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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Google settles patent lawsuit from Immersion over Motorola use of haptic feedback
Immersion is known for guarding its haptic feedback patents with enthusiasm -- just ask Microsoft, among others. Motorola learned first-hand when Immersion sued over the use of basic haptic technology in May, but all that's water under the bridge now that Motorola's new parent Google is settling the matter out of court. While the exact sums aren't public, Google will pay Immersion to address any relevant past shipments, license the patents for future Motorola shipments and take care of "certain issues" with Google-badged hardware using the disputed vibration techniques. Immersion's end of the bargain is simply to end its legal action, including an ITC complaint, although the company makes clear that non-Motorola Android phones aren't covered by the deal. We're sure Google isn't happy to shoulder additional costs on top of its $12.5 billion Motorola acquisition, although it may see the settlement as a matter of establishing focus. After all, there's bigger fish to fry.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Hezbollah says could hit all of Israel in future war
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel on Sunday that thousands of rockets would rain down on Tel Aviv and cities across the Jewish state if it attacked Lebanon.
Speaking four days after the ceasefire which ended a week of conflict between Israel and the Islamist Hamas rulers of Gaza, Nasrallah said Hezbollah's response to any attack would dwarf the rocket fire launched from Palestinian territories.
"Israel, which was shaken by a handful of Fajr-5 rockets during eight days - how would it cope with thousands of rockets which would fall on Tel Aviv and other (cities) ... if it attacked Lebanon?" Nasrallah said.
The Fajr-5s, with a range of 75 km (45 miles) - able to strike Tel Aviv or Jerusalem - and 175 kg (386 lb) warheads, are the most powerful and long-range rockets to have been fired from Gaza.
But Hezbollah, which fought Israel to a standstill in a 34-day war six years ago, says it has been re-arming since then and has a far deadlier arsenal than Hamas. Nasrallah has said Hezbollah could kill tens of thousands of people and strike anywhere inside Israel if hostilities break out again.
"If the confrontation with the Gaza Strip ... had a range of 40 to 70 km, the battle with us will range over the whole of occupied Palestine - from the Lebanese border to the Jordanian border, to the Red Sea," Nasrallah said.
Hezbollah could hit targets "from Kiryat Shmona - and let the Israelis listen carefully - from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat", he said, referring to Israeli's northernmost town on the Lebanese border to the Red Sea port 290 miles further south.
The movement has warned that any Israeli attack against the nuclear facilities of its patron Iran, which has armed and funded the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim militant group, would inflame the Middle East - though it has not specified its own response.
In a move it said showed it could penetrate deep inside Israeli defenses, it flew a drone over Israel last month. The drone was shot down after flying 25 miles into southern Israel.
Israel says its Iron Dome missile defense system knocked out 90 percent of the rockets fired from Gaza which were on course to hit populated areas.
TENS OF THOUSANDS MARK ASHURA
Nasrallah, who has lived in hiding since 2006 to avoid assassination by Israel, was speaking by video-link to tens of thousands of Shi'ite faithful in southern Beirut commemorating Ashura, the day when the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hussein was killed in battle 13 centuries ago.
Wearing a black turban and robes in a sign of mourning, the 52-year-old cleric said his Shi'ite movement wanted to prevent sectarian tension in Lebanon - fuelled by the civil war in Syria - plunging his country into renewed conflict.
"We want to avert strife and Israel is our only enemy. We have no enemies in Lebanon," Nasrallah said.
Many Sunni Muslim political leaders blamed Hezbollah's ally Syria for last month's bomb attack which killed a top intelligence official and plunged Lebanon into political crisis.
The opposition March 14 coalition blamed Syria for the assassination and called on the Lebanese government, dominated by allies of Hezbollah and Syria, to quit.
Sporadic clashes have erupted since then, including a shootout in the southern city of Sidon two weeks ago when three people were killed after supporters of a Sunni cleric tried to tear down Shi'ite Ashura banners.
On Saturday the army said it arrested five people and seized 450 grams (1lb) of explosives in Nabatiyeh on the eve of an Ashura march in the southern Lebanese town which was attended by thousands of Shi'ite mourners, many striking their heads with blades to draw blood to mark the tragedy of Hussein's death.
