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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Immigration reform: While Congress debates, Supreme Court stays clear
The US Supreme Court turned aside an appeal on Monday from the state of Alabama asking the high court to examine whether state governments can pass laws making it illegal to harbor or smuggle illegal immigrants within a state?s borders.
The court action came without comment from the justices. The order noted that Justice Antonin Scalia dissented from the court?s decision not to hear the case.
The denial comes as Congress and the White House are working toward an immigration reform package.
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At issue in Alabama v. US (12-884), was an Alabama statute that sought to echo the requirements of federal immigration laws that outlaw similar activities.
It was patterned on a controversial immigration law passed in Arizona in 2010 aimed at discouraging illegal immigrants from coming to or remaining in Arizona.
While Alabama argued that its statute was substantively different from those portions of Arizona?s law previously struck down by the Supreme Court, the justices? refusal to take the case lets stand an appellate court ruling that the Alabama law was preempted by federal immigration law.
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Eight other states have similar laws that seek to regulate activities related to the presence of illegal immigrants within state borders. They were adopted in an attempt to compensate for what state officials viewed as lax or ineffective enforcement of US immigration laws by the federal government.
Like it did regarding Arizona?s SB 1070, the Obama administration opposed the Alabama law and successfully sued the state in federal court to prevent it from enforcing any statute that might touch on issues involving illegal immigrants.
That posture toward the states set the stage for a constitutional confrontation pitting the authority of the national government to set immigration enforcement priorities against the power of the states to protect state residents within their own borders.
The Obama administration?s crackdown against aggressive state immigration laws also dove-tailed with a political strategy in the president?s reelection campaign. Candidate Obama used the state-federal disputes and the promise of a kinder, gentler immigration posture by his administration to appeal to Latino voters.
(It worked. In November, the president received 71 percent of the Latino vote.)
Last June, the Supreme Court invalidated three sections of Arizona?s SB 1070, saying they were preempted by federal immigration law. But the justices also upheld the law?s controversial centerpiece ? the ?show-me-your-papers? provision that ordered police to check the immigration status of anyone they had reason to suspect were in the US without authorization.
The question in the Alabama case was whether Alabama?s anti-harboring statute is preempted by federal immigration laws and the more forgiving immigration enforcement priorities of the Obama administration.
In general, laws passed by Congress are the supreme law of the land and thus preempt state laws that either intrude into an area of federal power or conflict with an existing federal statute.
The portion of the Alabama law that was being appealed involved state prohibitions on harboring, inducing the arrival, or transporting illegal immigrants in Alabama.
?These provisions are markedly different from the ones this court invalidated in [the Arizona case],? Alabama Solicitor General John Neiman wrote in his brief to the court.
Mr. Neiman said that rather than attempting to regulate the actions of the illegal immigrants themselves (an area of federal authority), the Alabama statute sought to regulate state residents engaged in unlawful activity that was related to illegal immigrants.
That distinction, Neiman said, differentiated the anti-harboring law from the portions of the Arizona statute struck down last year by the Supreme Court.
?The United States makes no attempt to justify equating laws that operate directly on aliens with those that operate on citizens,? the Alabama solicitor general wrote.
US Solicitor General Donald Verrilli urged the court to not take up the Alabama case. He said the Eleventh US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled correctly when it decided that the Alabama law was preempted by federal immigration law.
Mr. Verrilli quoted the Supreme Court?s decision in the Arizona case. ?The Government of the United States has broad, undoubted power over the subject of immigration and the status of aliens,? he wrote. ?Whatever power a state may have [related to immigration] is subordinate to supreme national law.?
Washington has wide discretion in every area touching on immigration and immigration enforcement, he said.
?The federal government?s exclusive authority to regulate the terms and conditions of an alien?s entry, movement, and residence in the United States includes the authority to establish criminal sanctions against third parties who facilitate an alien?s violation of those terms and conditions and the authority to decide whether and how such criminal sanctions may be imposed,? the solicitor general said.
?Because Congress has occupied this entire field, even complimentary state regulation is impermissible,? Verrilli wrote. He said the Alabama statute ?stands as an obstacle to the operation of federal law.?
Congress provided that state and local law enforcement officials have the authority to arrest individuals for violations of federal immigration law, but it is up to federal officials to decide when ? or whether ? to prosecute those who are arrested, according to the government?s brief.
Arizona and eight other states had asked the high court to take up Alabama?s appeal. They are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.
The states? friend of the court brief said the Eleventh Circuit went too far when it ruled that a state law with any connection to immigration is preempted unless specifically authorized by Congress.
?No interest is more fundamental or substantial than the States? interests in protecting their residents from harm,? the friend of the court brief said.
?Some criminal organizations profit by providing the means for illegal entry or transport, or a safe harbor within the United States for unauthorized aliens,? the brief said. ?Other organized crime groups and terrorists exploit immigrants who seek to come to or remain in the United States by forcing the immigrants to commit other crimes, such as drug running or prostitution.?
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FBI seeks DNA of Tsarnaev's widow
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss
BOSTON (Reuters) - Investigators on Monday removed bags of evidence including some containing DNA samples from the home in Rhode Island where the widow of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been living, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
FBI agents spent hours at the home of Katherine Russell's parents in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and came out carrying bags marked as DNA samples, a person familiar with the case said.
