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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
iOS 7 beta 4 hits with boatloads of bug fixes, as it inches towards release
Three weeks after the last beta release, and just a few days after Apple's developer center finished receiving a massive security overhaul, iOS 7 beta 4 is now available to download. The update to Cupertino's upcoming iOS release -- the biggest since the debut of the original SDK -- is heading out over the airwaves now, with a list of fixes and improvements far too long for us to reprint here. Of course, if you're a registered developer, you can hit up the source link to check out the entire tome of changes for yourself. If you haven't gotten an alert on your handset just yet, be patient. And, please, let us know in the comments if you dig up any interesting tidbits while poking around.
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Teekay Offshore Partners Announces Second Quarter 2013 Earnings Results Conference Call
HAMILTON, BERMUDA--(Marketwired - Jul 29, 2013) - Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. (Teekay Offshore or the Partnership) (TOO) plans to release its financial results for the second quarter of 2013 before market open on Thursday, August 8, 2013.
The Partnership also plans to host a conference call on Friday, August 9, 2013 at noon (ET) to discuss the results for the second quarter of 2013. All unitholders and interested parties are invited to listen to the live conference call by choosing from the following options:
- By dialing 1-866-322-8032 or 416-640-3406, if outside North America, and quoting conference ID code 2823263.
- By accessing the webcast, which will be available on Teekay Offshore's website at www.teekayoffshore.com (the archive will remain on the website for a period of 30 days).
A supporting Second Quarter 2013 Earnings Presentation will also be available at www.teekayoffshore.com in advance of the conference call start time.
The conference call will be recorded and available until Friday, August 16, 2013. This recording can be accessed following the live call by dialing 1-888-203-1112 or 647-436-0148, if outside North America, and entering access code 2823263.
About Teekay Offshore Partners L.P.
Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. is an international provider of marine transportation, oil production and storage services to the offshore oil industry focusing on the fast-growing, deepwater offshore oil regions of the North Sea and Brazil. Teekay Offshore is structured as a publicly-traded master limited partnership and owns interests in 35 shuttle tankers (including four chartered-in vessels and two committed newbuildings), five floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units, seven floating storage and offtake (FSO) units (including two committed FSO conversions) and five conventional oil tankers. The majority of Teekay Offshore's fleet is employed on long-term, stable contracts. In addition, Teekay Offshore has rights to participate in certain other FPSO and shuttle tanker opportunities provided by Teekay Corporation (TK) and Sevan Marine ASA (Oslo Bors:SEVAN).
Teekay Offshore's common units trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "TOO".
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/teekay-offshore-partners-announces-second-130000470.html
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Musician JJ Cale dies; wrote Clapton, Skynyrd hits
If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock 'n' roll.
His best songs like "After Midnight," ''Cocaine" and "Call Me the Breeze" were towering hits ? for other artists. Eric Clapton took "After Midnight" and "Cocaine" and turned them into the kind of hard-party anthems that defined rock for a long period of time. And Lynyrd Skynyrd took the easy-shuffling "Breeze" and supercharged it with a three-guitar attack that made it a hit.
Cale, the singer-songwriter and producer known as the main architect of the Tulsa Sound, passed away Friday night at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, Calif. His manager, Mike Kappus, said Cale died of a heart attack. He was 74.
While his best known songs remain in heavy rotation on the radio nearly 40 years later, most folks wouldn't be able to name Cale as their author. That was a role he had no problem with.
"No, it doesn't bother me," Cale said with a laugh in an interview posted on his website. "What's really nice is when you get a check in the mail."
And the checks rolled in for decades. The list of artists who covered his music or cite him as a direct influence reads like a who's who of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ? Clapton, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Mark Knopfler, The Allman Brothers, Carlos Santana, Captain Beefheart and Bryan Ferry among many others.
Young said in Jimmy McDonough's biography "Shakey" that Cale and Jimi Hendrix were the best guitar players he had ever heard. And in his recent memoir "Waging Heavy Peace," Young said Cale's "Crazy Mama" ? his biggest hit, rising to No. 22 on the Billboard singles chart ? was one of the five songs that most influenced him as a songwriter: "The song is true, simple, and direct, and the delivery is very natural. JJ's guitar playing is a huge influence on me. His touch is unspeakable."
It was Clapton who forged the closest relationship with Cale. They were in sync musically and personally. Clapton also recorded Cale songs "Travelin' Light" and "I'll Make Love To You Anytime" and included the Cale composition "Angel" on his most recent album, "Old Sock." Other songs like "Layla" didn't involve Cale, but clearly owe him a debt. The two also collaborated together on "The Road to Escondido," which won the Grammy Award for best contemporary blues album in 2008.
Clapton once told Vanity Fair that Cale was the living person he most admired, and Cale weighed the impact Clapton had on his life in a 2006 interview with The Associated Press: "I'd probably be selling shoes today if it wasn't for Eric."
