Sex and the (Park) City: Considering An Atypically Sexual Sundance ...

Sex and the Sundance Film Festival is not a new equation. In fact, sex and this Sundance Film Festival isn't a new equation. It's been a talking point since before the festival even started.

Leading into this year's festival, The Sutherland Institute, a super-conservative group (even for super-conservative Utah), said that state funding for Sundance should be cut on the grounds that its sexually explicit content doesn't jive with Utah?s "family values."

In this blog post a week before the festival kicked off,?Sutherland?public policy?director?Derek Monson?said:

"For the sake of public decency and encouraging a free, moral society, the state of Utah should end its 'complex relationship' with the Sundance Film Festival. The festival?s organizers can continue to promote their goals without being dependent on taxpayers, and Utah taxpayers do not have to endorse films that are obscene and contrary to their values."

It's doubtful Monson's hissy fit will effect any future editions of Sundance.

?Sometimes the narrowest mind barks the loudest, and we?ve over time come to ignore it,? Sundance founder Robert Redford proclaimed at the festival's opening day press conference. ?It?s a free country and maybe they should look at the Constitution.?

And he's right. But either way, one has to wonder if Monson or his fellow Sutherland Institute-ites had any idea how much this edition of the festival would go against his so-called "family values."?

Dubbed by many as "Porndance," the 2013 edition of Sundance proved an endlessly and uniquely sexual affair which has brought forth considerable chatter from festivalgoers and countless "sex at Sundance"-themed articles from the mainstream media.

But now that the festival is coming to an official close, let's take a closer look at the relationship between sex and Sundance 2013, because it's a fascinating one. And reducing it to a "Porndance" headline simply doesn't it do it justice.

There was certainly some sexual themes characteristic of any given Sundance this year. Youthful sexual awakenings are a festival staple, and they were plentiful: Miles Teller taking Shailene Woodley's virginity in "The Spectacular Now;" Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen looking to lose their virginity in their final summer before college in "Very Good Girls;" Daniel Radcliffe portraying Allen Ginsberg's budding queer sexuality through his relationship with Dane DeHaan's Lucien Carr in "Kill Your Darlings." But as the countless arrows on all of Sundance's official trailers, posters and merchandise made clear, this year's programming was all about moving forward, and sexuality was no exception.

One of the films that the Sutherland Institute -- without having actually seen it -- used as a primary example of why Utah needs to stop funding Sundance was Anne Fontaine's "Two Mothers." The film is adapted from Doris Lessing's true story-based novella "The Grandmothers" and depicts two lifelong best friends (Naomi Watts and Robin Wright) who begin knowingly having sexual relationships with each other's teenage surfer sons (Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville).

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First Steve Jobs movie gets red carpet premiere

PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - The first movie about Apple's legendary co-founder got a warm reception at its world premiere on Friday, just 15 months after Steve Jobs' death.

"jOBS," starring "Two and a Half Men" actor Ashton Kutcher as the tech and computer entrepreneur who revolutionized the way people listen to music and built Apple Inc into an international powerhouse, got a red carpet roll-out at the Sundance Film Festival ahead of hitting U.S. theaters on April 19.

"jOBS" chronicles 30 defining years of the late Apple chairman, from an experimental youth to the man in charge of one of the world's most recognized brands. It is the first of two U.S. feature films about Jobs, who died in 2011 at age 56.

"Everybody has their own opinion about Steve Jobs, and they have something invested in a different part of his story. So the challenge is to decide what part of his story to tell, and not disenfranchise anybody," director Josh Stern told Reuters ahead of the screening.

"Hazarding a guess and venturing into too much speculation is always dangerous, especially with a character who is so well-known," Stern added.

The film, co-starring Josh Gad and Dermot Mulroney, begins with Jobs the dreamer, the poet and the occasional drug user in college, and his initial ideas for Apple Computers, before his vision took on a life of its own.

Much of the drama is based around the early 1980s, and Jobs' ideologies for the Apple Lisa and Macintosh computers, which ended up performing poorly for the company and led to Jobs being fired.

Kutcher's Jobs is seen as the rock star of the tech world, admired but misunderstood in his early days as he constantly tried to think outside of the box and bring a notion of "cool" to his brand.

The audience on Friday warmly applauded the film following the screening.

In a question-and-answer session after the screening, Kutcher took to the stage to talk about his preparations of mastering Jobs' posture, hand gestures and eccentricities, saying his "painstaking research" included watching more than 100 hours of footage of the Apple innovator.

Notably missing from the film are details about Jobs' personal life - his court settlement with the mother of his first child features only in the backdrop of the 1980s, a time when he struggled to gain support from the Apple board for his visions.

Stern told the audience that he deliberately stayed away from the CEO's personal life, saying the film was "not about getting mired in some of the soap opera" of Jobs' life.

Kutcher, 34, told Reuters on the red carpet before the screening that he was honored to play Jobs but also terrified because of the former Apple chairman's iconic status.

"To be playing a guy who so freshly is in people's minds, where everywhere you go you can run into people who met him or knew him or had seen a video of him ... that's terrifying because everyone is an appropriate critic," Kutcher told Reuters.

WRONG PERSONALITIES

Hours before the screening, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said the movie appeared to misrepresent aspects of both his own and Jobs' personalities and their early vision for the company.

Wozniak was commenting after seeing a brief clip of an early scene that was released online on Thursday.

"Totally wrong. ... The ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs," Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Jobs and Ronald Wayne in a California garage in 1976, told technology blog Gizmodo.com.

"The lofty talk came much further down the line," Wozniak said in a series of emails.

"Book of Mormon" star Gad, who plays Wozniak, told Reuters on Friday's red carpet that the filmmakers had tried to reach out to him to get his input on "jOBS," but that Wozniak was "participating in another project about Steve Jobs."

