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Sunday, August 5, 2012
Uncharted Territories and Some Great Pledges In the Ouya console
There are quite a few things about Ouya, which could raise your eyebrows. But one of the most fascinating things about it is the fact that it has been able to generate a whopping USD 5 million in pledges from the general public, making it one of the most popular open source consoles. The product itself is slated to release in a few years? time making use of next generation console. With Kickstarter getting the huge financial backup in the form of pledges, there is some excitement. It remains to be seen to what extent, the Android based Ouya console will live up to the hype and the release dates.
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The Ouya console will feature a quad core Tegra-3 processor with 8GB memory along with a RAM size of 1GB. Ouya is slated to run ICS operating system from Android. Interestingly, the console featuring Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is considered to be a developer kit in itself and takes the open source model to the next level allowing developers to contribute games which are inexpensive and innovative. In other words, users can get the games free of cost once they have the console. With Ouya making use of Android, it wouldn?t be a hard learning curve for the developers either who would already have a fair idea of how the whole thing works in the first place.
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One of the best things that the Ouya console idea has done is to be able to get rid of the whole process of purchasing an SDK kit which could be expensive for a lot of people. In other words, a big road-block has been cleared as far as developing and releasing console games in the gaming market is concerned and this is what has been driving the Ouya team forward. In fact, the console is already being touted for its ability to sell free to play games for the game loving public. The 8 GB onboard storage is impressive. The console also comes with a track pad which will offer mouse and touch controls just the same way as you would come across in a laptop.
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Ouya console is not the only one of the cheap consoles, which are easily programmable. However, its popularity with funding has made it a public talking point with a lot of gaming developers coming out openly supporting the whole concept. The combination of NVIDIA Tegra processor and Android OS are formidable and will allow developers to enjoy video games on a television. With a revolution in the world of gaming consoles not far away, developers can now look to easily make the most of their video games without the general challenges faced while getting games on Wii and Xbox to TV. Incredibly, the console is quite small and easy to handle as well. Ouya also boasts of 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. It features a wireless game controller and this can be put to use with USB connection or over the Bluetooth.
Are you interested in knowing more about Ouya? Please visit our website to learn more about Console Ouya, the games you can play and many other interesting facts about it.
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Bayer eyes higher dividend: CFO in paper
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The finance chief of Bayer, Germany's largest drugmaker, raised the prospect of a dividend increase next year, following a higher profit outlook issued last month.
"Our operating business is developing very well at the moment," Chief Financial Officer Werner Baumann told Sunday paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in an interview, according to an excerpt made available to Reuters on Saturday.
"Our last dividend was 1.65 euros per share. If adjusted earnings gain 10 percent as planned, we will have leeway for an increase."
Bayer last month raised its full-year earnings outlook much more than expected as high grain prices fuelled demand at its farming pesticides unit and a fallen euro lifted the value of the its overseas revenues.
The diversified company said at the time it expected a high single-digit percentage gain in adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), where it had previously seen a slight increase.
(Reporting by Ludwig Burger; Editing by Toby Chopra)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bayer-eyes-higher-dividend-cfo-paper-132610377--finance.html
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Our Homeschool Classroom
Howdy, folks!
It?s Day 4 of the Back to Homeschool Blog Hop, and today?s topic is Homeschool Classrooms. In case you are just tuning in, hop on over and enjoy Day 3 Planning (free Bible Reading Plan download!) and Day 2 Curriculum too!
I couldn?t resist the title for this post ? it?s classic homeschool cheese because, DUH, that?s just Basic Homeschooling Philosophy Number 1 ? meet the educational needs of your child in whatever way you best can. You have the whole world to work with, not just a desk and textbook, so go for it. After 12 years and counting, we have homeschooled in the car, in the yard, the library, at the dentist, the grocery store, under the covers, and in the bathroom! The list of locations could go on forever. The whole key to homeschooling is thinking outside of the 8AM-3PM-Classroom-At-Home box. A classroom is really just a place to keep your school supplies. 
