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In the end, President Obama won the coveted endorsement of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. But it wasn't Obama's visits or entreaties that sealed it. It was Hurricane Sandy's.
Bloomberg endorsed Obama in an op-ed yesterday, arguing that Hurricane Sandy and other extreme weather events may not be directly caused by climate change, but that the risk that they are requires action by elected officials. Republican nominee Mitt Romney has backed off his previous pledges to act on climate change, Bloomberg said, making Obama the preferred choice.
"This issue is too important," he said. "We need determined leadership at the national level to move the nation and the world forward."
Both candidates have courted Bloomberg, hoping his image as a sensible centrist would bring them credibility with independent voters. In his column, Bloomberg critiqued positions of both candidates, but he concluded that the weight of Sandy -- and what he feared is a growing pattern of extreme weather events -- tipped the scale toward Obama.
Bloomberg pointed to the damage Sandy wrought on New York's subway and its grid, as well as the lives it has taken and business it has derailed. Like Hurricane Irene last year, he said, Sandy required a large-scale evacuation of neighborhoods.
"If this is a trend, it is simply not sustainable," he said.
But in an election that has focused almost exclusively on the economy, will the endorsement sway voters?
Bad timing for Romney? Steve Cohen, executive director of the Earth Institute and a sustainability professor at Columbia University, said the timing will work against Romney, who had shown some momentum in the polls. With the election just days away, the public is paying attention to visceral scenes of disaster and images of the president working hand-in-glove with Republicans like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
"[Romney] needed to be the center of attention," Cohen said. "From Obama's perspective, the Bloomberg endorsement could not have been better timed."
Also, given that it is a disaster, the focus is momentarily off of the small-government discussion, Cohen said. To address the crisis, Bloomberg, Christie and other leaders have worked closely with firefighters, police departments and other publicly funded offices.
But Marc Morano, publisher of the climate skeptic blog Climate Depot, accused Bloomberg of betraying those harmed by Sandy.
"Bloomberg is insulting every victim of Sandy by implying the federal government can legislate the behaviour of storms and weather," he said in an email.
A spokesman for Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Congress' leading critic of climate science, panned Bloomberg's endorsement, saying Obama has failed to advance climate policy and has run the "global warming alarmist" movement into the ground.
"In fact, President Obama hardly even talks about global warming as he runs for reelection. Rather, he has been talking about his new found love of fossil fuels," spokesman Matt Dempsey said by email.
Bloomberg preferred earlier versions of Romney
For his part, Bloomberg said he approves of Obama's record on climate. Obama has helped shut down old coal plants and has advanced fuel-economy regulations, the mayor said.
By comparison, he said, Romney has supported policies to fight climate change in the past, but he has now reversed his path. Bloomberg said he would have considered voting for the 1994 or 2003 versions of Romney.
The endorsement left some in the pundit sphere wondering about Bloomberg's larger strategy. In a treatise of seven tweets, Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein said Bloomberg is attempting to snatch climate change from the partisan war.


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This is an awful move on her part. Reports are claiming that Lindsay has turned down upwards of half a million dollars to be on the next season of ABC's "Dancing With The Stars."
The reason is even more bizarre.
According to Huffington Post:
"Lindsay has been a mess on movie sets lately," a source told RadarOlnine. "She doesn't show up on time, she keeps everyone waiting and so her team decided that there was no way that she could handle the pressure of a live show like 'Dancing with the Stars.'"
You may remember she's struggled with money recently, takeing close to a million dollars last year to pose for Playboy.
Sadly, DWTS could have been a good way for LiLo to turn things around in her life. It would have given her disipline and put her back in the POSTIVE spotlight opposed to the NEGATIVE.
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NCAA Preview '09: Women's No. 1 Northwestern Wildcats
As part of our 2009 Preseason Preview, Inside Lacrosse is counting down the top teams from DI, DII and DIII lacrosse as well as the DI women leading up to the first men's face-off on February 7th. Today we take a look at the women's No. 1 squad, the four-time defending NCAA champion Northwestern Wildcats. Your writer is Kristen Bulkley.
Five Things to Know
1. This team is laden with veteran leadership
Over the past three years, the current senior class has a combined record of 62-3 and has won a national title every year. Experienced under pressure? Check. Proven winners? Absolutely. Capable of handling all the challenges and teams gunning for them? So far, without question. They return big guns Hannah Nielsen (51G, 63A) and Hilary Bowen (81G, 20A), as well as goalie Morgan Lathrop in net (6.87 GAA). Until an opposing team can figure out how to overcome their potent offense, explosive midfield and stifling defense, the top seed and another national championship is theirs to lose.


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This year we hosted our second Digital Cream in Shanghai, and because we liked the venue so much from last year, we decided to hold it again at exactly the same place.
There's something quite enthralling to be running our Digital Cream senior marketers' roundtable gathering at one of the top night spots in town, especially when it's located in mainland China.
There's the stunning skyline view of downtown Shanghai, the Huangpu tributary of the Yangtze river running through the vibrant metropolis, and the feeling that you're somewhere incredibly special and, dare I say it, more than a little auspicious.
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by Alexander Shaida 19 November 2013 01:36am 10 comments
One UK chippy has caused quite a stir among Chinese tourists. The owner Robert Savvides was baffled by the influx of Chinese people for a couple of years until he realised that the power of international SEO can aid many small UK businesses.
An interesting news feature emerged on the BBC News website last week.
It's a quaint story about a sea-facing Brighton chippy enjoying an influx of Chinese diners...
by Zoe-Lee Skelton 05 August 2013 09:37am 1 comment
What do censorship and surveillance programmes look for? What can this tell us about internet usage in China?