Wozniak is tied to a movie based on Walter Isaacson's official biography "Steve Jobs," being developed by screen writer Aaron Sorkin of "The West Wing" and "The Social Network" fame. No release date or casting has been announced.

Kutcher said he hoped Wozniak would look more kindly on the movie when he had seen the whole two hours.

"I hope that when he sees the film, he feels that he was portrayed accurately, that the film accurately represents who he was and how he was, and more importantly, inspires people to go and build things," he said.

(Additional reporting By Jill Serjeant in Los Angeles; editing by Philip Barbara)

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Researchers Will Restore Damaged Depth Perception with Electronic Eyes

Our depth perception doesn't work without two eyes. However an estimated 285 million people worldwide suffer from some form of visual impairment in at least one theirs. The loss of sight in just one eye also means the loss of one's ability to accurately judge short distances. However, a team of researchers have devised an ingenious solution to restore binocular vision. More »

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Justin Timberlake Reunites With T.I. For New Music

Tip tells MTV News he did 'two or three records' with JT and Timbaland, including one tentatively titled 'Goodbye Homey.'
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Video: ?Phantom of the Opera? turns 25

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The Internet Is Dead, or Something... | Social Media Today

The Internet is dead.

OK, that?s clearly not true, but we tend not to talk about it much anymore.

There was a time when you could spend an entire day on your computer without going online. I remember when we first got Internet, going online was a process. Going online was a task.?Because of the distance of our computer from our phone line, if I wanted to go online, I had to stretch out a long piece of phone cable, plug it into the phone jack, and then go for the dial-up modem, listen to that wonderful dial-up sound, and pray that it actually connected.

Oh, and we would announce that were going online. It was an activity. And it meant that for however long we were online, no one could call us:

?I was calling you for hours but kept getting a busy signal. Were you online??

And we started with a few of the free services like Juno and Netzero (and perhaps a few others I can?t recall), and bumped around those until the free services were gone, and signed up for the king of the moment: AOL. Remember them?

But now, we don?t even think about it. Rarely do we declare that we are ?going online.?

Why? Because we?re always online. I remember when I helped switch my parents over from dial-up to DSL I had a hard time explaining that theoretically they were ?always? online, while at the same time helping them understand that just because they were always online, didn?t mean that the world was creeping back at them through their phone line, ready to steal whatever they had on the computer.

With the pervasiveness of broadband, wireless, and mobile technology, we are all ?always connected.? We don?t go to the Internet, the Internet comes to us. If you?re like me, you get push notifications anytime someone interacts with you on any number of platforms, whether it?s an email, a blog comment, a tweet, something on Facebook or Instagram.

But we don?t talk about those things as much. They are just a part of our lives,?seamlessly integrated into our daily activities and doings.

Back in the days of CB radios (the seventies), I would go on and talk with friends. And what did we talk about? CB Radios!

Same with the early adoption of cell phone usage. It was common to hear someone saying, ?Yeah! I?m on the train! And talking to you!?

Not anymore. The fact that we?re no longer really talking about the Internet, per se, doesn?t mean it?s passe or ?dead.? It just means that we don?t think about it anymore. In some ways I think that?s what happening with Facebook. Some say it?s on the way out because people don?t talk about it anymore. I don?t think that?s true; I think we don?t talk about it anymore because we use it regularly without even really thinking about it. And when I say ?we? I?m talking mostly about the general public, not those of us who work in this field and get paid to think and talk about it.

Those outside of the marketing and communications world don?t obsess over these things the way some of us do.

And that?s why you?ll read blog posts ad nauseum about email being dead, or blogging, or whichever platform or technology we?re talking about here.

But the fact that we?re all online all the time is a good thing, at least for businesses and marketers looking to connect with us. It gives more opportunities for businesses to become a part of the social graph of individual users, and on their terms. More opportunities for customer service and lifestyle oriented marketing.

You want something that?s dead? Let?s talk 8-tracks, or leisure suits, or MySpace?oh?wait?

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Authored by:

Ken Mueller

The founder of Inkling Media, where he does social media and marketing for small and medium-sized businesses. He also is an adjunct professor at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, teaching continuing education classes in social media and inbound marketing.

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As of tomorrow, unauthorized unlocking of new, on-contract iPhones will be illegal in the U.S.

Due to a ruling by the Librarian of Congress, come tomorrow it will be illegal to unlock a new, on-contract iPhone -- or any phone -- in the U.S. If you bought your iPhone before tomorrow, or if you bought a factory unlocked iPhone straight from Apple, or off-contract, full priced iPhone from carriers, or your contract is over, you shouldn't be subject to any restrictions. Doing it on your own via Jailbreak, however, will be strictly verboten, and likely subject to prosecution by law enforcement and the Batman. Michael Gowen of TechNewsDaily reports:

In October 2012, the Librarian of Congress, who determines exemptions to a strict anti-hacking law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), decided that unlocking mobile phones would no longer be allowed. But the librarian provided a 90-day window during which people could still buy a phone and unlock it. That window closes on January 26.

No doubt oligopoly networks built on public airwaves appreciate your understanding. Know your laws, your rights, and make your purchasing decisions accordingly.

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Echo Automotive Demonstrates New Fleet Vehicle Hybrid ...

Multi-Mode Hybrid System Combines Savings & Choice for Fleet Operators

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Echo Automotive, Inc. (OTCQB: ECAU) (?Echo Automotive? or the ?Company?), a developer of technologies enabling the cost-effective conversion of existing fleet vehicles into fuel efficient hybrids, is pleased to announce the launch of its latest product offering, a multi-mode hybrid technology aimed directly at significantly improving the economic performance of fleet operations.

