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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/qch7qb/mobile_cloud) has announced the addition of the "Global Mobile Cloud Services Platforms Analysis Report - The Back-End of Mobile Apps" report to their offering.
This report analyzes the competitive market emerging as API management platforms and mBaaS providers position themselves to support mobile developers in accessing enterprises data and cloud service. We expect this market to be both strategic and profitable as the mobile channel matures.
Specific area covered includes:
- Size of the Market Opportunity
- Analysis of market player and competitive differentiators
- Market Structure, Growth Drivers and Adoption
The explosion of mobile applications and devices has lead to an extremely crowded and fragmented market leaving mobile developers searching for new opportunities to differentiate and improve the user experience. Increasingly, successful mobile apps are supported by data feeds and services in the cloud such as databases, messaging, location, and social networking status. At the same time, enterprises are realizing the importance of the mobile channel and are moving beyond devices and applications devising new strategies to broaden their reach. Extending enterprise data and services to mobile developers via APIs is an approach enterprises are increasingly pursuing. These macro trends are driving demand for mobile cloud services platforms.
The expanding opportunity for mobile cloud services platform is attracting numerous competitors and the marketplace is quickly becoming crowded. The space has attracted significant amounts of venture capital and Fortune 500 companies, such as Facebook, Intel, and Ca are acquiring market players. Development tools vendors, enterprise software vendors, SaaS, IaaS, and start-ups will battle to influence and control the mobile channel. Vendors are competing in a number of segments of the value chain including discovery, aggregation, developer support, utilities, and API creation and management. Some areas of the value chain will generate higher revenues where others will be much more strategic.
Key Topics Covered:
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Market Structure
2.1 API Creation and Management
2.2 Service Discovery and Aggregation
2.3 Utilities and Developer Support
2.4 Adjacent Markets & Alternate Approaches
3.0 Market Opportunity
3.1 Drivers
3.2 Barriers
4.0 Marketing Strategies
4.1 Top Down or Bottom Up
4.2 Business Models
5.0 Forecasts
5.1 API Creation, Management, and Discovery
5.2 Utilities and Developer Support
6.0 Competitive Analysis
6.1 Orchestrating APIs and Versioning
6.2 Granular Analytics and Tracking
6.3 Simplicity vs. Flexibility
6.4 Developer Relationships
6.5 Partnerships and Parents
7.0 Future Outlook
7.1 The Market Will Become Increasingly Crowded
7.2 Contextual Access to Multiple Data Sources Will Become Very Important
7.3 Client Side Development Tools Refocus On Client
7.4 The Shake Out
7.5 Industry Moving Away From the Long Tail
7.6 Business Models Will be Reengineered
7.7 Opportunity for Consolidation Platform
8.0 Recommendations
8.1 Vendors Providing Simple Utilities and Back-End Services Need Partners
8.2 Vendors Targeting Enterprises Should Take a Multi-Pronged Approach
8.3 Be Flexible and Innovate
9.0 Profiles
9.1 Apigee
9.2 Intel (Mashery & Aepona)
9.3 Layer 7/ CA
9.4 Stackmob
9.5 Parse / Facebook
9.6 Software AG
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/qch7qb/mobile_cloud
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If true, the 70% ballot vote by mail represents an obvious means to conduct voter fraud. The woman was saying she lost because she didn't have the normal access to democrat fraudulent strategies. That must be high on the list for Coloradoans to fix.
If now the lives of a diplomat and three brave men are no longer worth something to the State Department, what chance does Luchbox Joe and his family have in our new America? Well of course we all know the answer to that one. Then climbing further down the rabbit hole we pass such things as 2.5 billion bullets on order, 2717 specialized urban tanks to add to the 7000 North American Command's ready to roll on American streets. Deeper we go and find the 1+million burial caskets piled high on a FEMA property in a tiny Ga. town located next to railway tracks. Deeper we go we hear there needs to be a change to the Constitution, its time is up and only applied to dead white guys anyway. Deeper we go we become sickened as the many remarkable, no unbelievable happenings eating away in our dear Republic become too numerous and evil to comprehend. Back in our reality many of us just don't want to admit to ourselves and certainly not others, that the end is near, we have only a few options left to deal with our ignoring the enemy all these long years and none will end well. There is no nice way out of the place we are in. But we do know one thing, our Founding Fathers were no cowards and they would deal with this situation straight on.
I really don't trust obama, therefore I don't trust his civilian army that is just as well equiped as the military. Now we know why the purge of the military services continues, all officers must hold the flag and swear allegiance to obama....hmm, where have I seen that before.
