from research firm comScore, which doesn't include mobile traffic, shows Gmail with 306 million worldwide users through December, up 21 percent from the previous year. Yahoo's email ranked second with 293 million users, a 2 percent decrease from the previous year, followed by Hotmail at 267 million users, a 16 percent decline from the previous year.
Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., is counting on Outlook.com to catapult the company back to the top of the email heap. During the preview period, Outlook attracted 60 million accountholders, including about 20 million that defected from Gmail, according to Microsoft. Comscore listed Outlook with 38 million users through December.
The new features being introduced in Outlook include: the ability to send massive files, including hundreds of photos at a time, in a single email; address books that automatically update new contact information that connections post on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn; and about 60 percent fewer ads than Hotmail.
None of these features are revolutionary. Google already has been giving its users the option to switch to a new version of Gmail that also allows for larger files to be sent in a single email. And address books in Gmail already fetch new contact information posted on Google Plus, although it doesn't yet mine Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Google declined to comment on Outlook.com. The company, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., plans to convert all of its Gmail users to its redesigned format within the next few months.
Yahoo, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. revamped its email service late last year in an effort to provide a more consistent experience on personal computers and mobile devices.
Outlook.com is the latest in a series of major product leases from Microsoft, which has been struggling to regain the cachet that once made it the world's most valuable technology company.
Now, both Apple Inc. and Google are worth more because they have been growing far faster than Microsoft as their products win more fans. Apple's biggest gains have come from the iPhone and IPad, while Google has been benefiting from its dominance in Internet search and its widely used Android software for mobile devices.
Microsoft has been trying to catch up with a major makeover of its Windows operating system, new smartphone software and a tablet computer called Surface. Like Outlook.com, all those products have been backed by expensive marketing campaigns in recent months.
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Will Conservatives Love Rubio's Plan Just Because He Hates Obama's?
Although Sen. Marco Rubio trashed President Obama's immigration plan, it is not clear what the major differences are between the two proposals, especially for one of Rubio's most important audiences, conservatives. Rubio declared Obama's plan would be "dead on arrival," "half-baked and seriously flawed" on?Sunday, but the main difference between their plans is that Rubio has an enforcement trigger, meaning the path to citizenship for illegal immigrants won't open up until certain border security measures are in place.?
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Here's how much Obama's plan has in common with Rubio's plan, also called the "Gang of Eight" plan for the other senators involved:
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- Long path through bureaucracy to get citizenship. Obama wants it to take eight years. Rubio has described a difficult process, but hasn't said how many years it'd take, telling The Wall Street Journal, the period "would have to be long enough to ensure that it's not easier to do it this way than it would be the legal way."?Both require English classes, background checks, and for back taxes and fines to be paid.?
- Some kind of legal status while working toward a green card. In Obama's plan, immigrants could apply for the Lawful Prospective Immigrant visa. After going through the requirements listed above, Rubio says, "Then most of them would get legal status and be allowed to stay in this country."
- Citizenship for young people brought here as kids.?In Rubio's plan, young people would get a faster track to citizenship. Obama has halted the deportation of these immigrants through executive order.
- Expansion of E-Verify. Businesses would have four years to start using the system that checks if hires are able to work here legally under Obama's plan. Rubio also wants some kind of universal employer verification.
- More visas. Rubio's plan would allow more high-skilled workers to get visas immediately. Obama called on Congress to pass such a measure in his State of the Union address.
What are the differences?
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- The order in which things happen. Both plans call for border security. But only Rubio's demands that more border security measures are in place before the citizenship program kicks in. Obama's plan "calls for an unspecified increase in the Border Patrol, allows the Department of Homeland Security to expand technological improvements along the border and adds 140 new immigration judges to process the heavy flow of people who violate immigration laws,"?USA Today reports. But there's no enforcement trigger. Last month, Rubio told Rush Limbaugh,?"If, in fact, this bill does not have real triggers in there, if there is not language in this bill that guarantees that nothing else will happen unless these enforcement mechanisms are in place, I won?t support it."
