Sunday, March 31, 2013

AT&T LG Optimus G getting an Easter update

AT&T LG Optimus G

A quick heads up for you owners of the AT&T LG Optimus G -- there's a software update rolling out today. As reported in our Optimus G Fourms, you'll still be on Android 4.0.4 (build IMM76L), and you'll now have software version E97011c. Other than that, we can't quite tell you what's changed. 

So the wait continues for some Jelly Bean love for the AT&T Optimus G, but some update is better than no update. 

We've got the updated about screen after the break should you deem it worth a gander.

Thanks, Tim!

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

'Waste heat' may economize CO2 capture

Mar. 28, 2013 ? In some of the first results from a federally funded initiative to find new ways of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plants, Rice University scientists have found that CO2 can be removed more economically using "waste" heat -- low-grade steam that cannot be used to produce electricity. The find is significant because capturing CO2 with conventional technology is an energy-intensive process that can consume as much as one-quarter of the high-pressure steam that plants use to produce electricity.

"This is just the first step in our effort to better engineer a process for capturing CO2 from flue gas at power plants," said George Hirasaki, the lead researcher of Rice's CO2-capture research team. The researchers hope to reduce the costs of CO2 capture by creating an integrated reaction column that uses waste heat, engineered materials and optimized components. Hirasaki's team was one of 16 chosen by the Department of Energy (DOE) in 2011 to develop innovative techniques for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

The team's first findings appear in two new studies that are available online this month in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.

Power plants fired by coal and natural gas account for about half of the CO2 that humans add to the atmosphere each year; these power plants are prime candidates for new technology that captures CO2 before it goes up in smoke. Each of these plants makes electricity by boiling water to create steam to run electric turbines. But not all steam is equal. Some steam has insufficient energy to run a turbine. This is often referred to as "waste" heat, although the term is something of misnomer because low-grade steam is often put to various uses around a plant. Rice's new study found that in cases where waste is available, it may be used to capture CO2.

Hirasaki, Rice's A.J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, said employing waste heat is just one example of a number of ways that Rice's team is looking to improve upon a tried-and-true technology for CO2 capture. That technology -- a two-phase chemical process -- has been used for decades to remove naturally occurring CO2 from natural gas.

In the first phase of the process, gas is piped upward through a vertical column while an ammonia-like liquid called amine flows down through the column. The liquid amine captures CO2 and drains away while the purified natural gas bubbles out the top of the column. In the second phase of the process, the CO2-laden amine is recycled with heat, which drives off the CO2.

"The CO2 that comes out of the ground with natural gas is under high pressure, while the CO2 at power plants is not," Hirasaki said. "There's also a greater volume of CO2 per unit mass at a power plant than at a natural gas well. For these reasons and others, the amine process must be re-engineered if it is to be cost-effective for CO2 capture at power plants."

A major challenge in adapting two-phase amine processing for power plants is the amount of heat required to recycle the amine in the second phase of the process. Using existing amine processing technology at power plants is impractical, because amine recycling would require as much as one-quarter of the high-pressure steam that could otherwise be used to drive turbines and make electricity, Hirasaki said. This phenomenon is known as "parasitic" power loss, and it will drive up the cost of electricity by lowering the amount of electricity a plant can produce for sale.

"It has been estimated that the use of current technology for CO2 capture would drive up the cost of electricity by 70 to 100 percent," said Rice graduate student Sumedh Warudkar, a co-investigator on the Rice University team. "In our study, we examined whether it would be possible to improve on that by using lower-value steam to run the amine recyclers."

To test this idea, Warudkar used a software package that's commonly used to model industrial chemical processes. One variable he tested was tailoring the chemical formulation of the liquid amine solution. Other variables included the type of steam used, and the size and pressure of the reactor -- the chamber where the flue gas flows past the amine solution.

"There's a great deal of optimization that needs to take place," Warudkar said. "The question is, What is the optimal amine formula and the optimal reactor design and pressure for removing CO2 with low-value steam? There isn't one correct answer. For example, we have developed a process in which the gas absorption and solvent heating occurs in a single vessel instead of two separate ones, as is currently practiced. We think combining the processes might bring us some savings. But there are always trade-offs. The Department of Energy wants us to investigate how our process compares with what's already on the market, and these first two studies are the first step because they will help us identify an optimal set of operating conditions for our process."

The results are encouraging. The research suggests that two elements of Rice's design -- optimized amine formulation and the use of waste heat -- can reduce parasitic power loss from about 35 percent to around 25 percent.

Additional research is under way to develop and test novel materials and a single integrated column that the team hopes can further economize CO2 capture by increasing efficiency and reducing parasitic power loss.

Study co-authors include Michael Wong, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of chemistry, and Ken Cox, professor in the practice of chemical and biomolecular engineering. The research is supported by the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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  1. Sumedh S. Warudkar, Kenneth R. Cox, Michael S. Wong, George J. Hirasaki. Influence of stripper operating parameters on the performance of amine absorption systems for post-combustion carbon capture: Part I. High pressure strippers. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.01.050
  2. Sumedh S. Warudkar, Kenneth R. Cox, Michael S. Wong, George J. Hirasaki. Influence of stripper operating parameters on the performance of amine absorption systems for post-combustion carbon capture: Part II. Vacuum strippers. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.01.049

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Facebook data shows picture of same-sex marriage support

Noticed a lot of profile pictures changing this week on Facebook? It was a nationwide trend, as users on the social network responded to the Human Rights Campaign's request for them to substitute a red-and-pink equal sign for their profile photos in support of same-sex marriage, with the nation's highest court hearing two cases on the issue.

