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The Year of The EV article tells that We can dub 2011 the year of the EV (electric vehicles) and gives a timeline what happened 2011. The end result is that today there are enough Volts on the road (along with competitors like Nissan's Leaf, various hybrids, and an electric Ford Focus) that it might be safe to suggest that the electric car is here to stay.
There has been many different car charging connectors in use on electronic vehicles. Electric Car Charging Standards Split article tells that many car manufacturers have agreed on a single EV charging port connector standard that has been in development by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) for several years. European car companies have been divided on standards for both AC and DC charging. The new single connector will support fast DC charging as well as be backward compatible with the J1772 AC charger that is standard on many plug-in electric vehicles today. I think that use of that standard will rise in 2012, and common charging standard will speed up the EV deployment.
Automotive electronics: What's hot in 2012 article tells that in automotive electronics, 2012 looks to be a year of consolidation as technologies introduced previously become more widespread across model lines. In particular, voice recognition, with different features and interfaces, is seen as a way of distinguishing one brand from another, while electrified power trains in the form of hybrids and pure electric drives will be available in more models. In keep costs down driven auto industry the more mature the technology that goes into a car, the less risk of failure and costly warranty claims.
Cars and smartphones start to communicate using MirrorLink technology to allow new features. MirrorLink™ has been developed with the objective to provide a technology, offering seamless (extremely simple from the consumer perspective) connectivity between a smart phone and the in-vehicle infotainment system. It uses IP technologies in order to be independent of the physical transport mechanism and supports many car connectivity solutions (Bluetooth, WLAN, USB etc.). Whereas MirrorLink™ does allow any legacy application on the mobile device to show-up on the car display, it specifically enables easy development of mobile device based automotive applications.
Ethernet for Vehicles is gaining momentum in in the car. Ethernet for Vehicles Advances article tells that Ethernet technology in the car (a concept that was once unthinkable for the automotive industry) has been gaining momentum lately. Special interest group, known as the OPEN (One-Pair-Ether-Net) SIG, is aimed at driving broad-scale adoption of Ethernet in vehicles, largely to serve the expected boom of camera-based applications in cars. Many vehicles now have backup cameras, and many others are going to add cameras for such applications as lanekeeping, adaptive cruise control, and collision avoidance.
There is going to be an increasing number of Driver Information applications that involve displaying complex images and graphics. Xilinx Paves the Way for a New Generation of Automotive Driver Assistance and Infotainment Systems at CES 2012. World's first Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based Ethernet Audio/Video Bridging (EAVB) network implementation optimized for carrying high-speed data traffic within the automobile was shown at CES 2012. The IEEE 802.1 EAVB standard is already gaining the attention of a number of leading automotive manufacturers even though the specifications are still being finalized. OMG! Amazing home displays and automotive Ethernet AVB stuff from Xilinx article gives some more details what is expected in near future.
New electronics features are making challenges for developers. Automotive Electronics: Do We Really Need All This Stuff? article tells that everyone in the auto industry knows that the number of electronic control units (ECUs) in vehicles is nearing the point of unmanageability. Low-end vehicles now incorporate between 35 and 40 ECUs, while luxury cars may have 80 or more. "We're right up against the limit right now. We need to find unique ways to integrate features and functions, and give our customers what they want without overloading our controllers." The number of automotive features and functions keeps rising.
Would Cellphone Ban Secure Car Safety? article tells that the proliferation of in-car entertainment technologies (internet routers, smartphone links, MP3 connections, capacitive touch screens, etc.) are great for selling cars. Auto executives understand what consumers want: Many people don't want a car with no extra features. Those new extra features have also sparked a serious debate about driver distraction dangers. "According to NHTSA [the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration], more than 3,000 people lost their lives last year in distraction-related accidents." "You're dealing with human nature here. People want what they want. And sometimes they want more than they should have."
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Tomi Engdahl says:New York Post:
NYC has 14K cars affiliated with Uber, outnumbering 13.5K medallion cabs, 4 years after launch
Tomi Engdahl says:Aaron M. Kessler / New York Times:
Tesla's self-driving cars coming to US within 3 months, with autopilot enabled only on major roads; regulatory questions remain
Elon Musk Says Self-Driving Tesla Cars Will Be in the U.S. by Summer
on Thursday, Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla, took a big step in that direction when he announced that the maker of high-end electric cars would introduce autonomous technology by this summer. The technology would allow drivers to have their cars take control on what he called "major roads" like highways.
Mr. Musk said that a software update — not a repair performed by a mechanic — would give Tesla's Model S sedans the ability to start driving themselves, at least part of the time, in a hands-free mode that the company refers to as autopilot.
But some industry experts said serious questions remain about whether such autonomous driving is actually legal and are skeptical that Model S owners who try to use autopilot would not run afoul of current regulations.
"There's a reason other automakers haven't gone there," said Karl Brauer, an analyst with Kelley Blue Book. "Best case scenario, it's unclear. If you're an individual that starts doing it, you'd better hope nothing goes wrong."
Tomi Engdahl says:Ellen Huet / Forbes:
Newly merged Kuaidi-Didi reportedly controls 99% of Chinese taxi-hailing market, claims 6M rides per day, putting Uber's future in China at risk
Tomi Engdahl says:Crowd sourcing speeds image classification development
One of the major challenges in building automated supervised image classification systems is the amount of training data that needs to be correctly identified. In such systems, hundreds or thousands of correctly labeled images need to be presented to the system since more labeled data will result in a system more effective than one where just a few data is presented to the classifier
"In the development of an obstacle avoidance system for an automotive manufacturer," says Dr. Daniel Kondermann, President of Pallas Ludens (Mannheim, Germany; http://www.pallas-ludens.com), "hundreds of thousands of images such as automobiles, pedestrians, trees, and other obstacles need to be properly identified at multiple scales." Similarly, to build such a system to identify brain tumors in MRI images, a physician must isolate the relevant pixel regions in multiple images. Although global segmentation algorithms may be used to perform this task," says Kondermann, the results of these algorithms may be ambiguous and not as accurate as those performed by an expensive human operator."
Realizing this, Pallas Ludens has developed an elegant way to solve the task of rapid image classification development. Instead of requiring a single trained professional to identify multiple images or objects within images, the company has leveraged the power of crowd sourcing to complete the task
"Companies in the medical, automotive and entertainment industries require classification systems that must be as accurate as possible,"
Tomi Engdahl says:Opel headlights gaze following
GPS fix has already been developed on the basis of the headlights, which are able to anticipate the bends. German Opel goes far beyond this. Its new head light technology following on the driver's eye movements. The technique has worked for several years.
Originally, it was a simple webcam, which was followed by the nose and the eye position and concluded that they were based on the gaze direction. This was a promising technology, but Opel failed to develop a system that would process the process data fast enough.