What my family likes is a comfortable, functional spot to do math, crafts, experiments, research, review ideas, test things out, write papers, store materials, and so on.
Our homeschool area has migrated over the years. For a while we transformed the largest bedroom in the house into our schoolroom. We had bookshelves, a full wall white board, tables and chairs. We tried using it in a regular manner, but guess where we most often ended up instead? In the living room? on the couch?
These days our school area is here:
The dining room table.
?which happens to be the north end of the living room, right next to the couch. The mini-trampoline functions as a foot rest, a cat bed, and a tool for waking up or getting rid of excess energy. We have an industrial strength hole puncher on the desk and a series of power strips strategically located around the room for recharging our laptops and tablets.
Keeping our office supplies organized and handy is one of the key elements these days. We used to use these drawers for the Workbox System. Now they house our office supplies.
Click to read the sticky notes.
Here?s my self-inflicted home-improvement construction project for the year:
Click to enlarge.
I added a shelf to the desk where I can keep my binders for current materials. Our storage library is actually spread between my bedroom and my downstairs work office. We also keep the continuous ink system printer in the office. Our lapstops can print to the printer from anywhere in the house.
The kids each have multiple backpacks ? a different one for each day of co-op classes, complete with separate sets of pens, pencils, highlighters, etc. My kids store their work and texts for those classes in the designated backpack at all times. It REALLY helps with organization and keeping track of homework!
We use a wicker basket near the dining table for non-co-op work. Right now I?m collecting all our new materials there temporarily:
Our growing collection for this fall.
My organizationally challenged one keeps her non-co-op materials in an ottoman with a hinged lid. It keeps one of us from getting unhinged that way.
Best Organizationally Challenged Piece of Furniture Ever.
Last year?s materials? clean out day is going to bring some surprises, I?m sure?
So there you have a glimpse of our homeschool home base! For a look at the classrooms of the rest of the Homeschool Crew, just click along through the list below! Happy Hopping!
Source: http://blog.writingfoundations.com/2012/08/the-world-is-our-classroom/
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Newest NASA Mars Mission Connects Past and Future
ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2012) ? NASA's newest Mars mission, landing in three days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for future decades.
"Curiosity is a bold step forward in learning about our neighboring planet, but this mission does not stand alone. It is part of a sustained, coordinated program of Mars exploration," said Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "This mission transitions the program's science emphasis from the planet's water history to its potential for past or present life."
As the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft places the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars next week, NASA will be using the Mars Odyssey orbiter, in service since 2001, as a relay for rapidly confirming the landing to Curiosity's flight team and the rest of the world. Earth will be below the Mars horizon from Curiosity's perspective, so the new rover will not be in direct radio contact with Earth. Two newer orbiters also will be recording Curiosity's transmissions, but that data will not be available on Earth until hours later.
When Curiosity lands beside a mountain inside a crater at about 10:31 p.m. PDT, Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. PDT Aug. 6), the 1-ton rover's two-year prime mission on the surface of Mars will begin. However, one of the rover's 10 science instruments, the Radiation Assessment Detector, or RAD, already has logged 221 days collecting data since the spacecraft was launched on its trip to Mars on Nov. 26, 2011.
"Our observations already are being used in planning for human missions," said Don Hassler of Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., principal investigator for Curiosity's RAD.
The instrument recorded radiation spikes from five solar flare events spewing energetic particles from the sun into interplanetary space. Radiation from galactic cosmic rays, originating from supernova explosions and other extremely distant events, accounted for more of the total radiation experienced on the trip than the amount from solar particle events. Inside the spacecraft, despite shielding roughly equivalent to what surrounds astronauts on the International Space Station, RAD recorded radiation amounting to a significant contribution to a NASA astronaut's career-limit radiation dose.
