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This week on gdgt: Nokia Lumia 1020, Olympus PEN E-P5 and Google's Chromecast
Each week, our friends at gdgt go through the latest gadgets and score them to help you decide which ones to buy. Here are some of their most recent picks. Want more? Visit gdgt anytime to catch up on the latest, and subscribe to gdgt's newsletter to get a weekly roundup in your inbox.
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Researchers develop system that uses a big data approach to personalized healthcare
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have developed a computer-aided method that uses electronic medical records to offer the promise of rapid advances toward personalized health care, disease management and wellness.
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Thank You to our Partners | GreenStar Enterprise
What is Green Star Enterprise?
Green Star Enterprise is a youth led initiative designed to encourage and engage new immigrant and at-risk youth, from low-income areas to participate in self-employment opportunities around health and fitness matters, community gardening and the environment
Executive Summary:
This pilot program reaches out to youth ages 15-21 in low income areas in Ottawa. They are offered an opportunity to learn and develop entrepreneurial business skills, and become advocates for environmental and health issues amongst their peers and within their community. The Green Star Enterprise program presents youth from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to learn and experience gardening-from planting seeds to cooking to distributing the produce. Participants grow fresh produce on an urban agricultural site and develop business/marketing skills. Furthermore, this program promotes healthy eating habits, increases awareness around environmental issues and encourages physical activity.
Vision:
To eradicate health issues through wholesome food and physical activities for children and youth everywhere.
Mission:
Encourage entrepreneurship among youth of African-descent, new immigrant and at-risk-youth to participate in self-employment activities centered on environmental themes and community gardening
Promote healthy lifestyle through nutrition and fitness
Facilitate the development of leadership, social skills, self-esteem, teamwork, and a positive attitude for success
Build a youth advocacy group ? to be a voice among their peers in promoting Canada, its values for equality, inclusion, justice, and multiculturalism
Vision for the future:
To create a training /work program, geared to exposing youth to entrepreneurship, green jobs and technology
To establish more partnerships with agricultural and green companies
To give back to the community by providing ample employment opportunity for all youth
To contribute to the next generation of innovators in green industries
Garden Details:
Kilborn Allotment Gardens, Elmvale, Ottawa (East end). Main office: Dempsey Community Centre at 1895 Russell road
Source: http://gsegarden.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/thank-you-to-our-partners/
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Peak oil lives, but will kill the economy | Nafeez Ahmed
Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remains of the off-shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon. Photograph: Rex Features/KPA/Zuma
Last Monday's BBC News at Ten broadcast a report by science editor David Shukman arguing that concerns "about oil supplies running dry are receding." Shukman interviewed a range of industry experts talking up the idea that a "peak" in oil production has been "moved to the backburner" - but he obfuscated compelling evidence in his own report contradicting this view.
"There's still plenty of oil - we just haven't got all of it out of the ground yet. There's not a real danger of there being no fossil fuel," one oil company executive told the BBC. "There's enough oil in this country for another 100 years with our present technology and there's more around the world to be found yet."
Following a chorus of industry hype on the wonders of shale gas and fracking, Shukman finally referred in passing to a new scientific paper published by Eos, Transactions - the newsletter of the American Geophysical Union - saying that the paper "supports the assertion that a peak in oil production is 'a myth' but argues that the rising cost of extraction could itself provide a limit, and may act as a brake on economic growth." He then closed his report with the following quote from a leading industry figure: "The era of cheap oil is over, but we're a long way from peak oil - costs will go up but the technology will respond."
The thrust of the message was that peak oil is a myth because we're not running out of oil. Even if costs go up, this will automatically spur the technological innovation that will make continued extraction of expensive oil viable.
But Shukman's characterisation of the new Eos paper is a combination of falsehood and half-truth. Far from describing peak oil as a myth, the paper's conclusions are far more nuanced, and point to an overwhelming body of evidence contradicting the industry hype that the rest of his report parrotts uncritically.
"Peak oil is not about oil reserves or resources, neither of which translates directly into production rate", the Eos paper points out. "Peak oil is not about running out of oil but about its peak in production...
"So is the idea of peak oil a myth? If readers are expecting an abrupt decrease in oil production, then it is. But if they understand that the manifestation of peak oil is a struggle between supply and demand that is resolved through global oil markets, they will understand that the data shows that peak oil can originate from economic as well as geological factors."
Indeed, peak oil does not suggest we are 'running out of oil', but that a peak in conventional oil production will create an increasing reliance on more expensive, unconventional forms of oil and gas which have a far lower energy output. According to the Eos paper, we seem to be arriving at that point:
"Global production of crude oil and condensates... has essentially remained on a plateau of about 75 million barrels per day (mb/d) since 2005 in spite of a large increase in the price of oil. Even more important, the global net oil exports from oil-exporting countries (oil production minus internal consumption) have peaked and are in decline."
