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As much as it is true that one should not judge a book by its cover, you can safely go about life judging a good Ciabatta by the holes in its crumb! And this is one particular instance when size does matter: the bigger the holes, the better the loaf…The secret to a perfect Ciabatta is in the percentage of water in the dough, a dough that is sticky, wet and fun to manipulate. This is not your classic "knead for ten minutes" dough. In fact, you hardly have to knead it at all. So, where's the catch? No, catch. Ciabatta, it turns out, is a home-baker's new best friend.
INGREDIENTS , if using dry yeast
450 gr (3 3/4 cups) of flour
350 ml (1 1/4 cup) water at room temperature
a tablespoon of olive oil
and 1 tablespoon of dry yeast
2 teaspoons of salt
1. In a large bowl, mix together flour, water oil and yeast. When the yeast is well incorporated, add the salt.
2. Mix with you hands for a few minutes or until the dough is amalgamated and slightly elastic. It will be sticky and wet. Put in an oiled bowl to prove for 30 minutes, then stretch it with your hands, fold it onto itself and leave to prove for a further 1 1/2 hours or until doubled in size. You will notice that lovely air bubbles will have formed. Don't burst them, they hold the secret to the formation of those coveted holes.
3. Place a metal bowl or a small skillet in the oven and bring the oven temperature to to 200 C (395 F)
4. Gently and with caution, tip the risen, bubbly dough onto an oven tray lined with baking paper. Roughly give it an oval shape and dust it with a little flour. Insert the tray into the hot oven, pour a glass of cold water into the skillet to create steam, close the oven door and bake for 30-35 minutes or until risen, golden and the bottom sounds hollow when tapped. Cool at room temperature and slice away to reveal that holey, moist crumb.
You can also make Ciabatta using an active sourdough starter. The flavour and longevity of your bread will be incomparably better.
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Sourdough ciabatta
In a large non-metal bowl mix 230 gr (1 cup) of sourdough, 380 (3 cups) gr of plain flour and 260 ml (1 cup) of filtered water at room temperature and a tablespoon of olive oil. When the ingredients are well amalgamated, add 2 teaspoonsof salt and mix well with a wooden spoon. Cover your bowl with either a lid or oiled cling wrap and let it rest overnight. Be mindful not to leave your dough to prove in a drafty spot. In the morning your dough will have more than doubled its volume. Using a spatula, scrape it onto an oven tray lined with grease-proof paper, dust the top with a little flour and let it prove for an hour or two. The proceed as step 4. You will find that your ciabatta will not puff up much in the oven, it will stay quite flat, like a slipper, hence its name (ciabatta means slipper in Italian)
As hard as it will be, allow to cool down before you attempt to slice it…
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Nutritional Facts 1 serving (3 each) equals 725 calories, 69 g fat (37 g saturated fat), 237 mg cholesterol, 1,398 mg sodium, 7 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 20 g protein.
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Cooperative Research for Hazardous Materials Transportation: Defining the Need, Converging on Solutions - Special Report 283
Envisioned Program and Next Steps
This chapter presents the committee's conclusions about the need for cooperative research in the field of hazardous materials transportation, its vision for structuring a national program to help meet this need, and its recommendations for bringing about such a program.
The committee concludes that cooperative research for hazardous materials transportation is more than a good idea in principle. It has become essential to managing the complex risks associated with hazardous materials transportation on a systemwide basis. Prompting this conclusion are the following findings:
Safety, security, and environmental concerns associated with the transportation of hazardous materials are growing in number and complexity.
Hazardous materials are substances that are flammable, explosive, or toxic or have other properties that would threaten humans if released. The threat stems not only from accidental releases but from a concern that terrorists will target these materials to cause harm to public health and safety and to the economy.
More than 15 percent of the freight tonnage moved in the United States is regulated as hazardous by the Department of Transportation. The challenge of ensuring the safety and security of hazardous materials is complicated by the large volume and ubiquity of these shipments, which are found in nearly all modes of transportation, all regions of the country, and all segments of the economy. Ensuring safety and security is necessary because many of these materials are vital to commerce and the daily lives of Americans.
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Federal involvement in the regulation of hazardous materials transportation began nearly a century ago. The original purpose was to protect the public from the dangers of catastrophic accidents, mainly from fires and explosions involving a small range of volatile materials transported in large quantities by rail. The range of concern gradually expanded to include materials whose main risk is to transportation workers and emergency personnel responding to a crash or accidental release. During the past three decades the scope of concern has expanded to include materials whose release may harm the environment or present long-term risks to human health. Of particular concern today is the potential for hazardous materials to be used as an instrument for terrorist attack.
Managing the risks associated with the transportation of hazardous materials is necessarily a joint effort involving many entities from industry and government.
