David Letterman will drop in for a sit down with Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa on the April 30 edition of Live with Regis and Kelly. This will be the late night comic’s first visit to Live! since Reg returned to the air after heart surgery in April 2007.
A formal ceremony honoring a family that includes eight University of Colorado at Colorado Springs alumni and donated $1 million to a new campus events center is scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday on the campus of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
Top University of Colorado officials, including members of the CU Board of Regents, will attend the ceremony at the Gallogly Events Center along with campus faculty, staff, students and alumni. The event will formally dedicate the events center in memory of Tommy M. Gallogly who earned two degrees at UCCS as a non-traditional student and later taught in Academy District 20. Seven of the ten children born to Tommy and Margery Gallogly graduated from UCCS.
“This is an outstanding Colorado Springs and UCCS story of success,” Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak said. “We will honor the memory of Tommy Gallogly and the legacy that his children and grandchildren continue.”
In January, James L. “Jim” Gallogly, a 1974 graduate, and his wife, Janet, on behalf of the Gallogly family, announced a $1 million donation to the CU Foundation. They requested the university name the events center in honor of Jim Gallogly’s father, Tommy, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from UCCS in 1970 and 1973.
It is the first full UCCS building named in honor of a campus alum.
Tommy Gallogly died in 2000. Seven children of Tommy and Margery Gallogly earned degrees from UCCS and all ten children graduated from college. More than 47 family representatives, including Margery Gallogly, Buena Vista, are expected to attend the Wednesday ceremony and will assist in the unveiling of the Gallogly Events Center nameplate and a plaque that tells Tommy Gallogly’s personal story.
“We are pleased to name the new event center in honor of our father, Tom Gallogly, one of the early graduates of UCCS. He would be extremely proud of how his alma mater has grown and prospered through the years,” stated Jim Gallogly.
Jim Gallogly is the chief executive officer of LyondellBasell in Houston, one of the world’s largest polymers, petrochemicals and refining companies. He previously held executive positions with ConocoPhillips, ChevronPhillips and Phillips Petroleum dating to 1980. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from UCCS in 1974 and a law degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1977. Jim and Janet Gallogly have three daughters, Kelly, Kasey, and Kimberly Gallogly, and maintain a residence in Colorado Springs.
A graduate of Wasson High School in Colorado Springs, Jim Gallogly followed in his father’s footsteps to UCCS along with six of his siblings: Mary Gallogly DeSantis, 1977; Tony Gallogly, 1983; Nicholas Gallogly, 1985; Andrew Gallogly, 1987; Paul H. Gallogly, 1988; and Thomas Gallogly, 1990.
In addition to being home to the NCAA Division II and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference-member UCCS Mountain Lions, the Gallogly Events Center serves as a multi-purpose venue for all-campus events. The 27,000 square foot center features high-tech sound, lighting and high-speed data capability. Plans call for the center to be a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Efficiency-certified green building.
Jennifer Schonberger at Motley Fool interviews Professor Robert Shiller: Shiller: The Housing Recovery Could Be on Shaky Ground.
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Typing is hard. I hardly ever type unless I have to. In fact, roughly 80% of MobileCrunch’s operating bills go towards paying a full staff of invisible underlings to write what I say and censor my vulgarity.
Unfortunately for the livelihood of the aforementioned underlings, they’re now replaceable by a BlackBerry.
Following up on the launch of Dragon Dictation apps for the iPhone, Nuance has just launched their first venture into the world of BlackBerry. Unlike the iPhone releases (a Search app, and a sort of generic notepad meant for copying-and-pasting transcribed text to other apps), the focus here is e-mail. The image up top wraps it up pretty well: press a button, talk a bit, and it’ll make a valiant effort to transcribe everything you’ve said. Processing generally takes about 5 seconds, with accuracy ranging from spot-on to “Oh god, how did it think I said that?” depending on your accent and rate of speech.
The Dragon Dictation for E-Mail app is available now on BlAppWorld for free. They say the “free” part is only for a limited time — but they said the same thing about the iPhone release, and thats been out for months now and is still free. Regardless, probably better to grab it up quick.