Facebook knows, of course, whenever someone changes their profile picture, and there's a normal daily rhythm for American users. But Facebook's investigation showed a huge bump in picture changes just after the Human Rights Campaign began its effort.

"While millions of U.S. Facebook users update their profile photos on a given day, we found that significantly more users ? roughly 2.7 million (120 percent) more, updated their profile photo on Tuesday, March 26 compared to the previous Tuesday," notes Eytan Bakshy, a researcher on the Facebook Data Science Team, in the post.

Profile pic changes skyrocketed among younger users, especially those around the age of 30; teenagers and seniors didn't get quite as much into the spirit.

There were also some highly significant geographical trends, as illustrated by the map above. The darker the color of the country, the more people changed their profile picture. The most active county in the country was Washtenaw, in Michigan, home to Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan ? and the other most active counties also contained major colleges and universities.

As some commenting on the Facebook blog post have pointed out, there's no way to know whether all these profile picture updates were in support of gay marriage, since users could just as easily be changing their picture to indicate opposition to gay marriage (or just a new look). But the correlation with college towns and the deliberate and visible campaign by the Human Rights Campaign suggest that it was mostly supportive.

The rest of the data and a few more observations by the Facebook Data Science Team can be found at the blog post itself.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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RECREATION CALENDAR - The Sports Desk

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The authority for sports coverage in the Fredericksburg region.

March 30: 5K Rabbit Run, 8 a.m. at Spotsylvania Courthouse Village Pavilion. Cost: $20 for FARC members $25 on race day. Also, 1-mile ($15) and -mile kids? Bunny Chase ($5). Register online at racetimingunlimited.org.

April 1: Shirley Gray Scholarship Golf Outing, noon at Country Club of Culpeper. Cost: $300 per four-player team, $80 per individual. Information: Careen Angel (540/222-8708), Mike Wills (540/825-8310) or bluedevilbacker@gmail.com.

April 6: J. Brian?s Tap Room 15K, 7 a.m. in downtown Fredericksburg. Cost: $45. Register at racetimingunlimited.org.

April 12: Lexi Ray Golf Classic, 9 a.m. at Lee?s Hill Golf Club. Cost: $300 per team, $75 per player. Proceeds benefit Lexi Ray, a teen suffering from Legg-Calve Perthes Disease. Information: Jane Ray (540/710-7555 or 538-1980), Patrick Voit (540-809-5943) or pventerprises1@hotmail.com.

April 13: Stafford Hospital 5K, 8:30 a.m. at Stafford Hospital. Grand Prix event. Cost: $25 ($30 after March 29). Register at racetimingunlimited.org.

April 20: King George healthy kids day 5K, 8 a.m. at King George YMCA. Cost: $15 ($20 after April 14), $10 for kids? 1-mile fun run. Register at racetimingunlimited.org.

April 27: Festival of Feet 5K and 10K, 8 a.m. at Bowling Green Town Hall. Cost: $20 for 10K, $10 for 5K. Register at racetimingunlimited.org.

April 27: Spring Fling Golf Classic, 9 a.m. at Pendleton Golf Club in Ruther Glen. Cost: $85 per player, $320 per team. Information: 804/448-8428 or Wethclan@aol.com.

April 28: Park Ridge 5K, 8 a.m. at Park Ridge Elementary in Stafford. Cost: $25 for 5K ($27 after April 13, $30 on race day), $15 for 1-miler. Register at racetimingunlimited.org.

May 4: Virginia State Taekwondo Championship Qualifier, 10 a.m. at Massaponax High School. Cost: $15 for team forms, $65 for all others ($75 through May 1 deadline). Register online at tourneyreg.net. Information: 540/710-9094 or pilsungma@hotmail. com.

May 19: Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon, 7 a.m. in Fredericksburg. Costs: $75 for Historic Half Marathon, $45 for Historic 10K, $35 for Semper Fred 5K. Register, online at marinemarathon.com.

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Friday, March 29, 2013

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Email: Computer Science self-limits | Malstrom's Articles News

Sean,

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The thing about a CS degree (which is more and more getting replaced by Software Engineering) is that it?s like any other STEM degree?you have to be really smart and hard-working to get one. Unlike many other degrees, which are easily dumbed down with fuzzy standards so that students with lower cognitive ability can earn them, CS requires pretty deep analytical knowledge and lots of math. Yeah, the job market ebbs and flows, and the days when a CS degree was a fast track to a 6-figure income are well behind us, but much like with other engineering fields, the swings in the job market aren?t as wide because the math you need for the degree fundamentally limits the supply. So it kind of doesn?t matter if it gets a ?cool? perception and all of a sudden, tons of girls, hipsters, etc start showing up in the intro courses, because (speaking from experience) 50% will fail Calculus I and/or Physics I right away, and many more will drop out when they realize that math and algorithm design is actually really boring and hard compared to doing fun stuff like writing stories or psychoanalyzing people.

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The difference between a BS degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering and an associate?s in IT, Computer Technology, and pretty much all the rest of the computer-type degrees is like the difference between being a mechanical engineer and?being an auto mechanic. 2-year IT certs aren?t that valuable any more (though still far more valuable than many other 2-year certs).Things have changed very rapidly in the computer field over the past few decades. During the 80s and 90s especially, only the people inside the field really were aware of the changes. People on the outside didn?t know. All they knew was that computers were appearing everywhere.

