Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/04/09/mtv-movie-awards-best-male-performance/
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
What's Next For The Best Male Performance Nominees?
Our look at the future of the 2013 MTV Movie Awards nominees continues with a glimpse into the future for the Best Male Performance category. These five leading men have a ton coming up, so here's our handy roundup. VOTE FOR BEST MALE PERFORMANCE NOW! Click past the jump to see what Ben Affleck, Bradley [...]
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On the other hand, pioneer smartphone vendor HTC is suffering. Profits for the last quarter hit a record low, dropping through the analyst estimates, after their latest phone launch went off at half cock. The HTC One was meant to launch in 80 markets and made it to the start-line in three.
Here?s the first low-cost BlackBerry OS 10 device, the R10 Curve. Meanwhile, Canada?s export promotion agency vendor-financed 500,000 BlackBerries for Telefonica.
A nice 40th anniversary early adopter story.
T-Mobile USA has joined the price disruptors, and it?s working - for the first time in four years, its ?branded? customer base - i.e. excluding wholesale - is growing. Overall, they added 587,000 customers in Q1, concentrated in prepaid and in wholesale.
You?ll also note that last week?s AT&T/Verizon x Vodafone merger story has been denied to death, although of course the tale of the Verizon Wireless shares runs on.
Italy may be heading down to 3 MNOs, after Telecom Italia and Hutchison 3 Italy confirmed they are planning to merge.
Bouygues Telecom is going to launch LTE on the 1st of October, once its 1800MHz refarming is complete.
TIM Brasil has gone with Nokia Siemens Networks to build a LTE network in time for the footy.
China Mobile and Vodafone are jointly bidding for a licence in Burma.
Etisalat, which is trying to buy Vivendi?s 53% stake in Maroc Telecom, has taken out a $8bn loan to pay for it.
Zain has put off floating its Iraqi operation until the second half of the year, while their boss is apparently ?keen? on moving into Libya. Maybe life is boring after they sold the old Celtel sub-Saharan businesses to Bharti Airtel.
And Idea Cellular gets a $710m tax bill.
BT CEO Ian Livingston complains about his competitors being ?copper luddites?, because they want regulated access charges for BT?s FTTC network.
He?s responding to Charles Dunstone of Carphone Warehouse?s remark that ?there is so much government money going into subsidising higher broadband speeds but no one really knows where it is going and how it is being spent? - of course, Dunstone knows very well where it is going, because it?s essentially all going to BT, strengthening its position as incumbent vis-a-vis the, er, ?copper luddites?.
The Daily Telegraph also runs an uncritical profile of Openreach CEO Liv Garfield.
Meanwhile, Google Fiber may be coming to Austin, Texas. Google also commissioned Benoit Felten to write a paper on net neutrality.
The UK?s emerging small cell industry is being bought up. PicoChip was snapped up by Mindspeed Technologies, Cisco grabbed a stake in ip.access, and now Ubiquisys is a Cisco division for ?205 million.
22% of the British use public WiFi at least weekly. We?ll be updating this Analyst?s Note on public WiFi very soon.
Indosat is looking to double its WLAN assets, in what it describes as ?WiFi offload?. We must have heard that one before?
Tests on UK 4G deployment suggest that TV interference isn?t a problem.
Twilio is now available with Google App Engine, and they?re giving away minutes for new GAE users. It just gets easier to deploy voice. They also took part in a hackathon sponsored by the FCC, which set a challenge to do something about robocalls. The upshot, basically a voice spam filter, is described here.
Simwood discusses Ofcom?s review of narrowband. The DEA doesn?t like Apple?s iMessage, as the encryption actually works. RevK has finished implementing the PABX functions in his Firebrick routers.
As well as fixing the problems with HTC One launch, HTC is pinning its hopes on a new product. Facebook announced its ?Facebook Home? this week. It?s not exactly a Facebook Phone, but rather a UI overlay for Android, but it will mostly be shipped with the HTC First phone on AT&T and Orange, so a lot of users will probably experience it as such. We?re covering this development in far more detail in a separate note, so watch this space.
Hulu is up for sale again, and the leading bidder for the TV networks? online TV network is a former News Corp executive, Peter Chernin, whose buyout vehicle is offering $500 million. As always with Hulu, and indeed media operations more generally, the key will be the terms on which it can get content from the rightsholders.