Ensuring the safe and secure transportation of hazardous materials requires the efforts of carriers in nearly all modes of transportation, shippers of a wide range of products, and government agencies at all jurisdictional levels. The main responsibility is that of shippers and carriers, which follow their own good practices and long-standing rules and standards put in place by industry, the federal government, and international bodies. Because releases in transportation occur on occasion, this responsibility extends to state and local police and fire officials, who are often first to arrive on the scene of a release and who must act quickly to minimize harm. Moreover, state and local authorities must work with industry and federal agencies to ensure the security of those shipments passing through critical infrastructure and population centers. Even within the federal government, more than a dozen agencies have regulatory, enforcement, operational, and other responsibilities pertaining to hazardous materials transportation. All of these entities have much at stake in providing a safe and secure system for transporting hazardous materials.
Few means are available for the parties responsible for hazardous materials transportation to work together in seeking solutions to shared and related problems.
All parties responsible for the transportation of hazardous materials require information to support their decisions. Which routes and modes
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of transportation are safest, most secure, and pose the least risk to the environment? Which materials are suited for which type of packaging? Which emergency preparations are most prudent given the nature of the materials passing through the transportation system? Which shipments merit extra security attention? These are examples of the kinds of decisions that industry and government must make on a regular basis.
Such decisions are often made independently by thousands of public and private entities, but their ramifications can be far-reaching. Decisions to move hazardous materials in one mode versus another, for example, can affect the emergency preparations needed in various parts of the transportation system and in the communities in which the transportation facilities are located. Changes in material packaging requirements can lead to the diversion of hazardous cargoes to different transportation vehicles, modes, and routes, which may have safety and security implications.
Good decisions demand good information. They require data and analytic tools for weighing options and understanding causal relationships and systemwide effects. The promise of a cooperative research program is that it will allow such problems to be addressed from a wider range of perspectives. It will allow the consolidation of resources to seek solutions more efficiently, as opposed to piecemeal and duplicative efforts. It will lead to greater acceptance of research results by the many entities involved because each will participate in the process. And it will lead to more widespread dissemination of the results and their use in the field. By cooperating in the setting of the research agenda and in guiding individual research projects, the diverse parties responsible for hazardous materials safety and security will have a dependable way to work together in finding solutions to their problems.
The experience of cooperative research programs in other fields suggests that for such a program to be successful for hazardous materials transportation, it should involve a broad array of likely users of the research to guide and govern the program, set the research agenda, oversee individual research projects, and disseminate the end products of research.
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Users of the research must have a sense of ownership of the program. Carriers, shippers, and emergency responders are important end users of the research. They must be convinced that their problems and research needs are being addressed by the program and that their expertise and perspectives are being brought to bear. The results of the research are not only more likely to be accepted under these circumstances but more likely to meet actual needs.
Existing cooperative research programs indicate that a sense of ownership cannot be conveyed by simply offering stakeholders an advisory capacity or other indirect role in program development and guidance. It must be instilled in a more comprehensive manner, from the way the program is financed and governed to how it is managed.
Direct financing of the program by stakeholders is desirable because it establishes program ownership in the most straightforward and tangible way. Those who sponsor the program are most likely to participate in it and remain engaged. In helping pay for the research, they will have a strong incentive to ensure that projects are targeted to meet their needs, practical to implement, and widely disseminated within their respective communities. Therefore, it is important that sponsors not be drawn from a single industry group or segment. In that case the program could gravitate to a narrow set of interests and lose the perspectives of many parties.
Experience suggests that some form of federal involvement in program financing may be needed to ensure broad-based participation by stakeholders, especially those without the means to contribute to the program. The nature of federal involvement may range from the collection of revenues from stakeholder groups to pay for part of the program to an appropriation of general funds to pay for all or part of the program. At least some government involvement in program financing can be justified because research can lead to improvements in the efficiency and overall performance of government regulatory, planning, and operating activities pertaining to hazardous materials transportation, including the performance of emergency response. Another rationale is that the public as a whole will benefit from safety and security improvements gained through cooperative research. Still, there are equity grounds for deriving
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at least some of the funds from industry stakeholders, since they cause the transport of hazardous materials in the first place and thus create the underlying risks that cooperative research will seek to alleviate. Coupling funding of the program with its governance creates the sense of ownership and commitment that has proved to be so important to making cooperative research programs work.
Those who finance the program will have much to say about how the program is governed. Indeed, the sponsors can be expected to demand a prominent role in setting the annual research agenda, overseeing performance, and guiding the overall direction of the program. Most cooperative research programs have established governing boards that serve in this capacity. A governing board made up largely of program sponsors can be expected to pay close attention to program performance. In this regard, such an approach is ideal. However, where there is a diverse set of stakeholders with important perspectives but varying financial resources, it may be advantageous to involve nonsponsors in program governance. Such is likely to be the case for hazardous materials transportation. In particular, state and local emergency planning and response organizations may not have the means to help finance the program, but they would need to participate in its governance.
