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National Grid Awards Local Ocean $250K
Local Ocean, a Hudson-based company that raises ocean fish, today was awarded $250,000 from National Grid for a $12.8 million expansion to the company’s salt water fish...
PSC: Ameren Should Refund Customers $17M
Electric customers of Ameren Missouri should receive a $17.1 million refund, regulators said Thursday. The Missouri Public Service Commission said it determined that certain Ameren Missouri power sales agreements with American Electric Power Operating Cos. and to Wabash Valley Power Association Inc. from March 2009...
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Build a Horex VR6 in 46 Seconds
Development of the Horex VR6 street bike continues at the German company, with this latest teaser video hitting YouTube (we suspect it will put a sizable dent in the Royal Wedding viewership, at least it did for us). Using a time-lapse video technique, we see the Horex engineers assembling one of their Horex VR6 prototype motorcycles in just 46 seconds (less if you don’t want to count the end branding). As the name implies, Horex ...
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What effect has the web had on love?
Online dating has become big business over the last decade. But does this mean we're looking for love in a different way?
Maybe it's the sunshine; maybe it's the royal wedding, but last week the nation fell in love with love again. There's been a lot of it about; I've "accidentally" cycled over my fair share of lovers snogging in the shade in sun-drenched parks. But is love different today than when William's mum and dad were hitched in 1981? Sure, last Friday's regal nuptials were livestreamed on YouTube, but Charles and Diana's was broadcast live around the world on TV. How different is falling in love in the age of the internet?
Personally, the modern, technologically mediated pursuit of love feels different. I was in a relationship for 13 years. It started in early 1997, before the web had inextricably woven itself into the fabric of society, and it ended in early 2010. I fell in love the first time in the age of email, not always-on, technologically mediated hyperlinked social media. I didn't even have a mobile phone.
My instincts, based on this Rip van Winkle perspective, say that web technology has affected our practice of falling in love. "Online dating used to be something that people turned to when they were giving up on offline dating," says Sam Yagan, CEO and co-founder of OKCupid, a site that has the largest registered user-base of 18- to 34-year-olds in the US. "It is now a tool that people are turning to, to complement their offline dating, to meet other people you might not meet in your day-to-day life." Research from the Oxford Internet Institute's "Me, My Spouse and the Internet: Meeting, Dating and Marriage in the Digital Age" project corroborates Yagan's argument, reporting that 22.6% of current relationships in the UK that began since my ex and I began courting, began online.
According to Professor Monica Whitty, author of Cyberspace Romance, our current concept of romantic love is based on a mid-19th-century evolution from strategic partnerships into the roses and white wedding dresses promulgated by magazines, soap operas and Disney movies. The latter invokes images of presenting a true self to a single lover who accepts us, warts and all; the former, the exchange of properties. Yagan thinks relationships that come from online dating are more likely to stick: instead of settling for one person out of a pool of 200, he argues, you'll be assured that the one you've chosen out of two million is the best fit. So what we're after hasn't changed conceptually, we've just become a bit more businesslike about it.
Is it paradoxical that a cold, logical machine has become an important mediator for the most warm and fuzzy of human emotions? Social scientists and lay observers have been describing the bonds that develop through technology since the telegraph, around the time that our modern concept of romance first emerged; Tom Standage wrote about love over the wires in the late 1800s in his book The Victorian Internet. He also notes that the first "on-line" wedding took place between a bride in Boston and a groom in New York in 1848.
Julian Dibbell's descriptions of his personal infatuations in the text-based community LambdaMOO in the early 1990s orient attraction as a product of semantics and idealisation: "Well-rounded, colourful sentences start to do the work of big, brown, soulful eyes; too many typos in a character's description can have about the same effect as dandruff flakes on a black sweater." The rules haven't changed. Well, not much.
We do still pay heed to first impressions. Writing a profile for an online dating site or for an online community is an exercise in balancing personal marketing and reality. This can potentially backfire; if, as Dibbell says, "in [virtual reality], it's the best writers who get laid", it should pay to get a skilled ghostwriter. But, as a friend with an enormously successful profile for a dating site discovered, you have to live up to the prose. You can be too awesome; it pays to include a few warts and all.
"People cannot lie about constitutive personal features, such as a sense of humour, wittiness, and personal interests, all of which emerge during lengthy online conversations," says Professor Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, whose research has explored openness and honesty between people in online environments. "Online relationships encourage many people to present a more accurate picture of their true self," he says.
When it comes to online services outside the dating websites that feed the love bug, social networks are great at providing a context for a potential match. They expose similarity based on the number of shared connections, or the types of things users like. Status updates on social networks give the impression of being in a place at the same time, even when one or the other person is away from the computer. And participation in subject-specific online communities gives people something to talk about.
But there is one thing in this online love battlefield that does make it feel awfully different from my first courtship: our proclivity for sharing personal things with virtual strangers ? whether because of a heightened sense of anonymity or reduced social presence ? leads to intensely electric interactions. These "hyper-personal" relationships, as Whitty describes them, can create problems for people already in a committed pair. "Online seduction is just a click away," says Professor Ben-Ze'ev. Great for cheap thrills, but potentially destructive for long-term relationships.