Can we contrast with the perceived surveillance state of the West? What are the implications for a company in the Chinese market?
Unsurprisingly, there are lots of questions still to be answered about the state of the internet in China.
First Monday has this month published a very interesting paper, presenting an analysis of data from a year and a half tracking the censorship and surveillance keyword lists of two instant messaging (IM) programs used in China.
I thought it would be useful to sum up what Crandall et al. found, so you don't have to read the whole thing. Although this study looks at IM clients, there are certainly findings that can be extrapolated across public services, such as Baidu and Sina Weibo.
by Ben Davis 31 July 2013 11:15am 2 comments
This is a summary of the six key points from a talk I made in Shanghai (with Tencent) on behalf of Econsultancy on strategic management issues in digital transformation.
In addition, I've given my first reflections about the Chinese digital market.
by Minter Dial 31 July 2013 09:22am 2 comments
Here are some of the most interesting digital marketing stats we've seen this week.
Stats include ecommerce in the Middle East, multiscreening, online spending in China, email marketing, mobile in emerging markets and digital budgets in APAC.
For more digital marketing stats, check out our Internet Statistics Compendium.
by David Moth 17 May 2013 10:52am 2 comments
Taobao is China's largest online shopping platform and today is its 10th birthday, so what better way to commemorate the occasion than an infographic?
According to the stats, in 2013 the Chinese are expected to spend more than £177 billion shopping online making it the world's largest ecommerce market.
And despite the fact that internet penetration is just 40% in China, the country's online population is still 242 million people.
For more information on this topic check out our Digital Market Landscape Report which focuses on the emerging market in China, or read our interview with Net Media Planet on how European businesses should approach paid search in the country.
by David Moth 10 May 2013 14:50pm 3 comments
The value of online transactions in China reached $190 billion in 2012 and the country is predicted to overtake the US as the world's largest ecommerce market at some point this year.
So it's no surprise that European businesses are eager to try and break into the marketplace.
As with any ecommerce market, search is a vital source of building brand awareness and attracting traffic in China. This means you have to optimise your site for Baidu which has around 83% market share.
Baidu recently signed a deal with CharmClick that gives the company exclusive rights as a resale agent in Europe, which subsequently partnered with Net Media Planet for Baidu ad sales in the UK and Ireland.
by David Moth 29 April 2013 13:38pm 3 comments
I can't take too much credit for this latest blog post. It's actually mainly down to my Channel Digital colleague Peter Graves and relates to his experiences with the internet during a recent trip to China.
I think it's an interesting topic given the growth of the internet in China and the controversy that exists around the great firewall, the level of collaboration between Google and the general online landscape in that part of the world.
In particular, Pete was able to gain a hands on view of the actual internet browsing experience within China and how this compares with what we've become used to in the UK and indeed the majority of the "west".
I'll let Pete take up the story from here.
by Martin Dinham 21 March 2013 10:39am 1 comment
As of December 2011 there were more than 190m online shoppers in China, a massive 20% growth on the previous year.
Yet there is also huge untapped potential, as only 38% of the Chinese online population has actually used ecommerce.
This obviously makes it a very attractive marketplace for any online retailer, but there are a number of obstacles that have to be negotiated before a business can even consider selling online to Chinese consumers.
It's a topic we investigated in more detail in our new 'China: Digital Market Landscape Report' as well as a blog post looking at the state of digital marketing and ecommerce in the country.
And to find out more about the challenges of setting up an ecommerce business in China, I spoke to eCommera's director of insights services Debbie Bond...
by David Moth 18 December 2012 11:05am 2 comments
What is the state of digital marketing and e-commerce in China?
I'm just back from a week long trip to Shanghai where I talked to a lot of people in the digital industry there. Following are some of my observations about how the digital marketing landscape in China compares to the West.
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It goes without saying that losing your wallet or having it stolen is a pain in the neck. But it can also lead to identity theft. When you lose your wallet, you've not only lost the contents of the wallet, but you've also handed an identity thief everything he needs to commit this crime.
In 2010, more than 10 million people became victims of identity theft. But you don't have to fall victim. A good place to start is to remove the following items from your wallet or purse.
• Social Security card – Never keep this item in your wallet, because it's the No. 1 item identity thieves are seeking. Keep your card in a secure place.
• Checkbook – While it may seem safe to carry your checkbook, it's really not. Your checks bear your banking information, name an address. Thieves would love to have that info.
• Passport – Some people actually carry this around on their person on a regular basis; a huge no-no. Leave it in a secure place, like a safe deposit box.
• Cash – Only carry as much money in your wallet as you're willing to lose if it is stolen.
• Credit cards – Carry only the card you want to use, and keep the rest locked away.
• Unprotected smartphone – If you don't have a password on your smartphone, you're just asking for trouble, particularly if you're one of those people who use their smartphones for personal e-mail, to do banking, or make purchases online.
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Inner and World Peace
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World Peace Begins With Inner Peace
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2nd ANNUAL PROJECT PEACE ON EARTH GLOBAL CONCERT FROM BETHLEHEM
2012 Bethlehem "Free All" Project Peace On Earth concert from Steve Robertson on Vimeo.
On December 24th Christmas Eve 2012, as part of Project Peace On Earth's second annual global musical prayer for peace concert from Bethlehem, world famed musicians beamed in their musical prayers for peace to Bethlehem and then sent them out to the world.
