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YouTube shifts from Google's errant offshoot to strategic model
Once derided as Google's folly, the home of cheesy cat videos and the money-losing stepchild of an otherwise wildly profitable company, YouTube is emerging as a model for the more nimble, faster-paced company Google co-founder Larry Page hopes to foster as he takes the reins as CEO.
That's quite a shift. While YouTube was a cultural phenomenon when Google bought it in 2006, it was bleeding money - losing nearly half a billion dollars as recently as 2009, by one estimate. And while YouTube wasn't Google's Siberia, it wasn't exactly a mecca for many ambitious Googlers.
But now, YouTube's revenue has grown dramatically. Many Google employees increasingly see it as an attractive place to work, with a less bureaucratic environment that lets them run with their ideas. Page, by all accounts, is looking to inject that same energy into Google, spurring the mother company to innovate more quickly in its rivalry with fast-moving Facebook.
"YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business," said new YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar, who as Google's ninth employee has worked closely with Page and co-founder Sergey Brin since Google's earliest days. "Larry is really focused on making sure that Google has a culture where impatient people can be successful, where we are doing bold things on the technology side that matter for end users. And I think YouTube is a good example of where, if you're an engineer, you can get things done quickly and you can have a big impact."
The shift comes as the online video site is increasingly focused on revenue. Analysts disagree whether YouTube is profitable, and Google won't disclose YouTube's finances except to say revenue more than doubled in 2010. Critics of its $1.65 billion purchase have melted away.
"No one would fault Google for making the acquisition of YouTube at this point," said Kenneth Sena, an analyst with Evercore Partners who has issued some of the most bearish estimates of YouTube losses.
Now Kamangar, who designed Google's tremendously profitable AdWords advertising program, is pursuing an ambitious agenda to reorganize YouTube's videos around topics - much like niche TV channels - rather than individual videos.
The site hopes to be as revolutionary as cable television, which reshaped TV a generation ago by introducing a host of new niche channels that offered a broader array of programming than the three big networks - ABC, CBS and NBC - were able to show.
"I think 995 of the next 1,000 TV channels will be created on YouTube," said Hunter Walk, YouTube's director of product management.
With more than 600 workers, YouTube remains a sliver of 25,000-person Google. But YouTube plans to increase its work force by more than 30 percent in 2011, an even faster pace of growth than the parent company.
"We've got a lot of stuff we want to build, and we're going to need some more people to do that," said Judy Gilbert, YouTube's human resources chief who, with Kamangar and former Google Books chief Dan Clancy, is one of several Google executives now at YouTube.
From its distinct red, black and white color scheme to open office spaces devoid of cubicles, and a prominent indoor putting green, YouTube has a different feel from the Googleplex. At YouTube, an engineer referring to "the company" often isn't talking about Google.
Under Kamangar, who became CEO last fall after the departure of co-founder Chad Hurley, YouTubers like Jenna Bilotta, a user experience designer who transferred to San Bruno, Calif., from Google, say they are attracted by the chance to quickly develop ideas.
"I have definitely recruited a bunch of people I know from the mother ship to come over," Bilotta said. "There are some people that just have that startup thing inside of them. ... A lot of people end up coming over to YouTube to satisfy that part."
An example of YouTube's build-it-now culture, she said, was a sudden insight she had recently to solve an issue that had stymied her team. Bilotta, who works on the Watch Page, the frame for watching YouTube video, canceled her meetings and spent the day on a mock-up of her idea to improve a user control feature.
Alex Nicksay, the technical lead for the team, took Bilotta's mock-up and worked all night - 14 straight hours - writing the software code.
"People can build what they want to build and say, 'Look what I did,' and you evaluate it that way," Nicksay said. "That's a very strong cultural value we have here that no one will say, 'Don't try that.' "
That culture can also come with a bit of attitude. Toby Watson, a software engineer who works on Leanback, the version of YouTube designed for large-screen televisions, found the culture to be "feisty," with a "gunslinger aspect" when he joined in October.
"You are encouraged to experiment with anything that won't land (anyone at YouTube) in jail," Watson said, half-joking.
Kamangar, one of Google's most media-shy executives, said those cultural qualities attract talent. "If you're an engineer and you're trying to decide where to work, if you're able to do things quickly and those things have a big impact, that's a pretty tough combination to beat," he said.
Those traits - quickness, lack of bureaucracy and a culture where people are encouraged to run with their ideas - are among those Page, who becomes CEO April 4, has hinted he wants Google to adopt. And plenty of Googlers seem eager to learn about them: Internal transfers to YouTube from Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters are up.
YouTube is now focusing on becoming a platform that could host hundreds of hyper-specialized channels that would appeal to the most specific of interests. Some YouTube channels, like Mystery Guitar Man, a sunglass-wearing maker of inventive music videos that have been viewed over 90 million times, already have several million subscribers.
"The Web enables you to build the kinds of channels that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast," Kamangar said. "We want to enable the next-generation MTV, the next-generation CNNs."
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You might have noticed an abundance of soccer jerseys and painted faces around town. Maybe even seen best friends become bitter rivals. Don't be alarmed–it's just the FIFA World Cup. Here are a few things you need to know to get up to speed on the World Cup.
1. The World Cup Is Soccer's Biggest Stage
Every four years, national soccer (or futbol) teams gather in a centralized location and play for the World Cup. This year it's being held in 12 different stadiums in Brazil. For many this event is the greatest thing since sliced bread and soccer is their religion. Spain is the defending champ and also one of the favorites (along with Brazil).
2. It's Divided Into 32 Teams and 4 Groups
The World Cup has two stages. In the first stage, 32 teams are divided into four groups. Each team plays the three other teams in its group. A win counts as three points, a draw as one point and a loss as no points. The two teams with the most points from each group advance.
The remaining 16 teams move on to the second stage on June 28. This is the knockout stage as each match is single elimination. Matches cannot end in a draw. Instead there is overtime and then a shootout to determine the winner. The championship will be held July 13.
3. Cristiano Ronaldo–Possibly the World's Best Player–Might Be Injured
One of the most popular faces in soccer is Cristiano Ronaldo, who currently plays for Portugal. June 16 is Portugal's first match against Germany. If Ronaldo is healthy–as he's been struggling with tendinitis–then he will provide much needed eye candy and more viewers.
4. The U.S. Men's National Team Is in the Group of Death
The most difficult group in the World Cup is labeled the Group of Death. This year, the U.S. Men's National Team is in that group, alongside Ghana, Portugal and Germany. Ghana has knocked the US out of the competition in the past, and Portugal and Germany are ranked fourth and second in the world, respectively. To top it off, the US will be playing without their lead scorer, Landon Donovan.
