Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Live from Microsoft's CES 2012 keynote with Steve Ballmer!

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Are you ready for the end of an era? Microsoft has said this will be its last keynote at CES and you know what that means: Steve Ballmer will be pulling out all the stops to really knock our socks off. Or maybe not. Still, it's sure to feature plenty of Windows 8 love and maybe, if we ask real nice, Steve will give us one last battlecry of "developers!" Join us for a heartwarming liveblog you won't want to miss.

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Wholesalehats.com Now A Distributor of Yupoong Flexfit? Wholesale Baseball Hats

(EMAILWIRE.COM, January 07, 2012 ) PALM DESERT, CA -- Wholesalehats.com announced it is a wholesale distributor of Yupoong Flexfit? hats with prices starting at $2.43. The company offers many styles of Flexfit? hats ranging from baseball caps to beanies, army hats, visors, snap back hats and more.

"Our warehouses are loaded with 33 different styles of Flexfit? hats in up to 19 color choices. The Flexfit? hats are a favorite among embroiderers and screen printers for their quality and durability. And as with all of our products, WholesaleHats.com offers a 100% warranty against manufacturer defects," said Brian Burr of Wholesalehats.com (http://www.wholesalehats.com).

The most popular style of the Yupoong Flexfit? hats among Wholesalehats.com customers is the Flexfit? Flat Bill Pro Style Wool Blend Snap Back Hats "The Original Old School Style." These wholesale baseball hats are available in two tone or solid color options and feature a flat rather than curved bill. The hats can be customized with text, customer logos or designs and embroidery options or left blank. Customers can provide their own design or choose from Wholesalehats.com's design library to create a custom baseball hat.

"We handle all of the customized embroidery and screenprinting in house, which keeps customer costs to a minimum and gives us complete quality control. Customer satisfaction is very important to us and we do our best to ensure complete satisfaction, which is why we stock only top-quality wholesale products like the Yupoong Flexfit? series," Burr explained.

All styles of hats are available at Wholesalehats.com's factory direct pricing and include the company's 100% warranty against manufacturing defects. The company has been in business for over 30 years and has grown to become a leading online direct manufacturer of wholesale hats and accessories.

About Wholesalehats.com:
Wholesalehats.com prides itself on being the low-cost producer of high-quality blank and custom embroidered and screen printed headwear. As the name implies, all products are priced at wholesale, with availability of only 12 pieces per style. Customers include a broad spectrum of retailers, embroiders, screen printers, distributors, corporations large and small, premium buyers, national and state parks, amusement parks, and special events purchasers and more. Wholesalehats.com offers a live answering service available 24/7 so their customers can reach them at all times.

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Monday, January 9, 2012

Fox to start Saturday night cartoons

(AP) ? Long known for its Sunday night cartoons headlined by "The Simpsons," Fox is planning to offer new animated material late on Saturday nights and on an experimental new digital channel.

The network said Sunday that the new effort will be led by Nick Weidenfeld, the former head of program development for the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim series. The cable network has run a popular series of late-night cartoons on weekdays that has successfully reached a young male audience that TV executives consider valuable and elusive.

Saturday's 90-minute cartoon block would begin at 11 p.m. ET. Fox hasn't programmed aggressively in late nights and hopes the new series will provide some competition for NBC's "Saturday Night Live," said Kevin Reilly, Fox entertainment president. It will start in January 2013.

Reilly, during a news conference, offered hints but left an air of mystery around the future of some popular Fox prime-time shows like "House," ''Glee," ''Fringe" and "Terra Nova."

Fox appreciates its Sunday cartoons like "The Simpsons," which will soon air its 500th episode. But success there left relatively little room for experimentation.

"There has been a lot of talent and a lot of product that we've wanted to pursue over the years that did not fit the prime-time mold," Reilly said.

The digital channel would be available online, through cable on demand, as mobile applications and on game consoles, and it's somewhat experimental, Reilly said. It would allow Fox to take chances on programming of different lengths, he said.

Reilly conceded he's put off some decisions on prime-time shows that have doubts about their future. One is the long-running medical drama "House," which Reilly said months ago was probably in its last year. He said he will meet soon with the show's producers to decide; he did say it's very unlikely any of the show's characters would be spun off into a new series.

He praised producers of "Fringe" for helping Fox drum up some interest in its Friday night schedule. But he noted the show is expensive to produce and at its current ratings, it's a money-loser for the network.

