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LOS ALTOS, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/09/13 -- Box today announced that more than 85 higher education institutions have adopted Box's cloud collaboration service to help their communities of students, faculty, and staff access, share and manage content online and from mobile devices. In the past year alone, the number of Box customers in the education sector has doubled, with some of the nation's leading universities adopting Box. To support its university-focused initiative, Box also partnered with Internet2, the world's most advanced networking consortium, to provide top institutions, including Cornell, Notre Dame, Stanford and University of Michigan, with a simple way to deploy Box across their entire campuses.
"No group of people are more savvy and comfortable with web and mobile technologies than students," said Whitney Bouck, general manager of enterprise at Box. "Universities are moving away from legacy systems and pushing aggressively towards software that's built for a post-PC world and meets the expectations of their students. We're thrilled to be working with a growing group of higher education institutions that are making it easy for their communities to work, learn and collaborate together in new ways."
Box partnered with Internet2 to offer U.S. universities a secure and simple way to deploy Box across their entire campus communities. Since the launch of the Internet2 NET+ Box program in April 2012, more than 1 million Box accounts have been purchased across the 32 participating universities. Early University adopters in process of rolling out the service campus-wide include, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Notre Dame, Stanford and UC Berkeley.
"At Cornell University, we are always looking for technology tools that will enhance our community's innovation, productivity and academic success. Box helps us meet these goals," said Ted Dodds, chief information officer and vice president at Cornell. "As an early adopter of the Internet2 NET+ Box program, we were able to bring a secure cloud storage and collaboration service to Cornell faster than if we rolled Box out on our own. Now, our faculty, staff and students can access and share content from any device, whether at Cornell or traveling abroad -- Box helps our community stay connected."
"Notre Dame faculty and students consistently were asking for more storage and the ability to easily access and share information anytime, with anyone, from anywhere and on any device," said Ron Kraemer, vice president of IT and chief information officer at Notre Dame. "Through Box, we were able to address that request quickly and securely, and in the process, better serve teaching, learning, research and University operations."
"We understand the cloud's potential to increase collaboration throughout our community, enable faster innovation and cut down on IT costs," said Laura McCain Patterson, chief information officer at University of Michigan. "In line with our long-term strategy for improving our campus IT environment, U-M recently became the first university to roll out Box campus-wide through our partnership with Internet2."
The Internet2 NET+ Box program enables users to securely share, store and collaborate on content with anyone from any device, while providing for the needs of higher education institutions. These requirements include campus single sign-on, integration with campus account provisioning systems, and compliance with rigorous security requirements.
"Higher education is going through massive changes. With the shift in financial models and globalization, past technology acquisition models no longer work. There are too many costs, too much overhead and too much administration," said Shelton Waggener, senior vice president at Internet2. "The technology available to our community today gives us the opportunity to customize systems to meet our needs. Cloud technologies, like Box, deliver on the vision of seamless and lightweight applications that can be easily deployed and quickly adopted to enable the next generation of education."
In addition to the Internet2 universities that have purchased Box for their entire campus, others implement Box for a diverse range of use cases in various departments, including Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy, Hunter College CUNY's Rehabilitation research group and Emory University's Office of Business Practice Improvement. For example, Emory University's Office of Business Practice Improvement uses Box to optimize workflow management and to access and share critical content from mobile devices internally and externally with partners all over the country.
"We literally have hundreds of files per project, and with a team spread all over the country, our biggest challenge was not only giving them access to content, but also knowing how to keep them organized and focused," said Jamie Smith, manager for Strategic Business Solutions, Innovations and Process Improvement at Emory University. "I'm a big believer in cloud-based solutions that you can access anywhere, anytime. With Box, we're able to optimize our workflow and keep everybody on track and working from the most current documents. By leveraging the Box admin tools, we're also able to know who's doing what and track user participation."
To learn more about Box for Higher Education, please visit www.box.com/higher-ed.
About Box
Founded in 2005, Box provides a secure content sharing platform that both users and IT love and adopt. Content on Box can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone applications, among others, and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce. Headquartered in Los Altos, CA, Box is a privately held company and is backed by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, General Atlantic, Meritech Capital Partners, NEA, Scale Venture Partners, and U.S. Venture Partners, and strategic investors salesforce.com and SAP. To learn more about Box, visit www.box.com.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas.
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"There is a natural synchronization between the business models, the IoT is there to support ," explained Brendan O'Brien, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Aria Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 15th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Nov. 23, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,606
The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs. In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, Nate Gordon, Director of T...
Nov. 23, 2014 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,457
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
Nov. 22, 2014 10:00 PM EST Reads: 1,340
Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,439
An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,285
ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is bringing a greater level of control, security and flexibility to cloud-based application development and delivery with a single-tenant version of Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service. The new platform enables developers to build ap...
Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,452
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
Nov. 21, 2014 09:15 PM EST Reads: 1,362
Technology is enabling a new approach to collecting and using data. This approach, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), enables businesses to use real-time data from all sorts of things including machines, devices and sensors to make better decisions, improve customer service, and lower the risk in the creation of new revenue opportunities. In his General Session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Dave Wagstaff, Vice President and Chief Architect at BSQUARE Corporation, discuss the real benefits to focus on, how to understand the requirements of a successful solution, the flow of ...
Nov. 21, 2014 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,429
The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
Nov. 21, 2014 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,377
"BSQUARE is in the business of selling software solutions for smart connected devices. It's obvious that IoT has moved from being a technology to being a fundamental part of business, and in the last 18 months people have said let's figure out how to do it and let's put some focus on it, " explained Dave Wagstaff, VP & Chief Architect, at BSQUARE Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Nov. 21, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,285
Focused on this fast-growing market's needs, Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: VTSS), a leading provider of IC solutions to advance "Ethernet Everywhere" in Carrier, Enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT) networks, introduced its IStaX™ software (VSC6815SDK), a robust protocol stack to simplify deployment and management of Industrial-IoT network applications such as Industrial Ethernet switching, surveillance, video distribution, LCD signage, intelligent sensors, and metering equipment. Leveraging technologies proven in the Carrier and Enterprise markets, IStaX is designed to work ac...
