RELEASE: Free eBook: ?Windows 8 Product Guide for Business ...

Posted by: kurtsh | September 29, 2012

The 17-page summary known as the Windows 8 Product Guide for Business was updated for the RTM release on Sept 18th.? It goes through all the business-focused improvements made to Windows 8 as well as the technologies it inherits and improves upon from Windows 7 including:

• Changing work environments and Windows 8
• New possibilities for mobile productivity
• Enhanced end-to-end security features
• Manageability and Virtualization Advancements

In particular, there?s a great discussion of Client Hyper-V, Trusted Boot, and Windows-to-Go? all brand new ?super features? of Windows 8.

RELEASE: Free eBook: ?Windows 8 Product Guide for Business?
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Injured military dog handler receives Bronze Star

JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST ? The applause was deafening, and it grew even louder.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Brian Williams sat quietly in his wheelchair onstage at the Joint Base Theater as about 500 servicemen and women showed their gratitude for the military working-dog handler.

?I wish a lot of other people in my position received the same treatment,? Williams said. ?Not everyone has such a caring unit, and I think that shows a lot of good faith from our group.?

Williams, 30, was honored Friday by the joint base, where he ceremoniously received the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Combat Action Medal. He lost his left leg above the knee, sustained a compound fracture in his arm, and lost most of his teeth from a blast by an improvised explosive device in April during a mission outside the Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan.

Williams, an Arizona native, was deployed from the 87th Security Squadron at the base and was serving his sixth tour. He was three months into a six-month deployment when he suffered his life-threatening injuries. A quick medical response from Army personnel at the scene saved Williams? life.

?If I was leaning a little more to the left or right, things could have been a lot different,? he said.

Williams, who joined the Air Force in 2000, began working as a military working-dog handler in 2009. He logged more than 470 combat mission hours, and participated in numerous dangerous compound-to-compound searches and air-assault missions in the Zharay, Maiwand and Panjwai districts of Afghanistan with his furry male companion Carly.

On April 25, the pair were clearing a suspicious area in a compound near a village in Maiwand. Williams and Carly had cleared the first floor, and the dog went upstairs on command to begin a search.

After Carly didn?t come downstairs, Williams went up to an unsearched area to retrieve his dog. The airman?s movement triggered the explosive. Williams? body was thrown down the steps, and he suffered a major laceration to his leg, among other injuries. Carly was unharmed. Two Army members applied tourniquets to Williams? extremities to stop the bleeding.

His life was saved, but his leg was later amputated.

?You, to us, are an inspiration,? Gen. Raymond Johns, Air Force commander of the Air Mobility Command, told Williams. ?Every day, you share pictures. You share stories of what you face. There are good days and bad days. And we look at you and we say, ?If you can do this, we can do anything.? We are proud of you. You are an inspiration to us, and it?s a great day to be here celebrating and giving you medals.?

In June, Williams was reunited with Carly after military personnel brought the dog to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to visit the airman as he recovered. Williams said he was offered the option to adopt Carly, but he declined, saying the dog is too valuable to the military.

?It wouldn?t be fair,? he said of the canine, whom some airmen call ?Carl.? ?It would be selfish of me to take the dog. He?s got a lot of life left in him, and it would be wasted if I took him away.?

Williams said he also doesn?t plan to retire quietly, despite his severe injuries.

?I don?t plan on being done yet,? he said. ?I?m not letting little Johnny Taliban tell me when I?m done.?

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89% Robot & Frank

All Critics (74) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (8)

"Robot & Frank" hits all the right notes - romantic, fantastic, tragic and sweet.

There's a warm and poignant interplay between the co-stars.

Langella ... is tremendous.

It may not seem like an even playing field pitting an actor as powerfully intense as Frank Langella opposite a robot, but that's the game plan behind the waywardly endearing, slightly futuristic fantasy Robot & Frank.

Much of Robot & Frank is (frankly) resistible, including the climactic narrative twist, but there is also a likeable oddness that transcends the sentimental contrivance.

An endearing movie about a human and his mechanical new buddy.

... a marvel of the highest order. Robot and Frank manages to seamlessly blend comedy, science fiction and drama into a film that is hilarious, truly original and utterly heartfelt

This blend of sentiment and genre fancy is not unlike something Ray Bradbury might have contrived for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Robot & Frank is an airy, engaging flight of fancy. It's also part caper film, part character study, and part allegory about aging. Robot & Frank shouldn't work, but it does.

..never hits the easy and obvious beats of a buddy comedy; there's no sentimental bonding between man and mecha man. Similarly, though it feints toward romance, the relationship ... resolves in an unexpectedly bittersweet way.

"Robot & Frank" is a study of a man who lives with his past mistakes but can't shake how truly alive they made him feel when he was making them, regardless of what they cost him.

Hodgepodge of moods built around an unlikely story of friendship between a man and his service robot, the film carries itself confidently, with occasional moments of significant emotion.

They get the robot right, with fluid movement (by dancer Rachael Ma) and canned warmth in its user-friendly voice (performed by Peter Sarsgaard).

What a weird, winning little movie is Robot & Frank.

The chief spectacle here -- and it's a good one -- is Langella in gruff, curdled mode, an underappreciated master actor slipping seamlessly into a bespoke role.

"Robot & Frank" is so endearing it's easy to forget it's science fiction.

The movie is sweet and agreeably unambitious, derailed only by an egregious third-act twist.

Frank Langella gives a terrific performance as the second of the two title characters in this modest but heartfelt science-fiction comedy.

There's no denying the, err, chemistry between Langella and his nameless buddy.

