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The Los Alamos Animal Shelter, 226 East Road, 662-8179, has a great selection of adoptable pets just waiting for their forever home, so come adopt your new best friend today! All adoptable pets are microchipped, spayed or neutered, and up-to-date on vaccinations. Shelter hours are noon – 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Saturday, and noon–3 p.m. Sunday.
Be sure to check out the website at lafos.org, where you can get more information about volunteering, adopting, and donating. You can also check out our Petfinder website for pictures of our adorable adoptable animals: petfinder.com/shelters/friendsoftheshelter.html.
Juan—A big tomcat who was trapped a few weeks ago. He's still adjusting to life at the shelter, but two very dedicated Friends of the Shelter volunteers have been working with Juan to help him relax. He's finally learning that people can be nice and gentle, particularly when they have treats! Check back in a few weeks for more information about Juan!
A commentator on a TV news show recently talked about new developments involving the ride company Uber. The commentator remarked that Uber has made sure to set up its procedures so drivers are independent contractors, not employees.
The dilemma over independent contractors versus employees is nothing new. It's just expanding and affecting more of us with changes in the way Americans do business.
This was cited as a major trend at a national conference of workers' compensation professionals. The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC), meeting in April in Santa Fe, noted how new businesses like Uber are blurring the lines between employment and self-employment. This could lead, some participants said, to significant changes in how workers are protected, if they are protected at all.
Workers' compensation is provided by almost all employers to employees. Employees injured at work are entitled to medical care with no deductibles or co-pays and, if unable to work due to the injury, cash benefits as a partial wage replacement.
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April 28 — A boy. Elijah Dexter Sutherland. Born to Liese-Mrie and Landon Sutherland.
May 2 — A girl. Michaela Carolyn Lopez. Born to Christina McCormick and Robert Lopez.
May 5 — A boy. Locas Yucheng Wang. Born to Juan and Peng Wang.
May 6 — A girl. Brinley Paige Hofer. Born to Melanie and Dacotah Hofer.
May 13 — A girl. Corinne Annelise Bakosi. Born to Lisa and Jozsef Bakosi.
Sometimes you don't know what your true calling is until you weather the storm.
Abe Gordon, a resident here in his youth, has returned to the place where the game of life would deal him some hard lessons but create a vision to allow him to help others overcome the obstacles set before them.
Gordon moved to Los Alamos at the age of 13, from Chimayo, but didn't have his first experience with drugs until he arrived on the hill.
He began smoking pot and drinking, was introduced to psychedelics then, in his teens, to meth, cocaine and heroin. He remained an addict until the age of 31, when he fought felony charges that might have caused him to spend the rest of his life in prison.
He found the Delancey Street Foundation or perhaps they found him. It was where he would begin the fight for his life for four and a half years. The initial fight is just one of many for someone battling to stay clean from drug use and Gordon has been clean for more than nine years.
Someone overcoming addiction can't always acclimate back into a society surrounded by the same problems, the same people and the same drug use, but Inside Out Recovery has come to help by opening a Los Alamos office on Mondays and Tuesdays.
One of the largest kite festivals in New Mexico will take flight once again in White Rock this weekend, with a string of family friendly activities to keep everyone happy.
The 19th annual Kite Festival begins at 6 p.m. today, with live music by Eric McFadden Band, the first in a series of summer concerts presented by Gordon's Summer Concerts series, as well as a nighttime kite flying demonstration and glow.
On Saturday and Sunday, children will be able to tap into their creativity with kite building workshops from noon to 2 p.m., where they can color and design kites, attach line and watch them fly.
The festival also attracts adult kite enthusiasts from across the Southwest when intricately shaped and hand made kites add color to the skies.
Along with stunt kite flying, the event includes food, crafts, hands on activities and kites for sale. A "kite hospital" will even be available, staffed with kite medics to mend the inevitable broken and injured kites using sticks, duct tape, and ingenuity.
The Kite Festival takes place at Overlook Park in White Rock, just eight miles southwest of Los Alamos. Festival hours are from 7–10 p.m. today and from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Plaque dedication ceremony honoring the recent addition of the U.S. Post Office in downtown Los Alamos to the National and State Register of Historic Places at 3:30 p.m. near the entrance to the post office. After brief remarks by those involved in obtaining the designation, the plaques will be unveiled and refreshments will be served.
Los Alamos Kite Festival at the soccer fields in Overlook Park in White Rock. Children of all ages are welcome to come and join the festivities. The Kite Festival weekend kicks off today at 7 p.m. with the Summer Concert Series. Kite artists will be on the field with their kites on display and a night kite fly demonstration. The main festival is held from noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The day includes music, food, kite-building workshops for kids, and kite flying.
Mason Lodge waffle breakfast from 7:30-10:30 a.m. at the Pajarito Masonic Lodge on 15th Street and Canyon. Tickets are $7 for adults and $3.50 for children 6 and under.
The Los Alamos Community Winds will present its Season Finale Concert at 7 p.m. at White Rock Baptist Church, 80 State Road 4, White Rock. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. A $10 donation per guest is suggested. A reception will follow the concert to which the audience is cordially invited.
The Rotary Club of Los Alamos recently held auditions for the annual Deborah Beene Music Award competition. The award was established in the memory of Deborah Beene, daughter of Donald and Sara Beene, a violin and piano student who died while enrolled in school here in December 1973.
The award is intended to assist ninth through 12th-grade Los Alamos High School students in their musical growth. The students receiving the award are asked to use the money, a single award of up to $1,500, for fees to attend a music camp, for college or university music expenses, for the purchase of a better instrument, or for tuition for private music instruction.
This year's winners are:
• First place ($1,200): violinist Jamie Philps, performing "Concerto in C Major, allegro molto e con brio" by Kabalevsky; piano accompaniment, Cindy Little; teacher, Kay Newnam.
• Second place ($600): violinist Grace Kim, performing "Romance in F Major" by Beethoven; piano accompaniment, Katherine Wang; teacher, Kay Newnam
• Third-Place Tie:
($300): Brian Johnson, CDJ2000s synthesizer, original compositions; teacher Rami Pearlman.
