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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

The importance of understanding culture | MBA blog

Arun Chaubey, Indian School of Business
Age: 32
Nationality: Indian
Background: Arun has more than seven years' work experience in re-insurance and IT industries. On graduation he intends to pursue a career in global business development.

Lubica Valentova, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Age: 28
Nationality: Slovakian
Background: After graduating with a law degree from Comenius University in Bratislava Slovakia, Lubica worked in sales. She is eager to improve her hard skills such as accounting.

Diana Mak, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
Age: 29
Nationality: US
Background: Diana has a degree in psychology from Wellesley College in the US and is currently completing her international MBA. She worked at Morgan Stanley?s global wealth management division for five years before working as a volunteer teacher in China?s Huan province.

Katie Sherning, Cranfield School of Management
Age: 27
Nationality: New Zealander
Background: Having completed an undergraduate degree in civil engineering at Canterbury University, New Zealand, Katie has worked as an engineer and project manager on infrastructure projects for the public and private sectors. Her MBA will help her to understand and manage the commercial aspect of large infrastructure projects.

Andre de Haes, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Age: 25
Nationality: Dual: French and South African
Background: Andre has an undergraduate degree from Oxford University and has worked as a consultant in McKinsey. He has spent the summer working at a European venture capital firm to learn more about the start-up opportunities in Europe and the way VC investment decisions are made.

Nihar Dalmia, Oxford University: Sa?d
Age: 28
Nationality: Indian
Background: Nihar holds both a chartered accountant degree and a certified public accountant certificate as well as various software certificates. He has consulted for 14 different industries in an accounting/technology role and hopes to use his MBA to move into mainstream strategy consultancy.

Eunice Benedicto, Durham Business School
Age: 35
Nationality: Filipino
Background: Eunice is an accountant and has more than 10 years' experience in auditing and accounting and currently works for American Airlines in Texas. Among other things she was attracted to Durham because of its charity consulting project.

Benjamin Bechtolsheim, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
Age: 24
Nationality: American
Background: Benjamin has a degree in political science from Brandeis University in Massachusetts and has worked in international development in Africa. He intends to use his MBA in socially responsible corporate practice.

Stephen Garden, London Business School
Age: 27
Nationality: British
Background: Stephen holds an undergraduate degree in business and has worked in account management at Fujitsu and Verizon. He is midway through his MBA and hopes ultimately to become an entrepreneur. He is currently on exchange with the University of California Berkeley.

Derek Laan, Sungkyunkwan Graduate School of Business-Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Age: 25
Nationality: American
Background:After graduating from Purdue University Derek moved to Korea to teach English at an elementary school and hopes on graduation to work in international marketing for a large Korean company.

Nicole Hawkins, Fuqua School of Business
Age: 26
Nationality: American
Background: Nicole has a degree in finance and real estate from Temple University and has been working in the affordable housing industry in an asset management function. She wants to work in international development in developing economies.

Liliana Diaconur Liliana Diaconu, Brandeis International Business School
Age: 26
Nationality: Moldovan
Background: Liliana is midway through programme and spent her summer interning with Accenture in Boston. She was attracted by Brandeis' international focus and is eager to pursue a career in consulting.

Ibad Hyder, National University of Singapore
Age: 25
Nationality: Pakistani
Background: Ibad has a degree in accounting and finance from Lahore University of Management Science and has worked as a credit risk analyst with Bank Alfalah in Pakistan. He is eager to broaden his international exposure.

Wing Lee, Ceibs
Age: 27
Nationality: British
Background: After studying for an economics degree at Edinburgh University Wing trained and qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young before returning to Hong Kong to work for Merrill Lynch. He hopes his MBA will help him to develop a strong network in the region.

Lee Mrnjavac, Iese Business School
Age: 30
Nationality: Australian
Background: Having studied engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Lee joined Ericsson as a graduate engineer and has subsequently worked worldwide.

Noel Hanssens, European School of Management and Technology Noel Hanssens, University of Hong Kong
Age: 32
Nationality: Australian/Belgian
Background: After earning a degree in information technology from Charles Darwin University, Noel has worked as a project manager in the strategic policy and performance area in the Australian public sector.

Ernest Gyimah, European School of Management and Technology
Age: 26
Nationality: Ghanaian
Background: Ernest gained a degree in banking and finance from the University of Ghana before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, working across Africa. He is a Kofi Annan fellow and hopes to help grow small businesses in the developing world.

