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Would You Buy A Golden iPhone 5S ???
According to the latest leaks, Apple have been working on a Golden version of the upcoming iPhone 5S or 6. Personally its really hard for me to digest whether its just a color or real Gold but since our community cares about the latest HABBA that got my thinking, how many of you out there would buy it if its real GOLD not just a color or how many you know might buy it ?????
Think about the long lines infront of telecommunication companies and mobile shops for all of those wanting to get their hands on the latest Gold iPhone 5S or whatever Apple gonna call it, this scene have become so familiar to us through the past years.
So share your thoughts down below How many of you out there would buy the GOLD iPhone ?????
More Images For Blackberry Porsche Design Z10
More imagines have surfaced for the rumored (and most anticipated at least by me ) Blackberry Porsche Design Z10. It is also rumored that its gonna have a custom BB10 OS skin like the P'9981, so feast your eyes with its beauty for now 🙂 .
Blackberry Z10 Porsche Design Edition
A couple of pictures have been leaked showing off a blackberry Porsche Design Z10, could this be the next blackberry Porsche design edition for the Z10 !!!!
Personally I think the rumor/leaked photos are true since the Blackberry P9981 sold like crazy ( as a luxurious mobile) and specially in the GCC. On a personal level I can't wait for the official announcement and an Q10 Porsche design edition also.
Read Before You Buy The Galaxy S4
Many have been taking the plunge into buying the Samsung Galaxy S4 without knowing some basic information about the device they are paying for. The Galaxy S4 comes in 3 different models, the Quad core model which come in 3G or LTE & the Octa Core model.
I asked a representative working in Samsung Al-Babtain about the available models here in Kuwait & most of the available models here are the Quad Core ones while the Octa ( 8 Core) model is gonna be available within a month or 2 at most.
How to distinguish between each model ?
The Quad Core 3G is Samsung I9500 Galaxy S4
while is the Quad core LTE is Samsung I9505 Galaxy S4
The Octa Core (8 core) model Samsung I9502 Galaxy S4
You should know which model you are getting before spending your money on something you probably dont want especially is you already own a Galaxy S3 you dont should not upgrade to the galaxy S4 unless you get the Octa Core model.
Whatsapp Arriving This Week On BB10
According to Crackberry and Whatsapp Team, the long waited whatsapp will be available to download for BB10 (Z10) this week, no specific date was mentioned so keep an eye on the Blackberry world store.
Dual Screen Android By NEC
Many have been busy celebrating our National & liberation day & forgot that Mobile World Congress is being held in Barcelona. Its a huge fighting arena where mobile manufacturers show their newest and latest gadgets that gonna be released duirng 2013 and between all of those NEC caught my attention with their dual screen Android phone called Medias. Its a dual 4.3″ screens that may seem crazy but really so useful during daily use where most of your day you may use the 4.3″ screen & while you watch a video or browse the internet you use it as a 5.6″ screen simple Amaaaaazing
what do you think of the dual screen mobile concept in general down below ????
BlackBerry 10 Kuwait Launch Sahara event
Last Wednesday we got invited to Blackberry 10 official launch in Kuwait. Since i mentioned Blackberry you probably would guess that its an awesome event & no matter how hard i could try to describe how great that event was words may fail me to truly describe it. The event was hosted in Sahara as i mentioned in an open Golf field, the weather was cold but perfect for this time of the year especially coz i enjoy cold the weather 🙂
Bloggers, celeberties, social media teams & the national Football team were all there, surrounded by Blackberrys Z10 device to get their hands on and get a feeling of this great new device and get to know the new software. Of course Mo6ref El-Mo6ref & Abdulsalam Mohammed performed some of their amazing songs live making all attendees wanna dance but actually no one did :p
The Z10 is a remarkable mobile computing device and Ive been using it since the day i attended the Dubai launch event, ive been really pushing it to the limits and it keeps amazing me but thats another post of course.
Finally we would like to Thank Blackberry & Bensirri for the invitation and the true amazing event & such great events are always expected from both.


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I recently stumbled across a very useful site on which you can improve all aspect of the dreaded subject of music theory, whilst having a bit of fun:
Learning to read music can be quite a struggle for beginners, but on this site there are note reading exercises which you can tailor to your own needs. So if you are an aboslute beginner, and only want to practice natural notes in treble clef, from middle C to the G above, then you can set the site to just test you on those notes. If you fancy testing yourself on bass and treble in all keys, or even the more obscure tenor clef, then you can do that, too.
All the way a score is kept, and you get the percentage of correct answers displayed. As someone who teaches, I find this works particularly well for teenage boys, as rather than having to look at tufty old scores, they get to go online, or better still, download an app, and can click on buttons and see a score at the end of it – much more fun! There are quite a number of other exercises you can test your skills on, from key signature, interval and fretboard identification to ear training exercises.
There are also lessons on the basics of music, which are pretty handy (clefs, notes, scales, etc.), to some slightly more obscure tools, such as for building 12-tone rows. You never know, someone might be writing a 12-tone opus on the train next to you.
Most of the time when someone is pushing a site on a blog, it is because of a (monetary) kick-back, but I can assure you that in this case, we have no relationship with this site, we just found it damn useful!


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The Hybrid AC ND from Nike combines a Blazer sole with an interlaced suede upper and boat shoe influenced design elements. The end result is a clean, casual sneaker with a more grown up feel than most Nike offerings. Bar the tonally embroidered Nike script on the tongue, most would have a hard time even identifying this as a Nike release. No word yet on a release date.
Detailed flicks of the Nike Hybrid AC ND follow after the leap.
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The optimum level for mortgage lending in Ireland should be about €10 billion a year, according to the Association of Expert Mortgage Advisors or AEMA. But this year, it estimates, the size of the mortgage market will be far short of that at between €3-4 billion.
Ken Murray, a director of the Association of Expert Mortgage Advisors, says the general consensus amongst industry experts is that the volumes at the peak of the market in 2006 and 2007 were way too high. Mr Murray says the stricter lending guidelines now in place are a good thing and says that being approved for a mortgage is not impossible. He says that people should prepare in good time to get mortgage approval.
Mr Murray says the €10 billion figure is based on a number of factors including demographics, which have changed considerably in recent years, and loan sizes. He also says that new lenders have applied to the Central Bank to get into the mortgage market, which will boost competition in the sector. He says that cash buyers are still a very prominent sector in the market for both single unit and blocks of units.
MORNING BRIEFS - Activity in the services sector is at its highest level since 2007. The services purchasing managers index, which measures that level of activity, has now indicated expansion in each of the last 17 months. The PMI, produced each month by Investec Ireland, measures output and sentiment in a range of businesses including hotels and restaurants, transport and storage and telecommunications. The December PMI shows particularly strong growth in employment and new export orders.
*** It is reported this morning that the European Commission is set to water down reforms which would have forced EU banks to split their deposit-gathering operations from risk-taking trading divisions. The division between retail banking and riskier trading operations was a cornerstone of post depression reform dating from the 1930s. Relaxation of those rules has been cited in many quarters as a key contributory factor to the financial crisis which blew up in 2008. Draft European Commission plans seen by this morning's Financial Times, say the bank split reforms will no longer be mandatory and will be less restrictive than originally envisaged. Instead the new proposals would see regulators in individual member states have the final say on whether specific trading activity potentially poses a "systemic risk" and should be separated from a bank's core operations.
*** Daft.ie's latest house price report paints a similar picture to last week's myhome.ie property barometer. Asking prices in Dublin rose by 10.6% in 2013, it says. Excluding Dublin, asking prices across the rest of the country fell by 6%.