Now it is the opposite. The rules of the 90s no longer apply today.

I suppose I?m tired of the CS person contrasting his field to? basketweaving? and talking about how ?hard? math is and how everyone else can?t do it. There is absolutely no mention from the CS person of other technology fields. What about manufacturing technology which is also very high tech? It?s not ?cool?. That is why there is no reason to focus on manufacturing in the US because no one is educated for it. Most people have no idea what a PLC is. What about fields in, say, chemistry? Another completed ignored field.

If the CS person was so confident in their field, why do they keep comparing it to basketweaving or to the art degree? Why not compare it to another technology degree?

Math is not hard. I don?t see it as a self-limiting factor because it is not a self-limiting factor in other fields (like accounting). People who go into CS tend to have spent too much of their free time on computers in their youth. With computers and the Internet going mainstream in the mid 90s, we?ll only be seeing more and more people who have grown up with them (including more women). Twenty years from that time, say the 2020s, I expect the CS person to be more generalized than what we saw before with the stereotypical Bill Gates geek.

The question isn?t what self-limits the CS agree but why would everyone want to go for it. The four big reasons are?

Money- It pays well. With the economic recession, people coming up will move towards it and away from other fields that once seemed to have paid well (such as law). People are attracted to money.

Status- Many people enjoy choosing jobs with status. While the CS person didn?t have status prior to the 90s, today the CS person is seen as ?intelligent, sophisticated, technologist,? etc. etc. Contrast that to say a manufacturing technology job that deals with technology in factories. Why does that have ?low status?, I don?t know. It does not share the same lack of status in other countries which is why they build up in manufacturing.

Liability- When software crashes, people don?t get killed. There is no comparison to say an engineer that builds structures. Lack of liability that the digital world presents is very attractive.

Office Job- IT jobs tend to be inside, out of the elements, where it is nice and comfortable. You?re not supposed to say this, but jobs that are outside, in the elements, where it is not comfortable such as working in mines or oil rigs are overwhelmingly dominated by men. Women tend to be interested in work in offices. Since women make up 50% of the potential workforce, that can be a huge amount of supply of workers to bring in. Does Andria Richards ring a bell? That is just the beginning.

Math might have been a self-limiting factor in the pre-recession days. Today, students and returning students aren?t scared of math. And Calculus, Physics, and Trigonometry are not that hard. Look at third world countries that spit out engineers. The reason why they produce so many engineers is because people are desperate to escape poverty. My own family of engineers had their preceding generation be a life of poverty.

Math is only scary if you don?t taste poverty. If you do taste it, math becomes LOL. Today, more and more people know the taste of poverty.

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Right-to-work law takes effect in Michigan

DETROIT (AP) -- Republican Gov. Rick Snyder said a right-to-work law that took effect Thursday is a milestone that will bring jobs to Michigan, while protesters promised to exact revenge at the polls for the contentious measure Snyder signed in December.

"The labor movement has done a lot of great things for our country. It's not about being anti-union in my view. It's about being pro-worker," Snyder told business and government leaders.

The law allows Michigan workers to choose not to financially support unions that bargain on their behalf. It applies to labor contracts that are extended or renewed starting Thursday, so many unionized employees will not be affected until their existing collective bargaining agreements end months or years from now.

Union organizers asked people to wear red to protest Michigan becoming the 24th right-to-work state. Dozens did so at a morning rally outside the Detroit Athletic Club, where Snyder spoke at a "Pancakes & Politics" event.

Toting a "Snyder (equals) Snake" sign, 52-year-old Detroit resident Dwight Jarrett called on the governor to repeal the law.

"If he doesn't do the right thing, we'll make sure he's out in 2014," he said.

The law cannot be overturned directly in a referendum, though unions could decide to back a 2014 ballot measure that effectively overturns it.

Multiple lawsuits have been filed to strike down the law. Legal challenges in neighboring Indiana, which passed a right-to-work law in 2012, have been unsuccessful.

Snyder said during the event that right-to-work is "done" and "over with."

"This was a significant milestone. It's going to make Michigan more competitive," he said.

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Hands-on with MiiPC, the $99 kid-safe Android PC (video)

Handson with MiiPC, the $99 kidsafe Android PC video

It was only two days ago that ZeroDesktop launched MiiPC, a $99 kid-safe Android PC, and the Kickstarter campaign's already surpassed its $50,000 goal. To jog your memory, MiiPC is an attractive 4.7 x 4.7 x 3.1-inch desktop computer running Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It's powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Marvell New Armada SoC with 1GB of RAM, 4GB of flash storage, WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0. The system features an SD card slot in front, a power button on top and a full array of ports in the back, including two USB 2.0, HDMI, analog audio I/O, Ethernet and power.

What makes this device so unique is the software, which is optimized for use with a large screen (up to 1080p), keyboard and mouse. It provides a desktop-class web browsing experience with Flash and runs standard Android apps. MiiPC supports multiple user accounts which can be controlled and monitored remotely in real-time using a companion app for iOS and Android. The idea is for parents to create a safe online environment for their kids by managing their access to the web and to apps. We got the chance to play with a prototype MiiPC yesterday -- read our impressions and watch out hands-on video after the break.

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Engineers enable 'bulk' silicon to emit visible light for the first time

Mar. 27, 2013 ? Electronic computing speeds are brushing up against limits imposed by the laws of physics. Photonic computing, where photons replace comparatively slow electrons in representing information, could surpass those limitations, but the components of such computers require semiconductors that can emit light.