($300): cellist Irene Kwon, "Prelude from Cello Suite No. 3" by Bach; teacher, Sally Guenther.
Juvenile Justice Advisory Board meeting 6 p.m. in building 1, Camino Entrada Road, Pajarito Cliffs Site. Carie Fanning will speak about Family Strength Networks and the Parenting with Love and Logic classes. The public is welcome to attend.
Chamber Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in room 230, building 2 at UNM-LA, 4000 University Drive. Speaker New Mexico Cabinet Secretary for Aging and Long Term Services Myles Copeland will talk about employees who are distracted by the demands of also being a caregiver for an aging family member.
Los Alamos Faith & Science Forum winter series at 6:30 p.m. at Hall at Kelly Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church. Topic will be "What Makes Us Human?" A video/presentation begins at 6 p.m. followed by a large group discussion at 6:30 p.m., then an optional, informal small group discussion. Attendees can bring dinner. All are welcome. Follow the blog at lafsf.org.
Plaque dedication ceremony honoring the recent addition of the U.S. Post Office in downtown Los Alamos to the National and State Register of Historic Places at 3:30 p.m. near the entrance to the post office. After remarks, the plaques will be unveiled and refreshments will be served.
Twelve college-bound high school students from Northern New Mexico have been selected for scholarships administered by the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee.
The students are from Los Alamos, Pojoaque Valley and Santa Fe high schools.
The JROMC has awarded over 200 scholarships and other awards totaling more than $420,000 since the program was begun in 1984. The philanthropic organization's scholarship program is supported by several limited-term endowments, numerous small, individual donations, and major contributions from the Los Alamos National Bank.
The J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee is dedicated to preserving the legacy of Robert Oppenheimer, the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
This year's selected students from Los Alamos High School are:
Jovan Zhang: J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Scholarship supported by the committee, awarded to a student for outstanding promise in science and mathematics.
Katherine Wang: J. Robert Oppenheimer Scholarship in Memory of Mary and Harold Argo, awarded to a young woman for outstanding promise in the arts or sciences.
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Kenny's Sun Rises to No. 1
Kenny Chesney's latest album, Lucky Old Sun, lands at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 albums chart.
This marks the fifth time in Kenny's career that he's hit No. 1 on the Top 200. Kenny notes that this album is slightly more personal than previous releases. "When you do something that's a little more intimate, that's a little bit less about the party and the good times, you're not sure how people are going to respond," says Kenny. "I think you get to a place where you realize your fans want more from you, [they] want to listen to what's really going on in your life."
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The LswApiCallerBundle adds a CURL API caller to your Symfony2 application. It is easy to use from the code and is aimed to have full debugging capabilities.
Read the LeaseWebLabs blog about LswApiCallerBundle
- PHP 5.3 with curl support
- Symfony 2.1
Installation is broken down in the following steps:
- Download LswApiCallerBundle using composer
- Enable the Bundle
- Make sure the cURL module in PHP is enabled
Step 1: Download LswApiCallerBundle using composer
Add LswApiCallerBundle in your composer.json:
{ "require": { "leaseweb/api-caller-bundle": "*", ... } }
Now tell composer to download the bundle by running the command:
$ php composer.phar update leaseweb/api-caller-bundle
Composer will install the bundle to your project's
vendor/leaseweb directory.
Step 2: Enable the bundle
Enable the bundle in the kernel:
<?php // app/AppKernel.php public function registerBundles() { $bundles = array( // ... new Lsw\ApiCallerBundle\LswApiCallerBundle(), ); }
Step 3: Make sure the cURL module in PHP is enabled
On a Debian based distribution (like Ubuntu) the package is called "php5-curl" and can be installed using the following commands:
$ sudo apt-get install php5-curl $ sudo service apache2 restart
On a RedHat based distribution (like CentOS) the package is called "php-curl" and can be installed using the following commands:
$ sudo yum install php-curl $ sudo service httpd restart
To check this create and run a PHP file with the following contents:
<?php phpinfo() ?>
It should display that the option "cURL support" is set to "enabled".
This package should work on a Windows installation as well provided the CURL support is enabled in PHP.
You can use the caller by getting the service "api_caller" and using the "call" function with one of the available call types:
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- HttpPostJson
- HttpPutJson
- HttpDeleteJson
- HttpGetHtml
Example of usage with the "HttpGetJson" call type:
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller use Lsw\ApiCallerBundle\Call\HttpGetJson; class SomeController extends Controller { public function someAction() { ... $output = $this->get('api_caller')->call(new HttpGetJson($url, $parameters)); ... } }
By default it uses these cURL options:
parameters: api_caller.options: timeout: 10 # maximum transport + execution duration of the call in sec. ssl_verifypeer: false # to stop cURL from verifying the peer's certificate. useragent: "LeaseWeb API Caller" # contents of the "User-Agent: " header. followlocation: true # to follow any "Location: " header that the server sends. sslversion: 3 # set to 3 to avoid any bugs that relate to automatic version selection. fresh_connect: false # set to true to force full reconnect every call.
This bundle is under the MIT license.
The "wall-socket" icon in the web debug toolbar is part of the Picas icon set (official website: http://www.picasicons.com). The icon is licensed and may only be used to identifying the LswApiCallerBundle in the Symfony2 web debug toolbar. All ownership and copyright of this icon remain the property of Rok Benedik.


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William Hague has urged Iraqis to form a government of national unity to tackle what he called the "existential threat" from Sunni extremists.
The foreign secretary made the appeal after flying into Baghdad today for meetings with Nouri al-Maliki, the country's Shia prime minister, and other leading figures.
Mr Maliki has already rejected western calls for a unity government, insisting that introducing an emergency administration would amount to a "coup against the constitution" after he won elections in April.
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Name each of the reactant alcohols and product aldehydes in Practice Problem 12.7, at the end of Example 12.7, using the I.U.P.A.C. Nomenclature System. Hint: Refer to Example 12.7, as well as to Section 13.2, to name the aldehyde products.