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- What is a CPU?
- Tracing an instruction
- L1/L2/L3 Cache
- Nanometres
- Clock cycle speed
- Front side bus (FSB)
- Overclocking
- The numbers game: Intel vs AMD
- Sockets and slots
- Dual-core and quad-core CPUs
- 64-bit processors
- Intel
- Mobile Processors
- Budget lines: Celeron, Sempron and Athlon
L1/L2/L3 Cache
Whenever your CPU has to fetch data, a bottleneck can arise if the data is in a relatively distant location -- say, for example, sitting in external memory that has to be first accessed, scanned and then read. From this problem arose the practice of adding memory directly to the processor itself, creating a small storage area for commonly used data. If the CPU doesn't have to travel outside of itself to get data, it can get on with the business of number crunching much more effectively. This memory is generally referred to as a cache.
Cache within a CPU is split up into levels, which relate normally both to the size of the cache and its access speed. Level 1 (L1) cache is normally small but fast memory, which acts as the first place for the CPU when it goes to look for data. If a desired bit of data is found in the L1 cache, then you'll see a quick result; otherwise the CPU will seek out the Level 2 (L2) cache. L2 caches are normally much larger in size than L1 caches, and there's a solid advantage to this design theory. With a small L1 cache, checking for data is relatively quick; it's only for data outside the L1 cache that you need to look further. A larger L2 cache gives you a sizeable reservoir for data in a slower to scan environment, but because it's not the first place the CPU will check, you get a good trade-off between latency (the time taken to perform an operation) and the success rate of searching the cache itself. As an example, Intel's Core 2 Duo CPUs have a 64KB Level 1 cache, and a 4MB Level 2 cache.
There's also a third level of cache. While historically, L3 cache has been the province of server CPUs, it does appear in some consumer desktop processors -- Intel's P4 Extreme Edition processors (codenamed 'Gallatin'), for example, feature L3 cache. As you can expect L3 cache to be hit least, it can afford to be larger -- in the case of the P4 Extreme Edition it has 2MB of cache memory, four times as much as it has L2 cache (512KB). As the entire cache is situated on the CPU die itself, it's still considerably quicker for the CPU to search the cache levels sequentially than to refer to external storage such as physical memory or hard drives.
A common measure of the complexity of a CPU is how many individual transistors fit into the CPU itself. Getting millions of transistors into a package that's affordable and works properly is a significant challenge, and manufacturers spend billions of dollars on improving the process of laying silicon transistors down. In simple terms, the shorter the spacing in which you can successfully lay down transistors, the more you can pack into a smaller space, and the more chips you can cut out of a single silicon wafer. This has the effect of increasing capacity while lowering overall prices.
Silicon chips are etched using ultraviolet light, and the wavelength of the light -- and effective size of the transistors -- is measured in nanometres, or a billionth of a metre. Current high-end CPUs are manufactured on a 65-nanometre process, and at the time of writing, Intel was just weeks away from shipping CPUs manufactured on a 45-nanometre process. AMD's Athlon 64 X2 CPUs are manufactured on a 90-nanometre process, while AMD's Phenom CPUs are manufactured on a 65-nanometre process. You may also see process measurement referred to in microns -- a micron is a millionth of a metre (where a nanometre is a billionth), so a 90nm process is also a .09 micron one.
On the subject of processes, manufacturers will often use the same basic architecture and micron processes across an entire family of CPU types, and this is commonly referred to as using the same "core". Vendors typically assign these cores with codenames during development, and while they don't tend to go to market with these codenames, you'll often see them used in discussions of processors from both vendors. Intel, for example, has a large quantity of processors built on its Prescott core, all with a similar architectural configuration. Prescott cores are built on a 90nm process, feature 31-stage pipelines and SSE3 instruction sets; even some of the company's dual-core processors are built on a variant of the Prescott core.


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LA JOLLA -- In the end, Rocco Mediate couldn't quite muster theskill, the poise, the shotmaking that is required to defeat Tiger Woods.
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Still, over the course of their 19-hole playoff for the U.S. Open title on Monday -- and the 72 holes that preceded it -- Mediate forged what will almost certainly come to stand as the signature week of his professional golfing career.
"I just never quit," Mediate said. "I never quit. And I've been beaten down a few times and came back. I got what I wanted. I got a chance to beat the best player in the world, and I came up just a touch short."
With the victory Woods captured his 14th major championship, but not before he saw Mediate wipe out a three-shot deficit and take a one-stroke lead on the 15th hole of the playoff.
"It was an unbelievably gutsy performance," Woods said. "He played so well. He put so much pressure on me all day."
Mediate, 45, carved his name onto the short list of contenderswho have chased Woods to major championships, a list that includesSergio Garcia, Bob May and Chris DiMarco. And the throngs whoflocked to Torrey Pines Golf Course aren't likely to forget himsoon.
"He's the everyman golfer," said Steve Puertas, Mediate's longtime friend, who was with him this week. "People look at him and he looks right back at them."
Nobody could say they were surprised by the outcome. Woods winning a major golf championship is your standard dog-bites-man story.
The way that the 108th edition of the U.S. Open transpired, on the other hand, earned Mediate admirers in every corner of the golfing community.
"I was pulling for Rocco," admitted Chris Wightman, the U. S. Golf Association Managing Director, Communications.
On Sunday, Mediate was lavished with the kind of attention normally reserved for rock stars as he battled Woods stroke for stroke. Mediate got into the clubhouse at 1-under par with a one stroke lead as Woods, playing in the group behind him, came to the final hole. Woods birdied the final hole to force the 18-hole playoff, and Mediate demonstrated nothing but grace, briefly breaking away from post-round interviews to congratulate Woods as he came off the course.
"You can't root against anybody," Mediate said at the time. "It doesn't make any sense."
On Monday, an estimated 25,000 golf fans packed the seaside links course to watch Everyman's showdown with Superman. Once again, though, Woods, conjured up the type of golf that it takes to win a major championship.
Trailing by a stroke coming to the 18th, Woods slammed his drive down the fairway while Mediate pulled his into a bunker. Forced to lay up while Woods was reaching the green in two, Mediate had to settle for a two-putt par as Woods made birdie to extend the playoff to sudden death.
Another errant drive into a bunker on the playoff hole, No. 7, spelled doom for Mediate. He clattered his approach off the grandstand on his way to a bogey as Woods made par to clinch the title.
"He's so hard to beat," Mediate said. "… He's unreal."
During this very special week, so was Mediate.


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Zelda, Pokémon, and Street Fighter as old-timey Disney cartoons
Your favorite games look damn good in black and white — like they were made by Walt Disney himself.
That's the effect that Red Little House Studios, the indie company that's making adventure game Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel, accomplished when it created a series of mock-ups for its Indiegogo campaign. It reimagined The Legend of Zelda, Pokémon, Street Fighter, Trine, Monkey Island, and more as old-fashioned cartoons. There's even a link so you can download the collection of images.
The game, which is in need of a big funding push with only 57 hours to go, is "based on 1930s black and white cartoons that reverses the damsel in distress trope." You can also vote for Fleish & Cherry on Steam Greenlight.
[Nintendo Life via Kotaku]
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Answers To All Your Balloonfest Questions Online Tomorrow
Need info on The Q Balloonfest that you can't find at KLAQ.com??
Need info on The Q Balloonfest that you can't find at KLAQ.com??
UTEP has just confirmed that former UTEP player and assistant and current Pittsburg Steelers Offensive Line Coach Sean Kugler is going to be the next head football coach of the UTEP Miners.
According to a new article, if your children didn't serve in the military, some people think you should be donating to military-related charities to make up for the lack of participation.
Pictured at left is a story that ran this morning in the El Paso times. The story is about the current controversy in the El Paso school district having to do with cheating and the subsequent cover-up by the EPISD Superintendent, Lorenzo Garcia.
The woman in the photo is EPISD School Board President Isela Castanon-WIlliams and the story has to do with her conflicting accounts of how this scandal was handled.
Look carefully at the photo. Do you see the "self-caption"? Click to the next page if you need help.
Arguably the biggest victory of the season for UTEP. First road win. Young team. Nearly 17,000 fans cheering against the Miners in one of the most hostile settings in all of Conference USA. Against all odds, UTEP beat the Memphis Tigers in their own building, 60-58.
Those morons didn't even bother to park their car!
Breathe easier, El Paso. They're cleaning it up, piece-by-piece, and if they're on schedule, early next year the ASARCO smokestack that has been a part of the El Paso skyline for over 100 years will come tumbling down...
We had a ton of fun at the River Raft Race this past weekend, and Super Mario spent some time building the KLAQ Morning Show raft for us. The El Paso Times came out and talked with Super Mario about his raft and his participation in the race.
Don't worry, the HUGE fireworks show at the El Paso Downtown Street Festival is still on!!
Getting "together" in the virtual world may be driving us apart in the real one!
This Saturday, you can eat at more than a dozen different restaurants, sample beers and wines, and have a great night (or date)! It's downtown with A Taste of El Paso! Victor Martinez at the El Paso Times wrote a great story about us today:
Winter is not quite done with us yet.


