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Worldwide IT spending growth will slow to 4.6 percent this year (down from the previous forecast of 5 percent), according to a new report from market research firm IDC. IDC's Worldwide Black Book provides forecasts for IT spending in 54 countries around the world, focused on 25 individual market segments across hardware, software, IT services and telecom services.
The main culprits, according to IDC: economic slowdown in emerging markets (with currency devaluation and inflation inhibiting business confidence), plus an inevitable deceleration in the massive growth of smartphones and tablets.
While overall industry growth has cooled, some areas of tech spending are heating up as businesses in mature economies (including the U.S. and Western Europe) begin to invest in overdue infrastructure upgrades and replacements, according to the report. This year, spending on servers will increase by 3 percent (after last year's decline of 4 percent) and storage spending will grow by 3 percent (following a 0.5 percent decline in 2013). The PC market is showing tentative signs of stabilization, with improving commercial shipments in mature markets. The increased pace of hardware investment will have a positive effect on IT services revenue, which is forecasted to post growth of 4 percent this year (up from 3 percent in 2013). Enterprise software spending remains strong, with growth expected in the range of 6 percent to 7 percent.
"The inevitable slowdown in the explosive pace of smartphones and tablets is masking an underlying improvement in many areas of IT spending," said Stephen Minton, Vice President in IDC's Global Technology and Industry Research Organization (GTIRO), in a prepared statement. "Businesses in mature economies are beginning to feel more confident about the economy compared to a year ago, and this is translating into new IT investments. There's significant pent-up demand in the U.S. and Europe for infrastructure upgrades, capacity and bandwidth investments, and overdue replacement cycles. Many businesses will choose to fix the roof while the sun is shining in 2014."
The report noted that there are still significant inhibitors that will keep IT spending growth moderate by historical standards. Cannibalization remains a broad trend, impacting everything from PCs (tablets) to software and services (cloud) and ensuring major disruption for individual vendors. Price erosion and commoditization in hardware have spread to mobile devices. While showing signs of bottoming out, the PC market continues to post year-on-year declines in revenue terms, and telecom infrastructure investment remains tepid in many countries as carriers compete for a more mature customer base.
Nevertheless, IDC sees IT market fundamentals as more solid this year than last. "At the end of 2013, we passed the $2 trillion mark in annual IT spending for the first time in history, and $1 trillion in hardware spending," said Minton. "This year's milestones will include half a trillion dollars in spending on mobile devices alone (phones and tablets), and more than $400 billion on software. With some markets on the up while others are on the down ... there will be as many losers as winners in the next 12 months."
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Forrest Gregg Reveals Battle with Parkinson's Disease — NFL Career to Blame?
NFL Hall of Famer Forrest Gregg, who once held the NFL consecutive games played record with 188 in a row, told The Associated Press he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease on Wednesday.
The former All-Pro player and his neurologist believe Gregg's disease may be related to the many concussions he is believed to have suffered while playing offensive line with the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys from 1956-71. However, the true cause of the disorder is uncertain.
Gregg is currently suffering from hand tremors, a shortened stride when walking, a slouched posture and a hushed voice all as a result of Parkinson's. He decided to reveal his diagnosis to raise awareness of the condition so that others may recognize potential symptoms — and seek subsequent treatments — earlier to delay its debilitating effects on the body and mind.
"I don't pretend to say that I'm important to the scheme of things in the whole world, but I can do something and help along people who have this disease," Gregg said. "So, I'm kind of just saying that I have it, I want to do something about it and I think I found the right people to help me along the line.
No cure exists for Parkinson's, but doctors prescribe both medication and physical therapy to help mitigate the effects of the condition that affects more than five million people around the world, including former boxing champion Muhammad Ali and actor Michael J. Fox. As the disease worsens, patients suffer worse tremors and stiff limbs and eventually lose brain cells crucial to the production of dopamine, which helps the body regulate muscle function.


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Every time we eat or drink, we can thank our metabolism for converting all those calories into energy. Our size, gender, and age all factor into our metabolic rate, but there are also ways to independently control its speed. And the faster our metabolism, the more calories we burn off, making that Krispy Kreme breakfast no longer such a big deal. (OK, the donut probably still isn't the best idea.) Here are 11 proven ways to keep that body burning strong.
1. Sleep!
Almost nodding off in line at Starbucks isn't the only downside of not catching enough zzz's. Researchers have found a link between metabolism and sleep, and not getting enough of it may seriously slow metabolism.
2. Drink green tea
Not only does this superfood pack an antioxidant-punch, researchers have found it speeds metabolism as well Metabolic effects of green tea and of phases of weight loss. Diepvens, K, Kovacs, E.M., Vogels, N, et al. Maastricht University, Department of Human Biology, The Netherlands. Physiology & Behavior, 2006 Jan 30;87(1):185-91. Epub 2005 Nov 7.. Plus, it's naturally calorie-free, so there's no reason not to enjoy a mug (or two).
3. Amp up workout intensity
Slow and steady may not always win the race. High-intensity interval training (HIIT), such as interval runs, are quick bouts of intense exercise that can jumpstart metabolism and keep us burning calories long after the workout is over. (Afterburn effect, anyone?) Metabolic profile of high intensity intermittent exercises. Tabata, I., Irisawa, K., Kouzaki, M., et al. Department of Physiology and Biomechanics, National Institute of Fitness and Sports, Kanoya City, Japan. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 1997 Mar;29(3):390-5.