Now, research from the University of Pennsylvania has enabled "bulk" silicon to emit broad-spectrum, visible light for the first time, opening the possibility of using the element in devices that have both electronic and photonic components.

The research was conducted by associate professor Ritesh Agarwal, postdoctoral fellow Chang-Hee Cho and graduate students Carlos O. Aspetti and Joohee Park, all of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Their work was published in Nature Photonics.

Certain semiconductors, when imparted with energy, in turn emit light; they directly produce photons, instead of producing heat. This phenomenon is commonplace and used in light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, which are ubiquitous in traffic signals, new types of light bulbs, computer displays and other electronic and optoelectronic devices. Getting the desired photonic properties often means finding the right semiconducting material. Agarwal's group produced the first ever all-optical switch out of cadmium sulfide nanowires, for example.

Semiconducting materials -- especially silicon -- form the backbone of modern electronics and computing, but, unfortunately, silicon is an especially poor emitter of light. It belongs to a group of semiconducting materials, which turns added energy into heat. This makes integrating electronic and photonic circuits a challenge; materials with desirable photonic properties, such as cadmium sulfide, tend to have poor electrical properties and vice versa and are not compatible with silicon-based electronic devices.

"The problem is that electronic devices are made of silicon and photonic devices are typically not," Agarwal said. "Silicon doesn't emit light and the materials that do aren't necessarily the best materials for making electronic devices."

With silicon entrenched as the material of choice for the electronics industry, augmenting its optical properties so it could be integrated into photonic circuitry would make consumer-level applications of the technology more feasible.

"People have tried to solve this problem by doping silicon with other materials, but the light emission is then in the very long wavelength range, so it's not visible and not very efficient and can degrade its electronic properties," Agarwal said. "Another approach is to make silicon devices that are very small, five nanometers in diameter or less. At that size you have quantum confinement effects, which allows the device to emit light, but making electrical connections at that scale isn't currently feasible, and the electrical conductivity would be very low."

To get elemental, "bulk" silicon to emit light, Agarwal's team drew upon previous research they had conducted on plasmonic cavities. In that earlier work, the researchers wrapped a cadmium sulfide nanowire first in a layer of silicon dioxide, essentially glass, and then in a layer of silver. The silver coating supports what are known as surface plasmons, waves that are a combination of oscillating metal electrons and of light. These surface plasmons are highly confined to the surface where the silicon dioxide and silver layers meet. For certain nanowire sizes, the silver coating creates pockets of resonance and hence highly confined electromagnetic fields -- in other words, light -- within the nanostructure.

Normally, after excitation the semiconductor must first "cool down," releasing energy as heat, before "jumping" back to the ground state and finally releasing the remaining energy as light. The Penn team's semiconductor nanowires coupled with plasmonic nanocavities, however, can jump directly from a high-energy excited state to the ground state, all but eliminating the heat-releasing cool-down period. This ultra-fast emission time opens the possibility of producing light from semiconductors such as silicon that might otherwise only produce heat.

"If we can make the carriers recombine immediately," Agarwal said, "then we can produce light in silicon."

In their latest work, the group wrapped pure silicon nanowires in a similar fashion, first with a coating of glass and then one of silver. In this case, however, the silver did not wrap completely around the wire as the researchers first mounted the glass-coated silicon on a sperate pane of glass. Tucking under the curve of the wire but unable to go between it and the glass substrate, the silver coating took on the shape of the greek letter omega -- ? -- while still acting as a plasmonic cavity.

Critically, the transparent bottom of the omega allowed the researchers to impart energy to the semiconductor with a laser and then examine the light silicon emitted.

Even though the silicon nanowire is excited at a single energy level, which corresponds to the wavelength of the blue laser, it produces white light that spans the visible spectrum. This translates into a broad bandwidth for possible operation in a photonic or optoelectronic device. In the future, it should also be possible to excite these silicon nanowires electrically.

"If you can make the silicon emit light itself, you don't have to have an external light source on the chip," Agarwal said. "We could excite the silicon electrically and get the same effect, and we can make it work with wires from 20 to 100 nanometers in diameter, so it's very compatible in terms of length scale with current electronics."

The research was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office and the National Institutes of Health.

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The Message of You: The Right Way to Write; Getting Published and ...


Ok, here's the truth.? When I was writing my first book, "Stand-Up Comedy: The Book," (Random House) I?d sort of hit bottom.? I?d quit doing comedy clubs, and I had a typing job for $10/hour. I sent the first three chapters of my book to 59 agents and I was rejected by ALL of them.

Here?s what they had to say:

"Nobody wants to learn standup comedy..."
"You can't teach comedy in a book..."?
"Why don't you write a how to book about something useful? like fly fishing?"

Real agents.? Real comments.? Really depressing.

Cut to:

I just had my fourth book published this past month, titled, "The Message of You" (St. Martin's Press).

In the past year, I?ve been invited to speak all over the world (Russia, Sweden, etc.) as an expert, meaning I?ve been getting paid to travel and I get treated like a celebrity.

(One Swedish newspaper even called me their ?Comedy Prophet.?? Wow ? I feel almost like Moses -- only funnier.)

Still, I have those moments where my inner critic tells me I?m worthless, and don?t know anything.? I try to battle it by asking myself what I do know, and, it occurred to me that I definitely DO know something about how to get a book written -- and published.