I'm reassured that the process of falling in love has remained generally the same, but wonder how, in the long term, our strategic pursuit of The One will affect what we expect from a relationship. Are we placing too much hope on technology to provide us with an unattainable romantic ideal, or will we be satisfied that we have found Mr or Ms Right out of the potential population of lovers?
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The conversation: Guilty admissions
What steps should Oxbridge take to broaden their intake beyond the rich, white and privately educated? David Lammy MP and classics don Mary Beard have a heated exchange
Tottenham MP David Lammy used Freedom of Information requests to show that one Oxford college admitted no black students in five years. Cambridge scholar Mary Beard says statistics mask a more complicated truth. Susanna Rustin hears the arguments.
David Lammy: People concentrate on race, but geography and class are essential to this discussion. Some colleges are doing extraordinary things ? Mansfield College, Oxford, for example. But there are many colleges like Trinity College, Cambridge where the statistics have hardly moved, and I think that is of profound concern against a backdrop of rising fees, the abolition of Aimhigher [a programme to widen access] and the EMA [education maintenance allowance]. What do they need to do? They need to reach deeper and harder, they need officers and staff across the country. They should be at the forefront of debates about what talent is.
Mary Beard: I've worked in Cambridge for 25 years, and we all want to teach the best kids from as many different backgrounds as we can. I'm not complacent ? there are worrying things happening ? but I think despite the image of Oxbridge as the sort of place where we're sitting quaffing the port as we've done for the last 900 years, it's actually a place of tremendous change. When I was an undergraduate here, there were 10% women, now there's 50%. Nobody is saying there is not more to do, but it seems to me what we need is some big joined-up thinking here about education from 5 to 25. In the end it's a bit easy to blame Oxbridge.
DL: We absolutely ought to be able to talk about two universities that receive �560m of taxpayers' money ? more than the rest of the Russell Group put together. More than half of students at King's College, Cambridge come from comprehensives and FE colleges, but at Trinity the figure is only a quarter. And I think it is for the institutions to explain why that is, and why there's a one-in-three chance of getting in if you're white, but a one-in-five chance if you're black. We ought to question why two London boroughs, Barnet and Richmond, do so well, and whole cities like Barnsley and Rochdale come out with nothing. I'm not going to suggest that there aren't failures in the school system, but I want to look at the whole ecology. It's too easy to say the kids aren't bright enough.
MB: I didn't say the kids aren't bright enough, but the cycle of underachievement doesn't start at Oxbridge. There are some wonderfully good schools in this country, and there are some schools that are failing bright kids. David's absolutely right to say there are some strange pockets of apparent non-access to Oxbridge, and you can find quite a lot of those in the north, but it's also the case that Darlington does extremely well. And the place where you have the highest ratio of acceptances to applications to Cambridge at the moment is Northern Ireland.
DL: Public and grammar-school children are schooled [in interview techniques], that's why it's indefensible that Oxford spent its outreach money on nine events at Eton last year and 12 events at Marlborough College, when there was no event in my constituency on anything like that scale.
MB: My problem with what you say is not where you want to end up ? we want to end up in the same place.
DL: But when? On your ideas we won't be there for another 1800 years!
MB: Why this is a hard nut to crack is that you have a relatively small number of places and a relatively large number of variables that you're trying to cope with. A significant number of people receiving bursaries at Oxbridge because of low parental income attended independent schools as full scholarship kids. So you get all sorts of confusions.
DL: Two questions: What accounts for the different success rates across colleges of ethnic minority pupils and pupils from poorer backgrounds? And are you saying there is no more Oxford and Cambridge can do?
MB: Sweetie, come and visit me if you think I live in an ivory tower. I'll give you one example of work I think is constructive. One of the problems we've identified in my college is that people have made wrong A-level choices, so we're now putting a lot of effort into Year 11 kids to help them make good choices.
DL: Why are the problems always outside the institutions? What are the problems inside the institutions? The rate of progress feels slow relative to the scale of the problem, and to the particular challenges we have now around fees and with the government withdrawing funding from arts, humanities and social sciences. And what you've said about A-level choices doesn't explain the variables between colleges.
MB: It's true that people apply to a college, but in Classics what happens is that all the directors of studies view the whole field of applicants. What's our aim? To get as many of these kids into Cambridge as we can. But there's no point pretending we're the only ship in the sky. Thank god in this country there are loads of good universities.
DL: Harvard and Yale are private institutions, and yet their outcomes in this area are substantially better. They have relationships with headteachers and directors of education in some of the poorest areas of the US. But if you asked the Oxbridge admissions office who the director of education in the London borough of Haringey is, they wouldn't know. As higher education minister I saw Cambridge pursuing the brightest kids in India, the brightest kids in China, but when it comes to children from Middlesbrough and Tottenham, consistently they're losing out.
MB: Look David, you're just wrong on some of this. I've been to talk at Harrow perhaps twice in my career, but when I talk to them I'm not only talking to their kids. On one occasion there were two kids from the local comprehensive in the front row, and at least one of them came to Cambridge. That's the kind of complex story behind these headlines. My mum was too poor to go to university and it was the one thing all her life that she regretted. I think you need joined-up thinking about education, you need Oxbridge to be reflective.