But?The National Review's Rich Lowry points out that Rubio's plan would give illegal immigrants probationary legal status before more enforcement was enacted. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, a fellow gang of eight member, said in a press conference announcing the plan, "On Day One of our bill, the people without status who are not criminals or security risks will be able to live and work here legally."
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So why was Rubio so mad about Obama's pretty-similar plan??Talking Points Memo's Benjy Sarlin?writes that Rubio's outrage over Obama's plan might be key to get conservatives on board with an immigration deal, because "Republicans he needs to win over to pass a bill will be a lot more comfortable if they think they?re somehow thumbing their nose at Obama by voting for it." But on Monday, there were signs that's not quite working.
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Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions issued a press release on Monday saying, "Unfortunately, the leaked [Obama] plan is little different in its substance from the Gang of 8 plan, which is also unlikely to withstand scrutiny...?Perhaps this leak, and what it reveals, may mark the beginning of the collapse of this new scheme to force through a fatally flawed plan."?The Washington Examiner's Conn Carroll was not impressed either, asking, "What?s the difference between Obama and Rubio on immigration exactly?" The Daily Caller's Mickey Kaus thinks there's little difference. Iowa evangelical Bryan Fischer calls it the "Obama-Rubio amnesty plan."
Rush Limbaugh takes it a step further. It's not just bad policy -- he thinks Rubio has a political problem, too. Limbaugh is scared that Rubio and the rest of "our guys" will get tagged with unpopular immigration reform while "Obama gets his immigration plan in the mix without any of his fingerprints on it" by leaking it to USA Today.?Limbaugh?said Monday:
This is how the regime announces their big immigration reform plan?? On the other hand, how do our guys do it?? They call a press conference. They get whoever's involved in it: Chuck-U Schumer, Lindsey Grahamnesty, McCain, Marco Rubio, Gang of Eight. They're all up there. They do a press conference, all of them standing there, and you know it's these guys' plan...
This is how Obama is never tied to anything. This is somebody else's immigration plan...?There's no picture of Obama. I mean, this didn't happen on TV so, as far as the low-information voters are concerned, it didn't happen.
You think they're reading USA Today?? Ha!?
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/conservatives-love-rubios-plan-just-because-hates-obamas-220208444.html
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Port Orchard, WA 2005 Acura TL Used Sedan Bremerton, WA Gig Harbor, WA Bruce Titus Port Orchard Ford for $10,999
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
Download: Represent Android and Valentine?s Day With This Wallpaper
Since it?s Valentine?s Day, it seemed only fitting to share the newest wallpaper from the Android Foundry. Look at that cute little Bugdroid destroying a beautiful white wall with a can of red paint, all for the sake of today?s holiday. <3
Download a variety of sizes at the link below.
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Harrison Ford Returning as Han Solo in 'Star Wars Episode 7'
February 15, 2013 20:12:11 GMT
The news fuels previous rumor that Ford was open to return to the famous franchise along with Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher.
The news fuels previous rumor that Ford was open to return to the famous franchise along with Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher.
Rumor has it, is indeed going to return to "". Latino Review reports the actor will reprise his role as Han Solo, the wisecracking smuggler he portrayed in George Lucas' "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope", the first chapter in the famous franchise.
Back in November 2012, Ford was reportedly "open to the idea of doing the movie and he's upbeat about it, all three of them are." The source referred to Ford, Mark Hamill and coming back together as Solo, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa respectively.
A new trilogy taking place in the Star Wars universe to be directed by J.J. Abrams is planned to be released one after another starting from 2015. s are rumored to be unleashed in between the trilogy.
Words are, there will be at least two spin-off projects. One focuses on the wisecracking smuggler Han Solo's origin story, and the other revolves around the bounty hunter Boba Fett at the center of a rogue's gallery of galactic scum.