Security sources said the arrested men were Syrians suspected of planning an attack on the Ashura processions but Nasrallah, speaking late on Saturday, suggested they were trying to send arms to the conflict in Syria.
"We already know that many Syrians arrive in Lebanon to buy weapons," he said. "Neither weather nor rain can frighten us, nor can explosions or security threats stand between us and Imam Hussein".
(Additional reporting by Laila Bassam in Beirut and Dan Williams in Jerusalem; Editing by Louise Ireland)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hezbollah-warns-rocket-barrage-israel-attacks-lebanon-105702217.html
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Friday, November 23, 2012
gramesmith70: Daily Tips for Business: Workplace Communication ...
Well, as an entrepreneur I used to laugh at people who wanted to come to work for my company and on their resume they put that they had a Business Communications Degree. I used to think that they studied business communications because it was an easy subject in school, one that you could learn without having to deal with too much math, perhaps even taking the easy way out. Nevertheless workplace communication is an essential tool, and without it your business will not operate efficiently, and you are bound to get your wires crossed more often than not.
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Cameron in crossfire when press inquiry reports
LONDON (Reuters) - After a year-long public inquiry exposed the worst excesses of Britain's raucous newspapers, the press is battling to avoid any proposals for tougher regulation next week, and Prime Minister David Cameron will come under fire whatever he decides.
Senior judge Brian Leveson is set to announce by the end of November the findings of his dissection of the industry, which was prompted by a phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World Sunday, a News Corp tabloid the media tycoon then shut down.
Leveson is expected to recommend a new independent body with statutory powers over the press instead of the current system of self-regulation that the industry wants to retain.
Newspapers argue statutory rules would curb freedom of speech, though some phone-hacking victims say the press is trying to bully Cameron into ducking far-reaching reforms.
Cameron will have to decide whether to accept Leveson's proposals in full and risk the wrath of the press in the run-up to an election in 2015 election that polls show he is likely to lose, or face accusations he is in thrall to the media.
"The prime minister is being lobbied furiously by the newspapers and other vested interests of the press," said lawmaker George Eustice, a member of Cameron's Conservative Party who supports stronger regulation.
"But it would be wrong to ignore the conclusions of an inquiry that has cost 5 million pounds ($8 million) and received thousands of pages of evidence. I don't think you can just brush it under the carpet," he told Reuters.
Cameron ordered the inquiry last July after public fury that murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was among the victims of phone-hacking by the News of the World.
With a wide remit to examine all aspects of the industry, the inquiry revealed not just unpleasant tabloid tactics but the cosy relationship between Britain's top politicians, newspaper executives and senior police officers.
Cameron, three former prime ministers, senior ministers, press barons including the 81-year-old Murdoch, plus an array of celebrities such as Hollywood actor Hugh Grant were among the 164 witnesses to appear before the inquiry.
"LOTS OF LOVE"
The inquiry embarrassed Cameron by exposing his close ties to executives at Murdoch's British newspaper empire, notably former top lieutenant Rebekah Brooks, who is facing criminal action over phone-hacking and other alleged illegal actions.
"I am so rooting for you tomorrow not just as a personal friend but because professionally we're definitely in this together," Brooks texted to Cameron before a key speech in 2009.
Cameron and Brooks, who was editor of the News of the World when it hacked Milly Dowler's phone, enjoyed private dinners at their country houses, the inquiry heard, and Cameron signed off text messages to Brooks with an affectionate "LOL", which he thought stood for "lots of love".
The disclosures fuelled speculation that a succession of British leaders had allowed media tycoons such as Murdoch far too much influence in return for favourable coverage.
"He has very little room for manoeuvre. If Leveson recommends a statutory involvement, he is more or less obliged to accept it," said Roy Greenslade, author of several books on the British press and a former senior editor at Murdoch's Sun daily tabloid.
"He knows he's in a weak position due to the nature of his own relationship with the News of the World. If he backs out from legislation, then people will charge that he's gone soft on the papers."
Though Leveson said he wanted his report to "mean something" rather than gather dust, he has not explicitly said he wants statutory regulation, though his questioning during the inquiry has convinced many journalists he will call for it.