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"The Nike Dunk Low Premium SB – C-Mon & Kypski, a collaboration between Nike SB and Dutch band C-Mon & Kypski, is finally ready to hit the shelves of skate stores across Europe and Asia.
C-Mon & Kypski Hip-Hop instrumentalists are well known and respected in the Dutch skateboard scene. Simon and Thomas are both long time core skateboarders that have been sponsored by local skateboard shop E-zone in Utrecht, Holland. Various Dutch skateboard videos feature their tunes and they've been known to spin a record or two at various skate contests.
Their concept was to create a shoe that people who make music can immediately relate to. The guys were given carte blanche on the design. The color way refers to the artwork of their latest album "Where the Wild Things Are". The insole pattern is made from their first logo – a head with a turntable for a brain. The shoe has a clear outsole with a pattern of SB & CK. The music connection is made with a music wave and VU-meter. The former representing an actual song the band created for the launch of the shoe.This track will be available from June 7th on www.c-monandkypski.nl.
7th of June, E-zone skate shop will be celebrating the launch of the shoe in Utrecht, Holland. The first 50 people to buy the shoe at E-zone will receive a limited Nike SB C&K shirt." Via Sneaker Freaker.
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Politics Matter When It Comes To Protecting Nature
Get involved in this election season of 2008, you can truly make a difference in the environment based on who you put into office.
Barack Obama has studied the Washington D.C. politics of environmentalism and he concluded that the Bush Administration has weakened environmental regulations considerably through administrative orders. The scary thing about this fact is that the President can make sweeping changes that no other branch of government can vote on or alter. It seems as if Mr. Bush's actions place him in bed with the corporate powers that approve of dismembered environmental regulations. Mr. Bush seems to believe lack of regulation on business is a good way to go because he believes this lowers the cost of conducting business. While this may be true in the short term, how much more expensive will conducting business become as nature starts to fall apart?
However, do not worry, there is good news here as well. Mr. Obama assures us that many of these damaging environmental laxities in regulation of industry are in fact administrative orders, which Presidents can simply issue. This means any President who holds office can choose to overturn them and replace them with appropriate environmental regulations instead. If Mr. Obama can hear us out there, it would be great to draw up a concrete list of these administrative orders so we can see exactly what would be overturned and also what would be replaced them.
In case you are curious to watch videos about candidates for president in '08, check out the YouChoose [www.youtube.com] area on YouTube.


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Carney floats 'new normal' 2.5% interest rate
A "new normal" interest rate of 2.5 per cent could come in the first quarter of 2017, the governor of the Bank of England has indicated.
Mark Carney, who has been criticised for the inconsistency and contradictions of the Bank's forward guidance, said the "old normal" of 5 per cent rates was a thing of the past.
"We have put out a forecast in May where we get back to full employment, where inflation gets back to target, where the economy gets back to something approximating normal - normal as it is after a financial crisis - and with interest rates in the range I just quoted ... that date at the end of the forecast horizon is the first quarter of 2017," he said in an interview…


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Manicured slopes, powdery tree-skiing, laid-back ease, and low-key pampering: This is where mountain sophistication and relaxed High Sierra style rendezvous in the evergreens.
Northstar is among America's 10 largest ski areas, yet it often feels like a private playground.
That's not to say it isn't lively: Seven terrain parks hop and pop with tricksters and athletes.
Music plays, marshmallows roast, couples carom on the ice rink, and skiers and riders settle into Adirondack chairs and clink fireside toasts.
And why not?
They're likely steps away from their slopeside lodging or perhaps the free shuttle that deploys every six minutes for a seamless après experience.
California Cooking
Manzanita at The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe delivers seasonal California cuisine tailored for mountain appetites.
The chef's table seats up to eight for a close-up look at the mastery of chef de cuisine Jeremy Grossman.
A True Craftsman
At Stella in nearby Truckee, Chef Jacob Burton marries modernist methods with classic, labor-intensive techniques like handcrafting charcuterie and cultivating yeasts for his breads.
Edible Art
Located 15 minutes from Northstar in historic downtown Truckee, Restaurant Trokay crafts French-influenced cuisine with molecular flair in a century-old space rendered rustic-sleek.
Don't miss dessert: Coffee frozen into a virtual latte that's dazzled with salted caramel powder and itty-bitty donuts.
Quiet Time
The long, sustained rollers of Promised Land (for intermediates) and The Backside (for stronger skiers) are the places to get away from it all while racking up lap after lap.
White Out
Powder tree-skiing is a connoisseur's pursuit, and Northstar's 900-plus acres of in-bounds glades deliver Tahoe's best.
Intermediates can weave in and out of the glades that flank the runs of Promised Land, while experts should head straight to the less-trafficked Lookout Mountain (complete with thigh-burning angles) to explore Lookout Glades (to the far left of Prosser), Sugar Pine Glades (between Boca and Martis, below Upper Martis), and the woods between Prosser, Stampede, Gooseneck, and Boca.
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With a dedicated concierge and private lounge, The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe's fifth-floor Club Level is like a boutique hotel within the fully-equipped, 170-room, slopeside mountain lodge.
Tailored Stay
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The smart, dedicated staff can expertly customize your trip from start to finish.
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The Puller's Glossary
Bars- tread on a tractor tire.
Bench Pulling – Talking about pulling.
Bite – Traction.
Bitin' Track – Power track.
Boat – Weight transfer machine to which the tractor hooks and pulls.
Box – Part of a weight transfer machine that carries and transfers the weight.
Buzz the tires – A lot of tire speed, without moving the sled much. Results from either a hard track or not
enough weight at the rear of the tractor .
Cam – The camshaft, a revolving engine part that moves the valves up and down.
Carb – The carburetor.
Clay – The most desirable track surface.
Cut tires – Trim the tire bar to a preferred angle for maximum bite.
Cleats – The tread on a tractor tire, also know as bars.
DQ – Disqualification of the pull attempt i.e. tire touching the white track boundary.
Draw Bar – The part of the tractor or mini-rod which attaches to the chain and hook of the weight transfer machine.
Draw Bar Height – The distance between the draw bar and the track surface.
Drop the Hammer – Hitting the throttle hard.
Easy Chair – Soft, comfortable ride to victory.
Eyeball – Carefully inspecting something like an engine.
Full Pull – Pulling the entire length of the track.
Grenade – Damage to engine, usually terminal; motor ready to blow.
Hammer – Throttle.
Hauling the Freight – Pulling the weight transfer sled.
Headers – Exhaust pipes designed for free exhaust flow from the engine.
Hired Gun – A driver who drives tractors or mini-rods other than his or her own
Hole Shot – Getting the jump off the line, an excellent start.
Hook – The point of attachment to the tractor's drawbar. Also, competing at a pull.
Hook Points – Points received for attempting a pull.
Hooked Up – Tires getting a good bite on the track.
Kill Switch – A required hookup that automatically kills the engine if the tractor becomes unhooked from the sled or activated by the sled operator if an unsafe condition exists.
Miss the Balance – Improper weight balance on a tractor.
Out the End – Full pull.
Pan – Part of the weight transfer machine that makes contact with the track to create the friction necessary to stop the tractor.
Power Track – A track with good bite or traction.
Pull a Wheelie – The front end of the tractor rearing up in the air.
Pull-Off – A second run with a heavier sled for two or more vehicles that pull equal distances or make full pulls to determine a winner
Purse – The total prize money.
Put It On The Wood – Apply full throttle.
Read the Track – Determine track conditions (soil type, soil texture, etc) for weighting the tractor and spotting the sled.
Second Attempt – If, on the first try, the tractor doesn't move the sled past the 50' line, the puller can try again.
Skid – The pad.
Sled – The weight transfer machine.
Spin Out – Spinning tires at the end of a pull with no forward motion.
Spotting the Sled – Puller choosing where the sled will sit along the start line for there pull attempt.
Squeaked It Out – Barely pulling the full length of the track.
Staged – Lined up at the starting line.
Wheelie – Lifting the front wheels off the ground
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A Peek Inside the Black Box; The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Japan
This paper uses vector autoregressions to examine the monetary transmission mechanism in Japan. The empirical results indicate that both monetary policy and banks' balance sheets are important sources of shocks, that banks play a crucial role in transmitting monetary shocks to economic activity, that corporations and households have not been able to substitute borrowing from other sources for a shortfall in bank borrowing, and that business investment is especially sensitive to monetary shocks. We conclude that policy measures to strengthen banks are probably a prerequisite for restoring the effectiveness of the monetary transmission mechanism.
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Man faces charges for allegedly hijacking car after threatening driver with syringe
A homeless man was ordered held without bail after his arraignment today in Waltham District Court on charges that he hijacked a young woman's car in Waltham after threatening her with a bloody syringe.
On Tuesday morning, Scott Steverding, 30, approached a 17-year-old girl in a CVS parking lot and threatened to inject her with the syringe if she did not give up her car, Waltham Police Detective Lieutenant Joseph Brooks said.
The teen obliged, and Steverding took the car and fled, Brooks said.
Steverding was arrested in Cambridge Wednesday night, according to Brooks. Steverding did not enter a plea to charges of armed carjacking, attempted murder, and assault with a dangerous weapon, Brooks and the court clerk said.