DL: But it isn't reflective. Both institutions have been incredibly defensive in this debate. I asked Cambridge whether I could come and speak to the admissions tutors and let me tell you what the answer was: it was no. Cambridge said this weekend that on its own benchmark figures, the proportion of state-school kids is not going to get better over the next three years.
MB: That is a reflection about the �9,000 fees. This year in my college, which may not be typical, we will be taking 64% of state-schools students.
DL: Which is very good!
MB: I am not saying Oxbridge can sit back and do nothing, but this problem is rooted in the educational experiences that people have from age five.
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Fairy-Tale Beginning
With not one but two kisses and tender whispered words, Prince William and Kate Middleton smiled and blushed Friday as they started their life as future king and queen. A day of seamless pageantry inspired hopes that this royal couple might live happily ever after.
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Michael Scott: So Long, Loser (We'll Really Miss You)
Steve Carell's character shuffles awkwardly out the exit on NBC's The Office tonight. His long-suffering employees may not miss him, but critic Eric Deggans is really sad to see him go.
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South staggering in tornadoes' ruins
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Southerners found their emergency safety net shredded Friday as they tried to emerge from the nation's deadliest tornado disaster since the Great Depression.
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CPS Energy Helping Commercial Customers Cut Utility Costs
CPS Energy and the City of San Antonio are launching a new program designed to help owners of commercial buildings save money on their energy bills. Using a $10 million U.S. Department of Energy grant, the CPS Energy...
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U.S., New Mexico Gas Prices Continue To Rise
The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States rose today for the 38th day in a row, to...
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DPL Profit Drops 39 Percent In 1Q
DPL Inc., in the process of a merger, turned less profit to start 2011. DPL’s (NYSE: DPL) first quarter net income was $43.5 million, or 38 cents per share, down 39 percent from $71 million, or 61 cents, compared to the same period last year. The Dayton-based energy company’s revenue was $494.7...
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Moom for Mac simplifies window moving and zooming
Moom is a Mac utility that aims to simplify the task of moving and sizing windows. Moom can run in three different modes, seen in the image above. The Standard mode will make Moom have a Dock icon as well as menu items in the menu bar. In Menu Bar mode, Moom will only show up in your menu bar, and in the Faceless mode you won't see any sign of its existence at all -- unless you hover over the green zoom button in any window, which is when Moom starts working its magic.
Moom has two ways in which it can be operated -- by using the mouse or the keyboard. Using the mouse, after you've hovered over the aforementioned green zoom icon, a Moom menu will pop-up (above left). From there you can select if you want the current window zoomed to full screen, or if it should only occupy the left or right half of the screen, or even the top or bottom half if you're feeling saucy. The arrow-like icon allows you to revert the window to its original position.
But wait, there's more! If you drag the width/height icons a few pixels instead of just clicking on them, they're transformed into even more options, allowing you to zoom the current window to a(ny) quarter of the screen. How exactly does this work? To make the window occupy the top left quarter, you drag the 'left half' icon up, and to assign it to the bottom left quarter, you drag the 'left half' icon down.
Keyboard mode lets you control Moom with a global hotkey and the arrow buttons. You can set any key combination to be your global Moom hotkey, and set any subsequent key press to do any action that Moom can accomplish. Using the keyboard also gives you the option of centering a window, something which can't yet be done with the mouse. Hit the jump for a screenshot of the entire keyboard shortcut configuration menu to admire the amazing number of ways in which you can customize your interactions with Moom. Last, but definitely not least, you can rest assured knowing that Moom does support multiple displays.
Moom works for 100 uses in its free demo mode, after which you can purchase it either directly from Many Tricks (the developer), or from the Mac App Store. The license costs $5.
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Grand Prix Portugal, Estoril
Motor racing, the most important are the GP races!
The Portuguese Grand Prix (Grande Prémio de Portugal) was a motorsports event held for several years, mostly in the 1950s and then in the 1980s and 90s. It was a Formula One race between 1958 and 1960 and between 1984 and 1996.
The first event was held on the Boavista street course in Porto on 17 June 1951 as a sports car race.[citation needed] The Grand Prix was moved to Monsanto Park, Lisbon, in 1954 as a one-off. The first Formula One race was held in 14 August 1958 in Boavista, followed in 1959 by a Grand Prix at Monsanto, return to Boavista in 1960, after which it was ended.
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Place : Estoril
Circuit length : 4282 m
Laps : 70
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Width : 14 m
Right turns : 9
Left turns : 4
Longest straight : 986 m
First held : 1951
Last held : 1996
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Google streaming I/O conference 2011 live for those who can't make it
So if were unlucky in getting tickets, stuck at home, or to your desk on May 10th and 11th, but really want to get in on the I/O action, check out the Google I/O Live page, where you can register your interest by displaying the Google I/O Live 2011 HTML5 badge on your site. Oh and check out the fancy, bouncing ball, countdown clock while you're there too.