Dan Rayburn is scathing about the hype around Aereo, the company that wants to pick up broadcast TV and re-stream it on the Internet. We would go further. If Aereo is meant to compete with cable TV, it has a huge problem: the cablecos are very good at distributing online video, whether because they have more capacity for Internet streaming, or because they can just broadcast it via the traditional CATV channel. It makes no fundamental economic sense to take content from a more efficient distribution system and distribute it via a less efficient distribution system, unless something subsidises the distribution heavily.
Dan also thinks you should calm down about HEVC, the magic video codec that will solve all your problems according to its promoters. It?s still expensive and there?s no content, and those are the least of the problems.
What?s the online business model most likely to succeed? According to a leading VC investor, it appears to be selling something to people who will give you money for it, an option so radically new you can be certain nobody?s considered it before.
However, TenCent says it has no intention of charging for WeChat or QQ. But Nokia is charging the equivalent of 1.5p a month for Nokia Life, its emerging market SMS-based service, which just landed in Kenya.
Free Android apps are worryingly spammy.
After Google shuttered the Reader, Should Yahoo! jump in to save RSS as a format?
A group of Sun Microsystems veterans are working on a big data/cloud optimised storage module that integrates some processing into the storage. Understanding Google?s flit from WebKit. Firefox 20 update drops.
Ever wondered where all the patents are coming from? A study suggests the US Patent Office lowered its standards to keep up with the pace.
From the Internet of Things to the Web of Things: High Scalability notes an interesting dissertation on the future of M2M.
BBC Research introduces the Stagebox, a device that plugs into TV production equipment and puts it on the Internet, thus making an all-IP production environment possible.
Don?t miss UKNOF 25 in London on the 18th April, which has a truly impressive line-up.
Source: http://www.telco2.net/blog/2013/04/telco_20_news_review_135.html
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Phantom Flex4K camera unveiled, blasts through 1000 4K frames per second (video)
Vision Research just upped the 4k speed barrier by a near order of magnitude with the launch of its Phantom Flex4K cinema camera at NAB. Starting at $110k, it builds on its Phantom Flex predecessor with up to 1,000 fps in 5 second bursts at 4k, 2,000 fps in 2k and 3,000 fps at 720p resolution -- speeds that'll net you almost three minutes of 4k video when played back at 24 fps. The full 16:9 Super 35 sensor-equipped model can be had with PL, PV Canon EOS or Nikon F/G mounts and will capture RAW or compressed footage in an "industry-standard," but as yet unspecified format. The Flex4K will also be available with a Phantom Cinemag IV, which will hold up to 2TB of data, or nearly 2 hours of RAW 4k footage at normal recording speeds. Other features include a Bluetooth transmitter and handheld Phantom RCU for remote operation, 12+ stops of dynamic range, HD-SDI video output and a camera control interface and form factor that hews to industry norms, according to Vision Research. If you're still reading after seeing the six-figure price tag, check the videos or More Coverage link after the jump for more.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/08/phantom-flex4k-camera-unveiled-at-NAB/
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A Wolf Dog Hybrid, a Monster of a Pet |
A wolf dog hybrid is a canine that is, as its name suggests, part wolf and part dog. They are independent, magnificent creatures which some?experienced dog-folks keep as pets:
According to the article I read, many myths exist about wolf dog hybrids. Some say they are unable to be trained and vicious while some claim they are as tame as a?Golden Retriever. Some feel they live longer than other ?dogs? and are less prone to disease.
With regular dogs and wolf dog hybrids, there are a few similarities:
- In reality, a wolf in captivity has the same life expectancy as a large dog, from 12-14 years.
- Both dogs and wolves are susceptible to the same infectious diseases.
- Additionally, the efficacy of a standard dog vaccine given to wolves and hybrids may be questionable.
Wolf Dog Hybrids As Guard Dogs
As far as making excellent guard dogs, by nature wolves are shy animals, so generally are not effective in this capacity. If any aggressive tendencies are observed in wolf dog hybrids, those may be fear induced, which can make them hard to handle and unpredictable.
Do Wolf Dog Hybrids Make Good Pets?
So while they are extremely attractive canines (and made excellent guides for me during my time in the desert), do wolf dog hybrids make good pets for an average dog owner?
While many folks say they make excellent pets for those who are familiar with their special needs, but in general, my answer is ?absolutely not.? Since these canines are a cross between a wolf and a dog, they need special handling and training by a person dedicated to these animals.
With patience and consistency, even a dog that is hard to train can learn. But the wolf dog temperament tends toward dominance, and will constantly test his or her ?master.? ?In order to avoid constant battles, the owner must establish ?alpha? status to ?dominate? the hybrid.
That animal is humungous.