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Write an equation showing the oxidation of the following primary alcohols:
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In the I.U.P.A.C. system, aldehydes are named according to the following set of rules:
• Determine the parent compound, that is, the longest continuous carbon chain containing the carbonyl group.
• Replace the final -e of the parent alkane with -al.
• Number the chain beginning with the carbonyl carbon (or aldehyde group) as carbon-1.
• Number and name all substituents as usual. No number is used for the position of the carbonyl group because it is always at the end of the parent chain. Therefore, it must be carbon-1.


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Innate Pharma has picked up full rights to the anti-NKG2A antibody, an immune checkpoint inhibitor from Novo Nordisk said to be ready for Phase II development in oncology. Per the agreement, Novo Nordisk will receive €2 million ($2.72 million) in cash and 600,000 shares for licensing the humanized IgG4 antibody to Innate and could potentially receive €20 million ($27.2 million) in registration milestones and royalties on future sales.
NKG2A is a checkpoint receptor that inhibits anticancer functions of cytotoxic natural killer (NK) and T lymphocytes, and anti-NKG2A (IPH2201) can potentially re-establish an antitumour response mediated by NK and T cells. Anti-NKG2A is the third therapeutic antibody generated in a partnership inked between Novo Nordisk and Innate Pharma back in 2006 focused on developing new drugs targeting NK.
Novo Nordisk says it conducted a Phase I trial with anti-NKG2A in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, where the mAb demonstrated a good safety profile for both iv and sc routes at both single and multiple administrations. The firm says it is planning to advance other compounds for further development in inflammation.
"We look forward to now taking [anti-NKG2A] forward in cancer indications where there is a great need for better treatments and where drugs of this type have shown tremendous benefit in recent years," Innate Pharma's CSO Nicolaï Wagtmann said in a statement.
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An exhibit of Young's original watercolor vintage car paintings featured throughout Special Deluxe was installed this week at the James Goodman Gallery in New York City. Pictured at a Monday night reception at the Goodman: (left to right) Caroline Riordan, Director, Digital and Online Business Development, Penguin Random House; David Rosenthal, President & Publisher, Blue Rider Press; Linda Cowen, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Penguin Publishing Group; Neil Young; and Jacqueline Updike, President, Sales, Penguin Random House. CBS This Morning's Charlie Rose and Ric Ocasek, founding member of The Cars and a Blue Rider Press author, were also among the guests. For insights into Young's painting style and car illustrations, read the informative feature on Wired.com.
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Lovely! Made this ham for Easter dinner and it was enjoyed by all. Quick to fix and not overly sweet, a nice balance of sweet and savory. Used reduced-sodium soy sauce. I normally make a ham shank, but the spiral ham didn't tie up the oven all day, an added bonus. Thanks for sharing the recipe!!
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The SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s) is a family of 5.56 mm small arms designed and produced (until 1988) by the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock. In 1988 production of the rifle was transferred to the Royal Ordnance's Nottingham Small Arms Facility (later British Aerospace, Royal Ordnance; now BAE Systems Land Systems Munitions & Ordnance).
In 2000, Heckler & Koch, at that time owned by Royal Ordnance, were contracted to upgrade the SA80 family of weapons. Two hundred thousand SA80s were re-manufactured at a cost of £400 each, producing the L85A2 variant. Changes focused primarily on improving reliability and include: a redesigned cocking handle, modified bolt, extractor and a redesigned hammer assembly that produces a slight delay in the hammer's operation in continuous fire mode, improving reliability and stability. The L85A2 can also mount the HK AG36 40 mm grenade launcher in a configuration similar to the M203 grenade launcher. The addition of the grenade launcher adds another 3.30 lb (1.49 kg) to the L85A2's weight.
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FV107 Scimitar is an armoured reconnaissance vehicle (sometimes classed as a light tank) used by the British Army. It is very similar to the FV101 Scorpion but mounts a high velocity 30 mm L21 RARDEN cannon instead of a 76 mm cannon. The FV107 Scimitar is one of the CVR(T) series of vehicles and entered service in 1971. Initially the engine was the Jaguar J60 4.2 litre 6 cylinder petrol engine the same as used by several Jaguar cars. This has now been replaced by a Cummins BTA 5.9 diesel engine in British Army Scimitars, under the CVR(T) Life Extension Program (LEP). As with the FV101 Scorpion, the Scimitar saw active service with the Blues and Royals in the Falklands War of 1982.Read More...
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main battle tank (MBT) currently in service with the armies of the United Kingdom and Oman. Built by the British company Vickers Defence Systems (now part of BAE Systems Land and Armaments). The manufacturer advertises it as the world's most reliable main battle tank. As of January 2008, two Challenger 2s have been damaged and one destroyed (by a friendly fire engagement with another Challenger 2) in combat.
Challenger 2 is an extensive redesign from Challenger 1, the MBT from which it was developed. It uses the basic hull and automotive parts of its predecessor but all else is new. Fewer than 5% of components are interchangeable.
Challenger 2 has now replaced Challenger 1 in service with the British Army and is also used by the Royal Army of Oman. The UK placed orders for 127 Challenger 2 tanks in 1991 and an additional 259 in 1994. Oman ordered 18 of the tanks in 1993 and a further 20 in November 1997. Challenger 2 entered service with the British Army in 1998, with the last delivered in 2002. It is expected to remain in service until 2035. Deliveries for Oman were completed in 2001. Challenger 2 has seen operational service in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq (2003–present). During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, this was the only tank operating in the Gulf that did not suffer a single loss to enemy fire. In one engagement a Challenger took 14 hits from Rocket propelled grenades and from one Milan anti tank missile. The tank had to disengage for repairs and was back in action within six hours.
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The Accuracy International Arctic Warfare rifle is a family of bolt-action sniper rifles designed and manufactured by the British company Accuracy International. It has proved popular as a civilian, police and military rifle since its introduction in the 1980s.
Generally Artic Warfare rifles are outfitted with a Schmidt & Bender PM II telescopic sight with fixed power of magnification or with variable magnification. Variable telescopic sights can be used if the operator wants more flexibility to shoot at varying ranges, or when a wide field of view is required. Accuracy International actively promotes fitting the German made Schmidt & Bender PM II product line as sighting components on their rifles, which is almost unique for a rifle manufacturer. The German Army preferred a telescopic sight made by Zeiss over Accuracy Internationals preference.Read More...