?One customer may drive 75 miles per day, while another may drive only 30?

The Company, in its first public display, today demonstrated its proprietary hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) technology under the EchoDrive? brand, along with revealing a notable shift in hybrid philosophy with the introduction of multi-power source selection capability via the implementation of a high capacity BEV mode (Battery Electric Vehicle) system option.

EchoDrive? was conceived and developed as a bolt-on, easy-install system to convert traditional fleet vehicles to hybrid operation, with a design mandate to provide a quick return on investment through considered, attainable cost-saving performance in a practical package aimed at a broad-based critical market desperately in need of sustainable cost-saving solutions.

?Today's demonstration of an EchoDrive? vehicle running in BEV mode delivers an incredible boost to the story behind why our platform is so unique,? announced Dan Kennedy, CEO of Echo Automotive. ?EchoDrive? will now be available in both hybrid and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) versions, as we aim to deliver a broad range of capabilities across a variety of vehicles in the fleet transport sector by simply adding or removing modules.

?For example, the vehicle we previewed today is capable of running as a HEV, PHEV or BEV with a simple push of the button. In BEV mode, it's running completely under the propulsion of EchoDrive? with the internal combustion engine turned off.?

The flexibility of the EchoDrive? platform allows a selected vehicle to be easily custom-configured for the requirements and drive cycle of that vehicle. ?One customer may drive 75 miles per day, while another may drive only 30,? continues Kennedy. ?By uniquely configuring each EchoDrive? system with different battery capacities and capabilities, such as BEV mode and site power, it allows our fleet customers to not only meet their operational objectives, but also lets the CFO track and realize the fastest payback currently achievable in this sector.?

Echo Automotive's President, Jason Plotke, sees the introduction of BEV mode as tangible evidence of Echo's technology advantage. ?When you can take a system like EchoDrive? and add new functionality such as BEV mode through mostly software updates and the simple addition of an extended battery pack, it makes the benefits of Echo's modular platform extremely favorable.?

The Company launched EchoDrive? in late 2012 as an integrated system to convert existing fleet vehicles to electrically assisted powertrains, offering fleet managers an immediate low-cost alternative to the high capital investment of relatively unproven, all-new electric vehicle designs. The slow pace of development and introduction, combined with high costs for these new designs, has produced an unparalleled opportunity for EchoDrive?. The extensively engineered retrofit solution exploits proven vehicle platforms and readily available components, while offering absolute system redundancy as the original engine power is continuously available with or without the electric assist.

EchoDrive? offers a combination of innovative system integration, flexible power management, scalable economics and a commitment to excellence in engineering, design and customer support. The Company is managed and led by a team of highly motivated and experienced executives, managers and advisors who have the vision and capability to deliver Echo Automotive into the forefront of this exciting and rapidly growing sector. Company management is focused firmly on success for its customers, vendors, employees and shareholders, and invites industry leaders and the public to find out more by visiting www.echoautomotive.com.

About Echo Automotive, Inc.

Echo Automotive, Inc. develops technologies and products designed for cost-effective conversion of existing vehicles into highly fuel-efficient hybrids and plug-in hybrids. The key to Echo's strategy is the bolt-on nature of its solution that introduces little or, in some cases, no additional points of failure, making it very low risk compared to competing solutions. For more information, please visit www.echoautomotive.com.

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Ireland won't ease drunken-driving law for farmers

DUBLIN (AP) ? A license to drive drunk? Some small-town politicians think it's just the tonic for rural Ireland.

Councilmen in Kerry, southwest Ireland, passed a motion this week asking the government to create a permit that would allow isolated farmers the ability to drink a few pints and then return home in their car, or on their tractor, without fear of being busted.

Its backers say the measure is needed to combat an epidemic of boredom and depression on farms ever since Ireland imposed tough new blood-alcohol limits on drivers in 2011.

But Justice Minister Alan Shatter shot down the proposal during a speech in parliament Thursday as "grossly irresponsible."

"There is no question of this government, or indeed I don't believe any future government, facilitating individuals drinking in excess of the blood alcohol limits," Shatter told lawmakers.

A generation ago, drunken driving was commonplace in Ireland and even the smallest villages or forlorn crossroads would feature a pub. But in this century the country has steadily improved road safety standards, introducing mandatory driving tests, blood and breath tests and above all a penalty-points system that removes licenses from dangerous drivers, particularly drunks.

The effort has slashed road-related deaths from more than 400 annually in the 1990s to just 162 last year, a modern low in this country of 4.6 million.

Kerry pub owners say their business has plummeted right along with that nationwide carnage ? yet deny any connection between the two trends. They describe the often narrow, lightly trafficked roads near their businesses as safe for people to navigate even after three pints (57 ounces) of beer.

Danny Healy-Rae, who owns a pub and comes from Kerry's most famous and flamboyant political family, says farmers should be allowed to drive tipsy on their tractors because they don't go fast enough to kill anyone. He said those drinking two to three pints at a pub should be issued a permit allowing them to drive home so long as they stay below 30 mph (50 kph).

He was one of five Kerry County Council members who voted for the motion Monday night. Three others voted against, seven abstained and 12 council members didn't show up. Their decision has no legal standing because the national government, not councils, sets policy on road safety.

Healy-Rae ? who like his politician father is nationally famous for wearing a cap everywhere and talking in rapid-fire local dialect easy to parody but hard to understand ? said pub-loving farmers "are living in isolated rural areas where there's no public transport of any kind. They end up at home looking at the four walls, night in and night out, because they don't want to take the risk of losing their license."

He said the older generation provided the sociological fuel to Ireland's tradition of pub-based music and "craic," Irish slang for entertaining conversation.