The PPOE streaming concert link of 12.24.12 transmission to and from Bethlehem to the world features performances by:
Jon Anderson (lead singer of YES), Serj Tankian (lead singer of System of a Down), Gary Nicholson (Grammy winning Texas Hall of Fame singer/song writer – introduces the performance of the song "Divine Mother" he wrote with Ana Egge. It is performed by Beth Nielsen Chapman, Carmella Ramsey, Joan Moser and Chevonne Kennedy); Joanne Shenandoah (Grammy winning Native American singer/song writer), Sussan Deyhim (world famed Sufi Singer featured by U2 and the 2012 Academy nominated film "Argo"), Fox Lima (MMX Enigma Social MMX Song singer/song writer), Richard Horowitz (famed film score composer of "The Sheltering Sky" directed by Bernardo Bertolucci), Itai Desraeli and Hagai (of the group Maetar), Ernest Chapman (lead singer of Team Illuminati based in Nashville), Seay (award winning New Age/ World Music singer/song writer from Nashville), Peter Joseph - edutainment video shorts ("Emergence" and "Spirituality" content contributions from Steve Robertson)
Project Peace On Earth Bethlehem peace initiatives: On Christmas Eve 12.24.12 in Manger Square Bethlehem, Boy and Girl scout troops lead additional Palestinian youth to participate in forming a human "Peace Symbol and spelling the words "Love All" to send an aerial image message of Christmas love, peace and joy to the world.
On December 31st, 2012, as part of a Project Peace On Earth "Free All" peace initiative, hundreds of boy and girl scouts join in solidarity at the Dividing Wall in front of the Israeli guard tower, just next to the famed Entry Gate of the Patriarch in Bethlehem (the historical original road into Bethlehem). Here, the scouts form the message "Free All" and express a continuous image of permanent handprints that send a prayerful plea to all world leaders and the brotherhood of all scouts to bring the Israeli Dividing Wall down and to establish a lasting freedom, justice and peace for all. President Abbas delivers a speech to the boy and girl scouts on the importance and historic significance of their participation in the PPOE "Free All" aerial art initiative. ("Free All" making of video montage and President Abbas speech soon to be released)
Dedicated to the loving memory of my Father, Roland L. Robertson, 1.03.13. A most amazingly wise, loving, cool, caring, funny and generous Father. He was a physicist, rocket scientist, ran TRW space program in Cape Canaveral and lead TRW's initiative to contain America's nuclear waste. May angels loving watch over is soul…
A Vison: Sacred Music Unites and Transforms Global Consciousness
(This video was written and produced by Steve Robertson and Richard Gannaway of AO Music. The Music is generously provided by AO Music. The voiceover by musician Miriam Stockley of AO Music and the famed song Adiemus . Special thanks to Kenny Fields at West Post Digital for editing support.)
A Global Shift: The Physics of How Music Can Transform Consciousness
The Physics of Music create an experience of Peace: Project-Peace on Earth from Steve Robertson on Vimeo.
The spiritual intent of the Project Peace on Earth (PPOE) annual global concert series
"For the Greatest Glory of God, We allow the Sacred Sound, Where Love inspires each note, of the Primary the Harmony Crowned. We invoke the Soul's transcendent space, and release illusions of our pain, Where the Peace of Divine's Grace Blesses our heart's deepest prayers…Music of the Spheres arise from Within, A Mystical celebration of the Song of our Being. "
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Imagine a space in your busy life where the only intention is to celebrate and experience Peace. Imagine this peace as more than the absence of war, and more that the absence of noise, worry and even fear. This feeling of peace is available to us all the time, however, most of us find this hard to remember much less choose to experience this simple reality. So now, imagine creating this space, a personal alter of peace for yourself, on a specific day for 2 hours this Christmas Day. Now imagine yourself and everyone you know all on the same day at the same time, at the same alter…Your neighbors, your family and friends, all the people you have ever met and new friends with whom you will soon connect… all having the hippest, most mind-blowingly cool, heart-opening, inspiring, authentic, collaboratively created peace experience ever had.
Project Peace On Earth is a digitally distributed global Musical Prayer for Peace that enables the world's most spiritually inspired and famed musicians to perform from comfort of their home, a personal or historic sacred site, while on tour or during a concert or from the central host concert stage in Bethlehem, and plug into a unified global broadcast for peace.
An assemblance of our future dream Stage for Manger Square. Your financial support brings this vision into a reality. (This rendering of the Manger Square Bethlehem concert event Stage was developed and created by Robert de Vico, PPOE Production Designer )
This live peace transmission will originate from the world and come to Bethlehem, and then transmit from Bethlehem back to the world, a continuous feed of inspiring sacred music from top musicians around the world, accompanied by the insightful wisdoms of today's leading thinkers and celebrities. The experience will use the latest in satellite and Internet networking technology to join the musicians of the world in a 2-hour transmission of Peace. In 2013, the PPOE Peace Concert transmissions will occur from additional sacred sites may also be mixed into a virtual concert environment and then beamed out through existing TV, Radio, and Internet networks around the world.
Special performances from remote sacred sites will create live-interactive musical bridges allowing musicians around the world to participate and collaborate in the event from wherever they are.
The internet has literally hardwired the collective consciousness, and thus created an empowering medium to spark interactive movements that can inspire and engage tens of millions to be the change, create new possibilities and do their part in creating real and lasting peace in our world. Project Peace on Earth will harness this viral power of the Internet through creating a series of powerful calls to action. It will later give a worldwide audience a looking glass into how each of us can make a difference and make the world a better place.
Project Peace on Earth, LLC is a Los Angeles-based organization promoting what will be a worldwide telecast concert of superstar musicians performing inspiring and sacred music from the some of the most mystical sites on the planet including from the host venue, Manger Square Bethlehem in Palestine. Steve Robertson is the Founder and CEO/Executive Producer of Project-Peace on Earth and is joined and supported by many of the top names in: Music, Film, Dance, Television, Mobile Phone, Global Internet Concert, Broadcast & Live Concert production & Design, Branding and Marketing, Science/Physics, Higher Education, Personal/Spiritual Development, Fine Art, Holistic & Allopathic medicine, Mobile Medical Vehicles/Clinics and World Travel/Touring and Exploration.