4. Don't skip breakfast
It may be time to reconsider hitting snooze in favor of getting up to grab a quick bite before starting the day. Studies show the importance of quick-starting metabolism with breakfast Breakfast consumption affects appetite, energy intake, and the metabolic and endocrine responses to foods consumed later in the day in male habitual breakfast eaters. Astbury, N.M., Taylor, M.A., Macdonald, IA. School of Biomedical Sciences, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham UK. Journal of Nutrition, 2011 Oct;5(5):455-63. Epub 2011 Oct 28. Skipping breakfast is associated with diet quality and metabolic syndrome risk factors of adults. Min, C, Noh, H, Kang, Y.S., et al. Department of Food and Nutrition, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Nutrition Research and Practice, 2011 Oct;5(5):455-63. Epub 2011 Oct 28.. No a.m. appetite? Snack on something small, like a bowl of Greek yogurt.
5. Pump some iron
The weight room isn't only to help bulk up or get lean. Lifting weights can also help speed resting metabolic rate, making those dumbbells our new best friends Effect of acute resistance exercise on postexercise oxygen consumption and resting metabolic rate in young women.Osterberg, KL, Melby, CL. Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 2000 Mar;10(1):71-81. Strength training increases resting metabolic rate and norepinephrine levels in healthy 50- to 65-yr-old men. Pratley, R, Nicklas, B, Rubin, M, et al. Department of Medicine, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Maryland. Journal of Applied Physiology, 994 Jan;76(1):133-7..
6. Gulp some H20
Drinking enough water is a simple way to speed up digestion and burn calories Water-induced thermogenesis. Boschmann, M, Steiniger, J, Hille, U, et al Franz-Volhard Clinical Research Center and Helios-Klinikum-Berlin, Medical Faculty of the Charité, Berlin, Germany. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2003 Dec;88(12):6015-9.. We may need more than those recommended eight glasses a day too. Now if only wine could speed metabolism...
7. Spice things up
The next time a chicken breast is cooking up in the kitchen, add a dash of cayenne pepper. The heat from the pepper is thanks to capsaicin, which wont only add a fiery kick—it could help boost metabolism, too Effects of capsaicin, green tea and CH-19 sweet pepper on appetite and energy intake in humans in negative and positive energy balance. Reinbach, H.C., Smeets, A, Martinussen, T. Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Clinical Nutrition, 2009 Jun;28(3):260-5. Epub 2009 Apr 3..
8. Squeeze in some cardio
Hop on the bike and clock in some miles—one study found that 45 minutes on the bike sped up metabolic rate for over 12 hours A 45-minute vigorous exercise bout increases metabolic rate for 14 hours. Knab, A.M., Shanely, R.A., Corbin, K.D., et al. Human Performance Laboratory, Appalachian State University, Kannapolis, NC. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2011 Sep;43(9):1643-8.. Guess learning to ride a bike way back when was worth it!
9. Eat wisely
Who knew eating could actually help speed calorie burn? Certain foods like tuna and grapefruit have been shown to speed up metabolic rate Discovery of the strong antioxidant selenoneine in tuna and selenium redox metabolism. Yamashita, Y, Yabu, T, Yamashita, M. Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Fujisawa, Japan. The World Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2010 May 26; 1(5): 144–150. Nootkatone, a characteristic constituent of grapefruit, stimulates energy metabolism and prevents diet-induced obesity by activating AMPK. Murase, T, Misawa, K, Haramizu, S, et al. Biological Science Laboratories, Tochigi, Japan. American Journal of Physiology – Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2010 Aug;299(2):E266-75. Epub 2010 May 25.. Packing in protein has also shown to boost metabolism, so pick some eggs over pancakes at the breakfast table for a morning metabolism boost Effect of dietary protein content on weight gain, energy expenditure, and body composition during overeating: a randomized controlled trial. Bray, G.A., Smith, S.R., de Jonge, L, el a. Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2012 Jan 4;307(1):47-55..
10. Grab a cup of Joe
This caffeinated morning beverage is not only a savior when it comes to pushing through a midterm paper or work meeting. A cup of coffee (or the caffeine in it) is absorbed into the blood stream very quickly, speeding up heart rate and provide a metabolic boost that peaks at about three hours after drinking Caffeine and coffee: their influence on metabolic rate and substrate utilization in normal weight and obese individuals. Acheson, K.J., Zahorka-Markjewicz, B, Pittet, P, et al. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1980 May;33(5):989-97. Actions of caffeine in the brain with special reference to factors that contribute to its widespread use Fredholm, B.B., Bättig, K., Holmén, J., et al. Section of Molecular Neuropharmacology, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Pharmacological Reviews, 1999 Mar;51(1):83-133..
11. Laugh a lot!
A little laughter may go a long way. Scientists have found that as little as 10 minutes of laughter per day (or roughly half an episode of SNL) can burn energy Energy expenditure of genuine laughter. Buchowski, M.S.m Majchrzak, K.M., Blomquist, K, et al. Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. International Journal of Obesity (London), 2007 Jan;31(1):131-7. Epub 2006 May 2.. Just another reason to stay smiling!