Nov. 20, 2014 09:15 PM EST Reads: 1,373
C-Labs LLC, a leading provider of remote and mobile access for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the appointment of John Traynor to the position of chief operating officer. Previously a strategic advisor to the firm, Mr. Traynor will now oversee sales, marketing, finance, and operations. Mr. Traynor is based out of the C-Labs office in Redmond, Washington. He reports to Chris Muench, Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Traynor brings valuable business leadership and technology industry expertise to C-Labs. With over 30 years' experience in the high-tech sector, John Traynor has held numerous...
Nov. 20, 2014 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,333
Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
Nov. 20, 2014 04:45 PM EST Reads: 1,124
The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
Nov. 20, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,580
The Internet of Things is not new. Historically, smart businesses have used its basic concept of leveraging data to drive better decision making and have capitalized on those insights to realize additional revenue opportunities. So, what has changed to make the Internet of Things one of the hottest topics in tech? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Gray, Director, Embedded and Internet of Things, discussed the underlying factors that are driving the economics of intelligent systems. Discover how hardware commoditization, the ubiquitous nature of connectivity, and the emergence of Big Data a...
Nov. 20, 2014 12:30 PM EST Reads: 1,790
Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses will also need to ensure that they can sustain that insight by leveraging the cloud for global reach, scale and elasticity.
Nov. 18, 2014 09:00 PM EST Reads: 2,015
SYS-CON Events announced today that IDenticard will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. IDenticard™ is the security division of Brady Corp (NYSE: BRC), a $1.5 billion manufacturer of identification products. We have small-company values with the strength and stability of a major corporation. IDenticard offers local sales, support and service to our customers across the United States and Canada. Our partner network encompasses some 300 of the world's leading systems integrators and security s...
Nov. 18, 2014 08:15 PM EST Reads: 1,566
IoT is still a vague buzzword for many people. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mike Kavis, Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Partners, discussed the business value of IoT that goes far beyond the general public's perception that IoT is all about wearables and home consumer services. He also discussed how IoT is perceived by investors and how venture capitalist access this space. Other topics discussed were barriers to success, what is new, what is old, and what the future may hold. Mike Kavis is Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Pa...
Nov. 18, 2014 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,007
Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world. The next @ThingsExpo will take place November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. Since its launch in 2008, Cloud Expo TV commercials have been aired and CNBC, Fox News Network, and Bloomberg TV. Please enjoy our 2014 commercial.
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Michael Jackson's Kids: Private School Bound?by Free Britney at . Comments
Katherine Jackson is reportedly considering sending Michael Jackson's three kids to one of the most elite private schools in Los Angeles, according to sources.
The Jackson matriarch, who has full custody of MJ's children, is talking about enrolling Michael Jr. (Prince), Paris, and Prince (Blanket) in the Buckley School, where Tito Jackson's three kids went, along with other Jackson family members.
Michael Jr., Paris and Prince, now living with Katherine after Michael's death (officially ruled a homicide yesterday) have always been home schooled.
Sources say the family has talked to friends and school reps about enrolling the kids. Katherine used to show up for different events at the school and just loves the place - great education, close to their Encino home, and heavy security.
Michael Jr., Paris and Prince Michael (Blanket) Jackson.
The school isn't that easy to get into, however, and classes start this week - it's unclear if the kids have even applied and whether they would start in time.
One brief note that Katherine may want to consider: Paris Hilton attended the Buckley School as well as ... (gulp) ... Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian.
Maybe they offer a course in sex tapes and unplanned pregnancy?
Mummy, Katherine Jackson, more grease to yr elbow for Michael's three adorable kids. I've seen their pics, the 3 kids are still looking hvery healthy. Thanks for yr guidance on them, but for their school, pls try to enroll them in the same school where they'll be able to be eeeing each other regularly. Thanks. Ngobabe frm Nigeria.
I really love Jackson family they are really great persons....!!!!!
ok ok i know that almost all of us are intrested to see who there dad is but here is one question how come no one gives a krap about them themselves i think that michael and his 3 butiful god given children deserve respect i dont give a frick if you are a hater of michael jackson and his kids but they deserve a littel respect from someone i mean im so god blessed to even have parents . i will sit here and talk to anybody about the respect they deserve and my life long dream was to merat michael jackson but i did not get to all iwant to say is that my hart goes out to them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how cute they are!!!!!!!!!!lovelots!!!!!!!!!!(/.-)
TMX reported this last week. Your story is word for word without credit to TMZ. Your last comment is just crude and tasteless when children are involved. Rashiada Jones went there and she went to Harvard. Why not mention that?

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Google Spits In Verizon's Eye, Asserts Support For Wireless Net Neutrality
Four years ago, Google dismayed open-Internet supporters when it joined with Verizon to argue that net-neutrality rules—that is, regulations that keep cable and telecom companies from speeding or impeding Internet traffic based on who sends it—shouldn't apply to wireless networks.
The FCC later adopted that policy in its own net-neutrality regulations, which a federal court struck down earlier this year for unrelated legal reasons. Yet Google appears to have had second thoughts on the matter.
See also: Net Neutrality—Your Cheat Sheet To The FCC's Proposal
This week, Google emailed subscribers to its "Take Action" newsletter, encouraging them to "support a free and open Internet." And that has a new and specific meaning, according to Google's latest post on its Take Action website (emphasis added):
That means no Internet access provider should block or degrade Internet traffic, nor should they sell 'fast lanes' that prioritize particular Internet services over others. These rules should apply regardless of whether you're accessing the Internet using a cable connection, a wireless service, or any other technology.
That's a big change from Google's 2010 blog post about its Verizon partnership (emphasis added):
Sixth, we both recognize that wireless broadband is different from the traditional wireline world, in part because the mobile marketplace is more competitive and changing rapidly. In recognition of the still-nascent nature of the wireless broadband marketplace, under this proposal we would not now apply most of the wireline principles to wireless, except for the transparency requirement. In addition, the Government Accountability Office would be required to report to Congress annually on developments in the wireless broadband marketplace, and whether or not current policies are working to protect consumers.
Google's campaign comes at a particularly timely moment while the FCC is debating a new net-neutrality proposal. As outlined by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler in May, that proposal would also exempt wireless carriers from most net-neutrality rules, although the commission declared its willingness to consider extending broader regulation to wireless as well.
