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iOS 7 beta 4 hits with boatloads of bug fixes, as it inches towards release
Three weeks after the last beta release, and just a few days after Apple's developer center finished receiving a massive security overhaul, iOS 7 beta 4 is now available to download. The update to Cupertino's upcoming iOS release -- the biggest since the debut of the original SDK -- is heading out over the airwaves now, with a list of fixes and improvements far too long for us to reprint here. Of course, if you're a registered developer, you can hit up the source link to check out the entire tome of changes for yourself. If you haven't gotten an alert on your handset just yet, be patient. And, please, let us know in the comments if you dig up any interesting tidbits while poking around.
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Riccardo Mori ? My moderate scepticism about the Post-PC era
There is a fairly good definition of ?Post-PC era? on Wikipedia. This passage, I think, is especially relevant: When introducing Apple?s iCloud service in 2011, Jobs explained that the new platform would replace the PC as the ?hub? for a user?s devices with the cloud ? all of a user?s devices, including a PC, would be able to automatically synchronize and access media and other files between platforms. Apple?s current CEO Tim Cook continued to elaborate on the concept that a PC would no longer have to be the center of one?s digital life, and explained that mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones would be ?more portable, more personal and dramatically easier to use than any PC has ever?been.
Note that, in this scenario, the personal computer is not left entirely out of the picture, it is simply demoted and gets to be ?just another device?, along with the tablet and the smartphone and any portable device whose screen size either makes it an oversized smartphone or a small tablet.
An increasing number of people, from what I?ve observed, like to imagine this Post-PC era as a stage in technological progress where the personal computer progressively becomes so irrelevant as not to be needed anymore. A scenario where we basically do everything on touch-based ultra-portable devices. Over the past months I have read quite the number of articles written by tech enthusiasts raving about being able to do actual work on their iPads and nothing else, their MacBooks just collecting dust on their?desks.
All the talk about ?going iPad-only? has been admittedly rather intoxicating for me, since many of these geeks are essentially writers. Having to deal primarily with text is an activity I always found quite flexible, and as a writer myself I thought Yeah, why not, let?s try this little experiment. So I tried to go iPad-only for as long as I could. It lasted three days and a?half.
Before you jump to conclusions, let me clear up something right now. I?m not saying that it?s impossible or unfeasible to do actual work by using just an iPad. Many people out there manage just fine. What I?m saying is that it?s unfeasible for me, for at least a couple of reasons.
1. A cramped workspace ? The iPad?s screen real estate is simply not enough for me. And it gets worse when I use the iPad?s virtual keyboard in landscape orientation. I write the occasional piece and I happily take notes using great apps like iA Writer, Daedalus or Phraseology; but after a 30-minute session in any writing app, I simply start getting claustrophobic. I grow impatient. And if I need to switch between a few other apps, all that shuffling of apps taking the foreground starts getting cumbersome quickly. When I?m at my main machine ? a 15-inch MacBook Pro connected to a 23-inch display, an external keyboard and mouse ? pressing Alt-Tab to switch between open applications is way faster, and even if the flow may be similar (I keep a lot of applications in full-screen mode), on the Mac I have more space and I work much more comfortably.
2. Spatial arrangement ? Apart from certain iOS text editors/word processors with an integrated Web browser, working on the iPad means uni-tasking. While this is a great concept in theory ? ?distraction-free writing environment? and all that ? in practice I feel a kind of constraint which I usually don?t feel when I?m working on the Mac. When I do translation work, in particular, I simply need to have the main screen split at least in two areas, one with the original document, the other with my translation. These two areas may be just two windows inside the same application or, more often, two separate documents open in different applications. Arranging such workspace on a Mac is trivial. On an iPad, not so much. And even if other tablets allow for such screen-splitting, and even if such a feature becomes common in future releases of iOS and other mobile OSes, I think the workspace will always be a bit more awkward, due to the smaller screen real estate of a tablet. In other words, I still very much need an interface with multiple overlapping windows, because while it?s not ?multitasking? in a machine sense, it?s just that kind of ?human multitasking? where you need to keep an eye on multiple elements appearing simultaneously on a (big) screen.