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10 Things to Look for in a Web Hosting Service
Gone are the days when having a website for your business was optional. In fact, many businesses these days can't afford even a few minutes of downtime where their customers can't access their site. That means that choosing a reliable web hosting service has become mission critical for most business owners. But that can be easier said than done given the hundreds of options out there that range from local mom-and-pop providers to national providers like Go Daddy and Rackspace, all of which range in terms of their price and service offerings. But how do you know whether you need to spend $10 a month versus $100? What follows are 10 tips, from business owners and experts alike, about the kinds of questions and issues you want to think about before deciding where to host your website.
1. Support
Ask yourself what type of support will you need, says Angela Nielsen president and creative director of One Lily, a web design and hosting company in Barstow, California. "The worst thing that can happen is for a website to go down, or having an email issue," Nielson says. "Nobody can prevent glitches 100 percent, so if and when you find yourself in the middle of one, its best to have someone you can call on to get immediate resolution." That means looking for providers that provide 24/7 free phone support with customer service reps who speak your language and actually pick up the phone when you need them to.
2. Parking Service
Find out if you can easily park your company's other domain names. "This is a big one," says Beatrice Johnston, director of Brand Excitement, a branding agency in New York City. "Most companies buy their .com, .net, .org, hyphenated versions of their domain name, misspellings, service names, and more. It's most efficient and convenient for brand management to have these in one control panel and know that you're not going to lose any traffic."
3. Backup
Make sure your web hosting service provides adequate backup, says Johnston. "I once mistakenly deleted the entire blog directory for my website—ouch," she says. "I contacted my host and because they provide automatic backup every day, I was able to hit a few keystrokes, select two days previous, and voila—my blog and content was back online as if it never happened." Find out what your host's disaster recovery plan is, as well, to ensure that they are backing up their backups.
4. Uptime Guarantee
The last thing you want your customers to experience is a blank screen when they type in your URL, so you'll want to shop for a hosting service with a strong reputation for uptime and redundancy, says Nielson. "Your site can't be seen if the host constantly has server outages," she says. "Look for an uptime guarantee of 99 percent or more. Also make sure the server has multiple backup locations (mirrored servers) so that if one goes down, they have another already online and ready to go."
5. Accessibility
You might find that some hosting services make it difficult to make changes to your site. If so, avoid them. "Make sure the host you choose gives you access to the server so that you can easily create new email accounts, make changes to server settings, etc.," says Nielson. That goes double for ensuring that you can get access to your email online and not just through Outlook. "Most hosts provide this, but some do not," says Nielson. "Make sure you will have the ability to login online to check your email from when you are away from your computer, and in case of emergency like when Outlook crashes."
6. Blogability
Another staple of most company websites these days is a blog, in addition to other social media tools. Even if you don't blog, you might in time, so make sure that the hosting service meets the minimum requirements for WordPress, the leading blogging platform. "So many small businesses are utilizing WordPress for blogging and or for their entire website, and not all hosts yet support this," says Nielson.
7. To Share or Not to Share
One of the ways that you can save money on hosting your website is by turning to something called "shared hosting," which basically means that your site is being hosted along with dozens (if not hundreds) of other sites which is why you might pay as little as $5 a month for hosting fees. The downside, though, can be that troubles with one of those sites could lead to problems for all the sites hosted on that server, says Roland Reinhart, owner of the Reinhart Marketing Group in Bridgewater, New Jersey. "Having a fast website response time is crucial so that your visitor doesn't grow impatient and click away and that Google uses page load speed as one of its many factors in determining whether your page will be show high in search results," he says. That's why he prefers to pay more for access to a Virtual Private Server (VPS)—also called a Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS). "VPS is a bit more complicated to set up, but at $40 to $50 a month, you have a much higher quality web server and faster performance," he says.
8. Watch for Add-ons
Even if you like the price a web hosting service quotes you, make sure you know what you're paying for. "Hosting services often grab you with a low start-up rate," says Marianne Carlson, president of Emcie Media, a communications and marketing firm in DeLand, Florida. "But then it's, 'Oh, you want an email account too? That's extra. You want to forward the email to your existing email account? That's extra. And you want a blog? That's extra too.' You get the idea."
9. Scalability
While you might be shopping for a hosting service for your small business, you should consider partnering with a service that can scale with you as you get bigger. That can mean that the service offers different tiers of service based on the number of expected visitors you receive each month where, as your business takes off, you can easily upgrade your plan. Just as importantly, you may want to evaluate providers based on how they deal with unexpected "spikes" that tear into your available bandwidth. Consider what happened to Scott Gerber, managing partner of New York City-based promotional company Sizzle It and founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, whose site crashed after the New York Times ran a cover story on him and again after he wrote a blog post for Inc.com titled, "Why 'Be Passionate' Is Awful Advice." "You must make sure that your service provider—or at least your service plan—are capable of dealing with spikes," say Gerber. "Additionally, you want to make sure that spikes don't cost you an arm and a leg as some providers charge you very large amounts of money for additional usage."
10. Exit Strategy
Even if you're excited about everything your new web hosting service has to offer, make sure you read the fine print about what they have to say if you decide to take your business elsewhere, says Ken Dawes, who helps small businesses build websites through his business, The Web Mechanic, which is located in Aptos, California. "One of my pet peeves is when a host makes it difficult to find what you need to move your domain name away from them," he says. "I think a provider that is confident in their service won't need to make it difficult."