How the program is managed on a day-to-day basis, as well as the design and functioning of the research process itself, is integral to the success of the program. The experience of other cooperative programs indicates that research that is conducted and managed in an independent manner will engender the confidence of the stakeholders who will be expected to use the results. Competition in the awarding of research contracts and peer reviews of completed work are common features of successful cooperative programs. The organization managing the program must therefore be able to coordinate the involvement of many stakeholders. At the same time it must be perceived as fair and as not having an inherent bias toward one
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group or industry segment. It must be able to draw technical expertise from a range of stakeholder groups and disciplines to define, oversee, and ensure quality control for research projects covering many problem areas. And it must be able to disseminate research results widely.
The committee finds that a cooperative research program for hazardous materials transportation is warranted. The principles for program financing, governance, and management outlined above set the basic parameters for designing a program. The following represents the committee's vision of how a full-scale hazardous materials transportation cooperative research program could be financed, governed, and managed.
Federal and Stakeholder Financing
The diversity of stakeholders in hazardous materials transportation means that no single industry segment is likely to have the incentive to fund cooperative research, and some will not have the financial means to do so. The federal government regulates hazardous materials transportation because of the broad public interest in ensuring its safety and security. A federal appropriation of funds to help pay for a hazardous materials transportation cooperative research program can be rationalized on the same public interest grounds.
Federally appropriated funds would provide core financing of the overall program of research, perhaps coupled with supplemental funds contributed on a discretionary basis by stakeholders for individual projects. In the committee's view, the problems and research needs associated with hazardous materials transportation are at least as complex and numerous as those associated with public transit, which receives federal appropriations for cooperative research on the order of $8 million per year. The committee believes that a cooperative research program comparable in magnitude with that of the cooperative research program for public transit, on the order of $5 million to $10 million per year, can be justified to ensure the safety and security of hazardous materials in transportation.
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If the program proves successful over a period of 3 to 5 years, an increasing portion of program funding may be derived in a more direct manner from stakeholders and users of the research. The Hazardous Materials Registration Fee is one possible funding source already being collected from carriers, shippers, and others in the hazardous materials transportation industry. The fee now varies from $300 per year for small businesses to $2,000 per year for larger businesses. It generates about $13 million per year in federal revenues, most of which is appropriated to states and localities to strengthen their preparedness for hazardous materials emergencies. Raising the fee by about 8 percent, or $25 for small business and $150 for others, would generate about $1 million in annual revenues for cooperative research. Increasing stakeholder financing of the program over time, even if it is discretionary, is key to fostering a sense of ownership of the program by stakeholders and ultimately ensuring that the research products remain useful.
Governance by a Broad Base of Stakeholders
The program should be guided by a governing board that is largely independent and composed primarily of the end users of research, who will be responsible for soliciting research needs, prioritizing them, and setting the program's research agenda. The governing board should ensure that the products of research are useful and well disseminated within the broad array of stakeholder communities. A majority of the board members should be shippers, carriers, suppliers, and state and local emergency managers and responders, because these are the significant end users of research. The board should also have representation from the federal agencies that have programmatic, operational, and regulatory responsibilities for hazardous materials transportation safety, security, and environmental protection. These agencies will likewise gain from cooperating in research with one another as well as with other segments of the industry.
Management Modeled on Existing Cooperative Programs
Without knowing how a hazardous materials transportation program would be financed and governed, it is premature to lay out precisely how
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and by whom the program should be managed. However, experience with existing cooperative research programs indicates that certain key features of a research process will be integral to the success of the program. First, individual research projects should be conducted by contractors selected on a competitive basis. Contract research, as opposed to investment in specialized research facilities and the hiring of in-house staff, will allow for greater flexibility in the program. A competitive process for selecting contractors on the basis of both qualifications and cost will encourage quality and efficiency, build program credibility, and enable more research projects to be undertaken with a limited research budget. Second, technical panels should be responsible for defining the scope of individual research projects, developing requests for proposals from researchers, selecting the researchers to perform the work, overseeing and reviewing the work, and assisting with dissemination of the final product. The technical panels should include end users of the research as well as technical experts from academia, the private sector, and government. Third, the organization managing this process should be perceived as independent and focused on research as a main organizational mission—characteristics that are essential in building trust. As a corollary to this point, the host organization should be known for research products that meet scientific and professional standards of quality and should have the capability to disseminate these products widely. The experience of existing cooperative research programs suggests that 15 to 20 percent of the program budget will need to be set aside for these critical management and oversight functions.
The program outlined above would require a dedicated effort not only from research advocates but also from the stakeholder communities. However, the benefits of research are not always apparent to those focused on day-to-day operations and concerns. The committee recognizes this practicality and the challenge of securing support for a cooperative research program absent tangible evidence of its utility. The building of support may require a smaller-scale effort that demonstrates the functioning of the program and yields some early and useful research results.
