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Friday, March 29, 2013
Julie?s Gadget Diary ? Is the Samsung Galaxy Note II too big?
How big is too big when it comes to the size of a smartphone? That’s the question I’ve been trying to answer for myself lately. I’ve been using a Samsung Galaxy S III for the past 6 months, but only recently I decided to try a Verizon Wireless Samsung Galaxy Note II. The Note II [...]
Declaring a truce with our microbiological frenemies
Mar. 28, 2013 ? Managing bacteria and other microorganisms in the body, rather than just fighting them, may be lead to better health and a stronger immune system, according to a Penn State biologist.
Researchers have historically focused on microbes in the body as primarily pathogens that must be fought, said Eric Harvill, professor of microbiology and infectious disease. However, he said that recent evidence of the complex interaction of the body with microbes suggests a new interpretation of the relationship.
"Now we are beginning to understand that the immune system interacts with far more beneficial bacteria than pathogens," said Harvill. "We need to re-envision what the true immune system really is."
Harvill said that this reinterpretation leads to a more flexible approach to understanding how the immune system interacts with microbes. This approach should balance between defending against pathogens and enlisting the help of beneficial microbes.
While the role that some bacteria play in aiding digestion is better known, microbes assist in improving body functions, including strengthening the immune system and responding to injuries.
In some cases, attacking pathogens can harm the beneficial effects microbes have on immune system, according to Harvill. For example, patients on antibiotics have an increased risk of contracting yeast infections and MRSA.
"Viewing everything currently considered immunity, including both resistance and tolerance, as aspects of a complex microbiome management system that mediates interactions with the sea of microbes that surround us, many of which are beneficial, can provide a much more positive outlook and different valuable perspectives," Harvill said.
The system that includes bacteria and other microbes in the human body, or the microbiome, is much larger and more integrated into human health than most people suspect, according to Harvill.
"The human body has 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells," said Harvill.
Adding to the complexity is the adaptive capacity of the human immune system. The immune system can develop antibodies against certain pathogens, which it can reuse when threatened by future attacks from the same pathogen.
Harvill, who described his alternative viewpoint in the latest issue of mBio, said that some researchers have not yet accepted this broader approach to the immune system.
"Among immunologists or microbiologists this is an alien concept," said Harvill. "It's not part of how we have historically looked at the immune system, but it's a useful viewpoint."
Other researchers who study plant and nonhuman biology are already starting to embrace the concept. For example, plant biologists are beginning to recognize that viruses can help plants resist drought and heat.
"Within nonhuman immunology, this is not an alien concept because they have seen many examples of beneficial relationships between the host and its microbial commensals," Harvill said.
Harvill said adopting this new perspective could be the first step toward new medical treatments.
"This new viewpoint suggests new experiments and results will published," said Harvill. "And, hopefully, the concept becomes more and more mainstream as supporting evidence accumulates."
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences supported this work.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
New details: Giffords gunman was polite, cooperative
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) ? As authorities investigated the rampage that killed six people and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, they compiled nearly 3,000 pages of documents that include everything from interviews with survivors and victims to police reports filed from the scene of the crime.
The documents were released Wednesday, and they provide new insight into how the shooting occurred and the motivations behind gunman Jared Loughner. One of the main themes to emerge was the increasingly erratic behavior of Loughner, perhaps summed up best by his father as he told investigators: He "just doesn't seem right lately."
A look at some of the major findings:
LOUGHNER
The gunman was polite and cooperative with authorities who were holding him the afternoon following his morning shooting rampage. The conversation as Loughner sat in restraints in an interview room was mainly small talk. Little was said over the four hours. Loughner asks at one point if he can please use the restroom and says "Thank you" when allowed. At another point he complained that "I'm about ready to fall over."
GUNMAN'S MOTHER
Loughner's mother, Amy, described his run-ins with authorities, his use of marijuana and cocaine, his journals and his increasingly erratic behavior. She also says the parents took a shotgun away from Loughner after he was kicked out of a community college and tested him for drugs because his behavior was so strange.
