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In Global Opinion, Kyle Jarrard writes: "Mom played the piano in church Sunday...
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem?
Forstall demoing Apple's new Maps app
FORTUNE -- There's no shortage of embarrassing instances where Apple (AAPL) Maps "fell short" -- as Tim Cook's public apology put it -- but on Friday Canadian reader John Garner pointed me to a particularly striking one.
Jason Matheson, a fellow Canadian with a knack for Mac programming, ran a quick Xcode script that compared the iPhone 5's map of Ontario with an official list of the province's cities and towns. Of 2,028 place names, Matheson reports, 400 were correct on Apple's Maps app, 389 were pretty close, 551 were clearly incorrect and 688 weren't on the map at all.
"There's no excuse," Garner writes. "Quality control on Apple Maps had to have been terrible to not get this right. Bluntly, Scott Forstall should be fired over this mess."
Garner is not alone in pointing the finger at Forstall, the senior vice president for iOS software and the Apple executive -- after Cook -- most often described as an heir apparent to Steve Jobs.
In his current Monday Note, Jean-Louis Gass?e called the ridicule Apple has suffered these last two weeks "largely self-inflicted." Apple usually under-promises and over-delivers, but according to Gass?e Forstall did just the opposite:
"[Forstall's] demo was flawless, 2D and 3D maps, turn-by-turn navigation, spectacular flyovers? but not a word from the stage about the app's limitations, no self-deprecating wink, no admission that iOS Maps is an infant that needs to learn to crawl before walking, running, and ultimately lapping the frontrunner, Google Maps. Instead, we're told that Apple's Maps may be 'the most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever.'"
Forstall did something similar last year when he unveiled Siri -- Apple's voice-activated personal assistant. Although it was labeled "beta" -- computer jargon for "work in progress" -- in Forstall's demo the application seemed not only to understand every question he put to it, but to have a snappy answer. It has not worked so well in the wild, at least not for me.
"Siri has been an embarrassment for Apple," writes Business Insider's Jay Yarow in a piece titled The Apple Maps Disaster Is Really Bad News For Apple's 'CEO-In-Waiting'. "This is his second consecutive high-profile screw up with iOS software."
Forstall came to Apple from NeXT and first rose to power on the strength of OS X Leopard, a project he managed. But it was by creating the original iPhone operating system -- since renamed iOS -- that he achieved his current status. As the manager of the platform that generates more than half of Apple's revenue, Forstall has amassed enormous clout within the company -- and more than his share of enemies.
"If there's a knock on Forstall," wrote Adam Lashinsky in Inside Apple, "it's that he wears his ambition in plainer view than the typical Apple executive. He blatantly accumulated influence in recent years, including, it is whispered, when Jobs was on medical leave."
According to an unflattering profile in Bloomberg Businessweek last year, Forstall has such a fraught relationship with other members of the executive team -- including Jony Ive and Bob Mansfield -- that they avoid meetings with him unless Tim Cook is present. The piece goes on to say:
"Some former associates of Forstall, none of whom would comment on the record for fear of alienating Apple, say he routinely takes credit for collaborative successes [and] deflects blame for mistakes."
That's one way to manage a team. In fact, it was often said that it was Steve Jobs' way. But it may not be Tim Cook's.
Source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_technology/~3/n_hxep5ei14/
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Loop the loop, DNA style: One- or two-way transcription depends on gene loops
ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) ? Scientists at EMBL and Oxford University discovered that, by forming or undoing gene loops, cells manipulate the path of the transcription machinery -- which reads out instructions from DNA -- controlling whether it moves along the genetic material in one direction or two.
In certain toy racecar tracks, sneaky players can flip a switch, trapping their opponents' vehicles in a loop of track. Cells employ a less subtle approach: they change the track's layout. In a study published online September 28 in Science, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Oxford University discovered that, by forming or undoing gene loops, cells manipulate the path of the transcription machinery -- which reads out instructions from DNA -- controlling whether it moves along the genetic material in one direction or two.
"We found that gene loops can turn bi-directional promoters into one-way systems," says Lars Steinmetz, who led the work at EMBL.
Three years ago, Steinmetz's lab discovered that when the transcription machinery lands on most genes' promoters -- the sequences that mark where transcription should start -- it moves not only along the gene, but also in the opposite direction, along the other 'lane' of DNA. But they were somewhat surprised that this didn't happen everywhere: some genes, it seemed, had promoters that worked only one-way.
Nicholas Proudfoot's group at Oxford University, in the meantime, discovered that genes can bend into a loop, so that when the transcription machinery reaches the end of the gene, it finds itself back at the beginning and starts again, like a trapped toy car. Proudfoot's group also found that inactivating a specific protein prevented these gene loops from forming.
Looking throughout the whole genome of yeast cells, Steinmetz, Proudfoot and colleagues have now found that when genes with 'one-way' promoters can't form loops, transcription from those promoters becomes bi-directional. It seems that with no transcription 'cars' trapped in a loop, more are free to move in the opposite direction. And by doing so, they can affect other genes. So by forming or undoing gene loops, cells can control not only what happens to the looping genes themselves, but also adjust the spread of regulation throughout the genome.
The researchers would now like to understand how and when loops form, for instance in response to changes in a cell's environment, and how unlooping affects the transcription of short DNA sequences within the gene. And Steinmetz has another burning question: what happens in cases where a promoter activates transcription of two genes? "Are they each in a loop? What's going on there?" he wonders.