Investigators are hunting for evidence that suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Russell's dead husband, and his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made and set off two bombs at the finish line of the race two weeks ago.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that investigators have found female DNA on at least one of the bombs used in the attacks.
The FBI declined to comment on the matter
Police said the Tsarnaevs set off twin bombs on April 15 that ripped through the crowd watching the race on Boylston Street, killing three and injuring 264. The Tsarnaevs three days later led police in a wild car chase through metropolitan Boston, throwing grenades and exchanging gunfire as the officers closed in.
Russell, 24, said through her lawyer last week that she was doing everything she could to assist officials with the investigation.
Her lawyers have not said anything else, but a person familiar with the matter said the legal team has been negotiating how much access authorities will have to their client.
FBI agents have been seen at the Russell house and at her lawyer's office several times since she returned to Rhode Island from Massachusetts on Friday, April 19, after her husband was killed. On Monday afternoon she was seen leaving the house with her lawyers and was later seen leaving her lawyers' offices in Providence, Rhode Island.
Russell and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, lived with their young daughter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Police have said they found bomb material in that apartment.
Her lawyers have said she didn't know much about her husband's activities because she spent most of her time working as a health aide near Boston while he was home watching the child.
HUNTING BEYOND BOSTON AREA
Two law enforcement officials said both the FBI and local law enforcement agencies are now looking beyond the Boston area to try to identify associates or confederates of the Tsarnaev brothers.
The Wall Street Journal said officials familiar with the case cautioned that there could be multiple explanations for why the DNA of someone other than the two bombing suspects could be on remnants of the exploded devices. The genetic material could have come, for example, from a store clerk who handled materials used in the bombs or a stray hair that ended up in the bomb, the newspaper said.
Also on Monday, an autopsy on Tamerlan Tsarnaev determined precisely how he died after a bloody shootout with police but the results can't be made public until the body is claimed, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Medical Examiner said.
Authorities and the public have been waiting to learn whether Tsarnaev died in a hail of police bullets or when he was run over by Dzhokhar when the younger Tsarnaev fled in an SUV they had stolen.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had stepped outside the SUV to shoot at police when he was hit by gunfire and was then run over by his brother when the younger Tsarnaev escaped. He was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre.
"The Medical Examiner has determined the cause of death," said Terrel Harris, spokesman for the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, but added that these findings will not be made public until the body is claimed and a death certificate is filed.
Russell would be permitted to claim the body from the medical examiner, the spokesman said.
Dzhokhar, 19, was captured on April 19 and has been recovering from bullet wounds at a prison medical Centre outside Boston.
The brothers' parents, now living in Russia, said on Sunday that they have abandoned initial plans to come to the United States to claim their older son's body and visit their younger son.
(Additional reporting by Aaron Pressman in Providence, Rhode Island, and Mark Hosenball in Washingbton; Editing by Philip Barbara)
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Smoking prevention in schools: Does it work?
Apr. 29, 2013 ? Smoking prevention in schools reduces the number of young people who will later become smokers, according to a new systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. For young people who have never smoked, these programmes appear to be effective at least one year after implementation.
Smoking causes five million preventable deaths every year, a number predicted to rise to eight million by 2030. It is thought that around a quarter of young people may smoke by age 13-15. With a history spanning four decades, prevention programmes in schools try to tackle smoking at an early age before the habit becomes difficult to break. The systematic review aimed to resolve the uncertainty of whether the programmes are effective in preventing smoking.
The researchers analysed data from 134 studies, in 25 different countries, which involved a total of 428,293 young people aged 5-18. Of these, 49 studies reported smoking behaviour in those who had never previously smoked. The researchers focused on this group because it offered the clearest indication of whether smoking interventions prevent smoking. Although there were no significant effects within the first year, in studies with longer follow up the number of smokers was significantly lower in the groups targeted by smoking interventions than in the control group. In 15 studies which reported on changes in smoking behaviour in a mixed group of never smokers, previous experimenters and quitters, there was no overall long term effect, but within the first year the number smoking was slightly lower in the control group.
"This review is important because there are no other comprehensive reviews of world literature on school-based smoking prevention programmes," said Julie McLellan, one of the authors of the review based at the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford in Oxford, UK. "The main strength of the review is that it includes a large number of trials and participants. However, over half were from the US, so we need to see studies across all areas of the world, as well as further studies analysing the effects of interventions by gender."
Some smoking interventions aimed to develop social skills and competency or teach students to resist social pressure to smoke. In the longer term, subgroups of programmes that used a social competence approach or a combined social competence and resistance training approach had a significant effect on preventing smoking in young people who had never smoked at the time of the intervention. No effect was shown in studies that used resistance training alone. Equally, no significant effects were detected in those programmes that used information only or that combined tobacco education with wider school and community initiatives.
Booster sessions did not make any difference to the number of young people who went on to smoke. "We might expect booster sessions to reinforce the effects of the original programmes, but our review didn't find any evidence for this overall," said co-author Rafael Perera, also from the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. "The exception was in studies focusing on general social competence and resistance training, which suggests that the way the curriculum is designed is more important than whether or not booster sessions are provided."