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A pilot test of the hazardous materials transportation cooperative research program is needed. The committee therefore urges each of the four agencies that sponsored this study to contribute $250,000 in research funds to create a pooled fund of $1 million for cooperative research. The four agencies may seek additional contributions to enlarge the pool from other federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Department of Energy. A $1 million fund should be sufficient to pay for three or four research projects that are carefully selected to yield results that are timely and useful. A number of candidate research projects are identified in this report to illustrate research topics that may be suited to a full-scale program. A pilot program would need to focus on projects costing between $100,000 and $300,000 and capable of being completed in 12 to 18 months. Some of the projects may be precursors to larger research projects identified in this report, such as literature analyses and syntheses of practice in the field.
The sponsoring agencies should ensure that a broad-based committee of stakeholders is formed to identify needed research and advise on how the pooled research funds should be programmed to meet these priority needs. The stakeholder committee, acting in a manner similar to a program governing body, should represent a cross section of the hazardous materials shipping and carrier communities as well as experts in emergency response, risk management, and hazardous materials transportation safety and security. This committee should identify and define a series of individual research projects and recommend funding for those with the greatest potential for yielding practical solutions to important problems in the field. The projects selected for the pilot program should be of interest to a large number of stakeholders and promise usable products to practitioners in a short period of time. Each research project should be guided by an oversight panel that includes both technical experts and practitioners from the stakeholder communities. The panels for the pilot program need not be large or elaborate. They may consist of four or five members of the larger stakeholder committee, supplemented by one or two outside experts as needed. The panels will select contractors to perform the work on the basis of merit. To the extent possible, the pilot program should take into account the
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important guideposts for structuring a full-scale cooperative research program, as described earlier in the report.
In the end, the value of the research should speak for itself. If the research results from the pilot program are useful, the cooperative research concept can be expected to generate stakeholder interest in pursuing a larger-scale program. A formal critique of the pilot program should be undertaken by the sponsoring agencies along with the stakeholder committee.
The successful programs in other fields suggest that stakeholder involvement and interest in cooperative research must be present at inception. A pilot program can help establish stakeholder ownership from the start.
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Robin Hood Rides Again!
This is a tax of ½ of a percent or less on big Wall Street transactions, and would not affect the retirement accounts for middle class and working families. The Robin Hood Tax could generate up to $350 billion each year for investments in America -- health care, fighting HIV/AIDS, jobs, safety net, fighting climate change, and affordable housing.
Right now, eleven countries in Europe, like Germany and France are working to adopt a similar tax. This Eurpoean Robin Hood Tax tax would even apply to U.S. traders – but the money will go to Europe.
But right now, President Obama and his voice on these issues – new Treasury Secretary Jack Lew – are not supporting the Robin Hood Tax.
We're keeping the pressure on Secretary Lew, the White House and our elected officials to support the bill in the coming months. It's a small change for the banks, big change for us.
Check out the Storify from the event here.
Robin Hood showed up at Jack Lew's Senate Confirmation Hearing on Wednesday February 13th, and set the Washington DC press on fire!
The Washington Examiner, Atlantic, the eWallStreeter, The Inquisitr, New York Magazine, Yahoo News and The National Journal ran stories about the two Robin Hoods sitting right behind Mr. Lew during the hearing.
Without saying a word, our Robin Hoods sent Washington and Mr. Lew a clear message that it's time for a financial transaction tax. It's time for Wall Street to pay its fair share.
If he's confirmed as Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew will have a responsiblity to the American people to hold Wall Street accountable, kick-start our economy, provide funding for new jobs and save our social safety net -- the best way to do that? The Robin Hood tax.
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How hard is it to beat the same opponent four times in one season?
It's a fingernail-biting endeavor.
And for the second-ranked Cleveland High Eagles to defeat Metro League rival Seattle Prep for a final time, they needed overtime Saturday – but pulled out a tension-filled 45-43 victory to win the Class 3A state girls basketball championship in the Tacoma Dome.
Alexia Mefi scored 15 points for the Eagles, but the win came on two key exchanges in overtime – one on Asiyah Davis' game-winning put-back in the lane with 18 seconds to go, and Joyce Harrell's block of Michaela Carew's layup for the Panthers with three seconds remaining.
Up 45-43, all Cleveland had to do was inbound the ball after a jump-ball call after Harrell's defensive stop. The Eagles turned the ball over, giving No. 6 Seattle Prep one final possession with less than a second remaining.
But on that inbounds play, Carew did not see teammate Andraya Flor leave her spot in the corner, and air-mailed a pass out of bounds.
The Eagles sent their next inbounds pass long where Seattle Prep retrieved it, but could not get off a buzzer-beating shot near midcourt.