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For film tech nerds the world over, this documentary about the advent of digital filmmaking and what it means for the old school film purists is an engaging must-see. Keanu Reeves narrates and interviews an impressive roster of directors, cinematographers, editors, actors, and execs through this highly technical history and many of the subjects are truly game. I think their candidness is largely due to Reeves being there. Most seem to feel really comfortable around him, which is essential to getting some of the gold that comes out of the likes of Steven Soderbergh and David Fincher in particular. Editor Anne Coates, the 86-year-old editor of such classics as LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) and OUT OF SIGHT (1998) brings a refreshing and surprising perspective. Just when you expect the film vs. digital argument to have lines drawn depending on age, Ms. Coates shows a delightful openness to the new technology. This is an astounding time capsule piece which demonstrates how truly far we've come in digital image quality, particularly just in the past few years. There are times where you'll go back and forth about how you feel, because ultimately, both sides make great points. I couldn't believe how terrible some of the earlier digital films looked (TADPOLE or CHUCK AND BUCK anyone?). This may feel really too inside baseball for the layperson, but if you have any interest in how we experience filmed stories, this is essential viewing.
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Google obeys Brazilian order, blocks video
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RIO?DE JANEIRO???The Brazilian unit of Google, the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, said on Thursday it had obeyed a court order to remove a video attacking a candidate in Brazilian municipal elections from its YouTube service after legal appeals were exhausted.
"We are profoundly disappointed to not have the opportunity of openly debating our arguments in the electoral justice system that the videos were legitimate manifestations of the freedom of expression and should continue (to be) available in Brazil," said Fabio Coelho, director-general of Google in Brazil in an e-mailed statement.
The legal challenges underscore broader questions about Google's responsibility for content uploaded by third parties to its websites, including an anti-Islam video that sparked a wave of protests and violence in the Muslim world.
An arrest warrant was issued for Coelho earlier this week by a court in Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul state after Google failed to obey an order demanding removal of the video attacking a mayoral candidate.
Judges in Brazil have held executives responsible for resisting the removal of online videos in violation of a stringent 1965 Electoral Code. The law bans campaign ads that "offend the dignity or decorum" of a candidate.
Google, which says it complies with local law but fights "diligently" to protect free speech, complied with the judge's order after it ran out of appeal chances, Coelho said.
On Wednesday, Coelho was questioned by Federal Police officers over the failure to remove the video and was later released.
"Despite this, we will continue with our global campaign for liberty of expression, not just because it is a prerequisite for a free society but also because more information generally means more schools, more power, more economic opportunities and more liberty for people," he said.
'Intimidation effect'
The person or persons who posted the offending videos "ironically" removed them on their own accord and closed their YouTube account, Coelho said.
"This is just one example of the intimidation effect of such an episode for freedom of speech," he added.
Earlier this month, an electoral court in Brazil's Paraiba ordered the arrest of another senior Google executive, Edmundo Luiz Pinto Balthazar, after the company refused to take down a YouTube video mocking a mayoral candidate there.
The video clip loaded by the user "Paraiba Humor" seized on a verbal slip by a candidate in a montage remarking, "What an idiot???give him an F!"
Within days, another judge overturned the order to arrest Balthazar, writing that "Google is not the intellectual author of the video, it did not post the file and for that reason it cannot be punished for its propagation."
Broader debate
Brazil also entered a broader international debate this week about an inflammatory YouTube video depicting the Prophet Mohammad as a womanizer, fool and child abuser, when a state court in Sao Paulo ordered Google to take down the video.
World leaders have decried the video, which set off a string of violent protests in the Muslim world, including attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Several Muslim leaders called for international action to outlaw acts of blasphemy.
When President Barack Obama addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, he repeated his condemnations of the video as "crude and disgusting" but defended the importance of free speech in the United States and throughout the world.
Ruling on a lawsuit by Brazil's National Islamic Union, Sao Paulo Judge Gilson Delgado Miranda gave Google 10 days to remove the video. In his decision, Miranda said he weighed freedom of expression against the need to protect against action that might incite religious discrimination.
(Reporting By Jeb Blount; editing by Todd Eastham)?
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Oil company: S. Sudan to pump as soon as possible
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) ? The oil company Dar Petroleum said Friday it will begin oil production in South Sudan as soon as possible following a security deal signed with Sudan, though getting back to full production remains several months away.
Dar Petroleum President Sun Xiansheng promised investors and South Sudan's government that the company will eventually return production to an average of 180,000 barrels per day.
South Sudan in January shut down its oil production after accusing Sudan of stealing its crude.
When South Sudan peacefully broke away from Sudan last year, it inherited the majority of the region's oil. But South Sudan's oil must be pumped through pipes owned by Sudan, which said it had taken the south's oil in lieu of unpaid fees for the use of its export and processing facilities. When tensions increased, the south shut down its industry, costing both sides millions in lost revenue.
The two sides signed agreements Thursday after four days of talks between both countries' presidents. Those agreements paved the way for a resumption of southern oil production.
Last month, South Sudan Oil Minister Stephen Dhieu Dau said it could take between four and six months before the Upper Nile fields reach full production again. Dar Petroleum's general manager of exploration and production, Chen Huanlong, said that estimate is correct.
Huanlong said the company will need to "warm up the pipes" for one month. After that, Huanlong said they would "approach the production plateau" in three months. But Huanlong said this would happen only if the government contracts and orders were prepared as soon as possible.
Representatives of the Dar Petroleum consortium were jubilant on Friday, and said their meeting was in part a celebration following the eight-month shutdown.
Several speakers exhorted the gathered workers into chants for the consortium and for South Sudan. Baidzawi Chemat ? Dar Petroleum's general manager of finance and services ? said he "felt euphoria" when the deal was signed in Ethiopia.