The Eos paper goes on to point out that while "total oil production has plateaued, production of oil from older existing fields has been in decline, dropping roughly 5% annually, corresponding to a loss of 3-4 mb/d." Although production from unconventional oil and gas has balanced this decline, they are "difficult and expensive" with "very low energy return on investment (EROI)." In simpler terms, "it takes energy to get energy, and more is required to produce energy from unconventional sources."
On shale gas, study authors James Murray and Jim Hansen find that:
"There is no doubt that the nation's shale gas resources are immense, but the contention that the United States has a 100-year supply of natural gas is unfounded. The upper limit of supply is likely closer to 23 years using present- day rates of consumption."
The increasing dependence on more expensive unconventional sources with lower EROI has a fundamentally negative economic impact from which there is no easy escape. Murray and Hansen point to International Monetary Fund (IMF) data proving a historically "strong correlation between global economic growth (measured by an average of gross domestic product (GDP)) and oil production." They note that out of 11 recessions in the United States since World War 2, ten were preceded by oil price spikes:
"The increased price of oil leads to a sudden loss of demand (demand destruction) followed by a decrease in the price of oil (countering the initial increase that set this cycle in motion). If the price decreases enough, production of the expensive unconventional resources is no longer profitable."
Since 2005, though the price of oil has increased, production has still plateaued, suggesting that "supply is no longer able to match demand." This "inelastic supply of oil" creates a "price-production buffer against increasing economic growth." As global demand for oil increases, driven largely by emerging markets, this "leads to an increase in the price of oil." But this in turn means that "more unconventional resources become economically viable for development", leading to an increase in oil production.
However, the "potential for recession increases", because the whole cycle was set in motion by "an increase in the price of oil." As a seeming glut in unconventional production permits a nominal relaxation in prices, economic demand ramps up, once again pushing up oil prices as the economy hits the supply ceiling, reigniting the process. The result is an undulating production plateau correlating with higher but more volatile oil prices, as well as a prolonged recession punctuated by small cycles of 'recovery' and contraction.
"This feedback induces a drag on the economy," write the Eos authors, "and consistent economic growth is difficult against this price-production buffer." What does the future hold in this context? Rather than booming growth underpinned by fracking, they conclude:
"A 4% growth in GDP would require an annual increase in oil supply of 3%, and that would amount to an increase in oil production of 17 mb/d over the next 5 years. Because production of conventional oil appears stuck on a plateau of 75 mb/d, it is likely that economic growth may be difficult unless there is a transformation away from the historical relationship between energy use and economic growth."
Compare all this to the BBC's claim that the Eos paper describes peak oil as "a myth."
To the contrary, the paper suggests peak oil is alive and well - but that until we face up to the historic link between GDP growth and our over-dependence on cheap fossil fuels, we face the prospect of unrelenting economic strangulation.
Dr Nafeez Ahmed is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development and author of A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilisation: And How to Save It among other books. Follow him on Twitter @nafeezahmed
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Wells Fargo launches website to help members of the military
Posted at: 07/22/2013 10:58 AM
Wells Fargo launched a new website and service last week called HandsOnBanking.org.
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The website is aimed at members of the military, with topics focusing on different stages of their careers ranging from banking basics to planning for retirement.
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The bank's also pairing with the National Foundation for credit counseling, which is offering classes and one-on-one sessions. You can call 855-374-2773 for more information.?
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Jim Rash, Nat Faxon Moved Film Production To Steve Carell's Family Vacation Spot (VIDEO)
Nat Faxon and Jim Rash must have really felt they needed Steve Carell for their new movie, "The Way Way Back." They certainly went to great lengths to ensure his involvement, as they told Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show."
They started by pleading with him in a long letter. But while Carell said that he liked the script, their shooting time was when he spends time with his family in Boston. With Carell not wanting to miss this time with his family, Faxon and Rash came up with a solution.
"And so, we said, 'What if we shot it where you vacation with your family?'" Faxon told Leno. "And that was enough to do it. And so, we shot it in his backyard.? Ironically, they even checked out Carell's family house when they were scouting locations for the movie, though they didn't realize it was his at the time. Things might have gotten more intimate had they selected it for filming.
The comedians -- who wrote Oscar-winner ?The Descendants? -- pulled together an all-star cast for the movie, including Maya Rudolph, Toni Collette, Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney, but they all had to go to Carell's family vacation spot to be in the film.
"The Way, Way Back" is currently in theaters nationwide, and getting great reviews. It currently has an 83 percent "Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes. "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC.