Image courtesy of Shutterstock
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5 Things To Know About pCell, A Bold Scheme For Super-Fast Wireless Data
Overloaded wireless-data networks are so common in crowded urban areas that many of us take them for granted. Which helps explain why a startup like Artemis Technologies, which promises near-perfect cellular reception to smartphone users no matter how crowded their networks, has gotten some rapturous attention over the past month.
Artemis announced its approach, which it calls pCell (for "personal cell"), at the end of February. Despite the hype, its technology is far from proven, and has yet to be demonstrated outside of carefully controlled settings. Even if it does work as advertised, there's no guarantee that wireless giants like Verizon and AT&T will embrace it, since scarce bandwidth allows them to charge higher data prices.
But the promise of pCell is unquestionably attractive, and while the underlying technology is counterintuitive, it's well-founded in communication theory. Artemis, too, has a pedigree; it was founded by Steve Perlman, the inventor/entrepreneur behind OnLive, WebTV and Apple's video encoding technology QuickTime.
So while Artemis is clearly out on the frontier, no one should dismiss pCell out of hand. Here's what you need to know about this technology and what it could mean for the future of wireless data (and, possibly, more).
1. Wireless Data Is Bottlenecked By Interference
If your LTE data slows to a crawl even when you have good reception, you can blame what telecom researchers call "the cocktail party problem." When there are way too many people in a room, there are too many signals—and too much interference—for you to hear the person you're talking to.
The same goes for wireless, where your experience is usually affected by the thousands of other people nearby also trying to connect to the Web. All those radio signals zipping from cell tower to individual phones and back routinely get in each others' way, sometimes canceling one another out entirely.
To see how this works (in a vastly simplified way), consider this photo of a lovely New Zealand harbor, taken as two wakes are crossing one another. Think of those crossing waves as the data signals heading for your smartphone and that of someone down the block.
Now let's look at a closeup of where the waves meet (click for a larger version).
See how the water flattens where the peaks of one wave meet the troughs of another? It's a phenomenon physicists call destructive interference, and something very similar happens when radio waves of the same frequency cross paths. In other words, those are your smartphone "dead zones."
Now multiply this effect by thousands of signals pinging around in some dense cell sites, and it's clear that dead zones are everywhere. Communications engineers have a number of tricks to keep you from ending up with no signal at all, but they all have one thing in common: They limit you and your phone to a mere fraction of the total bandwidth your local cell tower puts out.
2. pCell Actually Uses Interference To Its Advantage
Three years ago, Artemis founder Perlman released a white paper describing a technology he called DIDO, for "distributed input distributed output." DIDO purportedly allows wireless users on a network to use the full data capacity of shared spectrum with several other users simultaneously.
"DIDO profoundly increases the data capacity of wireless spectrum, while increasing reliability and reducing the cost and complexity of wireless devices," Perlman wrote. "DIDO deployment is far less expensive than conventional commercial wireless deployment, despite having vastly higher capacity and performance, and is able to use consumer Internet infrastructure and indoor access points."
DIDO—now pCell—basically exploits the flip side of destructive interference. Let's go back to those New Zealand waves for a second.
Now look where the peaks of both waves meet. This is also interference, but here it creates a larger wave—one that, were these radio waves, would correspond to a stronger signal. Artemis' technology aims to exploit such "constructive" interference in order to deliver a fast, clear signal to mobile users.
3. pCell Involves Some Very Serious Computation
One of the most interesting claims Perlman makes for pCell is that it sidesteps Shannon's Law, an information-theory principle that establishes a limit to data transmission speeds over a given channel. In wireless, the main consequence is that mobile devices served by wireless networks of the same frequency interfere with one another and thus "divide up" the available signal, limiting their data reception.
pCell, however, purports to fine-tune the pattern of radio signals in a way that allows each device to receives the data capacity of the full channel. As a result, DIDO claims to pull off something normal cell towers can't achieve: Even when more users join the network, the data rate for each user remains constant.
Effectively, this is because the pCell system is designed to create pockets of constructive interference around every mobile-device antenna. Each such pocket—Perlman describes them as about a centimeter in diameter—would act as an independent data channel, and thus wouldn't be limited by interference from other devices.
The way Artemis describes it, there's some very heavy lifting going on behind the scenes. In place of a single cell tower broadcasting to all users within range, pCell would establish a network of smaller antennas, each of which would broadcast a precoded signal computed by a data center that manages all communications in the area. Each precoded signal would basically be gibberish by itself—but where they overlap, the resulting constructive interference would yield a clear, high-speed data signal for every device in broadcast range.
Now, this is most definitely rocket science. The pCell system would have to generate those complicated precoded signals in real time, taking into account the actual data being transmitted to users, their location, their movements, and interference from solid objects like concrete walls.
It's an extremely complex problem, and probably one of the biggest reasons to be skeptical about Artemis' claims. Perlman, of course, says his company has solved it.
4. pCell Wouldn't Require New Phones, But Would Replace Cell Towers
One of pCell's biggest selling points is that it would work with all current 4G LTE-enabled devices. That, of course, would be a huge advantage, as it wouldn't require everyone to ditch their current iPhones and Androids just to get a decent signal.
But the company also envisions a new line of "pCell-native" devices, which the company says are "faster than LTE with fiber-class latency" thanks to a low degree of power consumption. If this promise rings true, it could have a significant implications for newer and more dynamic mobile technologies such as wearables.
Cellular infrastructure, however, is another story. Today's mobile devices are reliant on cell towers for their signals, but they're costly in several ways. The average cell tower costs $150,000 to build, and takes a toll in worker fatalities, too. In 2012, ProPublica estimated there were an average of 123.6 cell tower worker deaths per 100,000 workers—more than 10 times the death rate across the construction industry as a whole.
Instead of cell towers, Artemis offers "pWave radios," which are small but stylish weatherproof devices that the company says can be easily installed on indoor or outdoor walls or ceilings. Here's how Perlman described them at the first public demonstration of the technology at Columbia University in February:
Rather than having one cell tower, you put a few of these small pWave radios around an area and that's it. The transmissions, rather than being one transmission, intersect, and when they intersect, they create a tiny personal cell around every mobile device that's around a centimeter in size.