Kelvin Chiu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Age: 28
Nationality: Canadian
Background: A graduate from the electrical engineering programme at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Kelvin has worked as a project manager for Ontario Power Generation at a nuclear plant near Toronto. He is a certified personal trainer and fitness professional.

Brigitte Roediger, University of Stellenbosch Business School, part time MBA
Age: 26
Nationality: South African
Background: Brigitte has a degree in financial analysis and marketing communications from the University of Stellenbosch. She is the assistant brand manager at a wine farm near Cape Town and will continue to work as she studies which will allow her to repay her business school loan.

Wesley Cole, Executive MBA Cass Business School, London
Age: 29
Nationality: British
Background: A business systems manager for a recruitment company, Wesley was keen to study for an MBA whilst working full time. He hopes to be able to develop his leadership skills and apply them to his career.

Aman Modi, IMD
Age: 30
Nationality: Indian/British
Background: Aman has a BA in accounting and a masters in banking and international finance from Cass Business School, London. With more than eight years of finance-focused experience he wants to move into general management.

Ashish Rastogi, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Age: 32
Nationality: Indian
Background: Ashish has worked for Infosys in various capacities in the US and India. He wants to build a career in corporate strategy and product marketing. He is studying on the Full Time MBA for executives (PGPex).

Anthemos Georgiades, Harvard Business School
Age: 28
Nationality: British
Background: Anthemos has a degree from Oxford and an MPhil from Cambridge. He has experience working in management consultancy and as an economic adviser on the Conservative partys? election campaign. Ultimately Anthemos would like to become a member of Parliament.

Mark Partridge, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Age: 28
Nationality: Dual (US & UK)
Background: A British-American citizen Mark graduated from University College London with a degree in Modern History before working as a journalist in Seattle. He is eager to work in business rather than write about it and hopes on graduation to work in a venture capital firm.

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Republicans Say Election Losses Just Mean They Need Better Candidates

WASHINGTON -- Republican losses in the 2012 elections were not a progressive leap for America or a repudiation of conservatives and the Tea Party -- it was just proof the right ran bad candidates, according to two Republican senators with ties to some of races where their side fell short.

The most remarkable losses were in Indiana and Missouri, where the GOP had been looking at near-certain wins until their right-leaning standard bearers both took controversial positions on abortion. Missouri Rep. Todd Akin declared women don't get pregnant from "legitimate rape." Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock proclaimed that pregnancy from rape is "something God intended to happen."

Republicans also fell short in other states that had looked like reliable pick-ups for them back at the start of the election cycle, losing races to Democrats in North Dakota, Montana and Wisconsin.

Many analysts, especially those leaning Democratic, declared the country was moving left, especially with the passage of same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization initiatives in some states.

But asked what message the GOP should take from their losses, Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Dan Coats (R-Ind.), argued that the Democrats didn't win on the issues, but rather individual candidates had failed Republicans.

"I think we were a unique situation in which our candidate twice said things that he either didn't intend to say or were very well used by the opposition," Coats said, referring to Mourdock, who -- before weighing in on on rape -- had argued against bipartisanship soon after he trounced long-time Sen. Richard Lugar in the GOP primary.

Mourdock "alienated himself with some supporters of Sen. Lugar," Coats said. "Then there was a statement toward the end that dramatically changed the outcome of the race. I think those two together. But I think that's a unique situation that happened in Indiana."

DeMint, whose PAC, Senate Conservatives Fund, backed both Akin and Mourdock, echoed Coats, saying both failed Senate candidates blew their talking points and allowed the media to portray them as extremists.

"We've got to be disciplined as candidates and talk about federal issues in terms of policy," said DeMint, whose goal is to make his party's contingent in the Senate more conservative.

"When we can get baited by reporters to talk about something that's a personal opinion, it really is not something we'd be debating at the federal level. We haven't even decided at the federal level the personhood issue of the child," DeMint said, referring to efforts in many states to confer full constitutional rights on fetuses. "To go from there to exceptions to rape is just not something we need to be discussing. It's basically opinion."

DeMint saw evidence for his view in the Senate wins of Rep. Jeff Flake in Arizona and Ted Cruz in Texas, although only Flake faced a strong challenge from a Democrat. He also cited the losses of three other Republicans: Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin, Rep. Rick Berg in North Dakota and Rep. Denny Rehberg in Montana.

"What I learned is the people who are still out running on bold ideas -- good candidates like Jeff Flake, Ted Cruz running on balancing the budget, repealing Obamacare, cutting spending; [Nebraska's] Deb Fischer did the same thing -- [those] conservatives won," said DeMint. "In the cases of Rehberg, Berg and Tommy Thompson -- having a moderate candidate does not win races for Republicans."

