Continue reading Apple SVP Bob Mansfield's bio disappears from official leadership webpage at AppleInsider
Monday, July 29, 2013
Apple SVP Bob Mansfield's bio disappears from official leadership webpage
AppleInsider writes, In a recent change to its website, Apple removed Senior Vice President of Technologies Bob Mansfield from the leadership biography page, suggesting the executive may no longer be with the company. ????
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
FAMILY VACAY: Amar'e Stoudemire Takes The Kids To ISRAEL + Halle Berry & Nahla AT Disneyland
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NY Knick baller Amar'e Stoudemire took his family to Israel for vacation. See their pics inside and see Halle Berry and daughter Nahla at Disneyland. ?
NY Knicks power forward Amar'e Stoudemire is on vacation in Israel with his family. ?In the pic atop, he wished his followers a "Boker Tov. Good Morning from Israel. #Stoudemires"
And in the photo above, he shared "Walking through Jaffa Gate with Amar'e Jr & Alijah, my boys. Blessed be the creator. Stay prayed up. Gone."
During the trip, Amar'e helped coach a basketball team and referred to the players as his "kids". ?"Coaching my Jewish & Palestinian kids. -Amare love the kids (3rd person"
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And while at Hebrew University, he met with the president. ?"The President and I had a beautiful time. Talks about Education, Youth, and World Peace. #HebrewUniversity"
It looks like this trip for Amar'e was about spirituality and global peace. ?"I'm not a politician. Just want peace for everyone, don't wanna get into politics and political discussions #GlobalPeace"
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And in sunny California.....
A very pregnant Halle Berry was seen pushing her daughter Nahla around Disneyland in a stroller yesterday.
After a successful year with The Call and her marriage to Olivier Martinez, Halle's next big role will be as Storm in X-Men: Days Of Future Past.
The busy mom was able to keep cool in an animal print maxi dress from Lovers + Friends.?
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And despite being so far along in her pregnancy, Halle proved she was a fun mom and rode the rides with Nahla.
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Photos via Amare Stoudemire IG/FameFlynet Pictures
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Chemical reaction could streamline manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other compounds
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have discovered a new chemical reaction that has the potential to lower the cost and streamline the manufacture of compounds ranging from agricultural chemicals to pharmaceutical drugs. The reaction resolves a long-standing challenge in organic chemistry in creating phenolic compounds from aromatic hydrocarbons quickly and cheaply.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
EU hits Russia with first WTO dispute over car levy: diplomats
GENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will launch the first trade dispute against Russia at the World Trade Organization later on Tuesday, challenging Moscow's car recycling levy, diplomats said.
"We gave Russia until July 1 to lift these recycling fees and it failed to do so, so that is why we are taking this to the WTO. Hopefully this can be resolved quickly. It is important that Russia, as a WTO member, plays by global trade rules," an EU diplomat said.
The dispute comes less than a year after Russia signed up to the global trade rules and follows repeated warnings from Brussels about non-compliance. Japan and the United States are set to join the EU at a WTO meeting on Thursday to air concerns about Russia's failure to stick to the rules.
Cutting import tariffs on cars was a major sticking point in Russia's 18-year negotiation to join the WTO. Moscow agreed to do so, but critics say the recycling fee, collected up-front when a car is imported, effectively cancels out the lower tariffs.
That matters to Brussels because Russia is on course to overtake Germany as Europe's biggest car market within a few years, offering a lucrative export market for recession-weary EU car makers.
Russia has warned the European Union in the past that it has its own concerns with EU policies, suggesting it could hit back with another WTO dispute if the bloc launched a WTO challenge.
Under WTO rules, Russia has 60 days to satisfy EU concerns about the recycling levy, by changing or explaining its policy. After that the EU could ask the WTO to adjudicate, which could force Moscow to change the rules or face trade sanctions.
EU and Russian officials declined to comment on the case, which has not yet been formally notified.
