'Nobody's going to Geneva,' White Rock mayor touts lower expenses

In his first full year leading the city, White Rock Mayor Wayne Baldwin claimed a third more in expenses than that claimed by his predecessor, Catherine Ferguson, in her last year at the helm.

According to a June 24 report from the city?s financial services director, Baldwin ? who was elected mayor in November 2011 ? claimed $9,831 in expenses last year. Ferguson claimed $6,960 in 2011, prior to Baldwin?s election in November, and just $3,248 in 2010, her last full year.

Baldwin told Peace Arch News the difference was likely due to Ferguson not being able to attend as many conferences.

Last year, those included the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in Saskatoon and the Union of BC Municipalities in Victoria, along with events ?that I get invited to all the time, but cost a lot of money.?

?I don?t think it?s too high,? he said of the total charged to taxpayers. ?If you compare it to, say, Dianne (Watts?) in Surrey, mine is not very high. We go to the same stuff pretty much, except she goes to China and whatnot.?

At the council meeting, Baldwin noted the combined expenses of all seven of the city?s politicians ($26,054) was less than that reported by some individual Surrey council members. Watts alone charged $28,724.

?Nobody?s going to Geneva,? Baldwin quipped, an apparent reference to Watts? $2,807 trip to attend a mayors? conference in Switzerland.

Baldwin?s remuneration for 2012 was $59,023. Couns. Al Campbell, Helen Fathers, Louise Hutchinson and Larry Robinson were each paid $28,689 (up from $27,568 in 2011); Coun. Grant Meyer was paid $28,200. Meyer attributed his lesser pay to changes in the deputy-mayor schedule.

Coun. Bill Lawrence ??who won his seat in November?s byelection to replace the late Mary-Wade Anderson ? earned $2,775; Anderson, who died in June 2012, earned $12,440.

Following Baldwin, Hutchinson claimed the next highest in expenses ($4,030). Fathers was next ($3,876); then Robinson ($3,424), Meyer ($2,327), Campbell ($1,821), Anderson ($720) and Lawrence ($25).

Remuneration to city staff last year totalled $9,065,491.

Highest-paid was the city?s director of financial services, Sandra Kurylo, who received $144,341, followed by fire Chief Phil Lemire ($134,226), city manager Dan Bottrill ($133,105) and director of development services Paul Stanton ($128,544).

(Totals for Kurylo, Lemire and Stanton include pay for unused vacation and banked time.)

Bottrill?s pay represents his first 9? months with the city. He took over as city manager in mid-March of last year, following the sudden retirement of Peggy Clark, whose compensation had been a campaign issue for Baldwin. According to city documents, Clark received $185,760 in her last year as city manager.

Director of municipal operations Greg St. Louis ? whose predecessor?s wages were also criticized by Baldwin ? was not listed in the report, which included only remuneration greater than $75,000. St. Louis began working for the city July 30.

The staffer claiming the most in expenses for 2012 was Lemire, at $5,756, followed by web technician Ying Lin ($4,763); deputy fire Chief Bob Schlase ($3,909); and Kurylo ($3,710).

Figures were released as part of the city?s financial statement for the year ending Dec. 31, 2012.

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Source: http://www.peacearchnews.com/news/213589051.html

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This Climate Fix Might Be Decades Ahead Of Its Time

Global Thermostat's pilot plant in Menlo Park, Calif., pulls carbon dioxide from the surrounding air. The next challenge is to find uses for the captured gas.

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Global Thermostat's pilot plant in Menlo Park, Calif., pulls carbon dioxide from the surrounding air. The next challenge is to find uses for the captured gas.

Courtesy of Global Thermostat

Every year, people add 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the air, mostly by burning fossil fuels. That's contributing to climate change. A few scientists have been dreaming about ways to pull some of that CO₂ out of the air, but face stiff skepticism and major hurdles. This is the story of one scientist who's pressing ahead.

Peter Eisenberger is a distinguished professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University. Earlier in his career, he ran the university's famed Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, and founded Columbia's Earth Institute. He was never one of those scientists who tinkered into the night on inventions. But he realized he didn't need to be.

"If you looked at knowledge as a commodity, we had generated this enormous amount of knowledge and we hadn't even begun to think of the many ways we could apply it," Eisenberger says. He decided he'd settle on a problem he wanted to solve, and then dive into the pool of knowledge for existing technologies that could help him.

He started looking for a way to pull carbon dioxide right out of the air. "And it turned out the best device already exists," he says. "It's called a monolith. That is the same type of instrument that's in the catalytic converter in your car. It cleans up your exhaust."

Eisenberg's monoliths grab carbon dioxide from the air, and release it again when you heat them up.

He teamed up with a colleague at Columbia, Graciela Chichilnisky, and formed a company to develop the idea. Global Thermostat got seed money from Edgar Bronfman, Jr. ? CEO of Warner Music Group and the former CEO of Seagram's, his family's business.

The company has built two pilot plants in Menlo Park, Calif. But of course there are big issues to solve: what do you do with the carbon dioxide once you've captured it, and how do you make money?

"If they don't tell you you're crazy, you're not doing something worthwhile," says Peter Eisenberger, co-founder of Global Thermostat, a firm that's building a device to pull carbon dioxide from the air.

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"So we then we looked for ways to monetize CO₂, and found that lots of people wanted to use CO₂ as a feedstock to make a valuable product," Eisenberger says.

Growers pipe carbon dioxide into greenhouses. Oil companies pump it underground to help them squeeze out more oil. Soda companies use it to put bubbles in their drinks. These are mostly small-scale applications.

Maybe someday Eisenberg could get paid to clean up the atmosphere by sucking out the CO₂ and burying it underground, though there's no market for that now.