"Dar Petroleum contributes 80 to 90 percent of government revenue. We are the national builders. We will change the nation," he said.
According to Baidzawi, if Dar Petroleum can deliver on its promised production target, it will mean around 65 million barrels each year worth around $5 billion for South Sudan.
Dar operates oil facilities in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, which account for around 80 percent of the country's oil production. Dar Petroleum is comprised of the Malaysian company Petronas, which owns 40 percent, and the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation, which owns 41 percent. The remaining shares are held by South Sudan's Nilepet and the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation.
The Thursday agreement will allow South Sudan to export its oil through the Sudanese pipelines. South Sudan will pay $9.10 per barrel for oil produced in Upper Nile state and $11.00 for oil produced in Unity State.
The oil fields in the state are in a remote region, and Xiansheng says restarting production will not be easy.
"We don't have spare parts, we don't have diesel, our cars have broken down," he said.
South Sudan has not yet given an official order to resume oil production, but officials from the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining said the order is expected soon. The Ministry's director general of petroleum, Mohamed Lino, said the ministry began preparing for the resumption of production one month ago.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
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Isleworth Mona Lisa conjures new art world mystery
A painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci representing Mona Lisa, is displayed during a presentation in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. The Mona Lisa Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Zurich, presents a painting and historical, comparative and scientific evidence, which demonstrates that there have always been two portraits of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the 'Earlier Version,' made ten years earlier than the 'Joconde' that is displayed in Le Louvre in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Keystone, Yannick Bailly)
A painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci representing Mona Lisa, is displayed during a presentation in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. The Mona Lisa Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Zurich, presents a painting and historical, comparative and scientific evidence, which demonstrates that there have always been two portraits of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the 'Earlier Version,' made ten years earlier than the 'Joconde' that is displayed in Le Louvre in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Keystone, Yannick Bailly)
A painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci representing Mona Lisa, is displayed during a presentation in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. The Mona Lisa Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Zurich, presents a painting and historical, comparative and scientific evidence, which demonstrates that there have always been two portraits of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the 'Earlier Version,' made ten years earlier than the 'Joconde' that is displayed in Le Louvre in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Keystone, Yannick Bailly)
A painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci representing Mona Lisa, is displayed during a presentation in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept.27, 2012. The Mona Lisa Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Zurich, presents a painting and historical, comparative and scientific evidence, which demonstrates that there have always been two portraits of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the 'Earlier Version,' made ten years earlier than the 'Joconde' that is displayed in Le Louvre in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Keystone, Yannick Bailly)
Professor Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the "Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci", Vinci, Italy, speaks about a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci representing Mona Lisa, displayed during a presentation in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. The Mona Lisa Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Zurich, presents a painting and historical, comparative and scientific evidence, which demonstrate that there have always been two portraits of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the 'Earlier Version,' made ten years earlier than the 'Joconde' that is displayed in Le Louvre in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Keystone, Yannick Bailly)
Professor Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the "Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci", Vinci, Italy, speaks about a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci representing Mona Lisa, displayed during a presentation in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. The Mona Lisa Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Zurich, presents a painting and historical, comparative and scientific evidence, which demonstrates that there have always been two portraits of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the 'Earlier Version,' made ten years earlier than the 'Joconde' that is displayed in Le Louvre in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Keystone, Yannick Bailly)
GENEVA (AP) ? The mystery behind the most enigmatic smile in art ? Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" ? just got a little more complicated.
In a coming-out party of sorts in Geneva, rounds of flashbulbs popped Thursday as the nonprofit Mona Lisa Foundation pulled back the curtain to present what it claims is a predecessor of the world's most famous portrait.
But even the experts brought in by the foundation weren't sure about that claim just yet.
The art world is prone to all sorts of rumors and speculation ? and, periodically ? discoveries that jolt accepted norms. Two years ago, a retired French electrician claimed that he had turned up 271 Picasso works that had been sitting for decades in his garage ? and Picasso's heirs claimed theft.
But a new claim about the world's most famous painting, which draws millions of visitors to Paris' Louvre Museum each year, resonates like a thunderclap in the art world. It also prompts a new look at a painting that all by itself still raises a lot of questions for experts ? not least the timeless "Is she smiling or not?"
The "Isleworth Mona Lisa" features a dark-haired young woman with her arms crossed against a distant backdrop. The foundation insists it's no copy but an earlier version of the Louvre masterpiece.
At the presentation, Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci, said the painting was intriguing but needs further study. He declined to line up behind the foundation's claims that it was truly a "Mona Lisa" predecessor painted by da Vinci.
Ever since the 16th century, several historical sources suggest that da Vinci painted two "Mona Lisa" versions. One was of Mona Lisa Gherardo around 1503 that was commissioned by her husband, Francesco del Giocondo, the foundation said. Another ? the one in the Louvre ? was completed in 1517 for Giuliano de Medici, da Vinci's patron. That theory fits with da Vinci's tendency at times to paint two versions of some of his works, like the Virgin of the Rocks, the group said.
Foundation members say it's unrealistic to think that the woman sat twice for a portrait, but that the meticulous, mathematical approach suggested that Da Vinci may have projected in his mind what she would have looked like between the first alleged "Mona Lisa" and the "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre.
However, the foundation acknowledged that the "Isleworth Mona Lisa" remains unfinished, and that da Vinci didn't paint all parts of the work. Still, the group pointed to newly discovered evidence in 2005 from Heidelberg, Germany, that suggested da Vinci was working on at least the head of such a painting in 1503.
