Speed cameras, these automotive executioners hated by motorists all around the world, may be on the point of losing a battle on U.S. territory.
The state of Arizona, the U.S. pioneer when it comes to implementing speed cameras, may drop its previously praised state-wide speed camera network, as the New York Times reports.
The Arizona department of Public Safety introduced the system in late 2008 and a total of 76 of such devilish devices now threaten the motorists’… (read more)
Sprint and LG unveiled two new feature phones for the fashionista in all of us. First up is the LG Lotus Elite, a boxy clamshell that keeps the styling and entry level status of the original Lotus with a set of specs that differs very little from its predecessor:
The red Lotus Elite will available in all Sprint retail channels starting January 10th and will retail for $99.99 with a new two year service agreement and a $50 mail-in rebate. The black Lotus Elite will be available starting Feb. 14, just in time for the “I forgot to get you something, so I grabbed this at the last minute” type of gift for your sweetheart. LG and Sprint also announced the LG Rumor Touch, a side slider whose specs and pictures are a bit more noteworthy. Additional details are after the jump.
Third in the series, the LG Rumor Touch keeps the sliding QWERTY keyboard of the Rumor 2 but sheds the front keypad, replacing it with a 3 inch WQVGA touchscreen. The Rumor Touch also bumps the camera up from 1.3 megapixels to 2 megapixels and now offers 3G EV-DO connectivity. Rounding out the handset is a 3.5mm stereo headset jack, microSD card slot that supports up to 32GB, Stereo Bluetooth, GPS, and support for the full suite of Sprint applications including Sprint Navigation, Sprint TV, Sprint Music and Sprint Mobile Email. The LG Rumor Touch will be available in Q1 2010 with pricing and exact launch date to be announced soon.
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We heard a lot last year about how improving energy efficiency was cheap, low-hanging fruit and how it was the best way to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. Break out your caulk guns!
Frankly, it all sounded a little too good to be true. Without any big sacrifice or a change in lifestyle, less energy would be needed. Just keep your tires properly inflated. Oh yeah, targeting energy efficiency would create jobs also. A double shot in the arm for the ole economy!
Is there really that much waste? Consider the lesson of Morgan Stanleys trading floors. At its global headquarters in Times Square, Morgan Stanley kept its trading floors at a nice temperature 24 hours a day, five days a week. Even at 3 a.m. Why push so much heat in during the winter or cool air in the summer in the middle of the night?
That was one of the questions posed by EnerNOC Inc., a Boston-based darling of the energy efficiency industry, after it began monitoring the 42-story building. Another finding: Morgan Stanley, which owns the building and occupies somewhat more than half of it, was keeping the elevator machinery rooms and other mechanical spaces as cool as the corporate suite. And the bathroom fans were running 24/7.
In all, EnerNOC said it found about $100,000 in savings for Morgan Stanley last year. (The Wall Street firm posted a $729 million profit in the first three quarters of 2009, so the energy savings are not a make or break figure.)
Morgan Stanley has definitely recouped all of their investment, says Tim Healy, EnerNOCs chief executive. They were ahead of the game within months. Since hes selling monitoring not expensive new lighting or higher-efficiency furnaces it was a relatively low upfront cost. (Morgan Stanley confirmed EnerNOCs account of EnerNOCs work and the savings uncovered.)
EnerNOCs business is all about using information technology to monitor buildings and ferret out inefficiencies. Mr. Healy calls is data-driven energy efficiency.
Lets put a super computer inside that building that processes all the ways energy is being used, the way air is being used, the way lights are being turned on or off and try to optimize that, he says. (No people wandering around the building with notepads are needed. The company can monitor carbon monoxide levels to figure out how many people are working in a certain space.)
He figures active monitoring of buildings to save energy will be a $30 billion to $40 billion market in the U.S. in a few years. That seems pretty bullish, but there are a lot of people who see a big potential in efficiency right now. In 2009, energy efficiency got $1.6 billion in venture capital and private equity investments, according to New Energy Finance, not far behind leading sectors wind ($1.75 billion) and solar ($1.74 billion.)