The 63-year-old former Appeal Court judge will be anxious to avoid any charge of whitewash, a fate that befell Lord Hutton, whose 2003 inquiry found in favour of the government over a row with the BBC about the build-up to the Iraq war.
Newspapers have been lobbying hard, with the right-leaning Daily Mail running a 12-page denouncement of Leveson last week in the most public shot across the bows of Cameron's government.
Editors accept some of the evidence at the inquiry was shocking, but say the industry should not be judged or punished because of a few bad apples.
"I'm hoping that he (Leveson) will have taken on board all of the evidence, not just the evidence of some of the celebrities, which was self-interested and self-indulgent," said Bob Satchwell, executive director of the Society of Editors.
"Any kind of regulation by definition must interfere with the freedom of the press and freedom of expression. If there is any regulation which involved the state or the law, that is even more worrying, because what that does in effect is take you back 300 years."
STATE CENSORSHIP
Labour lawmaker Paul Farrelly, a former journalist and member of parliament's media committee, said statutory measures did not equate to state censorship.
"There is an orchestrated campaign already, led by the Daily Mail, to undermine Leveson and supporters of stricter regulation before he has even reported," he said.
Cameron himself has so far said he would support any proposals as long as they were sensible: "We know what a proper regulatory system should look like," he told parliament last month. "We do not have one now; we need one for the future."
Though most of the national press tends to support the centre-right Conservatives, the papers have given Cameron a rough ride.
"There are all sorts of reasons for that, but one of them is Leveson and the newspapers' unhappiness with Cameron setting up the inquiry," said Conservative activist Tim Montgomerie.
He said it would be difficult for Cameron to ignore a recommendation for statutory regulation after 42 of his party's lawmakers signed an open letter calling for just that.
Jacqui Hames, a police officer put under surveillance by the News of the World in pursuit of negative stories, said this was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to clean up the press.
"We've got some very powerful, very strong-minded, strong-willed people running our papers, and if they think they can stick two fingers up at (a new regulator) and walk away, then they will," she said.
"I think it's time for politicians to be statesmanlike, and the public will be very grateful. If David Cameron can get the support and the courage to seize the opportunity, I think he'll be looked upon as someone who has made a huge change in our society for the good."
(Editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Will Waterman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cameron-crossfire-press-inquiry-reports-074839511--finance.html
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Zombie Killing Cyber Adventure
In a future, a virus turned many of the people in the world to zombies. After zoning off the zombies let life go on in living zones but to establish routes and expand land you must fight through zombies.
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Forum for completely Out of Character (OOC) discussion, based around whatever is happening In Character (IC). Discuss plans, storylines, and events; Recruit for your roleplaying game, or find a GM for your playergroup.Just a few questions!
One: is it more steampunk or futuristic?
Two: russia as in the country or that's just the name?
Three: do they have to be russian?
Four: romance?
Five: can I join but submit a character later tonight/tomorrow?
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1. Stating the year and "cyborgs" it is futuristic.
2. New Russia consists of Ukraine, Russia, Mongolia, Kasachstan, the northern parts of China, Belarus and the Baltic states, so most of the former Soviet Union.
3. No.
4. Sure. But stay within the given forum rules.
5. Anytime, it is open and will even be open for the starting few days as soon as it gets going.
Additionally for the clarification of the transformation part. The combat transformation aka the mode that allows flight gives off a rather humanoid robotic appearance (see the arena cyborgs in Kiddy Grade after they shed off their human appearances). The more mechanical transformation can have legs, tracks, wheels or can hover while possessing the traits of tanks, artillery or similar (armor, mounted weapons etc. arms are allowed too). But no one is obligated to have a transformable cyborg unless they want to have flight capabilities.
Humans being bitten by zombies: If a human character is bitten by a zombie, he or she will need to get a vaccine within the first five minutes or get the affected limb amputateed. In further stages, a cybernetic operation may be necessary, otherwise the individual will have to be put down.
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I want in. Love future zombies...
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Submitted my dude. Hope you like.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Doctors' And Nurses' Licenses Snagged By New Immigration Law In ...
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Hundreds of health care workers in Georgia are losing their licenses to practice because of a problem created by a new immigration law in the state.