Last month, I was talking to my literary agent, Penny Nelson, who said that she went to a "How to Get Your Book Published" workshop and couldn't believe all the misinformation that was given.? She was wishing that someone would give aspiring writers the right information, because it would make her job ? and theirs ? a lot easier.

So... Penny and I, along with self-publishing guru Dan Poynter, are going to give you the real information about publishing in a teleseminar on Tuesday, April 9th.? And how much is this going to cost you?

Ah... let me think... nothing! That's right.? Zip.? Zero.? Zilch.

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Shell faces new probe over Alaska drill program

By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A fourth government probe is under way into Royal Dutch Shell's mishap-prone 2012 Alaska drilling season, this time for possible violations of international marine environmental rules, a U.S. Coast Guard official said on Wednesday.

The Coast Guard has asked federal prosecutors to consider taking action on possible violations of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) committed in the operations of Shell's Kulluk drillship, said Rear Admiral Thomas Ostebo, head of the Coast Guard in Alaska.

Shell, which had planned to drill up to five wells offshore Alaska in 2012 and a similar number this year, has previously said it will pause its Alaska operations to regroup due to complications faced in the harsh northern environment, but it expects to resume drilling next year.

Ostebo said he had commissioned one investigation already launched into the December 31 grounding of the Kulluk and that the Coast Guard has forwarded findings of safety and environmental violations on the Noble Discoverer, Shell's other Alaska drillship, to U.S. prosecutors for possible enforcement action.

"Last week, I also referred a separate Kulluk investigation into potential MARPOL violations from 2012 to the Department of Justice for their review and potential follow-on action," Ostebo said at a field hearing convened by Senator Mark Begich.

Ostebo declined to comment further, with the review pending.

Shell's 2012 drill season had earlier been the subject of a 60-day review by the U.S. Department of Interior that concluded Shell was ill-prepared for Alaska's marine rigors, had not adequately overseen contractors and had committed other lapses.

Pete Slaiby, Shell's vice president for Alaska operations, declined at the hearing to speak about the investigations. He did note that drilling operations - the first in open waters in Alaska's Arctic in 15 years - were completed safely.

Shell had been planning last year to drill up to two wells in the Beaufort Sea, off northern Alaska, and up to three wells in the more remote Chukchi Sea, off northwestern Alaska.

But with equipment failures, permitting problems and sea-ice complications, Shell was only able to drill the top portions of one well in the Chukchi and one well in the Beaufort during the fall open-water season. It then moved its drillships and support vessels out of the Arctic.

The Kulluk, after escaping tow lines crossing the stormy Gulf of Alaska, grounded south of Kodiak Island on December 31. A week later, it was refloated and towed to a nearby bay.

The ship on Wednesday began its voyage to a Singapore shipyard for repairs, Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said.

With two rigs out of service, Shell last month said it will pause its Alaska drilling operations in 2013.

It still expects to resume drilling in 2014, and may be joined in the Chukchi Sea by ConocoPhillips, which holds extensive leases in the basin.

Tommy Beaudreau, deputy Interior secretary and director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, said ConocoPhillips could face different rules than those imposed on Shell.

Conoco plans to drill from a jackup rig rather than a floating drillship, so safety issues might be different from those with Shell, though regulators plan to be just as strict about the potential for loss of well control, Beaudreau said.

Control at the source is critical in the Arctic because of geographic remoteness, isolation, and sea ice, he said.

"We don't prescribe a one-size-fits-all solution to this issue. But we will be very demanding on this issue," said Beaudreau, who testified by teleconference.

Regulators required Shell to have a special barge with an oil-containment dome to respond to any blowouts. Shell was unable to get the dome and barge working right for 2012, so it was not allowed to drill into hydrocarbon-bearing zones.

(Writing by Braden Reddall; Editing by Tom Hogue)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/shell-faces-probe-over-alaska-drill-program-040023973--finance.html

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Atlassian Extends Confluence Collaboration Platform, Now Competing More With Jive Software And Other Social Providers

AtlassianAtlassian?is getting more competitive with social collaboration companies like Jive Software with a new offering thst extends its social collaboration service beyond its core users.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Show me the ROI and not the Conversion Rate. Thank You

In the last few years somehow the metric ?conversion rate? seems to have taken the place of metrics like profit and ROI for many CRO consultants/agencies. That is why every second CRO agency boasts of improving the conversion rate of their clients by not less than 2?digits and at the same time shies away about its impact on the business?bottom line.?

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?Sounds?familiar?

Now the problem with this type of promotion is that we don?t know how this 280% increase in conversion rate impacted the net profit and ROI of the business. Did they spend 280% more to get this conversion? Did they decrease the traffic to the website to achieve this level of conversion rate? Did they increase the conversion rate of the conversions which don?t really impact the business bottomline? Is the conversion rate they are talking about goal conversion rate or ecommerce conversion rate? How was this conversion rate calculated? Did they use visits or visitors in their calculations? ?Is it in aggregate form or segmented??When was this conversion rate calculated? Was that the peak season? Does this improvement really mean anything?

With so many questions, it is hard to gauge the effectiveness of the service provider who is selling the conversion rate metric to promote his/her business. ?If a 280% improvement in conversion rate was such a big deal, it would have made any business owner a?multi-millionaire overnight.?

What good is ?conversion rate?, if it is not tied to, and reported with, business bottom line impacting metrics like revenue, profit and cost. There is always a possibility that an increase in the conversion rate actually resulted in an?only marginal increase in sales or even a decline in gross profit. How do we know as an outsider or as a client? It reminds me of the old days when SEO agencies boasted of search engine rankings they acquired for their clients like they really mattered.