This is not an idle concept. A very close relative of mine lies in a grave as a result of trying to be a good citizen and coming forward with testimony of massive governmental corruption. Oh they didn't kill him right off. First there was the trash and dangerous work thrown his way in his governmental position. Then there were the sliced tires on his truck. Shortly after came the threatening phone calls. Then one day a large truck with a battering ram almost demolished the pickup he was driving to work. He of course was fired from his job before being able to return from injuries. Then there was a surgery that was needed to repair damage from the truck "accident". Somehow he received the wrong medications that destroyed his kidneys and life
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Earlier this year, the Smashing Pumpkins promised that two new albums will arrive in 2015. One of them is coming a little early: Monuments to an Elegy is out December 9. (That's the cover above.) Today, the band shared the first song from that album, "Being Beige". You can listen to it above, via Rolling Stone.
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In a former parish I had the fascination of ministering to a retired diplomat who for his final posting had asked to be consul general in Spain. He was a man of wide culture and had four daughters all of whom had earned a Ph.D. and of them he was justly proud. The reason for wanting to be in Spain for three years was to be able to further acquaint himself with the life and person of Saint Teresa of Avila and he duly visited all seventeen monasteries which she had founded up and down the peninsula. When discussing Teresa the retired diplomat would say that no man who got to know her could do other than fall in love with this incredible woman – she certainly seems to have been able to twist Philip 11 around her little finger.
Teresa was born on 28th March, 1515 (she was to die on 4th October, 1582) and the Carmelite Order which she reformed, and indeed the whole Catholic Church, has just begun a year of celebration of five hundred years since her birth. Over the next twelve months expect to hear much more about this remarkable woman who has gone down in history as one of the great Christian teachers of prayer. Despite this, she never prescribed a formal method of how to go about praying. She directs her advice to those who, like herself, have "minds so scattered they are like wild horses", and who find intellectual or thought-based meditation difficult. Teresa's teaching is drawn from her own experience of struggling to pray, and of her awareness that all prayer is ultimately the gift of the Holy Spirit.
God seems often to spring surprises on people, and no one – least of all Teresa herself – could have foreseen the direction which her life would take. She had entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation in Avila at the age of twenty and experienced there a relaxed regime which in some ways was congenial to her temperament (she loved to gossip) but it was not to prove enough, and at forty-three, after a vision of the wounded body of Christ, she began the reform of her Order which was to consume the rest of her life. Together with her co-operator Saint John of the Cross, Teresa was gifted not just with remarkable gifts in prayer but with the ability to record them, often in striking images to which others could easily relate. Her "Way of Perfection" and "The Interior Castle" remain classics of the spiritual life, as relevant today as when they were first written down.
"May God protect me from gloomy saints", Teresa once said, and that is how she ran her convents. To her, spiritual life was an attitude of love, not a rule. Although she proclaimed poverty, she preferred work to begging. She believed in obedience to God more than penance. "If you do something wrong, don't punish yourself –change". When one of her sisters felt depressed, her advice was that she should go to some place where she could see the sky and take a walk. When someone was shocked that she was going to eat well, she answered: "There is a time for partridge, and a time for penance". To her brother's wish to meditate on hell, she answered: "Don't!", and made the comment: "Good effects are better than pious sensations that only make the person praying feel good".
Teresa of Avila offers insights which are both orotund and full of sound common-sense. Her most consistent understanding of prayer is that it is friendship with Christ. Prayer is what happens when friends spend time together, sharing joys and sorrows or enjoying silent companionship. As such, prayer is above all a task of love, and "the important thing is not to think much but to love much". We all have much to learn from this fascinating woman over the coming twelve months.