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Here is some more new material from Maino as he becomes the latest artist to give us their rendition of Drake's popular "We Made It" record produced by Soulja Boy.
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Maino and Uncle Murda deliver a visual for their collaboration "Gang Gang." The London On Da Track produced single has been out for some…
Continuing to hijack beats, Maino gives us new bars over Drake's "KMT." Previously the Brooklyn emcee freestyled over "Redbone." What's next Maino, Magnolia? Ha!
Brooklyn emcee Maino does his best to ruin Childish Gambino's "Redbone" with a new remix. This gotta be the only rapper to have remixed…
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Maino and Uncle Murda (who want to be known as Suicide Squad) join forces once again on the new track "Gang Gang". The New…
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Renee Montagne comes to Boise this week to support Boise State Radio. You can hear her at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Egyptian. Tickets are $10 for students and $20 for the public and can be purchased by calling 208-426-3663.
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By Mike Monroe
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Now less than five months from his 38th birthday, Spurs captain Tim Duncan can take consolation in the fact he just completed his most productive month as a rebounder in nearly five years.
Though he had only five rebounds in a Tuesday blowout of the Nets — in which his presence on the court was not required for the final 14:20 — Duncan finished the month having averaged 11.9 rebounds per game.
Not since February of 2009, when he played an average of 35.7 minutes per game and averaged 13.4 rebounds, had Duncan had a higher rebounding average for one month. He also averaged 11.9 rebounds in February 2010.
Duncan played an average of 30.2 minutes in the 14 games he played in December. He was held out of the Dec. 19 game at Golden State.
After Tuesday's game, teammate Manu Ginobili marveled at Duncan's ability to thrive at what he jokingly called "such an old age."
"It's not easy at 37 to stay competitive and go at 23-year-old kids that run and jump like crazy," Ginobili said. "It's great to see TD do what he does."
And how much older is Duncan than Ginobili.
"A few months?" Ginobili said with a wide grin. "No, more than a year. Fourteen (months) actually. But he's doing great."
Speaking of rebounds: With Duncan getting nearly as much rest as play against the Nets, backup power forward Jeff Ayres logged more than 21 minutes and grabbed a team-high eight rebounds — three on the offensive glass.
"I think Jeff is getting more and more comfortable with the system," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "He is not worried as much about making a mistake, but just playing the game."
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Start just right of the elephant-like tufa. Do the bouldery start then press on up the steep pocketed seam and juggy wall above. Superb and popular.
Another must-do! Match hands on the hold by the tree and reach up for the pocket.
way to ruin everyones onsight you idiot!
Very nice Route. Quite a Powerful Bouldery start.
Felt harder than Don Diego to me.
Great route. Power and endurance required. The technical crux for me was a balancy move about half way up.
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Xbox Gameing Solutions -- Scam!!! - $40 (Destroy my Xbox)
Date: 2009-05-20, 11:10AM PDT
Please spare yourself the grief and avoid Ali at all costs. This guy is some kid working out of his parents house. Charged me $45 for so called repair to my xbox, both times, took it home and worked for 5mins before blank screen returns. Tried to called him for the third time to rectify the problem, no answer!!!! He sure sounds all professional at the beginning, once he gets your money it all disappears. Being a fairly handy guy, I opened up the xbox and see what he has done to my unit. His so called work done with prestige is questionable, most of the tabs to open the console were broken!!! ALL the screws that held the console to the cage, chasis and boards were all MISSING, my unit just floats inside the case with no fasteners to hold it down!!! DO NOT let this happen to you and avoid ALI at all cost. His x-clamp replacement abviously doesn't work.