I would like to see more marketers talking about improving the sales and the ROI of their clients.

Sales improved by 50%???..ROI improved by 10%

I would like to see experiments/tests being carried out with the focus to improve sales and ROI and not the conversion rate.

Now it is your turn. How much does ?conversion rate? alone impact your business decisions? What do you think about the service providers who boast of improving the conversion rate of their clients by 3 digits but don?t talk about how it impacted the business bottom line?

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Ted Williams, Audubon Columnist, Is Reinstated

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The National Audubon Society on Tuesday reinstated Ted Williams, a longtime magazine columnist it had put on probation over an online piece in another publication.

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?CLOSE/DISTANT? | Keywords for Video Game Studies GIG Session ...

The Keywords for Video Game Studies graduate interest group?s (GIG) first event of the Spring Quarter is on Thursday, April 4, 1:30-3:30 PM, in Communication 202. ?This is our fifth public reading and discussion group of the academic year and will focus on the gaming terms ?CLOSE/DISTANT.?

The Keywords for Video Game Studies working group, in collaboration with the Critical Gaming Project at the University of Washington, is supported by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

What to Expect

The format for the reading group/workshop is simple: read, play, gather, discuss. ?(And share in some refreshments.) ?Though our immediate audience is graduate students, our goal is to bring together people from a variety of fields and from all different points in their academic careers who have an interest in video game studies. ?The reading group/workshop format allows us to frame the discussion with a handful of short essays, a few key games, and the rest is up to participants to tease out the issues and angles related to the day?s key word.

What to Read

We hope everyone can read and come prepared to discuss the following essays:

If you have a UWNetID, you can find copies of each essay on e-reserve. ?If you do not have access to UW e-reserves, please contact us and we?ll work something out.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Found: Africa's Oldest Penguins

Penguin fossils from 10 million to 12 million years ago have been unearthed in South Africa, the oldest fossil evidence of these cuddly, tuxedoed birds in Africa.

The new discovery, detailed in the March 26 issue of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, could shed light on why the number of penguin species plummeted on Africa's coastline from four species 5 million years ago to just one today ? Spheniscus demersus, or the jackass penguin, known for their donkeylike calls.

Daniel Thomas, a researcher at the National Museum of Natural History, and colleague Daniel Ksepka of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center were studying rock sediments near a steel plant in Cape Town, South Africa, when they uncovered an assortment of fossils, including 17 pieces that turned out to be backbones, breastbones, legs and wings from ancient penguins.

The bones suggested these ancient birds ranged from 1-to-3 feet tall (0.3 to 0.9 meters).? For comparison, Africa's living jackass penguin, also called the black-footed penguin, stands at about 2-feet tall (0.6 meters) and weighs between 5.5 and 8.8 pounds (2.5 and 4 kilograms). [Happy Feet: A Gallery of Pudgy Penguins]

The discovery pushes back the penguin fossil record in Africa by at least 5 million years.

Because the next oldest fossils from Africa date to 5 million years ago, it's tricky to determine exactly why most penguin species disappeared from Africa.

"It's like seeing two frames of a movie," Ksepka said in a statement. "We have a frame at five million years ago, and a frame at 10-12 million years ago, but there's missing footage in between."

One possibility is that changing sea levels eliminated most of the penguins' nesting sites.

About 5 million years ago, sea levels were 296 feet (90 m) higher than today, and the low-lying South Africa became a patchwork of islands. Those islands provided beaches for several penguin species to create nests and rear their young while sheltering them from predators.

Once the oceans fell, most of those beaches would become mainland.

Africa's remaining jackass penguins are also on the decline. Their numbers have plummeted by 80 percent, in part because humans are overfishing their staple foods, sardines and anchovies. African penguins are being bred in captivity; for instance, a successful breeding season at the New England Aquarium in 2010 ended with the birth of 11 new African penguin chicks.

In addition, Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation, along with South African and international partners, is working to establish breeding colonies of the African penguin closer to fish resources, to ensure successful chick-rearing, according to the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

Follow Tia Ghose on Twitter @tiaghose.?Follow?LiveScience @livescience, Facebook?& Google+. Original article on?LiveScience.com.

Copyright 2013 LiveScience, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Showcasing San Rafael for business in a lean-budget environment ...

Marin County?s largest city and civic hub, San Rafael, wants to boost its appeal as a commercial center, and a number of interrelated local government and business group efforts are in motion with the goal of making that happen.

A key motivator for this is Sacramento?s dissolution of redevelopment agencies in San Rafael and in more than 400 other locales statewide in February 2012. Downtown San Rafael Business Improvement District lost $13,000 in annual redevelopment dollars, and the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce, about $40,000 a year, according to Stephanie Lovette, economic development manager. Both were handling business retention and attraction functions for the agency.

?The BID and chamber are stepping up,? she said. Winding down of the agency has taken her time away from those functions and trimmed funds available for events and infrastructure improvements. Yet, the city has started a search for a full-time economic development specialist in business retention and recruitment as well as an administrative assistant for that department.

Nancy Mackie

Retaining businesses and attracting new ones will be part of a by presentation by San Rafael City Manager Nancy Mackle at the Business Journal?s 2013 Impact Marin conference on April 3. Two recent successes for the city on those fronts have been helping to keep personal care items maker EO Products in Marin and attracting BioMarin Pharmaceutical?s 400-employee headquarters to the downtown area.