DeMint suggested what his side really needs to do is express itself better.

"We had problems nationwide as Republicans, I think," he said. "We have not communicated in a positive way a vision of where we're taking the country. I think that many thought that Republicans just needed to stand on the sidelines and make Obama the issue. But people need to know what we stand for, what we're going to do, and I don't think we did a good enough job telling people that."

When 2014 rolls around -- another year in which Republicans would seem to have the edge with just 13 senators up for reelection, compared to 20 Democrats -- they have to speak more carefully as well, DeMint said.

"We know the other side talks in sanitized soundbites for a reason, and they don't offer any plans for a reason. If you don't say anything you can't get criticized," DeMint said. "Republicans -- I think it's a good characteristic -- want to explain where they are, but any little soundbite can be used against you. Mourdock was simply trying to say every child is important to God, but the way he said it allowed folks to pound on him."

Democrats certainly disagreed that the election's outcome was an argument for running to the right. But so did Lugar, who fired off a blistering statement after his loss, saying Mourdock's "embrace of an unrelenting partisan mindset is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance."

Lugar had no doubts his party should be paying better attention.

"I believe there is a message there," Lugar told HuffPost. He declined to elaborate, but pointed to his stinging concession statement and its denunciation of extreme partisanship.

"I still believe what I had to say," Lugar said.

His fellow Republicans don't see it that way, casting the remarks that brought down Akin and Mourdock as essentially irrelevant.

"I think it's just a matter of focus and discipline and letting people know what it is we're planning to do and not [being] carried off in all these other tangent issues" said DeMint. "That's just a gotcha game, and Republicans have to got to be better at not falling for it."

Michael McAuliff covers Congress and politics for The Huffington Post. Talk to him on Facebook.

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Monday, November 19, 2012

Readers Write: Affirmative action is still needed in the US

Letters to the Editor for the November 19, 2012 weekly print issue: Affirmative action helps eliminate the ignorance of racial bigotry and animosity. It is needed as much today as it was in 1968.?The notion that the races are fighting over a scarce number of places is a shallow argument.

By Readers Write / November 19, 2012

Affirmative action is still needed

Regarding the Nov. 5 editorial, ?A race lift for campuses?: When I read the question ?Is official discrimination against white applicants justified if a state-run school finds a compelling interest for racial diversity in campus learning?,? I thought back to 1968 when my university was engaged in the program of affirmative action.

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There was one upperclassman and a few athletes who were African-Americans. I don?t think any of us could have foreseen the day affirmative action would be called ?discrimination against whites.? Back then, discrimination against minorities was overtly institutionalized. We?ve come a long way ? or have we?

It?s essential to base arguments on correct premises. The need to integrate schools for racial diversity is education, just as much as foreign student exchanges and cultural immersion to learn a new culture or language is a part of education. The notion of scarcity of places available at universities, causing competition between the races, as the editorial argues, obscures and confuses the fundamental purpose of affirmative action.?

No one takes someone else?s place. Opportunity should be available to the broadest possible selection ? whether we enter universities on affirmation action or through our parents? alumni association. Why should a student who is accepted to a university because of a parent?s monetary gifts to the school be more important than a student entering on affirmative action? Affirmative action brings a different culture and new perspectives to a learning atmosphere.

We all gain something valuable by learning to think more broadly and inclusively. Multicultural exchanges help awaken moral and civil courage as well as the ability to think logically rather than emotionally. This can mitigate interracial conflict when those involved in the dialogue are truly educated ? in the broadest sense of the word. All American students deserve that education.?

Affirmative action is thus a win-win situation that helps eliminate the ignorance of racial bigotry and animosity. It is needed as much today as it was in 1968.?

The notion that the races are fighting over a scarce number of places is a shallow argument.

Jackie Reid

Tujunga, Calif.

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Sprint Asks FCC to Tansfer Licenses to Software As Part of Merger ...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Sprint has asked the Federal Communications Commission to grant authority for the mobile carrier to transfer its licenses to Softbank as it proceeds to sell most of itself to Japanese wireless giant.

Sprint Nextel has requested that the Federal Communications Commission to approve the transfer of its wireless licenses to Softbank the Japanese wireless giant that?s announced its intentions to buy 70 percent of Sprint in a $ 20 billion dollar deal.

