EU and Japan Team Up for 100 Gbps Internet Connections

The EU and Japan are teaming up to develop network technologies that offer speeds of 100Gbps, some 5,000 times faster than the average European broadband speed of around 20Mbps.

The project to develop the incredibly high speeds is one of six deals being undertaken by the EU and Japan, which will be funded with ?18m to research areas that include cyber security, network capacity, storage, high density data traffic and energy efficiency.

The European Commission (EC) said that given the huge amounts of data that networks will generate in the future, there is a ?pressing need? to create more efficient networks that can handle vast amounts of data. To illustrate this, the EC said currently 1.7 million billion bytes of data is sent per minute and these traffic volumes are expected to grow 12-fold by 2018.

EC digital vice president Neelie Kroes said: "Our future internet should know no barriers, least of all barriers created because we did not prepare for the data revolution.?

The project involved on the 100Gbps networks is called Strauss. More insight is given on the EU and Japanese plans to develop the technology on the Strauss website.

?The Strauss project aims to define a highly efficient and global (multi-domain) optical infrastructure for Ethernet transport, covering heterogeneous transport and network control plane technologies, enabling an Ethernet ecosystem,? the website notes.

?It will design, implement and evaluate, via large-scale demonstrations, an advanced optical Ethernet transport architecture. The proposed architecture leverages on software-defined networking principles, on optical network virtualisation as well as on flexible optical circuit and packet-switching technologies beyond 100Gbps.?

Other projects include, Miweba, which is looking at making better use of existing radio frequencies in order to boost ultra-high speed and mobile connections. Necoma is looking at new ways to enhance personal data security in sensitive environments while GreenICN is looking at the reliability of networks in post-disaster situations when network performance is vital.

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2 killed in attack in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula

CAIRO (AP) ? An Egyptian security official says militants have attacked a security checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least two people.

The official says the gunmen stormed the post in an area called Sadr Haitan in central Sinai early Wednesday. He says six people were wounded in the attack. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the press.

Sinai has witnessed a series of daily attacks on police and army posts since Egypt's military deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last week.

Islamic extremists and former jihadists have threatened to escalate attacks in retaliation for Morsi's ouster.

Officials said earlier that a total of five policemen killed by militants in shootings around the Sinai city of el-Arish in the past week.

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Washington D.C. Forecast: High humidity remains across the region

A few showers may reach the area overnight. Then back to hot and humid conditions tomorrow.

Overnight:

Mostly cloudy, Muggy, Showers Possible

Lows: 70s

Wind: SW 4-8 m.p.h.

Wednesday:

Partly Sunny, PM T-Showers

Highs: Near 90

Precipitation: 40%

Thursday:

Partly Sunny, T-Storms Likely

Highs: Upper 80s

Precipitation: 60%

An elongated area of low pressure (a trough) across our region and a few weather disturbances moving through the trough?with me so far?....will keep it warm and humid with scattered showers and thunderstorms at times through Thursday. Showers and thunderstorms will become a more widespread on Thursday as a cold front approaches and crosses the area.

On Friday, we are forecasting clearing, cooler and drier weather with lots of sunshine. Saturday looks great, as well, with sunshine and highs in the middle 80s. By Sunday, temperatures and humidity levels will rise a bit and a couple thunderstorms may start popping during the afternoon.

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Group Rallies To Keep SF City College Open Amid Closure Threat

Students at City College of San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)??A coalition of students, faculty and other supporters are fighting to keep City College of San Francisco open, following last week?s announcement that the school will lose accreditation next July.

A group called Save CCSF held a news conference Tuesday morning in advance of an afternoon rally at the Mission campus and march to the Department of Education?s downtown offices.

At the college?s Chinatown campus, CCSF student Trustee Shannel Williams called the decision made public last week by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) an outrage and an attack on the working class.

• Rally And March To ?Save CCSF? Held As School Faces Threat Of Closure
• KCBS? Anna Duckworth Reports

?If we lose City College of San Francisco, we are losing the heart of this city. The ACCJC is willing to displace 90,000 students,? she said.

The ACCJC said the school will lose accreditation next July 31st because it fulfilled just two of 14 recommendations needed to meet standards.

Former CCSF dean Fred Chavarria said the academics have never been in question. ?We?re talking about the creation of social capital and when you think about this city and you think about the kinds of students that have gone through the community college, it?s worth the investment,? Chavarria said.

Coalition members said they hope a special trustee appointed to run CCSF will work in earnest to keep it from closing.

The coalition is calling on the Department of Education to immediately revoke the license that allows the ACCJC to function.