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Athens Touchdown Club
2003 Schedule: Oct. 1, 6 p.m., Erk Russell; Oct. 15, noon, Mark Richt; Oct. 22, 6 p.m., TBA; Nov. 5, 6 p.m., Mike Slive; Nov. 19, 6 p.m., Herschel Walker. (Unless noted, meetings will be held at the Athens Country Club.)
YWCO REGISTRATION: Men's basketball registration is under way and the deadline is Sept. 30. The cost is $350 per team and includes the end-of-season tournament.
For more information, contact the YWCO at (706) 354-7880.
PREP SHOWCASE: Area high school baseball players (2004-06 graduates) interested in playing in college an perform in from of scouts by attending the 2003 Doyle Baseball Prep Showcase on Saturday, Oct. 4 at Augusta State and Sunday, Oct. 12 at Emory University.
For more information, call Anthony Fedele at (770) 517-6919 or visit www.doylebaseball.com.
PITCHING LESSONS: Former Stephens County star and current minor league pitcher Kevin Culpepper, in conjunction with the Stephens County Recreation Department, will be holding lessons for ages 8 and older.
For more information, call the rec department at (706) 886-5101.
Disc golf
TOURNAMENT: Singles and doubles will be held on Saturday, Sept. 27. Cost is $6 per person. For more information, call the Stephens County Recreation Department at (706) 886-5101 or John Nisewonder at (706) 886-5697.
NGJGA CLINICS: The North Georgia Junior Golf Association is providing year-round clinches at local courses throughout the area. All skill levels from ages 7-18 are invited to attend.
For more information, call Karl Cross at (706) 245-6770.
BARROW TOURNAMENT: The Georgia Club will host the Barrow County Chamber of Commerce annual tournament on Wednesday, Oct. 15. The entry fee is $200 per person.
For more information, contact the Barrow County Chamber of Commerce at (706) 867-9444.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. employers in January announced a reduction of 53,486 jobs, a 28 percent jump over layoffs announced in December, a private research group said.
The total for the month was also 39 percent higher than January 2011 and shows a labor market that is headed in two directions. While larger firms continue to streamline operations or send jobs overseas, smaller companies are hiring.
They are not necessarily hiring at a rate that will lower the unemployment rate, but private firms with fewer than 500 workers added 167,000 jobs in January, while those with more than 500 employees added 3,000.
In one of the latest downturns, AMR, parent of American Airlines, announced it would cut 13,000 jobs, a 20 percent across the board reduction. The announcement, made Wednesday, will count with February's layoff statistics, not January's.
Employment outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas said Thursday that a spike in layoffs at the start of the year is "not unusual."
"Historically, January is the heaviest job-cut month, averaging 101,084 announced layoffs between 1993 and 2011," the firm said.
Still, the spike this year is higher than the spike last year.
The firm said retailers and financial firms suffered the highest layoff toll for the month with 12,426 job cuts and 7,611 job cuts, respectively.
Thwarting a common misconception, the firm said retail layoffs do not include seasonal workers let go after the holidays. Typically, retail layoffs in January involve the loss of permanent jobs due to store closings and cost-cutting strategies.
Texas was hit hardest in the month with 11,606 jobs lost. Illinois was hit with a loss of 7,601 jobs. Third on the list, employers in North Carolina announced 5,980 layoffs in January.