Christopher Colven


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"Scientifically I know
that love is nothing more
than chemical insanity
nothing more than a rush of adrenaline to the brain
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but how swift the hours when I
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Rio Continues to Progress Towards Becoming Tech Hub of Latin America
March 21, 2013 | by HS News Staff
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The annual TEFAF (European Fine Art Foundation) report which gauges the art world has just come out and Brazil's booming art scene got a lot of attention. continue reading »
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Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras, which is striving to boost daily domestic crude and natural gas output to 3.4 million barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2017, said it plans to earmark 62 percent of its investments over the next five years to exploration and production. continue reading »
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Brazilian Rains Have Now Claimed 17
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Latin America News: Death Toll in Brazil Climbs from Powerful Storms
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At least 13 people died in the powerful storm that deluged the hilly portion of the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, state Gov. Sergio Cabral said in a press conference on Monday. continue reading »
Latin America News: Powerful Storms in Brazil Leaves 10 Dead
March 18, 2013 | by HS News Staff
At least 10 people died in the powerful storm that deluged the hilly portion of the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, authorities said Monday. continue reading »
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Swears in 3 New Ministers
March 18, 2013 | by HS News Staff
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff swore in Saturday three new ministers in a Cabinet shuffle that strengthens the two important parties allied to the government with a view to the 2014 elections. continue reading »
Latin America News: Economists Cut Economic Growth Rate for Brazil
March 18, 2013 | by HS News Staff
In Latin America news, analysts have lowered their 2013 growth forecast for the Brazilian economy from 3.1 percent to 3.03 percent, the central bank announced. continue reading »
Spain's Fernando Alonso Finishes 2nd to Kimi Raikkonenat Australian Grand Prix
March 18, 2013 | by HS News Staff
Brazil's Felipe Massa finishes 4th. Finland's Kimi Raikkonen - driving for Lotus - has taken the early lead in the 2013 international Formula One continue reading »
Sao Paulo Fashion Week Launches with 25 Designers Featured
March 18, 2013 | by HS News Staff
Sao Paulo Fashion Week launches this week featuring 25 designers showcasing their fashions for Spring/Summer 2014. The runway will feature U.S. supermodel Karlie Kloss amongst other well known faces. continue reading »
Brazilian States Call New Royalties Law Unconstitutional
March 16, 2013 | by HS News Staff
The oil-producing states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo on Friday filed a Supreme Court challenge against a new law that distributes royalties from crude and natural gas production more evenly among Brazil's 27 states. continue reading »
Brazilian Gov't Offers Millions in Loans to Innovative Firms
March 15, 2013 | by HS News Staff
The Brazilian government announced it will offer 32.9 billion reais ($16.5 billion) in loans over the next two years to companies using technological innovation to improve their competitiveness. continue reading »
Billionaire George Soros Fighting Back in Court Against Brazilian Ex-Girlfriend
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Billionaire George Soros is suing his former mistress, Brazilian Adriana Ferreyr, for defamation and assault, claiming that during their relationship Ferreyr threw a lamp at him. continue reading »


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After 200 Years, A Schubert Song Still Resonates
Sunday, October 19, 2014
On Oct. 19, 1814, an Austrian teenager named Franz Schubert wrote "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel," a boldly innovative song that remains an inspiration for singers and songwriters.
Everything You Wanted To Know About Classical Music (But Weren't Afraid To Ask)
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Every Friday, the proprietors of NPR Classical and their Twitter followers gather for a half-hour speed session to share great recordings and discuss the music.
If It's Not Scottish ... Classical Contributions Of The Scots
Friday, September 19, 2014
Now that the Scottish people have voted to remain in the United Kingdom, it's time to salute their classical musicians — from soprano Mary Garden to composer James MacMillan.
Gotta Know Mexico: A Mexican Music Puzzler
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
From Pre-Colombian sounds to hip-hop, Mexico's musical heritage is eclectic. To celebrate Mexican Independence Day and National Hispanic Heritage Month, test your knowledge of Mexican music.
Listen To The Atlanta Symphony While It's Locked Out — Again
Friday, September 12, 2014
In music from Giuseppe Verdi to Jennifer Higdon, celebrate the sound of the venturesome Atlanta Symphony Orchestra while it's silenced by a bitter labor dispute.
Enduringly Dramatic Italian Soprano Magda Olivero Dies At 104
Monday, September 08, 2014
The intensely expressive Italian singer had an unusually long career. "I always have the sense that when I hear her recordings that she's singing just for me," says soprano Renée Fleming.
Great Expectations: A New Season of New Music
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Mozart and Beethoven aren't going anywhere, but U.S. orchestras, opera companies and chamber groups are also presenting dozens of compelling premieres.
A Surge Of Scarlatti Sonatas
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Three centuries ago, Domenico Scarlatti churned out 555 keyboard sonatas. Today, pianists, harpsichordists and even accordionists still can't get enough. Hear a clutch of new recordings.
Enigmatic Endings: A Farewell To Summer Quiz
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
The end of summer has a tendency to sneak up on us — or come to an unsettling halt. Try a quiz filled with fantastic finales and tremulous terminations.
Masters And Disasters: The Met Opera Quiz
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
To mark the apparent end of the Metropolitan Opera's labor crisis, try a nerdworthy quiz — and learn a few quirky things about America's largest performing arts organization.
Pacifica Quartet: Tiny Desk Concert
Monday, August 18, 2014
The Pacifica Quartet explores the world of Soviet-era composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Watch the group play selections from his introspective cycle of string quartets.
First Listen: Cameron Carpenter, 'If You Could Read My Mind'
Saturday, August 16, 2014
The organist aims to rescue his instrument from its church-bound traditions. With his new album, which includes Bach and Bacharach alike, Carpenter could land a multitude of converts.
