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Personality

Posted by admin on Jun 22, 2010 in Uncategorized

Some of us live in a fairly steady state on the energy/tension scale, and we think this is our personality, character, identity, fate, or “just the way life is” and what we have to struggle with, and we develop a philosophy of life that features the kinds of Certainties that appear at that place on the scale.

Others of us have big swings in energy and tension, and we’re never quite sure who we really are, and we develop a philosophy of life that features Change and how you can never be too sure of anything.
Who we all are is the potential for all of it depending on our energy/tension state. We all have the potential to live in peace, love, and joy.
The energy/tension state is what determines our mood and our attitude, which is what determines our every thought and feeling, which is what determines our every speech and action. And everything in the fields of recovery and rehabilitation and healing, and everything in the fields of clinical psychology and criminal law and ethics and pastoral care that works, works because it raises energy and/or lowers tension. Seeing this gives us a clear focus on how to proceed.

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Posted by admin on Mar 11, 2010 in Uncategorized

Electronic Arts announced Monday that its Spore Hero for the Wii game console and Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo DS handheld will reach store shelves in the U.S. on October 6 and international outlets on October 9.

Spore Hero Arena for the Nintendo DS

The popular Spore game was originally available only on the PC and Mac. Last September, EA unveiled Spore and another variation, Spore Creatures, for the Nintendo DS. In May, EA announced a fall release for the Nintendo versions of Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena but hadn’t revealed a specific date.

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Spore Hero for the Nintendo Wii

In Spore Hero Arena, gamers can trek throughout space in a battle to defend planets from the galactic bad guys. Players can create their own heroes, combat aliens, and unlock special abilities to give themselves a fighting chance to save entire worlds. The game also lets people play with up to three friends in person or over a Wi-Fi network.

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Spore to hit Nintendo this fall

Nintendo gamers anxious to grow Spores will find relief in October.

“Players’ heroes take center stage as both games, distinctly tailor-made for its Nintendo platform, infuse creativity, combat and adventure to create a unique gameplay experience on the Wii and Nintendo DS,” said Lucy Bradshaw, vice president of Maxis, a subsidiary of EA

In Spore Hero, players can transform into heroic alien creatures on a mission to save their home worlds from certain destruction. By battling evil forces, solving puzzles, and collecting clues, heroes evolve over time. And using the Spore Creature Creator, gamers can build their heroes with assorted alien body parts.

Lance Whitney wears a few different technology hats–journalist, Web developer, and software trainer. He’s a contributing editor for Microsoft TechNet Magazine and writes for other computer publications and Web sites. You can follow Lance on Twitter at @lancewhit. Lance is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and he is not an employee of CNET.




 
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Posted by admin on Mar 11, 2010 in Uncategorized

The campaign’s vitriolic nature, the personal animosity between the two main candidates and tit-for-tat accusations of coup plots had all fuelled concerns that any result would be contested and foment new unrest.

Rajapakse has ruled Sri Lanka since 2005. His three brothers and other family members are in key government positions including the ministries of defence and ports.

The country faces an enormous task in rebuilding its war ravaged economy, and is under stiff international pressure to secure a lasting political solution that addresses the grievances of the large Tamil minority.

The opposition condemned what it called the military’s “unfathomable” intimidation of their candidate, and Fonseka’s spokesman, Mano Ganeshan, said they would appeal for foreign protection.

Last year’s military defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who had fought for a Tamil homeland since 1972, has since been mired in allegations of war crimes.

Although the formal result from the Election Commission was still awaited, Rajapakse’s spokesman Chandrapala Liyanage said the president had won his second term with a majority of 1.8 million votes more than his former army chief, Sarath Fonseka, out of more than 9.84 million ballots cast.

“It is a resounding victory for the president,” the state-run Rupavahini channel announced.

As the votes were still being counted, up to 80 soldiers with machine guns surrounded the luxury Colombo hotel where Fonseka was staying with several other opposition leaders.

“On the election day there were no serious incidents to talk about, but you have to look at the election process from the beginning,” he said, adding that state resources had been abused, including the state-run media.

Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said the troops had been deployed following information that army deserters were among some 400 people inside.