That quote was typical of the always humble Cale. But while Clapton was already a star when he began mining Cale's catalog, there's no doubt the music they shared cemented his "Clapton is God" status and defined the second half of his career.
"As hard as I've tried I've never really succeeded in getting a record to sound like him and that's what I want," Clapton said in a "Fast Focus" video interview to promote "Escondido." ''Before I go under the ground, I want to make a JJ Cale album with him at the helm."
Clapton described Cale's music as "a strange hybrid. It's not really blues, it's not really folk or country or rock 'n' roll. It's somewhere in the middle."
Cale arrived at that intersection by birth. Born John Weldon Cale in Oklahoma City, he was raised in Tulsa. Buffeted by country and western on one side and the blues on the other, Oklahoma offered a melting pot of styles. Cale leaned on those styles as he spent his formative years in Los Angeles and Nashville, but he also used drum machines and often acted as his own producer, engineer and session player. He'd bury his own whispery vocals in the mix, causing the listener to lean in and focus.
"I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer," Cale said in a 2009 biography on his website. "Because of all the technology now you can make music yourself and a lot of people are doing that now. I started out doing that a long time ago and I found when I did that I came up with a unique sound."
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Talbott reported from Nashville, Tenn. AP writer Shaya Tayefe Mohajer in Los Angeles and AP Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu in New York contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/musician-jj-cale-dies-wrote-clapton-skynyrd-hits-160728124.html
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
North American Energy Partners First Quarter Results Conference Call and Webcast Notification
EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - July 26, 2013) - North American Energy Partners Inc. ("NAEP" or "the Company") (TSX:NOA) (NYSE:NOA) announced today that it will release its financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2013 on the evening of August 1, 2013 after market close. Following the release of the first quarter results, NAEP will hold a conference call and webcast on Friday, August 2, 2013 at 7:00 a.m. Mountain Time (9:00 a.m. Eastern Time).
The call can be accessed by dialing:
Toll free: 1-877-407-8031
International: 1-201-689-8031
A replay will be available through September 2, 2013 by dialing:
Toll Free: 1-877-660-6853
International: 1-201-612-7415
Conference ID: 00418680
The live and archived webcast can be accessed at: http://www.investorcalendar.com/IC/CEPage.asp?ID=171414
About the Company
North American Energy Partners Inc. (www.naepi.ca) is the premier provider of heavy construction and mining services in Canada. For more than 50 years, NAEP has provided services to large oil, natural gas and resource companies, with a principal focus on the Canadian Oil Sands. The Company maintains one of the largest independently owned equipment fleets in the region.
Source: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=1815153&sourceType=3
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60 years after armistice, one harrowing mission still binds several Korean veterans
Kris Connor / for NBC News
E.C. Rivera, center, speaks with other members of the 8th Ranger Company at Bob Black's house in Carlisle, Pa. as part of reunion for members of the company in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor
Trapped by the enemy, calculating his company had 20 minutes to live, the Army Ranger belly-climbed a napalm-fried hill as Chinese bullets peppered the dirt. From that peak, he glimpsed below ?the most beautiful sight of my life? ? four waiting U.S. tanks. "We are in bad shape," he radioed.
On the 60th anniversary of the final shots fired during what that Ranger, E.C. Rivera, and fellow Korean veterans call ?the Forgotten War,? Rivera, 84, and five survivors of that mission will reunite Saturday in Carlisle, Pa.
The Korean War lasted just three years, but combat claimed 34,000 American lives.?This week, Rivera has been emotional ? crying some about that brazen rescue and the lifelong bonds it forged, fuming some about the welcome home they never received.
?Nobody gave a rat?s ass about us,? Rivera said. ?Nobody cared. They (people in America) were very cold to us. And it was bad because we put ourselves at the top of that hill and let them shoot at us and, believe me, they weren't shooting rubber bullets.?
Rivera?s bold crawl to snatch a radio signal helped save 65 men. He did not earn him a medal for that maneuver. Bob Black, a fellow Ranger, saw it unfold. And when Black eventually returned from Korea, he entered a local clothing store where a clerk remarked: ?I haven?t seen you in ages! You been outta town??
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Lt. Dave Teich during the Korean War.
'I've got a moral obligation'
Exactly six decades after an armistice was signed ending the war, retired Army Maj. Dave Teich, 87, feels the need explain why he defied orders.
As 300,000 Chinese troops rumbled south toward his tank platoon ? parked about five miles south of what is now the 38th parallel that divides North and South Korea ? Teich monitored radio chatter from the 8th Ranger Company. He heard Rivera?s report: they were cutoff with a mess of wounded.
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David E Teich Sr. of Aurora, Colo., was a member of the 8th Ranger Company that served in the Korean War.
Teich, then a lieutenant, asked his captain if he and his fellow tankers could roll north for a rescue attempt. The captain?s response: ?We've got orders to move out. Screw them. Let them fight their own battles.?