The painting has been in headlines before, starting in the early 20th century. And it's not unknown to a foreign audience: It was shown in Japan last year before the foundation's research was finished.
Experts say Thursday's unveiling was designed to draw more attention and scrutiny from worldwide art experts about whether it's authentic: A start more than a finish.
The Isleworth painting first came to public light after British art collector Hugh Blaker found it in the home of a nobleman in Somerset, England before World War I, said Robert Meyrick, head of the art school at Wales' Aberystwyth University.
Blaker bought the painting and took it to his private studio in Isleworth outside London. U.S. and British newspapers, meanwhile, speculated even then that it might be a da Vinci. But at that time only art experts ? not high-tech science tests like the ones conducted by the foundation ? could judge its possible bona fides.
During World War II, Blaker shipped the painting to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts for safekeeping, the foundation said. In 1962, it was bought by U.S. collector Henry Pulitzer. When he died in 1979, his reported mistress ? Elisabeth Meyer ? inherited it, but it remained in a Swiss bank vault.
After she died, an "international consortium" ? which the foundation declined to identify ? bought the painting in 2008, according to the group's chronology. The foundation was set up two years later, determined to try to show that it was a real da Vinci.
The Mona Lisa Foundation's members are more from the business world than the art world. Participating in Thursday's show was David Feldman, an Irish-born stamp auctioneer; his brother Stanley, an art historian who was the main author of an extensive book on the "Isleworth Mona Lisa"; and Markus Frey, a lawyer in Zurich who is the foundation's president.
The foundation and its backers paid "several million" to conduct research tests ? forensic analysis, carbon-dating and computerized regression analysis ? on the work, Feldman said. He wouldn't say how much the painting was bought for in 2008.
Carlo Pedrotti, one of the world's most eminent scholars on da Vinci, hailed the foundation's "extraordinary contribution to scholarship."
In a letter to the foundation presented Thursday, Pedrotti called the group "precisely the sort of research institute, if not a veritable investigating agency ? an FBI for Leonardo studies! ? that I had always hoped for."
Martin Kemp, a da Vinci scholar and Oxford University professor, said he hadn't seen the painting but doubts that it is authentic. He cautioned that the foundation might have its judgment clouded by a possible payoff.
"If this were the original version of the most famous picture in the world, heaven knows what it would cost ? a lot of money," he told APTN in an interview at his home near Oxford. "You'd probably be on your way to 200 million pounds ($325 million) or to stratospheric realms."
"There are big, big stakes involved, and people become committed to it," he noted.
Still, who wouldn't want to have their own "Mona Lisa?"
"Having a Leonardo is a very sensational thing to have," Kemp admitted. "If I had a Leonardo, it would secure my fame forever."
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Clinton presses China on maritime spats
NEW YORK (AP) ? Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged China's top diplomat on Thursday to peacefully resolve increasingly tense maritime disputes with Japan and its smaller neighbors in Southeast Asia.
A senior U.S. official said Clinton had pressed Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the importance of settling its conflicting claim with Japan over the Japanese-held Senkaku islands, called Diaoyu by China, along with numerous competing claims in the South China Sea with members of the Association of South East Asian Nations.
"We urged that cooler heads prevail, that Japan and China engage in dialogue to calm the waters," the official said. "We believe that Japan and China have the resources, have the restraint, have the ability to work on this together and take tensions down."
The official was not authorized to publicly discuss the private discussion between Clinton and Yang on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly and therefore requested anonymity. Clinton was expected to make the same case to Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba when she meets with him in New York.
However, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Wednesday that his nation was not willing to compromise in its territorial dispute with China over the Senkakus that have spawned violent anti-Japan protests in China.
"So far as the Senkaku islands are concerned, they are the inherent part of our territory, in light of history and international law. It's very clear," Noda told reporters in New York. "There are no territorial issues as such, therefore there could not be any compromise that may mean any setback from this basic position."
Senior Chinese and Japanese diplomats met both in New York and Beijing on Tuesday, seeking to mend ties frayed by the spat over the islands that has raised tensions between them to their highest level in years. The islands are uninhabited but sit astride rich fishing waters and potentially large reserves of natural gas.
In her meeting with Yang, Clinton also called on China to work cooperatively with ASEAN over the territorial disputes in the South China Sea, according to the U.S. official. Clinton has been pressing China and ASEAN to develop and implement a code of conduct for the South China Sea that could pave the way for a mechanism to resolve the disputes.