There were a number of violent incidents during voting, including bomb attacks in the northern Tamil stronghold of Jaffna, which monitors said had deterred some people from voting.

The two men had been hailed as national heroes after engineering the final defeat last May of a 30-year ethnic Tamil insurgency in the northeast of the country that had claimed between 80,000-100,000 lives, according to UN figures.

The United Nations says 7,000 Tamil civilians may have died in the final months of the fighting, though the government denies this.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse won a bitterly fought re-election victory as troops ringed the hotel of his main rival, who appealed for foreign protection.

The contest had been a straight race between the incumbent and Fonseka.

Sri Lanka president wins poll: state TV
AMAL JAYASINGHE January 27, 2010

AP

Four people were killed and more than 1,000 election-related incidents were reported to police in the run-up to Tuesday’s contest.

Rajapakse and Fonseka, who belong to the Sinhalese majority, had both courted Tamil voters during the campaign, with pledges of greater political inclusion and investment in the devastated northeast region.

“The president is very pleased and he thanks the entire electorate,” Liyanage said.

The government had earlier accused Fonseka of employing a private militia consisting of army deserters, a charge denied by the opposition.


“I am going to meet a diplomat of a neighbouring country to seek assurances of the safety of Sarath Fonseka,” Ganeshan said, in an apparent reference to India.



But from close allies on the battlefield they turned into irreconcilable enemies after Fonseka, a political novice, decided to challenge his former boss at the ballot box on an anti-corruption platform.

Opposition spokesman Rauf Hakeen argued that the electoral process had been violated even before voting even began.

 
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Posted by admin on Mar 11, 2010 in Uncategorized

Discovery had two launch opportunities Friday roughly 23 1/2 hours apart. NASA managers opted to pass up the first opportunity in favor of the second to give engineers more time to review the valve issue.

“I was still honored to receive the traditional NASA consolation prize, a space treadmill,” Colbert said in a taped message to NASA. “I couldn’t be prouder that my treadmill will soon be installed on the International Space Station to help finally slim down all those chubby astronauts.”

William Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. He has covered more than 115 shuttle missions, every interplanetary flight since Voyager 2’s flyby of Neptune, and scores of commercial and military launches. Based at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Harwood is a devoted amateur astronomer and co-author of “Comm Check: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia.” You can follow his frequent status updates at the CBSNews.com Space Place, where this story was first published.


The C.O.L.B.E.R.T. treadmill and mission patch. The patch sold out shortly after going on sale.

NASA flight rules prohibited engineers from cycling the valve under supercold cryogenic conditions out of a concern about a possibly unknown problem that could cause it to fail in the closed position. In that case, it would be difficult to drain the tank after a delay. As a result, launch was tentatively rescheduled for early Friday.

During a Mission Management Team meeting Friday, a waiver was processed that would have allowed engineers to cycle the valve twice during fueling, if required, to confirm closing. In addition, engineers developed plans to use alternate cues to verify the valve’s position.

Discovery’s initial launch try early Tuesday was called off due to stormy weather near the launch pad. A second attempt was called off during fueling Tuesday night for a Wednesday morning launch when one of two hydrogen fill-and-drain valves in the shuttle’s engine compartment failed to indicate it was closed.

Along with replacing a 1,800-pound ammonia coolant tank in the station’s main power truss during their first two spacewalks, Discovery’s crew will deliver two sophisticated science racks, an experiment sample freezer, a new air revitalization rack, a crew sleep station, and a treadmill named after comedian Stephen Colbert.

Space shuttle Discovery refueled for launch

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.–Running four days late, the shuttle Discovery was refueled for launch late Friday for a 13-day mission to deliver more than 7.5 tons of supplies and equipment to the International Space Station.

As it turned out, those plans were not needed. The valve and the position indicator both worked normally.

The “Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill,” or COLBERT, received its name after the comedian launched a successful tongue-in-cheek write-in campaign to name a final station module in his honor. NASA managers declined, naming the new module Tranquility instead, but renamed the treadmill after Colbert.