But using carbon dioxide to make fuel could someday be big. So Eisenberger's first project involves using CO₂ to feed algae that churn out biofuel.

"Our first demonstration plant is being erected right now down in Daphne, Alabama, with an algae company called Algae Systems, which sits on Mobile Bay," Eisenberger says. "They'll be floating their algae in plastic bags on the top of the water. We'll be piping in CO₂ that we pull out of the air, and the sun will do the rest."

Of course, this one project will have zero effect on how much carbon dioxide is in the earth's atmosphere. But Eisenberger has much grander ambitions.

"I believe we have something that's economically viable, so our company will be successful," he says. "But I'm really in this because I want to contribute to a long term solution that the world needs."

Eisenberger says if he can open the door to capturing carbon dioxide from the air ? and make the process cheap enough ? someday we could actually slow down, or possibly even reverse, the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Robert Socolow at Princeton University started hearing a buzz about this technology a few years back.

"It's catchy," Socolow admits. "It's attractive conceptually that one could basically pour carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for the next several decades, and pull it out later and everything would be fine." But the appeal of the idea also worried him ? people might use the mere prospect of this technology as an excuse not to act.

So Socolow spearheaded a critique of the technique, on behalf of the American Physical Society.

Socolow's panel concluded that the technology would be hopelessly expensive, costing $600 for every ton of carbon dioxide it drew out of the air. And the scale would also be huge. In order to capture the emissions would waft into the air from a single coal-fired power plant, you'd need to build a structure 20 miles long and 30 feet high. "It's like the Great Wall of China," Socolow says.

The committee concluded that it would make a lot more sense to cut down on emissions first ? make our cars, homes and factories more efficient. Panel members also said it makes much more sense to capture carbon dioxide directly from smokestacks, where it's concentrated, instead of from the air.

Socolow says, maybe someday we'll have our emissions under control, and then we might need to remove some of the carbon dioxide that's already in the air, with a capture technology. But, in his view, that's a long way away. "I locate it in the 22nd century," he says. In other words, this might be a good project for Eisenberger's great-great-great grandchildren.

Researchers currently working on carbon dioxide capture technologies say the American Physical Society critique has made it much harder for them to raise money. Klaus Lackner, at Columbia University says he was turned down for a government grant. David Keith, at Harvard and the University of Calgary, says he struggled to get funding for his small company.

"It's a very powerful report from a very credible group of people and it may well help to kill us and other efforts," Keith says.

Proponents of air-capture technologies say some of the panel's conclusions are just plain wrong ? especially the estimated cost of $600 per ton.

"We have had third party reports, independent people, evaluating our technology, and it's under $50 a ton," Eisenberger says. He hasn't actually demonstrated that cost yet, and he agrees that nobody should take his word for it. But he's stopped arguing with his critics.

"I'm just going to go do it," he says. "And doing it or not ? that's the answer."

Pursuing a big idea takes some hard-headedness, and thick skin.

"If they don't tell you you're crazy, you're not doing something worthwhile," Eisenberger says. "Because what you do when you innovate is you disturb the existing order."

Fortunately, this won't be an academic argument forever. "That's the beauty of science. The people that take the time to come into the lab and see it working and do their own evaluation of the cost and the performance, they know it's not crazy."

If the researchers pursuing this technology can really make it inexpensive to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, Eisenberger says it could be a game-changer.

We could start producing fuels with the carbon dioxide that's already in the air, instead of unearthing more fossil fuels. This won't happen quickly, though.

"The energy infrastructure of the world is $55 trillion," Eisenberger says. So a technology to replace that is "not like a new Google app."

Still, human societies have made such transitions before. "They just don't happen in a day," Eisenberger says. "But they happen."

There's certainly no guarantee that capturing carbon dioxide from the air would ever become a big enough enterprise to make a difference to Earth's climate. But it won't even be put to the test unless people like Eisenberger give it a try.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/06/27/189522647/this-climate-fix-might-be-decades-ahead-of-its-time?ft=1&f=1007

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Sharp to form LCD tie-up with China Electronics, license technology

By Mari Saito

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp, a leading supplier of displays to Apple Inc, said Thursday it will form a $2.9 billion alliance with state-owned China Electronics Corp that includes an agreement by Sharp to license its advanced power-saving IGZO screen technology.

The new venture will be 92 percent owned by China Electronics, also known as CEC, which supplies equipment to China's military. The venture will set up a an LCD plant with the goal of mass-producing panel displays for televisions, notebook PCs and tablets in 2015.

Licensing IGZO, or indium gallium zinc oxide displays, fits into a strategy by cash-strapped Sharp to leverage its technology to bolster its finances. Sharp, in December, signed a pact with Qualcomm Inc, selling the U.S. company an equity stake for $120 million and agreeing to develop new screens based on IGZO technology.

IGZO screens boast power consumption as low as a tenth of conventional LCDs, high resolutions and faster reaction speeds. While an agreement to license the technology to a Chinese military-linked state company may raise eyebrows, Sharp does not exclusively own the technology, only being the first to commercialize it.

The agreement, which is a revised version of one agreed to with CEC in 2009, may instead represent a retreat by the Chinese company to win access to Sharp's more advanced tenth-generation LCD manufacturing techniques. CEC is planning to build an 8.5 generation facility.

Sharp is the only panel maker in the world to have built a tenth generation factory able to fabricate liquid crystal sandwiched in glass sheets thinner than a credit card that are 3.13 meters long by 2.88 meters wide. Smaller 8.5 generation sheets measure 2.2 meters by 2.5 meters.

CEC in November blamed deteriorating ties between Japan and China over their territorial spat in the East China Sea for shelving cooperation with Sharp to build a tenth-generation facility. Sharp, which sold a stake in its advanced LCD plant to Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry last year, says no such agreement ever existed.