The transfer of licenses is necessary because Softbank would own controlling interest in Sprint. In addition, Softbank would need FCC approval of the transfer because it?s a foreign corporation that would own more than the normally permitted 25 percent.

In addition, Sprint has asked for transfer of Sprint?s prospective interest in Clearwire?s licenses in advance of the completion of Sprint?s purchase of a controlling interest in Clearwire of more than 50 percent ownership. Effectively, Softbank would control Clearwire because it would own Sprint.

In a public interest statement filed on Nov. 15 with the FCC, Sprint said that the merger and the transfer of licenses would create no competitive harm to the wireless market since Softbank currently has no other interests in the US wireless market.

?It offers the potential to transform the U.S. wireless marketplace by creating a more vibrant rival to compete with today?s two predominant wireless providers, Verizon Wireless and AT&T,? the company said in its statement to the FCC.

In the filing, Sprint revealed that it anticipates an infusion of $ 8 billion in new capital, which it says it needs to accelerate its broadband deployment. Sprint also said that the merger and resulting license transfer would allow Sprint to offer new forms of competition in terms of new products and services.

Sprint also noted in the filing that the merger is expected to enhance the company?s ability to obtain products, including handsets, and mobile services on more favorable terms because together the companies would have some 92 million subscribers. The filing said that this would put the combined company on the same scale as AT&T and Verizon Wireless in the United States.

In addition to this filing, the Sprint and Softbank have petitioned to allow the foreign ownership of Sprint. ?In addition to the transfer of control applications, Sprint and SoftBank have submitted a Petition for Declaratory Ruling to allow SoftBank?s indirect foreign ownership of Sprint to exceed the 25 percent benchmark set forth in Section 310(b)(4) of the Communications Act. As set forth in that petition and in this Public Interest Statement, there are strong public interest benefits to permitting this level of foreign ownership.? Sprint said in its statement.

Besides approval by the FCC for the license transfer, the Softbank merger must be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.

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Laura Doyle: It's the Intimacy, Stupid: 6 Steps for ... - Huffington Post

Divorce is like tooth decay: totally preventable for a woman with the right skills and habits. Unfortunately most women didn't have good relationship role-models. We are largely the product of single parents, broken homes or marriages that we wouldn't wish on our worst enemy -- the equivalent of learning oral care from parents with false teeth.

We aren't born with the skills to foster intimacy, passion and peace anymore than we're born with a Sonicare and good flossing habits. Fortunately, any woman can learn intimacy skills and use them to create trust, tenderness and connection.

Here are the six proven intimacy skills your mother never taught you that lead to satisfying, lifelong love:

Skill #1: Do at Least Three Things a Day for Your Own Pleasure

There's a direct correlation between your self-care and your level of tolerance for your husband. Self-care is a profound act for opening the door to intimacy. Relationships require patience and compassion, but if you're tired, frazzled or undernourished, you give yours little chance of thriving. Self-care -- focusing on your own pleasure -- takes the pressure off your husband to make you happy (he can't anyway). Your good mood also signals to him that he can succeed in delighting you, which inspires him to want to do just that. By treating ourselves well, we also teach other people how to treat us. Having fun every day is not only critical for a satisfying romance, it's part of a life well-lived.

Skill #2: Relinquish Control of People You Can't Control

"Helpful" in wife language is controlling in husband language. When you correct your man's driving or what he wears or does at work, you're saying he's not competent. That unwitting criticism is an attack and pushes intimacy away no matter how well-meaning your comment. Intimacy needs safety and encouragement to thrive, and vanishes with criticism. Take a step back and trust him to run his own life without any help from you, and watch him take a step forward and start acting like the man you fell in love with.

Skill #3: Receive Gifts, Compliments and Help Graciously

Receiving is the opposite of rejecting. When your husband gives you something that's not what you had in mind, receive it anyway by saying, "You're so thoughtful. Thank you." Deflecting a gift or a compliment is rejecting the giver and the emotional connection you could have had. When your husband offers to bathe the kids, accept his help graciously no matter how imperfectly he does it. Rejecting a gift, compliment or help greatly reduces the quality of your marriage and your life. Receive graciously and watch as more gifts start coming your way almost immediately.

Skill #4: Respect The Man You Chose

Being respectful will resurrect the man you fell in love with. You're too smart to have married a dumb guy, so if he seems dumb now, it's because you're focused on his shortcomings. It's not that you made a mistake in marrying him, it's that you've been focused on his mistakes since you married him. A man who feels respected by the woman who knows him best also feels self-respect, which is far more attractive than cowering and hostility.