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Today on New Scientist: 14 February 2013
Sweat mutation may have helped us colonise Asia
A mutation in a single gene produced extra sweat glands in Asian people's skin, perhaps to help them keep cool in the warm and humid climate
Success comes from sticking with your monkey lover
Each day is Valentine's Day for owl monkeys - these paragons of monogamy can count the rewards of fidelity in the number of their offspring
Do get mad: The upside of anger
We think of it as a negative emotion, but used in the right way anger can improve your health, job prospects, relationships - and whole societies
How Facebook makes breaking up hard to do
Getting over a lost lover just gets harder when when you have a digital record of your relationship distributed all over the internet
Runaway stars to fill in the blanks in Milky Way map
Like flares sent up over a dense forest, stars booted from their home clusters can help astronomers trace the true shape of our home galaxy
Bacteria boost fixes symptoms of autism in mice
Replacing missing gut bacteria in a mouse model of autism improved repetitive behaviour and immune system problems
Mosh pit physics could aid disaster planning
An analysis of rock fans dancing reveals how people in a crowd move when emotions are running high, and may help us make buildings easier to evacuate
Largest fake prime number holds 300 billion digits
The biggest known pseudoprime was discovered using an algorithm that could help keep online transactions secure
Threatwatch: What the North Korean nuclear test means
Understanding why a tiny state that struggles to feed its people wants a nuclear bomb might help head off further bomb development
What we really know about human courtship
Enjoy what two insightful books have to say about mating intelligence and relationships - but don't park your scepticism just yet
The computer that never crashes
A revolutionary new computer based on the apparent chaos of nature can reprogram itself if it finds a fault
Horsemeat scandal should make us rethink how we eat
Forget food taboos and veterinary drugs, what really matters here is how we produce meat - and what meat we're prepared to eat
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Daily Mobile Computing Feed ? Feb 12, 2013
Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net.
- Most Midsize Insurers Lack Mobile Device Management for BYOD: Novarica
- Tablet wars? Minimize financial risks with BYOD | TechRepublic
- BYOD Android devices play an important role in enterprise security ?
- 10 Tips to Make BYOD A Success In Your Enterprise
- BYOD vs. COPE vs. provisioned: That?s the wrong question to ask
- Mobile Computing in Radiology: the Challenges and Benefits
Insurance & Technology Only a quarter of midsize insurers have implemented mobile device management (MDM) software for their employees who participate in bring-your-own-device (BYOD) access to their systems, according to a survey by analyst firm Novarica. While allowing ? (more)
The tablet market isn?t suffering from a true war, but there are financial risks for IT leaders. Find out how hosted services and BYOD programs. (more)
By Donovan Colbert
Find out how Donovan Colbert used his TF300 Transformer tablet/convertible to safely manage a virus in his Windows shop. (more)
ReadWriteWeb Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is more than a fad. It?s a movement toward a different kind of enterprise computing. BYOD requires a lot of planning and work, but businesses that embrace the change can find new efficiencies and actually increase security. (more)
InfoWorld (blog) The last year has been one giant conversation about bring your own device (BYOD), whether it is happening, whether we should embrace it, or if we even have a choice. We have seen the rise of another model (COPE, or corporately owned, personally ? (more)
Diagnostic Imaging mobile computing in radiology Hospitals and physician practices are full of electronic sounds. The whir and clunks of imaging equipment. The quiet hum of patient monitors. The background buzz of computers. In recent years, though, a new sound has ? (more)
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Green Blog: Wastewater Is for Lovers
Love stinks.
For the second year, New York City?s Department of Environmental Protection is offering Valentine?s Day tours of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
?I have to say we didn?t exactly predict the tour would catch fire the way it did,? said Carter Strickland, the department?s commissioner.
To meet popular demand, Newtown Creek will be offering three tours on Thursday rather than the two originally planned. Last year, around 220 visitors showed up for romantic strolls past the liquid refuse of around one million New Yorkers, and the city expects to top that number this time.
?This is an opportunity for couples to go and see something unusual together and share that experience together,? Mr. Strickland said.
Newtown Creek, the largest of New York?s 14 treatment plants, went into operation in 1967. It is undergoing a $5 billion upgrade to increase its capacity for processing wastewater, especially runoff from storms, by more than twofold.
Just as romances come and go, so does the sewage, albeit in reverse. Today?s reeking slurry becomes tomorrow?s sweetly recycled water through processes that mimic the ways that wetlands and rivers naturally purify. ?Nature does break everything down, it just takes a long time,? Mr. Strickland said. ?We speed up the process.?