Now that you have some World Cup knowledge, throw on your red, white and blue and cheer on your team. Ole!
Before you shop: You can watch 64 World Cup matches on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC and keep up with the schedule and scores at FIFA.com. This quick video also explains the soccer tournament in less than two minutes for those of you on the run!

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According to Famitsu figures, DS was by far the biggest selling console in Japan for fiscal 2007, moving 6.3 million units in the 12 months ending March 30 2008. Here's the breakdown for the period: DS – 6,343,547 PSP – 3,427,971 Wii – 3,741,946 PlayStation 3 – 1,197,418 Xbox 360 – 235,318
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nVidia reports record revenues and profits for FY07
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"I used to be a woman, but now I'm a man," shouted Foxy Shazam singer Eric Nally — Welcome to Buzzfest 28.
A festival that began as a yearly event in 1995 sponsored by KTBZ 94.5 The Buzz eventually became so popular that organizers decided to do it bi-annually and it has yet to disappoint.
This version, which took place on April 21 at the friendly confines of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion just north of Houston, had a little different sound to it than years past. When you mention Buzzfest, some automatically think of rock acts such as Seether, Godsmack, Papa Roach, Bush, Puddle of Muddle, who have all graced the main stage in year's past.
Performing on the main stage in front of the sold out crowd were The Features, Foxy Shazam, MuteMath and Cage the Elephant, which don't possess the typical 'rock sound.'
But don't get it twisted — main stage headliners Korn, who made their second appearance (Buzzfest 22, 2009) and Evanescence, who performed for a third time (Buzzfest 11, 20) along with Blue October and side stage acts Evans Blue (third consecutive Buzzfest, sixth overall) and Hurt — reminded fans that mainstream rock is alive and well.
The show opened with Oklahoma's Aranda, which is consists of brothers Dameon and Gabe Aranda. Other side stage acts included Dead Sara, Band of Skulls, The Dirty Heads and Neon Trees. One thing I love about the side stage is the fact that fans are able to crowd surf. Neon Trees' front man Tyler Glenn commented, "Only in Houston can you see fans crowd surfing to Neon Trees. I love it!"
Back on the main stage, it was great to watch Foxy Shazam. This was my first chance to see the Cincinnati gang up close and personal and they did not disappoint. Nally did his thing as did the bearded Sky White and Alex Nauth on the horns put on a show of his own. It's nice to see this band finally get their due and the new record, The Church of Rock and Roll, is a must have.
It was also a pleasure to see (and hear, of course) Amy Lee and Evanescence. The two-time Grammy Award winning group is touring in support of their self-titled album that was released last fall.
Korn was, well, Korn. These guys never cease to amaze me. From the light show to Jonathan Davis' mic stand, which was designed by Academy Award winner and visual effect artist H.R. Giger, Korn was a perfect way to end a Buzzfest day.
The selection of bands continues to give festival goes a great variety of music — hence the sellout of every show — making it one of the biggest and best one-day music festivals in the country.
Oh, the weather was perfect, too.
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• May 7, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
Rumbles remembered: Scientists may have hated it, but last weekend's schlocky "10.5" earthquake miniseries was a hit with TV viewers. It also sparked some aftershocks of recognition from Cosmic Log readers.
Earlier this week, XCOR Aerospace's Aleta Jackson recalled her own long-ago brush with a brutal Peruvian earthquake, and noted how so many pre-Conquest buildings were left standing while the Spanish-built church collapsed. Were the Conquistadors particularly shoddy builders, or was it a perverse stroke of divine wrath? NBC News space analyst James Oberg says it was neither:
"I call this the unrecognized pre-selection bias, in that buildings that were constructed pre-Conquest have already mostly been destroyed in centuries past by earlier earthquakes," Oberg writes. "Only the very strongest ones have survived this long."
My colleague at MSNBC.com, Mark Stevenson, reminds me that "10.5" was only the latest in a long line of schlocky earthquake flicks. The classic of the genre is "Crack in the World," which came out in 1965. For pure cheesiness, it's hard to beat this snippet of dialogue, which comes after a scientist explains that the crack could rip the world apart:
Indian Ambassador: "You mean ... the world will come to an end?"
Scientist: "The world as we know it, yes. As a cloud of astral dust, it will continue to move within the solar system."
Here are a few more of the seismic stories received this week:
Paul Gradenwitz, Zurich, Switzerland: "Some years ago I was in Greece when there was a heavy earthquake in Athens. At the moment of the earthquake I was in Delphi. In the evening I was in my hotel in Eretria, some 80 kilometers from Athens. I was looking at the TV where they showed the rescue under way. Then suddenly they backed off, calling out 'Sysmos! Sysmos!' (Earthquake!) There was an aftershock. A few seconds later the density in the air increased, a strange sound swelled, and then with a bang the tremor reached the hotel. I suddenly realized the immense speed of the earthquake, traveling from Athens to Eretria in a few seconds, where we had driven that distance by bus in more than an hour."
Tom: "My brother and I were living in the North Plains area in the Portland, Ore., area when at about 5:30 or so the 'spring quake,' as we later called it, started. We were upstairs in my father's cabin in the Restful Haven Health Club, or RHHC. Eric called out to me 'Earthquake,' rather loudly, as it was a noisy affair.
"We both put on some clothes and then went outside after it stopped. The cabin is on a hillside, mounted on long timbers, and it swayed back and forth. It is a little unnerving when your whole house continues to move after the earth stops moving. We went under the platform that the cabin is built on to check for damage. It was unfazed by the quake, but we weren't. As a matter of fact, it is now known that houses that are mounted on a hillside with a platform foundation survive better than fixed concrete foundations. But that was unknown to us at the time.
"By the way, the RHHC is a nudist camp! Just think about other things that swing back and forth in a earthquake, like your anatomy."
Irene: "I've only felt just a handful of relatively small quakes since moving to California's Central Valley about 20 years ago. My favorite story is about the first one I experienced.
"I was working in a local store in downtown Stockton. A youngish woman had come in with her daughter, about 4 or 5 years old. The woman and I were talking, me behind my counter, the woman a short distance away. The young girl was standing at the counter, with her little hands curled over the lip of the counter. All of a sudden, the counter started vibrating. I was just starting to ask the girl not to hang on the counter when her mother said what I was thinking. Just then, both of us looked up and saw the light fixture swaying.