Don?t get me wrong, the iPad is an amazing device, and it?s been a great improvement for my ?digital life? ever since I bought one. For light work sessions, especially out of the office, is more than enough and I don?t need to always bring a laptop with me. It?s also fantastic for ?spur-of-the-moment? activities, like editing an image, checking RSS feeds and news, and so on. For me, it fits perfectly in conjunction with a personal computer. In my setup, it often participates in the spatial arrangement I was mentioning above, because I can ?outsource? to the iPad a few background tasks so as to limit the app switching on the Mac. When I need to monitor my email or some feeds, I just keep the iPad with Mail open by my side. Same when I want to quickly check a video on the Web. Often the iPad works as a digital dictionary when I?m translating and don?t want to switch too often between my translation workspace on the Mac and an online dictionary site like Wordreference.com.
And not to re-ignite the trite ?consumption vs. creation? debate, but I?d say that my consumption vs. creation usage ratio on the iPad is currently 70:30. Again, I?m not saying the iPad can?t be used for serious work (creative or otherwise); I?m saying that I?m not seeing myself switching to a tablet as my only computing device anytime soon. To do that, such tablet should ? ironically, if you want ? behave more like a traditional computer, at least in giving me more freedom to arrange my workspace. And a bigger screen wouldn?t hurt, either.
I may sometimes have a conservative viewpoint about technology, and an old-school approach, but I actually like to keep an open mind and try alternative methods to get things done. I prefer flexibility over too ingrained habits and I don?t rely much on fixed workflows. So, it?s not that I can?t use my iPad as my only work tool just because I haven?t tried too hard. I have tried, and realised that I simply cannot work as long and as comfortably on it as I do on a Mac laptop. (And for translation work, at least for how I work, using only an iPad is just too awkward and slows me down considerably.)
Worth mentioning, at this point, is a recent article by Benedict Evans, titled The irrelevance of Microsoft. In the closing paragraph, he writes:
Though it looks like we?ve passed the tipping point, this process isn?t going to be over quickly. PC sales aren?t going to zero this year. But the replacement cycle, already at 5 years, will lengthen further and further, more and more apps will move to mobile or the cloud, and for many people the PC will end up like the printer or fax ? vestigial reminders of an older way of doing things.
While I don?t disagree with this assessment, I?m also thinking that the personal computer is still far from exiting the picture or becoming completely irrelevant. Sure, people are buying less PCs and more mobile devices, but what this fact tells me is that today people have a more fine-grained range of products to choose from than, say, 10?15 years ago. For those who purchased a computer a few years back only to use it as a consumption device (music, videos, photos, browsing the Web, doing some email, casual gaming, etc.), now products like the iPad, the Surface, the Nexus 7, the Kindle Fire HD, can be enough for that. These people can go from owning a laptop to just a tablet and never turn?back.
A tablet might also be enough (most of the time, at least) for other people whose kind of work involves specific activities and not much app-hopping or switching.
But an interesting portion of other people, I believe, won?t leave the personal computer behind so soon. It?s not only a matter of applications (e.g. ?I need to work with this specific software, and there?s no mobile equivalent for it?), but also and more importantly a matter of spatial arrangement and workspace organisation. Multi-touch interfaces and uni-tasking have certainly simplified things for many users, and have made computing way more accessible to less tech-savvy people. But mobile devices and operating systems still have some way to go to achieve the same kind of comfort and versatility of a personal computer?s interface. Advocates of the Post-PC era ? or, more properly, the Sans-PC era ? claim that PCs will ultimately become a niche market and will be used only by people who need to perform specialised tasks and use sophisticated, resource-intensive applications. I don?t know about that, really. Even for simpler tasks like writing, translating, and photo editing a personal computer is a more comfortable environment, if only for the bigger screen real estate and for the ability to keep an eye on different windows and workspaces without constantly switching from an app or task to another.