"I am proud of them," Cleveland coach Stephanie Wheeler-Smith said. "They've got a lot of heart, got a lot of faith and fight."
Cleveland's pressure disrupted the Panthers early, leading to a 29-14 halftime lead.
But something woke up Seattle Prep in the second half. The Panthers scored on their first 10 possessions and nearly erased all of the deficit by the end of the third quarter, trailing 33-32.
Seattle Prep (23-6) took its first lead, 36-34, on Carew's two free throws with 5:12 remaining.
"I don't think they were expecting us to come out that strong in the second half," Carew said. "We have five seniors on our team. We wanted to win a state championship. I am so proud of how we played."
It was the Eagles who looked dead, having had two scoring droughts of at least five minutes in each quarter of the second half. But Ladd saved the day at the end of regulation, hitting an 8-footer to send the game into overtime, tied at 38.
The score was tied twice in the extra session — the last time at 43-43 — when Cleveland (27-2) had three shots at the basket. Makala Roper missed a corner 3-pointer, and Harrell's put-back attempt clanked off – but the basketball went right to Davis, who feathered her shot. It hit the rim but dropped through for a bucket and the winning margin.
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Edge is far from dead - many operators around the world still haven't deployed 3G technologies, and even in the UK once you venture outside major cities Edge is the best you can hope for. Edge is even evolving to support dual-carrier connections: basically one handset supporting two separate Edge connections, doubling the bandwidth without requiring any network upgrade.
So much for O2's decision to go straight to 3G: Apple highlights the iPhone's use of Edge
But even with Edge users still resolutely refused to start using mobile data in a big way: ironically it was O2 who realised that no one was going to be impressed by Edge, and decided against deploying it while pushing ahead with 3G, a step forward it was obliged to go back on when it got the exclusive deal for Apple's iPhone, which only supported Edge connections. The project was even codenamed 'Bono', on the basis that it was worthless without The Edge.
But back in 2000, the mobile industry's self-delusion continued with the promise that 3G services would take the world by storm, and operators paid billions for some 2.1GHz spectrum in which to run 3G networks - their licences prevent them using the technology anywhere else. The 3G GSM standard is W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) and offers much better data rates by taking advantage of a technology that was already popular in the US whereby multiple users can share the same frequency without mucking about with time slots.
The American Way
Unlike Europe, which was happy to have a central authority mandating GSM as a wireless standard, US carriers deployed a wide range of technologies on the basis that a free market would reward the best one. This resulted in a bundle of different mobile networks, largely incompatible, that have now paired down to a few, most notably CDMA and GSM. These days, GSM is displacing CDMA, but that's thanks to worldwide deployments driving down the cost while pushing up the pressure for compatibility, rather than any inherent technical superiority.
CDMA 2000 EVDO Timeline
CDMA technology is largely owned by Qualcomm, and is based on the idea that each transmission is identified by an encoding system rather than a time or frequency slot. W-CDMA is an FDD standard, so every connection needs a pair of 5MHz-wide bands: one for transmitting, one for receiving. Each pair can be shared with other users thanks to the code division system.
In the process of trying to make OFDM more palatable to a non-comms audience, you seem to have missed the real advantage of the technique. The real beauty of OFDM is the flexibility given by so many orthogonal low-bandwidth sub-carriers: you can avoid the problem of frequency-selective fading for one user (mitigating their bad channel) by moving their allocation in the spectrum. This leads to much more efficient usage of spectrum, and better channels for all. It is excellent at adapting to nasty channel conditions in slowly-changing channels*.
I'm not really sure what you're getting at with regards to "solving" the problem of "timing". If you're referring to inter-symbol interference, which is indeed a concern, then OFDM doesn't directly solve this by "putting [chunks] in different frequencies" - but what it does do is ensure that the symbol rate on each individual component frequency is low enough that ISI can be mitigated easily. But if you're referring to interleaving, which does indeed spread "chunks" of data amongst frequencies, then that helps solve a different problem: the issue of losing bursts of data in frequency-specific fades.
On the down side, OFDM really isn't good in channels with a great deal of doppler shift (since it breaks the orthogonality between the sub-carriers) - making it non-ideal for use in fast-moving vehicles, for instance, without specific counter-measures.
8390? shouldnt that be 8310?
Good article, but as this article seems to have a UK slant to it.. the 8310 should have been the phone that was mentioned as being the first with GPRS in the UK. The 8390 was not even the first phone in the US with GPRS, a motorola timeport was, if i remember correctly.
Jobs - because the iPhone wasnt a world first in any area.
"mobile data is all about ..."
That's the 64billion dollar question, isn't it.
Is it about seeing the same internet as at home (or in the office), when you're on the move (nb on the move, *not* just away from base but stationary at a WiFi hotspot).