Lack of respect causes more divorces than cheating does because for men, respect is like oxygen. They need it more than sex. Respect means that you don't dismiss, criticize, contradict or try to teach him anything. Of course he won't do things the same way you do; for that, you could have just married yourself. But with your respect, he will once again do the things that amazed and delighted you to begin with -- so much so that you married him.

Skill #5: Express Gratitude Three Times Daily

Gratitude has magical powers. It turns an ordinary meal into a feast, an average relationship into a lifelong romance and an ordinary husband into your hero.

I used to be reluctant to thank my husband for anything because I thought that I was doing more anyway and it was unfair because he wasn't thanking me. I was also afraid he would stop doing the things I thanked him for and consider them optional, but I was wrong. Today I thank him for washing dishes, replacing light bulbs and working hard at his business. The more grateful I am for what he does, the more inspired he is to do things I appreciate, which makes me feel cherished and adored. The same will happen for you when you practice expressing gratitude.

Another bonus: You can't be grateful and resentful at the same time.

Skill #6: Strive to be Vulnerable

Intimacy and vulnerability are directly connected. If you want intimacy, then you'll need to take the risk of admitting that you're lonely, embarrassed or hurt. This is not the same as weakness; it actually requires great strength.

When you're vulnerable you don't care about being right, you're just open and trusting enough to say "I miss you" instead of "you never spend time with me." It means you simply say, "ouch!" when he's insensitive instead of retaliating. That vulnerability completely changes the way he responds to you.

Vulnerability is not only attractive, it's the only way to get to that incredible feeling of being loved just the way you are by someone who knows you well. There's nothing like the joy of intimacy that results from vulnerability. It really is worth dropping the burden of being an efficient, overscheduled superwoman to have it.

If your mother didn't teach you these six skills, maybe she didn't know them, but that doesn't mean you're doomed to have the same outcome in your relationship. An intimate, passionate, peaceful relationship is not a matter of luck-it's a matter of skill and good habits, just like maintaining those pearly whites.

For more detailed instructions on how to practice these intimacy skills, get the free 17-page ebook Six Lessons that Lead to Lifelong Love at lauradoyle.org.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-doyle/its-the-intimacy-stupid-6_b_2147499.html

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"Little Killing Ditty"

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Click the arrow on the audio player to?hear Christian Wiman read this poem. You can also download?the recording or?subscribe?to?Slate's Poetry Podcast on iTunes.???

I have forgotten the little killing ditty
whispered to the red birds and the blue birds and the brown birds
not one of which I ever thought to give a name.

In the tall mesquite mistaking our yard
for a spacious place, I plugged away with my pellet gun
and got them often even in the eye, for I was trained

to my craft by primordial boredom
and I suppose some generic, genetic rage
I seem to have learned to quell or kill.

They dropped like the stones I?d throw in Catclaw Creek
or fluttered spastically and panickedly up
whereupon I took more tenacious aim?

much more difficult now because they moved
?not me, frozen as if in a camera?s flash?
troubling the tyranny of the ordinary

as if a wave of meaning or unmeaning
went rippling like heat through the yard.
Fire and fire and they fell and they fall, hard.

I felt nothing, and I will not betray those days
if days are capable of being betrayed,
by pretending a pang in my larval heart

or even some starveling joy when Tuffy yelped.
I took aim at the things I could not name.
And the ditty helped.

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

11/12/2012 Monday!! Happy Veterans DAY Veterans. THANK YOU ...

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Dotcom Announces Brand New ?Lobbyist-Proof? Kiwi Domain for ...

Dotcom Announces Brand New ?Lobbyist-Proof? Kiwi Domain for Mega

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has confirmed that the new domain for his fresh Mega project will be New Zealand-based. Next January it will launch on Mega.co.nz, a domain that Dotcom believes will enjoy great protection. ?Prime Minister John Key can have as many dinners with Hollywood executives and copyright lobbyists as he likes,? he informs TorrentFreak. ?The simple fact is that the NZ government, which has been acting like a subsidiary of the US government, is not above the law.?

On November 1st, Kim Dotcom revealed the URL for his new venture. The new Mega file-hosting service would use Me.ga, a domain operated out of the African country, Gabon.

Obviously the domain itself, Me.ga, is extremely memorable and the fact that it would operate outside the United States was also a bonus. But quickly things started to go wrong. The Gabon government said they would seize the domain but not before a shadowy group called Ome.ga appeared to take control.