Thursday's deal, including the construction of the 8.5 generation factory in Nanjing, represents one of the highest-profile transactions between a Chinese and Japanese company since tensions flared last year over a chain of disputed islands known as the Senkakus in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.

A Sharp spokesman declined to say how much in royalties the company expected to receive for the technology transfer. A portion of those proceeds will be used to fund Sharp's 8 percent stake in the joint venture, the spokesman said.

The new joint-venture will represent a total investment of $2.9 billion for Sharp, which was rescued in October by its banks. To rebuild its business, Sharp has also sought closer ties to Samsung Electronics, selling it a 3 percent stake for $103 million and pledging to supply it with small display screens.

(Additional reporting by Sophie Knight; Writing by Tim Kelly; Editing by Matt Driskill)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sharp-form-lcd-tie-china-electronics-license-technology-082534336.html

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The Benefits of Internet Radio - TechSling

The advantages of using a wireless Internet radio receiver as opposed to a traditional terrestrial as well as land based receiver tends to be quite many these days. Together with Internet radio players you?re no more tied to just the stations that are offered in your local area, but channels obtainable all over the world. There are actually completely new channels arriving online daily. The only factor you need to make the most of this kind of variety is an Internet radio tuner. This can be a stand alone receiver, a computer, a television or perhaps only a smartphone.

A number of services such as Pandora, iHeart radio, iTunes and even Freeview Radio through Digital TV providers such as BT Vision?possess a great deal of channels to choose from. Also available are streaming stations from individual radio stations and also private individuals. With a lot of options to get songs from comes a limitless choice in genres too. Everything from individual decades such as the 80?s to a particular kind of music including live jazz performances. Anything you like to listen to can be found with an Internet radio player.

Other features of Internet radio consist of having the ability to obtain more information about what you might be hearing than is possible with conventional radios. The majority of streams of music usually include information regarding the song you happen to be listening to. Details such as the name of the song, name of the performer and also the name of the album can be found quite easily. Furthermore, more and more services tend to be supplying the ability to buy the song you?re listening to straight from the stream you?re hearing it on.

With regular radio stations there might be difficulties with range from the station creating bad sound quality. This is not the case with Internet radio players. So long as the Internet speed and also wireless signal is adequate the quality of sound gets close to that of a CD. This can be essential when you are listening to radio stations that often go out during storms. With online stations as long as your Internet is up you will have music and songs.

Another advantage of listening to music on the Internet is the lack of long blocks of ads. While there tend to be costs associated with offering music online, the cost is significantly less than that of a land based radio station. Additionally in contrast to conventional radio stations, online radio has much less and sometimes absolutely no limitations on it. This allows for less censoring and more independence to perform tracks that could not make it past regulators on a standard radio station.

Every one of these benefits soon add up to a lot more independence and much larger spectrum of available songs to people hearing with a wired or even wireless Internet radio receiver. With a good pair of audio speakers and Internet speed to deal with the stream, playing music online can be a lot more enjoyable and satisfying than being tied to a radio station that?s close enough to reach your typical radio antenna.

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Large dead zone forming in the Gulf

June 27, 2013 ? Ocean experts had predicted a large "dead zone" area in the Gulf of Mexico this year, and according to the results from a Texas A&M University researcher just back from studying the region, those predictions appear to be right on target.

Steve DiMarco, professor of oceanography and one of the world's leading experts on the dead zone, says he and a Texas A&M team surveyed areas off the Texas-Louisiana coast last week and found large areas of oxygen-depleted water -- an area covering roughly 3,100 square miles, or about the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

"We found hypoxia (oxygen-depleted water) just about everywhere we looked," DiMarco reports.

"The most intense area is where you would expect it -- off the Louisiana coast south of Atchafalaya Bay and Grande Isle, La. But we also found significant amounts off High Island and near Galveston. The farther south we went, the less we found hypoxia in the water column, but we still found plenty of depleted oxygen waters up to just west of Freeport.

"There is no doubt there is a lot of hypoxia in the Gulf this year."

Hypoxia occurs when oxygen levels in seawater drop to dangerously low levels, and persistent hypoxia can potentially result in fish kills and harm marine life, thereby creating a "dead zone" in that particular area.

Such low levels of oxygen are believed to be caused by nutrient pollution from farm fertilizers as they empty into rivers such as the Mississippi and eventually into the Gulf, or by soil erosion or discharge from sewage treatment plants. The size of the zone has been shown to be influenced by the nutrient runoff, volume of freshwater discharged, and prevailing winds, which controls the freshwater river plume's movement.

The Mississippi is the largest river in the United States, draining 40 percent of the land area of the country. It also accounts for almost 90 percent of the freshwater runoff into the Gulf of Mexico.

Last year, with much of the Midwest suffering through its worst drought in 100 years, the dead zone measured only 1,580 square miles.

DiMarco's research on the dead zone is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), as part of its long-term commitment to advancing the science to inform management practices aimed at mitigating the hypoxic zone.

"While we await additional data from the entire summer, these early findings start to validate our prediction that we could see one of the largest dead zones ever in the Gulf of Mexico this July," said Robert Magnien, Ph.D., center director at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science.

"This is further confirmation of the link between upstream nutrient management decisions and the critical habitats and living resources in the Gulf."

DiMarco has made 28 research trips to investigate the dead zone since 2003. His cruise this year carried 10 investigators from Texas A&M and Texas A&M at Galveston and included two research scientists, Matthew Howard and Ruth Perry, five graduate students, Laura Harred, Jordan Young, Yan Zhao, Heather Zimmerle, and Nicole Zuck, and two marine technicians, Eddie Webb and Andrew Dancer (Geochemical and Environmental Research Group). On shore investigators include Lisa Campbell, Wilford Gardner, Shari Yvon-Lewis, and Ethan Grossman , all from Texas A&M, and Antonietta Quigg from Texas A&M-Galveston.