By now, there’s probably not even a single avid Internet user who is not familiar with the way 2009 has wiped the floor with most carmakers and pretty much everything related to the auto industry. The on-going economic crisis, coupled with a massive change in car buyers’ habits and bad management have taken their toll on two giant US car-companies, crippled a bunch of other foreign ones and in the end left a lot of people bitter and/or out of work. Quite a bummer, actually.
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In my latest podcast, I speak to Penny Chisholm, an MIT microbiologist who studies the marine microbes that make a lot of the oxygen on which we survive, and who sees the ocean as a giant sea of virus-shuffled genes for harvesting sunlight. Check it out.
Texas coach Mack Brown planned to talk to Monroe and his family next week about his plans for the freshman when Brown returns from a recruiting trip, the American-Statesman reported, citing an athletic department spokesman.
“He’s extremely happy,” Monroe’s lawyer, Brian Roark, said, according to the Austin newspaper. “He is hoping to play in the national championship game and continue his career at Texas.”
Monroe was suspended indefinitely after being arrested on a drunken driving charge in November, hours after a win against Baylor.
Before missing three games, Monroe set a Texas record with two kickoff returns for touchdowns this season for the Longhorns. He also had 110 yards on 20 carries at tailback.
The second-ranked Longhorns will play the No. 1 Crimson Tide on Jan. 7 in the Citi BCS National Championship Game.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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Mr. Kelso also made the message boards in Alabama because of his suspicion that Alabama fans who spot the Longhorn mascot, Bevo, “might try to eat him in the parking lot.” (Photo of Bevo arriving by Jay Janner/AP/Austin American Statesman)
Kelso, who won’t be vacationing in Birmingham any time soon, goes on to take a lengthy shot at the Crimson Tide nickname, makes Bubba and hillbilly references and adds that:
“It’s traditional for the Alabama Million Dollar Band to march onto the field at the half and form a double-wide. The University of Alabama is in Tuscaloosa, which is the Indian word meaning tube top.”
Here’s how fans are reacting in Alabama, where some government meetings have been canceled tonight in deference to the game.
Meantime, if Alabama wins tonight listen closely for mentions of how many national championships the Tide has rolled to. The NCAA record book recognizes seven for ‘Bama, but the school proudly claims a dozen with its “Got twelve?” T-shirts.The Hays County Crime Stoppers, which is assisting the San Marcos Police Department, said today that the group is offering a reward for help in solving the following burglary:
On Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009, at approximately 1:30am, Pat’s Conoco gas station located at 1702 IH 35 N. (at the corner of the IH 35 East Access at Uhland Road) in San Marcos was burglarized. The suspect shattered the front glass door and stole the cash register, lottery tickets and cigarettes. The suspect fled the area on foot in an unknown direction of travel. In-store surveillance cameras recorded the burglary. San Marcos Police Investigators need your help to identify the burglar from these photographs.
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Mr. Kelso also made the message boards in Alabama because of his suspicion that Alabama fans who spot the Longhorn mascot, Bevo, “might try to eat him in the parking lot.” (Photo of Bevo arriving by Jay Janner/AP/Austin American Statesman)
Kelso, who won’t be vacationing in Birmingham any time soon, goes on to take a lengthy shot at the Crimson Tide nickname, makes Bubba and hillbilly references and adds that:
“It’s traditional for the Alabama Million Dollar Band to march onto the field at the half and form a double-wide. The University of Alabama is in Tuscaloosa, which is the Indian word meaning tube top.”
Here’s how fans are reacting in Alabama, where some government meetings have been canceled tonight in deference to the game.
Meantime, if Alabama wins tonight listen closely for mentions of how many national championships the Tide has rolled to. The NCAA record book recognizes seven for ‘Bama, but the school proudly claims a dozen with its “Got twelve?” T-shirts.The Hays County Crime Stoppers, which is assisting the San Marcos Police Department, said today that the group is offering a reward for help in solving the following burglary:
On Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009, at approximately 1:30am, Pat’s Conoco gas station located at 1702 IH 35 N. (at the corner of the IH 35 East Access at Uhland Road) in San Marcos was burglarized. The suspect shattered the front glass door and stole the cash register, lottery tickets and cigarettes. The suspect fled the area on foot in an unknown direction of travel. In-store surveillance cameras recorded the burglary. San Marcos Police Investigators need your help to identify the burglar from these photographs.