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Google files for slide-to-unlock patent as Apple battle heats up
Who would have thought a simple slide-to-unlock gesture would be so important?
Google last week saw a patent it filed for back in 2010 published that describes a manner in which users interact with a smartphone--or PC--to unlock the device and perform at least one command. According to the patent filing, the commands can be anything from placing a phone call to opening an application.
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Princess Margaret; Queen Elizabeth II
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Princess Margaret; Queen Elizabeth II
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14 1/4 in. x 10 7/8 in. (362 mm x 276 mm)
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To those of us whose mancraft skills topped out with Pinewood Derby, what John Teal from the U.K. can do with 12 letter-sized sheets of plastic is indistinguishable from magic.
When we last left John, a property maintenance worker who lives in Manchester, England, he had just completed "G" in the midst of an A to Z blogging challenge. That entry, G is for Giraffe, was a fun piece that introduced me to a piece of Cockney rhyming slang I'd never heard before.
But his "P" entry blew me away. In P is for Plastic, John shows how he creates amazingly realistic models of a train starting with nothing more than 12 plain sheets of plastic.
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Pretty solid week for RBN which makes up for the (IMO) weak week on the main platform. Know I'll thoroughly enjoy Bodies and Survive (damnit another repeat band no matter how much I want it,it goes against my main target of RBN! ) I'm not a TEB fan but will check out the two bands I've never heard of.
Getting Survive and Semi Charmed Life. I'll hold off on No Doubt since Fat Princess for PSP is out next week also
That one dude with a billion fans is going to be happy next week.
Wow that's funny. 2 more songs this week for me from RBN. That makes 2 songs every week from RBN.
Hopefully I get my last two picks next week.
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I thought song previews were supposed to be up this week for the PS3 RBN or did HMX not get to that?
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Not desktop, but high resolution on laptop: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2024391/acer-takes-on-apple-with-retina-class-laptop-displays.html 4K screens are finally coming to the (upper end) consumer. Hopefully this will mean panels will also be made at a size suitable for the desktop. Give it 12 months. http://www.techhive.com/article/202...-2013-the-fantasy-and-the-reality-video-.html
This is one of the few things that will make this new year interesting! Of the typical set: Computer(SSD),keyboard,mouse=more or less stabilized performance What part would REALLY improve the user experience: big HD monitors.
I'm a bit concerned about 4k. Microsoft has made zero progress on scaling issues. 1440p at 27" is just about perfect as far as size and sharpness goes, but with 4k things either shrink or you have to use some buggy scaling system. The PC world is not at all prepared for this transition.
No naysaying. We don't want problems, we want solutions! (yes, Windows is not the best scaler, but it does work quite well when applications use the standard windows API... the problem is independent programmers who like to create funky "skins". The Asian BIOS firmware/driver/utility community is the worst!) I've not had a problem with font and windows scaling with Windows OS, fonts, inbuilt apps, MS Office or Adobe products. Anyway, in a worst case situation, just set Windows to 1280x1024 to drive a panel at 2560x2048. Then switch the resolution only when using applications that conform to windows scaling mechanism.
This is my issue with high res so far... scaling. I don't need a thousand icons to fit on my desktop background... I'd like to have the few icons, and text in general still appear the same size as say... 1280x1024 on a much higher res screen but look smoother due to the extra density. I finally gave up on such hi res displays (for now) due to dpi scaling... however its not as big an issue with web browsers since you can zoom and the gpu tends to filter this nice and smooth like when you pinch to zoom on an android or apple phone. Right now i'm using a Sony Trenitron KV-34HS510 as my main display. It'll do 1080i, but right now its set to 720p. It's good enough for me, so far. had to compensate for an overscan issue though but not so bad. edit: @lemonadesoda... yea i agree about the 3rd party issue as well.
microsoft has never been a leader in the industry. ever. apple is the only corporation willing to have a vision and take a gamble on new technology. apple leads the way and supports the brightest minds in IT.
Now I wouldn't go that far, but they are doing quite well with high res monitors something M$ sucks at. It is only a matter of time progress is progress. It does frustrate me that I can get an Ipad with a better resolution than most computer monitors :shadedshu I have been wanting 3840x2160 for a while now.
please, apple leads the mobile market with innovate solutions that M$ is JUST getting into. also, M$ servers are poop versions of unix varients who continually push hardware to its limits. it took M$ way to long to get into virtualization. pathetic.
No Apple takes products that already exist and push the marketing of them. The Ipod was predated by IBM with a product that not only played music but did so to a bluetooth headset...There are instances for each and every other product they sell or have sold. Apple is very very good at taking something that exists changing it to be white with a button that has a square on it and selling it for an immense profit. If you want to follow that company be my guest. Just remember M$ bailed Apple out when it failed.
The HDTV standards came in and kicked PC monitor makers to the curb. The only way we're going to so resolutions greater than 2560x1600 on PC for a reasonable price is if the HDTV industry forces it on everyone...which is likely. If a monitor manufacturer wants more money, what better way to get more sales than obsolete all the TVs out there? There are millions of people out there that will buy whatever is "new and improved." Consumerism bit the TV market in the ass all thanks (or no thanks) to the digital television standards (DVD, PAL, ATSC, BluRay, etc.).
right, but apple currently leads the mobile market and has done so since 2007. of course they reworked other products, most successful products are that way. the difference is apple took a gamble and showed vision. two things M$ does not have. if apple reworks older products than what does that make M$
Yes. 10 years ago the "workstation" market drove innovation in the PC industry. That has gone. It is now consumer products that lead, and PC industry keeps up. For hi-res TFTs we (unfortunately) have to wait for the consumer products to drive the change. Thankfully, everyone has 1080 TVs and 4K is now the new goal. 4K consumer will FINALLY drive PC to better screens. YES, the tail is wagging the dog. I want my 4K screen yesterday, but will probably have to wait until xBox 4000 is released before 4K screens are available let alone at affordable prices.