GUNMAN'S FATHER
Randy Loughner said his son became increasingly difficult, and it was a challenge to have a rational conversation with him. "I tried to talk to him. But you can't, he wouldn't let you," he said "Lost, lost, and just didn't want to communicate with me no more."
MENTAL ILLNESS
Despite their son's increasingly bizarre behavior, Loughner's parents never sent him to get help. Randy Loughner said that his son had never been diagnosed with a mental illness. Had he seen a doctor, the detective asked. "No," replied the father. The parents were also asked about any journals or writings that Loughner kept. The father said they were written in an indecipherable script.
GOING TO THE SCENE
Loughner went to a convenience store immediately before the shooting and had the clerk call a cab for him. As he waited for the car, he was pacing inside and outside the store and went to the bathroom three or four times. The employee said that as Loughner was waiting for the cab, he looked up at a clock and said, "nine twenty-five, I still got time."
TRAFFIC STOP
Loughner was pulled over earlier in the day for a traffic violation by a wildlife agent. He cried and said, "I've just had a rough time," and then composed himself, thanked the agent and shook his hand after he was let go with a warning. The agent asked Loughner again if he was OK, and Loughner said he was going home.
THE SCENE
Giffords intern Daniel Hernandez helped tend to his boss after she was shot in the head. In an interview, he described the chaos: "She couldn't open her eyes. I tried to get any responses for her. Um, it looked like her left side was the only side that was still mobile. Um, she couldn't speak. It was mumbled. She was squeezing my hand.
"I did some training as a Certified Nursing Assistant and as a phlebotomist, um, when I was in high school. So I knew that we need to see if she's got a pulse. She was still breathing. Her breathing was getting shallower. Uh, I then lifted her up so that she wasn't flat on the ground against the wall," he said.
GUNS
Loughner bought a 12-gauge shotgun in 2008, but his parents took it away from him after he was expelled from college and administrators recommended that any firearms be taken away. The shotgun was the only gun his parents knew Loughner owned.
CARING FOR GIFFORDS
A firefighter described how he cared for Giffords after arriving at the scene. "You'd ask her to grab your hand and she would grab your hand," he said. He and paramedics rushed her to the hospital in an ambulance, giving her oxygen and an IV.
THE ENCOUNTER
Hernandez described how constituents and other people were lining up to see Giffords, and he was helping people sign in. He recalled handing Loughner a clipboard. "The next thing I hear is someone yell, 'gun,'" he said.
LOUGHNER FRIEND
One-time Loughner friend Zachary Osler was an employee at a store where Loughner later bought a Glock handgun before the shooting. Osler was questioned about seeing Loughner shopping inside, sometime before Thanksgiving. He describes an awkward encounter with his former friend. "His response is nothing. Just a mute facial expression. And just like he, he didn't care." Osler told investigators he had grown uncomfortable with Loughner's personality, "He would say he could dream and then control what he was doing while he was dreaming." Osler says Loughner never mentioned Giffords to him.
REACTION
Osler said when he learned that Loughner was the suspect in the shooting, "my jaw just dropped. And I was like I know this person. Why he would do it? What would his motive be? If he had people help him? I do not know."
POSSESSIONS
Police reports show what authorities found in Loughner's possession after the shooting. In Loughner's left front pocket were two magazines for a Glock, both fully loaded. In his other front pocket was a foldable knife with about a 4-inch blade. In his back right pocket, he had a baggie with some money, a Visa credit card and his Arizona driver's license. He was wearing a black beanie, a black hoodie-type sweatshirt, khaki pants and Sketchers shoes.
WITNESS
A witness described seeing an ominous-looking man in his early 20s wearing a backpack near the shooting scene. The witness later described recognizing Loughner as the same person from photos on the news.