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How the New Nexus 7 Stacks Up to the Competition
Well, we already knew pretty much everything
Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-the-new-nexus-7-stacks-up-to-the-competition-897954888
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Apple Reports Nearly Flat Revenue, Record iPhone Sales in Q3
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Animal Attraction
Animal Attraction
(The animal shelter I work at accepts volunteers for work. I am on shift with a volunteer, an attractive lady who is in her 20s. I am male. She is laying on the floor in the office, playing with a puppy while I do some paperwork nearby. The puppy rests his head on her bottom and falls asleep. An elderly patron who often visits the shelter to play with cats walks in.)
Elderly Patron: ?What a cute pup! Look where his head is!?
(The patron turns to me and grins.)
Elderly Patron: ?Don?t you wish your head was where his is, young man??
(I almost choke.)
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U.S. film, TV actors to honor Rita Moreno with lifetime award
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Screen Actors Guild, which represents film, television and other performers in the United States, on Monday said Rita Moreno will receive its lifetime achievement award at its annual awards ceremony in January.
Moreno, 81, has been performing for nearly 70 years as an actress, singer and dancer and won an Oscar in 1962 for her supporting role as the sassy Anita in "West Side Story," a character she informed with her own upbringing in a Bronx "barrio."
Born in Puerto Rico, Moreno is the only Hispanic to have won the four major awards in the entertainment industry - the Emmys, the Grammys, the Oscars and the Tonys - and one of only 11 artists to have done so.
"She is an extraordinarily versatile, talented and generous actor whose career is notable for its courageous choices and for the breadth, depth and quality of her many demanding and commanding roles," said Ken Howard, co-president of the guild known as SAG-AFTRA.
Moreno will be the 50th recipient of the award.
The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists merged last year to form SAG-AFTRA, which is the trade's leading group that represents some 165,000 actors, broadcasters, dancers, recording artists and other performers.
The group's awards show, scheduled to take place on January 18, 2014 in Los Angeles, annually recognizes the best performances of the previous year on film and TV.
(Reporting By Mary Milliken; Editing by Paul Simao)
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Tornado hits Ohio's Ursuline College
PEPPER PIKE, Ohio A tornado of 110 mph winds hit Ursuline College in northeast Ohio early Saturday morning, collapsing a wall of the school's athletic center and damaging other buildings but causing no injuries, officials said.
The EF1 twister hit about 3:35 a.m. northwest of the college and continued across part of the campus, meteorologist William Comeaux of the National Weather Service in Cleveland said. It reached 100-200 yards wide and traveled 1.3 miles.
Only a few students were on campus at the time and they were close to the athletic center that was hardest hit, a college spokeswoman said.
"The blessing is that there was no loss of life or injury," Sister Diana Stano, president of the 1,500-student school about 13 miles east of Cleveland, said on its website.
No one answered the main number for the college Saturday evening but a recorded message said the campus was closed Saturday and Sunday to assess the damage.
The website said the storm caused an external wall of the school's O'Brien Athletic Center to collapse and destroyed part of the roof. It also damaged several other buildings, including the Dauby Science Center and the Ralph M. Besse Library. Many trees were uprooted or destroyed and other campus facilities had minor damage.
College spokeswoman Angela DelPrete said only about five students were on campus at the time and they were about 1,000 feet from the gymnasium. She described debris scattered around the campus and broken windows. Weather service photos showed roof tiles torn away on the gymnasium exposing splintered wood and metal beams.
Despite the damage, Comeaux said, "It's a beautiful area with lots of trees."
He said it's been about two years since a tornado has touched down in the region; the state averages 17-19 tornadoes per year. A disaster relief fund will be established to help rebuild the campus, the website said.
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Obama in a return to Ill. college to begin new series of speeches focused on the economy
The Securities Exchange Board of India has been given legal permission to regulate any scheme involving the pooling of funds, similar to Ponzi schemes. The SEC India has been given search and seizure powers which will allow agents to seek any information in relation to suspect securities transactions. It will also be able to seize call data records and will be able to retain assets in ...