An 8-inch liquid hydrogen valve blamed for back-to-back launch delays earlier this week worked normally during fueling Friday and engineers did not have to exercise a waiver that would have permitted additional troubleshooting.

Along with delivering needed supplies and equipment, Stott will replace space station flight engineer Timothy Kopra, launched to the lab complex in July and returning to Earth in Stott’s place.

During tests Wednesday night, after Discovery’s tank was drained, the valve and its position indicator both worked normally, cycling open and closed five times at ambient temperatures. A pressure decay test also indicated the valve closed normally.

With forecasters predicting a 60 percent chance of good weather, Discovery was scheduled for liftoff at 11:59 p.m. EDT.



The shuttle Discovery, poised for launch Friday atop pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

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Discovery’s crew–commander Frederick Sturckow, pilot Kevin Ford, flight engineer Jose Hernandez, Patrick Forrester, John “Danny” Olivas, European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang, and space station flight engineer Nicole Stott–planned to begin strapping in for launch around 8:40 p.m. EDT.

 
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Posted by admin on Mar 11, 2010 in Uncategorized

The government had earlier accused Fonseka of employing a private militia consisting of army deserters, a charge denied by the opposition.

Sri Lanka on edge after vote
AMAL JAYASINGHE January 27, 2010

Incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse took a strong lead in counting Wednesday from Sri Lanka’s bitterly fought presidential election, officials said, as armed troops surrounded the hotel of his main rival.

“Personally, the outcome is better than what I expected,” Yapa said.

There were a number of violent incidents during voting, including bomb attacks in the northern Tamil stronghold of Jaffna, which monitors said had deterred some people from voting.

“What the election commissioner has expressed is merely an opinion, but the courts have the ultimate authority to interpret the law,” Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told reporters late Tuesday.

“We have sent a message asking them to surrender,” Nanayakkara said, insisting that Fonseka himself was not the target.

Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said the troops had been deployed following information that army deserters were among some 400 people inside.

“We know General Fonseka is inside, but our interest is in the deserters who could be armed,” he said.

The government argued that Fonseka was therefore ineligible for the presidency, despite a strong statement to the contrary from the independent election commissioner.

The winner of the island’s first election since last year’s defeat of a three-decade insurgency by ethnic Tamil rebels was set to be announced around midday (0630 GMT).

The campaign’s vitriolic nature, the personal animosity between the two main candidates and tit-for-tat accusations of coup plots had all fuelled concerns that any result would be contested and foment new unrest.

Rajapakse has ruled Sri Lanka since 2005. His three brothers and other family members are in key government positions including the ministries of defence and ports.

Partial official results showed Rajapakse with 1.31 million votes against 862,644 for Fonseka. An estimated 9.85 million people voted in all.

Tensions were acute in the capital Colombo, where up to 80 soldiers with machine guns ringed the de-luxe hotel where Fonseka was staying with several other opposition leaders.

Rajapakse as commander-in-chief and Fonseka, his army chief, defeated the Tamil Tigers in May last year, ending a separatist conflict that left 80,000-100,000 dead, according to UN figures.

Tuesday’s election was the first since Rajapakse, 64, and Fonseka, 59, engineered the final defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who had been fighting for a Tamil homeland in the island’s northeast since the 1970s.

In a further twist, the government said it would challenge the legitimacy of Fonseka’s candidacy in court after it emerged that he was unable to cast a ballot on Tuesday because his name did not figure on the electoral roll.

Four people were killed and more than 1,000 election-related incidents were reported to police in the run-up to Tuesday’s contest.



The military campaign made both men national heroes in the eyes of the Sinhalese-majority electorate but has since been mired in allegations of war crimes. Some 300,000 Tamils were herded into internment camps.


An opposition spokesman complained that the military presence was intended to “intimidate us or arrest our leaders”.

Election officials said Rajapakse, who is being challenged by his estranged former army chief Sarath Fonseka, had won 60 percent of the vote with about a fifth of the ballots counted.

Media Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa said Rajapakse, who like Fonseka is a member of Sri Lanka’s dominant Sinhalese community, was “heading for a historic victory”.