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Smartphone laggard Nokia picks up pace under CEO Elop
By Ritsuko Ando
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia CEO Stephen Elop recalls a meeting in August 2011 in which the company's leadership struggled to decide on the name of its new smartphone, the first using Windows Phone software.
"We almost fell into the trap that had often befallen Nokia, which was... let them work on it a bit longer because we couldn't quite reach agreement," Elop said. Instead, he demanded a decision that day.
"Why wait till tomorrow or next week? We could make the decision today. And we did." Lumia was the result.
Senior Nokia employees say Elop, hired in 2010 to revive the once-undisputed leader in mobile phones, has forced them to make faster decisions, which has sped up everything from restructuring to the development of new handsets.
There is no time to waste. Nokia's ability to compete in the global smartphone market is increasingly questioned; its market share is stands at around three percent, far behind Samsung and Apple which control around 50 percent between them.
Second-quarter Lumia sales missed market estimates, and with cash reserves falling, some investors worry how much time Elop has left to validate his decision to adopt Microsoft's untested Windows Phone software. The transition to Windows, which he said would take two years, is now in its third.
Nokia has picked up the pace of product launches this year, including the July 11 unveiling of its Lumia 1020 with a 41-megapixel camera.
Elop reckoned the company spent 22 months on the N8, which used the now-obsolete Symbian operating system and was launched shortly after he joined the company.
"A number of our Windows Phone products are on six to eight month delivery cycles. We are moving so much faster," he said.
Apple has been launching a new iPhone around once a year, and analysts have said it may need to speed its cycle up to compete with the frequency and variety of Samsung product launches. The South Korean company has close to 40 versions on the market compared with around 20 for Nokia.
Nokia's 1020 is the most advanced of its Lumia smartphones, and followed the 925 and 928 launches in May. In February, it introduced the more basic Lumia 520 and 521 models.
Also this year, it announced a 15-euro phone, its cheapest phone ever. It has also upgraded its line of feature phones with the Asha 210 and 310, as well as the more powerful 501 with built-in social media applications.
Elop said the older Nokia prioritized quality and features but was less disciplined about the time it took to deliver.
"There was a pattern in the past where, with Symbian and everything, lots and lots and lots and lots of things got added and it took a long time to get the quality up to the right level," he said.
It has cut one in three jobs under Elop, and some employees say the leaner structure means things get done faster.
BUZZ
Samuli Hanninen, who was in charge of building the imaging software for Lumia 1020 and had returned from its launch event in New York several days earlier, said he was enjoying the same kind of buzz he felt in his early days at Nokia a decade ago.
"We had a culture where we never gave up, we were always working very late, you could call guys at any point of the day to say this needs to be fixed," he said. "We somehow lost it. The process became more important than the product and consumer."
Elop, a Canadian and former Microsoft executive, replaced Olli Pekka Kallasvuo, who led the company from 2006 and was criticized for being complacent about the rise of smartphones.
Elop was the first non-Finn to become CEO of the 148-year-old company, which started as a paper mill and at one point made rubber boots. Many initially wondered whether he could fit in.
His enthusiasm quickly endeared him to staff. In person, he is quick to laugh and to offer jokes, with a down-to-earth style that has little in common with the Microsoft's Steve Ballmer or Apple's former CEO Steve Jobs.
He can also be blunt. In a now-famous 2011 email to staff, he compared Symbian to a "burning platform" that needed to be abandoned. The switch to Windows was a shock, but many said Elop won support with his frankness.
Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner who has followed the industry for over a decade, said the switch was the right choice and one that could only have been made by an outsider.
"You needed someone who wasn't personally invested, who could take a harsher look," she said. "If you'd been there, you'd obviously have been part of what the problem was."
DON'T BE ARROGANT
The problem, Elop says, was a stubbornness that came from years of being at the top. He says he has encouraged employees to adopt a "challenger mindset".
"What I really mean is, don't be arrogant," he said. "There's a number of examples over the last six, seven years, where Nokia heard trends but decided to ignore those trends because it felt that it somehow knew better... And that hurt the company badly for many years."
Alf Noto, head of Nokia's customer care division, said that approach was reflected in the way it now deals with customers. Elop answers around 10-20 customer emails each day, he said.
Others say Nokia has also become more humble towards its partners, including carriers and retailers who sell handsets, as well as developers who create the apps for phones.
"He took a lot of the arrogance out. For a while we were behaving like a market leader and we weren't," said Christof Hellmis, an executive at Nokia's Here navigation business.
Elop, however, has yet to prove he was right to switch to Windows, with Google's Android and Apple's iOS running around 90 percent of smartphones sold today.
He was speaking to Reuters the day before it announced it sold 7.4 million Lumia phones in the second quarter, a 32 percent improvement from the first quarter but fewer than the market's consensus forecast of 8.1 million units.