Indian-origin Lorgat named CSA chief following BCCI approval
Cricket South Africa (CSA) has reportedly named Indian-origin businessman Haroon Lorgat as its new chief executive officer (CEO), after getting a positive nod from the powerful Indian cricket authorities. According to Sport24, the position had not been filled on a permanent basis, since former CEO Gerald Majola was suspended and eventually sacked in 2010 for his part in the long-running bonus ...
Case against Toyota to begin
LOS ANGELES - Noriko Uno was afraid of driving fast, often avoiding the freeway and taking the same route every day from her Upland home to and from her family's sushi restaurant. She had put only 10,000 miles on her 2006 Camry in about four years. So when her car unexpectedly accelerated to speeds up to 100 mph on a street with a posted limit of 30, the 66-year-old bookkeeper did ...
Obama in a return to Ill. college to begin new series of speeches focused on the economy
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will return this week to an Illinois college where he once spelled out a vision for an expanded and strengthened middle class as a freshman U.S. senator, long before the Great Recession would test his presidency. The address Wednesday at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., will be the first in a new series of economic speeches that White House aides say Obama ...
SEC voted unanimously to pursue charges against SACs Cohen sources
Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors, responds to a question during a one-on-one interview session at the SkyBridge Alternatives (SALT) Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada May 11, ...
Cost of weeding out criminals and tax cheats hits private banks
LONDON (Reuters) - Private banks managing the financial affairs of the world's wealthy face spending millions of dollars every year on vetting new clients, as regulators get tough on banks that harbor tax cheats and money ...
British company dividends hit record total in second quarter
LONDON (Reuters) - British corporate dividends hit a record total in the second quarter of 2013, although underlying growth is slowing compared to previous predictions, a study showed on Monday.Second quarter payouts by UK firms hit 25.3 billion pounds, the largest ever quarterly total, with media, financial services and food producers all exhibiting double-digit dividend growth, research by ...
House prices and rent in England to surge by 2020 warns report
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Al Khodari posts 43 drop in quarterly earnings
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Chinas rate reform points to eventual banking shake-up
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Beijing's move to scrap the floor on lending rates is not yet a game-changer for Chinese banks, but it may have just started the countdown to an eventual industry overhaul which will deprive the banks of virtually risk-free ...
Volatile markets generate little cheer for Asias trading desks
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Trading desks normally love volatility but Asian operations have found little joy in recent wild swings, undercut by investors' brutal reassessment of the region's prospects as they prepare for the end of unlimited cheap cash from the United ...
Microsoft helped NSA access user info Guardian
The Microsoft logo is seen at their offices in Bucharest March 20, 2013.(Photo:Agencies) Microsoft Corp worked closely with U.S. intelligence services to help them intercept users' communications, including letting the National Security Agency circumvent email encryption, the Guardian reported on Thursday. Citing top-secret documents provided by former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden, ...
Portugals president opts for deal keeping coalition government in power
LISBON, Portugal -- Portugal's president has accepted a compromise reached by the coalition government that allows it to stay in power, defusing a crisis that had roiled financial markets. In an address to the nation, President Anibal Cavaco Silva ruled out early elections, opting for "the best alternative" which is "the continuation in office of the current ...
Tory strategist Lynton Crosby in new lobbying row
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Advice to H5 from Lynton Crosbys company on heathcare in the UK ? extracts from the presentation
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Metals warehouses warned of probe
The U.S. commodities market regulator has put Wall Street banks and other big traders on notice for a possible investigation of their metals warehousing businesses following years of complaints about inflated prices. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) last week sent a letter to firms ordering them to preserve emails, documents and instant messages from the past three years, two ...
A Look Ahead This Weeks ETFs to Watch
the S&P 500's largest sector weight that is causing the problems, there might be reasons to be concerned. Stocks deserve some credit for another weekly advance, especially after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made clear that Fed tapering will commence sometime this year with an eye toward ending quantitative easing sometime next year. With no major scheduled events out of the Fed ...