The development team began instead to improve your eye movements, the following algorithms. Now the camera is able to check the position of the eye in dark and low-light 50 times per second.
The data processing is now almost in real time.
Opel, the technology is still one problem: human eye uncontrolled movement, which in practice it "bounces" back and forth all the time.
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Tomi Engdahl says:Will technology help us escape urban commuting hell?
Fed up of endless traffic jams and overcrowded trains? Then how about commuting to work in your own jetpack?
New Zealand firm Martin Aircraft Company is building a one-person jetpack scheduled to go on sale in 2016. And it actually seems to work.
Although currently slated for use by emergency services, it is only a small leap to imagine it in the hands of commuters.
Meanwhile cities' populations are expanding rapidly, and congestion, pollution and travel stress look likely to rise in tandem, unless we seriously reform our creaking urban transport systems.
Some cities are investing in big infrastructure projects, such as London's Crossrail, while others see the future lying with greener transport alternatives, like electric buses or bike-sharing schemes.
Copenhagen's e-bikes have tablet computers installed between the handlebars with onboard GPS navigation. Users can book and pay for the bikes via their smartphones.
In other cities around the world, authorities are rolling out fleets of electric buses and trialling wireless charging, where buses drive onto special platforms to be charged when in the depot.
In the UK, the Carbon Trust believes that by 2050 up to half of the country's light duty vehicles could be powered by hydrogen fuel cells, with water as the only waste product.
Tomi Engdahl says:How can I switch off GPS in my rented car?
The controversial Hertz NeverLost syste mcannot be switched off, disconnected or removed, says Rick Maybury
I have just returned from a family holiday to the US and we rented a mid-size car for the duration. Although I declined the GPS option, I prefer to use my own, a unit was fitted in the car. The rental car assistant was adamant that all cars had them now, and I only had to pay for it if I used it. It turned out be an absolute pest and even though I switched it off, it came back on every time I started the engine with an annoying jungle.
This would be the controversial Hertz NeverLost system, an increasingly common sight in US rental cars, and not just from Hertz. Some recent NeverLost terminals do indeed have built-in cameras, pointing at the vehicle cabin and apparently it will only be used for video chats with rental company reps, should you seek assistance. They can also be used to track the user's whereabouts, locate stolen vehicles, monitor speed and driving technique as well as doing quite useful things like navigating and route planning. You cannot switch it off, disconnect or remove the unit though, but it seems unlikely that the camera (and microphone) are constantly monitored or recorded and this would be potentially illegal in some States. If you are concerned about privacy the device's eyes and ears are easily neutralised with some strategically placed sticky tape or chewing gum.
Hertz installs cameras and microphones in rental cars
Technically Incorrect: Some of Hertz's NeverLost systems now have cameras and mics — which the company claims it doesn't intend to use at this time.
Tomi Engdahl says:Ford: Our latest car gizmo will starve you of fuel if you're speeding
Fighting automatic regulation with automatic adherence
Ford has announced a new intelligent speed limiter system which reads traffic signs and reduces fuel flow to keep your vehicle within the speed limit.
As much as the petrolhead lobby decries the direct correlation the road safety brigade makes between speed and safety, current legislation means that if you're driving too fast, regardless of how safely, you'll usually get fined.
While a traffic officer can make a judgment call, ticket-bots won't be quite so lenient. Now the Ford tech is fighting automatic regulation with automatic adherence.
The Intelligent Speed Limiter combines current Ford technologies: the Adjustable Speed Limiter and Traffic Sign Recognition, which are both already available on models including the Focus, Mondeo, and Kuga SUV.
At speeds of between 20mph and 120mph the system smoothly decelerates by restricting the fuel supplied to the engine, rather than applying the brakes. Should travelling downhill cause the vehicle to exceed the legislated speed an alarm is sounded.
Drivers can temporarily override the system by firmly depressing the accelerator pedal.
Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding
An anonymous reader sends word of Ford's new "Intelligent Speed Limiter" technology, which they say will prevent drivers from unintentionally exceeding the speed limit. When the system is activated (voluntarily) by the driver, it asks for a current maximum speed. From then on, a camera mounted on the windshield will scan the road ahead for speed signs, and automatically adjust the maximum speed to match them.
Could this spell the end for speeding tickets?
Breaking the speed limit is not something we always do on purpose. All the same, it can be costly in terms of fines, and driving bans, as well as playing a significant role in many road accidents.
In the U.K. alone, in 2013, more than 15,000 drivers received fines of £100 or more for speeding.
We are now launching Intelligent Speed Limiter, a technology that could help prevent drivers from unintentionally exceeding speed limits.
The system monitors road signs with a camera mounted on the windscreen, and slows the vehicle as required. As the speed limit rises, the system allows the driver to accelerate up to the set speed – providing it does not exceed the new limit.
"Drivers are not always conscious of speeding and sometimes only becoming aware they were going too fast when they receive a fine in the mail or are pulled over by law enforcement," said Stefan Kappes, active safety supervisor, Ford of Europe. "Intelligent Speed Limiter can remove one of the stresses of driving, helping ensure customers remain within the legal speed limit."
Tomi Engdahl says:Uber To Turn Into a Big Data Company By Selling Location Data
Tomi Engdahl says:A $60 Gadget That Makes Car Hacking Far Easier
The average automobile today isn't necessarily secured against hackers, so much as obscured from them: Digitally controlling a car's electronics remains an arcane, specialized skill among security researchers. But that's changing fast. And soon, it could take as little as $60 and a laptop to begin messing around with a car's digital innards.
Tomorrow at the Black Hat Asia security conference in Singapore, 24-year-old Eric Evenchick plans to present a new device he calls the CANtact. The open source board, which he hopes to sell for between $60 and $100, connects on one end to a computer's USB port, and on the other to a car or truck's OBD2 port, a network port under its dashboard. That makes the CANtact a cheap interface between any PC and a vehicle's controller area network or CAN bus, the collection of connected computers inside of every modern automobile that control everything from its windows to its brakes.
With just that go-between gadget and the open source software that Evenchick is releasing for free, he hopes to make car hacking a far cheaper and more automated process for amateurs.
it's meant to foster hobbyist car hacking and security research that can expose and help fix a car's vulnerabilities.
The average coder isn't familiar with the protocol most cars' computers rely on to communicate. But Evenchick has written open source software for CANtact that automates much of the manual work of CAN bus hacking.
The CANtact, of course, can only test security exploits that require physical access, not remote attacks on a car's network.
Tomi Engdahl says:France Is Letting 14-Year-Olds Drive This Tiny Electric Car
Being 14 sucks.