Soul-Searching Music From A Serene Desert Monastery
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Composer Robert Kyr frequently travels to northern New Mexico, where he writes rapturous music inspired by light, stone, stillness and prayer.
Drum Fill Friday: Classical Headbanging Edition
Friday, August 08, 2014
In classical music, percussionists go wild with drums of all shapes and sizes. Can you guess which pieces spotlight the timpani, snare and bass drums?
Ask Us Anything About Beethoven
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Author Jan Swafford has just published a Beethoven biography — and he's sharing surprising facts he learned while writing his book. See some here and join us Thursday for a session on Reddit.
Meet The Cast Of The Met Opera's Labor Drama
Friday, August 01, 2014
Think opera plots are tough to follow? Try wading through the complicated action offstage at the Metropolitan Opera. Here's who's involved — with perspective on disputes that aren't new.
The Great War At 100: Music Of Conflict And Remembrance
Monday, July 28, 2014
One hundred years after the start of World War I, hear a range of pop and classical music from artists of the era. Some music reflects the war's violence, some gives solace.
'La Marseillaise' Unmasked: A Bastille Day Puzzler
Monday, July 14, 2014
From movies and musicals to hit songs, the French national anthem has been appropriated in many contexts. Are you enough of a Francophile to spot them?
Book News: Famed Philosopher Accused Of Plagiarizing White Separatist Journal
Monday, July 14, 2014
Also: Joshua Rothman on Virginia Woolf; the winners of the Shirley Jackson Awards.
A Voice Of Velvet And Bronze: Carlo Bergonzi At 90
Friday, July 11, 2014
A birthday salute to a famed Italian tenor who knew how to guard his vocal resources. Not as loud or imposing as his rivals, Bergonzi sang with elegance and intensity for decades.


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ITU, Nexpedience partner on broadband
INTERNET| Aug. 2, 2012, 12:17 p.m.
ITU and Nexpedience, a supplier of proprietary point-to-multipoint broadband infrastructure, are partnering to bring broadband access to Africa.
Under the terms of the deal, Nexpedience will provide 180 new Expedience base stations worth USD1 million, to be deployed in six nations across the continent.
The first nation to benefit from the new infrastructure is Burundi, with deployments also planned for Djibouti, Burkina Faso, Mali, Rwanda and Swaziland.
Designed to withstand extreme meteorological conditions and capable of providing up to 32 kilometres of sector coverage, Nexpedience's base stations have been specifically designed for rural deployment.
ITU's Wireless Broadband Network in Africa project aims to develop and implement wireless broadband connectivity and applications that will provide free or low-cost digital access for schools, hospitals, and under-served populations in rural and remote areas Africa-wide.
At the signing of the agreement in Geneva, Brahima Sanou, Director of ITU's Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) emphasized the need to make developing countries part of the global broadband revolution: "This partnership represents another important element in ITU's efforts to bring broadband technology to the world – even in the poorest nations. I am confident that this new partnership will accelerate broadband uptake right across the African continent, bringing the power of high-speed connectivity to users everywhere, from big cities to small villages."
Kiriako Vergos, CEO of Nexpedience said: "Giving access to broadband technology to underserved populations in Africa is of great importance to us. There are enormous benefits to be derived from a 'broadband-seed' deployment strategy, and we decided to partner with ITU because we know that the organization has the team in place to get it done."
ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré hailed the new agreement as a "major step forward in getting Africa connected". Dr Touré led the establishment of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development in 2010, with the aim of putting broadband at the heart of the global development agenda.
SAPIS launches virtual event platform to empower real estate professionalsSAPIS, the Sub-Saharan Africa Property Investment Summit, has launched a platform for virtual events to enable Africa's real estate sector to communicate and participate with ease. Read More
Fibre optic: Congo-Brazzaville releases evaluation reportThe Republic of Congo has released an evaluation report on its fibre optic networks, showing that the country has already completed 53 of the 66 projects to be implemented as part of the country's Central African Backbone. Read More
Agents jostle to join Glo XchangeThe number of mobile money agents around the country has continued to swell as the Glo Xchange train moved to in Imo, Benue, Niger, Plateau and Kogi over the weekend. Read More
Samsung Electronics sets 5G speed recordSamsung has announced that it has achieved an industry best 7.5Gbps speed record and the first-ever, uninterrupted 1.2 Gbps 5G connection while travelling 100km/h. Read More
Malawi's online job search engine acquires SSL CertificateMalawi's first ever online job search engine, has joined the elite in the business by acquiring an Extended Validated SSL Certificate. Read More
New life in Gabon as country hits broadband highwayThe Central African nation of Gabon is about to start speeding into the highway of broadband in a bid to deliver its people from slow, expensive and inconsistent internet. Read More
Alcatel-Lucent, MTN Nigeria to deploy ultra-broadband 100G fibre-optic data networkAlcatel-Lucent is opening up Africa's most populous nation to the benefits of ultra-broadband connectivity by launching a superfast, 100 gigabit-per-second fibre-optic network with MTN Nigeria. Read More
MainOne partners with Lagos GarageMainOne has signed a deal with Lagos Garage, ensuring that the 440.ng startups will have all the high-speed internet they need to build and ship their products. Read More
Accenture, Alcatel-Lucent collaborate on ultra-broadband opportunitiesAccenture and Alcatel-Lucent have formed a strategic alliance to help communications service providers and large enterprises implement integrated ultra-broadband solutions to address the challenges of rising costs and increased data consumption. Read More
Togo province's website exposes hidden side to touristsA new website showcasing Togo's Kara region is being credited with an influx of tourists and travellers. Read More
FEATURED STORYGrowing African focus on data security
Beachhead Solutions' new SA and Mauritius country manager explains the challenges and solutions around securing customer data and compliance with new personal information legislation.