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Wimbledon 2013: Andy Murray hails the Ivan Lendl effect as coach finally cracks a smile

Master and pupil: Murray poses with coach Ivan Lendl at the Wimbledon Champions? Ball (Picture: Getty Images)

Ivan Lendl allowed himself a rare smile and then told Andy Murray he was proud that he had just become the first Briton in nearly eight decades to win the men?s title at Wimbledon.

The classy Czech won three French, three US and two Australian Open titles but never triumphed at the All England Club, losing the 1986 and 1987 finals.

Since becoming Murray?s coach he has transformed the world No.2 from a player with real potential into the man everyone else fears facing.

Murray has become an Olympic gold medallist, a US Open champion and, yes, finally, the king of Wimbledon, under Lendl?s watchful eye and the pair have formed a hugely successful working relationship.

Emotions in check: Lendl was his trademark impassive self during the final (Picture: Getty Images)

Big hug: Murray and Lendl embrace after the Scot?s triumph (Picture: AP)

Lends was, tellingly and fittingly, the first person Murray shared his victory with as he climbed the Centre Court seats to the players? box after his straight-sets victory over Novak Djokovic, and the 26-year-old Scot revealed: ?He just said he was proud of me which coming from him means a lot.

?You know, he doesn?t smile too much in public but when he?s away from the crowds and the cameras he?s a very different character.

?Ideally he would have won Wimbledon himself but I think this was the next best thing for him. I?m saying it seriously.

?He believed in me when a lot of people didn?t. He stuck by me through some tough losses the last couple of years. He?s been very patient with me. I?m just happy I managed to do it for him.?

Three?s the magic number: Murray, with coach Lendl and hitting partner Dani Vallverdu (Picture: Getty Images)

Murray then pinpointed the differences Lendl?s coaching has made to his game and how he has turned him into a multiple grand-slam winner.

?He?s made me learn more from the losses that I?ve had than maybe I did in the past,? Murray added. ?I think he?s always been very honest with me.

?He?s always told me exactly what he has thought and in tennis it is not always that easy to do in a player/coach relationship. The player is sometimes the one in charge.

?Sometimes coaches are not always that comfortable doing that but he?s been extremely honest with me. If I work hard he?s happy, if I don?t he?s disappointed and he will tell me.

?And, yeah, when I have lost matches like last year?s final, he told me he was proud of the way I played in a grand slam final like that. He?s got my mentality slightly different going into matches like that.?

Source: http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/08/wimbledon-2013-andy-murray-hails-the-ivan-lendl-effect-as-coach-finally-cracks-a-smile-3872815/

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Hot Summer Reads: Hazlitt's Essays

It's a shame that William Hazlitt's essays haven't yet shown up on anybody else's list of Hot Summer Reads. Granted, the fellow can be grumpy at times and a mite too sure of himself. On top of that, he hasn't published anything new since 1830.

But in our age of hype, hooey, and balderdash, Hazlitt's plain speaker still provides some of the best table talk in town--caustic, impassioned, and genuinely interesting. In that questionable corner where journalism bumps up against literature, Hazlitt's style is one of the finest and fiercest in the language.

Ronald Blythe has characterized Hazlitt as "the word-juggler who never misses: his almost casual use of ornament, epigram, and fancy is hypnotic." Another notable English essayist, Virginia Woolf, said that Hazlitt's essays are "emphatically himself," and that even the titles of some of those essays betray his distinctive character: "On the Connection between Toad-Eaters and Tyrants," "On Cant and Hypocrisy," "On Disagreeable People," and "On the Pleasure of Hating."

Also worth reading are Hazlitt's observations on the nature of writing. In the essay "On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking," he argues that "few persons can be found who speak and write equally well." An expert speaker is more immediately impressive--and invariably shallow; the writer, by contrast, is "thrown back . . . on the severer researches of thought and study":

The writer must be original, or he is nothing. He is not to take up with ready-made goods; for he has time allowed him to create his own materials, to make novel combinations of thought and fancy, to contend with unforeseen difficulties of style and execution, while we look on, and admire the growing work in secret and at leisure. There is a degree of finishing as well as of solid strength in writing which is not to be got at every day, and we can wait for perfection.

Finally, let me recommend six essays by Hazlitt that appear in our collection of Classic British and American Essays and Speeches:

• On Corporate Bodies
  "Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor good-will."


• On Familiar Style
  "It is not easy to write a familiar style. Many people mistake a familiar for a vulgar style, and suppose that to write without affectation is to write at random. On the contrary, there is nothing that requires more precision, and, if I may so say, purity of expression, than the style I am speaking of."