In danger of folding after the current and looming loss of nearly three-quarters of its funding, the 33-year-old business improvement district on Tuesday officially proposed to the City Council its plan to restructure as a new nonprofit organization, expand its geographic area by several blocks and add more than 500 businesses to the assessment roll.

Carol Thompson

?The BID is taking the step toward more like a business would find in a mall, in getting security, promotions, marketing, parking and foot traffic,? said Carol Thompson, district director since August. ?Businesses locate here because they do not want to be in a mall, but they do not get those services.?

?Clean and safe? is the focus of many BIDs in the Bay Area and nationwide, and that?s the direction the reorganized San Rafael district wants to take, she said. Other focus areas are increased branding of the downtown area, balancing the mix of downtown businesses to have more that attract foot traffic and creating more events that do likewise.

Meanwhile, the chamber has been adapting joint business interviews done together with city economic development staff for more than a decade to the reality of less city staff time currently available for such interviews, according to Rick Wells, chamber president and chief executive officer.

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?These days, it?s all about making sure we?re maximizing limited resources,? he said.

The city manager?s office and the chamber still are working together to keep and attract businesses, but the chamber?s Economic Vitality Committee is filling in the intelligence gaps on business needs that had been gleaned through the interviews. The committee has mustered volunteers to interview and survey businesses.

The chamber also has had initial meetings with the BID and Marin Economic Forum to build a year-end report from responses to the standardized survey on business needs as well as how businesses downtown interact with those elsewhere.

A test survey of 1,110 chamber members gleaned 60 responses useful for a survey baseline, Mr. Wells said. Highlights from the survey is that San Rafael is a desirable place for business but key concerns are streamlining the city permitting process to reduce the time and cost of opening or expanding as well as improving the safety and positive reputation of downtown.

Timely permitting also was something city officials heard from talks with commercial real estate brokerages, according to Stephanie Lovette, city economic development manager. Other key impediments to business activity they expressed were delays in obtaining Marin County health permits for foodservice operations, which also delays issuance of city occupancy permits, and high fees from Marin Municipal Water District for new standby fire sprinkler water lines required under building code changes a couple of years ago. Those are matters matters outside the city?s control, and county staff also is short-handed, she said.

The water district board hasn?t revisited the standby-line issue because it charges a lower cost-recovery service charge for a standby fire line it supplies with water around the clock as for a same-sized standard meter, according to spokeswoman Libby Pischel. For example, a standard meter bimonthly charge for a 2-inch-diameter water line is $82.85, while the same-sized meter for a fire line is $27.52. And, the district doesn?t charge tiered water rates if standby lines are tapped during a fire, she added.

?The city has proven themselves receptive to suggests and interested in facilitating business and recognizing the importance of economic vitality to the overall health of the community,? Mr. Wells said.

The city two years ago, as the economic recession sent commercial property vacancies soaring and trimmed Community Development staff by three positions, revised zoning rules to eliminate certain discretionary review steps to speed analysis of projects and reduce staff time, according to Paul Jensen, department director.

?We?re going through a second round of changes to the Zoning Ordinance to reduce some level of discretionary review of planning permits to be business-friendly and reduce workload,? he said. Draft changes are set to be released in about two months.

The business improvement district on Tuesday presented a proposal to the City Council to expand the district area, encompassing five times more businesses and boosting available funds from about $58,000 a year to $100,175. That will be important because, the district learned recently that it will lose another $30,000 a year in revenue from a Lindaro Street parking lot between Second and Third streets. Property owner Pacific Gas & Electric plans to find a developer for the three-acre site in the next couple of years.

The first public hearing is set for May 6, then the City Council will decide whether it proceeds.

?We want to bring the shine back to downtown and think businesses are waiting for that to happen,? Ms. Thompson said. ?People love downtown San Rafael, but right now it needs a little support.?

Source: http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/70727/ramping-up-efforts-to-retain-attract-san-rafael-businesses/

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Don't chase the money - Chase the passion. - ShoeMoney Internet ...

I get messages from people all the time who want to make money online. ?They read the blog/newsletter, ?see my phat AdSense Check and think I have the magic bullett.

Guess what I DO! ?Prepare yourself for it!

You have passion and expertise about something. ?Share that with people.

Let me give you some examples. ?I will start with myself.