?If somebody asks for help, you can?t deny them,? said Teich, who lives in Aurora, Colo. ?When these guys talked to me on the radio, they were in a real bad position. It?s up to me. I?ve got a moral obligation as an officer to do things that are right. Just as a human being, you?ve got to do things that are right.?
Despite the command to withdraw on April 24, 1951, Teich said he ?volunteered to stay behind,? and lead four tanks to the surrounded Rangers. His captain and other U.S. troops, meanwhile, bolted south.
?I know I did the right thing in my heart because if I didn?t and those guys got wiped out,? Teich said, ?I could never live that down.?
Dozens of men saved
As the tanks moved north, the Rangers? leader, Capt. James Herbert, called in air and artillery strikes on what Herbert later described as ?a river of Chinese soldiers? flowing south, blocking the Rangers' escape. The Chinese returned fire, killing several Americans and wounding dozens more, including Herbert, who was hit in the right shoulder, right arm and neck.
Kris Connor / for NBC News
Brigadier General James Herbert at his home in Lebanon, Pa. Herbert was part of the 8th Ranger Company which served during the Korean War.
?The medic pulled me down and said, ?Can you put your left thumb in the left-side hole in your neck and reach around and put your left index finger in the hole on the right?? Placing a tourniquet there would have choked me to death,? recalled Herbert, 89, who retired as a brigadier general and lives in Lebanon, Pa. ?Then he told me to squeeze.
?The able-bodied had to carry the diseased. The wounded had to walk,? Herbert said. ?That?s the way we worked ourselves over a mile to the tank platoon.?
They heard the tanks in the valley. That?s when Rivera scaled Hill 628 to radio Teich to hold and wait. En route to the tanks, the Rangers took fire. They climbed up or were loaded aboard. Not even the tank guns were visible with 65 guys draped on the armor. The tanks returned south.
?Though we don?t always say it, Dave Teich saved our lives,? Herbert said. ?If it wasn?t for him, we figure all of the survivors of the battle would have been killed or captured by Chinese. We look upon Dave as our savior.?
?For the last 62, 63 years,? Teich said, ?I?ve been getting letters and phone calls from these guys, and I don?t know them other then their names.?
They may feel ?forgotten? by time, but they also feel like they still have each other, even as the brotherhood shrinks. From an original Ranger company of 117 plus 20 replacements, about 12 to 15 are living, estimated Rivera, who lives in Santa Fe, N.M.
'The blood is the same'
Six will gather Saturday at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, for a ceremony commemorating the armistice ? and for the dedication of an exhibit highlighting their 1951 mission.
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Col. Bob Black as a corporal in Korea
Kris Connor / for NBC News
Colonel Bob Black (Ret) speaks at his house in Carlisle, Pa. as part of reunion for members of the 8th Ranger company in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement. Photo by Kris Connor/Getty Images for NBC
Each man takes pride that they were part of a greater good.
?As time went by I asked myself, what did we do over there? Did we lose that war? Then a kind of a miracle occurred,? said Black, 84, who lives in Carlisle.??I began to see what the South Koreans were doing. They?re now one of the leading economies ? Hyundai, Kia, LG and Samsung. That?s a country taking off.?
To a man, they monitor the younger generation of their old enemy.
?If North Korea does anything, it?s going to be one hell of a fight because they?re going to wipe out somebody with those nuclear weapons but they?re going to get it in retaliation,? Teich said. ?There?s going to be nothing left.?
And those who remain cling to one another. On Thursday, Black hosted a dinner for Teich, Rivera and other veterans of that operation.
?There is no such thing as ?the greatest generation,? ? Black said. ?A man who died on a hilltop in Korea gave just as much for his country as did a man who died at Omaha Beach. History isn?t fair. The big wars, the big battles get the attention. But the blood is the same.?
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FSF Tries Pushing Blob-Free "Replicant" Android OS
The Free Software Foundation's latest open-source project it's trying to push along is Replicant, a fully-free Android Linux distribution for select mobile devices.
Replicant isn't nearly as popular as Android itself (obviously) or CyanogenMod, but the FSF believes in it since it tries to be fully open-source. At the moment this Android distribution is running on ten known devices as of its 4.0 release. Among the working devices are the Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy Tab.
The Free Software Foundation is trying to raise funds so that it can buy more mobile hardware for the Replicant developers. While I wouldn't expect any really ground-breaking and original innovations out of this free Android project, those wishing to learn more can visit FSF.org. The foundation is also continuing to push its high priority projects.
Details on the upstream Replicant open-source mobile operating system project can be found at Replicant.us.
Source: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=188823
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Obamacare funding fight splintering? GOP
Reaping their reward.