5. There's Just One More Thing
pCell could have even greater implications for other kinds of wireless technology. According to this detailed explanation of pCell technology by San Francisco data scientist Imran Akbar, pCell might also allow transmission of wireless power to for devices like phones, tablets, TVs and even motor vehicles. Should that pan out, smart devices might never need plugging in again.
Artemis' approach, however, isn't exactly unique. In fact, several other companies have invented solutions based off similar technology, and the theories for this system—also known as "network MIMO," "cooperative MIMO" and "cooperative beamforming"—date back to the early 2000s.
Perlman says Artemis will begin deploying pCell by "late 2014." But even if pCell can scale up to urban environments in a cost-effective way, that doesn't mean pCell is guaranteed to succeed. The best technologies don't always win, and Artemis has yet to conduct any large-scale demonstrations that might sway skeptics.
Artemis will also have to convince carriers and the FCC that its technology is worth the billions of dollars it would require to build base station radios and massive cloud infrastructure. It could be a long haul.
Most images courtesy of Artemis Networks; New Zealand harbor and wave images by Flickr user brewbooks, CC 2.0
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Wireless Charging Takes A Step Toward The Mainstream
Charging cables for phones and tablets just edged a little closer to oblivion. Two of the three major coalitions backing incompatible wireless charging standards announced plans to join forces, potentially a big step toward unifying wireless charging standards and pushing the technology toward mass adoption.
It's not clear, though, how quickly this agreement will simplify life for people who just want to power up their gadgets wirelessly without having to worry about charging-station compatibility issues. And the standards war isn't settled, either, as a third major wireless-charging standards group wasn't included in this announcement.
Formally, the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) agreed to support each other's technical standards. That should eventually result in charging hardware that works with most new mobile electronic devices. (Will any of it be backward compatible? No word at this point, though you probably shouldn't count on it.)
Henry Samueli, co-founder and chief technology officer of Broadcom, a voting member of A4WP, told me in December that "the biggest impediment to [wireless charging] is that there are different standards in the market." At the time, Samueli hoped the groups would find a unified approach, which would minimize some of that complication. Now, PMA's inductive charging will include a specification supporting A4WP's Rezent standard, and vice versa.
The odd man out here is, notably, Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) and its Qi wireless charging standard. WPC is backed by Verizon, Motorola, Nokia, Energizer, Belkin and several other big companies in the wireless market. (Samsung and HTC are members—Samsung even released an optional Qi-based wireless charging kit for the Galaxy S4—but both manufacturers also belong to the PMA.)
I've reached out to both A4WP and WPC for comment, and will update this post as more details come to light.
Image courtesy of Powermat.
Update: In an email via press representative, AW4P Marketing Chair Geoff Gordon said, "we are open to conversations with other organizations." This seems to indicate that the agreement may not be necessarily closed to WPC involvement in the future.
Dr. Kamil Grajski also chimed in: "The A4WP and PMA undertook their effort as an initial leadership step. Industry consolidation is likely to be a multi-step process." He also added that product announcements will vary by particular company, but "based on the Rezence products that have achieved certification to date, we anticipate product announcements throughout 2014."
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148Apps Review SummaryOur Rating: :: FUMBLES IN THE DARK :: Read Our Full Review >>
Get ready to stumble through the darkness (a lot) in this audio-only horror/adventure game.
What's NewOlder generation iOS devices now supported using low quality mode!
Fixed tutorial bug that prevented a few users from completing the tutorial.
App DescriptioniPhone4S, iPad2, or iPad 3 STRONGLY recommended!
Winner of the 2013 Games for Change Festival's "Most Innovative" Award
"A meticulously designed, audio-driven thriller" - The New Yorker
"Stumbling around in the dark has never been as fun, or as scary, as this." - AdventureGamers.com
"Trust me this is the most immersive thing I've ever done" - Judge of the Day, Audiogames.net
Are you looking for a mind-boggling new gaming experience?
BlindSide throws you into a fully-immersive 3d audio adventure set in a world you'll never see. Put on headphones, hold your iPhone, and face the direction you want to go. Listen as the world rotates around you and explore the darkness. The gyros in your device will point your in-game avatar the same direction you're facing in the real world!
You play as Case, an assistant professor who wakes up blind, to find his city destroyed and mysterious creatures devouring people. Will you and your girlfriend be able to find your way without sight? How will you escape?
Run for your life, save the girl (and occasionally get saved yourself), and uncover the mystery of the apocalypse.
-Over 1000 sound effects and pieces of dialogue
-Gyroscope-enabled virtual reality
-Custom audio algorithms turns stereo headphones into surround sound
-New levels of audio horror
-Accessible for blind and sighted users alike
-Challenging gameplay
Download it now if you want a truly unique experience!
App Changes
June 24, 2012 New version 1.02
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Movie Mount Is the iPad Filmmaker's Dream
Are you one of the folks that couldn't wait for the iPad to get a camera? If so, we have a perfect iPad case for you. The Movie Mount by Makayama lets you do a bunch of things only a true filmmaker will appreciate: You can attach a tripod to it for those pan & tilt shots, use 37 mm conversion lenses, including wide angle and zoom, add a video light or shotgun microphones, or use an optical viewfinder when shooting in bright sunlight.


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Are there any side effects to these pills apart from bankruptcy?
- Armed, dangerous and off my medication!
- But these pills can't be habit forming; I've been taking them
for years
- His doctor gave him a prescription for extra-strength placebos.
- In a Church bulletin: "Thursday night – Potluck supper. Prayer and
Medication to follow."
- Is it time for your medication or mine?
- Oxymoron: One who does not know how to use pimple medication.
- Proper oral hygiene will transcend dental medication.
- Technical Books – "Sleeping pills you read!"
- The pharmacist told me to take these pills as often as I can get
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The Blues Society of Omaha presents charismatic bluesman Tab Benoit at Slowdown Tuesday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m. Benoit is a Grammy nominee and winner of Blues Music Awards honors both as the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year and as Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year. Benoit's music is an exciting mix of blues, rock and traditional Cajun music. His latest disc is Medicine (Telarc) featuring...