"I stepped back into a doorway, and the woman pulled her daughter to her, away from the path of the hanging light fixtures. All the while, the little girl was saying, 'I didn't do anything, Mommy!' After the shaking stopped, we both laughed a bit and reassured the girl that we knew she hadn't done anything, and explained the earthquake to her. Now, that was a challenge for me.
"It turned out that it was the so-called 'Coalinga Quake' of the early 1980s."
• May 7, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
The star of Mother's Day: With the approach of Mother's Day, "name-a-star" suggestions are once more winging their way into my junk-mail folder. For a refresher course on star registries and their astronomical meaninglessness, review "The Truth About Buying Your Place in Heaven" on Space.com. Then use the method of your own choosing to make your mom a star on Sunday.
• May 7, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
Weekend field trips on the World Wide Web:
• Defense Tech: No idea too wild for NASA's sci-fi arm
• 'Nova' on PBS: 'Magnetic Storm'
• The Economist: Why curves are good
• Science News: Teen brains on trial
• May 6, 2004 | 8 p.m. ET
E-voting verdict: The controversy over electronic voting systems received a vigorous airing at the federal Election Assistance Commission's first public hearing Wednesday — but what happens now?
The panel plans to draw up guidelines for states buying new e-voting equipment using the $3.9 billion allotted under the Help America Vote Act. During a teleconference organized by the National Committee for Voting Integrity, computer security expert Rebecca Mercuri said the panel should go further — by refusing to provide new money for the current generation of touchscreen systems.
"We need a moratorium on these purchases, and [the panel should say] anybody who makes purchases now does not get reimbursed," she said.
That's a highly unlikely scenario, however, because the commission's mandate extends only to drawing up voluntary guidelines for the states. In fact, the commission's short-term goal is to get enough of its own federal funds to stay in operation. That will be the focus of a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing next Wednesday.
The commission is also supposed to rely on the National Institute of Standards and Technology for setting up a certification system for voting equipment, but Mercuri complained that "NIST has gotten 'dime zero' for this."
Learn how voting systems work, from paper ballots to e-voting.So for now, the debate over paperless voting vs. paper backup ballots will play out primarily on a state-by-state basis — and perhaps polling place by polling place. Voters may have to take matters into their own hands, said Doug Jones, a University of Iowa professor who once headed the Iowa Board of Examiners for voting machines and is now an e-voting critic.
"The most we can do is to ask the public to exercise a right which has long been ignored," he said, "to observe what's really going on at the polling places, to observe the counting of the vote, to observe the pre-election testing … because if we can't get the equipment fixed, we need the officials to know that the process is being watched."
Experts say the weakest link in the e-voting chain could well be poll workers who are befuddled by computer technology, so a new wave of computer-savvy, independent-thinking volunteers might be just what the situation calls for. To find contact information for your county elections office — and to keep track of developments in election reform nationwide — click on over to ElectionLine.org.
• May 6, 2004 | 8 p.m. ET
High-flying ideas on the World Wide Web:
• Science @ NASA: Was Galileo wrong?
• Wired: Dream gadgets of 2014
• The Guardian: The space tourist doing it for science
• Canadian Arrow rocket to be tested this summer
• May 5, 2004 | Updated 5:10 p.m. ET
X Prize renamed: The $10 million race to develop private-sector passenger spaceships is no longer being called the X Prize competition: Now it's the Ansari X Prize, honoring a family of Iranian-born entrepreneurs. Anousheh Ansari and her brother-in-law, Amir Ansari, today announced a multimillion-dollar contribution to the X Prize Foundation.
In today's announcement, the X Prize Foundation noted that today was the 43rd anniversary of astronaut Alan Shepard's suborbital spaceflight, which notched a first for NASA and set the model for the Ansari X Prize. The foundation will award $10 million to the first privately funded team that safely sends a piloted craft to the edge of space — 62 miles or 100 kilometers in altitude — and repeats the feat with the same craft within two weeks.
Amir Ansari told MSNBC.com that he saw his family's contribution as a way to help make "an impossible dream" come true.
"Even for the cream of the crop, it's an extremely rare opportunity to go into space," he noted. Ansari said the money was given with the hope that "we can create a shot for others who aren't within the elite of the elite."
Both Anousheh and Amir are hoping to make the trip themselves someday. "I'd go up there as baggage if I could," Amir Ansari said.
Anousheh Ansari said in today's announcement that she's been dreaming of traveling to space ever since she was a child.
"As an adult, I understand that the only way this dream will become a reality is with the participation of private industry and the creative passion of smart entrepreneurs," she said. "The Ansari X Prize provides the perfect vehicle to ignite the imagination and passion of fellow entrepreneurs, giving them and their courageous pilots a platform for success."
The two are co-founders of the Texas-based venture capital firm Prodea, and they also co-founded Telecom Technologies Inc., a soft-switch systems company that was acquired by Sonus Networks in 2000.
Amir Ansari said that he and his sister-in-law had been debating whether to follow in California millionaire Dennis Tito's footsteps and buy a trip to the international space station. But then X Prize founder Peter Diamandis "showed up and said, 'Listen, you don't have to go about it that way,'" he recalled. That's when the Ansaris began to consider their sponsorship of the X Prize.
X Prize spokesman Eric Lindbom said the Ansari family's contribution is being used "to purchase the 'hole-in-one' insurance that covers the $10 million cash purse through Jan. 1, 2005, and also supports the operations and educational mission of the foundation."
The Jan. 1 deadline has fueled a burst of activity by the 26 teams in the competition, and Amir Ansari said he and his sister-in-law were looking forward to the liftoffs to come.
"I'm not going to miss an official launch," he said. "If they make a public announcement of a launch, you can guarantee we'll be there."
• May 5, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
Scientific scan of the World Wide Web:
• BBC: Dark matter detector limbers up
• New Scientist: Hormones converge for people in love
• Discovery.com: Oldest evidence of bedding found
• Popular Science: 106 science claims and a truckful of baloney
• May 4, 2004 | 8 p.m. ET
New berry patch on Mars: Among the most intriguing features discovered by NASA's Opportunity rover are the "Martian blueberries," spherical grains of gray rock that are actually the size of BBs rather than blueberries. The hematite-laden spherules, strewn around Opportunity's landing site in Eagle Crater, were key pieces of evidence indicating that the area was once drenched with water .
It shouldn't be surprising, then, that Opportunity's new neighborhood at Endurance Crater is similarly covered with blueberries. The darn things can be seen all over the place in pictures from the rover's panoramic camera.
Because Endurance Crater is so much bigger and deeper than Eagle Crater, the blueberries and layered bedrock could shed much more light on how long liquid water may have covered the plain. Mission scientists will discuss what they are seeing so far, and whether they'll take a chance on going down into the crater, during a news briefing at 3 p.m. ET Thursday. You can watch the event via Go to MSN Video to watch Live Coverage of the Mars missions.