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Apple releases Apple TV Software Update 5.0
Apple today released Apple TV Software Update 5.0, the latest update for its second-generation set-top box. The new update introduces a significantly redesigned user interface for the main menu. Apple has yet to update its Support page with details on 5.0 so it is unclear exactly what other improvements have been made in this latest update. Apple TV Software Update 5.0 is available now via the Update Software option in the device's General Settings menu.
Update: According to Apple's release notes, the latest update also includes support for Movie purchases in iCloud where availalbe, Genius Recommendations for content on the iTunes Store, new built-in screensaver photos from National Geographic and on-device sign-up for content partners on Apple TV using an Apple ID.
Apple releases iTunes 10.6 with 1080p support, iTunes Match improvements
Following today's iPad event, Apple has released iTunes 10.6, the latest version of its digital media management software. According to the release notes, iTunes 10.6 adds the ability to play 1080p HD movies and TV shows from the iTunes Store and adds a number of improvements for iTunes Match including improved song matching, album artwork handling, downloading and display. As with all new Apple media hardware, iTunes 10.6 will also be the minimum requirement for syncing the new third-generation iPad and new third-generation Apple TV announced at today's event. iTunes 10.6 is available now as a free download from apple.com/itunes and should be available via the company's Software Update utility later today.
Apple posts video of iPad, Apple TV event
Apple has now posted a streaming video of its latest special media event, at which it announced the third-generation Apple TV and third-generation iPad. The video is just over 85 minutes long, and includes demonstrations of the new Apple TV interface, as well as iPhoto for iOS, and Infinity Blade: Dungeons. The video is available for viewing now from Apple's website.
Apple releases iOS 5.1 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
Following today's iPad event, Apple has released iOS 5.1 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. According to the release notes, the new version adds Japanese language support for Siri and the ability to delete photos from the Photo Stream. Additionally, the Camera shortcut is now always visible on the lock screen for the iPHone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and fourth-generation iPod touch and improvements have been made to camera face detection to highlight all detected faced. The update also includes a redesigned Camera app for the iPad and adds support for Genius Mixes and Genius playlists for iTunes Match subscribers. Several other optimizations and bug fixes are noted including improvements to audio for TV shows and movies on the iPad, podcast controls for playback speed and skip back on the iPad as well as an updated AT&T network indicator and fixes for issues relating to battery life and audio dropouts on outgoing calls. iOS 5.1 is compatible with the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPad 2, third-generation iPod touch, and fourth-generation iPod touch, and is available now via the update feature in iTunes or as an over-the-air update. To update your iOS device over-the-air, open Settings, tap on General, and tap on Software Update.
Apple drops price of the iPad 2 to $399
Alongside the announcement of third-generation iPad and Apple TV hardware, Apple today announced that it was dropping the price of the base iPad 2 model to $399. The 16GB version will continue to be sold in black and white alongside the third-generation iPad—referred to by the company as "The new iPad"—which will assume the prior iPad 2 price points of $499-$699 for Wi-Fi-only models and $629-$829 for 4G-enabled units. Apple did not indicate that it would continue to sell Wi-Fi + 3G iPad 2 units, but will likely have some supply available at a modest discount until supplies run out.
Apple announces iPhoto for iOS
During today's iPad event in San Francisco, Apple also took the wraps off iPhoto for iPad, the latest iOS app in the company's iLife suite. Described as the "reinvention" of iPhoto, the new app provides new and expanded photo browsing and editing capabilities directly on the iPad with a smarter photo browsing interface, advanced multi-touch editing features and professional quality effects. A new Photo Beaming feature also allows users to easily transfer photos directly between different devices.
During the presentation, Apple demonstrated several additional advanced features including the ability to automatically find and compare similar pictures simply by double-tapping on a photo, browsing photos via intuitive multi-touch gestures and sophisticated editing and auto-enhancement features. The app supports photo resolutions up to 19 megapixels and includes the ability to flag and collect photos and them share them easily via e-mail, Flickr, Twitter and other services. Users can also create Photo Journals to collect their favourite pictures into themed template pages that can also include related information such as calendar dates, maps and weather. iPhoto for iOS is $5 and is expected to be available on the App Store later today.
Apple announces third-generation iPad with Retina display
Apple today announced its third-generation iPad. As expected, the third-generation tablet features a 2048 x 1536 "Retina" display—for a total of 3.1 million pixels—and is powered by the new dual-core A5X processor with a quad-core graphics processor. According to the company, the new processor was "designed for Retina display", and offers "four times the performance" of the Tegra 3 processor. Also new is a five-megapixel, backside-illuminated rear "iSight" camera sensor, with an IR filter, autofocus and auto white balance, face detection, 1080p video recording, and automatic video stabilization. Other new features include voice dictation, with support for US, British, and Australian English, French, German, and Japanese, 4G LTE networking, 10 hours of battery life, and a body that is slightly heavier at 1.4 lbs., and—as first reported by iLounge—slightly thicker at 9.4mm, compared to 8.8mm for the previous model.
Models equipped with wireless data now support 3.1 Mbps over EV-DO, 7.2 Mbps over HSPA, 21 Mbps on HSPA+, 42 Mbps over DC-HSDPA, and 73 Mbps over LTE networks; the latter will be supported at launch by Verizon, Rogers, Bell, Telus, and AT&T. Thanks to its faster internet connection, the iPad can now serve as a personal hotspot if the carrier supports it. The new iPad will keep the same pricing and capacities as previous models, with Wi-Fi-only units running $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, and $699 for 64GB; 4G-capable units will cost $629, $729, and $829, respectively. Apple will begin taking pre-orders for the device today, with units shipping on March 16 in the United States, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia. More international rollouts will follow on March 23 in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
Siri coming to Japan
During Apple's iPad event today the company announced that it would officially be rolling out Siri to users in Japan as part of its iOS 5.1 update. Siri is expected to be available in Japan "over the next few weeks."
Apple adds Movies to iTunes in the Cloud
During it's iPad event today in San Francisco, Apple announced the expansion of its iTunes in the Cloud service to include Movies from the iTunes Store. Originally launched last June, iTunes in the Cloud allows iTunes users to re-download previously purchased music, books, apps and TV shows to their iTunes library or any iOS device. The service was initially released in the U.S. and later expanded to several other countries late last year, initially for music and later for TV shows as well. The second-generation Apple TV received the ability to stream TV shows from iTunes in the Cloud last summer; although it is not clear whether support for Movies will be included in a coming Apple TV software update or will be exclusive to the third-generation Apple TV also announced today. Apple has also not yet been announced in which countries Movies will be available from iTunes in the Cloud.
Update: The feature has now been activated for U.S. iTunes Store accounts, allowing users to re-download previously purchased movies from the Purchases section of the iTunes Store.
Apple rolls out third-generation Apple TV
During this morning's special media event, Apple announced its third-generation Apple TV. While retaining the design of the prior model, the new Apple TV offers support for 1080p video output, and also offers a redesigned user interface with larger, app-like buttons for accessing content, and a single-core variant of the A5 processor. As part of the new 1080p support, Apple is updating its TV show and movie offerings with higher-resolution copies, and is also rolling out iTunes in the Cloud support for movies, giving the new Apple TV access to 1080p content stored online, instead of on a local computer. The third-generation Apple TV also retains the $99 price point of its predecessor, and is available for pre-order today with units shipping March 16.
Apple offering settlements to Motorola, Samsung
Apple has proposed settlements to both Motorola Mobility and Samsung in an effort to end some pending litigation, Dow Jones Newswires reports. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report claims that Apple has asked for roughly 1 percent to 2.5 percent of net sales per device, or between $5 and $15 per handset. One person said that Apple isn't looking to offer patent licenses to all competitors, nor is it seeking to create a royalty business. The report also suggests that Apple may be using its own patents as bargaining chips to reduce any penalties it might face as a result of negative court rulings related to standards-essential patents held by the two companies.
App Store reaches 25 billion downloads
Apple has announced that over 25 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store. According to the release, the downloads account for the usage of over 315 million iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch owners worldwide. The 25 billionth app downloaded Where's My Water? Free, was downloaded by Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. As the winner of the App Store Countdown to 25 Billion Apps, Chunli Fu will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card. The release also states that the App Store now offers over 550,000 apps, with 170,000 of those being native to the iPad.
"We'd like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded," said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. "When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they have, or that developers would create such an incredible selection of apps for iOS users."
Apple Store app adds iPhone plans, brings EasyPay to the Netherlands
Apple has updated the Apple Store iPhone app adding new account management editing and billing options and the ability for U.S. customers to purchase an iPhone with a plan from any of the three U.S. carriers. The latest version is now also available in the Netherlands along with Apple's in-store EasyPay feature—the first release of this feature to Apple Stores outside of the U.S.
Originally launched in 2010, the Apple Store app allows iPhone users to research and purchase products from the online Apple Store or reserve products at any U.S. Apple Store for local pickup. The app also provides features for requesting help and making Genius Bar and One to One reservations at an Apple Store. Users in the U.S.—and now the Netherlands—can also take advantage of EasyPay, a feature introduced last fall that allows purchases to be made in an Apple Retail Store with an iPhone 4/4S by scanning the barcode with the camera and completing the transaction directly within the app. Apple Store 2.1 requires iOS 4.3.3 or later and is available from the App Store as a free download.
Apple, Google sued over iOS Maps' Street View
Apple and Google have been sued by Florida-based PanoMap over the iOS' implementation of Google Maps' Street View feature. PaidContent reports that the complaint, filed in federal court in Orlando, claims that implementation violates a PanoMap patent related to an "Interactive system for displaying detailed view and direction in panoramic images". The suit seeks damages with interest from both parties, as well as attorney fees and costs.
From the patent abstract: "A method and system for indicating the camera position, direction, and field of view in a map or panoramic image comprises a map image window which displays a map or panoramic image of the site to be studied (house, apartment, city, etc.). A detailed view window displays a portion of the map image, taken from a point in the site. A highlighted sector in the map image represents the viewing position, direction, and field of view that the detailed view window displays. When the user changes the field of view in the detailed view window, the highlighted sector in the map image changes in synchronism. The resulting interactive windows allow a person to easily and quickly view and understand the field of view, position, and direction of the image being displayed in the detail view window." [via TUAW]
Apple confirms iPad 3 event for March 7
As expected, Apple has sent out invitations to select members of the media inviting them to a special event on March 7. The image accompanying the invitation features a finger reaching out to touch the Calendar icon on a noticeably high-resolution iPad screen, and the tagline "We have something you really have to see. And touch". Notably, no Home button is seen on the device, although it may simply be rotated to the side. Apple is expected to unveil the third-geneartion iPad at the event; the device is expected to feature a Retina Display with four times the pixels, as well as 4G LTE connectivity and a new chipset, all in an almost unnoticeably thicker shell that we first saw at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. The event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco and will start at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
Apple working on A6, A5X chips simultaneously?
Citing code found in a beta version of iOS 5.1, a new report claims that Apple is simultaneously developing its next-generation A6 processor, as well as an "A5X" variant of the A5 processor that currently powers the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. 9to5Mac reports that the code makes reference to both an "S5L8950X" chip—said to be the A6—and an "S5L8945X" chip, which is said to be the A5X. For reference, the original A4 was referred to as "S5L8930X", and the A5 "S5L8940X". A later report from the same outlet suggests that the A5X will find its way into the next-generation Apple TV, while the A6 will power the next-generation iPad.
Apple developing adaptive streaming audio format
Apple is working on a new audio file format that would allow it to deliver high- or low-quality files to iCloud users based on bandwidth. Citing a source with inside knowledge of the process, the Guardian reports that the new system would adjust itself to the bandwidth and storage available on the receiving device, and would be used to enhance the company's iTunes Match service. According to the report, Apple has already asked a London studio to prepare audio files for the new streaming format. "All of a sudden, all your audio from iTunes is in HD rather than AAC. Users wouldn't have to touch a thing – their library will improve in an instant," said the source. Apple has recently been encouraging submission of audio files in the 24-bit/96KHz standard, and has also released a set of guidelines for mastering to iTunes which hint at a such a possible future service: "As technology advances and bandwidth, storage, battery life, and processor power increase, keeping the highest quality masters available in our systems allows for full advantage of future improvements to your music. These masters matter – especially given the move into the cloud on post-PC devices."
Apple airs new iPhone 4S ad 'iCloud Harmony'
Last night during the Oscars, Apple aired its latest TV advertisement for the iPhone 4S. Entitled "iCloud Harmony", the 30-second spot focuses on how iCloud can automatically sync purchased music, photos, apps, contacts and documents across a user's devices, including the iPad and the Mac, before finishing with the slogan "Automatic. Everywhere. iCloud." and the iPhone 4S logo. The commercial is available for viewing on YouTube via the above link or in embedded form below.
Apple now selling domestically-made iPhone in Brazil
Apple is now selling the Brazilian-made 8GB iPhone 4 through its online store in the country. Mac Rumors points to a post by Meio Bit (Translated Link) confirming the news via a photo of the information listed on the back of the box. The new Made in Brazil units carry the model numbers MD128BR/A and MD198BR/A for the black and white iPhone 4, respectively; no evidence of Brazilian-made iPhone 4S units has yet surfaced. The report notes that despite the relocation of manufacturing, pricing for the iPhone 4 remains the same.
Apple suspends iCloud push email in Germany
Apple has temporarily suspended push email service for iCloud and MobileMe users in Germany due to its ongoing legal battle with Motorola Mobility. A newly published Apple support document on the subject reads, "iCloud and MobileMe users are currently unable to have iCloud and MobileMe email pushed to their iOS devices while located within the borders of Germany". It continues, "Affected customers will still receive iCloud and MobileMe email, but new messages will be downloaded to their devices when the Mail app is opened, or when their device periodically fetches new messages as configured in iOS Settings. Push email service on desktop computers, laptop computers, and the web is unaffected, as is service from other providers such as Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. Apple believes Motorola's patent is invalid and is appealing the decision." No timeline was given for possible reactivation of the service. [via Engadget]