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"A modern day, female version, of Louis Armstrong," that's what Elmore magazine calls Davina Sowers of Davina & The Vagabonds. Since the release of their latest disc, Black Cloud, the Minneapolis band has been racking up rave reviews. A track from the new disc was chosen for an NPR Song of the Day feature. Downbeat magazine applauds "They dare to be different." Blues in Britain magazine says...
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If you're heading out on Thanksgiving Eve, be sure to stop in at the Barley Street Tavern after 9 p.m. for Matt Cox's second annual Canned in Benson event to benefit the Omaha Food Bank. A cornucopia of local songwriters perform including Cass Brostad, Brad Hoshaw, Kyle Harvey, Rebecca Lowry, Justin Lamoureux, Sarah Benck, Andrew Bailie, Matt Whipkey, Ashley Rayne Boe, Lash LaRue, Dylan Davis,...
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As I sit down to write I have just read sad news. The Austin Blues Society reported that Doyle Bramhall Sr. has passed away. The houstonpress.com confirmed the details, writing that Bramhall, 62, died Nov. 13 in his home in Alpine, TX, of complications from pneumonia. Bramhall was a drummer, vocalist and songwriter who was a friend and collaborator with the Vaughan brothers. He co-wrote songs...
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Damon Fowler makes his 21st Saloon debut on Thursday, Nov. 10, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Living Blues magazine calls Fowler "a roots guitar guru in the making." The Chicago Sun-Times writes "Make way for the next big-time guitar slinger."
Critics compare his guitar riffs to Johnny Winter and Jeff Beck with slide playing influenced by Duane Allman. Fowler also has lap-steel and dobro playing in his...
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If you missed the Sunday night, Oct. 30, screening of Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah, you missed something extraordinary. Presented as part of Dean Dobmeier's and Gary Grobeck's ongoing, moveable Sunday Roadhouse concert series, this exclusive screening was at The Waiting Room. The duo has brought a number of amazing Americana artists to Omaha, including the debuts of artists like Hacienda...
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Bands to host Pilger tornado benefit show
by Chris Aponick
The Faint, Plack Blague release new videos
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Remembering Dave
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Totally Crushing on Millions of Boys
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Lorna Flowers, a supporter and friend of Voyage-Air, passed away March 5th. She was an avid guitar player and friend of CEO Jeff Cohen and 'Fretted Friend' Michael Ferrucci. Virginia Cannon had just spoken to her a couple of weeks ago and chatted about Voyage-Air and the work that she was doing with songwriters. She was always willing to help us out and any friend that was in need in every chance she had. She will be greatly missed by many.
The clip below is of her and Bridgette Tatum both playing their Voyage-Air guitars.


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Texas Rangers at Houston Astros
- After losing three of the first four matchups between the clubs this season, the Astros have now won seven of their last eight games against the Rangers.
- The Rangers have won three of their last four games after winning just two of their previous nine contests. The Astros have just two wins in their last seven games.
- Nick Tepesch, who has just one win in his last eight starts overall, is 2-0 with a 3.31 ERA in three career starts against the Astros.
- Collin McHugh is 2-0 with a 1.76 ERA and a 1.14 WHIP in five starts this August, while holding his opponents to one run in four of those five outings. McHugh will be facing Texas for the first time in his career.
- Chris Carter has homered in three consecutive games and has hit a ML-leading 20 home runs since July 1. Carter is 1-for-7 with one double and four strikeouts in his career against Nick Tepesch.
- Leonys Martin, who is hitting .440 (22-for-50) over his last 14 games, has failed to record a hit in seven of his last 10 games against Houston.
MLB Headlines
- Red Sox add Sandoval, Ramirez for $183M
- LHP Lester to meet with Giants next week
- Red Sox get heat over ill-timed tweet
- Reds hire Towers as special assistant
- Darvish clear to start throwing program
By NICOLINO DIBENEDETTO
(AP) -- The Texas Rangers are tied for the worst record in baseball, but an offensive barrage has them finding some success on the road.
The Rangers will try to put together another impressive display at the plate as they look for a second straight win over the Houston Astros on Saturday night.
Texas (53-81) and Colorado are level for the worst record in the majors, but the Rangers have won four of six games as they attempt to avoid that distinction. They'd also like to avoid finishing at the bottom of the AL West for the first time since 2007, but they're three games back of Houston (57-79) for fourth.
Texas gained some ground Friday, collecting 16 hits with four doubles and two homers in a 13-6 win over the Astros. That was a tremendous improvement after getting eight hits - seven singles - in a 4-2 defeat in the opener of this four-game set at Minute Maid Park.
Rookie Michael Choice is looking to build on the best offensive showing of his career, going 3 for 4 with a double and a three-run homer. The left fielder had been 0 for 10 with four strikeouts while being hit by a pair of pitches in his three prior games since being recalled from Triple-A Round Rock.
"He just needs to relax and trust his abilities," manager Ron Washington said of Choice, who is hitting .179 in 73 games this season. "Let the ball travel like he did and do his best to put the bat head on it instead of trying to force things."
Another big performance at the plate may be needed after the Rangers scratched Miles Mikolas from his scheduled start with shoulder fatigue.
Robbie Ross Jr. (2-5, 6.06 ERA) is expected to be recalled from Round Rock for a spot start. The left-hander was hammered for six runs in 4 1-3 innings of a 6-3 loss to Tampa Bay in his most recent start for Texas on Aug. 14.
Since then, he's allowed two runs in 12 2-3 innings in three minor league games - one start.
He's 2-0 while allowing two runs in 8 2-3 innings over eight relief appearances versus Houston.
The Astros, losers of five of seven, are expected to counter with Scott Feldman (7-10, 4.34), who has reportedly cleared waivers and could be dealt ahead of Sunday's waiver trade deadline.
"I did see that, but when I'm pitching I don't really think about it," Feldman told MLB's official website. "Human nature, you wonder what's going to happen. When I'm playing, I'm just thinking about the guy that I'm facing. We'll see what happens."
Feldman's recent performances at home could be making things easier for Houston to swing a deal. He's 2-1 with a 2.45 ERA over his last four starts at Minute Maid Park, and was solid again despite being charged with Monday's 8-2 loss to Oakland. The righty didn't get any run support while allowing three runs in seven innings.