But moving forward with characteristic determination, today Dotcom announced that Mega will now rely on a domain controlled by a country he not only loves, but now calls home. On January 20, 2013, Mega will launch on Mega.co.nz.

Picking a Kiwi domain makes perfect sense and is something we discussed here internally last week. Dotcom?s popularity is riding high in New Zealand and as the entrepreneur informed us this morning, he has complete confidence in the legal system there.

?The judiciary in New Zealand works. Judges are independent and not influenced by politics. That has been our experience so far,? Dotcom told TorrentFreak.

The Megaupload founder believes the issues are simple to understand. The new Mega will operate completely legally and therefore the service will be protected under New Zealand law. Lobbyists, he says, can?t do anything about that.

?Prime Minister John Key can have as many dinners with Hollywood executives and copyright lobbyists as he likes. The simple fact is that the NZ government, which has been acting like a subsidiary of the US government, is not above the law,? he explains.

However, while Dotcom predicts reasonable behavior in New Zealand, the same cannot be said about the authorities in the former home of many of Megaupload?s servers.

?The US DOJ has shown total disregard for the laws that were created to protect Megaupload and its users. Our case demonstrates how little respect the US government has for its own laws and due process,? he notes.

Dotcom admits that things can be done, legislatively, to make life difficult for file-hosting services in New Zealand, but that would not only have a chilling effect on innovation, but could also spell good news for the opposition.

?The New Zealand government can try to draft new legislation to ban services like Mega but that would be the end of cloud storage and online service providers in New Zealand and probably also the end of the current government,? Dotcom explains.

?One thing is certain, the new Mega will become a commercial success. It will allow us to fund the best legal defense team money can buy and launch our offensive in all those countries that the US dragged into this nonsense. We will make the DOJ attorneys work day and night while our users can enjoy a truly innovative and ground breaking new Mega.?

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/dotcom-announces-brand-new-lobbyist-proof-kiwi-domain-for-mega-121112/

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Introducing Bad Astronomy and The Vault

Most of Slate is focused on the here and now?never more so than during a political campaign?but we?ve also learned that some of the very best (and most popular) stories we run are concerned with the long ago and the far away. That?s why I?m excited about two blogs launching on Slate this morning.

The first blog, Phil Plait?s Bad Astronomy, is new to Slate but already beloved by science junkies. Bad Astronomy, which has lived for the past four years at Discover Magazine, may be the best science blog on the planet. An astronomer, author, skeptic, and science evangelist, Plait writes mostly about astronomy and its wonders. He also blogs about science itself, defending it from the morons and villains who seek to attack, distort, and undermine it. And as you can see from today?s post, ?the marvelous cosmic train wreck of two galaxies colliding,? Bad Astronomy is visually stunning: Phil collects and highlights astonishing images from across the universe. Follow Bad Astronomy on Twitter here and on Facebook here.

We also launch The Vault today. In The Vault, historian Rebecca Onion will showcase objects and documents that jump out of the historical record and demand your attention, items that are beautiful, poignant, strange, or just funny: the letter a young Abraham Lincoln wrote attempting to take back his proposal to a Kentucky woman he wasn?t much fond of; a list of proposed (and rejected) names for the Space Shuttle; Benedict Arnold?s loyalty oath. Follow The Vault on Twitter here and on Facebook here.

Read them, comment on them, share them, and tell me how you like them at dplotz@slate.com.

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Cookbook Review: The I Love Trader Joe's Vegetarian Cookbook

You might think that ?The I Love Trader Joe?s Vegetarian Cookbook? is only meant for Trader Joe?s customers. And you might be right. Nearly every recipe uses ingredients unique to the grocery store chain such as Trader Joe?s Pumpkin Pie Spice.
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In fact, the catch line is ?150 Delicious and Healthy Recipes Using Foods from the World?s Greatest Grocery?Store.? It?s evident from the book that author, Kris Holechek Peters, is marketing to Trader Joe?s customers and/or hoping to inspire a new wave of consumers. Peters lays it on pretty thick in the introduction promoting Trader Joe?s as ?magical? with prices that can?t be beat because of a unique model where the company purchases products directly from producers rather than going through a distributor like many other retailers. Peters also explains that Trader Joe?s is a privately-held company and focuses on building relationships with local farms and bakers to bring business to the community.

I?ve been to Trader Joe?s before and, I have to admit, it is a bit magical. The prices really are great and the store has a fun community atmosphere.??And, the fact that Peters, a food blogger, wrote?a cookbook filled with vegetarian recipes using Trader Joe?s products shows just how beloved the?grocery store is by its community.??