Unless, that is, you live in France. Then you just need to beg your parents to buy you a Renault Twizy, a $7,600 "car" that 14-year-olds can now legally drive.
The Twizy is a quadricycle, a 1,000-pound, two-seat electric car meant for zipping around cramped European cities. It's designed to be a safer alternative to bicycles and scooters for the urban set, sporting a 13-horsepower electric motor and enough batteries to take you 60 miles at a maximum speed of 50 mph. It won't hold much cargo
The Twizy has airbags, seat belts, two seats, headlights, turn signals—all those things that actual cars have. And, thanks to new legislation in France, youths as young as 14 can now drive the things legally.
Previously, 14-year olds in France with a road safety certificate (sort of a lightweight-version of a driver's license) could only ride mopeds. Now, in order to comply with EU regulations, that same certificate now allows holders to drive "quadricycles".
As regulated, quadricycles are four-wheeled cars that can't exceed 28 mph, can't have a battery pack bigger than 4 kWh (for electric engines, traditional gas and diesel versions can't have an engine bigger than 50cc), and can't exceed 770 pounds curb weight.
Renault says it's sold some 15,000 Twizys in Europe since launching the thing half a decade ago, and we would love to see the automaker jump the pond and let American teens, or adults, climb in.
Renault has a strategic partnership with Nissan
Tomi Engdahl says:David Ruddock / Android Police:
Hands on with Hyundai's BlueLink car companion app for Android Wear: requires paid subscription and cumbersome PIN, voice commands offer limited functionality
Can A Smartwatch Make Your Car Smarter? A Week With Hyundai's BlueLink For Android Wear
If you own a reasonably modern car (say, within two or three years old), there's a significant chance that car has some kind of cellular connectivity embedded in it, and this allows the car to do stuff remotely. Like, start. Or unlock the doors. Or lock them. Or honk the horn. These things have names… like mbrace (Mercedes), AcuraLink, Enform (Lexus), OnStar (GM), MyLincoln, and so on.
Hyundai's version, BlueLink, isn't the most fully-featured of the bunch, to be honest. But, as one of the first and arguably most enthusiastic Android Auto partners, Hyundai's shown an interest in Android that few automakers have, as evidenced by the fact that BlueLink now has an app for Android Wear. The Wear app does what you'd expect – lock, unlock, remote start, stop, flash lights, honk horn, call roadside assistance, or dial BlueLink. Hyundai is the first auto manufacturer to officially embrace Android Wear, and it's not difficult to see why – a smartwatch makes a pretty ideal replacement for a lot of key fob functions, in theory. But can it actually replace one yet?
For now, the answer is no (not that Hyundai claims otherwise). Partly because you obviously still need the key fob to drive the car, and partly because the experience using Wear right now is just not there yet (also battery life duh). But it's exciting to see where Hyundai (and likely other automakers) will take this concept as it refines and hones the experience and adds features.
My first day experimenting with BlueLink, I decided I would get the car cooled off before I actually got inside.
So, how easy is it to send this command? Well, I think it's fair to say that it's not as easy as most of us would want it to be in an ideal world.
First, you have to activate BlueLink on Wear.
There is no way to voice-ignite your car in a single step.
Part of the problem here is Wear. Wear doesn't support custom voice commands yet, and Hyundai would, according to them, add such a thing if Wear allowed it (ie, "OK, Google – start my car").
I realize it terrifies insurers, but storing an authenticator token on the watch that lets you skip the PIN would be worth any small risk that might present. After all, while I can understand losing your smartphone and thus wanting PIN entry on that end, you're unlikely to have both your watch and phone stolen, but not the car keys, and have a thief savvy enough to understand the watch can unlock the car without a code. A watch is usually pretty safe on your wrist, and the watch also doesn't even work without the phone, so it has secondary authentication already.
As for use cases, purposes for remote locking and unlocking are there, but obviously they're mostly backup measures.
I personally had no problems getting BlueLink to work – just know that when you activate remote ignition, all other remote features are disabled until you then un-start the car
Spending a bit of time with the service, though, I wasn't convinced I'd personally want to pay for it. And yes, Hyundai charges a subscription fee for BlueLink, with cost varying on the subscription type (almost all OEMs that have these systems do charge for service on them, by the way), but the cheapest way to do it would be $450 for a 3-year plan (which comes out around $12.50 a month). Sure, you can tack this kind of stuff onto your car payment, but it's still your money, and you still have to ask if it's worth it.
Tomi Engdahl says:Driverless cars in the UK: Are we nearly there yet?
£100m Budget boost speeds up self-driving cars, but public trust still in the slow lane
DRIVERLESS CARS HAD A BOOST IN THE UK BUDGET last week with a £100m investment from the national coffers, but there are still many obstacles to overcome.
Chancellor George Osborne promised to match business investment to the tune of £100m, and suggested that this would keep the UK "ahead" of the competition.
"We're going to back our brilliant automotive industry by investing £100m to stay ahead in the race to driverless technology," he said during his Budget speech.
Tomi Engdahl says:Magnetic Sensors with Integrated Diagnostics for ASIL Compliance
This technical article presents the magnetic sensor integrated circuits (ICs) that provides diagnostics for automotive safety integrity level (ASIL) compliance. The current revolution in intelligent vehicle control systems relies substantially on the rapidly developing physical detection technology called magnetic sensor integrated circuits (ICs). The complexity, reliability, flexibility, and functionality of these non-contacting, magnetic sensor ICs have all but dispelled the need for electromechanical switches in just about every application in latest generation automobiles. Yet, accompanying this increase in usage of complex electronic devices, is a heightened concern over difficult-to-detect, system-level risks. This, in turn, has led the automotive industry to focus on automotive functional safety. The ISO 26262 functional safety standard outlines a development process, including predictive analysis to minimize risk. This process, in turn, requires advanced diagnostics capabilities integrated directly into magnetic sensor IC systems. An examination is made of a new type of magnetic sensor IC that implements integrated diagnostics, using an innovative embedded solid state coil for end to end system test.
Open the door of any recent-model automobile and you are immediately surrounded by an invisible network of electronic sensors. They detect seat belt buckling, window or sunroof pinching, gear shifter position, engine transmission rotational speed and direction, and camshaft position, to name only a few applications. The penetration of real time sensing into these applications has been made practical by developments in various types of non-contacting magnetic detectors (i.e. Hall effect, Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR), Anisotropic resistive (AMR)). In addition to having very small form factors, these state-of-the-art, solid-state, semiconductor ICs are cost effective, power efficient, non-contacting, and gather a pervasive data stream in the harshest environment of vehicle engines with the subtlety to respond to the slightest of changes in vehicle conditions.
ICs can provide suboptimal outputs, so automotive use requires additional safety measures to avoid unreasonable residual risk according to Automotive Safety Integrity Levels (ASIL), ISO 26262.