Feldman, who spent his first eight seasons with Texas, is 1-0 with a 3.44 ERA in three starts against his former team this year. He earned an 8-3 win in the most recent at home Aug. 9, giving up three runs in 6 1-3 innings.
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Migration to Alternative Fuels and Powertrains
In this section
- Advanced Clean Diesel
- HEVs
- BEVs
- PHEVs
- Renewable Biofueled Vehicles
- FCVs
Renewable Biofueled Vehicles
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Biofuels offer a relatively affordable way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Ford is a market leader in biofueled vehicles with more than 5.5 million E85-capable vehicles and 17 E85 models globally.
Near Term
Begin migration to advanced technology
Mid Term
Full implementation of known technology
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Continue deploying advanced powertrains and alternative fuels and energy sources
Renewable Biofueled Vehicles
Current Generation Biofuels
Ford has a long history of developing vehicles that run on renewable biofuels. Our founder, Henry Ford, was a strong proponent of biofuels, and we produced our first flexible-fuel vehicle approximately 100 years ago; the Ford Model T was capable of running on gasoline or ethanol.
Biofuels are an important component of our sustainability strategy for three reasons. First, biofuels can help to address economic, social and environmental sustainability, which includes helping us meet our carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction targets. Second, the use of biofuels requires relatively modest and affordable modifications to existing vehicle and fueling technology, which makes them a viable near-term option. Third, biofuels offer synergies with our other strategies. For example, the high octane of ethanol is a potential enabler for the introduction of higher compression ratio engines and higher engine boost technologies that improve the efficiency and torque of our future downsized engines.
Given the current trends of increasing biofuel production, increasing investment in advanced biofuels, increasing vehicle efficiencies and the introduction of vehicles that do not use liquid fuels (such as electric and natural gas vehicles) we believe that the use of biofuels may increase from their current level of 2–3 percent globally to 10–30 percent of global liquid transportation fuel over the next few decades. Although Ford is a vehicle manufacturer and not a fuel provider, it is important for us to understand the physical and chemical properties of biofuels (such as their octane ratings), their sustainability attributes (such as lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, water use and energy consumption, etc.) and their performance in our vehicles. We are conducting research and development to ensure that our vehicles will be able to exploit the full benefits of biofuels. Our current work focuses on the two biofuels that are available at a commercial scale: ethanol and biodiesel.
The U.S. and Brazil are the world's largest producers of ethanol, which is made from the fermentation of sugars. In the U.S. the sugar is derived via the hydrolysis of corn starch, while in Brazil the sugar is obtained directly from sugar cane. Ethanol is typically used in blends with gasoline. Blends are identified using the volumetric content of ethanol, which is specified numerically after the letter "E" for ethanol. For example, E10 is 10 percent by volume ethanol and 90 percent petroleum gasoline, while E85 is up to 85 percent by volume ethanol. Most automotive fuel supplied in the U.S. is E10. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently issued a waiver permitting E15 to be sold in the U.S. for use in 2001 or newer model year vehicles. Our position regarding E15 is discussed in a separate section below.
An important benefit of ethanol is its higher octane, which can improve the efficiency and torque of today's high-efficiency internal combustion gas engines. In 2010 we developed a fundamental molecular approach to calculating the octane boost provided by ethanol blended into gasoline that is more accurate than previous measurement approaches.1 The octane number of a fuel is a critical fuel property that describes its resistance to "knock," which results from early or uncontrolled fuel ignition. To avoid "knocking," the compression ratios designed into engines are limited by the lowest expected octane number of available fuels. However, engines operate at higher thermal efficiency when they can be operated at higher compression ratios using appropriate higher-octane fuel. The increased availability of ethanol in the future provides an opportunity for fuel providers to deliver fuels with higher octane and automakers to provide higher compression ratio – and therefore more-efficient – engines. High-octane ethanol blends offer a win-win-win opportunity in which the increased availability of ethanol could enable increased engine efficiency, resulting in fuel savings for our customers, improved energy security and reduced CO2 emissions. However, ethanol also may damage engines that are not designed to operate on higher concentrations of the fuel, which poses a concern for older vehicles. Our research into ethanol fuels and octane calculations will help us take the best advantage of higher-octane ethanol fuel blends in the future.
Biodiesel is a biofuel alternative to petroleum diesel made from the transesterification of vegetable oils obtained from oil seeds, including soy, canola, palm and rapeseed, or from animal fat. Biodiesel is distinct from "renewable diesel," which is made by hydrotreating vegetable oils or animal fats. In the U.S., most biodiesel is currently made from soybean oil. Biodiesel is typically used in blends with petroleum diesel, where the volumetric content of biodiesel is specified numerically after the letter "B" for biodiesel. In the U.S. and Europe all of our diesel vehicles can run on B5, a blend containing 5 percent biodiesel. We have worked with fuel standards organizations to allow the use of biodiesel blends of greater than B5 in our future products. For example, our 2011 F-Series Super Duty® trucks with a new 6.7L diesel engine are compatible with B20. In addition, the gasoline version of these vehicles will be compatible with gasoline, E85 or any ethanol-gasoline blend between E0 and E85.
Ford has taken a leadership position on biofuels. Since 1997, we have offered flexible-fuel vehicles (FFVs) capable of running on gasoline or E85 ethanol. In the U.S., we met our commitment to double our FFV production from 2006 to 2010. To date, we have introduced more than 5.5 million E85-capable vehicles globally, including more than 2.3 million in North America and nearly 2 million in Brazil. In the U.S., we have produced more than 1 million FFVs over the last three years alone. In Europe, Ford is a market leader and pioneer in ethanol-powered FFVs, with more than 70,000 vehicles delivered to customers since 2001. Ford FFV models are available in many European markets, with Sweden, Germany, Spain and France showing the strongest demand.
Ford currently offers 17 vehicle models in the U.S., Europe and South America that can run on E85. These include the Ford Crown Victoria, Expedition, Fusion, Escape, Econoline, Super Duty and F-150 and the Lincoln Town Car and Navigator in North America; the Ford Focus, Mondeo, S-MAX and Galaxy in Europe; and the Ford Fiesta, EcoSport, Focus, Ka and Courier in Brazil. In 2009 in Europe we launched a tri-fuel version of the Ford Mondeo, capable of running on gasoline, E85 or propane (LPG).