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Vermont Telephone Company's gigabit internet service is live, half the price of Google Fiber
Remember how Google Fiber's recent announcement for planned service in Austin by 2014 spurred immediate competition from AT&T? It's safe to say telcos in other areas have taken note about the gigabit speeds and roughly $70 montly pricing, too. According to a Wall Street Journal Digits blog post, Vermont Telephone Company is now offering gigabit-speed service to some of its customers for the crazy low stand-alone price of $35 bucks a month. To keep things in perspective, WSJ notes that roughly 600 folks are subscribed (out of VTel's total base of about 17.5K) and that the company is essentially going to be analyzing whether the current pricing will remain for the long-term. With Google Fiber to continuing to expand, it's certainly promising to see how superspeed internet is trickling across the US -- and how easy it's been looking on the wallet.
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Olympia Circuits' Arno Shield lets Arduino newcomers bring their own board
While there have certainly been attempts at easing the Arduino learning curve, many of these still demand a new board or simplify just one aspect of a much larger universe. Olympia Circuits' new Arno Shield could help strike a better balance between starting fresh and diving into the deep end. It includes all the buttons, lights and sensors needed for 40-plus educational projects, but grafts on to existing boards such as the company's LeOlympia or an Arduino Uno. Owners don't have to add parts or wires; they just remove the shield once they've learned enough to create their own masterworks. The shield kit won't be cheap when it arrives on May 2nd for $60, but it may prove the real bargain for tinkerers who want a full-fledged Arduino board as soon as the training wheels come off.
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Witness: San Diego police shoot knife-wielding woman warning it's Judgement Day
By Brandi Powell and R. Stickney, NBCSanDiego.com
A witness to a fatal shooting Saturday described a tragic scene in which a knife-wielding woman warned a man that it was Judgment Day before she was shot and killed by a San Diego police officer.
?We thought it was a couple having an argument but apparently it was more than that,? said Omar Orihuela. He was drawn into the dramatic confrontation when he heard a woman yelling outside his Bay Terraces home.
"She was using a lot of religious words, accusing him of things and telling him Judgment Day was here and she had 1,000 souls behind her,? said Orihuela.
?She was very eloquent. She was very, very loud. A lot of people came out,? he said.
Shortly after midnight, San Diego police were called to the 6800 block of Quebec Court where a woman had stabbed her 9-year-old son with a knife and hit her 16-year-old son in the head with a vase.
They were met by a 43-year-old man who said his girlfriend had stabbed him and the children, police said.
Lt Jorge Duran with the San Diego Police Department Homicide Unit said the woman was in the parking lot when officers arrived.
?She was armed with a knife. The officer ordered the female to drop the knife several times according to witnesses who heard the officer calling out to her,? Duran said.
The woman raised the knife above her head and charged at the officer, witnesses told officials.
That?s when Orihuela said he heard three shots.
"As soon as the police drew his gun I figured it wasn't safe for me to be watching anymore, so I closed my window, and my door, and then I saw the shots, and we saw the shots we just closed the door completely, and kneeled down, and I told my wife: 'Go into the room with the kids'," he said.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Her identification has not been released. The county medical examiner is planning an autopsy on Sunday.
"When the stretcher came her son or relative was yelling: 'Why did you do it mom, why did you do it'," Orihuela said.
The 9-year-old was hospitalized at Rady Children?s Hospital with multiple stab wounds and is expected to survive his injuries according to Duran.
The boyfriend was transported to Mercy Hospital and is expected to survive his injuries as well, officials said.
The officer who shot the woman has been placed on administrative duty while the investigation is conducted.
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Make Safety Your Business | Blog@CreativeSafetySupply.com
Safety and health hazards are everywhere. In fact there are different levels of hazards present in almost every activity we do. For instance, driving a car presents the hazard of possibly being involved in a car crash. Furthermore, taking a shower when it is storming outside may put one at greater risk for being struck by lightning or electrocuted. However, since we are aware of these hazards, most times people use certain precautions to help protect themselves against such perils by wearing a seatbelt while in an automobile or by not bathing when it is storming outside, etc. This same methodology applies in the workplace. There are many different types of work environments from the relatively safe office setting to the treacherous underground caves utilized by miners, each work environment is different. However, one thing remains the same, the need for safety. Every day when an employee goes to work, he or she expects to return home in the same physical condition he or she left in. People don?t expect to go to work and then return home a week later with an immobilizing condition caused by something within their work environment. Employees expect a certain level of safety while at work and it is the employer?s job to provide that level of safety.
Ensuring Safety with the Help of OSHA
One well-known organization that helps to guide employers in creating a safe and less hazardous work environment is OSHA. OHSA or Occupational Safety and Health Administration was created in 1970 to help train, and provide information and assistance to employers in an effort to create safer work environments. Many of the safety practices outlined by OSHA are referred to as safety standards. OSHA provides safety information regarding a wide array of different safety concerns from arc flash safety to floor marking to personal protective equipment guidelines. OSHA is by far one of the top proponents regarding workplace safety in the United States.