FILE - In this Wednesday, March 6, 2013 file photo, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords smiles as she raises a fist pump to the crowd as she, husband Mark Kelly, and a number of other Tucson mass ... more? FILE - In this Wednesday, March 6, 2013 file photo, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords smiles as she raises a fist pump to the crowd as she, husband Mark Kelly, and a number of other Tucson mass shooting victims returned to the site of the shooting in Tucson, Ariz., that left her critically wounded to urge key senators to support expanded background checks for gun purchases. Giffords has been named this year's recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award. The JFK Library and Museum announced Friday that the Arizona Democrat is being honored for the "political, personal, and physical courage she has demonstrated in her fearless public advocacy for policy reforms aimed at reducing gun violence." (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) less? ?Source: http://news.yahoo.com/major-findings-records-giffords-shooting-155158671.html
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Fed study says China's growth could slow sharply by 2030
By Alister Bull
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Economic growth in China faces mounting headwinds and could fade dramatically in the years ahead due to declining productivity and an aging population, according to a U.S. Federal Reserve study.
Trend growth could slow gradually to around 6.5 percent by 2030, or it could break much more sharply to a pace under 1 percent if forces undermining economic activity combine in a "worst-case scenario," according to the study, which was published online on Monday. Over the past decade, China's economy grew on average around 10 percent a year.
"The GDP growth rate is the sum of the growth in employment and the growth in output per employee. China faces challenges in both of these categories," wrote author Jane Haltmaier, a senior adviser in the Fed's Division of International Finance.
Buoyant Chinese growth helped support the global economy after recessions in the United States and Europe, and a significant slowdown in China could dent output, employment and corporate profits around the world.
The study concluded that some slowing was inevitable, although boosting Chinese education to get more kids through high school could provide an offset.
"Most people would probably agree that the Chinese economy cannot maintain the extremely rapid growth rates it has seen over the past three decades indefinitely. The question is thus not whether the Chinese economy will slow (but) by when and by how much," Haltmaier wrote.
Growth in China's working age population has slowed and is expected to turn negative before 2020, according to United Nations' projections. Like other nations, China is getting older. The percentage of the population aged over 60 is expected to reach nearly 25 percent by 2030, from 12 percent in 2010.
DIMINISHING RETURNS
With 80 percent of the working age population already employed, there is limited room for employment growth to contribute strongly to economic activity in the future.
As a result, the bulk of any further increase in Chinese output will have to come from greater productivity, something that faces an uphill battle.
Although China has enjoyed a productivity boom due to massive investment, that could be hard to sustain as rising living standards drive up domestic demand for consumer goods, diverting resources away from capital investment into spending.
Also, as the capital stock in the economy grows, an increasing amount of investment needs to be allocated to replacing aging plant and machinery, leaving less overall for net new investment.
In addition, slower employment growth could reduce the returns on capital, reducing the incentive to invest.
The scope for millions of more Chinese workers to move from less productive primary sectors in the economy like agriculture, to much more productive factory jobs is also likely to shrink over time.
"The share of the secondary sector is now about half of GDP, much higher than in most other countries. This suggests that further movement out of the primary sector in China is more likely to be into the tertiary sector, where the productivity dividend is lower," the study says.
In her "baseline" forecast, which showed growth slowing to just over 6 percent by 2030, Haltmaier assumed the employment-population ratio stayed at current levels, investment stayed high, workers kept moving out of primary industries, and investment shifted from primary and secondary industries into the service, or tertiary sector.
She also sketched out four alternative scenarios: slower growth in employment; lower investment; reduced incentives to invest; and a decline in the share of high-productivity manufacturing.
In all cases, Chinese output slowed by more than in the baseline forecast. But the real damage was done when all four factors began to bite together. In that worst-case scenario, growth halves to 5 percent by 2020 and declines to under 1 percent by 2030.