Tomi Engdahl says:Helping Tokyo Olympics Tech Drive Succeed
Japan is faced with challenges that ADAS intends to solve — safer driving.
What do Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympics Games have in common? They can both help further the deployment of ADAS technologies.
When a city hosts the Olympic Games it is immediately faced with the challenge of dealing with a significant increase in visitors that need to move from one place to another in a very safe and secure manner. This is no different for Tokyo, one of the largest and most densely populated areas in the world.
For example, a recent study in Japan showed that the number of accidents involving aged people is stable, while that involving younger people has decreased. The Japanese government has strongly highlighted the push towards safer driving technologies as part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics timeline.
From a business perspective, the upcoming Olympics will provide a perfect venue to showcase ADAS technologies from Japanese car makers.
One facet of safer driving in the future is autonomous driving.
But the path to autonomous driving is still a long one from a technical, legal and business perspective.
We will skip the legal aspects for now and focus on the technical aspects. From a technology standpoint, the development of ADAS will require sensors and software to interpret all sensor data, software and hardware to control the direction and speed of the car, and algorithms and software to implement a skilled driver.
These technology challenges, although complex, are solvable with the use of the right tools and methodologies that will enable companies to design the right architecture and start system software development, integration and test earlier.
From a business perspective, automotive companies must deliver these functions at costs that will be acceptable to the consumer and scalability from entry level to high-end vehicles. Development costs, scalability of expected functionality, performance requirements, power management and efficient testing for ISO 26262 will be some of the key development concerns.
Tomi Engdahl says:Faster CAN bus becoming more common in cars
While many manufacturers are already introducing cars Ethernet, CAN-bus is still clearly the most popular bus technology.
Microchip has introduced a new standard FD CAN (Controller Area Network Flexible Data Rate) supporting IC family. The standard, as well as to increase the link speed that the data width of the previous 8 byte 64 bytes. In practice, the CAN FD can, if necessary, increase the bus speed from one to eight megabits per second. Microchip circuits are backwards compatible with the old CAN protocol.
Source: http://www.etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2602:nopeampi-can-vayla-yleistyy-autoissa&catid=13&Itemid=101
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Tomi Engdahl says:Voltage Translation for Automotive Systems
In today's automotive electronics systems, microcontrollers and peripherals operate off different voltage supplies. This is driven by an effort to reduce power consumption. However, as microcontroller voltages drop, many peripherals continue to need higher voltages. This creates a situation of voltage incompatibility.
For two devices to interface reliably, the output driver voltages must be compatible with receiver input thresholds. For this condition to be met in mixed voltage systems, a voltage translator is often required. Typically, voltage translation has been done using logic ICs and sometimes several discrete components. This increases board size, component count, and assembly cost.
TI automotive products include a comprehensive voltage translation portfolio including buffered push-pull and open-drain outputs. These solutions can eliminate the need for multiple ICs, which reduces board real estate and cost. Texas Instruments voltage translation products are compatible with 1.2V CMOS, 1.5V CMOS, 1.8V CMOS, 2.5V CMOS, 3.3V TTL, 3.3V CMOS, 5V CMOS, and 5V TTL.
Tomi Engdahl says:German Auto Firms Face Roadblock In Testing Driverless Car Software
As nations compete to build the first operational autonomous car, German auto-manufacturers fear that current domestic laws limit their efforts to test the appropriate software for self-driving vehicles on public roads. German carmakers are concerned that these roadblocks are allowing U.S. competitors, such as Google, to race ahead in their development of software designed to react effectively when placed in real-life traffic scenarios. Car software developers are particularly struggling to deal with the ethical challenges often raised on the road.
German auto firms face roadblock in testing driverless car software
Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz have all revealed prototype driverless vehicles which can be tested on German roads – however currently they are not legally allowed to test the cars with a distracted driver, i.e. emailing or texting in a moving car on public roads.
"How much warning does a driver need to take back control of a vehicle after they were e-mailing? Is five seconds enough, or do they need 20? These are just some of the issues that need to be resolved," explained Daimler spokesperson Katharina Becker.
Car software developers are also struggling to deal with the ethical challenges often raised on the road. For example when faced with the decision to crash into a pedestrian or another vehicle carrying a family, it would be a challenge for a self-driving car to follow the same moral reasoning a human would in the situation.
"Technologically we can do fully automated self-driving, but the ethical framework is missing," said Winterkorn.
Tomi Engdahl says:News & Analysis
Linux Seeks Security, Unity
Linux is expanding its reach, promising to play a significant role in the Internet of Things. But the open source software needs more attention to interoperability, security and its kernel, according to experts at the Embedded Linux Conference here.
Jaguar Land Rover came to the event saying it will make open source its connected car software, challenging competitors to do the same.
Intel is working on subsets of Tizen for IoT.
The company chose Tizen, in part, because it supports CAN bus, the IVI spec of the Genivi Alliance and HTML5. Land Rover's open source group with four people and now numbers 40 with plans to double staff this year.
Use of open source code is helping the car maker reduce the time to market for new technologies to as little as 16 months from 39 previously. "I hope other car companies figure this out because then I get to benefit from their code,"
Tomi Engdahl says:News & Analysis
Vehicle Reliability Is Up, Especially in Powertrain
Some cars are more reliable than others, but even the vehicles at the bottom of this year's Consumer Reports reliability survey are vastly better than those of 20 years ago in the key areas of powertrain and hardware, experts said this week.
"A brand new car in 1995 was quite a bit worse than it is today," Jake Fisher, director of auto testing for Consumers Union, told Design News. "But the overall problem rates haven't changed much. Engines, transmission, and hardware have gotten better, and electronics have gotten much worse."
Tomi Engdahl says:At the Track With Formula E, the First e-Racing Series
Ars is running a story about the new all-electric racing car series first visit to the U.S.. "The pit lane we're standing in is unusual, and not only because it's a temporary setup placed in the shadow of American Airlines Arena (home of the NBA's Miami Heat)."
Racing goes electric: At the track with Formula E, the first e-racing series
Ars checks out the new all-electric racing car series on its first visit to the US.
Welcome to Formula E, the world's first fully electric racing series. Miami is playing host to the first of two US rounds—the next being held in Long Beach, CA, on April 4—and it's the fifth race in this ePrix's inaugural season. Given we've got a bit of a thing about racing at Cars Technica, as well as an obvious interest in electric vehicles, we had to be on the ground in Miami to experience this for ourselves.
The series kicked off in Beijing in September 2014, and this inaugural 11-round season ends in London this June. Each race takes place in a city center on a temporary street circuit, and the events are condensed into a single day. This both maximizes the spectacle for the fans in attendance and minimizes the disruption to everyone else in the city (with the road closures and so on). It's one of many things we discovered Formula E does in contrast to the more traditional two- or three-day race meeting.