Visual Safety
Another helpful safety tactic is the incorporation of a visual workplace. One major threat to employee safety is the improper identification of hazards. A great way to help combat this issue is to make sure hazards are labeled or identified appropriately. For example, if a warehouse features an abundance of exposed piping, the pipes should be labeled based upon their contents. If a pipe is carrying a pressurized hazardous liquid, the pipe should be labeled as such and should also identify the directional flow of the substance as well. Furthermore, if personal protective equipment (PPE) is required to enter a specific area then there should be adequate signage provided so employees and visitors are able to quickly identify that the specific area is hazardous and requires specific protection. Even though training is an important part of employee safety, visual awareness is also vital. Many times people forget certain components or details after training sessions; however, they can be instantly reminded of safety precautions through visual signage or labels when utilized correctly.
Employee Safety is Critical
Creating a safe and effective work environment can sometimes feel like a balancing act; however, it doesn?t have to be. Safety should not be just one more thing on the checklist of things to do. In fact, safety is an element that must be woven into the mindset of the business. Plain and simple, without the safety and health of the employees, the business would not succeed. Employee safety needs to be a priority within any work environment.
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Obesity may influence heart function through sex hormones
Apr. 27, 2013 ? New research suggests that changes in sex hormones as seen in obesity may have possible effects on the heart. The study by researchers from Belgium, presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Copenhagen, Denmark, suggests effects on heart function in healthy men with artificially raised estrogen levels and artificially lowered testosterone levels to mimic an obese state.
Estradiol, an estrogen, is primarily known as a female hormone but it also circulates at very low levels in men. Testosterone is converted to estradiol by the enzyme aromatase, the activity of which might be increased in obesity leading to raised estradiol and reduced testosterone.
To determine whether obesity might alter heart function via changes in sex hormones, Drs Maarten De Smet and colleagues at Ghent University in Belgium recruited 20 healthy men aged 20-40 and used an aromatase inhibitor and an estrogen patch to artificially alter the hormone levels to mimic sex hormone concentrations in obesity (high estradiol and low testosterone) vs contrast by an aromatase inhibitor (low estradiol, high testosterone). Prof Dr T De Backer, Cardiologist, assessed the heart function before and seven days after the intervention using ultrasonographic imaging with strain analysis, which measures the deformation of the heart between the resting and contracted states.
The men with obesity-related changes in sex hormones exhibited altered heart function. At baseline the global circumferential strain was -17.1% +/-3.9, which decreased significantly to -14% +/-2.5 (p=0.01). The contrasting group did not show any difference.
By artificially altering sex hormones in a small number of healthy men, Drs De Smet and colleagues have shown that an altered sex hormone profile as seen in obesity might be relevant for heart function. Adequately powered clinical trials with sufficient duration may establish the role of sex hormones in the heart function of obese men.
Maarten De Smet, Masters student in Medicine at Ghent University, Belgium, and first author said:
"Obesity is a major contributor to heart disease. By giving an aromatase inhibitor and estrogen to healthy men we mimicked the effect of sex hormones in obesity alone, in isolation from the rest of the obese metabolic state.
"In order to pump blood around the body the heart must fill with blood and then contract, pushing the blood out. We found that after increasing the estrogen levels and decreasing the testosterone levels in men for one week the deformation of the left heart chamber was significantly altered.
"Because the contributing factors to obesity, as well as the underlying biology, are so complicated it's a real challenge to tease apart one single aspect, so we think this study is of particular interest. As these results are from a small number of healthy men over one week, we hope to investigate sex hormone changes and the heart in the obese in the long term."
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Stephen Wolfram says he almost had a deal with Google, but it 'blew up'
As you may recall, Wolfram Research signed a deal with Microsoft a few years back that saw some Wolfram Alpha functionality integrated into Bing. As it turns out, it very nearly found its way into a certain other search engine as well. In an interview at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam today, Stephen Wolfram revealed that his company had tried to work with Google and "almost had a deal," but it "blew up." Unfortunately, he didn't provide any further details about when those talks took place or exactly what the potential deal entailed, and it doesn't sound like we can expect that deal to revived anytime soon -- especially considering Google's own efforts that are increasingly overlapping with Wolfram Alpha. As Wolfram himself notes, though, the two companies do have something of a longstanding connection: Google co-founder Sergey Brin was actually an intern at Wolfram way back in 1993.
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Vermont Telephone Company's gigabit internet service is live, half the price of Google Fiber
Remember how Google Fiber's recent announcement for planned service in Austin by 2014 spurred immediate competition from AT&T? It's safe to say telcos in other areas have taken note about the gigabit speeds, not to mention the $70 montly pricing. According to the Wall Street Journal, Vermont Telephone Company is now offering gigabit service to some of its customers for the crazy-low price of $35 bucks a month. To keep things in perspective, WSJ notes that roughly 600 folks are subscribed (out of VTel's total base of about 17.5K) and that the company is essentially going to be analyzing whether the current pricing will remain for the long-term. With Google Fiber to continuing to expand, it's certainly promising to see how superspeed internet is trickling across the US -- and how easy it's been looking on the wallet.