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France football heads in race row
Senior heads of national team allegedly approved system to limit black players and those of north African origins
France has been plunged into a fresh race crisis after claims that football officials tried to limit black and Arab players on youth training schemes to make the French team more white.
The French football federation has opened an internal investigation after website Mediapart reported that top management approved a quota system to limit young black players and those of north African origin emerging as candidates for the national team. The alleged plan involved limiting non-white youngsters as young as 12 or 13 from entering the selection process through training centres and academies.
"For the top brass in French football, the issue is settled: there are too many blacks, too many Arabs, and not enough white players in French football," the website said.
According to Mediapart, one of the most senior football federation figures wanted to set a cap of 30% on players of certain origins, but insisted at a meeting the quota should be kept quiet. At another meeting, the French national team coach Laurent Blanc allegedly backed changing youth talent selection criteria to favour players with "our culture, our history". Sources claimed Blanc cited current world champions Spain, saying: "The Spanish, they say: 'We don't have a problem. We have no blacks.'"
Amid stupefaction from players, the French governmenthas asked for clarification from the football federation, which has denied setting out a quota policy.
The federation's national technical director, Fran�ois Blaquart, said the organisation's "only problem" was with dual national players who were trained by France and then went off to play for other countries. He said this applied to players of all races.
The French team's media officer, Philippe Tournon, said Blanc "categorically denies that he could have supported selections based on ethnicity or skin colour". He added that "it goes against his philosophy" and said that Blanc was "outraged" by the allegations.
The issue hit a raw nerve in France in 1998, where their World Cup victory by a multicultural team led by Zinedine Zidane was hailed as "black, blanc, beur", and was said to symbolise a new beginning for a mixed nation, but it mainly gave way to great unease and bickering over the racial profile of "Les Bleus". Not only did the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen complain of too many black people in the team, a leading Socialist regional head, the late Georges Fr�che, was expelled from his party in 2007 for making the same observation.
Crucially, the French team's mutiny at the World Cup last summer was privately blamed by some on black or Muslim players, including the French convert to Islam, Franck Rib�ry. Speculation was that the team had fragmented over the lack of the football team's "national identity".
One of the first measures taken by Blanc ? a World Cup winner from 1998 ? when he became coach of the French team last summer was to stop the team policy of eating only halal meat.
Mediapart said federation officials had even challenged the morphology of black players. The website claimed Blanc had suggested that a stereotype of player, which he described as "large, strong, powerful", needed to be changed. Blanc allegedly told a meeting of senior federation figures: "And who are the large, strong, powerful? The blacks. That's the way it is. It is a current fact. God knows that in the training centres and football academies, there are lots."
Counting people by race or ethnic origin ? even for census purposes or for statistics research ? is banned in France, a state which, in theory, is blind to race or religion. The notion of quotas is fundamentally anti-republican.
Henri Guaino, Nicolas Sarkozy's special advisor, said he was "viscerally opposed to any form of quota", adding: "Setting quotas would be the end of the republic."
Lilian Thuram, a World Cup hero who is outspoken on racism and once accused Sarkozy of judging people along race lines, commented on the row: "Initially I thought this was a joke. I'm so stunned I don't know what to say." He added that if the reports were true, the scandal would run and run.
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How to treat 'diabulimics': Diabetics with eating disorders
Like other overweight teens, Erin M. Akers longed to be slender.
Unlike other girls, she discovered that she possessed a powerful weight-loss gimmick, a secret reward for being diagnosed at age 10 with her detested disease, type 1 diabetes.
Unlike other girls, she discovered that she possessed a powerful weight-loss gimmick, a secret reward for being diagnosed at age 10 with her detested disease, type 1 diabetes.
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Voters pass most South Jersey school budgets
In a huge shift from last year, when nearly 70 percent of South Jersey school budgets went down in defeat, regional voters endorsed nearly that many spending plans on Wednesday's ballot.
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For the Fed, A Narrowing of Options
Floyd Norris, New York Times
The American economic revival stumbled in early 2011. Could that be more than the “transitory” phenomenon that Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, called it at his news conference this week? Chinese steel prices have fallen recently, which may only represent a government effort to hold down inflation. Go to your Portfolio »Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, at the first scheduled press conference in the central bank's history on Wednesday. It makes sense to think the pause...
The American economic revival stumbled in early 2011. Could that be more than the “transitory” phenomenon that Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, called it at his news conference this week? Chinese steel prices have fallen recently, which may only represent a government effort to hold down inflation. Go to your Portfolio »Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, at the first scheduled press conference in the central bank's history on Wednesday. It makes sense to think the pause...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/29/for_the_fed_a_narrowing_of_options_254602.html
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Official/claimed fuel consumption figures vs. real world
Figures based on EU combined numbers and mixed driving conditions in the real world.
Pug 106 1.1 - over 45mpg (claimed) but got about 42 IIRC
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Moom for Mac simplifies window moving and zooming
Moom is a Mac utility that aims to simplify the task of moving and sizing windows. Moom can run in three different modes, seen in the image above. The Standard mode will make Moom have a Dock icon as well as menu items in the menu bar. In Menu Bar mode, Moom will only show up in your menu bar, and in the Faceless mode you won't see any sign of its existence at all -- unless you hover over the green zoom button in any window, which is when Moom starts working its magic.