The law requires everyone ? no matter where they were born ? to prove their citizenship or legal residency as they renew their professional licenses. But with too few staff to process the extra paperwork, licenses for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health workers are expiring.
Lisa Durden with the Secretary of State?s office says renewing a license used to be a straightforward process and until the new proof of citizenship provision took effect this year, most applications whizzed through. Now, they crawl. Enactment of the law coincided with budget cuts that reduced the office staff by 40 percent.
Kelly Farr, Georgia?s Deputy Secretary of State, says 600 nurses alone have fallen through the cracks.
Workers in the Georgia secretary of state's office have fallen behind on licensing applications for nurses (Photo by Jim Burress/WABE).
?There?s nothing more frustrating than getting that call from the desperate nurse, knowing ...she?s being slowed down because we literally don?t have enough people to click the approve button," Farr said.
While the Secretary of State handles licensing nurses, pharmacists, and veterinarians, Georgia?s medical board is in charge of doctors, physician assistants and even acupuncturists. It?s the same story there. Director LaSharn Hughes says she sent 41,000 letters of notification on a Thursday.
"And by Monday, we?d burned up a fax machine. We didn?t have the staff. We didn?t have the equipment," Hughes said.
Phones go unanswered. Paperwork piles up. And processing delays, coupled with confusion over the new rules, mean lots of expired licenses. Hughes estimates about 1,300 doctors and other medical practitioners have lost their legal ability to work.Some did not submit the new paperwork required. Others are stuck in the backlog of applications that haven?t been processed yet.
Donald Palmisano, Jr., Executive Director of the Medical Association of Georgia, believes the law fixes a problem that never existed ? at least not among doctors.
"We?re not aware of any undocumented immigrants that are physicians," Palmisano said.
Jorge Simmonds-Diaz, a Colombian-born physician who?s been practicing in Georgia for decades, is frustrated by the new law. He remembers years ago having to submit a high school transcript in English, to get his license. That makes more sense to him than the new law.
"To have 1,300 doctors not working because of that paper is ridiculous," Simmonds-Diaz said.
Even D.A. King, an outspoken activist and critic of illegal immigration who helped write the law, agrees. King says the new law protects Georgia jobs, but even he believes some parts of the legislation need fixing. A bill that addressed some of the law?s shortcomings died in the last legislative session.
"I am not only outraged, but sincerely disappointed and puzzled that our repair legislation was not allowed a vote," King said.
Legislative sponsors of the law did not respond to interview requests. Neither did Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal.
For now, state licensing offices will continue opening mail full of copies of passports and birth certificates, then checking them against a list of acceptable documents.
But that?s where the process ends, confirms Kelly Farr and Lisa Durden of the Secretary of State?s office. The law says nothing about making sure the documents are genuine. "We really don?t have a way to do that,? says Durden.
State officials say the new document requirements haven?t uncovered any undocumented immigrants.
Instead, officials say they hope the process itself is enough to discourage people in the country illegally from trying to get a license in the first place.
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Friday, November 9, 2012
East Coast Hotel Deals Popping Up in the Wake ... - Travel + Leisure
11.07.12
While some NYC hotel rooms are still occupied by those displaced from Hurricane Sandy (with FEMA even picking up the tab), there are still vacancies in New York City and along the East Coast?with a handful of fine properties flaunting noteworthy discounts and donations in the coming days and weeks:
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New York City: The Surrey
Sandy Donation: 5 percent of all stays go to the American Red Cross.
Sandy Discount: $50 gift certificate to use for a future visit; $40 spa treatments; and a glass of prosecco.
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Newport, RI: Vanderbilt Grace (pictured, top)
Sandy Donation: $20 per person for Restaurant Week packages booked to the American Red Cross.
Sandy Discount: 2 nights accommodation; two champagne breakfasts; one lunch; one fine dining dinner; and wine upon arrival for $575.
Southampton, NY: Southampton Inn
Sandy Discount: $100/night rate, including continental breakfast to guests.
Cambridge, MA: Hotel Marlowe
Sandy Discount: 20 percent off nightly rate. Booking code: ?SANDY.?
Flintstone, MD: Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort
Sandy Discount: $39 per night rate through November 15 to Tri-State residents. Booking code: ?SANDY.?