Amusing and ingratiating, leaving a bittersweet afterglow

Smart and sweet, Robot and Frank feels familiar while you're watching it yet consistently finds ways to catch you off-guard.

Further proof that sci-fi need not be high-budget spectacle, and can actually do a good little job exploring the human condition, our characters, and our memories.

Frank Langella's presence would be enough to pique my interest in any film. Robot & Frank offers him a modest starring vehicle with a science-fiction spin, and the result is one of the most enjoyable indie films of the year.

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Two sentenced in multimillion dollar real estate fraud scheme ...

Two North Texas men were sentenced to federal prison this week for their roles in a multimillion dollar real estate fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney?s Office for the Eastern District of Texas.

Jeffrey Brown, 43, of Dallas?and Jeremy Louder, 33, of Frisco?were each sentenced to five years in federal prison for conspiring to commit mail fraud. The two had pleaded guilty last year.

U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis also ordered the pair to pay restitution to the 82 people who fell victim to their scheme. Brown must pay more than $14 million, while Louder must pay more than $17 million, according to prosecutors. Both men were taken into custody immediately after the sentencing hearing.

According to court documents, Louder and Brown controlled Quadwealth, a Plano-based company that marketed itself as an exclusive financial planning and wealth management group. Investors could purchase memberships in one of three tiers between $3,000 and $100,000.

Quadwealth advertised extensively through its website and radio promotions in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. ?Prosecutors say Louder, Brown and others intentionally made numerous false representations and omissions of material fact to induce people to invest with them between 2006 and 2010. In one case, a man invested $100,000 with Quadwealth after being told his money would earn a rate of return of between 102 percent and 800 percent, court documents show.

The case was investigated by the FBI.

Source: http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/09/two-sentenced-in-multimillion-dollar-real-estate-fraud-scheme.html/

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UNITED NATIONS | It has been a week of inspiring ideas and action plans at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. I met with a number of world leaders, including Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. We talked about the importance of creating jobs for ex-combatants, the pressing need for more energy sources, and more. You can hear my thoughts on our meeting in the video below. Video Platform Video Management Video Solutions Video Player read more

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Napolitano doesn?t use email at all. Seriously.

Jim Bell, an executive producer at?Today, wants you to know that "it was absolutely" his "call" to fire Ann Curry, throwing himself in front of the criticism Matt Lauer was getting from Curry fans.?Even though Today's ratings have been sagging? ?and the ,?nothing too terrible has happened?the show hasn't ended, the cheeriness is still there, Kathie Lee is still drinking before noon?and now Bell has come forward to claim responsibility for the call. "It was definitely not Matt?s call," . ...

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Stay Alert in This Week's Open Thread [Open Thread]

Long week? Grab your favorite caffeine delivery system and keep those eyes open in this week's open thread.

Same drill as always, open-threaders: You can chat and ask questions with your fellow readers all week long at the #openthread hashtag page, but our weekly open thread post is your opportunity to reach the most people. Ask questions, offer advice, discuss productivity tips, or just chat about whatever's on your mind. You'll need a commenter account to participate, then you're ready to roll.

An extra reminder: If you're not quite satisfied with the interaction in the weekly open thread or in #tips, remember that you can also share your expertise every day on our Expert Pages.

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What?s the Difference Between Life and Death?

A 1728 oil painting by Cornelis Troost depicting an anatomy lesson using a cadaver

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Two hundred years ago, a Scottish medical student named Robert Christison watched a human vivisection.

It was inadvertent; the subject was meant to be dead. But in the days before people willingly left their bodies to science, surgeons stole them. The aftermath of judicial hangings was a competition between ?the relatives and the [surgical] students?the former to carry off the body intact, the latter to dissect it,? Christison wrote in his autobiography. ?Thus dissection was apt to be performed with indecent, sometimes with dangerous haste. It was no uncommon occurrence that, when the operator proceeded with his work, the body was sensibly warm, the limbs not yet rigid.? Hangings were sometimes ineffective, and the condemned survived. No wonder then that occasionally, in their rush, surgeons got it wrong and opened up a body to demonstrate its anatomy only to discover it was not yet a corpse.

Even if you're in less of a rush, simple observation has always been worryingly fallible when it comes to distinguishing life from death. When I was a junior doctor, I recall the hairs on the back of my neck slowly rising as I walked toward a patient's room. His family had just stopped me at the end of their visit, saying ?I think we'll come back tomorrow, we've been sitting with him for an hour and he's seemed awfully quiet.? He would forever remain that way. I found I often made the reverse mistake: Walking into the room of an elderly patient, it could take some time to recognize their stillness as that of sleep.

Preceding generations adopted technological aids to help them. Holding a mirror over a face to see if it misted up could be genuinely useful. The stethoscope?invented by a French doctor, Rene Laennec, who was embarrassed by putting his ear to his patient's bosom?meant that respiration and heart sounds could be listened for more accurately. All this helped, but it didn't fully solve the problem.

The precise division between life and death has always been unclear. In the 18^th century, the chemistry of living (organic) and nonliving (inorganic) things was held to be fundamentally different. Into the former, God placed a spark of life?meaning that biochemical processes were absolutely different from the chemical reactions that could be created by mankind or the natural world. That belief was shown false in the 1820s, when a German chemist, Friedrich W?hler, synthesized the first organic molecules. But even today it lingers on: The vague way in which organic is used as a euphemism for healthy and good is its relic. Throughout the 19^th century, the exact spark of life remained an object of great interest, and also of great doubt.