Fight! Fight!A growing number of Republicans are rejecting calls from leading conservatives, including Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, to defund the president?s health care law in the resolution to keep the government running past Sept. 30. The rift exposes an emerging divide over how the GOP can best achieve its No. 1 goal?to repeal Obamacare?while highlighting the spreading fears that Republicans would lose a public relations war if the dispute leads to a government shutdown in the fall.The Senate fight is quite public, with one GOP senator calling the defunding plan the ?dumbest idea? he had ever heard. Senate GOP leadership, now that Cornyn has slunk back under his rock, will likely just ignore the nihilists, and can probably slap the idea down between now and the fall, when the funding debate happens. House Speaker Boehner and Minority Leader Cantor, however, might have a bigger problem on their hands. They've got a letter from more than 60 members telling them to have this fight.The debate is happening behind closed doors and over Senate lunches, as well as during a frank meeting Wednesday with House leaders in Speaker John Boehner?s suite where fresh concerns were aired about the party?s strategy. On Thursday, the dispute began to spill into public view, most notably when three Senate Republicans?including Minority Whip John Cornyn?withdrew their signatures from a conservative letter demanding defunding Obamacare as a condition for supporting the government funding measure.
Lest you wonder where the impetus is coming from for the yahoos:
Atop the letter it reads ?supported by Heritage Action and Club for Growth,? in all capital letters, and highlighted in yellow, referring to the conservative outside groups.The Republican Party made its bed with these groups, or lined their pockets with them anyway. And now they're feeling the pain. Doesn't it just make your heart bleed for them?
2:05 PM PT: It gets even better. Here's Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK).
?You?re going to set an expectation among the conservatives in our party that we can achieve something that we?re not able to achieve,? Coburn continued. ?It?s not an achievable strategy. It?s creating the false impression that you can do something when you can?t. And it?s dishonest.? [...]Popcorn, anyone??The strategy that has been laid out is a good way for Republicans to lose the House.?
3:13 PM PT: Game most definitely on.
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Seven killed, including gunman, in Florida shootout; 2 hostages rescued
SWAT officers shot and killed a man they say gunned down 6 people in Hialeah, Fla., ending an hours-long standoff. NBC's ?Bobby Brooks reports.
By Marian Smith and Matthew DeLuca, NBC News
SWAT officers shot and killed a gunman early Saturday after he killed 6 people, ending an hours-long standoff near Miami, Fla., police said.
Two people were rescued alive and unharmed from an apartment building where they were being held hostage, Hialeah police spokesman Sgt. Eddie Rodriguez told NBC News.
The SWAT team found the gunman barricaded on the fourth floor of the building, where they killed him and saved the two hostages.
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The building manager and her husband were found dead in a hallway and three others, two females and one male, were found in one of the apartments, Rodriguez said. Another man was found dead in the lobby of a building across the street.
"This is one of the worst shootings we've probably had ever in Hialeah," police spokesman Carl Zogby?told NBC Miami.
Police first responded to a 911 call at 6:30 p.m. ET Friday. They evacuated the apartment complex and shut down several surrounding streets.
Negotiators were talking to the gunman before the shootout and police sent a robot onto the scene.
?The end result: seven people have lost their lives in this incident, six innocent victims and the one shooter,? Zogby told the station. ?Now starts the investigation, how and why this happened.?
NBC Miami
A young woman told NBC Miami that two of the victims of the shooting were her parents.
?I guess there was an altercation and the person opened fire on both of them. My mom was dead the moment that she was shot and my dad still had a pulse when I got to him,? the woman said.
One of the victims appeared to have been shot at across the street from the main scene, police said, when the gunman opened fire from a balcony.
?From up there, he was able to shoot at people across the street, catching this one man who was just walking into his apartment,? Rodriguez told the Miami Herald.
Police were investigating the motive and were still identifying those who were killed.
This is a breaking news story. Please check back for more updates.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Apple's iOS dev site is slowly coming back online.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Sports Minister to honour legacy volunteer outside 10 Downing Street
The Community Games Relay will make a pit stop outside 10 Downing Street tomorrow for former Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson to present one special legacy volunteer with a unique jersey.?
The arrival outside number 10 will be a highlight of the Relay, which has been mirroring the footsteps of last year?s Olympic Torch Relay.
During its 70 day virtual journey it has been visiting communities across the country and shining a spotlight on legacy and the people bringing legacy to life, one year on from the Games.
Friday will mark day 69 of the Community Games Relay ? the day before it makes its final voyage to the Copper Box Arena within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on day 70 (Saturday July 27) to be met by Lord Coe.
Minister Robertson will be outside Downing Street to meet representatives from the Community Games programme ? which is being delivered by the County Sports Partnership Network and the YMCA ? and will be rewarding one volunteer for the role he has played in helping to keep the Olympic flame alive within his community.
Volunteer Anthony Temple, from Bermondsey, has been selected as the Relay?s day 69 ?Shining Light?. Each day of the Relay a ?Shining Light? is honoured for the work they have done in bringing their local community together to enjoy sport and cultural activity through Community Games.
Minister Robertson will award Anthony with the unique ?Shining Light? jersey, which has only been bestowed to the 70 selected volunteers during the Relay.