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At Serious Eats, I contributed a drink to a new feature, "The Best Cocktails We Drank in [a given month]." This previous month being April, it was April's turn to be the given month. The remit was, pick a drink you loved, whether out or at home. We don't really get out much, for several reasons, so it would have to be a drink at home. I chose something new, a drink I'd never had or made before. My comments on the site were …
"Reposado tequila, sweet and dry vermouth, Campari, and Angostura bitters combine for the La Rosita, a spin on the classic Negroni cocktail. I mixed this one up at home for a crisp springtime refresher. Tequila and Campari play very well together, making for an herbal, lightly bitter drink that highlights tequila's agave flavor."—Michael Dietsch, Cocktail 101 columnist
Now, the recipe:
La Rosita
- 1-1/2 ounces reposado tequila
- 1/2 ounce sweet vermouth
- 1/2 ounce dry vermouth
- 1/2 ounce Campari
- 1 dash Angostura bitters
Stir all ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. No garnish.
For tequila, I used Espolon Reposado. For sweet vermouth, Cinzano; for dry, M&R.
Disclaimer: The Espolon and Campari were sent to me for review purposes by Campari America. I had never before had the Espolon and I quite liked it. I would consider buying it again, but I would consider other reposados before Espolon. As for Campari, I almost always have a bottle on hand, usually purchased with my own money. But to cover my ass, I probably can't fail to disclose that Campari America sent me a bottle.
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Two men and two women were found shot to death outside of a home in Northridge early Sunday, the Daily News reports.
Police in Burbank are investigating a head-on collision that killed one driver, reports the Burbank Leader.
Authorities believe that recent thefts of cargo throughout the county, mostly in the San Fernando Valley, could be a part of of an organized crime ring. Daily News
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Ex-prison guard charged with killing 2 Tenn. postal workers restrained after court outburst
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A former prison guard charged with killing two Tennessee postal workers had to be physically restrained and removed from a Memphis courtroom after an outburst during a federal court hearing.
Chastain Montgomery became upset Monday during his mother's testimony at a hearing to determine whether he is eligible for the death penalty if convicted in the October 2010 shootings of Paula Robinson and Judy Spray.
Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to charges including two counts of killing a federal employee while committing a robbery. No trial date has been set.
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With all the state changes are they still offering a one deer only archery permit for $15 and when.
Usually apply Aug. 1 thru aug 31. Site says there is an application period but I can't find the form which in past had to be filed by mail.
I believe so its usually not till august first but they don't have it posted yet
Thanks for the info. I'll start watch the DNR site in aug. The herds are thin where I hunt and will not shoot a doe. My way of making the herd grow. Plus a little extra spending money.
They just listed it under Deer Permits One Stop - again its a paper filing beginning Aug.1 - I couldn't open form to print, probably not able to till Aug. 1
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Deer Permits One Stop (fees, applications, all categoriess)
i was able to download and print an application this morning
Thanks just printed it. In reading it I see you can get an over the counter archery permit Aug. 1 "Single antlerless-only permit are $15.50" or a combo for $26. Is this something new as I thought you couldn't get single archery permits OTC - just can't remember.
BP - Single "antlerless only" archery permits have been available OTC for several years. The paper application is for the single "either-sex" permit. So, if you wish to take an antlered animal, you either obtain the OTC combo permit, which is available throughout the archery deer season; or, submit the paper application for the single "either-sex" permit (apply during August). Tom
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As a somewhat unlikely follow-up to my participation in Gail Davies, Neal White & Steve Rowell's Experimental Ruins workshop, I have ended up co-organising a session for the next Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting in New York (24-28 Feburary 2012). Entitled 'Ruinations: Violence, Snafus, Porn' it will critically examine phenomena such as 'ruin porn' and the general violence of urban decay. For those who have asked, SNAFU stands for Situation Normal: All Fucked Up. We found the plural was more appropriate in this context.
There will be two sessions: a paper session and a discussion panel, which will feature aforementioned Neal White and Steve Rowell (Gail Davies is off doing her own session with Jamie Lorimer and Richard Pell, entitled 'Practices for a Post-Natural History') as well as Mireille Roddier, Anya Sirota, Andrew Herscher and Stephen Graham.
Here is our abstract:
From Piranesi to Camilo José Vergara, the representation of ruins has been instrumentalized for symbolic and aesthetic purposes, and alternately posited as picturesque, sublime, nostalgic or abominable. While cultural critics of the mid-twentieth century turned to everyday life as the base of ideological control, this century is revealing an unprecedented preoccupation with investigating sites of disenfranchisement and decay. Although "shrinking cities" may be symptomatic of the ongoing capital extraction from the Global North, it is not their reality but rather their increased visibility that is generating the Western world's attention to ruins.
What does this increasingly popular object of study reveal about our current mechanisms for cultural production, and consumption? What is found in the neglected layers of the palimpsestic city? What range of purposes do the mediation and dissemination of such images serve?
This session is intended for architects, artists and geographers to reflect upon the relationship between the representation of ruins and the violence they symbolize or deny. It will address and question:
• The seemingly clear border between 'recreational' ruin exploration and its 'scholarly' counterpart;
• The immediacy/authenticity of experience and the structures for disseminating the representation of such information;
• Tactics for publically appropriating socially marginalized sites;
• The naturalization of destruction as antidote to 'catastrophism' versus the self-alienation leading mankind to "experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order" (Walter Benjamin);
• The artistic production posited by the previous opposition, respectively: beautification as psychological reassurance in crisis management, or a call for the politicization of art.
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The City Council this week moved to allow cellular towers on new poles in public right-of-ways provided the service provider obtains an encroachment permit.
Residents who live within 1,000 feet of the proposed tower will be notified of the permit once it is pulled, according to the process approved by the City Council on Tuesday. Anyone will be able to file an appeal.