• On the Fear of Death
  "There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern--why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?"


• On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth
  "The world is a witch that puts us off with false shows and appearances. The simplicity of youth, the confiding expectation, the boundless raptures, are gone: we only think of getting out of it as well as we can, and without any great mischance or annoyance."


• On Going a Journey
  This essay "is so good," said Robert Louis Stevenson, "that there should be a tax levied on all who have not read it."


• On Gusto
  "In a word, gusto in painting is where the impression made on one sense excites by affinity those of another."

If these essays put you in the mood for some seriously good summer reading, pick up the Oxford World's Classics edition of Hazlitt's Selected Writings, edited by Jon Cook (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Image: William Hazlitt, Selected Writings (Oxford University Press, 2009)

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Antarctic lake 'might have fish'

8 July 2013 Last updated at 09:29 ET

There could be some complex animals living in Lake Vostok, which lies close to 4km below Antarctica's ice sheet.

The possibility is raised by scientists who have sifted genetic material in ice drilled from close to Vostok's surface.

They found signatures for organisms such as bacteria that are often associated with marine molluscs, crustaceans and even fish.

But the team cautions in the PLoS One journal that this material may also represent past contamination.

Scientists now recognise that Antarctica is underlain by a complex network of rivers, and many of the identified organisms, or their traces, could perhaps have been delivered to Vostok from the ocean. The lake is 200m below sea level.

It is, nonetheless, another fascinating twist in the story of this deeply buried lake.

First identified in 1956 by the Russians and mapped in the 1990s by the British, Vostok covers an area of 15,000 square km, and in places is 800m deep.

Researchers believe it has not been open to the atmosphere for many millions of years, and a drilling effort has recently tried to sample its waters.

The new PLoS study examined genetic material - stretches of RNA - isolated from ice that froze on to the ice sheet as it moved above the lake. The supposition was that this content might hint at the type of life present in Vostok.

Thousands of unique matches were identified with sequences already listed in public databases.

The vast majority (94%) of these matches were with bacteria, while a smaller group (6%) were with more complex, multi-cellular organisms (eukaryotes). A handful of links were made also to archaea - very primitive, single-celled microbes.

A large number of bacterial sequences, reports the team, were from "animal commensals, mutualists and pathogens? including those associated with annelids, sea anemones, brachiopods, tardigrades and fish."

The team also found matches to types of bacteria that thrive in hot environments, such as around volcanic hydrothermal vents on the sea floor. If such vents existed in Vostok, they could "provide sources of energy and nutrients vital for organisms living in the lake", the team writes in PloS One.

Lake Vostok is the largest of about 375 sub-glacial bodies of water now mapped under Antarctica's ice sheet.

These "ghost" lakes are kept in a liquid state by heat rising from the rockbed below and from the pressure of all the ice pushing down from above.

Astrobiologists have a particular interest in the lakes.

Conditions in them may not be that different from those in the liquid water bodies thought to exist under the surfaces of icy moons in the outer Solar System.

Places like Europa, which orbits Jupiter, and Enceladus, which circles Saturn, may be among the best places beyond Earth to go to look for alien organisms.

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By Thad Shirley on July 5, 2013

Lake Mead is a great place to go when you want to get away from Las Vegas for a little while, especially during the summer when you want to cool off.? A lot of people want to go, but don?t because they don?t want to go swimming, and they don?t have any watercraft on which to enjoy the lake.

?That is why renting jet skis can be so much fun.? The cost of owning them can be too great, especially if you only go out to the lake a couple times a year, or are just visiting Las Vegas.? The rental fees aren?t that high, especially with all of the fun you will have.

?You will need a credit card as they do put a liability charge on it, and when you return it in good condition they take it off.? You can rent them for one hour, two hours or even all day.

?The workers will give you a map, and though it is out of date as far as the water level fluctuations, they will tell you which areas are safe to go it, give you suggestions on possible stops along the way (like islands you can beach on) and then it?s up to you to supply the fun.? You can go up to Hoover dam which is cool to see from the water.

?The jet skis are quite sturdy, and you have to do something really crazy to tip them over, so they?re great even for beginners to ride. They seat two people each, so you can go with a buddy or set off alone.

?Beat the summer, and cool off at the lake. When the temperatures get over 110 degrees, you could be whizzing across the lake, with the wind in your hair.