Discussions of the soul tended to lead nowhere, since that word meant so many different things to different people. It was hard to prove when the soul left the body because it was something whose nature and identity no one could agree on. Hence a favorite distinction between the living and the dead rested directly on the word of God. Leviticus 17:11 and 17:14 were clear: Blood?was the stuff of life. William Harvey, who discovered how blood circulated, wrote that it was ?the first to live and the last to die.? Blood was life. So long as it was liquid, life remained.

Hence Christison's alarm as he watched the surgeon cut into the warm body. ?Fluid blood gushed in abundance from the first incisions through the skin ? Instantly I seized [the surgeon's] wrist in great alarm, and arrested his progress; nor was I easily persuaded to let him go on, when I saw the blood coagulate on the table exactly like living blood.? Peer pressure overcame his qualms, however, and he not only released the surgeon but remained part of the attentive audience. He was convinced that the man was alive, but he became willing to watch all the same.

John Hunter, the greatest surgeon of the 18^th century, also believed that those whose blood was liquid were still alive, yet he had no problem slicing their hearts out?or even, in the interests of science, tasting them. (Wishing to explore human sexual function, he acquired the corpse of a man who died in the moment before ejaculation. When held in the mouth, Hunter reported, the dead man's semen had a slightly spicy taste.) An appetite for knowledge has never been a guarantee of compassion or of respect for the wishes of the dead.

In the years since Hunter, though, these concerns have genuinely advanced. We're better at saying where life ends and better at honoring the physical remains and the last wishes of our fellows?which is not to say there isn't still room for improvement. For many decades, we accepted that people died when their heart stopped beating, that is, when it stopped circulating blood. Why did we hold onto that notion, even long after we understood that electrical activity was the fundamental substrate for our lives? Once more, the limitation was partly technical?a heartbeat is relatively easy to detect?and partly not. The idea that blood was the stuff of life lingered on, aided by the dual meaning of ?heart? it helped bequeath to our language and our thoughts. Did the body Christison saw being opened still have a beating heart? Was it, in any real way, alive? It certainly was in Cristison?s eyes, but whether it would have been in ours is harder to say.

Once we became confident about the primacy of electrical activity in the brain as the sign of life, we were able to be more positive. The need for donated organs pushed changes in our definition of death, especially because an organ-transplant recipient?s prospects for survival are much better when the organ is taken from a donor with a beating heart. In 1968, the wonderfully named Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School argued that death should no longer be regarded as occurring when the heart stopped, but when electrical activity ceased in the brain. Once that was gone, so was the person.

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Workers' comp explained | Clocking In | a mySA.com blog

The local office of the division of workers? compensation from the Texas Department of Insurance will cover new and amended designated doctor rules for workers? compensation during a seminar from noon to 1 p.m. Today, Sept. 27, at the department?s San Antonio Field Office, 9514 Console Drive, Suite 200.

The event, which sounds like a splendid way to sit and enjoy some after lunch digestion, is free.

Though registration is required so you should contact Berta Cantu at Bertha.Cantu@tdi.state.tx.us or Veronica Viera at Veronica.Viera@tdi.state.tx.us.

You only have about six hours before it starts so get on it.

-Chris Quinn

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The local office of the division of workers? compensation from the Texas Department of Insurance will cover new and amended designated doctor rules for workers? compensation during a seminar from noon to 1 p.m. Today, Sept. 27, at the department?s San Antonio Field Office, 9514 Console Drive, Suite 200. The event, which sounds like a [...]

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Do Gender Stereotypes Play a Role in the Massachusetts Senate Race?

Former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn's recent endorsement of Sen.?Scott Brown?of Massachusetts was predictable, but it was coupled with a surprising, remarkably blithe assertion of ignorance about Brown's politics or policy predilections. "I didn't go through his congressional record or roll call," Flynn admitted. "I don't have time for that." How does the Republican Brown compare to Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren? "I don't know the first thing about her." Flynn's endorsement was not about "politics or ideology," he explained; rather, it was a "nonpolitical message about the man," based on "what I knew about his personal life growing up."

Apparently, the political is purely personal for Flynn. In fact, Brown is appealing to voters who share this tendency to base hard political decisions on soft "nonpolitical" factors. He even presents himself as essentially nonpolitical, practically posing as an independent; the word "Republican" is not often uttered by the Brown campaign. He banks on what has been Warren's relative unlikability among voters who view her as preachy--rarely failing to address her as "Professor," with barely concealed disdain. He presses vituperative attacks on Warren's character, which he premiered at their first debate, when he called her a liar for claiming Native American ancestry.

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Warren (whom I support) is trying to make the race about policy--about their differing approaches to tax reform, Brown's voting record, and his political allegiances; she stresses that his reelection could give conservative Republicans control of the U.S. Senate. She has her own personal hardship narrative, like virtually every candidate these days, but for Warren's campaign, the political is mostly political.

It's an interesting study in gender stereotypes. This clash between a woman focusing on policy and a man resorting to personal, emotional appeals embodies a subtle role reversal. Warren cites Brown's record against equality and choice: his vote against equal pay; his vote to allow nonreligious as well as religious employers to deny employees contraceptive coverage. (Brown has won the support of Massachusetts Citizens for Life.) He responds with an irrelevant personal credential--his childhood defense of his abused mother. "I have been fighting for women since I was 6 years old," he says, as if his love for the women in his family were at issue, not his advocacy for the women in the commonwealth.

Maybe feminism achieves an inadvertent victory when a male candidate more than a female relies on a shallow view of the personal as political. Maybe not. With his athletic, truck-driving, regular-guy image, Brown benefits from gender stereotypes, even as he adopts the emotional approach to issues (and voters) stereotypically associated with women. Meanwhile, the logical, intellectual Warren represents a stereotypically male model of rationalism, maybe to her detriment, maybe not (one can hope).