"Please don't start the letter-writing campaign right now," Reilly said. "I can't take that."

The prehistoric adventure series "Terra Nova" is doing moderately well, but Fox had been hoping for more. Reilly said the show has struggled creatively in its first season and will face tough competition for a time slot.

"If we had more holes on our network, we would be thrilled to lock that in," he said. "We're going to decide very soon."

"Glee" will be back next season, despite some early ratings troubles, he said. The current high school students will be graduating, said Reilly, who left unanswered how many of those cast members will be returning.

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Green tech 'won't mean big bills'

Claims that the costs of wind farms and other low-carbon technology will lead to sharp rises in fuel bills are wrong, government advisers say.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says increases in bills over the past few years have been largely due to higher wholesale gas costs.

Members said their "best estimate" was that green policies would add ?110 to bills per household in 2020.

It emerged recently that an estimated 1.5m people are in fuel debt in the UK.

The combined gas and electricity bill for typical households could go up from ?1,060 in 2010 to ?1,250 in 2020, according to analysis by the committee.

But further energy efficiency measures - such as loft and wall cavity insulation - could see the projected 2020 bill fall to ?1,085 per household, it said.

CCC chief executive David Kennedy said the committee had analysed the impact of investing in technology including offshore and onshore wind, nuclear and carbon capture and storage.

Mr Kennedy said the cost of this investment was "significantly" outweighed by the benefits - including a reduced reliance on imported fossil fuels.

Looking back, the CCC said an analysis of the average dual fuel energy bills showed an increase of ?455 over the six years 2004 to 2010.

However, 80% of this rise was unrelated to low-carbon measures and the biggest contributor was rising gas prices, which added around ?290 to bills.

Mr Kennedy said that some people had claimed that energy bills were "through the roof at the moment" because of investment in green energy - but the committee's analysis showed this "clearly" was not the case.

A second claim that investment in low-carbon technology over the next decade would drive bills to "astronomical levels" was also untrue, he said.

CCC chairman Lord Adair Turner said: "Over the next decade, we anticipate a rise of around ?100 in the average bill as a result of investment in low-carbon power capacity, which will benefit the UK in the long run."

Fuel poverty

The committee's analysis comes against a background of increased concern about rising fuel costs.

In November it was revealed that the number of people with energy debts had risen by a quarter for electricity and a fifth for gas.

Campaign group Consumer Focus and charity Citizen's Advice say energy prices increased by seven per cent last winter and warn that further rises of 14% this winter could push more people into debt.

An independent report by Professor John Hills published in October found that 2,700 people died each year from problems linked to fuel poverty such as respiratory or cardiovascular disease.

And government figures released over the summer suggested that more than a fifth of all households in the UK in 2009 were affected by fuel poverty - meaning they spend more than 10% of their income keeping warm.

Professor Hills called for a new definition of fuel poverty, which focuses on people with low incomes driven into poverty by high fuel bills.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-16191900

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Motorola Droid Bionic major maintenance update rolling out

Motorola Droid Bionic

Judging from the excitement in our inbox and in the Droid Bionic forums, it looks like that major maintenance update is rolling out. Here's what you get, and it's a pretty long list:

E-mail, messaging and data

  • Improved stability of data on 3G and 4G
  • Fixed lockup that could occur while browing during the handoff from Wifi to 4G
  • "Data roaming" pop-up message will display once when roaming in CDMA internationally
  • Jump to the most recent message after changing the device orientation while in message list view

Device features

  • Mobile hotspot now supports up to eight devices
  • Black screen of death fixed
  • Improved stability to avoid power cycles
  • Fix lock up and power cycles when connected to Bluetooth headset or HDMI cable
  • Improved cold SIM card activation speed
  • "Low memory" warnings when using the Laptop have been reduced
  • Improved camera autofocus for better shutter response time and better imagery
  • Location privacy message will display when using location based service setup
  • Fixed issue where device would power back up after being powered down

Lapdock

  • Improved stability
  • Display will not turn off after use
  • Calling screen will no longer be recreated
  • Reduced frequence fo the "Low memory" warning messages

You can check for the update now by going to Menu>Settings>About Phone>System Update. And hit the fourms link below to let us know if things are going better for you.