Meanwhile, a couple of readers said they really dug the 3-D image of Endurance Crater, but had misplaced their red-blue glasses.
I've forwarded the suggestion about official MSNBC anaglyph glasses to the proper authorities, but in the meantime, you can consult NASA's list of suppliers. As Hopwood suggests, most suppliers will send you a "free" pair of glasses for a nominal shipping charge.
NASA offers an anaglyph gallery of 140 images showing 3-D views of Mars, Earth, Europa and other cool celestial scenery. And while we're on the subject, "Shrek 3-D" is due to be released a week from today as part of a DVD two-pack that also includes four sets of anaglyph glasses.
• May 4, 2004 | 8 p.m. ET
Astronaut update: NASA is due to name its next class of astronaut candidates on Thursday as part of the festivities for Space Day, including three educator mission specialists, also known as "teachers in space." Two of the teachers work in the United States, as previously reported. The third, Richard Arnold, works in Romania at the American International School of Bucharest, teaching middle-school math and science. His mini-biography notes that he's also spent time in Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia (as well as the States, of course). Find out more about the full Class of 2004 on Thursday.
• May 4, 2004 | 8 p.m. ET
Rating the rumbles: Now that the aftershocks of "10.5" have settled down, some folks wrote in to say they enjoyed the earthquake show: "I loved the '10.5' miniseries and I am looking forward to purchasing it on DVD and listening to it with full surround sound," Christopher Parker wrote from Portland, Maine.
Aleta Jackson of XCOR Aerospace says the "10.5" depiction of a big quake didn't quite match her memory of a scary shaker she experienced in Peru:
"The Peruvian event was about 20 years ago, so my memory is hazy. But I do remember the biggest danger was from rocks rolling down the mountain, not fissures opening in the earth. Big boulders blocked the roads all over the place, and it took the authorities days to clear them out. The quake lasted perhaps 20 to 30 seconds — it seems like hours when you are standing on ground that suddenly seems liquid! I remember trying to catch my breath, and hearing a roar that sounded like a freight train running over the mountains and through me. Very odd sensation.
"The aftershocks, which were almost as strong, and which cut water and power to many small villages, sent stones and mud and junk sliding. The buildings that were constructed pre-Conquest didn't suffer, but the facade of one Spanish-built church fell into the town square, which is where most of the deaths occurred. A few rooms in the local hotels were unlivable because the ceilings had collapsed — no one there at the time, thankfully — and of course the modern buildings in the poorer parts of Cuzco were simply demolished to dust. I remember many of the people living in the town square, which was just a big open garden, but was far away from any building.
"These are highly subjective memories because at the time I was with a group of astronomers and we were more concerned with getting good views of the southern sky and not getting stranded. I wish I had collected more data back then.
"About two months after I returned to the States, I was just north of San Diego, sleeping in a hotel room, when at about 1 a.m. my bed decided to dance across the room. It took me a few seconds to wake up and decide that I wasn't dreaming. I again heard that strange roar, though not so loud. By the time I was up and had thrown something on, it was over.
"Ever since then, the moment I think I feel anything like a tremor, I'm either out the door or in a doorway. A couple of years ago there was a 5-point-something out by Twentynine Palms. That was really strange, because for about 40 seconds the earth swayed and swelled like ocean waves. It wasn't the sharp jerks or the bouncy bumps of the other two I've described."
If you have an earthquake tale you'd like to tell, send it in, and I'll pass along a selection.
• May 4, 2004 | 8 p.m. ET
Space race update: SpaceX announces that it has struck a deal for the first launch of its Falcon 5 rocket in November 2005 from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.
As first reported by Space.com, the Falcon 5 — a beefed-up version of SpaceX's Falcon 1 — would put an inflatable space structure into orbit for Bigelow Aerospace. The module, dubbed the Genesis Pathfinder, would test the technology for future use in space habitats.
Meanwhile, the latest X Prize newsletter provides an update on the progress of private-sector rocketeers. And the Peninsula Daily News has more about Space Transport Corp., the X Prize team from Forks, Wash. In a follow-up e-mail, Space Transport's Phillip Storm says "we're going to try another launch this Sunday with a more assured fix."
• May 4, 2004 | 1 p.m. ET
Lunar darkness at midday: It's not often that you're able to watch a total lunar eclipse in the afternoon, but that's just the situation Americans find themselves in today: Earth's shadow will cover the entire full moon's disk starting at 3:52 p.m. ET and ending at 5:08 p.m.
Inconstant moonHow can you see a lunar eclipse before the moon rises? Not by looking out your office window. In the real world, the total eclipse is visible only from parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and huge stretches of southern oceans. This chart at Sky & Telescope shows where the eclipse can be seen, and where it can't. North America is totally left out.
For skywatchers in North America, the Internet is the only way to go: A Webcam has been set up in the Canary Islands by the SAROS Group, and you'll find a long list of live Webcasts at Astronet.
A total lunar eclipse isn't as exciting as a total solar eclipse, but you won't be looking at a black screen, either. During totality, the moon should shine a dull red , due to a sunset diffraction effect. Lunar eclipses have a rich history — even Columbus used one to his advantage.
Americans shouldn't feel too bummed about being left out this time around. After all, we took in a double feature last year , and we'll have a front-row seat for the next lunar eclipse on Oct. 28.
• May 4, 2004 | 1 p.m. ET
Scientific frontiers on the World Wide Web:
• Wired: The doctor will freeze you now
• Nature: Hollywood grapples with human cloning
• BBC: The mystery of mind control
• CfA: Scientists 'see' through cosmic dark ages
• May 3, 2004 | 11 p.m. ET
Mars questions answered: The months-long Mars rover missions are turning into an interplanetary juggling act. Even as Spirit and Opportunity continue to roll along on opposite sides of the Red Planet, the Mars science team has just sent in the first batch of research papers for eventual publication in the journal Science.
How long will the rovers last, and what will send them to their doom? Have they found fossil evidence of ancient life? What's on the horizon for Spirit and Opportunity? The project scientist for the rovers, Joy Crisp, answered these questions from MSNBC.com readers during an audio chat today. The questions came in response to our special report on "A Day in the Life of a Mars Rover."
For now, the rovers' missions have been extended until September, when the sun will come between Mars and Earth, temporarily cutting off communications. But Crisp said "it is possible that they could keep surviving beyond that."
Eventually, the rovers will fall prey to an electronic or mechanical breakdown — perhaps a busted antenna, or a drained battery or a robotic brain freeze brought on by the onset of Martian winter.