?If you or some one you know buys a jet ski, boat, or any other watercraft, call Insurance Specialists today and get a reliable quote with great coverage options.? On-water towing, trailer roadside assistance, and equipment insurance are just a few coverage options that we can add to your watercraft insurance policy. Call an insurance agent at our office and get insured with a great Las Vegas based company.? Our phone number is 702-307-3398. An agent will be able to go over any questions you may have and get you started with a policy as well as go over options for bundling other types of insurance like home insurance and auto insurance.? Enjoy the lake this season and be safe!

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A surprising source of demand for US natural gas

The US natural gas market is on the verge of a big swing, Forest writes, but it doesn't have to do with liquid natural gas. Instead, there's an interesting and unexpected source of demand for US natural gas.

By Dave Forest,?Guest blogger / July 4, 2013

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And it?s not about the talk of the town, Liquid Natural Gas (LNG).

It's about an unexpected source of natural gas demand:

Mexico

Mexican imports of U.S. gas have skyrocketed 92% since 2008. And with export capacity projected to grow to over 7 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), Mexico could start taking 10% of U.S. production?in a very short time frame, with very low capital costs compared to the LNG boom unfolding.?

There is a lot less risk, and a lot less cost in getting huge natural gas exports to Mexico, compared to LNG?and the volumes may be enough to move margins in the North American market.?

At least six new pipeline projects are now on the books, aimed at sending gas southward.

Today, I?ll explain what?s happening now, and what potential impact this extra demand could have on natural gas prices.

To find out, we take a look below at exactly what?s happening in Mexico, what?s getting built, and who?s positioned to take advantage.

The Not-So-Slow Death of a Gas Producer

Mexico used to have a pretty decent gas industry.

Between 1990 and 2008, the nation?s nat gas production grew steadily, nearly doubling over the two decades.

The bulk of this output comes from national oil and gas company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. With strong natural gas prices between 2003 and 2008, Pemex stepped up its drilling, growing gas production from 4.5 Bcf/d to nearly 7.5 Bcf/d.

But with the collapse in gas prices in early 2008, that changed. Pemex stopped a lot of its gas drilling activity. Instead, the Mexican government made a strategic decision to meet domestic demand by importing now-cheap gas.

Since that time, Pemex?s gas production has fallen steadily, by about 15% from 2008 levels.

The lack of investment in the gas sector has also had a big effect on Mexican reserves. In the late 1990s, the nation had more than 60 Tcf of proven reserves. Today, gas in the ground has fallen off a cliff, with only about 17 Tcf proven reserves remaining.

At the same time as production has been falling, Mexico?s gas demand is ramping up.

Gas consumption across the country has risen 160% since 1990 to 2.36 Tcf per year. Since 2007?while domestic production has been nose-diving?Mexico?s gas use has jumped 16.7%.

Much of the rise in demand has been driven by fuel-switching. In 2000, only 20% of Mexican power generation was fueled by natural gas. But by 2007, nat gas use increased to account for 50% of power output. Largely displacing oil-fired generation.?(Related article:?How to Profit from the Developing Shift in the Natural Gas Market - Interview)

On the back of this rising demand, Mexico?s natural gas supply-demand balance is?for the first-time ever?near deficit. Current gas usage amounts to nearly 6.5 Bcf/d, and Pemex is now producing less than that.

The Switch is On

Faced with a supply short-fall, Mexican nat gas imports have been on a tear.

Between 2003 and 2007, Mexico was bringing in between 350 and 400 Bcf a year of imported gas. But since gas got cheap in 2008, imports have jumped 92%. Total imports hit 767 Bcf in 2012.

Overall, imported gas now accounts for about 30% of total Mexican supply. The majority coming through pipeline feed from the U.S. Only about 20% is supplied via LNG.

Mexico is now importing about 2.1 Bcf/d. Or about 3% of total U.S. gas production. Numbers that are starting to get significant.

The really interesting part of this story is the growth potential.

The switch from oil- to gas-fired power generation is continuing across Mexico. Just this month, gas infrastructure providers GDF SUEZ Mexico and GE Energy Financial Services announced they will extend their Mayakan pipeline into the Yucatan Peninsula?underpinned by a 300 MMcf/d gas-supply contract with Mexican electric utility CFE, who are switching power plants in the Yucatan to gas generation.

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The US Government Spent $630,000 To 'Buy ... - Business Insider

The US State Department was Wednesday under fire for spending $630,000 over two years to win millions of "likes" on its Facebook pages at a time of severe government austerity measures.

A scathing report by the department's independent watchdog took the coordinators of its social media outreach policy to task saying it needed to "direct its digital advertising to specific public diplomacy goals."