Source: http://themellowjihadi.com/2013/04/06/wolf/
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Why is the Mafia investing in renewable energy?
The renewable energy industry is apparently becoming a favorite playground for the underworld, Alic writes.?Lucrative government subsidies for the construction of wind farms and a fairly lax regulatory system have made renewable energy attractive to the Mafia.
A wind turbine erected in Le Carnet, western France. The uncomfortable truth for Italy is that its high-ranking status as an ambitious installer of renewable energy programs?particularly wind?has been achieved on a significant level in the underworld, Alic writes.
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EnlargeWhen the Italian authorities seized $1.7 billion in mafia-linked assets this week, many were surprised to see learn that the renewable energy industry is apparently becoming a favorite playground for the underworld.
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The?assets seized?included 43 wind and solar energy companies, along with 66 bank accounts linked to mafiosa Vito Nicastri?also now known as the ?Lord of the Wind?.
This came as a surprise only to those who haven?t been following the renewable energy industry in Europe closely. In?2010, Italian authorities froze Nicastri?s assets after an investigation turned up evidence that the Mafia was actually using renewable energy projects to launder money.
Nicastri, 57, is a colorful figure who has been linked to the ?godfather? of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia, Matteo Messino Denaro.?(Related article:?Italian Anti-Mafia Police Seize ?1.3 Billion from the King of Alternative Energy)?
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Global warming mystery: Are North and South really polar opposites?
Two studies, one about plants covering previously frozen landscapes in the Arctic, the other about expanding winter sea ice in Antarctica, appear to say different things about global warming.
A Greenpeace activist dressed as a polar bear floats on the Moskva River to protest oil drilling in the Arctic, in Moscow, Russia, April 1, 2013.
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EnlargeThe amount of land in the high Arctic covered by trees and upright shrubs could increase by up to 52 percent by midcentury, warming the region to levels climate scientists had previously not expected to see there until 2100.
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That's the take-home message from a new study that looks at statistical ties between climate and vegetation types to estimate how the Arctic's landscape could change with global warming. The impact of the vegetation changes on the region's climate not only would be felt at lower latitudes through changing atmospheric circulation patterns, researchers say. The changes also would affect the range and types of wildlife in the area and the livelihoods of the Inuit who rely on the wildlife for food.
The results are appearing just as a new study from the bottom of the world offers an explanation as to why warming in Antarctica might appear to some people to be on hold, given a 20-year trend of expansion in winter sea ice.
Taken together, the two studies highlight the ways in which human-triggered warming averaged over the entire planet can play out in unique ways in specific regions of the globe ? in this case, two regions that play a critical role in Earth's climate system as "sinks" for heat generated in tropics.
At the top of the world, warming at the surface has occurred at nearly twice the rate of warming as the world as a whole. Some studies indicate that the winter temperatures have been rising at least four times faster than the summer temperatures. This warming has brought trees and woody, upright shrubs to areas once dominated by tundra.
Previous studies of the impact of a greener Arctic on the region's climate indicated the trend would reinforce warming.
On the one hand, a green canopy could shade soils once the snow melts, keeping them cooler than they otherwise would be and slowing the release of CO2 from soils.?But a darker canopy also would capture and reradiate heat ? warming the air earlier in the spring and slowing the return of cold temperatures in the fall. In addition, during the growing season, trees give off water vapor, a potent greenhouse gas, through a process known as evapotranspiration. This also would tend to reinforce warming in the region.
Earlier studies had suggested that the factors that reinforce warming would win out, contributing 0.66 to 1.8 degrees Celsius (about 1.2 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit) to Arctic warming. But modelers had to make a best guess on how much additional land would be covered by trees and upright shrubs. They settled on an increase of about 20 percent by 2100.
A team led by Richard Pearson of the American Museum of Natural History in New York took a different approach. They used statistical tools to determine the climate conditions each of 10 broad vegetation types could tolerate. Then they used climate models to explore the range of conditions the models projected for the Arctic by 2050. The two sets of results allowed them to estimate the new ranges for the vegetation types. Some, such as trees and upright shrubs migrated north. Other types, in coastal regions with nowhere farther north to go, vanished.
The approach has been used for other regions, notes Scott Goetz, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Institute in Woods Hole, Mass., and a member of the team performing the study. But, he adds, its the first time anyone has applied the technique to the Arctic.
Overall, the team found that if climate-induced shifts in plant types were patchy, the changes would affect 48 to 69 percent of the Arctic regions they studied above 60 degrees north latitude. Those regions spanned northern Russia, northern Alaska, and northern Canada.
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