Across the country and here in San Francisco’s food community, people are stepping forward to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti. Restaurants, organizations and individuals are all doing their part, including a huge bake sale that will take place in three Bay Area locations next Saturday. Read on for more details and use the comment section to list efforts in your area. A bake sale can change the world!
Google still dominates the search market in in the U.S., while Bing, Yahoo and Ask lost a small slice of the market in December. According to the latest data from Hitwise, Google’s market share continues to hover around 72%. Yahoo now owns 14.83% of the search market and Bing accounted for 8.92% of all U.S. searches. Hitwise also looked at the success rates for the top search engines. Hitwise defines this as “the percentage of executed searches that result in a visit to a site other than a main search domain.” Here, Bing used to trail Yahoo and Google by a significant margin, but is now on par with Google.
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Bing’s success rate is now over 75%, while Yahoo Search still leads among the top search engines with a 79% success rate. As Hitwise’s Bill Tancer points out, though, it is important to note that portal search engines generally see simpler queries and more of these queries are navigational or brand queries. Inevitably, these searches tend to have a higher success rate, and while only 9% of the top 100 search terms on Google are brand or navigational searches, these types of searches account for 15.1% of all searches on Yahoo Search and 16.5% of all searches on Bing.
It is important to remember that Microsoft’s strategy with Bing, however, is to give users more info on the site so that searchers don’t even have to leave Bing.com. Because of this, the Bing team probably wants to keep the success rate rather low. It would be interesting to see how many of the searches on Bing that Hitwise would qualify as unsuccessful were actually due to the fact that the user got the answer to a query right on the site.
“A positive attitude”
A positive attitude increases our happiness, energy, and vitality. Attitude is everything! When we have a positive attitude we see things that are good in our lives, we feel grateful for what we have, and we are in a good mood.
How do you destress yourself with a positive attitude? Or better yet, how does a positive attitude increase our happiness, energy, and vitality? When we think positive, we think of the good things in our life, and that makes us feel good. When we feel good, we are happy, we have energy, and we have vitality.
Yes, our attitude can increase or decrease our happiness, energy, and vitality.
But you already knew that!
We have control over our attitude because we have control over our thoughts. Although, this is not something they teach us as we grow up. When I say, “they” I mean our parents and our teachers. Teachers meaning, school teachers, our friends, and our mentors.
I would jump for joy if we implemented, in our school system, how we can have control over our thoughts. We are the only thinkers of our thoughts, and learning to think what we want to is a habit that can be formed.
Just as the habit of our minds being on autopilot has been learned over 20, 30, 40, or more years (depending how old you are).
For many, many years, I have been teaching stress management and I meet a lot of people that believe they have a positive attitude. After working with many of these individuals, they discover that they may not be as positive as they think.
Finding out how positive we are, or are not, is very important to managing our stress. People with a positive attitude have less stress and people with a negative attitude have higher levels of stress.
How do you know if you have a positive attitude?
Let me ask you some questions to help you determine if you do.
1. Do you wake up grateful for your life and another day or do you wake up dreading the day and what you have to do?
2. Are you grateful for what you have, all day or do you complain and discuss what could be better in your life?
3. Do you express daily to the people you love, how grateful you are for them or do you forget?
4. Do you believe you can accomplish your goals or do you have doubt in having a better life than you have now?
5. Do you think of what you want and focus forward or do you do the same ole thing over and over again everyday?
6. Do you enjoy your work or do you have discontent for your job/career?
7. Do you enjoy the people you are with or do you get irritated by something or someone else?
8. Do you enjoy the places that you are at or do you have your mind on something or someone else?
9. Do you have faith in yourself that you can make more money or do you fear that life will always be “this way”?
10. Do you think of the things that are great in your life or do you wish that things could be better?
11. Do you look for opportunities in your obstacles or do you label things as “this is bad”?
12. Do you believe that life is working for you and your good or do you believe you have bad luck?
13. Do you have fun and are you playful or are you serious all the time?
The first part of the question indicates a positive attitude and the second part of the question indicates a negative attitude.