Privacy issues. I consider privacy the big bugaboo of cloud computing in general, and the simple nature of Google’s Chrome operating system and the company’s penchant for (really its corporate raison d’etre) data mining the potential for serious abuse of user data is there.
I don’t have a problem with all data mining and I certainly understand what Google does and why. I absolutely love the Chrome browser and recommend it for everyone, and I use Gmail for a number of secondary email accounts, but I’m not even close to ready to trusting all my data by a cloud controlled by Google, or any other entity for that matter.
From the link:
The naming scheme is no accident. It reflects Google’s ambition to create an operating system that is all but indistinguishable from the browser. Gone will be the normal files, directories, and applications. Instead, Chrome OS will put Google’s cloud computing infrastructure–services and applications delivered over the Internet from its vast array of servers–at the heart of practically everything you do. Within a few years, Chrome OS could become the planet’s simplest, fastest, and safest environment for personal computing. But there’s a catch: it will also make Google the gatekeeper of your personal information. It could let Google delve further into your data to make its online advertising business more profitable than ever.
There is one upside — your “backup” data is located in your computer, so when it craps out the real data still resides on Google’s servers and isn’t lost. That alone might make the Chrome OS attractive to some people.
Also from the link:
Google’s engineers have explained that Chrome OS will use your computer’s hard drive as a cache, making copies of whatever you’re working on so that you won’t burn up your netbook’s wireless data plan (or your batteries). All that personal data will be encrypted, so you won’t need to worry if you happen to lose the machine. And if for some reason your computer gets corrupted–perhaps by a virus–you’ll be able to wipe it and start over without losing any work at all, since your data is stored in the cloud.
We are sure used to admiring the bimmers but this time around there is a different task at hand. We’ll be more inclined towards admiring ‘The Dwelling Lab’ which is a BMW 5-Series Gran Turismo inspired sculpture showcased during Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. The Sculpture aspires to make the people focus on the interior of the car first rather than the exterior as we do under normal circumstances. It is formed of five conical geometric shapes that jut out to invite the onlookers. The sculpture is sponsored by BMW, along with Danish textile specialists Kvadrat and Italian lighting firm Flos. Spanish architectural designer Patricia Urquiola and Italian designer Giulio Ridolfo have together finished this mammoth sculpture which aims to render a dwelling experience.
While everyone’s been raising a hoot and a holler about Spirit Airlines’ recent decision to begin charging for carry-on bags, the budget carrier has quietly been rolling out planes with “pre-reclined” seats. At least you don’t have to worry about being chided by a flight attendant to sit up while the plane prepares to land.
In the last month, Spirit has put two Airbus 320 planes into service featuring the fixed seat backs. Both planes fly to Ft. Lauderdale; one from Washington, D.C. and the other from LaGuardia Airport in NYC.
A company rep says two more Airbus 320s will be added this summer and both will have the pre-reclined seating, which isn’t exactly winning rave reviews.
“I hate sitting upright,” said one passenger. “It felt cheap and uncomfortable.”
Of course, the rationale behind the fixed seats is cost. These seats weigh less (meaning fuel savings) and have fewer moving parts (meaning maintenance savings).
Is this a reasonable compromise for lower fares? Or is this a dealbreaker?
New Spirit Airlines planes have seats that don’t recline [Sun-Sentinal]
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How much time do you think consumers spend engaging in social networking on their mobile phones? Would you believe nearly 60 percent? Ground Truth, a Seattle-based mobile measurement firm, said today that it’s found consumers use their phones for social networking activities a staggering 59.83 percent of the time.
And INQ’s Social Mobile, which it unveiled at February’s Mobile World Congress Show, is just one of numerous handsets aimed at riding the cresting wave of engagement through social networking features:
While most modern phones allow for installing social networking applications or using the web to check and update one’s status, it may not be long before all phones offer native and direct ties to the big social networks. The open question then, is: Will the data networks be able to handle the demand created by all of us tweeting, sharing photos and using Facebook from our phones?