The report by the Office of the Inspector General found that two advertising campaigns launched in 2011 and 2012 cost some $630,000 with the "goal of building global outreach platforms for engagement with foreign audiences by increasing the number of fans... on four thematic Facebook properties."

"Many in the bureau criticize the advertising campaigns as 'buying fans' who may have once clicked on a post or 'liked' a photo but have no real interest in the topic and have never engaged further," read the report released late last month.

Although each of the four thematic pages run by the Bureau of International Information Programs managed to attract some 2.5 million fans by mid-March, only about 2 percent of those actually actively engaged with the sites by 'liking' topics or sharing information posted on it.

"Many postings had fewer than 100 comments or shares; the most popular ones had several hundred," the report said.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the report had been taken seriously and vowed most its recommendations would be implemented before the start of the 2014 fiscal year in October.

"Online advertising has significantly decreased. It's now at $2,500 a month," she said, adding that "still allows us to reach out and communicate with a wide range of individuals living overseas."

The State Department has embraced the wide outreach made possible through social media, but is still developing guidelines for how such sites as Facebook and Twitter should be used in the world of diplomacy.

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The Right Incentive Can Erase an Autism Deficit

With the right incentive, such as winning a prize, children with autism do fairly well at inferring the thoughts and beliefs of others, according to a new study

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With the right incentive, such as winning a prize, children with autism do fairly well at inferring the thoughts and beliefs of others, according to a study published in the May issue of Developmental Science.

Research has shown that children with autism usually struggle with a widely used test designed to gauge this ability, called theory of mind. The new study suggests that they are able to grasp theory of mind, but don?t have a strong motivation to give the correct answer when taking the classic test.

The particulars of the test vary, but children are generally told a story in which two characters (often called Sally and Ann) place an object in a basket. After Sally leaves the room, Ann moves the item into a box. The child passes the test if he or she knows that Sally will look for the item in the basket and not the box.

Typical children struggle with this test as 3-year-olds, but most pass it by 5 years of age. The majority of children with autism continue to fail the test well into their teenage years. Adults with autism are usually able to pass the Sally-Ann test, as it is often called, but struggle with more subtle examples of theory of mind.

In the new study, the researchers revised the Sally-Ann test into a game. For typically developing children, the motivation to answer a question correctly may be tied to a desire for social interactions. In contrast, children with autism may use theory of mind when they want something concrete, for example when competing for things with a sibling, the researchers say.

In the new test, the children think they?re competing with two people ? named Dot and Midge ? for a toy car or ball: Whoever finds the toy first can keep it.

As in the Sally-Ann test, the researchers place the toy in one container and then move it after one participant (Midge) leaves the room. The children have to wait for either Dot or Midge to try to win the toy before they have their turn. But they can choose whether Dot or Midge goes first. If they grasp that Midge doesn?t know where the toy was moved to, they are more likely to pick her.

The researchers gave both the Dot-Midge and the Sally-Ann test (using dolls to represent the two characters in the latter test) to 23 high-functioning children with autism ranging from 7 to 13 years old, and 73 typically developing children split into three groups with an average age of 3 years, 4 years and 2 months, and 4 years and 8 months. Each child took the tests twice.

As expected, only 3 of the 23 children with autism answered the Sally-Ann test correctly both times. But 17 of them got a perfect score on the Dot-Midge test, answering correctly both times.

Similarly, not all typical 4-year-olds correctly answered the Sally-Ann test, but 13 of 24 younger 4-year-olds and 20 of 26 older 4-year-olds passed the Dot-Midge test. The typical 3-year-olds did poorly on both tests. This suggests that the Dot-Midge test reveals theory of mind at a younger age than does the Sally-Ann test, the researchers say.

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NEW iPhone App, Flick a Trade, reinvents financial trading - Keys To ...

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LONDON, July 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ ? Every day millions of people try their luck at casino tables, bet on sporting events and play chance games online?all of which offer worse odds of winning than trading. Financial trading, though, presents considerable barriers to entry: Would-be market participants need access via brokers, banks or retail trading firms; they need knowledge about how markets move and how to benefit from those shifts; and they need not insignificant amounts of disposable time and cash. Because of these barriers, trading is like a thrilling roller coaster that many people just aren?t tall enough to ride.

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Enter Flick a Trade (www.flickatrade.com)?a reality game that offers all the excitement of the financial fair ground without any of the risk. The game is designed to be intuitive and fun so that complete novices are up and trading with fantasy funds within minutes. Beginners and pros alike enjoy fast access to 70+ live markets?commodities, indices or currencies?24/5. They can play anywhere from their smart phone, using simple, familiar gestures?drag and drop, pinch and zoom, fold and tap, swipe and flick?to create watch lists, interact with charts and place trades.