Moom has two ways in which it can be operated -- by using the mouse or the keyboard. Using the mouse, after you've hovered over the aforementioned green zoom icon, a Moom menu will pop-up (above left). From there you can select if you want the current window zoomed to full screen, or if it should only occupy the left or right half of the screen, or even the top or bottom half if you're feeling saucy. The arrow-like icon allows you to revert the window to its original position.
But wait, there's more! If you drag the width/height icons a few pixels instead of just clicking on them, they're transformed into even more options, allowing you to zoom the current window to a(ny) quarter of the screen. How exactly does this work? To make the window occupy the top left quarter, you drag the 'left half' icon up, and to assign it to the bottom left quarter, you drag the 'left half' icon down.
Keyboard mode lets you control Moom with a global hotkey and the arrow buttons. You can set any key combination to be your global Moom hotkey, and set any subsequent key press to do any action that Moom can accomplish. Using the keyboard also gives you the option of centering a window, something which can't yet be done with the mouse. Hit the jump for a screenshot of the entire keyboard shortcut configuration menu to admire the amazing number of ways in which you can customize your interactions with Moom. Last, but definitely not least, you can rest assured knowing that Moom does support multiple displays.
Moom works for 100 uses in its free demo mode, after which you can purchase it either directly from Many Tricks (the developer), or from the Mac App Store. The license costs $5.
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Easy Energy Systems Moving HQ To Phoenix
Easy Energy Systems, a maker of small-scale ethanol plant equipment, said Wednesday it’s moving its headquarters from Minnesota to Phoenix, where it will be closer to newly named CEO Bill Hinz, an Arizona businessman. The company plans to...
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Obama's Birther Day
Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Barack Obama’s birthday, according to Hawaiian long-form birth certificate No. 61-10641, is Aug. 4. This should not be confused with his official birther day, which, after the peculiar events of Wednesday morning, will henceforth be observed on April 27.Before walking into the White House briefing room to talk to the world about the release of his almost 50-year-old birth certificate, Obama paused in the press office to watch NBC’s Today Show, where Matt Lauer was talking with White House reporter Chuck Todd.
Barack Obama’s birthday, according to Hawaiian long-form birth certificate No. 61-10641, is Aug. 4. This should not be confused with his official birther day, which, after the peculiar events of Wednesday morning, will henceforth be observed on April 27.Before walking into the White House briefing room to talk to the world about the release of his almost 50-year-old birth certificate, Obama paused in the press office to watch NBC’s Today Show, where Matt Lauer was talking with White House reporter Chuck Todd.
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/28/obama039s_birther_day_254508.html
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Trump's Birtherism and Race-Baiting
David Remnick, The New Yorker
Not long after the White House released the President’s birth certificate this morning, Donald Trump stepped off a helicopter, ambled up to a bank of microphones, and declared, “Today, I’m very proud of myself.” (One assumes this is a daily ritual for Trump, but today there were more cameras than usual.) Trump also declared himself relieved that “the press can stop asking me questions” about the birther issue and we can now move on to more important ones, such as “China ripping off this country.” What is...
Not long after the White House released the President’s birth certificate this morning, Donald Trump stepped off a helicopter, ambled up to a bank of microphones, and declared, “Today, I’m very proud of myself.” (One assumes this is a daily ritual for Trump, but today there were more cameras than usual.) Trump also declared himself relieved that “the press can stop asking me questions” about the birther issue and we can now move on to more important ones, such as “China ripping off this country.” What is...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/28/trump039s_birtherism_and_race-baiting_254564.html
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The Libyan Boomerang
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
In theory, Libya was supposed to save lives, use the military for humanitarianism rather than mere national interests, showcase a new multilateral internationalism, enhance the reputations of organizations like the U.N. and the Arab League, contrast Obama’s careful planning with the plagued Iraqi occupation, reveal Europe as a full strategic partner, and bolster the national-security credentials of the U.S.
In theory, Libya was supposed to save lives, use the military for humanitarianism rather than mere national interests, showcase a new multilateral internationalism, enhance the reputations of organizations like the U.N. and the Arab League, contrast Obama’s careful planning with the plagued Iraqi occupation, reveal Europe as a full strategic partner, and bolster the national-security credentials of the U.S.
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/28/the_libyan_boomerang_254565.html
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Which industries emit the most CO2?
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"Carbon" is shorthand for greenhouse gas emissions, including CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and F-gases. These gases are released by many different types of activity ? not just the burning of fossil fuels, but also farming, deforestation and some industrial processes.