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NEC NP-UM330X
To say that the NEC NP-UM330X is unusual among ultra-short throw projectors is both true and not quite true. The true part is that instead of coming in both interactive and non-interactive versions, it comes in only one version, with a separate interactive module also available. So if you don't need interactivity, it's worth considering because it's a capable XGA (1,024 by 768) ultra-short throw projector. But if you think you might want interactivity at some point later, the optional add-on makes it of particular interest.
What makes the statement not quite true is that the add-on module is a customized variation of Luidia eBeam Edge for Business ($720 street, 3.5 stars), which will add interactivity to any projector. In that sense, the NP-UM330X isn't all that different from any of its non-interactive competition. It's just that it's sold with the idea of optional interactivity specifically in mind. It also includes a mount for the interactive module on the projector itself, which helps make the combination of projector and interactive module more of an integrated whole.
You can buy the interactive option separately ($489 direct) as well buy a wall mount ($119 direct), or you can buy the projector, interactive option, and mount together, as the NP-UM330Xi-WK1 ($1,699 direct). For this review, I looked at only the projector and the interactive option.
Basics
Like the Hitachi BZ-1 and the Epson BrightLink 485Wi, which are both Editors' Choices, the NP-UM330X is built around an LCD engine. That gives it two key advantages over DLP-based projectors.
First, you don't have to worry about potential rainbow artifacts, with light areas on screen breaking up into little red-green-blue rainbows because of the way single-chip DLP projectors produce colors. With three-chip LCD projectors they simply aren't an issue. Second, there's no difference between white brightness and color brightness, so you don't have to worry about that either.
The only potential disadvantage for an LCD engine is that few LCD projectors offer 3D support, and the NP-UM330X isn't one of them. If you need 3D now, or think you may need it in the near future, that's an important consideration. If you're not interested in showing 3D content, however, the lack of 3D won't matter.
Setup
As with any ultra-short throw projector, the NP-UM330X's central feature is its ultra-short throw. NEC says you can use an image size from roughly 61 to 116 inches diagonally, with a throw distance of roughly 17 to 34 inches. That's consistent with my experience, using a 78-inch wide (98-inch diagonal) image with a throw distance of just 28.5 inches from the window near the back of the projector.
Unlike the WXGA (1,280 by 800) Hitachi BZ-1 and Epson BrightLink 485Wi, the NP-UM330X offers XGA (1024 by 768) resolution, which helps keep the price down. It's also a little brighter than the Hitachi and Epson models, with a 3,300-lumen rating. In my tests, it was easily bright enough for the 98-inch diagonal image I used to stand up to a brightly lit office or classroom.
Except for the interactive feature, setup is standard fare. At 6.5 by 14.9 by 16.9 inches (HWD), the 12.6 pound NP-UM330X can easily fit on a cart for room to room portability. If you add interactivity, however, you'll probably want it permanently mounted above whatever you're using for a screen. If nothing else, that will keep the projector out of the way while you're interacting with the image. In my tests, the front of the projector was just 13 inches from the screen with the interactive module added.
Connection options for images include two HDMI ports for computers or video sources; the usual VGA, S-video, and composite video ports; and two USB A ports, for reading files from a USB key and for an optional Wi-Fi dongle ($80 street). In addition, there's a monitor out port, and you can send images, but not audio, over a LAN connection.
If you add the interactive module, installation also consists of mounting the module on the front of the projector, using two screws, and connecting a supplied 15-foot USB cable for interactive control between your computer and a connector on the module. Note too that you also have to calibrate the pen with the projector. You only need to touch nine points, which goes quickly. However, you have to recalibrate every time you change resolutions, switch computers, or move the projector, which is another good reason to mount the projector permanently if you add the interactive module.
Image Quality and Other Issues
The NP-UM330X earns points for both its data and video image quality. It sailed through our standard suite of DisplayMate tests, with vibrant color; suitably neutral grays at all shades from black to white; and reasonably crisp, readable text even at 6.8 point size.
The XGA resolution puts obvious limits on video quality, with HD content losing the kind of detail you would expect with a higher resolution. Within those limits however, the NP-UM330X does reasonably well. You won't mistake the video for something coming from a home theater projector, but the level of quality, combined with the complete lack of rainbow artifacts, makes for an acceptably comfortable viewing experience even for a full-length movie.
Also demanding mention is that the interactive feature has some important limitations. Unlike some interactive technologies, it requires the pen to touch the screen, which means you need a screen with a hard backing. It also lacks the ability to let you use more than one pen at the same time. And because the projector itself isn't designed for a vertical mount, with the image projecting down, you can't use it for an interactive table top without shortening the lamp life due to overheating.
Any one of these issues may be a reason to cross the projector off your list. That makes the NEC NP-UM330X far easier to recommend as a non-interactive projector than as an interactive one. If you're sure you want interactivity, you'll probably be better off with the Hitachi BZ-1 or Epson BrightLink 485Wi. If you don't want interactivity, however, or don't want it now but think you might need it one day, the NEC NP-UM330X is a potentially excellent choice. Key features include its ultra-short throw, excellent data image quality, and better than par video quality, plus built-in future-proofing in the form of the optional interactive module.