You won't see 4K programming on your television for 10 years. We need better algorithms to sqeeze data through our coax ISP networks.
First UHD TV Channel Launches In Europe Content streams at 40Mbs, so I imagine your connection would have to be somewhat better than that. Some movies were shot in 4K back in 2009 and 2010, and some recently More will be as UHD TVs become widespread. Sony was sending a server (loaning it) with 10 movies on it to people who bought the UHDs so they had something to watch. I don't think it will take 10 years.
The majority of cable is still SD, I could easily see it taking the better part of 10 years, and probably at least 10 years for HD to take over SD as the majority. The cable companies are a monopoly, they can take their time, and they will.
i would agree with you if this was 2008. the truth is you don't last long and survive on marketing alone if you make crap. apple makes the best. deal with it. 40mbps! ha, we are so far behind. could you imagine 50 million tv viewers watching 4k content all at once on our network. buffer central. and that even means they switch to IP based content delivery, something they havn't begun to plan for.
@3870 : I too believe it will be years before we see any kind of widespread adoption in the U.S with the exception of areas that already have fiber to the home. My ISP (which I use for television and phone also) has a max of 20Mbs but their techs told me they would probably bump that to 50Mbs soon as the networks will handle it. In other countries, however, that could happen a lot sooner as the infrastructure is already in place for that kind of bandwidth.
Their products are good because of excellent devs and engineers. This doesn't change the fact they are overpriced. If I wanted to play triple for something with less capability than what I have, I'll turn to Apple. (The iPad is a Caveat to this, but only because of it's online store capabilities rival that of Google Play, although gimped. Still overpriced) If I want an expensive designer product that is also useful for browsing the Internet, I'll turn to Apple. However, if It want a no bullshit product that gets the job done, Apple is the last place I will look.
please spec out two laptops, one apple and one not apple. show me the prices. rules: must be same monitor size, same hdd size, same ram, same cpu, same weight and same unibody design.
We should probably stop talking about this, it is a bit off topic. To answer your post: if you take the arbitrary "unibody design", we are looking at about every laptop in production. As for screen size (I assume you mean resolution) who wants to pay an extra $800 for 1600p "retina". Nexus 10 vs iPad says more than I'll ever need to say on this subject.
On plus side OLED and 4k are likely to be bundled together. Those Sony/Panasonic panels should be on the market this year.


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Lovely Any reason those fans are blowing out of the case? Cause I see the little transparent 80mm fan in the back blowing out as well... I'd have used that front fan as an intake instead Otherwise lovely ghetto modding there
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The rules of physics don't apply in ghetto On a more serious note I have no idea why did I put them that way, I think i turned them around later on
Here you go, my ghetto side case fan arrangement. My GPU temps were rather high, so I tried this with a spare fan I had from an old Antec Sonata. Worked quite well, GPU temps went down about 5C. (And I know my wiring is ugly, the case isn't very good for it) Side of the case. The fan is held on by duct tape; I tried to use screws but my fan had those stupid plastics standoff things, and I didn't want to remove them, so I resorted to duct tape. Close up of the fan. It was actually spinning, but my camera shutter speed was fast enough that it doesn't look blurry.
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I don't have any pics, but back in highschool, my buddy's XBOX (the original XBOX. Even had the gay huge-ass controllers. WTF were you thinking microsoft?) started overheating. Both of us being new to computer modding, we took a somewhat less than scientific approach. We cracked that sucker open, dremeled out the XBOX logo, mounted a clear Sunbeam fan with a green circular cold cathode on the outside of the case, and put the XBOX logo back on top of the CC. We then proceeded to "Modify" the EMI shield to allow air to pass inside the XBOX, and I plugged the fan and CC inverter into the XBOX's power supply (dang, microsoft! Thanks for the standard Molex!). The CC had a space between it and the fan, so it drew air in around the CC. It even looked pretty cool. Best part of the whole story was when he, looking at the unused second port on the output side of the POWERED ON inverter, pointed into it saying "what's this for?" and burnt the crap out of his finger (although, to be fair, that fan's blades claimed a sizeable chunk of my finger before the project was finished, too. ) Here's a Paint to give you the general idea. After another year or two, it started overheating again so he (without my help, I thought he was an idiot) took all the hardware out of his xbox case, tore the guts out of a perfectly working computer, and put the parts in there. He then pointed a table fan at it. Still overheated. *slow clapping*
I'm currently in the process of dremeling a grid of holes on the top of the plastic case for my Netgear WGR614v9, does that count as ghetto? Will post pics when done. Well, here's the result:
made some clamps, to hold an AMD K6 HSF over the NB using the stock Heatsinks mounting system(spring pins) previously idle temps for mobo was 45C and load temps were 55C+ now loads are max 45C the cellphone camera sure is ghetto no camera sorry.


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Is it ok to post on these forums a list of books, which might be of use for GTD users? Is it considered "advertising", which this forum prohibits?
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Is it ok to post on these forums a list of books, which might be of use for GTD users? Is it considered "advertising", which this forum prohibits?
Hi Hideo,
It's fine, and a great idea. We just try to avoid having individuals promote their own products and services, so we keep the discussion around GTD.