Or is it about the mobile web, about some selection of significant websites recognising that there are going to be as many folk viewing them on "mobile internet devices" (phones, PDAs, maybe netbooks) as there are on PCs, and that their website designs should reflect that (eg no Flash).
It isn't about "m-commerce" yet, or about "location dependent services", and folks have been trying that for a decade or so. Mind you, Google has recently changed the market rules, as it sometimes does, with Google Maps for Mobile and the things you can do with that.
Yahoo nearly works on my S60 mobile in Opera Mini. BBC news has a "low graphics" version too. Google Maps for Mobile is fantastic, though without a GPS it sometimes gets confused (but that's probably not Google's fault).
But not everyone does so well. Obviously anyone designing in Flash has wasted their time even more than usual. Some sites that you would imagine might be of particular interest to those out and about are so full of big-screen rubbish and scripts and so on that they are useless on a small screen device, mobile or otherwise. Classic examples would include weather forecasts from the Met Office and traffic reports from the Highways Agency.
So, what exactly is the killer app for mobile broadband? How is it going to make money for the cellcos, so they can pay for all that extra bandwidth to all those new cells?
I know, we could do location-dependent downloaded-on-demand high-definition video ringtone subscription service. Yeah, that'd work. Where's the Dragon's Den number.
Well? You got any better ideas?
Handset or PC?
To me the main reason that data on 2G/3G etc. has not really taken off is that most content is not suitable for a phone handset.
When WAP first came out, most web content was too complex and there were attempts to produce WAP portals which would offer cut down content suitable for the handsets.
At that point most web content would have displayed well on my EEE PC (if it had existed then).
Now content is so rich and so loaded with fancy video and special effects that I struggle on my EEE PC and my older portable to view the website in the way that the cutting edge design intended.
Nice on my new 1440 * 900 Dell portable, though :-)
Not much good on a phone handset :-(
For me, mobile data is all about freeing portable PCs from fixed ADSL/cable connections.
You can get the rich content you have come to expect when you are away from your cosy nest.
Now if only the coverage, reliability, bandwidth etc. etc. wasn't totally crap. (Speaking as a Virgin customer).
If I want to talk to someone or send a text message I use my phone.
For getting serious data off t'Internet I use a PC.
Then again, I am from the keyboard generation and can't think through my thumbs.
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Yesterday, I posted about all the drama that has been taking place with the 150 reporters that have been touring with Rihanna on the 777 Tour as they all start to lose it due to lack of sleep. It was chaos on the plane as they departed from Berlin to London, but it looks that the drama of the tour carried over to London as well.
During her performance of "Where Have You Been," the star abruptly stopped the song at the 1:06 mark and turned to her band and said, "Alright, what the f**k. Stop this sh*t. What the f**k is that?" She added, "Why is the track off from the band? This is the bullsh*t we deal with when we are just doing a random rock and roll tour with no rehearsal and sh*t." The Unapologetic singer then said, "I apologize for everyone [live streaming] at home… We are going to start this one again from the top."
Watch a video of the performance, including where Rihanna loses her cool at the 1:06 mark.
Lukas A. James
November 20th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Nearly had an Ashley Simpson moment and embarassment overtook her. Its hard to sync the vocal track with a live banc and move yout lips to both. Her voice is going through the mike but dubbed over with the track which on key as we know it from the recording….oh the great and powerful OZ …please dont let us look behind the curtain….the illusion will be lost! just saying
November 20th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
What are you on about? Its a backing track, not full vocals. the song would have sounded like crap for the rest of it if they didn't correct it.
November 20th, 2012 at 11:05 pm
I agree with Ev. Clearly she's singing. Every artist has pre-recorded backing vocals for live shows. Also, I don't think she was really trying to be bitchy. She was just keeping it real. She did say during her recent sit-down with Oprah that she has a certain affinity for the f bomb. Anyway, at least she was smart and professional enough to rectify the situation before it got any worse, and she killed that shit.
November 21st, 2012 at 1:21 am
I wouldn't really call it cursing out the band. Like Ev & Chris said, she saw a problem and corrected it. And she said why is the track not synced up with the band which to me sounds like she's not blaming the band. I liked too how she explained to the crowd how this stuff happens sometimes live and apologized. Headlines make everything sound worse than it is.
November 24th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
I'm not a Rihanna fan, but I am a musician. She did nothing wrong and she didn't demean her band. They were headed for a big train wreck and she caught it instead of stumbling through the whole tune.


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The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 18 (04/15/10)
Uncle John Gilbert wasted no time making his presence felt this week. He showed up and there was immediate tension with Jenna. Jeremy asked why and John said it was because they used to sleep together. He was joking.
We think.
While John was in town for the 150th anniversay party of Mystic Falls, he attended a Founder's Council meeting and warned everyone that there was a vampire problem. Blood banks were being drained, bodies were going missing. The official report that Vicki Donovan died from an overdose? That wasn't gonna fly, he said. Damon was also at this meeting and wondered what John's deal was. But Damon had another problem at home: Stefan was trying to ween himself off human blood on his own. Those two bags last week left him worried about what would happen if he continued down this path.