Credit card ruling could lead to merchants charging additional fee to use ?premium? cards that offer incentives
A ruling expected this week on a complaint against Visa and MasterCard could significantly change how consumers use credit cards in Canada. The federal Competition Tribunal is set to issue a decision Tuesday on whether rules imposed on merchants by the credit card giants are too restrictive. Striking down the rules could allow merchants to either reject certain cards that offer incentive ...
6 injured when oil pipeline explodes in central Mexico Pemex blames illegal tapping
TOLUCA, Mexico -- A pipeline explosion Sunday that injured six people and sent flames and smoke shooting hundreds of feet into the air in central Mexico was caused by illegal tapping, Mexico's state-owned oil company said. The pre-dawn explosion in a farm field injured four police officers and two firefighters among those called to the scene, civil protection officials said. Petroleos ...
The China disconnect analysts lose plot on financial stocks
Sun Jul 21, 2013 4:59pm EDT * Majority of analysts rate China financials a buy * Yet China financials worst performing among top 10 markets * None of the 37 financials in MSCI China Index rated a consensus sell * Analysts pressured, wary of links firms have to China government By Nishant Kumar HONG KONG, July 22 (Reuters) - Seventy percent of analysts covering Chinese financial stocks rate them ...
Detroit cant wait for federal cavalry Orr says
Detroit must dig itself out of the hole it created and cannot wait to see if the federal government will come to its rescue, the city's emergency manager said on Sunday. Kevyn Orr, charged with guiding the collapsed Motor City out of the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, said any outside assistance would be "great" but he is not banking on it. "Hope is not a ...
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MHL only works for a few minutes on Galaxy S4
I picked up an HML-to-HDMI adapter, and an adapter to get it working on my Galaxy S4. When I first plug it into a TV, everything is great! I can get a picture and sound on my TV in the expected resolutions.
After a few minutes, TV reports "no signal". If I unplug the cable from either the TV end or the phone end, the phone reports the HDMI cable disconnected. Plugging it back in on both ends, the phone reports that the HDMI cable is connected. However, I still don't see anything on the TV.
Rebooting the phone (via holding the power button and choosing restart) does not resolve the issue. If I plug the phone into a power source or USB port, and then switch back to the MHL adapter, it starts to work again.
This problem has occurred with multiple TVs.
I have a couple theories:
Some sort of power management shuts off the video output after a few minutes. (Note that I can be playing video and the phone screen stays on while TV reports no signal.)
An error condition with the interface that requires it to reset.
Any thoughts on how to fix this? Am I the only one with this problem? If so, I suppose I could have a funky adapter.
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An Unusually Close Look At The Development Of Facebook Home
Facebook Home had its Android-only release in April and it's been sort of proliferating a little bit maybe? ever since. It lives in a weird space between operating systems and apps, but it's meant to be something you don't over-think. So don't think about. Just let it be a mostly successful immersive experience. That's it. Oh plus this 50 minute video. But mainly it speaks for itself.
We all know that even when a company like Facebook releases something "simple" it actually has thousands of hours of creative and brute manpower behind it. But usually Facebook is pretty quiet about their UX/UI development, so it's interesting to hear Facebook staffers talk about the creation of Facebook Home. Designer Julie Zhuo opens the talk by saying:
There's been a lot of press, and there's been a lot of you know articles written about Facebook home . . . but the things that the articles never write about is actually the journey. We all just see the final product. We see the design in its completed state. And we don't really get to tell the story of all the things that happened along the way. The ups and downs. The bad ideas we tried, you know the endless iteration and critique.
So, what are some bad ideas they tried? Developer Francis Luu talks about the process of deciding what would be quickly accessible from the lock screen. The team considered having as many as eight apps that you could activate by swiping in a particular direction (all radiating around your face aka the unlock button). But that was overkill. So they thought about creating one gesture that would bring down a tray of apps. Apparently inspired by Lunchables, this design direction was called Launchables. You can see how these things would be funny if you had been sitting in Facebook HQ swiping at air for the past 36 hours. These people are braving the front lines everyday so we won't have to.