"The biggest problem that they face is the incredible temperature swings that they have to survive every day," Crisp said. "Right now, the temperature is swinging between about minus-130 Fahrenheit, to plus-1 Fahrenheit. It's very hard to design electronics that will withstand those kinds of temperature swings."
"Our mission was set up to look for potential ancient habitat," she said, "to read the record in the rocks, to figure out, 'Was liquid water around?' and 'Were there environments in the past that would have been favorable for life and for preserving evidence of fossil life?'"
A serious search for the fossils themselves would have to be left to future missions, she said.
Every once in a while, an intriguing fossil-like squiggle may turn up on a microscopic image of Martian rock, and the "scientists do study these things hard," she said.
"But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and we've not found anything so far that to the science team is compelling evidence for fossil life," she said. "The fun thing is that we put out all the pictures, and anybody in the world can do their own interpretation and do their own scientific study of these images as they like."
Click onto the audio file to hear the entire half-hour conversation with Crisp and MSNBC.com's Will Femia — and stay tuned for future Cosmic Chats.
• May 3, 2004 | 11 p.m. ET
Aiming for Mars: The Planetary Society kicked off a new campaign today to build support for human missions to Mars, with the establishment of an international "lunar way station" as a key preliminary step.
The start of the "Aim for Mars" campaign was timed to coincide with testimony given by the Planetary Society's executive director, Louis Friedman, to the President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond. During the commission's public hearing in New York, Friedman voiced strong support for the space agency's new exploration initiative .
"We believe that the new policy is extraordinarily well-crafted, balancing the public interest in science and exploration with the practical need for changing America's human spaceflight program," Friedman said in his prepared remarks.
Friedman called for a relaxation of export controls to make it easier for Americans to use Russian launch vehicles. "Even the Planetary Society, whose activities in space are at the most popular and open level, has to register as an international arms trafficker in order to pursue cooperative projects," he said. That was an apparent reference to the society's work with the Russians on the Cosmos 1 solar-sail venture.
The commission's public hearings are due to wrap up Tuesday in New York, setting the stage for the issuance of its report to the president next month.
• May 3, 2004 | 11 p.m. ET
Your daily dose of science on the Web:
• N.Y. Times: Antimissile system takes shape
• Astrobiology Magazine: Man vs. machine on the moon
• Sky and Telescope: The moon goes dark
• Science @ NASA: UFO planet
The fine print: Looking for older items? Check the Cosmic Log archive. Share your perspective on cosmic subjects with Alan Boyle. If you link to this page, you can use http://cosmiclog.msnbc.com or http://www.cosmiclog.com as the address. MSNBC is not responsible for the content of Internet links.


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With many companies in many sectors sitting on mountains of cash, equities just might outperform bonds despite all the current craziness in the stock markets, said a group of portfolio managers brought together this month for a Fidelity Investments forum.
The Fidelity Viewpoints Inside/Out forum's panelists—including BlackRock chief equity strategist Bob Doll, Fidelity portfolio manager Tom Soviero and GAMCO Chief Executive Mario Gabelli—said they don't expect a double-dip recession, but instead foresee continued slow growth and an upside for stocks over the next year.
The portfolio managers pointed to the activity that is bound to come as companies with a lot of cash spend it. The list included dividend payouts, share buybacks and mergers and acquisitions.
Doll said the probability of a recession—absent a shock such as a bust in Euroland—is unlikely. "As a result, I believe that the market will move higher 12 months from now despite this high degree of pessimism. You can find all kinds of companies that are delivering the goods that are pretty cheap," he said.
In written remarks that followed the forum, Doll advised investors to lean toward stocks at the expense of bonds. He especially favors companies in the Technology and Healthcare sectors, and says that while there are risks in Europe, "I don't invest in the governments or economies of those countries, I invest in the companies that happen to be domiciled there."
"I believe the market is pricing in a recession that we're unlikely to get, which makes me reasonably interested in stocks versus other investments," Doll said. "Corporate America's balance sheets are also as healthy as they've been since the 1950s, and free cash flow is equally strong. As a result, I think there are four things that we will enjoy: inordinate dividend increases, higher-than-normal share buybacks, rising merger and acquisition deals, and plain old-fashioned business reinvestment," he said.
Like Doll, Fidelity's Soviero, who favors consumer companies as well as materials firms with exposure to developing markets, also noted that companies are flush with cash now. Soviero predicts market volatility will encourage those companies to spend their cash on shoring up their balance sheets.
"When there is more business certainty or a better outlook, companies will devote some of that cash to capital spending, which creates growth and jobs," Soviero wrote in a comment. "But market volatility and a panic-driven mindset dampen that type of expansion. Instead, companies will lean toward using their cash to acquire other companies or their own stock."
Overall, Soviero said, companies since 2009 have been going through a process of reducing leverage, and he is looking to buy into highly leveraged companies that are improving their balance sheets because that can drive an equity higher.
He also is looking to see a lot more activity in mergers and acquisitions.
"Buying another company can be very beneficial to earnings," Soviero wrote. "I think the premiums on M&A transactions have been pretty high recently, which tells you that when stocks get cheap enough, corporate America will snap them up. That's especially true when cash is earning less than 1% on the balance sheet…. There have been a lot of mergers and acquisitions in the U.S., and most of them are cash deals, and I think that's very bullish for the market."
GAMCO's Gabelli takes a more bearish view, though he foresees a better-than-expected third quarter than the markets are pricing in.
"I think third-quarter earnings will be better than most people expect, in part, because the euro is higher than a year ago. That could give U.S. companies with earnings in euros a 10% bump—and the market may not expect that," he wrote in a comment.
Gabelli, who's bullish on energy, health, farm equipment and airlines, predicts that equity markets could grow 5% to 7% a year in real terms over the next 10 years.
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MANILA: Four foreign tourists and their Filipino tour guide were crushed to death when one of thePhilippines' most active volcanoes spewed a giant ash cloud and a hail of rocks on Tuesday, authorities said.
Twenty-seven people, including at least nine foreigners, were climbing picturesqueMount Mayonwhen it erupted without warning, and bad weather meant some of them would have to spend the night on its slopes, officials said. "It rained like hell with stones," local tour operator Marti Calleja quoted an Austrian woman who was among those injured in the ordeal as saying. "The rocks that came crashing down on them were as big as dining (table) sets," he told AFP by phone.
Calleja said five foreigners and three of his Filipino guides had begun hiking up Mayon just a few hours before the eruption, which sent a thick column of ash 500 metres (1,600 feet) into the air.