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Governor Chet Culver today received confirmation that Iowa has received a Presidential Disaster Declaration authorized by President Obama for 12 counties impacted by a severe winter storm beginning Jan. 19, 2010.
"When the January ice storm hit this area, I made a commitment to move quickly and decisively in order to secure assistance for communities in these 12 counties," said Governor Culver. "I greatly appreciate their resilience and perseverance through one of the most severe winters in our state's history."
This declaration provides assistance to state and local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations (including rural electric cooperatives and municipal utilities) for emergency work and the repair or replacement of disaster-damaged facilities. Counties included in the declaration are: Adair, Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Guthrie, Harrison, Madison, Pottawattamie, Sac and Shelby.
Public Assistance program funds are available to public entities and select non-profit agencies to rebuild damaged infrastructure that may include roads, bridges, culverts, and other public facilities, or to cover costs of emergency work during the storms.
In addition, the Governor received notification that the Presidential Disaster Declaration includes funding to conduct hazard mitigation activities for the entire state. With this funding, Iowa will be able to minimize the impact of future natural disasters by taking steps now to strengthen existing infrastructure.
Governor Culver also requested and the State of Iowa received a disaster declaration for 21 counties impacted by a severe winter storm beginning Dec. 23, 2009. That declaration was made Feb. 25, 2010.
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Capital Bhangra 2016 will be held on the afternoon of Sunday 6 March at The Great Hall, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS.
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The closest tube station to The Great Hall is Mile End, which is served by the Central Line, the District Line and the Hammersmith & City Line. The short walk from the station to the venue takes no more than 5 minutes. We do not expect there to be any planned engineering works that will affect this tube station on Sunday 6 March, but please do check Transport for London's website when planning your travel.
Is there parking available at the venue?
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(1) There are a limited number of spaces at a staff car park on site from where it is a five minute walk across campus to The Great Hall. These will be available on a first-come, first-served basis and require you to show your tickets or email confirmation if you are collecting at the Box Office. The postcode remains E1 4NS but you need to turn off Mile End Road into Westfield Way 'East Gate Entrance' from where security will direct you the rest of the way.
(2) There are numerous spaces on neighbouring residential roads that are free from parking restrictions on Sunday and are anywhere up to a ten minute walk from the venue. The most prominent of these roads is Bancroft Road which turns off Mile End Road.
I'm collecting tickets at the Box Office - what do I need to show?
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Dr. Jason Newsom's public battle against obesity went just a little too far, and it cost him his job.
Newsom has run the Bay County Health Department since returning from Army duty in Iraq. One of his main initiatives has been educating the public about the dangers of obesity.
Considering the toll the obesity epidemic takes on Americans' health, you'd think Newsom's bosses would be happy with his campaign. Fat chance.
One of Newsom's main communication tools was an electronic sign outside the Health Department's office. He often set it up to display anti-obesity messages such as "Sweet Tea = Liquid Sugar," "Hamburger = Spare Tire" and "French Fries = Thunder Thighs."
While attacking tea, burgers and fries was all right, it was doughnuts that doomed the doc. When he parodied Dunkin' Donuts' slogan "America runs on Dunkin'" with "America dies on Dunkin," the dough hit the fan.
That was too much for one Bay County commissioner—who happened to own a doughnut shop—and two Panama City attorneys—who had just purchased a Dunkin' Donuts franchise. Even Newsom's own employees felt the doc had gone too far, and the Florida Health Department turned up the heat as well. Newsom was forced to resign.
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A billion-pound plan to reach untapped coal reserves under the North Sea will be under way by the end of the year, as the vast scale of the energy source beneath the North Sea is made clear.
Scientific data of the true extent of the coal deposits on the sea bed reveals that even a tiny percentage of them would be enough to power Britain for centuries to come, says a local expert.
Dermot Roddy, chief technical officer of energy company Five Quarter which will be leading the much-anticipated extraction work, said there are trillions of tonnes of deeply-buried coal stretching from the North East coast far out to sea: an amount thousands of times greater than all oil and gas extracted so far.
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I suppose that if I keep getting asked enough times on radio about instant replay, I should write about the topic. Let me make this simple: the only human element I want involved in the outcome of a baseball game has a minimum salary of $400,000. Players and their actions should be all that determines wins and losses, not the interpretation of what they've done by what amounts to middle management making a fraction of that number.
Throw out the mythology surrounding the position. Umpires are middle management, hired by the leagues to move things along, arbitrate disputes, and keep the players from killing each other. Some umps are better than others, some clearly worse, and nearly all have a much more grandiose view of their role than is warranted. When players strike, the game stops. When umpires strike-or quit en masse–people sigh in relief and mock the arbiters for their misguided arrogance. Umpires make from $84,000 to $300,000 per year. What does that mean? No umpire is worth as much as the scrubbiest player on a roster.
So if a player's left hand scrapes across the plate just before a catcher sweeps his glove hand across the sliding player's back, that player is safe, and the run counts. It shouldn't be not so because a 45-year-old man couldn't see through the catcher's legs to where the player's fingers were, but could see the tag. When a 2-2 slider, moving in three dimensions at 88 miles per hour, runs off the plate by two inches, and the batter correctly reads the break and takes the pitch, he shouldn't be called out on strikes because the man standing slightly behind and to his right wasn't able to correctly discern the location of home plate and the baseball, a task for which human eyes are poor tools at that level of detail.
Bring on the technology to get these calls, and every one like them, right. Perhaps in the early days of baseball, when contact rates were sky-high and the value of control of the strike zone was as low as it ever would be, when hurlers threw 80 with nickel curves, you could stick a man behind the catcher and assign him the job of discerning hittable pitches from unhittable ones. That hasn't been the case for some time now, however, perhaps not since the development of the slider. Today, the act of calling pitches on the margins is guesswork for everyone involved, so much so that the strike zone looks nothing on the field like it does in the rule book. We have the technology to fix this, and we should use it. For all the whining about the run-scoring levels in the modern game, and the style of play that has become prevalent, the single fastest way to change both of those things is to call the rulebook strike zone. Give pitchers back the the four inches from the belt to the letters, and you change the game. At the same time, call a 17-inch wide plate, instead of the 19-, 21-, and 23-inch versions so prevalent today.
Machines can do these things better than people can. That's not an insult, that's a fact. There's a reason they let machines get involved in tennis now: the balls move too quickly for the human eye, even the well-trained one, to track. Machines don't have that problem. Systems have now been installed in all 30 major league parks (and will be installed in each of the new ones coming on line) that can do a better job of calling balls and strikes than people can. They should be used for that purpose, because the game will be better for it.
In fact, mechanization of umpiring should proceed as quickly as the technology allows. The "human element" of Doug Eddings calling a batter out, then safe, then dissembling about his "mechanic" is of no value to anyone. I don't need to see Bob Davidson, closest man to the play, allow himself to be overruled on a home-run call by three people further away with worse angles. I'm still not sure if Matt Holliday touched home plate, and I have to figure lots of Padres and Padre fans would have preferred a definitive answer to that question.
So bring on replay. It can't solve everything-there are significant "flow" questions that have to be handled carefully-but it can make the game better. The system I have in mind would turn ball/strike calls over to the technology, with the umpire there to receive the signal from the system and relay the call to the participants and fans. The umpire would still play a critical role on foul tips (most often called by sound) and checked swings (for which there will never be any good solution). Those of you concerned about delays are encouraged to watch the…deliberate…manner in which many umpires deliver strike calls under the current system. This will be no slower.
For decision plays, I would implement the college football approach. Every crew would have a fifth member in the booth, observing every play and buzzing the crew chief when a call deserved review. The opinion of that official would be final.
This is where the problem with flow becomes an issue. If you rule a ball fair on the field, and the booth umpire calls it foul, that's not a problem. Send everyone back and do it again. If you go the other way, well, everyone has stopped. What do you do then?
The simplest response is that dead balls do not get reviewed. So a "fair" call could be reversed, but a "foul" call could not. That's something of a kludge, but the replay system isn't designed to be perfect, it's designed to close the gap between where we are now and perfection. We have the technology to be more correct on high-leverage calls, and move closer to a world in which the players on the field, and not the judgment of four men scattered among them, determine all of the outcomes.
Umpires, of course, have long expressed a distaste for technology, and despite their union being weak and repeatedly broken, MLB has been unable to leverage them to improve the caliber of umpiring except in short spurts. What I like about this idea is that it creates jobs. Not just jobs, but fairly cushy jobs that would serve as sinecures for veteran umpires for whom the grind of on-field life has become too much to bear. You wouldn't have to assign the booth umpire to a crew. I wouldn't assign them by park, either, but you could do it by region, where seven umpires serve as the rotating booth ump in the Northeast cities or such. That would lessen the travel burdens on these older umpires, and since it's the older umps who tend to be less inclined to favor the use of technology, this may convince them to go along with a scheme. It creates good jobs for members of the Association, and by putting veteran umps, only veteran umps, in the booth, instills confidence in the system in the public and should help undercut internecine problems among the umps. (Better the elder to correct the younger than vice versa.)
Anyway, that's the Sheehan Plan for Umpire Replay (SPUR). It leverages the technology, adds jobs, improves the game on the field, and should do all of that with minimal fuss. The answer to this problem isn't baby steps: it's embracing technology all the way.