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Climate change has found the unlikeliest of friends in Republican senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, who has called for more federal control over greenhouse gas pollution, CleanTechnica reports.
In a speech on Tuesday, Graham expressed support for legislation to crack down on carbon dioxide pollution, which he believes will bolster the U.S. economy and simultaneously reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Graham has come under fire from his more conservative collegaues for his surprising position on the matter, but apparently is not backing down.
Talk about a switch hitter for the green team!
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Obra de R$ 790 mil é destruída após enquete popular.
Arco sustentado por esculturas rechonchudas desagradava a moradores.
Bruno Azevedo do G1, em São Paulo
Um ano depois chega ao fim a insatisfação de boa parte da população de Americana, a 127 quilômetros de São Paulo. O portal A Princesa Tecelã, que custou R$ 790 mil, começou a ser demolido na noite desta quinta-feira (7). A obra, concluída em janeiro do ano passado, foi paga pela prefeitura e pelo Ministério do Turismo.
O portal, que ficou conhecido como o portal da discórdia, desagradou aos moradores com suas duas esculturas de oito metros de altura bastante rechonchudas, desenhadas pelo escultor curitibano Luiz Gagliastri. Elas representavam a força do imigrante e seguravam um arco que fazia alusão a um pedaço de tecido. A cidade de 200 mil habitantes tem forte presença na indústria têxtil.
A Prefeitura de Americana confirmou que a destruição do portal levou em conta uma enquete feita pela internet e também porque, apesar do pouco tempo e do custo, a obra já apresentava infiltrações. Na votação popular organizada pelo Conselho Municipal de Cultura de Americana, 1.150 pessoas votaram. Destas, 1.036 disseram que não gostavam do portal e 617 sugeriram modificá-lo. A pesquisa foi feita, segundo o conselho, para verificar junto à população muito mais que o incômodo provocado pelos gigantes, mas, o quanto essa intervenção urbana seja ou não relevante para a população de Americana.
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The Jay Leno Show is over. NBC couldn’t make good TV. So it tried to give up on making good TV. It couldn’t even do that well. So now it’s giving up on giving up on making good TV, which is better. But here’s what I find so ironic. When the show was introduced in September, I wrote this:
NBC has screwed its own reputation handily in the past few years. Knight Rider? Lipstick Jungle? My Own Worst Enemy? These were powerfully horrible shows, and perhaps creative teams responsible for one
hundred days of Kath & Kim do not deserve a second opportunity on
earth.
The Jay Leno Show premiered on September 14, 2009. NBC has decided to axe it after four months. Kath & Kim lasted five months. Knight Rider lasted six months. Lipstick Jungle lasted thirteen months. I guess the future of television is: Fail faster.
The news that David Maisel would be leaving Marvel (old ticker: MVL) once the deal with Disney (DIS) closed had been floating around since early December. Footnoted readers may remember that it was Maisel who met with Disney Chairman Bob Iger back in February and that a few weeks later buckets of options were granted to Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter.
Disney announced last week that the deal had closed. But Marvel waited until Jan. 6 to file this 8-K which had some details about Maisel’s reward, which worked out to just over $9 million, not including millions more in stock.
That’s not too bad of a reward for being a matchmaker.
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Podés votar a uno de los 7 semifinalistas, eligiendo la que más te guste. Por favor, no voten solamente a alguien por amistad o por ser de la misma nacionalidad; voten honestamente y de la manera más limpia posible. Tienen que darle la misma chance a todas las fotografías, no concentrándose en qué se ha fotografiado, sino en la técnica realizada, la calidad y el esfuerzo colocado.