I am going to be brave and say, if you pick even one or two, of the second part of the question, chances are, you are more negative than you think.
Ayayaye!
That was brave.
If you disagree, bring it! Bring it to the comments below.
If you would like to learn how to destress yourself with a positive attitude, check out our Destress Your Attitude audio mp3.
I hope and pray that this is helpful…
Until next post, don’t forget to have fun and be playful!
Thought that the N900 software update would be released earlier in the week would be the only one? Think again.
In the second release this week, Nokia included full support for Swiss keyboard layouts, improved compatibility with 3-branded SIM cards, tweaks to Ovi Maps, and support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. The software update will be available over-the-air and via PC over the next day or so, so be sure to keep an eye out for it. Two updates, Ovi Store enabled – all necessary improvements to make the N900 functional on the consumer end.
I think the Nokia N900 and Maemo both hold a great deal of potential, but they need to work out a few kinks before it hits the marketplace. With these little tweaks, could the N900 be inching towards a potential carrier release (T-Mobile)? Hit the comments section with your thoughts.
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Alfa Romeo dedicated tuner Autodelta has announced that it will unveil the world’s first modified Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione at this week’s Birmingham Performance Car Show.
The 4.7 liter V8 engine powering the automotive masterpiece will apparently have a slightly increased output, through a new engine management software. The engine develops 444 HP in its factory-stock incarnation and Autodelta promises to offer 17 more. Technical refinements for the car’s chassis and suspension have also be… (read more)
01 Rua Gustavo Sampaio, uma das ruas centrais do bairro.
02 Reparem que há muita semelhança com a vizinha Copacabana, só que o Leme é muito mais tranqüilo.
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Esperam que tenham curtido o bairro :okay:
ION Audio is adding a few new products to their line allowing iPhone users to use their mobile device for various tasks and entertainment purposes. One of their devices is the iDiscover keyboard which works for both iphone and ipod touch. With certain applications you can use the 25 key piano to play and create music. Another device is the iType which gives users a full qwerty keyboard for various tasks such as internet, composing emails, composing notes, and more. The DJ Dock, which is probably the most impressive of the three, turns your iphone into a working mixing studio. It gives you the ability to play like a DJ by utilizing scratch effects and other sound modifications to the songs you’re playing. Visit ION Audio for more information on these products.
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So there you are, on your way home after purchasing the brand new smart phone you’ve been wanting for weeks. You’re reading the specs on the side; “Supports microSD cards up to 32 Gigabytes”, it boasts. “32 Gigabytes? That’s like a million!” you think to yourself as you pull up your handset’s browser. You hop on the Googlenets with your heart set on snapping up one of these 32GB cards to call your own. You check Amazon, Tiger Direct, New Egg.. and.. there’s nothing.
We’ve been hearing about these 32GB cards for months now, but no one (at least as far as I know, and I’ve looked pretty hard) has managed to get them to productions. That’s all about to change next month, thanks to good ol’ Samsung.
They’re not releasing any pricing info just yet, but Samsung is claiming that the mass production of their 32GB microSD line is all set to start in February. Sample units are already floating about for compatibility/quality testing sake.
Also worth noting, Samsung has also disclosed that they’ve been building 64GB moviNAND chips (in other words, ultra-slim, low-power 64 gigabyte drives that can be built into mobile devices by the manufacturer) since December 2009. If there’s an Omnia III anywhere on Samsung’s horizon, you can be pretty dang sure it’s going to pack a whopping 64 gigs inside.
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A report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts that U.S. unemployment won’t break below 8% until some time during 2012.
The main reason is that they don’t expect the steep V-shaped recovery characteristic of normal recessions. Yes the economy is recovering, but it will take years before things are normal again.