"All the wisdom and all the wit and all the culture that they had, the music and the singing, that's all being lost to the younger generation," Healy-Rae said. "These older people might as well be living in Japan and Jerusalem, because the younger generation don't see them at all anymore."

Yet even in Kerry, many have dismissed the idea as both dangerous to public safety and impossible to enforce. And alcohol-abuse campaigners say Healy-Rae's logic is twisted, since alcohol is a depressant and hardly a cure for the blues.

"The link between alcohol use and suicide has been well established and drinking alcohol will exacerbate, not alleviate, any mental health difficulties that a person may be struggling with, such as depression or anxiety," said Conor Cullen, spokesman for a pressure group called Alcohol Action Ireland.

The government emphasized that Kerry's council motion was already a dead letter.

"While rural isolation is a real problem," said Transport Minister Leo Varadkar, "the solution to it is not to hand out drink-driving permits."

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RI House to vote on gay marriage

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ? The Rhode Island House is poised to debate and vote on legislation that would allow gay and lesbian couples to marry ? the first time the issue has gone to a legislative vote in the only New England state without same-sex marriage.

Supporters and opponents of the legislation expect it to easily pass the House on Thursday, led by House Speaker Gordon Fox, who is gay. Both sides say the true test of the legislation lies in the Senate, where Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed opposes the legislation.

Gay marriage legislation has been introduced every year in the General Assembly since 1997, but Thursday's vote will mark the first time the issue has received a vote in either the House or Senate.

The bill has 42 sponsors in the 75-member House ? an indication of just how easily it could pass. The bill's longtime sponsor, Rep. Art Handy, D-Cranston, said he's seen a widespread change of opinion on gay marriage and that even some previously staunch opponents in the legislature may give the bill a second thought when the roll is called.

"It's a harder 'no' vote than people may have thought," he said.

Supporters are hoping to build on national momentum following the votes in Maine, Maryland and Washington. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, voters rejected a proposed state constitutional amendment that would have prohibited gay marriage, the first time such a ballot question has failed in the United States.

Opponents are hoping this heavily Catholic state maintains its current marriage laws.

"Rhode Islanders care about marriage and they don't want to see it redefined," said Christopher Plante, director of the state chapter of the National Institute for Marriage, which opposes same-sex marriage.

Should the bill pass the House it could be weeks or months before it receives a vote in the Senate. Paiva Weed, a Newport Democrat, said last week she couldn't support the legislation as written. But she has said she will allow the Senate Judiciary Committee to review and vote on the bill if it passes the House.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an independent, supports the bill and said he hopes to sign it into law this year. Last year he signed an executive order requiring the state to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

Two years ago, Fox dropped gay marriage legislation after he concluded the bill would not pass the Senate. Instead, lawmakers passed civil unions for same-sex couples. There has been little interest: in the year since civil unions were first offered, only 68 couples obtained civil union licenses.

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The Optimizer

Google's Jeff Dean

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?The speed of light in a vacuum used to be about 35 mph. Then Jeff Dean spent a weekend optimizing physics.??Jeff Dean Facts

Jeff Dean facts aren?t, well, true. But the fact that someone went to the trouble to make up Chuck Norris-esque exploits about Dean is remarkable. That?s because Jeff Dean is a software engineer, and software engineers are not like Chuck Norris. For one thing, they?re not lone rangers?software development is an inherently collaborative enterprise. For another, they rarely shoot cowboys with an Uzi.

Nevertheless, on April Fool?s Day 2007, some admiring young Google engineers saw fit to bestow upon Jeff Dean the honor of a website extolling his programming achievements. For instance:

• Compilers don?t warn Jeff Dean. Jeff Dean warns compilers.
• Jeff Dean writes directly in binary. He then writes the source code as documentation for other developers.
• When Jeff Dean has an ergonomic evaluation, it is for the protection of his keyboard.
• Jeff Dean was forced to invent asynchronous APIs one day when he optimized a function so that it returned before it was invoked.

Here?s a true Jeff Dean fact: You have to be a computer whiz to understand most of the jokes that people tell about Jeff Dean. (For those interested, Business Insider offers helpful explanations of some of the more popular ones.) But if his fake accomplishments are hard to understand without a real computer-science background, his real accomplishments are even more abstruse. The programs that Dean was instrumental in building?MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner?are not the ones most Google users associate with the company. But they?re the kind that made Google?and, consequently, much of the modern Web as we know it?possible. And the projects he?s working on now have the potential to revolutionize information technology once again.

When you think of the people who built today?s Web, you probably conjure founders and CEOs: Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, maybe Mark Zuckerberg. That makes sense: Each of those people invented a product or framework that shaped how we use the Internet.

Meanwhile, in the shadows of these giants?all of whom have graduated from day-to-day gruntwork?are legions of faceless developers who tap away at keyboards every day to build the products and systems we all use. In the tech world, more so than in most other industries, those employees are far from interchangeable. A great accountant might save you 5 percent on your taxes. A great baseball player will reach base just a bit more often than a mediocre baseball player. But a great software developer can do in a week what might take months for a team of 10 lesser developers?the difference is exponential rather than marginal. That?s not a Jeff Dean fact; it?s conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley, which is why the best companies go to such great lengths to attract top talent.

Dean arrived at Google in mid-1999 having already earned a reputation as one of the country?s top young computer scientists. Growing up when home computing power was just blossoming, Dean says he was always looking for ways to push the limits of what you could do on a given machine. As a high schooler, he wrote software for analyzing vast sets of epidemiological data that he says was ?26 times faster? than what professionals were using at the time. The system, called Epi Info, has been adopted by the Centers for Disease Control and translated into 13 languages. And as a Ph.D. student in computer science, he worked on compilers, programs that translate source code into a language that a computer can readily execute. ?I?ve always liked code that runs fast,? he explains matter-of-factly.