IN DEPTHAfrica lags on digital migration
Only three African countries have so far completed the digital migration process, and serious issues are hampering the migration in other nations.
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Pantera's 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott Rips a Monster Guitar Solo at 18-Years-Old – Best of YouTube
Before he was 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott, 'Diamond' Darrell Abbott was shredding on his beloved Dean ML in his teens.
Before he was 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott, 'Diamond' Darrell Abbott was shredding on his beloved Dean ML in his teens.
Legendary Pantera / Damageplan / Hellyeah drummer Vinnie Paul has carved out a remarkable career since forming Pantera in 1981. Paul will add yet another album to his resume when Hellyeah release 'Blood for Blood' on June 10, but as evidenced in a new interview, the drummer is only feeling pressure from two sources: himself and his late brother 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott.
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If you happen to be on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls anytime soon, you may want to check out the Rock Legends Wax Museum during your trip. The tourist attraction boasts a fair number of wax statues, but now metalheads can gather round a new life-sized figure of late Pantera guitarist 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott.
Pantera's music has long served as inspiration for knocking somebody out, but for parents seeking a more responsible method to put their kids to sleep, a new CD, 'Lullaby Versions of Pantera,' has just been released by Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star.


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Reports: PA plans to buy illegal weapons; White House calls Hamas ''enemy of peace''
Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan has offered to buy illegal weapons carried by members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Palestinian officials said over the weekend, according to press reports.
The buyback, which is to start in the coming days, has been funded by money from the United States, Britain and other European countries, the officials said.
A senior activist at Al-Aqsa Brigades said Dahlan is offering $6,000 for each rifle. Dahlan also offered a signup bonus of at least $6,000 to Al-Aqsa members who join the security forces, Palestinian sources said.
Meanwhile, following Hamas' decision to end cease-fire talks with the Palestinian Authority, the U.S. on Friday denounced the Resistance Movement as an "enemy of peace." But White House spokesman, Scott McClellan said that Bush's peace efforts would go on. He urged all parties in the region to dismantle the "infrastructure of terror."
"Hamas is an enemy of peace and we will continue working with all parties to try to achieve peace," McClellan said.
"All parties agree that terrorism must end and that all parties have responsibilities to fight terror, and do everything they can to dismantle the infrastructure of terror," said McClellan.
Officials in Washington said they were not surprised that Hamas broke off the talks. "All parties agreed - and said they agreed - that terrorism has to stop and that all parties have an obligation to fight terror," said Michael Anton, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council. "Those who pursue terror have made it clear they want to prevent peace." (Albawaba.com)
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- Bush to meet next month with Sharon, Mubarak and King Abdullah
- Dahlan security guards injure Hamas activist in Gaza as another round of talks with Israel ended without results
- Bush: Powell makes progress, Israel should continue withdrawals, PA to act against "terror"
- Palestinian killed in Tulkarem; PA: Sharon tries to sabotage Washington talks
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For those people that have been wondering about what makes an ergonomic executive office chair so special the simple answer is that it provides secure seating surface that will properly fit the exact dimensions of a person�s body. In fact, the latest ergonomic executive office chairs are much different than the earlier ones that were too large as well as had too much of leather upholstery. The modern offerings have better ability to adjust height of the chair which makes them more useful and less likely to cause backaches and other work related injuries.
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The modern ergonomic executive office chair boasts of many useful features including armrests that can be moved up and down as well as forward and even backward and the backrests provide real comfort for the lumbar region and they can be set at a comfortable angle as well as can be tilted forward and back � very like what you get with a car seat that can be adjusted to suit a person�s height.