CBO: Deep recessions can be followed by steep recoveries, driven by firms’ decisions to stop liquidating inventories and to replace capital equipment when demand stops fall- ing. However, several factors suggest that this recovery will be weaker than usual: Fiscal and monetary policy will not be providing the same boost to economic growth that they often have during the early stages of recoveries; financial and housing markets remain fragile; and con- sumers may want to rebuild their savings after large losses in stock and housing wealth. In addition, improvements in employment will probably lag well behind growth in demand and production, in part because that growth is expected to be slow.
Furthermore, by their forecasts shown in the chart above (which is the latest January 2010 published chart despite the August label), unemployment won’t hit ‘normal’ levels until as late as 2014.
While unemployment rates represent a blend of many people gaining and losing jobs over time, it’s thus not inconceivable that some Americans could remain unemployed for the full four-year stretch of high unemployment shown above. Which would be disastrous to their financial future.
The CBO’s argument thus follows that more, and smart, stimulus will be needed. We’d say an across-the-board cut to U.S. tax rates might be a good start.
Even without any additional policy action, market forces—acting in concert with monetary and fiscal policy actions that have already been taken but whose effects have not yet been fully felt—would bring the economy back to potential output and full use of resources in several years.
In the meantime, however, many workers would remain or would become unemployed, and much capacity of equipment and buildings would be unused. Idle workers and factories represent a waste of the econ- omy’s ability to produce goods and services, and that pro- duction cannot be made up later. Additional policy actions, if well designed, could hasten the economy’s recovery and reduce the loss of output and raise employ- ment during the next few years.
However, designing an effective policy is challenging, and policies that provide economic benefits during the next few years may impose economic costs over the longer run.
Read the CBO’s full January report here >
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The tiny emirate is the global capital of the future.
The opening last week of the world’s tallest building, the half-mile-high Burj Dubai, has largely been greeted with guffaws and groans. The Daily Telegraph labeled it "the new pinnacle of vanity"–"a purposeless monument to the subprime era." The Wall Street Journal compared it to the Tower of Babel. (When the Empire State Building was completed in 1931, in the throes of the greatest financial crisis of the 20th century, it was met with similar jeers. The then-tallest building in the world was called the Empty State Building, and it remained vacant for several years.)
Yet the Burj’s completion–indeed the whole wild enterprise known as Dubai–could signal a potential opportunity to the global community: turning the place into the headquarters for that other misguided ship, the United Nations.
Let’s spell out the logic. The United Nations is a pain in the butt. It pays no taxes and annoys hard-working New Yorkers with its sloth, pretensions and cavalier disregard for traffic laws. The place is a sinkhole dominated by anti-American, anti-Semitic and authoritarian fantasies. It is far from the elegant crown jewel that celebrated the U.S.’s global ascendancy after the Second World War.
Today the U.N. building is a mostly empty shell–water dripping through its roof, asbestos lining its ceiling and an erratic heating and cooling system have forced most UN workers to new facilities. The building is in the midst of a $1.87 billion overhaul–of which the U.S., which could use the cash for myriad other things, would be on the hook for $437 million.
And the U.N. may be leaving anyway. A relocation committee has recommended that the organization move temporarily to Singapore by 2015. It will be hard to vacate Asia again for New York, which is far away from the bulk of the world’s largest population centers.
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Singapore might make a fine world capital, since it does work like a fine watch. But it’s already crowded, expensive and highly regulated. You have to wonder if hard-working, rational Singaporeans would want to drive up costs and lose their ability to run things as they see fit to accommodate the U.N. bureaucracy.
In contrast, the al-Maktoum family has transformed a once vast, empty landscape into a Star Wars-like capital city of the future. There is no skyline more arresting than the one built over the past 15 years by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Absolute Ruler of the tiny Emirate. In just 500 square miles, about half the size of Orange County, Calif., the sheikh has created a monument to modern architectural engineering.