Global emissions can be allocated to human activities in various ways. One of the most granular analyses is this one from the World Resources Institute (WRI), which breaks down total global emissions from 2005 into the following headline sectors:
Energy
?�Electricity & heat (24.9%)
?�Industry (14.7%)
? Transportation (14.3%)
?�Other fuel combustion (8.6%)
?�Fugitive emissions (4%)
Agriculture (13.8%)
Land use change (12.2%)
Industrial processes (4.3%)
Waste (3.2%)
These sectors are then assigned to various end uses, giving the following results (nicely visualised here):
Road transport (10.5%)
Air transport (excluding additional warming impacts) (1.7% )
Other transport (2.5%)
Fuel and power for residential buildings (10.2%)
Fuel and power for commercial buildings (6.3%)
Unallocated fuel combustion (3.8%)
Iron and steel production (4%)
Aluminium and non-ferrous metals production (1.2%)
Machinery production (1%)
Pulp, paper and printing (1.1%)
Food and tobacco industries (1.0%)
Chemicals production (4.1%)
Cement production (5.0%)
Other industry (7.0%)
Transmission and distribution losses (2.2%)
Coal mining (1.3%)
Oil and gas production (6.4%)
Deforestation (11.3%)
Reforestation (-0.4%)
Harvest and land management (1.3%)
Agricultural energy use (1.4%)
Agricultural soils (5.2%)
Livestock and manure (5.4%)
Rice cultivation (1.5%)
Other cultivation (1.7%)
Landfill of waste (1.7%)
Wastewater and other waste (1.5%)
It should be stressed that there is a fair degree of uncertainty about the precise contribution of some activities, especially those which include biological processes such as land use change and agriculture. Indeed, the total contribution from deforestation is much lower in the data above than it was in the equivalent figures from 2000, due to a change in the underlying methodology ? as described in the WRI's accompanying paper (pdf).
The other point to note is that emissions levels are permanently changing. Total global emissions are significantly higher now than they were in 2005, and the ratios between sectors will also have changed. But global datasets take a long time to compile, hence there is usually a multi-year lag before reliable figures are published.
The numbers provided above are broadly consistent with the 2004 data published in the latest UN IPCC report.
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Charlotte Businesses Get Green Funds
Sixteen N.C. small businesses and organizations — including two in Charlotte — will receive a share of nearly $4.6 million in awards from the state’s Green Business Fund. Local enterprises receiving...
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Banshee music player now works in Windows, supports Amazon MP3 downloads
The most notable new feature is support for the Amazon MP3 store -- you can buy and download music from within Banshee -- but unfortunately it's only available in the Linux build at the moment (OS X and Windows support are planned, however). There have also been some significant improvements to artist, album, and queue interactions -- and yes, you can finally right click a track, album or artist and select 'play after' to insert it into the queue.
Beyond actual playback, the user interface has been tidied up -- it now looks a whole lot smarter -- and the Ubuntu One Music Store and SoundMenu extensions have been made official. For a complete list of changes, additions and bug fixes, check the change log.
When Windows support initially appeared in February, we found it rough around the edges and fraught with stability issues. With version 2, Banshee for Windows is still a bit unstable, but it's shaping up to be a good alternative to Winamp, iTunes, or whatever other music library manager you use. It's almost as attractive as its GNOMEish brother, too!
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Easy Energy Systems Moving HQ To Phoenix
Easy Energy Systems, a maker of small-scale ethanol plant equipment, said Wednesday it’s moving its headquarters from Minnesota to Phoenix, where it will be closer to newly named CEO Bill Hinz, an Arizona businessman. The company plans to...
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BSkyB growth ups News Corp stakes
Revenue and subscriber growth puts pressure on Rupert Murdoch to improve offer when government clears takeover deal
BSkyB has reported strong growth in the three months to the end of March, adding pressure on Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation to improve its 700p-per-share offer when culture secretary Jeremy Hunt gives final clearance for the takeover to go ahead.
BSkyB added 51,000 new customers in the first quarter ? ahead of most analysts' expectations ? as revenue grew 12.8% year on year to �1.65bn and underlying earnings grew by 5% to �344m. On an adjusted basis, pre-tax profits were down 32.7% year on year to �238m due to exceptional items in the first quarter last year such as the sale of most of BSkyB's 17.9% stake in ITV.
The BSkyB chief executive, Jeremy Darroch, said the satellite broadcaster had delivered "another good performance in what has clearly been a tough consumer environment". Operating profit climbed from �249m to �261m.
However, with Hunt expected to imminently announce official clearance for News Corp to proceed with tabling an offer for the 61% in BSkyB that it does not already own, analysts are keenly keeping an eye on key metrics such as earnings per share.
BSkyB reported a record adjusted basic EPS of 30.5p, a 30% year-on-year increase. "A continuation of this kind of trend [strongly growing EPS], will confirm that BSkyB is entering a harvesting period in terms of returns," said Thomas Singlehurst, an analyst at Citigroup. A second important metric, free cash flow, grew 60% year on year to �615m. In addition, average revenue per user ? a key metric for analysts ? increased 8% year on year to �544.
In the nine months to the end of March BSkyB said it spent �12m on various costs relating to the approach from News Corp.
BSkyB, which has a customer base of 10.1m, said 26% of customers now take a "triple play" of TV, broadband and home phone.
BSkyB added 155,000 new broadband customers and 159,000 telephony customers, while 189,000 customers signed up to Sky+HD. BSkyB's churn rate ? customers leaving the company ? grew slightly in the quarter to 10.4%.
BSkyB also pointed to huge growth in advertising revenue income ? bolstered massively by the acquisition of Living TV Group last year ? reporting 41% year-on-year growth in the nine months to the end of March to �348m.