 
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xwfw Sony unveils new high-end Reader Daily Editio

Posted by admin on Mar 11, 2010 in Uncategorized

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Sony on Tuesday announced its first e-book reader with built-in wireless capability. The new Reader Daily Edition offers an integrated 3G wireless connection, allowing it to access Sony’s online bookstore as well as yet-to-be-announced newspaper and magazine subscriptions. The unit–which boasts a 7-inch touch screen (displayable in portrait or landscape mode)–will sell for $399 when it debuts in December. Wireless service is provided by AT&T with no direct charge to the customer.

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Sony used the launch event at the New York Public Library to highlight some notable new features of its e-book platform. Most notable is the expansion of support for library loans to the Sony Readers. If your local library supports electronic lending, members will be able to download the borrowed books and transfer them to the Reader for 21 days (after which the files expire). Sony is partnering with Overdrive.com to make it easier to search for available books at participating libraries.



We’ll have full hands-on reviews of the Pocket Edition and Touch Edition Readers as soon as they arrive at the office (should be in the next week or two). In the meantime: what do you think? Do these new products and features add up to a Kindle killer? Is $199 still too expensive for an e-book reader? Or are you still waiting for better screens and cheaper titles? Share your thoughts below.

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John P. Falcone covers home theater and network entertainment products. He’s been writing for CNET since 2002.


The trio of Sony Reader products reinforces the fact that Sony is not ceding the market to Amazon. Indeed, the company is offering some nice alternatives: a wallet-friendly $200 price point on the entry-level unit and wider file compatibility. Even more enticing to many will be the wealth of free content not available on the Kindle: the Sony Readers can access the hundreds of thousands of public domain Google Books, plus the free library loaners. The library loans are compelling, to be sure, but Epub collections are not comprehensive. On the New York Public Library site, we found notable titles such as Twilight and Freakonomics, but not a lot of other top 10 selections.

Sony unveils new high-end Reader Daily Edition, expanded library partnership

The Sony Reader Daily Edition is coming in December.

The built-in wireless access of the Daily Edition, meanwhile, brings Sony onto a features parity with the Kindle. But even with the touch screen (which the Kindle doesn’t have), the extra $100 versus the Kindle’s current $299 pricetag might be a hard sell to recession-addled shoppers.

Sony also highlighted its new “open” Epub format, which the company is moving to from its former proprietary BBeB format. While the Epub books at Sony’s store will still be encoded with DRM, it will allow the Sony Reader to also work with files purchased from BooksOnBoard, NetGalley, Powells.com, and any other retailer that adopts the Adobe-backed standard. (Notably, that does not include Amazon (which has its own proprietary Kindle standard) nor Barnes & Noble (which is working on its own Epub flavor for its forthcoming Plastic Logic reader).

The Reader Daily Edition joins the already announced Touch Edition PRS-600 ($299) and Pocket Edition PRS-300 ($199), both of which should be available within the next couple of weeks. With the exception of the wireless connection and larger screen, the specs of the Reader Daily Edition are otherwise in line with that of the Touch Edition: it offers an E Ink Vizplex electronic paper screen with 16 shades of gray.

Also of note is the launch of version 3.0 of Sony’s eBook Library software, which now offers support for Macs (as well as Windows). The software is used to move purchased files (as well as other supported content, such as a PDF and Epub files) from the computer to the Reader. (While supported, the PC step won’t be required for the Reader Daily Edition, which can access online content directly.)

 
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Dael Source- iLike to debut downloads on Facebook

Posted by admin on Mar 11, 2010 in Uncategorized

Something I couldn’t figure out when I first read that MySpace was trying to acquire iLike was why did iLike CEO Ali Partovi continue to pursue licensing deals in the weeks leading up to the acquisition. He must have known that MySpace Music already possessed rights to sell downloads. What would iLike need with its own agreements?

What this says is that contrary to what some sources have told me, MySpace is interested in iLike’s traffic and music service and not just on some bits of its technology.

Months ago, iLike began discussing music licensing deals with the four biggest recording companies. Last week, CNET News broke the news that the start-up’s download store was opening.

I don’t have it confirmed yet, but it appears iLike is preparing to integrate its new music download store into its popular Facebook application sometime soon.