At Newtown Creek, more than 300 million gallons of wastewater from toilets, tubs, sinks and storm drains throughout parts of Manhattan, western Queens and northern Brooklyn undergo treatment in five basic steps. After initial preparations, primary and secondary treatments remove around 90 percent of pollutants from the water to bring it up to the standards set by the Clean Water Act.
Then, it undergoes a final round of disinfection, just to be safe. Six hours after the wastewater entered the plant, the cleaned liquid is then discharged back into local waterways.
But like emotional baggage, sludge ? the semisolids separated from the wastewater ? remains behind. The plant subjects it to a process known as digestion in which microbes eat their way through the goopy byproduct, destroying pathogens and stabilizing the material.
The remaining sludge is then dewatered, or run through machines that remove excess liquids to make the stuff easier to handle. The resulting product, known as biosolid, can be reused for land reclamation after this 15-day process is complete.
Newtown Creek?s eight sludge digesters, or ?digester eggs,? each about 100 feet high, sit atop the plant like domes on a Russian Orthodox church. Visitors can tour the top of the eggs, enjoying unbroken views of Williamsburg and the Manhattan skyline.
?A lot of people probably found the tour ironic or whatnot at first, but when they get up there and see the views, they say, ?Wow, this is a special experience,? and that?s what this day is all about,? Mr. Strickland said. ?Even if Valentine?s Day haters come on the tour, they wind up being lovers by the end.?
For those who miss out on the excursion or prefer to avoid the flocks of lovebirds, Newtown Creek runs the same tours once a month throughout the year.
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: February 12, 2013
An earlier version of this post misstated part of the name of the sewage treatment plant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It is the Newtown -- not Newton -- Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/wastewater-is-for-lovers/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
iBall Andi 3.5 Dual SIM Android Smartphone For India
iBall is preparing to launch their newest dual SIM Android smartphone in India. Called the Andi 3.5, the handset packs a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen display, a 1GHz single-core processor, a 256MB RAM, dual cameras (VGA front & 2MP rear), dual SIM card slots, a 1500mAh Li-ion battery and runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. The Andi 3.5 will go on sale in India soon for Rs 4,500 (about $85) in both white and wine color options. [Softpedia]
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techfresh-cellphones/~3/DOsIHZKULv4/
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Wealth Building Is A Team Sport | DINKS Finance
Hi Folks,
Having been around the wealth building game for nearly a decade, I?ve had a chance to learn a few things. ? First, getting financially fit occurs in a few reliable stages. ?Typically you pay off any debts. ?Second you build up a cash nest egg and third, you start to?acquire?assets. ?This happens more or less in a typical progression. ?But what is less obvious is how to accelerate this process. ?Here is a hint, wealth building is a team sport. ?That is, you need to make friends and work with good?advisers?to maximize your wealth accumulation.
1) Acquiring assets happens through relationships. ?This can be real estate, business interests, private stock placements, gold bullion, etc. ?You will need help to get these assets. ? The process of getting your hands on assets worth having is?ultimately?going to involve forming relationships with persons who have these goods to sell or who can help you buy them. ?For example, you may want to recruit a good real estate agent or you might need a friendly mortgage broker, or you might want to strike up a relationship with a small business broker who can help turn you onto deals.
2) Second, in order to really juice your wealth, you?ll need someone to help you run a business. ?This seems a bit controversial, but if you look at wealth in America, you?ll immediately see that only a very small number of fortunes have been made exclusively through saving and investing. ?Most ? from the small ones to the really large ones ? have been developed by starting or running a ?successful?businesses. ?In the event that you choose to do this, you?ll need to ultimately find someone to help you manage, promote, or work in your enterprise. ?The reason for this it that there are only so many hours in the day and you?ll eventually run into limits on your own knowledge and ability to exert effort. ?This problem will become even more acute as your business grows.