"Investment falls as a share of GDP and becomes less productive, employment growth is slower ... and output shifts from the manufacturing to the services sector as the economy matures," Haltmaier wrote. "It should be noted that these are all in fact very reasonable assumptions."
(Reporting by Alister Bull; Editing by Leslie Adler)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fed-study-says-chinas-growth-could-slow-sharply-202429284--business.html
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Paul Ryan?s claim that he balanced the budget ?without raising taxes? (Washington Post)
Lady Gaga's Golden Wheelchair: Life Imitating Art?
Five years before needing a wheelchair following hip surgery, Gaga rolled in one in the 'Paparazzi' video.
By Gil Kaufman
Lady Gaga's 24-karat gold plated wheelchair
Photo: Ken Borochov/ Splash News
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1703568/lady-gaga-wheelchair-videos.jhtml
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
One Direction's Zayn Malik Tells Justin Bieber: 'I Got Your Back, Bro'
In the wake of some public controversy, Bieber gets some love from his pals in 1D as well as Will Smith.
By Jocelyn Vena
Justin Bieber and Zayn Malik
Photo: Getty Images
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1703377/one-direction-zayn-malik-just-bieber.jhtml
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Selectively manipulating protein modifications
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Protein activity is strictly regulated. Incorrect or poor protein regulation can lead to uncontrolled growth and thus cancer or chronic inflammation. Members of the Institute of Veterinary Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Zurich have identified enzymes that can regulate the activity of medically important proteins. Their discovery enables these proteins to be manipulated very selectively, opening up new treatment methods for inflammations and cancer.
For a healthy organism, it is crucial for proteins to be active or inactive at the right time. The corresponding regulation is often based on a chemical modification of the protein structure: Enzymes attach small molecules to particular sites on a protein or remove them, thereby activating or deactivating the protein. Members of the Institute of Veterinary Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Zurich in collaboration with other Institutes have now discovered how the inactivation of a protein, which is important for medicine, can be reversed.
New group of ADP-ribosylhydrolases identified
An important protein modification is ADP-ribosylation, which is involved in certain types of breast cancer, cellular stress reactions and gene regulation. So-called ADP-ribosyltransferases attach the ADP ribose molecule to proteins, thereby altering their function. In recent years, many ADP-ribosyltransferases have been discovered that can convey single or several ADP-riboses to different proteins. Enzymes that can remove these riboses again, however, are less well known. Professor Michael Hottiger's team of researchers has now identified a new group of such ADP-ribosylhydrolases. The scientists discovered that a so-called macrodomain is responsible for removing the ADP-riboses in human proteins, but also in the bacterium Archaeoglobus fulgidus.
"We therefore assume that the reversal of the modification takes place in a similar way in different species," explains Michael Hottiger.
Biomedically relevant: inactivation of the modified enzyme GSK3?
The researchers also prove that ADP-ribosylhydrolases can remove the ADP-ribose of the intensively studied enzyme GSK3?, which regulates the synthesis of storage substances and is important in the progression of various diseases. ADP-ribosylation deactivates GSK3?, which can be reversed again by the newly identified enzyme. "Our discovery enables ADP-ribose modification to be manipulated and tested selectively, and new treatment methods developed for diseases such as inflammations or cancer," concludes Michael Hottiger.
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Share ] Contact: Michael Hottiger
hottiger@vetbio.uzh.ch
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University of Zurich
This press release is available in German.
Protein activity is strictly regulated. Incorrect or poor protein regulation can lead to uncontrolled growth and thus cancer or chronic inflammation. Members of the Institute of Veterinary Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Zurich have identified enzymes that can regulate the activity of medically important proteins. Their discovery enables these proteins to be manipulated very selectively, opening up new treatment methods for inflammations and cancer.
For a healthy organism, it is crucial for proteins to be active or inactive at the right time. The corresponding regulation is often based on a chemical modification of the protein structure: Enzymes attach small molecules to particular sites on a protein or remove them, thereby activating or deactivating the protein. Members of the Institute of Veterinary Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Zurich in collaboration with other Institutes have now discovered how the inactivation of a protein, which is important for medicine, can be reversed.