Sheikh Mohammed could offer to build a United Nations City to house the U.N. in any number of vacant office towers. Business Bay has 65 million square feet of office space under construction in more than 200 high-rises. Dubai already has thousands of newly constructed apartments that await the international delegates. More than 2 billion people in Africa, Europe and Asia are within a six-hour flight from Dubai. Travel connections through the world’s largest airport would be a breeze. Dubai has 55 five-star hotels to accommodate every regal and royal delegation, as well as the Harvard Medical School Dubai Center, a $1,400,000,000 facility branded with the Harvard crest, just in case one of the U.N.’s elite workers breaks a gasket.
Questions of taste and timing aside, you have to admire the sheikh’s chutzpah. The al-Maktoums, descendants of the Bani Yas clan, have ruled Dubai since 1833, first under the protection of the British. The United Arab Emirates was founded in 1971 with big brother Abu Dhabi, the emirate with 96% of the confederation’s oil reserves.
Like New York, Dubai aimed first to be a capital of capital. Recognizing that oil revenues at $70 a barrel brought immense cash flow to the Persian Gulf, Sheikh Mohammed set out to create a setting where Arab pride and excess oil revenues could be comfortably parked. His boldness caught the attention of the world financial community and soon the tiny emirate employed more construction cranes than any site on Earth.
For now flying so close to the sun has resulted in a painful and somewhat humiliating fall. With the financial market collapse of 2008 to 2009 international buyers disappeared and property values plummeted. Half of the $300 billion in construction projects screeched to a halt. The Dubai government, with $80 billion to $100 billion of debt, was in trouble, and Dubai World, its investment arm, announced suspension of interest payments on its loans. Enter Abu Dhabi. The neighboring emirate wrote kid brother Dubai a check for $25 billion. What does $25 billion get you in 2010? On Jan. 4, at the grand opening of the Burj Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed announced that the tower would forever be known as Burj Khalifa, named after the Emir of Abu Dhabi.
Let’s look a bit longer term. Right now there’s 33.6 million square feet of mostly state-of-the-art office space in Dubai. More than 8 million square feet is vacant with millions more in the pipeline. There’s a great airport–as opposed to that aerial dumpster, JFK–that is hours closer to the emerging economic powers of the new century, notably the oil states, India and China. The workforce is skilled and open to foreigners, since the vast majority are foreigners. In Dubai 83% of the 2.2 million residents are from somewhere else. Talk about cosmopolitan.
But how about New York? "Moving the U.N. to Dubai would be a boon for New Yorkers who have to put up with traffic jams created by the likes of Colonel Qaddafi, scofflaws protected by diplomatic immunity and the loss of real estate revenue they would gain if the U.N. building were turned into something far more useful–condos with a view," suggests urban historian Fred Siegel, a visiting professor at Saint Francis College in Brooklyn and a fellow at New York’s Manhattan Institute.
Liberating New York from the United Nations, in fact, would open up some of the best situated real estate in the world. A treasure trove of great apartments and offices right along the East River would suddenly become available, bringing a potential revenue windfall to New York City, which could use it. None of this would threaten the city’s—or the country’s–economic and political status. That grows out of economic and military power, which the U.N. does little or nothing to augment.
What would Dubai get? It’s an ideal opportunity to refurbish its tarnished image on the world stage in a way that plays to its infrastructural and geographical advantages. The Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean are increasingly the focal point of the world economic and political systems. Some of the biggest challenges facing the U.N. are concentrated in the south in Somalia and Yemen, to the west in Israel and Palestine, and to nearby Iran and Pakistan. Dubai would have to reconcile itself to a permanent Israeli presence, but that may not be as difficult as many think. Jews, and even Israelis, do business today in Dubai with perhaps less worry about running into manifestations of anti-Semitism than in London or Paris.