The Miami track has been built on the streets surrounding the city's NBA arena (and the small park that lies next to it).
Largely, that skepticism is aimed at the cars Formula E is racing. For this first season, each of the ten teams is using identical Spark-Renault SRT_01Es, open wheel race cars that look somewhat similar to a Formula 1 or IndyCar.
Behind the driver where you'd normally expect to find a fuel tank and internal combustion engine, there's a 28 kWh lithium-ion battery supplied by the Williams F1 team. This sends up to 200 kW to the powertrain, an electric motor, and five-speed gearbox (supplied by McLaren, another F1 team).
Both companies are rather proud of their contributions to the SRT_01E. Williams was constrained by a rulebook that insisted the battery couldn't weigh more than 441 lbs (200 kg), and the design of the chassis also dictated its dimensions. Despite this, the company built a battery that actually exceeds the allowed energy storage and meets all the crash safety requirements.
At 28 kWh, the SRT_01E's batteries don't store enough electricity to last a full race, and recharging takes almost an hour—far too long to be practical in a pit stop. What's more, a decision was made to use the battery's safety cell as part of the car's structure, so they can't just be swapped during a race (even though Williams had just such a system in development).
The solution? Each Formula E driver needs two cars for the race, jumping from one to the other during a pit stop.
The sound of an SRT_01E in motion really is quite unlike anything we've experienced at a racetrack in the past.
the best approximation we can think of might be the Millennium Falcon
As entertainment, the series has met its goal in the first season. The racing is exciting, and the single-day event format in city centers is a good recipe for a fun day out.
Here's hoping for great things from Formula E in the years to come.
Tomi Engdahl says:Finnish company hard goal: every third car dashboard
In the growth-builder is selected Rightware, which reaches out into higher and higher. The company's goal is that a couple of years to get to 30 per cent of new cars is its user interface technology.
Finnish Venture Capital Association organized the competition the winner was chosen this year Rightware. It reported profits in connection with an agreement to already 14 premium car brand with.
Rightware aim is that in 2017, 30 per cent of new cars used car screens, such as the instrument panel and center console, its interface technology. And the visions just limited to cars, because the business can also be extended, for example, smart home solutions, home appliances and consumer electronics.
"We had a really good timing Automotive and we got quite a clear image of community leaders. We had the best technology and the best references. Now, we are already going fast to the market leader, "says Sarkkinen release.
Source: http://www.tivi.fi/Kaikki_uutiset/2015-03-30/Suomalaisfirman-kova-tavoite-joka-kolmannen-auton-kojelautaan-3218174.html
Tomi Engdahl says:Toughening Up LPDDR4 and Parallel NOR Flash For Automotive
Auto beats consumer market in memory growth
Micron Technologies Inc. has introduced two new families of high-speed low power, double data rate (LPDDR4) DRAM and parallel NOR flash memory products that push performance. Rather than rolling out new memory in desktop, laptops, and mobile devices, the company will debut its chips in the automotive market.
The company's G18 family of high performance flash NOR devices are capable of 266 Mbites/second transfer rates, which will make possible faster boot and code execution for higher density applications.
"With consumers expecting smart phone connectivity in their car infotainment systems along with advanced new automotive features like driver assist systems, memory requirements in the connected car are increasing," said Giorgio Scuro, general manager of Micron's Automotive Division.
So Micron is initially targeting the G18 parallel NOR Flash family at automotive applications that require fast, reliable code storage and execution in the millisecond range, such as the rear–view cameras in advanced driver-assist systems, which need fast boot speed for instant readiness.
Tomi Engdahl says:Asked about Nvidia's plans for its GPU in embedded vision SoCs for Advanced Driver Assitance System (ADAS), Danny Shapiro, senior director of automotive, said Nvidia isn't pushing GPU as a chip company. "We are offering car OEMs a complete system – both 'cloud' and a vehicle computer that can take advantage of neural networks."
A case in point is Nvidia's DRIVE PX platform — based on the Tegra X1 processor — unveiled at the International Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year. The company describes Drive PX as a vehicle computer capable of using machine learning, saying that it will help cars not just sense but "interpret" the world around them.
Conventional ADAS technology today can detect some objects, do basic classification, alert the driver, and in some cases, stop the vehicle. Drive PX goes to the "next level," Nvidia likes to say. Shapiro noted that Drive PX now has the ability to differentiate "an ambulance from a delivery truck."
By leveraging deep learning, a car equipped with Drive PX, for example, can "get smarter and smarter, every hour and every mile it drives," claimed Shapiro. Learning that takes place on the road feeds back into the data center and the car adds knowledge via periodic software updates, Shapiro said.
Audi is the first company to announce plans to use the Drive PX in developing its future automotive self-piloting capabilities. Shapiro said Nvidia will be shipping Drive PX to its customers in May, this year.
Source: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1326149&page_number=2
Tomi Engdahl says:Big Blue to give car insurers IoT peeking powers
New US$3bn business unit promises connected cloudy capers
IBM has announced it will spend US$ billion over four years on a new internet of things business unit.
The company reckons the internet of things label now applies to all the the smart city stuff it did for water and traffic management applications in recent years. The idea seems to be to take that work, sprinkle on a little cloud and/or Watson analytics and deliver what IBM's calling "an open platform to provide manufacturers with the ability to design and produce a new generation of connected devices that are better optimized for the IoT, and to help business leaders across industries create systems that better fuse enterprise and IoT data to inform decision-making."
Which sounds benign. The company's plan to "introduce a cloud-based service that helps insurance companies extract insight from connected vehicles" may appear less so. IBM reckons this service "… will enable new, more dynamic pricing models and the delivery of services that can be highly customized to individual drivers," but it's not hard to imagine something going wrong with that.
IBM's announcement has the whiff of bandwagon-clambering while at the same time representing a new spin on the company's current cloud analytics mantra. There's mention of 2,000 people being dedicated to the IoT effort
Tomi Engdahl says:Elon Musk created nearly $1B in value today with a single tweet
So much for haters who like to dismiss the impact and growth of Twitter.
Today the world – and particularly Wall Street – got a master class in the power of a few well placed words, when a single tweet by Tesla (and SpaceX) CEO Elon Musk cause the electric car maker's stock to jump nearly 4 percent in just 10 minutes – adding a staggering $900 million to the company's market cap in just 115 characters.
What new information did Musk share to have such impact? The tweet was light on details, but heavy on hype and anticipation – just the kind of commentary that the SEC tends to frown upon.
The tweet may have initially gone out to Musk's 1.86 million followers, but the impact was far greater. By the end of the day, Musk's message had been retweeted more than 4,700 times and favorited another 3,700, while eliciting thousands more responses.