3) As you get richer, you?ll need help to account for everything.? The more wealth you have, the more you?ll need someone to help you deal with all of it. ?For example, the more income you have the more you will need someone to help you with ?income taxes or assist you in planning to acquire good quality assets.? This is important in that the quality of the advice you get (especially around taxes) can add or detract significantly from your bottom line. ?For example, my wife and I had a Federal income tax bill around $50,000 in 2011. ?Had we been more pro-active with our taxes, we could have reduced a good chunk of it.
Players you may need on your team include:
Tax accountant ? As your wealth gets more complicated record keeping and?accounting?becomes more important in determining return. ? To illustrate again from our own personal experience. ?My wife and I own rental real estate in the District of Colombia. ?Part of the benefits of owning rental property is the ability to take a deduction on the expenses incurred in running the property. ?However, this deduction can get phased out on your Federal return if your income exceeds a certain threshold, thus reducing the real return on your investment. ?So, the bottom line is that we needed help with our record keeping in order to make the best financial decision.
Real estate agent ? Find someone who understands your needs, helps guide you to find the right place, doesn?t pressure you into something that doesn?t suit your needs, and negotiates on your behalf. ?We have a go to agent that we?ve worked with for more than a dozen years and can put together an offer effectively on short notice.
Mortgage lenders ? Clearly interest rates have a significant impact on your long term expenses and wealth building, plus having someone who is responsive saves you hassle and stress during the home buying process. ?Make sure to evaluate several lenders to compare rates and terms.
Contractors & Service Providers?- Having someone who is reliable and worth their value is a must for home repairs or renovations. ?We?ve had our contractor for more than ten years and the relationship has paid off significantly over the years. ?We also have a variety of service providers that we have available when needed.
Regardless of where you are in your own wealth building, consider being strategic in your approach to your relationships. ?Try to find people who share your interests, who are very good at what they do, and are willing to work with you. ?
Finally, remember this: there is no such thing as truly passive income. ?Many great economists have noted this. ?Both Marx and Adam Smith said that value is determined partly by the amount of labor invested in a commodity. ?While I?m not a professional economist it?s fair to say that without labor, there isn?t going to be a lot of wealth accumulation happening ? regardless of the economic model you?re invested in. ? So, the bottom line is that to get rich, paying a team to support you in the process is worth every penny.
Best,
James
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Source: http://www.dinksfinance.com/2013/02/wealth-building-is-a-team-sport/
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Kenya rebukes EU countries over election comments
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? Kenya's foreign minister has rebuked European Union ambassadors over what the minister says appears to be an orchestrated attempt to influence Kenya's presidential election.
Foreign Minster Sam Ongeri called in the ambassadors on Monday to relay his displeasure over statements made last week from some European countries about how they will not meet with suspects indicted by the International Criminal Court.
Kenya holds a presidential election in early March. One of the top contenders for president is Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces charges before the ICC related to postelection violence that killed more than 1,000 people after Kenya's last presidential election.
Last week the U.S., France and Switzerland made statements that appeared to caution Kenyans against voting for Kenyatta. A diplomatic note was sent to the U.S. asking for an explanation.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kenya-rebukes-eu-countries-over-election-comments-121803791.html
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Horse trading exposed by British beef scandal
LONDON (Reuters) - As Britons choke on discovering they may have eaten horse that was imported as beef, and ministers blame an "international criminal conspiracy", this new scandal has exposed the sometimes murky labyrinth by which food reaches Europe's dinner tables.
Lurid headlines reveal a culinary gulf between distaste for the notion of horsemeat in Britain and its status as a delicacy elsewhere in Europe. But as governments play down the health risks, a greater impact may stem from a shattering of public confidence in EU systems of labeling and quality control introduced after previous threats hit the human food chain.
As details emerge of a complex network of slaughterhouses and middlemen standing between the farm and the supermarkets across Europe, France and Britain have vowed to punish those found responsible for selling horsemeat purporting to be beef.
With DNA tests needed to tell the two kinds of flesh apart, retailers and makers of processed meals complain of being duped by suppliers; one French firm has pointed a finger at Romania.
"This is a conspiracy against the public," said British farm minister Owen Paterson. "I've got an increasing feeling that it is actually a case of an international criminal conspiracy."
Prime Minister David Cameron has called it "very shocking".