Clinton, who later met Thursday with ASEAN foreign ministers, said she was pleased that ASEAN and Chinese officials had resumed high-level meetings on the matter ahead of November's East Asia Summit in Cambodia at which the issue is expected to be a primary focus. The U.S. would like to see progress on the code of conduct by the time the summit takes place.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-presses-china-maritime-spats-200400698.html
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
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Details: Ascension Health Information Services (AHIS), one of the largest healthcare IT service companies in North America, is looking for a Lead Disaster Recovery Testing Coordinator. The Lead Disaster Recovery Testing Administrator oversees the development, implementation and maintenance of a National Disaster Recovery Testing strategy. Has overall responsibility for setting high-level, overall test objectives and requirements, managing the master schedule, overall coordination of resources, auditing exercise results and global tracking and reporting of results.The preferred work location for the Lead Disaster Recovery Testing Coordinator is Indianapolis, IN; Detroit, MI; or Austin, TX, however; consideration will be given to qualified applicants seeking to work from a remote location. The responsibilities of the Lead Disaster Recovery Testing Coordinator include:Drives the validation exercise (testing) program within their scope of responsibility, including overseeing the validation activity planning, working with partners, vendors and the IT Business Continuity Management Program to schedule tests and the resources required to support them, attending and monitoring validation exercises, tracking any follow-up issues which may arise from the test, and reporting all Test Results to a centralized area for progress and status reporting as well as future trend monitoring and reporting.Advance the testing program over a specified timeframe to increase recoverability and testing success.Ensure that all testing activities do not have the potential to impact production processing.Create and maintain a master tracking schedule for all testing activities.Have oversight/auditing and tracking responsibility of testing resultsAssist in the development and maintenance of the Business Continuity Management Program policies, standards, processes, procedures, and supporting tools.Assist in the communications, education and awareness of the Business Continuity Management Program and its associated objectives, drivers, activities, policies, standards, processes and procedures.Leads the development of, and is responsible for, the quality of deliverables and capabilities for their assigned scope of responsibility.Works closely with the IT Business Continuity Management Program and other business units to identify, initiate and oversee initiatives to meet business requirements to ensure a state of readiness and availability in the event of a disaster or business disruption.Reports on a timely and regular basis to the Director any required IT Business Continuity Management Testing related Status Reports, Updates, Risk and Issues.Leads the process for plan development and regular plan updates within their scope of responsibility.Works with internal and external partners to define the short and long term Business Continuity validation exercise (testing) objectives.Acts as a coordinator during an emergency situation and provides overall monitoring and management of the recovery activities. Assists systems recovery support and business resumption staff during a disaster in the identification and implementation of situation response strategies as well as alternate operating processes and procedures.Maintains contact with outside contingency planning professional organizations and local/regional emergency response groups.Ascension Health (www.ascensionhealth.org) is transforming healthcare by providing the highest quality care to all, with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Ascension Health, which provided $ 1.1 billion in care of persons who are poor and community benefit last year, is the nation?s largest Catholic and nonprofit health system. Our Mission-focused Health Ministries employ 113,000 associates serving in more than 500 locations in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Ascension Health ? IS (AHIS) is a subsidiary organization of Ascension Health. As one of the largest healthcare IT services organizations in North America, AHIS has more than 2,000 associates serving in IT applications, infrastructure and program management roles. AHIS was created in 2006 in response to the Empowering Knowledge component of Ascension Health?s Strategic Direction. AHIS provides IT resources to each of Ascension Health?s 34 Health Ministries, and is focused on strengthening the organization?s IT capabilities and providing innovative solutions in the areas of business continuity and disaster recovery services, security, and clinical and business operations.Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
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British Airways tests eliminating online check-in
It?s a familiar process to most air travelers by now: Watch the clock before your trip and log on to a computer within 24 hours of your flight to check in online. But even that simple routine, which has been a huge improvement over the previous tradition of standing in a long queue at the airport, might go away in the future ? something industry watchers say isn?t necessarily a plus.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/49170697#49170697
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Bonus 'Breaking Dawn' Scene: What Will It Be?
With news of a post-credits scene, 'Twilight' Tuesday shares our predictions and wishes.
By Kara Warner
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Romney says foreign aid should be tied to work
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is introduced by former President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is introduced by former President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative convention in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
Former President Bill Clinton shakes hands with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney after he spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative convention in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney smiled and joked with political foe Bill Clinton Tuesday and delivered a speech that subtly criticized President Barack Obama while promising to tie foreign aid to work and free enterprise.
Romney addressed global leaders gathered at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting. The GOP White House nominee said U.S. aid needs to be more effective in elevating people and bringing about lasting change in developing nations plagued by instability and violence, including the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
"We somehow feel that we are at the mercy of events, rather than shaping events," Romney said.
He softened his sharp criticism of Obama at recent campaign rallies and offered a more nuanced critique of U.S. leadership in the world without mentioning the president by name. Instead he laid out a vision for how a Romney administration would lead, including by renegotiating trade agreements and offering "prosperity pacts" in the Middle East and other developing nations to encourage open markets in exchange for U.S. aid.
"The aim of a much larger share of our aid must be the promotion of work and the fostering of free enterprise," Romney said. "Nothing we can do as a nation will change lives and nations more effectively and permanently than sharing the insight that lies at the foundation of America's own economy and that is that free people pursuing happiness in their own ways build a strong and prosperous nation."
In a reflection of his policy on welfare in the United States, Romney said work is the key to lifting people out of poverty abroad by providing self-esteem and a grounding in reality instead of fanaticism. It's a message that also is designed to appeal to white, working-class voters, who Obama has been targeting by dispatching Clinton on the campaign trail.
Clinton gave Romney a warm introduction, which led Romney to jokingly acknowledge that the former president is helping his rival.
"If there's one thing we've learned this election season, it's that a few words from Bill Clinton can do a man a lot of good," Romney said. "All I've got to do now is wait a couple days for that bounce to happen."
A few weeks ago, Clinton offered a forceful defense of Obama's economic record and plans for the future at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
"I think the president's plan is better than the Romney plan, because the Romney plan fails the first test of fiscal responsibility: The numbers don't add up," Clinton said in that speech, one of several jabs at the Republican.
Obama was scheduled to speak to Clinton's group later in the day, after addressing the United Nations General Assembly. Both men were drawing contrasts in a presidential contest in which the state of the U.S. economy has been paramount, but which shifted focus to foreign policy after the recent attack in Libya that killed four Americans.
In his remarks, Romney called the death a terrorist attack, language that Obama himself has not used but that his chief spokesman and secretary of state have.
After the Clinton meeting, Romney planned to discuss education policy at a forum sponsored by NBC News. He also was joining running mate Paul Ryan at a campaign rally in Ohio.