But Dean has always been restless in his interests, and he didn?t want to work on compilers his whole life. So he left academia and landed less than three years later at Google, which had only about 20 employees at the time. (According to Steven Levy?s book In the Plex, the search startup saw Dean as something like a prized draft pick.) After contributing some important early work to Google News and AdSense, the advertising product that would rewrite the rules of the Internet economy, he turned his attention to one of the company?s core problems: scale.

Google?s founding ideas came from Page and Brin, world-class developers in their own right. In the late 1990s they built PageRank, an algorithm for returning the most relevant results to a given search query. The focus on relevance put Google on a course to surpass Yahoo, AltaVista, and the day?s other leading search engines. But as the upstart grew in popularity, it faced a tremendous computing challenge. ?We couldn?t deploy machines fast enough? to keep up with demand, Dean recalls.

So Dean, working with fellow standout programmer Sanjay Ghemawat and others, did what he had done in high school with Epi Info: found software solutions to what seemed like hardware problems. Ghemawat helped lead a team that built the Google File System, which allowed for huge files to be efficiently distributed across thousands of cheap servers. Then Dean and Ghemawat developed a programming tool called MapReduce that allowed developers to efficiently process gargantuan data sets with those machines working in parallel. Much as a compiler allows a programmer to write code without worrying about the nitty-gritty of how the CPU will process it, MapReduce allowed Google?s developers to tweak the search algorithm or add new computations without having to worry about how to parallelize the operation or handle equipment failures.?

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Google+ comes to Mountain View employment listings, lets you submit applications with fewer clicks

There's no doubt that Google recruiters have their hands full -- the company's lust-worthy salaries and legendary benefits have convinced many of the world's best and brightest to make the move to Mountain View -- but a new application enhancement could mean even more work for the talent acquisition team. Assuming you're signed into your Google account, you'll now be prompted to have your name, contact information, education and employment history filled in automatically, based on data in your Google+ account. Experience with the company's social media service may not be required to land a job at Google HQ, but it probably wouldn't hurt your chances -- if nothing else, it'll streamline the application process a bit. Head on over to the source link below to check out some current openings, and, if you're feeling lucky, link your profile and hit submit.

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How to Start a Blog for Your Small Business - web design company ...

Blogging has become a common way to market your business online. Starting a blog is one of the most effective ways to promote your business and increase your reach. In spite of this, many small businesses are still hesitant to invest in blogging and as a result have failed to take advantage of this to benefits their business.

Before we take a look at how to start a blog for your small business, it is important to understand the benefits and challenges of blogging for business.

Why Your Small Business Needs a Blog?

There are many reasons why you should start a blog for your small business. The main benefits are as follows.

• Blog Will Increase Traffic to Your Website
• Blog Will Improve Your Search Engine Ranking
• Blog Will Help Generate Leads for Your Business
• Blog Will Make Your Business More Trustworthy and Reputable
• Blog Will Improve Your Online Authority and Reputation
• Blog Will Help Build a Loyal User-Base

It is however important to note that benefits of blogging accrue over time. As such perseverence is key.

Main Reasons Why Small Businesses Do Not Start a Blog

In spite of the benefits of blogging, many small businesses have failed to take advantage and stayed away from starting a blog. Here are some of the main reasons why small business owners don?t blog:

• It takes time and effort to maintain a blog.
• Lack of commitment and doubts about how blog will benefit the business.
• Lack of writing skills.
• Many small businesses don?t know where to start.

How to Start a Blog For Your Small Business?

If you don?t already have a blog, starting a blog can be one of the best decisions your business makes this year. Whether your business provides Web Design services nationally or delivers flowers in your local area, you can benefit from starting a blog.

As discussed above, not knowing where to start is one of the main challenges faced by many small businesses. This article provides an insight into the main steps involved in starting an running a successful blog for your small business.

Here are the main steps for starting a small business blog:

Identify Your Niche:

Before you start a blog, you will need to identify a niche. This will be the market your blog will target and the topics it will address.

Needless to say, your niche should be related to your business. If you are a web design business, you may wish to start a blog on Web design tips. If you deliver flowers, your niche can be flower arrangements or flower decoration or a similar niche that is relevant to your business.

Here are some tips:

• Use Google Keyword Tool to research popularity of niche
• Try to focus on a narrow niche as opposed to broad
• Research other existing blogs in the niche

Why Target a Narrow Niche?

Choosing a narrow or micro niche e.g. ?Web design tips for Estate Agents? rather than a broad niche such as ?Web Design? offers several advantages. It will make it easier to establish your blog and you have greater chances of success.

If you target a broad niche, you may have a wider reach but it will be far more difficult to establish your expertise and you will be competing with many other established blogs that have been running successfully for years.

Choose a Blogging Platform:

Once you have identified a niche for your blog, one of the first steps is to choose a blogging platform or software to power your blog. There are many options that small businesses can choose from.

The two main options are as follows:

• Free Hosted Blog Platform
• Self-Hosted WordPress Blog

Free Hosted Blog Platform:

This involves creating an account and setting up your blog on one of the many free hosted blogging platforms such as WordPress.com or Blogger.com. Your blog will be hosted on a sub-domain of the provider e.g. wordpress.com/your-blog-name.

It is the easier option and can be done in a few simple steps.

Self-Hosted WordPress Blog:

A self hosted WordPress blog is different to setting-up a blog on wordpress.com. It involves downloading WordPress blog software and installing and configuring it on your own server usually in a sub-folder of your company?s existing website e.g. yourcompanywebsite.com/blog.

There are many reasons why you should host your own blog. It offers several advantages and is by far the more professional option. It gives you more control over your blog and you retain full ownership of your blog and your content. You also benefit from maximum SEO benefits.