-- John
Here we go. These books form the cornerstone of my Life Management System. Getting Things Done is great, however, there is much more to life, that simply staying on top of a daily office grind. These books helped me a lot to build my life acumen and organize myself throughly.
"Life Management System" - Paul Miller
Ready for Anything David Allen
Creative Visualization Shakti Gwain
Imagination First Eric Liu and Scott Noppe-Brandon
Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Thinkers Toolkit Morgan D. Jones
How to solve (just about) any Problem Greg Z. Fainberg
Unlimited Power Antony Robbins
Maximum Achievement Brain Tracy
Goals Brain Tracy
The Success Principles Jack Canfield
The Twelve Universal Laws of Success Herbert Harris
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Steven R. Covey
Rich Dad, Poor Dad Robert Kiyosaki
Cashflow Quadrant - Robert Kiyosaki
Rich Dads Guide to Investing - Robert Kiyosaki
Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill
Power Networking Donna Fisher and Sandy Vilas
Conversationally Speaking Alan Garner
How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie
People Skills Robert Bolton
Messages Matthew McKay, Marta Davis and Patrick Fanning
The Seven Pillars of Health MD Don Colbert
Eat, Drink and be Healthy MD Walter C. Willett
I think it is Brian Tracy, not Brain Tracy, but this is forgiveable I guess.
Should I read books about making my life richer or should I make my life richer?
Nice list!
I've been hearing about flow for years, but have never read Csikszentmihalyi's book.
If I read it, will I learn anything in addition to the fact that flow is a desirable state, can take 15 to 20 minutes to get into, and can be dissolved with a simple interruption such as a phone call or text message?
Ha, that 's about it, nice summary. I would add 1 thing: the flow is a "desirable state" because it is the state in which learning is happening faster, learning in the broader sense and the personality is build. Similar to how we need sleep to "process stuff" (hehe) we also need regular flow experiences to build up the wiring. I wouldn't be surprised if one day somebody finds out that many cases of ADD, OCD etc are due to lack of flow over the long-term.
I ordered the book this morning.
My hope is that he explains some assumptions or prerequisites that I am overlooking.
I have worked and played 'in flow', would prefer to always work there, but currently am not. Glad to have a reminder to revisit this.
Some people would say that change starts from within. Books can help with this inner change. Then, of course, it really gets interesting when you start to apply your revised inner vision to the world and your life.
So interesting, in fact, that when I say "theoretically, it looks easy; how hard could it be?", people who know me start laughing :D
I started getting into flow more often when reading "Find Your Focus Zone" by Lucy Palladino. She talks about being aware of whether your adrenaline level is too low or too high, and doing things to adjust it.
Books by Edward de Bono on thinking processes (e.g. "The Mechanism of Mind")
"What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better" by Dan Baker
"Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by David Burns
"How to Live Longer and Feel Better" by Linus Pauling (about the importance of
vitamins and other essential nutrients for health)


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Flamingo | |
Flamingos at Laguna Colorada | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Infraclass: | Neognathae |
(unranked): | Mirandornithes |
Order: | Phoenicopteriformes Fürbringer, 1888 |
Family: | Phoenicopteridae Bonaparte, 1831 |
Genus: | Phoenicopterus and Phoenicoparrus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Species | |
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Global distribution of the flamingos |
Flamingos or Flamingoes[1] ( Brazilian pronunciation (help·info)) are a type of wading bird in the genus Phoenicopterus (from Greek: φοινικόπτερος, meaning "purple wing"), the only genus in the family Phoenicopteridae. There are four flamingo species in the Americas and two species in the Old World.
Taxonomy, systematics, and evolution[edit]
A wide variety of birds have been proposed as their closest relatives, on a wide variety of evidence. As a result, flamingos are generally placed in their own order.[citation needed]
Traditionally, the long-legged Ciconiiformes, probably a paraphyletic assemblage, have been considered the flamingos' closest relatives and the family was included in the order. Usually the ibises and spoonbills of the Threskiornithidae were considered their closest relatives within this order. Earlier genetic studies, such as those of Charles Sibley and colleagues, also supported this relationship.[2] Relationships to the waterfowl were considered as well,[3] especially as flamingos are parasitized by feather lice of the genus Anaticola, which are otherwise exclusively found on ducks and geese.[4] The peculiar presbyornithids were used to argue for a close relationship between flamingos, waterfowl, and waders,[5] but they are now known to be unequivocal waterfowl.[6]
Relationship with grebes[edit]
Recent molecular studies have suggested a relation with grebes,[7][8][9] while morphological evidence also strongly supports a relationship between flamingos and grebes. They hold at least eleven morphological traits in common, which are not found on other birds. Many of these characteristics have been previously identified on flamingos, but not on grebes.[10] The fossil Palaelodids can be considered evolutionarily, and ecologically, intermediate between flamingos and grebes.[11]
For the grebe-flamingo clade, the taxon Mirandornithes ("miraculous birds" due to their extreme divergence and apomorphies) has been proposed. Alternatively, they could be placed in one order, with Phoenocopteriformes taking priority.[11]
Fossil record[edit]