(Reporting by Tom Miles and Robin Emmott, additional reporting by Douglas Busvine and Megan Davies in Moscow; Editing by Alison Williams and Elizabeth Piper)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-hits-russia-first-wto-dispute-over-car-081759455.html
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Solar Impulse airplane hits a snag on last leg of American odyssey
Cosmic Log 
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Solar Impulse
Solar Impulse chairman Bertrand Piccard flashes a thumbs-up sign as he greets pilot Andre Borschberg after the plane's landing Saturday night at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. The two men are wearing yellow scarves to pay tribute to Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of "The Little Prince."
The Swiss-built Solar Impulse airplane ended its two-month-long, solar-powered trip across America with a nail-biter of a flight from Washington to New York on Saturday.
"Maybe if I didn't have 10 cameras pointed at me, I would cry," Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, one of the pilots for the coast-to-coast journey, said just before the 11:09 p.m. ET landing at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The extra drama came from the discovery in the trip's final hours that the ultra-light airplane had suffered an 8-foot-long (2.5-meter-long) tear in the fabric on the lower side of the left wing. Andre Borschberg, who was filling the pilot's seat for the Washington-to-New York segment of the "Across America" journey, noticed a balance issue with the wings on Saturday afternoon ? and pictures taken by a helicopter flying nearby confirmed the damage.
Neither Borschberg nor the plane were thought to be in danger; nevertheless, the Solar Impulse team did everything it could to reduce the risk. That meant considering all the options for ending the flight, including the possibility of bailing out over the Atlantic. It meant passing up a Statue of Liberty photo op and working out a deal with air traffic controllers to land the plane three hours earlier than originally planned. And it meant changing the landing procedure.
Borschberg brought the airplane in low and slow, without air braking, to reduce the stress on the wing. The spindly craft seemed to float to a stop on the runway ? prompting cheers at JFK as well as at Solar Impulse's mission control center in Switzerland. Moments later, a stepladder was set up so that Piccard could greet Borschberg in the cockpit. And despite what he said, Piccard could be seen wiping at his eyes after the two men hugged.
"It was supposed to be the shortest and easiest leg," Piccard said later. "It was the most difficult one."
Early takeoff, late landing
The "Across America" odyssey began on May 3 with a flight from Moffett Field, near San Francisco, to Phoenix, and continued with hops to Dallas-Fort Worth, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Washington. Piccard and Borschberg, co-founders of the Solar Impulse venture, traded turns piloting the single-seat plane. For most of those flights, the plane had to leave early and wait until late to land, so as to reduce the potential for disrupting commercial air traffic.
Solar Impulse
A tear in the fabric on the underside of the Solar Impulse airplane's wing forced a slightly early end to the final flight of its two-month-long "Across America" odyssey.
Saturday's trip began with a 4:46 a.m. ET takeoff from Washington's Dulles International Airport. The solar-powered plane's top speed is around 45 mph (72 kilometers per hour), but even at that speed, there were plenty of hours to spare for the 228-mile (336-kilometer) trip.
While Borschberg flew in circles off the coast of New Jersey, waiting for clearance to land, he participated in media interviews and a video hangout with such luminaries as James Cameron, the famed film director and ocean explorer; and Erik Lindbergh, the grandson of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh.
Before the wing's damage came to light, Borschberg also had time to reflect on the meaning of Solar Impulse's odyssey: Swiss corporate backers have put up ?90 million ($115 million) over the past decade for the project, which is aimed at demonstrating technologies ranging from solar-power generation and storage to ultra-light composite materials.
Ultra-light, and powered by light
Solar Impulse weighs as much as an automobile, but has the wingspan of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Scooter-type electric motors drive the single-seat plane's propellers. All of the power comes from almost 12,000 solar cells installed on its wings and horizontal stabilizer. Excess electricity is stored in 800 pounds' (363 kilograms') worth of batteries, so the plane can theoretically fly day and night.
"We have an airplane which has almost unlimited endurance," Borschberg told NBC News. "This airplane could have flown directly from California to New York, so it?s fully sustainable in terms of energy. The limiting factor is the pilot."
Piccard is already in the record books for the first-ever nonstop balloon flight around the world in 1999 (which he flew along with Brian Jones). He and Borschberg have been flying the Solar Impulse prototype in Europe and Africa over the past couple of years, but with the end of the "Across America" trip, this particular prototype will be retired. A more advanced solar-powered plane is being built for an even more ambitious series of flights around the world in 2015.