In the 3-1 vote, Councilman David Gordon was the sole dissenter and Councilman Gary Bric was absent.
Officials on Tuesday also recommended keeping the city's existing ordinance on wireless telecommunications facilities — which allows controversial cell towers on institutional properties in residential areas — as is, despite heavy opposition from local residents.
More than a dozen local residents clad in "Save Burbank Neighborhoods" T-shirts flocked to the meeting demanding the city more seriously explore their list of gripes with the existing regulations regarding wireless facilities in residential zones.
When the same group successfully campaigned to keep a wireless telecommunications facility off the Little White Chapel on North Avon Street earlier this year, the City Council decided to take a closer look at cell tower regulations.
But when city officials returned to the council Tuesday without implementing any of the residents' suggestions into the ordinance, they felt their voices weren't being heard.
The group had called for ongoing inspections of radio frequency emissions, equipment disclosure, encroachment limits of cell towers in residential neighborhoods, time limits on cell tower permits and increased public noticing.
"Save Burbank Neighborhoods is outraged by city staff's refusal to listen to the public and protect the property value, public health and character of our residential neighborhoods," the group posted on its website.
During the more than two-hour discussion Tuesday night, the council directed officials to host a study session with a cell-tower policy expert and local residents to explore the feasibility of implementing the group's suggestions into the ordinance.
"We may make further modifications to the rules about wireless telecommunications facilities in residential areas," Mayor Dave Golonski said Wednesday.
According to the ordinance, facilities that are used to collect utility customer meter data get a six-month exemption from the new regulations. That would include the Southern California Gas Company, which has plans to install five new poles with meter equipment in residential neighborhoods.
Residents who live near the five locations will be notified about the project before the ordinance returns to the City Council on Jan. 8 for a second reading. The locations include 1322 Griffith Park Dr., 1040 Fairview St., 2215 Niagra St., 1100 Sixth St. and 1405 Country Club Road., according to the utility.
If the ordinance containing the exemption passes the second reading, there will be no appeal process for the gas company's proposal.
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WOW Gold - Toravon: Strategy for the latest Wintergrasp boss
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Toravon is the latest boss to appear within the Vault of Archavon, however we're not quite sure if he is the last of the VoA bosses to be seen in this expansion. The boss is fairly simple conceptually, but don't take him too lightly. I'll walk you through what you need to know to get score some sweet tier 10 PvE gear and equivilent PvP gear.
Gear Drops
He drops tier 10 level gloves and legs along with PvP gear (like belt and boots). Unlike his brothers, he drops 3 items on 25 instead of 2. And yes, he does drop Emblems of Frost. Its a fairly simple encounter for an equipped raid group. There aren't any fires to stay out of or anything. You'll need 2 tanks and at least 4-5 healers (on 10 man, you can get away with 2).
Tanks will need to switch off of each other to shake the Frostbite debuff. It can stack up to 100 times and each application places a DoT which hits for about 1000 every couple of seconds. Your tanks can switch when they feel the debuff is getting high.
Frozen Orbs
No, this isn't the crafting reagent. Toravon will summon up 3 Frozen Orbs (1 on 10 man), and they can hurt if not taken care of. Its like a Whirlwind effect that goes around at random. It'll nail anyone within 8 yards of it and it needs to be targeted and destroyed. Ranged players can take care of it. But if there are any that spawn near the melee, go ahead and switch over to finish it off. They start off as glowing rings on the ground before the actual orb spawns.
Other abilities
He'll freeze players and root them to the ground with an ice spell called Freezing Ground. Its a magic and can be dispelled. Make an effort to shake off this debuff especially when there are Frozen Orbs flying around frozen players.
Lastly, watch out for the Whiteout. This ability won't fix your mistakes exactly or anything, but every time it's cast it will continue to increase the amount of frost damage your raid takes. You can think of it as a sort of soft enrage.
Quick tips
Frost Resistance aura or a Frost Resistance totem will help mitigate some of the damage coming through. Even if your raid has neither, the encounter is fairly easy enough to get through. Don't worry, you're not going to need any frost resist gear.


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Wikipedia, the online "free encyclopedia" mega-site written and edited entirely by its users, has been deleting within minutes any mention of eligibility issues surrounding Barack Obama's presidency, with administrators kicking off anyone who writes about the subject, WND has learned.
A perusal through Obama's current Wikipedia entry finds a heavily guarded, mostly glowing biography about the U.S. president. Some of Obama's most controversial past affiliations, including with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers, are not once mentioned, even though those associations received much news media attention and served as dominant themes during the presidential elections last year.
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Once ranging from the Puget Sound lowlands in Washington all the way to Baja California, the western pond turtle was essentially extirpated in the Puget Sound lowlands by the 1980s. This aquatic turtle lives in streams, ponds, lakes and permanent and ephemeral wetlands. While they spend much of their lives in water, they do require terrestrial habitats for nesting. In the few remaining locations where western pond turtles are found, they can be seen basking on logs, rocks or other floating vegetation.
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Mad City Mike wrote:BTW, if we KNOW the team is going to stay, I would much rather it be owned by Balsillie than Cuban. I think Balsillie's passion for hockey would be a great thing, as opposed to a "hometown boy" having the team as just another of his play toys.