Curiosity's main assignment is to investigate whether its study area ever has offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life. To do that, it packs a science payload weighing 15 times as much as the science instruments on previous Mars rovers. The landing target, an area about 12 miles by 4 miles (20 kilometers by 7 kilometers), sits in a safely flat area between less-safe slopes of the rim of Gale Crater and the crater's central peak, informally called Mount Sharp. The target was plotted to be within driving distance of layers on Mount Sharp, where minerals that formed in water have been seen from orbit.
"Some deposits right inside the landing area look as though they were deposited by water, too," said John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, project scientist for Curiosity. "We have a great landing site that was a strong science contender for earlier missions, but was not permitted for engineering constraints because no earlier landing could be targeted precisely enough to hit a safe area inside Gale Crater. The science team feels very optimistic about exploration of Mount Sharp and the surrounding region that includes the landing ellipse."
Mission engineers designed a sky crane maneuver, lowering Curiosity on nylon cords from a rocket backpack because the rover is too heavy to use the airbag system developed for earlier rovers. "We know it looks crazy," said Adam Steltzner of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, leader of the team that developed the system. "It really is the result of careful choices." By designing the aeroshell enclosing Curiosity to create lift and be steerable, engineers were able to build a system that lands much more precisely instead of dropping like a rock.
JPL, a division of Caltech, manages the Mars Science Laboratory for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
For more information about the mission is available at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/, http://www.nasa.gov/mars and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ .
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Charity Turns Down Donations From Bernard Madoff's Kin ...
A charitable fund turned down more than $250,000 in gifts last year from organizations founded by the sons of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, the New York Post?reports.
Tax records show the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund returned contributions of $176,000 from the Deborah and Andrew Madoff Foundation and $79,000 from the Mark and Stephanie Madoff Foundation in early 2011, two months after the groups made the gifts to help meet their legal obligation to distribute 5 percent of their assets.
Fidelity declined to comment on its decision to return the donations, but experts said the firm may have concluded it was risky to take money linked in any way with the Madoff name.
Andrew and Mark Madoff?s foundations were sued in 2010 by Irving Picard, the bankruptcy trustee charged with ?clawing back? money to compensate victims of Bernard Madoff?s Ponzi scheme. Mr. Picard alleged the fraud provided $2-million in seed money for each of the younger Madoffs? charities.
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How to buy cheap flood insurance
BUYING cheap flood insurance is not rocket science but there is an art to it if you want to get it right. This is the plain speaking guide on how to buy it at the right price and be happy you have the correct level of cover.
First of all forget all the nonsense you read about saving ?250 or 30% by going with a big name broker that advertises on telly. They are after standard home insurance business that has had no complications, risks or claims in the past. They are in the business of churning out low price policies to the masses that have been lucky enough never to claim ? or have a flood claim in specific.
You see churning out lots of low cost policies is great if the claims cost is low because of little risk. However, it does not allow them to accurately sell flood risk insurance because this is a very specialist area where you need a broker that understands what has happened in the past, remedial work that has been undertaken, the chance of flooding in the future and any prior cost of claim.
Without this specialist understanding you will not get an accurate price and certainly risk being sold a policy that doesn?t give adequate cover or asks for massive excess payments in the case of flooding.
So forget the mainstream and welcome to the experts in flood insurance. These are the guys who deal in small volume and understand the market properly. They know what you have been through, the risk you face moving forward and can grasp what your claim and any remedial work means. In short they can offer you the correct insurance to fit the risk not just I the past but moving forward, at the right price with realistic excess costs.
They will need your time to fill in forms and show any proof where possible to support prior claims or work. They may ask many more questions than you are used to and want to see proof of any environment agency defences. But all of this is designed to allow them to get to the right price and coverage rather than empty policies that you cannot depend on in a claim.
The best way to get in touch with the expert insurers for flood insurance in the UK is through The Property Insurer ? visit today!
Jason McClean
The Property Insurer
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Published Date: 1st August 2012Category: General
Source: http://www.thepropertyinsurer.co.uk/blog/general/buy-cheap-flood-insurance/
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