New group of ADP-ribosylhydrolases identified
An important protein modification is ADP-ribosylation, which is involved in certain types of breast cancer, cellular stress reactions and gene regulation. So-called ADP-ribosyltransferases attach the ADP ribose molecule to proteins, thereby altering their function. In recent years, many ADP-ribosyltransferases have been discovered that can convey single or several ADP-riboses to different proteins. Enzymes that can remove these riboses again, however, are less well known. Professor Michael Hottiger's team of researchers has now identified a new group of such ADP-ribosylhydrolases. The scientists discovered that a so-called macrodomain is responsible for removing the ADP-riboses in human proteins, but also in the bacterium Archaeoglobus fulgidus.
"We therefore assume that the reversal of the modification takes place in a similar way in different species," explains Michael Hottiger.
Biomedically relevant: inactivation of the modified enzyme GSK3?
The researchers also prove that ADP-ribosylhydrolases can remove the ADP-ribose of the intensively studied enzyme GSK3?, which regulates the synthesis of storage substances and is important in the progression of various diseases. ADP-ribosylation deactivates GSK3?, which can be reversed again by the newly identified enzyme. "Our discovery enables ADP-ribose modification to be manipulated and tested selectively, and new treatment methods developed for diseases such as inflammations or cancer," concludes Michael Hottiger.
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Here's how you'll really use your tax refund
By Allison Linn, TODAY
If you?re like a lot of Americans, chances are you?re hoping you?ll get a tax refund this year.
What?s more, you may?be planning to take that money and do something frugal with it, like put it in a savings account or pay down debt.
Here?s the good news: Most people who say they plan to use most of their tax refund to bulk up savings or pay down debt?keep the vow.
But here?s the catch: They also tend to spend at least some of that money on something like a nice dinner out or a new pair of boots, whether they realize it or not.
?There?s still a significant spending (boost) among this group,? said Jonathan Parker, a professor of consumer finance at Northwestern University?s Kellogg?School of Management who has done research on how people spend government payouts such as tax refunds and stimulus checks.
It appears a lot of taxpayers?plan to use their refunds to improve their personal finances.
A TD Ameritrade survey released last month found that 47 percent of those expecting to get a refund plan to? bulk up their savings account with it, while 44 percent plan to use the money to pay?debt.
About 28 plan to spend at least some on necessities and 15 percent plan to splurge on something discretionary. Respondents were allowed to pick more than one answer.
Using bank data and other sources, Parker has found that when people get money back from Uncle Sam, on average they tend to immediately spend a little bit more than usual.
?You often find a spike in spending right when it arrives ? like, within a week of arrival ? that?s sort of small,? he said.
The sudden jump in their bank balance may prompt some people to?pay that bill that?s been nagging them, or it may make them feel like it?s OK to splurge on something small, like a date night.
After that, he said there?s sort of a delayed response. But over time, people who got money back do tend to spend slightly more?overall, he said.
The people who say they are going to save most of their tax refund or rebate - or mostly use it to pay down debt - do use some of the money toward those goals, he said. But they also tend to spend more of it than they might think they did.
As for the people who said they planned to spend their tax refund? Parker said they mostly do what they planned.
?They were kind of right. They spent the whole thing,? he said.
When people get a bigger tax refund, there is often a bump in spending in August, he noted, suggesting that people are using the money toward a nicer summer vacation.?Others who get a big chunk of money back from Uncle Sam, such as a check for over $1,000, may end up using it as a down payment on an even bigger purchase, like a car.
Even though people who think they are saving most of their refund or using it to pay down debt tend to spend some of it, Parker thinks the system of getting a refund can help some people budget.
?It?s a little bit like a helpful commitment to save,? he said.
Still, some taxpayers do complain about a tax system that can act like a forced savings plan ? or surprise people with an unexpected bill.
Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody?s Analytics, said that?an ideal tax system would help people?better predict their taxes through the year, so they didn?t end up at with a big payment or refund come April 15.
But given all the other complications of the nation?s tax code, he said it?s far from his top concern.
?I?m not sure I?d worry about that at this point,? he said.
If you get a tax refund this year, how do you plan to use it?
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Friday, March 8, 2013
"On the Rules of Low Power Design (and Why You Should Break Them)" Todd Austin, Professor, EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Todd Austin, Professor, EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Harold Frank Hall (HFH), Room 1132 (CS Conference Room)
Energy and power constraints have emerged as one of the greatest lingering challenges to progress in the computing industry. In this talk, I will highlight some of the ?rules? of low-power design and show how they bind the creativity and productivity of architects and designers. I believe the best way to deal with these rules is to disregard them, through innovative design solutions that abandon traditional design methodologies. Releasing oneself from these ties is not as hard as one might think. To support my case, I will highlight two rule-breaking design technologies from my work. The first technique (Razor) combines low-power designs with resiliency mechanisms to craft highly introspective and efficient systems. The second technique (Subliminal) embraces subthreshold voltage design, which holds great promise for highly energy efficient systems.
About Todd Austin:
Todd Austin is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His research interests include computer architecture, robust system design, hardware and software verification, and performance analysis tools and techniques. Prior to joining academia, Todd was a Senior Computer Architect in Intel's Microcomputer Research Labs, a product-oriented research laboratory in Hillsboro, Oregon. Todd is the first to take credit (but the last to accept blame) for creating the SimpleScalar Tool Set, a popular collection of computer architecture performance analysis tools. Todd is co-author (with Andrew Tanenbaum) of the undergraduate computer architecture textbook, "Structured Computer Architecture, 6th Ed." In addition to his work in academia, Todd is founder and President of SimpleScalar LLC and co-founder of InTempo Design LLC. In 2002, Todd was a Sloan Research Fellow, and in 2007 he received the ACM Maurice Wilkes Award for "innovative contributions in Computer Architecture including the SimpleScalar Toolkit and the DIVA and Razor architectures." Todd received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1996.
Hosted by: Computer Engineering Program
Source: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/events/?i=4354
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
News Corp. Goes Back to School With a Teacher-Friendly Tablet
Amplify, the education subsidiary of News Corp., announced Wednesday a 10-inch Android tablet platform for K-12 schools. The Amplify tablet will run the latest version of Android Jelly Bean, and will be available in WiFi-only and a 4G LTE version running on AT&T's network. The education market "is a more or less open field," said Charles King, principal at Pund-IT.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Wordpress Business Package Offers SMB Hosting for $299/Year
Wordpress Business is a new SMB hosting package that includes a domain, and unlimited storage and themes
Blog platform WordPress.com announced on Tuesday that it has launched WordPress.com Business, a new hosting package designed for small businesses.
The new WordPress business package includes live support, unlimited premium themes and unlimited storage for $299 per year, as well as all the features included in its Premium Bundle: a custom domain, advanced design tools and web fonts, video and audio uploads, and no ads.
WordPress.com positions its new business package as a way for small businesses or non-profits to ?say goodbye to sky-high web development costs.?
While some small businesses or non-profits already use WordPress to host their websites for free, the new option may make users of its free service more inclined to upgrade since it includes live support, unlimited storage and themes for one annual price.
SMBs are a desirable market for web hosts and cloud providers, and it is clear that with this new WordPress business package, the competition to win customers in this segment is growing. As SMBs increasingly look for hosting bundles, offering a package with an annual pricing model could help capture some of this market.
?With premium themes starting at $50/each and our largest storage upgrade coming in at $290/year, WordPress.com Business starts saving you money from the moment you sign up,? WordPress said. ?And anyone who?s ever had a website crisis knows that expert live support is priceless. At $299/year, WordPress.com Business saves you much more in developer, designer, and support costs, making it a great choice for your business and your bottom line.?