A statement from the provincial government later said two German men and one German woman and a Spanish woman living in Germany were killed, along with a Filipino guide.
An Austrian woman, two Thais and three Filipinos were reported to have been rescued and taken to hospitals for treatment of bruises and suspected fractures.
Provincial governor Joey Salceda told AFP that while the volcano had calmed down, rescue helicopters were having trouble landing to pick up the rest of the injured due to heavy rain.
He said rescuers were forced to start climbing the mountain to reach all the injured, and it was unclear when they would be brought down.
Calleja said the foreigners paid about $100 each for an overnight adventure on the 2,460-metre (8,070-foot) Mayon, which is famed for its near-perfect cone but has a long history of deadly eruptions.
A six-kilometre (3.75 mile) radius "permanent danger zone" is supposed to be enforced around the volcano. But Calleja said the local government allowed people to climb when there were no signs of an eruption.
"Between 300 and 1,000 climbers go here during the peak season from May to August," Calleja said.
Salceda confirmed the arrangement, but said tourists hiking up should still inform the authorities beforehand.
"Mayon is just like any other mountain and mountaineers assume the same risk as anywhere. But while we allow them to go, they should notify us and seek our approval. In this case, they did not," he said.
Volcanologists described the eruption as a 73-second "steam-driven minor explosion" that was not expected to be repeated anytime soon.
Chief state seismologist Renato Solidum said people living around Mayon did not need to evacuate. He said the explosion was triggered when rainwater made contact with hot ash deposits on the crater mouth.
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I can't seem to find the statistic now, but I once read that only 1 in 10 Americans can drive a manual transmission car these days. That might be accurate, since a stick shift recently stopped not one, not two, but three would-be thieves in Massachusetts.
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HONG KONG – Asian stock markets gained modestly Thursday as expectations grew that Japan would soon cut interest rates to support its contracting economy and crude oil prices sank to 4 1/2-year lows.
Most markets were marked by slim, uneven trade after Wall Street dipped overnight as early enthusiasm about the Federal Reserve's historic rate cut gave way to concerns that a turnaround in the U.S. economy was still far off.
In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 stock average climbed 54.71 points, or 0.6 percent, to 8,667.23 after flitting in and out of negative territory in morning trading. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index recovered near the end of the session to add 0.2 percent to 15,497.81.
Benchmarks in Australia, South Korea, Singapore and mainland China also advanced.
The dollar recovered slightly from 13-year lows against the yen but continued to slide against the euro.
Asia's markets have shown surprising strength since rebounding from last month's sell-off, though some analysts were skeptical that the upswing would last.
"This is not the start of a bull market, it's still a bear market rally," said Francis Lun, general manager of Fulbright Securities Ltd. "The economy is still in the doldrums, and I think people are thinking the zero interest rate policy is due to a long recession ahead."
The U.S. rate cut has raised expectations the Bank of Japan will follow suit and slash its key rate to nearly zero when it wraps up a two-day meeting Friday. Goldman Sachs predicts the bank will shave its overnight call rate target from the current 0.3 percent to 0.15 percent, while JP Morgan forecasts a cut to 0.1 percent.
Financials gained on the speculation, with Mizuho Financial Group Inc. jumping 8.1 percent and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. gaining 8.5 percent.
Meanwhile, Honda dropped 3.4 percent a day after Japan's No. 2 carmaker said it was slashing its annual profit forecast due to the global slowdown.
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Energy firms took a beating on crumbling crude prices. Chinese upstream oil producer CNOOC Inc. and Australia's Woodside Petroleum both dived more than 6 percent.
In China, a new stimulus package unveiled Wednesday to boost the country's slumping real estate market lifted shares in property firms. China Overseas and China Resources rose more than 2 percent in Hong Kong trade.
Overnight in New York, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 99.80, or 1.12 percent, to 8,824.34, after falling as many as 146 points earlier in the session. The Standard & Poor's 500 index slipped 8.76, or 0.96 percent, to 904.4.
Futures pointed to a rebound Thursday on Wall Street. Dow futures were up 50 points, or 0.6 percent, to 8,850, while S&P futures were up 3 points, or 0.3 percent, to 905.5.
The yen leveled off after a dramatic surge against the dollar, as Japan warned of possible intervention in the foreign exchange market. The dollar, which hit a 13-year low Wednesday, traded at 87.89 yen, up from 87.21 earlier. The euro rose to $1.4455 from $1.4400.
Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa told reporters he would "implement appropriate measures" regarding the yen's gains, which erodes exporters' foreign income.
"For export manufacturers the acceleration of the strong yen is a negative factor," he said.


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British Prime Minister David Cameron promises a referendum on the UK's already discounted European Union membership if he is reelected. By 2017, the projected date of the referendum, he wants to finish negotiating a new deal with the EU more favorable to Britain and reflecting the value Cameron—and presumably many Britons—place on EU-membership. The last point is crucial, since Cameron assumes—or at least claims—that a renewed deal, more responsive to British needs, will find approval with the voters, and that he will then vigorously campaign for keeping EU membership.
It's a brilliant political stroke: hardened British Euro skeptics will have a bone to chew on for four years, with the glimmer of EU-exit hope before their eyes. Done and dealt with! UK Independence Party kept at bay. Check! And the soft Euro skeptics (who isn't, unless in the EU's direct employ?) don't have to fear a snappy exit, but get the enticing possibility of a better EU, with greater UK exemptions perhaps, or less cost, or less bureaucracy, or all of the above. Bingo!
If it is said to be "a gamble", domestically it isn't… it's as close to a win-win as Cameron could have construed. It's not a gamble for Britain internationally, either. Even the unquestioned-yet-assumed "worst case scenario" of an exit would hardly be the end of the world for Britain. Neither Europe nor the UK would lift the drawbridges or close the chunnel; free trade would continue; trade agreements previously covered by membership would be replaced with individual agreements where terms would even have to be spelled out. Norway and Switzerland might arguably do even better in the EU, but they still show that an extra-EU existence for a European country does not mean destitution. Finally, while individual recipients of EU subsidies might suffer, England & Friends would carry on.
It's impossible to say definitively that decoupling will not happen: if a straight-up referendum is put to the British people, they could say Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehen, and Good Riddance. It's just not very likely. David Cameron knows that, for a host of reasons (not all moored in first-order reality), the EU's important member states do not want—indeed: cannot imagine—an exit of one of its most important members, however difficult that member has proven to be. Concessions will be made, token, procedural, and symbolic ones where possible; real ones where necessary. Enough, in any case, to give Cameron ammunition to support continued EU membership.