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Multi-modal Messaging Will Dominate Mobile Communications
As wired telephony becomes subsumed by IP-based, mobile unified communications (UC), we are seeing a big increase in messaging communications. That includes person-to-person contacts, automated notifications from business applications, and community-based posting of ?social messaging.? What is most important, however, is that all modes of messaging contact are becoming ?unified? and must support both sender and recipient functional needs.
This change will be particularly welcomed in business communications, where the limitations of PSTN telephony and voicemail did not allow end users the functional capabilities they needed. In particular, external users were required to place a phone call just to leave a voice message in an organization?s employee voice mailbox. As a way of consolidating message management for recipients, ?unified messaging? (UM) provided shared message storage, notifications, and conversion of voice messages-to-text options for message retrieval. UM capabilities were therefore always considered a major communication application component of UC.
Mobility is a big driver for multi-modal messaging
Now that consumers are quickly adopting multi-modal mobile smartphones and tablets and can handle other forms of messaging (email, SMS, social posts), it?s time for voicemail to join the ?Mobile UC? club. However, we shouldn?t still call that move by its old name, ?unified messaging? (UM), which only provided limited benefits to message recipients and nothing for message senders.
The old UM has always been focused on simply making it easier for a message recipient to be notified about and easily retrieve all types of business messages, including email and voicemail, in the recipient?s choice of media. With rapid consumer adoption of mobile, multi-modal smartphones and tablets, along with video messaging and new forms of social networking, it really is time to expand the functional role of UM in the context of such flexibility to support a message originator?s options as well. (I blogged about this over five years ago!)
This will not only benefit end users who want to communicate more flexibly with different media, but will also have a strong impact on automated business applications for initiating notification contacts with individual end users and customers. Although the industry has been moving quickly in developing the different pieces of UC, the market is still confused because we are still using old terminology. This is particularly evident as organizations try to migrate from legacy technologies to the future of cloud-based, UC-enabled business communications and think of UM as being just about email and voice mail consolidation for storage and retrieval.
Since telephony and associated voice messaging technologies are changing, both from an infrastructure perspective (IP connectivity, ?cloud? applications), as well as user functionally and UI flexibility, the old perception of UM must change as well. That would mean being able to send messages in any mode desired by the sender, as well as retrieval and response in any mode by the recipients. Because mobility implies constraints on which medium of messaging functionality can be used, UM must provide dynamic flexibility for both the sender and recipient interfaces, including the mode of ?message waiting? notifications (MWI).
So, What Do We Have To Change?
First of all, separate the needs of a contact initiator from that of the contact recipient/response. With UC flexibility, asynchronous messaging modes can be done independently in text, voice or video for input or output.
Second, include messaging contacts from automated business process applications, not just from people. That has been going on for years primarily with email, and has quickly moved into social networking. Authorized access management and screening will be required as email and social posts are displacing snail mail and TV for advertising.
Third, allow individual recipients to easily control all forms of call and message notification (MWI), so that their multi-modal smartphones or tablets won?t overload them unnecessarily when they are busy. That would require both call/message-screening options, based on various factors, including caller/sender ID, subject of contact, urgency indicator, etc. (I call that ?Unified Notification Management,? which is a recipient function.)
Fourth, enable direct message creation media options, including voice and video. We don?t have to have a real-time connection to initiate and send a voice or video message. This has already started to happen, but just needs to be consolidated under the ?UM? umbrella. It is not necessary to involve ?presence? management for sending asynchronous messages.
Fifth, (maybe this should be first?), provide for ?universal addressing? for all modes of messaging, so that the sender simply has to identify the individual recipient, not any particular mailbox or phone number for each medium. To separate personal from business messages, there will obviously also have to be a ?dual persona? identification and authentication requirement for addressing.
Finally, all forms of messaging must be ?UC-enabled? in order to dynamically escalate from an asynchronous message to a real-time connection that will, indeed, be based upon presence status and availability information. However, unlike legacy telephone answering voice messaging that started with a failed call attempt, I see multi-modal messaging and chat becoming increasingly more common, easy starting points for contacting people, with the option to escalate easily and efficiently to real-time voice and video conferencing connections.
There are quite a few important interoperability and integration details that will need attention in order to support the basic capabilities I describe. One of the implications of bridging the gap between a message sender and recipient, is that messages may be needed to be screened and converted from one form to another (including languages?) before they are delivered/retrieved by a recipient. For inbound customer contact interactions, message screening will also include routing to appropriate agents or experts; for outbound notification messages to mobile users, the ?Unified Notification Management? facility should be available from the recipient?s service provider.
Where and how that can all best be implemented in the new world of mobility and cloud services, will be an evolving challenge. VARs, SIs, and Consultants will play a key role in helping organizations transition to integrated Multi-modal Messaging as part of the BYOD revolution.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Italian court rejects Nomura seizure order: sources
SIENA, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian judge has rejected an order to seize around 1.8 billion euros ($2.3 billion) of assets from Japanese bank Nomura as part of a probe into suspected fraud involving troubled lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena, legal sources said on Saturday.
Assets worth 140 million euros that were already seized from the Japanese bank have been released under the judge's ruling, which was made on Friday, the judicial source said.