?If you?re starting or growing a small business, you know how important it is to have a great website ? and you don?t have money?or?time to waste. With WordPress.com Business, you get all the tools you need to build a rich, engaging website that supports your goals without having to hire a web developer (or turn yourself into one). We?ll worry about backups and bandwidth; you worry about your business.?
Last year, WordPress began accepting Bitcoin payment for upgrades, a move that many web hosts, including Namecheap, have followed in recent months.?
Talk back: What do you think of the new WordPress business hosting package? Do you think SMBs want to buy hosting annually? Let us know in a comment.
About Nicole Henderson
Nicole Henderson is the Editor in Chief of the Web Host Industry Review where she covers daily news and features online, as well as in print. She has a bachelor of journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto. You can find her on Twitter @NicoleHenderson.
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Monday, March 4, 2013
How Halfbrick Studios Develops Games Like Fruit Ninja, Age Of Zombies And Jetpack Joyride
?This is the original concept shot for Fruit Ninja which was pitched to the company during Halfbrick Fridays. This is literally the very first piece of Fruit Ninja imagery ever created, so it?s historically significant,” Halfbrick Studio‘s Chief Marketing Officer Phil Larsen said in an email to me last week after I interviewed him and his colleague Richard McKinney, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, about how the company develops its games. Halfbrick Fridays is one of the ways the Brisbane, Australia-based company comes up with new ideas for its games. Fruit Ninja – its greatest hit to date – came out of this. Halfbrick Fridays About five to seven times a year, the company organizes these Halfbrick Fridays, they told me, where the whole company (about 70 people at this point), breaks into groups of around five people to brainstorm new ideas. The cool thing here is that it’s not just the game designers and developers who participate, but anybody who works for the company – be that in accounting or quality assurance – participates in these sessions. Age of Zombies, for example, is the result of this process (though Larsen and McKinney told me the final version looked very different from the prototype). So is Monster Dash. These events either last for about a week or are spread out to one day during a period of about five to seven weeks. Once the idea for Fruit Ninja was born, it only took a few months to make, but some game ideas, the team told me, have been floating around for years and have yet to become reality. From Idea To Game What’s interesting about how Halfbrick turns its game ideas into actual products is that virtually all of its games use one underlying engine (written almost exclusively in C++). The core engine team consists of six “hardcore programmers,” as McKinney told me, and they ensure that those teams that work on the individual games have a stable architecture that they can then write their own code for. One of Halfbrick’s larger teams, by the way, is now the cloud service team that provides the back-end technology to connect games together across platforms. Halfbrick uses Amazon’s EC2 platform for this and recently switched to a NoSQL database for better scalability. The point of the core engine, the team stressed, is to be able to publish apps across platforms as easilySource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1z_SijEYAsc/
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
Police: Man douses girlfriend in perfume, sets her afire
By Becky Bratu, Staff Writer, NBC News
A Pennsylvania man accused of pouring perfume on his girlfriend and setting her on fire in an apparent domestic dispute was arrested Saturday, Pittsburgh's WTAE reported.?
Springdale police said 22-year-old Maria Redman was burned on more than 30 percent of her body early Thursday morning when 27-year-old Clinton Cohen threw perfume on her and then lit her on fire with a cigarette lighter, according to WPXI. Cohen then threw a blanket at Redman and walked out of the apartment.
According to police, the couple's infant daughter was at home in a crib when the incident occurred.
?It was a verbal domestic dispute and he began choking her, then punched her,? Lt. Jeff Korczyk told WPXI. ?Cohen then opened a bottle of perfume, poured it over the victim and lit it with a cigarette lighter.?
Korczyk said the daughter had some blood spatter on her from her mother.
Officials said Redman remains in the hospital in critical, but stable condition.
Cohen has been charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of children.
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