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Pickler reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Ben Feller in New York and Philip Elliott in Washington contributed to this report.
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Operated by a team of dedicated volunteers, the Southern Nevada Parrot Education, Rescue & Rehoming Society (SNPERRS) focuses on the rescue and rehoming of parrots, many of which are donated by owners who are no longer in the position to care for them. The ongoing economic crisis in the United States has led to an unprecedented number of home foreclosures, leaving many household pets homeless as families move into rented lodgings or are taken in by other family members or friends. This has led to an influx of birds looking for new homes, making the services of the SNPERRS invaluable.
SNPERRS staff members understand that making the decision to rehome a beloved pet bird is very difficult for both owner and pet, and birds are admitted to the rehoming program only upon the written consent of the owner. While there is no set fee for donating a bird, owners should be aware that each bird admitted to the program undergoes a thorough checkup by an avian veterinarian as part of the procedure, so monetary donations are most welcome. Adoption fees are also kept low and are used to offset veterinarian fees in an effort to ensure a self-sustaining non-profit program. Some owners may choose to donate their parrot because the bird has behavioral issues. In these cases the SNPERRS offers to assist in modifying the bird?s behavior with the goal of keeping it in the home.
Once a bird has been signed over to the society it will initially be placed in a foster home where it will have the opportunity to acclimatize to its new environment and socialize with its foster family. Potential adopters must allow a home visit by the society?s rehoming committee to ensure the bird?s environment is suitable and that the family adopting the bird is familiar with its needs. New owners are asked to send reports of how the bird has settled into its new home and any interesting experiences or interactions they have had with their new feathered family member.
In a recently published interview, executive director of SNPERRS Madeleine Franco noted that since 2007 the society has rehomed more than 100 birds and assisted as many with correcting behavioral problems, helping them to remain with their original owners. She pointed out that giving up a pet can be a traumatic process for both owner and bird as parrots are unique creatures with their own personalities. It is also difficult for a bird to adapt when its owner dies. Whatever the reason for a bird needing a new home, foster families play a crucial role in nurturing and resocializing birds, knowing as they do that their home is a temporary arrangement while a new home is sought. Foster families are clearly very special people stepping in to make the rehoming procedure a more positive experience for parrots in need.
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Deal D?cor Brings Its Factory-Direct Furniture Discounts Nationwide
Fresh off the heels of a $1.2 million round of funding, the furniture-focused e-commerce site?Deal D?cor?is today announcing its official nationwide launch. The company, which we once referred to as a "Groupon for Furniture," to be fair, isn't really a rip-off of the Groupon business model. That is, it's not about using group-buying to promote merchant coupons. Instead, it's about using group-buying to power factory-direct deals in order to offer consumers a 30%-70% savings on furniture and other home goods.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/sLjTGEGCOCQ/
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Insight: China housing drive gives measure of next Premier
MENGTOUGOU, China (Reuters) - One day last summer, the man slated to become China's next premier strolled through a run-down alley between cramped brick huts and then toured a construction site a few miles away where brightly painted tower blocks promised new homes for the country's poor.
The contrasting neighborhoods, both in Beijing's poor, mining region of Mengtougou, embody the affordable housing policy overseen by Vice Premier Li Keqiang, who is expected to replace Premier Wen Jiabao in an upcoming leadership handover.
Affordable housing - and how to pay for it - will be one of the defining challenges of the next leadership as it tries to deal with the high housing prices that are one of the greatest sources of discontent in today's China.
Li's personal involvement hasn't resolved all of the problems of a program fundamental to the Communist Party's claim on power, but it gives some insight into the broader issues he would have to deal with as premier.
Chinese leaders generally keep their cards close to their chest, but Li's long association with affordable housing suggests a populist leadership style even if his policy preferences remain unknown.
His visits to Mengtougou are helping create an image of a politician in the mode of current Premier Wen, who is often portrayed in media as shedding tears over the plight of China's poor.
"Li has been trying to establish himself as a Wen Jiabao-like populist who looks after the disadvantaged," said David Kelly, who follows elite politics closely for Beijing-based consultancy, China Policy.
Li says he cried on his first visit to a shanty town in frigid Liaoning Province in northeast China eight years ago -- a moment that state media now evokes to show his long association with the cause.
During that 2004 visit as a newly-appointed party secretary in Northeast China, Li promised to help laid-off miners in the blighted city of Fushun. Within a year, 13 new residential housing blocks sprang up to replace the ramshackle slum - an initiative that is now portrayed as a defining moment in China's affordable housing policy.
"This was Li Keqiang's contribution to China's economic development, and to the development of society," said Meng Xiaosu, a former classmate of Li's, who helped draft China's housing reforms in the 1990s.
"He saw the workers in impoverished housing conditions. It was just like the Industrial Revolution-era England that we just saw during the London Olympics opening ceremony."
MAKING HOUSING AFFORDABLE
While the local issue in 2004 was basic housing in an economically depressed area, the national policy now aims to ease discontent over the high price of buying a home.
Average urban disposable income is just 21,810 yuan ($3,500) a year, but prime apartments sell for millions of yuan.
The program being championed by Li aims to build 36 million units between 2010 and 2015, at an estimated cost of $800 billion. Through August, China had built just over 4 million such homes in 2012 against a full-year target of 5 million.
However, critics say the program is a mish-mash of initiatives, uneven building standards and poor planning, issues often highlighted in Chinese media reports.
Targets are missed, scrapped and re-set, leaving pledges to the poor in places like Mengtougou -- a hilly county pocked with depleted coal mines -- ringing hollow.