This new iPhone release is a complete remake of Flick a Trade?s previous app, which was launched as a limited beta six months ago and attracted players from more than 150 countries. New Android and iPad versions will follow shortly.

Flick a Trade is very much a game?with engaging, innovative graphics and sounds, various levels of play, leader boards and challenge rounds?but it is very real at the same time. It is the only trading game built specifically for mobile that uses live streaming market data. And it is the only game powered by a high speed, highly available, exponentially scalable, cloud-based trading platform on par with what?s currently available to professionals. As such, it represents an all-new kind of reality game?one that lets people play in the real world, not some facsimile of it, gaining real benefits through their play.

The object of Flick a Trade is simple: Make as much funny money as possible during a set timeframe, from five minutes to a full day. Flick a Trade players view and select markets via the game?s novel folding tile interface. Players can access Fantasy Markets?snapshots of real historical data?for practice or jump into live market action.

Flick a Traders watch their markets by toggling between fully interactive charts that provide trade plots and average price indicators, plus the ability to scroll or pinch zoom in/out to see different time periods. The game?s custom trend signals indicate a market?s current direction. If players think the market is moving up, they flick up to buy. Alternatively, they flick down to sell. To get out at any time, they can double tap and flick to dump their positions. Players may place up to 20 trades in one direction per market per game.

Players can create an unlimited number of portfolios, on demand, by starting new games, resetting and cashing out of existing games. They can play solo or with other people, and share performance statistics seamlessly on major social networks. They can also exchange strategies and insights, challenge friends and be part of a growing community of mobile Flick a Traders.

?Flick a Trade removes real barriers?in terms of knowledge, experience, access and available funds?for a whole new group of would-be market participants,? says Kerem Ozelli, CEO of Cygnecode Ltd, developers of Flick a Trade. ?We wanted to redefine how people interact with the markets. Mobile is the main point of access and games are the preferred format.?

Cygnecode is a London (UK) based technology company with offices in Vienna, Austria and Dresden, Germany. They are an experienced team of finance, technology, design and media professionals who have worked together?across borders, across disciplines, across corporations?for many years. They develop trading games and gamified trading applications. ?Our core mission is to make personal finance more intuitive, transparent, engaging and fun,? Ozelli explains.?

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This Is the Poster for the Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs Biopic

This psychedelic take on an iconic photo is the official poster for jOBs.

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Debunking the myths: 3 false claims about immigration reform

Many critics of immigration reform claim that opening up pathways for immigrants is unnecessary, will strain an already overburdened government, and take jobs away from native-born Americans. Reich tackles all three 'economic myths.'

By Robert Reich,?Guest blogger / July 2, 2013

Immigrant students join a coalition of immigrant rights supporters on a 24-hour vigil calling on the U.S. Congress to pass immigration reform outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles, Calif. in June 2013. Immigration reform will not hurt Americans or take jobs away from them, Reich argues.

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The battle over immigration reform is often about economic fear ? fear that immigrants are hurting the economy for native born Americans. ?But that fear is based on several economic myths:

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Robert is chancellor?s professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Clinton. Time Magazine?named him one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written 13 books, including ?The Work of Nations,? his latest best-seller ?Aftershock: The Next Economy and America?s Future," and a new?e-book, ?Beyond Outrage.??He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine and chairman of Common Cause.

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MYTH ONE:?Immigration reform will strain already overburdened government safety net programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Wrong. ?

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office finds that immigration reform will actually reduce the budget deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Why is that? Because while they seek citizenship, undocumented workers will be required to pay into Social Security and Medicare even though they won?t be eligible for them.

They?re also younger on average than the typical worker, so even when they?re citizens they?ll be paying into Social Security and Medicare far longer.

MYTH TWO: New immigrants take away jobs from native-born Americans.?

Wrong again.?

The economy doesn?t contain a fixed number of jobs to be divided up among people who need them. As an economy grows, it creates more jobs. And what we?ve seen over the last 200 years is that new immigrants to America fuel that growth, and thereby create more jobs for everyone.?

We?ve also learned that new immigrants are by definition ambitious. They wouldn?t have borne all the risks and hardships of immigrating to the United States if they weren?t. And that ambition and hard work help the economy grow even faster.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that immigration reform will increase economic growth by more than 3 percent 10 years from now, 5 percent in 20 years.

Ambition also helps explain why the children of new immigrants earn more college degrees, on average, than the children of native-born.