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The Westland WAH-64 Apache is a licence-built version of the Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter, for the British Army. The first eight helicopters were built by Boeing, the remaining 59 were assembled by Westland at Yeovil from kits purchased from Boeing. The WAH-64 is designated Apache AH Mk 1 or AH1 by the UK's Ministry of Defence.Read More...
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The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) is a multiple rocket launcher, a type of rocket artillery.
The first rocket systems were delivered to the US Army in 1983. The system is in widespread use in the NATO countries and it has also been manufactured in Europe. Some 1,300 M270 systems have been manufactured, along with more than 700,000 rockets. The system has been used in the Gulf wars, where it proved itself as a practical and effective weapons system. The production of the M270 ended in 2003, when a last batch was delivered to the Egyptian army.Read More...
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The L118 Light Gun is a 105 mm towed howitzer, originally produced for the British Army in the 1970s and widely exported since, including to the United States, where a modified version is known as the M119A1. The proper name for it is "Gun, 105mm, Field, L118" but it almost always just called "the Light Gun"... Light Gun first entered service with the British Army in 1975. The new weapon was heavier than its predecessor, but new, more capable helicopters such as the Puma and Westland Sea King, which could carry the new weapon, were also entering service at the same time. However, a new vehicle, the Land Rover 101 Forward Control (Land Rover, One Ton) was designed as the prime mover in the field for the Light Gun and the Rapier air-defence missile launcher. Since the end of the 1990s, the British Army has been using Pinzgauer ATVs as their gun tractors. In arctic service, and elsewhere, the gun is towed by the Hägglunds Bv 206 and is fitted with skis when over snow.
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Starstreak is a British short range surface-to-air missile manufactured by Thales Air Defence Limited (originally Shorts Missile Systems), in Belfast. It is also known as Starstreak HVM where HVM stands for "High Velocity Missile". After launch the missile accelerates to approximately Mach 3.5, at which point it launches three laser beam riding submunitions. The use of three submunitions increases the likelihood of a successful hit on the target. Starstreak has been in service with the British Army since 1997.Read More...
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Bowman is the name of the tactical communications system used by the British Armed Forces. The Bowman C4I system consists of a range of HF radio, VHF radio and UHF radio sets designed to provide secure integrated voice, data services to dismounted soldiers, individual vehicles and command HQs up to Division level. Bowman has a number of specific applications installed on the base radio infrastructure known as BISAs. Bowman has been released incrementally as a number of phased capability releases known as BCIP's with BCIP 5 currently being deployed. It replaces the Clansman series of radios in service.
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The AT4 (or AT-4) is a portable one-shot anti-tank weapon built in Sweden by Saab Bofors Dynamics (previously Bofors Anti Armour Systems). In the U.S. and NATO inventory it replaces the M72 LAW (Light Anti-armor Weapon). Saab has had considerable sales success with the AT4, making it one of the most common light anti-tank weapons in the world. It is intended to give infantry units a means to destroy or disable armored vehicles and fortifications they may encounter (though it is not generally sufficient to defeat a modern main battle tank). The launcher and projectile are manufactured pre-packed as a single unit, and the launcher is discarded after use.


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The author has compiled the various tests for determining the efficiency of vital organs—that is, the liver, kidneys, pancreas, heart and ductless glands. He has omitted those of the eye, ear, nervous system, etc. In his consideration he states first the various functions which these vital organs are supposed to fulfil, and then gives in brief the tests which have been evolved by different experimenters. Following this discussion is a consideration of the literature on the subject, indicating by reports of results with the test the extent to which it may be depended on. The author has thoroughly considered the literature, and points out the advantages of these tests from a medical and surgical standpoint. As might be expected, the work on functional tests of the ductless glands is not so comprehensive as that on the larger organs which are considered, nor is there available the clinical confirmation as to
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Been looking to automate my home electricity usage. Would love to...
- Walk into my house with my iPhone (+ Bluetooth))...
- ... and a server that controls lighting + air-conditioning + appliances (e.g TV) switches on/off things according to configurations by different schedules (e.g weekday vs weekend)
- Able to control this home electricity automation preferably via a web browser access page. for example, I would like to turn on my electric kettle while in my room surfing, so 15 minutes up (enough for 1 answer on SuperUser!), and I can step out knowing I've got boiling water for a nice cup of Darjeeling.
- Before I sleep, to set a sleep timer on my stereo + living room lighting (via that same web browser) that after 30 minutes, the electricity can be cut off, along with the electricity to other things else.
- Just before I wake up, according to schedule the TV automatically comes on (the channel is already preset to the local news), and the kettle starts warming up too...
- Get ready for work, and as I step out, my Bluetooth leaves the proximity of the BT sensor on the server... and it switches on/off (according to scheduled configuration) all unneeded lighting + appliances.
- And since it is web-based, I can login from work and manually switch on/off electrical stuff and at the same time monitor which socket currently have power running to them too).
It's like the Jetsons v0.1 - are there are any home automation kits that can allow me to do that now? If yes, any issues to watch out for, and what are the costs of deploying this system like?
EDIT : Good point by Grant - BT might be too short-range. Possible solutions could be IR, or any others.


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After much deliberation, writing and speculation, Paramount Pictures has officially announced its plans for Jack Ryan, the next film in the franchise based on Tom Clancy's CIA analyst hero. Deadline reports that the film will focus on Ryan's pre-CIA days, kick off a trilogy, co-star Keira Knightley as his love interest and come out toward the end of 2013.
Jack Ryan first made his way to the big screen in 1990's The Hunt For Red October, which starred Alec Baldwin; the role then moved to Harrison Ford for Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). The last time Ryan appeared onscreen was with Ben Affleck in 2002's Sum of All Fears. Since then Paramount has taken its time to get the script just right, going through plenty of screenwriters before David Koepp (Premium Rush, Jurassic Park) took a pass. The film was also delayed a bit when original director Jack Bender stepped aside and Kenneth Branagh replaced him. Branagh will pull double duty by playing a Russian villain as well.