Take a look at the study below. Nearly half the top blogs in the world use self-hosted WordPress blogs and there is a good reason for it.

Create and Maintain a List of Topics:

The topics you write about will play a significant part in the overall success of your blog. Most businesses start out well but fail to maintain momentum after a while. Running out of new topics to write about is one of the factors that contribute to this. Many small businesses run out of topics to write about after a while. It is not easy to find interesting topics on a regular basis. Fortunately, there are tools that can help you with this process. Services like Google Reader are a great way to research new information and identify topics to write about.

Here are some tips:

• Choose compelling Titles
• Use tools like Google Reader to follow blogs from your niche and get inspiration about new things to write about
• Use Google Keyword Tool to identify popular topics with high search volumes
• Take advantage of list posts and ?How to? articles

Connect Your Blog to Your Social Media Profiles:

Social media and blogging go hand in hand. Social media is one of the best places to promote your blog and get more coverage for your blog posts. Your blog posts are an excellent source of regular information for your social media profiles. Connecting your blog helps to ensure your blogs posts get more coverage whilst ensuring your social media profiles are always fresh and up to date.

Here are some tips:

• Share links to new posts on your social profiles
• Use several social networks
• Use tools to automatically post blog content on social media
• Connect and build relationships with other bloggers
• Include a link to your blog in social network profile description

Create a Publishing Schedule:

Publishing frequently is one of the most important factors for running a successful blog. This is where most small businesses fail.? Most businesses start out well but fail to maintain momentum after a while. This is where a publishing schedule can help.

Having a publishing schedule ensures your blog is updated frequently and in a consistent manner. For best results, posts should be published at the times and days that produce the best results.

Maintain and Promote Your Blog Actively:

Although the benefits of blogging are priceless, it can take time for your blog to become popular. No matter how great the quality of your posts, unless people know about your blog and are able to find it, you are not likely to get much benefit.

It is thus important to take necessary steps to promote your blog and increase the chances of it being found. There are many ways to do this.

Here are some tips:

• Use free plugins like All in One SEO plugin for WordPress to optimise your blog
• Include keywords in blog post titles
• Use Google keyword tool to identify topics with high search volumes
• Build back-links to your blog
• Include your blog link in your email signature and in other digital and printed materials
• Promote your blog through articles
• Guest post on other blogs
• Include a link to your blog in Author byline of your articles

Customise Your Blog for Lead Generation:

One of the main benefits of business blogging is to generate leads and sales for the business. Many small business blogs fail to do this. The more frequently you post content on your blog, the more leads you will acquire for your business. Take a look at the results of a study by HubSpot below that shows a direct relation between blogging frequency and customer acquisition.

In addition to posting frequently, there are a number of other steps you can take to improve the lead generation capability of your small business blog. Some of these are listed below.

?Here are some tips to generate leads on your blog:

• Use good call to action on all pages
• Take advantage of lead generation forms
• Use your blog to build your email list
• Write about your products and services and how it can benefit customers

Measure and Refine:

Blogging can be very time consuming. To get the most out of your blog, it is important to monitor your blog?s performance and keep a close watch on your stats. Good monitoring will help you to identify what works and what doesn?t. It will also help you to measure and track your growth. But this is only half the battle. Realising the full potential of your blog will depend on your ability to act and refine your blog in response to your stats. This should be a continuous process. Look at your Google Analytics stats daily to see what works and what areas can be tweaked further.

Additionally, small businesses can also benefit by split testing using tools such as Google Website Optimizer. Split testing allows you to try variations and identify what methods produce the best results. You can use it to test different types of calls to action, form design, overall layout or any other element on your blog.

What About You?

A Blog is a great way to market your business. Do you use blog to promote your small business? We would like to hear from you. Please share your experience by leaving a comment below.

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Putin orders Russian computers to be protected after spy attacks

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian authorities to protect state computers from hacking attacks, the Kremlin said on Monday, after an Internet security firm said a spy network had infiltrated government and embassy computers across the former Soviet bloc.

Dubbed Red October, the network used phishing attacks - or unsolicited emails to intended targets - to infect the computers of embassies and other state institutions with a program designed to harvest intelligence and send it back to a server.

Putin signed a decree on January 15 empowering the Federal Security Service (FSB) to "create a state system for the detection, prevention and liquidation of the effects of computer attacks on the information resources of the Russian Federation".

State computer and telecommunications networks protected by the cyber security system should include those inside Russia and at its embassies and consulates abroad, according to the decree, which was published on a Kremlin website on Monday.

The Russian Internet security firm Kaspersky Labs said last week that the computer espionage network, discovered last October, had been seeking intelligence from Eastern European and ex-Soviet states including Russia since 2007. (http://r.reuters.com/mag45t )

Many of the systems infected belonged to diplomatic missions, Vitaly Kamluk, an expert in computer viruses at Kaspersky Labs, said last week. He declined to name specific countries.

Kamluk said last week that the network was still active, and that law enforcement agencies in several European countries were investigating it.

Kaspersky Labs said the infiltrators had created more than 60 domain names, mostly in Russia and Germany, that worked as proxies to hide the location of their real server.

The FSB declined immediate comment last week when asked whether Russia had taken action to bring any suspected members of the espionage network to justice, or acted to improve Internet security in light of the discovery.

The FSB - the main successor agency of the Soviet KGB - requested a written query, to which it has not yet responded. The Kremlin declined immediate comment on Monday when asked whether Putin's decree was linked to Red October.