The video offers rare insight into Facebook's development process, though apparently UX/UI testing for Facebook Home was almost totally in-house and locked down with no real in-the-wild beta phase. Even if you never plan to use Facebook Home, it's worth checking out the general governing principles because they definitely apply to the Facebook Timeline and the company's general future direction. [TechCrunch]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/an-unusually-close-look-at-the-development-of-facebook-859644206
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The key to ion beams' polarizability
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Polarizability determines the force with which an inhomogeneous external electric field acts on the ions of an ion beam. However, it can be quite tricky to obtain accurate values for this force. Now chemists have devised formulas providing the polarizability of atomic ions as a function of their total charge number.
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Saudi non-oil exports up 8% in 2012
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NASA Astronaut and Elite Athletes Host Google+ Hangout
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HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins will discuss health, fitness and astronaut training with several elite American athletes in a Google+ Hangout at 3 p.m. CDT (4 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, July 17.
The Hangout can be seen live on NASA's Google+ page or on NASA Television. Participants will be:
- Rachel Flatt, 2010 U.S. Olympic team figure skater
- Curt Tomasevicz. 2010 U.S. Olympic bobsledder
- Rich Froning Jr., CrossFit Games champion
- Jared Crick, Houston Texans professional football player
- Peter Moore, Men's Health magazine
- Sam Kass, an Obama Administration senior policy advisor on nutrition and executive director of the White House's Lets Move! campaign
- Mark Guilliams, Hopkins' lead strength and conditioning coach
- A colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Hopkins is in the final phase of his mission training as he and his crewmates prepare for their Sept. 25 launch to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Hopkins has participated in many sports and athletics throughout his life, including serving as the team captain for the football team while at the University of Illinois. His recreational interests include hockey, backpacking, snow skiing and running. He also is an avid fan of CrossFit and weight lifting.
NASA's social media followers may submit questions on Twitter and Google+ in advance and during the Hangout using the hashtag #askNASA. Before the Hangout begins, NASA will open a thread on its Facebook page where questions may be posted.
To join the Hangout, visit:
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Cable TV execs start pushing for nationwide duopoly
If there?s one industry that needs less competition, it?s clearly the cable industry. The Wall Street Journal reports that Liberty Media CEO John Malone and Charter Communications CEO Tom?Rutledge are now preaching ?the gospel of consolidation? to their fellow cable executives as they push for the cable industry to become an outright duopoly.?Rutledge tells the Journal that he sees the cable industry eventually boiling down to ?two major players? that will most likely be Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The Journal reports that?Rutledge sees further consolidation as important to the cable industry because it ?would help cable companies control costs, giving them more leverage over media companies that supply TV programming, and would put them on stronger footing to invest in new technologies.?
[More from BGR: Are the next-gen Xbox One and PlayStation 4 ?downgrades??]
This article was originally published on BGR.com
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cable-tv-execs-start-pushing-nationwide-duopoly-021520141.html
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WWE Hires Former TNA Referee, WWE Performance Center On Twitter
WWE Hires Former TNA Referee
WWE has hired former TNA referee Rudy Charles. He?s currently working in developmental at the new WWE Performance Center. The following is from his verified Twitter account:
Hello, Orlando, I?ve missed you. I?m back now and think I might stay for a little while
? Rudy Charles (@rudytheref) June 30, 2013
17 years ago today I reffed my first PW match. Great career that?s taken me to 9 countries & 40 states, most excited for what?s coming next!
? Rudy Charles (@rudytheref) July 6, 2013
I?m so excited for tomorrow?s official grand opening at the @WWEPerformCtr! Then that night it?s #NXTFullSailLive! Be there! @wwe @WWENXT
? Rudy Charles (@rudytheref) July 10, 2013
WWE Performance Center on Twitter
WWE has opened an official Twitter account for the WWE Performance Center located at Twitter.com/WWEPerformCtr. Make sure you follow us at Twitter.com/wnwnews.