E15 in the United States
Over the last year, the EPA approved the use of E15 ethanol blends in 2001 and newer model year vehicles. While Ford supports the use of renewable fuels to meet the challenges of energy security and climate change and has committed to expand our lineup of vehicles capable of operating on E85, we do not support approving the use of E15 in older vehicles unless concerns with the use of E15 in the legacy fleet are addressed.
The entire legacy fleet of non-FFVs consists of vehicles designed to operate on E0 to E10 (or only E0 for very old vehicles). We are concerned that vehicles will not continue to meet customer expectations for quality, durability and performance, nor legal requirements relating to emissions and on-board diagnostics, if the vehicles are operated on a fuel they were not designed to use. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers are among many parties seeking review of the E15 waiver in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Ford is a member of the Alliance. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that we exceed customer expectations, and we will continue to work with our customers and dealerships to address any potential concerns.
One opportunity with the introduction of increased ethanol blends is to increase the octane rating of the new fuel. As discussed above, ethanol has an octane rating greater than today's gasoline, so when the fuels are mixed, the resulting fuel blend should have higher octane than the base gasoline. And as the octane rating of a fuel increases, it reduces the tendency for "engine knock." Many of today's advanced engines are programmed to improve the efficiency of the engine just short of the point where the consumer would experience engine knock. For such engines, an increase in the octane rating of the fuel could result in improved vehicle efficiency. Further improvement to engine efficiency (through increased compression ratio and downsizing) could be achieved if manufacturers knew how and when the minimum octane ratings of fuels would increase in the future. Given that vehicles' efficiency and performance depends on the fuel it uses, the two should be considered systematically. Coordinated efforts among the involved industries (oil, biofuel, auto) and regulatory agencies are needed to ensure that maximum benefit is gained from our future fuels and vehicles.
Future Biofuels
The biofuels currently available at a commercial scale (e.g., ethanol and biodiesel) have advantages relative to their petroleum-derived counterparts. They can be made from locally available raw materials, providing support for rural communities and reducing the need for foreign-supplied oil, while increasing national energy security. They also reduce lifetime (or well-to-wheels) CO2 emissions compared to conventional petroleum-based fuels. However, important issues remain regarding biofuels' energy density, the best way to use these fuels to reduce GHG emissions, their ability to meet fuel needs without impacting food supplies and their potential impact on land-use decisions. (These issues are discussed in more detail later in the Biofuel Challenges section.)
Meanwhile, Ford is working to support and promote the next generation of biofuels, including cellulosic biofuels. These are primarily fuels made from plant cellulose – stalks, leaves and woody matter – instead of from sugars, starches or oil seeds. Cellulosic biofuels will have many advantages. They should minimize possible market competition between food and fuel. They would allow the more complete use of crops such as corn and soybeans by using additional parts of these crops, including stems and leaves, for fuel production. In addition, cellulosic biofuels can be made from "energy crops," such as switchgrass and wood, that require less fertilizer and less energy-intensive farming methods. This would further reduce the total CO2 footprint of the resulting biofuels. We are also investigating the potential for algae-based biofuels to provide another feedstock for future biofuels. Given the challenges associated with developing and scaling up new production technologies, it is our assessment that next-generation biofuels will be available at scale in the marketplace in the next 10–15 years, if the necessary technical breakthroughs in production efficiencies are made.
The United States Renewable Fuel Standard and the Future of Biofuels
The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 expanded the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) by requiring a significant increase in the use of biofuels – to a total of 36 billion gallons per year by 2022. This law also requires that, beginning in 2010, a certain portion of biofuels must be "advanced" and/or cellulosic-based fuels. Ethanol blended into gasoline is expected to supply the majority of this biofuel mandate and could displace nearly 20 percent of U.S. gasoline demand by 2022.2 The use of biodiesel in the U.S. is also likely to increase in the coming years. However, it will not likely increase to the same levels as ethanol, because the RFS mandates lower volumes of biomass-based diesel and because a relatively small percentage of light-duty passenger vehicles in the U.S. use diesel.
Using low-level ethanol blends such as E10 (which is the situation today), would achieve approximately 40 percent of the RFS-mandated biofuel use by 2022. Therefore, meeting the full RFS biofuel requirement will require much greater use of E85 in FFVs and/or the development of vehicles that can use "mid-level blends" of ethanol and gasoline (i.e., between E10 and E85). The expanded use of E85 in FFVs would require a corresponding increase in the E85 fueling infrastructure in the next 10 to 20 years. An approach using mid-level blends would require that all new vehicles be designed for higher ethanol capability, and the existing fueling infrastructure would need to be improved for higher ethanol compatibility. For any of these approaches to be successful, the new fuels will have to provide enough value to the consumer to compel them to buy ethanol-blend fuels. Regardless of the specific strategy used, coordinated efforts will be required between automakers, fuel suppliers, consumers and the government to meet the RFS mandate while ensuring the compatibility of vehicles and ethanol-blended fuel. Without alignment between vehicles, fuels and infrastructure, a mismatch will occur, and it will be difficult to meet the RFS mandate successfully.
Biofuel Infrastructure
To increase their benefits for reducing GHG emissions and improving energy security, biofuels must become more widely used. This requires the availability of both biofuels and vehicles capable of using biofuels. In the U.S., the E85 refueling infrastructure remains inadequate. Out of more than 160,000 refueling stations in the U.S., approximately 2,300 (or less than 2 percent) offer E85. For consumers to have a true transportation fuel choice, increased access to biofuels is necessary.
Biofuel Challenges
Much of the interest in biofuels results from their potential to lessen the environmental impacts of transportation fuels while contributing to energy independence. Biofuels are typically made from domestic and renewable resources, they provide an economic boost to rural communities, and they help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions because the plants from which they are made absorb CO2 while they are growing. But are biofuels the best solution to our growing fuel-related environmental, economic and political problems? The issues are complex. We believe biofuels are an important part of the equation for addressing climate change and energy security. We recognize, however, that major advances need to be made in production processes, source materials and fuel types to achieve the full promise of biofuels.