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SAO PAULO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Brazil's federally controlled energy generator Furnas is studying a 30-percent stake sale of its equity on the market to raise capital, an umbrella union for workers at the company, Intersindical Furnas, said on Friday.
After learning of the generator's plans to sell a major stake of its equity on the market in a meeting with its Chief Executive Flavio Decat, Intersindical "made it clear to the president of Furnas ... we do not support the initiative," the union said.
In an open letter, it said the sale under currently unfavorable market conditions "could result in greater losses than gains for the company."
On Thursday, the state-run energy holding company Eletrobras SA, which controls Furnas as its subsidiary, released a note saying the plan was only one possible course that management could take in order raise capital for Furnas.
It added that the government has not authorized any plan yet for Furnas, which mainly generates power from hydroelectric plants. (Reporting by Luciano Costa; Writing by Reese Ewing)


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Scientists at the Alzheimer's Disease Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center will participate in a new study to determine whether a new antibody treatment can prevent the onset of memory problems before they arise.
The national study, called the "Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's" study - or the A4 study - will seek to enroll 1,000 adults between the ages of 65 to 85 who may be at higher risk for developing the disease, but who have no symptoms. The study will take place at trial sites across the United States, Canada and Australia.
The development of amyloid plaques in the brain has been linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease. This study will seek to determine whether a drug treatment can slow memory loss associated with the buildup of the plaques.
"The A4 is exploring whether we can treat Alzheimer's disease the same way we now address high cholesterol and heart attack-halting the disease before it even starts," said Reisa Sperling, M.D., professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and principal investigator of the A4 study. "The A4 study offers new hope that we can give people a way to fight back, and give them something they can actively do to protect their own memories. We hope to eventually spare other generations from ever facing this devastating disease."
Physicians and researchers will use an imaging test called a PET scan to determine whether a potential participant has evidence of an elevated level of amyloid plaque in the brain. The study will last for approximately three years, and participants will visit the clinical research site once a month during that time.
"Our Alzheimer's Disease Center is a national leader in research into the prevention of Alzheimer's disease," says Jeffrey M. Burns, M.D., Edward H. Hashinger professor of neurology and co-director of the KU Alzheimer's Disease Center. "Our participation in this new study complements our other work, including studies where we are trying to determine the role exercise can play in reducing the buildup of these plaques in the brain. Even if we could delay the onset of this devastating disease by five years, we could cut the prevalence of the disease in half."
The center is now recruiting potential volunteers to participate in the study. Those interested in volunteering should call 913-588-0555.
Joann Bell, 75, of Olathe, has expressed interest in participating in the new study, along with her husband. Both currently have no symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease, but became interested in helping with research after watching her mother struggle with the disease for years. Bell served as a primary caregiver for her mother as she coped with the disease.
"My heart goes out to the caregivers," she says. "Twenty-four hours can feel more like 48. Every second you are dealing with someone with Alzheimer's you have to be ready, because you never know what you're going to have to do."
She says that she hoped by participating in research, she could help find new ways to help all those who had to deal with the disease.
"If, by any chance, I can be a small part of this study, I will feel as if I could be of help to my mother, all those that came before her and the millions that will come after her," Bell says.
More information on the new national A4 study is available at www.a4study.org. The study is coordinated by the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study, located at the University of California, San Diego.
The study is funded by the National Institute on Aging, Eli Lilly and Company and several philanthropic organizations.


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Paddington 'was crash waiting to happen'
The Paddington rail disaster was the culmination of Railtrack's "abject failure of management", a lawyer for survivors and bereaved relatives has told the public inquiry into the crash.
Thirty one people died when a local service belonging to Thames Trains crashed into a London-bound Great Western high-speed train at Ladbroke Grove last October.
"This disaster is, above all else, a story of an abject failure of management," he said.
He said the dangers of the rail system at the entrance to Paddington had been recognised by rail chiefs, but not acted upon, adding: "The bereaved and injured now have no confidence that Railtrack is fit to run the railway."
Earlier, bereaved relatives and survivors of the crash told a news conference that the tragedy was caused by buck-passing from the companies involved and could have been prevented.
She added: "It is disappointing that no party will be brought to account for this tragedy. After so many were injured and 31 have died, I don't know of anybody who has been relieved of their duty or made redundant."
Closing submissions by the various parties to the inquiry - including the bereaved and survivors, Railtrack, the train operators and British Transport Police - will last until Friday.
Part One of the inquiry, examining the causes of the crash and lessons to be learned from it, will not formally end until September.
Part Two of the inquiry, which will examine accidents since the Clapham crash in 1998 and make recommendations for improving safety, follows towards the end of the year.
Survivors and the bereaved are to meet transport minister Lord Macdonald on Friday to press for the introduction of advanced protection systems on the country's trains, saying that the government should not put cost ahead of safety.
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Disaster survivor Pam Warren told the news conference: "We are not campaigning for ourselves. There are many of us that will never catch a train again. We know now how shabby the system is.
"But we need to protect the people who are still catching the trains, they are in as much danger as we were on October 5, 1999."
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Calla Lilies are so pretty. Since I have a plant on hand, I couldn't help but paint a few. What's great about them besides the obvious: the blooms last a long time and although I haven't compared, they must last almost as long as an orchid. They make great outdoor plants too, so I bought bulbs to plant. Actually, I bought several packages of bulbs to plant in containers this season.
The greenhouses will open soon. Always, it seems, in time for Mother's Day. I can't wait to see what they have this year. In the meantime, and even though they were just setting up, I managed to sneak into Walmart's greenhouse. I left with a few pansies.