There may not be too many other execs that could drive the kind of instant stock rally as Musk by doing little more than circle a date on the calendar.
Tomi Engdahl says:B & O's car audio business is transferred to Harman
Among other things, Audi, Aston Martin, BMW and Mercedes Benz models excellently appointed address solutions implemented Bang & Olufsen has sold the entire car audio side racing partner of Harman International Industries.
The transaction price has been notified of EUR 145 million, and it gives Harman's use of the license throughout the B & O's in-car sound
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Tomi Engdahl says:DSI (Distributed Systems Interface)
In response to an automotive requirement for a robust, fault-tolerant communication system for airbag crash sensor applications, a consortium of TRW, DENSO, and Freescale Semiconductor developed the DSI serial bus specification that includes power and signal over a single wire.
DSI specification allows for enough local energy storage so that the system can withstand intermittent loss of main power.
DSI version 2.5 includes error detection via a CRC (cyclic redundance check) of up to 8 bits, and frequency spreading for improved EMI performance. It's a full-duplex master-slave system; the master communicates via a differential bus voltage signal while a slave responds by varying the current draw to indicate a logic high or low.
Freescale offers both master and slave DSI devices that can communicate at up to 200 Kbps. The MC33781 Quad Bus Master communicates with a host microcontroller via SPI and controls up to 15 individually-addressable slave devices, connected in a daisy-chain configuration, on each of its four channels.
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The Distributed Systems Interface (DSI) is a flexible and powerful bus protocol designed to interconnect multiple remote sensor and actuator devices to a central control module. The principal target application for the network is automotive airbag systems.


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Founded 30 years ago, Cisco designs and sells software, hardware, networking and communications-technology services. Although the company has made forays into the consumer market, it is best known as a world-leading provider of IP networking equipment, supplying about four-fifths of the infrastructure that powers the Internet.
Telehouse is a carrier-neutral provider of colocation and managed data center services, operating a network of 42 data centers in 24 cities in 13 countries in Asia,Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and North America. Expansions in existing markets that are scheduled to open in 2015 and 2016 will take the company's total footprint to 371,000m2 in 45 data centers.
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IT demand is being driven by the explosion of smart mobile devices, real-time sensor data, cloud computing, cybersecurity and advanced predictive analytics. Meanwhile, cloud computing has become the vehicle to make all these services available to customers at reasonable prices.
Interxion (pronounced "interaction") provides cloud and carrier neutral colocation data center services in Europe. It operates 37 data centers in 13 cities in 11 countries, houses over 500 carriers, ISPs and content delivery networks (CDNs), hosts 20 Internet exchanges, and provides services to some 1,400 customers.
Over the past decade, the European data center industry has come to be regarded as a crucial foundation for the growth of the Digital Economy. This has coincided with a period of rapid data center expansion and evolution.
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Australian pacers' intimidating spells against the English batsmen has made the Australia-South Africa series – a mouth-watering contest.
Was Pietersen made a scapegoat for England`s Ashes debacle?
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KP possibly had to face the wrath of the selectors for Ashes humiliation.
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For those who have missed how Jose Mourinho out-foxed Manuel Pellegrini, another duel will happen in 11 days time, in their FA Cup's fifth round match. The same star-cast, the same setting and of course, even more intense drama.
Cook's problems haven't ended with the Ashes tour
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If England were asked whether they would want to fly back home, after the Ashes Test series, Alastair Cook would have gladly accepted the offer.
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Pujara could solve India`s batting woes in ODIs.
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Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu has requested Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy to strengthen the personal security provided to C. Shashi Kumar, a witness in the illegal mining case against Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), of Kadapa.
In a letter to the Chief Minister on Saturday, Mr. Naidu said that Mr. Shashi Kumar was being threatened including attempts on his life by the supporters of Gali Janardhan Reddy, one of the main accused in the case.
His vehicles were also damaged by miscreants but the local police had failed to nab the culprits.
When approached, the CBI had also asked the State Government to provide ample security to him, but in vain. Instead of strengthening security to him, the local police had recently booked a case against Mr. Shashi Kumar to harass him, Mr. Naidu said.
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Sheath-Flow Cuvette for High-Sensitivity Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection in Capillary Electrophoresis
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Sobhani, Kimia; Michels, David A.; Dovichi, Norman J.
The sheath-flow cuvette is a key component in a high-sensitivity post-column laser-induced fluorescence detector for capillary electrophoresis. Most designs are based on commercial cuvettes originally manufactured for use in a flow cytometer. In these devices, a quartz flow chamber is held in a stainless-steel fixture that is difficult to machine and subjects the cuvette to a torque when sealed, which frequently leads to damage of the flow chamber. In this report we present a design for a cuvette that may easily be constructed. This design uses compression to hold and seal the quartz flow chamber without applying torque. The system produces detection limits (3σ) of 115 yoctomoles (70 copies) for FQ-labeled carbonic anhydrase.


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Two Nations Indivisible
Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead
Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, andultimately shape Americans' perception of Mexico as a dangerous and scary place, overrun by brutal drug lords. Without a doubt, the drug war is real. In the last six years, over 60,000 people have been murdered in narco-related crimes. But, there is far more to Mexico's story than this gruesome narrative would suggest.While thugs have been grabbing the headlines, Mexico has undergone an unprecedented and under-publicized political, economic, and social transformation. In her groundbreaking book, Two Nations Indivisible, Shannon K. O'Neil argues that the United States is making a grave mistake by focusing on thepolitics of antagonism toward Mexico. Rather, we should wake up to the revolution of prosperity now unfolding there. The news that isn't being reported is that, over the last decade, Mexico has become a real democracy, providing its citizens a greater voice and opportunities to succeed on their own side of the border. Armed with higher levels of education, upwardly-mobile men and women have been working their wayout of poverty, building the largest, most stable middle class in Mexico's history.This is the Mexico Americans need to get know. Now more than ever, the two countries are indivisible. It is past time for the U.S. to forge a new relationship with its southern neighbor. Because in no uncertain terms, our future depends on it.
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What are some steps a grandmother can take if she has a 16 year old daught staying with her in school and she have not seen her period in 3 months. The doctor say she is not pregnant. The girl said she have had sex. What can the mother do as far a getting this child in a home so she can take care of the baby. The grand parents are in their eighties and they are tired after raising 2 sets of childrens. Please help.
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rabbit8, I caught that she's not pregant, but given the situation you describe, I'm worried about her being under-weight or exercising too much, both of which can cause menstruation to cease. There are serious health issues if a girl or woman is not menstruating because she's underweight.
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'Writing Spirit' documents my journey with spirit by sharing some of the observations my guides and other communicators have made through their writing with me. Each post can be read as stand alone but those interested in the journey and the process might prefer to start with 'About' and read the posts in chronological order.