And why their incomes are higher than their parent?s incomes.

All of which also helps grow the economy and create more jobs.?

MYTH THREE:?We don?t need new immigrants.

Wrong again.

The American population is aging rapidly. Forty years ago there were five workers for every retiree. Now there are three. If present trends continue, there will be only two workers for every retiree by the year 2030.

No economy can survive on a ratio of 2 workers per retiree.

But because new immigrants are on average younger than native-born Americans, they?ll help bring that ratio back down. They?re needed so we can continue to have a vibrant economy.

Get it? Three wrongs don?t make a right. The right answer is immigration reform is not only good for undocumented workers. It?s also good for the rest of us.?

The Christian Science Monitor has assembled a diverse group of the best economy-related bloggers out there. Our guest bloggers are not employed or directed by the Monitor and the views expressed are the bloggers' own, as is responsibility for the content of their blogs. To contact us about a blogger, click here. This post originally ran on www.robertreich.org.

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Justin Timberlake: Tunnel Vision (NSFW NSFW NSFW)

Not to be outdone by his less famous mirror image Robin Thicke, Justin Timberlake has released a new music video, 'Tunnel Vision', that skirts the NSFW YouTube line with boobies just like Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines video. Which is to say: THIS VIDEO IS SO NSFW PEOPLE. It's nearly as NSFW as Blurred Lines which wasn't even safe enough for YouTube.

Which means. Well, something. Will JT's new music video get pulled from YouTube in the same way most music videos get pulled? Remember, Blurred Lines was allowed to exist for a while until it was chopped off from YouTube. JT's Tunnel Vision is currently on YouTube, should we count down when YouTube catches it? Or should we keep our fingers crossed for a more lenient YouTube policy on nudity?

Supposedly, YouTube will let nudity pass if you qualify your nudity as art (and the women are posing... artistically?), of course what I consider art might be different than what you consider art and what we consider art can totally be porn(ish) to YouTube. But music videos that have been fairly artsy in the past have been pulled when YouTube's prudish eye focuses itself onto the video.

If anything, I'm enjoying how popular music videos are pushing the limits of YouTube. [Justin Timberlake VEVO]

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Justin Bieber Shirtless Pics: Holy Six Pack!

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How Did It Take So Long to Make a Star Trek Phaser Laser Pointer?

Combining a simple red laser pointer with a Star Trek phaser toy seems so incredibly obvious, but apparently it's taken this long for a clever entrepreneur to put those pieces together and come up with this adorable keychain that actually fires a glowing blast. That, or it's taken years to negotiate the Star Trek licensing rights.

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Sun Food vs. Oil Food

American science journalist and author Michael Pollan, speaking at a Yale University "Masters Tea", April 2008.

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Eating meat is bad for the planet, right? That hamburger you?re contemplating for lunch comes from a cow that, most likely, was raised within the industrial agriculture system. Which means it was fed huge amounts of corn that was grown with the help of petroleum, the carbon-based substance that has helped drive Earth?s climate to the breaking point. In industrial agriculture, petroleum is not only burned to power tractors and other machinery used to plant, harvest, and process corn?it?s also a key ingredient in the fertilizer employed to maximize yields.

Eating beef is particularly environmentally damaging: Cows are less efficient than chickens or pigs at converting corn (or other feed) into body weight, so they consume more of it than other livestock do. As a result, the industrial agriculture system employs 55 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce 1 calorie of beef. Meanwhile, livestock production is responsible for much of the carbon footprint of global agriculture, which accounts for at least 25 percent of humanity?s annual greenhouse gas emissions, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

Despite its large carbon footprint, the agricultural sector is invariably overlooked in climate policy discussions.? The latest example: In his 50-minute speech on climate change last week, President Barack Obama did not even mention agriculture except for a half-sentence reference to how farmers will have to adapt to more extreme weather.?

Perhaps no one has been more influential in popularizing the environmental critique of industrial agriculture than Michael Pollan. His 2006 best-seller, The Omnivore?s Dilemma, revealed how corporate profits, misguided government policies, and an emphasis on convenience have given Americans food that is cheap but alarmingly unhealthy for those who eat it, not to mention the soil, air, and water relied upon to produce it.

These days, however, Pollan is delivering a deeper yet more upbeat message, one he shared in an interview while promoting his new book, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. (Disclosure: Pollan and I have been friendly colleagues since we met at Harper?s in the early 1990s, when he was executive editor.) Now, instead of just exposing the faults of the industrial agricultural system, Pollan is suggesting radical new ways to make agriculture work for both people and the planet.