Some of these issues, such as missed targets, were apparent during a visit to the area by Reuters. Other criticisms, such as shoddy construction and how well-connected people are able to jump to the top of the waiting list, were not in evidence.
The 144-tower complex Li visited last year is designed to house 40,000 people resettled from Mengtougou's mining villages and squatter towns. Today, construction is still underway at most blocks.
New residents complained that local authorities razed their former homes to meet relocation quotas and free up land long before their new units were completed. That left families to bounce between expensive temporary rentals for as long as three years.
Children have to commute for miles to their former schools, hospitals aren't built yet and extended families crowd into tiny rooms, awaiting the completion of apartments they were promised.
Finished buildings are brightly painted and roses bloom in the courtyards. For many, the new apartments provide a higher living standard than their former rooms, which lacked heating or plumbing.
"The biggest improvement is that I do not have to go to a public toilet in cold winter nights and that I do not have to cook with coal," said 80-year-old Zhou Shu, proudly showing off the gas cooker in her new 40-square-metre apartment.
Under the affordable housing program, Beijing gives construction targets to regional authorities each year.
To meet targets, some local authorities simply reclassify homes built for government employees or state-owned enterprises as part of the affordable housing program.
A Reuters visit to Shijiazhuang, a city southwest of Beijing, found that a number of apartment units labeled "affordable housing" were actually factory or teachers' dormitories.
In other cases, developers secured permits for luxury housing projects by including a few "affordable" units.
A middle-income city of 10 million people, including satellite towns, Shijiazhuang is one of the few to have published a public list of its affordable housing projects.
WEALTH GAP
Few topics get Chinese as riled up as property. The tension is particularly acute since many have gotten rich by flipping property in the 15 years since housing reform first began.
During Wen's decade as premier, average home prices rocketed 10-fold, dramatically widening a wealth gap the Party is ideologically impelled to close.
Meanwhile, the 230 million migrants looking for work in densely crowded cities cram into factory compounds or in dingy dwellings lacking basic facilities like indoor plumbing. Others stay in dormitories on construction sites, ironically building luxury apartments that speculators never live in.
Wen promised to bring housing costs down to an undefined "reasonable level" - a move many economists see as a throw-back to the era of top-down planning controls. His lending restraints have weighed on economic growth, setting it on course to hit a 13-year low this year, but have done little to dent property prices.
Beijing refuses to relax the property curbs, in place for nearly three years, for fear of unleashing a sudden price surge, even as it tries other measures to lift economic growth.
Property investment generates about half of the country's economic output and directly affects 40 industries.
"Li has been behind the (affordable housing) program so when he becomes premier there will be a strong mandate to continue," said Arthur Kroeber, managing director of economics consultancy GK Dragonomics in Beijing.
"The question is not the trajectory of the policy but the question of how they will pay for it."
The longer the property curbs remain, the more they drag on not only economic growth, but also the government's plans for subsidized housing.
Cities rely on land sales for most of their revenue. Unable to sell land to property developers because of the curbs, many are running short of funds for other obligations, including paying for the low-income homes in the affordable housing program.
Li's former classmate Meng, who helped draft China housing reforms, advocates freeing up private housing construction to generate land revenues to fund the housing targets.
Li himself has so far sidestepped the question of how the government should define and maintain the "right" property price. He has never publicly aired his own views on the broader curbs, in line with China's tradition of political consensus.
Indeed, some analysts suggest housing is too hot an issue to handle and Li may decide to step back from personally overseeing the program once he is premier.
"As premier he can set priorities. If I were premier, I would choose some easy targets. The housing market isn't easy," said Bo Zhiyue, a political analyst at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore.
"Do you want to raise the price or lower it? Do you want it to crash?"
EARLY YEARS
Li himself is no stranger to hardship or upheaval.
As an 18-year old in March 1974 - two years before the end of the Cultural Revolution - Li was one of tens of thousands forced by Mao Zedong's "sent-down youth" campaign to drop school work, toil on farms and learn from the peasantry.
He was assigned to a work brigade in rice-growing Fengyang County, in eastern China's Anhui Province, where he joined the Communist Party. Over a fifth of Fengyang's population had starved to death 15 years earlier in the disastrous collectivization drive of Mao's Great Leap Forward.
In the late 1970s, shortly after Li left Fengyang, starving farmers started to break free of communist collectives, inspiring Deng Xiaoping's reform to allow farmers to plant their own land.
Chen Xueqin, 70, who lived across a dirt path from Li in Fengyang nearly 40 years ago, remembers his singular focus, while fellow villager Xu Weifang, 78, recalls an introvert who was always reading.
"When he talked it was about work," Chen said.
Today, Li appears more at ease in small groups than in public. Businessmen and academics say they have been impressed with his diligent studies of policy.
A law student at prestigious Peking University in the 1980s, Li was caught up in the fervor of political and economic reform. He helped translate a British book, "The Due Process of Law", into Chinese.
He stayed well within the bounds of Party policy and priorities, even while advocating in his master's thesis mildly reformist ideas for moving manufacturing to country towns and loosening China's restrictive residency system.
Traces of his concern for law and process could be seen in late August, when he began a policy meeting for allocating affordable housing by visiting a neighborhood committee and emphasizing fairness in assigning apartments.
The question for investors and analysts, though, is whether affordable housing demonstrates Li's effectiveness as a policymaker or potential as a game changer in China's consensus-based system.
Li's association with affordable housing has helped his populist credentials. But his track record has few notable policy achievements, said Bo, the political analyst.
For all his reformist leanings at university, Li shows the imprint of three decades within a hierarchical party structure.