Darroch said he saw no problem with Sky News being spun off as an independent operation ? an undertaking News Corp agreed to in order to gain clearance on media plurality grounds from Hunt.
"From my perspective I don't see why Sky News shouldn't go on and prosper in the future how it does today," he said. "I can't see why it can't be very, very successful as a standalone business."
He added that the Sky News business has always been run as an independent entity ? if not in financial terms ? in any case.
"It is one of the reasons Sky News has been so successful in the long term: people see it as a reliable, independent source of news," he said.
BSkyB said it expects to make �10m in profit from the sale of its 13% stake in Shine ? the production company owned by Elisabeth Murdoch acquired by her father Rupert's News Corp earlier this month.
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Garam Masala: A Taste Worth Acquiring
Every region in India, every area, every house, every cook within every house has a favorite version of this warm blend of spices, says food writer Monica Bhide. Its potency didn't appeal to her when she was a child, but she grew to appreciate the magic behind garam masala.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/27/135761263/garam-masala-a-taste-worth-acquiring?ft=1&f=1057
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Flyers get it done
The Flyers are wide awake now, just in time to make another serious run at the Stanley Cup.
They may have dozed off as the long regular season wound down. And maybe they hit the snooze button once or twice during their first-round playoff series with the seventh-seeded Buffalo Sabres.
They may have dozed off as the long regular season wound down. And maybe they hit the snooze button once or twice during their first-round playoff series with the seventh-seeded Buffalo Sabres.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Donald Trump: When Bullies Win
Joan Walsh, Salon
Donald Trump is basically birther Orly Taitz with better hair. Or do I have that backwards? The idea that this "carnival barker," in President Obama's words, got the White House to bow to filthy birther rumors about his ineligibility to be president, and belatedly produce his long-form birth certificate, makes me deeply sad.But was it the right thing to do politically? We can't know that yet. Certainly I was encouraged by seeing an indignant Obama take the podium, note he was getting attention he likely wouldn't get for a foreign policy announcement, and tear into the...
Donald Trump is basically birther Orly Taitz with better hair. Or do I have that backwards? The idea that this "carnival barker," in President Obama's words, got the White House to bow to filthy birther rumors about his ineligibility to be president, and belatedly produce his long-form birth certificate, makes me deeply sad.But was it the right thing to do politically? We can't know that yet. Certainly I was encouraged by seeing an indignant Obama take the podium, note he was getting attention he likely wouldn't get for a foreign policy announcement, and tear into the...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/27/donald_trump_when_bullies_win_254496.html
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Chaskielberg wins L'Iris D'Or award
Argentinian wins for portfolio of images taken when living with islanders living in the Paran� river delta over two years
An Argentinian photographer who began his career on local papers last night picked up one of his art form's leading awards for a portfolio of pictures he took while living with islanders in the Paran� river delta, Argentina.
Alejandro Chaskielberg's dramatically luminous images of a community going about their daily lives won him photographer of the year ? known as L'Iris D'Or ? at the Sony World Photography Awards, presented last night at a gala ceremony at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.
Chaskielberg, 34, spent two years with the islanders, immersing himself in their daily lives and taking photographs of precisely staged scenes at night. The chairman of this year's judges, critic Francis Hodgson, said of Chaskielberg's High Tide series: "These carefully directed pictures tell solid truths ? about toil and community and marginal survival ? in a splendidly allusive way."
Buenos Aires-born Chaskielberg, who took his first job on a local newspaper aged 18, said of the project: "Using photography, I have been able to present another version of the Paran� river delta and its community that has been photographically ignored throughout the years."
The photographer wins $25,000, new camera equipment, and of course considerable acclaim, joining previous Iris d'Or winners David Zimmerman, Vanessa Winship and Tommaso Ausili as a member of the World Photography Academy.
He beat considerable competition, with 105,000 images entered from 162 countries.
Other winners at the ceremony, which was held in London for the first time ? it has previously been held in Cannes ? included a Hong Kong jewellery manufacturer who taught himself basic photography skills using books and the internet.
Chan Kwok Hung was named overall winner in the amateur categories, picking up $5,000 as Open Photographer of the year for his dramatic picture Buffalo Race, which he took in Indonesia.
There were 13 more winners named in various professional categories covering everything from sport to travel to conceptual.
Briton Adam Hinton won the campaign section of the commercial awards for his photographs for Saatchi & Saatchi and Spaniard Javier Arcenillas, shortlisted in four categories, won in two ? current affairs and contemporary issues.
The truly big name at last night's awards was American photographer Bruce Davidson, 77, who received the outstanding contribution to photography award. He arrived ahead of two shows of his work in London ? a selling exhibition at Chris Beetles gallery opening next week and a retrospective being shown as part of the World Photography Festival at Somerset House.
Photography book awards were also given out as part of the proceedings with the best photography book going to a special volume of David Goldblatt's TJ ? images of Johannesburg shot over 40 years ? which had married with Ivan Vladislavic's novel Double Negative. Matthew Solomon's book Disappearing Tricks, on early theatrical magic and silent film, won the best moving image book award and German publisher Gerhard Steidl was given an outstanding contribution award.
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