Kevin Costner will also appear as William Harper, an idealist who trains Ryan as well as another character named John Kelly, who will star in his own movie Without Remorse featuring Tom Hardy. Paramount is doing its best to build a solid franchise not just around one character, but several, taking a page from the Marvel Studios playbook.
I like this plan. This will could mean that we should eventually get a Rainbow Six movie out of the deal and Tom Hardy is perfect for John Kelly.
Umm…nowhere in your article do you mention who is actually playing Jack Ryan.
Journalism Fail.
(and yes, I know who is playing the part, but you should still address it for those readers who don't.)
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Poor Colossi
Yikes! Poor Clyde.
Valus' derpface made me laugh.
Lol. Loved the game, its awesome
hahaha!!! I've always wanted to play that game, but I dont have an Xbox. Fortunately, I still understand and LOVE the reference!
It's actually only for PS2, I believe. So, if you have one of those, I'm sure you could get it for pretty darn cheap. (At least, they were, last I checked.)
Really wish Team Ico would make stuff for other platforms. :/
Really wish Team Ico would make stuff for other platforms. :/
Yeah that would be good. Of course, great wii games only come around once in a while so I may have to invest at some point!
Don't need an xbox per say. I played Shadow of the Colossus on PS2 :V
yeah im not even that fortunate... im on a wii.... (cue slide trombone "wah wah's")
Wii is more expensive than a PS2 these days. o3o Or did you mean something else?
No I know a PS2 is fairly inexpensive, but I can't convince myself to buy another console that might take up a bunch of my time like the Wii. I actually won the wii I have so I didn't have to buy it.
that's just beautiful
lol very nice *scratches head* :'D
As an avid fan of that game, this is AMAZING.


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The MTV and Swipe handshake is shaking out some more good news!! Now the two closely bound in partnerships have rolled out a Swipe MTV Slash tablet for the Indian markets at Rs. 9,499. But before you rush off to the physical stores, just pop online to grab your device because that is where they will be available at the moment!
We can never have enough of Microsoft – first the hype over Windows 8, then Surface tablet, Halo 4 and now multiple apps for non-gaming content on Xbox.
Chelsea Handler and 50 Cent are not an item! The two were spotted out together at a New Orleans jazz bar on Sunday, and rumor mills went abuzz with stories of their link-up. But Chelsea says there is no romance brewing between them.
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Season 11 of the blockbuster reality television series 'Dancing With The Stars' (DWTS) is going to be one hell of a show and promises to sweep everyone off their feet.
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The famous MTV reality show 'Jersey Shore' is back on air and the newest chick on the floor is Deena Nicole Cortese, a close friend of Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi'.


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Top 5 reasons Chu is a great energy pick — #1: Its not guaranteed we have a solution for coal
Obama will formally name Steven Chu his nominee for energy secretary at a press conference this afternoon. Here's the top 5 reasons he is one of the best cabinet picks in recent memory:
5. His "views on climate change would be among the most forceful ever held by a cabinet member." He said last year, scientists had come to "realize that the climate is much more sensitive than we thought" [see Scientists are Underestimating Climate Change, Part I]. He said people who said they were uncertain whether climate change is being caused by humans were "reminiscent of the dialogue in the 1950s and '60s on tobacco." In a speech earlier this year, he said that climate change of the scale we face "will cause enormous resource wars, over water, arable land, and massive population displacements…. We're talking about hundreds of millions to billions of people being flooded out, permanently.
4. As a Chinese American and Nobel Prize winner, he will be uniquely poised to help enable the crucial energy and climate negotiations the Obama team must undertake immediately with the world's other big emitter (see What will make Obama a great president, Part 2: A climate deal with China). The AP reports from China:
China's media are cheering President-elect Barack Obama's pick of Chinese-American Steven Chu for the post of U.S. energy secretary, saying it bodes well for future cooperation between the two countries.
Photographs of Chu, who was born in St. Louis to Chinese parents, were printed on the front pages of major newspapers Friday, illustrating the pride China takes in the achievements of the vast Chinese diaspora.
The state-owned China Daily cited Chinese academics as saying Chu's ethnic background would ease cooperation between China and the U.S.
"Chu's presence will make the cooperation smoother," it cited Tsinghua University scholar Zhou Shijian as saying.
3. He has experience running a major DOE lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, so he knows the archaic and bureaucratic DOE system well. When I came to DOE in the summer of 1993, it took me over a year to figure out how to really get things done. He will have a huge head start over any Energy Secretary in recent memory.
2. The lab he runs is responsible for developing the technologies that have paid for all the clean energy research the tax payers have ever supported (see Energy efficiency, Part 5: The highest documented rate of return of any federal program). So while even the most knowledgeable clean energy experts focus too much on supply side solutions, Chu will ensure efficiency gets the equal time it deserves.
1. He isn't fooled by clean coal claptrap. Earlier this year he said, "Coal is my worst nightmare":
If coal is to stay part of the world's energy mix, he says, clean-coal technologies must be developed. But he's not very optimistic: "It's not guaranteed we have a solution for coal," he concluded, given the sheer scope of the challenge of economically storing billions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions underground.
Worried about radioactivity? Coal's still your bogeyman. Dr. Chu says a typical coal plant emits 100 times more radiation than a nuclear plant, given the flyash emissions of radioactive particles.
For the foreseeable future — and perhaps beyond that — we will have to tackle the climate challenge without carbon capture. Fortunately we can (see "Is 450 ppm possible? Part 5: Old coal's out, can't wait for new nukes, so what do we do NOW?") — and even more fortunately, we finally have an energy secretary who understands that.
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He will also be in charge of a departments that in one of the shameful episodes of the Clinton years (and something that should have made Bill Richardson illegible for future employment) tried to run another Chinese-American scientist into jail.