Adding to concerns are indications that some horsemeat, perfectly edible in itself, may contain a drug known as bute - a common, anti-inflammatory painkiller for sporting horses but banned for animals intended for eventual human consumption.
Britain's Food Standards Agency said it was checking whether horse carcasses exported from Britain contained phenylbutazone. It said five such animals were sold abroad last year and it had told foreign agencies. French media said the horses went there.
One firm hit by the British horsemeat scandal, frozen foods group Findus, said it was recalling its beef lasagne product after discovering they included horsemeat. Its French supplier, Comigel, said the questionable meat came from EU member Romania.
An EU-wide alert has been sent out and governments debated how to bring the increasingly complex industry under control.
Food experts say globalization has brought benefits to food supply, with exotic items now available from around the world all year round, but it has also created a system that is so complex it has increased the risks of adulteration, whether by design, to use cheaper inputs, or through neglect of standards.
The "mad cow" crisis, which saw British beef banned in the EU in the 1990s over fears of a degenerative brain disease, left a legacy of tight controls on the identity of European animals, intended to ensure the origins of fresh meat are traceable.
But in meat minced into processed product, while hygiene checks are the norm, testing for something as seemingly basic as which species it came from is complex and not widely undertaken.
Mystery over the contents of a sausage is far from new, but mass production means any problem can escalate rapidly:
"Food adulteration has been going on for as long as it has been prepared, for thousands of years," said Chris Elliot, a professor working on food safety at Queen's University Belfast.
"We are at the stage now where whenever this adulteration happens, it tends to happen on a very large scale, extremely well organized."
REPULSED
Doubts over quality controls in processed food could damage sales across Europe, but the greatest impact of this scandal may be in Britain, where assurances that horsemeat is safe have done little to lessen the disgust felt by many, or suspicions that it reflects another unpopular aspect of membership of the EU bloc.
One leading British lawmaker called for a ban on EU imports.
"Nabbed, stabbed and beaten: wild horses to go in our beef," ran the headline on Sunday's mass-selling Sun newspaper over a story alleging cruelty to horses to be slaughtered in Romania.
From Queen Elizabeth downwards, Britons cast themselves as a nation of horse lovers, treating sporting thoroughbreds with no less reverence than human athletes and viewing the species as whole with an affection rivaled only by that for the family dog.
There are only a handful of licensed horse abattoirs in Britain, and these mostly export carcasses to the continent, where Italy leads consumption tables with an unsentimental taste for both horse and donkey; horsemeat also has a niche in the cuisine of France and of many other European nations.
At a Sunday market in north London, where shoppers strolled among rain-soaked stalls selling vegetables, sausage and cheeses direct from the small farms that produce them, many said they would buy fewer frozen ready-meals after the revelations.
That is good news for the likes of Amie Peters, who runs a family beef burger business: "They've kept it secret from everyone. It was concealed from the public. That's not nice," she said of equine DNA found in supermarket burgers, nodding to her own grill and adding with a smile: "No horsemeat in these."
Distaste for horsemeat is widely shared across the English-speaking world, although the U.S. Congress in 2011 overturned a five-year-old effective ban on slaughtering horses for food.
TRACING BACK
Tracing processed meat back to its source is difficult in Europe's complex market, and the path from abattoirs where cows and horses are slaughtered and minced to people's dinner tables often meanders through a confusing chain of middle companies.
Last week's problems for Findus came less than a month after British supermarket Tesco and fast food outlet Burger King found horsemeat in beef burgers from Ireland.
French officials tracing the contamination of the Findus beef lasagne said a Luxembourg factory had been supplied by the French firm Poujol, which had bought the meat frozen from a Cypriot trader, who in turn had subcontracted the order to a Dutch trader supplied by a Romanian abattoir.
However, Comigel, a frozen foods producer based in eastern France, told a newspaper it had bought the meat from another French company, supplied from a Romanian abattoir.
In Romania, officials said one of the two Romanian abattoirs suspected to have provided horsemeat had been cleared of all suspicion: "I believe that, even though the investigation isn't finished, that everything left the country properly and officially," Constantin Savu of Romania's food safety authority was quoted as saying by state news agency Agerpres on Sunday.