  • In 2003, while working a full time job and also reselling computers online, ?I discovered a way to format ringtones and wallpapers for my Nextel phone. ?I loved doing it. ?It was a fun hobby. ?Long story short ? I ?took that knowledge and created a website that others could upload ringtones to. ?By 2005 the site was getting a ton of traffic. ?I got a call from Google that suggested I put AdSense code on the site. ?Overnight that site turned into a multimillion dollar website that I sold in 2010.
  • In 2007, ?after having success with contextual advertising and affiliate marketing I thought it would be fun to create AdSense looking ads that got high clickthroughs but instead of going through Google I would bypass them and use my affiliate link. ?Then I thought it would be fun to allow others to use this. ?Then one day at a conference a person from eBay said eBay affiliates were doing really well with my ShoeMoney Ads ad network and suggested I build it just around eBay. ?I created AuctionAds that did exactly that. ?I created this with a part time developer and within 4 months it was generating over 2 million a month and I sold the company literally 4 months to the day that it launched. ?Again this was a fun project that was almost like a hobby.
  • In 2003 I started a blog for fun sharing my life. ?Not a ?how to make money? blog but just shit I was doing. ?It evolved into what you are reading now. ?And its made millions of dollars.
  • In 2010 I shared my knowledge and experience on how I learned to make money online via a product called the ShoeMoney System. ?It?s sold over 2 million dollars worth to date and still continues to sell.
  • In 2011 for fun I created a website called freeseoreport.com. ?It was a free site where people could run a report on their site and a keyword they were trying to rank for then showed them what they were doing vs the top 10 people in every country and ever search engine. ?This was something I found of value myself in trying to figure out backlinks and onpage stuff that I was missing out on. ?I made money on the ?backend? by sending people value added emails educating them on a variety of subjects related to seo with affiliate links. ?There was also a viral component where for each person you?referred?to the website you got another free report. ?The site was getting about 600 new people a day running about 3,000 reports per day. ? The site was purchased 7 months later by an SEO firm.
  • Many years ago, ?really before I was well known, ?3 other marketers and myself started a high dollar conference called the elite retreat. ?Its 8k per person and limited to 30 people. ? We will be having our 10th event this fall.
  • In 2012 I created an automated email marketing system called the PAR Program. ?This is my total focus now. ?I stumbled into this because I took what I loved about email marketing and all the money we had made from it, ?did it for a large company and after seeing the results started offering it as a service. ?I have done ZERO marketing (I am bogged down with sales) and the company is growing like a rocket.

Ive done other stuff but those are the key ones. ?I have also had failures. ?Not because they were bad ideas but I just did not have the resources time wise to devote to making them work. ?All of them were fun projects but more importantly great experiences.

Lets look at others:

  • A friend of mine who is also passionate and educated about mixed martial arts started a site called ufcjunkie.wordpress.com (now mmajunkie.com due to trademark). ?He started the site as a hobby just putting his thoughts about the world of mixed martial arts online. ?He started the site on a wordpress free hosted platform. ?Within 5 years the site sold to USA TODAY for 8 figures.
  • 2 kids from hawaii, who were passionate about cats, thought it would be funny to post a picture of a cat captioning it with what they think the cat would say in ?cat language?. ?They uploaded a picture regularly and people found them funny. ?Again this was on a free wordpress hosted blog. ?The site was called icanhazcheeseburger.wordpress.com. ?The fun site got massive traction so they allowed others to upload their funny cat photos. ?Then one day they stumbled on to a blog called ShoeMoney.com, ?saw some guy holding a 134k AdSense check and put the code on their site. ?It made a ton and they sold the site for millions.
  • A long time ago a kid who grew up with his parents owning a wine selling business decided to start blogging about wine. ? People started stumbling on to the site who were also interested in wine. ?Then he started recording himself and the video?s started to become very viral. ?So much so that he got invites to appear on Conan Obrien and Ellen. ?He is now a multimillionaire with a #1 best selling book bringing in residual income. ?His site is?winelibrary.com and his name is?Gary Vaynerchuk.
  • A?Chinese?immigrant with very broken english started a blog because he was interested in making money online. ?Then he decided to show how much he was making online monthly. ?Started with very little. ?Then the blog started getting traction. ?He did this all while having a computer business. ?But he kept on sharing how he was making money online from his blog and exactly how much he was making. ?People loved it and he started getting a following. ?The site literally is called ?I make money by telling people I make money online?. ?Thats it! ? And now his site literally is nothing but promoting affiliate products or doing paid reviews of people?s ?how to make money? products. ?It worked out for him? ?He now makes a high six figure income basically doing nothing?. ?He has someone doing his posts for him as he travels around the world making more money month after month. ?He recently released a product keeping the same theme of being transparent and walking you through how to make money with a blog. ?He crushed it. ?- ?John Chow of johnchow.com
  • A former collegate pitcher decided to make a website offering a product to teach people how to gain more MPH on their fast ball offered a dvd set doing just that. ?He now has a thriving business at topvelocity.net
  • A guy started a blog making fun of celebrities for fun. ?Years later it evolved into perezhilton.com

See a trend here?

Lets get back to the original question? ? ?I want to make money online. ?Where do I start? ?

I don?t know ANY successful internet millionaire who did not stumble onto their internet success. ?None of them had visions of being a internet millionaire. ?They had passions, interest, and education about a subject and?pursued?it. ?That is the key. ? None of them had to quit their day jobs. ?They all started because it was a hobby. ?It was fun?

The one thing I have learned is when someone starts something that they consider ?work? they will give up quickly.

  • I have handed over websites to people that were generating hundreds of dollars a month for them to take and run with. ?Guess what? ?They didn?t do anything they just sucked up the revenue and let it die.
  • I have given PPC keywords to people that I was making a lot of money with promoting affiliate offers. ?Guess what? ?They ran it until they died then came to me for more keywords. ?The didn?t research or even care how it was making money.

?But honestly thats just the top of the ice berg. ?

For everyone who is making money on line there is millions of people who ?want to?. ?Out of those very few will take action. ?There is no doubt anyone can do it and the best part about it is you can do it from anywhere in the world no matter what level of education or experience.

This?opportunity?will not be around forever. ?Mostly because big brands are just now starting to see the value of some of the marketing techniques and dumping in tons of money where guys like us just can?t compete. ?Fortunately they move at a snails pace and for now guys sitting at home can do much more cutting edge techniques that big businesses can?t keep up.

I got a little off topic but my point is that if you really want to make money online it costs you no money at all to take action right now. ?And I mean RIGHT NOW.

Chase the passion not the money.

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