Chu apparently wants us to forego new fossil fuel energy development in favor of pie-in-the-sky solar and wind energy. We would likely sink into third-world economic status or worse before his favored energy sources were developed. Such a futile policy is in line with a CO2 driven global warming theory that is built on falsified climate records and disporoven "science." For some of many web-based sources see:
[Links to long-debunked disinformation deleted.]
Increasingly, as the world is entering a period of global cooling, even everyday observation of the world around us falsifies the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis Chu foolishly espouses.
[JR: You have come to the wrong website. We rely on science, not anti-science. And we're desperately trying to save future generations, including your descendents, from decades and centuries of misery despite your best efforts to the contrary.]
Tax fossil CO2 emissions. Use the proceeds to permanently remove the CO2 from the active carbon cycle.
Speaking at this summer's National Clean Energy Summit convened by Senator Harry Reid, Dr. Chu said:
"Another myth is we have all the technologies we need to solve the energy challenge — it's only a matter of political will. I think political will is absolutely necessary… but we need new technologies to transform the [energy] landscape."
Do you think Dr. Chu misunderstands the state of energy technology, or are his statements accurate?
[JR: I think the world "solve" covers a multitude of sins. But in any case, I have never once said we have all the technologies commercialized that we need to solve the energy challenge. If you are going to try to "trap" me, you might try going after what I actually said, not your misstatement of what I said. Chu does understand how dire the climate problem is and what the full scale of the solution is. That puts him way beyond what you all are thinking.]
Make it financially attractive to coal plant owners to invest capital in non-polluting energy production.
Make them want to switch rather than fight.
Coal plant owners are going to resist having their capital stranded in a non-productive asset if we crank up the regulations or taxes to a point where it forces them out. Threaten their investments and you'll be dealing with delaying tactics that will set us back even further.
Sure, it might cost us some extra money up front, but it should save us a lot of money down the road. In health care costs alone….
(For example, establish a carbon tax. But give coal plants the option to invest in "wind farms" and receive matching funds for each dollar they invest or pay the tax. At some point the lower price of wind will force coal + carbon tax out of the market.)
charlie –
After the last eight years of your boy in the White House everything that happened during the Clinton years seems like a shower of rose petals on a warm summer morning….
We have a solution for coal. Quit using it ASAP.
Sweeten the pot some more for companies that bring clean energy to the grid. Set a course that can get us off coal by a fairly realistic target year such as 2030 or 2040. Then make lots of resources available for finding ways to reel that target back in closer.
We'll know, for example, in a couple of years if hot rock geothermal is workable with today's technology.
We'll know, for example, in a couple of years if we can do away with gear boxes in wind turbines thus making them cheaper to build, longer lasting and more productive.
Either of these pan out and we can reel our target in closer.
Bob Wallace–
when you said (paste start), "Threaten their investments and you'll be dealing with delaying tactics that will set us back even further." (end paste) you were getting to some reality that has to be dealt with if real solutions are to be put in place. It also seems like there will be difficult economic reality to deal with if the cost of electricity were to greatly increase, and if this is not dealt with then there will simply be no solution. This is where things could go if there is real action by law to outright ban or severely restrict coal use. Restricting coal use will certainly increase use of natural gas and therefore will likely drive up natural gas prices. Using electric energy to power cars will further add to the load on natural gas supplies.
My litmus test for Energy related appointments would be to ask if the Federal Regulation regarding electric vehicles, issued June 12, 2000 as copied here is utter absurdity:
1. General Form of the PEF Equation
The general form of the PEF equation
PEF = Eg * 1/0.15 * AF * DPF
Eg = Gasoline-equivalent energy content
of electricity factor
1/0.15 = ''Fuel content'' factor
AF = Petroleum-fueled accessory factor
DPF = Driving pattern factor
The development of these factors is
described below.
2. Gasoline-Equivalent Energy Content
of Electricity Factor
When comparing gasoline vehicles
with electric vehicles, it is essential to
consider the efficiency of the respective
''upstream'' processes in the two fuel
cycles. A full description of the
differences in the processes is beyond
the scope of this rulemaking, but the
critical difference is that a gasoline
vehicle burns its fuel on-board the
vehicle, and an electric vehicle burns its
fuel (the majority of electricity in the
U.S. is generated at fossil fuel burning
powerplants) off-board the vehicle. In
both cases, the burning of fuels to
produce work is the least efficient step
of the respective energy cycles.
Therefore, the PEF includes a term for
expressing the relative energy efficiency
of the full energy cycles of gasoline and
electricity. This term, the gasolineequivalent
energy content of electricity
factor, abbreviated as Eg, is defined as:
Eg = gasoline-equivalent energy content
of electricity = (Tg * Tt * C) Tp
Tg = U.S. average fossil-fuel electricity
generation efficiency = 0.328
Tt = U.S. average electricity
transmission efficiency = 0.924
Tp = Petroleum refining and distribution
efficiency = 0.830
C = Watt-hours of energy per gallon of
gasoline conversion factor = 33,705
Eg = (0.328 * 0.924 * 33705)/0.830 =
12,307 Wh/gal
The derivation of these values is
straightforward but lengthy and is
therefore not discussed in this notice.
Details on the assumptions,
calculations, and data sources used to
derive these values are described in
materials contained in Docket No. EE–
RM–99–PEF, which may be reviewed at
the DOE Freedom of Information
Reading Room, at the address and times
stated above.
3. ''Fuel Content'' Factor
The fuel content factor has a value of
1/0.15 and is included in the PEF for the
reasons described in the notice of
proposed rulemaking and the responses
to comments section of this notice.
Briefly, these reasons are:
(i) Consistency with existing
regulatory and statutory procedures;
(ii) Provision of similar treatment to
manufacturers of all types of alternative
fuel vehicles; and
(iii) Simplicity and ease of use.
The fuel content factor value of 1/0.15
is equivalent to a multiple of 6.67.
4. Petroleum-Powered Accessory Factor
A minority of electric vehicles,
primarily those that may be operated in
colder climates, may be equipped with
auxiliary petroleum-powered
accessories, such as cabin heater/
defroster systems. DOE addresses the
possible use of such petroleum-powered
accessories in the PEF calculations by
incorporating an Accessory Factor (AF).