Flamingos are well attested in the fossil record, with the first unequivocal member of the extant family Phoenicopteridae, Elornis known from the Late Eocene. A considerable number of little-known birds from the Late Cretaceous onwards are sometimes considered to be flamingo ancestors. These include the genera Torotix, Scaniornis, Gallornis, Agnopterus, Tiliornis, Juncitarsus, and Kashinia; these show a mix of characters and are fairly plesiomorphic in comparison to modern birds. (The supposed "Cretaceous flamingo" Parascaniornis is actually a synonym of Baptornis and not a close relative to any living bird.) An extinct family of peculiar "swimming flamingos", the Palaelodidae, are believed to be related to, or to be the ancestors of, the modern flamingos. This is sometimes rejected, since the fossil Elornis is known to be from some time before any palaelodid flamingos have been recorded. There exists a fairly comprehensive fossil record of the genus Phoenicopterus. The systematics of prehistoric Phoenicopteridae known only from fossils is as follows:[citation needed]
- Phoenicopteridae
- Elornis (Middle? Eocene – Early Oligocene)—includes Actiornis[3]
- Phoenicopteridae gen. et sp. indet. (Camacho Middle? – Late Miocene? of San José, Uruguay)[12]
- Prehistoric species of Phoenicopterus:
- Phoenicopterus croizeti (Middle Oligocene – Middle Miocene of C Europe)
- Phoenicopterus floridanus (Early Pliocene of Florida)
- Phoenicopterus stocki (Middle Pliocene of Rincón, Mexico)
- Phoenicopterus copei (Late Pleistocene of W North America and C Mexico)
- Phoenicopterus minutus (Late Pleistocene of California, USA)
- Phoenicopterus aethiopicus
- Phoenicopterus eyrensis (Late Oligocene of South Australia)
Six flamingo species are recognized by most sources, and these are generally placed in one genus. Two species, the Andean and the James's Flamingo, are often placed in the genus Phoenicoparrus instead of Phoenicopterus.[citation needed]
Species | Geographic location | |
Greater Flamingo (P. roseus) |
Old World | Parts of Africa, S. Europe and S. and SW Asia (Most widespread flamingo). |
Lesser Flamingo (P. minor) |
Africa (e.g. Great Rift Valley) to NW India (most numerous flamingo). | |
Chilean Flamingo (P. chilensis) |
New World | Temperate S. South America. |
James's Flamingo (P. jamesi) |
High Andes in Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. | |
Andean Flamingo (P. andinus) |
High Andes in Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. | |
American Flamingo (P. ruber) |
Caribbean islands, Caribbean Mexico, Belize and Galapagos islands. |
Flamingos often stand on one leg, the other leg tucked beneath the body. The reason for this behavior is not fully understood. Recent research indicates that standing on one leg may allow the birds to conserve more body heat, given that they spend a significant amount of time wading in cold water.[13] However, the behaviour also takes place in warm water. As well as standing in the water, flamingos may stamp their webbed feet in the mud to stir up food from the bottom.[citation needed]
Young flamingos hatch with greyish reddish plumage, but adults range from light pink to bright red due to aqueous bacteria and beta-Carotene obtained from their food supply. A well-fed, healthy flamingo is more vibrantly coloured and thus a more desirable mate; a white or pale flamingo, however, is usually unhealthy or malnourished. Captive flamingos are a notable exception; many turn a pale pink as they are not fed carotene at levels comparable to the wild.[citation needed]
Circulatory System[edit]
Although there has been little investigation on the specific circulatory and cardiovascular system of the phoenicopteridae, they possess the typical features of an avian circulatory system. As is seen in other aves, the flamingo's circulatory system is closed maintaining a separation of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood. This maximizes their efficiency to meet their high metabolic needs during flight. Due to this need for increased cardiac output, the avian heart tends to be larger in relation to body mass than what is seen in most mammals.
Heart type and features[edit]
The avian circulatory system is driven by a four-chambered, myogenic heart contained in a fibrous pericardial sac. This pericardial sac is filled with a serous fluid for lubrication.[14] The heart itself is divided into a right and left half, each with an atrium and ventricle. The atrium and ventricles of each side are separated by atrioventricular valves which prevent back flow from one chamber to the next during contraction. Being myogenic, the hearts pace is maintained by pacemaker cells found in the sinoatrial node, located on the right atrium. The sinoatrial node uses calcium to cause a depolarizing signal transduction pathway from the atrium through right and left atrioventricular bundle which communicates contraction to the ventricles. The avian heart also consists of muscular arches that are made up of thick bundles of muscular layers. Much like a mammalian heart, the avian heart is composed of endocardial, myocardial and epicardial layers.[14] The atrium walls tend to be thinner than the ventricle walls, due to the intense ventricular contraction used to pump oxygenated blood throughout the body.
Organization of Circulatory System[edit]
Similar to the atrium, the arteries are composed of thick elastic muscles to withstand the pressure of the ventricular constriction, and become more rigid as they move away from the heart. Blood moves through the arteries, which undergo vasoconstriction, and into arterioles which act as a transportation system to distribute primarily oxygen as well as nutrients to all tissues of the body.[15] As the arterioles move away from the heart and into individual organs and tissues they are further divided to increase surface area and slow blood flow. Travelling through the arterioles blood moves into the capillaries where gas exchange can occur. Capillaries are organized into capillary beds in tissues, it is here that blood exchanges oxygen for carbon dioxide waste. In the capillary beds blood flow is slowed to allow maximum diffusion of oxygen into the tissues. Once the blood has become deoxygenated it travels through venules then veins and back to the heart. Veins, unlike arteries, are thin and rigid as they do not need to withstand extreme pressure. As blood travels through the venules to the veins a funneling occurs called vasodilation bringing blood back to the heart.[15] Once the blood reaches the heart it moves first into the right atrium, then the left ventricle to be pumped through the lungs for further gas exchange of carbon dioxide waste for oxygen. Oxygenated blood then flows from the lungs through the left atrium to the left ventricle where it is pumped out to the body.