But what about cookbook readers out there who don?t have access to a Trader Joe?s? Can this cookbook reach a broader audience? I flipped through the book with that mindset. I wanted to know whether I had to make a special trip to Trader Joe?s (across the city) to make these recipes or whether I could use products from my own grocery store down the street. Reading through a few recipes, it became obvious that most of these dishes are pretty adaptable. Peters may argue that TJ?s products and ingredients make these dishes extra delicious, and she may be right, but if Trader Joe?s hasn?t hit your neighborhood, you can still benefit from this book. Especially if you?re vegetarian and looking for some new eats that go beyond tofu and falafel. The Fancy Macaroni Bake calls for TJ?s Organic Tomatoes, TJ?s Italian Rigatoni, TJ?s Japanese-style Panko Bread Crumbs, and various TJ?s cheeses. All these ingredients can be found at any major grocery store and are likely interchangeable. Similarly, the Souper Easy Mushroom Soup calls for TJ?s Reduced-Sodium Soy Sauce, which is another item that?s widely available. However, the Almond-Pear Oatmeal Parfait and the Cinn-Agave PB Spread both call for TJ?s Organic Maple Agave Syrup Blend. I?ve never seen a Maple Agave Syrup Blend at my grocery store. For those of you with a TJ?s across the city, the promise of Maple Agave Syrup Blend may be all the motivation you need to make the trek. But, for those of you without a TJ?s in your area, I bet you could take maple and agave syrup from your local grocery store and make your own blend if you really want to try the Cinn-Agave PB Spread. And, who wouldn?t want to try something that?s basically a mixture of cinnamon, peanut butter and sugar? YUM! Reading through the cookbook, I was really impressed with the creative recipes Peters cooked up. Sure, some of the recipes are simple and scream ?shop at Trader Joe?s? because they just mix a few different jars of TJ?s products. For example, the Amazing Tuscan Baked Potatoes, which involves potatoes topped with TJ?s Tuscan Italian Dressing and Trader Giotto?s Bruschetta. But there are numerous recipes that are really intriguing like the Herbed Garlic Polenta Fries with Lemon Aioli, Leeky Onion Biscuit Bake, and Sweet Potato Colcannon. All sound different and delicious and contain ingredients that could easily be found in any grocery store. What I really like about this cookbook is the easy reading format. Every recipe contains a little explanatory blurb followed by a clearly-defined ingredients list and clearly-written instructions that even a novice cook could follow. Also, each recipe specifies whether?the dish is?vegan and/or gluten-free in addition to vegetarian. The book also contains a vegan version of every recipe. Some recipes?also include additional variations and cook?s notes, making them easily adaptable. Even though the cookbook contains solely vegetarian meals, I think the meals are diverse and hearty enough for meat lovers to enjoy. So, whether you are vegetarian or not, and whether you are a Trader Joe?s customer or not, I think this is the kind of cookbook that can be enjoyed by a wide audience. If you?re not convinced, the book contains a recipe for Amazing Everything Cookies which ?incorporate everything that is good and holy in the world: peanut butter, bananas, walnuts, and chocolate.? No one can argue with that!

Source: http://capitalcookingshow.blogspot.com/2012/11/cookbook-review-i-love-trader-joes.html

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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Barry University Leverages ShoreTel Mobility Technology for ...

Fixed-Mobile convergence solution improves faculty and staff productivity

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 9, 2012 ? ShoreTel^? (NASDAQ; SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple unified communications platforms, including business phone systems, applications and mobile UC solutions, today announced that?Barry University, a private Catholic university located outside of Miami, Fla., has extended its campus phone system using AT&T Dual-Mode Mobile Voice, which is based on ShoreTel Mobility.

The university installed AT&T Dual-Mode Mobile Voice (DMMV), a fixed-mobile convergence solution. Provided by AT&T and ShoreTel, DMMV works with Barry University?s existing Avaya IP PBX and the campus-wide Wi-Fi network. DMMV enables Wi-Fi calling by connecting these devices to the university?s Wi-Fi network, replacing per-minute cellular calling charges. Now with the ability to access calls by smartphone, faculty and staff can take advantage of the university?s PBX features such as conference calling, directory lookup and extension dialing, no matter where they are located.

Prior the deployment of ShoreTel Mobility technology, Barry University?s Information Technology staff often felt the need to use their personal mobile devices for work-related issues when out of the office, which many times meant that users needed to know two numbers for the staff person ? an office extension and cell phone. While Barry provides a stipend to cover a portion of these employees? cellular bills, long support calls over their cell phone had the potential of exceeding monthly minute allocations, thereby increasing costs for both employees and the enterprise. With the ShoreTel solution now in place, IT staff can maintain a single contact number, their published office extension, while simultaneously avoiding cellular telephony overages.