This factor reduces the PEF by ten
percent when an electric vehicle is
equipped with any petroleum-powered
accessories. This results in two possible
accessory factor values:
Petroleum-powered accessories
Accessory factor
(AF) value
No ………………………………….. 1.00
Yes …………………………………. 0.90
DOE recognizes that there are many
variables affecting the actual energy
efficiency penalty of petroleumpowered
accessories, but believes that
the ten percent penalty is a reasonable
representative value. DOE has prepared
a supporting technical analysis of the
magnitude of the actual energy
efficiency penalty of petroleumpowered
accessories, and placed this
analysis in the docket. Because this
approach penalizes electric vehicles
equipped with petroleum-powered
accessories, it provides an incentive for
manufacturers to develop vehicles with
electrically-powered access—
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With regulation like this who needs enemies?
@ Jim Bullis: that regulation language looks pretty standard, although of course you've copied only a chunk out of the middle, defining terms, etc. I'm sure that the technical folks who design and build electric cars can work it out, with help from a lawyer, provided the full text.
I well understand the rage of the dirty money and stupidity against super science.
Remember, there is no more Middle Age. Take a trip in the real science and see the light. Of course many of you are not able for this kind of brainy activity. Then it is better to be silent and admire the really great minds.
Finally an energy secretary who actually understands energy. 3 cheers!
PS: WE ALREADY have new nukes. Research has been ongoing for more than 62 years.
Coal has a $100 Billion cash flow per year in the US alone. It will take a lot to stop coal, but stop coal we must.
Here is the Obama energy policy in a nutshell: Develop new uneconomic energy sources. Focus on wind and solar. Do this under the guise of protecting the earth from evil greenhouse gases and 'climate change.' To hell with a competitive economy. End of policy.
Before we start the long road to uneconomic energy supplies we should prove a link between CO2 and temperature. Judging from geologic history the link between CO2 and temperature is weak to negative. There is a lot of work to do before we start crushing the economy. Anyone who tells you that the science of global warming is settled is not capable to understanding the complexity of the science.
Asa Hopkins,
Yes, they work it out. They just ignore the whole thing, even though it is federal law. Even those making almost fraudulent claims for electric and plug in hybrid car performance avoid the methodology for computing MPG which is stiplated here.
California makes up its rules based on questionable assumptions about energy sources. Google makes up its rules and quotes MPG as if electricity falls out of the sky, as it does at Google after they spent big money on solar panels. The big car companies also pretend that electricity falls from the sky, though some at least admit in the fine print that they are not counting the electric energy.
My point is that we need some good rules here that correctly represent the source of electric energy. The campaign against global warming will be seriously delayed if these rules are not correct. Most importantly, the big car companies will claim energy efficiency success that is unwarranted, and thus qualify for bailout billions.
Those of us who understand that the link has been reasonably well proven need to recognize and deal with the realities of the competitive ecoomy if a viable solution is to be put in place.
Not to overstate my position, I should have said, "Those of us who think we understand that —"
I wonder if you understand that there is a lot of overlap, but still significant differences between basic science, big science, and engineering. Furthermore, nothing gets done to solve major problems without business and political involvement.
Those that I think have "the really great minds" understand the differences and see the overall need for mutual understanding and cooperative work.
Reason No. 5, Joe, is butressed by a recent interview Chu gave to the Copenhagen Climate Council, where he said that climate change threatens the planet with "sudden, unpredictable, and irreversible disaster."
Read more here: http://www.copenhagenclimatecouncil.com/get-informed/news/clear-and-present-danger-a-conversation-with-nobel-laureate-steve-chu-on-the-risks-of-climate-change.html
Do we really "finally have an energy secretary who understands that" as you say, "we will have to tackle the climate challenge without carbon capture"?
I keep studying Chu and I don't see how you can conclude this. For instance, you use the famous Chu quote "Coal is my worst nightmare" as if this is evidence he agrees with you.
I located the speech this statement came from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLr4YbStc0M (Chu's remarks on coal start around the 28 minute mark.)
and went over the section where he speaks about coal. It is very clear why coal is his worst nightmare. Coal use without CCS is expanding dramatically:
"Coal is so plentiful there's no serious exploration for it…. China is now embarked on a program to be building about 1/2 GT to 1 GT coal plant a week…. the US is also on a path that's roughly one a week…. Its also the default option of India. Russia wants to go to coal because it uses its natural gas and oil as hard currency…. So this is what we're seeing now. It's not that we're going to head for this, it's what we're currently doing."
What is made clear in this "coal is my worst nightmare" speech is that Chu believes that carbon capture technology exists and is affordable:
"the issue here is actually not the cost of converting the coal into a stream of hydrogen and CO2 and pumping the CO2 underground. That would probably increase the [my note: retail] power bill by as much as 25%. That's what a carbon price of $30 – $40 a ton would be equivalent to"
I transcribed this coal section of his speech myself. I do not see any objection to CCS Chu is making other than this:
"But there's an unknown cost, in that this [the sequestration] faces legal challenges"
Speaking of CCS technology as a whole, he says: "So its sort of an R&D issue. I think we have to do this if we're going to go forward with coal".
All there is in this speech is his caution about NIMBY legal unknowns to do with sequestration. He sees a legal challenge. No scientist can predict how something like that will evolve. Hence his cautious statement: "Its not guaranteed we have a solution for coal".
I've heard him make other statements about sequestration where he brings up technological difficulties and uncertainties, but there isn't anything else in this particular speech.
The literature of CCS is replete with report after report stating that storage is the minor cost, and regarding what holds CCS back from widespread implementation right now, report after report say, including Chu's own "Lighting the Way" done for the IAC which states "it will be necessary to develop regulations and to introduce price signals", which is simply not a description of a technology that we will never be able to use.
It doesn't look to me like Chu would agree with your statement that "for the foreseeable future – and perhaps beyond that – we will have to tackle the climate change problem without carbon capture".
Perhaps you should ask him and post his answer.