Technology is central to Pollan?s vision, but, he says, ?We have to think about what technology means. Does it only mean hardware and intellectual property? If we limit it to those two definitions, we?re going to leave out a lot of the most interesting technologies out there, such as methods for managing the soil and growing food that vastly increase [agricultural] productivity and sequester carbon but don?t offer something you can put into a box.? And why call even seemingly old-school methods ?technology?? Because, he says, ?technology has so much glamour in our culture, and people only want to pay for technology.?

With the right kind of technology, Pollan believes that eating meat can actually be good for the planet. That?s right: Raising livestock, if done properly, can reduce global warming. That?s just one element of a paradigm shift that Pollan and other experts, including Dennis Garrity, the former director general of the World Agroforestry Center in Nairobi, Kenya, and Hans Herren of the Millennium Institute in Washington, D.C., are promoting. They believe that new agricultural methods wouldn?t just reduce the volume of heat-trapping gases emitted by our civilization?they would also, and more importantly, draw down the total amount of those gases that are already in the atmosphere.

?Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon,? says Pollan. Currently, the vast majority of farms, in the United States and around the world, are releasing carbon?mainly through fertilizer and fossil fuel applications but also by plowing before planting. ?As soon as you plow, you?re releasing carbon,? Pollan says, because exposing soil allows the carbon stored there to escape into the atmosphere.

One method of avoiding carbon release is no-till farming: Instead of plowing, a tractor inserts seeds into the ground with a small drill, leaving the earth basically undisturbed. But in addition to minimizing the release of carbon, a reformed agriculture system could also sequester carbon, extracting it from the atmosphere and storing it?especially in soil but also in plants?so it can?t contribute to global warming.

Sequestering carbon is a form of geoengineering, a term that covers a range of human interventions in the climate system aimed at limiting global warming. It?s a field that is attracting growing attention as climate change accelerates in the face of continued political inaction. Last month, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passed 400 parts per million, its highest level since the Pliocene Epoch 2.6 million years ago (when a warmer planet boasted sea levels 30 feet higher than today?s?high enough to submerge most of the world?s coastal capitals). Meanwhile, human activities, from driving gas-guzzlers to burning coal to leveling forests, are increasing this 400 ppm by roughly 2 ppm a year.

The case for geoengineering begins with the recognition that the most widely discussed ?solutions? to global warming?such as riding a bike rather than driving a car and making electricity from wind rather than natural gas?address only the 2 ppm part of the problem while leaving the 400 ppm part untouched. To be sure, reducing the 2 ppm of annual emissions growth is absolutely necessary?it just doesn?t go far enough. At 400 ppm, global warming is already contributing to a mounting litany of record-breaking weather. In the last year, the United States alone has suffered its hottest summer on record, its worst drought in 50 years, and the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, Superstorm Sandy. Globally, the list of climate-related extreme weather events is much longer.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/07/michael_pollan_on_agriculture_s_role_in_fighting_climate_change.html

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Out With the Old: 10 Mesmerizing Demolition GIFs

We tend to think of demolition as destructive: dynamite, dust, and plenty of fireworks. But as a New York Times article recently described, demolition in dense cities is, more and more often, a "stealth" operation, where a building is dismantled over a number of weeks.

The article describes the slow demolition of Tokyo's 40-story Akasaka Hotel, which was taken apart, piece by piece, at a rate of two stories every ten days. The building was built in 1982 by Kenzo Tange, a venerable modernist who is much-loved by historians and architects?part of the reason why the stealth demolition seemed like a good idea. ?We want people not to really see the demolition work," the development manager told the NYT. ?The noise level is 20 decibels lower than the conventional way, and there?s 90 percent less dust leaving the area.?

Stealth aside, there are plenty of old-school demolitions still happening in the world, for better or worse (check out the 300-pounds-of-dynamite job that took place earlier this year in El Paso, below). After Architizer rounded up some of the best last week, we thought we'd add a few of our own favorites to the mix. There are dozens of great videos and GIFs out there, though, so post your own in the comments, below.

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The 65-year-old New Frontier Hotel, in Las Vegas, was demolished in 2007?the occasion merited fireworks.

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Cinergy Field, home to the Cincinnati Reds and Bengals since 1970s, was demolished in 1995. The entire explosion took only 37 seconds.

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The Asarco Copper Smelt Smokestacks, in El Paso, required 300 pounds of dynamite to bring the 600-foot stacks down.

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The Athlone Power Station cooling towers being demolished, in 2010, in Cape Town.

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