DrumBeat: September 25, 2008

Nigeria threatens to halt energy firms' LNG schemes ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria could suspend the liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects of foreign energy firms unless they submit a detailed plan by the end of October to supply gas for domestic power generation, the gas minister said [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 14:01:38

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China-India border skirmishes will flareup after Olympics

Forward bases in Daulatbeg in the Northwest and Tezpur in the Norhteast spell trouble for South Asia. Ney York, JUne 22nd, 2008, Rupee News: India has been unable to resolve any border dispute with any of her neighbors. She has had the unique distinction to have had war with all her neighbors over these disputes [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 01:16:04

Scope Of Collaborations And Joint Ventures In Indian Textile Machinery Industry

Technology is the key enabler for rapid growth of the textile engineering industry ... the dismantling of the control regime has been impacted adversely by the following factors: In the first place, foreign collaborators have sought management control before technology transfer could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:42:00

News organizations complain about access to Obama

The Times mentioned today a letter from Washington bureau chiefs of six leading news organizations to the Obama campaign, complaining about access and about being deceived by campaign aides. I've obtained a copy ... complain that Obama offers less access to the press even than President Bush, keeping even a single [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 13:54:00

Amazon Public Data Sets bring the Cloud of Data closer

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown It began, as so many things do these days, with an idle tweet. On 21 November, Amazon Web Services‘ Deepak Singh pointed to a new page describing the company’s ‘Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 15:32:08

DrumBeat: August 17, 2008

Peak oil is coming, and we're unready Has the world already reached peak oil, a time of permanently high oil prices and shortages that will profoundly change our way of life? The answer, I think, is likely yes, but the proximity of this catastrophe is not the most important [more...]

Date: 2008-08-17 13:50:02

Obama's New Appointments

Obama's New Appointments - by Stephen LendmanThe beat goes on. As with his economic and security appointments, Obama again disappointed but didn't surprise. Without exception, his team assures business as usual, a near-seamless transition from George Bush, and not "change to believe in [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 11:28:00

Loose Lips Daily: Fenty Bids Dubya Farewell

As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com ... , in part because of the Naval Academy’s proximity to D.C., which makes it difficult to determine how many [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 14:47:20

Research Oracle roundup for 05 January 2009

News CNinsure Inc.’s (NASDAQ:CISG) ADR achieved our target price on 02 January 2009. The increase in price reflects investor confidence following the company’s announcement that it expects to achieve at least 20% growth in 1H 09 coupled with general improvement in global financial markets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 18:26:58

Turn Your iPhone or iPod Touch Into a Multi-Room Wireless Music Remote [Music]

For a cool $1000, you can buy the Sonos Bundle 150 and wirelessly play music from a single remote control in two separate rooms in your house ... control music playback wirelessly in any room in your home. sonos-bundle.png The Sonos homepage ... you'll have instant access to your entire music collection.... When you're done here, any iPhone [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 16:00:00

Nokia 5800 Xpress Music - Review & Complete Product Specifications

Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Review Nokia 5800 Xpress Music is the latest cell phone offered by Nokia which is now available for online purchasing ... direct access to the phone’s myriad music and entertainment features. There are strong music features ... are three physical controls, Talk and End buttons and a menu control. There a dedicated power button [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 09:25:30

Automated Opposition: The Technocratic Undercurrent of Zeitgeist: Addendum

ConspiracyArchive - by Paul & Phillip D. Collins, Dec. 1st, 2008 Manufacturing Dissent  In his 1940 book The New World Order, H.G. Wells wrote: ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 20:53:04

Growing Healthy Food Requires Health Care

Growing Healthy Food Requires Health Care Submitted by Steph Larsen on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 17:48 ... in the comments going. Check it out. When we talk about local food, it means more than just proximity ... , local control, small-scale, environmental stewardship, community, and ecological diversity [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 23:48:39

US Power & Influence … Declining?

US Power & Influence … Declining? January 3rd, 2009 I really am unimpressed by what Silverleib reports. I’ll venture to explain why with  italic boldface comments. Bill Haynes ============== updated  Thu November 20, 2008 U.S. power, influence will decline in future, report says By Alan Silverleib CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 06:26:44

Who Assassinated Benzair Bhutto? The local connections–one promoted one killed

  THE BENAZIR ASSASSINATION: The Local Connection                                                                       by Moin Ansari                             Updated  July 23rd, 2008. This article will be updated periodically [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 04:04:42

FCC Tests Determine White Space Devices Can Operate Without Interference Problems

FCC Tests Determine White Space Devices Can Operate Without Interference Problems By Matt Kapko - Fri 10 Oct 2008 04: ... : GOOG) are just some of the companies that want unlicensed access to the vacant TV channels for high ... shows that an AWS-1 and AWS-3 device operating in close proximity does not necessarily result [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 02:46:23

Man Bites Dog: Dallas appeals court tosses drug conviction for lack of evidence

Recently I argued that a prime reason for wrongful convictions is that courts frequently don't require sufficient evidence to prove an offense beyond ... ruled, meaning that Whittaker was not in proximity to the cocaine and it was not accessible [more...]

Date: 2008-07-13 09:50:58

TiPb GRAND PRIX: Crash Bandicoot vs. Cro-Mag

[This is a GRAND PRIX App vs. App Review! Comment on this post for your chance to win... the winning racer! Make sure you leave a valid email address in the comment form -- it won't be made public, but it will be used to contact you if you win! Check out the full contest details, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 20:33:22

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2009 Edition": Stories first published during 2008, both online & offline publishers included.Rich Horton ( ... , of course, on whether the reader finds the question asked interesting. Sometimes I read because someone [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 18:00:00

PD 6500i WALK THROUGH METAL DETECTOR (Rent, Rents, Rental, Rentals)

PD 6500i WALK THROUGH CONCEALED WEAPONS DETECTOR (Rent, Rents, Rental, Rentals)Open 24/7/365!Enter Coupon Code: "Blogger" and save 5% ( ... " symbols on the entrance side of each panel.Overhead Control UnitLCD Display, alarm lights, LED bar ... with a non-resettable sequence code, which indicates [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 01:53:00

IMB Issues Piracy Warning to Vessels in Gulf of Aden; Entry to Oil Transit Chokepoint

Following a month that has seen seven vessels hijacked in the region, the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has issued a new piracy warning to all vessels sailing in the Gulf of Aden. The Gulf of Aden is connected to the Red Sea by the Strait of Bab el-Mandab, which is considered one of the strategic world oil transit chokepoints, [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 08:49:22

Bangkok Property Rental Process

The rental process in Thailand is much more straight forward than in many other countries such as Japan or Singapore if for no other reason than ... are: · Proximity to children’s school · Proximity to parents workplace · Proximity to lifestyle [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:56:42

Exclusive Interview with Florine Roche - Daijiworld Media Network

Mangalore: Quick Reaction Team to Counter Terrorism - IGP A M Prasad Exclusive Interview with Florine Roche - Daijiworld Media Network December 10, 2008The recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai have exposed the vulnerability of the country’s coastal region to such attacks. Mangalore being a coastal region with its underworld links and proximity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 01:58:00

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Announced at Nokia Remix Event

Nokia turned up the volume on its music offering today by unveiling the new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic ... s groundbreaking service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store ... 5800 XpressMusic introduces the ‘Media Bar’, a handy drop down menu that provides direct access [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 01:54:47

Chickens Come Home

America's secret wars reveals the reason behind recent so called unexpected terrorist assaults in Mubai and Pakistan ... proximity to the Islamic holy places in Saudi Arabia, has now become a war against radicalism [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 13:06:00

Commerce Before Community or Prim Perfectability

I'm going to argue just the opposite to this post, a guest post by, not surprisingly, high-profile massively.com technocommunist Tateru Nino ... technocommies -- that people are "forced" into proximity by evil meat-world geography and "hate [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 14:13:49

HTC MAX 4G for Russian WiMAX network announced

HTC have announced a partnership with Russian carrier Scartel to produce the world’s first integrated GSM/WiMAX handset, the HTC MAX 4G.  Seemingly using much of the hardware of the HTC Touch HD, it will use Scartel’s Yota WiMAX network as well as offer access to any Russian GSM carrier courtesy of an unlocked SIM slot; however [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 17:19:01

iPhone 3G: 2 Days and Counting Down to App Store!

This is it. We’re in the home stretch. Golden goal, all or nothing, and Steve Jobs kicking it high and to the side. In 2 days we find out if Apple gets the world cup, the two-peat for smartphone (even gadget) [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 11:55:16

Here’s The Scoop…LBTS …1/13/09…Agenda…

Here’s The Scoop…LBTS …1/13/09…Agenda… January 13, 2009 by Barbara 1/13/09 Regular Commission Agenda… OVERVIEW…. 4…Presentations… c. Lifesaving Award to Mark Mitchell (Mayor Minnet) Request to table… BC…it was tabled due to Mr. Mitchell being out of town…originally proposed by Comm [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 03:25:25

HTC Touch HD SlashGear Review: Part 2

In the first part of our HTC Touch HD review, we looked at the physical design, the display, the touchscreen, TouchFLO 3D, messaging and internet browsing.  Now, in the second part of our exclusive SlashGear review, we’ll look at GPS and media performance, camera ability and battery life, together with how the Touch HD performs as a cellphone [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 20:36:50

Hadoop Map/Reduce Implementation

In my previous post, I talk about the methodology of transforming a sequential algorithm into parallel ... is to co-ordinate the access of each thread to the shared data. We need things like semaphores, locks [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 01:41:46

Fair and Balanced

Some Chicago Jews say Obama is actually the ‘first Jewish president’ By Natasha Mozgovaya, ... , was one of the few who gained access to the president-elect after his speech in Chicago’s Grant Park last week. “ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 16:47:53

The Food Community Tropes

I've been a huge fan of TVTropes.org. The premise of the site is to catalog the various memes and tropes that one can find in ... simply because they do not have access (either through lack of resources or lack of proximity [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 15:39:26