DiMarco says the size of the dead zone off coastal Louisiana has been routinely monitored since 1985. Previous research has also shown that nitrogen levels in the Gulf related to human activities have tripled over the past 50 years.

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Christians tweet more happily, less analytically than atheists

June 26, 2013 ? A computer analysis of nearly 2 million text messages (tweets) on the online social network Twitter found that Christians use more positive words, fewer negative words and engage in less analytical thinking than atheists. Christians also were more likely than atheists to tweet about their social relationships, the researchers found.

The findings are reported in the journal Social Psychological & Personality Science.

"Whether religious people experience more or less happiness is an important question in itself," the authors of the new analysis wrote. "But to truly understand how religion and happiness are related we must also understand why the two may be related."

To identify Christian and atheist Twitter users, the researchers studied the tweets of more than 16,000 followers of a few prominent Christian and atheist personalities on Twitter. They analyzed the tweets for their emotional content (the use of more positive or negative words), the frequency of words (such as "friend" and "brother") that are related to social processes, and the frequency of their use of words (such as "because" and "think") that are associated with an analytical thinking style.

Overall, tweets by Christians had more positive and less negative content than tweets by atheists, the researchers report. A less analytical thinking style among Christians and more frequent use of social words were correlated with the use of words indicating positive emotions, the researchers also said.

"If religious people are indeed happier than nonreligious people, differences in social support and thinking style may help to explain why," said University of Illinois graduate student Ryan Ritter, who conducted the research with U. of I. psychology professor Jesse Preston and graduate student Ivan Hernandez.

The findings are also in line with other studies linking greater levels of social connectedness to higher well-being, Ritter said.

"Religious communities are very social. Just being a member of a religious group connects people to others, and it may be this social connection that can make people happier," Preston said. "On the other hand, atheists had a more analytical thinking style in their tweets than Christians, which at extremes can make people less happy."

Previous research has found a positive association between religion and well-being among Buddhists, Hindus, Christians and Muslims. But most such studies rely on individuals to report how satisfied they are with their lives or their experience of positive and negative emotions at a given time.

"What's great about Twitter is that people are reporting their experiences -- good or bad -- as they occur," Preston said. "As researchers, we do not need to ask them how they feel because they are already telling us."

Christians appear to be happier than atheists on Twitter, but the authors caution that the results are correlational and "this does not mean atheists are unhappy overall or doomed to be miserable," Preston said. "If religion improves happiness indirectly through other factors, those benefits could also be found outside religious groups."

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Willy Wonka wows, but critics less impressed by Mendes musical

LONDON (Reuters) - Director Sam Mendes earned grudging critical acclaim for a stage musical of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" but was always going to struggle in comparison to much-loved past productions of Roald Dahl's work.

The glitzy new staging of Dahl's children's novel, which opened in London on Tuesday, battles universal acclaim for an earlier production of his "Matilda", Gene Wilder's whimsical Willy Wonka in the 1971 film and Johnny Depp's turn in 2005 - not to mention the audience's memories of the book.

Acquiring the rights was a two-decade personal quest by the 47-year-old Mendes, best known for directing the hugely successful 2012 James Bond film "Skyfall" and winning a Best Director Oscar for "American Beauty".

"I spent 25 years trying to get the rights for 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' to do on stage," Mendes told Reuters from the red carpet at the play's premiere on Tuesday.

Critics praised Mendes for the sleek technical wizardry of the lavish show, which zips along in the second half using intricate sets, puppetry and ingenious costumes.

However, Act One drags in its telling of how impoverished Charlie Bucket wins the golden ticket that will allow him to tour Wonka's chocolate factory alongside the greedy Augustus Gloop, gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, spoiled brat Veruca Salt and the terrifying videogame addict Mike Teavee.

Musically, critics had little time for the songs of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

"Marc Shaiman's music is mainly unmemorable and the lyrics are hard to make out in the ensemble numbers," wrote Libby Purves in a three-star Times review on Wednesday.

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However, the eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka - played by Douglas Hodge in electric green trousers, purple frock coat, spats and a top hat - won cheers for originality.

"Douglas Hodge is a splendidly charismatic and disconcerting Willy Wonka, brilliantly combining jokes with a twitchy hint of the psycho," wrote the Telegraph's Charles Spencer in a three-star review.

Critics also enjoyed the efforts of the child actors, with Jack Costello's performance as Charlie singled out.

"Jack Costello's adorable portrayal of Charlie suffused the proceedings with a lovely sense of the boy's pining purity," wrote the Independent's Paul Taylor in a four-star review.

The Guardian called Mark Thompson's sets, including Charlie's home and the brilliant chocolate room - complete with chocolate waterfall - a "sumptuous feast".

Noted highlights were the special effects and costumes that allowed adults to play the diminutive Ooompah-Loompah factory workers, turned Veruca into a Blueberry and shrunk Mike Teavee.

"On the positive side we can enter clever special effects (a good gag with a shrunken child) and a much better second half," wrote the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts in a three star review headlined: "Choc horror!"

Most reviewers compared the Mendes production unfavorably with Tim Minchin's Tony award-winning musical version of Dahl's "Matilda" for the Royal Shakespeare Company which won a host of awards in 2012. But Financial Times reviewer Ian Shuttleworth gave Mendes four stars for creating warmth and beauty.

"It is flavorsome yet familiar, and above all it won't rot your teeth."