Ergonomics is certainly the new buzzword in the office equipment space and in fact there is a wide variety of ergonomic executive office chairs to choose from including those that boast of contemporary and traditional designs as well as which are available in colors to suit the d�cor of your office. Some of the more ornamental ergonomic executive office chairs even boast of brass or other metal refinements that complement the already vibrant texture of the chair�s upholstery. The more advanced ergonomic executive office chairs even come with in-built massage as well as heating mechanisms that are located within the backrest and seat and which provides tired executives a massage without at the same time causing interruptions to their work.
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I'm disappointed by the statement that 'Germany and France look insightful because of their warnings about provoking Russia. An equally valid conclusion would be that Russia would not have attacked a Nato member, which makes Germany and France look foolish.
That said, it has been pleasing to see France step up the plate as a credible peacemaker in recent days. I hope they build on this. It would be a great thing for Europe to see French peacekeepers taking over from Russians in each of Europe's frozen conflicts, as this would facilitate their eventual resolution with respect for territorial integrity, human rights and minority rights, something that is simply not possible under Russian tutelage.
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text: The Financial Page March 26, 2001 Issue Manic Monday (And Other Popular Delusions) By James Surowiecki Table of Contents Last Monday, I turned on CNBC, the financial-news station, and happened on a car wreck. By 10 A.M., the Dow was down a couple of hundred points, the Nasdaq was dropping, and CNBC was in full crisis mode, bombarding us with news about fearful investors and the gloomy things "traders"—who are these wise and mystical traders?—were saying. Each moment brought a new set of empty indicators. There was talk of "margin selling" and "capitulation." I went out for a while, and when I came back there was a new anchor on the screen, explaining all over again how the market was in a tailspin and how Wall Street saw no clear sign of a bottom, no reason to buy. The doomsday boys kept it up all afternoon. Emblazoned on the screen were the words "Manic Monday." By the market's close, the Dow had lost more than four hundred points. Wednesday brought another barrage. CNBC was still wallowing in despair, its hosts carrying on like the bit players in an Irwin Allen disaster film: We're all going to die! For the last hour of the market day, CNBC stationed Ron Insana on the floor of the Stock Exchange—a correspondent in the land of panic—and broadcast him speaking grandly about the bulls and the bears battling it out, as if this were Agincourt. The funny thing was that nothing real seemed to have provoked the panic. Oh, people were apparently worried that Japanese banks were going under. But we'd known for a very long time that Japanese banks were in trouble. So what was going on? People were selling because other people were selling. They were afraid because they were being told that everyone else was afraid. Watching CNBC those two days provided a lesson in how pointless such minute-by-minute coverage of the stock market is—how it distorts the way the market works and helps turn what should be a diverse, independent-thinking crowd of investors into a herd acting upon a single collective thought (in this case, SELL!). Of course, this was true when the market was on the way up, too. The Internet bubble and last week's sell-off are flip sides of the same phenomenon, the inevitable result of obsessing over the market's intraday movements. It's what makes the market so susceptible to bouts of both hysterical exuberance and despair. As a rule, the more information markets have, the better. But often what CNBC and the other pillars of market journalism offer is not information. It's noise. When it comes to buying a stock, "information" would include a company's growth prospects, its financial statements, its management, its industry, and, yes, its share price. "Noise" is just about everything else, including the chart showing the performance of that stock between 9:30 A.M. and 11:23 A.M. and the random thoughts of anonymous traders attempting to quantify the amount of fear in the market. Last week, we got noise, and trading on the basis of noise. When that happens, the stock market—which is, for most people, the obvious example of how markets work—ceases to function as a market at all. Markets, of course, are smarter than their participants, but it's easy to forget the circumstances under which they work. The analyst Paul Johnson devised an experiment while he was teaching at Columbia business school: each March, he had every member of his class predict the Oscar winners in twelve categories. Without fail, the group's picks—the nominees who, in each of the twelve categories, were picked by most people in the class—were more accurate than those of even the most prescient individual. In 1998, for instance, the group got eleven out of twelve winners right, while the best individual got nine, and the average person only five. More proof that markets outsmart mavens, yes. But there's something else. Johnson's students made their decisions independently. There may have been some kibbitzing, but, ultimately, everyone made his choices on his own, relying on whatever information about the Oscars he deemed important. And the collective result of all that independent decision-making was near-perfect. This is how markets normally work. If, on the other hand, a chorus of commentators had sat in the classroom with the students and overwhelmed them with frenzied observations—"Traders are seeing a skewed put/call ratio on 'Chocolat'!"—the group's collective intelligence would have vanished. Likewise, when you're buying a TV set you don't want a crew of experts yelling in your ear about what every other TV shopper in America is thinking. You want to decide, quietly and with whatever information you deem important, whether you should pay for a flat screen. A market is best at setting prices when the people in it make their decisions on their own. Its collective wisdom arises out of the cumulative effect of millions of independent decisions. You don't get that wisdom in a world dominated by CNBC-style coverage. In that world, every decision becomes dependent. And, in certain circumstances (like last week's), you end up with a mob instead of a market. Not a good thing. "Crowds distort and magnify threats out of all proportion to reality," Donald Horowitz, a Duke professor who is an expert on crowd behavior, said last week. Crowds also tend to take on the disposition of their most extreme members. That's why, according to one researcher, ordinary people in a large crowd will sometimes bait a man who is threatening suicide to leap off a ledge. It just takes someone to get them started. 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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is under heavy fire after an investigation by the Population Research Institute (PRI) showed yet again that the UN is working with the communist dictatorship ruling mainland China to enforce its barbaric "one-child" policy — complete with forced abortions, involuntary sterilization, kidnapping of "illegal" children, and other brutal tactics. The evidence of UN complicity in the atrocious human rights violations is undeniable, according to PRI President Steven Mosher, who said U.S. taxpayers should permanently defund the global anti-population agency.