Not me. I'm all for a hometown boy like Cuban buying this team. I hardly think that he'd treat it like a "toy". Plus, he's an NBA owner who knows about marketing, knows about salary caps, knows about running a building. Plus, and I don't care how many of you people want to slam him, I think he'd be a great owner. I couldn't care less if he likes publicity; the NHL sure could use some.
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Novak Djokovic teetered on the precipice of elimination from the French Open, before storming back to beat Andreas Seppi in a five-set classic in Paris.
World No. 1 Djokovic was hanging by a thread at Roland Garros when he lost the first two sets, but he recovered to triumph 4-6 6-7(5) 6-3 7-5 6-3 in four hours 18 minutes. He will next face either Stanislas Wawrinka or Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarter-finals.
With the victory, he has kept alive his dream of becoming the first player since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four grand slam titles simultaneously - although how much the match has taken out of him physically will only become apparent in the later rounds. Before the Seppi contest, Djokovic had not dropped a set at this year's tournament.
Djokovic struggled against both the wind and a brilliant performance from Seppi, who can never have played better, before eventually edging through.
Seppi had lost all seven of his meetings against Djokovic going into this one, and his chances of ending that streak appeared slim when he surrendered a break in the second game of the match. However, Djokovic was in generous mood, coughing up unforced errors and looking stiff in breezy conditions, which allowed Seppi to break back.
And Seppi grabbed another against the serve to take the first set, as Djokovic seemed to struggle with both his footwork and confidence, opting to play safe shots when the space was there to fire potential winners.
It was a big ask for Seppi to repeat how he played in the first frame, but he managed it while never letting caution take over against a tentative Djokovic. Seppi had the opportunity to serve for the second stanza, which he wasted as Djokovic levelled up after converting his first break point of the set.
However, the tiebreak went Seppi's way, with Djokovic looking more and more disgruntled and his groundstrokes failing to carry the whip and fizz that his opponent's did; the gusts of wind had seemingly convinced him to play it safe.
Djokovic kept himself alive by taking the third set with four breaks of serve; Seppi, who had been through two five-setters coming into the match, was beginning to show the early signs of fatigue.
When Djokovic pierced the Seppi serve early in the fourth, the momentum seemed to have shifted decisively towards him - but the lower-ranked man hit back, marrying mental toughness to technical skill.
However, In the 12th game of the fourth it was Djokovic who dug the deepest, landing another break to force a deciding set.
The weather was distinctly calmer in the fifth set, and Djokovic took advantage with some of his most composed tennis of the match, sealing victory with another break.
Djokovic will meet either fifth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or No. 18 seed Stanislas Wawrinka in the last eight. Their last-16 clash was suspended due to darkness, with Tsonga leading 4-2 in the fifth set.


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India Wants Students And Researchers To Have The Right To Photocopy Books
from the medicines-for-the-mind dept
Techdirt has run several stories about the difficulties students in emerging economies have when it comes to buying expensive study materials. Back in 2012, Costa Rican students took to the streets to defend their right to photocopy otherwise unaffordable university textbooks. Earlier this year, Indian textbook authors asked for a lawsuit brought by Western publishers against Delhi University and a nearby photocopying shop over alleged infringements to be dropped. A common element to those two stories is that students often resort to making photocopies of books, since they can't afford the originals. According to this story from Calcutta's The Telegraph, it seems that the Indian government wants to turn the practice into a recognized right:
India will seek changes to international copyright regulations so that students and researchers can procure photocopies of expensive books without having to pay royalties, a senior government source said.
That's a pretty bold move, and it will be interesting to see the details. But it is certainly in keeping with India's successful attempts to make vital medicines available to its people at prices they can afford, despite what the patent-holders might want. In some ways, this new plan is an extension of that idea, since it recognizes that some things -- like medicine or knowledge -- are simply too important for developing countries to be kept locked up by Western monopolists.
Come December, he said, the Union human resource development ministry will ask the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) to relax its norms that protect authors' and publishers' commercial rights over their books.
The ministry will suggest at the next general assembly of Wipo, a UN body with 185 nations as members, that educational and research institutions be exempted from the copyright regime.
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JON McLaughlin has officially left City following the arrival of Jordan Pickford on loan.
The 26-year-old stopper is set to sign for a League Two club – thought to be Burton.
The departure of the long-serving keeper ends a six-year link with Valley Parade after he was signed by Stuart McCall in May 2008. He has previously been training with them while playing for both Harrogate clubs.
McLaughlin had to bide his time to become first choice but went on to make 145 appearances.
He shared goalkeeping duties with Matt Duke during the promotion season but returned to the side for the late charge which saw them into the play-offs. He kept a clean sheet in the 3-0 Wembley win over Northampton in the final.
McLaughlin played every game last season in League One and kept 14 clean sheets – the seventh best record in the division.
He turned down City's initial contract offer but had continued to train with them and played in all three of the pre-season games so far.
Phil Parkinson said: "Jon has been a great servant to the club and we would have ideally liked to see him stay.
"But financial constraints mean it hasn't been possible to strike a deal that is right for both parties."


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Popular brands don't always stay popular. Many fight to stay at the top of the heap, and it's not uncommon for brands to spend their commercial lives persevering through bankruptcies, restructurings and plain obsolescence.
It's also not unheard of for a brand to fall out of favor with consumers, get left for dead, but still return to the marketplace later on. Sometimes these brands have even managed to come back in better positions than they held before being written off. It's rare, but it happens.
What follows is a list of 10 brands that faded away and then made a comeback. Some lord over the global marketplace today, and some are still just barely hanging on. Whatever the case, these brands beat the odds and defeated death — even if only temporarily.
Read ahead to see 10 brands that defied conventional wisdom and came back, long after everyone had counted them out.
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There was a time when manual transmissions always outperformed automatics on the track, but you won't find a clutch on today's F1 supercars anymore. Those have been replaced by semi-automatic paddle shifters mounted to the steering column. Even on the street-legal consumer side, acceleration is a shifting landscape. While six-speed manuals such as the Lingenfelter Chevy Corvette and Dodge Viper Hennessey Venom still hold the top 0 to 60 mph times, today's automatics are increasingly accelerating faster and getting better fuel economy than their manual counterparts in what amounts to a significant changing of the guard.
In the automotive world—as in computing, Jeopardy!, and sometimes even chess—technology is outperforming humans.
With much talk about driverless car technology lately, that begs a number of questions. One example: Vehicle fuel efficiency, hybrids, and electric vehicles are central to a transforming, cleaner, greener transportation system; What will driverless cars mean for fossil fuel consumption in the transportation sector? At RMI, we're very interested in the answers to this question.
Individual driverless cars come with important opportunities for increased efficiency. Groups of driverless cars likewise have the potential for even greater collective efficiencies, for example through shared reduced drag. And driverless vehicles seamlessly connected to smart infrastructure offer even greater promise still.
Consider hypermiling, which focuses on maximizing fuel efficiency through driving technique and has a cult of devout enthusiasts pushing the limits of their vehicles' mpg. For example, one driver on hypermiling site ecomodder.com is coaxing more than 86 mpg out of a 1988 Honda Civic, besting its EPA rating by close to 175 percent.
Hypermiling requires a whole new approach to driving—how fast you drive; how you accelerate, brake, and approach hills and traffic lights. Most drivers aren't well versed in how to hypermile; they just try to maintain (or not overly exceed) the speed limit. But driverless cars could do the hypermiling for us. (The Honda Civic Hybrid's Econ Button is already a small step in that direction, prioritizing efficiency over a driver's lead foot tendencies.)
And while hypermiling is often derided as "a fun way to drive slow," driverless cars—via connected autonomy—could actually enable us to get places faster while still maintaining hypermile-like fuel economy.
There's a memorable scene in Days of Thunder when a young Tom Cruise teaches Nicole Kidman the concept of drafting: "When one car tucks in behind another, two cars go faster than one. They divide the air resistance between them. Now here's where it gets interesting. The lead car has to floor it to hit 200 mph, but the car that's tucked in behind doesn't. It can go just as fast and still have power in reserve."
In the context of driverless cars, drafting becomes platooning, a grouped "train" of autonomous, connected cars following a lead car. The SARTRE project—fully operational today and potentially ready for consumer deployment within 10 years—is the latest iteration of a concept that first gained popularity in the 1990s. By traveling within 13 feet of one another, the platooned vehicles reap great efficiency gains. A 1995 PATH (Partners for Advanced Transportation TecHnology) study showed fuel use reductions up to 20 percent at this distance; even greater reductions are possible with larger platoons and/or tighter spacing between vehicles.
Now here's where driverless cars, hypermiling, and speed all potentially intersect. The National Highway Maximum Speed Law of 1974, motivated by the 1970s oil crisis, gave us the 55 mph speed limit, targeted at keeping U.S. drivers at peak fuel efficiency. In 1995, the law was abolished and speed limits now vary widely state by state, though 55 mph remains common on many of the nation's highways. But what if driverless cars—by being able to safely maintain much closer following distances in platoons than human drivers—could actually increase the speed of peak efficiency? We'd get places faster while still using less fuel.
The opportunities bound up in driverless cars are many. They're highly compatible with car-sharing programs (more on that in a future post). They have implications for public transportation systems (ditto). If you're feeling drowsy on a long-haul drive or at the end of a tough day at work, a driverless car could let you sit back and relax, or even take the wheel if it senses you're driving erratically; ditto if you find you've unexpectedly had too much to drink—rather than call a taxi, a driverless car could take you home. By feeding information into (and obtaining info from) a shared database akin to the smartphone app Pothole Alert, they could avoid road hazards or even notify the local highway department or department of public works to road repair and maintenance needs.
But let's return to the fuel consumption issue. Driverless cars connected to the traffic light system could communicate with an upcoming light and have it stay green or change to green, so that you could maintain cruising speed and optimal fuel efficiency (not to mention avoiding an unnecessary delay at the light). And of course there's the familiar issue of parking, especially in urban environments where it accounts for 30 percent of all traffic. Autonomous cars and a smart parking system could allocate parking spaces to the nearest vehicles in need of a spot, and vehicles could navigate to those spots directly and quickly, reducing the fuel consumption, emissions, and time associated with searching for a spot.
There are pitfalls to be wary of, however. One giant elephant in the driverless car room is vehicle miles traveled (VMT). It's tempting to believe that driverless cars will reduce VMTs through various efficiencies, but the opposite could also happen. In a highly autonomous vehicle future, we may do far more with our cars than we currently can—think of Pierce Brosnan's James Bond calling his BMW 750 via cell phone in Tomorrow Never Dies, or David Hasselhoff's Michael Knight and his autonomous car, KITT, each chasing down different suspects in Knight Rider.
What if our driverless cars of the future have a valet mode that allows them to park themselves, becoming not just driverless but also passengerless? What if they run errands for us, such as picking up lunch or dry cleaning or the kids at soccer practice? What if driverless cars—and the efficiencies and flexibility they offer—actually incentivize us to drive more? This "rebound effect" could increase VMT and fuel consumption, eating into the potential energy savings we'd otherwise expect from highly efficient autonomous vehicles. We must be prepared to address these undesirable yet entirely possible outcomes.
Robert Frost wrote, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference." With the dawn of driverless vehicle technology, we are at a fork in the road, each path with its own consequences, positive and negative. Driverless vehicle technology can and likely will make a difference. But what difference will it make? It has the potential to be radically more efficient than the status quo, but it also might increase—possibly substantially—VMTs and fuel consumption. So how do we ensure that our future state is more of the former, and less the latter? We'll explore that in coming posts.
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Images 1 & 3 courtesy of SARTRE.
Image 2 courtesy of PATH.
What about the eventual laws that will outlaw driver vehicle control - will they force everyone to operate autonomous vehicles? theres going to be a very interesting period of time where you have these efficient autonomous vehicles and the crazy guys in BMWs who pass everyone at every turn.
Hi Madden. That's a big question, and one for the legislative crowd to tackle. Rather than focus on that topic, we wanted to use our expertise to analyze what it could mean for the energy spectrum (both positive and negative). We see it as an important part of the conversation, and plan to dive further into the topic as the series continues. But I'll play: I've been trying to think of your question from a late 1800s perspective, when really good horse-n-buggy drivers said to themselves: "Will they force us to drive these confounded machines?!" Growing up in Pennsylvania, I can assure you that you can still drive a buggy around if you want to, which I do not. I see this going the same way. Most will let the robot drive. Jay Leno will still take out his classics by hand, and you'll see the die-hard drivers on tracks and off-road...which is exactly the same place horse-riding happens out these days. If you ask me, driving off-road and on tracks is more fun anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VyXpPspxlA
Another possibility though is that driverless technology is the enabling technology that completely changes how we view and use the automobile. Rather than owning a car it could be turned into a service and flow business where people contract for transportation. We'd use cell phones to order a vehicle and it would come to us. Then when we arrived at our destination it would go off and take other passengers. Since vehicle utilization is so low currently it opens the possibility of giving everyone better transportation with fewer cars, and fewer parking lots. Users could contract based on size of vehicle and the number of miles traveled each month.If the driverless car is also electrified it can sense when it will need to be charged and go off and charge itself.
Assuming this all actually works out and the need for perfection in safety systems is satisfied (akin to the challenge of nuclear power plants) it may have great benefits for fuel efficiency. But what about the equally pressing issue of resource consumption? We here in the US (and the more developed nations in general) are largely shielded from the reality of resource extraction, but it is exacting a huge toll in the poorer (ironically - considering the resource wealth at their feet) and less powerful regions of the world, where billions living at what we would consider poverty level are faced with water pollution, soil pollution, and loss of arable land that in some cases threatens their survival in order to feed our demand for every adult to own a two-ton contraption in order to carry our bodies from place to place. Public (or shared quasi-pubic) transportation seems to be essential to address this issue of resource extraction. Another factor to consider is how we can reduce both the need for speed and the need for distance. If more destinations were within easy walking, biking, or modest transit range, it would greatly reduce both energy and other resource consumption and have indirect benefits of improved health and more social connectivity. In the words of Dr. Richard Jackson, "our pattern of land use is a public health disaster". And why do we need to do everything so fast? This is an historically recent social and economic phenomenon, not a natural state of the human species. The capacity to make the journey itself a meaningful part of our lives is lost in the maze of pavement and isolation inside mechanized objects that unnaturally constrain the natural human interaction cues of eye contact, body language, and verbal exchange. Technical fixes to improve efficiency are a necessary part of making a transition to a sustainable future, but until we learn how to restore some deeper health and community intactness to our lives as human beings on this extraordinary planet, all the technical fixes in the world won't bring us happiness or a way of life that is truly sustainable.
The major effect of driverless cars would be to make traffic accidents rare, to the point that a motorcycle is almost as safe as an SUV. Urban driving makes up 65% of VMT; a motorcycle can have an order of magnitude less mass than a car (average US weight is 4000 lb) and move people just as well on less energy. See my paper on http://www.qi2.com/index.php/transportation Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) allows a 0.6 sec gap between cars. This is 3 lengths at freeway speed, where the PATH data you cite show that there is little effect on fuel savings. Safety and real fuel savings require that the platooned vehicles mechanically couple.
The lead car burns more fuel, but all the following cars benefit. This is similar to riding a bicycle in a pace line: The lead rider burns out quickly, and pulls to the left (away from the curb/edge) and drops to the back of the pace line. In this way the entire pace line is able to ride at a faster pace. A similar routine needs to be included in the software for the autonomous vehicle control so all of the vehicles share in the benefit. This would require all the vehicles to be able to communicate with each other, which they need to do for many other reasons anyway.In the photo at the top of this article, there are two large trucks followed by several cars in a "train." The pace line software would need to account for relative size (frontal area) and put the larger vehicles in their own group at the front of the rotating lead, with the smaller vehicles arranged by decreasing size following. In bicycle pace lines a congenial group will allow the older rider/s to stay at the back and not take a turn at the lead. They will wait for the retiring lead as he moves back next to the pace line, and move to the left when he is close to draft him, slow with him as he moves into place in the line, and follow.In bicycle pace lines, a very small rider does not create enough advantage that a larger rider can follow him. A tandem bicycle will be faster in a descent down a long grade, so others want to get "on his wheel." But if the first one to do so is really small, none of the others in the group will be able to keep in the pace line, and so will form a slower group, and follow.