That's all good for Cameron and presumably for Britain, but it's also good for the EU. The greatest service Cameron could perform for the EU is not asking to further minimize the UK's share of the financial burden, but insisting on structural reform within the EU, and exemptions from EU regulation for the UK where he can't get them. (Hint: include populist items like the industry lobbied sham of a light-bulb ban or the lunacy of Parliament sessions vacillating between Strasbourg and Brussels; we assume sights are already set on the transactions tax aimed at undermining London's financial center status.) In doing so Cameron will show Britons and his EU partners that he isn't in it for sheer selfishness, but out of real concern for making the EU a better apparatus and a better fit for the UK and the continent as well. In short: that it isn't all about the money, but how it is spent, about how efficient the EU's mechanisms work, and how to overcome its persistent problems. Problems, in short, that are hardly UK-specific but shared by many if not all members.
It's an optimistic note, indeed, but the Cameron initiative may cause a re-think among politicians and the populations of EU countries. It may further genuine EU-reform. Most importantly, it questions the EU-as-is. It gives the EU a chance to show it is not just assumed to be accepted, but that it might genuinely lead Europe without alienating popular sentiment in its member countries. Indeed this might just be the beginning of popular legitimacy for the EU, something European commissioners and politicians have been (unintentionally) working very hard to undermine and dismantle, over the last 30 years. How ironic that it should be the British Prime Minister to give the EU such a glorious opportunity.
P.S. Cynics: Be equally excited about guessing which country will be first to nix any notion of sensible reform.
Jens F. Laurson is editor-at-large of the International Affairs Forum. George A. Pieler is an attorney and free-lance writer.
Edit, 1/28/2013:As has been rightly pointed out below, the UK is of course not a founding member of the EU (which is to say: EEC) by any stretch. The above text has been corrected to reflect reality more closely.


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I don't know how much explaining is necessary here. This amazing video says it all.
In the clip, Anthony Van Loo, a 20-year old Belgium soccer player collapses during a match and is resuscitated by his Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD). The device delivers a shock to restore his heart rhythm.
Most of the press has been reporting the incident as a heart attack. This is not accurate. Instead, Van Loo must have suffered what is called an "arrhythmia". Arrhythmias are disturbances in the normal heart rate and electrical rhythm, and are usually life-threatening. Two of the most dangerous types of arrhythmia are called Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) and Ventricular Fibrillation (VF). Such abnormally fast heart rhythms prevent the heart from pumping blood to the brain, resulting in loss of consciousness. If left untreated, these dangerous rhythms will deteriorate into a cardiac arrest. Read about the difference between cardiac arrest and heart attack.
According to this Time story (Saving Athletes from Cardiac Arrest, by Carolyn Sayre), "Sudden Cardiac Arrest [...] affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. and is the leading cause of death in competitive athletes."
Van Loo is known to suffer from an unspecified heart condition that makes him susceptible to life-threatening arrhythmias. He's been allowed to return to playing soccer after the implantation of an ICD.
I'm sure glad I have an ICD. Truly amazing stuff!


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To meet the $40 million payroll mandated by club chairman John Moores, the Padres apparently need to trade a high-salaried player either before or during the season. Whether Jake Peavy is that player still could hinge on whether prospective Cubs ownership approves a larger payroll for 2010, when Peavy is due $15 million.
Padres CEO Sandy Alderson, who has said Peavy likely will remain with the club until Opening Day, recently confirmed that San Diego's payroll projects about $5 million above budget.
"Right now, what we have projected is between $44 million and $45 million," Alderson said Friday. Asked if that number is about $5 million above budget, Alderson said, "Right now, it would be."
Alderson gave no indication that either Moores or prospective part-owner Jeff Moorad would expand the payroll.
Though Alderson said last year that a $15 million cash call was planned for 2009, Moores has made it known that's off the table.
Barring a trade or an unforeseen event such as a player's contract being voided or the club winning its pending grievance against former shortstop Khalil Greene, the Padres have no chance of getting the payroll down to $40 million by Opening Day.
The club has guaranteed $32.05 million to eight players, leaving 32 players still to sign for at least the major league minimum of $400,000 apiece. Negotiations with closer Heath Bell, who is eligible for salary arbitration, started above $1 million.
A trade of Peavy, who is due $11 million this season, would allow the Padres to open the season at or under $40 million. Barring a trade, the Padres could float a higher payroll in anticipation of shedding salary during the season.
"That is certainly one way of doing it, and that's typical of almost all clubs," Alderson said. "Whether there is a target number or is not a target number, that is a normal course of action for any team to consider. It would depend on where we are and what we are doing (on the field)."
Peavy and right fielder Brian Giles are the only likely trade candidates among the four Padres players guaranteed at least $3 million, a group that also includes pitcher Chris Young and first baseman Adrian Gonzalez.
Like Peavy, Giles can veto a trade to any of the other 29 clubs. Giles, who blocked a trade to the Red Sox last August, has said he might accept a trade in the summer if the Padres are out of playoff contention. If the Padres dealt Giles in late June, they could save about half of his $9 million salary and get down to $40 million.
The risk factors of floating salary in anticipation of making a trade are numerous. Injury, for one. "Poor performance is another potential factor," Alderson said.
Peavy's risk of injury could rise in March if the pitcher participates in the World Baseball Classic. Peavy said that because of what was at stake, his outings in the inaugural WBC three years ago were more intense than his typical March tuneups.
Peavy is more inclined to pitch in the WBC if he is with the Padres than if he is traded, his agent has said, because the pitcher potentially would want to familiarize himself with a new club in spring training.
It's anyone's guess whether Peavy will get hurt, but an arm ailment could make it nearly impossible to move his $63 million contract, which the Padres have shopped since October. Entering 2008, Peavy was healthy enough that the Padres guaranteed him a $52 million extension. At that time, a clean MRI exam led to an insurance policy for Peavy without exemptions for any body part.
But by last May 20, Peavy's right elbow and upper forearm were swollen, leading to a month on the disabled list.
The Padres owe nearly $1 million for Peavy's insurance premium this year.
The Cubs remain the most likely trade destination for Peavy. Asked about the Dodgers, who also are among Peavy's preferred clubs, Alderson said, "I don't see anything there." Since November, the Padres have considered the Angels as "lurkers" for Peavy.
-- Alderson said the potential phased-in sale to the Moorad-led group "was not addressed" at major league ownership meetings last week.
-- The Padres and Dodgers have shown interest in catcher Brad Ausmus as a backup.


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Why Use Doceri iPad App as an Interactive Whiteboard?