Nuestros 7 semifinalistas de esta semana con los mejores promedios están a continuación. Están ordenados en orden aleatorio:
#1: Segundo plano
#2: Bienvenido, Buenos Aires
#3: Los colores de ayer y hoy
#4: Trata de despertar el sueño eterno
#5: Atardecer eterno
#6: Semejanza no solicitada
#7: La Pequeña Ciudad de los Muertos
As we’ve discussed in the past, the subject of a photograph does not have any copyright claim on the image. The copyright is, instead, granted to whoever took the photo (amusingly, yes, this means that if you hand your little point-and-shoot to a random stranger to take you photo while on vacation, technically, that stranger owns the copyright on the photo). This is something that people often confuse — as they assume that the subject has a copyright on the images. Copycense points us to the news that actress/singer Vanessa Hudgens isn’t just suing some blogsite for posting nude photos of her, but is claiming copyright on the photos, saying she took them herself. I haven’t seen the photos, so I’ll rely on the claims at that link that the photos show her posing, with no indication that she is the one taking the photos. It is possible that the photos used a timer, I guess, but other reports have said that the photos were cameraphone photos, which usually don’t have timers. As such, it certainly sounds like it might be a case of copyrfraud to falsely claim copyright on images where you do not, in fact, hold the copyright. That said, it’s hard to be sympathetic to a site posting nude photos of someone who does not want them posted — though, you have to admit that it’s odd that these photos were registered with the US copyright office.
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Reuters India LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Around 1.1 billion tonnes of Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets will be issued by 2013, a UN agency said on Friday, a far cry from the … |
Yvonne’s work has received national acclaim. In competition with stations across America, she won a Gabriel Award for humanitarian stories; was nominated for several Mid-Atlantic Emmy’s and captured the Ed King Memorial Award, a high honor for Pittsburgh journalists.
Yvonne passed away on January 8, 2010 following a courageous two-year battle with Yvonne covered the consumer beat, from battles with bureaucracy to personal finance, for over 20 years and has been a reliable source for consumer news in the market.
Raised in the South Hills and a graduate of Bethel Park High School and Bethany College in West Virginia, Yvonne worked in the Pittsburgh market for over 30 years.
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Chrysler has carefully picked its words, saying that the 300 S6 and 300 S8 are all-new models that build on the rear-wheel-drive sedan’s roots. Don’t fret, the cosmetic updates are welcome; there’s a new blacked-out grille this year and 20-inch alloys to fill out those classic bold wheelarches. The S6 and S8, while blatantly ripping off Audi nomenclature (do we smell a lawsuit?), denotes whether the car’s packing a six- or eight-cylinder powerplant.
Interiors have been updated as well, and the words that Chrysler chose to describe them make them sound like Xanadu on wheels. In the pictures, however, the changes appear to include more heavily bolstered seats with embroidered logos and leather and cloth surfaces. The dashboard and other surfaces don’t seem to be much different than what we’ve criticized in the past, though it could be the same design (which is fine) just rendered in improved materials.
Other vehicles are also coming in for a refreshing in 2010. The continually dead/not-dead PT Cruiser gets a Couture Edition with a dressed up interior and two-tone paint. The Town & Country Walter P. Chrysler Signature Series also looks to get much-needed interior attention, though we’ll only be convinced of its quality after running our mitts over the nicely-photographed wares.
Gallery: 2010 Special Edition Chrysler models
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Fixed-scheduled productivity: “Fix your ideal schedule, then work backwards to make everything fit — ruthlessly culling obligations, turning people down, becoming hard to reach, and shedding marginally useful tasks along the way.”
A big part of this: saying no. The author gives Jim Collins as an example:
Even though Collins demands over $60,000 per speech, for example, he gives fewer than 18 per year, and a third of these are donated for free to non-profit groups. He doesn’t do book tours. His web site is mediocre. He keeps his living expenses in check so that he’s not dependent on drumming up income (he and his wife have lived in the same California bungalow for the past 14 years), and he keeps only a small staff, preferring to bring on volunteers as needed.
Also shows the freedom you get from having low overhead. The less you owe, the less you have to do things you don’t want to do.
Google’s much-hyped Nexus One has received generally positive reviews as a solid, if modest, improvement on the current lineup of Android phones. That kind of praise would be welcome by most handset manufacturers, of course, which are fighting for market share in an increasingly competitive field. For the Internet search giant, though, the Nexus One marks a very small step toward changing the mobile industry as it exists today. In a new research note on GigaOM Pro (sub. required), I take a look at how the Nexus One reinforces Google’s mobile strategy and reflects broader trends driving the industry toward greater openness. Key topics covered in the report include:
