Thank you so much to everyone who made a donation to Colony Cats via our GiveForward fundraising page. We met our goal and raised $1000 for this wonderful organization!
And the winner of the Urban Pet Haus Curve perches, chosen from everyone who made a donation, is Bridget Butch. Congratulations, Bridget!
Thank you again everyone for your generosity!
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Nigeria’s Kevin was the big winner of M-Net’s Big Brother Revolution. After evicting Nigerian Nkenna, Malawian Mzamo and Namibian Edward, Angola’s Emma and Nigeria’s Kevin were the final two housemates left in the REVOLUTION.
Kevin
After a tense wait while people around Africa cast their votes, IK announced the name heard round the continent – Kevin! After Emma left the house and Kevin had a few moments to let the news sink in, he emerged victorious and joined IK on stage to share his joy with Africa.
US rap superstar, Bow Wow, gave three knockout performances that wowed the crowd. The evicted housemates came back to perform in a special dance routine before watching their housemate get his prize. Kevin was the most popular housemate in the most countries, claiming 11 country votes (Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Rest of Africa) versus 2 for Emma (Angola & South Africa), 1 apiece for Edward (Namibia) and Mzamo (Malawi) while Nkenna couldn’t claim a victory in any of the
participating countries.
On the Big Brother Revolution website, Kevin states that he will use some of his winnings to start an entertainment empire. That would be great to see. For those who want to relive the moments on Big Brother Africa Revolution, visit their website.
Finally, some historic attention well-deserved and one that does not include violent school shoot-outs. The Smithsonian museum will be holding a video game exhibit in 2012 to be “the first to examine comprehensively the evolution of
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There’s lots of buzz going around concerning the news that an AT&T exec has admitted that to deal with the companies own inability to build out a strong cellular network (angering tons of iPhone users), that it’s planning to put in place caps and charge more to high-end users. Of course, this is pure bait and switch. The company sold people on an unlimited data plan, failed to invest in its network, and pushed high bandwidth apps on people. And, of course, it’s worth noting that while they now want to charge high bandwidth users more, they don’t say anything about the low bandwidth users. No one gets a discount. AT&T is making a ton of money off of the iPhone. It could have — and should have — invested more of that into network upgrades. Now it’s blaming its most loyal users — the same ones who it recommended high bandwidth apps to — and expecting that everyone will be happy with that? AT&T may discover that people start looking for other alternatives if they dump the unlimited data offering that they sold people.
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We’ve been anticipating the nook for about a month-and-a-half now, even since Barnes & Noble announced the nook back in October. Seeing a potential, real competitor to the Amazon Kindle sporting both an e-ink screen alongside a capacitive color LCD touchscreen just about made us drool. Oh, and it runs Google Android too, so, there’s that whole thing. Well, we’ve finally got the Barnes & Noble nook into our hands, and we’ve done some testing, some reading, and some playing, all in the spirit of letting you know how the nook stands on its own, and how it compares to the Amazon Kindle. We think we’ve done that, and we invite you to continue reading for the full Gear Live nook review.
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Sega does not waste any time. Literally a day after announcing (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/12/08/east-meets-west-yakuza-3-coming-in-2010/) that Yakuza 3 will be headed to the West in March 2010, the publisher has now announced that Yakuza 4 is coming to the
I can’t go more than a week without shooting baskets. There is something about the feel of the ball coming off my hand, and the sound of the ball going through the net. It just feels good.
If I’m just standing in the gym, I can shoot pretty well. Playing in a game. Well it’s not quite what it used to be. I used to have a spin move that would work for me no matter who I was playing against or what level they were at. If I could get a pick and the defender went under, I didn’t have to think about it, I could hit the shot. These days, my mind knows what to do, but my body just laughs at me. Put me up against 20 year olds, and I won’t embarrass myself but it’s only because I know how to set a pick and hit an open, a very wide open jumper, and spend the rest of the game getting out of the way.
I love to compete. I always have. Playing basketball was just something I had to do no matter how good I was and its something I will always do, no matter how old I get. It gives me a chance to blow off steam. It gives me a way to refocus.
But no matter how much I love to play the game or how involved and competitive I get during a Mavs game, it’s only a minor release. Real competition comes from the sport of business.
In sports, you know who your opponents are. You know when you are going to play a game. You know pretty much how long the game will last. It’s mentally and physically exhausting if you are at the top of the game, but it still pails at the effort required to be successful in business.
The sport of business isn’t divided into games. It’s not defined by practices. It doesn’t have set rules that everyone plays by.
The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It’s 7×24×365xforever.
I love the sport of business. I love the competition. I love the fire of it. It’s the feeling of the clock winding down, the ball is in your hands, and if you hit the shot you win…all day, every day.
Relaxing is for the other guy. I may be sitting in front of the TV, but I’m not watching it unless I think there is something I can learn from it. I’m thinking about things I can use in my business and the TV is just there.
I could take the time to read a fiction book, but I don’t. I would rather read websites, newspapers, magazines, looking for ideas and concepts that I can use. I spend time in bookstores because 1 idea from a book or magazine can make me money.
I’m not going to go to dinner with you just to chat. I’m not going to give you a call to see how you are. Unless you want to talk business. Other guys play fantasy sports. I fire the synapses to get an edge.
That’s what success is all about. It’s about the edge.
It’s not who you know. It’s not how much money you have. It’s very simple. It’s whether or not you have the edge and have the guts to use it.
The edge is getting so jazzed about what you do, you just spent 24 hours straight working on a project and you thought it was a couple hours.
The edge is knowing that you have to be the smartest guy in the room when you have your meeting and you are going to put in the effort to learn whatever you need to learn to get there.
The edge is knowing is knowing that when the 4 girlfriends you have had in the last couple years asked you which was more important, them or your business, you gave the right answer.
The edge is knowing that you can fail and learn from it, and just get back up and in the game.
The edge is knowing that people think your crazy, and they are right, but you don’t care what they think.
The edge is knowing how to blow off steam a couple times a week, just so you can refocus on business
The edge is knowing that you are getting to your goals and treating people right along the way because as good as you can be, you are so focused that you need regular people around you to balance you and help you.
The edge is being able to call out someone on a business issue because you know you have done your homework.
The edge is recognizing when you are wrong, and working harder to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
The edge is being able to drill down and identify issues and problems and solve them before anyone knows they are there.
The edge is knowing that while everyone else is talking about nonsense like the will to win, and how they know they can be successful, you are preparing yourself to compete so that you will be successful.
That’s what makes business such an amazing sport. Everyone plays it. Everyone talks about how good they are or will be at it. Just a small percentage are.
Every single day someone has an idea. Every day someone talks about some business they want to start. Every day someone is out there starting a business whose entire goal is to beat the hell out of yours. How cool is that.
Every day some stranger from any where in the world that you have never met is trying to come up with a way to put you out of business. To take everything you have worked your ass off for, and take it all away. If you are in a growing industry, there could be hundreds or thousands of strangers trying to figure out ways to put you out of business. How cool is that.
The ultimate competition. Would you like to play a game called Eat Your Lunch. We are going to face off. My ability to execute on an idea vs yours. My ability to subvert your business vs your ability to keep it going. My ability to create ways to remove any reason for your business to exist vs your ability to do the same to me. My ability to know what you are going to do, before you do it. Who gets there first? Best of all, this game doesn’t have a time limit. It’s forever. It never ends. It’s the ultimate competition.
It’s the sport of business. It’s not for everyone, but I love it.
I’m fortunate. I have done well enough financially that I don’t have to play 24×7×365. I can and have cut back to 18×7×365. Family first now.
But in those 18 hours, you can bet I’m competing, and loving it.
But that’s me. You have to figure out what works for you.
By now, you’ve probably heard that a team from MIT won the DARPA balloon challenge, whereby DARPA put 10 red balloons in the air around the country and wanted to see what people could do to find all 10 balloons. The rules were pretty loose, and the team at MIT took all of nine hours or so to locate all ten balloons, through an interesting “crowdsourcing” method. They basically quickly set themselves up as a clearinghouse of information, and made it easily shareable across different social networking platforms, and employed something of an affiliate program to encourage people to get their friends to sign up with the MIT team as well. If you signed up people who helped find the balloons, you got some of the prize money according to your friend network, and so on down through the social pyramid. The team claims that what was most important was the recursive nature of the pyramid, which gave people incentive to participate, even if they knew they couldn’t find the balloons.
While some other DARPA challenges, like the autonomous vehicle challenge (to get a totally driverless vehicle to drive a few hundred miles with no help), are cool but seem limited in terms of application outside of the core area it was built for, this one actually does seem to hold a lot of useful lessons that can be picked up on right away, and which can be applied across a lot of different business, policy, IT, public good and many other areas. Some of the key elements:
Now, a lot of these may sound obvious, but it’s often important to remind yourself of these basic concepts, and it’s impressive to see how well (and how fast) these worked in the case of the MIT balloon team. I could see these lessons being applied in a lot of other areas as well. There is a separate issue that the team hasn’t discussed yet, but promises to eventually: which is that it also had to deal with a number of bogus entries — including at least some from a competing team trying to throw the MIT team off the scent. Finding out how they got around such problems would also be quite interesting in terms of better managing these sorts of group efforts.
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Ingredients:
1 lb. beets, without tops (yields 2 cups sliced after roasting)
1 Tbsp. unsalted butter
2 Tbsp. fresh orange juice
1 1/2 Tbsp. orange zest, grated
1/4 cup water
1 Tbsp. fresh dill, chopped
Preheat oven to 400′
Line a small sheet pan with aluminum foil. To prepare the whole beets trim off the entire root end and trim the stem end leaving about 1/2" of stem. Rinse well in cool water and pat dry. Place whole beets on sheet pan and roast at least 50 to 60 minutes or until tender, depending on the size of your beets. When a knife is inserted and it comes out easily they are done. Cool enough to handle. When cooled peel off the outer skin and discard. It should come off with ease if the beets are tender enough. Thinly slice the beets.
Preheat a large saute pan on medium high heat. Add the butter, orange juice and zest. Add the beets and toss to coat. Pour in the water, stir the beets and let the water evaporate, about 2 minutes, and all the beets will be glazed with the orange butter. Add the fresh dill at the very last moment.
Nutrition Facts
4 – 1/2 Cup Servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 60.4
Total Fat 3.0 g
Saturated Fat 1.8 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.2 g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.9 g
Cholesterol 7.8 mg
Sodium 53.7 mg
Potassium 243.3 mg
Total Carbohydrate 7.9 g
Dietary Fiber 2.2 g
Sugars 5.3 g
Protein 1.2 g
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It is not just the tamperproof recording of process data that is an issue nowadays for users of recorders who want more than just the measurement curve, but also being able to implement online visualization of this data on a PC with as little effort as possible.Manufacturers of paperless recorders have recognized this trend and are providing more or less sophisticated solutions for displaying data online on a PC. As far as JUMO and the LOGOSCREEN paperless recorder series are concerned, “more or less sophisticated” means that the data of the LOGOSCREEN cf and LOGOSCREEN 500cf can be visualized in numeric form and the data of the LOGOSCREEN nt high-end device can be displayed with the full range of visualization. Process data are visualized on the PC online as numeric values, as measurement curves or within their own process displays. Unlike most comparable instruments, this version of LOGOSCREEN not only provides the usual “recorder display”, there is also the opportunity to visualize three customized HTML pages, that are saved in the device. New and particularly useful is a function that can be found under the term “Quad View” in the web server description. “Quad View” means that up to four different instruments or instrument groups can be visualized online on the screen at the same time. To demonstrate the possibilities of this new function, JUMO has set up a website, which can be used to retrieve current climate data – as recorded by four instruments in different JUMO subsidiaries. This site can be found at:
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A little more than a year ago, the Porsche tuning specialist at Ruf unveiled their first electric car, the 911-based eRuf. That first iteration was definitely not ready for production, but the crew at Ruf are not known for taking half measures. A few months after the eRuf was shown to the world, the second iteration with more power and lighter batteries appeared as the Greenster at the Geneva Motor Show. Ruf has said it plans to build that car in limited numbers.
The 911 is pretty small, and as a result, packaging enough batteries to get a useful range is not a trivial matter. The latest eRuf variant is the Stormster, a plug-in electric Cayenne, so finding room for the cells doesn’t figure to be as problematic. The Stormster is uses the same 270 kW Siemens motor that was in the Greenster along with Li-Tec lithium ion batteries. We don’t yet know how many examples they hope to build, where they hope to sell it, or how much it will cost. Critically, we also don’t know how far it will go on a charge. The note we got from Ruf does say it will be available in the standard Cayenne body or the special wide-body that Ruf produces, the “Stormster grün.” Either way, you can check it out in our high-res gallery below and analyze the press release after the jump.
Update: Ruf spokesman Marc Pfeifer let us know that the Stormster will start production late in 2010 and that the range is aproximately 120 miles per charge. Ruf has not set a price for it yet, but don’t count on this to compete with the Nissan Leaf at the low end.
Gallery: eRuf Stormster
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A month or so ago, a friend started sending me the Pomplamoose videos on YouTube, and now I keep seeing them. It’s basically two people — Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte — covering famous songs by playing and singing all the parts themselves, and them cutting them together into very well done videos that, in some cases, have millions of views. Quentin Hartman writes in to let us know of a WSJ blog post about the band, noting that despite having been contacted by a bunch of major labels, they’re leaning towards staying independent, noting that “We’re making a living off our album sales and we don’t even have a physical CD.” And, yes, this is even though you can watch all the band’s music for free, such as their covers of Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” or Michael Jackson’s “Beat It:
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Just about every publication has an award to give away this time of year, and Wards Automotive is no different. But instead of picking the best car, truck or SUV, the industry wiz kids at Wards go right for the power supply to rank the Ten Best Engines for 2010. Over the years the list has contained a nice mix of engines from the U.S., Europe and Asia, but never before has the Ten Best been this fuel efficient. The list comprises of two hybrids, two diesels, one supercharger and three turbocharged gasoline mills.
To be eligible for Wards‘ 10 Best Engines competition the vehicle must cost less than $54,000 and the engine must be available as a standard production option by Q1 2010. Among the ten winning engines are the new 1.8-liter hybrid powerplant from the Toyota Prius, the 2.5-liter hybrid powering the Ford Fusion, and the diesels from the BMW 335d and the 2.0-liter Jetta TDI. Audi joins the ranks with its excellent 2.0T and 3.0T (well, supercharged) mills, while Ford scored a hit with its Ecoboost 3.5-liter engine. The most powerful engine to make the 10 Best Engines list is Hyundai’s 4.6L Tau V8, which gains ten hp for 2010.
The 10 Best Engines awards will be presented at the 2010 North American International Auto Show in Detroit on January 13. Hit the jump to read Wards’ press release and check the gallery below for a tour of this year’s winners.
Gallery: Ward’s 10 Best Engines of 2010
[Source: Wards Automotive]
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The Lexus GX has always played second fiddle to the RX crossover, but what the body-on-frame ‘ute lacks in snob appeal, it makes up for with a rugged chassis and a top-notch interior.
It’s decidedly less sexy than other all-wheel drive rally machines, but one proud Civic Wagon owner created a video tribute to his bruised beater… and now we want one too.
Hennessey has been working overtime on its Venom GT — a ZR1-powered Elise that’s taking aim at the world’s supercar elite. But before the VGT makes its debut, we can an exclusive glimpse of the coupe under construction.
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