Doceri iPad app is a remote desktop app which mimics the functionality of an interactive whiteboard. With an iPad whiteboard app, you can use your iPad to illustrate concepts in front of your class. There are many whiteboard apps for the iPad that you might use in your classroom. But why use Doceri? What can you do with Doceri in your classroom?
Once Doceri is setup on your iPad and computer, then anything you can do sitting in front of your computer, you can do remotely via the iPad, including these tasks:
Drawing over presentations, webpages, applications, and more: Doceri displays what's on your computer, and you can switch to Drawing mode and anything on your computer PowerPoint, Keynote, an Internet browser, or any other desktop application can easily be annotated.
Switch to Drawing mode during any presentation, and Doceri gives you a complete selection of tools to paint, mark up, highlight, insert images, and more. Doceri records any actions you take while in Drawing mode on a timeline that you play back and edit.
Connecting to a computer or creating content directly on the iPad: Doceri also lets you write and edit projects without being connected to a computer. Instead of displaying a computer, you can select a custom background for a whiteboard.
Select different colors, types of graph paper, maps, and more. You can even create your own custom background.
So why Doceri? Using Doceri, you can prepare your lesson presentation in advance or present it live in front of the class. Using Doceri's timeline-based authoring platform, you can prepare your presentation in advance, edit, save, and replay it for your class at any speed.
You can go back and work with your annotations, refine them, rearrange, clean up, and improve the overall quality of your screencast. Doceri also has a separate Record function that can capture and record all screen video and voice; you can also save your project as a movie to be shared.
Most apps enable mirroring of what you see on the iPad screen. Doceri shows only the actual drawing content; it doesn't display the onscreen controls (which can be extremely distracting). Also, Doceri's AirPlay output is always in landscape mode, and iPad rotations do not result in a rotated image on the AirPlay output.


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A lotus on the road to Lake Tonle Sap, Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
The Royal Palace, Bangkok, Thailand.
Angkor Thom, 1190 - 1210, built under Jayavarman VII.
Banteay Samre, 1150-1175, built under Dharanindravaraman II and Yasovaraman II.
Originally a Hindu cobra when the temples were built under Indian influence, now referred to as a dragon.
Ta Prohm, 1186, built under Jayavarman VII
Wat Phra That Cho Hae sits on a hill 9 km southeast of Phrae, Thailand. An important pilgrimage site, the Buddha is reputed to impart fertility to women who make offerings.
A boy poses astride a tourist horse at Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
Si Satchanalai-Chaliang Historical Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site: 13th to 15th century ruins in a peaceful, almost untouched setting.
Scenes on the high road to Phu Chi Fa, in northeastern Thailand.
Another wat in Phrae, Thailand.
In a Lao village near the Mekong River.
Grasses blowing in the wind on the high road to Phu Chi Fa, Thailand.
The monks' chambers and their laundry at Wat Thammathipatai, outside of Uttaradit, Thailand. The temple is known for its beautiful carved doors taken from the ruins of Wat Phra Fang.
A Tibetan woman watches out of her window in a mountain village in the extreme northwest of Yunnan Province.
A man enjoys his beedi outside the "rat temple," Deshnok Temple, which felt like a good place to catch the plague.
Offices of Seung H-Sang
The office building of Seung H-Sang, a professor of architecture at Seoul National University and the first architect to be named Artist of the Year by Korea's National Museum of Contemporary Art.


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New Laboratories and GIS Facilities Support the Environment General Authority in Libya
Libya has undergone a serious political change during 2011, and is currently going under intensive political and institutional reforms. The Environment General Authority is part of this development and changes, and has a new set of responsibilities and priorities to look after during the upcoming few months/years.
In light of this development, the Environment General Authority (EGA) has strengthened and developed further the needed partnership with UNDP to implement several initiatives that will assist it in protecting environment and preserving natural resources for the welfare of present and future generations.
- Launching part of Environment General Authority (EGA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partnership
- UNDP: there is a need for "developing of a facilitative policy and legislative climate, and the necessary national capacity building and awareness-raising"
- Event was attended by more than 80 participants from different government ministries/authorities/organizations, private companies, non-governmental originations, and the academic sectors.
As part of this cooperation between, a launching of two state-of-the art facilities was held on Tuesday, 26th February 2013 at Environment General Authority showing the environmental laboratories and the geographic information system facilities. The two facilities serve as inspiration for joining hands for environmental protection and human development in Libya.
The launching was organized by the Environment General Authority (EGA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and is part of the $ 4.43 million project "Equipping the Laboratories of the Environment General Authority" which aimed to equip the laboratories of EGA in order to qualifying them to carry out monitoring functions, and in addition performing inspection for pollutants.
Furthermore, these laboratories are expected to have a hold over the Country's imported goods to assure its adherence to the Libyan environmental specifications and standards. Through equipping the laboratories with proper checking apparatus, the project hopes to ensure the foundation of strength of the monitoring system and also to contribute to effective environmental management. It also builds on the $2.33 million project "Establishing of an Environmental Geographic Information System" which aimed to support the EGA in planning, designing, and implementation of an environmental geographic information system to better support EGA responsibilities, e.g. monitoring, assessing and responding to various environmental conditions and emergencies that occur in Libya.
The launching is a market testing for services of EGA that were created based on sustainable management of environmental resources. The launching is a start-up phase with the aim to improve the EGA chances of long-term, technical viability.
Capacity Development, in particular, is an area of work often overlooked, yet it is critical to success and relatively expensive to achieve. These projects are therefore proposing to develop the needed human and technical capacity that will help to draw in more financial and technical support.
Mr. Overvest reiterated at the launching event that "a necessary requisite for the success of these endeavors is the removal of barriers to sustainability by developing a facilitative policy and legislative climate, and the necessary national capacity building and awareness-raising tied to it".
To this end, last year, and as part of UNDP –EGA cooperation, a capacity building project has been re-designed to complement some other projects addressing staff training and building data-base for environmental assessment and monitoring. The project intends to develop the needed capacity to the GIS and Laboratories teams to assist in making appropriate management decisions leading to sound environment management.
A tour in the new laboratories facilities and the geographic information system offices has been undertaken by the participants with detailed presentations made by the technical teams.
These initiatives will pave the way for all the efforts towards the protection and sustainable management of environmental resources in Libya.
The event was attended by more than 80 participants from different government ministries/authorities/organizations, private companies, non-governmental originations, and the academic sectors.


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World Event: Children's Week
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The pet can be caged and sold to other players. Since the item which teaches a player how to summon the pet is a soulbound quest reward from Children's Week, this means the pet can command a nice gold price.
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