Double standards have weakened over the past few decades, but they still retain power. Unlike Brown, Warren has, so far, been hurt more than helped by gender stereotypes (which classify her as schoolmarmish), and she has less room to challenge them. Imagine the reaction if Warren had called out Brown for dishonesty in her first remarks at their first debate; imagine if she had declared (and continued declaring) that he failed the "character test" by checking the "pro-choice" box for the sake of advancing his career. She'd be derided as "shrill" and "strident," and, in private, a "bitch."

Reputed good guy Scott Brown has risked eroding his own likability with his sneering attacks, and male candidates sometimes complain that they're constrained by tradition from aggressively confronting female opponents. But that tradition is fading in our hyper-partisan age (except perhaps in primaries), and he risks less than she would if she were to adopt his tactics. The political can be stubbornly and stupidly personal, indeed.?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gender-stereotypes-play-role-massachusetts-senate-race-105320760--politics.html

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Board evolution: Progress made, yet challenges persist - Rothstein ...

Written by Phil on September 26, 2012 in Crisis Management and Crisis Communication, Risk Management.

According to PwC?s 2012 Annual Corporate Directors Survey, corporate governance is undergoing significant change, which means directors across the country are spending more time on board work and prompting them to reconsider their oversight approach. Directors expect to increase their focus on the critical areas of board composition, risk management, strategy and IT oversight.

In the summer of 2012, 860 public company directors responded to PwC?s 2012 Annual Corporate Directors Survey. Of those directors, 70% serve on the boards of companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue. As a result, the survey?s findings reflect the practices and boardroom perspectives of many of today?s world-class companies. PwC structured the survey to provide pragmatic feedback directors can use to assess and improve performance in areas that are ?top of mind? to today?s boards. The survey shows directors are clearly making progress and enhancing their practices. At the same time, directors acknowledge the numerous challenges they still face.

More than one-third of directors want to spend more time on crisis management planning

See Board evolution: Progress made, yet challenges persist from PwC.

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Source: http://www.rothstein.com/blog/board-evolution-progress-made-yet-challenges-persist/

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Green Blog: Climate Change, Metal and Waterways

High in the Rocky Mountains, just west of the Continental Divide, metal concentrations in the Upper Snake River have been climbing over the last 30 years, in some cases increasing as much as fourfold. Strong evidence links this trend to climate change, according to a recent study led by the United States Geological Survey and University of Colorado at Boulder.

Air and water sampling and record-keeping for the Upper Snake River, which has remained pristine for the past three decades, has been long-term and consistent. The United States Geological Survey and the Environmental Protection Agency?s records show a 30-year trend of rising temperatures, melting permafrost and dropping water tables that parallels the rise in metal concentrations, suggesting a relationship between those variables.

Because the metals are diluted by other water sources, the concentrations do not pose a direct threat to water for drinking or agriculture. ?This is not a human health issue directly, not for big downstream urban areas,? said Andrew Manning, a research geologist with the United States Geological Survey and one of the study?s principal investigators. Resort towns could potentially see metal contamination in their water sources, but the study raises broader concerns.

?Higher metal concentrations can impact the whole alpine ecosystem,? said Andrew Todd, a research biologist with the survey and the study?s primary author. At the confluence of Deer Creek and the Upper Snake River, for example, the water is sometimes milky with aluminum precipitate that blankets the riverbed and smothers life underneath. ?It?s referred to as the white death,? Dr. Todd said.

This emerging challenge for local flora and fauna is layered on top of other new stresses, like rising stream temperatures and changing hydrology.

The rise in metal concentrations also has implications for mine reclamation projects. Not five miles from the Upper Snake River, the E.P.A. has ?people underground right now? at the Pennsylvania Mine working to determine what level of remediation is required in local streams, Dr. Manning said. But ecosystem remediation practices are based on static waterborne metal concentrations.

?How do we set these standards with shifting baselines?? Dr. Manning said. ?These findings present a very big challenge for the cleanup of mine sites.?

The researchers are now looking for other long-term data sets in similarly undisturbed watersheds like the Upper Snake River, both to corroborate their findings and develop a predictive model of how mineralized watersheds might react to climate change.

?How broadly our findings carry over to other mineralized watersheds is a very important question that remains unanswered,? Dr. Manning said.

Current models of these chemical reactions are based on much smaller-scale experiments, often from work in the laboratory ?plopping a piece of rock in a beaker,? he said. ?But how this processes works on the mountain-scale remains a topic of research.?

Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/climate-change-metal-and-waterways/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Samsung Galaxy S III Jelly Bean update begins rolling out globally

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You Won't Expect to Find Tablets in These 4 Workplaces

The workplace has been quick to adopt iPad and Android tablets. Today, it?s near commonplace to find tablets in the hands of doctors, real estate agents and retail employees. However, if you really want to see the future of tablets in the workplace, you have to look in unexpected places.

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1. In Garbage Trucks

On a list of places you wouldn?t expect to see an iPad, inside the cab of a garbage truck would have to be near the top.? But you?ll find dozens of iPads in O?Fallon, Mo., just west of St. Louis.? Drivers use the iPads to spot residents who haven?t paid their trash bills, but who put their cans at the curb anyway, trying to receive free service.?

At first, the city of O?Fallon printed lists of cutoff accounts, but it was easy for busy drivers to forget which addresses to avoid.? Next, they tried high-end GPS receivers with custom maps created by the city?s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Department.? As a driver pulled up to a house, he checked the map; a green dot on the address meant pick up, a red dot meant skip it.? The program worked great, helping to recover thousands of dollars in unpaid bills every month, but there were a few drawbacks.?