Everywhere: Airbnb.com
Sandy Discount: Airbnb is organizing a network of people offering their homes?for free?to those displaced by Hurricane Sandy. Follow the link above to donate space, or find a place to stay.
Surge-swept Atlantic City has even re-opened for business, notably the newly renovated Golden Nugget and the popular REVEL. While these top properties are not offering discounts or donations per se, a trip and overnight stay in the iconic (former) boardwalk town on the New Jersey shore is sure to help the distressed local economy.
Adrien Glover is the deputy digital editor at Travel + Leisure.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Sandy: Small blip for investors ? Bankrate, Inc.
For some, extraneous events bring investing opportunities. For instance, with all the rebuilding and recovering to be done following Superstorm Sandy, business will be booming for many companies. Will that translate to a boom for investors in general?
Probably not. Short-term traders may be able to profit from a bump to some businesses from the increase in sales and activity. But over the long term, Sandy probably won't make much difference to investors. However, the economy may be a different story.
People who try to profit from short-term moves in the market could potentially make some money. But that's far from certain.
"If they are doing it on a day-by-day basis like day traders, my opinion is they gamble, and the odds are not in their favor," says Stephen Davis, president of Safe Harbor Asset Management in Huntington, N.Y.
Michael Masiello, president of Masiello Retirement Solutions in Rochester, N.Y., agrees.
"Would I go out and buy Home Depot based on the home improvement boom coming? If I didn't fundamentally want it on the Friday before the storm, I wouldn't buy it now," he says.
"Many people might have that view, but over time, earnings dictate stock price. It is relative to the long term of whether you own a stock," Masiello says.
Long-term investors, and maybe even short-term, are unlikely to benefit or suffer too much as a result of the storm, "unless another major storm hits soon afterward and further impacts workers," says to Michael Gayed, CFA, co-portfolio manager of the ATAC Inflation Rotation Fund (ATACX).
There are still bigger problems potentially facing the stock market such as the European recession and the so-called fiscal cliff.
Whether or not disasters are good or bad for the economy is a bit arguable. On the one hand, there's an explosion of economic activity as people go out to replace things that have been destroyed, and jobs are created by the cleanup.
But people who spend money today to rebuild their homes and buy new furniture or generators or pay to have trees removed don't have that money to spend elsewhere. Next month, that extra money that may have paid for gifts, vacations, new clothes or a new car is no longer hanging around. While some economists contend that disasters and wars can have a stimulative effect on the economy, the counter-argument calls that the?broken-window fallacy, based on a parable written in 1850 by? French economist Frederic Bastiat.
Bastiat argued that the immediate effect of an act of vandalism -- the broken window -- would result in a sale for a local business. The unseen effect is that the owner of the window can't use that money for anything else.
"Oftentimes, it is argued that natural disasters tend to be economically damaging in the short-term given the cost of destruction, but better long-term on reconstruction efforts and upgraded infrastructure. The issue with that is that if a dollar is spent today to rebuild, that is a dollar that cannot be used for some other purchase," Gayed says.
In regard to Sandy, the stocks of businesses that will benefit from the storm clean-up could see an increase, but the stocks of retailers and other businesses that would otherwise have profited over the holidays may sink.
"If there were a legitimate discount, stocks would price in due to Sandy ... We likely would begin seeing that following Black Friday and retail sales into the holidays," Gayed says.
How do you think the storm will affect investing? What stocks would you buy based on the impact of the storm?
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Source: http://www.bankrate.com/financing/investing/sandy-small-blip-for-investors/
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Dealing with power outages more efficiently
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Power supply is the backbone of our modern economy. Nearly every aspect of life depends on electrically-operated devices. When the flow of power stops, it is not just the lights that go out. In the supermarket, the automatic teller machines and cash registers stop working. Even telephones, radios and televisions become paralyzed. If the shortage lasts a long time the supply of hot water, gas and fuel and the functioning of respirators at intensive care units in nursing homes or at private homes is at risk.