Challenges relating to today's biofuels include the following:
Energy Density
The energy density of ethanol is approximately two-thirds that of gasoline.3 This means there is approximately one-third less available energy in a gallon of ethanol than in a gallon of gasoline. As a result, drivers using fuels containing higher amounts of ethanol will have to refuel more frequently. Ethanol does have improved qualities, such as higher octane, that can be leveraged to recover much of the lost energy content. Biodiesel has approximately the same energy density as conventional petroleum-based diesel.
Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The plants used to produce biofuel feedstocks capture as much carbon dioxide during their growth as they release when burned. However, current farming and production processes utilize fossil fuels in the production of ethanol and biodiesel, so the production of these biofuels results in a release of some fossil-fuel-based GHG emissions on a complete lifecycle basis. In addition, nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions resulting from biofuel production need to be carefully considered for all types of biofuel feedstocks and farming techniques on a full lifecycle basis, including the appropriate allocation of emissions to co-products (such as animal feed) derived from biofuel production. Government and academic studies suggest that current E85 using ethanol from corn results in 20 to 30 percent fewer lifecycle GHG emissions than today's gasoline, on an energy-equivalent basis. In addition, GHG emissions related to petroleum can vary greatly depending on the source. Producing crude oil from tar sands, for example, results in a greater release of GHGs than producing crude oil from conventional sources. The use of renewable energy sources in the production of ethanol and biodiesel production can reduce their lifecycle GHG emissions further. We believe that developing cellulosic or biomass-based biofuels with next-generation processes will significantly decrease the GHG emissions associated with biofuels, perhaps by up to 90 percent.4
Competition with the Food Supply
Another concern about current corn- and soybean-based biofuels is that they compete in the marketplace with food supplies and are often cited as one of the factors that increase food prices. In the U.S., demand for corn used directly for human food (including high-fructose corn syrup) consumes less than 10 percent of the total corn supply. Approximately 42 percent of U.S. corn is used for animal feed. In 2009, about 32 percent of the corn harvest in the U.S. was used to produce ethanol. Ethanol production removes only the starch from the corn kernel – the remaining portion is a highly valued feed product (called distiller grains) and a good source of energy and protein for livestock and poultry. This mitigates the competition between ethanol production and food production. In addition, the growth of the energy crop market has encouraged improvements in farming productivity (e.g., bushels per acre) that may not have occurred otherwise, further reducing the impact of biofuels on corn availability. If next-generation biofuels can efficiently utilize biomass such as plant stalks, woodchips or grasses and be grown on marginal land with little irrigation, then competition with food crops should be minimized. In 2011, Ford researchers published a technical assessment of the contribution of biofuel production to the increase in food prices in 2008.5 We agree with the majority of external studies that find that biofuel production has a small, or modest, impact on commodity food prices.
Land-Use Conversion for Biofuel Production
Recent studies have looked at the overall CO2 and N2O impacts of "direct" land-use changes associated with biofuels – i.e., converting natural ecosystems to farmland for the production of crops to make biofuels. Additional studies have considered an "indirect" land-use change scenario in which the use of farmland for biofuels in one region indirectly leads to the conversion of natural ecosystems to farmland in another region due to crop market feedbacks (either replacing the grain in the marketplace or due to increased prices). This is a complex and important issue. Converting natural lands to croplands can lead to the release of carbon stored in above- and below-ground biomass. Releasing this carbon in the form of CO2 during land conversion to energy crop farming creates a carbon "debt," which may take a very long time to repay through the greenhouse gas benefits of the subsequent biofuel use. The use of degraded pastures or abandoned farmland, by contrast, rather than natural ecosystems, would incur minimal carbon debt, because there is limited CO2 storage in these previously altered ecosystems.
At Ford, we are following the debates about biofuels closely. As we proceed, we need to consider how biofuels are derived and carefully review issues such as the potential net greenhouse gas benefits; political, economic, social and environmental concerns related to biofuel and petroleum use; and the management of land, food and water resources. We agree with the general consensus among scholars and industry experts that the current generation of biofuels have modest environmental benefits and are a first step toward cleaner transportation and energy independence. We are actively investigating the potential of next-generation biofuels that have greater environmental, energy security and economic benefits. We believe that improvements in the efficiency of farming technologies and biomass production processes, and the development of advanced biofuels, will significantly increase the benefits and long-term sustainability of biofuels. Even with these improvements, solving our climate change and energy security problems will require a multifaceted set of solutions, including new fuels, improvements in vehicle efficiency and changes in consumer driving patterns and practices.
- J. E. Anderson, U. Kramer, T. J. Wallington, "Octane Numbers of Ethanol- and Methanol-Gasoline Blends Estimated from Molar Concentrations," Energy and Fuels, 24, 6576 (2010).
- J.E. Anderson, R.E. Baker, P.J. Hardigan, J.M. Ginder, T.J. Wallington. Society of Automotive Engineers Technical Paper 2009-01-2770. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007: Implications for the U.S. Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet.
- J.B. Heywood, Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals, McGraw-Hill, New York 1988.
- Ethanol: The Complete Energy Lifecycle Picture, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, March 2007.
- S.A. Mueller, J.E. Anderson, and T.J. Wallington, "Biofuel Production and Food Prices," Biomass and Bioenergy, 35(5) 1623-1632 (2011).
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Saif Ali Khan will be seen in an all new avatar in 'Race 2'. The actor had a background in sword fighting, which made it easier for him to learn the art of fencing for 'Race 2'.
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Set in the backdrop of the picturesque Goa, 'Finding Fanny' is an English/Konkani movie. The movie stars Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia and Pankaj Kapur. Check out the trailer right here.


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I think Mark Clanton does an excellent job as Director of Public Works for the City of Shelbyville.
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Ed Antosh, building code and permit office. He does a great job and is so knowledgeable and willing to see a job is completed properly.
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Locally, there are quite a few who do a good job so I would hate to mention one and seem to slight another.
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Our Chief of Police, Austin Swing bears an awesome responsibility and he peforms a hell of a job for the citizens of Shelbyville!
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