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Given that the prospects for passage of the climate legislation being drafted by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) rest on the shoulders of a few moderate Republican senators, this news from CQ (subs. req’d) isn’t good for environmental advocates:
Two moderate Republicans long courted by authors of a Senate climate change bill have disengaged from talks ahead of next week’s unveiling of the legislation and are working on a narrower, competing bill.
Republicans George V. Voinovich of Ohio and Richard G. Lugar of Indiana are developing an energy-only bill that would mandate new renewable and nuclear power production without imposing cuts on carbon emissions. […]
Voinovich has long been considered a prime target of their appeal to moderate Republicans. Unlike some Senate Republicans, Voinovich is not a skeptic about man-made global warming, which he has called “one of the most serious problems of our time.” In addition, his impending retirement from Congress at the end of the current session makes him immune from election year political pressure.
But in an interview, Voinovich said he views a slimmed-down and more pragmatic energy-only bill as the only chance for addressing climate change this year.
“I’d like to get something done,” he said. “But I’m not sure it would meet the standards of the environmental groups or what Sen. Kerry would like to get done. I’d like to do the doable — move it down the field while I can.”
(This is a guest post by Marin Katusa at Casey Research.)
The latest buzzword on investors’ lips is shale, and it’s everywhere. Shale gas production is rapidly growing, and the domino effect of unconventional gas development on the global energy market is staggering.
North America has already seen the stampede of companies staking their territories and is now in the next phase: consolidation. However, buying into the American industry giants now, where even a major strike creates only a blip in share price, is like catching a ship that’s left the harbor.
But at Casey Research, we wouldn’t advise you to despair just yet, because the next big opportunity is just over the horizon. Coming up next – the basins of Europe.
The new techniques in drilling and well completion have transformed this formerly unprofitable source into a gold mine. Add that to the success that shale gas has enjoyed in North America, and you see why shale gas is creating a stir and intrigue throughout Europe.
Possibilities for shale gas production in Europe are endless – the American Association for Petroleum Geologists estimate a total resource of 510 trillion cubic feet (enough to power 27 European countries for over 30 years) of unconventional gas for Western Europe alone – and the rewards for investors in the right place could be huge.
In addition, unlike the United States, where major gas companies started snatching up land and smaller companies as shale gas became more popular, Europe’s shale market is still in its infancy. This puts the junior and smaller companies on the same playing field as the biggest players.
If commercial amounts of gas are found on a junior company’s land, it’s not inconceivable that its share price will multiply by ten. At the very least.
Taking on the Bear
But the main attraction of shale gas in Europe, and what gives it government support across the board, is the increasing urge to break the stranglehold of the Russian gas giant Gazprom. Almost all of Europe is heavily dependent on the state-controlled Gazprom for the majority of their gas supply. Gazprom’s tap-twisting of Ukraine’s prices, through which flows almost 80% of Europe’s gas, has made it clear that Russia has a big stick and it is not afraid to use it.
With the installation of a pro-Moscow president in Kiev, Europe’s interest in a non-Russian source of gas has escalated, and should a U.S.-style shale phenomenon turn up in Europe, the energy landscape could drastically change.
Knowing Your Enemy: The Other Side of the Story
That is not to say that there aren’t any challenges facing the companies. The lack of equipment in Europe – 20 fracturing sets vs. 2,000 in North America – is a major obstacle and at millions of dollars each, companies aren’t exactly falling over fracturing sets.
Then there is the chance that the rush for land will lead to overstaking of territories, with more than one company claiming a piece of land. This will invariably lead to quarrels, even legal battles, which would delay exploration and create a mess for companies and shareholders alike. And after all this, no two shale basins are the same, and techniques that work on one may not translate to the other.
So companies looking for shale gas in Europe in largely unexplored regions face significant risks – the initial production rate, its sustainability, and costs of the well are all unknowns… and that’s precisely what makes it so exciting.
What Would You Do With a 670% Return?
Shale gas is the hot topic in Europe today, and we knew this would happen back in 2007. Our subscribers bought one 25-cent stock, then sold it at $1.80, netting a quick gain of almost 700%.