Bringing the United Nations to Dubai makes sense. New York gets rid of one of its worst welfare cheats, and Dubai finds new tenants to fill its vacant towers. Dubai has already built something that looks the part of a 21st-century world capital. Let it get a cast appropriate for its glittering set.
Joel Kotkin is a distinguished presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University. He is also an adjunct fellow at the Legatum Institute in London and serves as executive editor of newgeography.com. He writes the weekly New Geographer column for Forbes. His next book, The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, will be published by Penguin in February 2010. Coauthor Robert J. Cristiano Ph.D. is a successful real estate developer and the Real Estate Professional in Residence at Chapman University in Orange, Calif.
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Apple has indirectly confirmed the existence of their rumored Tablet after Valleywag started a scavenger hunt for evidence, offering up to $100,000 for photos, videos, or a chance to play with it.
The proof, while arguably thin, was enough to win the letter’s author a consolation prize: zune passes and a DVD of Legally Blonde 2. Congrats!
Sure, it could be a note protesting the scavenger hunt in principle, speaking to any and all confidential knowledge of any unreleased Apple product, but this scavenger hunt is purely for Tablet evidence. And, do companies send C&Ds for non existent devices? Not in our experience.
Here’s what their lawyers sent:
While Apple values and appreciates vibrant public commentary about its products, we believe you and your company have crossed the line by offering a bounty for the theft of Apple’s trade secrets. Such an offer is illegal and Apple insists that you immediately discontinue the Scavenger Hunt.
[…]The information you are willing to pay for, such as photos of a yet-to-be released product, constitutes Apple trade secrets.
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Apple has maintained the types of information and things you are soliciting—”how it’ll work, its size, the name, the software,” as well as any possible details about the product’s appearance, features, and physical samples—in strict confidence.”
Those are the words of Michael Spillner, from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, representing their client, Apple Inc. The letter arrived today to Gawker Media’s headquarters in New York. Their final line was quite menacing:
Oh well, you have to do what you have to do: The offer still stands.
Just don’t do anything illegal to get any of the evidence, and use an anonymous mail when sending your picts or video to Gabriel at Gawker. [Gawker]
Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama has some good news for fans awating the game’s international release. On the game’s official website, Toriyama announced that the game’s overseas version is now complete, along with a short apology
We’re only into the second week of the year, but already we’ve seen thousands of gadgets and gizmos announced, thanks to CES. But what to splurge on? Hopefully our choices this year will help you out in your buying quandaries.
2010 promises to be a big year for launches, with 3DTV, tablets and ereaders expected to be stocked on Walmart’s shelves faster than yesterday’s old CRTs are thrown onto the street. After scratching our heads this week, we think we’ve all worked out exactly what we’re going to be spending our hard earned notes on this year—but we’re very interested in what you’re going to buy, too. Let us know if you’ve got similar taste to us, or want something different from the gadget fairy this year.
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An Oxfam staff member was killed when part of Oxfam’s office crumbled in the devastating quake that hit Haiti on Tuesday.
Amedee Marescot was a business manager for Oxfam in the country and is survived by his wife and three children who are based in the United States.
Amedee was Haitian and had worked for Oxfam for 13 years. He was injured as part of the Oxfam office collapsed and died later in the hospital.
Penny Lawrence, Oxfam’s International Director said:
“We are all deeply shocked and saddened by the loss of Amedee and we all send our sincere condolences to his family. He was a dedicated and passionate member of staff and will be greatly missed by his colleagues. These are dark days for the people who live and also work to help the poor communities of Haiti.”
The rest of the 100-strong team are safe. However many staff have been severely affected by the earthquake, losing their homes and in some cases members of their family as the result of the disaster.
Oxfam’s 15 emergency specialists in the country are preparing to respond with the provision of water and sanitation. A six-strong team of Oxfam emergency specialists has been dispatched from the UK, USA and Mexico today and the charity is preparing to send additional stocks from its Bicester warehouse in Oxfordshire and humanitarian equipment from Panama.