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For one, in order to update the GPS units, an employee had to plug each device into a desktop PC and sync for new account data.? The process only took about five minutes per device, but 26 total units needed to be synced every day.? In addition, at a cost of about $3,000 apiece, the units were expensive to replace.?

?At first, the iPad wasn?t really a viable option because we had no way of installing our custom maps,? says Kevin Kingrey, GIS Manager for the city of O?Fallon. But that changed when ESRI, creators of ArcGIS, the industry-leading GIS software, released an ArcGIS app for iOS and Android.?The app interfaces with ArcGIS Online, a GIS mapping site that can read data uploaded to the cloud or directly from an organization?s own GIS server.? Now, instead of syncing data every day, garbage truck operators simply use the iPad app to access a secure map on arcgisonline.com, where account status changes are available instantly.?

?The iPads also allow drivers to send information back to us in real time,? reports Kingrey.??If they see a broken trash can, they can indicate that on the map.?The office will see it and schedule a replacement can delivery, possibly for the same day.?

There?s another bonus, too. ?Even with 3G service, we can buy four or five iPads for the price of one of the GPS receivers,? says Kingrey.??If an iPad lasts a year, it?s paid for itself multiple times over.?

Garbage trucks were just the tip of the iPad iceberg for O?Fallon.?Kingrey says, ?We have a lot more departments using them now. Water and sewer, streets, building code enforcement is getting them soon; everybody sees how useful they can be in the field. The more information employees have at their fingertips, the better they can serve our residents.? The iPads make that possible.?

2. In Police Cars

With the new PolicePad app from Zco Corporation, crooks will have nowhere to run from the long arm of the law. Developed in cooperation with the Lowell, Massachusetts Police Department, the iPad app is a mobile information center for officers on patrol.

?Basically everything accessible on the desktop PC is now available in a small, reliable, relatively inexpensive and easy to use device,? says Officer Craig Withycombe, the man in charge of LPD?s information systems.

PolicePad features a map with real-time 911 call locations and information, registered sex offender addresses and even the current whereabouts of other squad cars, all at the touch of large, tap-friendly icons. Once an officer answers a call, photos, text messages, and streaming or recorded video can be sent to HQ or other PolicePad users, and just as easily attach to an electronic case file as evidence. The officers can access warrants, mugshots and legacy case files, as well as see the history of calls for a specific address if they?re going into a hot spot.

In conjunction with other apps, such as email, calendars, word processing and web browsing, a $600 iPad can virtually replace the $5,000 cruiser laptops found in many police cars, says Withycombe.

He adds, ?In my over 30 years in dealing with technology ? 18 with LPD ? I believe these devices, tailored with the right software, will have a revolutionary impact on law enforcement.?

Zco Corporation?s director of marketing Katie Meurin reports that PolicePad's launch is set for the upcoming International Association of Chiefs of Police conference, and will be available in Q4 2012.

3. At a Construction Site

If you need steel-toed boots and a hard hat at work, bringing an iPad seems like a bad idea. Nevertheless, that?s just what employees at Parkhill, Smith & Cooper (PSC), an engineering and architecture firm in Lubbock, Texas are doing, thanks to the PunchList app from Newforma.

In case you don?t wear a tool belt every day, a punchlist is an inventory of projects that must be contractually finished before a building is considered complete. A punchlist can include tasks as minor as putting on power outlet covers, or as major as putting the crown molding in the kitchen. The punchlist gets its name from the tradition of punching a hole in the paper next to the item to show it has been finished.

According to Sheri Mullins, project assistant at PSC, creating a paper punchlist used to be a two- or three-day process. Inspectors would either hand-write or tape record items for the list, which would then be typed up and given to the engineer for approval. The final list would be emailed as a PDF to the contractor.

Thanks to the PunchList app, an inspector uses an iPad to add items directly to an electronic project file, which can include photos and videos for added clarity. As soon as the list is published, it?s instantly available to the engineer back at the office, through Newforma?s project management network. When the engineer approves it, the list is assigned to the contractor, who uses PunchList to mark off items as they?re completed. The path from inspector to contractor can now take as little as 30-45 minutes. Mullins estimates they save approximately 40% of actual punch time and 90% of editing time by using the app.

Newforma?s David Wagner, senior product manager of construction solutions, reports that mobile apps like PunchList are a top priority for the company. Although many components of the project management suite can already be accessed via the web browser on a PC or tablet, Newforma is looking to create more apps optimized for tablets and smartphones by Q1 2013.

4. In Utility Trucks

When a thunderstorm rolls through the area, residents depend on the Wake Forest Electrical Cooperative. Hundreds of the rural North Carolina co-op's 35,000 members call in to report power outages; therefore, things can get pretty hectic. But thanks to the Outage Management System (OMS) app, dealing with power interruptions has gotten a whole lot easier.

The OMS app from National Information Solutions Cooperative (NiSC), a leading software developer for electric co-ops, is a tablet interface for NiSC?s own iVUE OMS, part of the popular iVUE Suite of desktop programs. The app maintains the core functionality of iVUE OMS, including the ability to create new outages, edit existing ones and assign open outages to repair crews, but it is streamlined for a more intuitive mobile experience. Using the app, dispatchers who would normally need to manage even small power outage events from the office, can now do so from anywhere, even at home on the couch.

But the real advantage of the app, according to Matt Vernon of Wake Forest Electrical Cooperative, is that it can be used in repair trucks. ?Feedback from the guys in the field is positive ? [The OMS app] cuts down on talk time via radio and mobile phone [which] allows [the crews] to respond faster to outages, especially in the middle of the night.?