Clean tech on the ground
Piccard has said that solar-powered planes could conceivably go commercial within five years or so, but Borschberg emphasized the potential applications for clean-energy technologies on the ground.
"All the partners who are involved with this project developed technologies not for the aviation world, but for their own customers," Borschberg told NBC News. "The customers are maybe homebuilding, maybe the automobile industry, maybe appliances. That?s what they are looking for, and that?s what?s slowly taking place. So if part of the legacy could be to show a way how to increase the efficiency of what we do and reduce the energy consumption but keeping the same quality of life, that would be a wonderful achievement for the project."
Cameron, who is as proud of his ocean adventures as he is of his blockbuster films "Titanic" and "Avatar," paid tribute to Borschberg and Piccard during Saturday's Google+ Hangout.
"What Solar Impulse stands for is renewable energy ? not just electric aircraft, but use of solar power in general, and this is something that?s going to be fundamental and critical to the survival of the human race," Cameron said. "You've got people that are standing for something, committing themselves, putting their personal asses on the line to make a point for the betterment of human civilization, and I greatly applaud that."
The consciousness-raising is due to continue after Saturday night's landing: Borschberg and Piccard will participate in a NASDAQ opening-bell ceremony and are to meet with U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon on Tuesday.
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Mexico volcano spits out huge ash cloud
The Popocatepetl volcano just east of Mexico City has spit out a cloud of ash and vapor 3 kilometres high over several days of eruptions, and Mexico City residents awoke Saturday to find a fine layer of volcanic dust on their cars.
It has been years since the centre of the nation's capital has seen a noticeable ash fall because prevailing winds usually blow the volcanic dust in other directions. Ash fell earlier this week in some neighbourhoods on Mexico City's south and east sides.
The city's legion of car washers quickly wiped the fine coating from cars on Saturday with no apparent ill effects.
Claudia Dominguez, spokeswoman for the Mexico City civil defence office, said the very fine ash had probably been floating around the city from eruptions in previous days and had been brought to Earth by a rainfall late Friday. She said no new ash fall had been reported Saturday, despite continuous eruptions of vapour and ash into the air from the 15,000-foot (5,450 meter) volcano.
While city residents were surprised by the talcum-like ash, inhabitants of towns nearer the volcano have had to deal with much thicker accumulations that have coated their crops, homes and sidewalks.
In San Pedro Nexapa, located about 15 kms from the volcano, residents swept up small piles of ash from a few square yards (meters) of sidewalk. Some residents wore surgical masks to ward off the dust raised by passing vehicles.
"The ash affects us a lot, because we get our water from the snow melt from Popocatepetl, and right now we can't use the water for bathing, for cooking, we can't even give it to our animals," said Agustina Perez Gutierrez, a housewife in San Pedro Nexapa. "The children get sore throats from the ash, and it affects the few vegetables and corn crops we are able to plant."
Mexico's National Centre for Disaster Prevention raised the volcano alert from Stage 2 Yellow to Stage 3 Yellow, the final step before a Red alert, when possible evacuations could be ordered. A Stage 3 Yellow alert had been in effect during eruptions earlier this year until early June, when it was lowered.
Mexico's National Center for Disaster Prevention reported there had been three explosive eruptions at the peak late Friday and early Saturday events that usually toss glowing-hot rock on the volcano's flanks. It said that Popocatepetl has also continuously spewed clouds of ash into the air, most of which was headed northwest, toward Mexico City.
US airlines cancelled at least one flight at Mexico City's airport on Friday as a precautionary measure, though airport authorities said the terminal was fully able to operate. Alaska Airlines had cancelled its route to Los Angeles, the airport press office said in its Twitter account.
On Friday, four airlines cancelled a total of 17 flights "due to climate conditions and in accordance with their own internal policies," the airport said in a statement.
The volcano is about 65 kilometres from the airport, which is in turn a few miles east of the city's centre.
The Environment Ministry has urged residents to take preventive measures to deal with the ash, including wearing dust masks, covering water supplies and staying indoors as needed.
Mexico City authorities recommend that people sweep up any ash and put it plastic bags to keep it from mixing with water and forming a concrete-like substance that can block drains.
- AP
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