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January 2, 2015
With the low temperatures for the past 5 days, 60 degree freezing days have accumulated. Therefore, there is a potential for ice creation and jamming. Flows at Algonquin Dam today are 839 cfs. The potential for flooding from an ice jam is low as flows are below 1100 cfs required for flooding of Richardson Subdivision during an ice jam .
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One young and talented actress, who is really starting to see her hard work and dedication pay off, is the beautiful Lili Simmons, who has been in the acting game for about four years or so now. Lili has appeared in a number of television shows over the past few years, as well as making the occasional big screen appearance.
For those of you unfamiliar with Lili Simmons, she plays the role of Rebecca Bowman in the hit television series Banshee, appearing in 20 episodes of the show so far. Meanwhile, Lili has also landed herself a role in the new, much talked about, HBO series True Detectives playing the role of Beth. Lili Simmons will also appear with AJ Michalka and Tania Raymonde in the upcoming movie The Guilty Innocent.
At the age of just 21 years old Lili Simmons has her whole career ahead of her and, following some recent impressive performances, we have no doubt that she will go on to become a big Hollywood star. Lili has a huge amount of acting talent and potential, as well as stunningly beautiful good looks, which will all play a part in her rise to Hollywood stardom.


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In this interactive course, participants discover depth and meaning in life stories through exploration of major life themes. Participants write a story on the weekly theme and share two pages in class within a supportive small group. By writing and sharing stories, individuals give their memories context and meaning, gain insight to reevaluate their past and influence their future, and connect with others to form a community of creativity and personal expression. No writing experience is necessary.
Joanne Horn, an experienced human relations consultant, has a background of mental health research and program development. From 1987 to 2007, she owned Conflict Resolution Service, Inc.—offering mediation, facilitation, conflict management and training services for families and organizations throughout Washington State. As a dynamic, engaging adult educator, Joanne has trained diverse populations and specialized in developing interactive curricula. She served as adjunct faculty for Antioch University and has taught at the University of Washington Medical School as well as Seattle University and University of Washington law schools. Actively engaged in the field of aging, as director of Second Half Connections, Joanne provides workshops to promote creativity and offer opportunities for renewed meaning and direction in the second half of life. She has earned a certificate of instructor training from the Birren Autobiographical Studies as well as certificates of Geriatric Mental Health and Memoir Writing from the University of Washington.
Emphasis on FUN! Free your creative spirit with this fast paced, upbeat 'you-don't-need-to-know-a-thing' introduction to collage. Come prepared to learn the basics of collage, materials, and techniques in a supportive environment and go home with the confidence to create masterpieces of your own!
Believing that creativity is our birthright, but realizing that fear can paralyze the creative soul, Wendy Lee Lynds seeks to bring the joy of creating into everything she does. For as long as she can remember, Wendy wanted to be a visual artist but let fear and choosing a more traditional life-path, keep her away from her heart's desire. For a million reasons, and one motorcycle man from Utah, she radically changed her life, and has been living her dream on beautiful Whidbey Island since 2005, creating multi-layered, textural works in collage, mixed media and monotypes. She loves sharing her joy of art-making!
Learn how to break through the emotional and physical boundaries of "fear" and embrace enthusiasm and possibility again. Particpants will learn 14 different "fear buster" interventions that will leave them with a new sense of positiveness and ready to make the impossible, possible. Identify how "fear" and "stress" can create emotional and physical roadblocks that prevent stories of possibility. At the end of the course participants will be able to list and regularly implement 14 different "fear buster" interventions to help maintain positive energy and enthusiasm on a regular basis, and author their own story of success. Participants will be able to discuss how managing fear, stress, and other negative roadblocks in positive ways helps to increase overall satisfaction and happiness, laying a stronger foundation for possibility.
anea Miller is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Washington State. Lanea graduated with B.A. in Psychology and a M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pacific Lutheran University. She has provided thousands of hours of individual, couple, family, and group therapy throughout a variety of different community settings for the past 10 years. In addition to her private practice, Coloring Possibilities, Lanea is currently working at two different community clinics as a Behavioral Health Specialist with low income families. She has facilitated many different trainings and groups on narrative therapy, increasing positive self-esteem, and motivation. Lanea has also co-hosted the radio program "Talk Therapy" on 1180AM KLAY. She is a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy.
Make simple jewelry and learn silver soldering. This basic class covers sawing, piercing, filing, rivets, surface design techniques, and edge finishing. Discover the tools and supplies you need to enjoy this craft in your home or studio. Hand tools and small butane torches are provided for use in class. All supplies are included in fee.
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Meeting those people is so frustrating. That is basically my work day every day, and to make it worse, I stalk people in my industry on social media and a local industry blog. I could have been you, if I had just gotten an internship earlier in college! I could have been you, if my literature professors had ever once, just once, mentioned jobs. I could have been you, if I had known it was an option.
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Hey, that was my weekend too! And now there's a new car in my garage, but I took the bus to work today, because my parking card isn't effective until the 15th and while I can spend tens of thousands of dollars on a new car, I can't pay $13 a day for parking even for a few days. That is because the car = new life, funded by inheritance, and parking = old life. I don't know why. Paying cash is a weird position to be in. The whole thing was weird. So I researched for a year, went to one dealership, drove one car, negotiated down $1,000 and walked away with one less check in my checkbook. Buy the car. Then you can do things like doctors appointments and dog play dates.
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1. How much did you spend on presents this year? So far I think I'm close to $400 and I'm not done. 2. How much did your most expensive gift cost? $99, love you, boyfriend. That is one of several for him. 3. How about the least expensive gift? Well, the jelly beans I wrapped with my nephew's $50 iTunes gift card were $1. 4. Did you make a budget before you began shopping for presents? No. 5. If yes to #4, did you stay within your budget? Um, definitely exceeded. 6. Did you put any presents on a (gasp!) credit card. Yes, most of them, because I'm awaiting a large chunk of money that hasn't hit yet, and the extravagant gift giving is part of the new life that comes with that money. New life (gifts; J. Crew jeans) is on credit card; old life (groceries) on my debit card. 7. Do you feel like you spent "the right amount" on presents this year? I just found out about a significant inheritance, but haven't worked out the details about when I get the money. So, I kind of went a little crazy with the gift giving this year, because I went a little crazy shopping for myself and feel like I need to take care of others. I see my family so rarely and wanted to give them useful gifts this year. Also, I haven't sent my nephew a gift in a few years and needed to make up for that. So this is mostly guilt-driven giving. It's very weird to find out about a life-changing amount of money right during gift giving season, especially when you don't actually have the money. Realistically, I probably would have spent the same amount inheritance or no inheritance. These were all good gifts.