It chose not to predict future Lumia sales and some, including Pierre Ferragu at Bernstein Research, are skeptical about Nokia's ability to compete in smartphones.
Nokia shares, now around 3 euros, are a fraction of their 2000 peak of 65 euros, and its bonds have junk ratings.
Chris Weber, executive vice president in charge of global sales and marketing, said its expanded product line, as well as a joint marketing push with Microsoft and AT&T for the Lumia 1020, should help boost sales ahead.
Gartner's Milanesi was also optimistic.
"They're now behaving the way they should, fighting and thinking differently," she said. "Things don't change overnight... But I think the 1020 is going to be the spark to get customers to pay attention to Nokia."
(Additional reporting by Sinead Carew in New York; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/smartphone-laggard-nokia-picks-pace-under-ceo-elop-141146074.html
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Is Rory MacDonald the next GSP? UFC on Fox 8 opponent Jake Ellenberger doesn?t think so
Jake Ellenberger has been floating near the top of the UFC's welterweight class for some time. He has just two losses in the UFC: a split decision loss to Carlos Condit in Ellenberger's UFC debut, and a knockout loss to Martin Kampmann last June. He has eight UFC wins, with four knockouts. In his most recent bout, Ellenberger knocked out Nate Marquardt in the first round.
"I was prepared. I was ready to fight. I always know the potential to capitalize on the opportunity finish a fight, and fortunately, that's what happened," Ellenberger told the Shoot in the above video.
This Saturday at UFC on Fox 8, he will have to face Rory MacDonald, a 24-year-old phenom with a record of 14-1. While Ellenberger is impressed with his opponent, he's not totally buying into the hype.
"Rory's a kid with a lot of potential. He's well-rounded.He's really not weak anywhere. To say he's the next [UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre]? I'd have to disagree with that a little. I think the media invented that because he trains with GSP."
If Ellenberger gets the win, it will be his third in a row, and would put him much closer to a title shot. What does he need to do Saturday to convince you he is a contender? Speak up on Facebook or Twitter.
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David Cameron declares war on £124bn European Union red tape
David Cameron hopes to have a referendum on EU membership by 2015
Brussels regulations on issues ranging from packaging to working hours are hurting the UK economy, according to the report.
Prime Minister David Cameron will use its findings to push for the UK to reshape its ties to the EU.
The Foreign Office report, published today, reveals 400 laws passed by Brussels in the past three years alone were costing British businesses a massive ?676million a year. Research at think tank Open Europe has claimed the ridiculous rules cost Britain ?124bn between 1998 and 2010.
?The Foreign Office report, published today, reveals 400 laws passed by Brussels in the past three years alone were costing British businesses a massive ?676million a year?
Conservative MP Philip Hollobone said crazy rules were making the country poorer.
He said: ?I think a growing number of people in Britain are coming to the conclusion it?s costing us far too much to be a member of the EU.
?The growing burden of regulation means our businesses are increasingly at a disadvantage.?
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Rihanna and Cara party the night away in London
20 JULY 2013
Rihanna and Cara Delevingne partied the night away on Friday as they let their hair down at London nightclub, Cirque le Soir. The pair were spotted leaving their hotel at around two in the morning, before heading to the Soho club, which promises "a thrilling assault on the senses from every angle, including dwarves, magicians and?clowns".
The friends evidently had a good time, as?Cara posted a photograph of themselves with some of the club's circus performers, which was swiflty 'liked' by just under?100,000 people.
Maintaining her typically low-key look for the night out, Cara opted for a plain black t-shirt, grey patterned trousers and a pair of black high-top trainers.
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Rihanna showed off her toned stomach in a black and white striped cropped top, which she teamed with white trousers, a white Roberto Cavalli jacket and a host of gold jewellery.
"#LondonTown #RobertoCavalli #YesThisIsAMensJacket," Rihanna posted on Instagram, along with a photograph of herself in the outfit and a Union Jack flag flying just behind her head.
The Umbrella singer is evidently a big fan of the jacket, which she has?nicknamed her 'baby',?as she posted another picture of it on Saturday morning with the caption "Woke up with my baby next to me #cavallicavalli."
Rihanna also stepped out with her newly coloured grey hair. The megastar posted a series of Instagram snaps on Thursday that showed off her new 'do.
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Rihanna and Cara, who is usually spotted out with her 'wifey', singer Rita Ora, have been spending time together while the Diamonds singer is in the capital.
Cara thanked Rihanna for?her friendship by posting a picture of the two of them in bikinis on her Instagram account.
"Thank you my boo @badgalriri for always making me smile and of course for keeping my bum cheek warm," wrote Cara in reference to the photograph showing Rihanna with her hand on Cara's behind.
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