With the huge potential just waiting to be explored, investors need to have their ears on the ground to know about the “me too” companies, the ones that will hit the payload. For now, the watchwords are “oil shale in new markets.”
Casey’s Energy Report has its finger on the pulse of the world’s most exciting energy plays… and its readers are the first to know which companies have the equipment, the management, the property and the expertise needed to make the big returns in oil shale.
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An estimated 15,000 people rallied outside the Capitol today demanding a tax increase.(Tribune photo/Abel Uribe)
Posted by Michelle Manchir and Ray Long at 11:50 a.m.; last updated at 3:12 p.m.
SPRINGFIELD — Thousands of protesters bused down by labor unions and social service advocates rallied at the Capitol today in an attempt to pressure state lawmakers into raising the income tax to avoid more budget cuts.
A spokesman for Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White estimated the rally crowd at 15,000, with more than 12,000 marching around the building. That would appear to make it the largest Capitol protest since the Equal Rights Amendment crowds a quarter-century ago.
Bus after bus pulled up on streets surrounding the Capitol complex and dumped sign-waving protesters clad in purple, green, red and blue shirts that represented a show of strength from a variety of public employee unions and dozens of groups that formed what they named the “Responsible Budget Coalition.” (You can see a photo gallery by clicking here.)
"Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes!" they chanted, lined up shoulder to shoulder for a few hundred yards stretching a street in front of the Capitol.
"These 177 people who have a job don’t want to do their job," said Henry Bayer, head of the Illinois chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, referring to the number of lawmakers in the House and Senate. "Yes people are hurting, that’s why we need a tax increase….If you try to leave town without doing your job we’re going to chase you."
Gov. Pat Quinn is pushing a 33 percent increase in the state income tax rate — taking it from 3 percent to 4 percent — to prevent cuts in state spending. Quinn has suggested that education will bear the brunt of the cuts, although that would have to be negotiated with the General Assembly.
Lawmakers, however, are leery about voting to raise taxes during a sluggish economy with an election less than seven months away. At the Capitol, it’s thought that the earliest a tax increase vote will come is after the November election.
So organized labor showed up in force at the Capitol today to pressure lawmakers to change their minds.
Among the protesters is Terrie Monaghan, who took a hit last year when her choice was to have no
fourth-grade teaching job in Grayslake or share the position with
another teacher. She chose the latter, and also works as a substitute
teacher and tutors students after school “to make ends meet.
“Half the salary, half the benefits … half of everything,” said Monaghan, 39.
A group of more than 60 teachers, staff and students from downstate Bloomington and Normal wore bright pink shirts and jackets to symbolize the thousands of pink slips circulating statewide. They carried bottled water and signs that read “SOS” that stood for “save our schools.”
Camille Taylor, a guidance counselor nearing retirement, said the district did away with field trips to state parks and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum this year. “We can’t afford to pay for buses,” she said.
She said she hopped on a charter bus this morning to Springfield “to raise hell, basically.”
Jennifer Ritchason, a middle school social students teacher in Bloomington, came armed with hundreds of letters from her students asking legislators for more money for schools. She said she hopes the children’s words will resonate with the governor and House Speaker Michael Madigan, among other legislators the letters are addressed to.
“If you don’t care about your future, I don’t know what you can truly care about,” she said.
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After several hours spanning several days, massive headaches, and a final cry for help to the right ears, KurtisScaletta.com is now open for business here at "new dot," with the most important content moved over. If you are a subscriber, you may just now be learning about all this because it’s just now I’ve been able to redirect the RSS feed from my old site to here. My site, blog, and various extras were all damaged and/or suspect after my entire hosting service got raided. Hundreds of sites were affected, some representing the actual business and sole employment for their owners, so I have to take this in stride. I do wonder sometimes why we bother. Say what you will about the pre-Internet, hackers were just guys with bad smoking coughs and couldn’t make your life that miserable.
I may restore the blog in time, but I’ll see how this goes for a while… I will not be blogging, just making announcements related to my work. I am in need of a lighter web presence just now, anyway.