Source: Verizon; More: Droid Bionic forums



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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Proton beam experiments open new areas of research

Proton beam experiments open new areas of research [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 5-Dec-2011
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By focusing proton beams using high-intensity lasers, a team of scientists have discovered a new way to heat material and create new states of matter in the laboratory.

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Hemoltz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf of Germany; Technische Universitat Darmstadt of Germany, and General Atomics of San Diego unveiled new findings about how proton beams can be used in myriad applications.

Using the Trident sub-picosecond laser at Los Alamos, the team generated and focused a proton beam using a cone-shaped target. The protons were found to have unexpected curved trajectories due to the large electric fields in the beam. A sheath electric field also channeled the proton beam through the cone tip, substantially improving the beam focus.

"These results agree well with our particle simulations and provide the physics basis for many future applications," said Mark Foord, one of the LLNL scientists on the team.

Other Livermore researchers include lead author Teresa Bartal (also a UCSD Ph.D student and Lawrence scholar), Claudio Bellei, Michael Key, Pravesh Patel, Drew Higginson and Harry McLean. The research appears in the Dec. 4 issue of the journal, Nature Physics.

Bartal said the experiments uncover a new understanding of the physics involved in proton focusing, which affects how proton beams can be used in the future -- from heating material to creating new types of matter that couldn't be made by any other means, to medical applications and insights into planetary science.

"The ability to generate high-intensity well-focused proton beams can open the door to new regimes in high-energy density science," Bartal said.

One example includes focusing a proton beam on a solid density or compressed material creating millions of atmospheres of pressure, allowing the study of the properties of warm dense matter found in the interior of giant planets such as Jupiter.

The UCSD team was led by Farhat Beg of Jacobs School of Engineering and several of his students participated in this experiment.

"This work has given a new direction to the conventional thinking of proton beam focusing in short-pulse laser matter interaction," Beg said. "Surely it will impact heating of pre-compressed materials to temperatures observed at the core of the sun and any future applications in proton oncology using high-intensity lasers."

Laser-produced proton beams also are making an impact on medical applications such as isotope production for positron emission tomography (PET) and proton oncology.

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Founded in 1952, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (http://www.llnl.gov) provides solutions to our nation's most important national security challenges through innovative science, engineering and technology. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.



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Proton beam experiments open new areas of research [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 5-Dec-2011
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Contact: Anne Stark
stark8@llnl.gov
925-422-9799
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

By focusing proton beams using high-intensity lasers, a team of scientists have discovered a new way to heat material and create new states of matter in the laboratory.

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Hemoltz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf of Germany; Technische Universitat Darmstadt of Germany, and General Atomics of San Diego unveiled new findings about how proton beams can be used in myriad applications.

Using the Trident sub-picosecond laser at Los Alamos, the team generated and focused a proton beam using a cone-shaped target. The protons were found to have unexpected curved trajectories due to the large electric fields in the beam. A sheath electric field also channeled the proton beam through the cone tip, substantially improving the beam focus.

"These results agree well with our particle simulations and provide the physics basis for many future applications," said Mark Foord, one of the LLNL scientists on the team.

Other Livermore researchers include lead author Teresa Bartal (also a UCSD Ph.D student and Lawrence scholar), Claudio Bellei, Michael Key, Pravesh Patel, Drew Higginson and Harry McLean. The research appears in the Dec. 4 issue of the journal, Nature Physics.

Bartal said the experiments uncover a new understanding of the physics involved in proton focusing, which affects how proton beams can be used in the future -- from heating material to creating new types of matter that couldn't be made by any other means, to medical applications and insights into planetary science.

"The ability to generate high-intensity well-focused proton beams can open the door to new regimes in high-energy density science," Bartal said.

One example includes focusing a proton beam on a solid density or compressed material creating millions of atmospheres of pressure, allowing the study of the properties of warm dense matter found in the interior of giant planets such as Jupiter.

The UCSD team was led by Farhat Beg of Jacobs School of Engineering and several of his students participated in this experiment.

"This work has given a new direction to the conventional thinking of proton beam focusing in short-pulse laser matter interaction," Beg said. "Surely it will impact heating of pre-compressed materials to temperatures observed at the core of the sun and any future applications in proton oncology using high-intensity lasers."

Laser-produced proton beams also are making an impact on medical applications such as isotope production for positron emission tomography (PET) and proton oncology.

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Founded in 1952, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (http://www.llnl.gov) provides solutions to our nation's most important national security challenges through innovative science, engineering and technology. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.



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