But MySpace appears to be positioning itself to either force Facebook to boot iLike’s service and risk a public relations backlash, or allow MySpace, its main rival, to profit off of its audience. The situation has to be a little embarrassing for Facebook managers.

So it makes sense that Partovi continued to pursue the licensing agreements even after MySpace’s acquisition of the company looked inevitable.

On Wednesday, MySpace announced that it had aquired iLike for an undisclosed amount of money. The news that the two sides were close to the deal had leaked days ago, so it wasn’t a surprise.

The iLike acquisition isn’t going to change much, but it is something for MySpace to cheer about. For a long time, Facebook has thrashed Rupert Murdoch’s troops in almost every area.

Source: iLike to debut downloads on Facebook app

Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for CNET News. He is a former reporter for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. E-mail Greg, or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sandoCNET.


But the music licenses acquired by MySpace Music would not have covered iLike. Last year, iLike learned the hard way that every service has to cut its own deals with the labels. The start-up tried to acquire access to full-length songs from Rhapsody, the music subscription service. The labels put a quick stop to that.



According to one music industry source, Facebook users may be able to start buying downloads from iLike’s Facebook app as soon as this week. Seattle-based iLike and its new parent company MySpace aren’t wasting anytime testing Facebook.

If nothing else, the iLike deal should help morale inside MySpace.

 
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Posted by admin on Mar 8, 2010 in Uncategorized

“The speech for him is going to have to be a reset, a second chance to make a first impression,” said Kareem Crayton, a political science expert at the University of Southern California.


All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for grabs in November, along with a third of the Senate’s 100 seats.

White House advisers hit the talk show circuit Sunday insisting the Obama administration was not seeking to turn over a new leaf by bringing Plouffe back in.

Observers will watch Obama’s speech for signs that he is trimming his ambitions, or tacking to the political center to chase independent voters dismayed by the slow pace of the change he promised.

The defeat took Democrats below the magic 60-seat barrier needed to thwart Republican Senate blocking tactics in the Senate — leaving Obama’s chances of passing his ambitious agenda in serious doubt.

“‘No’ doesn’t create a job. ‘No’ doesn’t create health care insurance for anyone… ‘No’ doesn’t help a senior citizen with their prescription drug coverage. It’s time to begin to say ‘yes’ to move the country forward,” Menendez told ABC television’s “This Week” program.

The State of the Union address, beamed simultaneously on US television networks and cable news stations, offers a president his best annual chance to bypass the media and speak directly to Americans.

Republicans have no incentive to cooperate, seeing their win in Massachusetts as vindication of their total opposition to Obama’s health care plan and broader agenda.

With unemployment at 10 percent, Obama’s bond with the US public is frayed, and he is losing his hold on crucial independent voters.

Brookings Institution scholar Thomas Mann said Obama must Wednesday offer a spirited defense of his health reform plan, blame Republicans for the economic blight he inherited and say how he will ease the pain.

“He needs to be aggressive with the financial community and his unified, ideological Republican opposition, and indicate clearly what he is prepared to fight for and lose reelection for.”

Washington is reverberating from the shock Republican victory in late liberal lion Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat last week, which traumatized Democrats and is testing ties between Obama and his own party in Congress.

On Friday, in a possible preview of next week’s address, he posed as a champion of the working man, vowing an all-out fight to create jobs — though his policy options for doing so seem limited.

So Obama is repeatedly slamming Wall Street, and seeking to insulate himself from popular rage over government bailouts of the finance sector as it wallows in bloated bonus payments.

“So long as I have the privilege of serving as your president, I’ll never stop fighting for you,” he told an Ohio town-hall meeting.

He has already acknowledged American anger and frustration over recovery benefits failing to trickle down to the middle class while banks and finance firms are again piling up huge profits.

“No, we’re not hitting a reset button,ugg usa,” White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Obama's debut State of the Union a moment of truth
STEPHEN COLLINSON January 25, 2010

Barack Obama will seek to corral panicked Democrats and win back disaffected voters this week in the debut State of the Union address of a presidency dragged down by crushing economic gloom.