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By Andy Rubin, Google VP of Engineering, Android
Partnerships have been at the very heart of Android, the first truly open and comprehensive mobile platform, since we first introduced it with the Open Handset Alliance. Through close relationships with carriers, device manufacturers, developers, and others, Google is working to enable an open ecosystem for the mobile world by creating a standard, open mobile software platform. Today we’re excited that, working with Adobe, we will be able to bring both AIR and Flash to Android.
Google believes that developers should have their choice of tools and technologies to create applications. By supporting Adobe AIR on Android we hope that millions of creative designers and developers will be able to express themselves more freely when they create applications for Android devices. More broadly, AIR will foster rapid and continuous innovation across the mobile ecosystem.
Google is happy to be partnering with Adobe to bring the full web, great applications, and developer choice to the Android platform. Our engineering teams have been working closely to bring both AIR and Flash Player to Google’s mobile operating system and devices. The Android platform is enjoying spectacular adoption, and we expect our work with Adobe will help that growth continue.
We also look forward to all the innovative content and applications created for Android and Flash. Join us at Google I/O in May to learn more about our work together with Adobe to open up the world of Flash on mobile devices.
Originally posted on the Adobe.com website.
Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Nissan, Reviews
Small, affordable cars are like mushrooms. They quietly go about their business in the soggy bottom of the market, tolerated more than celebrated. Occasionally, the fungi mutates into a truffle, and so it is with this less-respected branch of autodom.
The Nissan Versa is no market newcomer. Introduced in 2007, it’s trudged along unloved in the U.S. while faring better in markets outside the States as the Tiida. As with cuisine, some regional flavors are an acquired taste. The Versa hatchback has a decidedly “big in Europe” thing going on, with its distinctive shape and tall-hatch proportions. Taking into consideration Nissan’s close relationship with Renault, the styling even seems Gallically influenced. We nabbed a pair of Versas, an S with six-speed manual and an SL with CVT, to see if Nissan’s efforts are fetid or delicious. Make the jump to find out.
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After a week of uncertainty, the skies above Europe have finally opened (albeit slowly) to air traffic. Thanks to this pesky plume of volcano ash from Iceland, all of Europe has come to a complete standstill. At a micro level, I have been enjoying the quiet — no jet engines screeching overhead every few minutes. At a macro level, this couldn’t have happened at a worst time for a recovering world economy. According to the Daily Telegraph yesterday, more than 17,000 flights to and from the European airspace had been canceled and it is estimated that the airlines have lost about $1.7 billion. The same publication cited today that the travel ban has cost the economy £1.6 billion.
Now I know that the powers that be have our safety in mind. After all, the issue isn’t just visibility. The real problem has to do with the small fragments of volcanic glass being spewed in the air. If I understand it correctly, this volcanic ash is not only abrasive but also so fine that it can get into all sorts of crevices, jam engines and mess with electronic components. In an article on yahoo.com yesterday titled “To fly through ash or not?”, the writer cited the case of a Boeing 747 which flew through volcanic ash over Alaska back in 1989. All four engines failed and the plane dropped 2 miles in 5 minutes. Talk about a white-knuckle ride.
Use CFD to understand complex flow fields including exhaust. Image courtesy of Mentor Graphics.
So I thought this would be a good topic for our discussion today. No… I’m not going to talk about using mechanical CFD to simulate volcanic eruption. Instead we can talk about something a bit more commonplace — all the other types of situations where we have little particles floating in air contaminating the local environment ie exhaust from chimneys, factories and ship diesel engines. Simulation can be an invaluable tool for understanding complex flow fields. For example, FloEFD can simulate particles floating in air including fine ash as small as 6 microns in diameter. So with the help of FloEFD, you could better understand the complexities of fluid flow in designs – including understanding where all the dust settles (so to speak) so you can start clean-up operations. If you’d like to learn more about how CFD can help visualize and understand flow fields, please watch this short on-demand presentation titled: Simulating and Optimizing Flow Fields.
Now I hear the airports around London will be opening up soon so I’m going to dash home, sit in my garden in the sun and enjoy the quiet for a few more hours.
Until next time,
Nazita