Anthony, who is a youth worker at the Salmon Youth Centre in Bermondsey, is being acknowledged for the role he has played in encouraging young people to get involved in sporting activity.
The 20-year-old became involved in the Community Games programme while he was working as a volunteer at the centre.
Two years on he is now a full time member of staff at the youth centre and he said one of his greatest achievements has been his involvement with Community Games.
He said: ?Community Games provides people of all ages and abilities to come together to enjoy sport and culture in a fun environment.
It has been rewarding to see young people, who were inspired by London 2012, take part in a range of different sporting and cultural activities through the Community Games programme.?
Minister Robertson said:
?When the Olympic Torch arrived in Downing Street this time last year, it received a tremendous reception from the British public.
?As we approach the one-year anniversary of the start of the Games, it is fantastic to hear that communities across the country are coming together, inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
?We very much hope that even more communities follow the great example that the ?Shining Lights? and get involved in the Olympic legacy.?It will be a pleasure to present Anthony with his ?Shining Light? jersey.?
The ?Shining Lights? represent 33,500 others across the country who are helping to keep the spirit of the Games alive in their communities.
On Saturday, the anniversary of the Games, Anthony, along with the 69 other ?Shining Lights? will receive a special thank you from Lord Coe at a celebratory reception being held in their honour.
For more information about the Community Games and its Relay, please log on to www.communitygames.org.uk.
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Shining Lights
In total there are 70 Shining Lights who have been rewarded for helping to deliver Olympic and Paralympic legacy in their communities.
Each day of the Community Games Relay they are celebrated.
On day 70 of the Relay (the one-year-anniversary of the Games) the day 70 Shining Light status and jersey will be presented to Lord Coe.
A special reception for all the Shining Lights is being held at the Copper Box Arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Saturday July 27, with Lord Coe in attendance.
Community Games:
- Community Games provides support to enable local communities to come together. Run by volunteers, events can be small neighbourly picnics right through to large-scale events in parks.
- The Community Games programme was launched in the West Midlands in 2009 and was originally funded for three years by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity set up to help build a lasting cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
- Last year 1,714 Community Games took place involving more than one million participants and 33,500 volunteers.
- Community Games is inspired by the Wenlock Olympian Games founded by Dr William Penny Brookes in 1850 and still held annually in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. The Wenlock Olympian Games were the inspiration behind the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games when Baron Pierre du Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement, visited the games in 1890. The Community Games programme pays homage to a community event that inspired a global event, and now uses that global event to inspire a new raft of community events.
- For more information about Community Games log on to www.communitygames.org.uk
The YMCA:
- Founded 168 years ago, the YMCA in England is made up of 121 member YMCAs working to ensure that young people have opportunities to thrive and contribute positively to their communities.
- YMCA operates in over 530 different communities in England impacting upon the lives of over 500,000 people every year.
- Every night YMCAs provide over 9,000 beds for young people. The YMCA is the largest voluntary sector provider of safe, supported accommodation for single men and women aged between 16-30 years old.
- The YMCA enables nearly 24,000 people every year to engage in education, skills and training to enable them to improve their opportunities in the job market.
- The YMCA is the largest voluntary sector provider of health and wellbeing services promoting physical activity.
- For further information please visit?http://www.ymca.org.uk
The County Sports Partnership Network (CSPN):
- The County Sports Partnership Network brings together 49 County Sports Partnerships from across England, and is responsible for supporting the delivery of national sports policy at a local level by shaping it to the needs of local communities.
- The CSPN contributes to the health of the nation by helping local people lead healthier, active lives.
- The CSPN brings together the knowledge and expertise of a range of local delivery partners ? including local authorities, clubs and schools ? which enables it to use resources in the most efficient way possible to deliver sport in local communities.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
- The London Legacy Development Corporation promotes and delivers physical, social, economic and environmental regeneration in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and surrounding area, in particular by maximising the legacy of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
- Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will begin to open from July 2013 and will be fully open from spring 2014, it will be a whole new part of the city to enjoy and will provide jobs and homes for east London.
- For more information about the Legacy Corporation visit: www.londonlegacy.co.uk/about-us
- For more information about Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park visit: www.QueenElizabethOlympicPark.co.uk
The Copper Box Arena
- The Copper Box Arena hosted the Handball and Modern Pentathlon Fencing during the Olympic Games and Goalball during the Paralympic Games. It is now being transformed into a new venue with flexible seating capacity and facilities for a wide range of indoor sports training and competitions as well as cultural and business events.
- It will be one of the first legacy venues to re-open in July 2013 and is located in the west of the Park close to Hackney Wick station and near to the Press and Broadcast Centres.