(Reporting by Steve Gutterman and Thomas Grove; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/putin-orders-russian-computers-protected-spy-attacks-110741613.html

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RIM CEO Says Licensing BlackBerry 10 Is ?Conceivable?. Also Not Ruling Out Selling Its Hardware Production Business

The CEO of RIM, Thorsten Heins, has told a German newspaper he has not ruled out licensing BB10 to other device makers. Asked whether RIM might not go down the licensing route, as Microsoft has with Windows Phone, he said: "Before you licensed the software, you must show that the platform has a large potential. First we have to fulfill our promises. If such proof, a licensing is conceivable."

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Like Reagan, Obama will take oath twice

Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library

President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for his second term in a private ceremony on Jan. 20, 1985, with his wife, Nancy Reagan, at his side and Chief Justice Warren Burger administering the oath in the White House Cross Hall, Grand Staircase.

By Jeff Black, Staff Writer, NBC News

Updated at 12:15 p.m. ET: For the first time since Ronald Reagan?s second term, a president has taken the oath of office for a term first in a private ceremony at the White House.

The Constitution says that the president must take office on Jan. 20. But if that's a Sunday, public inaugural festivities -- which for Obama will include a re-enactment of the swearing-in from Chief Justice John Roberts -? are saved for Monday.

So, Obama's swearing-in Sunday was a brief private affair in the Blue Room of the White House, an ornate oval room often used to receive official guests. Only Obama?s immediate family and a few reporters attended. The ceremony was televised live and streamed live on the Internet.

Reagan?s official ceremony took place at the grand North Entrance Hall to the White House, a roomy foyer where tours of the home exit onto Pennsylvania Avenue. Still, seating was limited so guests included family members of Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush as well as a smattering of legislative leaders and reporters.

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The 1985 swearing-in of the president known as the Great Communicator was televised live. The ceremony was strikingly brief -- a few minutes at most. Reagan placed his left hand on a Bible given to him by his mother, then clearly repeated the 37-word oath recited by Chief Justice Warren Burger.

Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library

President Reagan being sworn in for second term by Warren Burger during the "private" ceremony held at the White House

He then gave first lady Nancy a kiss, posed for a picture and briskly walked with Bush to the North Portico, where the two waved at White House press corps reporters outside.

That Sunday, however, might be better remembered for Super Bowl XIX between the San Francisco 49ers and the Miami Dolphins, which was played at Stanford Stadium in California.

A former California governor, Reagan made the opening coin toss from the White House. It was broadcast on TV via satellite hookup.

Quarterback Joe Montana, MVP of the game, threw three touchdown passes and ran for another in a 38-16 win over the Dan Marino-led Dolphins. The game was watched by some 85 million people.

Obama was sworn in well before kickoff of Championship Sunday games, in which teams vying for this year's Super Bowl will take the field.?

So, why not just skip the rerun swearing-in on Monday?

According to Meena Bose, a professor and presidential scholar at Hofstra University in New York, since the Constitution calls only for a presidential transition at noon and the oath -- and nothing more -- that?s possible. But inaugural celebrations are a tradition that goes back to George Washington.

?It would be a big problem politically for the president and his supporters and fundraisers. I'm not sure it would make a big difference to the public at large if there were no big celebrations, especially for the second inauguration,? Bose said.

?In the 1980s, there was a sense that celebration was good," Bose said. "These are much tougher times now for the country, so it?s certainly an occasion for celebration, but it?s a more workmanlike state of mind now than it was 28 years ago.?

In fact it was so bitterly cold in Washington in 1985 that the traditional outdoor inauguration was moved indoors to the Rotunda at the Capitol.

Reagan's son Ron Reagan, who provides commentary on msnbc, recalls the unusually severe temperatures and how they affected the events that Monday.

"Privileged attendees ended up packed like anchovies under the Capitol dome: family members, justices, new Cabinet members, scoundrels," Ron Reagan said in an email. "At least some of the parade was canceled over concerns that brass instruments would freeze to the lips of young marching band trumpeters, creating a grisly and appalling spectacle."

Obama will take it outdoors to the plaza at the Capitol, where he will take the oath again and give his inaugural address. The inaugural also coincides with Martin Luther King Day. An estimated 1.8 million people, the most ever to attend a inaugural ceremony, attended Obama's first inauguration, and more than 600,000 are expected to attend on Monday.?

The weather forecast is partly cloudy with a high of 42 degrees and a low of 23, according to The Weather Channel.

Woodrow Wilson was the first president to be sworn into office on a Sunday, according to the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies website.?Wilson took the office privately in the President's Room in the U.S. Capitol by Chief Justice Edward D. White. First lady Edith Bolling Wilson noted in her diary that she was the only woman present among the officials there that day.

"This simple ceremony (I was the only woman present) was more to our taste than the formal Inauguration which followed on Monday, March 5th," she wrote.

Abraham Lincoln swore the oath in front of an incomplete Capitol dome. Lyndon B. Johnson became president on Air Force One next to a dazed Jacqueline Kennedy. A collection of photographs from past presidential inaugurations.

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Insurance health care exchange legislation clears for legislative ...

By ECM on January 21, 2013 at 12:33 pm

by T.W. Budig
ECM Capitol reporter

Insurance health care exchange legislation cleared its first legislative committee with Democratic leaders wanting the complex bill signed by the governor and out the door by the end of March.

A Senate committee on a party-line vote Thursday (Jan. 17) advanced Sen. Tony Lourey?s exchange bill, touching off a flurry of committee hearings in the Senate on the state?s alternative to a federal insurance exchange.

Senators Bruce Anderson, R-Buffalo Township, Alice Johnson, DFL-Spring Lake Park, and Bev Scalze, DFL-Little Canada, listen to insurance exchange testimony in committee. (Photo by T.W. Budig)

The House is expected to hold its first exchange committee hearing this week.

Minnesota is one of 18 states that has conditional approval from the federal government to launch its own insurance exchange.

Speed is part of the bargain.