Flamingo blood composition[edit]
It was widely thought that avian blood had special properties which attributed to a very efficient extraction and transportation of oxygen in comparison to mammalian blood. This of course is not true; there is no real difference in the efficiency of the blood, and both mammals and birds use a hemoglobin molecule as the primary oxygen carrier with little to no difference in oxygen carrying capacity.[16] Captivity and age have been seen to have an effect on the blood composition of the American flamingo (Phoenicopterus Ruber). A decrease in white blood cell numbers was predominate with age in both captive and free living flamingos, but captive flamingos showed a higher white blood cell count than free living flamingos.[17] One exception occurs in free living flamingos with regards to white blood cell count. The number of eosinophils in free living birds are higher because these cells are the ones that fight off parasites which a free living bird may have more contact with than a captive one. Captive birds showed higher hematocrit and red blood cell numbers than the free living flamingos, and a blood hemoglobin increase was seen with age.[17] An increase in hemoglobin would correspond with an adults increase in metabolic needs. A smaller mean cellular volume recorded in free living flamingos coupled with similar mean hemoglobin content between captive and free living flamingos could show different oxygen diffusion characteristics between these two groups.[17] Plasma chemistry remains relatively stable with age but lower values of protein content, uric acid, cholesterol, triglycerides, and phospholipids were seen in free living flamingos. This trend can be attributed to shortages and variances in food intake in free living flamingos.[17]
Physical and chemical properties of pumping blood[edit]
Avian hearts are generally larger than mammalian hearts when compared to body mass. This adaptation allows more blood to be pumped to meet the high metabolic need associated with flight. Birds, like the flamingo, have a very efficient system for diffusing oxygen into the blood; birds have a ten times greater surface area to gas exchange volume than mammals. As a result, birds have more blood in their capillaries per unit of volume of lung than a mammal.[16] The Flamingo's (Phoenicopterus Ruber) four chambered heart is myogenic meaning that all the muscle cells and fibers have the ability to contract rhythmically.[18] The rhythm of contraction is controlled by the pace maker cells which have a lower threshold for depolarization. The wave of electrical depolarization initiated here is what physically starts the heart's contractions and begins pumping blood. Pumping blood creates variations in blood pressure and as a result, creates different thicknesses of blood vessels. The Law of LaPlace can be used to explain why arteries are relatively thick and veins are thin.
Behaviour and ecology[edit]
Flamingos filter-feed on brine shrimp and blue-green algae. Their beaks are specially adapted to separate mud and silt from the food they eat, and are uniquely used upside-down. The filtering of food items is assisted by hairy structures called lamellae which line the mandibles, and the large rough-surfaced tongue. The pink or reddish color of flamingos comes from carotenoid proteins in their diet of animal and plant plankton. These proteins are broken down into pigments by liver enzymes.[19] The source of this varies by species, and affects the saturation of color. Flamingos whose sole diet is blue-green algae are darker in color compared to those who get it second hand (e.g. from animals that have digested blue-green algae).[20]
Flamingos are very social birds; they live in colonies whose population can number in the thousands. These large colonies are believed to serve three purposes for the flamingos: avoiding predators, maximizing food intake, and using scarce suitable nesting sites more efficiently.[21] Before breeding, flamingo colonies split into breeding groups of between about 15 and 50 birds. Both males and females in these groups perform synchronized ritual displays.[22] The members of a group stand together and display to each other by stretching their necks upwards, then uttering calls while head-flagging, and then flapping their wings.[23] The displays do not seem to be directed towards an individual but instead occur randomly.[23] These displays stimulate "synchronous nesting" (see below) and help pair up those birds who do not already have mates.[22]
Flamingoes form strong pair bonds of one male and one female, although in larger colonies flamingos sometimes change mates, presumably because there are more mates to choose from).[24] Flamingo pairs establish and defend nesting territories. They locate a suitable spot on the mudflat to build a nest (the spot is usually chosen by the female).[23] It is during nest building that copulation usually occurs. Nest building is sometimes interrupted by another flamingo pair trying to commandeer the nesting site for their own use. Flamingos aggressively defend their nesting sites. Both the male and the female contribute to building the nest, and to defending the nest and egg.[citation needed]
After the chicks hatch, the only parental expense is feeding.[25] Both the male and the female feed their chicks with a kind of crop milk, produced in glands lining the whole of the upper digestive tract (not just the crop). Production is stimulated by a hormone called prolactin. The milk contains fat, protein, and red and white blood cells. (Pigeons and doves—Columbidae—also produce a crop milk (just in the glands lining the crop), which contains less fat and more protein than flamingo crop milk.)[citation needed]
For the first six days after the chicks hatch, the adults and chicks stay in the nesting sites. At around seven to twelve days old, the chicks begin to move out of their nests and explore their surroundings. When they are two weeks old, the chicks congregate in groups, called "microcrèches", and their parents leave them alone. After a while, the microcrèches merge into "crèches" containing thousands of chicks. Chicks that do not stay in their crèches are vulnerable to predators.[26]
Status and conservation[edit]
In captivity[edit]
The first flamingo hatched in a European zoo was a Chilean Flamingo at Zoo Basel in Switzerland in 1958. Since then, over 389 flamingos have grown up in Basel and been distributed to other zoos around the globe.[27]
Relationship with humans[edit]
The Old World flamingos were considered by the Ancient Egyptians to be the living representation of the god Ra,[28] while in Ancient Rome, their tongues were considered a delicacy.[29]
In the Americas, the Moche people of ancient Peru worshipped nature.[30] They placed emphasis on animals and often depicted flamingos in their art,[31] while in The Bahamas they are the national bird. Also, Andean miners have killed flamingos for their fat, believed to be a cure for tuberculosis.[32] In the United States, pink plastic flamingo statues are popular lawn ornaments.[33]
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External links[edit]
Wikispecies has information related to: Phoenicopteridae |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Phoenicopterus. |
- IUCN/Wetlands International Flamingo Specialist Group
- Flamingo Resource Centre
- Flamingo videos and photos on the Internet Bird Collection


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