Edward Vielmetti

Our 29th ambassador is Edward Vielmetti of Ann Arbor, Michigan, talking about access to the Internet in public places and the digital divide on his personal blog ... of this that I have an abiding interest in is access to the Internet in public places; the development [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 17:12:14

Sony VAIO LV all-in-one PC review

When first announced back in September, the Sony VAIO LV-series was described as a High-Definition PC/TV ... resolution; it supports software face tracking and has an integrated microphone. OS is one flavor [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 23:25:24

Deploy RFID Access Control System With RFID Key Fob To Cut Cost

Deploy RFID Access Control System With RFID Key Fob To Cut Cost DAILY RFID, a leading producer of RFID tags and RFID readers, ... ... RFID Tags From UPM Raflatac Streamline Ferry Traffic To Hailuoto IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2008 ... Tags Provide Excellent Reads For Sure-Reach... more... CribMaster Accu-Drawer RFID Drawer [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 04:34:06

A little to the left. To the right. Nope, to the left again…

While visiting my parents in North Carolina last week, Nate inexplicably came down with a rash one day ... control pills or little blue Mr. Happy pills. Can you imagine? He’d be permanently sterile and walking [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 07:00:57

Gas Natural's Ethical Engagement with Gazprom

Today's news that Spanish energy champion Gas Natural has signed an LNG deal with Gazprom for the Shtokman Field comes at a crucial time for the ... control of supply of natural gas from North Africa (where Spain gets 1/3 of their supply [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 20:40:35

Ford Makes Parallel Parking Easier for 2010 Lincoln MKT and MKS Owners

Ford has announced its new "active park assist" system that is optional on the 2010 Lincoln MKS sedan and the new Lincoln MKT crossover. With the touch of a button the Active Park Assist system uses an ultrasonic-based sensing system and Electric Power Assisted Steering (EPAS) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 06:09:36

The Two-Income Trap

There’s still a lot of life happening but it’s time to blog again ... , internet access, cell phone), those costs are mostly offset by reductions in things like dry cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 20:47:43

Top 10 Home Automation Projects [Lifehacker Top 10]

You've got a computer that backs up vital documents, launches applications at the tap of a key, ... up your computer automatically. Maybe you're an avid enough reader of this site to have gotten the religion [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 16:00:00

2009 Lexus GS 450h Overview

Lexus GS 450h Sport Sedan Remains the Only Hybrid in Its Segment The Lexus GS 450h enters its third model year as still the only hybrid-powered ... Control System with intelligence (ETCS-i) and a dual fuel-injection system that combines the benefits [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 18:08:57

EXOPSYCHOLOGY: Analysis of Possible Reactions to Demands for Disclosure, Part 1: A Pessimistic View

Analysis of Possible Reactions to Demands for Disclosure, Part 1: A Pessimistic View The second part of this analysis will present a different scenario than that presented here. A complete analysis requires that different possible antecedents and outcomes be described, and to that end, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 01:45:53

Rich Horton (Ed)'s "Unplugged: The Best of Online Fiction" (anthology): Annotated table of contents & review

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2009 Edition": Stories first published during 2008, both online & offline publishers included.Rich Horton ( ... links below only for stories that have free access. I haven't read many; might read a few & fill [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 18:00:00

Letter from Gaza

10 Tevet 5769Jan 6 2009As many of you know we live in Beit Shemesh in Israel. The city is about 45 kilometers from Gaza as the crow flies ... ) base outside of Be'er Sheva from where they control all the logistical aspects of the war. We were met [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:43:00

Afghanistan Daily News - January 1, 2009 HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

ISAF, ANA treat 835 Afghans in two-day MEDCAP KABUL, Afghanistan – ISAF and Afghan National Army (ANA) ... , ground troops Tactical air control party Airman Tech. Sgt. Harvey Wagenmaker (from left), an air liaison [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 18:17:10

RUSSIAN GENERAL ACCUSES ISRAEL OF ARMING GEORGIA MILITARY

Russian Deputy Chief of General Staff Col.-Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn Russian Deputy Chief of General Staff Col.-Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn accused Israel in a Moscow press conference on Tuesday of arming the Georgian military with mines, explosive charges, [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 16:48:42

Google Voice is Tipping Point, says Tim O'Reilly...

Luminary Tim O'Reilly asks if the Google VR search app on the iPhone is a potential tipping point for mobile web ... to the iPhone and its sensors. I don't believe that the gesture interface is habit changing, although I welcome [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 09:55:30

The PLoS Medicine Debate

The PLoS Medicine Debate discusses important but controversial issues in clinical practice, public health, or health in general ... : © 2008 Housri et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 12:20:36

MicroEngine Technology Sdn. Bhd

MicroEngine Technology Sdn. Bhd MicroEngine Technology Sdn. Bhd ... and designing Security Access Control System, such as AccessPortal Door Access Control System, Alarm Monitoring System, Proximity Card Car Park System, Visitor Management System, Human Resource Management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:10:43

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