The key is two-way communication between the app and the iVUE OMS desktop program. Traditionally, a dispatcher had to relay information to the trucks, but now, that information is at the crew?s fingertips.

By tapping on an outage, the map zooms to the interruption location and displays affected power lines. From here, driving directions from the truck's current location, as well as the whereabouts of other trucks in the vicinity, are easily accessible. In addition, more data can be found in an outage pop-up box, including comments from dispatch and callers, affected electrical phases, and the feeder and substation where the line originated. Once the power is back, the crew marks the outage ?restored,? removing it from the list of active outages in the app and in iVUE OMS, and simultaneously updating the map for all users.

According to Todd Eisenhauer, vice president of engineering and operations, the OMS app is just the beginning of mobile solutions at NiSC. Eisenhauer says programmers are already working on tablet interfaces and mobile adaptations of more iVUE Suite programs, with some apps expected in late 2012. He adds, ?For an industry that is in rural America ? we are doing some neat things.? Surely the 35,000 people who rely on Wake Forest Electrical Cooperative would agree.

Image courtesy of Flickr, Johan Larsson

This story originally published on Mashable here.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wont-expect-tablets-4-workplaces-173216914.html

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Allegri respected inside Milan, says goalkeeper

Milan, Sep 25

The head coach of AC Milan Massimiliano Allegri is held in high esteem by his players, the team's veteran goalkeeper Christian Abbiati said.

Allegri is under huge pressure after the Milan side lost three games out of four played this season in Serie A, reports Xinhua.

"The coach has been with us for two years and he's won a title, the Italian Super Cup and last year we almost won the league title," Abbiati said Monday. "The players hold him in high esteem."

"Unfortunately, this negative run continues," Abbiati said after the 1-2 loss at Udinese.

"It's a shame because we played well even at 1-1 with 10 players on the pitch, but the second sending off really cut our legs off," he said.

Source: http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a329935.html

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1 city sees jobs in nuclear waste

Carlsbad hires lobbyist at $15,000 a month to find new projects

After 13 years of operating safely and in obscurity, New Mexico?s underground repository for transuranic radioactive waste is nudging back into headlines.

A highway project by the state proposes to temporarily change the route of loaded trucks traveling from the north to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad.

The planned road reconstruction, still a month from being voted on by the New Mexico Transportation Commission, has cast renewed attention on WIPP. But that project is nothing compared to the ideas of Carlsbad-area politicians, who want to build their region?s employment base by establishing even deeper ties to the nuclear-disposal industry.

?WIPP is one of the greatest unsung success stories around, a project with a perfect safety record and more of a game changer for our economy than even oil and gas,? said Eddy County Commissioner Jack Volpato, a Republican. ?I see it or maybe something else like it creating a whole new generation of jobs.?

In particular, Volpato said, Carlsbad and Eddy County will push for a federal study to determine if a second repository similar to WIPP could safely bury high-level nuclear waste from defense projects.

Such an endeavor would maintain or add well-paying jobs in the Carlsbad area. It also would solve an environmental problem for the country, Volpato said.

The idea of taking nuclear waste from the rest of America and salting it away under the desert is not radical thinking in Carlsbad, which has been a neighbor to WIPP since 1999. For many people, nuclear-waste disposal is pure business now, not a cause for worry.

?I was a skeptic when WIPP came here. Then I educated myself and I have become entirely comfortable with it,? Volpato said.

The county commissioners and the Carlsbad City Council recently voted to hire a Washington lobbying firm at a cost of $15,000 a month to pursue more business opportunities in radioactive disposal, said City Administrator Jon Tully.

Two commissioners and two council members dissented, but the area is moving ahead to market itself as a safe place to deposit nuclear waste.

Tully said the duties of the lobbying company, the C2 Group, would be narrowly focused on nuclear research and projects that could create jobs for Carlsbad.

These could include interim storage of certain wastes, expansion of WIPP?s mission in burying transuranic waste and perhaps other undertakings to help in nuclear clean-ups. ?

Under the federal law that created WIPP, the repository can only accept transuranic waste from government sites that had a defense mission. These included operations in eight states, notably Los Alamos in New Mexico, Rocky Flats in Colorado and the Savannah River site in South Carolina.

Last year, U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce introduced a bill to expand WIPP?s mission, saying about 200 good jobs would be in jeopardy if nothing was changed.

Pearce proposed that WIPP be allowed to accept government-owned transuranic waste not related to defense missions. One example of this is the West Valley site south of Buffalo, N.Y. It was a commercial venture used as a nuclear fuel reprocessing center.

Just like the ongoing shipments from defense sites, this waste could be trucked to WIPP and deposited in ancient salt beds 2,150 feet below the earth's surface.

Volpato said such concepts for sustaining WIPP while cleaning up environmental messes remain possible. But the area?s lobbying effort also could seek other types of business, perhaps eventually the high-level nuclear waste from defense operations.

?People seem to have heard of Yucca Mountain but not about us,? Volpato said of the defunded Nevada repository.

The oncoming nuclear campaign by Carlsbad and Eddy County probably will re-ignite opponents of WIPP, Volpato said. His bet is that most people can be won over, provided that the scientific research shows a new nuclear mission can be handled as safely and efficiently as WIPP has been.

As for the state highway project, Tully said city officials still had questions about the plan but expect to resolve them in meetings with the New Mexico Department of Transportation.

Gary Shubert, the engineer for NMDOT?s division in southeastern New Mexico, said the state needs to improve the base of New Mexico 200, a designated WIPP route. Shubert described it as a two-lane road with the peaks and valleys of a roller coaster.