We need coal for base load power, which keeps the lights on. Wind and solar are intermittent, therefore they can't be relied on for more than 20% of the grid, and any power over that will be wasted unless some form of storage is developed. But an alternative is to use renewables to crack coal CO2 to CO (5.5 eV). effectively turning CO2 into a storage medium for renewable energy. That would provide ab alternative to "sequestration" (underground dumping), which the GAO has just found to be unworkable. After 20 years of the Endarkenment, it is time for some new ideas to be considered.


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text: CORRECTING and REPLACING Bloomberg Launches First Daily China Credit Derivatives Pricing Bloomberg Professional is first to provide daily reference prices New credit derivatives details reduce risk and increase transparency CORRECTION...by Bloomberg Business Wire BEIJING -- November 16, 2010 Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. Please note that changes include the headline and one of the subheads. The original headline was "Bloomberg Launches Daily China Renminbi Credit Derivatives Price Fixings" The corrected release reads: BLOOMBERG LAUNCHES FIRST DAILY CHINA CREDIT DERIVATIVES PRICING Bloomberg Professional is first to provide daily reference prices New credit derivatives details reduce risk and increase transparency Bloomberg Professional executives today announced the launch of the first daily reference prices for the Chinese Renminbi credit derivatives market. The new service is designed to reduce risk and increase transparency. The Bloomberg proprietary tool, developed in cooperation with major Chinese banks, provides accurate pricing for risk assessments on credit derivatives, which help with market-to-market valuations. Bloomberg's Credit Risk Mitigation Instrument Fixing (CRMC) tool provides current market information on CNY credit risk mitigation instrument fixing, as well as individual bank's credit risk mitigation instrument data. CRMC is a reference price calculated from prices quoted on a particular tenor and credit rating, from twelve of the largest dealers in China. Their prices are averaged after removing the highest and lowest quotes. The data is collected at 4:00 p.m. Beijing-time daily. "Prices for credit risk mitigation instruments calculated by Bloomberg, is important for every bank. China Development Bank needs to use prices provided by Bloomberg's CRMC service daily to mark to market positions on CRMI", says Sun Shixin, Department Head, Risk-Management Department, China Development Bank. "As the first Chinese credit enhancement institution and the leading market maker, China Bond Insurance (CBIC) focuses on developing the credit derivative market in China. Bloomberg's "Information and Quotes" platform for Credit Risk Mitigation Instruments is very useful to us. We believe the cooperation between Bloomberg and CBIC will greatly improve the market efficiency for credit products in China," says Xuebing Ding, Chief Investment Officer of CBIC. "Bloomberg worked closely with the leading banks in China to create the daily reference pricing service. By bringing transparency to a new and complex market place, the data we provide helps financial market participants better manage their risk and more effectively hedge their credit exposure," says Gerard Francis, Head of Emerging Markets, Bloomberg. The Chinese Risk Mitigation Instruments, a form of credit derivatives for the Renminbi bond market, began trading earlier this month. Bloomberg began providing the CRMI price contributions from the key banks and the daily reference pricing on the 5th of November, 2010, the first day of trading. The Bloomberg Professional® service delivers reliable access to the latest market data, financial news, and economic information critical to the investment decision process. For more information about Bloomberg Professional service, please contact Olivia Sun at +86 139 1691 5266 or call Bloomberg's 24/7 customer service at +86 10 6649 7500. About Bloomberg Bloomberg is the world's most trusted source of information for financial professionals and businesses. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytics, data, financial news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the Bloomberg Professional® service and multimedia platforms. Bloomberg's media properties span television, radio, digital and print, making up one of the world's largest news organizations with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. For more information, please visit http://www.bloomberg.com. Contact: Cognito Asia for Bloomberg L.P. Anne Karumo, +65 811 264 09 email@example.com or Bloomberg Professional Pam Snook, +1 212 6177652 firstname.lastname@example.com or Cognito (UK/Europe) Rod de St. Croix, +65 631 194 97 firstname.lastname@example.com


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kcurtis writes "The AP (via boston.com) has a story about how MIT scientists have detailed a breakthrough in optics that could lead to cheaper, more efficient optical communications. From the story: 'Like polarizing sunglasses that block light waves oriented in different directions, the MIT researchers created a clever device that splits the light beams as they pass through a circuit. The device then rotates one of the polarized beams, before both beams are rejoined on their way out of the circuit, retaining the signals' strength. But it's not just that device that the researchers are touting. They're also trumpeting the innovative method they devised to integrate the optical circuitry with electronic circuitry on the same silicon chip.'"that would be really good.


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SINGAPORE - Gail India Ltd. could spend as much as $1 billion over the next year to acquire shale gas assets in the U.S. and Canada, the company's top executive said Wednesday.
India's largest gas pipeline and distribution firm, which recently bought a 20% stake in Houston-based Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc.'s Eagle Shale Ford acreage for $95 million, is weighing several larger assets in the North American market and expects to finalize a deal in six months, Chairman and Managing Director B.C. Tripathi said.
"Our primary objective is to understand the shale gas business and technology to be prepared when the shale gas sector opens up in India," he said.
Gail joins a host of Asian companies including majors from China and India that have invested heavily in recent years in the unconventional plays in North America to enjoy the booming growth in the sector as well as bring the technology back home.
Mr. Tripathi expects the India government to start auctioning shale gas acreage over the next year or two, although the country has yet to finalize a federal policy that would govern the sector.
Gail would also explore the possibility of shipping gas from North America back to India through cargo swaps.
The advancement in shale gas technology over the last decade has turned the U.S. from a deficit to a gas-surplus market. Liquefied natural gas or LNG terminals originally designed to import gas are now being employed as export plants.
Gail would need to import around 2 million to 3 million tons of LNG a year in about two years from now, Tripathi said. The company is also in negotiations to secure a short-term deal to buy 1 million tons of LNG a year, he said. The company currently imports two spot LNG cargoes a month.
Gail opened an LNG trading office in Singapore on Wednesday, joining the ranks of Russia's Gazprom and U.S. major ConocoPhillips, which have set up similar operations in the City-State that is quickly turning into a regional hub for trading the fuel as inflows to Asia increase.


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