After three extravagant and costly days of trying to "save the world" at the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the final outcomes were announced to the world. More than $500 billion was pledged to the so-called "sustainability" cause by governments, Big Business, and multilateral development banks. Also, a 50-page agreement bizarrely dubbed "The Future We Want" was adopted by virtually every national government on Earth. It was hardly everything UN supporters had sought, but progress was certainly made on moving their vision forward.
Alabama banned it. The Republican National Committee (RNC) officially opposes it. Even a group of Democrats has now joined the fight. And the movement to stop it is growing stronger every single day. Twenty years after the United Nations birthed the global "sustainable development" scheme known as Agenda 21, its tentacles have stretched across America into every level of government. But the battle to stop it is in full swing.
Despite violence that left at least several dead, numerous gun battles, allegations of voter fraud, dozens of polling places unable to operate, mass protests, militias running wild, and whole regions still in chaos, Western governments and the United Nations — largely responsible for the recent "regime change" that killed dictator Moammar Gadhafi and thousands of innocent civilians — celebrated political elections in Libya July 7 as a success. Meanwhile, multiple armed factions are still threatening to unleash full-blown civil war amid ongoing battles all across the chaos-stricken nation.
Aside from the fairly transparent United Nations agenda, the UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development offered a great deal of insight into the forces working together against national sovereignty, private property, individual liberty, and economic freedom. Big business was there — mostly begging for more government control and taxpayer money. A wide assortment of tax-funded "non-governmental organizations" — known as NGOs for short — was there, too. Unsurprisingly, they mostly demanded more government control. The press was there cheerleading every step of the way.
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01/11/2014 om 10:53The biggest Hard Enduro race in Poland kicked off with nearly 500 riders at the start, taking the country's best Hard Enduro racers through the ruins of an abandoned coal mine. Taddy Blazusiak took the top podium spot with two fellow KTM riders by his side, in an awesome display of extreme enduro riding. Take a look at all the best action from the race!
31/10/2014 om 21:58During intensive test on the dyno with the VHM EK1 engine, we found great improvement with the flat top radius piston in combination with the special combustion chamber shape. Therefore we also tested it on the TM K9B/C KZ10B engine and it also gave this great improvement.
31/10/2014 om 16:31Albie Wilkie experienced his first ride of the Honda CRF250R with the Honda Jtech Racing team earlier this month, marking an important step in his motocross career since winning the 2014 Honda 150 European Championship. Alongside Honda Jtech teammate Nick Kouwenberg, who also is a new signing for next season, the pair will contest the EMX250 championship in 2015.
31/10/2014 om 13:57The leading British team in the FIM Motocross World Championship and also on the domestic UK off-road motorcycle racing scene, Hitachi Construction Machinery Revo KTM UK, are pleased to announce a stellar roster of athletes for their international and national campaigns in 2015.
31/10/2014 om 13:53The Gear2win "Open Door Days" are under way in Lommel. Don't miss out on 3 days of awesome discounts, up to 70% off, and great deals on all the new 2015 Gear collections.
31/10/2014 om 13:40British motocross has yet another outstanding new signing who will race in the UK in 2015, Petar Petrov has signed for Hitachi KTM UK to race in the MX2 class in both the Maxxis British and World motocross championship starting in Qatar on February 28.
31/10/2014 om 13:05The Estonian Express, Tanel Leok, has signed an agreement with the British based LPE Kawasaki Team for next year. After a long time in the Grand Prix's, Leok will focus himself on the British MX1 Championship and the MX Nationals in Great Britain.