The state proposes to close a portion of it next year. That means an estimated 560 transuranic waste shipments to WIPP would take an alternate route in the Carlsbad area.

Trucks would depart from U.S. 285 southbound at New Mexico 524. Then they would go east to Canyon Street before continuing onto U.S. 62/180.

Shubert said this route is about a half-mile longer than the existing path to WIPP.

Source: http://elpasotimes.typepad.com/newmexico/2012/09/1-city-sees-jobs-in-nuclear-waste.html

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Two Charts Spell Out Just How Disappointing ... - Business Insider

Apple just reported that it sold more than 5 million iPhones over the iPhone 5's opening weekend.

This is a very disappointing number.

It's below top Apple analyst Gene Munster's estimate of 6 million to 10 million. Worse, it indicates that growth may be slowing at Apple.

Take a look at this chart.

Opening weekend sales grew 70 percent between the 3GS and the iPhone 4, and then an astounding 135 percent between the 4 and the 4s. That's acceleration. iPhone 5 sales, meanwhile, grew only 25 percent. That's massive deceleration.

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Digging deeper into the numbers, we find more bad news. Check out this second chart.

Apple sold the iPhone 5 in nine countries over its opening weekend. It sold the iPhone 4S in seven. It actually sold fewer iPhones per country this year than the last. That's not just deceleration, that's shrinkage:

Decelerating growth is not good for a company like Apple, which despite a modest P/E ratio, has one of the most generous trailing 12 month revenue multiples of any hardware company on the public markets.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/two-charts-spell-out-just-how-disappointing-apples-iphone-5-sales-really-are-2012-9

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Freedom likely for Mexico's 'Twitter Terrorists'

Freedom appears likely for the two people jailed in Mexico's Veracruz state and accused of terrorism for Twitter messages they sent that allegedly sowed panic. The case has thrown a spotlight on Mexicans' increasing reliance on social media networks for information about violence in their hometowns _ and its potential for abuse.

Gilberto Martinez Vera (@gilius_22) and Maria de Jesus Bravo Pagola (@MARUCHIBRAVO) were arrested last month after using the micro-blogging site to spread rumors of an attack by drug gangs on a local primary school. They were charged with terrorism and sabotage, crimes that carry penalties of up to 30 years in jail. Human rights and social media advocates were outraged, saying the punishment hardly fit the offense.

The case snowballed into something of an embarrassment for Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte. On Tuesday, he?pushed through a new law that would allow prosecution of rumor-mongers on the lesser charge of disturbing the peace. Many analysts saw this as a face-saving attempt by state authorities to make the case go away.

On Wednesday, Duarte (speaking by, what else? Twitter) said the charges against?Martinez, a math teacher, and Bravo, a radio commentator, would be dropped (link in Spanish). Their lawyer, Fidel Ordonez, said he expected the pair to be free by the end of the day.

Duarte may have found it especially urgent to dispose of the case given the mounting violence in Veracruz. The irony of jailing people for?Twitter use while gunmen?brazenly dump bodies in the middle of the city was captured in this cartoon, which shows the governor holding a tweeting bird in a cage while the streets fill with skulls and blood.

-- Tracy Wilkinson and Cecilia Sanchez in Mexico City.

Photo:?Protesters demand freedom for the jailed tweeters at Tuesday's session of the Veracruz state congress. Credit: El Universal

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Rock 'N' Roll Marathon Also Kicks Off Health and Fitness Expo ...

DENVER (CBS4) ? Thousands of runners hit the streets of downtown Denver Saturday for the Sports Authority Rock ?n? Roll Denver Marathon & ? Marathon.

Stages with live music were speckled along the route helping keep runners motivated.

CBS4 was a proud sponsor of the race and CBS4?s Tom Mustin participated in the popular race that included 15,000 runners from all 50 states and 20 countries.

The Rock ?n? Roll Marathon is a lot of fun but it?s also raising money for prostate cancer research.

RELATED: Marathon On Saturday To Have A Big Impact On Denver Traffic

CBS4?s Greg Moody wanted to visit the Colorado Convention Center where runners got ready at the Health and Fitness Expo.

Watch Moody?s report on all the planning that goes into the marathon and Health and Fitness Expo in the video below:

Watch Moody?s report on the latest gear available at the Health and Fitness Expo in the video below:

Watch Moody?s report on how the marathon helps in the fight against prostate cancer in the video below:

Watch Lauren Whitney?s interview with Rockies manager Jim Tracy about his personal history with prostate cancer in the video below:

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Making A Payday Loan A Financial Cushion | Hobicell Necklaces

I know you think that loans are not supposed to be leaned on when it comes to finances and that they should not be considered as a financial cushion. After all, loans are debts and apart from them being debts, they also have slightly higher interest rates compared to regular debts, which means, you end up losing more than what you gained if you use them as a financial cushion. However, even if that is so, one thing that you need to know is that Payday Loans can be considered as a viable alternative when it comes to looking for a financial cushion, albeit, the sort of cushion that would hit you hard should you not know how to land on it properly.

Keep in mind that payday loans have ridiculously high interest rates, and are still considered high even when you consider that it is a loan. Yes, loans supposedly have high interest rates, but, the interest rates for payday loans and other short-term loans are slightly inflated, and well, you cannot do something about it. It is how it is structured and it is also one of the key reasons why lenders are not as strict when it comes to giving these loans away.

This means that you will not have a hard time applying for a payday loan and just hours after application, there is a huge chance that the money will be sent directly to your savings account. This ease of application and fast-cash property is one of the key reasons why it is considered to be a viable option as a financial cushion.