"When Li speaks about housing matters, it's about giving directions and issuing directives. Li shows himself to be in command, well-versed and deeply briefed," said Beijing-based political analyst Russell Leigh Moses.
"At the same time, it's apparent that he expects Beijing's instructions to be carried out fully. In that respect, Li continues the new tradition of seeking to centralize political authority and policy-making in China."
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(Additional reporting by John Ruwitch in Fengyang; Editing by Nick Edwards and Neil Fullick)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/insight-china-housing-drive-gives-measure-next-premier-212941479.html
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SevOne: The Dismal And Hopeful State Of Data Center Performance
The data center is a mess. They consist of old physical networks, endless snarls of cables and storage boxes the size of refrigerators that stand in contrast to the comparable elegant world of the web. We love the web. The data centers ... not so much. But a new study by SevOne gives a bit of hope by illustrating that the new way we think of data may make life a bit better for those hardy souls who spend their days toiling between the rows of machines inside the walls of the enterprise data center.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/U8TIiFVRHWg/
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Horse slaughter banned in N.J. and Bruce Springsteen's daughter ...
Horse slaughter banned in N.J. and Bruce Springsteen's daughter had role
BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
New Jersey has made a firm statement that the state does not eat horse meat, and the animals will remain in the stable.
Examiner.com reported that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has signed legislation that makes it illegal to slaughter horses for human consumption in the state. The bill forbids transportation of live horses to be used for slaughter, and bans the sale and transporting of horse meat for human consumption.
The ASPCA was appreciative of Christie?s signing of the measure. Debora Bresch, of ASPCA Government Relations for the Mid-Atlantic region said, according to the Sacramento Bee. "By signing this bill into law, Governor Christie has spared New Jersey exposure to the extreme cruelty of horse slaughter and the trade that has made the state a major artery for the transport of horses to slaughterhouses in Canada.?
There are no slaughter houses in the United States, but over 100,000 American horses are sent to Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered.
?This bipartisan measure ensures that no horse is slaughtered in New Jersey for human consumption. It also ensures that our highways will not be used to transport horses to slaughter in other states which have not enacted a similar ban on the practice,? said Christie, according to NorthJersey.com.
The new law assesses fines of at least $100 and 30 days imprisonment for anyone convicted for slaughtering or selling horse meat for human consumption, and imposes civil fines of $500 to $1,000 for each horse that is slaughtered.
The governor?s decision may have been influenced in some small part by the 20-year-old daughter of Christie favorite, Bruce Springsteen.
According to an Associated Press report in the Washington Post, the ASPCA says that accomplished equestrian Jessica Springsteen?s name is on a letter urging Christie to sign the bill to ban horse slaughter in New Jersey.
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GNTO to conduct India Pool road shows in Chennai, New Delhi next month
The German National Tourist Office (GNTO) will conduct the GNTO India Pool road show in Chennai and New Delhi on October 9 and October 11, respectively, this year, to facilitate interactions between India Pool members and the travel trade on latest updates, highlights and attractions in the country. The Chennai road show will be held at The Park, Anna Salai from 10 am to 3 pm, while the New Delhi road show will be at The Lalit from 10 am to 3 pm. Representatives of Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, Mannheim, Zugspitze, and Alpha Travels, among others, will be participating in the two road shows. ?We are very excited about taking this road show to Chennai and Delhi. Both, Ahmedabad and Bengaluru exhibited great response, reinstating the popularity of Destination Germany amongst the travel trade. Attendees had the opportunity to have one-on-one discussions with India Pool members, as well as participate in interactive presentations.
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Sidelight to carry on in progressive way in Game Ball Puppy Trophy ...
Sidelight to carry on in progressive way in Game Ball Puppy Trophy at Coventry
Sidelight after making waves in Monmore?s graded fare is geared up to make a winning debut at the open level. C. Allsopp?s 1?-year-old pup is fully pumped after a few impressive acts at the lower grades, and carries an obviously bright chance in the Game Ball Puppy Trophy at Coventry on Sunday, September 23rd.
The brindle bitch got off the mark on August 18th, when finishing on top of the chart by 3? lengths. Justifying her highest starting price of 7 to 4, she won the A3 event with plenty of ease. After stepping out of the third stall, she covered 480 metres in 28.40 seconds, securing the top rank without any trouble.
A comprehensive win was not enough to satisfy her hunger for success. The daughter of Hondo Black continued her brilliant work to seal another impressive win at the end of last month. She showed no nervousness on her promotion to the A2 level, and captured the first position by a couple of lengths.
She also ran well in the trials at Newcastle lately. After three back-to-back good runs, Sidelight is full of confidence. So, she is expected to make things very tough for rest of the pack, which includes Change Of Shift, Longwood Mojito, Lemon Pluto, Aghaburren Tom and Kilcuala Hondo.
The pressure will be enormous on every hound. Hence, a fine start is required. According to the schedule, the 485 metres contest will be begun at 18:15 GMT. The ultimate champion of the Puppy Trophy will leave the field with ?200.
Longwood Mojito seized the runner-up place last time. A repeat of the latest effort would see him go close. As far as Aghaburren Tom?s chances are concerns, a succession of wooden spoons does not read well.
Lemon Pluto is an interesting newcomer having moved well in the trials. Yet, pinning up too many hopes is not the way to riches. Change Of Shift was successful on his previous visit here. The brindle dog also looks the call to score. Kilcuala Hondo is still getting to grips with life at the higher level.
Change Of Shift and Sidelight are the two best options for betting. The latter is in better form, and should be preferred. Good luck to all the hounds.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the writer's own and do not reflect Bettor.com?s editorial policy.
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