The causes of this dreadful scenario can range from natural disasters to terrorist attacks or just technical problems. A few recent examples demonstrate how real the risk is in Germany where the last major event occurred in Hannover in 2011. The 650,000 people there went without power for up to 90 minutes after a blockage in a coal-fired power plant, and the power main connection at a transformer station failed. Even more far-reaching consequences were seen from the biggest power outage in post-war history, when extreme snowfalls in the Mnsterland region in 2005 knocked out a series of high-voltage pylons. Some 250,000 people went without power, in some cases for up to five days. The financial damages exceeded 100 million euros.
Firefighters as process managers
In emergency cases, the utility companies, public officials and emergency services realize that they must contend with a variety of tasks: Who are the most seriously affected? Where is greatest need for action? How long will emergency power supply last? Who travels where, and how long will the fuel last? Theseare just a fraction of the issues that require rapid response. "To minimize the duration of the crash, the officers-in-charge at the fire, police and emergency services departments have to act like process managers," explains Dr. Thomas Rose, head of the Risk Management and Decision Support research department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT in St. Augustin.
Whereas process managers at companies have access to specialized software tools, rescue personnel have no modern IT-backed process management tools available for crisis situations. "Currently available solutions for industry and business are too complex, and do not fit the unique requirements that the police, the fire department and other emergency services have. Even programs like Excel rapidly hit their limits when there are constantly changing volumes of data. This is precisely the gap our IT safety platform covers," explains Rose.
The software from the Fraunhofer Institute FIT provides energy suppliers, public officials and rescue professionals throughout Germany with the opportunity to be prepared in advance in other words, before the power goes out for optimal joint collaboration in crisis situations. At the heart of this IT solution, developed under the auspices of the InfoStrom research project, are role-based checklists. These contain not only detailed action guidelines on what each individual site has to do, but also guidelines on which items have to be coordinated with other sites.
Tests in two local counties
For example, the technical relief organization knows exactly how many vehicles the local fire department plans to deploy. "Checklists are ideally suited for crisis management. But previously, they were only available on paper. Even the cross-organizational approach was missing. In addition, we integrated a glossary. Because different rescue personnel typically use different sets of terminology," says Rose. The operational capability of the software was successfully evaluated in the more urban-defined Rhein-Erft county, and the more rural setting of Siegen-Wittgenstein county.
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Power supply is the backbone of our modern economy. Nearly every aspect of life depends on electrically-operated devices. When the flow of power stops, it is not just the lights that go out. In the supermarket, the automatic teller machines and cash registers stop working. Even telephones, radios and televisions become paralyzed. If the shortage lasts a long time the supply of hot water, gas and fuel and the functioning of respirators at intensive care units in nursing homes or at private homes is at risk.
The causes of this dreadful scenario can range from natural disasters to terrorist attacks or just technical problems. A few recent examples demonstrate how real the risk is in Germany where the last major event occurred in Hannover in 2011. The 650,000 people there went without power for up to 90 minutes after a blockage in a coal-fired power plant, and the power main connection at a transformer station failed. Even more far-reaching consequences were seen from the biggest power outage in post-war history, when extreme snowfalls in the Mnsterland region in 2005 knocked out a series of high-voltage pylons. Some 250,000 people went without power, in some cases for up to five days. The financial damages exceeded 100 million euros.
Firefighters as process managers
In emergency cases, the utility companies, public officials and emergency services realize that they must contend with a variety of tasks: Who are the most seriously affected? Where is greatest need for action? How long will emergency power supply last? Who travels where, and how long will the fuel last? Theseare just a fraction of the issues that require rapid response. "To minimize the duration of the crash, the officers-in-charge at the fire, police and emergency services departments have to act like process managers," explains Dr. Thomas Rose, head of the Risk Management and Decision Support research department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT in St. Augustin.
Whereas process managers at companies have access to specialized software tools, rescue personnel have no modern IT-backed process management tools available for crisis situations. "Currently available solutions for industry and business are too complex, and do not fit the unique requirements that the police, the fire department and other emergency services have. Even programs like Excel rapidly hit their limits when there are constantly changing volumes of data. This is precisely the gap our IT safety platform covers," explains Rose.
The software from the Fraunhofer Institute FIT provides energy suppliers, public officials and rescue professionals throughout Germany with the opportunity to be prepared in advance in other words, before the power goes out for optimal joint collaboration in crisis situations. At the heart of this IT solution, developed under the auspices of the InfoStrom research project, are role-based checklists. These contain not only detailed action guidelines on what each individual site has to do, but also guidelines on which items have to be coordinated with other sites.