It was hinted, strongly, that Stefan has a history with human blood and what it does to him. But it was never revealed this week.
Elena was worried about her man, especially when everyone attended a Founder's Council party and Stefan was drunk. He said the alcohol helped suppress his cravings, but the dude wasn't himself. When a guy bumped into Elena on the dance floor and was a jerk about it, Stefan compelled him and almost made a scene. It soon got worse:
Matt's mother was a drunken mess, as she dealt with Vicki's death. Tyler was a drunken mess for the same reason. These two actually started making out at the party, a scene Matt saw and pounced on. He pulled Tyler away, and then Tyler went off. He beat Matt up pretty badly and then, when Alaric came to the rescue, we saw a glimpse of smoke (or something) emanate from Tyler's mouth. Another hint that he's a werewolf?
As we tried to digest this, John went up to Damon, outside the party, and introduced himself. He said he knew all about the tomb and even that Damon had opened it. Damon's reaction? He snapped John's neck and tossed him off the ledge -- but John then returned to the party minutes later! How? We soon found out: John has a ring just like Alaric's.
When Alaric and Damon pressed him about how, he let loose with a slew of information: he and Elena's father inherited the rings. John kept his, and gave his brother's ring to Isobel (!). He also told Isobel to find Damon when she expressed a desire to be turned into a vampire. This guy knows everything there is to know about Mystic Falls, including stuff about Katherine. Damon is fascinated, scared and confused.
Stefan shares a lot of those emotions because he came very close to killing the guy that was rude on the dance floor when he encountered him again in the parking lot. It didn't help that he got a taste of Mrs. Donovan's blood after he found her crying at the party, wounded from the aforementioned brawl. He then confessed to Elena that he'd never felt these kinds of urges before. Elena comforted him and viewers were left to think it was a breakthrough in his recovery...
... until the episode ended with Stefan drinking a glass of blood at home.
In other storyline news:
- Jeremy read Elena's diary and seems to now know everything. Uh-oh.
- Following his mother's embarrassing make-out incident at the party, Matt ordered her to leave his life.
- Following his embarrassing make-out incident, and subsequent fight, at the party, Tyler was slapped hard across the face by his father.
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January 5th, 2013 4:13 PM
This is a message to Sarah, I think Tyler deserved it, he should not have done that. His father had every right to slap him like that.
January 4th, 2013 9:39 PM
I don't think Tyler should have been slapped taht hard. I mean come one maybe a little slap, but not that hard.
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July 11th, 2011 10:40 PM
This episode was shocking with wild twists and turns. As always, the human makes a wrong and wild turn that drives Stefan down with every drink he has. Elena feels worried about him and somehow, Damon isn't helping enough. It's kind of lame that John arrives in the show when he only has ideas in from Isobel instead of being a good helper. It was also shocking the way this went but luckilly, solutions are the best way to end problems like an obstacle. ;) =) =O
April 16th, 2010 10:50 AM
OMG i loved that elena and damon get to be together
i love them both BUT THEN I LOVE STEFAN -
April 16th, 2010 10:49 AM
OMG i loved this episode i mean there was a lot fake blood i think they need to loook it real b/c it was totally fake
i mean i get to see more DAMON
i used to like damon but KNOW I CANT CHOOESE BETWEEN DAMON AND STEFAN
melissa estey
April 16th, 2010 12:03 AM
So what is it with the ring that Saltzman wears and now Uncle John's wearing one too. WHere did the ring come from and it keeps you from dying? This is getting confusing....
April 15th, 2010 9:23 PM
These episodes are just getting better and better. Is it just me, or is Damon absolutely hilarious? Gosh, it makes me forget that he used to be an ass earlier in the season! (: Anyways, Stefan needs to control himself because he's going to scare Elena off sooner or later. Even though she's pretty comfortable with his craze. And how nosey is Jeremy?! I'd slap him if I knew he read my journal. Can't wait for next week!!!
Nluvs stephan
April 15th, 2010 6:04 PM
I swear to god if elena and damon get it on i'm killing the writers!Seriously i know damons hot but stelena is FOREVERS! ( if not i will have to go on a hunting spree)
April 14th, 2010 7:20 AM
i think that damon and elena will have a building relationship in the next episode. they also showed some of that in last weeks episode on the hunt for stefan and damon really is starting to care for elena now that he knows katherine isnt interested in him. TEAM STEFAN!!