- The Arena will serve as a venue for a variety of indoor sports. The highly flexible design means it will be used for all levels of sports participation, from events to high performance training to community use. For more information visit www.better.org.uk/copper_box
About GLL
- The Copper Box Arena is operated by GLL a charitable social enterprise, created to manage community services and spaces. GLL oversees the management of over 100 leisure centres and 24 libraries across the UK. GLL is an employee-owned society and works in partnership with fifteen London boroughs, two city councils, four borough councils, six district councils and three associated partners, including the London Legacy Development Corporation on the operation of the Copper Box Arena and London Aquatics Centre in legacy mode. Other charitable partners, Freedom Leisure and Halo Leisure manage further leisure facilities across the South East of England and Bridgend, South Wales on behalf of GLL. www.gll.org
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Feds raid medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington state ? where possession is legal
By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News
Federal agents raided several medical marijuana dispensaries Wednesday in Washington ? a state which just decriminalized the drug last year.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Seattle office confirmed in a brief statement that "several search warrants were executed today involving marijuana storefronts" in the Puget Sound region around Seattle.
It gave no further details, and the number of raids remained unclear Wednesday evening.
One of the dispensaries was the Bayside Collective in Olympia, the state capital, where seven government vehicles converged Wednesday morning.
Agents with guns drawn seized business records and about $2,500 worth of marijuana intended for cancer patients, Casey Lee, who works at the clinic, told NBC station KING of Seattle.
"It's humiliating," Lee said. "They don't get to see the cancer patients."
Washington was one of the first states to legalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana last year. But it remains illegal under federal law, and Lee claimed one of the agents told him, "Things are going to be hell for you."
"One of the DEA agents said: 'This is your second raid and your third robbery. Why do you keep doing this?'" Lee said.
"I just told him it's because we just enjoy helping people, and he told us that he wasn't expecting that answer."
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Still more comedy gold: MSNBC?s Melissa Harris-Perry Dons Tampon Earrings To Protest Texas Abortion Bill.
Still more comedy gold: MSNBC???s Melissa Harris-Perry Dons Tampon Earrings To Protest Texas Abortion Bill.
I know. Prop comedy is not as prestigious as spoken jokes. But give her some credit for showing some creativity. At least she didn?t just put a lampshade over her head?
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Skipping breakfast may increase coronary heart disease risk
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A large 16-year study finds men who reported that they skipped breakfast had higher risk of heart attack or death from coronary heart disease. The timing of meals, whether it?s missing a meal in the morning or eating a meal very late at night, may cause adverse metabolic effects that lead to coronary heart disease. Even after accounting for modest differences in diet, physical activity, smoking and other lifestyle factors, the association between skipping breakfast (or eating very late at night) and coronary heart disease persisted.
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NFC Ring review
NFC stands for Near Field Communication, and although this technology has been around for awhile, it’s only just now starting to show up in gadgets like newer Android smartphones, tablets, Blackberry, Windows phones and portable speakers.?By programming small stickers or key fobs, you can automate often performed tasks just by tapping the tag with an [...]
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/07/21/nfc-ring-review/
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Utah ISP breaks silence over government server installed on its network
When the government comes knocking on your door, you kind of have to cooperate with them or face the consequences. That's the situation Pete Ashdown, CEO of Utah ISP XMission, was faced with in 2010 after receiving a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA). The warrant, coming in at just three or four pages, was perfectly clear: install a rack-mount server on your network to track every last bit going in and out from one of your customers, and don't say anything to anyone about this. Ashdown's lawyer said the request was indeed legit, and the box stayed there for a little over half a year. So why talk about it now? Because Pete, like the rest of us, wants a bit of transparency, even if there's a risk the G-Men will come "come back and haunt" him.
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Three Big High-Profile Losses Drag Nasdaq Lower - Investors.com
Stocks ended the week on a sour note, with the tech-intensive Nasdaq dragged by high-profile losses into a distribution day.
The S&P 500 added 0.2%, while the Dow Jones industrial average ceded a nano-smidge.
The Nasdaq, weighed by losses in Google (GOOG) (off 2%), Microsoft (MSFT) (off 11%) and Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) (off 7%) fell 0.7%.
Volume in the stock market today rose 3% on the Nasdaq and 26% on the NYSE, according to preliminary data.
Taiwanese chipmaker ChipMOS Technologies (IMOS) dived 7% in fast trade. This was the thinly traded stock's third straight loss. Wednesday saw ChipMOS fall 3% in low volume. ChipMOS sank 1% Thursday, but volume climbed 40% above its average pace as the stock slid below its 50-day line. Friday's loss pushed volume to three times normal. ChipMOS had peaked July 1 at 20.68, about 20% above its 13.68 buy point from a deep cup-with-handle base.
But Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) gapped up and screamed 8% after the fast-casual Mexican-restaurant chain beat estimates in its Q2 report. The gain, which carried torrid volume, pushed Chipotle 8% above its 379.25 buy point. That entry is from a six-week shallow pattern that may also be interpreted as the handle of a large, deep base.
Whirlpool (WHR) jumped 8% and cleared its 50-day line as volume surged to 2-1/2 times its norm. The appliance maker said Q2 profit rose 53%, beating consensus estimates. The company also raised its 2013 outlook.