A spokeswoman for Nomura in Italy declined to comment.
Prosecutors in Siena investigating lossmaking derivatives trades made under Monte Paschi's previous management ordered the seizure of around 1.8 billion euros of assets from the Japanese bank on April 16, but the court has rejected their request to have the order endorsed.
The trades under scrutiny include a structured deal with Nomura known as 'Alexandria', as well as a similar trade with Deutsche Bank called 'Santorini' and a smaller deal called 'Nota Italia' with JP Morgan.
It was not immediately clear whether under the judge's ruling Monte Paschi has to resume collateral payments on the Alexandria deal, which had been frozen by the prosecutors order.
On Friday Nomura's chief financial officer, Shigesuke Kashiwagi, said in a note that his bank intended to engage with Italian prosecutors to find a solution.
Monte Paschi was forced earlier this year to book losses of nearly 1 billion euros after disclosing details of the complex derivatives deals.
The bank had already been weakened by the euro zone crisis and has been forced to accept help from the state in the form of 4 billion euros of state bonds to meet tough capital requirements set by European regulators.
The investigation is also politically sensitive in Italy as the Tuscan bank had strong links with local center-left party leaders.
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(Reporting by Silvia Ognibene and Danilo Masoni; Editing by Greg Mahlich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italy-court-rejects-seizure-nomura-assets-monte-paschi-095954292.html
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Stocks stall on tepid US economic growth
NEW YORK (AP) ? The stock market stalled Friday after the U.S. economy didn't grow as much as hoped and earnings from a handful of big companies failed to rev up investors.
The economy grew at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, the government said. That was below the 3.1 percent forecast by economists.
The shortfall reinforced the perception that the economy is grinding, rather than charging, ahead. Investors have also been troubled by reports in the last month of weaker hiring, slower manufacturing and a drop in factory orders. Many economists see growth slowing to an annual rate of around 2 percent a year for the rest of the year.
U.S. government bonds, where investors seek safety, rose after the report.
"There are some concerns as we head into the summer," said JJ Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist for TD Ameritrade. "In the last three weeks, we've seen numbers that weren't exactly what you'd love to see."
Corporate earnings this week have also contained worrisome signs. Many companies missed revenue forecasts from financial analysts, even as they reported higher quarterly profits. For example, Goodyear Tire slipped 3.3 percent to $12.51 Friday after revenue fell short of analysts' estimates, hurt by lower global tire sales.
Of the companies that have reported earnings so far, 70 percent have exceeded Wall Street's expectations, compared with a 10-year average of 62 percent, according to S&P Capital IQ. But 43 percent have missed revenue estimates. Just over half of the companies in the S&P 500 have reported quarterly results.
The S&P 500 index dropped 2.92 points, or 0.2 percent, to close at 1,582.24.
The Dow rose 11.75 points, or 0.1 percent, to 14,712.55. The index got a big lift from Chevron. Profit for the U.S. oil company beat expectations of financial analysts in the first quarter, pushing shares up 1.3 percent to $120.04.
Three stocks fell for every two that rose on the New York Stock Exchange.
Both indexes were up for the week and remain slightly below their all-time highs reached April 11. The Dow index rose 1.1 percent this week while the S&P gained 1.7 percent.
The market has been bolstered by the Federal Reserve's easy money policy. The disappointing growth figure for the economy will ensure that the Fed sticks with its stimulus policy, providing support for stocks, said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital.
"The economic data that we've been getting points to no early exit for the Fed's stimulus," Cardillo said.
The Nasdaq composite fell 10.72 points to 3,279.26, a decline of 0.3 percent. The index is 2.3 percent higher this week.
The tech-heavy index has lagged the Dow and the S&P 500 this year, but it led the way higher this week, boosted by Microsoft. The software giant, which makes up 5.3 percent of the Nasdaq, recorded its biggest weekly gain since January of last year ? up 6.8 percent. It reported earnings April 19 that beat Wall Street expectations. The company also began an aggressive push into the computer tablet market.
Apple, the largest stock in the Nasdaq, also had a good week. The stock rose 6.8 percent to $417.20, its best weekly gain since November, despite posting a decline in quarterly profit Tuesday. Apple accounts for 7.6 percent of the Nasdaq composite.
Among other big names investors focused on:
Amazon.com fell 7 percent to $254.81 after the company warned of a possible loss in the current quarter. The online retailer also reported lower income for the first quarter as it continued to spend heavily on rights to digital content.
Expedia fell 10 percent to $58.56 after the online travel company reported a quarterly loss.
Homebuilder D.R. Horton surged 8.7 percent to $26.66 after its income nearly tripled thanks to a continuing recovery the housing market. The results handily beat the forecasts of financial analysts who follow the company.
J.C. Penney jumped 12 percent to $17 after the billionaire financier George Soros disclosed that he had taken a 7.9 percent stake in the struggling company.
In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note slipped to its lowest rate of the year, 1.67 percent, from 1.71 percent the day before. The yield has fallen from 2.06 percent six weeks ago as traders move money into lower-risk investments.
The dollar weakened against the euro.