(Reporting by Paul Casciato, additional reporting by Rollo Ross; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/willy-wonka-wows-critics-less-impressed-mendes-musical-164949152.html

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Beyond CRM: Predictive Analytics Fuel Business Intelligence | Tech ...

Most firms in the AEC industry have invested in some type of customer relationship management (CRM) system. Whether simple programs like Goldmine or more robust software like Deltek?s Vision?or even cloud-based software as a service (SAAS) offerings like Salesforce or Cosential?gathering, analyzing and leveraging the firm?s historic data is becoming increasingly important.

At a time when ?big data? is the new hot topic, understanding and investing in predictive analytics can yield more than just an informed look-back at what is already known; it can provide real and usable business intelligence.

According to futurist and author Dan Burris, ?Big data in and of itself doesn?t do a company much good. The key is to couple that data with high-speed data analytics in order to be able to make real-time decision,? says author and futurist Dan Burris. ?You need to leverage your internal big data by looking at real-time chatter on social media and on websites. This gives you a better idea of what?s happening and helps you move forward.?

In an informal survey of?25 leading AEC firms? marketing leadership, it was clear that while ?big data? is of great interest, there is not a lot of real anecdotal information on applications or results. Where the finance, insurance, manufacturing and retail industries have been exploring and effectively gaining business intelligence through predicative analytics for several years, the AEC world is lagging in implementation.

Most firms in the AEC space may be too small for big data. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP hold more than half of the total big data analytics market. Their solutions are typically bigger and more expensive than the average design, engineering or construction firm can afford or use effectively.

However, smaller companies and independent consultants are entering the market. They focus on the needs of small and mid-sized businesses with advanced data visualization and self-service predictive analytics that requires minimal IT support. This approach may be more applicable to the needs of the average AEC firm.

Industry resources like Reed Construction Data?s ?c?bus? and RSMeans? ?Business Solutions? offer?in varying degrees?services that help firms forecast market trends, product demands, purchasing influence and other data analytics to help inform marketing and business development decisions. Expect to see others enter this market soon. Accurately predicting a specific project need in advance of its announcement is an AEC big data/predictive analytic service still on the horizon.

Business intelligence tools will continue to become more prevalent and relevant. Using advanced analytics will give management, operations and marketing the ability to spot business trends. The additional information from analysis of data sets across many industry resources?compared to the limited data analysis typically found in a firm?s customer relationship management system?will allow new intelligence in the pursuit and support of clients and projects.

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Inside YouTube's Master Plan to Kill Lag Dead

There is a moment between when you click on a video and when it starts playing. That moment is the worst part of your day. The agony of waiting! The torture of anticipation! YouTube understands that, and on a visit to YouTube HQ in San Bruno, CA, we got a look at what's coming to make that awful moment pass before you know it happened.

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Al-Qaida group says 8 European hostages safe

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? Al-Qaida's North African branch says eight hostages it is holding are safe and a video will soon be released of the Europeans.

SITE Intelligence Group said Sunday that al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, made the announcement Saturday through Twitter. AQIM says that captives from Britain, France, the Netherlands and Sweden are still alive. AQIM had before threatened to seek revenge against all countries taking part in the French-led intervention in Mali. Earlier this year the al-Qaida-linked group said it had killed a French hostage.

The al-Qaida affiliate, which became part of the terror network in 2006, is one of three Islamic militant groups in northern Mali. In January the French led an intervention that pushed the extremist groups from some of the major cities in the north.

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The coalition doesn't want to 'buckle' on legal aid cuts - but who will ...

Russell Hargrave is a spokesperson for Save Justice

The coalition had a tough fortnight over its proposals to cut legal cut. And with a backbench debate scheduled for this Thursday, and the minister in front of the Justice Committee next month, it?s unlikely to get much easier.

The government has finished consulting on plans which would force further deep cuts to the availability of free legal advice. This is even while people are still reeling from the initial tranche of cuts pushed through parliament last year.

The Ministry of Justice is trying to stay robust about its plans, but it is increasingly clear that the cabinet is far from convinced that these are fair or can command the trust of voters.

Attorney general Dominic Grieve couldn?t bring himself to publicly support the plans. Nick Clegg has openly cast doubt on them ? as have the former shadow home secretary David Davies; as well as influential Tory backbencher Dominic Raab.

All this has come at the end of an awkward few weeks for justice minister Chris Grayling and his deputy Lord McNally.

Earlier in June, thousands of legal aid lawyers turned out to protest noisily outside the Ministry. Days later, the government?s own barristers published an unprecedented attack on the ?unconscionable? proposals, which they say are likely to ?create an underclass? completely unable to access the courts.

The Mail on Sunday, of all outlets, took the government to task for using dodgy data to scaremonger over legal aid.

The government has sometimes looked rather edgy in response. Interviewed for Radio 4?s Law in Action, Lord McNally dodged most of the substantive questions about access to justice and collapsed instead into complaints about ?hysterical? lawyers.

When he addressed a Question-Style debate on the cuts last week, hosted by the Bar Council, there were fewer pejoratives but not much more clarity. The minister explained that he had been advised ?not to buckle? over the proposals, while returning over and again to the party line that, of course, no decisions have yet been made.

There were also moments of candour. If legal aid which exists precisely to support the very poorest in our society is cut away, McNally acknowledged, this will inevitably ?hit and hurt? the most vulnerable among us.

So who might these people be?

They will include someone bewildered and held in custody on suspicion of a crime they didn?t commit ? who finds not an experienced, highly-qualified solicitor whom they choose and whom they trust, but a lawyer plucked by the government from the cut-price market of potential contractors like G4S or Eddie Stobart.

They will include someone trafficked into the UK and exploited, told by the Home Office that they are lying about what they have been through, and then unable to find a lawyer willing to work for free to challenge the often arbitrary decisions of the Home Office.