Lawrence continued: “The staff in Haiti are extremely experienced in dealing with emergency situations and dealt with the aftermath of the hurricanes that struck Haiti two years ago. Amedee would have wanted to have seen us keep going and get aid to the survivors. In his memory, we are doing exactly that.”
The Disasters Emergency Committee – a group of the 13 leading UK aid agencies including Oxfam – launched a joint appeal for funds from the UK public today. The public can donate to the DEC Haiti Earthquake Appeal by calling 0370 60 60 900 or visiting the website http://www.dec.org.uk/
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The Ounce of Prevention Fund applauds Gov. Quinn’s recognition that investing in the education of Illinois’s young citizens is essential to creating a better future and stronger economy.
Gov. Quinn included early childhood investments as part of his vision for a stronger Illinois in today’s State of the State Address.
“The best way to invest in Illinois’s future is to fully fund the public education system, starting with early learning programs that begin at birth,” said Diana Rauner, executive director of the Ounce of Prevention Fund, an early childhood advocacy organization.
“We can’t afford not to make these investments. Every dollar spent on high-quality early childhood programs for disadvantaged children creates $7 to $9 in future savings.”
The Ounce is calling on the state’s elected officials to protect and grow funding for the Early Childhood Block Grant, which funds Preschool for All and infant-toddler development programs.
The Ounce is also asking for increased funding for voluntary home visiting programs, which offer parenting education to low-income parents of young children.
Research has shown that at-risk children with quality early-learning opportunities are less likely to need special education and more likely to graduate from high school, earn more money and contribute more tax dollars.
Illinois’s standing as a national model of early childhood systems has been threatened because of last year’s 10 percent budget cut. And now the state owes programs millions of dollars in delayed grant payments.
“An avalanche of IOUs is threatening many early childhood programs in Illinois,” Rauner said.
“Programs are struggling to pay teachers and some have closed their doors. Disadvantaged young children are at risk of losing the very programs that will prepare them to be successful in school and in life.”
Ounce of Prevention Fund
The Ounce of Prevention Fund gives children in poverty the best chance for success in school and in life by advocating for and providing the highest quality care and education from birth to age five.
Educare, the Ounce’s birth-to-five school on Chicago’s South Side, has become a national model for narrowing the academic achievement gap for low-income children.
The Ounce also advocates for programs and policies that benefit young children and families; provides training to early childhood professionals in Illinois; and engages in rigorous research and evaluation projects that contribute to best practices throughout the early childhood field.
Learn more at ounceofprevention.org.
Oh, Verizon. Will you ever stop breaking our hearts? First it’s a $350 ETF for smartphone cancellation, and now you’ve gone and upped the ante even further for FiOS customers.
Starting this Sunday, the cost of canceling your two-year FiOS contract will jump from $179 to $360. Why? Because they’re jerkfaces. Even worse is that if you have to cancel because you’re moving to a part of the country without FiOS service, you’re still on the hook for the full amount. Oh, and there’s no grace period. So at least Verizon’s also totally without compassion.
Here’s hoping the FCC gets involved again, although who knows how long that process might take. In the meantime, sign up for FiOS today if you were even thinking about it. Or better yet, run like hell in the opposite direction. [Consumerist]
Red Alert Day will have Joe Talamo as his rider and is trained by Neil Drysdale. Race 7 is an Allowance event scheduled for 1 mile on the Santa Anita Turf course. Red Alert Day is coming off a nice victory over this turf course back on New Years Eve posting a nice 94 Beyer figure. This gelding has improved with three straight in the money finishes over his past three races with a Beyer figure of 92 or better. He is a perfect 2 for 2 over the Santa Anita Turf course. Trainer Neil Drysdale has three wins in his six mounts at the current meet.
Play #3 Red Alert Day to win race 7 at Santa Anita 7-2 on the Morning Line.
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