"I find it hard to believe that such errors could exist."
In France, six big retailers said they were recalling lasagne and other products suspected to be mislabeled.
Britain's Paterson summoned leading food retailers and representatives of food processors to an emergency meeting at his office at the weekend to discuss the crisis.
Anne McIntosh, who chairs the parliamentary food and environment committee, called for a temporary import ban on processed and frozen meats from the other 26 EU states.
"My concern is that consumer confidence will have collapsed across the European Union," McIntosh, from Cameron's Conservative party, told the BBC on Sunday.
"We seem to be no clearer as to what the source of this contamination is, or whether the supply was ever destined for human consumption. Is this a fraud of such a massive scale that it should never have entered the human food chains?"
(Additional reporting by Luiza Ilie in Bucharest and Leigh Thomas in Paris; Writing by Maria Golovnina; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/horse-trading-exposed-british-beef-scandal-200812098--finance.html
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Computerized 'Rosetta Stone' reconstructs ancient languages
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University of British Columbia and Berkeley researchers have used a sophisticated new computer system to quickly reconstruct protolanguages the rudimentary ancient tongues from which modern languages evolved.
The results, which are 85 per cent accurate when compared to the painstaking manual reconstructions performed by linguists, will be published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"We're hopeful our tool will revolutionize historical linguistics much the same way that statistical analysis and computer power revolutionized the study of evolutionary biology," says UBC Assistant Prof. of Statistics Alexandre Bouchard-Ct, lead author of the study.
"And while our system won't replace the nuanced work of skilled linguists, it could prove valuable by enabling them to increase the number of modern languages they use as the basis for their reconstructions."
Protolanguages are reconstructed by grouping words with common meanings from related modern languages, analyzing common features, and then applying sound-change rules and other criteria to derive the common parent.
The new tool designed by Bouchard-Ct and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley analyzes sound changes at the level of basic phonetic units, and can operate at much greater scale than previous computerized tools.
The researchers reconstructed a set of protolanguages from a database of more than 142,000 word forms from 637 Austronesian languages--spoken in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and parts of continental Asia.
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BACKGROUND | PROTOLANGUAGES
Most protolanguages do not leave written records--but in some instances reconstructions can be partially verified against ancient texts or literary histories. A notable exception is well-documented Latin, the protolanguage of the Romance languages, which include modern French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Spanish.
For examples of protolanguage words reconstructed by the UBC tool, visit: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/?p=80805.
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Public release date: 11-Feb-2013[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Chris Balma
balma@science.ubc.ca
604-202-5047
University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia and Berkeley researchers have used a sophisticated new computer system to quickly reconstruct protolanguages the rudimentary ancient tongues from which modern languages evolved.
The results, which are 85 per cent accurate when compared to the painstaking manual reconstructions performed by linguists, will be published next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"We're hopeful our tool will revolutionize historical linguistics much the same way that statistical analysis and computer power revolutionized the study of evolutionary biology," says UBC Assistant Prof. of Statistics Alexandre Bouchard-Ct, lead author of the study.
"And while our system won't replace the nuanced work of skilled linguists, it could prove valuable by enabling them to increase the number of modern languages they use as the basis for their reconstructions."
Protolanguages are reconstructed by grouping words with common meanings from related modern languages, analyzing common features, and then applying sound-change rules and other criteria to derive the common parent.
The new tool designed by Bouchard-Ct and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley analyzes sound changes at the level of basic phonetic units, and can operate at much greater scale than previous computerized tools.
The researchers reconstructed a set of protolanguages from a database of more than 142,000 word forms from 637 Austronesian languages--spoken in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and parts of continental Asia.
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BACKGROUND | PROTOLANGUAGES
Most protolanguages do not leave written records--but in some instances reconstructions can be partially verified against ancient texts or literary histories. A notable exception is well-documented Latin, the protolanguage of the Romance languages, which include modern French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Spanish.
For examples of protolanguage words reconstructed by the UBC tool, visit: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/?p=80805.
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-02/uobc-cs020813.php
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