And they will include a child left homeless due to unfair and unfounded decisions by social services, who turns to a lawyer for help only to be told that their immigration status means that their legal rights cannot be enforced . Thinking the public authorities will help them, they will in fact be powerless to challenge any abuse of power by those authorities.

The minister?s offer to meet with Save Justice for further talks on this is very welcome. The people on the sharp end of these cuts consist of some of the people in society who are already pushed to the margins, out of sight of politicians and policy-makers.

It is the right of those people to challenge abuses of state power that is at stake. It is time to bring them squarely back into view.

Source: http://www.leftfootforward.org/2013/06/the-coalition-doesnt-want-to-buckle-on-legal-aid-cuts-but-who-will-suffer-as-a-result/

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Reading DNA, backward and forward: Biologists reveal how cells control the direction in which the genome is read

June 24, 2013 ? MIT biologists have discovered a mechanism that allows cells to read their own DNA in the correct direction and prevents them from copying most of the so-called "junk DNA" that makes up long stretches of our genome.

Only about 15 percent of the human genome consists of protein-coding genes, but in recent years scientists have found that a surprising amount of the junk, or intergenic DNA, does get copied into RNA -- the molecule that carries DNA's messages to the rest of the cell.

Scientists have been trying to figure out just what this RNA might be doing, if anything. In 2008, MIT researchers led by Institute Professor Phillip Sharp discovered that much of this RNA is generated through a process called divergent expression, through which cells read their DNA in both directions moving away from a given starting point.

In a new paper appearing in Nature on June 23, Sharp and colleagues describe how cells initiate but then halt the copying of RNA in the upstream, or non-protein-coding direction, while allowing it to continue in the direction in which genes are correctly read. The finding helps to explain the existence of many recently discovered types of short strands of RNA whose function is unknown.

"This is part of an RNA revolution where we're seeing different RNAs and new RNAs that we hadn't suspected were present in cells, and trying to understand what role they have in the health of the cell or the viability of the cell," says Sharp, who is a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. "It gives us a whole new appreciation of the balance of the fundamental processes that allow cells to function."

Graduate students Albert Almada and Xuebing Wu are the lead authors of the paper. Christopher Burge, a professor of biology and biological engineering, and undergraduate Andrea Kriz are also authors.

Choosing direction

DNA, which is housed within the nucleus of cells, controls cellular activity by coding for the production of RNAs and proteins. To exert this control, the genetic information encoded by DNA must first be copied, or transcribed, into messenger RNA (mRNA).

When the DNA double helix unwinds to reveal its genetic messages, RNA transcription can proceed in either direction. To initiate this copying, an enzyme called RNA polymerase latches on to the DNA at a spot known as the promoter. The RNA polymerase then moves along the strand, building the mRNA chain as it goes.

When the RNA polymerase reaches a stop signal at the end of a gene, it halts transcription and adds to the mRNA a sequence of bases known as a poly-A tail, which consists of a long string of the genetic base adenine. This process, known as polyadenylation, helps to prepare the mRNA molecule to be exported from the cell's nucleus.

By sequencing the mRNA transcripts of mouse embryonic stem cells, the researchers discovered that polyadenylation also plays a major role in halting the transcription of upstream, noncoding DNA sequences. They found that these regions have a high density of signal sequences for polyadenylation, which prompts enzymes to chop up the RNA before it gets very long. Stretches of DNA that code for genes have a low density of these signal sequences.

The researchers also found another factor that influences whether transcription is allowed to continue. It has been recently shown that when a cellular factor known as U1 snRNP binds to RNA, polyadenylation is suppressed. The new MIT study found that genes have a higher concentration of binding sites for U1 snRNP than noncoding sequences, allowing gene transcription to continue uninterrupted.

A widespread phenomenon

The function of all of this upstream noncoding RNA is still a subject of much investigation. "That transcriptional process could produce an RNA that has some function, or it could be a product of the nature of the biochemical reaction. This will be debated for a long time," Sharp says.

His lab is now exploring the relationship between this transcription process and the observation of large numbers of so-called long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). He plans to investigate the mechanisms that control the synthesis of such RNAs and try to determine their functions.

"Once you see some data like this, it raises many more questions to be investigated, which I'm hoping will lead us to deeper insights into how our cells carry out their normal functions and how they change in malignancy," Sharp says.

The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

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Old Ideas Are Better Than The Idea You Just Thought Of

Editor's note:?Jake Knapp is a design partner at Google Ventures. It drives me crazy every time I hear about Mailbox, the fancy-pants email app that Dropbox bought for a gazillion dollars. I mean, come on, it?s such an obvious idea -- the app?s killer feature is "email snoozing."?It?s basically organized procrastination, and it?s been around since David Allen?s Getting Things Done, if not longer. There?s even been a plug-in called Boomerang?for years that allows you to snooze your email in the browser. I could have taken that old idea, quit my job and made my own beautiful email-snoozing iPhone app. And then I would have been rolling around atop piles of thousand-dollar bills in Dropbox?s fancy headquarters.?It?s aggravating.

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Snowden in a 'safe place' as U.S. prepares to seek extradition

By Phil Stewart

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Edward Snowden was in a "safe place" in Hong Kong, a newspaper reported on Saturday, as the United States prepared to seek the extradition of the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor after filing espionage charges against him.

The South China Morning Post said Snowden, who has exposed secret U.S. surveillance programs including new details published on Saturday about alleged hacking of Chinese phone companies, was not in police protection in Hong Kong, as had been reported elsewhere.

"Contrary to some reports, the former CIA analyst has not been detained, is not under police protection but is in a 'safe place' in Hong Kong," the newspaper said.