Because insurance companies must be allowed six months to prepare products to sell in the exchange, a one-stop marketplace where consumers can browse for the best buy, the state exchange must be state law by the end of March.

Enrollment is scheduled to begin Oct. 1, with plan coverage starting the first of the year.

The exchange is expected to serve more than a million Minnesotans.

Lawmakers flatly say they need to bone up on the legislation.

?I think other than (Republican Rep.) Jim Abeler and a couple of others, (House Health and Human Services Finance Committee Chairman Tom) Huntley, that have worked on this for a long time, I would wager most people don?t have a clue,? said Rep. Jerry Newton, DFL-Coon Rapids.

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman James Metzen, DFL-South St. Paul, held up a diagram of the workings of the exchange ? a diagram at a distance resembling the guts of a computer ? as evidence of complexity.

Does he fully understand it?

?I don?t, but I?m learning,? said Metzen, speaking after the committee hearing.

?I think we can do a thoughtful, good job in the time frame we have,? he said.

Minnesota Exchange Executive Director April Todd-Malmlove will become a fixture at the State Capitol in upcoming weeks as insurance exchange legislation working through House and Senate may require stops in a dozen or more committees. (Photo by T.W. Budig)

Minnesota Exchange Director April Todd-Malmlov appeared before two Senate committees, detailing the form and function of the exchange.

?It?s not just a $110 million website,? she told one committee with a smile, referring federal grants for developing the exchange.

The exchange is ushering in fundamental health insurance reform, she explained.

Todd-Malmlov depicted the exchange ? soon too have a new name, because no one likes what it?s currently called, she said ? as providing consumers with apples-to-apples comparisons of insurance products, with ?navigators? to assist them, all with high-tech access.

Consumers can browse among ?gold? plans, or ?silver? plans.

Eligibility for a given plan can be confirmed in as little as 30 minutes on the exchange, she explained.

Individuals and people on Medical Assistance will make up the bulk of the 1.3 million Minnesotans the exchange is expected to serve.

?The exchange is there to make things simple for people,? Todd-Malmlov said.

All Americans, under the federal Affordable Care Act, must have health insurance.

The exchange budget is estimated at $40 million to $50 million a year.

The entity is proposed to fund itself by collecting 3.5 percent of total premiums for individual market and small group market health benefit plans sold through the exchange.

By federal law, the exchange must be self-funding by 2015.

Legislation calls for the creation of a seven-member board of directors to operate the exchange.

Sen. Dave Thompson, R-Lakeville, an exchange critic, likened the proposed board to a ?Met Council on speed.?

He expressed concern over insufficient legislative oversight.

This concern has been voiced by others.

?I favor a lot of detail (in the legislation),? said Abeler, former Republican House Health and Human Services Finance Committee chairman.

Abeler is working with Democrats on the exchange in the spirit of crafting the best bill possible.

But he believes the current proposal has basic flaws.

?This is set up to be so simplistic you don?t even have to think about,? Abeler said of using the exchange.

All that technology costs a lot of money.

?I think we can do it for much less,? Abeler said.

But Abeler, like other Republicans and Democrats, agrees the state is much better off designing its own exchange than having a bureaucrat in a Washington cubicle pulling the wires.

It?s much better Minnesotans can call a phone number with a ?651? prefix than a ?202,? the latter being one for Washington, many lawmakers say.

?We all believe it,? Abeler said.

Health care consultant Dr. Roger Kathol, president of Cartesian Solutions of Burnsville, served on Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton?s health care exchange task force.

He views the proposed exchange as a proper public/private partnership.

It makes sense the government is involved, as so many exchange customers will be people on government health care programs, Kathol noted.

?Some do, some don?t,? he said of lawmakers wanting more control.

Kathol views the proposed board model as offering stability.

One worry for task force members, he indicated, was that exchange funding would be raided by lawmakers during times of state budget woes.

Getting the exchange up and running is a challenge.

?It?s a massive undertaking just to put the infrastructure together,? Kathol said.

Other criticisms of Lourey?s bill includes concerns over conflict of interest provisions for board members.

Some find them too stringent, chasing away professional with in-depth, timely knowledge of the health care industry.

?This just seems to be eliminating a class of people,? Thompson said in committee.

Other criticisms were voiced by the health care industry.

?There?s something for everyone to love in this bill ? even you, Sen. Thompson, I believe,? Lourey, DFL-Kerrick, said in committee.

But Lourey conceded there was also something to hate.

Republicans in the Senate State and Local Government Committee ? the first committee to advance an exchange bill ? cautioned against hastiness.

?I think it?s moving way too fast,? said Sen. Bruce Anderson, R-Buffalo Township.

Sen. Dan Hall, R-Burnsville, agreed.

?It takes some time to digest it,? Hall said.

Sen. Bev Scalze, DFL-Little Canada, said discussions had been going on for almost two years.

?It?s time that we take actions on this,? she said.

On a party line vote, the bill passed the committee.

House Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Atkins, DFL-Inver Grove Heights, is carrying the House health care insurance exchange bill.

Tim Budig is at tim.budig@ecm-inc.com.

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Source: http://stillwatergazette.com/2013/01/21/insurance-health-care-exchange-legislation-clears-for-legislative-committee/

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Posted Yesterday, 03:52 PM

When I put Calcium Carb. and Silica in the calculator I get a corresponding increase in CaO and SiO2. But, when I remove them and put an equal amount of Wollastonite into the calculation the CaO increases but the SiO2 decreases. What am I missing here?

Joel.

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#2 ? JBaymore?

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Posted Yesterday, 11:30 PM

Your description is not all that clear....... but..... as a guess here.......

.......likely it is related to the concept of the Unity formula. The total of all of the fluxes always are adjusted to equal one in a Unified Seger Molecular Formula.

best,

.......................john

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