April 14th, 2010 12:10 AM
I think this episode will be great! And because Stefan's now this badass, totally different person, it's the perfect oppertunity for Damon to come into the picture, sympathizing with Elena as she freaks out about Stefan being this way, and then the two end up together because she doesn't trust Stefan anymore, hahahahaha


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Cameron Watson won the state championship in wrestling over the weekend by dominating the third and fourth graders in his weight class. He's 94 pounds. On the mat he's considered a star athlete. But a letter from his elementary school informed Cameron's parents the State of Massachusetts considers him obese.
The Department of Public Health mandates schools to collect height and weight information from students to calculate body mass index which they believe is an indicator of body fat.
View a slideshow of Mass. towns with most fit, least overweight kids
Cameron can do more than 40 push-ups in a minute and keeps a special healthy diet to maintain his size for sports. Yet he's big enough for the state to consider him "fat." His mother nicknamed the letter they received the "fat letter."
"I'm just big and muscly," the North Andover fourth grader said. "For the obese category that I fall into, you look like a beach ball."
Cameron looks physically fit.
At first his parents laughed thinking the state's description of their son seemed absurd. Then Cameron's mother Tracy, who's a selectwoman in North Andover, became troubled by the stories she heard from other parents who received the letter.
"Many stories about hiding it from my kid because they're already upset and struggling with self-esteem this would devastate them," said Tracy Watson.
A DPH spokeswoman defended the practice.
"Helping children maintain a healthy weight may prevent serious illness later in life," said Anne Roach. "BMI screenings are intended to raise parents' awareness about this issue."


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When used correctly, a credit card is convenient, flexible and often comes with a range of benefits.
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What type of credit card spender are you?
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Here we are... after a false start due to New Year's Eve Party, we leaved towards west. Crossing Ontario was long and boring in the past year, but fortunately we had Lucile (the hawaiian girl) to keep us entertained.
Then there were the Prairies...
And finally we arrived in Banff, 48 hours later (including a 8 hours night of sleep)... drinking a few victory beers.
Talking with a friend from Canmore, we decided to go straight to Roger's Pass and start hiking to get some good skiing: about 2-3 meter snowpack, steep line of 1000m vertical meters, fresh snow everyday and a bunch of pillows to jump!
Jean-Francois got used to jumping... and we gave him 9.8/10 for the landing!
In the next days we hike more... seeing some gorgious landscape and skiing more good stuff (Grizzly Shoulder, Avalanche Crest, Mount Shifton, Cheops Glade and Mount McGill)!
We continue to live in our car... sleeping next to it, drying our stuff in it and eating in it!!!
So that was the first week of the trip and we are satisfy with our snow chase so far. We will keep on the hard work... stay tuned for more!


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UCIT's Mobile AppLab on Main invites students to apply for one of five scholarships to attend an IOS Training Bootcamp presented by BigNerdRanch, a leading software engineering and training company.
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Students, faculty and staff returning to UC for spring semester can now access all-things Blackboard from their Apple or Android devices.
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With the mobile app, students and faculty get on-the-go access to grades, handouts, assignments, and more. Blackboard Mobile Learn also allows faculty to access and update much of their course content from an Apple or Android device.
"UCIT is committed to being a leader in making sure that the UC community has access to the best mobile learning tools," said Nelson Vincent, Vice President for Information Technology and CIO. "We're making big investments of time and talent to bring these important 21st century learning tools to the UC community to support current and future opportunities in research and education."
To download and start using Blackboard Mobile Learn:
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Matt Lewis, another Politics Daily writer, agrees with Shapiro's theory. "For decades now, Hollywood has introduced American families to gay characters. There is little doubt this contributed to changing attitudes toward homosexuals," he notes. Lewis cites George Bush's 2004 campaign strategy of airing close to five hundred commercials during the television program Will & Grace as an example of this influence. The campaign's research had found Republicans, young Republican women in particular, were fans of the show with two gay main characters. "It should be noted that 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' would not have passed without the support of Republican senators," Lewis concludes. "Clearly Hollywood (as well as the music industry) has played a part in changing attitudes on a bipartisan level."
Obama is enjoying some unusually good press right now. But did Hollywood win this one for him?
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Added by Arunadevi | Fri 20 Nov 2009 @ 23:31
This savory is very tasty and you can make it for parties and for your afternoon tea. Here in Brazil we inherited from the Arabian and modified a little bit.
200 grs chaff of wheat
100 grs minced soy meat
2 tps dry red chillies
2 tsp tumeric powder
2 tsp salt
3 tbs white flour
10 mint leaves
oil for frying
Add some water to the chaff and leave it for 1 hour till it double the size. Do the same with the soy meat.
After drain the water in both and put in a large bow, add the spicies and the flour.
Make balls or the format you wish and fry in heated oil.
In about 3 minutes frying will be ready to be served.
Serve with lemon and maybe a chutney.
Decorate with mint leaves.
sounds simple and nourishing, but what is chaff wheat---bran? or kibbled wheat?


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Posted: Thu 09 May 2013
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