Source: http://www.wrestlingnewsworld.com/wwe-hires-former-tna-referee-wwe-performance-center-on-twitter/
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Religion professor, church pastor dies of heart attack at 49
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Source: chronicle.augusta.com --- Thursday, July 11, 2013
The Rev. Jeffery R. Thomas, a Paine College religion professor and pastor who extensively traveled to advocate for the United Methodist Church and higher education, died Wednesday at his home in Augusta from a reported heart attack. He was 49. Thomas, who graduated summa cum laude from Paine College in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religion, was a persistent voice for equal rights, education and services for the poor. read more ...
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Edward Snowden is marooned in the Moscow airport, perhaps without any clean pants, because he flew there without checking bags. On June 21, Snowden received an encrypted email from someone claiming to be a government representative, The Wall Street Journal's Te-Ping Chen and Ken Brown report, and the person urged him to leave Hong Kong, assuring him that he'd be able to clear immigration. ...
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/windows-8-now-finally-more-popular-vista-184037028.html
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The quantum secret to alcohol reactions in space
June 30, 2013 ? Chemists have discovered that an 'impossible' reaction at cold temperatures actually occurs with vigour, which could change our understanding of how alcohols are formed and destroyed in space.
To explain the impossible, the researchers propose that a quantum mechanical phenomenon, known as 'quantum tunnelling', is revving up the chemical reaction. They found that the rate at which the reaction occurs is 50 times greater at minus 210 degrees Celsius than at room temperature.
It's the harsh environment that makes space-based chemistry so difficult to understand; the extremely cold conditions should put a stop to chemical reactions, as there isn't sufficient energy to rearrange chemical bonds. It has previously been suggested that dust grains -- found in interstellar clouds, for example -- could lend a hand in bringing chemical reactions about.
The idea is that the dust grains act as a staging post for the reactions to occur, with the ingredients of complex molecules clinging to the solid surface. However, last year, a highly reactive molecule called the 'methoxy radical' was detected in space and its formation couldn't be explained in this way.
Laboratory experiments showed that when an icy mixture containing methanol was blasted with radiation -- like would occur in space, with intense radiation from nearby stars, for example -methoxy radicals weren't released in the emitted gases. The findings suggested that methanol gas was involved in the production of the methoxy radicals found in space, rather than any process on the surface of dust grains. But this brings us back to the problem of how the gases can react under extremely cold conditions.
"The answer lies in quantum mechanics," says Professor Dwayne Heard, Head of the School of Chemistry at the University of Leeds, who led the research.
"Chemical reactions get slower as temperatures decrease, as there is less energy to get over the 'reaction barrier'. But quantum mechanics tells us that it is possible to cheat and dig through this barrier instead of going over it. This is called 'quantum tunnelling'."
To succeed in digging through the reaction barrier, incredibly cold temperatures -- like those that exist in interstellar space and in the atmosphere of some planetary bodies, such as Titan -- are needed. "We suggest that an 'intermediary product' forms in the first stage of the reaction, which can only survive long enough for quantum tunnelling to occur at extremely cold temperatures," says Heard.
The researchers were able to recreate the cold environment of space in the laboratory and observe a reaction of the alcohol methanol and an oxidising chemical called the 'hydroxyl radical' at minus 210 degrees Celsius. They found that not only do these gases react to create methoxy radicals at this incredibly cold temperature, but that the rate of reaction is 50 times faster than at room temperature.
To achieve this, the researchers had to create a new experimental setup. "The problem is that the gases condense as soon as they hit a cold surface," says Robin Shannon from the University of Leeds, who performed the experiments. "So we took inspiration from the boosters used for the Apollo Saturn V rockets to create collimated jets of gas that could react without ever touching a surface."
The researchers are now investigating the reactions of other alcohols at very cold temperatures. "If our results continue to show a similar increase in the reaction rate at very cold temperatures, then scientists have been severely underestimating the rates of formation and destruction of complex molecules, such as alcohols, in space," concludes Heard.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/isF70kH0e8w/130630145004.htm
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