Source: http://news.investors.com/investing-stock-market-today/071913-664453-nasdaq-dragged-lower.htm
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Duolingo (for iPad)
If you're looking to learn or practice a language on an iPad app, Duolingo (free) is indisputably the way to go. The app and program are both 100 percent free, and they still outshine practically every other language-learning app I've seen?even the very expensive ones. Your major limitation will be whether Duolingo supports your language of choices, as the list remains tight. Fortunately, Duolingo does include many of the languages most studied by English speakers: Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese (Brazilian). It also has an English (American) learning program for speakers for those languages, except German. While it's not available in the iPad app, the website for Duolingo also includes Mandarin.
From a user's perspective, Duolingo works like most other language-learning programs. You work through exercises or activities to complete lessons which are part of larger units. The structure is clear, shown on a tree diagram, and the app keeps track of your progress synchronously across all the places where you can use Duolingo, from the Duolingo iPhone app and Duolingo Android app to and the Web version. It always remembers where you left off, and it even saves offline the current lesson you're studying and a few near it so that you can continue learning no matter where you are without eating up all the free space on your device.
Is It Fun? Does It Work?
I've been using Duolingo regularly since it was first released in late 2011. While using the program to learn German and practice my very-rusty Spanish, I've definitely increased my German vocabulary and have had some success refreshing my memory of verbs, phrases, and grammar in Spanish.
The mobile version of Duolingo is, in several ways, easier to use than the Web app. Typing special characters, like letters with diacritical marks, takes almost no effort on a smartphone or iPad. Just press and hold the letter you want until other options pop up above it. The Web app handles diacritical marks well (a few options always appear on screen that you can click, so you don't have to learn any difficult keyboard shortcuts), but the iPad app just does it better, and with more ease.
Another neat feature: When you see a sentence in the foreign language that you have to translate to English, you can type using voice commands and Siri, thus minimizing the amount of typing you need to do on the tiny screen.
The Duolingo Web app emphasizes writing quite a bit. The iPad app swaps out about half the writing with an exercise that lets you build a sentence from a group of available words, which you have to put in the right order while also ignoring some words that don't belong at all. Thankfully, the iPad app works in both portrait and landscape mode, so you can maximize the keyboard size when you do need to type.
Duolingo paces the activities in the app superbly. Short sessions work best on mobile devices, and while the content is almost identical to the Web version, enough of it is slightly truncated or tightened up in the iPad app to let you breeze through the activities just a bit quicker.
A Few Flaws
My partner got hooked as well and completed the French program in its entirety. At higher levels, he reported an increasing number of inaccuracies, which any user can flag so that Duolingo's developers can eventually correct them. The higher the level, the fewer the users to spot and flag such problems (and I would bet the lower the priority for the team to fix the errors). For the most part, it's easy to overlook an error here or there, but it becomes irritating when you fail a section because you've answered too many questions "wrong" when you weren't in fact wrong but have to restart that section anyhow. These instances are not too common, however, and are quite rare in the lower levels.
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
Redesigning the luxury car - the new Mercedes S-Class
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July 19, 2013 at 11:33 AM ET
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CEO of Daimler Dieter Zetsche stands next to the new S-Class Mercedes presented in Hamburg, Germany, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The new luxury model has a perfume dispenser and massaging seat.
How do you enhance an icon? That?s the challenge Mercedes-Benz faced when the German automaker set out to redesign its flagship S-Class sedan.
While there are faster cars, more expensive cars, and more exclusive cars, the S-Class has long been the benchmark in the premium luxury segment. And that?s a position Mercedes intends to maintain with a new 2014 model that not only introduces a raft of safety technologies that come a step short of autonomous driving but also by adding over-the-top features such as an automated perfume dispenser and a hot stone-style massaging seat.
?The definition of luxury is changing, but we intend to be at the forefront of that,? said Steve Cannon, CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA, during a break from driving the new S 550 model through the lake country north of Toronto.
Indeed, much has changed since the last S-Class line debuted in 2005. It rolled into showrooms at a time of unbridled excess, and in the automotive market, it defined the luxury segment. The sedan hit its peak a year later; Americans snapped up more than 30,000 of the various S-Class variants, including the S 550, the high-performance S63 AMG, and other models.
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But four years later, the U.S. economy in turmoil, demand fell to fewer than 12,000. It wasn?t just a lack of buyers but also a shift in mindset, many industry analysts suggested. And they could point to a dramatic shift in the marketplace. Even as sales of premium luxury models ? which also included the big BMW 7-Series, the Audi A8, Jaguar XJ and Lexus LS ? dried up, there was a new-found momentum at what might be called the bottom of the upscale market.
Today, the biggest growth can be seen in the compact sedan and crossover luxury segments, with products like the BMW 1- and 3-Series, the Audi A4 and Q5 models and Mercedes? own C-Class and GLK. In fact, the latter maker has big expectations for the new CLA sedan it will bring to the U.S. in 2014. Smaller than the C-Class, Cannon said it should serve as Mercedes? new entry point for new luxury buyers.