Hong Kong Police Commissioner Andy Tsang declined to comment other than to say Hong Kong would deal with the case in accordance with the law.

Two U.S. sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States was preparing to seek Snowden's extradition from Hong Kong, which is part of China but has wide-ranging autonomy, including an independent judiciary.

The United States charged Snowden with theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence to an unauthorized person, according to the criminal complaint made public on Friday.

The latter two offenses fall under the U.S. Espionage Act and carry penalties of up to 10 years in prison.

America's use of the Espionage Act against Snowden has fueled debate among legal experts about whether that could complicate his extradition, since Hong Kong courts may choose to shield him.

Snowden says he leaked the details of the classified U.S. surveillance to expose abusive programs that trampled on citizens' rights.

Documents leaked by Snowden revealed that the NSA has access to vast amounts of internet data such as emails, chat rooms and video from large companies such as Facebook and Google, under a government program known as Prism.

They also showed that the government had worked through the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to gather so-called metadata - such as the time, duration and telephone numbers called - on all calls carried by service providers such as Verizon.

On Friday, the Guardian newspaper, citing documents shared by Snowden, said Britain's spy agency GCHQ had tapped fiber-optic cables that carry international phone and internet traffic and is sharing vast quantities of personal information with the NSA. [ID:nL5N0EX3JA]

STEALING DATA

The South China Morning Post said on Saturday that Snowden offered new details on U.S. surveillance activities in China.

The paper said documents and statements by Snowden show the NSA program had hacked major Chinese telecoms companies to access text messages and targeted China's top Tsinghua University.

The NSA program also hacked the Hong Kong headquarters of Pacnet, which has an extensive fiber-optic network, it said.

"The NSA does all kinds of things like hack Chinese cellphone companies to steal all of your SMS data," Snowden was quoted by the Post as saying during a June 12 interview.

President Barack Obama and his intelligence chiefs have vigorously defended the programs, saying they are regulated by law and that Congress was notified. They say the programs have been used to thwart militant plots and do not target Americans' personal lives.

Since making his revelations about massive U.S. surveillance programs, Edward Snowden, 30, has sought legal representation from human rights lawyers as he prepares to fight U.S. attempts to force him home for trial, sources in Hong Kong say.

The United States and Hong Kong signed an extradition treaty in 1998, under which scores of Americans have been sent back home to face trial.

The United States and Hong Kong have "excellent cooperation" and as a result of agreements, "there is an active extradition relationship between Hong Kong and the United States," a U.S. law enforcement official told Reuters.

However, the process can take years, lawyers say, and Snowden's case could be particularly complex.

An Icelandic businessman linked to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said on Thursday he had readied a private plane in China to fly Snowden to Iceland if Iceland's government would grant asylum.

Iceland refused on Friday to say whether it would grant asylum to Snowden.

(Reporting by Phil Stewart; Additional reporting by James Pomfret, Venus Wu and Grace Li in HONG KONG, Tabassum Zakaria and Mark Hosenball in WASHINGTON; Editing by Eric Beech)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-files-espionage-charges-against-snowden-over-leaks-015108216.html

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GCHQ taps cables, shares with NSA - Guardian

LONDON (Reuters) - GCHQ has tapped fibre-optic cables that carry international phone and internet traffic and is sharing vast quantities of personal information with the U.S. National Security Agency, the Guardian newspaper said on Friday.

The paper, which has in recent weeks been publishing details of top-secret surveillance programs exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, said on its website Snowden had shown it documents about a project codenamed "Tempora".

Tempora has been running for around 18 months and allows GCHQ to tap into and store huge volumes of data drawn from fibre-optic cables for up to 30 days, the paper said.

The story is likely to put further pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron's government to reassure the public about how data about them is collected and used.

Earlier this month, in response to questions about the secret U.S. data-monitoring program PRISM, Foreign Secretary William Hague told parliament that GCHQ always adhered to British law when processing data gained from eavesdropping.

He would not confirm or deny any details of UK-U.S. intelligence sharing, saying that to do so could help Britain's enemies.

"In line with longstanding practice we do not comment on intelligence matters," a GCHQ spokesman said on Friday.

"It is worth pointing out that GCHQ takes its obligations under the law very seriously. Our work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight."

The Tempora operation involves attaching intercept probes to transatlantic cables where they land on British stores from North America, the Guardian said.

This was done with the agreement of unnamed companies, who were forbidden from revealing warrants that compelled them to allow GCHQ access, it added.

Snowden made world headlines earlier this month when he provided details of NSA surveillance programs to the Guardian and the Washington Post.

In Washington, Snowden's disclosures have ignited a political storm over the balance between privacy rights and national security, but the NSA has defended the programs, saying they have disrupted possible attacks.

(Reporting by Rosalba O'Brien and Michael Holden; editing by Andrew Roche)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gchq-taps-cables-shares-nsa-guardian-181421521.html

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James Gandolfini Cause of Death: Natural Causes, Heart Attack Suspected

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U.S. files espionage charges against Snowden over leaks (reuters)

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A Hologram-Projecting R2-D2 Birthday Cake Makes Us Insanely Jealous

We've seen a lot of awesome cake designs over the years, but this is the first time we've been genuinely envious over what a six-year-old was served at his birthday party. After all, who wouldn't want an R2-D2 birthday cake that actually projects holograms like the one Marc Freilich made for his son Alexander?