Obama’s feted 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe meanwhile warned Democrats against “bed-wetting” in a Washington Post article Sunday.

Democratic Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey urged Republicans to now shrug off the “Party of No” label pinned on them by critics and contribute to formulating workable solutions for Americans.

With a quarter of his term expired, Obama will step up in the House of Representatives on Wednesday night saddled by diminished approval ratings, averaging around 50 percent, and with his health reform plan on life support.



The president also faces pressure to sketch a viable way forward for his health plan, with some Democrats thinking of splitting the measure up in incremental chunks,mbt short shoe, a world away from the historic triumph Obama has in mind.

Mid-term elections usually wound first term presidents,uggs boots, but the key to this cycle may lie in which party best exploits the ugly public mood.

“This will be a tough election for our party and for many Republican incumbents as well. Instead of fearing what may happen, let’s prove that we have more than just the brains to govern — that we have the guts to govern.”

Suddenly, Obama is at a turning point, after Republicans snatched away the Democratic super-majority in the Senate and with his own party now viewing November’s mid-term congressional elections with a sense of doom.

 
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Posted by admin on Mar 8, 2010 in Uncategorized

Getting Paid to Charge Your Car?

That’s why there’s a growing push to build a smarter grid, in which the meters can report in,North Face UK, appliances can control how much energy they use,timberland work boots, and electricity stored in batteries can supply quick jolts of energy where needed, replacing the expensive power plants now used to meet peak power needs. One of the biggest believers in that vision is the White House. On Oct. 27, the Obama Administration announced 100 grants, totaling $3.4 billion, for smart-grid efforts, using money from the stimulus bill.

Obama's Smart-Grid Game Plan

Think back to the age of telecom before the breakup of AT&T, before the Internet, before Facebook or Twitter. That’s about how antiquated America’s system for delivering electricity—the electrical grid—is today. In many parts of the country, the grid is so "dumb" that workers still have to walk from house to house to read the electricity meter, and utilities have no clue when the lights go out until customers call to complain.



At the heart of virtually every project is an upgrade to more sophisticated meters, which communicate directly with the local utility. What good are they? Listen to President Barack Obama as he announced the awards at a solar energy facility in Arcadia, Fla.: "Smart meters will allow you to actually monitor how much energy your family is using by the month, by the week, by the day, or even by the hour," he explained. "So coupled with other technologies, this is going to help you manage your electricity use and your budget at the same time, allowing you to conserve electricity during times when prices are highest."

The smart meters are just a beginning, many experts say. But the path ahead is less than crystal clear. Just as it was impossible to predict in 1900 that electricity itself would lead to TVs, MRIs, computers—or even electric irons, for that matter—"now it is hard for us to envision what we will enable in 30 years," says James E. Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy (DUK).

In pilot projects of this new approach,The North Face Coat, customers gave the local utility permission to temporarily trim, say, the amount of electricity going to their air conditioners or clothes dryers, thus helping the utility meet peak loads. In return, the customers were able to cut their electricity bills by 15% or more.


The winners include Houston’s CenterPoint Energy (CNP), which gets $200 million for a $639 million project to install 2.2 million smart meters and hundreds of sensors to make the system more responsive and reliable, and the city of Wadsworth, Ohio, which gets $5.4 million to add 12,500 smart meters and beef up its grid-charged electric cars. "This is a great first step toward transforming our whole energy system," says Mark Brownstein, an energy director at the Environmental Defense Fund, which like many environmental groups sees the smart grid as essential to both making the U.S. more energy efficient and boosting the use of renewable power.

 
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ggxa Online Ad Revenue Continues to Drop_206

Posted by admin on Mar 8, 2010 in Uncategorized

The industry will continue to see further drops during the third and fourth quarter and will likely have to wait until mid-2010 until it sees growth again, according to IDC.

During the second quarter last year companies spent US$14.7 billion on online search ads, display ads and classifieds. This year that sum had dropped to $13.9 billion, IDC said. The only region where sales didn’t contract was Asia/Pacific and Japan, which saw slight gains, according to IDC.

Online Ad Revenue Continues to Drop

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