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My whole take away from this is basically just that work sucks, being an employee sucks, marketing kind of sucks, life sucks, and this interview moves me one tiny step closer to leaving the office world and becoming a dog walker. Sounds like this person had a really awful experience, and I think we can all relate. It's hard to not like the taste of the Kool-Aid.


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3' crown of leaves
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Pachypodium Fiherense
Pachypodium Geayi -in front of the Cereus-which(BTW)has grown out the whole branch on the left,the one in the center and the blue part of the one on the right-and I was wondering why the top didn't grow!
Sequoia is 7' 1"
This Fiddle leaf fig has grown out everything above the yardstick in 6 weeks or so?
Philodendron (Hope) or is it Hype?
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C.Maxima,L.Grandis,L.Ramsayi,T.Martianus(Khasia hills),T.Martianus.
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H.parviflora -the one one the other side bloomed this spring-still going too.
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One of Garry's(Coldplant)Stonegate Princeps.
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Castor beans...somewhere in the neighborhood of 13' while they stand.
Castors on the east side
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Pressured by competition and a weak economy, Western Union WU 3.553299492385787% Western Union Co. U.S.: NYSE USD20.4 0.7 3.553299492385787% /Date(1427749266125-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9441409 AFTER HOURS USD20.42 0.0200000000000031 0.09803921568627451% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13213 P/E Ratio 12.830188679245284 Market Cap 10272467042.1181 Dividend Yield 3.0392156862745097% Rev. per Employee 560560 More quote details and news » cut some prices by at least 5% last fall for customers sending money abroad. The move marked a big step for the biggest name in the $466 billion consumer money-transfer business. But it appears to be paying off.
Western Union has 515,000 agents in 200 countries, giving it huge economies of scale. The Times Square branch is a popular destination for travelers. Eduardo Munoz/Landov
Western Union's first-quarter earnings, although depressed, beat analysts' estimates, propelled by a 9% uptick in transaction volume in the critical Mexican market. CEO Hikmet Ersek said on the company's earnings conference call that "pricing actions are working as planned," and that Western Union expects to "exit 2013 with strong momentum."
That could be welcome news to the company's long-suffering shareholders, who have seen the stock (ticker: WU) slide to a recent $16 from a high near $30 in mid-2008. If the business grows, as expected, the shares, too, could gain momentum, and advance to $19 or so. Add a 3.1% dividend yield, and investors could enjoy a total return of almost 21% in the next 12 months.
WESTERN UNION WAS FOUNDED as a telegraph operator in 1851, and spun out of First Data in 2006. The Englewood, Colo., company generated 74% of last year's $5.7 billion in revenue from money-transfer fees, mostly from its consumer-to-consumer business, which primarily serves under-banked immigrants remitting funds to folks back home. The average transaction involves $341, on which it charges a fee of up to 5%. Western Union also offers bill payments via its consumer-to-business unit, and facilitates cross-border payment services among businesses.
Western Union processed $71 billion of cross-border transactions in 2012, although its market share slipped to 15% from 17% the prior year, according to Aite Group, a research firm focused on the financial-services industry. Rival MoneyGram International MGI -1.1682242990654206% MoneyGram International Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD8.46 -0.1 -1.1682242990654206% /Date(1427749200097-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 369535 AFTER HOURS USD8.46 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 36147 P/E Ratio 7.981132075471698 Market Cap 455297855.26577 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 550165 More quote details and news » (MGI), with 5% of the market, has been grabbing share by charging less, and Chief Financial Officer Alex Holmes says the company is "confident we are well positioned to continue to increase market share globally."
Online-transfer operators, including newly public Xoom XOOM 2.64808362369338% Xoom Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD14.73 0.38 2.64808362369338% /Date(1427749200156-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 264815 AFTER HOURS USD14.73 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4153 P/E Ratio 163.66666666666666 Market Cap 555330683.593369 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 539268 More quote details and news » (XOOM), also have been encroaching on Western Union's core walk-in, cash-to-cash business.
Western Union has faced regulatory issues, too. It settled a suit in 2010 with Arizona, which charged that the company hadn't done enough to catch and curb illegal money-transfer activities along the state's border with Mexico. Last year, Western Union cut ties to 7,000 agents in Mexico who failed to meet compliance standards.
Yet, Western Union's trusted name and installed base of 515,000 agents in 200 countries give it a wider moat than its market valuation suggests, and unmatched economies of scale. Moreover, the company is investing heavily in digital money transfer, to keep pace as the industry moves online. Management, which was unavailable to comment, has said that Western Union is on track to boost digital revenue to $500 million by 2015 from $150 million now.
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Investors aren't paying much for Western Union these days, but could be getting more than they realize. The stock trades for 11 times this year's expected earnings of $1.41 a share, and 10 times next year's forecast of $1.59. The company lowered revenue and profit guidance in October, sparking a selloff in the shares, and said in February that 2013 earnings guidance could fall to a range of $1.33 to $1.43. Western Union earned $1.74 a share in 2012.
James Kenny, an analyst at Ariel Investment in Chicago, expects Western Union to trade up to the low $20s in the next few years, as unemployment levels fall around the world. "No one is better positioned to benefit from this long-term, secular trend," he says.
In the near term, the company could get help from a stronger housing market, which relies on immigrant labor.
The Bottom Line
Western Union shares could rally to $19 in the next 12 months, and to the low $20s thereafter, as the economy improves and transaction volume grows. The shares yield 3.1%.
Bryan Keane, an analyst at Deutsche Bank Securities, sees a 2% uptick in revenue next year in Western Union's consumer-to-consumer business, and a 7% rise in business-to-business, helping drive total revenue to $5.6 billion. "We expect Western Union's pricing actions to result in share gains, as the company further penetrates new distribution channels such as mobile and online," he wrote recently.
But skeptics like Goldman Sachs analyst Julio Quinteros had the upper hand until recently. "Limited visibility on whether transactions stick into 2014 and beyond keep us guarded," Quinteros wrote in a recent report. He has a Sell rating on the stock, and a price target of $13.
WESTERN UNION GENERATED an average of $1 billion in free cash flow in each of the past three years, and expects free cash to total $900 million this year. It plans to use most of the funds to pay the dividend and buy back shares. Last October, at the same time it lowered earnings guidance, the company announced a 25% dividend increase, to 50 cents a share, and approved a new buyback program of $550 million. It has reduced the share count by more than 20% since 2006, spending $4.3 billion to buy in stock.
Seizing on the weakness in the shares, several insiders also picked up stock last fall, including three directors and Ersek, the CEO, who purchased 8,060 million shares in early November for $12.36 apiece. The insiders are looking smart so far, and even more gains could come their way.
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