30/10/2014 om 15:05KTM Racing has announced that Jeffrey Herlings, the most talented rider in the World Championship Motocross paddock has been signed to ride as a Red Bull KTM factory rider until the end of the 2017 season.
30/10/2014 om 14:34Read what Joel Roelants has to say to his fans on his facebookpage: Walking' for the first time with ekso bionics suit. I'm now 4.5 months paralyzed from my chest down. thankyou To Walk Again vzw for the opportunity. Keep on growing and building from here. #34 JR
30/10/2014 om 11:02Husqvarna Motorcycles is pleased to announce their official line up of riders for the 2015 FIM Motocross World Championship.
30/10/2014 om 09:14Now that I've had the chance to idle for a minute, I want to give everybody a recap of what I was up to a couple weeks ago in Europe. So what did we do? We did a lot of driving that's for sure. It's kind of like SoCal but with less traffic and even further distances if you can believe that, haha. But the worst part? You can't speed! There are cameras everywhere!
30/10/2014 om 08:23Watch Glenn Coldenhoff ride his 450 factory Suzuki a lap around the nice sandtrack in Deurne. This is one of the first times riding on the 450 after his impressive 2nd place at the MXoN in Latvia riding for team The Netherlands.Expect some good results from the guy in 2015! Enjoy!
29/10/2014 om 21:23Fresh off earning top honors at Red Bull Straight Rhythm, Marvin Musquin is enjoying pre-season prep. Check out what the likable Frenchman had to say about his last year in the 250 class!
29/10/2014 om 20:16Adam Sterry has signed a two year agreement with the Wilvo Forkrent KTM Team. Sterry finished in third position in this years European MX2 Series. Next year he will ride in this series as well and he will also ride the complete British MX2 Series.
29/10/2014 om 13:24The Frenchman Fabien Izoird has won the supercross in Marseille last weekend. Izoird finished third in the final on Friday and won the final on Saturday. Cedric Soubeyras finished second overall with a 1-3 in the finals and Christophe Martin ended third overall with a 2-2 in the finals. Watch a movie of the race below.
29/10/2014 om 12:15BPROM is pleased to announce the 2015 FIM Supermoto World Championship Calendar.
29/10/2014 om 12:04Team Bel Ray Pro Rider Suzuki's Brad Groombridge raced his 2015 RM-Z450 to victory in the MX1 class at Taupo on Sunday. The 24-year-old also came close to winning the inaugural 'Speedcross' event on Saturday evening.
28/10/2014 om 14:51In the weekend of the 15th and 16th of November a big international supercross will be held in Lille, France. Riders like Christophe Pourcel, Eli Tomac, Justin Brayton, Jordi Tixier, Justin Barcia and others will be riding this race. Below you can watch the animated trackmap.
28/10/2014 om 09:40Former GP racer - and winner - Brian Kjær Jørgensen is ready for the 2014 World Vet at Glen Helen Raceway. He was supposed to race last year, but a small injury got in his way. Now he is fit and ready to take on the event. And he is very much looking forward to be racing in the US, for the first time in over a decade. Here is third chapter on his veteran US adventure. The last two came out last year on last years event.
28/10/2014 om 09:12It's not easy becoming a champion. Sacrifices need to be made to obtain such goal, and until you see the results, you question yourself why you even put yourself through such pain. For Ken Roczen, a jump into the premiere class meant a longer, more exhaustive schedule, and his body needed to keep up with such demands.
27/10/2014 om 19:29Team Bud Racing Kawasaki Monster will be racing nearly everywhere next season, as the dynamic French squad will line up six riders in ten different championships! Alongside Meghan Rutledge and Brian Moreau who were already in the team this season, Xavier Boog, Maxime Desprey, Nicolas Dercourt and David Braceras have joined Bud Racing Kawasaki.
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Virus Decimating Spanish Amphibians
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Several toad, newt, and salamander populations are being hit hard by an emerging pathogen in a pristine national park in Spain.
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Several toad, newt, and salamander populations are being hit hard by an emerging pathogen in a pristine national park in Spain.
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Documenting the epigenetic landscape of human innate immune cells reveals pathways essential for training macrophages.
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Farms support less phylogenetically diverse bird populations than forests, but some farms are better than others.
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A report details how the International Botanical Congress agreed in favor of electronic-only publication and naming new species using English.
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Genome fusion at stem graft junctions can generate new plant species.
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Researchers whose work requires that they draw blood from wild animals are finding unlikely collaborators in biting insects.
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Meet Ötzi, the Copper Age ice man who is helping scientists reconstruct changes in the population genetics of the red deer he hunted.
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An assassin bug, which some researchers are using as living syringes to sample blood from birds and mammals, feeds on a bat.