The European currency bought $1.3029 at the end of day, compared with $1.3002 the day before. The ISE dollar index, which measures the U.S. currency against a group of other world currencies including the Japanese yen and the euro, dropped 0.3 percent, to 82.48.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stocks-stall-tepid-us-economic-growth-195845422.html
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Conscious Company, A Birchbox For Eco-Friendly Products, Raises $400K Seed Round Led By Birchmere Ventures
Conscious Company, a Portland, OR-based retail startup that lets its users subscribe to variety of different sample boxes it delivers once per month, just announced that it has closed a $400,000 seed round led by Birchmere Ventures and an undisclosed angel investor. Similar to Birchbox and comparable “box” startups, Conscious Company also runs an online store where its subscribers can then buy the products they have received in their Conscious Boxes. The company’s mission, its President and founder Jameson Morris told me earlier this week, is to help people discover natural product brands they would otherwise never be exposed to. Sampling, he told me, is a natural way to market these kind of products, which are often only available in specialty stores in urban areas. The company’s sample-tracking system allows it to ensure that its users never get the same samples twice. It also enables the company to work with small vendors who may only be able to offer 500 samples but want to get them to the right subscribers.?Conscious Company expects to use some of the new funding it raised to expand its tracking system. Conscious Company currently ships boxes to every state in the U.S., though the highest density of its subscribers can be found in New York, Los Angeles, Portland and San Francisco. As Morris told me, the typical subscriber is female and between 25 and 35. Surprisingly, most of the subscribers are new to natural products and are, in his words, “eco-curious.” Currently, most of the company’s revenue comes from its sample boxes, but sales from its online store are also growing and Morris expects them to overtake revenue from Conscious Box subscriptions in the future. Beside its standard box, the company also offers a gluten-free box and – unsurprisingly for a Portland-based startup – a vegan box. As Morris told me, the company also plans to start experimenting with specialty boxes (think “quit smoking kit,” “vegan starter kit,” etc.) later this year. As Morris also told me, before moving to a larger office in Portland, the team worked out of a small space in Santa Monica for a year while they bootstrapped the company. By the time the team moved, the company was already packing and shipping 5,000 boxes by hand. The folks at Conscious Company are offering a special 15 percent off deal for the first 100 TechCrunch readers who sign up using theSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/IfDb_KC3KxA/
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Iraqi soldiers retake control of Sunni town
BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook control of a Sunni town north of Baghdad on Friday after gunmen withdrew without a fight, although violence continued in other parts of the country.
The Sunni gunmen had seized Suleiman Beg on Thursday after a firefight with security forces, one in a string of similar incidents that have killed more than 150 people in clashes in Sunni Muslim towns in western and northern Iraq over the past four days.
The fighting has raised concerns about the spread of sectarian clashes in Iraq, whose government is now dominated by the Shiite majority which Sunnis charge mistreats them.
Police and military officials said that army units entered the town after negotiations with local tribal leaders.
The recent unrest in the country followed a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest in the northern town of Hawija four days ago.
Meanwhile, police said a bomb blast hit Sunni worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in western Baghdad after the end of Friday prayers, killing 5 worshippers and wounding 22 others. Minutes later, a Sunni was killed and six others were wounded after bomb struck Sunnis near a mosque in the Rashidiyah area, 20 kilometers north of the capital.
Medics in nearby hospitals confirmed the death toll. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to media.
Last Friday, a pair of bombs struck outside a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad, killing at least 11 people. There was no claim of responsibility for the attacks against Sunni mosques, which have now happened for two Fridays in a row.
Al-Qaida's Iraqi branch, Known as the Islamic State of Iraq, frequently carries out attacks against civilian targets such as mosques, markets and restaurants.
The terrorist group mainly target Shiites, but it has in the past also struck Sunni targets in an attempt to reignite the sectarian strife that pushed the country to the brink of civil war in the years following the 2003 U.S. led-invasion.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iraqi-soldiers-retake-control-sunni-town-115409591.html
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Yahoo Chairman Fred Amoroso resigns
By Alexei Oreskovic
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chairman Fred Amoroso is resigning effective immediately, the struggling Internet company announced on Thursday.
Amoroso will be replaced in the chairman role by director Maynard Webb Jr. on an interim basis until the company's annual shareholder meeting on June 25.
Amoroso, a former IBM Corp executive, will remain on the board of directors until the meeting, Yahoo said.
In a statement on Thursday, Amoroso said he had informed the Yahoo board when he became chairman in May 2012 that he intended to serve only one year "in order to help Yahoo during a critical time of transformation."
Since that time, he noted that the company has hired former Google executive Marissa Mayer as its chief executive, revamped its management team and released new products.
Shares of Yahoo, which have surged roughly 60 percent since Mayer became CEO, were down 8 cents to $25.12 in afterhours trading on Thursday.
Yahoo, once one of the Web's most successful companies, has seen its revenue stall in recent years as consumers and advertisers favor rivals such as Google Inc and Facebook Inc.
Following the completion of Amoroso's term at the annual meeting, the Yahoo board will consist of 10 members, the company said.
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-chairman-fred-amoroso-resigns-221456082--sector.html
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