Besides layers and layers of chocolate cake, R2-D2's outer fondant layer also hides a pico projector that connects to an external laptop playing Princess Leia's famous message, with a birthday greeting for Alexander tacked onto the end. As birthday cakes go it's about as awesome as they can get, unless someone found a way to blast a Rice Krispies treat edible lightsaber out of its dome. [WedgeStrap via Hackaday]

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On the farm: Here are 10 must-see acts at Bonnaroo

FILE - This Feb. 20, 2013 file photo shows Kacey Musgraves at the Barista Parlor in Nashville, Tenn. Musgraves will be performing at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival that begins Thursday, June 13 and runs through Sunday. (Photo by Donn JonesInvision/AP, file)

FILE - This Feb. 20, 2013 file photo shows Kacey Musgraves at the Barista Parlor in Nashville, Tenn. Musgraves will be performing at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival that begins Thursday, June 13 and runs through Sunday. (Photo by Donn JonesInvision/AP, file)

FILE - This Feb. 20, 2013 file photo shows Kacey Musgraves at the Barista Parlor in Nashville, Tenn. Musgraves will be performing at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival that begins Thursday, June 13 and runs through Sunday. (Photo by Donn JonesInvision/AP, file)

MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) ? The headliners usually get all the ink and this year's group at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is definitely ink-worthy: Paul McCartney, Mumford & Sons and Tom Petty.

It's the down-list acts, though, that make this a particularly strong Bonnaroo lineup with a number of must-see acts you ought to check out before they're so big you'll be standing at the back of the crowd watching them on the video screens.

Here are 10 to see:

Alt-J: This Mercury Prize-winning quartet plays angular pop songs that are oddly intoxicating. Like fellow Brits McCartney and Mumford, the group has a gift for sugary songs that are impossible to resist.

Action Bronson: The burly, bearded rapper from Queens is poised to release his major-label debut later this year and has been whipping up a frenzy in London before returning to the states for Bonnaroo. Expect stage diving, East Coast harmonics and lots of naughty humor.

Charli XCX: The alternapop princess has had the bloggers buzzing for a couple of years. Now she's attached to a worldwide hit ? she features on Icona Pop's "I Love It" ? and has the highest profile of her career coming into Manchester.

Father John Misty: Former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tilman left the band and released his first solo album under this new moniker after several releases as J. Tilman. "Fear Fun" was on many year-end lists and it will be interesting to see how far Tilman's mostly hushed folk-rock will carry at Bonnaroo.

HAIM: Los Angeles-based sisters Este, Danielle and Alana Haim form a girl group for the 21st century, mixing lush vocal harmonies with high energy, beat-oriented grooves that have won over a lot influential fans. They're managed by Roc Nation, recently collaborated with Diplo and Kid Cudi, and are working on a debut album.

Jason Isbell: The Alabama-raised, Nashville-based singer-songwriter is the Americana community's cause celeb du jour. He releases his new album "Southeastern" this week, just in time to take his brand of Southern rock to the masses.

Japandroids: Just when you think the two-man band thing has run its course, up pops Vancouver-based Japandroids, a band guaranteed to generate more decibels per band member than any other on the farm. Their soaring, anthemic rock is perfect for Bonnaroo.

Kacey Musgraves: Bonnaroo has had its share of edgy country acts over the years and Musgraves keeps the tradition rolling. This champion of Nashville songwriters has the off-kilter, left-leaning world view that fits right in at the festival.

Portugal. The Man: This Portland-based band of spacey rockers has joined with producer Danger Mouse on its fun new album, "Evil Friends." Fans at Bonnaroo will be hearing the new music for the first time. There will be buzz.

Tame Impala: Australian rocker Kevin Parker is the premiere purveyor of freaky, fuzzed-out psychedelic rock at the moment. Last year's "Lonerism" was one of rock's most praised albums and Bonnaroo could be a defining moment.

Associated Press

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Texas state Rep. Naomi Gonzalez named one of "Texas Monthly's" worst of 2013

State Rep. Naomi Gonzalez (Times file photo)

AUSTIN -- State Rep. Naomi Gonzalez, D-El Paso, will be named one of the 10 worst legislators of 2013 by Texas Monthly magazine, Senior Executive Editor Paul Burka wrote on his blog Wednesday.

Burka didn't say why Gonzalez was on the list.

Texas Monthly would not immediately release its reason for listing Gonzalez as among the Texas Legislature's worst.

"All we're doing right now is releasing the names," said Cathy S. Casey, the magazine's vice president.

She said reasons will be released later in the week.

In March, Gonzalez was charged with drunken driving after an accident in Austin in which her BMW rear-ended a Fiat, which then hit a bicycle rider. Three, including Gonzalez, were taken to a hospital

with minor injuries.

Gonzalez, who was elected in 2010, couldn't be reached Wednesday for comment. The district she represents, 76, includes the area south of Interstate 10 from east of Downtown to the Socorro city limit.

A week after Gonzalez's wreck, two women in the car she hit criticized the lawmaker for not apologizing to them. In an affidavit, the police officer who interviewed Gonzalez at the hospital said she never asked about the others who were hurt in the wreck, but said she was upset that she had damaged a political career she'd worked so hard to build.

Police reported that a breath test indicated Gonzalez's blood-alcohol content was twice the legal limit. She is due in court for a preliminary hearing in

July.

It is likely that some legislators are on Texas Monthly's worst-of list because of their legislative activities. For example, Sen. John Corona, R-Dallas, was the subject of a lengthy piece by the magazine and the Texas Tribune about his personal connection to an industry that he helped pass laws to regulate.

It is unlikely the magazine has any problems with Gonzalez's legislative activity.

Known as a workhorse, she passed more bills in the legislative session that ended May 27 than any other member of El Paso's House delegation.

Her colleagues think so highly of her that many gave Gonzalez a standing ovation after she apologized on the House floor in March. The warm reception was widely criticized as inappropriate.

Marty Schladen may be reached at mschladen@elpasotimes.com; 512-479-6606.

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