This is a solution waiting for a problem.
To work towards the world in which we all wish to live, Hypermiling should be as integral in Driver Training as is Defensive Driving (until autonomous vehicles achieve mainstream adoption). The slower speeds would increase safety as a by-product. I predict that the notion of making 'driving slow fun' will be a major factor in fostering mainstream adoption of these more eco-friendly driving practices. Similarly, we may even see a cultural shift away from 300-400 horsepower family sedans in the next few years as people realize they need significantly less power for their daily lives and can save money by making the switch. As an (old school) automotive enthusiast, I fear a forced transition to autonomous vehicles, but the potential benefits of safety & decreased travel times coupled with improved fuel economy are hard to ignore. In my dream world, the government would issue Porsche 918's to all citizens...that'd best of both worlds! http://blog.rmi.org/blog_the_porsche_918_spyder_phevWell written piece and looking forward to the article on Car Sharing!
Another thing to consider is efficient use of highways. Smart cars can avoid many of the causes of traffic jams, not only by increasing the effective capacity of a given road through more density, but also reducing incidence of traffic accidents, or even "rubbernecking" and slowdowns due to sun glare, etc. Taken one step further, excess traffic could be reduced by smart rerouting and better trip scheduling. The technology for much of this is already present in smartphones, gps, alerting systems and so on.
But many of the benefits of smart and driverless cars only work when adoption rates are sufficiently high. One car drafting another today is probably illegal in most states -- also known as tailgating! I agree with another comment regarding the need for legislative support.
Great comments, all. We really appreciate them and keep 'em comin!For those bringing up the whole-systems implications of increased highway efficiency and vehicle ownership models, we will be exploring this in our next blog.Tyler, great comments and outstanding article! I recommend everyone read that one. As far as your platooning comment, I'd like to point out that Volvo has had success with a 4 meter gap at 55mph. On their XC90, this is equivalent to 0.83 car lengths at highway speeds. Based on PATH's findings that could mean a 16% reduction.http://green.autoblog.com/2012/09/18/volvo-finishes-satre-project-road-train-works/Brian, I strongly agree that we all deserve the new Porsche! A lesson or at least reading the ecomodder recommendations would be of great benefit to society and the individual wallet. Even a simple MPG gauge common in RVs could at least help people begin to understand exactly what driving decisions are costing them the most money. If TPMS is a federal requirement, so should be MPG gauges!
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Bit of a complicated story, I might have 1 or 3 of this plant. Maybe you can decide?
The photos below show their progress.
Seems to be plodding along nicely.
Didnt seem to get any pictures of these, just an indirect shot. They seem to be surviving but not exactly flourishing. i thought they looked like they were struggling.
These are doing OK, but nothing special. Im assuming they are active but theres nothing amazing happening. Cant decide if they are getting too much sunshine or not enough water>
In August 2010 I was cycling around Anna Marie Island, IN A THUNDER STORM, d'oh, and I saw this massive pice of plant that was in someones trash, so I picked it up and put it in my car. When I got back I stuck it in the ground and hoped for the best. Well, most of the foilage held its ground, and in December 2010 it was looking a bit like a lost cause so I brought two baby ones from the garden center but I wasnt sure they were actually the same plant? Anyway, as of typing its April 2011 and it has actually sprouted a very clear new leaf. Its totally amazing as im not much good at gardening, and figured that it had just died. Im hoping that because it was already a big plant that it will grow big straight from the outset. Hopefully you can see the new growth, its quite exciting really because I found that plant as a 'cutting' and just stuck it in the ground and left it.
OK, the sample I found at Anna Marie Island died and I replaced it with a Traveller Palm, see seperate section.
As of August 2011 the remaining two plants are doing ok, nothing too exciting, but they are still there and look mosestly happy.


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A winner was selected from 57 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
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I am in the process of setting up an online webstore. The web store will sell items to entertain children and teenagers while traveling in a car, plane, train, air balloon, etc.. The items that we will sell are things like books, pens, pencils, games, toys, activity packs, back packs, etc The culture of our Company is young, fun and colourful. We want people to see the website and feel happy. The whole idea is for parents to travel without having kids upset. As the Company motto states "HASSLE FREE TRAVEL!"
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The Monticello Cornflower
While he served in Paris as Minister Plenipotentiary, Jefferson acquired at least two pieces from a dessert service—a sucrier, or sugar bowl, and a seau crénelé, or monteith, used for cooling wine glasses. Both of these pieces were in the cornflower garland pattern made at the royal porcelain factory at Sevres. The cornflower, or barbeaux, appears to have been adopted as a decorative motif in 1783, when the Manufacture de Sevres delivered a table service for Queen Marie Antoinette with her favorite flower.
This pattern was then made almost exclusively for Louis XVI, who used it in one of the dining rooms at Versailles. It is not known how Jefferson came to acquire parts of this royal service; he might have purchased slightly damaged pieces from a merchant in Paris of may have been given them at Versailles.
The wine glass cooler typically was part of a dessert service that might include plates, compotes, sugar bowls, ice cream dishes and trays to hold them, serving containers for ice cream, and two wine glass coolers. Jefferson's surviving seau crénelé and sucrier are in Monticello's collection.


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