?Now students can call the extension and the support person will receive the call, regardless of where they are,? explained Hernan Londono, Associate Chief Information Officer, Barry University. ?It?s more convenient for everyone; students get through and staff can respond without rearranging their schedules. With DMMV, smartphones connect to the same Voice over IP (VoIP) network as our phone system, so our staff can provide support without having to worry about whether or not they?re over their cellular minutes.

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Source: http://www.commsolutions.com/blog/2012/11/barry-university-leverages-shoretel-mobility-technology-for-enriched-communication/

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Even yeast mothers sacrifice all for their babies

ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2012) ? A mother's willingness to sacrifice her own health and safety for the sake of her children is a common narrative across cultures -- and by no means unique to humans alone. Female polar bears starve, dolphin mothers stop sleeping and some spider moms give themselves as lunch for their crawly babies' first meal.

Now an unexpected discovery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) shows that even yeast "mothers" do it, giving all to their offspring -- even at the cost of their own lives.

As described this week in the journal Science, the UCSF scientists found that the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae ensures the health of its budding offspring by pushing essential internal structures known as mitochondria into them.

Mitochondria are the mini powerhouses of living cells, supplying the chemical energy all yeast and higher life forms need to survive. Like all cellular life, yeast need these structures to survive. In the new paper, the UCSF team describes how yeast cells ferry just the right amount of mitochondria along a network of protein tracks and molecular motors into the young yeastlings, which bud off their mother like mini-me's.

But what surprised the researchers, led by Wallace Marshall, PhD, UCSF associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics and UCSF postdoc Susanne Rafelski, PhD, was how yeast mothers continued to give generous amounts of their mitochondria to their offspring even when it meant hastening their own death.

"The mom will pump in as many as [the bud] needs," said Marshall. "The bud gets more and more as it grows, and mom doesn't get any more."

UCSF, which includes a top-ranked medical center providing patient care and many ongoing clinical studies, also is one of the world's leading institutions pursuing fundamental research in basic biomedical fields, including molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, biophysics and genetics -- work that offers insight into the ways normal cells function and what sometimes goes wrong in diseases such as cancer, AIDS, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's.

How Cells Divide

The classic picture of cell division -- a process known as mitosis -- is an even splitting whereby one cell gives birth to two identical copies. Scientists have always reasoned that during this classic division, the mitochondria were likewise evenly split -- the same way that both sides of a pepperoni pizza cut in two would have half the toppings.

But not all cells divide evenly. Human stem cells, for instance, often divide into two cells that look and behave very differently. Some cancer cells do this as well. There is a growing sense in the biomedical field, Marshall said, that understanding how a cell moves its mitochondria around during such uneven divisions may hold some of the clues to understanding aspects of stem cell or cancer biology.

Working with yeast, the UCSF team developed sophisticated microscope and computer techniques that allowed them to track the movement of mitochondria within cells. If these structures had divided randomly, they would expect to find fewer in the bud than in the mother (since the buds are smaller than the mother).

What they found instead was that the yeast mothers gave a consistent amount of mitochondria to their offspring at each generation, and so over time they had fewer and fewer of the organelles themselves. The price they paid to ensure their offspring was healthy was steep: The yeast mothers would eventually give away too many of the mitochondria to survive and begin to die off after 10 generations. By 20 generations, most of the mothers had died.

Mutant forms of yeast, which were much more stingy in giving up their mitochondria, lived much longer.

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Deal of the Day ? 13.3? Apple?s new MacBook Pro Retina display Core i5 notebook

Thursday’s LogicBUY Deal is Apple’s new?13.3″ MacBook Pro with Retina display (MD212LL/A) for?$1,614.95. ?Features: 2.5GHz Dual-core Core i5 8GB RAM 128GB SSD 2560 x 1600 resolution IPS display panel Intel HD 4000 graphics Two Thunderbolt ports Two USB 3.0 ports SDXC card slot HDMI MagSafe 2 power connector 0.75″ thick and weighs 3.57 pounds $1699 [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2012/11/08/deal-of-the-day-13-3-apples-new-macbook-pro-retina-display-core-i5-notebook/

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Military Working on 'Super Vision' for US Soldiers

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Con Edison says nor'easter may cause more power outages

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