Tests in two local counties
For example, the technical relief organization knows exactly how many vehicles the local fire department plans to deploy. "Checklists are ideally suited for crisis management. But previously, they were only available on paper. Even the cross-organizational approach was missing. In addition, we integrated a glossary. Because different rescue personnel typically use different sets of terminology," says Rose. The operational capability of the software was successfully evaluated in the more urban-defined Rhein-Erft county, and the more rural setting of Siegen-Wittgenstein county.
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Friday, November 2, 2012
?Pregnancy brain? ? what did you forget? | BabyCenter Blog
You?re going about your seemingly normal day, when suddenly you can?t find the tv remote. You search the sofa cushions, under the sofa, glare at the dog, and finally give up and wait for your partner to come home and look harder. Time for dinner! You open the freezer and?there?s the missing remote. So where?s the ice cream you were having earlier?? Oh. In the oven. Of course.
?Pregnancy brain?. I?ve experienced it. All my family and friends have as well. They can be embarrassing but they can also just be funny as heck!
Being forgetful in pregnancy is nothing new. But for every mother, her own experiences are unique!
In our January 2013 birth club, some members shared their ?pregnancy brain? moments:
gbrahm- I burned french toast twice in a row ? the first time because I forgot to turn the heat down on the burner and the second time because I forgot that I forgot to turn the heat down on the burner. :-/ My hubby laughed pretty hard at that one.
pennylane87- My boss?s wife had been calling me Tina by mistake the other day. (Tina is the name of the client that my boss?s wife and I were talking about.) When I wrote an email TO Tina, I almost sent it, signed ?Sincerely, Tina.? ?I got confused about my own damn name.
graciebb- I tried to put the ice cream away on top of the freezer and I spent forever trying to figure out why the clothes in the washer were wet after getting done washing lol
And I think my favorite:
prouddmami2be- I just made a grilled cheese sandwich and forgot the cheese :/
These are the times we look back and laugh and nod knowingly at the next pregnant mama who forgets the cheese.
What have you forgotten while in the throes of ?pregnancy brain??
Photo: Flickr/mastermaq
Source: http://blogs.babycenter.com/community_buzz/10312012pregnancy-brain-did-you-experience-it/
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Asia stocks mostly up on US, China data
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Asian stock markets advanced Friday as a batch of upbeat economic data from the U.S. and China and overnight gains on Wall Street bolstered investor sentiment.
The latest data from the world's two largest economies showed a recovery in China's manufacturing sector and growing confidence among American consumers. The reports fanned hope that the global economy may emerge out of the recent slumber and put itself back on track to recovery early next year.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index advanced 1.3 percent to 9,064.20. Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 1.1 percent to 22,070.22 and South Korea's Kospi gained 1 percent to 1,917.94. Australia's S&P/ASX200 inched up 0.2 percent to 4,465.90. Benchmark indices in Singapore, Taiwan and Indonesia rose but mainland Chinese shares fell.
Data from the U.S. Institute for Supply Management showed that American factories saw increased orders and more production last month, posting growth for two straight months.
The Conference Board further emboldened investor sentiment after saying that Americans' confidence in the economy surged in October to a nearly five-year high, largely encouraged by an improved job market. Earnings reports from retailers and automakers including Chrysler were also solid.
The data that showed crucial players in the economic recovery are gaining confidence added to the upbeat report that China's economy is improving. China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing's monthly purchasing managers' index showed earlier this week that the world's No. 2 economy saw an improvement in manufacturing last month.
Wall Street ended its second trading day on a higher note after Hurricane Sandy disrupted U.S. trading on Monday and Tuesday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 1 percent to close at 13,232.62. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 1.1 percent to 1,427.59. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index finished up 1.4 percent at 3,020.06.
Benchmark oil for December delivery fell 15 cents to $86.94 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained 85 cents Thursday to finish at $87.09 per barrel in New York.
In currencies, the euro fell to $1.2931 from $1.2939. The dollar rose to 80.25 yen from 80.18 yen.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asia-stocks-mostly-us-china-data-032036907--finance.html
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