Yes, we already know the many disadvantages of it, but, if you know how to use it and know how to discipline yourself so as to pay for the loan properly, well, these loans can actually be very useful. That is, if you use them properly.

If youd like, you may want to do research online for more information about payday loans click here especially since payday loans are not the only type of loans that you can avail of, and other short-term loans actually exist that may be used as a financial cushion.

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Ross Taylor backs New Zealand to deliver against Pakistan ...

Ross Taylor backs New Zealand to deliver against Pakistan ? Cricket News Update

While acknowledging that Pakistan are a strong side, New Zealand skipper Ross Taylor has expressed confidence in his team, backing the Black Caps to come good in their upcoming ICC World Twenty20 2012 match against Pakistan, after their comprehensive 59-run victory over Bangladesh.

?Hafeez and Ajmal have got very good records in the last 12-18 months,? Taylor said, explaining that his team would be wary of the Pakistani spinners, despite the pitch at Pallekele not having proven particularly spin-friendly.

?We have had an insight into the wicket and how it has played at different times. And the confidence from the way we played [against Bangladesh], we'll hopefully take into that. We prepared really well for the Bangladesh game and I'm sure we'll do the same against Pakistan.

?Pakistan are a lot more experienced than Bangladesh,? Taylor went on to add. ?They've got world-class players throughout their team. There are some areas we still need to work on from this match and hopefully we can improve on them come next match.?

Following their 0-2 drubbing at the hands of the West Indies during a 2-match series in June/July this year, New Zealand went on to claim a surprise 1-run victory over India before heading into the World T20 in Sri Lanka.

The World T20 warm-up matches, however, did not provide the team any encouragement after the brief highlight against India ? they lost by 56 runs to Australia, before going on to concede a 9-run defeat at the hands of South Africa.

Placed in Group D for the tournament, alongside Bangladesh and Pakistan, the Kiwis played their first match against the Tigers, and despite their recent defeats, managed to come out fighting, going on to claim a 59-run win over Mushfiqur Rahim?s men.

Their victory hinged on a massive knock of 123 off 58 from Brendon McCullum, who displayed no difficulties in playing spin (which had been identified as the main difficulty for the Kiwis prior to the match), casually hitting the Bangladeshi bowlers for 7 massive sixes, and 11 fours.

However, the Black Caps face an entirely different opponent in Pakistan, at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on September 23, with the Men in Green armed with world-class spinner Saeed Ajmal, and the part-time spin of skipper Mohammad Hafeez.

Source: http://blogs.bettor.com/Ross-Taylor-backs-New-Zealand-to-deliver-against-Pakistan-Cricket-News-Update-a189483

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New turtle tracking technique may aid efforts to save loggerhead

ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2012) ? The old adage "you are what you eat" is helping scientists better understand the threatened loggerhead turtle, which is the primary nester on Central Florida's beaches.

A study published September 21 in the journal PLoS ONE describes how scientists at the University of Central Florida used a technique that links chemical signatures of the turtles' diets and their watery environments to their migratory routes. They found the technique just as effective as expensive satellite tracking.

Little is known about the turtles, which spend 99 percent of their time in the water and return to the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge's beach to nest once every two to three years. The 13-mile-long beach is home to the second-largest population of loggerheads in the world and to about one of every four nests those turtles lay in the United States.

While other turtles' nests are increasing along the refuge's shores, the loggerheads' have been declining since 2000. The technique validated by the UCF scientists could help managers preserve the turtles' nesting grounds, migration routes and foraging grounds, all of which are critical to their survival.

"We need good information so policy makers can focus the limited conservation funds available where they can make the greatest impact," said Simona Ceriani, the UCF graduate student who led the study. "We all want our children to see these beautiful creatures and not just read about them in a book."

In addition to validating the tracking technique, the study found that the foraging area for the Florida turtles is much broader than previously thought.

"Think of these turtles as Florida tourists and snowbirds," Ceriani said. "They come and nest and then go back to lots of different places. And while we knew some went back north, we had no idea that this was a popular destination."

Based on her tracking, some turtles head for the water off the shores of Virginia and Delaware while others go to the Bahamas and the Gulf of Mexico. Some stay off the coast of Central Florida's beaches. Previously, scientists believed the majority of the loggerheads headed south.

While there are efforts to protect the turtle nests on the beaches, protecting their foraging grounds is equally important, biologists say. Many turtles die because they accidently get caught in fishing nets or encounter other dangers while out at sea.

The technique Ceriani validated should aid those efforts.

She took small blood samples from turtles at the refuge and completed a chemical analysis, which measured distinct markers known as stable isotopes. She also attached transmitters to the turtles so she could follow them using the more expensive but proven satellite tracking technique. The isotope approach proved to be equally useful, and it is much less expensive.

"By combining isotope research with satellite tracking technology, we are learning exciting information about loggerhead sea turtles," said Daniel R. Evans, a research specialist at the Sea Turtle Conservancy and co-author of the research paper. "This research helps scientists and conservation managers identify key feeding areas for loggerhead turtles and helps direct policy and regulations that protect sea turtles in these specific areas."

Ceriani said she will continue to research the migratory routes by adding more loggerheads to the study.

Ceriani earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Milan in Italy and was a research fellow at Florida Atlantic University before joining UCF's PhD program in conservation biology in 2007.

Others who contributed to the study include: UCF Biologist, John Weishampel, James D. Roth from the University of Manitoba in Canada and Llewellyn M. Ehrhart from the Marine Turtle Research Group at UCF.

Several grants from Florida's Sea Turtle Grants Program funded this study. The program gets is funding from the sale of the Florida Sea Turtle License Plate.

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