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That said, ?If you look at the brands that lack an S-Class competitor, they?re the ones struggling with brand identity,? suggested Dave Sullivan, automotive analyst with AutoPacific, Inc., pointing to Lincoln, Acura and Infiniti.
That?s a reason why the ambitious Hyundai introduced the Equus several years ago ? and is updating the premium luxury sedan for 2014. Though the Korean carmaker only expects to sell about 2,000 during the coming model-year, Equus is a critical part of Hyundai?s strategy to reposition itself as a high-value carmaker rather than as an economy brand. Meanwhile, Cadillac is also working on a new model to compete in the premium luxury segment.
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?It?s trench warfare,? admitted Mercedes? Cannon when asked about the increasing competition. But while it may be a while before sales in the premium segment recover to prior peaks, at least in the U.S. and Europe, he argued that a product like the S-Class remains as important as ever, providing not only a much-needed halo around the Mercedes brand, but also solid profits.
Premium models like the S 550 also provide a platform for manufacturers to introduce costly new technologies. The big Mercedes remake features an assortment of cameras, radar and sonar sensors it has dubbed ?sensor fusion,? and which it claims can provide a 360-degree view of the world around the vehicle. The goal is to significantly reduce the number of accidents the S-Class is involved in ? and where a crash is unavoidable, to reduce the likelihood of injuries or death.
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Those sensors not only can spot a potential collision, but allow the S-Class to speed up or slow down with traffic automatically and park with the touch of a button ? while the two stereo cameras mounted above the rearview mirror scan the upcoming road surface and instantly adjust the sedan?s suspension to make even the roughest bumps and potholes virtually vanish.
Mercedes isn?t alone. When BMW re-launched its big 7-Series a few years back it introduced ?Cross-Traffic Alert,? a system that watched for traffic approaching from either side when a driver backed out of a parking spot. Within two years, the cost had come down enough to allow Ford to offer the technology with its mainstream Taurus model.
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The new S-Class still features the traditional luxury touches, plenty of leather and wood, ?and anything that looks like metal really is metal,? boasted Mercedes? global brand boss and parent Daimler AG Chairman Dieter Zetsch.
But technology is also transforming the cabin. The 2014 S-Class features an array of infotainment systems, including a WiFi hotpot to turn the vehicle into a rolling office. Then there?s the automatic perfume dispenser and the new massaging seat that can simulate a high-end spa?s hot stone treatment.
That actually underscores another huge change in the luxury market, especially at the premium end. By most estimates, China will become the world?s largest upscale automotive market by 2017, and so far this year, BMW has sold more cars in that booming Asian nation than in the U.S. Mercedes isn?t far behind.
?The challenge is how do we harmonize the differing world demands,? said Mercedes USA?s Canon. In fact, there may be more similarities between the U.S. and China than what American and European motorists desire. The big difference is that Chinese luxury car buyers tend to prefer being chauffeured, so, ?We designed the front of the car for the U.S. and the rear for China,? he laughs.
The initial reaction to that approach has been quite positive, and Stephanie Brinley, analyst with IHS Automotive, expects that the new S-Class will provide momentum that will not only keep Mercedes at the top of the premium segment but land it back on top in the global luxury sales race after struggling to keep up with BMW and Audi for several years.
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Biden calls Brazil President to denounce espionage
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Brasilia, July 20:??
US Vice-President Joe Biden has called Brazil President Dilma Rousseff to respond to alleged US electronic spying disclosed by rogue intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, Brasilia said.
Biden lamented the negative repercussions the disclosures have had in Brazil during a conversation that lasted for 25 minutes, President Dilma Rousseff?s office said.
The US deputy leader reiterated an invitation given earlier by US Ambassador Thomas Shannon for a Brazilian delegation to visit Washington for more detailed explanations, Communications Minister Helena Chagas said, according to Brazil?s state news agency.
For her part, ?Rousseff said that, in the name of security, one can?t infringe on the privacy of Brazilian citizens and even the sovereignty of the country,? the minister said.
The Brazillian President also confirmed her state visit to Washington for October 23, according to the state news agency.
Brazil?s foreign minister said on Monday that Washington had not sufficiently responded to his country?s request to explain the spying allegations.
The daily O Globo newspaper has published a series of reports on US electronic espionage operations in Brazil and Latin America, based on documents leaked by Snowden, a US former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor.
The newspaper said the NSA spied on Brazilian residents and companies, as well as people travelling in Brazil. Washington also maintained a base in Brasilia to intercept foreign satellite communications, it added.
Snowden, whose passport has been revoked by Washington, has been marooned in Moscow airport?s transit zone for the past three weeks, as he seeks asylum in a bid to evade US espionage charges for his leaks.
(This article was published on July 20, 2013)
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